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BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 834–9350 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2007 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DOWNTOWN EDITION AWP/16 pages • Vol. 30, No. 5 • Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007 • FREE INCLUDING DUMBO Ratner picks your pocket — again Mayor doubles city’s contribution to Atlantic Yards and says there is no limit to how much you’ll pay

By Ariella Cohen The Brooklyn Paper The city has doubled its contribution to Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project — and Mayor Bloom- Miss America Organization berg admitted this week that there was no limit to Oops, they did it again: Miss America judges snubbed a Miss New York (Bethlene Pancoast how much the city could spend on “infrastructure from Bay Ridge, above right) in favor of a southerner (Miss Oklahoma Lauren Nelson). Our improvements” in and around the developer’s 16- columnist says this will not stand, but we wanted to let our readers make up their own minds. tower mini-city. In 2005, city offi- Miss New York loses INSIDE cials set aside $100 More black leaders million for street SNUBBED! big crown again turn their backs widening, sewer ex- on Ratner: p.5 pansions and other

There she isn’t, Miss New mind you! — and the winner infrastructure, but / Julie Roseberg York. THE BROOKLYN has come from New York when the mayor released the budget last week, By Gersh only three times. the Atlantic Yards line item had ballooned to $205 The pride of Bay Ridge, ANGLE Kuntzman Miss New York Bethlene Pan- Furthermore, a New Yorker million. coast, was little more than run- tiara, the sash, the crown, the hasn’t won the crown since Opponents seized on the doubling as evidence

way roadkill for the so-called bouquet of bright red roses Vanessa Williams did in 1984 that city taxpayers were again being asked to foot Paper The Brooklyn beauty queens at the Miss signifying a well-deserved — and then was promptly the bill for Ratner’s $4-billion project. America pageant from such promotion to Miss America. stripped because of some strip- “There is a blank check in there for Ratner from glamorous places as Pennsylva- I don’t know why I care. ping she did a few years earlier. the city,” warned Develop Don’t Destroy Brook- And babies make five! lyn spokesman Daniel Goldstein. “Ratner [will nia, Oklahoma and Nebraska. And then I remembered: It’s Over the next 22 New It was a (really big) bundle of joy for Bensonhurst lovebirds Rosa and Michael Arena on Mon- because they don’t like us. York-free years, Miss Okla- make] millions of dollars off this development, so I don’t know why I got my day morning as Rosa gave birth to triplet boys at New York Methodist Hospital in Park Slope. hopes up on Monday night, They really don’t like us. homa has won the crown three why is the city paying his costs also?” The newborn trio consists of Michael Anthony (who weighed in at 6 pounds, 8 ounces), Filip- don’t know why I bothered The Miss America contest times! Worse, Lauren Nel- At a press conference on Wednesday, Bloom- po Peter (5 pounds, 13 ounces), and Frankie Edward (5 pounds, 15 ounces). What, you may believing for one second that dates back to 1921 — when son’s win this year means that berg attributed the higher allocation to the “rising Miss New York would get the there were only 48 states, See ANGLE on page 13 See RATNER CASH on page 5 ask, is so newsworthy about triplets? Nothing, but you freakin’ try to have triplets! This woman put out 18 pounds, 4 ounces of baby in one morning! Gardens senior’s lease Apt. found for 94-year-old BEFORE By Gersh Kuntzman story on the front page, offers of help started The Brooklyn Paper pouring in — but still no apartment. These pictures tell the story: 94-year-old Diomede’s social worker applied for the Dominick Diomede, who was days from Fifth Avenue Committee’s emergency being kicked out of his Carroll Gardens housing program and, after a push from apartment, now smiles as he shows off the Councilman Bill DeBlasio, Diomede got lease on his new apartment, courtesy of the the studio unit — at $40 a month less than Fifth Avenue Committee. he was paying in his old place. Behind the pictures, though, is a gripping “It’s beautiful,” he said, touring the 551 story of greed, gentrification, bureaucracy Warren St. flat last week. “It’s pretty good and redemption. for an old man.” It began last year, after Diomede’s land- DeBlasio credited the Department for lords — the grandkids of the childhood the Aging social worker and the Fifth Av- friend who let him move into the Woodhull enue Committee, and cheered his con- Street pad two decades ago with a hand- stituents, too. “I’m proud of the outpouring of support

shake lease — evicted him so they could Thor Equities get more money from the top-floor one- we have seen,” he said. “I look forward to AFTER seeing Dominick make his new apartment Latest renderings for a Coney Island theme park (including a through-the-Boardwalk roller coaster, left) downplay the bedroom. residential towers (ghost-like buildings at the top right corner). City officials have not signed off on so much housing. City social workers and lawyers — part of home.” a Department for the Aging program that Diomede is expected to move in next keeps senior citizens from becoming home- month — thanks to free schlepping servic- less — first fought the eviction in court. But es provided by Movers, Not Shakers, a when all legal avenues were exhausted last Red Hook moving company that reached City not ready to roll in Coney month, they scoured the listings and non- out to Diomede the day after The Brook- lyn Paper story hit the streets. By Gersh Kuntzman The city Economic Development Cor- said an EDC official who did not want profit agencies for an apartment for poration said this week that the still- to be named. As a result of the outpouring of sup- The Brooklyn Paper Diomede, who was paying just $500 a vague residential component of Joe Sitt’s “[Sitt] wants residential because month on Woodhull Street. port for Dominick Diomede, the Aging in City planners have thrown up a road- block to an ambitious plan to turn $2-billion housing-and-honky tonk plan that’s where he gets the most bang for At that price, few apartments presented New York Fund, the non-profit wing of Coney Island’s rundown amusement may not be compatible with an ongoing his buck, but we’re not convinced the themselves. the Department for the Aging, set up a way for New Yorkers to support other area into a Vegas-style theme park com- city redevelopment plan for the neigh- housing is necessary.” After The Brooklyn Paper put Diomede’s seniors facing eviction. To make a tax-de- plete with a hotel, a new roller-coaster, borhood and its historic amusement area. Sitt’s Thor Equities would need a ductible contribution to the “Save a Se- entertainment venues and hundreds of “The city’s chief goal is to support zoning change before it could build res- Dominick Diomede, 94, has a new lease on nior Fund,” send a check made out to units of housing. the amusement area and we have seri- idential units on the dozen or so acres it life, thanks to the city Department for Ag- Aging in New York, 2 Lafayette St., Suite The housing, apparently, is the prob- ous concerns about how residential fits owns in Coney Island. ing and the Fifth Avenue Committee. 2100, New York, NY 10007. lem. in with an enhanced amusement area,” See CONEY on page 5

Idiots on a TAT TLE’S TALE roll Bensonhurst-bred Michael Musto celebrates 22 years dishing it out thru By Adam Rathe told GO Brooklyn. “I would write notes The Brooklyn Paper to myself — movie reviews on index B’klyn “It’s an enchanting lifestyle,” cards as a cathartic way of expressing Michael Musto, veteran gossip co- myself because I didn’t talk. I fantasized Five topless men in lumnist for the Village Voice, said of STARTS ON PAGE 7 a life where somehow I would make a Speedos — they went his existence, and it’s no joke. living in show business.” by the name Team Lap- Aformer features editor of the New Utrecht High And that’s exactly what he’s done. After attending dance — participated in School newspaper — the Nuhs — and a Benson- Columbia University — “I studied ancient civiliza- last week’s fourth-annu- hurst native, Musto began writing his weekly col- tion, but all I cared about was Cher” — and working al Idiotarod, that rau- umn, “La Dolce Musto,” 22 years ago, and says he as a freelancer writer for the Voice, Musto scored his cous shopping-cart race loves everything about the job. job the old-fashioned way: by submitted a writing around Brooklyn. This “I get to go out every night and meet the most sample to the paper when he read about an opening year’s route began in incredible people and then write whatever I want for a gossip columnist.

Greenpoint and went / Craig Dilger about it,” he said. “I had no idea that there would be this job that into Queens to foil the Not a bad gig for a self-described introvert who was so ideal for me,” he said. NYPD. See full cover- spent much of his childhood at the Walker Theater “It started as a third of a page in the middle of age of the action- and on 18th Avenue, losing himself in movies. the paper and now it’s a full page first thing in the Rumor service: Michael Musto’s Village Voice sabotage-filled race on “I’m probably the only Italian-American only- paper. It keeps growing like a fungus.” column, “La Dolce Musto,” is in its 22nd year

page 13. Paper The Brooklyn child in the world, so I grew up very internally,” he See MUSTO on page 9 and shares a name with his new book. 2 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 February 3, 2007 WHERE TO EDITORS’ PICKS SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY February 3 February 4 February 5 February 8 February 9 Tag, you’re it Real rumble We love the Brooklyn Check out “The Out- Children’s Museum for siders,” the first of what’s teaching local kids how planned to be an annual to spray paint. Take the show of contemporary opportunity to learn outsider art at Stay Gold ry Williams

To about the artistic value Gallery. Over a dozen of graffiti, design your artists (including Andrew own tag and then try Poneros, whose work is

The swing Robert Henry The cutting your hand with the can pictured below) are show- of things on a mural that the Film’s cool ing here, but so far they’ve edge The big band sounds of museum is creating. managed not to brawl. Strap on your blades The Brooklyn Indepen- the Lapis Luna orchestra, and get ready for a night 3:30 pm at the Brooklyn dent Film Series lands at By appointment at Stay Gold featuring Shawn Clark under the stars at Woll- Children’s Museum (144 Barbes tonight, screen- Gallery (451 Grand St. at (pictured), will be bounc- Brooklyn Ave. at St. Marks Keap Street in Williamsburg). man Rink. This annual ing a short film, “Ameri- ing off the walls of the Avenue in Crown Heights). Free. For information call fundraiser features can Cookbook,” and the Brooklyn Museum’s Hall Free. For information call (718) 599-7778. Southpaw DJs spinning (718) 735-4400. feature-length “The Hole of the Americas tonight retro hits and mugs of Story” (pictured). The as the band plays a free spiked hot cocoa to latter’s star and director, evening set as part of warm you up. Alex Karpovsky, will be Target’s First Saturday on hand for a Q&A fol- 9:30 pm at Prospect Park’s program. lowing the screening. Wollman Rink (enter through 6 pm at the Brooklyn Museum the Parkside/Ocean Avenue 7 pm at Barbes (376 Ninth (200 Eastern Pkwy. at Wash- or the Lincoln Road/Ocean St. at Sixth Avenue in Park Avenue entrance). $40 includes ington Avenue in Prospect Slope). $8 suggested dona- Heights). Free. For informa- drinks and snacks. For infor- tion. For information call mation call (718) 965-6992. tion call (718) 812-6248. (718) 965-9177. Sylvan Migdal NINE DAYS IN BROOKLYN Compiled by Susan Rosenthal Jay

Center, near the Myrtle Avenue and SAT, FEB 3 Washington Park entrance. Call 311 for info. Free. OUTDOORS AND TOURS NATURE MYTHS: Join The Urban Park ICE SKATING: Wollman Rink is open. $5, $3 Rangers as they dispel myths including are seniors and children. $5.50 skate rental. 10 bats really blind and if a groundhog sees its am to 1 pm; 2 pm to 6 pm; 7 pm to 10 pm. shadow. 1 pm. Salt Marsh Nature Center, Prospect Park, access through the Parkside/ 3302 Ave. U. Call 311 for info. Free. Ocean avenues entrance or the Lincoln Road/ EARLY BIRD WALK: Led by the Brooklyn Bird Ocean Avenue entrance. (718) 287-5252. Club. 8 am to 10 am. Prospect Park WILDERNESS WORKSHOP: Join the Urban Audubon Center. Enter at Lincoln Road and Park Rangers for a wilderness survival work- Ocean Avenue. (718) 287-3400. Free. shop. Get tips and techniques to help sur- ICE SKATING: The Wollman Rink is open. $5, vive in the great outdoors. 1 pm. Fort $3 seniors and children. $5.50 skate rental. Greene Park. Meet at Visitor’s Center, near 10 am to 1 pm; 2 pm to 6 pm. Prospect the Myrtle Avenue and Washington Park Park, access through the Parkside/ Ocean entrance. Call 311. Free. avenues entrance or the Lincoln Road/ WINTER WALK: The Urban Park Rangers take Ocean Avenue entrance. (718) 287-5252. a walking tour exploring Prospect Park. See PERFORMANCE the park in a whole new light and experi- OPERA: Regina Opera presents a salute to ence its beauty in winter. 1 pm. Enter at Let’s dance: The national dance company of the Republic of Guinea, Les Parkside and Ocean avenues. Call 311. Free. Broadway. $10, $5 teens, free for children. Ballets Africains (above), makes a stop at Brooklyn Center on Feb. 3. 3 pm. Regina Hall, 65th Street and 12th WALKING TOUR: Mauricio Lorence hosts a Avenue. (718) 232-3555. tour of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Brook- lyn Heights. $25. 2 pm to 5 pm. Marriott CONCERT: by Kings County American Legion Hotel, 333 Adams St. (718) 789-0430. ing. $40. 2 pm to 5 pm. 168 Seventh St. Headquarters Band performs. 1 pm. OTHER (718) 858-9069. Chapel, Fort Hamilton Base. Sorry, no con- PERFORMANCE FIRST SATURDAY: Brooklyn Museum hosts COOK AND LEARN: Pre-Valentine cooking tact phone number. Free. its monthly event featuring a program of workshop teaches you how to prepare a BARGEMUSIC: 4 pm. See Sat, Feb 3. CHOIR COMPETITION: Choirs from all over art and entertainment. Tonight: live the East Coast compete for $10,000 at the special three-course dinner featuring music, poetry, films, art and a dance lemon-lavender chicken. $135 includes CHILDREN Pathmark Gospel Choir Competition. 10 am party to celebrate Valentine’s Day. High- to 5 pm. The World Financial Center Winter wine and gift bag. 4 pm to 7:30 pm. 686 FAMILIES FIRST: Performer Suzi Shelton and lights include film “Mississippi Masala” Sterling Pl. Ticket pre-purchase neces- Friends entertain. $17, $12 children ages 12 Garden, West St. between Vesey and (1991) at 6:30 pm. Artist Devorah Sper- Liberty streets. (866) 893-1812. Free. sary. (718) 859-0229. months and older. 11 am and 1 pm. 250 ber explores the link between art, tech- Baltic St. (718) 237-1826. BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert of nology and perception at 7 pm. Cele- FIRST WEEKEND: Brooklyn Arts Exchange Schubert, Hallgrimsson, Schumann, and presents a performance and discussion GROUNDHOG SERIES: Brooklyn Arts Ex- brate the Lunar New Year and take a look change presents a series for family audi- Ravel with Judith Ingolfsson and Vladimir at the Asian art collection at 8 pm. Tango series featuring “Appropriation/ Ap- Stoupel. $35, $30 seniors, $20 students. proach-Fag-Nation,” with queer per- ences. Today: “For Little Folks with Sassy lessons at 8 pm. More. 5 pm to 11 pm. Spirit.” $10, $8 kids under 12. 2 pm. 421 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton 200 Eastern Pkwy. (718) 636-5000. formance artist Michael Burke. Learn about the perils and pitfalls of the LGBT Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. Street at the East River. (718) 624-2083. BROWNSTONE ANATOMY: NYC College FIRST WEEKEND: Join Brooklyn Arts Ex- rights movement. $15, $10 members, $8 of Technology hosts a seminar on low-income. 8 pm. Discussion with the OTHER change for new works by Nami Yamamoto, brownstone restoration and renovation. FLEA MARKET: at St. Finbar Center. 9 am to 3 Michael Burke, and Jessica Cerullo. Dis- artist follows performance. 421 Fifth Today’s talk focuses on “Layouts, Ave. (718) 832-0018. pm. Bath Avenue and Bay 20th Street. (718) cussion with artists follows performance. Lifestyles and Labor.” $35. 1 pm to 5 236-3312. $15, $10 members, $8 low-income. 8 pm. pm. 186 Jay St. (718) 552-1170. BUDDHIST MEDITATION CLASSES: Today’s 421 Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. EROTIC POETRY: Kane Street Synagogue SUN, FEB 4 topic: “How to Solve our Human Problems BCBC: Brooklyn Center for the Performing offers an afternoon reading. 1 pm. 236 with Prayers for World Peace.” $10. 10 am Arts presents “Les Ballets Africains,” featur- Kane St. (718) 875-1550. Free. to 11:15 am. Vajradhara Meditation Center, ing dance and songs. $15 to $35. 8 pm. HOUSEPLANTS: Learn how to care for a OUTDOORS AND TOURS 380 Adelphi St. #2. (718) 496-5514. Walt Whitman Hall at Brooklyn College, new plant. 1:30 pm to 4 pm. Fee and WINTER TREE ID: The Urban Park Rangers SUNDAY PLATFORM: Brooklyn Society for one block from the intersection of Flatbush registration required. Call for more infor- explore the trees of Fort Greene Park. Ethical Culture offers the platform “Com- and Nostrand avenues. (718) 951-4500. mation. Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Learn how to identify some of the trees mitment Circles and Moral Development: PLAY NOIR: Inverse Theater presents “The Death 1000 Washington Ave. (718) 623-7200. and discover the legacy trees dating Can a Person Develop Morally Without of Griffin Hunter.” $18. 8 pm. Brick Theater, CRAFT WORKSHOP: Brooklyn Artists Gym back to the 1860’s. Fun for all ages. 1 Engagement with a Small Group of Trusted 575 Metropolitan Ave. (646) 552-4754. offers a crafts class on basic earring mak- pm. Meet at the Fort Green Visitor’s Others?” 11 am. 53 Prospect Park West. (718) 768-2972. Free. CHILDREN CRAFT WORKSHOP: Brooklyn Artists Gym DENTAL HEALTH DAY: Brooklyn Public Library’s offers a crafts class on surface manipulation. DeKalb branch invites kids to learn about $40. 2 pm to 5 pm. 168 Seventh St. (718) their teeth. Activities include trade-in tooth- CIVIC CALENDAR 858-9069. brush campaign, Dr. Molar’s magic show, SUNDAY’S AT SUNNY’S: presents nonfiction oral health and nutritional information and TUESDAY, FEB. 6 5410 for information. writer and journalist Virginia Vitzth, author Galleries in DUMBO more. Appropriate for kids 5 to 12 years. 11 of “I Love You, Let’s Meet.” Suggested do- am to 3 pm. 790 Bushwick Ave. (718) 455- Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID. Steering Committee. Aunt Suzie’s (247 5th Ave. THURSDAY, FEB. 8 nation, $3. 3 pm. Sunny’s, 253 Conovor St., Space Available Caroline Thebaud 718.222.2505 • Louise Ehrmann 718.222.2506 3898. Free. Community Board 10. Police and public between Beard and Reed streets. (718) CHOCOLATE CHIP CONCERT: Chamber music between Garfield and Carroll streets), 9 am. Call (718) 871-8340 for information. safety committee. CB 10 offices (621 625-8211. Two Trees www.dumbo-newyork.com program “Magic, Mystery and Make-Believe 86th St. at Fort Hamilton Parkway), 7 MEDITATION CLASS: Today’s topic: “Angry at the Opera!” $5 includes chocolate chip Community Board 2. Economic devel- pm. Call (718) 745-6827 for information. Mind, Ugly Life: Solving Our Anger Prob- 111 Front Street cookies. 10 am and 11:30 am. Old First opment and job creation committee. Community Board 11. Full board. Holy lem.” $10. 7:30 pm to 9 pm. Lucky Lotus Reformed Church, 126 Seventh Ave. at the Long Island University Jonas Board Family Home (1740 84th St., between Yoga, 184 DeKalb Ave. (718) 496-5514. 5+5 Gallery | Brooklyn Arts Council | Henry Gregg Gallery | corner of Carroll Street. (718) 638-8300. Room (One University Plaza at Flatbush Bay 16th Street and New Utrecht SALSA WORKSHOP: Kids Café hosts a work- ARTY FACTS: Kids are invited to explore sym- and DeKalb avenues), 6 pm. Call (718) Avenue), 7:30 pm. Call (718) 266-8800 shop. $12. Long Island University’s Brooklyn s.e.e.dgallery | Safe-T-Gallery | Wessel + O’Conner Fine Art | bols of power and create their own powerful 596-5410 for information. for information. campus. Call for class info. (718) 522-4696. art. For ages 4 to 7 years old. $8, free for Underbridge Pictures | Nelson Hancock Gallery | Gloria Kennedy kids 12 and under. 11 am to 2 pm. Brooklyn WEDNESDAY, FEB. 7 FRIDAY, FEB. 9 Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy. (718) 638-5000. Community Board 2. Health, environ- Senior Citizen Town Hall Meeting. Hosted MON, FEB 5 Gallery | GALLERY twenty-four | Sankaranka Gallery | Art Core NYC BLOOMING BABIES: Celebrate Valentine’s ment and social services committee. by state Sen. Marty Golden. Bay Ridge Gallery | Flavors Gallery | and visit Day with a morning of stories and songs. Brooklyn Hospital North Pavilion confer- Community Service Center (6935 Fourth LECTURE: Long Island University presents a Make cards and hearts for a special some- ence rooms 3A and 3B (121 DeKalb Ave. Ave., corner of Ovington Avenue), 2 conversation with Brooklyn activist and one. Appropriate for ages 18 months to 2.5 at St. Felix Street), 6 pm. Call (718) 596- pm. Call (718) 238-6044 for information. author Kevin Powell, author of “Someday 30 Washington Street Dumbo Arts Center years. 11 am to Noon. Brooklyn Chidren’s We’ll All Be Free.” 7 pm. Flatbush Avenue Museum, 145 Brooklyn Ave. Call for more To list an event in the Civic Calendar, e-mail [email protected] or fax (718) 834-9278. 92 Plymouth Street Smack Melon Gallery information. (718) 735-4400. 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Open 7 Days A Week • • (718) 243-0844 “They want to turn Downtown Brooklyn into a little model of Manhattan,” said Greenstein. “No matter what kind of information we dig up to show them the history here, they say it’s not enough.” The city says that Chatel and Greenstein can’t prove that their Leave packages with us. basements were once a safe haven for slaves headed to Canada. But Greenstein and Chatel say that the fault is the city’s, not theirs. Bruise backlash: Organic shopper And worries behind. “We need archeologists in here to excavate and certify what they find,” says Greenstein, who showed me a spot in his base- As your neighborhood shipping center we offer many services in addition ment that looks like a capped well, and another spot that looks to packing and shipping. 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Now she faces agricultural and Harriet Truesdell, two heroes of the abolitionist movement, her local produce-buying club, sending shock- Open 7 Days ‘til 9pm and social ostracism. Authorized ShipCenter once owned 227 Duffield St. And the entire block was well waves through the organic food community “Half of my yoga class stopped talking to known as a hotbed of anti-slavery activity in the 1800s. and, more dishearteningly, her yoga class. me after I complained,” she said. “There’s history here,” added Chatel. “You can feel it.” Fortune Elkins’s tale of agricultural woe But her experience is not uncommon. Greenstein and Chatel gave me a rundown of the activity they began in that very class last year, when fel- “The food is incredibly fresh — but it’s not 8F
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PANORAMIC VIEWS! lord finishes renovating the building,” The longtime Bergen Street resident had called the police to re- the sad psychic told me last week, port the hit-and-run against the tree, a city-owned elm that had flour- speaking over a cellphone that had ished on the sidewalk in front of her brownstone between Hoyt and the same problem with fuzzy recep- Ariella Cohen Bond streets. tion as, apparently, her crystal ball. Now she’s demanding that the city “get moving on punishing this The cell-to-cell connection was our first — and it ended badly. driver who was obviously very inexperienced.” “Go be curious about something else,” she shouted at me be- City law supports the amateur arborist’s call for payback. Anyone fore hanging up. Temper, temper. Given her line of work, who damages a tree “accidentally or intentionally” is liable for the 206 Court St. cost of nursing the tree back to health — or in the case of a fatality, shouldn’t she have anticipated my questions? 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Massage Therapy for mind, body & spirit er, the brightly lit shops look increasingly like garish blight, Paper The Brooklyn holdouts from a time before New Agers collected degrees in ho- meopathy and corner storefronts on Atlantic Avenue fetched thousands a month in rent. As a college-educated, female Brooklynite with just a few HEALING ARTS neuroses, I would guess that I am statistically more likely to visit a $100-an-hour psychotherapist then a $5-a-reading psychic. Lauren Hampel, LMT Member AMTA & NCBTMB This week, I broke the pattern with a visit to Marie, an advis- er with a devoted following. Dean St boat mystery solved • Swedish • Shiatsu • Sports Marie presides over the corner of Fifth Avenue and Seventh • Hot Stone • Deep Tissue Street in Park Slope from a walk-up apartment above an old By Josh Saul botanica. A wild paint job marks her presence. 718-797-5318 The Brooklyn Paper Marie advises from a neat living room with wall-to-wall car- COBBLE HILL peting. Next to her, a big-eyed, silent baby swings in a rocker, Ship Ahoy, Captain, dead ahead on Gift Certificates Available sucking his finger like some kind of teething shaman. Dean Street! Marie read me quickly. Five minutes with my open palm re- Neighbors of a Dean Street artists vealed to her my “long lifeline,” as well as a peskier truth that “commune” have wondered about a 22- I’ve successfully kept from my mother for months. foot wooden craft that looks like it in Reliability I asked Marie if it was difficult for an old-fashioned psychic washed up from somewhere (the Gowa- # to stay in business. She conceded it was. But instead of talking nus, perhaps?). Jewels by in Quality about landlords or changing demographics, she pointed a finger “Somebody thought it was a seafood in Service at us: the injured auras she confronts each day. 1 shack,” said Katie Merz, one of the artists “The bad energy I see exhausts me,” she said (was she smil- who lives in the building at 214 Dean St. ing? Did she consider me a problem aura? Maybe I should see a It turns out, there’s a simple answer: shrink!). Somehow, this complete stranger had gotten to me. It’s a shipwreck from Korean Vogue. Like any shopkeeper, the storefront psychic sells a product The boat was built by Jason Gandy, SATNICK that means to fill some void and, eventually, make you feel bet- who constructed it for a photo shoot in We service all mechanical & quartz watches ter. Her crystal ball, however, never promises that the latest the magazine. After the shoot at Chelsea & repair all jewelry on premises boots, the freest-trade coffee, or even a cheap money order will Piers, Gandy dry-docked it in front of the get rid of that blah aura you’re feeling. building. The supernatural peddles trust, and a moment of soul-to-soul The boat is not sea-worthy, of course, HARTLEY F. SATNICK connection. Telepathic skills — or a lack, thereof — aside, but it is eye-catching. And that’s the idea. Michelle the psychic had created, on a block of sandwich shops The commune used it to attract attention The Only Certified and the offices of Bad Apple Bail Bond Company, a place for to its recent art show. people to stop in for a moment and focus on each other, bad About 120 people attended the show, Master Watchmaker auras, ugly signs and all. For that, she will be missed. which included live music and perform- in all 5 boroughs of New York City ances, photographs and paintings, and, of serving the community for over 44 years THE KITCHEN SINK course, the beached ship on the front stoop’s stern. Neighborhoodies, the Brooklyn-based custom-clothing biz Visit us at our new location that slapped your inside jokes across its hooded sweatshirts, has You might expect building owners closed its Atlantic Avenue shop. Now get back to your to iron-on ♥ Nick and Gabriele Fracaro to bunk down Dockworkers Spitzer in the boat, given that they once lived for 187 State Street letters. … Can the wonders of chocolate be taught? Chef Jean- Jacques Bernet of Provence En Boite said he had a grand three years in a teepee in a homeless shan- time teaching pastry-making to a “passionate” audience at the The Brooklyn Paper studios and maritime-themed attractions. tytown near the Manhattan Bridge. But (off Court St) prestigious James Beard House. And we thought what hap- Red Hook’s dockworkers think Gov. Spitzer has committed to reviewing the this houseboat is just a piece of sculpture. city’s plan, according to an administration pens on Smith Street stayed on Smith Street! … The popular chil- Spitzer could be the captain that saves Gandy is happy to have the boat still in (718) 852-1421 • Fax (718) 852-9697 • spokesman. And last week, his newly ap- one piece. “When you build something dren’s gym, The Little Gym, opened its first Brooklyn location them from the Bloomberg administra- HOURS: Mon - Fri: 9:30am - 6:30pm; Sat: 11:00am - 5:00pm this month at 125 Court St. The center is famous for developing pointed Port Authority head said the region- for a set, it usually goes in the garbage tion’s plan to close their cargo port on the al agency also plans to look closely at the the next day. But I really put my heart children’s fitness and motor skills — sign up and get Junior mov- Red Hook waterfront. ing on those Olympic ambitions. … The prix-fixe frankfurter has city plan before giving the green light into that boat, and I like having it live on. arrived: In a bold attempt to bring the courting crowd to Union The city’s Economic Development Corpo- promised by former Gov. Pataki. I’m just happy they haven’t called me to Street wiener shack Schnack, owner Harry Hawk has launched ration wants to evict port operator American So dockworkers cheered: “I have faith in take it apart yet.” a $39 “Dinner for Two” deal. Available on Monday and Tuesday, Stevedoring and build a tourist-friendly de- this governor doing what’s right and what There are no immediate plans to de- the package includes two-course meals and a chilled bottle of velopment that would include a new brew will keep us working,” said Anthony In- commission this ship. wine. BYO mouthwash: Hot dog breath is deadly. house for Brooklyn Brewery, a smaller indus- tartaglia, a second-generation longshore- “We’re just waiting for Landmarks to Talk to us. Write: [email protected]. trial port as well as a 250-room hotel, artist’s man. — Ariella Cohen get crabby,” joked Merz.

