Faith in Brooklyn Holy Week & Easter, P. 2. Purim, P. 4
faith in brooklyn Holy Week & Easter, p. 2. Purim, p. 4.
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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,
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By Dana Rubinstein Protestants typically come from The Brooklyn Paper Western Europe. All differences aside, the 6:00 am Easter Sunrise Service While Brooklyn parish- Eastern Orthodox, Catholic and Pastor Miller will be the speaker ioners from Grace Church in Protestant celebrations of Easter Brooklyn Heights to Lafayette (Breakfast will be served) bear much in common. MUSIC Avenue Presbyterian Church First: they’re both celebrat- 8:00 am - Morning Worship in Fort Greene dye eggs and ing a belief in the resurrection WISDOM festoon hats in preparation for of Jesus Christ. 9:15 am Easter Play Easter next Sunday, March 23, Mango P. / Gregory Second: the boiled egg. COMMUNITY thousands of Eastern Ortho- While Catholics and Protes- 11:00 am Morning Worship dox families must wait anoth- tants paint pastel eggs and hide er five weeks to celebrate the them in the shrubs for their= Revered Clinton M.Miller - Pastor resurrection of Christ. children to find, Eastern Ortho- EASTER Eastern Orthodox Christians dox Christians dye their boiled from churches like the Sts. Paper file The Brooklyn eggs red on the Thursday be- Constantine and Helen Cathe- There are some differences between the traditional Greek fore Easter. The red is said to dral on Schermerhorn Street in Orthodox Easter celebrations and the version practiced by have originated with Mary 11:00 AM Downtown Brooklyn won’t cel- other Christians, but one area of overlap is the Easter egg. Magdalene, who, according to MARCH 23, 2008 ebrate Easter this year until Here, kids enjoy an egg hunt. legend, gave a red egg to a Ro- April 27. man Emperor. BROWN MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH Why the five-week gap? Following the Sunday serv- It’s complicated, but it boils full moon following both the moon after the vernal equinox. ice, Eastern Orthodoz families spring equinox and Passover. Got that? Pierrepont St. at Monroe Place 484 Washingston Ave. | Fort Greene | 718-638-6121 down to one thing: as with the crack the eggs together in a sort Jewish holidays, the scheduling In the West, the Catholic and The church one belongs to is of competition. www.brownmemorialbaptist.org of Easter is tied to the lunar cal- Protestant churches, which split largely based on the geography Whoever manages to main- 718 624 5466 www.fuub.org endar. with the Eastern Orthodox of one’s ancestors. Eastern Or- tain the last un-cracked egg wins More precisely, in Eastern churches in the 11th century, thodox Christians typically orig- a prize (an intangible one, of Orthodox churches, Easter must celebrate Easter on the first inate in Eastern Europe, Greece course): a special blessing that is fall on the Sunday after the first Sunday following the first full and Russia. Catholics and supposed to last all year long. Zion Lutheran Church 125 Henry St. (near Clark) #2 Subway Paster Dr. George R. Muenich 718-625-2276 SALEM Hare today — and tomorrow! 9:30 Uhr Gottesdienst mit Abendmahl MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH “Christ has died, Christ is risen!” The Brooklyn Paper been something of a springtime the holiday because its reappear- ".)0-:$0..6/*0/ Santa Claus — but St. Nick’s ap- ance in early spring coincided A Carroll Gardens )0-:8&&,&"45&34&37*$&4 Rev. Dr. James A. Thornton, Pastor church is reviving a peal never fades because gift-giv- with Easter. secular tradition — a ing, no matter how hedonistic it On March 15, the Easter Bun- ."3$) ."6/%:5)634%": 1. can seem, is “associated with the ny will be at Sacred Heart–St. Ste- visit from the Easter Holy Communion HOLY WEEK 3/17 - 3/19 Bunny. public virtue of caring for chil- phen’s (108 Carroll St., at Hicks dren,” said Brother Owen Sadlier, Street in Carroll Gardens), 11 am. ."3$) (00%'3*%": 1. After parishioners got Tickets are $15 per person (kids a taste of life without the a philosophy professor St. Francis Tenebrae (Service of Shadows) UPPER ROOM SERVICE College in Brooklyn Heights. under 2 are free). Call (718) 596- chocolate-giving hare 7750 for info. ."3$) &"45&3&7& 1. Easter eggs were originally Thursday 3/20 last year, the fuzzy egg- And catch the hare at Our Easter Vigil: New Fire, Communion bearer will return to the hard-boiled rewards in dyed Lady of Perpetual Help (526 59th ."3$) &"45&3 ".'&45*7"-)$ GOOD FRIDAY Sacred Heart–St. Ste- shells for children for obeying the St., between Fifth and Sixth av- phen’s Church this Sat- fast in 17th-century German ar- enues) on March 31 from 9–11 VISIT OUR WEBSITE: WWW.ZIONGELC.ORG Friday 3/21 urday, March 15. eas. The hare was associated with am. Call (718) 492-9200. “Last year, we can- celled because there was EASTER SUNDAY SERVICES / Noelle D’ Arrigo no interest, but this year, Sunday 3/23 we already have 75 peo- ple confirmed,” said St. Join us for Stephen’s member John ALL SAINTS Heyer. EPISCOPAL CHURCH SALEM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Easter Bunny experts Paper The Brooklyn Celebrating 140 Years in Park Slope Brooklyn — and they are out there Bunny, Easter H;IKHH;9J?EDIKD:7O — say that the return of 305 East 21st Street · Brooklyn, NY the non-religious symbol defies pose with kids (though the Kings FIRST A.M.E. ZION CHURCH (718) 287-1783 the recent trend away from the Plaza Mall is bucking the trend 54 MC DONOUGH STREET · BED STUY once-omnipresent hare. Indeed, by booking the bunny through www.SalemBrooklyn.org fewer and fewer churches and March 31). shopping malls deploy a bunny to The Easter Bunny has always
Come Celebrate These Holy Days! St. John - St. Matthew-Emanuel PALM SUNDAY - March 16 - 10:00 am HOLY THURSDAY, MARCH 20 Procession with palms and reading of The Passion 8:00 pm, Solemn Mass of the Lord's Supper The Lutheran Church of Park Slope According to St. Matthew GOOD FRIDAY, MARCH 21 Maundy Thursday, March 20 10:00 am Morning Prayer 10:30 am & 7:30 pm: Service of Holy Communion MAUNDY THURSDAY - March 20 - 7:30 pm 3:00 pm, Liturgy of the Lord's Passion with Veneration of the Cross Holy Eucharist with foot washing followed 7:30 pm, El Via Crucis en Español Good Friday, March 21th by Agape meal HOLY SATURDAY, MARCH 22 7:30 pm: THE PASSION OF JESUS - An Eyewitness Account 8:00 pm, Solemn Mass of the Lord's Supper Moving dramatization featuring original music, GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY - March 21 EASTER SUNDAY liturgical dance and mixed choir 8H;7A<7IJ.0&& 12:15 - 3:00 pm RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, MARCH 23 Easter Sunday, March 23 9:30 am, English Mass and Children's Liturgy 11:00 am Festival Eucharist ;7IJ;HFHE:K9J?ED/0&&Wc EASTER SUNDAY - March 23 - 10:00 am 11:00 am, Misa en Español Lighting of the Paschal Candle and Festive Eucharist Rev. David C. Parsons, PASTOR 12:15 pm, English Mass for the Feast of the Resurrection of Our Lord Rev. Richard A. Miller, PASTOR EMERITUS CEHD?D=MEHI>?F''0&&Wc SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 7th Ave. at 7th Street (Across from Methodist Hospital) 283 Prospect Ave. (5th & 6th aves.) (718) 638-3343 Carroll Street & 6th Avenue · Park Slope DR. DARAN H. MITCHELL -PASTOR 718-768-1156 · www.allsaintsparkslope.com (718) 638-1880 · stfxbrooklyn.org 718.768.0528 www.stjme.org Holy Week at Plymouth
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Fisher, Senior Minister 4VOEBZ Bruce Oelschlager, Minister of Music NPSOJOHBN Sunday, March 16 • 11:00 a.m. Palm Sunday Worship Service nnn%Z_i`jkjZ_liZ_]fiYiffbcpe%fi^ Thursday, March 20 • 7:00 p.m. Maundy Thursday :FDDLE@KP% Communion Service HL I<8C18E<8JK 162 Montague Street (at Clinton Street) Brooklyn Heights · 718-522-5555 Open 7 Days a Week Fast, Free Delivery FREE $10 stoop DELIVERY min NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS COBBLE HILL The tropic of Chinese Cuisine & Vegeterian Nutrition No end in sight for crashes Fast, Free Delivery Williamsburg Open 7 Days A Week Party Orders Welcome s we watch whole blocks of North Brooklyn sacrificed to overdevelopment, it is good to see that the New York Land- State won’t fix treacherous BQE entrance ramp 15% Senior Discount marks Conservancy, a private group, is funding the restora- every Tuesday night (dine-in only) A 2/29/08 tion of writer Henry Miller’s boyhood home at 662 Driggs Ave. By Mike McLaughlin being on the state’s list of most dangerous Miller’s parents were following a path well worn by other The Brooklyn Paper roadways this year. The state has painted stripes to demar- FREE $10 German-Americans when they moved from the Upper East Side The state has no plans to improve a dan- BAM! DELIVERY min to Williamsburg shortly after Henry’s birth in the 1890s. They cate the lanes and installed a speed limit gerous entrance to the Brooklyn–Queens sign to remind drivers to slow down — but lived between Metropolitan Avenue and North First Street, until Expressway despite an accident rate 162 Montague St. 1901, when the neighborhood was beginning to be changed by rebuilding the on-ramp is hindered by the that’s six times higher than average, The Brooklyn Heights an influx of immigrants from the Lower East Side. nearby overpass, said Levine. Remembered by some as the Miller who perhaps should have Brooklyn Paper has learned. Werner Cohn, keeper of “BQE Watch,” (718) 522.5565/66 married Marilyn Monroe, Henry Miller rejected the bourgeois The westbound entrance to the highway at who has snapped 33 accidents since fax (718) 522.1205 (24 hr.) values of his parents and grew up Congress Street, just south of Atlantic Av- founding his blog in August, said the state to write funny, semi-autobiographi- enue, has been the site of 113 reported crash- Cohn Werner “should either close the entrance or think cal, utterly bannable books like BESIDE THE es in 2005 and 2006, largely due to a design Werner Cohn snapped yet another crash of something economically feasible.” “Tropic of Capricorn,” which pro- POINT flaw that is well known to state accident in- at the wild Congress Street entrance. Cohn’s crusade has roused activists. voked numerous obscenity prose- vestigators: there is no acceleration lane. “Clearly, they have a situation they cutions during the 1960s. As a “Small-scale improvements” like re- sign for drivers to accelerate to the 45 mile- know is unsafe — they admit is unsafe — DOWNTOWN young man, Miller managed to painting lanes and adding a speed limit per-hour speed limit before merging into and they’re doing nothing about it. That’s graduate from Eastern District HS sign were made in November, but “there’s three lanes of traffic. That flow has caused the unacceptable,” said Craig Hammerman, (now relocated and renamed the nothing more to add at this point,” said fender benders — plus countless more that district manager of Community Board 6. BROOKLYN Grand Street Campus), but could state Department of Transportation have gone unreported. The state has ruled out closing the en- not stomach the conventional at- spokesman Adam Levine. The structural defect has earned that trance, because emergency vehicles from PAINT SUPPLY mosphere he found at City College. There is literally zero feet after the stop stretch of the BQE the dubious distinction of nearby Long Island College Hospital need it. In the 1920s, having converted to HEADQUARTERS socialism and rejected most of what his parents’ America stood for, Tom Gilbert Miller did what so many American BROOKLYN HEIGHTS artists and intellectuals did — he went to Paris. There he lived with 10% OFF ® Anais Nin and wrote more books that were too sexually frank to be ALL STORE MERCHANDISE WITH THIS AD published in his own homeland. In 1940, George Orwell wrote of him: “Here, in my opinion, is the only imaginative prose-writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking The lobster is re-signed AMERICAN races for some years past.” Miller died in California in 1980. As much as Henry Miller reacted against his upbringing, he was By Ben Muessig of the Brooklyn Heights Blog. “It’s been HOUSEWARES stamped forever by the richness of his Williamsburg years, which The Brooklyn Paper here for many decades, so I thought, ‘Why he described as “full of accident and incident, drama, movement.” not try to save something as iconic as the 85 Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn In a 1971 interview in The New York Times, Miller recalled, A classic Brooklyn Heights restaurant lobster?’” “At the Driggs Avenue end of the street was a saloon and at the will turn off its lights for the last time this Fink led the “Save the Lobster” campaign Ê"«iÊÇÊ >ÞÃÊÊ7iiÊUÊ ÊUÊÇ£n®ÊÓ{Îän{{ other end a kindergarten. I remember the saloon because as a week, unplugging an iconic sign that has on his blog, drawing support from state Sen- child, I was often sent to get a pitcher of beer at the side entrance; glowed on Montague Street for decades. ate candidate Dan Squadron (obviously us- we called this ‘rushing the growler.’ … At the Bedford Avenue On March 16, the 72-year-old Armando’s ing the lobster as a springboard to office!), corner, was the police station where I was dragged by the arm Restaurant will serve its final meal before but the movement got stuck in a trap. one afternoon by the young lady whom my mother had asked to turning off that lobster sign, which neigh- “Initially there was a lot of support for the coming and we realized that if they put up a We Bring Italy take care of me. I must have been 6 or 7 years old; the crime I bors fought to preserve — albeit briefly. lobster, but it never turned into the kind of giant neon pickle it would be awesome!” had committed was to use dirty language in her presence.” “It’s a beautiful sign and it lights up the groundswell we anticipated,” Fink said. Spicy Pickle, a Denver sub franchise will To You! “On North First Street … we often played cat, or shinny [a base- whole block,” said Homer Fink, publisher “Then we found out that Spicy Pickle was open at 143 Montague St. early in the summer. ball-like game] and the aroma of fresh baked bread, crullers and doughnuts assailed our nostrils day in and day out. On the other HOME OF THE ORIGINAL side of Grand Street was Daly’s Fish Market, which also stands out NEAPOLITAN PIZZA vividly in my memory, particularly the man Daly, who was very PROSPECT PARK BOERUM HILL swarthy and hairy and, in my mind at least, seemed always to be opening oysters.” From the smoky recesses of its sailors’ bars to the sunlit East River ferry to the KITCHEN $60m for ice rink Hot Smith property excitement of its Vaudeville By Ben Muessig now,” which is fully funded, theaters, Williamsburg was By Ricky Barlin The Brooklyn Paper a place that never became SINK said Prospect Park Alliance Callan for The Brooklyn Paper m BRICK OVEN PIZZA spokesman Eugene Patron, Talk about a fixer-upper! too small for Henry Miller’s Get your / To Carroll Gardens: The $60-million renovation This sealed-up building on Carroll Gardens · 552 Court St. (at West 9th St) expanding imagination. tickets for the Carroll Gar- adding that elected officials will of Prospect Park’s rundown a hot Smith Street corner will 1 block from Smith/9th Subway Stop “Strangely enough, years dens Association awards din- help find more funding. later when I took up quar- skating rink into a multi-pur- The Alliance will also hit up someday be more than just a 718-875-1384 · Open Tues. - Sun. ner on April 16 at the Grand pose, year-round venue took a ters in Paris … I often ran Prospect Hall (263 Prospect the private sector for contribu- dead zone, thanks to a just-an- across streets which re- small step closer to reality last tions — indeed, Independence nounced plan by the Metropol- Ave., in Park Slope). … Paper The Brooklyn Clarett week, thanks to a private dona- minded me of that strange Group, which is developing the Community Foundation has itan Transportation Authority territory surrounding Metro- corner of Court and Union tion of $1.5 million. given $1.5 million for the cen- to sell it to the highest bidder. MTA will keep some equip- politan Avenue.” streets in Carroll Gardens, will Construction of the new ter, the first major private grant The agency has owned the ment — is up for grabs. And that “territory” is make a public presentation of “Lakeside Center” isn’t slated to the project. two-story structure at 166 The drab two-story build- currently being shored up, their plans on April 3 at 7 pm in to start until next year, but when To celebrate the Foundation Smith St. for a decade and ing at the corner of Wyckoff thanks to a Landmarks Con- PS 58 (330 Smith St., at Carroll it is finished, the current Woll- grant, kids of all ages got to use was using it as a base of oper- Street isn’t much to look at, servancy grant. Next, the Street), ending months of specu- man rink will give way to two the skating rink for free all day ations during repairs on the but zoning regulations will al- firm of Cutsogeorge, Too- lation about what is in store for state-of-the-art ice facilities that last Friday. nearby F and G trains. low developers to add an ad- man and Allen will install the former longshoremen’s med- can host a events, concerts and Prospect Park Alliance Presi- But now everything on the ditional three or four stories, replica cornices and original ical building. … Brooklyn educational programs. dent Tupper Thomas dubbed it, 5,000-square-foot site — ex- an MTA spokesman said. Site copper pieces. Heights: Roger Adler, a “Prospect Park is the heart of get this, “Independence Day.” cept the basement, where the visits will begin next month. Who knows? Maybe the longtime lawyer on the local Brooklyn, and the heart of owners of the building — scene, is seeking a civil court Brooklyn is made of ice,” said who wish to remain anony- seat. We wish him well … Con- Borough President Markowitz. mous — will set up a mini- gregation Mount Sinai on The $60-million renovation museum to this under-ap- Cadman Plaza West at Clark is about average for an under- preciated Williamsburger. Street has opened a play space taking of this kind, Parks Com- Tom Gilbert is a Green- with toys, books and games for missioner Adrian Benepe said. point writer. kids up to age 4. … Red Hook: But there’s nothing average Care Bears on Fire, fresh about this project, he added: from their sold-out shows at “This will be the greatest recre- the Brooklyn Academy of ation facility in Brooklyn when Music last weekend, are do- it’s finished.” Recycling one I’ll be your ing a Cartoon Network tap- And park officials are certain ing on Tuesday, March 18, 3 it will be, despite the fact that bridge from pm, at the Jalopy Theater only $23 million of the $60- on Columbia Street. million cost has been allocated. glass bottle where you are [email protected] “We’re in the design phase to where you saves enough want to be Pet Health energy to Questions? power a • Local & Long Distance Services • Airport Transportation Atlantic City, Foxwood and Ask Dr. Dendtler • Medical Pickup & Drop Off Mohegan Sun computer Casinos Providing Veterinary Care at for 25 minutes. 