particularly ugly when Una Clarke, a Jamaican native, ac-cused Owens of not representing the large population ofCaribbean Americans in the district. Owens responded by
paign. And I expect to win this Tuesday.”Asked about her challenger, she said, “I have nothing to
say about this young woman. I’ve never met her before.”
THREE YEARS LATERThree years after this century’s opening
act of infamy, Brooklyn’s neighborhoods,witnesses to the horror across the river onSept. 11, 2001, prepared to commemorate thecommunity’s collective loss with reflective,creative and religious exercises thisSaturday and Sunday.
And as the anniversary of 9-11 approached,Dragan Slavich (photo right) of the Green-point foundry that crafted both the Iwo Jima
memorial in Arlington, Va., and the chargingbull on Wall Street, was putting final toucheson “Brooklyn Remembers,” the borough’s of-ficial 9-11 memorial to be dedicated this fallon the 69th Street pier in Bay Ridge.
Brooklynites will migrate to the pier and tothe Brooklyn Heights promenade Saturday;from both sites, the absence of the WorldTrade Center is clearly visible.
See stories on pages 5 and 17.
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The Democratic primary in the 11th CongressionalDistrict pits an entrenched incumbent against twochallengers who are the offspring of, alternately, alongtime ally and a former ally turned bitter enemy.
Rep. Major Owens, 68, who has represented Park Slope,Crown Heights, Flatbush and parts of Cobble Hill, BoerumHill, East Flatbush, Brownsville and Midwood in theHouse of Representatives for 22 years, is being challengedby Brownsville Councilwoman Tracy Boyland and EastFlatbush Councilwoman Yvette Clarke.
Clarke, 39, is the daughter of former CouncilwomanUna Clarke, who she succeeded in 2002 and who waged abitter challenge against Owens in 2000. That race turned
Major Owens rivalryFaces daughters of former allies
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Poly Prep celebrates150 years of serviceBy Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers
Only paragraphs into his New York Cityhomecoming, Holden Caulfield, the protago-nist of J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye,”the prototype for countless prep school stu-dents in literature and film, asks a cab driverwhat happens to ducks in Central Park afterthe lagoon freezes over.
The question stumps not only that cabby, but inlater pages, a second one.
For David Harman, headmaster of PolytechnicPreparatory Country Day School, which on Thurs-day began its 150th school year, the question posedin the 1951 fable of hypocrisy and alienation, is el-ementary. When the Bay Ridge school’s two pondsfreeze, its hundreds of waterfowl remain.
“The kids always talk about the ducks,” saidHarman, the fifth-year headmaster of the “inde-pendent school,” as he calls it. It’s a term he prefersover “private school,” which Poly Prep is.
“So it’s a little Holden Caulfield,” he said. “Healways wondered where the ducks went. It’s a little‘Catcher in the Rye ’.”
But short of its rigorous curriculum and traditionof graduating bright students — such as ArthurLeavitt, former chairman of the Securities and Ex-change Commission — the similarities betweenPoly and Pency, the fictional boarding school aban-doned by Holden, end at the pond.
“It was one of the best to teach, for me it was,”
hated that school, he hated itwith a passion.
“Beyond the duck pond,” shesaid, “I would hate to make toomuch of a connection.”
To be sure, since its foundingin 1854, a birth date incidentallyshared by Bay Ridge, Poly hasgrown to include not only ponds,but swimming pools, tenniscourts and playing fields onproperty bounded by 92ndStreet, Seventh Avenue, BatteryAvenue and Poly Place.
Poly’s 26 acres of lush green-ery also contains five buildings,including the Alumni House,into which administrative officesmoved several months ago, andthe Marks Science Center, built
said Lynn Chandhok, a formerEnglish teacher at the school whois now its director of communica-tions. “But there are big differ-ences. [Holden Caulfield’s] was aboarding school, ours is not. Hehates his school. Boy he really
four years ago. Including the Poly Prep Low-
er School, the institution’s littlebrother at 50 Prospect Park, inPark Slope, the school educatesabout 950 students, from infancyto 12th grade.
“It’s truly an oasis here in themiddle of Bay Ridge,” said Har-man, who before coming to PolyPrep was an administrator at theSidwell Friends School, in Wash-ington, D.C., a boarding schoolmost famous in recent years forgraduates Chelsea Clinton andKarenna and Kristin Gore.
“Its natural beauty is just in-spiring, and I do think it createsan atmosphere conducive tolearning,” he said of Poly Prep.
