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By Juliana Bunimfor The Brooklyn Paper

Could legendary Red Hookbooze baroness LeNell Smothers’snew signature drink be a — gasp!— Manhattan?

“Yes, I’m looking outside of RedHook — mostly in Lower Manhat-tan,” said the owner of LeNell’s, VanBrunt Street’s renowned bourbon andwine shop.

Ever since Smothers told TheBrooklyn Paper last month that herlandlord is reclaiming the space, therumor mill has been churning overwhere her esteemed LeNell’s Wineand Spirit Boutique would end up.

But Smothers has had with all thegossip, so she again turned to TheBrooklyn Paper to explain what is re-ally happening with her store. As al-ways, she served it straight up.

“I’m sick and tired of the mediamisstating what’s going on,” saidSmothers. “I’ve been bombarded bypress. One [outlet] even had the nerve

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A diverse group that included Arab-American activists and Jewish educatorsrallied on the steps of the Department of Ed-ucation on Monday to demand the reinstate-ment of Debbie Almontaser to the helm ofthe city’s first Arabic language and cultureacademy.

The rally came less than two weeks afterAlmontaser resigned amid an uproar over herdefense of a T-shirt bearing the slogan “Intifa-da NYC,” and a Jewish, non-Arabic-speakingeducator was appointed in her place to run theschool, which is slated to begin its first schoolyear next month in a Dean Street middle- andhigh-school building.

Almontaser, the founder of the Khalil

Gibran International Academy, had been quot-ed in the New York Post earlier this month de-fending the T-shirt on the grounds that the word“intifada” literally translates as “shaking off.”

“Debbie should lead this school becauseshe founded it, and it’s her vision,” said MonaEldahry, founding director of Arab WomenActive in the Arts and Media (AWAAM), theorganization that sells the “Intifada NYC” T-shirts and shares an office with another organ-ization associated with Almontaser. Eldahrywas one of the organizers of the rally, whichdrew close to 200 people.

“Debbie attempted to educate the publicabout the word ‘intifada’ [by using] a defini-tion you’ll find in any dictionary.”

Almontaser later condemned the use of “in-

STANDING FIRMAmid protest, city backs Jewishprincipal at new Arabic school

Citing high rents here, Hook merchant eyes Manhattan

A police officer stands at the Department of Education’s Manhattan headquarters,where protesters rallied on Monday to demand the reinstatement of Khalil Gibran Acad-emy principal Debbie Almontaser, who resigned under fire earlier this month.

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Federal disaster aid for residents of Bay Ridge who werepummeled by the Aug. 8 tornado is being held up until Presi-dent Bush, who is on vacation in Texas for the rest of themonth, decides whether he wants to release the funds.

Gov. Spitzer formally requested disaster relief from the Fed-

What the ’Nell is going on?

LeNell Smothers

The owner of LeNell’s, a Van Brunt Street wine and spirits shop know for its selection of bourbons andits fountain, is considering a move to Manhattan when her lease is up.

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama at the Brooklyn Mar-riott on Wednesday night — his secondfundraiser in the borough in a month.

to print that we are closing. We arenot closing down.”

Next summer, when her currentfive-year lease expires, Smothersmust open a new store within 1,000feet of her current store or she’ll losethe chance to easily transfer herliquor license to the future location.

“I live in Red Hook and want tostay,” she said. But Smothers also

wants to open a bar in addition to theliquor store, and is concerned thatRed Hook might not generate enoughheat. It’s not “Red Hot Red Hook”like so many bulls—t articles wouldhave folks believe,” said Smothers.“There’s just not that many servicesaround like banks and restaurants.”

And that could prose a problem fora fledgling bar.

But local residents are not readyfor LeNell to pack up her specialtybourbons and bitters. In only fouryears, her store has become a com-munity favorite for its kitschy atmos-phere, quality stock and service.

“LeNell’s is a neighborhood jewel,”said Georgia Kral, a neighbor. “LeNellreally makes you feel at home. It is lit-erally like no other liquor store.”

But finding space is difficult inRed Hook. Most available propertyconsists of “empty lots that ownersare sitting on, storefronts that havepeople living in them or short-termleases,” Smothers said. Other spotsare available, but either have “outra-

geous rent that’s not realistic for RedHook, or [are] on a side street with nofoot traffic.”

Manhattan might provide more foottraffic, but it comes at a premium.

“Retail rent in lower Manhattan iseasily double that of Red Hook, espe-cially for a liquor store,” said Soli-taire Macfoy of Fillmore Real Estatein Brooklyn Heights.

And finding retail space that willwelcome a liquor store — even an up-scale one — can be tricky. “It can be along process to find a space that is notnear schools, places of worship andother liquor stores,” said Smothers.

For now, Smothers has a fullschedule of events planned for thefall, including an Old Portrero ryetasting, a fourth anniversary party andthe Brooklyn Bourbon festival.

LeNell’s Wine and Spirit Boutique(416 Van Brunt St. between Coffeyand Van Dyke streets in Red Hook) isopen Monday–Saturday, noon–mid-night, and Sunday from noon–9 pm.For information, call (718) 360-0838.

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Barack Obama was John F.Kennedy, Malcolm X and MartinLuther King Jr. all rolled into one foran overflow crowd of supporters atthe junior senator from Illinois’ firstofficial campaign stop in Brooklynon Wednesday night.

Standing before the emotional andheterogeneous crowd at the BrooklynMarriott in Downtown, Obama gave acharismatic stump speech, pacing thestage and throwing red meat lines to ahungry audience while touching onthe issues of the day: education (hesupports it), health care (he wants toexpand it), and the war in Iraq (hewants American out of it).

By the end of his 40-minute rally-ing-cry, Obama was engaging the

OBAMATHONBarack raises bucks on Hill’s ‘turf’

crowd in a call-and-response chant,“Are you fired up?” he yelled.

“Fired up!” yelled back the support-ers, each of whom paid $25 to get in.

“Are you ready to go?” he yelled.“Ready to go!” screamed the

crowd.Many in the audience were down-

right starry-eyed, fanning themselveswith folded paper and rushing thestage to get his autograph.

Elvia Alexander, of East Flatbush,compared Obama’s charisma to that ofJohn F. Kennedy, who was 43 when hewas elected to the presidency, fiveyears younger than Obama would bein 2008.

“When I think about him, I think

about Kennedy,” said Alexander. “Ithink he will bring change to theworld.”

Gillian Charles, a Prospect Heightsresident, chose different historicalpredecessors: Martin Luther King Jr.and Malcolm X.

“He has charisma, he’s engaging,”said Charles. “He has a voice, it’scompelling, and people listen.”

Other supporters pointed to Oba-ma’s background as one of the primaryreasons for their support of him overother Democratic contenders.

Frank Alert, a black resident ofBedford-Stuyvesant, said, “Obama issomeone who looks like me, who isarticulate, who has hope.”

Even so, Alert was skeptical thatsomeone who looks like him could getelected.

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FEMA toB’Ridge:Ask Bush

eral Emergency ManagementAgency on Monday — andcalled for swift action by thefederal bureaucracy.

FEMA inspectors did maketheir own damage assessmentson Aug. 13 and sent a recom-mendation to the president. Butthe buck has stopped — andapparently stalled — there, ac-cording to FEMA spokes-woman Barbara Lynch, whosaid the rare tornado may nothave generated enough mediacoverage to get the president’slimited attention.

“Higher-profile cases seemto move a lot faster,” saidLynch. “This situation didn’tget the media attention it war-ranted.”

Lynch said agency inspectors were “just flabbergasted” bythe millions of dollars of damage caused by the tornado —

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Gov. Spitzermakes houseads illegalBy Dana RubinsteinThe Brooklyn Paper

Gov. Spitzer has signed a bill that wouldmake it illegal to leave menus and circularson people’s stoops — but the new law hasset off a messy situation of its own forsmall business owners who depend onsuch strategies to draw in customers.

The so-called Lawn Litter Bill will fine

“For me, it’s litter on my steps,” said JudyStanton, the executive director of the Brook-lyn Heights Association, which already dis-tributes its own placards asking merchants torefrain from leaving ads on the stoop.

“It goes straight from my front door to myrecycling can,” continued Stanton. “Andsometimes I have to wash my hands becausethere’s dirt on there.”

The litany of complaints about circularsextends far beyond dirty hands. Residentsfrom Brooklyn Heights to Bensonhurst com-plain of getting tickets for fliers that blowonto their sidewalk, and many fear that whilethey’re on vacation, piles of circulars maketheir homes targets for burglars.

business owners be-tween $250 and$1,000 for droppingdelivery menus andcirculars on privateproperty if the ownerhas posted a sign ex-plicitly stating that nosuch ads are allowed.It passed both housesof the legislature inJune and Spitzer signedit into law on Monday.

Gov. Spitzer

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OUTDOORS AND TOURSEARLY MORNING BIRDING: Discovery walk

through the Salt Marsh of Gerritsen Creek.8 am. Salt Marsh Center, 3302 Ave. U. Call311 and ask for the Urban Park Rangers.Free.

LULLWATER EXPLORATION: Enjoy a boat tourdetailing Prospect Park’s aquatic habitat.Binoculars provided. $10, $6 kids. Noon to12:45 pm. Enter park at Lincoln Road andOcean Avenue. (718) 287-3400.

PEDAL BOATING: Cruise Brooklyn’s freshwaterlake in a pedal boat. $15 for one hour, plus$10 refundable deposit. Noon to 6 pm. EnterProspect Park near the Parkside and Oceanavenues entrance. www.prospectpark.org.

INTRODUCTION TO BIRDWATCHING: Dis-cover more about the natural wonders andfascinating feathered inhabitants of Brook-lyn’s flagship Park. Noon to 1:30 pm. Formore information go to prospectpark.org.Free.

RAVINE HIKE: Urban Park Rangers take partici-pants through the ravine. Walking tourteaches how to identify the trees of Pros-pect Park. Wear comfortable shoes andbring water. 1 pm. Picnic House, behind theLitchfield Villa off the East Drive, ProspectPark. Call 311 and ask for the Urban ParkRangers. Free.

TALES FROM THE CRYPT: Historic walkingtour explains sacrifices of the Prison shipmartyrs. 1 pm. Fort Greene Visitor Center,near the Myrtle Avenue and WashingtonPark entrances. Call 311 and ask for theUrban Park Rangers. Free.

BIRDWATCHING CRUISE: Learn about the his-tory of Prospect Park, from prehistoric timesto the present day, while touring one ofProspect Park’s most scenic habitats. $10,$6 kids. 1:15 pm to 2 pm. Enter park atLincoln Road and Ocean Avenue. (718) 287-3400.

DISCOVER TOURS: Explore the secrets of na-ture with teachers and naturalists from theProspect Park Audubon Center. 3 pm to 4pm. Call for information. (718) 287-3400. Free.

PERFORMANCEBARGEMUSIC: Brunch at noon features music

by Beethoven, Schumann, Bruch and Husa.Wine, cookies, cheese and crackers served.Concert at 1 pm. Call for ticket info. Also,classical music concert featuring works byMahler, Grieg and Brahms. $40, $25 stu-dents. 8 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Ful-ton Street at the East River. (718) 624-2083.

SUMMER CONCERT: Fort Greenmarket sum-mer concert series presents: “Steven KroonLatin Jazz Sextet.” 1 pm. Fort Greene Park,Washington and DeKalb avenues. Sorry, nocontact telephone number. Free

OTHERARTISANS MARKET: Featuring functional and

collectible art. 9 am to 6 pm. DeKalbAvenue sidewalk along Fort Green Park,Washington and DeKalb avenues. (718) 855-8175. Free.

FLOATING POOL: at the foot of JoralemonStreet. 9 am to 7 pm. www.brooklyn-bridgepark.org/pool.

WEEKSVILLE FARMERS MARKET: Farm-freshproduce. 9 am to 1 pm. 1698 Bergen St.,between Rochester and Buffalo avenues.(718) 788-8500.

MEMORIAL CEREMONY: Society of OldBrooklynites, American Merchant MarineAssociation and the Navy Armed Guardhost a ceremony at the Prison Ships MartyrsMemorial. 10 am sharp. Fort Greene Park,

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Washington and DeKalb avenues. (718)499-7600. Free.

INDIE MARKET: Collective of Brooklyn-based emerging designers show theirwares of fashion, accessories, bath andbeauty, pet gear, home-goods and more.11 am to 7 pm. Smith and Union streets.www.brooklynindiemarket.com.

REDEDICATION: Ceremony at FortDefiance. 11 am. Valentino Pier, foot ofVan Dyke Street. Free.

ART SHOW: hosted by the Salt MarshAlliance. Nature paintings and photo-graphs from local artists. 11 am to 4:30pm. Salt Marsh Nature Center, 3302Avenue U. (718) 338-7281. Free.

CUSTOM CAR SHOW: Seventh annual Kus-tom Kills and Hot Rod Thrills show.Noon. Union Pool, 484 Union St. Call forticket info. (718) 609-0484.

WASHINGTON AVENUE STREET FAIR:Brown Memorial Baptist Church hosts itssixth annual Community Street Fair.Service organizations, free healthcareservices and free clothing to those inneed. Noon to 6 pm. WashingtonAvenue between Fulton Street and GatesAvenue. (917) 825-5201.

CELEBRITY SOFTBALL: Second annual“Autism Speaks” softball game includesTwisted Sister’s Dee Snider, JackMcBrayer and Lonny Ross from “30Rock” and “Saturday Night Live” castmember Horatio Sanz. Field box ticketsare $20, box seats $10. Gates open at12:30 pm; first pitch at 2 pm. Key SpanPark, 1904 Surf Ave., Coney Island. (718)449-8497.

RUGBY MEETING: Brooklyn Rugby Clubhosts its first meeting. Discuss the game,watch a profession match and relax at anAussie bar. 2 pm. Sheep Station Bar, 149Fourth Ave., Call for more information.(917) 340-9700.

SUN, AUG 26

OUTDOORS AND TOURSSHEEPSHEAD BAY TOUR: Brooklyn Center

for the Urban Environment hosts a tourof Sheepshead Bay. Francis Morroneleads tour. $50, $40 members. 9:30 amto noon. Tour meets at Sheepshead BayRoad and East 16th Street. For moreinformation call (718) 788-8500 ext., 208.

GREENWOOD CEMETERY: The Irish AmericanParade Committee hosts a ceremony andmarch led by a bagpiper to gravesites ofMatilda Tone, wife of Irish patriot TheobaldWolfe Tone, historian and author John Gal-lagher and others. 9:30 am. Meet at flag-pole inside the cemetery’s main gates. FifthAvenue and 25th Street. (718) 768-7300. Free.

WILD FOODS TOURS: Naturalist and author“Wildman” Steve Brill leads a Wild Foodand Ecology Tour of Prospect Park. $12, $6for children under 12. 11:45 am. Meet atProspect Park’s Grand Army Plaza. (914)853-2153.

PERFORMANCEBARGEMUSIC: Russian classical music concert

featuring works by Stravinsky, Myaskovskyand Tchaikovsky. $35, $30 seniors $20 stu-dents. 8 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Ful-ton Street at the East River. (718) 624-2083.

OTHERCOMMEMORATION CEREMONIES: of the

Battle of Brooklyn. At 9:30 am, BrooklynIrish American Parade Committee March, at10 am, walking tour with historians JeffRichman and Barnet Schecter. 12:30 to 1:15pm; Battle re-enactment at the Main Gate.1:30 pm; Parade to Battle Hill, 2 pm. Also,Memorial Ceremony. The Green-WoodCemetery, Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street. Formore information, call (718) 852-8253. Free.

MEDITATION CLASS: Meditations to heal theheart: The practice of taking and giving. $10.10 am to 11:15 am. Vajradhara MeditationCenter, 380 Adelphi St. (718) 496-5514.

MEDITATION CLASS: Transform AdverseConditions into Spiritual Strengths. $10. 3pm to 4 pm. Yoga People, 157 Remsen St.,2nd floor. (718) 496-5514.

FARMER’S MARKET: Summer cocktail tastingparty hosted by Summer at Flatbush Farm inconjunction with Slow Food NYC. 4 pm to 6pm. 76-78 St. Marks Ave., at FlatbushAvenue. Call for information. (718) 622-3276.

CAFE STEINHOF: Today, “Butch Cassidy andthe Sundance Kid” (1969). 10:30 pm. 422Seventh Avenue at 14th Street. (718) 369-7776. Free.

ART SHOW: 11 am to 4:30 pm. See Sat., Aug 25.

MON, AUG 27MUSEUM EXHIBIT: Harbor Defense Museum

hosts an exhibit on the Battle of Brooklyn.10 am to 4 pm. Fort Hamilton Army Base,Fort Hamilton Parkway and 101st Street.(718) 630-4349. Free.

MEDITATION CLASS: with Western Buddhistnun Kelsang Demo. $10. 7:30 pm to 9 pm.First Unitarian Congregational Society, 48Monroe Pl. (718) 496-5514.

CAFE STEINHOF: presents River Alexanderand His Mad Jazz Hatters. No cover. 10:30pm. 422 Seventh Ave., at 14th Street. (718)369-7776.

TUES, AUG 28FITNESS CLASS: Total Mind and Body class for

Adults 55 and older. Included tai chi, slimas-tics, self-discovery, reiki, dance and more.4:45 pm TO 8:45 pm. Aviator Sports.Hanger 5, Floyd Bennett Field. (718) 758-9800. Free.

BALL GAME: Brooklyn Cyclones play theHudson Valley Renegades. $6 to $13. 7 pm.Key Span Park, 1904 Surf Ave., ConeyIsland. (718) 507-TIXX.

MEDITATION CLASS: The Art of Loving

MONDAY, AUGUST 27Community Board 7 Public SafetyCommittee. Board offices (4201 FourthAve., at 43rd Street, in Sunset Park), 6:30pm. Call (718) 854-0003.Immigration help desk, office ofCouncilman Bill DeBlasio (2907 Ft.Hamilton Pkwy., at East Fourth Street, inKensington), 10 am–1 pm. Call (718)854-9791, if you have any questions.

TUESDAY, AUG 28Community Board 1, land-use meeting(435 Graham Ave., at Frost Street inWilliamsburg), 6:30 pm. Call (718) 389-0009 for information.

THURSDAY, AUG. 30Metrocard bus, Red Hook Senior CitizenCenter (6 Walcott St., at Dwight Street inRed Hook), 9–11 am. Call (718) 643-6140for information.

CIVIC CALENDAR

To list an event in the Civic Calendar, e-mail [email protected] or fax (718) 834-9278.

‘Kroon’ a tune: The summer is coming to an end, but the summer con-cert series in Fort Greene Park is still going strong. Stop by on Aug. 25at 1 pm to catch the Steven Kroon Latin Jazz Sextet.

SATURDAYAugust 25

Music schoolAt 2 pm today, the “Afterthe Jump” festival willkick off with 13 bands,including Bling Kong(pictured), DJs and sur-prise guests, all to bene-fit music education in NewYork City. The daytimeshow is free, but thenighttime party is a fund-raiser, so cough it up ifyou want to still be see-ing live music in 10 years.

2 pm at Studio B (259 BankerSt. at Calyer Street in Green-point). $12 ahead of time, $14day off. For information, visitwww.afterthejumpfest.com.

SUNDAYAugust 26

Taking notesIf you don’t have cable,Sunday nights can be thepits. Comic Sara Schaefer(pictured) has the answerto your end of the week-end boredom, though,with her “Name ThatTune” party at Union Hall.Live music, comediansand prizes are a heck of alot better than your otherplans — besides, theLaundromat will still bethere tomorrow.

7:30 pm at Union Hall (702Union St. at Fifth Avenue inPark Slope). Free. For infor-mation, call (718) 638-440 orvisit www.unionhallny.com.

MONDAYAugust 27

Readingyour rightsHe might not throw thebook at you, but tonightat Rocky Sullivan’s in RedHook, District AttorneyCharles Hynes will read it.The DA is heading overto the nabe’s newest barto read from his firstnovel, “Triple Homocide,”which follows two gener-ations of New York cops.

9 pm at Rocky Sullivan’s (34Van Dyke St. at Dwight Streetin Red Hook). Free. For infor-mation, call (718) 246-8050 orvisit www.rockysullivans.com.

THURSDAYAugust 30

Buttermilkand jamThe summer’s almostover, so what better wayto welcome autumn thanthe CasHank Hoote-nanny Jamboree, acountry music free forall? Get into the downhome spirit with a per-formance by the Ameri-can String Conspiracy(pictured). If you’re notcontent just listening, youcan sign up and join in.

8 pm at Buttermilk (577 FifthAve. at 16th Street in ParkSlope). Free. For informa-tion, visit www.brooklyn-countrymusic.com.

FRIDAYAugust 31

Hot shotsWe’ve all got our ownideas about what theborough looks likedepending on where welive, work and hang out.Check out the “MyBrooklyn” exhibit at theBPL — today’s its lastday — to see how 30+artists, including first-prize winner CarmenZeng (work pictured),see the borough.

9 am–6 pm at the BrooklynPublic Library’s centralbranch on Grand ArmyPlaza. Free. For information,call (718) 230-2100 or visitwww.brooklynpubliclibrary.org

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Dry cleaners in Brooklyn Heightshave gone gaga for green,hanging signs in their windows

with the word “perc” —or per-chloroethylene, the dry cleaningagent now classified by the EPA as atoxic air contaminant, with the largered “Ghostbusters” slash through it.Others have banners, festooned withtrees and green grass, claimingthey’re “organic.”

Organic dry cleaner? Isn’t thatan oxymoron, like “jumbo shrimp,”“military intelligence” or “MartyMarkowitz weight loss”? Indeed,most of us have no idea what “nat-ural” and “organic” cleaning even means. And besides, there isno standard definition of “green” dry cleaning. As a result, drycleaners loosely use these earth-friendly terms to capitalize onthe neighborhood’s affinity for green-based consumerism.

Best Cleaners on Henry Street between Pierrepont and Mon-tague streets declares itself “organic” and perc-free because it useshydrocarbon solvent for cleaning. Not to paraphrase Sam Cooke,but even though I don’t know much about history, I do know thatthe cleaners are technically correct that their solvent is organic —because everything on the planet with carbon in it (including pro-duce grown under a blanket of pesticides) is “organic.”

But the hydrocarbon solvent used by Best Cleaners is DF-2000,produced by ExxonMobil, which calls DF-2000 “the most cost-ef-fective alternative solvent.” Of course, ExxonMobil’s green creden-tials aren’t exactly impressive. This is the same mega-company thatreportedly funded corrupt leaders in Angola, illegally traded withSudan, and has lobbied to debunk global warming.

Oh, and one more thing: The Valdez? That was theirs. But you don’t have to believe me: The Environmental Protec-

customers environmental concerns. “People care the most thatclothes don’t smell like chemicals,” said Jay Lung, owner ofLung’s Dry Cleaners on Henry Street, between Orange andPineapple streets.

Lung said he uses “natural methods,” but occasionally he has topull out the big guns — strong chemicals — to get out tough stains.“If it’s dirty, how are you going to take it out? If no one usedthem, [dry cleaners] would be out of business.”

Golden Hangers on Clark Street between Henry and Willowstreets also offers “organic cleaning,” but its version is hydrocar-bon-free. “It’s very natural, just like soap,” said owner Sonya,who refused to give her last name. Golden Hangers also stilluses “perc” in its regular cleaning, which according to Sonya isthe most effective for removing grease and oil.

It seems almost impossible to figure out how to go green withyour dry cleaning. The first step is making sure your cleaning isat the very least done perc-free. But at this point, the only way tobe truly “natural” may be to soap up your own duds. Dry cleaningis a dirty business, and it’s difficult to separate the green cleaningfrom the green pockets.

Juliana Bunim is a writer who lives in Brooklyn Heights

THE KITCHEN SINKThe Office of Emergency Management’s new headquarters

on a cordoned-off-to-traffic section of Cadman Plaza East not onlyhas nice clean lines, but it’s also clean on the environment. Thebuilding just earned the highest mark for energy efficiency and en-vironmentally friendly design. Next, The Stoop would like to seethem insist on employees using the subway so they can give backthe street that they and the federal courthouse stole and share as aprivate parking lot. … Uncommon Grounds on Henry Street atCranberry Street may have just opened last spring, but it is alreadyclosed for renovations. But good things are on the horizon. It’s ex-panding to include a full kitchen and full bar. No word on how longwe’ll have to wait though. … Congratulations to the Coffee FlatsTerrors, who just won the bocce tournament at Floyd’s on AtlanticAvenue between Henry and Clinton streets. … The blue pig in frontof the Blue Pig ice cream parlor on Henry Street between Cranber-ry and Orange streets has mysteriously turned pink. Employeesaren’t talking. … DUMBO’s legendary bakery, Almondine, isnow offering crepes after on Friday nights and Sunday afternoons.You gotta hand it to Herve. That crazy Frenchman is alwayspulling out something new. E-mail: [email protected]

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A coalition of local groups wants to stop David Walentas’s proposed DUMBO building, de-spite its long-sought middle school, because it could block views of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Walentas vs. GoliathsBy Ariella CohenThe Brooklyn Paper

They’re back…The neighborhood activists

who successfully opposedDUMBO real-estate kingpinDavid Walentas’s 2003 plan fora residential tower near theBrooklyn Bridge have steppedup again to attack his new pro-posal for the Dock Street site.

