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FIND THIS WEEK’S BORO DEALS ON PAGE 16 Yo u r Neighborhood — Yo u r BrooklynPaper.com News® • (718 ) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2011 SERVING BROWNSTONE BROOKLYN, WILLIAMSBURG & BAY RIDGE REMEMBERING 9-11 AWP/20 pages • Vol. 34, No. 36 • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM September 9–15, 2011 • FREE Including the Windsor Terrace, Kensington / Midwood and Sunset Park Papers Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 26 Court St., Brooklyn, New York 11242 Phone 718-834-9350 AD fax 718-834-1713 • NEWS fax 718-834-9278 © 2001 Brooklyn Paper Publications • GO BROOKLYN begins on p. 7 •Vol.24, No. 36 AWP •September 17, 2001 • FREE INFAMYINFAMY Everyone has a memory of Sept. 11, 2001 — from Newspaper Group has com- moments of heroism, to mo- piled intimate remembrances ments of tragedy; from the of that horrifying day — and personal to the universal. the result is a unique oral his- The Brooklyn Papers / Tom Callan HE morning after brings with it the staggering realization To this week’s attack — recognized by our president as an act of T that the events of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 were not just a hor- war — we must respond decisively and fully, punishing not only the rible nightmare. That what could never have been imagined immediate perpetrators (whether foreign or domestic), but the nations — except by twisted minds bent on the destruction of the American that perpetuate terrorism, hide terrorists in their midst, or facilitate ter- In this special commemora- psyche — had manifested itself in the toppling of a national icon, ror by their appeasement or equivocation. and with it wrought the deaths of thousands of our city’s innocent This is our Pearl Harbor. and brave in the most horrific ways. Returning to the Brooklyn Heights promenade the morning after, On May 13, 1940, in his first speech before Parliament after becoming prime the new Manhattan skyline conjures no notions of possibility, no “If minister of Great Britain in the early days of World War II, Winston Churchill I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere” spirit. There is only the offered “blood, toil, tears and sweat”: incomprehensible view of something great torn asunder, a plume of E have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have grayish smoke left in its wake. W before us many, many months of struggle and suffering. The reality this morning is that our great city’s heart has been “You ask, ‘What is our policy?’ I say it is to wage war by tory of 9-11, told by Brook- ripped out — by images of office workers choosing between two land, sea and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has certainties of death, of United States airliners slamming purposely given us. And to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed into the World Trade Center and of those Twin Towers, incon- in the dark and lamentable catalog of human crime. That is our policy. ceivably, crashing to the ground before our eyes in avalanches of “You ask, ‘What is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. glass, steel and human remains. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terrors. Victory however long This awful morning also brings the reality of hundreds of our fire- and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.” fighters, police officers and emergency workers rushing into harm’s way, only to be crushed under the weight of organized, state-sanction- After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ed international terrorism. And the knowledge that in coming days, as delivered his “Day of Infamy” address: SLOPE’S tive edition, the Community we become familiar with the faces of the thousands of our relatives, ESTERDAY, Dec. 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — friends and neighbors who perished at the hands of unmitigated evil, Y the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately at- we will want to crush the enemy that caused so much pain. lan tacked… “No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated in- Dec. 