“The best of boarding schoolsexist in a day school setting.”
The first all-boy’s school inKings County — the schoolwent co-ed in 1977 — Poly Prepsprung to life in a small buildingon Livingston Street in BrooklynHeights that is now occupied by
Students from Poly Prep Country Day School walk up the stairs on their firstday of classes, Thursday, Sept. 9. This is the school’s 150th year.
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PRIMARY 2004focus on crimeBy Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers
A Democratic primary race pitting incumbentAssemblywoman Adele Cohen and a political novicewith growing support within the Russian communitiesof Brighton Beach and Coney Island could hinge oneach candidate’s handling of the district’s crime rate.
Despite a slight decrease in crime from last year, the can-didates in the 46th Assembly District race say that all com-munity concerns lead back to safety. From an absence of af-ter-school programs since a Boys & Girls Club of Americain Coney Island closed last summer to a lack of jobs, mostbelieve that chipping away at crime supersedes all else.
Cohen, who has held the seat since 1998, and challengerInna Kaminsky, who emigrated from the Ukraine at the ageof 9, are expected to have a close Sept. 14 primary election,much like Susan Lasher’s 2002 challenge of Cohen, inwhich the incumbent won by only 212 votes.
The district, which is comprised of portions of BayRidge and Dyker Heights, as well as Brighton Beach,Coney Island and Sea Gate, includes 33,686 registered De-mocrats.
“I’m treating the campaign very seriously,” said Cohen.“I’m going to senior centers, knocking on doors, going tothe subway stations — everything you do during a cam-
2 days of rain delayCyclones playoffsThe Brooklyn Papers
TROY, NY — The Brooklyn Cy-clones drive for a New York-PennLeague championship has been stalled.
The Clones have split the first twogames of a best-of-three series with theTri-City Valley Cats and the third gamehas been delayed twice thanks to theremnants of Hurricane Frances.
The series finale was to be played Fridaynight, Sept. 10, in Troy. If the Cycloneswon, they would have advanced to thechampionship round against the MahoningValley Scrappers of Ohio. Game 1 wouldbe played Sunday in Ohio and games 2 and3 (if necessary) would be played atKeyspan Park Monday and Tuesday.
For Brooklyn’s best Cyclones cov-erage, see page 8.
PAPER HOLIDAYThe Brooklyn Papers will notpublish next week because ofthe Rosh Hashanah holiday, andour offices will be closed Thurs-day and Friday, Sept. 16 and 17.Look for your local Brooklyn Pa-per again on Saturday, Sept. 25.
See POLY on page 6PRIMARY 2004Tuesday, Sept. 14, is primary election day in New York City.Various positions, including state Senate and Assembly andcongressional seats and judgships, are on ballots, which will varydistrict-to-district. Polls are open to registered voters when aprimary is being conducted in the voter’s party, 6 am to 9 pm.
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By Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers
An employee at theNellie Bly amusementpark, a legendary kiddieattraction off the BeltParkway at Bay 41stStreet, stumbled onto abotched and bloody break-in on Aug. 28.
At 10:45 pm, the workerfound the burglar bleeding in-side a building that is part ofthe amusement park complexat 1824 Shore Parkway. Ac-
cording to a criminal com-plaint filed by the KingsCounty District Attorney’s of-fice, the man, 39, was gushingblood from his face, arms andlegs next to a shattered win-dow. The bleeding burglarfled but left behind propertywith his own name on it, lead-ing police to make an arrest.
The suspect was chargedwith burglary in the third de-gree and two counts of crimi-nal mischief.
Gina Romano, a Communi-ty Board 11 member and theproprietor of the 37-year-oldamusement park, said thedamage caused by the crookwas estimated at $1,500. Hedid not make off with anyproperty.
The amusement park isnamed for the crusading jour-nalist of the late-19th and ear-ly 20th centuries who exposedconditions at mental institu-tions. Using the pen nameNellie Bly — she was bornElizabeth Cochrane Seaman— she also wrote an accountof her 72-day journey aroundthe world.
The three-acre Nellie Blywas founded in 1967 by theRomano family. The parkdraws about 150,000 visitors ayear.
Phone fiendsThese guys bring a whole
new meaning to the term “col-lect call.”
Police said six teenagerswalked into a Verizon Wirelessstore on Fifth Avenue at 86thStreet on Aug. 30 and, afterdistracting a sales representa-tive, tore half a dozen phonesfrom a display wall. Ownersof the store estimate that thetelephone trouble cost themnearly $1,300.
