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he man who spent the last two a flak jacket. “This is the calling of my genera- years fixing potholes, handing THE BROOKLYN “I don’t want to get on my soapbox,” tion,” said Reed, who won’t officially Reed said, “but it makes me sick to see have the job until he gets his security T out energy-efficient lightbulbs By Gersh and keeping the peace between DUM- ANGLE Kuntzman our standing in the world diminished by and medical clearances. BO’s warring factions is heading to what happened in Iraq. If I can play one Though he was raised in the distant WORLD EXCLUSIVE small role in changing that, I have to do state of Connecticut and he formerly Iraq to do, basically, the same thing. it.” lived on one of the city’s other islands, DUMBO Improvement Director On the day I interviewed Reed, a Reed’s “take-charge” style made him a Tucker Reed has been tapped by the day effort to repair the damage — both front-page headline in the Times read, much-loved figure in the quirky neigh- State Department for a vital rebuilding physical and political — suffered in Iraq “In Sadr City, Basic Services are Falter- borhood of artists and gentrifiers down job in Baghdad. during the American occupation. ing; Delays Threaten Effort to Thwart under the Manhattan Bridge overpass. As a “senior city management advis- The 28-year-old former National Militias.” Some would see that as a In his two years at the head of the Im- er,” Reed will be involved in the day-to- Guardsman is ready to trade his suit for Tucker Reed warning. Reed saw it as an opportunity. See TUCKER on page 16
One man, two zones IRAQ DUMBO DUMBO Improvement District honcho Tucker Reed’s new job fixing the Callan / Tom mess in Iraq got us thinking: How different is the neighborhood between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges and Bush’s war zone?
DUMBO CITY/NEIGHBORHOOD BAGHDAD The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn Artists, gentrifiers Rival factions Sunnis, Shiites A man was ticketed by police for walking through Cobble Hill Cobblestones sometimes Major infrastructure Water and electricity rarely Park after closing time — now he’s heading to court. go out of alignment. problems available
Pearl Street Triangle Local geometric quirk Sunni Triangle
Giving fluourescent light- Green initiative Keeping mortars from killing bulbs and reusable tote people inside the supposed- bags to every resident ly secure “Green” zone. Not a walk They might block views of Problems with tall They might give snipers a the Brooklyn Bridge. buildings good view.
Your computer has What “surge” means Your government really has crashed again, thanks to to get its act together or power fluctuations caused the Americans will never in the park by intense demand and in- leave. sufficient infrastructure. / Karim Kadim
Taco slice at Front St. Pizza, Local delicacies Any food. pear sandwich at Almon- Cops ticket strollers dine, Cuban from Pedro’s. Agata Olek Oleksiak’s “100% Acrylic” Agata Olek Oleksiak’s Associated Press By Mike McLaughlin The Brooklyn Paper Police swept through Cobble Hill Park at least twice last week, issuing summonses to several people for allegedly violating the park’s curfew. Neighbors around the park, boxed in by Congress, Clinton, and Costs soaring for Prospect Park rink Henry streets and the mews-like Verandah Place, complained of late-night carousing inside the park, leading to the police crack- By Mike McLaughlin located $22 million for the project, but the Al- down, according to a source in the 76th Precinct. The Brooklyn Paper liance says it will ask each entity for $2 million But one of the people snared in the dragnet said she and her hus- more to help defray the escalating price. The Al- band were being quiet as mice and should not have been ticketed be- The cost of the much-hyped redesign of Get that bird a napkin! liance will aim to get the rest from private dona- cause their stroll was a victimless crime. Prospect Park’s skating rink has soared to $75 tions (last month, the Independence Community “They are doing more harm than good, messing with people out million from $60 million just a month ago — Foundation ponied up $1.5 million). for an evening constitutional,” said a woman whose husband was is- and the project has been pushed back a few Laura Sinagra, a spokeswoman for Borough sued a summons. Though she was with her spouse last Thursday, more months. President Markowitz, said the Beep has not been cops let her off the hook because she didn’t have any identification The so-called “Lakeside Center” would replace briefed on the new cost of the center, which was with her. the Wollman Ice Rink with two facilities for ice- first reported by the Daily News. She requested anonymity to protect her husband, a lawyer apply- and roller-skating, concerts and educational pro- “Obviously, we’re excited about the plan and ing for admission to the New York State Bar. grams, as well as restoring some of the parking lot want to help, but that stuff hasn’t been decided She added that several people walking dogs or sitting on benches to its original Olmsted and Vaux design. yet about budgeting,” she said. were also given summonses, which requires an appearance at the The center was originally set to cost $50 mil- But the money will be well worth it, accord- Community Court in Red Hook, where a judge can mete out a fine lion when it was unveiled last year — and work ing to Parks Department officials. or impose community service penalties on trespassers. was set to start in 2009. “This will be the greatest recreation facility in The question of what time the park becomes off-limits is open for Now construction is supposed to begin in Brooklyn when it’s finished,” said Commission- debate, because the signs are inconsistent. At the entrances on Con- 2010. er Adrian Benepe. gress Street and Verandah Place, the posted rules say the park closes Even though the price has jumped twice and Callan / Tom If the park sticks to its current schedule, Woll- at dusk, but another one, near the playground, says 9 pm is the cutoff. the project has been delayed, the Prospect Park man rink, the beloved but dilapidated venue On a recent evening in Cobble Hill Park, as the sun was setting, several parents were more concerned by the reports of youths drink- Alliance said there was no cause for alarm. built in 1961, would be replaced by the gleam- ing beers and smoking joints in the park — which belies the park’s “The project has been evolving over a num- ing new “Lakeside Center” by 2011. reputation for good, clean fun — than by enforcement of closing ber of years,” said Eugene Patron, a spokesman “If Prospect Park is the heart of Brooklyn,
The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn time. for the group that oversees the park. “There’s no then the heart of Prospect Park is made of ice,” “That’s why we like this park more than Carroll Park,” said Ali- one thing that’s driven up cost.” Cannibals! Yes, those are pigeons eating chicken parmagiana near the cor- said Borough President Markowitz at a ceremo- cia Chang, referring to the Carroll Gardens venue which saw a spate The Bloomberg administration, the borough ner of Atlantic Avenue and Clinton Street. Can’t look away, can you? ny last month to accept the Independence Com- of incidents last summer involving stone-throwing, roughhousing president’s office and the City Council have al- munity Foundation check. ragamuffins. Cheney stumps for Vito — yet he still leads! By Ben Muessig The Brooklyn Paper Dick Cheney popped into Does Bay Ridge love Dick? New York this week to raise This week, Vice President Cheney came to New York to endorse Rep. Vito Fossella for re- money for Rep. Vito Fossel- election as the city’s only Republican in Congress. But if you think it will help Fossella’s la’s re-election campaign — chances, you don’t know Dick. — Interviews and photos by Emily Lavin and the vice president brought in enough cash to offset any damage he did to Fossella in the eyes of Brooklyn voters, / Adrian Kinloch experts said. The widely unpopular veep endorsed Fossella (R–Bay Ridge) at an Upper East Side fete on April 21, but opponents The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn were more than pleased that Fossella had called in a man Meet Mr. described by his critics as a “Prince of Darkness” to fill the Brooks-lyn coffers. How do I feel about Dick Cheney has no influence on It will make me less likely “Who is Vito Fossella going Cheney? I don’t think you my voting. to vote for Fossella. Backing No wonder Mel Brooks is such to be beholden to if he is elect- could print that. It’s definite- Kalevi Janhunen, 77 from Dick Cheney is like a comic genius — he grew up ed?” Democratic candidate ly an unfavorable endorse- everything that’s negative in Williamsburg. This week, the Steve Harrison asked a crowd ment in my mind. about the Bush administra- J. Marini Richard Hollywood legend looked back. of protestors outside the 71st Christine McCluskey, 35 tion. Julia Wynn, 30 Protesters brought a poster of Rep. Vito Fossella to the Upper East Side, where Vice Presi- See GO Brooklyn on page 9. See DICK on page 16 dent Cheney attended a fundraiser to support the congressman’s bid for a sixth term.
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HAYSTACK 1JTTJOHNBUDIPO%FBO4U home & body By Mike McLaughlin ing the container on his front steps. “I truck needed a good washing anyway,” 130 Clinton Street (betw. Joralemon & Livingston) The Brooklyn Paper don’t even know how you could accumu- said good sport Kevin McGowan. late that much urine.” The block was the site of an earlier 718 246 2510 Residents of a block in Boerum Hill But on the brighter side, “It was the first strange disturbance, in December 2006, have known for months that rogue urina- time we were able to establish what we’ve when a pressurized air rifle canister ex- tors were defiling their street, but they been saying on our block — that someone ploded inside a brownstone, blowing out
Katie Chao never had the proof to convince local po- has been pouring urine on cars.” its windows. Police found drugs and drug Volunteer Kate Dundon of Bushwick plucks a plastic bag lice of a scatological conspiracy on Dean After the police arrived on Sunday, paraphernalia inside, and two residents from the putrid waters of the Gowanus Canal on Sunday. Street — until now. workers from the Department of Sanita- were subsequently charged with misde- A two-liter container of human urine, tion removed the waste. meanor drugs and weapons possession. Atlantic City, complete with syringes bobbing in the The pissing match broke out on the day of One long-term homeowner said the Foxwood and waste, was found Sunday morning be- the block party last September, when several new problems, as nauseating as they may Mohegan Sun tween Bond and Nevins streets — and the people emerged from their homes near the be, are small potatoes compared to her Casinos 'BDJOHTNPLF repulsive find was finally enough to prove Nevins Street end of the block to encounter early days in Boerum Hill, when the to cops that residents were being torment- an overpowering stench of liquid waste on neighborhood was a Jonathan Lethem- ed by micturating hellions and not merely the street and in one man’s pickup truck. esque red-light district full of unsavory dogs with overactive bladders. Since then, that pickup truck has been johns, pimps and ladies of the night. “It’s absolutely gross,” said Joseph showered at least two other times. “It’s generally quiet compared to what POUIFXBUFS Samulski, who had the misfortune of find- “Thankfully, whenever it happened, my it was,” in the 1970s, said Nancy Steinson. Car & Limo Service t’s easy to get lost in the talk of could-be condos and poten- BROOKLYN FORT GREENE * tial parklands along the Gow- SOUTH anus Canal. Almost every week, new idyllic renderings depict the tainted waterway as a riverside )FBWZNFUBMTDVMQUVSFGMFXUIFDPPQ oasis, bordered by majestic espla- nades, lush trees and glassy high for Ramsaran (and unfortu- to cash in. rises. The city even announced By Mike McLaughlin The Brooklyn Paper nately for local hoodlums), the “They must not know much 24 Hour Door-to-Door Service earlier this month that a develop- other sections are being dis- about metals. Bronze is not er had been chosen to build a A beloved Fort Greene played elsewhere. worth anything as scrap, be- 774-unit residential development sculptor has put up a “gener- The bronze focal point had cause it’s an alloy made from with shopping and community ous” reward for the return of stood in front of Ramsaran’s three other metals,” said Ram- space at the polluted “Public a massive bronze piece taken studio since it was forged in saran. (718) 230-8100 Place” site between Fifth and Ben Muessig from her Washington Avenue 1996. Perhaps the villains are art Huntington streets. front yard between April 10 “I wanted to beautify the collectors. Ramsaran said the www.myrtlecarservice.com The imagined future of the Gowanus has never seemed and 12. neighborhood and make the piece has been shown in the closer — and then I rowed a boat down it. Thieves stole a museum-ex- corner more exciting,” she told Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, On the Sunday before Earth Day, I joined 20 well-meaning hibited bronze nest — weigh- The Brooklyn Paper. Virginia and the Studio Muse- Brooklynites and volunteered for a cleanup organized by the ing at least 400 pounds — That it was stolen while she um in Harlem. Gowanus Dredgers, the Urban Divers Estuary Conservancy, from between Gates Avenue was away for less than 48 Whatever the thieves’ mo- GET A JUMP ON and the Army Corps of Engineers. The goal? To scoop up and Fulton Street while the hours was particularly galling. tive, Ramsaran hopes to re- floating debris from the contaminated channel — which an- artist was away. “I was shocked. Once I left trieve the piece. The purloined sculpture, for a year and nobody touched nually swells with 300 million gallons of sewer overflow and “I just hope that it’s still in- called “Nesting Piece,” was it,” she said. SUMMER! contains dangerous bacteria including gonorrhea. tact,” Ramsaran said. designed as the centerpiece of If the culprits carted it away Ramsaran is offering a “gen- I donned a lifejacket (perhaps a body-sized condom would Helen Ramsaran have been more appropriate?) and jumped into a boat helmed a work by Helen Ramsaran thinking they had hit the scrap erous reward” for the stolen artwork when they are all dis- by a Bushwick woman who had been guilt-tripped into at- made of eight other sections metal jackpot, they will be work of art. Call (718) 399-3557 that encircle the now-missing played together. 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Three-hundred and seventeen report. Kaiserman Carl isted when Lewnes opened in “Park Slope” entries popped up. Wendy Ponte Though he got his start in the The site of Charles Musumeci’s Raintrees restaurant, at 1906, Kaiserman said. Yes, there was plenty of dross, hair-styling business, Musume- the corner of Prospect Park West and Ninth Street, is now Musumeci is survived by his like that video for “The Dental Spa” that looks as if someone ci was best known for Rain- an apartment house. The restaurant, a South Slope pio- first wife, Rosemary, and his filmed the brochure and set it to elevator music. And I could trees, which opened in 1980 in neer, closed in 1999. second wife, Brigid McGinn, have done without an entire category of entries that I’ll put in a classic, turn-of-the-century and their four children. the “Hey — This is My New Apartment” file. space that formerly housed the ice Cimberg, a broker with Raintrees waiters. “He was so Friends said that Musumeci “These are all my shoes,” one young man narrated. “And this Lewnes Luncheonette. hoped that donations would is my office — well, I guess it’s really more like a nook…” From the outset, Musumeci Brown Harris Stevens, which ahead of his time.” handled the sale of the Rain- Musumeci was also good be made in his memory to the Of course there are the requisite home videos — like “Kor- served upscale French food in Prospect Park Alliance. To do bel’s First Half Hour of Life,” showing a newborn baby boy what was not only considered trees space after the restaurant about making the dining room so, go to www.ProspectPark. getting the amniotic fluid suctioned out of his mouth, and the fringe of Park Slope, but closed in 1999. available for fundraisers for such org or send a check to the Alli- then another one of him a year later wandering into the mid- before a critical mass of fancy “He was the one who gave local groups as the Prospect ance at 95 Prospect Park West, dle of his older sister’s dance recital. restaurants made the neighbor- the word ‘restaurateur’ mean- Park Alliance and Revitaliza- Brooklyn, NY 11215. Remem- And there were plenty of community news videos, includ- hood a foodie destination. ing in Park Slope,” continued tion of the Southern Area of the ber to put Musumeci’s name ing one from our own Gersh Kuntzman (that Seventh Avenue “He was the first,” said Jan- Cimberg, whose two sons were Slope, which later merged with on the check. one-way proposal was certainly his muse). I especially liked the weather videos — including an 11-second clip of rain — but my favorites were the loving BAY RIDGE photo and video essays, set to music. There was “Park Slope Favorite Things,” comparing it to parts of France and com- mending the sushi at Yamamoto. There was a 58-second video of 12th Street and Eighth Ave- 3Q@EEHBS@KJ nue set to house music. One video entitled “Walk Through Blooming Seventh Avenue,” that had been shot that very day, was Councilman Vince Gentile led a rally for traffic of a person’s stroll from Flatbush Avenue to Berkeley Place, com- safety at the corner of 65th Street and Eighth / Noelle D’Arrigo plete with the sounds of his footsteps and the bouncing picture to Avenue in Bay Ridge on Monday. Gentile was prove it. There were several video tours of the Slope taken from a joined by community board members and Chi- camera strapped to someone’s bike. nese-Americans whose family members have been killed and injured in the area. “Odysseus to Park Slope,” was so beautifully shot, through Paper Brooklyn The a scratched subway car window, it almost moved me to tears, and “I Love Brooklyn in the Morning” was a richly detailed collection of photos set to music by Ravi Coltrane. Well, wipe the cynic right out of me! I found out where you BAY RIDGE PARK SLOPE can still find heartfelt, fun, and even moving tributes to a neighborhood that I love. Who knew? Wendy Ponte is a writer who lives in Park Slope. THE KITCHEN SINK /PUJOUIFJSCBDLMPU Bay Ridge: Our friends at the Rankin Heale VFW post on Fourth Avenue honored Fort Hamilton commander Col. Church nixes Ridge farmers market Tracey Nicholson on Thursday night. Nicholson is headed to Baghdad. … Century 21 knows how to make Ridgites happy — By Ben Muessig life,” said Greenmarket Director Michael give them more parking. The 86th Street superstore just broke The Brooklyn Paper Hurwitz, who oversees the city’s 46 farm- er’s markets — nine of which are in ground on an annex with more shopping space and 279 spots. A farmer’s market won’t take root in … Park Slope: “Daily Show” resident expert — and PS 107 Bay Ridge because a church isn’t will- Brooklyn. “Now we have to go back to the dad — John Hodgman will headline a night of comedy on ing to sacrifice its parking lot. drawing board to find a new location.” May 6. Hodgman, the author of “The Areas of My Expertise,” Neighbors and elected officials had But the farmer’s market most-vocal will read from his continuation, “More Information than You hoped to bring fresh fruit and vegetable supporter, Councilman Vince Gentile Require.” Head to the PS 107 Web site at www.ps107.org to buy (D–Bay Ridge), isn’t ready to give up on tickets or check out what the kids will have for lunch this week. venders to the lot behind Our Lady of Callan / Tom the Angels church on Fourth Avenue at the 74th Street lot just yet. 74th Street — but the house of worship “We’re gathering more data on resi- nixed the proposal after a town hall dent support for the farmer’s market in meeting earlier this month. that location,” said Kwame Patterson, a OPEN spokesman for Gentile. “People who live