The DUMBO Neighbor-hood, Fulton Ferry Landing andBrooklyn Heights associationsput out a joint statement onWednesday that called Walen-tas’s latest design just as flawedas the proposal that the groupshelped shoot down three yearsago.

“The defects of this projectare essentially the same as thosethat resulted in the failure of theprevious project,” the groupssaid in the statement.

The $200-million, 400-unitdevelopment would rise 18 sto-ries on Dock Street betweenFront and Water streets. Walen-tas — who told The BrooklynPaper in June that he knew “noteveryone” would like the plan— sweetened the deal with 80below-market-rate units, retailspace, and a 300-student middleschool, an amenity that theDUMBO and Brooklyn Heightsassociations have called for inthe past.

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Johnson and the other civicleaders take special issue withthe impact the building, which

would have an 18-story segmentthat could block views of theiconic Brooklyn Bridge.

“The site is positioned at akey transition zone between thefive-story rowhouse scale of theFulton Ferry Landing HistoricDistrict to the west … and theBrooklyn Bridge Anchorage tothe south,” the statement said.“The view of this entire span

must be protected.” The statement comes a few

days after Councilman DavidYassky (D–Brooklyn Heights)came against the scale of theproject, calling it “gigantic.”

Walentas told reporters thisweek that the reappearance ofhis old foes wouldn’t stop himfrom continuing to seek supportfrom the city on his plan.

City blocks Clinton Street towerBy Ariella CohenThe Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Heights preserva-tionists hailed a decision bythe Department of Buildingsto block a developer fromadding six stories onto an al-ready nine-story building atthe corner of Clinton andMontague street.

Buildings officials would notcomment on why they rejectedthe proposed addition, whichwould create a 185-foot towerwithin the footprint of the city’sfirst historic district.

The district’s zoning restric-tions don’t apply to the commer-cial block of Clinton Street, butpreservationists objected becausethe resulting building woulddwarf nearby historic structuressuch as the old Spencer Churchbuilding and the landmark head-quarters of Brooklyn HistoricalAssociation on the corner of Clin-ton and Pierrepont streets.

“It would be much too tallfor that corner and would castdark shadows into the historicdistrict and onto very importantstructures” said Judy Stanton,president of the BrooklynHeights Association.

A spokesperson for the De-partment of Buildings said thedeveloper, Clinton Realty Hold-ings LLC, was free to resubmitnew plans. Neither the New Jer-sey-based corporation, nor theproject architect Edgar Rawl-

ings, returned calls from TheBrooklyn Paper.

Brooklyn Heights, thoughhome to many real-estate devel-opers, is notoriously sensitive to,preservation issues. In 1965, acoalition of residents led bylawyer Otis Pearsall forever al-tered the business of building inthe city when it lobbied to createNew York’s first historic districtin the section of the Heightsbounded by Atlantic Avenue andCourt Street and Cadman PlazaWest and the Promenade.

Within the district, newbuildings are limited to five sto-ries, and their facades mustblend in with those neighboringbuildings. Pearsall, a member ofthe city’s Art Commission, op-poses the 75 Clinton St. towerbecause of the shadows it wouldcast in the low-rise historic dis-trict that he created.

Other critics said that the towercould set an inappropriate prece-dent for high-rise development in-side the protected district itself.

“As the development getshigher and higher outside thedistrict, you run into the dangerof it creeping into the district it-self,” said Simeon Bankoff, ex-ecutive director of the non-prof-it Historic District Council.

While larger than mostHeights structures, the proposedtower would be half the size ofthe one residential project thatwas built above objections in1997, a 33-story, 331-foot resi-

Developer may re-apply

dential tower at 180 Montague St.When construction began on thatsite, neighbors asked developer

Ian Bruce Eichner to scale itdown. A Brooklyn Heights resi-dent himself, he declined.

The city has blocked a six-story addition atop this ClintonStreet building — for now.

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Ariella Cohen


Amedieval legend tells of a Jewcursed to wander until Judg-ment Day because of a bad

run-in with Jesus. In Brooklyn, it’sa karmic — and financial—arrangement with real-estate devel-opers that keeps one pair of so-called Wandering Jews on themove.

Like figures from old Europeanfolktales, Rabbi DovBer Pinsonand his wife, Rebbetzin RochiePinson travel from one home to an-other, knowing that one day theywill get the boot. Hasidic mystics,the Pinsons have studied what theycall the “deeper dimension of Torah” in a former factory inDUMBO and held rollicking, Kabbalah-infused and kosher-wine-fueled Shabbat dinners in an ex-ironworks in Boerum Hill.(Orthodox reggae-man and MTV darling Matisyahu and the Ha-sidic rapper Y-Love were occasional guests.)

This fall, they will move to a graffiti-covered plant on UnionStreet between Hoyt and Bond streets, where they will pray overthe oil-slicked water of the Gowanus Canal — until, of course,they have to move their nomadic Iyyun Jewish center again.

It’s an odd arrangement, even for a place that is known as theInstitute for the Exploration of the Deeper Dimension of Torah.The post-industrial transience, reminiscent of a mid-1990s rave,however, can be described in simple capitalist terms.

Instead of buying a temple in this time of ungodly prices-per-square-foot, the Pinsons have turned Torah study into what isknown in the real-estate industry as a property tax-abating inter-im use.

The owner of Iyyun’s new home at 450 Union St. tried sever-al years ago to gain the necessary city approvals to demolish the

began their conversion (to condos) shortly after the Pinsonswere given wandering orders. If all goes well for the Pinson’slandlord, it is likely that his Union Street plant will eventuallybecome part of the Gowanus Village development that builderShaya Boymelgreen has proposed for the area.

The Rebbetzin thinks that this time they should have enoughtime to settle in and unroll their Torahs before moving again

“They can’t tear down the building until zoning laws arechanged so we are safe for the next few years,” said Pinson.

She describes the group’s benefactors as “people who havespace and want to have a Jewish presence there.” The rest of usknow this group as the people who own buildings and hold ontothem for years until local zoning laws, or the market changes.Then they build condos that most of us can’t afford.

If you ask me, the whole thing would be far more kosher if,say, the Pinsons (and the rest of us) could afford a temple of ourown, one that would be invulnerable to the whims of the mar-ket. Wouldn’t that be mystical?

Ariella Cohen, a staff writer at The Brooklyn Paper, lives in Red Hook.

THE KITCHEN SINKFame: Rapper Talib Kweli has moved to Carroll Gardens.

Listen for the CG shoutout this Sunday at the 10th Annual BlackAugust Concert, in Times Square. … The Department ofHousing Preservation and Development was expected tobring a plan for three new residential buildings in the Colum-bia Street Waterfront District to Community Board 6 onThursday, after The Stoop went to press. Residents of the low-rise nabe were preparing to give city officials an earful on a102-unit development proposed for 101 Baltic St., near CongressStreet. “Most of the buildings here are two, three, or four storieshigh. This sounds like it will be too tall and dense for the neigh-borhood,” warned Mike Webster, a member of the ColumbiaWaterfront Neighborhood Association.

E-mail us at [email protected].

Wandering Jewsstill on the move

former foundry and replaceit with a seven-story condobuilding. Opponents to theresidential redevelopmentof the area successfully de-feated the proposal, and thebuilding has sat dormantsince. Now, plans are onhold until the city com-pletes a rezoning of theGowanus Canal area, andIyyun can be the owner’sspiritual sublet.

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Cleaning the Gowanus areaState, Keyspanink toxic pactBy Ariella CohenThe Brooklyn Paper

Keyspan has agreed to cleanthe contaminated muck belowThomas Greene Park, thanksto a new agreement betweenstate environmental conserva-tion officials and the Brooklyn-born energy company.

The Aug. 10 deal ends yearsof legal wrangling over the ex-tent of the environmental dam-ages done by fuel refineries thatoperated on the banks of theGowanus Canal during the 19thand early 20th century, handingthe 112-year-old company re-sponsibility for several tracts ofcontaminated land that had longbeen in dispute.

In addition to removing can-cer-causing chemicals from thesoil beneath the city-owned parkbetween Douglass and Degrawstreets, the Downtown-basedcompany will also be required toremediate a former fuel-refiningsite on Second Avenue now oc-cupied by Pathmark and aLowe’s hardware store.

The cleanup is expected totake several years and will befollowed by extensive study ofsoil conditions in the blocks ofwarehouses, homes and con-verted lofts that surround for-mer manufacturing sites. KarenYoung, a spokeswoman forKeyspan, said the companywould “work closely with theowners, local officials and thecommunity” as it moves for-ward with the state-supervisedcleanup.

“Keyspan is one of the mostexperienced utilities in conduct-ing investigations and remedia-tion of former manufacturedgas plants sites and will bringthis expertise to these sites,”said Young.

The buried toxins do not

By Ariella CohenThe Brooklyn Paper

Boerum Hill’s own littlerodeo sweetheart wants tobring her bulls to ProspectPark.

Debbie Singleton — propri-etor of Debbie’s Reins andThings, an outpost for saddles,Stetsons and steel-toed boots —has asked the Parks Departmentto consider letting her hold areal live rodeo in the Olmstedand Vaux landmark.

“You’d be surprised at thecrowd it would get,” she said.“A lot of ladies like it, scholars,young people. Rodeos are per-fect for Brooklyn.”

And she ain’t kidding, pard-ner.

Singleton led a three-daybronco-busting and barrel rac-ing event last weekend at CedarLane Stable in Howard Beach— home of the Federation ofBlack Cowboys.

Singleton is a member of thefederation, and an emissary tothose city-slickers who don’tknow their side-saddle fromtheir front pocket. She believesa Prospect Park rodeo couldhelp turn soft-handed spectators

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Parks advocates want to transform the run-down Thomas Greene playground on Douglass Street between Nevins Street andThird Avenue into a skateboard park — after Keyspan cleans it, that is.

present an immediate danger topeople who use these sites, ac-cording to state records. Typi-cally, the chemicals left by gasmanufacturing are only danger-ous when inhaled or eaten —and at Thomas Greene Park,they are buried too far under-ground for that, experts said.

Nonetheless, the detox is ea-gerly awaited in Gowanus,which could blossom into a res-idential neighborhood bridgingposh Park Slope and Carroll

Gardens if an expected city up-zoning goes ahead.

“This cleanup is good andcritically important, and wehave been asking for it foryears,” said Jo Anne Simon, afounder of Friends of Douglass-Greene Park.

But while the remediationagreement is a sign of betterdays to come on both sides ofthe so-called Lavender Lake, itrepresents only two of a half-dozen cleanups along that canal

that must be done before thearea is safe for developers whohave bought land in the area.

In a statement last week, stateDepartment of EnvironmentalConservation CommissionerPete Grannis hinted at the bigjob still ahead

“[The state] will continue tohold Keyspan and other utilitiesthat have left behind this historyof contamination accountablefor the environmental impacts,”said Grannis.

Rodeo gal: Fill park with bull

into urban cowboys.“There is an audience for

this,” she said. “A lot of peoplearound here have homes upstateand are training their children toride.”

She should know. Singletonwas born in South Carolina,but raised in Brooklyn. Shespent the early years of her

childhood inCrown Heightsand later movedto an apartmentnear the NavyYards in FortGreene. Through-out all thoseyears, she rodehorses in ProspectPark. She saysshe knows plentyof other KingsCounty cow-pokes.

A Parks Depart-ment spokesmanconfirmed that theagency has beentalking to Single-ton about her pro-posal, though no-

thing formal has been presented.Singleton said she felt the de-partment was taking her seri-ously.

Debbie’s Reins and Things(332 Douglass St., betweenThird Avenue and NevinsStreet). For information, visitwww.debbiesreinsandthings.comor call (718) 797-5288.

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Dana Rubinstein


The competition is heating upfor the chance to develop thenew home for the Manhattan-

based Dancespace Project — andBrooklyn favorite Carlton Brown isback in the game.

The real estate that has developerssalivating sits at the corner of FultonStreet and Ashland Place in FortGreene, a neighborhood the cityplans to transform into a hub of cul-tural activity that will rival only Man-hattan’s Lincoln Center in cache.

The home-base for Dancespace— to be capped by at least 150units of housing, many of them af-fordable, with a base of commercial retail space along FultonStreet — is the nucleus of the so-called BAM Cultural District.

As of Thursday, Brown, a developer who has lived in FortGreene and Bedford-Stuyvesant for a quarter-century, was elim-inated from the short-list.

The city had whittled down the competitors to just three:David Walentas, the real-estate mogul who built and brandedDUMBO; the Dermott Group, which is converting theWilliamsburgh Savings Bank building into luxury condos; and amysterious European company called SEG.

But, possibly prompted by a local outcry, Brown got back inthe mix, and is now tentatively partnering with the developmentfirm from across the pond. And that’s good. Not only has Brownlived in the neighborhood longer than many of its residents havebeen alive, he has kept close tabs on the needs of local stakeholders.

Brown has incorporated into his proposal the desires of agroup called the Concerned Citizens Coalition, which has fre-quently sparred with the city over a perceived lack of inclusionin the plans for the Cultural District, and has been partnering

(D–Fort Greene). “They are making some adjustments to hisproposal, and I anticipate a favorable outcome,”

James supports Brown’s community-oriented ideas for thesite. And, frankly, who wouldn’t? In a neighborhood whose sky-rocketing real-estate prices have pushed out long-time residentsand altered the area’s very nature (and sapped much of what hashistorically made the neighborhood special), the community’sinvolvement in this crucial stage of development is essential.

“We proposed taking the retail space and selling that to thePratt Area Community Council at cost, so it could be used for alimited equity retail co-op,” said Brown. “We wanted businessesthat are being squeezed out of the neighborhood by higher rentsto have a place to stay. We wanted to make sure that stakehold-ers in the community maintained their status as stakeholders.

“But I am hopeful that whomever the city selects recognizesthe community interests,” added Brown, graciously.

Neither Two Trees nor Dermott would comment. The citywas similarly tight-lipped. But Seth Donlin, a spokesman for theDepartment of Housing Preservation and Development, did saythe final decision would be announced in mid-September.

Dana Rubinstein, a staff reporter for The Brooklyn Paper, lives inCrown Heights.

THE KITCHEN SINKEver wonder what it was like to live here during the Great

Depression and World War II? Just ask the Vincent Sisters(aka Margaret and Joan Vincent), who’ve lived in the ’hoodsince time immemorial and are opening themselves up to ques-tions on Saturday at 2 pm at the Clinton Hill Art Gallery. Call(718) 852-0227 or (718) 857-0074. … Lay off the doughnuts:Kids from the Ingersoll Houses trounced local police officersduring a basketball game last Saturday at the Fleet Street bas-ketball courts, beating the men and women in blue, 92–68.Congrats! … Pratt Area Community Council has a newWeb site — woo hoo! Now, finding that upcoming homebuyerworkshop will be both a breeze and aesthetically pleasing.Check it out at www.prattarea.org. … Who said politics isn’tfashionable? The impresarios at Fulton Street’s CourtneyWashington Studios are holding a fundraiser on Sept. 16 forRep. Yvette Clarke (D–Flatbush), who is raising money forre-election. Beware — tickets will cost at least $100. Check outwww.clarkeforcongress2008.com.

E-mail: [email protected].

Dancespacefever in F’Greene

with the reputable PrattArea Community Council,which advocates for afford-able housing.

Brown’s firm, Full Spec-trum, is developing thegreen Trenton Town Centerin New Jersey, 1400 onFifth in Harlem (which thefirm claims is the largest af-fordable green condomini-um building in the coun-try), and it co-developedthe Solaire in Tribeca.

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A city project that hasturned 10 blocks of the once-bustling two-way FultonStreet into a one-way obstaclecourse and a pox on localbusiness will last monthslonger than expected.

The $8.5-million reconstruc-tion of the street, which the citybegan in July, 2006, and ex-pected to complete by nextspring, will now stretch intonext summer, said MatthewMonaghan, a spokesman for theDepartment of Design andConstruction, which is oversee-ing the project.

“We had some issues withCon Ed — some utilities werenot where we anticipated find-

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If, as they say, hungermakes the best sauce, then thefood at the new Moroccantapas joint that will fill the oldLiquors space should tastedamn good.

Nadir Khelifi, who ownsCafe Lafayette on S. PortlandStreet, is putting finishing touch-es on his new lounge and small-plate boite in the DeKalb Avenuespot that once housed Liquors,the bistro that sated Fort Greenestomachs with brunch burritos,bellinis, and the fluffiest omeletsthis side of Lafayette Avenue.

“Our neighborhood newssomething like this,” said Khelifi,who said he will open the restau-rant, between Adelphi Street andClermont Street, in two months,when his full liquor licensecomes through.

Liquors closed abruptly — and

under very mysterious circum-stances — in 2006 after a six-yearrun. Its owner Christian Dennerytold The Stoop about “a sordidtale that speaks to the darkestshadows of entrepreneurship, civ-il court litigation, breach of trust,and the sociopath ‘nouveau riche’elements.”

The reputed skullduggery in-volved a feud with his landlord,lawsuits from both sides, and per-haps most importantly, an emptystorefront in prime Fort Greene.Meanwhile, residents have had tomake do with Lou-Lou for theirFrench-inspired brunch needs.

One such local is somewhatrelieved to hear that some-thing’s filling the void.

“New restaurants are alwaysexciting,” said Andrew Simon,a one-time Liquors regular.“Though with Black Iris, Zay-toon’s, and Olea already in theneighborhood, a little more va-riety might be nice.”

The slow-moving reconstruction of Fulton Street, seen near Clinton Avenue (above and below), has caused lots of headachesfor residents and businesses in Clinton Hill.

Owner of area cafe to runMoroccan lounge at old site

BREAKING CHEWS: The old Liquors restaurant on DeKalbAvenue will soon reopen as a Moroccan-themed tapaslounge, its owner confirmed to The Stoop.

ing them,” said Monaghan, del-icately. The result, he said, isthat the project is two monthsbehind schedule.

The news has Fulton Streetmerchants grumbling.

“Well, of course I’m disap-pointed,” said a stylist named Mr.Don, who works at Hair Players2000, between Waverly andWashington avenues. “They saidit would be done by next winter.

“This project has taken awayat least 30 percent of our busi-

ness,” added Don.“The street goes one-way now, so you onlyget that one eye oftraffic, and … there’snowhere to park.”

The project, whichstretches between

Clinton and Bedford avenues, isintended to repair water mains,upgrade the sewer system, andinstall new street lighting andtraffic signals. The short-termrepercussions, however, havebeen severe. For the duration ofthe project, the city has closedoff half of the street, and rerout-ed buses off Fulton Street.

Rocky Widdi, the managerof Met Food supermarket, be-tween St. James and Cambridgeplaces, said the construction hasdefinitely taken its toll.

“If you’re going toward Bed-Stuy, you’re not passing by mystore any more,” said Widdi.“It’s affected my business by atleast 15 or 20 percent. Every-one’s feeling it.”

But Dale Charles, a spokes-woman for Pratt Area Commu-nity Council, said it could havebeen much worse.

“I had the city come out togive the merchants a heads-upabout what they need to do onthe marketing end, and it seemsto have worked,” said Charles.“I haven’t had too many com-plaints. Usually, I get boggeddown with complaints.”

The local anger is reminis-cent of what happened during asimilar reconstruction projecton Fort Hamilton Parkway inBay Ridge. That “one-year”project took 18 months.

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legedly stabbed another womanin the face and arm inside thevictim’s Adelphi Street apart-ment on Aug. 14.

Police say the assailantstabbed the 44-year-old victimduring an argument inside theapartment at Myrtle Avenue ataround 9:30 am.

Cops arrested the woman atthe scene and charged her withfelony assault.

iPod recoveredA 28-year-old man was ar-

rested for stealing an iPod froma 19-year-old woman on Aug.14, cops said.

The Ozone Park-based rob-ber surprised the victim, alsofrom Ozone Park, as she wasexiting the Lafayette AvenueA–train station at 5:40 pm.

The police found the suspectin the vicinity of the crime andstill in possession of the $300digital music player.

Bad eggCops nabbed a graffiti artist

after a neighbor spotted himspray-painting the letters “YOL”on the side of a building onAug. 15.

The 35-year-old woman whocalled the cops said she spottedthe 24-year-old suspect on theroof of a Myrtle Avenue build-ing at 2:25 am as he was defac-ing the wall, which is betweenPark and Flushing avenues.When the cops arrived to arresthim, he tried to escape, but wastackled to the ground.

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A woman was robbed of a$15,000 diamond necklacewhile moving into her newcondo in a posh DUMBOtower on the corner of Jay andFront streets.

The jewel heist occurred onJuly 28, when the new residentof the J Condo called in ahandyman to repair a cloggedbathroom sink, police said. Thewoman told cops that she hadleft a two-carat gold-and-dia-mond chain next to the brokensink and left the room while thebuilding’s handyman fixed theproblem.

She returned to find waterflowing fine, and her chaingone.

Park playA 15-year-old boy was

robbed of his cellphone in apark at the corner of Jay andTillary streets on Aug. 14, po-lice said.

The boy was hanging out inthe park at 3 pm when two 18-year-old approached. One yankedthe younger kid’s phone fromhis hand while the otherpunched him in the face.

The pair took off running be-fore their victim could get out aring of protest. He told copsthat he last saw them runninginto the Jay Street subway sta-tion.

Moneyless trainA middle-aged man was

robbed of his empty wallet out-side the entrance to subway atthe corner of Schermerhorn andHoyt streets on Aug. 16.

The 43-year-old was enter-ing the train station at around8:45 pm when two guys he hadnever seen before approachedhim.

“Give us all the money,” oneof the strangers said.

When the man hesitated, therobber reminded him to move

84th Precinct “quickly.” With that instruction,the victim gave up his emptywallet, and his tormentors fled.Neither his wallet, nor the menwho stole it have been found.

Running downA man was accosted by a

robber on the corner of Atlanticand Fourth avenues on Aug. 16,but ended up not losing anycash, police said.

The man was exiting the At-lantic Avenue subway stationwhen his attacker approachedfrom behind and told him, “Runyour pockets.”

While he stood there tryingto make sense of what was be-ing asked of him, another manpushed him against a wall. Tomake the situation more con-fusing, the first man told his ac-complice not to punch their vic-tim just before the partnerdelivered a knuckle sandwichto the bewildered prey.

The wannabe muggers ranoff without scoring a pennyfrom the man, who was leftwith a swollen face.

Jewel thiefA burglar stole thousands of

dollars in jewelry and cash afterbreaking into a Dean Streetapartment on Aug. 18.

The thief broke into theapartment, which is near ThirdAvenue, by prying open a win-dow. He got away with a goldring, two necklaces, and $700in cash, police said.

NutsA clerk at a Fourth Avenue

donut shop was held up onAug. 15 for a sum of moneyequal to the cost of eight glazedcruellers.

The robber marched into thedonut shop, which is near At-lantic Avenue, at around 5 pm.Brandishing a knife, he de-manded money, but got only $4in the cake-brained heist.

Fruit flyA woman got her purse

filched while buying a piece offruit at a farmer’s market onBoerum Place on Aug. 14 at10:20 am, police said.

The bag was stolen from theback of a stroller, where thewoman had put it while shepaid for her snack at the popu-lar market, which is at AtlanticAvenue. She said the purse wasonly there for a matter of sec-onds before it was nabbed.

The thief got away with $95in cash and assorted creditcards.

Laptop removedA 31-year-old female learned

that “size matters” on Aug. 7when a long-armed thief pushedin the screen on her bedroomwindow and slipped a slim lap-top between the window bars,police said.

Police report there are noleads on the whereabouts of thethin computer, which wasstolen from the Henry Streetapartment, near Pacific Street.

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CaughtPolice caught a man trying to

escape Red Hook after burglar-izing a mini-market on LorraineStreet between Columbia andHicks streets on Aug. 18.

Officer Alfredo Brewstercaught the man at 3:45 am, justminutes after he left the marketwith hundreds of dollars in ran-dom stolen goods, police said.

The hood had taken severalbottles of Zima, a six-pack ofBitburger beer, three pairs ofsize-9 boots, two drills, a fewpower adaptors, and a stereoamplifier.

