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INSIDE Ed Weintrob / The real story is the land grab, not the Nets That the Nets are coming is ries in Thursday’s edition.) seizure of private property for too good a hub to leave fallow, more than a holding action. Ratner’s architect (sorry, the pay millions for homes in neigh- BROOKLYN’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER beside the point. And that is the The real story is that the At- private benefit ever in Brooklyn. and they should have suspected With virtually no public con- media’s been instructed to say borhoods abutting the condemn- real story, a story masterfully lantic Yards project — and its Let’s dispose of the sidebar that Ratner’s early step there — sultation (and no request for “world renowned” architect) ed sites) for many reasons, not buried by developer Bruce Rat- companion Downtown Brook- first: Atlantic Terminal is proba- the ugly, dysfunctional, failed competing proposals), Gov. Pata- Frank Gehry said his intent is to the least of which is it’s not Man- ner and his media shills. (When lyn Plan — is not about the Nets bly the best site in town for a Atlantic Center shopping mall he ki is apparently prepared to con- build a neighborhood from hattan but close to it, and it’s not Brooklyn at the New York Times is your real (whose stadium would occupy a Nets arena, just as it would have opened in the ’90s and his demn enough privately-owned scratch. Brooklyn’s been hot for the kind of sterile, suburban cam- Published every Saturday by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington Street, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2004 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 18 pages including GO BROOKLYN •Vol.27, No.4 AWP • January 31, 2004 • FREE estate partner, it’s amazing the tiny part of the massive site), it’s been for the Dodgers in the ’50s. takeover of the Manhattan-cen- property to allow a potential a number of years, and not be- pus represented by Ratner’s Met- Sundance Including Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper, The Downtown News, Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper and DUMBO Paper story its pages will tell — more about a land grab by Ratner and The site’s residential neigh- tric, expansionist (in a real estate, build-out of more than 14 million cause there’s nothing here worth rotech which, contrary to popular Where to find than three pages featuring nine his political clients, the largest, bors might not like to hear this, if not an artistic, vein) Brooklyn square feet, the equivalent of sev- preserving. but uninformed opinion, is any- upbeat, luciously illustrated sto- most expensive government but the Flatbush-Atlantic area is Academy of Music — was little en Empire State buildings. People live in Brooklyn (and thing but a smashing success. flamenco Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington St, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 AD fax 718-834-1713 • NEWS fax 718-834-9278 © 2004 Brooklyn Paper Publications •14 pages including GO BROOKLYN •Vol.27, No. 1 BWN • January 10, 2004 • FREE
INSIDE DUMBO BRUCE ALMIGHTY Condemned land owners steam as ‘Hiroshima’ Published every Saturday by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington Street, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2004 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 18 pages including GO BROOKLYN •Vol.27, No.3 BWN • January 24, 2004 • FREE NOT JUST NETS in DUMBO HEADACHES Ratner pal’s spared wrecking ball Bridge fix to last decade By Deborah Kolben By Deborah Kolben But as the commercial dis- The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Papers trict becomes increasingly resi- MAPPING THE NEW BROOKLYN dential, with an active civic While developer Bruce To those DUMBO resi- group, residents are itching to Ratner is busy trying to dents who thought an end to see the fences come down and promote a professional bas- construction on the Manhat- have the space beneath the ketball arena for the New tan Bridge was near — guess bridge returned. Jersey Nets in the heart of again. “The Manhattan Bridge is a Brooklyn, some developers E DUMBO While the bridge will reopen gorgeous structure and when are crying foul. IV all four subway tracks late next you have it chainlinked and That’s because if all goes as RATNER NABS NETS S T month for the first time in al- barbwired and a bunch of old planned, the colossal, $2.5 bil- N most 20 years, the bridge reha- trucks and garbage sitting U E lion Atlantic Yards project at L K M Brooklyn bilitation project will extend far around, it’s a blight on the the corner of Atlantic and Flat- P into the decade, a Department neighborhood,” said Nancy C R O EMPIRE STORES Navy Yard bush avenues, extending into B’klyn cheers, trembles as $300M bid accepted WATCHTOWER of Transportation spokesman Webster, president of the X A L SHOPPING Prospect Heights, would dis- P E HIGH-RISES MAKING HEADLINES told The Brooklyn Papers this DUMBO Neighborhood Asso- place their buildings while al- E V One of the loudest support- week. ciation (DNA). By Deborah Kolben E E lowing an exception for one The Brooklyn Papers ers of the plan, Markowitz re- D So while the city celebrates “If you have ever seen [the particular high-powered devel- G L mained collected this week, D A the long-awaited return of the 1984 Sergio Leone gangster Goodbye New Jersey. I oper — Shaya Boymelgreen. maintaining a wait-and-see at- N N and R service over the epic] “Once Upon a Time in In order to construct the R O Hello, Brooklyn. titude until the contracts are I bridge, DUMBO residents will America” you realize what a sweeping, Frank Gehry-de- After months of negotia- B T MAYOR’S EMERGENCY BUNKER signed and final approval giv- A still have to live with the rum- beautiful soaring space that is and signed project, including four tions, developer Bruce Ratner en. N E bling DOT trucks, the blocked what an asset it would be to the soaring office towers and 13 reached a deal this week to Y R Brooklyn Water Street passageway — a neighborhood to have that re- residential and commercial The deal must be approved L C purchase the New Jersey Nets by three-fourths of the NBA E picturesque archway that once opened for our use,” said Web- buildings, Ratner, widely for $300 million. He plans to K -R Heights FEDERAL COURT connected the neighborhoods of ster. team owners. A move of the O L known for the Metrotech office bring the team across two A team to Brooklyn would also I DUMBO and Vinegar Hill — In the film, starring Robert complex in Downtown Brook- Mango / Greg O rivers to the Borough of the approval of NBA owners. C and the unsightly aluminum De Niro and James Woods, lyn, would have to get acres of Kings. R R fences below the iconic 95- viewers can catch a glimpse of privately owned land seized by “I can hardly wait for B E Community Youth Organi- M GENERAL POST OFFICE BQE year-old span. Brooklyn to realize all of the BANKRUPTCY COURT See BRIDGE on page 5 the state under the statute of zation, which owns the team, M F jobs, housing and other bene- Fort eminent domain — a power of agreed to the deal at a meeting O L the government to take private fits that this project will deliv- C A The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Friday morning putting an end Greene property for the public good. er along with Brooklyn’s re- T to the drawn-out bidding war. B The Newswalk condominium (above) at 170 Pacific St. would turn to the national sports Included in that parcel is a “We’re very excited,” said U 20,000-square-foot lot at Carl- not be taken via eminent domain to make way for Bruce Rat- stage,” Markowitz said. ner’s planned Atlantic Yards project while others would. Ratner spokesman Barry S D’town Plan ton Avenue between Pacific Baum. “We have a few issues Until late last week, the Downtown H Clinton and Dean streets owned by Nets owners were also in ne- CRUISE SHIP PIER to work out, but we think it A Hill Henry Weinstein, a major prop- lyn,” Will Kim, the company’s But in addition to building would be great for New York gotiations with New Jersey V erty owner in the area for the real estate developer Jon E director of retail development stars, Boymelgreen might also and great for Brooklyn.” COURT STREET past 30 years. Kushner and U.S. Sen. Jon Callan / Tom . hearing Thurs and marketing, said about the be building his real estate em- Borough President Marty AT AREA HOUSING “If I’ve been there all these proposed arena. pire. Markowitz, who has been Corzine (D-N.J.), who had the LAN years I don’t know why the city “We’re not just getting a sta- “Bruce is not doing this proj- second-highest bid. TI By Deborah Kolben pact on streets, mass transit and dreaming of bringing profes- C A has the right to give it to some- dium, we’re building local ect alone,” Kim said about the sional sports back to Brooklyn “He fought hard to keep this V The Brooklyn Papers the environment. E. DOWNTOWN body else,” said Weinstein. stars,” he added. See BRUCE on page 6 ever since the Dodgers left for team in New Jersey,” said
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The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn BROOKLYN The city’s $100 million re- “It’s a slap in the face to all California in 1957, was ecstat- Kushner spokesman Michael Coalition, a group of about 20 of the people who discovered Architect Frank Gehry’s design for an arena Bruce Ratner would like to build near the intersction of Atlantic and Turner. “He played by the Developer Bruce Ratner tries on a fedora and jacket at Junior’s PLAN zoning plan to convert Down- civic organizations that banded ic about the prospect of “net- the area and invested in it,” he Flatbush avenues. This week, Ratner purchased the NBA’s New Jersey Nets, which he plans to move to Brooklyn. town Brooklyn into a major together after learning about the ting the Nets.” See RATNER on page 5 when announcing plans in October to purchase the Nets. Cobble commercial hub with soaring said. “Our properties should be plan in February, is concerned taken by eminent domain to skyscrapers is plowing full Hill that traffic and transportation are benefit this guy who doesn’t BROOKLYN LAW steam ahead through the not being adequately addressed. pay any real estate taxes!” SCHOOL DORM SCHERMERHORN city’s land use review process. “We would love to see quality, But Boymelgreen, principal PACIFIC BAM CULTURAL As Community Board 2 gears Jim Bouton URBAN RENEWAL successful development that of A.I. & Boymelgreen, who DISTRICT up to make its recommendation works and is consistent with has kept quiet on the Nets plan,
— the first hurdle in the process Brooklyn’s character,” said Jo Mango / Greg stands to benefit from the deal. — the community at large will Anne Simon, an attorney and The plans for the Ratner CB2 panels: Slow E Boerum ATLANTIC Man missing in lake PIERS 8-12: UNDER REVIEW TERMINAL have an opportunity to weigh in land use committee chair for the complex conspicuously ex- Q ATLANTIC CENTER at a public hearing on Thursday, Boerum Hill Association, which B Hill MALL (EXISTING) clude adjacent property sur- cries ‘Foul’ By Deborah Kolben Ignoring several signs warn- Jan. 15, at 7 pm, at Brooklyn is part of the coalition. “But what rounding Boymelgreen’s re- ing against treading on the thin Technical High School, on Fort they’re doing doesn’t appear to The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn cently converted Newswalk ice, a man witnesses described Greene Place at Dekalb Avenue. be that kind of development.” condominium, a 170-unit, lux- With temperatures dip- as about 6 feet tall and in his NETS ARENA While the sweeping plan SITE The coalition also includes ury development at 700 Pacific down D’town plan ping below freezing, the 20s, ventured out onto the ice would bring 18,500 jobs to the Brooklyn Heights Associa- St. in an old Daily News print- search to recover the body Brooklyn, according to the and fell through around 9 am, tion, the Atlantic Avenue Bet- ing plant that is also home to over arena By Deborah Kolben — are vague and developers would be tee voted 14-0 against the plan Tuesday of a man who is believed to on Sunday, Jan. 18 Economic Development Cor- Arch of light terment Association, the Fort the Boymelgreen company’s The Brooklyn Papers allowed to develop them as-of-right, re- night, calling the city’s application — have fallen through thin ice According to one account, poration, some detractors worry Greene Association, the DUM- New Year’s fireworks light up the sky behind the arch at Grand Army Plaza to offices. By Deborah Kolben quiring no further public review, should which involves 22 individual actions on the lake in Prospect Park the man was able to pull him- Carroll that planners are not sufficient- BO Neighborhood Association ring in 2004. The fireworks, sponsored by the Prospect Park Alliance, have be- “It’s a phenomenal attraction It’s the largest development plan the Downtown Brooklyn Plan be adopt- from rezoning to selling city property to ly accounting for the drastic im- The Brooklyn Papers last weekend continues. self out of the freezing water, Gardens See D’TOWN on page 5 come a Brooklyn tradition. that will be a boost to Brook- for Brooklyn in decades, and with ed. expanding urban renewal areas — woe- The rescue effort was abort- but then fell through again. Jim Bouton is no rookie concerns about transportation, the As the full board gears up to cast its fully inadequate. ed several times this week due “It’s very, very tragic,” said ATLANTIC YARDS when it comes to telling it seizing of private property and a vote on the sweeping plan on Jan. 28, With subways at capacity and traffic to the frigid weather, which Tupper Thomas, president of like it is. drastically altered landscape, three the Traffic and Transportation commit- See D’TOWN on page 5 froze police divers’ air tanks. the Prospect Park Alliance. And now the former Yankee Community Board 2 committees Ice must be at least six Mango / Greg pitcher and all-star, who rocked this week indicated that the board inches thick before it can Prospect the baseball world in 1970 with wants the city to slow down and maintain the weight of a his tell-all book, “Ball Four,” provide more details. person, and to freeze to the G Heights School boards closed for good an expose of the frat-party side The Downtown Brooklyn Plan, as it right thickness, the temper- Red N FAIRWAY I of the nation’s favorite past- is known, would turn the area — gen- ature must be well below Papers The Brooklyn Hook time, has taken up a new cause N erally bounded by Tillary Street (north), See LAKE on page 16 An ice rescue ladder at the shore of the Prospect Park Lake. By Jotham Sederstrom while the community members will Carmine Santa Maria, president — fighting the plan to build a O be chosen by the borough presi- of Community School Board 21, Schermerhorn Street and Flatbush Av- Z The Brooklyn Papers professional basketball arena in enue down to Pacific Street (south), - dents. Each school district, like Dis- said that will force many of the cur- Downtown Brooklyn. P Parents and teachers in trict 20, which has 31 schools, will rent members out. Indeed, he’s hop- Ashland Place down to Fulton Street He’s coming to Brooklyn and then Fort Greene Place down to Pa- U southern and western Brooklyn have one parent council. ing to be considered for a commu- this week to talk about it. JimBouton.com cific (east) and Adams Street (west) — E could get the short end of the The reorganization is the last step nity member slot to the new WHOLE FOODS Just last year, Bouton pub- Jim Bouton into a major hub of commerce similar U stick when the city begins dis- in the complete overhaul of the council. In District 20, meanwhile, lished his second book “Foul to Midtown Manhattan, with soaring IKEA N mantling its community school only two school board members city’s school system, begun last Ball,” a 354-page diary of his skyscrapers that would dwarf the E boards later this year, say mem- would qualify for parent slots in the witz, announced plans to build Park year when the school districts were battle to save Wahconah Park, Williamsburgh Savings Bank building, Web cartoon V the $2.5 billion arena complex bers within districts 20 and 21, effectively replaced by 10 instruc- new council. one of the oldest baseball stadi- currently the tallest structure in the bor- A “If [parents] aren’t interested which would include 17 sweep- Slope two governing boards long tional divisions, or regions. Region ums in the country located near ough. H praised for their effectiveness. 7 replaced districts 20 and 21, while enough to be in the PTA, what ing towers and 4,500-units of his home in Pittsfield, Mass. housing. The rezoning plan encompasses at T The U.S. Department of Justice Region 8 replaced district 15 and makes you think they’re going to When Pittsfield leaders tried R While the developers would least two current proposals: the plan for granted approval last week to the parts of 13. District superintendents bother with parent councils?” he to tear down the 4,000-seat mi- an arts and cultural library, within the U were replaced by regional supervi- asked. “The way the regime is not take any public money up LOWE’S city’s plan to replace its 32 school nor league stadium and build a Brooklyn Academy of Music Cultural Callan / Tom bashes shelter O front, millions of dollars of tax boards, long criticized as ineffective sors. working right now, it’s not working new $18 million park just miles F revenue generated from the are- District at the intersection of Ashland
/ Greg Mango / Greg By Deborah Kolben and corrupt. Mayor Michael Bloom- Under the new Education Coun- right now.” away, Bouton and a group of Place with Lafayette and Flatbush av- In one-sided, satirical car- INSIDE THE PAPER berg called them “patronage mills.” cil selection process, however, Santa Maria said that members of supporters raised a stink. na — everything from Coca The Brooklyn Papers toon form, that is. Cola sales to the income tax on enues; and Bruce Ratner’s plan for a Business Services...... page 14 They’ll be replaced with 12- dozens of current school board School Board 21 would be meeting Bouton is now throwing his Frank Gehry-designed, 620-foot-tall Danny Contreras, a neigh- GO Brooklyn ...... pages 7-11 the player’s multimillion dollar For anyone who hasn’t Home Improvement ...... page 15 member Education Councils, also members could be pushed out. Be- to discuss the issues at 7 pm on support behind Brooklynites skyscraper at Flatbush and Atlantic av- borhood resident and vocal salaries — would be funneled Papers The Brooklyn been following the neigh- Health, Mind & Body ...... page 17 called parent councils, comprised of fore, the entire community cast bal- Wednesday, Jan. 14, at the old school opposing the plan to build a enues that would be adjacent to his pro- opponent of the facility, decid- Parent...... page 6 lots in a convoluted voting process board office at 521 West Ave. back into the project. borhood fight against a bat- ed to turn the struggle to open Police ...... page 2 nine parents, two community mem- Papers The Brooklyn 20,000-seat professional bas- posed professional basketball arena. Real Estate ...... page 16 bers and a high school senior with- for nine slots on the board. Now, Other high-ranking school board ketball arena at the intersection Bouton, 64, who calls the Plans for the rest of the more than tered women’s shelter a 20-bed facility for battered out voting privileges. In an attempt candidates for those slots are re- members in Bensonhurst and Bay of Atlantic and Flatbush av- Downtown arena plan tax two-dozen other projected and potential Bridge over frozen waters opening in Carroll Gardens, Asian women and their chil- Centerfold Pull-Out Satellite image by Space Imaging to streamline the process by which quired to be parents of school-aged Ridge complain that the Depart- enues. abatement “corporate welfare,” development sites — at least 6.7 million The Manhattan Bridge span looms over a partially frozen East River on the shores of DUMBO Monday — you can now catch the dren into an animated series BCAT PROGRAM GUIDE Hats off! retired from baseball in 1970 What’s on Brooklyn Community Access Television parents communicate with the children and their candidacies will ment of Education has kept them in Developer Bruce Ratner, square feet of office space is projected the result of a week’s worth of freezing temperatures. entire saga online. See SHELTER on page 16 It’s the most exciting Brooklyn news in ers that would substantially obscure the where the Nets arena would be located. Lines to Pier 7, and a city-Port Authority skirt scrutiny and debate. schools chancellor’s office, the par- be reviewed by the PTAs in each the dark as to how the new process This baby boy, yet to be named, was born to Rochel Bensecry at with the backing of Mayor and went on to become a televi- five decades. arena from the view of motorists on Meanwhile, just south of the arena site, review of the best uses for Piers 8 through • • • ents will be selected by the PTA district, entities that at some schools will work. The city has 90 days to Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park at 12:33 am on Jan. 1, Michael Bloomberg and Bor- sion sportscaster at WABC and See BOUTON on page 10 But Bruce Ratner’s plan to bring the busy Flatbush Avenue. Park Slope’s Fourth Avenue has been up- 12 in Carroll Gardens and Red Hook. Advocates of the overlapping Down- president, treasurer and secretary, are non-existent. See BOARDS on page 10 2004. For more New Year’s babies, turn to page 7. ough President Marty Marko- ––––––––––––––– OUTSTANDING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AT THE BROOKLYN PAPERS ––––––––––––––– New Jersey Nets to an arena he would The massive Downtown Brooklyn Plan — zoned to allow taller buildings and encour- If anything, this photo, taken by Space town Brooklyn Plan and Atlantic Yards build near the intersection of Atlantic which would turn the area into a sister to age commercial and residential develop- Imaging in December 2002 and anno- (which form one entity, only a tiny por- and Flatbush avenues is miniscule in Midtown Manhattan with skyscrapers ment. To the west, Lowe’s home improve- tated by The Brooklyn Papers this week, tion of which would house the Nets) Our phones Listings Editor comparison to all the development meant to attract corporate back-office leas- ment and Fairway supermarket will soon omits some projects. want the projects discussed separately. Please note our NEW address remain the same Jump start planned for the greater Downtown and es and government tenants — is, right open traffic-generating big box stores, and If implemented, these projects would, But only by considering jointly the im- Update The Papers’ extensive nightlife Drivers e’ve Brownstone Brooklyn areas. The arena now, coursing through the city public an Ikea is planned in Red Hook. collectively, forever change Brooklyn as act of all the projects shown above can SALES and dining listings. If you’re detail- W We’ve PHONE EDITORIAL DELIVERY is even dwarfed by the massive office review process. 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PAGE 7-13 SATURDAY • MARCH 13, 2004 SATURDAY • MARCH 20, 2004 SATURDAY • April 10, 2004 SATURDAY • April 24, 2004 GOP plans huge DUMBO park bash Ed Weintrob / Support progress—reject the Downtown Plan By Deborah Kolben Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in DUM- cial waterfront development that would in- York City Host Committee, a nonpartisan the Texan president to a “quintessential Ital- The “developers” and their If only the advertised conclu- on a humane scale. Planning Commission by May in the way of an ill-conceived high-rise, de-mapped dead zone are unlikely to do the right BO, tucked between the Manhattan and clude Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park. group working with convention planners. ian Sunday dinner in Bensonhurst.” The Brooklyn Papers tagalongs have their mantra sion was true. Of several projects on the 10, after which the City Council vision. (The Nets arena, a tiny in the spirit of Ratner’s walled- thing. After all, it’s been our city Brooklyn bridge overpasses, will be the site And the party is just one piece of the pie. “Senators, governors, and high-ranking Even Brooklyn Borough President Marty When the Republican National Con- down pat: Give them carte Major decisions are being line, two would constitute the gets just 50 days to change, ap- part of the Ratner-Downtown in Metrotech office complex. planners — offering 1970s so- of a Grand Old Party-sponsored blowout Marty Golden, one of three Republican members of Congress will be walking our Markowitz, a lifelong Democrat, is fighting blanche to take whatever land made right now that will either biggest, most costly land grab in prove, reject or modify it. steamroller, is a masterful diver- • • • lutions to dilemmas that no vention rolls into town this summer, bash for the nearly 15,000 news media per- state senators in New York City, is trying to streets and seeing our sites and we want to to bring Republicans across the bridge. INManhattan won’t 2004be the only borough they want, build whatever they doom Brooklyn to a cold, dehu- Brooklyn history and would 2) Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic sion meant to detract attention The best bet for future pros- longer exist in 2004 — who Japan is sonnel coming to town, according to sources lure the GOP to southern Brooklyn with the welcome them so that Brooklyn is some- “Marty Markowtiz welcomes everybody Including Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper, Downtown News, DUMBO Paper and Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper Including Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper, Downtown News, DUMBO Paper and Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper Including Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper, Downtown News, DUMBO Paper and Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper Including Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper, Downtown News, DUMBO Paper and Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper want whenever they want, take manized future incorporating likely leave us poorer both fi- Yards plan (it’s not just the from the larger plan’s specifics.) perity requires, first of all, that concocted this travesty and AWP getting a piece of the action. 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Associated Press dy DUMBO neighborhood is a likely diver- Park Coalition, an advocacy group for a to Nathan’s Famous, all in Coney Island, the minority leader and one of just three Re- first to be held in New York City, will run for all. opportunity to thrive and grow likely to be approved by the City pocket, only lawsuits may stand and Prospect Heights with a City Planning Commissioners See PROGRESS on page 15 President George W. Bush sion, The Brooklyn Papers has learned. planned 1.3-mile recreational and commer- top the list Golden submitted to the New publicans in the City Council, hopes to lure from Aug. 30 to Sept. 2.