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Police locked up a Williamsburg man sus- “Don’t look at my face,” he said as he pulled found next to the man’s body. the stranger exited at the Ber- pected of at least four knifepoint robberies out his knife. “Give me your s—.” The victim told police she was gen Street station that the man Cops later determined that the not in her home between Greene — and they might have caught him sooner The victim obliged, handing over a pink clear liquid was cyanide, a dead- checked his pocket, discovering leather wallet, credit cards, a monthly Metro- and Gates avenues from 9 am to he lost the cash. if victims had reported the crimes promptly, ly chemical. They also found a 11 pm, when the criminal broke an NYPD source told The Brooklyn Paper. card, an iPod, a Nokia cellphone and $100. suicide note that was apparent- Paper Brooklyn The into her apartment and stole her Cash bashed After the string of muggings, residents of ly penned by the 65-year-old A hazmat team was dispatched to Fourth Street between The blade-wielding “Metropolitan Mug- Sixth and Seventh avenues after the resident committed laptop, digital camera, printer and A woman exiting the Hoyt- ger” stalked single women on the neighbor- the neighborhood noticed an upswing in po- man. assorted jewelry. Schermerhorn station was hit in lice presence. The victim’s wife had found suicide with cyanide on Monday. hood’s more gentrified blocks before pulling the head and her bag was stolen out a blade and demanding their cash. “The southside of Williamsburg is current- the body in the basement of their Unlocked on April 14. ting her 38-year-old pal with it. and a DVD player, cops said. The suspect allegedly started his spree on ly totally crawling with foot patrol NYPD, and home at around 7:30 am. Two locks on the door to a The assailant struck her in the people are getting busted left and right for every- The shoe-beater was arrest- • A Fifth Avenue apartment, at Clinton Avenue apartment were March 19, when he confronted two women on Nervous thug Warren Street, yielded a $10,000 face at 11:04 pm, giving him the Metropolitan Avenue between Bedford and thing,” a tipster told The Brooklyn Paper. “They ed and changed with assault. no match for the thief who wig- chance to steal her pocketbook, A thief robbed a woman on haul for a quick-moving burglar are stopping everyone possible simply so they gled them open on April 18 and containing $20. The purse was Driggs avenues as they walked home from a April 16 by shoving what she Bad guest on April 14. can run everyone’s licenses looking for priors burglarized the residence. recovered, but not the money, on bar at around 1:10 am. believed was a gun into her A man who invited another man • A much-loved hot dog shop “Don’t scream,” the man said as he pulled that will most likely mark their man.” to spend the night in his Flatbush The 31-year-old apartment Duffield Street. back — but only got $3 in the on Fifth Avenue, between Fourth dweller told police that he had out a silver blade with a black handle. “Just Evidently, the strategy paid off. crime. Avenue apartment on April 19 woke and Fifth streets, was broken into Get up, stand up give me your stuff.” “Detectives were able to make an apprehen- up to find that the man — and his secured both locks on his front The 35-year-old victim told overnight on April 15 — tax day! door before going to a friend’s A man, sticking up for a cou- The women gave up their cellphones, Met- sion and we think it’s the Metropolitan guy,” a cops that she was just at the door Apple toys — had been stolen. — and robbed of $900 and blank rocards and $55. police source said. “He’s someone who lived in The victim, 35, told cops that house at 3:45 pm. Naturally, he was ple being harassed by a pack of of her Warren Street home when business checks. mystified to return home six hours young rowdies on the Q train, Three days later, the suspect mugged two the community and he was out on parole.” the 18- to 22-year-old hood ap- he and his overnight guest en- • A woman returning to her women within five minutes of each other on Police did not release the arrested man’s tered the apartment, which is be- later to find the entrance of the was robbed by the troublemak- proached her from behind, shoved Sixth Avenue apartment after a ers on April 17. the corner of Metropolitan and Wythe ave- name, but they did say that they might have tween Bergen and Dean streets, apartment, between Fulton Street something against her back and day at the office on April 16 found The 42-year-old victim said nues, escaping with $80 and a cellphone at caught him sooner if the victims had not wait- at around 2:30 am. and Atlantic Avenue, open and demanded her wallet. that her lock had been busted open, his laptop, iPod, designer glasses he saw the foursome bothering around 9:35 pm, cops said. ed to call cops. After she complied, handing When he woke up, the clear but nothing was taken from the two people around 8:45 pm, so “They all waited a while before they con- light of day showed him what he and credit cards missing. The crook, who donned a black hoodie and over the virtually empty wallet, unit, which is at St. Marks Place. he said to the bullies, “Why don’t tacted police,” a police source said. “They’d might have not detected the night Hot wheels brown Timberland boots when he committed she watched him as he fled to- — Gersh Kuntzman you leave them alone?” his crimes, re-emerged on April 11, robbing a finish going where they were going, they’d get wards Fourth Avenue. She told before: the man was gone, along Thieves peeled off with a mo- That they did, but they fixed with a laptop, iPod and $200. North First Street woman in front of her apart- to their destination, then they’d call police. If cops that the “clean and nervous” 88TH PRECINCT torcycle parked on Grand Ave- their attention on him, follow- ment. In that case, the hoodlum confronted anything happens, people should call us right perp was wearing a white hood- Bar gain nue on April 14. ing the Good Samaritan off the ed shirt with a “multi-colored Fort Greene–Clinton Hill The owner said he parked his the victim as she stepped out of her building, away.” Cops arrested three people on train at the Pacific Street station. pattern all over it,” baggy jeans red Ducati crotch rocket between April 19 for stealing a woman’s bag Not playing They tormented him with threats and white sneakers with an or- Gates and Putnam avenues at 6 from a popular new place to enjoy like, “We going to get you,” and ange Nike logo. The 5-foot10, Muggers threatened to shoot pm, but when he came back at a dram or two on Ninth Street. an adolescent girl in a DeKalb “You want to be nosey, now get 90TH PRECINCT students from the same school Stolen car 160-pound man also wore his 9 pm, it was gone. jumped a 14-year-old boy as he The victim told cops that she Avenue playground if her friend hurt.” They didn’t hurt the man, A car was stolen from Pres- long hair in braids. — Mike McLaughlin Bushwick–Williamsburg walked home. had been enjoying a pint at just didn’t give them her cellphone on but they shoved him and stole his ident Street sometime after its The teenaged mob confront- Death not proud after midnight when she noticed April 11. gym bag, containing $30. School fight owner parked it there at 3 pm ed the victim on the corner of Someone took advantage of that her bag was missing from The young ladies’ stroll through Cops caught two tweens sus- on April 9. 84TH PRECINCT Slugged! Manhattan Avenue and Leonard a widower’s pain, stealing more the bar, which is between Fifth the playground near Adelphi Street pected of jumping a classmate as The owner told police that when Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO Two men with a gun attacked Street, punching him in the face than $5,300 from a President and Sixth avenues. took an ominous turn at 3:50 pm she walked home from school on he returned to his 2007 Camry, Downtown–Boerum Hill and robbed a man and woman on and striking him in the back with Street man in the wake of his Cops later arrested three peo- when two slightly older teenage April 15. which had been between Hicks and the corner of Bond and Bergen a wooden cane. The victim suf- wife’s death last year. ple — a woman and two men boys stopped them, threatening Wallbanger The 11- and 12-year-old girls Henry streets, at 7:45 am on April streets on April 20. fered a bruised eye, lacerations to The 84-year-old man told cops — who were in possession of the cellphone-bearing girl. “Give trailed their victim until she 11, there were no signs of it. A bandit broke into a cloth- One of the thugs pointed a pis- the back of his head, and bruis- that “numerous” people have been the victim’s stuff, including an me your phone or I’ll shoot your reached the corner of Keap Street ing store on Atlantic Avenue by tol at the couple and hit the man es to his arms. — Mike McLaughlin in his apartment, which is be- iPod inscribed with the words, friend,” one of the hoodlums said. smashing a hole in the sheet rock in the face at 2:05 am. Then, the and Division Avenue at around 3:30 tween Eighth Avenue and Pros- “If your feet are on the ground” Like any good friend, she gave walls, apparently with a broom attackers stole $150, a digital mu- pm — then they struck, leaving Burglars caught pect Park West, since his wife and signed “Aaron.” up her mobile. handle, on April 18. sic player and cellphone from the the victim with that most agoniz- Crooks broke into a Newell died in December. The playground was the scene Police believe the culprit en- boyfriend and girlfriend. ing of injuries: a broken ankle. Street apartment on April 14, but Lots of burgs Police nabbed the adolescent RELIGIOUS He also told police that he did of another teen cellphone rob- tered an unlocked building next — Mike McLaughlin cops brought took them down be- Burglars ran wild in Park Slope crooks later that day. not recall moving the items — in- bery on April 14. That time, a door to the shop, between Hoyt fore they could get far. cluding necklaces and other jew- last week, with six break-ins re- 14-year-old boy, said a group of and Bond streets, which allowed SERVICES ported. 68TH PRECINCT Motel molest The thugs burst into the apart- els — since his wife died. teens accosted him and filched him to pound the hole between A depraved crook drugged a ment, between Nassau and Dri- To advertise in this weekly • A man who left the door on his phone at 1:45 pm. 6:45 pm on April 18 and 8:10 am Bay Ridge Girl on girl his 15th Street apartment wide woman in a Manhattan bar and ggs avenue, between 5:20 pm and directory, call Laura at Postal bus driver the next morning. Unwanted guest sexually assaulted her in a Bush- 5:50 pm, while the victim was A woman smacked her girl- open on April 15 discovered that The workers reported that the (718) 834-9350 ext 109 friend on the head with a shoe disregarding basic security is not Police arrested a city bus driv- A man surprised the resident of wick Avenue hotel on April 17. out. er accused of stabbing a man thief stole $5,000, a stereo and The woman awoke in the hotel, Cops caught the suspects with PARK SLOPE JEWISH CENTER in an all-out row on Third Ave- a good idea. Cops say a thief let thousands of dollars of children’s a 79th Street home when he barged nue on April 19. himself in and took $100 from on Flatbush Avenue Extension through a bedroom window while which is on the corner of Stagg electronics in hand at the corner 8th Avenue at 14th St. clothing. Street, at around 8 am with no rec- of Newton Street and Graham Fri. nights at 6:30 pm The victim told cops that she the unit, which is between Third while on duty on April 14. she was there on April 18. Sat. mornings at 10:00 am ollection of how she got there. Avenue. and her girlfriend, 34, were argu- and Fourth avenues. The police didn’t report a mo- Bump on a train The 45-year-old woman said Adult Ed Hebrew School ing at the corner of Carroll Street • A thief busted into a home tive for the attack, but the 46-year- A persistent crook repeatedly she was in her house at 10 pm when She told cops that the last thing Training day Rabbi Carie Carter she remembers was sipping drinks Park Slope's Egalitarian, at around 4 pm when the girlfriend at Seventh Avenue and Carroll old victim told cops that the driver, bumped into a man on a crowded a masked man jumped through Two thugs mugged a man as he Conservation Synagogue pulled off her shoe and started hit- Street on April 18, taking a laptop a 54-year-old man, stabbed him subway, eventually stealing $400 her open bedroom window and with a stranger at a bar on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan at around rode the L train on April 12. grabbed her jewelry box. 768-1453 A31-26 midnight. The crooks approached the The perp then fled through the man as the Canarsie-bound train victim’s back yard, between Co- Taking a ride neared the Bedford Avenue sta- Shabbat Shalom! lonial Road and Narrows Avenue, Crooks thought they’d get a tion and demanded that he fork Presented by Looking for with $9,000 worth of jewelry. free ride when they stole thou- over his wallet. The crooks got B’nai Avraham Key party sands of Metrocards from an away with $10, a Metrocard, an of Brooklyn Heights a career with Here’s another example of why armored truck maintenance ID and a debit card. ££ÇÊ,iÃiÊ-Ì°ÊUÊxÈ{n{ä you should never leave the keys building on Scholes Street, but Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin the burglars turned out with a Bag thieves www.bnaiavraham.com advancement inside your car: A quick-acting Crooks took advantage of thug stole an idling vehicle on whole lot of nothing. The thieves broke into the ar- revelers at a bar on North Third Candle 92nd Street as its owner shopped Street, between Kent and Wythe opportunities? across the street on April 20. mored car garage between 9 am on March 21 and 5 pm on April 3, avenues, snatching wallets and Lighting The 29-year-old victim told laptops from bags and purses on cops she drove her gray Toyota snatching 3,576 Metrocards that April 19, between 2 am and 2:30 Shabbat Hagadol Camry to the corner of Gatling would have been worth $133,440 am. Fri., April 25, before 7:28 pm Place at around 7 am. She left — if the company hadn’t deacti- — Ben Muessig her keys in the ignition and the vated the cards once they were Shabbat Kedoshim car running as she ran across the stolen. — Ben Muessig 76TH PRECINCT Fri., May 2, before 7:35 pm street to the grocery store. Carroll Gardens When she left the market just 94TH PRECINCT St. John–St. Matthew–Emanuel 10 minutes later, she saw a man Cobble Hill–Red Hook Greenpoint–Williamsburg Lutheran Church Park Slope driving off toward the Verraza- One for two th th no bridge. 283 Prospect Ave (5 and 6 Aves.) Exit wound Burglars tried to plunder two (718) 768–0528 www.stjme.org The suspect also made off with apartments in a Union Street A 20-year-old woman was ELCA — Reconciling in Christ the three pairs of designer sun- caught in a crossfire when she building on April 17, but only glasses, iPod and $100. managed to break into one of Sunday Worship 11:00 stepped out of a Greenpoint Av- Rev. David C. Parsons 11th Ave. break enue club on April 18. them. A31- 28 Join New York’s Boldest— A suspect forced his way into She left the venue at around 4 An apartment on the second an 11th Avenue home during the am and overheard an argument floor of the building between Brown Memorial day on April 18. between strangers. Seconds later, Smith and Hoyt streets was looted Baptist Church become a New York City The 42-year-old victim told gunfire erupted between Man- between midnight and 5:30 pm, 484 Washington Ave., Ft. Greene according to the 25-year-old ten- Sunday School 9:15am police he left his house, which is hattan Avenue and McGuinness Morning Worship 8:00am & 11:00am between 72nd and 73rd streets, at Boulevard, and the woman re- ant, who said the culprits took Wed. Bible Study 1:00pm & 7:15pm Correction Officer around 11 am. When he returned alized she had been shot in her her bicycle, laptop, some jewel- ry and watches. 718-638-6121 just before 5 pm, one of the rear left leg. Rev. Clinton M. Miller - Pastor windows was open and almost A neighbor on the fourth floor LM31-12 1 School dazed 9 ","18*.$1&"2*.(3/ "'3&1 /2 8&"12 $3,000 in jewelry and $3,200 in was more fortunate. 