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By Deborah Kolben committee recommendation, street signs cret passages and safe houses that came to on the Queens border, have already en- The Brooklyn Papers would read both Fulton Street and Harriet be known as the Underground Railroad, dorsed a name change. Tubman Boulevard along the Fulton Mall passed by a vote of 8-1, with one absten- The vote followed two years of discus- A Community Board 2 committee commercial strip from Adams Street to tion, and will come before the full board sion, a series of public hearings and a few voted Tuesday to rename most of Ful- Flatbush Avenue. From Flatbush Avenue for a vote at its Nov. 12 meeting. incendiary racial exchanges, some of which Callan / Tom ton Street to “Harriet Tubman Boule- to Classon Avenue it would bear just the Community Boards 3, 5 and 16, whose spilled over Tuesday night in the meeting at vard,” after the Underground Railroad Tubman name. communities are largely black and which the New York City College of Technology. pioneer, with the provision that the street The motion to rename Fulton Street in also share the majority of the nine-mile “I’m exuberant but exhausted,” said be co-named in Downtown Brooklyn. honor of Tubman, who led more than 300 thoroughfare that runs from Adams Street Fred Laverpool, the founder of Braggin’ Under the Traffic and Transportation slaves to freedom through the series of se- in Downtown Brooklyn to Cypress Hills About Brooklyn, a company that pro- Papers The Brooklyn motes tours of black historic sites in New Wendy Aibel-weiss, vice president of education and programs at the Brooklyn York City, who was among the key com- Historical Society, displays a map of Brooklyn from 1913, which shows the dif- munity leaders fighting for the issue. ferent types of industry the borough hosted back then. Laverpool, who was accompanied by activists from the Committee to Honor Black Heroes, packed the committee meeting and there was no lack of tension Monty St. Shuffle as the group of mostly white committee members hashed out the issue between History lives themselves and with the Tubman support- ers. Gap moving to Walden, yet another Rx Transportation Committee Chairwom- Historical Society an Nancy Wolf ruled with a heavy hand By Deborah Kolben as tensions flared in the college classroom. re-opens in Heights The Brooklyn Papers A comment by board member Bill Harris that Tubman “had nothing to do By Deborah Kolben Stores along Montague Street have been with Brooklyn,” set off proponents of the The Brooklyn Papers opening and closing these days faster than you naming who told Harris he had “no idea can say “clearance sale.” what he was talking about.” The Brooklyn Historical Society The newest development is that longtime stalwart Committee member Kenn Lowy has finally returned home to its his- Waldenbooks, at the corner of Montague and Henry stepped up to say that Tubman’s relation- toric Brooklyn Heights digs, at streets, will be shutting its doors for good after Christmas. ship to Brooklyn was irrelevant and noted Pierrepont and Clinton streets, fol- But that’s not the only change. that plenty of historical figures, including lowing a major four-year renovation. Callan / Tom The Gap will be moving down the street, a new Ital- Martin Luther King Jr., had streets named The five-story landmarked building, ian restaurant is opening, MAC Cosmetics is coming Callan / Tom after them even though they didn’t live in completed in 1881 and designed by promi- to the strip, and modern furniture retailer Design With- Brooklyn. nent architect George Post — who later in Reach (DWR) will be opening its first Brooklyn The street renaming issue has been went on to design the New York Stock Ex- store in the Anchor building between Hicks Street and pulling at the seams of the already con- change — was in dire need of a facelift. Papers The Brooklyn Columbia Terrace early next month. tentious community board for two years. Years of neglect and a series of additions BHS President Jessie McClintock Kelly
With Waldenbooks moving out, the Gap, now locat- Papers The Brooklyn Demographically, CB2 is an economi- including an ill-placed elevator that outside the BHS building Wednesday. ed just half a block away in the mostly vacant, 16,000- The Montague Mews, at the corner of Henry Street, will soon lose cally and racially diverse district encom- blocked a stained-glass skylight, were See SHUFFLE on page 6 the Gap, which will move across Henry to the Waldenbooks space. See FULTON ST on page 5 among the major blights, according to Bud Motzkin, director of architecture for Jan Hird Pokorny Associates, the firm hired to lead the building’s upgrade. INSIDE THE PAPER A 600-seat auditorium was also obliter- ated during World War I, when the space Classifieds ...... GO 6-8 was turned into a Red