BLOOD MONEY Ratner Pockets Hundreds of Millions from British Bank Tied to Slave Trade, Apartheid

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just tools used by Ratner to get this project Councilwoman says passed,” said Councilwoman Letitia James (D- Prospect Heights), an Atlantic Yards opponent deal ‘insults’ blacks who is black. “Now that the project has been approved, they By Gersh Kuntzman don’t serve his purpose anymore. Now, he can in- / Tom Callan / Tom and Dana Rubinstein sult them by signing an agreement with a bank The Brooklyn Paper that financed the slave trade and supported the apartheid system. He’ll take money from anyone.” The future home for the Brooklyn Nets will Barclays is a London-based bank — one of the be emblazoned with the corporate logo of a world’s biggest — with holdings around the The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn British bank that was founded on the slave globe, but whose history is inextricably linked to trade, collaborated with the Nazis and did busi- some of mankind’s lowest moments:

ness with South Africa’s apartheid government. • Slavery: The bank itself was founded by photo illustration Smackdown! Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner an- the Barclay family in 1756 on profits made in The record shows he took the blows: Our photographer, nounced his mega-deal with Barclays Bank on the African slave trade. Tom Callan, gets smacked by this man as he takes a pic- Thursday — but critics slammed the developer The company’s senior archivist, Jessie Camp- ture outside of Monty-Q’s, a Montague Street restaurant for plastering the controversial bank’s name atop bell, defended the bank’s link to slavery in a letter

that had just been closed by the Health Department. The the arena after having courted African-American to the London paper, the Guardian, as something Paper The Brooklyn man attacked Callan, demanding to know what our shoot- support for his mega-development. that must “be understood in the context of the Here’s our artist’s rendering of how the Frank Gehry-designed glass-walled “Barclays er was doing. Read story on page 6 to find out. “[Black] supporters of Atlantic Yards were See BLOOD MONEY on page 6 Center” might look with its patron’s name emblazoned on top. THIS WEEK IN 100M for Pataki PAYDAY pal in ‘park’ deal By Ariella Cohen Critics lambasted the deal as another sign also pay a separate maintenance fee beyond the The Brooklyn Paper that the state was not doing enough to limit the tax deal. That annual payment will be calculat- amount of commercial development needed to ed as a percentage of his earnings — so if he Wizards A politically connected developer of luxury pay the self-sustaining park’s $15-million an- earns more, so does the park fund. condos within the state’s “Brooklyn Bridge Park” nual maintenance costs. As a result, Levine said his condos would waterfront project will get a steep tax break, ac- In addition to Levine’s 500 condos, there generate approximately $100 million over 20 of Ahhhhs cording to a lease agreement released last week. will be three new revenue-generating residen- years — twice the ESDC estimate. “One Brooklyn Bridge Park” developer tial buildings, a 225-room hotel, shops and The boast, however, seems to back up Australian restaurants are Robert Levine, a prominent contributor to for- popping up all over Brook- restaurants in the so-called park. Lowy’s point that ESDC does not know how mer Gov. Pataki, will save approximately $5 “Two new residential buildings could be much residential construction is needed to en- lyn — and GO Brooklyn has

/ Daniel Krieger million a year for 20 years, thanks to the city’s eliminated if [Levine] paid his fair share,” said sure the park’s upkeep. the scoop on where to get J-51 tax abatement, which is commonly avail- Kenn Lowy, president of the Friends of Brook- In total, the sale of the 500 units could reap “floaters,” “bum nuts” and able to developers. lyn Bridge Park. “But because the Empire State Levine as much as $674 million, according to even a burger topped with The savings represent a 41-percent discount Development Corporation wants development, the lease agreement, which will be discussed at beets, pineapple and a fried on the property’s predicted taxes, according to not a park, he will not pay.” a public hearing next week.

egg (right). See page 7. Paper The Brooklyn earlier documents obtained by The Brooklyn Paper. But Levine defended the deal, saying he will See PAYDAY on page 5 Plug pulled on Powerplay Park Slope’s indoor kids’ gym is shut by FDNY

By Dana Rubinstein last-minute arrangements for their chil- dition to serving its usual clientele of complained Fritz Jean, Powerplay’s The Brooklyn Paper dren’s birthday parties. karate-kids and aspiring gymnasts, the co-owner. The Fire Department closed Power- Third Avenue and Seventh Street loca- Of course, it wasn’t just Jean and the The city has shuttered a popular Park play on Jan. 11 after an inspection re- tion was serving as the temporary day care center that were inconve- Slope sports center, citing safety prob- vealed that the center did not have a headquarters for the Park Slope Child nienced by the gym’s abrupt closure. lems, forcing neighborhood children to sprinkler system or a permit to operate Care Collective, whose own offices Clark Vines’s sixth birthday party forgo weekly tumbling lessons, and as a day-care center. were damaged in an October fire. had to be moved to the Brooklyn Soci- Tetherball sending families scrambling to make And therein laid the problem: in ad- “No good deed goes unpunished,” ety for Ethical Culture (which doesn’t exactly scream out fun). “It was kind of a shock,” said Mary Vines, Clark’s mother, who found out about the gym’s closure last Friday. The world’s greatest game, tetherball, is now a part of Brooklyn Bridge Park (see cir- “The party was set for the next day.” cle in rendering, above). Fans of the game include the writers of “Napoleon Dyna- After panicking for an hour, Vines ended up renting a bouncy castle from mite” (inset), whose hero was a tetherball phenom. Aardvark Amusements, and securing the Society space. OUTPOURING “It all worked out, and everyone had a blast,” she added. Clark Vines was not the only birthday Brooklyn opens its heart to an old man boy left hanging. The mother of 3-year-old Sidney TETHERBALL Rabeck also did some emergency man- By Gersh Kuntzman agement when she learned of the gym’s The Brooklyn Paper closure, just a week before what would Brooklynites unleashed a flood of have been her son’s gymnastics party. THE CITY GAME IS BACK! support for a 94-year-old Carroll Gar- “I really, really scrambled,” said dens man whose imminent eviction Evie Rabeck, who made her Powerplay This paper has taken a very principled Moses’s long-powerful Office of Tetherball was featured on The Brooklyn Paper’s reservations a year in advance. stand against the waterfront condo-and-open- Services dropped (or, more accurately, sev- front page — but the man remains no Even worse, she only found out space development known as Brooklyn ered) the ball and eliminated hundreds, if not closer to finding a place to live when he about the closure from reading the ru- Bridge Park, but the time has come for the dozens, of tetherball courts citywide. is kicked out of his Warren Street apart- mor-filled posts on the well-trafficked Brooklyn Angle to break “There really aren’t ment next week. Park Slope Parents Web site. from The Brooklyn Pa- any tetherball courts in After reading about Dominick Dio- Such posts included breathless claims per and support Brook- THE BROOKLYN schools anymore,” said a mede, dozens of readers called or emailed that fumes from the auto body shop that lyn Bridge Park for one By Gersh spokeswoman for the De- their support — many offering cash to shares Powerplay’s building sent kids reason and one reason ANGLE Kuntzman partment of Education. help the lifetime Gardens resident once spilling out onto the sidewalk and later only: tetherball. A Parks Department he is forced out of his $500-a-month flat brought the prying eyes of the FDNY. The other day, the flack said the same thing and into a more-expensive place. Jean claimed the FDNY inspection Brooklyn Bridge Park to me — me, the great- The story was also picked up by all was, in fact, “routine.” Conservancy sent out a est tetherball star (in- the local news channels, plus a Ger- Rabeck managed to book a spot at man TV crew. Paper The Brooklyn Honeydew Drop Childcare Services, but glossy mailing highlight- deed, the only tetherball Councilman Bill DeBlasio (D-Car- After The Brooklyn Paper’s front-page story on 94-year-old Dominick Diomede “other parents out there weren’t as for- ing all the recreational star) ever produced by roll Gardens) was working to get last week, his imminent eviction became international news. Here, Diomede is tunate.” offerings their new park Ardsley High School. Diomede a subsidized apartment from interviewed by a crew from Channel 9. Later, German TV stopped by. Rabeck said she’ll return to Power- would have — and teth- The Parks spokeswoman the Fifth Avenue Committee, a Park play — should it reopen as promised erball was right there on might as well have Slope non-profit group, but as of press Diomede and that childhood pal never and was referred to Diomede’s social next month. Pier 2 (see rendering). ripped out my heart, tied time, a deal had not been worked out. signed a formal lease, and now the worker at the city Department for the “I think it’s been a great resource for Yes, tetherball — the true city game — is it to a rope and smacked it around a pole. But it was the support of common man’s grandchildren want to evict Aging. the neighborhood,” she said. “It’s not coming back to Brooklyn, the borough that, You think I’m joking? You think my affec- folk that touched Diomede in the days Diomede and raise the rent, he said. The owner of Movers, Not Shakers, a perfect. No place is.” arguably, nurtured the greatest talents that the tion for tetherball is just a writerly conceit, since his eviction was reported in these Diomede’s one-bedroom apartment Red Hook moving company, was the For his part, Jean can’t wait for his sport has ever produced (true, Leroy “Tight something to fill a column during the loath- pages. on the sunny top floor could rent for first to call us, offering to move all of gym to reopen either. On Wednesday, Serve” Johnson was from Fresno, but he’s some winter months between the Jets’ playoff “There are so many nice people out $2,000. Diomede’s limited possessions for free. he was busy scheduling an FDNY re- nothing compared to Kareem Abdul Fishman loss and the Mets’ home opener? there trying to help,” he said. “I really Many readers felt the current land- And another man, Luke Primo, called inspection so he can get back in good — Midwood High School ’45! — and Ollie No, the Brooklyn Angle is truly tetherball’s appreciate it.” lords — who could not be reached for to volunteer himself and a group of standing. “Loop-de-loop” Carradine, the pride of West- last great champion. When I saw the latest Diomede is being kicked out of the comment — were being heartless. friends to provide the brawn for the “We will do everything to make this inghouse High). renderings of the park, my spirit soared like it 84 Warren St. building by the grand- “I read the story and started gather- move. right for our clients,” said Jean. “We Indeed, all these legends have been forgot- did whenever I slammed a ball past Kenny children of the long-gone best friend ing pledges for him,” said Luisa “I feel like I have to do something will be very, very flexible, and we’ll often — but only because the city’s Parks De- “Gimpy” Kramer in fourth grade. who let him move in 20 years ago. Williams, who contacted The Paper for this guy,” Primo said. fer refunds.” partment, the Board of Education and Robert See ANGLE on page 5 2 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 January 20, 2007 WHERE TO EDITORS’ PICKS SUNDAY MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY January 21 January 22 January 24 January 25 January 26 Peter Luger On the cheap Lit fit ups the New York City’s Res- Hometown hero and taurant Week begins “A Drinking Life” author steaks today, so drop by River Pete Hamill hits the “Eat,