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Repairs will keep the bridge’s cables from wearing thin — but the The far-reaching project could begin as early as next year. same can’t be said for the patience of the 78,000 drivers, cyclists and The plans include widening the narrow exit ramp that leads walkers who depend on the bridge for their daily commutes. to Cadman Plaza West and the construction of extra lanes on To make space for the multiple construction crews that will work bridge exit ramps off the FDR Drive in Manhattan — long the on the bridge, the city plans to close certain lanes to traffic, Chin said. scourge of Brooklyn-bound drivers. On the lower roadway, the city will close the outermost lane And there will be new steel girders where the Brooklyn–Queens throughout the three-year project, while maintaining traffic on the Expressway passes beneath the bridge, increasing the amount of other two lanes. On the upper roadway, the city might close an in- / Julie Rosenberg vertical clearance on the highway to prevent damage and traffic de- ner lane on weekends or between 10 am and 3 pm, and 9 pm and lays, said Transportation spokesman Craig Chin. 5 am, on weekdays. Drivers might also appreciate new guardrails that would pro- The city also plans to temporarily close a walkway on the south- tect commuters and preserve the ornate granite balustrades that ern side of the bridge, rerouting pedestrians onto the northern side. have stood since 1883. The city hopes to begin the three-year repair project in September Paper The Brooklyn And on top of everything, the whole bridge would get its first 2009, but the work on the bridge won’t come to an end until 2014, The Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges (left and right, respectively) will be undergoing renovations and retrofitting over the fresh coat of paint since 1991 — “Medium Brown” 20227 for after the 6,855-foot structure is retrofitted to survive an earthquake. next few years, with new paint jobs and earthquake-proofing. the bridge, and “Light Buff” 22563 for the cables. Cheyenne’s Red Hook-bound Nothing’s finer than saving Manhattan diner By Mike McLaughlin The Brooklyn Paper A beloved, but nearly doomed, retro Manhattan diner will get a second lease on life in Red Hook. The Cheyenne Diner, a railcar-style Michael Perlman greasy spoon from the 1940s, will be The Cheyenne Diner, a Manhattan mainstay, will move to Red Hook. transported to Red Hook by its new own- er, Mike O’Connell, the son of Greg O’- O’Connell got the diner as a blue- “I’m elated,” said Perlman, who creat- Connell, a major Red Hook property plate special, paying $5,000 so that the ed the ad-hoc group, The Committee to owner who turned a Civil War-era ware- eatery could make the fabled last exit to Save the Cheyenne Diner. “The Cheyen- house into the Fairway supermarket on Brooklyn. ne is part of a dying breed of railway car- Van Brunt Street. The deal was coordinated by Michael inspired, free-standing diners.” The Cheyenne Diner remained en- Perlman, an ardent preservationist from Once in Brooklyn, the Cheyenne will cased in an Edward Hopper-esque time Queens who helped save SoHo’s Moon- join the shiny steel ranks of Williams- capsule on 33rd Street and Ninth Avenue dance Diner from the wrecking ball last burg’s Relish and just a handful of other until it closed this month to make room year by finding a man from Wyoming to restored, railcar-style diners in the bo- for a nine-story building. buy and transport the structure. rough. dandl Studio The right kind of park could actually help clean the Gowanus Canal. Sponge on the canal By Miriam Gross “A remediation landscape Still in its earliest phase, the Toll Brothers and the Gowanus for The Brooklyn Paper doesn’t have to be anti-urban,” park plan stretches over a mix Green Partnership to incorpo- said the project’s designer, Su- The banks of the Gowanus of public and private property rate the park system into both sannah Drake of dlandstudio, from Douglass Street to 12th groups’ planned projects. Canal would become pollu- at the public unveiling at PS 58 Street. In the meantime, the park’s tion-sucking sponges thanks in Carroll Gardens. The Conservancy has not current name has put off at to an innovative plan put for- Drake said that elements yet figured out how it will ob- least one local resident. ward this week by the like cafes fashioned from ship- tain all the land, which is be- “A sponge is nasty!” a Gowanus Canal Conservancy ping containers could help coming more and more expen- woman declared during the — but details for implemen- maintain the area’s industrial sive as residential developers comments session. “Have you tation remain as murky as the character. remain hot for property on ever had a sponge in your canal’s notorious waters. Public response was mostly both banks of the diseased house? It stinks!” The Conservancy on Mon- positive. “How could anyone sludgeway. Conservancy Chairman An- day unveiled its plan for a be against parks?” asked Bud- Zuckerman said the group is dy Simons assured her that the filth-fighting park that would dy Scotto, a member of the working with developers like name is just a metaphor. use wetlands and other perme- Gowanus Canal Community able surfaces to absorb rainwa- Development Corporation. ter that currently overwhelms “The question is, who’s the city’s antiquated sewer sys- gonna pay for it and who’s tem and sends raw sewage into gonna maintain it?” the canal. That’s up in air, admitted Power plant gets Flora planted along the wa- Conservancy Executive Direc- ter’s edge and floating on the tor Bob Zuckerman. canal’s surface would also fil- “We haven’t even begun to ter out heavy metals and toxins take a look at the budget for renewed energy? from the eerie canal. this,” said Zuckerman, who Renderings of Sponge Park has earned the nickname By Ben Muessig came back to life nearly a show couples snuggling along “Sponge Bob” because of his The Brooklyn Paper month after the state pulled an esplanade amid flowering support for the innovative the plug on the idea. A power plant that would trees while brick warehouses park. In March, a state panel halt- and water towers loom over- Construction might take an- block a proposed park on the ed the construction of a 1,100- head. other decade. North Brooklyn waterfront megawatt plant on the water- front between North 10th and North 12th streets — land that the city intends to convert into Hampton Jitney is Back in Brooklyn! Bushwick Inlet Park. But TransGas — the energy Service to the Hamptons & Long Island’s East End Resumes March 21st company behind the proposed gasworks — started an appeal To East End* (Eastbound) Brooklyn Service Eastbound Pick-up Locations: 1 Trip on last week. 1) 4th Ave. @ 9th St. - East side of 4th between 8th and MONTAUK LINEFri NORTH Fri Fridays If the state board does not ¬ FORK LINE 9th Streets at the M, R & F subway station entrance in front of the READ DOWN PM PM reverse its decision to thwart AM LIGHT PM BOLD Only Only Church of St. Thomas Aquinas. 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OFFER VALID ONLY ON THE FIRST VISIT TO THE Park Slope - 9th St. & 4th Ave. 4:35 8:55 Park Slope 8:55 www.hamptonjitney.com grass and walking paths. CLUB. NOT ALL FACILITIES AT ALL CLUBS. 6 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 April 26, 2008 OUR OPINION ALL DRAWN OUT Remember Dick Cheney ep. Vito Fossella — the city’s for his latest re-election campaign, handing going on inside billionaire lone Republican congressman whom did Fossella call in? David Koch’s Upper East Side man- R — spent considerable time in None other than Vice President sion. Of course not — those photos his 2006 re-election campaign run- Dick Cheney. would be worth two Cheney fundrais- ning away from the policies of an un- There’s no surprise why Fossella ers to Fossella’s Democratic oppo- popular President Bush. reached out to the big gun for Mon- nents, Steve Harrison and Council- Never mind that the vast majority day’s hundreds-per-plate luncheon: man Domenic Recchia). of Bush’s failed agenda has had Fos- While reviled by nearly three-quarters Cheney departed after dessert — on sella’s rubber stamp. With Congress of the country, Cheney is still well the people’s airplane, Air Force 2. on the verge of a Democratic takeover liked by a Totonno’s-thin upper crust Political experts told The Brooklyn two years ago — and with the Bay of America — many of them loyal Paper that Fossella risked little by Ridge–Staten Island district mostly GOP donors. having the unpopular Cheney stump populated by Democrats — Fossella Cheney did his job, filling Fossella’s for him in Manhattan’s Gucci Gulch. banked on voters’ short memories and coffers, and then he left. After all, one consultant told us, vot- rode a falsified anti-Bush message Fossella is hoping that voters will ers have short memories. back to Washington, where he re- forget that when he needed to keep But voters have it in their power to mains the consummate anti–abortion alive his hopes for a sixth term, he prove that adage wrong. ing rights, pro-gun, pro-pork, pro–Big turned to Cheney (naturally, the cam- This November, one factor in m Oil, anti-immigration Conservative. paign did not allow photographers to choosing a candidate should be re- So now, when he needs big bucks capture the back-slapping and glad- membering who his friends are. Cristian Fle LETTERS Schumer endorsement makes Squadron a loser To the editor, Michael Mukasey as the Attorney General. happens to neighborhoods is happening be- A helpful note to Daniel Squadron: you You may claim to disagree with ‘Room’ doomed? hind closed doors among connected, corpo- should be more careful about who you align Schumer on some of these issues, but you To the editor, rate developers who have money to buy yourself with. Accepting the endorsement of certainly did not think it important enough Naughty Brooklyn We have just learned that the iconic their way through the system. Sen. Charles Schumer rips from you any to state so when you co-authored “Posi- Frank Gehry skyscraper, Miss Brooklyn, I guess the real question is how much progressive credentials you may claim to tively American: Winning Back the Mid- has no anchor tenant, and that without one longer this swindle will be allowed to drag have (“Crunch time for Connor,” Down- dle-Class Majority One Family at a Time” is denounced! no financing is available (“Atlantic Yards on? Alan Rosner, Park Slope town and North Brooklyn editions and on- or traveling the state with Schumer. To the editor, Dead,” March 29). That being the case, the line, April 19). Aligning yourself with Sen. On a personal note, how dare you align While I have certainly enjoyed Gersh Kuntz- basketball arena may get built long before Schumer [undermines] any commitment yourself with a senator who says I should man’s columns in the past, his most recent “Brook- Miss Brooklyn construction begins. Judge them! you may have to a progressive agenda. not have the right to marry because I am lyn Angle” was appalling (“‘Naughty’ Brooklyn Meanwhile, no one seems to have asked To the editor, Schumer is pro-death penalty, voted for gay? Because Schumer approved the war, gets porn party,” April 19). if the “Urban Room” — a six-story, all- Your recent editorial regarding judges the Defense of Marriage Act, is against the Patriot Act, DOMA, Michael Mukasey The notion that Brooklyn is any “naughtier” than glass entry to Miss Brooklyn, the arena parking in a city park is absolutely correct same sex marriage and has supported and the candidacy of right-to-lifers, his en- any other part of the country — and that the defini- and the Atlantic Avenue station — will be (“Judges out of order,” March 22). Adminis- dorsement of you means nothing positive. right-to-life candidates for the U.S. Senate. tion of “naughtiness” comes from a porno site’s sub- built or abandoned. trative Judge Abe Gerges is obviously trying This is one endorsement worth keeping This is in addition to his voting for the Iraq scriber list — is patently absurd. There are problems either way. If it is to to keep his judges happy by defending their in the closet. Allen Roskoff, Manhattan war and the Patriot Act, as well as engi- I, for one, have been in much “naughtier” places be built, Bruce Ratner will have some ma- perk, even though it is unwarranted. The writer is president, Jim Owles Liberal Parks are for people, not cars. The neering the sickening Senate approval of than Brooklyn. And the borough as a whole is de- jor redesign costs, especially if the distance Democratic Club, a gay political club. judges, who are no different than other cit- cidedly less naughty than it was in the days when between the “Urban Room” and the arena there were real (not-Yuppie) bars and a bona-fide izens who cannot park in front of their is to be hidden rather than left a gaping place of employment, have gotten used to Send a letter red light district in Brooklyn Heights. open wound. Mixed message Just ask your photographer Tom Callan about the their perk and don’t want to give it up. To the editor, Ratner’s less-costly alternative is to wait By e-mail: [email protected] time he got beat up at Club Wildfire. The Brooklyn Chapter of the American The Brooklyn Museum gave Bruce Rat- m until Miss Brooklyn eventually goes ahead. Institute of Architects supports The Brook- By mail: Letters, The Brooklyn Paper, Those were the days — the naughty days. The But the “Urban Room,” a promised amenity, ner an award for service to the community “porn party” that Gersh wrote about [featuring adult lyn Paper’s position that no parking of any 55 Washington St., Brooklyn, NY (“Protesters call Bruce’s honor a ‘dung also served to mitigate the expected hoards of kind should be permitted in the park. The 11201. film starlet Angelina Valentine, right] pales by com- pedestrians crossing Atlantic Avenue by con- deal,’” April 12)? parison. Bill Jameson, Park Slope judges can park in any of several garages All letters must be signed and include That’s a farce fit for a protest, to be sure. IHaveAWife.co necting the MTA’s Atlantic Avenue station within easy walking distance of the Supreme the writer’s home address and phone That said, it’s a little ironic that the with the arena. The silence suggests that nei- Court building on Adams Street. number (only the writer’s name and ther the ESDC nor Ratner are concerned. neighborhood are published with the let- protest was staged by Develop Don’t De- Donald Weston, Brooklyn Heights ter). Letters may be edited and will not stroy Brooklyn since the group no more Ratner does. million-dollar homeowners? That takes I’d like to think The Brooklyn Paper could The writer is chair of the urban design be returned. The earlier in the week you represents the greater non-white, non- When does DDDB get an award of its guts for a bunch of progressive Democrats. find out what a delayed Miss Brooklyn committee for the Brooklyn Chapter of the send your letter, the better. brownstone Brooklyn community than own for defending the property rights of Thomasina Millet, Crown Heights means, but unfortunately control of what American Institute of Architects. 8 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 April 26, 2008 FREE Apple Diagnostic! Mega-rally to stop mega-project By Gersh Kuntzman Don’t Destroy Brooklyn comes developer have called the en- lantic Yards in one form or an- The Brooklyn Paper one week after three City tire project into question,” said other. Develop Don’t Destroy Councilmembers from Brook- Terry Urban, co-chair of the Brooklyn came out against the Three local groups that lyn asked the Empire State De- Council of Brooklyn Neigh- project from its inception, ar- haven’t exactly agreed on velopment Corporation to bar borhoods. “The public benefits guing (among other things) how to fight the Atlantic developer Bruce Ratner from are in question and the only that its 6,800 units and 16 Callan Yards development will put continuing to tear down build- m thing remaining seems to be an towers would overwhelm low- aside their differences to de- / Julie Rosenberg ings in the Atlantic Yards foot- / To arena! This is not the project rise Prospect Heights, and that mand a halt in demolition print given that the developer that was approved. Meanwhile city and state taxpayers were work on the project at a has said he cannot build the 16- our neighborhoods are being footing too much of the bill. The Council of Brooklyn mega-rally next Sunday. skyscraper, office space, retail blighted by unnecessary demo- Neighborhoods was established The announcement of the and basketball arena project litions for a project that seems to ensure public input into the May 3 rally by the Council of that was approved by the state to be disappearing or drastical- project’s Environmental Impact Brooklyn Neighborhoods, Paper file The Brooklyn in December, 2006. Paper file The Brooklyn ly postponed.” Statement. The CBN spent Brooklyn Speaks and Develop Daniel Goldstein “Recent statements by the Bruce Ratner All three groups oppose At- more than $100,000 to find the flaws of the EIS, which was nonetheless accepted by state officials. Brooklyn Speaks formed mere weeks before the project got its finally approval in late 2006. Unlike DDDB, the group has neither explicitly opposed the basketball arena nor the project’s use of emi- nent domain. That said, the group has ar- gued that Atlantic Yards “must be changed substantially or re- jected.” Ratner appears to have tak- en care of the “changed sub- stantially” part himself. Last month, he told the New York Times that the $4.2-billion project now consists only of the arena and two or three buildings surrounding it. The 0;^fTa bulk of the project — which includes the vast majority of the promised below-market- rate units and most of the open space — is no longer sched- uled for completion. And even the iconic Miss Brooklyn tower at the intersec- tion of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues has been postponed until Ratner can get a tenant, he told the Times. RPQ[TQX[[. Despite the group’s different approaches to opposing At- lantic Yards, there will be a unified voice on display next Saturday. “We can all agree that we can’t allow things to continue as they are going — with Rat- ner demolishing the neighbor- hood,” said DDDB spokesman Daniel Goldstein. Expected on hand will be Councilmembers Bill DeBla- sio (D–Park Slope), Letitia James (D–Fort Greene) and David Yassky (D–Brooklyn Heights), the trio that penned a letter to state officials calling for a halt in demolitions so that the neighborhood is not left “in an empty, blighted state for an VdPaP]cTTS unknown number of years to come.” Rally against Atlantic Yards sponsored by the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhood, De- velop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn and Brooklyn Speaks will be held at 752 Pacific St. (between Carlton and Vanderbilt avenues in Prospect Heights) at 2 pm on Saturday, May 3. Visit www.councilofbrooklynneigh- borhoods.org, www.dddb.net or www.brooklynspeaks.org for info. 