Cross headquarters. GO Brooklyn 8 pages . . . . . follows page 4 P’Park keeps cops thru Nov. Standing inside the impressive, two-lev- Home Improvement ...... GO 8 el library, now retrofitted with gold and Health, Mind & Body...... page 6 The Brooklyn Papers commanding officer of Patrol Borough The Summer Park Detail provides ex- frosted glass lamps made to resemble the Parent ...... page 4 Following a spate of highly publi- Brooklyn South, which includes the tra patrols from May to mid-October original gas lighting, Brooklyn Historical Police ...... page 3 cized attacks in Prospect Park, includ- 78th Precinct. and was set to expire. Under that pro- Society President Jessie McClintock Kelly Real Estate ...... GO 6 “In the wake of some of the incidents gram, in operation since the early 1980s, called the renovations “long and meticu- ing an attempted daytime rape and two there has been quite a bit of community Brooklyn South officers are reassigned lous” and said she was excited to see the muggings, the extra security detail concerns. The chief wanted to make the to patrol areas such as Prospect Park and project nearing completion. Online at assigned to patrol the park throughout people who utilize Prospect Park feel a Coney Island, which are more heavily While the building will officially open to www.BrooklynPapers.com the summer months will remain on little bit more secure,” said Deputy In- traversed during the warmer months. the public on Sunday, Oct. 26, the library Hear our editors and reporters discuss the news into November. spector Edward Mullen, commanding During the fall and winter, the 78th will not be ready until June.
every week in EDITORIAL ROUNDTABLE That decision was made earlier this officer of the 78th Precinct, which in- Precinct normally has a 12-officer park The extensive collection — which in- Historical Society Brooklyn month by Assistant Chief Joseph Fox, cludes the 526-acre park. See PARK COPS on page 5 See HISTORY on page 7 A refurbished viking head. Truckers despise new Hook routes By Deborah Kolben tract to be the sole juice and The Brooklyn Papers soft drink provider to all city schools and city build- Snapple may be the ings — $40 million of that city’s beverage of choice contract is guaranteed as but if a new Red Hook payment to the Department truck route proposal of Education, according to goes into effect, the the mayor’s office — has company says it will been operating its New have to pack up shop York City distribution cen- and move its distribution ter out of 212 Wolcott St. in headquarters out of the Red Hook for the past 20 Big Apple. years. / Greg Mango / Greg “They’re driving us out,” Each day more than 250 said Snapple Vice President trips are made from the of Operations Igor Kats- Snapple warehouse deliver- man. ing to bodegas, grocery The city Department of stores and vending ma-
The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Transportation (DOT) pro- chines across the city. posal, the culmination of a Katsman said the new three-year study, eliminates Callan / Tom truck route proposal would Columbia Street and north- make it near impossible for Brooklyn over eats bound traffic on Van Brunt his drivers to complete the Restaurateur Joe Chirico (left), owner of Marco Polo in Carroll Gardens and Gage and Tollner Street from the designated pickups in a reasonable Downtown, helps chef Franco Insingo and waiter Carlos Taveres serve fettuccine tossed in a truck routes and adds amount of time. bowl made of cheese during “Brooklyn Eats” tasting event at the Brooklyn Marriott Monday. Conover Street. Papers The Brooklyn “They’re putting us on The event allowed Brooklynites to overindulge in samples from 50 local restaurants. For Snapple, which recently A truck tries to negotiate a turn from Van Brunt Street onto Van Dyke Street in Red small narrow streets,” he more on the event, see page GO 2. inked a $166 million con- Hook during truck driver protest demonstration Wednesday. See TRUCKS on page 6
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Meanwhile, he said, law- Wexler said the association was regulated by the U.S. Occu- new smoking ban, rejecting tinues to pursue the lawsuit and service of food is merely inci- makers failed to provide any would follow up on the pational Safety and Health Ad- new class schedule the arguments of a group of also seek legislative relief. dental to the service of alcoholic criteria or guidance for grant- judge’s suggestion. ministration and the federal law bar owners that it is uncon- The association and bar beverages,” the judge wrote. ing such waivers. As proof of Even though Kahn upheld superseded the state law. stitutionally vague and owners challenged the law on Noting that state law requires that failure, Mulhearn noted the waiver provision, the state Kahn rejected that argument. places undue financial