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BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2012 Serving Brownstone Brooklyn and Williamsburg AWP/12 pages • Vol. 35, No. 47 • November 23–29, 2012 • FREE THERE WILL BE FLOOD Councilman warns of storm dangers to Gowanus condo plan By Natalie Musumeci Brad Lander (D–Gowanus). tial development at the site would The Brooklyn Paper “The Lightstone Group is fully put future tenants in danger. The development company committed to the development of “It would be a serious mistake Lightstone Group won’t let Hurri- its Gowanus Canal project in the for you to proceed as though noth- cane Sandy — or an angry coun- Carroll Gardens neighborhood ing had happened, without recon- cilman — stand in the way of its and will move forward to build sidering or altering your plans, plan to construct a massive hous- a high-quality, environmentally and putting over 1,000 new resi- ing complex on the banks of the sound residential complex,” the dents in harm’s way the next time Gowanus Canal. company said in a statement re- an event of this magnitude oc- The real estate firm is marching leased to The Brooklyn Paper. curs,” Lander wrote. ahead with its proposal to build a News that the project will ad- Lightstone Group spokesman controversial 700-unit development vance comes after Lander penned Ethan Geto said his company “vi-

on Bond Street between Carroll an open letter to Lightstone Group File photo by Stefano Giovannini olently objects” to the suggestion and Second streets despite severe CEO David Lichtenstein last week The Lightstone Group isn’t backing down from its plan the development would put pro- flooding in the neighborhood and urging the company to drop its to build a 700-unit housing complex on the banks of the spective residents in jeopardy and the vocal opposition of Councilman plans — and claiming a residen- Gowanus Canal. See GOWANUS on page 3

Photo by Stefano Giovannini Under a-taxi! Maren Harper saves money at the Bedford Hill Coffee Bar thanks to her son Rowan, whose existence guaran- Neighbors: Barclays Center’s black tees her a dollar off beer on Saturday nights. cabs turn streets into parking lot

By Eli Rosenberg dium VIPs call it a night. spaces near the arena until Happy hour The Brooklyn Paper “Residents are trying to do clients are ready to leave. Read their lips: no more everything they can to park, Neighbors claim cops do taxis! and they’re upset that they’re little to enforce the rules of Neighbors of the newly getting tickets for parking il- the road — and police in the opened Barclays Center legally while limousines can community say hired cars are for parents say chauffeured Towncars, break the same rules,” said a real issue. SUVs, and stretch limos take Peter Krashes, the president “Black cars have been up nearly every inch of curb of the Dean Street Block As- a problem,” said 78th Pre-

Photo by Stefano Giovannini space around the arena dur- sociation. cinct deputy inspector Mi- Clinton Hill hangout offers A limousine idles in front of a fire hydrant on Bergen Street near Fifth ing concerts and Nets games Krashes says the so-called chael Ameri, who noted his Avenue, where neighbors claim hired drivers clog ther streets waiting — turning their streets into a “black cars” park in front of officers are already stretched discounts for dads, moms for clients at the arena. de facto parking lot until sta- fire hydrants or idle in illegal See TAXI on page 9

By Danielle Furfaro “Being a parent is very re- The Brooklyn Paper warding, but it also consumes Have a kid, and save on everything,” said Maren Harper, beer! who lives in the neighborhood A Clinton Hill bar is giv- with her husband, Peter and her Deadly hit and run ing haggard parents (is there 11-month-old son Rowan. “So any other kind?) a chance to it’s nice to be able to step away drink on the cheap, as long as and enjoy a beverage and en- Billyburg intersection claims another victim they can prove that they’ve re- joy them from afar for a mo- produced. ment.” By Danielle Furfaro The 27-year-old suspect faces The Bedford Hill Coffee Bar Bedford Hill owner Allison The Brooklyn Paper charges for allegedly leaving the on Franklin Avenue at Greene Stuart said she hit on the idea Cops arrested a man they say MEAN scene of an accident resulting in Avenue offers a parents-only of giving people-makers a deal is responsible for the hit-and-run death and leaving the scene of an ac- happy hour special on Satur- after noticing a boom in chil- death of a pedestrian — and the Streets cident that caused serious injury. day nights featuring a dollar dren in the neighborhood — serious injury of another victim The battle for Brooklyn’s byways The deadly crash occurred at off every drink for every kid- and hearing their parents com- — on Borinquen Place in Wil- the corner of Keap Street, where Photo by Stefano Giovannini dlywink you’ve made. plain about them. iamsburg early on Nov. 15. crossed the street, killing 35-year- Leopoldo Hernandez, 57, lost his The driver who hit a man and woman as they crossed Not surprisingly, parents are “One night, there was a dad in Investigators believe the sus- old Raul Delacruz and seriously in- life earlier this year after he was Borinquen Place fled the scene and and abandoned his saying it’s a score. See HAPPY on page 10 pect plowed into the couple as they juring a 24-year-old woman. See DEATH on page 9 car several blocks away, police said. THE HOLDOUT Bumping back Bossert Hotel tenant lawyers up Coney’s Eldorado gets another By Danielle Furfaro Series championship — had become The Brooklyn Paper a home to transients. year — but hurricane took a toll An 82-year-old widow who lives in a Now, she has lawyered up because rent-controlled apartment in Brooklyn she fears the building’s new ownership, By Will Bredderman People’s Playground staple. which is planning to return the well- Heights’ ritzy Bossert Hotel is prepar- The Brooklyn Paper “We had a great two-day event, then maintained property to its glorious ho- ing for the fight of her life now that the tel past, will try to force her out. The Eldorado will roll again next all of a sudden we got hit with Hurri- landmarked building has been sold. “When they go altering things, summer — as long as mechanics can cane Sandy,” said Lee, who added that Monica Grier raised a family in the there are a number of things that can get the water out of the bumper cars’ the storm surge submerged all of the El- three-bedroom apartment that she rents go wrong,” said Grier. “You always gas tanks! dorado amusements that have thrilled for less than $1,000 per month. wonder what is it, and I didn’t want to Gordon Lee, the new owner of the be- beach-goers since 1972. “I don’t have Photo by Bess Adler Photo by Elizabeth Graham She moved there in the late 1960s wait and see.” loved Auto Skooter and arcade, reached to tell you how damaging salt water is Monica Grier, longtime resident when the iconic hotel — once consid- But an attorney for the new owner- Gordon Lee has a new lease an 11th-hour arrangement with Thor to electronics.” of the Bossert Hotel in Brooklyn ered the Waldorf-Astoria of Brook- ship, Clipper Equity and the Chetrit for Eldorado Auto Skooter, but Equities to hold onto the Surf Avenue Thor Equities owner Joe Sitt bought Heights, is worried she’ll lose her lyn and the place where the Brooklyn Group, said Grier and the three other Hurricane Sandy destroyed its property for one more season, but Hur- the Eldorado property from owner rent-controlled apartment. Dodgers celebrated their 1955 World See BOSSERT on page 9 beloved bumper cars. ricane Sandy had other plans for the See BUMPER on page 10 Fish network Ax to Bushwick market experiments with an ‘aquaponic’ garden grind By Danielle Furfaro urban farm at the Moore Street The Brooklyn Paper Market in Bushwick. Residents and Yemi Amu believes that fish “It saves water and you don’t poop can change the world — or need a lot of space,” said Amu, city battle over at the very least change an aban- who is constructing the urban doned Bushwick lot into a thriv- oasis under the moniker Oko tree removal ing farm. Farms. “You can do more than She and her partner Jonathan you could do with a soil-based By Colin Mixson Boe have spent the past year set- garden and you get both fish and The Brooklyn Paper vegetables.” ting up small aquaponic gardens Talk about being cut off! An aquaponic system filters Photo by Stefano Giovannini — closed systems that use fish The city slapped down a vol- waste from freshwater fish — feces and water to feed plants — Yemi Amu, one of the founders of Oko Farms, swears by unteer group’s plan to cut up up- and now they’re planning their think tilapia, goldfish, or koi aquaponic farms and gardens because they use less water rooted trees blocking Brooklyn masterwork: a fish poop-powered See FISH on page 10 and provide both fish and vegetables. streets in Hurricane Sandy’s af- termath, claiming that residents shouldn’t become emergency lum- berjacks — even if the Parks De- partment can’t handle the job. Killer targets merchants Once Hurricane Sandy left the city, Flatbush Shomrim founder Chaim Deutsch and his team be- Flatbush murder the latest in deadly pattern gan cutting up and carting off Photo by Steve Solomonson more than 75 uprooted trees block- Chaim Deutsch and his cohorts of urban woodsman, By Thomas Tracy Police say the man who gunned neighborhood surveillance cam- ing roads and preventing first re- the Flatbush Shomrim, for dissected and carted off 75 The Brooklyn Paper down two merchants in the sum- eras to try to find a witness to the sponders and supply trucks from trees that had fallen across Brooklyn roadways during Southern Brooklyn’s shop- mer killed again on Friday, slay- slaying when they say they spot- getting around Sheepshead Bay, Hurricane Sandy — until Parks told them to stop. keeper killer has struck back — ing 78-year-old Flatbush clothing ted a man they had seen before. Manhattan Beach, Marine Park,