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What has become of the crime- Group The Corcoran ridden avenue of yore? Well, that Dana Rubinstein depends on whom you ask. “The avenue’s spending power has changed,” said Rob Per- • Local & Long Distance Services ris, the district manager for Community Board 2. “The neighbor- Just wild about Ho / Dennis W. • Airport Transportation Atlantic City, hood is more affluent in general, and people are spending more Foxwood and money on Myrtle.” • Medical Pickup & Drop Off Mohegan Sun But not everyone is ready for a local fromagerie and organic Casinos grocer (such people obviously don’t covet fresh brescianella!). “Organic — that’s nonsense!” said Devon Howell, who was Wallabout? The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn doing laundry on Myrtle the other day. “It’s not needed. A By Dana Rubinstein Clermont Ave. (above right). cheese shop isn’t needed either.” The Brooklyn Paper “We’re feeling somewhat development is acting civilly. Slope) believes the neighborhood It wasn’t that Howell was nostalgic for the avenue’s rundown overwhelmed by the buildings When Russell Boyle opened is “on the brink of something.” past. It’s just that he didn’t want poorer members of the commu- Developers have sparked a going up,” said Gary Hattem, a a Washington Avenue vintage But old-timers aren’t sure they nity to be forgotten in the frenzy of development. gold rush in Wallabout. What? 30-year Wallabout resident and store called Repop 95% Recy- want that special “something.” Car & Limo Service “You are forcing on people not what they want, but what you You’ve never heard that name local activist. “I have a seven- cles in July, the shop was van- “You always felt this was want,” said Howell. applied to the area north of story glass and steel building dalized with the message, “Go your secret neighborhood,” said His alternative to the cheese monger? Myrtle Avenue? Don’t worry, going up where a two-story back to Williamsburg.” Hattem. “The more mainstream “A boys and girls club would help kids and their parents pros- you will. building used to be.” Despite the rude welcome, it becomes, [the more] you risk per,” said Howell. “That’s a thing I had growing up that doesn’t With the gentrification of the Not everyone who opposes Boyle (who is actually from Park it losing its edginess.” exist anymore, and that’s a shame.” former “Murder Avenue” gaining Amber Cooper, just a couple of washing-machine rows down, steam — and sky-high prices didn’t pooh-pooh the organic grocery, but she, too, worried continuing in Fort Greene proper about the economic pressures that go hand-in-brie. — developers are no longer “I don’t think people living here should be pushed out be- bashful about staking their claims cause of development,” she said. on the other side of Fort Greene’s Jeopardy is no stroll in Fort 24 Hour Door-to-Door Service But that’s already happening. long-held northern boundary. “People are being pushed out,” proclaimed Jerib Carson, a “Before, Wallabout was kind second-generation Pratt alumnus who’s lived on-and-off in the of an outsider, but now it really neighborhood for more than 30 years. Greene Park for lone player belongs to Fort Greene and Clin- Even worse, Carson thinks all of the hype that’s pushing ton Hill,” said Antonio Calvo, (718) 230-8100 prices up and forcing people out is premature. By Lilo H. Stainton Even the right answers sparked who is developing four lots on light-hearted debate. The “Names for “I think a lot more needs to take place before this avenue can Adelphi Street, one of a dozen The Brooklyn Paper www.myrtlecarservice.com be classified as gentrified,” said Carson, pointing to the sorry 800” answer, “The Polish lord who new buildings that are rising in “Birds for 800” asked for “the led the Continental Army, and lent state of the sidewalks, the trees, and the uncovered bus-stops. the long-beleaguered area be- “You’ll need more than a few new stores and a few condos.” largest bird ever spotted in Fort his name to a bridge in Brooklyn,” tween Myrtle Avenue and the Greene Park.” prompted the question, “Who is Armando Rente, a Cuban immigrant (and former journalist) Brooklyn–Queens Expressway. who lives in the Farragut Houses, liked the avenue’s upswing, And the question is, “What is the Kos-zhe-usko?” from Correa. The reason for the land rush but he, too, had more prosaic concerns. turkey vulture?” “Bzzzztztzt. I’m not going to ac- is clear: there’s land. 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Some questions (make that answers “Final Jeopardy” arrived as the 192 Amity St. (212) 812-3994 ings at the DeKalb and Vanderbilt avenue watering hole begin af- “It’s a little bit of a walk to — sorry, Alex) weren’t too tough, even for city folk. category “Ice, Ice, Baby,” complete with sound ef- (at Court Street) Open Tuesday - Sunday ter dark (of course). … It might be time to finally stop hiding our the train, but services [on Myr- “Birds for 200” stated, “An aggressive avian fects. “This stately, some would say cheesy, gla- money in our mattress. A brand-new Bank of America at Myr- tle Avenue] have improved so known for blue feathers — and a baseball team.” cier is responsible for Brooklyn, Long Island and tle and Waverly avenues held its official opening on Tuesday, much,” said his Corcoran agent, (Duh: “What is a Blue Jay?”) “Fort Greene Mak- Staten Island’s unique topography.” joining the other two banking residents — Emigrant and Kara Kasper. ers for 800” mentioned “A housing complex north Stumped? And the question is: “What is the Citibank. … It might not be on the shores of the Red Sea, but Developers are rushing to get of the park, named for a famous Brooklyn poet.” Wisconsin Glacier?” Leave packages with us. Zaytoons restaurant — which serves some of the best zaatar their shovels in the ground be- (“What is Walt Whitman?”) The final answer: She was the winner. The bread and lentil soup — just opened a hookah lounge. 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The bar — which attracted older, though Avenue is booming with innovative cuisine. Dogs & Cats • Your Inspection Invited! places (two), bagel stores (one) and The neighborhood’s version of a casual not completely out-of-play, customers — was The good news is that Snooky’s former bakeries (three) do we need in the few “Cheers”-type bar has closed. probably the most notable feature of the Sev- manager — known neighborhood-wide sim- We Service the blocks from Eighth to 15th streets be- “It’s the end of a neighborhood institu- enth Avenue hangout (unless you were a fan of ply as “Jose” — says he will replace the land- Movie Stars! tween Eighth and Sixth avenues? tion,” said local real-estate broker Roslyn the 20-ounce “house special” steak dinner — mark with an Italian restaurant that will open Wait, don’t answer before you Huebener, who has been a Snooky’s cus- with German-fried potatoes — for $19.95). next month. Over 35 hear the news: One more place is WE SHIP Years Exp. coming to the Slope’s Coffee Dis- trict. Work has already begun to transform a non-descript, mid-block, PUPPIES & KITTENS! ground-floor apartment on Seventh Best Health • Home Bred • Temperments Avenue into Café Eleven, which Nica Lalli FREE Kittens will open in March. Caught! Cops say they’ve w/ Supplies Do we need yet another java joint? You decide: The place is 5 STAR across the street (no, literally across the street) from Naidre’s, just steps away from the Tea Lounge, and a few blocks from the newcomers, Red Horse Cafe on Sixth Avenue and 12th Street, (718) 258-2342 and Cafe Regular on 11th Street, just off Fifth Avenue. captured Commerce bandit Owners John (decaf with milk) and Marianne (milk with two Equals) Votto are not deterred. They may be the newest mug on Two days later, police said, CAUGHT 2082 Flatbush Ave. Bklyn, NY the block, but they say they won’t be the last, either. By Gersh Kuntzman ED The Brooklyn Paper Thompson was back at the “We are all different,” said John Votto, admitting that he and same branch making the same his wife have never ventured into the food and beverage service The bumbling bandit who WANT attempt at a withdrawal. ◆ before. “There is room for us, and we have a big garden.” tried to rob the Commerce The same thing — right ◆ In addition to the garden, the Vottos said Café Eleven has a Bank on Fifth Avenue twice in down to the exploding dye pack ◆ few other things going for it: For one, the Vottos are holding three days last month has been — happened. But this time, the onto hope that their location — they’re on the east side of Sev- caught, police say. never-say-dye Thompson hi- enth Avenue, while the Tea Lounge, Naidre’s, the Bagel Hole Clenzo Thompson was jacked a livery cab and fled, and at least two of the bodegas are on the west side — will at- nabbed last week in New Jer- cops said. tract pedestrians who can’t be bothered to cross the street to get sey, where he was visiting a He was arrested without inci- their caffeine fix. friend. He was promptly turned dent in Boonton, New Jersey. More important, Café Eleven will sell only coffee drinks over to the NYPD, which hit Thompson’s alleged efforts made with Illy beans. Believe me (steamed milk, one sugar), him with an array of charges to rob the one-year-old Com- ◆ that’s a selling point; Illy is simply the best. stemming from his alleged at- merce Bank branch follow at- Then again, who picks his drug by the quality alone (if so, ◆ tempts to rob “America’s Most Convenient Bank” on Jan. 12 and tempts by other crooks on Halloween and Dec. 26 last year. ◆ we’d all be going to Russo’s, buying bags of Taza D’Oro and 14. Some neighbors blamed the victim, saying that the bank’s “cus- brewing it at home)? People go to Naidre’s for the breakfast bur- He was arraigned on Jan. 26 and remains on Rikers Island, un- tomer friendly” approach — with no bulletproof Plexiglas, for ex- ◆ ritos more than her coffee from Manhattan’s Porto Rico. People Custom Framing able to make the $1,000 bail. ample — is encouraging robbers. ◆ go to the Tea Lounge because of the vibe and the farmer friend- In the first robbery attempt, Thompson walked in and slipped a But Commerce Bank spokesman David Flaherty said that just as Ready-Made Frames ly shade-grown, fair trade organic Benbow coffee from Maine. note to the teller, who passed over $2,340, cops said. many customers appreciate that the bank doesn’t feel like a prison. 374 7th Avenue ◆ People go to their local bodega if they want to pay less than $3 Posters & Prints But before the bandit could get out the door, a dye-pack that had “The safety of our employees and customers is first and foremost, (bet. 11th & 12th Sts) ◆ for a cup of joe (and aren’t picky). been slipped into the cache of cash exploded. He dropped the bag but at the same time, part of the Commerce Bank model is the con- Friendly Service Naidre Miller (steamed milk and a half-sugar), owner of the and fled. venience and the one-on-one service we provide,” he said. 718-832-0655 shop that bears her name, wished her new competitors well, but added, “I don’t understand why anyone would attempt a busi- ness in such a saturated market.” Like Miller, I wish the Vottos well, of course. There may, in- deed, be room for their great Italian brew and their nice garden. But you won’t see me there after the morning rush. Too much coffee keeps me up at night! / Rosenberg A thriving Catholic THE KITCHEN SINK Help Slope author David Shenk (“The Forgetting”) write his next book about “the genius in all of us.” It’s a bit ironic for school? That is news a guy who once wrote a book about “Data Smog,” but Shenk is Paper The Brooklyn nonetheless blogging all the research for his new tome at By Nica Lalli seems to be out,” said Principal Robert geniusblog.davidshenk.com. In other Shenk news, his latest book, New and old The Brooklyn Paper Hughes. “The Immortal Game,” just went in for another printing. … Rep. It couldn’t have come at a better time. Signs of change are everywhere on Holy Name of Jesus, the local Catholic Nydia Velazquez,the chair of the House Small Business Com- Seventh Avenue, where (above) With Catholic schools getting slapped mittee, had breakfast with the folk at school in Windsor Terrace, was in trouble. Chamber of Commerce one long-vacant store will soon across the wrists, Holy Name parents took the Grand Prospect Hall the other day. She says she’ll cut tax- It needed money to stay open and stay off the pre-emptive approach. es and help employers get health care for their workers. At least have a tenant. Repairs at a Carroll the dreaded list of Brooklyn Diocese “We wanted Holy Name to be around for we got a free breakfast. … Our spies spotted young adult book Street greengrocer revealed the schools slated for shutdown. So it followed our children and grandchildren, just as it legend Libba Bray (“Rebel Angels”) working through some se- remnants of a former store (below). the model of many secular institutions: it was there to serve our parents and grandpar- rious writer’s block at the Tea Lounge the other day. She takes formed a foundation and got alumni and ents,” said Kathleen Pynn Cottingham, the her coffee with Half and Half and one sugar. … The kindergarten local businesses to pony up. foundation’s president and a proud alumna. at PS 107 is lice-free, our spies tell us. “Lady Bug” Shaina The parents, alumni and parishioners The foundation did more than raise mon- Brown inspected all the kids’ heads last week and gave the who started the not-for-profit also had a fan- ey. 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By Lilo H. Stainton men, and one of the thugs turned woman had been on the platform victim’s money clip. on Me BODYWORKS and Dana Rubinstein his weapon on the youngster. of the Jay Street station waiting Dental heist for an A train when the thief — of The Brooklyn Paper The thieves ordered the girl and POLICE BLOTTER whom she never saw — grabbed Dentists’ offices aren’t just her mom to leave the store, and treasure troves of gold fillings. Brooklyn Heights A trio of thugs held a 10- later followed them out with the the bag with her driver’s license, BEFORE work ID and a Social Security A robber swiped thousands of year-old girl and her mother at cash in hand. Assailant bash of Fulton Mall. dollars in equipment when he gunpoint during a robbery of a Police canvassed the area and That’s where the thief pulled card. A middle-aged man used a • A bag stolen from a 23-year- broke into a dental office at Fulton 718-222-8713 Clark Street store on Jan. 23, found three men who matched out a razor blade and demanded, and Adams streets early on Jan. 23. AFTER bottle to fight off two younger old F-train rider on Jan. 26 at police said. the description witnesses provid- “Give me your iPod or I’ll cut When employees filed into leanonmebodyworks.com guys trying to rob him on the 11:45 am. In this case, two thugs The thugs entered the store, at ed. But when the clerk could not you.” But before the victim work that morning, they noticed evening of Jan. 22. stole the $200 bag — stuffed with Henry Street, around 8 pm. One identify the possible suspects, po- could respond the brute snatched that a $300 monitor, a $1,000 The 56-year-old was walking $120 in shirts — as the subway ordered a sandwich, while the lice were forced to cut them free, the popular digital device — and computer, a $150 telephone, and north on South Oxford Street, pulled into Jay Street. other two pulled out handguns a source told The Brooklyn Paper. slashed the man on the left side $100 computer speakers were between Dekalb and Lafayette • A mugging at 6 pm that of his face, anyway. missing. and trained the weapons on the Gun fired avenues, when two young men night. Three teenage thieves 44-year-old clerk. His question was as fake as a approached him from the oppo- Rob scores $2K rushed a 26-year-old man at the Cat fight “Where’s the money? Don’t bad comb-over. site direction. They surrounded A brazen bank robber — pos- High Street station, on Cadman A 15-year-old was insulted, move,” one of the gunmen de- A man walked into a hair sa- him, threw him to the ground, sibly toting a gun — staged a Plaza West. The victim had just punched and robbed as she manded, as the victim dropped lon on the afternoon of Jan. 23, and one of the thugs demanded, broad daylight hold-up at a stepped off a C train from Man- walked on South Elliot Place in to the floor in fear. and asked the price for hair “Give me your money.” Court Street branch on Jan. 22, hattan when the trio rushed him the afternoon of Jan. 18. The thieves stepped over the braiding. After he got a stylist’s As one of the men tried to and escaped with more than from behind on the platform. The girl was approached by terrified employee and helped attention, he pulled out a hand- pull out the man’s wallet, the $2,000, police said. “Do you have $4 for me and three older girls between Fulton themselves to $2,100 from two gun, demanded money, and fired victim fought back, striking the The teller never saw a weapon, my friends?” one of the strangers Avenue and Hanson Place. After registers behind the counter. a round into the floor. other robber with a bottle. That but she slid $2,146 to the robber. asked the man. the requisite insult, the mean girls That’s when the girl and her The stylist at the Flatbush Av- sent the two wimps fleeing south He took the cash — and the note Eventually, the inquisitor’s punched their victim and removed mother, Cranberry Street resi- enue and Nevins Street salon on South Oxford Street. — and left the branch. tone became more aggressive. $13 from her jacket pocket. dents, wandered into the store. told the robber, “I have no mon- The victim suffered a minor Transit thieves “Give me your money,” the teen Woman punch The family startled the gun- ey,” so the intruder grabbed her cut on his hand from the broken demanded, as he snatched the glass. Police saw a spate of bag Amiddle-aged woman was cellphone and fled in an un- snatchings in and around subway punched in the face, dragged to known direction. iPod slashing stations in Brooklyn Heights and the ground, and robbed in the I’ll be your bridge A teenage witness ran for A man suffered a knife-wound Downtown over 48 hours last early evening of Jan. 23, losing help, but the salon robber is still on his face when he was forced week. RELIGIOUS her purse and its contents. from where you are to on the lam. off a bus during a Jan. 24 attack Reported crimes included: The 48-year-old had been where you want to be Mall snatch on Willoughby Street, police said. • An iPod swiped by two SERVICES walking on Dekalb Avenue, be- A hapless victim left her wallet The armed thug forced the 22- thugs who rushed up behind a tween Waverly and Clinton av- year-old victim from the B38 bus 16-year-old on Jay Street, near First A.M.E. Zion Church enues, just after 8 pm when a in her cart while shopping at an 54 MacDonough St. office supply store in the Atlantic near the corner of Flatbush Av- Fulton Mall, as he headed to- youngish man in a hooded jacket enue Extension and Dekalb Av- ward the subway station stairs (bet. Tompkin & Marcy Ave.) and skullcap assaulted her and Center mall, only to (surprise, BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN surprise) have the wallet stolen. enue, just after 11 am. He then around 1:20 pm on Jan. 25. Sunday School 9:45 am grabbed her black pocketbook. The 34-year-old Cheever escorted the man to Willoughby • A purse-snatching at 5:15 pm Morning Worship 11:00 am Inside was a $750 red leather Place resident was robbed at the and Adams streets, at the far end the same day. The 28-year-old Wednesday Midweek wallet, a Verizon cellphone, three Atlantic Avenue and Fort Greene Service/Bible Study 6:30 pm credit cards, a debit card, her dri- Place store on Jan. 27 at 4:30 (718) 638-3343 ver’s license and her keys. Dr. Daran H. Mitchell, Pastor pm. Not only did the robber get LM30-18 Some friend $50, a $60 MetroCard and a It can be hard to tell who your $150 Coach wallet, but he had Bergen burglary, Congregation real friends are. A 36-year-old COFFEES, GIFT BASKETS, & GOURMET FOODS already rung up charges on her man who invited a lady friend to credit card by the time she called Kol Israel his St. Edwards Street home on LLEN OTTLIEB Located in Prospect Heights “D’Amico: E G to have the cards cancelled. since 1924 Jan. 15 noticed that some jewelry Pocket picked 603 St. Johns Place was missing when the gal pal left. The Best robbery, mayhem bet. Classon & Franklin The victim told cops that the Someone helped himself to 638-6583 44-year-old friend stole the goods Cup of Coffee $190 from a teenager’s pocket The Brooklyn Paper bathroom, police said. Rabbi Elkanah Schwartz to pawn them. If so, she made out on Jan. 24, police said. Fri. at Sunset • Sat. 10:30am There’s no indication the two W34/37/52 like a, um, bandit: Missing from in the City” The thief sneaked up behind Lightning may not strike 211 Court Street crimes are connected — other the bedroom was a pendant worth –– Fox 5 Good Day New York the 15-year-old boy as he walked twice, but violent crime did than by address Cong. B’nai Jacob Brooklyn last week on Bergen Street. $1,600, a chain worth $300 and a along Joralemon Street, near In the first attack, a pair of Park Slope Synagogue bracelet worth $150. Adams Street, around 6:30 pm. Two next-door neighbors near 917.797.1351 thugs forced their way into the 401 9th Str. btw 6th & 7th Ave. The man dug his hands into the Nevins Street suffered attacks on home of a 65-year-old man as he Debater nabbed 718.625.3700 x 112 Jan. 22, leaving one man bound 718-832-1266 Words aren’t supposed to hurt victim’s right pocket, plucked tried to enter his apartment Services: 7:15 Morning Minyan in his basement, and a neighbor- you. brooklynbridgerealty.com out the cash and dashed off — around 9:30 am. 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UNCOVERING phones, valued at nearly $2,000 718-875-9124 The man left the deli first and together. As the thieves left, they Friday Eve Services 6:30pm waited for the woman outside, took the victim to the basement Saturday Morning 10:00am Rabbi Joseph Potasnik and, when she emerged, yanked CHASSIDISM and bound his hands and feet A42 her into a hallway nearby. The with electrical cords. ******************** thug grabbed $120 from her and FEB. 5: R. Yisroel, the “Baal Shem Tov” February Eventually the man freed him- A 10-Week series ran off. on Chassidism aka Besht (1698-1760). Founder of Chassidism. self and found his home ran- Shabbat Shalom! But he didn’t get far. Police ******************** from the Besht FEB. 12: R. DovBer, “Maggid of Meseritch” sacked. Presented by Officer Joycetta Ray of the 84th to The Rebbe: (d. 1772), mentor of the Alter Rebbe. In the second heist, a single Precinct cuffed him on robbery ******************** burglar came calling just before B’nai Avraham Its History, of Brooklyn Heights charges later that day. FEB. 19: R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the “Alter Rebbe” Anniversary Special 2 pm. The 18-year-old witness (1745-1812). Founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Philosphy, and 117 Remsen St. • 596-4840 Wallet stolen ******************** was on the third floor when she Impact on the heard glass shatter. When she Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin A 46-year-old man returned to FEB. 26: R. DovBer, the “Mitteler Rebbe” his grey Jeep Blazer only to dis- 21st Century (1773-1827). 2nd Lubavitcher Rebbe. Come celebrate our 20th anniversary on Montague Street. peered over the banister, she saw www.bnaiavraham.com ******************** a stranger on the second-floor cover that someone had stolen with Rabbi MARCH 5: R. Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the Free glaucoma screenings, visual acuity screenings and auto- landing. 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Tu B’Shevat Beshalach at the corner of Myrtle and are held on The thief may have lingered Fri., February 2, before 4:56pm Washington avenues on Jan. 28. the “Rebbe Rashab” (1860-1920), 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe. their 2007 product lines on Saturday February 10th and Mondays, 8-9pm ******************** for more than 20 minutes, and Games gone MARCH 26: Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, Saturday February 24th. (Call for details) eventually left with $50 and an Yitro the “Rebbe Rayatz: (1880-1950) aka der frierdiker Rebbe Fri., February 9, before 4:47pm Someone swiped $240 in Knowedge (“the previous Rebbe”). 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe. iPod. — Stainton UFN elec tronics from a commercial of Hebrew is ******************** Time for new frames? Save up to 50% on designer frames trailer in Red Hook last month, APRIL 2-9: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson including Calvin Klein, Michael Kors, and Armani. police said. not required (1902-1994), 7th and last Lubavitcher Rebbe. 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Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor John B. Mattingly, Commissioner, ACS 4 BRZ THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 February 3, 2007 Old lady is mugged on 11th Avenue By Matthew Lysiak 76th Street with several friends Shopping spree The trio of thugs rushed the and Michael Giardina at shortly after midnight when a ADyker Heights man’s 45-year-old woman from be- The Brooklyn Paper man brandishing a boxcutter apartment was ransacked while NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH hind at around 6 pm near Ben- tried to grab her handbag. he was on a shopping expedi- WHERE CRIMES TOOK PLACE son Avenue, then shoved her to 68th Precinct But the perp failed to nab the tion on Jan. 28. 68 PRECINCT the ground and stole her bag, purse, so he jumped into an The victim came home to police said. They took electron- ics, and a cellphone. A woman’s purse was unidentified vehicle and fled. find his apartment, which is on snatched as she made her way Tom Tom gone 16th Avenue near 54th Street, They fled on foot without to the subway on Jan. 23. Anavigation system was had been broken into and $900 being identified. The victim The 70-year-old victim was stolen out of a van parked near stolen, police said. The perp suffered a bruised finger. nearing the corner of 11th Av- Third Avenue after the passen- had come through a rear win- 2-week notice enue and 64th Street during the ger-side window was broken. dow. An employee robbed the morning rush house when two The victim told cops that Unfortunately, no one was very liquor store he worked at men approached. he’d left his blue 1998 Chevro- able to get a good look at the on Jan. 26, police said. One man grabbed the purse, let Astro Van on 76th Street at thief. The thief stole over $4,000 while the other pushed down. 10 pm on Jan 27. But when the Salon stick up from the cash register of the New The pair ran off with $140 and 21-year-old van owner returned Customers in an Avenue S Utrecht Avenue store at around credit cards. the next day, he found the win- hair salon were robbed and 10 pm while the only other work- Awitness told cops that the dow broken and his navigation locked in a bathroom by two er was in the basement. perps were described both 5- system, valued at $1,200, gone. gun-toting thugs on Jan. 27. When the other worker came foot-7 and black. The bandits entered the sa- back up stairs, she found the Pipe Attack 62nd Precinct lon, which is near Stillwell Av- money stolen and her 19-year- An 18-year-old got hit on the enue, at around 8:30 pm, and old colleague gone. back of his head with a pipe as Generous tip one flashed his gun. Police say the teen had only he made his way to a store on An 83-year-old man hired a After stealing one woman’s worked at the liquor store, Jan. 26. contractor to work on his Bay purse — which contained $180 which is near 70th Street, for The victim was nearing the Parkway apartment, but he did- and credit cards — they forced three days. corner of Bay Ridge Avenue n’t know that one of the con- everyone into a small bath- Workout woes and Fort Hamilton Parkway at tractor’s workers would take room. Then they fled. Po- Awoman had her car broken around 8:45 pm when he felt the liberty of tipping himself. lice later freed the imprisoned into on Bay Parkway while she the crushing blow. 62 PRECINCT The contractor had left the salon workers and customers. was working out at her Shore He suffered minor bruising elderly man’s home, which is and bleeding and told cops that Pants stolen! Parkway gym on Jan. 24 he never saw what hit him. near 80th Street, at around 2 pm In what has become a weekly The woman admitted that on Jan. 27. Later, one of the she forgot to lock the car doors Boxcutter bully Police Blotter tradition, yet an- When he finished sweating enue, completely unnoticed, po- KEY TO THE CRIMES workers rifled through the vic- other gym rat has been ripped off at around 4:30 pm, he opened lice said. Break-in Arrest before her 7:30 pm workout, A man with a boxcutter tried tim’s things and stole $500, in- while going through his routine. his locker to find that his pants iPod-like device taken but that doesn’t justify the theft to hold up a young woman on cluding jewelry, police said. In the latest case, a 49-year- — which contained a wallet Mugged! of $400 in jewelry, plus credit, Jan. 28. The jewelry was recovered, old had his belongings stolen and cellphone — were missing. A woman was mugged by Robbery Armed robbery Purse snatch and debit cards. The 17-year-old woman was but the thief left with the mon- from an 86th Street health club The crooks fled from the three nogoodniks on Bay 31st No one was able to identify walking on Fourth Avenue near ey and never returned. on Jan 24. gym, which is near 19th Av- Street on Jan. 26, police said. Assault Death Car stolen the thief. Gentile enters tax smackdown with Bloomberg

