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BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 834–9350 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2007 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DOWNTOWN EDITION AWP/16 pages • Vol. 30, No. 37 • Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007 • FREE INCLUDING DUMBO MARTY OFF THE GAYDAR Paper Queer activists: Endorsement of homophobe will cost Beep big time By Dana Rubinstein wins — The Brooklyn Paper Borough President Markowitz’s choice for a Civil Court judgeship won Tuesday’s Democratic primary, but Markowitz may have lost something far bigger: the gay vote. “We now regard him with universal disdain,” said Alan Fleishman, a Democratic district leader and a board member of the Lambda Independent Democrats, a Park Slope-based gay political club. again! “It will be difficult for him to come before gay and lesbian clubs to ask for an endorsement in the future if he’s running in another race,” added Fleishman, hours The Brooklyn Paper after the Markowitz-endorsed former Councilman The Brooklyn Paper, which was named Noach Dear beat Karen Yellen in the off-year primary by “Newspaper of the Year” by a trade association a lopsided margin of 3,776 to 2,554 votes. this summer, has now been honored for its Markowitz endorsed Dear even though the City Bar keen-eyed editorials. Sitt Association rated the Borough Park pol unqualified for the job — but the main objection to his endorsement of The Independent Free Papers of America, an the anti-gay Dear came from gay and lesbian activists. association of hundreds of independently owned After Dear’s triumph on Tuesday, those activists community publications with 17 million readers swung into action. nationwide, cited our July 28 editorial, “Marty’s In an open letter to Markowitz and six other politi- blind spot,” not once, but twice at its annual con- on it cians who had backed Dear, the Lambda Independent vention last week in Boston. Democrats, the Stonewall Democratic Club, and the Jim Editor Gersh Kuntzman, who wrote the editorial Owles Liberal Democratic Club blasted them for sup- with Senior Editor Vince DiMiceli, received the Extends life of porting an “unethical bigot.” IFPA’s coveted Joseph A. Sklenar trophy — a The Borough Park politician is most reviled for his beautiful clock, actually — for the piece, which the judges said exhibited “courage and concern vitriolic crusade against a 1986 gay civil rights bill — Coney carnies; for community issues.” though his conservative positions on abortion and other The same editorial also issues have kept him in liberal crosshairs for the decades OUR OPINION Astroland next? that he’s been out of (yet seeking) office. “It is a disturbing time … when elected officials can By Ariella Cohen endorse a candidate who has a long record of blatant Marty’s blind spot

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Cher and praisal said illionthe develop less than for thea m M soaked ges without a raise in rent — and it looks ere $100 m TA up $100 mmunities, alread at this In a tru city subsidies than originally bu Markow chia (D–Coney Island), Councilman Kendall Stewart ly op T illion illion m ordin even go en m ment rights wereA’s ow w will cost $1 billion or m ore in directy ated itz’s call fo Clover Honey during a Gay Pride Week event at Borough Hall in June. ne for m arket, those rights m n ap- w ” approach is a joke.r a “co- It Not only did ore.M subsidies. A as a “coordinated,” back like Astroland may be next to get the M orth. dgeted — room (D–Flatbush), and state Sen. Diane Savino (D–Bay Ridge). TA’s ight have for th tlantic Y ore in direct an ed A state and bo app fare-bustingarkow e MT ards clearly shares the blam and tlantic Y roach itz not o O A’s fiscal w d indirect “congestion” and threatrough o am - giveaw bject to the f course, M oes. ards in the first officials p thatong creat- city long-awaited stay of execution. Markowitz did not respond to a request for comment. ay, he loud release failed to seearkow the conn Markow , ly sup- itz’s aw e itz now lace — “Frankly, as the C ard-w these efforts. f a fare h and the strategies to reduce congestion, this inis ningn press decries is a direct result of The developer is in the final stages ity of N ection. If B ike that In other mud-slinging election news, reform club fa- son was endorsed by party boss Lopez, while Johnson sponsible for handling estate and guardianship cases the connection,orough Presidentvoters pack M ew York considers crowded, increasingly costlyarkow su of negotiation with Astroland owner vorite state Supreme Court Justice Diana Johnson beat was backed by several black elected officials, organiza- and, because it dolls out millions of dollars in legal busi- o tim busses shou ed into increasinglyitz can’t see e considers a runld forsend higher office. him a clear m bways and Carol Albert on next season’s rent for Manhattan Civil Court Judge ShawnDya Simpson in the tions identified as reform political clubs, and Rev. Al ness, is a major source of political patronage. essage if he the 3.1-acre, 45-year-old home of Democratic primary for the Surrogate judgeship. Simp- Sharpton. The Surrogate Court, run by two judges, is re- Johnson beat Simpson 23,454 votes to 16,095. Dante’s Inferno, a water flume and won first place in the July 28, 2007 other scream-inducing rides, a source association’s “Original Writ- said. ing/Editorial” category. DiMiceli “They are getting close to working was also honored for front page design. something out,” the source said. The editorial criticized Borough President Albert has been on a veritable roller Markowitz for complaining about the Metropolitan coaster since she sold her land to Sitt, Transit Authority’s $300-million deficit after he who wants to raze Astroland in favor ‘Brooklyn Eats’ bites the dust cheered the same agency when it sold the lucrative of a glitzy $1.5-billion, Las Vegas- air rights to the Atlantic Yards for tens, if not hun- style, year-round entertainment and ho- It will be smaller and more segmented.” But by the next year, the event was be- this,” said Joseph Chirico, the president dreds of millions, below their market value. By Adam Rathe The editorial called that “an amazing bit of po- tel complex. The Brooklyn Paper By that, Beaute-Lucien means it will ing held at the just-opened Brooklyn Mar- of the Brooklyn Restaurant Association This summer was supposed to the no longer be centralized under one fancy riott and drew 30 restau- and owner of Marco Polo on Court Street litical legerdemain.” final run for the Apollo-era funland, The kitchen is closed for Brooklyn roof on one blowout night. rants. By 2005, that in Carroll Gardens. Kuntzman took pride in the honor, which fol- but Albert wants Sitt to give her a Eats. The festival normally takes number had doubled. Chirico said Brooklyn Eats has been a lows The Brooklyn Paper’s selection as a “News- one-year lease extension. She has The annual festival of the borough’s place in October, but Over the festival’s great way to meet new customers and paper of the Year” by the Suburban Newspaper As- claimed that Sitt’s asking price of $3 best bites, which has showcased scores of won’t happen until next life, it went beyond other restaurateurs, and he is surprised sociation: “When we got the last award, I said that million in rent — about $2.8 million restaurateurs for a decade, won’t be spring at the earliest, featuring just restau- that they’re retooling the event. editors who bring home big awards like this typi- more than she paid this year — was staged this fall. Beaute-Lucien said. rants and welcomed “They’ve done an excellent job all of cally get a nice raise. But editors who bring home too high. Organizers say it will return next Brooklyn Eats began in local manufacturers, these years,” he said three major awards in such a short time frame are But Sitt’s spokesman, Stefan spring — but in a leaner form. 1997 as a promotional food authors and Meanwhile, Brooklynites wait to see often just handed the office checkbook. When that Friedman, told The Brooklyn Paper “Brooklyn Eats is being reformatted,” event by the publishers of cocktail purveyors. what kind of changes will be served. happens, I will, of course, take the staff out for a that the developer sought “consider- said Maggie Beaute-Lucien, the director “Brooklyn Eats — The Restaurants that have participated in “We’ll make our plans public very well-deserved round of drinks.” ably less.” of special events for the Brooklyn Cham- Guide to Brooklyn Restau- the past were surprised to hear that the soon,” said Leticia Theodore-Greene, a DiMiceli and GO Brooklyn Editor Lisa J. Curtis Albert declined to comment on the ber of Commerce. “We’re going to do rants.” It drew 200 eaters eager to see pots were cold at Brooklyn Eats this year. spokeswoman for the Chamber. “I think represented The Paper at the Boston convention. See CONEY ISLAND on page 14 Brooklyn Eats, but it won’t be the same. what local restaurateurs had to offer. “Nobody has contacted me about everyone will be very happy with it.” SWEPT AWAY MASKED BANDITS CAUGHT! Clones fall to Auburn Screaming raccoons pushed By Ed Shakespeare and Patrick Hickey Jr. For The Brooklyn Paper this Dyker man to the limit The amazing run of the 2007 Brooklyn Cyclones ended in ignominious fashion: a clean two-game sweep by the Auburn Double- By Matthew Lysiak any raccoon-fearing local would days in the New York–Penn League championship series. The Brooklyn Paper do: contact Mr. Raccoon Fighter himself, Councilman Vince Gentile It never looked like it would end this way. Not only did the Cy- We tolerate them going through clones lead their division from wire our garbage and roaming the streets (D–Bay Ridge). to wire this season, but the team also at night, but when they start Gentile promptly contacted the swept its first-round playoff series, screaming at the kids, someone has Animal Control Office, which came dispensing with the nefarious Staten to draw a line. by hours later to pick up the critters Island Yankees with two heart-stop- That someone is Michael Mac- and deposit them in a local shelter. ping, gutsy wins. Intyre, who fought back after rac- But situations like this are noth- But the finals were a different story. coons started verbally abusing local ing new for the councilman, who The Doubledays dominated the children. has become the local go-to-guy for opening game on Sept. 13, winning “For some reason, this year the raccoon problems all summer. 7–1 in Auburn. Then beat Brooklyn, raccoons are particularly aggres- Last spring, Gentile began hand- 4–1, the next night, in Coney Island. sive,” said MacIntyre, who lives on ing out supplies of “Critter Ridder,” “It’s not disappointing,” said Cy- 84th Street in Dyker Heights. “I a humane raccoon repellant — but clones manager Edgar Alfonzo. “We had nine of them are running demand quickly exceeded supply. have a group of kids that played hard around, screaming and yelling and “We have run out,” Gentile said, / Gary Thomas all year. We had the best record and chasing local kids and I just could- “but we encourage people dealing the best team [during the regular sea- n’t let that stand.” with raccoons to purchase repellent son]. Overall, I think this was a very Screaming? at local hardware stores.” positive season for these kids.” “Yeah, they kind of yelp aggres- As reported in The Brooklyn Pa- Positive until the last two games, sively,” MacIntyre explained. per, the garbage-eaters have been

The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn that is. And, yet, it had started so Last month, a fed up MacIntyre popping up in a broad belt stretch- Auburn starting pitcher well. Brooklyn got on the board first, purchased a raccoon trap and it re- ing from Cobble Hill to Prospect scoring a run in the second on a no- sulted in quick dividends — he Park and down to Bay Ridge and

Brett Cecil holds the New / Matthew Lysiak York–Penn League trophy. out bases-loaded sac fly by Cesar caged two critters — but getting rid Dyker Heights. Cordido. But failing to score a sec- of the raccoons that proved far The cuddly (looking) critters are ond run would come back to haunt the McNamara Division champs. more difficult than catching them. considered wildlife and cannot be Thankfully, Cyclones starter Dillon Gee was brilliant, shutting out He called 311, but the dispatcher killed (like rats and mice) unless Auburn over his five innings — including striking out the last six bat- sent the police, who showed up, they are obviously rabid (in such ters he faced. See CYCLONES DON’T WIN on page 8 Paper The Brooklyn looked at the raccoons, and cases, the normally nocturnal beasts BEHIND BARS: Raccoon hunter Michael MacIntyre shows off some of the critters he’s captured in the traps he shrugged. will be walking around during the purchased after he heard local raccoons “screaming” at youngsters playing in the streets. So instead, MacIntyre did what daytime like drunks, experts said).

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Fast, Free Delivery · ing another bowl of gazpacho, next along. “It’s a magnificent, one-of-a- week several Heights restaurants The Herman Behr Mansion, kind building that stands out in plan to unveil their latest seasonal which has lorded over the cor- Brooklyn Heights,” said Judy ner of Pierrepont and Henry creations. Stanton, executive director of streets since 1888, but was con- Jack the Horse Tavern on Hicks the Brooklyn Heights Associa- verted into 26 rental units three tion. and Cranberry streets will axe its I'll be your bridge from where you are decades ago, can be yours for “It’s in all the architectural cool summer soups, red snapper just $12 million. Juliana Bunim guides, and I always see tourists to where you want to be and Mediterranean salads in favor “I would love for someone to stopping to take pictures. I hope of toasty warm soups like apple make this their home again,” the person who buys it appreci- butternut squash. said broker Sandra Dowling, ates it as the treasure it is and “You have to be more creative in the fall with root vegeta- whose real-estate group has the keeps it in good condition.” ELLEN bles,” said chef-owner Tim Oltmams. listing on the ornate, red stone So what do you get for $12 GOTTLIEB Oltmams said he gets daily requests for the braised short ribs, building, which is adorned with million nowadays? The build- a favorite from last winter that will be making a comeback this gargoyles and baroque carvings. ing — at 82 Pierrepont St. — ASSOCIATE BROKER Wednesday, along with roasted Brussel sprouts. Though now a glorified has retained much of its original But the summer stock isn’t completely gone. Oltmams said apartment building, the six-sto- character on the inside, includ- 211 Court Street he plans on using heirloom tomatoes and corn until the freeze ry mansion started out as the ing a wine cellar, stained glass Brooklyn hits his New England supplier. home base of one rich family. and leather ceilings in the lob- He’s not the only one taking advantage of local purveyors. Behr made his fortune in by. The lobby also features a 917.797.1351 Montana Knox, sous chef at the Henry Street newcomer Oven, mining when making a fortune small library and an intricately 718.625.3700 x 112 near Cranberry Street, also keeps his carte du jour local. in mining was what men did. carved fireplace mantelpiece. But Knox says he’s found a way to beat Mother Nature, get- His son, Karl, a banker, lawyer To restore it to its original ting his produce from a Massachusetts farm that grows indoor and world-class tennis player, / Robin Lester grandeur, those cookie-cutter hydroponic vegetables. went to Yale and Columbia uni- apartments will have to go. The “The quality might not be as solid as in summer,” said Knox, versities before he survived the good news? If one person does “but it’s still local.” sinking of the Titanic in 1912. end up buying it, he or she will WWW.BROOKLYNBRIDGEREALTY.COM It’s also unique. Knox’s favorites are the toy box veggies, Eventually, the Behr clan have a somewhat easy time get- miniaturized versions of squash, eggplant and tomatoes. Accord- moved upstate and the house Paper The Brooklyn ting rid of all the tenants; Dowl- ing to Knox, there’s no was sold. It later became the The famed Herman Behr mansion on Pierrepont Street — ing said all the leases are all set difference in taste. “It Franciscan House of Studies, a long ago converted into smaller condos — is up for sale. to expire within a year. ON OUR OTHER just looks awesome to i>ÌÕÀ}\Ê stuff chicken with toy box squash,” he said. >«>iÃi] stoop Oven also tries to be iÃi] PAGES socially conscious. PARK SLOPE “We’re a small >`Ê/ > Greenhouse truck provider, so we try to Los Papi’s will close for homes FORT GREENE support other sustain- Landlord v. tenants able focused farms rather than big multi-na- By Dana Rubinstein ground-floor level of the two- A block away at 99 Gold St., RESTAURANT W’MSBURG tional companies,” said The Brooklyn Paper story building on Bridge Street, luxury lofts are renting for near- Alley cats between Front and York streets, Knox. Los Papi’s, a Spanish-Amer- ly $3,000 a month. 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! BAY RIDGE Other fall favorites since 1985, when the now-hip News that Gold had submit- ican eatery that’s been dishing neighborhood was crime-ridden Softball dynasty! that will debut next out rice and beans for nearly a ted plans for a seven-story, Karl 15% off any order of week at Oven are a duck and the notion of million-dollar Fisher-designed building was online at BrooklynPaper.com quarter-century, will close to condos was laughable. salad with sweet chili, a make way for a seven-story first reported by DUMB- $15 or more All SUMMER sea scallop squash lin- “Someone shot at me [and ONYC.com, a neighborhood residential tower. 78 Clark Street >ÌÊiÀÞÊ-Ì°ÊUÊ ÞÊi} ÌÃ guine and lobster risotto. I’ll be there to check out the lemon cu- missed] here in 1985,” said blog. Building owner Moshe Gold Perez. “Back then, you could cumber. Since then, locals have been confirmed that rumors of Los buy a property for $10,000.” (718) 625-9893 “It looks like a lemon, tastes like a cucumber,” said Knox. lamenting the imminent loss of Oven may get its kicks from dishing up mini veggies and cu- Papi’s demise were “correct” Now Perez’s restaurant, OPEN 7 DAYS: 11am-11pm Fast, Free Delivery to: — though the restaurant’s own- which has a flourishing one of the few DUMBO eater- Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, rious hybrids, but one block north on Henry Street, Le Petit ies where lunch costs less than Marche is all about heartier, meaty fall fare. er, Juan Perez, seems to be the lunchtime business, sits next to DUMBO, Metrotech, Cobble Hill

last to know. / Julie Rosenberg the offices of The Developers $4. Slow-cooked lamb shank, duck confit, beef short ribs and coq “There are no places to eat au vin — which gives even pro-Iraq War Americans a reason to “No one has sent me a letter Group, a hip firm that is mar- around here,” said Rodney love the French — are some of the new menu staples that will saying this is the time when keting the conversion of an old debut next week. But the real reason to check out Le Petit you [have to leave],” Perez told Jehovah’s Witnesses building Gaines, who was lunching at Marche is for its rotating seasonal game specials. Venison, The Brooklyn Paper. into the swank “One Brooklyn Los Papi’s on a recent after- Perez has occupied the Bridge Park.” noon. guinea hen and wild boar are just a few of the restaurant’s Paper The Brooklyn planned offerings. on’t leave your Chef Rob Weiner gets his ingredients from across the globe, D not letting seasonal limitations get in his way. “With airplanes and jet packs, seasonality is almost a thing of the past,” he said. While these restaurants prepare to slice up their new seasonal Cops of the month receive kudos On the way fare, one neighborhood staple isn’t changing a thing. Noodle Pudding, on the same block as Le Petit Marche, is packed six to the days a week. By Adam F. Hutton “It doesn’t need to change a thing,” said regular Laura Jones. The Brooklyn Paper True, the restaurant is great, but here’s one vote for changing Four cops who busted a dastardly duo with the seasons. Because as in any good relationship, you’ve of robbers in Boerum Hill this summer Without calling got to spice things up once in a while. were honored this week as the 84th Juliana Bunim is a writer who lives in Brooklyn Heights. Precinct’s cops of the month. Court Express for a Sgt. James Glancy, Officer Carlos Peral- THE KITCHEN SINK ta, Officer Washington Mosquera and Offi- Our spies spotted high-end smut photographer Terry cer Francisco “Frank” Tejada picked up Richardson skulking near the Starbucks on Front Street in their awards at Tuesday night’s meeting of DUMBO last Monday. … And not far away on the Fulton Fer- the the 84th Precinct Community Council, a

ry Landing on Monday, billionaire Mayor Bloomberg de- residents’ group that acts as a liaison be- Hutton / Adam F. pressed everyone by mentioning that the real-estate bubble may tween cops and the community. soon burst. Thanks, Mike. … The Coen brothers were filming “Each of these guys has been cop of the scenes from their forthcoming Brad Pitt and George Clooney month before,” said Council President movie this week on Hicks Street between Clark and Pierrepont Leslie Lewis. streets. No wonder female passers-by (and some males, too) had “In my experience, cops of the month an extra spring in their steps. … Our friends at Uncommon always get it more than once. It means Paper The Brooklyn Court Express 718-237-8888 Grounds, at the corner of Henry and Cranberry streets, have they’re good at their jobs, and I think we’ll From left, Sgt. James Glancy, Officer Carlos Peralta, Officer Washington Mosquera Car Service submitted a proposal to Community Board 2 requesting sev- see them repeat again as cops of the and Officer Francisco “Frank” Tejada are the cops of the month. 24 Hour • 7 Day Dispatch en tables of outdoor seating. … The Brooklyn Arts Council month.” (at 111 Front St., between Adams and Washington streets in This time, the officers got the honor for else on the same block. ent robberies near the Gowanus Houses. DUMBO) will unveil a new exhibition on Sept. 28 as part of the arresting two alleged robbers on Bergen Sgt. Glancy said they caught one knife- These four officers don’t just nail mug- Art Under the Bridge Festival. The show, “Site Matters: Brook- Street between Hoyt and Bond streets when wielding perp on the spot — and he gave up gers; their unit has caught neighborhood lyn Represents,” will include over 17 artists’ depictions of the the foolhardy pair stuck up an off-duty cop his cohort, who got collared a week later. burglars in DUMBO as well as drug dealers borough. E-mail us at [email protected] — five minutes after they robbed somebody The muggers were charged with six differ- and violent offenders, Lewis said. GET A MAILBOX WITH BENEFITS in Brooklyn Heights IF SID'S DOESN'T HAVE IT, '-"54$3&&/57Q IF SID'S DOESN'T HAVE IT, A real street address, not a P.O. Box YOU DON'T NEED IT! Package notification YOU DON'T NEED IT! Full-service mail & package receiving American Housewares is now Mail holding & forwarding carrying a select line of new Celebrating Our 75th Anniversary! Call-in Mailcheck E-mail notification FLAT SCREEN HDTVs... Only $25/Month Stop in today, and have c27,000 sq.ft. c Hardware cLicensed Locksmith Superstore Holiday Decorations Lumber Cut-to-size a new TV in time for c c cCustom Orders cHome Center cPaint FOOTBALL SUNDAY! SID'S HARDWARE 345 Jay Street SAVE ® ® 85 Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn The UPS Store (Between Tillary & Willoughby Streets) "«iÊÇÊ >ÞÃÊÊ7iiÊUÊÇ£n®ÊÓ{Îän{{ 15% OFF -ÕLÜ>Þ\Ê]Ê ]Ê]Ê ]Ê ]Ê,]ÊÓ]ÊÎ]Ê{]Êx Downtown Brooklyn with this The UPS Store of Brooklyn Heights 10% OFF (718) 875-2259 coupon! 93 Montague Street (at Hicks St) AMERICAN ALL STORE MERCHANDISE Open 7 Days -- We Deliver Over 30 Years in Business WITH THIS AD 718-802-0900 HOUSEWARES Featuring Home Delivery within Brooklyn WWW.SIDSHARDWARE.COM Mon-Fri: 8:30am to 7pm | Saturday: 10am to 5pm | Sunday: 10am to 3pm Read your local stoop here. Read them all at BrooklynPaper.com I'll be your bridge from where you are to where you want to be September 22, 2007 THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 DTZ (CGCH) 3 ELLEN GOTTLIEB ASSOCIATE BROKER THE 211 Court Street Brooklyn 917.797.1351 718.625.3700 x 112