Courtesy NYPD and investigators believe an un- store owner Vahidipour Rah- Sources told the New York Post and Brighton Beach — until the a Parks Department official told whatever I have to.” Police say that this man assuming man seen at two of the matollah in his Flatbush Ave- that a balding, mustachioed man city shut them down. him to leave all the fallen trees City officials told Deutsch has been seen at two three crime scenes may have an- nue shop. toting a duffle bag was seen on “We had a little problem on city streets alone. “He said that if the fallen tree wasn’t of the crime scenes. swers to all of their questions. Cops were using footage from See KILLER on page 10 with the Parks Department,” we’re not supposed to be doing causing an emergency, its date said Deutsch, who claimed that that, but I said in a crisis, I’ll do See TREES on page 9 2 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 November 23–29, 2012

OUR EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE OF THE BROOKLYN NETS Boro fans have easy choice: Nets or Knicks? Youth reigns in Knicks will be losers soon enough career averages pale in com- BACK parison to the Nets’ star. Re- Brooklyn roster member, this is the same guy COURT who showed up overweight dom out of incompetent grasp By Matt Spolar to the Portland Trail Blazers FRONT of the Isiah Thomases and By Matt Spolar last year before blaming his James Dolans of the world struggles on his coach. COURT and anchor it to the Nets team Before the NBA season A quick way to tell if a right in your backyard. ByBy TomTom Lafe Lafe tipped off, Councilman Ju- team might be bluffing is Of course the names Brook maane Williams (D–Flat- to look at shooting percent- Lopez, Kris Humphries, An- bush) voiced the concerns ages. Knicks shooting guard Go ahead, Knicks fans, dre Blatche, and Reggie Evans of his constituents in a sin- J.R. Smith drained 14 of 19 enjoy it — because we all don’t elicit the level of excite- gle Tweet. three-pointers — more than know it won’t last. ment that makes it easy to con- “Gotta make a decision by double his career average — Before the Manhattan vert, but these guys can ball. Thurs, #Knicks or #Nets. I’ve during the team’s winning Knicks take on the Brook- Put the days of Amare’s been a #Knick fan for life, streak. lyn Nets in the first game knees (and back) and Eddy but I’m so #Brooklyn. Ohhh In his billion-year career, of what is sure to become a Curry’s contract in your … the horror of it all!” Jason Kidd has never come heated cross-river rivalry on rearview mirror for good. Hurricane Sandy ended up close to sustaining his recent Nov. 26, this column offers Never mind that the Knicks delaying the much-hyped bat- accuracy over the course of its sincere congratulations to haven’t had a competent front tle of the boroughs — and a season. In time, the shots a Knicks squad that came out court since the Patrick Ewing with it the biggest decision will go cold, the old bod- of the gate red hot and won its era. It can all be forgotten. in basketball since “The De- ies will tire, and everyone first six games. Kudos. Lopez, the Nets center, is cision.” will start standing around to But don’t think for a min- one of the best low-post threats In the weeks since, the watch Carmelo Anthony do ute that a single winning in the game and can match Manhattan Knicks began his thing. Again. streak will be enough to keep Stoudemire bucket for bucket the season 6–0 before losing Here in Brooklyn, All-Star Brooklyn’s hoops fans clad in any given night. Knicks fans to the formidable Memphis shooting guard Joe Johnson blue and orange forever. can point to reigning Defen- Grizzlies, while the Brook- has yet to consistently make Manhattan big man Am- sive Player of the Year Tyson lyn Nets put together a re- Associated Press / Mark Lennihan shots and high-flying Ger- are Stoudemire will come Chandler all they want — but spectable 6–2 record. Why support the Manhattan Knicks, a team that ald Wallace has been hurt. back from knee surgery and there’s no way around the fact With the Knicks and Nets was last relevant in 1998 when coach Jeff Van Gun- And the Nets still managed to get back to his old ways — Nets forward Kris Humphries finally squaring off Monday, dy famously grabbed onto Alonzo Mourning’s leg come out the gate 6–2. meaning he’ll command averaged more points and re- blue-and-orange bleeding to keep him from pummeling Charles Oakley? Once they put it all to- more shots and throw off the bounds per game last year. Brooklynites must make gether, Brooklynites who nice chemistry the Knicks es- Best not wait until a cham- their choice: support the early success carry too much and the franchise’s most pop- got on board early can sit tablished early this season. pionship banner hangs from borough’s new home team, weight. ular player was shipped off back and roll their eyes at Then the old guys will start the Barclays Center rafters be- or once again hand over their It’s not like the Knicker- to Houston. the inevitable drama across playing like old guys (we’re fore siding with a winner. hopes and dreams to an orga- bockers haven’t put together Knicks fans may think the river. talking about you, Rasheed Tom Lafe is a 6-foot-5 nization hell-bent on crush- a few wins before. Last year, Raymond Felton fills the back Matt Spolar is a nearly Wallace), and the Knicks will sports world insider with ing them. Jeremy Lin strapped the team court hole left by Lin, but 6-foot-1 journalist with a revert back to that team you a middling high school Hoops fans must make on his back for seven Ws in he’s no Deron Williams. Fel- middling high school bas- all know and loathe. basketball career who be- Associated Press / Frank Franklin II that call themselves — but a row. The Knicks lost nine ton told the New York Times ketball career who is sure Brooklynites, this is your lieves the Nets will succeed Will you cheer for the Manhattan Knicks, or Deron here are a few words of wis- of their next 12, Coach Mike he considers himself “better the Nets win thanks to opportunity to take your fan- thanks to their big men. Williams and the Brooklyn Nets on Nov. 26? dom: don’t let the Knicks’ D’Antoni promptly resigned, than any point guard,” yet his team’s top-tier guards. Brooklyn’s off to the races Prospect Park marathon a runner’s high for distance joggers By Natalie Musumeci Greenpoint resident Ben “It’s an indescribable feel- Sandy led to the cancellation Brooklyn Marathon organizer The Brooklyn Paper Leese — a member of the ing. I’m still riding on cloud of this year’s New York City Steve Lastoe. “We had a very Who needs the ING New North Brooklyn Runners club nine,” said Bower, who earned Marathon. enthusiastic crowd and every- York City Marathon when — was the first one to cross the win in her third-ever mar- But park officials nixed their body had a good time. It was you can run 26.2 miles with- the finish line, completing six athon. “Brooklyn is such a request, saying they couldn’t a true community event in ev- out leaving the borough? full loops around the park unique borough and it’s really make space for the added run- ery sense of the word.” Nearly 500 distance run- and three smaller ones in a neat to take part in something ners with the park’s roadway And marathon planners ners pounded the pavement course record of two hours that’s so community based. serving as a staging area for even changed things up this on Prospect Park’s curvy loop and 37 minutes There was so much support emergency service equipment year by dishing out cheese- — and it’s notorious hill — on Crown Heights runner Sa- in and around the park.” following the storm. cake from Cousin John’s Bak- Nov. 18 for the second annual mantha Bower was thrilled Brooklyn Marathon or- Still, members of the ery to all finishers.