SATURDAY • MARCH 6, 2004 Bishop likens gay weddings EXCLUSIVE BRUCE RATNER TELLS BUILDING TRADES GROUP: Ikea feeling Red Hook heat RATNER PAYOFF SATURDAY • May 1, 2004 MUM’S THE WORD ‘ Swedish giant modifies its plan to include some waterfront use, Including Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper, Downtown News, DUMBO Paper and Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper PATAKI, MTA BACK ARENA Developer suggests he’d give victims of Including Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper, Downtown News, DUMBO Paper and Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper By Deborah Kolben VINCE DIMICELI Published every Saturday by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington Street, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2004 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 16 pages including GO BROOKLYN •Vol. 27, No. 9 BWN • Saturday, March 6, 2004 • FREE to marrying your pet Published every Saturday by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington Street, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2004 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 18 pages including GO BROOKLYN •Vol. 27, No. 17 BWN • Saturday, May 1, 2004 • FREE Confused Community Board 2 fails and Neil Sloane as rival developer offers a more ambitious water-centric vision The Brooklyn Papers By Michael Gormley In an interview on political reporter lieved same-sex marriage was like a Speaking at a building trades confer- eminent domain new homes near arena Fred Dicker’s Albany radio program “Pandora’s Box,” DiMarzio said, By Deborah Kolben Associated Press ence in Manhattan Thursday, developer Asian bizmen FIRST LOOK to speak on massive D’town Plan the same day, DiMarzio continued his “There is no end to it unless we really The Brooklyn Papers The leader of the Roman Cath- Bruce Ratner thanked the Metropolitan D Ratner’s analogy. come back to some common under- Ikea has changed its plans for a mas- By Deborah Kolben olic Church in Brooklyn this Transportation Authority and Gov. N “I will give you an example, OK?” standing of our roots as a country,” sive waterfront store in Red Hook to The Brooklyn Papers NOT JUST NETS • THE NEW BROOKLYN • NOT JUST NETS E By Deborah Kolben week compared same-sex mar- The Times reported. George Pataki for backing his $2.5 bil- the New York Times quoted Di- include active use of several surround- If you can’t beat ’em, build K The Brooklyn Papers riages to unions between people Marzio in Wednesday’s edition. “You On Thursday, Park Slope Council- lion Atlantic Yards project. told: Know E ing piers, an official with the Swedish and their pets. man Bill DeBlasio issued a statement “The government has been wonderful — ’em a new building. being considered for its construc- ner would build a 20,000-seat bas- who would be evicted or otherwise owns a condominium at 24 Sixth E HE MOST COMPLEX rezoning Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, leader affirming his support of same-sex the mayor, the governor, city and state offi- home furnishings giant told The Brook- Plowing ahead with plans to tion. ketball arena for his recently pur- impacted by construction of his At- Ave., the A.G. Spalding Building, suburban lyn Papers this week. W plan in city history, which would of more than 1.5 million Catholics in marriages and criticizing the bishop cials, the MTA has been wonderful — in construct a $2.5 billion arena, of- “It’s among the various options chased New Jersey Nets, flanked lantic Yards project. And fewof which would face the wrecking D’TOWN PLAN convert Downtown Brooklyn into a the Diocese of Brooklyn, made the Boro priest for his comparison of such unions to supporting both projects,” Ratner said, refer- The changes — which would have Ikea fice and housing complex in Pros- we’re considering at this point,” by four sweeping office towers and them interviewed this week were ball under Ratner’s plans. IS animals. your rights leasing most of the piers in the New York T comments at an Albany lobbying con- ring to both his plan to build an arena for the pect Heights, developer Bruce Rat- Deplasco said. buildings containing 4,500 residen- thrilled with the idea of moving At the same time, Ratner is, ac- H booming metropolis with soaring towers ’ ference and on an upstate talk show. “I have a lot of respect for Bishop New Jersey Nets near the junction of Flat- Shipyard site for maritime use — come in re- ner is now looking to construct a cording to sources, floating a new Gehry, in fact, told Newsweek tial units. into one of his buildings. Others de- T and require the taking of seven acres of “Marriage is not just a government DiMarzio, but his comments were bush and Atlantic avenues, and a separate sponse to community concerns over maintain- new building to house some of the online this week, “Bruce is asking The plan is dependent upon the clined to talk about their discus- plan that would require less use of EMINENT DOOM to join gays By Deborah Kolben ing a working waterfront, said the spokesman. nightmare private land, is moving forward through issue,” said DiMarzio, a lead spokes- wrong-headed,” said DeBlasio. “Whe- plan to build a football stadium for the New residents his plan would displace. me to design a new apartment state’s condemnation of more than sions with Ratner. eminent domain. The Brooklyn Papers NOT JUST NETS But they may also have been spurred on by an the city review process — without input man in Tuesday’s annual lobbying Page 6 ther or not you support the right of York Jets on Manhattan’s west side. Ratner and architect Frank building for them [neighbors two square blocks of privately “Personally, I would want to According to one official, the same-sex couples to marry, and I sup- THE NEW BROOKLYN alternative plan for the site put forth by some HEN it comes to con- which means very little. day at the Capitol by the Catholic Ratner’s statement marks the second time On a sunny Thursday after- Gehry have been in discussions whose apartments might be de- owned property. stay in my home. And if I had no new schematic would save half of / Greg Mango / Greg from Community Board 2. Targeted by Downtown Brooklyn Plan, they vow to fight Conference of New York. want to reduce something to the ab- port that right, inflammatory compar- / Mic Smith Baltimore harbor developers. the block between Flatbush and struction, Brooklyn needs In the meantime, a neighborhood in just over a week that either Ratner or a noon, Mike Kim is sitting at the about the building, according to stroyed by the complex]. He’s got a For the past several months, Rat- other choice but to move, I would isons have proven divisive and un- Red Hook activists opposed to the Ikea Bob Vila, not Bruce that was developing just fine on its Following years of planning, months of DiMarzio said allowing gay marriage surd, which is basically rhetorical use spokesman have claimed to have the support front table of Duffield Street Sea- to whom a pair of Manhattan attorneys Ratner spokesman Joe Deplasco, specific site nearby.” ner has been going head to head want to move into a home of my Sixth avenues. W could lead — if taken to the absurd — of an image: Why can’t we have mar- helpful to the public debate.” plan have been meeting with principals of Ratner. own gets condemned. discussion and a four-hour public hearing, By Deborah Kolben of the governor and the MTA — whose 20- are offering legal assistance. who said “a number of sites” were As part of the 21-acre plan, Rat- with Prospect Heights residents choice,” said Dan Michaelson, who See RATNER on page 16 to marriage between pets and people riages between people and pets? I DiMarzio, New York Cardinal Ed- food, reading a Bible and greeting the Baltimore-based Struever Bros. Eccles & For years now, Ratner has forced I was inside 24 Sixth Ave. on The Brooklyn Papers member board Pataki appoints — for the de- With a massive rezoning plan — Callan / Tom the Downtown Brooklyn board effectively long-time customers, who flock to Rouse, a development company known for Mango / Greg and among three or more people. mean, pets really love their masters ward Egan and the state’s other state Press Associated veloper’s Atlantic Yards plan, where towers his suburban blight on the Borough Saturday. It’s the former Spalding removed itself — and the communities it his shop just off Fulton Mall for which would court soaring new office adaptive reuse projects. The company put to- factory, recently turned into con- Standing outside the squat, three-story “It could be anything once you say and why can’t we have a marriage so bishops told Albany lawmakers Tues- Duke, a boxer dog (at left), was ring bearer at the wedding of Tess Blake (right) would reach upwards of 60 stories on de- and residential towers in a 60-block of Kings, using Brooklyn as his Mango / Greg OVERHAUL gether a plan for a sprawling, 70-acre, retail, personal strip mine, ripping out its dos. Close to 100 people live there represents — from the process when it gath- Institute of Design and Construction at Papers File The Brooklyn marriage is something other than what they could inherit their money?” day that marriage must remain a bond and Tim McKiernan in Charleston, S.C. Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio won- mapped mega-blocks. plates of hot fish and chips. swath of downtown — currently under the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension it is,” DiMarzio said. Asked by Dicker whether he be- See GAY WEDS on page 15 With the sound of crackling oil in the residential and commercial development on streets and small buildings to make in large studio apartments. One of ered Tuesday night at Brooklyn Technical Diocese of Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio. dered this week: If gay marriages are allowed, would pets and owners be next? The support of the MTA, which controls city review, many local businesses fear the shipyard site between Richards and Co- way for his behemoths that turn and Willoughby Street on Wednesday, the Long Island Rail Road yards over which background, and the smell of tartar sauce they will be priced out or their proper- High School in Fort Greene to vote on the Papers The Brooklyn
lumbia streets. Papers The Brooklyn thick in the air, Kim explains to a visiting Urban renewal steamroller their backs on what’s left of the the college’s president, Vincent Battista, a large portion of the project would be built, ties condemned to make way for future ‘Designs’ NOT JUST NETS multi-layered application. Arendering of the plan was made avail- Attorney Sanford Rubenstein, Vito Avvinti, his wife, Laura, and son neighborhoods they invade. squints in the midday sun, surveying all is crucial, as is that of Pataki, whose Empire attorney that he’s had his business in the development. able exclusively to The Papers and appears The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn This rendering of the NY Shipyards site in Red Hook shows a plan for maximum water- CB2 sez It’s been said that Ratner’s plan That’s because most board members were NOT JUST NETS • THE NEW BROOKLYN • NOT JUST NETS State Development Corp. would be needed area for more than 17 years. Francis Hseuh, an attorney in his Matthew walk past the state Supreme Court building on Court baffled as to what exactly they were voting that surrounds him and all that he may Lawyer Francis Hsueh on Duffield Street near Fulton Street where he is involved in organizing Chinese and Kore- at right. See IKEA on page 14 front activity as an alternative to Ikea’s big box plan. Ikea’s rendering is on page 14. Street in Downtown Brooklyn on their way to the Municipal Building for Downtown Brooklyn is to Man- soon have to leave. to condemn 10 acres of private property in Kim is one of many Asian-Ameri- early 30s who recently left a corporate for living hattan-ize it — as if the skyscrapers on. See PATAKI on page an merchants to protect themselves in the face of Downtown Brooklyn Plan evictions. can merchants in Downtown Brooklyn See MERCHANTS on page to pay the traffic ticket they claim helped kill Avvinti’s father. Flower power “It’s not just a business — it’s my life,” The art of 5 5 By Lisa J. Curtis brakes for design college he foresees are the only things that By Lisa J. Curtis Samurai Sword Soul troupe’s performances, to be “The proposal was too big —why didn’t they says Battista, whose father, Vito, a former as- GO Brooklyn Editor define a city. GO Brooklyn Editor staged this weekend at the Brooklyn Botanic Gar- break it down?” asked board member Irene Van semblyman and political gadfly in the 1950s ‘No’ to THIS WEEKEND den as part of the “Sakura Matsuri,” or cherry But the fact is Ratner is trying to “Brooklyn Designs,” a three-day-long showcase for create a new suburbia, smack dab in Slyke, who voted to adopt the recommendations politics By Deborah Kolben This Saturday and Sunday, May 1-2, from 10 blossom festival. the borough’s designers and manufacturers of fur- NOT JUST NETS am to 6 pm, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic the middle of the city, by using sub- of CB2’s Land Use committee. NOT JUST NETS By Lisa J. Curtis niture, lighting, linens, rugs and decorative acces- The Brooklyn Papers Amao, known as the “Samurai Sportsman” on urban ideals to create the “New That panel effectively culled down a more than GO Brooklyn Editor Brooklyn Museum is set to THE NEW BROOKLYN Garden can gape at the spectacular beauty of cable TV’s Outdoor Living channel, will also em- New look It was targeted to be among the first to go, under sories for the home, office and garden, returns to THE NEW BROOKLYN hundreds of flowering cherry trees, as well as the cee the many events on the Cherry Esplanade Brooklyn.” 210-page ULURP application and its companion This weekend is your last chance to see Fred Harper’s DUMBO on April 30. the city’s massive Downtown Brooklyn rezoning Don’t believe me? Take a look at THIS WEEKEND jaw-dropping number of — free with admission stage. Visitors in-the-know can dodge the crowds 3-inch-thick Draft Environmental Impact State- Beep backs humorous parade of caricatures in the “Burning Bush” And if you liked last year’s event, the first-ever and redevelopment plan, but this week the Institute and ’60s, founded the architecture and con- Walentas Illegal tows in Heights by enjoying other performances scattered some of his other projects. THE NEW BROOKLYN ment into a two-page report recommending that show, now on display at the DUMBO General Store [111 “Brooklyn Designs” show, event organizer Karen Auster of Design and Construction got a reprieve. ($4, free to children under 16) — performances, •Atlantic Center Mall: The struction school nearly 60 years ago for ser- throughout the 52-acre garden on both days. the board approve the upzoning of the Front St. at Washington Street, (718) 855-5288]. says you’ll have 50 percent more reasons to be thrilled D exhibits, workshops and demonstrations cele- epitome of the suburban mega-mall vicemen returning from World War II. reopen majestic entrance The City Planning Commission unveiled changes to There is also a contemporary art exhibit in Downtown area to allow for sweeping towers but E brating various aspects of Japanese art and cul- those residents, Stuart Plesser, While students enroll in the school to learn It is appropriate that the coffee bar/watering hole for the this year. for ‘ticket the Downtown Brooklyn Plan on Monday, and at the top the Garden’s Conservatory, “Harukaze: gone bad in the middle of the city, S showed me his plans to add walls disapprove of eminent domain takings of private how to design buildings, the city is busy push- neighborhood’s creative types — whether they’re craving caf- “Last year we had one space and 30 exhibitors,” said I of the list was taking the site of the 67-year-old architec- ture. For a few extra yen, visitors can even buy a Spring Wind,” featuring artworks by / Jori Klein complete with parking (for a fee). / Jori Klein property that would allow the city to seize 100 EXCLUSIVE Auster. “This year we have two spaces and 46 exhibitors.” It’s back is literally turned on Fort in his 1,500-square-foot, exposed- ing through a major rezoning plan that will feine, booze or a salad — is the venue around which Harper’s By Deborah Kolben V tural school, at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension bento box and sake and enjoy a picnic under the two Japanese artists. apartments, 130 commercial units and a college, stinging, satirical works hang, including “Bush of Arabia” (pic- The Brooklyn Papers building Ajury of design editors whittled down the number of ex- and Willoughby Street, out of the plan altogether. build them out of the neighborhood and may blossoms, a popular Japanese tradition. Greene, where there are no en- brick and wood-columned apart- E Why all the fuss? These beauti- ment. Those plans are now on hold, all of which city planners say is needed to force the school’s closing. tured), the cover illustration for the Feb. 28, 2003 issue of The DOT: Police THIS WEEKEND hibitors from 100 applicants to 46, but the show still need- R “We’re elated” Vincent Battista, 58, president of the Pictured above, actor-samurai Yoshi Amao ful blossoms only last a short N trances for local residents, who As the Brooklyn Museum of Art gears O achieve much of the specific development out- That’s because as part of the immense, Week magazine. ed to expand into a second venue. Institute of Design and Construction, said when he S have to walk around the complex as he waits to see if his new home up to unveil a new, $63 million entrance- (left) delivers a deadly blow to fellow warrior while before they say “say- 7 “We were so pleased with the tremendous quality of all to die’ tape IN E will be torn down. lined in the application. Downtown Brooklyn Plan, which proposes The editorial illustrations, painted between 2001-2004, “rep- learned about the change this week. and onto Atlantic Avenue. All this D’town Plan way and glass-enclosed pavilion, the insti- Slams DUMBO plan Yoshihisa Kuwayama during a sneak peek of his onara!” G G The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn soaring office towers, the state would con- resent the point of view of those publications and not always towers don’t the submissions,” said Kenneth Adams, president of the The college was to be claimed under the government’s E for the pleasure of shopping at the Last year, for his television show Rather than— B PA tution also has a few other changes afoot. Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, in a statement. “Many Department of Motor Vehicles and “Home Again,” Bob Vila showed •vote to recommend approval or rejection of the en- Joy Chatel, outside the building she owns at 227 Duffield St., which is slated for condemna- demn seven acres of private property includ- Vincent Battista, president of the Institute of Design and Construction, stands in front of the school's By Deborah Kolben be razed to create open space to afford better site-lines from Flat- my own,” explains Harper in an artist’s statement. Whether power of eminent domain and then demolished to create a Above is a rendering of open space encased within a complex of skyscrapers that the Downtown Plan envisions along those statements include the Statue of Liberty trying out a set First off, there’s the name change. for blocking views of last year’s exhibitors will be returning with their latest Lawyer charges By Jotham Sederstrom the Empire State Development how he restored and then converted tire massive city application, or tion in the Downtown Brooklyn Plan. See ‘EMINENT’ on page 5 building at 141 Willoughby St., which would be condemned under the plan. bush Avenue to a 1.5-acre open space over an underground garage. know rules better view plane from Flatbush Avenue to a 1.5-acre open Willoughby Street between Duffield and Gold streets. The open space would be created by the seizure of private prop- The Brooklyn Papers of breast implants or President George Bush as a taxi After a pricey consultation with a Manhat- products, and they will be joined by an outstanding The Brooklyn Papers space the city plans to build across the street. The planned Corporation, in office space created to residential use a former spice fac- •vote individually on each of the application’s 22 in- The college’s president, Vincent Battista, a vocal opponent of mayor & top cop tory on Water Street in DUMBO, erty through the state’s power of eminent domain and street demapings. The tree-lined triangle at the top would cover Borough President Marty Markowitz gave his approval driver, turning his head to the passenger to demand a By Deborah Kolben group of newcomers.” Asurveillance video ob- Willoughby Square would be modeled after Post Square in
and paid for with our tax money af- dependent actions, or By Deborah Kolben Callan / Tom the site now occupied by the 57-year-old Institute of Design and Construction. Below is a Frank Gehry-envisioned mega the plan, has testified at several public hearings and pleaded his fare of $87 million [the cost of additional funding The show will be held at St. Ann’s Warehouse Boston, according to city planners. ter several mall merchants failed, another hot neighborhood which, •vote to recommend disapproval unless certain as- this week to the controversial Downtown Brooklyn Plan, a The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Papers distorted video tained by the family of a Ben- block in developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards site — surrounded by Dean Street and Carlton, Atlantic and Vanderbilt case to the borough president. for the war in Iraq], they generally hit their target. INSIDE OUT at 38 Water St. and the Brooklyn Designs “Nobody is against progress or against construction, ostensibly because of Ratner’s poor over the past 10 years, has been re- pects of the plan, like the eminent domain property tak- city proposal that would use the state’s power of eminent ROOKLYN sonhurst man who suffered a avenues, east of Ratner’s proposed Nets arena — that would likewise be built on condemned property and demapped So has Joe Betesh, the owner of Brooklyn USA, a two-story “Burning Bush” is on display through The police department is GO B looks at the new museum. Page 7. Developer David Walentas has spent the past 20 Gallery (the former Gale Gates et. al gal- it’s just a question of size and seeing people being taken design and promotion. constructed from the inside out. ings, were removed, domain to condemn private property and rezone the area to 25,000-square-foot jeans and sneakers store at 245 Duffield St., By the bridges: Stained-glass windows craftsperson of parking-ticket fatal heart attack after being UMBO’s conversion from streets. As in the Downtown Plan, which is its neighbor, green space would be surrounded by skyscrapers, creating a March 15, Saturday and Sunday, 9 am-5 towing legally parked cars in years building formerly industrial DUMBO into a lery) at 37 Main St., said Auster. care of,” said Battista, who has criticized the city for •Metrotech: A suburban business fortress-like environment. Downtown Plan renderings, like the one above, portray proposed structures as only a dozen —the board decided to cast just one vote on the allow for taller buildings. just off Fulton Mall. At a five- tan design firm, the museum decided to lop Nancy Nicholson hosts one of the new booths at this issued a parking ticket appears Sweet victory pm, and Monday, 8 am-6 pm. Brooklyn Heights because en- Callan / Tom residential and commercial neighborhood, but heart attack wanting to “knock down the building and plant grass.” campus, self-sufficient right down to manufacturing to both or so stories tall, cutting off their tops to avoid picturing their intended heights — possibly exceeding 60 stories — that Land Use committee’s report. off a third of its name and will now simply year’s Brooklyn Designs show in DUMBO. See BROOKLYN on page 14 to show that two traffic agents
The Downtown Plan’s ad- hour pubic hearing at Borough Papers The Brooklyn Hipster spot on / Jori Klein now the community says he is going too far. More reassuring to Battista, an early and vocal oppo- the nearby hotel and airline ticket of- housing and office space, BEGINSPAGE ON 7 forcement agents don’t know D would dwarf Brooklyn’s existing skyline. ECAUSE THEY HAD to vote yes or no to a re- vocates say they envision a Hall on Feb. 18, Betesh asked be known as the Brooklyn Museum. BEGINSPAGE ON 7 saw him clenching his chest Following a public hearing this week, a Community nent of the Downtown Brooklyn Plan, was that his prop- fice. Employees who work there eat has taken place without the clearing port that contained both approvals and disap- P’SLOPE they are not supposed to, The Along with the name change — it’s revert- but did nothing to help him. 24-7 commercial and residen- Markowitz to reject the plan. Callan / Tom Board 2 committee voted down his proposal to construct erty was also removed from plans to extend the Brooklyn in tasty, inexpensive corporate cafe- of blocks, removal of streets or in- provals, board members were confused as to Brooklyn Papers has learned. ing to the title by which it was known until the New homes for ‘Candy’ residents sertion of suburban-style complex- B tial hub with skyscraping Those pleadings have appar- a 16-story building with 200 apartments at Water and Acopy of the 20-minute grocery Center Urban Renewal Area, easing his concerns about terias because the campus’ design precisely what their vote would mean. That’s because of a confusing 1990s — the museum cast off its stylish, mod- es. Instead, the neighborhood has office and residential towers. ently paid off, at least to the Dock streets, next to the Brooklyn Bridge. store surveillance video was played future condemnation of the property, as well. makes it impractical to walk over to Following a brief discussion by board members system of signage unique to the Eggs-cellent! ern-looking BMA logo in favor of a single-let- ing in four new buildings under construction in The plan overlaps, but is sep- extent that Markowitz’s rec- for The Brooklyn Papers by an at- By Deborah Kolben been re-born rather than rebuilt. Papers File The Brooklyn “This would destroy the Battista’s father, Vito Battista, a political maverick Montague Street or Fulton Mall or Papers The Brooklyn about the plan, including traffic concerns and the need Smith St closing arate from, developer Bruce ommendations are considered area that prevents parking on one Ashley Haywood, 4 (inset) shows off the colorful goodies she found during an Easter Egg hunt Saturday at ter, Rorschach Test-looking symbol. torney for the family of Onofrio known for his outlandish stunts — he once paraded The Brooklyn Papers Downtown Brooklyn. even Willoughby Street. Stores locat- In time, the same thing would THIS WEEKEND side of certain streets from 8 am to very neighborhood he is to fully study the implications of such a big build-out Ratner’s Atlantic Yards proj- by the City Planning Commis- Owl’s Head Park in Bay Ridge. On Monday, youngsters hunted eggs at Coney Island’s Keyspan Park. Easter, “The new logo is an unchanging stylized As entrance renovations to the Brooklyn Museum neared completion this week, credited with creating,” said Avvinti, who died 10 minutes after around town on an elephant — purchased the building “I’m thrilled,” said Markowitz, who has been ed on its center “park” don’t survive happen around the Atlantic Avenue in conjunction with other developments around the OK Tubman Avenue Papers The Brooklyn 6 pm, one day a week, while al- Residents of a Brooklyn Heights loft-apart- TERROR ect that could include a pro- sion, the next reviewing au- See MUSEUM on page 5 work was still underway on the grand, glass-enclosed pavilion (foreground). being issued a ticket for double working with the tenants of 20 Henry St. ever since By Jotham Sederstrom space more than double the size of its cur- celebrating Jesus’ resurrection, is Sunday. The Brooklyn Cyclones open at Keyspan Park on June 22. Joan Craig, a resident of the at 141 Willoughby St. for $300,000 in 1967. because the campus’ fortress-like rail yards, with or without Ratner. area (many of them enumerated on a satellite photo of A police tow truck with its fresh-caught quarry at Clinton and Joralemon streets in the Heights Tuesday. lowing parking on the other side ment building who have been battling to save The Brooklyn Papers rent 1,500 square feet sometime next year, fessional basketball arena as thority in the city’s Uniform Fulton Ferry Historic Dis- parking outside the Met Foods gro- With the building paid off, the nearly $1.5 million in they learned of the eviction. perimeter discourages foot traffic on In fact, the rebuilding of the area — during those hours. On other greater Downtown Brooklyn on the front page of last the club’s founders, cousins Stephen and well as office towers and Land Use Review Procedure, Erin Go Brooklyn trict, who is opposed to the cery on 20th Avenue while his wife annual rent from upstairs office tenants allows the build- their rent-subsidized homes got some good news “Mitchell Lama tenants must be protected from the streets that used to be there. And from within — had already begun. Feds say laundry was CB2 paves way for The Brooklyn Papers week’s Brooklyn Papers), the board voted 19-17, with The owners of Halcyon, a popular which will also put the appli- streets, and along certain stretches Then, on Sunday, March 28, the 11th annual Callan / Tom shopped. this week. buyouts. I am pleased that in this case we were able nightlife is nonexistent. Remember Just ask Stuart Plesser. Shawn Schwartz, said this week. housing. project. ing trades school to subsidize tuition. Currently at three abstentions, in favor of adopting the committee’s Carroll Gardens cafe and nightclub that cation before the City Council. of the same street, parking is barred Bay Ridge parade starts at 1 pm, in front of St. The tape appears to contradict The Downtown Brooklyn Plan has been revised. Greenery, pictured at top, will go, Borough President Marty Markowitz announced Casey’s Cafe? Neither do I. Ratner’s vision, as designed by Shawn Schwartz told The Brooklyn Pa- Along with his thumbs-up, Brooklyn will continue to celebrate both At the hearing, held at $4,800 per year, Battista had argued the cost to students to agree on a solution that allows 20 Henry Street’s report. played a hand in reshaping Smith jihad’s money drop The City Planning Commis- for only 90 minutes, once a week. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church at 95th Street an interpretation of the video of- and the Institute of Design and construction will stay. Now, Ratner wants to do the Gehry, just isn’t Brooklyn. It has no pers that both a neighborhood and venue Markowitz delivered a laundry Tubman-Fulton street St. Patrick and Irish culture in big ways this Polytechnic University Wed- would be nearly double without the money generated an agreement that will give current and already residents to find new housing in their neighborhood, But according to board rules, a majority of the board Street as a nightlife destination, say sion will hold a public hearing At the crux of the confusion is and Fourth Avenue. A 9:30 am Mass at St. Pat- fered by police and City Hall last same thing with his proposed At- place in our low-rise urban landscape. have been found for the new venture, but for list of conditions he would like Sunday and the next with parades in Park nesday night, opponents blast- from the building and that in order to operate in another evicted residents of the 42-unit building at the cor- that they can afford,” Markowitz said. members in attendance is required to pass a resolution. they’ll close next month when their fear of jinxing it, he would only say the new By Tom Hays to see attached to the Depart- at 10 am on March 24, in the that the 90-minute signs bear a rick’s will precede the parade. ed the proposal claiming it week, which had Avvinti showing location the school would need a guarantee of free rent. ner of Henry and Middagh streets — known as the The building of studio apartments, whose nick- lantic Yards compound (and pre- Maybe Ratner needs a new ar- By Deborah Kolben Slope and Bay Ridge. The theme of the Bay Ridge event is “Friend- With 36 board members voting, three (Gloria An- lease for the property at 227 Smith St. Halcyon will remain in Brooklyn, but not on Associated Press ment of City Planning propos- Klitgord Auditorium at New large black letter “P” inside a red Robs bank, was “ill-conceived,” out of signs of suffering only after the He had threatened to sue to stop the taking of his Candy Factory Apartments — top priority for hous- sumably in the overlapping Down- chitect, someone who would appre- drews, Edward Carter and Hemalee Patel) abstaining The Brooklyn Papers Cheap eats week circle with a red broomstick The 29th annual Brooklyn Irish American Pa- ship, Unity and Christian Charity.” Its grand Lesbian nightclub, a smoker’s D See CANDY on page 5 York City College of Technol- traffic agents drove away. Police property. If the modified Downtown Brooklyn Plan is expires. Smith Street. Jason Charles, a spokesman for al, addressing everything from Papers File The Brooklyn scale with the existing low- town Plan district) where he’d again ciate the things Brooklyn already and one board member (Rachel Foster) actually duck- When Sheik Abdullah Satar visited mosques in slashed through the letter, indicat- rade will step off Sunday, March 21, at 1 pm, marshal will be Sister Ann Clancy, principal E The not-so-easily defined purveyor of Halcyon, said the new property includes traffic to preservation to af- ogy, 285 Jay St., Downtown. Abolitionist Harriet Tubman may have freed hun- DUMBO’s David Walentas rise buildings, and would cast Commissioner Raymond Kelly approved by the City Planning Commission on May 10 close streets and construct skyscrap- has to offer and those that deserve ing the vote — she hid in the hallway saying she felt Brooklyn and Manhattan in the waning days of ing that there is no parking allowed from 15th Street and Prospect Park West in Park of Fontbonne Academy. R to be preserved. Maybe he should music, poetry, video games, alcohol, coffee multiple levels. fordable housing concerns. Community Board 2 failed dreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad, shadows on the nearby and Mayor Michael Bloomberg that will no longer be necessary. ers up to 600 feet tall that would by pressured by the hundreds of vocal protesters, accord- 1999, the FBI was watching. Boro’s first restaurant week kicks off April 15 there during those hours for street Slope. The parade will proceed to Fifth Av- both said last week that the traffic A design separate the complex from put in a call to Bob Vila. — and even furniture — will reopen in a See HALCYON on page 14 “I believe we can grow and to make a recommendation but her name will not replace that of inventor Robert Brooklyn Bridge Park. Still, more than 130 residential units and 100 business- / Tom Callan / Tom P ing to a source — there were 40 board members in at- An outspoken cleric and political figure in Yemen, Sa- when the complex proposal cleaning. The “NO Parking 8 am-6 The Park Slope parade will proceed along enue and then north to 59th Street in then shops But chief among the concerns was that the new build- agents did not appear to be at fault. es will be displaced by the plan, which the mayor and oth- Or, he could just take off and maintain our uniqueness. I don’t Fulton, who brought a ferry connection to Brooklyn. the neighborhoods of Fort Greene tendance. Therefore, 21 votes were needed to adopt the tar was put under 24-hour surveillance as a precaution By Jotham Sederstrom well-known as a devotee of the 15th Street to Seventh Avenue, then up the av- Sunset Park where it will disperse at S find another city to strip mine. believe they have to be mutu- came before it last month. pm” signs have no such emblem. ing — which would rise at the 38 Water St. site that is Kelly discounted the notion er officials tout as necessary to stem the tide of corporate and Prospect Heights. City Councilman Albert Vann introduced legislation this The Brooklyn Papers borough’s culinary delights, “when enue to Union Street, across Union Street to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. The oasis, opening in Park Slope committee report. Ozzfest on Smith amid fears about possible terrorist attacks on New Year’s ally exclusive,” Markowitz In his recommendations, The 8 am to 6 pm alternate side now home to the single-story St. Ann’s Warehouse — that there was reason to believe back-office space moving to New Jersey and elsewhere. Ratner’s plan, designed by Frank Vince DiMiceli is senior editor Thus, the committee’s report was rejected. Eve. week recommending that the city co-name, rather than re- any of these restaurants see me Prospect Park West and then back to 15th grandstand will be at Fifth Av- By Lisa J. Curtis boards from that project, depicting more attractive told reporters Wednesday as he Markowitz calls on the city to Goodbye Elaine’s, hello parking rules are not considered would obstruct views of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, just the agents knew the man was suf- The complex rezoning of 60 blocks to make way for Ikea review begins Gehry, would again have a “park” in and production manager of The Adding to the strange happenings, before the final The sheik was never arrested or charged with a crime. Callan / Tom name, Fulton Street, which stretches from Downtown coming in they have a smile on Street. enue and 75th Street. Night owls of all sexual preferences may be time for the Gay Pride Parade, as first report- Street that features bands and DJs, the Voice GO Brooklyn Editor 20-somethings, are on display in the gallery, too. released his recommendation. work closely with the owner of Marco Polo. See TOWING on page 6 By Deborah Kolben 70 feet away. fering a heart attack. Bloomberg office, residential and academic towers and turn down- its middle, and it will probably get as Brooklyn Papers. E-mail: Produc- tally was counted, Patel asked to change her vote from But five years later, his name has resurfaced in an inves- Brooklyn to the Queens border. Signs would be added to the their face — and that’s not be- attracted to the two-story nightclub, especially ed in the Village Voice. reported. Brooke could not be reached for Ross’ impressionistic works exploring young, Brooklyn USA to find an BEGINSPAGE ON 7 The Brooklyn Papers next door Jed Walentas, Walentas’ son and a principal in their Papers The Brooklyn charged that the family’s version town into what city and borough officials say will be a By Deborah Kolben Dwight and Columbia streets along the Erie Basin [email protected] He stressed the importance of In an announcement sure to much use as the one at Metrotech — an abstention to an actual vote. Her request was shot The David Allen Gallery on Smith Street wealthy women’s fall from grace and society’s rub- tigation of the Brooklyn branch of an obscure charity — nine-mile thoroughfare reading “Harriet Tubman Avenue.” cause I’m the borough president, those who like to enjoy a cigarette with their Named Cattyshack, the nightclub will be comment. what he called “smart develop- equivalent location nearby. Vann announced the legislation Wednesday during a day- have Manhattanites reaching for Park Slope is known for having a Two Trees Management company, defended the proposal of the events was inaccurate. Both bustling, 24-7 hub, requires condemning at least seven The Brooklyn Papers — for the past two years. down by CB2 Chairwoman Shirley McRae. is raising some eyebrows with its exhibition bernecking fascination with watching the accidents its address a laundromat in Park Slope — that authorities if you know what I mean.” drink, as it will also feature a 1,200-square-foot located in a building nestled between a tire While Cattyshack may be the largest lesbian The Brooklyn Papers The Queen Mary 2, the world’s largest ocean liner, cruises past the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor Thursday morning. said the tape seemed to show acres of private property. ment” in the Downtown Plan. In the course of exercising long remembrance of the March 10 anniversary of Tub- their subway maps, Borough large lesbian population, and starting at the April 21 hearing, explaining that the building While the store would bring more cars and trucks Foster did not return telephone messages left on her of paintings by Jennifer Ross, which opens are exquisitely explored in a series of small acrylic have linked to terrorism. Markowitz boasted that the terrace for smokers disenfranchised by the city shop and an auto repair garage on Fourth Av- bar to hit the Slope, it’s certainly not the first. He was either incredibly dumb or really lazy, but a bandit would be consistent with the surrounding area. Avvinti loading groceries into the The Downtown Plan would allow for the construc- With tensions still mounting over the future this weekend. The Downtown Brooklyn its right of eminent domain to man’s death. Two of Tubman’s oldest living descendents President Marty Markowitz un- to the area, it would also create 500 to 600 part-time cell phone. Papers The Brooklyn this summer an East Village nightclub on Lexan paintings of Hilton’s haunting, turquoise Both the FBI surveillance of Satar and suspicions condemn