INSIDE: PAGES 12-18 Brooklyn at Sundance Published every Saturday by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington Street, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2004 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 18 pages including GO BROOKLYN • Vol.27, No.4 AWP • January 31, 2004 • FREE NOT JUST NETS MAPPING THE NEW BROOKLYN IVE DUMBO S T N U E L K M Brooklyn P C R O EMPIRE STORES Navy Yard WATCHTOWER X A L SHOPPING P E HIGH-RISES E V E E D G L ID A N R O I B T MAYOR’S EMERGENCY BUNKER A N E Y R C Brooklyn L E K -R Heights FEDERAL COURT O L A O I C R R B E M GENERAL POST OFFICE BQE M BANKRUPTCY COURT FLATBUSH AVE. 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Advocates of the overlapping Down- New Jersey Nets to an arena he would The massive Downtown Brooklyn Plan — zoned to allow taller buildings and encour- If anything, this photo, taken by Space town Brooklyn Plan and Atlantic Yards build near the intersection of Atlantic which would turn the area into a sister to age commercial and residential develop- Imaging in December 2002 and anno- (which form one entity, only a tiny por- and Flatbush avenues is miniscule in Midtown Manhattan with skyscrapers ment. To the west, Lowe’s home improve- tated by The Brooklyn Papers this week, tion of which would house the Nets) comparison to all the development meant to attract corporate back-office leas- ment and Fairway supermarket will soon omits some projects. want the projects discussed separately. planned for the greater Downtown and es and government tenants — is, right open traffic-generating big box stores, and If implemented, these projects would, But only by considering jointly the im- Brownstone Brooklyn areas. The arena now, coursing through the city public an Ikea is planned in Red Hook. collectively, forever change Brooklyn as act of all the projects shown above can is even dwarfed by the massive office review process. The Downtown Plan over- On the waterfront, there’s Brooklyn we’ve known her. Some will, by law, any of them be properly evaluated. and residential towers that Ratner plans laps both the Brooklyn Academy of Music Bridge Park commercial-recreational devel- require public review; for others, devel- In the center spread: an enlarged view to build immediately adjacent to it, tow- Cultural District and Ratner’s Atlantic Yards, opment, negotiations to bring Carnival Cruise opers and elected officials will seek to of the Downtown Plan and Atlantic Yards. SEE CENTER SPREAD FOR COMPLETE COVERAGE ©The Brooklyn Papers. Established 1978. Phone 718-834-9350. Celia Weintrob, Publisher (ext 104) • Neil Sloane, Editor (ext 119) • Lisa J. Curtis, GO Brooklyn Editor (ext 131) • Vince DiMiceli, Senior Editor (ext 125) • Ed Weintrob, President (ext 105) BRZ THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM January 31, 2004 g 2 repose yoga Con-women target elderly Offering By Jotham Sederstrom and throwing him to the woman continued walking to- her from behind and then disap- The Brooklyn Papers ground, but an alert cop caught ward her home five blocks peared into a crowd. multi-level yoga 62/68 BLOTTER up with them. away. But without warning the The officer sustained injuries Police warn that a pair of The Jan. 26 incident happened man grabbed her purse and ran to her neck and back. in hatha and Italian-speaking con-women just after school let out at 3:15 north on Fourth Avenue, fleeing Bye, bye love are preying on elderly women snagged $1,000 worth of jewel- Police are looking for a 30- pm, while the boy waited on the with her Social Security card, in Bay Ridge. ry before bidding her unsus- year-old white woman weigh- 20th Avenue subway platform for other forms of identification A live-in boyfriend admitted vinyasa styles Since Jan. 14, the women, pecting host farewell. ing about 170 pounds and a northbound N train. and credit cards as well as the to stealing $50,000 worth of his both believed to be in their early On Jan. 20, the pair struck measuring 5-foot-5. Police de- Police say that while wait- Louis Vuitton wallet that con- girlfriend’s jewelry, police say. 30s, have struck at three homes, twice. scribed the other con-woman as ing, the boys demanded he re- tained them, which was valued The incident happened be- Mommy & baby each inhabited by women 70 Police believe they first rang “blotchy,” about 125 pounds move his coat. When he tried to at several hundred dollars. tween 9 pm and 10 pm on Jan. years of age or older. Each time, the doorbell of a home on Ov- and 5-foot-3. run up the stairs to the train, Police are searching for a 5- 23, say cops. they’ve used deception to their ington Avenue between 10th She robs banks they pummeled him, but not be- foot-8 Hispanic man with long, The lovebirds, both of whom and 11th avenues, which was are in their 40s, lived together on and beginner classes advantage in order to snatch Police were searching for a fore snatching several dollars curly, black hair, who was wear- answered by a 90-year-old 79th Street at 15th Avenue before thousands in jewelry. woman who made off with and the calculator the boy was ing a waist-length black jacket. woman. This time, however, the Jan. 23 incident, which police now available “We have a few leads, but $2,200 after passing a note to holding in his pockets. one of the women introduced Name droppers are calling a burglary. we’re still working on this one,” the teller at a Bensonhurst bank Two suspects were arrested herself in Italian, saying she Police say three men, all in said Capt. William Aubry, com- last Thursday. after a transit cop who had been Shirt off back was a friend of the woman’s their mid-20s, drove up to a manding officer of the 68th The woman brazenly walked alerted to the crime saw them Call for schedule niece. Once inside, one of the man while he was walking on A 15-year-old New Utrecht Precinct, who said detectives ini- into the North Fork bank leaving the train with the stolen con-women lied that they lived 64th Street at 18th Avenue High School student was arrest- tially believed the jobs were con- branch on New Utrecht Avenue coat, police said. They were across the street while the other sometime around midnight on ed after he and another bully al- 718 238 0174 nected to another trio of stickups at 71st Street and passed a note charged with two counts of rob- quietly climbed the stairs that Jan. 22. One of the men asked legedly tried to snatch a stu- in Bay Ridge over the past week. demanding the teller give her bery, attempted assault, menac- Police say that on Jan. 14, lead to the bedroom. Jewelry if the 27-year-old man’s name dent’s basketball jersey. cash “so she wouldn’t have to ing, grand larceny and harass- around 1:30 pm, the twosome valued at $900 was stolen. was John. When he told them it Cops say the Jan. 20 incident hurt anyone,” according to a ment, according to the criminal 8325 5th Ave, 2nd Floor rang the doorbell of an 87-year- At 4:45 pm, only hours after was not, the men attacked him happened between 10 am and police complaint report. complaint. old woman living on 72nd the first job, the women stopped with baseball bats and beat him. noon in one of the bathrooms at The 20-year-old teller did as Street at Bennett Court. When at a building on Sixth Avenue at Garage bandit Cops believe the men all the school, on 80th Street at Bay Ridge she was told, say police, who she answered, they asked for a 76th Street, where they told a A woman was robbed of her weigh between 150 and 200 16th Avenue. said the bank robber fled in an “Mrs. Nelson,” who they said 70-year-old woman that they purse Jan. 20 by a man who po- pounds and range from 5-foot-2 Apparently, the jersey-less unknown direction at around lived on the second floor. were delivering candy to a lice say was loitering in a half- to 6 feet tall. boys threatened to hit the 15- 2:30 pm on Jan.