Photo by Stefano Giovannini Brooklyn Marathon. to set a new women’s record ganizers tried to increase Asics-set say the marathon “That was a special Brooklynite Ben Lesse was the winner of the second annual Brooklyn Mara- And this year’s winners with a time of three hours the number of runners from was a race to remember. touch,” said Bower. “It was thon. He completed the 26.2-mile course in two hours and 37 minutes. made the borough proud. and four minutes. 500 to 1,500 after Hurricane “It was spectacular,” said so good.” K?<9IFFBCPE98:BJKFIP 9IFL>?KKFPFL9P :K?<E<@>?9FI?FF;JF=K?<9FIFL>?F=B@E>J DUMBO Storied nabe new port of call for folks seeking the good life

By Shavana Abruzzo abandoned buildings for $6 per The Brooklyn Paper square foot and reselling them Jerry Seinfeld once joked that for $1,000 per square foot. New Yorkers added the “O” in The region’s significance to DUMBO because they didn’t the borough is undeniable. want to live in a neighborhood The renovated pier at the foot called “Dumb.” of Old Fulton Street was the site There’s certainly nothing of the first ferry service between tongue-tied about “Down Un- Brooklyn and Manhattan back der the Manhattan Bridge Over- in 1642. pass,” an armadillo-shaped wa- At that time, the East River terfront district crouched under flowed up to Front and Water the Brooklyn and Manhattan streets, making DUMBO the bridges near Vinegar Hill, its chief port of entry for the revo- cobbled streets an artist’s canvas lutionaries, merchants, and Afri- for old warehouses, new mom- can slaves who pioneered its in- and-pop businesses, a scenic dustrial golden age, and advanced state park, and fancy high-rise the nation’s civil rights move- apartments, including one of the ment on land once dominated world’s most spectacular triplex by early settlers Joris Jansen Ra- residences — the $25 million palje, and brothers Comfort and ClockTower at 1 Main St., off Joshua Sands. Plymouth Street, where a one- The clamor of ships loading bedroom apartment rents for an and unloading goods to and from eye-popping $6,400 a month. Europe and the colonies was un- Influential names are taking settling for new arrivals. notice of the small neighborhood “It was a very busy and noisy with the big personality. place, frightening in its strange- Actress Anne Hathaway and ness to many of the unwilling rapper Mos Def live there. newcomers to our land,” wrote Katie Holmes takes daughter the Brooklyn Historical Soci- Suri Cruise to its playgrounds. ety. President Obama’s technical DUMBO played an integral team held a fund-raiser there in role in the Revolutionary War, May. too, when George Washington And it is parodied in the video led his army’s heroic retreat dur- game Grand Theft Auto IV as ing the Battle of Brooklyn from “BOABO” — an acronym for Fulton Landing. “Beneath the Off-ramp of the Al- By the mid-1800s, it was a gonquin Bridge Overpass.” Photo Callan by Tom major manufacturing site, count- The city recognized DUM- A SIGHT TO BEHOLD: Brooklyn Bridge Park offers spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline, while providing a tranquil oasis for leisure lovers. ing Ajax Iron and Wire Com- BO’s storied past by landmarking pany, Arbuckle Coffee Mill- 91 buildings in the area bound Historic District. had more names than Kim Kar- — the latter after early-20th rugated cardboard boxes at 45 “Walentasville” in jest, after Sugar Refinery, Brillo, Campbell by John, York, Main, and Bridge The nod is well-placed for a dashian’s Twitter feed, includ- century Scottish industrialist Washington St. between Front canny developer David Walen- and Thayer Linseed Oil Factory, streets — a legacy-loaded loop belt that has reinvented itself ing “Rapailie,” “Olympia,” “Ful- Robert Gair, who once manu- and Water streets. tas, who promoted its later gen- and A. Zaracas Sons Macaroni known today as the DUMBO more times than Madonna, and ton Landing,” and “Gairville” factured paper bags and cor- DUMBO has also been called trification by buying up spaces in among its firms. STANDING OVATIONS ARE THE ONLY KIND Neil Young & Crazy Horse Patti Smith and her Band, and Everest Andrea Bocelli IN BROOKLYN Dec. 3 - 7:30pm Dec. 5 - 8pm November 23–29, 2012 The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 AWP 3 Gerritsen’s cry for help Residents say seaside community was forgotten after Sandy By Colin Mixson “We were left in the dark Yet residents say the meet- The Brooklyn Paper by everyone for 10 days,” said ing had its desired effect: City agencies and utilities Mike Taylor, the founder of within a few days aid began turned a blind eye on Hurri- Gerritsen Beach Cares. “We flowing to Gerritsen Beach cane Sandy-ravaged Gerritsen were waiting for someone to and the Federal Emergency Beach until residents forced lead us and, when nobody Management Agency set up them to look at the devastation came, we and a lot of other a mobile command center in the storm left behind, say ho- neighborhood groups and the community last week to meowners who claim it took community leaders put this lend assistance. two weeks for government aid meeting together to try to fig- “Now there are dozens of to reach the community. ure out what’s going on.” Con Ed trucks down here and Residents in the seaside en- Taylor claims that Con Ed people are getting their power clave said Hurricane Sandy didn’t know that most of Ger- restored,” said Taylor. ritsen Beach was out of power Con Ed spokesman Allen Photo by Stefano Giovannini thrashed and flooded their Pitcher Johan Santana and Mets CEO Jeff Wilpon got an offseason work-