properties for public veiled “Dine In Brooklyn,” his $18.98 price, inspired by the and state bans on smoking in bars, a contrac- enue, according to Brooke Webster, owner of The Rising Cafe, a pioneer lesbian estab- who robbed a bank in Downtown Brooklyn went to a clothing “We try very hard to be good neighbors,” Jed Walen- car after the agents had left. tion of at least 6.7 million square feet of office space, 1 of Red Hook and the neighborhood’s water- and full-time jobs that pay “competitive wages,” ac- Irene Van Slyke, a longtime community board mem- Is the surveillance tape of actress Winona Ry- face peering out of Lego frames and a large canvas about the Yemen-based Charitable Society for Social Plan would allow for the con- also joined in the festivities. year Brooklyn joined New owner will look to tap into that demo- front, Ikea moved one step closer to becom- struction of at least 6.7 million benefit the city is required to The street renaming motion passed in Community answer to the city’s semiannual Judicial selection process challenged tor working on the building confirmed. the bar and nightclub Meow Mix, a lesbian- lishment opened on Fifth Avenue and Berke- store next door to buy a suit — right after the robbery. tas said during a presentation to the board. “At no time after getting the million square feet of retail, 1,000 units of housing and cording to Ikea real estate manager Patrick Smith. ber, jumped up and took the microphone after the votes der’s sticky fingers in action, or the eerily lit bed- of a coolly beautiful Christina Aguilera being ogled Welfare, or CSSW, were made public for the first time Borough President Marty Markowitz announces his Down- York City, is $11 cheaper than square feet of office space, 1 hire an independent appraiser Boards 3, 5 and 16, whose communities are largely black restaurant week. graphic ... and maybe one other. The 4,000-square-foot bar will open just in oriented venue Meow Mix on East Houston See LESBIAN on page 6 As if popping into the Porta Bella clothing store on Fulton Street, just Laura Cheng, an architect with Beyer Blinder Belle, ticket before the heart attack was 2,500 parking spaces. ing a local reality this week. The company has promised to open up the hiring had been cast and McRae was still speaking. room romp of heiress Paris Hilton the stuff of art? by a second figure while Eminem, made up as last week at the federal trial of Numan Maflahi. town Plan recommendations at Borough Hall Tuesday. what’s demanded for dinners Queen Mary steams past B’klyn Michael Burke, director of the Downtown Brooklyn to determine the market value During the week of April 15- Associated Press them in general elections. robs voters of their constitutional District Attorney Charles Hynes, a storefront or two away from the HSBC bank he had just robbed, was the firm that is designing the building, described the Wa- Avvinti putting groceries given to The Swedish home furnishings giant certified process to residents in Red Hook’s 11231 ZIP code “Now the borough president won’t understand what Ross seems to think so, as these women — caught million square feet of retail, and which also share the majority of the nine-mile thor- Marilyn Manson, rears his fearsomely painted face Maflahi, 31, who was a director of the charity’s of a property, according to a 22, diners will have a chance to during Manhattan’s restaurant The Brennan Center for Justice right to choose their Supreme who has been investigating judicial not bonehead enough, the bungling bandit set off a dye pack when he lentas plan as “sympathetic and respectful to the DUM- him by his wife in the trunk of the Council, an offshoot of the Brooklyn Chamber of Com- with the city plans to construct a 346,000-square- two weeks before any other applications are collect- this vote means,” she said. as much by their celebrity as by their self destruc- from the bottom of the composition toward the Brooklyn branch, was convicted of obstructing an FBI 1,000 units of housing and oughfare. weeks [lunches went for ANew York University watch- By Richard Pyle rived nearly on schedule, just after 8 boats spouting red, white and blue wa- len Smith, of Yorkshire, England, who Neil Sloane / CB2 blows it bigtime 2,500 parking spaces. spokeswoman for the city Department of Housing Preservation But Community Board 2 voted down a proposal last No- nosh on three-course, prix fixe at NYU wants the system changed Court justices, and destroys their corruption, commended the Bren- went to pay. BO community. car,” said attorney Sanford Ruben- merce that helped conceive the plan, praised the alter- foot store along the Erie Basin, kicking off review ed, although they say federal law prohibits them “We just weren’t finished,” said Van Slyke, who is tive behavior — have inspired her paintings, which sycophantic scene above. probe by lying about fund-raising with Satar during the $20.04 this year]. The price is dog group asked a federal court But neighbors who attended the meeting disagreed, Associated Press am, after making up time lost to the ter. Earlier, it passed under the Veraz- made the voyage with her two sisters. stein, who is representing the fam- ations. of those plans, which must pass the city’s Uniform meals from 93 restaurants in 20 to direct primaries, where voters faith in the judiciary,” Brennan nan Center for “challenging a The debacle began at 12:40 pm, on April 7, when the man entered / Jori Klein from promising that any percentage of those jobs As part of the plan the city intends to condemn seven acres of and Development, the agency that would be involved in assisting vember to rename Fulton Street from Classon Avenue to Callan / Tom opposed to most parts of the Downtown Plan. are on display at the gallery now through April 25. In this show, Ross’ fascination with America’s sheik’s 1999 visit. He faces up to five years in prison at the same for either lunch or Thursday to change the way the fog and to storms during the first two zano Narrows Bridge, which links The docking came 92 years and a “We see these as positive changes,” said Burke. MAGINE it’s the Super Bowl. should get the boot first. Her name is recommendation goes to the borough to minimize land use or environmental private property including 130 residential units and 100 business- business and residential property owners in relocating. Market val- Flatbush Avenue and coname the portion from Flatbush Av- Papers The Brooklyn Brooklyn neighborhoods. Aside themselves would get the chance to Center lawyer Jeremy Creelan said. process where party leadership de- the bank at 342 Fulton St. and passed a note to a teller demanding cash. saying they found the proposal disrespectful to the his- The world’s largest ocean liner, ily in a $100 million wrongful Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP. would be held for Red Hook residents. She explained that a “yes” vote actually meant vot- The artist is also intrigued by reality TV pro- bloodthirsty cult of celebrity quickly makes a sentencing on May 26. dinner, at restaurants offering state selects judges, arguing the days of its inaugural trans-Atlantic Bay Ridge and Staten Island, with less week after another New York-bound Your team is down by three points Rachel Foster, and she is an appointee NOT JUST NETS president and to the City Planning Com- impacts are not adopted by the [City es in the downtown area. ue is generally lower, however, than what brokers often term fair enue to Adams Street. from 38 Zagat-rated eateries, in- pick each party’s candidates. The elections board did not im- termines who becomes a Supreme Hip Halcyon, off Smith, DUMBO-bound He left with an undetermined amount of cash. toric bridge. the Queen Mary 2, steamed into a death suit, a notice of which they “The core values of the plan are still there and we have The proposal has been tearing at the seams of an Ikea has also included a 6.2-acre waterfront es- of Councilman David Yassky. mission and is generally taken into con- Planning] Commission.” ing down eminent domain portions of the plan and sev- gramming, using a television image of “The Os- viewer hungry for more. While investigating Yemeni suspects in New York, an the special on both menus. current system gives too much The suspect ran out of the bank and ducked into Porta Bella at 348 Following a series of impassioned pleas from commu- crossing, which began in Southamp- than 20 feet to spare. British ocean liner, the Titanic, sank filed with the city last week. “In positively responded to the community and it’s a better already socially and economically divided commu- planade and a “green” roof with solar energy panels but has the ball on the 1 yard line. / Jori Klein Among their ranks are a college of architecture and a clothing market value, which tends to be a truer indicator of what a proper- While the issue has been tearing at the seams of the al- cluding Planet Thailand in The center filed a lawsuit in mediately return a call for com- Court Justice through an ‘election’ I eral street demappings that would make way for larger bournes” boarding a jet with the family pooch as The David Allen Gallery is located at FBI counterterrorism team became convinced that hazy New York Harbor Thursday, after striking an iceberg on its maiden plan because of it.” Then the coach sends the quarterback McRae was appointed originally by sideration (although with a majority of With such an involved plan before store, both of which Markowitz is asking the city spare. ty can bring on the open market. ready contentious Downtown community board for the past Williamsburg and Patois on “Manhattanites and many power to county political bosses. Brooklyn federal court against the ment. that is a sham.” By Jotham Sederstrom to DUMBO, another up-and-coming move its retail operations to 57 Pearl St. in twofold in an undisclosed Brooklyn neighbor- Fulton St. nity members, including representatives of the Brooklyn ton, England, last Friday. Passengers stepped ashore on a dock fact, his wife, after learning her nity, splitting the neighborhood into two camps — in their plan. More than 70,000 square feet of addi- the late Councilwoman Mary Pinkett. the planning commissioners serving at them — in which the city has unfairly development sites. a departure point for the 2002 acrylic on Lexan 331 Smith St., between Carroll and CSSW was a “front organization to funnel money to ter- Chief rabbi others have been crossing their Under current rules, Democratic “I want to buy a suit,” he said. Heights, Fulton Ferry Landing and DUMBO Neighbor- just clearing the Verrazano Nar- Onlookers watched from vantage on Manhattan’s West Side raving about voyage, killing 1,503 people. husband was stricken, ran to his Other changes announced by the planning commis- those concerned about bringing jobs to the neigh- tional retail and restaurant space would also be in- in … to take a knee. The Institute of Design and Construction, a 57-year-old college The spokeswoman, Carol Abrams, said businesses that lease three years, this week there was finally some consensus. Smith Street, the list extends to state Board of Elections. The center The lawsuit took aim at what the Hynes launched his investigation The Brooklyn Papers neighborhood in need of a late-night early May, an indication that the balance of hood sometime next year. the pleasure of the mayor, the fix may combined a massive rezoning with a OCATED JUST BLOCKS from the proposed called “Kelly, Sharon & Maggie Getting on President streets, in Carroll Gardens. rorists,” FBI agent Brian Murphy testified at Maflahi’s Papers The Brooklyn rows Bridge and stopping near the sion Monday included cutting out a portion of the plan Game over. She now serves at the pleasure of on Willoughby Street at Flatbush Avenue Extension, is slated to space would be assisted by the agency and that the Economic De- With a vote of 40-1 in favor of conaming the strip the Rabbi Aaron Raskin and his wife, Shternie, celebrate classics like Tatiana in Brighton own bridge and ours for years,” and Republican leaders handpick asked a judge to declare the current plaintiffs said is a complicated set of of the Brooklyn judiciary after the ar- the operation could be following soon after. Jason Charles, a spokesman for Halcyon’s But when he reached into his coat pocket to pull out some of the cash hood associations, the CB2 land use committee voted points in Bay Ridge and Red Hook as the QM2’s amenities, from the art deco The QM2 had no iceberg trouble, aid without groceries.” borhood and those who fear Ikea traffic will destroy cluded along the waterfront. well be in at that level of review). massive urban renewal expansion to al- Atlantic Yards site where developer Bruce Rat- Plane” (pictured). The gallery is open Wednesday trial. A Boerum Hill coffeehouse and boost. Statue of Liberty on the way to its Papers File The Brooklyn area that overlaps with developer Bruce Ratner’s At- What happens next? The coach gets Councilwoman Letitia James. be among the first properties to go. velopment Corporation would also work with displaced commer- board sent along its seal of approval. Purim at Congregation B’nai Avaraham in Brooklyn Beach and one of Markowitz’s said Markowitz, “but the truth Lisa and Nicole Bamonte, from Ba- the candidates for Supreme Court system unconstitutional and give the obstacles set up to make sure party rest of Supreme Court Justice Gerald The all-things-for-all-people cafe and club owners — Ben Wild and cousins Stephen he had just robbed, a dye pack hidden inside a stack of the bills explod- unanimously, with one abstention, to reject the proposal. the ship’s arrival was marked by post- styling to computer and dance classes. but the rough weather — with 30-foot “[The Avvinti family] is out- their quality of life. While some residents see the coming of Ikea as Still, especially since the city rushed low for a massive build-up — it was es- ner is looking to construct a $2.5 billion residen- According to Gallery Director David Allen, Ross through Sunday, noon to 6 pm. Satar, in a statement, insisted he and Maflahi did noth- lantic Yards development, a triangular lot at the intersec- canned. All board members ultimately serve “I believe they can move ahead and let the institute stay,” said cial tenants to find “suitable new commercial space in the area.” Before the meeting an inflammatory, unsigned letter cir- Heights on Sunday. The holiday commemorates — favorites, Junior’s. is, they’ve been coming to monte’s in Williamsburg, display a sig- justice posts at nominating conven- Legislature 90 days to replace it. leaders choose which delegates go Garson last April. Garson was the nightclub credited with bringing night- Halcyon, a venue at 227 Smith St. that closed its doors this week after owners an- and Shawn Schwartz — would neither con- ed. The dye pack sent acrid red smoke into the air and stained and The committee also passed a resolution asking that fu- first-ever docking in Manhattan. Sept. 11 security measures and the “Until you go on the ship, you can’t seas and force-10 gales gusting to 63 raged at the distortions and fabri- Vincent Battista, president of the Institute of Design and Construction, in front of the Ikea has been in contract to purchase the 22-acre the creation of a suburban-style strip mall, Ikea offi- L Papers The Brooklyn has recorded on video her own imaginary office For Community Board 2, Tuesday’s under the appointing authority of the such a voluminous and complicated pro- sential that the board be instructed to tial and commercial village centered around a profes- For more information, call ing wrong. And the former head of another group also “Trust me,” said Markowitz, See CHEAP on page 14 nature dish at Borough Hall Thursday. tions before the public votes on “The current selection system to the nominating convention. life to Smith Street is slated for a move also sells records, DJ gear and furniture, will nounced they were planning to expand See BANK on page 6 See WALENTAS on page 7 The opulent Cunard Line vessel ar- customary Gotham greeting — fire- appreciate the grandeur of it,” said He- See MARY on page 6 See TICKET on page 6 school's building at 141 Willoughby St, where the school will now remain. See D’TOWN on page 15 former New York Shipyard site — roughly between See IKEA on page 14 posal before them — dumping the 210- Markowitz. As far as residential renters, Abrams said, “Every effort is made culated around the room calling the board “irrational” and with costumes and merriment — the Jewish victory See CHALLENGE on page 6 See HALCYON on page 6 vote on the Downtown Brooklyn Plan borough president. vote separately on the rezoning propos- sional basketball arena to house his recently purchased Halcyon, at 227 Smith St., with its Stevie Wonder-inspired paint job, will close in April. The drama, “Day Job,” and (paint on vellum) story- (718) 488-5568. called CSSW, based in the Midwest, said that the now- page ULURP application on the board als and the urban renewal-eminent do- Under the plan as it currently reads, the four-story building would See MARTY GETS BEHIND DOWNTOWN PLAN on page 5 See TUBMAN on page 15 over a genocide plot in Persia 2,500 years ago. was the big game, and they had it in After her ill-prepared board failed to New Jersey Nets, some of the approximately 400 pro- owners say they’ll reopen next year at an as yet unnamed location elsewhere in Brooklyn. BEGINSPAGE ON 7 See TERROR on page 6 reach a consensus on the one vote they right before the December holidays, main proposals within the plan, or at testers who packed the high school auditorium thought their hands … and they blew it. leaving less than the required 60 days least separately vote on each of the land The coach, in this case the board’s took, McRae had the gall to say it was CB2 was actually voting on the arena plan. for actual consideration — the chair- use committee’s five recommendations. Draped in American flags and armed with placards RESERVE chairwoman, Shirley McRae, didn’t make not her role to tell board members to woman should have scheduled a special Those votes would have formed the Check out The Papers’ $ a bad call — she made no call at all. In make a motion. 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The Brooklyn Papers and state finances,” the report reads. The Brooklyn Papers Bender told The Brooklyn Papers, speak- Bender’s comments surprised many resi- In addition to their independent NOT JUST NETS Britta Atlantic Center mall, was always intended AForest City Ratner executive said An economic analysis re- NOT JUST NETS By Deborah Kolben foot vaulted ceilings, Plehn said it de- tas, famed for converting the industrial ecutive vice president, made the remarks ing of the increased need for parking with for retail shoppers. dents and community officials, who be- analysis, Peebles said that he and After battling to have their voices heard in THE NEW BROOKLYN Witnesses’ four towers BUSINESS he expects most shoppers at the soon-to- leased this week blasted de- lieved the developer’s intent was to encour- Kim consulted independent think an official public forum, community mem- The Brooklyn Papers NOT JUST NETS pended on what the new owners buildings of the neighborhood be- this week in response to questions about the nation’s second largest Target depart- “We don’t want people parking on the eloper Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic THE NEW BROOKLYN planned to do with the building. tween the Manhattan and Brooklyn open Atlantic Terminal shopping mall the company’s plan to end residential park- ment store anchoring the new mall. streets,” he said. age the use of mass transit since the mall tanks, professors and non-profits bers were left fuming this week when a City The Williamsburgh Savings Bank will drive rather than take mass transit. ing at the ailing Atlantic Center, across the He said people would not likely carry The new Atlantic Terminal shopping and office complex was built atop one of Yards arena and high-rise plan for their study. Council hearing on the Atlantic Yards arena COMPLETE COVERAGE EDC won’t release pier study While it is still unclear what will bridges into luxury lofts, was also con- THE NEW BROOKLYN as a money loser that would Long on talent building, the tallest in Brooklyn, happen, many believe the building sidering a bid on the building, accord- Bruce Bender, a Forest City Ratner ex- street from Atlantic Terminal. the goods they purchase at the mall on a center is set to open on July 25. The new See DRIVERS on page 4 Ratner purchased the New Jer- will double population and Urban Divers. By Deborah Kolben and Neil Sloane proposal left them waiting nearly five hours ONLINE AT By Lisa J. Curtis noted for its gold dome and density could be converted into condos. ing to Jed Walentas, the developer’s cost the state and city more Mango / Greg sey Nets this year and, pending ap- to testify. Michael Sherman, an EDC spokesman, told GO Brooklyn editor An exhibit of a wide variety of artworks by The Brooklyn Papers of dental offices, is on the auction The real estate firm of Cushman & son and partner in their Two Trees than half-a-billion dollars. proval of the NBA, plans to move The delay meant that their testimony was not By Deborah Kolben 1,500 residents. The Watchtow- anything that the neighborhood EXCLUSIVE The Brooklyn Papers, “There are no such plans hundreds of artists, the Brooklyn Waterfront City officials shocked waterfront activists this week, block, and experts believe the build- Wakefield is handling the sale. Management firm. “Make no mistake, this proj- them to Brooklyn. He has main- BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM / Jori Klein Critically acclaimed talents and youth er buildings would house about needs,” she said, adding that she at the moment,” when asked about the study’s re- NOT JUST NETS Artists Coalition Pier Show 12 continues, and heard by most daily news media, whose reporters The Brooklyn Papers groups alike will strut their stuff on the announcing that a nearly half-million-dollar, taxpayer- ing will be converted to luxury con- Real estate experts expect the building In the 1920s, the Williamsburgh ect from Forest City Ratner will tained that the project would use left to file stories for the evening deadline, and You’ll find the most complete coverage 2,000 more. is also concerned about the in- lease. THE NEW BROOKLYN will be on display in the warehouse at 499 Van be using taxpayer money, and almost no public money because it of the Downtown Brooklyn and Atlantic The DUMBO neighbor- By Deborah Kolben Beard Street Pier in Red Hook this Sat- funded plan for the future of Piers 6-12 — completed dominium apartments. to sell for between $60 million to $90 Savings Bank, with its headquarters on even many council members and officials had The religious organization, creased traffic the development “It was always just going to be for our internal Brunt St. from noon to 6 pm. loads of it,” said Gustav Peebles, would be financed largely by the Terminal urban renewal plans every week just last month — was “outdated.” Bids were due this week on the 31- million. Broadway and Driggs Avenue in long since departed the council chambers by the hood, known for artist stu- whose world headquarters al- will bring. The Brooklyn Papers use,” he said, adding that an executive summary urday, May 22, as part of the 10th annual The Arts Festival events take place from 1 pm of Fort Greene, a Columbia Uni- tax revenue it would generate.
A number of developers have ex- Williamsburg, began construction on Papers File The Brooklyn only in The Brooklyn Papers. Then go dios, stunning Manhattan Hamilton, Rabinovitz & Alschuler, saying they Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival. to 5 pm at the Beard Street Pier, Van Brunt The study, for which the city Economic Development Cor- story city landmark at the corner of time the largely anti-arena testifiers spoke. online for an archive of all our stories. The Department of Red Hook residents and merchants who or “highlights” of the study might be released “at ignored community input throughout the process Flatbush Avenue and Hanson Place — pressed interest in the property. the building at 1 Hanson Place. Union workers and ACORN versity researcher who co-au- But even Zimbalist, in his an- poration and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Bruce Ratner The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn views and relatively unclut- City Planning has been some point.” Among the troupes that will take the stage are Street at the Red Hook Channel, and the per- Charge city big thored the report with Jung Kim, alysis, estimated that Atlantic By the last hour of the hearing, which ran until have been eagerly awaiting the results of a and came in with a preconceived agenda to jointly paid a consulting firm across the street from the Long Island Rumors circulated this week that real The skyscraper — with a four-faced about 7:30 pm, only the chairman of the Eco- tered streets, may soon NOT JUST NETS working with the “Our thinking is that we’re just using the in- the Urban Bush Women, Dance Wave Kids Com- formances are free. For more information, visit an urban planner. Yards would cost taxpayers at major city-sponsored study on the future of squeeze the working ship port out. more than $400,000, was Railroad Terminal and the new Atlantic estate mogul Bruce Ratner, who just clock, the largest in the world at the nomic Development Committee that hosted the council members were still in attendance. Almost more than double its resi- THE NEW BROOKLYN Watchtower Society the working waterfront will have a lot formation to clarify our position on the piers,” pany and the Pee Wee Hoofers (pictured). The the Web sites www.dancetheatreetcetera.org or THE NEW BROOKLYN Peebles said he felt compelled ber of Develop–Don’t Destroy $449 million. Pressed by a coun- Results of that study, which community mem- originally scheduled for com- Terminal shopping mall and one block built the Atlantic Terminal mall across time it was built — was completed in Brooklyn, a group opposed to the hearing, Queens Councilman James Sanders, and all the press had gone, and even the EDC offi- Hannah Yagudina, 10, laughs with Tangerine the Clown on Wednesday at John J. Pershing Intermediate School. Chronically ill children and their fami- dential population. for the past year and a longer to wait. Sherman said. band Heritage O.P., whose music has been heard www.bwac.org. to undertake the study after a cilwoman at a public hearing the bers were led to believe would be made public, ANew York Water Taxi shuttle will run pletion in January. Last week, away from the proposed Atantic Yards the street from the 512-foot Williams- 1929. Prospect Heights project, Peebles Prospect Heights Councilwoman Letitia James, a cials had packed up their bags and headed out. The Watchtower Bible and half to develop an ap- Astudy on the feasibility of bringing the cruise in Broadway’s “The Lion King” and Marc Mango / Greg sports economist commissioned day the Zimbalist study was re- lies gathered at the school for an evening of games, celebrity guests and gifts through the Kids Wish Network “Holiday of Hope” program. Maybe, forever. were originally to be released last August but after months of stonewalling, Nets arena site. burgh Bank building and seeks to build The Williamsburg Savings Bank rally for ‘jobs, housing, hoops’ Levin’s 2001 film “Brooklyn Babylon,” will per- between Pier 63 Maritime at West 23rd this week charged sports econo- member of the committee and a staunch oppo- Bertha Lewis, executive director of the Asso- Tract Society, commonly known ready lies at the neighborhood’s propriate design for the build- Officials with the city Economic Development ship industry to one or more of the Brooklyn And there was no shortage of interest. ing said, Pamela Plehn, a spokes- a taller building as the gateway to his continued to operate out of the building by Ratner claimed the $2.5 bil- leased in May, Forest City Ratner were repeatedly pushed back. form traditional African and modern music. Street in Manhattan and the arts fes- EDC officials acknowledged 3-year mist Andrew Zimbalist based his nent of the plan, remained out of nine members ciation of Community Organizations for Reform as the Jehovah’s Witnesses reli- perimeter, owns the three acre ings half a block from the Man- lied about lion Atlantic Yards project Vice President James Stuckey ac- Corp., which co-sponsored with the Port Authority docks will also meet the same fate, Sherman said. “By denying access to this important informa- Current owner HSBC — an interna- woman for HSBC. $2.5 billion Atlantic Yards project, has until it was acquired by Republic Na- The Waterfront Arts Festival also includes tival on May 22. For the New Callan / Tom that the study had been com- Ratner-commissioned Atlantic of the panel. Now (ACORN), which is in support of the plan, gious order, is expected within site. hattan Bridge overpass. of New York and New Jersey the $400,000 tax- That news came as a shock to the many com- tion that was gathered with taxpayer money, the tional bank with its headquarters in “It really no longer fits in with our his sights on the icon. tional Bank in the 1980s. would put $800 million into city knowledged that the public’s price dance and beat-box workshops, storytelling and York Water Taxi schedule, visit pleted, but said it would not Yards report on faulty assumptions More than 300 supporters and opponents of blasted officials, saying that if city officials had the next two weeks to submit to “This huge piece of land is Once certified, the clock payer-funded study of the best uses for Piers 6-12, munity groups and elected officials who have EDC has blocked the public from making its London — took over the building in core strategy,” Plehn said. Aspokesman for Ratner declined to With sweeping views of Brooklyn and state coffers. tag for Atlantic Yards would be in the plan packed into the standing-room-only really wanted community input they would have the city its plan to build four going to be a fortress to the rest would start on the city’s rigor- hula-hoop performances as well as boat rides and www.nywatertaxi.com or call release it to the public. The Peebles and Kim report and “misleading” figures. the hundreds of millions. said they will not release the results to the public. continually criticized the study’s consultants, 1999 when it acquired Republic Na- Asked if HSBC would continue to comment on his interest in the pro- and Manhattan, the Neo-Romanesque- Papers The Brooklyn of the neighborhood,” said ous land use review process, See WATERFRONT on page 6 other activities offered by the Gowanus Dredgers (212) 287-2224. On Monday, confronted dock “By reanalyzing the data and the AForest City Ratner spokes- council chambers at 10 am on Tuesday, many let the community speak. soaring apartment buildings on tional Bank. operate a branch office in the landmark perty. style limestone building once housed concludes that the project will Kids’wishes come true BEGINSPAGE ON 9 with The Brooklyn Papers’ assumptions, we come to much man declined to comment for this taking the day off from work to weigh in on the ACORN brought six buses of supporters of an immense plot of land bound- Christy Newberg, who moved with public hearings before It uses about one-third of the build- ground-floor marble space with 63- DUMBO developer David Walen- See TALLEST on page 18 be a net loss to taxpayers — to $2.5 billion commercial, retail and residential de- Ratner’s arena, office skyscraper and housing ed by Jay, Front, York and into the new 32-unit luxury con- Community Board 2, Borough exclusive report on their D’town study the tune of $506 million. more negative conclusions regard- article. agency’s refusal to release Mermaids on parade velopment in Prospect Heights. plan to the hearing. Bridge streets. dominium at 79 Bridge St., President Marty Markowitz, the Papers File The Brooklyn An anthropologist who studies ing the impact of the entire 17 high- In addition to the Frank Gehry- The DUMBO Neighborhood across the street from the pro- City Planning Commission and the pier study — and with a deal See story on page 5. economic history and is a mem- rise and arena Brooklyn Atlantic While representatives of Atlantic Yards devel- “Some community members had to leave to go ‘Hope’ program gives sick children a holiday By Deborah Kolben been claimed by property Bunny Love (right) hangs with Venus the Fiji Mermaid during the annual costume parade in Coney Island on Sunday. See RATNER on page 4 Ed Weintrob An aerial view of the piers along Columbia Street. Despite an expensive study funded by taxpayers, the future of the piers remains uncertain. Freedom of Information re- oper Bruce Ratner and his Forest City Ratner pick up their children from school,” said Lewis, Association estimates that the posed development, last August. the City Council. The Brooklyn Papers owners there. company, as well as officials from the city Eco- who railed against the hearing’s organizers for put- By Jotham Sederstrom Joseph’s mother. “The kids loved it. of the kids are being treated for can- doctors, they all consider Joseph part area currently is home to about “It’s not going to provide See DUMBO on page 15 quest pending — an EDC of- Sources say Sirefman testified that neither nomic Development Corp. and Borough Presi- ting off community speakers until the end. ficial said the agency would City Council members / Jori Klein The Brooklyn Papers The music, the dancing, everything.” cer, leukemia, diabetes and hyperten- of their family. And Joseph considers Catucci stays E 227 Duffield St., 233 Duffield dent Marty Markowitz — both proponents of the Norman Siegel, the lawyer and former head of The May 12 soiree was thrown sion, which at a young age can be them part of his. This was just a release the analysis, but then IV and several preservation St. nor 436 Gold St. met the the New York Civil Liberties Union, who is rep- Joseph Israel, a 9-year-old Heights on the market called it all but worthless. S groups accused a high- plan, which would bring the New Jersey Nets especially for children being treated deadly. great time for him.” Protesters need National Parks Service criteria By Deborah Kolben U basketball team to Brooklyn — all got a chance resenting about 150 residents fighting the con- with all the energy of a locomo- for life-threatening or debilitating Joseph is asthmatic and has multi- Founded in 1998, the Kids Wish “We changed our mind,” L CB6 OK’s ranking Bloomberg ad- for preserving the history of the said EDC Vice President An- The Brooklyn Papers C Familiar faces to speak at some length, community members demnation of their property to build the 21-acre tive, could hardly sit still on chronic illnesses at Maimonides ple allergies, so much so that he’s Network touched down on Brooklyn X ministration official of ly- Underground Railroad. CB6 panel gives Ikea thumbs-up drew Genn, pressed by a / Jori Klein were offered just two-minute slots and did not development, also called the hearing “extremely Wednesday in what normally Medical Center, which is on 10th had to forgo all food. Instead, he this week for the first time since or- American Stevedoring, a E ing this week in testimony That research, Sirefman The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Watchtower move could ignite real estate boom Community Board 6 water- get to testify until after 3 pm. unfair.” serves as a cafeteria at the John Avenue at 48th Street, a block away drinks an amino-acid formula, a ganizing its first “Holiday of Hope” to adjust focus shipping company that em- he gave about efforts to said, was partly based on con- Fireworks shut Heights front committee member to Attorney Norman Siegel, flanked by Councilwoman Letitia James, speaks to reporters on behalf of the coalition Develop Don't Destory-Brooklyn, in By that time less than half of those who had “People this morning said they wanted an J. Pershing Intermediate School from the school. powder mixed with water. First diag- event two years ago, as a way of let- By Deborah Kolben The landmarks and land use occupying the 22-acre former New — those concerned about bringing public housing projects that ac- ploys 600 people, has been determine the historic sta- sultations with more than a By Deborah Kolben explain the discrepancy be- operating on the Red Hook City Hall Tuesday. The press conference was held before the Economic Devleopment Committee’s hearing on Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards plan. wished to testify remained and only a handful of See PUBLIC SHUT OUT on page 15 in Borough Park. Organized by the Kids Wish Net- nosed as an infant, he has been hos- ting terminally ill children, who might Ikea divides The Brooklyn Papers committee voted overwhelmingly York Shipyard site — roughly be- jobs to the neighborhood and those count for most of the neighbor- tus of three buildings that dozen agencies including the at Nathan’s dog By Deborah Kolben And to meet those expectations they will close Landing running a close second. t’s not just the Nets, and it’s not just em- Brooklyn’s success — historically and to- The Brooklyn Papers EXCLUSIVE tween his statement and The and Columbia Street piers From a booth where volunteers work, a Florida-based charity created pitalized more than 25 times. Be- not make it to the next big holiday or Aplan to build an Ikea store on in favor of welcoming the tween Dwight and Columbia who fear Ikea traffic will destroy hood’s population. Ikea plan would be torn down under highly respected Schomburg The Brooklyn Papers several major neighborhood arteries to both traffic Police are warning anyone planning to travel to day — is due in large part to our having Papers’ May 22 article, which