By Dana Rubinstein “The mayor’s plan has no real relief The money would come from a fore- “There’s a common feature in both of The Brooklyn Paper because property owners will just be get- casted $1.5-billion surplus in the retiree their proposals — neither of them pro- ting back the extra money they’re about health benefits trust fund. vide property tax relief to the bulk of A Bay Ridge councilman wants to to pay in increased assessments,” said “I think the momentum and the senti- New York City households, which is put more money — $400 more — in Gentile. ment is there in the Council to make this renters,” said Turetsky. your wallet than Mayor Bloomberg. Property tax rates are determined by happen,” said Gentile. “To some degree, the landlord is pass- Hizzoner unveiled a property tax cut an annual city assessment of individual The city’s Department of Finance ing some portion of his or her [tax] costs in his state of the city speech last week property values — if the value increases, would not comment on Gentile’s proposal. to the tenant. — but Councilman Vince Gentile (D- so does the property owner’s taxes. But while the councilman and And, just because taxes go down one Bay Ridge) slammed it as weak. In Gentile’s plan, owners of one-, two- Bloomberg may bicker, their proposals year, it’s not likely that the landlord will The Mayor’s plan calls for a one-year, and three-family homes, co-ops and con- are fairly similar, according to Doug pass that reduction along.” five-percent reduction in property taxes dos would get both the tax cut and a Turetsky, the spokesman for the Indepen- So for renters, at least, there’s no relief and a $400 rebate for all property owners. $1,200 rebate. dent Budget Office. in sight. Woman’s Jeopardy no stroll in park

By Lilo H. Stainton These nuggets were among Others required more smarts: Battle of Brooklyn.” (Correct ques- Vari / Jeff The Brooklyn Paper the trove of trivia revealed during “A tree known for its ‘itchy tion: “Who is the Maryland 400?”) a game of “Fort Greene Jeop- balls.’ ” (“What is Sweet Gum?”) “The brothers who led the “Birds for 800” asked for ardy!” run by the Urban Park “The only non-military victim British land and sea forces dur- “the largest bird ever spotted in Rangers at Fort Greene Park last interred in Fort Greene Park’s ing that fight?” (“Who are Fort Greene Park.” Sunday. The game didn’t attract crypt.” (“Who is Benjamin Ro- Richard and William Howe?” — And the question is, “What is many players — just one, actual- maine — like the lettuce,” Correa not Abraham and Strauss, as Paper The Brooklyn the turkey vulture?” ly — but the enthusiasm of offered.) Wilck suggested, in her heavy “Trees for 1,000” was, “The rangers Alberto Correa and Vin- Even the right answers Brooklynese.) common name of Platarus x aceri- cent Piccalo made up for it. sparked light-hearted debate. The “Final Jeopardy” arrived as folia.” The contestant — Gail Wilck “Names for 800” answer, “The the category “Ice, Ice, Baby,” Plaque honors hero And the question is, “What is of Sheepshead Bay — had actu- Polish lord who led the Conti- complete with sound effects. the London Plane Tree?” ally come to learn about becom- nental Army, and lent his name “This stately, some would say ing a Ranger, but she played to a bridge in Brooklyn,” cheesy, glacier is responsible for By Matthew Lysiak eye, but remained on active duty in the police along gamely. prompted the question, “Who is Brooklyn, Long Island and Stat- The Brooklyn Paper Self-Support Unit. DeGaetano was not just a hero and a cop’s Some questions (make that an- Kos-zhe-usko?” from Correa. en Island’s unique topography.” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was on Correction swers — sorry, Alex) weren’t too “Bzzzztztzt. I’m not going to Stumped? And the question is: cop, but he was also the face of the NYPD for A item in the Kitchen Sink hand, but the real hero was on the wall. a few years in the early 1990s, thanks to a re- tough, even for city folk. accept that pronunciation,” Pic- “What is the Wisconsin Glacier?” Det. Richard DeGaetano, 47, a 21-year vet- on Jan. 13 said that Rep. Vito “Birds for 200” stated, “An calo responded. “It’s Kos-ciu- The final answer: She was the cruitment campaign, “The Beat Cop is Back,” Fossella had promised to push aggressive avian known for blue sko. General Thaddeus Kosciusko.” winner. The question is, “Who is eran who died in July from stomach cancer, that featured him. through approval for use of the feathers — and a baseball team.” “But that’s the way we pro- Gail Wilck, of Sheepshead was honored with the unveiling of a memorial After the plaque was unveiled, the tributes indoor cafe at Starbucks on (Duh: “What is a Blue Jay?”) nounce it in the Bronx,” Correa Bay?” (Full disclosure: this re- plaque at his old stomping grounds, Benson- flowed. Third Avenue and 75th Street. “Fort Greene Makers for 800” insisted. porter had to take notes, which hurst’s 62nd Precinct. “Now they will always remember how one The promise was actually made mentioned “A housing complex “Double Jeopardy” was clearly hurt her ability to buzz in.) On Jan. 13, 1992, DeGaetano was shot in beat cop managed to bring the entire commu- by Community Board 10 mem- north of the park, named for a fa- designed for history scholars: And No word on whether the vic- the head trying to intervene in a landlord-ten- nity together,” said Community Board 11 Dis- ber Steve Harrison. The Brook- mous Brooklyn poet.” (“What is the answer is, “The regiment that tory earned Wilck a job as a ant dispute in Bensonhurst. He not only sur- trict Manager Howard Feuer. “It says some- lyn Paper regrets the error. Walt Whitman?”) Alex Trebek paid the highest price during the Ranger. vived the shot that left him blind in his right thing real nice about Det. Richard DeGaetano.”

