Brooklyn’s Real Newspaper BrooklynPaper.com s (718) 834–9350 s Brooklyn, NY s ©2008 LATEST NEWS & PODCASTS — BROOKLYNPAPER.COM AWP/18 pages s Vol. 31, No. 20s Saturday, May 17, 2008 s FREE #300,-:/ )0.& ‘PARK’ (&54£3&"-¤ SLOPERS MTV’s original reality show coming to boro By Sarah Portlock Filming could start as early as July, The Brooklyn Paper and MTV producers typically spend REJOICE! MTV’s reality show “The Real two months retrofitting the house before World” is coming to Brooklyn this beginning the four-month shoot. summer — and its seven housemates Executive Producer Jim Johnston confirmed that he has looked at the may be inhabiting the luxurious Bell- building, though he would not say if Alternate-side parking Tel Lofts in not-quite-hip Downtown, a lease has been signed. sources familiar with the discussions “We [do] want to be close to Manhat- said. tan,” he said, but rattled off other areas Construction is going on through- he has explored, including Greenpoint, suspended for summer out the unfinished Willoughby Street Williamsburg, DUMBO, Park Slope, building (right) — and a source told Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Brook- The Brooklyn Paper that MTV has lyn Heights, Red Hook, and Coney Island By Sarah Portlock rules “a form of parking relief.” scouted the penthouse units as a home (so much for “close to Manhattan”). The Brooklyn Paper “It also gives improved cleaning, overall to the base for its cast. See REAL on page 14 Alternate-side-of-the-street parking will be commercial areas in Park Slope,” Dawkins said. suspended for months on residential streets in But while the signs are installed — which could Park Slope starting this Monday, May 19 — take a few months, Dawkins said — street clean- ing will be suspended in residential zones. It P temporarily ending the hassle of moving AC 13": 4)01 %3*/, 46& IFIC ST will continue in commercial zones. your car. D EA PA N CIFI ST C ST That’s frustrating news to Steve Zito, BER The downside is that there will be only ST GEN M AR ST K'S the manager of Smiling Pizza on the PL WA limited residential street cleaning this RR EN S S T M B T A A RK F corner of commercial Seventh Ave- L ' TIC S A L B S P V AT summer. UT T RO LE SP B R EC ST T U nue and residential Ninth Street. He PL DO S U H GL P Julie Rosenberg For car owners, the alternate-side A A A SS RKPL D ST V E G S says he’ll miss the weekly street- RA TE W RLI S ST NG parking suspension is like a kid’s sum- A V C P K L A ET T S N cleaning on Ninth Street. T O ST T JO L mertime vision of the school burn- R HN 'S A PL C “We do have the side street LIN CO ing down. The change is necessary BER LN UN K PL IO EL NS EY to worry about,” he said. “We so that the Department of Trans- T PL PR ES clean it as much as we can, ID EN P T L C ST portation has enough time to A V A RR OL A Z L S 8 A The Brooklyn Paper / but it helps when [the San- T V ST A G AR install signs explaining a set 4 F W IE L W LD P P S E itation Department] comes 1 L U S S T T L EM P D of new street-cleaning reg- R H E 2 L K S O S MO T P I once a week.” F NT 7 3 GO S S M ulations that will reduce T T E SUSPENDEDRY PL Zito’s other concern, he 4 S V “No parking” times from A T 5 6DKBNLDSNSGDMDHFGANQGNNC 5 S T said, was where his custom- 6 ST three hours to 90-min- V A MTV says it will film its next “Real World” reality show in Brooklyn. And The Brooklyn Paper has learned that the network 6 ers would park this summer WE utes on days when S V T A DR 7 if residents never move their is considering the Bell Tel lofts (top) on not-quite-hip Willoughby Street. Here are some popular local haunts. 9 ST streets are being T 10 8 S S C T T E cars, and how that could affect P 11 S cleaned. ST O R 12 P his business. ST 13 Street-cleaning S T “People do drive in. It’s always 14 rules will also be ST good to have that option for people to 15 suspended in commer- ST have a parking spot,” he said. cial zones. When resumed, Sanitation street sweepers will still those streets will be cleaned as T DR WES work the residential¯ streets, but they won’t many as six times a week, up from be able to get to the curb most days. 5)&£6/*0/¤*413&4&37&% NYC DOT four or five, on staggered half-hour clean- “We realize that people will probably not ing schedules, said Community Board 6 Dis- be moving their cars, but we will be maintaining CB6 OKs liquor