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BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2013 Serving Brownstone Brooklyn and Williamsburg AWP/12 pages • Vol. 36, No. 48 • November 29–December 5, 2013 • FREE SLOW YOUR ROLL Protesters line Prospect Park West with fake speed limit signs
By Nathan Tempey The Brooklyn Paper They’re ped up. MEAN A crew of road safety activists sick But nearby Slopers of waiting for the city to lower speed Streets limits took matters into their own The battle for Brooklyn’s byways hands on Saturday night, erecting faux 20-mile-per-hour speed limit Shepard and eight others with the hate these humps signs on Prospect Park West, the group Right of Way strung 10 of road that lost a lane of car traffic to By Megan Riesz their houses and rattle their nerves — a controversial bike lane in 2010 and the simulation signs on lampposts The Brooklyn Paper and that the city should not have put where a 12-year-old boy was killed running the length of the thorough- It has been a bumpy ride for Slop- them there in the first place. by a van in early October . fare despite icy winds that at times ers who awoke last week to find “If there was a school nearby, there “The idea that my kids would threatened to knock over their lad- that a set of speed humps that they would be a good reason, but there’s no be taking their life into their hands der and send their protest placards thought were gone for good had re- good reason,” said retiree John Cas- when they get on a bike or cross airborne. The recent death of Sam- appeared. son, who is demanding that the De- the street here is ridiculous,” said uel Cohen Eckstein should serve as a Photo by Stefano Giovaninni The pair of safety swells returned partment of Transportation remove Community Newspaper Group / Nathan Tempey Ben Shepard, a Gowanus activist wake-up call for politicians and trans- Daniel Perlov does not last Thursday and neighbors say that the fresh asphalt lumps. “For those Activist Keegan Stephan straps a speed limit sign whose kids attend school near Pros- portation planners who are weigh- want this on his block. cars hitting the hated humps shake See BUMPS on page 2 to a lamppost. pect Park West. See SPEED on page 2 3rd Ward plan in a pickle Crown Heights foodie hub looks for new leader, city mum on money By Jaime Lutz the grant and the Dean Street space Corporation hand-picked the artsy com- The Brooklyn Paper up for grabs. pany for the project in February 2012, The city might have a food fight on its The city says it handed the corpora- but the company collapsed suddenly last hands — winner take $1.5-million. tion a chunk of the $1.5-million grant month after failing to raise $1.5-mil- That is the amount that the city before it folded, but it will not say how lion to plug an apparent budget hole, pledged to do-it-yourselfer company much. The money was meant to jump- leaving members and employees with 3rd Ward to start a foodie business start a so-called “food incubator” as part just days to pack up their stuff. center in Crown Heights before com- of a development in the former Stude- Now the city is asking business own- pany execs abruptly pulled the plug on Photo by Stefano Giovannini baker service station between Frank- ers to pitch their plans for how to run their whole operation in October, leav- 1000 Dean St. will soon be open- lin and Classon avenues. The Mayor’s the culinary business center that will ing artists and teachers in Williams- ing in Crown Heights — without Office, Borough President Markowitz, serve as a workshop for small-batch burg and Philadelphia in the lurch and its anchor tenant 3rd Ward. and the city’s Economic Development See 3RD on page 9 Metho-dissed! Board votes no on hospital’s expansion By Megan Riesz The 11 to 1 no vote followed a that sometimes drowned out The Brooklyn Paper loud, sidewalk-clogging protest neighbors and Methodist em- A controversial plan to ex- outside John Jay High School ployees singing the praises of pand New York Methodist Hos- and, at the meeting, dozens the expansion, but the board’s
pital will shatter the calm of of impassioned speeches for land use committee ultimately Photo by Stefano Giovannini three blocks of century-old row and against the plan that calls decided that, while the opposi- houses, overwhelming neigh- for demolishing 19th-century tion might be rude, the outpa- bors with traffic, smog, and townhouses, including some tient facility expansion would hulking, modern buildings, brownstones, to make way unacceptably “alter the essen- Thinking small
Photo by Stefano Giovannini claimed members of a Park for an eight-story, U-shaped tial character of the neighbor- Brittany Hall, a clerk at Jacques Torres Chocolate in Dumbo, Yanis Bibelnieks, a member of Preserve Park Slope, Slope panel that voted the pro- medical complex. The hours hood.” shows off some decadent treats. Her store is just one of the protests the proposed New York Methodist Hospital posal down at a heated meet- of testimony were punctuated “I like to think that despite many mom-and-pop gift gift shops you can turn to this week- expansion at a Community Board 6 meeting. ing last Thursday night. by boos from plan opponents See HOSPITAL on page 9 end. Read more on page 2. Past’s blast IT’S TANKSGIVING The Astroland Rocket set to This space could keep sewage tank from pool By Megan Riesz return to Coney this summer The Brooklyn Paper By Will Bredderman will be the centerpiece of its an- Gowanus residents are de- The Brooklyn Paper nual History Day next summer. manding that the federal gov- This rocket is ready for lift- The rocket ride — originally ernment save a beloved park by off! called the Star Flyer — made its moving a sewage tank it wants The Coney Island History Proj- debut at the 1962 opening of the to bury beneath the green space ect answered the city’s call for now-shuttered fun zone. Seventy- to a privately-owned lot just a a project proposal for the iconic one feet long and made of air- few blocks away. Astroland Rocket and it plans to plane-grade aluminium, the ship The feds have said that they will bring the derelict ride to a loca- contains 26 seats and a screen that install a four- or eight-million- tion inside Deno’s Wonder Wheel originally simulated a spacecraft gallon tank beneath the Douglass launch . In later years, the defunct and DeGraw Pool and neighbor- Park for restoration. Photo by Stefano Giovannini Wonder Wheel Park’s owners, ride sat atop the roof of Board- Pratt students Sharon Bae and Maja Wittrup light up ing Thomas Greene Playground the Vourderises, will fully restore walk raw bar Gregory and Paul’s on their Clinton Hill campus. as part of the federally-mandated the one-of-a-kind attraction — — now called Paul’s Daughter clean-up of the Gowanus Canal and keep the Astroland Park let- — between W. 10th and W. 12th unless the city comes up with an tering on its side as a memorial to streets, as an advertisement beck- alternative site by next August. the bygone space-themed park, oning Coney-goers toward As- Park lovers say that a vacant lot according to the historical pres- troland. Up in smoke at the corner of Nevins and But- Photo by Elizabeth Graham ervation group. Wonder Wheel Astroland closed in 2008, and ler streets that is owned by en- Don and Teddie Vietor and Sue Wolfe say the feds do not Park hopes the rehabbed rocket See ROCKET on page 10 ergy giant Con Edison would be have to plunk a sewage tank below their beloved Double- Pratt students: City’s new a perfect fit. D Pool, especially since they could put it in this empty “It’s an absolute empty lot Nevins Street lot instead. law will wreck our mystique that’s even closer to the canal than our park is,” said Sue Wolfe, spite a federal mandate. That re- ing the park and pool that serve By Jaime Lutz tute, where the air is as thick president of Friends of Douglass sistance has come primarily from Brownstone Brooklyn and at least The Brooklyn Paper with cigarette smoke as it is Greene Park. the office of Mayor Bloomberg three public housing develop- The Council passed a bill creativity, some undergradu- The Environmental Protec- and it is unclear if it will con- ments should be top priority. raising the smoking age from ates are busy rolling up ways tion Agency said that it would tinue under Mayor-elect Bill De- “Whether it be at the Con Ed 18 to 21 earlier this month to get around a law that threat- not comment until seeing a for- Blasio, who opposed the Super- site or somewhere else, it is im- without too much fuss, but ens half of the very foundation mal proposal from the city, which fund designation as a Park Slope portant that an alternative location