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COMPLETE ATLANTIC YARDS COVERAGE — ONLY IN THE BROOKLYN PAPER More black leaders turn backs on Ratner By Ariella Cohen cluding former state Assemblyman of every race and religion should have respect for those blacks who jiggaman stopped drinking Cristal The Brooklyn Paper Roger Green, his successor Ha- be concerned about the presence support the project,” said Council- champagne after a company exec- Another prominent black leader keem Jeffries and the Rev. Herbert [of Barclays] in our borough,” Jef- man Charles Barron (D-East New utive made an apparently racially is calling for Bruce Ratner to aban- Daughtry — Miller is a strong crit- fries told The Brooklyn Paper last York). tinged comment about the luxe don his $400-million naming-rights ic of the $4-billion megadevelop- week. Barron plans to attend Sunday’s bubbly’s popularity in the rap deal with Barclays, the British ment. Daughtry — a prominent anti- protest. world. banking firm that profited from the But like others who objected to apartheid activist who escorted Meanwhile, reporters on the rap This time, a boycott looks un- trans-Atlantic slave trade and South the naming-rights deal, Miller has Nelson Mandela to Brooklyn beat have started to question hip- likely for the one-percent Nets Africa’s apartheid regime. called on Ratner to either terminate shortly after the South African hop mogul Jay-Z’s continued rela- owner. / Jori Klein / Rebecca Ballhaus “I’m troubled and concerned the agreement or kick back more freedom fighter was released from tionship with Ratner, with such At a press conference on the with this project’s ties to this bank,” money to local residents. jail — also spoke out last week, headlines as “Jay-Z’s Team Nets naming deal two weeks ago, said Rev. Clinton Miller of Brown The global investment firm has calling the decision to pair with $400m from Ex-Slave-Trade Com- Carter snubbed reporters who Baptist Memorial Church, who will promised to give $2.5 million to Barclays “troubling.” pany” on the celebrity Web site, questioned him about the slavery lead a protest this Sunday. renovate basketball courts in the Longtime critics of the project TMZ. connection. Unlike other prominent blacks borough, but Miller, like Green said that the Barclays deal showed Jay-Z (a.k.a. Sean Carter) has a But this week, TMZ launched The Brooklyn Paper file The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Paper file The Brooklyn who have questioned Ratner’s and Jeffries, said it wasn’t enough. Ratner’s true colors. history of boycotting companies an online poll with the question: Councilman Charles Barron partnership with Barclays — in- “Brooklynites and New Yorkers “This developer doesn’t even that offend him. Last year, the “Is Jay-Z a hypocrite?” Rev. Herbert Daughtry CONEY… Trump eyeing Brooklyn? RATNER CASH… Continued from page 1 Continued from page 1 years. It is now projected to generate As The Brooklyn Paper reported last year, the hous- By Stephen Hanks very viable market … and we think that cost of cement and steel.” $944 million over the same time period ing appears to be the sticking point. Thor’s own surveys for The Brooklyn Paper there is potential for us there. Maybe not “We have a commitment to pay for — or just $15 million per year for the show that 80 percent of Coney residents support the now, but down the road. Something along infrastructure costs and we will meet city and state, whose annual budgets are The Donald has his eye on Brooklyn. mini-Vegas plan, but a sizeable minority — 38 percent the waterfront would be great.” that commitment,” the mayor said. in the tens of billions. Jealous that The Bruce (as in Ratner) is — said it did not want the luxury housing that Sitt says The Trumps already have buildings on Hizzoner dismissed the notion that The mayor’s budget must still be ap- getting lots of attention for his Frank Gehry- proved by the City Council. Several he needs to turn the the busy-in-summer, dead-in-winter the west bank of the Hudson, so why not ex- taxpayers would be stunned to hear that designed Atlantic Yards Xanadu, Donald councilmembers said this week that they neighborhood into a year-round attraction. pand into the east bank of the East River? the city was spending more than it an- Trump now says he’s eyeing projects in the were surprised, and not happily, to see “We’ve been saying for years that we want to keep Indeed, the Donald himself told the mag- ticipated on Atlantic Yards and new sta- land of his youth. The Donalds, Sr. and Jr. that public funding for the Prospect the amusements in Coney, not see it get turned into con- azine that he was thinking about it. diums for the Yankees and the Mets, “My dad always jokes that he spent years Heights Xanadu had increased. dos,” Chuck Reichenthal, district manager for Commu- “We’ve definitely looked at Brooklyn and both of which also received multi-mil- nity Board 13, told The Paper at the time. to get out of Brooklyn [where Trump Sr. was have most definitely been approached,” the But because members cannot reject al- lion infusions last week. locations without voting against the entire A spokesman for Thor Equities did not return calls born and raised], and now look at what’s go- Big Man told the magazine. “But nothing “We are fundamentally where we from The Paper this week. But on Wednesday, Thor ing on there,” Donald Trump Jr. told City that would merit the Trump name so far.” $57-billion budget, it is unlikely that thought we would be,” Bloomberg said. even the project’s fiercest opponent, spokesman Lee Silberstein told the New York Post that Scoops, a new Manhattan publication. He wouldn’t say more, but the imagina- The Atlantic Yards adjustment is the the company’s plans aren’t “a financially feasible in- “That Ratner project is very interesting tion reels. Councilwoman Letitia James (D-Pros- largest of the three hikes in funding. In to- pect Heights), will vote no on the budget. vestment” without the high-rise housing along Stillwell and a huge undertaking. Brooklyn is now a Trump Army Plaza, anyone? tal, capital funding for the three projects Avenue. “Hundreds of non-profit groups in my has risen to nearly $600 million — up district will get much-needed funding in “Everybody wants Coney Island to be revitalized, from the $360 million initially promised. this year’s budget. Parks, schools and and housing has got to be a part of it,” he said. The $205-million budget line was first senior centers will receive money as It’s the first time that the quiet negotiations between reported by the Atlantic Yards Report. well,” she said. “If I were to vote against city planners and Thor Equities have burst into the pub- Small win over Ratner A spokesman for the Mayor said the approving the budget, I’d be voting lic realm. But it may not be the last. Yards cash would cover street widen- against these groups, and not just Ratner.” “At the end of the day, Thor has to conform to our By Dana Rubinstein Mr. Williams’s building,” Williams said. ings, sewer repairs and other infrastruc- James said she is crafting a proposal plan for Coney Island, not the other way around,” said The Brooklyn Paper Such an admission would strike at the tural improvements, “several” of which that would restrict the money from be- the EDC official. heart of the criminal charge against Wil- would have been necessary no matter An Atlantic Yards opponent who ing used to fund commercial construc- Thor Equities did release new renderings this week liams, namely that he illegally removed who was developing the Prospect tion on parts of the project site sized by that reveal details of its amusement center that it hopes still owns land in the footprint of the a camera from a Ratner-owned building. Heights site. eminent domain. to build on the land it bought from Astroland last year. skyscraper-and-arena-project has won “[When the judge heard the lawyer’s ABloomberg spokesman said the ex- Of the $205 million set aside in the The drawing — which completely de-emphasizes the a small victory against developer comment], he said we should settle this case,” tra spending was a small price to pay mayor’s proposed budget, $136 million residential towers that would front Stillwell Avenue — Bruce Ratner — though it may not added Williams. “The problem is, they for the largest development project in is already earmarked for specific re- shows the usual mix of scream machines, carousels and keep him out of jail. the history of Brooklyn. / Julie Rosenberg haven’t withdrawn the criminal complaint.” pairs. What will be done with the re- a water ride, plus a bizarre roller coaster that appears to Lars Williams had been arrested last In other words, while Forest City Rat- “This project will create jobs, pro- mainder is unclear, a Council staffer go straight down into the ground only to resurface in the year for removing a Ratner-installed sur- ner has admitted its error in civil court, vide affordable housing and generate told The Brooklyn Paper. middle of the famed Boardwalk. veillance camera on a building on Sixth criminal charges remain against Williams. billions of dollars in tax revenue and The allocation’s “blank check” feel Engineers say fitting the coaster below Coney’s his- Avenue between Pacific and Dean streets. “In my old neighborhood [the Lower represents a solid investment of taxpay- gave at least one outside observer pause. toric wooden walkway should be as a slice of funnel But because the camera was actually East Side], they’d call this ‘chutzpah,’” er resources,” the spokesman said. “Construction costs are rising,” said cake. on Williams’s own property, he retaliat- said Williams’s lawyer, David Jaroslaw- Unlike the city contribution, the tax Doug Turetsky, a spokesman for the “It’s a totally feasible design,” said Michael Finney, Paper file The Brooklyn ed with a civil suit against the developer. isz. “Ratner should say ‘I’m sorry.’ Not revenue that Atlantic Yards is expected city’s Independent Budget Office. technical design director for Thinkwell Design. “We’ll Lars Williams shows the spot in his At a pre-trial hearing last month, Rat- Ratner. He thinks he owns Brooklyn.” to generate has gone down. Over the “There is a lot of development going on. just dig out the earth and drop it right in there.” house where Bruce Ratner’s com- ner’s lawyer made a startling confession: Forest City Ratner spokesman Jeff summer, state officials said the project This will put pressure on the city’s abili- — with Ariella Cohen pany hanged a surveillance camera. “We made a mistake — the camera was in Lerner refused to comment. would generate $1.5 billion over 30 ty to meet its capital commitments.”

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OUR OPINION ALL DRAWN OUT Why they lie

ATELY, it seems that no matter which de- coffee money for a city with a $57 billion an- to Sitt — for now. velopment story we cover — Atlantic nual budget. Meanwhile, at the waterfront condo-and- LYards, the so-called “Brooklyn Bridge The city once said it would only spend $100 open-space development commonly referred Park,” the redevelopment of Coney Island — million on “infrastructure improvements” at to as Brooklyn Bridge Park, state officials one common theme emerges. the Atlantic Yards site. That figure is now $205 (who abandoned the notion of a real park in Developers don’t tell the truth. million — and the mayor told our reporter this favor of an open space filled with luxury hous- And the simple reason is that they don’t week that the final figure will be higher. ing and other revenue-producing facilities) want you — the taxpayers who subsidize most It’s things like this that they don’t want you have allowed private developers to hide finan- development going on today — to know how to know. cial data to prevent taxpayers from determin- much of your money they’re taking. In Coney Island, developer Joe Sitt has a ing whether so much development is actually We write about this subject a lot, but it bears nifty plan to create a year-round amusement at- needed to maintain whatever park-like ameni- repeating because the lies and subterfuge traction. Part of the plan would be underwritten ties might eventually be put there. blinds many of our readers to the hidden costs by luxury residential housing he also wants to As a result, local elected officials, and even of some of Brooklyn’s biggest projects. build. But that’s the part he won’t tell you about some supporters of the scheme, are howling. With Atlantic Yards, developer Bruce Rat- (his spokesman dodged our calls again this Our bet is that the information will remain ner once boasted that his project would gener- week). In renderings of the design (see page 1), hidden. Everyone knows that if the taxpayers ate $100 million in tax revenues for the city the residential buildings are barely even drawn truly had all the data in front of them, they every year for 30 years. That figure is now in, the better to downplay their significance. wouldn’t allow these well-connected develop- down to $15 million. Fifteen million! That’s In this case, at least, the city is standing up ers to bilk them. Cristian Fleming

LETTERS Kudos to Paper for Atlantic Yards coverage

To the editor, 27) while at the same time running a small public benefits will generate. Between selling of the most prestigious and highly qualified I would like to commend The Brooklyn Maybe not article patting yourself on the back for re- the stadium name (Ratner raised $400 million professional engineering and urban planning Delivery Opt out Paper for its coverage of the Atlantic To the editor, ceiving an award for an anti-Green editorial for himself with that one deal!), season sky- companies. Roger Green put the kabosh on Every week, we deliver copies of The Yards project. I was extremely disappointed in your sto- titled “No Votes for a Thief.” boxes and reserve seating, cable, television the money. I think there is more to the story Brooklyn Paper to homes throughout Some have attacked you for your cover- ry (“Blood Money,” Jan. 20). It’s a sad state I guess that Mr. Green’s “disgrace” can and radio revenues, concession refreshment (just a gut feeling). I guess the promise Brownstone Brooklyn. Our unique sys- age, but I found it realistic, thoughtful, and of journalism and wrong-minded liberalism. be overlooked as long as he spews some and souvenir sales along with rental income should have been in writing, but time was of tem limits deliveries to just a few pa- honest. You covered the pertinent issues of It’s fine for The Brooklyn Paper to oppose anti-Ratner rhetoric The Paper can use. Pa- for other sports, rock concerts and other com- the essence. The next insult is the the extra pers per building (eliminating the kind public financing, traffic congestion, building Atlantic Yards, but the depths you will go in thetic. Jon Derow, Park Slope mercial events, it is hard to believe that Rat- $100 million for Atlantic Yards in the may- of clutter caused by circular and menu heights, jobs, eminent domain, infrastructure your opposition must be tempered with Editor’s note: As with a broken clock, Roger ner and other team owners can’t finance their or’s budget [see this week’s front page]. delivery services). impact, and the eventual need for additional good sense. Green can, occasionally, be right, you know. new stadiums by themselves. One of your editors should write a book We hope everyone appreciates our city resources. Many countries, industries, business, and The city’s municipal debt has grown to $55 on this scandal down the line. If not you, free home delivery, but realize there are organizations benefited from African slav- billion. The per-resident capital debt of $6,800 Norman Oder will do it. exceptions to every rule. More important, you made the connec- tion between politics and money. You point- ery, so it is completely wrong and disingen- Then again… makes the Big Apple number one nationally. You have been doing great work. I hope So, if you’ve received The Paper at ed out how democratic principles and citizen uous to point out one such company in an To the editor, As Raymond Keating wrote in a Cato In- the publisher gives you a raise, but I am not home and no longer want this free obvious attempt to gain support for a cause Your recent articles concerning Barclays stitute report, “public subsidies pad the bot- holding my breath. Paul Heller, Park Slope service, you may “opt out” of our deliv- involvement have been excluded from the process. You provided the public with more that has absolutely nothing to do with slav- Bank paying $400 million to Bruce Ratner tom lines of team owners and boost player ery program by filling out the online salaries while offering no real economic form at BrooklynPaper.com/html/about/ than a superficial overview of the project. ery. for naming rights to the Nets arena proves optout.html You provided insight into how a project Indicting the bank with these evil deeds my previous observations why taxpayers benefit to the cities involved.” Scarce tax- Norman conquest of such immense proportions and impact does nothing to help the people who suf- should just say no to using public funds for payer funds would be better spent else- To the editor, could sidetrack and deny community in- fered from these actions. Ultimately, the bat- any new major sports stadiums (“Blood where. In his not-so-judicious review of “Brook- volvement. tle of Atlantic Yards is between people who Money,” Jan. 20). Let the current team owners sell the stadi- lyn Matters” (“Anti-Ratner movie debuts,” Send a letter You showed how an ill-conceived project have prospered because of what Barclays In ancient Rome, government attempted um name, float their own bonds or issue Jan. 27), The Paper’s film critic, Baker By mail: Letters Editor, The Brooklyn would completely alter the physical and aes- and many others have done. to curry favor with the masses by offering stock to finance new stadiums! Please don’t Hollingsworth, deemed me and my Atlantic Paper, 55 Washington St., Brooklyn, NY thetic qualities of the environment, to the Tenolian Bell, Fort Greene free bread and circuses. Today, we have pick the pockets of taxpayers! Yards Report blog “overexposed.” 11201. detriment of its inhabitants. sports pork. Larry Penner, Great Neck, New York Given that The Paper labeled another ar- By fax: (718) 834-9278. You clearly showed how the rules were To the editor, How sad that city taxpayers are continu- ticle in the same issue as an “exclusive” ally asked to pay for new stadiums. Public To the editor, By e-mail: [email protected] dictated by politicians to benefit a few con- Are you joking? I realize from your past even though it had been posted a month ear- nected individuals. coverage that you’ll stop at nothing to bash dollars on the city, state and federal level are The bigger story for me regarding Atlantic lier on my blog, it might have been wiser to All letters must be signed and include If this project is completed as it is now Atlantic Yards and Bruce Ratner, but now subsidizing a private-sector business. The Yards is the way the state Assembly reneged use the term “underexposed.” the writer’s home address and phone number (only the writer’s name and designed, not only will the community suf- you’ve embarrassed yourselves. only real beneficiaries of these expenditures on its promise to fund a real analysis or envi- Norman Oder, Park Slope neighborhood are published with the let- fer, but so will democracy. I applaud your Lat week, you featured the outrage of are team owners and their multimillion-dol- ronmental impact statement to be completed Editor’s note: The writer produces the ter). Letters may be edited and will not reporting. Roger Green to buttress your nonsensical lar players. by the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods award-winning “Atlantic Yards Report” be returned. The earlier in the week you Thank you for the in-depth coverage. “Blood Money” story (“Black leaders rip It is impossible to judge the amount of (“Roger cuts ‘green’ for Yards review,” Jan. Web site. 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COMEDY FUNdraiser They’re best known for fighitng Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project, but the leaders of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn want you to know they can laugh, too. To prove it, they’ve put together “Laugh Don’t Destroy,” an evening of comedy to raise money for the on- going legal battle against the 16-skyscraper, hotel, arena and 6,000-unit mega-development (in- cluding Miss Brooklyn, left). The comics, includ- ing host Baron Vaughn and stand-up guy Michael Showalter, are already getting into the spirit. (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings February 3, 2007 “I will certainly try not to ‘destroy Brooklyn’ with my act,” comedian and Park Slope resident Eugene Mirman told GO Brooklyn this week. “I think Ratner is the only one who actually wants this.” “Laugh Don’t Destroy,” Feb. 6 at 8 pm at Union Hall (702 Union St. bet. Fifth and Sixth av- enues in Park Slope). Tickets are $20 and seating is limited. For information visit www.dddb.net. — Maggie Serota

ART Rap snaps “I always felt it was a Brooklyn trait to find hu- mor in a rough situation,” Al Pereira told GO Brooklyn. Pereira, a Windsor Terrace resident, has made his career finding that humor with his striking portraits from the golden age of hip-hop. Many of these photos, including por- traits of Salt-N-Pepa and Big Daddy Kane Best buds: The Botanic Garden’s Lunar New Year Celebra- (pictured), fill a retro- tion features Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera (at left), as well as a spective of Pereira’s flower market with plants like apricot blossoms (above), work at the Brooklyn which are an important part of the Vietnamese New Year. Public Library’s cen- tral branch. “I wanted to photo- graph people whom I thought were impor- tant,” Pereira said. “There was no money in it when I started. I did it just for the love of music and photography.” While the exhibition focuses mainly on 1980s Brooklyn in bloom and early ’90s rappers, a few of today’s notables, such as Jay-Z, also appear. What they share is a Brooklyn pedigree. “You feel it in the music — that they all come Botanic Garden turns a new leaf with New Year programming from Brooklyn,” said Pereira. “That’s something I hope to reflect in the show.” By Karen Butler specifically Chinese folk dance, so [people] “Brooklyn Beats” is on display through Feb. 11 for The Brooklyn Paper will know all the traditions and the cultures at the Brooklyn Public Library’s central branch (on of all the ethnic groups in China.” Grand Army Plaza at Eastern Parkway). For infor- hen it’s this cold out, the only flowers In between performances, there will be The Chinatown crawl mation call (718) 230-2100 or visit the Web site, you generally see alive are for sale family-friendly workshops on Chinese brush A look at what Eighth Avenue, the heart of Brooklyn’s Chinatown and the main www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org. — John O’Connor Wnear the door of a deli. painting, making paper flowers or designing drag for the New Year parade (for which the 2007 date is still pending), has to offer. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is out to your own Lunar New Year card on pressed change that with its Lunar New Year Cele- flower petal paper. Eighth Avenue 1. Fa Da Mall bration and Flower Market on Feb. 10. For more visual learners, the authors of (5515 Eighth Ave., No Phone) The place to pick up an “This is a pretty neat thing for us to launch “Vietnam: A Natural History” will narrate a 55th Street assortment of discount trinkets, from clothing, tea sets MUSIC a new event. It’s been a little while since slide show on the flora and fauna of Vietnam and incense to traditional musical instruments and 1 sculptures. Also, located downstairs is the Yue Feng we’ve done one,” said Garden President Scot (no, it’s not like the time your neighbor made Ginseng Antler & Dry Seafood Center. Medbury. “We’re so loaded with events in you relive his trip to Disneyland). the spring and in the autumn, we are trying to Meanwhile, tours of the grounds will also 2. Fung Sing Noodle Shop (5605 Eighth Ave., (718) 854-3996) Small, Cantonese- ?’s mark 56th Street see if we can create an event in the winter be offered in both Mandarin and English. style noodle house with a large selection of congee (tra- that will capture our regular audience’s atten- Nobody’s leaving this party without a 2 ditional rice porridge). “The phone’s been tion and, perhaps, goody bag: “There ringing off the hook,” 3. Dragon Bay Bakery bring some new au- are a lot of different Lee Greenfeld, co-owner (5711 Eighth Ave., (718) 853-8188) In addition to classic dience members to EVENT things to choose of Magnetic Field, told 57th Street Western items such as German Cheesecake and Tiramisu, the garden.” from,” said Anita Ja- they offer cakes featuring mango and longyan. There is GO Brooklyn, about the The Lunar New Year Celebration and The debut of this Flower Market will take place from 10 am to cobs, BBG’s director 3 also an enormous selection of baked buns with meat and outpouring of support festival, honoring the 4:30 pm on Feb. 10 at the Brooklyn Botanic of programming. fish fillings. that the rock club has traditional holiday Garden (1000 Washington Ave at Mont- “You’re guaranteed 4. Sea Town Fish & Meat Market gotten for its Feb. 3 con- celebrated by Chi- gomery Street in Prospect Heights). Admis- to have something: a cert and raffle benefiting sion is $5 for adults, $3 for students with valid 58th Street (5802 Eighth Ave., No Phone) The biggest of the area’s nese, Korean and ID and free for children 16 and under. For in- little sachet, the many fish and meat markets, this is the place to do all Question Mark, the elu- Vietnamese commu- formation call (718) 623-7200. flowers and a Lunar 4 your shopping out of tanks — from live crabs, lobster sive lead singer of the nities around the New Year card.” and fish to eels, frogs and turtles. Mysterians (“96 Tears”), world, will offer tra- The festival is de- 5. Green Forest Herbs whose Michigan home burned down in January. ditional Asian foods, performances and work- signed to work up your appetite for not just 59th Street (6010 Eighth Ave., (718) 567-9292) The place to fill your Greenfeld said he was moved to host the shops in addition to the namesake flower mar- Asian plant life or culture, so the menu at the Eastern prescription for dried herbs, roots, and seafood fundraiser simply because he was a fan who wanted (don’t pretend you don’t use dried seahorses!). They also ket which will carry orchids, camellia and Terrace Cafe will feature Korean kim chee have an in-house doctor; when the only English-speaking to do something for the reclusive Question Mark other plants native to these countries. (spicy, pickled cabbage), Vietnamese veg- employee was asked, “How much for a consultation?” (whose real name was Rudy Martinez, before he Included in the festivities will be perform- etable rolls, Chinese pork or vegetable buns he offered a regimen to combat constipation. had it legally changed to ?). ances by the Nori Company, leading a tradi- and a sampling of sweets all day. 60th Street 6. Diamond on 8 Restaurant Some big raffle prizes include an autographed tional Korean dance and drum procession; As always, though, the BBG has plants on pair of Alice Cooper’s pants and a vintage 1960s 5 7 (6022 Eighth Ave., (718) 492-6888) Teeming with Chinese Huaxia Edison Dance Troupe, which use rib- the brain. With months until springtime families at large round tables, this seems to be the spot membership card to the Shangri-La’s fan club, do- bons and fans to perform its signature “Pea- sprouts are the topic du jour, they’re taking 6 for a festive meal of dim sum or fresh seafood specials. nated by lead singer Mary Weiss. cock Dance”; and Qi Shu Fang, a household this as a chance to push winter foliage. 7. Hong Kong Supermarket All of the proceeds from the door and raffles will name in China whose Peking Opera joins “A really important thing for us as an insti- 61st Street (6013 Eighth Ave., (718) 438-2288) One of many super- go directly to Question Mark, who is currently liv- music with martial arts, acrobatics and dance. tution is to show people that plants are an im- markets along the strip, this one is probably your best ing in a trailer. “We’re really excited [for] an opportunity portant part of everyday life,” said Jacobs. bet for non-perishables (your toothpaste, your exotic “A Benefit for Question Mark” will take place at to really share our culture and our art with or- She adds that it’s important to “remind urban Eighth Avenue candies, etc.). For fruits and vegetables, you’d be bet- Magnetic Field (97 Atlantic Ave. between Henry dinary American people,” said Li Ping Dong folks that it’s a good thing to have plants in N train stop ter off haggling at the outdoor stands. and Hicks streets in Brooklyn Heights) on Feb. 3 at Wang of Huaxia Edison. “It will be the per- your life. Make sure you take the time to go — compiled by Chris Varmus 7 pm. $10 minimum donation requested. For infor- fect time for us to display Chinese arts, out and explore what’s out there.” mation call (718) 834-0069. — Adam Rathe

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BROOKLYN Neighborhood Bites Dining Guide S’mac down This week: The Paper delves into gourmet gluttony DEKALB AVENUE By Jordana Rothman within. for The Brooklyn Paper A culinary Copperfield, Dobkin DINING Black Iris naturally would not reveal his se-