Rip-off artistA pair of hoods pretending to

be art enthusiasts nabbed apurse from a design and cloth-ing gallery on Columbia Streeton Aug. 12, police said.

The hucksters came in thegallery, which is near DegrawStreet, at around 3:30 pm andasked the clerk about the art ondisplay.

One member of the team —a woman — continued toquery the clerk while her part-ner strolled around the shop.

The clerk said she suspectedsomething was up when thetwo abruptly left without buy-ing any of the art they had beeninterested in.

The pair was long gone bythe time she noticed her walletwas missing. They got awaywith $45, a credit card and a sil-ver and ruby ring.

The good sonA man lost his backpack in

Long Island College Hospitalon Aug. 17, police said

The man had left the bag in ahospital room while he walked

his mother to surgery at around7:45 pm.

An officer warned hospitalvisitors to not let their belong-ing out of view because “thisstuff happens.”

Pool heist A woman lost $1,400 worth

of designer goods to a locker-room heist at the Red HookPool on Aug. 15, cops said.

The posh pool-goer lockedup a $500 Prada backpack con-taining a pair of $500 sunglass-es, a $100 wallet containing$200 in cash and a $100 cell-phone before taking a dip ataround 3:30 pm, police said.When she returned to her lock-er, the lock was busted and herbelongings were gone.

Signs all over the public poolwarn guests against stowingvaluables in the dinky, metallockers.

IRS attackA woman with an infant and

an apparent grudge against theInternal Revenue Service triedto sneak a 25-caliber automaticweapon into the Fulton-StreetIRS building by wrapping it ina diaper and then sending itthrough the X-ray machine in adiaper bag on Aug. 14, saidcops.

At 9:45 am, an eagle-eyedsecurity guard at the building,between Rockwell Place andHudson Avenue, spotted theoutline of the gun within the di-aper as it passed through themachine and called the cops,who arrested the gun-toting 31-year-old woman. They chargedher with criminal possession ofa weapon.

Crazy violenceA 30-year-old woman with a

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said she was only gone for 30minutes on Aug. 15.

The thief had broken into theapartment, which is at Gates Av-enue, at around 7:30 am, nettinga Mac titanium laptop. Cops can-vassed neighboring apartments,but made no arrests.

Target employeePolice charged an employee

of the Atlantic Terminal Targetstore with stealing $1,200worth of gift cards on Aug. 14.

Witnesses say they observedthe 18-year-old woman pocket-ing the cards, and policecharged her with grand larceny.

Putnam putzA hapless, but violent, thief

pistol-whipped a middle-agedman over the head and stole$165 from him in a horrifyingbeating on Aug. 17 — but theperp was later arrested, copssaid.

The 52-year-old victim wasat the corner of Fulton Streetand St. James Place at around3:40 am when the 19-year-oldsuspect allegedly approached,pulled out the gun andscreamed, “Give me your [ex-pletive] money!” before takingit for himself.

He then fled to the roof of aPutnam Avenue building, be-tween Downing Street andGrand Avenue, where copswere able to collar him with themoney still on him.

The gun was not found, sothe teen was charged only withrobbery, cops said.

Fashion victimClipping a cellphone onto

your belt isn’t just a fashionfaux-pas — it’s also dangerous.

That’s what a 17-year-oldBronx resident discovered onAug. 17 when he fell asleep ona Brooklyn-bound 4–train.

The teen awoke at 7 am atthe Atlantic Avenue station tofind someone has snagged theclip-on phone.

Road rageA man followed another man

to his Quincy Street workplaceafter an Aug. 16 traffic altercationand stabbed him in his right thighall the way to his bone, piercinghis femur, said cops.

The 43-year-old victim wason his way to work, betweenClasson Avenue and DowningStreet, at around 4 pm when theassailant, who looked to beabout 30 years old and 5-foot-10, stabbed him.

Hot wheelsAn early morning thief

showed a Queens man someBrooklyn hospitality on Aug. 12,nabbing his yellow motorcyclefrom a parking spot at Waverlyand Lafayette avenues.

The 40-year-old bike-ownerreturned to the spot at 8:50 amand discovered that his 2002Honda CBR was gone.

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SmashupAt least three cars were involved in an 8 am accident onCourt Street near Degraw Street on Wednesday morning.Lots of fenders were bent, but no humans were hurt (thougha neighborhood dog was killed). The crash also knockedover the community bulletin board in front of D’Amico’s café.Frank D’Amico told The Brooklyn Paper that the board will“probably” be replaced.

New toiletsaves water,planet


Margarita drinkers with small bladders needn’t fret about wast-ing water at Habana Outpost any longer. As of this Saturday, theeco-eatery’s two porcelain gods will run on recycled rainwater.

The new system collects rain on the restaurant’s roof and thenstores it in cisterns until it is eventually flushed, said Lori Gibbs, thedirector of Urban Studio Brooklyn, which collaborated with theOutpost on the project.

“We’re also going to have a sink in one of the bathroom stalls, sowhen you wash your hands, the dirty water will go into a planter, theplants will break down the dirty water, and then it will feed directlyinto the toilet,” added Gibbs.

Eight students in graduate and under-graduate architecture pro-grams throughout the city joined the Studio to design the environ-mentally friendly water closets. Gibbs claims the eco-toilets willsave an estimated 15,000 gallons of water a week.

“There’s such a limited amount of water and it gets wasted,” saidSean Meenan, owner of the Outpost, a Latin-inspired eatery-cum-bazaar on Fulton Street that also boasts a solar-powered chandelier,recycled plastic tables and a blender that’s hooked up to an exercisebike.

“We were trying to figure out a way to save water and be softlydidactic about it,” Meenan said.

The unveiling of the eco-friendly toilets will take place at the Out-post (757 Fulton St., at S. Portland Avenue, in Fort Greene) on Satur-day, Aug. 25, at 5 pm. For information, e-mail [email protected].

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The ‘sub moron’ to have day in courtBy Ariella CohenThe Brooklyn Paper

The dean of marine mischiefis going to court.

Carroll Gardens artist DukeRiley — who set off city terroralerts earlier this month when hefloated a homemade submarinetoo close to a luxury cruise lin-er— will appear before a NewYork State Supreme Court judgeTuesday in what is likely to be ashort and somewhat absurd hear-ing.

As of press time, Riley (left)wasn’t sure how he would plead toNYPD charges of reckless opera-tion and towing of his egg-shaped,propeller-less, plywood replica ofthe Revolutionary War-era subma-rine, the “Turtle”

“I don’t know anyone who hasbeen in this situation before, noteven my lawyer,” the history buffand former tattoo artist told TheBrooklyn Paper. Riley, who wasalso slapped with Coast Guard cita-tions for having an unsafe vesseland violating the security zone of

the Queen Mary 2, declined to saymuch about his defense as he andhis lawyer haven’t gotten around tohashing that out yet.

Upon pressing, Riley admittedthat he had kept flares, emer-gency horns and life jackets withhim on in the homemade sub,which was equipped with pumpsand ballasted with chunks oflead.

He said that his preparation forthe worst should help in court.

“I’ve been doing projects onthe river a long time,” he said. “A

lot of thought went into this.” Hours after the stunt set off a

red alert that brought a flotilla offederal and local security agents,news reporters and art dealers tothe Red Hook pier, it was de-scribed by Police CommissionerRay Kelly as “marine mischief.”

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The invasion of the rubberbands continues unabated inPark Slope.

Faithful readers of The BrooklynPaper will recall my earlier — andapparently futile — crusade to getour local mail carriers to stop drop-ping their brownish-gray rubberbands all over the neighborhood asthey make their appointed rounds.

You don’t have to be Al Gore— or even weigh as much as AlGore — to think there’s a better usefor perfectly good rubber bandsthan to discard them on the groundin front of mine and my neighbors’houses.

There is: mail carriers are supposed to bring them back totheir local station and reuse them, a Postal Service spokes-woman told me.

She also told me that the manager of the post office on NinthStreet between Fourth and Fifth avenues had told all her carriersto stop dropping the bands all over the place.

Still, the bands keep showing up.So my daughter and I gathered up a few dozen rubber bands

— two day’s droppings, by the way — and took them to thepost office last week. My goal was to show the manager theclear evidence that the letter carriers were still litter couriers.

She could not have cared less.Now, here’s the part of the column where the writer typically

launches into a bitter tirade against postal workers and the poorservice they provide. This is where the writer might also remindhis readers about that guy who went ballistic in the Kensingtonpost office earlier this year after being treated rudely by the staff(if you aren’t one of the 57,000 people who’ve watched his out-

about “the rubber bands.” Eventually, the manager showed up. Islipped my card under the bullet-proof glass, but she refused totake it. I asked her to take it, but she refused again. I explainedthat I was the guy who wrote the column in The Brooklyn Paperand that the problem was continuing.

“What do you want me to do about it?” she asked in a tonethat suggested that she intended to do exactly nothing.

For starters, I told her I expected her to take the few dozenbands that I had on me. She refused, so I shoved them under theglass and walked out before I could turn into that nut (I meansensible postal customer) in Kensington.

But the problem has not been solved. So stay tuned (or checkYouTube in a few weeks. You might find me there).

Gersh Kuntzman, who lives in Park Slope, is the editor of The Brooklyn Paper.

THE KITCHEN SINKThey laid down a new coat of paint at the 78th Precinct this

week and already, locals are pleased. It’s true, nothing says “Feelwelcome to report your stolen Honda Civic” like a fresh coat ofBenjamin Moore latex eggshell white. … Good news, badnews: We hear that one of the men whose lockers were brokeninto at the YMCA last week was none other than legendaryTimes magazine writer Edward Lewine. The bad news is thatthieves got $6. The good news is that the Y compensatedLewine with a few free months added to his membership. … Ofthe 17 people picked by the mayor, the governor, and the leadersof the state Senate, Assembly and City Council, two are friendsof The Brooklyn Paper. Congrats to our subway-scrutinizing palGene Russianoff of NYPIRG and our Sunset Park amiga Eliz-abeth Yeampierre, who runs UPROSE, Brooklyn’s oldestLatino community-based organization. Now if only these twoBrooklynites can sway the rest of the hacks on the panel. …Sixth Avenue between Bergen and Dean streets was co-namedfor late police officer William Rivera on Wednesday. Rivera,who served in the 78th Precinct, died in 2004 after fallingdown a fire escape while chasing a burglary suspect.

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The Bloomberg Administrationhas shifted gears, and decided toexpand car-free hours in ProspectPark.

One week after anti-car activistsblasted the mayor for increasingcar-free hours in Central Park, yetmaintaining the existing biker-friendly hours in Prospect Park, thecity announced that the East Drivewould now be entirely closed totraffic on weekdays from 5–7 pm.

The change will “create new op-portunities for children and familiesto enjoy the Prospect Park drive onweekday afternoons,” said Depart-ment of Transportation Commis-sioner Janette Sadik-Khan. “Ourgoal is to let the park be a park asmuch of the time as possible.”

Naturally, bicycling advocateshailed the move — but just as pre-dictably said it did not go farenough.

“For an extra two hours eachweekday, Brooklynites will breathe

easier as they walk, job, bicycle andrecreate in Prospect Park,” saidPaul Steely White, executive direc-tor of Transportation Alternatives.

But Steely White was quick todemand more, pointing out that hisgroup is still calling for the entireloop in Prospect Park to be ren-dered car-free. A 2006 study by thegroup found that four out of fivepark users would use the park moreoften if they did not have to com-pete with autos. (The fifth personmay be a dentist.)

The mayoral U-turn took Bor-ough President Markowitz by sur-prise. Last week, he told the NewYork Daily News that expandingcar-free hours in Prospect Parkwould push more traffic onto sur-rounding roads.

“Further limiting hours [to cars]would result in unacceptable trafficbackup,” he said then.

Markowitz did not return an e-mail seeking comment for this sto-ry.

The new car-free hours will kickin on Aug. 27.


Keyspan has agreed to cleanthe contaminated muck belowThomas Greene Park, thanks toa new agreement between stateenvironmental conservation of-ficials and the Brooklyn-bornenergy company.

The Aug. 10 deal ends yearsof legal wrangling over the ex-tent of the environmental dam-ages done by fuel refineries thatoperated on the banks of the

Gowanus Canal during the 19thand early 20th century, handingthe 112-year-old company re-sponsibility for several tracts ofcontaminated land that had longbeen in dispute.

In addition to removing can-cer-causing chemicals from thesoil beneath the city-owned parkbetween Douglass and Degrawstreets, the Downtown-basedcompany will also be required toremediate a former fuel-refiningsite on Second Avenue now occu-pied by Pathmark and Lowe’s.

P’Park gets morecar-free hours

Drivers can expect to see more signs like this now thatMayor Bloomberg has expanded car-free hours inProspect Park.


Gowanus’s own little rodeosweetheart wants to bring herbulls to Prospect Park.

Debbie Singleton — propri-etor of Debbie’s Reins andThings, an outpost for saddles,Stetsons and steel-toed boots —has asked the Parks Departmentto consider letting her hold areal live rodeo in the Olmstedand Vaux landmark.

“You’d be surprised at thecrowd it would get,” she said.“A lot of ladies like it, scholars,young people. Rodeos are per-fect for Brooklyn.”

And she ain’t kidding, pard-ner.

Singleton led a three-daybronco-busting and barrel rac-ing event last weekend at CedarLane Stable in Howard Beach— home of the Federation ofBlack Cowboys.

Singleton is a member of thefederation, and an emissary tothose city-slickers who don’t

Rodeo gal: Fill the park with bullthis,” she said. “A lot of peoplearound here have homes upstateand are training their children toride.”

She should know. Singletonwas born in South Carolina,but raised in Brooklyn. Shespent the early years of herchildhood in Crown Heightsand later moved to an apart-ment near the Navy Yards inFort Greene. Throughout allthose years, she rode horses inProspect Park. She says sheknows plenty of other KingsCounty cowpokes.

A Parks Department spokes-man confirmed that the agencyhas been talking to Singletonabout her proposal, thoughnothing formal has been pre-sented. Singleton said she feltthe department was taking herseriously.

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State, Keyspan in major toxic pactThe buried toxins do not

present an immediate danger topeople who use these sites, ac-cording to state records. Typi-cally, the chemicals left by gasmanufacturing are only danger-ous when inhaled or eaten —and at Thomas Greene Park,they are buried too far under-ground for that, experts said.

Nonetheless, the detox is ea-

gerly awaited in Gowanus,which could blossom into a res-idential neighborhood bridgingposh Park Slope and CarrollGardens if an expected city up-zoning goes ahead.

“This cleanup is critically im-portant, and we have been askingfor it for years,” said Jo Anne Si-mon, a founder of Friends ofDouglass-Greene Park.

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A woman was carried intoan alley and beaten by twothugs on a busy stretch ofNinth Street late on Aug. 18.

The 20-year-old victim toldcops that she had left theYMCA, which is between Fifthand Sixth avenues, at just be-fore midnight when she was setupon by two men, whom shedescribed as 18-year-olds.

One of the men grabbed herfrom behind while the othershowed off a blunt instrumentand then grabbed her legs. Aftercarrying her into the alleyway,both men beat her about thehead, causing “redness andswelling.”

She broke away from her as-sailants and ran home, but theperps got away with her cell-phone.

Burgs in burgThere were at least three bur-

glaries in the area last week.Here’s how they went down:

• A Fourth Street house wasbroken into on Aug. 17 whileits owners were on vacation,cops said. Thieves had enteredthe house by forcing open theiron bars on a security gate andthen breaking through a glassdoor. They got away with a lap-top computer and a mountainbike.

• An apartment on ProspectPark West was broken into onAug. 17 after perps brokethrough a rear window at thebuilding, which is between 12thand 13th streets. Thieves gotaway with a trove of electron-

Horrifying mugging near YMCAPOLICE BLOTTER

ics, including two laptops andan iPod.

• A thief impersonating aHousing Authority exterminatortricked a resident of the Wyck-off Houses into letting him intoher apartment on Aug. 17.

The thug didn’t steal any-

thing, but used an unidentifiedweapon to injure the 45-year-old woman.

Cops are looking for a 6-foot, 200-pound black manwith brown eyes, black hair,close cut hair and “blotchy”skin.

Farm aidA thief took advantage of the

situation on Aug. 18, taking awoman’s handbag after she setit down on the ground to shopat the farmer’s market in GrandArmy Plaza.

The Sixth Avenue womantold cops that she put the bagdown at around 1 pm and lost acellphone, her wallet, variousID cards and the handbag itself.

Gave it upA trio of hoods mugged a

man on 13th Street after sur-rounding him and demandingcash on Aug. 16.

The 22-year-old victim toldcops that he was approachingthe corner of Fifth Avenue ataround 2:30 am when the three-some surrounded him and oneman asked, “Where’s the mon-ey?”

The victim answered suc-cinctly: “The wallet is in myback right pocket,” he said.

One of the thugs took thewallet — which contained $40— and all three fled up 13thStreet towards Prospect Park,cops said.

The man could only describetwo of his assailants: a 5-foot-10, 250-pound black man, age19, with short brown hair; and a5-foot-6, 150-pound Asian manwith short brown hair. He hadno description on the third man,whom police described as alookout.

Some armoryFor the second week in a

row, a crime has been reportedat the armory complex onEighth Avenue and 14th Street— this time, the theft of hun-dreds of dollars worth of copperwiring.

Sometime between Aug. 8and Aug. 15, a thief broke intoa locked storage room at the ar-mory, which houses a woman’sshelter and is being convertedinto a sports complex.

The manager of the compa-ny installing electrical equip-ment in the building told copsthat many people had access tothe area around the storageroom during the period that thecrime went down — but onlyhe has the key to the room it-self. He told police that the doorwas indeed secure during theentire weeklong period.

That explains why cops laterfound that a portion of wall hadbeen removed, giving the thiefaccess to the room — and the37 spools of copper wiring thathe stole.

Cops say that a price hike incopper has led to a rash of suchthefts at construction sites.

“It’s more valuable thangold,” said one officer in aneighboring precinct. “And thethieves know it.”

YM ouch AA thief was obviously work-

ing the locker room at a popularYMCA on Ninth Street becauseseveral men reported that theirstuff had been stolen while theyworked out on Aug. 18.

The victims told cops thatthey re-entered the locker roomat around 4:30 pm after theirworkouts and discovered thethefts.

In one case, three people hadstashed their stuff in one locker.That trio lost cash, credit cards,a library card, a cellphone and apair of designer shorts.

The other victim, a 67-year-old, said he lost credit cards, hiskeys, a cellphone and $60.

In both cases, the padlockshad been cut.

The wheel dealIn what has become a week-

ly Police Blotter staple, at leastthree more cars were stolen off

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Park Slope streets last week.Here’s a round-up (no pun in-tended):

• A 10th Street man parkedhis 1995 Acura near his home,between Fifth and Sixth av-enues on Aug. 6 at around 4pm. When he went to move it aweek later, it was gone.

• On the same block, awoman parked her 1997 DodgeCaravan on Aug. 12 at around11:30 pm. When she returned toit just six hours later, it wasgone.

• A Long Island womanparked her 1997 Infinity onEighth Avenue on Aug. 13 ataround 1 am. But when she re-turned to the spot, which wasnear the corner of Fourth Street,two days later, the car (and thetwo child seats in the back) wasgone.

SmashupAt least three cars were involved in an 8 am accident onCourt Street near Degraw Street on Wednesday morning.Lots of fenders were bent, but no humans were hurt (thougha neighborhood dog was killed). Park Slopers heard aboutthe crash and were reminded that the city had once hopedto make Seventh Avenue a one-way street in an effort tomake it as “safe” as one-way Court Street.

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YELLOW HOOKER

Matthew Lysiak

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C ity Hall has unleashed teamsof inspectors in Cushmenscooters with a mission to im-

prove the quality of life.But exactly whose life will actu-

ally be improved isn’t so clear.The plan is ambitious. Mayor

Bloomberg says the three-wheeledscooters will hit every block at leastonce a month to report on thosepesky annoyances of city life (seenews story, page 14).

But up high on this columnist’slist of pesky annoyances happens tobe those three-wheeled scooters.

They don’t go fast, they clog up roads, and there are about agazillion little scooters already employed by Traffic Enforce-ment officers wreaking havoc on residents.

In fact, the idea of more scooters continuously racing aroundthe streets of Bay Ridge sounds more like an Orwellian night-mare than a kind-hearted blessing from the mayor.

Known as Street Conditions Observation Unit Teams (orSCOUT), the inspectors are already patrolling our communitywith handheld satellite-aided devices to transmit reports on litter,potholes, graffiti, and other quality-of-life problems directly intothe 311 system.

You know, just in case the local cops, the fleet of traffic en-forcement agents, the next-door neighbor who has 311 on herspeed dial, and the seven cameras per city block miss some-thing.

Simply put: residents have enough units observing us anddon’t need more scooters.

But pols seem to believe there can never be enough sets ofeyes, and wheels, even if residents already feel overexposed.

Great, but this sudden urgency for this new bureaucracy isquestionable.

The mayor’s office found city streets to be at a record-break-ing high, with 94.3 percent of streets rated “acceptably clean” in2007.

In other words, streets are already historically clean, so thenwhat exactly is the purpose of this new scooter patrol, anyway?

Some residents had their own ideas.“Not one person I know wants more of these government

scooters on the road,” said scooter-weary resident Phil Millard.“Only the politicians love these kinds of programs, but maybe atleast at the end of the day, there really will be less trash andcleaner roads.”

Yellow Hooker isn’t holding his breath, but he does havesome ideas of his own.

If there are any politicians sincerely interested in improvingthe quality of this columnist’s life, then the goal shouldn’t bemore government scooters, but less.

Not to mention the fact that I could fill this entire paper withsome real quality-of-life suggestions. Here’s one: how aboutbuying flags to stick on the top of fire hydrants so that car own-ers won’t have to leave so much space on either side of thepump? With the flags, firemen will have an easier time findingthe hydrants, and we can all get a few more empty spaces perblock.

Yeah, it would look weird, but talk about improving the qual-ity of life!

Matthew Lysiak is a writer who lives in Bay Ridge.

THE KITCHEN SINKCongrats to Ridge residents Mary Luo and David Kang,

who tied the knot last Saturday with a unique celebration thatskillfully combined Asian and American traditions and cuisines.While The Sink is glad Dave got himself a first-class wife, wehave to admit that we fear our columnist has lost a babysitter.Burning garbage can fires have appeared more prevalentthis summer than any time in recent memory, at least accordingto one source, who says kids have been setting fires to thegarbage near Owls Head Park, at Colonial Avenue near 67thStreet. The source wants to remind residents that if you spot acan of flaming fire report it to the authorities. Here’s a group thatdoesn’t mind saying, “We told you so!” Bay Ridge Neigh-bors for Peace are planning a rally against Rep. Vito Fos-sella (R–Bay Ridge) for his support of the War in Iraq — whichis in its fifth year and going pretty badly. A Dunkin Donut in-spector recently contacted Chock Full of Nuts, located onThird Avenue near 79th Street, to speak with the owner aboutthe scandal, broken in these pages, that the rogue Chock Fullwas buying day-old donuts from Dunkin and then resellingthem. Thankfully, the java spot is now under new ownership andthe reviews thus far have been thumbs-up. A car garage on18th Avenue, between 87th and 88th Streets, just sold for $3million. The 11,000-square-foot lot will be combined with other,previously purchased, adjoining properties, according toMassey Knakal Realty Services, the broker on the deal.

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Beware of theseboy SCOUTs

“SCOUT [will] improvethe quality of life through-out this community,” saidCouncilman Vince Gentile(D–Bay Ridge). The May-or, who dreamed up thisscheme, agreed: “This newteam will bring an extra setof eyes to our city streets.Whenever I’m drivingthrough the city and I see apothole or garbage on thestreet, I’ll pick up the phoneand report the problem to311, now we’ll deploy ateam of veteran city work-ers to do the same.”

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Money talks.That is the message of one local pol after

the recent announcement that a local con-struction project might actually be complet-ed ahead of schedule.

Construction work on the Verrazano-Nar-rows Bridge, originally scheduled to becompleted in March, 2009, will now becompleted by next September, six monthsahead of time — and it’s all because Rep.Vito Fossella (R-Bay Ridge) urged the Met-ropolitan Transportation Authority to addcash incentives into the rehab contract.

“I asked the MTA to add incentives be-cause I was confident it could speed up thecompletion of this project,” said Fossella. “I

am delighted the MTA followed up on mysuggestion.”

The incentives prove the widely heldadage that money matters. According to theMTA, the revised plan will add $6.2 millionto the $58.8-million project, but the moneywill only be spent if the job really does getshortened from 21 to 15 months (barring ex-treme weather conditions).