license renewal for controversial tavern trict Manager Craig Hammerman, who said he has the same cleaning schedule,” Dawkins said. “The been calling for just such changes for 20 years. brooms will go out like usual. When we have curb By Mike McLaughlin contrast to a vote last week shared by the bar’s foes, ac- ber. “If I had a problem with ter how good or nice the own- Commonly Board 6 is “the last district in New accessibility, we will sweep that area.” The Brooklyn Paper by the CB6 Land Use com- cording to board members. a business, I would not refuse er is,” said Bob Levine. York to go from the three-hour regulation to the Curbside garbage pick-up will not be affected, Controversial Park Slope mittee that urged the state to Also persuasive was a video to meet with the owner.” This is the second conten- 90-minute regulation,” he said. “We hope that life she added. bar Union Hall moved closer deny the extension of the li- that appeared to show one of But some members sided tious CB6 deliberation about will be made easier, that streets will remain as The changes affect all residential streets in Park clean as they are, and that ultimately there will to getting its liquor license re- cense, which expires on May Union Hall’s staunchest crit- with residents, between Fifth a bar on a primarily residen- Slope from May 19 until further notice in the area 31. ics calling in a fraudulent 911 and Sixth avenues, who said tial block. be less need for vehicular movements.” bounded by Pacific Street, Flatbush Avenue, Pros- newed as Community Board The full board was won report that the bar was over- that the bar was inappropriate Last month, the board sup- Later this year, the 90-minute “No Parking” pect Park West, 15th Street and Fourth Avenue. 6 overwhelmingly voted in over by Union Hall’s owners’ crowded. for their drowsy block because ported a liquor application for a rules will go into effect in the rest of CB6 — Cob- For information about the summer alternate- support of the watering hole willingness to meet with its “The neighbors did not try of the nightly noise stemming raw bar on a residential block of ble Hill, Carroll Gardens, and Red Hook. side-of-the-street amnesty, head to www.nyc. on Wednesday night. neighbors on Union Street — to mediate in good faith,” said from the flow of patrons. Hoyt Street, despite residents’ Sanitation Department spokeswoman Kathy gov/dot or call Community Board 6 at (718) The motion was in stark an openness to mediation not Jeff Strabone, a board mem- “This is a problem no mat- protests. Dawkins echoed Hammerman, calling the new 643-3027. Wanted: Roommates with money By Mike McLaughlin Prospect Park and share common ar- hope — to a neighborhood near you who started planning the first co-hous- “Take a commune and a condo, put The Brooklyn Paper eas with like-minded friendly people to create a vibrant form of social liv- ing dwelling in the city with his wife them in a blender and this is what you It’s not your granddaddy’s Hippie aren’t even hippies at all. ing in an otherwise indifferent city. last summer. get,” said Ben Watts, a likely resident commune. They’re called “co-housing enthu- “We want more out of life. We want Alas, the 1970s are dead. This will not of the building, which will probably In fact, a group of Brooklynites siasts.” more community. We were lonely and be a pot-smoking, patchouli-filled, free- be in Park Slope, Prospect Heights or who want to buy a nice building near And they’re coming soon — they felt too isolated,” said Alex Marshall, loving, anything-goes compound. See COMMIES on page 14 3GDMDVBNLLTMHRSR Urbanites of the world, unite! Brooklynites hungry for a sense of a commu- nity, but wanting a privates space of their own, can plant a foot in both worlds by getting involved with the borough’s, and the city’s, first co-housing group. It sounds great, but history is dotted with failed utopian housing schemes. CO-HOUSING LIFESTYLE COMMUNISM 1970s Denmark FOUNDED 1848 Britain “The Co-housing Hand- ESSENTIAL BOOK “The Communist book: Building a place for Manifesto,” by Friedrich Jeff Bachner Community in Crisis,” by Engels and Karl Marx Chris ScottHanson Scandinavia, the Bay Area, POPULAR IN Cuba, Israeli kibbutzim, Jeff Bachner college towns college towns, liberal arts The Brooklyn Paper / school coffeehouses No, but mix it with col- ABOLISH PRIVATE Yes.