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By Matthew Perlman The Brooklyn Paper Stay in the neighborhood. That was the resounding message of a community meeting held at Park Slope’s John Jay Educational Cam- pus last Friday in response to the just- launched police initiative to disperse groups of teens wherever they gather, in neighborhoods from the Slope to Dumbo. Officers from Fort Greene’s 88th Precinct and Downtown’s 84th Precinct detailed the larger anti-teen hangout initiative in an exclusive re- port by this paper . Parents, teachers, and students as- sembled in a cafeteria at the Seventh Avenue schoolhouse, many of them wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the message “I love John Jay” and an anti- racism logo, blasted the tactic, saying people of all ages and races have a right to congregate in the community. “This is unwarranted, unfair harass- ment,” said Adam Stevens, an Afri- can-American Flatbush resident and Photos by Elizabeth Graham parent of a sixth grader. “The moment (Left to right) A little help from her friends: Students support a girl they leave the building, they’re made speaking out against her treatment by police during a forum at John to feel unwelcome.” Jay Educational Campus in Park Slope on Oct. 10. Lyndsey Martinez, Parents called the forum after white deputy director of the police department’s school safety unit. Jill Sloper Sara Bennett said at a 78th Pre- Bloomberg, principal of Park Slope Collegiate. cinct community council meeting that she witnessed police following a group ior, according to the NY1 report. a fight he had nothing to do with. He of black teens down her block in a squad Martinez told the crowd of about just happened to resemble the people car last month, ordering them to leave 100 that there is a problem with po- involved, he said. over the loudspeaker. Bennett, a yoga lice-teen relations, and that he will “They’re judging people by the way teacher and former lawyer, said the scene try to fix it. they look,” he said of the police and reminded her of apartheid. “There are clearly some issues. store owners in the area. “The police were following the kids This is the first we’re hearing about Park Slope Collegiate’s principal yelling at them to get out of the neigh- it,” he said. “We’re not perfect. We’ll echoed the sentiment and said she was borhood,” she said. “It felt like South make some changes at this school if glad everyone turned out to sound off Africa.” need be.” in support of the youth. A neighbor said she saw officers cers don’t shoo youths. The words did little to assuage the “They absolutely have every right to shooing the youngsters that day and, TEEN KNOCKED OUT BY COP — A FOLLOW-UP “We don’t tell the kids to leave,” anger of the stream of black and La- be here,” said principal Jill Bloomberg, though she didn’t hear the inflammatory said Lyndsey Martinez, deputy direc- tino students who took to a microphone who is white. “It was great to have com- SEE PAGE 2 command, she thought the tactic was PLUS tor of the School Safety Division. “We to talk about the persecution they feel munity members come out and say to the the wrong way to handle the situation, just want to make sure the dismissals outside school walls. kids that they are welcomed. It’s very and that it wasn’t anything new. Barclays Center, and MetroTech Cen- problem is to keep the kids moving. A are orderly.” “I can’t go anywhere in the neigh- sad that they needed to do that.” “This wasn’t the first time I’ve seen ter all met in mid-September after a civil rights lawyer called the strategy The claim runs contrary to an NY1 borhood without being looked at in a Neighbors say schoolkids can be a the NYPD behaving this way towards group of teens brawled with cops in “straight up unconstitutional.” report in which a camera crew filmed certain way,” said Phedon Thomas, a pain, but that they’ve never gotten out students,” Lee Solomon said. the plaza in front of the Barclays Cen- A Community Affairs officer with a school safety agent telling students, junior from Park Slope Collegiate, one of control. Brass from Fort Greene’s 88th Pre- ter. Cops later told residents at a Fort the 78th Precinct said its officers weren’t “Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go.” The agent of the four schools that share the cam- A manager at a Seventh Avenue piz- cinct, Park Slope’s 78th Precinct, Down- Greene community board meeting that invited to the town hall forum, and then broke the lens off the news cam- pus. “It’s overwhelming.” zeria said kids from John Jay schools town’s 84th Precinct, the police Transit fights break out when large groups of none attended. A commander from the era and, when the team reassembled it, Ethan Edobor, another junior from can crowd the tables when class lets out, Bureau, school safety agents, and man- teens gather, and that the precincts’ top division that patrols the campus did tried to block the camera with her hat. Park Slope Collegiate, said he had been but that’s about as far as it goes. agers from Atlantic Terminal mall, the cops decided the way to deal with the show up, and told a reporter his offi- The NYPD is investigating the behav- kicked out of a restaurant by police for See TEENS on page 12 Playing easy to get Brooklyn Bridge Park is now a thief’s haven By Matthew Perlman ters. Most of the crimes involved cops he was near the entrance The Brooklyn Paper people leaving their stuff unat- on Joralemon and Furman streets Brooklyn Bridge Park’s new tended, especially while playing at 9:55 pm, and left his bag sit- basketball and handball courts are basketball or handball, the local ting out for five minutes. When all fun and games — until some- top cop said. he returned, the bag, which con- body’s stuff gets stolen. “A lot of people, when they’re tained a canteen, debit and credit The new sports facilities have enjoying the park, leave their bags cards, and a cellphone, was gone, become a hot spot for thefts since lying around,” said Capt. Ser- cops said. they opened in Brooklyn’s front gio Centa, commanding officer Park honchos expect the crowds yard in May, according to crime of the 84th Precinct. to get bigger as the amenities ex- reports. That is exactly what happened pand — and police say the crime There have been 15 robberies in the latest reported crime, when will get worse, too. and thefts in the park since June, a sneak stole a man’s bag inside the “It’s something we’ll be look-
Photo by Elizabeth Graham with eight in August alone, ac- park on Oct. 1, police said. ing at as the park continues to The unattended bags beside Pier 2’s basketball courts are ripe for the plucking. cording to this paper’s police blot- The 30-year-old victim told grow,” Centa said. Middle East confl ict hits Barclays Pro-Palestinian protester breaks Jewish-org director’s nose after game
By Matthew Perlman The Brooklyn Paper A pro-Palestinian protester punched the director of a prominent Sheepshead Bay Jewish organization in the face out- side of an exhibition basketball game at Barclays Center last Wednesday night, according to police. The attack came at 10 pm, after an
exhibition game between the Brooklyn Photo by Stefano Giovannini Nets and Maccabi Tel Aviv, a profes- Horse dung at the end of Huntington Street in Gowanus. sional Israeli basketball club. Palestin- ian-rights activists unfurled Palestin- ian flags inside the arena during the game, kicking off a confrontation that spilled outside, according to police, and This is horse----! left Kings Bay Y head Leonard Petlakh with a broken nose, according to the Y. Manure dumped beside Gowanus Petlakh was with his kids at the game and accused the attacker and his allies By Noah Hurowitz have the poop hauled away. of racism cloaked in political hostility, Photo by Paul Martinka The Brooklyn Paper An upstate small-farm-food distribu- calling them “vile anti-Semitic hooli- The longstanding hostility between Israelis and Palestinians flared tor said that, while cow manure is widely up outside Barclays Center on Oct. 7. (Right) Leonard Petlakh, ex- What a load of crap. gans masquerading as anti-Zionists.” Somebody dumped a whole heap used as fertilizer, horse dung isn’t pro- He said he hopes his children learn ecutive director of the Kings Bay Y, lights a giant menorah at the of horse manure at a dead end beside duced in enough volume around here from the experience — and pledged Y in this file photo. the Gowanus Canal last week. The for it to have become a hot commod- that they will sign up for the Israeli Photo by Steve Solomonson culprit may have been trying to avoid ity, and that the cost of transporting army one day. spokeswoman said. cal presence outside of the arena and “Three young men with Israeli flags the hassle of trucking the equestrian it from New York City generally out- “I am upset that my children wit- Assemblyman Steve Cymbrowitz during the game. harassed us and said that we ‘need Israeli waste to nearby farms, which stable weighs what farms might pay. nessed this unprecedented violence,” (D–Sheepshead Bay) also called the One group that organized a demon- d---,’ ” she said in a statement. owners and farmers we polled said “If you’re in the city, no one is go- he said in a statement. “But I hope it incident an anti-Semitic attack and stration outside of the arena denounced Cymbrowitz insists that cops and is standard practice. ing to make money selling horse ma- sends a strong message to them to stand said police and security stood by and the attack. Barclays security dropped the ball by Our eagle-eyed photographer spot- nure upstate,” said Paul Alward, of up for their values as proud Americans let it happen. “Jewish Voice for Peace deplores the failing to keep the feuding factions ted the two piles of plop on Oct. 6 at the New Paltz, New York company and as those who will eventually vol- “It’s terrible that Leonard’s chil- violent incident at last night’s Nets and apart. the end of Huntington Street, between Hudson Valley Harvest. unteer to serve in the Israel Defense dren had to witness their father being Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball game at “Given the advance notice, both the Smith Street and Brooklyn’s nautical Some city horse operations con- Forces.” brutally attacked,” said Cymbrowitz Barclays Center,” said Naomi Dann, NYPD and Barclays should have been purgatory . And by the looks of it, they tract with rural mushroom farmers, When the pro-Palestinian agitators in a statement. “And it’s equally out- a spokeswoman for Jewish Voice for ready with enough personnel and secu- came out of more than one animal. The who grow toadstools out of the road unfurled the flag in the stands, Pet- rageous that a violent display of anti- Peace. “We send our sympathies to rity measures to keep the protesters apart nearest horse housing is Kensington stools, Alward said. Jamaica Bay Rid- lakh’s group was nearby and someone Semitism wasn’t stopped before it got Leonard Petlakh.” from the attendees and avoid even the Stables, two and a half miles away in ing Academy in Mill Basin does just he was with snatched it away, police out of control.” Dann said none of her organization’s possibility of violence,” he said. Windsor Terrace. The stable’s owner that, a worker said. said. The subsequent face-off prompted The Police Department’s Hate Crimes members were in the arena, and that pro- Police described the suspect as a said his 30 horses produce far more Horse feces can carry lethal bacte- security to kick out everyone involved, Task Force is investigating the assault, tests out front ended peacefully about man standing 5-feet-8 and weighing