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Health.” $7 includes light refreshments. 6 SAT, JAN 20 pm to 8 pm. 558 Halsey St. (718) 573-0831. EXHIBIT: Dance Theater Etcetera presents OUTDOORS AND TOURS “Angels, Accordions, and Art,” an interac- ICE SKATING: The Wollman Rink is open. $5, tive, site-specific performance. Question $3 seniors and children. $5.50 skate rental. and answer session follows with director 10 am to 1 pm; 2 pm to 6 pm; 7 pm to 10 Martha Bowers and music director Bob pm. Prospect Park, access through the Park- Goldberg. $8 adults, free for kids 12 and side/Ocean avenues entrance or the Lin- younger and members. 1 pm. Brooklyn coln Road/Ocean Avenue entrance. (718) Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy. Call for time. 287-5252. (718) 638-5000. AUDUBON CENTER: Learn about the 200 SALON SERIES: Brave New World Repertory species of birds in Prospect Park. Take a performs a rehearsed reading of classic guided tour through the Nature Trails and neglected plays in a private home. Dinner find out why the National Audubon Society at 7:30 pm; reading at 8 pm. Ditmas Park has designated Prospect Park an important location. Call for info and reservations. bird area. Noon to 1:30 pm. Enter park at (212) 333-7728, ext. 111. Lincoln Road and Ocean Avenue. (718) 287-3400. Free. BIRDS OF PREY: Learn about the world of rap- SUN, JAN 21 tors with the Urban Park Rangers. 1 pm. Salt Marsh Nature Center, 3302 Ave. U. (212) OUTDOORS AND TOURS NEW-YORK. Free. ICE SKATING: The Wollman Rink is open. $5, BATTLE PRATTLE: Learn what the names $3 seniors and children. $5.50 skate rental. DeKalb, Putnam, Lafayette and Kosciusko 10 am to 1 pm; 2 pm to 6 pm. Prospect mean. Join the Urban Park Rangers in Fort Park, access through the Parkside/Ocean Greene Park for a discussion on where these DEATH BECOMES HIM: On Jan. 20, the play-within-a-play of “The avenues entrance or the Lincoln Road/Ocean and other names you’ll find around Brook- Avenue entrance. (718) 287-5252. lyn came from. 1 pm. Meet at the visitor Death of Griffin Hunter” is on stage at the Brick Theater. center, near the Myrtle Avenue and Wash- PERFORMANCE ington Park entrance. (718) 421-2021. Free. CHAMBER MUSIC: “Mozart Sonatas” presents WALKING TOUR: Mauricio Lorence hosts a CHILDREN for Old Photos.” Brooklyn photo archivist by Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music. $15, tour of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Brook- Julie May discusses topic. $30, $15 mem- ART MAKING: Brooklyn Museum hosts “Arty $10 in advance, $5 students. 3 pm and 7 lyn Heights. $25. 2 pm to 5 pm. Marriott bers. 2 pm to 3:30 pm. 128 Pierrepont St. pm. The Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Hotel, 333 Adams St. (718) 789-0430. Facts.” Explore the galleries, enjoy a family Reservations required. (718) 411-2222. activity and create art based on “Head, Church, 85 S. Oxford St. (718) 855-3035. STAR STUCK: A night under natural lights at CRAFT WORKSHOP: Brooklyn Artists Gym YOUTH ORCHESTRA: Performed by the Fort Greene Park. Dress for the weather, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.” Appropriate offers a crafts class on creating earrings. for ages four to seven. $8 adults, free for Brooklyn Conservatory. Presenting the and bring a telescope if possible. 6 pm. $40. 2 pm to 5 pm. 168 Seventh St. works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and Meet at Fort Greene Visitor Center, near kids 12 and younger and members. 11 am (718) 858-9069. Bach. 4 pm. Old First Reformed Church, Myrtle Avenue and Washington Park to 2 pm. 200 Eastern Pkwy. (718) 638-5000. SELF DEFENSE: Center for Anti-Violence corner of Seventh Avenue and Carroll entrance. (212) NEW-YORK. Free. EARLY LEARNER WORKSHOP: Today, offers a four-week, self-defense class for Street. (718) 622-3300. Free. PERFORMANCE “Furry Winter Wildlife.” Hear wintry ani- adult women and transpeople. 3 pm to GALLERY PLAYERS: “Dedication, or The Stuff mal tales and make your own creature. 6 pm. 421 Fifth Ave. Call for fee info. of Dreams.” 3 pm. See Sat., Jan. 20. WINTER CONCERT: Sung by the Brooklyn Ages 2.5 to 5 years old. 11 am to 12:30 (718) 788-1775. Conservatory Children’s Chorus. Repertoire BARGEMUSIC: Classical music. 4 pm. See pm. Pre-registration required. 145 MASTER CLASS: Yolanda Wyns teaches a Sat., Jan. 20. consists of contemporary, folk, theater, and Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400 ext. 110. vocal master class. $50. 3 pm to 6 pm. world music. $5, free for children. 4:30 pm. South Oxford Space, 138 S. Oxford Pl. CHILDREN Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music, OTHER (718) 855-9343. 58 Seventh Ave. (718) 622-3300. STORYTELLING: Folk tales about animals PHOTO SCRAPBOOKING: Brooklyn His- HEALTH TALK: Hibiscus Day Spa presents from around the world with storyteller Ron DANCE: Creative Outlet Dance Theater per- torical Society offers: “New Techniques “What You Should Know About Cervical Sopyla, inspired by the works in the special forms a fusion of modern dance, jazz, tradi- exhibition “Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors by tional African movement with a spiritual Walton Ford.” $8 adults, free for kids 12 and style. $30. 7:30 pm. Kumble Theater for younger and members. 2 pm to 5 pm. the Performing Arts, Long Island University, Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy. (718) corner of Flatbush and DeKalb avenues. 638-5000. Reservations required. (718) 230-0492. CIVIC CALENDAR CRAFT WORKSHOP: Brooklyn Artists Gym BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert Community Room (see above), 7:30 p.m. offers a crafts class on marbling. $40. 2 pm Mozart, Ginastera and Dvorak with the SUNDAY, JAN. 21 to 5 pm. 168 Seventh St. (718) 858-9069. Enso String Quartet. $35, $30 seniors, $20 Brooklyn Arts Exchange discussion: “I am Call (718) 745-5360 for information. students. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Park Slope.” BAX (421 Fifth Ave., at WEDNESDAY, JAN 24 OTHER Old Fulton Street at the East River. (718) Eighth Street), 6 pm. For information, call BUDDHIST MEDITATION CLASSES: Today’s 624-2083. (718) 832-0018 or visit www.bax.org. Community Board 2 youth, education, GRAND OPENING FEBRUARY 10, 2007 and cultural affairs committee. Long Island topic: “How to Solve our Human Problems WORLD OF DANCE: Brooklyn Center for the MONDAY, JAN 22 University’s Jonas Board Room (1 University with Prayers for World Peace.” $10. 10 am Performing Arts presents “Diavolo,” a Plz. at Flatbush and DeKalb avenues), 6 pm. to 11:15 am. Vajradhara Meditation Center, VALENTINE’S DAY PACKAGES/GIFT CERTIFICATES NOW AVAILABLE dance troupe comprised of dancers, gym- Bensonhurst West End Community Council. Monthly meeting. On the agenda: crime and For information, call (718) 596-5410. 380 Adelphi St. #2. (718) 496-5514. nasts and actors. $15 to $35. 8 pm. Walt OPEN HOUSE: hosted by the Mark Morris Whitman Theater at Brooklyn College, one the waste transfer station. FIAO Beacon Borough President Markowitz. On the Center (Seth Low IS 96, 99 Ave. P, bet. West agenda: A hearing about the sale of a for- Dance Group. Offerings include dance class- block from the intersection of Flatbush and es in tap, belly dancing, West African and “Combining Spa & Wellness with Medicine” Nostrand avenues. (718) 951-4500. 11th and West 12th streets), 8 pm. Call (718) mer firehouse at 299 Degraw St. Borough 946-0234 for information. ballet. Also, yoga. Refreshments. 11 am to 4 MUSICAL: The Rhapsody Players present Hall (209 Joralemon St. bet. Court Street Community Board 6 executive committee. and Boerum Place), 6 pm. Call (718) 802- pm. 3 Lafayette Ave. (718) 624-8400. Free. “Brooklyn, A Bridge to Music,” a musical 3830 for information. journey through the history of composers On the agenda: the toxic plume along the TALK WITH CURATOR: Join exhibit co-cura- Gowanus Canal. St. Mary’s Residence (41 tor, Ellen Levitt for a lively discussion about and songwriters who were born in Brook- THURSDAY, JAN 25 lyn. Works by Carol King, Neil Sedaka, First St. bet. Hoyt and Bond streets), 6:30 the exhibition “From Synagogue to pm. Call (718) 643-3027 for information. Community Board 6 landmarks and land- Church.” Learn about the genesis of the Steven Calvino, MD Louis Tranese, DO Barry Manilow, Comden and Green and use committee. On the agenda: land use Community Board 10 full board. On the project and take a look at Brooklyn’s houses many others. 8 pm. St. Johns Episcopal around the Gowanus Canal. St. Mary’s Church, 99th Street and Fort Hamilton agenda: swearing-in new officers, and pub- of worship and their neighborhoods past lic toilets (which will not be sworn-in). Residence (see above), 6 pm. Call (718) and present. Discussion follows with some Parkway. Call for ticket info. (718) 496- 643-3027. 2030. Shore Hill Community Room (9000 Shore of the congregants of these synagogues Assemblyman Bill Colton’s anti-waste trans- and churches. Free with admission. 2 pm to PLAY NOIR: Inverse Theater presents “The Rd. at 91st Street), 6:15 pm (reception), 7:15 pm (swearing-in and meeting). For fer station task force. On the agenda: up- 3 pm. Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Death of Griffin Hunter.” $18. 8 pm. Brick information, call (718) 745-6827. date on mercury and lead in the sediment of Pierrepont St. (718) 411-2222. PHYSICIAN-DIRECTED Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave. (646) 552- Gravesend Bay. Shore Parkway Jewish Cen- 4754. CLOSING RECEPTION: Museum of Con- TUESDAY, JAN 23 ter (8885 26th Ave., near Cropsey Avenue), temporary African Diasporan Arts and the MASSAGE THERAPY • FACIAL/SKINCARE SERVICES • LASER HAIR REDUCTION GALLERY PLAYERS: presents “Dedication, or Bay Ridge Community Council. Shore Hill 7:30 pm. Call (718) 236-1598 for information. 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For Collins, it was a dramatic change from a few days earlier, when she stood helpless as t-shirt-wearing tourists walked right ya later past her shop to get their treat at the Ice Cream Factory. ‘Arborslide’at Cadman Plaza But now that it’s cold, Collins’s shivering customers are back, The Brooklyn Paper Lean on Me guzzling the store’s rich hot chocolate (how rich is it? It’s so rich By Dana Rubinstein The Parks Department conced- from the tree roots. BODYWORKS The Stoop is accus- of Brooklyn Heights that it doesn’t pay taxes, that’s how rich. Bada-bing). A cup of The Brooklyn Paper ed that the contractor made mis- Who’s right about the arbor this stuff makes you feel like you’re wrapped in wool — from tomed to sniffing out takes, but disputed Zurcher’s damage? We won’t know for al- 718-222-8713 leanonmebodyworks.com the inside. stories — but this is In a decade, a freshly reno- claim that the damage was severe. most a decade. Like a groundhog who sees his shadow, Collins is hoping ridiculous. vated Brooklyn Heights park “We did observe equipment “The damage won’t show for these “super spikes” of customers will last for a few weeks at Afoul smell reminis- could be a tree graveyard, ac- being driven over saturated soil,” another eight to 10 years,” said least. cent of an over-capacity cording to an arborist who has said Phil Abramson, an agency Zurcher. “The canopy will grow “We want winter to stick,” she said, admitting that the store sewage treatment plant charged that a Parks Depart- spokesman. “However, numer- thin, and you might see a die- only has itself to blame for not capitalizing on everyone’s sea- on a rainy day wafted ment contractor has irrepara- ous forestry inspections revealed back of branches.” sonally affected disorder: Jacques Torres makes ice cream sand- over Brooklyn Heights bly damaged scores of stately that the trees fortunately did not Then again, by then, the trees wiches, but the store doesn’t serve them in the winter, so it has- early this week, prompt- London plane trees in Cad- suffer from any damage.” will most likely have been re- n’t been able to cash in on the tropical winter weather (did I just ing residents to wonder if man Plaza Park. Abramson added that the placed by rubber, tree-like con- write that?). every toilet in the neigh- Naomi Zurcher, the certified contractor has been asked to traptions—more durable than real Temperatures are expected to rise and fall like Britney borhood had sponta- arborist, contends that during move the yew shrubs away trees, and cheaper to maintain. Spears’ hemline for the next few weeks, so we DUMBO insid- neously combusted. the $2.9-million overhaul of the ers will be staking out Water Street instead of the Weather Chan- The truth was much park — which included the nel. At least Water Street has ice cream and hot chocolate. more down to earth. placement of controversial fake THE KITCHEN SINK “It was just fertilizer,” grass to cover over a former When the cat’s away the mice will play. But will the cheesecake said Parks Department dustbowl — the contractor has Developer feeds hungry artists spokesman Phil Abram- suffer now that Junior’s owner Alan Rosen is away on vaca- run roughshod over the trees. tion? Email The Stoop if you taste a difference in the world’s most- son, who explained that the “Most root activity is in the The Brooklyn Paper agency had simply laid famous artery-clogger this week while Rosen is on R&R. … upper 18 inches of soil,” ex- Three DUMBO artists will soon be elevated from “starving” to down a fresh coat of dung We’ve been hearing rumors for weeks that , a kosher ve- plained Zurcher. “So, when you Greens in Cadman Plaza Park, “working,” thanks to a developer with a soft spot for creative types. gan Chinese joint on Montague Street, would soon close. A friend drive heavy construction equip- which is being rehabbed. David Kramer, whose Hudson Companies is building DUMBO’s went to the restaurant to book a private party in March, but was ment over the soil, you compact “It just needs a cou- biggest condo tower, is looking for hungry artists to decorate the told it couldn’t be done. We’ll miss the hot and spicy tofu. … it to a degree that there is no ple of days to decom- glass-walled plinth — and creative types outside the neighborhood Looking for a healthy way to start the New Year? Visit more oxygen and the roots can- Long Is- pose completely and the under the Manhattan Bridge need not apply. land University’s new nursing center for free treatment. The not exist.” “He really wants to foster a sense of community between the fu- smell will dissipate,” as- Zurcher said the arbor dam- center, on the Downtown campus at 161 Ashland Pl., offers weight- sured Abramson. ture residents of the J [Condominium] and the existing DUMBO age didn’t stop there. loss counseling and HIV testing, while other services, such as mam- He was right. By the artists’ community,” said a spokeswoman for the 33-story tower, “The contractor planted oth- mograms and anti-smoking programs, will start in the spring. … middle of the week, which is at 100 Jay St. er woody plant material — yew Now that they’ve got their street trees, folks in DUMBO are agitat- Brooklyn Heights was Kramer is putting his money where his “sense of community” is: shrubs — right up against the ing for a better subway station. The DUMBO Parents’ Orga- finally back to smelling Three lucky artists will not only get to display their work in his nization is demanding renovations to the York Street F-train sta- like a city, not a farm. trunks of the London plane building, but will split a $16,000 prize. Any artist living or working 139 Montague Street • 718.858.5592 tion and is gathering signatures on petitions at the trees,” which further sapped the DUMBO — Christie Rizk in DUMBO can apply. — Christie Rizk General Store (with its amazing coffee) and Half-Pint. tree roots’ ability to absorb nu- The submission deadline is Feb. 16. For information, e-mail projectdum- www.latraviatatogo.com • Delivery in Brooklyn Heights only Talk to us. Write: [email protected]. trients, said Zurcher. [email protected], or visit www.jcondo.com/projectdumbo.

