RIDE ON! Sitt Gives Coney Island Fave Astroland a New Lease on Life by Dana Rubinstein Astroland Supporters Hailed the Deal

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BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 834–9350 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2007 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DOWNTOWN EDITION AWP/14 pages • Vol. 30, No. 42 • Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007 • FREE INCLUDING DUMBO RIDE ON! Sitt gives Coney Island fave Astroland a new lease on life By Dana Rubinstein Astroland supporters hailed the deal. The Brooklyn Paper “Astroland represents a very tangible link to the Astroland — the beloved Coney Island amuse- 1960s and 1970s,” said Michael Immerso, author of ment park that supposedly closed shop for good this “Coney Island: the People’s Playground.” fall — has gotten a one-year stay of execution. “It really embodies the old Coney Island.” Thor Equities, the real-estate giant that bought the Dick Zigun, the de facto Mayor of Coney Island and the land under the amuse- founder of the Coney Is- ment park from owner land Circus Sideshow, Carol Albert in 2006 called it “terrific news,” and gave Astroland one particularly because it final season this sum- would save 300 carnival mer, announced on jobs filled by “poor peo- Wednesday that it had ple from the area.” reached an agreement with Albert to keep her rundown This marks the latest development in a saga as top- park’s 35 rides operating for one more season. sy-turvy as the Cyclone rollercoaster (which Sitt can’t “Thor is fully committed to keeping amusements and touch thanks to its landmark status, by the way). games as part of the fabric of Coney Island for decades to Sitt has been buying land in and around Astroland come, and today’s agreement — reached after discussions for years, and says he wants to turn the People’s Play- / Paul Martinka with Albert and the community as a whole — represents ground into a $1.5-billion, Las Vegas style hotel, con- the first step in that direction,” said Joe Sitt, Thor’s presi- do, theme park and retail attraction. dent, who would not reveal the financials of the deal. See CONEY on page 6 Prospect Park Alliance Prospect MUNICIPAL MALL Plan would kill Court St. ‘dead space’

By Zachary Kolodin BEFORE The Brooklyn Paper Brooklyn’s dour Municipal Building — / Julie Rosenberg / Julie Rosenberg where generations of lovers have gotten their marriage licenses and tax scofflaws have paid their fines — will get ground-floor shops on Court Street under a plan being pushed by the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn Planners hope to carve out two or more retail stores from a 44,000-square-foot, two-floor space, said Joe Chan, president of the quasi- / Zachary Kolodin public agency charged with speeding develop- / Paul Martinka Horsin’ around! ment throughout Downtown. Everyone had a neighing good time at Saturday night’s black-tie gala for the Prospect Park Al- Currently, the space holds a Finance Depart- liance, which raised $850,000. The evening centered around the park’s historic carousel where ment payment center and the Brooklyn office of

(clockwise from top) beloved Park Sloper Jamie Markowitz and her husband, Marty, cavorted; the City Clerk — but from the street, it looks Paper The Brooklyn Sen. Charles Schumer made the scene; Brooklyn Navy Yard President Andrew Kimball and his like “dead space,” Chan said. “People have just accepted that government AFTER Prospect Park Alliance Prospect wife, Sarah Williams, enjoyed a ride; and Jenny Douglas let loose. buildings are only for government,” he added. But that attitude is changing. Chan said that the city is about to close a deal with Muss De- velopment to take control of long-vacant ground-floor retail space in the former court building at 345 Adams St., next to the Marriott hotel’s new annex. Gays won’t shack up with Bruce Chan is even more excited about the potential of the Municipal Building. “It’s atop Brooklyn’s second-largest transit hub, and at a corner with as much pedestrian Lambda Dems reject Atlantic Yards and a clubhouse traffic during the day as 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue and 86th Street and Lexington Avenue By Gersh Kuntzman Many political groups and activists have op- would work towards developing a community cen- in Manhattan,” he said. posed Atlantic Yards, but there is a deeper context The Brooklyn Paper ter, much like the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans- It’s too early to say what stores might be Studioamd to Lambda’s seemingly day-late/dollar short resolu- Brooklyn’s primary gay and lesbian political gender Community Center in Greenwich Village, in housed inside the office building, but Chan Downtown planners are calling on the city to add tion. Earlier this year, Borough President Marko- a Ratner-owned building in Downtown. said there would be a competitive, open bid- ground-floor retail (above) to the “dead space” in the club came out against Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards witz promised gay and lesbian activists that he mega-development on Monday night — even as See GAYS on page 6 ding process if City Hall signs off on the plan. Municipal Building (top). the developer and Borough President Markowitz are still discussing creating a gay community center in a Ratner-owned building Downtown. In language similar to other clubs’ and local community boards’ rejection of Atlantic Yards last year, No F express, no Smith-9th Maggie: The Paper’s Lambda Independent Democrats declared that the By Mike McLaughlin Transit officials said repairs work on the Culver Viaduct project could not be supported because it “failed” to The Brooklyn Paper to the crumbling elevated would be delayed to create a go through a “stringent, transparent and inclusive tracks between Carroll Gardens temporary F express. not very ‘neighborly’ Necessary track work on

community review” before it was approved by the Callan / Tom and Park Slope will begin as Subway advocates found a At last, The Brooklyn Paper has heard from Park Slope A-lister Empire State Development Corporation in the wan- the F line will make it impos- scheduled next year, postpon- silver lining in the news. ing days of the Pataki administration. sible to create express service ing the addition of an express “An F express wasn’t even Maggie Gyllenhaal — our notorious covergirl from last October. The resolution also hit state officials for using em- for at least another five years subway until at least 2012. on the table five months ago,” When our reporter showed the Divine Miss Maggie our famous inent domain to hand private property to Ratner, su- — and will shut the Smith- The announcement ends doubt said Gary Reilly, who started front page (left), her reaction was, how you say, none too pleased. perceding the city’s own land-use review oversight, and Ninth Street station for all of — some of it fueled by MTA an online crusade this year for See page 12 for the final word on this yearlong saga. granting Ratner “special allowances and tax breaks.” 2010. officials last month — that F express. Paper The Brooklyn 11.6 miles of bad road APPREHENDED BQE inspires Sufjan Stevens’s latest work at BAM Second chalker nabbed by cops By Adam Rathe he city’s crackdown on sidewalk chalk The Brooklyn Paper “vandals” is officially out of control! It THE BROOKLYN Twas bad enough when the Sanitation The Brooklyn-Queens Department threatened the parents of a 6- By Gersh Expressway has been the year-old Park Slope girl with a $300 fine if ANGLE Kuntzman backdrop for endless frus- they did not remove the offensive “graffiti” tration — and plenty of car — her sidewalk chalk drawings on their CHALK IT UP! horn symphonies — but own front stoop. now it’s inspired an honest- STARTS ON PAGE 7 But after we ran our front-page story about While we’re not surprised that the ser- to-goodness music compo- Natalie Shea and her chalk “vandalism,” a geant was reading Brooklyn’s real newspa- sition by indie rock super- run at the Brooklyn Academy Cobble Hill chalk artist who had never been per, Gallagher was stunned to be arrested star Sufjan Stevens. of Music on Nov. 1. arrested before suddenly found himself in and held overnight because of a few benign Stevens, the 32-year-old, Although he calls Brooklyn handcuffs and spending a night in the lockup. comments in our Oct. 13 issue: Kensington-based indie pop home, Stevens — who isn’t Coincidence? Not likely, considering that “Cops stop me all the time when they see star with seven albums and a quite a mainstream superstar, the artist, Ellis Gallagher, had been quoted me drawing on the sidewalk,” Gallagher slew of guest appearances and but has been featured exten- in the original Brooklyn Paper piece — a had said at the time. “But once they see it’s collaborations to his credit, sively in independent films, on / Julie Rosenberg story that the desk sergeant just happened to just chalk, they always let me go.” found great inspiration in the television and in magazines be reading when Gallagher was brought in. Not anymore. 11.6-mile stretch of road. He like Topic and McSweeney’s “The cops had spent about half an hour On Oct. 17, Gallagher was at the corner was so moved by the pave- — is a rare on-stage sight in the debating whether to arrest me, so they final- of Smith and Warren streets, creating one of ment that he penned a half- borough, so GO Brooklyn ex- ly called the sergeant who said, ‘Bring him his trademark shadow drawings — in chalk! hour-long music-and-video Denny Renshaw citedly checked in with him to Paper The Brooklyn in,’” recalled Gallagher. “And when I get to — for the PBS show “New York Voices.” composition entitled “The Indie rocker Sufjan Stevens was so inspired by the see what the driving force be- Artist Ellis Gallagher makes a new chalk work days the 76th Precinct [stationhouse], sure He says that two cops in a patrol car BQE” that will have its world Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that he composed an hind his new project was. after his arrest in a crackdown after our story about enough, the sergeant is reading The Brook- stopped and asked if he had permits to do premiere with a three-night artistic tribute — now at BAM. See STEVENS on page 11 a girl who was busted for using sidewalk chalk. lyn Paper and laughing at me.” See CHALKER on page 6 2 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 October 27, 2007 shoprico.com WHERE TO EDITORS’ PICKS SATURDAY SUNDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY October 27 October 28 October 31 November 1 November 2 Spooky Holiday show squash Tonight, the Brooklyn Arts Exchange honors Today at the Brooklyn Brooklynites such as up- Botanic Garden, they’re and-coming artist Char- harvesting a colorful les Holiday, pictured, for Halloween celebration. their contributions to the “Ghouls and Gourds” borough’s booming arts features live music, a Fred bangers scene. The reception will BQE at BAM book fair and weirdo Sugar high feature live performanc- Live from Brooklyn, it’s. workshops — make your Most folks dread spend- It’s Halloween! Sure, you es by some of BAX’s … Jens Hannemann? own instrument out of ing Friday night on the might be too old to go best alumni. The famed drummer will junk! Play with worms! — BQE, but tonight it’s trick-or-treating, but celebrate the release of to keep the whole family 8 pm at the Prospect Park what all of the borough’s there’s no shame in his new, instructional happily haunted. Picnic House (enter park at starry-eyed music nerds stocking up on candy Third Street and Prospect DVD with the help of are waiting for. Hipster Noon at the Brooklyn Botanic (we like peanut butter Park West in Park Slope). $50, “Saturday Night Live” heartthrob Sufjan Ste- Garden (900 Washington Ave. cups), popping in a hor- $25 for students or artists. For funnyman — and some- at Eastern Parkway in Pros- information, call (718) 832- vens presents his BAM- ror movie (see our times Williamsburg gad- pect Heights). Free. For infor- 0018 or visit www.bax.org. commissioned video- mation, call (718) 623-7200 or “Murder Party” story on about — Fred Armisen and-music opus, “The visit www.bbg.org. page 7), and getting all Best Of (pictured) at Sound Fix BQE,” tonight; read hopped up on sugar and Lounge. more about it on page 1. adrenaline. Just make 8 pm at Sound Fix Lounge sure to get enough 8 pm at the Brooklyn Aca- Sofas 372 & 384 atlantic bklyn 718 797 2077 (110 Bedford Ave. at North sweets for you and the demy of Music (30 Lafayette 11th Street in Williamsburg). Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort Free. For information, call goblins at the door; Greene). $20-$50. For infor- (718) 388-8090 or visit nobody likes the guy mation, call (718) 636-4100 or NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY www.soundfixrecords.com. who hands out apples. visit www.bam.org City Tech OPEN HOUSE NINE DAYS IN BROOKLYN Compiled by Susan Rosenthal Jay

a talk about her exhibit “Topsy-Turvy.” 4 pm. Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007 SAT, OCT 27 353 Van Brunt St. (718) 875-2098. GALLERY OPENING: NYC House of Art Gallery Klitgord Center • 1:00-4:00 pm OUTDOORS AND TOURS opens in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Tour of gallery, 285 Jay Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 SUNSET PARK: Brooklyn Center for the Urban refreshments, music. 6 pm to 10 pm. 373 Environment offers a stroll through the Lewis Ave. (347) 663-8195. Free. National Registered District of Sunset Park. BIRTHDAY SERVICE: New Utrecht Church cele- Learn about the diverse ethnic groups that brates its 330th birthday with a worship serv- have made this area their home. Tour ends in ice and an old-fashioned church dinner. 6 Brooklyn’s Chinatown. $13, $10 members, $8 pm. 18th Avenue and 84th Street. Call for seniors and students. 11 am. Meet at the reservations. (718) 236-0678. northeast corner of 43rd Street and Fourth Avenue, 45th Street R train station. (718) 788-8500, ext. 208. SUN, OCT 28 LULLWATER EXPLORATION: Enjoy a boat tour detailing Prospect Park’s aquatic habitat. Binoculars provided. $10, $6 kids. Noon to OUTDOORS AND TOURS 12:45 pm. Enter park at Lincoln Road and KAYAKING: Gowanus Dredgers offers a 20- Ocean Avenue. (718) 287-3400. minute cruise in Red Hook by kayak. 10 am GREEN-WOOD TOUR: Halloween tour with his- to 2 pm. Louis Valentino Jr. Park, Coffey and torian Jeff Richman. Hear thrilling and chilling Ferris streets. (917) 676-6458. For info, visit tales of some of history’s most notorious www.redhookboaters.org. Free. New Yorkers. Popular tour; arrive early. $20, HOEDOWN UNDER THE BRIDGE: The Brook- $10 students and members. 1 pm. Meet at lyn Bridge Park Conservancy and Big Apple main gate at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street. Ranch host an afternoon of country line danc- (631) 549-4891. ing in the park at the foot of Washington BIRDWATCHING CRUISE: Learn about the his- Street. Free. 1 pm. (718) 802-0606. tory of Prospect Park, from prehistoric times GREEN-WOOD TOUR: Halloween tour with his- to the present day, while touring one of torian Jeff Richman. Hear thrilling and chilling Prospect Park’s most scenic habitats. $10, $6 tales of some of history’s most notorious kids. 1:15 pm to 2 pm. Enter park at Lincoln New Yorkers. Popular tour; arrive early. $20, Road and Ocean Avenue. (718) 287-3400. Leo Moreton $10 students and members. 1 pm. Meet at A ruff life: Costumed canines will take Brooklyn by storm this weekend main gate at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street. PERFORMANCE (631) 549-4891. PAPER MOON PLAYERS: presents “Music of as Fort Greene Park hosts the “Great Pupkin” dog costume contest on BIG ONION TOUR: Learn about the history, the Night,” a five-person musical revue. Perfor- Saturday, Oct. 27 and Bay Ridge celebrates with a canine costume con- architecture and people of the landmarked mance includes songs from Broadway shows. test on Sunday, Oct. 28 at the Narrows Botanical Garden. Green-Wood Cemetery. Stops include the FocusFocus onon $12. 3:30 pm and 8 pm. Emmanuel Episco- graves of DeWitt Clinton, Louis Comfort pal Church, 2635 E. 23rd St., between Voor- Tiffany, Leonard Bernstein and others. $15, hies Avenue and Avenue Z. (718) 377-1342. $12 seniors, $10 students and members. 1 WHITE WAVE: presents Wave Rising Series pro- NYC College of Technology and Theatre- GIFTS BY THE SEA: New York Creates, serving pm. Meet at main gate at Fifth Avenue and youyourr futufuturre.e. duction of “Silent River.” 4 pm. Also, “The works. $6, $4 children 12 and younger. 6 craft artisans, hosts an outdoor crafts festival 25th Street. (212) 439-1090. Mentalist” and “Strange Regime” at 7:30 pm to 9 pm. 186 Jay St. (718) 260-5592. along the Red Hook Pier. 1 pm to 6 pm. GRAVESEND WALK: Take a tour of the neigh- pm. $20 per performance. John Ryan FLEA MARKET: hosted by the Church of the 499 Van Brunt St. www.nycreates.com. borhood and visit historic and interesting Theater, 25 Jay St. (212) 868-4444. Holy Spirit. Refreshments available. 9 am BROOKLYN MUSEUM: Adult program: homes, learn about colonial history and more. for more information www.citytech.cuny.edu CABARET NIGHT: St. John’s Church hosts an to 4 pm. 8117 Bay Pkwy. at 82nd Street. “Infinite Island Discussion Series: Under- $3. 2 pm. Meet at HSBC Bank on Kings High- evening of song, dance and comedy. $30 in- (718) 837-0412. standing Syncretic Practices, Beliefs and way at McDonald Avenue. (718) 252-2161. 718.260.5500 • 877.NYC.TECH cludes dinner and refreshments. 6 pm. 99th 10K WALK: Mapleton Kiwanis Club hosts a Religions in the Caribbean.” Included in Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway. (718) fundraiser. Sign up 9 am; walk 10 am. museum admission charge of $8, $4 stu- PERFORMANCE 745-2377. Dyker Beach Golf Course, 14th Avenue dents and seniors. Free to members and CHAMBER MUSIC: Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Directions to City Tech: Subway: NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of Music pres- and 86th Street. (718) 259-9679. children under 12 accompanied by an Music presents pianists Sara Davis Buechner IND: A,C,F to Jay Street/Borough Hall, IRT: 2,3,4,5 to Borough Hall, ents “New Voices From Spain.” Today: hip- WEEKSVILLE FARMERS MARKET: Farm- adults. 2 pm to 4 pm. 200 Eastern Pkwy. and Jane Coop in a program of piano hop group Macaco. $20, $25. 8 pm. Howard fresh produce. 9 am to 1 pm. 1698 (718) 638-5000. sonatas by Mozart. $20, $10 students. 3 pm. BMT: M,R to Lawrence Street Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave. Bergen St., between Rochester and ARTIST TALK: Kentler International Drawing Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 S. (718) 636-4100. Buffalo avenues. (718) 788-8500. Space presents artist Nina Buxenbaum in Oxford St. (718) 625-7515. Bus: B57, B65, B69, B75 and buses to Downtown Brooklyn. BARGEMUSIC: presents an all Mozart classical MUSIC: The Rhapsody Players present “Magic music concert. $35, $30 seniors, $20 stu- Moments,” songs of the 1950s and ’60s. $15, dents. 8 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton $10 students and seniors. 3 pm. St. Patrick’s Street at the East River. (718) 624-2083. auditorium, 97th Street and Fourth Avenue. RIDGE REPERTORY: presents “To Gillian On (718) 236-0124. www.rhapsodyplayers.org. Her 37th Birthday.” $18. 8 pm. Bay Ridge CIVIC CALENDAR BROOKLYN REPERTORY OPERA: presents a Jewish Center, 405 81st St. (718) 836-3103. the agenda: DUMBO landmarking. production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” per- GALLERY PLAYERS: presents “Yank! A New SATURDAY, OCT. 27 formed with full orchestra. Beethoven’s only Peace rally and march across the Landmarks Preservation Commission (1 Musical.” $18, $14 children and seniors. 8 Center St., at Chambers Street, in Man- opera was a commentary on current events pm. 199 14th St. (212) 352-3101. Brooklyn Bridge. Meet at the plaza in in Europe in his time. $20, $10 seniors and front of Borough Hall (Joralemon Street hattan), 9 am. Call (212) 669-7925 for ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: NY premiere of the information. students. 4 pm. Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Fourth National Theater of Scotland’s “Black Watch,” between Court and Adams streets), 10 Ave. (718) 857-4816. a story of personal testimonies of 10 men of am. Call (718) 564-4514 for info. 78th Precinct Community Council. Monthly WHITE WAVE: presents Wave Rising Series pro- the Scottish regiment fighting the war on ter- Electronic equipment recycling. Poly meeting. 78th Precinct stationhouse (65 ductions of “The Mentalist” and “Strange ror. $47.50. 8 pm. 38 Water St. (718) 254-8779. Prep Country Day School (Seventh Sixth Ave., at Bergen Street), 7:30 pm. Regime.” 4 pm. Also, “Silent River” at 7:30 Avenue between 92nd and 93rd streets), Call (718) 636-6410 for information. pm. $20 per performance. John Ryan Theater, OTHER 10 am–4 pm. Call Shelley Ruchti at (718) Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy. On 25 Jay St. (212) 868-4444. HAUNTED MAZE: Micro Museum celebrates 836-9800 x3230 for info. the agenda: What events do you want to ORGAN CONCERT: Organist Michael Xavier Halloween with a maze featuring “22 Evil see in the future Brooklyn Bridge Park? Lundy presents a pops program of music from Clowns.” $2. Noon to 7 pm. 123 Smith St. SUNDAY, OCT. 28 Congregation Mount Sinai (250 Cadman the movies “ET” and “Harry Potter” as well as (718) 797-3116. Electronic recycling. See Saturday, Oct. 27 Plaza West, at Clark Street), 6:30 pm. themes from “Carmen” and “Carnival of the HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST: Fort Call (718) 802-0603 for information. Animals.” $20, $10 students and seniors. 7 Greene Park and Pets Society host the ninth MONDAY, OCT. 29 pm. St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, annual “Great Pupkin” dog costume contest. Electronic recycling. See Saturday, Oct. THURSDAY, NOV. 1 Clinton and Montague streets. (718) 875-6960. 30 ﬂoors of jaw-dropping views $5. Registration begins at 11:30 am. Judging 27. Hours: 4–7 pm. Friends of Carroll Park. Monthly meet- GALLERY PLAYERS: “Yank! A New Musical.” 3 at noon. Parade from noon to 1 pm. Top of ing. The Park House (at Smith and pm. See Sat., Oct. 27. hill, near monument in Fort Greene Park. TUESDAY, OCT. 30 Carroll Streets), 7:30 pm. E-mail ST. 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omplaining about parking in Brooklyn Heights is about as HEIGHTS Pet Health C popular as bashing A-Rod. LOWDOWN But as annoying as it is for drivers to circle block after block look- Questions? ing for that golden spot, bicyclists face a much bigger threat from the parking crunch than a modest dose Ask Dr. Dendtler of road rage. That’s because of double parking, an obvious repercussion of the crunch on single parking. Providing Veterinary Care As more and more vehicles at jockey for street space, bikes are forced to swerve around double- Juliana Bunim Kiki’s Pet Spa and Boutique parked vehicles. They then contend with traffic while veering around the side of a parked car, SUV / Julie Rosenberg or delivery truck. Dr. Pamella Dendtler Lately, double-parking has been even more of an issue. The Advanced Professional Training© Saint Ann’s kindergarten, on Henry Street between Clark and Pier- repont streets, is routinely home to several cars obstructing the bike The Animal Medical Center NYC lane, often Land Rovers lined up to retrieve their owners’ tots. Paper The Brooklyn But the private-school toddlers aren’t the only ones to blame. Larry Leonardi of Front Street Pizza shows off the picnic tables that have earned him kudos (and complaints) from his DUMBO * Vaccinations * Hill’s Prescription Diets UPS trucks consistently double-park on residential streets in neighbors. They will soon be gone. Brooklyn Heights. * Skin Disorders * Microchip Implants “We need to keep commerce moving,” said Dan McMackin, * Dental Care * Surgery a UPS spokesman based in Atlanta. “If we are ticketed, then that’s part of the cost of doing business. But we do train drivers * House Calls * Lab Tests not to park in marked lanes.” But double-parking exists in and out of bike lanes, and so do It’s no picnic on Front St. those big brown trucks. 239 Dekalb Ave. One way to combat the issue on a local level is to more vigi- By Adam F. Hutton But the complainers aren’t ruining it for prodigious craw. (Vanderbilt Ave. & Clermont Ave.) lantly issue tickets. Even if it doesn’t create a fundamental shift, The Brooklyn Paper everyone else, Leonardi said. The tables “This never would have happened 20 years if even a handful of drivers stop hovering in front of businesses (718) 789-7170 Those picnic tables at Front Street Piz- were always set to have a limited run. ago,” said the pizza man, whose family has and schools, it would be a help. “We put out these tables for the DUMBO owned Front Street Pizza for 20 years. www.sixthaveanimalclinic.com Judy Stanton, the executive director of the Brooklyn Heights As- za, which have been providing a spot for noshers since showing up unannounced Arts Festival last month and the weather has He saw the complainers as ants intent on sociation, doesn’t agree. been so nice that we just left them,” said ruining everyone’s picnic. He’s not alone. “There are certain four weeks ago, will disappear as soon as Leonardi. “When I come down here for lunch, it’s ON OUR OTHER circumstances when you the weather gets nasty, said owner Larry have to double-park,” Leonardi. But now that the weather is about to turn packed inside, so I come out here and sit she said. “If you’re Believe it or not, some neighbors have cold (as if!), the tables will go back to the and it’s great,” said Ruben Aminov, a para- stoop dropping someone off, actually been complaining that the tables, Office of Emergency Management, which legal. “The benefits of having outdoor seat- PAGES or running in to grab which take up much of the narrow sidewalk loaned them to the pizzeria in the first place. ing outweighs whatever costs there are for PARK SLOPE something.” in front of the shop, are an obstruction. Still, the complaints stick in Leonardi’s the loss of sidewalk space.” Hospital gives back Wiley Norvell, of GOWANUS Transportation Alterna- Fishy eroticism tives, also thinks ticketing is futile. “Enforcement is W’MSBURG great when it comes, but ‘Jolie’ hotel? seldom lasts forever,” said Bridge Park people ready to listen BAY RIDGE Norvell. “Double-parking Lichee Owls Head stinks! is a 365 day, 24-hour problem, and we have to By Adam F. Hutton Take, for example, the Brooklyn RESTAURANT online at BrooklynPaper.com recognize the shortcom- VOX POP! The Brooklyn Paper Hip-Hop Festival, a popular event Nut ings of enforcement.” Leaders of the Brooklyn organized by a local promoter that The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy will hold a meet- has been in the park two years run- If upping the amount of tickets distributed for double-parking is Bridge Park Conservancy want not enough to solve the problem, then we must address the bigger is- ing on Tuesday to discuss what activities and events the ning. As The Brooklyn Paper re- public would like to see at the future waterfront open you to help decide what kind of ported this month, next year’s festi- Chinese Cuisine & sue — there are simply too many cars and not enough street space. recreational activities should be One possible solution is residential parking permits, Stanton said. space and condo development. We hit the streets this val is in limbo after a top state Vegeterian Nutrition week to get a sneak preview of the public mood. available when the project’s official publicly questioned whether “It’s time for the Department of Transportation to start think- promised public spaces are built. ing about how to do it,” said Stanton. “New Yorkers have this it was appropriate for the park. entrenched view that the streets are free. But other cities have “Every park begins with a “I believe the true purpose of this found parking permits to be environmentally sensible, traffic dream,” said Conservancy Presi- meeting is to emphasize that the Fast, Free Delivery dent Marianna Koval, who said calming and congestion reducing.” conservancy has dominion over the she is hoping for a big crowd at park,” said Roy Sloane, a Cobble Open 7 Days A Week Stanton hopes parking permits will be low-cost for residents, I think a playground, music, and the Oct. 30 public meeting. but significantly more expensive for those with second and third outdoor film would be really cool. Hill activist who once served on a “We have a beautiful design, citizen’s group that drafted an initial Party Orders Welcome cars and for violations. And a grassy area. but we need to plan for how the The city, which was dead set against the idea last year, said plan for a park along the waterfront. Ilana Storace, Park Slope park will be used. Decisions that Koval dismissed Sloane’s claims 15% Senior Discount recently that it will consider residential permit parking as part of are made in the next year will de- the PlaNYC congestion pricing initiative. that the conservancy wants to turn every Tuesday night (dine-in only) fine Brooklyn Bridge Park for the park into a private playground From a biker’s perspective, more vacancy make for safer generations.” driving conditions. But safety still depends on how people actu- for Brooklyn Heights residents. The proposal for the open-space “Brooklyn Bridge Park will be a ally use the street. and condo development calls for a “Our streets are only so wide,” Norvell said. “These bike regional park, not simply a spec- FREE $10 A climbing wall [and] a petting 1.3-mile-long strip of greenspace tacular front yard to the adjoining DELIVERY min lanes are for optimal conditions in a fantasy world where no one zoo. along the DUMBO and Brooklyn neighborhoods,” Koval said. double-parks.” Heights waterfront — and upkeep If built, Brooklyn Bridge Park Juliana Bunim is a writer who lives in Brooklyn Heights. Danielle Aykroyd, Manhattan of the parkland would be funded would be the largest new park through maintenance fees assessed project undertaken by the city THE KITCHEN SINK against the owners of the luxury I’d like to attend music events, his- since Prospect Park blossomed in apartments on its edges. Park Slope 135 years ago. 162 Montague St. Congratulations to the Village Voice for finally recognizing that torical events. A lot of people That funding scheme has drawn don’t even know the history of Brooklyn Bridge Park Conser- big body of land across the river. But the Manhattan-based free fire from critics who say that the vancy programming and recreation Brooklyn Heights DUMBO. Make it affordable. In- weekly still got in a little snark by naming DUMBO “the best Man- people paying for the maintenance meeting. Congregation Mount (718) 522.5565/66 hattan neighborhood in Brooklyn” in its latest Best of New York is- volve the community. — i.e. the condo owners — will Sinai (250 Cadman Plaza West at sue. Thanks for nothing, guys. Kim Anderson, Harlem eventually demand control of what Clark Street), Oct. 30, 6:30 pm. Call fax (718) 522.1205 (24 hr.) E-mail us at [email protected] goes on in their back yard. (718) 802-0603 for information.

