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Two Weeks & Counting Gays march in Slope Irish parade INSIDE SEE PAGE 2 Ridge parade March 30 SEE PAGE 2 Holocaust art at Including The Bensonhurst Paper B’klyn Museum Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 26 Court St., Brooklyn 11242 Phone 718-834-9350 AD fax 718-834-1713 • N EWS fax 718-834-9278 © 2003 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 12 pages including GO BROOKLYN TWO WEEKS & COUNTING• Vol. 26, No. 11 BRG • March 17, 2003 By Deborah Kolben • FREE The Brooklyn Papers remaining absentee ballots took an More than two weeks after the unorthodox turn. special election for the Bay Ridge- After the polls closed on Feb. 25, liani administration, would replace Bensonhurst-Dyker Heights City the race was too close to call. About Marty Golden. Council seat there was still no 550 absentee ballots were destined to During four days, lawyers for vote from the presiding Board of declared winner as of Wednesday. determine whether former state Sen. both sides fought tooth and nail Elections commissioners, Weyman over each ballot cast. Carrey and Nancy Schacher, one those objections in court, the ballots And the process of counting the Vincent Gentile, a Democrat, or Rose- would all be opened and counted by marie O’Keefe, a Republican who On Wednesday, results put Gen- Democrat the other Republican, when challenged by either candi- the Board of Elections on Thursday. cedures set forth in the election law.” served as a commissioner in the Giu- tile ahead by 16 votes, with 91 Under standard procedure, if the votes still uncounted. date’s election lawyers. This came as a surprise to the Board of Elections. commissioners disagree during the ballots will be opened and counted Those 91 ballots received a split Wednesday morning, Judge Ann initial canvas, those ballots are set on Thursday, March 12. A photo- Pfau, Brooklyn chief administrative “I have never seen anything like copy of each ballot will be made judge, ruled that instead of hearing this before,” said Steven Richman, aside for three days, during which the general counsel for the city Elec- attorneys can present them to a and that copy, along with the objec- tions Board. “This changes the pro- judge. Otherwise they are opened tion will go back into the envelope, and counted. which will be resealed. The original BREW-KLYN TOWN But under Pfau’s order, all 91 ballots will be counted. No new challenges can be pre- See ELECTION City’s ‘Heartland’ sees boro as new frontier Golden, Abbateon page 6 end senior war By Deborah Kolben The Brooklyn Papers This war came to a peaceful end. State Sen. Marty Golden and As- semblyman Peter Abbate put aside their differences this week and an- nounced that they and Borough President Marty Markowitz would obtain the funding for a new senior center at a Moose Lodge, just blocks from the Narrows Senior Center in Bensonhurst, which must close because it is not handicap ac- cessible. For more than three years the Narrows Senior Center has been in negotiations with the Kings County Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge, on 18th Avenue at 77th Street, to obtain space that would better ac- commodate its 100-plus seniors and Peter Abbate and Marty Golden bury the hatchet, along with Marty provide the required handicap ac- Markowitz to announce the release of funds for a Moose Lodge Se- cessibility. nior Center. But spurred on by a barrage of bad press and a final deadline of for the satellite center. The Brooklyn Papers April 30 given by Moose Lodge ad- / Tom Callan ministrator Sam Mazza, Golden and Appearing shoulder to shoulder Abbate agreed this week, after a Thursday morning at the Narrows seniors that plans for the Moose Brewer Kelly Taylor of the new Heartland Brewery in Clinton Hill, surrounded by kegs filled with his creations. meeting in Albany, to release funds Senior Center, on New Utrecht Av- Lodge would proceed. enue at 79th Street, Abbate and Funding will come from a combi- By Deborah Kolben Golden announced to the lunching nation of sources including $100,000 The Brooklyn Papers in operating costs from Mayor and stout they would serve. See When Jon Bloostein, With manufacturing space too SENIORS founder of the Heartland real estate mogul David Walentas The Brooklyn Papers on page 3 costly in Manhattan, he looked / Brad Horrigan Brewery chain, decided to across the East River to Brooklyn. offered rent-free space in a dilapi- dated building, but “it was old and The deal for a 12,000-square- expand his trio of large brew- But after his third real estate foot space in Clinton Hill was fi- Plea gets 5-15 years in a shambles” and would require pubs to smaller non-brewing deal fell through, Bloostein