waste than what was dumped canal-side, ria, but the city treats dumping it the according to the NYPD. Then, in the a police rep said. two hours before the incident occurred. around 160 pounds. He was wearing a and that they’ve got it covered. same as unloading household garbage, plaza in front of the Rust Bowl, a man The game was preceded by a recep- Pam Sporn, who was part of the Pales- Nets T-shirt with “BK” spray-painted “We don’t have any issue with ma- a sanitation department spokesman hauled off and hit Petlakh, fracturing tion honoring soldiers wounded dur- tine contingent out front, said she was on the back, cops said. nure because it all gets shipped up- said. The agency started investigat- his nose and leaving a cut that required ing the recent war in Gaza. sexually harassed by Israel supporters The Barclays Center and the Nets de- state,” said owner Walker Blankinship, ing the dumped dung after we called, eight stitches to close, a Kings Bay Y Pro-Palestinian protesters were a vo- as the crowd broke up. clined to comment on the assault. explaining that his company pays to the spokesman said. 2 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 October 17–23, 2014 “We’re Back – Stronger Than Ever!” Youths: Police the problem Friends of teen knocked out by cop say offi cers often harass them By Danielle Furfaro They have filed a court no- The Brooklyn Paper tice saying they intend to sue Friends and young family the city and the Police Depart- members of the black 17-year- ment for $5 million. old apparently knocked out by a District Attorney Ken 718-230-8100 police officer in Clinton Hill in Thompson said his office is June say the incident was scary, eyeing the incident. but it wasn’t surprising. “What we want is what ev- One 21-year-old cousin of eryone should want, which is Airport Transportation Marcel Hamer, the neighbor- respect for the law, whether hood teen whose family says it’s a civilian or a police of- Corporate Accounts Welcome an undercover cop knocked out ficer,” said Thompson. “So if for smoking a cigarette, says any police officer has crossed Out-of-town that police have stopped him the line, we have to hold him without cause for years. accountable.” Competitive Rates “This has been happening Video of the officer ap- to me on a day-to-day basis parently knocking Hamer since I was 16,” Tevaughn out drew international media Johnson said. “They say they attention, prompting articles have probable cause and go in England’s Daily Mail, Can- through my pockets.” ada’s National Post, as well as Johnson’s mother said she in national media outlets such has had to pick him up from as Gawker, Mother Jones, The Open 24/7. the police station for small Photo by Jason Speakman Root, and MSNBC. infractions such as forget- Tevaughn Johnson, Stephon Waldren, and Mary Bethea say they deal with constant police harassment in Clinton Hill. The video’s release coin- ting his identification, and cided with the publication of www.myrtlecarservice.com that once officers arrested two other videos showing al- Base License: B02701 him for disorderly conduct, but that the bigger issue is how the fall, he told a nurse. Ham- “The cops are always around leged police misconduct, one the same charge police made much more police focus on er’s pal, Mary Bethea, started here,” said Mary Bethea, 18. of officers pistol-whipping Clinton Hill Fort Greene Bed-Stuy Dumbo against Hamer after the appar- them than their white peers filming with a smartphone as “This is our community, but and punching an unarmed ent knockout punch. Johnson’s 718-230-3003 718-230-0999 718-623-9393 718-623-1607 — and how much less regard the officer stood over Hamer they do not want us here.” Bedford-Stuyvesant teen mom said that her son and his police hold them in. lying in the gutter, handcuffed One middle-schooler walk- who has his hands raised in friends sometimes misbehave, “The police target the mi- by his right hand, according ing home from school near surrender, and another of an norities,” Dree Johnson said. to the medical account. In where the undercover officer officer pulling cash out of a “They are typical teenagers the footage, the cop taunts struck Hamer said that he avoids man’s pocket on a Coney Is- and they get into some mis- the teens gathered around police as much as he can. land basketball court, then chief, but the attitude from po- asking one, “Do you wanna “I do not talk to any cops,” pepper-spraying him and his Experience True Value For Every Taste and Budget lice is that they just have no get f----- up?” moments be- the 12-year-old said. “I just sister, but arresting neither. respect for minorities.” fore delivering the apparent stay out of the way.” The man whose money was Hamer was walking knockout punch. Then, ad- Bethea, Johnson, and an- taken claims he lost $1,300 home down Gates Avenue dressing the camera, he says, other friend said they have that he intended to spend on with friends near Waverly “Yeah, get it on video.” not spoken to Hamer since a birthday celebration, but of- Avenue on the afternoon of Speaking to a reporter last the June incident, and that ficers insist that the amount June 4 when a plainclothes cop Friday, Bethea said that police his mother has accompa- was only $62, and that it was jumped out of a van, accused are a constant presence in the nied him everywhere since. properly accounted for, ac- him of smoking marijuana, neighborhood, and that expe- The boy’s family claims he cording to reports. and shoved him to the ground, rience has taught her to record suffered brain damage from Police have so far refused he and his family said. Ham- any interactions with them, the blow and now experiences to release the name of the of- er’s left arm was immobilized because they view people who regular headaches, dizziness, ficers involved in the Hamer when it hit a planter during look like her as a threat. and memory loss. incident. Getting techy Burglars strike Dumbo hub By Matthew Perlman cording to a report. The Brooklyn Paper Employees from the vari- A bunch of bandits bur- ous companies told police the glarized tech company of- crew entered the building be- fices in a Dumbo building tween Anchorage Place and Pearl Street at 11:30 pm and late last month, cops said. Photo by Jason Speakman left an hour later with their () ( The four-man team broke loot. 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A ne’er-do-well stole a Brooklyn Heights– Mean teens The 27-year-old victim POLICE BLOTTER two officers in the struggle, — Matthew Perlman woman’s purse after she left said he was in a fight with DUMBO–Boerum Hill– A group of belligerent one on the forehead, the other it unattended in the bathroom the angry fellow on the side- Find more online every Wednesday at Downtown teens punched a man in the on the hand, cops said. 78TH PRECINCT of an Eighth Avenue store on walk of Atlantic Avenue be- Police arrested a man who face and stole his cellphone BrooklynPaper.com/blotter Shaky case Oct. 12, law enforcement of- they said threatened officers tween Third and Fourth av- Park Slope on the corner of Clinton and Police arrested a man in ficials related. with a phone after he made enues at 5:30 pm when the Joralemon streets on Sept. 30, and Park avenues at 8:30 cording to a police report. East Flatbush on Oct. 4 for Fight fright The woman left her purse a call without permission in guy threw his juice, hitting A woman fought off a in the lavatory between 63rd the authorities said. him in the arm. am to go to work. When The crook took a laptop, a allegedly stealing a CitiBike the Human Resources Ad- The 35-year-old victim mugger at the Seventh Av- and 64th streets in Dyker ministration office on Court Then the lout picked up the she returned at 4:30 that af- camera, some loose change, in Fort Greene, after stop- said he was walking home ternoon, her belongings had and a gym bag, law enforce- ping him on apparently bo- enue F and G train station Heights at 3 pm and re- Street on Sept. 30. bottle, and threw it through on Oct. 2, cops said. turned minutes later to find at 7:20 pm when a group the store’s front window, been moved around and the ment officials said. gus grounds. Cops said the 65-year-old of youths approached him, The 21-year-old victim that someone had taken it, a suspect entered the office be- cops said. front window was propped Swarm embrace Officers stopped the socked him in the kisser, and open with the screen pushed was walking down the stairs report states. tween Livingston and Jora- Two brutes forced a 20-year-old suspect on took his phone. The kids took Dog days in, according to a police re- to the platform at the station lemon streets at 4:30 pm, and woman to hand over her Church Avenue between E. Cat burglar fever off on Joralemon heading to- A crook snatched a wom- port. The only item miss- at 7 pm when a lout in jogging was told to leave. The man purse in front of a Waverly 53rd and E. 54th streets at A thief climbed through a wards Court Street, accord- an’s cash as she was buying a ing was the computer, the clothes ran up, grabbed her, stayed and made a call from Avenue building on Oct. 12, 12:47 am for not having a window and stole $500 cash ing to a police report. hotdog from a street vendor report says. and reached for her cellphone the office phone, and when police said. proper helmet, according to and a cellphone from a Ridge Cops tracked the phone on Joralemon Street on Sept. • Another burglar hit on and wallet, a report says. officers arrived to remove The 26-year-old victim a police report. The problem Boulevard home on Oct. 7, to the intersection of Bed- 29, officers stated. Myrtle Avenue the next day, The woman wasn’t go- him he allegedly resisted ar- said she was between Wil- with that claim is that bike per cops. ford and Gates avenues be- The 55-year-old woman absconding with a grab bag ing to give her stuff up qui- rest and threatened them with loughby and DeKalb avenues helmets are not required by The resident left the house fore it went dark, the report said she was at the hotdog of electronics, police re- etly, though. She beat back the phone, according to a po- at 2:50 am when the pair came law. between Wakeman Place and states. cart between Court Street ported. the man and he ran off down lice report. up behind her. One of the When cops checked out 67th Street in Bay Ridge at and Boerum Place at 5:45 The 26-year-old resident the Coney-Island-bound F When the officers tried to Sleeper creeper galoots grabbed her and she the bike they found it did not 5:40 am, and when he got pm and placed her purse on said she left her building be- tracks, police reported. take him into custody, he sup- A sneak tiptoed into a threw her purse and cellphone belong to the suspect, and home at 4:44 pm, he realized the shelf. tween Washington Avenue Injury to insult posedly started punching and Hicks Street apartment on on to the sidewalk, accord- that it had been taken from someone had scaled the fire Then the thief came up, and Hall Street at 9:30 am scratching the cops, the re- Oct. 2 while the residents ing to cops. the bike-share dock at Han- A bandit rolled a home- escape, climbed through a pushed her, grabbed the hand- and did not come back un- port says. were asleep and bagged $50 The pair of punks picked son and Ashland places at less man on Fourth Avenue window, and taken his stuff, bag, and jetted, NYPD offi- til 3:30 pm. in cash, a laptop, and a debit up the items and took off 11:59 pm on Oct. 1, accord- on Sept. 29, cops said. police said. Trust issues cials said. The woman said When she arrived, the card, police said. on foot down Waverly to- ing