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BOERUM HILL stoopRED HOOK CARROLL GARDENS – COBBLE HILL Big plans for Council trims Trees’ plan By Mike McLaughlin cient revenue to maintain the landmark In- now go back to the Department of City Canal’s future The Brooklyn Paper dependence Bank building next door, which Planning and the Landmarks Preservation it also owns. A Trader Joe’s supermarket is A Council subcommittee on Tuesday Commission to come up with a new design. slated to go into that space next year. Before that happens, neighborhood turned down a controversial proposal by a The developer said that its situation was onorrhea aside, the Gowanus powerful developer to build apartments on groups were basking in DeBlasio’s change Pet Health Canal is one hot body of water BROOKLYN so unique that no other builder would be Atlantic Avenue between Court and Clin- of heart. Gright now. Everyone from de- SOUTH able to make the same argument “We were tremendously gratified that Bill velopers, to environmentalists, to the ton streets. The building would be the first Councilman Bill DeBlasio (D–Cobble exception to the 50-foot height limit in the agreed that the 50-foot height limit would special effects masters who invent Hill) had previously endorsed this proposal cause a wave of attempts by developers in Questions? Cobble Hill Historic District. on repeated occasions, but surprised many gags for David Letterman in a canal- historic districts,” said Roy Sloane of the front warehouse, has a different idea The unanimous vote by the 11-member constituents by coming out against it on Cobble Hill Association. of what should happen — or not Council’s zoning subcommittee is a victory Tuesday. Ask Dr. Dendtler happen — along its oil-laced banks. for neighborhood groups that feared that low- “The height waiver is not appropriate,” The unexpected outcome knocked Two This week, however, a veritable rise historic districts would be threatened by he said. “This building can [make] a contri- Trees back to the drawing board, but re- minded it of a lesson learned long ago. dream team of community advo- many developers if the DUMBO-based Two bution to our community so long as it stays Providing Veterinary Care cates, including the Carroll Gar- Trees Management was allowed to build a within the 50-foot height limit.” “My mother told me if I didn’t have any- dens Association, spoke out with a 60-foot residence in the 50-foot zone. Councilman Tony Avella (D–Queens), thing nice to say, not to say anything,” said Jed at single voice — one that members Two Trees said it need the extra height so who chairs the zoning subcommittee, told Walentas, a spokesman for the company, and believe stands a chance of being Ariella Cohen it could turn a profit and also generate suffi- The Brooklyn Paper that Two Trees must son of Two Trees’ owner, David Walentas. Kiki’s Pet Spa and Boutique heard over the ka-ching of the deep-pocketed developers who dream of transforming the gritty, industrial stretch into a wonderland of canal-front condos. Dr. Pamella Dendtler The coalition’s Platform for Responsible Redevelopment of Advanced Professional Training© the Gowanus Canal, sent to City Planning Commissioner Aman- da Burden on Wednesday, is long and a little wonky, but it’s im- Hook vendors end season quietly The Animal Medical Center NYC portant for all of us who care about keeping carpenters, artists and other non-investment brokers living here. * Vaccinations * Hill’s Prescription Diets Here are the main principles (don’t worry, I’ll be brief): By Mike McLaughlin ding process, the Health De- * Skin Disorders * Microchip Implants • The area between Bond Street and the canal from Sackett to The Brooklyn Paper partment started inspecting — supporters say harassing — the Third streets should be rezoned for mixed-income housing. Every Diehard fans of tacos, * Dental Care * Surgery site with more than 30 units should be required to sell or rent 30 per- vendors more frequently. huaraches and papusas * Lab Tests cent of the units at below-market rates. The city-owned Public Place But along the way, the ven- * House Calls flocked to Red Hook last dors became a cause célèbre for site at Fifth and Smith streets should be 60 percent affordable. weekend to get a taste of his- • Manufacturing, industrial, arts and production businesses everyone from Sen. Charles should be retained and encouraged to grow in existing manufac- tory and, in between mouth- “Chimichanga Chuck” Schumer 239 Dekalb Ave. turing areas south, northeast and northwest of the canal between fuls, wonder whether the to gourmands who didn’t want to (Vanderbilt Ave. & Clermont Ave.) Baltic and Fifth streets. East of the canal, between Sackett and Latin-American vendors who see authentic Latino cuisine re- Third streets, developers have sold their tasty fare for placed by the kind of generic (718) 789-7170 three decades will be allowed should be allowed to / Julie Rosenberg frankfurter and pretzel stands www.sixthaveanimalclinic.com ON OUR OTHER build housing as long as to return next year. that ring most city parks. they include space for As the Parks Department an- “All the prominence that the light industry (artist’s nounced earlier this summer, food vendors were given this stoop starting next year, the vendors year definitely helps,” said Ce- PAGES studios, carpenters shops) will have to bid against other sar Fuentes, who represents the

on the ground floors. Paper The Brooklyn PARK SLOPE vendors (and was once one • Landowners and the food purveyors for the right to re- Vendors at Red Hook Park served up their last huraches, Hospital gives back open their stands in April — the himself). “But we don’t know if city should work together tacos and papusas, last weekend. BAY RIDGE to create a clean canal first time they have had outside we’re going to be back.” Owls Head stinks! where all can enjoy the competition for the once-forelorn, The vendors’ return isn’t cer- now tourist-friendly, site. tural and gastronomical loss if for which the 13 vendors pay tain, but the Parks Department W’MSBURG splendor of Lavender ‘Jolie’ hotel? Lake without gagging on “It’d be devastating if the they’re not allowed back,” said $10,000 per season, the city succumbed to pressure earlier the scent of rotting eggs, vendors weren’t allowed back Nicholas Pecsok. raised the specter of a winner- this year when it said it would BAY RIDGE at Red Hook,” said Katie Kirk, The city threw the vendors’ take-all process by suddenly de- give the vendors “preference” Owls Head stinks! or catching an STD. • Construction should a vendor fan. “Why ruin a good future into question when it an- ciding to open the permits to in the application process that online at BrooklynPaper.com be done by union labor. thing?” nounced in June that it wanted outside bidders. begins this month. • All development Others were worried about to formalize the permitting The prospect of losing their “We certainly appreciate all Lichee the possible end of an era. process at the ballfields, which permits was only one thing the that they have done for the should keep in character with the surrounding low-rise area. RESTAURANT But as always, the devil is in the details. “Anyone who has ever eaten are at Bay Street between Hen- venders had to deal with this community and we would like Nut Already there has been some sparring over how the redevel- a hot dog in Central Park ry and Clinton streets. Instead of summer. After the Parks Depart- to see them return,” said Parks opment should be done. knows it would be a great cul- re-issuing a temporary permit, ment announced the open-bid- spokesman Phil Abramson. In a presentation to Community Board 6 this spring, City Planning officials said they were considering allowing canal- Chinese Cuisine & front buildings to rise 14 stories. Grumbles were audible then, and I don’t imagine that they will quiet as the process moves Vegeterian Nutrition forward. Responsible Redevelopment coalition member and housing advocate Brad Lander said this week that some resi- Fish to multiply in cleaner Gowanus dents may just have to, well, suck it up. Fast, Free Delivery “Affordable housing, a mix of uses and environmental quali- By Mike McLaughlin lovers’ lane. • Using a vessel to skim garbage off the ty can all be achieved, but that may take more height and densi- The Brooklyn Paper “Improving a habitat [for fish] leads to water. Open 7 Days A Week ty than some people like,” he said. improvements in the human environment,” There is mounting pressure from devel- The Gowanus Canal will become a hot- Lander said these hot-button details would be hashed out at said Mark Lulka of the Army Corps of En- opers and some mixed signals from the Party Orders Welcome public meetings later this year as the city moves forward with sheets motel for area fish, thanks to gineers, saying that the waterway will even- Bloomberg administration to see the area the public land-use review that will precede any rezoning. cleanup measures proposed by the city. tually be safe for recreational uses, like surrounding the canal, once a manufacturing Sometime in the middle of the next 15% Senior Discount That’s great, but lost in the coming debate will no doubt be kayaking (but not swimming) and will have center, readied for housing and commercial every Tuesday night (dine-in only) the most pressing question: How did that canal get gonorrhea, decade, once the city completes its ongoing less floating debris and hovering fumes. uses (see Ariella Cohen’s column at left). anyway? Ariella Cohen is a freelancer writer. restoration project, those murky waters will DEP has been studying the canal for six For instance, the city expects to select a de- host an aquatic sexual revolution. years and on Monday updated the commu- veloper in 2008 for that 11-acre brownfield THE KITCHEN SINK “We’ve increased the water quality so nity on its existing plans: on Smith Street between Fifth and Hunting- much that creatures are living in the canal, • Modernizing the unreliable flushing ton streets. FREE $10 There’s another perk to hanging out at the Red Hook Se- DELIVERY min nior Center on Walcott Street. The Postal Service will deploy a not just dying in it,” boasted Kevin Clarke tunnel that brings in comparatively fresh The rush to redevelop the Gowanus area mobile mail unit to the center on the second, third and fourth of the Department of Environmental Protec- water from the Buttermilk Channel. Repairs might guarantee a full-scale land and water Mondays of every month. … Global warming’s been in full ef- tion during a Community Board 6 meeting are scheduled for next summer. cleanup or it might be done in a piecemeal fect this fall, but the flu season is around the bend. Assembly- on Monday night. • Increasing the capacity of the pumping fashion with the risk of lingering contamina- woman Joan Millman and Long Island College Hospital And once the levels of dissolved oxygen system that pushes sewage to the Red Hook tion. helped 200 adults get vaccinations at her district office on Smith increase, those fish will start propagating, treatment plant. (Currently, when it rains, “We’re at a crossroads,” said CB 6 Dis- Street last week. … Tuesday’s zoning hearing at City Hall made Clarke said. (Of course, those horny halibuts sewers overflow and dump 300 million gal- trict Manger Craig Hammerman. “We’ve fi- 162 Montague St. it look like the Gowanus Nursery will be uprooted from its will also need a sex-ed course, given the lons of waste annually into the canal before nally gotten the attention of all the agencies Brooklyn Heights Gowanus’s recent gonorrhea diagnosis.) home at 45 Summit St. to make way for housing, but Council- it gets to the plant.) we need to address the environmental con- (718) 522.5565/66 man Bill DeBlasio and Borough President Markowitz The good news for humans is that city’s • Dredging a 750-foot stretch of the ditions on the canal, but after getting their have pledged to help find a new home for the greenhouse. $125-million cleanup package will do more canal’s bottom, where most of the toxins are attention, it’s still unclear of what the out- fax (718) 522.1205 (24 hr.) E-mail us at [email protected]. than transform the canal into an underwater buried. comes will be.”

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early every morning, in what is for me a supreme effort of will- GREENE Pet Health Npower, I put on my helmet, ACRES unlock my bike, and ride to work. I’m generally allergic to excess Questions? movement, but there’s something about bike riding that gets me going. I’m very liberated by the no- tion that I can convey myself to Ask Dr. Dendtler work with nothing but some alu- minum between my legs. And then there’s the ever-present (and ever- Providing Veterinary Care unfulfilled) hope that so much cy- at cling will give me long, lean gams. But above all, there’s that rarely Dana Rubinstein Kiki’s Pet Spa and Boutique mentioned companionship among riders and drivers and cyclists. There’s the sharing of the road. So it irks me whenever the Fort Greene pro-bike-lane, anti- Dr. Pamella Dendtler bike-lane conflagration flares up — again. The issue’s been a hot potato since July, 2006, when the community board chose Advanced Professional Training© not to support a plan that would add five new miles of bike lanes The Animal Medical Center NYC along Carlton and Willoughby avenues and Cumberland Street. At the meeting, drivers tore into cyclists, cyclists skewered * Vaccinations * Hill’s Prescription Diets drivers. Pedestrians were occasionally deplored, too. Newell the Jewell The kvetching continued this May, when the city went ahead * Skin Disorders * Microchip Implants and painted the bike lanes anyway. And now, after merely five * Dental Care * Surgery months, the partisans are at it again, this time on the local mes- Silent witnesses sage board brooklynian.com. Our shutterbug did such a good job with this shot that this sculpture on the Pratt Institute campus almost looks lifelike. * House Calls * Lab Tests A local blogger named arZan lit the fire this time, when he began a thread by recounting two incidents in which he had “literally been blindsided by cyclists who are traveling in the oppo- 239 Dekalb Ave. site direction of traffic.” (Vanderbilt Ave. & Clermont Ave.) Seems like a legitimate complaint. But then arZan extrapolated that “bicyclists are the worst offenders when it comes to traffic (718) 789-7170 rules. They do not stop at stop signs or lights, cut in and out of traffic at their will and then Hakeem hits Nas for N-word www.sixthaveanimalclinic.com when someone cuts them ON OUR OTHER off, they throw a ruckus.” By Dana Rubinstein manages the pension fund, said Then, a third comment- that the comptroller “is con- er kindled the flames, re- The Brooklyn Paper stoop Behemoth record label Uni- cerned about this issue and is PAGES torting that, “There are just as many idiot pedes- versal Music Group must intending to contact the compa- PARK SLOPE trians.” change the name of rapper ny and urge them not to release Hospital gives back A commenter named Nas’s new album, “Nigger,” or the album.” GOWANUS Daver responded by list- risk losing $84 million in state The fight to quell the use of Fishy eroticism ing the offenders in order investments, a Fort Greene as- the controversial term has been W’MSBURG of worst to best: pedestri- semblyman said this week. gaining ground lately. In Febru- ‘Jolie’ hotel? ans, cyclists and then “[They are] profiting from a ary, the Council passed legisla- drivers. (I wonder which tion urging people not to use BAY RIDGE racial slur that has been used to Owls Head stinks! one he is.) dehumanize people of color for the repugnant racial slur. Sorry if this sounds centuries,” said Assemblyman Jeffries, who was an assistant Lichee misanthropic, but yes, online at BrooklynPaper.com Hakeem Jeffries (D–Fort general counsel at CBS and a RESTAURANT folks, there are jerks out Greene), a former entertainment Nas Hakeem Jeffries lawyer at Viacom before he was Nut there. There are driver jerks. There are pedestrian jerks. There industry big-wig. elected last year, is intent on are cyclist jerks (tons of them). There are also stroller-pushing “It is time for Nas and other money, which at least justifies a Antoine Thompson (D–Buffa- hitting the industry where it jerks, skateboarder jerks, and Vespa jerks. There are even (gasp!) hip-hop artists to clean up their review of the appropriateness of lo) revealed that the New York hurts. wheelchair jerks. act and stop flooding the air- the content that is flooding the State Pension Fund has $2.8 “The [Council made] an im- Chinese Cuisine & That said, the lovely thing about bike riding is the civility it waves with the N-word.” public,” said Jeffries. billion invested in 16 major en- portant symbolic step, but I’m so often induces. Jeffries called on Comptrol- Clinton Miller, of Brown tertainment companies, includ- Vegeterian Nutrition On my way into work today, as I was riding down a bike lane, ler Thomas DiNapoli to with- Memorial Baptist Church, and ing Time Warner and Disney. more interested in the substan- the truck driver behind me patiently waited for a wide enough draw the $84 million that the Jill Merritt, a founder of the That number did not include the tive approach of reviewing the space to pass. When I reached a busy intersection and stopped at state pension fund has invested Abolish the N-Word Project, state’s investment in Vivendi. multi-billion-dollar investment the red light, a driver moving perpendicular to me reached the in Universal and its parent com- joined Jeffries in his condemna- Universal did not respond to that the New York State pen- Fast, Free Delivery same intersection, began slowing down for a yellow light, and pany, Vivendi. tion of the word. a request for comment. A sion fund makes in the enter- waved at me, indicating that I was safe to go. On my way up the “It’s a staggering amount of A recent report by state Sen. spokesman for DiNapoli, who tainment industry.” Open 7 Days A Week elevator at work, as I was toying with my loose seat, a fellow rider offered me a tool with which to tighten it. All that civility in a Party Orders Welcome 15-minute ride! Sure, I could bitch about the vans blocking the bike lane on 15% Senior Discount Carlton Avenue, the drivers passing so close to me that my heart every Tuesday night (dine-in only) stops, the pedestrians apparently unaware that crossing on red in front of a speeding bicycle is dangerous, and the cyclists who Brooklyn Tech gets high tech seem to think that a commute its actually a race to the finish line. But what’s the point? They’re jerks. Screw ’em. “SMART boards,” which allow teachers to anything comparable to this center,” said Man- FREE $10 By Dana Rubinstein DELIVERY min Dana Rubinstein is a staff reporter of The Brooklyn Paper. The Brooklyn Paper project digital images onto enormous touch- dery, whose Foundation obtained $1.8 million sensitive whiteboards at the front of the for the “Instructional Technology Teacher THE KITCHEN SINK Teachers at Brooklyn Tech — the classroom (cool!). Center” from the City Council and alumni. largest math and science themed school in Our former Fort Greene pal Rick Field continues to attain new About 20 of the school’s 120 classrooms The center is even equipped with Apple- heights in the pickling world. This week, Field’s pickle company, the city — are getting schooled in, well, have the capacity to use the software, accord- style Genius Bar featuring techies like John Rick’s Picks, announced that the November issue of O Magazine technology. ing to Michael Mandery, a former Brooklyn Pititto, the center’s director. features a Smokra Cubano, made, of course, with his smoked, pick- The school’s alumni recently installed a Tech principal, an alumnus, and the CEO of “The convenience, you can’t beat it,” said 162 Montague St. led okra. Congrats! … The flying saucer has finally landed on the state-of-the-art technology center to bring the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation. Pititto. “In most schools, people have to Brooklyn Heights the school’s 200-plus teachers up to speed front lawn of 313 Clinton Ave. (between Lafayette and DeKalb The center’s other two rooms will be travel to other locations to learn these things. (718) 522.5565/66 avenues) in anticipation of an alien invasion (just in time for Hal- on the latest technological advances — from used for “research and development” and Here you just walk downstairs and you have loween). Check it out for yourself, if you dare. Mwa-ha-ha-ha! the elementary (e-mail) to more-advanced video editing, among other things. experts to train you. It’s a tremendous, fax (718) 522.1205 (24 hr.) E-mail us at [email protected]. techniques, like the use of so-called “You’d have to go to a university to see tremendous resource.”