started nally secured two months ago. losing faith. There were two sites too much capital investment in ren- establishments throughout the ovations, Bloostein said. The former dairy factory on Wa- city, he needed to find a place in Greenpoint, but one landlord re- So last week, when the first verly Avenue between Fulton and big enough to brew the ale neged on a contract while the other Atlantic avenues will supply more turned around and leased the space batch of Heartland beer was final- ly brewed this side of the East than 4,000 barrels (8,000 kegs) of for crooked Gangemi to somebody else. Then DUMBO River, Bloostein breathed a big beer to the Heartland Brewery sigh of relief. restaurants. The majority of the beer — Bilked clients: See BREWERY trayed, many of who are here,” on page 5 Gangemi said. “I want to let them Rheingold’s back, That’ know that when my debt to the state and two to six years on eight counts s not is paid I will do my best to see that of grand larceny in the third degree. enough they are paid.” Those will run concurrently. Firetog sentenced Gangemi to “He should have gotten a year for not brewed here By Deborah Kolben five to 15 years on nine counts of every client. He got away cheap,” The Brooklyn Papers grand larceny in the second degree said Lorraine DeVico, who said her family lost millions to Gangemi. By Deborah Kolben Clients bilked out of millions The Brooklyn Papers were left fuming Friday after a See GANGEMI But despite his marketing forays into on page 5 In the ’50s it was one of the city’s the borough, Bendheim, who most recent- Brooklyn Supreme Court judge most popular beers, and it was brewed ly brought back Dooney & Bourke hand- sentenced Frank Gangemi to in Brooklyn. Now, after a 30-year bags, said there are no plans to return the five to 15 years in jail. absence, Rheingold is back in business, School district brewery to its Brooklyn roots. He said it Charged with 17 counts of grand but this time the label has taken its hops just wasn’t economically feasible. larceny, the disbarred lawyer from 250 miles north to upstate Utica. The first batch of Rheingold beer was Bay Ridge changed his plea from That decision was made by new Rhein- brewed in Bushwick in the 1950s by not guilty to guilty last month. In gold CEO Tom Bendheim, a marketing Samuel Liebmann, a German Jewish im- exchange, Judge Neil Firetog agreed quarters here guru specializing in brand revitalization migrant, and his three sons. to sentence Gangemi concurrently whose last project involved bringing back When the family arrived in the United on all counts. By Deborah Kolben a forgotten leather handbag company. States, they built a small brewery on the Explaining the change of heart, The Brooklyn Papers Bendheim, who touts his own New corner of Forrest and Bremen streets in Gangemi’s attorney, Ronald Aiello, become the hub for the new Divi- York City roots, is fashioning Rheingold Bushwick and named it for the great river said his client “wished to confess to For parents in Bay Ridge sion 7. as New York’s beer. With a lot of “grass- in Germany. what he had done.” Rather than face come July, the trek to the new Under the restructuring, the city’s roots marketing,” Rheingold has been tar- That brewery quickly expanded and a trial and a possible 30-year sen- Division 7 educational district 32 community school districts will geting Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the Rheingold became one of the country’s tence, Gangemi copped a plea. headquarters will be a familiar be replaced with 10 instructional East Village and Williamsburg. And ac- leading beers. At its peak, it held 35 per- He may also face federal charges route, kind of like going to the leadership divisions called Learning cording to Bendheim, Rheingold has also cent of the market share in New York of using Mafia muscle to quiet wit- current District 20 headquar- Support Centers. These centers will made quite a splash in Park Slope. City. The brewery shut down in 1976, nesses. ters. In fact, it will be exactly house parent support offices offering overtaken in the market by Miller and In an appeal that jerked few tears, like it. school registration and other infor- Gangemi, the son of former Bay mation See BEER “Miss Rheingold” was an iconic figure in the Ridge Councilman John Gangemi, When Mayor Michael Bloom- on page berg and Schools Chancellor Joel Under the current plan, districts 5 1950s for the beer brewed in Bushwick. apologized to the courts and his col- 20 and 21, covering Bay Ridge, leagues for disgracing the profes- Klein’s newly revamped school sys- tem goes into effect this summer, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, Bath sion.
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