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/ Tom Callan / Tom Car Service The truth is, I think that we 24 Hour • 7 Day Dispatch know the enemy and she is us. Ariella Cohen McDonald’s sells over a billion burgers each year and it’s not only junk-loving children, or har- ried single mothers filling Mayor McCheese’s campaign war i>ÌÕÀ}\Ê chest. Even the most certifiably pinko vegetable lover some- Paper The Brooklyn >«>iÃi] times falls to hunger’s fickle growls, right? No parking: At least five parking spaces on Dean Street, between Court and Smith streets, are off limits to Cobble Hill driv- Hell, I did last month. Yes, you read that right. Look, there are excuses I can give: I ers, even though this Fire Patrol station has been closed for a year. iÃi] was starving; there was nothing else around (corner of Flatbush >`Ê/ > Avenue and Tillary Street); I was in a rush. Whatever. The truth is that I needed that fruit ’n yogurt parfait about as much as Mc- Donald’s needs a Carroll Gardens location, which is to say not at all. (I suppose it would be less humiliating, somehow, if I had No-parking at closed fire HQ RESTAURANT eaten nine nuggets of frybatter-swaddled chicken gristle. Then at least I would know I had gone all the way.) 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! The point is, if we do not want the golden arches in our neigh- By Ariella Cohen bothered. unfairly bars them from using as many as borhood, we must assert the power that mass capitalism has giv- The Brooklyn Paper The crimson station house between Court five much-needed spaces. 15% off any order of en us — the power of Street and Boerum Place was closed almost “Parking in this neighborhood is an in- Red alert. the purse. The Hambur- one year ago by the New York Board of Fire credible inconvenience and the fact that $15 or more All SUMMER ON OUR OTHER glar will stop preying on A “No Parking Anytime” sign in front of Underwriters, which still owns the building. spaces are being reserved for [safety] offi- our defenseless children a shuttered Dean Street fire investigation fa- Neighbors say it’s about time that the city cials who no longer work here is absurd,” 78 Clark Street >ÌÊiÀÞÊ-Ì°ÊUÊ ÞÊi} ÌÃ if he stops having will- said Jason Licht, a Cobble Hill resident. stoop cility has Cobble Hill residents all hot and remove the no-parking sign, which they say (718) 625-9893 PAGES ing customers. A city official told Licht that the no-parking There is also another OPEN 7 DAYS: 11am-11pm Fast, Free Delivery to: PARK SLOPE regulation remained because the facility was Greenhouse truck battle tactic to be taken, “still active,” though a Fire Underwriters Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, and this one doesn’t de- spokesperson confirmed this week that the sta- DUMBO, Metrotech, Cobble Hill FORT GREENE pend on our collective tion had indeed closed last year. Landlord v. tenants ability to ignore irra- Too flashy? On a recent Tuesday, the spaces in front tional desires for all that W’MSBURG This large flashing sign on the back of of the double-garaged patrol house were is awful (and oh so Alley cats empty. Inside the garage, there were no crispy) in the world. David Walentas’s Court House apartments BAY RIDGE It is no coincidence on Atlantic Avenue between Court Street signs of life. Softball dynasty! that the golden arches and Boerum Place has some Boerum But change could be coming to the block. GET A MAILBOX WITH BENEFITS were rumored to be Hillers wearing shades. And they are ready After The Brooklyn Paper inquired about online at BrooklynPaper.com the seemingly outdated sign, a spokesman in Brooklyn Heights coming to the former to take them off. “The sign is 200 times for the Department of Transportation said Blockbuster video store. Chains favor such large, boxy spaces, larger than it’s supposed to be and it’s ugly. so one corporation’s failure is another corporation’s big opportu- Callan / Tom engineers would “evaluate” whether the re- It’s like I am walking into Times Square A real street address, not a P.O. Box nity to break into the neighborhood. In Brownstone Brooklyn, served parking was still necessary. relatively small, 19th-century storefronts are one built-in defense every time I pass it,” said Bill Harris, a real- He said that it was likely that the sign Package notification against full-out corporate siege, but there are others. estate broker who lives in Boerum Hill. Wa- would be removed if the fire patrol no Full-service mail & package receiving If we don’t want to see chains in our neighborhood, we can step lentas did not return The Stoop’s calls for longer needs it. Mail holding & forwarding comment. — Ariella Cohen Start your engines. up and force our local elected leaders to do to chain stores what Paper The Brooklyn Call-in Mailcheck Mayor Bloomberg did to trans-fats. He didn’t just urge us to “Just Say No.” He said “no” for us (like any good parent would do). E-mail notification In San Francisco, for example, neighborhoods guard against Only $25/Month big box chains with zoning laws banning stores larger than 20,000 square feet, which is smaller than the Barnes & Noble bookstore on Court Street in nearby Brooklyn Heights. Other zoning codes in San Fran and other West Coast cities ban Diner disaster! St. Clair to close businesses like Mickey D’s in certain districts. These laws demand that if a corporation wants to set up shop, it must build a store that looks and operates like existing businesses in the neighborhood. By Ariella Cohen be safely described as “1970s Queens base- ings there. I hope the new people are as good This time, we won’t have to grimace at Grimace. But next The Brooklyn Paper ment,” thanks to a reliance on crystalline to the neighborhood as [the old owners were].” The UPS Store® time, the happy meal dice may roll differently. Prepare now. chandeliers and taxidermy fish. The Costa family opened the New St. Humble pie no more. “You can put the same salad in a new dish Clair soon after migrating from Cyprus in Ariella Cohen is a Brooklyn Paper staff writer. The (old) New St. Clair Restaurant on the and it feels totally different,” said the new 1967. Since then, the St. Clair fed a steady The UPS Store of Brooklyn Heights KITCHEN SINK corner of Atlantic Avenue and Smith Street owner. “We want to keep the menu, but make stream of local residents, merchants and po- 93 Montague Street (at Hicks St) has been sold for an upgrade — and locals [the restaurant look] a little more trendy, lice and corrections officers from the House 718-802-0900 We ran into our pal, architect Robert Scarano, at the York are already feeling heartburned. make it feel more like a part of the street.” of Detention across the street. Street F station the other day. Scarano, the brain behind the con- Spiro Katehis, owner of the Carroll Gar- The coming change has already inspired When the 11-story jail closed in 2003, Mon-Fri: 8:30am to 7pm | Saturday: 10am to 5pm | Sunday: 10am to 3pm troversial 360 Smith St. condo, said the building’s owner, Billy dens Classic Diner, has bought the 40-year- at least one mournfully buttery last break- business slowed, but the rest of the neigh- Stein, originally wanted to put a 20-story tower at the site, but he old hash palace from the Costa family, fast. borhood had grown so expensive that the told his boss to cut 13 stories and avoid incurring the wrath of which owned it since 1967. The diner will “I went this morning, two eggs over well diner still enjoyed a special place in the height-sensitive neighbors. Little did he know that even seven sto- close at the end of September for a trendy done with home fries,” said a morose Sandy hearts and budgets of local workers. ries would make him enemies! … Pub crawl alert: The Atlantic makeover expected to take several months. Balboza, president of the Atlantic Avenue Bet- “I come whenever the boss lets me. I hope Antic will be boozier than ever this year, says our favorite Red Katehis said he plans to keep the family- terment Association. “It’s a place you go when the place doesn’t change too much,” said one Hook brewmaster Shane Welch of Six Point Craft Ale. Welch run diner’s name and its affordable, sausage- you need something quick, when you need uniformed 76th Precinct police officer, speak- is already readying his barrels for 60 kegs of Six Point’s special and-eggs fare, but lose its décor, which can something slow. We have community meeting over a large platter of egg salad. one-day-a-year Atlantic Antic Amber. The all-day fest — a real street fair, not just some traveling tube sock and curly fries bazaar — will be on Sunday, Sept. 30. … Life in a Blender songster Don Rauf told The Sink how upset he was to learn that the new owner for street cleaners, but soon hours. With the new plan, no- of the St. Clair Restaurant on the corner of Smith Street and At- they’ll only do it once a week. parking drops to once a week for lantic Avenue would be taking down the fish net on the wall. Per- The Department of Sanita- 90 minutes. “Our new program haps Rauf will add a new verse to his toe-tapping gentrification Parking? Lots! tion unveiled last week a “uni- … demonstrates [that] govern- anthem, “What Happened to Smith.”… Urban Outfitters, the form” system to replace the ment addresses the needs of its irony-loving trendster chain that sold The Sink — and all its little crazy quilt of regulations that constituents,” said Sanitation Tired of the usual friends — ringer-neck T-shirts in seventh grade, is moving to 164 By Adam F. Hutton Brownstone Brooklyn car currently governs parking on Commissioner John Doherty, Atlantic Ave., on the corner of Clinton Street. Word is that all the The Brooklyn Paper owners have long complained most residential streets. adding that the scheme will last lunchtime fare? “funky” lamps and bean-bag chairs will in a below-grade base- It’ll soon be a lot easier to about having to move their ve- Currently, parking is typically only if streets retain their ment level. 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September 22, 2007 THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 DTZ (FGCH) 3 THE Tired of the usual lunchtime fare? Fine Japanese cuisine, plus full sushi bar, stoop for lunch or dinner. FORT GREENE – CLINTON HILL Myrtle Avenue finally rises ould Myrtle Avenue become Fort Greene’s own Montague GREENE 162 Montague Street (at Clinton Street) CStreet? ACRES Brooklyn Heights · 718-522-5555 If it sounds far-fetched, tell me about it. But that’s precisely what Open 7 Days a Week the Myrtle Avenue Partnership is aiming for. The avenue’s principal Fast, Free Delivery · business group issued a series of recommendations this week that, if implemented, could drag the neighborhood’s center of gravity from prosperous DeKalb Avenue and towards the once down-and-out (and I'll be your bridge from where you are outright dangerous) shopping strip. Just imagine. Instead of uneven to where you want to be sidewalks devoid of any charm, merchants would create a paradise of commerce, complete with flow- Dana Rubinstein ELLEN ers bordering ornate window displays, street trees arching over orderly traffic, public plazas, am- GOTTLIEB ple benches and traffic lights! ASSOCIATE BROKER I’m no fan of most aspects of gentrification — the destruction of the fabric of the community, the intimidation of longstanding Broken Angel really broken 211 Court Street tenants, endless construction, upper-middle-class homogeniza- The once-glorious Broken Angel — hand-built over several decades by Clinton Hill artist Arthur Wood — is being dismantled piece Brooklyn tion, the eviction of me, the gentrifier! — but the Partnership’s by piece, thanks to a court order in May. The Buildings Department, which once had Wood taken away from the Downing Street ideas aren’t half bad. ziggurat in handcuffs, said its top floors violated zoning code. Wood still hopes to raise enough money to resurrect the Angel in 917.797.1351 The group of merchants hired the Project for Public Spaces, a some form or another — and give him a roof (however rickety) over his head. — Dana Rubinstein respected planning non-profit, to churn out ideas for the avenue. 718.625.3700 x 112 The Project, in turn, enlisted the help of Pratt Institute urban planning professors, held community meetings, and ultimately homed in on four of the most decrepit strips of the avenue: the space between Fort Greene Park and the Whitman and Ingersoll Houses, bounded by Carlton Avenue and Ashland Place; the intersection of Clinton and Myrtle avenues; the crossing of Van- Ft. Greene group hears chatter WWW.BROOKLYNBRIDGEREALTY.COM derbilt and Myrtle avenues, and the eyesore ON OUR OTHER of a superblock between By Linzi Sheldon courage residents to make more “We’re asking people to make Greene Park. Emerson Place and Hall for The Brooklyn Paper environmentally friendly choices. very small changes,” he said. • And two residents took to i>ÌÕÀ}\Ê streets. “It’s something that each of us • Ruth Goldstein asked for the podium with complaints stoop “We want to attract New Fort Greene Association can do differently,” Marcus said, volunteers to plan the centennial about parking difficulties on >«>iÃi] PAGES more foot traffic, make Chairwoman Ursula Hegewisch suggesting residents switch to celebration of the imprisoned Adelphi Street and traffic con- iÃi] PARK SLOPE the avenue more inter- ran through a laundry list of pri- long-lasting fluorescent bulbs. martyr’s monument in Fort gestion on Carlton Avenue. Greenhouse truck esting, a more creative, orities as she made her debut at >`Ê/ > active public space,” the group’s first meeting of the B’HEIGHTS fall on Monday night — and For sale — $12M said Vaidila Kungys, a program manager for then she promptly got an earful W’MSBURG the Partnership. from residents eager to discuss RESTAURANT Alley cats Frankly, the strip can’t their own projects and concerns. Landlord and tenants face off BAY RIDGE get much less attractive. “Fort Greene is one commu- 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Softball dynasty! Myrtle Avenue may have nity,” Hegewisch said. “We are By Dana Rubinstein thing to make the lives of long-time tenants miser- not a neighborhood divided by a more restaurants, beauty The Brooklyn Paper able — but I have no intention of going,” she said. 15% off any order of online at BrooklynPaper.com shops and bars these park. We are a neighborhood Longsworth claims Dermot is more than nine united by a park.” A high-octane development company that bought months behind on several repairs to her apartment. days, but it remains as two rent-subsidized buildings in Fort Greene is $15 or more All SUMMER grimly unappealing as Atlantic Avenue on a rainy afternoon. Hegewisch said youth out- MacArthur counters that she hasn’t let his staff into reach, stronger support for public fighting back against charges that it is trying to push her apartment to make the repairs. 78 Clark Street >ÌÊiÀÞÊ-Ì°ÊUÊ ÞÊi} ÌÃ The Project’s recommendations to change that are pretty out tenants to make room for bigger-bucks residents. commonsensical. But perhaps the most appealing and intriguing schools and teachers, the “green- Bob Foster, renters association head and a 40-year suggestion is breaking up the damned superblock. ing” of Fort Greene and a volun- Tenants contend that the Dermot Company — resident — who pays $900 a month for his two-bed- (718) 625-9893 which partnered with Magic Johnson to transform the Right now, between Hall Street and Emerson Place, Myrtle Av- teer home assistance program for room apartment — said he does not like the company’s OPEN 7 DAYS: 11am-11pm Fast, Free Delivery to: the elderly were some of her Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower into million-dol- new system for receiving repair requests — they must enue bifurcates into two roads — the main thoroughfare, and a thin- lar condos — has neglected other buildings they own Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, ner, 1,000-foot-long service road allowing cars easy access to the goals for the year. go through Dermont, and not directly to the super. She also acknowledged the nearby in an effort to make current residents move. DUMBO, Metrotech, Cobble Hill supermarket and evoking the sort of suburban, car-centric sprawl MacArthur countered that the system allows Der- key supporters in the rezoning of But Dermot principal Andrew MacArthur insists mot to keep track of repairs. more commonly found in Dutchess County (no offense, mom). 99 blocks of Fort Greene, Clin- that his staff is doing the best it can, given the run- Ten blocks away, at the Lafayette Avenue build- The Project for Public Spaces made suggestions ranging from ton Hill and the part of the down condition the buildings were in when his firm ing, between South Oxford Street and South Port- narrowing the service road to outright obliterating it and turning neighborhood starting to be aquired them. land Avenue, 16-year tenant Shantella Jackson said, it into a greenspace. That is, turning it into a public plaza where known as Wallabout. “At 266 Washington Ave., we have completed 245 “Dermot is not accepting some of the tenants’ rents one might actually want to spend some time. After that, the deluge: work orders in 11 months on occupied apartments,” [and] they’re slapping notices on people’s doors an- Of course, most of these suggestions remain highly specula- • Councilwoman Letitia James said MacArthur. “At 99 Lafayette Ave., which we’ve nouncing that they’re taking them to court.” on’t leave your tive at this point. (D–Fort Greene) spoke about her had for a lot less time, we’ve done 115 work orders on Dermot responded that it is simply making sure D The Partnership, rightfully wary of stepping on anyone’s toes, strong opposition to the construc- occupied apartments.” that tenants aren’t milking the system by incorrectly has no concrete plans at this point, aside from more soliciting tion of a luxury high-rise on 163 Dermot purchased the 77-unit apartment house claiming their apartments as primary residences — more community input. But Kungys did say one improvement Washington Ave. She also called on Lafayette Avenue in February for $12.8 million, and then subleasing them to others for a profit. is indeed imminent: keep your eyes peeled for some new gar- Hegewisch her “soul sister.” and the 113-unit Washington Avenue building last Councilwoman Letitia James (D–Fort Greene) On the way dening in front of the Vanderbilt Avenue Exxon station, and • New Association member Jed October for $19.5 million, according to city records. says she has met with the company twice. “Dermot maybe even a few street trees. Marcus updated the audience on Since then, tenants say they’ve been neglected. is interested in co-opting apartments and turning to the Dana Rubinstein is a staff writer for The Brooklyn Paper. the “Green Fort Greene” project, Kim Longsworth, a 33-year Washington Avenue them into high-end condos,” she said. “This will which he said attracted more than resident, said she’s been subject to intense pressure continue to change the diversity of Downtown THE KITCHEN SINK 200 volunteers this summer to en- to move out. “They’re doing anything and every- Brooklyn, both racially and economically.” Our pal, BCAT doyenne Megan Donis, made the move from Without calling her exhaust-choked apartment by the Brooklyn-Queens Express- way in Carroll Gardens to sunny, clean Fort Greene. 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PROSPECT HEIGHTS, SUNSET PARK stoopWINDSOR TERRACE, KENSINGTON PARK SLOPE She meets sis, Now 3rd Av is growing up By Ariella Cohen The balconied office build- 30 years later The Brooklyn Paper ing will dwarf its nearest neighbor, a low warehouse recog- The trendy development never thought I’d write a mem- nized by its massive red and transforming gritty Fourth Av- white neon “Eagle Clothes” oir. Sure, I endured my fair share PS ... enue is moving to even grittier of adolescent angst and struggles sign. More towers are expected I I LOVE YOU Third Avenue. to come to the area in the next with depression, but really, com- Hotel Le Bleu developer pared to most memoirists, my life several years as the city moves Domenick Tonaccio has un- forward with a long-planned re- story is pretty humdrum. I didn’t veiled a plan to build a (big) lit- spend my childhood zigzagging zoning of the area that sur- OPEN tle sister for his sleek, blue glass rounds the Gowanus Canal. across the country in a station wag- (and still-unopened) hotel. VEGAS on with my mom (the prostitute) or The developer said that the 7 DAYS Tonaccio’s second glassy tower aesthetic similarities between battle alcoholism at age 12. will rise at 399 Third Ave., on 7AM-10PM Then, three and a half years ago, Hotel Le Bleu and the Karl Fis- AUTO SPA the corner of Sixth Street, re- cher-designed Third Avenue I got a call from the identical twin placing a one-story garage. sister I never knew I had. Each of tower were intentional. “Platinum” Express Car Wash The developer — a partner “It’s the style we’re looking us had been adopted and raised by in Shaya Boymelgreen’s Includes: UÊ i>Ê7 iiÃ THE Paula Bernstein for,” he said. “This area is be- UÊ ÕLiL`ÞÊ >Ì UÊ>`Ê/ÜiÊ ÀÞ $ 77 separate families — neither of 7/ NOVO Park Slope condo coming modern, trendy and UÊFREEÊ1ìÀÊ >ÀÀ>}iÊ >ÃÌ "1*" which were informed that their new *1-Ê/8 building on Fourth Avenue at Not to be combined with any other offers. Expires2 12/31/2007 bouncing baby girl was part of a matched set. new. The glass is part of that.” Fifth Street — said that he ex- The tower will rise three CHEAPEST That was strange enough, but once my twin and I started do- pects to fill his newest project ing research about why we had been separated, we found that blocks south of the future home with medical offices. of Whole Foods, expected to be “Deluxe” Express Car Wash we had briefly been part of a twins study on the age-old topic of “As more people move to Includes: UÊ>`Ê/ÜiÊ ÀÞ nature vs. nurture. open in 2009. The gourmet gro- UÊ ÕLi `ÞÊ >Ì (Ê7iÌÊ7>Ý $ 54 this area they will need doctors UÊ7 iiÊ À} Ì (Ê/À«iÊ*Ã 7/ cer was originally slated to "1*" Which led, as you might imagine, to the memoir (co-written Karl Fischer Architect UÊ1ìÀÊ >ÀÀ>}iÊ >ÃÌ (ÊÀÀÊÊ/ÀiÃ and dentists and all those things open next year, but an unex- 5 *1-Ê/8 Not to be combined with any other offers. Expires 12/31/2007 with my sister, Elyse Schein). you have in other residential CAR The same man who developed the chic Hotel Le Bleu on In it, we investigate the reason for our separation and the pectedly complex cleanup of neighborhoods,” said Tonaccio. Fourth Avenue now has a similar vision for Third Avenue. the site’s soil caused delays. emotionally turbulent process of eventually getting to know each “The Best” Express Car Wash other as adult sisters who never had a childhood. While our re- Includes: (Ê7iÌÊ7>Ý union was joyful, it was not always easy. Apparently, having UÊ ÕLi `ÞÊ >Ì (Ê/À«iÊ*Ã UÊ7 iiÊ À} Ì (ÊÀÀÊÊ/ÀiÃ $ 08 UÊ1ìÀÊ >ÀÀ>}iÊ >ÃÌ (Ê «iÌi 7/ identical DNA did not guarantee that we would understand one "1*" another. UÊ>`Ê/ÜiÊ ÀÞ ÊÊÊÊ,>8Ê-iÀÛVi 8 *1-Ê/8 Not to be combined with any other offers. Expires 12/31/2007 WASH In writing the book — “Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited” (Random House) — I made a concerted effort to portray myself realistically, warts-and-all. IN