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of the Hebrew Alphabet & the Vowels DEPARTING Boerum Hill - Atlantic Avenue & 3rd Avenue 5:45 Boerum Hill 5:45 B. Heights -Tillary St. between 6:00 B. Heights 6:00 3) Atlantic Ave. @ 3rd Ave. - North side of Atlantic at bus stop. SCIENCE FICTION & SPACE EPHEMERA An 11- Week Course in the Series Cadman Plaza East & West 4) Tillary St. - Between Cadman Plaza East & West at H.J. sign near bus shelter. Manorville 7:50 Tanger Outlet 8:00 Brooklyn Service Westbound Drop-off Locations: 1 Trip on 1) Cadman Plaza @ Clark St. - Bus stop shelter west side Southampton 8:15 Riverhead 8:05 Sundays of street (Subway). Letters of Light II Water Mill 8:20 Aquebogue 8:10 Bridgehampton 8:30 Jamesport 8:15 2) Court St. @ Joralemon St. - At bus stop west side of street (Subway). Wainscott 8:35 Laurel 8:20 3) Union St. @ 4th Ave. - At bus stop south side of street. with Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin East Hampton 8:45 Mattituck 8:25 4) Prospect Park West & 2nd St. - At bus stop across from park entrance.

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PROSPECT HEIGHTS, SUNSET PARK stoopWINDSOR TERRACE, KENSINGTON PARK SLOPE In defense of the Food Co-op

waited a few days for the much- heralded debut of the Park Slope PS ... IFood Co-op’s debit card ma- I LOVE YOU chines before heading over to “Zabar’s on the Neva” to check out the checkout process. For days, I’d been reading chatter about the failures of the circa-1992 venue technology, but I ventured forth, picking up this and that before head- th ing for the checkout lines. They rt were, oddly, long, but I waited no more than five minutes. And, yes, the debit machine looked strange Supplies

/ Tom Callan / Tom A and unfamiliar. Out of its usual con- 7 text (at every other bank and store in Louise Crawford the world) it looked almost scary. Finally, I got the nerve to swipe my Citicard and type in my 376 secret code. And lo and behold, it went through quickly. No fuss, Supplies for 7th Ave. no muss. It felt miraculous. I felt relieved. Then worried. I didn’t Paper The Brooklyn (bet. 11th & 12th Sts) even have a good story. Deborah Capone runs Parker’s Place, a child-care center on Seventh Avenue in Windsor Terrace. Here, Capone plays with the Fine Artist, But actually, I did. Improvements at the Co-op are a win-win for Parker Koltchak, 5 (right) and Rory Koltchak, 3. Graphic Artist, members of the most successful cooperative in the United States. Student Change doesn’t come easy — but while cooperative management and Children 369-4969 can be slow and plodding, careful and thoughtful leadership is what makes the Co-op such an economic — and political — miracle. But that’s not the way Peter P. Knight, a columnist for the British magazine Ethical Corporation, sees it. He thinks that the Day-care center in a bind Co-op is a 1960s throwback with (cue the scary music!) Stalin- ist leanings: “Try entering Park Slope Food Co-op and you will Celebrate be challenged by an Alan Ginsberg look-alike. He is the volun- Capone. “The only thing I’m asking for is would need Buildings approval, too.” teer doorman whose job it is to keep non-members out. Woman in red for someone in the city to tell me how to do Buildings Department spokeswoman FLYING SOLO “While the good people at Wal-Mart have ‘How can I help it and help me make it happen.” Kate Lindquist echoed that sentiment. you?’ emblazoned on their backs, Mr. Ginsberg simply uses Capone’s been mired in this Kafka-esque “The departments have different standards,” telepathy to convey his extreme dislike of non-members. … Mr. tape; city says tangle since March, when the Department of she said. “The Buildings Department reviews s Still single or single again? Ginsberg talk to Mr. Trotsky, [who] confered with Mrs. Lenin, Health inspected her proposed site on Sev- applications for compliance with the Building who had to consult Mr. Guevara before I was allowed to inspect enth Avenue between 14th and 15th streets. Code and Zoning Resolution. The Health De- s Recovered from destructive the beet roots and red chard.” it’s her fault The agency OK’d the preliminary architec- partment reviews applications for compliance relationships, but feeling OK, so maybe some Co-op members need to re-read their Emily By Dana Rubinstein tural plans on May 2, according to docu- with health regulations. An owner must meet unfulﬁlled? Post, but you do have to ments obtained by The Brooklyn Paper. the requirements of all applicable laws in order The Brooklyn Paper be a member — or the Confident that she would be able to open to safely operate a nursery school.” s Ambivalent about the ON OUR OTHER guest of a member — to A Windsor Terrace mom has landed in a the pre-school, Capone spent $50,000 — the The city’s move has left Capone, and the dating game? get beyond the Kremlin puddle of bureaucratic spit-up in her effort to money she and her husband had been saving parents of the kids who had attended her school walls. That’s the point! open an affordably priced pre-school in the up for the purchase of a house — to install for the past few weeks, in a difficult bind. stoop The Co-op owes its suc- s Ready to dispel the myths heart of the South Slope — a neighborhood bamboo floors and put recycled-rubber safe- “It’s so hard to find child care in Park PAGES around the search for Mr./ "Oh, Helen-I saw the counselor cess to the fact that mem- notoriously devoid of day-care options. ty mats in the backyard. Slope,” said Graci Moore, who sends her 3- today, and he told me to start bers are required to work paying more attention to you." FORT GREENE The Department of Health swooped in Capone may have been counting her Sippy year-old son to Parker’s Place. Ms. Right? Hakeem fights Nas! — and you can’t buy (or and shut down the fledgling Parker’s Place Cups before they were washed. That’s because “Capone is offering child care at a reason- cheat) your way in. GOWANUS pre-school on Oct. 16 while 11 tykes were she still needed to get a certificate of occupan- able rate,” said Moore. “There’s very little s Internet bringing up duds? Granted, if you add Fishy eroticism napping inside, citing the operator’s lack of cy from the Department of Buildings. care in this neighborhood, unless you hire a up the time you spend Alas, the department wouldn’t grant her nanny, which is $600 a week. I don’t know s Struggling with the notions of "being alone"? W’MSBURG dealing with crowded a permit. ‘Jolie’ hotel? But the operator, Deborah Capone, is that C of O because only one of the center’s what working mothers are supposed to do.” aisles waiting on lines three exits leads directly onto the sidewalk. While parents wait for the Department of and working your two- fighting back. Not only were all the tykes’ BAY RIDGE parents aware of her permit status, claims The other two lead into the building’s hallway. Buildings to relent, Capone continues to pay Owls Head stinks! hour-and-45-minute GROUP FORMING FALL ‘07 “It sounds like this individual just got $4,500 a month in rent. Her landlord is con- monthly shift, you’ll be Capone, but she blames the city’s morass of ahead of herself,” said Sara Markt, a Depart- sidering letting her create a fourth entrance, 10 Week Group Workshop online at BrooklynPaper.com forced to admit that this seemingly contradictory bureaucratic regu- ment of Health spokeswoman. “We made it one that will lead directly to the sidewalk — may not be the most-ef- lations for her lack of that same permit. for those meeting the challenge of “I want to open my doors ASAP,” said very clear from the outset that the operator if her finances can hold out that long. ficient way to get cheap produce and great buys on organic “FLYING SOLO” foods. But more often than not, the Park Slope Food Co-op is a remarkable and well-oiled machine. Perfect? Far from it. But calling it a hangout for Marxist wannabees is just silly. Erma Globerman, LCSW It is what it is: A supermarket that is trying to be an earnest Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn and well-meaning experiment in idealistic living. As we say in Brooklyn, You got a problem with that, Knight? Methodist gives back parking Phone: 718-768-3636 Louise Crawford, our own SmartMom, lives in Park Slope and Email: [email protected] writes “Only the blog knows Brooklyn.” By Dana Rubinstein and Eighth avenues, into a no- And the negotiations began. THE KITCHEN SINK The Brooklyn Paper parking and no-standing zone, The hospital offered to give It was like reliving the Election of 2000 all over again last week- giving ambulances freedom of back nine of the 30 comman- 100% Recycled New York Methodist Hos- movement on the often-con- deered spots. Neighbors said end at the hard-fought chili contest at the PS 107 Fall Festival. pital has backtracked on a & FSC Papers Dozens of people sampled 12 chili varieties — all made by school gested block. “not enough.” Methodist of- plan that would have turned The hospital presented the fered to give back 20. Vegetable Inks parents — but when the votes were tallied, it was clear that one 30 neighborhood parking plan in 2006 to the community Deal. with Low VOCs chili benefitted from a stuffed ballot box. In the end, Laura As- spots into a “no-standing” board, which approved the And then the neighbors went mundsson’s chickpea chili and Crystal Halley’s overly sweet We Print Stuff Chemical-Free zone reserved for ambulances measure and sent its recom- silent. Fearful of angering the CTP Production version split the top honors. Many people were stuffed to the gills — defusing a confrontation mendation to the Department of hospital and spoiling the agree- with the chili, but few were satisfied with the results, our spy said. with nearby residents. Transportation, which had the ment, none of them would go Printed with … The Park Slope Civic Council’s annual “Clean Walk to That confrontation began on final say. on the record with The Brook- Wind Power School” starts on Oct. 29, which means it’s time to pick up every Oct. 16, when residents awoke And that was that. Or so the lyn Paper. piece of trash between your home and your kid’s school. Our edi- to find signs forbidding all hospital thought. But Hill confirmed that there tor is starting with those bags of dog poop that keep showing up / Julie Rosenberg parking along a street where When the plan was imple- was indeed a detente. Brochures about three feet from his garbage can. Remember our mantra, “If they’d left their vehicles for mented last Tuesday, an uproar “When the neighbors were SPMMJOH!QSFTT you miss the bin, it’s a sin.” … Assemblywoman Joan Millman years. ensued, and that evening, upset about some of the parts of an environmentally-friendly Postcards gets kudos for allocating $100,000 towards keeping J.J. Byrne It was part of a plan by the neighbors met with hospital of- the plan, we adjusted it,” said boutique print house Park and the Old Stone House in good condition. hospital to turn most of the ficials, including Lyn Hill, the Hill. “We tried to be good Catalogs

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DEPARTING Boerum Hill - Atlantic Avenue & 3rd Avenue 5:45 Boerum Hill 5:45 B. Heights -Tillary St. between 6:00 B. Heights 6:00 3) Atlantic Ave. @ 3rd Ave. - North side of Atlantic at bus stop. SCIENCE FICTION & SPACE EPHEMERA Cadman Plaza East & West 4) Tillary St. - Between Cadman Plaza East & West at H.J. sign near bus shelter. Manorville 7:50 Tanger Outlet 8:00 Brooklyn Service Westbound Drop-off Locations: 1 Trip on 1) Cadman Plaza @ Clark St. - Bus stop shelter west side Southampton 8:15 Riverhead 8:05 Sundays Water Mill 8:20 Aquebogue 8:10 of street (Subway). Bridgehampton 8:30 Jamesport 8:15 2) Court St. @ Joralemon St. - At bus stop west side of street (Subway). Wainscott 8:35 Laurel 8:20 3) Union St. @ 4th Ave. - At bus stop south side of street. East Hampton 8:45 Mattituck 8:25 4) Prospect Park West & 2nd St. - At bus stop across from park entrance.

RRIVING 5) 9th St. & 4th Ave. - Bus stop in front of St. Thomas Aquinas Church (249 9th Street.)

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The Brooklyn Paper how they felt about possible run, as Golden That’s because the study revealed that the odor can’t be com- There was no October surprise for state exited the stage to chants of “Mayor Marty.” STAIR LIFTS pletely controlled. As we reported last March, Golden has “The simple truth is that there is no way to completely stop Sen. Marty Golden — but he sure raised a BLOOMY lot of money. definitely dipped his toe in the Republican- the odors,” said R.J. spokesman Farrell Melnick. “Sewage just light mayoral waters for 2009, but he hasn’t FREE Estimate stinks.” Mayor Bloomberg was the guest of hon- in the’hood! fully jumped in. His flirtation with a run for So, where does this leave residents of Bay Ridge? Stewing in or at an Oct. 17 fundraiser for Golden and in-home other people’s poop, that’s where. (R–Bay Ridge) at Gargiulo’s in Coney Is- City Hall led some — including this reporter Owls Head ingests the poop of 758,007 Brooklyn residents, land — and the $500-per-plate dinner raised said Golden spokesman John Quaglione. — to speculate that Golden would announce consultation most of whom do not live in Bay Ridge (forever doing away a whopping $300,000 for Golden’s still-un- Mayor Bloomberg didn’t endorse Gold- his candidacy at the fundraiser with the cur- with the conventional wisdom that whoever smelt it dealt it). declared candidacy. en, but he also didn’t disappoint the heavily rent mayor. FREE Installation That much poop in one place has to stink, right? Wrong. 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Printed with If Bay Ridge could somehow convince the rest of Brooklyn of a $13,000 study unveiled at Many also believed that any- Wind Power to take two “Whiff” pills a day, residents who live down by the last Monday’s Community thing that smelled that bad had shore could begin to crack their windows again. Board 10 meeting. to be toxic, so they were re- The ideas are endless (my favorites are to dissolve “Whiff” in “The odors are not a source lieved to discover that they Brooklyn’s water supply or pass a poop-surcharge on all meats, of dangerous chemical or bio- were only inhaling harmeless Brochures which contain the compounds that make poop smell the worst). logical emissions,” said Farrell human waste. SPMMJOH!QSFTT But any way you twist it, the existence of such a drug should Melnick, a spokesman for R.J. 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Brooklyn’s Best chairman) Craig Eaton was recognized on Monday for his per- Marathon traffic for VZ • On Sunday — race day — fect attendance — but Eaton wasn’t on hand to receive the ku- the lower lanes get into the act, dos! … The board also renewed the sidewalk cafe permit for for The Brooklyn Paper • The upper level of the effectively closing the bridge Paneantico Bakery Café on Third Avenue near 91st Street. Runners aren’t the only bridge will be closed in both for most of the morning: What a surprise — Paneantico’s supplied board members with ones who will suffer during directions from 11 pm on Sat- Brooklyn-bound lanes will be free coffee, marble cake, and other snacks at the meeting! … The next weekend’s Marathon. urday to 3 pm on Sunday, to closed from 8 am to 1 pm, Brooklyn Young Republican Club has begun an online peti- The 26-mile race requires permit roadway preparations while Staten Island–bound HOTEL tion drive to stop Gov. 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recent report by the Environ- mental Protection Agency sug- BESIDE 376 A gests that the infamous New- THE POINT Supplies for 7th Ave. town Creek oil spill may well be (bet. 11th & 12th Sts) much larger than the 17-million the Fine Artist, gallons spilled by the Exxon Valdez Graphic Artist, (“Bigger than the Exxon Valdez!”) Student in 1979. and Children 369-4969 Neighborhood and media reaction to the report, however, suggest that the hysteria (“Leaking toxins into homes!”) over the spill may also be several times larger than previously thought. Before you grab a pitchfork, torch and Erin Brockovich and de- scend upon my Greenpoint home, STAIR LIFTS let me make it clear that I, too, am Tom GIlbert Moon / Richard angry about the spill, which apparently extends to within a few blocks of where I have raised two FREE Estimate children and countless tomatoes. I’m also livid over the govern- and in-home ment inaction that has produced such a slow and inadequate consultation

cleanup. (Further disclosure: I have not joined any of the spill- Paper The Brooklyn related lawsuits now under way.) Crowds on the L train will be thinner, thanks to enhanced service, transit officials say. My problem is all the crazy, overblown speculation that the FREE Installation oil spill is causing cancer, asthma and other horrible diseases (“Cancer cluster!”). We Greenpointers have a well-earned repu- FREE Delivery tation for losing it and overreacting when feeling put upon by the powerful — remember the demolition of the gas tanks in 2001? Perhaps what is needed here is calm consideration of some facts. So I sat down and read the 85-page EPA report, which begins An L of a good time! DERMER by pointing out that the biggest environmental threat to New- PHARMACY & SURGICAL town Creek is not oil seepage, but the Newtown Creek sewage politan Transportation Authority said. The Brooklyn Paper discovered after • 2064 Flatbush Ave. • (718) 377-4900 treatment plant, the outflow from which (“Zero oxygen!”) is By Adam F. Hutton And it’s long overdue. Since 1998, rider- squeezing onto a packed L train at Lorimer making an ecological comeback for the creek a long shot. The Brooklyn Paper ship on the L has increased by 48 percent, Street on Tuesday morning and asked On the topic of the Who doesn’t like Mondays? The much- health consequences to and straphangers say it is too crowded dur- around. ballyhooed expansion of service on the L ing rush hour, according to the MTA’s latest “It’s horrible,” said Williamsburg resident 100% Recycled ON OUR OTHER people of exposure to train — long sought by Billyburgers and & FSC Papers petroleum products, the survey. Melisa Vargas. “It’s crowded, you have to Greenpointers — will start with the first The changes could not be implemented wait forever. I guess it’s good that they’re Vegetable Inks report states: rush-hour of the work week. stoop “There are four possi- until the MTA upgraded the line’s electron- adding trains, but I don’t think it would with Low VOCs PAGES According to the Metropolitan Trans- ics. make a huge difference.” ble primary public health We Print Stuff Chemical-Free portation Authority, starting on Oct. 29, “The old signal system prevented us from Dace Morris, a Billyburger who works at CTP Production PARK SLOPE exposure routes that are trains will run about three-and-a-half min- Hospital gives back typically associated with adding the amount of service necessary to a public relations firm in Manhattan, said he utes apart — shaving 30 seconds off the cur- meet demand,” said New York City Transit usually waits for the rush-hour crowds to Printed with GOWANUS petroleum spills: Vapor rent interval during the weekday morning Wind Power intrusion from the chem- President Howard Roberts. dissipate before he starts his commute. Fishy eroticism rush. Service will also be expanded in mid- icals found in petroleum; “Now, we can finally provide relief for “It’s nearly impossible to get on a train December when trains will run every six FORT GREENE contaminated drinking our riders.” between 7:30 and 9:15 because it’s too minutes instead of eight between 10:30 am Hakeem fights Nas! water wells that provide Even sometimes-critical transit watch- crowded,” he said. Brochures and 3 pm, during the week. SPMMJOH!QSFTT a public drinking water dogs Gene Russianoff, president of the For Morris, overcrowding is merely an an environmentally-friendly BAY RIDGE New York City Transit is also adding L- Postcards Owls Head stinks! source; ingestion of fish Straphangers Campaign, said the planned inconvenience, but for silversmith Ryan boutique print house from contaminated wa- train service on the weekends. On Satur- increase in service is significant. Matthew, who lives in Greenpoint, it’s Catalogs days, between 9 am and 7 pm, trains will “This is more than window dressing,” frightening. online at BrooklynPaper.com ters or food products Magazines made from or with the run every five minutes, as compared to Russianoff said. “Whether it’s enough, only “I’m claustrophobic, so I have to wait for every six or seven minutes now. Sunday time will tell. Williamsburg and Greenpoint two or three trains to go by just so I can get Marketing contaminated waters; and/or dermal contact from seeps which 718 625 6800 T transport the petroleum to either the surface soil or surface waters.” service will also be expanded. are hot neighborhoods, so it might not be to Manhattan,” Matthew said. “I’ve lived in Collateral It’s the largest expansion of service to a enough.” Greenpoint for three years and all the trains 718 625 0669 F As we do not drink from, swim in, or eat seafood (“Mutant www.rollingpress.com Etc. fish!”) caught in Newtown Creek, we only have to worry about single subway line since 2004, the Metro- Riders certainly don’t think it will be, as out here suck, but the L is the worst.” the first route. he good news in a recent Department of Environmental Conservation report that tested residential blocks above the T spill area is that there is no evidence of either oil or dangerous vapors seeping up into people’s homes. This stands to reason, as the spilled oil tends to lie deep underground, capped by a Hipsters’ parents get own rooms nearly impermeable layer of clay. To consider the question from another direction: what dis- Le Jolie and Le Bleu won’t be the eases are known to be caused by exposure to petroleum products By Mike McLaughlin The Brooklyn Paper only new places to hang your hipster and are these diseases common in Greenpoint? fedora. More than 500 hotel rooms will The main danger in crude oil and associated vapors is ben- If you want your parents to visit be added to the borough by the end of zene, which can cause leukemia and other cancers. The state De- you in Williamsburg this holiday sea- the year, and other projects might add Lichee partment of Health maintains a cancer registry that is broken son, but you don’t want their stay to as many as 3,000 in the coming years. down by city, borough and neighborhood. According to the most interfere with your band’s rehearsal But are too many being built? For RESTAURANT recent statistics, Greenpoint has a lower incidence of cancer than in the living room, then your life will Brooklyn’s hotel developers, it’s hard Nut New York State and New York City; it is lower than Williams- become simpler in the a few weeks to say. burg and most surrounding neighborhoods — even lower than when Hotel Le Jolie becomes the Sam Chang, who brought the low- the Upper East Side of Manhattan. first hotel in North Brooklyn in end Holiday Inn Express and Comfort Chinese Cuisine & If you look at leukemia only, the incidence rates in Green- decades. Inn to two gritty blocks near the Go- Vegeterian Nutrition point are 10.7 cases per 100,000 males and 4.9 cases per Le Jolie, on Meeker Street hard by wanus Canal, thinks there are now 100,000 females, compared to 12.3 and 7.2 in Williamsburg, the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway, is enough beds for all of Brooklyn’s 13.4 and 8.8 in the city as a whole, and 16.6 and 10.1 in New filling a void in a neighborhood with weary travelers. York State. hundreds of bars, restaurants, galleries “I definitely stopped buying in Fast, Free Delivery The Department of Health breaks down these numbers for 25 and music venues, but nowhere to Brooklyn,” said Chang. “Three thou- different types of cancer and there is not one category in which shelter visitors besides the nearby sand rooms is enough.” Open 7 Days A Week Greenpoint is higher, within statistical significance, than the Greenpoint YMCA. But Chang has erred on the side of Party Orders Welcome citywide numbers. In other words, none of the types of cancer “There was a wait-and-see attitude caution before. He said it has been measured is more common in Greenpoint than in the city as a with Williamsburg, but now there’s a easy to rent rooms in the Holiday Inn whole. And you are less likely to get any type of cancer if you 15% Senior Discount great need for a hotel, because of how for about $200, although he budgeted every Tuesday night (dine-in only) live in Greenpoint. hot it is,” said Robert Gaeta, general them for $120. Some have speculated that breathing petroleum vapors causes manager of Le Jolie and its more up- Others in the hospitality business asthma. Medical science has not established a proven cause for scale sister hotel, the still-hasn’t- are optimistic. asthma, but let’s look at the statistics anyway. According to the opened-yet Hotel Le Bleu on Fourth “I think if you look at the numbers, FREE $10 Health Department statistics for the year 2000, in the city as a Avenue in Park Slope. there is room for more,” said Gene DELIVERY min whole, 6.06 children (14 and under) per 1,000 were hospitalized Like Le Bleu, Le Jolie is a “bou- Kaufman, the architect behind the with asthma. The highest asthma rate for any neighborhood was tique” hotel with 56 rooms renting for Sheraton and A-loft hotels that are pro- East Harlem’s 17.18 per 1,000; the lowest rate was Borough $200–$350 per night, despite being on Moon / Richard posed for Duffield Street. Park’s 1.31 per 1,000. Brooklyn’s overall rate was 5.45. The rate an obscure block. Still, Gaeta thinks Those numbers are based on the for Williamsburg/Bushwick was 9.89. the borough needs more hotels like it. concerted effort to lure more business 162 Montague St. What about Greenpoint? It was 2.08 asthma hospitalizations “Brooklyn lacks a luxury brand as travelers and tourists away from Man- per 1,000 — the second-lowest rate in Brooklyn and one of the an alternative to the [Brooklyn] Mar- hattan and into Brooklyn’s new meet- Brooklyn Heights lowest neighborhood rates in the city. riott,” Gaeta said at a Chamber of Paper The Brooklyn ing and event spaces. (718) 522.5565/66 Does this really prove that living in Greenpoint is good for Commerce forum last week about the Does the Hotel Le Jolie, on Meeker Street, live “Atlantic Yards will lend itself to a fax (718) 522.1205 (24 hr.) you? Possibly not, but neither is there any real evidence that hotel industry. up to its fancy French name? need for more hotels,” said Gaeta. living here will make you sick — unless you let the hysteria get to you. Tom Gilbert is a writer and historian who lives in Greenpoint. THE KITCHEN SINK More than 100 people attended a vigil on Union Avenue on For the BEST local coverage of Sunday night for Craig Murphey, the cyclist who was killed last Thursday. Murphey, 26, killed when his bicycle collided with a truck last week. He worked with the West Harlem Action Net- work Against Poverty and founded a scheme to bring fresh produce to low income communities. “He always put people ahead of himself,” a friend Greg Bersnitz, told Metro. “People often talk WILLIAMSBURG, GREENPOINT & BUSHWICK about doing that. But he lived it.” Following the procession, Mur- phey’s friends gathered around a ghost bike memorial at Ten Eyck Street and Union Avenue. They laid candles and flow- ers and told stories about Murphey’s life. … Schneider Chil- dren’s Hospital, opened a pediatric specialty center in Williams- burg on Oct. 9. The new facility is at 158 Broadway. For more read information, call (718) 302-0164. … Rumor has it that the classic Greenpoint luncheonette on the corner of Nassau Av- enue and North Henry Street will soon be taken over by the Dumont empire .… The other night I saw Allan Gilbert (no relation) catch an amazing three stripers in about 45 minutes at the Hunter’s Point fishing pier while we all looked on in awe. to ADVERTISE call Howard Swengler: (718) 834-9350 E-mail us at [email protected]. 4 DTZ THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 October 27, 2007 Armed robbery at job site in C’Gardens By Harry Cheadle Street on Oct. 16. ers were stolen from a Main The 20-year-old victim, who for The Brooklyn Paper The victim told cops that she Street office building. lives on the first floor of her was near West Ninth Street at POLICE BLOTTER The office, located between building, near Park Avenue, set around 4 pm when the gang of Front and Water streets, was Court crash her laptop by her window around 76th Precinct hooligans struck. locked for the night by an em- 2 pm. She went to bed without ployee around 7 pm. When the giving it a second thought, but Three gun-toting masked One of the men hit her in the building, near Clark Street, week. In the first case, on the face and grabbed her cellphone, around 7 pm. He was no doubt night of Oct. 15, an unknown doors were opened the next when she woke up at 11:30 the men robbed workers rehabbing morning at 9:45, three computers next day, it was gone. a house on Fourth Place be- before the group ran off. looking forward to unwinding perp broke into a Washington Police said that the victim with his PlayStation 3 and his Street building and took a were missing. The silver lining in There was no sign of a tween Henry and Clinton this cloud is that all of the stolen forced entry, and the woman streets on Oct. 18, police said. didn’t get a look at the men be- $1,000 collection of games, but brand-new laptop. The doors fore they ran off. were locked at 5 pm, but when machines were over a year old, theorized that someone could The armed men, clad in when he got to his door, he dis- meaning that their combined val- — with Ariella Cohen the first employee arrived at 8 have removed the screen from white facemasks and ski caps, covered that the lock had been ue was only $1,470. pried open. Worse, the thief had am the next morning, a DVD her window and slipped the entered the construction site There was no sign of forced computer out through the bars and demanded cash from the 84th Precinct pilfered not only the games and drive and a new laptop had van- Mango P. / Gregory ished from the room where the entry, but surveillance cameras without making much noise. workers at 5:30 pm. All three the PlayStation 3, but also a did catch the perp in the act, a robbers carried silver revolvers. handheld gaming system and office keeps its gadgets. Mall rat Game over A total of $1,300 in goods large man in a white hooded ski They fled with $2,035 and A video game enthusiast had two iBook computers. jacket. His face was not visible A mall beauty boutique was another $1,000 in foreign cur- was stolen, and the employee robbed of $600 worth of mer- $7,000 worth of electronic DUMBO burglars said that the perp likely had a under the hood, cops said.