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Slope. This time, people are There is already a Starbucks territory is a death struggle. Then he smiled, and reminded me to double-lock my doors. matter-of-fact. three blocks away from the new “The rest of us will be killed,” THE KITCHEN SINK “Once there are enough location, which replaces M and said Byron, “because Starbucks’ The DiMattina Field baseball diamond, on Hicks Street next Papers The Brooklyn white people with laptops in a M Discount. plan is to saturate every neighbor- to the BQE, is getting new spotlights to compete with the glare The Starbucks on Smith neighborhood, you know a Building owner Mike Af- hood until its coffee shop is the of passing traffic, said Little League sugar daddy, and neighbor- Street, opening soon. Starbucks is next,” said Chrys- fronti, who also owns Los last one standing.” hood Councilman Bill DeBlasio, who helped pay for the Lean on Me BODYWORKS $200,000 lights. 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This most At long last, life is about to get a lot when we are down, we can’t service any- walk, pedal or drive to the South Brooklyn adorable artifact of late-1990s Brownstone Brooklyn is now one,” said the plant manager, Larry Santana, waterfront over the last year knows all too smoother on Columbia Street. showing at the Micro Museum on Smith Street. Catch it before who, by the way, is a cousin of guitar legend well. it returns to the vault. … A few months ago, we noticed an old The concrete maker providing the final, Carlos Santana. Potholes the size of Vespas snare all synagogue on Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill that was being smooth layer for the city’s $17-million re- But with the plant up and running again, wheeled vehicles, orange cones stand like converted into a wine bar. We stopped by, but the owner brushed construction of the rutted corridor will final- the new asphalt will be on the ground by flares on every bumpy corner, and construc- us off. Anyhoo, Caio Dunson now says he’ll open in April. ly ship the much-needed asphalt as soon as next week — as long as the weather stays tion workers send trucks on new routes daily. L’chaim! … File this under W for “What a Surprise”: Rep. Jer- this week. clear and not too cold, said a spokesman “It’s an obstacle course,” said Roger ry Nadler (D–Red Hook) opposes the Bush escalation in Iraq. A manager at Willets Point Asphalt Cor- for the city’s Department of Design and Rigolli, a resident and business owner in the We got his press release a few hours after the president an- poration blamed the delays in repairing the Construction. area. nounced his so-called troop “surge.” “What a deaf president we vital strip, which has been as bumpy as a kid “It should be quick from here,” said the “The street felt like a tactical driving have,” Nadler said on the floor of the House. with poison ivy for more than a year, on a spokesman, John Ryan Martine. course for way, way too long.” Talk to us. 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That’s what Kate Lowe was doing on Tuesday, as she drifted DOGGY through Stuart and Wright. / Graham Letorney “I can’t afford anything in here,” said Lowe. “But there are lots Premium Pet Food & Supply of pretty things to look at.” Agreed. And this reporter coveted every one of them: the cherry (Corner of Willoughby Avenue) red baby-doll dress for $188, the blue and beige sweater for $149 197 Adelphi Street (and those were the sale prices!). WE DELIVER • 718-522-5244 Of course, I promptly berated myself for succumbing to the Paper The Brooklyn frivolous, materialistic, overly feminine desire to self-decorate. But Scaffolding now fully surrounds the Pri- pair work has been done since the restoring the granite plaza, crypt and Lowe wasn’t bitter that she couldn’t afford that bounty of sensu- son Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort 1970s, but park officials said the $4.3- stairs. The bronze urn on top will also ous, inordinately lovely couture, although she imagined her clients at the foster agency on the other side of Flatbush Avenue might be. Greene Park. The 148-foot Doric col- million renovation, launched last be repaired and lighted once again. Leave packages with us. “I’m part of the changing of the neighborhood,” acknowledged umn, erected in 1908, memorializes spring, will restore it to its original Also, bronze eagles will be returned to Lowe. “It has its drawbacks for local people. But it’s the way the 11,000 men, women and children splendor. The work, scheduled to be their original positions, guarding the And worries behind. things work.” who died aboard British prison ships completed by the fall, includes clean- four corners of the structure. As your neighborhood shipping center we offer many services in addition Alec Stuart, one of the store’s co-owners, is well aware that his during the Revolutionary War. Little re- ing and repainting the structure and — Lilo H. Stainton store is not exactly affordable, but he’s trying to at least fit into the to packing and shipping. Stop in to find out what we can offer you. neighborhood. “We really try not to be pretentious,” he said. COPY SERVICE • OFFICE SUPPLIES “That’s not what Fort Greene is about.” FAX SERVICE • GIFT CARDS • BINDING LAMINATING Toni Johnson, the owner of the “upscale urban” shop called Fit- PASSPORT PHOTOS • MAILBOX RENTALS ted by the Best, is also trying to avoid pretension, although she’s taking a slightly different approach: lower prices. Wacky ‘Angel’ builder will COBBLE HILL VARIETY & MAILING CENTER In other words, you don’t have to be a hedge fund queen to shop there. 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The artist who created the Depart- A neighborhood it may be, but if you’re going to shop at her “Look back at Victorian times, when ment of Building’s most-hated — and they built houses that were beautiful,” store, make sure you ring the doorbell — so she can check you Clinton Hill’s most-beloved — build- HEALING ARTS out, and, if you’re acceptable, buzz you in. Some neighborhood. said Wood. “They had a little pride in ing could soon be bringing his artistic what they built.” Lauren Hampel, LMT THE KITCHEN SINK vision (and code violations, critics After Wood’s arrest, neighborhood Member AMTA & NCBTMB Believe it or not, the wonks at the Department of Trans- say) to a wider audience. activists flocked to the artist’s aid. With • Swedish • Shiatsu • Sports portation do sometimes agree with the community on new stop Broken Angel creator Arthur Wood, the backing of Pratt Institute and Coun- • Hot Stone • Deep Tissue lights. Case in point: In response to community concerns, DOT has and his new business partner, Shahn cilwoman Letitia James (D–Fort installed a long-requested stop light at Adelphi Street and Greene Christian Andersen, want to do more Greene), Wood was able to make a deal Avenue. Now, if only drivers could learn to stop on red! … If you’re 917-923-1114 than just rebuild Wood’s Downing with the Department of Buildings to COBBLE HILL hot, or think you’re hot, fashion designers want you to audition next Street ziggurat — the building out of move back in if he took down the un- weekend to be a model at this spring’s Brooklyn Fashion which Wood was hauled by the NYPD safe upper portion of his building and Gift Certificates Available Weekend. Would-be male mannequins should be 6-foot to 6-foot- last year because it had so many struc- performed other structural work. 2, while their female counterparts should be taller than 5-foot-9. And tural flaws. if you have the sort of face that only a mother would love, don’t de- But Woods had no money to make “I plan on using him to design my spair. Co-founder Cybele Sandy said there would also be oppor- repairs. That is, until Andersen stepped tunities for hostesses and interns. The auditions are at 964 Dean St. future developments,” said Andersen, in. Now, supporters are thrilled that BEFORE (between Franklin and Classon avenues) on Jan. 20 and 27. Call who has rebuilt or developed about a Wood might design other inimitable (718) 684-4164. … Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries is no longer dozen buildings in his six-year career. structures with quirky names. the covert legislator. 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Others told me they wanted a shoe repair place, but it’s an- The Brooklyn Paper dye-pack in the bag, which ex- “The money exploded in the sioner Ray Kelly has long other pipe dream in a world of disposable footwear. ploded as the perp left the bank. thief’s hands in front of bank,” blamed banks for the city’s rash Commerce Bank calls itself With the moneybag still smok- said Paul Heller, who lives near- in robberies, urging them to in- PUPPIES & KITTENS! Lack of a butcher was another lament; we used to have “America’s Most Convenient two along the avenue, now we have none. The one on ing, he jumped back into the wait- by. “People on First Street, par- stall better barriers between Best Health • Home Bred • Temperments Bank” — but its Park Slope ing cab, whose driver was so ticularly with children, are tellers and customers. FREE Kittens Prospect Park West in Windsor Terrace is always filled with branch has given the motto w/ Supplies meat-loving migrants from the Slope. 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He may wouldn’t you know. times we want to spend $200 on a handbag, and other times enue branch was targeted again, we need dry cleaning, vegetables or office supplies. the latest robberies since the 2082 Flatbush Ave. Bklyn, NY The bottom line is that stores will always come and go. one-year-old branch was hit on But there is one thing that doesn’t change: If you like a store, Halloween and again on Dec. shop there, or it’ll be gone. 26, cops said. THE KITCHEN SINK Many believe the bank keeps getting hit because it does not Welcome home The Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture held a memori- have thick Plexiglas separating al service on Jan. 7 for activist Charles Horwitz, a civil rights or- A-Z Dental, PC ganizer since 1964. Horwitz, who died in November, most recently customers from tellers. The bank refuses to talk about any served on the board of Brooklyn Parents for Peace. 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The Brooklyn Paper now some guy is telling me to “He told me he could call most officers are reasonable Why should Victory’s incompetence should be rewarded stop.” Child Protective Services on people who would make a dis- when honest Bay Ridge businesses tank everyday for no reason If you swipe the wrong “Some guy” turned out to be me,” Beldon-Adams said. tinction between an honest mis- other than the public’s inability to see a good thing when it’s subway turnstile, you could a plain-clothed transit officer “That was the point where I take and someone trying to grilling on a no-added-fat machine right in front of them? get a $60 ticket — and lose who flashed his badge. knew it wasn’t a joke.” steal a free ride.” DERMER “What can I say?” one former Gourmet Grill employee told your child. “I thought the badge looked Beldon-Adams pleaded with Beldon-Adams disagreed PHARMACY & SURGICAL me. “The ‘Chicken Lite’ thing never caught on like we thought ABay Ridge mom returning fake, like something you buy at the officer that her mistake had about the “reasonable” part. • 2064 Flatbush Ave. • (718) 377-4900 it would.” from her first trip into Manhat- Toys ‘R’ Us,” Beldon-Adams been innocent, but the cop did- “It is absolutely horrifying to At least Gourmet Grill took its best shot. Unlike Victory’s tan with her new baby received said. “I told him I was in a n’t care, she said. have any law situation with managers, the people behind the “Chicken Lite” grill can walk such a summons last Wednes- rush.” New York City Transit your child right there,” she said. away with dignity. day, but was also threatened That’s when the officer, whose would not comment for this sto- “But when an authority figure THE KITCHEN SINK with having her child taken name appeared as Vessilio on the ry, but one transit source was threatens to actually take your See a pothole? State Sen. Marty Golden wants you to call from her custody — all because summons, told her that by “disre- skeptical. child away from you, the feel- his office and report it. No, really. He’s been giving out the num- she swiped the wrong turnstile specting authority,” she was risk- “There had to be more to it ing is unspeakable.” ber — (718) 238-6044 — to everyone. … Looking for a hair- at Herald Square. Fitness Trainers cut? The word is that Chad at Spin on Third Avenue and 78th “I thought it was a prank,” Street gives the best cut in Bay Ridge — but you’d better be pre- said new mom Kris Belden- pared to stand on line for him. … Hey Babies “R” Us! How Adams, of an officer’s reaction Female Only. Wanted for new Dyker about getting rid of that ridiculous 25-cent shopping-cart fee (a when she innocently, yet neatness tax?) at your Bensonhurst store? The other day, a lady wrongly, swiped at a handi- Heights gym for women. Call Nick at with two kids couldn’t get the machine to unlock the cart, forc- capped-accessible turnstile. Victory Memorial to Dyker ing her to wait 30 minutes for a store employee to help her … “I was waiting for Ashton (718) 986-1823. Bay Ridge’s Andrew Gerardi and his band “The AGB” are Kutcher to come out any trying to gain fame — for their pursuit of fame. They’re filming minute and tell me I was on a pilot about a Brooklyn band trying to make it big. The filming ‘Punk’d.’ ” is structured as a countdown to the band’s concert on Jan. 20 at The day began when Bel- Heights: We’re not dead yet! Crash Mansion in Manhattan. … While rumors of Griswold’s don-Adams took her 6-month- death abound, the owner of the Third Avenue pub says he’s stay- old daughter into the city. New The Brooklyn Paper Guarinello waxed poetic lia. “People think we are closed ing open. Amen, and pass the ribs! … Rep. Vito Fossella, one to New York, the Kansas native Bring them your tired, your about the hospital. and we have been losing pa- of the president’s staunchest New York allies, is now urging the asked the token-booth clerk “You can ask the ambulance tients — so get the word out.” how to enter the subway system poor, your huddled masses now-Democratic Congress to distribute Homeland Security drivers and you can ask the Community Board 11 Dis- funds based only on risk. Here’s hoping the Democrats listen to with her stroller. yearning to breathe free (of nursing staff. Believe me, they Fossella more than his own party did when it was in power. … “He told me to swipe my asthma) — Victory Memorial trict Manager Howard Feuer did will tell you that the hospital is just that, telling everyone who Kevin Carroll is the new president of the liberal group, Brook- card, turn the turnstile, and then Hospital is not dead yet. still running.” lyn Democrats for Change. He beat Scott Klein by just two open the door,” she said. Sure, the Dyker Heights in- Victory’s bankruptcy — and would listen about his own per- votes out of 80 cast. Recount! … “Don’t feed the fish. Don’t tap Going to Manhattan was stitution declared bankruptcy subsequent closure recommen- sonal experience at Victory. on the glass. Don’t put your hand in the tank,” says a handmade easy enough, but coming back and has been recommended for dation — came after reports that “I had eye surgery there re- sign taped to a six-foot long aquarium that stands guard at meet- proved to be a “nightmare.” closure by a state commission, the financially strapped hospital cently,” Feuer said, “and I ings held at Community Board 11’s Bensonhurst offices. The At Herald Square, Beldon- but hospital officials and their gave a huge severance package haven’t been fitted for a Seeing sign is up for good reason: four imposing foot-long pacus fish, a Adams noticed that the en- allies want everyone to know to a departing executive. Eye dog yet!” relative of the piranha, live in the aquarium. Those devils have trance door had a slot to insert that Victory is still at hand. At the time, a spokesman for Residents and elected offi- sharper teeth than CB11 District Manager Howard Feuer. … her MetroCard, so she did that “I have an important an- the 254-bed hospital said there cials have been using all avail- He’s fought higher taxes and now he’ll help you do them. Golden instead of using the turnstile. nouncement to make,” Commu- would be no changes in patient able political channels to keep But that slot is reserved for nity Board 11 Chairman said this week that his office will again provide free basic tax care at Victory — but all the the hospital open, but Guar- preparation this year. It’s the eighth year that Golden has of- reduced-fare MetroCards. William Guarinello said to open naysaying about the hospital’s fered the service at his office, which is at 7403 Fifth Ave. To get After she opened the door a meeting last Tuesday night. finances and future has made inello reminded them that they the financial help, call (718) 238-6044 for an appointment for a and pushed her stroller through, “Victory is alive — I can’t say some patients weary and has re- still needed to vote with their timeslot on any Thursday night or Saturday morning between Feb. Beldon-Adams was accosted by they are doing well — but they sulted in less business. feet. 1 and April 14. Oh, and one other thing: The program is only avail- a man. are moving in that direction [of “There has been a noticeable “If you want to see it closed,” able to residents of Golden’s district who earn less than $30,000. “The guy asked me what I doing well] and they need our decline in patients,” said hospi- Guarinello said. “Don’t go, and Talk to us. 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The pocket- Love, gems lost Loose Table manners? The 27-year-old victim was thief bolted north, toward Flat- ets,” the armed man now insisted. book contained a pink wallet, Talk about a holiday from leaving a taco franchise with his bush Avenue, before she could The victim complied, and the which held a $76 Metrocard, Even the best addresses have hell. A 31-year-old woman re- 22-year-old lady friend when a get a good look at him. thieves ran off. One called bank and credit cards, and their domestic disputes. And on turned from a five-week vaca- Dentures? stranger appeared behind him. The bag held a half-dozen back, “Stay safe,” as they ran $956. Christmas, none the less. tion to find her husband gone The pair crossed the street, near credit cards and $100. The rob- west on Dekalb Avenue, toward A 37-year-old woman al- HS heist from their Willoughby Street Bond Street, heading for their ber also scored four pieces of Carlton Avenue. 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By the POLICE BLOTTER Police said that a woman Park West, and helped himself Crack job bery showed up and arrested time the Sunset Park woman Now this ain’t right. was parking her car on the av- to the computer. the 37-year-old man at the sec- cancelled the cards, the thief Acrack addict armed with A beloved old barber, who enue, near 14th Street, when A neighbor said he heard ond drugstore. had rung up $700 in items from nothing but a finger tried to rob runs his own shop on Seventh stole $620 from his pocket. He another woman started scream- nothing, as well. The perp didn’t have any a chain drugstore next door to Unholy theft two Fifth Avenue drugstores Avenue, was robbed by a man then locked the stylist in the ing that she was taking her cash on him, but he did have a the chain bookseller. And on the sixth day, the Schlock lock within a few minutes of each pretending to be a Con Edison bathroom while rummaging for space. With her verbal warning crack pipe, police said. He was perp robbed a church school. Yet another gym rat had his other in the afternoon of Jan. Lock the door worker on Jan. 9. not working, the woman reach- charged with two counts of rob- more cash, though the thief A laptop computer and a locker broken into last week. 10. A woman who forgot to lock At just before 4 pm, the man ed into the car and punched her bery, menacing and criminal found nothing except some old boom box were stolen from a re- In what seems to be a week- Police say the drug user en- her front door had her iPod and entered the Clover Barbershop, mobile adversary, causing a possession of drugs. Italian jewelry of sentimental ligious school on Union Street ly Police Blotter tradition, the tered the first store, which is at wallet taken off her coffee table at 11th Street, and told barber bloody cut. by a thief who quietly followed value only. on Jan. 13 after a handyman latest victim had secured his be- 10th Street, simulated having a Baby blues Ercole Riccardelli, “I need to Cops arrested the 29-year- her inside her Warren Street Eventually, he freed his vic- slipped out for just 20 minutes to longings in a locker at the gun with his digits, and told the Yet another mom has had her see the basement.” old woman and charged her apartment on Jan. 7. Riccardelli told cops that the tim and fled with the cash. Ric- go to a nearby hardware store. Prospect Park YMCA on Ninth counter worker, “This is a hold- handbag stolen off the top of cardelli, who lives in the build- When he returned at 1:30, he with assault. The woman entered the man was wearing what looked Street at around 9:30 pm on up. Just give me all the money.” her stroller while she shopped. building, which is at Fourth Av- to be a “Con Ed” patch on his ing, was not harmed, but could found the front glass door had Night invasion Jan. 9, cops said. The clerk didn’t give over In the latest case, a woman been smashed and the equip- enue, at just after 11 pm and blue jacket and he had no rea- not, unfortunately, give cops a A man lost his laptop com- While the indoor athlete did any money, and the man fled. was browsing the aisles in the ment missing. closed the door behind her. She son to be suspicious because good description of the thug. puter when a burglar sneaked his normal routine, someone But just a few doors uptown, basement of a popular Seventh The school, which is bet- told cops that the criminal must Con Ed had called earlier in the “I really don’t feel too good into his 10th Street apartment broke his lock and took his wal- the man found another drug- Avenue bookstore on Jan. 10 at ween Eighth Avenue and Pros- have seen the popular digital day to tell Riccardelli that a about the whole thing,” Ric- while he slept on Jan. 11. let, which held just $3 and cred- store that looked promising. around 12:30 pm. She drifted pect Park West, also lost $42. music device and her wallet sit- worker would be stopping by. cardelli told The Brooklyn Pa- The victim told cops that he it cards. Again, he entered, simulated away from her baby stroller for ting on the coffee table, so he But instead of heading to the per. But he vowed to stay open. 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Lutheran Medical & Dental Staff Auditorium 150 55th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11220 For information or directions call 718-667-8100 4 BRZ THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 January 20, 2007 Don’t let strangers into your home By Dana Rubinstein one had reached into her purse Pickpocketed The thieves used the fire es- and Michael Giardina and stolen her wallet — even Two men grabbed a teen cape to get into the apartment, The Brooklyn Paper though the bag had been stored walking on Colonial Road on which is located near Avenue NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH in a drawer near the bed. Jan. 9 and grabbed his cell- O. The perps took $1,100 and In addition to the wallet itself, left through the front door. No- WHERE CRIMES TOOK PLACE 68th Precinct phone right from his hand. 68 PRECINCT the victim lost $60, credit cards, The 16-year-old victim was body saw or heard the burglars An elderly Bay Ridge plus her veteran’s ID card. near the corner of 79th Street at escape. woman should replace her She didn’t report the Decem- 4 pm when the two pickpockets Making tracks “welcome” mat with a “be- ber crime until Jan. 9, when struck. The police later caught A popular national subma- ware of dog” sign after getting Citibank informed her that both perps, one a minor. rine sandwich chain on Bay someone had used her card at a robbed by two seemingly in- Parkway lost its cash register to hardware megastore in Gowa- crooks who broke in on Jan. 11 nocent young women she ush- nus. ered into her apartment. 62nd Precinct at 10 pm. The 83-year-old Ovington Snatchtop The thieves broke into the Avenue resident opened her A quick errand on Jan. 9 No bargain sandwich place through the door on Jan. 6 at 11 am to two ended miserably for two young A woman trying to save front entrance after clipping the young women asking for a pen women who returned home to money at a Bay Ridge Avenue front gate locks, police said. and paper. find their front door cracked 99-cent store ended up getting The crooks took the entire “I’m here to see your neigh- open and thousands of dollars the exact opposite result: she cash register and fled from the bors, but they’re not home,” in electronic equipment miss- was pick-pocketed while wait- eatery, which is near 62nd said one of the ladies. “Can I ing. ing on line. Street. According to the store- leave a note?” When the roommates, ages The woman was shopping owner, there was an unknown The kind old lady said yes, 25 and 22, returned to their on Jan. 7 at 4 pm at the store, amount in the register. Nobody and one of the younger women apartment on Eighth Avenue, which is located at Bay Park- got a good look at the thugs as sat down at her kitchen table near 62nd Street, at 7 pm, they way, when the thief unzipped they ran off. and began to write. The other discovered that a $1,000 Acer her backpack and stole her wal- Mugging victim wandered through the bedroom laptop, a $700 Dell laptop, a let, police said. A woman was mugged on in the old woman’s apartment, $350 Kodak digital camera, a The victim lost $600, plus Jan. 9 while walking on 64th which is near Third Avenue. $500 black Gucci watch, a debit and credit cards. Unfortu- Street towards her house. The note-writing team didn’t $200 Coach silver watch, and a nately, no one got a good look The woman was near 24th leave empty-handed, having $20 Samsung phone had been at the bandit, who fled quickly. Avenue at around 4:40 pm 62 PRECINCT snagged $350 in cash and jew- swiped. Reunion when two thieves ripped her elry valued at $500. D-man attacked A Bensonhurst man came purse out of her clutches. She Sick vet robbed A deliveryman taking food home from a family reunion to later told cops that she never It was a bad day that only to an Ovington Avenue address find his apartment on West saw them coming. The muggers — both men missing. 20th Avenue, at 3 am when he KEY TO THE CRIMES got worse for one elderly lady was attacked and robbed by 15 Fourth Street broken into and The victim came home on was set upon by two muggers. Break-in Arrest — fled with $258, plus her iPod-like device taken at the beleaguered hospital on thugs on Jan. 9. ransacked. Jan. 10 at 8:45 am and immedi- One of the men demanded, 92nd Street and Seventh Av- The 17-year-old victim was The man had returned with credit and debit cards. ately noticed that something “Give me your coat,” but when Robbery Armed robbery Purse snatch enue. heading towards the home, his family on Jan. 14 at 3 pm to Home burg was wrong in the house, which the victim refused, he was The 75-year-old veteran had which is near Ridge Boulevard, find the bathroom window A woman returned home is located on 17th Avenue near punched. In the ensuing scuffle, gone in for X-rays, but when she when the gang approached, pushed in and their possessions early one morning to find a 73rd Street. the man was knocked to the Assault Death Car stolen returned to the examination menaced, and made off with scattered around the apartment, messy home — and more than Burglars had entered through ground, where the crooks rifled room, she discovered that some- $125 and a $50 wallet. police said. $2,000 in cash and electronics the rear door, broke the lock his pockets and took $500, cops and ransacked the place, police said. said. Kung fu fighting him before fleeing the building, Sony Playstation Portable. which is near 16th Avenue. When the student resisted, The mess only temporarily A Chinese food deliveryman the thug threatened to hit him if KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE concealed the crime: The received more than just a tip af- D train! D train! thieves ran off with $1,900, ter delivering to an apartment Ahigh school student was he didn’t comply. When the plus electronics and jewelry. No building on 85th Street. attacked for his portable video teen handed over the popular witnesses saw the crooks. Office of Continuing Education The man was waiting in the game while waiting for the D game device, the thief took it Coat of harms vestibule to be buzzed in just af- train on Jan. 12. and ran onto the train, which A man was mugged in the ter 10 pm on Jan. 10 when a The New Utrecht High School had just pulled in, police said. wee hours of Jan. 13 on 86th teenager grabbed him from be- student was waiting at the New Cops said the crook once