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Everything is antee the plants would grow or abandonment issues. extremely fresh because it’s thrive while he bounced around In reality, our book is not a juicy tell-all, but rather an explo- straight off the vine and into your from town to town. ration of what it feels like to discover that you’re an identical mouth. And it’s fun to go out and “I was afraid we might be twin. Elyse and I grappled with the age-old question: what is it pick some tomatoes, peppers and building a mobile oven,” he said. herbs and then go home and cook that makes us who we are? But it did work. Better than he my dinner.” Funny, but during all these years when I thought my life was ever could have hoped for. But it’s more than just a road- too dull to write about, I had no idea that I would end up co-writ- “I think driving around actual- ready organic garden. The 29- ly made them grow stronger,” he ing a memoir with my identical twin. year-old pickup peasant says it’s And now that I know her, I realize I couldn’t have written my said. also a bit of living, breathing so- It also helps with pollina- own life’s story without her. cial commentary, a statement Paula Bernstein is a writer/journalist who lives in Park Slope. tion. Good greenhouse garden- that’s as much about agriculture ers know to shake their tomato THE KITCHEN SINK as it is about oil. and pepper plants to increase Shull admits he’s no expert on their yield. Shull just drives We hear that CB 6’s Brad Lander — a Park Slope resident and Pratt Area Community Council bigwig — is gearing up to run for City Council for the seat currently occupied by term-limited Councilman Bill DeBlasio. … How better to stay warm this winter than to cuddle up with a furry friend (especially one you saved from lethal injection)? If you agree, stop by J.J. Byrne Park on Sept. 29 for state Sen. Eric Adams’s “Top Dog Parade and Kitty Carnival,” featuring “3.03 acres” of adopt- Parking? Lots! able pets, and human entertainment in the form of clowns and magicians. It’ll run from noon to 6 pm in the park, which is on By Adam F. Hutton Fifth Avenue between Third and Fourth streets. For information, The Brooklyn Paper call (917) 270-3841. … Ran into nabe teen-read queen, Libba It’ll soon be a whole lot easier to park. , at her office (couch three at the on Seventh Bray Tea Lounge Car owners have long complained about having to move their ve- Avenue) and she told us that Random House has finally given her a release date for her new book, “The Sweet Far Thing”: hicles up to four days a week to make way for street cleaners, but Dec. 26. So much for capitalizing on the Christmas book-buying soon they’ll only have to worry about that once a week. The Depart- season. 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It’s noisy toadfish was al- there’s a new dynasty in town. kees, except those rivals don’t MVP John Sacco in the fifth. that bond that keeps us successful 555 7th Avenue ways more fish theory A group of ordinary men share a block of Third Avenue Blue Zoo chipped away at in these hard-fought games.” enter from 19th St. just south of 7th Ave. stoop than fish fact — at least representing Areo restaurant like these guys) came in the that 10–7, but it was too little, Areo’s amazing success was- 718-768-WASH (9274) PAGES until I got the call the has become the stuff of legend seventh. Trailing 6–5, the Areo too late for the lounge lizards, n’t always fun and games: it be- other day. by winning the Bay Ridge heroes tied the game on a who did manage to get one run, gan with a stunning defeat. PARK SLOPE “I think we have Restaurant and Bar Softball bases-loaded walk. Then, in the but lost 11–8. Areo, an always-busy North- Greenhouse truck solved the mystery,” League Championship for the eighth, Areo won the game on When the final out was ern Italian joint at the corner of FORT GREENE said Eric Kuo, who is seventh consecutive year. an Andrew Lardaro single that recorded, the Areo champions 85th Street, started its title run Landlord v. tenants Gentile’s spokesman. Like most paths to greatness, sent co-MVP Michael Ventra returned to the restaurant for a in August, 2001 — one month W’BURG “We tracked down a this one was fraught with peril. racing home. well-deserved plate of the before the attacks on the World Alley cats marine biology profes- In Game 1 of the best-of- A picture-perfect, Jackie eatery’s famed baked pasta and Trade Center claimed the life of B’HEIGHTS sor from Staten Island three championshp series Robinson-esque slide by Ventra a few bottles of red. star player Joseph della Pietra. For sale — $12M and he did some tests.” The league’s games have Yellow Hooker was been played each year in mem- online at BrooklynPaper.com downright skeptical. But ory of della Pietra’s, whose still Gentile had done his jersey hangs in the clubhouse. "--:06$"/ homework, and had Cornell University professor of neurobiolo- One teammate says della 0'' &"5464)* gy and behavior Andrew Bass test the waters — literally. Pietra is always on everyone’s CVZPOFSPMMPS “He came to the pier for the morning and dropped a micro- Alpine: It’sback to future mind. IBOESPMM HFUUIF phone into the water and listened,” said Kuo. “He heard fish, but “We definitely play to win,” OEIBMGQSJDF QFS they weren’t toadfish.” By Matthew Lysiak said Young, an original member Mon. & Tues. only QFSTPO of the team. “But we also play So I was wrong all along? We can now rule out these aquatic The Brooklyn Paper °07&3EJGGFSFOUUZQFTPGTVTIJ° adventurers? every game in Joe D.’s memo- 5"5".*300."7"*-"#-& Not exactly. Turns out, there are some problems with the test Local concern that the ry.” performed by Bass (if that’s really his name). Alpine Cinema’s heralded The league includes 101 FAST FREE Not only was the test performed near the end of the fish’s four-star rescue would be a Restaurant, Yellow Hook Grill, (((( SE"WFOVF mating season, but also it is a well-known fact that these gilled box office bomb appears to be Canteena, Bay Ridge Honda, delivery by car Pippin’s, the Kettle Black and Daily News $10.00 minimum #300,-:/ Casanovas prefer to mate on hot summer nights. So why did much ado about nothing. CFUUI#BZSJEHF"WF Bass perform the test on a morning in September? Owner Nicolas Nicolaou is Salty Dog, and is under the di- Of course, there is nothing about this mystery that has an easy making good on his promise to rection of Commissioner Al 5&- '"9 Marietta. The games are played explanation. restore the run-down Bay Ridge Mon-Thurs:11 :30am-11pm; Fri & Sat:11 :30am-Mid; Sun:12pm-11pm “I placed an underwater microphone into the water at several landmark to its 1920s-era glory. in local parks and fields throughout the summer. XXX#BZ3JEHF4VTIJDPN locations off of Pier 69 and heard no signs of toadfish sounds,” Like all good things, it just Anyone thinking eight-peat? Bass told me, sticking to his story. “It is highly unlikely that any takes a little time, according to of the noise that residents are complaining about have their ori- the owner. / Matthew Lysiak gins from fish.” “You must understand that I But if it isn’t the toadfish, then what is making the noise? am committed to clean up the Like many great mysterious, every answer gives us more Alpine from the guts,” said questions — and another column down the road. Nicolaou. “So please be pa- Brooklyn’s Best

Matthew Lysiak is a writer who lives in Bay Ridge. tient.” Paper The Brooklyn But patience isn’t a virtue for Renovation work has begun in earnest at the Alpine Cinema on THE KITCHEN SINK many movie going residents of Fifth Avenue. A Brooklyn Paper reporter got an exclusive tour They call that “express”? Sources tell The Sink that residents Bay Ridge. of the ductwork! are up in arms over overcrowding on the express bus, particu- Earlier this summer, Nicolaou larly the from Brooklyn into Manhattan. Residents say took his lumps from residents X37 impatience, but the $1-million job that really no other prior op- that not only are the buses late, but finding a space to stand, who thought the repairs were HOTEL erator cared to invest for this much less to sit, is impossible. Maybe it is time to rethink the taking too long. This week, he project is just so big. Free Continental Breakfast • 60 Rooms With All Amenities “I deserve some credit for theater,” said Nicolaou, who water-taxi idea. … Hippies beware! Apple Tree natural mar- told The Brooklyn Paper that he bought the 85-year-old movie- Meeting Hall • Fitness Room • 4 Jacuzzi Rooms • Free Wireless Internet ket, at 7911 Third Ave., may be the local go-to spot for organic understands the community’s undertaking a very expensive house for $6 million in 2006. health foods and everything “We are continuing the work in Secure Limited Parking • View On The Bay • Close To Restaurants natural, but their tie-dye-wear- all other areas, seats, electrical, ing clientele may need a heavy plumbing and basically getting dose of nag champa after hear- ready to redo lobby and back- Convenient Location ing conservative shock-jock Loose Dentures? stage.” Michael Savage blaring New renovations, which in- through the store radio speak- GO AHEAD.... clude a new lobby ceiling, a ers. “I guess it is kind of new lobby carpet, and an entire- strange, but we always turn the Eat what you want! ly new electrical infrastructure channel if people complain,” for the 86-year-old theater are said one employee. … Time to Visit Dr. Tony Farha in the morning, already underway and the new stock up on pitchforks and have the “Mini-Implant System” placed in air conditioning was installed in torches. Look for a local group June. of concerned citizens to begin less than two hours, then go out and enjoy your Now that the repair work is storming local meetings in an favorite lunch. No more messy adhesive or pastes. starting in earnest, even former effort to force the hand of com- critics have given Nicolaou two munity officials into action As recently demonstrated by Dr. Tony thumbs-up. against a suspected crack “It looks like the owner is in house, on 93rd Street between on ABC & Fox News it for the long-run, and that is Third and Fourth avenues. … very important,” said former Earlier this month, Bay Ridge Alpine critic and Alpine movie- Neighbors for Peace held a goer Tom Brice. “This commu- rally outside of Rep. Vito nity needs the Alpine to do Fossella’s Bay Ridge office to • This advanced system is FDA-Approved. well.” protest his support of the War One moviegoing pol even in Iraq — but someone forgot • It is a one-step, non-surgical procedure. chimed in. to tell them they were supposed • No sutures, nor the typical months of healing. “Knowing that Mr. Nicolaou to at least pretend to support has the commitment to make the troops. Fliers scattered all • No pain or discomfort. the Alpine a five-star theater, over Bay Ridge depicted • Affordable (Payment Plans available and Insurance coverage) and seeing the renovations American soldiers intentionally moving forward, I am confident targeting innocent Iraqi civil- Dr. Tony is recognized as a Professor of the Mini Dental Implant. that the Alpine will continue to 8 mi. to JFK • 20 mi. to LaGuardia ians. … Congrats to Ridge res- operate for many years to BY CHOICE HOTELS ident Isabella Noonan, who Call today for your FREE Consultation come,” said state Sen. Marty was recently accepted into the *ONLY $495 Golden (R-Bay Ridge). “The United States Naval Academy, Alpine Theater is a clean and 3218 Emmons Ave. Bklyn, NY SHEEPSHEAD BAY where she is also a member of FOR DENTURE! 718-833-6895 safe one that I frequent regular- (betw. Coyle & Bragg) E-mail: [email protected] the crew team. Noonan gradu- Limited Time Offer 461 77th St – Bay Ridge • 1412 Richmond Rd – Staten Island ly with my family, to enjoy an ated from Our Lady of An- afternoon or evening and see gels in the Class of 2006. *with a puchase of MDI www.oraldentalcare.com the latest movies on the big Fax (718) 368-3963 Tel: (718) 368-3334 E-mail [email protected]. screen.” Read your local stoop here. Read them all at BrooklynPaper.com

September 22, 2007 THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 NBZ 3 stoopTHE WILLIAMSBURG – GREENPOINT– BUSHWICK The old pool New bowling alley — yes, a story, part II bowling alley — in G’Point ast week, we told you how during the mid-1980s a Communi- BESIDE Lty Board 1 task force created a THE POINT By Chris Varmus the shoe counter, memorabilia plan to replace the McCarren Park for The Brooklyn Paper plastered across the walls, old lamps and formica throughout, pool with a year-round recreation There’s a new old game in OPEN center (and pool), Just as the city and late-’70s TVs with rabbit town: bowling. ears. The scoring machines, the VEGAS was about to break ground, howev- The owners of Barcade last 7 DAYS er, committee member Phyllis Model T’s of the computerized week opened the borough’s first world, display totals in four-bit 7AM-10PM Yampolsky attacked the plan be- bowling alley (yes, a bowling AUTO SPA cause it called for the demolition of glow. alley) in 50 years. How are the But this is still Williamsburg, the bathhouse wings that flank the new lanes doing so far? Well, “Platinum” Express Car Wash pool’s much-loved arched entrance. so the bar overlooks the lanes for now, a sign above the shoe — and there are only eight. Includes: UÊ i>Ê7 iiÃ THE Architect Robert A.M. Stern, UÊ ÕLiL`ÞÊ >Ì UÊ>`Ê/ÜiÊ ÀÞ $ 77 counter reads, “Please be pa- 7/ (who was recently chosen to design “It’s really more of a bar UÊFREEÊ1ìÀÊ >ÀÀ>}iÊ >ÃÌ "1*" tient while we learn how to run *1-Ê/8 Not to be combined with any other offers. Expires2 12/31/2007 President Bush’s presidential li- with a bowling alley than a a bowling alley. The Manage- bowling alley with a bar,” said CHEAPEST brary), also spoke up for saving the ment.” bathhouses. Matt, the bartender who mixed “The management” in this us a frothy Caucasian (with “Deluxe” Express Car Wash So new hearings were held. Includes: UÊ>`Ê/ÜiÊ ÀÞ case is co-owners Jon Miller Vanilla Stoli and a cherry) and ‘’There appears to be communi- Tom Gilbert and Paul Kermizian, best UÊ ÕLi `ÞÊ >Ì (Ê7iÌÊ7>Ý $ 54 let us sample a Southampton UÊ7 iiÊ À} Ì (Ê/À«iÊ*Ã 7/ ty consensus in favor of [the bath- UÊ1ìÀÊ >ÀÀ>}iÊ >ÃÌ (ÊÀÀÊÊ/ÀiÃ "1*" known for the arcade-game Secret Ale and the Six Points 5 *1-Ê/8 houses’] demolition and replacement by a modern gym,’’ coun- filled Union Avenue bar they Not to be combined with any other offers. Expires 12/31/2007 CAR tered then-Parks Commissioner Henry Stern. ‘’It’s a rectangular Sweet Action from the abun- opened seven years ago. dant microbrew tap selection brick shed built for people to get undressed in; does it deserve But still, Miller and Kermiz- immortality because it was built by the master [Robert Moses]? (pitchers available!). “The Best” Express Car Wash ian’s newest venture, The Gut- We were able to get on a Includes: (Ê7iÌÊ7>Ý If Moses were commissioner today, the bathhouse would have ter, could put them in a gutter of UÊ ÕLi `ÞÊ >Ì (Ê/À«iÊ*Ã lane for four free games with- UÊ7 iiÊ À} Ì (ÊÀÀÊÊ/ÀiÃ $ 08 been long gone and replaced by something more useful.’’ UÊ1ìÀÊ >ÀÀ>}iÊ >ÃÌ (Ê «iÌi 7/ their own. It’s one thing to "1*" Then-Councilman Abe Gerges warned that adding time and out anyone asking us to leave, UÊ>`Ê/ÜiÊ ÀÞ ÊÊÊÊ,>8Ê-iÀÛVi 8 *1-Ê/8 Not to be combined with any other offers. Expires 12/31/2007 WASH bring back retro video games so we felt satisfied, though we money to the McCarren Park restoration might jeopardize the like Miss Pac Man and Qwest, whole project. / Mike Fernandez thought perhaps the lane listed a but now the pair is going where bit toward the water, and we IN Yampolsky, the save-the-bathhouses activist, responded by no (business)man has gone for

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The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn sense getting in the way of do- them out.” Shirley” heyday. Then again, That kind of thing worked better then than it does today. The ing both things we came here to Laverne and Shirley never The owners of Barcade on Union Avenue are now racking up do. Community Board re- tossed back Long Island Iced turned to the drawing another form of entertainment at The Gutter, their new bowl- The Gutter (200 N. 14th St., Teas while they threw from the ing alley on North 14th Street ON OUR OTHER board — and Gerges between Berry Street and Wythe Jersey side. Avenue in Greenpoint). Hours: 555 7th Avenue was proven right: City “There really wasn’t any- enter from 19th St. just south of 7th Ave. funding dried up before Monday–Thursday, 4 pm–4 am; thing like this in the area, and be competitive or not competi- The Gutter is new, but the Friday–Sunday, noon–4 am. 718-768-WASH (9274) stoop a new compromise plan PAGES bowling is a lot of fun,” Miller tive, and it goes well with vibe is old. There are vintage could get off the Games are $6 (plus $4 for said. “It’s a sport that can either drinks.” bowling ball bags for sale over shoes) and $7 on weekends. BAY RIDGE ground. Softball 7-peat History more or less FORT GREENE repeated itself in the late 100% Recycled Landlord v. tenants 1990s, when CB1 charged a new commu- & FSC Papers PARK SLOPE nity group — the Mc- Vegetable Inks Greenhouse truck Carren Pool Task Force — to try again. (Full Gentlemen, start your art-gens with Low VOCs B’HEIGHTS For sale — $12M disclosure: Larry Smith Chemical-Free and I were members). We Print Stuff CTP Production online at BrooklynPaper.com Under the able leader- By Travis Stewart a car seat, steering wheel and ship of Robert Bratko, pedals to a computer and some for The Brooklyn Paper Printed with the new task force held almost two years of public hearings well-known gaming software. throughout North Brooklyn and invited public participation Visitors to Ken Butler’s Butler is a youthful 59, de- Wind Power through surveys, workshops and mailings. Members visited oth- new show at artMovingPro- spite undergoing a liver trans- er Depression-era pools, researching how well they serve — or jects might be forgiven for plant less than a month ago. At do not serve — contemporary community needs. thinking they stepped into his opening, he was the life of In 2001, it issued a report that served as the basis for the so- some kind of bizarre hobby the party, and looking at least Brochures called “Vollmer Plan,” which called for a year-round communi- shop. But that’s what happens 10 years younger. All of which SPMMJOH!QSFTT ty recreation center, with a gym and Olympic-size outdoor pool, when an artist lets his child- goes to suggest that there are an environmentally-friendly Postcards budgeted at around $26 million. hood obsession with slot cars far worse things we could do boutique print house The task force had asked that the arch be saved and recom- and auto racing run wild. than revive our youthful obses- Catalogs mended that the bathhouses be preserved if they could be adapt- The centerpiece of Butler’s sions. / Robin Lester ed to serve the real needs of the community. It noted that at Sun- new show at the North 12th Ken Butler’s “Drawing and Magazines set Park and other Moses pools, popular basketball and other Street gallery is a 40-foot slot Driving” runs through Oct. 14 at programs are shoehorned into bathhouses that are too low or too car track and a number of actu- artMovingProjects (166 N. 12th Marketing narrow. al slot cars that Butler has “hy- St., between Bedford and Berry 718 625 6800 T streets in Williamsburg), Thurs– Collateral In order to make everyone happy, the Vollmer Plan called for bridized” in his inimitable style. 718 625 0669 F saving the bathhouses whether they were needed or not; part of That’s how a car ended up as Paper The Brooklyn Sun, 1–6 pm. Call (917) 301-6680 or (917) 301-0306 for informa- www.rollingpress.com Etc. the deal was a promise from local politicians to add — hang the a combination of a sponge and Artist Ken Butler is showing off his slot car artistry (below) at a sardine can. tion. cost — enough extra new buildings to house everything pro- artMovingProjects. The show also allows gallery-goers a “I love the idea of transfor- posed by the task force. This was approved unanimously by the chance to enjoy their pre-teen obsession (above). community board. mation,” says the artist, whim- The budgetary repercussions of 9-11 killed this plan in its in- sically festooned at the Sept. 8 fancy. Now, thanks to Mayor Bloomberg, that plan is back. It opening in a NASCAR racing has yet to fully take shape, but the smart money is betting on — shirt and driving gloves. “A you guessed it — a year-round recreation center with a gym and blank canvas doesn’t interest an Olympic-size outdoor pool. And the bathhouses. For $50 mil- me as much as the idea of re- lion. combining found objects and Well-connected people tell me not to worry, that the discovering new meaning in grownups are in charge and that nothing can stop the mayor’s material that already exists. plan — not even Phyllis Yampolsky — but the landmarking of There’s also a function aspect the McCarren Park pool, not to mention the sudden downturn in — it’s recycling!” the economy, makes me a little nervous. Butler is best known for cre- A few years ago, I joked with my friends that I had given up ating and performing on hy- on taking my son — who was born five years after the pool bridized musical instruments, closed — to the new McCarren Park Recreation Center, but that rigging items like snow shov- / Robin Lester The waste we someday I hoped to take my grandson. els, tennis rackets and tooth- Recycling Lately, my joke doesn’t seem so funny: Last week, my son brushes with strings. Some of went off to college. his creations hang on the wall Tom Gilbert is a writer and historian who lives in Greenpoint. of the Knitting Factory, where process helps he has performed countless four feet THE KITCHEN SINK times in a long career that has Paper The Brooklyn also included appearances on old slots in my mom’s base- high school for a contest spon- Sad to report that George’s Variety Store, on Manhattan “The Tonight Show” and in ment. About 50 cars. I now sored by the Fisher Body Com- power over Avenue between Norman and Meserole avenues, has gone out “Ripley’s Believe it Or Not.” have about 100 cars total. After pany Craftsmen’s Guild), to a of paper of business. A neighborhood fixture for decades, George’s was His work mixes humor, a spirit awhile I got the idea to hy- series of imaginative pencil the place you went for mousetraps, cast-iron skillets, door mats, of curiosity, and a passion for bridize them as I do with my in- works on paper: sketches for clothes line rope — or when you needed something that was so form. struments, not as an art project, crazy cars and elaborate musi- savesone million one tree. odd or profitless that no other business would carry it. Once, The Having created over 400 hy- more of as a hobby. It was cal instruments that mix the in- Sink conducted an exhausting and lengthy search for a replace- brid instruments, Butler says he Aaron Namenwirth [director of stincts of Da Vinci and Dr. ment for one of those little tin fixtures that holds the roller inside was beginning to feel he’d ex- artMoving Projects] who had Frankenstein. a standard cheap window shade. Not only did George’s carry hausted the possibilities in that the idea of making an exhibi- “They’re a way for me to homes. them, but they were willing to sell one for 15 cents. George’s direction. Working on a film tion out of it.” dream up installation ideas made Greenpoint Greenpoint. … Fans of the HBO show, “Flight project in 2000 brought him Along with the slot cars and without having to build them,” of the Conchords,” might have missed it, but in Episode Eight into contact with miniature tracks, one will find a number Butler said of the sketches. (“Foux Da Fa Fa”), part of the city of Paris was played by our models of buildings and land- of other eye-opening works in Children will especially re- own Monsignor McGolrick Park. We love the neighborhood, scapes, reminding him of his the exhibition, ranging from the spond to this exhibition, in par- but it was somewhat of a stretch. teenage passion for slot cars. very old (a prize-winning car ticular the race-driving simula- E-mail us at [email protected]. “I still had two boxes of my design executed by Butler in tor Butler has created by adding

We’ve been covering the Williamsburg scene for years. We’ve got our eye on Greenpoint & Bushwick, too. 4 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 September 22, 2007

The so-called “Unity” proposal, an alternative plan to Group has alternative to Ratner’s Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project. Atlantic Yards mega-development By Gersh Kuntzman planner Marshall Brown, a for- The Brooklyn Paper mer Fort Greene resident and architecture professor at the A coalition of community- University of Cincinnati. based urban planners will un- ‘Unity’ vs. Ratner “Other supposedly ‘done The latest incarnation of a community-based “Unity” Plan for the Atlantic Yards site will veil a new alternative to Bruce deals’ — like the Jets stadium on Ratner’s state-approved, al- the West Side and all the Colum- be publicly unveiled next week — but The Brooklyn Paper got a sneak peak at a draft. ready-under-construction At- bus Circle projects before the Here’s how it compares to Bruce Ratner’s proposal. — Kuntzman lantic Yards mega-project on Time-Warner Center — didn’t Monday, calling it the last best get built, so we need to be ready UNITY PLAN PROPOSAL RATNER PLAN hope for sensible development with an alternative,” Brown said. on the controversial Prospect “Otherwise, we’ll be left with Eight acres Total footprint 22 acres Heights site. acres of empty land for decades.” Planners behind the so-called Brown said he and his fellow 1,500 (60 percent) Total housing units (per- 6,430 (35 percent) “Unity” proposal say they were planners — former Planning cent “affordable”) motivated to devise an alterna- Commissioner Ron Shiffman tive to Atlantic Yards by two and Hunter College professor Less than 400 feet Tallest building 511 feet (“Miss Brooklyn”) concerns: that pending lawsuits Tom Angotti — are mostly con- — and the downturn in the real- cerned that Ratner will only build 4.5 acres Amount of open space Eight acres estate market — make Ratner’s the first phase of his project (the arena and several skyscrapers at $4-billion project “not a done No arena. Basketball arena? 18,000-seat arena. / Marshall Brown deal,” and that “there are better the corner of Atlantic and Flat- bush avenues) and then lose in-

