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By Danielle Furfaro wide layout encourages speeding, and The Brooklyn Paper MEAN the lack of a bike lane leaves cyclists The Bushwick street where a hit- fending for themselves on the four-lane and-run driver killed cyclist Terence section near Stewart Avenue, where Connor last week must be tamed be- Streets a driver struck the 26-year-old mu- fore it takes another life, neighbors and The battle for Brooklyn’s byways sician and left him bleeding on the

Photo by Stefano Giovannini mourning family members say. asphalt early on Oct. 1. Metropolitan Avenue, where cylist Terence Con- A growing number of bike riders of a truck route that feels more accom- “There should be a bike lane, more nor was killed by a hit-and-run vehicle, is a wide are joining big rigs on Metropolitan modating to 18-wheelers than two- cameras, a stop sign, something,” said road where many drivers speed. Avenue, changing the demographics wheelers. But critics say the street’s See BIKES on page 9 Ice heartbreaker The Open Space Alliance of No skating in McCarren or North Brooklyn fought for the right to turn the newly renovated McCarren Park pool into a win- Prospect parks this winter ter skating rink, then failed to deliver after executive director

By Danielle Furfaro Park Pool into a skating rink fell Photo by Elizabeth Graham Stephanie Thayer stepped down The Brooklyn Paper through the ice and a long-awaited this fall. Ice skaters in North and Brown- overhaul of Prospect Park’s Woll- “The deadline for ordering the stone Brooklyns will have to find man rink got behind schedule, leav- rink was Sept. 15, and we didn’t WilliamsTod Billie Tsien Architects somewhere else to practice their ing skaters who want to be out in Tusk love make it,” said Open Space Alli- Prospect Park won’t look like this in the coming months double lutzes this winter. the cold relying on indoor rinks in ance board chairman Steve Hindy, because a much-anticipated project slated to add two ice Alexandra Monell, 4, gets a hug from a walrus on the A plan to turn the McCarren faraway Southern Brooklyn. See SKATING on page 9 rinks is running behind schedule. Boardwalk at the Run for the Wild — a jog to raise funds for the saber-toothed mammals of the sea that have been ravaged by global warming and poaching. In other walrus news, New York Aquarium officials announced on Thursday that Matik — an orphaned male calf (pictured below) — will join the herd in Coney Island, pleasing Brooklynites who The beat goes off still mourn the untimely deaths of Ayveq and Akituusaq. Museum nixes dancing at monthly parties By Eli Rosenberg inside the art space, saying pa- ourselves what kind of experi- The Brooklyn Paper trons must stop foxtrotting, elec- ence we were providing.” The only dancers at the Brook- tric-sliding, and Dougie-ing due The 13-year-old event, which lyn Museum will be Edgar De- in part to record crowds at the takes place on the first Saturday gas’s after the esteemed arts insti- longtime event. of every month, keeps the regal tution reins in its popular monthly “Every month we’ve seen at- museum open far past its normal party series. tendance getting larger and larger 6 pm closing time, welcoming a The museum’s hopping “Tar- and traffic flow was just getting late-night crowd that peruses the

Photo by Lauren Fleishman get First Saturday” celebrations difficult,” said Elisabeth Calli- galleries, sips drinks, and gets The Brooklyn Museum will no longer host dance parties, are here to stay, but organizers han, the museum’s manager of down in the third-floor Beaux- like the one pictured. are pulling the plug on dancing adult programs. “We had to ask See DANCE on page 9 Photo by Sybille Castro Analyze this It’s Brooklyn’s W’burg gets fi rst therapy center, shrinking commutes cheapest bar! By Danielle Furfaro in North Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Paper “I’ve lived here for eight Bringing back ’90s beer prices Williamsburgers need not years and there were no psy- schlep to mom’s neighbor- chology offices here. Every- By Eli Rosenberg and I’ll tell them how much it is and hood to sit on the couch and one was traveling to Manhat- The Brooklyn Paper they’ll be like, ‘Really?’ ” talk about their mothers. tan,” said Selling. “People We’re calling “Shenanigans” Mondays aren’t the only days That’s right, North Brook- thought there wouldn’t be a on the prices at Shenanigans! with cheap drinks: well drinks are lyn is no longer a therapy clientele here.” Shenanigans Pub in Kensing- normally $4, and pints $3. desert — potentially bring- The six-month old practice ton is reversing the trend of in- The most expensive drink on ing an end to a long Upper is so popular that in August, flation on alcohol by selling a the menu is $6. West Side–bound caravan the partners opened a second mug of beer for just $1 on “Mug Dollar beer night might be a of therapy seekers who office in the neighborhood — Mondays” — making the Caton new milestone for Brooklyn — leave their native borough a sign they are providing a Avenue watering hole the cheap- in June 2008, before the econ- to visit psychologists or psy- much-needed service. est bar in Brooklyn, according omy tanked during the Great chiatrists. “It’s obviously an inte- to bar staffers. Recession, the cheapest beer It’s all because Dr. Dan- gral part of a cosmopolitan “We never decided to be the our researchers could find was iel Selling and three partners area,” said Selling, who is cheapest bar in Brooklyn, it just a $1.75 brew . Photo by Steve Solomonson opened the Williamsburg also the director of mental Photo by Stefano Giovannini played out that way,” said Kathleen But microbrew lovers beware: Shenanigans bartender and manager Therapy Group — which they health for the New York City Psychologists Daniel Selling and Jakob Kaplan are McCarthy, the owner’s daughter, you won’t find any fancy beers Kathleen McCarthy pours a couple of cold describe as the first psychol- Jail System. behind the Williamsburg Therapy Group — the who is also the pub’s manager and on Mug Mondays, when you can ones — the inspiration for $1 “Mug Mon- ogy and psychiatry practice See THERAPY on page 9 first mental-health collective in North Brooklyn. bartender. “People will order drinks See BAR on page 9 days” at the Caton Avenue bar. ‘Monster’ in the lake Empire Stores New machine sucks up Prospect Park crud getting stores By Natalie O’Neill for The Brooklyn Paper You can call him a “scum sucker” — and mean it as a com- Planners: Retail really coming pliment. By Natalie O’Neill Prospect Park–goers can thank The Brooklyn Paper nature technician Martin Woess — and the lake-cleaning boat he Park officials and developers are operates — for decreasing the moving to turn Brooklyn Bridge amount of green slime in the wa- Photo by Steve Solomonson Park’s crumbling-but-historic Em- tercourse, park officials say. New restaurateur David Sheridan found a prized-but- pire Stores building into a water- The city-sanctioned machine, ancient coal oven in the basement of his soon-to- front retail hub with ground-floor dubbed the “Lake Mess Monster,” open pizza joint, Wheated, in Ditmas Park. shops and cafes topped with offices, sucks an invasive fern from the jump-starting a long-proposed plan lake’s surface into the base of the to generate cash to maintain the boat, preventing the rapidly grow- expansive greenspace. ing gunk from suffocating other The abandoned Civil War–era organisms. One hot fi nd warehouses just steps from the Prospect Park Alliance spokes- Brooklyn Bridge will become “a man Paul Nelson credits the pro- Pizza maker discovers a year-round commercial and retail cedure with reducing the so-called space,” according to a proposal re- Azolla caroliniana bloom on park leased by the Brooklyn Bridge Park coal oven in his basement Corporation soliciting developers photo File waterways. Want to turn Empire Stores