to cops. The victim said he was — Max Jaeger Someone stole a laptop her bag contained $250 in front door had been dam- The 26-year-old man wards DeKalb, the author- drinking a beer between 12th and debit card from a John cash. aged and two laptops, an elec- Bar fly and 13th streets at around 5 and 36-year-old woman ities said. A quick-moving crook 94TH PRECINCT Street art and media space said they were sawing logs tronic tablet, and a camera am when the fiend came up on Sept. 30, according to Broken windows grabbed a woman’s bag from in their apartment between 88TH PRECINCT were all missing, according to him and asked for the Greenpoint–Northside police. under her table in a Clinton State Street and Atlantic Av- to the authorities. Cops cuffed a man who time, then clocked him in Uninvited guest The 31- and 23-year-old Fort Greene–Clinton Hill • Residents reported a third they say resisted arrest af- Avenue bar on Oct. 11. enue when the thief struck, the face. A teen burglar busted into victims told cops they went to Sick days break-in at an apartment on The 26-year-old victim sometime between 10:45 am ter passing between cars The thief took off run- a woman’s Meeker Avenue a meeting inside the cultural Clinton Avenue on Oct. 11, told police she was in the to 11:10 am. Police received reports of on a moving train near the ning with the man’s book- apartment as she was sleep- building between Pearl and cops said. tavern between Fulton Street Their front door was un- three apartment break-ins Clinton-Washington station bag, which contained a cell- ing on Oct. 12 and scrammed Jay streets at 10:37 am. One The 29-year-old victim and Atlantic Avenue at 9:15 locked and they noticed the in the precinct this week, on Oct. 10. phone and $25 in cash, cops with her cellphone when she left his laptop and the other told police she left the apart- pm, and left her purse on a items were gone two hours all of them during daylight Officers saw the 30-year- said. woke up to find him in her left her wallet unattended hours. ment between Gates Avenue chair tucked under her ta- later, according to a police old suspect walking from car Responders transported bedroom, police said. in the common area, they • The first crook stole a and Fulton Street at 11:40 am, to car on a C train that was ble while she said goodbye report. the 51-year-old victim to The 26-year-old victim said. They returned 15 min- laptop from a Clermont Av- and returned at 2:51 pm to pulling into the station on to her friends. Lutheran Medical Center, Snap attack When she came back five said she went to sleep at 6 utes later to find their stuff enue apartment on Oct. 8, find her things in disarray. Fulton Street and Washing- where he was treated for pm on Oct. 12 in her apart- minutes later, the bag was taken, according to the au- An unhinged man chucked cops said. Her bedroom window had ton Avenue at 4:50 pm, ac- lacerations to his face, ac- ment at the corner of Gra- gone, cops said. It contained thorities. his Snapple bottle at a guy The 37-year-old victim been opened from the top, and cording to a report. cording to a report. ham Avenue and woke up Someone used the wom- during a dispute in front of an told officers she left her the front door to the apart- When police confronted debit and credit cards, and a Break it off 15 minutes later when she an’s credit card at Macy’s Atlantic Avenue store on Oct. apartment between Myrtle ment had been left open, ac- the fellow, they say he started pair of burgundy Prada sun- A heartless bandit pock- felt something moving on eted a woman’s engagement her bed. ring in a Park Slope burglary She saw the hoodlum try- on Oct. 3, cops said. ing to take her laptop char- The ne’er-do-well entered ger, she said, and asked him the home on Garfield Place who he was, a police report between Fifth and Sixth av- states. enues by jimmying the lock He claimed a mutual on the front door sometime friend had said he could between midnight and 8 am, borrow her stuff, but when as the victim slept, accord- she asked which friend, he ing to a police report. dashed out, according to of- Once inside, the burglar ficers. She then realized that swiped the $17,000 engage- her cellphone was missing, ment ring, two iPhones, two NYPD officials said. iPads, and a Samsung lap- So metal top, items worth $22,000 al- A sneaky thief stole 100 together, cops said. feet of electric copper wire from a Kingsland Avenue 76TH PRECINCT business on Oct. 4, police Carroll Gardens– said. Cobble Hill–Red Hook A manager of the business between N. Henry Street and Follow their gut Greenpoint Avenue told po- A pair of galoots stuck up lice he came to work at 5:30 a food delivery man bringing am and found all the wir- food to a building on Centre ing connecting the business’s Mall on Oct. 13, cops said. generators missing. The 45-year-old victim There is a camera in the was carrying an order of lot, but it was not working Chinese food to a building at the time of the theft, po- between Henry and Clinton lice said. streets at 9:30 pm when one of the hungry highwaymen May I have this? approached him brandishing Someone stole a back- a silver handgun, according pack that a woman left on to a police report. the floor of a Bedford Ave- The delivery guy forked nue nightclub on Oct. 4, po- over the food, his cellphone, lice said. Join us for a celebration! and $85 in cash, and the The woman said she went brutes scampered off down to the club between N. Sev- Henry Street in the direction enth and N. Eighth streets of Lorraine Street, police re- at 1:15 am and set her back- 3ATURDAY /CTOBER s AM PM counted. pack on the floor while she danced. Soil change When she came back A thief stealthily pilfered 20 minutes later, the bag, Fun family entertainment, prizes and tasty treats! a bunch of money from a car which contained her laptop parked on Baltic Street on and camera, had been taken, Oct. 13, a report states. officers recounted. 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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 @ 5PM P college and, with care sure, but there The I certainly got a feel for her package in hand, I headed to are moments life — where she is spending RSVP: 718.833.9090 campus expecting to go to when it’s easy her time, what she is busy workshops and events, be cel- to feel my role doing, who she is hanging BAYRIDGEPREP.ORG ebrated for sending my prog- is simply send- Dad with. I even got a campus eny, and be handed lots of ing in the checks. By Scott Sager tour, sort of, as I drove her bayridgeprep.org swag. Instead, the first thing Getting a little around, dropping her one my daughter said upon ar- recognition feels good, so writer and director, a class- place or another. rival was, “Let’s get out of if her school wants to throw mate of my daughter’s. I saw It wasn’t the weekend I ex- FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL AND BEYOND here, now!” me a little party, I’m happy to where the show would go on pected: no wine and cheese Either she hadn’t looked oblige and feel a little more and got to review the proofs receptions, no lectures by DEVELOPING THE WHOLE STUDENT @bayridgeprep at all the fun things going connected to my girl’s ex- of the poster as they flashed the faculty and administra- on, had other plans for our perience. on her smartphone. In her tion, no meeting other par- time together, or both. Par- It is easy to forget how room, I was put to work fix- ents and sharing perspec- ents Weekend to her meant consuming campus life can ing the printer and getting tives on our children’s new having me around, with car be and how engrossing and a pump for the flat tires on phase in life. and wallet in hand. We did important everything seems. her bicycle. I left, though, feeling like some shopping, stocked her While the school put up signs We found a good diner a parent because I had spent AN INDEPENDENT K-12 COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL mini-fridge, and ate some declaring “Parents Wel- not too far away and got the weekend with my child, nice meals together. I missed come,” my child was still some Thai take out so she sharing a little bit of her fun, out, however, on the “We storming ahead with her could rush off to another tiring, exciting life and, af- Love Parents” speech by the day-to-day life. I could fol- rehearsal. Saturday night ter a quick stop at the book- president, the “Thank You low along, mostly, as long as we managed to squeeze in store — where I bought my- Parents” luncheon and the I didn’t get in the way. a nice family dinner before self a college sweatshirt and “Parents are Great” meeting She was stage manager for she headed back to help her a sticker for the car — I had with her class dean. a play about to start perfor- dorm prepare for an event my swag too. It was a great My daughter is thankful mances and I got to meet the they said was a poetry read- parent’s weekend after all. Day trippers FONTBONNE HALL Williamsburg kids tune up ACADEMY on John Lennon’s birthday By Danielle Furfaro The team has been driving The Brooklyn Paper Lennon’s tribute car for 17 They had a ticket to ride. years, Reich said. A day in Hundreds of elementary the life of the vehicle and its school kids swarmed the John engineers typically consists Lennon Educational Tour Bus of them teaching kids how last Thursday like it was some to pen a tune, then spending OPEN HOUSE kind of yellow submarine. The the day showing them how bus, which is decked out with to record, mix, and shoot a musical equipment, made a music video for it. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25TH stop on its magical mystery The prekindergarten- tour at Williamsburg Northside through-fourth-grade kids Schools for what would have at Williamsburg Northside 12:30PM-3:30PM been Lennon’s 74th birthday. Schools got to try their hands Given the state of music edu- at guitar, drums, bass, key- cation in schools these days, board, percussion, and sing- 9901 Shore Road the organizers say they want to ing — with some twisting and show kids they can write songs shouting for good measure. and record music with a little “We show them all sorts Brooklyn, NY 11209 help from their friends. of instruments they have not “With schools cutting fund- had the opportunity to try ing for music education, we before,” Reich said. SAVE TIME, PRE-REGISTER ONLINE! Photos by Elizabeth Graham offer the kids something to get Since there were so many (Top) Students from the Williamsburg Northside them to be creative and think kids running on and off the fontbonne.org Lower School form a peace sign in honor of a visit differently,” said Matthew Re- bus, as if for their lives, the en- from the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus. 