YOUR Street, cops said. hind and put him in a chokehold. Utrecht Avenue station, which is went to the same high school as V The victim had just left an The thug forced the worker near 79th Street, at 12:30 pm the victim, and was recently re- Continuing Education...it’s absolutely necessary! all-night store, which is near to the floor and stole $200 from when a thug asked to see his leased from jail. Kingsborough Community College offers Continuing Education programs that are unique, exciting and very rewarding. Check out some of the programs aimed at: Dems to Fossella: You’re X Career-oriented adults X Improving your English (ESL) X Healthcare Industry Careers X High School Equivalency (GED) X REGENTS, PSAT and SAT Test Preparation X College For Kids program designed for 7-12 year-olds going down … this time! X Becoming a New York City Medallion (HACK) Taxi Driver X Fulfilling personal and professional development goals By Dana Rubinstein will be flush with the very The Brooklyn Paper cash and volunteers that the DCCC spent elsewhere in There is something for everyone from Accounting to Yogalates. The Democratic Party — 2006. which failed to do even basic For Steve Harrison, the De- Here is a small sampling of some of the courses being offered this Winter: behind-the-scenes work for its mocratic lawyer who ran candidate in 2006 — now against Fossella last time, Phlebotomy • EKG Tech. • Pharmacy Tech. • Patient Care Tech. • Medical Billing & Coding • says it will go after Rep. Vito the DCCC salvo is espe- Fossella (R–Bay Ridge) with Clinical Medical Asst. • Medical Admin. Asst. • Keyboarding • Accounting • Writing • Real Estate • cially bittersweet. a vengeance in 2008. Harrison spent most Insurance • Child Care • Yiddish Film • Yoga • Pilates • Yogalates • Dance • Self-Defense • The powerful Democratic of the election fruit- • Swimming • Aquasize • Lifeguarding • Drawing • Chess for Kids • Tennis • Soccer • Magic Congressional Committee — lessly trying to per- or the “D triple C,” as it’s suade the national For more information or a FREE catalog - Call: 718/368-5052 known in politico parlance — party to get involved announced via its blog that the in his race. Yet despite city’s only Republican con- his tiny war chest and 1. BY PHONE: (718) 368-5050 Mon. - Fri. 9:30 am - 4:30 pm (Have your VISA or MasterCard ready) gressman has been targeted for lack of national sup- Easy elimination in the next election. port, Harrison got 43 4 2. BY FAX: (718) 368-5200 24 hours a day, 7 days a week “We will aggressively work percent of the vote. Ways to 3. IN-PERSON: Days, Evenings and Weekends Call (718) 368-5052 for registration schedule or a FREE catalog in districts targeting ethically “Fossella should have challenged incumbents like … been targeted [in 2006], Register! 4. ON-LINE: www.kbcc.cuny.edu click on Continuing Education VISA or MasterCard accepted Vito Fossella,” read the an- and the results show that,” nouncement posted on the said Harrison. “Had the dis- Stakeholder, the DCCC’s blog. trict been targeted in 2006, the Continuing Education at Kingsborough Community College The implication of the an- results may have been differ- 2001 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY 11235 • Tel: (718) 368-5052 • www.kbcc.cuny.edu nouncement is clear: Whoever ent.” runs against Fossella in 2008 Harrison isn’t sure if he will

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Ferzli, M.D., F.A.C.S. and Casino in Las Vegas. priorities by keeping our nation He also improperly used the safe, reducing taxes and pro- Cehair of the Departm nt of Surgery at Lutheran Medical Center Sesame Street characters Elmo tecting Social Security and New York Magazine’s “Top Doctors, 1998-2006” and Rosita in a campaign mail- Medicare.” Armando E. Castro, M.D., F.A.C.S. 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Winning teams want to be a Cyclone,” said Cyclones GM Steve Cohen. Lutheran Medical & Dental Staff Auditorium will wear a Cyclones uniform all season (see inset). To apply, call (718) 449- th 150 55 Street, Brooklyn, New York 11220 “We hope nearly every 8497, or email info@brook- youth league in Brooklyn will lyncyclones.com with the For information or directions call 718-667-8100 have a Cyclones team and that subject line “uniforms.” The every kid in the league will deadline is Feb. 9. January 20, 2007 THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 AWP 5 Verizon says The dirt on IKEA’s dirt By Lilo H. Stainton Sones said. “What are they try- The Brooklyn Paper ing to cover up?” Police said city environmental it’s clean in The mystery of the missing officials tested the remaining de- rubble at the IKEA construc- bris and found it free of toxins. tion site in Red Hook grows. And Roth scoffed at the sugges- The Swedish furniture and tion the burglary was a cover-up. meatball giant claims that The debris was created toxic spread someone stole 250 tons of con- through demolition on the site, struction debris from its prob- and the process was approved By Ariella Cohen lem-plagued site on Beard and monitored by the appropriate Street while workers were on The Brooklyn Paper agencies, he said. their New Year’s holiday. Problems began for the furni- Verizon has cleared the air about reports that cancer-causing Police are investigating the ture superstore before it even toxins seeping into the site of a future Whole Foods supermarket case, casting a skeptical eye on purchased the site for slightly along the Gowanus Canal came from its property a block away. how supposed thieves managed Chris Curen more than $31 million, in June “It’s definitely not from our site,” said company spokesman John to haul the rubble away while This Brooklyn Paper photo of the IKEA site on Dec. 31 appears 2005. Bonomo, citing air-quality tests conducted on Dec. 29 at Verizon’s the high-security site was to show part of a pile of rubble (circled) has been removed. By then, several organiza- First Street site. closed for the holiday. tions had filed a lawsuit con- “Environmental scientists found absolutely no benzene,” he Officially, police said simply community activists that the nated materials [such as] lead tending the IKEA project that they are pursuing all possi- added. “Atmospheric readings were normal.” Callan / Tom “stolen” debris was contaminat- and asbestos?” forced unfair changes in the The telecommunications giant tested the site when workers filed bilities — including the ed. Lou Sones, a member of zoning rules and would bring a complaint after The Brooklyn Paper revealed that crews cleaning prospect that the company filed “It demands a very thorough Community Board 6, which cov- traffic and pollution. Another up Whole Foods’ site on Third Avenue and Third Street told state of- a false report. It would take at investigation,” said John McGet- ers the area, said that IKEA has legal challenge sought to pro- ficials that the Verizon property was “the likely source” of under- least 15 trips for a dump truck trick, co-chairman of the Red been fined for previous environ- tect a Civil War-era repair dock. ground contaminants. to remove the 500,000 pounds Hook Civic Association. “Was mental violations. Both challenges were dis- Verizon’s clean air test results had workers at the site breathing Paper The Brooklyn of debris, further fueling some this a way to remove contami- “This is highly suspicious,” missed. easier this week, though local union leaders want soil testing as well. neighborhood suspicion that “We need to keep investigating until all questions are answered,” this “crime” was an inside job. said Local 1109 president John Dempsey. State of the city A spokesman for IKEA said Traveling plumes of contaminated groundwater are common in Mayor Bloomberg’s State of the City address, at the NYC the company’s contractors were areas where industry once thrived. Last year, for example, Keyspan College of Technology in Downtown on Wednesday, lauded working with police to solve detected benzene-laced groundwater traveling west towards hip two of Brooklyn’s most controversial projects — Atlantic the crime, which would not de- Smith Street from a former gas production plant at Fourth Street and Yards and the waterfront condo-and-open-space develop- lay work. ment commonly called Brooklyn Bridge Park. He dubbed “We remain extremely excited Backfat in the fire the canal. In true Park Slope fashion, however, attendees of the Jan. 4 Park Bruce Ratner’s 16-skyscraper-and-arena project “the most ex- about opening New York City’s Slope Civic Council meeting cared more about traffic that the upscale citing private development Brooklyn has ever seen.” He also first IKEA store in 2008,” By Michael Giardina near his home: he tagged up on the public library megastore — with its 420-car parking lot — will bring to the area. gave a mayoral nod to “the Burmese python named ‘Fanta- spokesman Joseph Roth said. for The Brooklyn Paper branch on Fort Hamilton Parkway near PS 230K, in the middle of a nearby crosswalk, on a paved “We want to cut the traffic in our neighborhood and you seem to sia’ at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum,” and the impending The mystery is further com- Backfat has gotten pinched. be encouraging people to drive,” Civic Council President Lydia renovation of the New York Aquarium in Coney Island. plicated by concerns of some walkway in Greenwood Playground, and on a The graffiti vandal, who became the terror of stair in the Fort Hamilton F-train station. Denworth told Whole Foods representatives. Windsor Terrace in just a few short weeks, was ar- Denworth and others called for a taxi drop-off area at the store Clearly, Backfat was getting plenty of exercise rested by cops on Tuesday afternoon. — but library workers aren’t happy about it. and a shuttle service from distant subway stations along Fourth Av- Police said they charged the vandal, whom they “It’s defacing the neighborhood,” said Kairi enue at Union Street or Ninth Street. identified as Charles Abarno, 21, with two counts Whole Foods has promised to offer home delivery to cut down of making graffiti and two counts of criminal mis- Hollon, who’s worked at the branch for two and a on the traffic to the store. chief, all misdemeanors. half years. “It is a pretty upscale and quiet area to Hey, you never know have this.” “The experts are telling us that traffic will not be an issue,” said “I am extremely pleased he has been caught,” David Ball, a traffic engineer working with the company. Ball added said Councilman Bill DeBlasio (D-Windsor Ter- Not to mention, Backfat’s work was derivative that they expect 1,500 cars per day, not 1,500 per hour, as some ex- City runs lottery for ritzy B’Hill house race), who claimed that his office “worked very of “Neckface,” the graffiti “legend” who holds art perts predicted. closely with the NYPD, specifically Det. Mike shows all over the world and has designed sneak- By Ariella Cohen tery for 381 and 381A Baltic St. is Yassky said that the low price Cleary, to bring him to justice.” ers for Vans. Critics — of art, not vandalism — DeBlasio urged that Backfat receive “the ap- say Backfat was just trying to ride on Neckface’s The Brooklyn Papers open to even Bill Gates. for the public property cheated The Boerum Hill boondoggle taxpayers of their chance to share propriate punishment” for such vandalism. coat tails. It’s an affordable housing was part of a deal approved Tues- in the lotto winner’s fortune. A call to Abarno’s East Fifth Street home could Others didn’t care what his motivation was — lottery fit for a millionaire. day by the City Council. The tax “This is money the city needs not be completed as dialed — the phone appears but are just happy he’s been brought to justice. PAYDAY… The city is putting two va- break will go to 500 properties, and it burns me up to see [it] go- to have been disconnected. “I know they call graffiti ‘art’ at the Brooklyn cant, and soon-to-be-renovated, Though charged with only two acts of vandal- Museum,” said one local resident, “but I don’t Continued from page 1 the majority of which are in parts ing to waste like this,” he said. Boerum Hill brownstones on sale of Queens, Upper Manhattan and A spokesman for the city De- ism, Backfat’s tag appeared on at least four places think it is.” — with Gersh Kuntzman City officials said this week that it would have been difficult to through its affordable housing lot- bar Levine from the J-51, a tax break routinely awarded to develop- the Bronx, where the average partment of Housing Preservation tery system — and the lucky home is not selling for $1 million. and Development, Neill Cole- ers who renovate old buildings, such as the former Jehovah Witness souls who buy the houses on bible shipping facility at 360 Furman St. Three members of the Coun- man, defended the lottery. “But [the abatement] could have been used as leverage,” said Evan Baltic Street near Hoyt Street will cil voted against the inclusion of “[The city is] transforming Thies, spokesman for Councilman David Yassky (D-Brooklyn Heights). walk away with a two-family the Boerum Hill properties, de- what was mostly dilapidated home for $550,000 or a single- crying the notion that anyone housing into decent and afford-

When he purchased the bunker-like structure for $200 million in / Graham Letorney 2004, it was zoned only for industrial uses. By agreeing to include it family house for $440,000. needed incentive to buy a home able housing for existing tenants, the state park-and-condo plan, Levine was able to skip a costly rezon- But, get this, the buyers will in posh Boerum Hill, where new tenants, and homebuyers.” ing process — and market his development as a Battery Park City-like also get a 20-year tax break. homes routinely sell for triple said Coleman. waterfront community using images of the state’s $130-million open And get this, too: you don’t the asking price. He added that the tax break is space development in exchange for the “park” payments. even have to be low-income to “This is the steal of the centu- mandatory under a 2001 agree- A public hearing on the lease for Robert Levine’s building will be win this lottery! ry,” said Councilman David ment between HPD and the fed- Paper The Brooklyn held on Jan. 29 at 6 pm at 5 Metrotech (between Jay Street and Most of the city’s affordable Yassky (D-Brooklyn Heights), eral Department of Housing and The NYPD this week arrested Charles Abarno, who, they say, is responsible for all the Flatbush Avenue Extension). Call Community Board 2 at (718) 596- housing programs cater to poorer who voted against the tax abate- Urban Development, which pre- “Backfat” graffiti that’s been popping up in Windsor Terrace. Here’s a sample of his “art” 5410 for information. residents, but in this case, the lot- ment. viously owned the homes. at the Fort Hamilton Parkway F-train station.