Photo by Elizabeth Graham to refurbish the neglected piece of “It’s one of the reasons why into a retail and office com- the lake is not choked with azolla, By Eli Rosenberg “It was a sign that we were in real estate gold. Martin Woess rides the “Lake Mess Monster,” which is plex? Apply now. which is pretty much gone,” Nel- helping Prospect Park Lake with its scum problem. The Brooklyn Paper the right place,” said Sheridan, “It is important that these his- son said. Meet David Sheridan — who found the hidden treasure toric structures be preserved [and] Woess, who works for the Pros- Brooklyn’s first pizza arche- — which is currently illegal to it’s critical to our ability to fund the size of the White House and is pect Park Alliance, steers and po- The visibly less-green lake de-oxygenation of the water — ologist. use in New York City because park maintenance and operations divided into seven sections. sitions the machine’s vacuum- comes after park-goers com- affecting organisms such as fish The amateur pizzamaker- of environmental concerns — in the years to come,” Brooklyn Critics are happy to see a plan like apparatus over the layer of plained over the summer that the and other aquatic life negatively,” turned-Ditmas Park-restaura- buried behind the boiler in the Bridge Park Corporation president that revives the long-shuttered 5–10mm fronds once a week in thick slime was scaring away wa- said greenspace activist Anne- teur discovered the holy grail basement of the Church Av- Regina Myer said. landmark, but are also calling the fall. terfowl, blinding turtles, and sick- Katrin Titze. of treasures for fans of the de- enue retail space he wants to The retail-boosting proposal for space at the site to be dedi- And proving that there really ening mammals . Nelson said the amount of lectable dough, sauce, and transform into a restaurant by calls for developers to rehabil- cated to arts-and-recreation-cen- is a circle of life in Prospect Park, Some park watchdogs say the scum has decreased in the past cheese creation in the base- early next year. itate the five-story former tea tric operators — a proposal not workers then compost the scum growth is still a problem, espe- two months, but noted the agency ment of his soon-to-open eat- The 14-foot-long steel oven warehouses — and for opera- detailed in the plan. and use it as fertilizer in the park cially near the dog beach. has not officially tested levels of ery: an ancient coal-burning forms part of the building’s rear tors to enter into long-term leas- “There’s money to be made in — killing one plant to help oth- “Large mats of azolla are de- the azolla because one can sim- oven used by generations of foundation, extending three ing agreements inside the build- culture, art and heritage — it could ers grow. composing, causing widespread ply eyeball it. Brooklyn bread bakers. See PIZZA on page 9 ing, which is more than five times See EMPIRE on page 9 2 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 October 12–18, 2012 A mother’s crusade Fights for additional newborn tests to save lives

By Danielle Furfaro Bob, owns the Indian Larry month and then he lost every suffer the loss of a child, and The Brooklyn Paper Motorcycle shop in Williams- ability — to see, to hear, to if there is a mechanism to pre- A Windsor Terrace mother burg. “If there had been a talk, to walk,” said Seeger, vent such deaths, we must see who lost her son to a rare screening for this, we could who rallied friends, many of that it is used immediately,” genetic disease is travel- have monitored it and treated whom are bikers and artists, said state Sen. Marty Golden ing the country in a quest it before it affected him.” and started a sticker and mu- (R–Bay Ridge), who is co- to bolster newborn screen- Aidan was a healthy ral campaign when Aidan fell sponsoring the bill along with ings that could save other first-grader until he sud- ill. “He went to the hospital Assemblyman Jim Brennan boys’ lives. denly started bumping into at NYU and he was never (D–Park Slope), and state Elisa Seeger has made it things and suffering from vi- discharged.” Sen. Eric Adams (D–Flat- her mission to mandate in- sion problems. After a visit to Aidan passed away on bush). fant testing for adrenoleu- an eye doctor yielded no re- April 29. Medical experts agree sults, his parents took him to a New York state requires all kodystrophy, a disorder that the legislation could save neurologist who found white hospitals to screen for more quickly damages the brain lives. matter on a part of his brain than 40 diseases at birth, and adrenal glands — but “There is the technology can be treated when detected where it didn’t belong. but adrenoleukodystrophy early enough. Then came 10 days of — which can be carried by out there to test for this,” Tragically, the disease chemotherapy and a bone girls but only affects boys said Paul Orchard, a pedi- wasn’t detected in Seeger’s marrow transplant at Duke — is not one of them. atrician at the University of son Aidan until he was six- University Hospital in North Seeger wants to change Minnesota who specializes and-a-half. He died just be- Carolina — one of two med- that, so she visited with state in bone marrow transplants fore his eighth birthday this ical centers in the country politicians, who have drafted and was one of the first doc- spring. that perform the needed pro- “Aidan’s Law,” a proposed tors to see Aidan after he was “My focus is to spare any cedure. piece of legislation that would diagnosed. “A lot of boys go other family from suffering But the transplant did lit- require hospitals to screen for on to die of this disease who Photo by Bess Adler the way he did,” said Seeger, tle to help. the disease at birth. wouldn’t if we knew about When Elisa Seeger’s grade-schooler Aidan got sick, friends of the family, many of whom are bikers and who, along with her husband “He was okay for about a “No family should have to it early on.” artists, started a mural and sticker campaign. Return to fun Meat & meet-up Cartoonist’s story of heroic girl and Bar to open inside Ridge butcher shop By Will Bredderman dull robot offers family-friendly fare The Brooklyn Paper A Bay Ridge butcher shop By Chuck O’Donnell wants its customers to get for The Brooklyn Paper sauced while waiting for their A Prospect Heights artist favorite cold cuts. has a simple question for the Frank and Eddie’s Meat comic book industry: why Market at 75th Street and so serious? Third Avenue — a neighbor- Brooklyn cartoonist Fred hood staple since 1963 — is Chao is here to save readers turning its prep room into a tired of the violent torrent of bar for customers to sip beer antiheroes and overused end- or wine while ordering up a is-nigh story tropes with his pound or two of roast beef or whimsical, all-ages-friendly Photo by Elizabeth Graham pastrami and digging into hot tale “Alison and her Rainy Prospect Heights resident and cartoonist Fred and fresh deli sandwiches. Day Robot.” Chao is hard at work. (At left) Little Alison has a “We wanted to do some- It’s a big transition for a deep-sea imagination in “Alison and her Rainy thing a little different for the medium where fighting and Day Robot.” customers,” said Meat Mar- bloodshed are rampant — just ket owner Dennis Manna- rino, who is opening up Photo by Elizabeth Graham look at the Marvel universe, perks — in an attempt to only untraditional move he Longtime Frank and Eddie’s Meat Market owner where Professor Xavier was Frank and Eddie’s Butcher raise $5,000 to publish his has made as a writer: eight Dennis Mannarino will soon debut a bar in the reportedly killed by one of Bar with friends Pam Cali- 64-page, full-color, hard- years ago Chao followed the backroom of the butcher shop. his students, or at DC, Courtesy of Fred Chao cover graphic novel. tried-and-true literary path endo and Joe Tafuri. Mannarino said he was where members of the Jus- graphic novel “Johnny Hiro.” palette is soft and familiar. “If not for Kickstarter, of moving to Brooklyn to tice League beat each other searching for a new use for “Real butcher shops are dy- while ours will always be hot, “Unfortunately this robot has In a medium where vio- it might be shelved indef- work on a novel, and he only bloody in the streets. his refrigerated meat-handling ing out these days. Dennis is juicy, sitting in the sauce all initely,” he said. “I had it switched to comics after a Instead of framing his nar- boring sensibilities, which lence in ubiquitous, such a area when a friend suggested one of the only ones left,” said day,” Tafuri said. “It’s all go- mostly finished just over a bizarre turn of events. rative as a fight between good doesn’t make Alison very family-friendly narrative is year ago and didn’t know he go into business with Cal- Tafuri. “So our place here is ing to be fresh and sliced to and evil, Chao’s new text is happy. But there is a happy a big departure — one that what to do with it. I was wait- “It wasn’t until [my apart- iendo and Tafuri. going to be very nostalgic.” order.” about an even greater conflict: ending. As well as penguins. publishers might avoid. ing for the right opportuni- ment] got broken into twice Tafuri, who’s already The Butcher Bar will spe- Caliendo is applying for the battle against boredom. And a monkey.” That’s why Chao turned ties in both publication and and I got two laptops stolen stripped the space down to its cialize in hot sandwiches made a liquor license and a menu “To have fun, she decides And some beautiful art- to crowd-funding — a grow- distribution to come about, and I lost all my writing that brick walls, said the new wa- from Meat Market cold cuts, of pork, roast beef, pastrami, to build a robot — a funbot work. ing comics trend in which art- and now, I feel like it might I decided to use my drawing tering hole’s vibe will be dis- but Tafuri promises the qual- corned beef, and turkey sand- of sorts,” said Chao, the ac- The lines are clean and del- ists and writers solicit pledges be approaching.” ability creatively,” he said. “I tinctly old-fashioned — akin ity will stay the same. wiches is in the works. Tafuri claimed mind behind the four- icate, the characters’ expres- in return for copies of their The 34-year-old’s shift figured no one would steal to a neighborhood meat market “Dennis’s meats are amaz- wants to serve lamb and veg- time Eisner Award–nominated sions are charming, and the books, artist sketches, or other to crowd-sourcing isn’t the comic book pages.” in the era of Oscar-Meyer. ing. But he serves his cold, etarian dishes as well. K?<9IFFBCPE98:BJKFIP 9IFL>?KKFPFL9P :K?<E<@>?9FI?FF;JF=K?<9FIFL>?F=B@E>J Carroll Gardens Power player in borough’s commercial, maritime history

