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WIENER… for His Daughter’S Last Birthday, Brennan Rent- Ed Her a Pony INSIDE Including The Bensonhurst Paper Guide to summer in Brooklyn Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 26 Court St., Brooklyn, New York 11242 Phone 718-834-9350 AD fax 718-834-1713 • NEWS fax 718-834-9278 © 2003 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 16 pages including GO BROOKLYN • Vol.26, No. 28 BRG • July 14, 2003 • FREE THE BLOOD LINE A sea TA stored blood, needles on W-train platform of blue By Yoav Gonen thrown in red plastic bags, which for The Brooklyn Papers are sealed and then stored in a mourns EXCLUSIVE locked box, like the one on the Blood and syringes. Stillwell platform, until the end of That’s what tens of thousands the tour. Then a supervisor re- of subway riders walked past as the rusty-looking vessel as they well.” moves any items from the box and they made their way through the slowly made their way through the Subway car cleaners, working the contents are shipped by truck Brennan Stillwell Avenue station to get to throngs heading for the stairway for the car equipment division of to the Jamaica Yard train yard in the Coney Island beach, Cyclones down to street level. NYC Transit in eight-hour tours, Queens, where an outside contrac- By Deborah Kolben games and Nathan’s hot dog-eat- But this was neither a terrorist wear special suits and use bleach tor, Stericyle, picks up the material The Brooklyn Papers ing contest over the July 4 week- act nor a juvenile prank — the in- and rags to clean up blood and dis- for disposal. end. fectious waste container was carded syringes occasionally Although every subway station More than 1,000 mourners, many of And most didn’t even notice. placed there by the Transit Author- found within a subway car, she ex- has a Knaack box — a roughly 3- DiMiceli / Vince them police officers, brass and elected Sitting out in the middle of the ity. plained. foot-long by 2-foot-tall container officials turned out Wednesday morning outdoor platform, right under a “The box is used to store “It’s very rare that we have inci- named for the company that pro- for the funeral of Detective Dermott signpost announcing the stop, was blood,” said NYC Transit dents on the train where someone duces it — to store infectious Michael Brennan in Sunset Park. a huge, metal box labeled: “Infec- spokeswoman Marisa Baldel. gets hurt and blood is involved, waste material, it usually isn’t po- Brennan, 34, son of the late Assistant Police tious Waste.” “They also put syringes into the but it does occur,” said Baldel. sitioned in the middle of a bustling Papers The Brooklyn Chief Patrick Brennan, died on July 5 after a 12- Many people even leaned on bags, and these go into the box as The cleaning materials are See BLOOD on page 6 Box labeled “Infectious Waste” at Stillwell Avenue station. year battle with brain cancer. A member of a prominent police family, Brennan grew up on 58th Street with his sisters Maureen and Tara and brothers Martin, John and Patrick. He is also survived by his mother, Monica, his wife, Janice, and their 3-year-old daughter, Kaeli, who he called “the apple of his eye.” Ridge slumlord Everything Brennan did was over the top, re- called the Rev. Kevin Murray, speaking to the mourners who packed the pews of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, on Fifth Avenue at 60th Street, some travelling from as far as Ireland and Eng- strikes again land. WIENER… For his daughter’s last birthday, Brennan rent- ed her a pony. He took her to Disneyland, even though he had to travel around the park in a Slammed for creating ‘shantytown’ wheelchair. There wasn’t anything Brennan wouldn’t do By Deborah Kolben servations, made at the end ing and Family Services, a for “his girls,” as he affectionately referred to his AND STILL The Brooklyn Papers of June, are necessary to tenants advocacy organiza- wife and daughter, said Murray. build a court case against tion. As a skilled carpenter with the ability to fix A Bay Ridge landlord Notias to force her to rem- According to sources, almost anything, he was proud of the basement busted just three years edy the violations. Notias will accept rent in he refurbished in his Rockland County home ago for allowing her For many tenants the cash and turn a blind eye and promptly decorated it with an Irish flag, a CHAMP! buildings to literally go most pressing problem has to tenants, many of who nod to his family and heritage. to pieces, is about to be been the lack of mail de- are illegal immigrants liv- Achieving his lifelong dream to become a po- slapped with a new host livery. Citing mail boxes ing in overcrowded apart- lice officer, Brennan graduated from the Police of violations. that are too