SATURDAY • MAY 15, 2004 Including Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper, Downtown News, DUMBO Paper and Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper Brooklyn’s REAL newspapers 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. 19 BWN • Saturday, May 15 2004 • FREE JUMBO DUMBO Witnesses’ four towers will double population By Deborah Kolben 1,500 residents. The Watchtow- anything that the neighborhood / Jori Klein The Brooklyn Papers er buildings would house about needs,” she said, adding that she 2,000 more. is also concerned about the in- The DUMBO neighbor- The religious organization, creased traffic the development hood, known for artist stu- whose world headquarters al- will bring. dios, stunning Manhattan The Department of The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn views and relatively unclut- City Planning has been tered streets, may soon NOT JUST NETS working with the more than double its resi- THE NEW BROOKLYN Watchtower Society Hannah Yagudina, 10, laughs with Tangerine the Clown on Wednesday at John J. Pershing Intermediate School. Chronically ill children and their fami- dential population. for the past year and a lies gathered at the school for an evening of games, celebrity guests and gifts through the Kids Wish Network “Holiday of Hope” program. The Watchtower Bible and half to develop an ap- Tract Society, commonly known ready lies at the neighborhood’s propriate design for the build- as the Jehovah’s Witnesses reli- perimeter, owns the three acre ings half a block from the Man- gious order, is expected within site. hattan Bridge overpass. the next two weeks to submit to “This huge piece of land is Once certified, the clock the city its plan to build four going to be a fortress to the rest would start on the city’s rigor- Kids’ wishes come true soaring apartment buildings on of the neighborhood,” said ous land use review process, an immense plot of land bound- Christy Newberg, who moved with public hearings before ed by Jay, Front, York and into the new 32-unit luxury con- Community Board 2, Borough Bridge streets. dominium at 79 Bridge St., President Marty Markowitz, the ‘Hope’ program gives sick children a holiday The DUMBO Neighborhood across the street from the pro- City Planning Commission and Association estimates that the posed development, last August. the City Council. By Jotham Sederstrom Joseph’s mother. “The kids loved it. of the kids are being treated for can- doctors, they all consider Joseph part area currently is home to about “It’s not going to provide See DUMBO on page 15 The Brooklyn Papers The music, the dancing, everything.” cer, leukemia, diabetes and hyperten- of their family. And Joseph considers The May 12 soiree was thrown sion, which at a young age can be them part of his. This was just a Joseph Israel, a 9-year-old especially for children being treated deadly. great time for him.” with all the energy of a locomo- for life-threatening or debilitating Joseph is asthmatic and has multi- Founded in 1998, the Kids Wish tive, could hardly sit still on chronic illnesses at Maimonides ple allergies, so much so that he’s Network touched down on Brooklyn Wednesday in what normally Medical Center, which is on 10th had to forgo all food. Instead, he this week for the first time since or- serves as a cafeteria at the John Avenue at 48th Street, a block away drinks an amino-acid formula, a ganizing its first “Holiday of Hope” J. Pershing Intermediate School from the school. powder mixed with water. First diag- event two years ago, as a way of let- in Borough Park. Organized by the Kids Wish Net- nosed as an infant, he has been hos- ting terminally ill children, who might Ikea divides From a booth where volunteers work, a Florida-based charity created pitalized more than 25 times. Be- not make it to the next big holiday or strung beads for bracelets, to another specifically to cheer up kids like cause he is home schooled, as a celebration, enjoy a day of festivity. where faces were being painted, Is- Joseph, the “Holiday of Hope” party precaution against allergies, Joseph While similar parties have been held rael and about 100 other children be- had children forgetting their illnesses doesn’t have many opportunities to in Texas, Florida and Ohio, the bash tween the ages of 3 and 18 were full for at least one evening. stray far from home or the hospital. with Maimonides was special be- of pent-up energy — and their fami- According to Lenia Maropakis, “Maimonides is Joseph’s second cause the charity was co-founded by Red Hook lies were loving it. director of the Child Life Program in home,” said Beverly