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Zoo a.m. to 4:30 p.m. November through mation, call 718-399-7339 or visit www. complete a scavenger hunt and col- 4:30 p.m. in the Zoo Theater.) hours are 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. weekdays, March. The Prospect Park Zoo is lo- prospectparkzoo.com. 6 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 October 17–23, 2014 plans at an Oct. 9 meeting. One of two new bathroom plans calls for the new struc- ture to be placed in the corner A royal fl ush! of the park furthest from the end of Coffey Street, and to come with a shorter wheel- Parks wants $2.4-mil. toilets for Hook chair ramp and sit closer to the ground, meaning it should By Noah Hurowitz end up costing less. A sec- The Brooklyn Paper ond plan shows the facility The city’s budget of $2.4 placed between the middle of million for a pair of bath- the park and the corner. rooms is a steal, according to One park lover said that the head of a local panel. no matter where it is placed, The budget for the bath- the toilet hut as designed is room plan at Louis Valen- an out-of-place eyesore. tino, Jr. Park raised eyebrows “This will be a postmod- among locals, but the admin- ern droplet in the middle of a istrator of the neighborhood’s Civil War-era warehouse dis- Community Board 6 said the trict,” said CJ Dallett. big price tag isn’t unusual for But another resident in at- a city construction job. tendance said adding loos is “People who are unaccus- crucial if the park is going to tomed to dealing with gov- serve people who don’t live ernment capital projects are in holding-it distance. likely to experience sticker “This park is a gem for shock when it comes to the the whole city,” said John amount that these things McGettrick, a longtime Red cost,” district manager Craig Hook activist. “We owe it Hammerman said. to them to share this unique The project calls for sep- space.” arate men’s and women’s fa- The parks department has cilities containing four toi- not yet released a timeline lets altogether. Part of why it for the project, and design- will cost so much is that new, ers plan to draw up one more post-Hurricane-Sandy flood set of plans before making a regulations require it to be formal proposal to the com- built at least three feet off the munity board’s parks com- ground, a parks department mittee. spokeswoman said. Councilman Carlos “Although all of these ele- Menchaca (D–Sunset Park), ments add to the cost of con- who called the meeting, told struction, it is vital that we attendees that it is not too make these investments now late to scrap the bathroom in order to ensure the long- plan entirely, noting that it term resilience of our facil- wouldn’t mean $2.4 million ities in the event of severe leaving Red Hook. weather,” rec rep Meghan “Those are City Council Lalor said. dollars, and if we do decide The original plan for the to end this project, our money bathroom, presented in Sep- will stay here,” he said. tember, placed the bathroom If the latrines get built as smack in the middle of the budgeted, the bill for them park, angering Red Hook- will only run a seventh of ers who said it took up too the $16.5 million Carmine much space, blocked the view Carro Fieldhouse in Ma- of the harbor, and cost too Photos by Jason Speakman rine Park, which cost more much. (Top) Kevin Quinn, chief of architecture and en- than three times the Free- The city went back to the gineering with the parks department, answers dom Tower per square foot drawing board and, though questions about the new Valentino Park bathroom and had to close shortly af- the budget remains the same, plans at a meeting on Oct. 9. (Above) Councilman ter opening because a city park designers won some Carlos Menchaca said it is possible to scrap the contractor installed a set of neighbors over with new multi-million dollar bathroom project. locks backward . Supersized Doctors at former LICH site to get roomy digs By Matthew Perlman cialty practices, a cancer The Brooklyn Paper center, a clinical laboratory, They’ll have a lot of room and radiology services. Lu- to stretch out. theran Medical Center is sup- New York University posed to also open a health reached an agreement with de- clinic somewhere in Brook- Photo by Stefano Giovannini veloper Fortis Property Group lyn as part of the deal. The ambulance bays at Long Island College Hos- last Thursday to double the The university is set to as- pital are shuttered because the facility no longer amount of medical space in sume control of the current accepts ambulances. its planned healthcare facility emergency department, which inside the luxury residential the state is operating for now, complex on the former Long once the state comptroller and as possible.” Once ambu- “Certain treatments, par- Island College Hospital cam- attorney general sign off on lances are back, university ticularly for heart attacks and pus in Cobble Hill. The state the sale. It has pledged to op- bean counters expect the strokes, are very time-sensi- touted the move as the silver erate the interim emergency center to treat 35 to 50 pa- tive,” he said. “This doesn’t lining in the fraught process of unit, which it has already in- tients a day and employ two help anyone who’s in a real closing and selling the former vested $5 million in, until the private ambulances to trans- emergency.” medical center, but glossed new building is complete in fer patients to nearby hospi- Fortis has so far released over the fact that staffing lev- 2018. All that’s left now is tals when needed. very few details about its els at the new facility would getting signatures on paper- Jon Berall, a Brooklyn planned development on the stay about the same under the work, according to a rep for Heights physician and long- two square blocks of land with latest terms. the Manhattan-based hospi- time advocate for keeping the views of the Statue of Lib- “This is a tremendous tal chain. Cobble Hill hospital open, said erty. The compound is sup- outcome under any circum- “We are now awaiting nec- the latest iteration of the rede- posed to include rental units, stance, but especially given essary regulatory and govern- velopment plan is no good be- condos, and townhouses, one the many roadblocks and dif- mental approvals. Once se- cause it still lacks a full-ser- quarter of them below-mar- ficulties we have faced trying cured, NYU Langone will vice hospital, and that the lack ket-rate, according to a pre- to close the deal,” State Uni- move quickly to finalize of one will kill people. liminary proposal. versity of New York chairman site preparations, deploy staff Carl McCall said. and commence operation of a The university closed the full-service [emergency de- Affordable Family Dentistry lease, and publicized some partment] under NYU Lan- in modern pleasant surroundings of the details of the planned gone’s license,” a spokes- medical outpost, in conjunc- woman said. State of the Art Sterilization (autoclave) tion with Fortis finalizing Fortis has agreed to reim- Emergencies treated promptly terms of its purchase of the burse the state for running Special care for children & anxious patients land from the state. The new the emergency department WE NOW ACCEPT OXFORD medical development is set to from May 23 until Aug. 31 • Tooth Bleaching (whitening) include a new, $175-million — when a lawsuit filed by • Cosmetic Dentistry, Porcelain Facings & Inlays, Bonding staffers unions nearly scut- Crowns & Bridges (Capping) building standing four stories • Painless, Non-Surgical Gum Treatment and housing a staff of 400, in- tled the deal. Brooklyn Su- • Root Canal • Extractions • Dentures • Cleanings cluding 70 doctors, according preme Court Judge Johnny • Implant Dentistry • Fillings (tooth colored) to New York University Lan- Lee Baynes threw out the law- • Stereo headphones • Analgesia (Sweet air) gone Medical Center. suit after McCall threatened Dr. Jeffrey M. Kramer Services in the newly con- to walk away from the emer- 544 Court Street, Carroll Gardens structed medical center are gency room. 624-5554 U 624-7055 supposed to include an emer- The university now says Convenient Office Hours & Ample Parking gency department, ambula- it hopes to return ambulance and insurance plans accommodated tory operating rooms, spe- service to the site “as soon WHAT IS ROTARY? Rotary is a group of local business people who get together weekly to network and do charitable work in their community. The Brooklyn Bridge Rotary This year we’ve focused on helping Club meets disadvantaged pregnant women to every Thursday become self reliant, and we also brought in Downtown a 5 year old Haitian boy to NYC to have "! Brooklyn. open heart surgery. ! $' & %$"' Join us! For questions or information, contact !# incoming club president Angelicque Moreno at (718) 802-1616; [email protected]. INSIDE DINING | PERFORMING ARTS | NIGHTLIFE | BOOKS | CINEMA MOMS Bosom buds Two women share a sly smile and a nod in the park. One of them tries to quickly come up with an opening line. No, they are not looking for their next date. They are moms out looking for friends who are also moms, which can be a try- ing, thankless en- deavor, according to one mother. “It is a lot like dating,” said mom, author, and WNYC personality Hillary Frank. “You have some false starts and meet some very nice WNYC people, but it is hard to find someone you actually click with.” Frank is trying to make it a bit easier to form (718) 260–2500 October 17–23, 2014 these elusive connections with a new bar night The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings called Speed Dating for Mom Friends, taking place at the Bell House in Gowanus on Oct. 22. The event is aimed at pairing up mommies with similar life- and mommy-styles, said Frank — all in the space of a few hours. “When you have a baby, you do not have a lot of time for socializing, so you have to make it worth it,” she said. “This way, moms can talk to a lot of other moms at once and find moms who fit them.” The night will be set up the same as a reg- ular speed-dating night. Each pairing will get four minutes to chat. At the end of the four minutes, everyone at one side of the room will move down one seat to make all new pairs. Afterwards, paricipatns will receive a list of their mutual platonic attractions. To get the conversations rolling, Frank plans to ask participants some funny questions such as, “What was the most ridiculous thing you have done because of sleep deprivation?” She will also put butcher paper and crayons on each table so that the lovebirds — well, mombirds — can write each other little notes. Speed Dating for Mom Friends at the Bell House [149 Seventh St. between Second and Third avenues in Gowanus, (718) 643–6510, www.thebellhouseny.com]. Oct. 22 at 7 pm. $25. — Danielle Furfaro MUSIC Family guy Smokey Hormel’s guitar playing is one of the worst kept secrets in rock. The in-demand six-stringer has spent the better part of his career performing with some Photo by Stefano Giovannini Off the map: The Way Station owner Andy Weidel and band booker James Coyle search for Staten Island on a bike map of New York City. of the biggest names in the biz, including Jus- tin Timberlake, Norah Jones, Tom Waits, and Johnny Cash. When he is back home in New York, however, Hormel is a fixture of the Brook- lyn music scene (though he resides in Manhattan), reg- ularly playing more Shaolin plugs in! humble gigs at ven- ues such as Sun- ny’s in Red Hook and Barbes in Park Bands from mysterious island to rock P’Heights venue Slope. Wofl Andy On Oct. 24 — after returning home from By Max Jaeger a tour with Beck — Hormel will be back at The Brooklyn Paper MUSIC Barbes with his band Smokey’s Secret Fam- ily. The group performs renditions of rhythm- his is the first we’ve heard of it. Staten Island Invades Brooklyn heavy tunes that originated in Africa and Bra- Rock of the Rock at the Way Station [683 Wash- zil in the early 1960s. Native musicians from a re- ington Ave. between St. Marks “I grew up interested in the not heavily-pro- T mote island are bringing their in- You may be surprised to learn that Staten Islanders possess the fine motor Avenue and Prospect Place in Prospect Heights, (347) 627– duced sound of late ’50s and early ’60s rock digenous sounds to urbane Brooklyn. skills to tune a guitar, but it turns out this sleepy little burg has birthed a whole Four bands from bucolic Staten Island 4949, www.waystationbk.com]. music,” Hormel said. “I found that to be simi- litter of big-time acts. Here are some you might even be familiar with. Oct. 18 at 8 pm. $5 suggested lar to the African music of the ’60s. I thought, (pronounced stat-NUY-lin) will per- donation. form their people’s traditional music ‘If I can play a rockabilly song, I should try at Prospect Heights bar the Way Sta- Christina Aguilera have felt “Stranded in the out those tunes.’ ” tion on Oct. 18. Miss “Genie in a Bottle” Jungle” in a wholly different falo 24 will headline the show, with Hormel keeps the sound of the Secret Fam- The mist-shrouded rock is home to herself was born at Staten Is- sense growing up on Staten support from dream-punk trio Yeti, ily sparse. The group has ballooned up to 10 a sea-faring folk who travel by ferry land Hospital. Unfortunately, Island’s verdant shores. acoustic guitar virtuoso Vinny Bun- members at times, but the core lineup includes a and once farmed the New York Har- her family moved to Texas nicelli, and seven-piece “apocalyptic pair of percussionists, a tuba player, and a horn bor’s vast oyster beds. Archeologists when she was a kid. Vernon Reid Americana” band Carl Gallagher and player backing up his groovy guitar licks. believe the “Forgotten Island” is actu- The genre-bending six- the Off-Track Bettors. Ethno-musi- “We never rehearse,” he said of his band. ally part of New York City — thanks The Wu Tang Clan string gunslinger of Living cologists should take special interest “It’s kind of like garage versus stadium rock. largely to Manhattan historical records The Mystical Land of Sha- Colour fame was born in Lon- in the latter two acts, which may pro- We’re trying to hold on to the roughness and showing that 65 percent of Staten Is- olin’s greatest claim to fame. don, but Staten Island became vide the clearest insight into indig- looseness of the original recordings.” landers voted to detach from New The RZA, Raekwon the Chef, his adopted home. enous music from the borough that And despite the big-name stars he performs York’s amble bosom in 1993. The Inspectah Deck, Ghostface did not join the city’s electric grid with, Hormel said it is Smokey’s Secret Fam- city blocked the island’s secession. Killah, and Method Man all Gene Simmons until 1952. ily — along with his other steady gig, a throw- But despite an isolated existence, a honed their verbal kung-fu at The freaky-tongued Kiss The bands have made past pilgrim- back Western swing band called Smokey’s plurality of musical styles has flour- the temple of the Rock. frontman went to Richmond ages to Brooklyn, Coyle said. But this Roundup — that really challenge his guitar- ished on its verdant shores, an event College before he started is the first time all four acts have been playing chops. organizer said. Vito Bratta wearing makeup and chowing able to simultaneously secure docu- “When you play with three really excep- “There’s not one particular sound As the lead guitarist for Associated Press / Robert Kenney on packets of fake blood. mentation to travel to our cultural tional Brazilian percussionists, it pushes you coming from Staten Island,” said Way Danish-American glam Doll face: New York mecca. And they will have to make to a new level,” said Hormel. “They push me Station booker James Coyle. “Even rock band White Lion un- Dolls’ vocalist David Jo- Blackie Lawless the perilous journey on their own, be- to do something I wouldn’t do alone. Living in though they’re from same borough, they til 1992, Bratta was the pride hansen grew up on the Without Staten Island, cause the trip is not a cheap one. New York and working with great musicians all sort of have different sounds.” of Staten Island. exotic Staten Island, and the world would not have “We really enjoyed all of them in- like that, I feel blessed at every gig.” Indeed, the showcase promises an still honors his heritage W.A.S.P. — the hair metal dividually,” Coyle said. “The origi- Smokey’s Secret Family plays Barbes [376 eclectic mix you would be “doozy David Johansen with traditional dress footnote was fronted by this nal idea was to get a party bus to take Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park Slope, (347) pots” to miss, as the locals say. This New York Doll might such as leopard print. 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Down- their studios up to art of contra dancing Williams, or Janet mance at the 2007 town Texas barbecue the unwashed masses — a type of traditional Weiss if you want to MTV Video Music emporium Hill Coun- for Gowanus Open group folk dancing — win this one. Awards? “Cross- try is starting a new Studios. Roam the at ContraShock, a 7 pm at Freddy’s Bar [627 roads?” That time she live interview series locations at your own two-day festival Fifth Ave. between 17th and Justin Timberlake called the Brisket Ses- hosted by Brooklyn and 18th streets in Park leisure — there are a wore matching head- sions, hosted by busi- Slope, (718) 768–0131, Contra and Country bunch of maps for to-toe denim? Time ness journalist and www.freddysbar.com]. themed, self-guided Dance New York. The Free. will tell. Brooklynite Dan Roth. first night will be held tours on topics such The first guest is late- as “Erotic Art” and 8 pm at Friends and night television host in Brooklyn — get in Lovers (641 Classon Ave. early for beginners “Animals and Art” on between Pacific and and former “Saturday lessons, then dance the event website — Dean streets in Prospect Night Live” star Seth the night away with or join one of several Heights, meatballpre- Meyers, so expect a sents.tumblr.com). $10. music from bands guided tours led by side of laughter with Elixir and Mavish. local curators. your ribs. 7:30 pm at Camp Noon–6 pm at various 6:30 pm at Hill Country Friendship [339 Eighth St. locations around Barbecue [345 Adams St. between Fifth and Sixth Gowanus (www.artsgow- at Willoughby Street avenues in Park Slope, anus.org/gowanus-open- Downtown, (718) 885– www.contrashock.org]. studios-2014). Free, guid- 4608, www.hillcountrybk. $15. ed tours $20. com). Free. NINE DAYS IN BROOKLYN FRI, OCT. 17 ART, “HASIDIM OF CROWN HEIGHTS — A COMMUNITY STUDY”: Artist Chie Nishio pres- ents an exhibition of the Hasidic religious community through fe- Find lots more listings online at male point of view. Free. 9 am–6 BrooklynPaper.com/Events pm. Brooklyn Public Library Central branch [Flatbush Ave. at Eastern Parkway in Grand Army Plaza in READING, BRANDON STANTON: Park Slope, (718) 230–2100], www. “Humans of New York” photog- brooklynpubliclibrary.org. rapher releases the book “Little Humans.” Free. 4 pm. PowerHouse MUSIC, SPANGLISH FLY, HUNGRY Arena [37 Main St. at Water Street MARCH BAND, UNDERGROUND HORNS, BATALA NYC: Friday night in Dumbo, (718) 666–3049], www. gala, part of Honk NYC! Free. 7 pm. powerhousearena.com. Gowanus Ballroom [55 Ninth St. COMEDY, JOSIE LONG AND MAEVE between Smith St. and Second Av- HIGGINS FANTASTIC SHOW: $10. enue in Gowanus, (347) 460–2687], 7:30 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St. www.gowanusballroom.com. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) DANCE, L.A. DANCE PROJECT: 638–4400], www.unionhallny.com. L.A. Dance Project’s New York City debut. Includes performances “Refl ections,” “Murder Ballades”, SUN, OCT. 19 and “Quintett.” $20. 7:30 pm. BAM THE COLLECT-I-BOWL RECORD Howard Gilman Opera House (30 SHOW: Over 30 dealers selling Lafayette Ave. between Ashland thousands of rare and collectible Place and St. Felix Street in Fort vinyl records. Free. Noon–5 pm. Greene), www.bam.org. Brooklyn Bowl [61 Wythe Ave. be- FILM, “RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK”: Associated Press / Michael Dwyer tween N. 11th and N. 12th streets Part of Carroll Park’s Fall Movie in Williamsburg, (718) 963–3369], series. Free. 7:30 pm. Carroll Park The Green day: The Nets take on the Celtics in a preseason www.brooklynbowl.com. (Court St. between Carroll and game at Barclays Center Oct. 19. ADOPT-A-THON: Watch adoptable President streets). dog and cats parade down the THEATER, “PORT BOU”: The pre- “Bark Avenue” runway in this adop- miere of new opera by composer tion event. Free. 1–5 pm. The Old and performer Elliott Sharp, COMING SOON TO Stone House [336 Third St. between depicting the fi nal moments of Fourth and Fifth avenues in Park philosopher Walter Benjamin’s life Slope, (718) 768–3195], theold- as he fl ees Nazi-occupied France. BARCLAYS CENTER stonehouse.org. $20–$35 ($15 members and stu- BROOKLYN BACON TAKEDOWN: dents). 8 pm. Issue Project Room Sample bacon creations from com- [22 Boerum Pl. at Livingston Street SUN, OCT. 19 THURS, OCT. 30 peting amateur cooks. $20. 2 pm. in Downtown, (718) 330–0313], Littlefi eld [622 Degraw St. between www.issueprojectroom.org. SPORTS, BROOKLYN NETS VS. MUSIC, POWERHOUSE 2014: Fourth and Fifth avenues in Gow- BOSTON CELTICS: Preseason Featuring J. Cole, Ne-Yo, anus, (718) 855–3388], www.little- game. $22–$300. 3 pm. Young Jeezy, Kid Ink, T.I., fi eldnyc.com. SAT, OCT. 18 Childish Gambino, French MUSIC, KINOBE AND THE WAMU Montana, Migos, Tinashe and SPIRIT: Free. 9:30 pm. BAM Cafe MON, OCT. 20 Bobby Shmurda. $19.99–$199. MON, OCT. 20 (30 Lafayette Ave. between Ash- 7 pm. SPORTS, BROOKLYN NETS VS. COMEDY, BROOKLYN, STAND UP!: land Place and St. Felix Street in Hosted by Kerry Coddett and PHILADELPHIA 76ERS: Pre- Fort Greene), www.bam.org/pro- Cipha Sounds, with comedians grams/bamcafe-live. season game. $20–$250. 7:30 FRI, OCT. 31 Leah Bonnema, Monroe Martin III, TALK, “PRATT UPLOAD — MEME, pm. MUSIC, BOO!: Halloween dance Nimesh Patel, Sheng Wang, and Mi- YOU, AND EVERYONE WE FOL- chelle Wolf. Free. 7:30 pm. Knitting LOW”: A series of free panel discus- party featuring Knife Party, DJ Factory [361 Metropolitan Ave. at sions and workshops with artists, SAT, OCT. 25 Snake, Tommy Trash, Tchami, Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg, curators, and writers working in and Milo and Otis, and Craze. (347) 529–6696], bk.knittingfactory. new media and digital arts. Free. MUSIC, A NIGHT OF WORSHIP $29.50–$85. 7 pm. com. 10 am–10 pm. Pratt Institute, Myrtle TO SAVE OUR YOUTH GOS- MUSIC, LEWIS & CLARKE, WHAR- Hall (215 Willoughby Ave. between PEL EXPLOSION: Featuring Emerson Place and Hall Street in FER, NORWEIGAN ARMS: $10. Advertise your gospel artists Bishop Hezekiah MON, NOV. 3 8:30 pm. Glasslands (289 Kent Ave. Clinton Hill), www.pratt.edu. Walker, Yolanda Adams, and at S. Second Street in Williams- SPRING TREE GIVEAWAY: Pratt Area SPORTS, BROOKLYN NETS VS. burg), www.glasslands.com. Community Council is giving away Erica Campbell. $49.50– OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER: fi g, paw paw, apricot, and peach $99.50. 7 pm. $69–$4,000. 7:30 pm. . Clinical Studies in trees for free. Trees are fi rst-serve, TUES, OCT. 21 or you can pre-register. Free. 11 am–1 pm. Magnolia Plaza (686 MON, OCT. 27 WED, NOV. 5 MUSIC, DIIV, SPLASHH, PAWS, Lafayette Ave. between Marcy and NUNS, BEACH DAY: $20–$25. 7 Tompkins avenues in Bedford- MUSIC, DEMI LOVATO: With SPORTS, BROOKLYN NETS VS. pm. Brooklyn Night Bazaar (165 New York’s Stuyvesant), www.nyrp.org/tree- guests Christina Perri and MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES: Banker St. at Norman Avenue in giveaways. MKTO. $35–$69.50. 7 pm. $20–$3,000. 7:30 pm. Greenpoint), www.bkbazaar.com. ART, “TSUKASA KANAWA X SHINYA MUSIC, WAMPIRE, CYMBALS, DUNE KATO — CLOSE ENOUGH TO RATS, CASUAL SEX: $12 ($10 ad- WALK APART”: Joint exhibition.. 620 Atlantic Ave. at Pacifi c Street in Prospect Heights vance). 8 pm. Glasslands (289 Kent largest group Free. 3–6pm. ShapeShifter Lab [18 Ave. at S. Second Street in Williams- Whiwell Pl. between First and Car- (917) 618–6100, www.barclaysc enter.com. burg), www.glasslands.com. roll streets in Gowanus, 646–820– of community 9452], www.shapeshifterlab.com. 