inent domain. Whether Bruce Ratner without a lease since the end Papers The Brooklyn specifically to cheer up kids like cause he is home schooled, as a celebration, enjoy a day of festivity. The Watchtower Bible and Swedish home furnishings giant. streets along the Erie Basin. their quality of life and that better Some of those supporters at- Center for Research in Black strung beads for bracelets, to another has his way with us, in transforming avoided the walled mega-block syndrome the Red Hook waterfront moved a quoted an EDC spokesman of April. the proposed Downtown and parking. Brooklyn Heights to leave their cars at home as parking where faces were being painted, Is- Joseph, the “Holiday of Hope” party precaution against allergies, Joseph While similar parties have been held I Tract Society, one of the largest gious order might want to sell off. For the past several months the The proposal has been tearing at uses could be found for the valuable At right, Bertha Lewis, of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), speaks in Brooklyn Plan. Culture. Police are expecting Brooklyn Heights and Running above the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in the neighborhood — which is normally a tough go that is Ratner’s tool to wealth. Neighbor- step closer to city approval tended Thursday’s meeting wear- as saying the agency would But on Thursday the com- By Deborah Kolben rael and about 100 other children be- had children forgetting their illnesses doesn’t have many opportunities to in Texas, Florida and Ohio, the bash Brooklyn from its status as a perpetually property owners in Brooklyn Watchtower owns 29 properties in support of the Atlantic Yards project during Thursday’s pro-arena rally outside Borough Hall. Above, anti- But Christopher Moore, ex- eating contest Fulton Ferry Landing to be packed with specta- along the East River, between Remsen and Orange — will on July 4 be near impossible as several streets communities in and around Red the seams of an already socially and waterfront property. The Brooklyn Papers The full council is sched- evolving multi-textured urban quilt into a hoods prosper — and sometimes decline in Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO includ- Thursday night when a Com- ing yellow “Ikea Great Idea” T- not release the study. pany, which runs the only tween the ages of 3 and 18 were full for at least one evening. stray far from home or the hospital. with Maimonides was special be- Heights, may soon be unloading arena activist Patti Hagan (holding sign) is flanked by police after being hassled by project enthusiasts. uled to vote on the sweeping hibitions research coordinator tors angling for a spectacular view of Sunday’s streets, the promenade should offer the best view of are closed to vehicles. Even residents will have to move sterile Manhattanized version of cul-de-sac order to regenerate and prosper anew — or- ing 21 residential buildings ranging from munity Board 6 committee rec- Hook have has been battling over economically divided community, Ikea has successfully rallied sup- shirts and baseball caps. And while that news came container port in Brooklyn, Like it or not, “Flarke” and “Hensvik” may soon of pent-up energy — and their fami- According to Lenia Maropakis, “Maimonides is Joseph’s second cause the charity was co-founded by some of its high-end Brooklyn property condemnation and re- for the Schomburg Center, tes- By Krista Larson Fourth of July fireworks extravaganza. the Macy’s sponsored pyrotechnics, with Fulton their cars from some streets, which will have fliers post- Red Hook suburbia, will depend more on our collec- ganically; urban renewal’s bulldozer is pros- brownstones to apartment buildings. ommended approving the plan. the prospect of the big box store splitting Red Hook into two camps port in the Red Hook Houses, two See IKEA on page 4 See PIER STUDY on page 4 See DEAL on page 4 become part of the Brooklyn lexicon. tified on Monday that nobody lies were loving it. director of the Child Life Program in home,” said Beverly Israel. “The ed, or face relocation by tow truck, police said. Shelley Breiner, a Brooklynite who Heights real estate, a Watchtower By Deborah Kolben 1,000 supporters — many organ- wants to build the $2.5 billion zoning plan on June 28. Associated Press Great deals, “It was great,” said Beverly Israel, the hospital’s pediatrics wing, many cafeteria workers, the nurses and tive vision than on our individual pocket- perity’s foe. “There’s a possibility some of those Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea received its first from the city had ever contact- The streets closed to traffic between the hours Coalition cracking See WISHES on page 4 spokesman told The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Papers ized by the District Council of residential and commercial de- At the council’s public hear- buildings might go up for sale,” Watch- books. The soulless utopia Bruce Ratner would stamp of approval this week when Community Board 6 voted ing on June 8, the chief operat- ed his organization regarding Bill “El Wingador” Sim- of roughly 6 pm and some time after crowds have investments,” said Dorothy Shields, president of Papers this week. tower spokesman Richard Devine told Carpenters, Association of Com- velopment with a 19,000-seat Jobs and traffic the Red Hook Houses East Tenants Association. That Ratner would pay handsomely to si- impose won’t please and won’t generate a to approve the application for a 346,000-square-foot store First came the flier, then ing officer of the city Econom- Duffield Street. mons traces his competitive dispersed will be: The corporate entity of the Jeho- The Papers. munity Organizations for Reform arena, provided the lunch. Callan / Tom amazing views Like many other residents of the public housing de- widening swath of prosperity. For evidence, along the Erie Basin in Red Hook. came the rally. ic Development Corporation, “I have never spoken to any eating abilities way back: — Montague, Remsen and Pierrepont between Source: Owners starting to cut deals lence critics should never have been in vah’s Witnesses religion recently In addition to the potential new resi- Now (ACORN) and the pro-are- Just two weeks ago Ratner By Lisa J. Curtis are focus of first velopment, Shields sported a yellow Ikea T-shirt. doubt. With the club of eminent domain in consider Metrotech and its immediate envi- The board voted 34-4 with two abstentions in favor of the Organized labor and commu- na group BUILD — who carried sent out 300,000 glossy pam- Joshua Sirefman, testified that representative of your firm “As soon as I could walk I Court Street and the promenade. sold off a hulking, 12-story building dential complex in DUMBO the reli- plan following a two-hour discussion at its monthly general about the possibility or proba- — Furman and Hicks streets between Atlantic Av- GO Brooklyn Editor The T-shirts and bottles of water bearing “Red one hand and a checkbook in the other, the rons; compare that massively subsidized at 360 Furman St. at Atlantic Av- gious order is moving many of its nity groups flooded the steps of signs and chanted in support of phlets to residents across Brook- a dozen historic organizations ran to the dinner table By Deborah Kolben Metrotech office complex in ments, sources told The Brook- public hearing Hook [symbol of a heart] Ikea” stickers were be- meeting at the Park Slope YMCA on June 9. Borough Hall at noon Thursday “Jobs, Housing and Hoops.” lyn promoting his project. / Jori Klein had been consulted in making bility of Underground Rail- enue and Old Fulton Street. THIS WEEKEND On Saturday, May 8, the Brooklyn Waterfront Art- homeowners on Ratner’s site would of dead zone in our midst to what has happened enue for $200 million. printing facilities to Wallkill, N.Y., 90 before my sister got there.” — Columbia Heights, Montague Terrace and Pier- The Brooklyn Papers Downtown Brooklyn. lyn Papers. ing passed out at the door. Callan / Tom Three of the four board members who voted against the in a show of support for the pro- Not to mention heroes — Ratner has agreed to purchase the determination that houses road activity on or near ists Coalition unveils its 12th annual Pier Art Show EXCLUSIVE Just last week, all but two of The art-deco former storage Water taxi floats to Ridge? By Deborah Kolben course choose to live in luxury somewhere throughout such Brownstone Brooklyn And they may not stop there. miles outside of New York City. plan live in Red Hook, the fourth lives in neighboring Carroll Now the four-time Phila- repont Terrace, between Remsen and Old Fulton A coalition of property And earlier this week Mayor Michael Bloom- The choice to serve posed Atlantic Yards basketball sandwiches that is, which were the New Jersey Nets for $300 along Duffield and Gold Duffield Street,” said Moore, with a reception and a live performance by the band else than sustain high-risk combat against neighborhoods as Boerum Hill and Carroll The religious organization, whose Real estate brokers in the area have Papers File The Brooklyn delphia “Wing Bowl” cham- streets. sources told The Brooklyn Pa- the 31 condominium owners at building, converted into luxury By Jotham Sederstrom restore ferry service between Manhat- for the additional location. The Brooklyn Papers berg broke his silence on the plan. Gardens. arena, office tower and housing handed out to those who attended million pending NBA approval, streets in Downtown Brooklyn who is also a city Landmarks Lovebutton. owners who banded together 636 Pacific St., a nine-story Empire State Development Corp. chief Gardens, just slightly removed from that “ur- world headquarters are in Brooklyn, been speculating about a potential sale. pion can add another compet- — Henry Street between Atlantic Avenue and pers. condos last year, is just one of The Brooklyn Papers tan and Bay Ridge for the first time To accomodate new service in Jer- PAGE 7 There were few surprises Thursday when Asked by The Brooklyn Papers whether he Several board members who initially opposed the plan said development. the rally. which is expected later this month. had no connection to the Un- EDC chief Joshua Sirefman tes- Preservation commissioner. to fight developer Bruce plans to build a massive, 1,000-unit “If these buildings did convert it Callan / Tom itive eating title to his Cadman Plaza West. Part neighborhood celebration and part treasure trove of Ratner is the principal owner building known as the Atlantic many buildings facing condem- Charles Gargano and Gov. George Pataki. ban campus.” Image by “dbox” they changed their minds following several Ikea presentations tifies at City Council hearing. since 1997, comes amid reduced serv- sey City, N.J., where Goldman Sachs Community Board 6 hosted the first official pub- supports the Ikea plan, Bloomberg gave it his tac- Papers The Brooklyn derground Railroad, as had See LIES on page 5 Ratner’s Atlantic Yards bas- residential complex at 85 Jay St. in would be a tremendous boon to the Junior ROTC is thriving despite war concerns The event attracted about Developer Bruce Ratner, who See PRO-NETS on page 4 THIS WEEKEND emerging Brooklyn artists, the enormous collection of of Forest City Ratner, best Art Building, were negotiating nation as part of the plan. Aweek after scaling back ferry ice at the Army terminal pier on 58th opened new offices, NY Water Taxi it endorsement. “Some people like the Ikea store Atlantic Yards opponents were thus pre- Ratner is certainly capable of adequately and a public hearing. resume: New Jersey Turnpike This year, Macy’s department store, which spon-
lic hearing in the city’s review of a plan to open Papers The Brooklyn real estate business in Brooklyn sors the annual event, is expanding the extravaganza works, displayed in a warehouse on the Red Hook water- ketball arena, office tower and known for constructing the with Ratner to sell their apart- service at its Brooklyn Army Street. Riders at that terminal say that turned over its 58th Street Pier serv- in Brooklyn, some people don’t. But it will bring cisely wrong in making eminent domain the revisiting his design, and such modifications DUMBO. But others held their ground, claiming the massive box hot dog king. See CRACKING on page 15 an Ikea store on the Red Hook waterfront. The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society’s move to four buildings Heights,” said Frank Percesepe, man- By Kristen Saloomey JROTC as a freshman, attracted by the not blood and guts and chemical young men and women who complete with six barges in three locations. Three barges will front, is worth a visit whether you’re a collector, an artist housing proposal showed Terminal dock in Sunset Park, much needed jobs to that area,” the mayor an- would be welcomed here. But his track That project, if approved, could store would snarl traffic and turn Red Hook and surrounding Simmons, 42, of Wood- since May 3, when service was cut in ice to T.W.F.M Ferry, a Queens-based The hundreds who packed into the PAL Miccio most apparent source of their discontent. aging director of the Corcoran office in for The Brooklyn Papers obstacle course and rope bridge on weapons and post-traumatic stress disor- the training and decide to go on to mili- be on the East River between Manhattan and Queens, in need of inspiration, or an art lover in need of fresh air signs this week of crumbling. lead to a surplus of Watchtower planned for this DUMBO site, at Jay and York streets, could result in Watchtower rising neighborhoods into a “suburban strip mall.” bury Heights, downed 16 hot Mango / Greg officials with New York Water half, the commute to Lower Manhattan company. Besides scaling back to one Center on West Ninth Street for the Landmarks and swered during a press conference at a new em- The larger issue, the communal one, tran- record doesn’t offer much hope that he will. which the battalion trains. He has talked der and shell shock,” said Jane Friedson, tary service, but we’re equally proud of just south of Roosevelt Island; two will be just south
and wonderful views. property in the area that the reli- stepped-up real estate activity in Brooklyn Heights. See HEIGHTS on page 8 Papers The Brooklyn dogs in 12 minutes Friday, Only a handful of tenants has been steeped in inconveniences. ferry, from two, the service now oper- Land Use committee hearing were evenly split be- ployment center in Downtown Brooklyn. The Fort Hamilton High School to two recruiters, one from the Army a member of Brooklyn Parents for Peace. those who don’t decide to wear a uni- The Brooklyn Papers has obtained the first images of the four towers planned by the “I’m tired of Manhattan turning Brooklyn into the new This year’s exhibit spans 20,000 square feet of gallery Taxi say they are discussing pre- scends those living on-site and even nearby. EdWeintrob@Brooklyn Papers.com of the Brooklyn Bridge, and a new one will launch and homeowners living on the John Quaglione, a spokesman for ates at 40-minute intervals, up from tween residents who fear an influx of traffic will “A lot of people like the idea that they will be cafeteria in Bay Ridge is filled and one from the Air Force, about en- form again.” Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization, for its vacant Paramus,” said board member Edith Stone who voted against The historic Williamsburgh Bank Building is up for sale. It could fetch $90 million, and will besting 13 other contestants space and features the works of 300 artists. liminary plans with state Sen. “They’re selling it to people who dazzling fireworks shells just off Ellis Island, near the two blocks facing condemna- Golden, said that the state senator met 20 minutes when the service began overwhelm the neighborhood’s narrow streets and able to shop there, a lot of people like the idea with students on a recent school Kotakis said about 50 high schools a land along Jay Street. For the complete story and more images, see page 4. See IKEA OK’D on page 4 probably see its many dentist offices converted into luxury condominium apartments. in a qualifying contest for the In the BWAC Community Outreach Exhibit, the works Marty Golden to add an addition- listing in ROTC when he goes to col- aren’t old enough to ask the right ques- Statue of Liberty. tion under the state’s authority with NY Water Taxi officials last on April 30, 2003. those who believe the 346,000 square foot big box that they will be able to get jobs there,” he added. day, but instead of baggy jeans and lege, which would prepare him for a job tions,” she added. year add JROTC to their curriculum. Nathan’s Famous Fourth of by patients in the Creative Arts Therapy program — in- Experts slam Ratner’s Carol’s Daughter Mango / Greg The pyrotechnics spectacular will kick off at al stop at the 69th Street Pier in Drug delivery bust July hot dog-eating contest in of eminent domain came to tes- week, primarily to talk about the “These people who took over the store will bring hundreds of jobs to a neighborhood Asked whether a box store was the best use for mini-skirts, the dress of the day is as a military officer after graduation. Nationwide, 39 percent of high However, the actual number of students about 9:20 pm and last about half an hour. cluding J. Gonzalez’s painting, “6 am on the J @ 100” tify at Tuesday’s City Council Coney Island. nearby Bay Ridge. service cutbacks. In those discus- operations are wonderful,” said that suffers soaring unemployment rates. Brooklyn’s waterfront, Bloomberg said, “There’s olive drab and brass buttons. “There’s so much stuff I would not school students completing an Army involved in the program decreased Papers File The Brooklyn (pictured) — will be on display. tell-all book quantities of cocaine and heroin in apartments in their neighborhood and the department re- Fire Department boats will start the show at 7:30 hearing. Of the project’s oppo- News of the new stop, which would sions, however, Golden floated plans See WATER TAXI on page 17 “It’s about time that Red Hook saw this kind of See IKEA on page 15 They stand in straight lines, shoulders have known if it weren’t for ROTC,” JROTC program last year indicated slightly this year, from 272,746 to By Jotham Sederstrom His strategy? Eating the The exhibit, open on weekends through June 27 (and at 9717 Third Ave. and 167 Eighth St., the in- mains vigilant in underlining that message.” America’s hope of regaining the hot pm with soaring arcs of red, white and blue water. nents who came to testify, most square, faces serious, feet marching in Salem said. that they planned to enlist in either about 267,000. The Brooklyn Papers meat two dogs at a time, fol- The Air Force will strut military maneuvers over the Memorial Day, May 31) from noon to 6 pm, also has live / Jori Klein dog title may rest on the tiny shoul- do not live on the site. ‘dribble-down’ study The last picture show At Fort Hamilton High School, stu- dictment charges. Under the tutelage of two The year-long investigation came to a close lowed by buns dipped in his synch. A patch on the right shoulder iden- The “junior” program, designed for ROTC or a branch of the military after FDR Drive starting at 8 pm with a fly-over, break- music, slide presentations and lectures. District Attorney Charles Hynes this brothers raised in Gowanus, authorities say, this week when members of a police depart- ders of 100-pound Sonya Thomas, Papers The Brooklyn The group, known as Devel- tifies these would-be soldiers as among high schools and partially funded by the graduation, according to Paul Kotakis, dents enrolled in the program take two drinking water. Not bad for ing the sound barrier over the drive. Admission is free. Free shuttle bus service will be week announced a 133-count indictment ment gang investigation team arrested the seen here at last year’s contest. Kate Gormley performs "I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll" backed by Bunnie England and the New op Don’t Destroy-Brooklyn, ums as having no direct econom- the 150 members of the Tiger Battalion, Department of Defense, stresses team- national spokesman for the Army JROTC classes. One fulfills a physical the business grew to include more than 100 only his second hot dog eat-off. Besides the promenade, prime viewing spots in- / Greg Mango / Greg available from the Smith-9th Street G and F train Say developer’s against 15 men and woman charged with who banded together earlier this ic benefits on local economies. education requirement; the other is Yassky, Bloomie talk parking customers. group, including its alleged ringleader broth- “I just have to go home Originals at Magnetic Field. Live Bank Karaoke returns this weekend — Monday at 9 pm. station from noon to 6 pm on May 8 and on Revived Flatbush Pavilion to close its doors the school’s Junior Reserve Officer Train- work, citizenship and leadership. But its JROTC. That percentage rose from 34 operating a narcotics delivery service clude the Louis Valentino Pier at the end of Coffey year to hire civil rights attorney paid-for study is He says the Ratner project is ing Corps (JROTC) program. close relationship with the military has percent the previous year. Leadership Education Training, which “This operation is particularly important be- ers —Tracy and Richard Ortiz — who were and digest this food, and take a dip in my pool and I’ll be all right,” he said Street in Red Hook, Empire-Fulton Ferry and June 27. The show is in a warehouse at on out of apartments in Bay Ridge and cause it attacks both sides of the narcotics reared in the building on Eighth Street, which Norman Siegel to fight the plan, different because of the residen- incorporates survival skills, first aid and Papers The Brooklyn after the competition held outdoors at a New Jersey Turnpike rest area. Brooklyn Bridge parks in DUMBO and Fulton Fer- the waterfront at 499 Van Brunt St. For By Deborah Kolben pute. Norman Adie, principal Park Slope native Jackie Con- “This is the first real team I’ve been some Brooklyn parent groups concerned “One of the misconceptions is that Gowanus. has hosted several large-turnout based on false tial and commercial component. Celebrating Brooklyn bubbly lessons on drug and alcohol abuse. Fort Hamilton High School students and Junior ROTC Color Guard members (left to trade,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly is owned by Gladys Ortiz, a family member. Welcome to the world of competitive eating — complete with its own rules ry Landing at the end of Old Fulton Street on the on,” said Mahmoud Salem. “I was nev- now that our country is at war in Iraq. JROTC exists as a training ground for more information, visit www.bwac.org The Brooklyn Papers EXCLUSIVE owner of Screen Arts, did not re- nor said the theater’s former in- The service, which employed at least eight said at a press conference on Tuesday. She was not charged with any crime. rallies in the past few months, But this week many of Zim- er that athletic. I’m more active now.” “The entire approach of military re- service in the military,” said Kotakis. Recruiters have long been a common right) Mahmoud Salem, 17, Katlin Davila, 15, Maria Hernando, 16, and Billy Hondros, 16, Mayor, councilman near deal for local permits and global governing body, the International Federation of Competitive Eating. East River. Not to mention rooftops, as the fireworks The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn or call (718) 596-2507. comprised largely of the people assumptions turn calls seeking comment. carnation, the Plaza Theater, drivers and a Santeria fortune-teller, thrived “Citizens of this city do not want either side Also arrested, said Hynes, was Mercedes Os- So you wanna be a balist’s peers came out challeng- APark Slope movie the- Now a senior, Salem joined the cruiting is almost to make it a game. It’s “We’re obviously quite proud of the See TO SERVE on page 14 stand at attention during a ceremony at the school on Tuesday. The IFOCE will sanction more than 70 competitions this year — everything will be viewable to anyone with an unobstructed PAGE 7 Mascena this week confirmed News of the closing came as a long ago earned the nickname BEGINS ON who would either be evicted or Mango / Greg for more than a year while stashing large of the equation — the buyers or the sellers — See DRUGS on page 6 ing some of his figures and as- ater that was recently reno- Yassky to try and get things finalized,” said ing would be feasible,” said Department of See HOT DOGS on page 5 view of the East River or harbor. have their property condemned By Deborah Kolben Historical Society’s exhibit remembers boro’s brewery past that the theater would be closing surprise to nearby merchants and “the itch house, because it was- By Deborah Kolben RE-GURGITATORS sumptions. vated will close its doors for mayoral spokesman Chris Coffey, who con- Transportation spokesman Keith Kalb. No viewing will be allowed from the Manhat- if the plan is approved. The Brooklyn Papers According to the report, re- after Sunday’s shows. The residents this week. n’t so clean.” PAGE 7 The Brooklyn Papers rock‘n’roll star? good after its last showings firmed that the deal was in the works. He said Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Cobble By Ed Beeson bounds” above ordinary karaoke, he says, is the tan, Brooklyn or Williamsburg bridges. But aside from the conspicu- leased Monday, the city and state famed for its churches, cemeteries and at the corner of Pierrepont and Clinton Many of the breakthroughs in brewing movie house did not pull in “That’s terrible,” said Chris But Connor, who said she and PAGE 7 Asports economist hired By Larry McShane on Sunday night. Councilman David Yassky and Ma- questions of funding are still being worked Hill and Fort Greene would all be included for The Brooklyn Papers electricity you feel onstage. It pours from the band In Manhattan, the FDR Drive will be closed for ously slim turnout at Tuesday’s will pitch in $18 million per year the Cyclone roller-coaster — was once streets in Brooklyn Heights. Each Friday taken for granted today were conjured enough business to survive, she Owens, who lives across the her husband, Charles, often fre- by Atlantic Yards developer Associated Press The Flatbush Pavilion, which quented the Flatbush Pavilion, yor Michael Bloomberg are close to a out. in the permit parking study, according to behind you and from the crowd before you pump- spectator viewing from 7 pm to 10 pm, from 14th to public hearing, there were other, for the arena and will take in America’s brewing capital. night through August, the society will up right here. told The Brooklyn Papers. street from the theater and said he Want to be a HBK? Then you need LBK 42nd streets. Pedestrian access to the FDR Drive for Preservationists: Ikea bad Bruce Ratner to study the opened in 1912 as the Bunny will always remember the old deal that could lead to residential park- The Downtown-Brooklyn Heights coun- Kalb. ing fists in the air like so many uncapped pistons. Raise a glass to Brooklyn, once According to a source, the has seen about a dozen movies more overt signs of a fractured about $17.7 million from the Business finally went flat in the open an old-fashioned beer garden, with •The Piels brothers were the first to Callan / Tom ‘Queer Guy’ visits Slope spa —Live Band Karaoke — which returns to viewing will be at 23rd, 38th and 42nd streets only. In financial feasibility of the Papers File The Brooklyn home to more than 100 breweries, Theater and has a storied past, theater owners have been in- there since Screen Arts renovated Plaza theater for another reason. 2-day Marty party Smith St. hotel in works ing permits in Downtown Brooklyn and cilman said he was optimistic a deal would While cities across the country have Clones’ winning week The back-up band, guitarist Bunnie England By Deborah Kolben 346,000-square-foot home furnishing buildings are beyond salvaging, Bill coalition this week. Anti-Atlantic sports complex, intended as 1950s, but the legacy remains. brews from Steve Hindy’s Brooklyn introduce dark-colored bottles, which Brookyn Heights this Monday night. and the New Originals, advertises a repertoire of downtown Manhattan, the FDR Drive will be closed basketball arena, office Bruce Ratner was one of the oldest theaters in volved in a dispute with the it. Like many Prospect Heights “When James Dean died they surrounding neighborhoods. soon be hashed out. launched similar programs to ease conges- Mango / Greg The Brooklyn Papers “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: The Fab 5’s Guide to The Brooklyn Papers emporium, Ikea is looking to knock Struever, president of the Baltimore- Yards posters have come down home to Ratner’s recently pur- former producer of more beer than “Brewing was one of the most impor- Brewery. kept the beer from spoiling in sunlight. By Vince DiMiceli This holiday weekend, the Clones will Only that can turn you into a Heartbreak Kid. for spectator viewing, from the ferry terminal to the tower and housing plan New York City. landlord, which may have also and Park Slope natives, Owens, showed a James Dean movie By Jotham Sederstrom next weekend — Saturday, June 5, and Sun- By Deborah Kolben who is constructing a 12-story con- Borough President Marty Mar- Yassky is also trying to work out a deal to Last year, Yassky made a list of more than tion and keep commuter cars from parking Looking Better, Cooking Better, Dressing Better, Be- 39 songs, which spans from early Beatles to The down about a dozen buildings, some dat- based Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse from the entryway and most chased New Jersey Nets. Milwaukee, the borough where tant industries in borough history,” said Long before the market was dominat- •The Rheingold brewery pioneered If you’re a fan of the hit TV show “Queer Eye for Brooklyn Papers Sports Editor take on the New York-Penn League cham- “It’s the closest you can get, if you’re not in a Pearl Street exit ramp. Entrance will be granted from / Jori Klein After years of neglect, the for- involved a rent increase. the son of Rep. Major Owens, re- and I went just so I could cry day, June 6 — promising everything from fire- The Brooklyn Papers do at the corner of Atlantic Avenue kowitz, one of Brooklyn’s loudest secure funds to renovate the dismal Cadman a dozen traffic suggestions for the area, on residential streets, New York City has no having Better and Living Better” (Crown Publishing). Ramones to Judas Priest. As Ikea moves to city review of ing back to the Civil War. (SBER) disagrees. windows of 636 Pacific St., one released his results this week the entire project would net Zimbalist estimates that in- Prohibition was greeted with a Jessie McClintock Kelly, president of ed by brewing giants like Anheuser- refrigeration technology. The Brooklyn Papers the Straight Guy,” but wish you could appeal to the band, to being a rock star,” says William Crane, the Pearl Street ramp only. The FDR Drive will be mer Plaza Twin, at Flatbush Av- The property is owned by rel- members seeing movies there as a some more,” said Connor, who works to concerts to movies on the beach. and Smith Street — across the boosters, praised the $35 million Plaza Park as part of the agreement, which which he submitted to the city, including res- such program. New episodes of the show, which bring the talents of The first full week of the Brooklyn pion Williamsport Crosscutters in a two- Now stand up and break some hearts, kid! its plan to build a big-box store The former Todd Shipyards site, more “That’s baloney,” said Streuver, who of many buildings that would to a great deal of criticism. $812 million of additional rev- frastructure costs, including a wink ... and an ice-cold draft. the Brooklyn Historical Society, at the Busch and Miller, breweries in Brook- •The Consumers Park brewery was Standing alongside a sword swallower, While the city may have boys directly for help with your own grooming, co-owner of Magnetic Field, the Brooklyn Live Band Karaoke will rock Magnetic closed to vehicular traffic from Houston Street to enue near Seventh Avenue, was atives of Sol Goldman, a major child. attended a special screening of Markowitz touted the festival as a fun- street from the decommissioned project. would earn his vote in favor of the Down- idential parking permits. As for Cadman Plaza Park, Yassky sees a Papers The Brooklyn the Fab 5 — Kressley and his co-authors Ted Allen, game set at Keyspan Park. Saturday’s along the Red Hook waterfront, a recently known as the New York Ship- calls the buildings “majestic” and is face the wrecking ball to make Ratner commissioned the enue for the city and state over platform that would have to be Make a toast to William Johnson, unveiling of a new exhibit on the bor- lyn were cranking out their own the nation’s first all-electric brewery. As Mango / Greg Cyclones’ 2004 campaign was a success- 63rd Street. purchased in May 2001 by New York City real estate mogul When it first opened — “Rebel without a Cause,” at the a contortionist and Brooklyn Cyclones drenched weekend both for baby boomers who emptied out a jail on a gritty Brooklyn House of Detention — “The development of this hotel is town Brooklyn Plan The mayor believes that “We’re looking at a significant increase in rehab of the largely dirt fields, bounded by home decorating, cooking or fashion questions, Kyan Douglas, Thom Filicia and Jai Rodriguez — to game begins at 6 pm. Sunday will feature Heights bar where LBK debuted last month. Field (97 Atlantic Ave. between Henry yards — roughly bounded by Dwight looking to build a sprawling, 70-acre re- way for the 21-acre residential, study by Andrew Zimbalist — the next 30 years. built over the rail yards, and a bonus, it also provided electricity to Papers The Brooklyn The largest fireworks display in the country in- real estate developer proposing an who opened Brooklyn’s first brewery ough and its beer. neighborhood brews. Plaza after the young actor was mascot Sandy the Seagull, Borough strip of Atlantic Avenue, a here’s your opportunity. bear on one straight man per episode, air on the Bravo ful one, as the team pushed their record an Independence Day matinee, with a rare Magnetic Field is the first venue to bring LBK to Street and Hicks streets in Brooklyn Street, Columbia Street and the Erie tail, residential and commercial develop- retail and commercial complex. some call it his “dribble-down Zimbalist, a professor at eminent domain property tak- the neighboring homes. Screen Arts Corporation. The who died in the 1980s. Solil named for comedian John Bun- grew up riding the old Thunderbolt roller coast- has added a 70-room hotel to his further proof of Brooklyn’s grow- rezoning plan is crucial to the city’s effort to traffic, and residents are going to be fighting Cadman Plaza East and West and Tillary and cludes 36,000 shells shot off from the six barges alternative development for the site back in 1822. Lift a mug for John F. “100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” of- In the 19th century, one section of the new owners renovated it top to killed in a car crash in Septem- President Marty Markowitz announced developer is trying to bring a Into the ‘Sunset’ Next Saturday, June 26, at 5 pm, quick-to-quip cable network. to 8-6, good for second place in the Mc- noon start. Brooklyn, he says, although people may recog- Heights) this Monday, July 5, at 9 The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Real Estate Management, which ny — the movie house also ran a er and their kids, who never had the chance. plans. ing popularity as a tourism and keep and attract corporate office space. even more day to day for spaces outside their Prospect streets, as a solution to what he has Basin — was once home to the largest ment between Richards and Columbia Why have the residents gone theory” — and it used numbers Smith College in Massachusetts, ings, will cost $187.73 million. Trommer, a 19th-century German immi- fers a “case study” of the borough’s long borough was known simply as “Brew- And then there was Dr. Joseph Long speeches Los Lobos kick off Carson Kressley will make a personal appearance at nize it from Arlene’s Grocery on the Lower East pm. Admission is free. Call (718) measuring 300 to 500 feet. bottom, with new seats, bath- overseas the property, did not re- cigar shop in the lobby. ber 1955. plans Monday for this year’s borough “There is never a reason to leave Brooklyn new kind of overnight facility “It’s going to be the best hotel in business destination,” Markowitz D’Mai Urban Spa is located at 157 Fifth Ave. be- Namara Division. Next Sunday will be Brooklyn Papers ON has garnered support from city dry dock on the east coast. Civil War streets along the Erie Basin. silent? and assumptions largely pro- has written several books on The large-scale development grant renowned for his all-malt Brook- history in the suds business. ers’ Row” — a 12-block stretch that was Owades, a Brooklynite who in 1967 de- Display at the historical society's new [A council vote on the Downtown Brook- own homes,” said Evan Thies, a Yassky called a lack of open space in the Downtown At the Sunset Bayou fundraiser for the Brooklyn Bridge Hot summer nights To get to the promenade by train, take the A, C or rooms and snack and beverage turn calls seeking comment. Many neighbors this week Cezar Del Valle, a theater his- celebration, which will take place in to enjoy summer,” Markowitz said outside right next door. Brooklyn,” boasted Will Kim, de- said. lyn Plan has been postponed until Monday. spokesman. Plan. D’Mai Urban Spa in Park Slope. tween Lincoln Place and St. Johns Place in Park Slope. 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Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2004 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 18 pages •Vol.27, No.30 BWN •Saturday, July 31, 2004 • FREE ★ GOP CONVENTION ’04 ★ TA SHAFTS MAYOR TIESRATNER CITY KEEPS JAIL ALIVE ★ ★ Historic ‘Gage’ THREE YEARS LATER Three years after this century’s opening act memorial in Arlington, Va., and the charging $18 million for shuttered Atlantic Avenue big house HELLO DOLLY! of infamy, Brooklyn’s neighborhoods, wit- bull on Wall Street, was putting final touches nesses to the horror across the river on Sept. on “Brooklyn Remembers,” the borough’s of- Bridge park stalled By Deborah Kolben now a ‘Friday’s’ 11, 2001, prepared to commemorate the com- ficial 9-11 memorial to be dedicated this fall D’TOWN The Brooklyn Papers Brooklyn planning commissioner munity’s collective loss with reflective, cre- on the 69th Street pier in Bay Ridge. ative and religious exercises this Saturday Brooklynites will migrate to the pier and to The city will sink another $18 million EXCLUSIVE By Deborah Kolben work before they can be used, according to a man- into the closed Brooklyn House of Deten- The Brooklyn Papers ager at the restaurant who said business has been and Sunday. the Brooklyn Heights promenade Saturday; New EIS will take another year tion over the next year and community 4TH FLARES steady. And as the anniversary of 9-11 approached, from both sites, the absence of the World ARENA TO OLYMPICS groups and elected officials are outraged. ‘We anticipate a Williams has a stake in Ratner’s Nets Each night for the past century, waiters clad Diners filed into the new eatery this week with By Deborah Kolben in the Olympic bid, but Borough President The 10-story prison, once home to 800 in- Independence Day fireworks explode in tuxedo jackets adorned with epaulets indi- decidedly mixed reviews. Dragan Slavich (photo right) of the Green- Trade Center is clearly visible. By Deborah Kolben will stretch along the water- The Brooklyn Papers Marty Markowitz said the move was a mates, has been empty since last summer, when need to occupy the By Deborah Kolben Williams was appointed to the 13-per- discussion of the project or give up her in- mission post. cating years of service, have walked past the Some called the new decor “brighter” and great boost for the borough. point foundry that crafted both the Iwo Jima See stories on page 17. The Brooklyn Papers front from Jay Street south to Mayor Michael Bloomberg this NBA SET TO OK RATNER’S DEAL FOR NETS: P. 4 the mayor ordered the Department of Correction along the East River in this view looking The Brooklyn Papers son commission in 2002 by Markowitz, a terests in the team,” said Daniel Goldstein, Responding to the conflict of interest mahogany wood tables of Gage & Tollner, “more exciting” than its predecessor and lavished Atlantic Avenue. “Who would have dreamed, even 10 out as a cost-cutting measure. vocal supporter of the Nets plan who, a spokesman for Develop-Don’t Destroy charge, Michael Kadish, a spokesman for reaching up to light the gas chandeliers. praise on the chicken wings and Cobb salads. PLANNERS An environmental study week officially linked the proposed new waterfront development in Williams- ple from their homes. It will bring some the Nets arena — as well as the proposed the games will leave for our city.” years ago, that Brooklyn would be consid- building again’ north from Red Hook, where thousands Dolly Williams, the borough’s City since he took office, has touted the notion Brooklyn, a community group fighting the Markowitz said, “As with any planning Asked about the restaurant, a waiter beamed. AManhattan-based consult- Atlantic Yards basketball arena to Apparently dashing community hopes that the Decorated with details like brass hangers above that needs to be completed ing firm was hired last year to burg from a proposed site in Queens. unwelcome attention,” said Brian Hatch, a Jets stadium on the West Side of Manhat- Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff, a driving ered to host the gymnastic competition, one building would soon be put to an alternate use, — Correction Department spokesman gathered to see one of the biggest dis- Planning commissioner and a key player of bringing an NBA franchise to Brooklyn. project. commissioner, we would expect that Dolly each table where gentlemen could hang their top “It’s beautiful, I can see myself, everybody can New York City’s 2012 Olympic bid. In the wake of the mayor’s announce- transportation consultant who was Salt tan — are veiled attempts to push through force behind the Olympic bid and the $5 before construction of the complete the complex study, of the Olympics’ most popular sports,” said Correction Department spokesman Thomas An- plays in years. in Brooklyn’s development and land use The commission, with appointees by Contacted this week, Williams said she Williams would recuse herself from voting hats, the restaurant was a throwback to a bygone see themselves,” he said, motioning towards the In announcing the city’s final Olympic ment, an analyst versed in Olympic politics Lake City’s deputy mayor in 2002, when large-scale development projects. billion West Side project, has hinted since Markowitz, who also praised the inclusion $150 million Brooklyn analyzing everything from traf- tenen told The Brooklyn Papers this week, “We nity expected the work to stop. review, is among the lengthy list of the mayor, each borough president and the is an investor in both the team and Rat- or discussing any matter before the commis- era, with arched mirrors, red velvet-covered walls arched mirrors. Won’t connect two venue plan Thursday afternoon, Bloom- said that while inclusion of the Atlantic the Olympic Games were played there. In fact, a press released issue by January that the proposed 800,000-square- of a Williamsburg waterfront facility. public advocate, weighs in heavily on all ner’s plan to build a new Nets arena, three sion in which she has a commercial interest.” But a table of ex-Borough Hall staffers, who Bridge Park can begin has fic to shadows to air quality, anticipate we will have a need to occupy the “They already put in $30 million so far and investors real estate magnate Bruce and gas-lit brass chandeliers. berg declared that all gymnastics competi- Yards arena will allow developer Bruce Hatch, who runs a Web site tracking the Bloomberg on Thursday said the city in- foot, 19,000-seat Brooklyn arena — part of New York is competing with London, been stopped since at least but only completed the “exist- building again.” now they’re going to put $18 million more? It’s a Ratner has secretly put together to pur- development and land use projects that are soaring office towers and 4,500 housing While such a major city land use proposal But all that faded into history when the Brook- came to sample the new fare and glimpse the new tions would take place at the yet-to-be ap- Ratner to “wrap his venue in the Olympic city’s 2012 bid for the Olympics, calls the tended to do just that. Ratner’s proposed $2.5 billion residential Paris, Moscow and Madrid to host the would typically pass through the commis- February, a park official ing conditions sections” before To that end, the city budget for Fiscal Year blight on Atlantic Avenue and a blight on our chase the New Jersey Nets. subject to city public review. units extending from Downtown Brooklyn lyn icon, one of the city’s oldest restaurants, décor, had a decidedly different take.
