E S I D BROOKLYN’S ONLY COMPLETE U • Brooklyn chefs share their S L I N P Thanksgiving traditions • Luchino Visconti film fest at BAM Nightlife Guide • Review of ‘Wilford Brimley’ musical CHOOSE FROM 54 VENUES — MORE THAN 180 EVENTS! SATURDAY • NOVEMBER 20, 2004 Including The Bensonhurst Paper Brooklyn’s REAL newspapers Published every Saturday — online all the time — by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington St, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2004 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 18 pages •Vol.27, No. 45 BRZ •Saturday, November 20, 2004 • FREE VITO TO TRIP TO JOHN REQUIRES COLIN: RUN! ESCORT Tells Powell to seek Hil’s seat By Devlin Barrett Associated Press SERVICE ABrooklyn congressman is trying to draft outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell for a different kind of service — to Lafayette lids toilets run for Senate against Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2006. By Jotham Sederstrom monitors to go to the bathroom. Rep. Vito Fossella, a Republican whose district The Brooklyn Papers “This is done to prevent disruption in hall- includes Bay Ridge and Staten Island, said he It seems Lafayette High School and its ways during instructional time,” she added. spoke to Powell on 2,200 students can’t get any relief these days. The 65-year-old school, the alma mater of Tuesday and made Dodgers pitching great Sandy Koufax, has been the case for the for- In reaction to a surge of criminal activity at the criticized by parents, former teachers, students and troubled Bensonhurst school, Principal Alan mer four-star gen- even the U.S. Department of Justice for what Siegel quietly orchestrated a prison-like clamp- eral to enlist in the many say has been a slow or lax response by down on the building’s bathrooms that started last party’s effort to de- school administrators to crime inside and near the / Tom Callan / Tom month. feat Clinton, a stan- Now, students have to be escorted to the john school on Benson Avenue at Bay 43rd Street. dard-bearer for the by a dean’s office assistant who has to stand out- The school’s reputation for brawling reached Democrats. side and wait. What’s more, the bathrooms are a fever pitch in March after four thugs viciously “His roots and completely off limits for 20 minutes each class pe- pummeled honors student Ching Kit Ho in a heart have always riod. dimly lit second-floor stairwell — so badly, in been in New York. fact, that the Hong-Kong born senior had to be The Brooklyn Papers File The Brooklyn “Students are not allowed to use the bath- I think he’d make a rushed to Coney Island Hospital, where he was Vito Fossella rooms at Lafayette during the first 10 minutes great representative or last 10 minutes of class or during the class treated for a broken nose. Last December, a stu- and I urge him changes,” said Department of Education dent knocked unconscious Principal Siegel strongly to consider spokeswoman Alicia Maxey Greene. “Students while making a getaway after mugging a peer. running,” said Fos- also must receive an escort from one of the hall See ESCORT on page 14 sella. Museum of Art, Laszlo Willinger / Brooklyn Powell, the son / Greg Mango / Greg of Jamaican immi- grants, was born and raised in New Associated Press York City. Photograph titled “Norma Jeane,” is part of a show that opened at the Brooklyn Museum last week. Clinton’s 2006 The photograph by Laszlo Willinger is one of more than 200 Marilyn Monroe pictures from 39 photog- Sale of re-election bid is al- ready drawing na- raphers — including luminaries such as Richard Avedon, Gordon Parks, Robert Frank and Andy Warhol The Brooklyn Papers File The Brooklyn — in the new exhibit, “I Want to Be Loved by You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe.” Colin Powell tional attention, in part because of its implications for the boro’s 2008 presidential race. The former first lady is viewed as an early front-runner among Democrats. Two names often floated as potential Repub- Hello, Norma Jean lican challengers to Clinton in ’06 are also viewed as possible presidential candidates two big bank years later: former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Monroe featured at B’klyn Museum Gov. George Pataki. Fossella said he wants Powell to jump into By Larry McShane Wilder once said. “She exulted in Baker into sex goddess Marilyn. the race in part because he doubts Pataki or Associated Press it.” In a 1945 picture, the unknown Giuliani are seriously weighing a campaign is near More than 200 Monroe pictures 19-year-old stands alone on a against Clinton. She was Playboy’s first center- from 39 photographers — includ- Long Island beach, leaning undis- “I don’t see any inclination that