Photo by Steve Solomonson until representatives saw the Drury could not speak specif- homes, but help didn’t arrive out helping Sandy victims in Coney Island on Nov. 13. until after community leaders Richie Bennick of Hyman Court says he “lost every- 800 desperate residents who ically about Gerritsen Beach, demanded that Con Edison and thing” in Hurricane Sandy. When this paper asked turned up at the meeting. but said his company worked the Federal Emergency Man- him for his for his cellphone number, he replied “I don’t even think they hard to restore power — and agement Agency attend a town with tears in his eyes, “I lost that, too.” knew we were down here un- had the lights on across much hall meeting and see the neigh- til that meeting was held,” said of the city by the meeting. borhood’s condition. Taylor, who claimed the church “By [the time of the meet- Pitcher’s relief “Con Edison and the city only city agency that paid at- not for them, we’d be living un- hall was still packed even after ing, Nov. 8] the vast majority had no presence in Gerris- tention to Gerritsen Beach — der mountains of garbage.” many residents left, realizing of customers had their service ten Beach before the meet- a community that’s home to The Nov. 8 meeting at Res- that they wouldn’t be given an restored,” said Drury. Johan Santana joins Coney recovery ing,” said Robin Blanchfield, many cops, firefighters, and urrection Church was orga- opportunity to speak. The reason many Gerritsen whose Hazel Court home was city workers. nized by Gerritsen Beach “Some people just got up Beach residents were without By Will Bredderman and Mermaid Avenue, and when the two-time Cy Young flooded during the storm. “Sanitation trucks start ed Cares. Members claim they and left when they realized you power after the meeting was The Brooklyn Paper then at Coney Island Gospel Award Winner was coming Residents say the Depart- coming three days after the put the meeting together be- couldn’t ask questions,” said likely due to equipment failure Talk about making an Assembly on W. 29th Street off the disabled list follow- ment of Sanitation was the storm,” said Blanchfield. “If cause no one else would. neighbor Laura Golding. within their homes, he said. assist! and Neptune Avenue, before ing an ankle sprain. Mets pitching ace and both headed home. Santana Coney Recovers — a proj- one-time Brooklyn Cy- followed up his volunteer ef- ect of the business group the or seven people and maybe clone Johan Santana and fort with a $25,000 donation Alliance for Coney Island — two pets,” said Urszula Pedzi- team CEO Jeff Wilpon spent to the official rebuilding ef- applauded the way Wilpon wiater of Alpine Realty at some of the offseason lend- fort, Coney Recovers. and Santana took the mound the corner of 84th Street and ing a hand — and an arm The Amazins’ said the two for their team, and the south- Flood of new tenants — when they became re- wound up in Coney on their paw’s moneyball. Fifth Avenue. “They want a three-bedroom apartment or lievers for a day, distribut- own initiative. “The fact that he not only Realtors: Not enough homes for hurricane refugees a house to rent, and we don’t ing lunches to needy hur- “The guys decided they came down to meet with fam- have that.” ricane victims, in Coney wanted to go out and help ilies affected by the hurricane Island on Nov. 13. out on their own, because and made a donation to the re- By Will Bredderman Hamdan of Coldwell Banker a house on the beach. And perately looking for avail- Pedziwiater said another problem is that the Hurricane Wilpon and No-han it was close to home,” said covery effort shows he is just The Brooklyn Paper Reliable Real Estate at the now it’s gone,” said Renee able apartments. swung by the People’s Play- Mets spokesman Troy Wat- as much a great individual as corner of 75th Street and Winnicki of Jabour Realty “We know all the build- Sandy victims want to rent Hurricane Sandy victims month-to-month since they ground to hand out lunches son, who recalled that San- he is a talented pitcher,” said Fifth Avenue. “Bay Ridge is on Third Avenue near 87th ing owners, and they’re tell- spokesman Kenneth Hoch- from the Rockaways, Breezy don’t know how long it will first at Our Lady of Solace tana had pitched just blocks Point, and Staten Island are close to the water but doesn’t Street, who said that a woman ing us nothing’s available,” Church on W. 17th Street away at MCU Park in August, man. have the exposure of some who sold her Bay Ridge home said Winnicki. “It makes me be before they can return to looking to Bay Ridge for of the more affected neigh- two years ago returned to her sick because there’s nothing their flooded home — and sanctuary — but neighbor- borhoods.” office shortly after Sandy we can do for a lot of these most landlords want tenants hood realtors say they don’t to sign year-long leases. ting complex has been con- Others say many Rock- wiped out the property she people.” tentious from its start, when have enough open houses for away residents are ex-Ridg- bought in Breezy Point. Other realtors say that “My advice is they should the glut of new residents. GOWANUS... the luxury home builders Toll ites trying to return home fol- But realtors say because there are few Bay Ridge sign one-year leases, and then “There’s been a tremen- Brothers won a hard-fought lowing the disaster — with of the poor economy, most apartments that will fit ex- if they go back, talk to the Continued from page 1 “We will refine the proj- rezoning to permit housing dous influx in the demand mixed success. apartment tenants are stay- panded families. owners and see if they can’t claims he does not foresee ect if we need to,” said Geto. on the site, then scrapped the for Bay Ridge rentals since “They worked hard and ing put. Facing a low vacancy “They’re coming from break the lease,” Pedziwiater flooding to be an issue be- “If our data suggests it needs plan after the feds named the the hurricane,” said Joseph they did well and they bought rate, realty agents are des- big houses, families of six recommended. cause the project will be “el- to be further elevated … we putrid Gowanus Canal a Su- evated significantly above will do it. We are going to perfund site. sidewalk level.” build a project that won’t be This summer, Lightstone “If we were going to flooded,” said Geto. Group picked up where Toll build a project that would The complex’s lobby will Brothers left off — bypass- Turkeys and a Giant be vulnerable to flooding be steps above street level ing much of the city’s land- in a major storm like Hur- and its electrical equipment use review process by ad- By Eli Rosenberg fore Brooklynites sit down, there. The giveaway doubled ricane Sandy we might as will get extra protection, ac- vancing a similar proposal. The Brooklyn Paper count their blessings, and as drop-off space for sup- well not build the project — cording to Geto. Before work begins, Light- It was a Giant turkey give- indulge. plies and clothing for victims it wouldn’t be economically “We will elevate the base- stone Group must gain the ment to a level where we be- away! More than 200 of the of Hurricane Sandy. viable,” said Geto, approval of the City Plan- Geto insists the Light- lieve it won’t be flooded,” Councilwoman Letitia “Butterball” and “Riverside” On top of that, more tur- ning Commission — where gobblers where handed out keys, which were available to stone project will be able to he said. “If there is some Lander says he will lobby James got together with at the Ingersoll Community all public housing residents withstand extreme weather water that would get into against the development. New York Football Giant de- Center in Fort Greene, where in James’ (D–Fort Greene) conditions as designed, but low ground spaces we will Geto says Lander should be fensive tackle Shaun Rogers residents also got to meet district, were handed out dur- added that the company is design and locate mechan- an ally — not an opponent. to hand out a truckload of and take pictures with the ing the weekend. going to “evaluate the de- ical equipment to protect it “We are setting a standard Thanksgiving turkeys to res- Super Bowl champion who “We were still getting sign in the context of Hurri- from flooding by insulating here that will be a model for fu-