The contractor will use this incentive toadd additional workers for extra shifts,which is welcome to news to the alreadycongested nearby communities.

“That is great,” said bridge commuterMark Lillmars. “Now only if they loweredthe toll, too, then I’d do a little dance.”

Construction began last June, when onelane in each direction on the Bridge was closed

to allow for a rehab of the lower level exitramp, the complete removal and reconstruc-tion of the roadway, parapet wall and utilities,and rehabilitation of the steel beneath. Already,the work has led to congestion on the bridgethat has spilled onto the streets of Bay Ridge.

The good news also comes as an unex-pected relief for residents who have grownaccustomed to expecting the worse from lo-cal construction projects, such as a waterand sewer line project at 92nd Street andFort Hamilton Parkway that was supposedto be completed in one year, but took 18months, said Josephine Beckmann, districtmanager of Community Board 10.

“And minor work continues [on thatproject] to this day,” she added.


A larger-than-life local fig-ure’s losing ways has himhalfway towards winning ahuge cash jackpot.

Bay Ridge resident Will Mil-lender, 26, recently embarkedon a 10-week, 550-mile walkfrom Boston to Washington aspart of the new reality show“Fat March,” in which 12 su-per-sized contestants loseweight to win cash.

The show’s filming wrappedup in July and Millender isback in Bay Ridge — but he’ssworn to confidentiality.

On Aug. 6, he was spotted at

Verrazano fix-up zooms alongConstruction work on the Verrazano Bridge is on track to finish up six months ahead of schedule.

the Wicked Monk on Fifth Av-enue near 84th Street, kickingback some drinks while watch-ing his reality television debut.

It’s reality TV at its best. Un-like other weight-loss showslike “The Biggest Loser” and“Celebrity Fit Club,” contest-ants on “Fat March” aren’t bat-tling each other but trying tobecome one big band of broth-ers.

If they stay together by theend of the walk, they share a$1.2-million pot — but everytime someone drops out, or isvoted out for slowing the othersdown, the pot is reduced by$100,000.

Predictably, the tall task hadtaken its toll on the oversizedcontestants.

By this week’s episode, the

walkers had already marchedthe 230 miles from Boston toTimes Square, but the groupwas down to nine losers.

But Millender was still onthe march.

Millender told The BrooklynPaper that ABC does not allowhim to give interviews whilethe show is still airing, butthose who saw Bay Ridge’snewest reality star say hisweight loss looked dramatic.

“He actually looks like a dif-ferent person,” said BridgetLysiak (yes relation), who sawMillender strolling on 86thStreet near Fourth Avenue.“The man could have easily lost100 pounds.”

Millender weighed in at 474pounds before the march. Hewas down to 424, a loss of 48pounds, in the weigh-in at theend of Monday’s episode.

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The death of DykerHeights firefighter JosephGraffagnino in Saturday’smassive Deutsche Bank blazehorrified an entire city, andalso turned a typically rau-cous Third Avenue bar intoan impromptu memorial thisweek.

Graffagnino, 33, died along-side Robert Beddia, 53, in thefire at the crippled financialbuilding near GroundZero,which has been emptysince the 9-11 attacks and wasbeing taken down piece bypiece to minimize the spreadof toxins.

Graffagnino, who lived inDyker Heights, had been tend-ing bar at the Salty Dog justhours earlier.

This week, the memoriesflowed.

“Joe spread so much joy toeveryone he met,” said friendand co-worker Bekim Leka.“The guy always had thissmile on his face and it becamecontagious.”

The bar, which caters to

By Matthew Lysiakand Michael GiardinaThe Brooklyn Paper

These guys must havemissed that episode of “Lawand Order.”

That is one reasonable con-clusion after three local menrobbed a popular Third Avenuecandy store on Aug. 19, butthen did nothing to concealtheir identities as they fled.

The heist went down at 6:40am, when two gunmen cameinto the store, which is near93rd Street, and demandedmoney.

The men then grabbed theregister and ran outside and intoa waiting Chevy Tahoe that wasdriven by a third man, accord-ing to police.

The register had about $500,but cops shouldn’t have too manyproblems nabbing these guys, es-pecially since the storeowner rec-ognized both of the perps andalso managed to get the licenseplate of the getaway car.

Ex dramaHell hath no fury like a man

scorned.A 26-year-woman’s jealous

ex-boyfriend is having a hardtime dealing with the fact thatshe has moved on to anotherman, but swiped her wallet andcellphone as a rude consolationprize on Aug. 18.

The trouble began at around11:30 pm, when the victim lefther Fourth Avenue house,which is near 86th Street, andwas immediately confronted byher ex-boyfriend.

The scorned lover beganscreaming and shouting and de-manded to know the phonenumber of the new boyfriend,according to police.

The victim tried to walkaway from the heated argu-ment, but before she couldleave, the thug grabbed herphone and her purse, whichcontained $80, and ran off.

Gold bugBurglars robbed a Fourth Av-

enue home of $21,500 worth ofgold jewelry — including anexpensive gold bracelet, valuedat $7,000 — on Aug. 19.

The 52-year-old victim toldcops that he had left his home,which is near 97th Street, at 10am and was only gone for anhour.

Laptop swipedA 30-year-old woman says

her apartment was robbed on

68th PrecinctAug. 19.

The victim left her FourthAvenue unit, which is near 88thStreet, to go to work only to re-turn at 6 pm to discover her lap-top computer and two braceletsmissing, according to police.

There was no value listed forthe stolen items.

Teen trouble A teenager had his bike, cell-

phone and cash swiped by twothugs who attacked him onAug. 18.

The 15-year-old was bikingon Bath Avenue, near Bay 25thStreet, at around 3 pm when thetwo thieves approached.

“Give me your money, or I’llstick you,” said one of the as-sailants before he punched thevictim and rummaged throughhis pockets.

The thieves took $20, alongwith the phone and the moun-tain bike, police said.

The perps fled down BathAvenue, one holding the cashand the other riding the hotwheels, police added.

Auto lapse A woman had her car stolen

right in front of her eyes afterleaving the keys in the ignitionas she went into her friendsHighlawn Avenue home onAug. 17.

When the 46-year-old went

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into the home, which is nearWest Eighth Street, at around6:30 pm, she left the enginerunning on the 2000 tanHyundai. Moments later, shereturned to find the car drivingoff, police said.

The four-door sedan hasNew Jersey plate numberLYB16V. Anyone who spotsthe vehicle is asked to call the62nd Precinct at (718) 236-2611.

Two for one Two residents of a Stillwell

Avenue apartment building re-turned home on Aug. 15 to findtheir front doors busted openand their property missing.

The first victim came homeat around 8 am and discoveredthat thugs had broken in androbbed more than $1,200 thatthe 36-year-old had stashed in-side his apartment, which isnear 85th Street, police said.

Two hours later, the secondresident came home to find asimilar scene.

Thugs managed to breakthrough the front door, andswiped $650, along with elec-tronics, police said.

Both break-ins went offwithout a hitch, giving the bur-glars a clean get away.

AM argument An early morning argument

turned violent and resulted inthe beating and robbing of manby two complete strangers on

Aug. 15. The dispute began at around

3 pm on Kings Highway, nearWest Sixth Street, when thedastardly duo approached thevictim and started arguing withhim.

At some point, one of thevillains attacked the 27-year-oldvictim, punching and kickinghim, and swiping $150 and hiscellphone from his pants pock-et, police said.

Bay Street stalkA woman was followed, at-

tacked and robbed by two thugsin the early morning hours onAug. 14.

The 18-year-old first saw thestalkers on 86th Street, which isjust up the block from herhome. Frightened, she began torun home, but the two punkscaught up to her and pushed herto the ground in front of herhouse.

“Hand your stuff over,” oneperp told her. The other punkdidn’t wait for a response andstole her cash, passport anddrivers license, police said.

The muggers left her on thepavement and fled on foot.

Shopping spreeA man returned after a long

day of running errands on Aug.14 to find that thieves had bro-ken into his 20th Lane apart-

ment. The 67-year-old returned to

his home, which is near 20thAvenue, at around 2 pm andfound that thieves had bustedopen his front door and swiped$1,600, including electronicsand jewelry, police said.

Water workedAt least two women were

victims of meter reader im-posters last week.

The first incident was onAug. 9, when the scam artistsapproached a Bay 31st Streethome at around 11:40 am. Theytold the resident, a 72-year-old,that they needed to get in tocheck the water meter.

Once inside, they split upand rummaged through thehouse, which is near 86thStreet.

They left with jewelry andfled without even checking onemeter gauge, police said.

The second incident was onAug. 15, within a West 11thStreet home. In this case, theimposter approached the home,which is near Avenue S, ataround 10 am.

The criminal asked to readthe meter, and instead went intothe 49-year-old’s bedroom,stealing $1,000 in cash and jew-elry.

Cops are investigatingwhether the crimes are related.

Ridge gang attackmay be racialBy Matthew LysiakThe Brooklyn Paper

Two men were attacked outside the V-Lounge, a popu-lar Eighth Avenue nightclub, on Aug. 17 in a case thatmay have been racially motivated, police said.

The two victims, who are both black, told cops that theywere standing alone when a large group of Asian men ap-proached them outside the club at 1 am.

At some point, one of the men pulled a club and knockedthe 26-year-old victim in the head while his pal, also 26,was attacked by glass bottles, according to police.

The thugs fled into a silver Mercury, and the woundedclub-hoppers were treated at the scene for minor injuries.Only later were questions raised about the gang’s violentmotivations.

A witness told police that the apparent ringleader of thegang, who was described as a 5-foot-11 Asian man with aheavy build, dark black sunglasses and slicked-back blackhair, ordered the others to inflict pain.

“If you are my brothers, you will get them,” a witness re-ported hearing.

The victims were not robbed, and the senseless violencewas the first of its kind at the club, which is between 62ndand 63rd streets.


A plan to build a new HomeDepot and 214 units of housingatop a vacant Bay Ridge railyardmoved a step closer to reality aftergaining the approval of BoroughPresident Markowitz last week.

Markowitz gave his support todeveloper Andrew Kohen, whoneeds a rezoning so he can build theprofitable residential units in thecomplex, which would consist of an11-story residential and office build-ing plus the 100,000-square-foot

Home Depot.Markowit’z approval did come

with strings, however thin. He re-quired that Kohen set aside 20 per-cent of the units as “affordable,” in-stall a traffic light and crosswalk at62nd Street and Eighth Avenue, andparticipate in a traffic study after thecenter opens. Kohen has alreadypromised to do all of those things.

The borough president’s approvalfollows a recommendation by Com-munity Board 10.

Opponents say Kohen is trying tobuild too much housing on the site,but the developer said housing is

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Borough President Markowitzsigned off on Century 21’s plan toturn an old bowling alley into asix-story parking garage for 279cars on 87th Street.

The lot could help ease parkingcongestion during daytime shoppinghours and also at night, as Century21 has promised to allow localrestaurants to use the lot for valetparking, freeing up space on thestreet.

In addition to the parking garage,Century 21 hopes to add a level ofretail space on 87th Street and plantsix trees on the roof, according to ar-


The Bloomberg Administration has shiftedgears, and decided to expand car-free hours inProspect Park.

One week after anti-car activists blasted themayor for increasing car-free hours in CentralPark, yet maintaining the existing biker-friendlyhours in Prospect Park, the city announced that theEast Drive would now be entirely closed to trafficon weekdays from 5–7 pm.

The change “create new opportunities for chil-dren and families to enjoy the Prospect Park driveon weekday afternoons,” said Department ofTransportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan.“Our goal is to let the park be a park as much ofthe time as possible.”

Naturally, bicycling advocates hailed the move— but just as predictably said it did not go farenough.

“For an extra two hours each weekday, Brook-lynites will breathe easier as they walk, job, bicy-cle and recreate in Prospect Park,” said Paul SteelyWhite, executive director of Transportation Alter-natives.

But Steely White was quick to demand more,pointing out that his group is still calling for the en-tire loop in Prospect Park to be rendered car-free.A 2006 study by the group found that four out offive park users would use the park more often ifthey did not have to compete with autos. (The fifthperson may be a dentist.)

The mayoral U-turn took Borough PresidentMarkowitz by surprise. Last week, he told theNew York Daily News that expanding car-free

hours in Prospect Park would push more trafficonto surrounding roads.

“Further limiting hours [to cars] would result inunacceptable traffic backup,” he said then.

Markowitz did not return an e-mail seekingcomment for this story.

The new car-free hours will kick in on Aug. 27.

Assaults upLast week, we reported on large drops in crime in BayRidge’s 68th Precinct. This week, Bensonhurst’s 62ndPrecinct reported its own decrease in crime so far thisyear, but with an alarming increase in assaults. All statis-tics are from Jan. 1 through Aug. 19. Source: NYPD

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Beep approves Century 21 lot and Home Depot

Dyker hero lost inDeutsche Bank fire

Special memorial bunting was hung over the entrance of the Salty Dog in Bay Ridge to honordead firefighter Joseph Graffagnino, a neighborhood resident, who was killed in theDeutsche Bank fire last week.

firefighters, hung black-and-purple memorial bunting inhonor of Graffagnino, andflowers started gathering at the

ad-hoc memorial.“Everyone just seemed to

start gravitating here,” saidLeka. “We have had other fire-

fighters and friends coming inand out.”

Copies of the daily papers,with covers featuring pictures

of “Joey Bots,” were scatteredover the bar. The replica firetruck, usually filled with chil-dren at play, now served as ahaunting reminder to the perilsof the job.

“Joe was seriously thenicest guy you could meet,”said a friend, John Malloy. “Iknow it sounds cliché, but it’strue, I honestly don’t think Iever knew a nicer guy.”

Graffagnino was an eight-year veteran who leaves be-hind his wife, Linda, a nursehe married in 2002. He workedout of Ladder Company 5 inGreenwich Village.

Monday would have beenhis 34th birthday. Instead, hisfuneral was Thursday at St.Ephrem’s Church on BayRidge Parkway.

Joseph Graffagnino

Drivers can expect to see more signs likethis now that Mayor Bloomberg has ex-panded car-free hours in Prospect Park.

Garage to replacebowling alley

chitect David Nicholson.The proposal needs a zoning

change before it can procede, hencethe Borough President’s approvallast week.

The site, which is between Fourthand Fifth avenues, was once home

to the Mark Lanes, a popular bowl-ing alley.

The City Planning Commissionwill vote on the application within 60days before it advances to an expectedapproval by the City Council.

— Matthew Lysiak

Superstore and housing forrailroad site on Eighth Ave

needed.“Unless people stop having

babies and looking for jobs,then we need development,”said Kohen.

The developer still faces afew more hurdles. The CityPlanning Commission has 60days to vote on the rezoningapplication before it advancesto the City Council, where it isbacked by Councilman VinceGentile (D–Bay Ridge).

“It will bolster the area, spruceup the surroundings and providesignificant employment andhousing,” Gentile said.

Even if City Planning rejectsthe proposal, the project wouldstill go ahead if the Counciland Mayor Bloomberg approveit as expected.

which cause me an extreme discomfort,” lament-ed Millender on his blog at realitywanted.net.

“After a visit to the bathroom, the pain ofthat, combined with how I had been feeling forthe day, caused an unexpected emotional out-burst and subsequent blackout.”

Trial, tribulations, and even a slice of celebri-ty are nothing new for Millender, who has bat-tled his weight for several years, and whose im-age can still be found on storefront postersacross Ridge for his first place showing at theFifth Avenue pizza-eating contest last June atRocco’s Pizzeria (Millender was cheered to vic-tory by a huge crowd that included a once-leg-endary eater, the now-slimmed down BoroughPresident Markowitz).

He ate 10 slices in the regulation 12 minutes.The performance made him a legend.

“Fat March” airs Monday nights at 9 pm on ABC.

MARCH…Continued from page 3


Councilman Vince Gentile (D–BayRidge) scored a huge victory in his waragainst the Department of Sanitation lastweek when the city tightened the rules re-garding how recycling violation summonsescan be written.

The move comes after months of back andforth between the city and Gentile, who hascomplained that enforcement agents were giv-ing tickets for minor violations, like putting asingle soda can in the trash rather than in therecycling bin.

As a result, Gentile introduced legislationbarring inspectors from handing out recyclingsummonses unless the alleged litterbug had atleast five recyclable items in the regular trash.Each item also must be listed on the actualticket.

“Now if that requirement isn’t followed, wewill use their own protocol to [get these tick-ets] dismissed,” said Gentile. “We don’t thinksomeone who accidentally puts a newspaper ora can in their regular trash, should be pun-ished. It’s excessive.”

But the good news came a few months toolate for some residents.

In March, residents of 73rd Street betweenFourth and Fifth avenues returned from work

to discover litter summonses. One womaneven got a ticket for a dirty driveway — eventhough she didn’t have a driveway!

The Department of Sanitation declined tocomment on the new rules.

Gentile trashes Sanitation


Brooklyn’s own little rodeo sweetheartwants to bring her bulls to Prospect Park.

Debbie Singleton — proprietor of Debbie’sReins and Things, an outpost for saddles, Stet-sons and steel-toed boots — has asked the ParksDepartment to consider letting her hold a reallive rodeo in the Olmsted and Vaux landmark.

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And she ain’t kidding, pardner. Singleton led a three-day bronco-busting and

barrel racing event last weekend at Cedar LaneStable in Howard Beach — home of the Federa-tion of Black Cowboys.

Singleton is a member of the federation, andan emissary to those city-slickers who don’tknow their side-saddle from their front pocket.She believes a Prospect Park rodeo could helpturn soft-handed spectators into urban cowboys.

“There is an audience for this,” she said. “Alot of people around here have homes upstateand are training their children to ride.”

She should know. Singleton was born inSouth Carolina, but raised in Brooklyn. Shespent the early years of her childhood in CrownHeights and later moved to an apartment nearthe Navy Yards in Fort Greene. Throughout allthose years, she rode horses in Prospect Park.She says she knows plenty of other Kings Coun-ty cowpokes.

A Parks Department spokesman confirmedthat the agency has been talking to Singletonabout her proposal, though nothing formal hasbeen presented. Singleton said she felt the de-partment was taking her seriously.

Debbie’s Reins and Thing (332 Douglass St.,between Third Avenue and Nevins Street). For in-formation, call (718) 797-5288 or visit www.deb-biesreinsandthings.com.

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America and Germany — the odd cou-ple of international beer — are havinga baby.

Twins, actually.In Williamsburg.The German beer industry is one of the

world’s most conservative. The Americanbeer industry is one of the most dynamicand changeable, which only adds spice tothis summer’s collaboration betweenBavaria’s G. Schneider and Sohn andWilliamsburg’s Brooklyn Brewery on anew beer called Schneider-BrooklynerHopfen-Weisse.

We American beer drinkers — if that isnot a redundancy — run the gamut fromthose who wash down our nachos withpractically tasteless “industrial” brands likeCoors and Budweiser, to those who enjoyexploring the broad range of the world’s beer styles, from deep dark stouts tocrisp India pale ales to champagne-like Pilsners.

“German beer drinkers don’t like change,” explained Brooklyn Brewery’sbrewmaster Garrett Oliver during a recent visit. “No German brewery has in-troduced a new beer style in the past 30 years.” This is not surprising, perhaps,in a country where all beer must confirm to the Reinheitgebot, the more than400-year-old “beer purity” law.

One thing German consumers don’t like is a British technique called “dry-hopping,” in which hops, a standard ingredient in most beers, are added verylate in the brewing process. This gives the beer a distinctively bitter flavor andcomplex aroma.

German brewers, on the other hand, may be harboring a repressed urge tobreak free. Not long ago, Oliver hosted a number of his German colleagues ata Brooklyn Brewery beer dinner. One of the beers on the menu was BrooklynBrewery’s own eccentric concoction, Blast!, which Oliver calls “a riotous cele-bration of hops.” To Oliver’s surprise, his German guests had a blast(!) drink-ing Blast!

Hence this summer’s collaboration between Oliver and his G. Schneider andSohn counterpart, Hans-Peter Drexler. First, Oliver traveled to Germany to di-

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rect the brewing of the Ger-man version of Schneider-Brooklyner Hopfen-Weisse,using his favorite Europeanhops. This beer went on salein July.

This was followed byDrexler’s visit to Brooklyn,where he oversaw the brew-ing of the American version,using his favorite Americanhops.

While a project like thismay be something new — itis the first collaboration in G.Schneider and Sohn’s 150years — it also represents afitting homage to Brooklynbeer tradition.

North Brooklyn wasknown in the 19th century as“Brewery Row” for itsdozens of breweries, all pro-ducing German-style beers,

including the Weisse, or wheat beer that G. Schneider and Sohn have madeworld-famous. At one point, 10 percent of the nation’s beer was made here.

The 20th century decline of the area’s German neighborhoods — plus Pro-hibition and the rise of mass-produced, mostly Midwestern-made industrialbeers — hit Brooklyn brewing hard. When F. and M. Schaefer, Williamsburg’soldest brewery, shut down in 1976, not a single bottle of beer was brewed inBrooklyn or anywhere in New York City.

That is, until 1996, when the Brooklyn Brewery opened on North 11th Streetand began turning out Brooklyn East India Pale Ale, Black Chocolate Stout,Pennant Ale and the rest of its popular line. In 1984, Brooklyn had hired afourth-generation German-American brewmaster from Brooklyn, William M.Moeller, to create a recipe for Brooklyn Lager, which was originally made up-state in Utica, based on brewing records and formulas left by Moeller’s grand-father to his sons.

There is more, however, to the connection between Brooklyn’s brewing present

By Rachel Corbettfor The Brooklyn Paper

Williamsburg and Green-point residents were shocked tolearn that Joshua Guttman, thenotorious developer whoseGreenpoint Terminal Marketmysteriously burned down lastMay, has been pursuing newprojects without being held ac-countable for a host of buildingviolations.

Guttman (right) has yet to re-pair the market building, and hefaces $4.7 million in fines forfailing to maintain the piers andbulkheads of his Greenpoint wa-terfront property, city recordsshow.

“People are outraged that theGreenpoint Terminal Market —which many people thought land-mark-worthy — has been left inruins,” said Evan Thies, chairmanof Community Board 1’s Envi-ronment Committee. “Guttmanshould not be allowed to bebuilding in Greenpoint, Williams-burg, or anywhere else.”

Guttman and his family alsoowe the city $59,000 in fines,and he has some $52,000 in un-paid property taxes, the NewYork Post reported on Monday.Despite all this, he is continuingto work on new developments.

Brooklyn residents are espe-cially fixated on Guttman. In-cluding the still unsolved Green-

point fire, five other Guttman-controlled structures in the bor-ough succumbed to suspiciousblazes in the last two decades —but the developer was never im-plicated in court.

Some critics say the Depart-ment of Buildings should be heldresponsible for keeping up withthe number of fines developershave, but Phyllis Arnold, theagency’s deputy commissionerfor legal affairs, said the city wason top of the situation — asmuch as it could be, at least.

“Mr. Guttman received per-mits to the extent his applicationswere compliant,” she said,adding that the department was“looking into other options thatmay give us the authority to re-fuse permits in the future.”

Thies said that the city shouldtrack ownership and prevent de-velopers from building if theyhave excessive fines.

“Guttman is unfortunately notalone in his delinquency,” saidThies. “There are many develop-ers that get away with this sort ofbad behavior.”

The developer is still movingahead with projects at 189 Ply-mouth St., 53 Bridge St., and 58Jay St. in DUMBO, plus hisgrander plan for a 35-story con-do at the ruined Greenpoint Ter-minal Market site.

Guttman’s lawyer did not re-turn calls.

By Rachel Corbettfor The Brooklyn Paper

Three toxic brownfields in Williamsburgwill be cleaned up by Keyspan thanks to adeal between the energy giant and the stateDepartment of Environmental Conservation.

All three sites are highly sought after by de-velopers, despite once housing fuel refineriesthat leaked toxic coal tar into the soil. The lastsite closed down in New York in 1972.

The sites are:• Williamsburg Works on North 12th Street

between Kent Avenue and the East River. Thisbrownfield, which will one day be the home ofBushwick Inlet Park, was once surrounded byoil refineries on three sides. It manufacturedgas until the mid-1900s.

• Wythe Avenue Holding Station on 12thStreet and Wythe Avenue. From roughly1900–1950, the station stored — and leaked— gas. It sat dormant for a decade until com-mercial developers began building on the site.Now the station, which is just a block fromMcCarren Park, is nearly entirely covered withbusinesses and industrial buildings.

• Scholes Street Holding Station on ScholesStreet near Morgan Avenue. Built to store gasmore than 100 years ago, the site was usedonly until the middle of the 1900s. A chemicalstorage company now occupies the site.

