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Published every Saturday — online all the time — by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington St, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2005 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 18 pages •Vol. 28, No. 9 BRZ • Saturday, February 26, 2005 • FREE Victory chief: ‘Fever’ floor is We’re staying! on the Denies Crain’s report hospital ripe for closing By Jotham Sederstrom Interfaith Medical Center in block The Brooklyn Papers Bedford-Stuyvesant among The president of Vic- hospitals health care profes- Associated Press sionals speculated could be tory Memorial Hospital shuttered. The flashing, colorful Brooklyn dance floor vehemently denied a re- Victory Memorial is on where John Travolta strutted and hustled in port published this week 92nd Street at Seventh Av- “Saturday Night Fever” will be offered at auc- that fingered the 105- enue. tion, a dealer of Hollywood memorabilia said year-old Bay Ridge med- “It’s absolutely idiotic,” Tuesday. ical center and seven said DiCunto of the article. The floor, which was the centerpiece of the 2001 other small hospitals as “We’re not going to close, Odyssey nightclub at 802 64th St. in Bay Ridge, was likely to be closed be- and there’s very little sub- saved by owner Jay Rizzo after the club closed last cause of Gov. George Pa- stance in the thing.” week. taki’s efforts to reduce ris- Cynthia Rigg, a projects The auction will be held on April 1 at the galleries editor at Crain’s, defended of Profiles in History, a memorabilia dealer in Beverly ing state Medicaid costs. the article by reporter Gale Hills, Calif., its editor, Kevin Hasely, said. Donald DiCunto said the Scott, saying that the Greater The floor will remain in New York City during report in Crain’s New York New York Hospital Associa- the California auction. It has already attracted Business, which named Vic- tion and the 1199 SEIU Photofest prospective bidders, particularly memorabilia col- tory Memorial among two health care workers union lectors, Hasely said. Brooklyn hospitals speculat- have agreed that closures are “We have interest from private collectors who ed to be closed, unfairly cre- Callan / Tom necessary to consolidate lim- want the dance floor for themselves, and from club ated its list by taking an in- ited resources and reduce owners who know the commercial value of having formal survey of health care state Medicaid costs. the floor made famous in ‘Saturday Night Fever,’” specialists that he believes But a statement released Brian Chanes, director of sales at Profiles in Histo- skewed heavily in favor of this week by the Healthcare ry, told the Daily News. larger hospitals, which would Education Project, a joint ini- Rizzo, who renamed the 2001 Odyssey to Spec- The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn benefit from consolidations. tiative of the Greater New trum in 1987, also said that the floor has long been The report only mentions Rep. Vito Fossella presents check for $100,000 to Victory Memorial Hospital Presi- York Hospital Association a curiosity, especially among tourists. Victory Memorial once, as dent Donald DiCunto (center) and Emergency Department Director Dr. Mark Kind- and 1199 SEIU, also blasted “Over the years, we’ve had thousands of people part of a list that also includes schuh in February of 2004. Reports this week said the hospital may be closing. the article. who come here just to see it,” Rizzo told the News. “It is irresponsible for “It is incredibly popular with tourists — particular- Crain’s New York Business ly from Europe.” to publish a list of hospitals In the 1977 movie, the floor was the scene where that are ‘ripe for shuttering,’” Travolta’s character, Tony Manero, went from paint the joint statement reads. store clerk to disco playboy on Saturday nights. “The Healthcare Education The 10-year-old Profiles in History describes itself Project supports a process as the nation’s leading dealer in guaranteed-authentic Cohen eyeing bench whereby a thoughtful analy- original historical autographs, letters, documents, vin- sis of and planning for com- tage signed photographs and manuscripts, and auc- munity healthcare needs tioneer of Hollywood memorabilia. By Jotham Sederstrom Delia Schack, a co-district leader must be the foundation for In August 2003, Bay Ridgites celebrated the neigh- The Brooklyn Papers EXCLUSIVE in the 46th AD, and Ralph Perfetto, a any recommendations for borhood’s 150th anniversary with a screening of “Sat- Assemblywoman Adele Cohen leader in the neighboring 60th AD, hospital or nursing home re- urday Night Fever” in Narrows Botanical Gardens. both said Cohen was testing the wa- structuring, including but not While many of the establishments featured in the is eyeing a Brooklyn Supreme County Democratic Committee say ters for a run at the bench. Court judgeship and will give up that Cohen has been putting out feel- limited to closures, and un- movie are now defunct (including the White Castle “At the moment, what I’m hear- der which community needs, ers — to everyone from the party’s on 92nd Street where Travolta’s bone-headed friends her Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, ing is she’s looking for a Supreme workforce needs, and other executive director, Jeffery Feldman, stand on a table and bark like dogs) the movie still Coney Island and Brighton Court judgeship,” said Perfetto. critical issues must be ad- holds a special place in the hearts of many. to many of the borough’s 42 district Beach seat if she is elected to the “You know, there’s a lot of people dressed.” In fact, tourists still wind up on the doorstep of bench in November, sources told leaders — since the Democrats be- waiting countywide, so I don’t know The list, said