By Shavana Abruzzo lyn mayor Samuel Smith, local The Brooklyn Paper real estate speculator Charles Carroll Gardens is Brooklyn’s Hoyt, and the farming families best-kept secret. of Rapelje, Sackett, Hicks, and Al Capone married a pregnant Degraw. Mae Coughlin in 1918 at St. Mary Early 17th-century Dutch set- Star of the Sea Church. Robert tlers recognized the region’s po- De Niro stopped by G. Esposito tential as an industrial spring- and Sons Pork Store last week board. They fished its banks for to stock up on sopressata. And succulent oysters after buying the the aroma of roasting coffee and land from Chief Gowanes of the freshly baked bread permeates Canarsee Indians, who walked Court Street, much like the stench along an Indian trail known to- of raw sewage from the Gowanus day as Henry Street. Canal did 100 years ago. By the 1800s, Carroll Gardens The vest-pocket neighbor- was manufacturing coal gas, dis- tilling crude oil, and producing hood bounded by Cobble Hill, cement, sulfur, and soap, among Boerum Hill, Gowanus, and Red other heavy-duty industry. Devel- Hook is a homey huddle of tree- opers cashed in on the opening lined streets, preserved brown- of the Hamilton Avenue Ferry stones, and a diverse array of in 1846 — originally a trans- restaurants, bars, and specialty port for corpses from Manhattan food shops, patronized by a long- to Green-Wood cemetery — by standing Italian community and building the unique homes that a new wave of young profession- remain prized, multi-million- als. But don’t be fooled by its dollar residences today, much sleepy eye. Carroll Gardens has of their brownstone quarried in been a vigorous power player in New Jersey and the upper Hud- the borough’s commercial and son, and transported on barges maritime history. through the Gowanus Canal. It was once part of Red Hook, Its signature green space, Car- and derives the first part of its roll Park, was created in the 1840s name from Charles Carroll, the as a private garden for area dwell- man who led the Maryland regi- ers, but became a public sanctu- ment that defended the Old Stone ary 10 years later, drawing large House during the Revolution- crowds in the late 1800s after the ary War, and the only catholic construction of the wooden Car- to sign the Declaration of Inde- roll Street Bridge — the nation’s pendence. The “gardens” part is oldest retractile bridge, which named for the manicured setback one local restaurateur repainted yards that would become as much at his own expense more than a part of the area’s landscape as 100 years later. the streets named after its prom- Photo by Paul Martinka An astute zoning plan that inent citizens, including Brook- DAZZLING DWELLINGS: Well-preserved brownstones are dotted throughout the community. favored compact dwellings ad-

STANDING OVATIONS Journey ARE THE ONLY KIND Pat Benatar featuring How Sweet ™ Neil Giraldo & Loverboy The Sound IN BROOKLYN October 30 - 7:30pm November 4 - 7:30pm October 12–18, 2012 The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 AWP 3 Armani due for Fulton Mall Another huge clothing brand will set up shop in Downtown

By Danielle Furfaro open next month at the corner The Brooklyn Paper of Dekalb Avenue in the long- Benvenuto, Armani Ex- planned City Point project, change. launching before a proposed The Italian retailer of Century 21 department store Euro-style, club-ready sets up shop in the same de- clothing will open on the velopment. Fulton Mall next month — Fulton Mall shoppers marking a major upscale ar- say the new store reflects rival on a retail stretch rap- changing demographics in idly transforming from the the neighborhood. Main Street of black Amer- “There are a lot of tour- ica into a consumer desti- ists here now, and this is a nation lined with suburban European thing, so people mall–style brands. will like that,” said Janet Os- Armani president Har- man. “It’s definitely turning lan Bratcher said the Ful- into a new Brooklyn.” ton Mall is an ideal spot for Armani is the latest big the fashion label’s second retailer to come to the Ful- Brooklyn outpost. ton Mall, where sneaker “It is very exciting to be stores, cellphone shops, Photo by Stefano Giovannini

part of the resurgence of Community Newspaper Group / Danielle Furfaroand wig retailers are giv- Downtown Brooklyn and Armani Exchange will open on the Fulton Mall. ing way to major national the quickly expanding retail retail chains such as Aero- Magic man scene on Fulton Street,” said postale, the Gap , and Ex- Bratcher, whose company al- is an energetic and vibrant The Armani Exchange with lower prices and more press, and hip local brands Bensonhurst-born welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi shows off his ready operates a shop in the place with fashion-minded shop — which caters to ready-to-wear styles than the such as Brooklyn Industries famed speed on a swerve ball at Gleason’s Gym as he prepares to face Kings Plaza Mall. “Brooklyn young people.” a younger demographic house’s other lines — will and Shake Shack. Mexican challenger Pablo Cesar Cano Oct. 20 at the Barclays Center. Freak in need Squid house evicted Founder of Mermaid Parade Casa Calamari closes after a 17-year-run Zigun is badly injured in fall By Will Bredderman The Brooklyn Paper By Will Bredderman The Brooklyn Paper Casa Calamari has lost its casa. The unofficial mayor of Co- City marshals evicted the popu- ney Island is in the hospital — lar Bath Beach Italian eatery from and he’ll gladly give you some its 17-year location at the corner of oldtimey People’s Playground 18th and Bath avenues on Oct. 2 postcards if you pay his med- after a prolonged legal battle be- ical bills. Dick Zigun, the founder of tween the focacceria and karaoke Coney Island’s Sideshows by joint and its landlord. the Seashore, tripped and fell Building owner Vito Aluzzo at his Coney Island USA head- said that he had to take longtime quarters on Surf Avenue and W. tenant Rocco Loccisano to court 12th Street while retrieving a last year after the chef and res- bottle of seltzer on Oct. 3, hit- tauranteur repeatedly refused to Photo by Stefano Giovannini ting his face on a countertop as pay the rent, utility bills, or taxes Popular lasagna and pizza joint Casa Calamari lost its 17- he went down. outlined in his lease. year spot after a judge found the owner guilty of failing to He’s currently on the mend out, are Coney Island postcards. “The guy was not paying his meet the terms of his lease. Zigun wouldn’t say which post- bills for the last four years,” said at Woodhull Medical Center in File photo by Steve Solomonson Aluzzo, adding that Loccisano’s Bushwick, he told his Twitter cards he’s willing to part with Dick Zigun, founder of Coney Island’s Sideshows by the failure to pay the eatery’s $3,000 ria said, recalling fondly how ac- Santa Maria said he would followers, assuring them that except that they are from his Seashore (above in happier times), tripped and went personal collection and depict a month water bill was sucking cessible the red sauce joint was probably begin taking his lunch- alcohol didn’t play a role in his down — hard — while retrieving a bottle of seltzer on to him on his scooter Tornado. time business to L&B Spumoni accident. the People’s Playground in its him dry. “He didn’t want to be Oct. 3, hitting his face on a countertop. “There aren’t that many Italian Gardens on 86th Street between “Send $ not flowers,” he wrote, heyday. responsible for the taxes or rent already feeling the weight of his Hospital doctors say that Zi- or nothing.” restaurants that are easy for me W. 10th and W. 11th streets in- mounting medical bills for the two gun, who has limited insurance him,” said Leddy. “You can’t keep a good man Loccisano could not be reached to get to.” stead. ambulance rides, multiple special- and a high deductible, shattered Yet Zigun isn’t going to let down,” Leddy said. for comment. The Big Screecher also rem- One thing’s for sure, though: ists, two emergency-room fees, several orbital bones in his fall his hospital stay slow him down: Those interested in lending Beloved BrooklynPaper.com inisced about the midday meal Carmine won’t be stuffing his and a prolonged hospital stay. “If and would need surgery, accord- he’s still directing his upcom- Zigun a hand can make a Pay- columnist Carmine Santa Maria specials at his preferred fried face at 1801 Bath Ave. any time you’re kind enough to help me ing to Coney Island USA publi- ing “Dirty Work at the Wax- Pal donation via coneyisland. said he took Casa Calamari’s clo- squid house. soon — Aluzzo has vowed to not with my sudden medical bills I’m cist Rob Leddy. works” play — a political satire com, or send a check or mon- sure hard, having learned of its “You got soup, you got a sand- rent the space again. offering some cool Coney souve- “While he will ultimately be involving maniacal American ey order to Richard Zigun, c/o demise from a former waitress at wich, and you got salad, all for “There’s going to be no more nirs for $20 donations.” as good as new, he has a long presidents — from his hospi- Coney Island USA, 1208 Surf the Sicilian dining spot. $7,” our esteemed columnist said. restaurants. I’m just going to leave The cool souvenirs, it turns road of medical needs ahead of tal bed. Ave., Brooklyn NY 11224. “I’m lost without it,” Santa Ma- “I used to go there all the time.” it empty,” Aluzzo said.