228 DeKalb Ave. at Clermont Mango / Greg ryptonite to the low-carb set crets. But he did offer this bit of DuMont (432 Union Ave. be- Avenue, (718) 852-9800, (718) 852- and beloved foodstuff of the counsel: “The key at DuMont is tween Devoe Street and Metropoli- 5556 (Cash only) Entrees: $7-$17. young and underemployed, the quality of our cheese.” tan Avenue in Williamsburg) is open Since early 2002, Black Iris has been K for lunch daily and dinner Monday serving Middle Eastern cuisine that macaroni and cheese is a cold And he did offer hands-on ad- through Saturday. For information their menu boasts is the “Finest ... in weather indulgence second to vice: start with a Mornay sauce call (718) 486-7717. Fort Greene.” The moodily lit dining none. So The Brooklyn Paper set (think a Bechamel with grated Esposito Pork Store (357 Court area seats around 30, with exposed

The Brooklyn Paper file The Brooklyn St. between President and Union brick walls and banquettes hung out to create a mac and cheese gruyere and parmesan). The result streets in Carroll Gardens) is open with richly embroidered kilims. The “Potjie bredie” at I-Shebeen worthy of one of the best in town, is then further thickened with Monday through Saturday from 8 takeout windows are arabesques Madiba. DuMont’s. cream or egg yolk. To that, he adds am until 6 pm and on Sunday from opening onto a brightly lit kitchen, 9 am until 2 pm. For information where the staff enjoys the same eth- The Williamsburg eatery, now in a pinch of nutmeg and a dash of call (718) 875-6863. nic music as the diners. Customers entrees for the price of one. its fifth year, has become a favorite cayenne pepper. Mondays are corkage-fee free, and Caputo’s (460 Court St be- are encouraged to bring their own of the hip and hungry, serving up Hot on the trail of Dobkin’s tween Third and Fourth places in wine or beer. on Tuesdays, children younger than age 10 eat for free. Open for dinner market-fresh cuisine in an elegant- recipe, we heeded his counsel and Carroll Gardens) is open Monday The moderately priced fare features daily, and for brunch on the week- through Saturday from 9 am until ly preserved dining room. sourced our ingredients from only 6:30 pm and on Sunday from 9 am classic Middle Eastern dishes like ends, from 11 am to 3:30 pm. baba gannouj, humus, spinach pie, Dubbed “Dumac & Cheese,” the finest Brooklyn purveyors. until 2:30 pm. For information, call red lentil soup and kebabs. A house chef Polo Dobkin’s take on the At Bedford Cheese Shop, a four- (718) 855-8852. specialty is the “chicken ouzi,” a Mo-Bay cheesy dish subs simple cheddar year-old palace of dairy delights, Bedford Cheese Shop (229 medley of chicken breast, vegeta- Restaurant Bedford Ave. at North Fourth bles, almonds, raisins and rice / Daniel Krieger (orange goo to you and me) for ar- crusty breads and artisanal meat Street in Williamsburg) is open wrapped in phyllo dough. Lamb 112 DeKalb Ave. at Ashland tisanal gruyere, parmesan and, yes, products, we picked a sturdy hunk Monday through Friday from 11 am chops, merguez sausage and roast- Place, (718) 246-2800, cheddar, and features ambrosial of Parmesan and asked the expert until 9 pm and on weekends from ed leg of lamb are also on the www.mobayrestaurant.com. 10 am until 8 pm. For information Entrees: $9.75-$18.75. bits of cured pork. cheese mongers to guide us call (718) 599-7588. menu, and Moroccan specials are And he doesn’t even use elbows, through the rest of our selections. offered daily. For dessert, naturally If Caribbean, soul and vegetarian Fairway (480 Van Brunt St. at there’s baklava; or for a lighter treat, food are what you fancy, then Mo- Paper The Brooklyn substituting radiatore noodles, We left the shop with an earthy- Reed Street in Red Hook) is open sample the “basbousa”: a large slab Bay restaurant is the place to be. Say cheese: Intrepid reporter Jordana Rothman’s homemade mac ‘n’ baked to a golden crust that whis- yet-subtle gruyere and a knob of from 8 am until 10 pm daily. For in- of semolina cake redolent with Mo-Bay’s beach hut interior, fresh- formation call (718) 694-6868. honey and yogurt, and unadorned cut flowers and reggae music give cheese is a do-it-yourself version of DuMont’s popular dish. pers suggestively of the treasures top-notch cheddar (now we know except for a sprinkling of slivered the place a cool, island vibe. Owner why Bedford is the bane of many a almonds. According to GO Brook- Sheron Barnes’s popular dishes foodie’s paycheck). lyn’s Rebecca Migdal, it’s perfect include the curry coconut salmon, accompanied by a cup of Black Iris’s brown-stewed chicken and oxtail Next stop was the classic Espos- tively quickly before it spoils. authentic Turkish coffee, richly stew. For vegetarians, there’s the ABrooklyn Mornay Sauce ito Pork Store, the legendary shop With that in mind, we purchased scented with cardamom. Free deliv- brown-stewed “chicken,” curry (adapted from Larousse Gastronomique) that has survived Court Street’s a 16-ounce box of radiatore — a ery available. Open daily for lunch “chicken,” and “salmon” (made slouch towards gentrification. surprisingly affordable indulgence and dinner until midnight. from soy protein). The dessert menu offers red velvet cake and Mo-Bay’s 4 tablespoons unsalted butter Melt butter in a large Once the sauce has thickened Though our instincts steered us to- at $3.19. Chez Oskar famous “rummy rum cake,” vanilla 4 tablespoons flour saucepan and whisk in flour, enough to coat a spoon, gradually wards pancetta, Dobkin had told After a stop at Fairway for our cake soaked in three types of rum 2 cups whole milk cooking — but not browning — melt in cheeses over a low heat us he uses good ol’ American ba- artery-clogging miscellanea (milk, 211 DeKalb Ave. at Adelphi and served warm with vanilla ice Street, (718) 852-6250, cream - a slice of heaven, according 1/3 cup gruyere, grated for about two minutes. Gradually and season to taste. When the con. cream and butter), we headed www.chezoskar.com, (AmEx, Disc, to GO Brooklyn’s Lisa Curtis. Daily 1/3 cup cheddar, grated whisk in milk and allow sauce to cheese is incorporated, remove Ashort walk south is Caputo’s: home to pull together our macaroni MC, Visa) Entrees: $9-$19. luncheon specials. Open daily for 1/3 cup parmesan, grated thicken, stirring often. As sauce from heat and blend in egg yolk our destination for fresh pasta. Un- masterpiece. Chez Oskar offers some of the best lunch and dinner. Free delivery for like dried noodles, which can be To create a Mornay, we turned French bistro fare — with hints of orders over $10. 2 egg yolks thickens, blend the egg yolks mixture and an additional table- the Caribbean — in Brooklyn. And 2 tablespoons heavy cream with one tablespoon of heavy spoon of cream. Return to heat stored in a closet for three years, to our trusty “Larousse Gastrono- what goes better with chef Octavio Red Bamboo Salt, nutmeg, cayenne pepper to taste cream and set aside. and allow to thicken, stirring often. the high moisture content of fresh mique” — an indispensable tool Simancas’s delicious French staples pasta means it must be used rela- than a bottle of wine from an afford- 271 Adelphi St. at DeKalb See CHEESE on page 9 able list? Whether you choose the Avenue, (718) 643-4806 (Cash grilled salmon (served with arti- only) Entrees: $7.95-$12.95. chokes, snow peas and oyster The mock-meat invasion continues mushrooms) or the lamb shank with Jason Wong’s Red Bamboo, (served with roasted vegetables and the sister to the vegetarian restau- cous cous), the flour-less chocolate rant by the same name in Man- cake is a perfect ending. Brunch is hattan’s West Village, which special- served weekends, from 11 am to izes in Caribbean and Soul Food- 4:30 pm. Sidewalk cafe seats avail- style vegetarian dishes that taste able, weather permitting. Open like the real McCoy. Wong has big daily for lunch and dinner. plans for his dining palace on the corner of DeKalb and Adelphi, I-Shebeen where patio seating lets diners enjoy the street ambiance of this Madiba trendy neighborhood. By May 15, Every Child Deserves A G 195 DeKalb Ave. at Carlton says Wong, the space will boast two Avenue, (718) 855-9190, full bars, two stages, and an upstairs www.madibarestaurant.com deck. Red Bamboo’s Brooklyn host- (AmEx, Disc, DC, MC, Visa) ess, Nikki Gaskins, raves about the Entrees: $12-$24. Cajun “shrimp,” saying that it “tastes just like real shrimp.” So if Stepping into Madiba is like burst- you like Cajun food, and aren’t a ing into the Kasbah; billowy interior vegetarian, but want to party hearty Public Charter Schools canopies, a wooden bar and pillow- topped benches transport you to a while eating healthy, try Red fantastic getaway. Madiba, which Bamboo and maybe you’ll never claims to be the only South African miss the meat. restaurant on the East Coast, is a Their “soul chicken” is a registered tribute to Nelson Mandela. (“Ma- trademark: Cajun-flavored soy diba” means “Father of the Na- chicken cutlet breaded with tion.”) Chef-owner Mark Henegan’s “panko” (Asian-style breadcrumbs) Offer an Option unique South African recipes and served with a hickory-smoked include the Durban samosas (lightly Vidalia dressing. There’s also jerk curried vegetables in a pastry trian- “chicken” and buffalo barbecue gle served with mango “archaar,” “wings.” Like the original Red spicy pickled mango), “potjie Bamboo, there’s an international bredie” (a slow-cooked stew served twist to the cuisine: teriyaki “chick- in a three-legged, cast-iron pot) and en,” vegetable tempura, and Philly to NYC Families . . . ostrich carpaccio with marinated cheese “steak” can all be found on sweet peppers. Also on the menu, the menu. Many of the selections Durban “bunny-chow” is a quarter are vegan and the menu notes when loaf of bread filled with a curried milk or eggs are used, with a choice stew of chicken, mutton and veg- of dairy or non-dairy cheese. You’re etables and served flanked with in no danger of masticating taste- “sambals” (spicy relishes). Desserts less alfalfa sprouts in this swanky include the Klipdrift brandy tart and veggie bar and lounge. Currently Jenny’s malva pudding (a classic open Thursday through Sunday for South African dessert served with lunch and dinner, with a brunch custard sauce and vanilla ice cream). menu on weekends. Terrace seats available, weather per- 1. Charter schools are a great public education alternative. mitting. South African cultural Rice events such as book signings are 166 DeKalb Ave. at Cumberland frequently held at the restaurant; Here’s why: Street, (718) 858-2700, (Cash only) see their Web site or call for details. Open daily for brunch, lunch and Entrees: $5-$15. Accountability, rigorous academics and assistance to improve student learning and achievement. dinner. This two year-old restaurant, one of four Rice locations owned by David Selig and Peter Lawrence, has a Small, safe learning environments. June warmly understated interior dining 229 DeKalb Ave. at Clermont room seating around 30. Ban- Focused on high standards and preparing students for college. Avenue, (718) 222-1510 (AmEx, quettes with tatami-covered cush- MC, Visa) Entrees: $10-$13. ions, out-of-the-crate decor and They are public schools free of charge – no tuition or fees. Owner Charles McMickens, who large picture windows give a bright opened June in December 2004, and airy, informal feel to the space. offers new American cuisine includ- True to its name, Rice’s menu ing a variety of grilled meats and boasts a variety of specialty rices, seafood, salads and vegetables such as green rice infused with served up by executive chef Paul cilantro, parsley and spinach, or 2. Enroll your child in a great public charter school. Lopez. Entrees include a red pepper Thai black rice steamed in coconut and yucca soup, seared scallops with milk. The fare is an eclectic mix of jumbo shrimp and mushroom risot- influences including Jamaican, Here’s how: to, barbeque ribs or grilled tuna. Lebanese and Thai, not to mention Vegetarians can try the stuffed plum great tamales. Vegetarian bean tomatoes or the vegetable lasagna. dishes, curries and stews are Pick one of 60 public charter schools in New York City (see map with contact info). For dessert, McMickens suggests offered alongside chicken, beef and either the red velvet or molten shrimp specialties. According to Call schools for dates of 2007 open houses and application deadlines. All public charter school chocolate cake, though he admits manager Stephanie Ninman, the his favorite is the June banana split. chicken kebab, served with Leba- students are admitted through an open lottery of applicants. Most lotteries for admittance are held For brunch, try the croissant French nese rice, steamed vegetables and toast with fresh berries. Open for pita, is one of the most popular dinner every day, and for brunch on entrees, but the jerk chicken wings from Feb through April. weekends from 11 am to 4 pm. with salsa fresca, rice and peas have been turning heads, too. Lou Lou Seasonal fresh juices, such as pear 222 DeKalb Ave. at Clermont cider or apple-lemon-ginger, are Avenue, (718) 246-0633 (AmEx, available, and there is terrace seat- ing in warm weather. Open daily for 3. Help us create more great public charter schools – MC, Visa) Entrees: $13-$19. lunch and dinner and for brunch on Lou Lou has a cozy French country- weekends, from 10 am to 4 pm. side atmosphere with rustic tables, Free local delivery for orders over exposed brick walls and a lovely $10. expand charter school cap. garden. A signature dish from chef William Snell’s menu is his seafood bouillabaisse in a coconut curry Sugarhill Here’s what you can do: broth. Another option for starters, Supper Club the Blue Hill Bouchot mussels, Call your state lawmaker. Tell them that families in high-needs communities deserve a viable public offers a choice of three sauces: 615 DeKalb Ave. at Nostrand Normandy cider and braised fen- Avenue, (718) 797-1727, (AmEx, education option. Ask them to support charter school expansion. nel; red curry with coconut milk and DC, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees lime; or a Chardonnay white wine $8.95-24.95. with garlic and tomato. Sugarhill Supper Club has been To find who your State Assembly Member/State Senator is, go to serving up Continental Southern Other specialties include the grilled cuisine and Cajun food since 1993. If rainbow trout with orzo pasta salad, http://capwiz.com/etp/state/main/?state=NY or call 1-866-VOTE-NYC. you’re hungry late on a weekend wilted watercress, and dill cream night, it’s open 24 hours on Fridays sauce; the grilled salmon casserole and Saturdays. With a nightclub with roasted vegetable gratin and downstairs and three full bars, tomato vinaigrette; or the roasted things are kept lively. Manager monkfish with a savory crepe filled Akesha Freeman recommends the with braised cabbage, apple and popular crab cakes. Live entertain- bacon. As a finishing touch, there is ment performs four nights a week. the warm chocolate souffle cake. A For more information on NYC public charter schools, or employment Open Mondays and Thursdays from three-course, $19 prix fixe menu is 8 am to 10:30 pm, Tuesdays and offered Sunday through Wednes- opportunities with charter schools, please contact the day. On 2-for-1 Thursdays, get two Wednesdays from 8 am to 7 pm, and continuously from Friday at 8 am until Sunday at 7 pm.

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and parmesan to cover the wards catty than considerate Ho / Dennis W. week and (above) in his surface. — and that’s why his peers New Utrecht High School The 400-degree oven love him. yearbook. turned the top layer into a “He’s snotty, he’s catty, gorgeous crust of browns he’s very New York and he

and oranges, and we pre- has a wry way of looking at Paper The Brooklyn — this equals success in the emptively congratulated our things,” New York Post eyes of most people,” he said. noble gastronomic efforts. doyenne Cindy Adams told ground, his ability to speak run-ins. Rosie O’Donnell, “Being a writer wasn’t And Dobkin’s, as well. GO Brooklyn. “Michael is a or his sense of the ridicu- whose sexuality Musto de- enough. When they see your His choice of radiatore pas- one-of-a-kind. There is no- lous. Michael is 6-foot-1, lighted in questioning, fa- face on the tube it means you ta was a wise one. Its many body that has the gizzard of but his mouth is 6-foot-5.” mously called him “a gay made it out of Brooklyn.”

