BROOKLYN Your Neighborhood – Your News Now Including Park Slope Courier, Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill Courier, Brooklyn Heights Courier & Williamsburg Courier Apr. 26-May 2, 2013 SERVING GOWANUS, PARK SLOPE, PROSPECT HEIGHTS, WINDSOR TERRACE, BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, DUMBO, METROTECH, BOERUM HILL, CARROLL GARDENS, COBBLE HILL, RED HOOK, WILLIAMSBURG & GREENPOINT 0@==9:G<¸A INSIDE E=;3<of Free The boro’s !327B7=<27AB7<1B7=< SPECIAL 64 page READER coupons ultimate pull-out to save$ classified Honoring section women BONUS section who have you cash sha d Coney dreamer BUMPS Bullard dies at 75 IN THE BY WILL BREDDERMAN Horace Bullard, the Harlem- born millionaire who bought land on Coney Island as if it were a Mo- nopoly board with the dream of re- turning the People’s Playground to the glory days of his youth, but ended up sitting on the proper- ties for more than three decades as they, too, fell into decay, died ROAD earlier this month of Lou Gehrig’s Disease at the age of 75. The would-be savior of Co- Panel says ‘yes’ to speed humps ney, who made his fortune with Kansas Fried Chicken fast food BY NATALIE MUSUMECI to our neighbors who wish to keep franchise with locations on Surf There are fi ve bumpy roads safe on our streets?” Avenue and on the Boardwalk, ahead for Windsor Terrace and Residents say that without the bought the iconic Shore Theater Greenwood Heights. speed-deterrent bumps reckless, on Surf and Stillwell avenues in Community Board 7 voted on lead-footed drivers will continue to the late 1970s, which, by that time, Wednesday in favor of requests treat their blocks like raceways. had fallen from a Broadway-style by residents for speed bumps on “We need something to slow venue for world-class entertainers Ocean Parkway between Caton the traffi c down and this may be to a seedy triple-x movie den, and and Kermit places, 21st Street be- the solution,” said board member proposed converting the struc- tween Fourth and Fifth avenues and Kermit Place resident George ture into an Atlantic City-style ho- and Fifth and Sixth avenues, and Bissell. tel and casino to revive the area. Sixth Avenue between 21st and The speed bumps are only the That dream fell through when the 22nd streets and 22nd and 23rd latest traffi c-calming measure in city refused to allow gambling in Remembering Boston streets. Greenwood Heights, where resi- the area. “It’s about safety,” said Sam Si- dents want to cut the speed limit Alisha Betten weeps for eight-year-old Martin Richard of Dorchester, Mas- But Bullard’s grandest vision erra, chair of the board’s transpor- from 30 to 20 miles per hour on a — and greatest disappointment — sachusetts, the little boy killed in the Boston Marathon bombings on April tation committee, who backed all fi ve-block stretch of Sixth Avenue was his 1985 plan to recreate the 15. Betten was one of many Brooklynites to attend an April 21 candlelight pleas for the traffi c-calming lumps. that is without any stop signs or legendary Steeplechase Park as a vigil for victims of the attack that held in Caesar’s Bay in Southern Brook- “When you have families coming traffi c lights. $55 million, 17-acre, 75-ride won- lyn. Photo by Steve Solomonson here in support of them and speak- The Department of Trans- Continued on page 20 ing about safety, how can we say no Continued on page 17 A CNG Publication Vol. 33 No. 17 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNDAILY.COM 2 INSIDE WWW.BROOKLYNDAILY.COM PUBLISHED BY CNG • 1 METROTECH CENTER NORTH • 10TH FLOOR • BROOKLYN, NY 11201 2, 2013 2, AY WHIRLING MOZZARELLA MEMORIES NEWSPAPERS Artist’s tornado scultpures made of tabloids, broadsheets By Danielle Furfaro to withstand the elements. t’s all the news that’s fit to While Turner won’t destroy make paper mache. these works of art, she is leaving Hailing from the Tornado it up to mother nature whether . 26-M I Alley in Oklahoma, Erin Turner they last or not. They will be makes cyclone sculptures out of outside all spring and summer, a variety of newspapers, includ- through rain, hail, and possibly ing a Brooklyn paper — though even an actual tornado. understandably, the artist hasn’t After traveling the world PR picked out papers for their showing off her giant examples of scoops. artistic recycling, her paper tor- “It was more of a color-blocked nadoes are now at the Heckscher page that I liked,” she said. Foundation Children’s Garden on Turner made her first sculp- Scholes Street in Williamsburg. At 80, iconic prime pork purveyor Gus Cangiano recalls days gone by tures out of paper mache after She plans to install more