/ Tom Callan / Tom proved, highly contentious Atlantic Yards flag,” it will also bring international scruti- city’s plan “too costly, too complicated, too The Olympics plan will “help us expe- and commercial buildup east of the junc- 2012 summer games. Sources confirmed that Williams’ stake into Prospect Heights. She said she “had sion as part of the Uniform Land Use Re- told The Brooklyn Papers work stopped. 2005, which began this month, includes $18.4 neighborhood,” said Sandy Balboza, president of served its last meal on Valentine’s Day. “It’s horrible” said Stuart Post, a former Bor- arena, instead of at Madison Square Gar- ny to the already controversial plan. congested and too controversial to win.” dite recreational and infrastructure proj- tion of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, This week’s changes will be submitted According to a list of the Nets investors, in the team is nearly $1 million. Ratner has not thought about” whether her company view Procedure [ULURP], Ratner is looking ough Hall employee who now works for a com- this week. “Finishing the EIS is like the million in renovations for the House of D, as the the Atlantic Avenue Betterment Association. Last Thursday, TGI Friday’s, the national Metrotech stations den as previously announced. “Now it’s an international issue, and “This hurts the bid by adding contro- ects citywide,” Bloomberg said. It will would be included in the Olympic Games. to the International Olympic Committee a copy of which was obtained by The consistently declined to divulge the identy would be involved in the 8 million square to steer the 21-acre project, half of which munity foundation. Post, who ordered a club sand- prison has come to be known. Wendy Leventer, president of keys to the kingdom for getting “They just keep spending money,” she said. restaurant and bar chain known for its hefty por- The plan also calls for moving all people will be looking if the Olympics versy. They don’t need all these arenas,” both “strengthen our bid for the Olympic Opponents of the arena decried the by Nov. 15. The IOC will make its final “It’s a bad spend,” Borough President Marty Brooklyn Papers this week, Williams and of his partners. feet of construction. would be built over the state-run Metropoli- wich, recalled a snowy Christmas Eve at Gage & the Brooklyn Bridge Park Devel- the [project] done,” Leventer Balboza said the building helped create a dead tions and Americana theme, opened in its place, at By Deborah Kolben swimming and diving competitions to a should be responsible for displacing peo- said Hatch, who believes the inclusion of Games in 2012, and enrich the legacy that mayor’s inclusion of the proposed arena decision on July 6, 2005. Markowitz told The Papers. “That money could her husband, Adonijah Williams, owners Opponents of the Ratner plan this week “It is not a conflict, otherwise I would tan Transportation Authority’s Long Island Tollner almost two decades ago when, on his way said this week. “So restarting zone along Atlantic Avenue between Boerum Papers File The Brooklyn opment Corporation, a sub- of A. Williams Construction, are both in- condemned Williams’ interest in the team not do it,” said Williams, a minor investor Rail Road storage yards, through a less strin- 372 Fulton St. on the Fulton Mall. out, several of the waiters began singing Christ-
The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn be used to reopen firehouses and for other great The Brooklyn Papers sidiary of the Empire State De- that process is a major step to- Place and Smith Street known as “the gap” for its The mahogany tables have been replaced by needs that we have.” Markowitz would prefer to sparse and forbidding atmosphere. The strip fea- vestors in the team Ratner hopes to bring as a potential conflict of interest and called whose nearly 30-year-old construction gent state review instead. Borough President Marty Markowitz announces his appointment of business- mas carols. The new Atlantic Terminal Mall, at the crossroads of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, where one of the nation’s largest Target department stores Just a month after the city passed a massive velopment Corporation that was wards realizing the park.” to a new arena he envisions at the corner candy cane-colored table tops and waiters now EXCLUSIVE it “deeply troubling.” company is worth millions. She receives a His plan to build a Frank Gehry-de- woman Dolly Williams (above left) to the City Planning Commission in 2002. Callan / Tom “I used to think of it as being so elegant, now, held an opening party Tuesday night. The retailer will open for business on Sunday. The study was stopped be- see housing developed on the site. tures little more than gas stations and bail bonds- rezoning plan for Downtown Brooklyn that is created to build the park, said the Boerum Hill community leaders had hailed the of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues. “She needs to remove herself from any $45,131 salary for her City Planning Com- See DOLLY on page 13 She now also owns a piece of Bruce Ratner’s Nets. sport short sleeves instead of coattails. with the music and these tables, it seems so shab- and connect them underground, allowing a free process of completing an Envi- cause city and state funds had men, while on either side of the gap is an eclectic But most noticeably, the famed chandeliers are expected to bring soaring skyscrapers and thou- detention center’s closing last year as a step toward array off retail stores, restaurants and bars. by,” said Post. transfer between the lines. ronmental Impact Statement not come through, she said. not aglow. sands of new workers to the area, the Metropolitan But in a letter addressed to both New York City reclaiming a desolate stretch of otherwise burgeon- But slowly the gap is beginning to close, with Joyce Mulvaney, an editor who would occasion-
(EIS) been halted when she was When Leventer took the reins of Callan / Tom Transportation Authority has pulled back funding Callan / Tom “It wasn’t our top priority to have them the day ally stop in Gage & Tollner when she worked just Transit President Lawrence Reuter and MTA Exec- the park development corpora- Brooklyn Heights police ing Atlantic Avenue, and they anticipated that the plans to convert a Mobil gas station into an apart- appointed president in March. we opened,” said Jamie Galler, executive vice blocks away at Borough Hall, called the new
for much-need subway renovations in the area, a structure would be torndown and replaced with re- ment building, a residential development rising on / Gary Thomas It’s tool Papers The Brooklyn utive Director Katherine Lapp, a copy of which The study will not resume tion, quietly replacing the former president of the Riese Organization, which oper- restaurant “disrespectful of the history of the place.” / Tom Callan / Tom tail and residential units. But the city’s decision to / Jori Klein downtown business leader charged this week. was obtained by The Brooklyn Papers, Michael president, James Moogan, talk the site of what used to be a municipal parking The former Gage & Tollner restaurant on Ful- until after Labor Day, she said, sink millions of dollars more into renovating the garage at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, and a ates the restaurant. With landmark status for both the interior and Brooklyn’s on Target Assemblywoman Joan Millman said the prom- Burke, executive director of the Downtown Brook- and will then take another year began to get serious about The chandeliers require some maintenance ton Street, a landmark, is now a TGI Friday’s. shuttered prison left them livid. boutique hotel and condo development planned for See FRIDAY’S on page 7 ised improvements were “the lynchpin” that lyn Council, decried the state-run agency’s decision to complete. adding Pier 6 to the park. That
Marbury to lead Coney charge Papers The Brooklyn clinched support for the Downtown plan. to pull funding for that project. Papers The Brooklyn building sold for $9.6M Renovations to the 47-year-old prison have the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Smith Street. pier has long been coveted by Park planners originally been going on for the past six years, but when the Balboza says the jail is one of the last remain- Local elected officials and community leaders “I am writing regarding the … decision to de- hoped to see shovels in the park planners because it provides time for A resident of 87 Columbia Heights, in Brooklyn Heights, placed this pig in a top hat on his fire For preview, store imports city cleared out the facility last June, the commu- 2012 Olympics, and Marbury, of the South Brooklyn Youth See JAIL on page 4 Papers The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn
have long complained that the Jay Street-Borough fund the Jay Street/Lawrence Street subway station Papers File The Brooklyn ground this past spring for the a major thoroughfare as a gate- By Deborah Kolben buyers inspected the building be- who is on the U.S. men’s basket- Consortium, confirmed that the escape this week. The resident is a member of BAA BAA (Brooklynite’s Acting Against Bush’s Hall A, C and F station and the Lawrence Street M reconstruction project,” Burke wrote in the letter, Knick star to invest in old ‘hood Fountain of love start of construction on the 1.3- way to the development — At- The Brooklyn Papers tween Henry and Hicks street. ball team. three-time All-Star had ex- Aggressive Agenda), which takes inspiration from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.” boldface Manhattan names and R station are in dire need of renovations in or- dated July 9. He went on to urge that the subway Visiting from Italy, newlyweds Dominic and Maria Schafani kiss in front of the refur- mile commercial and recre- lantic Avenue. Real estate developers have been By Jotham Sederstrom tion are in talks for what Rec- der to accommodate the 43,000 new workers ex- station fix-up money be restored. Manhattan developer Maurice “Because of the Olympics, pressed interest in sponsoring bished Bailey Fountain at Grand Army Plaza, which began flowing again Wednesday. ational development they hope See STALLED on page 4 eyeing the property nestled on a prime The Brooklyn Papers chia called a “rec center” in pected over the next decade. A project was said to Citing the Downtown Brooklyn Plan, Burke Laboz purchased the long-vacant EXCLUSIVE everything got pushed back a lit- the project, which is back on the On Atlantic, wave of plant thefts to mingle with Brooklynites Brooklyn Heights street ever since it Coney Island. ‘Diva’ tle bit,” he added. drawing board, albeit on a be in the works that would upgrade the two stations See LAWRENCE on page 4 police department building at 72 ceased to be used by the city in 2000. Sources say a proposal to “Everyone’s in Athens right Councilman Domenic Rec- Asked when he last spoke to smaller scale than envisioned a By Deborah Kolben space in which everything from bicy- Poplar St. for $9.6 million this The police department purchased By Deborah Kolben build an amateur athletics now and so when they get back By Deborah Kolben posies, news of the incident traveled just last month were awarded second flowers, shrubbery and trees, even chia, who represents Coney Is- we’ll continue talking,” said Rec- Marbury, the councilman said, decade ago, following a com- Despite protests, The Brooklyn Papers along the commercial strip and place in the commercial category of hoisting planters up on lampposts. week. The Brooklyn Papers cles to organic eggs will be sold. the site in 1909 and built a police sta- The Brooklyn Papers facility in Coney Island will [The mall will open to the public After sitting empty for over four tion there in the 1920s. The building land, said that he, Council chia, referring to Mayor Michael “I talk to Stephon all the time. I mitment from the mayor. Wolfe soon learned that she wasn’t the Greenest Block in Brooklyn con- This weekend’s filching is not the The lighting was unflattering be partially funded by one of Speaker Gifford Miller, the talked to him last week.” The project would likely be When Sue Wolfe stepped out of Major challenges at 10 am on Sunday, July 25, for a years, the four-story brick building served as the 84th Precinct station- When the Toolbelt Diva showed up at my Bloomberg and Deputy Mayor alone. test. first in the area, but it does appear to and the margaritas overly sweet, ‘Cruise ships a ploy’ the area’s native sons, Knicks Stephon Marbury Foundation Dan Doctoroff, who are in Greece Sheryl Robertson, a friend of built after construction on a pro- her building on Atlantic Avenue Sometime during the night, “We really work hard at this and be the most deliberate. The ever- grand opening celebration that will apartment this week, she had no problem MAGIC BEANS MTA seeks fare hikes, service cuts will be turned into apartments by house, followed by the office of Inter- early Saturday morning, she but nobody seemed to notice at the continue until 3 pm.] Laboz, a principal of Regal Invest- nal Affairs and then the police intelli- telling it like it is. point-guard Stephon Marbury. and the Bloomberg administra- to promote their efforts to host the the Marbury family and director See MARBURY on page 13 thieves had pillaged the block be- to have this happen is really disap- green trees were wired down in half star-studded opening in Downtown immediately noticed something tween Bond and Nevins streets, tak- pointing,” said Wolfe, president of barrels outside a store selling in- Comedian Sandra Bernhard, the Bull Gregory By Karen Matthews The plan, which if approved would are going to tell us,” he said. “And what Under the plan presented Thursday ments, Inc. gence unit, which moved out in 2000. The water pressure was pathetic, the bathroom jail stays shuttered missing. Planters that once held cense, body oils and clothing at 428 Brooklyn of one of the nation’s evening’s master of ceremonies, wel- Slope sportsplex Associated Press go into effect early next year, also in- we’ve presented today is by no means by the MTA’s executive director, As part of its annual property auc- Several jail cells are sill located in door didn’t close properly, and why exactly were ing with them two evergreen trees, the Boerum Hill Association. NBA legend opens D’town Starbucks Nadler: No guarantee liners will come to Brooklyn her white begonias lay barren, Atlantic Ave. largest Target department stores. comed guests to the sparkling new cludes 5-percent fare increases on the definitive document.” Katherine Lapp, the $2 base fare tion, the Department for Citywide the basement of the building. Some there wires hanging out from the wall? one holly plant, a juniper bush and For the past several years, busi- / Tom Callan / Tom The board of directors of the By Jess Wisloski explained the Correction officer. “From what I un- some dirt scattered about them. the pot of white begonias. nesses and residents along the gentri- “It had to be somebody strong be- come Owens’ way Yes, Target. aisles in her own special way. Metro-North and the Long Island Rail The move to hold hearings on raising would remain unchanged, while the Administrative Service (DCAS) real estate experts said the building “This place needs some work,” said the gum- By Deborah Kolben cruise industry to come to Brooklyn. had any thought of bringing the pacity,” said Bloomberg spokes- By Jess Wisloski Metropolitan Transportation Au- The Brooklyn Papers derstand, Manhattan’s been holding their own this As the longtime Boerum Hill resi- All this came as a slap in the face fying shopping strip have made an cause the evergreens were wired into Even executives from the Min- “Look at this alarm clock,” she Road and 25-cent or 50-cent hikes on fares and cutting service comes just 14 price of the 30-day unlimited Metro- sold the property on Aug. 4. Callan / Tom could be converted into as many as smacking Brooklyn native who is bringing a bit of and Neil Sloane “When they started saying they cruise lines here and I don’t know woman Jennifer Falk. The Brooklyn Papers nesota-based chain said they had said, pointing to one shopper’s mer- thority, facing a $436 million bridge and tunnel tolls. Service changes months after the MTA raised single-ride Card would rise and the seven-day week,” he said. dent grappled with the theft of to residents and store owners who effort to beautify the sidewalks with See PLANTS page 7 The 72 Poplar St. site was consid- 40 apartments. glamour to the dirty world of home repair. The Brooklyn Papers EXCLUSIVE wanted to use [the piers] for cruise why,” the congressman said. Falk added that the cruise lines ADepartment of Correction officer stood It may be the only coffeehouse in the city where never before seen anything like it. chandise. “You’ve been oversleep- budget shortfall, voted Thursday would include cutting off-peak bus bus and subway fares from $1.50 to $2. card would go from $21 to $24. / Associated Press Armed with a hip-hugging yellow toolbelt, Nor- Tower to Despite the record-breaking number of arrests in ered the “premiere” property on sale at Laboz, who did not return phone lines, we were a little suspicious be- Amayoral spokeswoman ac- would not have entered into an agree- at attention Tuesday night outside the That’s because most of their store ing, you’ve been laying up on your set for armory to hold public hearings on a The mayor is using a promise lantic Avenue in Cobble Hill and the past week caused by protesters who came to the preferred drink is a “triple double” latte. Faces daughters of former allies service and reducing cleaning and Three appointees of Mayor Michael There would be average fare increas- the auction, according to Warner John- calls for coment, is involved in other ma Vally, the host of “Toolbelt Diva,” a new televi- cause they don’t have an agreement knowledged this week that there is no ment with the city without a com- Brooklyn House of Detention on Atlantic openings don’t include a cadre of lazy fat Brooklyn ass. And look at package of fare increases and of cruise ships coming to the Red Pioneer Street in Red Hook — ac- town for the Republican National Convention, the That’s because the new Starbucks, set to open in the maintenance on the commuter lines. Bloomberg voted against the resolution. es of 5 percent on the commuter ston, a DCAS spokesman. projects including several buildings sion series that was set to air its first episode on with cruise lines to use it,” said written commitment from the cruise mitment to build a Brooklyn dock. Avenue. Three MTA buses were parked in Atlantic Terminal shopping mall next Friday, Sept. 17, tattooed hipsters or an albino Bur- what you got tonight, you got your- Papers The Brooklyn By Deborah Kolben non-profit organization dedicated to rebuilding cost savings that would include Discovery Home Channel on Friday, Aug. 6, took cused key officials of Mayor police department managed to take care of all the By Jess Wisloski and Neil Sloane MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow said “We think that there are other alter- lines, while the bridge and tunnel On the edge Papers The Brooklyn Hook piers as a ploy to squeeze Bidding started at $2.25 million. in the Union Square area and one on Michael Bloomberg’s administra- Nadler. lines to dock in Brooklyn, but said “Nobody has an exclusive agree- front of him, engines off, waiting for the call processing at their makeshift center in Chelsea, is owned by basketball legend Earvin “Magic” John- mese python, let alone a sprinkling self an alarm clock. Ooohh child, Target mascot “Bullseye” the dog was on hand for the party, which The Brooklyn Papers public school athletic facilities, will spearhead the raising the price of the monthly he thought the agency had “achieved natives that haven’t been explored,” tolls would rise from $2 to $2.25 or out her screwdriver and got down to business. The Brooklyn Papers A man stands on the top edge of one of the Brooklyn Bridge stanchions as police and rescue Last month, over 300 prospective The Former police station at 72 Poplar St. Maiden Lane in Manhattan. out the borough’s last working tion of being disingenuous in nego- “I’m very concerned with what’s they have a verbal agreement to use ment, but the cruise lines are commit- that might or might not come. son, a man for whom sportswriters coined the of celebrities. you be waking up. I feel good, I got also featured off-color comedian Sandra Bernhard. effort along with the city departments of Education unlimited-ride MetroCard from a good balance.” Bloomberg told reporters at a separate from $4 to $4.50. Express bus fares This is what the 39-year-old former bathing suit THIS WEEK rise near which had room to accommodate 1,000 prisoners. The crumbling 14th Regiment Armory in teams approach him on Wednesday, July 28. The man later was brought down unharmed. container port, a Brooklyn con- going on with the Economic Devel- the Brooklyn dock as a spillover ted to coming to Pier 12,” said EDC phrase denoting a player who had posted double The Democratic primary in the 11th Congressional In preparation for their — and the an alarm clock at Target.” and Homeless Services. model and construction expert does best — visit- tiations with both the public and the If and when the call came, the buses would rum- On Tuesday, when, the police department an- Park Slope will be converted into a $16 mil- $70 to $76. “But that’s what the public hearings briefing., would rise from $4 to $6. Traffic on the bridge and along the FDR Drive was halted for hours. gressman charged this week. current operators of the piers over opment Corporation,” he said, re- when the Manhattan docks are full. spokesman Michael Sherman. Cyclones win the pennant digits in three statistical categories in a single game. District pits an entrenched incumbent against two PRIMARY 2004 Atlantic Terminal mall’s — grand Bernhard then briefly boomed her The cavernous drill floor of the armory, on ing women in their homes and teaching them how ble to life and head out to Pier 57 in Manhattan, nounced 1,187 arrests, most prisoners were charged dose more than 30 years ago. and near the girl’s clothing section. lion public sports facility for residents and In a conversation with The the future use of the waterfront. ferring to the agency, largely con- “Both cruise lines have verbally Asked for copies of the letters-of- where hundreds of protesters would be corralled with minor crimes. Through the partnership of Urban Coffee Oppor- challengers who are the offspring of, alternately, a opening at Atlantic and Flatbush av- own rendition over Janis Joplin’s Eighth Avenue between 14th and 15th streets, will to pick up a hammer or circular saw to solve intent signed between the Carnival DJ Paul Sevigny, who often plays “Target’s cool. I’m down with nearby schools, Mayor Michael Bloomberg Brooklyn Papers in the newspaper’s Despite touting Piers 10-12 as a trolled by the mayor, that will committed to using Brooklyn to and loaded onto the buses, to be shipped out to the “We haven’t had a tsunami of arrests,” Correction tunities, a joint effort between Starbucks and John- longtime ally and a former ally turned bitter enemy. enues this Sunday, Target invited sev- “Mercedes Benz.” be converted into a multi-sports facility with a household problems. and Norwegian cruise lines and the By Ed Shakespeare “If Janis Joplin were still alive she on the Lower East Side and lives in Target,” Sevigny, the brother of ac- announced this week. DUMBO offices, Rep. Jerrold cruise ship port, the Bloomberg ad- determine the uses of those piers. handle the overflow of ships when infamous “House of D,” as it is commonly known. Department spokesman Thomas Antenen told the son Development Corporation, of which Magic is Rep. Major Owens, 68, who has represented Park Slope, Tuesday, Sept. 14, is primary election day in New York City. eral hundred media darlings, bold- track as well as basketball, volleyball and tennis Plopping down on the rim of the bathtub, the city on April 19, when the mayor an- P’Park for The Brooklyn Papers Nadler, whose district includes ministration, Nadler charges, does not “They had a fixed plan to get rid the passenger ship terminal on the But the call never came. Brooklyn Papers. “It’s an ongoing process. An in-and- chairman and CEO, the shop will be the first of its Crown Heights, Flatbush and parts of Cobble Hill, Boerum Various positions, including state Senate and Assembly and faced names and Coney Island’s would be here shopping at Target,” Manhattan, was responsible for the tress Chloe Sevigny, said when For the past two years, Councilman Bill DeBla- courts. tall, slender brunette examined a door handle. Mango / Greg Circus Sideshow to its 192,000- Bernhard said, referring to the ’60s evening’s music and set up his asked about how he felt about work- sio has championed the proposition and this week, The armory will also continue to house a 70-bed Crabbing Piers 6-12 — roughly between At- have a written commitment from the of container operations before they West Side of Manhattan reaches ca- See CRUISES on page 6 By Deborah Kolben “They were only going to send protesters out out process. People get arrested, they go to Pier 57.” FISHKILL, NY — The Brooks have done it again. kind in Brooklyn. Hill, East Flatbush, Brownsville and Midwood in the congressional seats and judgships, are on ballots, which will vary “Look at this,” she says, pulling me over to Since his diag- district-to-district. Polls are open to registered voters when a square-foot, two-level emporium, a rock singer who died of a drug over- turntables across from the escalator See TARGET on page 7 the mayor announced that Take the Field Inc., a See ARMORY on page 4 Honky-tonkin’ demonstrate how to peel off the paint and loosen The Brooklyn Papers here if it became too much to handle over there,” Many of the people at the pier, called a Post Arrest With a 3-2 win over the second-place Hudson Valley Renegades Thurs- PAGE 9 House of Representatives for 22 years, is being challenged Screening Site, or PASS, were day night, the Brooklyn Cyclones locked up the McNamara Division — a nosis with HIV in by Brownsville Councilwoman Tracy Boyland and East primary is being conducted in the voter’s party, 6 am to 9 pm. Mikvah rising in Slope the screws. Architect Richard Meier is best known these days the early 1990s, Flatbush Councilwoman Yvette Clarke. for a cause Growing up, Vally learned about home repair penned into holding cells of feat they’ve accomplished three times in their four-year history. in the Hook If you haven’t had enough of the sweltering August weather, for a pair of modernist glass towers he designed chain-link fencing with drinking The first round of the play- and subsequent Clarke, 39, is the daughter of former Councilwoman
from spending time with her older brother and Papers The Brooklyn Moonshine, a new bar in Red Hook with an old honky- heat up your palate this Sunday at the Tiger Beer-Singapore Chili along the West Side Highway in Manhattan. water and portable toilets avail- offs begins Monday night at early retirement Una Clarke, who she succeeded in 2002 and who waged a bitter challenge against Owens in 2000. That race turned helping her father, a jeweler with stores in Benson- THIS WEEKEND tonk feel, is barely two months old and already its regulars are Purifying bath is part of a Jewish ritual Crab Festival. / Jori Klein Coming to America Home to the likes of Martha Stewart, film director-actor- able to them. Police department Keyspan Park, at 7 pm, from the NBA, particularly ugly when Una Clarke, a Jamaican native, ac- thinking of having their mail forwarded there. It probably has THIS WEEKEND hurst and Bay Ridge, with repairs around their Mom’s cry: model Vincent Gallo and Calvin Klein the buildings them- Johnson, 44, has cused Owens of not representing the large population of This afternoon-long event is sure to make eyes water, with its press releases described them as against the Tri-City Valley Mill Basin home. The agony of victory! By Lisa J. Curtis something to do with owner Nick Forlano’s vision: friendly signature dish, sauteed whole blue crabs smothered in fiery chili selves are quickly rising in fame (or infamy, depending on “clean, well-equipped, orderly” Cats, the Stedler Division forged a multi- Caribbean Americans in the district. Owens responded by THIS WEEKEND By Deborah Kolben basic elements and a sleek design un- GO Brooklyn Editor Scandal-plagued Green unopposed Recall Davis 1 year later bartenders who serve cheap suds in a well-worn atmosphere. “I was a tomboy,” Vally says proudly. “I re- America’s champion gurgitator, Sonya Thomas, shoves in last llan Superhero familiar to anybody the architects con- pepper sauce with accents of lime and ginger. who you ask) to the same level as their A-list tenants. (Vani- and “humane.” Lawyers were champs. million-dollar PAGE 5 See OWENS on page 18 The Brooklyn Papers member my father always used to say in his Ital- bite as Takeru “The Tsunami” Kobayashi downs his world-record Interview with director “We’re happy hour, every hour,” he says. You can get as sulted, they have designed what may Luckily, bottles of beer will also be on sale to quell any three- The patriotic spirit of July Fourth continues Associated Press ty Fair did an 11-page spread in June on the buildings, their not allowed to visit their clients On Thursday, the Cyclones real estate and re- The Brooklyn Papers gunned down by a political rival in Greene, Prospect Heights and Crown happy as you want because canned beer costs $1.50, while The three 30-something architects ian accent, ‘Thank god you’re mechanically in- 53rd hot dog during Nathan’s contest in Coney Island on Sunday. Saturday, July 10, at 8 pm, with “Ellis Island: The on the site. Tom Ca began the scoring in the sec- tail empire. He John Boorman be the first modern-style mikvah — a alarm taste bud emergencies. Papers The Brooklyn Make street The Brooklyn Papers has learned that New York Knicks star Stephon Marbury tenants, the infighting and clined, not like your mother’.” By Deborah Kolben the balcony of the council chambers. Heights. book sale well drinks and most draughts are $3. who comprise Slope Associates have radical departure from the city’s “The cool, full-flavored beer will balance out the spiciness of Dream of America,” a multimedia program featuring construction problems). About half of those arrest- ond inning when, with one will fly in from Norma Vally, host of the new Discovery Home Channel program, “Tool- After graduating from the State University of (above right, playing for Team USA in this year’s Olympics), will begin investing / Rebecca Cetta This week, friends, family, colleagues By Deborah Kolben Moonshine, which opened May 21 in the former location taken on the usual array of projects roughly 17 other such facilities. the crabs nicely,” said Sean Davis, marketing and development the Brooklyn Philharmonic performing live at the Now Meier is gearing ed, the ones who received mi- out, Jim Burt singled, Dante Los Angeles for It was a year ago this past Friday While Davis’ political career may have belt Diva,” on the job on Thursday. THIS WEEKEND in his old neighborhood — Coney Island. and even former political rivals from The Brooklyn Papers of Rocco’s, a family-owned bar that was open from 1937 to over the past year, like a brown- “There is no mikvah like this,” said manager at Tiger Beer. In April, the beer won a gold medal from See TOOLBELT on page 7 Prospect Park Bandshell against a backdrop of pro- up to design another glass nor-enough charges, were Brinkley walked and Jesus the grand opening, which will feature a book reading that Councilman James Davis, a min- been short, he left an indelible mark on the 1975, features the aged interior, the original bar and exposed throughout the district and beyond looked THIS WEEKEND They may have X-ray vision, super strength and stone renovation on Sixth Avenue, John Coburn, of Slope Associates, the U.S. Brewer’s Association for best European-style pilsner. jected images from the Ellis Island Archive. safer for kids tower, only instead of processed and issued desk ap- Flores knocked in Burt with a with volunteers from Project Chance, a Head Start pro- Targeted Norman ister and former police officer, was neighborhoods he represented — Fort for different ways to remember the anti-vi- wooden latticework. There’s also a big British bulldog stat- the ability to cling to walls, but even superheroes and a few other residential rehabs. who along with his business partner To help spice up the event, Singaporean chef Christopher Yeo, “Peter Boyer is the composer and conductor and master- views of the Hudson Riv- pearance tickets for court at a single to center. gram for children. The celebration will run from 10 am
