INSIDE Including The Bensonhurst Paper New places to nosh Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications, 26 Court St., Brooklyn, NY 11242 Phone 718-834-9350 AD fax 718-834-1713 • NEWS fax 718-834-9278 © 2003 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 16 pages including GO BROOKLYN • Vol.26, No. 26 BRZ–BENHURST • June 30, 2003 • FREE Tyson brawls Bye, bye in Brooklyn, HER HERO Grippo Woman honors cop who saved her life District super at again as 9-11 terror gripped the Trade Center last board meet By Patrick Gallahue By Deborah Kolben and Neil Sloane The Brooklyn Papers By Deborah Kolben with Associated Press reports The Brooklyn Papers A police officer and the Bay Ridge woman Former heavyweight champion Senior Superintendent Vincent Grippo said Mike Tyson was released from the she saved on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, / Louis Lanzano goodbye to District 20 at the school board’s 84th Precinct Downtown were reunited at an awards ceremony at the 68th Precinct this week. farewell meeting on Monday night. Saturday afternoon, 11 hours Under the new changes to the city public schools after his arrest on assault charges Calling their reconnection a “miracle,” police of- ficer Alicia Regans was presented with an award the school boards will exist until December. Grippo is stemming from a brawl with two moving on to join the Leadership Academy, a program Associated Press from Diane Hunt, a Bay Ridge resident who tracked men outside the Marriott hotel on developed by Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and the Regans without as much as a name or precinct num- Adams Street. Mike Tyson leaves the 84th Department of Education to train school principals. Tyson was charged with assault in Precinct Saturday afternoon. ber. “You all gave me more than I could have given the third degree, a misdemeanor. He Hunt said she was determined. anybody else,” Grippo said to a packed auditorium at walked silently past reporters stand- escaped a beating at the hands of the But with few clues, Hunt, who worked in a PS 69, on Ninth Avenue and 63rd Street, on June 23. ing in a driving rain outside the Gold raging ex-champ when he tried to Citibank office near the Twin Towers, had no idea “I take a little piece of every one of you with me.” Street precinct, which is just blocks photograph him outside the hotel on where to begin her search. Grippo’s address Monday night followed a cere- from Gleason’s Gym, where Tyson Aug. 28, 1998. Then it happened. mony to welcome the induction of eight new princi- pounded bags and sparring partners in The account was reported by An- One day almost seven months after the attack, pals and vice-principals to schools in District 20. his prime. drea Peyser in the Sept. 30, 1998 Hunt paid a visit to Ground Zero. Standing on the Flanked with flowers and balloons, each of the Fans of the boxer shouted, “Mike! New York Post. viewing platform, she turned to a police officer and newly appointed women thanked Grippo for his Mike!” as he was led out by police. Covering an awards ceremony for began telling the story of a how a female officer had support and wished him well. But it wasn’t the first time Tyson The Papers that night, Callan was in- pulled her off a bus. Mango / Greg “It has always been reassuring that you were only lost his temper outside the New York formed that Tyson was downstairs in That officer led Hunt to a police captain, who put a phone call away,” said Barcia Weinstein, the new Marriott Brooklyn. Brooklyn Papers the hotel. He noticed Tyson talking to her in touch with Regans, 33, a domestic violence principal of PS 192. photographer Tom Callan narrowly another man outside the hotel and in- officer, and the one who brought Hunt to safety. “You have built an educational dynasty,” said Va- stinctively brought his camera up “I went to meet her … and we were hugging … lerie Joseph, who was appointed assistant principal from his shoulder and snapped a pic- it was so unreal,” said Hunt. “She said I was wear- Papers The Brooklyn of PS 163. ture. ing the same blue dress I had on that day. And she Diane Hunt holds award she prepared for Police Officer Alicia “District 20 has soared because of your leader- “He just flipped out,” Callan told See HERO on page 11 Regans (right), who saved Hunt’s life on Sept. 11, 2001. See GRIPPO on page 11 Peyser, who wrote: “In a flash, Callan said, Tyson ‘lunged toward me. He got to within a couple of feet of me.’ But Tyson’s security people got between the two men. ‘They formed a wall between me and Tyson.’” That did nothing to calm Tyson, who ripped his jacket off his body and threw it to the ground before charging toward Trucker targeted B’klyn Bridge Callan, who had photographed a young, heavyweight-champion Tyson in 1987, Ohio man who came there with sleeping bags, cell phones and Under an agreement reached May 1 and as he worked out at Gleason’s Gym in other assistance. unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court in DUMBO. from Kashmir admits Later, authorities said, Faris received at- Alexandria, Va., just outside Washington, “He kept saying, ‘I’ll kill that moth- tack instructions from top terror leader Faris pleaded guilty to providing material er----! I’ll kill that mother----!’ in that he plotted to KO span Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who is in U.S. support to terrorists and conspiracy to pro- squeaky little voice of his,” Callan told custody overseas and has provided U.S. in- vide support. Peyser. “I kept saying, ‘Mike, Mike, By Curt Anderson take it easy! We’ve met before.” terrogators with valuable intelligence about Faris, who is represented by a lawyer and But Tyson was raging and Callan Associated Press Writer the terror group’s worldwide reach. said in the documents he was not coerced to said he heard him say to his body- WASHINGTON—An Ohio truck Those instructions, authorities believe, plead, could face 20 years in prison and up guards, “Get his film.” might have been a second wave planned for to $500,000 in fines. Sentencing was set for driver who emigrated to the United / WBNS-TV / Robert Kalfus Aug. 1. Callan wisely ran across Adams States from Kashmir and met Osama New York City and Washington to follow Street. He tried to remove the film from the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. A government statement, signed by Faris, his camera while doing so but in the bin Laden has admitted plotting to de- “This case highlights the very real threats says he was instructed by a senior al-Qaeda process ruined the one frame of Tyson stroy the Brooklyn Bridge, federal that still exist here at home in the United operative to obtain “gas cutters,” probably New York Post New York he had shot, as well as just about all the authorities said this week. States of America in the war against terror- acetylene torches, that would enable him to Associated Press Brooklyn Papers photographer Tom shots from the awards ceremony. Iyman Faris, 34, of Columbus, acknowl- ism,” Attorney General John Ashcroft said sever the cables on “a bridge in New York Iyman Faris, 34, of Columbus, Ohio, Callan with copy of New York Post Two men did catch up to Callan, but edged in court documents that he met bin at a Justice Department news conference on City” officials said was the Brooklyn Bridge. a truck driver who met Osama bin reporting his run-in with Mike Tyson they were security from the hotel, who Laden in 2000 at an al-Qaeda training camp June 19. “While we are disabling al-Qaeda, Although the senior operative is referred Laden and surveyed the Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Marriott in 1998. See TYSON on page 6 in Afghanistan and provided operatives we don’t believe it is disabled.” See PLOT on page 11 Bridge in hopes of destoying it. Golf course adding eatery By Deborah Kolben The Brooklyn Papers Bay Ridge has long been a des- tination for anxious brides in need of a special dress for their big day. But some of those brides may be returning for their wedding receptions after a new restaurant and catering hall opens its doors at the Dyker Beach Golf Course, a 200-acre public course on Seventh Avenue and 86th Street. That announcement came in the form of a draft request for proposals (RFP) issued by the Parks Department seeking for vendors for the project. The RFP was delivered to Commu- nity Board 10 and Borough President Marty Markowitz earlier this month for comment before a final RFP is re- leased. That draft was met with mixed emotions at the June 16 CB10 meet- Mango / Greg Safe at home ing where members expressed con- Brooklyn Cyclone Derran Watts mows down Staten Island Yankees catcher Luis Robles during cern that the catering facility could home opener at Keyspan Park Monday night. For complete Cyclones coverage, see page 2. mean increased traffic and the prolif- eration of unsightly garbage. The Dyker golf course is one of 13 public golf courses in New York City, Papers The Brooklyn and one of two in Brooklyn. Up- wards of a million rounds of golf are What rain? We’re mermaids! New Maimonides chief is played at these facilities each year, Despite some of the worst weather in years, the mermaids came out to Coney Island Saturday which are operated by private con- and celebrated the way they know how — by dressing up in strange costumes and marching cessionaires.