vanced the area’s appeal. Diminutive Dennet Place be- hind Court and Luquer streets features three-foot-high doors, Gardens of Eden leading curiosity-seekers to won- der if it’s inhabited by a commu- nity of hobbits, while the Carroll Six things you need to know Gardens Historic District fea- tures fine examples of brown- about this nabe’s history stones with large front gardens on Third Place, and President, Hoyt, and Smith streets — the lat- HOME SWEET HOME: ter a French enclave and a venue for the uproarious annual Bas- Singer, songwriter, and tille Day celebrations. DJ Solange Knowles — The distinctive blueprint also known as Beynoce’s makes the community unique, lil’ sis — prefers the according to long-time resi- anonymity provided by Carroll Gardens. dents. AP / Charles Sykes “The scale of Carroll Gardens is a very human one,” says Katia Kelly, a member of Friends of Carroll Park, and author of the HERO’S HANDLE: Carroll blog Pardon Me For Asking. “The Gardens is named for neighborhood was laid out in such Revolutionary War soldier a way that it works as well now Charles Carroll, who led as it did 100 years ago.” the defense of the Old The industrial and population Stone House during the explosion leading up to the 20th Battle of Brooklyn. century — up to 700 new build- ings were being built annually in South Brooklyn at one point — came with huge setbacks, as filth FAMOUS was deposited routinely into the NUPTIALS: Al Gowanus Canal, not-so-fondly Capone married known as “Lavender Lake” for Mae Coughlin at the dyes being dumped into it. St. Mary Star of the The Scandinavians, who ar- Sea Church. rived in Carroll Gardens around that time, frequented P.J. Han- ley’s on Court Street near Fourth Place, and established cultural GOWANUS CANAL: institutions like the Norwe- File photo by John Napoli The waterway has gian Seaman’s Church at Clin- TIME-HONORED TREK: Costumed marchers stroll the streets for the annual Procession of Santa Maria Addolorata. played a critical role ton Street and First Place, today in shaping Brooklyn apartments, and the Norwegian nated by Brooklyn’s oldest Ital- gle ruled by the mafia, whose pass, as cops arrested the plot- ality Stacy London. They buy — via Carroll Sailors Home at Clinton and Car- ian parish church, Sacred Hearts Black Hand gang met its match ters a short time later. their long thin “Frank Sinatra” Gardens. roll streets, where F.G. Guido and St. Stephens Church. in Enrico Caruso in the winter The 1960s returned better loaves at 106-year-old Caputo Funeral Home now stands, be- The early 1900s also sprouted of 1910. times to Carroll Gardens. Bakery, and their sausage at G. fore eventually resettling in Sun- a profusion of mom-and-pop Cops provided the opera great The completion of the Brook- Esposito and Sons Pork Store. BASTILL-ICIOUS: Lillet set Park, Bay Ridge and else- stores, including the 108-year- Caruso with a police escort wor- lyn-Queens Expressway in 1964, The family-owned stores are where. promo-gals (from left) old Ferdinando’s Focacceria on thy of a president when he per- and the construction of new sewer among the few relics left of an Italians, mostly from the Adri- Sarah, Kimmy, Danielle Union Street between Columbia formed at the Brooklyn Acad- lines meant to improve the condi- illustrious past that still reso- atic town of Mola di Bari, were the and Katie help draw enduring immigrants, with more and Hicks streets, where Mar- emy of Music to protect him tion of the Gowanus Canal’s de- nates with born-and-bred Car- tin Scorsese filmed a scene from from a Sicilian gang allegedly stroyed dozens of neighborhood roll Gardeners — like Connie the crowds to Smith of them living in Carroll Gardens Street on Bastille Day. and along Columbia Street in 1900 “The Departed.” A residential looking to toss acid upon him as buildings, including the home Sulsenti. than anywhere else in the coun- boom along Hicks Street in the part of an extortion scheme gone and command post of the Ma- “There was a different sense try. Some of their descendants coming decades caused a pop- awry. Caruso baited the hood- fia-affiliated Gallo family, ush- of community back then,” says remain today, celebrating their ulation spillover into the adja- lums, boasting in public about ering in a “Brownstone Revival” Sulsenti, a third-generation “gar- HAUTE ADDRESS: heritage with annual street pa- cent three-block-long strip, which the sword cane and revolver he during the 1970s. dener” who was born on Henry Television’s “What rades, including the Procession would come to be known as the carried that would “split them” Today, young and old, work- Street and Fourth Place, and later Not To Wear” fashion of Santa Maria Addolorata, and Columbia Waterfront District and “shoot them full of bullets” ing class and professionals, live moved to Hoyt and First streets. personality Stacy the Good Friday march coordi- — a hard-scrabble urban jun- — threats that didn’t come to side-by-side in the community “We’d all be out there banging London calls the area that’s home to playwright Tony our pots and pans on New Year’s home. 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on Oct. 1 — scratching her ear and face in the process. The victim said she was Jay-Z fan now has 99 problems, zero iPads near N. 10th Street at 8 pm when the brazen crook seized The 33-year-old victim told tim and stole his phone on Waverly avenues at 1:10 am the device. 78TH PRECINCT Mall rat cops she spotted a ripped pack- A jerk swiped a purse from Lafayette Avenue on Oct. 4. when a perp walked in, placed Bashed The victim told cops he Park Slope age in the trash near her home a shopper at Marshalls on At- POLICE BLOTTER a bag of chips on the counter, A barfly smashed a bottle was between Grand and Clas- A jerk swiped an iPad from at Sixth Avenue, then discov- lantic Avenue on Oct. 4. and then said, “I gave you $20, of vodka over a man’s head son avenues at 2:20 am when a Jay-Z fan’s car on Dean ered a thief had pillaged her The 27-year-old victim told Find more online every Wednesday at I want my change!” in a N. Sixth Street nightclub the pair assaulted him. One Street on Sept. 30. delivery package — and made cops she left her purse inside After the victim refused, on Oct. 7. BrooklynPaper.com/blotter grabbed him from behind, The 53-year-old victim off with her $750 Canon Cam- her baby’s stroller while shop- the customer threw the chips The 55-year-old victim told told cops he parked his car era and expensive lens. ping near S. Portland Avenue while the other punched his and a traffic cone at him. early morning of Oct. 2. their money and phones. police he was in the club at near Carlton Avenue at 3:30 at 2:30 pm. About 15 minutes face, breaking his glasses and Pocket jockey The 28-year-old victim told Smells bad 1:45 am when he got into an pm, then walked a few blocks later, she discovered her bag Kick attack cutting him. A pickpocket stole a com- cops he was reading a monu- After he fell to the ground, A perfume hound stole a argument with the jerk about to the Barclays Center to see — along with the birth con- A pack of brutes beat up the vodka. That’s when the muter’s phone on Sept. 30. ment placard in the park near the two goons took his iPhone boatload of the stuff from a the rap star perform. He came trol, credit cards, and perfume a man and took his cash on thug hit the man with the bot- The 25-year-old victim St. Edwards Street at 5:07 am and some cash, police said. Myrtle Avenue Walgreens back just after midnight — inside — had disappeared. Hanson Place on Oct. 2. on Oct. 4. tle, causing a cut across the told cops she stuffed an iP- when the crooks emerged from then discovered his iPad and — Natalie O’Neill The victim told cops he was Frito-hey! Workers at the drugstore man’s forehead. hone in her back pocket at 7:15 different directions. One of eyeglasses gone. at Ashland Place at 11:10 pm, A junk-food fiend threw a between Clermont Avenue and The brute ran out of the bar, pm, walked out of a Q train them said, “Make this easy. 88TH PRECINCT when the four men kicked and traffic cone and some bodega Adelphi Street told cops that and witnesses said he drove Picture that! station at Seventh Avenue and This is how it’s gonna go punched him and stole $500 food at a store clerk on Ful- the crook entered at 10:17 am off in a gray sedan. The vic- A scoundrel snatched a top- on Flatbush Avenue — then Fort Greene–Clinton Hill down. Empty yo pockets and from his right pocket. ton Street on Oct. 6. and left four minutes later with tim was taken to Woodhull notch camera from a package felt someone bump her from Park heist give us everything, and no sud- The 29-year-old clerk told Vicious beating more than $1,800 in fragrances Hospital by ambulance. meant for a Park Place resi- behind. She later noticed her Two perps shook down a den movements.” cops that he was working at with the help of a lookout. McCarren mug dent on Oct. 2. phone was missing. duo in Fort Greene Park in the The victims handed over Two men pummeled a vic- the store between Clinton and Training day A brute punched a man in A subway creeper stole an the face in McCarren Park on iPod from a straphanger at Sept. 30 — and ran off with MEDICAL, COSMETIC & SURGICAL DERMATOLOGY the Atlantic Avenue station his wallet. on Oct. 7. The victim told police he The 55-year-old woman was in the park between Bed- (Board-Certifi ed Dermatologist) said she was aboard the 2 train ford and Driggs avenues at 10 Alan Kling, MD
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MUSIC Grave show An influential pianist will be a part of one last concert: 142 years after his death. Fans of 19th-century pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk — considered a rock star before rock ’n’ roll even existed — will honor the musician with a piano concert and a new monument at his grave in Green-Wood Cemetery. “Gottschalk was the first American com- poser who had an in- ternational following,” said Green-Wood histo- rian Jeff Richman. “He Photo by Stefano Giovannini was similar to Michael Jackson in his day, down to the white gloves that he would take off during concerts and the screaming fans.” It’s fabled he was playing a piece called (718) 260-2500 “Morte!” when he collapsed on stage in Rio The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings October 12–18, 2012 de Janairo. His family had his remains brought to Brooklyn to be honored with a statue known as the “Angel of Music.” Vandals destroyed the statue, but this month his grave will regain its monument, with pianist John Davis performing the composer’s works in cele- bration of a great figure in American music. “Angel of Music” at Green-Wood Cemetery (500 25th St. www.green-wood.com). Oct. 13, 1 pm. Free. — Danielle Furfaro