CNG / Vince DiMiceli the change has Brooklyn art of their Camus-reading, nico- so far has balked at paying for the councilman . for the retention tanks is found The Astroland Rocket has been stored here, outside old school students gasping. tine-stained reputation. tanks and much of the rest of the But a local politician said that so that the Double-D Pool can Navy buildings on Staten Island, since 2009. At Clinton Hill’s Pratt Insti- See SMOKE on page 9 federal Superfund scrubbing , de- wherever the tanks end up, sav- See GOWANUS on page 10 Proclamation domination Marty gave out thousands in 12-year reign as Beep By Colin Mixson have vested in Markowitz — one which The Brooklyn Paper Goodbye Marty he wields with an almost maniacal zeal As elected offices go, the position of 12 YEARS OF MARKOWITZ that defies any sense of reason or scale Beep does not offer very much power, — the honorary proclamation. but Borough President Markowitz has borough president’s remit extends lit- Since our Beep took office in 2002, certainly made the most of what lit- tle further than being a cheerleader — he has issued more than 15,000 proc- tle he has. like a mascot for a sports team with 2.9 lamations and citations, according to
Aside from appointing community million players. his office, which could not provide an Photo by Steve Solomonson Photo by Paul Martinka Photo by Elizabeth Graham board members and disbursing a dwin- There is, however, one definite exact count due to his relentless out- Borough President Markowitz presents proclamations to (left to right) Sheepshead Bay’s Roll-N- dling pool of discretionary funds, a power which the people of Brooklyn See MARTY on page 10 Roaster, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and 103-year-old Daniel Dube. 2 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 November 29–December 5, 2013
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We have got such as a $2,000 signed copy ing beauty products, coffee, cannot bear to break away 4083, www.permanent- you covered like gift wrap. of Dylan Thomas’ “Deaths crafts, and cleaning products. from your fifth reading of records.info]. shoprico.com At last month’s hearing she but one and a half blocks of safer sometimes calls for and her husband pointed to Park Slope, according to working through official SPEED... federal data that shows pe- neighborhood civic groups channels, and at other times, Continued from page 1 “Our family has suffered destrians have a 19 out of 20 that in 2011 applied to make guerrilla action is more than ing whether to reduce speed an unspeakable loss,” she said. chance of survival if they are the neighborhood a so-called justified.” limits in residential areas to “We only hope that something struck by a car traveling at 20 “Slow Zone.” Cohen Eckstein’s death 20-miles-per-hour, the activ- positive comes from Sam- miles-per-hour compared to The transportation depart- was still fresh in the minds ists said. my’s death and are pleased a 12 in 20 chance at 30. ment rejected the application of some of the people out “My son is the same age as that there seems to be grow- But the safe streets crusad- because the neighborhood walking on Prospect Park Sammy and goes to the same ing concern and pressure to ers with Right of Way say that logged relatively few auto- West on Saturday night. school, MS 41, and I know his make our streets safer.” the slow-down bill is beside crash deaths and injuries, “These guys knew him, dad,” said Red Hooker Alan Police do not suspect the point as the city’s Depart- according to Eric McClure, so I guess we approve,” said Mukamal, a founding Right speeding to have been a fac- ment of Transportation has co-founder of Park Slope Peter Reuther, gesturing to of Way member. “I couldn’t tor in the crash that took Co- said itself that it can lower Neighbors, one of the groups his two sons. not do anything.” hen-Eckstein’s life, the New speed limits on its own on behind the failed bid. The Department of Trans- The walk-by-night demon- York Post reported, and the roads within a quarter-mile of “We applaud what Right portation cut the signs down stration occurred three-and- investigation is closed and no a school. Two-thirds of New of Way is doing,” McClure on Monday morning, accord- a-half weeks after Cohen Eck- criminal charges have been York’s streets fit that bill, ac- said. “The effort to make ing to a spokesman for the stein’s parents testified before filed, according to Cohen. cording to WNYC , as do all New York City’s streets agency. the Council in support of the Safe Streets Act that would lower the speed limit on resi- placed on this block in the idents documenting speed- dential streets narrower than first place,” said Daniel Per- ing and formally requesting 60 feet to 20-miles-per-hour. BUMPS... lov, a Berkeley Placer who them, according to a trans- The bill has languished in Continued from page 1 make the light at the Eighth filed a complaint with the portation department spokes- the Council for the last two of us who feel our houses Avenue end of the one-way Department of Transporta- man. Nor does there appear years. shaking, it’s a real annoy- street. tion. The activists are circu- to be much support in sur- rounding Park Slope. Cohen Eckstein ran into ance.” The hump haters do not lating a petition calling on the department and local Three civic groups, in- the street chasing a soccer Casson and others who live deny that speeding is a prob- ball and, though he had the politicians to erase the new cluding the community on Berkeley Place between lem in Park Slope but say that light when he entered the it makes no sense to put big paving job, and so far they board, applied to the city’s Seventh and Eighth avenues road, it quickly changed and bumps on their block while say they have 44 signatures. transportation department the driver, who entered the dispute the very traffic-calm- leaving the one between Fifth But their complaints are in 2011 to make the whole intersection without slow- ing premise of the protuber- and Sixth avenues, which is likely to fall on deaf ears. neighborhood an official ing, could not stop in time, ances, saying that they do not home to a school and a play- Not only did the neighbor- Slow Zone. The transporta- his mother Amy Cohen said, slow cars. Instead, they say, ground, flat as a pancake on hood’s Community Board 6 tion department rejected the arguing that a lower speed the installations only serve a drag strip. approve the 2009 installation bid, but one Berkeley Place art lighting furniture decor limit could have saved her as noise-making ramps for “I am confused as to of the first set of humps, but it resident wrote in the bid that son’s life. speed demons gunning it to why speed bumps were ever came as a result of block res- the speed humps helped. JULIE LARSEN MAHER © WCS © LARSEN MAHER JULIE