Unity ways to build” on the site, said terest, run out of money, or give No. Requires condemnation Yes. in to the declining market. of private property? “But even if he builds the entire project, it’s going to take 20 years,” Brown said. “During than Ratner’s 6,430 — with 60 the site. Ratner would put his opment”: “You don’t need to that time, there will be many percent reserved as “afford- tallest building, the 511-foot put the tallest buildings right on opportunities to influence what able,” far more than Ratner’s 35 Miss Brooklyn tower, at the al- top of the transit hub at this site actually gets built. And we have percent. ready-busy corner of Atlantic because the entire site is near a community-backed proposal And since the Unity plan and Flatbush. the transit hub.” ready to go.” would only be built on the Van- “Ours is a simple and effec- Forest City Ratner did not an- The “Unity” plan — which derbilt Yards, it would occupy tive strategy,” Brown said. “The swer a request to comment on the despite its common-ground-im- just eight acres and require no Atlantic-Flatbush intersection is Unity Plan. The Empire State plying name, actually stands for condemnation. Ratner’s project already very congested. But Development Corporation, which ACUPUNCTURE DENTISTS “Understanding, Imagining and covers 22 acres and would have Vanderbilt and Atlantic is un- is overseeing the project, also de- Transforming the Yards” — is the state seize private property derdeveloped. Our idea would clined to comment. the result of a series of public via eminent domain. create more density there and The “Unity” Plan will be pre- ROOT CANAL GENERAL & COSMETIC workshops and design sessions The tallest building in the relieve congestion at the Flat- sented publicly on Monday, Sept. EXTRACTIONS in April. Unity plan would be “just under bush Avenue end of the site.” 24 at the Soapbox Gallery (636 CHINESE SUCCESS DENTISTRY The resulting project would 400” feet, said Brown — and it Brown called that “the defi- Dean St., between Carlton and Advanced sterilization and infection control QI-GONG TUINA BODYWORK CENTER PERIODONTAL WORK have 1,500 units — far fewer would be at the eastern end of nition of transit-oriented devel- Vanderbilt avenues), 6 pm. Effective Treatments for: Jack Irwin, D.D.S. UÊPain Management (Neck, Shoulders, CROWNS 414 Seventh Avenue Back, Arms, Legs, Etc.) bet. 13th & 14th Sts. BRIDGES www.jackirwindds.com UÊStress UÊ Depression PORCELAIN VENEERS (718) 768-8372 UÊInsomnia UÊ Arthritis BROOKLYN Evening Hours Mon-Fri UÊSciatica UÊ Headache BLEACHING Most Insurance & Union Plans UÊFacial UÊ Rejuvenation accepted as full or partial payment. DENTURES MetLife, UFT, DC37, PBA, Delta, Blue Cross, UÊSports Injuries UÊ Poor Digestion Aetna, CIGNA, Unicare, Guardian, Healthplex, Mgmt. Bfts. Fund, United Concordia, Ameritas. UÊLow Energy LAMINATES BRIEFS Open 7 Days A Week Affordable Family Dentistry 10:30 am - 10:30 pm in Modern Pleasant Surroundings 457 7th Ave., State of the Art Sterilization (autoclave) Get your Gersh, on BCAT Brooklyn, NY 11215 Emergencies treated promptly Special care for children & anxious patients The Brooklyn Paper WE NOW ACCEPT OXFORD Our Editor Gersh Kuntzman slid into the moderator chair for an- • Tooth Bleaching (whitening) other action-packed episode of BCAT’s “Reporter Roundtable” this week. Joining Gersh was former Brooklyn Paper scribe Jotham Seder- / Adrian Kinloch DENTISTS • Cosmetic Dentistry, Porcelain Facings & Inlays, Bonding Crowns & Bridges (Capping) strom, now of the New York Daily News (center), and Tom Tracy of • Painless, Non-Surgical Gum Treatment the New York Post-owned Courier-Life chain (right). This week’s • Root Canal • Extractions • Dentures • Cleanings episode touched on some of the big issues, such as Borough President • Impant Dentistry • Fillings (tooth colored) Markowitz’s surprise endorsement of an anti-gay former councilman for a Civil Court seat, and the latest news from Coney Island. Catch We’ve Moved! • Stereo headphones • Analgesia (Sweet air) Paper The Brooklyn the cablecast on Friday, Sept. Dr. Jeffrey M. Kramer 21, at 9 pm; Monday, Sept. 24, 544 Court Street, Carroll Gardens at 1 pm; Tuesday, Sept. 25, at Foer more years! PARK SLOPE FAMILY 624-5554 624-7055 1:30 and 9:30 pm; and Thurs- day, Sept. 27, at 2 and 10 pm. Elusive writer Jonathan Safran Foer made a rare appear- Convenient Office Hours & Ample Parking BCAT is channel 56 for ance outside his Park Slope hermitage to participate in the DENTISTRY and insurance plans accommodated Time-Warner subscribers and Brooklyn Book Festival’s ultimate literary smackdown last channel 69 for Cablevision Sunday — appearing on stage with the Bard of Boerum Hill, –– 245 Fifth Avenue –– viewers. Jonathan Lethem. Alas, fireworks were few. between Carroll & Garfield Now in Park Slope!

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• Eye Exams Downtown faces drug woe • Designer Frames By Adam F. Hutton • Contact Lenses The Brooklyn Paper POLICE BLOTTER • Children’s Frames 84th Precinct • Sunglasses drug activity. And, indeed, there dles laying around and people Could drugs — and drug were six robberies reported last hanging out on street corners all • Sports Glasses crime — be returning to week, up from two during the day long.” Downtown? same period last year. At the Council’s regular meeting on Tuesday, Lewis told That’s the concern of resi- “It’s still not like the bad old days,” said Leslie Lewis, presi- a detective from the Brooklyn dents of the 84th Precinct, a North narcotics division that –––––– Heights Vision Center –––––– once-crime-ridden area that has dent of the 84th Precinct Com- munity Council, a group that much of the new drug activity 132 Montague St. • Brooklyn Heights • (718) 852-1149 seen massive decreases in vio- seems to be centered around the lence in recent years. acts as a liaison between cops corner of Third and Atlantic av- www.doctorstuartfriedman.com Some residents are con- and residents. enues, and on State Street be- cerned by a recent increase in “But I’ve been seeing nee- tween Bond and Hoyt streets. The latter hotspot was once around the corner from a noto- rious homeless drop-in center RELIGIOUS that recently moved a few / Kathryn Kirk Office President’s Borough blocks north — across the street SERVICES from the 84th Precinct stationhouse. He got taken Brooklyn Heights James Hurley received a free checkup from nurse Louisa Synagogue 76th Precinct Murraine at Monday’s kickoff for Borough President 131 Remsen St. · 718-522-2070 Markowitz’s “Take Your Man to the Doctor” campaign. [email protected] Church louse Deputy Beep Yvonne Graham and Jamie Markowitz look on. Affiliated with the Union of Reform Judaism A burglar broke into a A warm, welcoming, and Jewishly church on Court Street near Lu- diverse community, dedicated to quer Street and left without Neither member of the cou- avenues. He showed his victim life-long learning and to caring for closing the fridge behind him. ple spoke English, so whatever what he said was a gun, but un- the world and each other. The thief broke in through a threats the man issued were lost luckily for the perp, a patrol car Please join us! rear door and stole a cable box, on them. But not his actions — happened to roll by, catching Shabbat evening service $737 from an unlocked safe, he hit the man in the back of the him in the act. every Friday at 6:30 pm and miscellaneous food from a head with his weapon and, The man ran, but not fast refrigerator, police said. The when the woman started enough, cops said. Torah study door to fridge stayed open until every Saturday at 9:30 am screaming, he bashed her in the the crime was discovered by a Business burgle A51 face — needed no translation. member of the church. The perp didn’t take any A small business on Flatbush Shabbat Shalom! Geeked out valuables, just ran off leaving Avenue was robbed of its com- them on the ground. puters during the night of Sept. Presented by A Red Hook man was 13. B’nai Avraham robbed of thousands of dollars Stroller snatch The owner closed up shop, in photo and computer equip- of Brooklyn Heights Two stores proved to be dan- near Livingston Street, around ment in broad daylight on Sept. ££ÇÊ,iÃiÊ-Ì°ÊUÊxÈ{n{ä gerous places on Sept. 10, as 7:30 pm, but when he returned Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin 12, police said. two women’s wallets were in the morning, at about 10 am, www.bnaiavraham.com The tech-savvy bandit broke snatched from the backs of their into a locked car parked on he saw that his lock had been baby strollers. broken. Candle King Street between Richard The first incident occurred The news only got worse, as Lighting and Verona streets at around 10 around 11 am, at a discount am and got away with a $800 store on Myrtle Avenue near he saw that three of his computers — two laptops and a desk- Yom Kippur Nikon camera, a $700 satellite- Vanderbilt Avenue. A 31-year- Fri., Sept. 21, before 6:38 pm guided navigation system, 20 old woman had left her stroller top — were stolen, along with a scanner. Sukkot computer memory cards and a in an aisle while she looked for Wed., Sept. 26, before 6:29 pm camera worth $5,000. an item. A second later, she saw The total value of the stolen Thurs., Sept. 27, after 7:27 pm Bad medicine two women talking and stand- equipment was $12,350, cops said. A doctor’s Long Island Col- ing suspiciously close to her PARK SLOPE JEWISH CENTER lege Hospital office was bur- stroller. Wheely bad 8th Avenue at 14th St. One of them told her, “You Fri. nights at 6:30 pm glarized on Sept. 11, police Several cars and bikes were Sat. mornings at 10:00 am said. dropped your water bottle,” and stolen from the Fort Greene Adult Ed Hebrew School The 48-year-old doc left her put the fallen beverage back area last week, including one Rabbi Carie Carter office at 4:15 pm. When she re- onto the stroller. When the vic- car that was returned. Park Slope's Egalitarian, tim checked her bag, her wallet Conservation Synagogue turned four hours later, her • The first incident happened $1,800 laptop had disappeared was gone, along with $20 and on Sept. 11, at the corner of gift certificates. 768-1453 A31-26 along with two memory sticks. Cumberland Street and Park Av- There was no sign of forced en- The second robbery hap- enue, where a moped-mounted pened in a department store at try, an officer said. man went to order food from a Flatbush and Atlantic avenues take-out place at around 3 pm. St. John–St. Matthew–Emanuel Unwelcome around 1 pm, cops said. This Lutheran Church Park Slope A woman sashayed into an woman only turned her back on He was only gone five minutes, th th 283 Prospect Ave (5 and 6 Aves.) unlocked Red Hook house at the stroller for a second, but but when he came out, his (718) 768–0528 www.stjme.org 3:20 pm on Sept. 7 and held up $2,600 bike had vanished. 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Then, he waved The thief had entered the •Kings Highway Center-3245 Nostrand Avenue the gun around some more and apartment, which is at Seventh ordered the clerk into a bath- Street, through the rear window, •Lindenwood Center-2832 Linden Boulevard room, where he made him lay cops said. face down. • A Garfield Place man told •Brooklyn Heights Center- 200 Montague Street But before leaving, he stole •Brooklyn Heights Center Annex-195 Montague Street $88 and a Metrocard from the cops that a thief broke into his 21-year-old worker. basement unit on Sept. 11 and got away with a 23-inch flat- Hungry thieves screen television. Two thieves robbed a food de- The 48-year-old man said the is now liveryman of his cellphone, cash perp entered between 8 am and 2 and five cheeseburger deluxes by pm by breaking the doorframe of P Health P exercising the classic “phone- the apartment, which is between referred artners and-mug” scam on Sept. 12. A HEALTH ALLIANCE YOU CAN TRUST... 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The first man asked cops that she was out of the apart- him for the time, but when he ment from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm, looked down at his watch, he when the thief entered and took was punched in the nose. After he fell to the ground, the the $450, iPod and various bling. second man started kicking him Shop ’n’ switch in the head while the first perp ri- A robber tricked a shopgirl fled the victim’s pockets. out of her handbag by first pre- Cops later went to the diner, tending to be interested in one of which is between Ninth and 10th the Seventh Avenue boutique’s streets, but the caller ID had not recorded the thieves’ cellphone fancy models. number. According to police, the thief entered the store, which is at Some neighbor! Berkeley Place, at around noon A Second Street woman told on Sept. 16 and asked to exam- cops that her neighbor hit her on ine a bag in the window. the arm with a dog chain “for no After fondling it for a few apparent reason” on Sept. 8. seconds, he told the 19-year-old The 70-year-old victim told cops that she was just “cleaning clerk that the bag was “too ex- her front yard” near the corner of pensive.” He then left, but about Fifth Avenue when the neighbor 10 minutes later, the clerk real- swung the chain at her, leaving a ized that her own bag was miss- bruise on her shoulder and a lacer- ing. And then she remembered ation on her left hand and finger. the odd feeling she had when the The incident was classified as fake shopper had left — she told assault. cops she remembered that he had Bar bill left with something “under his In what has become a Police jacket.” Blotter staple, a woman partying at a Fifth Avenue bar on Sept. 9 lost her cellphone, cash and cards to a thief who swiped her RELIGIOUS handbag off a chair. The 30-year-old victim told SERVICES cops that she had been at the bar, Brooklyn which is at Sackett Street, at 9:30 Heights pm. Her handbag also contained Synagogue various books and sunglasses. 131 Remsen St. · 718-522-2070 Likes Apples [email protected] Two apartments in the same Affiliated with the Union of Reform Judaism Union Street building were bro- A warm, welcoming, and Jewishly ken into on Sept. 12 — and the diverse community, dedicated to thief seems to have a taste for life-long learning and to caring for Apples, cops said. the world and each other. In one case, the 27-year-old Please join us! resident of a fifth floor apartment Shabbat evening service told cops that she was not in the every Friday at 6:30 pm apartment between 9:40 am and Torah study 7:45 pm. Upon her return, she every Saturday at 9:30 am discovered that her Apple laptop, A51 plus various accessories, was gone. Shabbat Shalom! Three hours earlier, a sixth Presented by floor neighbor found that her B’nai Avraham laptop and desktop computers — of Brooklyn Heights both made by Steve Jobs and ££ÇÊ,iÃiÊ-Ì°ÊUÊxÈ{n{ä Co. — had been taken from the Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin apartment, which is between www.bnaiavraham.com Seventh and Eighth avenues. Burgs in burg Candle At least six other homes — Lighting including one with $20,000 in jewelry hidden away — were Yom Kippur broken into last week. Here’s a Fri., Sept. 21, before 6:38 pm roundup: Sukkot • Thieves broke into a Second Wed., Sept. 26, before 6:29 pm Street apartment on Sept. 16 and Thurs., Sept. 27, after 7:27 pm got away with more than $5,000 in electronics and cash. PARK SLOPE JEWISH CENTER 8th Avenue at 14th St. The 53-year-old victim told Fri. nights at 6:30 pm cops that the perps must have Sat. mornings at 10:00 am broken in between 9 am and 3 Adult Ed Hebrew School pm, when she was not at the Rabbi Carie Carter Park Slope's Egalitarian, apartment, which is between Conservation Synagogue Sixth and Seventh avenues. She lost a $4,900 laptop, $600 768-1453 A31-26 and various credit and debit cards. • A 28-year-old Third Street St. John–St. Matthew–Emanuel man lost close to $30,000 in Lutheran Church Park Slope cash, jewelry and electronics 283 Prospect Ave (5th and 6th Aves.) when he was away for two days (718) 768–0528 www.stjme.org last week, cops said. ELCA — Reconciling in Christ Summer Sunday Worship 11:00 The victim told police that the Rev. David C. Parsons thieves must have entered be- A31- 20 tween 11 pm on Sept. 12 and Brown Memorial 8:30 am on Sept. 14, when he returned home to find that $20,000 Baptist Church 484 Washington Ave., Ft. Greene in jewelry, plus two digital cam- Sunday School 9:15am eras, two iPods and a laptop Morning Worship 8:00am & 11:00am computer were missing. Wed. Bible Study 1:00pm & 7:15pm He told police that “several 718-638-6121 people,” including a “dog walk- Rev. Clinton M. Miller - Pastor er, housekeeper [and] mainte- LM31-12 nance workers” have access to Cong. B’nai Jacob the home, which is between Park Slope Synagogue Fourth and Fifth avenues. 401 9th Str. btw 6th & 7th Ave. • A 50-year-old 13th Street 718-832-1266 woman lost $500 — in loose Services: 7:15 Morning Minyan change stored in a jug — when a Shabbat: Fri Sundown Sat 9:30am thief or thieves broke into her CLASSES/EVENTS/HOLIDAYS www.parkslopeshul.org apartment on Sept. 14. LM30-34 The victim told police that she was not in the apartment be- Congregation tween 8:15 am and 2 pm, when the perp entered and took the big Mount Sinai change jug, plus stylish bags and 250 Cadman Plaza W. video game controllers. Conservative/Egalitarian The apartment is between A House for Prayer / A Home for People 718-875-9124 Seventh and Eighth avenues. Friday Eve Services 6:30pm • A thief who raided a man’s Saturday Morning 10:00am Eighth Avenue apartment on Rabbi Joseph Potasnik A42 6 BRZ THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 September 22, 2007 Salty Dog on 3rd honors hero GOLDEN RUN By Matthew Lysiak piece to minimize the spread of 23 funeral. By Matthew Lysiak fundraiser,” said Golden with cryptic smile. The Brooklyn Paper toxins. Rich Serpice, who knew The Brooklyn Paper He was quick to add that he’s not merely being Graffagnino had been tending Graffagnino since they were both State Sen. Marty Golden (R–Bay Ridge) has coy about announcing his run; he simply hasn’t A local hero wasn’t in his bar at the Salty Dog just hours 14-years-old, gladly handed over usual place behind the bar, but his platform, an open field, and a fund-raising decided yet. “It is a difficult call,” said Golden. “I before he died. his $20 at the door. believe in continuing the 16 years of stewardship he was in everyone’s memories. On Tuesday, the bar raised “You’ll hear everyone say it, apparatus — and he may have even found a Dyker Heights’ firefighter $30,000 for his family, thanks to but he really was the freaking date to announce his run for mayor. of the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations, Joseph Graffagnino, 33, who a Chinese auction, raffles, and t- greatest guy you could ever As we reported last March, Golden has defi- and a lot of people are pointing me in that direc- died in the Deutsche Bank blaze shirt sales. meet,” said Serpice. “He always nitely dipped his toe in the Republican-light may- tion.” last month, was honored on Sept. Graffagnino, an eight-year vet- had a kind word for everyone and oral waters for 2009, but he hasn’t fully jumped A Bloomberg endorsement would be political in. 11 at the Salty Dog, the Bay eran, left behind his wife, Linda. this is one small way we can give gold — especially for a state senator virtually un- But that may change in a few weeks, when Ridge tavern where he used to The bar, which caters to fire- something back.” known beyond his Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights Mayor Bloomberg is the guest of honor at Gold- fighters, hung black-and-purple Contributions are still being base. Golden is considered a shoe-in to win his tend bar. en’s Oct. 17 fundraiser at Gargiulo’s in Coney Is- Graffagnino died alongside bunting after Graffagnino’s death accepted at the Salty Dog, Senate district next year, a race that isn’t expected

/ Matthew Lysiak land. The $500-per-plate fundraiser is Golden’s Robert Beddia in the August fire and even became the scene of an which is on Third Avenue be- to put much of a dent in his $425,000 war chest. ad-hoc memorial after the Aug. tween 75th and 76th streets. biggest so far. at the crippled financial building Golden confirmed the mayoral appearance, but He’d need much, much more to run for mayor, near Ground Zero, which has Firefighters flocked to a 9-11 memorial at the Salty Dog bar, didn’t commit to saying whether he’d make any- but raising big cash would be easy — if (and it’s been empty since the 9-11 attacks but the event was also a tribute to former bartender and fire- thing official at the fundraiser. a big if!) he remains the only Republican trying to and is being taken down piece by The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn fighter Joseph Graffagnino, who died in the Deutsche Bank fire. “All I can tell you that it will be one intense succeed Mayor Mike. Invisible man in jewelry store swipes $7,500