SIDESHOW Dead prezes Taking your civic duties seriously is one thing, but you should never let them go to your head. A man and his cast of U.S. presidents in Coney Island USA’s Halloween theatrical “Dirty Work at the Wax Works” is a good example why, as he loses himself completely in his world of wax and presidential paranoia. The show follows a de- ranged janitor in a presiden- tial wax museum, played convincingly by actor Scott Baker — so convincing, it’s difficult to tell when he’s acting, as he seemed to be Photo by Stefano Giovannini performing the whole in- terview in character. “We have to deal with Photo by Stefano Giovannini Washington and Lincoln, and they’re all quite scary in their own way. That’s why I had to set them on fire,” said Baker. Fortunately, the actor became lucid long enough to ensure us that “Dirty Work in the Wax Works” will scare the audience, admitting it even scared Grown and tricky the playwright, the unofficial mayor of Coney Is- land, Dick Zigun — who doesn’t scare easy. “Dirty Work at the Wax Works” at Side- shows by the Seashore (1208 Surf Ave. at The best Halloween parties for big-kid Brooklynites W. 12th Street, www.coneyisland.com). Oct. 12–31, 6 pm. $10. Must be over 10-years old. By Hannah Palmer Egan — Colin Mixson for The Brooklyn Paper s trick-or-treaters hit the hay after FAMILY FRIGHT NIGHT crashing from the sugar high, grown- THEATER A ups seize the moment for a night of Forget Christmas — Halloween is the sweetest hol- boozy, late-night shenanigans dressed to iday of the year for kids. Get into the spooky spirit invoke their wildest fantasies. with The Brooklyn Paper’s list of most haunted houses This year, Brooklynites are planning and freakiest festivals fit for you and your family: a frightfully fun array of events, from Ghoulwanus an early-evening 1970s-themed theatri- HAUNTED HOUSE [5955 Shore Pkwy, between cal haunted house to a late-night absinthe The Bayview Community Rockaway Parkway and E. A macabre mafia rules the roost in a new play den and dance party masked in Victo- Center is being retrofitted to 102nd Street in Canarsie, where a throng of ghoulish, risen-from-the-dead rian vitriol. dispense candy and terror for its (718) 968–9621, mgmilldev@ raver-girls lead the audience from scene to scene Second Annual House of Hor- aol.com]. Oct. 27, 7 pm. Free. throughout the building, serving cocktails (yes, GREATEST OF OWL TIME ror event in Canarsie. cocktails!) as the story unfolds. After a two-year hiatus, the Greatest Tots will cower before the SPOOKTACULAR It’s up to the crowd to piece the information Halloween Party Ever (pictured above) haunted house’s blood-curdling Let your freaked-out flag fly together as they go along — rises from the dead for a night of boozy cotton candy machine, and bel- at the Aviator Sports Center’s and not get sidetracked with burlesque, dance-sets, and live bands. For low with glee before the sheer one-stop-shop for all things hor- the drinks. $15, this party gets points for value: free enamel-devouring power of its rifying, the two-day Mill Ba- The goal is to make the- beer from 8–9 pm, $2 “zombie juice” from well-stuffed candy bags. sin extravaganza of evil Spook- atre something people want 1–2 am, and live performances by Lady Children under the age of tacular. to do on a Friday night, said Aye, Creamy Stevens, and Fem Appeal of 93-years-old are welcome, bar- At the spooky, abandoned company Ugly Rhino artis- Famous Monsters of Brooklyn Burlesque, ring a history of serious heart airfield, you can explore a ter- tic director Danny Sharron and Math the Band as well as DJ sets by problems — these haunted rible teepee called the Tent of — and the liquor just lubri- cates the process.

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SRB Brooklyn (177 Second Ave, at 14th File photo by Paul Martinka unpredictable and pose a dan- named the Horrifying Hayride; does] involves drinking: a party, a DJ, some sort street, www.srbbrooklyn.com). Costumes Wrappers: The Johnsons were dressed to thrill for the ger to the feint of heart! and smatter yourself in fruity of social thing,” said Sharon. “It’s never just like required. Oct. 27, 8 pm–late. $15. Park Slope Halloween Parade along Seventh Avenue — Haunted House at the gore during a vicious feeding ‘come see a play.’ ” with dad rocking the fanny pack. Bayview Community Center See FRIGHT on page 8 So for fans of boozey theater, the Gowanus- THAT’S MISTER SATURDAY based experimental theater group’s “Warehouse If you’re looking for a bona-fide dance of Horrors: Gowanus ’73” may be just the ticket. party in an intimate-but-industrial-grade mistersaturdaynight.com). $15, $20 door. space, wherever it is. If you’re open to a cooking up a darkly rich, costume-manda- The production at the Lyceum is part murder loft space, hit up the Mister. With DJs Oct. 27, 10 pm–late. little ambiguity and not unnerved by the tory, absinthe-fueled Victorian-age “cele- mystery night, part “Sleep No More,” and part Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter spin- unexpected, this could be your jam. On bration of the grotesque,” at the Brooklyn dance party. ning purely danceable disco, house and MYSTERY MEAT New Year’s, organizer Alex Kay rode into Lyceum. The fourth annual Masquerade Viewers become active participants in the pet- techno beats, the party is always fun and Unicorn Meat parties are not for those the party on a real, live unicorn (some Macabre will feature live music as well rifying plot, which spins a complex and murder- the crowd is devilishly debaucherous, yet who need early plans and endless details. say it was a costumed horse) — to rev- as face and body painting, fortune-tellers ous web involving a madam and her prostitutes, cannily civilized. Costumes get you a Organizers of the Iluminate Brooklyn elers’ delight. and silver-film photography by Tsirkus drug dealers and crooked cops, mafiosos and ma- drink on the house. Want to keep danc- dance party announce the venue address Venue yet to be announced (www.il- Fotografika. A few blocks away and open niacs, all scripted to take place in the Lyceum ing through Sunday? Harkin & Carter to ticket-holders the day of the party and luminatebrooklyn.com). Oct. 27, 9 pm–6 throughout, Gemeni & Scorpio invite VIP as it was 40 years ago: a derelict haven of 1970s will also host their weekly daytime dance they are still confirming the lineup, but am, $30. ticket holders to a sultry absinthe den. drugs and debauchery. extravaganza Mister Sunday at Gowanus one thing’s for sure: legendary turntab- Brooklyn Lyceum (227 Fourth Ave., “Warehouse of Horrors: Gowanus ’73” at Grove on Oct. 28. list RJD2 will be spinning. As always, ABSINTHE MINDED www.geminiandscorpio.com). Oct. 27, Brooklyn Llyceum [227 Fourth Avenue, (718) 2012-turn-13 (172 Classon Ave. be- expect art installations galore and exten- For the fourth year, party-girls and per- 10:30 pm–5 am. (after Ugly Rhino party), 857–4816 www.uglyrhinonyc.com]. Oct. 12– tween Park and Myrtle avenues www. sive projections throughout the warehouse formance-artists Gemini & Scorpio are $20, $30 VIP tickets. Costumes required. Nov. 1, $20. — Hannah Palmer Egan