olence advocate and political maverick. ue, a tribute to the owner’s own pair of pooches. Papers File / The Brooklyn need a hand raising funds. But for the majority of the year, the and wife, Mandy Lew, is a member of who owns Straits Cafe in San Francisco, is being flown in for the mind behind this whole combination of text, music and im- By Jotham Sederstrom Farewell and adieu er, this one will be nestled later date. The police depart- The Renegades tied things to noon. He’ll unveil a wall-mural featuring his like- At a tree-planting ceremony at the But Forlano’s touch has brought the country mouse to Slope GOPer By Lisa J. Curtis Today, “Jaws” continues to inspire filmmakers, ment released a statement up in the fourth when Cy- Papers The Brooklyn ness and donate a library to Project Chance with the That’s why this weekend the Brooklyn Superhero Supply partners, who met at Harvard School B’nai Jacob. event to supervise the cooking along with the Water Street age,” said Theodore Wiprud, director of operations, education The Brooklyn Papers in among the prewar has high hopes Brooklyn Botanic Garden Tuesday morn- Brooklyn. Draught beer is served in mason jars. The juke- GO Brooklyn Editor including Brooklyn Heights’ own director Chris Tuesday night that repeatedly clones starter Joe Williams al- Cyclones celebrate clinching playoff help of a Manhattan-based literacy organization. Co. — at 372 Fifth Ave. between Fifth and Sixth streets in of Design and formed their own firm The third partner, Jason King, who Restaurant & Lounge’s head chef, Reggie Taylor. and community engagement for the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Pols agree: No brick buildings overlook- ing, Council Speaker Gifford Miller, who box is filled with country classics (but also boasts rock and describes himself as “Chinese Canadi- The mother of a 4-year-old boy who was run over Kentis (“Open Water”) who told GO Brooklyn he asserted that no prisoners were lowed a double to Pat Cottrell birth Thursday in upstate Fishkill. Unlike the 10 other Starbucks that have opened Park Slope — is hosting a three-day book fair in the back of in Park Slope last year, have been fix- A barbecue pit will churn out burgers, hot dogs and other First place Cyclones fall after 15 “And this program is very much in the Brooklyn Philharmon- Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic “Jaws,” ing Prospect Park. serves as the Assembly’s assistant did not always see eye-to-eye with Davis, punk classics). There’s a big barrel of peanuts-in-the-shell an,” said he didn’t know what a mik- and killed by a truck as he and his sister crossed would like to make a film about the lost crew of detained any longer than eight Join the carnival who later scored on Jake in relatively affluent, highly trafficked areas of By Jess Wisloski its one-stop superhero shopping center, which sells every- ated on a pro-bono project that, when American favorites just outside the restaurant on Water Street off ic’s tradition of bringing inspiring new work to the people of which film historians consider one of the first The developers are gun- Aspectacular combination of Las at Grand Army Plaza. The service speaker, is expected to easily win called his late colleague a “mighty oak near the front door for customers to dig into. And Forlano vah was until he started this project. Brooklyn.” Boyer will make his New York City conducting Hamilton Avenue spoke out this week against the the U.S.S. Indianapolis. hours, and described the Man- Ritchie’s single to left. Brooklyn, for this one — inside real estate mogul The Brooklyn Papers thing from capes to anti-matter devices to hideout maps. built, few people are likely to even Main Street. eyes Bloomie box-office blockbusters, will be screened by ning for the vanity name Vegas glitz and Caribbean music will roads have stands of vendors lined up re-election. Still, his unseasoned In “Jaws,” the ill-fated World War II vessell among a tree of politicians.” even bought and tuned an old upright piano for the bar. see. “Now I know more than most peo- The festival also hopes to promote Singapore as a travel desti- debut at this performance. traffic she says is overrunning Red Hook. One Prospect Park, al- hattan facility as clean. In the fifth inning, Brooklyn regained the lead when Matt Fisher dou- Bruce Ratner’s recently opened Atlantic Terminal Clarence Norman nearly had Major book publishers from across the city have donat- “We’re looking for people to come in and jam,” he says, debates on sabbath the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy as the forms the basis for the film’s most memorable overflow Brooklyn’s streets on Labor selling foods, crafts, books, clothing, opponent has an ace in the hole — The next day, July 21, the City Council “We had planned that facili- bled home Grant Psomas, who had reached on a wild pitch strikeout mall — Starbucks chose to bring in Johnson’s de- Working with Rabbi Shimon Hecht ple need to know for somebody who nation and will feature a variety of Asian arts such as Chinese innings in Jamestown, a record “It’s a slide show of Ellis Island and immigrants coming Sherry Laney, whose son Travis Bussey was killed though the building would art, jewelry and more. a tough choice to make on Pri- ed upwards of 10,000 books to the store which, starting finale to their annual summer film series. scene, a monologue by the late Robert Shaw, as Day, Monday, Sept. 6, as the 37th an- the charges looming against the renamed a City Hall lounge in Davis’ honor for tips and beer. He also hopes to book three-piece coun- of Congregation B’nai Jacob, an ortho- will never use a mikvah — it’s been a By Deborah Kolben lican,” Shaw hardly appears to be through Ellis Island, which accompanies narration taken from while crossing Hamilton Avenue at Court Street on June ty to handle over a thousand and was later sacrificed to second. velopment firm as a co-sponsor, which has a mis- mary Day. this fall, will run a non-profit tutoring center known as dragon performances, kickboxing demonstrations by members By Jotham Sederstrom bates on Sept. 30 and Oct. 8, both holy (“Jaws” was originally slated for Aug. 12, but the old sea dog Quint. actually rise on Eastern nual West Indian American Day pa- Festival organizers, the West Indi- 22-year incumbent and a con-
try and rockabilly bands in the future. Callan / Tom and put up a plaque bearing his portrait — dox synagogue on Ninth Street between fascinating experience,” said King, The Brooklyn Papers one himself. oral histories of seven immigrants,” said Wiprud. One of the 25, told The Brook- persons,” said Deputy Chief But Hudson Valley again came back, scoring a tally in the bottom of sion of investing in commercial enterprises in “un- Not whether to vote for himself /Jori Klein of DUMBO’s Gleason’s Gym, caricature artists and Asian-style days in which observant Jews are prevent- Parkway and Plaza Street an-American Day Carnival Associa- one he often included in campaign literature. 826NYC for children ages 6 to 18. Proceeds will go to- Especially attractive now, Moonshine boasts a patio By Ed Shakespeare knotted at two, the Brooks plated a pair six innings of six-hit ball, striking out five concert’s narrators, Barry Bostwick, played a New York mayor The Brooklyn Papers was postponed due to inclement weather.) Food and refreshments will be available for Michael Collins, a spokesman rade kicks off at 11 am. the seventh off Cyclones reliever Chuck Smith. Pinch hitter Shaun der-served minority communities.” stituency stirring with concern. ward operating the mentoring center. Sixth and Seventh avenues, the three who ran his own firm in Los Angeles massages. The 29-year-old banker is a lyn Papers that safe- ed from turning on televisions or radios. A East in Prospect Heights. tion, predict this year’s fest to attract on Tuesday, but whether to vote But a pair of dueling memorial cere- with a barbecue grill and a delicious policy of for The Brooklyn Papers when Ambiorix Concepcion’s grounded and giving up two runs, one earned. He may be half his age and on the sitcom “Spin City” for six years (he’s still beloved by The PG-rated film stars Brooklyn native purchase. A free shuttle bus loops between the for the NYPD. He said the Featuring live music, stilt dancers, Cumberland singled to center, advanced to second on a bunt,went to The five-time NBA champion with the Los An- See NORMAN on page 18 In addition to what their calling “dirt-cheap” books, partners agreed to design a mikvah, a before moving to New York two years For one lucky visitor, the East-Asian experience will not end registered member of the Grand ty measures need to City and state elected officials are third debate, on Oct. 13, does not pose any “It’s the right building more than 3 million participants. So before or after a scheduled pre- monies on the first anniversary of his as- / Jori Klein BYOM, or “bring your own meat.” resulted in two Jamestown errors and two Trailing 2-0 in the seventh, the Clones with pockets not nearly as many for his performance as Brad in the cult classic “Rocky EXCLUSIVE Richard Dreyfuss as marine biologist and shark ex- Clark Street 2/3, High Street A/C, York Street F Tuesday arrests were “scattered Caribbean foods and more, the color- third on a wild pitch and scored on a sacrifice fly by Chad Cooper off geles Lakers, where he played his entire career, won 826NYC will be running superhero skills contests — in- Jewish ritual bath used primarily by ago. Sunday, as a five-night trip to Singapore, including airfare and In the longest game in Brooklyn Cy- Old Party but he is also a card- be implemented at charging cultural insensitivity follow- problems, said Borough Park Assembly- for that site, it’s going to be arrive early to claim a good vantage trail hearing in the state’s corrup- / Jori Klein Moonshine is located at 317 Columbia St. subway stations and the park. ful pageant will feature grand marshals sassination, Friday, July 23, threw a politi- women but also by men, on 10th Street Finding a site in Park Slope wasn’t Brooklyn runs. cut the lead in half on a double by Dante deep, but Park Sloper Steve carrying member of the Park Horror Picture Show”). Joining Bostwick will be Barbara Barrie the intersection and other streets before another life is lost. pert Matt Hooper, who attempts to convince the lo- Callan / Tom over a number of hours. So it Eddy Camacho, who had replaced Smith. the league’s Most Valuable Player award three times tion case against him. cluding “Heroic Hopscotch,” to test aim and balance, and hotel accommodations, will be raffled off at the festival. clones history, the Jamestown Jam- ing a decision not to reschedule two man Dov Hikind, who sent a letter signed a spectacular addition to point and wear comfortable, sturdy Callan / Tom cal wrench in to the otherwise solemn between Woodhull Street and Hamilton But Jamestown (15-29) came back to Brinkley followed by two ground outs by Shaw believes he can defeat [“One Potato, Two Potato” (1962), “Breaking Away” (1979)] cal police chief (Roy Scheider) and the mayor The screening begins at 8:45 pm in handled more than its capacity Dennis Walcott, New York City’s The Cyclones answered right back in the eighth. Tyler Davidson’s and was three times named MVP of the NBA finals. Originally, both were scheduled between Fifth and Sixth avenues. De- easy, but after some time Hecht locat- Slope Food Co-op, where he “Hamilton Avenue needs crossing guards,” said Laney. Papers The Brooklyn “Diabolical Double Dutch,” to judge speed and accura- For chili crab recipes, visit www.chilicrabfestival.com. mers’ J.T. Restko knocked an RBI sin- televised presidential debates that fall by a bipartisan coalition of Brooklyn elect- the neighborhood,” said / Jori Klein shoes and a hat. And don’t forget PAPER HOLIDAY
The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, which deputy mayor for policy; Sen. Charles week of events. Avenue. Open nightly from 4 pm. Cash spite a religious ordinance that a mikvah ed a carriage house in the back of a knot the score in the bottom of the inning Tyler Davidson and Concepcion. Mayor Michael Bloomberg in works his mandatory 2.5 hours who replaces previously announced actress Blair Brown. “There’s too many kids from the buildings playing out (Murray Hamilton) to close the fictional town of that day because we were effi- one-out liner was misplayed by Cumberland in right, allowing David- After retiring from the NBA, he became something on the same day, Sept. 14, but the cy. Prizes will be awarded. The Tiger Beer-Singapore Chili Crab Festival will gle in the bottom of the 15th inning to on Jewish holy days. ed officials to the commission last week. can be accessed from Water Street Mario Precida, a principal Schumer; and Edison O. Jackson, water. The Brooklyn Papers will not Davis’ brother, Geoffrey Davis, organ- only. For more information, call (718) be built before a synagogue, there is not house on 10th Street that is accessible John Coburn, an associate with Slope Inc., dis- on two separate wild pitches by Clones re- The Brooks tied the score in the eighth next year’s primary. every month. “Ellis Island: The Dream of America,” is part of the there and it’s too dangerous for the kids. The intersection Amity’s beaches before any more tourists become ciently able to handle them and son to cruise into second. The big first baseman’s attempt to make it to of a mogul, starting ventures that have included court date was put off until this fall. / Jori Klein The book fair, which started Friday, will con- take place along Water Street between Dock defeat the first place Clones in heart- “It’s disconcerting and incredibly insensi- of Seventeen Development publish next week because of The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn 422-0563. — Ed Beeson liever Jose Rodriguez. on an RBI single by Derran Watts. Celebrate Brooklyn performing arts series at the The Commission on Presidential De- at Dock Street. For more infor- move them on to court.” president of Medgar Evers College. For more information about third on the play resulted in a throwing error by Renegade shortstop ized a commemorative memorial celebra- a single one in the neighborhood. by a small driveway. plays the architecture firm's model of a mikvah The Republican investment Just recently Shaw was stock- is too confusing.” hors d’eouvres for a voracious great white shark. LLC, which is building the joint involvement with the TGI Friday’s restaurant Norman, the Crown Heights- tinue on Saturday, July 24, from 10 am to 8 and Main streets in DUMBO, from noon to 6 breaking fashion 5-4, Thursday night The score remained tied until the 15th, Previously, the longest Cyclones game bandshell, Prospect Park West and Ninth bates, which is charged with scheduling the tive, and it’s sort of like a brush off,” said “Jaws” was nominated for best picture and won mation, log ontowww.brook- But according to Bruce The parade begins at Eastern Park- the parade, which continues Salvador Paredes, which allowed Davidson to score the go-ahead run. Sheer delight the Rosh Hashanah holiday, and The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn tion at the Rose Castle Ballroom in Crown BEGINSPAGE ON 8 chain, Magic Johnson Theaters movie multiplexes Bedford-Stuyvesant assemblyman pm, and on Sunday, July 25, from 11 am With soaring skylights, a return to See MIKVAH IN SLOPE on page 3 to be built on 10th Street. pm. Beers: $4; crab dishes: $3. For more in- banker has officially launched his ing organic vegetables when Department of Transportation officials said this week Hikind. “We’re talking about excluding hun- 150-foot residential tower. Papers The Brooklyn Heights with the Rev. Al Sharpton and ac- in Jamestown. when, with runners on second and third and ran 14 innings. Street. Suggested admission is $3. For more debates between Democratic Massachu- Oscars for best film editing and best music for John lynbridgepark.org or call Bentley, a spokesman for the way and Utica Avenue in Crown until 6 pm, log on to Camacho pitched a scoreless eighth and a perfect ninth to earn the and Washington Mutual Home Loan Centers. Papers The Brooklyn our offices will be closed Thurs- Prospect Park Admistrator Tupper Thomas, Brooklyn Musuem Director Arnold Lehman, Coun- to 6 pm. For more information contact formation, call (212) 561-0607. mayoral campaign with a Web somebody stopped and asked him that any new safety measures would take up to two Both the architect and A Richard Meier-designed Marching along on Monday in appropriately skimpy outfits are two of the and chairman of the Kings County For complete Cyclones coverage featur- dreds of thousands of people. Why take (718) 802-0603. 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Walentas Panel’s anti-Ratner motions quashed Beep locks out EXCLUSIVE Bring Mets NO ‘SALVATION’ By Jess Wisloski and Neil Sloane disclosed last month — first in The Brooklyn Pa- spect to his plan to build a basketball arena, TASTY ‘TURKEY’ BANNED DUELING DEVELOPERS The Brooklyn Papers pers and then at the last full board meeting — that three towering skyscrapers and 14 other resi- caves, kills CB2 Chairwoman Shirley McCrae and the dential and commercial buildings in Prospect Target won’t allow ‘Army’ on its premises Ratner invites Members of Community Board 2 are board’s district manager, Robert Perris, had for 10 Heights east of the intersection of Atlantic and anti-arena folks set for a fight at the board’s monthly and Nets to weeks been participating in negotiations with For- Flatbush avenues. Boymelgreen’s plans put By Jotham Sederstrom New York counties outside the city, Target embargo. In Brooklyn, that there,” said Evans, who said that as a POWER BROKERS meeting this Wednesday over the issue of est City Ratner over the agreement. Board mem- Two of those committees, the Traffic and The Brooklyn Papers where Target is more of a dominant loss translates to fewer toys for needy result of the ban volunteers have had By Jess Wisloski board participation in negotiations for a DONE DEAL chosen few to bers had not been informed of the chairwoman’s Transportation and Land Use committees, Charity may begin at home, presence, said a Salvation Army children and a shrunken operating to scout smaller locations in order to The Brooklyn Papers community benefits agreement with participation in the meetings, which were also at- drafted resolutions, on Oct. 19 and Oct. 20, re- spokesman. budget for the borough’s 27 Salvation fill the gap. “It just means that we Bruce’s deal with state nearly complete Ratner’s ’Yards’ in peril but it ends at Target’s doorstep. Community groups seek inside track to Ratner bucks Borough President Marty Mark- his tower Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner. tended by the chairpersons of community boards spectively, calling for the board to pull out of Craig Evans, director of communi- Army-run homeless shelters and day have to really depend on the public to See page 7 Brooklyn The controversy stems from actions taken by 6 and 8, until it was reported in The Papers. the negotiations until a full accounting of the The national discount retailer, ty relations for the Salvation Army of care and community centers. help us overcome the losses we’re owitz invited leaders of a select draft agreement ON METROTECH CAMPUS which has five department stores in CB2 leadership to quash motions drafted by two Three CB2 committees deliberated what, if development is provided to the board by Rat- By Jess Wisloski New York, said that about $9 million “Certainly, there is some type of experiencing.” few groups and elected officials to By Jess Wisloski New York City including two in By Jess Wisloski nity Organizations for Reform Now) — which Heights stretching from the intersec- HE ANSWERS to the city’s stadium problems lie at the corner independent committees calling for the board to any, recommendations the board should make ner, for fear of appearing to endorse the project The Brooklyn Papers has been drained nationally since the prohibition now against our presence See TARGET on page 15 a closed-door meeting Wednesday By Jess Wisloski of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues. The Brooklyn Papers Brooklyn, has reaffirmed a policy it The Brooklyn Papers both support the Forest City Ratner plan — say tion of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, refrain from “endorsing, commenting on or partic- with respect to the CBA, a contract between on behalf of the community by having partici- they are already providing to the developer serv- to “participate in dialogue” about The Brooklyn Papers While real estate mogul Bruce Ratner continues to push ahead Facing certain rejection from a key City Council committee this Acompeting developer’s plans for a EXCLUSIVE adopted last January that reverses the Two organizations that have been meeting has spurred the creation of neighbor- T ipating in” such negotiations because board mem- the developer and the community outlining hir- pated in the CBA negotiations. ices for which they could later be hired, acting as developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic with his Atlantic Yards project — featuring a basketball arena for his portion of the Atlantic Yards site could company’s long-standing holiday- hood associations, employment and For the past two months, community board leaders, week, DUMBO developers David and Jed Walentas abruptly with- bers have not been informed of the project details ing mandates, among other concerns, with re- See SHUT UP! on page 2 Outside advertisers, menus with Forest City Ratner officials over a com- community gateways to jobs and housing. stories — as well as courtyards, stores and Yards project, leaving critics of the housing advocacy groups, and devel- Nets, 60-story office towers and a high-rise housing campus — argu- throw a monkey wrench into Bruce time tradition of allowing Salvation drew their plans to build a 16-story apartment building on Water and did not want to ap- underground parking, according to plans munity benefits agreement tied to Atlantic Ratner plans to build Atlantic Yards on 24 plan out in the cold. opment coalitions over the past year Borough Hall staffers and members of select organi- ments for less obtrusive, Ratner’s dream of building a basketball Army volunteers to solicit donations zations have been attending closed-door meetings Street near the Brooklyn Bridge overpass. pear to be supporting Ratner released this year. Under Ratner’s Yards may be rewarded with jobs if the bas- acres of public and private property bounded by The media was also barred. since it was announced. more neighborhood-friend- the project without a arena, four office skyscrapers and 13 on the store premises. with developer Bruce Ratner to negotiate a contract The news came as a relief to neighborhood organizations that had opposed plan, Pacific Street would no longer exist But at the Atlantic Terminal mall, ketball arena, office skyscraper and apartment Dean Street and Flatbush, Atlantic and Vander- Asmall group of protesters showed AMarkowitz aide said those were ly developments above the the father-and-son team’s application to rezone 38 Water St. at Dock Street to thorough review. high-rise apartment buildings in Pros- Watchtower’s tower high-rise plan gains government approvals. that would guarantee certain benefits to the communi- on that block. where Target opened in July, the im- bilt avenues in Prospect Heights. up outside Borough Hall for the 4 pm exactly the groups they tried to avoid Long Island Rail Road allow for the construction, which would have included 327 underground “Those resolutions off limits at Ratner complex pect Heights, The Brooklyn Papers has Boymelgreen has yet to make public his Members of both BUILD (Brooklyn United James Stuckey, executive vice president of For- / Tom Callan / Tom pact has been softened by a contrary meeting to draw attention to Mar- bringing into the meeting, and instead ties surrounding his Atlantic Yards site. storage yard continue to parking spaces, 200 apartments and 8,000 square feet of retail space. should be brought be- learned. pop up. plans for 750-800 Pacific St. but a Web site policy of the mall’s owner, Forest for Innovative Local Development) and the New est City Ratner, announced at a public meeting on kowitz’s perceived blacklisting of favored “neutral” and “longstanding The so-called community benefits agreement, or CBA — / Jim Cole The plan drew the condemnation of the DUMBO Neighborhood Associa- fore the full board,” By Jess Wisloski which is distributed to Metrotech offices, she Aside from usurping a large chunk of the of Boymelgreen’s joint venture company, City Ratner, which allows Salvation York chapter of ACORN (Alliance of Commu- Nov. 29 that he hoped to bring ACORN on as the groups outspoken in their condemna- civic associations” that were not are- which is said by both Forest City Ratner and sources involved I’ve heard them all, from tion, the Brooklyn Heights Association, Community Board 2, Borough Presi- said Dorris Gaines U2 ROCKS land Ratner has slated for residential devel- na-specific. in the negotiations to be swiftly approaching a final form — a big park to low-rise, af- EARTH TO BRUCE The Brooklyn Papers was told it wouldn’t happen. Africa Israel Investments, touts the project Army volunteers to solicit spare community’s sponsor once the city tion of the Forest City Ratner propos- dent Marty Markowitz and Councilman David Yassky because it would have Golomb, who sits on “I told him, ‘I’d like to let them know I’m opment, Shaya Boymelgreen’s plan to build as one of their American ventures and said OKd by City Council Department of Housing Preserva- al to build a basketball arena, housing Borough Hall spokesman Michael would include a labor agreement negotiated with unions to fordable housing to cheap Aricka Westbrooks didn’t know when she change on its property. impacted views of and from the Brooklyn Bridge. the Land Use com- EXCLUSIVE here, and I do catering,’” she said, recalling a a 1.1 million-square-foot complex of market- the massive development would be built on Joe DePlasco, a spokesman for tion and Development (HPD) grant- and office skyscrapers. Kadish described the exclusion as a guarantee that a quarter of the construction jobs generated by space for arts groups. “We just wanted to thank everyone for their help,” said Nancy Bowe, pres- opened her quirky fried turkey business on Associated Press mittee. rate apartment buildings on Pacific Street The council’s land use commit- Wednesday, along with East New ed his company tax abatements measure to sidestep overly con- the project go to local residents. And while any of those conversation she had with the BID’s executive an assemblage of seven parcels on a lot Forest City Ratner, which leases “This thing is really a sock in the Papers File The Brooklyn ident of the Brooklyn Heights Association, who came to the City Council “A lot of time and Facts show he owns less land Myrtle Avenue a year ago that Jive Turkey ployees was off limits, her feathers were more director, Michael Weiss. could also stymie the Metrotech developer’s bounded by Vanderbilt and Carlton avenues, DUMBOs angry tee had voted two weeks ago to ap- York Councilman Charles Barron, connected to the construction of af- face,” said Patti Hagan, co-founder of tentious discussion and avoid drifting But judging by reactions to news of the