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BROOKLYN NETS COVERAGE Things don’t look good... sidelined him and, when he man who has never been a FRONT does play, he doesn’t have the head coach. He will surely same explosiveness he once evolve and learn more on the COURT had. The man needed back job, but will he grow enough sooner than Williams is the in one season? ByBy TomTom Lafe Lafe 0:/194@72/G team’s best player, All-Star Deron Williams will come center Brook Lopez. back and he will improve the A deer-in-the-headlights Some say, definitely, they Nets offensive efficiency, but !2/GA coach, a roster plagued with just need to get some chemis- will he do enough to cure their injuries, old guys looking like try. That’s true, the team does third-quarter malaise? really old guys. The Nets’ need to develop, but with es- The Nets will get health- well-documented strug- sential pieces out with inju- ier as a whole and that will gles are many, and now the ries, the time needed to do so certainly help on both ends question is, “Can they fix is quickly running out. of the court, but where does them?” We are here to tell you that get them? =<:G that there is some truth to More than likely, exactly A/:3 Some say yes — if they fire all of these responses but, head coach Jason Kidd. Sure, where they were last year — ultimately, the answer is no, maybe. But just 13 games into behind Miami and Indiana they cannot save the season, as a middle-of-the-road play- A/D3C>B=% =<<3E4/A67=<:==9A his debut season, with a re- especially if you thought cent endorsement from own- Associated Press / Jim Mone off team. this was the year the Nets Only now with a lot fewer ership, that is not likely. Let’s face it, Jason Kidd would win an NBA Cham- future draft choices. Some say, yes, when pionship. hasn’t looked that great in a suit this year. Tom Lafe is a 6-foot-5 Deron Williams returns to Jason Kidd was the biggest sports-world insider with a full health. Don’t hold your question mark coming into middling high school bas- breath. Williams is not the the season. He was tasked outside Brooklyn, and turn- ketball career who believes same guy he was in Utah or with taking a team of suc- ing them into an NBA power the Nets will be driven by even his first year in New cessful veterans, who spent in season one. That’s no easy the success of the team’s 0CG AC7B Jersey. Ankle injuries have the majority of their careers task for anyone, let alone a big men. /BB63D/:C3>@713 Bad calls by management 53B patrol the sidelines and most BACK of the other veteran coaches in the league should be obvious COURT even to a casual fan. By Matt Spolar Right now, the Nets — spe- By Matt Spolar cifically Prokhorov and King 4@33 — are getting a needed dose At this point, what can of humility, similar to the =`0cg /b=c`3dS`gROg:]eAOZS>`WQS you say? one endured by the Lakers Is it the injuries? The poor last year when they tried to dOZcS aOZS <=E shooting? The coaching? Is awkwardly jam Dwight How- '' it getting used to playing to- ard and Steve Nash into that
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Downtown driver’s license, credit cards, Find more online every Wednesday at Fourth and Fifth avenues — — Jaime Lutz reported leaving her purse Police popped a pugna- $1,590 in cash, and a Marc BrooklynPaper.com/blotter cious perp who they say Jacobs bracelet. in an unlocked cubbyhole at 90TH PRECINCT punched someone in the face She did not feel anyone 4 pm before the start of her while riding the A train near bump into her, but many peo- mother woke up at 3 am and Laptops taken shift. When she went back Southside–Bushwick at 8:15 pm, she discovered the Hoyt-Schermerhorn stop ple had reached over her right realized the bike was gone, A burglar stole two laptops Heated her pocketbook missing, on Nov. 22. side, she said. cops reported. from a man’s Smith Street Two toughs stole man’s cops said. The assault happened at Grab a slice Subway snoop apartment on Nov. 15, po- bike and attempted to shoot about 11:40 am and the ensu- A quick bandit grabbed A sneak thief stole a wom- lice said. Car crasher him as he ran down S. Fifth ing dust-up with cops held up The 27-year-old man said A crook took thousands Street on Nov. 19, police the train and netted the guy a cellphone from a wom- an’s bag from a contractor an’s hand while she sat on room in the Fourth Avenue- the unknown perp must have in loot from a vehicle parked said. an additional resisting arrest entered his apartment near in a 12th Avenue driveway The 25-year-old man said charge, police said. a bench in front of a Fifth Ninth Street subway station Avenue pizzeria on Nov. 21, on Nov. 17, cops said. Union Street between 11:30 sometime overnight on Nov. he was riding his black bike Phoning it in police said. The woman left her bag am and 1 pm. There were no 20, according to cops. toward Hewes Street at 4:40 Cops cuffed a man who The 28-year-old female containing an iPad, keys, signs of forced entry, cops The victim told police he am when the two bullies con- they say tried to steal a wad was in front of a slice par- camera case, and iPad box reported. left his vehicle unlocked out- fronted him and grabbed of cash from a group of phone lor between Prospect Place case in the unsecured room of Gun and gone side his home between 73rd his backpack containing a store employees on Nov. 11 the station near Ninth Street and 74th streets at 8 pm — jacket, pants, gray T-shirts, and Park Place at 4:25 pm A villain robbed a man at on Atlantic Avenue. at 12:30 pm. When she came with his iPod, Social Secu- a battery juice pack, and a when a man snatched her gunpoint on Ninth Street in The thief held his hand in back at 4 pm, she realized the rity card, designer sunglasses sweatshirt. One of the goons iPhone and took off down the middle of the afternoon his pocket like he was pack- bag was stolen, police said. and bag, and $2,500 in cash then flashed a black hand- Park Place, then hopped into of Nov. 23, police said. ing heat at 1:10 pm near Flat- a waiting four-door sports inside. gun and racked it, fright- bush Avenue, according to The victim said he was When he returned at 8:30 ening the victim, who ran utility vehicle. The woman 76TH PRECINCT near Smith Street at 1:30 pm reports. — Jaime Lutz tried to use her Find My iP- am the next day, he found off and left his bike behind, Carroll Gardens-Cobble when the mugger demanded hone app with no success, his valuables gone, cops re- cops said. As he ran down and Hill–Red Hook money from him and got $85 IMAGE ART 78TH PRECINCT cops said. ported. the block, he heard a shot, Smith snatcher for his trouble. Officers made — Will Bredderman cops reported. Park Slope Land R-over several attempts to get a de- 471 7th Avenue, Brooklyn A bandit snatched a wom- Cops recovered a shell- Memory wiped An antisocial auto-phile scription of the robber, but casing at the scene. an’s iPhone on Ninth Street the man refused to give any 94TH PRECINCT 718-369-1600 s Open 7 days A thief stole three laptops stole a Land Rover parked on Nov. 18, cops said. on Second Avenue on Nov. more details, according to Greenpoint–Northside No silver lining and a camera from a woman’s The 27-year-old woman police. Two bullies attacked a lady apartment on Prospect Place 21, cops said. said she was near Smith Hardly aware The 40-year-old man said and stole her phone and iPod on Nov. 20, police said. Street on her way to the train In the dark A man claiming to be the he parked the vehicle between in the lobby of her Clymer The 28-year-old woman at 7:25 pm when the fiend A meanie scratched and brother of an India Street Street apartment building on said she left her apartment Eighth and Ninth streets at grabbed her phone and fled robbed a woman on Hoyt hardware store owner stole INSIDE DINING | PERFORMING ARTS | NIGHTLIFE | BOOKS | CINEMA BOOKS Book buddies A good book is hard to put down — especially when the author is staring you right in the face. Writers across Brooklyn will don employee badges at their favorite indie bookstores on Nov. 30 as part of “Indies First,” a nationwide movement to support small businesses. As part of their duties, the scribes will sign books and schmooze customers — though they will not have to master the cash register. “I don’t think any of us are expecting them to be expert booksellers,” said Photo by Cassandra Giraldo Jenn Worthington, events director at Greenpoint’s Word bookstore. “It’s a fun thing to have them here.” Indies First is the brainchild of Washington- based writer and filmmaker Sherman Alexie, (718) 260–2500 Nov. 29–Dec. 5, 2013 who wrote an open letter in September urging The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings writers to hand-sell their own books — and recommend their friends’ books — on “Small Business Saturday.” “It’s the best part of the bookseller job, the part they are doing,” said Jessica Bagnulo, head of events at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene, where authors Jeffrey Rotter (“The Unknown Knowns”) and Justin Torres (“We The Animals”) will be working. “Most au- thors are also passionate readers, so they love to talk about books. We’re not making them Wolfi ng in W’Burg unpack boxes or anything.” One Brooklyn author who has signed on for a shift said he is not intimidated by the holiday-shopping hordes. Movie theater goes to the dogs with wild special guest “I faced down al-Qaeda in Iraq,” said fan- tasy novel author Myke Cole, who served over- By