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Thousands of security officers in New York City are standing up for better wages, benefits and training - including 4,000 officers like Frank who are fighting for a new union contract this spring. Raising standards in the security industry is long overdue - the billion dollar real estate industry can afford to improve conditions for the officers who keep their properties and tenants safe and secure. 32BJ United to Make Work Pay 101 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10013 www.seiu32bj.org INSIDE DINING | PERFORMING ARTS | NIGHTLIFE | BOOKS | CINEMA ART Arty night If you’re looking for a way to combine a night on the town with a culturally enriching outing, look no further than “First Thursday,” the monthly arts celebra- tion held in DUMBO. On May 1, 24 neighborhood institu- tions will host exhibi- tions, including Smack Mellon [92 Plymouth St. at Washington Street, (718) 834-8761], which is previewing its annual Kentucky Derby party and art auction (pictured). “What’s good about First Thursday is that there are enough galleries to make it manageable, but not too many to make it overwhelming,” said Zannah Mass, cultural affairs director for Two Trees, the DUMBO- based real estate company organizing the event. “You really feel that you’ve covered a lot of ground … (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings April 26, 2008 There are receptions, curators’ talks and film screen- ings. There’s something for everyone whether you’re a serious collector or not.” “First Thursday” will be held on May 1 at loca- tions throughout DUMBO. For information, visit History of www.dumbo-newyork.com. — Adam Rathe FASHION For Mom With Mother’s Day on the horizon, Sterling Place Brooks,pt.1 owners Robert Wilson and Elizabeth Crowell have stocked their playful and contemporary Boerum Hill antique shops with distinctive gifts Mom can’t help but love just a teensy bit more than your pre-school- era plaster handprint. The Prospect Heights- Famed director says his Brooklyn based husband-and- wife team offer every- thing from jewelry Bachner / Jeff childhood made him a superstar made of vintage watch parts — bracelets, neck- By Adam Rathe neyed to Ellis Island last week to be feted laces and cufflinks The Brooklyn Paper alongside mystery author Mary Higgins Clark, made from faces and members of the Forbes family and former Sec- movements (pictured) Paper The Brooklyn ver a century after his father, Max Kamin- retary of Health and Human Services Donna — by Tokens and sky, arrived at Ellis Island on the “SS Scan- Shalala at the 2008 Ellis Island Family Heritage Coins, to timepieces with bands wrought from melt- Odia,” legendary filmmaker Mel Brooks Awards. The annual ceremony honors luminar- ed silverware, to the contemporary lockets from Ben- made his own voyage — this time aboard a ies in the field of literature, business, entertain- sonhurst-based designer Michael Bromberg. chartered ferry running between Battery Park ment and education whose ancestors immigrat- “The theme we have in the store,” explained Eliz- and the Ellis Island piers — on April 17. ed through the island. abeth, “is taking existing objects and giving them Although his father originally settled on the These days, the 81-year-old Brooks is work- new life.” Lower East Side — helming the Kaminsky Her- ing on a silver screen adaptation of his classic Sterling Place (363 Atlantic Ave. at Hoyt Street in ring Merchants on Essex Street — the family of television show, “Get Smart,” and will bring his Boerum Hill and 352 Seventh Ave. at 10th Street in the now legendary filmmaker soon moved to Tony Award-winning musical, “The Produc- Park Slope) accepts American Express, Discover, Mas- Brooklyn, first living in Brownsville before set- ers,” to Austria this summer. terCard and Visa. For information and store hours, call tling at 365 South Third St. in Williamsburg. “When I left Brooklyn, I moved to the U.S. (718) 797-5667 or visit www.sterlingplace.com. “We paid $18 a month for that apartment, Army, and I kept my rifle and helmet in case I — Adam Rathe and I understand now they’re getting $2,800 a needed them. I’m going to Vienna to open ‘The month for the same one,” Brooks told GO Producers’ this summer, and I’m taking the rifle Brooklyn. “[Now] I take rich people on tours of and helmet — just in case,” he quipped. my tenement. I’ve brought Carl Reiner, Nathan And though his musicals are being produced Lane and Matthew Broderick — buddies from worldwide, Brooks seemed curiously resistant CINEMA show business.” to bringing his shows — “The Producers” and, But before he was a tour guide, the creator more recently, “Young Frankenstein” — to a of “Spaceballs,” “History of the World” and Brooklyn stage. “Blazing Saddles” said, perhaps not surprising- “My shows are on Broadway. They’re a sub- / Adrian Kinloch ly, that he was the neighborhood jokester. way ride away from Brooklyn. Why would I Reel life “I was the street corner comic, I was work- bring my shows back there?” ing for audiences when I was 5,” Brooks said. Still, Brooks said he has a soft spot for the Break out the popcorn for the 42nd annual Brook- “I was short, and my humor saved me from borough and fond memories of growing up in lyn Arts Council International Film Festival. This getting a beating. I would disarm my opponents Williamsburg. year brings a record number of submissions, and 23 The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn by making them laugh.” “I love Brooklyn, it was nurturing,” he said. of them — including two award-winning films — Mel on the move: Williamsburg native Mel Brooks, 81, is working on a big screen adaptation of The experience would more than pay off for “We didn’t know we were poor, we just loved hail from the borough. the classic TV show, “Get Smart,” and will bring his Tony Award-winning musical, “The Produc- the talented actor, writer, director and producer. our lives; loved playing stickball [and] kick- Family is an im- ers,” to Vienna this summer. “It made me a star,” said Brooks, who jour- the-can. It was a great life.” portant theme for the month-long fest. This year’s winner for “Best Feature Documentary,” tour for “The Kept Man,” her first “Oh, Saigon” (pic- novel.” (She published a collection tured) by Brooklyn of short stories, “Instant Love,” in Heights resident Doan 2007.) Hoang, follows the “I wanted to write a book about filmmaker’s family Williamsburg,” she said of its gene- members as they leave sis. “It’s a really fascinating place.” Vietnam — and charts y g “The Kept Man” is the story of her own work to uncover their story. Hoang’s film Dear Bill bur Jarvis Miller, wife of an almost fa- will be shown on May 9 as part of the Brooklyn mous painter, Martin, who, after an filmmakers program at the Brooklyn Museum. accident, has fallen into a coma and Another set of winners, who are also part of the Novelist writes her ’hood a ‘love letter’ left her to handle life — and his still May 9 line-up, are Bushwick residents Daniel Gar- ascendant career — solo. cia and Rania Attieh, who focused on travel, too. The By Adam Rathe populate coffee shops and Laundro- At the book’s opening, Jarvis is duo’s film, “Almost Brooklyn,” which won the The Brooklyn Paper mats during the daytime hours. only slightly more exciting than the award for “Best Short Narrative,” is about a man BOOKS “When you walk around Wil- comatose Martin. Aside from lunch- who gets into a taxicab to visit the borough for the hen author Jami Attenberg “The Kept Man” By Jami Atten- liamsburg, you see them sitting in es with his shark art dealer, Alice, first time. decided to write a “love let- berg ($24.95, Riverhead) is available cafes and you wonder what they do and occasional visits from his These Brooklyn filmmakers are pleased to be ter” to Williamsburg, she did- at BookCourt (163 Court St. at Pacif- with their time,” she told GO lothario best friend Davis (whose showing their work as part of this local tradition. W ic Street in Cobble Hill). For informa- n’t prattle on about its hipster deni- tion, visit www.jamiattenberg.com. Brooklyn. “[Writing the book] was dalliances with the employees of Said Hoang, who spent seven years making her zens. just a really natural process of think- Greenpoint’s Peter Pan Donuts have doc, “I am really happy to have home support.” She wrote about a little known ing about the art world and my made it tough for this reporter to The Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival segment of its population: Its “kept south side, Attenberg, 36, was well neighborhood and how both of make his regular stop at the sugar runs from April 29 through May 29 at theaters borough- men.” versed in the area’s buzzy art scene those things are always evolving.” Lisa Whiteman shack without grimacing), Jarvis is a wide. For information and a complete schedule, call A five-year resident of a convert- and found herself drawn to kept We caught up with Attenberg in On location: Author Jami Attenberg sets her new nov- shut-in. (718) 625-0080 or visit www.brooklynartscouncil.org. ed pasta factory on Williamsburg’s men, local house husbands who Los Angeles, five days into her book el, “The Kept Man,” in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. See KEPT on page 11 — Linnea Covington G0URMET WITHIN REACH. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – MONTAGUE b/w COURT & CLINTON 10 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 April 26, 2008 WHERE TO 5:30 - 8:30PM EDITORS’ PICKS every fi rst Thursday of the month. 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SAT, APRIL 26 ANATOMY OF A BROWNSTONE: NYC College of Technology hosts “Green OUTDOORS AND TOURS Roofs, Green Homes,” a seminar devot- PARK SLOPE WALK: Walking tour of the ed to the art and science of sustainable Park Slope and Prospect Park neighbor- homes, NYC style. $40. Choose morning hoods. $25, $15 kids (includes lunch). session from 10 am to noon (300 Jay St.) Tour times are 10 am and 1:30 pm. Call or afternoon session from 2 pm to 4 pm for location. (212) 209-3370. (93 Nevins St.). (718) 552-1170. GREEN ARTS ON GRAND STREET: Com- PEACE FAIR: at Long Island University. munity awareness project features opera, Speakers, workshops, information tables students’ artwork, a walking tour and and more. 11 am to 6 pm. Flatbush info about ways to improve the environ- Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue. A JURIED EXHIBIT OF ment. Walking tour “The Many Faces of (718) 488-1046. Williamsburg” is hosted by the Brooklyn BROOKLYN MUSEUM: Film series: “From THE BEST CONTEMPORARY Center for the Urban Environment. 11 Samurai to Sailor Moon.” $8, $4 students FURNISHINGS MADE IN BROOKLYN am to 6 pm. Grand Street Campus High and seniors. Noon to 5 pm. Also, lecture Schools, 850 Grand St. with feminist Miriam Shapiro. 2 pm to 4 www.cenyc.org/recycling/grand. Free. pm. 200 Eastern Pkwy. (718) 638-5000. Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce presents BIRDWATCHING: Explore Prospect Park’s RECEPTION: Exhibit by artist Jessica Baker: natural areas and learn how to look for “Leaf and Circle.” Live music. 5 pm to 8 birds. Noon to 1:30 pm. Meet at the Audu- pm. Prospect Park Audubon Center. bon House. Enter Park at Ocean Avenue Enter Park at Ocean Avenue and Lincoln and Lincoln Road. (718) 965-8951. Free. Road. (718) 965-8999. Free. B’EARTHDAY BASH: Prospect Park Audu- DINNER DANCE: Annual event hosted by bon Center celebrates the birthdays of St. Finbar Italian Societies. $50 includes John James Audubon, Frederick Law buffet, dinner, live music and more. 7:30 Olmsted and James Stranahan. 1 pm to pm. Bath Avenue and Bay 20th Street. MAY 9–11, 2008 Nick Heavican 4 pm. Lloyd Miller of the Deedle Deedle (718) 236-3312. Dees performs at 2 pm. Artist’s reception ‘Game’ on: Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame,” starring John Turturro, Max Ca- DANCE PARTY: Dancefever Studios hosts a 4 DUMBO LOCATIONS from 5 pm to 8 pm. Audubon Center. sella, Elaine Stritch and Alvin Epstein, runs through May 18 at the BAM Har- party. Salsa, hustle, swing, ballroom and Enter Park at Ocean Avenue and Lincoln vey Theater in Fort Greene. other dances. $10. 8 pm. 3009 Ave. J. St. Ann’s Warehouse, Smack Mellon, Dumbo Arts Center Road. (718) 965-8999. Free. (718) 253-0939. LAKE CRUISE: Take a 25-minute cruise on SWING HOUSE: Gatsby-era fun with a twist BD+ in the Tobacco Warehouse at the electric boat Independence. $6 for of new-school vibe features music of the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in partnership with ages 13 and up; $3 for ages 3 to 12; “Dorilla in Tempe.” Other works. I Virtuosi Mancha.” $18, $14 seniors and children Italiani performs. $50, $25 seniors and stu- 12 and younger. 8 pm. 199 14th St. 1920s. Dance lessons, remixing and vin- NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation ages 2 and younger ride free. 12:30 pm tage grooves. $15. 8 pm. Galapagos Art to 4:30 pm. Audubon Center, Prospect dents. 8 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Ful- (212) 352-3101. ton Street at the East River. (718) 624-2083. Space, 70 North Sixth St. www.gem- For more information about tickets, seminars and designer events visit Park. Enter Park at Ocean Avenue and OTHER iniandscorpio.com. Lincoln Road. (718) 287-3400. ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: presents The BATTLE OF BROOKLYN: Gleason’s Gym Druid Theater Company of Galway in FLEA MARKET: Church of Holy Spirit. 9 am www.bklyndesigns.com PERFORMANCE to 4 pm. 8117 Bay Pkwy. (718) 837-0412. hosts a night of kickboxing. $55 ringside; “The Walworth Farce.” $37.50. 8 pm. 38 $35 general admission. 8 pm. 77 Front THE BRICK: presents preview of “Babylon Water St. (718) 254-8779. PSYCHIC WORKSHOP: Psychic Ellie Crystal PRESENTING SPONSORS LEAD MEDIA SIGNATURE presents “The Double Helix of Healing St. (718) 797-2872. Babylon,” a mix of Herodotus, Cecil B. BRIC STUDIO: presents a dance program INTERIOR DeMille, Kenneth Anger, Richard Schech- Workshop.” $100. 10 am to 3:30 pm. DESIGN® “Music of the Spheres,” with Andrew Elementi Restaurant, 140 Seventh Ave. ner and others. $15. 3 pm and 8 pm. 575 Nemr and CPD Plus. $12, $10 students. Metropolitan Ave. (212) 352-3101. (718) 833-4264. SUN, APRIL 27 8 pm. 647 Fulton St. (718) 855-7882. BKLYN DESIGNSTM receives support from Speaker Sheldon Silver and the NYS Assembly Brooklyn Delegation, Speaker JAZZ: Tribute to jazz icon Max Roach. 3 pm YOGA MARATHON: Spoke the Hub hosts Christine Quinn and the NYC Council Brooklyn Delegation, and the NYC Department of Small Business Services. to 8 pm. Boys and Girls High School, JAZZ: Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of a mini-marathon to raise funds for the Music presents jazz with The Steve Wilson PERFORMANCE 1700 Fulton St. (718) 569-1896. Spoke the Hub Re-Creation organization. MUSIC: Union Church Choir performs MUSIC: Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Quartet. $25, $15 seniors and students. 8 Learn how to salute the sun, do yoga sit- pm. 58 Seventh Ave. (212) 209-3370. “Vivaldi Gloria.” 11 am. Ridge Boulevard branch presents “J’ouvert!” Participants ting down and more. Donate $25 and at 80th Street. (718) 745-0438. Free. GALLERY PLAYERS: Musical “Man of La receive a T-shirt. 10 am to 2 pm. 748 explore the theatrics, costumes, music MUSIC OFF THE WALLS: Brooklyn Phil- and community development aspects of harmonic performs Randy Woolf’s “Tra- Brooklyn’s J’ouvert celebration. Music by versing the Mushroom Kingdom.” Multi- a steel band. 4 pm. Grand Army Plaza. media performance presents audio from (718) 230-2100. Free. video games paired with formal exam- ENDGAME: Brooklyn Academy of Music CIVIC CALENDAR ples of chamber music. $15, $10 mem- presents Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame.” bers, students and seniors. 2 pm to 4 John Turturro stars along with Max MONDAY, APRIL 28 TUESDAY, APRIL 29 pm. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Casella, Elaine Stritch and Alvin Epstein. Hate crime discussion with District At- 78th Precinct Community Council. Pkwy. (718) 638-5000. $25 to $75. 7:30 pm. BAM Harvey torney Hynes, the Gay & Lesbian Anti- BCBC: Brooklyn Center for the Performing Theater, 651 Fulton St. (718) 636-4100. Monthly meeting. 78th Precinct station- Violence Project and the NYPD. Prospect house (65 Sixth Ave., at Bergen Street in Arts at Brooklyn College presents The PAUL SIMON: Brooklyn Academy of Music Park YMCA (357 Ninth St., between Fifth Prospect Heights), 7:30 pm. Call (718) National Dance Theater Company of presents “Love in Hard Times: The Music and Sixth avenues in Park Slope), 6 pm. 636-6410. Jamaica. Program features the lore, of Paul Simon. Tonight, “American Call (718) 250-2963 for info. music and dance traditions of Jamaica, Tunes” with Josh Groban and Gillian SATURDAY, MAY 3 Africa and the American South. $40 and Welch. $45 to $95. 8 pm. Howard Community Board 6. Public Safety and Environmental Protection committees. Up- Friends of Carroll Park. Help paint the $25. 2 pm. Walt Whitman Theater, 1900 Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave. park’s fence. Carroll Park (Carroll Street, Campus Rd. Also, National Grid Earth (718) 636-4100. dates about improvements at the Gowanus Canal Pumping Station. Fifth Avenue between Court and Smith streets in Car- Day celebration. Event is designed to WORKSHOP PRODUCTION: Brooklyn Arts Committee (621 Degraw St., between roll Gardens), 10 am to 3 pm. All sup- educate families on how they can play a Exchange presents the sci-fi allegory Third and Fourth avenues in Gowanus), plies provided. E-mail friendsofcarrollpark role in caring for the earth and creating a “Childr’n of ‘O.’” $15, $8 low-income. 8 6:30 pm. Call (718) 643-3027 for info. @yahoo.com for info. more sustainable future. 