hard- several grounds during argu- “no smoking” signs to be that only a handful of waivers health department plans to issue “While OSHA has estab- Dance Classes ship on businesses without ments before Kahn in Syra- prominently posted, Kahn went had been granted and only a more specific criteria to local lished standards for the regula- Martial Art Classes any adequate recourse. cuse on Sept. 9. on to say the bar owners “pres- few counties had even estab- agencies next month, said tion of a number of toxic and Swim Academy Program The Empire State Restau- Association attorney Kevin ent(ed) no reason as to why a lished a waiver process. spokesman William Van Slyke. hazardous substances, some of Gymnastics rant and Tavern Association Mulhearn argued that the new patron could not simply walk Kahn, though, ruled that Kahn also said bar and which are included in tobacco Jazz & Tap Classes and seven individual bar own- law was unconstitutionally into an establishment and ask “the legislature provided the restaurant owners would have smoke, OSHA has not prom- Basketball ers were seeking a preliminary vague in distinguishing bars whether smoking is permitted.” degree of guidance necessary to show more than “a mere ulgated any standards or regu- injunction to block enforce- from food service establish- In establishing the ban, law- to render the waiver provision possibility of irreparable harm” lations pertaining to tobacco ment of the new law, which ments, leaving both owners makers gave local health de- constitutionally permissible. and that when it came to bal- smoke as a whole.” Writing went into effect July 24 and ew and patrons confused about partments the authority to “The failure to exercise this ancing adverse business conse- “Simply put, regulation of N s bans smoking in bars, restau- when and where it applies. grant waivers if compliance responsibility ... is a problem of quences and adverse physical each of the parts should not be thi Poetry all! rants and other workplaces. Kahn ruled the law provid- caused a business undue finan- enforcement and not a problem health effects, the scales were construed as regulation of the F Latin dance However, U.S. District ed adequate distinction. cial hardship or was otherwise with the statute itself. Plaintiff’s tipped in favor of good health. whole,” he said. Judge Lawrence Kahn said in a Playwriting 14-page decision that the plain- Acting for teens tiffs had failed to establish that the law would create irrepara- ble harm and that their lawsuit 30 Third Avenue had little chance of success. of BrooklynY(bet. Atlantic & State) “We applaud the judge on his decision,” said Marc Vio- venue For more information call 718-875-1190 lette, a spokesman for the state attorney general’s office. “It is a decision that supports th the state Legislature and the governor’s efforts to improve rtupplies health conditions for workers in S PERFECT LEGS bars, taverns, restaurants and Treating varicose veins and spiders elsewhere. 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The Hand Laundry s el 456 STATE STREET ew Woman mugged on BROOKLYN, N.Y. J By SATNICK ENTER THIS MAGICAL SPACE We❤ offer quality service on all jewelry repairs or have your jewelry redesigned. Remsen and Clinton ON STATE STREET FOR THE UNIQUE AND AFFORDABLE. By Deborah Kolben car pound in the Brooklyn Jewelry checked and cleaned The Brooklyn Papers Navy Yard. 76/84 BLOTTER The 34 year-old man from FREE OF CHARGE. A woman walking home or from the Court Street sub- California reported the car Trick Treats stolen when he could not find All repairs done on premises. way station was accosted The 52-year-old victim Police are still seeking the gave chase, but the purse- attacker and no arrests had it at 6:30 pm. Hartley F. Satnick at Remsen and Clinton National Car Rental SAVOR OUR TREATS… streets around 9:30 pm on snatcher escaped with $40, a been made by press time. CERTIFIED MASTER WATCHMAKER claimed the car from the im- Oct. 17 by a man who monthly MetroCard, and a Location, pearl necklace that the woman pound and returned it to their FAMOUS FLAKE SERVING THE COMMUNITY FOR OVER 43 YEARS pulled out a knife and location lot at La Guardia Airport. demanded her cash. valued at $900, police said. Three days later, a woman A rental car reported stolen According to police, 25 of RASPBERRY CHOCOLATE MIX 196 Joralemon St. (off Court St) The victim, 25, was the 105 cars reported stolen had her purse snatched at the from Hicks and Cranberry APPLE PIE BREAD MIX (718) 852-1421 • Fax (718) 852-9697 • grabbed around the neck and same location as she neared the streets in Brooklyn Heights on this year in the 84th Precinct thrown to the ground by the HOURS: Mon - Fri: 9:30am - 6:30pm; Sat: 11:00am - 5:00pm station at 7:40 pm on Oct. 16. Oct. 12 reappeared this week were not actually stolen. FRENCH CANDIES