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This despite the fact that he had been SLOPEDENTAL.COM T seen by several witnesses, actually caught red-handed, with Ronald I. Teichman, DDS the woman. Some of his cronies thought he should stay on the job, others thought there was no way he could hold on to the re- an / Prospect Park Alliance an / Prospect spect of his followers. And then, finally, he made the only choice m he could under the circumstances — he resigned. Adel No, I’m not talking about our future former governor. In fact Kids got to skate for free last Friday while the Independence Community Foundation handed over a check for $1.5 mil- 100% Recycled the man in question isn’t, or wasn’t, I should say, a politician at & FSC Papers all. He was a minister who worked lion, which will go towards the $60-million renovation of the Wollman Rink and the surrounding area. Vegetable Inks right here in Park Slope, or, as they with Low VOCs called it back then “on the Park PS… Slope,” in 1911. I LOVE YOU We Print Stuff Chemical-Free But the parallels between his sto- CTP Production ry and the current scandale are re- Printed with markable. The Rev. Dr. E.B. Shaw, Rink donation not so dinky Wind Power the minister of the Memorial Bap- tist Church on Eighth Avenue and By Ricky Barlin lyn, then the heart of Prospect Park is made cure funding for the construction phase. 16th Street, was seen with the for The Brooklyn Paper of ice,” said Borough President Markowitz. The Alliance would also be hitting up the The $60-million renovation is about aver- private sector for contributions — Indepen- woman in Prospect Park — twice. The $60-million renovation of Prospect Brochures He claimed that he was merely age for an undertaking of this kind, Parks dence Community Foundation’s $1.5 mil- SPMMJOH!QSFTT Park’s rundown skating rink into a multi- Commissioner Adrian Benepe said. lion is the first major private grant to the an environmentally-friendly Postcards giving the girl “pastoral advice,” purpose, year-round venue took a small boutique print house and that he was giving said advice But there’s nothing average about this project. Catalogs step closer to reality last week, thanks to a project, he added: “This will be the greatest The Wollman Rink was built in 1961. in the park, rather than in the parish private donation of $1.5 million — the first house, because Mrs. Shaw was Wendy Ponte recreation facility in Brooklyn when it’s fin- Some believe that the rink did severe dam- Magazines outside grant for the ambitious project. ished.” age to Olmsted and Vaux’s pristine design of away on vacation and he didn’t Marketing Construction of the new “Lakeside Cen- And park officials are certain it will be, Prospect Park, but much of the area’s land- 718 625 6800 T want to compromise the young girl’s reputation. Yeah, right. Collateral The next day, a second article appeared in the Times. In this ter” isn’t slated to start until next year, but despite the fact that only $23 million of the scape will be returned to its original appear- 718 625 0669 F article, the young woman in question, a Miss Clara King, told re- when it is finished, the current Wollman rink $60-million cost has been allocated. ance as part of the Lakeside Center project. www.rollingpress.com Etc. porters, “Mr. Shaw never at any time caressed or kissed me or will give way to two state-of-the-art facili- “We’re in the design phase now,” which To celebrate the Independence Community held my hand, or made any effort to do any of those things.” The ties that can host a events, concerts and edu- is fully funded, said Prospect Park Alliance Foundation grant, kids of all ages got to use only thing they talked about, according to her, “was astronomy.” cational programs. spokesman Eugene Patron, who added that the skating rink for free all day on Friday. And, of course, provide hours of skating. park officials were confident that Brooklyn’s Alliance President Tupper Thomas dubbed INSIDE This despite the fact that three witnesses who followed them ON LOCATION The cool new views “If Prospect Park is the heart of Brook- elected officials would soon be able to se- it, get this, “Independence Day.” THE BROOKLYNITE into the park saw her head, easily identifiable by the very large At home with Danny Simmons BOOM TOWN Bedford-Stuyvesant is hot — again! white hat she wore, resting on his shoulder. THE REAL-ESTATE MAGAZINE FOR THE BOOMING BOROUGH MARCH-APRIL 2008 Brooklyn Both she, Mrs. Shaw, and the Rev. himself claimed that the Hot Prospect hierarchy in the church was corrupt and back-biting, and that the Brooklyn has its eyes on Richard Meier’s story was circulated on purpose in order to create a scandal. PARK SLOPE BAY RIDGE Manhattan-style ‘On Prospect Park’ Boom Sounds a bit like that old line, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman…” — not to mention any names or anything. When I look through the archives of the Times between the arrives years of 1851 and 1915 and search for “Park Slope” items, the Victory marches on first articles I come across are about how 1,000 Slope residents are suing the city for the cost of their plumbing problems, a spate By Loren Bonner requested an investigation after this week! of arsonists are setting fires all over the neighborhood, there is for The Brooklyn Paper revealing those FDNY statistics. He and others claim that the oth- Pick it up or visit an increasing demand for houses and apartments in the Slope, A rushed shutdown of Bay and someone is going around robbing doctors offices. er area hospitals can’t handle www.BrooklynBoom.com Ridge’s beleaguered Victory more ambulance runs. I can’t decide — is it comforting, or disturbing, that many Memorial Hospital was things don’t seem to change? For those who claim that Park / Adrian Kinloch thwarted last week when state Slope has lost its panache and become a snobby mommy’s officials released more than $1 haven, a sidewalk stroller park, it’s kind of comforting to be able to show that, in some ways, Park Slope isn’t so very different million to pay the staff. now than it was then. But then again, one hopes that some things The state Dormitory Author- ity had been holding up a loan Loose Dentures? do change. Hypocrisy, though apparently a part of human nature from then until now, just isn’t pretty. Paper The Brooklyn to pay doctors, nurses and sup- Wendy Ponte is a freelance writer in Park Slope. port staff on the grounds that GO AHEAD.... the agency would probably Drip master never get the money back from Eat what you want! Artist Mark Ravitz, whose cool drip art usually hangs off his the hospital, which went bank- Visit Dr. Tony Farha in the morning, building at 200 Seventh Ave., has installed a new piece in the rupt in 2006. But Rep. Vito Fossella have the “Mini-Implant System” placed in just-closed Park Slope Books. The artist said the piece will (R–Bay Ridge) said he con- soon adorn his building. vinced state officials to release less than two hours, then go out and enjoy your / Julie Rosenberg the $1.2 million so the hospi- favorite lunch. No more messy adhesive or pastes. tal’s emergency room could re- BAY RIDGE main afloat until its scheduled As recently demonstrated by Dr. Tony June 1 closing date. “We have averted a public on ABC & Fox News health crisis in southwest The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn Brooklyn,” said Fossella. Ridgites complain: Local lawmakers have been Sellouts! fighting since last year to keep the hospital open. The original • This advanced system is FDA-Approved. too many cellphones! closure date was set for Feb. 1, We saw this graffiti at the increasingly vandalized 15th • It is a one-step, non-surgical procedure. Street station in Windsor Terrace and wondered: When but a lawsuit has delayed the did vandals sell out to Madison Avenue? By Ben Muessig Last month, Verizon attempt- process. • No sutures, nor the typical months of healing. The Brooklyn Paper ed to compromise with the pro- Victory patients will be dis- • No pain or discomfort. testors by moving the antennas tributed among three busy hospi- Protestors in Bay Ridge are to the other side of the roof — tals — Lutheran Medical Center • Affordable (Payment Plans available and Insurance coverage) angry about their cellphones roughly 150 feet away from the in Sunset Park, Maimonides Dr. Tony is recognized as a Professor of the Mini Dental Implant. — but they’re not screaming school, said Verizon spokesper- Medical Center in Borough Park THE KITCHEN SINK for better service. In fact, they son David Samberg. and Coney Island Hospital — State Sen. Velmanette Montgomery (D–Park Slope) won the want less coverage! But demonstrators won’t be and opponents say Fire Depart- Call today for your FREE Consultation Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood of NYC, which More than 200 students, happy until the antennas are off ment statistics show that closing *ONLY $495 cited her support for medically accurate sex education as early as teachers, faculty and staff from the building — and far away. Victory’s ER would overburden FOR DENTURE! 718-833-6895 kindergarten. Safe sex and Velmanette Mongomery: Perfect to- PS 185 continued the battle be- “We don’t know if they’re those facilities. gether! … Our softball pal Martha Buckwalter is recruiting for tween Bay Ridge and cellphone safe,” said John Quaglione, a Meanwhile, the state Senate Limited Time Offer 461 77th St – Bay Ridge • 1412 Richmond Rd – Staten Island the 28-year-old Prospect Park Women’s Softball League, with try- towers last Thursday, demanding spokesman for state Sen. Marty Health Committee agreed to in- *with a puchase of MDI outs set for this weekend — March 15 and 16 — on the blacktop that Verizon remove the cellular Golden (R–Bay Ridge), who vestigate the situation. Sen. Mar- www.oraldentalcare.com field behind IS 51 on Fifth Avenue, at 8:30 am. If it rains, go next antennas it installed on an apart- participated in the march. ty Golden (R–Bay Ridge) had weekend. … They are the champions! As we predicted, the St. ment building across the street “To put them in the location Saviour’s girls basketball team won it all last week, 62–20, over from the school in December. where they are right now. Bishop Loughlin. Rosemary Burke had 28 points! … Our workout The demonstrators marched There’s just too strong of a pos- pals, Ben Kessel and Chris Maiurro from the Park Slope Fitness from the Ridge Boulevard Collective, are running in the Edinburgh Marathon later this month sibility that there could be to raise money for HOPE, a Brooklyn-based charity. … Peacenik pal school to a Verizon Wireless something wrong.” store on Fifth Avenue and 86th Bay Ridge has been the center Nora Gordon is at it again, organizing a protest to mark the fifth 9th Street Optical anniversary of the Iraq War (whatever happened to “Mission ac- Street, protesting the placement of a cell war for a few years, with complished”?) on March 19, 5:30 pm, at Grand Army Plaza. of antennas that they fear emit residents rallying against towers E-mail us at [email protected] harmful radiation. erected in the neighborhood. 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Portland Avenue and Han- Once inside, all three men re- Four teenage girls mugged The robber demanded the wo- hoods overpowered her, taking Cash and cigs son Place on Saturday at vealed handguns and demanded for NYPD another teen heading home man’s wallet at 6 am, but settled the purse. A burglar raided a Ninth around 8 am. She put up that the woman turn over her mon- for her cellphone before fleeing. signs all over, and even be- from school on March 3 at the Hot wheels Street deli on March 4, hauling ey and jewelry. She complied, and fore we could get our story corner of Hanson and South El- Book it A thief smashed into a house away thousands of dollars in the men fled from the apartment, By Mike McLaughlin in print, the owner contact- liott places. A mugger wrenched a back- on Hoyt Street, using a fire-hy- cash and cigarettes. which is between Havemeyer The Brooklyn Paper ed her and gave a picture- The four muggers ambushed pack from a boy on Clermont drant cover to crack open the Security cameras at the bode- Street and Marcy Avenue. The man accused of spray-painting swastikas through their 15-year-old victim at 3 pm, Avenue on March 5. front door on March 5. ga near the corner of Smith perfect description. As Brooklyn Heights and hoarding illegal weapons in his striking her repeatedly in the The pupil was between The crook shattered windows Street captured images of the Carjacked! Peaches and Herb once Remsen Street apartment was reportedly a paid police face, even beating her with her Greene and Lafayette avenues at on the front door, between War- thief breaking in through the A man pulled a driver out of sang, “Reunited and it informant. own schoolbag and knocking her 3 pm when a man of indetermi- ren and Baltic streets between front door at 3:30 am. his a car and drove off with it on feels so good.” Prosecutors admitted in court last Tuesday that Ivaylo to the ground. nate age snatched the bag, con- 7:40 and 8:30 pm, with the hy- The man took $1,000 cash, March 5. Ivanov, who is now facing life in prison on numerous hate The ruffians rifled her belong- taining textbooks, notepads and a drant component. plus 40 cartons of Newport and The driver told cops that he Marlboro smokes, worth $2,400. crime and arms charges, was hired by the Police Depart- ings and stole her cellphone and portable Sony Playstation. The residents returned home to was near the corner of Whipple — Mike McLaughlin Apple grapples ment to fence stolen goods to a Flatbush Avenue merchant, other gadgets, worth a total of — Mike McLaughlin discover that two mountain bikes Street and Throop Avenue at had been stolen, worth $500. around 7 pm when the thief ap- Criminals had a taste for ap- the New York Post reported. $750. Pratt attack Getaway proached and placed a hand on ples this week, snatching at least The lawyers had to drop the case against the business- 76th Precinct 90th Precinct the waistband of his pants. four iPods and iPhones: Three hoodlums roughed up A knife-wielding trio unsuc- man, Abdul Rehium, because Ivanov could not be consid- “Get of out of the car,” he said. • Five pugilists threw a man and robbed a college student on cessfully tried to mug a man on ered a reliable witness due to his alleged crimes. Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill Williamsburg–Bushwick The victim got out of the to the ground on the corner of St. James Place on March 4. Rapelye Street on March 3. Ivanov was considered a suspect in the September fren- 1993 van, the thief got in and Scholes and Lorimer streets on A 22-year-old man, en route Give it up The would-be robbers accost- Fake cops zy that laced Brooklyn Heights homes, synagogues and drove away, cops say. March 6 at 6:15 pm, punching playgrounds with 23 swastikas in one night, but he stayed to Pratt Institute, made eye con- Two men mugged a woman ed the 22-year-old victim be- Three gun-toting criminals him until he turned over his free until January. That’s when Ivanov accidentally blew tact with the wrong guys at 9 pm. near the corner of Degraw Street tween Hicks and Henry streets at impersonated cops late on March Cash only video iPod. off the tip of his finger, causing police to search his resi- The trio forced the victim up and Tompkins Place on March 1. 