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Six people were injured — none seriously near Atlantic Avenue, came men in broad daylight Smith 9:30 am and returned to his There were two incidents last as three nearly obsolete comput- red-haired, freckled man. — in a chain of events that began when the driver of the around 2 pm, when an employ- The 42-year-old victim was double-parked car was asked to move. Problem is, she does- ee went into the storage area walking on Pacific Street around n’t have a driver’s license. It shows. and noticed a door open, the Featuring: noon. He got to the corner of lightbulb out, and a man flee- Fourth Avenue when three men ing. Further inspection revealed Japanese, An Award Winning Agency! he had never seen before that his luxury sedan had been that five gift bags and a $100 grabbed him from behind and Wacko cuffed Chinese, An apparently deranged attacked — the back window hooded sweatshirt had been began punching him. 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he long — and as yet unfulfilled — hope into his office towers there. Building must be seen as a for a lively Downtown Brooklyn took a He did. But he’s refused to wake-up call to the developers Thuge step forward this week when the rent much of the space for re- who are building skyscrapers Downtown Brooklyn Partnership called on the tail use — and has even re- on Flatbush Avenue — itself city to put stores in the ground floor of the placed retail tenants to make an almost nonstop dead zone dour Municipal Building at the busy corner of room for more office space. from the Brooklyn Academy Court and Joralemon streets. As a result, the Metrotech of Music to the Manhattan By calling the corner “dead space” in our campus — which to this day Bridge. The only way to real- Page 1 article this week, Partnership President is cited as a model by our Rat- ize the city’s stated dream of a Joe Chan has done more than show support for ner-loving elected officials — new — and vibrant — Down- an underutilized corner of an under-retailed is a walled-in fortress that town corridor is if each and part of Brooklyn. He also sent a message — a mocks what a Downtown every one of those buildings long-overdue one — to real-estate developers should be. After business has ample ground-floor retail. who have ignored what is the most-basic rule hours, when Ratner’s office If Chan’s vision takes hold, of development in a highly populated, well- workers go home, Metrotech someday pedestrians will trafficked area: make sure there is ground-floor becomes barren. And even stroll and browse shops along Downtown czar Joe Chan retail. during the day, when those a newly revitalized Flatbush It was the violation of this common-sense workers get a break and could Avenue and at the current rule that led to the “dead space” at Bruce Rat- go shopping or grab lunch, the sterile campus dead zone at Joralemon and Court. ner’s Metrotech complex between Jay Street actually encourages them to stay put in their We’re pleased that someone with a vision and Flatbush Avenue Extension. buildings or leave the campus entirely. — and the potential to shake up City Hall — It’s not that Ratner didn’t build storefronts Chan’s call for retail at the Municipal shares our view. Cristian Fleming

LETTERS Once again, the world reacts to ‘Graffiti Girl’

To the editor, Times would begrudgingly admit that Brook- Editor’s note: While we appreciate Johnson’s opin- the market because the owner passed away. If chalk is written on the sidewalk in New lyn was part of New York City, that Park ion, we are still urging people to enter our “Big Tur- The last holdout was forced to sell because They’re so polite! York, and it’s the parents’ property then it’s a Slope was really great (“Game over: Park key” Thanksgiving Dinner contest. See www.Brook- her quality of life was going to be destroyed, lynPaper.com/Turkey for information. To the editor, Delivery Opt out child’s art. But if it’s public or private proper- Slope is B’klyn’s best nabe,” Oct. 20). as well as her property values. This woman In “The Great Green Way in DUMBO” (Oct. Every week, we deliver copies of The ty and the city wants it removed, then it’s It was not perfect by any means, but it was wanted to stay in her house, but what would 20), write, “Its new location … will be the first Brooklyn Paper to homes in designated graffiti (“Defiant Tot: I’ll tag again!” Oct. 20). great. The time was the late 1970s and 1980s. Intifada redux her house have been like with a concrete performing arts space in the nation recognized Brooklyn neighborhoods. Our unique sys- Anyone who thinks otherwise is a moron! People were generally neighborly, courteous, monstrosity next door? by the Green Building Council for its energy tem limits deliveries to just a few papers The question here is, who owns the sur- helpful, friendly and mindful. To the editor, Lysiak’s tone is incredibly selfish. Does he per building (eliminating the kind of clutter efficient, environmental friendly design.” caused by circular and menu delivery serv- face being written upon? If I own it and don’t Bob Ohlerking, Park Slope In “Gibran founder asks to run school,” speak about the lawsuit against Basile from The Gerding Theater at the Armory, in (Oct. 20), you seem to side with those who ices). We hope everyone appreciates our want chalk on it, then it’s my call, not yours! those in another of his buildings in Bay Ridge? Portland, Oregon, was awarded LEED Plat- free home delivery, but realize that there If I key or scratch the length of your car, you criticize the “Intifada NYC” T-shirts (Oct. 20). No, he did not research that. All he cares about inum status by the US Green Building Coun- will be exceptions. So, if you’ve received would be the first to demand accountability Irrelevant clock? Could you please tell me why the “Intifada is finding an affordable place to live even if it cil in September, 2006. It was the first LEED The Paper at home and no longer want this and restitution, wouldn’t you?! To the editor, NYC” T-shirts are somehow more offensive means knocking down expensive, irreplace- Platinum building on the National Register of free service, we’ve made it easy for you to Jay Beswick, Los Angeles The clock you mentioned in your story than the T-shirts worn by millions of Ameri- able properties and displacing our seniors. “opt out” of home delivery. We’ve also Historic Places and the first Platinum theater. made it easy for you to report any prob- To the editor, (“Time for a change” Park Slope edition and can teenagers that feature the now-iconic pic- Many of us have lived in Bay Ridge a I’m not knocking DUMBO’s new build- ture of Che Guevara, the anti-colonialist Latin lems with deliveries (including missed deliv- Oh my God, I just can’t believe it! The online, Oct. 20) is hardly a landmark. long time. We have struggled through reces- ing at all, just pointing out that it wasn’t the ery, or too many papers being delivered). greatest nation in the world has become the Plus, no one would say “Meet at the American militant leader? sions, red-lining and flight from our neigh- first. Christopher Smith, Portland, OR To “opt out,” please complete the simple sickest, the coldest, and most intolerable clock.” They would just say, “Meet at Flat- The fact that Department of Education ul- borhood, but we prevailed and preserved online form at: place to live in the world. bush and Sixth Avenue.” timately accommodated the fanatics who some of our community. www.BrooklynPaper.com/about/opt-out/. I am so sorry for you Americans, people I Alex Holdsworth, Park Slope called for Debbie Almontaser’s resignation is A lot of Bay Ridge was built in the Victo- Feral ‘Pussycat’? (We will do our best to honor your request within two weeks.) learned to love and to admire. I am so sorry a sad commentary on the pandering politics rian era. Am I to believe that Bay Ridge To the editor, you have such abusive laws, laws that blind of Brooklyn. Leila Kawar, Fort Greene should be demolished to make way for the Every time I pass MS 51 on Fifth Avenue you to the sweetest things, the simplest Birds hate turkey day carpetbaggers who come here when times are in Park Slope, I feel saddened and disgusted. things, the innocent things. To the editor, good, but couldn’t have cared less about New The school seems to be the epitome of what Send a letter Maria Alves, Minas Gerais State, Brazil I hate to quibble with the facts of a newspa- ‘Selfish’ Lysiak York when times were bad? I was raised to a great urban public school should be. per that promotes Vegetarian Week on its front To the editor, believe that everything we do impacts others. Why am I disgusted? Because Pink Pussy- By e-mail: [email protected] page and publishes a fine essay about the Once again, your Bay Ridge columnist, I would venture that most Bay Ridgites were cat Boutique, an erotic toys and supplies store By mail: Letters, The Brooklyn Paper, Slope was great scarcity of veggie restaurants in the Heights, Matthew Lysiak, is incorrect (“Victorian era raised with the same belief. It’s what holds with its jaded, sexually explicit window dis- 55 Washington St., Brooklyn, NY 11201. To the editor, but the comment that “everyone loves Thanks- ends in Bay Ridge?” Bay Ridge edition and this community together. plays, remains front and center, across the By fax: (718) 834-9278. online, Oct. 20). As those of us who have lived in Park giving” would have to include an exception Must we sacrifice all to appease a few street from the school! I have seen students at All letters must be signed and include Slope for a long time and restored its great- for the millions of beautiful birds who are Far from being a benign presence, Basile spoiled individuals? It’s a shame that Lysiak lunch break gathered in front of the store, look- the writer’s home address and phone ness can tell you, there was once a time be- raised in terrible conditions and slaughtered for Builders often buys a middle property or a is so dogmatic that he cannot see the bigger ing in at the window display, and I have heard number (only the writer’s name and fore the award-givers would brave a visit, be- our dining table and holidays each year (“Gob- house just off the corner and then tries to pres- picture. The neighborhood that he claims to boys and girls discussing what was sold inside. neighborhood are published with the let- fore New York magazine would tell ble up big turkey,” contest, Oct. 20). sure neighbors on either side to sell. I think one love is being destroyed. I am no prude, but having such a store in ter). Letters may be edited and will not Manhattanites that Park Slope was a really For your health and humaneness, go veg- could call it a form of block-busting. Go Nero, play on the roof while Rome an immediate school zone is absolutely un- be returned. The earlier in the week you good place to live, before The New York gie! Wayne Johnson, Brooklyn Heights In this case, the middle property was on burns. Victoria Hofmo, Bay Ridge conscionable. Lori Adler, Windsor Terrace send your letter, the better.

Open School Week: An Opportunity for Parents and Teachers to Work Together

By Randi Weingarten

very year around this time the and independence in decision-making given to kids at school to take home to New York City public school but they also are being held more ac- parents. It is also being distributed to Esystem schedules Open School countable for the academic perfor- various community organizations and Week, a series of afternoons and eve- mance of their students, meaning their neighborhood libraries to reach the A picture of carbon monoxide nings set aside for parents to visit their careers are on the line. And in this age broadest possible audience. as it may appear in a typical home. children’s schools to meet with their of accountability with three potentially teachers and other school personnel. competing accountability systems on The Open School Week dates are: The term is a bit of a misnomer because the national, state and local levels, it is not literally a single week but rath- teachers and students feel more and er a period of several days spread out more like the only things that matter s The evening of Thursday, October over late October and mid-November are their test scores. 25, and the afternoon of Friday, to accommodate the work schedules of October 26, for parents of high as many parents as possible. The only way to both ensure that we school students. keep our focus on teaching and learn- s The evening of Wednesday, No- The United Federation of Teachers, ing in the fullest sense of those terms vember 7, and the afternoon of the union representing public school is to ask parents to take as active a role Thursday, November 8, for parents educators in the city, has always en- as possible in their children’s educa- of special education or District 75 couraged parents to take advantage of tion and work with teachers. When we students. this opportunity to meet with teach- strengthen the parent-teacher partner- s The afternoon of Tuesday, Novem- ers, guidance counselors and principals ship we help kids both at school and ber 13, and the evening of Wednes- to learn how their children are doing at home. day, November 14, for parents of in school and where they need to im- prove. This partnership is crucial because elementary school students. neither parents nor teachers alone can s The evening of Monday, November But there is a growing sense of ur- address all the needs of children partic- 19, and the afternoon of Tuesday, gency for more parental involvement ularly in this new environment. Both November 20, for parents of in- this year because of a number of fac- parties must work together to help kids termediate and junior high school Just because you can’t see it, or smell it for that matter, doesn’t mean carbon tors: cope with the challenges of increased students. monoxide isn’t there. Clogged chimneys, faulty vent pipes or inadequate venting academic demands and expectations, of appliances can cause an undetected buildup of carbon monoxide in your home, The New York City public school sys- the growing inﬂuence of gangs in some Educators hope parents across the no matter what kind of heating fuel you use. This is especially true if you’ve recently installed insulation, had major renovations done or have enclosed your heating tem has received an unprecedented schools and crime on the streets be- city will take advantage of this oppor- infusion of resources in terms of state tween school and home. system. And that’s dangerous. Carbon monoxide exposure can lead to coughing, tunity to discuss ways to help kids suc- education aid, and the elected ofﬁcials headaches, dizziness, nausea, blurry vision and ringing in the ears. And in excessive ceed. With parents and teachers work- who helped secure that aid - as well as Parents across the city will soon amounts, it can be fatal. ing together to forge new partnerships parents, newspaper editorial writers, receive a newspaper-like guide pub- To safeguard your home, have your chimney and heating system checked regularly. conservative critics of public education lished by the United Federation of or strengthening existing ones, kids And make all necessary repairs. You can also purchase a carbon monoxide detector. and the general public - want to see re- Teachers that lists the dates for Open stand a much better chance of both They are required by law in New York City residential buildings. Make sure it’s sults that justify the extra aid. School Week and explains how parents dreaming their dreams and achieving UL- or IAS-listed, and follow the manufacturer’s installation and operating can make the most of it. The guide is them. After all, isn’t that what school- instructions carefully. Principals now have greater authority available in six languages and is being ing is all about? If you suspect you’ve been exposed to carbon monoxide, get outside to fresh air, then dial 911. You can’t see or smell carbon monoxide, but with KeySpan and a little ADVERTISEMENT careful planning, you’ll always breathe easy. 6 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 October 27, 2007 Green building goes dark Yards shadows KO plan for solar power

By Dana Rubinstein completed across the street. eclipses significant por- MARKOWITZ OK AFTER The Brooklyn Paper “We were going to have solar panels, tions of the building in all HEART SCARE • H B OW M ROOK ARTY’S DIET CA four seasons,” added de la LYN’ S REA but the shadows from Atlantic Yards L NEW Republican Civil Court candidate Jim A cadre of local elected officials SPA N SAV Inc PE luding RS The B E YOU rookly Publish n He R LIFE Uz. ed eve ight ry Sat s Pa P6 urday — per, onlin Carr e all th oll G would make solar power basically irrel- e time arde — by ns- broke ground on what will be Brook- Brook Cobb ly l McCall made it to a debate at a gay De- n Pap e H er Publ ill Pa ications per, Inc, 5 DUM 5 Wash BO

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See ho one gr SIFIE A d w co aduate DS P a T y of th llege an showe 19 fig e resto d high d p re ary, a Pratt Institute analysisL revealedht o fth s h d BROO By Gersh Kuntzman can’t have confidence in my op- After listening to McCall’s that the 16 skyscrapers of the Atlantic The Brooklyn Paper ponent. If I’m the 800-pound go- promise to be fair, several politicos rilla in the room, [Dear] is King called for Lambda to make history Yards project would cast shadows system that will reuse wastewater for ir- How much do gays and les- over large portions of Fort Greene and rigation, energy-efficient appliances, and Kong.” by endorsing the Republican. bians despise Civil Court judi- Gay and lesbian antipathy to- “Here is a chance to tell Dear Prospect Heights during much of the recycled building materials. cial candidate Noach Dear? One year, particularly during the winter, The building is to be completed in wards Dear dates back to his days that he has been so vile in his ho-

/ Robin Lester group of queer activists actually about two years. Its 40 affordable co- in the City Council, where the mophobia that we will support a when the northern hemisphere tilts considered endorsing Dear’s away from the sun. ops will range in price from $83,500 Borough Park legislator staunchly Republican to defeat him,” said “Shadows from September to for a one-bedroom to $344,500 for a Republican-Conservative oppo- opposed a 1986 bill that expand- Ralph Perfetto, a district leader March will be severe,” Brent Porter, three-bedroom. Another 19 of the nent this week. ed the city’s sex discrimination from Bay Ridge. the Pratt professor who authored the units will be targeted toward middle- Dear and his opponent for the code to protect homosexuals. Perfetto’s argument did not