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INTERNS: Ricky Barlin, Linnea Covington, Emily Lavin E-mail news releases to [email protected] Member: HOW TO E-mail arts releases to [email protected] Listed: :SOR Fingers, an award-winning vegan bak- ery in Washington, D.C., will soon open a wholesale outpost in CHEWS Brooklyn. “We’re limiting our offer- BREAKING ings in the beginning, and may very well expand what we’re doing as time goes on,” said t’s time to break open that piggy owner Kirsten Rosenberg. “But at bank: on Wednesday, April 30, this point, it’s entirely wholesale.” I Baskin-Robbins — which has 50- If all goes according to plan, restaurants plus locations in Brooklyn — will be and coffee shops across the borough will hosting its second annual “31 Cent start stocking Sticky Fingers’ famous cin- Scoop Night.” namon sticky buns, muffins, biscotti and The event, which lasts from 5 pm to “Calvin” cookies, oatmeal cookie bars 10 pm, hopes to raise awareness of the with a creamy, but still vegan, filling. “National Fallen Firefighters Founda- • • • tion,” and Baskin-Robbins stores — in- Jessie’s Brooklyn Kitchen, the cluding the one at 352 Graham Ave. [at Smith Street eatery that opened in July Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, 2007, is already looking for a new home. (718) 384-7640] — are inviting local On May 11, the restaurant — which firefighters to their shops to raise money boasts a menu that changes daily — will to augment its $100,000 donation. bid adieu to its swank Carroll Gardens Baskin-Robbins will be offering 31- location, citing — what else? — rent cent scoops of its usual hits as well as hikes as the culprit. new flavor, York Peppermint Pattie. “We don’t have a particular area we Sounds like a cool event all around. need to be in, we need a space that’s inex- • • • pensive,” a manager said. “As long as it’s Last week, DUMBO welcomed a in a high-traffic area, even if it’s not exact- new juice bar to the ’hood. ly where we are now, that’s not an issue.” Located in the back of Forager’s • • • Market on Front Street, juice fiends can It may seem like an unlikely place for choose from 10 menu items, including a the American Cancer Society to host its “Fresh Ginger Ale”; “Green Hopper,” second annual “Eat, Drink & Be Hope- with parsley, green apple, kale and ful” event, but the Tobacco Warehouse in spinach; and “Tummy Calmer,” with DUMBO will be the hot spot for the bor- ginger, mint, fennel and apple. Drinks ough’s foodies on May 20 when the ben- range from $5 to $7, and for $6.50, you efit — proudly sponsored by The Brook- can pick your own ingredients for a per- lyn Paper — takes place. Featuring a sonalized concoction. I scream, you scream: “31 Cent food and wine tasting, a raffle and a VIP • • • Scoop Night,” a benefit for the “Na- reception hosted by Daisy Martinez from Greenpoint might be known throughout tional Fallen Firefighters Founda- the PBS series “Daisy Cooks!” and Dar- the borough as Little Poland, but nobody tion,” returns to Brooklyn’s Baskin- rin Siegfriend of Park Slope’s Red, White told the owners of Little Korea, a barbe- Robbins locations on Wednesday, & Bubbly, tickets are sure to go fast. For cue restaurant that opened on Manhattan April 30. (At right) Vegan bakers tickets and more info, call (718) 986- Avenue last week. Offering Korean BBQ Sticky Fingers will be opening a 9770 or visit the Web site community.ac- classics like short ribs and mixed seafood, wholesale outpost in the borough. sevents.org/eatdrinkandbehopefulNY. the tableside cooking is a first for the • • • neighborhood. And if the grill doesn’t do Last week, FreshDirect, the upscale anything for you, other Korean dishes, like foot location at 284 Seventh Ave. in Park home-delivery grocery service, expanded duck legs in a soy-ginger glaze and stir- Slope. its coverage to include Bedford-Stuy- fried pork with kimchi (spicy pickled cab- “The store is under construction and vesant, Red Hook and Crown Heights. bage), are also available. should open near the end of June,” Molly The grocer is currently promoting a • • • Catalano, a spokesperson for the chain, open in the coming months in the bor- collaboration with contemporary Indian Five Guys, the Virginia-based burger told GO Brooklyn. “We have another loca- ough, giving us a total of six Five Guys. restaurant Tabla, selling microwavable chain that opened a branch in Brooklyn tion in 8510 Fifth Avenue [in Bay Ridge], • • • versions of dishes like tamarind-glazed Heights last summer, is opening another and that should open in early August.” Burgers aren’t the only items making salmon ($11.99), which GO Brooklyn has burger boite — this time a 2,000-square Three more outposts are slated to their way up from the South. Sticky sampled and deemed especially tasty. KEPT... Attenberg’s ’burg Continued from page 9 That is, until she When Jami Attenberg wrote her novel, “The Kept Man,” she wasn’t just imagining the former- meets the kept men, ly industrial Williamsburg landscape dotted with chic boutiques, fancy restaurants and important three guys allowed a life art galleries, she actually lives in it. As readers discover in her book, a kept man makes a great pal of luxury — and laun- because he’s rich and free all day. GO Brooklyn asked Attenberg to dish about her top neighbor- dry, for they meet hood spots; places where visitors should stop if they’re looking to find a kept man of their own. weekly at a Laundro- — Adam Rathe mat — thanks to the high-paying jobs their BOZU wives hold. 269 Grand St. at Roebling Street in Williams- Over weekly af- burg, (718) 384-7770, www.oibozu.com. ternoons of washing This upscale Japanese tapas lounge (pictured at and drinking — af- right) attracts world-weary Williamsburgers ternoon pints at thanks to cocktails featuring house-made, fruit-in- Rosemary’s Green- American Leather fused liquor and a large menu of sushi and other point Tavern is one Atlantico De La Espada Japanese favorites. “[Bozu is] my favorite place to of the neighborhood details BDI have a dinner party for out-of-town guests,” said that Attenberg nailed — Blue Dot Maria Yee Attenberg, “and the ‘party bomb’ sushi (pictured Jarvis is drawn from her Calligaris Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams at right) is so pretty and delicious.” shell, and has the chance to into a crazy love letter.” DellaRobbia Robert Abbey see how she and Martin are And while the area doesn’t Ekornes Surya Rugs CINDERS GALLERY not so different from other have the bookish cache of Fontana Arte TEMA 103 Havemeyer St. at Hope Street in Williams- married couples. Peeking into some Brooklyn neighbor- Gus Thayer Coggin 372 & 384 atlantic bklyn 718 797 2077 burg, (718) 388-2311, www.cindersgallery.com. the lives of her new pals is hoods, Attenberg, who writes “They’ve got an adorable front gallery space,” less fruitful; the men each at Supercore, a Japanese cafe said Attenberg, “and everything is extremely af- serve their purpose in advanc- on Bedford Avenue, and Atlas fordable.” Open since 2004, Cinders is one of ing the plot, but don’t have coffee shop on Havemeyer the neighborhood’s most accessible and prolific Williamsburgers who flock here for live music, the same depth as our heroine. Street, thinks that it’s under- galleries. In addition to hosting shows, the space events and exhibitions. Capturing the nuances of valued. also sells zines, clothing and crafts made by lo- “They’re young and rambunctious and all North Brooklyn is something “Everyone I see on a daily cal artists. about DIY [do-it-yourself],” said Attenberg. Al- Attenberg, herself unmarried, basis is doing something cre- though we’ve heard it called an “Animal House does with skill. ative and there’s a lot of ener- PIEROGI GALLERY for hipsters,” we had to agree with Attenberg These aren’t the well tread gy here,” Attenberg said. 177 N. Ninth St. at Bedford Avenue in Williams- when she said, “their energy is amazing.” literary lanes of Boerum Hill, “There is that Park Slope, burg, (718) 599-2144, www.pierogi2000.com. or a hipster-heavy pastiche of Carroll Gardens writer … Open since 1994, Attenberg called Pierogi — SPUYTEN DUYVIL Williamsburg; she maintains a people think that’s where the named for the Polish dumplings that are 359 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Street in balanced view of the neigh- literary scene is. And hawked throughout the neighborhood and Williamsburg, (718) 963-4140, borhood and makes her char- Williamsburg gets seen more served at the gallery’s openings — “a true www.spuytenduyvilnyc.com. acters believable as residents. as a painter and musician’s Williamsburg classic.” Many a neighborhood Known throughout the borough for its huge se- “In terms of the physical scene, but I like that we’re a artist has gotten his start here, and the openings lection of international beers, Spuyten Duyvil terrain, I was out there every bit of a secret weapon. are the stuff of local legend. — which, in butchered Dutch, means “in spite day, taking pictures, riding my “We’re undercover and of the devil” — is one of the more mellow bars bike and thinking about the mining all of this great materi- SECRET PROJECT ROBOT in the area. “The back patio is the best place to neighborhood,” said Atten- al. 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One track, “We’re From Bar- manuel Lundgren isn’t from I’m from Barcelona will play at It’s very interesting, and I can’t wait celona,” with a catchy pop hook and 8 pm on May 1 at the Brooklyn Ma- Barcelona. In fact, Lundgren — sonic Temple (317 Clermont Ave. at to look inside the building and see sing-along chorus, took the band be- Ethe lead singer and mastermind Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene). what I can find.” yond the indie rock sphere and made behind pop-rock band I’m From Tickets are $10. For information, vis- But while Lundgren is interested it a mainstay in dance clubs. Barcelona — isn’t even Spanish. it www.masonicboom.com. in the location, fans will be pouring The full, cheery sound is exactly Hailing from Jonkoping, Sweden, into the hall to hear his band. Ac- what Lundgren imagined, he said, I’m From Barcelona consists of cording to Doug DeFalco, who when he first decided to form the Lundgren and 28 collaborators and lyn Masonic Temple in Fort Greene. booked the show at the Masonic band. owes its name to “Fawlty Towers,” a And despite having been to Temple, tickets are selling briskly, “I had a vacation from my day British television series that featured Brooklyn only once, Lundgren was especially since I’m from Barcelona job — I was a Web designer — and a bumbling waiter whose catch just as excited as local music fans is only playing five shows in the I was in a band at the time, but I phrase was, “I’m from Barcelona.” when he discussed playing the tem- United States. real reflection of what wonderful hu- when I can book an act that I know my ideas that I present to the band wanted to do something else. In a On Thursday, May 1, the band ple. “Their sugary, sweet songs of man beings they are,” said DeFalco. will not only put on a thoroughly en- and that take form when we meet,” band you can’t always form your will add to its international cache “Sometimes there are venues like hope, optimism and fun, are also a “It’s always an exciting moment joyable show, but that I will look for- said Lundgren. “For me, it’s always own groove; I wanted to bring in when it plays a show at the Brook- ward to being with before, during hard. When you write a book, there saxophones and have fun,” he ex- and after the show. These are some aren’t five authors. The best songs plained. “I decided to gather friends real sweet Swedes.” also take a very short time to write, — I didn’t care if they had played Despite the band’s popularity, so it can happen at any time — it’s for long, and I had no idea how it however, working with over two- hard to sit down and plan to write a would sound — but I just wanted to The algo-rhythm dozen musicians hasn’t always been song. I’d like to learn to do that, record songs. After we did the first With 29 members, I’m From easy for Lundgren. though. It sounds fun to write songs demo, I thought we should do a gig Barcelona can’t help but have a big, It’s nearly impossible for every- together.” in our town and that [would be] it. one to tour at the same time — the What the band is doing, however, Boy, was I wrong.” full sound. But what does a Swedish last time the band was stateside, 20 seems to be working out well. “After the first song, when I heard band with a Spanish name and an Take the sound of ABBA. Could there Modest Mouse. members were able to make it — Lundgren attributed the upbeat a roar and the applause, I felt that army of musicians really sound like? “Let Me Introduce My Texas’s Polyphonic even be Swedish Emanuel Lundgren’s Friends,” I’m From and writing songs as a group is a feat songs to thinking about childhood as this was something different,” said GO Brooklyn analyzed the band’s Spree, a 24-mem- pop bands without vocals bring to mind Barcelona’s debut re- yet to be accomplished. he wrote them, and attempting to Lundgren. “Everyone in the band debut record, “Let Me Introduce ber band that does them? Toss in a 2007’s “We Were cord — a smart, pop- “It’s hard to sit around the camp- steer clear of traps he saw other has such a good vibe and people My Friends,” to prepare you for the choral rock com- dash of … Dead Before the Ship py gem. The band’s fire and do a song with 30 writers. I songwriters fall into. sang along at the first gig even band’s May 1 show at the Masonic binations. Add a Even Sank.” And you Brooklyn appearance would love to do that, and I’m look- “When we made the record, it though we hadn’t finished our demo. Temple in Fort Greene. splash of … get ... is not to be missed. ing forward to making that happen at was a way for me to describe the That’s when I said, ‘let’s not stop this one point, but for now, it’s a lot of feeling of being in love without writ- train here.’ ” “Childr’n of ‘O.’” 6 pm. See derico Garcia Lorca: Poet in in organic, unprocessed and Borgen, MD, director of the Sat., April 26. New York.” 4 pm. Grand Army free-range products. Everything Cancer Institute at Maimo- PAUL SIMON: “Love in Hard Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. from blueberry wine and goat nides Medical Center. Topic: 9 DAYS... Times: The Music of Paul Si- FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATION: Get cheese to 100 varieties of “Breast Cancer in Women and mon. 8 pm. See Sat., April 26. South Africans and NYC resi- apples and fresh-picked flowers, Men.” 9 am. Lunch and Learn Continued from page 10 dents celebrate freedom in plants, and seeds. 9 am to 2 to follow. 327 East 5th St. OTHER Brooklyn at Harriet’s Alter Ego. pm. Grand Army Plaza. (212) (718) 871-5200. Free. activities. 3:30 pm. In front of ‘Smart’ Freedom Day is a South Afri- 788-7476. INDIE MARKET: Opening festival Walt Whitman Theater. Free. BROOKLYN FLEA: The Flea, an can public holiday. Rock band BIRDWATCHING: Explore Pros- features musicians, activities, (718) 951-4500. artisan showcase, features ven- On Tuesday, April 22, the power- dors of vintage furniture, cloth- The Blk JKS perform. 5 pm. 293 House Arena in DUMBO [35 Main St. pect Park’s natural areas and craft activities, face painting PANEL DISCUSSION: Tribute to ing and antiques alongside new Flatbush Ave. (718) 783-2074. learn how to look for birds. for kids, designers and give- jazz icon Max Roach features a designs by local makers of every- Free. at Water Street, (866) 99ARENA] host- Noon to 1:30 pm. Meet at the aways. Market offers hand- discussion with moderator Gil thing from jewelry to textiles. MOSHIACH SEUDA: Enjoy a “fes- ed a party in honor of “Changing Land- Audubon House. Enter Park at made items such as jewelry by Noble, an interview with T.S. Bishop Loughlin Memorial High tive meal” of shmurah matzoh, scapes,” a photo exhibit on the state of Lincoln Road and Ocean Wabisabi-Brooklyn, hats by Monk, followed by a jazz ce- School, Lafayette Avenue be- wine, gefilte fish, roast chicken Avenue. (718) 965-8951. Free. Rocks and Salt, kids wear by the environment today. There to comple- Callan / Tom lebrity jam session. 3 pm to 7 tween Clermont and Vanderbilt and dessert with special guest LAKE CRUISE: Take a 25-minute Wonder Threads, and frocks pm. Medgar Evers College, 1650 avenues. 10 am to 5 pm. www. cantor S.Z. Baumgarten. Every- ment the art, the Smartcar fortwo, a tiny, cruise on the electric boat In- by Melissa Bell. 11 am to 7 Bedford Ave. (718) 569-1896. brownstoner.com/brooklynflea. one is welcome, reservations fuel-efficient two-seater, was driven into dependence. $6 for ages 13 pm. Smith Street between and up; $3 for ages 3 to 12; ORGAN CONCERT: Organist Gre- PLATFORM: Brooklyn Society for not required. 6:30 pm. Congre- the gallery. The car was only around for Union and President streets. gation B’nai Avraham, 117 ages 2 and younger ride free. gory Eaton and six brass players Ethical Culture presents an (347) 407-1187. Remsen St. (718) 596-4840 x 1. the opening reception, but the art will be 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm. Audu- perform in a concert of “Heroic Earth Day program: “Farms in FILM FEST: Brooklyn Arts Council www.bnaiavraham.com. Free. on the walls until May 11. Paper The Brooklyn bon Center, Prospect Park. Flourishes.” $25, $20 seniors New York City? Cultivating International Film Festival pres- and students. 7 pm. Reception CAFE STEINHOF: Film: “Dune” Enter Park at Lincoln Road and ents Independent Filmmakers. Environmental and Social Ocean Avenue. (718) 287-3400. follows. St. Ann and the Holy Change in East New York.” (1984), directed by David Today: “Seventh Annual Women Lynch, starring Kyle MacLach- of African Descent Film Festival.” Trinity Episcopal Church, 157 Sarita Daftary, project director, than 30 colleges. High school Library. www.carnegiehall.org/ (718) 875-3677. Free. PERFORMANCE Montague St. (718) 875-6960. lan and William Hurt. 10:30 Brooklyn Chapter of the Links East New York Farms, is guest pm. 422 Seventh Ave. (718) students, parents and educa- neighborhoodconcerts. Free. ENDGAME: 7:30 pm. See Sat., ENDGAME: Brooklyn Academy ENDGAME: 3 pm. See Sat., April speaker. 11 am. 53 Prospect sponsors event. 11:30 am to 369-7776. Free. tors are invited. 3:30 pm to May 3. of Music presents Samuel 6:30 pm. Long Island University’s 26. Park West. (718) 768-2972. Free. 6:30 pm. 209 Joralemon St. SHAKESPEARE: “Two Gentlemen Beckett’s “Endgame.” John GALLERY PLAYERS: “Man of La Kumble Theater, Flatbush LOVE WANTED: Pets for adop- (718) 802-3830. Free. TUES, APRIL 29 of Verona.” 