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Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2004 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 20 pages • Vol. 27, No. 36 BWN • Saturday, September 11, 2004 • FREE THREE YEARS LATER Three years after this century’s opening act memorial in Arlington, Va., and the charging of infamy, Brooklyn’s neighborhoods, wit- bull on Wall Street, was putting final touches nesses to the horror across the river on Sept. on “Brooklyn Remembers,” the borough’s of- 11, 2001, prepared to commemorate the com- ficial 9-11 memorial to be dedicated this fall munity’s collective loss with reflective, cre- on the 69th Street pier in Bay Ridge. ative and religious exercises this Saturday Brooklynites will migrate to the pier and to and Sunday. the Brooklyn Heights promenade Saturday; And as the anniversary of 9-11 approached, from both sites, the absence of the World Dragan Slavich (photo right) of the Green- Trade Center is clearly visible. point foundry that crafted both the Iwo Jima See stories on page 17. / Gary Thomas / Jori Klein The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Papers File The Brooklyn MAGIC BEANS Major challenges NBA legend opens D’town Starbucks come Owens’ way By Jess Wisloski The Brooklyn Papers It may be the only coffeehouse in the city where the preferred drink is a “triple double” latte. Faces daughters of former allies That’s because the new Starbucks, set to open in the Atlantic Terminal shopping mall next Friday, Sept. 17, By Jess Wisloski and Neil Sloane is owned by basketball legend Earvin “Magic” John- son, a man for whom sportswriters coined the The Brooklyn Papers phrase denoting a player who had posted double The Democratic primary in the 11th Congressional digits in three statistical categories in a single game. District pits an entrenched incumbent against two Through the partnership of Urban Coffee Oppor- challengers who are the offspring of, alternately, a PRIMARY 2004 tunities, a joint effort between Starbucks and John- longtime ally and a former ally turned bitter enemy. son Development Corporation, of which Magic is Rep. Major Owens, 68, who has represented Park Slope, Tuesday, Sept. 14, is primary election day in New York City. chairman and CEO, the shop will be the first of its Crown Heights, Flatbush and parts of Cobble Hill, Boerum Various positions, including state Senate and Assembly and kind in Brooklyn. Hill, East Flatbush, Brownsville and Midwood in the congressional seats and judgships, are on ballots, which will vary Since his diag- PAGE 9 House of Representatives for 22 years, is being challenged district-to-district. Polls are open to registered voters when a nosis with HIV in by Brownsville Councilwoman Tracy Boyland and East primary is being conducted in the voter’s party, 6 am to 9 pm. the early 1990s, Flatbush Councilwoman Yvette Clarke. and subsequent Clarke, 39, is the daughter of former Councilwoman early retirement Una Clarke, who she succeeded in 2002 and who waged a bitter challenge against Owens in 2000. That race turned from the NBA, particularly ugly when Una Clarke, a Jamaican native, ac- Johnson, 44, has cused Owens of not representing the large population of forged a multi- Scandal-plagued Green unopposed Caribbean Americans in the district. Owens responded by million-dollar Interview with director PAGE 5 See OWENS on page 18 real estate and re- tail empire. He John Boorman will fly in from Los Angeles for the grand opening, which will feature a book reading with volunteers from Project Chance, a Head Start pro- Targeted Norman gram for children. The celebration will run from 10 am to noon. He’ll unveil a wall-mural featuring his like- ness and donate a library to Project Chance with the help of a Manhattan-based literacy organization. has high hopes Unlike the 10 other Starbucks that have opened in relatively affluent, highly trafficked areas of By Jess Wisloski serves as the Assembly’s assistant Brooklyn, for this one — inside real estate mogul The Brooklyn Papers speaker, is expected to easily win Bruce Ratner’s recently opened Atlantic Terminal Clarence Norman nearly had re-election. Still, his unseasoned mall — Starbucks chose to bring in Johnson’s de- a tough choice to make on Pri- opponent has an ace in the hole — velopment firm as a co-sponsor, which has a mis- mary Day. the charges looming against the 22-year incumbent and a con- / Tom Callan / Tom sion of investing in commercial enterprises in “un- Not whether to vote for himself der-served minority communities.” on Tuesday, but whether to vote stituency stirring with concern. The five-time NBA champion with the Los An- before or after a scheduled pre- See NORMAN on page 18 geles Lakers, where he played his entire career, won trail hearing in the state’s corrup- the league’s Most Valuable Player award three times tion case against him. and was three times named MVP of the NBA finals. Callan / Tom Originally, both were scheduled The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn PAPER HOLIDAY After retiring from the NBA, he became something on the same day, Sept. 14, but the The Brooklyn Papers will not of a mogul, starting ventures that have included court date was put off until this fall. publish next week because of joint involvement with the TGI Friday’s restaurant Norman, the Crown Heights- Sheer delight chain, Magic Johnson Theaters movie multiplexes Bedford-Stuyvesant assemblyman the Rosh Hashanah holiday, and Marching along on Monday in appropriately skimpy outfits are two of the and Washington Mutual Home Loan Centers. Papers The Brooklyn and chairman of the Kings County our offices will be closed Thurs- thousands of revelers who participated in Labor Day’s West Indian Ameri- According to an e-mail from Johnson to The Can you guess who Clarence Norman, Democratic Committee — the day and Friday, Sept. 16 and 17. can Day Parade, along Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, the culmina- Brooklyn Papers, Urban Coffee Opportunities’ pictured at Labor Day’s West Indian pa- largest Democratic county organi- Look for your local Brooklyn Pa- tion of a three-day festival. See MAGIC on page 4 rade, is voting for in Tuesday’s primary? zation in the nation — who also per again on Saturday, Sept. 25. 2 days of rain delay NEW THIS WEEK! Cyclones playoffs yoga • massage • chiropractic • energy healing The Brooklyn Papers The series finale was to be played Friday olistic TROY, NY — The Brooklyn Cy- night, Sept. 10, in Troy. If the Cyclones iridology • nutritionist • air purification • body work won, they would have advanced to the clones drive for a New York-Penn championship round against the Mahoning acupuncture • colonic irrigation • weight loss League championship has been stalled. h esources Valley Scrappers of Ohio. Game 1 would The Clones have split the first two be played Sunday in Ohio and games 2 and games of a best-of-three series with the 3 (if necessary) would be played at Tri-City Valley Cats and the third game Keyspan Park Monday and Tuesday. A classified section, in on page 14 has been delayed twice thanks to the For Brooklyn’s best Cyclones cov- remnants of Hurricane Frances. erage, see page 8. r ©The Brooklyn Papers. Established 1978. Phone 718-834-9350. Celia Weintrob, Publisher (ext 104) • Neil Sloane, Editor (ext 119) • Lisa J. 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