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy,” ultimately led to vasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to / Tom Cal / Tom our nation’s dominance on the world scene. We fought back immed- s absolute victory… iately and without reservation, and kept fighting until we had defeat- “Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our ed our enemies in Europe and in the Pacific, establishing America yn Paper territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our as a major world power, eventually the world power, but also for- Armed Forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will ever opening ourselves up as a target. lynites who lived through it. gain the inevitable triumph. So help us God.” The Brookl See pages 2–3. A widow’s tale By Thomas Tracy HORROR The Brooklyn Paper For the longest time, Mar- ian Fontana’s fatherless son, Another attack by would- Aiden, wanted to be a fire- fighter — just like the old man be rapist has area on edge he lost on 9-11. But, now 15, the teenager is By Kate Briquelet pursuing music instead. The Brooklyn Paper and fled after she screamed for “He wants to be a rock star,” (Above) Dave Fontana A sex fiend groped another help. said Fontana, whose Park Slope woman in South Slope on Sat- with Aiden. (At right) Photo by Stefano Giovannini life was torn apart like the urday in the seventh assault in the The woman then chased the Twin Towers that killed herMarian Fontana, 9-11 Police officers Andy Jean-Pierre (left) and Frank Siclari of brute and saw him jump into a widow and author. area since March — days after beige SUV near 17th Street, said husband, Dave Fontana. “He the 72nd Precinct handed out fliers on Prospect Avenue cops ramped up their efforts to 72nd Precinct Deputy Inspector loves the guitar, plays music between Fourth and Fifth avenues to alert the public of a catch the attempted rapist. Jesus Pintos. and writes songs. He still men- not the only victim of Sept. 11 neighborhood sex fiend. In the latest attack, police said tions being a firefighter, and Cops describe the suspect as a whose dreams were dramati- File photo by Hugh Crawford that the creep grabbed his vic- 5-foot-8 man last seen wearing a has a great respect for the job, Marian Fontana, too, has tim from behind at 12:15 am on cally altered by that day. The changed since the day that her gray T-shirt, but they haven’t de- but I don’t think he’ll choose legions of people changed for- Seventh Avenue near 17th Street that life.” husband, a member of Park termined whether he’s the same ever by 9-11 are as near as the Slope’s elite Squad 1 on Union Aiden Fontana is, of course, See FIEND house next door and as far away Street, died with 11 members on page 7 as Afghanistan and Iraq. Parade ‘racial’ outrage of his team as they ran into the See FONTANA New app brings WTC backon page 2 Williams: Cops wouldn’t have cuffed me if I was white By Thomas Tracy The Brooklyn Paper By Kate Briquelet the parade incident. “They should The Brooklyn Paper Councilman Jumaane Wil- just say that they committed an The ghosts of Sept. 11 are liams is lashing out at cops who error and were going to correct it. handcuffed and detained him dur- still with us. And now you to someone who’d never seen They should not insult our intel- and demanded to know why they ing the West Indian Parade on can get two more — the Twin them.” ligence. Just because we’re black were inside a “frozen zone.” Called 110 Stories, the free Monday, claiming that they are Towers themselves — on your doesn’t mean we’re dumb.” The duo claimed they flashed iPhone. program is scheduled for re- lying about the incident, and that lease in Apple’s App Store on it wouldn’t have happened if he Williams and Kirsten John- their identification and said that Greenpoint resident Brian Foy, who is an aide to Public Ad- Wednesday. was white. an NYPD supervisor gave them August has created a mobile vocate Bill DeBlasio, were walk- app that superimposes silhou- The app works by using aug- permission to enter the blocked- “[The police] should cease and ing down an empty, cordoned-off ettes of the World Trade Cen- mented reality, the latest smart- desist with the lies,” Williams off area, but the officers wouldn’t sidewalk as they made their way ter’s iconic towers onto photos phone technology that fuses (D–Flatbush) said on Tuesday, hear it. to a luncheon at the Brooklyn Mu- of the New York skyline — computer-generated content his first public comments since One officer knocked John-Foy from any point in the city. and real-world views. seum at 1:30 pm on Monday when to the sidewalk and both were several officers stopped the pair handcuffed before they were As a native New Yorker First, the software uses a Councilman Jumaane Wil- global positioning system to Photo by Tomtaken Tracy to the Union Temple, a who grew up in awe of Lower liams on Tuesday. Manhattan skyscrapers, Au- identify where users are with synagogue across the street on gust wanted to memorialize the sci-fi precision — determining See bygone towers and show them their latitude, longitude and PARADE on page 6 to younger generations.