The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn study, said at the time. “Once those income New Yorkers who can make Fifth District Civil Court seat, James During the bruising battle lead- win the day, however. In a closed The Fifth Avenue Committee broke ground on a new “green” housing buildings go up, the shadowing will up to about $124,075 for a family of McCall, were invited to a candi- ing up to the bill’s passage, Dear session, other club members ar- project in Fort Greene on Monday, but the building’s ability to generate be forever.” four. Most of the tenants will come date’s debate by the Lambda Inde- argued, among other things, that gued that endorsing a Republican solar power will be greatly diminished by the coming towers of the pro- The building’s designers compensat- from within the community board, de la pendent Democrats — but only the law “would confer official le- would set a bad precedent, ac- posed Atlantic Yards project. ed with other green innovations, like a Uz said. McCall accepted the gay, lesbian, gitimacy on a sexual orientation cording to several club members bisexual and transgender club’s in- that is universally agreed upon as who were at the session. vitation. a deviant behavior.” “There was a strong feeling in It was the first time that a Re- After the bill was passed, Dear the room that the GOP is still the publican had sought the club’s even spearheaded a failed effort party of Bush and Pataki, the par- Now, this is the part of a normal from sending Natalie’s parents their endorsement, McCall said. And to overturn it. ty that has villainized gay and les- column where the writer would call warning letter. And it didn’t keep Gal- despite his Republican-Conserv- His record is also marred by cor- bian people for years,” said Alan CHALKER… some free speech lawyer for the suit- lagher out of jail. ative credentials, he vowed to ruption, according to the Village Fleishman, a club member and ably appropriate condemnation of the His mission now is to get the law “treat everyone fairly” in his Voice, which reported in August district leader from Park Slope. Continued from page 1 officers, who joined the sidewalk de- arrest. But you don’t need to be a changed so that chalk is explicitly ex- courtroom if elected to the seat, that when Dear ran for Congress a “That said, people did like Mc- his work, but, like so many times be- bate over whether to arrest Gallagher, lawyer to feel that somewhere be- empted from the current city graffiti which covers all of Bay Ridge, few years ago, his campaign staff Call and thought he would be a fore, Gallagher showed off his chalk whose work consists solely of outlin- tween Natalie Shea’s innocent, child- law, which is vague on whether Sunset Park and Dyker Heights forged 47 sequentially numbered competant judge.” ing the shadows of objects in chalk. and expected the cops to be on their like drawings and the arrest of Ellis scrawls made from impermanent mate- as well as parts of Windsor Ter- money orders in other people’s In the end, the club put out a Gallagher was ultimately charged Gallagher, something has gone off the rials can be considered graffiti. way. race, Bensonhurst, Kensington names to hide a donation of hand-wringing statement. with making graffiti, possession of rails in this city. He’s looking for a good lawyer or a and Borough Park, Dear’s politi- $40,000, which was then 20 times “We feel that Noach Dear’s But not in the current climate — not graffiti-making materials and criminal Even the NYPD told me two weeks Councilmember willing to stand up for cal base. the legal limit. lack of courtroom experience and when chalk-bearing 6-year-olds are mischief. ago that what Shea and Gallagher are art, children’s sidewalk scrawls and fu- “No one in this room has any He was the only judicial candi- bar associations’ assessments and running wild! After spending the night on a hard doing is not graffiti because chalk ture generations of hopscotch players reason to worry that I won’t be date in the Democratic primary his past statements and actions The cops referred to their penal law bench, Gallagher’s case was dismissed doesn’t even last through a minor rain- everywhere. fair,” McCall said. “You can have who was ruled “not approved” by against the interests of our com- codes and then flagged down two more at the Red Hook Community Court. fall. But that didn’t prevent the city Sounds like child’s play, no? confidence in me — and you the city bar association. munity deem him an unsuitable Nonetheless, Dear was en- candidate for the Civil Court dorsed by Borough President bench,” LID co-President Christo- Markowitz and the county pher Murray said in a statement. party boss, Assemblyman Vito “We continue to be disappointed Lopez — and gay activists say in the leadership of the Democrat- that both men will pay for that ic party of Brooklyn over [its] support in future elections. support of his candidacy.” This week, Markowitz again Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 6. defended his endorsement. Polls are open from 6 am–9 pm. “Noach Dear wrote to me Call (212) VOTE-NYC to locate [and] he assured me that, ‘As your polling place. a judge, I will be fair, even- handed, and compassionate, regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation. I will ex- ACUPUNCTURE DENTISTS DENTISTS tend dignity and respect to NOTE: each person who appears in my courtroom,’” Markowitz Is Noach Dear said in a statement. CHINESE SUCCESS We’ve Moved! Quality Dentistry The statement also said that ‘notoriously QI-GONG TUINA BODYWORK CENTER Dear added, “I hope to vali- Gentle care in our ultra-modern office date the trust you and others homophobic’? Effective Treatments for: PARK SLOPE FAMILY have placed in me.” In a recent article (“Marty skips s Pain Management s Low Energy • Cosmetic Dentistry • Cosmetic Laminates Dear has not returned re- gay Atlantic Yards talk,” Oct. 13), s Stress s Depression • Reconstructive & Bonding peated calls from The Brook- The Brooklyn Paper referred to s Insomnia s Arthritis DENTISTRY Dentistry • Advanced Sterilization s Sciatica s Headache lyn Paper throughout the race Civil Court judicial candidate s Facial s Rejuvenation –– 245 Fifth Avenue –– • Gums & Implants • Behavior Modification for Civil Court. Noach Dear as “notoriously ho- s Sports Injuries s Poor Digestion between Carroll & Garfield • Bleaching • Sealants McCall had the floor to him- mophobic.” The term, which re- • Nitrous Oxide • Fluoride self on Monday night at the ferred to many anti-gay com- 718-788-2372 • Emergency Service Dr. Andrew Warshaw (Sweet Air) • Preventative Dentistry Lambda meeting, where he ments Dear made in the 1980s, Open 7 Days A Week · 10:30 am - 10:30 pm • Pediatric Dentistry Dr. Sari Rosenwein touted credentials that include should not have been rendered 457 7th Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215 • Root Canal Therapy Dr. Doug Pollack serving for four years as a court as fact without confirming HS49 • Implant Restorations RONALD I. TEICHMAN, DDS attorney to a sitting Civil Court whether Dear remains homo- • Laminates • Bleaching Hours by Appointment judge. In that role, he has done phobic to this day. The Brooklyn • White Fillings • Bonding Sat. & Eve. 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“I swear that’s my name. I’m going to dress up as teen wolf and bum around and ask for quarters.” Miles Davis Bedford-Stuyvesant

“I’m going as Mr. (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings October 27, 2007 Miyagi and my friends are going to be the Cobra Kai. We even have one person being Daniel. And then we’re going to party.” Kingston Kuo Rockville, Maryland

BLOOD BATH! “My son asked me to be Anakin Skywalker. He’s going to be a Slopers go slasher with ‘Murder Party’ flick clone or a supertroop- er, or something. I By Adam Rathe don’t remember. We’re The Brooklyn Paper going trick-o‘-treating.” Eric Guillemain, espite what you might think, the most Tribeca debauched minds in Brooklyn do not Dreside on the Coney Island boardwalk or even in Borough Hall. No, our area’s most bloodthirsty butchers live in Park “I’m gonna be a Slope — and one of them drives a station fisherman. I’ve wagon! never thought of it Sure, Jeremy Saulnier seemed like a nice before! Going to guy — when the baby-faced director sat some parties…” down for an exclusive interview with GO Shana Fishman Brooklyn, his wife was about a week away Greenpoint from giving birth — but take a look at the Park Slope director’s latest film, “Murder Party,” which was released on DVD this month, and you’ll see another side to the seemingly mild-mannered Virginia native. “I’ve always done, if not horror, violence,” Saulnier (pronounced: “sewn-yay”) EVENT said over huevos rancheros and iced coffee at Dizzy’s on Eighth Avenue. “Adolescent boys gravitate towards violence, large scale gore and mayhem.” In “Murder Party,” there’s plenty of it. To The good stuff make the film, Saulnier, 31, rounded up his childhood pals — they’ve been making It’s a cruel world that allows children to become movies together since elementary school — obsessed with their stuffed animals when later in added five gallons of fake blood and, well, life that same interest can seem so very odd. took a stab at it. At the third annual “Carnivorous Nights Taxi- “We were workshopping a coming-of-age dermy Contest,” however, preserved animals will be type of film, and we did a short called / The Lab of Madness Francis Laros prized as adult contestants show off their favorite ‘Crabwalk,’ which is in that vein,” said Box office buzz: Christopher S. Hawley (played by Chris Sharp), homemade, purchased or found examples of expired, Saulnier. “That got us some attention on the above, isn’t about to let a coven of crazed hipsters like Lexi (Stacy stuffed creatures. But if you’re thinking of going just festival circuit, and we won a few awards Rock), far right, make this Halloween his last in “Murder Party,” to gawk, you might want to make other plans. and got some calls from out West. We were the horror flick directed by Park Sloper Jeremy Saulnier, at right. “We need specimens, not spectators,” said Michael this ensemble force, and we wanted to cast Crewdson, one of the event’s organizers. “Last year’s ourselves and be in charge of our own debut party was standing room only, but I’d say there were feature film, so I was like, “F—k it, let’s just stopped being hung up on how I would be- Sandy Barnett [who 15 specimens.” do ‘Murder Party.’ ” come a famous young director, and we just played Alexander, a pur- Any taxidermy is Having made a name for himself directing got the crew together to have a good time.” ported art guru in the welcome — wet speci- commercials, Saulnier was confident that he And that they did. film] came to crash on mens are to be kept in and his band of merry men and women With a cast of nine, the movie takes place my couch,” said Saulnier. jars, however — and all could pull off a gory, funny film without be- on a blustery Halloween night in Williams- “He was a punk rock entries will be reviewed coming entangled burg. The movie’s guy looking for a job for by the esteemed panel of in a studio’s red hero, Christopher the summer and had ex- judges: Darrine Lunde, tape. CINEMA (played by Chris perience as a chef, so he Ho / Dennis W. collections manager for “Unintentional Sharp), having found walked up and down mammalogy at the circumstances led “Murder Party” is available for rental at a party invitation on Bedford trying to get a American Museum of to me directing Reel Life [209 Bedford Ave. at North Fifth the ground, makes his job as a fry cook. He would be asked if he But with a movie like this — hilarious, Natural History; Robert Street in Williamsburg, (718) 302-9747] and commercials where Video Forum [133 Seventh Ave. at Carroll way to a creepy loft was an artist, and he would say ‘no,’ and scary and totally of the moment — these Marbury, co-director of there was a ton of Street in Park Slope, (718) 857-5707]. For in- space for a night of they wouldn’t hire him,” he continued. “It filmmakers, who call themselves “The Lab the Minnesota Associa- bureaucracy,” he formation, visit www.murderpartymovie.com. revelry. His hosts — was insane. He was trying to flip burgers, of Madness,” will have the last laugh. “Mur- Paper file The Brooklyn tion of Rogue Taxider- said. “I said, ‘For- a cabal of deranged, and he was denied, because he wasn’t an der Party” is currently touring movie the- mists; and Dorian Devins, a curator at Union Hall’s get it, I’ll just blow strung-out artists — artist.” aters nationwide with the notorious slasher “Secret Science Club.” all my cash on the movie.’ ” are thinking more along the lines of mas- Yet the eccentric locals were only part of bomb “Grindhouse,” and the group — who It’s about time, said Crewdson, that Brooklyn So the film, which ended up costing close sacres than masquerades, though, and his ar- the charm of this satire. still all have day jobs — have plenty of ma- showed the same enthusiasm for taxidermy that is to $200,000, began coming together in Feb- rival kicks off a comical bloodbath that re- “We were definitely making fun of the terial for future films. apparent elsewhere:“I guess New York City has to ruary 2006. lies more heavily on gore than the Nobel Williamsburg scene, but we were also mak- And with just days before his wife was to catch up with the rest of the country. It’s extremely “I took some time off of work and was Prize committee. ing fun of ourselves,” said Sharp, the give birth, Saulnier was optimistic about fa- popular.” writing in my dining room for about three But Saulnier and company aren’t saying movie’s star. “All of us are dudes on the out- therhood and horror filmmaking. The “Carnivorous Nights Taxidermy Contest” months,” said Saulnier. “We decided upon a that all L-train Brooklynites are killers, skirts, trying to break into the art scene and “I was getting a little too old, now I get to will take place at 8 pm on Nov. 2 at Union Hall shoot date before the script was finished, and right? have people think we’re cool and have for so enjoy Halloween,” he said. “But it’s hard to (702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope). we delivered the script the night before we “I lived in Williamsburg in 1997 during long tried and failed. We’re really just mak- find gruesome costumes that will fit an in- Free. 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Foodies, however, know alone that it had a 8:30 am to 2 pm. Closed Sundays. For infor- bite provided both creamy and that October marks the begin- high percentage of mation, call (718) 783-4123. chunky textures. The flavor was ning of squash season. The butterfat. It tasted Cebu Bar & Bistro (8801 Third Ave. at homey and straightforward. The 88th Street in Bay Ridge) is open daily, noon- Greenmarket tables, only re- velvety and smooth, 3 am. For information, call (718) 492-5095. honey added an understated cently laden with peaches and and the rich texture Lunetta (116 Smith St., between Pacific sweetness, while the chili pro- 5IF#SPPLMZO1BQFS berries, now groan beneath the lingered on my and Dean streets, in Boerum Hill) is open vided a surprising little burst of weight of butternut, blue Hub- tongue long after Tuesday through Sunday, 5:30 pm-11 pm. fire. It was just the sort of side Closed Mondays. For information, call (718) bard and, of course, the most each lick. While 488-6269 or visit www.lunetta-ny.com. that would steal the show at a $POHSBUVMBUFT1BNFMB4#SJFS famous squash of them all: the the flavor was Pane e Vino (174 Smith St., between simple fall meal. pumpkin. For us, the question sweet, it was ulti- Wyckoff and Warren streets, in Cobble Hill) is open Monday through Thursday from 11 am Pane e Vino right now is not what to be, but mately too mild; it to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday from 11 am to 1SFTJEFOU $&0 what to eat. definitely could midnight, and Sundays from 11 am to 11 pm. The Halloween night meal at Bored with the same have used a bit of For information, call (718) 501-1010. Pane e Vino in Cobble Hill muffins I bake every autumn, I clove or ginger to starts off strong with a creamy, .BJNPOJEFT.FEJDBM$FOUFS decided to scour Brooklyn in spice it up. It tasted savory pumpkin soup. Bulked search of inspiration. From a bit like canned pumpkin pie fast, and my muffin was up with shrimp (and, at least for sweet to savory, from Cobble filling. I think a graham crack- everything it should be: dense me, with a few pieces of the Hill to Bay Ridge, where are er topping would be just the and moist, the inside full of restaurant’s tasty grilled bread), the best pumpkin dishes? I thing to put it over the top! chunky apples and crunchy a bowl is plenty for a snack, but wasn’t going to settle for just a nuts. The top was dusted light- why stop there? On Oct. 31, the hint of pumpkin, either. I Blue Sky Bakery ly with sugar crystals, which restaurant will be serving a $30, wanted big, bold, spicy flavor A friend of mine said that provided a pleasantly crispy four-course meal that’s got — the kind of taste that would Blue Sky of Park Slope bakes texture that contrasted nicely pumpkin all the way through. satisfy my craving for fall. the best muffins in the entire with the pillowy interior. Start with the soup, then try world, and while I doubt that While the muffin was super- the “Risotto alla Halloween,” The Blue Pig he’s done the research to sup- sweet, it was saved from which comes chock full of Could there be a more ap- port such a claim, I have a diffi- crossing the cupcake line by sauteed pumpkin, mushrooms, propriate fall ice cream flavor cult time disagreeing. You’d be strong, spicy notes of cinna- lobster and crab meat. Still not than pumpkin? I headed to hard pressed to find anything mon, clove and a hint of gin- stuffed? Finish the night with Brooklyn Heights on an ex- better then their pumpkin-ap- ger. My muffin was weighty, pumpkin gelato served in a hol- ceptionally sunny afternoon to ple-walnut version ($1.85). warm and about the size of a lowed out gourd. This pumpkin treat myself to a cone (with I splurged recently for break- baseball. A deep, burnt orange is certainly smashing.

made desserts,” CHEWS said Chirico. “We want to try and BREAKING make something fast for people to nyone unlucky enough to be take home.” called for jury duty knows that And if you want your A finding a quick, tasty meal near meals brought to you, Fort the courthouses isn’t easy. But now, Greene resident Quiana thanks to Suzanne Meehan and Yasmin Richardson has just launched 4IFXBTOBNFEPOFPG Gur, owners of Windsor Terrace’s her new home delivery serv- Crossroads Cafe, all that is about to ice, My Healthy Sport, change.

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Borough Hall into a takeout counter for Paper The Brooklyn ries) and a grilled flank their healthy treats by Dec. 1. Yasmin Gur and Suzanne Meehan are renovating steak served with Gorgonzo- “We’re going to offer people-on-the- this old shoeshine stand in Downtown Brooklyn la cheese (300 calories) run a healthier option,” said Meehan, into an outpost of Crossroads Cafe. should fill you up without .BZCFJUTCFDBVTF discussing the muffins and scones from weighing you down. Check SoHo’s Balthazar Bakery, gourmet cof- ed serving its winter menu, which in- out what she has to offer at fee and tea, and high-end juices that cludes tuna with brandy and green ap- www.myhealthysport.com. TIFEPFTOUUIJOLPGTBWJOHMJWFT will be available. ples as well as a chianti risotto that Looking for something to wash So while jury duty might never be a sounds too good to be true. down all this new food? Drop into the treat, getting lunch near the courthouse If dining in is more your style, get Blackbird Parlour Cafe (197 Bedford BTKVTUBCVTJOFTT sure will be. — Tina Barry ready to carbo-load in Carroll Gardens. Ave. at North Sixth Street in Williams- But while we’re waiting for the Famed restaurateur Joseph Chirico (Mar- burg) for coffee, a smoothie or a late Crossroads cart to open, there’s plenty co Polo Ristorante) will be opening Mar- night glass of wine. GO Brooklyn was else to munch on. Epoca (773 Fulton co Polo to Go in mid-November. there last week and the spot, which is St. at South Portland Avenue in Fort “We’ll be serving brick oven pizza and still brand new, was already teeming. Greene, (718) 596-9070) has just start- all kind of Italian delicacies and home- — Adam Rathe

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avid and Joseph Zellnik’s new musical, “Yank!,” is Done of the most hearten- ing theatrical experiences in years. This original production boldly highlights what history books have long left out — stories about being gay in the military. In 2005, this little show sparked interest at the New York Musical Theatre Festi- val, and now, mounted as a full-scale production by Park Slope’s Gallery Players, not a line of it rings flat. The current cast is superb, starring Broad- way actors like Nancy Ander- son (“Wonderful Town” and “A Class Act”), Jeffry Den- man (“The Producers”) — who doubles as choreographer, and Bobby Steggert (“110 in the Shade”). Sure, the big names make this production buzz-worthy, but the real pull of the show is that it’s a universal love story. The musical’s plot line centers on the newly drafted Stu, who’s smitten with a squadron-mate named Mitch, the most handsome stud of Company C. David Zellnik’s book ingeniously charts the

twists of their love affair, trac- Jennifer Maufrais Kelly ing their romance from basic Private moment: Bobby Steggert (left) as Stu and Maxime de Toledo as Mitch in the Gallery training at Fort Bliss; this is a unique coming-of-age story Players production of “Yank! A New Musical,” on stage through Nov. 11 in Park Slope. that pulls no punches and hon- estly depicts how gays lived symbolic meaning here. when Stu and Mitch share the his tapping feet. during World War II. When not speculating over emotionally riveting song, Nancy Anderson, playing The current production has the plot, I went in for the “Just True.” all of the female roles, exe- been tightened, and its fram- smart musical numbers. The The choreography of this cutes a real tour de force as ing device changed, to appro- Zellniks’ unforced sincerity show is brilliant. Musical vet- she single-handedly embodies priate a new character. The makes the lyrics potent, and eran Denman serves as top- the spirit of femininity in the show still works like a memo- each song touches on an as- notch choreographer here. His musical. Her wit crystallizes ry play, but instead of Stu be- pect of the human condition. dance routines are urgent and in the wryly-written song, ing morphed into a stroke vic- This is no pastiche of show sinewy, packed with muscular “Saddest Gal What Am.” tim at curtain up, power and graceful precision. Then she later snaps every- the tale now be- And beyond the dancing, body to attention in the stri- gins with “a 20- THEATER the acting here is solid. dently funny number, “Credit something guy in a Steggert, as Stu, strikes just to the Uniform.” “Yank!” is running through Nov. 11 at the right balance between The show never apologizes baseball cap, liv- the Gallery Players (199 14th St. at Fourth ing in the present.” Avenue in Park Slope). Tickets are $18. For awkward naivete and canny for its honesty. And its non- Sounds more hip show times and information, call (718) 595- intelligence, while Maxime de fussy props and uniforms than the original? 0457 or visit www.galleryplayers.com. Toledo, as Mitch, has a movie (courtesy of Uncle Sam) You bet. Not star’s swagger. prove the old maxim: Less is only can this Denman is also notable as more. Directed by Igor 2007-2008 SEASON young character deftly intro- tunes, as the show joyously re- Artie, the journalist who re- Goldin, the show is briskly duce us to the diary of Private claims 1940s Hollywood pla- cruits Stu to become a photo- paced and never drags. Stewart, but he sets a more vi- toon flicks and Broadway mu- journalist for “Yank” maga- When the houselights went tal tone to the story, and estab- sicals. There is the distinctive zine. Artie is a suave operator, up at the end of “Yank!,” the lishes the significance of sound of boogie-woogie, big and Denman hits the nail on audience (including me) was “Yank” magazine (the periodi- band and swing-styles, all pul- the head in portraying his on its feet and firmly applaud- U.S. PREMIERE TOUR! cal by the serviceman, for the sating in syncopated rhythms. character with a breezy non- ing. This little musical, which serviceman) from the get-go. I found the songs seamlessly chalance. Interestingly, Artie first earned its rep at the New Incidentally, “Yank” was a dovetailed with the unfolding is at ease in the uncharted ter- York Theatre Festival, takes real publication. According to action, not just a putting of ritory of being a homosexual another step forward with this ICELAND DANCE the program notes, “the maga- lyrics through colored hoops. in World War II, which makes full-scale production. All the zine grew to become the most Arguably, the opening num- him a kind of hero-beacon to careful tweaking over the past widely read and popular mag- ber of the show, “Remember- those characters befuddled by two years has added a rich azine in the history of the U.S. ing You,” is the most affecting their sexual orientation. Den- patina to the original musical, COMPANY Army.” So the show’s title one. But my real fave of the man’s dancing is tops; nobody and the results are worth smil- C carries both a concrete and evening came in Act Two, in the show holds a candle to ing about. Katrín Hall, Artistic Director