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Brooklyn Museum [200 East- lyn Art Space (168 7th St. in Gow- his portfolio of storyboards, share upbringing growing up in Lagos, ern Pkway. at Washington Avenue anus), www.agastbrooklyn.com. information and fi lm stories and an- Nigeria and attending art school in COSTUME PARTY: Don’t wait for Hal- swer questions. Recommended for New York, returns after 9/11 to her in Crown Heights, (718) 638–5000], loween to dress up; come to this teens. Registration suggested. $10. familial home of Beirut. $5. 7 pm. www.brooklynmuseum.org. costume gala in your costumed 6:30–8:30 pm. Trilok Arts Center PowerHouse Arena [37 Main St. at best. 7 pm. MF Gallery [213 Bond [143 Waverly Ave. at Myrtle Avenue Water Street in DUMBO, (718) 666– St. in Boerum Hill, (917) 446–8681], in Downtown, (718) 935–0490]. 3049], www.powerhousearena.com. FRI, OCT. 19 mfgallery.net. SPIRITS OF BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: SUN, OCT. 14 Celebrate neighborhood greats. The festive gala, to benefi t the BARCLAYS CENTER, THE KINGS CIVIC CALENDAR landmark church’s tower and organ MEN: Barclays Center will host MON, OCT. 15 ren Lefty. 7–8:30 pm. PS/IS 238 restoration project, will honor leg- four of the most successful per- Community Board 10. Monthly The Anne Sullivan School [1633 E. ends of literature, art, and music formers in gospel music history. meeting. 7:15 pm. Knights of Eighth St. between Avenue P and with roots in Brooklyn Heights Tickets start at $32.60. 6:30 pm. Columbus [1305 86t St. at 13th Quentin Road in Midwood, (718) who shaped a legacy for Brooklyn Barclays Center [620 Atlantic Ave. Avenue in Dyker Heights, (718) 333–3885], www.cece21.org. as a cultural center. $75. Table of at Flatbush Avenue in Downtown, 745–6827]. (212) 359–6387], www.barclayscen- THURS, OCT. 18 8 $500. 6 pm. St. Ann & the Holy ter.com. Trinity Church [157 Montague St. in TUES, OCT. 16 Community Board 8 Brooklyn Heights, (718) 875–6960], BACON COOK OFF: 20 hometown Environment, Sanitation Community Board 1. www.stannholytrinity.org. chefs sizzle up zany bacon dishes Transportation Committee Committee. Monthly meeting. 7 YOUR PROMOTIONS at the 4th Annual Bacon Takedown. Meeting. 6:30 p.m. Community pm. Center for Nursing and SAT, OCT. 20 2 pm. Bell House [149 Seventh St. Board 1 office [435 Graham Ave. Rehabilitation [727 Classon Ave. at at Third Avenue in Gowanus, (718) between Frost and Richardson Park Place in Crown Heights, (718) MUSIC, AMERICAN DREAMLAND: 643–6510], www.thebellhouseny. streets in Williamsburg, (718) 389– 46–5574], www.brooklyncb8.org. Loop 2.4.3’s New York Percussion SUPERMARKET com. 0009], www.cb1brooklyn.org. Madison-Marine-Homecrest Civic Duo will perform music from the Association. Monthly meeting. highly acclaimed 2012 release of MON, OCT. 15 WED, OCT. 17 7:30 pm. 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By Danielle Furfaro “It can be anything that’s inspired that had heavy swear usage.” The Brooklyn Paper by the book or the writer,” said Bush- MUSIC While most of the performers are wick club organizer and accordion musicians, Bushwick Book Club does embers of the Bushwick Book player Susan Hwang. “They can write “Works of Edgar Allen Poe” have other kinds of artists. For the at Union Hall [702 Union St. be- Club don’t just sip wine and about anything from a character that tween Sixth and Fifth avenues, Poe event, Hwang is hoping to book M discuss the literature, they interests them to a particular theme (718) 638–4400, www.bushwick- a breakdancer. How to breakdance sing about it. or scene.” bookclub.com]. Oct. 30, 8 pm. to a story like “The Purloined Let- Edgar Allen Poe is the guest of Natti Vogel, a club regular, said $5, $7 door. ter” remains a mystery. honor for the club’s upcoming event, he was extra excited because, several The club has held more than 40 and members are preparing musi- generations ago, his grandfather had at the last minute,” said the pianist. sessions over the past years, cover- cal numbers inspired by the master translated Poe into Hebrew. “Last month was based on Brooklyn ing books such as “Cat’s Cradle” of morbid stories such as “Tell Tale Even if he still hasn’t decided what Noir. I thought I was going to do a and “A Game of Thrones.” Many of Heart” and “The Cask of Amontil- he’s doing for the upcoming show, sexy chromatic minor black cock- club’s events happen in Bushwick, but

Photo by Stefano Giovannini lado,” just in time for Halloween. he revels in the spontaneity. tail kind of song, but I ended up in- this one is scheduled for Park Slope From the heart: The musical members of the Bushwick Book Club will perform They also plan to dress up as ra- “I’m notorious as the guy showing viting my son and we wrote an up- venue Union Hall because members original songs based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe. vens. up and finishing up lyrics at the bar beat, fast number called ‘She C---’ anticipate a large audience.

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“Newsfeed: Anonymity & Social Media in Af- rican Revolutions and 2ACHEL´S Beyond,” at MoCADA [80 Hanson Pl. at South Viva la new media Portland Street, (718) BEAUTY 230–0492, www.moca- da.org]. Oct. 18 through Revolution will be twittered, say artists Jan. 20.

By Eli Rosenberg tion means and how we’re sup- TATTOO SALON The Brooklyn Paper posed to hear about it.” Among the Brooklynites in rom Occupy Wall Street to the show, which will include two the protests in Egypt, so- satellite sites nearby, are pho- F cial unrest and social media tographer Delphine Fawundu- have become inseparable. Buford, artist Nyeema Morgan, Drawing from artists and mixed media maverick here in Brooklyn as well as Malcolm Andre Davis II. those from abroad, the Mu- And it will focus on notions ON ANY OF OUR SERVICES WITH FLYER seum of Contemporary Af- of media and nations, like the rican Diasporan Arts’ new- interactive map of Africa which est show of multimedia art will break down newsfeeds and sKeratin Treatment sPermanent Makeup strives to paint a picture of YouTube videos by country. the world where revolution in Moore says part of the goal sColor sTattoos Africa can feel just as real as of the exhibit is expanding the Extensions the one around the corner. notion of Africa in the first s sBody Piercings “With the Occupy move- place, shown by the work of ment here in New York, it Barka, a London-based artist sHair Cuts was easy to trace it back to whose work she says addresses (For Men, Women & Kids) s& Much More the movements in Africa,” said the rejection of African-ness Jessica Moore, one of the cura- by North African and predom- (!6%s"2//+,9. .9 tors of “Newsfeed: Anonym- inantly Arab countries. ity & Social Media in African “There is this idea of as- Revolutions and Beyond.” suming that everyone or ev-    “And with social media you erything that comes out of get to see the stories that TV and Photo by Stefano Giovannini Africa has to be black,” said -/. 4(523!- 0-s&2) 3!4!- 0- other forms of mass communi- Tweet the power: (From left) Artist Pablo Mustafa, curator Jessica Moore, and Moore. “But MoCADA has CLOSED SUNDAY cation haven’t covered. There’s painter Malcolm Andre Davis II helped put together a new revolution-and-so- an interest in covering every- a dissonance about what revolu- cial-media-themed show at MoCADA in Fort Greene called “Newsfeed.” thing and everyone.”