Colin Mixson seas as a mercenary and paramilitary civilian The Brooklyn Paper SCREENING for the Department of Defense. “I think I can handle a pushy customer or two.” ere is one wolf even Lit- Meet Atka and see “Frozen Planet” at Videology [308 Bed- “Indies First” at Bergen Street Comics tle Riding Hood could ford Ave. between South First [470 Bergen St. at Flatbush Avenue in Park H get along with. and South Second streets in Wil- Slope, (718) 230–5600, www.bergenstreet- Videology is hosting a liamsburg, (718) 782–3468, www. comics.com ]. The Community Bookstore diplomatic summit of wild videology.info ] Dec. 7 at 2 pm, $25. [143 Seventh Ave. between Carroll Street proportions on Dec. 7, when and Garfield Place in Park Slope, (718) 783– Atka, New Yord’s most well- 3075, www.communitybookstore.net ]. pow- traveled and even-tempered erHouse Arena [multiple locations, www. wolf ambassador, visits the ally comfortable around powerhousearena.com ]. Word [126 Frank- Williamsburg bar-theater for people, he enjoys travel- lin St. at Milton Street in Greenpoint, (718) a special screening of an arc- ing and does not throw a 383–0096, www.wordbookstores.com]. tic wolf-themed episode of fit when you put a leash Greenlight Bookstore [686 Fulton Street at the BBC’s “Frozen Planet” on him — traits that the South Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) series. other wolves, even other 246–0200, www.greenlightbookstore.com ]. “He’s the most profes- ambassador wolves, at the Nov. 30. — Megan Riesz sional beast, humans in- upstate conservation cen- cluded, I’ve every worked ter do not share. with,” said Maggie How- “Under no circumstance ell, executive director at will the other wolves do any- FILM the New York Wolf Con- thing Atka does,” How- servation Center. ell explained. “He’s just Atka — who, at 11-years- a strange guy and really old, might be turning grey meant for this role.” if not for his white, arctic At the Videology event, Riot act coat — is, without a doubt, human ambassadors from She is woman — hear her rock! one handsome creature. the Wolf Conservation Cen- Pioneering “riot grrrl” musician Kathleen But a wolf cannot survive ter will talk about the dan- Hanna is the subject of Brooklyn filmmaker on looks alone, and How- gers human encroachment Sini Anderson’s latest documentary, “The Punk ell said it is Atka’s calm de- poses to wolves in the wild. Singer,” which opens at Nighthawk Cinema on meanor and easy temper that But there is no doubt that Nov. 29. The film highlights Hanna’s legacy in makes him particularly well Atka will be the star of the the history of feminist suited to working amongst show. punk rock and reveals humans. “I want people to under- private snippets of her In fact, Atka is probably stand what’s going on in our personal life — both tri- the least wolf-like wolf How- country with wolves,” said umphs and tragedies. ell has ever seen in her eight Howell. “But we’ll be specif- “With more than 20 years working at the conser- ically talk about Atka; how years of work behind vation center. he’s adapted to live in the her, Kathleen’s story “I call him our best wolf high arctic and hopefully is more than a single teacher, but also our weird- Photo by Rebecca Bose open the minds of Brook- film can hope to cap- est wolf,” she said. Mr. Ambassador: Atka, an arcitc wolf and ambassador from the New York Wolf Conservation Cen- lyn residents to this amaz- ture, and more than I Not only is Atka unusu- ter, will make an appearance at the Williamsburg bar-theater Videology on Dec. 7. ing beast.” alone can hope to convey in 90 minutes or less,” said Anderson. Both entertaining and informative, “The Punk Singer” chronicles the feminist move- ment in the United States and the formative years of the riot grrrl punk-rock genre. Hanna, the lead singer of Washington band Bikini Kill in the ’90s and later New York-based electro- A market analysis clash outfit Le Tigre, was a forerunner in these entwined worlds. “Kathleen is a cultural icon — the biggest Your guide to Bklyn’s holiday markets influence on my generation of feminist artists,” said Anderson. “The responsibility involved out-of-print books. By Meredith Deliso factoryfloorbrooklyn.com). Nov. 30 in telling her story is not lost on me.” for The Brooklyn Paper and Dec. 1, 10 am–6 pm. Old Stone House (336 Third St. Hanna, who is known for shocking listeners between Fourth and Fifth avenues with her piercing voice, first delved into music he turkeys have been stuffed and Crafted at the Canal Photo courtesy Etsy NY Team in Park Slope, www.theoldstone- in order to be a voice for the voiceless. She wrote the pumpkin pie inhaled. Now Each of the more than 20 ven- house.org ). Dec. 7 at noon–5 pm. songs that addressed leftist politics, human rights, it is time to turn your attention dors at this market incorporate re- T and hushed-up topics such as sexual abuse. to the holiday season and the gift used materials in their crafts, with Stuff You Should Buy Interviews with myriad famous faces are in- giving it inspires. We have rounded products including photographs in The “stuff” in question includes terspersed throughout the documentary. Nota- up some of the best holiday mar- reclaimed lumber frames, jewelry jewelry, art, stationary, toys, and even ble artists such as Carrie Brownstein and Kurt kets across Brooklyn this year. All made from bicycle parts, and hand- Christmas trees. Cobain speak as Hanna’s friends, while Adam free to attend, too, so you can save painted wooden objects. PS 321 (180 Seventh Ave. at First Horowitz of the Beastie Boys shares intimate your cash for goodies or maybe even Build It Green!NYC (69 Ninth St. Street in Park Slope, www.ps321p- stories as her spouse. But most of the intervie- something buy for yourself. between Smith Street and Second ta.squarespace.com), Dec. 7 at 10 wees are Hanna’s fellow riot grrrls. Avenue in Gowanus, www.bignyc. am–5 pm. “I realized how female her story is,” said Made in NYC org) Dec. 6 at 5–9 pm; Dec. 7 at 10 Photo courtesy PS 321 PTA Photo courtesy Brooklyn Makers Anderson. “With few exceptions, all of Kath- It is the last weekend to catch Flatbush Artist Group am–5 pm. leen’s collaborators have been women, which this pop-up marketplace featuring Giving the gift of affordable art Bejeweled: (Pictured clockwise from top) Market-ing team: The is perhaps why her life and works resonate so locally-made apparel and accesso- Holiday Book Fair is easy with this holiday show from Handmade Cavalcade takes over the Space in Williamsburg for two much with women.” ries from more than 50 independent For the book lover in your life, head the Flatbush Artist Group. Sixteen days on Dec. 14, with its straight-from-Etsy goods. The Brooklyn fashion designers. to this holiday book fair presented artists will present their paintings, Candle Studio will bring its unique scents to the Brooklyn Makers “The Punk Singer” at Nitehawk Cinema [136 Metropolitan Ave, (718) 384–3980, Factory Floor at Industry City by Honey & Wax Booksellers. In- sculpture, drawings, prints, photog- holiday market at 501 Union on Dec. 8. And these necklaces from www.nitehawkcinema.com ]. Opens Nov. (241 37th St. between Second and dependent book slingers across the raphy, and more. marbleinc are just some of the “stuff” you can buy at PS 321’s holi- 29, $11. — Samantha Lim Third avenues in Sunset Park, www. borough will offer rare, vintage, and See MARKET on page 8 day market, Stuff You Should Buy. AMERICAN FINE SAT/ SUNDAY 11-6 DECEMBER 14 • 15 90 Juried One Of Artists jewelry metal A Kind wood glass Gifts leather Fine Japanese cuisine, mixed media plus full sushi bar, for lunch or dinner furniture decorative fiber FREE $10 Discount Tickets Online Until 12/7 wearable fiber DELIVERY MIN ceramic Promo Code: BP13 Bunnell 162 Montague St, 2nd Fl, Brooklyn Heights Show Admission OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK &AX s WWWNANATORICOM BrooklynCraftShow.com Includes General Museum Access 6 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 November 29–December 5, 2013 WHERE TO EDITORS’ PICKS FRIDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY November 29 December 1 December 2 December 3 December 5 Viral Tipsy trivia comedy Know your doppel- Want to be part of a bocks from your movie … soundtrack? dunkelweizens? The Comedian Micah