7:30 pm. See Sat., Turturro stars along with Max Avenue Extension and DeKalb Mancha.” 3 pm. See Sat., April tion. Fee required. 11:30 am to MON, APRIL 28 CONCERT SERIES: presented May 3. Casella, Elaine Stritch and Alvin Avenue. (718) 625-0080. Free. 26. 4 pm. Regina Pacis Youth Center, by Carnegie Hall. Today: BUSINESS COMPETITION: Brook- THE BRICK: “Babylon Babylon.” Epstein. $25 to $75. 2 pm and lyn Public Library’s Business KENTUCKY DERBY PARTY: BARGEMUSIC: 4 pm. See Sat., 1258 65th St. (718) 986-1362. COLLEGE FAIR: Borough Pres- Cabello Rolim and Korim- 8 pm. See Sat., May 3. 7:30 pm. BAM Harvey Theater, Smack Mellon Gallery hosts an April 26. POETRY: Brooklyn Public Library’s ident Markowitz and Project batasamba. 5 pm. Mill Basin branch hosts “Fifth Annual 651 Fulton St. (718) 636-4100. Power Up! Business Plan Com- BRIC STUDIO: “The Paradise Pro- art auction and fundraiser. WORKSHOP PRODUCTION: Central branch presents “Fe- Reach Youth welcomes more Branch, Brooklyn Public ject.” 8 pm. See Sat., May 3. SHAKESPEARE: Brooklyn Col- $250 admits one plus a guest. petition Kick-Off and Orienta- lege Department of Theater tion.” Brooklyn entrepreneurs A work of art to take home is presents “Two Gentlemen of included in ticket price. Bet- are invited to find out how to Verona.” $5. 7:30 pm. Gersh- win money to start a business. FRI, MAY 2 ting window opens at 4 pm; win Theater, 2900 Bedford race post time at 5:58 pm. 6 pm. 280 Cadman Plaza Ave. (718) 951-4500. West. (718) 623-7000. Free. ARTS ON THE COMMONS: Auction at 6:30 pm. 92 Ply- Annual outdoor concert series THE BRICK: presents the preview POETRY AND FICTION READ- mouth St. (718) 834-8761. presented by Metrotech Busi- of “Babylon Babylon,” a mix of SIDEWALK SALE: Pre-Mother’s ING: hosted by Pacific Stan- ness Improvement District. To- Herodotus, Cecil B. DeMille, dard. Franciso Goldman, Anne Day neighborhood sale. Bring day: Brazilian music with Cliff Kenneth Anger, Richard your own table or blanket and Landsman and Ceridwen Korman Gafieria Jazz. Noon to Schechner and others. $15. 8 Dovey read from their works. 7 sell your wares. 10 am to 6 2 pm. Metrotech Commons, pm. 575 Metropolitan Ave. pm. Clinton Avenue between pm. 83 Fourth Ave. (718) 858- enter at Jay and Willoughby (212) 352-3101. 1951. Free. Greene and DeKalb avenues. streets. (718) 488-8200. Free. BARGEMUSIC: Classical music BOOKCOURT: presents a reading (718) 636-9263. FILM FEST: Brooklyn Arts Council program presents works by with David Samuels: “Only Francaix, Dohnanyi and Love Can Break Your Heart” International Film Festival pres- ents Independent Filmmakers. Dvorak. $35, $30 seniors and SUN, MAY 4 and “The Runner.” 7 pm. 163 students. 8 pm. Fulton Ferry Court St. (718) 875-3677. Free. Today: “A Contemplation of Power.” 6 pm to 11 pm. Long Landing, Old Fulton Street at ENDGAME: Brooklyn Academy Island University, Kumble the East River. (718) 624-2083. OUTDOORS AND TOURS of Music presents Samuel Theater, Flatbush Avenue BRIC STUDIO: presents dance UNDERGROUND MUSES: Beckett’s “Endgame.” John Green-Wood Cemetery hosts Turturro stars along with Max a tour of its trees and ponds Casella, Elaine Stritch and and sculptures, by the leading Alvin Epstein. $25 to $75. 7:30 artists and architects of their pm. BAM Harvey Theater, 651 time. Walk may be hilly. $13, Fulton St. (718) 636-4100. $10 members, $8 seniors. 1 Get Back pm. Meet at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street. (718) 788-8500. WEDS, APRIL 30 BATTLE HILL AND BACK: His- BROOKLYN EATS: The Brooklyn toric Fund of Green-Wood Chamber of Commerce hosts Cemetery takes a tour of the its annual food, wine and beer graves of Leonard Bernstein, To Your tasting event. $95, $115 at the Fannie the Dog, Minera, the door. 6 pm to 8:30 pm. Abigail restored Civil War Soldiers’ Kirsch at Stage 6 at Steiner Monument and the highest Studios, Brooklyn Navy Yard, point in Brooklyn. $10, $5 15 Washington Ave. (718) 875- members. 1 pm. Meet at Fifth 1000, ext.105. Avenue and 25th Street. (718) 768-7300. Life Faster. 31-CENT SCOOP: Baskin-Rob- Joan Marcus bins hosts the second annual Hot ‘Lava’: On Saturday, May 3, BRIC Studio presents dance PERFORMANCE 31-cent Scoop Night fundrais- company Lava and Crown Heights-based singer-songwriter BARGEMUSIC: Music program: er. 5 pm to 10 pm. Baskin- “Here and Now: American Robbins stores nationwide. Toshi Reagon in “The Paradise Project,” a socially conscious Contemporary Music Series.” www.baskinrobbins.com. dance work that incorporates theater, music, acrobatics, The Flux Quartet performs. ENDGAME: 7:30 pm. See Sat., wrestling and trapeze. $35, $30 seniors and $15 stu- Lutheran Rehabilitation Network May 3. dents. 4 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Street at Innovative Care. Exceptional Results. the East River. (718) 624-2083. THURS, MAY 1 Extension and DeKalb Avenue. company Lava and singer- (718) 625-0080. Free. songwriter Toshi Reagon in GOSPEL CONCERT: Lafayette Inspirational Ensemble per- GREEN TOUR: NYC College of BOOKCOURT: presents a reading “The Paradise Project.” $12, Technology hosts a green $10 students. 8 pm. 647 forms. $15 adults, $10 seniors with Nina Revoyr: “The Age of and kids. 4:30 pm. Lafayette Are you or someone you love struggling with changes because of a stroke? Has your life walking tour of Downtown Dreaming.” Also, Jennifer Fulton St. (718) 855-7882. Brooklyn and DUMBO. 12:30 Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 Gilmore reads from her novel: GALLERY PLAYERS: Musical S. Oxford St. (718) 625-7515. suffered because of these changes? Then, you should know about Lutheran Rehabilitation pm to 2 pm. Meet at south- “Golden Country.” 7 pm. 163 “Man of La Mancha.” $18, $14 east corner of Jay and Tillary Court St. (718) 875-3677. Free. seniors and children 12 and SHAKESPEARE: “Two Gentlemen Network’s Specialized Stroke Therapy Program offering a wide range of innovative streets. (718) 260-5154. Free. younger. 8 pm. 199 14th St. of Verona.” 2 pm. See Sat., BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC: May 3. therapies to get patients back to life faster – even if the stroke happened years ago. Here’s OPENING: Rabbitholestudio presents The Complexions Con- (212) 352-3101. hosts a reception for “Memo- temporary Ballet in the world FIRST WEEKEND: Brooklyn Arts GALLERY PLAYERS: “Man of La Mancha.” 3 pm. See Sat., May 3. why we get better results: randum,” a group show. 5 pm premiere choreography of Stra- Exchange presents its monthly to 9 pm. 33 Washington St. vinsky’s neoclassical “Pulcinella.” performance and discussion ENDGAME: 3 pm. See Sat., May 3. (718) 852-1500. Free. $20 to $60. 7:30 pm. BAM Ho- series featuring work by Alex- RECEPTION: Photographic works ward Gilman Opera House, 30 andra Beller/ Dances, Kelly OTHER • Highly skilled physical therapists, trained in the newest by Sylvia Plachy. 6 pm to 8 pm. Lafayette Ave. (718) 488-5913. Hanson/ Human Company and BROOKLYN FLEA: The Flea, an Umbrage Gallery, 111 Front St., GOOD COFFEEHOUSE: Hungar- Xyzeta Projects/ Jimena Paz. artisan showcase, features ven- neurological treatments, working one-on-one suite 208. (212) 796-2707. Free. ian folk music with NA Folk Band. $15, $8 low-income. 8 pm. 421 dors of vintage furniture, cloth- DINNER DANCE: The United $10, $6 kids. 8 pm. 53 Prospect Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. ing and antiques alongside new • More sessions that last longer – resulting in quicker results Progressive Democratic Club Park West. (718) 768-2972. designs by local makers of presents their 42nd annual BARGEMUSIC: Classical music OTHER everything from jewelry to tex- • Three distinct levels of care for each phase of recovery Dinner-Dance. Honorees program presents solo and FIRST SATURDAY: Target First tiles. Bishop Loughlin Me- include Christopher Shelton, four-hand piano works by Mo- Saturday at The Brooklyn morial High School, Lafayette • Four Brooklyn-based centersrs Hon. Barnard Catcher, Michael zart and Schubert. $35, $30 Museum. Event features music, Avenue between Clermont and Chung, Beth Grathr, Irina Matiy- seniors and students. 8 pm. dance and art-making classes Vanderbilt avenues. 10 am to 5 • Short and long-term rehabilitationlitatio that “re-trains”ns chenko, Ida Sanoff, Angelo Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Ful- and highlights Japan’s diverse pm. www.brownstoner.com/ Sicilian and Carl Santa Maria. ton Street at the East River. culture. Highlights include brooklynflea. the brain – sometimes as muchuch as six years laterater 6:30 pm. Rex Manor, 1100 (718) 624-2083. music by the Han-nya Teikoku CRAFT FAIR: Prom-themed craft 60th St. (718) 449-7042. EXHIBIT: Artfully Unforgotten Trio at 6 pm; performance and spectacular featuring over 50 YOGA CLASS: Caregivers of hosts a multimedia exhibit cel- talk with installation artist On artisans, a DJ, dance party and older persons are invited. 6:30 ebrating the children of the Megumi Akiyoshi at 6 pm; film photo booth. $2. 11 am to 9 The Lutheran Rehabilitation Network. Innovativeve Care. ExceptionalEx onal Results.Resul pm to 7:30 pm. Leeza’s Place, Rwandan orphanage Gisimba “Millennium Actress” (2001) at pm. Warsaw, 261 Driggs Ave. Park Slope Geriatric Day Memorial Center. Soapbox 6:30 pm; calligraphy lesson at (718) 387-0505. To Reach a Lutheran Specialized Stroke Rehabilitationbilitation Specialist,Specialist Center, 199 14th St. (718) 499- Gallery, 636 Dean St. (917) 6:30 pm; film “Utamaro and OUTDOOR BBQ: Mexican barbe- 7701. Free. 815-1483. Free. His Five Women (1947) at 8:30 cue with Traveling Norteno call 718-630-RXRX (7979). FINANCIAL LITERACY: Session ENDGAME: “Endgame.” 7:30 pm. More. Dance party from 9 Band celebrates Cinco de on “Homeowner Workshop.” pm. See Sat., May 3. pm to 11 pm. 200 Eastern Mayo. Food includes skewers, Pkwy. (718) 638-5000. Free. 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Lafayette SHAKESPEARE: “Two Gentlemen tacos, quesadillas, rice and Avenue Presbyterian Church, of Verona.” 7:30 pm. See Sat., LUNCH AND LEARN: Sisterhood beans and more. 3 pm to 6 85 S. Oxford St. (718) 625- May 3. of Flatbush and Shaare Torah pm. Flatbush Farm, 76-78 St. Jewish Center hosts Patrick Marks Ave. (718) 622-3276. 7515. Free. THE BRICK: “Babylon Babylon.” FILM FEST: Brooklyn Arts Council 8 pm. See Sat., May 3. International Film Festival pres- GALLERY PLAYERS: “Man of La Lutheran ents Independent Filmmakers. Mancha.” 8 pm. See Sat., May 3. Today: “A Contemplation of Rehabilitationon NetworkNetw Violence.” 5:30 pm to 11 pm. LIST YOUR EVENT… Long Island University, Kumble SAT, MAY 3 To list your event in Nine Days In Brooklyn, please give us two weeks www.LutheranHealthCare.orge.org Theater, Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue. notice or more. Send your listing by e-mail: [email protected]; (718) 625-0080. Free. OUTDOORS AND TOURS by mail: GO Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Paper, 55 Washington St., Suite 624, BOOKCOURT: presents a reading GREENMARKET: Produce, dairy, Brooklyn, NY 11201; or by fax: (718) 834-9278. Listings are free and printed with Tom Coffey: “Bloody and meat grown and produced on a space available basis. We regret we cannot take listings over the phone. 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Eggplant rollatini stuffed with mozzarella, red pepper, Potato & eggplant gnocchi with mozzarella Saturdays: VIP dance party, 10 pm, FREE cucumber served with salad gratinee in a pink sauce. before 10:30 pm, $15 after 10:30 pm; BEDFORD-STUYVESANT Tuesdays: Karaoke night, 8 pm, FREE; Fri- Classico Antipasto Caldo Insalata Organica Bushbaby days: Sexy progressive dance party, 10 pm, Assortment of baked clams, shrimp, mushrooms Organic salad with balsamic vinaigrette dressing & FREE before 10:30 pm, $15 after 10:30 pm; & mozzarella in carozza extra virgin olive oil 1197 Fulton St. at Bedford Avenue in April 30: Dead Child (Dave Pajo), 8 pm, Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 636-5536, $10; May 2: Scout Niblett, Holy Sons, www.myspace.com/bushbabyinc. Crema di Piselli Risotto Primavera Mishka Shubaly, 7 pm, $10. April 26: Live soul, R&B and pop from Pea Soup Risotto served with diced vegetables Emily King, 8 pm, FREE. 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Salmon over a bed of spinach with mustard sauce Veal Scaloppini topped with prosciutto, mozzarella in Trota Alle Mandorle a brown sauce BOERUM HILL PARK SLOPE Trout sauteed with almonds, white wine & lemon sauce Pollo Scarpariello Hank’s Saloon Mirman and Michael Showalter, 7:30 pm, dents and seniors with valid identification). Williamsburg, (718) 782-0437, Barbes $7, “Name That Tune” with Sara Schae- www.theluckycat.com. Filetto di Sogliola Oreganato Chicken breast sauteed with garlic, white wine, 46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue in 376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park fer, 9:15 pm, FREE; April 28: Brooklyn Mondays: Joe McGinty’s Keyboard Boerum Hill, (718) 625-8003, RED HOOK rosemary & lemon Slope, (718) 965-9177, Writer’s Space featuring Donald Brecken- Karaoke, 10 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Jezebel Filet of sole topped with breadcrumbs & herbs www.exitfive.com/hankssaloon. www.barbesbrooklyn.com. ridge, Andrew Boyd, Bo Mehrad, Albert Music Open Mic Night hosted by Ed Bistecca alla Griglia Sundays: Jam Band Sundays, 5 pm, Jalopy Filetto di Maialino Con Mele Tuesdays: Slavic Soul Party, 9 pm, $10; Stern, 7 pm, FREE; April 28: The Every- Gorch, 7 pm, FREE, You Need a Band, 10 Grilled sirloin steak...Additional $5.95 FREE, Sean Kershaw and the New Jack 315 Columbia St. at Woodhull Street in Pork tenderloin sauteed with apples & calvados sauce April 26: Jim Campilongo Electric Trio, 8 body Fields, Rebecca Pronsky, Haunt, pm, FREE; April 26: Last Saturday Night Ramblers, 10 pm, FREE; Mondays: Live Red Hook, (718) 395-3214, www.jalopy.biz. pm, $10 suggested donation, The Uku- 8:30 pm, $8; April 29: A (Peach) Tree special featuring The Anabolics (record band kuntry karaoke, 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Roots ‘n’ Ruckus, a night of ladies, 10 pm, $10 suggested donation, Grows in Brooklyn: Four Writers from the release party), 10 pm, $TBD; April 30: Tuesdays: Hank’s Country Bluegrass Jam, folk, old-time, and blues, 9:30 pm, FREE; Sasha Dobson, 11 pm, $10 suggested pages of The Georgia Review, and music Fanning Pack presents The Killing Fields, Dessert 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Live band Thursdays: Country Blues Jam, 9:30 pm, donation, Frank Schaap, Midnight, $10 by Brian Connell, 8 pm, FREE; April 30: Aerowave, J Jeremy Yokum and The Last “Rockstar Karaoke,” 9:30 pm, FREE; April FREE; April 26: Reddy Music Series fea- Traditional Italian Cheese Cake Strudel Di Mela suggested donation; April 27: The Dol- Tigers & Monkeys, Prince Rupert’s Drops, Rounders, Die Haifische, 8 pm, $5. 26: Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die turing Pheeroan akLaff & Brooklyn Mime Apple strudel served with ice cream lars, 7 pm, $10 suggested donation, Justice of the Unicorns, 7:30 pm, $8; May Cuore Di Mamma Co., 10 pm, Ninth House, 11 pm, Bitter- Troop, 9 pm, Rob Reddy Quartet, 10:30 Stephane Wrembel, 9 pm, $10 suggested 1: Lucinda Black Bear, Anders Parker, Sound Fix Lounge Vanilla mousse fi lled with cherries, served with black grace, Midnight, FREE; April 27: Joe Gelato Di Ricotta donation; April 28: Mavrothi Kontanis, 8 pm, $15; May 1: Adam Bricks, Sam and Ardigo, 10 pm, FREE; May 2: Brooklyn Miles Benjamin, Anthony Robinson, 8 110 Bedford Ave. at North 11th Street forest fruit sauce Ricotta ice cream pm, $10 suggested donation, Chicha Karen Duffy, Isaac and the Awkward Guitar School’s Rockin’ Student/Teacher pm, $10; May 2: Royal American, Boy in Williamsburg, (718) 388-8090, Libre, 9:30 pm, $10 suggested donation; Situations, 9 pm, $TBD. www.soundfixrecords.com. Showcase, 8 pm, FREE. Genius, Mr. Gnome, 8 pm, $8. April 30: “Stochastic Brooklyn” featuring April 26: Soltero, Strand of Oaks, 8 pm, &RŊHHRU7HD Beathany Ryker’s Paper and Pixel, 8 pm. PROSPECT HEIGHTS WILLIAMSBURG FREE; April 27: JezebelMusic.com pres- BROOKLYN HEIGHTS $10 suggested donation, and Trevor ents…, 6:30 pm, FREE; April 30: The (Cappuccino & Espresso $1.50 Extra) Dunn’s Proof Readers, 10 pm, $10 sug- The Backroom The Lucky Cat Bump, 8 pm, FREE; May 1: I Like Last Exit Bar and gested donation; May 1: Rachelle Gar- 245 Grand St. at Roebling Street in Attention with Max, 8 pm, FREE. Lounge niez, 10 pm, $10 suggested donation; (At Freddy’s) 485 Dean St. at Sixth Now Accepting Reservations May 2: TunnelTrio, 7 pm, $10 suggested Avenue in Prospect Heights, (718) 622- 136 Atlantic Ave. at Clinton Street in 7035, www.freddysbackroom.com. donation, Ethan Lipton and his orchestra, Brooklyn Heights, (718) 222-9198, April 26: Sam McTavey, 8 pm, Modern More Nightlife listings at www.BrooklynPaper.com. 345 Court St. (at Union St.) · 718-852-5015 · www.MarcoPoloRistorante.com www.lastexitbar.com. 10 pm, $10 suggested donation. Major Generals, 9 pm, If But When, 10 pm, Saturdays: “Kayo’s Knockout,” DJ Kayo’s Andrew Anderson, 11 pm, FREE; April 27: - Free Valet Parking booty-shakin’, jam-jumpin’, all night get Brooklyn Vern Woodhead Ensemble, 9:30 pm, Mob down party, 10 pm, FREE; May 2: Conservatory of Scene, 11 pm, FREE; April 28: “Su Nu,” “Pleasureweb” with Oneman & E’s E, 10 Music record release party, 8:30 pm, FREE. TALK TO US… pm, FREE. 58 Seventh Ave. at Lincoln Place in Park To list your events in Brooklyn Nightlife, please give us as much notice as pos- Slope, (718) 622-3300, www.bqcm.org. Brooklyn Public sible. Include name of venue, address with cross street, phone number for the CLINTON HILL April 26: Steve Wilson Quartet, 8 pm, Library public to call, Web site address, dates, times and admission or ticket prices. Send Five Spot $25 ($15 for students and seniors with (At the Dweck Center) 10 Grand Army listings and color photos of performers via e-mail to [email protected] valid identification). Plaza at Flatbush Ave in Prospect or via fax at (718) 834-9278. Listings are free and printed on a space available READ ONLINE EVERY WEEK AT Restaurant Heights, (718) 230-2100, www.brook- basis. We regret we cannot take listings over the phone. 