Photo by Elizabeth Graham idents of the Ingersoll, Whit- happens to be out for the sea- them to people who did not cane Sandy” by consulting all of the electrical wires, ture development on the Gow- Michael Goody (left) and Dwayne Griffith met Giants man, Farragut and Atlantic son with an injury. receive them,” said James with environmental agen- systems, and cables.” anus Canal and [he] should be tackle Shaun Rogers during the turkey giveaway. Terminal houses a week be- And the giving didn’t stop staffer Gigi Davis-Elliott. cies and engineers. The proposed canal-abut- pleased by that,” he said.

Their comings and goings were recorded in the Brooklyn Eagle, a hometown newspaper that had its warehouse and stor- DUMBO facts age company at 28 Front St. for 114 years — its editor the famed poet Walt Whitman whose poem, Six things you need to know “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” is etched on the railings of Ful- about this nabe’s history ton Landing. Many of the original streets and buildings are long gone, but DUMBO was once their ghosts linger along Main jokingly referred to Street, which once extended as “Walentasville,” all the way up the hill to Ful- after developers Da- ton Street. vid and Jane Walen- Thomas Kirk owned a print tas, who helped to shop at Water and Main streets gentrify the area. that became the borough’s white- Photo Callan by Tom only district school in 1816. Mr. Mill’s Tavern at Main and Front streets was the start- Jane’s Carousel in ing point of an 1818 civil rights Brooklyn Bridge march by the Brooklyn African Park is the nation’s Woolman Benevolent Society. first nationally Black merchant Henry C. landmarked merry- Thompson ran a shoe and boot- go-round. blacking business south of Front Photo by Alice Proujansky Street — a profitable trade in those days, as most people only owned one or two pairs of shoes The $25 mil- that had to be constantly repaired lion ClockTower until they wore out. building on 1 York Street, near Washing- Main St. is one of ton Street — today a parking the world’s most lot — was a jumble of clapboard spectacular tri- homes. One of them belonged to Photo by Elizabeth Graham plex residences.

Peter Croger, founder of Brook- TECH HEAVEN: DUMBO is a hot commodity for techies like (from left) Freddie Pikovsky and Eduardo Garcia of DUM- File photo by Mike Short lyn’s first private school for Af- BO Startup Lab, Rachel Higgins and Simon Endres of Red Antler, Jeff Kurtzman of The Enlightened Shopper, and rican Americans. Michael Geer of Cause Cart. The early streetscapes dis- Grimaldi’s appeared by the early 1900s, for fear of being robbed,” says neighborhood staple, along with the first merry-go-round to be- with its annual DUMBO Under Pizzeria’s was as the opening of the Brooklyn Danny Brown, a long-time Vin- Grimaldi’s Pizza at 1 Front St., come a national landmark — is the Bridge Festival. on Old Fulton and Manhattan bridges provided egar Hill resident who worried Peas and Pickles at 101 Wash- an 85-acre oasis bound by Plym- Many start-ups with playful Street for years entryways to new opportunities about the neighborhood’s fate ington St., The Brooklyn Ice outh, New Dock, Furman, and names like Huge, Carrot Cre- before moving elsewhere. when it was renamed DUMBO Cream Factory at Fulton and Wa- Old Fulton streets, offering heart- ative, SawHorse Media, and around the Parts of the neighborhood in the late 1970s. ter streets, and Gleason’s Gym at stopping views of the Manhattan Big Spaceship are also seeking corner. were demolished in the 1950s “I wondered what its future 77 Front St., off Old Fulton Street skyline, much like adjacent Em- a piece of DUMBO’s prized pie Photo by Stefano Giovannini to make way for the Brooklyn- by setting up shop there. Queens Expressway, leaving it a was gonna be like with such a — the former training ground of pire-Fulton Ferry State Park. crappy name,” he says. boxing great Mike Tyson. Both spaces are a stroll away They are helping to realize virtual no-man’s land ventured the vision of transforming the Oscar-nominated only by intrepid movie directors Former Le Cirque pastry chef Barge Music at Fulton Ferry from Civil War-era coffee and Jacques Torres was one early vi- Landing offers year-round cham- tobacco warehouses, including once-decaying waterfront into actress Anne Hathaway including Stanley Kubrick who a chic cornerstone of urban life. (“Rachel Getting filmed his 1955 motion picture sionary who took a chance when ber music on a former coffee St. Ann’s Warehouse at 38 Wa- Last month, Mayor Bloomberg Married”) is among “Killer’s Kiss” in DUMBO. he opened Jacques Torres Choco- barge, a floating music hall es- ter St. between Old Dock and late in 2000 at 66 Water St. tablished by late musician Olga Main streets, a world-class per- announced that a state-of-the-art DUMBO’s crop of The badlands remained the “Made in NY” Media Center will hub of tertiary manufacturing “I was in a neighborhood that Bloom. formance venue currently pre- celebrity residents. be built at 20 Jay St. overlooking AP / Evan Agostini sites, sweatshops, and crime for was deserted,” Torres famously “I wanted to create a place for senting Yael Farber’s “Mies Brooklyn Bridge Park. the next several decades, until said. “It was not the neighbor- them to perform in an environ- Julie,” a South African State DUMBO’s triumphant re- artists seeking cheap dwellings hood we know today.” ment that would nurture, rather Theatre production covery continues to be a work Legendary Gleason’s and work spaces settled there in These days, DUMBO’s than destroy, their creativity,” DUMBO’s art-smarts also ex- in progress. Gym at 77 Front St. the 1980s and 1990s. turnaround is apparent at ev- Bloom once said. tend to galleries like DUMBO Its graceless name has been is the former training “There was nothing there — ery turn. Brooklyn Bridge Park — home Arts Center at 30 Washington its saving grace, while adding ground of boxing you couldn’t go there at night Bubby’s at 1 Main St. is a to 90-year-old Jane’s Carousel, St., which spotlights greenhorns to its charm as an innovative, greats like Mike close-knit community — and the Tyson. new port of call for folk seek- AP / Kristina Barker NEXT WEEK, WE CELEBRATE SUNSET PARK ing the good life.