real meaning of Sherman is recording “bung hole”? Put a live show at Little- that hoppy head to field, the audio of good use at Glori- How bazaar which will serve as the etta Baldy on Dec. voiceover for his Prefer to do your 3, when the new Fantastic Mr. holiday shopping at upcoming film, “LIKE ME: A Documentary Bedford-Stuyvesant night, with live music A novel idea Anderson About Social Media.” craft beer bar kicks Who knows more in your ears, and a The show will also Movies based on off its “Beer Geek beer in your hand? feature other comedi- books are often fan- Trivia” night, with about Wes Anderson The Brooklyn Night ans from the film, tastic, but books prizes from Astoria’s than Wes Anderson? Bazaar has settled including Josh Gon- based on movies? Singlecut Beer- Probably Matt Zoller into its new digs in delman, the man Not so much. Come- smiths Seitz. The New York Greenpoint, mixing behind Twitter sensa- dians celebrate this magazine critic and 8 pm at Glorietta Baldy vendors flogging tion “Modern Sein- much-maligned genre Brooklynite just pub- feld .” (502 Franklin Ave. at crafty things with with “Novelization,” a Fulton Street, lished a lengthy tome mini-golf, ping- 8 pm at Littlefield [622 monthly reading www.502franklinbar. about the filmmaker pong, art, food Degraw St. between series at Union Hall. com ). Free. and his works, and will stalls, and live Fourth and Third Ave- be at BookCourt to nues, in Gowanus, (718) Guests this install- bands. This week, 855–3388, www.little- ment include SNL share the Anderso- enjoy the soothing fieldnyc.com]. $5. writer Bryan Tucker, nian wisdom he has sounds of noise Christian Finnegan, gleaned through years rockers A Place to and Rosebuds rocker of dedicated study. Bury Strangers. Kelly Crisp. 7 pm at BookCourt [163 6 pm at Brooklyn Night 8 pm at Union Hall [702 Court St. between Pacific Bazaar (165 Banker St. at Union St. at Fifth Avenue and Dean streets in Norman Avenue in in Park Slope, (718) 638– Cobble Hill, (718) 875- Greenpoint, www.bkba- 4400, www.unionhallny. 3677, www.bookcourt. zaar.com). Free. com ]. $7. com ]. Free. Voted Best Beer Garden in New York Magazine beer garden / bar / restaurant / event space NINE DAYS IN BROOKLYN FRI, NOV. 29 ART, “A TIMELESS JOURNEY”: Ex- hibition of paintings by Leokadia Makarska-Cermak. Free. Fort Ham- ilton Dental Studio [7523 Fort Ham- 555 7th Avenue Park Slope, Brooklyn ilton Pkwy. at 76th Street in Fort Find lots more listings online at Hamilton, (718) 238–4133], www. BrooklynPaper.com/Events makarska-cermak. GINGERBREAD LANE: It’s a 300-square-foot village made en- TUES, DEC. 3 December/January tirely of edible gingerbread, royal icing and candy, and is a contender TREE LIGHTING: Councilman Ste- for the Guinness World Record for phen Levin is offi ciating at the an- the largest gingerbread exhibit. nual lighting ceremony and holiday Party Special Free with museum admission. 9:30 party featuring the dancers fro am–5 pm. New York Hall of Sci- Dancewave and PS 38. 6–8:30 pm. ence [47-01 111th St., at Avenue of Belarusian Church (401 Atlantic Ave. Science in Corona, (718) 699–0005 and Bond Street in Boerum Hill). X353], www.nyscience.org. COMEDY, ASK ME ANOTHER: A THE BUTTERFLY CONSERVATORY: Holiday Extravaganza: Night of This annual favorite features up to trivia, comedy, and music hosted $35/Person 500 live, free-fl ying tropical butter- by Ophira Eisenberg. $20 ($15 in fl ies from Central, South, and North advance). 7:30 pm. Bell House [149 America, Africa, and Asia. $27, $16 Seventh St. at Third Avenue in Gow- (children). 10 am–5:45 pm. Ameri- anus, (718) 643–6510], www.thebell- Open Bar & Appetizers can Museum of Natural History houseny.com. [Central Park West at 79th Street in COMEDY, GEEKING OUT: Comedy Upper West Side, (212) 769–5200], show with Jason Zimbler, Mara www.amnh.org. Herron, Steve Heisler, and The Vigi- lante. $8 ($5 in advance). 8:30 pm. ART, “TWICE MILITANT: Lorraine Photo by Gerry Goodstein Contact [email protected] Hansberry’s Letters to ‘The Lad- Bell House [149 Seventh St. at Third der’”: New exhibition examining What fools these mortals be: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is Avenue in Gowanus, (718) 643– a lesser-known aspect of the life the first production at Downtown’s spectacular new Shakespeare 6510], www.thebellhouseny.com. of the award-winning author of playhouse, the Polonsky Shakespeare Center. F holiday decor F family friendly F the landmark play “A Raisin in the Sun.” $12 (suggested). 11 am–6 WED, DEC. 4 F cozy heat lamps & fi replace F pm. Brooklyn Museum [200 Eastern museum admission). 10 am–6 pm. PENNY SOCIAL: Help out the school TREE LIGHTING: Santa will be on Pkwy. at Washington Avenue in New York Hall of Science [47-01 and honor the life of Dorothy Or- hand along with entertainment pro- Prospect Heights, (718) 638–5000], 111th St., at Avenue of Science in F F lowski with games, prizes, shop- vided by the Xaverian High School full catering menu with seasonal fare www.brooklynmuseum.org. Corona, (718) 699–0005 X353], ping, and more. Free. 1 pm. Our Glee Club and Band, the Guild for ART, “LEADERS OF MEN”: Exhibi- www.nyscience.org. lady of Perpetual Help Gym [552- Exceptional Children Chorus, and tion of work by Marek Danielewski. STEVEN DANIEL DESIGNS RE- 59th St. at Fifth Avenue in Sunset Mary Carmosino. Rain date Dec. 5. Free. 1–7 pm. Yes Gallery (147 LAUNCH: Red carpet hour, open Park, (718) 376–1620]. Free. 6:30 pm. Shore Road Park Ga- India St. near Manhattan Avenue in wine bar and food followed by a SPIN THE DREIDEL: Spin and enjoy a zebo (Shore Road and 90th Street in Greenpoint), www.yesgalleryyes. fashion show and birthday celebra- day of food, entertainment, and lat- Bay Ridge). com. tion for the designer. Free. 5:30 MUSIC, THE CHURCH OF BETTY THEATER, “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S pm. Simplcity Bar & Cafe (310 Mal- kas. RSVP required. $10 ($5 children ($15 non-members: $10 children). GLOBESTRA, RASHANIM: As part DREAM”: Theatre for a New Audi- colm X Blvd. between Decatur and of the Sephardic Music Festival. ence’s inaugural production, di- MacDonough streets in Bedford- 2–4 pm. Bay Ridge Jewish Center $15 ($12 in advance). 7 pm. Knitting Where are you having your rected by Julie Taymor. $75–$100. Stuyvesant), www.simplicityny.com. [405 81st St. at Fourth Avenue in Factory [361 Metropolitan Ave. at 7:30 pm. Polonsky Shakespeare GRAND OPENING: The studio will Bay Ridge, (718) 836–3103]. Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg, Center (262 Ashland Pl. at Fulton open with a party honoring Jay Mi- TREE LIGHTING: Annual event, nativ- (347) 529–6696], sephardicmusic- Street in Fort Greene), www.tfana. chaels, president of Genesis Reper- ity, and mass, plus announcing the festival.com. Holiday Party? org. tory. Free (donations suggested). 8 Faculty Award honorees. Free. 6:30 MUSIC, FINDING FICTION, ETHAN pm. M Center for Arts & Wellness pm. Visitation Academy (90th St. WOODS, JEREMY LADD: $8 ($6 [508 83rd St. at Fifth Avenue in and Ridge Boulevard in Bay Ridge). in advance). 8 pm. Bell House [149 SAT, NOV. 30 Bay Ridge, (347) 492–0534], www. Seventh St. at Third Avenue in Gow- genesis-repertory.org/the-m-cen- anus, (718) 643–6510], www.thebell- PERFORMANCE ter-of-brooklyn. MON, DEC. 2 houseny.com. MUSIC, BIG EYED BLUES FESTIVAL: Featuring international blues per- PORTRAITS WITH SANTA: Bring in formers from the New York City re- SUN, DEC. 1 the family and your pet for a free THURS, DEC. 5 gion. $35 ($30 in advance). 3–11:30 photo shoot with the head elf, Santa. Free. 4–6 pm. Yuppy Puppy/ READING, SARAH MACLEAN, ELO- pm. The Commons Brooklyn [388 PERFORMANCE ISA JAMES, JULIA QUINN: Au- Atlantic Ave. between Bond and MUSIC, CHAMBER MUSIC: Featur- Green Pup [544 Union St. between thors of “No Good Duke Goes Un- Hoyt streets in Boerum Hill, (718) ing clarinetist Matthew Fontana. Third and Nevins streets, (347) punished,” “Once Upon a Tower,” 919–0697], www.bigeyedblues. Free. 6 pm. Good Shepherd Church 799–1812]. and “The Sum of All Kisses,” re- com. [Avenue S and Batchelder Street in HOLIDAY TREE LIGHTING: Featuring spectively. Moderated by Natalie MUSIC, NORTH OF NASHVILLE, Marine Park, (718) 998–2800]. entertainment, giveaways, a sing- Zutter of Bookish. Free. 7 pm. Word MORGAN O’KANE, NATHAN along with the Guild for Exceptional Bookstore [126 Franklin St. between XANDER: $10. 