7:30 pm. Quickly appraising the 3, invading a woman’s home and A thief broke into a Grand • A crook mugged a man on dence, which was more like an armory. While in custody against the wall near the corner The purse-snatchers ambled situation, the victim bolted. The making off with $30,000 in cash Street restaurant on March 4 and the corner of Driggs Avenue and on weapons charges, he confessed to the anti-Semitic tear, of Lafayette Avenue, picking his up to the 29-year-old victim at muggers pursued, but the man and valuables. made off with nearly $5,000. Grand Street at around 6 pm on The burglar entered the Italian cops say. pockets to get his Blackberry, 3:10 pm and tugged at her bag, safely made it into his apartment The men trailed the woman as March 8, taking his iPod Nano iPod and wallet. commanding her to, “Let go!” on Rapelye Street before the she returned from a nearby bode- eatery, between Lorimer and and a cellphone, cops say. They sealed the deal by She held on tight, but the perps could catch him. ga at around 11 pm, pushing Leonard streets, overnight.. • A two-timing criminal asked a passerby for help on the corner of Maujer Street and Graham Avenue on March 8 around 11 + ./ 0 %0 pm, but when the Good Samari- tan offered assistance, the man pulled a knife and said, “Give %( 1 me what you got. Don’t do any- thing because I got a knife.” The criminal then reached into the victim’s pockets and snatched an iPod and $14, cops say. • A 1980s-loving thug in an 8- ball jacket wrestled an iPhone from a woman on March 9. As !" ### the victim strolled past the corner ###@ 1 of Roebling Street and Metropoli- tan Avenue after noon, the thug $ $ pounced, snatching the much- craved cellphone, cops say. $ % Gunnamed Two thugs introduced a man && ' (( to an acquaintance named “Feefee” — which turned out to ( % be their gun! The muggers approached the ) & (% ( % * man at around 3 pm on Kent Av- enue, between South Sixth Street +, -%, . and Broadway as he returned from work. %!23, 2" , “You know Feefee? You know Feefee?” one of the men 245, 6# 7 8 asked. Feefee turned out to be a handgun — and once she made ( ./ 0 % her dramatic entrance, the victim handed over $100. 339 % + . 7:#;# The muggers ran off. 693 84< =5 5 Burglarized A burglar went to work inside + 7(.+ a Graham Avenue apartment +> !1 = ?% #% while its tenant was at her job on March 4. at Kane St. The 37-year-old resident of the apartment, between Withers and Jackson streets, returned THURSDAY EVENING, March 20th from work at 8 pm and immedi- ately noticed that the rear bed- room door was slightly ajar. Someone had apparently sneaked in and stolen her 35mm camera, a lens, a Panasonic digi- tal camera, two pairs of gold ear- ring, and a iPod. PURIM EXTRAVAGANZA!!! — Ben Muessig Children ages 0-5 and parents Community room 6:30 - 7:30 pm 94th Precinct Music, Dancing, Crafts, Grogger Shaking & Haman Booing! Greenpoint–Williamsburg All FREE Bank heist Of Charge! A bandit stole nearly $5,000 from a bank at the corner of Chapel Service - 6:45 pm Manhattan and Greenpoint av- Joyous yet dignified, except for those fans of Haman who might enues on March 7. Police say that the 6-foot-2 lurk amongst us. Come and HEAR the Megilla. thief, clad in black from his Prospect heights baseball cap to his sneakers, ap- proached a teller window at Chabad of Prospect Heights about 11:45 am. Gone running Sanctuary Service - 7:15 pm 569 Vanderbuilt Avenue A thief stole a purse from in- A raucous, multi-generational assemblage of costumed revelers side a car that had been parked armed with a wide variety of noisemakers, and assorted — Thursday, March 20, 7:30 pm — on the edge of McCarren Park on March 3. instruments. Fun for families and children from 6-99! Megillah Reading, Masquerade & Italian Buffet The 25-year-old driver, who went to the park for a jog, had borrowed the car from a friend at around noon — and foolishly DijmesfoÖt!Qvsjn!Cbti left her purse on the front seat. — Friday, March 21, 10:00 am — When she returned a half- KANE STREET SYNAGOGUE hour later, the passenger-side Masquerade- prizes for all, Megillah Reading , Making window of the car, parked at the 236 Kane Street (between Court and Clinton Streets), Cobble Hill, Brooklyn northeast corner of Union and For more information contact: (718) 875-1550 or offi[email protected] Hamantashen, Face Painting & Story Telling Driggs avenues, was broken and the purse was gone. — Friday, March 21, 3:30 pm — Pickpocket A sticky-fingered thief snatch- 254 Flatbush Avenue ed a wallet from the bag of a young worker while she was Special Megillah Reading stocking the refrigerator at her DANNA BANANA Wythe Avenue office on March 7. The 27-year-old said she no- ticed her wallet missing at 10:30 PURIM CONCERT am, after withdrawing cash from it to pay the cabby who took her Sunday, March 16 at 11:45 am Park Slope to her workplace, which is be- tween North Third and North Congregation B’nai Jacob Fourth streets. Acclaimed children’s performer Danna Banana re- Money moved turns to CBE for a special Purim concert for kids 401 9th Street Cupholders are for coffee ages 3-8 and their families. His playful spirit, zany hu- cups, not cash — a lesson one mor and great voice won rave reviews here a few years — Thursday, March 20, 7:30 pm — furniture deliveryman learned all ago with his Bananukah Chanukah show. “Danna Banana too well on March 8 when some- one broke into his truck and stole manages to appeal both to younger kids and tweens… His Megillah Reading. Featuring: Small Wonder Puppet Theater $4,018 from his middle cup extremely funny lyrics will make listeners of all ages laugh (story of Purim-for children) Masquerade...Bruce holder. out loud.” Parness and Band.. Delicious Italian cuisine The Jersey-based victim, 28, ...Italian wine tasting pulled over to make a delivery to Danna Banana a.k.a. baritone Dan Cohen is an opera an address on Manhattan Av- singer, musical theater and cabaret writer- performer, and enue, between Nassau and Drig- Grand Prize winner in the prestigious John Lennon Song- — Friday, March 21, 7:30 am — gs avenues, at 2:20 pm. He locked the doors of his van be- writing Contest for his song “What Would You Do?” Megillah Reading hind him. When he returned nine min- The Tickets are $5 in advance, $7 at the door utes later, the right passenger door had been opened, and the For more information with any of the above call: money was missing. JOIN US FOR THE PURIM CARNIVAL FOLLOWING Lock-headed THE CONCERT, TIL 3:00 PM. FOOD, GAMES & FUN! Rabbi Shimon Hecht (718) 965-9836 Cops collared a 31-year-old thug for hitting someone with a lock during an argument on March 4. Congregation Beth Elohim CHABAD OF BROWNSTONE BROOKLYN The 7:20 pm incident inside a A fully inclusive community welcoming all Jews, their families and partners building on Skillman Avenue, between Debevoise and Kings- 8th Ave and Garfield Place · Park Slope · (718) 768-3814 land avenues, resulted in lacera- tions to the victim’s left hand and wrist. — Dana Rubinstein 4 PSZ, BRZ THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 March 15, 2008 Marauder, striking in Slope, grabs gal’s purse The Brooklyn Paper The purse-snatcher then 11th and 12th avenues was bro- Car burglarized camera, and Prada sunglasses — had been smashed and the items jumped in a Chevy Corsica with ken into by a thief who entered A 19-year-old man learned an worth $2,165 together — in the were gone. — Joe Jordan POLICE BLOTTER three other perps and sped away. 78th Precinct through the rear window without expensive lesson on March 6 — car, which had been parked near Roof slashed damaging anything. don’t leave expensive valuables the corner of 85th Street and 62nd Precinct Park Slope stolen credit cards, cops said. week, cops said: Someone slashed through the Once inside, he stole jewelry in plain sight in an unattended Fifth Avenue. A bad-ass perp jumped out The 39-year-old exercise buff • A 2000 Honda Civic, from roof of a car that had been and $500, and then fled through car. When he returned at 5 pm, he Bensonhurst of his 27-year-old maroon Ply- told cops he was sweating at the Sterling Place between Seventh parked on Ovington Avenue on the rear door. The man had left a laptop, saw that the driver’s-side window mouth to grab a woman’s purse March 9 and stole $2,000 worth Purse slip club, at the corner of Fifth Aven- and Flatbush avenues, where it A thief stole a woman’s pock- on 14th Street on March 6 be- ue, at 8:30 am, before discover- was parked at 11 pm on March 3. of automobile equipment. fore hopping back into the clas- The car, a 2005 Honda, was etbook as she shopped in a Bay ing that his locker had been infil- • A Chevy Blazer on Fifth Av- Parkway department store on sic wheels and driving off. trated. enue on March 6 from near the parked between Fourth and Fifth avenues, and was also stripped of GUNMAN! March 7. The 38-year-old victim told Horse thief corner of President Street. Man in easy-to- The 68-year-old was in the cops that she was on the block • An Econoline van from 10th car seats and the gear shift before A thief removed a metal cash the owner returned at 10 pm. store, which is near Cropsey Av- between Sixth and Seventh av- box from a coffee bar on Sixth Street, between Second and enue, at around 2:30 pm. She enues at around 8:30 pm when Avenue on March 6 and took a Third avenues, where it was String of burgs spot jacket pulls gun on 2 placed her pocketbook in her the old car pulled up and the cash-filled box. parked at 7:30 am on March 3. At least one apartment and shopping cart, and turned her driver leaped out and grabbed The owner of the café, at the — Gersh Kuntzman two houses were burglarized last head for one moment as a group her handbag. corner of 12th Street, told cops week, cops said. By Gersh Kuntzman and said, “Give me the bag.” She did the Nancy Reagan, and the would- of middle-aged women sur- The woman, a well-known the thief entered sometime after 68th Precinct The first incident occurred on The Brooklyn Paper rounded her. When she returned go-getter at PS 107, put up a be perp fled. But minutes later, the same man 11 pm, but before the first work- March 6 at an apartment on 74th Two Park Slope women had run-ins with her attention to her bag, she no- fight, but the 6-foot perp was too ers showed up at 4:30 am the Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights Street near Shore Road. The jumped a woman on Butler Street. ticed it — and the group — was much for her, snatching the bag the same style-challenged gunmen in separate Cops say the 35-year-old Butler Street resi- next day. thief broke in through the front incidents on March 4, cops said. gone. The bag had contained and pushing his victim to the Rent rage Drive-by mug door after the resident left at 7 dent had just gotten to the door of her build- $380, including her credit and ground. A mugger grabbed a woman’s am and stole nearly $20,000 The first story had a happy ending, when a ing, also between Third and Fourth avenues, A con woman posing as a debit cards, police said. The victim told cops that she purse on 74th Street just after worth of Rolexes. 29-year-old woman refused to hand over her bag when the man in the fairly conspicuous jacket landlord stole $3,000 from a lost $85, and various credit midnight on March 7. Two days later, a Bay Ridge to the gunman, a teenager in a black jacket with pounced. This time, he didn’t say much, pre- Lottery scam would-be tenant by disappearing cards. Police say the 25-year-old vic- a white bull’s-eye on the back, who then fled. ferring to let the black handgun do the talking. Scammers used the old lottery with her security deposit, from a Parkway house was burglarized af- Bad workout tim was between Ridge Boule- ter the resident left at 7 am. Police She told cops that she had been walking on But even after seeing the gun, the victim re- trick to scam a woman into hand- building at Union and Sackett Carroll Street between Third and Fourth av- ing over $1,500 on March 3. A thief took advantage of a streets. vard and Third Avenue when she say the crook forced his way fused to hand over the bag, which contained gym rat’s routine, breaking into heard someone running up from through the rear door and stole jew- enues at around 10:30 pm when she noticed her expensive cellphone and passport. The The group of supposed “lot- his locker at a Ninth Street fit- Wheely bad behind her. Before she could es- elry, a camera, and a Coach bag. that the man was following her. When she thief again let the gun do the work, pistol tery winners” approached the 23- ness club on March 1, and ring- At least three cars were stolen cape, the man took the purse, Later that day, around 7 pm, a turned to confront him, he pulled out a pistol whipping the woman into releasing the bag. year-old on West Seventh Street ing up almost $5,000 on his off neighborhood streets last which held $550 and a cellphone. house on 66th Street between and Avenue O at around 3 pm and told her of their luck. That’s when the woman should have said, “Wow, con- gratulations,” and kept on walk- + ./ 0 %0 ing. Instead, she listened to their story, which involved needing %( 1 her to “hold” their “winnings.” But first, she needed to get her own money for them to hold — to show that she was trust- worthy enough. She rushed home and placed $1,500 — and jewelry — in a sock, and brought it back to the !" ### perps. They took the bag and ###@ 1 sent her into a store for them. When she was done with the $ $ errand, the thieves gave her back the bag and an envelope stuffed $ % with “cash.” Later, she returned home and && ' (( noticed that her purse, once so full of money and jewels, was empty ( % and the envelope was full of ripped up newspaper, police said. ) & (% ( % * Purse swipe Two thugs stole a woman’s +, -%, . pocketbook as she was walking on 19th Avenue on March 7. %!23, 2" , The 35-year-old was near 86th Street at around 11 pm 245, 6# 7 8 when the black-clad thugs ap- proached her from behind. ( ./ 0 % One told the victim not to 339 % + . 7:#;# move while another ripped the pocketbook from her shoulder, 693 84< =5 5 stealing her money, some elec- tronics and important paperwork, + 7(.+ police said. The two perps fled, running +> !1 = ?% #% towards Benson Avenue. at Kane St. Double wham Two apartments in and around Bensonhurst were robbed of THURSDAY EVENING, March 20th cash and jewelry within hours of each other on March 5. The first break-in occurred at around 8 am in an apartment on West First Street near Avenue P. The 33-year-old resident re- turned to find his door unlocked and $9,000 missing, police said. PURIM EXTRAVAGANZA!!! The second break-in was five Children ages 0-5 and parents hours later on Bay Parkway near Community room 6:30 - 7:30 pm 65th Street. Music, Dancing, Crafts, Grogger Shaking The 36-year-old resident re- & Haman Booing! turned to find his front door open, his bedroom ransacked, along All FREE with $1,000, electronics and jew- Of Charge! elry stolen, police said. — Michael Giardina Chapel Service - 6:45 pm Joyous yet dignified, except for those fans of Haman who might 77th Precinct lurk amongst us. Come and HEAR the Megilla. Prospect heights Prospect Heights Hits and runs Chabad of Prospect Heights There were at least two hit- and-runs in the neighborhood Sanctuary Service - 7:15 pm 569 Vanderbuilt Avenue last week, cops said. A raucous, multi-generational assemblage of costumed revelers In the first incident, a driver armed with a wide variety of noisemakers, and assorted — Thursday, March 20, 7:30 pm — smashed into a parked car on instruments. Fun for families and children from 6-99! Bergen Street, and then fled, Megillah Reading, Masquerade & Italian Buffet without even a note! The unfortunate owner of the damaged 2004 GM Cherokee DijmesfoÖt!Qvsjn!Cbti had parked it between Carlton Avenue and Sixth Avenue at — Friday, March 21, 10:00 am — 7:40 pm on March 3. When the KANE STREET SYNAGOGUE 38-year-old Bergen Street resi- Masquerade- prizes for all, Megillah Reading , Making dent returned the next morning 236 Kane Street (between Court and Clinton Streets), Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Hamantashen, Face Painting & Story Telling at 7:30 am, she found the front For more information contact: (718) 875-1550 or offi[email protected] end of her gray jeep smashed in. In the second incident, at 1 am on March 9, a driver rear- — Friday, March 21, 3:30 pm — ended a man’s 1999 Lincoln 254 Flatbush Avenue Town Car as he was waiting in an Atlantic Avenue left-turn lane Special Megillah Reading to cross onto Classon Avenue. DANNA BANANA The culprit simply continued eastbound on Atlantic Avenue. The victim was quick-witted PURIM CONCERT enough to record the culprit’s li- cense plate. Sunday, March 16 at 11:45 am Park Slope Bergen punch A hooligan punched a Bergen Congregation B’nai Jacob Street resident in her head in Acclaimed children’s performer Danna Banana re- front of her apartment on March turns to CBE for a special Purim concert for kids 401 9th Street 7, knocking her to the ground ages 3-8 and their families. His playful spirit, zany hu- and stealing her belongings. mor and great voice won rave reviews here a few years The 23-year-old victim had — Thursday, March 20, 7:30 pm — just left the bodega on the corner ago with his Bananukah Chanukah show. “Danna Banana Megillah Reading. Featuring: Small Wonder Puppet Theater of Underhill Avenue and Bergen manages to appeal both to younger kids and tweens… His Street, and was heading home at extremely funny lyrics will make listeners of all ages laugh (story of Purim-for children) Masquerade...Bruce 8:30 pm, when a strange man out loud.” Parness and Band.. Delicious Italian cuisine approached her, punched her in ...Italian wine tasting the back of head, knocking her Danna Banana a.k.a. baritone Dan Cohen is an opera to the ground, and demanded her singer, musical theater and cabaret writer- performer, and wallet and phone. — Friday, March 21, 7:30 am — She complied, and he fled east Grand Prize winner in the prestigious John Lennon Song- toward Underhill, taking her $50 writing Contest for his song “What Would You Do?” Megillah Reading red wallet, her credit and debit cards, her California driver’s li- The Tickets are $5 in advance, $7 at the door cense, her cellphone, and $10. Crazy love For more information with any of the above call: The ex-girlfriend of a Sterling JOIN US FOR THE PURIM CARNIVAL FOLLOWING Place resident threatened him THE CONCERT, TIL 3:00 