my love of this great game? idea of the status of the sport.” Some surfing on the Web re- Wikipedia mocked me rue- ANGLE… vealed that even lesser school- fully: “Professional tetherball yard games like “Dodgeball” simply does not exist.” Continued from page 1 chitect Michael Van Valken- and “Taunt the Fat Kid Until Oh, yeah, try telling that to I had to find the person re- burgh to add tetherball to the He Cries” have national gov- Nick Bettis, national sales Upcoming Events sponsible for restoring teth- park’s offerings. erning bodies and dreams of manager for Mikasa, the na- erball to its rightful place in I called everyone, but no becoming the next great tion’s leading manufacturer of the pantheon of sport. Given one took credit or even knew Olympic sport. But tetherball tetherballs. the greatness of this game, I whose idea it was to include has no such community. “Our sales are going up the greatest schoolyard game every year,” Bettis claimed. at Sunrise Senior Living figured people would be “We are probably the nearest falling all over each other since “Beat up the Four-Eyes” thing to a centralized tetherball “We ship a ton of tetherballs!” (which is a foot-fault in teth- in Brooklyn Bridge Park. In authority,” a guy from the Web Bettis said the sport’s gold- erball, as you know) to take fact, no one really cared. site, Total Tetherball, told me. en age was about 20 years ago credit for getting landscape ar- Could I really be alone in “And we even don’t have an — “Everyone had a tetherball in Brooklyn in his backyard,” he said, and I found myself nodding — but sales picked up again in the ADVERTISER FOCUS fall of 2001. Featuring door prizes and light refreshments He attributed it to a “void in the marketplace.” I attributed it to America coming together after a great tragedy and seeking Luciano’s — comfort in the one true game. You are invited to join us at either of our After all, while dodgeball EVENT DETAILS was openly mocked in a Ben Stiller comedy a few years ago, another flick that came Brooklyn communities for our annual out at the same time, where everyone “Napoleon Dynamite,” features a lovable high-school kid Super Bowl party. Watch the game, nibble who dreams of becoming a Annual tetherball champion. And he’s the hero of the on snacks and enjoy the company of Super Bowl Party is famous film, I’ll remind you. But could Nick Bettis, the writers of “Napoleon Dyna- residents, family and friends. mite” and I be the only ones Saturday, January 27 carrying the ball (again, that’s a foul in tetherball)? It appears that way: I went to Modell’s February is Heart Health Month, so join and Sunday, January 28 to buy a new tetherball — you know, to get back into playing shape — and was shocked to us for healthy tips on maintaining your heart 11:00am-3:00pm discover that not everyone shared my obsession with the immortal game. health. Blood pressure screenings will be Heart Health “What is tetherball?” the manager, an otherwise nice guy named Rick, asked me. “This is available to all attendees. Presentation the first I’m hearing of it.” The first he’s hearing about it? The man’s store has more Saturday, February 10 balls than a psychotic gym Sunrise Senior Living is committed to furthering teacher — baseballs, footballs, Luciano Fiori and Michael Simone, owners of Luciano's Restaurant. basketballs, volley, soccer, and Sunday, February 11 tennis, Nerf, medicine, ab — the knowledge of senior living topics through yet he had never heard of teth- Luciano Fiori, co-owner of Luciano’s, 15 every weekday morning at 7 am, and re- erball? 11:00am-3:00pm Metrotech Center in downtown Brooklyn, mains open in the evening as “long as there Even at Triangle Sports, a events and seminars designed to help and inform says he’s in the restaurant business because are customers.” The 4,000-square-foot local outfit, the manager there he likes people. space includes a take-out section, a sit-down was equally unaware of the After 42 years in food service — doing area with 70 tables, and a full bar. coming tetherball explosion. seniors and their caregivers. everything from washing dishes, to bartend- Breakfast, lunch and dinner menus are “No one ever asks for ing, cooking and waiting tables — the Tus- available. them,” said Corny, the manag- cany-born Fiore knows the industry well. Among the offerings: pasta fagioli or er. “I do hear that some guys Although his Manhattan eatery, also called lentil soup; entrees like chicken parmigiano; play a regular tetherball game Luciano’s, was sold early in 2006, he likes paninis that start at $7.25; nine-inch pizzas in Prospect Park.” the business, he says, because he’s met a lot ($5.95 and up); and an array of salads; pasta My hopes soared, only to of different people, “including famous ones dishes (starting at $7.25). be immediately dashed: like OJ Simpson, Warren Beatty, Michael Luciano’s also has a DJ on Friday “That’s not true,” said Jesse Jackson and the Kennedys.” evenings beginning at 5 pm. And catering is Adelman, a spokeswoman for Although few celebrities have appeared handled personally by co-owner Michael Si- the Prospect Park Alliance. “I in Fiore’s Brooklyn eatery, this doesn’t faze mone, a 20-year restaurant industry vet. think there may be a few guys Sunrise at Mill Basin 718-444-2600 5905 Strickland Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11234 the entrepreneur. Luciano’s delivers anywhere in down- who tie a ball to one of our “In Brooklyn, everyone is famous,” he town Brooklyn. netball courts, but it’s not a Sunrise at Sheepshead Bay 718-616-1850 2211 Emmons Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11235 quips. For reservations or information call (718) real tetherball game.” Established in 2004, Luciano’s opens 855-6668. Netball? What the hell is For more information and a FREE online newsletter, visit www.sunriseseniorliving.com netball? 6 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 January 20, 2007 COUGH, COUGH KIDS THE TEENS Philip Morris to slash arts aid By Gersh Kuntzman The Brooklyn Paper Money for something Brooklyn Paper The other shoe is about to drop on nearly two-dozen Altria, the benignly named parent company to to- SCHOOL CAMPS dance troupes, small theaters bacco giant Philip Morris, has given hundreds of mil- and local orchestras in Brook- lions of dollars to arts groups over the years. But the lyn now that Altria, the parent company now says it plans to cut back dramatically company of tobacco giant Phil- on the number of groups it can support. Here is ip Morris, has announced deep what the company gave in Brooklyn in 2005 (the cutbacks in its long-generous most recent year available). funding of art. The Altria board is expected to 651 Arts $10,000 STYLE PARENT MUSIC approve a company restructuring at a Jan. 31 meeting, setting into BAM Local Development Corporation $10,000 motion the unkindest cuts, a spokewoman said. Bang on a Can $5,000 In 2005, 21 arts groups in Brooklyn got money from Altria, Big Dance Theater $10,000 with grants to the Brooklyn Acad- emy of Music ($389,000), the Brooklyn Academy of Music $389,000 The Feisty One gets a piano Brooklyn Museum ($345,000), and Mark Morris Dance Group Brooklyn Botanic Garden $11,000 VERYONE KNOWS ingness to practice, the 9-year- The salesman offered to take within an hour or so. As for Smartmom, with the ($147,500) making the biggest about Teen Spirit’s cool old was playing lovely two- more than $100 off. Smartmom Everyone seems to like the pi- faux piano in the dining room, noise. Brooklyn Children’s Museum $5,000 and unusual forays into handed pieces within a couple was sold. ano. OSFO has been practicing everything is just he way it’s But another 18 groups split E Hepcat kept looking around like a demon. Teen Spirit’s been supposed to be. close to $220,000 from the com- Brooklyn Museum of Art $345,000 rock and roll. But few are of months. The children learn at the groovier-looking key- aware of the Oh So Feisty certain pieces by ear (listening trying to bang out some Daniel Louise Crawford also writes pany — and each small grant boards. But Smartmom had her meant a lot to a small arts group. Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra $10,000 One’s burgeoning interest in to a CD that Helen provides). Johnston tunes and Hepcat likes the Web site, “Only the blog Simultaneously, Helen teaches heart set on the faux piano look. combine all the interesting knows Brooklyn” and is the keep- “Ours went towards general classical piano. Elevator Repair Service Theater $5,000 them sight reading and theory. It played into her fantasy that a sounds the keyboard makes. er of the “Park Slope 100” list. operating expenses, which are al- More than a year ago, OSFO home should have a piano — ways so hard to come up with,” Everything was going swim- started hankering for piano les- not a keyboard on an ironing said Martha Wilson, the founding Elizabeth Streb/RingsideEvidence $15,000 sons. Smartmom knew that mingly. Except for one thing: board-type stand. director of Fort Greene’s Franklin Mrs. Kravitz’s daughter, and OSFO hasn’t had a proper in- Hepcat thought the portable Furnace Archive, which got Evidence Dance $64,835* OSFO’s best friend, Beauty strument to practice on. She’s keyboard would be great “in ® $2,500. Girl, was taking les- case OSFO starts a band or Like most arts groups direc- Franklin Furnace Archive $2,500 sons, from a local something. It’ll be easier to tors, Wilson refused to complain teacher named Helen move.” TRIPP TRAPP about Altria’s expected drop in Kop Art $5,000 Richmond. SMART But Smartmom wasn’t think- ™ funding, citing the $210 million “Why don’t you ing “The Archies.” She wanted BY STOKKE that the company has given to Mark Morris Dance Group $147,500 come to the recital?” a traditional piano with a arts groups nationwide since mom ™ Momenta Art $2,500 Mrs. Kravitz suggest- metronome sitting on top. Of The chair that grows with the child 1958. ed. “It’s in the senior By Louise Crawford course, the Casio has an elec- “They’ve been a leader,” 10% off all store merchandise with this ad! Radiohole $5,000 center on Grand Army tronic metronome — it’s pretty Wilson said. “But what’s really high tech — but within a tradi- (minimum $75 purchase) sad is that their investors no Plaza.” been using an old keyboard Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Group $5,000 A few Sundays later, they Hepcat bought in 1989 plugged tional-looking body. 315 Court St., Brooklyn longer see the long-term value went to the social room at the into one of Teen Spirit’s bass With his passive-aggressive of plowing money back into the St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts $15,000 center, where an overflow amps. flair, Hepcat left it up to Smart- bet. Sackett and Degraw arts and society,” she said. crowd watched as Helen intro- mom and her “vision” of what olá baby 718.422.1978 • olababy.com And that is? TWAS TIME to graduate SPECIALTY SHOP Target Margin Theater $30,000 duced her piano and flute stu- from something very she wants. “Artists change the way we dents, who each played a solo makeshift to a more piano- MARTMOM knew she look at everything,” she said. Urban Bush Women $30,000** I “It’s not easy to convince peo- and a duet with confidence and like piano. would have to pay — as enthusiasm. Smartmom grew up with a Sshe always does — when ple to fund you to do that, but it * Multi-year grant ** Already approved grant for 2007 is vital work.” The atmosphere was low key grand piano in the foyer of her Hepcat lets her make a decision Source: Altria; arts groups Brooklyn Others said that the Altria and low stress. If a child family’s Upper West Side apart- about an electronic item. (“Why cuts were part of a long-term flubbed up he/she just started ment. It was a Knabe, given to did you buy this stupid phone/ over. No tears. No tangles. stupid toaster/stupid printer?”) trend in the corporate world sensibilities of the larger groups. Fort Greene dance troupe, has her maternal grandparent’s Fencing away from arts funding. We are the R&D of art.” already received a $30,000 Smartmom was particularly when they were married in But Smartmom whipped out impressed by the graceful way her debit card and paid for the “There is so little money out Funding for 2007 has not grant for this year, but isn’t 1920. there that it’s made us all been decided yet, said the Altria wasting any time trying to line all the students bowed. Although Smartmom took “piano” pronto. She had it de- Afterwards, there was fruit livered and it arrived less than Center change the scale of our work,” spokeswoman, Lisa Gonzalez, up cash for when the tobacco violin lessons and later guitar, said Annie-B Parson, artistic di- who added that all but two of bucks go bye-bye. punch and homemade cookies, the piano got quite a workout two hours later. Not without a • Group Classes which reminded Smartmom of crisis. The delivery guy left the beginner to advanced rector of Big Dance Theater in Brooklyn’s recipients — Eleva- “Altria has been very candid during her childhood. Diaper 5 years to adults Cobble Hill, which got $10,000 tor Repair Service Theater and that the future doesn’t look good,” the violin recitals she attended Diva studied the instrument, al- power supply back at the store as a young student. and there was no manual. • Open Fencing from Altria in 2005. Radiohole — will be invited to said Amy Cassello, the group’s though she got little help from “Cuts that affect the smallest reapply, though fewer overall managing director. “So we’ll MARTMOM sidled up to her father, who played a weird “So your stupid ‘piano’ does- Monday - Saturday n’t even come with a power companies are especially harm- grants will be awarded. scramble to find another source. Helen, who is probably kind of atonal jazz as a way to source. That’s why you got it so • Private Lessons ful because we feed the artistic The Urban Bush Women, a That process never stops.” Sthe most glamorous-look- unwind after work. cheap,” Hepcat sneered at ing piano teacher you’ll ever Sure, Smartmom would love • Summer Camps meet, and asked her when Smartmom. to buy an upright piano, but “Would you two stop yel- Parties up to 20 kids OSFO could start. neither money nor space allows FENCING BIRTHDAY PACKAGES! Ages 6 & up “I’m pretty booked up right ling!” OSFO begged with the ex- for such an extravagant pur- perience of a child whose parents now,” Helen said with a syrupy chase at this time. 62 Fourth St. (corner of Hoyt) • (718) 522-5822 southern drawl and huge help- do a lot of stupid bickering. Be- She asked friend, composer sides, the power supply arrived www.BrooklynFencing.com ings of kindness and concern. and pianist extraordinaire Louis “But I’ll see what I can do for Rosen what to look for in an HE’S SMACKED! y’all.” electronic keyboard. At the first lesson a few “Weighted keys. Make sure weeks later, Smartmom learned it has weighted keys so it feels why the kid’s bows were so im- like a piano,” Rosen said. Shutterbug is hit on the job pressive. Helen teaches a modi- So last week, Smartmom and fied version of Suzuki for pi- JEWISH By Christie Risk Hepcat ventured over to the ano. And all lessons begin and Guitar Center at Bruce Ratner’s The Brooklyn Paper end with a bow. Atlantic Center Mall and were A veteran Brooklyn Paper photographer was Thanks to Helen’s teaching directed to the Casio Digital Pi- berated and attacked outside a popular Mon- techniques and OSFO’s will- SUMMER ano 100, a full-sized standup pi- tague Street restaurant as he took photos for a ano with 88 weighted keys. story about the restaurant’s closure for health Hepcat made a face. “It code violations. sounds pretty good, but it does- CAMP FAIR Tom Callan, who has shot for The Paper for n’t really look like a piano,” he two decades, was on the sidewalk in front of the said. Hepat was raised with an just-shuttered Monty Q’s restaurant on Tuesday Communion old Steinway piano that his Jewish summer camps help kids: when a man came running out of the eatery and mother bought at a local muse- smacked him. and um sale. Then Hepcat pointed “This guy came out and started yelling,” said out a nick on the keyboard cov- • build a strong Jewish identity Callan. “I told him what I was doing was legal, Christening er and made another face. • have a great time but he started whacking me with papers that he Dresses was holding.” • form lasting friendships Callan kept on shooting, and the man eventually ran back into the restaurant. Callan asked for Callan / Tom his name, but the man ignored him. Earlier in the day, the city’s Department of Come learn about several great summer camp options. Health and Mental Hygiene shut down Monty Q’s FLOWER GIRLS BY LEON FREILICH for “critical health code violations, including

Hear from camp representatives and recent campers. cockroach infestation, a non-working refrigerator Paper The Brooklyn TUXEDOS/SUITS We again invited Leon and food not kept at safe temperatures,” an agency A Health Department notice in the window Freilich, the poet laureate of - Ramah in the Berkshires – Ramah is the camping arm of Conservative Judaism. source told The Brooklyn Paper. of Monty Q’s told customers of its closing. SPECIAL This isn’t the first time Callan’s been roughed Park Slope, to weigh in - Camp Sprout Lake – Affiliated with Young Judaea, sponsored by Hadassah. OCCASIONS with some low-cal verse. Here up in the line of duty. In 1998, boxer Mike Tyson - Eisner and Crane Lake – Union for Reform Judaism camps servicing the northeast. is this week’s poetic offering, attacked Callan for taking his picture at the Brook- incident, Callan was beaten by bar employees with “The Wall Street Diet” - Camp Na’aleh – Affiliated with Habonim Dror, a 70-year old youth movement. lyn Marriott. The disgraced former heavyweight a baseball bat before crawling across the street to - Surprise Lake Camp – Founded in 1902, serves Jewish families of all backgrounds. champ didn’t even land his punch. Clark Street Station, another bar, where 911 was Made 4 Me Hey, Mom, want to set your Callan was beat up in the late 1980s inside the called and an ambulance took him to the hospital. - NJ “Y” – 6 separate camps in the Poconos, including Nah-Jee-wah and Cedar Lake. 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THEATER Hot tease “It’s a tease in the best sense,” says Jonny Porkpie, one of the hosts of the Brooklyn Burlesque Blitz. “It is to me the most exciting type of performance.” The neo-burlesque movement has taken a firm grip on the city’s tassels. In fact, this year saw record-breaking attendance at the New York Burlesque Festival. The Brooklyn Bur- lesque Blitz is a two-day spectacle featuring 30 performers at the fore- front of the scene. Three different hosts guide the three-hour sessions, including burlesque veterans Angie Pontani, the

Dale Harris World Famous BOB and (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings January 20, 2007 Little Brooklyn, GO Brooklyn’s pick for the best stage name. The Brooklyn Burlesque Blitz will take place on Jan. 26 at 8 pm at Southpaw (125 Fifth Ave. between St. Johns and Sterling places in Park Slope) and on Jan. 27 at 8 pm at Northsix (66 N. Sixth St. between Wythe and Kent avenues in Williamsburg). Admission each night is $15. For information call (718) 230-0236 or visit www.burlesqueblitz.com. — Youyoung Lee

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The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn Crummy time The Jan. 24 breakfast-in-bed class at One Girl Cookies might be sold out, but you can still scoop up their Lucia bars, made from shortbread, chocolate and caramel, or the Enza biscotti with white chocolate and apricots. While you’re in the / Daniel Krieger / Daniel Krieger Dean Street store, register for some of the upcoming classes in the ongoing series taught by owner / Jori Klein and baker Dave Crofton The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn (pictured). The future lessons will include “For the Love of Chocolate,” a The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn dessert-making class in early February, and “Amber Waves of Grain,” a two- / Daniel Krieger part bread-baking class in March. If it turns out that you’re better at eating sweets than making them, go ahead and stock up on One Girl’s pre-made treats, which make a great snack in

The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn bed or just about anywhere else. Down under One Girl Cookies (68 Dean St. between Smith Street and Boreum Place in Cobble Hill) is open Mon- day through Thursday, 11 am to 7 pm, Friday and Sat- urday, 11 am to 9 pm and Sunday, 12 pm to 6 pm. Say what? For information, call (212) 675-4996 or visit the Web site at www.onegirlcookies.com. — Adam Rathe If you want to speak like a local and navigate the latest wave of Australian menus, take this crash y course in Aussie food lingo: Brookl n THEATER Adam’s ale: Water. Bottle-o: A liquor store, also referred Australian food makes its mark in the borough to as a bottle shop. Bum-nuts: Eggs. Rare salon G’Day plate: Clockwise from left; By Jordana Rothman Bush tomato: Also called desert for The Brooklyn Paper DINING Sheep Station’s lamb rib chops, Wom- raisins, these small native berries bat’s soy-cured venison medallions, are often dried and ground to im- ow do you like your burger: rare, well Outback Steakhouse (1475 86th St. at Wombat chef and owner Charlie Statel- Bay 8th Street in Bensonhurst) accepts Ameri- part a tangy tomato flavor to a or covered with beets, pineapple and a can Express, Diner’s Club, Discover, Master- man and the burger at Sheep Station. range of foods. fried egg? Card and Visa. Entrees: $11.99-$30.99. The H restaurant serves dinner daily and lunch on Floater: An Australian meat pie If you like the beet concoction, your ship weekends. Subway: B, M at 18th Avenue. For served in pea soup and drizzled has just come in — all the way from Aus- information, call (718) 837-7200. Dyker Heights Outback, which opened on with tomato sauce. Commonly tralia. Sheep Station (149 Fourth Ave. at Dou- 86th Street near 15th Avenue in 2001, is one Long overlooked in the American dining glass Street in Park Slope) accepts cash only. of the top five locations in the entire compa- thought of as a “drinking food.” Entrees: $10-$14. The restaurant serves dinner Lemon myrtle: A common bush circuit, Australian food is experiencing a daily. Subway: M, R at Union Street. For infor- ny, Jarvis said. renaissance — and Brooklyn is increasingly mation, call (718) 857-4337. food prized for its lemon-flavored home to the wizards of Oz cuisine. The Wombat (615 Grand St. at Lorimer Beyond the chain leaves, they impart a citrus flavor “Australian food is where Californian cui- Street in Williamsburg) accepts cash only. En- The new breed of Australian restaurants to milk-based dishes that might trees: $6.50-$24 (for prix fixe dinner). The sine was 20 years ago,” said Charlie Statel- restaurant serves brunch, lunch and dinner shirks the kitschy jargon in favor of authen- curdle with the use of actual Inspired by the parlor culture of the 18th and man, the chef-owner of the Wombat, a daily. Subway: L at Graham Avenue. For infor- ticity. lemons. 19th century, the Brave New World Repetory Salon mation, call (718) 218-7077. Williamsburg bar-restaurant that opened in D.U.B. Pies — short for Down Under Milk bar: The Australian equivalent Series harks back to a sophisticated era where salon D.U.B. Pies (193 Columbia St. at Sackett October. Bakery — arrived on the Brooklyn scene in of a bodega. gatherings were the choice entertainment for a night It didn’t happen overnight, however. Street in Red Hook) accepts American Ex- 2003 when owner Gareth Hughes opened out (or a night in, more accurately). press, Diner’s Club, MasterCard and Visa. En- Plonk: Cheap wine. Rumored to be Until the 1980s, Australian food largely trees: $3-$7.50. The restaurant serves lunch his flagship shop, Let Them Eat Pie, in Red Brave New World’s first three seasons added reflected English and Irish culinary tradi- and dinner daily. Subway: F, G at Carroll Hook. descended from a heinous mispro- class to local nightlife thanks to performances of tions. “Bush food,” as the country’s historic Street. For information, call (646) 202-9412. The Australian and New Zealander meat nunciation of the word “blanc.” “The Great White Hope” and “To Kill a Mocking- game- and plant-driven Aboriginal cuisine is pies range from the classic Steak Mince, a Pot, schooner and pint: Three sizes bird,” among others. known, steadily gained recognition among flavorful pocket of ground beef in onion of draft beer (10 oz., 15 oz., and But this season’s repertoire is taking the salon theme Australia’s non-indigenous denizens, and na- Jarvis, prides itself on “serious food and gravy, to the garlicky Spinach and Ricotta. 20 oz. respectively). even further. Not only will the Brooklyn-based Equity tive ingredients made their gradual entrance concentrated service” that distinguishes it Organic smoothies and fair trade coffee are Tinny: A can of beer. actors be performing readings of classic works, includ- into the modern palate. from its chain brethren. a natural lure for Red Hook’s young, social- Tucker: General term for food, ing “Hotel Paridiso,” “Waiting for Godot,” “An Ideal In the 1980s, a series of notable cultural Certainly, the menu — with items like ly conscious residents, and the price — less though more directly references Husband” and “Much Ado About Nothing” — but events — and some not so cultural, such as Jackeroo Chops and Kookaburra Wings — than $5 a pie — suits their equally youthful “bush tucker,” another name for two of the performances will be in a house in Ditmas the 1986 film, “Crocodile Dundee” — se- makes Outback sound like it’s just a Pizzeria budgets. Australian native food. Park and another will be at the Old Stone House in cured the country’s place on the internation- Uno or a Chuck E. Cheese with an Aus- Sheep Station, which opened in September, Park Slope. Each evening includes dinner and wine to al radar. tralian accent. uses imported Australian and New Zealander Wattleseed: A variety of the Acacia provide ample opportunities for dignified dialogue. Given the popularity of the film, it should But Jarvis says to look deeper. The com- meats and a range of unfamiliar bush spices seed with qualities akin to coffee. The Brave New World Repertory Salon Series be no surprise that a chain restaurant was the pany makes its own butter and its signature to create iconic Australian staples. Wattleseeds are often roasted and 2007 begins on Jan. 20 at 7:30 pm at a private first to capitalize: Outback Steakhouse made dish, the Bloomin’ Onion, is cut, breaded “We wanted to build an easy, fun and ac- ground for use in a variety of foods. home in Ditmas Park. Individual tickets are $18, a its debut in 1988. and fried in-house daily. cessible place,” says owner Martine Lafond — Jordana Rothman subscription to the series is $75. For information, visit Yet the brand, according to partner Robert Brooklynites certainly aren’t snobs; the See AUSSIE on page 10 www.bravenewworldrep.org. — Youyoung Lee