9 pm. Union Hall Children Choir, and a visit from Milton and Noble streets in Green- [702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in OTHER Santa. Rain date Dec. 3. Free. 6:30 point, (718) 383–0096], www.word- Park Slope, (718) 638–4400], www. WINTER ON THE FARM: Learn how pm. Owl’s Head Park (68th Street brooklyn.com. unionhallny.com. how to make a patchwork quilt and and Colonial Road in Bay Ridge). PARK SLOPE BINGO CLUB: Join Dick spin wool into thread. Also enjoy THE MOTH STORYSLAM: Storytell- and Perry for some hot bingo ac- Dutch treats and a visit from St. tion. Free to enter, $5 to play. 8 pm. OTHER Nicholas. $3. 1–4 pm. Lefferts His- ing competition hosted by Peter Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth ROCKET PARK MINI GOLF: Putt your toric Homestead [452 Flatbush Ave. Aguero. $8. 8 pm. Bell House [149 Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638– way through a nine-hole miniature between Empire Boulevard and Seventh St. at Third Avenue in Gow- 4400], www.unionhallny.com. course that teaches the science of Eastern Parkway in Park Slope, (718) anus, (718) 643–6510], www.thebell- spacefl ight. $6 ($5 children, plus 789–2822], www.prospectpark.org. houseny.com. 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FREE POPCORN! Robicelli said she and her WITH THIS AD husband — veterans of trendy outlets such as the DeKalb HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE PG13 Market and Battery Place 11:30a, 1p, 1:30p, 2:30p, 4p, 4:45p, 5:45p, 7p, 8p, 9p, 9:25p Batter up, Bay Ridge Market — said they chose to FROZEN PG 12p, 12:55p, 2:55p, 3:15p, 5:20p, 7p, 7:25p, 8p, 9:30p open their new store in Bay FROZEN 3D PG 11:30a, 2p, 4:10p, 6:20p, 8:30p Ridge instead of a hipper Confectioners make a fresh start in their hood neighborhood out of a sense BLACK NATIVITY PG13 11:30a, 1:30p, 3:30p, 5:30p, 7:30p, 10p of native loyalty and pride. The 12 YEARS A SLAVE R s ABOUT TIME R s DELIVERY MAN PG13 By Will Bredderman will deal exclusively in the confection queen pointed out ENDER’S GAME PG13 s FREE BIRDS PG The Brooklyn Paper DINING desserts that have made the that Ridgites who have moved THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY R s THOR: THE DARK WORLD PG13 pair’s name famous in foodie away from the area often come Robicelli’s Bakery For showtimes: www.paviliontheater.com or 718-369-0838 all it a sweet second (9009 Fifth Ave. between circles nationwide. Alli- back to complain about how coming. 90th and 91st streets in son Robicelli said she and much it has changed — with- C Matt and Allison Ro- Bay Ridge, www.robicel- her husband were so eager out recognizing that they them- bicelli, Bay Ridge’s cupcake lis.tumblr.com ). to open a new retail store selves contributed to the de- The Pavilion Theater power couple, are making an- that the bakery’s interior mographic shift. 02/30%#4 0!2+ 7%34 s "2//+,9. other bid to taste storefront ery on Fifth Avenue on Nov. is still unfinished, leaving “If you want good things success — and the pair say 26, four years after their mar- the kitchen exposed. Robi- in your community, you have making it happen in their ket two thoroughfares over celli said she hoped the par- to stay in your community own native neighborhood closed. tially-complete space would and fight for them,” Robi- will be icing on the cake. Unlike the defunct deli, fill customers’ appetite for celli said. GASTROPUB Hot off the launch of which made sandwiches fall treats, and grant them But the pastry-maker also RERUN their cookbook, the Robi- and sold an array of gour- unique insights into the bak- said she is betting some of THEATER cellis opened their new bak- met goodies, the new shop ery business. the recent changes in Bay Ridge will give her bakery a better chance than her gour- met market ever had. Robi- BAR SCRAWL By Bill Roundy Photo by Steve Solomonson celli said that the neighbor- Cake bosses: Matt and Allison Robicelli outside hood’s relatively low rents their new bakery in Bay Ridge. are attracting young people from culinary and media cir- cles — many of whom have “This is going to be a work Greek, and Arabic mix- brought a taste for eclectic in progress,” Robicelli said. ture, with inspired ingredi- cupcakes with them. “People will get to come in ents such as date molasses, “All these creative types and see the nuts and bolts of yogurt, and Asiago cheese are moving here, people who pastry-making.” — all of it sourced from local understand the importance Robicelli promised fu- stores, including A.L.C. Ital- of going out and shopping ture recipes would reflect ian Grocery, Athens Market, local and staying local,” Bay Ridge’s zesty Italian, and Balady Halal Foods . she said. Where to get baked The Robicellis are the latest to the pastry game in Bay Ridge, but they are far from the first. Whether you are in the mood for treats of the Danish, French, Greek, Italian, Lebanese, or more trendy American variety, the neighborhood has your sweet tooth covered. In sugar. And flour. Here are just a handful of our favorites. Leske’s: This Fifth Av- Nikolopoulos opened this opened in mid-19th Cen- WWW. enue stand-out gives you a confectionery in 1974. Be- tury Beirut. In 1992, Sami taste of Bay Ridge’s Scan- sides baklava, olive-laced Arayssi brought the tradi- RERUNTHEATER.COM dinavian past, specializing “mama’s bread,” and feta tional recipes to Bay Ridge. in Danishes, kringler, mar- turnovers, it also whips up The ovens here have been zipan cake, and black-and- French cheesecakes and giving birth to ma’amoul white cookies. Italian cookies. cookies, turmeric cakes, [7612 Fifth Avenue, [7805 Fifth Avenue, mishmishya, and date fin- between 76th and 77th between 78th and 79th gers ever since. streets in Bay Ridge, (718) streets in Bay Ridge, (718) [7216 Fifth Avenue, 680–2323, www.leskes- 238–0014, www.bay- between 72nd and 73rd bakery.com ] ridgebakery.com] streets in Bay Ridge, (718) s -ANICURE s 7AXING Jean Danet Pastry: A Monaco’s: Joe Mo- 745–2115, www.arayssi. s 0EDICURE s -ASSAGE world of eclairs, napoleons, naco, a former East Village com ] chocolate mousse, and cus- baker-to-the-stars, struck Little Cupcake Bake- tomized cakes — all cour- out on his own and opened shop: Open since 2005, this tesy of owner Pat Giura, a this pastry shop in 2011. His bakeshop brought a modern Holiday Gift Cards Available! graduate of the French Culi- cannoli, strawberry short- flavor to Bay Ridge’s sweets -ON n 7ED \ Manicure & Pedicure nary Institute. This 40-year- cake, and croissants have scene. The store touts its old shop also trades in Ital- since become legendary in ecologically-designed in- $26.00 ian treats and pizza. the neighborhood. terior and organic ingredi- [7526 Fifth Avenue, [8511 Third Avenue, ents sourced from tri-state OPI, Essie CND Gels between 75th and 76th between 85th and 86th area family farms. streets in Bay Ridge, (718) streets in Bay Ridge, (347) [9102 Third Avenue, at 297 7th Ave., Brooklyn (between 7th & 8th Streets) 836–7566, www.jeanda- 497–4409, www.mona- the corner of 91st Street The Brew Inn [924 Manhattan Ave., at Kent Street in Greenpoint, (718) net.com] cosbakery.com] in Bay Ridge, (718) 680– 718-369-8938 576–3345, www.thebrewinnnyc.com ]. Open Mon–Thu, 4 pm–2 am; Fri, 4 Bay Ridge Bakery: Sweet Arayssi: The 4465, www.littlecupcake- /0%. (/523 pm–4 am; Sat, 11 am–4 am; Sun, 11 am–2 am. The Greek-born John first Arayssi family bakery bakeshop.com ] Mon.–Sat. 10 a.m.–9:30 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.–8:30 p.m. GRAND OPENING DECEMBER 10TH!!! 