ridges hid small rivulets of / Daniel Krieger Michael Musto because not With this wicked wit, Nazi” on an episode of “Larry He “made it out” — and is sauce that oozed into our all of us have had his back- Musto has had his share of King Live.” And obnoxious no fan of the new hip Brook- mouth as we bit through the actor Vincent Gallo, whom lyn. noodle. Musto called “a very minor “When people started find- While a true trencherman celebrity,” has left threatening ing out Brooklyn was trendy, might have preferred more Paper The Brooklyn messages on his home ma- it seemed bizarre to me,” he pork, we stand by our judi- Musto’s musts: chine (a Gallo trademark). said this week. “My family cious use of bacon. But the supposedly slighted and roots are there, but No trip back to Brooklyn would be complete without a True, our cheddar celebs never win: Verbal spar- what’s good about Brooklyn All Thai’d up few stops at his favorite haunts. Michael Musto shares (Keen’s) was very grassy his borough faves with The Paper: ring has little lasting effect on isn’t what’s trendy; it’s real and a touch too assertive Love can make you do strange things. Take side of sweet and sour sauce. Smoked sea bass Musto, who says threats come people, great restaurants and when combined with the Eddy Lin, who has a successful eatery in (pictured) is steeped in curry and tomatoes be- King’s Buffet from “illiterates and ingrates.” culture.” quiet charms of the other Sacramento, California. A simple trip back fore steaming. (The sea bass, which Lin con- 2637 86th St., at Avenue U, Bensonhurst, (718) 265-9400 Even after all of their With no plans to quit what two cheeses, but our crust east to visit his aunt in Bay Ridge led to a new siders to be his signature dish, is specially “An amazing all-you-can-eat Chinese spread, with every- clashes, former nemesis O’- he calls his “zig-zaggy man- achieved that perfect ratio restaurant, myThai, on Third Avenue. priced at $20 through the end of February.) thing from cheese-stuffed clams to chocolate ice cream.” Donnell has found her way about-town whirl around the of goo to crunch, our noo- “I love this place,” says Lin, of his new The colorful 30-seat spot, which is expect- Villabate Pastry Shop back into his good graces. “I New York culture dome,” dles were dense and satisfy- culinary home. “There’s so many activities ed to expand in warmer months with 20 more 7117 18th Ave., Bensonhurst, (718) 331-8430 like her now. I feel that I at- Musto’s longevity has only ing and the sauce, hyper- here. So many opportunities.” seats on the sidewalk, is dimly lit, with music “Sumptuous, fresh pastries and cakes. Just don’t go on tacked her for so many years increased his resolve. “I’ve bole aside, was a poem. Lin quickly found a spot (the former Les aimed at a “younger crowd in their 20s and a holiday when there are lines around the block.” for being in the closet, now been around long enough Paired with a cool bottle Babouches), started renovations and hired Bo 30s who want to have a good time,” Lin says. that she’s out it would be ab- now,” he said, “I’m not going of Old Speckled Hen, our Liang, a California-based chef who, according To that end, there’s a full bar and a wine list powerHouse books surd to go after her.” anywhere.” mac ‘n’ cheese revealed the to Lin, “knows more than 300 dishes.” of international bottles. 37 Main St., at Water Street, DUMBO, (212) 604-9074 As far as taunting closeted dimension of its flavors The pan-Asian menu features traditional myThai (7803 Third Ave. at 78th Street in “A grand place for all kinds of literary happenings.” celebrities, Musto does so with each fondly hewn bite. 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“Spectral Evidence,” curated by Steven Lam, at the Rotunda Gallery. SAT, FEB 10 SUN, FEB 11 8:30 pm. 57 Rockwell Pl. (718) 875- 9 DAYS... 4047. Free. OUTDOORS AND TOURS Black history month events OUTDOORS AND TOURS Continued from page 2 MORNING BIRDING: Salt Marsh Nature ICE SKATING: The Wollman Rink is open. THURS, FEB 8 Center hosts a walk around Salt $5, $3 seniors and children. $5.50 Extension and DeKalb Avenue. (718) Marsh Nature Center’s Nature Trail. SAT, FEB 3 skate rental. 10 am to 1 pm; 2 pm to 6 Learn about the birds of the salt pm; 7 pm to 10 pm. Prospect Park, 488-1624. Free. SEMINAR FOR THE ARTS: Brooklyn Arts CONCERT: Long Island University’s WEEKSVILLE TALK: Join The Urban Park Council offers a program offers infor- marsh and see some of the winter access through the Parkside/ Ocean mation on its Arts Entrepreneurial migrants. 8 am. 3302 Ave. U. Call Brooklyn Campus presents a con- avenues entrance or the Lincoln Road/ Rangers for its monthly Monday Night cert dedicated to Ed Bradley fea- Lecture Series. Learn about Brooklyn’s Loan Fund. Learn about market loans 311 for info. Free. Ocean Avenue entrance. (718) 287-5252. ($25,000 to $500,000) targeted for WALKING TOUR: Urban Park Rangers turing Afro Beat Collective, Ahmed historic Weeksville neighborhood. 7 Abdullah Diaspora and more. $30 pm. Salt Marsh Nature Center, 3302 revenue generating projects. 10 am to explore Fort Greene Park. Learn PERFORMANCE 1 pm. Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 about the park’s history and the 148- or $15 for students and seniors BCBC: Brooklyn Center for the Performing Ave. U. Call 311 for info. Free. with ID. 7 pm. Kumble Theater, NON-DANCER’S WORKSHOP: Narrows Joralemon St. (718) 625-0080. Free. foot-tall Martyrs’ Monument. 1 pm. Arts at Brooklyn College presents “On BAM: “Death in Venice.” 7:30 pm. See Fort Green Visitor Center. Enter park Long Island University, DeKalb and Broadway with Melba Moore.” $15 to Community Theater hosts “Broadway Flatbush avenues. (718) 488-1624. Dancing for Non-Dancer’s” workshop. Sat., Feb. 10. Also, BAM Dialogue near the Myrtle Avenue and Wash- $30. 2 pm. Walt Whitman Hall at Four Monday night sessions. $45. 7:30 with John Neumeier. $8, $4 Friends of ington Park entrance. Call 311 for DANCE: “Reflections: A Play about Brooklyn College, one block from the pm to 9 pm. Call to register. (718) BAM. 6 pm. Rose Cinemas, 30 info. Free. Dance in the Diaspora,” a theatrical intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand 482-3173. Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. ANIMAL COURTSHIP: Salt Marsh dance show will be performed by avenues. (718) 951-4800. WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY: Lutheran Nature Center hosts a talk on how high school students from the Mu- BARGEMUSIC: Enhanced music concert Medical Center’s Surgical Weight Loss animals attract mates. Learn about seum’s after school Museum Team with music of Beethoven, Gershwin, TUES, FEB 6 Institute hosts an open house to pro- flirting pre-Valentines Day. 1 pm. program. Stories and songs high- Wolf and Dvorak. $40. 4 pm. Fulton vide information about surgical weight Meet at 3302 Ave. U. Call 311. Free. light black culture in Brazil, Cuba, Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Street at BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: Help cele- loss options. 6 pm to 8 pm. 150 55th WALKING TOUR: Mauricio Lorence France, and the American South. 2 the East River. (718) 624-2083. brate the 94th birthday of Inge Hardi- St. (718) 667-8100. Free. hosts a tour of Ft. Greene, Clinton pm. The Brooklyn Children’s GALAPAGOS ART SPACE: “Little son, sculpture artist. 12:30 pm to 3 pm. BENEFIT CONCERT: Dancewave’s Kids Hill and Brooklyn Heights. $25. 2 pm Museum, 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) Building.” 7:30 pm. See Sat., Feb. 10. Siloam Presbyterian Church, 260 Jeff- Café hosts a benefit. Performance fea- to 5 pm. Marriott Hotel, 333 Adams 735-4400. erson Ave. Call for info. (718) 453-0500. tures excerpts of “The Fugue” (1970) St. (718) 789-0430. MUSIC: Long Island University pres- CHILDREN BUSINESS 101: CAMBA Small Business by Twyla Thorp. $50. Concert at 7:30 PERFORMANCE ents “Music of the Spirit,” a cele- BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Services hosts a talk: “Business pm; reception at 8:30 pm. Kumble bration for Black History Month. hosts a family science workshop: Essentials: Starting a Business.” 6 pm Theater, Long Island University, DeKalb MUSIC: Brooklyn Public Library’s $35, $15 seniors and students. 7 pm “Luck of the Dragon.” Kids are invit- to 8:30 pm. 884 Flatbush Ave. Call for and Flatbush avenues. (718) 488-1624. Brooklyn Heights branch presents to 11 pm. Flatbush Avenue Exten- Sew and tell: Artist and quilt-maker Edward Bostick speaks at ed to celebrate Chinese New Year info. (718) 282-2500. The Ben Gooding Show featuring sion and DeKalb Avenue. (718) and discover the significance of the music of the Caribbean. Also, gospel, 488-1624. the Brooklyn Public Library’s central branch on Feb. 3. dragon in Chinese culture. Arts and BENEFIT COMEDY: Develop Don’t rhythm and blues, Broadway tunes Destroy Brooklyn Legal Fund Benefit: FRI, FEB 9 ART: Artist and quilt-maker Edward crafts follow. Appropriate for ages and jazz. Noon to 1 pm. 280 Cadman five and older. $4, free for members. Laugh Don’t Destroy Comedy Night. Plaza West. (718) 623-7100. Free. Bostick brings an illustrated discus- $20.00. Park Slope’s Union Hall, 702 MEDITATION CLASS: Today’s topic: sion of the African-American quilt- 1 pm to 3 pm. 145 Brooklyn Ave. Union St. at Fifth Avenue. 8:30 PM “Learning to Meditate: The Power of BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music pres- making tradition to the Brooklyn WED, FEB 7 FRI, FEB 9 (718) 735-4400. (doors open at 8:00). (718) 638-4400. a Peaceful Mind.” $10. 2:45 pm to 4 ents an adaptation of the novella by KID’S KRAFTS: Salt Marsh Nature Center Public Library’s central branch at BALLET: Stilt dancers in costume per- DRUMMING: Learn how traditional Afri- pm. Area Yoga Center, 320 Court St. Thomas Mann “Death in Venice.” Grand Army Plaza. 2nd Floor invites kids to make something special Artistic director John Neumeier pres- can, Latin and Caribbean rhythms are (718) 496-5514. Meeting Room. Free. (718) 230-2100. form with live drumming. All ages. for Valentine’s Day. 1 pm. 3302 Ave. ents a dance of death. $20 to $70. relevant to contemporary music. WEDS, FEB 7 SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE: Congregation 6 pm. Free. Brower Park Library, U. Call 311 for info. Free. B’nai Avraham presents Lynn Nicholas 7:30 pm. Howard Gilman Opera 725 St. Marks Ave. (718) 773-7208. Hands-on workshop with Shawn GROUNDHOG SERIES: Brooklyn Arts House, 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636- PANEL DISCUSSION: Urban design experts in a talk “The Rape of Europa.” Service SUN, FEB 4 Banks. 3:15 pm. Free. Gravesend Exchange presents a series for family and city officials examine plans for the at 5:15 pm; dinner and lecture at 6:30 4100. Library, 303 Avenue X. (718) 382-5792. audiences. Today: “The Other Side of new waterfront in Greenpoint and pm. 117 Remsen St. Call for ticket info. BARGEMUSIC: Enhanced music concert FILM: Filmmaker Julie Dash intro- THURS, FEB 8 This Life,” featuring juggler Nicolas Williamsburg. Learn how community (718) 596-4840, ext. 18. with music of Beethoven, Gershwin, duces “Daughters of the Dust,” a Flair. $10, $8 kids 12 and younger. 2 priorities can be incorporated into the BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert: Wolf and Dvorak. $40. 7:30 pm. film about the descendants of SHORT FILM COLLECTIVE: ActNow SAT, FEB 10 pm. 421 Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton city’s designs for public spaces. 6:30 “A Winter’s Journey,” with music of slaves on the Sea Islands. Brooklyn Foundation hosts a reception for pm to 8 pm. The Urban Center, 457 Franz Schubert. $35, $30 seniors, $20 Street at the East River. (718) 624- and screening of three short films; EDUCATIONAL GAME: Sculptor OTHER 2083. Public Library’s central branch at Madison Ave. (212) 935-2075. Free. students. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Grand Army Plaza. 2nd Floor “Stone Mansion,” “The Saint of Daniel Blake welcomes children to BUDDHIST MEDITATION CLASSES: BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music pres- Landing, Old Fulton Street at the East GALAPAGOS ART SPACE: presents a Meeting Room. (718) 230-2119. Avenue B” and “Hope’s War.” 6:30 play Chesstizing with his original Today’s topic: “How to Solve our ents an adaptation of the novella by River. (718) 624-2083. musical melodrama about a building wooden chess pieces carved to Human Problems with Prayers for which falls in love with a real estate pm. NY Perks, 193 Smith St. (212) Thomas Mann “Death in Venice.” FISH TALK: Brooklyn Aquarium Society 414-5144. represent those who have played World Peace.” $10. 10 am to 11:15 developer, “Little Building” by Nick am. Vajradhara Meditation Center, Artistic director John Neumeier pres- presents guest speaker Todd Gardner. MON, FEB 5 ART EXHIBITION: Gloria Kennedy significant roles in African-American ents a dance of death. $20 to $70. He speaks on “Carnivorous Plants in Jones. $15. 7:30 pm. 70 N. Sixth St. 380 Adelphi St. #2. (718) 496-5514. Gallery presents “Black USA,” fea- history. Brooklyn Public Library’s 7:30 pm. Howard Gilman Opera Bog Gardens.” $5 for non-members. (718) 384-4586. central branch at Grand Army SUNDAY PLATFORM: Brooklyn Society READING: Author Toure, who wrote turing eight artists celebrating House, 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636- 7:30 pm. NY Aquarium, Surf Avenue CONCERT SERIES: The Omni “Never Drank the Kool-Aid,” will Plaza. Youth Wing Program Room. for Ethical Culture hosts its annual Black History Month. Free. 6 pm. 4100. and West Eighth Street. (718) 837-4455. Emsemble continues its 24th season give a reading. Free. Health 1 pm. Free. (718) 230-2119. poetry platform. Members and friends LECTURE: Assumption Parish hosts a SKATING WITH THE STARS: Junior with concerts at the Brooklyn Sciences Room 119, Long Island Gloria Kennedy Galler, 111 Front read personal, favorite and interna- Conservatory. $15, $10 for seniors talk: “What is the Truth About the Committee of Prospect Park Alliance University, DeKalb and Flatbush St., Gallery 222. (718) 858-5254. tional poetry. 11 am. 53 Prospect Park DaVinci Code?” $10. 7:30 pm. 55 hosts an evening of skating. DJs from and students. 8 pm. 58 Seventh Ave. BUSINESS LECTURE: Lieutenant West. (718) 768-2972. Free. at Lincoln Place. (718) 859-8649. avenues. (718) 488-1624. SUN, FEB 11 Cranberry St. (718) 625-1161. Southpaw spin the sounds of 1987. AUTHOR TALK: “Someday We’ll All Governor David Paterson hosts a MEDITATION CLASS: Today’s topic: MONTH MEETING: Society of Old $40 to $100 includes skate rental and CHILDREN Be Free” author Kevin Powell joins special lecture on small business THEATER: A one-man show traces the “Angry Mind, Ugly Life: Solving Our snacks. 9:30 pm to midnight. Wollman Brooklynites meets. Guest speaker ART MAKING: Brooklyn Museum hosts poet Asha Bandele for a discus- opportunities. Free. 6 pm. Founder’s private and political lives of activist Anger Problem.” $10. 7:30 pm to 9 and light refreshments. 7:30 pm to Rink. Enter park at Parkside and sion. Free. 7 pm. Kumble Theater, Auditorium, Medgar Evers College, W.E.B. DuBois. 2 pm. Brooklyn Public pm. Lucky Lotus Yoga, 184 DeKalb Ocean avenues. (718) 965-8954. “Arty Facts.” Explore the galleries, 9:30 pm. Supreme Court Building, enjoy a family activity and create art. Long Island University, DeKalb and CUNY. For information call (718) Library’s central branch, Grand Ave. (718) 496-5514. Court and Montague streets. (212) BAM: “Death in Venice.” 7:30 pm. See Appropriate for ages four to seven. Flatbush avenues. (718) 488-1624. 270-6000. Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. CRAFT WORKSHOP: Brooklyn Artists 542-3344. Free. Sat., Feb. 10. $8 adults, free for kids 12 and under Gym offers a crafts class on Polaroid BRIC STUDIO: presents performances GALAPAGOS ART SPACE: “Little and members. 11 am to 2 pm. 200 and lift transfers. $40. 2 pm to 5 pm. and screenings reflecting the exhibit Building.” 7:30 pm. See Sat., Feb. 10. Eastern Pkwy. (718) 638-5000. 168 Seventh St. (718) 858-9069. MAGIC SHOW: with King Henry Enter- CARD GAMES: Pokeman USA will be EXHIBIT: Hogar Collection presents “All VALENTINE’S PARTY: Couples of all SALON SERIES: Brave New World tainment. Appropriate for kids 5 to hosting a limited prerelease tourna- Alive at Once,” new paintings by kinds are invited to enjoy Jaque Repertory Theater presents a reading 12 years. 2 pm to 4 pm. New Utrecht ment for players to play against one Matthew Johnson. 6 pm to 9 pm. Dupree in concert, dancing, potluck of “Waiting for Godot,” by Samuel Reformed Church, 18th Avenue at another with unreleased cards. $20 111 Grand St. (718) 388-5022. supper in support of www.justmatri- Beckett. $18. Dinner at 4:30 pm; read- LIST YOUR EVENT… 84th Street. (718) 236-0678. Free. (includes six booster packs of cards). FILM SCREENING: “An Evening of the mony.org’s outreach program. $15 ing at 5 pm. The Issue Project Room. KIDS CAFE: Dancewave’s Kids 12 pm. 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Ben, 11 pm, FREE. 119 Vanderbilt Ave. at Myrtle Avenue in Music Parlor Mic Night, 7 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Hot Clinton Hill, (718) 855-1981, (at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Popcorn featuring Binky Griptite & The The Salty Dog www.parlorjazz.com. Culture) 53 Prospect Park West at Second Hope and Anchor Melomatics, 10 pm, $TBD; Feb. 8: Radom Feb. 10: Parlor Jazz 5th Year Anniversary/Black Street in Park Slope, (718) 768-2972, 347 Van Brunt St. at Wolcott Street in Red 7509 Third Ave. at 75th Street in Bay Ridge, Party with Moist Paula, 11 pm, $TBD. History Month celebration featuring Ty www.bsec.org. Hook, (718) 237-0276. (718) 238-9260, www.saltydogbar.com. Stephens & Romantasy, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, $30 Feb. 9: Laura Baron & Ina May Wool, 8 pm, Thursdays: Karaoke hosted by Dropsy Wednesdays: Karaoke Night, 9 pm, FREE. Pete’s Candy (includes both sets, open wine bar, beverages, $10 adults, $6 children. Dozzman, 9 pm, FREE; Fridays and Saturdays: and dessert). Karaoke hosted by drag queen Kay Sera, 9 pm, Store The Wicked Monk The Jewish Music FREE. 709 Lorimer St. at Richardson Street in 8415 Fifth Ave. at 84th Street in Bay Ridge, Reign Williamsburg, (718) 302-3770, (718) 921-0601, www.wickedmonk.com. 46 Washington Ave. at Flushing Avenue in Cafe www.petescandystore.com. Feb. 3: 24-Seven, DJ “Pepe,” 9 pm, $5; Feb. Clinton Hill, (718) 643-7344, 401 Ninth St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, SHEEPSHEAD BAY Sundays: Open mic, 5 pm-8 pm, FREE. 4: Superbowl Party, 6:30 pm, $30 (includes www.myspace.com/reignlounge. (718) 369-6585, www.jewishmusiccafe.com. open bar and buffet during game time); Feb. 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Sputnik Hip-Hop Showcase” with Y-Love, Kosha Dillz, Mondays: “Paint Stain,” 5 pm (often accom- Jazzy funk with Karin Okada and guests, 9 Niz, Remedy, and DJ Handler, 8:30 pm, $15. panied by the jazz guitar of Noboru, 8 pm), 262 Taaffe Pl. at DeKalb Avenue in Clinton pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Grace Garland, 9 Hill, (718) 398-6666, www.barsputnik.com. FREE; Wednesdays: “JAMstain,” an informal BEDFORD-STUYVESANT pm, FREE; Thursdays: Susan Tobocman, 9 open mic hosted by singers/songwriters, 9 Saturdays: Afrokinetic with DJs Chris Annibell Magnolia pm, FREE; Fridays: Eric Nicholas, 9 pm, FREE. Food 4 Thought and Amon, 9 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: DJ Dick 486 Sixth Ave. at 12th Street in Park Slope, pm, FREE. 445 Marcus Garvey Blvd. at MacDonough Burroughs, 9 pm, FREE; Thursdays: DJ Nicole (718) 369-4814, www.magnoliabrooklyn.com. Crossroads Saloon Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 443-4160. Leone, 9 pm, FREE; Feb. 9: DJ Chaps (Talib Fridays: Live music, 9:30 pm, FREE. 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Saturdays: DJ Concerned, 11 pm, FREE; Horses, 10 pm, $6; Feb. 6: Forest Fire, 8 pm, Spice of life: Dumbolio, a monthly variety show at powerHouse Feb. 3: Boris Koslov Trio, 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Sundays: Brazilian Beat with DJ Sean Talymaya, 9 pm, Cezanne, 10 pm, Surprise BOERUM HILL FLATBUSH arena in DUMBO run by emcee Ed Schmidt, welcomes burlesque Midnight, $5; Feb. 5: Jaime Aff Jam Session, Marquand and DJ Greg Caz, 10 pm, FREE; Stranger, 11 pm, $5; Feb. 7: Darling Nerves, 8 star World Famous *BOB* (pictured), vaudevillian quartet Bargain- 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, $5; Feb. 6: Mondays: Rev. Vince Anderson and his Love pm, The Ravages, 9 pm, $6; Feb. 8: Shark! Hank’s Saloon Cornerstone Pub Jaime Aff Trio, 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, Choir, 10:30 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Psychotic Attack 1916, 8 pm, Moon Dragonfly, 9 pm, 46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue in Boerum 1502 Cortelyou Rd. at Marlborough Road land and reigning U.S. memory champion Joshua Foer on Feb. 10. $5; Feb. 7: Jaime Aff Trio, 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Reaction, 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: The Slow Death and Loneliness, 10 pm, Buried Hill, (718) 625-8003, www.hankssaloon.com. in Flatbush, (718) 940-9037, Midnight, $5; Feb. 8: Dave Marks Group, 9:15 Joint with host and DJ Nabil; Fridays: The Next to the Horse, 11 pm, The London Souls, Sundays: Sean Kershaw and the New Jack www.cornerstonepub.com. pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, $5; Feb. 9: Alex Greenhouse with DJ MonkOne and DJs Midnight, $6; Feb. 9: Abby McGivney, 8 pm, Boy Genius, 9 pm, Millstead, 10 pm, Vains of Ramblers, 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Mob- Saturdays: Alegba & Friends, 9 pm, FREE (do- Saturdays, Fridays: DJ Dance Party, 10 pm, donation; Feb. 10: Andy Statman, 10 pm, $8 Blake Trio, 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, $5; Emskee and MC G-man, 11 pm, FREE. Jenna, 11 pm, The Thoughts That Kill, Mid- scenity, 10 pm, FREE; Feb. 3: Original Grave- nation suggested); Tuesdays: Dan Pratt Quar- $15 (ladies FREE until 11 pm); Feb. 9: Sessions suggested donation. Feb. 10: Alex Blake Trio, 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, yard Blues, 10 pm, FREE; Feb. 5: Live band tet, 9 pm, FREE (donation suggested); Thurs- two.oh featuring Superstar DJ Keoki, 10 pm, Midnight, $5. Capone’s Bar night, $7; Feb. 10: Deek Jenkins, 9 pm, Funk- face, 10 pm, Pillow Theory, 11 pm, Indian Burn, kuntry karaoke, 10 pm, FREE; Feb. 9: Surf days: Stephane Wrembel, 8:30 pm, FREE. $TBD. 221 N. Ninth St. at Roebling Street in Bogota Latin Bistro Midnight, $7. Night with Shecky & the Twangtones, 10 pm, Southpaw Williamsburg, (718) 599-4044, Tarantino’s NYC, 11 pm, Mr. Action & the Boss 141 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Park Slope, Vox Po p Uncle Paulie’s (718) 230-3805, www.bogotabistro.com. 125 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Park www.caponesbar.com. Guitars, Midnight, FREE; Feb. 10: The 1022 Cortelyou Rd. at Stratford Road in Flat- Mondays: Karaoke with Colin and DJ Flim Union Pool 408 Greenpoint Ave. at Grandparents Wednesdays: Live Brazilian and Latin jazz, 7 Slope, (718) 230-0236, Arkhams, 10 pm, Johnny Carlevale & his Band bush, (718) 940-2084, www.voxpopnet.net. Flam, 9 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Speakeasy, an 484 Union Ave. at Meeker Avenue in Avenue in Greenpoint, (718) 383-2411. pm, FREE; Feb. 7: Carlos Lopez from www.spsounds.com. of Allstars, 11 pm, $5. open mic night, 9 pm, FREE. Williamsburg, (718) 609-0484, Sundays: Open mic, 7 pm, FREE with 2- Feb. 9: Mischief Brew, Ghost Mice, Brook Colombia, 7 pm, FREE; Feb. 8: Angus Martin Feb. 3: The RUB with Cosmo Baker, DJ Ayres, drink/snack minimum; Feb. 3: Gerlad Jay King, www.myspace.com/unionpool. Pridemore, Evan Greer, and DJ Dirty Fingers, 8 Trio, 7 pm, FREE. DJ Eleven, 10 pm, $TBD; Feb. 6: The Wreck 5 pm, Amir Parsa, 7 pm, Christine Leahy, 8 pm, pm, $6. Room, 8 pm, FREE; Feb. 7: The Wreck Room, Galapagos Feb. 3: Late night backroom party with DJ BRIGHTON BEACH Hairy Chest, 11 pm, FREE; Feb. 8: Tall Firs, 8 Alexander Burnet, 9 pm, $5 suggested dona- The Brooklyn 8 pm, FREE; Feb. 9: Yorokobi with soundz by 70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in National tion; Feb. 10: Kenny Young and the Eggplants, Macedonia, Kokopelli Coudwaler, Koncept, Williamsburg, (718) 782-5188, pm, $TBD; Feb. 9: Late night backroom party 8 pm, $5 suggested donation. GREENWOOD HEIGHTS Lyceum and more, 11 pm, FREE; Feb. 10: Vetiver, www.galapagosartspace.com. with Tara McPherson, 11 pm, FREE; Feb. 10: The Wiyos, M. Shanghai String Band, The Blue Restaurant 227 Fourth Ave. at President Street in Park Vashti Bunyan, Danielle Stech-Homsey, and DJ Fridays: VJ/DJ Friday Nights, 10 pm, FREE; Ribbon Band, Jan Bell & the Cheap Dates, 8 273 Brighton Beach Ave. at Brighton Kitchen Bar Slope, (718) 398-7301, www.gowanus.com. Mikey Palms, 9 pm, $15. Feb. 3: NightFight 2 with Matthias Tanzmann, FORT GREENE pm, $TBD. Second Street in Brighton Beach, (718) 687 Sixth Ave. at 20th Street in Park Feb. 3: Inner Gypsy, Mercantillers, 8 pm, $8; Mark Verbos, Atomic Babies, Elon, Dominik Slope, (718) 499-5623, 646-1225, www.come2national.com. Feb. 9: Emanuel Xavier, Caitlin Meissner, Scholler, Bruce Tantum, Justin R, DJ John BAM Cafe www.kitchenbarny.com. Tea Lounge Saturdays: Live Russian music and dance ReadNex Poetry Squad, 9 pm, $10; Feb. 10: Dough, DJ Cypha, and Jason BK, 10 pm, $10 Williamsburg show, 9 pm, FREE (with $65 prix-fixe dinner); (At the Brooklyn Academy of Music) 30 Thursdays: Live music, 8:30 pm, FREE. 837 Union St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort The Honey Brothers with Adrian Grenier, Elk Slope, (718) 789-2762, in advance, $15 day of the show; Feb. 4: Music Center Fridays: Live Russian music and dance show, 9 (Backroom) Jeff Larson and Andrew Dinwiddie Greene, (718) 636-4100 www.bam.org. City, The Glaciers, 10 pm, $8. www.tealoungeny.com. 367 Bedford Ave. at South Fifth Street in pm, FREE (with $50 prix-fixe dinner); Sundays: Living Room present “Catch 21,” 7:30 pm, $10, (Front Feb. 3: Apollo Heights with Juneteenth, 10:30 Thursdays, Fridays: Live music, 9 pm, 10:30 Williamsburg, (718) 384-1654. Live Russian music and dance show, 7 pm, room) Sulu, 7 pm, $TBD; Feb. 5: (Front room) pm, FREE; Feb. 9: Bonga & the Voodoo Drums Lounge Biscuit BBQ pm, $5 suggested donation. Fridays: Live music, 10 pm, $5. FREE (with $50 prix-fixe dinner). Monday Night Burlesque presents Miss of Haiti, 10 pm, FREE; Feb. 10: Shrine for the 230 Fifth Ave. at President Street in Park 245 23rd St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, Galapagazonga returns/2-year anniversary, Black Madonna with Jungli, 10 pm, FREE. (718) 499-1505. Slope, (718) 399-2161, www.biscuitbbq.com. Union Hall Zebulon Cafe BROOKLYN HEIGHTS 9:30 pm, $5; Feb. 7: (Front room) Finger on Saturdays: DJ Kirt, 10 pm, FREE; Sundays: Sundays: A Sunday Kind of Jazz with John (Downstairs at) 702 Union St. at Fifth the Pulse presents “A Ghost of Shark 258 Wythe Ave. at Metropolitan Avenue in Night of the Cult Movie Night, 8 pm, FREE; Mondays: McNeil and Bill McHenry, 8 pm, $5 and 1-drink Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638-4400, Richhall,” 10 pm, $TBD; Feb. 8: (Backroom) Williamsburg, (718) 218-6934, Magnetic Field Concerts on the big screen, 8 pm, FREE; Wed- minimum; Mondays: Debra and Mary’s Night www.unionhallny.com. White Lime Records celebrates its first CD www.zebuloncafeconcert.com. Cookers on the Town, 9 pm, $10 and 1-drink minimum; 97 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street in nesdays: Open Mic Night, 8:30 pm, FREE; Feb. 3: Mason Dixon, The Summer Hymns, release of Molly Thomson’s Ash, 8:30 pm, $5, Feb. 3: Zemog, el Gallo Bueno, 10 pm, FREE; Brooklyn Heights, (718) 834-0069, 767 Fulton St. at South Portland Avenue in Thursdays: Live music, 8 pm, FREE. Tuesdays: Songwriters’ Showcase hosted by Folklore, 8 pm, $8; Feb. 4: Tearing the Veil of (Front room) The December Sound, 9 pm, $7; Feb. 4: Yusuke Birthday Party, 10 pm, FREE; www.magneticbrooklyn.com. Fort Greene, (718) 797-1197. Staci Rochwerg, 8:30 pm, $TBD; Feb. 7: Dan Maya, comedy with Eugene Mirman & Michael Feb. 9: Little Building, 7:30 pm, $15, (Front Feb. 5: Magnets for Teeth, 10 pm, FREE; Feb. Feb. 3: A benefit for Question Mark (“96 Saturdays: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE; Thursdays: McCarthy Quartet featuring Tuey Connell, Showalter, 8 pm, $7; Feb. 5: Monday Night room) Crashin’ in presents live music, a listen- 6: Stuart Bogie presents “The Volney Litmus,” Tears”), 7 pm, $10 minimum donation; Feb. 4: Live jazz, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Live jazz, 10 PARK SLOPE 8:30 pm, $5 suggested donation and $6-drink Vinyl Night hosted by DJ French Toast, 7 pm, ing party, and performances by Elevator 9 pm, Jeremiah Lockwood, 10 pm, FREE; Feb. Superbowl XLI Party, 6 pm, FREE; Feb. 7: Dick pm, FREE. minimum. FREE; Feb. 6: Laugh Don’t Destroy, a comedy Action, The Hylozoists, The Dead Betties, 10 7: Oyasaba, 10 pm, FREE; Feb. 8: The Heavy Swizzle’s Sudden Death Game Show, 8 pm, $5 Barbes benefit for Fevelop Don’t Destroy with Michael pm, $8; Feb. 10: Little Building, 7:30 pm, $15, Love, 9 pm, Darrin James, 10 pm, FREE; Feb. per contestant; Feb. 8: Live band karaoke, 8 376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park Slope, Cafe Steinhof GREENPOINT (718) 965-9177, www.barbesbrooklyn.com. Showalter, Eugene Mirman, Jon Benjamin, (both rooms) “Donuts are Forever,” a tribute 9: Brian J and the Pimps of Joytime, 10 pm, pm, FREE; Feb. 9: The Underthings, Another 427 Seventh Ave. at 14th Street in Park to the late producer J Dilla, 10 pm, FREE FREE; Feb. 10: Vava China, 9 pm, Asiko, 10 Saturday Night, 8 pm, $6; Feb. 10: The Sundays: Stephane Wrembel, 9 pm, $8 sug- Chelsea Peretti, Baron Vaughn, and more, 8 Club Europa Slope, (718) 369-7776, pm, $20; Feb. 8: Pinataland, Arrah & The (donations strongly suggested). pm, FREE. Insomniacs, Anderson Council, 8 pm, $7. gested donation; Tuesdays: Slavic Soul Party, 9 www.cafesteinhof.com. 98 Meserole Ave. at Manhattan Avenue in pm, $10; February 3: Yale Strom and Hot Ferns, Life in a Blender, 8 pm, $TBD; Feb. 9: Wednesdays: Live music, 10:30 pm, FREE. Greenpoint, (718) 383-5723, Pstromi, 8 pm, $10, The Moonlighters, 10 pm, The Isles, Beat Radio, 8 pm, $TBD; Feb. 10: BUSHWICK www.europaclub.com. $8 suggested donation; Feb. 4: The Second Cedars, Gold Streets, The Sexy Champions, 8 Saturdays: VIP Dance Party, 10 pm, FREE before Fiddles, 7 pm, $8 suggested donation; Feb. 5: Cattyshack pm, $8. Micheline’s 10:30 pm, $15 after 10:30 pm; Tuesdays: Smokey’s Roundup, 10 pm, $8 suggested 249 Fourth Ave. at Carroll Street in Park TALK TO US… 1124 Broadway at Kosciuszko in Bushwick, Karaoke Night, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Sexy Pro- donation; Feb. 6: Jenny Scheinman, 7 pm, $8 Slope, (718) 230-5740, (718) 453-0400. gressive/Dance party, 10 pm, FREE before 10:30 suggested donation; Feb. 7: Sam Bardfeld www.cattyshackbklyn.com. PROSPECT HEIGHTS To list your events in Brooklyn Nightlife, please give us as much notice as possible. Include Feb. 9: Entrance, Begushkin, 8 pm, $TBD. pm, $15 after 10:30 pm; Feb. 9: Samantha Cole Trio, 8 pm, $10, Mario Pavone’s Deez to Blues Saturdays: Shack 249 with DJs BK Brewster, name of venue, address with cross street, phone number for the public to call, Web site and Naughty Girls, 10 pm, $TBD. Quintet, 10 pm, $10; Feb. 8: Bob Jones & Boo Daryl Raymond, and more, 10 pm, $5, $7 after The Backroom address, dates, times and admission or ticket prices. Send listings and color photos of per- Reiners are The Plunk Brothers, 8 pm, $8 sug- 11 pm; Mondays: Chump Change, 10 pm, (At Freddy’s) 485 Dean St. at Sixth Avenue formers via e-mail to [email protected] or via fax at (718) 834-9278. Listings are free CLINTON HILL Club Exit gested donation, The Jack Grace Band, 10 FREE; Tuesdays: Trivia Night, 7 pm, FREE; in Prospect Heights, (718) 622-7035, and printed on a space available basis. We regret we cannot take listings over the phone. 147 Greenpoint Ave. at Manhattan Avenue pm, $8 suggested donation; Feb. 9: David Wednesdays: Karaoke with Sherry Vine, 9 pm, www.freddysbackroom.com. The listings are correct as of press time. Contact the venue before you go to confirm Dakar Cafe in Greenpoint, (718) 349-6969, www.club- Rogers Quintet, 8 pm, $8 suggested donation, FREE ($2 after 10 pm), Oink Boys Party (ladies Feb. 4: Board Game Night, 5:30 pm, FREE; Feb. event details. 285 Grand St. at Lafayette Avenue in Clinton exit.com. The Roulette Sisters, 10 pm, $8 suggested welcome with sexy boys), 10 pm, $5; 5: Stand-up Comedy Night, 9:30 pm, FREE. 12 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 February 3, 2007 COMPLETE BRIDGE ‘PARK’ COVERAGE — ONLY IN THE BROOKLYN PAPER

