Beeps Battle Over Cyclones, SI Yanks for Borough Presidents, All Bets Are On
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THIS WEEK IN Congrats 2002 grads: p.8-12 Clones to stay short-season: p. 4 WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM Soggy soiree Keyspan Park gala a thunderous success Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 26 Court St., Brooklyn 11242 Phone 718-834-9350 AD fax 718-834-1713 • NEWS fax 718-834-9278 © 2002 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 20 pages including 8 pages GO BROOKLYN • Vol.25, No. 24 DTG, PSG • June 17, 2002 • FREE INSIDE Beeps battle over Cyclones, SI Yanks For borough presidents, all bets are on By Patrick Gallahue The Brooklyn Papers Ex-Clones Standing on the upper deck of a yacht called the Romantica, with an iron demarcation line — a.k.a. yearn for the Verrazano Narrows Bridge — at their backs, Brooklyn Borough Presi- dent Marty Markowitz and Staten Island Borough Brooklyn President James Molinaro shook hands on a bet et ready for the best baseball experience of your life. between the boroughs. And I’m not talking to all you Brooklyn Cyclones With Markowitz refusing to Callan / GTom Gfans; you already know how great it is watching your set foot on Staten Island, the New York-Penn League champions play at Keyspan Park. two boarded a ship that No, I’m addressing this column to the new crop of Cy- stopped somewhere near the clones players — whose identities are still as well-guarded middle of the Narrows — as the location of Dick Cheney’s secret lair even though roughly 40 degrees 36 minutes Papers The Brooklyn the season opens on Tuesday. north latitude and 74 degrees 3 Borough presidents James Molinaro and Marty Markowitz As someone who covered the Cyclones inaugural (did I minutes west longitude — to face off in neutral territory — afloat on the Narrows — with say championship?) season last year, I got to see the typi- shake on a wager over the 12 mascots Scooter the Holy Cow and Sandy the Seagull. cal minor-league experience on every Cyclones road trip. regular season meetings be- In Burlington, the sta- tween the Staten Island Yan- dium is almost 100 nese? Italian?” many activities only to retire years old and sits next Ridin’th s kees and the Brooklyn Cy- Vowing to derail the results to their homes across the Nar- e C ne clones. to a high school soc- yclo of Markowitz’s “Lighten Up rows — and “the southwest- cer field. In The victorious borough Brooklyn” campaign, Moli- ern suburb of Brooklyn,” with Gersh Kuntzman president will have the oppor- Jamestown, a de- naro said, “I’m going to make Markowitz thanked Molinaro, pressed New York tunity to display the newly Marty gain weight, take him who, he said, “knows he has panhandle town, the crowds are so small that foul pops Sen. Charles Schumer stands tall at Saturday’s Brooklyn Pride Festival in Prospect Park. created “Borough Cup,” fur- to a good restaurant.” no chance of winning, for be- rattle around the stadium like a pachinko ball. In After sundown, parade lit up Seventh Avenue. The Brooklyn Papers / Tom Callan nished by the teams them- Markowitz, the more svelte ing a good sport.” Williamsport, the locker room is so small, it looks as if the selves, inside the victor’s Bor- of the two, thanks in part to Earlier in the day, team had taken a men’s room and thrown a few strips of ough Hall, and the loser will his “Lighten Up” campaign, green Astroturf on the floor. pay for dinner in a restaurant boarded the ship from the Markowitz held a ceremonial raising of the Cyclones team And in every city, post-game entertainment for the play- of the rival’s choice on the op- Brooklyn Army Terminal in ers consisted of walking around in search of a place to eat posing side of the bridge. Sunset Park shortly before 1 flag over Borough Hall, where Brooklyn Pride the beloved Brooklyn Dodgers and ending up with Velveeta-covered french fries at a “The Yanks are definitely go- pm. banner once flew. Denny’s by the interstate. Grim, my friends. Grim. ing to win,” Molinaro said. Calling Staten Island “the But baseball life in Brooklyn is as different from those “There’s no question. The ques- bedroom community of The Dodgers flag, which Marty first beep at gay festival tion is, ‘Where’s he going to Brooklyn” — for all its resi- flew for almost half a decade See RIDING on page 4 eat?’ What does he want? Chi- dents who enjoy Brooklyn’s See CYCLONES on page 4 By Patrick Gallahue Community Board Six Dis- Elected officials who ap- The Brooklyn Papers trict Manager Craig Hammer- peared on the fair’s perform- man, CB6 Chairwoman Irene ance stage following perform- Borough President Mar- Lo Re, and the borough presi- ances by poets, singers and ty Markowitz was honorary dent’s wife Jamie Snow- drag queens, included Senator Maverick councilman Davis to put marshall of Saturday’s Markowitz. Charles Schumer, city Comp- Brooklyn Pride parade, the “Amazing,” said Bonnie troller William Thompson, state first time a borough presi- Conyers, of Bedford- Sen. Carl Andrews, Assembly- lawsuit money toward new campaign dent appeared at the six- Stuyvesant, who watched the man Roger Green, and Slope LET IT RIDE year-old Park Slope festival parade from in front of the Councilman Bill DeBlasio. By Patrick Gallahue lawsuit against the police department money to run,” Davis said. Congress in 1996 against the 20-year that celebrates the bor- Pavilion Theater at Bartel- Schumer, a resident of the The Brooklyn Papers for firing him after a failed 1998 run Should he run it would be the second incumbent in the largely Park Slope- ough’s gay, lesbian and Pritchard Square, furiously Slope, arrived wearing a pair against Assemblyman Clarence Nor- time Davis, who has only held elected Flatbush district. transgender populations. waving a rainbow flag. “I of shorts with his bicycle hel- Never one to hold ’em, fold ’em man, the chairman of the Kings County office for six months, challenged Owens Since that time Davis has been a or walk away, Fort Greene Markowitz, riding his cam- think it’s great. met dangling at his side. Democratic Committee. for his 11th Congressional District seat. perennial political gadfly, challenging paign vehicle, “the Marty- The parade, which proced- “The fight to equality, the Councilman James Davis said this Following his court victory, Davis That seat, according to the maps as pro- then-Councilwoman Mary Pinkett in mobile,” a flatbed pick-up ed from Bartel Pritchard up fight to fairness, the fight to week he would likely throw all his told The Brooklyn Papers that he was posed under redistricting, will include 1997, and Norman for his Assembly truck decorated with flashing Seventh Avenue to Lincoln decency, is making slow recently won chips towards a “90 percent” sure he would use his portions of Brooklyn Heights, Park seat in 1998, losing the latter race by a Christmas lights, hollered, Place, was preceded by an af- progress — but will progress long-shot congressional run newfound wealth, at least in part, to Slope, Carroll Gardens, Crown Heights, thin margin of 677 votes. “All right Brooklyn Pride! ternoon street fair along in Washington,” Schumer against Rep. Major Owens. campaign for Congress. Kensington, Midwood, Flatbush, Fort Following the 1998 defeat, Davis, a How sweet it is Brooklyn!” Prospect Park West between said, citing the Hate Crimes On Monday, a federal jury awarded “Since the courts ruled in my favor, Greene and Brownsville. New York City police officer since He was accompanied by 9th and 14th Streets. See PRIDE on page 7 $100,000 in damages to Davis in his and I won $100,000, I can use that He made an unsuccessful bid for See DAVIS on page 7 Bishop Daily testifies BONY up By Devlin Barrett Cathedral in Rockville Centre on Sun- A lawyer for victims in the Boston Associated Press day. case said Daily’s deposition, at a hotel Daily was giving a sworn deposition Diocess of Brooklyn Bishop near LaGuardia Airport, could take in the case of defrocked priest John J. most of the day. Thomas Daily testified about sex Geoghan, who has been accused of “We are basically questioning him on B’klyn abuse by priests in a closed-door molesting more than 130 children in on two tracks, one about what he knew session on Monday, a day after the Boston archdiocese. as far as complaints against Father Ge- Long Island’s top Catholic official Daily served there from 1971 to oghan, and what he did after he was NY’s oldest bank eyes 1984, beginning as Cardinal Humberto offered a “sorrowful apology” for told what he was told,” said the lawyer, the excesses that have rocked the Medeiros’ secretary. He said in March borough as new home that he regretted some of the decisions Mitchell Garabedian. church’s reputation. he made during that time. “He received knowledge from a “I wish to proclaim: abuse of a mi- A spokesman for the Diocese of woman that seven people were molest- By Patrick Gallahue lantic Terminal were pre- nor by a priest, never again,” the Rev. Brooklyn, Frank DeRosa, said Daily ed. We want to know what he did with The Brooklyn Papers sented to Community William F. Murphy declared in an emo- “cooperated fully with the deposition that information,” Garabedian said. Board 2 last month, and in- tional sermon, eliciting a burst of ap- Garabedian said the other line of in- This building at 470 Vanderbilt Ave. in Clinton Hill is being eyed by The oldest bank in clude a 12-story, 400,000- and used his memory to the best of his New York City, the plause from congregants at St.