agreement this would be better than Rat- space over two floors to Target at At- Borough President Marty Markowitz, former New York Knick Bernard King, and mega-developer Bruce Rat- chambers Wednesday — the morning after word had been passed on through work and energy went would be quickly featured in the New York than a little ruffled. “He told me, ‘We do not allow businesses hopes of having the six-square-block site between Pacific and Dean streets. prove the project, put forth by the but had recently softened their public fordable housing on the site. the Prospect Heights Action Coalition. off topic, which he said was about the week, community members, both those in favor of and those ner’s suburban campus su- DUMBO lantic Terminal, said charitable volun- ner at last October’s announcement of plans to bring the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn. council members that the Walentases had withdrawn their proposal. into those considera- By Jess Wisloski Times, Gourmet magazine and on the Food Westbrooks, the owner of the restaurant on that do not participate in the BID to advertise in designated as urban blight, a key component with Yassky corporate arm of the Jehovah’s stance on the project, hinting that fur- Carol Abrams, an HPD spokes- “PHAC, Brooklyn Vision, Develop- “process of offering community in- against the Atlantic Yards plan — which includes a basketball perblock — which would Weinstein said he was happy to join teers are allowed on the plaza outside / Kathy Willens Pick your pumpkin The City Council rarely votes down an application recommended for ap- The Brooklyn Papers Myrtle Avenue at Waverly Avenue, thought to getting the state to condemn nearly 11 woman, said her agency requires a put” to the developer and the state, complete the separation of tions,” she said. Network. the BID newsletter.’And I said, ‘Well, I have a forces with Boymelgreen, who he de- the mall, at Atlantic Avenue and Fort Witnesses religious order, and that ther modifications were in the works. Library to Don’t Destroy Brooklyn; all these arena, 4,500 units of housing and three office skyscrapers — Pumpkins depicting President George Bush, left, and his Democratic challenger, Massachusetts proval by the City Planning Commission, but in this case the commission EXCLUSIVE nothing seemed more surefire than appealing to tarily, informed the group outside, “You Fort Greene and Clinton “We expected the Despite boasts by Atlantic Yards She very likely did know that her upscale problem with that,’” she told The Brooklyn Pa- acres of privately owned property for his use. scribed as a “good developer.” Greene Place, as well as at the At- and James committee’s recommendation gen- Their votes against the plan this community sponsor in any cases groups have been working relentless- which is expected to lead the applica- Councilman David Yassky left the done smaller.” Yassky said he wanted don’t feel either represented or included. Sen. John Kerry, are seen below another pumpkin depicting the White House, at a Halloween was the only authority in the city’s land use review process to give the plan a the Metrotech workforce with her hearty food meeting at 5:30 pm, Hagan ap- have infiltrators,” saying their exclusion Hill from Prospect Heights resolutions would be menu of $7 dishes and $4 sides would appeal to pers. Westbrooks said she had also asked for a Working with fellow property owner “He says what he’s going to do, he does lantic Center mall across the street. erally carries in the full council. week left locals wondering if they where developers receive tax ly for more than a year to bring this tion through environmental review. to see a secure plan for traffic, but that Ideas of having a CBA have been whispered since Ratner Callan / Tom developer Bruce Ratner that he has pumpkin show in Salem, N.H. Kerry and Bush held their final scheduled debate Wednesday. See WALENTAS on page 5 veloper to build over roughly 11 acres and delivering to them would be a sweeter distribution list for where they send the newslet- Henry Weinstein, who has leased other Pa- By Jess Wisloski abatements or relief that is paid for problem to people’s attention, espe- “We’re coming up with a way that proached him and asked what was go- the meeting wasn’t really discussing was the predominant topic of discussion that he started with the brought before the full the large hub of Brooklyn, Manhattan and sub- what he says, and he keeps his word,” We- “The Salvation Army folks are But what lingered for many res- were voting their consciences or announced his plan late last year. The term community bene- purchased an overwhelming majority of rail storage yards in the area. The recipe for success than her honey pecan-glazed cific Street properties to Boymelgreen The Brooklyn Papers Associated Press ters, which Weiss also refused to give her. instein told The Papers of Boymelgreen. by city taxpayers. That group, she cially the lack of process.” the community can have input to ing on inside. that. later in the meeting. fits agreement came from an initiative to hire locally for the failed Atlantic Center mall board. In effect, if remaining 13 acres in the project site urban residents — 22,000 white-collar workers outside on the plaza, in front of At- idents after Wednesday’s vote to playing at politics. of the private property needed to turkey and, of course, her famous fried turkey. Weiss confirmed that the newsletter didn’t over the past six years, the Leviev Boy- “[He] is very sensitive to what the commu- said, is chosen at the developer’s they’re not, they’re just — employed just minutes away in the Camp / Rikki Van She stood outside with fliers outlin- this,” said Kadish, and indicated that “Well, right now they’re discussing “We never really got to substance, Saunders, who is also involved with development of the Staples Center basketball arena in down- — none of them are going build a basketball arena and office — which is bounded by Dean Street lantic Terminal,” said DePlasco, “and The City Council’s vote this approve the plan — only three “There have been an avalanche get $16M But first they had to know about it. take advertising, and explained that to open it up melgreen development company would nity needs.” discretion. ing the footprint of the planned devel- the other groups would be part of the the need for broader participation,” he but we talked about process and com- BUILD, a job advocacy group in nego- town Los Angeles, and this would be the first of its kind on to happen. being tossed out. All and Flatbush, Atlantic and Vanderbilt Metrotech business complex developed by Forest City Ratner is pleased that week to approve zoning changes council members voted against it of e-mails to Yassky, [Council and apartment towers in Prospect But when she asked the Metrotech Business to outside business wouldn’t serve the interests build the residential complex on adjoining Boymelgreen’s current lease expires in HPD entrusts the chosen com- opment area, and tried to engage any- process. said. munity outreach,” he said. tiations with Forest City Ratner for a the East Coast. So the answer, of course, our time and efforts avenues — are occupied by city Bruce Ratner’s Forest City Ratner company 10 they are.” that will allow the Watchtower — was resentment toward the Speaker Gifford] Miller, James and / Tom Callan / Tom The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Heights, The Brooklyn Papers has of paying members in the Metrotech BID. property Boymelgreen and Weinstein each 2047. munity group with marketing and one headed towards Borough Hall in Still, the select attendees of the pri- Hagan asked Yassky’s own thoughts Duke Saunders, a 40-year resident of community benefits agreement [see sto- Forest City Ratner’s version promises that 50 percent of the is to move the New York will have been tossed streets and privately owned buildings. years ago. Improvement District if she could advertise her Since November, when the 152- area’s two council representatives. each council member telling them / Ramin Talaie own at 750-800 Pacific St., between Carl- Bible and Tract Society to build leasing the project’s housing com- discussion. vate community meeting could not on the plans?. ry at right], which was also excluded rental and condominium apartments will be “affordable hous- Mets to Brooklyn. out as well.” learned that several of the largest When she learned that marketing to the em- delivery and catering services in its newsletter, See JIVE TURKEY on page 14 The Africa Israel Web site details that year-old not-for-profit organization Council members David Yassky that nobody has given up and they Prospect Heights and head of the Van- Atlantic Yards would be a mega-de- Associated Press ton and Vanderbilt avenues. The site com- the industrial buildings on the property, a campus of four high-rise ponent, but still monitors the admin- The 24-acre plan, which would avoid the topic of exclusion. “I’d like to see it come in and done derbilt Avenue Merchants Association, from the meeting, said the general feel- ing” for various incomes, that there will be a minimum hiring But before I get bom- The committees property owners there have not yet velopment of 17 high-rises, the tallest of- dispatched volunteers for its tradi- and Letitia James, across whose dis- feel they’ve been betrayed!” said Hook Ikea set, unless mayor prises the former Pecter’s Bakery. would remain intact, converted to luxury Target is not the only retail enterprise banning jingle bells. In Canandaigua, NY, where Mary buildings at 85 Jay St. was a istration of the lottery-style applica- barded with hate e-mail, were given the task of agreed to sell. tional, six-week, holiday charity makeover engulf a substantial portion of Prospect When Downtown-Brooklyn Heights right,” he replied. “I’d like to see it who ducked out of the meeting momen- tricts the project overlaps, boisterous- A.L. Santagata, a real estate ap- See MARTY on page 17 See RATNER on page 17 fice tower as high as 62 stories, as well as Ratner proposes to build a $2.5 billion tion process through which tenants letters and phone calls, hear discussing a bare- The Metropolitan Transportation one-, two- and three-bedroom condomini- Ferris is a volunteer Salvation Army bell ringer in the foyer of Tops Friendly Market, the bell drive, officials with the group say, foregone conclusion to DUMBO ly protested earlier versions of the praiser and sales agent who works a 19,000-seat arena for his Nets basket- complex on property bounded by Flatbush, are selected for the affordable hous- Season’s change Associated Press um units, with new construction above the By Jess Wisloski me out. bones draft outline of ringers were not allowed by management to actually ring the bell. The reverberations were too shoppers in New York have donated and Vinegar Hill residents who plan, and had been vocal opponents Authority is negotiating the sale to ball team and 4,500 units of housing. Atlantic and Vanderbilt avenues and Dean in the two neighborhoods and lives ing. As proposed, Ratner’s project Now, I’m no fan of the The fall colors were in all their glory at Prospect Park this week, where the green of summer is slowly the benefits agreement, Papers File The Brooklyn former baked goods factory. loud, they were told. Here in Brooklyn, Salvation Army bell ringers are not allowed outside the $100,000 less than last year. Much of for the past year have fought The Brooklyn Papers Ratner’s company, Forest City Ratner, Ratner has repeatedly claimed to have Street — including Pacific Street. as recently as October. They both in Brooklyn Heights. would include 2,000 units of tax- use of the state’s power of giving way to orange and red. or CBA, after it was Bruce Ratner By Jess Wisloski and Neil Sloane U2,” set to air Dec. 10, that will take viewers Weinstein said commercial property new Target at Atlantic Terminal. that loss, however, comes from 14 of air rights that would allow the de- See FACTS on page 6 Weinstein owns four parcels of land on would be kept on the lower two levels of the the plan. voted against the 85 Jay St. plan on See TOWER on page 6 The Brooklyn Public Library is undertaking a abated housing and 4,500 units in eminent domain to take moves in The Brooklyn Papers through the process of organizing, “dealing with $16 million, 18-month reconstruction of its Cen- land away from people for TROPHY TOWER a block on which Ratner wants to build res- entire project. He said he’s not sure himself of total. local authorities,” and responding to the rumors Borrowing a note from the mid-’70s tral Branch at Grand Army Plaza. But at the Nov. 29 public meet- the sake of one man mak- as news of the concert leaked out, according to a idential buildings — several as high as 40 See DEVELOPERS on page 5 Mango / Greg / Bill Kostroun ing, the motives of both ACORN, a ing a buck. But if Gov. Rolling Stones, when they were the world’s press release handed out at the concert. Library patrons, be warned. As soon as January, read- Should I stay or should I go? Bloomie: I wouldn’t ers arriving at the library on Eastern Parkway at Flatbush nationwide organization of low- and George Pataki (through his Williamsburgh’s close to a deal greatest rock band, U2 took Manhattan, And though the “local authorities” in Brooklyn Avenue may find looming construction equipment sheds moderate-income families, and Metropolitan Transporta- By Jess Wisloski and Jotham Sederstrom The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, put Brooklyn and the world by storm Monday were less than amused when they found out about tion Authority appointees’ want to live near it — in that order. obscuring the grand entrance. BUILD, a community group The Brooklyn Papers on the market in June by its current owner, the concert late in the day, the 84th Precinct police sale of air rights over the Associated Press Brain But although the library may look off-limits, it will be formed for the express purpose of Smith St. bar owner Park ball Note to Traveling through Manhattan on the back of a pulled off the unexpected security detail without a Papers The Brooklyn NABBED HSBC bank, is in contract to be sold to the Der- open during normal hours, despite commencement of the finding jobs from the Atlantic Yards rail yard and the state’s With its easy access and large near- By Jess Wisloski Areal estate developer relatively unknown mot Company, sources said. The 512-foot office flatbed truck — as the Stones did down Fifth Av- hitch. Some even had a good time. Mad hatters Harpers report: project, were called into question. project, which includes construction of an underground au- power to invoke eminent by population, the crossroads of At- The Brooklyn Papers in these parts is close to a deal to purchase building at 1 Hanson Place was expected to sell enue to announce their U.S. tour in the spring of “They nearly caught us with our pants down,” ditorium that has been in the works since 1912. An audience member asked if asks nabe to decide domain) is determined to lantic and Flatbush avenues is the honors ace Brooklyn’s tallest building. 1975 — U2 played tunes from their album said one police officer as he enjoyed the show hand the site over to his The City Council voted 50-1 Wednesday in favor of By Lisa J. Curtis for between $60 million and $90 million. On Dec. 16, library directors and trustees gathered to members of the two groups were perfect spot for Jason Kidd’s (above) Officials with Dermot, a development firm “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb,” which momentarily. While event-goers were encour- washers Red-caps just wanna have fun getting paid by Forest City Ratner Piano man, all dressed in red buddy Ratner, let’s get a zoning changes that would allow Swedish home fur- GO Brooklyn Editor host a community forum addressing concerns local resi- Nets and Mike Piazza’s (top) Mets. IN PARK bicyclist: that branched out from their holdings in Colorado was to be released the next day. aged to be at Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park by In Dyker Heights, where Christmas always seems a little bit brighter, Santa takes a turn at the piano for this display at 105482nd St. better outcome for the bor- nishings giant Ikea to build a megastore on the Red See LIBRARY on page 11 See POWER on page 4 THIS WEEKEND The unannounced caravan culminated in a 2:30 pm for the 4 pm performance, the produc- Hynes did ‘crime,’ Laundry teaching kids By Jotham Sederstrom And, well, occasionally they get together for ough as a whole — expand Hook waterfront. Only East New York Councilman This Saturday, Nov. 6, the Prospect Park Alliance to become an up-and-coming player in the New will pay tribute to New York Mets captain John York real estate scene, would not confirm the “secret” free concert on the Brooklyn waterfront ers of the show failed to notify the local precinct The Brooklyn Papers Sunday tea. on the genesis of Ratner’s project and build not just one, but two sports Charles Barron voted against the contentious plan. Franco at its gala fundraiser The Carousel Ball. purchase — but spoke briefly on the rumors. that, judging from fan reaction and the world- about the internationally adored rock band’s con- while mom & dad fold But the tea, long a symbol of the sophisti- facilities. The measure is expected to be signed into law this week — On the odd night that his wife decides cated lunching lady, is but one aspect of the
/ Tom Callan / Tom wide media coverage the event drew, may have / Brooklyn Museum of Art,/ Brooklyn Laszlo Willinger cert until 12:45 pm, police said. Just as it was in the late-1920s when the Williamsburgh Savings Bank The ace reliever and Brooklyn native (pictured in a Members: “Until the deal closes we’re not commenting to join friends for an evening on the THIS WEEKEND unless, that is, Mayor Michael Bloomberg decides to trade his SPREE 2000 photo celebrating his team’s National League Thanks on anything one way or the other,” said Andrew reclaimed the “world’s greatest” mantle for the Talk about fashionably late. By Jotham Sederstrom Red Hat Society, a nationwide group of more tower was built, the crossroads of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues is as O’Hara did time See FOR IKEA on page 2 Rendering of the proposed Red Hook Ikea on the site of the former New York Shipyard. Championship after defeating the St. Louis Cardinals), Irish rockers. Still, it was an orderly crush of thousands of The Brooklyn Papers town, Carl Giangrande likes to unwind. than 500,000 women age 50 or older that has
McArthur, a broker with the company. Asked if / Ramin Talaie prime a piece of real estate as any in Brooklyn. Granted, it’s not as close By Jess Wisloski will be honored along with River Cafe owner Michael The MTV-sponsored publicity stunt attracted anxious fans that waited behind metal barriers in Maybe he’ll watch a game. Or go to that two chapters in Bay Ridge. to Manhattan as Brooklyn Heights nor does it have the housing stock of By Jess Wisloski the company may have secured merely a man- By Jotham Sederstrom What most piqued Hynes about the ar- Reading, writing … and rinsing? The Brooklyn Papers “Buzzy” O’Keeffe, the Brooklyn Cyclones minor league agement agreement on the building with another thousands of fans, many of who followed rumors front of the Empire Stores, the line running the restaurant he likes so much but his wife does “This group of ladies is the most fun of any
The Brooklyn Papers Associated Press Ratner Park Slope, but it’s a hell of a lot more accessible than, say, DUMBO. The Brooklyn Papers ticle, penned by Cobble Hill resident Destined to take the starch out of stuffy class- baseball organization and the Daily News, buyer, he said, “We don’t manage anything that throughout the preceding week, while others length of the Civil War-era warehouses from not. I’ve known,” said Joan McKenna, the leader The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn / Greg Mango / Greg The fact that the intersection sits atop one of the largest train termi- Cops have arrested the violent half Christopher Ketcham for the national rooms, a grade-school science teacher in Brook- Beginning at 6:30 pm, black-tie ticket holders will con- When Jonique Williams went to see the Photograph titled “Norma Jeane,” is part of a show that opened at the Brooklyn Museum last week. Callan / Tom District Attorney Charles Hynes is “It lets me do guy stuff,” said Giangrande, of the group, which keeps its membership to Park Sloper’s slice of life / Greg Mango / Greg we are not active investors in.” found out on the Internet and by word of mouth Dock Street to Main Street inside the park, magazine’s December issue, is an allega- lyn has concocted one of the most inspired com- Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mel Brooks and Gov. George Pataki at the Brooklyn Navy Yard nals in the city — it could be considered Penn Station East — makes it of a Bonnie-and-Clyde duo behind a Associated Press verge in a tent at the Park’s Carousel lawn for this year’s movie “Team America” at the Brooklyn The photograph by Laszlo Willinger is one of more than 200 Marilyn Monroe pictures from 39 photog- Aspokeswoman for HSBC, a London-based as the day progressed. They ditched classes or stretching across Main, then along Plymouth threatening to sue Harper’s magazine who lives in Park Slope. “Sometimes I’ll go to within 50. on Tuesday, where Brooks announced he will film his musical re-make of “The Producers.” the perfect spot for development centered around the mass gathering of weeklong assault and robbery spree tion that Hynes unlawfully listed his of- binations to hit Laundromats since wash and dry CB2 clarifies role in Ratner arena fight baseball-themed soiree to rub shoulders with the hon- Heights Pavilion, she didn’t think too much raphers — including luminaries such as Richard Avedon, Gordon Parks, Robert Frank and Andy Warhol international bank, denied the sale. work to wait on line for hours in Fulton Ferry Street and wrapping around Washington Street. Top: In the twilight under the Brooklyn Bridge at Empire Ful- over an article that places the Kings this Mexican restaurant that Janey won’t go to “We could go to a cemetery and we’d have The spot, which he claims has no name, no is near Bay 50th Street and Avenue X. site staffers hope to parlay the site’s early suc- owns CBs — reading to kids while mom and dad fold socks. people. orees, dance to live music performed by the Alan Bern- fice address — the Municipal Building in Mango / Greg in Prospect Park. about where she locked her bike. It was rou- — in the new exhibit, “I Want to Be Loved by You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe.” and DUMBO to see the historic event. Event organizers started letting the crowd in ton Ferry State Park, U2 performs a surprise, free concert for County Democratic Party among the because she doesn’t like Mexican food. It can the best times of our lives,” she notes. sign and no advertising, serves until the “I can’t find it,” he said. “I don’t know if cess into a franchise of sorts. That endeavor, bor the area that will be directly affected by / Jori Klein “We have made no such deal,” said HSBC’s Downtown Brooklyn — as his primary Since last April, Georgina Smith, who teaches Weblog seeks So while a mall like the new Target-anchored Atlantic Terminal isn’t By Jess Wisloski publicly announced their involvement housing complex. The two assailants were described as a stein Orchestra, bid at the silent auction and ride the By Jess Wisloski be nice.” dough runs out, usually about noon. it’s even for real.” he said, could come to include online travel Park’s 1912 hand-carved, wooden carousel. tine, and Oct. 24 was like any other day. Kathleen Rizzo Young. Portions of the concert and caravan will be- around 3 pm. thousands of fans on Monday. Above: Frontman Bono raises country’s most scandalous machines residence on a voter registration card third- and fourth-graders at PS 159 in East New The local chapter of the Red Hat Society The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn a bad use for the crossroads, lugging all that stuff you buy home by The Brooklyn Papers in negotiations for a community bene- Ratner’s proposal, which in addition to creating man, about 6-foot-4, and a female accom- The Brooklyn Papers Those negotiations, held privately and with- But when she came out, Williams was annoyed to And Jon Caplan, the broker from Cushman & come an MTV special called “mtvJAMMED: his microphone as drummer Larry Mullen bangs away. since Tammany Hall. York, has been lugging books and other supplies If only Giangrande knew what Janey was do- allows Giangrande, 64, to belong to a social But the locale has proven elusive for Kuban, Real or not, it is Quixotic detours like those guides (with directions to the best pizza train isn’t all that much fun. plice, about 5 feet tall. Proceeds from the ball will be dedicated to main- See U2 JAMS BETWEEN on page 18 eight years ago. A Boudoir Bar patron fills out ballot and places it into the fits agreement with developer Bruce out notification of the full community boards, a home for his recently purchased New Jersey Papers file The Brooklyn creator of SliceNY.com, a Web site that bills it- that have transformed SliceNY from kitschy joints) and maybe even a coffee table book. The Brooklyn Papers FileThe Brooklyn In response to pressure from com- find a note, folded and taped around the handlebar of Members of the community boards that ing while he’s chowing down on chimichangas. organization without the rigors of charity the perfect pie Navy Yard named But what if the only thing you needed to bring home from your trip taining the newly reconstructed Parade Grounds. Wakefield who is handling the sale, said nothing It would seem a trivial charge of voter to a pair of Clean Rite Centers in Kensington and box. Final tally will determine if bar moves, says owner. Ratner over his planned Atlantic Yards have carried on for the past 10 weeks. Kevin Huger was arrested Nov. 2, and her bike, which she had locked up curbside on Hen- When she gets together with her friends, work or voter registration that seem to hamper self as “America’s favorite pizza weblog.” curiosity to a resource of Zagat-sized propor- Until then, however, Kuban’s biggest contri- to the area was that foul ball you caught? On second thought, make munity members, politicians and the Nets basketball team includes 17 high- rise Individual tickets are $300, $600 and $1,000; $75 encompass developer Bruce Ratner’s had been finalized, and he could not identify any HSBC is near a deal to sell the iconic fraudulence, perhaps due to an oversight Brownsville. The rousing success of the experi- was discovered to be on lifetime parole Papers The Brooklyn Indeed, in three sojourns to an area not far tions, at least where pizza is concerned. It has bution to pizza remains something he calls the press, community boards 2, 6 and 8 basketball arena, office tower and All three of the boards fall within or neigh- See CB2 ROLE on page 18 ry Street near Orange Street. planned Atlantic Yards complex condemn- See BANK on page 14 Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building. —except that Hynes himself took one ment could soon expand to another location in Jane Giangrande puts on a garish red hat and so many other groups. Mango / Greg By Jotham Sederstrom that a home run. See MOVE METS TO BROOKLYN on page 6 for three prior robbery arrests, according junior tickets (for patrons under the age of 35) Papers The Brooklyn Hello, Norma Jean from the Marlboro Houses in Gravesend and become something of a must-read for anyone “piPod,” which allows lovers of cheese, sauce By Jess Wisloski “I thought maybe somebody hit my bike with ed their respective chair- John O’Hara, a former perennial candidate Brownsville and, within several years, a handful Carol Perri DeSimone (left) and Jane Giangrande perform a skit for their fellow “Brooklyn Rubies” during purple dress, dances late into the night and And another thing? There’s no elected offi- The Brooklyn Papers to published reports. The female half of include dessert and dancing, beginning at the Coney Island rail yards, Kuban has come in search of a great slice. Since Kuban put the and dough to download a list of some 35 pizze- The Brooklyn Papers 9 pm. Reserve tickets in advance by call- Jonique Williams, 26, with her bike near the their car, and put their info on it to pay for the dam- persons Wednesday. They for public office in Sunset Park, to task for See LAUNDRY on page 16 gathering of Red Hat Society at Goodfellas restaurant on 96th Street and Third Avenue in Bay Ridge. dines at some of Brooklyn’s finest restaurants. See RED HAT on page 16 About a year ago, Park Sloper Adam Hot enuff for you? ‘Producers’ home the team, who police say was present and corner of Henry and Orange streets on age,” said the 26-year-old Fort Greene resident. “I to think of the elusive pizzeria as his very site online last October, it has grown to include ria reviews onto their iPods. The invention is Talk about democracy in action. By Lisa J. Curtis that threaten chile peppers and how to protect your assisted with all of the crimes, has not yet ing the Prospect Park Alliance devel- charged that, wittingly or nearly the same misdeed. Kuban received a tip about an out-of-the- opment office at (718) 965-8988. Wednesday. was afraid somebody had vandalized my bike. That’s Monroe featured at B’klyn Museum own white whale. nearly 500 pages and gets about 600 hits a day. free on the site, he said, and is updated regularly. The self-proclaimed “sexiest little bar in Brooklyn,” the GO Brooklyn Editor spicy crops, chef Roberto Santibanez, of Rosa Mex- By Michael Weissenstein Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. been found. Associated Press not, the board chairs have Charge CB6 chair Armer with Ratner conflict Refusing to cop a plea, O’Hara was in- way pizzeria in Gravesend, where, as he “They said it’s under the train tracks and Besides embarking on a mission to review “Most of my really good friends know not one of my worst fears, because I just bought it.”