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To the editor, Additional meetings were An earlier version of LETTER TO THE EDITOR then held with representa- your recent article, “Metho- tives from the Park Slope dissed!” (Online Nov. 22, Civic Council and Commu- 2013), quoted “Methodist porter apparently failed to our numerous efforts to en- nity Board 6 to discuss de- reps” as saying that they recognize that the commit- gage the Park Slope commu- sign and zoning issues. would “probably sidestep tee asked that the proposal nity in general, and the Land- As should be clear from be withdrawn not, neces- marks/Land Use Committee the local panel.” This in- the above information, New sarily, so the plans could be in particular, by providing accurate characterization altered, but specifically be- information, receiving in- York Methodist certainly had of our plans was later up- cause they claimed they did put and responding to sug- no intention to “bypass the dated with an equally inaccu- not have sufficient informa- gestions, over nearly a six- panel,” and can, in fact, con- rate statement (also later up- tion to justify the approval month period. tinue to make changes in the dated), “Methodist reps said of the variances we are seek- During those months, design. Dealing with the con- that they do not have time to ing from the City’s Board of we held small and large in- sequences of your inaccurate continue tinkering with the Standards and Appeals. vitational and public meet- quote has been distressing design.” The inaccuracy of Although we are happy to ings (one co-sponsored and and your reporter and edi- this statement is evidenced by provide additional specific one sponsored by the Land- tor need to understand that Health care is your very next paragraph, in information requested by the marks and Land Use Com- accuracy is important. which you quote me as saying committee, we decided not mittee). We received doz- Lyn S. Hill that we “have made changes, to withdraw the plan, which ens of e-mail messages and Vice President for Com- and are willing to continue would add months to the ap- snail mail letters with com- munication and External making changes.” proval process. In making munity comments, concerns, Affairs, New York Furthermore, your re- this decision, we considered and questions, each of which Methodist Hospital changing. METHODIST... Continued from page 1 patient center will rip the fab- all the catcalls and things ric of the low-rise, residen- like that, the community was tial neighborhood and cause heard,” said Peter Fleming, polluting traffic jams despite the committee’s chairman. the hospital’s claims to the “I’m hoping the hospital isn’t contrary. going to go through with its “Somewhat shockingly, nuclear solution of building Methodist claims that its pro- two buildings that nobody posal will have actually no wants them to build.” impact on air, no impact on Methodist has gone back traffic and no impact on air to the drawing board twice in quality,” said environmental hopes of assuaging concerns lawyer and Park Slope res- New York Methodist Hospital that the Center for Commu- ident Eve Gartner. “This is The view of the proposed expansion from the cor- nity Health, which is slated truly one of the great neigh- ner of Eighth Avenue and Fifth Street. to take the place of 16 build- borhoods in the country, and ings on Fifth Street, Eighth probably in the world, and Avenue, and Sixth Street, to allow Methodist Hospi- home the need for Method- will have to talk over the next will overwhelm the neigh- tal to do so much damage ist to grow. step in dealing with the local borhood with traffic and out- to the beauty of our streets “Long Island College Hos- panel, the position of which of-place architecture. Hospi- and to the health of our chil- pital is failing, in part, be- is only advisory, before tak- tal representatives unveiled dren requires a much greater cause they didn’t have good ing their case for rezoning the latest congestion-com- showing of need and a much long-term strategic planning to the city’s Board of Stan- batting modifications at the greater disclosure of impacts for what was necessary for dard and Appeals. meeting, including an em- than we have seen from Meth- a hospital to do to be able “I don’t know what the ployees-only entrance at the odist.” to continue to operate in the response would be from my corner of Sixth Street and Hospital honchos and 21st century,” Lander said. colleagues who have been Eighth Avenue and a move to pro-expansion neighbors, “I think we’re lucky to have working on this for six consolidate patient services including clergy members neighborhood health institu- months, and who feel that and other programs into one and medical professionals, tions, and if we want Method- they have been working in section of the complex. countered that changes in ist to be able to continue for good faith, and have made But the tweaks were not technology and health care the next 100 years to func- changes, and are willing to enough to appease the com- business models have cre- tion as a neighborhood health continue making changes,” mittee or many among the ated the need for a new med- institution, then we have to said Methodist spokes- 200-strong crowd that filed ical site, which will feature try to figure out how to meet woman Lyn Hill. “But we through a stripped-down ver- 12 operating rooms, physi- them halfway.” do have the time schedule sion of airport security — a cian offices, an endoscopy The community board as well. We want this proj- single metal detector manned suite, a cancer center, and committee said it would re- ect to move ahead.” by a school police officer urgent care services. consider its denial if the hos- The hospital could build that a board member said Slope Councilman Brad pital does more to address the complex without a zon- was brought in upon hear- Lander broke with the board Slopers’ concerns about traf- ing change, but would have ing of the planned protest. committee, saying that the fic, construction, and pollu- to make the two buildings The rally drew 50 and many near-demise of nearby tion, but Methodist reps said taller and narrower. The full participants later took to the Long Island College Hos- that they are low on time for board will vote on the plan podium to argue that the out- pital in Cobble Hill drives tinkering with the design and next month. What will happen to cer of e-cig company Va- “I always regret it,” said SMOKE... por Corp, which is pushing 20-year-old Joe Ghaida, ges- for its battery-powered butts turing to his lit cigarette. my coverage when the Continued from page 1 “It’s skewed to have some- to be exempt. “I think [the ban] might “I will buy my packs in one addicted to something Not all aspiring Andy prevent people getting ad- New Jersey and come on back and then cut them off from Warhols are against the to- dicted, so I’m kind of for and illegally smoke,” said Ni- it,” said Michael, a 21-year- bacco ban, though. it.” cole Ryerson, a 20-year-old old student with friends who Health Care Exchange Prattite who will not hit her will find themselves illegal next birthday before the law smokers soon. “I understand is financing the development. goes into effect in about six it’s not healthy, but that’s un- 3rd Ward and Next Street, months. fair.” 3RD... a bank that reportedly took takes effect? The tobacco toker won- The raised purchase age Continued from page 1 over some of the art compa- requirement applies to all dered whether the measure is picklers, salsa-makers, and ny’s assets, did not respond to more of a government conspir- tobacco products, includ- their ilk, according to an Eco- requests for comment. acy than a health initiative. ing electronic cigarettes, Borough President nomic Development Corp. “It might just be an- a maker of which says the Markowitz would not dis- other way to get tickets and change will be hard on the spokesman. cuss the money either, but money,” Ryerson said, tak- 18–20 set. The Mayor’s Office and did issue a statement. ing a drag. “Someone who is 19 the city development corpo- “This food incubator, Are you worried about what the new Another artist-scholar we years old — do you think ration refused to speak on which continues to move spoke to said it is misguided that they’re going to just the record about the status of forward, promises to be a to take the musty habit out stop without an alterna- the grant money given to 3rd crucial component to eco- health care regulations could mean to of the hands of the already- tive to them?” asked Kevin Ward, as did Brooklyn Flea nomic development in one hooked. Frija, chief executive offi- founder Jonathan Butler, who of the most economically- challenged areas of the city,” you, your family or your business? Markowitz said, emphasizing that minority business own- ers should be considered to run the project. The rest of the building’s Call MetroPlus today and we’ll answer office space is proceeding on schedule, with an opening planned for Jan. 2014, said all your questions. We can help you Chris Havens, a realtor who is quarterbacking the project on behalf of Butler. keep the coverage you have now or The four-floor industrial building will include a 250- seat ground-floor food court talk to you about an affordable new and a beer hall on the Ber- gen side of the building, Ha- vens said. And at least six plan that’s just right for you. “creative” tenants have inked leases for the building’s top three floors. According to the real es- tate broker, all the interest in the project shows there will be no trouble finding an op- erator for the test kitchen or the building’s shared office space, which 3rd Ward was also supposed to run. “There’s never been less space or more demand in Brooklyn,” Havens said. 