assailant, who threatened to The victim, 35, was walking at La Guardia Airport but it Triumph, cut her if she didn’t let go of along Jay Street with a friend was never really at Hicks and IRISH TEA, JAMS AND CANDY her purse. and was just nearing the subway Cranberry. tragedy The attacker, who fled to- entrance, when a man smoking Confused yet? A man going to pick up a wards Montague Street, made a cigarette, who she had just The renter of the car report- pizza pulled up and parked his something for everyone and for every occasion off with $12, a cell phone, a passed, grabbed her bag. ed the wrong location last Triumph motorcycle at Gold $350 pair of eyeglasses, a $250 The man fled towards week, and the car had actually and Tillary streets at 10 pm on pair of sunglasses and the vic- 718-852-7555 WWW.IRISHJEWELRY.COM Bridge Street with the victim’s been parked illegally at Hicks Oct. 12, but when he returned tim’s Chanel purse. wallet, phone, umbrella and Street near Clark Street. It was minutes later, the motorcycle Clark St. snatch keys. promptly towed to the police was missing, police said. A purse-snatcher on a bicy- cle approached a woman at LEGAL NOTICES Clark and Henry streets just Manhattan look without after 8 pm on Oct. 17. The JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF Fairfield. AT NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF HILL-BURTON SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS. Bridgeport. DOCKET NO. FA-03-0404862-S. CHARITY CARE SERVICES. Lutheran Medical ACCREDITED HOME LENDERS, INC., Plaintiff man came up from behind and PLAINTIFF’S NAME: Williams, Jacqueline. Center, 150 55th Street, Brooklyn, NY will make against PERRY BUCKNER, et al Defendant(s). snatched the pocketbook from DEFENDANT’S NAME: Williams, Alex. NOTICE available from January 1, 2004 to December Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and the Manhattan prices!! TO: Williams, Alex. July 29, 2003. The Court 31, 2004, uncompensated services to all eligi- Sale entered on April 14, 2003. I, the under- her left arm, pulling her to the has reviewed the Motion for Notice By ble persons unable to pay who request those signed Referee will sell at public auction in Publication or Mail and the ground. services. All hospital services of the medical Room 261 of the Kings County Courthouse, Complaint/Application/Motion which asks for: center will be available on a first request basis 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 20th The thief fled southbound divorce (dissolution of marriage) based on irre- to eligible persons until the medical center’s day of November, 2003 at 3:00 p.m. premises trievable breakdown. The Court finds that the Beginning at a point o the Northerly side of Elegant, hand-crafted on Henry Street with the vic- current address of the party to be notified is annual compliance level is met. Eligibility for tim’s purse including $30 in unknown and that all reasonable efforts to find free care will be limited to persons whose fam- MacDonough Street distant 75 feet Easterly pieces that are perfect SAVE ON him have failed. The Court also finds that the ily income is not more than double the current from the corner formed by the intersection of cash and more than $100 last known address of the party to be notified poverty income guidelines established by the the Northerly side of MacDonough Street with worth of makeup, police said. was: 428 Sheffield Avenue, Brooklyn, NY US Department of Health and Human Services. the Easterly side of Howard Avenue; being a for summertime or Thursdays! 11207. THE COURT ORDERS that notice be We invite interested parties to comment on this plot of 100 feet by 25 feet by 100 feet by 25 Lifestyles Woman carded given to the party to be notified by placing a allocation plan. This Notice is published in feet. Said premises known as 659 MacDonough anytime fun! First time clients – legal notice in: The Brooklyn Papers, a newspa- accordance with 42 CFR 124.504, Notice of St. Brooklyn, N.Y. 11233. Tax account number: for mention this ad for: When a woman returned to per circulating in Brooklyn, NY containing a Availability and Uncompensated Services and SBL # 1497-70. Approximate amount of lien her home on Cranberry Street true and attested copy of this Order of Notice, will be effective January 1, 2004. $386,020.17 plus interest and costs. Premises Earrings $45 Body Soul and, if accompanying a Complaint for divorce BP43 will be sold subject to provisions of filed judg- Mens haircuts $20 (dissolution of marriage), legal separation or ment and terms of sale. Index No. 28706/02. $ between Hicks and Henry Notice is hereby given that an Order entered (REG. $25) annulment, or if accompanying an Application Alan M. Rocoff, Esq., Referee. Fein Such & Pendant 50 – Full Service Salon – streets — at about 4 am on