icano restaurant in Manhattan, will demonstrate BEGINSPAGE ON 8 dicted in October 1996 on seven felony Papers The Brooklyn Boudoir Bar on Smith Street in Carrol Gardens is asking Associated Press George Pataki credited new state and local The two swept through the park and, Instead of alerting her of damage, she found the By Larry McShane Wilder once said. “She exulted in Baker into sex goddess Marilyn. allowed the developer to was told, a customer could order what it’s this weird little shop with no name or a parlors outside of the city (thanks to contribu- to get me started,” said Kuban, 30, of his Because of the burning success of past how to make “Salsa Mexicanas,” and the Tourism counts of having registered to vote and patrons, neighborhood residents and everyday passersby to tax credit programs with attracting Brooks’ using the polite approach of a stranger following note, in cursive handwriting: Associated Press it.” In a 1945 picture, the unknown co-opt the boards without Fire guts former toy factory By Jess Wisloski Yards are projects of developer ity of funds towards the BID’s A BID spokesman did not return filed the conflicts charge. The letter, Adam Kuban, who operates a Web site called SliceNY.com, enjoys some was described to him as a cross between sign,” Kuban said of the person who tipped tor Ian Ritter, SliceNY’s “foreign correspon- predilection for pizza. “But sometimes even I Chile Pepper Fiestas, this year’s annual event Authority of Thailand will host demonstrations of Mel Brooks said Tuesday that he will having voted from a temporary address vote on whether the bar should stay in its current location, film to New York. asking for a match or the time of day, “Dear Neighbor, thank you for not parking your More than 200 Monroe pictures 19-year-old stands alone on a having reviewed his plans. The Brooklyn Papers Bruce Ratner. As the major prop- budget, which pays the salaries of calls for comment by press time. which was sent out on Monday, Early deadlines brick-oven pizza at Franny’s on Flatbush Avenue at St. Mark’s Place. a calzone and a particularly savory slice. him off to the pizza place, which he believes dent”), Kuban said that he and two other Web at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has doubled the art of Thai fruit and vegetable carving. shoot the film version of his hit Broadway She was Playboy’s first center- four years earlier. Hynes contended that See PIZZA on page 11 or move out. Mayor Bloomberg said, “Every year, hun- Taking eBay to the streets managed to target mostly middle-aged bike on the tree. We’re trying to protect these street from 39 photographers — includ- Long Island beach, leaning undis- erty owner of Metrotech, he is staffers, such as Armer, who is di- Members of the anti-arena group Nov. 22, charges that since Armer On the steps of City Hall Apiece of paper taped to its front glass display window in length. Chile-heads will overrun the nor- Kids can learn to appreciate the food-that- musical “The Producers” at a new movie fold, and Joe DiMaggio’s second By Jotham Sederstrom Agroup of anti-Atlantic Yards Develop-Don’t Destroy Brooklyn O’Hara registered to vote from his girl- The Brooklyn Papers will be distributed on Christmas Eve and dreds of films and television shows use our black men who were in isolated areas, trees from soil-compactors like garbage, bikes, etc. ing such celebrated lensmen as turbed over an open parasol. Wednesday, members of presumed to contribute the major- rector of services for the BID. See ARMER on page 5 New Years Eve. To accommodate early press times, special dead- — amid the regular notices advertising live burlesque, mally genteel garden for two days, this bites-you-back with chile pepper-inspired crafts, studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. city as a backdrop, and these productions play wife. Marilyn Monroe possessed a Richard Avedon, Gordon Parks, Adecade later, a coy Monroe The Brooklyn Papers community activists have filed a friend’s address on 47th Street in Sunset Clark St. blockade taking advantage of their kindness by … We appreciate your help.” lines are in effect for those issues. a temporary tattoo parlor and educational work- By Jotham Sederstrom book, except for maybe under auctioneers,” lasts seven days and attracts buyers from as pected,” said Leah Iberal, 34. “Ebay is sort knack for the big splash, particu- the anti-Atlantic Yards complaint with the city’s Con- Park while he maintained a permanent res- comedy shows and musical performers — provides an Saturday and Sunday — Oct. 2-3 — as they City and state officials hailed the announce- a huge part in our local economy generating $5 Leah Iberal said of the business she found- far away as Australia, the husband-and- of like a little gambling game.” pointing a silver handgun, sometimes as- Terrace opens arms to quads It was signed, “Cranberry Street Neighborhood Robert Frank and Andy Warhol stands smiling on a Grand Central The Brooklyn Papers Fire department officials are investigating open call to the neighborhood to vote by “secret ballot” on shops just for them. ment as a sign that the recently opened Steiner billion a year as well as 100,000 jobs … that’s larly if there was a camera nearby — are on view at the Brooklyn subway platform as a man to her group Develop-Don’t De- flicts of Interest Board charging idence on 61st Street. Aluxury boutique hotel has The shed was erected to facili- For the issue dated Dec. 25 (and distributed Friday, Dec. 24), celebrate the harvest, culinary uses and cultur- ed with her husband, Barry. “We’re pio- wife team and their staff of seven ship the The upstart, just one in an endless num- saulting the victim, and then robbing him Association.” the cause of a fire that raged through a for- all advertising (both classifieds and display) must be in The Pa- the sometimes risque bar’s fate Not even inclement weather could put a damper Studios was succeeding in its quest to draw — and it seemed there was always stroy Brooklyn were joined He was the first person to be so tried Construction been under construction at 51-55 tate the installation of bluestone al significance of these spicy little numbers. why we invested about $28 million in infra- Flip through the five boroughs’ yel- neers, like the Pilgrims, in a whole new goods to the winning bidder and keep a ber of disparate businesses to sprout from before fleeing on foot. By Jess Wisloski Jean-Marie and her husband, Morris Kennedy, 41, Though twins were always a guess — Jean-Marie The note detailed that “street trees” live only Museum in a new exhibit, “I Want left stares in bug-eyed disbelief. that Community Board 6 chair- per’s office by 10 am on Monday, Dec. 20. The reason for the referendum, says Boudoir Bar’s own- on this fiery fiesta which will be held rain or shine, more film production to New York. structure improvements at the Navy Yard to low pages and the closest thing to a camera nearby. to Be Loved by You: Photographs The centerpiece of the collec- by elected officials and mer toy factory in Vinegar Hill Monday, since suffragist Susan B. Anthony in 1876. Clark St. that may open as early as sidewalks. More than 60 chile-inspired acts, representing world.” percentage of the profits. the advent of the Internet, has put up more This dangerous dark side of the park The Brooklyn Papers had been dealt with a blow just a month before, when is a twin, her father, too, and Morris’ father is also a one-third the time of forest trees, and said soil man Jerry Armer’s job with the closes sidewalk er, Garrett McConnell, is the result of increasingly costly from noon to 5:30 pm on both days. The fies- City officials have bemoaned the loss of spur development of Steiner Studios.” The actress turned enduring of Marilyn Monroe.” tion, owned by Leon and members of Community forcing the evacuation of a nearby public Groups seek to downzone DUMBO “If Harper’s magazine does not retract February or March. As the sidewalks and streets For the issue dated Jan. 1 (and distributed Friday, Dec. 31), all NORMAN’S CRY eBay you’re likely to find, alphabeti- was cleaned up with the help of 78th Morris lost his job as a staff photographer at an upstate twin — double that was, well, a little overwhelming. compaction, which can limit the water penetration / Tom Callan / Tom Metrotech Business Improve- Sources: Capano to Since May, the service at 1865 Bath On an item like, say, an early 1900s than a thousand auctions, many for items Callan / Tom fines the bar near Sackett Street has been racking up. the worldwide love of the chile pepper, will be on ta is free with garden admission ($5, $3 stu- film and television production work to the Brooks, a Brooklyn native, shot the 1968 / Jori Klein Be careful what you wish for, Jean-Marie American icon was intoxicated by Michaela Constantiner, is a set of Boards 2, 6 and 8 to con- school and closing streets for hours. the story and publish the true facts we’ll Over the past three weeks a con- slicked over recently, pedestrians advertising (both classifieds and display) must be in The Paper’s The photos “are timeless,” said Callan / Tom cally speaking, is “eating disorders.” Ave. near 18th Avenue has allowed people camel saddle, which sold recently through that have sold in the quadruple and even Precinct officers who mounted an aggres- newspaper. And even though Jean-Marie was nearly Both are transplants from Philadelphia who have of roots, is a “major factor.” ment District conflicts with his By Jess Wisloski office by 10 am on Tuesday, Dec. 21. McConnell, who opened the bar in June 2001, said that hand, including the off-Broadway Korean per- dents and seniors, free children under West Coast and Canada production costs are film original “The Producers” in the city. He Kennedy learned, because you may just get it. the pop of flashbulbs; during her Marilyn Kushner, one of the ex- 59 Monroe pictures shot by pho- demn the process by which Plumes of black smoke coursed from the build- The Brooklyn Papers point,” Webster told the agency have no other recourse than to pursue a li- struction shed has been blocking a dodged drivers already hampered Why would eBay, the Internet-based who would normally dump their no-longer the service for $143, the seller would leave quintuple digits. sive campaign to capture the criminals. finished with her school year and had insurance, go- called Brooklyn home for seven years, and with no Williams didn’t quite know what to think. role as leader of the board in dis- towers to be built on the eastern Feeling threatened by the pros- The Brooklyn Papers while they had always dealt with complaints of noise cussion troupe “Cookin’”; the 13-piece Haitian 16). Enter the garden at Washington often lower. said that the new incentives helped persuade And then some. too-short lifetime, she was pho- hibit’s curators. “She died young, tographer Bert Stern in the weeks the board chairpersons have ing at 99 Gold St. for several hours before fire- Moments after the City Plan- edge of DUMBO’s lower-scale pect of such massive towers loom- rep, who told her such an idea was bel lawsuit,” Hynes spokesman Jerry good portion of the north side of with poor visibility. In both cases, items sent for editorial consideration, including let- ‘Hynes wants to make politics illegal’ public auction site, have a permanent ad- needed knick-knacks at a thrift store to, in- with around $100 after deducting auction Asilver 1963 Corvette, said Leah Iberal, The spree started, say police, on Oct. ing back to school in the fall — where she taught fifth- family in the area, they have no extra help. “This is a really strange topic for a note to put cussing the plan for a basketball from neighbors, not to mention dirty looks from some dance band, Tabou Combo; and the Delta blues- Avenue and Eastern Parkway in “The Producers: The Movie Musical” is a him to shoot in New York. 25, at 7:23 pm, on the northeast intersec- Kennedy, a 31-year-old Windsor Terrace school- At a July 4 picnic, the Kennedy’s started telling tographed drinking and dining, so she remains forever young. As before the actress’ 1962 drug allowed Ratner representa- fighters could bring it under control. ning Commission voted to ap- warehouse district, DUMBO Neigh- ing around her, she inquired about moving along — slowly. Schmetterer told The Brooklyn Papers. The stretch of Clark Street the street nearer to Hicks, forcing And while crossing the street — ters to the editor, should be sent as early as possible. The editori- dress, you ask? Because the city’s first stead, expertly project those same goods to fees and a profit percentage. sold recently for $36,000 after an initial bid graders on a fourth-floor, no-elevator school (that she on someone’s bike. It’s like, ‘Why?’” she said. arena, office skyscrapers and 13 al department will be open this Sunday afternoon, Dec. 19. By Jotham Sederstrom at a pretrial hearing in Supreme Court, Down- who just pass by and get an eyeful of their bustier-clad New Orleans swing trio the Wiyos. Prospect Heights. For more in- $45 million production to star Nathan Lane, Then he focused on another reason. tion of East Drive and Center Drive. A teacher and soon-to-be mom, wished for three years walked to, 48 blocks each way) — became out of the friends. The Cranberry Street Association, said member smiling and sleeping, dressed and time goes by, she looms larger and overdose. “The Last Sitting” fea- tives to present his plans for The Nov. 15 blaze, sparked in a basement cluttered prove a rezoning application by borhood Association director her group’s push for a comprehen- Marcia Hillis, a DNA member In 1996, a voter registration card was between Hicks and Henry pedestrians to either cross to the despite having to peer around the brick-and-mortar eBay brokerage, “It’s Out a worldwide market. Not bad for a used camel saddle. of $28,000. A second automobile to find its The Brooklyn Papers town, on Monday. The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn quit Boro Hall post apartment buildings in Prospect While bug expert Mike Bohne of the Depart- Papers The Brooklyn mannequin in the window, there has recently been a formation, visit www.bbg.org Matthew Broderick, Nicole Kidman and “The bagels, just the bagels alone,” of Here!” opened a few months ago on the Once received, the goods are priced “We get a lot of unusual items that you way to “It’s Out of Here,” this one a more 42-year-old Manhattan man sitting on a to get pregnant. But when her doctor told her in question. “Of course, people’s reaction was just, ‘Oh my Edward Roston — who noted that if the group had undressed. larger.” tures an assortment of behind-the- a basketball arena, office by cardboard boxes and the trinket-filled plastic the Watchtower Bible and Tract Nancy Webster cornered a repre- sive contextual rezoning of the area. and member of the Community filed with the Board of Elections on streets in Brooklyn Heights has other side of Clark Street from the obstruction and face oncoming traf- The Papers’ office will be open thoughout the holiday weeks, ex- The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn “The politics of Brooklyn is a complicated “continual barrage of complaints.” ment of Agriculture answers questions about insects or call (718) 623-7333. Will Ferrell. It begins shooting in late Febru- Brooks said. “You go to Toronto, they’re skyscrapers and apartment globes found in gumball machines, which the toy fac- Papers File The Brooklyn Heights. Board 2 land use committee, said which Hynes’ primary residence was list- cept on Fridays, Dec. 24 and Dec. 31. border of Bath Beach and Bensonhurst. modestly to attract interest on the eBay don’t think are going to bring in any bids modest late-model Lexus, found new own- Leah and Barry Iberal pose in front of their eBay store, It’s Out of Here! at park bench was asked for a light by the May that she’d be giving birth to quadruplets, she So there was the money problem; something nev- god,’” at first, said Kennedy, but in no time people a president he would be it — did not have an or- The camera “was to her what The exhibit traces the evolution scenes shots of Monroe, who Society that would allow the con- sentative from Brooklyn’s City “We’d really love to be testify- been a mess, both for pedestri- middle of the block or walk around fic — was the easier option for Pedestrians on Clark Street between Henry and Hicks streets have Characterizing two former judicial candi- See BOUDOIR on page 17 BEGINSPAGE ON 9 ary, Brooks said. mushy.” water is to a fish,” director Billy of small-town girl Norma Jean See MARILYN on page 15 See CBs on page 14 Fire smolders at 99 Gold St. Manhattan is in the background. See TOY FIRE on page 2 CB6 Chariman Jerry Armer Both Metrotech and Atlantic struction of four 12- to 20-story Planning office. ing on something positive at this See DUMBO on page 4 See HYNES on page 4 business,” said Mark Baker, an attorney for By Jotham Sederstrom Markowitz’s predecessor, Howard Under Markowitz, who took office “There’s no place to list us in the phone- Web site. After an auction, which usually but then they go for way more than you ex- See EBAY STORE on page 16 1865 Bath Ave. in Bensonhurst. See MUGGERS on page 4 had to stop wishing and start asking around. er tallied into the equation since the baby talk began. See QUADS on page 4 See BICYCLE on page 4 ans and motorists, for two years. it, in the middle of the street. See CLARK on page 6 had to make their way around a construction-closed sidewalk. dates as “a bunch of disgruntled losers,” Callan / Tom Norman, during a Dec. 20 pretrial motion re- The Brooklyn Papers Golden, in 1999, told The Brooklyn in 2002, Capano was promoted to the attorneys for Assemblyman Clarence Nor- questing that the court drop an indictment Papers this week, “The answer is I position of senior advisor for communi- man Jr. maintained that when the party boss against Norman on the basis that the Brooklyn Sources say a Republican City haven’t resigned.” ty relations and legislative affairs, a role demanded both nominees either ante up for Democratic Party boss’ conduct is constitu- Council hopeful from Bay Ridge But a Markowitz spokeswoman in which his responsibilities include Any Two 95 favored campaign vendors or forget the tionally protected. will resign from his position as a Jocelyn Aframe said, “We understand overseeing the borough’s 18 communi- ––––––––––––––– ATTENTION SENIORS AND RETIREES Have you taken the prescription drug ––––––––––––––––––––– party’s nomination, he was only engaging in “It may not be nice,” said Baker. “It’s hard- senior advisor to Borough Pres- Bob is exploring his options. 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©The Brooklyn Papers. Established 1978. Phone 718-834-9350.Celia Weintrob, Publisher (ext 104) • Neil Sloane, Editor (ext 119) • Lisa J. Curtis, GO Brooklyn Editor (ext 131) • Vince DiMiceli, Senior Editor (ext 125) • Ed Weintrob, President (ext 105) ©The Brooklyn Papers. Established 1978. Phone 718-834-9350.Celia Weintrob, Publisher (ext 104) • Neil Sloane, Editor (ext 119) • Lisa J. Curtis, GO Brooklyn Editor (ext 131) • Vince DiMiceli, Senior Editor (ext 125) • Ed Weintrob, President (ext 105) ©The Brooklyn Papers. Established 1978. Phone 718-834-9350.Celia Weintrob, Publisher (ext 104) • Neil Sloane, Editor (ext 119) • Lisa J. Curtis, GO Brooklyn Editor (ext 131) • Vince DiMiceli, Senior Editor (ext 125) • Ed Weintrob, President (ext 105) ©The Brooklyn Papers. Established 1978. Phone 718-834-9350.Celia Weintrob, Publisher (ext 104) • Neil Sloane, Editor (ext 119) • Lisa J. Curtis, GO Brooklyn Editor (ext 131) • Vince DiMiceli, Senior Editor (ext 125) • Ed Weintrob, President (ext 105) ©The Brooklyn Papers. Established 1978. Phone 718-834-9350.Celia Weintrob, Publisher (ext 104) • Neil Sloane, Editor (ext 119) • Lisa J. Curtis, GO Brooklyn Editor (ext 131) • Vince DiMiceli, Senior Editor (ext 125) • Ed Weintrob, President (ext 105) ©The Brooklyn Papers. Established 1978. Phone 718-834-9350.Celia Weintrob, Publisher (ext 104) • Neil Sloane, Editor (ext 119) • Lisa J. Curtis, GO Brooklyn Editor (ext 131) • Vince DiMiceli, Senior Editor (ext 125) • Ed Weintrob, President (ext 105) ©The Brooklyn Papers. Established 1978. Phone 718-834-9350.Celia Weintrob, Publisher (ext 104) • Neil Sloane, Editor (ext 119) • Lisa J. Curtis, GO Brooklyn Editor (ext 131) • Vince DiMiceli, Senior Editor (ext 125) • Ed Weintrob, President (ext 105)
©The Brooklyn Papers. Established 1978. Phone 718-834-9350. Celia Weintrob, Publisher (ext 104) • Neil Sloane, Editor (ext 119) • Lisa J. Curtis, GO Brooklyn Editor (ext 131) • Vince DiMiceli, Senior Editor (ext 125) • Ed Weintrob, President (ext 105) 2 BWN THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM January 1, 2005 REPORT: WAL-MART EYING D’TOWN Silberstein added, “It is likely that Sitt will be an- SOUND OFF! Retailer, officials nouncing retailers in the com- ing month, but Wal-Mart will What do YOU think about Wal- Mart coming to Brooklyn? Join not be one of them.” our new online discussion group He confirmed that plans say it isn’t so GO TO were moving forward to re- groups-beta.google.com/ place the concrete garage that group/Brooklyn-Papers By Jess Wisloski “It’s not like it’s ‘never nev- abuts the mall (which still has The Brooklyn Papers er’,” she said about Brooklyn, vacant stores) with a 1.2 mil- A published report last “but at this time, we don’t have lion-square-foot office tower, he added. “Let’s not throw any plans.” as The Papers first reported in away an opportunity here.” week had Wal-Mart, the The News reported “the August, and said they expect- Even if a Wal-Mart was world’s largest retailer, look- world’s largest retailer is in talks ed the first two floors would looking to develop in the Down- ing to build a mega-store in about building a store” next to have roughly 200,000 square town Brooklyn shopping dis- Downtown Brooklyn. the 475,000-square-foot Gallery feet of retail space. trict, the third largest business But Brooklyn business in- at Fulton Street shopping mall. Kenneth Adams, president district in the city, the store siders feverishly denied the as- Reporter Lore Croghan at- of the Brooklyn Chamber of would have a battle on its sertion, made in a Dec. 20 arti- tributed the information to un- Commerce, said he was con- hands, said several city offi- cle in the Daily News business named sources. cerned about what a Wal-Mart cials and business leaders. section, while city officials The story said Wal-Mart would mean to the area. Echoing Adams’ sentiment, balked at the very suggestion. plans to build where a parking “If national retailers want to the city’s Economic Develop- Ever since the plan to re- garage now stands at the inter- build stores in Downtown ment Corporation advised
zone Downtown Brooklyn section of Willoughby Street, Callan / Tom Brooklyn,” he said, mention- against a standalone Wal-Mart. passed city review last sum- Albee Square and Flatbush ing that many already had, EDC spokeswoman Janel Pa- mer, property owners in the Avenue Extension. That site “they ought to conform with terson said “it would not be ap- affected 60-block area have has for months been adver- the plan and become part of propriate” for the area. been hustling to sell off plots tised by owner Joseph Sitt as the overall goals of the Down- “Any project that featured a of land for top dollar or plan available for class-A office town [Brooklyn rezoning] plan.” Wal-Mart as part of a larger for their development. And space. That plan largely calls for the commercial project would with the addition of a Target in Sitt spent millions renovat- Papers File The Brooklyn development of office skyscrap- have to be carefully reviewed Atlantic Terminal and ap- ing the former Albee Square A published report says Wal-Mart is eying the parking garage at corner of Albee Square and Willoughby Street (back- ers with ground-floor retail. to be sure that it was appropri- proval of plans to build an Mall, which he bought in ground far left) adjacent to the Gallery at Fulton Street — which stretches to the intersection of Fulton Street and DeKalb “We shouldn’t be sacrific- ate to the plan,” she said. Ikea in Red Hook in the past 2001 after a period in which it Avenue (front center). The Dime Savings Bank building is on the right. Wal-Mart has denied the report. ing very valuable office sites,” Michael Burke, director of year, big-box stores that have was owned by Metrotech de- the Downtown Brooklyn been nationally successful are veloper Forest City Ratner, Council said he also thought scrambling to find ways of which renamed it the Gallery the Wal-Mart rumor was bo- tapping into the urban niche. at Metrotech. gus. “That was the first I’ve “We’re always looking for Since then, Sitt’s been pub- heard of it,” he said. “Accord- opportunities to expand,” Wal- lic about looking for another ing to the folks I’ve talked to Mart spokeswoman Mia Mas- prime anchor tenant for the Court sets eminent domain case it’s not happening. ton told The Brooklyn Papers. struggling mall besides its “I find it very hard to be- The retailer boasts 5,233 stores mainstay Toys ‘R’ Us. in the case represent the whole lieve that if Wal-Mart wants to worldwide, including Super- Over the years, as the num- spectrum of political and so- move into the New York mar- centers that include supermar- ber of retail vacancies in the Ruling could impact cial philosophy. ket, that they would want to kets, Sam’s Club bulk stores, mall grew, a number of spaces Among others who have ral- move to Downtown Brook- and smaller neighborhood stores. were converted to office use. lied behind the Connecticut lyn,” Burke said, explaining In December, Wal-Mart an- Sitt did not return calls Ratner’s Nets site property owners are the NAA- the development parameters nounced plans to open its first seeking comment by press CP, Southern Christian Leader- in the area hardly fit their big- The Associated Press Heights emanating from the box store model. store in New York City, in Rego time, but a spokesman for his ship Conference, urban policy downtown intersection of Flat- “The area is just not suitable Park, Queens, on the already shop- investment company, Thor The U.S. Supreme Court scholar Jane Jacobs, Congress bush and Atlantic avenues. Like for that, and my gut is that they ping traffic-heavy Queens Boule- Equities, denied he was in will hear arguments on Feb. for New Urbanism, AARP, the the Connecticut case, the Ratner would have to significantly vard. Wal-Mart officials hope to American Farm Bureau, the talks with Wal-Mart. 22 in a New London, Conn., project relies on government change their business model break ground for the 135,000- “It’s not happening,” said eminent domain case that condemnation of private proper- Becket Fund for Religious Lib- for that to work,” he said. square-foot store in 2007 or 2008. spokesman Lee Silberstein. could clarify when govern- ty under eminent domain. erty, the National Association Burke also expressed concern Maston said the News re- “There’s no deal, there are no ments may seize people’s Twenty-five groups with of Home Builders and the Na- that such a mega-store would al- port about Downtown Brook- discussions happening, it was property for economic de- assorted political views — in- tional Associated of Realtors. ter the nature of the downtown lyn, however, was “not true.” a totally erroneous report.” velopment projects. cluding Develop-Don’t De- New London homeowners shopping district, which aside The high court’s decision is stroy Brooklyn, an anti-At- are represented by the Institute from Macy’s on Fulton Mall, is expected to affect development lantic Yards group represented for Justice, a Washington, D.C.- primarily comprised of smaller, of Atlantic Yards, a plan put by noted civil liberties attorney based group that fights eminent non-chain stores. forth by Brooklyn developer Norman Siegel — have filed domain abuses nationwide. Callan / Tom “Clearly there are other re- EDITOR’S NOTE: Bruce Ratner to build a profes- briefs in support of the New At issue in the case is whe- tailers that are a much better sional basketball arena, more London residents who are re- ther governments, claiming the fit,” he said. Due to holiday scheduling, this issue of than a dozen apartment build- sisting the city’s effort to take need to produce jobs and tax “I think you would find oppo- The Brooklyn Papers went to press on ings and office skyscrapers that their houses to make way for revenue, can take private sition from pretty much everyone will tower over the borough’s offices and a hotel that will homes and businesses and hand in Downtown Brooklyn,” Burke
Christmas Eve. largest structures. The site is on strengthen the city’s tax base. them to developers who make Papers File The Brooklyn added. “It’s not something people a 24-acre stretch of Prospect The 25 amicus briefs filed promises of economic growth. New Jersey Nets owner Bruce Ratner would welcome.”
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Gesturing towards where the Conover sibility of extending Conover Street as origi- accused the city of using the cruise ships as leaders and community representatives All four offices were surprised this week Street extension had been, he recapped the nally planned. a ply to squeeze out American Stevedoring. were thrown for a loop this week to to learn of the changes that had been intro- plans that had been introduced for a through “I guess I’d like to know how much [the “I’m very concerned with what’s going on find out from a reporter that the city, duced by EDC officials Andrew Genn and street at Pier 11. street extension] would cost,” Yassky said, with the Economic Development Corpora- without their consultation or notifica- Paul Januszewski. “Originally, we had traffic coming in and but added that the haste with which the city tion,” Nadler told The Papers in July. “They tion, had significantly changed plans to “None of this had ever come up in any of out of this pier space,” he said, noting that pushed American Stevedoring out and word had a fixed plan to get rid of container opera- bring cruise ships to Pier 12. our previous conversations with them,” said plans to open Pier 11 to Conover Street were of the new changes, “raise some questions tions before they had any thought of bringing The Brooklyn Papers File The Brooklyn Craig Hammerman, district manager of now unfeasible. about how well developed this cruise pro- the cruise lines here and I don’t know why.” David Yassky Of particular concern was the city’s deci- sion not to build an extension of Conover Community Board 6, who testified in sup- The main entrance to the cruise dock at posal is.” In the meantime, American Stevedoring, Street through Pier 11 — which is seen as port of the liners coming to Red Hook at an Pier 12, at one point planned for Pioneer and EDC spokeswoman Janel Patterson said which employs 600 longshoremen, moved necessary in order to allay traffic congestion October hearing at City Hall. He said that he King streets, adjacent to the pier, is now set the recent changes were part of ongoing de- off Pier 11 as per their agreement for a three- — due to a swelling of the anticipated cost hadn’t heard of the changes until asked to for just Bowne Street, several blocks to the sign work and neither the plans nor the year lease extension on Piers 7-10. of renovating Pier 12. The city’s cost projec- comment on them. north and nearer to Pier 10. budget had yet been solidified. “Pier 11’s valuable upland and cargo shed / Greg Mango / Greg tion, presented with the rest of the plans last Hammerman admitted to being taken “Piles were in much worse shape than we “When we originally did the proposal we was removed from the ASI lease-hold on May, was off by $10 million. aback that EDC would “go public with in- had expected,” said Januszewski. He said it didn’t know we’d be using Pier 11,” she said Dec. 15,” said Matthew Yates, a company Additionally, public access to Pier 11 now formation like this without checking in with would cost $30 million to renovate the piers, last week. “Now that we are, the exit will go spokesman, adding that American Stevedor- looks unlikely when the piers open for busi- us.” up from the $20 million EDC had projected out on the upland part of Pier 11. ing was told the pier was solely “to be uti- ness. “The key element is whether or not the lo- in May. “We’re in the design phase, and nothing’s lized for Brooklyn’s cruise terminal project.” Two vice presidents from the Economic cal street network could absorb the traffic the “The piers need rewrapping, so a lot of been cast in stone,” she said about the sud- According to sources close to the Ameri- The Brooklyn Papers File The Brooklyn Development Corporation — the city facility would generate,” he said. “Having the money is being spent, unfortunately, on den changes. “The budget is 30 million and can Stevedoring lease negotiations, the com- Jerrold Nadler agency charged with implementing the nec- the Conover Street extension would ensure things people aren’t going to see,” he said. we’re working to keep it there.” pany faced exorbitant “liquidated damage” essary port infrastructure to bring Carnival that.” Yassky spokesman Evan Thies said the But EDC has forged something of a credi- charges, in excess of $60,000 per day and Norwegian cruise lines to the pier off Pi- John McGettrick, president of the Red councilman probed EDC officials after being bility gap with the community dating back to payable to the city, if they did not vacate the oneer Street — discussed those changes as Hook Civic Association, said that while he asked for comment on the changes and was last May when, after seeking input from the container port on Pier 11 by the Dec. 15 part of a little-publicized Dec. 15 presenta- took the EDC presentation to mean “they told by the agency that the project could rise public on the best uses for Piers 6-12 the deadline. / Mango tion to the Red Hook Civic Association. needed more money” he wasn’t put off by to a cost of $50 million. agency decided not to release the $400,000 That, too, perplexed Yassky. Neither Councilman David Yassky, Rep. the alterations. “Such cost fluctuations are frustrating study to the public. Confronted by The “I’m beginning to think this timetable is Jerrold Nadler nor Community Board 6 were “Essentially, there are elements we would when trying to plan for the future of a neigh- Brooklyn Papers about the study, and with the unrealistically fast in order to help the EDC represented at the meeting. There also were like to see, including access, expanded borhood, because they jeopardize the proj- threat of a Freedom of Information Request get rid of the container ship terminal,” the no representatives from American Stevedor- upon,” he said. “But we are hopeful that they ect,” said Thies. pending, the agency agreed to release the councilman said. ing Inc., which had operated a cargo busi- will keep to their timetable in opening next Yassky was hesitant to criticize the cuts, study, but Genn called it “outdated” because “I keep asking, ‘Why kick the container The Brooklyn Papers File The Brooklyn ness on Pier 11 until the very day EDC fall.” having just found out about them, but cruise activity had not been factored in. ship terminal off piers 11 and 10 until you Craig Hammerman spoke to the civic association. The port oper- Januszewski admitted at the Red Hook seemed perplexed by the notion that Ameri- And Nadler, whose district includes the need them to be off?’” BAM seeks arts groups for cultural district By Jess Wisloski that will be built there. what could be out there,” said efforts by BAM LDC’s partner and dance space to an afford- The Brooklyn Papers The entire site makes up a Jeanne Lutfy, executive direc- in the project, the city Econom- able housing scheme for resi- 60,000-square-foot block. The tor of the BAM LDC. ic Development Corporation, to dential condos, seems to be The Brooklyn Academy four parcels that the BAM She said the LDC reached consult with neighborhood suddenly on the same page as of Music Local Develop- LDC has been charged with de- out by mass mailings and groups seem to have assuaged the BAM LDC. ment Corporation is seeking veloping are city-owned, and in press releases to “close to a some fears that a longstanding “The CCC is trying to arts groups to inhabit the the press release it issued, the thousand groups.” On Jan. 5, and ethnically diverse commu- help,” said the Rev. Clinton first phase of its planned cul- LDC reported “some capital the LDC will hold a public in- nity arts movement would be Miller, chairman of the group. tural district in Fort Greene. subsidy will be available” to formation session for interest- supplanted by more well-con- “We’re not trying to develop The property, bounded by artistic organizations chosen to ed applicants from 9:30 am to nected, predominantly white the land, but trying to ensure Ashland Place, Rockwell “create facilities” in the site. noon at Long Island Universi- Manhattanites. the process is one in which Place, Fulton Street and Known as the “North Site” ty. Those interested in attend- The Concerned Citizens full participation is offered.” Lafayette Avenue currently under the BAM LDC plan, the ing need to call (718) 907- Coalition, a Fort Greene neigh- Miller said his group has holds a parking lot, the Mark block will also be developed 4403 by Jan. 3. The deadline borhood group that formed in met with both the BAM LDC Morris Dance Group studios with 350 units of mixed-in- for all submissions is Feb. 7. response to the BAM LDC plan, and the EDC. and a liquor store. The BAM come housing. The housing is “We basically took a page has been the most vocal in ex- “We know that some of the LDC’s Request for Expression not a subject of the RFEI and from the Lower Manhattan pressing that concern. meetings we’ve attended have of Interest (RFEI) is a means its development will be deter- Development Corporation when Now the CCC, which in helped and influenced the for interested arts and cultural mined through a Request for they were soliciting proposals October was shopping around process,” he said. “We want to organizations to apply for Proposals down the road. for the World Trade Center proposed plans of their own make sure the outcome con- some of the 250,000 square “The goal was to cast as site,” said Lutfy. for the North Site that consid- sistently reflects the wishes of feet of non-residential space broad a net as possible and see Indeed, the RFEI and recent ered everything from theater the community.” Fort Greene Councilwoman Letitia James sounded con- cerned that more specifics, like NEW YORK’S PREMIER UNIVERSITY FOR TECHNOLOGY-FOCUSED EDUCATION an RFP, had not been issued. “It’s only for cultural or- ganizations, it does not deal with the rest. It’s for arts pro- grams, but only the arts,” James said. Kathryn Kirk But to many local arts Borough President Marty Markowitz (center) with comedian cum social critic Bill Cosby groups, even having the op- (right) and Medgar Evers College President Edison O. Jackson at the college on Dec. 14. tion to give input on what is needed is a pleasure. Diane Jacobowitz, whose youth dance organization Technology Dancewave has been operating Bill Cosby renews his out of space leased from the Berkeley Carroll School, in Park Slope, said the group is not con- advances fined by lack of interest, they challenge to blacks just need more room to move. “We’ve been on the market for a while,” said Jacobowitz, by the hour. executive director of the 25- at Medgar Evers year-old organization. “It’s a long, hard struggle looking for Associated Press Up! Tell your friends. And if they can’t get up, a space.” Comedian Bill Cosby said black par- we must see about them because they are true You can keep up She said they need “a mini- victims.” mum of two full-size studios” ents are not paying close enough attention Cosby, a strong advocate of educational tel- for their programs, which facili- to their children, echoing controversial evision, also took parents to task on how they tate up to 200 kids, ages 11 to comments he made months ago. raise their children. by the semester. 18, every weekday afternoon. Cosby addressed a panel at Medgar Evers “It’s time to study four hours a day with “It’s a fantastic location,” College in Crown Heights on Dec. 14, which your children,” he said. “Teach them how she said, noting the proximity drew a packed house. Since a speech to the much they’ll be worth when they have A’s in- Advance your career with to the Mark Morris studio. NAACP in Washington last May, he has fall- stead of F’s. “We have a very good rela- en under criticism for airing his views on “The colleges will go crazy,” Cosby said. a graduate degree from tionship with them and we black youth culture. “They’ll start to give money away.” like them,” said Jacobowitz. “Our children are trying to tell us something He also said parents must stop the use of Polytechnic University. “It would make downtown and we are not listening,” the Daily News quot- profanity in front of their children, and avoid this incredible dance place.” ed Cosby as saying. “We must listen. We are hitting them in public. Persons or groups interest- killing ourselves in too many ways.” After the speech, Raymond Parker, 26, said ed in submitting a proposal for Cosby continued to express his views in the victims of street violence who he sees at space can call (718) 907-4403 90-minute address to the event, sponsored by Kings County Hospital, where he works or e-mail to [email protected]. Medgar Evers’ Male Development and Em- should have attended. The Web site is www.bamcul- powerment Center. “I see so many ... shot up, stabbed,” he said. turaldistrict.org. “Stop waiting for a leader,” he said. “Get “This is what they need to hear.”
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