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How We Drink Today... and Why MUSIC The Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Mu- sic present Mozart’s Violin Sonatas on Jan. By Darrin Siegfried 21 at 3 pm at the Lafayette Avenue Presby- terian Church (85 S. Oxford St. in Fort Greene). Tickets: $15 at the door, $10 in ’ve just returned from Chile, where I spent Dry Rieslings are amazingly delicious as well advance, $5 for students. For information, Gratuitous violins call (718) 855-305 or visit their Web site at as versatile wines, and it is a fact that whenever eight wonderful days tasting and judging www.brooklynfriendsofchambermusic.org. Iwines made there, visiting wineries and Chefs, Sommeliers and wine professionals get vineyards, touring the Andes and the coast, and together for dinner, we always seem to start Mozart marathon at Fort Greene church speaking about Chilean wines and their future. with a bottle (or two!) of dry Riesling. I’m afraid that many wine drinkers of my genera- Even the choice of sonatas had to be The Chilean wine makers were interested in the By Kevin Filipski considered in advance. U.S. market, where their wines are already tion have been discouraged from trying Riesling because of all the cheap, sweet Riesling for The Brooklyn Paper “I asked the violinists to choose doing well, and how better to get North which two sonatas they wanted to play, Americans to drink their wines. that we drank back in college. Fortunately for the younger wine drinkers, there is a great nd you thought the marathon was and quite by some miracle, none of Now, there are two schools of thought here, amount of dry and slightly off dry Riesling on only in the fall. them chose the same sonatas!” Fleck at odds with one another. One says to do a lot the market that is an absolute delight to drink A Next week, Brooklyn Friends says. of market research and find out what wines are as an aperitif or with dinner. This is a wine of Chamber Music will offer a While everyone’s eyes will be on the selling well, and make wines that copy the taste that, again, goes with the kinds of foods that marathon of its own: a nine-hour, one- violinists (they’re the Ethopians in this of those wines. The second is to do what you do we are all eating today. Thai dishes call out for day-only performance of 10 Mozart vi- extended marathon metaphor), the two best, and bring it to the wine drinkers. Create a Riesling! olin sonatas. pianists will be in the front pack all the market for those wines, boasting of their Dry Rosé wines are quaffed by the carafe in The Jan. 21 concert coincides with way, Fleck says. uniqueness and their quality. This is the way the 150th anniversary of the Lafayette “Even though they are technically that I would do it, and that’s what I champi- countries all around the Mediterranean, from Spain to France, to Italy and Greece. Americans Avenue Presbyterian Church, where called the ‘violin and piano sonatas,’ the oned in the discussions and panels I participat- Friends of Chamber Music concerts pianist has an enormous amount to do.” ed in. have recently discovered the pleasures of a cold, dry Rosé, aromatic with hints of strawberries, have been held for nearly 20 years. The program includes three of The Chileans have been making remarkable with a simple sandwich or cold snacks. There “It’s the 150th anniversary of the Mozart’s greatest works: the thorough- Sauvignon Blanc for years: affordable, brightly are plenty of times when an impromptu meal of church [so] we wanted to do this ly ingratiating E-flat major sonata “K. flavored, citrusy, crisp in acidity, cleanly fla- roasted chicken from the deli along with [marathon] in their honor,” says Wan- 481” opens the afternoon’s festivities, vored and made without oak. The wine which cheese, crusty bread and a salad has been made da Fleck, co-founder of the Brooklyn with the B-flat major master- we chose as Best in Show was just such a wine, into a memorable event because of the Rosé we Friends of Chamber Music. piece “K. 454” closing the first and it beat out almost 250 other wines to win drank with it. It may surprise you to know that Like the more-famous, five-borough half. that title. It was too bad that many, if not most, the “hot” wine this summer in the A-list clubs slog, this marathon requires plenty of Finally, wrapping up the en- of the Chardonnays that we tasted were not in Manhattan and the Hamptons was a French advance planning, strategy and training tire day is the last violin sonata made in the same way. When I asked why so Rosé, Domaines Ott! Rosés like this aren’t only to avoid hitting the wall. Mozart ever composed, the A- many of the Chardonnays were so heavily “summer wines”, though: they are delicious Performers will begin playing the major sonata “K. 526,” which for oaked, highly extracted with heavy flavors and throughout the year and are a perfect bridge first six sonatas at 3 pm, followed by a all its sunny surface appeal, has a high in alcohol, I was told that it was because when you want something a bit more than a break for dinner (organizers are talking deceptively treacherous keyboard “Americans like big, oaky Chardonnay.” All white wine, but not as big as a red. No wine to restaurants near the church to ensure part which will surely test Uchi- nine of us on the panel of judges, who each lovers refrigerator should be without a bottle of audience members will get a special da’s considerable abilities. have at least 20 years experience as wine profes- Rosé... right next to the bubbly! meal deal that day). Fleck says she’s especially excited sionals, disagreed. Sparkling wines are not only for celebrating, After dinner, four more sonatas will because the violin sonatas are often Now, when you have nine experts in any and there is more to “fizz” that just be performed, followed by dessert for lost in the shuffle of Mozart’s better- field, let alone something as driven by personal Champagne! We have discovered the pleasure the audience and also the performers, known classics. taste as wine, all agreeing on something, there of sipping a fresh Prosecco with a late, last who include such Mozart mavens as “I personally love the sonatas,” must be a very good reason why... and there is. Sunday breakfast, and the way it tastes so good violinists Bella Hristova, Daniel Fleck says. “If I was going to the as a Bellini, with a splash of peach nectar added, Kahlikov and Amaury Coeytaux, and proverbial desert island with only one We Americans, or at least we wine drinking or as a Mimosa, made with fresh orange juice. pianists Thomas Muraco and Reiko Roxanna Velandria thing to listen to, it would be these Americans, are eating differently than we did Bright, lively Clairette, dry on the palate but Uchida. sonatas.” only a few years ago. We eat lighter foods, spici- loaded with ripe fruit on the nose, is so afford- er foods, more ethnically mixed foods than ever able and easily enjoyed that it has become a per- before, and the wines that go with these foods fect choice to pop open whenever company are lighter, spicier, crisper and lower in alcohol drops by. These lively tasting bubblies are won- than were the wines we drank a few years ago. derful “food wines” that you can pour and The taste of oak simply gets in the way of the enjoy with so many lighter dishes. flavors of the wine. Besides, if oak is such a The slice is right desirable flavor, why don’t Chefs use it as a fla- There are still wine writers and well known voring in their dishes? critics who still give big numbers to the mas- Once a pizza parlor, always a pizza as “very pizza parlorish, but nicer,” din- sive, highly extracted wines: those overly oaked parlor? That may be the case at 214 ers can tuck into their pies or a pasta Sauvignon Blanc, known as the “ace up the fruit bombs with 15% and 16% alcohol... but Court St., where David O’Keefe and dish such as penne in wild mushroom sleeve” to Sommeliers for its ability to compli- what do you, what can you, eat with them? his wife Lourdes have opened Layla sauce or spaghettini with artichoke ment so many dishes, has taken off. New World Wine has become an accepted part of our lives, Jones, the third pizza parlor at this loca- hearts and sun-dried tomatoes. Sauvignon, especially, with its crisp acidity, lush and drinking wine with dinner is the way that tion in “like 35 years,” he says. Salads are available in appetizer or aromas of grapefruit. Gooseberry and lime we enjoy our wine, not by sitting around and The pizzeria, named for the couple’s entrée sizes and there are also “press- leaves, have made stars of wine makers from talking about it. Wines that fit this way of life daughter Layla and son Jones, offers es,” panini-like sandwiches. Until the New Zealand, South Africa and, yes, Chile. Do are the ones that we drink, and wines that pan pizzas that O’Keefe says are “thin wine and beer license is granted, there’s you want a wine to drink with seafood? match the styles of foods that we eat are the and crisp” because they’re baked in a B.Y.O.B. policy with no corkage fee. Shellfish? Sushi or Sashimi? 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Admission is $8, $4 for seniors and students, children under 12 trend that shows no signs of slowing. are admitted for free. For information, In recent years, Egypt has drawn call (718) 638-5000 or visit the Web almost 9 million tourists annu- site at www.brooklynmuseum.org. ally, while movies like “The Mummy Returns” pulled in hundreds of millions. day,” says Bleiberg, “Today, when we The writing — whether have complete mummies, we will do in hieroglyphics or not — CAT scans to see what is inside.” is on the wall: Egypt is hot. Also showcased is a bronze stat- With a strong permanent uette of the goddess Isis. Egyptian collection but some- “It’s very beautiful,” says times-weak attendance fig- Bleiberg. “And aesthetically, I am in- ures, the Brooklyn Museum terested in it because it’s three di- hopes to tap into the mensional. I love how her arms come world’s hunger for Egypt- out to you holding the magic wand, ian icons by opening a new which is a cobra.” exhibit, “Ancient Egyptian Snakes, he explains, are another Magic: Manipulating Image, large part of Egyptian mythology, as Word and Reality.” kings used them for protection. Friday, Jan. 26, 8 pm The museum even has its “The Egyptians were very aware Grace Church own dig site at the Temple that snakes are dangerous animals,” Brooklyn Heights Precinct of the Goddess Mut at South explains Bleiberg, citing a papyrus in 254 Hicks Street Karnak in Egypt. Though, in accor- the Brooklyn Museum’s collection at Grace Court dance with Egyptian law, no objects that holds records of various medical unearthed there can leave the country. and magical treatments for snakebites. 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Ready to be Heartbroken,” ling band was capable of great which stretches out over or- things. gans and catchy guitar hooks, In its current incarnation, to the last, the 10 tracks show- Camera Obscura’s line-up in- case how Camera Obscura is cludes guitarist/vocalist Ken- much more than a twee ny McKeeve, bassist Gavin soundtrack. Dunbar, drummer Lee Thom- At first listen, “Let’s Get son and trumpet player and Camera not Out of This Country” gives a percussionist Nigel Baillie. pristinely glossed feel of pop With such a substantial group perfection, yet the underlying — the band has even been sadness shines through in seven strong in the past — it’s Campbell’s lyrical pessimism, in odes to love gone sour MUSIC (the haunting “Coun- try Mile,” in which Camera Obscura plays at the Warsaw so ‘Obscura’ at the Polish National Home (261 Driggs Campbell sings, “I Ave. between Eckford and Leonard streets won’t be seeing you in Greenpoint) on Jan. 24 at 8 pm. $15.50 Scottish sextet and their new for a long while/I in advance, $17 day of. For information, hope it’s not as long call (718) 387-0505. as a country mile/I record make first trip to Brooklyn feel lost”). The band seems to have sometimes a challenge to keep By Amy Butler the Glasgow sextet Camera breaking away from long-time matured considerably since its the touring atmosphere uni- for The Brooklyn Paper Obscura hit Polish National comparisons to fellow Glas- second full-length, and first versally positive. Home-cum-indie rock venue wegians and rainy day demi- stateside release, the critically “We get on pretty well. rooklyn’s “little Poland” the Warsaw. This is the only gods Belle and Sebastian. acclaimed 2003 disc, “Under- With six people there are [so will take on a Scottish New York stop on the Ameri- “The two bands have cer- achievers Please Try Harder,” many] different people to talk B accent on Jan. 24 when can tour supporting the band’s tainly gone in different direc- a sentimentally penned or- to, “ says Lander, adding slyly, 2006 release “Let’s Get Out of tions,” Lander said. “I think chestra of teenage heartache. “that’s the optimistic way of This Country” — and you we’re making very different In contrast, the new record looking at it.” After the show won’t be able to catch them music from each other now, keeps a measured distance in at the Warsaw, Camera Ob- Remember across the East River. and that’s just a natural pro- examining everyday losses scura will continue their “We’re quite excited,” pi- gression. We weren’t thinking and an understated longing. American tour, then will jet the most anist/organist/vocalist Carey about them when we were Afavorite of legendary across the globe to Australia Lander told GO Brooklyn, making our new record.” British DJ John Peel before and New Zealand. important adding that after three previ- Belle and Sebastian certain- his death in 2004, Camera Ob- Perhaps this sense of per- thing in ous shows in New York City, ly opened the door for their scura was included in the Peel petual motion influenced this is the band’s first in fellow indie-pop Scots to the Festive 50 — a rundown of Campbell when she penned