Israel. “The Shelley Breiner, a Brooklynite who “It was great,” said Beverly Israel, the hospital’s pediatrics wing, many cafeteria workers, the nurses and See WISHES on page 4 investments,” said Dorothy Shields, president of Jobs and traffic the Red Hook Houses East Tenants Association. Like many other residents of the public housing de- are focus of first velopment, Shields sported a yellow Ikea T-shirt. The T-shirts and bottles of water bearing “Red public hearing Hook [symbol of a heart] Ikea” stickers were be- ing passed out at the door. Water taxi floats to Ridge? By Deborah Kolben And earlier this week Mayor Michael Bloom- By Jotham Sederstrom restore ferry service between Manhat- for the additional location. The Brooklyn Papers berg broke his silence on the plan. The Brooklyn Papers tan and Bay Ridge for the first time To accomodate new service in Jer- PAGE 7 There were few surprises Thursday when Asked by The Brooklyn Papers whether he since 1997, comes amid reduced serv- sey City, N.J., where Goldman Sachs Community Board 6 hosted the first official pub- supports the Ikea plan, Bloomberg gave it his tac- A week after scaling back ferry ice at the Army terminal pier on 58th opened new offices, NY Water Taxi lic hearing in the city’s review of a plan to open it endorsement. “Some people like the Ikea store service at its Brooklyn Army Street. Riders at that terminal say that turned over its 58th Street Pier serv- an Ikea store on the Red Hook waterfront. in Brooklyn, some people don’t. But it will bring Terminal dock in Sunset Park, since May 3, when service was cut in ice to T.W.F.M Ferry, a Queens-based The hundreds who packed into the PAL Miccio much needed jobs to that area,” the mayor an- officials with New York Water half, the commute to Lower Manhattan company. Besides scaling back to one Center on West Ninth Street for the Landmarks and swered during a press conference at a new em- Taxi say they are discussing pre- has been steeped in inconveniences. ferry, from two, the service now oper- Land Use committee hearing were evenly split be- ployment center in Downtown Brooklyn. liminary plans with state Sen. John Quaglione, a spokesman for ates at 40-minute intervals, up from tween residents who fear an influx of traffic will “A lot of people like the idea that they will be Golden, said that the state senator met 20 minutes when the service began overwhelm the neighborhood’s narrow streets and able to shop there, a lot of people like the idea Marty Golden to add an addition- with NY Water Taxi officials last on April 30, 2003. those who believe the 346,000 square foot big box that they will be able to get jobs there,” he added. al stop at the 69th Street Pier in week, primarily to talk about the “These people who took over the Carol’s Daughter store will bring hundreds of jobs to a neighborhood Asked whether a box store was the best use for nearby Bay Ridge. service cutbacks. In those discus- operations are wonderful,” said tell-all book that suffers soaring unemployment rates. Brooklyn’s waterfront, Bloomberg said, “There’s News of the new stop, which would sions, however, Golden floated plans See WATER TAXI on page 17 “It’s about time that Red Hook saw this kind of See IKEA on page 15 Celebrating Brooklyn bubbly Historical Society’s exhibit remembers boro’s brewery past By Larry McShane famed for its churches, cemeteries and at the corner of Pierrepont and Clinton Many of the breakthroughs in brewing Associated Press the Cyclone roller-coaster — was once streets in Brooklyn Heights. Each Friday taken for granted today were conjured America’s brewing capital. night through August, the society will up right here. Raise a glass to Brooklyn, once Business finally went flat in the open an old-fashioned beer garden, with • The Piels brothers were the first to home to more than 100 breweries, 1950s, but the legacy remains. brews from Steve Hindy’s Brooklyn introduce dark-colored bottles, which former producer of more beer than “Brewing was one of the most impor- Brewery. kept the beer from spoiling in sunlight. Milwaukee, the borough where tant industries in borough history,” said Long before the market was dominat- • The Rheingold brewery pioneered Prohibition was greeted with a Jessie McClintock Kelly, president of ed by brewing giants like Anheuser- refrigeration technology. / Jori Klein wink ... and an ice-cold draft. the Brooklyn Historical Society, at the Busch and Miller, breweries in Brook- • The Consumers Park brewery was Make a toast to William Johnson, unveiling of a new exhibit on the bor- lyn were cranking out their own the nation’s first all-electric brewery.