By Matthew Lysiak The 35-year-old victim told cops that he ment door, pried open the ATM, and stole The trio entered the office, which is near returned to the apartment, which is near $500, including cigarettes and phone cards, po- 18th Avenue, at around 2:30pm. and Michael Giardina lice said. All three pulled out guns, and the lead The Brooklyn Paper Ninth Avenue, at 1:45 am to discover his POLICE BLOTTER back window broken, his front door dam- The second store, which is near Bay 38th henchman screamed, “Where’s the money?” aged, and $21,700 worth of diamond ear- Street, was broken into two days later, at Next, one perp punched and kicked one of 68th Precinct around 1:30 am. The thieves kicked in a back the employees, stealing his wallet, which had rings stolen. she discovered 13 unauthorized accounts cash-filled duffle bag. office air conditioner to gain entry and ran- $100, while his buddies searched the office. The thief didn’t know that the teller had also A jewelry store was robbed in broad Cell bandit dating back to 2001, ranging from $12,000 sacked the place during their mad search for They found a bag filled with $1,000 in a back daylight on Sept. 15. A man’s cellphone was stolen out of his in student loans to a Gap account. All the ac- stuffed an dye pack into the sachel, which ex- cash. room, police said. The 54-year-old store employee told cops hands while he was walking on Colonial counts were up to date with no late balances. ploded about 20 feet from the bank. The thief They swiped $2,500 from the store, and Other than the employee with a bruised left that he was working at his 86th Street shop, Road on Sept. 12. The woman reported no damages, but dropped the cash and fled down 65th Street. stole an unknown amount from a mini ATM, eye, the only damage to office was financial. which is near Fourth Avenue, at 3 pm when The heist went down when the 15-year- wants the thief to get his own account. AM mug police said. Savings bust he noticed $7,500 missing from the register old victim was nearing 85th Street when a Neither store had surveillance equipment, Apartment rob A man was slashed, and robbed while he A man had a suitcase of cash and cell- and his laptop also gone. man ran up to him, grabbed his phone, and giving the perps a clean getaway. No one word Burglars robbed a Marine Avenue home was walking home on New Utrecht Avenue on phones robbed from his Bay 19th Street apart- The man told police he didn’t see anyone ran off towards 86th Street. yet from the 62nd Precinct if the two incidents of $1,500 worth of electronics — including Sept. 14. ment on Sept. 4. in the store and, to make matters worse, his The phone was valued at $199. are related. an expensive laptop — on Sept. 7. The 52-year-old was near 64th Street at 3 The 27-year-old returned to his apartment, surveillance equipment was not recording at Weird robbery The 24-year-old victim told cops that he am when two thugs approached him. One of the time. Bus grab which is near Bath Avenue, at around 10:30 Here’s a strange and bizarre tale. had left the house, which is near Ridge the perps pulled out a boxcutter and demanded A man had his wallet stolen by a nifty pick- am. The thieves managed to bust open the Costly toilet break It all began when a 67-year-old woman Blvd, at 11 pm and was only gone for only cash and jewelry. The victim initially refused pocket while riding on a crowded B8 bus on front door and steal the suitcase, which con- A Bay Ridge Parkway bodega was returned to her 78th Street apartment at two hours. and fought back, but received a slash across Sept. 6. tained $22,000, and the cellphones, police said. robbed while an employee had to step out to around 10 am on Sept. 9. the left side of his face in return. The second The 18th Avenue bus was approaching 65th Contract imposter answer nature’s call on Sept. 14. It was bad enough when she found the 62nd Precinct punk then swiped a gold chain, watch and wal- Street at around 3:20 pm when the 60-year-old A fake contractor scammed a woman out of The victim told cops he went to the bath- back door and bedroom window open — let, which held $20 and his credit and debit victim felt someone feeling his back pocket. more than $4,000 after tricking her into laying room of the store, which is near Colonial but things got even creepier. cards, police said. The victim, not thinking anything of it, Purse swipe out the down payment for some work at her Avenue, at 12:30 pm, only to return a few Nothing, it turns out, had been stolen Both thugs fled, leaving the victim on the shrugged it off, but moments later noticed his A woman had her purse swiped from her 84th Street home on Aug. 27. minutes later to discover $1,800 was miss- from the unit, which is near Fifth Avenue. ground. He is recovering at Lutheran Medical wallet, which contained $105, including his baby stroller while shopping in an 86th Street The 62-year-old had called the contractor to ing from the register. But the perp had placed a spool of black Center. credit and debit cards, was gone. department store on Sept. 15. come to her home, which is near 24th Avenue, Cops say there were no signs of forced yarn on the door knob in such a way that To add injury to insult, the thief charged The 36-year-old mother was in the store, Car break-in a couple of days before the incident. A few entry and no witnesses. when the victim tried to open the door her more than $200 within 45 minutes. hand got entwined in the yarn. which is near 18th Avenue, at around 4:50 pm, A man had his luxury truck broken into days later, her returned, gave the estimate, and Purse grab Luckily, the woman was able to unspool when she turned away from the baby carriage overnight after leaving it parked on Bay Park- Purse swipe took the $4,500. But he never did the work, A customer at a popular 86th Street cloth- herself before calling the cops. to pick out some clothes. The thief ran off with way on Sept. 9. A mother had her purse stolen after leaving police said. ing store had her purse stolen on Sept. 13. her credit and debit cards, police said. The 48-year-old left his 2001 Lincoln Navi- it unattended on her baby stroller while shop- Holey thieves The 37-year-old victim told cops she was Thief with benefits Unfortunately, the victim didn’t see the gator near Shore Parkway at around midnight. ping in a Bay Parkway clothing store on Sept. A Bay Ridge Parkway grocery store was shopping at the retailer, which is near Fourth With enemies like this, who needs sneaky thief. The next morning, he returned to find that the 4. robbed by thugs who entered through a hole Avenue, at around 3 pm. She placed her bag friends? thieves had broken in and taken $200, plus The 38-year-old was within the store, which Bank rob they cut through the floor on Sept. 13. down to get a better look at a shirt, but when That is the question one 34-year-old credit and debit cards, police said. is near 86th Street, at around 3 pm when she A 65th Street bank was robbed of $21,000 The thugs entered the store, which is near she turned to the register to make the pur- woman may be asking after discovering that Unfortunately, there were no witnesses. left the carriage to try on some clothes. When by a note-pushing robber on Sept. 15, police New Utrecht Avenue, at around 2 am, and chase she noticed her purse, which had someone had used her last name and Social she returned, the handbag, which contained said. Two for two stole $20,200 from a safe and cash register. $550, had been stolen. Security number to open up credit accounts $80, and her credit and debit cards, was gone. The criminal, who was dressed entirely in At least two 86th Street grocery stores were They also grabbed cigarettes and lottery tick- Cops are reviewing surveillance footage. — all of which were paid in a timely man- ner. black, entered the bank, which is near Bay broken into and robbed last week. Pistol whipped ets, police said. Apartment rob The victim, who lives on Bay Ridge Parkway, at around 2:14 pm. He approached The first break-in occurred on Sept. 7 at a A 73rd Street office had cash stolen after be- Unfortunately for the store owner, the A 70th Street apartment was robbed of Parkway near 12th Avenue, was doing a ran- the teller, handed over a note that read, “Give bodega, which is near Bay 14th Street. At ing held up at gunpoint by three punks on Sept. thieves disabled four security cameras when expensive jewelry on Sept. 15. dom online credit check on Sept. 8 when me the money,” and left the bank with the around 9 pm, the perps cut the locks on a base- 4. they cut through the roof.

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By Adam F. Hutton house. When he returned to retrieve when he went to pick them up the “Occasionally officers safeguard The Brooklyn Paper the guns at 4 pm the next day, both following day, they went missing. their weapons in the property room, semi-automatic weapons were That’s all we know at this point.” but I wouldn’t say that it’s com- Cops in Williamsburg still An IAB spokesman said the bu- mon,” Browne said. haven’t found two 9-mm hand- gone. The Brooklyn Paper is withhold- reau doesn’t comment on pending in- One of the missing guns, a stan- guns that disappeared from a se- ing the officer’s name because he is vestigations. Likewise, a spokesman dard-issue Glock 19, can hold up to Joanne Bascetta cure area at the 90th Precinct sta- considered a crime victim by the for District Attorney Charles Hynes 16 rounds — plus one in the cham- tionhouse three weeks ago. NYPD. would neither confirm nor deny that a ber. The other pistol, the Glock 26 Very little is known about how Police spokesman Paul Browne criminal investigation was underway. is also known as a “Baby Glock” Deli on fire the two high-powered weapons said that the investigation by the de- So the mystery continues. It’s not because it has a short barrel, a com- Firefighters battled a midday blaze at the corner of Metro- went missing, as only a few details partment’s Internal Affairs Bureau / Julie Rosenberg even clear why the officer put the pact frame and a 10-round clip. politan and Manhattan avenues on Monday and ended the are clear: An officer ending his 4 is ongoing. weapons in the property room — The smaller pistol is compatible emergency in less than a half-hour, witnesses said. A source pm-to-midnight shift on Aug. 29 “The facts in this case are pretty which is typically used for storing with all 9-mm Glock magazines, on the scene said the fire was caused when a welder’s spark left the Glock weapons, two clips basic,” Browne said. “At some evidence. Browne said officers usu- meaning it also works with larger ignited some building material. The fire, which damaged and loose bullets in the property point between when he put [the ally carry their weapons whether clips, according to the manufactur- the Met Deli, was across from PS 132. Luckily, no one was room at the Union Avenue station- guns] in the property room and they are on duty or off. er’s Web site.

The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn injured. —Joanne Bascetta Burglars do love picking off those cool hipster Apples

By Gersh Kuntzman of the apartment, which is be- Grand Street apartment in the was so unthreatening that the He went back to Manhattan Officers responded after getting ing more force to subdue the ting ready to leave at around The Brooklyn Paper tween Waterbury Street and early morning hours, cops said. Manhattan man who sustained and took himself to the emer- a call that a woman had sat woman, she started screaming, 2:30 am, he discovered that it Morgan Avenue, between 2 and it didn’t bother to treat the down on a sidewalk and was “Don’t let them do this to me. was no longer there. Three roommates lost thou- The victim told police that gency room at Beth Israel Hos- 3 pm, when no one was home. he was not in the apartment, wound until he got home. pital. blocking pedestrian traffic be- Help me! Get the police,” The bar is between Roebling sands of dollars in computers The thief got away with two The fight broke out at around tween Wythe Avenue and Berry prompting some onlookers to and Havermeyer streets. and other electronics when a which is between Rodney and Bottle brigade Apple laptops, one Gateway Keap streets, from 2:30 to 7:30 11:30 pm on Sept. 14 inside the Street. throw bottles at the officers and AM mug thief broke into their Maujer Cops found themselves in the cause “a grave risk of public laptop, a Nikon digital camera am. bar, which is between Driggs The woman refused to give Three men mugged and as- Street apartment during the middle of a melee on Sept. 16 alarm,” according to the police and lens, plus a Bose stereo Avenue and Roebling Street, identification and started to flail saulted a man near the corner of day on Sept. 14. Bar brawl when onlookers started throw- report. system — a total hipster haul of police said. At some point, the her arms around to avoid arrest. Rodney and South Ninth streets The 20-year-old woman was The victims — a 24-year-old $6,199, cops said. A fight broke out inside the violent words turned bloody, ing bottles at them as they tried One of her blows landed in the just after midnight on Sept. 15, arrested and charged with as- and his three roommates — Two days later, an Apple aptly named Trash Bar on when the perp picked up a bot- to arrest an emotionally dis- face of one of the cops, police police said. sault, riot in the second degree, told cops that someone had bro- computer belonging to a 19- Grand Street, cops said, result- tle and smashed it over the 28- turbed woman who had blocked said. The 27-year-old victim told resisting arrest and obstructing ken the lock on the front door year-old was stolen out of his ing in a puncture wound that year-old victim’s head. traffic on South Ninth Street. When the officers began us- cops that he was walking on traffic, a violation. Broadway when three men ap- Bicycle thief proached him and demanded A woman heading to her money. Before he could answer, boyfriend’s apartment on Sept. two of the three men started 16 was robbed by a thief on a pummeling him, while the third bicycle, cops said. man took the victim’s wallet. The woman told police that The police report said the she was near her man’s apart- wallet held not only $200 and ment, at the corner of Bedford credit cards, but also a gun per- ADVERTISER RESULTS PROVE and Metropolitan avenues, at mit. around 2 am when the bike-rid- Jewels gone ing thief rolled up and grabbed Hundreds of dollars in gold her purse. jewelry was taken from a She lost a fancy wallet, a Moore Street apartment while $400 pair of sunglasses, credit its resident was at school on and debit cards, and $30. OUR YELLOW PAGES DELIVER Sept. 15. Bar burg The 28-year-old victim told In what has become a Police cops that the thief must have Blotter staple, a man partying at broken into the apartment, a Hope Street bar on Sept. 16 which is between Humboldt lost his cellphone and laptop Street and Bushwick Avenue, MAJOR RETURN ON INVESTMENT computer to a thief who swiped between 9:30 am and 3 pm, his unattended bag off the floor, when she got home. police said. She said that the thief got The 23-year-old victim told away with $700 in gold jewel- cops that he had put the bag ry, plus an old laptop and NEW near his feet, but as he was get- $1,000. NASSAU DIRECTORIES OUT THIS SUMMER Department of Environmental Protection Department of Environmental The city is putting the finishing touches on a waterfront “nature walk” along the Newtown Creek in Greenpoint. Oddly, the park will open just two weeks after the Environmental Protec- tion Agency reported that the oil spill beneath the creek is twice as large as once feared. Enjoy the walk! Something stinks — hey, it’s this park! By Adam F. Hutton The Brooklyn Paper Up for a nature walk? The newest one is right there next to the sewage treatment plant. This counterintuitive park project comes courtesy of the Depart- BROOKLYN EDITION ment of Environmental Protection, which spent $3.2 million to build a gorgeous walkway next to the Newtown Creek sludge plant. No, it’s not a joke — though some locals are treating it as such. “I say we toilet paper their park — after all, they made our neighborhood smell like a toilet,” wrote one poster on Curbed.com, which labeled it “the crappiest park in Brooklyn.” CLOSING Other posts took advantage of the irony to use a common barn- yard expletive that is often used as a slang term for feces. The DEP wouldn’t dignify those kinds of potty-mouth comments, but did say that the park will be a wonderful amenity for the community and that most people will appreciate it. The plant, which is known for those funky (both stylistically and, it SOON! must be said, odoriferously), egg-shaped domes, occupies a few dozen square blocks along the oil-filled creek north of Greenpoint Avenue. Would-be nature walkers will enter the pathway from Paidge Av- enue and Provost Street, and enjoy landscaping that includes trees, shrubs, waterfront seating, wetland grasses and perennial flowers and plants — plus a wall separating all that nature from the sewage plant on the other side. The pathway is just the first phase of a DEP effort to provide access to the waterfront, the agency said. The next two phases will be completed over five years and extend the path all the way to North Henry Street. It couldn’t come at a better — or worse time. The federal Envi- ronmental Protection Agency reported last week that a massive oil spill that has been seeping under the Newtown Creek area since the FIND OUT ABOUT COST EFFECTIVE PRINT & ONLINE AD PROGRAMS 1950s may be twice as big as once suspected (see story, page 14). The DEP will unveil the first phase of the Greenpoint Nature Walk along the waterfront that separates Brooklyn and Queens next week.

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OUR OPINION ALL DRAWN OUT Sad irony on Duffield

orgive us if we didn’t celebrate alongside Street are historic. And there is substantial evi- whites played in the slave trade was to bring city officials at the ceremonial co-naming of dence that they were directly linked to the Under- about its end. F Duffield Street as “Abolitionist Place” on ground Railroad, the storied fugitive slave net- But with empty symbolic gestures, real histo- Thursday. We couldn’t get past the irony. work that spirited escaping Africans to freedom. ry gets forgotten. And when that happens, not After all, Duffield Street is the same stretch of Two Duffield homeowners — Joy Chatel and only don’t we learn from past mistakes, but we Downtown where the city plans to demolish a Lewis Greenstein — have shown reporters and start to believe that history doesn’t matter. Next row of historic houses that may in fact be the historians sub-basement tunnels that connect the thing you know, people don’t even blink when a area’s only link to the fabled Underground Rail- houses and secret passageways in which slaves developer, for example, insults his African- road. could hide while the houses were being searched. American neighbors by signing a multi-million It is also the place where the city hired an out- And a prominent Abolitionist family — the Trues- deal to name a basketball arena after a bank that side consultant to whitewash the area’s history, and dells — did own one of the houses on the block. made fortunes on the slave trade, as Bruce Rat- then accepted the report even though eight of the As we have said in prior editorials, what is ner did last year with Barclays. 12 peer-reviewers disagreed with parts of it! needed on Duffield Street is a genuine commit- o keep history alive and visible, this newspa- In a statement, several City Councilmembers ment to saving a piece of America’s past — both per has asked planners of Brooklyn Bridge said the co-naming of Duffield Street as Aboli- the ignominious fact that human bondage exist- TPark to rename their open space-and-condo tionist Place “supports the homeowners on ed on these shores, as well as the noble stories of development “Harriet Tubman Park” after the Duffield Street, and the preservation of their those who worked to bring about the end of the famed Abolitionist. We renew that call today. homes.” so-called “Peculiar Institution” of slavery. This would be a symbolic gesture — but not It does nothing of the sort. In fact, it allows A museum on Duffield Street would not just an empty one. Naming such a prominent site, the Bloomberg Administration to make an empty serve the African-American community, but all much of it within eyeshot of the Statue of Liberty, symbolic gesture that will not stand the test of New Yorkers, including those in the white com- after an actual hero of freedom’s struggle would time. munity who grew up in the North, where schools be far more meaningful than co-naming a soon-to- There is no dispute that the houses on Duffield fed the prevailing myth that the only role that be-condemned block with a vague platitude. Cristian Fleming

LETTERS Trolley operators rip The Paper’s cover story To the editor, To the editor, why not use the trolley to attract more visi- I have an idea: a public school for kids take place, the G train would have to be ex- sion of the G to Church Ave and the idea of We write regarding your recent cover I authored the study mentioned in your tors from neighborhoods like Williamsburg, that teaches American history, science, art, tended to Church Avenue. And this is seen possibly extending the V train will provide story about the Heart of Brooklyn tourism editorial about the Heart of Brooklyn trolley Red Hook or Bay Ridge? English, math and gym only. That is how I as frankly wasteful — the G is simply emp- timely service to those stations. Riders will trolley (“Marty’s trolley folly,” Sept. 8). (“Bklyn’s Tourist Trap,” Sept. 8), which Heart of Brooklyn is already looking to want my tax dollars spent! ty or underutilized. experience a less-crowded train and a more- Heart of Brooklyn was well aware of the pointed out that the Heart of Brooklyn trol- make some of these changes. Let’s give How do I start the ball rolling on an Ital- To truly solve this problem, I see only comfortable ride. The riders on the express ian culture school? train, some of who come from a greater dis- shortcomings of the existing program and, ley — like most of the other cultural trol- them a chance to make a good idea work one solution: The upper level of Bergen St. leys that operate around the five boroughs better. Tara Colton, Park Slope Janet DiBernardo, Park Slope station should be expanded to three tracks tance, will experience a shorter commute. in fact, asked for more research on cultural — has struggled to attract large numbers of The writer is associate research director of to allow for termination of G trains at that F express service, along with the other trolleys to be compiled. riders and produce meaningful increases in the Center for an Urban Future. point. In that way only can the F service be improvements mentioned, would provide Heart of Brooklyn was looking to the trol- attendance at participating cultural institu- What the ‘F’? improved without any blockage from G more-complete service with no new capital ley study for detailed information on success- tions. To the editor, trains switching or having their presence on projects needed. There is no other location ful transportation programs upon which to Despite the problems, however, it’s too Arabic school daze I read your editorial about the F express the local tracks prevent the establishment of in the city that I know of that offers this op- model a new program. It is unfortunate that soon to give up on cultural trolleys. While To the editor, (“Who needs the F express?” Sept. 15) and I another local service. portunity. An adjustment in service that will the article did not focus on Heart of Brook- the Brooklyn Museum and BAM are al- I thought your story on the opening of agree wholeheartedly. Your Brooklyn Brown- Obviously some heavy construction will benefit such a large constituency that can be lyn’s efforts to implement a new trolley initia- ready well-known institutions, many of the the Khalil Gibran International Academy as- stone constituents see the word “express” and be involved, and several buildings along done with seemingly little effort is a neces- tive, one supported by solid research. cultural venues in Brooklyn and the other sumed that everyone is stupid (“Media de- automatically think it will result in a faster Smith Street will have to have sturdier un- sity. Bill DeBlasio, Park Slope The Borough President’s funding will boroughs remain out of sight and mind for scends on Gibran as Arabic school opens,” ride — for them. In point of fact, the line is derpinning. But I see this as the only solu- The writer is a member of the City Council. both tourists and New Yorkers. If done ef- Sept. 8). not set up to provide just the sort of express tion to the problem with your service. support this new program, with the market- fectively, cultural trolleys can help local in- Ask Debbie Almontaser if she stated that service that you might benefit from. William Zucker, Brighton Beach ing plan being developed over the next few stitutions attract visitors who are either unit was not Arabic Muslims who caused 9- The planners of the subway, which weeks. Brooklynites are fortunate to have a familiar with these neighborhoods or 11. Ask her who she thinks perpetrated that opened in 1933, could not foresee how var- To the editor, Send a letter borough president who understands the im- deterred by their inadequate transit connec- horrendous crime. ious communities would evolve, and, as a I would like to first address your as- By e-mail: [email protected] portance of cultural tourism and its eco- tions. Ask Rabbi Ellen Lippmann what the result, there are problems in providing the sumption that due to a supposed bottleneck By mail: Letters Editor, The Brooklyn nomic impact. Rather than discontinue the Heart of word “intifada” means. Would she get upset most-beneficial service due to the peculiar at York Street, “there may not be enough Paper, 55 Washington St., Brooklyn, NY The letter was signed by Ellen Salpeter, Brooklyn route, Brooklyn officials ought to if I was a principal and let kids wear T-shirts track configuration. capacity to add trains.” This is an unfound- 11201. executive director of Heart of Brooklyn; Car- ramp up efforts to promote the trolley. Cur- with Swastikas? After all, they are only an- The service that would most benefit your ed claim. There are numerous lines in the By fax: (718) 834-9278. ol Enseki of the Brooklyn Children’s Muse- rently, it’s not even listed on the NYC & cient symbols of native tribes — they do not readers would offer two local services on system where express and local tracks feed Company Web site or the homepages of imply killing Jews. the Manhattan-bound line, one via the Rut- into one. Express service and increased All letters must be signed and include um; Scot D. Medbury of the Brooklyn Bota- the writer’s home address and phone nic Garden; Arnold Lehman of the Brooklyn many of the sponsoring institutions. Also, is the school an Arabic school or an gers Street tunnel and the other via Houston train capacity have led to a lessening of number (only the writer’s name and Museum; Dionne Mack-Harvin of the Brook- Additionally, Heart of Brooklyn might “Islamic culture” school — it’s a big differ- Street. No bottleneck would result here crowded trains, an example of this would neighborhood are published with the let- lyn Public Library, Tupper Thomas of the consider periodic trolley rides to parts of the ence. How about a “Catholic culture” from such a service. be on the number 7 line. ter). Letters may be edited and will not Prospect Park Alliance; and Denise McClean borough that don’t have an easy transit con- school? Every liberal in the country would The problem as always lies with the G For those who do not live at express be returned. The earlier in the week you of the Prospect Park Zoo. nection to central Brooklyn. For instance, crawl out of the woodwork to protest. train. For any modification of service to stops, the addition of extra trains, the exten- send your letter, the better.