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Sanctuary, Orange Street, St. (718) 596-4840. Free. Election, 40th City Council District. Anger Problem.” $10. 7:30 pm to 9 Invited candidates include Joel between Hicks & Henry. (718) 624- pm. Lucky Lotus Yoga, 184 DeKalb YOGA: Noodle Yoga offers a restorative Towney, Zenobia McNally, Harry 4743. Ave. (718) 496-5514. yoga workshop. $18. 8:15 pm to 9:15 Schiffman, Jennifer James, Dr. CHORAL CONCERT: Winter concert by CAFE STEINHOF: presents “Ground- pm. 31 Washington St. Call to pre- Mathieu Eugene, Jesse Hamilton, the Park Slope Singers. Program hog Day.” (1993) 10:30 pm. 422 register. (718) 624-5525. Michelle Adolphe, Mo Razvi, ranges from the Renaissance to the Seventh Ave. (718) 369-7776. Free. Wellington Sharpe and Victor Babb. late 20th century. $10, $5 students BOURBON CLASS: LeNell’s Wine & 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. Vox Pop, 1022 and seniors. 2:30 pm. St. Saviour Spirit Boutique presents a class in TUES, JAN 23 Cortelyou Rd. (718) 940-2084. 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Carol King, Neil Sedaka, Barry BREAKFAST FORUM: Brooklyn BUSINESS TALK: CAMBA Small CAFE STEINHOF: presents music with Manilow, Comden and Green and Chamber of Commerce hosts a con- Business Services hosts “Credit River Alexander and His Mad Jazz many others. 3 pm. St. Mary’s Church, gressional forum featuring Nydia Repair and Money Management.” 10 Hatters. 10:30 pm. 422 Seventh Ave. 2326 84th St. Call for ticket info. (718) (718) 369-7776. Free. 496-2030. PLAY NOIR: “The Death of Griffin Easy being green: The Brooklyn Botanic Garden continues its education program with a look into its MUSIC: Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Hunter.” 8 pm. See Sat., Jan. 27. branch presents Jia-Yi in a program collection of dried herbarium specimens on Jan. 25. of harmonica music. 4 pm. Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. THURS, JAN 25 BARGEMUSIC: 4 pm. See Sat, Jan 27. Resource Center, 57 Willoughby St., GALLERY PLAYERS: “Dedication, or gram for young people, ages 7 to 18. EDUCATION SESSION: Professional third Floor. Reservations needed. The Stuff of Dreams.” 8 pm. See Sat., 8 pm. Brooklyn Arts Exchange, 421 CHILDREN Insurance Agents of NYS host their (718) 522-2122, ext., 343. Free Jan 27. Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. Free. YOUTHWORKS: 5 pm. See Sat, Jan 27. annual Metropolitan Awareness PLAY NOIR: “The Death of Griffin Program. Learn about how to rate METROCARD: Mobile staff on hand to assist senior citizens age 65 and older Hunter.” 8 pm. See Sat., Jan. 27. OTHER OTHER agency standards and reinsurance BROOKLYN PEACE ACTIVISTS: PLATFORM: Brooklyn Society for Ethical capacity and pricing on the NY met- and people with disabilities to obtain a Reduced Fare MetroCard. 10 am to National anti-war march on Culture presents speaker Jitu Weusi, ropolitan market. Brooklyn Marriott, Washington, D.C. Brooklyn Parents activist in the late 1960’s struggle for 333 Adams St. (800) 424-4244. 12 pm. Assemblyman William SAT, JAN 27 Colton’s Community Office, 155 Kings for Peace participate to push the new community control of schools. Title of GARDEN SERIES: Investigate the Hwy., between West 12th and West congress to act to end the Iraq war. talk is “The Community Outlook on Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s collection 13th streets. (718) 236-1598. Free. OUTDOORS AND TOURS $35. Buses leave Grand Army Plaza Public Education.” 11 am to 12:30 of dried herbarium specimens. WALKING TOUR: Mauricio Lorence at 5:45 am and return the same day. pm. 53 Prospect Park West. (718) / Tom Callan / Tom MEDITATION CLASS: Today’s topic: Registration and fee required. 10 am hosts a tour of Fort Greene, Clinton (718) 624-5921. 768-2972. to 1 pm. Brooklyn Botanic Garden, “Learning to Meditate: The Power of a Peaceful Mind.” $10. 2:45 pm to 4 Hill and Brooklyn Heights. $25. 2 pm HAIKU WORKSHOP: with Stanford M. PARTNER YOGA: Learn Thai yoga 1000 Washington Ave. (718) 623- to 5 pm. Marriott Hotel, 333 Adams Forrester, past president of the Haiku bodywork with Naomi Brisman. $50 7220. pm. Area Yoga Center, 320 Court St. (718) 496-5514. St. (718) 789-0430. Society of America. $60. 10 am to 4 per couple. 1 pm to 4 pm. Yin Yang WORKSHOP: presented by Resources pm. Zen Center of New York City, PARENTS WHO DANCE: Film: “Damen ICE SKATING: The Wollman Rink is Yoga, 748 Myrtle Ave. (718) 875- for Children with Special Needs, Inc. open. $5, $3 seniors and children. 500 State St., between Nevins and 2648. Today, “Advocacy Skills for Parents.” und Herren ab 65.” Film documents Third avenues. (718) 875-8229. a dance work by German choreogra- $5.50 skate rental. 10 am to 1 pm; 2 AUTHOR TALK: Brooklyn Public The Brooklyn Paper file The Brooklyn 10 am to 1 pm. Refreshments served. pm to 6 pm; 7 pm to 10 pm. CRAFT WORKSHOP: Brooklyn Artists Library’s Central branch presents Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn pher Pina Bausch featuring retirees Learning about bourbon: LeNell’s Wine & Spirit Boutique hosts a over the age of 65. Donations accept- Prospect Park, access through the Gym offers a crafts class on basic Winifred C. Chin, author of “Paper Heights branch, 280 Cadman Pl. Parkside/ Ocean avenues entrance or beading. $40. 2 pm to 5 pm. 168 Son.” 2 pm. Grand Army Plaza. (718) bourbon class at Jack the Horse Tavern (pictured) in Brooklyn Heights. Reservations required. (212) 677- ed. 7 pm. Berkeley Carroll School, 181 Lincoln Pl. (718) 789-6060. the Lincoln Road/ Ocean Avenue Seventh St. (718) 858-9069. 230-2100. Free. 4650. Free. entrance. (718) 287-5252. HEALTH TALK: Hibiscus Day Spa pres- RECEPTION: Group photo show at CRAFT WORKSHOP: Brooklyn Artists EXERCISE CLASS: Gentle, safe exercis- ents “How to Keep Your Thyroid es for people with arthritis. Improve Gitana Rosa Gallery. 7 pm to 10 pm. PERFORMANCE Gym offers a crafts class on needle Velazquez, Chairwoman of the US am to 4 pm. 884 Flatbush Ave. Call Healthy and Happy.” $7 includes light felting. $40. 2 pm to 5 pm. 168 House Small Business Committee. for fee info. (718) 282-2500. flexibility, balance, movement, fitness 19 Hope St. (718) 387-0115. Free. BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert refreshments. 6 pm to 8 pm. 558 and health. 10:30 am to 11:30 am. BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert Seventh St. (718) 858-9069. $35 for members. 8 am to 10 am. BRAILLE WORKSHOP: Learn how to Mozart, Platt and Grieg with Peter Halsey St. (718) 573-0831. PANEL DISCUSSION: moderated by Grand Prospect Hall, 263 Prospect read simple words and phrases in Bay Ridge Senior Center, 6935 Haydn, Stravinsky, Agosti, and Kolkay and the Amernet String FILM FEST: Kane Street Synagogue Fourth Ave. For more information call Mussorgsky with Alexander guest curator Joelle Jensen on the Ave., between Fifth and Sixth Braille. 10 am to 11 am. Helen Keller Quartet. $35, $30 seniors, $20 stu- hosts its third annual Brooklyn Israel exhibit “Mad Cow.” 4 pm. Nurtureart avenues. Reservations necessary. Services for the Blind, Parent and (718) 630-8683. Korsantia. $35, $30 seniors, $20 students. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Film Festival. Today: “The FREEBIRD BOOKS: presents a reading dents. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Gallery, 910 Grand St., Second Floor. (718) 875-1000 ext., 105. Early Education Resource Center, 57 Old Fulton Street at the East River. Ashkenazim,” “39 Pounds of Love” (718) 782-7755. Free with poets Tom Sleigh, Sara London Old Fulton Street at the East River. (718) 624-2083. STORY YOGA: Kids learn yoga move- Willoughby St., third floor. Reservations and “Out of Sight.” $10 per film. 8 MEDITATION CLASS: Today’s topic: and Martha Rhodes. 7 pm. 123 (718) 624-2083. GALLERY PLAYERS: presents ments and breathing exercises while required. (718) 522-2122, ext., 343. pm. 236 Kane St. (718) 875-1550. “Angry Mind, Ugly Life: Solving Our Columbia St. (718) 643-8484. Free. ONE WORLD SYMPHONY: presents “Dedication, or The Stuff of Dreams,” listening to a read-aloud. 3:30 pm. Free. Anger Problem.” $10. 7:30 pm to 9 Brooklyn Public Library’s Park Slope BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert “Samson et Delila.” $40, $30 stu- by Terrence McNally. $18, $14 chil- SUPPORT: Lutheran Medical Center pm. Lucky Lotus Yoga, 184 DeKalb branch, Sixth Avenue at Ninth Street. Bach, Bartok, Scriabin, Liszt with dents and seniors. 8 pm. St. Ann and dren and seniors. 8 pm. 199 14th St. presents a stroke recovery support SUN, JAN 28 Ave. (718) 496-5514. Call for more information. (718) 832- Daria Rabotkina. $35, $30 seniors, the Holy Trinity, 157 Montague St. (212) 352-3101. group. Noon to 1:30 pm. 150 55th CAFE STEINHOF: presents “The Royal 1853. St. Call for info. (718) 630-8221. $20 students. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry oneworldsymphony.org. FACULTY SHOWCASE: Brooklyn- Landing, Old Fulton Street at the OUTDOORS AND TOURS Tenenbaums” (2001) 10:30 pm. 422 HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS: Enjoy an MARKETING WORKSHOP: Author, GOOD COFFEEHOUSE: hosts a Night Queens Conservatory of Music pres- afternoon with entertainment and East River. (718) 624-2083. Of Magic. $15. 8 pm. Brooklyn ents Jinah Park and Theresa Rosas. FORT GREENE TRIVIA: Learn about Seventh Ave. (718) 369-7776. Free. entrepreneur and management con- Fort Greene’s history with the Urban FILM FEST: Kane Street Synagogue bagel buffet. 1 pm. Kingsbay YM- sultant Andre Taylor leads a work- FILM FEST: Kane Street Synagogue Society for Ethical Culture, 53 $10, $5 seniors and students. 8 pm. YWHA, 3495 Nostrand Ave. Call for hosts its third annual Brooklyn Israel Prospect Park West. (718) 965-8490. 58 Seventh Ave. (718) 622-3300. Park Rangers. 1 pm. Fort Greene hosts Brooklyn Israel Film Festival. 7 shop “Breakthrough Marketing.” Film Festival. Today: “The Park, Visitor’s Center, near Myrtle pm. See Sat., Jan 27. information, (718) 648-7703, ext. 226. $55. 3 pm to 5 pm. South Oxford CHORAL PERFORMANCE: The Brook- PLAY NOIR: Inverse Theater presents WINE TASTING: Meet the vintners of Ashkenazim,” “39 Pounds of Love” lyn Conservatory presents Vivaldi’s “The Death of Griffin Hunter.” $18. 8 Space, 138 S. Oxford St. (516) 365- and “Out of Sight.” $10 per film. 8 Napa Valley. 6 pm to 8 pm. Red, 1584. “Gloria.” Also, madrigals sung in pm. Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan White and Bubble, 211 Fifth Ave. pm. 236 Kane St. (718) 875-1550. Italian, French, English, and Spanish. Ave. (646) 552-4754. (718) 636-WINE. Free. PLAY NOIR: “The Death of Griffin $10, $5, children are free. 8 pm. Brook- BROOKLYN BURLESQUE: Producers Hunter.” 8 pm. See Sat., Jan. 27. BUSINESS SEMINAR: CAMBA Small WED, JAN 24 lyn-Queens Conservatory of Music, Wasabassco, Pinchbottom, Sweet and LIST YOUR EVENT… Business Services hosts “Taking Care 58 Seventh Ave. (718) 622-3300. Nasty and Kissing Cousins present a To list your event in Nine Days In Brooklyn, please give us two weeks notice or more. of Business” seminar. 6 pm to 9 pm. SMALL BUSINESS SEMINAR: Hosted BROOKLYN BURLESQUE: Producers bombardment of local performers to Send your listing by e-mail: [email protected]; by mail: GO Brooklyn, The Mondays and Wednesdays through by the Brooklyn Chamber of FRI, JAN 26 Wasabassco, Pinchbottom, Sweet and tease and tempt. $15. 9 pm. North March 28. 884 Flatbush Ave. Call for Commerce. Topic: “I’m a Business Nasty and Kissing Cousins present a Six, 66 N. Sixth St. (718) 463-7227. Brooklyn Paper, 55 Washington St., Suite 624, Brooklyn, NY 11201; or by fax: (718) fee info. (718) 282-2500. Owner, Now Where’s My Life?” $10, LEARN SIGN LANGUAGE: at Helen bombardment of local performers to 834-9278. Listings are free and printed on a space available basis. We regret we can- free for members. 8:30 am to 10 am. Keller Services for the Blind. 10 am to tease and tempt. $15. 9 pm. South- CHILDREN not take listings over the phone. WINTER CONCERT: Edward R. Murrow 11:30 am. Parent and Early Education High School hosts the ensemble and Breakfast served. Brooklyn Business paw, 125 Fifth Ave. (718) 230-0236. YOUTHWORKS: A performance pro-