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ICE SKATING Ice tryouts Disney’s got talent! Mickey, Minnie and other Disney favorites will christen the ice at the Barclays Center in an upcoming spectacle that takes a new twist on Disney’s best-known classics. The skate show “Rockin’ Ever After” remixes the stories of Disney’s most adven- turous heroines with talent search TV shows so popular these days, with classic characters Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, and Donald scouring the Courtesy of Feld EntertainmentCourtesy Feld of globe in search of Dis- ney favorites to compete to be the next star. As the Disney posse search the land they will come across special routines by Sebastian and the daughters of King Triton in “The Lit- (718) 260-2500 The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings November 23–29, 2012 tle Mermaid,” the stepsisters from “Cinderella,” and Pinocchio. A moment not to miss in the show, which took nearly a year to craft, is when Ariel magically gets her legs and performs a dazzling ballet in the air above the ice. Disney On Ice’s “Rockin’ Ever After” Bar- clays Center [620 Atlantic Ave. at Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Heights, (212) 359–6387, www.disneyonice.com]. Nov. 27–Dec. 2, start- Sniff fi rst, then sip ing at $23.95. — Natalie Musumeci A new tasting room presents olive oils like fi ne wines MUSIC

By Will Levitt for The Brooklyn Paper Folk friends ou know you prefer a Pinot Grigio to a Chardonnay, but Formed in the youthful days of college, Bom- Ydo you know your favorite badil is a North Carolina pop-folk quartet that varietal of olive oil? has survived the years by sticking to what mat- A new olive oil shop O Live ters — the music. Brooklyn has bottles lining its Lyrical sincerity, plucky folk guitar riffs, shelves and sitting in crates like and the interweaving, mellifluous vocals of a liquor store, and the owner every band member characterize Bombadil’s hopes enthusiasts will be talk- music, which goes for in- ing about extra virgins like they timate live shows based would a single malt or an old on subtlety rather than Bordeaux. decibels. “It’s like wine, single varietal “We work a lot at sing- olive oil with tastes from mild to ing,” said drummer James robust and peppery,” said owner Phillips. “We all have the Greg Bernaducci in his spotless opinion that music can new tasting room and retail shop be too loud at times. It’s harder to get quiet and sing

in South Williamsburg. Courtesy Bombadil of Tasting olive oils is reminis- well together.” cent of wine tasting as well. Keeping their focus as a band was difficult, Shoppers interested in sam- too, having left the care-free days of dormi- pling should first hold a sam- tory jam sessions. The band had to go on an ple cup between their hands to extended hiatus in 2009 due to a wrist injury warm it and release the full fla- to guitarist, Daniel Michalak, but they got to- vor. After a smell, they should gether in the end. sip the olive oil through their “It never stopped being a thing. We knew we teeth with plenty of air — just were going to come back,” said Phillips. like tasting a fine wine. Flavor Bombadil with Hurrah a Bolt of Light and notes range from smooth, clean Baby States at Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth and mellow to grassy, pungent Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638–4400, www. and even spicy. unionhallny.com]. Nov. 28, 7:30 doors, $8. But flavor isn’t the only con- — Eric Dryden sideration. Bernarducci will say the “free fatty acids” in an olive oil, which THEATER he calls the "FFA" count, is par- ticularly important — it's one of the many markers of a specific oil’s acidity and freshness. Country of origin and crush