The cleanup is expected to take several yearsand will be followed by extensive study of soilconditions. Karen Young, a spokeswoman forthe Downtown-based Keyspan, said the compa-

ny would “work closely with the owners, localofficials and the community” as it moves for-ward with the state-supervised cleanup.

“Keyspan is one of the most experiencedutilities in conducting investigations and reme-diation of former manufactured gas plants sitesand will bring this expertise to these sites,”said Young.

The buried toxins do not present an imme-diate danger to people who use these sites, ac-cording to state records. Typically, the chemi-cals are only dangerous when inhaled or eaten,but they are often buried too far undergroundfor that, experts said.

“The agreement is good and bad,” said EvanThies, who is chair of Community Board 1’sEnvironment Committee. “It’s good they’re

paying attention to such a huge environmentalproject, but it’s bad because there appears to beno timetable for these cleanups.

“It’s the same problem we have with theagreement ExxonMobil made to clean up theGreenpoint oil spill,” Thies added. “There areno benchmarks so that they can be held ac-countable.”

State Environmental Conservation Com-missioner Pete Grannis vowed to holdKeyspan’s feet to the fire.

“[The state] will continue to hold Keyspanand other utilities that have left behind this his-tory of contamination accountable for the en-vironmental impacts,” he said.

Keyspan will bear the cost, though anamount is not yet known, Young said.

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and its past. According to Oliver, shortly before the idle Schaefer brew-ery on Kent Avenue was to be gutted, he and a few accomplicessneaked in and liberated some of the brewing equipment. “We tookeverything we could carry that wethought we could use at our place,”Oliver said.

The bottled, German versionof the Schneider-BrooklynerHopfen-Weisse (right) is avail-able at many area beer stores. ItsAmerican cousin will be releasedthis month, in draft form only.Tom Gilbert is a writer and histo-

rian who lives in Greenpoint.

THE KITCHEN SINKWorkers at Flaum Appetiz-

ing Corp., a high-end kosherappetizer wholesaler that catersto the Orthodox and Hasidic Jew-ish communities, are joining theIndustrial Workers of the World,local 460/640, to fight against al-leged sweatshop conditions onthe job. They have filed a class-action suit to recover unpaidovertime. … The Friends of theBrooklyn Public Library’s Green-point Branch are looking for100 artists to participate in a one-day exhibition of small workswhich will be sold to benefit the branch. There will be a grand prizeof $100, and the glory of knowing that your art made a difference.E-mail [email protected] for submissioncriteria and other information about the Sept. 15 show.

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The 90th Precinct wasslammed with a spate of 18robberies last week — withmany of the attacks featuringlarge gangs of young kids prey-ing on people returning homearound midnight in the EastWilliamsburg and Bushwickpart of the sprawling precinct.

The spike comes one weekafter The Brooklyn Paper high-lighted the precinct’s large dropin burglaries so far this year.

Here’s a roundup:• On Aug. 12, two perps ap-

proached a 19-year-old man as hewalked on McKibbin Street nearWhite Street at around 10:30 pm.One of the men rifled his pockets,removing a cellphone, debit cardand an unspecified amount ofcash, cops said.

• About a half-hour later,seven men surrounded a 31-year-old woman near the cornerof Cook Street and ManhattanAvenue. One of the men hit thewoman in the face, but was un-able to get what he really want-ed: her cellphone. The womanfled without further injury.

• On Aug. 13, three men sur-rounded a 56-year-old man ashe was walking home from theBroadway station of the G trainat around 1:50 am. The manhad gotten to the corner ofBoerum and Leonard streets,when one of the men flashed ahandgun and the others took theman’s cash.

The victim spoke only Chi-nese and did not give the policea good description of the thugs.

• A man was battered by

Steal this nabeLast week, we reported on large drops in crime inWilliamsburg’s 90th Precinct. This week, Greenpoint’s94th Precinct reported its own decrease in crime sofar this year, though the numbers show lingeringproblems with burglary. All statistics are from Jan. 1through Aug. 19. Source: NYPD

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three men as he walked homealong South Fourth Street at 2am on Aug. 12. The man toldcops that the trio of thugs sur-rounded him and beat him re-peatedly about the face, noseand head, knocking him to theground, near the corner of KeapStreet. The thugs got cash, andthe 31-year-old man managedto get to his home.

• An employee of a VaretStreet store was punched in theface by one member of a vil-lainous quartet on Aug. 14.

The fearsome foursome en-tered the store, which is be-tween Manhattan and Grahamavenues, and the ringleaderwent behind the counter topunch the shopkeeper. Mean-while, his three co-conspiratorsstole T-shirts from the racks. Allfour men then fled.

But three days later, when an-other group tried to do the samething — including punching theshopkeeper — one of them, a 35-year-old, was arrested.

• A woman was robbed of hercellphone by a man who pretend-ed to need a favor on Aug. 15.

The woman had been walk-ing with her boyfriend near thecorner of Broadway and Thorn-ton Street at around 10 pmwhen a man yelled, “Comeover. I need your help.” Whenthe pair refused, the demand be-came more belligerent: “Giveme the phone. I don’t want toshoot you over a phone.”

She turned it over, and the

perps fled.• A man walking home from

the L-train station at BushwickAvenue and Grand Street wasfollowed into a supermarketand then to his home by twoperps who waited until he wasinside his building before rob-bing him on Aug. 16.

The man entered the PowersStreet home at 11:40 pm and anassailant put him in a choke-hold while another man stolehis cellphone and cash.

Bicycle thiefIs there no decency among

thieves, at long last?A 10-year-old girl had her bi-

cycle stolen from her as sherode near the corner of DivisionAvenue and Roebling Street onAug. 18. Cops are hunting for a13-year-old boy on a girls’ bike.

Cars goneAt least five cars were stolen

last week, including:• A man who loaned his car

to a friend returned from vaca-tion on Aug. 14 to find that thecar had been stolen. He toldcops that the friend had parkedthe car on Hewes Street be-tween Bedford Avenue and theBrooklyn–Queens Expressway.

• A Dodge Caravan was stolenfrom a spot on South Ninth Streeton Aug. 17. The 35-year-old vic-tim told cops that he’d parked thecar between Berry Street andBedford Avenue just after mid-night and it was gone when hewent back later that day.

• A man who parked hisBuick on South First Street ataround 1 am on Aug. 17 returnedthe next day to find it gone. Thecar had been left between Wytheand Kent avenues.

• A man who parked his1994 Honda Civic on OliveStreet near the corner of PowersStreet on Aug. 8 told cops thatit wasn’t there when he re-turned to it on Aug. 19.

Hero officerAn officer collared three

men — one of whom was hold-ing a silver handgun — whowere trying to rob a woman onMcKibbin Street on Aug. 14.

The trio had surrounded the

woman near Bushwick Avenue ataround 11:30 pm and demandedproperty. But officer Erik Malakshowed up and arrested the men,whose ages ranged from 18–22.

BillyburgsThere were at least five bur-

glaries last week, including:• A Graham Avenue home

was broken into through a win-dow on Aug. 12. It is unclearwhat the thief took from theunit, which is near MeseroleStreet.

• A man’s Hewes Street apart-ment was broken into on Aug. 19at 1:30 am and the thief got awaywith jewelry. He said he had analarm but forgot to set it.

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“LET’S GO, STATEN ISLAND!” I SAY. This mightstrike you as an unusual chant since it comes froma columnist for The Brooklyn Paper, but before I

join the legions of people who have been booed by Brooklynfans — including, if it’s not urban legend, every prominentDodger except for Gil Hodges — let me explain.

The Cyclones and the Staten Island Yankees are in an un-usual situation. They’re two minor-league teams in the samebig-league town, representing boroughs who are neighborsseparated by the Narrows, and whose ballparks are only afew miles apart.

Not only are these two clubs in the same division in theirleague, but because they are geographically so close, theleague encourages their rivalry by scheduling 14 gamesagainst each other — while each plays other division foesonly 10 times.

In addition, each team’s parent club is in the same city,adding to the intensity.

The 14-team New York–Penn League allows four playoffteams (the three division winners plus a wild-card).

Brooklyn, with a record of 38–18, has the league’s bestwinning percentage. If the Cyclones, who hold a four-gameleague over second-place Staten Island, go on to win the di-vision and retain the league’s best record, then they couldwind up meeting Staten Island in the first round of the play-offs.

If that’s the scenario, then the first game of the best-of-three opening play-off series will be at Staten Island, with thesecond game, and third game — if needed — at Brooklyn.

Wouldn’t a series against Staten Island be good for Cy-

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clones’ fans? Not too many Brooklyn fans would drive to aplayoff game in Vermont or Mahoning Valley, Ohio, butthere would be up to 2,000 Brooklyn fans at a playoff gamein Staten Island, if the past is any indication.

What would inspire these young Cyclone players more —half a dozen fans in Lowell, Massachusetts, or 2,000 fanaticsbehind first base in Staten Island?

Yes, there would also be Staten Island fans at KeyspanPark for any game against Brooklyn, but more Brooklyn fanshave typically travelled to Staten Island than visa-versa, Any-way, isn’t it fun to have opposition fans at the same game,since opposing fans at Cyclones-Yankees games have beengenerally good-natured, yet intense, about the rivalry.

I still vividly recall these rivals in the three-game semi-fi-nal playoff series in the Cyclones’ inaugural season in 2001.

I’ve been to World Series games, but I have never felt theelectricity in the stands as I did for those two playoff gamesin Brooklyn.

Cyclone catcher Brett Kay three times made Brooklynfans delirious in the series finale. He caught a bouncing sac-rifice bunt attempt one-handed and threw out the Staten Is-land base-runner who was trying to advance to third; Kayalso played “dead” on a tag play at home when, until thevery last split-second, he looked away from the ball, stand-ing relaxed and fooling the Yankee base-runner into slowingup just enough to be tagged out when Kay turned and caughtJohn Toner’s throw; and then Kay added the game’s coup degras with a decisive homer.

Would that Cyclones’ series victory have been as excitingagainst another rival? Would the Red Sox playoff comebackin 2004 have been as exciting against a team other than therival Yankees?

Now let’s look at a few of the rivals’ numbers.

W ith five games remaining between them, Brooklynleads Staten Island 5-4 in the battle for the Bor-ough Presidents’ Trophy. Brooklyn is leading the

league in pitching with an ERA of 2.77. Starter Dylan Owenis 7-1 with a 1.82 ERA, third in the league, and the team hasa solid rotation with a lights-out bullpen.

But the Staten Island hitters aren’t chopped liver, particu-larly the top and middle of the order.

Little lead off man Justin Snyder is a royal pain — in thebest sense of the word. He just keeps getting on (his on-basepercentage is a league-leading .488) and leads the league inhitting at .375.

Clean-up hitter and third baseman Brady Pruitt is hitting.372, with an on-base percentage of .486.

If Brooklyn and Staten Island maintain their current posi-tions, Sept. 1-4 could be crucial for both teams.

That’s when the two clubs play each other five times infour days.

Staten Island has won the last two league championships,so never count them out — and the parent Yankees, like theparent Mets, like their local farms clubs to do well, so a littlesubtle player maneuvering among each farm system’s teamshas left both the Cyclones and Yankees with strong rosters.

So, let’s go Staten Island!Make the wild-card, so you can lose to Brooklyn in a

tense, exciting playoff series.

CHANNELING THE BARDEach week, Ed Shakespeare, the bard of Brooklyn baseball,

will take a page from his ancient ancestor and add a bit ofiambic pentameter to all our lives. This week’s contribution,“Homestretch,” is a poetic tribute to the rush to the playoffs.

From June, September hurtles into view,The term “Short Season League” is on the mark.A moment ago, the season started — much ado,And now, more of the game is played in dark.

September–June, a long wait, all-in-all. October baseball in New York could be,But not in Brooklyn — ballpark’s closed in fall.It’s desolate — Coney Island, empty.

Two weeks remain to cheer the team from KingsA fortnight left to see the boys out there.They chase the title, out to get their rings.Fourteen days before the winter of despair.

Take note, and gather rosebuds whilst ye may,And see the players right now — seize the day.

NEFARIOUS WAYS: Even though last year’s Staten Is-land Yankees won it all, our columnist would like to seethem make the playoffs.

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The 2001 Cyclones won the New York–Penn LeagueChampionship under the leadership of manager Edgar Al-fonzo. Now that Fonzie is back, many fans are assuming thatthe 2007 Cyclones will repeat the franchise’s former glory.Here’s how this year’s team compares to that fabled squad:

CYCLONES& NowThen

2001(Through 56 games)Record: 41-15 (.732)Highlight of the week:The Cyclones beat Vermont6–1 on Aug. 10 thanks toJohn TOner’s two-run singleand Forrest Lawson’s RBI.Starter Lenny DiNardo anunearned run and struckout six over seven innings— retiring 13 in a row.

2007(Through 56 games)Record: 38-18 (.678)Highlight of the week:The Clones beat their ne-farious rivals, the Staten Is-land Yankees, 1–0 on Aug.20, thanks to a J.R. VoylesRBI single in the first, andsix innings of three-hit,shutout pitching fromstarter Dylan Owen (7–1).

Dem Bums’ last seasonTo commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brook-lyn Dodgers’ final, dismal campaign, The BrooklynPaper will provide a weekly reminder of the fabledBoys of Summer. Here’s this week’s highlight:

Aug. 30, 1957 Dodgers 10 – Giants 0 The Brooks remained in second place thanks to Don Drys-dale’s three-hitter. Gil Hodges and Carl Furillo had homers.

Juggling vendor a nut

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Let’s check the rosters of the parent clubs of the Staten IslandYankees and the Cyclones.

For the New York Yankees, six alumni of its Staten Island affili-ate, pitchers Chien-Ming Wang and Sean Henn; infielders AndyPhillips and Robinson Cano; and outfielders Melky Cabrera andShelley Duncan, are all on the big club

Meanwhile, the Mets had only one Brooklyn alumnus on the rosterthis season: Joe Smith, who, rather amazingly, pitched for the Cycloneslast year. But Smith was sent back down last month.

For years, the Yankees were notorious for trading away theiryoung talent for the likes of Ken Phelps, but it seems as if that trendis now a thing of the past.

This year, when the Yanks had an opportunity to acquire high-priced set-up man Eric Gagne for former Baby Bomber Cabrera,they passed.

Instead, they brought up rookie sensation Joba Chamberlain. Andwhile he didn’t play on Staten Island, he has been, well, sensational.

Maybe the Mets can learn something from their cross-town ri-vals. — Ed Shakespeare and Vince DiMiceli

By Patrick Hickey Jr.for The Brooklyn Paper

Vendor Kyle Peterson madeplenty of fans this season jug-gling bags of peanuts andCracker Jacks, but it’s his abili-ty to do it while riding a unicy-cle that has caught the attentionof the fans at Keyspan.

“It caters to the kids and it’sreally enjoyable,” said Clonesfan Al Hirschberg. “It’s low-keyand fun to watch.”

If the respect and admirationof the fans at Keyspan wasn’tenough, Peterson has alsocaught the attention of the Cy-clones, too.

“He’s got real talent,” saidreliever Edgar Ramirez. “I can’tjuggle balls on flat ground andhe can do it on a unicycle. He’sreally impressive.”

Although his style is uncon-ventional, this lifetime Mets fangot his job the old-fashionedway: by answering a help-want-ed ad (albeit on Craig’s List).

“I answered an ad for a ven-dor with either juggling or mu-sic ability,” said the 22-year oldNYU grad. “I’m a huge base-ball fan, so this is a lot of funfor me. I love working atKeyspan; I’m happy I got thejob.”

While Peterson is all smiles

By Patrick Hickey Jr.for The Brooklyn Paper

Watching a baseball game at Keyspan Park is usually an enter-taining experience — but when 23-year-old righty Nick Waechterwas on the hill for most of his first five starts, the game movedabout as quickly as Paul LoDuca trying to leg out a double.

The problem was not only that Waechter took too long in betweenpitches — but in his first five leisurely starts, the Cyclones won onlytwo games.

That’s when the coaches stepped in, working with the WesternOregon State College graduate to speed up his delivery.

“When he works slow, he has too much time to think about whathe wants to do on the mound,” said skipper Edgar Alfonzo. “Whenhe’s working fast, he keeps his stuff down and he’s much more ef-fective.”

Since mid-July, when his delivery was sped up, the lanky hurlerhas a noticeable fire in his eyes and is blazing through the competi-tion.

He’s 3-0 with a 1.43 ERA in his five starts — good enough forPlayer of the Week honors a few weeks back. On the season,Waechter is 4–2 with a 3.54 ERA.

“When I wasn’t pitching as well as I would have liked to, mypace on the mound was a lot slower,” said Waechter, who admittedto upping his intake of Red Bull before games to keep him movingon the mound.

“The coaching staff noticed it and has made sure I’m more delib-erate and quick and the mound. My tempo is much better now andI’ve turned my season around.”

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Sure, the Cyclones dropped two of threeto their hated rivals, the second-place StatenIsland Yankees, but Brooklyn (38–18) is still inthe driver’s seat in the McNamara Division ofthe New York–Penn League.

Yankees 12Cyclones 3Aug. 18 at Keyspan Park

Starter Nick Carrgave up five runs in

three innings, but the wheels really came offwhen the Yankees scored seven in theeighth. The Cyclones got nine hits, butcouldn’t capitalize.

Yankees 4Cyclones 1Aug. 19 at Staten Island

A lone run in the ninth — on a J.R. Voylesdouble — prevented a complete debacle. Lu-cas Duda had two hits in a forgettable game.

Cyclones 1Yankees 0Aug. 20, at Keyspan Park

The Cyclones got all they needed in thefirst, thanks to J.R. Voyles’s RBI single. Start-ing pitcher Dylan Owen was superb, givingup three hits, and striking out five in six in-nings of work. Owen got his seventh winagainst one loss and lowered his ERA to 1.82.

Visit www.BrooklynPaper.com for all the scores.

HERE’S THE PITCH: Righty Nick Waechter used to pitch inslow motion. Now, he’s on fast forward — and doing great.

ON THE BALL: Kyle Peterson, Keyspan Park’s juggling ven-dor, entertains fans while selling them goodies.

at Keyspan, the Cyclones frontoffice are even happier to havehis antics on display.

“I think he’s great,” saidGeneral Manager Steve Cohen.“It’s not in your face. He sells,he juggles and the fans reallyseem to get a kick out of it.”

Despite all the laughs andcheers Peterson has gotten fromfans this season, the job isn’t al-ways cheese and crackers.

“It’s exhausting sometimes,”said Peterson, who has been ajuggler and unicyclist since age12. “We had a day game thatwas a killer. I had sweatdrenched through the back ofmy shirt.”

Given that Peterson is theteam’s first-ever performingvendor, perhaps he’s the good-luck charm that has led the Cy-clones to a 38-18 record thisseason.

“I wish I could take creditfor all the Cyclones success thisseason, but I can’t,” said Peter-son, who also runs and man-ages his own Cyclones blog(see http://tornadicactivity.mets-blog.com), where he writesabout the team.

“I do think that I get the fansenergized though. I thinkthey’re the ones that haveplayed a part in how well theteam has done this year.”

Minor miracleIslanders buck old trend, play forbig club, while Brooklynites don’t

1st-place Clones drop two to 2nd place SI

Paul’s picksNebbishy Brooklyn Heights actor Paul Giamatti

apparently doesn’t have much faith in his taste in film.But the Brooklyn Academy of Music certainly

does, hosting a series of films called “Paul GiamattiSelects” at the BAMCinematek through Sept. 11.

“It was hilarious,” Giamatti (pictured) told GOBrooklyn. “They said to me, ‘Do you want to do a

series?’ And I thoughtthey were kidding.”

With no particulartheme in mind, Giamattipicked eight flicks —including “Dr. Strange-love” and “Dawn of theDead” — but neverthought his list wouldmake it onto the silverscreen. “I picked all ofthese obscure moviesthat I like,” he said, “butI thought, ‘They’re nev-

er going to show this kind of s—t.’ ”Was he wrong — both about BAM’s intentions and

about the quality of the films he picked.“Not many people have even heard of ‘The Sev-

enth Victim’ or ‘Brewster McCloud,’ althoughthey’re both fabulous movies,” said BAMCine-matek manager Matthew Buzhholz. “It was a greatopportunity for us to show some interesting filmsand work with one of our favorite actors.”

And though he hasn’t made it to see any of thefilms, BAM shouldn’t turn the projectors off just yet.

“I want to go see some! I’ve never seen ‘The Sev-enth Victim’on a big screen,” said Giamatti, who canbe caught later this month in “Shoot ’Em Up” and“The Nanny Diaries.”

“I don’t know why they chose me — I honestlythought they were kidding around.”

“Paul Giamatti Selects” is running at the BAMRose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Ave., at AshlandPlace in Fort Greene) through Sept. 11. For infor-mation, call (718) 636-4100 or visit www.bam.org.

— Karen Butler

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Shoot outART

GO Brooklyn’s legendary shutterbug, DanielKrieger, usually finds himself behind the camera. Butlast week, when he was assigned to take a portrait ofPark Slope photographerBill Wadman (pictured),Krieger was on the otherside of the lens.

Wadman has made ithis mission to take 365photos — one a day —in 2007. And on Aug. 16,Krieger’s became his228th subject. [See hisportrait online at www.BrooklynPaper.com.]

Wadman began theproject on Jan. 1 with aphoto of his sister and worked his way through friendsand family — he made sure to snap his mom onMother’s Day — though now so many people want toparticipate that he’s taking reservations.

“Most of the subjects come to me,” Wadmansaid, explaining his first-come, first-served policy.“I have a ‘participate’ link on the Web site, andabout two to three people contact me a day wantingto sign up. I can’t take all of them.”

Wadman has taken his slick-looking portraitseverywhere from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden toStonehenge to a Home Depot in Connecticut, andwith over 200 portraits under his belt, he alreadysees a change in his work.

“Sometimes, I try to get a nice picture of the per-son,” he said. “Other times, I’m trying to get some-thing really true without a lot of extra stuff. I’m slowlycreating a new look for my work.”

And how did Krieger like playing model for theday? “He’s good at giving direction and making youfeel comfortable,” he said. “He has a good eye formaking people look cool as well as drawing outemotion.”

And even though it’s still summer, Wadman is al-ready weighing his options for the end of the project.“I want to keep the portraits quiet until I’m done andthem show them all at once,” he said. “I think it wouldbe really fun to have a party with everyone.”

Now wouldn’t that make a nice group photo? “365 Portraits” can be viewed at www.365

portraits.com. — Katie Newingham

By Daniel Goldbergfor The Brooklyn Paper

C hildren’s book author Mo Willemsknows his audience. “My basic philos-ophy,” the Park Sloper told GO Brook-

lyn, “is that the difference between childrenand adults is that children are shorter.”

It’s this humor — and spot-on observation— that has made Willems a two-time winnerof the Caldecott Honor, the prestigious awardfor children’s books, and a hit with localkids, a group that is surprisingly picky aboutits books.

Despite having been in the trade for fiveyears, Willems didn’t start out with being anauthor in mind. “My first job,” he recalled,“was staying out of trouble.”

After working as a stand-up comedian inLondon, Willems landed his first job as ananimator on the film version of the children’sstory “Ira Sleeps Over,” and later wrotescripts for “Sesame Street” — a job thatearned him six Emmy awards.

But no matter how great the recognition,Willems claimed he was just the man behindthe bird. “You have the advantage that nomatter what lines you write, the Muppets willmake them funny. I don’t think my scriptswere particularly strong, but nobody noticedbecause the acting was so good.”

His next project, a Cartoon Network showcalled “Sheep in the Big City,” allowed himmore freedom. Not only did he create the

show, giving him control over plot, characterand format, but he also animated eachepisode himself. Still, he found himself doinga lot of managing when what he really want-

ed to do was just draw.Since the 2003 publication of “Don’t Let

the Pigeon Drive the Bus,” Willems hasturned his attention to children’s books,which he writes and illustrates in his ParkSlope studio. He says feels most comfortablewith his latest incarnation. “I always wantedto draw and be funny, and I was never surehow that would play itself out. I’ve had amyriad of careers on the way, but I think that

this is the one I’mhaving the mostfun with.”

And otherpeople have takennotice as well. “Hishumor is in the il-lustrations, and kidsare very visuallyoriented now,” saidJudy Zuckerman, as-

sistant director of children’s services at theBrooklyn Public Library. “[Kids] like thatkind of visual humor, especially withvideogames, movies, TV and the internet somuch in the culture today.”

In fact, Willems’s ability to both write and

illustrate his books, which is unusual in thechildren’s book industry, enhances his abilityto tell a story with little or no words. “There’sno real difference between myself as an au-thor and myself as an illustrator,” he said.“Drawing is a form of writing.” His back-ground in animation also gives his books aspecial appeal because kids love that hischaracters look like cartoons.