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OGI BERRA USED TO SAY “IT GETS LATE early out there,” regarding the afternoon shadows that Y crept across left field at Yankee Stadium. But those And the Clonie goes to … same words could describe the ending of the Cyclones’ season at Keyspan Park last Friday. By Ed Shakespeare, Gersh Kuntzman In the post-Labor Day environment of Coney Island, darkness set in as the game began. Throughout the season, Cy- and Patrick Hickey Jr. clone games, day or night, began in sunlight, but now, with The Brooklyn Paper fall approaching, darkness was earlier and the night game be- Hello again, sports fans and welcome to the Seventh Annual gan truly at night. Clonie award ceremony — the only award show guaranteed to The darkness was not only confined to the stadium. Be- not feature an embarrassing performance by Britney Spears yond center and right field, the Boardwalk and beach, so (though we can’t promise the same for relief pitcher Steve “Im- crowded during the summer, were nearly empty, and most of peach” Cheney). the Boardwalk stores and stands were dark. Now that the Cyclones have failed to win the New York–Penn But the environs were also quiet. League championship for the sixth straight year, it’s time to look The announced crowd was 4,144, but the actual atten- back at a (mostly) great season that ended with a humbling sweep dance at the start of the game was sparse. Fans did trickle in, by the Auburn Doubledays in the championship series last week. but at its peak, the real attendance at the game was 2,500, So without further ado, judges, the envelopes, please: and that’s being generous. The buzz of the crowd from the seats and concourse was missing. The quiet was eerie after a season of sellout crowds, and The Lawrence Taylor Award for was only broken when Micah Schilling hit a leadoff homer in the first. But the Cyclones, despite two more hits in the in- Best Game-Saving Tackle ning, failed to add another run. And the Clonie goes to … Relief pitcher Grady Hinchman! The game moved along with a surrealistic feel. Hinchman rode the bench most of the season, but on July 25, he You didn’t need a radio to hear radio announcer Warner made the biggest save of the season — without throwing a single Fusselle — that’s how quiet the small crowd was. pitch. After an inebriated fan ran onto the field and then into the Cy- The Cyclones had been in first place all year and they clones bullpen, Hinchman led the clown into a passageway that were in a do-or-die situation, but their bats were as silent as leads towards the home lockerroom. After Hinchman shut the door the audience. Brooklyn managed only two hits from the end behind the drunk, he had nowhere to go and gave up without a of the first inning until the end of the game. struggle. The Alanis Morissette Ironic Irony Award

And the Clonie goes to … Will Vogl! / Gary Thomas Outfielder Will Vogl refused to talk to the press before the last game of the season, saying that he didn’t want to ruin his “focus.” Hitting .161 with only one RBI after the All-Star break, it’s fair to say that the press played a minimal role in his struggles. Try a batting cage, Will. The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn

/ Gary Thomas Cyclones Josh Appell, Michael Antonini and Brant Rustich put on their rally caps as they await the announcement of this year’s The ‘Slapshot’ Award for Bringing in Ringers Clonie winners. And the Clonie goes to … the Cyclones’ front office! And we thought we were being gracious by agreeing to compete against the Cyclones’ management in pre-season charity game. But Cyclones fans could be forgiven for being confused by all the ap- After a brief drop-off last year (thanks, in part, to the resurgence

The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn when our team of worn out, overweight and unpracticed journalists parent junk in the team’s bullpen, but there was a method to the of the Mets), the Cyclones set new records this year for attendence, THEY’RE OUT: Raul Reyes is caught stealing in the showed up at Keyspan Park, we were greeted by a team that looked messiness. Not only did pitching coach Hector Berrios sometimes topping the league record for a single-game crowd three times this fifth inning of Game 2. The Clones got swept by the like it just walked out of the College World Series. In other words, use a life-sized blowup doll to simulate (get your mind out of the season. The final record-breaker — a mammoth crowd of 10,073 on pesky Auburn Doubledays. we lost. gutter!) an actual batter, he installed wires and poles to train his the last game of the season, Sept. 7 — put the team’s attendence for pitchers into keeping the ball down. It must have worked: The Cy- the year at 294,972, which led the league for the seventh straight The bright candle that illuminated the Cyclones’ season clones pitching staff led the league in wins (49), ERA (2.93), year. was burning down, close to being blown out, not with pow- The Wally Pipp Award shutouts (10) and fewest home runs against (23). And starter Dylan erful winds, but through slow suffocation. Owen led all pitchers in the league with a 9–1 record and a 1.49 And the Clonie goes to … Zach Lutz! ERA. The Rickey Henderson Award Were the Cyclones as tired as they looked? The Mets’ highly touted, fifth-round draft pick played a great first You decide. game for the Cyclones — or make that half a game. The prospect went for Making Things Happen The day before, the Cyclones left from Keyspan Park at 8 1-for-2, and made a nifty play at third base, before injuring his ankle and The “This is your Pitcher on Drugs” am for the 270-mile, seven-hour trip to Auburn. They could leaving the team for the entire season, leading us to our next award … And the Clonie goes to … Micah Schilling! have left the day before, an off day. Arriving the afternoon of the game, the Cyclones had to Award for Clean Doping Let’s face it, few Cyclones fans expected much from Micah Schilling, a journeyman who has spent five years in Class A ball. almost go right to the field, where they would play a demor- The Lou Gehrig Award And the Clonie goes to … Nick Waechter! alizing, 7–1 game, then leave after the game for the seven- But Schilling had a way of always being on base. Not only did he After getting off to a horrible 1–2 start, pitcher Nick Waechter set franchise records for walks and runs scored, but his .283 batting hour ride back to Brooklyn. And the Clonie goes to … J.R. Voyles! started taking a different set of vitamins — in the form of caffeine- average was impressive, his 17 doubles was second on the team, his They got back around 4:15 am, caught a few hours sleep Zach Lutz’s backup, J.R. Voyles, made the most of the phenom’s heavy Red Bull energy drink. In the five starts since starting his new 13 stolen bases led the team, and his .427 on-base percentage was and then had to be at Keyspan Park to play a 7 pm game that first-game injury, hitting a homer in his first appearance, then going “diet,” Waechter went 3–0 with a 1.43 ERA, and told The Brooklyn night. on to hit .254 with 11 doubles in 49 games. And he even showed Paper that he credited the beverage with helping keep him focussed the third-best in the entire league. Meanwhile, the Doubledays slept in Auburn and left in the true grit by coming back after a beanball sent him to the hospital. on the mound. morning for Brooklyn. The “Biggest Loser” Award Thus, the Cyclones, within a 24-hour period, had sand- The Louis Pasteur Award for Good Lab Work wiched a playoff game around two seven-hour bus trips. The MTA Award for Packing’em In for being, well, the biggest loser And so, when Auburn hit two-run homers in both the fifth And the Clonie goes to … Pitching coach and sixth innings, Brooklyn’s feeble response was not sur- Hector Berrios! And the Clonie goes to … The Brooklyn Cyclones! prising. And the Clonie goes to … Pitcher Nick Carr! EFORE THIS GAME, I ASKED Bensonhurst’s An- Before the season, pitcher Nick Carr hired a thony Bocchino, who was a true Cyclone killer dur- personal trainer and lost an amazing 40 pounds off his 6-foot-1 Bing his 2003 campaign with the Williamsport Cross- frame. But despite his weight loss, he led the Cyclones in strikeouts, cutters, if bus trips like those could take something out of a thanks to a hefty 94 mile-per-hour fastball and dominating slider. team. “Sure,” said Bocchino, “You can’t really sleep on the bus, CYCLONES DON’T WIN… you’re all cramped up and usually sitting with another play- The Al Gore Energy Saver Award er, so there’s no room to really stretch out.” The game moved on. And the Clonie goes to … Raul Reyes! Beyond the left field wall, the Cyclone and Deno’s Won- Striking out 94 times in only 253 at-bats, center fielder Raul der Wheel were motionless and dark. Reyes blew breezes through Keyspan Park that no air-conditioner Inside Keyspan Park, the small crowd remained, with al- could compete with. most no one heading to the parking lot. This was a night for hard-core fans only. It’s hard to sell playoff tickets with only a few days’ no- The Anti -Alhaji Turay Award for Personality tice. It’s even harder when the came during Rosh Hashanah, And the Clonie goes to … Edgar Ramirez, Josh Appell when Jews were celebrating their new year (and plenty of others were taking advantage of a two-day vacation). The and Jason Jacobs! small audience neutralized the Cyclones’ home-field advan- This trio of fan-friendly Cyclones certainly did a lot to expunge tage from the normally filled building. fans’ memories of the least-loved Cyclone in the team’s seven-year The tired Cyclones went down 1-2-3 in the ninth, and the history, Alhaji Turay (who once signed an autograph with a fake season was over. name and generally disdained the fans). All three of this year’s win- In the clubhouse, the disappointed Cyclones showered, ners signed autographs — with their own names! — until fans packed their clothes and equipment, and secured their pay- screamed, “No more!” checks. In the morning, most of the players would be back at Keyspan to catch a ride to JFK for their flight home, or to The “E-yeeeeaaaaah!” Award for Best Song pick up mileage money for a trip home by car. In his office, manager Edgar Alfonzo refused to make ex- Played as Player Walks to the Plate cuses. “The bus rides had nothing to do with our play,” he said. And the Clonie goes to … Lucas Duda! “We ran into good pitching and didn’t hit.” This one was easy, given that Duda’s name sounds pretty much Could more rest have helped? The point was moot. like that old Police song, “De do do do (de da da da).” But it must Up in the press box, Fusselle packed his equipment from have worked, as that song was played just before Duda smashed an his perch in the Catbird Seat. almost 400-foot shot to dead center field to help Brooklyn defeat the The stadium was deserted. Staten Island Yankees in the first game of the Cyclones’ two-game As he exited the press box, he put out the lights. / Gary Thomas sweep. Duda’s name is also found in “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,” a song from the controversial Disney movie “Song of the South.” Of CHANNELING THE BARD course, no one could beat original Cyclone, John Toner, in this category. Toner used to play Roger Daltry’s “E-yeeeeeaaaaah!” scream Each week this season, Ed Shakespeare, the bard of Brooklyn from “Won’t Get Fooled Again” before his at-bats. baseball, appropriated the iambic pentameter style of his ancient Paper The Brooklyn ancestor and offered some final thoughts in verse. This week’s contribution, “Curtain,” focuses on the end of the season: GOING HOME SAD: Some members of the Cyclones watch as the Auburn Doubledays celebrate winning the New York–Penn League championship at Keyspan Park last Friday night. In June, the curtain rises — lights kiss skies. As players hit and throw upon the stage, Continued from page 1 Auburn broke the game open a wild pitch, and then Ramirez and Brooklyn kept its 1-0 lead Dem Bums’ last season The audience files in — “Who are these guys?” The Clones again loaded the with a three-run sixth — and then gave up a run-scoring walk and a until the top of the fifth, when An- Say patrons checking programs, page by page. bases in the sixth, but Reyes added four runs in the eighth two-run single. tonini gave up a two-run homer. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brook- The play begins, the characters appear. grounded out to end the threat. against relievers Will Morgan and The series moved to Brook- He gave up another two-run lyn Dodgers’ final, dismal season, The Brooklyn lyn the next night, and again the coffin nail in the sixth. “This Jacobs hits,” “That Bouchard fields,” is said. Then, Gee turned it over to Edgar Ramirez, putting the game Paper has provided a weekly reminder of the fabled reliever Steve Clyne. And apres out of reach. Morgan had loaded Cyclones got on the board first, Effective relief pitching by “And Owen pitches strikes, that’s very clear.” Boys of Summer. Here’s the final installment: lui, le deluge. the bases and allowed one run on thanks to a leadoff homer in the Brant Rustich and Eddie Kunz Through nightly din, Clones win — they’re out ahead. first by Micah Schilling. was wasted as the Cyclone bats Sept. 24, 1957 Dodgers 2 – Pirates 0 In sun and fun, the acts go racing by. Brooklyn had an opportunity remained as frozen as the long It’s the answer to a great trivia question: Who won the Soon Duda’s hot, and Gee achieves renown. to break the game open as Jake Coney Island winter will feel last home game ever at Ebbets Field? Answer: Danny Eigsti followed Schilling’s homer without that championship flag McDevitt. Only 6,702 fans showed up, which marked the The playoffs start, the rival Yankees die, CYCLONES with a single. But Ramon Castro, flying over Keyspan Park. end of an era and, some say, a borough itself. But Auburn’s pitchers pull the curtain down. the Mets’ back-up catcher who But there’s still a warm feel- Now was playing with Brooklyn as he ing in the skipper’s heart. We wait until ’08 to start anew. Then & rehabbed his arthritic back, hit a “They are better players and Good health and cheer throughout the year. Adieu. grounder to second. Unable to run better people on and off the The 2001 Cyclones won the New York–Penn League with any speed, Castro was dou- field after this season,” said Al- Ed Shakespeare, the Bard of Brooklyn Baseball, has championship managed by this year’s chief, Edgar Alfonzo. bled up at first. fonzo. covered the Cyclones since the inaugural 2001 season. Here’s how our boys of summer compare to that fabled No one has been to more games — at home and on Auburn starter Brett Cecil, a “We’re trying to develop squad: In 2007 the Cyclones were swept by the Auburn the road — except for the team’s radio voice Warner top draft pick with a 1.27 ERA, players and winners, so going Fusselle. Doubledays in the Championship Series. mowed down Brooklyn. all the way to the finals wasn’t But Antonini was just as good, that bad.” INSIDE DINING | PERFORMING ARTS | NIGHTLIFE | BOOKS | CINEMA

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Leave your cars parked next weekend, because Brooklyn is being taken over by street fairs! Kicking off at 11 am on Saturday, Sept. 29 is Bay Ridge’s famous Ragamuffin Parade. Local kids — organizers are expecting about 1,000 — don costumes and parade down Third Avenue from 70th to 92nd streets, working the crowd in hopes of win- (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings September 22, 2007 ning one of the coveted “best costume” prizes. The next day, there will be fewer costumes, but plenty to gawk at as Bay Ridge enjoys its Third Av- enue Festival, a 26-block party, running from 69th to 95th streets. For years, this fair has drawn thousands of revelers with live music, carnival games and plenty of grub from neighborhood eateries. Also on Sunday, Sept. 30, the 33rd Annual At- lantic Antic explodes onto Atlantic Avenue, between Fourth Avenue and Hicks Street beginning at 10 am. “It’s going to be bigger this time,” said Ian Kelley, Almost famous president of the Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corporation, referring to the 10 stages of live music, pony rides and over 30 bars and restaurants dishing Nevermind the grown-ups, here’s the Care Bears on Fire out grub that will make up the festival this year. The Ragamuffin Parade begins at 11 am at Third Avenue and 70th Street in Bay Ridge. For By Chris Varmus information, call (718) 307-7820. for The Brooklyn Paper The Atlantic Antic begins at 10 am on Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to Hicks Street. For ith only two weeks until the biggest information, visit www.atlanticave.org. concert of their lives, Care Bears on The Third Avenue Festival begins at 10 am on WFire were furiously practicing when Third Avenue at 69th Street. For information, call GO Brooklyn arrived at their Prospect (718) 833-7100. — Daniel Goldberg Heights lair last week. Akin to buying a stick of Teen Spirit with Kurt Cobain or flipping the switch for Dylan when he went electric, this reporter knew he BOOKS was a witness to history: the last relatively calm moment before this band goes big-time. While still in middle school. On Sept. 28 (not a school night — phew!), the band will rock Southpaw to celebrate the Whitmania release (on Oct. 2) of its first full-length He didn’t read at the Brooklyn Book Festival’s record, “I Stole Your Animal.” new novelist panel last week, but the borough’s Looking like wholesome, if tousled, tweens, most-famous writer has just put out his first novel. music snobs might be quick to write the band Walt Whitman’s “Franklin Evans,” which never off as “just kids,” especially with songs like received the adoration “Five Minute Boyfriend” and “Baby Animals,” that his poetry or jour- but anyone who takes a listen knows there’s nalism did, was just more here than just Dan Zanes with a punk riff. re-released by Duke “[Our] songs are about everything from University Press and, the craziness of middle school to our though we can’t seem thoughts about the world,” drummer Isadora to find it on local “Izzy” Schappell-Spillman said between bookshelves just yet, songs. “But besides all that, the songs are is sure to become re- just a lot of fun to dance to.” quired reading for the It’s true. From my exclusive perch, I saw borough’s bookish set. the band play a few of the songs from the al- “[The novel] shows bum, including how suited he is to po- the infectious etry,” said Christopher punk-pop an- MUSIC Castiglia, one of the

them, “(Don’t Bachner Jeff book’s new editors. Wanna Be Like) Care Bears on Fire will play at 7 pm on “[It] shows him wrestling with a lot of questions he Sept. 28 at Southpaw (125 Fifth Ave., be- New York’s Cares: From left, Sophie Kasakovie, Izzy Schappell-Spillman and Lucio Westmoreland are the Care Bears on Fire. Everybody Else.” tween St. Johns and Sterling places in Park resolved when he turned to poetry.” The song, whose Slope). Tickets are $8. For information, call One of those questions seems to be intoxication. video uses Park (718) 230-0236 or visit www.spsounds.com. then followed with the how did these kids happen upon punk rock? from before their time that these three find His poetry — especially “These I Singing in Spring” Slope as a back- guitar part from Pave- “The first album I ever had on my com- influential. Sophie is going through what she and “Spontaneous Me” — are filled with such im- drop [see it on- ment’s “Cut Your Hair,” puter was Nirvana’s third album,” said called, “a little bit of a Joan Jett phase,” both agery, but the book tows a hard line for temperance. line at www.BrooklynPaper.com!], practical- a well-tread rock anthem that the band is bassist Lucio Westmoreland, “which actually in sound and look — it’s no coincidence that “In the poems, he’s intoxicated by the landscapes, ly begs the listener to jump up and down. thinking of covering. came out before I was born.” her pink-and-black–striped guitar strap the cities, the people of America,” Castiglia said. Afterwards, taking a break from her duties “I really want to do ‘The Sweater Song’ Ouch. But there’s plenty of music, and matches the pink-and-black–striped sweater The people of America are great, but what about as singer and guitarist, Sophie Kasakovie by Weezer,” she cooed. “I love that song.” musicians, See CARE BEARS on page 12 the people of Brooklyn? “Whitman’s own life expe- showed off a new funk riff she’d learned, i did, too. In 1994 when it came out. So rience traveling back and forth from Brooklyn is very much a part of the novel,” the editor said. “It embod- ies many of the anti-urbanization anxieties Brooklyn was faced with at a time when the landscape was The dalliances with Ramones-style punk clear- changing faster than people thought possible.” Care Bears on Fire: “I Stole Your Animal” ly show that Care Bears’ fire comes from burning up So while it may disappoint readers expecting their parents’ ’70s records — but it’s also comforting Whitman’s poetry, Castiglia hoped the novel will (Daisy Explosion Records) Elvis Costello and Frank Black, to know that the influence for these artfully manicured have its own literary appeal. His introduction, he said, Any band’s debut album is bound to have some kinks. And and has the polish of an honest-to- moppets (with their Iggy Pop hair) isn’t Blink 182 or aims to explain the thematic concerns of the novel. while some people might see a trio of pre-teen punk rockers as goodness chart-topper. some other juvenile Warped Tour bill filler. “Otherwise, it can seem very incoherent,” he more of a fad than a true blue rock band, that’s certainly not one The wistful lament, “I Met You All in all, this probably won’t guarantee them laughed. “What some may see as flatness was really of the problems on this record. on Myspace,” is probably the only seats at the cool lunch table, since their classmates an intentional style used for effect, and we want Given their youth and comfortable surroundings, it’s hard to see ode to the site that doesn’t sound would be more impressed if they were produced by contemporary readers to appreciate what might oth- where the trio can channel any discontented punk ire from. But creepy and the ranting “Every- Timbaland or Scott Storch. Perhaps this is the burden erwise look like flaws. Whitman was writing in a with a sound like they were weaned on the Pixies instead of Raffi, body Else” is a typical teenage of being too cool too soon. very different age.” the Care Bears on Fire got creative. non-conformity song, about two “I Stole Your Animal,” which will be re- “Franklin Evans or The Inebriate: A Tale of the “I Stole Your Animal,” the band’s first album, was produced by steps away from angsty poetry; so not that different leased on Oct. 2, will be available at www.my- Times,” is currently available from Duke Universi- Joel Hamilton, who previously twisted the knobs for Tom Waits, at all from the mopey grunge hits of the late 1990s. space.com/carebearsonfire. — Maggie Serota ty Press. Visit www.dukeupress.edu/books for information. — Daniel Goldberg

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By Tina Barry sured, the meal is well paced, with signed the pairings beautifully — for The Brooklyn Paper just enough time between courses you should spend the extra money. to take a breather. Our first course, an impressive hen a much-loved neighbor- Statelman’s cuisine prides itself pairing of oysters and Prosecco, hood eatery closes for re- more on familiarity than innovation. was followed by an equally remark- Wtooling, regulars worry. Will There’s a bar menu with a jumbo able tuna tartare. The small buttery the ambience go from homey to un- shrimp cocktail, a plate of oysters and cubes of fish were delightfully off- comfortably frou-frou? Will the burgers. The set by a hash place be as friendly? Will the menu most creative of crisp, wasa- stay the same? salad features DINING bi-fortified cu- Cafe on Clinton is that sort of baby arugula, cumber and a Cafe on Clinton (268 Clinton St., be- place. The eatery, which closed in white peaches, tween Warren and Congress streets in pile of peppery the late spring, was a popular Cob- grape toma- Cobble Hill) accepts American Express, watercress. A ble Hill spot for 18 years, with reg- toes and Mey- Discover, MasterCard and Visa. Entrees: glass of pale, $16–$19. Seven-course tasting menu ulars citing great ambience over er lemon vin- available Thursday through Saturday: golden Chenin great food as the reason for their aigrette. $45, with wine: $65. The restaurant Blanc balanced loyalty. This July, the restaurant re- And the serves dinner Tuesday through Sunday. the rich dish

Lunch is available Tuesday through Fri- / Daniel Krieger opened under the watch of chef and pastas are day. Brunch is served from 11 am–3 pm with acidity owner Charlie Statelman, a former simple affairs on weekends. Closed Monday. Subway: and a slightly chef at Patois and currently the con- like an irre- F, G to Carroll Street. For information, oily texture visit www.cafeonclinton.com or call (718) sulting chef at the Australian restau- sistible maca- that mimicked

625-5908. / Daniel Krieger rant Wombat in Williamsburg. roni and three the lush feel of Statelman made a few changes cheeses (pe- the fish. Paper The Brooklyn — he rebuilt the kitchen, added corino, ricotta and Fontina). Some I could have passed on the next Our favorite Clinton: Master chef Charlie Statelman, above, pre- cream-colored wainscoting to the entrees, like a lusty duck confit and course, a grilled vegetable terrine pares solid, familiar dishes like the House Pate Platter, at left, at Cafe on Clinton.

32-seat dining room’s walls, updat- a fragrant shell steak au poivre, with goat cheese and basil puree that Paper The Brooklyn ed the sconces and upholstered the have a French accent while others, was a bore when I first tried it two tables in deep green leather — but notably the grilled leg of lamb with decades ago and hasn’t changed dense meat through a puddle of ter another came in the form of a companied a trio of desserts. The Statelman has given Cafe on said that he tried to keep the elegant potato salad, are more American. much, but the dry rose that came tangy and sweet pomegranate sauce martini glass filled with sharp, best was a humble, eggy blackberry Clinton what it lacked: A fresh inte- space “pretty much the same.” On Thursday, Friday and Satur- with it was delicate and delicious. that, with its tart edge, cut the bird’s creamy lemon sorbet doused with clafouti (a crustless tart made of rior that’s still cozy, and a beautiful- What has been overhauled is the day evenings, a seven-course tast- A confit of duck leg with crisp, richness. A light-bodied Sangiovese Lemoncello. That high-octane liq- fruit cooked in an egg custard) and ly executed, seasonal menu. And service. After just a few weeks, the ing menu ($65 with paired wines, mahogany-colored skin and meat wasn’t so heady that it overpowered uid and the cold ices cleared our the others: a crepe with Nutella and that’s something 18-year loyalists place is packed and the tables are $45 without) is offered. Given the oozing with juice, was the richest the food. heads and palates fast. bananas and a blueberry fritter, — as well as diners late to the scene turning over frequently. But rest as- price — and that Statelman de- dish of the night. We swiped the Relief from one dizzying dish af- A glass of not-too-sweet port ac- were just so-so. — can appreciate. The Brooklyn book bash Something on the side

The Saturday night before the Brook- award, known as “the Bobby,” with a Joshua Ferris, author of “Then lyn Book Festival, Borough President quick speech and hightailed it out of We Came to the End.” Markowitz’s “Literary Council” threw a there before our second glass of wine. cocktail party to honor Paul Auster, the Getting into the literary spirit, GO “I discovered that I like reading Henry first recipient of the Brooklyn Book Fes- Brooklyn asked partygoers for the best James.” tival Literary Award. Auster accepted the thing that they read this summer. Marty Markowitz, Borough Presi- dent “Actually, I finished two books in the last two weeks. One was ‘No Momma’s Boy,” Dominick Carter’s first book. You / Robin Lester had to break down and cry — I loved it. And also Joe Hynes — the district attorney’s — book, ‘Triple Homicide.’”