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ROOT CANAL GENERAL & COSMETIC EXTRACTIONS DENTISTRY General and Implant Brooklyn Bridge ‘park’ PERIODONTAL WORK Advanced sterilization and infection control Dentistry Jack Irwin, D.D.S. By Christie Rizk officials about their latest plans last week in Brooklyn, carrying six lanes of traffic on two CROWNS The Brooklyn Paper Washington — and shockwaves were quickly levels, plus the famous Brooklyn Heights 414 Seventh Avenue felt in Brooklyn. Promenade on top. It was built in 1948. bet. 13th & 14th Sts. ––––––––– Long-overdue renovations to a key “We haven’t been fully briefed,” said Mar- “It has outlived its usefulness,” said Ketcham. BRIDGES www.jackirwindds.com Jeff C. Strachan, DDS stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway ianna Koval, executive director of the Brook- Other alternatives, such as shutting down PORCELAIN VENEERS (718) 768-8372 189 Montague St., Suite #800A would destroy the park component of a lyn Bridge Park Conservancy. the BQE, building a temporary roadway in the Evening Hours Mon-Fri Brooklyn Heights soon-to-be-built development along the Roy Sloane, a longtime park advocate, also park itself, or shunting the traffic through BLEACHING Most Insurance & Union Plans Brooklyn Heights waterfront — and the said that he hadn’t heard about the project. Brooklyn Heights, are being considered, too. accepted as full or partial payment. ––––––––– state agency doing the roadwork isn’t talk- “The news of the reconstruction was a But 160,000 cars a day use the BQE, and DENTURES MetLife, UFT, DC37, PBA, Delta, Blue Cross, • Bleaching/ZOOM 2 ing to the state agency building the park. shocker for the members of the [Brooklyn that much extra traffic flowing through a resi- Aetna, CIGNA, Unicare, Guardian, Healthplex, (718) 783-0504 Mgmt. Bfts. Fund, United Concordia, Ameritas. Office • Cosmetic Dentistry Repairs to the three-layered portion of the Bridge Park] board,” he said. dential area would create traffic nightmares. LAMINATES • Crowns & Bridges BQE are necessary — but they won’t start for The current plan calls for replacing the Another alternative could be to run traffic (917) 753-3314 • Endodontics & Root Canals nearly a decade, years after the so-called cantilevered levels of the BQE near the on Furman Street, which is meant to be the Emergency • Periondontics • Oral Surgery Brooklyn Bridge Park is mostly completed. Brooklyn Bridge by cutting out pieces of the main avenue on the edge of the park — but • Prosthodontics • Implants But the only way to make the repairs, ex- two-mile stretch, and then sliding pre-fabri- that would essentially require park-goers to www.strachandds.com • Treatment of Gum Disease perts said, is to use Brooklyn Bridge Park as a cated pieces in their place. cross an Interstate highway. Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed and Fri: 8am to 6pm • Fixed & Removable Bridges staging area. Doing so would require a large part of “There’s just no sane way to do it,” said Saturday: By appointment only • Emergencies Seen SAME DAY “It makes no sense for them to build the Brooklyn Bridge Park as a staging area, trans- Ketcham. park, tear it apart, and then build it again,” portation officials told the feds. State transportation officials acknowledged said Brian Ketcham, a traffic expert who has “It’s going to be a hell of a mess,” said last year that the billion-dollar project is been lobbying for an alternative to the BQE Ketcham. “complex” and that “traffic control will be a for more than two decades. But a mess it must be. The multi-level high- major challenge.” Now in Park Slope! State transportation officials told federal way is perhaps the most-important roadway in They didn’t return our calls this week. ‘Hippie’ dream at ‘park’