The style of the “Knuffle Bunny” books,including the soon-to-be released “KnuffleBunny Too,” is visually arresting and sur-prisingly artsy. It’s easy to see why criticswere so impressed by the black-and-white

“Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of MistakenIdentity” (Hyperion) will be published in Septem-ber. For information, visit www.mowillems.com.

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‘Mo’ to readWhile Knuffle Bunny is the Mo Willems char-

acter currently hogging the spotlights, it isn’t theonly loveable creature that Willems has invented.Willems has written more than a dozen books, butthese (truly) animated characters are our favorites.

The PigeonIn 2003, Willems re-

leased his first picturebook, “Don’t Let the Pi-geon Drive the Bus!”and introduced his read-ers to the wild, ram-bunctious bird whowould go on to star in“Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!”and “The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog” (co-starringa cute little duckling).

Gerald and PiggieNot since Kermit the Frog

and Miss Piggie has there beensuch a good porcine partner-ship. Gerald, a pessimistic ele-phant — and, really, do youknow any other kind? — andhis bubbly pal Piggie, haveteamed up for four “Early

Reader” books to date. Young kids can followthe duo on educational adventures like “There isa Bird on Your Head,” and learn that sometimesit’s OK to act like an animal.

EdwinaMost kids know

that dinosaurs areextinct, but that facteludes Edwina, themain character inWillems’s 2006book, “Edwina:The Dinosaur WhoDidn’t Know She Was Extinct.” When a snottyschoolkid tries to prove that she doesn’t exist, thestraw-hat-wearing Edwina fights back the onlyway she knows how: with chocolate chip cookies.

LeonardoIn this instant classic,

Willems gives us “Leonar-do, the Terrible Monster.”But Leonardo isn’t a brute— it’s just that he’s terribleat being a monster. Hecan’t even scare the tunasalad out of the most

scaredy cat kid in town!

— Katie Newingham

Drawn in: Park Slope author MoWillems, above, fuses sepia-tonephotographs of his neighborhoodwith original illustrations to createbooks like “Knuffle Bunny Too,” seen at top.

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I wonder how many of you were shocked last week to read that many of those oaky tasting Chardonnays from California never see the

inside of a barrel but get their flavor from oak chips, tossed into the wine like a teabag into hot water. We’ll talk more about California Chardonnay today, and maybe we’ll uncover a few more little secrets and clarify a few more misconceptions. Since alcohol is produced through fer-mentation, when yeast converts sugars into alcohol, grapes with a high level of sugar can, potentially, make wine with a high amount of alcohol. Most of the Chardonnay vineyards in California are considerably hotter than Chardonnay’s European home turf of Champagne and Burgundy. If you look at a map of the world, you’ll see that the vineyards

of Monterey lie on almost the same latitude as Casablanca, Morocco, much closer to the Equator than either Beaune or Rheims. The grapes grown here will be higher in sugar and,

when fermented “dry”, can often have alcohol levels of 14.5 to 15.5 percent. Many people will argue that Chardonnay, originally a cool climate grape, simply does not have the struc-

ture to carry all of that alcohol. It’s like trying to haul furniture with a sports car. Randall Graham of Bonny Doon Winery looked at the overall conditions of Monterey, Sonoma and

Napa and came to the conclusion that Chardonnay just shouldn’t taste the way it does when it’s grown there, and he uprooted every one of his Chardonnay vines years ago, replac-

ing them with Rhône varietals such as Marsanne, Rousanne and Viognier. Championing these grapes has earned him the nickname “the Rhône Ranger”. Some wine makers try to compensate for

the high amount of sugar present at harvest by having their grapes picked before they fully ripen, when the sugar levels are lower. This is foolish. Does any fruit taste good before it is

ripe? Peaches, strawberries, bananas... and grapes... don’t taste nearly as good before they ripen. These winemakers are often among those who mask the taste of their wines by put-

ting the wine through Malolactic fermentation and then adding oak chips. Does good wine need this? My good friend Clark Smith has created a

Napa Chardonnay called “Faux Chablis” that handles the high alcohol problem and results in a delicious, very well balanced wine. Clark insists on fully ripened grapes and ferments out

almost every bit of the natural sugars in the grapes, resulting in a very dry wine, but too high alcohol. Using reverse osmosis, he filters out some of the alcohol, until he hits what he

calls the wines “sweet spot” where the amounts of fruit, acidity and alcohol are in balance. I find it ironic that a columnist in the Wine Spectator labeled (libeled?) Clark “the Antichrist of Wine” for this practice, yet has written exten-

sively on Burgundy, praising wines that were

made through Chaptalization: adding sugar to

the unfermented grape juice in order to make

more alcohol!

The process of adding sugar to unfer-

mented “must” is forbidden by law in California

and, in truth, it really isn’t needed. Rumors still

spread about some wineries adding sugar, but

the explanation for the sweet tasting

Chardonnays that make up much of the mass

market for this varietal can be attributed to

specific strains of yeast used in wine making.

Different yeasts react differently during

fermentation. Some will die off once the alco-

hol level reaches a low level, leaving behind

more residual sugar than others. Some yeasts

add more flavors than others, and wine makers

can take advantage of this by aging the wine for

a time on these dead yeast “lees”, resulting in

toasty aromas, separate from the toasted vanilla

notes that come from charred oak. Most of the

wine makers in California buy their yeasts, and

many of the openly brag about where they

originate from, while many of the finest wines

made throughout the world use only wild yeasts

native to the vineyard where the grapes are

grown. This is one of the cornerstone practices

of Biodynamics, and wine makers who insist on

native yeasts will tell you that it is crucial if you

want to make a wine that expresses the terroir

of the vineyard. When I began to learn to taste

wine critically, we often tasted wines “blind”,

without knowing anything about them, having

only the wine to speak for itself. We would first

try to determine if the wine was from the old

world or the new. Old world (Eurpoean) wines

almost always had the emphasis on terroir,

while new world wines (North & South

America, Australia and New Zealand) normally

were fruit-forward, exhibiting little, if any,

sense of terroir.

This lack of terroir has long been one of

the flaws that critics of California Chardonnay

have long pointed an accusing finger at. “Fruit

Bombs” is the usual derisive name for these

wines, and many of them do go way over the

top, smelling more like a fruit salad than a glass

of wine. Over the past twenty years, I have

witnessed the good news that more and more

California wines are being driven by terroir and

are getting their fruit into balance.

Thirty years ago this past May, in 1976,

the wine merchant Steven Spurrier held a

famous tasting in Paris that pit some of the fin-

est wines from France and California against

one another. The nine judges, all food and wine

professionals, tasted the wines blind and rated

them. The world of wine was rocked to its

foundations when the white wine that scored

the highest was Chateau Montelena Chardonnay

from California. Every one of the judges gave

his highest score to a California Chardonnay:

either Montelena or Chalone, California

Chardonnay took three of the top five places

and has never had to apologize for itself since then.

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Sunday, September 94:00 pm (Doors Open at 3:30 pm)

$12 Per Ticket$10 Senior Citizen

Enjoy classical Yiddish Renditions,Including:

My Yiddishe MamaRoszekes Mit Mandlin,

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Following in the footsteps of chain restau-rants like Chipotle, Five Guys Famous Burgersand Fries, a Virginia-based patty shack, hasopened on Montague Street. Staying true to itsname, the shop has a limited menu — besideshot dogs, adding bacon or cheese to a burgerjust about rounds out your options — but hasfound favor with the Heights lunch crowd,which, on our last visit, formed a line snakingout the door.

Perhaps it’s the complimentary peanuts (inshells that you can toss on the floor!), or the freetoppings (the “fried onions” were disappointing-ly bland, however), but people can’t get enoughof this place.

And the Five Guys can’t get enough ofthemselves — the walls are covered in maga-zine articles proclaiming their burgers the bestin the land.

We weren’t quite so sure. After all, just acrossthe street is the famed seven-ounce burger atGrand Canyon. And next door is a perfectlygood burger at Happy Days diner. So, in thespirit of fairness, we sent five of our own guysto see just what the fuss was all about.

Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries (138Montague St., between Clinton and Henrystreets in Brooklyn Heights) is open daily from11 am–10 pm. For information, call (718) 797-9380 or visit www.fiveguys.com.

GERSH KUNTZMANBacon cheeseburger and fries

Cost: $6.19 for the burger, and $4.49for the large order of fries we all split,

$1.89 for a bottomless drink

“No wonder the toppings are free— the burgers are dryer than

Phoenix in August. The Americanpublic is bought off cheap. Thefries, though are outstanding.”

VINCE DIMICELICheeseburger

Cost: $5.59

Citing the free refills, and — ooh!— Cherry Coke: “It was a good experience, I was surprised by the double burger. I liked the

free peanuts, but it was certainlyeasy to eat too much.”

SYLVAN MIGDAL (a lapsed vegetarian)

Hamburger

Cost: $4.99

“I liked it, but wouldn’t take it over a good veggie burger.

They could be more generous with the pickles, too.”

CHRIS CASCARANOBacon cheeseburger

and Cajun friesCost: $6.19, and $2.59 for the small

Cajun style fries

“If I’m spending this much onlunch, I’d like to go somewhere

with room to sit.”

ADAM RATHE Cheeseburger

Cost: $5.59

“They should warn you that the toppings are this sloppy —

they’re sliding out all over the place. Otherwise, it’s a tasty burger, but kind of

gigantic for lunch.”

HIGH ‘FIVE’

photographs that Willemscolors over with his cartooncharacters.

As with everything, theidea came from experimenta-tion: “That was sort of aprocess of trial and error. Iwanted to make the storiesfeel as real as possible.”

Deciding which objects todraw and which to photographwas also done by trial and er-ror, but Willems ultimatelychose to photograph all thebackgrounds as well as someof the objects the charactersinteracted with. A grand artis-tic statement? Nope — “I hatedrawing backgrounds,” theauthor laughed.

So, while the backgroundsaren’t drawn, they aren’t ex-actly regular photographs ei-ther. “Images based on pho-tos,” is what Willems refers tothem as, explaining how hedigitally alters the images, tak-ing out air conditioners andother items that ruin the shot.“In a picture book, you wouldnotice graffiti in a way thatyou wouldn’t if you justwalked down the street,” heexplained.

However tailored they maybe, the photos taken near hishome in Park Slope have ex-posed images of Brooklyn to alarge national and global audi-ence, a phenomenon thatZuckerman, the librarian, saidwill benefit the community.And while kids in other partsof the country reportedly did-n’t know what a Laundromat— a featured locale from thefirst “Knuffle Bunny” book— was, local kids were get-ting to read about a life theyrecognized as close to theirown. Willems said that histhemes are universal, butadded, “I’m sure that kidswho live in Brooklyn mightfeel a special connection withit because they feel a specialconnection with certain land-marks.”

And the “Knuffle Bunny”books are quickly becomingjust that.

By Moses Jeffersonfor The Brooklyn Paper

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DINING

Santa, baby: Diners at Williamsburg’s Santa Fe enjoy chef Marc Elliot’s take on tradi-tional Mexican dishes, especially at the packed weekend brunch.

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By Adam RatheThe Brooklyn Paper

When Michael Swier lived inWilliamsburg in the 1970s and’80s, his car was broken into

so many times that he bought a lockfor the hood. But he’s back, now thatthe neighborhood is a place to makemoney rather than lose it.

“We identified Brooklyn, specifical-ly Williamsburg, three years ago as aplace that we wanted to go into,” saidSwier, a partner in Bowery Presents,the company behind the Music Hall ofWilliamsburg, the multi-million-dollarnightclub moving into the North SixthStreet space that Northsix inhabiteduntil earlier this year. “Finding theright space proved to be a challenge,though, and when Northsix closed, Ipursued it vigorously. It took two years[of negotiations] to get it done, but itdid pay off in the end.”

The 8,000-square-foot space, a for-mer mayonaise factory, is looselybased on the Bowery Ballroom, theclub that Swier opened in 1998, but isbigger and has what Brian Swier, thearchitect and Michael’s brother, called“an industrial aesthetic.”

Construction won’t be complete untilopening night — a Sept. 4 concert byBowery Ballroom regular Patti Smith— but many of the coming attractionsare already visible, including a subter-

ranean lounge, the main concert halland a mezzanine with bleacher seating,wings and its own bar.

The most compelling architecturaldetail is the bandshell ceiling. “It’slike an ear,” explained the architect.“We lowered the ceiling for acoustics,so now it all vibrates and there’s nosound to the structure.”

That’s a good thing considering theproximity of residential housing andthe loud acts that have already beenbooked, including marquee stars likeClap Your Hands Say Yeah and Thur-ston Moore. And while tickets aren’t

exactly cheap — Smith’s show has a$35 cover — booker Josh Moore saidmost shows will be less expensive.

But does Williamsburg, whichseems to have plenty of rock clubs

(and local bands to play in them),need a place like this?

“Bowery Presents is one of the mostimportant incubators of new artists inthe city,” said Robert Elmes, executivedirector of Galapagos Art Space, theMusic Hall’s current neighbor. “Thereare a lot of great young bands that aregoing nowhere. They don’t have asense of how to lead themselves for-ward, and Bowery Presents is able toput them on big bills and grow theiraudiences.”

Elmes, who is moving his own oper-ation to DUMBO, said that the Music

Hall is poised to expose national acts toWilliamsburg, not just vice-versa.

“There’s a moment where artistslook out into the audience, and don’tknow where they’re playing,” he said.“But in Brooklyn, they’re more inter-ested in what they’re doing. That au-dience will teach them about wherethe rest of the country will go in a fewyears. You can play Buffalo all youwant, but you’ve got to play NewYork.”

And what about the local musiciansand club goers? Northsix was knownfor having big acts on their main stagewhile smaller, more avant garde groupsplayed in the basement, giving in-the-know locals a place to hang out.

“Williamsburg is getting weirder bythe day,” said Mike Skinner, a recordproducer and 10-year neighborhoodresident. “I’m sure that [with] theproximity to the hideous, 26-story be-hemoth luxury lofts they are building,the clientele will change.”

Skinner, who played at Northsixwith his own bands, was sad to see itgo, but has high hopes for the MusicHall — though believes its successwill come at the expense of the neigh-borhood’s fringe elements. “I thinkevery time we undergo some sort ofshrinkage, the losers are the edgiermusicians,” he said.

Michal Swier knows that the neigh-borhood is changing, but thinks hisclub will keep the rock scene anchored.“[Williamsburg] went in fits and startsgetting somewhere, and it was nice tosee it finally come around to what it istoday,” he said. “It’s a perfect spot forwhat we do because the artistic com-munity that was there, and still is there,[exists] alongside the people who aremoving in. Williamsburg has been anongoing theme in my life in New York— you couldn’t ask for a better endingto the story.”

The Music Hall of Williamsburg(66 N. Sixth St., at Wythe Avenue inWilliamsburg) will open on Sept. 4with Patti Smith and her band. Tick-ets are $35. For information, visitwww.musichallofwilliamsburg.com.

NIGHTLIFE

‘Hall’ monitor: The space underconstruction at 66 N. Sixth St., atleft, was inspired by the BoweryBallroom, above, and should becompleted just in time for thegrand opening on Sept. 4.

Brooklyn on the BoweryIt’s a new day in nightlife for Williamsburg’s rock scene

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The Wicked Monk8415 Fifth Ave. at 84th Street in Bay Ridge,(718) 921-0601, www.wickedmonk.com.Wednesdays: Beer Pong, 9 pm, $TBD; Aug. 25: BigSlick, 9 pm, $5; Aug. 26: Victoria’s Dying Secret, 9pm, $5; Aug. 30: Atomic Dawg Unplugged, 9 pm,$5; Aug. 31: Smash, 9 pm, $5.

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT

Food 4 Thought445 Marcus Garvey Blvd. at MacDonough Streetin Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 443-4160.Saturdays: Open mic, 9 pm, $6; Tuesdays: Philo-sophically Phat Tuesdays, an open discussion, 8 pm,donation suggested; Wednesdays: Game Night(Cash Flow), 7 pm, FREE.

BOERUM HILL

Hank’s Saloon46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill,(718) 625-8003, www.exitfive.com/hankssaloon.Sundays: Sean Kershaw and the New JackRamblers, 10 pm, FREE; Mondays: Live band kuntrykaraoke, 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Mobscenity(live jazz), 10 pm, FREE; Aug. 25: Paula Carino, 9pm, Randi Russo, 10 pm, Ninth House, 11 pm,Vulgaras, Midnight, FREE; Aug. 31: Brent Archer,Todd Stuart Phillips, The Saudi Agenda, Plastic Beef,10 pm, FREE.

BRIGHTON BEACH

National Restaurant273 Brighton Beach Ave. at Brighton SecondStreet in Brighton Beach, (718) 646-1225,www.come2national.com.Saturdays: Live Russian music and dance show, 9 pm,FREE (with $65 prix-fixe dinner); Fridays: Live Russianmusic and dance show, 9 pm, FREE (with $50 prix-fixedinner); Sundays: Live Russian music and dance show,7 pm, FREE (with $50 prix-fixe dinner).

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS

Magnetic Field97 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street in BrooklynHeights, (718) 834-0069, www.magneticbrooklyn.com.Aug. 25: The Teenage Prayers, Hazel Motes, and DJWhiskey Priest, 8 pm, $8; Aug. 28: Pant-Hoot, anight of stand-up comedy hosted by Charles Star, 8pm, FREE; Aug. 29: Fun Dip Variety Hour, 8 pm,FREE; Aug. 30: Explanets and more, 8 pm, $6; Aug.31: The return of live band karaoke, 8 pm, FREE.

BUSHWICK

Silent Barn915 Wyckoff Ave. at Hancock Street inBushwick, No phone.Aug. 25: Ex Models, The Death Set, 8 pm, $8.

CLINTON HILL

Five Spot Restaurant459 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue in ClintonHill, (718) 852-0202, www.fivespotsoulfood.com.Saturdays: DJ Aki, 6 pm, FREE; Mondays: RPM-Open Turntables hosted by DJ Copa (bring yourown needles and vinyl), 8 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: 5 forFunny Tuesdays hosted by Dave Lester, 10 pm, $5;Wednesdays: Open mic with Nate Jones and DaFeel, 9 pm, $5 ($10 after 10 pm); Aug. 25: DJ KennyParker, 10 pm, $5.

Grand Dakar Cafe285 Grand Ave. at Lafayette Avenue in Clinton Hill,(718) 398-8900, www.granddakar.com.Saturdays: Rhonda Benet (funk, jazz, soul, 80s, oldschool), 8 pm, FREE; Sundays: Live reggae music, 7pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Don Juarez (Brazilian music), 8:30pm, FREE; Thursdays: DJ Afro-Freaky, 8 pm, FREE;Fridays: Live music, 10 pm, FREE.

CONEY ISLAND

Cha Cha’s1227 Riegelmann Boardwalk at West 15thStreet in Coney Island, (718) 946-1305,www.chachasofconeyisland.com.Aug. 25: Sound of Urchin and Girls, Girls, Girls, 9pm, $15; Aug. 26: Grace Garland and the G-SpotBand, 4 pm, $TBD; Aug. 31: Girls on Top, 10 pm,$TBD; Sept. 1: Irony & Chaos, Salsa Music Festival,Time TBD, $TBD.

Peggy O’Neills1904 Surf Ave. at West 19th Street in ConeyIsland, (718) 449-3200, www.peggyoneillsci.com.Saturdays: Afternoon Beach Party with DJ Pernel, 5pm, FREE.

DUMBO

Rebar147 Front St. at Jay Street in DUMBO, (718)797-2322.

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FLATBUSH

Vox Pop1022 Cortelyou Rd. at Stratford Road in Flat-bush, (718) 940-2084, www.voxpopnet.net.Sundays: Open mic, 7 pm, FREE with 2-drink/snackminimum; Aug. 25: Band From Germany, 8 pm,FREE; Aug. 27: Monday Night Movies “Deep Blue,”7 pm, FREE; Sept. 1: Daniel Robert, 7 pm, FREE.

FORT GREENE

Night of the Cookers767 Fulton St. at South Portland Avenue in FortGreene, (718) 797-1197.Saturdays: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Livejazz, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE.

GREENPOINT

Club Europa 98 Meserole Ave. at Manhattan Avenue in Green-point, (718) 383-5723, www.europaclub.com.Saturdays: VIP Dance Party, 10 pm, FREE before10:30 pm, $15 after 10:30 pm; Tuesdays: KaraokeNight, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Sexy Progressive/Danceparty, 10 pm, FREE before 10:30 pm, $15 after 10:30pm; Aug. 25: Laws of Gravity featuring Deep in Vein,Vasaria, Mindswitch, 5 pm, $10; Aug. 26: Early Manwith At War, Merciless Death, Toxic Holocaust,Gravewurm, Avenger of Blood, Devastator, Blud-Wulf, Atakke, 4 pm, $20; Aug. 29: Mishka ShubalyCD Release Party featuring Beat the Devil, NervousCabaret, Mishka Shubaly, Creaky Boards, 8 pm, $10;Aug. 31: Langhorne Slim with Arizona, 7:30 pm, $12.

GREENWOOD HEIGHTS

Kitchen Bar687 Sixth Ave. at 20th Street in GreenwoodHeights, (718) 499-5623, www.kitchenbarny.com.Thursdays: Live music, 8:30 pm, FREE; Aug. 30:Zarth, 8:30 pm, FREE.

Living Room Lounge245 23rd St. at Fifth Avenue in GreenwoodHeights, (718) 499-1505.Saturdays: Live bands, 5 pm, $5, DJ Kirt, 10 pm,FREE; Sundays: Live bands, 4 pm, $5; Wednesdays:Open mic night, 8:30 pm, FREE; Thursdays: 80sMusic, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Karaoke, 10 pm, FREE.

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Bar4444 Seventh Ave. at 15th Street in Park Slope,(718) 832-9800, www.jamescarney.net/koncfs.htm.Aug. 26: Andre Canniere, 7 pm, Clay Jenkins, 8:30pm, $5.

Barbes376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park Slope,(718) 965-9177, www.barbesbrooklyn.com.Sundays: Stephane Wrembel, 9 pm, $10 suggesteddonation; Tuesdays: Jenny Scheinman, 7 pm, $10suggested donation, Slavic Soul Party, 9 pm, $10;Aug. 25: Opera on Tap, 7 pm, $10 suggested dona-tion, One Ring Zero, 10 pm, $10 suggested donation;Aug. 26: Olivier Manchon’s Orchestre de ChambreMiniature, 7 pm, $10 suggested donation; Aug. 27:The Ben Holmes Quintet, 8 pm, $10 suggested dona-tion; Aug. 28: Split the Lark, 7 pm, $10 suggesteddonation; Aug. 29: Sean Conly’s Reaction, 8 pm, $10,Jen Shyu’s Jade Tongue, 10 pm, $10; Aug. 30:Charlie Burnham Trio, 8 pm, $10 suggested donation,The Brazilian Acoustic Ensemble, 10 pm, $10 sug-gested donation; Aug. 31: Dayna Kurtz, 8 pm, $10suggested donation, The Woes, 10 pm, $10 suggest-ed donation; Sept. 1: Gabriel Kahane, 8 pm, $10 sug-gested donation, Lucia Pulido, 10 pm, $10.

Bogota Latin Bistro141 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Park Slope,(718) 230-3805, www.bogotabistro.com.Wednesdays, Thursdays: Live Latin music, 7 pm,FREE.

Biscuit BBQ230 Fifth Ave. at President Street in Park Slope,(718) 399-2161, www.biscuitbbq.com.Sundays: A Sunday Kind of Jazz with John McNeiland Bill McHenry, 8:30 pm, $10; Mondays: Live jazzjam, 8:30 pm, $TBD; Tuesdays: Songwriters’ Show-case hosted by Staci Rochwerg, 8:30 pm, $5 sug-gested donation.

Brooklyn Burger Bar499 Ninth St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Slope,(718) 832-5500.Aug. 25: Bob Arthurs, Charles Sibirsky, Dan Shuman,9 pm, FREE; Aug. 30: Charles Sibirsky, Robert Weiss,Ray Parker, 9 pm, FREE; Sept. 1: Charles Sibirsky,John DeCesare, Robert Weiss, 9 pm, FREE.

Cafe Steinhof427 Seventh Ave. at 14th Street in Park Slope,(718) 369-7776, www.cafesteinhof.com.Aug. 29: River Alexander and his Mad Jazz Hatters,10:30 pm, FREE.

The Center forImprovisational Music295 Douglass St. at Third Avenue in Park Slope,(212) 631-5882, www.schoolforimprov.org.