Jahmila Joseph, Park Slope resi- Paper The Brooklyn dent Brothers Bart and John De- the place to have a classic cumber mignonette sauce), added, “so we’re a bar and “[Stephanie Klein’s] ‘Straight Up and coursy shucked plenty of oys- New York feel,” said Bart. and serving up bowls of “BLT restaurant full time.” Dirty,’ which was a beach book classic, ters before opening their own They mean classic New soup” (bacon, escarole, tomato Sidecar Bar & Grille (560 though I read plenty of it on the F train.” Fifth Avenue bar and eatery, York at its swanky best; in and chicken stock), a “Sidecar Fifth Ave., between 15th and Sidecar. their dark wood, brick-walled burger” with fries, and the 16th streets in Park Slope) ac- Johnny Temple, publisher of “We have, like, 40 years dining room, booths are set up popular buttermilk fried chick- cepts American Express, Mas- Akashic Books combined experience,” said for cozy canoodling and bar- en. terCard and Visa. Entrees: $9- “The best thing I read this summer is a Bart, who was a waiter at both tenders put the happy in “hap- The name “Sidecar” comes $22. The restaurant serves book that I was painfully late in reading: Brooklyn and Manhattan out- py hour” when they start mix- from the brothers’ original dinner Tuesday through Sun- Jonathan Lethem’s ‘Fortress of Solitude,’ posts of Blue Ribbon, where ing retro drinks like the idea to be a bar with great day. Closed Monday. Sub- which is a book about a few memorable his brother also worked as a signature “Sidecar” and cocktails first, and serve a way: R to Prospect Avenue. characters, but also the changing land- raw bar chef. “Pimm’s Cup.” small-plate menu “on the For more information, visit Hello, Bobby: The first Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Award winner, Paul scape of Brooklyn. It moved me so pro- Gutting a former children’s John’s in the kitchen shuck- side.” Since its opening, the www.sidecarbrooklyn.com or Auster, makes a quick speech. Above, from left, Josh Ferris, Marty Markowitz, foundly that it makes me see the neigh- store, the duo opened the 65- ing oysters again, (he serves concept has changed. “People call (718) 369-0077. Jahmila Joseph and Johnny Temple. borhood that I live in differently.” seat space in July. “We wanted these with a house made cu- really like the food,” Bart — Tina Barry

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The Brooklyn Paper Kicking off my two-night residency in row F of the BAM Harvey theater, I was the town / John N. Barclay initially antsy. “King Lear” is three and a half hours long, GO’s guide for Sir Ian to and a friend of mine had told me that he left at intermission

The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn without a second thought. What if the sold-out run — have a gay old time in Bklyn tickets are going for as much as $650 on Craigslist — was By Christopher Murray “QBR” (for queers, all hype? My fears, it turned for The Brooklyn Paper beers and rears) out, were unfounded. every Thursday, NIGHTLIFE Sure it’s long, and some- n a recent television inter- presented by An- times — unless you yourself Cattyshack (249 Fourth Ave., between view in Singapore, Sir Ian drew Martini (a President and Carroll Streets in Park Slope) speak in iambic pentameter McKellen, who’s currently member of the punk is open is open Monday through Friday — things aren’t quite so easy I from 2 pm–4 am and Saturday and Sunday starring in both “King Lear” rock band Limp- to follow, but nevertheless the from noon–4 am. For information, call (718) and “The Seagull” at the wrist) and a chap 230-5740. production was stunning. Brooklyn Academy of Music, called Sir Loins. Cyn Lounge (216 Bedford Ave., at Sir Ian McKellen, for one, shocked his interviewer with The focus here is on North Fifth Street in Williamsburg) is open shouldn’t be allowed to leave

Monday through Thursday from 4 pm–4 / John N. Barclay the revelation that he was on punk and indie mu- am and Friday through Sunday from 2 Brooklyn. (Memo to Karen the prowl for local gay bars. sic. “The party is a pm–4 am. For information, call (718) 384- Hopkins: I’ll hold him down In Singapore such things pretty mixed crowd, 0100. if you nab his passport. Call Excelsior (390 Fifth Ave., between Fifth are often not spoken about, more local hipster and Sixth streets in Park Slope) is open me!) McKellen brings a hu- but in Brooklyn, McKellan homos and artists,” Monday through Friday from 6 pm–4 am mor to the tragic King, shout- will find plenty of local estab- Loins said. So if the and Saturday and Sunday from 2 pm–4 am. Paper The Brooklyn ing at Cordelia through a For information, call (718) 832-1599. lishments ready, willing and Royal Shakespeare Metropolitan (559 Lorimer St., at Met- sideways crown that resem- able to satisfy his cravings for Company isn’t ex- ropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg) is open bles a zero, and delivers a nu- a post-show whisky or con- perimental enough daily from 3 pm–4 am. For information, call anced performance that ranks (718) 599-4444. versation. To welcome the 68- for you, try this on Sugarland (221 N. Ninth St., between among his best. year-old actor and gay rights for size. Driggs Avenue and Roebling Street in It also helps that he’s joined activist to the borough, GO Williamsburg) is open is open Monday by a cast equally as strong. through Friday from 6 pm–4 am and Satur- Brooklyn offers our own Excelsior day and Sunday from 2 pm–4 am. For infor- Frances Barber, who purred guide to the best gay bars in Are you so over mation, call (718) 599-4044. like Eartha Kitt as Goneril, and Manual Harlan the area. the scene and look- Philip Winchester, playing Ed- ing to meet a nice mund in his debut season with (McKellen, for example, is gold. Cattyshack guy? This is the spot. Sure, less of gender, in Williams- the RSC, were standouts, both seated most of the time as the Recently, McKellen told This two-level lesbian hang- weekends are as crowded as burg’s first and most popular seething with the wickedness old and unsteady Sorin), giv- the New Yorker that playing out is great for gay guys who New York Sports Club on gay bar has that elfin hipster, of their characters, but never ing the company’s other Lear was “the most difficult love their female friends — so Ninth Street, but Mondays and lost-in-the-Shire look about going overboard. players time to shine. The thing I’ve ever done.” Last round up Cordelia and Regan Tuesdays find the brainy and him. And while nobody we’ve Director Trevor Nunn’s changing cast mimics the week, when the audience rose (we would suggest leaving the brawny crowded around met there is looking for a ring creation was all the more fan- changing style; where “Lear” to its feet for what felt like Goneril at home) and hit the the Scrabble board — in the — not legal in New York State, tastic at the Harvey, where soars, “Seagull” snarls, mak- never-ending applause, he town. Guys hang out here al- warmer months outside on the anyway! — the $1 PBR cans the cushy bench seats butt up ing for a funnier, if no less smiled out into the house like most every night, but Wednes- patio — or watching the foot on Monday nights are just as against the stage and each of heavy, show. it might have been the most day’s “Oink” party is the traffic on Fifth Avenue. But precious. Through September, Mark Nayden the players’ slightest moves This programming is quite fulfilling also. biggest draw of the week for neighborhood chatter, friendly there is a weekly barbeque on Night out: Williamsburgers enjoy the dance floor, top, — including McKellen’s a “get” for BAM, where “King Lear” will run all genders. DJ S. Pony keeps bartenders and a killer juke- the club’s gigantic back porch, and patio, center, of Metropolitan. Guys in Park Slope pre- nude scene — are very much McKellen appeared once be- through Sept. 26 and “The the crowd dancing and there box are the real attractions and once it cools down, local fer Excelsior, below. in your face. fore in a 1974 production of Seagull” will run through are free hot dogs and a karaoke here. lads and lasses are always Nunn should also be ap- “Lear.” New York is only Sept. 29 at the BAM Har- contest to boot — but profes- crowded around the pool table plauded for pairing “Lear” one of three American cities vey Theater (651 Fulton St., sionals are probably prohibited Metropolitan or on the dance floor. housed Capone’s, a bar-pizze- ous crowd. There’s no cover, with Chekhov’s “The Seag- where this production will be at Rockwell Place in Fort from winning the $50 grand If McKellen, who played ria hybrid that never quite took and anyone willing to check ull,” which (for the audience seen. Granted, it isn’t an Greene). Tickets are $30 – prize. Sorry, Sir Ian. Gandolf in the “Lord of the Sugarland off. Momentum is still growing his pants at the door is reward- as well as for the actors) was original production — some- $90, but are mostly sold Rings” trilogy, is looking for The newest addition to the here, but Wednesday nights are ed with a free drink. Since a perfect complement. thing that Brooklyn’s arts in- out. For information, call Cyn Lounge Frodo and his pals, Metropoli- borough’s gay scene, Sugar- already the hottest in Billyburg; McKellen is dropping his Here, many players who stitutes need to mount more (718) 636-4100 or visit This local bar has a new mu- tan wouldn’t be a bad spot to land opened just a few weeks a party called TuffLove heats drawers nightly in “Lear,” per- were front and center for of, frankly — but in this www.bam.org. sic night charmingly called start. Almost everyone, regard- ago in the space that once up at 10 pm and draws a seri- haps he’ll feel at home. “Lear” take secondary roles case, BAM really struck — Adam Rathe

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like, ‘Care Bears on Fire,’ and that was our clothes, a time-honored punk tradition. name.” But at the moment, what the band is Meet the Care Bears CARE BEARS... Lucio, the band’s lone boy, said he ac- most concerned about is making music. tually does enjoy lighting stuff on fire. His Even though they’re played plenty of Continued from page 9 energy is not entirely destructive, though, shows — 20 at last count — the record re- she wore that day — and Izzy chimed in he also has a knack for the technical. “I lease party is a big deal. And, like any oth- that, “My mom likes to say I was listening like to build things and burn things,” Lu- er musicians, they want to tour. Citing a to the Ramones in utero.” cio said. “I’m always re-routing wires and friendship with Smoosh, a Seattle-based It wasn’t so many years later that, in the fixing the amps.” band about the same age, the Care Bears fall of 2005, the trio formed Care Bears on “It’s a good thing he knows how to do hopes to tour the West Coast. Fire. They had previously played together in that stuff, because Izzy and I are hopeless,” But before that can happen, there will a short-lived band called Nada Clue, but re- added Sophie. “I barely even know how to be plenty of local gigging and recording. formed, named after a toy bear of Izzy’s. work the distortion pedal on my own guitar.” As practice was wrapping up, the band’s “We thought, instead of Sunshine or Izzy and Sophie have other interests, handler wanted to know if I had any other Bachner Jeff Bachner Jeff Bachner Jeff Huggy Bear, why not Depression Bear, or such as dancing, singing, acting and questions before everyone went home. Isadora “Izzy” Schappell-Spillman Sophie Kasakovie Lucio Westmoreland Death Bear,” said Izzy. “Then when I told sewing. Sophie said that she hopes Izzy “Ask away,” he said, “you won’t get them Drums/vocals Guitar/vocals Bass Sophie and Lucio about it, we were all just will teach her how to make her own to sit still again anytime soon.” The crafty one The fashion plate The pyro

Plaza at the steps of Borough ing and artist lecture by Vitaly Meet at 3302 Ave. U. For info, Five-kilometer charity run/walk Hall in Columbus Park. (347) SAT, SEPT. 29 Komar. 1 pm. Intersection of call 311. Free. retraces the steps of Stephen 247-8184. Free. Main and Water streets. PERFORMANCE Siller, who sprinted through the 9 DAYS... RECEPTION: Safe-T-Gallery pres- OUTDOORS AND TOURS Lectures at powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the ents “New Butoh 37 Main St. (866) 99-ARENA. CONCERT ON THE PLAZA: World Trade Center. Course is BROOKLYN BRIDGE WALK: Big Free. Continued from page 2 Photographs.” 6 to 8 pm. 111 Onion Tours takes a walk over Brooklyn Sings, Brooklyn through the Brooklyn Battery BROOKLYN MUSEUM: presents Swings with vocalist Tessa fitness class in Empire-Fulton Front St. (718) 782-5920. Free. the bridge and through Tunnel, up West Street to MoCADA OPENING RECEP- Brooklyn Heights. $15, $12 “Feminist Dialogue: Bridging Souter. Program includes jazz, Liberty, then onto the Battery Ferry State Park, Dock Street at the Gap” with feminist artists flamenco and world and the East River. Today: Kick It, a TION: Museum of Contemp- seniors, $10 students. 11 am. Park esplanade facing the orary African Diasporan Arts Meet at southeast corner of Cara Judea Alhadeff and Middle Eastern Music. 4 pm. kick boxing workout. 7 pm. Micaela Amato. $8, $4 seniors Brooklyn Public Library’s Hudson, and ending at Vesey Registration at 6:30 pm. For presents a reception for Arturo Broadway and Chambers Street. 10 am. www.tunnelto- Lindsay’s exhibit “Love.” Art, Street. (212) 439-1090. and students, free for members Central branch. Grand Army info, visit www.brooklyn- and children under 12. 2 to 4 towersrun.org. bridgepark.org. Free. live entertainment and refresh- LULLWATER EXPLORATION: Plaza. (718) 230-2211. Free. pm. 200 Eastern Pkwy. (718) ANTI-SOCIAL MUSIC: Opera On BRUNCH: 26th annual Brooklyn BARNES AND NOBLE: Discussion ments. 6 to 9 pm. 80 Hanson Enjoy a boat tour detailing Columbus Parade brunch. Place. (718) 230-0492. Free. 638-5000. Tap performs classic opera to a and signing with author Edward Prospect Park’s aquatic habitat. Noon. Oriental Manor, 1818 McPherson. He discusses and BAM: The Royal Shakespeare Binoculars provided. $10, $6 ARTIST RECEPTION: Smack Mellon rowdy beat. $5. 5 pm. kids. Noon to 12:45 pm. Enter hosts a reception for works by Galapagos Art Space, 70 N. 86th St. Call for info. (718) 259- signs his book “The Backwash Company presents Ian 2828. Squeeze and Other Improbable McKellen in “The Seagull.” park at Lincoln Road and Peter Dudek and Elana Herzog. Sixth St. (718) 782-5188. Feats.” 7 pm. 106 Court St. Limited ticket availability. $30, Ocean Avenue. (718) 287-3400. 5 to 8 pm. 92 Plymouth St. (718) BAM: “King Lear.” 3 pm. See GALLERY TALK: Brooklyn Mu- (718) 246-4996. Free. $55, $75, $90. 7:30 pm. BAM BIRDWATCHING CRUISE: Learn 834-8761. Free. Sat., Sept. 29. seum hosts a talk: “Brushed James Felder BAM: The Royal Shakespeare Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St. about the history of Prospect HARVEST HOE DOWN: Salt GALLERY PLAYERS: “Six Degrees with Light.” Curator Karen Company presents “King Lear.” (718) 636-4100. For more infor- Park, from prehistoric times to Cook book: Food writer Adam D. Roberts will be reading Marsh Nature Center invites of Separation.” 3 pm. See Sat., Sherry offers insight into the $30, $55, $75, $90. 7:30 pm. mation go to www.bam.org. the present day, while touring you to dosy doe. 7 pm. 3302 Sept. 29. exhibition “Brushed with Light: BAM Harvey Theater, 651 BARGEMUSIC: presents a jazz one of Prospect Park’s most from his new book, “The Amateur Gourmet,” at the Park Ave. U. For info, call 311. Free. BARGEMUSIC: presents a classi- American Landscape Water- Fulton St. (718) 636-4100. For concert with the Judy scenic habitats. $10, $6 kids. Slope Barnes and Noble on Sept. 24. AFTER PARTY: DUMBO Arts cal music concert. 4 pm. See colors from the Collection.” $8, more information go to Carmichael Trio. $40, $25 stu- 1:15 to 2 pm. Enter park at Festival party features 16 Sat., Sept. 29. $4 students and seniors, free www.bam.org. dents. 8 pm. Fulton Ferry Lincoln Road and Ocean bands and a draw-a-thon over for members and children MEDITATIONS: Lucky Lotus Yoga Landing, Old Fulton Street at Avenue. (718) 287-3400. Various techniques are taught Brooklyn Pie Social raises three nights. 147 Front St. For OTHER under 12. 2 to 4 pm. 200 hosts “Blue Sky Mind: the East River. (718) 624-2083. DISCOVER TOURS: Explore the to enable student to create a money that benefits three local info, visit michaelalanart.com. TUNNEL TO TOWERS RUN: Eastern Pkwy. (718) 638-5000. Meditations on Mental Peace RYAN REP: “A Thing of Beauty.” secrets of nature with teachers bracelet, necklace, pendant or New York City Public schools and Clarity.” 8:15 to 9:15 pm. 7:30 pm. See Sat., Sept. 29. and naturalists from the earrings. $400. 11 am to 4 pm. including Brooklyn New School, SUN, SEPT. 30 184 DeKalb Ave. Call for info. GALLERY PLAYERS: “Six Degrees Prospect Park Audubon Class continues on Sept. 30. PS 150 of Tribeca, and the High (718) 496-5514. of Separation.” 8 pm. See Sat., Center. 3 to 4 pm. Call for 647 Fulton St. (718) 625-3685. School of Food and Finance. $5 Sept. 29. more information. (718) 287- INDIE MARKET: Collective of donation for bakers; $25 admis- OUTDOORS AND TOURS 3400. Free. sion gets tasters five different Brooklyn-based emerging ATLANTIC ANTIC: 33rd annual LIST YOUR EVENT… WEDS, SEPT. 26 PERFORMANCE designers show their wares of slices. Noon to 3 pm. 1 Main street festival takes place along FRI, SEPT. 28 fashion, accessories, bath and St. (646) 338-0422. 10 blocks of Atlantic Avenue, To list your event in Nine Days In Brooklyn, please give us two weeks RYAN REP: presents “A Thing of beauty, pet gear, home-goods GIFTS BY THE SEA: New York notice or more. Send your listing by e-mail: calendar@brooklynpa- Jewish Festival of Beauty” by Maurice Berger. from Fourth Avenue to Hicks RED, WHITE AND BUBBLY: and more. 11 am to 7 pm. Creates, serving craft artisans, Street.10 am to 6 pm. Visit per.com; by mail: GO Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Paper, 55 Washington Shukkot begins at Chilean wine tasting. 2 to 6 pm. $12, $10 children under 12. 2 Smith and Union streets. brook- hosts a new outdoor crafts fes- pm and 5 pm. Ryan Repertory www.atlanticave.org/antic07.ht St., Suite 624, Brooklyn, NY 11201; or by fax: (718) 834-9278. Listings sundown 211-213 Fifth Ave. (718) 636- lynindiemarket.com. tival along the historic Red m. are free and printed on a space available basis. We regret we cannot WINE. www.winesofchile.org. Company’s Jonathan Rosenblum Performing Arts PIE SOCIAL: Bubby’s Pie Com- Hook pier. 1 pm to 6 pm. 499 EXPLORE THE MARSH: Salt take listings over the phone. BUSINESS FORUM: Boricua Free. pany hosts its fourth annual Van Brunt St. nycreates.com. Marsh Nature Center hosts a College Small Business Space, 2445 Bath Ave. (718) BAM: The Royal Shakespeare 996-4800. Brooklyn Pie Social. The ELEPHANT PAINTING: Live paint- hike around the marsh. 1 pm. Development Center hosts a Company presents “The “Latino Small Business Forum: Seagull.” $30, $55, $75, $90. CONCERT ON THE PLAZA: Paul How to Make Your Way 7:30 pm. BAM Harvey Theater, Shapiro’s Ribs and Brisket Through the Government 651 Fulton St. (718) 636-4100. Revue. Enjoy 1940s style Jewish jazz, Yiddish swing, and Maze.” 6 to 8 pm. Brooklyn For more information, go to Public Library’s Brooklyn kosher-style blues. 4 pm. www.bam.org. Brooklyn Public Library’s Heights branch, 280 Cadman ART UNDER THE BRIDGE: 11th Plaza West. (718) 623-7000. Central branch. Grand Army annual DUMBO Art Under the Plaza. (718) 230-2211. Free. BROOKLYN Free. Bridge Festival. Event is single TAP DANCE: Salt Marsh Nature BAM: The Royal Shakespeare largest urban forum for experi- Company presents “King Lear.” Center invites adults to learn mental art in the US. 60 new art how to tap dance. 10 am. 3302 $30, $55, $75, $90. 2 pm. Also, works will be scattered “The Seagull.” $30, $55, $75, Ave U. For info, call 311. Free. throughout the neighborhood BARNES AND NOBLE: A $90. 7:30 pm. BAM Harvey and 158 private studios will Theater, 651 Fulton St. (718) Princeton Review representa- open to the public. Also, exhi- tive discusses the 2008 edition 636-4100. For information, visit Nightlife bitions in 16 different venues. of “The Best 366 Colleges.” www.bam.org. Gleason’s Gym is one of the Compiled by Chiara V. Cowan / John N. Barclay Learn about the process of private studios open to the BARGEMUSIC: presents a classic applying and getting into col- public. 1 pm to 6 pm. (718) music concert, featuring the leges. 6:30 pm. 106 Court St. work of Britten, Dohnanyi and 797-2872. See www.dumb- Dvorak. $40, $25 students. 8 BAY RIDGE (718) 246-4996. Free. oartscenter.org. Grand Dakar Cafe KAYAK AND CLEAN: Gowanus pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old The Wicked Monk 285 Grand Ave. at Lafayette Avenue in RECEPTION: BAC Gallery pres- Fulton Street at the East River. Clinton Hill, (718) 398-8900, www.grand- Dredgers offers a 20-minute ents “Site Matters: Brooklyn 8415 Fifth Ave. at 84th Street in Bay