Photo by Elizabeth Graham Killing Rome date are just a few of the other considerations to keep in mind Oils well: Greg Bernarducci pours olive oil out for discerning extra virgin fans in his Williamsburg store O Live. Et tu, audience? when picking out the right ol- A new rendition of William Shakespeare’s “Ju- ive oil — perhaps this season’s Frantoio years now, Bernaducci hopes his 12 va- sonal selections from countries as far as ally like it,” he says. lius Caesar” is putting theater goers eye-to-eye from Chile, an oil with a remarkably ol- rietals of extra virgin olive oils and 11 Chile and Australia, there’s no shortage O Live [60 Broadway between Berry with the famous politi- ive-like flavor. infused olive oils will have Brooklynites of options, and he sells balsamic vinegar Street and Wythe Avenue in Williams- cal and military leader While other olive oil stores have been thinking twice before just picking up any and other oils as well. burg, (718) 384–0304, www.olivebrook- — and the conspirators popping up across the country for a few old bottle of the stuff. With rotating, sea- “Once people come and taste, they re- lyn.com]. who murdered him — in a production that gives the audience a chance to feel like the Roman masses. By the end of the play, ticket holders will ex- Not just a food Ensemble Irondale Courtesy of perience an emotional Olive oil is great to eat, but this old and revered key component of many culture’s cuisines roller coaster, having cheered for a hero only to goes beyond the kitchen, bringing benefits like healthy skin and happy house cats. lose him and lose everything that made Rome a great republic. 1. Skin moisturizer: Ol- mean a restful night’s sleep, “This [play] is looking at power and the mob ive oil can be rubbed in di- so why not give it a try? and the mob itself becomes a major character,” rectly to the skin or lips for a 4. Leather touch up: said Terry Greisse, who will play Caesar. natural, effective remedy for Polishing your leather doesn’t “The audience will feel like the Romans, with dry skin. Whether the olive necessarily require an expen- actors scattered in there as well, and when Caesar oil’s smell is a pro or con is sive oil or expert care — ap- is stabbed the audience will see it happen.” completely up to you! plying a small amount of ol- Greisse said the effect would be brutal. 2. Fight hair balls: If ive oil to worn leather might The stage will be divided into several parts, you’re only feeding yourself do just the trick. with the audience walking among wooden spikes and your human family with 5. Makeup and paint that differentiate Brutus’s garden, Caesar’s house, olive oil, think again. Olive remover: Makeup and the capital steps, and other settings. oil helps mixed in with your paint dried to the skin can The play is a part of a larger project called the cat’s food can prevent the cat be a pain to remove, but “1599 Project,” the theater ensemble’s focus on from forming hair balls. rubbing in a bit of olive oil a pivotal year in Shakespeare’s career, when his 3. Snore control: Many will take them right out. Just work took on a sharper political edge. believe that a tablespoon of head for the kitchen cabinet, Julius Caesar at the Irondale Center [85 S. olive oil before bed can help grab your bottle of olive oil, For him, for her, for it: A house that's well stocked with oil is Oxford St. between Lafayette Avenue and relieve snoring. It might and your paint or makeup is ready for practically anything — from taking care of your pet to Fulton Street in Fort Greene, (718) 488–9233, sound unlikely, but it might gone! — Will Levitt getting a good night's sleep. www.irondale.org]. Nov. 27–Dec 15, 8 pm, $25; $10 Tuesdays, 7 pm. — Sol Park

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When power did come back, Ver- beke and Young Verbeke went ahead with building the boat installations standing in for the ones in Rio, which Dec. 7 – 16 will serve as canvases for projections of the same paintings in Brazil. He Sunshine after storm also got to work on building a pop- up pool which he will heat with pro- pane for bikini-clad (or not so bikini- Art event at damaged venue is a tropical fund-raiser clad) bathers’ pleasure. Additional entertainment will be By Hannah Palmer Egan ful addition to the lives of fisherman, provided by aerialists, fire-wielding for the Brooklyn Paper Verbeke’s art project FlutuArte, or performances, and stilt-walkers. Floating Art, gathered artists from The Gowanus Ballroom began o to beach and enjoy the waves around the world to paint over 60 as a side-project to Young’s work in — on the Gowanus shore. fishing boats in Rio de Janiero. the metal-shop; he had extra room G The polluted canal isn’t “[FlutuArte was] about bringing in the shop and wanted to share it known for warm, tropical waters, this beautiful thing into the fisher- with the community. but in the wake of Hurricane San- men’s lives. To see their faces when “You only live once,” Young said. dy’s destructive path, fine art and they saw the [boats’] rooftops, they “Why not build something you can performance venue Gowanus Ball- looked really, really happy,” said enjoy while you’re here?” room is hosting an art project that Verbeke. FlutuArte, Save the Gow- will transform the storm-ravaged The plan was to bring some of this anus Ballroom at the Gowanus space into a tropical paradise re- joy to Brooklyn on Nov. 17, but then Ballroom [55 Ninth St. at back plete with a heated pool and life- Sandy blew in, putting the space lit- of building, off service alley in size boats built by Belgain artist Photo by Hannah Palmer Egan erally underwater for several hours Gowanus, (347) 460–2687, www. Benoit Verbeke. Ship shape: Benoit Verbeke builds boats for a show at the at the height of the storm, and left gowanusballroom.com]. Nov. 24, Originally meant to bring a color- Gowanus Ballroom, which was flooded during Sandy. the place without power. 6 pm–5 am, $15. BAR SCRAWL By Bill Roundy A Cash blessing Country star joins benefi t concert

By Natalie Musumeci The Brooklyn Paper ow you can square dance for a cause. N Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and coun- try music star Rosanne Cash will headline a relief show for the storm-battered commu- nity of Red Hook.

“Red Hook is such a spe- Photo by Gene Schiavone. cial corner of Brooklyn, and there is really no place like it in the entire New York met- ropolitan area,” said Cash, the eldest daughter of country music legend Johnny Cash, who added that it is part of Tickets her responsibility “to see that all of Red Hook comes back start at to life.” AP / Urs Jaudas $25 All proceeds of the Nov. Red Hook revival: Grammy award-winning mu- 21 folk extravaganza at the sician Rosanne Cash will headline "Restore Red Bell House will go directly to Hook," a benefit show to help the small busi- Restore Red Hook, an orga- nesses of the hurricane stricken neighborhood. nization that aims to help the neighborhood’s small busi- It will take an estimated small town. nesses get back on their $2 million for the waterfront “If the economic center feet after Hurricane San- community’s restaurants, of a small town is destroyed dy’s floodwaters inundated bars, vintage shops, and cor- the ramifications extend be- them, ruined inventory, de- ner bodegas to reopen their yond small businesses. It’s stroyed machinery, and crip- doors, said Wiley. a ripple effect for the entire pled livelihoods. “If we can sell out the Bell community,” she said. “This The benefit, hosted by the House we will raise $15,000 is about rebuilding the com- Jalopy Theatre and Friends, for Restore Red Hook,” she munity as a whole.” will kickoff with a honky- said. “It will take more than A Benefit to Restore Red tonk square dance and feature this benefit to reach our Hook at the Bell House [149 a range of musical performers goal, but this is a nice way Seventh St. between Sec- s s including John Pinamonti and to start.” ond and Third avenues in 718.636.4100 BAM.org abt.org Videology [308 Bedford Ave. at S. First Street in Williamsburg (718) 782– Jesse Lenat. There will also Byrne said that the Red Gowanus, (718) 643–6510, BAM Box Office: 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn 3468, www.videology.info]. Open Mon.–Thu., 2 pm–2 am; Fri., 2 pm–4 be a standup by comedian Hook peninsula, cut off by www.thebellhouseny. am, Sat., noon–4 am, Sun., noon–2 am. and co-creator of the Daily the Brooklyn-Queens Ex- com]. Nov. 21, 6 pm doors, Recommended for children age 4 years +. No refunds or exchanges. Show Lizz Winstead. pressway, functions like a 7 pm show, $30. GET IN THE GAME IN BROOKLYN