PM. FOOD, GAMES & FUN! Rabbi Shimon Hecht (718) 965-9836 with violence unless he stopped dating other women, said cops. The 41-year-old resident of the apartment, between Under- Congregation Beth Elohim CHABAD OF BROWNSTONE BROOKLYN hill and Washington avenues, A fully inclusive community welcoming all Jews, their families and partners said that on March 3, his 24- year-old ex-girlfriend, who’s a 8th Ave and Garfield Place · Park Slope · (718) 768-3814 sizeable 6-foot-2, inundated him with threatening phone messages all day. — Dana Rubinstein March 15, 2008 THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 AWP 5 REMAKING BROOKLYN NAMING NAMES Name game being played at park, school Geo.Washington may PS 230 would erase volunteer retake Park Slope’s J.J. Byrne Park to honor unsung Civil War ‘hero’ By Mike McLaughlin ington and the rest of the rag-tag By Mike McLaughlin The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn Paper American army was able to flee across Gowanus Creek and to A family is fighting to keep Tale of the tape In a bid to rewrite a wrong- safety in Manhattan. their mother’s name on the el- ly re-written history, a group “We’re merely changing the ementary school where she Parents at PS 230 in Kensington are considering stripping Doris L. Cohen’s name from of Park Slopers wants to name of the park back to what volunteered and, in doing so, their school in favor of that of Clarence McKenzie, who died in the Civil War. Clearly the change the name of J.J. Byrne it originally had,” said Maier. block an effort to rechristen it school ain’t big enough for both these giants of history — but how do they compare in Park so that it re-honors its Perhaps, but let us take a for a pre-teen runaway killed a head-to-head smackdown? original namesake — the one moment to praise J.J. Byrne be- during the Civil War. and only George Washington. fore he’s buried forever. More than 30 years after be- DORIS COHEN NAME CLARENCE MCKENZIE The park, which is bounded Byrne was appointed to the coming the Doris L. Cohen El- by Fourth and Fifth avenues and borough presidency in 1926, af- ementary School — named for Borough Park, 1909 BORN IN DUMBO, 1849 Third and Fourth streets, is cur- ter the death of legendary Beep a woman who volunteered at rently named for an obscure De- Joseph Guilder. Byrne complet- / Noelle D’Arrigo the school and served on the lo- 67 AGE AT DEATH 12 pression-era borough president. ed the term and was re-elected cal school board for 25 years — The Beep vs. the Father of in 1929, but himself died in of- the four-story building on Al- Getting more LIFE’S WORK Playing the drum for our Country? That’s about as fice the following year. bermarle Road could soon be money for public marching Northern fair a fight as Ron Paul vs. John He’s credited with initiating honoring Clarence McKenzie, a schools. troops during the Civil War. McCain. or completing construction of Paper The Brooklyn 12-year-old killed in a musket And J.J. Byrne is the loser in the Municipal Building on Jo- J.J. Byrne Park, in Park Slope, may be renamed for George accident at an army camp in Cancer. KILLED BY Friendly fire. that metaphor, said Kim Maier, ralemon Street and the Central Washington (it was actually named for him until the 1930s). Annapolis in 1861, where he executive director of the Old Court Building (now Brooklyn was helping the Union cause as Then–Borough President MAJOR HONOR The drum and bugle corps of the Stone House, the recreated Criminal Court) on Schermer- a drummer boy. Howard Golden praised her at 13th Regiment erected his monu- 17th-century Dutch farmhouse horn Street. Longfellow School to the tacks catalyzed the naming Cohen’s adult children don’t school-naming ceremony. ment at Green-Wood Cemetery. in the park. His proclivity for grand con- School of Diverse Languages frenzy with more than 40 want their mother to take a “J.J. Byrne usurped the struction was foreshadowed by and Cultures. In Bedford- streets being co-named for vic- backseat to a juvenile Civil Portrait languished in school sto- MAJOR DISHONOR He was buried in unmarked park,” Maier said, explaining his previous work as Brooklyn’s Stuyvesant in February, resi- tims — but the curious case of War casualty. rage for more than decade; no grave until his remains were that the current site had been Commissioner of Public Works. dents put up signs on portions J.J. Byrne Park is an example “I don’t understand the point one knew it was painting of her. identified. Washington Park, the first pro- In that context, Maier’s sup- of Gates Avenue, re-naming it of a different force: the erosion of dishonoring my mother,” fessional baseball field in the port for the return of George after Sonny Carson, even of local memory. said Ellen Paskin, Cohen’s Cohen created her own house FUN FACT He had disobeyed his parents country, since the 1800s. The Washington is particularly iron- though the city had voted But the most famous man daughter. “You don’t name a divided — she was an active to enlist in the Army — and site earned the name because it ic, given that Byrne was the against the name change. with wooden teeth already has school lightly.” Democrat, but was married to a never got to tell them they was near a pivotal moment in borough president who rebuilt “The whole politics of re- phallic monuments, bridges and Her brother said renaming dedicated Republican! were right! the Revolutionary War. the Old Stone House in 1930. naming in New York has taken universities named in his honor, the Kensington school would Thanks to the heroic efforts of The possible switch at the off,” said Leonard Benardo, co- so why demote a Brooklyn send a message to kids that a group of Maryland soldiers un- Park Slope park is part of a author of “Brooklyn By Name: Beep whose memory will for- they “should be like this boy,” first Brooklynite to give his life to war, but she fought her bat- Wadsworth Longfellow in order der the command of General larger “name change fever” in How the Neighborhoods, Streets, ever fade? added JC Cohen. in the War Between the States. tles in the 1960s and ’70s, when to become the School of Di- William Alexander (don’t worry, the city. Last year, PS 94 in Parks, Bridges and More Got Because the public tends to The president of the parent He joined New York’s fightin’ city teachers went on strike. verse Languages and Cultures. he has a junior high school Sunset Park changed its name Their Names.” focus on historical luminaries. teacher association had no 13th Regiment after fifth grade, Cohen marched on Albany for Such re-namings are a caution- named after him nearby), Wash- from the Henry Wadsworth Benardo said the Sept. 11 at- “We place primacy on those problem with that. the highest level of public edu- school funding increases and ary tale for anyone who be- who represent the more signifi- “This boy was an unsung cation at the time, according to also helped get playgrounds, lieves history is set in concrete, cant progenitors of American hero,” said Nicholas Pisano, Pisano. gifted programs and pre-K but they’re completely legal un- democracy,” Benardo told The who is also a vice-president at The prepubescent Yankee’s classes set up at PS 230 and der current Department of Edu- Brooklyn Paper. Green-Wood Cemetery, where name is recognizable to the stu- other schools. cation regulations, which stipu- Hence, we remember only McKenzie is buried under a dents at PS 230, who learn Awareness of Cohen’s con- late that a school need only the people we would remember large monument. about him in the classroom tributions has faded over the retain its name for 10 year. PARKING PLAN… anyway. “I’m not saying a 12-year- while studying the Civil War years. Even her portrait had After that, it’s up for grabs. Naming everything after old should go off to war, but in and on trips to Green-Wood been taken down years ago In the case of McKenzie vs. Cemetery. (though it was recently re-dis- Cohen, the limelight might be Continued from page 1 George Washington or Thomas this day where most kids are Jefferson “limits our scope of plugged into their iPods, But McKenzie’s statue in covered by a custodian and re- big enough for both icons. Im- U-turn from a year ago. But [McKenzie’s story] brings Green-Wood is enough of an hung near the PS 230 entrance). passioned pleas by Cohen’s rel- the city’s refusal to consider how local history unfolded,” said Benardo. them back to a different reality. honor, Cohen’s family says. Es- No school name is safe from atives and a former colleague at the permit evaporated after the “It’s the message of citizen- pecially when renaming the revision, even if the honoree’s a meeting last Thursday swayed mayor unveiled a congestion The full Community Board 6 was scheduled to vote on ship and doing stuff for other school would require a dishon- achievements are well known. the PTA to delay a final decision pricing plan that elicited howls rechristening J.J. Byrne Park on people,” he added. or to their mother. Last year, PS 94, in Sunset as both sides work towards a from residents of neighbor- March 12. In fact, McKenzie was the She might not have gone off Park, jettisoned poet Henry compromise. hoods on the edge of the toll zone. Some Brooklynites wish the city had just stuck to its guns. “The necessity for residen- tial parking permits is mini- LIES! mal,” said Fredrik Anderson, a / Tom Callan / Tom Fort Greene resident. “With al- Continued from page 1 ternate-side-of-the-street park- with your family1 to a small ing four days a week in Fort mining town in Canada called Greene, people who commute Timmins,” Gross continued. can’t park here on any day but “Timmins, Ontario,” Gehry Wednesday. [And] residential Paper The Brooklyn responded. parking is so complicated and Mayor Bloomberg and Councilman David Yassky discuss There is no mention of so difficult to enforce.” parking at Bergen and Bond streets on Wednesday. Brooklyn in the entire tran- Aaron Brashear, a Green- script. wood Heights ac- It’s the second time in as Navigating the vast array of health care tivist, added that the Blasio, were undecided. many months that Ratner and plan was “just a Bloomberg says congestion his legal team have been caught services and resources can be confusing. bunch of bulls—.” pricing is necessary in order to lying. As reported in The “[If Park Slope BLOOMY ease gridlock in Manhattan as Selfhelp has the experience and knowledge Brooklyn Paper last month, a got parking permits] well as provide a new funding Ratner lawyer was forced to ad- suddenly Windsor in the’hood! stream for mass transit. mit in a court document that the to make sense of it all for you and your Terrace, Greenwood But a number of aspects of company’s claim of a tax rev- Heights, and Sunset mayor’s parking permit plan enue windfall was not an analy- loved ones...relieving you of the worry. Park would become remain unresolved. Officials sis by state officials but was parking lots,” said Brashear, incide with rush hours. said the Council would be left “Our proposed congestion merely concocted by Ratner’s who owns a car. to wrestle with issues like the paid consultant. “We’re already seeing peo- pricing plan will include a sys- price of permits, whether area Benefits: tem of setting up residential Some opponents saw the lat- ple do the park-and-ride in our merchants would get them, est Ratner lie as further evi- • area. And there’s no conges- parking permit zones, if the and whether a resident would 24/7 Care Management communities want them,” said dence that the developer “is tion pricing yet.” be able to get permits for mul- willing to manipulate reality to • But Transportation Com- Bloomberg, standing at the tiple cars. In-Home Assessments corner of Bergen and Bond promote his project,” said missioner Janette Sadik-Khan One thing remains clear — Daniel Goldstein, spokesman • said that 77 percent of the 350 streets in Boerum Hill, a parking in Brownstone Brook- Preservation of Assets neighborhood with a notorious for Develop Don’t Destroy people who attended a dozen lyn is difficult. Brooklyn. • city-held workshops approved lack of parking. Last year, a Transportation Access to our Home Care Network The mayor showed off a “If they manipulate basic, of a residential parking permit Alternatives study revealed easily proven facts, it’s not hard • program. sample street sign: “Resident that nearly half of the cars on Benefits & Entitlements Advocacy permit parking only, 10 am to to imagine what they do with Bill Harris, a Boerum Hill Seventh Avenue in Park Slope more opaque, easily manipulat- • resident, was one of them. A 11:30 am, Mon–Fri.” at any one time are looking for Customized Care Plan Many residents and elected ed facts like their convoluted fi- member of Community Board parking. nancing scheme, ‘affordable • officials in such neighbor- Crisis Intervention 2, he said permits “will help And a study commissioned housing’ plan, and their overall hoods have long seen parking all of Downtown a great deal.” in 2006 by the Downtown claims about the project’s ‘pub- “It will help us resolve the permits as a solution to the Brooklyn Partnership revealed lic benefit.’ ” parking problems that we have problem. that at any given time, Fort Then Goldstein showed a bit here,” said Harris, though he But their excitement about Greene has 1,759 cars trolling of compassion towards Gehry, added that the city would also Wednesday’s announcement for 1,089 spots, while Boerum the architect. have to follow through on the was dampened because the Hill has 1,996 cars looking for “I wonder if Frank Gehry mayor’s commitment to cut fate of parking permits is tied 1,769 spots. approves that his history — the down on city employees with to congestion pricing plan, Councilman David Yassky fact of his birthplace — is being parking passes. which faces huge barriers in (D–Brooklyn Heights), one of manipulated and used to score Supporters also point out Albany — if it ever gets to the the staunchest supporters of some twisted Atlantic Yards PR that a number of other cities, state legislature from the City residential parking permits, re- point,” Goldstein said. including Washington D.C. Council, that is. mains optimistic that conges- The extent of that “manipu- and Chicago, have similar res- A New York Times poll in tion pricing, with the permits, lation” is limited, however. idential parking permit plans. early March showed that only will at least pass the Council. Gehry’s office confirmed that The residential parking per- 12 of the city’s 51 Coun- “I think it’s more likely than the architect was indeed born in mit plan would allow commu- cilmembers were prepared to not,” said Yassky, who is run- Toronto, but added in an e-mail, nity boards to propose zones vote for the legislation. Twen- ning for Comptroller next year. that the visionary “lived in where parking would be off- ty, including James, said they “The way I count votes, a ma- Brooklyn from the age of 1–2 The right care at the right time… limits to all but residents dur- would vote “no.” jority of the Council will vote years old at Flatbush and Av- ing 90-minute periods that co- Another 11, including De- to support the plan.” enue J.” Gehry’s spokeswoman, Jill Konek declined to comment for the ones you love. further. WE ARE OPEN! COME CHECK IT OUT!! And by week’s end, the con- troversy seemed to be settled. A return visit to the Atlantic Yards Web site showed that THE Family Food & Fun Ratner had finally updated it to reflect the truth: It now reads merely, “Born in 1929.” It no longer mentions any Brooklyn connection for Gehry. Forest City Ratner spokes- man Loren Riegelhaupt admit- ted the error, but said, “The re- Over 70 Years of ality is that it was simply a for miscommunication between his For more information: Caring Generations office and ours. He evidently lived in Brooklyn briefly at one Call (800) 935-3701 point, but was not born here. SPOT We apologize for any confu- sion and have corrected the Or visit us online at www.selfhelp.net Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner 81-83 Atlantic Avenue (near Hicks) Web page.” Open 8:00 am to 9:30 pm — 7 Days a week 718-923-9710 “[We] appreciate you keep- ing us on our toes,” he added. 