459 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Cafe Steinhof lynpubliclibrary.org/events/culturearts. The listings are correct as of press time. Contact the venue before you go to www.BrooklynPaper.com Avenue in Clinton Hill, (718) 852-0202, 427 Seventh Ave. at 14th Street in April 26: “Dweck by Night” featuring Ar- confirm event details. www.fivespotsoulfood.com. Park Slope, (718) 369-7776, turo O’Farrill Quintet, 7 pm, $10 ($7 for stu- Saturdays: DJ Aki, 7 pm, FREE; Mon- www.cafesteinhof.com. days: RPM-Open Turntables hosted by April 30: Traditional Jazz Collective, DJ Copa (bring your own needles and 10:30 pm, FREE. vinyl), 8 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Five for Funny Tuesdays hosted by Dave Lester, Good Coffeehouse 10 pm, $5; Wednesdays: Open mic with Music Parlor Nate Jones and Da Feel, 9 pm, $5 ($10 (At The Brooklyn Society for Ethical Quality, Reliable Healthcare You Can Trust after 10 pm); April 26: DJ Kenny Parker, Culture) 53 Prospect Park West at Midnight, $5. Second Street in Park Slope, (718) 768- 2972, www.bsec.org. Jazz 966 May 2: NA Folk Band (Hungarian folk 966 Fulton St. at St. James Place in music), 8 pm, $10 adults, $6 children. Clinton Hill, (718) 638-6910, www.illbrew.com. The Royale Elite Comprehensive Fridays: Live jazz, 8 pm, $15 donation 506 Fifth Ave. at 12th Street in Park Slope, with $5-drink minimum; May 2: Houston (718) 840-0089, www.royalebrooklyn.com. Person, 9 pm, $20. Medical Services April 26: Afrokinetic presents “Brooklyn Bridges” with DJs Chris Annibell and offers quality healthcare FLATBUSH Amon, 11 pm, FREE; April 30: “Tour the World,” beer tasting, 9 pm, $TBD; May 1: Vox Po p The Wang Dang Doodle, 10 pm, FREE; for women in Brooklyn at a 1022 Cortelyou Rd. at Stratford Road May 2: “Say What” with music by The in Flatbush, (718) 940-2084, Funk Squad, 10 pm, FREE. www.voxpopnet.net. convenient location right Sundays: Open mic, 7 pm, FREE with two- Southpaw drink/snack minimum; April 26: Home- 125 Fifth Ave. at St. Johns Place in in your neighborhood. brew event, 7:30 pm, Donation suggest- Park Slope, (718) 230-0236, ed, Tah Phrum Duh Bush T-shirt Release www.spsounds.com. Party/Concert, 9 pm, Donation suggested; April 26: The Fiery Furnaces, 8 pm, $15, •Board Certified Physicians April 27: Walker Street Orphans, 5 pm, “Hot Jamz” with DJ Kool Kear, 10:30 pm, Donation suggested; April 29: Game $5; April 29: Gang Gang Dance, High night, 7 pm, FREE; May 1: Rene Collins Places, Kria Brekken and DJs Mikey Palms •Weekends and late hours available. and the Great Movement, 6 pm, Donation and PQ, 9 pm, $15; April 30: A Lupus suggested; May 2: Cooling Pies and Charity event with OC, Jeru Tha Damaja, •Most major insurances accepted. guests, 8 pm, Donation suggested. Ugp and The Lordz hosted by Sasha Jenkins, 9 pm, $10; May 1: Backwards, •Same day appointments available. FORT GREENE Lord Classic, InCadeo, Broken Trees, 8 pm, $8; May 2: “Off the Books” present- BAMCafe ed by Rare Form and Hip Hop Karaoke •Multi-lingual staff 30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort with special guest DJ Parler, 9 pm, $5 Greene, (718) 636-4100, www.bam.org. with flyer, $8 without flyer. April 26: “Composers Out Front!” featur- ing Ned McGowan, 10 pm, FREE. Tea Lounge 71 Carroll Street 837 Union St. at Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn Masonic Park Slope, (718) 789-2762, (Btwn. Columbia and Hicks Street) www.tealoungeny.com. Temple Mondays: Monday nights with Lambic 317 Clermont Ave. at Lafayette Avenue and special guests, 8 pm, $5 suggested in Fort Greene, (718) 638-1256. donation; April 28: Tim Luntzel, 9 pm, $5 Elite Comprehensive Medical Services May 1: I’m From Barcelona, Thao Nguyen, suggested donation; April 30: Special Get Down Stay Down, 7:30 pm, $10. evening with Frank Sinatra School of the A Preferred Health Partners Affiliate Arts featuring student combos from the Madiba Restaurant Jazz Studies Program, 7:30 pm, Student 195 DeKalb Ave. at Carlton Avenue in combos with guest artists Bill Stevens, Fort Greene, (718) 855-9190, Rich Russo, Gary Fogel, 9 pm, Bill Stevens www.madibarestaurant.com. Trio, 10:30 pm, $5 suggested donation. Elite At Carroll Street • 1-718-797-9797 option 6 April 27: South Africa’s “Freedom Day” featuring 2-for-1 cocktails, 5 pm, special Two Boots Brooklyn presentations, 6 pm, and live music, 8 pm, 514 Second St. at Seventh Avenue in $TBD; May 1: “StarFish USA Spring Fling,” Park Slope, (718) 499-3253, a night of drinks, dancing and conversation www.twobootsbrooklyn.com. Pap Smears•Birth Control•Prenatal Care•STD Testing to benefit children orphaned or affected April 26: The Judd Nielsen Organ Trio, by HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, 8 pm, 10 pm, FREE; May 2: Sidecar Agogo, 10 Donation suggested. pm, FREE. GOWANUS Union Hall (Downstairs at) 702 Union St. at Fifth Issue Project Room Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638-4400, 232 Third St. at Third Avenue in www.unionhallny.com. Gowanus, (718) 330-0313, April 26: South, The Silver State, The www.issueprojectroom.org. 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But just because silent, but one could still What is a macaroon? Migraines · Musculoskeletal the Jennies Macaroon factory smell the coconut oils and see Disorders · Asthma & Allergies · on South Fifth Street finally the empty cans, waiting for The Brooklyn Paper clear, but their precursors may have originated Gynecological Disorders · went silent last Friday doesn’t their lode. On a typical 12- Though beloved (and not so beloved) in an Italian monastery in the 16th century. Anxiety, Depression & mean Badner isn’t busy. hour day, the 10-man team by Passover-observing Jews, Neighboring Jews are believed to have seized Many Other Conditions Plotting the future of the would mix, bake, and package many Americans have on the flourless confections for Passover. Call to schedule an appt. today! macaroon is a 24-7 job. 10,000 cans on the original little exposure to the A classic macaroon consists only of egg HEIDI BOTNICK, L.AC. In the last three years, Bad- early-19th century pneumatic traditional coconut whites, honey, and coconuts. As a result, it Licensed Acupuncturist ner, the Jennies president, has machines. macaroon. So here’s is gluten-, dairy- and sulfite-free. 718-306-9152 L21 introduced a low-carb option But macaroons have a man- a primer: Two macaroons are 130 calories and have 218 Dekalb Ave. (btwn Adelphi & Clermont) and individually wrapped two- ifest destiny: energy bars. The exact seven grams of fat and 10 miligrams of sodi- ACU BROOKLYN.com ounce impulse items. “His Omega-3 bar is a origins of ma- um — and they are delicious (to some). New York City's source But that’s small potatoes unique spin, and the customers caroons are un- — Sarah Portlock for natural healing compared to his favorite: his like it,” said Rae Miller, the Jennies Omega-3 energy bars, purchasing director at Healthy Computer Repair which is basically his tradition- Directions, an Internet-based al macaroon pumped up with health foods supplier that has What started in 1969 has this year. Selling his products one recent Friday afternoon, “is flax, sunflower and pumpkin purchased Badner’s bars to now become a multi-million- online opened up new profit to put that [bar] into a maca- Callan seeds and squeezed into a can- market under her company’s m dollar success story — and margins, and Badner is quickly roon. We’re going backwards, dy bar shape. label. / To business has only slowed once revamping his Web site, from the macaroon to the bar “This was my life’s goal: to Of course, macaroons re- (when the Centers for Disease www.macaroonking.com. back to the macaroon.” $40 Field Service get away from Passover,” Bad- main a mainstay. While other Control determined in the “The whole objective is to Within minutes, Badner was Computer Maintenance & Repair ner says, matter-of-factly. manufacturers include preserv- 1990s that coconuts’ saturated increase the number of prod- on the phone with his buyers FREE Phone Consultation The Passover macaroon- atives, sweeteners, or other ad- fats were bad). ucts on the shelf,” Badner said. nationwide. He pitched the idea Phone 646-326-2676 making season, which starts ditives, Badner makes a point Eventually, nutritionists fell “If you have one, you should — bite-sized Omega-3 energy L26 The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn on Nov. 1, once made for 80 to use only egg whites, honey, Arnold Badner, owner of Jennies Macaroons, shows off his back in love with coconuts be- have three.” bars, packaged in a can — and NY GEEK GIRLS, INC percent of Badner’s annual and coconuts. The eggs and South Fifth Street factory. cause of their nutritional bene- Indeed, in the last five then cracked a smile. COMPUTER SERVICES revenues, but this year, he honey come from local suppli- fits — no transfats or choles- years, he’s made it into every The buyers loved the idea, PC & Mac · Residential or Business · projects it at only 30 percent. ers, and the coconuts are from terol! All natural! Badner was Whole Foods nationwide, and and he will present the concept On-site or Pick-up/Drop-off That means the business the Philippines. tritionists claim that coconuts’ Badner, a former triathlete, back in business. he is marketing the product in to Whole Foods distributors in Reasonable Rates · References now works year-round to sup- As a result, Badner’s maca- luric acid can ease digestive marathon runner, and avid cy- While he won’t reveal annu- Canada with a dual-language June. 347-351-3031 · [email protected] ply to the health foods indus- roons are free of gluten, dairy and autoimmune diseases. clist, to always be thinking al revenues, he claimed that label. Before the big macaroon- www.NYGeekGirls.com try. and sulfites — and some nu- These benefits encourage about the next project. sales of his $3.49 tins doubled “My next project,” he said baking rush begins, of course. L26 Entertainment Rico the Clown Magician & Comical Nerd Birthday parties and special occasions — Adults & Kids. Comedy, Magic, Balloon Sculpting, Puppets, Bklyn music men Games, M.C., Comic Roastings. “University Professor of Speech & Communications” 718-434-9697 917-318-9092 L44 form supergroup Host A Student EARN $200 A WEEK By Ben Muessig regular who planned his first ning an extensive audio up- The Brooklyn Paper venture — Park Slope’s South- grade with new boards, amps, HOSTING INT'L STUDENTS paw — over cold beers on a speakers and subs. They also If you have an empty bedroom, near Five Brooklyn nightclub Galapagos barstool. “There are want to make sure that the subway, good neighborhood. owners have joined forces to fundamentals here that we’re venue doesn’t lose its bond Email: [email protected] take over the Galapagos Art not going to change.” with the neighborhood. or call Josh (646) 674-1621 Space this week, announcing That means that the venue “This venue was a cultural big plans to change the will remain small, the bar rea- and artistic center driven by quirky Williamsburg club as sonably priced, and the book- live music,” said new owner little as possible. ing a smorgasbord of indie Ted Mann, who also runs the The entertainment impresa- artists. Boerum Hill bars Camp and L20 rios, who together own seven Even the club’s tentative Apartment 138, the South / Ben Muessig bars, clubs, lounges and con- new name — Natural Selec- Slope watering hole Bar 4, the Makeup Artist cert spaces that stretch from tion — pays a Darwinian hom- Greenpoint pub Matchless, and Bay Ridge to Greenpoint, want age to Galapagos, which will the Bay Ridge bistro Cebu. - LOOK FLAWLESS - to maintain business as usual at relocate to Main Street in “Over the past few years, Expert make-up Artist w/Over 15 years the North Sixth Street venue. DUMBO this summer in a true Galapagos lost a little bit of its Experience with Brides · Bridal Parties · The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn “This place has got a lot of game of musical chairs. neighborhood feel. That’s Sweet 16's · Proms or Any Special Occasion Nightlife impresarios (from left) Michael Esposito, Ted Mann, Mikey Palms, Matthew Roff and Larry Hyland gained a soul and that’s why we’re go- But some things about something we’re going to 10% OFF Bridal Party of 4 or More! foothold in Williamsburg by taking over the art space formerly known as Galapagos on Monday night. Roff and Palms also ing to keep it the same,” said Galapagos need to evolve. work hard to bring back.” Call Cerene (718) 309-0079 [email protected] own the much-loved Southpaw concert hall in Park Slope. new owner Mikey Palms, a The new owners are plan- In order to make sure that L25 the mayonnaise factory- turned-music venue remains committed to the community, Merchandise Wanted the new owners plan on fine- tuning booking, throwing se- Bob & Judi’s Coolectibles cret shows, and hosting after- LOOKING TO BUY A bike path to victory on Billyburg truck route parties for the popular Antiques and Vintage Furniture, Bric a Brac, Costume & Fine McCarren Park summer con- Jewelry. Cool Funky Retro ONE ITEM TO ENTIRE ESTATES By Ben Muessig North Brooklyn’s Community route — it’s gritty and it’s not a good heavily trafficked avenues — where at vote was 39–2 in favor. cert series (catch Wilco on 718-638-5770 Board 1 voted in favor of the proposal place to be,” said Martin Puryear, direc- least two cyclists were killed last year. Construction on the $14-million The Brooklyn Paper Aug. 13, by the way). 217 - 5th Ave (Union/Pres. Sts.) on April 8, greenlighting a greenway tor of planning for the Brooklyn Green- “Kent [Avenue] is an awful road to greenway could begin early next year. Pedal-pushers in Williamsburg “We opened local bars and L31-30 with northbound and southbound way Initiative. “The idea is to convert bike on with all of the traffic and all of “We have all of these plans for new turned out with destinations,” and Greenpoint are taking a victory lanes for bicyclists and a walking path that pavement into a new open space.” the construction,” said Drew Lytle, of parks,” said Wiley Norvell, Communi- Mann said. lap to celebrate the approval of a for pedestrians along Kent and West Six-foot-wide planted medians Greenpoint. “This bike lane would cations Director of Transportation Al- “Galapagos already is a des- Photography bike path that would convert a dan- Street in Greenpoint. would separate cyclists and pedestrians make things a lot less dangerous.” ternatives. “This greenway is the way tination. 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[email protected] L21 “He always had great ideas,” said Bruce Silverglade, the owner of Gleason’s Gym, TUCKER’S DREAM... ITALIAN the neighborhood’s legendary COMEDY Continued from page 1 boxing training ground. “And SHOW provement District, he was he knew how to put them into successful in getting city agen- action. That’s the reason he’s cies to pay attention to local leaving. The State Department concerns, despite a population knows he’s a real go-getter. “Tucker’s a real nuts-and- of just 3,000 people. bolts guy,” Silverglade said. “We had to be very entre- Reed credited his travels to preneurial, given our small Nepal, Southeast Asia and In- stature,” he said. “That’s one dia with giving him that most of the skills I’ll bring to the job vital of skills for his new post- in Iraq.” ing in Iraq: the desire to under- Reed’s DUMBO initiatives stand the local culture. include converting a parking “I’m taking Arabic lessons,” lot into the lively Pearl Street he said. “I want to get there Triangle, handing out reusable and be able to say enough so tote bags and energy-efficient that the people there know I’m lightbulbs to every household, serious about helping them.” getting all the sewers and wa- I debriefed Reed at DUM- ter mains in the swampy LIVE IN NEW YORK BO’s controversial Starbucks neighborhood flushed, encour- at Main and Front streets. The aging the city to cover some location of the interview pro- Staten Island at the College of neighborhood eyesores with vided a fitting metaphor for Staten Island – Centre for the Arts public art, and lining up $15 Reed’s new job. When he or- 2800 Victory Boulevard, Building 1P, Staten Island, NY million in funding to restore / Julie Rosenberg dered a cup of coffee, he asked May 2 and 3, 2008 at 8 pm the historic neighborhood’s for a “grande,” the Starbuck- cobblestone streets. ese term for what we English White Plains Performing Arts Centre He even installed solar- speakers call “medium.” 11 City Place, White Plains, NY 10601 powered Christmas lights this “I always try to use the local May 16 and 17, 2008 at 8 p.m. season — a move that earned language,” Reed said. him The Brooklyn Paper’s Reed’s departure means that For tickets to these shows go to www.cfashows.com The Brooklyn Paper file The Brooklyn coveted “Green Hero of the the DUMBO Improvement Dis- From ’green hero’ to Green Zone: DUMBO Improvement Week” award last year. trict needs a new director. Inter- The New York Times’s front page on Tuesday showed the District chief Tucker Reed showed off his solar-powered Now he’ll go from Green ested candidates should e-mail PRODUCTION Christmas lights last year. Hero to the Green Zone. challenge that our man in Baghdad will soon face. Reed at [email protected]. 7. 