The Brooklyn Paper “There are a lot of kids here and a lot of them, Designers of Brooklyn Bridge Park have called in mine included, would love an esoteric playground,” some “old German hippies” to design what could be said Fulton Ferry dad Michael Rock, who attended a FINEST DENTAL CARE the city’s most avant-garde playground. presentation at Urbanski’s office last week. Superior Services for Adults & Children Designer Matthew Urbanski said his team — “I’m personally all for German hippies,” he added. New! Periodontist (gum specialist) on premises. which he really did describe as “a bunch of old Ger- man hippies” — would design a playground in the Urbanski described the “one-of-a-kind” play- 10 Plaza St. East, Suite 1F state’s $130-million condo-and-open space project ground as similar to the Teardrop Park jungle gym We’ve Moved! Most his firm built in Battery Park City (see photo at left), (bet. Flatbush & Vanderbilt Aves) that would be truly revolutionary. Evening Insurance “Nothing in this playground will come out of a but larger and “wackier.” ARK LOPE AMILY appointments accepted box,” Urbanski said at a briefing last week in the of- But while Urbanski imagines a brave new world of P S F available. (718) 622-8020 fices of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, play, he said the attractions wouldn’t be too daunting which is designing the open space within the condo- for tykes accustomed to stodgier playgrounds. and-recreation project on the Brooklyn Heights and “There could be malleable play ingredients like DENTISTRY DUMBO waterfront. sand,” he said, using language that sounded con- –– 245 Fifth Avenue –– “This will be a one-of-a-kind playground.” spicuously like he was planning a large sand box. between Carroll & Garfield DERMATOLOGY The kids’ romper room will be constructed at the He said that planners are also considering large foot of Atlantic Avenue, at the southern entrance of foam building blocks, playhouses made of Black • Emergency Service Dr. Andrew Warshaw the project. Locust wood and winding slides. • Pediatric Dentistry Dr. Sari Rosenwein And judging from the number of sophisticated Squibb Park, a playground at the foot of Mid- • Root Canal Therapy strollers and high-minded tyke shops on the avenue, dagh Street, would also be renovated as part of the Dr. Doug Pollack LASERS • Implant Restorations FOR THE REMOVAL OF... the location fits. Associates Valkenburgh Michael Van park plan. — Ariella Cohen • Laminates • Bleaching Hours by Appointment Hair, Broken Blood Vessels, Wrinkles, • White Fillings • Bonding Sat. & Eve. Available Before Spider Veins (face & legs), Age Spots, • Fluoride • Sealants Free Consultation Acne Scars, Stretchmarks • Cleanings • Crowns 24 Hr Phone Service • Bridges • Dentures BOTOX & RESTYLANE – • Non/Surgical Gum Care FOR WRINKLES Financing Available LIPOSUCTION Insurance Plans Welcomed 789-5700 Show us ‘park’ money: Pol Totally under local anesthesia. Abdomen, lovehandles, thighs, hips, male breasts. After By Ariella Cohen BO waterfront. agency would “consider” all of move forward in the future.” Acne • Spider Vein Treatment The Brooklyn Paper Yet many speakers grumbled Yassky’s recommendations. For his part, Levine’s spokes- Chemical Peels • Botox • Collagen that the state has not started the “The Spitzer administration is man defended his boss. Quality Dentistry Genital Warts • Herpes • Moles Now even supporters of the “park” part of Brooklyn Bridge now doing a full, methodical re- “The terms of the 360 Furman state’s Brooklyn Bridge Park FREE LIPOSUCTION CONSULTATION Park. Disappointment with that view of all ESDC projects,” lease [have already been] negoti- Gentle care in our ultra-modern office plan are questioning how much lack of progress was at the root of Carter said. “We want to get a ated and approved by both the Day & Evening Appointments • Affordable Fees luxury housing must be in the much of the criticism about the sense of what is going on, and city and the state,” said the development. • Cosmetic Dentistry • Cosmetic Laminates Many Insurances and Credit Cards Accepted plan’s “transparency.” why, so we can decide how to spokesman, Tom Murphy. • Reconstructive & Bonding At a hearing on Monday Councilman David Yassky (D- Dentistry • Advanced Sterilization night, the venerable Brooklyn Brooklyn Heights) supported the ALAN R. KLING, M.D. Heights Association, which sup- lease agreement with Levine as a LEGAL NOTICES • Gums & Implants • Behavior Modification BOARD CERTIFIED DERMATOLOGIST ports the state’s plan to pay for “crucial step in moving forward,” • Bleaching • Sealants Conditions Related To Hair, Skin & Nails the waterfront parkland with rev- but warned ESDC that the deal NOTICE: State University of New York. Notice to State University of New York. Notice to Bidders. • Nitrous Oxide • Fluoride enue from condos, a hotel and should “not set a precedent.” Bidders. The State University of New York The State University of New York Downstate shops, said that a lease agree- “The process was not a good Downstate Medical Center will receive sealed Medical Center will receive sealed Proposals for (Sweet Air) •Preventative Dentistry 27 8th Avenue 1000 Park Avenue Proposals for Project No. 04-030 Titled: Project No. 04-111/04-112 Titled: Pressure Wash & (corner Lincoln Place) (at 84th Street) ment between a politically con- one,” he said. Replacement Windows / University Hospital at Recaulk Existing Precast Concrete Panels until 2:00 Park Slope, Brooklyn New York City, NY nected developer and the state Even Marianna Koval, direc- Brooklyn until 2:00 p.m. Local Time on February p.m. Local Time on February 20, 2007 at 450 19, 2007 at 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203, Room # 1- (718) 636-0425 (212) 288-1300 obscured crucial facts that could tor of the Brooklyn Bridge Park NY11203, Room # 1-15 BSB, where such propos- 15 BSB, where such proposals will be publicly RONALD I. TEICHMAN, DDS help planners reduce the amount Conservancy, had some prob- als will be publicly opened and read aloud. opened and read aloud. Reseal precast panel of commercial development. lems with the state’s process. Replacement of 1250 existing windows on the joints at University Hospital at Brooklyn. Pressure University Hospital of Brooklyn with specified alu- wash and rehab exterior façade at University Saturday & Evening Hours “The state must be clear that it She did commend Levine for the minum windows. All work on this Contract is to Hospital at Brooklyn. All work on this Contract is to is doing all that it can to minimize agreement he made with the state be completed within Six (6) Months calendar days be completed within Six (6) Months calendar days the amount of development within — but urged ESDC “to show its starting ten (10) calendar days after the contract starting ten (10) calendar days after the contract 357 Seventh Avenue at 10th Street approval date of the New York State Comptroller. approval date of the New York State Comptroller. FAMILY MEDICINE the park,” said Nancy Wolf, a plans and move forward quickly.” Installation of an 80 ton dry cooler and pump pack- Installation of an 80 ton dry cooler and pump 768-1111 spokeswoman for the BHA. Koval also disclosed that her package including piping, valves, expansion tank, age including piping, valves, expansion tank, The hearing focused largely group has received $41,000 in branch piping, piping specialties, controls, con- branch piping, piping specialties, controls, control trol wiring, power wiring, roof top support steel, wiring, power wiring, roof top support steel, TRAVEL IMMUNIZATIONS on the lease agreement between donations from Levine, who was access doors, cutting/patching and telephone access doors, cutting/patching and telephone the Empire State Development also a contributor to Gov. Pata- equipment room AC units. Bidding and Contract equipment room AC units. Bidding and Contract Corporation and Robert Levine, ki’s campaigns at the same time Documents may be examined free of charge at Documents may be examined free of charge at the the campus and at: Site (SUNY Campus), Plan campus and at: Site (SUNY Campus), Plan Rooms one of several developers who that Pataki’s ESDC was pushing Rooms (Offices that apply from Form UF-9 -i.e., (Offices that apply from Form UF-9 - i.e., Brown’s will build within the 1.3-mile, development in the park, the Brown’s Letter, Inc., Dodge Reports).Complete Letter, Inc., Dodge Reports). Complete sets of Affordable Family Dentistry Start the waterfront development. New York Post has reported. sets of Contract Documents for bidding may be Contract Documents for bidding may be obtained obtained from: Ted Raderman, Downstate from: Ted Raderman, Downstate Medical Center, in Modern Pleasant Surroundings Levine has already begun to Like Wolf and Koval, Yassky Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203 (718) process months before sell his “One Brooklyn Bridge called on the state to begin work- NY 11203 (718) 270-2367, or the 270-2367, or the Consultant. Section 143 of the State of the Art Sterilization (autoclave) Park” condos at 360 Furman ing on the park before selecting Consultant.Section 143 of the State Finance Law State Finance Law requires payment of a deposit requires payment of a deposit to receive these to receive these documents. Accordingly, a Emergencies treated promptly leaving to get your shots Street, which would be at the proposals for its other develop- documents. Accordingly, a deposit check of deposit check of $40.00, made payable to SUNY southern end of the strip of green- ment parcels. $40.00, made payable to SUNY Downstate Downstate Medical Center is required. Deposits less than $50.00 are nonrefundable. Bids must be Special care for children & anxious patients Medical Center is required. Deposits less than space and new buildings along ESDC spokesman, AJ Carter, submitted in duplicate in accordance with the Yellow fever Plus $50.00 are nonrefundable. Bids must be submit- • instructions contained in the Information for WE NOW ACCEPT OXFORD the Brooklyn Heights and DUM- said that the secretive public ted in duplicate in accordance with the instruc- MEDICAL ADVICE Bidders. Security will be required for each bid in an tions contained in the Information for Bidders. • Tooth Bleaching (whitening) • Typhoid amount not less than five (5) percent of the Total FOR TRAVELLERS Security will be required for each bid in an Bid. It is the policy of the State of New York and • Cosmetic Dentistry, Porcelain Facings & Inlays, amount not less than five (5) percent of the Total Hepatitis the State University of New York to encourage • Bid.It is the policy of the State of New York and Bonding Crowns & Bridges (Capping) minority business enterprise participation in this the State University of New York to encourage project by contractors, subcontractors and suppli- • Painless, Non-Surgical Gum Treatment • Malaria prevention minority business enterprise participation in this Lutheran sets bariatric ers, and all bidders are expected to cooperate in projectbmy contractors, subcontractors and sup- • Root Canal • Extractions • Dentures • Cleanings implementing this policy. The State University of pliers, and all bidders are expected to cooperate New York reserves the right to reject any or all • Impant Dentistry • Fillings (tooth colored) –– BROOKLYN HEIGHTS FAMILY PRACTICE –– in implementing this policy. The State University bids. BP05 • Stereo headphones • Analgesia (Sweet air) 185 Montague Street, 3rd Floor surgery open house of New York reserves the right to reject any or all bids. BP05 Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 24th day of Hours: Mon-Sat • (718) 624-6185 NOTICE OF SALE. SUPREME COURT: KINGS Dr. Jeffrey M. Kramer January, 2007, bearing Index Number Lutheran Medical Center COUNTY. Deutsche Bank National Trust N500064/2007, a copy of which may be exam- 544 Court Street, Carroll Gardens Company, et al, Plaintiff(s) vs. Barry Davis, et al, ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at Civil Lutheran Medical Center (LMC) has announced the newest Defendant(s). Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSIC- Court, Kings County, 141 Livingston Street, 624-5554 624-7055 KI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit addition to its fast growing surgical department, James A. Sapala, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants Court, Suite 301, Fishkill NY 12524 (845) 897- Convenient Office Hours & Ample Parking me the right to: Assume the name of: Abraham M.D., F.A.C.S, an accomplished surgeon and considered a “pio- 1600. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and Lichtenstein. My present name is: Naftuli and insurance plans accommodated neer” by many experts in the field of bariatric surgery. sale entered herein on or about November 2, SKIN CARE Lichtenstein. My present address is: 675 Myrtle 2005, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11205. My place of “Dr. Sapala is a well known and highly respected bariatric spe- bidder at Room 261 at 360 Adams Street, birth is: Staten Island, New York. My date of birth cialist,” said Wendy Z. Goldstein, president and chief executive offi- Brooklyn, New York 11201. On February 15, 2007 is: December 6, 2003. BP05 cer of Lutheran Medical Center. “With 35 years of surgical experi- at 3:00 PM, Premises known as 478 Junius Street, Brooklyn, New York 11212, ALL that certain plot, Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the ence and his own patented procedure, he is a perfect match to our piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and Civil Court, Kings County on the 29th day of COURTEOUS AND growing team of surgical experts.” improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and January, 2007, bearing the Index Number To meet Lutheran Medical Center’s bariatric team and decide being in the Borough and County of Kings, City N500074/2007, a copy of which may be examined COMPREHENSIVE and State of New York. Block: 3814 Lot: 138, As at the Office of the Clerk, located at Civil Court, whether surgical weight loss is for you, attend an informational more particularly described in the judgment of Kings County, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New DENTAL CARE Open House on Thursday, Feb. 8, from 6 to 8 pm. Learn about foreclosure and sale. Sold subject to all of the York 11201, in room 007, grants me the right to: weight loss options, hear stories from actual patients and determine terms and conditions contained in said judgment Assume the name of: Maria Leonard. My present Provided at our new spacious, and terms of sale. Approximate amount of judg- name is: Maria Leonard Parsia a/k/a Maria Leonard. if you are a candidate for this procedure. ment $248,573.18 plus interest and costs. INDEX My present address is: 67 Skillman Avenue, modern and friendly office The Open House takes place at Lutheran Medical Center, 150 NO. 3437/2005. Leon Beerman, Esq., REFEREE. Brooklyn, New York 11211. 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Brooklyn Paper By Christie Rizk SCHOOL CAMPS The Brooklyn Paper What do you call five grown men dressed only in black biki- ni underwear and bow ties, who tie themselves to a shopping cart and go careening through the streets of Brooklyn in freez- ing temperatures with a radio STYLE PARENT MUSIC blasting stripper music at full volume? If you’d call them “idiots,” you’re not the only one. So would they. In an only-in-Brooklyn take on Alaska’s famed Iditarod dog sled race, costumed teams gath- ered once again on Saturday and Trip thru time at Two Boots / Craig Dilger mounted their shopping carts for the fourth annual Idiotarod. holding a tray full of Sangrias. mom asked the busgirl she’s “Hmmm,” she thought for a ATURDAY NIGHT, Two Boots, which was their fa- The race this year was organ- vorite restaurant back then. Smartmom wondered how known for more than 10 years moment. “Andouille. With goat ized by the Carts of Brooklyn Smartmom, Hepcat, and cheese,” she said assuredly. They’d usually eat after 10 pm they perceived the place. Was to pack up the remnants of the Racing Association (COBRA), SOSFO found themselves Two Boots the fuddy-duddy Sophia pizza. Hepcat smiled. Vindicated at the team that won the “Best in Paper The Brooklyn and were barely aware of the at Two Boots, Park Slope’s place their parents always took It may not be as memory full last. Show” award at last year’s race. This team raced through the streets of Brooklyn in politi- restaurant’s status as child- beloved Cajun pizzeria known them to? Or the childhood as the goat cheese and an- Louise Crawford also writes “We had a blast,” said CO- cal garb, while others performed lapdances. It’s the Idio- for its tolerance of unruly chil- friendly. As far as they were restaurant they remembered douille, but it would certainly the Web site, “Only the blog BRA member Jeff Dupee. tarod, people! dren. most fondly? taste great for breakfast tomor- knows Brooklyn” and is the And from the look of things, For a frigid January Would this be like the restau- row morning. keeper of the “Park Slope 100” so did the other teams. night, the restaurant rant on Fire Island that sent For research purposes, Smart- list. She’ll be doing a reading at Team Lap-dance treated one has to keep a cool head. This “It’s loosely ordered chaos,” was moderately crowd- SMART plates from the kitchen by elec- mom asked the waitress what High Chai in Manhattan on Feb passers-by to bump-and-grinds year, it was Team COBRA, said one organizer. ed and the maitre d’ tric train that Smartmom never the most popular topping is: 25, at 2 pm. on a folding chair. Team Guitar which was given the job of plan- But it is ordered. COBRA Hero, which ended up winning told them it would be mom forgot? Or was it like the Great ning the (highly secret) route members took pains to distance Shanghai, the cavernous Chi- Best in Show, had a working from Greenpoint to Queens, reg- themselves from a recent fictional three minutes until their By Louise Crawford generator and a Playstation on table was ready. nese restaurant on West 102nd PARK SLOPE • WINDSOR TERRACE • BAY RIDGE • KENSINGTON istering teams, manning check- portrayal on “CSI: NY,” which hand so they could play the Gui- points, throwing the after-party, showed them as a bunch of drunk- “This is way more than three concerned, it was hipster cool. Street that she was dragged to every Sunday night for years? tar Hero video game on a small and, most of all, foiling police. en, violent hooligans who push minutes,” OSFO whined as her “Will you marry me?” Hep- television as they raced. Smartmom watched as Hep- The race’s starting point, Mc- each other into oncoming traffic. parents sat at the bar drinking cat purred as he offered an “They’re rocking as they Carren Park in Greenpoint, was In fact, Dupee blamed the Turbo Dogs for 15 minutes. empty white porcelain coffee cat bit into her steaming hot roll,” said one bystander. Sophia pizza slice. “How do kept secret until hours before the show for encouraging a few Finally, the maitre d’ gath- cup as an engagement ring. Those were the tame acts. green flag, and then revealed “mean-spirited teams” to join the ered up menus and took them to You know the answer to that you like it?” she asked hopeful- There were teams dressed as pi- only to race insiders on the CO- race this year. their seats. question (even though a busboy ly, her mouth full of savory, rates, Vikings, unicorns, GI Joes, BRA Web site. “Most people just want to show “I’m very sorry,” she said. “I whisked the “ring” away with succulent pizza. a Nascar team, and even (make McCarren Park was actually a off their cart and be weird,” he had a bunch of tables that the other dirty dishes). “It’s OK.” Hepcat is known that of course) the Village People. decoy, meant largely to fool the said. “But this year, there were looked like they were ready to Fried calamari from Two for his pathological understate- Every shiny, sequined and police. people who saw the show and leave…” Like most of the staff Boots was baby Teen Spirit’s ment. “OK” is actually a com- brightly colored piece of cloth, “Everyone thought this was a thought that’s how we really are.” at Two Boots, she was charm- first solid food. Or so they like pliment in his lexicon. plastic and paper that people could last-minute change,” said Dupee, The newcomers were not en- ing and full of spunk (you have to say. He was a regular at the UT THEN HE MADE get their hands on went into creat- “but we had actually planned this tirely welcome. For one thing, not to be to work in a restaurant restaurant by the time he was 2. face. “I don’t like this ing costumes that were weird, fun, three months ago.” all of them really understood that where the children run wild OSFO’s first meal at Two sausage as much as the or — in the case of the three men Of course, the NYPD aren’t a the sabotage has to be creative. B dressed as tampons, complete with bunch of Keystone Kops, and of- One team of “Wonder Women” with small balls of dough while Boots was in a Baby Bjorn. andouille. And the fresh moz- red heads — a little nauseating. their parents zone out on peach Smartmom splayed the napkin zarella — it just doesn’t com- ficers were smart enough to fol- complained that another team The disguises are only one as- low the people in chicken suits tried to bump them into the road Margaritas). over her infant’s head and pare to the goat cheese.” As they walked toward the pect of this spectacle. Sabotage and papier mache tampons. (where’s the creativity in that?) gorged on pizza as the tot slept. You just can’t win. Still is also the name of the game, pizza window, Smartmom no- As she grew, it became a family So by post time, the NYPD But such truly idiotic Idiotarod Smartmom enjoyed her Sophia Our Camp which explains why “Best Sabo- had shown up in force to warn behavior was limited, and most ticed a long table of teenagers tradition to celebrate her birth- pizza and OSFO, after she re- tage” is the most-coveted prize. eating an interesting assortment racers that they would be arrest- people simply enjoyed themselves. day there. moved the olive eyes, the broc- • Variety of programs for Fooling other teams is, after all, ed if they blocked traffic or raced The one wrinkle in COBRA’s of appetizers. At another table, 1 ESPITE these crusts coli nose, and the tomato slice campers age 3 /2 to 15 President’s Week an Idiotarod tradition. So is drink- in the streets. plans came when the NYPD shut a kid blew straw paper of memory, Smart- smile, was thrilled with her Piz- ing and throwing stuff around. “Stick to the sidewalk,” down the afterparty in Queens “Oh sh—,” Smartmom said • Safe, fun, stimulating Mini-Camp mom longed for some- za Face. February 19-23, 2006 It’s like a frat party on wheels. boomed an officer over a loud- before it had even begun. aloud. The maitre d’ was mak- D “Why do they put all this environment thing new. “How about the 5 days of trips & activities Judging by the smell, this speaker, as an NYPD helicopter “They were looking for any ing a beeline for the table near • Very flexible registration; Sophia, the special pizza of the stuff on it that kids don’t eat?” based in Park Slope year’s projectile of choice was buzzed overhead (yes, they actu- excuse to close us down,” said the pizza window — aka the accommodating 9 week day,” she blurted out. Red pep- OSFO yelped. fish. One team dressed up as giant ally called in the choppers). “You Dupee. Luckily, another spot was Second-Most-Dangerous Table This is Park Slope. Kids DO season yellow chickens and threw eggs. will not be warned again.” found. in the restaurant. It’s the same per, spicy Italian sausage, Vi- Open House for eat vegetables here. And they • Free morning transportation “What a zoo,” said one man Police presence aside, teams And in the end, Team CO- table where a dough ball once dalia onion, and fresh moz- love it. Summer Camp who was watching the race and of racers showed up in a continu- BRA had a begrudging respect landed in Smartmom’s Mar- zarella. from most Bay Ridge and At that moment, a waitress Brownstone Brooklyn areas Sunday, February 11, 2006 taking pictures. “These people ous stream, registering, dancing, for the men in blue: The NYPD garita, tossed by an unrepentant Sound good? bolted out of the kitchen with a presentations at 12 and 1pm are out of their minds.” and planning their sabotage was given the Idiotarod’s Best 4-year-old. Hepcat made a face. A crea- slice of cake with a single birth- • Established 1992 339 8 St. just below 6 Ave. Well, not all of them. Some- strategies. Sabotage award. HE MOST-DANGER- ture of habit, he had his heart day candle. The kids at the ous Table, of course, is set on the usual. But with that teenager’s table sang “Happy passive-aggressive flair, he left 718-304-7868 the one next to the pizza Birthday” to a very embar- T it up to Smartmom. www.parkslopedaycamp.com the 50 state representatives — window. When there are too rassed birthday girl. “We’ll still have the house Soon the entire restaurant plus hundreds of hangers-on, in- many kids at the pizza window, salad and the calamari,” she of- they use that booth as a kind of was singing along. Out of the cluding Junior Miss Talladega fered. He forced his lips into a County, Miss Teen Cimarron off-ramp. At one dinner, muck of discordant voices ANGLE… smile. Smartmom hoped the came a gorgeous operatic so- and Miss Mariposa Butterfly Groovy Grandpa got many an Sophia pizza would make him Festival. Elephantan shoe on his thigh. prano, from a cheerful woman Continued from page 1 forget this change in the rou- sitting at the Most-Dangerous I couldn’t tell what was As Smartmom perused the the Sooner state has now won tine. Table. worse: the kids all trying to look familiar menu, she found her- The teenagers at the table twice in a row. like JonBenet Ramsey (herself a Her soaring voice rose above Look, I’m not going to pick a self overwhelmed with remem- nearby looked like they were all the rest. It was clear as a Little Miss Charlevoix Michi- brances of things past. She was having fun. They looked so fight with my friends in Okla- gan) or the mothers pushing bell, deep and full of ebullient homa. It’s not Miss Oklahoma’s unable to imagine ordering any- comfortable in their seats — them to look like JonBenet feeling. Her son hid under his fault that she’s the latest in a thing other than what they’d or- like they’d been there a million shirt clearly embarrassed by his Ramsey. long line of airy blondes with But Bethlene Pancoast never dered so many times before. times before. And they proba- mother’s artistry. middle-aged-lady hairstyles, a Pizza face for OSFO; goat bly had. The crowd applauded. Smart- played pageant roulette. Her first talent for baton-twirling and competition was in high school. cheese and andouille pizza for In different incarnations of mom shouted, “Bravo.” vaguely Southern accents who the grown ups; a small house themselves, of course. By then, most of her Miss As the Park Slope diva exit- have hijacked the notion of America rivals had been doing salad and an order of calamari Once upon a time, they were ed the restaurant, customers American beauty. for the table. beauty contests so long that their carried in by Bjorn. Or wheeled thanked her and shook her This year, it was supposed to facial muscles were locked in a And with each menu item, in by single or double Ma- hand. She stopped at the be different. By sending the she saw a picture of herself and smile and their upper arms were claren. teenager’s table and wished the raven-haired, tap-dancing, no- grotesquely developed from all her children at various stages of Later, they were one of the birthday girl a happy day. nonsense Pancoast to the con- the royal waving. their lives. doughboys and girls at the pizza Smartmom overheard that she test, New York was saying “no” It’s an unfair world. Pan- On a cold January night in window. Perhaps they were one was chorus singer at the Metro- to the beauty queen-industrial coast’s killer tap-dance routine 1989, Hepcat proposed to of the runners, a kid who nearly politan Opera. complex that drives this, our na- got her some points, and no one Smartmom in the East Village trips a good-natured waiter, Done with her food, Smart- tion’s most illustrious pageant. pulls off a bikini like she does Unfortunately, the pageant (figuratively, alas), but the said “no” right back. judges picked banality over Bay Pancoast, of course, is far too Good ol’ days: Bess Myer- Ridge. gracious to accept my premise son, seen here in 1945, is And for another year, the ® Physically Active, Nature Oriented, that the Miss America Organiza- one of only three Miss New Miss America pageant is Ameri- tion is not only biased against Yorks to get the big tiara. ca’s shame. beauty, but also against the TRIPP TRAPP Outdoor, Traveling Day Camp northeast (which hasn’t won ™ since 1984). 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This Soviet-era speeder DAS BOOT may have been Nixon’s By Dana Rubinstein The Brooklyn Paper A boat that Leonid Brezh- nev may or may not have giv- en to Richard Nixon — and which may or may not have surfaced in a Brooklyn auto- body shop — is definitely for sale on eBay for $1 million, though there’s one more more thing you should know: caveat emptor. Enter “Nixon” into the search bar on the online auc- tion house’s Web site, and a listing will come up for a hy- drofoil speedboat, that, ac- cording to the seller, was giv- en to then-President Nixon by the former Soviet Premier in 1972. Greenhood / Aaron “The model name of this boat is ‘Volga 70,’” reads the post. “We would be glad to provide you with access to in- spect the condition of this his- Paper The Brooklyn torical item in person and to Vladimir Filippov (above) claims the boat behind him was given to Richard Nixon by for- verify its authenticity.” mer Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev — and he’s selling it on eBay. Below, the former pres- We took the owner — ident shakes hands with the King, a picture that we simply couldn’t resist running. LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER has received the 2006 General Vladimir Filippov — up on Surgery Care Excellence Award™ from HealthGrades,® the nation’s his offer and met him at his auto-body garage in Mill boat-owning community that leading independent health care ratings company, which ranks us among Basin. Sure enough, a Volga it was used in a James Bond movie and that it had been the top 10% in the nation for general surgery. 70 boat was mounted on tires, nestled between a red Opel owned by Nixon,” said Zin- and a Fiat. Filippov wore a gale. Led by George S. Ferzli, M.D., F.A.C.S. — named in New York Magazine’s black-and-white tracksuit, an “But, if I had to appraise it, unlit cigar hanging from his absent any documentation of Best Doctors edition for nine straight years — our expert surgeons mouth. its origins, it would be as provide a variety of minimally invasive techniques designed to minimize Filippov claimed that he scrap metal.” bought the boat from a nearby In fact, Filippov’s story is blood loss and maximize recovery. boatyard a year ago (he won’t correct only on one count — say what he paid for it). Filip- the former Soviet premier did In addition, Lutheran is the ONLY hospital in Brooklyn to be designated a pov’s eBay posting doesn’t indeed give Nixon a hydrofoil question the boat’s authentici- speedboat in 1972. But accord- Bariatric Surgery Center (weight loss) of Excellence by the American ty, but in person, he admitted ing to an archivist at the Nixon Society for Bariatric Surgery while also holding a Level 1 Accreditation he didn’t have “100-percent Presidential Library, it was des- proof” that the boat was the tined for more illustrious — from the American College of Surgeons. same one Brezhnev gave to and mysterious — duties. Nixon 35 years ago. “[That same year], the boat was transferred to the Coast Nixon Library That’s why the surgical services at Lutheran have been ranked among the “Nobody has any papers to prove it,” said Filippov, whose Guard in Miami, and provided “We still have it,” said Eliot water, and the vehicle glides top 10% in the nation. strongest proof consists of an security and transportation at James, the treasurer and co- along the surface on its foils. “RMN” monogram on the Nixon’s Key Biscayne re- curator of the museum. “We’ve James doesn’t rule out the back of the boat. The laters treat,” said the archivist, John been restoring it to the original possibility that Filippov’s boat Lutheran Medical Center — The Best Rated Hospital in Brooklyn. could stand for “Richard Mil- Powers. paint scheme, which was may have some connection to hous Nixon.” In 1977, the boat ended up white with a red stripe.” Nixon. To reach a Lutheran HealthCare physician, call 1-718-630-RXRX (7979). They could also stand for in Washington DC, where it James has been trying to “Richard Nixon did keep a “Really Missing Notoriety.” was “used for surveillance and get in touch with Filippov, but house in Florida,” said James. When The Brooklyn Paper security by an unspecified fed- to no avail. “Maybe he purchased a Volga reached out to Filippov’s eral security agency.” James estimates that there 70, since he couldn’t keep the hand-picked appraiser, for ex- Five years later, the boat re- are only a dozen or so Volga [Brezhnev] gift.” ample, he didn’t back up Fil- emerged as a Fish and 70s in the United States, so Not likely. Nixon may have ippov’s origin story. Wildlife Service tour vessel this boat, even if Brezhnev gone to China, but there’s no Capt. Gerard Zingale, own- on Lake McConaughy in never really gave it to Nixon, way he bought a Soviet-made er of a private marine survey- Ogallala, Nebraska. could bring in about $40,000. boat during the height of the 150 55th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11220 ing and consulting firm, said And, in July, 2005, the U.S. Part of its worth is due to Cold War, Powers said. 1-718-630-RXRX (7979) he did inspect the boat — but Chamber of Commerce auc- the fact that it is, frankly, a “We conducted extensive www.LutheranMedicalCenter.com only to determine the damage tioned the machine on eBay cool boat. research on the hydrofoil and I caused when a car crashed for $10,100. The lucky buyer When it reaches speeds be- must confess that, in all of this into it in Filippov’s own was a hydrofoil museum in tween 20 and 25 miles per research, I have never heard garage. New Brunswick, Missouri. hour, the Soviet-made alu- of him purchasing a hydrofoil “There were rumors in the And in Missouri it remains. minum boat emerges from the or a Soviet-made hydrofoil.”

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