and will be led by a caravan and, these days, you’re more turn it into a little monster of candy-laden emergency likely to see a circuit board with crafting kits provided Varicose Veins? FRIGHT... vehicles, followed by Park than a zombie horde on Hal- for the event. Slope Civic Council trustees loween. Take the Gravesend Harvest Festival at Pier 6 Continued from page 5 and — even scarier — elected Inn for example. [Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 Effective Non-Surgical Alternative frenzy dubbed the Putrid Pie officials, and a menagerie On Oct. 19, the Voorhees at Atlantic Avenue and Fur- Eating Contest. of monstrous puppets, made Theater on Jay Street will man Street in Cobble Hill]. for the Treatment of Varicose Veins is Available! If that all sounds too hor- huge by a near-fatal zapping become a state-of-the-art Oct. 20, 10:30 am. Free. rible and strange for you, of radiation, and the pain- haunted bed and breakfast NO HOSPITAL STAY - OFFICE-BASED PROCEDURE then take a lackadaisical staking efforts of the Pup- called the Gravesend Inn, HAUNTED stroll through the airplane peteers Cooperative. where the Theatreworks spe- HALLOWEEN graveyard’s pumpkin patch, Rounding out the march cial effects company will CARNIVAL Dr. Philip J. LoPresti and then decorate your pick will be the crazed and madly utilize only the most ad- Those malignant masters Serving the community for nearly a decade! with lovely paints provided innovative denizens of Park vanced and malignant tech- of the marionette at Puppetry courtesy of Mill Basin’s Slope themselves, shrouded nologies to ensure your hol- Arts are hosting a Haunted COMPREHENSIVE CARE AND TREATMENT FOR biggest recreation desti- in all manner of heinous and iday stay becomes a frolic Halloween Carnival, and nation. charming attire, who can al- of fear. they’re expecting a guest MOST PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH VARICOSE VEINS: Spooktacular at the Avi- ways be counted on to perpe- Gravesend Inn at the appearance from the big- ator Sports Center [3159 trate a variety of mischiefs Voorhees Theater [186 gest baddy in the galaxy, the s,ARGE6ARICOSE6EINS s5LCERATIONAND3KIN#HANGES Flatbush Ave. near Belt before the parade terminates Jay St. between High and dark lord himself — Darth s0AINFUL6ARICOSITIES s3PIDERAND.EVI6EINS Parkway in Mill Basin, (718) at the Old Stone House in Nassau streets Downtown, Vader. 758–7500, www.aviator- Washington Park. www.theatreworkscitytech. That’s right, if you and sports.com]. Oct. 27, Oct. Halloween Parade at org]. Oct. 19, 6 pm. $6.. your kids can come to terms SPECIALIZING IN THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURES: 28, 12 pm. $13, $18 door. Seventh Avenue near 14th with the innate creepiness of %NDOVASCULAR,ASER4HERAPY Street. Oct. 31, 6:30 pm. HARVEST FESTIVAL haunted puppets, then you’re HALLOWEEN Free. Eerie Pier 6 is beckon- in for a treat. 3ONOGRAPHIC'UIDED,ASER4HERAPHY -ICROTHLEDECTOMY PARADE ing all pint-sized goblins Delight in the costumed ,ASER4REATMENTOF3UPERlCIAL6EINSAND3CHLEROTHERAPY Merchants along Fifth GRAVESEND INN and ghosts for this year’s antics of your favorite Star and Seventh avenues will Through the study of Harvest Festival, a holi- Wars characters or even open their doors to mon- ancient grimoires and for- day smorgasbord of fam- bring your own Star Wars For More Information Please Call sters, ghouls, and prin- gotten texts, scholars have ily-friendly fun. garb, and go head to head cesses alike this Hallow- divined several theories re- Come in costume, or with the Dark Lord of the CONTINENTAL MEDICAL een, for what has grown to garding the origins All Hal- make your own. Free face Sith in Puppetry Art’s cos- become one of the largest low’s Eve, although many paintings and mask-mak- tume contest. -/34  ND!VENUE All Hallow’s Eve marches agree that the Celtic festival ing workshops will turn Haunted Halloween in the free world — the Park Samuin, when spirits were your adorable child into a Carnival at First Street rec- ).352!.#% &OREST(ILLS .9 "/!2$ #%24)&)%$ Slop Civic Council’s Hallow- thought to seep into the land fearsome ghoul, or, if you’d reation center of P.S. 372 !##%04%$ 718-261-1471 een Parade. of the living, most closely rather your kid remained [First Street between Third The parade of petrify- resembles the lore surround- adorable, sit them in front and Fourth avenues in Park CONTINENTALMEDICAL YAHOOCOMsVISITUSATWWWMEDVEINCOM ing people begins on Sev- ing our modern holiday. a pumpkin you picked from Slope]. Oct. 27, 11 am. Free enth Avenue near 14th Street But that’s going way back the Pier 6 patch and they can admission, paid activities. www.NYParenting.com Weeknight Where every family matters and Service Changes where New York parents fi nd help, info and support.

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Golden spokesman John Qua- glione said the legislator is aware PIZZA... of complaints about the club and Continued from page 1 Many a pizzaiolo — leg- Ridge’s club dread is working on a solution. The 68th Precinct declined to comment. feet under the backyard, endary pizza-maker Patsy City authorities discovered last said Sheridan, who found Grimaldi among them — the oven after learning that have made names for them- Neighbors: 93 Lounge is nothing but trouble month the club was operating as a the space he rented housed selves with coal ovens, but place of assembly without a required an Italian restaurant in the some pizzaphiles say the By Will Bredderman “I never had a gun before, but in public — and leaving the block certificate of occupancy. 1950s that used the oven to oven is but an accessory to The Brooklyn Paper with everything going on, I’m think- reeking of weed and crack. Yet Ron Coury — the club own- bake bread and pizza. the art of pizza making. An increasingly violent 93rd ing of getting one,” said Ted Mous- “There’s always swarms of over er’s father — says cops are actively The oven’s door says “T. “The oven doesn’t create Street nightspot has its neighbors takas, whose wife heads a block as- 100 people down there, lighting trying to destroy his business and Dumbledton & Sons Oven the pizza, the pizza maker living in a state of panic, say residents sociation that has fought the club. up,” said resident Natalie Hale. “It pitting neighbors against him. Builders, 619 Carlton Ave. does,” said Scott Wiener , a who want the club shut down. Moustakas said he has repeatedly doesn’t belong here.” “We are law-abiding citizens and Brooklyn NY,” — the in- pizza expert who leads tours Neighbors say gunshots rang out complained to Community Board Staffers at 93 Lounge clashed we are being harassed by the po- scription from the Prospect of city pizza joints. in the middle of the night outside 10 and state Sen. Marty Golden (R– with CB10 and cops earlier this lice department,” declared Coury, Heights oven builder who Coal ovens can’t be used 93 Lounge on Sept. 19. Bay Ridge) about the fights and the year over alleged brawls and drug who claims cops visit the club every died in 1920 . unless they are either ap- The following morning, residents bar patrons who smoke pot in front use. CB10 district manager Jose- night and have told him repeatedly Yet it’s doubtful that proved by the city or have found empty shell casings littering of their home, but have been dis- phine Beckmann said there has been they will shut him down. “There’s the resurrected oven will been in use before the en- File photo by Elizabeth Graham the street between Third and Fourth appointed with the results. an uptick in complaints about 93 no fights, there’s no violence, there’s be used to cook anything vironmental laws were Neighbors are complaining avenues — leaving some to wonder Other neighbors say 93 Lounge Lounge in recent months, and that been no arrests at our club. We get anytime soon. changed. that the scene at 93 Lounge if they should take more drastic mea- visitors fill the street at night, blast- she has passed reports of gunshots, blamed for everything that happens “The amount of work to Despite the discovery, is getting more violent. sures to protect themselves. ing music from cars and using drugs drug use, and fighting to cops. in the neighborhood.” resurrect the oven would be Sheridan, who cut his teeth significant,” said Sheridan, in the pizza pie-making who said the oven’s chim- world by hosting wildly accused of stealing an expen- recovering the hat, which is The story begins on July wares store and cuffed a neys are currently blocked, popular pizza parties at sive piece of headwear from worth $4,000, according to 19, when a perp punched a 26-year-old suspect who its flue rusted, and its door his home in Gravesend, BLOTTER... a man on Middleton Street invesitgators. woman in the back of the head faces robbery charges. in need of repair. “But it’s says he plans on sticking on Oct. 7. — Danielle Furfaro at 5:30 pm at the corner of Continued from page 4 get out.” No class not going anywhere.” with the electric oven he’s The victim, a Hasidic Jew- Nelson and Hicks streets in The driver parked at Bush- Coal ovens, which were ordered from Italy for the Bushwick Avenue on Oct. 6 — ish man, said he was near Lee a failed attempt to steal her A thief stole a student’s iP- wick Avenue and Stagg 76TH PRECINCT originally used by bakers bulk the pizza making du- but the cabbie fought back. Avenue at 1:30 am when the cellphone. hone from her desk in a Baltic Street, got out of the car, and before being co-opted by ties at his new restaurant, The victim told investiga- perp approached and snatched Carroll Gardens–Cobble The case went cold over Street school on Oct 6. then punched the villain in pizza makers, are prized for Wheated . tors he picked up the danger- his shtreimel — a religious Hill–Red Hook the next two months until the The perp grabbed the gad- the face. their slow, but hot, burn that Once it opens, the restau- ous fare on Dwight Street at fur hat — off of his head and Caught at Ikea! victim told police she spot- get while the student was in The two struggled and the produces a pie that takes a rant will join the new par- 3 am. ran away. ted the perp while she was class at the learning center be- thug escaped into the Wil- The victim of a botched bit longer than the trendier ent-friendly Lark Cafe on a During the ride, the fare put The victim gave chase, and shopping at the Swedish fur- tween Smith and Court streets liamsburg Houses. mugging helped cops catch wood-fired pizza oven par- strip of Church Avenue cur- a knife to the cabby’s throat a Shomrim patrol member the assailant weeks after the niture store on Beard Street at some point between 2:10 lors that have been popping rently undergoing a devel- and said, “Give me every- Costly cap grab also caught up and tackled attack — and at Ikea, no less, on Sept. 17. pm and 2:30 pm. up around town . opment microboom. thing and leave the keys and Cops cuffed an 18-year-old the suspect at Lynch Street, officers say. Cops arrived at the house- — Ben Muessig