7(9,5;: :;965.3@ *(<;065,+ :VTL 4H[LYPHS 4H` )L 0UHWWYVWYPH[L MVY *OPSKYLU KIDS • SCHOOL • STYLE • TEENS • CAMPS • MUSIC PARENT SPOT themoxiespot.com Quality Food For Kids & Grown-Ups 718-923-9710 Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner 81 Atlantic Ave (@ Hicks) Smartmom’s hankering to cook Visit Web to Sign Up for Spring Music & Yoga Classes Free Storytime (Mon. 11:30, Wed. 1:00. Fri. 11:30) ast week, Smartmom sat was making dinner for her the Jewish mother equation: I the time her fa- Family Circle even had a re- in a doctor’s waiting family. love you therefore I feed you. ther followed a duced calorie version of Gen- Games, Toys, and Arts & Crafts All Day L room and looked for a What to make? But after nearly 17 years of recipe in the eral Tso’s chicken, which is Available for Birthday Parties magazine. She was hoping for And, more important, why parenting, everything Smart- SMART James Beard Teen Spirit’s perennial favorite, something like the New York- to make it? Well, the family mom cooks is so boring. Sure, Cookbook for made with low-sodium soy the kids seem to enjoy the er, Vogue or even Us or People has to eat, and even though steak tartare, a sauce, canola oil, skinless Smartmom basics: her chicken mom for some celebrity slime, but Hepcat is a terrific cook, he al- chicken and one head of fresh and veggie stir-fry, goat cheese By Louise Crawford dish made with settled for Family Circle. most never prepares a week- broccoli, steamed. salad with dried cranberries, raw ground It wasn’t the cover photo of day meal. He’s great at those Smartmom vowed to jump- lasagna, and a grilled cheese beef, Worces- lovely potted pink peonies and show-off meals when friends start her home cooking. Teen and family come over: the sandwich to die for. But more peanut noodles, and broccoli tershire sauce, lemon juice, green leaves that caught her and ham quiche. She knew the onions, capers, and raw eggs. Spirit would be going to col- risotto, the roast leg of lamb, often than not, Smartmom finds lege in just over a year. She eye. It was the vaguely retro- the chicken curry … herself heating up Annie’s Mac pictures were nothing but Can you imagine? grade cover line. glossy propaganda for Moth- Smartmom wonders what still had time to entice him But the daily doldrums of and Cheese or Annie’s frozen with delicious meals that “Quick and Healthy Family dinner falls to Smartmom de- cheese pizza. (What, in Bud- erhood, but she couldn’t help Teen Spirit and the Oh So Dinners,” it said. herself; she felt herself getting Feisty One will remember would keep him longing for his spite her 1970s cred as a femi- dha’s name, would Smartmom mother’s home cooking. For- Just five simple words and inspired to revitalize her home about her cooking. nist with a certificate in as- do without Annie’s?) ever. Smartmom’s mood started a cooking as a way to prove to he thought made Smart- sertiveness training. So Smartmom stared at the Hepcat has never forgotten herself, her children, and the mom want to rip out the downward slide. There she And it’s partly Smartmom’s artfully styled Family Circle his mother’s tamale pie. Every world that she really is a great was, sitting in the waiting fault. Like other femimoms, photos of fish tacos, beef and T magazine’s handy reci- time he visits the family’s farm room with her ailing father, the kitchen is still where chimichurri sauce, salmon bur- mother. pes and stuff them in her Jack in Northern California, he asks and all she could think about Smartmom defines herself. It’s gers, chicken nuggets, Asian Smartmom gobbled up the Spade bag. Teen Spirit and her to prepare it. And she, of magazine’s suggestions before OSFO might love this stuff — course, does, thrilled that her her eyes. Maybe reading these or maybe not. It all sounded son still loves her tasty cook- recipes would turn Smartmom delicious, but kids can be so ing. into a real balabusta like her darn fussy. Finally, the doctor was grandmother, who prepared And Family Circle made it ready to see Smartmom’s fa- BROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOL succulent pot roast, succulent all sound so easy. Too easy. ther and it was time to put the lamb chops, and lemon “Take a break from take-out,” magazine down — and spit out merengue pie in her spotless some copywriter wrote. “Try forever the notion that food = kitchen on Avenue J. these good-for-you versions of love. The guilt. The insecurity. Smartmom felt the familiar your family’s favorites.” There was surely more to *, Ê- "* ÊUÊ7 -",Ê/ ,, pangs of inadequacy course Smartmom hated to think of mothering than a reduced-fat through her. Why wasn’t she the number of times a month version of General Tsao’s 9Ê, ÊUÊ - /" more motivated to be a great they order from Szechuan De- chicken. 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The woman on She has great memories of woman who answers the the other end of the line at Manhattan Granny’s beef phone doesn’t even ask any- Szechuan Delight is always bourguignon from the food- more if they want soy sauce, glad to hear her voice. stained pages of her Julia duck sauce or mustard (for the Louise Crawford also writes Summer Programs for Children Child cookbook. record, no thanks). “Only the Blog Knows Brook- Smartmom even remembers Smartmom was amazed. lyn,” a Web site. 2 12 375 PEARL STREET THINGS TO DO ages to ONE BLOCK FROM BOROUGH HALL WITH FRIENDS: Hip-Hop Rock n’ Roll BROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOL summer programs Swimming take the best of the school year experience and make that light shine even brighter! Every day brings new Hands-on Science "ÕÀÊ >« Tennis opportunities for children to grow, to learn, and to UÊ6>ÀiÌÞÊvÊ«À}À>ÃÊvÀÊV>«iÀÃÊ >}iÊ3 ÌÊ£x Dance develop their talents and interests. 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The Corporation told The Brooklyn Paper, saying the city would solid black lines). The city put the kibosh on that scheme in November (center), with a plan that envisioned buy- new city plan (right) scales back that idea and allows private landowners more development opportunities. begin the land-use review process this year to get the area 15-acre theme park between posed amusement park — no- sion will break the logjam with mistic,” Stefan Friedman, a land under Astroland amuse- City officials have met with ty, you have to bring both sides rezoned and, if necessary, seize Keyspan Park and the New tably developer Joe Sitt, who still property owners like Sitt’s Thor spokesman for Sitt, said in a ment park, which is slated to European theme park operators to the tables and reach a compro- whatever land it needs via em- York Aquarium and including clings to a vision of a $1.5-billion Equities. statement. “We now look for- close at the end of this season. like Tivoli Gardens in the past. mise,” said Rob Hart, the coun- inent domain. the landmark Cyclone roller Vegas-style indoor-outdoor “We’ve done as much as we ward to … working together to Under the new city plan, Sitt’s Councilman Domenic Rec- cilman’s spokesperson. “Right The Bloomberg Administra- coaster and Wonder Wheel. theme park on his vast Coney possibly can do to address most complete a plan that serves as company would have to sell chia (D–Coney Island) has sup- now, it feels like we’re getting tion’s original proposal, un- But under the new plan for holdings — would still be of Thor’s interests,” said Wils. an economic engine for the more than half of its recent pur- ported Thor in its opposition to closer to where we need to be.” veiled in November, went “the People’s Playground,” the bought out by the city, but they “We’ve extended the fig leaf as area while maintaining Coney chases to the city because they lie the original proposal and hopes Despite the changes to the down about as smoothly as a city-owned amusement park would be allowed to develop far as it can go.” Island’s iconic character” within the nine-acre park. If not, the mayor doesn’t single-hand- November plan, the new revision saber in a rookie sword-swal- would shrink to nine acres, al- their remaining land into year- Thor — which is known for Thor ate up plots of land be- presumably the city would seek edly force a project on the leaves unaltered a plan for thou- lower’s throat for local proper- lowing for more privately operat- round attractions like bowling al- developing shopping malls — tween West Eighth and West to take the land through eminent neighborhood. sands of apartments and 460,000 ty owners, who would have ed restaurants and entertainment leys, arcades, movies theaters, thinks this is a good starting 15th streets in recent years like domain and bring in an outside “In a negotiation like this, square feet of retail space to the been forced to sell their land to on both sides of Surf Avenue. and hotels. point for negotiations. they were Nathan’s hot dogs. company to build and operate the when you have so many north and west of the amusement the city, which envisioned a Landowners within the pro- City officials hope the revi- “We’re cautiously opti- Their deals included buying the amusement park. landowners and so much proper- and entertainment sector. Con Ed will knock down Kent plant By Ben Muessig been inactive since the late 1990s. Schaefer Landing condos. livered it clean, rather than forcing Solow to de- The Brooklyn Paper At the time, a Con Ed spokesman said, “We’re “It’s going to be a residential development site molish the old power plant before he could begin After weeks of denials, Con Edison admit- just cleaning up the site,” but this week, the ener- in the future, there’s no question about it,” said his $4-billion high-rise project. / Jeff Bachner / Jeff ted this week that it will demolish a defunct gy giant admitted that it will demolish the former Williamsburg realtor Herbert H. Kliegerman. Insiders say Con Ed does not intend to make power plant on the South Williamsburg water- plant at the corner of Division Avenue. “This is real estate that someone is going to want the same mistake twice. front, leveling a neighborhood landmark to “We don’t have any plans yet for anything be- to develop, just like the Con Ed site in the East And that saddens local preservationists. make space for possible high-rise condo devel- yond demolishing the building,” said the 40s.” “We’ve lost a bunch of significant buildings,” opment. spokesman, Bob McGee. “We haven’t decided Kliegerman is referring to a nine-acre tract in said Ward Dennis, spokesman for the Waterfront Neighbors of the abandoned Kent Avenue whether or not we’re going to sell the site.” Manhattan that developer Sheldon Solow bought Preservation Alliance of Greenpoint and Wil- The Brooklyn Paper file The Brooklyn power plant knew something was up back in Real-estate experts aren’t buying it, saying from Con Ed for $630 million in 2000. Some ex- iamsburg. “It’s a wonderful building that could Con Ed has finally admitted that it will tear down this cen- March, when workers started tearing holes into there’s no way that Con Ed won’t sell the water- perts said that the energy company might have provide an opportunity to do some adaptive tury-old powerplant on Kent Avenue. the 102-year-old red brick building, which has front lot, which is three blocks south of the gotten even more money for the site if it had de- reuse.” ‘Hudson’ hawks Puddling Warehouse owner loves Public Place plan and city, developer eye his land By Mike McLaughlin Abadi’s willingness to enlarge the development. around The Brooklyn Paper “Whatever can be added is a bonus,” said As if the project to transform a toxic tract Alan Bell, a partner at The Hudson Companies. along the Gowanus Canal into a residential Abadi, who will not sell the land, said he ex- DUMBO trio’s blog goes dry community with shopping and park space was- pects to build some below-market rate housing n’t ambitious enough, the proposal is poised to and “some service to the neighborhood,” in a By Todd Sloves similar vein to the Gowanus Green Partnership’s become even bigger by adding a neighboring for The Brooklyn Paper site to the mix. bid, which will have 541 units of “affordable” units, a canal-side esplanade, storefronts on DUMBO’s most-celebrated puddle has gone dry — and now its The city chose a consortium led by the Hud- Smith Street and space for community organiza- chroniclers appear to have done the same. son Companies last week to develop the so- tions. The three 20-something Web developers who started Puddleblog, their called “Public Place” site — a former gas refin- “I’m not a guy that’s trying to take the gold homage to a particularly persistent pool of dirty rainwater at Plymouth ery between Fifth, Smith and Huntington streets and Jay streets, haven’t posted any new images to the blog since April 13, and the canal — but Hudson has also talked with and leave the mineshaft open,” said Abadi, as a way of explaining that he’s not selfishly profi- when the puddle disappeared. neighboring clothing manufacturer Henry Abadi “I guess we’ll just wait until it rains again,” said Dan Phiffer, who start- teering. Callan about bringing his land, on Huntington Street, m ed the blog with Cory Forsyth and Christian Niles. between Smith Street and the canal, into the fold. No deal has been reached yet, but the city is / To It’s a fitting sentiment for a Web site that was launched, with substan- The result would double the project’s size. happy Abadi is inclined to team up. tial fanfare given its subject matter, on Feb. 1. And Abadi, who sells school uniforms, T- “When you’re doing a rezoning of an area “What is Puddleblog, you ask?” the premiere post stated. “Puddleblog shirts and other inexpensive garments, is on from light industrial to residential and commer- chronicles the epic journey of one puddle, bracing for an uncertain fu- board. cial, it makes sense to do it on a larger scale,” ture.” said Seth Donlin, a spokesman for the Depart- “I’m ready,” Abadi told The Brooklyn Paper. Paper The Brooklyn And what an epic journey it was: 25 pictures of the puddle tracked its “I’ll partner with them.” ment of Housing Preservation and Development. girth (from football-sized to intersection-wide, complete with a paper Henry Abadi, who owns a warehouse at 451 Smith St., is being courted by de- The winning team, officially known as Abadi’s company will relocate to Edison, NJ boat, the S.S. Puddleblog) and form, including slush-filled, raindrop- Gowanus Green Partnership, was happy to hear later this summer. velopers. pocked, garbage-strewn or just plain murky. The images, added a few times per week, even included two videos of DUMBO-ites interacting with the famous swamp. Nowadays, there are blogs about everything (and even blogs about how there are blogs about everything nowadays), but this puddle appears to be the lone catch basin in New York that has its own Web site. And with good reason! Since Feb. 1, this puddle was present about 80 percent of the time — an amazing run. Civil rights and modern wrongs in Bklyn Phiffer blamed the low-lying neighborhood’s drainage for the problem, citing a drain that sometimes adds to the puddle rather than detracts from it (naturally, there’s video coverage on the blog). Then again, the blog was not created to shame city officials into fixing the puddle, but to commiserate with other puddle-afflicted DUMBO-ites. Jesse Jackson in … and Angela Davis “Blogging is the lowest-common-denominator medium” for social in- teraction, Phiffer said. “That puddle is sort of this shared environmental obstacle that you see Fort Greene… at Pratt Institute twice a day or more. Every day of our lives we have to navigate the pud- dle, and we’re just recording that.” By Mike McLaughlin said that such superdelegates By Mike McLaughlin Richards and Don Imus utter Now that it — and the blog, apparently — has gone dry, all that re- The Brooklyn Paper — like Rep. Yvette Clarke, a The Brooklyn Paper racial epithets. mains is the April 13 post that featured a chalk outline where the amoeba- like spill once sprawled across Plymouth Street. The Rev. Jesse Jackson Clinton supporter who was in “[People want to believe the audience — “should reflect Former Black Panther and It’s a sad reminder to those heady days back in February, when the trio came to a Fort Greene church that] these are personal, private the will of the people.” Communist party vice-presi- irregularities,” Davis said, but of bloggers wrote, “Maybe if this thing catches on we can think about in- to talk about the mortgage • On a recent assertion by for- dential candidate Angela they are actually the result of cluding other qualified puddles.” crisis, but the old politician in mer Black Panther and Commu- Davis captivated a capacity deeply embedded discrimina- Alas, DUMBO puddle, we hardly knew ye. him couldn’t resist talking nist vice presidential candidate crowd at the Pratt Institute tion — an omnipresent facet of Visit http://puddleblog.tumblr.com for updates. We hope. about everything else. Angela Davis (see story at right) this week with a message that American life that also reveals As the star attraction at Mon- that racism is no less overt than racism is still as ingrained as itself in the disproportionate day’s mortgage meltdown fo- in the 1950s: “We’ve gotten bet- ever in the United States. numbers of minorities who are rum at the Hanson Place Central ter at hiding it,” Jackson said Five hundred students and in jail, uneducated or without United Methodist Church, Jack- • On why the South was at faculty members filled Pratt’s health care son was trying to keep hope the forefront of the civil rights Memorial Hall on Tuesday “Why is so difficult to name alive for the 2,200 Brooklynites movement instead of Jackson’s night to hear Davis — who these practices as racist?” who lost their homes in 2007. beloved New York: “You could gained notoriety as a fugitive Davis wondered. He even unveiled a quintes- pull off a bus boycott in Mont- Black Panther in the 1970s ac- A trickle of people left the sentially Jackson chant to get gomery the way you never cused and acquitted of smug- hall during the lecture, but the message across. “Restruc- could in New York for a year.” gling guns to a prisoner — de- most people sat in rapt atten- ture loans, not repossess liver the art and design tion for two hours and were homes,” the modest audience school’s annual Scholar in Res- buzzing with excitement after repeated along with him. idence lecture. the event. But the conversation veered The visiting professor from “It was amazing,” said into a wide range of current the University of Californ- Devin Rochford, who attended and historical events: ia–Santa Cruz focused her re- the lecture because a friend • On the Democratic presi- Callan marks on racism, arguing that recommended it. dential nomination: Jackson, m the most-egregious examples Others were digesting their / Jeff Bachner / Jeff who saw his own bid for the / To of past racism — segregation, first serving of Davis on an Democratic nomination fail in slavery — prevent people from even keel. 1984, after calling New York / Noelle D’Arrigo recognizing the bigotry that is “She’s a well-known figure City “Hymietown,” issued a prevalent in today’s world, as that I’ve always known a little warning to superdelegates who when students hung a noose in bit about,” said Julia Cocuzza, The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn are pledged to Hillary Clinton Paper The Brooklyn a schoolyard tree in Jena, who agreed with much of what even though their districts vot- Leftist Angela Davis spoke about racism one day Louisiana last year, or when Davis said. “I was pretty open- DUMBO bloggers (from left) Dan Phiffer, Cory Forsyth and Christ- ed for Barack Obama. 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