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Hearne began the project N O S A before Manning emerged as SE 5 the source of the leaks, so 2014-1 Opera of exposure while she became an impor- tant part of the story, the mu- sical focuses more on the re- lationship between the data BAM show probes Wikileaks, Manning Wikileaks released and the lives of both the Americans By Noah Hurowitz who consume that informa- The Brooklyn Paper tion and the Iraqis and Af- ghans whose lives and deaths all it a covert ops-era. it concerns. “The Source,” a new “People were being killed C opera premiering at the and it was being presented in Brooklyn Academy of Music this standardized way, and to on Oct. 22–25, is all about heighten the impersonalness, espionage and information. I’m reading this stuff from The composer of the piece Brooklyn,” he said. said he wrote the play af- Manning was convicted in ter he became fascinated 2013 on 17 charges, including by how Americans interact espionage and theft. Hearne with an array of data far too said he and a colleague trav- vast for any one person to eled to view parts of the trial, consume. where he said the poise with “Standing up to govern- which Manning carried her- ment security and the need self left a lasting impression for transparency are issues on him. that are so huge and com- “Seeing her in person, plex,” said composer and what a solid human being Park Sloper Ted Hearne. taking responsibility for her Noah S. Weber S. Noah “We have access to every- Wiki watch: In “The Source,” clips of people watching a video of an airstrike actions and standing behind thing at our fingertips but them,” Hearne said. “I ob- we can’t process it because released by Wikileaks are projected on screens. viously didn’t get to talk to it’s so much.” her, and maybe it’s silly to “The Source” explores tion to news shapes the me- chat logs with the man who Eldeen — was one of the say you can get that kind of the saga of Wikileaks and dia narrative and even the eventually turned her in — most graphically shocking vibe just by seeing someone, Chelsea Manning, the for- identities of those caught up with clips of dozens of peo- portions of the leaks, said but I did.” mer soldier who released a in the spotlight. ple as they watch a video Fish, and he became fasci- “The Source” at the massive trove of confiden- The opera is an appropri- included in the information nated with how people re- Brooklyn Academy of Music tial and sensitive informa- ately multimedia produc- Manning gave to Wikileaks. acted to viewing it. [30 Lafayette Ave. between tion about the wars in Iraq tion, pairing music based That video — an aerial shot “I hadn’t really previ- Ashland Place and St. Fe- and Afghanistan. It also looks on two texts — portions of of an American airstrike in ously looked at the Iraq lix Street, (718) 636–4100, at the way in which the con- the leaked Iraq and Afghani- Baghdad that killed Reuters war logs, and I became in- bam.org] Oct. 22–25 at 7:30 stant cycle of news and reac- stan war logs and Manning’s cameraman Namir Noor- terested in whether people pm. $20. Double letter score Musician pens book on two-letter words By Matthew Perlman each of the words — came mon sense to Merritt. The Brooklyn Paper about while he was on tour “It never occurred to me and trying to bone up on the not to have the illustrations,” ood Scrabble words come Scrabble-inspired smartphone he said. in small packages. game Words With Friends Merritt, who once had a G Stephin Merritt is best during his down time. studio space near the Wil- known as the frontman of long- “I wasn’t very good at it liamsburg Bridge, said he does running indie-pop band the because I didn’t know all of not have a favorite two-letter Magnetic Fields. But song lyr- the two-letter words,” he said. word, but he does have a favor- ics aren’t the only words he “So I started writing my own ite poem based on one. is excited by — the musician mnemonic devices to remem- “My poems are like my Brooklyn. has just published a book that ber them.” children,” he said. “So I only pays homage to the smallest Two-letter words are key like the first one.” Enhance your culture. playable words in Scrabble: to winning the game, be- And that is “aa,” which is Improve your bottom line. two-letter words. cause they allow a player to a type of lava. “All the sex, money, and more easily put down mul- “There are two kinds of power in Scrabble lies in the tiple words on a single turn, lava: aa / and pahoehoe / Aa two-letter words,” said Mer- Merritt explained. is more jagged, and / pahoehoe Move your business ritt. “You need to know your flowy,” the poem reads. to DUMBO, Brooklyn. Merritt will give a reading two-letter words,” he said. Stephin Merritt at Pow- Find out how by visiting, from his short read, “101 Two- To help readers remem- erHouse Arena [37 Main St. Marcelo Krasilcic Marcelo TwoTreesNY.com Letter Words,” at PowerHouse ber them even better, each between Water and Plym- Numbers man: Stephin Merritt is going from “99 Arena in Dumbo on Oct. 21. poem has a drawing by New outh streets in Dumbo, (718) Two Trees Management Co, LLC Love Songs” to “101 Two-Letter Words” with a He said the idea for the book Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast, 666–3049, www.powerhou- 45 Main Street, Suite 602, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY 11201 new book celebrating the small but integral lin- — which contains a four-line to create a visual memory searena.com]. Oct. 21 at 7 Commercial and Residential Property Management gual elements that score big in word games. poem and an illustration for cue. This is just good com- pm. Free. Think owning a home is out of reach? Think again. 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Rock Shop [249 Fourth By Danielle Furfaro Ave. between Carroll and President streets in Park The Brooklyn Paper Slope, (718) 230–5740], www.therockshopny.com. an Pashman is a picky eater — TALK, “HOW TO LOOK IN- but not in the usual way. SIDE THE BRAIN”: Lecture Photo by Laurent Philippe Pashman, creator of food by Carl Schoonover on the D history of human explora- She had to leave Los Angeles: The L.A. Dance podcast the Sporkful, will eat al- tion of the brain. $8. 8 pm. Project makes its New York debut at the Brooklyn most anything — but only after he Morbid Anatomy Museum Academy of Music Oct. 16-18. has rearranged it all. [424 Third Ave. at Seventh “I always put a lot of thought into Street in Gowanus, (347) 799–1017], www.morbidan- tions. $5. 2 pm. Brooklyn the most basic details of the eat- FRI, OCT. 24 Music School Playhouse atomymuseum.org. ing experience,” said Pashman. “My TOUR, HAUNTED BROOK- [126 St. Felix St. between friends who have known me for a LYN HEIGHTS TOUR: Lafayette Avenue and Han- Horror author Andrea son Place in Fort Greene, long time know that I will always THURS, OCT. 23 (718) 638–5660], brooklyn- start rebuilding any sandwich and Janes leads a walking tour TALK, JONATHAN LETHEM: of frightening sites. $20. musicschool.org. rearranging it. They cannot believe On “The Fortress of Soli- 7:00pm. [140 Court St. at GREAT PUPKIN DOG COS- I turned this into a job.” tude” and the streets of Pacifi c Street in Brooklyn TUME CONTEST: Fort Now, Pashman has written a 1970s Brooklyn. $10 ($5 Heights, (646) 932–0680], Greene Pup’s 16th annual for BHS and Green-Wood www.boroughsofthedead. dog costume contest. whole book dedicated to his meal members). 6:30 pm. Brook- Free. 11 am. Fort Greene improvements, which he will bring com. lyn Historical Society [128 THEATER, THE DINNER Park Visitor Center [Enter to BookCourt in Cobble Hill on Oct. because it is not a cookbook,” Pierrepont St. at Clinton PARTY — A WHODUN- park at Myrtle Avenue and 22. In “Eat More Better,” Pashman said Pashman. “It struck me that Street in Brooklyn Heights, NIT CABARET: A dance Washington Park in Fort (718) 222–4111], www. and circus themed murder- Greene, (718) 722–3218]. analyzes the intricacies of every in- this all feels very academic. I feel BOO AT PROSPECT ZOO: gredient — the amount of sauce that like there is a quirky kind of re- brooklynhistory.org. mystery dinner. 20 ($15). 7 COMEDY, SETH HERZOG, pm. Galapagos Art Space Take a trip through the various types of pasta will hold, the search I do whenever I eat.” CHRISTIAN FINNEGAN, [16 Main St. at Water Street haunted barn and show off proper way to layer a sandwich to Brooklyn Heights restaurant Jack DAMIEN LEMON, DAN in Dumbo, (718) 222–8500], costumes at the parade prevent slippage — in an effort to the Horse Tavern will be on hand at SODER, MICHELLE WOLF: www.galapagosartspace. and dance party. Free with Comedy night to raise com. zoo admission. 11 am–4 make common meals even tastier the BookCourt event to serve up its pm. Prospect Park Zoo [450 through math and science. macaroni and cheese, which Pashman funds for Stand Up for MUSIC, GREG BARRIS’ Flatbush Ave. at Ocean Av- Lilia CretcherLilia Rockaway. $30 ($25 ad- HEART OF DARKNESS: Many of Pashman’s recommen- believes is the best in Brooklyn. enue in Prospect Park, (718) Serious research: Dan Pashman studies the science of deli- vance). 7:30 pm. Bell House Comedy and music with 399–7339], www.prospect- dations sound absurd at first — un- “It is creamy and just a little bit [149 Seventh St. at Third the Forgivness, Dave Hill, parkzoo.com. ciousness. Avenue in Gowanus, (718) Mind Warrior. $10. 8 pm. til you understand the logic behind tangy, just as it should be,” he said. ART, BARTER TOWN: An 643–6510], www.thebell- Union Hall [702 Union St. at them. For instance, he argues that “And they use pasta with ridges, Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, interactive installation grilled cheese should be served ver- eating cupcakes upside down, be- way to think about them. But I see which is going to hold sauce bet- houseny.com. where visitors bring songs, MUSIC, HAUNTING RENDI- (718) 638–4400], www. tically on its end — so it looks like cause you taste the frosting more it as a challenge.” ter, and pasta is just a cheese deliv- unionhallny.com. ideas, goods, services, or TIONS LIVE WITH ELIOT handmade art to trade. a mountain — instead of laying flat when it is closer to your tongue. The thick, hardcover book is ar- ery system anyway.” GLAZER: Comedian and Free with museum admis- on a plate. It looks weird, but helps “A lot of this is looking at very ranged like a high-school science Dan Pashman at BookCourt vocalist turns pop songs SAT, OCT. 25 sion. 1–5 pm. Brooklyn Mu- prevent avoid soggy bread, which simple and universal foods in a new textbook, with diagrams, pull-out [163 Court St. between Pacific and into ballads. $8. 