Brooklyn parents: the school is fictional Saturday, and doesn’t take applications. For information, call (718) 237-2752 or visit www.heightsplayers.org. November 10, 2007 A show for the bird Wear a sweater on Saturday, Nov. 10, when Brooklyn Center for the Perform- at 8:00 PM ‘The Seagull’ comes to Brooklyn College, ing Arts at Brooklyn College hosts the ul- “versatile, tra-modern Iceland Dance Company a clown funeral, and more theater picks in their debut U.S. performance. Stick daring and around after the show for a question-and- explosive!” GO Brooklyn loved “The Seagull” answer session with Artistic Director Ka- when it was at the Brooklyn trin Hall. For information, call (718) 951- — The Varsity, Academy of Mu- 4500 or visit www.brooklyncenter Toronto sic starring online.org. Ian McKellan, On Oct. 28, at 6 pm, check out the but we’re “Clown Funeral,” the closing piece of equally excited the Brick Theater’s “New York Clown for Brooklyn Theatre Festival.” Mourners — dressed College’s pro- in black or in multi-colored wig! — will Julio Bocca’s final NYC performance! duction, directed meet at North Seventh Street and Bed- by Mary Robin- ford Avenue in Williamsburg and march son, which opens in a procession back to the Brick where a on Thursday, Nov. celebration will commence. For informa- 1. This inventive show will tion, call (718) 907-6189 or visit Ballet feature on-stage seating, so www.bricktheater.com. the audience can share in the And if trick-or-treating isn’t your limelight. For information, scene, drop into the Brooklyn Academy Argentino call (718) 951-5666 or visit of Music for famed choreographer John www.Brooklyn.cuny.edu. Jasperse’s “Misuse Liable to Prosecu- On Friday, Nov. 2, the tion,” a performance piece for which Heights Players will begin everything on stage, save the lithe performances of “The Prime dancers, is made from found materials. Bocca Tango of Miss Jean Brodie,” a For information, call (718) 636-4100 or show about a schoolteacher in visit www.bam.org. 1930s Scotland who flies in Got a tip on an upcoming show? Sunday, the face of the very conserva- We want to know! Drop us a line at tive Marcia Blaine School for Fetival Clown Theatre Courtesy New York [email protected]. “passionate... November 11, 2007 Girls. Note to concerned “Clown Funeral” comes to Williamsburg. — Adam Rathe hot dancing” — New York Times at 2:00 PM AUTHENTIC DOMINICAN CUISINE

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my songs.” Although these songs have a strong electronic presence, Macaco said that STEVENS... he is mostly inspired by sounds that he grew up with. Continued from page 1 “My influence comes from rumba GO Brooklyn: The BQE can be a pretty rough Catalana, the music of my grandpar- road on the best of days. What made you decide Language arts ents, so I believe I am a mix of that to write music and make a movie in honor of and also of reggae singers like [Bob] such a vile highway? Marley and Peter Tosh. Rumba Cata- Sufjan Stevens: I guess because it seemed like Barcelona pop star Macaco to bring lana, rumba Latina and reggae music a contradiction to have a limited-access express- have a great connection. You play the way running through the villages of Brooklyn, guitar a bit slower, and it becomes reg- and I found that to be absurd and really exciting. universal themes to Fort Greene concert gae. It’s somehow very close, although And in some ways, as a roadway, it reflects the the origins are very far [from each oth- kind of dizziness, constant motion, perpetual By Ernest Barteldes er].” motion and activity of Brooklyn. for The Brooklyn Paper In addition to growing up with mu-

sical influences, the singer has played GO: “The BQE” is just a part of the concert Denny Renshaw ven if you don’t speak Spanish, shows all over the world, visiting you’re doing, but it will be 30 minutes of music you shouldn’t have a problem un- places that have led to new bouts of in- and video. Were you involved in creating the vi- Kensington resident Sufjan Stevens. Ederstanding Dani “Macaco” Car- spiration. sual as well as the musical? bonell. The Barcelona-based pop star “Touring all around the world in SS: I shot it with my friend Ruben Kleiner. We place to be; it’s really good food. is making his first stop in Brooklyn as countries like Brazil, Germany, Eng- shot it all on 16-mm film and Super 8. We set part of the Brooklyn Academy of Mu- land and France, I wanted to give each out to do an exercise in observation and were fo- GO: Since you so rarely play Brooklyn, how did sic’s “New Voices from Spain” proof these places a little present when it cusing on little square inch pieces and sections of you get hooked up with a huge gig like this one? gram on Oct. 27, and according to him, came to the CD,” he explained. “When it. Then we tried to get the broad picture; we SS: They asked me to do a piece to be part of the music transcends I go to an Anglo country, I know that went on top of buildings to get a bird’s-eye view [25th annual Next Wave] festival and it’s been a language. my English is not perfect, but I think I and went in people’s houses to look over the really great exercise in working with a larger cre- “In the US, MUSIC can communicate well enough.” BQE. We spent a lot of time just driving back ative institution. I’ve never actually worked with there’s a big mix So when he comes to Brooklyn, he and forth and even had a mount to attach the that kind of collaboration before. I’ve worked Macaco will perform as part of the of cultures,” the “New Voices from Spain” program at plans on bringing a whole act — mu- camera to the car. creatively with people but singer told GO the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera sic, projections and more — to make never in the context of an Brooklyn. “I hope House (30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland sure that his message can cross any GO: You’ve said that institution. I was a little Place in Fort Greene) at 8 pm on Oct. MUSIC people enjoy the 27. Tickets are $20 and $25. For infor- language barrier. your goal is to release al- suspicious at first, because show, and I hope mation, call (718) 636-4100 or visit “Though the music that I make is bums about each of the 50 Sufjan Stevens will perform “The I’ve worked with large www.bam.org. BQE” at 8 pm on Nov. 1-3 at the Brooklyn I can make peo- very local, it is also very international, states. Does the music of Academy of Music (30 Lafayette Ave. at groups before — Lincoln ple sensitive with and I think it works in every place. We “The BQE” cover Brook- Ashland Place in Fort Greene). Tickets are Center and the Kennedy their eyes and try to communicate with images, with lyn’s contribution to New sold out, but cancellation tickets could be- Center in [Washington] come available day of at the BAM box of- ears. What I want is to get the people’s moving, and with the music in the way York? fice. For information, call (718) 636-4100 D.C. — but this is a much attention, to inspire them, to dance and that the lyrics are not so important,” he SS: In some ways this is or visit www.bam.org. bigger kind of relation- to express themselves.” said. “If you don’t understand Spanish, all part of the greater plan, ship, because it’s a com- Touring in support of his latest I think the communication can be very and it’s part of the grand missioned piece. record, “Ingravitto,” the first to be re- good. There is also the material in scope of the project: evoking a national identity. leased stateside, Macaco said he was English and in Portuguese, so we do a It’s also a divergence, because it’s not under the GO: Has this experience inspired you to play concerned with the importance of com- mix that have our roots as a basis.” more Brooklyn shows? Made in Spain: Macaco performs a blend of rumba and reggae, in a mix constructs of a state album. I’m not intending to munication. No matter what your mother tongue of languages, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Saturday. evoke the sounds of Brooklyn or simulate those SS: Contractually, I’m not allowed to until af- “There is a lot of information going is, Macaco is convinced that he speaks sounds through a musical piece because this is ter [this show]. Afterwards, I’d love to play on today,” he stated in a DVD accom- your language. specifically about a Brooklyn anomaly, some- more in Brooklyn. There’s a reason I haven’t panying the album. “We’ve got the in- tempts to do that with everyone who that [my band] has been so successful “The only thing that I believe in this thing that exists in spite of Brooklyn. I find liter- played that many shows this year. Part of it is ternet, the iPod and other gadgets, but can listen; songs in Spanish, English, is that I am just being myself,” said life is that communication can save the ally that the sounds of the BQE are very differ- because I’m writing a lot and part of it is be- many times we just forget to look in Portuguese, French, Italian and Catalan Macaco, whose nickname is Por- world,” he says. “As musicians, we ent than the sounds of Brooklyn, of the streets cause I’m working on this particular project. the eye, sit down and have a conversa- are included. tuguese for “Monkey.” “All I know have a mission of communicating and neighborhoods. It’s very metallic; it’s hy- And for me, there is a season to tour and a tion.” “I believe that one of the reasons about my life and my music, I put it in across the music.” draulics and brakes and this sort of repetitive season to stay home. This year has been the And with his new record, he at- hum of traffic. It’s a big party of sounds. season to stay home.

GO: Speaking of parties, how do you like living GO: Would you want to collaborate with BAM in Kensington? again? SS: I like it a lot because it’s remote and … SS: I think this is the beginning of a long-term The algo-rhythm it’s extremely diverse. I think Cortelyou Road relationship. is one of the most diverse streets in the entire So, you’re interested in the “New Voices from country. There’s no consensus in terms of the GO: Are you asking [BAM President] Karen Spain” series but not quite sure what to expect? ethnicity and the kinds of people who live Hopkins to go steady? Well, we think Macaco and Brooklyn will go togeth- Take the catchy, bilingual And add in the funky Mix both with a bit of Macaco’s “Ingravitto.” there, it’s so mixed. There are little boutique SS: [Laughs…] Yes. I just asked her out on a er like red wine and cola. (Seriously, it’s a great crooning of Colombian pop sound of Justin Bob Marley’s laid back shops coming in and some great restaurants date. We’re going to the Viennese place across Spanish drink called “Calimocho.”) And here’s why: songstress Shakira … Timberlake … reggae and you’ll have … — you should go to The Farm [on Adderley]. the street afterwards for some Bratwurst [at It’s two blocks down on Cortelyou. That’s the Thomas Beisl Restaurant].

Sundays: Brazilian Beat with DJ Sean Mar- Sundays: Open mic, 5 pm-8 pm, FREE; quand and DJ Greg Caz, 10 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Bingo, 7 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: BROOKLYN Mondays: Rev. Vince Anderson and his Love Quizz-Off, 7:30 pm, FREE; Oct. 27: Nicholas Choir, 10:30 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Psychotic Africano, 9 pm, Tiger Saw featuring Cathy Reaction, 10 pm, FREE; Fridays: The Green- Cathodic, 10 pm, Marcellus Hall,11 pm, FREE; house with DJ MonkOne and DJs Emskee and Oct. 28: Amy Crawford, 8:30 pm, Birds on a MC G-man, 11 pm, FREE. Wire, 9:30 pm, FREE; Oct. 29: Spelling Bee, 7:30 pm, Afternoon, 9:30 pm, Gabo and The The Callbox Wastrels, 10:30 pm, FREE; Oct. 30: Sydney 148 Kingsland Ave. at Lombardy Street in Wayser, 9 pm, Patrick Keesey, 10 pm, Zach Nightlife Williamsburg, (718) 384-0179, Williams, 11 pm, FREE; Oct. 31: Joe Finkel, 10 pm, Mas Rapido!, 11 pm, FREE. Compiled by Chiara V. Cowan www.thecallboxlounge.com. 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FREE; Oct. 27: The Band of Black, 10 pm, Vox Po p hosted by Rolando Brown with DJ Strike and FREE; Oct. 31: Swalloweenie, bobbing for hot- live performances by LOJ, Skyzoo and AC, 10 dogs and more, 8 pm, FREE. BEDFORD-STUYVESANT 1022 Cortelyou Rd. at Stratford Road in Flat- pm, $10, (Front room) Crooked Disco pres- bush, (718) 940-2084, www.voxpopnet.net. ents “Crooked Halloween” featuring The Trash Bar Food 4 Thought Sundays: Open mic, 7 pm, FREE with two- RUB (DJs Ayres and Cosmo Baker), Nanachill 256 Grand St. at Driggs Avenue in 445 Marcus Garvey Blvd. at MacDonough drink minimum; Oct. 27: Rocky Horror Picture and Jonny of Eclectic Methods, 10 pm, $5 in Show Marathon with live open mic, music, costume, $10 without costume; Oct. 28: Williamsburg, (718) 599-1000, Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 443-4160. www.thetrashbar.com. Saturdays: Open mic, 9 pm, $6; Tuesdays: food and crazy costumes, 7 pm, FREE; Oct. (Front room) Sunday Mix from Animation 30: Horror Film Festival, 4 pm, $TBD. Block Party, 7:30 pm, FREE, Electra, a per- Oct. 27: The Walk Ons, 8 pm, Route .44, 9 Philosophically Phat Tuesdays, an open discus- pm, Sweetfist, 10 pm, The Gulf of Michigan, sion, 8 pm, donation suggested; Wednesdays: formance by Genevieve Favre, 10 pm, $TBD; ‘Team’ work: British rockers The Go! Team will bring their pep squad energy to Studio B in Green- Oct. 29: (Front room) Selene Luna’s Pocket 11 pm, Choirs of Titan, Midnight, $7; Oct. Game Night (Cash Flow), 7 pm, FREE; Fridays: FORT GREENE 28: 28 Degrees Taurus, 9 pm, Quiet Loudly, Zodiac Lounge, 7 pm, FREE. Venus, 8 pm, $12; Oct. 31: (Backroom) “Y’All point on Sunday, Oct. 28 when they play with Effi Briest and Hearts Challenger. Ready for Dis?” a Halloween dance party, 10 10 pm, The June Moris Project, 11 pm, Thee BAM Cafe pm, FREE, (Front room) Moviehouse presents Yetis, Midnight, $6; Oct. 29: Tough BOERUM HILL 30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort “Halowe’en Films,” 7 pm, FREE, Halloween Knuckles, 8 pm, Grand Army Arrows, 10 pm, Greene, (718) 636-4100, www.bam.org. Slope, (718) 832-9800, Slope, (718) 230-5925. $5; Nov. 1: Todd Barry and friends, 7 pm, Looseness, 10 pm, FREE; Nov. 2: Pete List Amoroso, 11 pm, Bulletproof Soul, Mid- Hank’s Saloon Oct. 27: JuCa, 10 pm, FREE; Nov. 3: BAM www.jamescarney.net/koncfs.htm. Fridays: “Stuck in the ’80s” party featuring DJs $20, John Roderick of the Long Winters, 10 and Alchemy Performance present :Hybrid: night, $6; Oct. 30: Reign57, 8 pm, Bodega Brothers, 9 pm, Bodyface, 10 pm, Lash, 11 46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue in presents “Takeover,” an open house of music, Oct. 28: Jerome Sabbagh Quartet, 9:30 pm, $5. Paul EZ and Jan Cooley, 11 pm, FREE. pm, $10; Nov. 2: The 3rd Annual Carnivorous Songs for Kassar,” 7:30 pm, $15. Boerum Hill, (718) 625-8003, film, DJs and art, 9 pm, $15 in advance, $20 Nights hosted by the Union Hall Secret pm, Wild Wet, Midnight, $6; Oct. 31: Shaka www.exitfive.com/hankssaloon. day of the show. Barbes Patio Lounge Science Club featuring a taxidermy contest Zulu Overdrive, 8 pm, The Black Tie Party as Laila Lounge Nirvana, 9 pm, Class, 11 pm, The Fire and Sundays: Sean Kershaw and the New Jack (See story on page 7), 7:30 pm, FREE; Nov. 3: 376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park Slope, 179 Fifth Ave. at Degraw Street in Park 113 N. Seventh St. at Wythe Avenue in Reason, 11 pm, Motico, Midnight, $6; Nov. Ramblers, 10 pm, FREE; Mondays: Live band Night of the Kinetic, The Alternate Routes, Excellent, (718) 965-9177, www.barbesbrooklyn.com. Slope, (646) 810-1916, Williamsburg, (718) 486-6791, 1: Atomic Brother, 8 pm, Rejectionist Front, kuntry karaoke, 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Royal American, 7:30 pm, $8. Cookers Tuesdays: Jenny Scheinman, 7 pm, $10 sug- www.patiolounge.com. www.lailalounge.com. 9 pm, At the End of the World, 10 pm, Mobscenity (live jazz), 10 pm, FREE; Nov. 2: gested donation, Slavic Soul Party, 9 pm, $10; Mondays: Laugh Out Loud Mondays, 8 pm, Tuesdays: Bluegrass Tuesdays, 9 pm, FREE; Receptor, 11 pm, $6; Nov. 2: Agents of Big City Bush, 10 pm, FREE; Nov. 3: Sasquatch 767 Fulton St. at South Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 797-1197. Oct. 27: Marta Topferova, 8 pm, $10 suggested FREE; Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays: Dance PROSPECT HEIGHTS Wednesdays: Jezebel Music Showcase with an Karma, 8 pm, JD Crane, 9 pm, Ocho, 10 pm, & The Sick-a-Billys, 10 pm, FREE. 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Williamsburg, (718) 609-0484, 646-1225, www.come2national.com. pm, $10 suggested donation; Nov. 2: Ned Greenpoint, (718) 383-5723, Go, DJ sets by Rex and burlesque by Angie 10 pm, FREE; Oct. 29: Other People’s Poetry, Mondays: Joe McGinty’s Keyboard Karaoke, www.myspace.com/unionpool. Saturdays: Live Russian music and dance www.europaclub.com. Sublette, 8 pm, $10 suggested donation, The Pontani, 8 pm, $15 in advance, $18 day of the 8 pm, FREE. 10 pm, FREE: Tuesdays: Jezebel Music Open Oct. 27: Champion Kickboxer, Imaginary show, 9 pm, FREE (with $65 prix-fixe dinner); Mandingo Ambassadors, 10 pm, $10 suggest- Saturdays: VIP Dance Party, 10 pm, FREE before show; Oct. 30: David Bazan, 9 pm, $12; Oct. Mic Night hosted by Ed Gorch, 7 pm, FREE; Johnny, Afuche, 8 pm, $8; Oct. 28: Ponie- Fridays: Live Russian music and dance show, 9 ed donation; Nov. 3: Opera on Tap, 7 pm, $10 10:30 pm, $15 after 10:30 pm; Tuesdays: Kara- 31: Halloween Bash with D U J E O U S and Oct. 27: J-San & The Analogue Sons, 9 pm, heart, Honeychurch, A.A. Bondy, 8 pm, $6; pm, FREE (with $50 prix-fixe dinner); Sundays: suggested donation, The Roulette Sisters’ RED HOOK oke Night, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Sexy Progres- special guests, 9 pm, $TBD; Nov. 1: Terrapin, FREE; Oct. 29: Sean Duggan, 9 pm, $TBD; Oct. 30: Nicole Atkins (record release), Live Russian music and dance show, 7 pm, Annual Halloween Spectacular, 10 pm, $10 sug- sive/Dance party, 10 pm, FREE before 10:30 pm, DJ VIDA, Roger Smith, 9 pm, $8; Nov. 2: Oct. 31: Monster’s Ball featuring Casa de Hollywood Monsters, Halloween Party, 8 pm, FREE (with $50 prix-fixe dinner). gested donation. Hope and Anchor $15 after 10:30 pm; Oct. 27: Agent Orange with Rahim, Bugs in the Dark and special guests, 9 Chihuahua, 10 pm, $TBD. FREE; Oct. 31: Halloween Show with Union special guests, 7 pm, $12; Oct. 28: Sound of pm, $8; Nov. 3: The RUB with DJs Ayres, 347 Van Brunt St. at Wolcott Street in Red Hook, (718) 237-0276. Ghouls, King Dust, Penny Winblood, 8 pm, Urchin, 8 pm, $10; Oct. 31: The Giraffes featur- Bogota Latin Cosmo and Eleven, 10 pm, $TBD. FREE; Nov. 2: The Rotary Club (record BROOKLYN HEIGHTS Thursdays: Karaoke hosted by Dropsy Dozz- Luna Lounge ing Hopewell, Mancino, Goes Cube, 8 pm, $10. release), Marcellus Hall & The Headliners, Bistro man, 9 pm, FREE; Fridays and Saturdays: 361 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Spoke the Hub Gordon Withers, 8 pm, $7; Nov. 3: The End Magnetic Field 141 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Park Karaoke hosted by drag queen Kay Sera, 9 Street in Williamsburg, (212) 260-2323, Club Exit of the World, Swaa, Rebecca Schiffman, 8 97 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street in Slope, (718) 230-3805, (at the Gowanus Art Building) 295 Doug- pm, FREE. www.lunalounge.com. Brooklyn Heights, (718) 834-0069, 147 Greenpoint Ave. at Manhattan www.bogotabistro.com. lass St. at Third Avenue in Park Slope, Oct. 27: Crown the Invisible, 4 pm, Suzan pm, $6. www.magneticbrooklyn.com. Avenue in Greenpoint, (718) 349-6969, Oct. 31: Francois Wiss, 7 pm, FREE; Nov. 1: (718) 408-3234, www.spokethehub.org. Hurtuk, 5 pm, Minuments, 6 pm, Finian www.club-exit.com. Jalopy Oct. 29: Girl Friday presents Black Bunny, Girl DJ Matt Nyce, 7 pm, FREE. Oct. 27: Digby Dance & Urban Juke Joint, 8 McKean, 7 pm, Smyer, 8 pm, Squall & Caine, 9 Williamsburg Saturdays, Fridays: DJ Dance Party, 10 pm, pm, $15 ($5 students and seniors). 315 Columbia St. at Woodhull Street in Friday, David Roland, 7:30 pm, FREE; Oct. 31: Red Hook, (718) 395-3214, www.jalopy.biz. pm, Thing One, 10 pm, The Shapes, 11 pm, Music Center Mr. Swizzle’s Karaoke Monster Mash, 9 pm, $15 (ladies FREE until 11 pm). Nova Clutch, 11:55 pm, $5; Oct. 28: The Brooklyn Oct. 27: BOObies, a Halloween celebration of 367 Bedford Ave. at South Fifth Street in FREE; Nov. 1: Gowanus Canal Boys, 8 pm, Tea Lounge Spines, 8:30 pm, $8; Oct. 30: April Smith, 9:30 burlesque and bands featuring SugarShack Williamsburg, (718) 384-1654. $TBD; Nov. 2: The Ne’er Do Evers (record Studio B Conservatory of pm, Anthony Fiumano and The Medicine 837 Union St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Burlesque, 9:30 pm, $8; Oct. 28: Halloween Nov. 2: Ngoma’s “Not Just Your Average release show), 8 pm, $TBD; Nov. 3: The Blue- 259 Banker St. at Calyer Street in Green- Chest, 10:30 pm, $8; Oct. 31: The Break Music Slope, (718) 789-2762, Movie Night featuring “Taxidriver” and String Thing,” 10 pm, $5. beats, 8 pm, $TBD. point, (718) 389-1880, www.clubstudiob.com. Mission, 7:30 pm, The Mercy Bends, 8:30 pm, 58 Seventh Ave. at Lincoln Place in Park www.tealoungeny.com. “Empire Strikes Back,” 7 pm, $3. Oct. 27: Made Event presents Lee Burridge, 10 Slope, (718) 622-3300, www.bqcm.org. Thursdays, Fridays: Live music, 8 pm, $5 sug- Worst Case Ontario, 9:30 pm, Demetra, 10:30 pm, $20; Oct. 28: The Go! Team with Effi Briest, pm, The Exeter Popes, 11:30 pm, $8; Nov. 2: Zebulon Nov. 3: “Jazz at the Conservatory” with John gested donation; Oct. 29: Tanya Kalmano- BUSHWICK Hearts Challenger, and The RUB DJs, 8 pm, $15. The Calorifer, 7:30 pm, Kin, 8:30 pm, Falling 258 Wythe Ave. at Metropolitan Avenue in Blake, 8 pm, $25 ($15 students and seniors). vitch Quartet, Girlfight, 8 pm, $5 suggested SHEEPSHEAD BAY donation. Red, 9:30 pm, Electric Fiction, 10:30 pm, Williamsburg, (718) 218-6934, Silent Barn Anyway Cafe Hollywood Cowboy, 11:30 pm, $8. www.zebuloncafeconcert.com. 915 Wyckoff Ave. at Hancock Street in GREENWOOD HEIGHTS Cafe Steinhof Oct. 27: Fleuronia, 9 pm, Superpower Afro Bushwick, No phone. Two Boots 1602 Gravesend Neck Rd. at East 16th Kitchen Bar 427 Seventh Ave. at 14th Street in Park Street in Sheepshead Bay, (718) 934-5988, Pete’s Candy Beat Band, 10 pm, FREE; Oct. 28: Nioka Nov. 2: Neptune, United States, 8 pm, $TBD. Slope, (718) 369-7776, Brooklyn www.anywaycafe.com. Workman, 9 pm, Trevor Watts and Jaime Harris 687 Sixth Ave. at 20th Street in www.cafesteinhof.com. Store Duo Exchange, 10 pm, FREE; Oct. 29: 514 Second St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Saturdays: Michelle Walker, 8 pm, FREE; Greenwood Heights, (718) 499-5623, Oct. 31: The Crevulators, 10:30 pm, FREE. Legends and Friends, 9 pm, FREE; Oct. 30: Slope, (718) 499-3253, Mondays: Violin and guitar, 9 pm, FREE; 709 Lorimer St. at Richardson Street in CLINTON HILL www.kitchenbarny.com. Verb Cafe Night, 9 pm, FREE; Oct. 31: www.twobootsbrooklyn.com. Tuesdays: Karin Akada, 9 pm, FREE; Wed- Williamsburg, (718) 302-3770, Thursdays: Live music, 8:30 pm, FREE. www.petescandystore.com. Halloween Party, 9 pm, FREE. Five Spot Good Coffeehouse Oct. 27: Heather & The Barbarians, 10 pm, nesdays: Grace Garland, 9 pm, FREE; Thurs- Music Parlor FREE; Oct. 31: Halloween Ball, 10 pm, FREE; days: Eric Nicholas, 9 pm, FREE; Fridays: Eve Restaurant Living Room Nov. 2: Sasha Dobson, 10 pm, FREE. (At The Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture) Carneleus, 9 pm, FREE. 459 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue in Lounge 53 Prospect Park West at Second Street in Clinton Hill, (718) 852-0202, Park Slope, (718) 768-2972, www.bsec.org. Union Hall Crossroads Saloon www.fivespotsoulfood.com. 245 23rd St. at Fifth Avenue in Greenwood Heights, (718) 499-1505, Nov. 2: Singer-songwriter Bernice Lewis, 8 pm, (Downstairs at) 702 Union St. at Fifth 2079 Coney Island Ave. at Kings Highway TALK TO US… Saturdays: DJ Aki, 6 pm, FREE; Mondays: www.myspace.com/livingroombrooklyn. $10 adults, $6 children. Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638-4400, in Sheepshead Bay, (718) 339-9393. RPM-Open Turntables hosted by DJ Copa Saturdays: DJ Kurt, 8 pm, FREE; Sundays: Guitar www.unionhallny.com. Fridays: Karaoke, 10:30 pm, FREE. To list your events in Brooklyn Nightlife, please give us as much notice as possible. (bring your own needles and vinyl), 8 pm, Hero, 8 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Open mic night, Oct. 27: The Lisps, The Psychics of Meaning, Include name of venue, address with cross street, phone number for the public to call, FREE; Tuesdays: 5 for Funny Tuesdays hosted Magnolia 8 pm, FREE; Thursdays: ’80s Music, 8 pm, FREE; Le Concorde, 7:30 pm, $8; Oct. 29: Holly Web site address, dates, times and admission or ticket prices. Send listings and color by Dave Lester, 10 pm, $5; Wednesdays: 486 Sixth Ave. at 12th Street in Park Slope, Fridays: Wasabassco Burlesque Show, 9 pm, $5. Golightly & The Broke-Offs, The Griefs, The WILLIAMSBURG photos of performers via e-mail to [email protected] or via fax at (718) Open mic with Nate Jones and Da Feel, 9 pm, (718) 369-4814, www.magnoliabrooklyn.com. Lodger, 7:30 pm, $13; Oct. 30: Scary 834-9278. Listings are free and printed on a space available basis. We regret we can- $5 ($10 after 10 pm). Fridays: Live music, 9:30 pm, FREE; Nov. 2: Mansion, Graham Smith, 9 pm, $7; Oct. 31: Black Betty PARK SLOPE Exodus Supreme, 9:30 pm, FREE. not take listings over the phone. The Onion & Adult Swim present Union Hall- 366 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer The listings are correct as of press time. Contact the venue before you go to con- Grand Dakar Cafe o-ween featuring music and comedy by the Street in Williamsburg, (718) 599-0243, firm event details. 285 Grand St. at Lafayette Avenue in Clinton Bar4 Melt cast of Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil, www.blackbetty.net. Hill, (718) 398-8900, www.granddakar.com. 444 Seventh Ave. at 15th Street in Park 440 Bergen St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Cheeseburger, Cassettes Won’t Listen, 7 pm, Saturdays: DJ Concerned, 11 pm, FREE; 10 DTZ, PSZ, NBZ October 27, 2007