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The Morning Pages, Miss Ohio, 8 pm, $10; open mic night, 9 pm, FREE. 25: Adam Snyder, 9 pm, Phineas and the Jan. 23: Union Hall Spelling & Grammar Bee, Lonely Leaves, 10 pm, FREE; Jan. 26: Drayton Uncle Paulie’s 8 pm, FREE; Jan. 24: American Minor, The Galapagos Michaels, 9 pm, FDR a.k.a. Felix McTeigue, 10 Nightlife 408 Greenpoint Ave. at Grandparents Jones Street Boys, 8 pm, $7; Jan. 26: The Early 70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in pm, T. Griffin Coraline, 11 pm, FREE; Jan. 27: Compiled by Chiara V. Cowan Avenue in Greenpoint, (718) 383-2411. Years, Daylights for the Birds, The Cush, 8 pm, Williamsburg, (718) 782-5188, Jenifer Jackson, 9 pm, Society Beat, 10 pm, Jan. 26: An Albatross, The Fugue, These are $8; Jan. 27: The Jealous Girlfriends, The Films, www.galapagosartspace.com. Mike Lorenz, 11 pm, FREE. Powers, Best Fwends, 8 pm, $TBD. Man in Gray, 8 pm, $8. Fridays: VJ/DJ Friday Nights, 10 pm, FREE; BAY RIDGE Hill, (718) 398-8900, www.granddakar.com. 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Kelly (At Freddy’s) 485 Dean St. at Sixth Avenue nied by the jazz guitar of Noboru, 8 pm), FREE; Jan. 20: Surf & Turf with Brian & Paul, 11 pm, Parlor Jazz 376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park Slope, Sing-a-long,” 8:30 pm, $5, (Front room) SMUT, in Prospect Heights, (718) 622-7035, Wednesdays: “JAMstain,” an informal open FREE; Jan. 27, Amo, 11 pm, FREE. 119 Vanderbilt Ave. at Myrtle Avenue in Clin- (718) 965-9177, www.barbesbrooklyn.com. 8 pm, FREE, Monday Night Burlesque presents www.freddysbackroom.com. mic hosted by singers/songwriters, 9 pm, FREE; ton Hill, (718) 855-1981, www.parlorjazz.com. Sundays: Stephanie Wrembel, 9 pm, $8 sug- Amber Ray presenting “Let’s Misbehave: A Jan. 20: Wine Cooler, 9:30 pm, Deal Breaker, Jan. 20: Guy Trio, 10 pm, FREE; Jan. 21: The Salty Dog Jan. 20: Pastor, Ryan & Hall, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, gested donation; Tuesdays: Slavic Soul Party, 9 Cole Porter Tribute,” 9:30 pm, $5; Jan. 24: Sunday Salon, 7 pm, FREE; Jan. 22: Lily Maase, $20. pm, $10; Jan. 20: Daniel Colin & Dominique 10:30 pm, Alicia Levy, 11:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 7509 Third Ave. at 75th Street in Bay Ridge, (Backroom) Future Shorts, 8 pm, (Front room) Jangeun Bae and guests, 10 pm, FREE; Jan. Cravic (Paris Musette), 8 pm, $8 suggested 21: World Music with Ljova, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. Love Ahoy!, 7:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 25: (Back- (718) 238-9260, www.saltydogbar.com. 22: Jazz with The Karl Walters Jr. Trio, 9 pm, 25: John Glass Trio, 8 pm, Va Va China, 10 pm, Reign donation, The Jack Grace Band, 10 pm, $8 room) Fay Victor CD Release Party, 10:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 26: Singer/Songwriter Night with Wednesdays: Karaoke Night, 9 pm, FREE; suggested donation; Jan. 21: Reuben Rad- FREE; Jan. 23: Music From the New York 46 Washington Ave. at Flushing Avenue in $12 (includes copy of CD), (Front room) Rob Ryan Chatelain, Jonathan Hougton, Peter Cata- Jan. 25: Atomic Dog, 10:30 pm, FREE. ding’s The Book of Questions, 5:30 pm, $8 Underground “On the way Out,” 9 pm, FREE; Clinton Hill, (718) 643-7344, Cantrell and the Superfriends, 7:30 pm, $5, “Le pano, Pete Sikowski, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 27: Lily suggested donation, Hang the Lights, 7 pm, Jan. 24: Vanilla Sativa, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 25: www.myspace.com/reignlounge. Petit Mort,” 10:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 26: (Front Maase, Jangeun Bae, and guests, 10 pm, FREE. The Wicked Monk $8 suggested donation; Jan. 22: Las Rubias Cabaret Rock and The Atomic Burlesque Saturdays: “Your Space Saturdays” with DJ room) Broken Land Release Debut Album, 8415 Fifth Ave. at 84th Street in Bay Ridge, del Norte, 10 pm, $8 suggested donation; Show, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 26: The New York Hud, 11 pm, FREE before 12:30 am, $20 after 7:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 27: The Looseness with (718) 921-0601, www.wickedmonk.com. Jan. 23: Malamute, 7 pm, $8 suggested dona- Guitar Fest with Chris Forsyth, 9 pm, Brandon Trash Bar 12:30 am. music by DJ Sergio Vega, hosted by Eddie Jan. 20: Sister Venus, 8 pm, Green Machine, 11 tion; Jan. 24: Local Lingo, 8 pm, $10, Joe Seabrook, 10 pm, Mary Halvorson, 11 pm, Bernard, and a performance by La Gata Negra, 256 Grand St. at Driggs Avenue in Williams- pm, $5; Jan. 21: Open Mic with Joe Walz, 9 pm, Morris Quintet, 10 pm, $10; Jan. 25: Jerome Take a ‘Bow’: Bow Thayer cele- FREE; Jan. 27: The New York Guitar Fest with 10 pm, FREE. burg, (718) 599-1000, www.thetrashbar.com. FREE; Jan. 25: Dirty Jersey, 9 pm, $5; Jan. 26: Sputnik Sabbagh Quartet, 8 pm, $8 suggested dona- Ecstasy Mule, 9 pm, Clifton Hyde, 10 pm, Spin- Jan. 20: I’m in You, 10 pm, Elizabeth Harper Almost Famous, 9 pm, DJ “Eric,” 11 pm, $5; 262 Taaffe Pl. at DeKalb Avenue in Clinton tion, Ansambl Mastika, 10 pm, $8 suggested brates the release of his new 17, 11 pm, FREE. Laila Lounge and the Matinee, 11 pm, The Isles, Midnight, Jan. 27: Holla Back, 9 pm, DJ “Kyle,” 11 pm, $5. Hill, (718) 398-6666, www.barsputnik.com. donation; Jan. 26: Curtis Eller’s American $7; Jan. 21: Thee Mindshots, 9 pm, Someday record, “Spend it All,” on Jan. 113 N. Seventh St. at Wythe Avenue in Saturdays: Afrokinetic with DJs Chris Annibell Circus, 8 pm, $8 suggested donation, The Never, 10 pm, Amoroso, 11 pm, Master and 22 at Union Hall. Opening acts RED HOOK Williamsburg, (718) 486-6791, Margarita, Midnight, $6; Jan. 22: Trouble and Amon, 9 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: DJ Dick Wiyos, 10 pm, $8 suggested donation; Jan. www.lailalounge.com. BEDFORD-STUYVESANT 27: Steve Dollar celebrate the release of his Bound, 8 pm, Flavor of the Sun, 9 pm, Smyer, Burroughs, 9 pm, FREE; Thursdays: DJ Nicole will be the Morning Pages and Mondays: Karaoke, 10 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: new book “Jazz Guide NYC: Second Edition,” The Hook 10 pm, Brutus Bones, 11 pm, $6; Jan. 23: Leone, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 26: Manjinga, 9 pm, $7. Bluegrass Tuesday, 9 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Food 4 Thought 6 pm, $8 suggested donation, Timothy Dick, 8 Miss Ohio. 18 Commerce St. at Columbia Street in Coocoo Savante, 8 pm, Boulevard, 9 pm, $5; Jezebel Music Showcase with an open mic, 445 Marcus Garvey Blvd. at MacDonough pm, $8 suggested donation, The Mandingo Red Hook, (718) 797-3007, Jan. 24: DJ Mojo presents Live Girls, 8 pm, The 7:30 pm, Live music, 8:30 pm, FREE; Fridays: Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 443-4160. FLATBUSH Ambassadors, 9 pm, $8 suggested donation. www.thehookmusic.com. Cummies, 9 pm, Class, 10 pm, The Chairman Saturdays: Open Mic, 9 pm, $6; Mondays: Fade Jan. 20: Emergenza Festival with Johnny OHM and special guests, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 20: Race, 11 pm, Kickstart, Midnight, $6; Jan. 25: (718) 788-2830. to Black Mondays a.k.a. Movie Night, 8 pm, Cornerstone Pub Beehive, 8:30 pm, Travesty, 9 pm, Stackin Jenny Martin and Foldable Hearts, 9 pm, Autoharp, 8 pm, Nema, 9 pm, Abigail War- Cafe Steinhof Jan. 20: Seung-Hee Quartet, 9:30 pm (two James Apollo, 10 pm, $TBD; Jan. 26: Jon FREE; Wednesdays: Game Night, 7 pm, FREE. 1502 Cortelyou Rd. at Marlborough Road Apples, 9:30 pm, Apophenia, 10 pm, The child, 10 pm, Clouds, 11 pm, Rise NYC, 427 Seventh Ave. at 14th Street in Park Slope, sets), $5 suggested donation; Jan. 22: Zack Tomlinson, 9 pm, Swagg, 10 pm, DJ Fat Tony, in Flatbush, (718) 940-9037, Fearless, 10:30 pm, Captain to Copilot, 11:30 Midnight, $6; Jan. 26: The Underthings, 9 pm, (718) 369-7776, www.cafesteinhof.com. Brock Trio, 8:30 pm (two sets), $5 suggested 11 pm, $TBD; Jan. 27: Squirrels From Hell, 10 www.cornerstonepub.com. pm, $15; Jan. 26: Emergenza Festival with Z The Golden Error, 9:45 pm, Imaginary Icons, Solomon’s Porch Jan. 24: The Traditional Jazz Collective, 10:30 donation; Jan. 23: Kelsey Jillette Trio, 8:30 pm pm, $TBD. Nuff Starr/Blockstarz Entertainment, 7 pm, The 10:30 pm, The Woods, 11:30 pm, $7; Jan. 27: 307 Stuyvesant Ave. at Halsey Street in Saturdays: Alegba & Friends, 9 pm, FREE pm, FREE. (two sets), $5 suggested donation; Jan. 25: Nox Curve, 7:30 pm, Kill for This, 8 pm, Smackfactor, Baptized X Fire, 9 pm, Big Daddy Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 919-8001. (donation suggested); Tuesdays: Dan Pratt Shayna Steele, 8:30 pm (two sets), $5 suggest- Stephanie White and the NJ Philthharmonic, The Lucky Cat Project, 10 pm, The Ordinary, 11 pm, Tunnels Tuesdays: Open mic, 8 pm, $5 (ladies FREE Quartet, 9 pm, FREE (donation suggested); Cattyshack ed donation; Jan. 26: Cosmo D, 7 pm, Akiko before 10 pm). Thursdays: Stephane Wrembel, 8:30 pm, FREE. 8:30 pm, Digital Frontier, 9 pm, Tina Vero, 9:30 245 Grand St. at Roebling Street in Williams- to Holland, Midnight, $7. 249 Fourth Ave. at Carroll Street in Park Pavolka, 10 pm, $5 suggested donation; Jan. burg, (718) 782-0437, www.theluckycat.com. 27: Sara Caswell Quartet, 9:30 pm, $5 sug- pm, Heavysurf, 10 pm, Bingblingblang, 10:30 Slope, (718) 230-5740, pm, $15; Jan. 27: Emergenza Festival with Tuesdays: Jezebel Music Open Mic Night Union Pool Vox Po p www.cattyshackbklyn.com. gested donation. BOERUM HILL Lady Panic, 7 pm, Elastic Pyramid, 7:30 pm, hosted by Dave Cuomo, 7 pm, FREE; Jan. Hot 484 Union Ave. at Meeker Avenue in 1022 Cortelyou Road at Stratford Road in Saturdays: Shack 249 with DJs BK Brewster, Drawing Down the Moon, 8 pm, Split Popcorn featuring Binky Griptite & The Williamsburg, (718) 609-0484, Hank’s Saloon Flatbush, (718) 940-2084, Daryl Raymond, and more, 10 pm, $5, $7 after Puppet’s Jazz Bar Melomatics, 10 pm, $TBD; Jan. 25: Who Put www.voxpopnet.net. Personality, 8:30 pm, The Johns, 9 pm, www.myspace.com/unionpool. 46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue in Boerum 11 pm; Mondays: Chump Change, 10 pm, 284 Fifth Ave. at First Street in Park Slope, Morning Star, 9:30 pm, Sherman and Greg, 10 the Bad Mouth on Me, 9 pm, Radom Party with Sundays: Open mic, 7 pm, FREE with 2- FREE; Tuesdays: Trivia Night, 7 pm, FREE; (718) 499-2627. Jan. 21: Stephonik and the Bright Side, My Hill, (718) 625-8003, www.hankssaloon.com. pm, Paul Cole and his Beautiful Big Band, Moist Paula, 11 pm, $TBD; Jan. 26: El Michaels Teenage Stride, Limbs, PrintXX, 8 pm, $TBD; drink/snack minimum; Jan. 20: The Buffalo Wednesdays: Karaoke with Sherry Vine, 9 pm, Jan. 20: Arturo O’Farrill, 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Sundays: Shotgun Shack, 6 pm, Sean Kershaw 10:30 pm, $15. Affair & DJ Daniel of ESP Productions, 10 pm, Jan. 25: Boy Scout Recordings (Tummy Touch Poets, 6 pm, Satchel Jones & Friends, 8 pm, FREE ($2 after 10 pm), Oink Boys Party (ladies Midnight, $5; Jan. 22: Jaime Aff Session, 9:15 and the New Jack Ramblers, 10 pm, FREE; $TBD; Jan. 27: DJs Carter Van Pelt & Ticklah, Records) Label Showcase, 8 pm, FREE; Jan. 27: Barbara McKay, 10 pm, $TBD; Jan. 25: Ari welcome with sexy boys), 10 pm, $5; Thurs- pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, $5; Jan. 23: Sam Wednesdays: Mobscenity, 10 pm, FREE; Jan. 11 pm, $TBD. Early Years, Major Stars, Mahogany, 8 pm, $TBD. 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National (At the Brooklyn Academy of Music) 30 Lightning Bolt, Alger Hiss, 9 pm, $10; Jan. 22: 295 Douglass St. at Third Avenue in Park 125 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Park Anyway Cafe (Downstairs) Pineblender, Monark, 9 pm, $8; Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort Slope, (212) 631-5882, Slope, (718) 230-0236, Restaurant Greene, (718) 636-4100 www.bam.org. 1602 Gravesend Neck Rd. at East 16th Jan. 26: Callum Robbins Benefit Show with Zebulon Café www.schoolforimprov.org. www.spsounds.com. Ted Leo, Medications, The Forms, Last Letters, 273 Brighton Beach Ave. at Brighton Jan. 20: Tea Party records presents DJ Ian Street in Sheepshead Bay, (718) 934-5988, 258 Wythe Ave. at Metropolitan Avenue in Jan. 25: Open Jam Session, 8 pm, $7. Jan. 20: Get L*A*I*D, a queer dance party of 9 pm, $15; Jan. 27: Wasabasco, Pinchbottom, Second Street in Brighton Beach, (718) Friday and Manchildblack, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. www.anywaycafe.com. 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OUR OPINION ALL DRAWN OUT ‘Barclays’ has a bad ring

RUCE RATNER HAS STABBED HIS bear the Barclays name. Those who downplay the significance of black supporters in the back. Councilwoman Letitia James — an Atlantic having the Barclays name atop a publicly sub- B The Atlantic Yards developer’s arena Yards opponent who is black — saw the signif- sidized arena that African-Americans will walk naming-rights deal with Barclays, the British icance immediately, saying that Ratner’s deal past every day — and where African-Ameri- bank whose history includes funding the slave insulted blacks. cans will earn their living, both on the court and trade and doing business with South Africa’s “[Blacks] were just tools used by Ratner to in the concessions stands — should put them- apartheid government, is a stunning insult by a get this project passed,” she said. selves in the shoes of the descendents of the man who has so aggressively courted the sup- It’s further insulting when you consider that slaves that Barclays family members once trad- port of black leaders over the past three years. many project supporters have urged Ratner to ed as property. Whenever Ratner needed to show that his name the arena after a truly great African- Naming an arena after a slave-trading family oversized, gentrification-causing Atlantic Yards American whose contributions to Brooklyn are is a slap in the face, akin to a developer build- project would be a good deal for Brooklyn, he still being felt: Jackie Robinson. ing an arena in Borough Park — with its high trotted out those usual suspects, many of whom But that wouldn’t have earned Ratner any population of Holocaust survivors — and nam- he paid, to sing his praises. money, let alone the hundreds of millions he’ll ing it “Volkswagen Field.” Yet now — a few weeks after his project pocket from the Barclays deal, so you know It is time for elected officials, most of whom gained state approval, and a few days after a where that idea ended up. enabled Ratner’s use of racial politics through- national holiday to honor Martin Luther King, That an old, established, global bank has out the Atlantic Yards approval process, to Jr. — Ratner has trashed whatever legitimate some skeletons in its closet should not surprise stand up for blacks, for history, for integrity good will he might have had in the black com- anyone. But the particular nature of Barclays and, indeed, for all of Brooklyn and urge Bruce munity by announcing that his arena would skeletons should have given Ratner pause. Ratner to find another corporate partner. Cristian Fleming

LETTERS Borough Prez was right, The Paper IS biased!

To the editor, the way) had to be forcibly ejected from the fraining from divisive and sensationalist ele- 107 back in the 1970s. I realize Prospect Park taxpayers have our own wish list for mem- In a recent issue, Borough President Mar- room after she failed to heed the moderator’s ments in its editorial comments. is close, but passing the garden every day bers of the New York State Legislature. Opting out of kowitz accused The Brooklyn Paper of being calls for decorum. Yet The Brooklyn Paper Selah Eric Spruiell, Clinton Hill was our connection to the seasons. Now, 30 For 20 of the past 22 years, the Legislature biased in its reporting of the Atlantic Yards failed to emphasize the boorishness of the Editor’s note: Our use of the terms “thugs” years later, when I pass the garden, I think of couldn’t even pass a balanced budget on project (“Marty’s humble opinion,” Dec. 30). anti-project demonstrators using the relative- and “nerds” had no racial connotations, but my kids and those daily walks and those tiny time. Adding insult to injury, this is after vot- home delivery I totally concur with the borough president, ly benign term “nerds” to describe them. was merely a reflection of the various groups’ moments of peace. And yes, it’s still the first ing themselves healthy salary increases sev- demeanor at the Aug. 23 hearing. But for the Every week, we deliver copies of but I would like to add that this paper has During the course of this community debate, place I see the flowers in spring. eral years ago, along with all the lulus, record, former Assemblyman Roger Green The Brooklyn Paper to homes also engaged in race-baiting. DDDB members referred to Bertha Lewis as a The lead article in the same issue (“94 bonuses for chairing committees, day-to-day In your editorial following Atlantic Yards “whore.” I myself was called a “thug” by was convicted of filing false travel expense meal expense accounts and reimbursement throughout Brownstone Brooklyn. forms with the state. years old and homeless”) tells the poignant Our unique system limits deliveries to public hearing on Aug. 23, you referred to the prominent members of the DDDB, a term that story of the elderly man being evicted from for travel to and from Albany. just a few papers per building (elimi- opponents of the project as “nerds” and the was both racist and sexist in its application. his Carroll Gardens apartment. Legislators average only three days per week nating the kind of clutter caused by supporters of the project as “thugs.” Those of us who support the Ratner plan I don’t expect the same level of sympathy when in session. There are many weeks when circular and menu delivery services). Garden green As an African-American who has resided are good people with good intentions who To the editor, for our loss, but like him, we are victims of they don’t even have to travel to Albany, as they We hope everyone appreciates in Clinton Hill for 14 years and has lived in want to see much-needed jobs and affordable Thank you for your writing about the gar- our own efforts in saving and improving this are not in session. Many members even hold our free home delivery, but realize Brooklyn all his life, I remain particularly ap- housing made available to minorities, women once-neglected neighborhood. It was our down second outside jobs! How about working there are exceptions to every rule. den on the corner of Tenth Street and Eighth palled at that. and low- to moderate-income working peo- Avenue (“Rev Liz speaks: Garden must go,” fight and sweat that got us to this point. full-time — and paying for your own meals and If you’ve received The Paper at During that hearing and at others before it, ple. We who support the project simply don’t As I said, I am happier that you are writing travel to and from work like the rest of us? home and no longer want this Jan. 13, Park Slope Edition). members of anti-project groups have been accept that the Ratner plan won’t achieve Your columnist’s point of view comes about it instead of it disappearing unmen- State legislators should tell us how many free service, you may “opt out” of unruly, disruptive and insulting [while] pro- this. We do not agree, as you claim, “that At- tioned, but please don’t slander our motiva- hours and days they actually worked in Al- our delivery program by filling through loud and clear, but I find it sad that project groups have had to be equally aggres- lantic Yards will actually increase the gentri- you felt it necessary to paint the opposition to tions. Mitch Freidlin, Park Slope bany, detail sources of outside income and the out the online form at BrooklynPa- sive in order to compete with the anti-project fication that drives out low-income residents amount of time they spend on their outside per.com/html/about/optout.html the sale of the garden — i.e. the loss of the groups’ lack of candor and decorum. and create mostly minimum-wage jobs that green space — as opposing the mission of jobs, how much they spent on meals (does Members of Develop Don’t Destroy keep them in poverty.” the church. Just because columnist Nica Lalli Selfish pols your boss pay for breakfast, lunch or dinner Brooklyn and other anti-project groups re- Most of us don’t want to just give Ratner a sympathizes with Rev. Liz Alexander and her To the editor, during the course of a regular work day?), Send a letter peatedly jeered the Rev. Herbert Daughtry, a free pass. We agree that there has to be mod- mission doesn’t make it right to ascribe venal I found it very instructive to read the reso- how much they spent traveling from home to By mail: Letters Editor, The Brooklyn man who has repeatedly demonstrated his erations to the project, that certain aspects will motivations to others. I am personally hurt lutions of politicians (“Resolution revolu- Albany and back (does your employer pay for Paper, 55 Washington St., Brooklyn, commitment to social justice; Assemblyman have to be downsized and mitigated. But we and offended that she took that tack. tion,” Dec. 30). They seem to be divided into your commute from home to work on a daily NY 11201. By fax: (718) 834-9278. Roger Green; and other pro-project speakers. do not believe that the best way to achieve We have debated the possibility of raising those who focus on personal objectives basis?) along with a detailed list of all their By e-mail: [email protected] They called Roger Green a criminal, yet this this is through the unreasonable, obstruction- money from the neighborhood to match the (weight loss, svelte figure) and those who fo- “pay to play” campaign contributions. Most observers of state government would All letters must be signed and paper castigated Green for defending himself ist, divisive and very often racist tactics that developer’s price, or to have the state provide cus on community betterment (children, en- include the writer’s home address against boorish behavior. the anti-project folks seem to be employing. funds from its park acquisition fund (“park,” ergy, hospitals, land use). argue that members of the legislature should and phone number (only the writer’s I, too, have had my differences with Roger This “All or nothing, you are with us or mind you, not “pork,” as an earlier article Some could be considered self-congratula- consume a lot less of their own political pork! name and neighborhood are pub- Green, but I tell you, I was never prouder of against us” posture has gotten real old, real fast suggested). tory like Mayor Bloomberg’s. Interesting! How about passing a balanced budget on time him than at that moment when he stood up and has rapidly turned off people of good will. — minus the hundreds of millions of dollars lished with the letter). Letters may In either case, the church would still re- Natalie Burrows, Cobble Hill be edited and will not be returned. against that crowd. The Brooklyn Paper can help to mitigate ceive the money. Yet your article made us of member item pork-barrel projects designed The earlier in the week you send During the hearing, an anti-project partici- some of these divisive elements by attempt- look mean and petty. To the editor, to grease the future wheels of reelection. your letter, the better. pant sitting next to me (a long time friend, by ing to engage in balanced reporting and in re- I can remember walking my kids to P.S. Your resolution article reminded me that Larry Penner, Great Neck, New York FAMILY MEDICINE TRAVEL IMMUNIZATIONS

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