6 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 March 15, 2008 OUR OPINION ALL DRAWN OUT Character does count NEWS ITEM: The Red Hook food vendors are saved — and Sen. Chuck Schu- mer, a supporter, is overjoyed. he personal IS political. That old It’s not easy to summon up all the missed deflect attention from his failings and stick T1960s-era women’s movement mantra opportunities and failures that occurred be- to noble words about public good and comes to mind anew, thanks to the cause of our leaders’ weaknesses: ideals. But the keys to anticipating this abrupt resignation of Gov. Spitzer. Would we have universal health care cov- week’s meltdown were visible to anyone On Monday, when his fate was still in his erage if Hillary Clinton had not been so se- who cared to examine the man’s personal — and his wife and advisers’ — hands, cretive? history, one that included constant abrasive- Spitzer issued a brief apology in which he Would we be entering the fifth year of a ness and a well-reported — though soon- said, “I do not believe that politics, in the seemingly endless war in Iraq if President forgotten — lie about how his first run for long run, is about individuals. It is about Bush was not prone to cowboy diplomacy? attorney general was financed. ideas, the public good and doing what is Would John Kerry now be president if he We are reminded again how dangerous it best.” didn’t wimp out amid specious attacks about is to believe that a candidate’s stated ideals On this, the future former governor is his patriotism? alone are important when picking our lead- just as mistaken as he was when he appar- Would 9-11 have ever happened if Bill ers. As history has shown, a liar is a liar is a ently believed he could hire prostitutes, Clinton had been more focused on the world liar — and those lies inevitably pollute book hotel rooms under a friend’s name, instead of that woman, Miss Lewinsky? whatever ideals the candidate says he’s pur- transfer tens of thousands of dollars and Too often, the media is criticized when it suing. avoid detection. probes too deeply into the personal lives of As posters in a Brooklyn, Iowa school- Spitzer’s denial notwithstanding, politics politicians — but time and again, we are re- house declared during the caucuses there: IS about individuals — indeed, their petti- minded that the supposed great men (and “Character counts.” ness, stubbornness, vindictiveness and other women) of history are nothing but normal The saddest part of the Spitzer Affair is ng character flaws are exactly the reasons why human beings, full of flaws. the reminder that most elections give voters i all too many efforts to do “what is best” end As such, elections are, rightly, the time to only one option: to choose the candidate an Flem up turning into cut-your-losses compromises examine these flaws. whose personal failings will be the least- i st or complete policy failures. In his ignominious fall, Spitzer sought to damaging to the public good. i Cr LETTERS Paper’s bottled-water story is drink for thought To the editor, rope, plus Japan, that fluoridated their water How is it possible that that church was rent mayor adhere to this “market fundamen- they were once children, but it is nice once in and supermarket clerks, auto mechanics, nurs- Your article about the Park Slope Food and then stopped. People who have decided never landmarked? That’s a shame for talist” credo that boils down to “privatization.” a while to just eat a hot meal without hearing, es aides, etc. — will ultimately be displaced Co-op’s proposed ban on bottled water to avoid fluoride are not going to change everyone in the neighborhood. If left unchecked they would privatize “Mommy, mommy, mommy” all the time. by the long-term effects of this project? (“H2-Whoa!” March 8) states that New their minds. And fluoride filters — which Paul A. Toomey, Bay Ridge the water supply (which already happened P.S. The prices aren’t that bad, either. 2) When does the city plan to upgrade York City tap water is “generally better” start at $159 — aren’t feasible for renters. in some townships in Maine). Theresa Monforte, Bay Ridge the area’s water and sewer systems? than bottled water. This is only true if you People wanting to see bottled water In California, where they have more ex- 3) When will Con Edison upgrade the ignore the fact that New York City water banned will argue that there is waste in the Don’t ‘PAVE’ PS 15 perience with charter schools, studies failed electrical network? contains chlorine, fluoride, and, here in Park packaging. If this is their primary concern To the editor, to show any significant improvement in Gersh’s Nader nadir 4) When will Verizon upgrade the com- Slope, very possibly lead. And the Associat- then a lot can be done without banning wa- Red Hook’s PS 15 an example of what a charter schools. To the editor, munication systems? ed Press has reported that our tap water con- ter. To start. the Co-op could sell water only good public school can do (“Parents win: Ed- In general, charter schools drain funds I was very disappointed to see Gersh 5) When will the city finally repair the tains trace concentrations of heart medicine, in gallon sizes or larger. ucation Department agrees not to add charter from the public school budget and siphon it Kuntzman had resorted to Nader-bashing in flushing system for the Gowanus Canal? infection fighters, estrogen, anti-convul- Ironically, the Co-op currently sells many school to Red Hook’s PS 15,” Downtown to private companies; are not truly account- his most recent column (“Nothing for Nad- 6) Where will the children of the pro- sants, a mood stabilizer and a tranquilizer. products with excessive packaging — the edition and online, Feb. 23). able to the public; are selective and often er; This time, donors won’t give a dime,” ject’s residents go to school? The proponents of banning bottled water most egregious example is Glass Plus. The The school was on the mayor’s list of steal the best students; are actually under- The Brooklyn Angle, March 8). 7) Where will the residents of this project at the Co-op have argued that you can buy a Co-op does not sell refills, so customers most-improved schools. The current princi- funded because they receive only 80 per- Nader-bashing is this election year’s eas- shop and how will they get there? filter. Chlorine is easy to filter out. Fluoride find themselves throwing away perfectly pal is pro-active. The combination of a ded- cent as much funding per student as regular iest sport. 8) If the city is trying to discourage the is much harder. Now, some may argue that good sprayers. icated staff, a strong PTA and an involved public schools. But it’s unfair: The Democrats, hugging the use of automobiles, why does this project ingesting fluoride is good for you, but there People who want to avoid city water are community, has made the school a good ex- That’s why I am opposed to the charter middle of the road with the fervor of baby include 260 parking spaces? is no shortage of Web sites pointing out the not going to start drinking it if the Co-op ample of how, without any gimmicks, a school at PS 15. lemurs, have suddenly discovered “change.” Bob Ohlerking, Park Slope lack of benefits and the toxicity of fluoride bans bottled water. They will instead buy it good public school can work. Paul van Linden Tol, Red Hook Well, Ralph Nader has been talking — compounds. elsewhere. Don Wiss, Park Slope The city arbitrarily decided to house the To the editor, Wikipedia lists seven countries in Eu- and effecting — change since the Year of charter school PAVE at PS 15. The charter We’d like to keep our local public school the Pinto. Just ask yourselves: When it free of charter school leeches, thanks. Smartmom’s toys school would capitalize on the good foun- comes to real change, who’s the chump and To the editor, Privatization in education is the worst en- Saints marching in dation that had been laid by the teachers, who’s the champ? I loved Smartmom’s recent column on Send a letter Your story about the ongoing protests at principals, PTA, the community and the emy of democracy that exists. The Depart- ment of Education needs another overhaul, Lehman Weichselbaum, DUMBO the new sex shop in Park Slope (“Grown- the Green Church (“Jazzy funeral for a parents. It would skim off the cream of the ups need their toys, too!” March 8), but I By e-mail: [email protected] church,” Bay Ridge edition and online, students and force the school to have larger too. Emily Brown, Red Hook wonder if she has ever explored the won- By mail: Letters, The Brooklyn Paper, March 8) reminded me of the famous quote classes per teacher. ders of a dildo attached to a Milwaukee 15- 55 Washington St., Brooklyn, NY 11201. from the Vietnam era: “We had to destroy The city is only partly to blame. Al- ‘Toll’ for thee? amp cordless drill. All letters must be signed and include the village to save it.” though charter schools existed in the 1960s, Bar-bysitting To the editor, the writer’s home address and phone It’s a shame nothing can be done to save they have now become a hallmark of Re- To the editor, In reviewing the plans of the up-market Patrick Bateman, Manhattan number (only the writer’s name and neigh- a beautiful church and a historic piece of publican administrations in an overall effort Your front-page story about bars that offer project the Toll Brothers wish for the Editor’s note: This is not the first time we’ve heard this borhood are published with the letter). question. And while we confess our own curiosity about Letters may be edited and will not be Bay Ridge. I’m sure the corner of Ovington to privatize the public institutions including babysitting (“‘Sitting’ at the bar,” March 8) Gowanus area (“Revolt against this ‘Toll,’” Smartmom’s proclivities, we would ask you to write di- returned. The earlier in the week you send and Fourth avenues will look great with an- the schools as much as possible. highlighted a very nice service. March 8), I have the following questions: rectly to Smartmom through her Web site, “Only the your letter, the better. other Fedders coop or con–do. Both former Mayor Giuliani and the cur- Yes, people should always remember that 1) How many of the working poor — store Blog Knows Brooklyn.” INSIDE DINING | PERFORMING ARTS | NIGHTLIFE | BOOKS | CINEMA EVENTS Mango . / Gregory P / Gregory The Brooklyn Paper file The Brooklyn Green acres By C.W. Thompson for The Brooklyn Paper ith St. Patrick’s Day falling on Monday, March (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings March 15, 2008 17 and the first day of spring arriving on March W20, there’s plenty to celebrate this week. From the must-see parades in Park Slope and Bay Ridge to the bars and restaurants throwing parties borough-wide, this St. Patrick’s Day has a whole lot of revelry rolled into it. And while classic Irish spots like Farrell’s in Park Slope are always good for a green beer, we’ve found even more places to celebrate. Parades About Adams The Park Slope St. Patrick’s Day Parade assem- bles at noon on Sunday, March 16 at Prospect Park West and 14th Street. The parade will snake up to 15th Street and over to Seventh Avenue where it will turn right, head to Union Street and then back to Founding Father sacrificed to nurture new nation Prospect Park West. This year’s St. Pa- By Lisa J. Curtis trick’s Day Parade in GO Brooklyn Editor Bay Ridge doesn’t take place until Sunday, f politicians think they have a hard life in March 30. Following a 2008, they need to watch HBO’s “John 9:30 am mass at St. Adams” miniseries, debuting March 16, Patrick’s RC Church I Callan / Tom to feel ashamed. (9511 Fourth Ave. at A certain governor’s infidelity comes to 95th Street), the parade mind when watching this sweeping 18th-cen- will begin at noon at that tury-centered epic, which sheds light on the intersection, move to forgotten accomplishments — and fidelity! — Fifth Avenue and then of Founding Father John Adams (Paul Gia- head to its final destina- The Brooklyn Paper file The Brooklyn matti), his public service and the personal toll tion of 59th Street. At 3 his self-sacrifice exacted on his marriage to pm, a party and raffle will be held at the grandstand Abigail (Laura Linney) and his four children. on Fifth Avenue at 75th Street. Adams, who ultimately became the second For information on both parades, visit www. president, spent years separated from his fami- saintpatricksdayparade.com/ny/index.htm. ly while serving his country. Initially, he leaves Bars them at their Massachusetts farm surrounded HBO / Kent Eames by skirmishing British troops and the Sons of Eamonn’s will feature corned beef and cabbage Liberty and makes the arduous journey to wanted to convey that sense of the enormity of lough’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book. and Gaelic steak (a steak with whiskey cream sauce) Philadelphia to represent the state at the Conti- the passage of time … and how much people After watching the series, McCullough on its March 17 menu. The bar will also serve Guin- nental Congress.But in 1778, he sets sail on an could miss him. I come off the boat with Abi- said, “I think [viewers] will realize [that] life ness, Irish coffee and Smithwick’s. A DJ will spin incredibly dangerous, long voyage to Europe gail after coming back from England, and I in the 18th century is a great deal more diffi- traditional Irish music, Irish-American songs and to join Benjamin Franklin in encouraging barely recognize my own children. cult than our own and a great deal more dif- rebel songs. France to join with the Americans against the “[In my own life], I’m only going away ficult than most people have any idea. On Friday March 14, following the noon mass at British. for a few months at a time, but, of course, it “[In this film,] you hear of John and Abigail St. Charles Borromeo (21 Sidney Pl. at Aitken Adams remains in is very difficult. Adams and the founding of the country seen as Place), the Celt’s Parade, helmed by Grand Marshall Europe as an ambas- TV [Adams] was making it was, with the hardships of life, the scars that Heloise Traynor, Eamonn’s manager, marches from sador for six years The seven-part “John Adams” far more significant a hard life left on people. People with dirt un- Brooklyn Supreme Court down Montague Street. and is not joined by miniseries kicks off at 8 pm on March 16 on sacrifices in his life der their fingernails and bad teeth, people cop- HBO. Subsequent episodes will be shown on Eamonn’s is located at 174 Montague St. at Abigail until 1784. Sundays through April 20 at 9 pm. For more than I am. I’m going ing with the awful scourge of smallpox,” con- Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights. For information, They don’t return information, visit www.hbo.com. off, you know, to tinued McCullough, who revealed that he is a call (718) 596-4969 or visit www.eamonns.net. home for several make a silly action former Brooklyn Heights resident. (He moved • • • more years, when movie or something, to this historic neighborhood with his wife In Williamsburg, Spike Hill starts the festivities they finally reunite with their children. but I’m doing it to support my family.” “right after we were married,” he said.) on March 16, with a DJ spinning Irish tunes. Also, Brooklyn Heights resident Giamatti told Some of the miniseries’ most heart-wrench- “We loved it, and it was because of that time its menu takes on an Irish flair, with Irish pies and GO Brooklyn that he could identify with ing scenes imagine John and Abigail’s agoniz- there that gave rise to my book, ‘The Great Spike Hill’s Irish Fry-up, an Irish breakfast (served Adams’s long absences away from his fami- ing good-byes and tentative reunions. Bridge,’ about the building of the Brooklyn at dinner) of white and black puddings, Irish ly when he left the borough to shoot scenes “Through the eyes of these historical fig- Bridge. And we like to go back and … walk sausage, one egg, beans and potatoes. HBO / Kent Eames for the series in Europe. ures, the audience can experience the revolu- around the old neighborhood very often and St. Patrick’s’ Day is also the bar’s fourth anniver- Riding high: Brooklyn Heights actor Paul Giamatti “I don’t have to go away for years at a time tionary world with fresh insight and gain a wonder why in the world we ever left.” sary, so expect the Jameson to flow liberally and the is riveting as the moody, brilliant politician in HBO’s — which is sort of incomprehensible — but new understanding of not only John and Abi- Indeed, absence does make the heart grow giveaways to be plentiful. miniseries, “John Adams.” (At right) Tom Wilkinson this is what these people had to do,” said Gia- gail Adams, but of the entire Founding gen- fonder, and HBO’s miniseries is leaving us Spike Hill is located at 184 Bedford Ave. at (seated, far left) plays Ben Franklin and Giamatti matti. “One of my favorite scenes to do in the eration,” said screenwriter Kirk Ellis, who hungering for the next installment of this epic North Seventh Street. For information, call (718) (standing, right) is Adams in the epic movie. movie [is] a very small scene. But we really wrote the script based on David McCul- history lesson turned love story. 218-9737 or visit www.spikehill.com. • • • Bay Ridge’s Bally Union will have an a la carte menu on Monday featuring corned beef and cabbage and Shepherd’s pie. The two-piece band Alternatrad will play traditional Irish music during a daytime set, Bawdy to the bone while Head Over Heels will rock the evening. Watching a burlesque show in “Burlesque Mayor of NYC.” that burlesque is an act with a begin- Bally Union is located at 9510 Third Ave. at 95th some bars can be terrifying: get too “We had taken photos there a ning, middle and end, while go-go is Street in Bay Ridge. For information, call (718) close to a flying tassel in a small couple years ago, because we liked dancing to the music that’s in the bar.” 833-2801. lounge and you could lose an eye! the space so much. It’s a place I Perhaps if Porkpie’s gals are able • • • But Royale, a dim, sultry lounge on like to drink; I like the atmosphere. to tease a crowd to the show, this PJ Hanley’s, will feature bands all day Monday Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue, is the And when they suggested having a troupe of Royale entertainers will in the tent set up for the occasion. At 5 pm, Jason perfect venue for one of Pinchbot- burlesque show there, it seemed return for more bawdy evenings. Lieberman will perform, and at 9 pm the band Visi- tom Burlesque’s risque dance re- right for a sexy sort of show.” “The Royale Royale” will be held ble From Space will play. Following the live bands, vues. In fact, the bar built a new So, on Thursday, March 20 — at 11 pm on March 20 at The a DJ will spin Irish music. The tent will be open all stage specifically for the event. the first day of spring — Porkpie is Royale (506 Fifth Ave. at 12th weekend long and will feature drink specials and “It’s a gorgeous, sensuous space assembling dancers Nasty Canasta, Street in Park Slope). Free. For in- Irish food. with red and tiger print decor,” said Anita Cookie and GiGi LaFemme formation, call (718) 840-0089 or PJ Hanley’s is located at 449 Court St. at Fourth c Shadows Johnny Porkpie, a Pinchbottom or- for burlesque and go-go dancing. visit www.pinchbottom.com. i Place in Carroll Gardens. For information, call (718) ganizer and the self-proclaimed “The difference,” Porkpie said, “is — Adam Rathe Synthet 834-8223. MITCHELL’S RESTAURANT Oven: the right idea Order Now! 