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P15 BAMcinematek FIX YOUR HOME BROOKLYN CRIME SWEEPS THE BROOKLYN ‘Raises Hell’ FULTON MALL Find a HOME IMPROVEMENT By Gersh with Peckinpah SEE PAGE 12 P7 specialist in CLASSIFIEDS P18 BRIEFS ANGLE Kuntzman BROOKLYN’S REAL NEWSPAPERS Including The Brooklyn Heights Paper, Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper, DUMBO Paper and the Downtown News 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 • © 2006 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 18 pages •Vol.29, No. 29 AWP • Saturday, July 29, 2006 • FREE MAYOR MARTY? Dollars point to Markowitz run By Gersh Kuntzman The Brooklyn Papers What does Marty want? / Julie Rosenerg Brooklynites are asking that question now that Borough President Markowitz — who has long said he wants to be mayor — has told the city’s Campaign Finance Board that he will be a candi- date in 2009. The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn But a candidate for what office — well, that’s Be her guest: Cathy Pascale, director of sales for the new Holiday Inn Express on Union anyone’s guess. Street on the Park Slope side of the Gowanus Canal, shows off the hotel’s amenities. When 25 politicians filed the appropriate paper- work last week, Markowitz was am- ATLANTIC YARDS ong 17 listed as “un- COUNTDOWN: P.12 declared.” This week, the Beep uncharacteristically turned Brooklyn’s Inn into the Great Sphinx of Borough Hall, refusing to answer questions about what higher office he’s aiming to fill. “Que sera sera — whatever will be will be,” he said in a cryptic statement issued through his of- Callan / Tom Borough adding two hotels fice. “And whatever my future holds, Brooklyn will always be first among equals.” By Moses Jefferson Street, Chelsea and other tourist areas, according Markowitz’s second term as borough president The Brooklyn Papers to Real Estate Weekly. ends in 2010. The mayor’s office will need a new The same hotel mini-mogul set to open a Last month, the company plunked down $6.75 occupant then, too. Just a coincidence? Few think so. million for a building on Manhattan’s West 44th “I’m sure he wants to be mayor,” said one De- Papers file The Brooklyn 115-room Holiday Inn Express on the Park Street that it will convert to nightly residency. Chang mocratic insider who likes Markowitz. “He thinks Borough President Markowitz with former NBA star Connie Hawkins and developer Bruce Rat- Slope side of the Gowanus Canal is putting See HOTELS IN B’KLYN on page 15 See MARTY on page 13 the finishing touches on a second hotel just ner at an Atlantic Yards press conference in October, 2003. three blocks away. Together, Sam Chang’s two inns will add 220 rooms to a borough that experts say is losing sleep over the lack of hotel rooms. “The demand is there,” said Craig Hammer- man, district manager for Community Board 6, Heath to Brooklyn: I can quit you home to Chang’s two hotels. Queens, Hammerman pointed out, has 6,000 hotel and motel rooms. Even taking into account By Dana Rubinstein “It would be such a big loss” if they bought their digs on then-unfashionable Destroy Brooklyn’s celebrity-packed Ad- the 3,000 that are linked to that borough’s two The Brooklyn Papers left, said Jessica Elsaesser, rolling her Hoyt Street, just three blocks from the visory Board. airports, Brooklyn’s estimated 1,000 rooms are eyes and owning up to her sarcasm. El- still-unfashionable Gowanus Houses. But in two hours of walking around not enough, what with the growing business com- Heath Ledger and Michelle saesser is a cashier at Area Emporium, Back then, Williams scored big points Boerum Hill, it was hard to find anyone munity and tourist influx. Williams have bought a house in Los where Heath and Michelle have been with some of her neighbors when she fa- anxious to voice concern that Ledger and “Chang told us that Brooklyn could easily fill Angeles, sparking a wildfire of spec- seen shopping with baby Matilda. mously complained that Bruce Ratner’s Williams might not remain 24-7-365 1,000 more rooms,” Hammerman said. “He must ulation that the ultimate Brooklyn Others saw