9:30 pm. seum [200 Eastern Pkwy. is caused by condensation created way,” said Pashman. “Since people sections, and fun facts. Dean streets in Cobble Hill, (718) Union Hall [702 Union St. at MUSICAL HAUNTED HOUSE at Washington Avenue in Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, EXTRAVAGANZA: A Prospect Heights, (718) when the hot sandwich touches the have seen these foods so many times “I wanted to organize it in a way 875–3677, www.bookcourt.com] (718) 638–4400], www. huanted house featuring 638–5000], www.brooklyn- cold dish. Pashman also advocates before, they think there is no other that was different from a cookbook, Oct. 22 at 7 pm. Free. unionhallny.com. musical fi gures and tradi- museum.org. themselves. But during their research, it turned into a col- laboration with Brooklyn’s best bars, distilleries, and liquor lu- Spirited celebration minaries, highlighting classic and original cocktail they have created using Brooklyn-made Book highlights local liquor and libations spirits. “As we started going forward By Vanessa Ogle them.the Most of the drinks re- and meeting these incredible The Brooklyn Paper quirequ minimal preparation, be- people, it just became natural causecau when it comes to mixing to highlight what they were do- overs of both booze and liquors,liq there is such a thing ing,” said Wertz. “My philoso- Brooklyn are going to as too much alcohol, one of phy for cocktails is how the book L drink this up! theth authors said. came together — the best ingre- A pair of cocktail con- “The easiest way to mess dients rose to the top.” noisseurs have penned a trib- oneo up is to use too many Fornatale will discuss the ute to locally-made liquors — ingredientsi and follow a book at the Brooklyn Central and the drinks you can make reciper too closely.” said Library in Prospect Heights on with them. “Brooklyn Spir- ChrisC Wertz, who co-au- Oct. 23. its: Craft Distilling and Cock- thoredt the book with his “Brooklyn Sprits: Craft Dis- tails from the World’s Hippestt pal Peter Thomas Forna- tilling and Cocktails from the Borough” highlights boroughh tale. “The easiest way to World’s Hippest Borough” at booze-makers such as Green-- make a cocktail is to barely the Central Library [10 Grand hook Ginsmiths and Industryy touch it.” Army Plaza, near Flatbush Av- City Distilling, alongside aboutut The book began as a enue in Prospect Heights, Photo by Stefano Giovannini 70 cocktail recipes. collection of random reci- (718) 230–2100, brooklynspirits. 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She sprin- !$ESab %bVAb`SSb 1420 Ave. P, 2OE'MPPSt#SPPLMZO /: #FUXFFO&BTUUIBOEUI .PO8FEBNoQNt5VFTBNoQNt5IVSTBNoQN sanitation 'SJBNoQNt"MUFSOBUJOH4VOBNoQN 12 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 October 17–23, 2014 Transgender woman beaten in Bushwick Neighbors, activists rally to suport trans people in wake of apparent hate crime By Danielle Furfaro LGBT Youth. Kate Barnhart, Barnhart said. A bystander more than two weeks. and Andy Humm the group’s executive director, captured cellphone video of Three men have been The Brooklyn Paper said the victim was walking the incident and police re- charged in connection with A transgender woman with a gay friend when the trieved surveillance video, the shooting of a 22-year-old was beaten by four men on men approached “and asked as well as the weapon used man on Sept. 27 at about 7 a Bushwick street at about what they were doing in the in the attack, she said. am on Broadway near Put- 11:20 pm on Oct. 12, accord- neighborhood.” The victim is in stable con- nam Avenue . ing to the police. “When they figured out dition, but it is not clear if she The victim identifies as a The attack, which police from her voice that she was will suffer brain damage, ac- gay man and was, along with transgender, they starting call- cording to Barnhart. several friends, dressed in say occurred outside of 1250 Photo by Arthur De Gaeta ing her a ‘f----t’ and beating The victim was in criti- feminine clothing when they Bushwick Ave. near Halsey Sasha Alexander talks about his experiences get- Street and involved the perpe- her with a two-by-four,” Barn- cal condition at the time she were approached by three men hart said. was transported to Elmhurst who yelled slurs including “f- ting harassed in Bushwick at a rally on Tuesday trators making “anti-gay state- night. ments,” is being investigated Media reports have cited Hospital Center in Queens, ---t” and “tranny,” according by the NYPD’s Hate Crime NYPD sources describing cops said. to media reports, prosecutors, Task Force. The 28-year-old the weapon as a plexiglass The attack was the second and the New York City Anti- of the suspects shot him in “I have to take a cab to per- victim, whose name has not board. Photo by Arthur De Gaeta apparent hate crime targeting Violence Project. the buttocks. He was treated formances. If I do not, I get been released, was a client of The victim’s friend was Priest Mark Erson of Manhattan’s Saint John’s Lu- gay and transgender people When the victim and his at Brookdale Hospital and re- harassed from the minute I New Alternatives for Homeless able to escape without injury, theran said trans people need support. in Bushwick in a span of just friends tried to escape, one leased. walk out my door,” said drag For that attack, police performer Crimson Kitty, of charged a 21-year-old with Bushwick. “We have to take attempted murder, assault, back our streets and get sup- criminal possession of a port for all walks of life.” ft weapon, and menacing, all One religious leader i ! EQUAL HOUSING as hate crimes. A 22-year- who serves homeless gay g u LENDER old and a 17-year-old were and transgender youth at r o charged with menacing and his Manhattan church said u y aggravated harassment, both more people need to pitch oouro gift as hate crimes. in to keep streets safe for t Gay and transgender trans people. to you! Bushwick residents rallied “The trans community alongside neighbors, activ- continues to feel left be- ists, and clergy members at hind, and I want them to the scene of the most recent know that they have allies and assault on Tuesday night to support,” said priest Mark share stories of harassment Erson, of Saint John’s Lu- and call for an end to bias- theran Church. fueled violence. — with Paul Schindler TEENS... If you think it’s impossible to your home, Continued from page 1 of three existing schools onto “Sometimes there are too the John Jay campus as dis- many. 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You should consult a tax advisor for further information regarding the deductibility of interest and charges. ment of Education Carmen Farina oversaw the merging — with Noah Hurowitz TWO WAYS TO LOVE IN PRINT ON THE WEB Yo u r Neighborhood BrooklynPaper.co — Yo u r News Pick up The Brooklyn ® No one else — no blog, no website, no “news m3 (718) 260 2500 3Brooklyn, NY 3©2011 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS ( –DOWNTOWN EDITION Park Slope merchants object to new monthly truck rally AWP/14 pages 3Vol. 34, No. 24 3 /*#2 By Sarah Zorn 3 Paper every Friday for The Brooklyn Paper aggregator” — covers our neighborhoods with Grand Army Plaza’s food $ $ "# truck rally has® become a food $Vol. 34, No. 28 — Yo ufight. r News AWP/14 pages Neighborhood The Prospect Park Alliance’s MSBURG & BAY RIDGE Yo u r OKLYN, WILLIA decision to expand its one- NSTONE BRO parked right outside my time festival SERVINGinto a monthly BROW $©2011 door on most days,” she 2500$Brooklyn, NY event — to be h said. “The fact that the exploration of — the neighbor- $(718) 260 third Sunday ofeld every on the community is supporting hood around it.” BrooklynPaper.com month until Oct. 16 — these non-local vendors is Pullicio hungrily has inflamed many lo- beyond ignorant.” agrees. cal business owners. dis- The Park Slope Civic “All the trucks do for us is “This neighborhood is being Council and the Fifth Av- leave a mess for the Sanitation exploited by a fad,” fumed Jan- enue Business Improve- Department to clean up with ice Pullicio, owner of Naidre’s taxpayer dollars. So for them across Greenpoint, café on Seventh Avenue near Do trucks like ment District have also the intensity of BrooklynPaper.com. The award- to swoop in out of nowhere and 12th Street. “We pay rent and chants in Park Slopethese hurtthink local so, and businesses? are objecting Some to mer- a lodged com plaints with steal away our business in the taxes in the Park Slope com- new monthly Faithful,“Food Truck Rally” in bishop,Prospect Park. at oddsthe Alliance. over same-sex marriage height of munity. Considering the eco- But Alliance spokesman sh infuriating.” our season is beyond nomic hardship of the past few supporting, not hindering,By Daniel lo- Bu Eugene Patron sa t Bishop Nicholas n Paper arriage from years, Prospect Park should be cal businesses.” The Brookly lic food truck confab iwilld that acrossben- the BrooklynSusan Povich, had to who say plans abou to The majority of Catho efit the community. makeials whoher popular voted Redfor same-sexHook m Melissa Murphy, owner of SeventhBrooklyn Avenue we nearHere’s First what parishioners from Lobster Po churchgoers in “There are concerns every Sweet Melissa Patisserie on Street,ree with agreed. Bishop DiMarzio’stime decision there is a bigto change,”ban state said officat the rallies,und bristles truck a at regular these spoke to disag “I am payingt toso muchban moneyparticipating Patron. in church“But we and strongly school be- functions:accusations. Nicholas DiMarzio’s edic ono votedrent, andfor same-there is a truck lieve that having something so politicians wh “We are all responsible busi- @=;;/97<5=447 exciting happening at the park ness owners. We clean up after A3F;/@@7/534 at church events only increases interest in — and ourselves, accrue our fair share cial appearances ns from any of expenses and between us, and to decline donatioproves of gay politician who ap See FOOD Williamsburg, The ‘digital divide’on page 11 winning site is marriage. op Catho- The borough’s t lines last week lic grabbed head “I’m proud of the Mayor’swhen park-Wi-Fi he made the proclamationslature’s plan cuts off most of “Churchesboro don’t following the state legi bishop. [His posi- ::=EA/;3 A3F “Everybody have to be in- By Aaron Short67AB=@71D=B3B=/ tion] is perfect.” rry. “I completely should be able to volved in politics. one, The Brooklyn Paper couples to ma ock disagree [with the Maureen Cant get married, no I don’t think that Carroll Gardens Southern Brooklyn isBut on thenot allwrong members ofstance his fl that bishop]. Relation- matter who it is.” David Palmer and Susannah Bortner just want son Donovan’s agree with the bishop Martinez, the church should ger-beatingside of the skills!digital divid in the coffin” of ships should be Richard beloved teddy bear back unharmed. Someone responded to y’s mug the law is a “nail be saying these atch Beverly Bradle Mayor Bloomberg announced that hat would based on love — Dyker Heights things.” their “Lost” poster by posting a ransom note below it. elet (right) can m the city and AT&T wouldtraditionale. provide free marriage t ez, most important don’t mix religion said Bloomberg, who made hisHumberto fortune Chav Not even reporter Kate Briqu wireless services in 20 parks,destroy includ- “the single man history.” and politics.” building technology to help the finan-Sunset Park ing Prospect Park, McCarreninstitution Park, and in hu my Kim Belk,cial industry. Brooklyn Bridge Park. “I take what I need from Williamsburg ore what I don’t “We’re digitally behind — there’s Carmel’s parish school in Wil- Downtown and But none of those locationsreligion are south and ign already little bandwidth here and the schol- updated several ll Gardens A3F;/@@7/53 B of 15th Street — leaving residentsagree fromwith,” said Carro 5/:7H7<5A/;3 liamsburg returned a $50mblyman acciola, who at- thephone [bishop] service is terr s and schools to Windsor Terrace to Sheepsheresident Amy C “I don’t think that ngs,” advised parishe arship check from illiamsburg),Asse a Hearts & g theseGiordano, thi ible, or honors from Joe Lentol (D–W executiverefuse director any ”awards ofsaid the Renee Sun- " KARATE CHOPfeeling digitally duped. tends mass at Sacred should be sayin setz, Park a mem- BID. “We need to bring free ‘Kidnappers’r. want $10,000 in on Summit o supported the St. adStephen Bay Church said Humberto Chave state officials wh gay nups supporte l position also A city program