THE BROOKLYN Rubber dumpBy Gersh P. 16 Tiffany IDs ‘runaway bride’: P. 6 ANGLE Kuntzman Brooklyn’s Real Newspaper BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 834–9350 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2007 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DOWNTOWN EDITION AWP/18 pages • Vol. 30, No. 29 • Saturday, July 28, 2007 • FREE INCLUDING DUMBO Marty casts his line for BARACK AND ROLL Obamamania hits Brooklyn Heights Nordstrom By Dana Rubinstein Columbia Heights brownstone for the “$1,000 mini- The Brooklyn Paper mum contribution” fundraiser. Organizers of the big-ticket house party — be- A confident Barack Obama strolled into Brooklyn lieved to be Obama’s first in Brooklyn — tried to Beep wants Dallas Heights on Tuesday night and promptly declared the keep the event hush-hush. But it was clear that some- Hillary Clinton stronghold “Obama territory.” thing unusual was afoot at Nina Collins’s Columbia Clinton far outpaced Obama in the fundraising race Heights mansion. retailer in borough in the Borough of Kings, hauling in $423,740 in Brook- By 7 pm, Town Cars began pulling up to the lyn last quarter, in con- three-story brownstone, trast to his $220,456 — spilling out expensive- By Ariella Cohen nouncement. and Brooklyn Heights, looking men and wo- The Brooklyn Paper “My mother-and father-in- as The Brooklyn Paper men — a surprisingly The borough president law, Joan and Jules Snow, reported last week, is es- high number of them would go to the Nassau Coun- who helped bring Trader pecially Hill Country, alone and enamored of ty store and come back with raising $61,360 for Clin- Obama. Joe’s to Atlantic Avenue has chips and spreads that they set his sights on a new up- ton compared to Oba- “He’s my TV boy- couldn’t wait to bring out and ma’s $38,724. friend,” said a Brooklyn scale target — a Nordstrom show me,” he said. “I found department store. But that didn’t stop Heights resident, who / Tom Callan / Tom out about Trader Joe’s and I Callan / Tom / Tom Callan / Tom the junior senator from gave only the name “Now that [Trader Joe’s] is started pitching,” he said. Illinois from hitting up Daphne. done, we can go to the next Developer Jed Wa- “You know that one,” Borough President the locals for cash. lentas of Two Trees “Every place is Oba- movie, ‘Jerry McGuire,’ Markowitz told The Management said ma territory,” he said when Renee Zellweger’s Brooklyn Paper sev- Markowitz “came The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn character says, ‘You had The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn with a rakish smile be- eral days after lead- to us probably four ing a jubilant pa- years ago and said Barack Obama came ... fore ascending into a ... he shook ... See BARACK on p 16 ... he smiled before Tuesday’s Heights fundraiser. rade from Borough that Trader Joe’s Hall to the Court needed a home. Street bank building When the bank where the gourmet building came up, grocer is setting up its we called him first Kings County store. back.” Snapping shots in the cemetery, naked “Nordstrom would be awe- “Other officials some in Brooklyn. Now we asked for other things, [Coun- have Trader Joe’s, Ikea, Whole cilman] Bill DeBlasio asked cemetery, [I was] thinking about the hours, Infantino hunts for the perfect Foods and all the other great re- [for] affordable housing there,” By Christopher Murray people who are gone — were they in a spot and, after checking for security, tailers. That would complete it,” continued Walentas. “[Marko- for The Brooklyn Paper Markowitz said, still exuberant witz] recognized, smartly, that Apparently nobody told Santiago In- better place than I was?” takes off all of his clothes. from his Joe’s victory lap. there would be a need for a fantino that the dress code for at Green- The artist claims he doesn’t have a “I covered myself with a big cape and The beep said he spent sev- grocery store, and in particu- Wood Cemetery is somber. In fact, the compulsive desire to strip for the depart- waited until it was safe,” he said, “then eral years working to get the lar, a Trader Joe’s.” Fort Greene-based photographer follows ed, despite how his recent self-portrait, whipped [it] off and started shooting.” California-based purveyor of Nordstrom does not have a no dress code at all when he’s working “Apocalipsis,” makes it appear. (See it While he hid, Infantino wasn’t spooked wasabi hummus and chicken New York City location. Most on his latest series of anti-war artworks. online at www.santiagotheartist.com.) by the cemetery’s residents at all. dumplings to the corner of of the company’s stores — with “Being naked means being defense- It’s hard enough just getting the work “I was scared I would get caught, but Court Street and Atlantic Av- their live pianists and marbled- less and this was a desperate time,” In- done. Lugging his tripod, camera and not scared to be naked at the cemetery. enue before last week’s an- See MARTY on page 16 fantino said. “That’s why I choose the various props to the boneyard after I’m scared of the living, not the dead.” Horses: ‘Neigh!’ to development By Chris Cascarano forced to turn away several would-be cus- for The Brooklyn Paper tomers, including a 5-year-old hoping for a pony ride. Horses at a beloved stable and riding The apartment building, Caton on the academy in Kensington are going increas- Park, is across East Eighth Street from the ingly skittish, thanks to the construction of 77-year-old stable. It will rise eight stories an apartment building next door. and contain 107 units. “The noise is causing the horses a lot of The development was approved by the stress,” said Walker Blankinship, the owner city despite a rejection from the local com- of Kensington Stables, on Caton Place. munity board in November 2005 on the “Sometimes I have to coax them out of the grounds that construction would disrupt not stable.” just horses, but people, too. On some days, the noise from the Caton The board vote, apparently, was prescient. Place construction site is so bad that stable- “The noise is going to go on for years,” / Sarah Kramer / Tom Callan / Tom hands don’t bother to even bring the horses said Warren Shaw, who lives next door. “It is out for rides, lest one of them toss a young going to be four of five years until construc- rider. tion is complete.” On a recent Friday, trucks bearing large It’s not the first time that development and shipments of building materials blocked both traffic have invaded on Brooklyn’s own little Paper The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn Caton Place and East Eighth Street for more piece of country living. Two new mega- Artist Santiago Infantino makes an art of taking pictures of himself, Delia Levy saddles Sign Me Up as construction crews work on a condo across the street, than an hour. Stable workers tried to bring out churches in the area have greatly increased naked, in cemeteries. So The Brooklyn Paper took this picture of Infan- which is, ironically, on the site of a former stable. several horses during that time, but were See HORSES on page 6 tino, naked, in a cemetery. Plenty of traffic in Zanes traffic jam It was practically a kiddie Woodstock at Dan Zanes’s packed concert at the Prospect Park bandshell on Sunday night — complete with a Park Slope traffic jam (below). The Cobble Hill rocker — former frontman for the Del Fuegos before he reclaimed kids music from Yanni — played some of his big hits and earned applause every time he mentioned the F train race for Boro Prez (which was repeatedly). Tout le monde was on hand, including Boerum Hill mommy Michelle Williams, traffic activist Aaron Naparstek, and hot dog contest MC George Shea, and every- one left the “Celebrate Brooklyn” concert with a coupon for 20 percent off his next Zanes By Gersh Kuntzman capital budget and an expense budget. purchase. Talk about a win-win in Park Slope The Brooklyn Paper And it’s a good jump-off point for the Councilman Charles Barron made it mayoral race in 2017.” official this week: he’s not running for Yes, you heard it here first, Charles Barron is running for mayor in 10 years. Congress next year because he wants Not that he doesn’t have his priorities some real power — he wants to be straight for his planned eight-year reign at (drumroll) Borough President! Borough Hall. “We looked at the 2008 Congressional “Am I gonna be a borough president for race [against reportedly retiring Rep. Ed Barron all the people? Absolutely,” he said at the Towns] and thought we could win it,” press conference. “But I’m letting you all Barron told The Brooklyn Paper before know now: I’m taking care of black folk.” throwing his Nehru jacket in the ring for Such talk is certainly par for Barron’s the top borough job at a press conference course. Last month, he made headlines on Sunday at City Hall. after his chief of staff targeted several “But being in Congress would take black colleagues with “assassination” af- me out of the city four days a week and put me in Washington as one of 435 leg- ter they rejected a plan to rename part of islators with little or no influence. Fulton Street for flame-throwing black “It would take me years to get some- activist Sonny Carson.