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faith in brooklyn Holy Week & Easter, p. 2. Purim, p. 4. Brooklyn’s Real Newspaper BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 834–9350 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2008 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DOWNTOWN–NORTH BROOKLYN AWP/16 pages • Vol. 31, No. 11 • Saturday, March 15, 2008 • FREE INCLUDING CARROLL GARDENS, COBBLE HILL, BOERUM HILL, FORT GREENE, CLINTON HILL, DUMBO, WILLIAMSBURG AND GREENPOINT SPITZ IN YOUR FACE High life BROOKLYN’SBROOKLYN’S comes at Are all high price By Gersh Kuntzman men pigs? SIX-MILLION-SIX-MILLION- The Brooklyn Paper Got $6 million? You could live Reports that Gov. Eliot Spitzer hired prostitutes was here. the talk of political insiders all week. But the man on The highest-priced apartment the street — in this case, the woman on the street — with the biggest balcony in the was talking about the story a little differently. Our in- tallest building in Brooklyn is now quiring photographer asked Brooklyn woman a sim- on sale, along with seven other so- ple question, “Would all men cheat on their wives if DOLLARDOLLAR VIEWVIEW called “Clocktower Residences,” at they knew they could get away with it?” the borough’s iconic Williams- burgh Savings Bank building. The for- mer head- More Real Estate at “I like to think they wouldn’t, quarters of but then again, seeing man af- dozens of ter man in power trying to get dentists is away with it, that brings it now causing .com home that they would.” a different kind of pain — but only — Sarah, Prospect Heights in the envious spleens of people who can’t afford such rarefied digs. “Look at this view!” said Bren- “Oh, not every man — about da Vemich, the director of sales for 60 percent of men would do the building, which is now called it. I’d like to think that 40 per- One Hanson Place, as she recently cent of men have a con- showed off Apartment 26, the low- science, though it could be est of the eight “Clocktower” apart- just a weak libido.” ments, but the largest thanks to its — Kimberly, DUMBO 3,000-square-foot terraces. Spilling out from windows on all sides were wraparound views of New York: the Empire State Building in a striking profile out the dining room windows, Lower Manhattan from the living room, the site of the Frank “Yes, they would. Just because See HIGH LIFE on page 13 they are men.” — Anna, Park Slope “No, not all men. Men who Bloomy pay-to-park plan pulls pols cheat are probably not happy at home or with themselves.” The mayor’s congestion-pric- parking permit plan should ease some outstanding issues,” said James. — Joanne, Park Slope By Dana Rubinstein The Brooklyn Paper ing proposal, which would that concern. DeBlasio called the mayor’s proposal charge $8 to enter Manhattan, Indeed, hours after the may- “a step in the right direction.” Mayor Bloomberg unveiled a residen- “No. There are plenty of men has been under fire from or’s announcement on Wednes- “This is certainly one of the things I tial parking permit plan on Wednesday to Brooklyn elected officials for ig- day, skeptical Councilmembers said would have to happen for me to even in the world who respect what bolster his controversial proposal to family and marriage is. … But noring the possibility that Letitia James (D–Fort Greene) consider supporting congestion pric- when they’re in a position of charge Manhattan-bound drivers a many drivers would avoid the and Bill DeBlasio (D–Park ing,” he said. power, they think they can get “congestion-pricing” fee — and fee by parking in and around Slope) both said they were now James and DeBlasio aren’t away with it.” the permits quickly had the de- Downtown Brooklyn and con- more likely to vote in favor of the only ones altering their sired effect, swaying two am- tinuing their commutes from congestion pricing. stances. The city’s sudden call — Rebecca, Park Slope bivalent Brooklyn lawmakers there. “I’m leaning more towards for parking permits is itself a toward supporting the fee. Officials said the residential supporting it, but I still have Interviews and photos by Noelle D’Arrigo See PARKING on page 5 Another Ratner lie! Gedouddaheah! Better Now that Bruce Ratner has been caught lying about his starchitect Frank Gehry’s birthplace, we thought it wise Gehry was NOT ‘born in Brooklyn’ to offer this handy chart to honor the genuinely Brook- By Gersh Kuntzman The lie was hiding in plain pointed out, “the born-in- lyn born and mock the poseurs: The Brooklyn Paper sight on Ratner’s Atlantic Yards Brooklyn connection [is] a off dead? Web since at least 2004. The fabrication designed to further BORN IN BROOKLYN NOT BORN IN BROOKLYN Atlantic Yards developer Web page — www.atlanticyards. make the Gehry design palat- Gold’s Horseradish Hellman’s Mayonnaise Bruce Ratner has been com/html/ay/gehry.html — said able to the local community.” caught in another lie: His star that Gehry was “born in Brook- There