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Celebs unite It’s not even spring yet, Today, former Talking Avraham but Coney Island is up Head David Byrne (pic- i na and running. Starting at tured), multimedia artist ’ on B noon today, Astroland Laurie Anderson, Lou i will kick off its 47th year Reed, rock bands Blonde of freaky excitement with Ghada Amer Erin Go Redhead and the Scissor Congregat free rides on the Cyclone Brooklyn Sisters and more will per- Ghada rollercoaster for the first form at St. Ann’s Ware- Purim parties 100 people in line. Wear It’s St. Patrick’s Day! And house as part of “Speak It’s Purim — imagine a ‘Love’ her your parka, because now’s while the borough’s big- Up!,” a fundraiser for Iraq Jewish Halloween — the time for a spin on the gest parade is on March Veterans Against the War Today at the Brooklyn and tonight is when all Museum, as part of its 81-year-old coaster, a corn 16 at Prospect Park West and United For Peace the fun happens. Women’s History Month dog and a banana-pista- and 14th Street, there and Justice. Synagogues across the programming, Sackler chio cone from Deno’s. are still many ways to cel- 8 pm at St. Ann’s Warehouse borough are having Center curator Maura ebrate today. Whether Noon at Astroland (1000 Surf (38 Water St. at Dock Street in parties for kids and Reilly and artist Ghada Ave. at West 10th Street in it’s live music at Rocky DUMBO). Sold out. For infor- adults alike, serving up Amer will lead a tour of Coney Island). Admission is free Sullivan’s (34 Van Dyke mation, call (718) 254-8779 or but cost of rides varies. For infor- visit www.stannswarehouse.org. hamentashen and “Love Has No End,” the St. at Dwight Street in mation, visit www.astroland.com. gathering costumed museum’s Ghada Amer Red Hook) or the Irish folks for drinking and Best Of retrospective. menu at Eamonn Doran’s dancing. 1 pm at the Brooklyn Museum (174 Montague St. at (200 Eastern Pkwy. at Clinton Street in Brooklyn Check out “Nine Days in Sofas 372 & 384 atlantic bklyn 718 797 2077 Washington Avenue in Heights), there’s plenty of Brooklyn” (below) for Prospect Heights). Admission ways to get your Irish up information about is $8. For information, call ers i (718) 638-5000 or visit in Brooklyn. See story on “Purim in Italy,” a car- www.brooklynmuseum.org. page 7. nival, and more. Come Celebrate Easter Rog Jurgen With Us At Marco Polo Sunday, March 23, 2008 NINE DAYS IN BROOKLYN Featuring $35.95 Pre Fix Dinner Compiled by Susan Rosenthal Jay Children under 12 $18.95 SAT, MARCH 15 BCBC: Brooklyn Center work and her new exhibit “Love Has No Choice of One Appetizer for Performing Arts End.” 1 pm to 2:30 pm. Sackler Center for presents Mandy Pa- Feminist Art. Also, panel discussion: Insalata Organica Portobello con Polenta OUTDOORS AND TOURS tinkin in concert. $40, “Funding a Revolution.” Dr. Elizabeth Sackler celebrates the first anniversary of the Organic salad with balsalmic vinaigrette & extra Portobello mushrooms sauteed & EARLY BIRDING: Join the Urban Park Rangers $25. 8 pm. Walt Whit- for a look at and listen to the birds of the man Theater at Brook- Elizabeth Sackler for Feminist Art with a virgin olive oil served with polenta Salt Marsh Nature Center. 8 am. 3302 Ave. lyn College, 2900 Cam- panel discussion by women who are spear- Mozzarella Fresca Tortellini in Brodo U. (718) 421-2021. Free. pus Rd. (718) 951-4500. heading historic philanthropic giving. 3 pm PARK SLOPE WALK: Walking tour of the Park to 5 pm. $8, $4 students and seniors. 200 Mozzarella, roasted peppers & tomatoes Cheese Tortellini in broth ARAB MUSIC: Brooklyn Eastern Pkwy. (718) 638-5000. Slope neighborhood. $25, $15 kids (includes Maqam Arab Music Cocktail di Gamberi Penne al Pomodoro e Basilico lunch). Tour times are 10 am and 1:30 pm. Festival presents Sha’- LIBRARY TALK: Brooklyn Public Library’s Cen- Chilled shrimp cocktail...Additional 4.95 Penne with fresh tomato & basil Call for meeting location. (212) 209-3370. abi Shake Down. 9 pm tral branch presents author Paula Giddings, ICE SKATING: Final weekend to skate at to midnight. Sultana, in a talk about her book: “Ida B. Wells: A Crema Di Piselli Capelli d’ Angelo e Gamberi Sword Among Lions.” 4 pm. Grand Army Pea Soup Angel hair with shrimp & Prospect Park’s Wollman Rink. $5, $3 kids 160-2 N. Fourth St. and seniors. $6 skate rental. Sessions at 10 (718) 625-0080. Free. Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. Napoleon Di Verdura Grigliate asparagus in a pink sauce am to 1 pm; 2 pm to 6 pm; 7 pm to 10 pm. JAZZ: Parlor Jazz pres- SQUARE DANCING: at Salt Marsh Nature Cen- Grilled vegetables Risotto Asparagi e Finocchietto Enter park at Lincoln Road and Ocean ents Klaro. $20 cover. ter. 7 pm. 3302 Ave. U. (718) 421-2021. Free. Traditional Hot Antipasta Risotto with asparagus & fennel Avenue. (718) 965-8999. Doors open at 8:30 ST. PATRICK’S DINNER: hosted by Boy Scouts PUBLIC SKATING: at Aviator Sports. $8, $6 pm; sets at 9 pm and of America Troop 20. $20, $10 kids. New Shrimp, baked clams, stuffed mushrooms, Lasagna Vegetariana kids. $4 ice skate rental. Noon to 3 pm; 3:30 10:30 pm. 119 Vander- Utrecht Reformed Church Parish House, mozzarella in Carozza & eggplant rollatini Vegetable lasagna pm to 6:30 pm and 7 pm to 11 pm. Hangar bilt Ave. (718) 855-1981. 18th Avenue and 84th Street. 7:30 pm. (917) 5, Floyd Bennett Field. (718) 758-7500. THEATER SERIES: The 605-8334. Choice of One Entree ALIENS AMONG US: Salt Marsh Nature Brick Theater and Third Center hosts a hike and identifies the impact Lows Productions hosts Agnello Pasqualina Petto di Pollo Principessa of invasive plants and animals. 1 pm. 3302 the horror mystery SUN, MARCH 16 Ave. U. (718) 421-2021. Free. series “Penny Dreadful, Spring baby lamb, seasoned with rosemary & Chicken breast sauteed & topped with asparagus, Palm Sunday PERFORMANCE Episode 5.” $8. 10:30 herbs served with red bliss potatoes mozzarella & tomato pm. 575 Metropolitan OUTDOORS AND TOURS Salmone Oreganato Vitello Piccata METROPOLITAN OPERA: Live transmission of Ave. (718) 907-6189. the Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD. Today: IRISH HISTORY: Urban Park Rangers offers a ves Salmon topped with bread crumbs & herbs Veal scaloppini topped with artichokes in a “Peter Grimes.” BAMCafe serves brunch OTHER i walk to trace the history of the Irish in NYC. Tilapia Mostarda white wine sauce. two hours prior to screening. $42. Brunch at MISS NORWAY PAGEANT: 1 pm. Fort Greene Visitors Center; enter Tilapia fish with mustard sauce Bristecca Alla Griglia 11:30 am; screening at 1:30 pm. BAM Rose The annual Miss Nor- park at Myrtle Avenue and Washington Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Avenue. (718) 636-4129. Park. (718) 722-3218. Free. Grilled sirloin steak...Additional 5.95 way of Greater New STAGED OPERA: Brooklyn Repertory Opera York contest will be PERFORMANCE Dessert presents “Cavalleria Rusticana,” by Pietro held to determine who Mascagni. $20, $10 students and seniors. will be Miss Norway of CHAMBER MUSIC: St. John the Evangelist Pastiera di Grano Strudel di mela con gelato 3:30 pm. Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Fourth Ave. Greater New York 2008 Roman Catholic Church hosts a Palm Sun- day concert. 1 pm. 250 21st St. (718) 768- Traditional grain pastry Apple strudel with ice cream (917) 642-6925. and Miss Norwegian DWECK BY NIGHT: Singer, songwriter and Heritage 2008. $30. 2 Halvorsen / NIA Arch Everett 3751. Free. Italian Cannoli Italian Cheesecake pianist Mario Spinetti performs melodies by pm. Norwegian Chris- CONCERT: Brooklyn Public Library’s Borough everyone from Aaron Copeland to Neil Young. tian Home & Health ‘Norway’ heats up: On Saturday, March 15, the annual Park branch hosts a concert. 1:30 pm. 1265 &RŊHHRU7HD $10, $7 students and seniors. 7 pm. Brooklyn Center, 1250 67th St. Miss Norway of Greater New York pageant will come 43rd St. (718) 437-4085. Free. Public Library’s Central branch, Grand Army (212) 832-2884. to Bay Ridge. Alexandra Hildreth (pictured), 2007’s win- BROOKLYN MUSEUM: presents rock ‘n’ roll Espresso...Additional 1.00 Cappuccino...Aditional 1.50 Plaza. (718) 230-2100. EDUCATION CONFER- music with Queen Esther. $8, $4 students GREEK THEATER: “Iphigenia” by Euripides. ENCE: NYC public ner, will be on hand to crown the new beauty queen. and seniors. 3 pm to 5 pm. 200 Eastern Now Accepting Reservations $12, $10 seniors, $5 students. 7:30 pm. school teachers of all Pkwy. (718) 638-5000. Voorhees Theater at the NYC College of subject areas and grade ARAB MUSIC: Brooklyn Maqam Arab Music 345 Court Street · 718-852-5015 · www.MarcoPoloRistorante.com Technology, 186 Jay St. (212) 663-0428. levels, administrators and the general Church avenues. (718) 284-5140. Festival presents “Sawt al-Mar’a: Voice of BARGEMUSIC: Classical music program fea- public are invited to the seventh annual SPA ESCAPE: Guest speaker Minister the Woman.” 3 pm to 5 pm. Kingsborough All major credit cards accepted - Free Valet Parking tures works by Schubert, Hersch and Curriculum, Community, Collaboration Malissa Redmond and Bibi Chapman of Community College, 2001 Oriental Blvd. Brahms. $40, $25 seniors and students. 8 and Celebration Conference. Keynote Revelation Performing Arts Studio host (718) 625-0080. Free. pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Street speaker is Walter Dean Myers. 8:30 am the day’s event. “Still I Rise” is an escape CHAMBER MUSIC: Brooklyn Friends of Cham- at the East River. (718) 624-2083. to 4 pm. PS 38, The Pacific School, 450 designed for women looking for a fresh ber Music presents “Johann Sebastian Bach: THE BRICK: presents “Notes from Under- Pacific St. (212) 966-5582. start. $40. 1 pm to 6 pm. Community Arts Passion According to St. Matthew.” $20, $10 ground: A Disgusting Play,” based on the RUMMAGE SALE: Women’s Guild of Flat- Studio, 5712 Church Ave. (718) 342-1908. students. 4 pm. St. Ann and the Holy Trinity novel by Dostoyevsky. $15. 8 pm. 575 Metro- bush Dutch Reformed Church hosts its BROOKLYN MUSEUM: Contemporary Church, 157 Montague St. (718) 855-3053. politan Ave. (212) 352-3101. spring sale. 10 am to 4 pm. Flatbush and Egyptian artist Ghada Amer discusses her CONCERT: Soprano Heather Green performs “A Requiem for Winter.” 6 pm. Safe-T- Gallery, 111 Front St., gallery 214. (718) 782- IF SID'S DOESN'T HAVE IT, 5920. Free. IF SID'S DOESN'T HAVE IT, Committee. On the agenda: Rezoning of THEATER SERIES: “Penny Dreadful, Episode Grand Street in Williamsburg. City Hall 5.” 2 pm. See Sat., March 15. CIVIC CALENDAR (Centre Street at the Brooklyn Bridge GREEK THEATER: “Iphigenia.” 3 pm. See Sat., YOU DON'T NEED IT! entrance ramp, Manhattan), 10 am. Call March 15. MONDAY, MARCH 17 (between Lafayette and Greene avenues in (212) 788-7100 for other info. STAGED OPERA: “Cavalleria Rusticana.” 3:30 Fort Greene), 7:30 pm. Call (718) 636-6511. Community Board 2. Parks and Recreation Community Board 2. Land Use Commit- pm. See Sat., March 15. Committee. Brooklyn Hospital (121 DeKalb 94th Precinct Community Council. tee. St. James Tower (21 St. James Pl., BARGEMUSIC: Classical music program. 4 pm. Ave., at St. Felix Street in Fort Greene), 6 Monthly meeting. North Fork Bank (804 between Lafayette and DeKalb avenues), See Sat., March 15. 27,000 sq.ft. SUPERSTORE!!! pm. Call (718) 596-5410. Manhattan Ave., at Calyer Street, in 6 pm. Call (718) 596-5410. OTHER Greenpoint). Call (718) 383-5298. Community Board 7. Full board. Board TUESDAY, MARCH 18 PLATFORM: Brooklyn Society for Ethical Cul- Community Board 2. Transportation and 68th Precinct Community Council. Monthly Office (4201 Fourth Ave. at 43rd Street), Electrical Housewares Licensed Locksmith meeting. 68th Precinct stationhouse (333 ture presents a Leader Exchange Presen- c c c Public Safety Committee. St. Francis 6:30 pm. Call (718) 854-0003 for info. tation with Riverdale-Yonkers Ethical Society c Garden/Outdoor c Home Center c Lumber Cut-to-size College (180 Remsen St. between Clinton 65th St. between Third and Fourth avenues Leader Curt Collier. He speaks on “Organic and Court streets in Brooklyn Heights), 6 in Bay Ridge), 7:30 pm. Call (718) 439-4220. FRIDAY, MARCH 21 Religion.” 11 am. 53 Prospect Park West. c Hardware c Plumbing & Janitorial c Paint pm. Call (718) 596-5410. 62nd Precinct Community Council. Good Friday procession. Begins at (718) 768-2972. 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For more in- By Jessanne Collins Her Russian-Jewish mother and her wouldn’t be in the restaurant business,” That’s the most challenging part.” dens in Bensonhurst or a new favorite like formation, visit www.vangoghsorbet.com. for The Brooklyn Paper Italian father grew up as neighbors, and she said. “There’s no harder work to Cascone handles this challenge by Northeast Kingdom in Bushwick, the restau- Sister company Wine Cellar Sorbet, she was born in the house her father me. It’s about surviving in a competitive making sure there’s something for rants will be offering a three-course meal for which is sold in gourmet markets such as rowing up, Nikki Cascone loved and grandmother were raised in, which market. You have to learn how to be in everyone on her menu at 24 Prince, $23. For information, and to make reserva- Whole Foods, promises two new, pint-size ad- attending Little Italy’s annual is still in the family. Her clan’s automo- your element, and how to make sure which is celebrating a belated second tions, visit www.visitbrooklyn.com. ditions to its successful line — sake and port GSan Gennaro festival, feasting on tive businesses are fixtures on Banner customers come back again and again. anniversary this month. She cooks up • • • — will hit shelves next month. zeppoles hot out of the deep fryer. Avenue, and most of her eight siblings seasonal fusion dishes — her specialty Spicy Pickle, a Colorado-based chain of Also manning a booth at the trade show What she didn’t know back then was and half-siblings still live in Sheeps- is Mediterranean — and what City- sandwich shops, plans to open at 143 Montague was Arthur Gentile of Red Hook’s Top that in 2005 she’d open her own head Bay. search refers to as “tricked-out ver- St. — the former Armando’s space — in Catch, a seafood importer and processor. restaurant in Nolita, where she serves a Naturally, Cascone said, food was an sions of comfort-food classics” like Brooklyn Heights. The restaurant, billed by its Their wares were so popular, not a ring, tube more sophisticated integral part of growing up, and her crispy mac and cheese rolls with BBQ Web site as “fast and casual” food, will serve or tentacle was left of their North Atlantic variety of her old family got togeth- sauce and honey-ginger glazed ribs. paninis, soups, salads, sandwiches and pizza. squid for Breaking Chews to sample. favorite: zeppoles TV er for a big meal “It’s the kind of place you can go • • • Adding a dash of controversy to the show with warm choco- “Top Chef: Chicago” airs every Sunday. As every single day, if you want matzoh On Sunday, Breaking Chews trekked to was the Brooklyn Bagel Slicer. This tool, on Wednesdays at 10 pm on Bravo. For late sauce and more information, visit www.bravotv.com. a kid, she would ball soup or [24 Prince’s extremely Manhattan’s Javits Center to meet Kings which retails for $27.95 and promises to homemade vanilla eat “everything,” popular] meatloaf, we have those,” County’s exhibitors at the International Res- “prevent bagel-related injury,” is actually bean ice cream. even if it meant said Cascone. “If you want to go out- taurant & Foodservice Show of New York. sold by a Rochester-based company. We’re “I thought, ‘Why shouldn’t I have trying something new, a fitting child- side the box, we have that, too.” We were delighted to discover Jordan skeptical that the imposter could handle a these on my menu all year long?’ ” the hood for someone who would later re- As for the zeppoles, while they start- Weisz, VP of national sales for Van Gogh real Brooklyn bagel. 