at the , A she spent time working with other New York Restoration incarcerated women. She wanted Project gardens around Brooklyn to evoke the feelings of being later this spring. trapped while also sought out “It will be intriguing to see catharsis. After some time, how the elements will affect the Turner hosted a ritual burning of sculptures themselves,” she said. IFE the works. Tornado sculptures at Then, she turned to torna- Hecksher Foundation Children’s does. Garden (134-136 Scholes St. “I grew up with tornadoes,” between Manhattan and Graham said Turner. “They are a symbol avenues in Williamsburg). Open L of my homeland.” every day 10:30 am–noon, 1–3 Since Turner’s sculptures pm, and at LDC of Broadway are inspired by the destructive Garden (900 Broadway between meteorological phenomenon Lewis Avenue and Stockton common to the American south Street in Bushwick). Starting and midwest, it makes a certain May 5, open all day Sat., Sun., A flurry of news: Erin Turner, who grew up in the heart of America’s Tornado Alley, installed her newspaper tornado sculptures in the Heckscher kind of sense that they’re meant until sculptures wither. BY WILL BREDDERMAN Foundation Children’s Garden on Scholes Street in Williamsburg. They will be up all summer. Photo by Stefano Giovannini LGBT flicks nights coming to W’burg Mexican restaurant By Natalie Musumeci who happens to be a happily married gay its large backyard tent, where the movies OURIER hursday night is gay movie night man, helped owner Henry Fernandez in will screen. It was a time when a at La Gringa Taqueria. choosing which movies the restaurant And the owners of the California- T Williamsburg Mexican eatery will show. style Mexican food eatery weren’t just will host free weekly movie nights that “It’s a mix of LGBT-themed movies, trying to accommodate their patrons, C appeal to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and mainstream classics, and new releases,” but they were also thinking of the LGBT transgender community. said Rox adding that some of the flicks population in general, saying that there On the upcoming roster is “Gayby,” a may not even be LGBT-themed. “The are not many LGBT-friendly, low-key flick about a straight female yoga instruc- real focus of this series is to offer LGBT happenings that don’t leave the realm of tor and her gay male friend who decide men and women a safe, welcoming place nightclubs or bars. baker thought nothing of to parent a baby together after realizing to participate in a fun, free event with They offered that this night of unpre- they are both single, in their mid-30s, their partners.” tentious films would be a perfect fit. and childless. Also on the list is “Sassy Patrons can nosh on the house-made “A lot of (LGBT) events are usually in Pants,” featuring Haley Joel Osment, the Mexican grub and sip on $2.50 beers as clubs – this is more nonchalant to go out, former child star of “The Sixth Sense,” they kick back on the picnic-style tables eat something, hang out and watch a gay who takes on a gay role in this comedy. and get ready for the main event. flick,” said Fernandez. “Magic Mike,” “The Bay,” and Fernandez, who runs the restaurant LGBT movie night at La Gringa “Chasing Mavericks,” are also on the with his wife Adalis Velez, added that Taqueria [800 Grand St. between adding a scoop of lard to Dinner and movie: Married couple Mikey Rox and Earl Morrow are excited that Williamsburg’s La Gringa Taqueria will host a movie night that caters queue as part of the new LGBT movie the eatery tends to draw many gay and Bushwick Avenue and Humboldt Street to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. night starting May 2. lesbian couples so he thought the eaterie in Williamsburg, (718) 388–055]. Every Photo by Stefano Giovannini Mikey Rox, La Gringa’s publicist would be a perfect fit — especially with Thursday, 8:30 pm. Make sure to RSVP. his dough to enhance the Your entertainment fl avor. It was a time when guide Page 21 Sbarro’s was a true pizzeria DT at the corner of 65th Street and 17th Avenue that pur- Police Blotter ....................8 chased fresh ingredients from nearby merchants. Letters ...............................18 It was a time when re- Standing O .......................19 frigerators were unheard Sports ................................31 of, and you waited till the ice truck delivered the day’s block of ice to put the meat on display in the window. It was a time when milk came in a bottle, and that bottle came in a wagon, and that wagon was pulled by horse, and that horse got shoed in a blacksmith’s shop up the street, and that street had yet to be paved.