Jalopy315 Columbia St. at Woodhull Street in RedHook, (718) 395-3214, www.jalopy.biz.Aug. 25: Charlie Burnham Sextet and BrooklynMime Troupe, 9 pm, $15.

SHEEPSHEAD BAY

Anyway Cafe1602 Gravesend Neck Rd. at East 16th Street inSheepshead Bay, (718) 934-5988, www.anywaycafe.com.Mondays: Open mic, 9 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Jazz withAndrey Ryabov, 9 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: GraceGarland, 9 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Susan Tobocman, 9pm, FREE; Fridays: Eric Nicholas, 9 pm, FREE.

WILLIAMSBURG

Black Betty366 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Street inWilliamsburg, (718) 599-0243, www.blackbetty.net.Saturdays: DJ Concerned, 11 pm, FREE; Sundays:Brazilian Beat with DJ Sean Marquand and DJ GregCaz, 10 pm, FREE; Mondays: Rev. Vince Andersonand his Love Choir, 10:30 pm, FREE; Tuesdays:Psychotic Reaction, 10 pm, FREE; Fridays: TheGreenhouse with DJ MonkOne and DJs Emskee andMC G-man, 11 pm, FREE.

Capone’s Bar221 N. Ninth St. at Roebling Street in Williams-burg, (718) 599-4044, www.caponesbar.com.Fridays, Saturdays: The Beat Club/All Disco, 9 pm,FREE; Mondays: Karaoke with Colin and DJ FlimFlam, 9 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Speakeasy, an openmic night, 9 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: The Strokewith DJs Brian Tweedy and Dave Ready, 9 pm, FREE;Thursdays: Rehab, 9 pm, FREE.

Death by Audio49 S. Second St. at Wythe Avenue inWilliamsburg, No phone.Aug. 25: Bardo Pond, Nadja, Hell’s Hills, 8 pm, $8;Aug. 31: High Places, Mika Miko, Numbers, RahDunes, 8 pm, $TBD.

Galapagos70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg,(718) 782-5188, www.galapagosartspace.com.Fridays: VJ/DJ Friday Nights, 10 pm, FREE; Aug.25: (Backroom) Ringers, Quiet Life, Bottle Up&Go,Calvin & The Dogmatics, 10 pm, $8, (Front room)The Looseness with DJ Sergio Vega and a speciallive performance by The Audfit, 10 pm, FREE; Aug.26: (Backroom) Extraordinaires Theater presentsRibbons of War, the musical “An Operatic Tale ofTragic Romance,” 10 pm, $5, (Front room) Anima-tion Block Party Mix, 7:30 pm, FREE; Aug. 27: (Frontroom) The World Famous Bob Presents, 9:30 pm,$5; Aug. 29: (Both rooms) Supernova featuring 12Hour Shift, A.P.P.L.E., Anomie, Ashes Within, Burningthe Memory, Geminyne, Boykillshollywood, BulletSociety, The Step Right Ups, Caught in a Trap, AllCities, Dark Eden, Horror Flix, and more, 5 pm, $12in advance; Aug. 30: (Backroom) Bezoar with TheBuddy Hollycost, From Cocaine to Rogaine, and DJsVashiti & Dan Shea, 10 pm, $5, (Front room) AVZ,electro global discotek, 10 pm, FREE; Aug. 31:(Backroom) The Bunker with Jonas Kopp, 11 pm,$10, (Front room) Crashin In presents Champollion,Boy Crisis, Ana Managuchi, 10 pm, $8.

Hope Lounge10 Hope St. at Roebling Street in Williamsburg,(718) 218-7191, www.hopelounge.com.Aug. 29: Owen Roberts and Jason Misrahi, 9 pm,FREE; Aug. 30: Jaime Garamella, Melissa Cupernall,Jeannine Hebb, and Yujin Amano, 9 pm, FREE.

The Lucky Cat245 Grand St. at Roebling Street in Williamsburg,(718) 782-0437, www.theluckycat.com.Mondays: Joe McGinty’s Keyboard Karaoke, 10 pm,

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Get it ‘Right’: On Aug. 26 at 2 pm, Union Pool is hosting the Right RidesDaytime BBQ Benefit, raising money for Right Rides, which offers freerides home to women late at night. Check out Boyskout (above) as wellas the snacks, which are included in the $10 admission.

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Aug. 29: Erik Deutsch Fingerprint CD Release Con-cert, 8:30 pm, $12 ($8 for students with valid identi-fication).

Magnolia486 Sixth Ave. at Twelfth Street in Park Slope,(718) 369-4814, www.magnoliabrooklyn.com.Fridays: Live music, 9:30 pm, FREE.

Melt440 Bergen St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope,(718) 230-5925.Fridays: “Stuck in the ‘80s” party featuring DJs PaulEZ and Jan Cooley, 11 pm, FREE.

Southpaw125 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Park Slope,(718) 230-0236, www.spsounds.com.Aug. 25: The Burlesque Alliance presents “BikiniBlowout at Burlesque Beach!”, 8 pm, $15; Aug. 28:The Art of Shooting, Care Bears on Fire and a spe-cial guest, 7 pm, $8; Sept. 1: The Rub with DJsAyres, Cosmo, and Eleven, 10 pm, FREE.

Tea Lounge837 Union St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Slope,(718) 789-2762, www.tealoungeny.com.Mondays: The Frank LoCrasto Group, 8 pm, $5 sug-gested donation; Aug. 29: The Movers and TheShakers, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, $5 suggested donation;Aug. 30: Elijah B. Torn, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, $5 suggest-ed donation; Aug. 31: Biggus Bandus!, 8 pm, 10:30pm, $5 suggested donation.

Two Boots Brooklyn514 Second St. at Seventh Avenue in ParkSlope, (718) 499-3253, www.twobootsbrooklyn.com.Aug. 31: Sonido Costeno, 10 pm, FREE; Sept. 1:The Barbarians, 10 pm, FREE.

Union Hall(Downstairs at) 702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue inPark Slope, (718) 638-4400, www.unionhallny.com.Aug. 25: The Mugs (record release party!), Condo,The Diggs, 7:30 pm, $8, Karaoke Club hosted byDick Swizzle, 11 pm, FREE; Aug. 26: Name ThatTune with Sara Schaefer, 7:30 pm, FREE; Aug. 27:The Marvin Barnes Time Machine, Kevin Omen, 7:30pm, $5; Aug. 28: Union Hall Spelling & GrammarBee hosted by David Witt, 7:30 pm, FREE; Aug. 29:Nerdcore Rising, a mediocre hip-hop party featuringMc Frontalot, Jesse Dangerously, Schaffer TheDarklord, 7:30 pm, $8; Aug. 30: Mia Riddle & herBand, Luke Winslow King, The Binary MarketingShow, 7:30 pm, $8; Aug. 31: The Subjects, Ghostsof Pasha, Jollyship The Whiz-Bang, 7:30 pm, $8;Sept. 1: The Secret Life of Sofia, Melty Melty, BadVeins, 7:30 pm, $8.

PROSPECT HEIGHTS

The Backroom(At Freddy’s) 485 Dean St. at Sixth Avenue inProspect Heights, (718) 622-7035, www.freddysbackroom.com.Aug. 25: Baby Pool & Friends, 9 pm, FREE; Aug. 26:Andrew Sullivan, 9 pm, Mob Scene, a jazz jam, 10:30pm, FREE; Aug. 27: O.P.P. (Other People’s Poetry), 8pm, FREE; Aug. 28: “On the way Out,” music fromthe New York Underground, featuring Where FromHere, 8 pm, Matt Welch’s Blarvuster, 10 pm, FREE;Aug. 30: Vince Allen, 9 pm, FREE; Aug. 31: DonTurner, 10 pm, Habit Trail, 11 pm, FREE.

RED HOOK

The Hook18 Commerce St. at Columbia Street in RedHook, (718) 797-3007, www.thehookmusic.com.Aug. 25: Cleveland Fest featuring Duvalby Brothers,This Moment in Black History, Ian Screams, Coffin-berry, Hightower Smith, Biblical Proof of UFO’s,American Werewolves, Roue’, Fall Back, Mussels,Rahu-Ketu, The Heathers, Roger Hoover and theWhiskeyhounds, 3 pm, $10; Aug. 26: Gorilla Pro-ductions Battle of the Bands with the Fallen, DrewTorres, The Genuine Imitations, The Reve, HollywoodHangover, Orsus, Test Specimen, Angel Vivaldi, ThatHideous Strength, Affliction, 4 pm, $TBD.

Hope and Anchor347 Van Brunt St. at Wolcott Street in RedHook, (718) 237-0276.Thursdays: Karaoke hosted by Dropsy Dozzman, 9pm, FREE; Fridays and Saturdays: Karaoke hosted bydrag queen Kay Sera, 9 pm, FREE.

FREE: Tuesdays: Jezebel Music Open Mic Nighthosted by Ed Gorch, 7 pm, FREE; Thursdays: LoungeyThursdays, 10 pm, $TBD; Aug. 25: Ed Gorch andCompany, 9 pm, Free Radicalz Music presentsVanguard with Chaos Frame, Campbell Kennedy akaAfrik Prophet, Will Martina, Pete List, Jesse Mann,Jon S., 10 pm, $TBD; Aug. 26: Shule of Rock, 11 pm,FREE; Aug. 31: The Budos Band, 10:30 pm, $TBD.

Luna Lounge361 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Street inWilliamsburg, (212) 260-2323,www.lunalounge.com.Aug. 25: The Sugar Report, 8:30 pm, Autodrone,9:30 pm, Bell Hollow, 10:30 pm, Smite, 11:30 pm,Telseki, 12:30 am, $8; Aug. 26: SmilePrettyMisery,7:30 pm, Von Robinson and His Own Universe, 8:30pm, Shepherdess, 9:30 pm, The White Papers, 10:30pm, $8; Aug. 27: Robbers, 7:30 pm, Team Genius,8:30 pm, Duelists, 9:30 pm, Sex With an Appeal,10:30 pm, $8; Aug. 28: Hightower Smith, 7:30 pm,Toys in Trouble, 8:30 pm, High Numbers, 9:30 pm,Guy, 10:30 pm, $8; Aug. 29: Palomar, 8 pm, HolyHail, 9 pm, Northern State, 10 pm, $10; Aug. 30:Chairlift, 8 pm, The Dodos, 9 pm, Jennifer gentle, 10pm, $10 in advance, $12 day of the show; Aug. 31:The Sweet Ones, 7:30 pm, Money Paper Hearts,8:30 pm, The Orion Experience, 9:30 pm, NYC-Smoke, 10:30 pm, a.r.e. weapons, 11:30 pm, $8.

Pete’s Candy Store709 Lorimer St. at Richardson Street inWilliamsburg, (718) 302-3770, www.petescandystore.com.Sundays: Open mic, 5 pm-8 pm, FREE; Mondays:Stand-Up Comedy, 7:30 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Bingo,7 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Quizz-Off, 7:30 pm,FREE; Aug. 25: Pagoda, 9 pm, Kelli Rae Powell, 10pm, The Bicycats, 11 pm, FREE; Aug. 26: JakeArmerding, 8:30 pm, Matty Charles and The Valen-tines, 10 pm, FREE; Aug. 27: Pink and Noseworthy,9:30 pm, Slim Francis, 10:30 pm, FREE; Aug. 28: JMHughes, 8 pm, Joy Dragland, 9 pm, Milton, 10 pm,Anna Copacabana, 11 pm, FREE; Aug. 29: BobtailYearlings, 10 pm, Marcellus Hall, 11 pm, FREE; Aug.30: Mattison, 9 pm, Nick Casey featuring AngelaWebster and Jay Foote, 10 pm, The CampbellApartment, 11 pm, FREE; Aug. 31: Joe L. Snaggs, 9pm, Tsui, 10 pm, The Wicked Queeah Band, 11 pm,FREE; Sept. 1: Sarah Fullen, 9 pm, Susan Enan, 10pm, The Gregory Brothers, 11 pm, FREE.

Sound Fix Records110 Bedford Ave. at North Eleventh Street inWilliamsburg, (718) 388-8090, www.soundfixrecords.com.Aug. 25: Arms and Sleepers, Boy Bathing, 4 pm, ThePapercuts, 6 pm, FREE, Shock Cinema RecordRelease Party, 9 pm, FREE; Aug. 26: Mass Shivers, 4pm, Pass the Pants! Clothing Swap, 7 pm, FREE; Aug.27: Stand-Up Comedy Night, 8 pm, FREE; Aug. 29:Sex With an Angel, 8 pm, FREE; Aug. 31: CaptainAhab, 8 pm, And They Fell Record Release Party, 9pm, FREE; Sept. 1: Al Duval, Honne Wells, The RedHook Ramblers, The Nice Music, 8 pm, FREE.

Stain766 Grand St. at Humboldt Street in Williamsburg,(718) 387-7840, www.stainbar.com.Mondays: “Paint Stain,” 5 pm (often accompaniedby the jazz guitar of Noboru, 8 pm), FREE;Wednesdays: “JAMstain,” an informal open michosted by singers/songwriters, 9 pm, FREE; Aug.25: JP, Real West, 9 pm, FREE; Aug. 31: Mipo’smonthly reading series hosted by Amy King, 7 pm,Camp Stain (theme party), 9 pm, FREE.

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Battle of the bandsIn Brooklyn, even the summer concert series fight it out

As September nears, the weather isn’tthe only thing cooling off. The great com-petition between Brooklyn’s outdoor con-cert behemoths has also chilled … fornow. Outdoor concerts, once the prove-

nance of string musicians and hippie drumcircles, have become big business in theborough of Kings, as old-timers like Cele-brate Brooklyn are forced to amp up theirprogramming to contend with the new

kids in town. So which concert series is the best way

to get cool and cultured on a steamyBrooklyn night? Our own Yvonne Jurisinvestigates:

Series

Where it’s held

How old?

Concerts this season

Biggest draw of the summer

That night’s attendence

Cost of water

Most memorable event

Final comment

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Helio and JellyNYC Pool Parties

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TV on the Radio on July 29

7,000

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Who didn’t love riding on the slip-and-slide? Rainy days made it evenbetter — but nobody was complain-ing when the sky cleared up for TV onthe Radio’s show. Especially not thediehard fans who had been standingin the downpour anyway.

Without proper seating, a day at thepool can be painful, and between thebeer and the sun, we’re often wipedout for a few days afterward. The pro-gramming is great, though, so if theybuild benches and shaded spots, wewill come.

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Seaside Summer Concerts

Asser Levy Seaside Park

29 years

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Hippiefest 2007 on Aug. 3

15,000

None sold inside! It was $2 on theBoardwalk

It’s been almost 40 years since Wood-stock, but vintage hippie Melanie did-n’t care. The former flower child hadthe crowd of boomers swaying withcandles during her set — but werethey remembering the good old daysor just trying to light things up fortheir now-geriatric eyes?

Big acts like the B-52s are definitelyexciting, but hauling out to Coney Is-land on a Thursday night isn’t alwayseasy. Move the concerts to Saturdaynights so blissed-out beachgoers canstay stick around for nighttime enter-tainment.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series

Wingate Field Park

25 years

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Lauryn Hill on Aug. 6

15,000

Nothing here either. Local vendorswere selling it for $1

If Lauryn Hill was truly miseducated, itmight have been at charm school. Theformer Fugee kept fans waiting almosttwo hours, and when she did arrive onstage — in a leather coat and with aheavily painted face — she made excus-es for her tired voice and played almostunrecognizable versions of her songs.Not surprisingly, the clearest voices onthat evening belonged to the hecklers.

Sporadic programming and produc-tion troubles, not to mention thescary security guards, knocked thewind out of the series’ sails. Turn thisinto a weekend festival and we betmost of those issues will work them-selves out.

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Prospect Park bandshell

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5,000

$2

While sometimes Park Slope feelsmore like Mayberry than New York,when KRS-ONE took the stage onAug. 3, the rapper reminded every-one that Prospect Park wasn’t alwayssuch a friendly place. KRS told the au-dience how as a homeless teen hehad slept in the very bandshell he wasperforming in, and dreamed of oneday rapping there.

Despite being the granddaddy of thesummer concert series, CelebrateBrooklyn had way more steam thanany of the others. With more than 20shows over the summer, it seemedlike every time we turned aroundthere was another concert (or klezmerjam session) that sucked us in.

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TV on the Radio played McCarren Park Pool on July 29.

tifada” on the T-shirts, but the damage was done. Her initial com-ments sparked a furor that culminated in a public scolding fromteacher’s union head Randi Weingarten and Almontaser’s resigna-tion on Aug. 10.

The Department of Education then filled Almontaser’s post withDanielle Salzberg, a Jewish educator who speaks no Arabic and hasno apparent knowledge of Arab culture. Former mayor Ed Kochcalled the move “spitting in their eye.”

Aliya Latif, a spokeswoman for the Council on American-IslamicRelations-NY, which sponsored Monday’s rally, agreed with Koch’spithy assessment. “A dual-language program requires a principalwho is well versed in the Arabic language and culture,” Latif toldThe Brooklyn Paper.

At Monday’s rally, dozens of organizations supported Al-montaser, including the Brooklyn-based Make the Road by Walk-ing.

“There was a lot of hysteria going around,” said Irene Tung, aspokeswoman for the organization. “No one was willing to stand upand support the school. No one was courageous enough.”

While Almontaser’s supporters rallied, one of her most-promi-nent tormentors continued to call for the dissolution of the GibranAcademy.

In a letter to the Department of Education, Assemblyman DovHikind (D–Borough Park) objected to the notion of a school set upto teach one language and culture.

“How about a school dedicated to Hebrew language, Hebrew cul-ture, and the history of anti-Semitism throughout the ages?” Hikindasked. “After that, we can go on to a school to explore the rich Irishheritage, and their history of potato famines and the troubles withthe British.”

Hikind said he also objected to an apparent call from “sponsorsand organizational endorsers of the school [to] boycott of Israel and[demand] divestment.”

“Is this what we want taught in our public schools?” he asked.“Instead of enriching our students’ grasp of diverse cultures, will thisschool become a morass of polarization and justification of terrortactics?”

A Department of Education spokeswoman refused to commenton the rally or on Hikind’s letter, saying only that the city is busy“preparing Khalil Gibran International Academy for the first day ofschool” in September.


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the garbage chute inthe hallway. Gone.

Birthday partieshave gotten very com-plicated since Aug. 2,when Mattel recalled967,00 toys, due touse of lead paint. Sad-ly, 300,000 of them

The day after her party,Ducky looked around the apart-ment for her missing gift.

“Where are my bath toys?”Ducky whined as she searchedhigh and low.

At first, Diaper Diva re-hearsed some possible answersin her head — “I lost them onthe way to the bathroom”;“Dora the Explorer came by inthe middle of the night andneeded them back”; “What bathtoys?” — but Diaper Divaknows that honesty is alwaysthe best policy.

So as Ducky got increasinglyapoplectic, Diva got up hernerve.

“I had to throw them away,”she told Ducky, who was crying

had already been purchased for— and quite possibly licked by— young children.

On Aug. 14, just two daysafter Ducky’s third birthdayparty, Mattel recalled 19 millionmore toys sent from China, in-cluding toy cars based on themovie “Cars” that had have“impermissible levels” of lead.

Everyone knows that you’renot supposed to use lead paint inthe manufacture of children’stoys — so how did this happen?

Who can we trust nowa-days?

Certainly not greedy corpo-rations that manufacture goodsin countries where there arezero labor, heath and environ-mental regulations.

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AT FIRST, DIAPER DIVAdidn’t know what to say.

What do you tellyour 3-year-old when you haveto put her favorite birthdaypresent in the garbage?

That’s right. Ducky receiveda Dora the Explorer Bath Setfrom a guest at her Dora theExplorer birthday party.

Cooties. That toy had cooties,and Diaper Diva didn’t want itin the house.

She wasn’t even sure if thatparticular toy has been recalled.But she felt compelled to throwit out just the same.

Out, out, out you disgustingtoy!

Even the Oh So Feisty Onewas afraid to go near the possi-bly tainted toy. She told DiaperDiva to take it back to the storeas soon as the party was over.

But Bro in Law had alreadyremoved the packaging fromthe gift and it was too late totake it back to Little Things.

So Diaper Diva put it in ashopping bag and brought it to

insistently now. “The peoplewho made them used a verydangerous material called lead.It can make you sick.”

“But I want my toy,” Duckyscreamed.

Diaper Diva tried to explainabout tainted toys, world trade,corporate greed, and even ArthurMiller’s play, “All My Sons.”

But that was no help toDucky, who is completely enam-ored of all things Dora. But evenas Ducky wept, Diaper Divaknew she was doing the rightthing, the only thing any self-re-specting smart mom could do.

At the same time, she won-dered what other products inher apartment were tainted withtoxic materials and would herchild be harmed by any of herother playthings. Her dishes.Her clothing.

It’s a terrible feeling to thinkthat you’ve brought things intoyour home that can harm yourchildren. Smartmom won’t bebuying her children or her nieceany more Chinese-made toys ormerchandise. And so much for

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This is a wake-up call. It’stime to spend a little more mon-ey and buy locally made toysand clothing from well-paid,trained people who use safematerials.

chandise that just end in a bigbox at a stoop sale with a signthat says, “Free stuff”?

The truth is, parents buy toomuch for their children anyway.Less is more. Buy quality, notquantity. The kids will be betterserved, anyway.

Smartmom will shop forDucky’s next gift at the Brook-lyn Indie Market, Lolli’s, OrangeBlossom or online at onegood-bumblebee, which sells theseadorable gnome cuddle babies.

Even Little Things hasplenty of terrific non-mass-market toys.

Sure, it’s more ex-pensive than the stuffmade in China. But at

least they’re not madewith lead.

Ducky still asks Diaper Divaabout her Dora bath set fromtime to time. But a few years oftherapy and she’ll get it out ofher system entirely.

Louise Crawford also writes“Only the blog knows Brook-lyn,” a Web site that is not affili-ated with The Brooklyn Paper.

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To the editor,I’m writing in response to The Brooklyn

Paper’s anti-Semitic reporting of the most-recent episode in the Khalil Gibran Interna-tional Academy farce (“Jew to lead Arabicschool,” Aug. 18): the hiring of a non-Ara-bic speaking principal with no expertise inArabic culture, Danielle Salzberg, to re-place the clumsy and politically “chal-lenged” school founder Debbie Almontaser.

It’s outrageous that The Paper has chosen tofocus on Salzberg’s religion as the key to thestory. Particularly offensive was the descriptionof Salzberg as “a practicing Jew who belongsto an Upper West Wide synagogue.”

If an African-American or Italian-Ameri-can educator had been appointed to thispost, I doubt that the paper would haveheadlined “Black To Lead Arab School,” ordetailed “practicing Christian who worshipsat a Bay Ridge Catholic church.”

It’s ironic that the paper can editorializeabout the “inept” and “ham-handed mannerin which the Department of Education bu-reaucrats, tone-deaf to local concerns han-dled” the opening of the school, while its re-porting is equally tone-deaf.

Karen Duchan, Park SlopeEditor’s note: Just so there’s no misunderstanding,Duchan mixes quotes from both our objective newsstory and our strongly worded editorial. The editorialmade it clear that The Paper did not take a positionon the creation of an Arabic language and cultureschool, but simply that the city erred when it installedas principal of an Arabic language and culture schoola woman with no background in Arabic culture andno knowledge of the Arabic language.

To the editor,It is truly deplorable that the Department

of Education has forced out Debbie Al-montaser from the Gibran Academy, a proj-ect she helped to initiate. Sadly, Debbie wassmeared in the media and hounded from herjob because she defined the meaning of “in-tifada” accurately as “throwing off oppres-sion,” while also clearly indicating that sheopposes violence. Apparently that is notgood enough for the powers that be here inNew York City.

Almontaser’s statement was hardly incor-rect — defining the Arabic meaning of “in-tifada” is what educators do. Moreover,Debbie was clear in her condemnation of vi-olence. The city has completely failed in ob-jectivity in this matter. Instead, schoolsChancellor Joel Klein blamed the victim,who is clearly Almontaser.

The extreme right has consistently at-tacked the Gibran Academy. By giving in tosuch negative forces, the city has taught aterrible lesson to the students and families.

As a colleague active with Debbie in in-terfaith dialogue, I know I am not alone incurrently reassessing the merits of dialogueand civic engagement. Debbie is very wellknown for her interfaith work on the grass-roots level in Brooklyn.

If New York is remain an open, tolerantand vital city, we cannot allow leaders to beharassed and hounded. You will find your-self with a deeply alienated generation ofArabs and Muslims, a dangerous situationnot easily remedied.