in Prospect Park with naturalist/ author “Wildman” Steve Brill. $12, $6 kids. 11:45 am to 3:45 9 DAYS... pm. Meet at Prospect Park’s Grand Army Plaza entrance. To Continued from page 2 attend, call (914) 835-2153. BIRDWATCHING 101: Prospect music concert. 4 pm. See Sat., Park Audubon Center hosts a Oct. 27. tour of the birds of the park. RIDGE REPERTORY: “To Gillian On Noon to 1:30 pm. Enter park at Her 37th Birthday.” 5 pm. See Lincoln Road and Ocean Sat., Oct. 27. Avenue. (718) 287-3400. Free. OTHER PERFORMANCE CANINE COSTUME CONTEST: Nar- GALLERY PLAYERS: presents rows Botanical Gardens Harvest “Yank! A New Musical.” $18, Festival and canine costume con- $14 children and seniors. 2 pm test. Noon to 5 pm. 71st Street and 8 pm. 199 14th St. (212) and Shore Road. (718) 748-9848. 352-3101. FUN WALK 2007: Brooklyn Bureau WHITE WAVE: presents Wave of Community Service hosts a Rising Series production of walk to raise funds for recreation “Cannikin” and other perform- programs for adults with devel- ances. $20. 4 pm. Also, “A Page opmental disabilities. 8 am to 11 Out of Order: 3 Women.” Other am. Prospect Park; enter park at performances. $20. 7:30 pm. 15th Street and Prospect Park Sparkling new gem: For its inaugural show on Oct. 27, John Ryan Theater, 25 Jay St. West. (718) 310-5761. (212) 868-4444. CLOTHING DRIVE: Drop off men’s NYC House of Art Gallery in Bedford-Stuyvesant hosts a BROOKLYN REPERTORY OPERA: and women’s clothes between 9 group exhibition that includes “Jade,” a limited edition giclee presents a production of Beet- am and 2 pm. Union Temple, 17 hoven’s “Fidelio,” performed with Eastern Pkwy. (718) 638-7600. print by watercolor artist Kenneth Gatewood. full orchestra. Beethoven’s only ART SHOW: Final weekend of opera was a commentary on cur- Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coa- rent events in Europe in his time. lition “Narratives.” Noon to 6 and career. 12:45 pm to 1:45 (212) 868-4444. $20, $10 seniors and students. 4 The LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER Surgical Weight Loss Institute is pm. Also, live auction at 2 pm. pm. 200 Willoughby St., room NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of pm. Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Fourth 371. (718) 636-3514. Free. Bariatric 499 Van Brunt St. (718) 596-2506. Music presents John Jasperse Ave. (718) 857-4816. proud to be the only weight loss center in Brooklyn named a HEALTH TALK: Brooklyn Public Company in “Misuse Liable to BARGEMUSIC: presents a classical ANGER ALLEVIATION: Yoga Prosecution.” $20, $35, $45. Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society for Bariatric People hosts a class: “How to Library’s Central branch offers a music concert with works by talk on atrial fibrillation by cardiac 7:30 pm. BAM Harvey Theater, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. Solve Anger Problems.” $10. 2:30 651 Fulton St. (718) 636-4100. Surgery, while also holding a Level I Accreditation from the American pm to 3:30 pm. 157 Remsen St., surgeon Dr. Saltman. Light refresh- $35, $30 seniors, $20 students. 8 second floor. (718) 496-5514. ments served. 6 pm to 8 pm. ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Black pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old College of Surgeons. Grand Army Plaza. Reservations Watch.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. Fulton Street at the East River. BOOKCOURT: reading with authors required. (718) 283-7981. Free. (718) 624-2083. Gregory Attonito and Shanti Wintergate. 7 pm. 163 Court St. BUSINESS WORKSHOP: Small busi- RUSSIAN COMEDY: The Brooklyn For some, the lifelong commitment to good health starts with bariatric (718) 875-3677. Free. nesses and entrepreneurs are THURS, NOV 1 College Department of Theater invited to “Small Business Essen- presents Anton Chekhov’s “The weight loss surgery. Lutheran Medical Center Surgical Weight Loss VOCAL AUDITION: for One World tials: Create the Right Strategy, FITNESS FOR LIFE: Aviator Sports Seagull.” $12, $10 seniors, $5 Symphony’s 2007/2008 season. Find the Right Staff.” 6 pm to 8 and Recreation hosts classes in students. 7:30 pm. Gershwin Institute takes a unique approach to treating serious obesity-related For info visit www.oneworld- pm. North Fork Bank, 356 Fulton tai chi, yoga, weight training, Theater at Brooklyn College, symphony.org. conditions — lifestyle support. We stand beside our patients all St. Call to pre-register. (718) 963- aerobics and ballroom dance. one block from the intersection 4112, ext. 563. Free. Adults 55 and older are invited of Flatbush and Nostrand the way with: ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Black to attend. 9 am to 3:30 pm. avenues. (718) 951-4500. MON, OCT 29 Watch.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. Floyd Bennett Field, Hangar 5. NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of (718) 758-9800. Free. Music presents John Jasperse HAUNTED HOTEL: Ninth annual BRIDGE WALK: Big Onion Tours Company in “Misuse Liable to • Psychological counseling “Gravesend Inn: A Haunted WEDS, OCT 31 takes a walk over the Brooklyn Prosecution.” $20, $35, $45. Hotel” hosted by the Department Bridge and through Brooklyn 7:30 pm. BAM Harvey Theater, of Entertainment Technology at • Dedicated nutritionists and dietitians Halloween Heights. $15, $12 seniors, $10 651 Fulton St. Also, Sufjan NYC College of Technology and students. 1 pm. Meet at south- Stevens in “The BQE.” $20 to Theatreworks. $6, $4 children 12 MOVIE: St. Francis College pres- east corner of Broadway and $50. 8 pm. Howard Gilman • Personalized exercise regimens and younger. 6 pm to 9 pm. 186 ents “Hairspray.” 2 pm and 6 Chambers Street, lower Man- Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave. Jay St. (718) 260-5592. pm. 180 Remsen St., Founders hattan. (212) 439-1090. (718) 636-4100. Hall. (718) 489-5372. Free. MEDITATION CLASS: Buddist nun BOOK DISCUSSION: Gregory RHAPSODY PLAYERS: presents • Aftercare psychotherapy group sessions Kelsang offers a demo on using CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Museum Matloff, professor of physics at “Magic Moments,” music from wisdom to develop fearlessness. of World Wonders hosts a talk New York City College of Tech- the 1950s and ’60s. $15, $10 $10. 7:30 pm to 9 pm. First Uni- with Takeshi Yamada. He discuss- nology, and co-author Les John- kids and seniors. 8 pm. St. Lifestyle support and the best weight loss surgical techniques available tarian Congregational Society, es his neo-taxidermy artwork son lead a discussion of their John’s Church, 99th Street and 48 Monroe Pl. (718) 496-5514. that includes fossilized fairies, book “Living Off the Land in Fort Hamilton Parkway. (718) anywhere — you deserve it. And now, Brooklyn has it. LECTURE SERIES: Congregation New York City giant subway Space.” 6 pm to 7:30 pm. 907-3490. B’nai Avraham hosts a series: bugs, Mongolian death worms, Atrium Amphitheater, 300 Jay IMPACT THEATER: presents “Anna “Alef-Beit: Numerology and two-headed snakes and more. 4 St. (718) 260-5008. Free. Christie,” by Eugene O’Neill. To find out if you’re a candidate for weight loss surgery or one of our Kabbalah of the 22 Letters of pm. Brooklyn Public Library’s POLICE CHIEF TALK: NYC Police $15, $10 students and seniors. 8 the Hebrew Alphabet.” Rabbi Coney Island branch, 1901 Mer- Department hosts a talk with pm. 190 Underhill Ave. (212) lifestyle support programs, please call 1-718-630-RXRX (7979). Raskin leads discussion. 8 pm to maid Ave. (718) 265-3220. Free. Police Commissioner Raymond 714-7102. 9 pm. 117 Remsen St. (718) 596- HAUNTED HOTEL: Ninth annual Kelly. 6 pm to 9 pm. Refresh- ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: presents 4840, ext. 18. Free. “Gravesend Inn: A Haunted ments served. Downstate Me- the NY premiere of the National ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Black Hotel” hosted by the Depart- dical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave. Theater of Scotland’s “Black Watch.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. ment of Entertainment Tech- (646) 610-5323. Free. Watch,” a story of personal testi- nology at NYC College of Tech- RECEPTION: Safe-T-Gallery pres- monies of 10 soldiers fighting nology and Theatreworks. $6, $4 ents Daniel Blochwitz’s “Mixed the war on terror. $47.50. 8 pm. TUES, OCT 30 children 12 and younger. 6 pm to Messages,” and Maureen Kel- 38 Water St. (718) 254-8779. Surgical Solutions 9 pm. 186 Jay St. (718) 260-5592. leher’s “Home Girl Don’t Play.” 6 NARROWS COMMUNITY THE- LifeStyle Support HAUNTED HOTEL: Ninth annual PARK SLOPE PARADE: Annual pm to 8 pm. 111 Front St., suite ATER: presents “The Music “Gravesend Inn: A Haunted neighborhood Halloween 214. (718) 782-5920. Free. Man.” $20, $15 seniors and stu- Hotel” hosted by the Depart- parade begins at the corner of RUSSIAN COMEDY: Brooklyn Col- dents. 8 pm. St. Patrick’s Audi- 150 55th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11220 ment of Entertainment Tech- Sixth Avenue and 12th Street lege Department of Theater pre- torium, 97th Street and Fourth 1-718-630-RXRX (7979) nology at NYC College of Tech- and continues down Seventh sents Anton Chekhov’s “The Sea- Avenue. (718) 482-3173. www.LutheranMedicalCenter.com nology and Theatreworks. $6, $4 Avenue to Berkeley Place. Free. gull.” $12, $10 seniors, $5 students. JAZZ AT THE CONSERVATORY: children 12 and younger. Noon 6:30 pm. (718) 832-8227. 7:30 pm. Gershwin Theater at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music to 4 pm and 6 pm to 9 pm. 186 WHITE WAVE: presents Wave Brooklyn College, one block from presents violinist John Blake. $25, Jay St. (718) 260-5592. Rising Series production of the intersection of Flatbush and $15 students and seniors. 8 pm. ARTIST TALK: Jill Magid speaks at “Gala Three.” $20. 7:30 pm. Nostrand avenues. (718) 951-4500. 58 Seventh Ave. (718) 622-3300. Pratt Institute about her artwork John Ryan Theater, 25 Jay St. WHITE WAVE: presents Wave Rising Series production of “A OTHER Page Out of Order: 3 Women.” FIRST SATURDAY: Brooklyn oup Other performances. $20. 7:30 Museum hosts its monthly c Orthopaedic Gr pm. John Ryan Theater, 25 Jay event featuring a program of Only Academi St. (212) 868-4444. live music, dance performances, Brooklyn’s of Park Slope... ffice In the Heart BARNES AND NOBLE: author spoken word and a dance Now Has An O Louise Sloane in a talk about her party. Tonight: celebration of book “Knock Yourself Up: No exhibit “Brushed with Light: Man? No Problem! A Tell-All American Landscape Water- Guide to Becoming a Single colors from the Collection.” Mom.” 7:30 pm. 267 Seventh Activities include Dreamland Ave. (718) 832-9066. Free. Orchestra playing jazz from BARGEMUSIC: jazz with Howard the Roaring ’20s at 6 pm; Alden and Ken Peplowski. $40, Bridgman/Packer Dance per- $25 students. 8 pm. Fulton Ferry forms at 6:30 pm; watercolor Landing, Old Fulton Street at art class at 6:30 pm. For full list the East River. (718) 624-2083. of programs visit www.brook- AWARD NIGHT: Brooklyn Arts lynmuseum.org. Event runs Exchange hosts its seventh from 5 pm to 11 pm. 200 annual Artists in Progress Eastern Pkwy. (718) 636-5000. awards. $100 includes priority Free. seating and cocktail reception; ARTHRITIS WALK: 5K walk in $50 general admission; $25 Prospect Park. Check in at 9 am; artists/ low income. 8 pm. 421 walk at 10 am. Register at Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. www.prospectparkarthritiswalk. IMPACT THEATER: presents “Anna kintera.org/newyork. (212) 984- Christie,” by Eugene O’Neill. 8725. $15, $10 students and seniors. 8 WEEKSVILLE FARMERS MARKET: Best Of pm. 190 Underhill Ave. (212) Farm-fresh produce. 9 am to 1 714-7102. pm. 1698 Bergen St., between ONE ACT PLAY: The Jalopy Theater Rochester and Buffalo avenues. Sofas University Orthopaedic Associates presents Sam Shepard’s “The (718) 788-8500. March 12-19, 2007 An Affiliate of SUNY Downstate Medical Center Holy Ghostly.” $10. 8 pm. 315 Columbia St. (718) 395-3214. SUN, NOV 4 shoprico.com NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of FF cÜÉáÑxvà ctÜ~ j xáà Music presents Sufjan Stevens in American Leather “The BQE.” $20 to $50. 8 pm. OUTDOORS AND TOURS Baronet Howard Gilman Opera House, GREEN-WOOD WALK: Brooklyn 30 Lafayette Ave. Also, “Misuse BDI Center for Urban Environment • 718-270-2045 Liable to Prosecution.” 7:30 pm. explores the less-visited side of Sports Medicine See Sat., Nov. 3. Calligaris • Green-Wood cemetery. $13, $10 DellaRobbia Hand Surgery GALLERY PLAYERS: “Yank! A New members, $8 seniors and stu- • Musical.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. dents. 1 pm to 3:30 pm. Meet at Fontana Arte Neck and Back Pain ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Black Fort Hamilton Parkway entrance. Maria Yee • Podiatry Watch.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. (718) 788-8500, ext. 208. Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams • Pediatric Orthopaedics PERFORMANCE Robert Abbey FRI, NOV 2 BCBC: The Brooklyn Center for • Physiatry Performing Arts at Brooklyn Thayer Coggin • SMALL BUSINESS DAY: Long College presents the United Occupational Medicine Island University’s School of States Military Academy Band. 372 + 384 atlantic ave • Acupuncture Business offers an education day. 3 pm. Walt Whitman Theatre at brooklyn 718 797 2077 art lighting furniture decor Seminars, workshops and other Brooklyn College, 2900 Cam- info. 10 am to 3 pm. Flatbush pus Rd. (718) 951-4500. Free. Avenue Extension and DeKalb BARGEMUSIC: presents a classical Avenue. Pre-registration neces- music concert with works by sary. (718) 488-1132. Free. Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. WHITE WAVE: presents Wave $35, $30 seniors, $20 students. 4 Rising Series production of pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old “Cannikin.” Other performances. Fulton Street at the East River. $20. 7:30 pm. John Ryan (718) 624-2083. Theater, 25 Jay St. (212) 868- WHITE WAVE: presents Wave 4444. Rising Series production of “ A Quality, Reliable Healthcare For The Entire Family BARGEMUSIC: concert “Here and Page Out of Order: 3 Women” Now: American Contemporary and other performances. $20. 4 Music.” $35, $30 seniors, $20 pm. Also, “Cannikin” Other per- students. 8 pm. Fulton Ferry formances. $20. 7:30 pm. John Preferred Health Partners Landing, Old Fulton Street at Ryan Theater, 25 Jay St. (212) the East River. (718) 624-2083. 868-4444. offers quality healthcare at MUSICAL: Narrows Community GALLERY PLAYERS: “Yank! A New Theater presents “The Music Musical.” 3 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. Man.” $20, $15 seniors and stu- NARROWS COMMUNITY 10 convenient center locations dents. 8 pm. St. Patrick’s Audi- THEAER: “The Music Man.” 3 torium, 97th Street and Fourth pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. throughout Brooklyn with one in Avenue. (718) 482-3173. ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Black GOOD COFFEEHOUSE: presents Watch.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. singer-songwriter Bernice Lewis. IMPACT THEATER: “Anna your neighborhood. Most major $10, $6 kids. 8 pm. 53 Prospect Christie.” Call for time. See Sat., Park West at Second Street. Nov. 3. (718) 768-2972. insurances accepted. TAXIDERMY NIGHT: Union Hall OTHER hosts its Secret Science Club and PRAYER MARATHON: Bay Ridge welcomes all science geeks, United Methodist Church hosts a •Bay Ridge Center-740 64th Street nature freaks and others. No morning of prayer and praise for cover. 8 pm. Union Hall, 702 the marathoners. $3 pancake •Bedford Center-233 Nostrand Avenue Union St. at Fifth Avenue. (718) breakfast. 8:30 am to 9:30 am. •Coney Island Center-1230 Neptune Avenue 638-4400. (See story on page 7.) Marathon cheering and singing RUSSIAN COMEDY: “The Seagull.” from 9:30 am to 11:30 am. •Downtown Center-345 Schermerhorn Street 7:30 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. Worship service at 11:30 am. NEXT WAVE: “The BQE.” 8 pm. Fourth and Ovington avenues. •Empire Center-546 Eastern Parkway “Misuse Liable to Prosecution.” (718)748-9502. •Flatbush Center- 1000 Church Avenue 7:30 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. FLEA MARKET: at St. Finbar GALLERY PLAYERS: “Yank! A New Church. 9 am to 3 pm. Bath •Kings Highway Center-3245 Nostrand Avenue Musical.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. Avenue and Bay 20th Street. IMPACT THEATER: “Anna Christie.” (718) 236-3312. •Lindenwood Center-2832 Linden Boulevard 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. BAZAAR: Sale hosted by Sister- •Brooklyn Heights Center- 200 Montague Street ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Black hood of Flatbush Jewish Center. Watch.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. 10 am to 3 pm. 327 E. Fifth St. •Brooklyn Heights Center Annex-195 Montague Street (718) 871-5200. DINNER DANCE: Bensonhurst SAT, NOV 3 Volunteer Ambulance Service hosts its 30th anniversary event. 5 pm. Sirico Caterers, 8017 13th is now OUTDOORS AND TOURS Ave. Call for ticket info. (646) WILD TOUR: Hunt for Gingko Nuts 285-7034. 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in Prospect Park with naturalist/ author “Wildman” Steve Brill. $12, $6 kids. 11:45 am to 3:45 9 DAYS... pm. Meet at Prospect Park’s Grand Army Plaza entrance. To Continued from page 2 attend, call (914) 835-2153. BIRDWATCHING 101: Prospect music concert. 4 pm. See Sat., Park Audubon Center hosts a Oct. 27. tour of the birds of the park. RIDGE REPERTORY: “To Gillian On Noon to 1:30 pm. Enter park at Her 37th Birthday.” 5 pm. See Lincoln Road and Ocean Sat., Oct. 27. Avenue. (718) 287-3400. Free. OTHER PERFORMANCE CANINE COSTUME CONTEST: Nar- GALLERY PLAYERS: presents rows Botanical Gardens Harvest “Yank! A New Musical.” $18, Festival and canine costume con- $14 children and seniors. 2 pm test. Noon to 5 pm. 71st Street and 8 pm. 199 14th St. (212) and Shore Road. (718) 748-9848. 352-3101. FUN WALK 2007: Brooklyn Bureau WHITE WAVE: presents Wave of Community Service hosts a Rising Series production of walk to raise funds for recreation “Cannikin” and other perform- programs for adults with devel- ances. $20. 4 pm. Also, “A Page opmental disabilities. 8 am to 11 Out of Order: 3 Women.” Other am. Prospect Park; enter park at performances. $20. 7:30 pm. 15th Street and Prospect Park Sparkling new gem: For its inaugural show on Oct. 27, John Ryan Theater, 25 Jay St. West. (718) 310-5761. (212) 868-4444. CLOTHING DRIVE: Drop off men’s NYC House of Art Gallery in Bedford-Stuyvesant hosts a BROOKLYN REPERTORY OPERA: and women’s clothes between 9 group exhibition that includes “Jade,” a limited edition giclee presents a production of Beet- am and 2 pm. Union Temple, 17 hoven’s “Fidelio,” performed with Eastern Pkwy. (718) 638-7600. print by watercolor artist Kenneth Gatewood. full orchestra. Beethoven’s only ART SHOW: Final weekend of opera was a commentary on cur- Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coa- rent events in Europe in his time. lition “Narratives.” Noon to 6 and career. 12:45 pm to 1:45 (212) 868-4444. $20, $10 seniors and students. 4 The LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER Surgical Weight Loss Institute is pm. Also, live auction at 2 pm. pm. 200 Willoughby St., room NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of pm. Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Fourth 371. (718) 636-3514. Free. Bariatric 499 Van Brunt St. (718) 596-2506. Music presents John Jasperse Ave. (718) 857-4816. proud to be the only weight loss center in Brooklyn named a HEALTH TALK: Brooklyn Public Company in “Misuse Liable to BARGEMUSIC: presents a classical ANGER ALLEVIATION: Yoga Prosecution.” $20, $35, $45. Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society for Bariatric People hosts a class: “How to Library’s Central branch offers a music concert with works by talk on atrial fibrillation by cardiac 7:30 pm. BAM Harvey Theater, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. Solve Anger Problems.” $10. 2:30 651 Fulton St. (718) 636-4100. Surgery, while also holding a Level I Accreditation from the American pm to 3:30 pm. 157 Remsen St., surgeon Dr. Saltman. Light refresh- $35, $30 seniors, $20 students. 