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Semi- ads and a flat-screen television as front high-rises such as the Edge, The planned tank is one of two $78-million under- The Brooklyn Paper stores that there are in the neighbor- nal weirdo rockers Television will a respite from debating the finer the vinyl monger says he chose the ground containers meant to catch sewage that wells up in This is it. hood and the city,” said Rough Trade break the performance space in at points of The Jesus and Mary Chain spot for its bohemian vibe. the area’s antiquated sewer system when it rains and keep The London-based record store co-owner Stephen Godfroy. “Each a sold-out show on Friday, capping B-sides. “There’s a very strong sense of the muck from spilling into the polluted waterway. chain Rough Trade opened the doors has their own respective qualities, a packed week of free in-store per- And the store is only halfway fin- community, particularly from the The other tank is bound for a city-owned lot on Sec- of its first U.S. location in Williams- and hopefully there are things we formances from the likes of rap- ished. The cafe Five Leaves Green- artistic community,” he said. ond Avenue between Fifth Street and the canal where burg on Monday and the store’s co- can do that add to the mix.” per Danny Brown and singer-song- point is on track to open a small Rough Trade opened its first vi- the city stores salt and the Gowanus Canal Conservancy owner says that, despite the place’s The record warehouse on N. writer Sky Ferreira. eatery inside the place and a DJ nyl outlet in London in 2007. Its garden. The conservancy says it is resigned to relocat- massive size and corporate mus- Ninth Street near Wythe Ave- The U.K.-based newspaper booth is in the works. sister indie label Rough Trade Re- ing its office, compost gear, plant nursery, and storage cle, it has a long way to go before nue offers miles of vinyl, a thick The Guardian also opened a digi- The shop is the only one of its cords started in 1978 as a record —and put a hold on expansion plans — when the feds it becomes the neighborhood des- catalog of books and magazines tal lounge in a shipping container kind in the part of Williamsburg store and put out albums by the come knocking. tination for audiophiles. spanning genres, and a 250-capac- on the cavernous store’s mezza- near the East River. Undeterred by Smiths, the Buzzcocks, Stiff Lit- “It’s not a bad thing for us,” Gowanus Canal Conser- “We see ourselves, hopefully, as ity venue — complete with ping- nine level, offering shoppers iP- the store’s proximity to ritzy water- tle Fingers, among others. vancy program manager Natasha Sidarta said. The feds have also promised to provide temporary digs for the displaced pool and playground, but park partisans say that there can be no substitute for the real thing. Con Edison did not respond to repeated requests for comment about whether it would consider donating the weedy lot to the cause. KIDS • SCHOOL • STYLE • TEENS • CAMPS • MUSIC PARENT ROCKET... Continued from page 1 the next year park owners Carol and Jerry Albert donated the rocket to the city on behalf of the Coney Island His- Thankfully, this tradition remains tory Project. The city has vowed numerous times to re- store the iconic piece of the People’s Playground’s past y family’s Thanks- education for my in a family’s ever-chang- of fried dough, so we found our family is changing too. to the amusement district. giving routine is urban teenag- ing life. Even as my daugh- something else to do. Some Knowing the rules that were Authorities have stored the rocket at the Staten Island M set in stone, as my ers. There’s at The ters leave home and begin to traditions, though, become right for toddlers would be Homeport in Stapletown since its removal, and sources mother-in-law owns the holi- least one dinner miss events, I think it reas- zombies, stumbling along, disastrous for teens, I should say that the rocket got swamped during Hurricane Sandy day with no plans of ever let- of Chinese food, sures them to know where year after year, because I also know that customs need and damaged by debris carried in the storm surge. ting go. I don’t begrudge her grandpa’s favor- I’ll be for New Year’s Eve don’t have the sense to shoot to shift and change as my Repatriating the historic ride from Staten Island would the time it takes us to schlep Dad or that the annual seder will their heads off. School shop- girls grow up. make for a fitting trophy for Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park ite, much baking, up to Massachusetts, because and all the cous- By Scott Sager take place on Passover, and ping comes to mind, as I tried What makes our Thanks- after the Rock builds the world’s largest ferris wheel to each year I see her immense ins piled together I’m glad for these reminders to keep forcing my girls on giving tradition wonderful rival the Coney Island original. joy in having her home filled on the floor of one room, like cents but the grown-ups still that my life goes on with or excursions with me when, is being together as an ex- The city tore down the only other remnant of Astro- with grandchildren and de- puppies, for a three-day slee- call out for the same song and without the presence of my really, they had no desire to tended family, not any spe- land, the long-idled Astrotower ride , in July after its se- lightful chaos. pover. dance routines. I wonder if children. be seen in a clothing store cific ritual, no matter how vere swaying aroused fears it would fall. The four days we are there On Thanksgiving Day, we see the children they were Sometimes, though, tradi- with their father anywhere many years it has been done, have evolved, however, into there is always a show, writ- and not the young women tions have ceased to be rel- nearby. I resisted this realiza- nor how nostalgic it makes a rigid set of events and tra- ten, produced, directed, and they have become as they evant. Some die a peaceful tion because I enjoyed the tra- me feel. Keeping focused ditions, some of which may staged by the four grandchil- perform handstands and death — we used to go to dition, dragging it out years on the meaning of our hol- MARTY... have outlasted their meaning. dren. This started many years kick lines. Coney Island every year the too long. iday trip will help me kill We always go to a movie and ago when they were all small, Traditions are impor- week after school ended un- I certainly notice my chil- the zombies as we find new Continued from page 1 hit the mall for a little shop- adorable and under the age tant, providing structure and til the kids couldn’t face the dren changing every year, but ways to spend these cher- pouring of new declarations. ping, a real treat and cultural of 10. Now they are adoles- touchstones of consistency same rides or one more bite not always that this means ished days. That amounts to nearly three and a half proclamations per day, every day, for nearly 12 years — counting weekends. 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Thurs-Sun 10am — 8:30pm TimeOut Www.themoxiespot.com “Best Restaurant Play Room”- NY Kids! NIGHT Compared to Markowitz, other borough presidents can 2-4 year old programs 2, 3, 4 or 5 mornings, look downright lazy, if not coldly indifferent to all the cro- Licensed teachers afternoons or full days Wii Night Family Disco Movie Night, Bingo Night! chet clubs, Little League teams, and school bake sales in Optimal educational equipment Spacious Classrooms their jurisdictions deserving of formal recognition. 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