small, the post ments. Many of the tenants Academy in 1989. He worked at both the 60th Citing insufficient light- office stopped delivering continue living in the sub- and 61st precincts as well as with the Brooklyn ing in public hallways, de- to the buildings at 364, See SLUMS on page 7 See BRENNAN FUNERAL on page 4 fective kitchen floors, bro- 365, 368 and 369 87th ken bedroom windows, Street almost three months broken front doors, leaky ago. bathtubs and missing bath- Since then tenants have room ceiling fixtures, had to pickup their mail at among other things, the a post office several blocks Department of Housing away. Preservation and Develop- When confronted with a ment (HPD) has issued TV news crew last week, more than 266 violations to Notias said she was taking Marie Notias over the last care of the problem and three years for four build- had ordered new mailbox- ings she owns along 87th es. Street. While some residents And now, according to were skeptical, Caroline HPD spokeswoman Carol Allen, who has been living Abrams, the landlord faces at 365 87th St. for 28 a slew of new violations years, said, “I just hope we based on a recent inspec- can start living like human Mango / Greg / Tom Callan / Tom tion. Abrams said those ob- beings and get this all be- hind us.” With many of the INSIDE THE PAPER buildings packed with immigrants, Classifieds . GO 7-8, and page 5 Papers The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn many living two to Cyclones . Back page three families to an Rubble is sifted after a fire took the life of Denise Kahn Tuesday. Framed GO Brooklyn 8 pages . after page 4 apartment, many sign reads, “Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vein that built it.” Real Estate. GO 8 Kobayashi retains belt but tiny Health, Mind & Body . page 6 tenants have been Police Blotter . page 3 afraid to complain, Thomas, a woman, wows crowd said Larry Jayson, Ed Weintrob’s column returns next week executive director By Patrick Gallahue of Brooklyn Hous- Bath Beach fire The Brooklyn Papers For the third straight year, Takeru Kobayashi established himself as the top dog of competitive eating by devouring 44 and three-quarters frankfurters and buns in just 12 minutes. kills evangelist On July 4, the best eaters in the world gathered for the 88th Annual Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest. Camp heals By Deborah Kolben A woman standing outside the house While the man nicknamed “the Tsunami” brought the coveted Mus- The Brooklyn Papers Tuesday afternoon who identified her- tard Yellow International Belt — the most prestigious prize in compet- self as the owner of the building, de- itive eating — back to Japan, the afternoon was not without surprises. An early Tuesday morning fire scribed Khan as a woman in her 40s A petite unknown, named Sonya Thomas, stepped up to the plate and in Bath Beach claimed the life of who was “disabled” by rickets, a degen- became a new celebrity in competitive eating by devouring 25 hot 9-11 pain a disabled evangelical woman and erative bone disease. dogs and buns. And the Las Vegas Battle of the Buffets Champion, Ed left two firefighters with minor in- The woman said fire trucks arrived “Cookie” Jarvis shattered defending American champion Eric “Bad- By Deborah Kolben on the scene within five minutes of her The Brooklyn Papers juries, authorities said. lands” Booker’s record of 26 dogs by feasting on 30 wieners. Callan / Tom calling 911. The fire broke out on the first floor of Firefighters had to cut through bars on Meanwhile celebrity “gurgitator,” as competitive eaters are known, With campers arriving, backpack and bagged a home at 58 Bay 28th St. between and Chicago Bears Super Bowl champion, William “The Refrigerator” lunch in tow, children playing beneath shaded trees, the front windows before they could get Benson Avenue and 86th Street at 3:24 to Khan. She was being rushed to Mai- Perry, ate a paltry four hot dogs and buns before he quit the competi- the day camp at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church am, said fire department spokesman tion just under 5 minutes into it. monides Medical Center when she died, seems like any other. Jack Thompson. her body rerouted to the morgue, accord- “I was full,” he said later. Papers The Brooklyn But for the 80 campers who arrived at the church on As many as 60 firefighters responded And while Kobayashi, who doubled the previous record in 2001, ing to a Fire Department spokesman. (Top) At Nathan’s on July 4, Takeru 80th Street and Fourth Avenue, this week was intended as to the all-hands blaze, and attempted to Khan’s husband, Brian, was on his downing 50 hot dogs and buns, and then returned last year to break his a time to heal.
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