(718) 624-2083. dakar.com. Paper The Brooklyn cruise in Red Hook by kayak. Ridge, (718) 921-0601, Represents,” site-specific art of FACULTY SHOWCASE SERIES: Saturdays: Rhonda Benet (funk, jazz, soul, 80s, Then help clean up the shore- the late 1960s and early 1970s. www.wickedmonk.com. Lady’s night: Usually reclusive band the Ladybug Transistor leaves its Flatbush compound to play two shows on line. 6 to 8 pm. Louis Valentino Brooklyn–Queens Conservatory old school), 8 pm, FREE; Sundays: Live reggae 6 pm to 8 pm. 111 Front St., of Music presents Roger Lent Wednesdays: Beer Pong, 9 pm, $TBD; Sept. music, 7 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Don Juarez Sept. 29, an early one at Club Europa and a later one at the Sound Fix Lounge. Jr. Park, Coffey and Ferris suite 218. (718) 625-0080. Free. 22: Dirty Jersey, 9 pm, $5; Sept. 23: Joe Walz streets. For info, visit www.red- and his Octet. $10, $5 students (Brazilian music), 8:30 pm, FREE; Thursdays: DJ LAWN CHAIR THEATER: Salt Open Mic, 9 pm, FREE; Sept. 28: Driven Blind, Afro-Freaky, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Live music, hookboaters.org. Free. and seniors. 8 pm. 58 Seventh ty center in South Africa, 6 pm, Havemeyer Street in Marsh Nature Center presents Ave. (718) 622-3300. 9 pm, $5; Sept. 29: The Phoenix Down, The 10 pm, FREE. Melt BOOKCOURT: presents “Father “Grease.” Also, karaoke and a Krisp, 9 pm, $5. $TBD, Mamady Kouyate and The Williamsburg, (212) 260-2323, Knows Less: Or, Can I Cook My GALLERY PLAYERS: presents “Six 440 Bergen St. at Fifth Avenue Ambassadors, 9 pm, $15; Sept. 23: www.lunalounge.com. dance contest. 7 pm. 3302 in Park Slope, (718) 230-5925. Sister.” Wendell Jaimieson, Degrees of Separation.” $18, DUMBO Delta Dreambox, 8 pm, $5; Sept. Sept. 22: Demetra, 9:30 pm, Ave. U. For info, call 311. Free. Fridays: “Stuck in the ’80s” party author, discusses one dad’s $14 children and seniors. 2 pm BEDFORD-STUYVESANT 28: Holy Ukuleles, 9 pm, $8; Sept. Smite, 10:30 pm, $5, Mesmer, BARGEMUSIC: presents a classic and 8 pm. 199 14th St., featuring DJs Paul EZ and Jan quest to answer his son’s most Rebar 29: Murder Ballad Night, 9 pm, $8. 11:55 pm, $5; Sept. 23: Lisa music concert, featuring the Cooley, 11 pm, FREE. baffling questions. 7 pm. 163 between Fourth and Fifth Food 4 Thought 147 Front St. at Jay Street in DUMBO, work of Shostakovich, avenues. (212) 352-3101. Bodnar, 7:30 pm, Article A, 9:30 Court St. (718) 875-3677. Free. 445 Marcus Garvey Blvd. at MacDonough (718) 797-2322, www.rebarnyc.com. pm, Bobtail Yearlings, 10:30 pm, Corigliano and Dvorak. $40, Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 443- SHEEPSHEAD BAY BAM: The Royal Shakespeare SUPER SHOW: Cuban Pete’s All- Thursdays: Conjunto Guantanamo, 10 pm, Southpaw $5; Sept. 24: Kate Nash, 8:30 pm, $25 students. 8 pm. Fulton Star Show. 6 pm to 11 pm. 4160. Company presents “King Lear.” FREE; Fridays: Dramatic Drawing of the Male 125 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Anyway Cafe $15; Sept. 25: Hammarsing, 8:30 Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Casa Calamari, 1801 Bath Ave. Saturdays: Open mic, 9 pm, $6; Tuesdays: Place in Park Slope, (718) 230- $30, $55, $75, $90. 7:30 pm. & Female Form featuring live music, food and pm, Eula, 9:30 pm, $5; Sept. 26: Street at the East River. (718) Call for info. (718) 234-7060. Philosophically Phat Tuesdays, an open discus- 0236, www.spsounds.com. 1602 Gravesend Neck Rd. at BAM Harvey Theater, 651 drinks, 8 pm, $13 per session. East 16th Street in Sheepshead The Infinite Orchestra, 7:30 pm, 624-2083. sion, 8 pm, donation suggested; Wednesdays: Sept. 22: I Heart Brooklyn Girls Fulton St. (718) 636-4100. For Bay, (718) 934-5988, www.any- Sad Little Stars, 8:30 pm, Slim GOOD COFFEEHOUSE: presents OTHER Game Night (Cash Flow), 7 pm, FREE; Fridays: 2008 Coney Island Swimsuit more information go to FLATBUSH waycafe.com. Francis, 9:30 pm, $5; Sept. 27: www.bam.org. singer-songwriters Toby FLEA MARKET: hosted by the Zodiac Lounge, 7 pm, FREE. Calendar Launch Dance Party fea- Fagenson and Bruce Markow in Church of the Holy Spirit. turing DJs Cherrybuster, Tikka Saturdays: Michelle Walker, 8 om, Portugal the Man, 9 pm, Rocky BARGEMUSIC: presents a classic FREE; Mondays: Violin and guitar, an acoustic music performance. Refreshments available. 9 am Vox Po p Masala, Noa D, Designer Imposter Votolato, 10 pm, $12 in advance, music concert, featuring the 9 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Karin $10 at door, $6 for children. 8 to 4 pm. 8117 Bay Pkwy. at BOERUM HILL 1022 Cortelyou Rd. at Stratford Road in and Brown Girls Burlesque, 9 pm, $15 day of the show; Sept. 28: work of Britten, Dohnanyi and Akada, 9 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: pm. 53 Prospect Park West. 82nd Street. (718) 837-0412. Flatbush, (718) 940-2084, www.voxpop- $10 ($15, includes calendar); Sept. Frances, 7:30 pm, Brian Grosz, Dvorak. $40, $25 students. 8 (718) 768-2972. Hank’s Saloon net.net. 23: The WreckRoom, 8 pm, FREE; Grace Garland, 9 pm, FREE; 8:30 pm, The Jaguar Club, 9:30 WEEKSVILLE FARMERS MAR- Thursdays: Eric Nicholas, 9 pm, pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old 46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue in Sundays: Open mic, 7 pm, FREE with 2- Sept. 25: The WreckRoom, 8 pm, pm, $5. DRAWING SESSION: Workshop KET: Farm-fresh produce. 9 am FREE; Fridays: Eve Carneleus, 9 Fulton Street at the East River. Boerum Hill, (718) 625-8003, drink/snack minimum; Sept. 26: “Duets” fea- FREE; Sept. 26: Loki Da Trixta (718) 624-2083. features nude female models in to 1 pm. 1698 Bergen St., pm, FREE. short and long poses. $12. 8 between Rochester and Buffalo http://www.exitfive.com/hankssaloon. turing jazz singer and pianist Julie Milgram, 7 album release, 9 pm, $TBD; Sept. Pete’s Candy pm to 1 am. ReBar, 147 Front avenues. (718) 788-8500. Sundays: Sean Kershaw and the New Jack pm, FREE; Sept. 29: Myk Freedman Trio, 8 pm, 28: Art of Shooting and Care Bears St. For info, visit www.michae- Ramblers, 10 pm, FREE; Mondays: Live band FREE. on Fire CD Release Party, 7 pm, WILLIAMSBURG Store THURS, SEPT. 27 TAG SALE: at St. Ann and the $8, HHK and Rare Form present 709 Lorimer St. at Richardson lalanart.com. Holy Trinity Church. 10 am to 5 kuntry karaoke, 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Mobscenity (live jazz), 10 pm, FREE; Sept. 25: Off the Books, a night of classic Black Betty Street in Williamsburg, (718) SENIOR HOUSING: Leeza’s Place RYAN REP: “A Thing of Beauty.” pm. Parish Hall, 157 Montague GREENPOINT hip-hop featuring karaoke and DJ 302-3770, www.petescandys- 7:30 pm. See Sat., Sept. 29. St. (718) 875-6960. Andrew Schmidt presents TBD, 10 pm, FREE; 366 Metropolitan Ave. at at Park Slope Geriatric Day Sept. 27: On the Lam presents TBD, 10 pm, Evil Dee, 10 pm, $8. tore.com. GALLERY PLAYERS: “Six Degrees RUMMAGE SALE: at Trinity Evan- Studio B Havemeyer Street in hosts a talk: “Housing Options, FREE. Williamsburg, (718) 599-0243, Sundays: Open mic, 5 pm-8 pm, Community Based Services for of Separation.” 8 pm. See Sat., gelical Lutheran Church. 10 259 Banker St. at Calyer Street in Tea Lounge www.blackbetty.net. FREE; Mondays: Stand-Up, 7:30 Sept. 29. am–2 pm. 9020 Third Ave. Greenpoint, (718) 389-1880, www.clubstu- Older Adults.” 3:30 to 6:45 pm. 837 Union St. at Seventh Saturdays: DJ Concerned, 11 pm, pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Bingo, 7 pm, (718) 745-0138. BRIGHTON BEACH diob.com. 1 Prospect Park West. (347) FILM FEST: Indiefilmpage.com Avenue in Park Slope, (718) FREE; Sundays: Brazilian Beat with FREE; Wednesdays: Quiz-Off, 7:30 296-2345. Free. Sept. 22: Turntables on the Hudson featuring and Coney Island USA present BEADING WEEKEND: Urban 789-2762, www.tealoungeny. DJ Sean Marquand and DJ Greg pm, FREE; Sept. 22: Paul Holmes, National Restaurant DJs Nickodemus & Mariano and special guests DANCE PERFORMANCE: One-of- the 7th annual Coney Island Glass hosts a two-day jewelry com. Caz, 10 pm, FREE; Mondays: Rev. 9 pm, Peg Simone, 10 pm, The course. Learn how to create 273 Brighton Beach Ave. at Brighton Quantic & Louie Vega and more, 11 pm, $10; a-kind site-specific performance Film Festival. See website for Sept. 27: Michael Adkins Three- Vince Anderson and his Love Junior League, 11 pm, FREE; Sept. decorative beads through the Second Street in Brighton Beach, (718) Sept. 27: Japanther, Services, 8 pm, $10; Sept. Way Mirror, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, $5 created for the portico of the details. http://www.coneyisland- Choir, 10:30 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: 23: Francis Friday, 8:30 pm, Matty Brooklyn Borough Hall. 5 pm. filmfestival.com/ process of lampworking. 646-1225, www.come2national.com. 28: “Fun” hosted by June D with The suggested donation; Sept. 28: Psychotic Reaction, 10 pm, FREE; Charles, 10 pm, FREE; Sept. 24: Saturdays: Live Russian music and dance show, Glimmers and Guns & Bombs and DJs Rok Tom Swafford’s String Power, 9 Fridays: The Greenhouse with DJ The Undeciders, 9:30 pm, 9 pm, FREE (with $65 prix-fixe dinner); Fridays: One and Eamon Harkin, 10 pm, $10 in pm, 10:30 pm, $5 suggested MonkOne and DJs Emskee and Manteca Beat, 10:30 pm, FREE; Live Russian music and dance show, 9 pm, advance, $12 day of the show; Sept. 29: Switch donation. MC G-man, 11 pm, FREE. FREE (with $50 prix-fixe dinner); Sundays: Live and Sindin with DJs Ayres and Max Pask, 10 Sept. 25: Boca Chica, 9 pm, Russian music and dance show, 7 pm, FREE pm, $TBD. Two Boots Cuddle Magic, 10 pm, Sir Majesty, Galapagos 11 pm, FREE; Sept. 26: The (with $50 prix-fixe dinner). Brooklyn 70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe GREENWOOD HEIGHTS Quavers, 10 pm, Joe Silovsky, 11 514 Second St. at Seventh Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) pm, FREE; Sept. 27: The Hapless BROOKLYN HEIGHTS Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 782-5188, www.galapagosart- Living Room space.com. Child, 9 pm, The Weight, 10 pm, 499-3253, www.twoboots- Goddamn Rattlesnake, 11 pm, Magnetic Field brooklyn.com. Fridays: VJ/DJ Friday Nights, 10 Lounge pm, FREE; Sept. 22: (Backroom) FREE; Sept. 28: Pete’s Big poetry, 97 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street in Sept. 22: Parlour Armadillo, 10 245 23rd St. at Fifth Avenue in Greenwood Chimp Fest, 10 pm, $6, (Front 7 pm, Magdyn Osh, 9 pm, Pure Brooklyn Heights, (718) 834-0069, Heights, (718) 499-1505, pm, FREE; Sept. 28: Spoke, 10 pm, Horsehair, 10 pm, Spider, 11 pm, FREE; Sept. 29: Billy & The Bad room) “The Looseness” with music www.magneticbrooklyn.com. http://www.myspace.com /livingroom- FREE. Boys, 10 pm, FREE. by DJ Sergio Vega and hosted by Sept. 22: The Kowalskis, Santa Marias, Jonas brooklyn. Eddie Bernard, 10 pm, FREE; Sept. First Date, 7 pm, $8; Sept. 25: Talent LTD pres- Saturdays: DJ Kurt, 8 pm, FREE; Sundays: 23: (Front room) Brooklyn County Sound Fix ents Pant-Hoot, a night of stand-up comedy Guitar Hero, 8 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Open Union Hall Fair with Serena Jean, 3 pm, Suzan and more, 8 pm, $TBD; Sept. 26: Fun Dip mic night, 8 pm, FREE; Thursdays: ’80s Music, (Downstairs at) 702 Union St. at Hurtuk, 4 pm, $TBD, Animation Lounge Variety Hour, 8 pm, FREE; Sept. 27: Devon’s 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Wasabassco Burlesque Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, Block Party’s Sunday Mix, 7:30 pm, 110 Bedford Ave. at North 11th (718) 638-4400, www.unionhall- Birthday Bash, 8 pm, FREE; Sept. 28: Royal Show, 9 pm, $5. $TBD; Sept. 27: (Backroom) Street in Williamsburg, (718) 388- ny.com. American, Pirate Satellite, 8 pm, $TBD; Sept. Payton MacDonald and Jody 8090, www.soundfixrecords.com. 29: Armitage Shanks, 8 pm, $TBD. Sept. 22: Gruff Rhys, All Smiles, 8 Redhage, 7:30 pm, $10 ($7 with Sept. 22: Timothy Bracy and PARK SLOPE pm, $15; Sept. 23: Name That valid student identification), Friends, 8 pm, FREE; Sept. 23: Tune with Sara Schaefer, a music BUSHWICK Barbes “Jump Off” with Solid Ground, Neckbeard Telecaster, 8 pm, trivia night with guest comedians Webbafeid, S.S.P., Alias, 8THW1, 376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park FREE; Sept. 24: Takka Takka and musicians, 9:15 pm, FREE; Pryme Prolifik, Scanz, 10 pm, $5, Silent Barn Slope, (718) 965-9177, www.barbesbrook- Sept. 24: Iva Bittova with George Record Release Show, 8 pm, FREE; lyn.com. (Front room) AVZ, 10 pm, FREE; Sept. 25: Music Trivia, 8 pm, FREE; 915 Wyckoff Ave. at Hancock Street in Mraz and Natalia Ermilova, 7:30 Sept. 28: Omega Love with Ava Tuesdays: Jenny Scheinman, 7 pm, $10 sug- pm, $20; Sept. 25: Colleen, Lights, Sept. 26: Spectacular Bird, The Bushwick, No phone. Luna and the Dorothy Heralds, 7 gested donation, Slavic Soul Party, 9 pm, $10; 7:30 pm, $7; Sept. 26: Union Hall Minetta, Great Lakes, 8 pm, FREE; Sept. 29: Marnie Stern, Ecstatic Sunshine, Zs, pm, $8. Crash Diet Crew and more, 8 pm, $TBD. Sept. 22: Joel Forrester and The Truth, 8 pm, Spelling & Grammar Bee hosted Sept. 28: Numbers and Letters, 8 $10, The Moonlighters, 10 pm, $10 suggested by David Witt, 7 pm, FREE; Sept. pm, Rocketship Park, 9 pm, donation; Sept. 23: The Enso String Quartet, 7 27: The Narrator, The End of the Laila Lounge Higgins, 10 pm, FREE. CLINTON HILL pm, $10 suggested donation; Sept. 24: World, The Victoria Lucas, 7:30 113 N. Seventh St. at Wythe Musette Explosion, 7 pm, $10 suggested pm, $8; Sept. 28: Cornelia Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) Union Pool Five Spot Restaurant Dahlgren, La Laque, Kaiser Cartel, 486-6791, donation, Jan Bell, Mamie Minch, Phillipa 484 Union Ave. at Meeker Thompson and Hillary Hawke, 10 pm, $10 sug- Ursula Points, 7:30 pm, $8. www.lailalounge.com. 459 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue in Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) gested donation; Sept. 26: FONT presents Tuesdays: Bluegrass Tuesdays, 9 Clinton Hill, (718) 852-0202, www.fivespot- 609-0484, soulfood.com. Princess, Princess with Jamie Branch, 8 pm, pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Jezebel PROSPECT HEIGHTS Music Showcase with an open mic, www.myspace.com/unionpool. Saturdays: DJ Aki, 6 pm, FREE; Mondays: $10, FONT presents, Matt Lavelle Spiritual 7:30 pm, FREE; Sept. 22: The Sept. 22: Reno Bo, The London RPM-Open Turntables hosted by DJ Copa Power Trio, 10 pm, $10; Sept. 27: FONT pres- The Backroom Williamsburg Jazz Fest featuring Souls, Alana Amram, 8 pm, $7; (bring your own needles and vinyl), 8 pm, ents Jonathan Finlayson, Shane Endsley Duo, 8 (At Freddy’s) 485 Dean St. at Rick Parker Collective, Yosvany Sept. 27: The iOs, World Without FREE; Tuesdays: 5 for Funny Tuesdays hosted pm, $10, FONT presents Macroquarktet with Sixth Avenue in Prospect Terry Quartet, Brandon Ross’s For Magic, Mussels, 8 pm, $7; Sept. by Dave Lester, 10 pm, $5; Wednesdays: Open Herb Robertson and Dave Ballou, 10 pm, $10; Sept. 28: Sounds of Taraab, 10 pm, $10 sug- Heights, (718) 622-7035, Living Lovers, 8 pm, 9:30 pm, 11 28: XYZ Affair, Grammar Debate, mic with Nate Jones and Da Feel, 9 pm, $5 www.freddysbackroom.com. pm, $10; Sept. 25: The Cold ($10 after 10 pm); Sept. 22: Andrew Neff Jazz gested donation. The Modern Skirts, House on a Sept. 22: The Woebegones, 9 pm, Supper Boys, 9 pm, $TBD; Sept. Hill, 8 pm, $8. Quartet, 9 pm, $5, DJ Kenny Parker, Midnight, Bill Konig, 10 pm, Anoche, 11 pm, 28: Friction Fridays with DJ Allstar, $5; Sept. 27: Optimus Rhyme, 9 pm, $5; Sept. Brooklyn Burger Bar FREE; Sept. 23: Poetry Readings, 8 10 pm, FREE. 28: A Night of Global Soul featuring 499 Ninth St. at Seventh Avenue in Park pm, “Mob Scene,” a jazz jam, 10 Zebulon Manchildblack and special guests live, 9 pm, Slope, (718) 832-5500. pm, FREE; Sept. 24: O.P.P. (Other The Lucky Cat 258 Wythe Ave. at $10, Brooklyn Mecca House & Mecca World Sept. 27: Fred Gilde, David Farrer, Josh Paris, People’s Poetry), 8 pm, FREE; Metropolitan Avenue in Rhythm with DJ Sabine, Midnight, $10; Sept. 9 pm, FREE; Sept. 29: Alexa Fila, Joe Solomon 245 Grand St. at Roebling Williamsburg, (718) 218-6934, Sept. 25: Music from the New York Street in Williamsburg, (718) 29: DJ Kenny Parker, Midnight, $5. and more, 9 pm, FREE. www.zebuloncafeconcert.com. Underground, 9:30 pm, FREE; 782-0437, Sept. 26: Music Trivia, 9 pm, FREE; www.theluckycat.com. Sept. 22: Baye Kouyate et les Sept. 27: The Atomic Grind Show, Mondays: Joe McGinty’s Tougarakes, 10 pm, FREE; Sept. 9 pm, FREE; Sept. 28: The Keyboard Karaoke, 10 pm, FREE: 23: Krystle Warren and The Spinning Leaves, 8 pm, Lloyd Tuesdays: Jezebel Music Open Faculty, 10 pm, FREE; Sept. 24: United, 9 pm, Habit Trail, 10 pm, Mic Night hosted by Ed Gorch, 7 Gillian Rivers and guests, 10 pm, TALK TO US… Antique Six Gun, 11 pm, FREE. pm, FREE; Sept. 22: Freddy Frog’s FREE; Sept. 25: Katie Eastburn, 9 To list your events in Brooklyn Nightlife, please give us as much notice as possible. Include Birthday Celebration, 9 pm, FREE; pm, Dome Theater presents “El name of venue, address with cross street, phone number for the public to call, Web site RED HOOK Sept. 26: Fanning Pack featuring Ojo del Diable,” 10 pm, FREE; online every week at BrooklynPaper.com address, dates, times and admission or ticket prices. Send listings and color photos of per- Tessa K.G. & The Fun Club Sept. 26: Cami evenit with Asiko formers via e-mail to [email protected] or via fax at (718) 834-9278. Listings are Jalopy Dancers, 9 pm, $5; Sept. 27: (HIV/AIDS fundraiser for Nigeria), free and printed on a space available basis. We regret we cannot take listings over the phone. 315 Columbia St. at Woodhull Loungey Thursdays, 10 pm, FREE. 10 pm, FREE; Sept. 27: Billy The listings are correct as of press time. Contact the venue before you go to confirm Street in Red Hook, (718) 395- Coleman, 10 pm, FREE; Sept. 28: event details. 3214, www.jalopy.biz. Luna Lounge Eliza Wren Payne, 9 pm, Amayo’s Sept. 22: Fund raiser for communi- 361 Metropolitan Ave. at Fu-Arkistra, 10 pm, FREE. September 22, 2007 THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 AWP 13 CHECKIN’ IN WITH... Rudy Gaskins, the urban ad man

Lexus, the automaker known for its self-proclaimed “pas- are more appealing to women. old African-Americans. It de- though it’s a monolithic school of sionate pursuit of perfection,” has hired a Clinton Hill ad Q: Do tell. pends on what region of the fish, that leads to offensiveness. agency to facilitate its latest passionate pursuit: the African- A: Stereotypically, with men, country they live in, what kind Q: Can you give me an exam- American mommy set. Brooklyn Paper reporter Dana Rubin- you go with power and sports. of job they have, their salary. ple? stein — in passionate pursuit of how precisely the ad agency All of these things come into A: Off the top of my head, I can’t plans to do that — checked in this week with Rudy Gaskins, Q: How predictable. play in terms of your choice for point to an ad that sort of missed one half of the wife-and-husband power duo behind Push A: With women, elegance and a luxury vehicle versus a van or the boat that way. What I do hear Creative Advertising. style will probably play more of a non-luxury vehicle. often from African-Americans and a role. Also, with African-Ameri- Q: Couldn’t marketing to a Latinos is that they feel singled out, Q: How do you go about A: I can’t tell you the can women between the ages of Callan / Tom particular ethnicity be per- as if they’re a special case in a neg- targeting an ethnic market? specifics, because I’d be giv- 25 and 40, they often have chil- ceived as offensive? ative way, that ads speak to a cari- A: The first part is to brainstorm ing away the store. dren. That’s a consideration. A … about the kinds of marketing A: A lot of what we do is multi- cature in a bad way. Some advertis- Q: You can tell me at least lot of it isn’t all that scientific. It’s ing goes after audiences to wring tools that you can employ. that your target audience is really common sense. cultural marketing. You may see Once you figure out your strat- a specific ad for a car with a them dry of whatever currency they primarily affluent, right? Paper The Brooklyn egy, you start with tactics. Will Q: How do you know what black model. It’s not that they’re have left. If you’re targeting a very A: More specifically, [affluent] African-American women we put a particular ad in a mag- trying to appeal to a black mar- expensive product to audiences that African-American women. want? azine because we know that our ket. Though it does. Its target is can’t afford that product, that might A: You determine it first and Pool party ends target audience reads that mag- Q: That’s interesting. Why the general audience. There are a make people feel offended. I see it foremost by asking them. azine? If we do an event, are just women? lot of things we do nowadays all the time with jewelry promoted Brooklyn bid “bon voyage” to the so-called Floating Pool Lady to young people, teenagers, college there local heroes who will res- A: If you look at research Q: Like focus groups? that’s more inclusive. I don’t on Sept. 13, as the barge-bound oasis set sail for New Jersey. kids. They certainly can’t afford to The wildly popular swimming hole spent two months at the foot onate and give something back data, women are making a lot A: Sure, focus groups. Looking think marketing to a particular to the community? have luxury purchases. of Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights, anchored at the site of of decisions about luxury pur- at trends, looking at what peo- ethnic group is offensive. You the Brooklyn Bridge Park condo, commercial and open space de- Q: So what is your strategy chases. They are rising in the ple are buying by demographic can make anything negative, de- Q: Like the way every kid now velopment. Next summer, the watering hole is expected to dock to help sell Lexuses to ranks of affluent, employed strata. It’s not as simple as 35- pending on the approach you must have an iPod? in the Bronx — unless those Brooklyn Heights residents throw African-Americans? professionals. And certain cars year-old Asians versus 35-year- take. If you approach a group as A: Right. their considerable weight around.

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