the Hollywood house pur- Atlantic Yards project would rob Brook- Brooklynites. know the market since he is very successful at power couple had ditched Boerum chase as yet another example of an A-list lyn of the very “light and air” that drew One woman did say she’d miss the hot what he does.” Hill for the Hollywood hills. couple going bi-coastal. her to the borough in the first place. couple. “We all hate to lose customers,” Chang’s Long Island-based Mcsam Hotel The news had some Brooklynites say- The borough’s love affair with Heath She and her “Brokeback Mountain” said Patty Wu, the owner of Andie Woo, Group specializes in buying small, strategically ing, Don’t let the brownstone door hit and Michelle may have cooled a bit since hubby even jumped on the anti-Ratner a Smith Street lingerie store where located sites in and around Times Square, 34th you on the way out. those heady days last year, when they bandwagon by joining Develop Don’t Williams has shopped. “It’s so sad.” Heath Ledger & Michelle Williams. THE LONGEST GAME EVER! TEAM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 R H E Tigers 000 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 05 6 202 Cyclones 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 00 1 145 At Coney, Cyclones lose 26-inning war of attrition By Ed Shakespeare all the fans that were going to leave had The Brooklyn Papers SUSPENDED! gone,” he said. CLONE ON THE JUICE: P 6 Things started to feel surreal after the The Cyclones played the longest game crossed the 20-inning mark. game in New York-Penn League “It hit me when I said, ‘Now we go to history on July 20 — and lost it by had runners on first and second, but Jake the top of the 20th,’ ” said Warner Fusselle, giving up five runs in the 26th Eigsti bunted into a forceout. In the top the Cyclones’ radio announcer. “I had nev- inning after bringing in an outfield- of the 12th, Oneonta got a runner on See LONGEST on page 6 er to pitch. third with just one out, but couldn’t score There were only a few hundred fans him. In the bottom of the inning, Tigers 6, Cyclones 1 (26 innings) left when the six-hour, 40-minute war of Jonathan Schemmel singled and later Tigers AB R H RBI BB Cyclones AB R H RBI BB attrition ended. ended up on third, but Jonathan Sanchez Scram 12 1 1 1 0 Holden 11 0 1 0 1 Sizemore 10 1 5 0 2 Schemmel 10 0 4 0 0 The record-setting game started at noon, flied out to end the inning. Boesch 12 1 1 1 0 Martin 11 1 0 0 0 a rare day game that had been put on the Those innings were the exception. Bourquin 11 1 2 0 1 Jacobs 7 0 3 0 1 schedule for summer campers (who were De Leon 12 0 1 0 0 Hambrice 0 0 0 0 0 Mostly, it was three-up, three-down. Strieby 5 0 3 1 0 Dziuba 3 0 0 0 0 also long gone by the final out). “There were so many 1-2-3 innings Timm 0 0 0 0 0 Cummins 8 0 2 1 2 The game started normally enough. Reyes 6 0 4 1 0 Sanchez 10 0 1 0 1 that it was hard to use strategy,” said Cy- Newton 8 0 1 0 0 Eigsti 10 0 0 0 0 Brooklyn starter Eric Brown held clone manager George Kunkel 1 0 1 0 1 Grogan 10 0 2 0 0 Oneonta scoreless in the Greer. “Except to make Leon 1 1 0 0 0 Rivera, L. 2 0 0 0 0 Skelton 0 0 0 0 0 Naccarata 8 0 1 0 1 first, while the Cyclones got them go deep into the count Tucker 7 1 1 0 3 on the board in their half of — use up pitchers.” Ott 8 0 0 0 1 / Gary Thomas / Gary Thomas REAT the opening frame. LE-TH Only hard-core fans were Tigers IP H R ER BB K Cyclones IP H R ER BB K TRIP GE Oneonta tied the game in COVERA still in their seats after the Cody 6.0 4 1 1 1 4 Brown 7.0 5 1 1 1 1 Robertson 0.1 1 0 0 1 1 Smith 2.0 1 0 0 0 4 the fourth — and after that … 16th inning, said Gene Be- Fien 2.2 1 0 0 0 2 Mizell 4.0 2 0 0 0 2 Witt 3.0 3 0 0 2 1 Castillo 5.0 2 0 0 2 7 goose-eggs for 21 innings. rardelli, a Sheepshead Bay Fragoso 5.0 0 0 0 2 2 Warren 4.0 4 0 0 1 3 There were scoring chances native who stayed until the Jensen 3.0 3 0 0 0 4 Hinchman 2.0 2 0 0 2 2 Krawczyk 4.0 0 0 0 0 2 Wright (L) 2.0 4 5 3 2 0 AULY P Papers The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn that came and went.

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