8 second floor. (718) 496-5514. ments served. 6 pm to 8 pm. ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Black pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old College of Surgeons. Grand Army Plaza. Reservations Watch.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. Fulton Street at the East River. BOOKCOURT: reading with authors required. (718) 283-7981. Free. (718) 624-2083. Gregory Attonito and Shanti Wintergate. 7 pm. 163 Court St. BUSINESS WORKSHOP: Small busi- RUSSIAN COMEDY: The Brooklyn For some, the lifelong commitment to good health starts with bariatric (718) 875-3677. Free. nesses and entrepreneurs are THURS, NOV 1 College Department of Theater invited to “Small Business Essen- presents Anton Chekhov’s “The weight loss surgery. Lutheran Medical Center Surgical Weight Loss VOCAL AUDITION: for One World tials: Create the Right Strategy, FITNESS FOR LIFE: Aviator Sports Seagull.” $12, $10 seniors, $5 Symphony’s 2007/2008 season. Find the Right Staff.” 6 pm to 8 and Recreation hosts classes in students. 7:30 pm. Gershwin Institute takes a unique approach to treating serious obesity-related For info visit www.oneworld- pm. North Fork Bank, 356 Fulton tai chi, yoga, weight training, Theater at Brooklyn College, symphony.org. conditions — lifestyle support. We stand beside our patients all St. Call to pre-register. (718) 963- aerobics and ballroom dance. one block from the intersection 4112, ext. 563. Free. Adults 55 and older are invited of Flatbush and Nostrand the way with: ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Black to attend. 9 am to 3:30 pm. avenues. (718) 951-4500. MON, OCT 29 Watch.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. Floyd Bennett Field, Hangar 5. NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of (718) 758-9800. Free. Music presents John Jasperse HAUNTED HOTEL: Ninth annual BRIDGE WALK: Big Onion Tours Company in “Misuse Liable to • Psychological counseling “Gravesend Inn: A Haunted WEDS, OCT 31 takes a walk over the Brooklyn Prosecution.” $20, $35, $45. Hotel” hosted by the Department Bridge and through Brooklyn 7:30 pm. BAM Harvey Theater, of Entertainment Technology at • Dedicated nutritionists and dietitians Halloween Heights. $15, $12 seniors, $10 651 Fulton St. Also, Sufjan NYC College of Technology and students. 1 pm. Meet at south- Stevens in “The BQE.” $20 to Theatreworks. $6, $4 children 12 MOVIE: St. Francis College pres- east corner of Broadway and $50. 8 pm. Howard Gilman • Personalized exercise regimens and younger. 6 pm to 9 pm. 186 ents “Hairspray.” 2 pm and 6 Chambers Street, lower Man- Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave. Jay St. (718) 260-5592. pm. 180 Remsen St., Founders hattan. (212) 439-1090. (718) 636-4100. Hall. (718) 489-5372. Free. MEDITATION CLASS: Buddist nun BOOK DISCUSSION: Gregory RHAPSODY PLAYERS: presents • Aftercare psychotherapy group sessions Kelsang offers a demo on using CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Museum Matloff, professor of physics at “Magic Moments,” music from wisdom to develop fearlessness. of World Wonders hosts a talk New York City College of Tech- the 1950s and ’60s. $15, $10 $10. 7:30 pm to 9 pm. First Uni- with Takeshi Yamada. He discuss- nology, and co-author Les John- kids and seniors. 8 pm. St. Lifestyle support and the best weight loss surgical techniques available tarian Congregational Society, es his neo-taxidermy artwork son lead a discussion of their John’s Church, 99th Street and 48 Monroe Pl. (718) 496-5514. that includes fossilized fairies, book “Living Off the Land in Fort Hamilton Parkway. (718) anywhere — you deserve it. And now, Brooklyn has it. LECTURE SERIES: Congregation New York City giant subway Space.” 6 pm to 7:30 pm. 907-3490. B’nai Avraham hosts a series: bugs, Mongolian death worms, Atrium Amphitheater, 300 Jay IMPACT THEATER: presents “Anna “Alef-Beit: Numerology and two-headed snakes and more. 4 St. (718) 260-5008. Free. Christie,” by Eugene O’Neill. To find out if you’re a candidate for weight loss surgery or one of our Kabbalah of the 22 Letters of pm. Brooklyn Public Library’s POLICE CHIEF TALK: NYC Police $15, $10 students and seniors. 8 the Hebrew Alphabet.” Rabbi Coney Island branch, 1901 Mer- Department hosts a talk with pm. 190 Underhill Ave. (212) lifestyle support programs, please call 1-718-630-RXRX (7979). Raskin leads discussion. 8 pm to maid Ave. (718) 265-3220. Free. Police Commissioner Raymond 714-7102. 9 pm. 117 Remsen St. (718) 596- HAUNTED HOTEL: Ninth annual Kelly. 6 pm to 9 pm. Refresh- ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: presents 4840, ext. 18. Free. “Gravesend Inn: A Haunted ments served. Downstate Me- the NY premiere of the National ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Black Hotel” hosted by the Depart- dical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave. Theater of Scotland’s “Black Watch.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. ment of Entertainment Tech- (646) 610-5323. Free. Watch,” a story of personal testi- nology at NYC College of Tech- RECEPTION: Safe-T-Gallery pres- monies of 10 soldiers fighting nology and Theatreworks. $6, $4 ents Daniel Blochwitz’s “Mixed the war on terror. $47.50. 8 pm. TUES, OCT 30 children 12 and younger. 6 pm to Messages,” and Maureen Kel- 38 Water St. (718) 254-8779. Surgical Solutions 9 pm. 186 Jay St. (718) 260-5592. leher’s “Home Girl Don’t Play.” 6 NARROWS COMMUNITY THE- LifeStyle Support HAUNTED HOTEL: Ninth annual PARK SLOPE PARADE: Annual pm to 8 pm. 111 Front St., suite ATER: presents “The Music “Gravesend Inn: A Haunted neighborhood Halloween 214. (718) 782-5920. Free. Man.” $20, $15 seniors and stu- Hotel” hosted by the Depart- parade begins at the corner of RUSSIAN COMEDY: Brooklyn Col- dents. 8 pm. St. Patrick’s Audi- 150 55th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11220 ment of Entertainment Tech- Sixth Avenue and 12th Street lege Department of Theater pre- torium, 97th Street and Fourth 1-718-630-RXRX (7979) nology at NYC College of Tech- and continues down Seventh sents Anton Chekhov’s “The Sea- Avenue. (718) 482-3173. www.LutheranMedicalCenter.com nology and Theatreworks. $6, $4 Avenue to Berkeley Place. Free. gull.” $12, $10 seniors, $5 students. JAZZ AT THE CONSERVATORY: children 12 and younger. Noon 6:30 pm. (718) 832-8227. 7:30 pm. Gershwin Theater at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music to 4 pm and 6 pm to 9 pm. 186 WHITE WAVE: presents Wave Brooklyn College, one block from presents violinist John Blake. $25, Jay St. (718) 260-5592. Rising Series production of the intersection of Flatbush and $15 students and seniors. 8 pm. ARTIST TALK: Jill Magid speaks at “Gala Three.” $20. 7:30 pm. Nostrand avenues. (718) 951-4500. 58 Seventh Ave. (718) 622-3300. Pratt Institute about her artwork John Ryan Theater, 25 Jay St. WHITE WAVE: presents Wave Rising Series production of “A OTHER Page Out of Order: 3 Women.” FIRST SATURDAY: Brooklyn oup Other performances. $20. 7:30 Museum hosts its monthly c Orthopaedic Gr pm. John Ryan Theater, 25 Jay event featuring a program of Only Academi St. (212) 868-4444. live music, dance performances, Brooklyn’s of Park Slope... ffice In the Heart BARNES AND NOBLE: author spoken word and a dance Now Has An O Louise Sloane in a talk about her party. Tonight: celebration of book “Knock Yourself Up: No exhibit “Brushed with Light: Man? No Problem! A Tell-All American Landscape Water- Guide to Becoming a Single colors from the Collection.” Mom.” 7:30 pm. 267 Seventh Activities include Dreamland Ave. (718) 832-9066. Free. Orchestra playing jazz from BARGEMUSIC: jazz with Howard the Roaring ’20s at 6 pm; Alden and Ken Peplowski. $40, Bridgman/Packer Dance per- $25 students. 8 pm. Fulton Ferry forms at 6:30 pm; watercolor Landing, Old Fulton Street at art class at 6:30 pm. For full list the East River. (718) 624-2083. of programs visit www.brook- AWARD NIGHT: Brooklyn Arts lynmuseum.org. Event runs Exchange hosts its seventh from 5 pm to 11 pm. 200 annual Artists in Progress Eastern Pkwy. (718) 636-5000. awards. $100 includes priority Free. seating and cocktail reception; ARTHRITIS WALK: 5K walk in $50 general admission; $25 Prospect Park. Check in at 9 am; artists/ low income. 8 pm. 421 walk at 10 am. Register at Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. www.prospectparkarthritiswalk. IMPACT THEATER: presents “Anna kintera.org/newyork. (212) 984- Christie,” by Eugene O’Neill. 8725. $15, $10 students and seniors. 8 WEEKSVILLE FARMERS MARKET: Best Of pm. 190 Underhill Ave. (212) Farm-fresh produce. 9 am to 1 714-7102. pm. 1698 Bergen St., between ONE ACT PLAY: The Jalopy Theater Rochester and Buffalo avenues. Sofas University Orthopaedic Associates presents Sam Shepard’s “The (718) 788-8500. March 12-19, 2007 An Affiliate of SUNY Downstate Medical Center Holy Ghostly.” $10. 8 pm. 315 Columbia St. (718) 395-3214. SUN, NOV 4 shoprico.com NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of FF cÜÉáÑxvà ctÜ~ j xáà Music presents Sufjan Stevens in American Leather “The BQE.” $20 to $50. 8 pm. OUTDOORS AND TOURS Baronet Howard Gilman Opera House, GREEN-WOOD WALK: Brooklyn 30 Lafayette Ave. Also, “Misuse BDI Center for Urban Environment • 718-270-2045 Liable to Prosecution.” 7:30 pm. explores the less-visited side of Sports Medicine See Sat., Nov. 3. Calligaris • Green-Wood cemetery. $13, $10 DellaRobbia Hand Surgery GALLERY PLAYERS: “Yank! A New members, $8 seniors and stu- • Musical.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. dents. 1 pm to 3:30 pm. Meet at Fontana Arte Neck and Back Pain ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Black Fort Hamilton Parkway entrance. Maria Yee • Podiatry Watch.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. (718) 788-8500, ext. 208. Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams • Pediatric Orthopaedics PERFORMANCE Robert Abbey FRI, NOV 2 BCBC: The Brooklyn Center for • Physiatry Performing Arts at Brooklyn Thayer Coggin • SMALL BUSINESS DAY: Long College presents the United Occupational Medicine Island University’s School of States Military Academy Band. 372 + 384 atlantic ave • Acupuncture Business offers an education day. 3 pm. Walt Whitman Theatre at brooklyn 718 797 2077 art lighting furniture decor Seminars, workshops and other Brooklyn College, 2900 Cam- info. 10 am to 3 pm. Flatbush pus Rd. (718) 951-4500. Free. Avenue Extension and DeKalb BARGEMUSIC: presents a classical Avenue. Pre-registration neces- music concert with works by sary. (718) 488-1132. Free. Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. WHITE WAVE: presents Wave $35, $30 seniors, $20 students. 4 Rising Series production of pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old CERT1NYC - Community Emergency Response Team | Bay Ridge-Bensonhurst Parks Tasks Force | The NYC Department of Parks & Recreation “Cannikin.” Other performances. Fulton Street at the East River. $20. 7:30 pm. John Ryan (718) 624-2083. Theater, 25 Jay St. (212) 868- WHITE WAVE: presents Wave 4444. Rising Series production of “ A Presents BARGEMUSIC: concert “Here and Page Out of Order: 3 Women” State Senator Marty Golden Now: American Contemporary and other performances. $20. 4 Music.” $35, $30 seniors, $20 pm. Also, “Cannikin” Other per- students. 8 pm. Fulton Ferry formances. $20. 7:30 pm. John Landing, Old Fulton Street at Ryan Theater, 25 Jay St. (212) the East River. (718) 624-2083. 868-4444. MUSICAL: Narrows Community GALLERY PLAYERS: “Yank! A New 2007 HALLOWEEN WALK & FAIR Theater presents “The Music Musical.” 3 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. Man.” $20, $15 seniors and stu- NARROWS COMMUNITY dents. 8 pm. St. Patrick’s Audi- THEAER: “The Music Man.” 3 torium, 97th Street and Fourth pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. Avenue. (718) 482-3173. ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Black Wednesday, October 31st GOOD COFFEEHOUSE: presents Watch.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. singer-songwriter Bernice Lewis. IMPACT THEATER: “Anna $10, $6 kids. 8 pm. 53 Prospect Christie.” Call for time. See Sat., 3:30 to 8:30 Park West at Second Street. Nov. 3. (718) 768-2972. TAXIDERMY NIGHT: Union Hall OTHER Owl's Head Park hosts its Secret Science Club and PRAYER MARATHON: Bay Ridge 68th St. & Colonial Rd. welcomes all science geeks, United Methodist Church hosts a nature freaks and others. No morning of prayer and praise for cover. 8 pm. Union Hall, 702 the marathoners. $3 pancake Haunted Walk - 4:30 to 6 pm & 7 to 8:30pm) Union St. at Fifth Avenue. (718) breakfast. 8:30 am to 9:30 am. FREE 638-4400. (See story on page 7.) Marathon cheering and singing The Haunted Walk (Costume Contest 6pm to 7pm) RUSSIAN COMEDY: “The Seagull.” from 9:30 am to 11:30 am. The Fairytale Forest 7:30 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. Worship service at 11:30 am. The Trick-Or-Treat Trail NEXT WAVE: “The BQE.” 8 pm. Fourth and Ovington avenues. Also Available “Misuse Liable to Prosecution.” (718)748-9502. The Pumpkin Patch Kid's Rides, Pony Rides, Wagon Rides, 7:30 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. FLEA MARKET: at St. Finbar Costume Contest Face Painting, and More GALLERY PLAYERS: “Yank! A New Church. 9 am to 3 pm. Bath Magic Show Musical.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. Avenue and Bay 20th Street. IMPACT THEATER: “Anna Christie.” (718) 236-3312. Plus Surprises DRACULA’S FOOD COURT 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. BAZAAR: Sale hosted by Sister- ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Black hood of Flatbush Jewish Center. open 3:30 to 8:00 pm Watch.” 8 pm. See Sat., Nov. 3. 10 am to 3 pm. 327 E. Fifth St. (718) 871-5200. DINNER DANCE: Bensonhurst SAT, NOV 3 Volunteer Ambulance Service hosts its 30th anniversary event. 5 pm. Sirico Caterers, 8017 13th OUTDOORS AND TOURS Ave. Call for ticket info. (646) WILD TOUR: Hunt for Gingko Nuts 285-7034. This event is produced entirely by volunteers dedicated to preserving the quality of life in our community. All proceeds and donations will go to CERT1NYC, the Community Emergency Response Team serving community boards 10 & 11. LIST YOUR EVENT… To list your event in Nine Days In Brooklyn, please give us two weeks notice "A safe alternative to Trick-or-Treating" or more. Send your listing by e-mail: [email protected]; by mail: GO Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Paper, 55 Washington St., Suite 624, Brooklyn, For information call 718-238-6044 NY 11201; or by fax: (718) 834-9278. Listings are free and printed on a space available basis. 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ere is a tale of good in- The whole thing made in posting Local for. In Brooklyn, especially, tentions gone awry or Smartmom very excited. Her Teacher’s original you’ll get what you ask for — Hperhaps proof of that apartment is inundated with SMART message. The more so you’d better have the means expect old adage that no good deed books and not enough bookcas- the merrier as far as to accept the gift. goes unpunished. es. (Remember that column she’s concerned. And, not for nothing, but Last week in her role as a about Hepcat’s hoarding habits? mom But the problem is “thank you” is a nice thing to blogger, Smartmom received an They continue, you know!) She By Louise Crawford this: Too much of a hear once in a while. more e-mail from highly respected savors any chance to pass on good thing is just Louise Crawford also writes local journalist, who happens to the literary treasures in her ternet Invasion.” (Of course he that. Boxes and boxes of books the Web site, “Only the blog read Smartmom’s blog. midst that she and her children put up that book; he owns require someone to pick them knows Brooklyn.” Come visit! Savvy Journalist sent Smart- no longer need. TWO COPIES of it!) up and deliver them, sort mom a note that epitomizes the Later that morning, she re- The next morning, Smart- through them, unpack them, Find out what makes Berkeley Carroll Join us this fall. concept of micro-community ceived a nice note from another mom saw an e-mail from Local and get rid of the books that Correction a place where you can expect more. PreK Open Houses that Smartmom so cherishes reader of her blog. She, too, re- Teacher, which she raced to can’t be used. sponded excitedly to the call-out Packer Collegiate is on Jorale- Start at 712 Carroll Street about this neighborhood. open. She had to admit that the t’s all about specificity and mon Street, not Montague, as —Challenging academics with strong “Hi everyone,” Savvy Jour- for books and told Smartmom terseness of it was a bit startling. making your needs RSVP: 718-789-6060 x 6608 that she would post the informa- Smartmom reported last week. commitment to arts and athletics K–4 Open Houses nalist wrote. “My neighbor is Local Teacher wrote that she is ICLEAR. Smartmom thinks an assistant principal. She is tion on Park Slope Parents. not an assistant principal at the Local Teacher should have clar- —Dedicated faculty characterized by Start at 701 Carroll Street looking for books, board That night, Smartmom told school as her neighbor had mis- ified the scope of her own warmth, energy, and passion for their RSVP: 718-789-6060 x 6608 games, puzzles etc, for class- her family about the book drive. takenly said in the e-mail. needs. What she probably needs She is always looking for a way students and subjects Grades 5–12 Open Houses rooms there. If you feel inspired OK. Smartmom is always most is a small group of ready, to do a cleanout of your extras to motivate the Oh So Feisty big on fact-checking. willing and able volunteers to FAMILY —Dynamic and diverse community Start at 181 Lincoln Place and want to pass stuff on, I fig- One, Teen Spirit, and especially Local Teacher then went on organize a book drive. She of students, teachers and parents RSVP: 718-789-6060 x 6527 ure it’s easier to give stuff to her Hepcat to part with books. to say that she was swamped by needs help with transportation, “A local teacher needs books CLASSIFIED committed to learning than organizing a stoop sale! offers of books, cannot keep up sorting, and cataloging. She Feel free to pass the note on to for her school,” Smartmom with the demand, and would needs money, energy and peo- To advertise, call others in the area who might be said, pouring on the drama. appreciate if Smartmom would ple’s time. interested in helping.” “These kids have no books in remove the notice. It’s a big job, but there are a (718) 834-9350 Below that note, there was their school, they need stuff to Ouch. lot of people out there who the original e-mail that Savvy READ.” Smartmom was confused. It have some time to give. Journalist had received from efore she could say wasn’t even a simple and gra- Smartmom learned recently Entertainment WWW.BERKELEYCARROLL.ORG Local Teacher. “Karma is a boom- cious, “Thanks, but no thanks.” that the Community Bookstore “Any chance that you have Berang,” OSFO was going Had she done something is in the process of organizing a some books that are in good through her bookcase tossing wrong? Was it Smartmom’s book drive for a school library shape that you’d like to donate books into the hallway (“Magic fault that so many people had in New Orleans. to the school? I’d be more than Treehouse, Chocolate Fever” responded? Was the school an- If they do it right, they’ll en- happy to come and pick them and “Franny K. Stein Mad Sci- gry that so many people wanted gage the community to help Day up. Just let me know. Thanks so entist”). Teen Spirit also found to give? them with the logistics. Like Where Magical Parties Happen! much. And pass this on to peo- a few books he was willing to Smartmom thought long and Local Teacher, they’ll need help · Puppet Shows · Singalongs part with. School, ple you know who might have hard about this on her run picking up the books, cata- · Caricatures · Face Painting stuff as well.” Even Hepcat, pack-rat extra- around Prospect Park. Yes, she loging them, sorting through Pass this on. 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