35-year-old Brooklyn-born chef told alize that food was a career calling. ed as an experiment, they’ve taken on Gourmet Sorbet, a new company in • • • GO Brooklyn. “I love having the li- “I recognized I was more passionate a life of their own. Greenpoint. Weisz told us that his new line There’s paper over the windows at the cense to do what I want.” about [food] than my friends and most “I have a feeling they’re going to be of six caffeinated frozen treats, named for Happy Days diner in Brooklyn Heights. GO That license may soon be expanded. people, but at first, it was just the way I like the meatloaf,” said Cascone. “The the famous painter, was also a tribute to his Brooklyn has enjoyed many a short stack As a contestant on “Top Chef: Chica- paid bills,” said Cascone. clientele won’t let me take it off paternal grandmother Phyllis Weisz, who there and is hoping for the best! go,” the fourth season of Bravo’s culi- At 14, she started working in neigh- the menu!” had a gift for the brush and palette. — Adam Rathe and Lisa J. Curtis nary reality series, which premiered borhood pork stores, and by 16, she was March 12, Cascone is vying for hopping the ferry to work in the $100,000, a prize that would enable her kitchens at various restaurants. to take her career as a restaurateur to At 21, she enrolled in the American Leather the next level. School of Culinary Arts in At- Atlantico De La Espada Currently, Cascone, who lives in lanta, and stayed in that city BDI Manhattan’s West Village, is in charge for eight years, working un- Blue Dot Maria Yee of the kitchen at 24 Prince, the bistro der acclaimed chefs Jean- Calligaris Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams she co-owns with managing partners Georges Vongerichten and Brad Grossman (her boyfriend) and Cliff Harrison at notable DellaRobbia Robert Abbey Chris Heller. She was able to carve restaurants like V Ekornes Surya Rugs some time out of her busy schedule last Steakhouse and Bac- Fontana Arte TEMA fall to compete on “Top Chef,” which chanalia. She returned Gus Thayer Coggin 372 & 384 atlantic bklyn 718 797 2077 takes the popular “Project Runway” to New York in 2001, formula to the kitchen, pitting 16 chefs and Yankee Stadium against each other in weekly cooking drafted her for the 2005 competitions. season as the Director of Starting your own restaurant and Food and Beverage, landing a spot on a major cable reality which wasn’t all show is the result of years of hard peanuts and cracker- work. But Cascone, a Sheepshead Bay jacks: She was in native, also credits much of her success charge of VIP menus in the culinary world to her upbringing. including those for George (Indeed, she’s the only New York na- Steinbrenner’s suite. tive on the show who’s actually work- With all of the experience ing in the city.) Whether sampling she’d accumulated in cooking $1.50 dumplings from a Chinatown and management over the years, dive or 50 cent rum rolls from Brighton when it came time to open her Ms. Top Chef?: Beach, Cascone’s always found inspi- own restaurant, two and a half Sheepshead Bay ration in New York’s ethnic nooks and years ago, the process seemed like native Nikki Cas- crannies, which has given her a broad second nature. cone stars in sea- palate of flavors to work with. 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Free. Private dining room for parties 200 Eastern Pkwy. (718) 638-5000. MON, MARCH 17 in how to help your child devel- BENEFIT CONCERT: St. Ann’s LIBRARY TALK: Brooklyn Public op a healthy relationship with Warehouse and Josh Wood Library’s Central branch presents St. Patrick’s Day food. $25, $15 for Families First Productions present “Speak Up! Paula Giddings, writer, historian members. 7 pm to 8:30 pm. 250 A Benefit Concert for Peace in and teacher. She discusses her SENIOR EXERCISE PROGRAM: Baltic St. Registration required. Iraq and Justice at Home.” biography of Ida Wells, the suf- Seniors in Shape presents class- (718) 237-1862. Guests include Laurie Anderson, Serving the community for 20 years fragist. 4 pm. Grand Army Plaza. es in tap dance, slimnastics, pain Antony, Blonde Redhead, David (718) 230-2100. Free. management and more. $5 day Byrne, Norah Jones, Moby, Lou LECTURE: Brooklyn Heights Syna- pass. 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. Avia- TUES, MARCH 18 Reed and many others. $65 to 4408 5th Ave. (bet. 44th & 45th Sts.) (718) 438-2009 gogue hosts a talk by Iris Bahr, tor Sports and Recreation, $125. 8 pm. Also, pre-concert creator of the Off-Broadway play Hangar 5, Floyd Bennett Field. YOGA: for adults 60 and older. 2:15 Speak Up event with information Open 7 days, 6am-midnight • “Dai!” 6 pm. 131 Remsen St. (718) 758-7500. pm. St. Charles Jubilee Older from activist organizations. 38 (718) 522-2070. Free. LEGAL ADVICE: for adults 60 and Adult Services, 55 Pierrepont St. Water St. (718) 254-8779. Ben Wynkoop Let it ‘Rep’: On March 15 and 22, The Brooklyn Repertory Opera will perform “Cavalleria Rusticana,” a work by Pietro Quality, Reliable Healthcare You Can Trust Mascagni, at Park Slope’s Brooklyn Lyceum. works by Golijov, Kechley, Bol- WED, MARCH 19 com and Lara. Williams Cham- bers Players perform. $40, $25 AEROBIC CLASS: for adults 60 and seniors and students. 8 pm. Ful- Elite Comprehensive older. 10 am. St. Charles Jubilee ton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Older Adult Services, 55 Pierre- Street at the East River. (718) pont St. (718) 855-0326. Free. 624-2083. Medical Services LEGAL TALK: Brooklyn Bar Asso- ciation offers a class “Mediation offers quality healthcare and Arbitration for Real Estate SAT, MARCH 22 Disputes.” Class offers an intro- duction to mediation and arbi- for women in Brooklyn at a tration for co-op and condo OUTDOORS AND TOURS issues ranging from new con- EARLY BIRDING: Join the Urban convenient location right struction problems to neighbor Park Rangers for a look at and disputes. $35. 1 pm to 2 pm. listen to the birds of the Salt 123 Remsen St. (718) 624-0675. Marsh Nature Center. 8 am. 3302 in your neighborhood. LECTURE: NYC College of Tech- Ave. U. (718) 421-2021. Free. nology presents cultural histori- PERFORMANCE an Cindy Lobel. She speaks about the early 19th century METROPOLITAN OPERA: Live growth of NYC into a metropo- transmission of the Metropolitan •Board Certified Physicians lis and the related emergence Opera: Live in HD. Today: and growth of its restaurants. “Tristan und Isolde.” BAMCafe •Weekends and late hours available. 3:30 pm. Namm Hall Janet serves brunch two hours prior to Lefler Dining Room, 300 Jay St. screening. $42, $40. Brunch at (718) 260-5630. Free. 10:30 am; screening at 12:30 •Most major insurances accepted. SENIOR TALK: Older Adult Lecture pm. Runs 3 hours, 41 minutes Series presents talk, “Age is No with 3 intermissions. BAM Rose •Same day appointments available. Barrier,” about older adults and Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Avenue. AIDS. Open to seniors 60 and (718) 636-4129. older. St. Charles Jubilee Older STAGED OPERA: Brooklyn Rep- •Multi-lingual staff Adult Services, 55 Pierrepont St. ertory Opera presents “Caval- Call for time. (718) 855-0326. Free. leria Rusticana,” by Pietro Mas- cagni. $20, $10 students and seniors. 3:30 pm. Brooklyn Ly- THURS, MARCH 20 ceum, 227 Fourth Ave. (917) 71 Carroll Street 642-6925. First Day of Spring DANCE: Chez Bushwick presents (Between Columbia and Hicks Purim begins tonight Aimar Perez and Guillem Mont de Palol in New Dance From Am- Street) SPECIAL NEEDS: Resources for sterdam and Barcelona. 7:30 pm. Children with Special Needs 304 Boerum St. (718) 418-4405. hosts a talk “Early Childhood BARGEMUSIC: Classical music pro- Services: Birth to 5.” 10 am to 1 gram features works by Beet- pm. Brooklyn Public Library’s hoven, Brahms and Schubert. Central branch at Grand Army $40, $25 seniors and students. 8 Elite At Carroll Street • 1-718-797-9797 Plaza. (212) 677-4650. Free. pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old PURIM IN ITALY: Congregation Fulton Street at the East River. B’Nai Jacob hosts a Megillah (718) 624-2083. reading, costume contest, per- OTHER formance by Bruce Parness and Pap Smears•Birth Control•Prenatal Care•STD Testing the annual children’s Purim play. LECTURE: Nuture Art hosts “Behind Italian food and desserts will be the Enantiomorph: A Biographi- served. 7:30 pm. 401 Ninth St. cal Key to Robert Smithson’s (718) 965-9836. Free. References to Doubling and to PURIM CARNIVAL: Megillah read- Death.” Suzaan Boettger is lec- ing at 6:30 pm; family dancing, turer. 4 pm. 910 Grand St. (718) food and more. Come in cos- 782-7755. Free. tume. $36, $10 kids. 7:30 pm to EASTER VIGIL: 8 pm. Zion Lutheran 10 pm. Congregation B’nai Church, 125 Henry St. (718) SSometimesometimes thethe hardesthardest tthingshings ttoo ttalkalk aaboutbout Avraham, 117 Remsen St. (718) 625-2276. 596-4840, ext 18. PURIM STORY: Kane Street Syna- gogue hosts three programs, SUN, MARCH 23 each geared to a different age aarere thethe easiesteasiest toto treat.treat. group. Adult service at 6:45 pm; Easter sanctuary service for ages 6 to EASTER SUNDAY: Service and 99 at 7:15 pm; program for 0 to festival. 11 am. Zion Lutheran 5 year olds at 7:15 pm. Also, Church, 125 Henry St. (718) songs, music, food and drinks. 625-2276. Costumes requested. 236 Kane EASTER SUNDAY: at First Uni- St. (718) 875-1550. Free. tarian Congregational Society. HOLY COMMUNION: 7:30 pm. 11 am. Pierrepont Street and Zion Lutheran Church, 125 Monroe Place. (718) 625-5466. Henry St. (718) 625-2276. EASTER SUNDAY: Festival Eucha- JAZZ AT BARGEMUSIC: Josh rist at St. John St. Matthew Roseman’s Water Surgeons play. Emanuel Lutheran Church. 11 $35, $30 seniors, $20 students. am. 283 Prospect Ave. (718) 8 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old 768-0528. Fulton Street at the East River. EASTER SUNDAY: Easter Sunday (718) 624-2083. services at Christ’s Church for Brooklyn. 11 am. 314 Pacific St. (347) 721-5534. FRI, MARCH 21 PERFORMANCE Good Friday BARGEMUSIC: Classical music pro- RECEPTION: Metaphor Contem- gram. 4 pm. See Sat., March 22. porary Art Gallery presents “The Traveler’s Return,” works by Susan OTHER Homer. 6 pm to 9 pm. 382 Atlan- VIRTUAL HISTORIC HOUSE TOUR: tic Ave. (718) 254- 9126. Free. Take a peek into the past with a LITERARY SERIES: Brooklyn Aca- slide show of the many historic demy of Music hosts its “Eat, houses in NY, from Van Cort- Drink and Be Literary” series. landt in the North to The Con- Tonight’s guest is author Peter ference House in the South. 11 Carey, author of “Theft: A Love am. Fort Greene Visitors Center; Story.” $48 includes dinner, enter park at Myrtle Avenue wine, dessert, coffee and talk. and Washington Park. (718) 722- 6:30 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. 3218. Free. (718) 636-4100. PLATFORM: Brooklyn Society for GOOD FRIDAY: Tenebrae service Ethical Culture presents a at Zion Lutheran Church. 7:30 Spring Colloquy: “Personal pm. Zion Lutheran Church, 125 Renewal - Can We Be Renewed Henry St. (718) 625-2276. Without Something Dying?” 11 GOOD COFFEEHOUSE: presents am. 53 Prospect Park West. acoustic roots music. $10, $6 (718) 768-2972. Free. kids. 8 pm. 53 Prospect Park FILM: Cafe Steinhof presents “The West. (718) 768-2972. Out of Towners” (1970). 10:30 BARGEMUSIC: American contem- pm. 422 Seventh Ave. (718) porary music program features 369-7776. Free. LIST YOUR EVENT… To list your event in Nine Days In Brooklyn, please give us two weeks notice or more. Send your listing by e-mail: [email protected]; by mail: GO Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Paper, 55 Washington St., Suite 624, Brooklyn, NY 11201; or by fax: (718) 834-9278. Listings are free and print- ed on a space available basis. We regret we cannot take listings over the phone. A PIECE FOR PEACE “I choose New York Methodist” Marisa Mastropietro, M.D., Chief of Urogynecology “Millions of women suffer quietly from urinary incontinence, or loss of bladder control. 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Affi liate: Weill Medical College of Cornell University Brooklyn, NY 11215 NYM-079010_NYMH_WomensHealth_ad_1 1 1/14/08 2:41:46 PM March 15, 2008 THE BROOKLYN PAPER WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM AWP 11 Rock ’n’ write He’s a ‘slave 4 U’ As the frontman for indie rock For those more familiar with Straight from her latest barely popular culture,” said Igarashi, bands like Luna and Galaxie 500, Wareham’s rock shows than his clothed fiasco, Britney Spears is “and the idea that she’s a huge, Dean Wareham has logged count- book readings, the author thinks coming to New York. On Sunday, melodramatic figure made us less hours in a van on tour. But now this event will make for an easy in- March 16, “TimberBrit,” an opera want to re-imagine the way peo- that he’s released his first book, troduction. telling the (as yet) fictional story of ple thought about her.” “Black Postcards: A Rock ’n’ Roll “I’ve been to a few readings in the rekindled love between Spears And after all of this careful Romance,” Wareham is touring in bookstores and they can be a bit and her former beau Justin Tim- study, did Igarashi have any advice style. stilted,” he said. “[At Union Hall] berlake, will receive its world pre- for the troubled pop tart turned “They’re flying me to Boston,” people can have a drink, which is miere. “momstrosity”? the author said. “This won’t be any- nice, and I can play some songs.” To create the songs, composer “We aren’t thinking of her as thing like being on tour with a band For Wareham’s fans, this free Jacob Cooper listened to hits anything but a fictional character, so — that’s always a long day. This show is music to their ears. from Spears’s oeuvre at a very it’s hard to make any comments will be quick and easy.” Dean Wareham will read from slow speed, eliminating the about who she is,” said Igarashi, who On Tuesday, March 18, Ware- “Black Postcards” ($25.95, The hooks from the slickly pro- teaches writing at Columbia. “But it ham, a Manhattanite, will have an Penguin Press) and play an duced tracks, and wrote his did give me an excuse to read TMZ.” even easier commute when he acoustic set at 7:30 pm on March own songs inspired by the ex- “TimberBrit” will be performed at comes to Park Slope’s Union Hall 18 at Union Hall (702 Union St. at perience. To make his dream 7:30 pm and 9 pm on March 16 at to read from “Black Postcards” and Fifth Avenue in Park Slope). Free. a reality, Cooper drafted The Tank (279 Church St. in Manhat- ne performs an acoustic set of songs For information, call (718) 638- i Williamsburg resident Yuka Igarashi as tan). Tickets are $10. For information, by Dean and Britta, Wareham’s 4400 or visit www.unionhallny.com. his librettist and Park Sloper J.J. Lind as his director. visit www.myspace.com/timberbrit. chael Lav i band with his wife, Britta Phillips. — Adam Rathe M “We started to think about what Britney meant in — Adam Rathe The Royale Bump, 8 pm, FREE; March 18: Music Trivia RELIGIOUS Tuesdays, 8 pm, FREE; March 20: Human 506 Fifth Ave. at 12th Street in Park Giant Night, 8 pm, FREE; March 21: BROOKLYN Slope, (718) 840-0089, Cassettes Won’t Listen, The Diggs (CD www.royalebrooklyn.com. SERVICES release), 8 pm, Dissensuous from Raven March 20: Pinchbottom Burlesque in asso- Sings the Blues, 10 pm, FREE. To advertise in this weekly ciation with Wasabassco present “The directory, call Laura at Royale Royale” starring Anita Cookie, GiGi Spike Hill Tavern La Femme, Jonny Porkpie and Nasty (718) 834-9350 ext 109 Canasta, 10 pm, FREE; March 21: DJ 184 Bedford Ave. at North Seventh Nightlife OBaH, 11 pm, FREE. Street in Williamsburg, (718) 218-9737, Zion Lutheran Church www.myspace.com/spikehillnyc. Compiled by Chiara V. Cowan Southpaw March 15: Mayaeni, 8 pm, Alexandra, 9 125 Hernry St./Clark; Bklyn. Hts. pm, Kings Foil, 10 pm, FREE; March 16: Rev. Dr. George Muenich 125 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in States Tour Hip-Hop/R&B, 8 pm, donation Marques, 8 pm, David Stephens, 9 pm, 718-625-2276 · www.ziongelc.org BAY RIDGE Park Slope, (718) 230-0236, suggested; March 18: “A to Z Emcee” www.spsounds.com. Adam Bricks, 10 pm, FREE; March 19: “Preaching Christ Crucified” Open mic night, 7:30 pm, FREE; March 20: hosted by Tah Phrum Duh Bush, 7:30 pm, March 15: Gypsy Clash, Luminescent Sun. 11:00 Holy Communion The Wicked Monk $3 ($10 to compete); March 21: Myk Gene Ess, 10 pm, Bradley Faberman, (9:30 German [Hl. Abendmahl)] 8415 Fifth Ave. at 84th Street in Bay Orchestrii, La Strada, Michael Winograd’s Midnight, FREE; March 21: James Apollo, Freedman with Sparrow, 9 pm, donation Infection, 9 pm, $10; March 20: New Wed. 7:30 pm Evening Prayer Ridge, (718) 921-0601, suggested. 9 pm, Mike Cobb & The Crevulators, 10 LM32-10 www.wickedmonk.com. Model Army, Bell Hollow, 8 pm, $15; pm, Juliana Haltigan, 11 pm, Yarn, March 15: St. Patty’s Day Party with Holla March 21: Hey Champ!, The Mathema- Midnight, FREE. ticians, 8 pm, $10. 