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George 43 years ago, when the building was a much less fancy BOSSERT... place where tenants were out- numbered by “guests.” Continued from page 1 the past and continue to rec- “Mostly, the four corners tenants that live in the build- ognize their tenancy,” said were apartments and a lot of ing have nothing to worry Klass. “Whatever repairs or the rest of the building was alterations are done to the about. transients,” she said in her structure, we want to make “The owner recognizes charming English accent. there are four protected ten- sure the inconveniences are Back then, it was much eas- Thinking about ants who live in the build- kept to a minimum.” ier — and cheaper — to find ing and their rights will be The developers purchased fully protected,” said Michael the building this summer and a place in the building. Sillerman, who added that he announced plans to turn it into In fact, it was so easy to how to save wasn’t aware that Grier had an elegant 302-room hotel with find a place that Grier and her husband even let one of hired a lawyer. a “neighborhood feel.” photo File her apartments in the Bossert But Grier’s attorney, Rich- They expect the rooms to The Bossert Hotel. on heating oil costs? ard Klass, hinted that land- go for rates of about $250 go during a summer spent in lords will sometimes make per night . Great Britain. life difficult on tenants with The hotel, which sits on That group, the corpora- “When we came back, guaranteed low rents in hopes the corner of Montague and tion used by the Jehovah’s there was a woman we knew of forcing them out — and he Hicks streets, was built in Witnesses for its business who had an apartment we wants to make sure that doesn’t 1909 by lumber magnate purposes, meticulously reno- liked, so we waited for her Think Petro! happen to his client. Louis Bossert. vated the building as it used it to be gone and then we took “Our concern is that they It was purchased by the as a space to house staff. it,” Grier said. maintain the property and all Watchtower Bible and Tract Grier moved into the And she’s lived there ever the systems as they have in society in 1988. Bossert Hotel with her husband since.

Center spokesman Joe De- eted evening hours. Plasco. “What are we doing, giv- TAXIS... To keep idling black cabs ing free parking to limos?” from turning neighborhood said Gib Veconi, who lives Continued from page 1 us a pass,” said a driver whose streets into a parking lot, the on Park Place near the arena thin focusing on safety is- limo was parked on Fourth Department of Transporta- and wrote a piece about the sues around the arena. “We Avenue and claimed that only tion says it will create an ex- limos for the Atlantic Yards really have to work on stag- “brownies” — a pejorative perimental “staging area” Watch . “[This is] more pub- ing black cars.” expression for traffic enforce- for hired cars on the south lic space for the benefit of A Nov. 14 visit by a Brook- ment officers — give tickets side of Atlantic Avenue be- the Barclays Center.” lyn Paper reporter and pho- for such offenses. tween Sixth and Vanderbilt Drivers said it would take tographer confirmed that Representatives from black cars of all types idle the Barclays Center prom- avenues. them as long as 10 minutes and park illegally on Ber- ised they were investigating “There will be little com- to get from Atlantic Avenue gen Street, Sixth Avenue, neighbors’ concerns, and the munity impact as this block to the arena’s main entrance Find out why more of your neighbors choose Petro Fourth Avenue, and Pacific city says it anticipated an in- is currently under-utilized,” after an event — enough of a Street. crease in black cabs and has a spokesman from the De- delay to potentially tick off for their home heating oil and comfort services making us the Hired drivers say cops been working with developer partment of Transportation their clients. #1 home heating oil company in the country! typically look the other way Forest City Ratner since be- said. “When they build a sta- when they park in front of fore the arena opened. No black cars were parked dium like this and put it in hydrants or in other illegal “We are continuing to re- on that stretch of Atlantic Av- a residential area, we don’t • Flexible price protection & SmartPay monthly payment plans spaces, but move their cars view all enforcement of street enue when the legendary know what to do,” said Ar- upon police request. regulations and working with rockers The Who played mando Lombardo, a limo • Multiple service plan options That said, the cabbies pre- agencies to coordinate trans- last week — and neighbors driver who brought four fer to keep the taxies warm portation initiatives and re- aren’t happy to see the row people from Westchester to • 24/7 local customer service & support and at the ready. sponses based on on-going of parking spaces go exclu- The Who concert. “Where “An honest cop will give operations,” said Barclays sively to cabbies during cov- do we go?”

erything Bloomberg’s peo- borough. ple should have done.” “You cannot rely on the TREES... Deutsch says he’s put city, because the city doesn’t down his chainsaw, but is always have the resources,” Continued from page 1 permission to touch the pe- ready to pick it up again if Deutsch said. “We prepare with a mulch pile will have rennial plant. another Hurricane Sandy- ourselves, on our own, to to wait two weeks — some- “Non-certified foresters type emergency hits the help as much as possible.” thing a man with a gassed-up who do not have permission chainsaw at the ready can’t from Parks should not go out fathom. with chainsaws and remove “We already did a large trees,” said Parks Depart- part of the Parks Depart- ment spokeswoman Megan DEATH... ment’s job by cutting down Lalor. “It’s dangerous.” 75 trees,” the safety patrol But the city’s redwood- Continued from page 1 the air. Delacruz landed in the CALL TODAY FOR SPECIAL OFFERS! leader said. hard policy has left a lot of struck by two drivers who re- opposite lane, where he was Parks Department offi- Southern Brooklyn home- mained at the scene and were struck by a passing Kia and cials say that only agency owners with fallen trees in not charged. trapped underneath. foresters and contractors front of their homes bark- Cyclist Nicola Djandji Police say the driver of the with special permits can ing mad. perished one block away on Malibu sped off and abandoned 877.760.9406 petro.com take an ax to a city tree — “The Parks Department Borinquen Place after a 2011 the vehicle a few blocks away. even in an emergency. does not do a good job with collision with a motorist, ac- The driver of the Kia stayed HEATING OIL | NATURAL GAS | PLUMBING | AIR CONDITIONING | HOME SECURITY Even if a tree falls on trees,” said Sheepshead Bay cording to Gothamist.com . at the scene, cops say. private property, the hom- resident Allen Popper. “They Horrified witnesses of Delacruz was pronounced eowner must hire a contrac- do a terrible job. Chaim Thursday’s hit-and-run said dead at the scene. Paramed- Additional terms and conditions may apply. NYC Lic. No. 678944. ©2012 Petro. P_12539 tor who would then have to Deutsch and the Flatbush they saw a 2004 Chevrolet ics rushed the other victim get the Parks Department’s Shomrim were doing ev- Malibu send both victims into to Elmhurst Hospital.

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