either one fold, and Joe DiMaggio’s second ing such celebrated lensmen as turbed over an open parasol. By Jess Wisloski will run at this point in time,” said Fossella. wife. Marilyn Monroe possessed a Richard Avedon, Gordon Parks, Adecade later, a coy Monroe and Jotham Sederstrom “Whoever wants to run has got to start laying knack for the big splash, particu- Robert Frank and Andy Warhol stands smiling on a Grand Central The Brooklyn Papers the seeds and setting the stage to do so.” larly if there was a camera nearby — are on view at the Brooklyn subway platform as a man to her Areal estate developer relatively Aspokesman for Clinton did not immediately — and it seemed there was always Museum in a new exhibit, “I Want left stares in bug-eyed disbelief. a camera nearby. unknown in these parts is close to a deal to return a call seeking comment. A State Depart- to Be Loved by You: Photographs The centerpiece of the collec- purchase Brooklyn’s tallest building. ment spokeswoman referred to Powell’s remarks The actress turned enduring of Marilyn Monroe.” tion, owned by Leon and Monday when he announced his departure and American icon was intoxicated by The photos “are timeless,” said Michaela Constantiner, is a set of Callan / Tom The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, said he planned to return to private life. the pop of flashbulbs; during her Marilyn Kushner, one of the ex- 59 Monroe pictures shot by pho- put on the market in June by its current owner, The public appeal by Fossella comes at a time too-short lifetime, she was pho- hibit’s curators. “She died young, tographer Bert Stern in the weeks HSBC bank, is in contract to be sold to the when some Republicans have criticized the state tographed drinking and dining, so she remains forever young. As before the actress’ 1962 drug Dermot Company, sources said. The 512-foot Republican leadership, in the wake of the 2004 smiling and sleeping, dressed and time goes by, she looms larger and overdose. “The Last Sitting” fea- office building at 1 Hanson Place was expect- elections, which saw New Yorkers support Demo- undressed. larger.” tures an assortment of behind-the- Papers The Brooklyn ed to sell for between $60 million and $90 cratic presidential candidate John Kerry, and give The camera “was to her what The exhibit traces the evolution scenes shots of Monroe, who HSBC is near a deal to sell the iconic million. Officials with Dermot, a development firm Sen. Charles Schumer a second term. water is to a fish,” director Billy of small-town girl Norma Jean See MARILYN on page 15 Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building. that branched out from their holdings in Col- orado to become an up-and-coming player in the New York real estate scene, would not confirm the purchase — but spoke briefly on the rumors. “Until the deal closes we’re not comment- Bittersweet memories on VZ’s 40th ing on anything one way or the other,” said By Jotham Sederstrom bors, who opposed the project, the were digging and pretend they Brooklyn now thank the 4,260- Andrew McArthur, a broker with the compa- ny. Asked if the company may have secured The Brooklyn Papers mother of eight relished taking her were construction workers,” said foot-long suspension bridge for young boys to the construction site Doyle. “They loved it.” connecting them with family merely a management agreement on the build- Eleanor Doyle recalls wak- on Seventh Avenue, near where As Ridgites and Staten Islanders members on Staten Island. ing with another buyer, he said, “We don’t ing up each morning and she still lives on 80th Street. gather to celebrate the once con- What a difference four decades manage anything that we are not active in- watching ironworkers pound Far from a passing curiosity, tentious bridge, which on Sunday, can make. vestors in.” away on what was to become the lunchtime escapades left a Nov. 21, celebrates the 40th an- “We needed it, I guess,” said Aspokeswoman for HSBC, a London- an arterial roadway leading to lasting impression on two of her niversary of its opening, an out- Patricia Cunningham, whose par- based international bank, denied the sale. boys, Dan and Fred, who years pouring of both sad memories and ents were displaced in 1960 by “We have made no such deal,” said the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, HSBC’s Kathleen Rizzo Young. the modern marvel that by later would become an ironwork- hopeful sentiments will likely per- the bridge construction. “My er and an employee of the city’s vade the events planned in both daughters live on Staten Island And Jon Caplan, the broker from Cushman Spanning the Narrows / Mal Gurian Spanning the Narrows 1960 had displaced thousands Division of Bridges, respectively.