by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 21st for custody or visitation, a statement that Crane, LLP, Attorney(s) for Plaintiff, 1800 First Automatic Court Orders have been issued in day of October, 2003, bearing the Index Oct. 17 — she realized that Federal Plaza, Rochester, N.Y. 14614. Ladies haircuts the case as required by Section 25-5 of the Number N00559/2003, a copy of which may be BP42-45 185 Atlantic Avenue $35 & up her wallet was missing. So she Connecticut Practice Book and are a part of the examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at bet. Court and Clinton Sts. Complaint/Application on file with the Court. CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston The 465 Dean Street Company, LLC, located in The Great Yet Reasonably Priced, (REG. $40 & UP) called the bank to cancel her The notice should appear before 10/23/03 and Kings County, New York State, filed Articles of BROOKLYN HEIGHTS Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, ––––––––––––––––– credit cards. proof of service shall be filed with this Court. By grants me rights to: Assume the name of: Organization with the New York State Call for appointment The bank informed her that the Civil Assistant Clerk. Fischer, J. Signed 9- Pedro Juan Rosario Jr. My present name is: Department of State on August, 25, 2003. The Jewelry Store on Court Street! BUSINESS HOURS 25-03. State of Connecticut. County of Padro Rosario Jr. a/k/a Pedro Juan Rosario Jr. Secretary of State of New York State has been Fairfield. SS: Bridgeport. October 20, 2003. Mon-Wed ...... 10am-7:00pm somebody had already tried to My present address is: 1078 Coney Island Ave., designated as agent for the 465 Dean Street 718-797-3062 The within and foregoing is a true and attested 3rd Fl., Brooklyn, NY 11230. My place of birth Company, LLC and is, therefore, the individual Thursday...... 10am-7:30pm charge gas and $70 at an MTA copy of the original order of notice in my hands 165 COURT STREET is: Bronx, NY. My date of birth is: 12/07/1953. upon whom any process against the 465 Dean Friday...... 10am-7:00pm 718-797-3433 for service by publication. ATTEST SARA M. (BET. PACIFIC & DEAN) vending machine. Both BP43 Street Company, LLC should be served; a copy henna k LADEN, State Marshal, Fairfield County, Saturday ...... 9am-6:00pm www.lifestyles-spa.com of any such process should be mailed by the charges were declined by the Connecticut. HANDCRAFTED JEWELRY COBBLE HILL, BROOKLYN BP43-44 Notice is hereby given that an order entered by New York State Secretary of State to Deborah bank, police said. the Civil Court, Kings County, on the 27th day 718•852•5777 Notice is hereby given that an Order entered Pope at 450 14th Street, Brooklyn, New York of August, 2003, bearing the Index Number Lost along with the wallet by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 1st day 11215. The purpose of the 465 Dean Street N00380/2003, a copy of which may be exam- of October, 2003, bearing the Index Number Company, LLC is to manage the property locat- Store Hours: Sun: 12-5pm; Mon-Thurs: 12-7pm; Closed: Fri & Sat was $100 and gift certificates N-320/2002, a copy of which may be examined ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 141 ed at 465 Dean Street, Brooklyn, New York for the Gap, J. Crew and at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in 11217. 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Fourth Avenue at Eighth were lifted from John Jay enues at 2:30 pm on Oct. 16 to Cosmetic And Family Dentistry Street with guns drawn at 7 High School, on Seventh Av- discover that her house had 291 7th Avenue (7th Avenue & 7th Street) 357 Seventh Avenue (At 10th St.), Park Slope pm on Oct. 11. enue and Fourth Street, been robbed. The bandits demanded cash sometime between 3 pm on A 35-mm camera was Tel: (718) 499-4610 • Fax: (718) 499-4693 718-768-1111 and told the employees to Oct. 16 and 7:30 am the next missing and a computer was open the register. day. One thug then pointed his The fare snatcher took 560 gun at a female employee and student MetroCards in all told her to lead him to the from a locked file cabinet in- back, where he turned his side a room on the third floor, weapon on a cook and told police said. him not to move. Car, keys, gone The men fled with more One person probably holds than $650 in cash, police said. the key to a Park Slope A red bandana was recovered woman’s misery. on Eighth Street. The woman, 33, lost her car Off the rack keys sometime after midnight A major clothing heist from on Oct. 16. a Park Slope building must Then, when she went to have left a fashionista in dire check on her car, which she straits. had parked on First Street near A 36-year-old woman left a Prospect Park West, at 10:26 collection of her belongings in am, the 2003 gray Mitsubishi
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