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Williamsburg in the follow- placement for the Wollman porary rink, but it would have the founder of the Brooklyn we’d miss a lot of the holi- been more than a half million Brewery. “We worked with day season.” ing winter. “It would have Rink — which was slated dollars in temporary costs so Medical Services we accept: Parks to make the season hap- In the end, it came down been an outlay of $250,000, to wrap up this year — got we decided to focus on 2013,” GHI, HIP, 1199, AETNA, CIGNA, UNITED, OXFORD, pen anyway, but the company to money. and there was the likelihood off track, leaving a planned said Prospect Park Alliance HORIZON, HEALTHNET, MEDICARE, BLUE CROSS, that supplies the rink couldn’t “We decided it would not that we wouldn’t made that indoor rink and an outdoor spokesman Paul Nelson. That leaves indoor skating MAGNACARE, AMERICHOICE, ELDERPLAN at Aviator Field in Mill Ba- Cosmetic Services Botox, Restylane, not once but twice. You can would continue to play in sin and Abe Stark Arena in imagine [how] fearful I was other spaces in the museum Coney Island as prime spots Juvederm, Radiesse, Sculptra, Laser Hair Removal, DANCE... to leave my daughter and her and described the suspension for public ice skating in the Laser Tattoo Removal, Laser Vein Removal, Torn borough — a cold reality for Continued from page 1 resident who hoped the mu- visiting friend (both 20 years of the dance floor as tem- Earlobe Repair, Keloid Surgery… old) in the Dance Party.” porary, noting that staffers skaters in Williamsburg and Arts Court to the tunes of seum would consider using the Brownstone belt. Coolsculpting Trim Fat, No Needles, No Downtime live bands and DJs. tickets to regulate the crowd The Brooklyn Museum would reexamine the concept promised that live bands in the spring. “The closest outdoor ice Museum staff said they at the dance party — like it rink to Williamsburg is in 254 Prospect Park West, Park Slope does for other exhibits. “We were pleased to draw sev- Manhattan,” said sad skater 136 West 17th Street, NYC eral thousand visitors when are all sick of the crowded, Lauren Corry. “[A McCarren the parties began, but crowds grimy clubs where you buy Park ice rink] would give res- now routinely exceed 10,000 $15 drinks and get pummelled idents something more local, Javier Zelaya, MD — and can spike up to 20,000 all night by drunk people who THERAPY... and also not necessarily as 718.832.3313 can’t keep it together. If any- Verna Broughton, PA when the parties extend out- bombarded with tourists.” thing, I would hope that the Continued from page 1 practicing in North Brook- doors in warmer months. Williamsburg already ri- lyn — but it’s the first col- That’s simply too many Brooklyn Museum would do more dance parties.” vals or bests Manhattan in lective offering a full range revelers, planners say. Still some people said they almost every category — so of mental health services in “It was getting too were pleased the dancing is it’s about time to add therapy the area, founders say. crowded to get upstairs,” done, saying it created an to the list, patients say. Having neighborhood- said Callilan. “Any neighborhood that’s centric practices is partic- The care you need atmosphere unfit for a mu- But many Brooklyn art seum. not served by a private prac- ularly important when it lovers are disappointed to “I am very happy that tice isn’t giving its citizenry comes to optional medical When you need it most. see yet another good dance the [Brooklyn Museum] has what it needs,” said Stephen, care, which patients often ig- floor disappear. elected to make a change,” a patient who declined to give nore if it’s inconvenient. “People like going to online commentator Patrice his last name because of the “It’s harder to dedicate Brooklyn Museum dance Leach wrote on a museum “stigma” still attached to go- time when there’s not some- parties not just for the amaz- blog post announcing the de- ing to therapy. thing close to where you live,” S ing music acts they put on cision. “I was shocked and The new Williamsburg said Williamsburg resident enior Helpers stands ready to the ticket, but also to dance affronted to hear the DJ ask practice joins a smattering of Cynthia Summers, of the serve your family’s needs with in a safe space,” said Chris- the audience at the July Dance individual psychologists, psy- Guttmacher Institute in tine Kim, a Crown Heights Party ‘How you mf’s doing’ chiatrists, and social workers Manhattan. personalized in-home care, and expertly trained, professional ster its bicycle accessibility Rountree, who himself was as economic realities force hit by a car on Metropoli- caregivers. BIKES... more Brooklynites to treat tan and Bedford avenues four bikes as their main mode years ago. “I hope this city Let us ease your mind with a Continued from page 1 a recent morning, more than of transit. can live up to its progres- Connor’s cousin Tara Mc- ten bicyclists pedaled through “Only a certain amount sive attitude and someday complimentary in-home care Queen. “Why isn’t there a the intersection of Metropol- of people can afford un- make bike lanes as preva- bike lane on every road?” itan and Stewart avenues in limited subway rides,” said lent as auto lanes.” initial appointment. Call today Police are still hunting the less than 15 minutes. to learn more. motorist who struck Connor Bushwick residents say the — a drummer in the psy- city could make Metropolitan chedelic garage band Total Avenue safer for cyclists by (646) 214-2086 Slacker. adding more traffic signals BAR... The fatality comes at a — and better enforcing the corner that played host to rules of the road. 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Street in Kensington, (347) no fatal traffic accidents at the lights,” said neighbor Diana “We try to keep it real and 398–1905]. intersection since 2006. Munoz. “People run through Even though it cuts through red lights all the time. It’s not a largely industrial neighbor- going to get any better.” hood, the road is increasingly Connor’s Total Slacker popular with bicyclists travel- bandmate, Tucker Roun- ing to and from Bushwick: on tree, says the city must bol- EMPIRE... 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