INSIDE: DOUBLE THE COUPONS TO SAVE YOU CASH Yo u r NeighborhoodYo u r Neighborhood — Yo u r — News Yo u r ® News® BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2011 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DOWNTOWN EDITION AWP/14 pages • Vol. 34, No. 19 • May 13–19, 2011 • FREE INCLUDING DUMBO FRIGHT FLIGHT BORN Scare tactics, migration trim goose population FREE! By Natalie O’Neill oil to prevent their development, ducted by the U.S. Department The Brooklyn Paper brought in dogs to chase geese of Agriculture, which began kill- Nature fi nds Goose census takers are finish- GOOSEWATCH away, and enforced a strict “no ing geese in New York in 2009, ing up the federal government’s feeding” policy. though only within a five-mile a way in Park official count of waterfowl in 2011 Park officials hoped that no radius of both LaGuardia and Brooklyn — but the would-be goslings would be born this sea- JFK airports. That killing field By Natalie O’Neill bird exterminators aren’t likely to son, and many geese have moved was expanded last year to seven The Brooklyn Paper fire up their gas chambers again 24 on. miles — into Prospect Park — Four goslings that were never this year because the population of Of course, the goose popula- without public discussion. The supposed to develop past the em- local geese has plummeted. tion was greatly reduced by the result was the massacre of hun- bryo stage are now waddling This week, only 23 geese, down GEESE IN slaughter itself. dreds of geese last July . and squawking around Pros- from nearly 200, were spotted in Four goslings miraculously In the weeks before that slaugh- pect Park, baffling city biolo- Prospect Park — where more than PROSPECT PARK survived egg-addling efforts (see ter, feds took the same goose cen- gists who thought they’d suc- 300 Canada geese were slaugh- (As of Tuesday, May 10) sidebar), but it’s been nearly a si- sus that they are conducting now, cessfully prevented the eggs tered by the federal government lent spring in Prospect Park. counting geese at 63 city proper- from hatching. in the name of aviation security non-lethal approach to animal “The park is almost devoid ties then evaluating factors such Photo Callan by Tom The baby geese were born last July. control after the outcry over of geese,” said wildlife advo- as distance to airports and water- BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Meet the family of new goslings over the weekend — the first The decreased population is last year’s massacre. Park biol- cate Mary Beth Artz. fowl populations to determine if born last week in Prospect Park — and join our naming batch since last year’s water- a result of a multi-faceted and ogists have covered eggs in corn The goose count is being con- See GEESE on page 6 contest at BrooklynPaper.com. See GOSLINGS on page 6 Hillary cut from history Local paper deletes Clinton — just because she’s a girl! By Aaron Short The Brooklyn Paper Who rubbed out Hillary? HISTORY A Brooklyn Yiddish-language news- HIS-STORY paper airbrushed Secretary of State Hil- lary Clinton from the White House’s File photo by Bess Adler official Osama bin Laden “war room” DUMBO — which stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge photograph because editors decided that Overpass — would be safe from a new state bill that would bar their Hasidic readership would be of- “fake” neighborhood names. fended by a photograph of a woman. Der Tzeitung ran a copy of the iconic photo of President Obama surrounded by his advisers during last Sunday night’s raid the terror mastermind’s headquar- ters — but a photo editor removed The White House / Pete Souza Name game Clinton from the iconic, historic im- In the official White House photo from last Sunday, the national security team listens live as Navy SEALs kill age because of the paper’s “long-stand- Osama bin Laden. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in the front row, second from right — but she — and ing editorial policy” to omit women another administration woman in the back row — is nowhere to be found in the Yiddish paper version (right). Lawmaker’s bill would ban ‘fake’ from photos. The revision sparked a firestorm of criticism nationwide. laws of modesty are an expression of armed forces for the historic signifi- parts of synagogues, and are even pro- neighborhoods like, yes, ‘BoCoCa’ On Monday, the Boro Park weekly respect for women, not the opposite,” cance of the moment, we opted to pub- hibited from driving cars or shaking said Publisher Albert Friedman. “Our lish the photo, but without the women hands with a man. By Gary Buiso real-estate brokers from turning gen- issued an apology for altering the photo — but not for the policy itself. editorial policies are guided by a Rab- included, as is our long standing edi- Still, many Brooklynites were flab- The Brooklyn Paper uine neighborhood monickers into a “The readership of the Tzeitung be- binical Board and because of laws of torial policy.” bergasted by the paper’s decision to What’s in a name? Gentrification, bowl of alphabet soup. lieves that women should be appreciated modesty, do not allow for the publish- In Hasidic neighborhoods such as airbrush the country’s most powerful according to one state lawmaker, who Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries for who they are and what they do, not ing of photos of women. Because we South Williamsburg, women attend sep- woman, plus counterterrorism expert introduced a bill this week to block See NAMES on page 5 for what they look like, and the Jewish wanted to honor the president and our arate schools, worship in cordoned off See CLINTON on page 5 A TOTAL DISAST- R ! tion clean. Court Street station is really disgusting “Stations adjacent to under- river tunnels present more of a By J.J. Despain “They’ve been neglecting it for do nothing.” challenge, requiring a specialized for The Brooklyn Paper a long time,” said Melinda My- The Metropolitan Transpor- effort to maintain,” MTA spokes- The station’s name is Court rie of East Flatbush. “We have tation Authority’s explanation: man Kevin Ortiz said. Street — and it should be held so many MTA workers and they Well, it’s darn hard to keep a sta- See COURT on page 6 in contempt. The wall tiles of the R-train station under Montague Street have turned a sickly mixture of yellow and black, and a layer of Survey: R is the dirtiest grease and gunk cover the en- Community Newspaper Group / Daniel Ng tire tunnel. By Michelle Manetti number of “clean” cars at just R trains were moderately or heav- Dawinder Singh couldn’t believe the size of the garden Photo by Stefano Giovannini The station provides many vis- for The Brooklyn Paper 27 percent according to “Subway ily dirty,” said Cate Contino, co- in the rendering of 360 Smith Street (below). The reality Joe Gogo from Brooklyn itors with their first impression Bay Ridge’s only subway line Shmutz,” an annual survey taken ordinator of the study. “Some of behind him is quite different. Heights can’t believe the of Brooklyn — and you know has been named the dirtiest in the by the Straphangers Campaign, our findings indicated the seats disorder in the Court Street what they say: first impressions transit system. a transit advocacy group. were unusable.” station. are disgusting impressions. The R train has the fewest “Our surveyors found that the See DIRTY on page 6 RENDERING Moving? Here’s the bill VS. REALITY Lander seeks parking permits to aid schlepp Who to believe — developer By Kate Briquelet close to the residences they are leaving The Brooklyn Paper OUR REPORTER’S and the ones they’ll soon call home — or your very own lying eyes? A city Councilman’s memories of ‘MOVING’ EXPERIENCE a legislative legacy to that long, painful a hot, sweaty and miserable day spent SEE PAGE 2 day in Greenwich Village 20 years ago, By Gary Buiso hauling furniture is driving a change when he lugged his friend’s bulky desk and Daniel Ng in city policy that could transform Slope) introduced legislation last week and dresser from a block away. The Brooklyn Paper moving days into a less painful rite that would require the city to create “We would have been a lot less David Edelstein could benefit from a Coun- Dude — where’s my court- of passage. temporary moving-day parking per- grumpy if each trip didn’t involve the cil bill that would allow people to reserve yard? Councilman Brad Lander (D–Park mits, allowing people to reserve spots See MOVING on page 2 street parking on moving day. That’s a question apartment hunters — and state watchdogs — may be posing after spy- ing the new building at Sec- ond Place and Smith Street, whose promotional rendering Let the good times roll shows an expansive courtyard Critics immediately seized on that is twice as big as it is in the overstated parkland when the real life. Community board tables Williamsburg bar moratorium The centerpiece of the proj- image was released last week — ect — and the rendering — is but now a state lawmaker says By Aaron Short Community Board 1’s Pub- bar — a proposal that would But bar owners and would- the 47-unit, 70-foot-tall rental she’ll investigate. The Brooklyn Paper lic Safety Committee tabled a have effectively created a mor- be bar owners — and a State building, designed by White “It’s misleading,” said Assem- A Williamsburg community proposal by board Chairman atorium on new taverns.