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The performance. playwright is the kingpin of the There are a few shortfalls in colloquial idiom, and Richard- some scenes, but overall, the act- Punk-tinged ‘Iphigenia’ wages war Downtown son is spot on with her stream- ing is strong. Four thespians lined version. play Clytemnestra (Taliesen Far- By Deirdre Donovan atreworks. inspiration (“Iphigenia at the doublespeak, is incapable of She has reached out and mer, Miriam Ani, Esra Cizmeci for The Brooklyn Paper In reviewing this 2,400 year- Aulis”) and gave a thumbnail preventing her own daughter’s seized whatever she can use- and Elizabeth Minna Richard- old play, I felt much more like a sketch of the main characters death. Iphigenia becomes the fully incorporate into Euripi- son), two actors double as Iphi- ecause we can watch a war correspondent than theater and their dysfunctional domes- new sacrificial lamb, and the des’s more traditional wares. genia (Lucie Novak and Emme newly adapted version of critic. True, no bullets whizzed tic relationships. war continues to wield its dou- And fortunately, her artistry Bonilla), and the other famed Bthe classic play “Iphigenia” by my head, and ble-edged sword. seems — albeit with a few figures are delegated out as sin- and think about its relevance to grenades did not ex- Richardson has cast her ac- rough edges — to capture the gle roles. the war in Iraq, it becomes infi- plode in the aisle, THEATER tors for this production from big themes, the heightened The quartet of Clytemnestras, nitely clear why modern drama but the entrance of around the world and seems to emotions and the eternal con- I must admit, had its positive Tiyatro Global’s “Iphigenia” will run begins with Euripides. the 10 young actors through March 16 at the Voorhees Theatre at be closely following in the foot- flicts we connect with the an- and negative aspects. I liked the Helen Richardson’s bold new surging from the the New York City College of Technology (186 steps of the illustrious Peter cient Greeks. universal dimension it suggest- restaging of his masterpiece at back of the theater, Jay St. at High Street in Downtown Brooklyn). Brook and famous French stage If you look past her innova- ed about the character, but then, Tickets are $12. For information, call (212) 663- Claudia Mandlik the Voorhees Theatre at New and briefly stopping 0428 or visit www.brooklyn.cuny.edu. director Ariane Mnouchkine — tive text, past the stage design, one must carefully follow the York City College of Technolo- to tell their desper- whom she met and observed in Soldiers in arms: Downtown Brooklyn’s new Tiyatro Global past the classical New Age story’s twists and turns to keep gy through March 16 is the de- ate war stories to 1988 — with this multicultural presents “Iphigenia,” featuring Bret Jaspers as Menelaus costuming (Jenna Rossi Ca- track of her as she subtly shifted but of Tiyatro Global, a new various audience members (in- Agamemnon is a power-hun- production. and Dimitar Uzunov as the soldier, thorugh March 16 mus and Howard Klein), you persona — and actors. Downtown Brooklyn-based, in- cluding me), effectively created gry commander-in-chief who’s To be sure, Richardson’s will inevitably discover that Staging Greek drama with- ternational company. The debut, the aura of a barbaric battlefield ready to sacrifice his daughter been a theater practitioner (di- ful career. Her “Iphigenia” — Richardson has boldly under- the red-hot core of the show is out getting snores from the au- intelligently directed by and its aftermath. Iphigenia to the gods to make rector, playwright, set designer) on the boards after only one taken her own dramatic journey its “rock world music fusion.” dience is a formidable task for Richardson, is a co-production In the program, dramaturg war happen once again. And his in the US and overseas since month of intense play develop- through “Iphigenia at Aulis” in The production is a cross-fer- any theater artist, but Euripides with Brooklyn College and its Barry Honold provided a his- wife, the Spartan Queen Cly- 1988, but this work signals ment and a six-week rehearsal writing this new adaptation of tilization of the rock world has found a new ally in resident theater company, The- torical perspective to the play’s temnestra, while seeing through something new in her success- period — is a real achievement. the myth. Instead of strictly ad- (leaning into a punk style) Richardson. ‘Elite’ new office from Preferred Health Preferred Health Partners accessible healthcare for Brook- This is the second Elite location “We serve different populations so we gave them the opportunity patient segments might be better keeping at the forefront of our in- Brooklyn during the year. 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The closely at all the populations we ices delivered to the community” hensive Medical office at 71 Car- He added he expects Sunday a wider group, but we are plan- of a family can visit their own doc- during evening hours and on the Elite locations are easily accessible serve … and this is how Elite hours will become available in ning a men’s center with an accent tors during the same visit, and all said Martin Valdes, MD, chief roll St., between Columbia and weekends is easy,” said Daphnee via public transportation, and ac- came to be, right out of our the near future. on preventive medicine. This idea lab tests are done on premises.” executive officer, PHP. Hicks streets in Carroll Gardens, Champagne, director of marketing cept most major insurance plans. OB/GYN department. We noticed Kernisant confirmed that a full was spurred by Borough President PHP (formerly the Central PHP has over 150 multilin- to satisfy the needs of Brooklyn’s at PHP. 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Birthday parties and special Spitzer. betray progressives everywhere mom But what about an extramar- occasions — Adults & Kids. Comedy, Luckily, Smartmom doesn’t — he betrayed her. ital affair? Smartmom could Magic, Balloon Sculpting, Puppets, But Smartmom didn’t marry By Louise Crawford forgive seeing a prostitute. Sex Games, M.C., Comic Roastings. think Hepcat would ever do “University Professor of Speech & Communications” anything as hypocritical or em- Spitzer. Luckily, she got Hep- is just sex. But an affair means Physically Active, cat, a smart, handsome, loyal 718-434-9697 barrassing as getting elected to you’re whispering sweet noth- 917-318-9092 office as a reformer and then and well-meaning guy. He’d ings into someone else’s ear or L44 Nature Oriented, being caught hiring prostitutes. never do anything stupid like ordering Chinese food together For one thing, it would be the love gov. or watching “Scrubs” late at so out of character. Smartmom Would he? night in the bedroom. Outdoor can’t imagine why Hepcat n the end, it doesn’t matter. n affair would be the would spend all that money for Smartmom believes that if deal-breaker. Smartmom Organic, Fair Trade Children's Parties a woman he doesn’t even know I you expect your spouse to A is too jealous and could- Call Rebecca Traveling Day Camp be there for you when you n’t stand the thought of sharing when he could be spending it (347) 385-6705 Swimming at a lake, pool and the on the love of his life: his little screw up, it stands to reason her Hepcat with anyone else. www.flowerfairy.net Daily Trips to: orange Porsche 914 he inherit- that you have to be there when So that decides it. If Hepcat W51 beach. Weekly hikes and trips to ed from his Uncle John. he screws up. Even if that ever has an affair, it’s over. No Museums, Zoos, Playgrounds, The Aquarium, Liberty First, Smartmom’s heart means standing next to him at a press conferences, no second Host A Student Science Center, Bowling and a special trip to Sesame Place goes out to all the political press conference as he apolo- chances. She wouldn’t be thrill- wives who’ve been put in this gizes for the way he violated ed if he was paying for sex EARN $200 A WEEK position. It’s gotta be a his — and any (nicely done, with high-end prostitutes, ei- HOSTING INT'L STUDENTS UÊ Ý«iÀiVi`]Ê woman’s worst nightmare to be Eliot) — sense of right and ther. But that’s about as likely >ÀivÕÞÊ Ãi]Ê married to, take your pick, Jim wrong. as Hepcat emptying the dish- If you have an empty bedroom, near `ÕÌÊ-Ì>vv McGreevey, Bill Clinton, Eliot That’s because Smartmom subway, good neighborhood. washer. UÊiÝLiÊ-V i`Õi\Ê Spitzer, Larry Craig, etc. etc, bought the unconditional mar- After Spitzer finally re- Email: [email protected] and find out your husband has riage package. On her wedding Fox / Livingston County News Tom Ê 3]Ê{]ÊxÊÀÊÈÊÜiià signed on Wednesday, Hepcat or call Josh (646) 674-1621 been cheating on you. Seconds day, she promised to do this put it all in perspective. Ê 3]Ê4ÊÀÊ5Ê`>ÞÃÊ>Ê later, there you are, standing in thing for better or worse, for She has, more than once, Corleone in “Godfather III”: “You know, Silda Spitzer Üii front of millions of people try- richer or poorer, in sickness threatened to sleep at the Hotel Something. Always. Pulls. Her. will have a pretty deep pile of Le Bleu (alone) or call a di- Back. In. UÊ >ÀÞÊ`À«vvÊ ing to not look humiliated and in heath — ’till death do karma chips if they stay togeth- n>®Ê>`Ê>ÌiÊ when, of course, you are. they part. vorce lawyer. It must be love. er,” Hepcat told Smartmom. L20 Imagine what Silda Wall Of course, Smartmom and But it never happens. Why? But it does raise the ques- «VÊÕ«ÊÈ«®Ê “All she’ll have to do is say is >Û>>Li Spitzer is going through right Hepcat have had their fights. Because she’s like Michael tion: what would it take for ‘Hey, Client 9, would you Photography Smartmom to boot Hepcat out please clear the clutter in the UÊ}iÃÊ4½ÊÌÊ££Ê the door? living room.’ He’ll do whatever Film & Digital/Beginners & Advanced Þi>Àà Hard times wouldn’t do it — she tells him to do.” Hepcat PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP because marriage is hard, and A safe haven to explore your personal vision. said. Next Workshop Begins April 2 at 7pm in Peter's some tension is part of the Smartmom loved the sound Soho Studio. Five weekly sessions / $300 Park SlopeÊUÊ(718) 768-6419 FAMILY CALENDAR package. More than once, of that. 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Applications for 2008-09 Kindergarten Now Available and that an obscure 1973 it will be easier to get a job and NYU, which had one of the na- UÊ6>ÀiÌÞÊvÊ«À}À>ÃÊvÀÊ agreement with the state barred get into a good company,” said tion’s most respected engineering V>«iÀÃÊ>}iÊÎ ÌÊ£x NYU from having an engineer- Vivek Sheh, a Poly student. programs until divesting it in Beginning with Children Charter School Community Partnership Charter School UÊ->vi]ÊvÕ]ÊÃÌÕ>Ì}Ê Open House for ing program at all. “Raising it a bit in exchange for 1973, has coveted the Brooklyn Grades K-8 Grades K-5 iÛÀiÌ Summer Camp the NYU name won’t make a institution because engineering 11 Bartlett Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 241 Emerson Place, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn Pending state approval of the UÊ6iÀÞÊviÝLiÊÀi}ÃÌÀ>ÌÆÊ merger, Poly’s 3,330 co-eds can huge difference.” programs are growing nationwide. District 14 District 13 Sundays, Mar. 9 and 23 Others worry not about the The NYU takeover needs state >VV`>Ì}ÊÊÜiiÊ take classes at NYU, one of the Ãi>à Presentations at 2 and top colleges in the country ac- pricetag, but that merging with a approval — and the state Senate is Download an application at Download an application at cording to US News and World 40,000-student university sys- investigating the conflict of inter- www.bwccschool.org or call 718-388-8847. www.cpcsschool.org or call 718-399-3824. UÊÀiiÊÀ}ÊÌÀ>ëÀÌ>ÌÊ 3 pm Report. And their diplomas and tem will end Poly’s “small- est charges against several Poly vÀÊÃÌÊ >ÞÊ,`}iÊ>`Ê 339 8 St. just below resumes will read “New York school” feel and turn it into just board members and also looking Upcoming tours: Upcoming tours: ÀÜÃÌiÊ ÀÞÊ>Ài>à Tues. 3/18, 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Wed. 3/19, 9:00 a.m., Thurs. 3/20, 6:00 p.m. 6 Ave. University,” not “Polytechnic a remote campus of a big face- into whether obtaining Poly would UÊ ÃÌ>Là i`Ê£Ó University.” less institution. violate a state agreement that Some dissenting trustees ob- “They’re worried that the NYU would not again have an en- sense of family you get here at gineering program after it shut 718-788*- (7732) jected to the demise of an inde- Beginning with Children and Community Partnership Charter Schools are public schools pendent college that has had Poly will go away,” said Jose down its program in the 1970s. www.parkslopedaycamp.com three Nobel Prize winners in its that admit students by lottery only. Preference is given to siblings of current students and 153-year history. residents of the schools’ districts. “With [our] history of inde- pendence and self-sustainability, To learn more about BwCF and our schools, please visit www.bwcf.org. why is Poly’s administration rushing to ‘merge’ with NYU Beginning with Children Foundation on terms which remain ques- HIGH LIFE… Richness - Rigor - Results tionable?” three current and for- GIRLS mer trustees said in a memo in Continued from page 1 dais, has seven penthouses. HAPPY NIGHT January. Gehry–designed Atlantic Yards And at One Brooklyn Bridge HOUR OUT The benefit, said other Poly project from the “maid’s room,” Park, the former Jehovah’s Witness trustees, is a boost to the school’s and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge building on Furman Street that’s A Nail Boutique Created with You In Mind sandwiched in between the Brook- third-tier credentials. from the master bedroom. 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MON.—SAT. 10 AM—8 PM & SUN. 10 AM—7 PM 20 percent this year amid mount- you pay for: The luxury building of Stribling & Associates. ing talk about the merger. offers all the amenities that high- Vemich couldn’t have been A fully licensed and certified preschool But elevating the academic end buyers have come to expect too pleased when Stribling profile comes at a price. (even in Brooklyn) — plus free plunked down $6.6 million for a L14 Poly’s tuition is currently concierge service for two years. One Brooklyn Bridge Park pent- ■ 2-4 year old programs ■ 2, 3, 4 or 5 mornings, $29,894, but students get an av- “These homes will be luxuri- house — and then told the New afternoons or full days erage of $18,000 in scholarships ous above and beyond expecta- York Post, “I’ve never seen a ■ Licensed teachers and grants, according to the Col- tion,” Vemich said. more beautiful view in my life!” A COMPREHENSIVE TUTORIAL SERVICE lege Board. Matthews told The One Hanson Place is one of But Vemich pointed out that ■ Spacious Classrooms Brooklyn Paper that tuition three Manhattan-style luxury her boss’s building is far from ■ Optimal educational equipment STUDY SKILLS would gradually climb to NYU’s buildings that are the talk of a mass transit, shopping and cul- REGENTS EXAMS certain group of people (certainly tural venues. ■ Enriched Curriculum level, which is $35,283 a year. ■ Exclusive outdoor facilities OMEWORK ELP The average NYU student re- rich, that is). “One Hanson Place is for people H H ceives $13,040 in scholarships, The Richard Meier–designed who appreciate the … close prox- SUBJECT EXPERTISE ■ Indoor Gym facilities ■ Caring, loving environment making up the remainder with On Prospect Park, which com- imity to the BAM Cultural District SAT/SATII PREP loans, on-campus jobs or family mands the corner of Plaza Street and direct access to transportation money. 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Pending a final agreement been at the vanguard of the Red Reader Advisory: National Trade Associations to which we belong have dors will return to Red Hook “The good news is that Brook- with the Health Department, the Hook renaissance.” purchased the following classifieds. We urge readers to independently Park this spring, ending months verify the value of any service or product that is advertised below. Note lynites can look forward to seeing vendors could open by the end That same sentiment was that some advertisers do not offer “employment” but rather supply of indigestion caused when the us for the next six years.” of April. found on local food blogs, which manuals, directories and other materials designed to help establish mail Parks Department invited out- But there is some uncertain- The vendors’ victory is espe- galvanized behind the inexpen- order selling and other businesses at home. Under NO circumstance side operators to bid on the should you send any money in advance or give the advertiser your ty, Fuentes said, because Health cially sweet, they said, given sive, mouth-watering nourish- checking, license ID, or credit card numbers over the phone. Note that decades-old taco, empanada Department regulations might how the city had stunned the ment, where news of the deal if a credit repair company does business only over the phone it’s illegal and papusa destination. require each of the 10 vendors city’s taco lovers with an an- with the Parks Department was to request any money before delivering its service. The Parks Department an- to spend $15,000–$30,000 on nouncement last year that the greeted with a salivation of relief. nounced on Monday that the food preparation units that meet Parks Department would seek “Soccer fans, taco eater, and longstanding vendors had won city health codes, though nego- additional bidders to run the all manner of Red Hook food- a six-year contract with the city tiations are ongoing. market rather than allow the ies can rest easy,” announced to hawk their tasty fare in the The projected expenses have vendors to renew the temporary the blog “Eater.” / Mike McLaughlin park on Bay Street, between already compelled three mer- permits they had used for years. 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Real Estate one of the few landowners who In other news, Lola Staar Health & Fitness has not yet sold to Sitt, said boutique owner Dianna Carlin North Carolina Mountains. New log cabin shel By Mike McLaughlin bus shuttle, like the one used last year to park at the water’s edge to Brooklyn announced at last week’s outra- VIAGRA/CIALIS, VIAGRA/CIALIS. 40 for $99.00; on 2 wooded acres, only $99,900. FREE he’s focusing on running his 40 for $99.00. www.WESAVEONDRUGS.COM BROCHURE of Mountain& Riverfront acreage reach the floating pool. And they also recom- Height’s fabled Promenade. The $1-million 888-942-2262. Financing. 828-652-8700 The Brooklyn Paper shop, not on the negotiations geous “Save Coney Island” mend a fleet of ferries — buses of the water. analysis also concluded that burrowing a burlesque fundraiser at South- Bus them and they will come. between Sitt and the city. They say these initiatives will reduce the tunnel from the Clark Street subway sta- paw in Park Slope that she Transportation experts went back to the temptation to take cars to the isolated park. tion to the park entrance near Furman “My main focus is to get the would put a temporary roller future to find ways to get more people to “We set out to ensure that Brooklyn Street would cost at least $226 million — park ready for all the thousands skating rink in the old Child’s the remote Brooklyn Bridge Park — the Bridge Park would be fully accessible to nearly as much as the park itself. of kids who will be here this year Restaurant on the Boardwalk, 85-acre open space, commercial and condo everyone,” said Hank Gutman, president of Beside that cost, and the estimated and next year,” said Vourderis. west of Keyspan Park. 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