is no doubt that Actor Scott Baio Architect Frank Gehry architect Frank Gehry was lyn, New York, in 1929.” Gehry was indeed born in Mobster Henry Hill Mob buster Eliot Ness not born in Brooklyn, as Rat- The lie might have remain Canada, not Brooklyn, thanks Comedian Woody Allen Comedian Jerry Seinfeld ner has long claimed. concealed on the widely un- to a transcript of a 2004 Rocker Pat Benatar “Focker” Dustin Hoffman Gehry’s birthplace would read official Atlantic Yards episode of National Public Ra- not be all that newsworthy site, but a Ratner lawyer re- dio’s “Fresh Air.” Mango P. / Gregory Failed presidential candi- Failed presidential candidate were it not for the fact that peated the lie in court in Janu- “You were born in Toron- date Rudy Giuliani Mike Huckabee Ratner touted Gehry’s sup- ary — prompting the Atlantic to,” interviewer Terry Gross Legendary basketball star Not so legendary basketball posed Brooklyn origin as evi- Yards Report to pounce. said, by way of opening. Michael Jordan star Quentin Richardson dence of his 16-skyscraper Journalist Norman Oder “Yeah,” said Gehry in re- Pro wrestler Steve “The Pro wrestler George “The project’s outer-borough roots. said the lie “can’t be an honest sponse. Brooklyn Brawler” Lawrence Animal” Steele But Gehry was born in mistake,” citing architecture “And [then] you move[d] Paper file The Brooklyn Future Gov. David Paterson Future ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer Toronto. In Canada. critic D.J. Huppatz, who once See LIES! on page 5 Gehry: Toronto, not Brooklyn. Coney Island rides again! Bachner / Jeff BEGINS ON PAGE 7 By Dana Rubinstein The Brooklyn Paper Amusement operators will unleash the Cyclone and whirl the Wonder Wheel nearly a month early for Paper The Brooklyn what may well be the last summer on Coney Island as Maxx, a pit-bull-mix, was saved by the Brooklyn Animal we know it. Foster Network, which has been cut off by the city. Against a backdrop of secretive negotiations between developer Joe Sitt, who owns most of the amusement / Adrian Kinloch district, and the city, which wants to buy his land Ban on Slope group could and turn it into a city-owned amusement park, the well-worn “People’s Playground” will mean death for pound dogs kick off its season this Sunday. The early opening was Paper The Brooklyn By Dana Rubinstein sparked by an unusually The Pontani Sisters led a raucous burlesque show at Park Slope’s Southpaw on The Brooklyn Paper See CONEY on page 14 Saturday night to raise money to fight a developer’s plan for Coney Island. The city has banned one of Brooklyn’s largest animal foster groups from saving dogs and cats from euthanasia in city shel- ters, sparking an outcry among animal lovers from Park Slope to Williamsburg. The Park Slope-based Brooklyn Animal Foster Network, which NYU LANDS IN BKLYN has rescued more than 1,000 dogs and cats in its two years, was banned in November because “there were numerous complaints,” By Mike McLaughlin Poly, an engineering and technical college. said Charlene Pedrolie, the new head of the Center for Animal and Emily Lavin “This perfect fit between two great univer- Care and Control, which put down 15,768 cats and dogs last year. Pedrolie refused to elaborate. The Brooklyn Paper sities will preserve and enhance Polytechnic’s HBO / Kent Eames commitment to top-tier technology, education The result of the ban is “the needless euthanasia of adoptable Downtown Brooklyn will become the and research,” said Jerry Hutlin, president of animals,” said Network Executive Director Laurie Bleier, whose Paul plays John / Sam Ferri first outpost of an emerging New York Uni- the 154-year-old Jay Street–based university. group was one of 150 that work with the Center for Animal Care versity empire, thanks to last Thursday’s The Poly board’s vote to merge with NYU and Control to get animals adopted. More groups, not fewer, are GO Brooklyn talks with Brooklyn Heights’ Paul vote by Polytechnic University to be ac- came one month after a similar vote was needed if the city has any hope of cutting back on the still-high Giamatti about his revolutionary performance in quired by the Manhattan school. abruptly postponed amid allegations that euthanasia rates, animal advocates said. HBO’s “John Adams,” which debuts on Sunday, The unification will bring Manhattan prices some board members had conflicts of interest, Bleier, who has been rescuing animals for more than 20 years, March 16. See story on p. 7. Paper The Brooklyn — and higher academic credentials — to See NYU WANNA POLY on page 13 See SAVE THE DOGS on page 14 2 AWPfaith THEinBROOKLYN PAPER • WWW .BROOKLYNbrooklynPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 March 15, 2008 < Holy Week s Easter Happy Easter — now, FIRST UNITARIAN Resurrection CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY Sunday and next month, too! BR KLYN By Dana Rubinstein Protestants typically come from The Brooklyn Paper Western Europe.