Adem Carroll, The BronxThe writer is head of the Muslim Consultative

Network

To the editor,Jews have taught in the public school sys-

tem forever. To imply that Danielle Salz-berg, simply because she is Jewish, wouldnot be effective as principal in this school isridiculous.

Would you rather have someone whothinks “Intifada NYC” is a proper thought towear on someone’s chest?

No matter what Almontaser says, her in-tent is undeniable. This is Brooklyn, NewYork, not an extension of an Arab country.

Diane Hunt, Bay RidgeEditor’s note: For the record, The Paper did not say thatSalzberg was unqualified because she is Jewish. The Pa-per’s editorial said she is unqualified to lead an Arabic-language school because she does not speak Arabic.

To the editor,Debbie Almontaser has always been one

of the most inspiring people I have known.We have crossed paths numerous times, andshe was always honest and always takingbrave stands.

She has spoken at my synagogue aboutJewish-Arab relations, attended meetings toinspire collaborations between local Jews andArabs, and has been an indomitable forceseeking bridges between our communities.

As a fellow New York City educator, I rec-ognize that our public schools serve a signifi-cant Arab youth population. As an Americanliving through our post-9-11 era, it has be-come clear that it is in the interests of our na-tional security to support Arab-Americans tobe knowledgeable and proud of both theirArabic and their American roots.

When I learned of the creation of theKhalil Academy, I was proud to be a part of

a city that could take such an important stepforward. And I could not imagine a betterperson to lead it than Debbie Almontaser, noone I could trust more, as an educator, a Jew,or as an American, to make it what our cityand our country so sorely needs.

Barry Joseph, Brooklyn Heights

Simcha speaksTo the editor,

In response to your article on the Bor-ough President’s race (“Plenty of traffic inrace for Boro Prez,” July 28), the reason thatI have opted out of that race in favor of acitywide race has little to do with “power,”as you suggest, but rather very much to dowith substance.

That said, as always, I appreciate yourunending wit and sense of humor, but don’texpect my mother to forgive you any timesoon for making fun of my unsolicited ma-terials legislation.

Simcha Felder, Borough ParkThe writer is a member of the City Council

Coney bluesTo the editor,

I spent my whole childhood at Coney Is-land, the only place my parents ever took usduring the summer (“Why not Thor?” Aug.11). It was a delight, an education, and aconstant revelation.

I urge New York City to hold fast againstthe obvious gentrification of Coney Island,morphing it into a soul-deadening enclaveof the rich. Coney Island must remain thePeople’s Playground!

Michael Disend, San Francisco

Where’s Marty?To the editor,

I checked the Borough President Marko-witz’s official Web site (www.brooklyn-usa.org) to find out information on how Icould make a donation to a local organiza-tion in response to last week’s tornado, butthere was no mention of the storm at all.

I find it ironic that Markowitz is availablefor every photo op and publicity stunt in theborough but doesn’t think that a catastrophic“act of God” that affected hundreds of hisconstituents is important enough to replaceinformation on tourism and his weight losscampaign. Vanessa Poggioli, Bay RidgeEditor’s note: For the record, there is a button onMarkowitz’s Web site that directs victims to a now-closed “disaster recovery center.” There is no way todonate to victims through Markowitz’s site.

Chirp chirpTo the editor,

Nice story about the parrots in Park Slope(“Squawk!” Aug. 18). It is great to see thesewonderful birds expanding.

Hopefully they will survive and replacethe Carolina Parakeet that went extinct inNorth America in the early 1900s.

Jon-Mark Davey, FloridaThe writer is co-author of the book“Parrots

in the City,” a seminal volume on smallbirds in the big town.

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Marty’s varying viewsTHE DEVELOPER WHO IS

bringing Trader Joe’s to CourtStreet wants to build a six-story

annex to that store on a parkinglot on Atlantic Avenue that isonly zoned for a five-storybuilding.

That single extra story— 10 feet! — drew theire of Borough PresidentMarkowitz last weekwhen the Beep recom-mended that the city denythe developer, Two TreesManagement, a variance tobuild a little higher.

Yes, this is the same MartyMarkowitz who continues to cheer theAtlantic Yards project, a massive, 16-

tower, highly subsidized mega-devel-opment that would overshadow thriv-ing neighborhoods all around it, create

life-draining “superblocks,”suck up taxpaper resources,congest local streets and

use the state’s power ofeminent domain to evictresidents so their landcan be turned over to aprivate developer — inthis case, his friend,Bruce Ratner.

Markowitz said theCourt Street variance

would set a “dangerousprecedent” because the

proposed building is in theCobble Hill Historic District.

But where was his concern aboutthe far more dangerous precedent ofselling state-owned land to Ratner at abargain-basement price, doling outbillions in subsidies and doing it allwith very little public scrutiny —oversight that Markowitz himself laterundermined by purging local commu-nity boards of some anti-Yards mem-bers.

It is no secret that this page has fre-quently clashed with Markowitz overhis support for the project, which re-mains his greatest error in judgmentsince he took office.

But his attempt to now present him-self as a foe of overdevelopment be-cause he opposes a 60-foot building ina 50-foot zone is laughable.

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Mayor Bloomberg has un-leashed a fleet of satellite-guided, scooter-driving inspec-tors on city streets to targettrash, potholes, and other ba-nalities of urban living, CityHall announced last week.

These roving investigators,called the Street ConditionsObservation Unit Team (orSCOUT), ride around withBlackberry-like devices totransmit reports on litter, graffi-ti, potholes and other quality-of-life problems directly intothe 311 system.

The teams started fanningout on Aug. 6 — about 10 daysbefore the mayor unveiled the$1-million program at a pressconference last week.

“The program will give themayor’s office an opportunity tosee first-hand the quality-of-lifeconditions that impact everyneighborhood in the city,” saidJeff Kay, director of the May-or’s Office of Operations. “Withinspectors in the field, we canprovide city agencies with areal-time snapshot of those con-ditions, and ensure they take ap-propriate action.”

Local pols lauded the idea ofmore eyes on city streets.

“I look forward to workingwith the teams,” said Council-man Vince Gentile (D–BayRidge). “Street inspectors are

Inspectors in scootersto hit the city streets

good because they are an extraset of eyes and ears. Before,the city would rely on citizensto report potholes, danglingstreet signs, graffiti, overflow-ing street garbage, etc. Nowthe city taking a proactive rolein keeping the streets clean.”

The 15 inspectors, on loanfrom other city agencies, areexpected to each cover 20

miles and make up to 200 re-ports per day, according to themayor’s office.

The busy teams don’t havethe pleasure of handing out fines;City Hall says the goal is simplyto hold agencies accountable totheir customers, the public.

Local politicians praised theinitiative, but a handful of civil-liberties-mind residents ques-

tioned the logic of having moreeyes on the street, not to mentionthe increased congestion thatwould be caused by the scooters.

“This is an awful idea,” saidresident Phil Millard. “First,the mayor pushes a commutertoll to decrease congestion, andnow he is sending scooters outon the streets to drive aroundall day looking at things.”

Mayor Bloomberg unveiled a new program to send more than a dozen inspectors ontoevery city street to log quality-of-life complaints and send them directly to 311. The in-spectors will fan out in Cushman scooters like this.

whose 136 mile-per-hourwinds destroyed or dam-aged hundreds of cars anddozens of homes in the areaaround 67th Street betweenFourth and Seventh av-enues.

But if the presidentshares that flabbergastedfeeling, he hasn’t expressedit yet. A call to the WhiteHouse was not returned bydeadline — and Spitzer’soffice hasn’t heard a thingyet, either.

“All we can do is urgethe president to act,” saidPaul Larrabee, a Spitzerspokesperson. “We areworking to expedite thisprocess and to bring the ur-gency of this situation to theattention of the WhiteHouse.”

Residents waiting for aidbetter not hold their breath.Minnesota Gov. Tim Paw-lenty applied for federalhelp after the very-high-pro-file bridge collapse on Aug.1 — but the White Houseonly released the funds onAug. 21.

For Brooklyn residentsrendered roofless by thestorm, a three-week delaywould be too long.

“This is ridiculous thathelp is so slow to come,”said Hassan Hakmoun, wholast week was busy movinghis relatives out of theirdamaged house at 339 BayRidge Ave. “We all pay ourtaxes, but the governmentdoesn’t like giving it up.”

The president will re-main on his Crawford ranchthrough August.

“I don’t think he’s going towin, because he’s black. ” saidAlert. “I’m not cynical. I’mrealistic.”

The fundraiser and rallycame only a month after Oba-ma’s under-the-radar (and ap-parently “unofficial”) $1,000-a-ticket fundraiser in a BrooklynHeights mansion, where big-time donors got a chance to en-gage the possible future presi-dent of the United States.

But on Wednesday, Obamaworked a mass audience, in-voking his Brooklyn roots, re-peating nearly verbatim therecollections he shared withThe Brooklyn Paper in July.

“I don’t how many of you

know this, but I used to live inBrooklyn,” said Obama, thejunior senator from Illinois. “Iused to live in Brooklyn,” herepeated, to good effect.

“You know, when I was go-ing to Columbia University andafterwards, I had an apartmentin Park Slope for a while. Icouldn’t even afford it backthen. I definitely couldn’t af-ford it now.” (The crowdlaughed approvingly.)

“But I always loved Brook-lyn,” he continued. “I lovedthe Promenade. I used to runup and down there. I used tograb a bagel over at the redline stop.” (Red line? Oops.)

This rally and his recenthigh-end fundraiser could

help Obama even the scorewith front-runner Sen. HillaryClinton, who, as of July, hadraised more than $424,000 inBrooklyn to Obama’s$231,000.

Although Clinton is techni-cally New York’s “favoritedaughter,” Obama is certainlya prince of Kings, if the fren-zy of Wednesday evening’scrowd was any measure.

“I’m a very big Baracksupporter,” said JumaaneWilliams, vice president ofthe Brooklyn chapter of theSouthern Christian LeadershipConference.

“Of all the people running,he has the freshest ideas. He’snot an insider.”

The bill would allow home-owners to erect signs indicat-ing they will not accept any lit-erature advertising restaurantsor sales. The law would not ap-ply to newspapers, or any liter-ature that has a nominalamount of news — though it isunclear how that would be en-forced.

Political advertising is alsoexempt.

In rental buildings, the land-lord would have the final sayover whether or not the resi-dents could receive ads, an im-position that some argue in-

fringes on the right of tenantsto receive important informa-tion while also unfairly hittingless-wealthy Brooklynites inthe wallet.

Meanwhile, big-time circulardistributors aren’t exactly quak-ing in their delivery trucks.

“We don’t think it will hurtbusiness because we can handlethe statues of the law very well,”said Kenny Herman, whosecompany distributes 95 percentof the circulars in Brooklyn(including the Kohl’s bundles).“We have a do-not-deliver list ofour own already, and over thelast two years, we think it’s ex-

panded to include just abouteveryone who doesn’t want thecirculars. We don’t expect it toexpand much.”

Local restaurants managersare far less blase.

Kabir Ahammed, the man-ager of Joy Indian Restaurant,on Flatbush Avenue, wonderedhow he would get the word outif he couldn’t drop off menus.

“You have to tell people,”said Ahammed. “Some peopledon’t like menus. Others do.But it’s not a big thing to throwmenus in the garbage. This lawdoesn’t make sense to me.”

Ahammed needn’t worryjust yet. The law will not beenforced in the city until it isamended to allow SanitationDepartment enforcement offi-

cers to issue tickets rather thanpolice officers. That won’t hap-pen until sometime nextmonth.

But happen it will, if Coun-cilman Simcha Felder (D–Bor-ough Park) has anything to dowith it. Felder has been thebiggest local cheerleader forthe legislation, and he told TheBrooklyn Paper that he is eagerto see the law enacted as soonas humanly possible.

“After they fix it, we willhave a bill that’s perfect,” saidFelder. “Somebody once calledme ‘the menu killer.’ I amproud of that and hope I re-main with that title forever.”

Felder is also seeking a dif-ferent title: after all, he’s run-ning for Comptroller next year.

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Styrofoam trays are one step closer to join-ing indoor smoking and trans fats in the trashbins of city history.

Councilman Bill DeBlasio (D–ParkSlope) on Wednesday introduced a billthat would ban all food establishmentsfrom using Styrofoam cups and take-outcontainers, and all city agencies from us-ing the versatile synthetic material.

The ban would apply to the Depart-ment of Education, which churns through153 million Styrofoam trays per year.

“It is mind-boggling that our city, whichis becoming a leader on environmental issues,is still using Styrofoam when we know it is ex-tremely harmful to our environment,” said De-Blasio. “[Once] it hits our landfills [it] staysthere forever.”

Styrofoam, also known as polystyrene, is be-lieved to take centuries to decompose.

DeBlasio first took on the issue of Styrofoamin June, joining forces with the Windsor Ter-race-based Parents Against Styrofoam in

Schools to recommend that the city banStyrofoam trays from school cafeterias.His recommendation prompted ahighly equivocal response from thecity.“We are looking at alternatives,” said

mayoral spokeswoman Dawn Walkerat the time.

The legislation would push the may-or’s hand on the issue, and expand the

proposed ban from cafeterias to eateriescitywide.

Berkeley, California and Portland, Oregon —both liberal enclaves like DeBlasio’s home dis-trict — have already passed similar measures.Perhaps a pilot program in Park Slope is next?

DeBlasio: Ban the foam!


The developer bringingTrader Joe’s to the corner ofAtlantic Avenue and CourtStreet faced an unlikely op-ponent this week — the su-permarket’s biggest fan, Bor-ough President Markowitz.

On Tuesday, Markowitzcame out against the contro-versial 60-foot residential tow-er slated to rise on what is cur-rently a parking lot next to thestore at 130 Court St.

The 60-foot building wouldbe 10 feet taller than allowedunder existing zoning within theCobble Hill Historic District.

“Should this intrusion begranted, it would set a prece-dent for other sites throughout

the entire district to seek suchan exception,” Markowitz’srecommendation to the cityPlanning Commission said.“Abiding by the [50-footheight limit] is the ultimateform of respect to homeown-ers in the neighborhood.”

Like Markowitz, Communi-ty Board 6 voted against thetower in June. These criticswere thrilled — and a littleshocked — this week to hearthat they had an ally at BoroughHall, given Markowitz’s supportfor large-scale residential devel-opment at Atlantic Yards, andhis widely publicized affectionsfor Trader Joe’s.

“We viewed Marty has be-ing very solidly pro-develop-ment everywhere,” said Cob-ble Hill Association member

Roy Sloane. “We are extreme-ly pleased and gratified to seehim respecting the values ofour community.”

The site’s developer, DavidWalentas’s Two Trees Manage-ment, has requested multiple ex-emptions from the historic dis-trict’s zoning, including a breakfrom a requirement to provide aparking facility. The exemptionto the height limit is the onlyone that earned an objectionfrom Markowitz.

Two Trees has said that thescale of the building is neces-sary to cover the cost of restor-ing the 83-year-old futurehome of Trader Joe’s.

“Making it any smaller…wouldn’t be financially vi-able,” project manager SamCharney said.

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NYC Lic#1295 · Insured

(718) 258-4600 (718) 645-0089WM34

NEIGHBORHOODSewer & Drain Cleaning

Plumbing

745-7727 or 848-5654A31_29

Power Washing

Regan & SonPower WashingHomes, Decks, Gutters

Down Spouts, Post Constr., Sidewalks & Gum Removal

Fire & flood damage.

718-633-7498 · 845-800-4327A36

Roofing

Fox Roofing& Restoration

New Roofing · Patching · Coating

Fox can save you MONEY by restoring older roofs to pre-

serve your heat in the Winter & Cool air in the Summer

Call For a FREE Estimate

1-800-945-5362LICENSED INSURED

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Appliance Repair

EXPERT REPAIRSAll Makes and Models

· Refrigerators ·· Air Conditioners ·

· Washers & Dryers ·· Stoves & Ovens ·

Call Benson (646) 246-6240W33

Asbestos

Leinster Contracting

The Complete Environmental Company

Asbestos & Lead AbatementThermal System Insulation

Spray on FireproofingContact Liam Hogan

(718) 651-9100Lic #05-0086 INSURED

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ArchitectsAWARD WINNING / LICENSED

ARCHITECT &INTERIOR DESIGNER· From Conception to Completion Residential, Commercial, Manufacturing Alterations & New Buildings· Realistic Estimates & Time Schedules· Construction Management - General Contracting· Expediting Approvals & Permits Departing of Buildings & Landmarks· Zoning Analysis & Property Potential

Martin della PaoleraARCHITECT

65 Saint Felix St. B'klyn NY 11217TEL (718) 596-2379

[email protected]

Awning

CLASSICAL CUSTOMER

AWNINGSALUMINUM· PLASTIC· RETRACT

FREE ESTIMATES SINCE 1980

718-528-2401WWW.CLASSICAL-IRON.COMLIC#1069538 W31

Bath Tile & Kitchen

Plumbing and Tile Work. Toilets,faucets and shower bodies replaced.Specializing in tile jobs – large and small.

John Costelloe (718) 768-7610

JohnCostelloe

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Carpentry

Carpentry Plus

Dependable with referencesKevin (718) 331-9251

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Chimney

1ST CHOICE HOMESOLUTIONS INC.

Specializing in:Heating Fireplace Cleaning & Repairs

Boiler Cleaning & InstallationGas & Oil Violations Corrected,

Fireplace Accessories

718-762-9200A31-13

Cleaning Services

SunshineCleaning ServiceCommercial & Residential

Free Estimates718-408-2621347-645-4084

[email protected]

LICENSED INSURED

Richards Cleaning ServiceResidential & Office Cleaning

First 3 hrs. only $40

[email protected]

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ENLIGHTENEDCLEANING SERVICE, INC.

Complete CleaningMove Out/Move in Clean-upOffice · Residential · General“Let us maintain your hallways”

718-573-4165Bonded and Insured A33

Heights Cleaning Service

WM34

Residential & Office CleaningServing Brownstone Brooklyn

& Surrounging AreasDavid Contreras (917) 716 – [email protected]

To advertise onthis page, call

(718) 834-9350 ext 109

HOME IMPROVEMENT INCROOFING SPECIALIST

Jobs are Owner SupervisedWe have been

doing a great jobfor over ten years

718-375-8292

AVANTI

INTERIOR EXTERIOR

Lic# 1157104Insured

& Bonded

A30/31-26

Contractors

FACE LIFTCONTRACTING

Restorations & RemodelingExterior & InteriorOver 20 Years Experience

Stripping & RefinishingFinished Basements

Room Additions · Kitchens & BathsTile · Marble · Granite · Ceramic Tile · Painting

Plastering · Roofing · Siding · Plumbing & Electric Ceilings & Floors · Lofts · Apartments · Brownstones

Residential - Commercial Rubbish RemovalDesign & Consulting

Exclusive 10 Year WarrantyLocal, Reliable, 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

First Time Home Buyer Discount & ConcessionsTo Help You On Your Way

All Types of Repair Expertly DoneAsk for George:

1-347-724-6540Senior Citizen Discount

Licensed & Insured

BEFORE AFTER

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Contractors

Contractors

CONTRACTORSGeneral

RenovationsInterior & Exterior

T

FREE ESTIMATES

EAGLE

718-686-1100A31-12

To advertise onthis page, call

(718) 834-9350 ext 109

Decks

DECKS by Bart

Free EstimatesCall Bart:

15+ years experience

We build year roundPlan Ahead

(718) 284-8053800-YES-4-DECK

Design Assist./Archit. Enginr.www.decksbybart.com

W31-26

A & KTile StudioKitchen and bath designers on staff

Open 7 days a weekwww.AKtilestudio.com

Mon thru Fri: 10:00am - 6:30pm

336 9th Street(bet. 5th and 6th Aves.) Bklyn, NY

(718) 369-6873

Great selection of porcelain, ceramic, marble, onyx, granite, mosaics, borders, glass, metal, Talavera tiles. We have Marble, Granites,

Soapstone, Slate, Limestone, Onyx, Stainless Steel, Corlan, Silestone, Zodiac, Caesar Stone, Okite and Ice Stone for countertops.

Everything for your bath and kitchenOffering interest free financing

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Bathroom, Kitchen & Tile

Tub & Tile Reglazing

$75 OFF

Premier Bath, Inc.1-866-399-8827

www.premierbathsinc.com for Special Savings

Before

After TakesOne Day!

Why Replace When You Can Restore?Rejuvenate Your Bathroom!

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Exterminator

Since 1969 Father & SonOwned and Operated

COMPLETE PEST CONTROLDifficult Termite Problems

– Our SpecialtyTe

LICENSED & INSURED

RESIDENTIAL &COMMERCIAL

AFEDERAL EXTERMINATING, LTD.

FREE ESTIMATES259-8799

ANT TERMITE

Fencing

BROOKLYN FENCEDISTRIBUTORS

1504 Ralph Ave. Bklyn, NY 11236

(718) 444-8554ALL TYPES OF FENCES

Custom Cedar, Stockade, PVCChain Link, Aluminum,

Privacy Slats, Gates, Security,Ornamental Steel,NEW Eon Fence

Many Styles to Choose FromA44

Floor Maintenance

Cherry Valley FlooringInstallation & refinishing all hardwood

flooring. Installation of carpet,linoleum, VCT, ceramic & stone tiles.www.cherryvalleyflooring.com

(718) 271-4919 · (516) [email protected]

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Kells Wood Floors

Hardwood Floors Installed & Repaired

Call Phillip (347) 531-6156A44

MOVING YOUR WAY

Moving co T33315 584 6th AvLICENSED/ INSURED

718-788-4920Free Estimate & Box DeliveryPOSITIVELY LOWEST PRICES!

Movers (Licensed)

Flooring

A31-01

Demolition

& EXCAVATION

Hassle Free Rubbish Removal

FREE ESTIMATES!! www.NMDemolition.com

(718) 965-8024

Licensed Bonded & insured

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est.1994

Electricians

JOHN E. LONERGAN

Licensed Electrician

(718) 875-6100

(212) 475-6100A46

PT InstallationsElectrical ContractorLicensed & Insured/Residential CommercialRenovations, alterations, outdoor lighting, track lighting, violations removed, AC lines. Adequate

wiring, fixtures installed. Hi-hat specialists,custom lighting.

24hr service. Free Installation

Call Nick (718) 331-3210A40

ALECTRA INC.Have an electrical problem?

No job too big, no job too small!Call me. Anthony Illiano

Licensed electrician

718-522-3893A31-02

Exterminator

A+ Exterminating TechnologyProfessional services

24 hour service

(718) 633–1859

WM32

Movers (Licensed)

TIP TOPMOVING

Local & Long DistanceExpert Packing & Crating

Competitive RatesOn time pickup & delivery

Free Consultations & Estimates

718 [email protected]

NYS DOT # 36694A31-04

ARIK J. MOVING & STORAGESPECIAL LOCAL RATES

2 Men w/Truck $59/Hr.3 Men w/Truck $69/Hr.4 Men w/Truck $85/Hr.

Licensed & Insured

www.Arikmoving.comToll Free 877-668-3186

212-321-MOVEUS DOT #130966

The Company has the right to change prices any time.A38

We do last minute jobs!Expert packers

TOP HAT MOVERS

VAMEX

MOVERS

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A-1 JAYS WAYMOVING

Family owned and operated for3 generations. For the lowestrates and best quality movinggive us a call. Experienced & Reliable.

2149 E. 72nd. St. DOT#32149

718-763-1435A31-13

Painting

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Low PriceClean JobFast ServiceReferencesFree Estimates

718-439-7309

R.F.K.Interiors Corp.

Drywall · TapingSkimcoats · Painting

(718) 855-4415InsuredFree Estimates

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John HaviarasPainting & HandymanNo Job too small. Interior/

Exterior PaintingComplete Apt. & Home Renov.

Affordable Prices

718-921-6176A42

ZAV PLUMBING, HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING24/7 EMERGENCY SERVICE

Residential www.zavplumbing.com CommercialPlumbing: Water Heaters, Faucets, Toilets,

Gas or Water Leaks, Water Meters & RPZ AssemblyAnnual Inspections & Violations Removed

Heating & Air: Boilers, Furnaces & Air Conditioning Installed & Repaired, Controls & Trouble Shooting

Radiators Installed & RepairedRadiant Heating Expert - Free Estimate

Insured 718 332-8511 LIC#2011 A31-03

PlumbingA31-04

Contractors

Residential RemodelingSpecialists

Complete Home Interiorand kitchen remodeling

License# 1207599View previous projects @

www.knockoutrenovation.com

718-745-0722A31-04

www.excelbuilds.com

Excel Builders& Renovators Inc.

A31-17

Home Improvement - Interior & Exterior

Tel : 718-413-6003 718-506-6115

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(718) 998-1110

S&D HOMEIMPROVEMENT

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