to bring wireless Bloomberg defended the program oll Street. “He’s a Wi-Fi toal theHelp commercial strip andd barred Sun- them from The controversia Internet into the parks will only in a weekly r Street at Carr ber of Our Lady of Perpetuset ’tPark, think and the bring measure, the community an up events suchcupcakes fromfor marriage toddler’s darling adio address, saying it appearing at special sparked an outcry Sensei teachesbenefit self-defensethe ultra-hip northern would classes give New Yorkers a reasonbit out to of touch.” DiMarzio in Sunset Park. “I donto par withd in pol- other neighborhoods.” from as graduations, though not equality advocates, many of whom part of the borough, where Wi-Fi “get outside and enjoyk belt our beautifulOther critics said church should be involveA Parks Department spokesman said vices.By Daniel Ng lebration at Bor- hrust the church attending religious ser are planning a ce is practically everywhere already.Bedford-Stuyvesant parks,” while also blac doing their shouldwork not have t te that en- itics.” thatounced AT&T’s his wireless contract does not oclamationfor The Brooklyn Paper on page 11 in crime-plagued Fortsnap-kick Greene in them.to includePark self-de- he center of a deba DiMarzio ann Shortly after his pr See CATHOLICS women to strike and who started her body- into t — and capti- precluder Gov. the An-city from expanding Wi- of Mt.A beloved stuffed animal lost by t edict two days afte was released, Our Lady Susannah Bortner isn’t willing to Kate Briquele any attacker who comes their way fense moves“And on in a allnice of summer “These day, there’s gulfed lawmakersJennifer Aguirrie can enjoy Wi-Fi Fi to otherhe parksbill le- through other arrange- a traumatized 2-year-old in a Cob- take that chance. l arts classes held simply no better place in the world,” drew Cuomo signed t The Brooklyn Paper —with martia toning classes in March. vated thein public Brooklyn — for Bridge much of Park, thanks ments, but there are no plans to do so ble Hill playground last month is es! ce itself. “I would gladly bake 10,000 cup- Sayonara, thiev in the greenspa id things make me crazy. You have last month.to an initiative to get 20 city at this time. facing torture and a painful death cakes,” Bortner said, thinking of master is so ugh!” sa on page 11 A local karate “Enough is eno See KARATE parks outfitted this summer. As a result, the digital chasm between — unless the tot’s horrified mother her toddler, Donovan, and his lost gings in Fort year-old Brownstone Brooklyn. fed up with mug Beverly Bradley, a 42- North and Southern Brooklyn could meets the “kidnapper’s” demand for bear, Mr. Bear. “There is a part of times every he’s teaching % Greene Park that s widen. Studies have shown that individ- $10,000 worth of cupcakes. me wishing this is real.” By J.J. Despain and Gluten- and peanut-free, no Alas, it likely is not. !" less. Aaron Short See WI-FI But there are a million stories in on page 11 It might just be a joke — but $ the naked city — few more grip- The Brooklyn Paper lic officials, including Mayor ping, heart-rending and less-plau- New York Waterway launched Bloomberg, cut a ceremonial ' "he BQE on-ramp. ribbon and boarded a 76-foot tic Avenue at t its much-anticipated ferry fleet “The new ferry service will 7::031@3/B32 lso no longer makeSee catamaran in Williamsburg to K<3E1@=AAE/:9E The B63 bus will a f Atlantic Ave- BEAR on page 11 on Monday, shuttling Manhat- augment growth of Brooklyn ! $and the park entrance tan-bound commuters across celebrate the ship’s maidenPanel voy- neighborhoods approves and make it eas- more Columbiapedestrian-friendly Street. at Atlantic Ave entrancea U-turn at the basetorerouted o park onto park age to Midtown — the result of bound traffic on =<B63A=CB6A723 will be built in nue and instead be the East River for the first time ierriquelet for New Yorkers to commute K#<3:/<3=4B@/4471 and a pedestrian island Avenue, between ials said. a three-year, $9.3-millionBy sub-Kate B enue across from Fur- roadways, city offic since 2009 . from and get to these residen-of Atlantic Av a pe- the middle of Atlantic # !n streets. n leg of Brooklynamid complaints that the city sidy by the city . The Brooklyn Paper laced with Since the souther tial neighborhoodsg a major and over- water- Columbia and Furma onfailed page to 11 subsidize the service A boatload of giddy pub- The city is plannin man Street will be rep ck 6BBC@<=<@32LA75< See ATLANTIC Bloomberg called the money front parks,” Atlantic h Avenue parkgoers stu K0=:23@I<=@75 to allow the company to make an investment in the city’s wa- destrian plaza giving n the north side of Atlan- haul of theThe base new ofans service havee said. beenwill play-make will be built o burg, and India Street in Green- any money. terfront development. — wherestops pedestri at Fulton Ferry Landing walking along the Pier 7 fence more Each print edition r” since Brook- . point every 20 to 30 minutes for This time around, New York day, offering room to navigate ing a gamein DUMBO, of “Frogge Schaefer6 opened Landing last 14 hours a day. Waterway CEO Paul Goodman lyn Bridgeand Northside Park’s Pier Pierlike thein Williams- pedestri- The ferry is free until June 24, said the city’s support, two new year — and it looks The “Yogi Berra,” part of the new East River ferry fleet, when water commuters will pay piers,$' and the frequency of ferry ans have won. $4 for a single ride or $140 for a of Transportation’s- docks at Brooklyn Bridge Park in DUMBO. service would keep their com- % !!% The Department monthly pass. There’s a $1 sur- pany afloat. plan — to be built out later this sum cate much less road- charge for bikes. “The city’s subsidizing our mer — will dedi to # &( s and much more space The last company to ferry pas- service allows us to offer rush way to car yclists. sengers across the East River hour frequency which is differ- pedestrians and bic pulled up anchor two years ago and Furman ent than any previous attempt to At Atlantic Avenue rectly to Flatbush Ave- d and westbound be able to get di provide commuter service,”- said Street, the eastboun om 40 feet wide tic avenues meet across nue. Instead, cars headedSee toward cen lanes will be reduced fr ound lanes on Fourth and Atlan right ontoFERRY Pacific sh orest City Ratner’s tral Brooklyn can turn on page 11 to 20 feet. Two northbut 15 feet each, By Daniel Bu from developer F r, has some e from a one-way Columbia Street, abo r $1-billion Barclays Cente - Street, which will chang n to 12 feet to make The Brooklyn Pape eastbound between Fourth delivers news, arts, will be shaved dow r a tidal wave of traffic residents fearing a never-ending traf westbound to nce down Pacific, fresh news, arts Get ready fo cks nearby. and Flatbush avenues. O room for foot traffic. n: Sevenfic jamdays on small blohe’d likewhich to forgeto Flatbush. fic Street. change , on Paci Here’s a breakdow rth Avenue Under the permanent on cars can continue ont @3/B3/<3F>/<232 city plan to reroute Fou toward the Manhat- A K(6317BGE7::1 Byen Fourth Thomas and Tracy back from July 15 to For cars headed on page 11 -way bike path at Co- has been pushed PACIFIC traffic down Pacific betweand Haru Coryne , cars headed Down- See sidewalk and two een Atlantic Ave- s into effect later or around July 29 lumbia Street, betw Flatbush avenues goe ange,The Brooklyn intended Paper enue will no longer % & rance. Barriers this month and the ch town on Fourth Av " # % nue and the BQE ents and the bikeway, The walls are closing in on will separate car lane Samanthato Bard, unclog owner the triangle whereRep. Anthony Flatbush, Weiner. WHO LOVES THE SUN? vent e lane ofof south- Shag, does it. energize iPods and phones (among of Atla otherntic Avenuethings). will help prer 6. which will replace on The Democratic firebrand A Brooklyn designer is selling solar-powered bikinis that whose cyber romps with at least A planned revamp for the baseople face when they leave Pie six women has left his personal the “Frogger” style escape pe life and political career in sham- bles — and has made him a raun- Ready for a charge? ' # chy gift that keeps on giving to local tabloids andattled late-night their and entertainment, butjokesters most of— them is within b a hair’s and features Designer’s solar bikini can power your iPod !&"rld”). (Spanish for “wo was breadthevictions of in resigning, court andsement political settled to ByThe Natalie Boardwalk O’Neill makeover insiderswith Central said on Amu Tuesday. By EspressoAlex Rush with your hotNY1. dog? final summer . 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Schneider, H who panels called photovoltaic cells. um, nomore big like thing. an Italian “If it was“We me, developed I would a resign,” Joshua Gabriel shows off the Anthony Weiner at the sh lives on Red Hook Lane betweenk landlord Cen- Obama told NBC’s “Today Show By Alex Ru from Boardwal ernational,The panels the convert the sun’s ra- There’sa beachfront been plenty dive. of ith so why are they bringingg the some- same Austrian-styled bar Der Kommissar in Park Slope. tral Amusement Int diation into electricity that can moralizing“Why over Weinergate,can’t you sit down won Juneone 14. else “Obviously, in who is doin what he The Brooklyn Paper hat just t runs Luna oy a coffeedid was highly inappropriate. Muraco, He’s ” whose Italian company tha but sendingyour sexynewspaper photos and — enj thing?” said Carl A new ice cream parlor t rol of the stripSee BIKINI of the beach?”embarrassed himself — he’sl likely ac- be re- Island Board- Park and took cont on page 11 via phoneand or theInternet great —view has Beer Island bar wil opened on the Coney phase of an last year. become pretty “normal,” say time. knowledged that — and he’s dem- Gonzalez’s plus our original walk could be the first hould be a said Ferrari at the barrassedncom- placedhis wife by and Merlo family.” an make any — faster, better that would trans- “The Boardwalksit s outside, re- borough singles,But sexthe thera-news of the i business. “It doesn’t Italian invasion ayground’s place where you can pists and shop owners. is an addedWeiner’s lurid online romanceseryone outSlope bar offers two for $6 17<=LA/72 ing Italian invasion sense to be kicking ev ngs.” " form the People’s Pl nto a ha- :/F/<23<8=G/1/>>C1 “I’ve done it,” said Sa- lfirst Board- came to light on May 27, In the doghouse $ Merlo, who blow to the old-schoowhen he tr to bring in the same thi re the ne places pooch Napoleon in honky-tonk waterfront i By Meredith Deliso ngTurns brunchers outco-owner new Michele posts th business are illegal mantha Bard, owner of o are being ied toGonzalez send a soft and core Merlo a Visiting Parisienne Gentry La tille Day celebration on ven for espresso-lovi S walk businesses wh tweetAmuse- of his groin to a 21-year- that CentralThe Brooklyn Paper EB635CG opened the shop wiez. hag, a sex toy shop in Wil- only people so far a mock guillotine in the annual Bas ME67167A3F/1B:G6= Julio Gonzalez, co-ownerliamsburg. “Ifki youcked stood out byon Centralold way Seattle for co-ed, but acciden- to re- your mind out of the gutter). easeBy wants Dan it.MacLeod partner Julio Gonzal an Ital- Amusement has hired The WeinerSmith jokes Street haven’t on July 10. who controls the l The duo plans to open of Coney’s Cones, saysthe corner that of mentBedford this Av- fall to maketally sent the picture to his 50,000 on page 11 Theteur Brooklyn opened Paper alled Da Ponte has some of the mom-and- See CONEY gone limp yet. The good news is that this An- An Italian restaura his shop enue andn North new Seventh eateries. 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