Rigg, was Peggy Pierce, a Community Board 10 member The Bay Ridge Paper this week. gan advertising for judicial candi- how doable that’s going to be.” formed after interviews with who is the proud owner of the home on 79th Street Cohen, 62, who last November dates in issues of the New York Law Although elections will be held healthcare professionals who where Tony Manero lived in the film. was re-elected for a third term, de- Journal last week. for six seats throughout both Brook- made their decisions based The once gray house is now painted brown and nied the rumor. Several sources, including a dis- lyn and Staten Island this September, on, among other things, white but fans find it anyway, Pierce said at the “I have no comment other than I trict leader in Cohen’s 46th Assem- four are currently filled by incum- whether the hospitals were screening, noting that just a few years ago tourists love my job,” said Cohen. “I’m hav- bly District, confirmed that the three- bents who are eligible for reelection. losing money and whether from Brazil appeared in her driveway. ing a perfectly wonderful time. I can term lawmaker had been delicately Once the Democratic Party judicial nearby hospitals could ac- Photofest Pierce and her husband, Ray, moved into the accomplish a lot in the Assembly seeking support for one of two coun- screening panel receives applications commodate new patients. John Travolta, as Tony Manero, dances the night home three months before “Saturday Night Fever” and I ain’t goin’ anywhere.” tywide seats expected to be vacated from likely candidates, an executive It also said, however, that away at 2001 Odyssey, the Bay Ridge nightclub hit the theaters in December, 1977. But sources within the Kings in September. See COHEN on page 4 See VICTORY on page 4 featured in in “Saturday Night Fever.” — with The Brooklyn Papers ASPCA Slope kids bash arrests ‘Hearts’ American soldier By Jotham Sederstrom According to the New York hardt, was reprimanded by JHS The Brooklyn Papers Post, which first reported the story 51 Principal Xavier Castelli. Kun- on Monday, one girl wrote that she hardt issued a statement of apolo- founder Aclass of Park Slope sixth- believes Jacobs is “being forced to gy through the Department of Ed- graders shocked the nation this kill innocent people” and chal- ucation. week when it was discovered lenged him to name an Iraqi terror- “The teacher acknowledges By Jess Wisloski they had sent demoralizing let- ist, concluding, “I know I can’t.” that he made a mistake and the The Brooklyn Papers ters to a soldier stationed near Deputy Schools Chancellor principal plans to add a letter of The founding director of a Brooklyn an- North Korea as part of a social Carmen Farina, the former super- reprimand to his file,” said Alicia intendent of Park Slope’s School Maxey Greene, a spokeswoman imal shelter was arrested Tuesday and charg- studies assignment. District 15, who has a nephew for the Department of Education. ed with 11 counts of animal cruelty following Several of the letters sent to Pfc. serving in Iraq, said on Tuesday Although Jacobs was not sta- an investigation by the American Society for Rob Jacobs by students from JHS that she would personally issue tioned in Iraq, it didn’t stop the the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 51, the William Alexander Middle an apology to the New Jersey sol- pint-size pundits from dashing off Carmello “Mel” Salamone, 51, of Mastick, School, on Fifth Avenue at Fifth dier and his family. 21 mostly unhappy letters that Long Island, was picked up by 66th Precinct Street, attacked soldiers for partici- The teacher who assigned the seemed to confirm every stereo- police on Fifth Avenue at 25th Street in Sunset pating in the war in Iraq. letter-writing project, Alex Kun- type of the liberal Park Slope Park, one block south of where he turned over mindset and its widespread oppo- the carcass of a dead pit bull to animal res- sition to President Bush. While cuers on Jan. 31 following a raid on the facili- one wrote, simply, that she be- ty he helped organize. Newsboxes removed lieved “this war is pointless,” oth- Salamone is charged with “overdriving, tor- The Brooklyn Papers has ordered the temporary removal of ers weren’t so easy on the 20-year- turing and injuring animals and failure to pro- its on-the-street newsboxes in Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst. old soldier. vide proper sustenance for animals,” according While we believe much of the recent legislation regulating In one essay, a student wrote to the district attorney’s office. He could face newsbox placement is unconstitutional, we are nevertheless that soldiers were “destroying up to 11 years in prison — one year for each making a good-faith effort to comply with those rules. Pend- holy places like mosques” while count — an ASPCA investigator said. ing the return of our boxes in a few weeks, we have in- another accused Jacobs of “being Reached for comment after the arrest. Sala- creased deliveries to stores that carry our newspapers and forced to kill innocent people.” mone asked The Brooklyn Papers to call him ASPCA Special Agent Richard Ryan escorts Carmello Salamone, 51, from the 66th Precinct, at our net circulation is unchanged. If you need help in locating Elected officials, meanwhile, back later, but then did not return subsequent 16th Avenue and 58th Street, to Central Booking on Tuesday. Salamone, founder and president a store that carries our Paper, please call Cynthia at (718) 834- issued carefully worded state- 9350, ext. 101, between 8:30 am and 5:30 pm weekdays. See ASPCA ARRESTS HEAD on page 6 of the Hearts and Homes animal shelter, was charged with 11 counts of animal cruelty. See LETTERS on page 6

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