The thefts happened around6 pm. Before a manager couldcall police, all six men had dis-appeared.
A 22-year-old employeetold police that the suspects arebetween 5-foot-9 and 6 feettall. Two Samsung cell phonesalone were valued at $500.
Time fliesPolice say a trio of
shoplifters tried to flee a dis-count store on 86th Street atBay 31st Street with fourwristwatches. When an em-ployee, 24, tried to stop thecrooks, he was bombardedwith the timepieces.
Before leaving, however,the crew attempted to cutchains on three bikes insidethe store with a pair of boltcutters. Police nabbed the men— ages 20, 23 and 26 — be-fore they could get away. Theincident happened on Sept. 1at 6:40 pm.
The men were charged withtwo counts of criminal mis-chief and petit larceny, accord-ing to a criminal complaintfiled by the Kings CountyDistrict Attorney’s office.
Candy robberA burglar slid through a
rear window of a candy store
in Bay Ridge and got awaywith more than $500 in cashand a computer monitor.
Police say the crook brokeinto the store, on Fifth Avenueat 72nd Street, on Sept. 1, at11:20 am, making sure to takeall the cash before sneakingback out. A 48-year-old manwho opened the store the fol-lowing morning, called policeafter discovering $540 miss-ing.
Skirt’s issueA shoplifting femme with a
taste for the upscale was bust-ed after employees at awoman’s clothing shop on86th Street at 20th Avenue al-legedly caught the woman try-ing to escape with a skirt-loadof … skirts.
Police said the woman, 47,hid more than $1,000 worth ofclothing under her skirt. In ad-dition to two skirts, valued atabout $135 apiece, the fash-ion-forward filcher also tookfive tops and a pair of jeans.The shoplifting happenedaround 11:30 am, on Sept. 3,say police.
When an employee tried tograb her, the feisty fashionistabegan kicking, punching andbiting, and eventually putteeth marks in the 31-year-oldwoman’s hand so deep thatshe had to be treated at Victo-ry Memorial Hospital. Shewas given a tetanus shot be-fore being released.
The woman was chargedwith assault, menacing, petitlarceny, grand larceny, rob-bery and harassment, accord-ing to a criminal complaintfiled by the district attorney’soffice.
Unhappy trailsA Dyker Heights woman
packed a suitcase but beforeshe could take it anywhere, aburglar ran off with it.
Police say the crookwaltzed into an open garageon 13th Avenue at 80th Streeton Aug. 31 at 4 pm, just be-fore the woman arrived homefrom work.
He got away with $2,000worth of summer clothing andthree 14-karat gold bracelets,all of which was stuffed nextto a bronze Fendi handbag inthe suitcase, say police.
Bar burgleSteel bars weren’t enough
to keep a couple of crooksfrom breaking into a BayRidge bar and lounge lastweek.
Police said that on Aug. 30,at 12:15 am, crooks used toolsto bend open metal bars infront of a window at thenightspot, located on BayRidge Avenue at Ridge Boule-vard.
When an employee arrivedthe next day, she discovered$1,100 missing from the regis-ter.
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Woman hangsself on NarrowsBotanical treeBy Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers
Several Bay Ridge resi-dents discovered a grue-some scene inside the nor-mally tranquil NarrowsBotanical Gardens Thurs-day morning — the life-less body of a womanhanging from a tree.
Police believe the red-haired woman, who lived justthree blocks away from thepastoral oasis at Shore Roadand Bay Ridge Avenue, com-mitted suicide.
Cops responded to themacabre scene at 11:30 am onSept. 9, after horrified passers-by called 911. Wearing an or-ange shirt, the woman, identi-fied by police as AgnieszkaOrdak, 28, hung stiffly from atree near the park’s Turtle Sanc-tuary. A ladder was next to thetree and the woman was about4 feet off the ground, policesaid.
A witness who spoke onthe condition of anonymity,said the woman, who lived onRidge Boulevard at 72ndStreet, was hanging from anoose she described as madeof a “laundry line.”
“I was so taken aback that Ihaven’t even pursued it yet,”said Narrows Botanical Presi-dent Joan Regan. “[The park]has always been connected tohappy, great things. Peoplecommit suicide all the time,but why in the park?”
The gardens stretch alongthree blocks of Shore Road
between Bay Ridge Avenueand 72nd Street.
The grizzly discovery wasthe talk of Bay Ridge anddrew a small crowd as policearrived and threw a sheet overthe woman’s body. A neigh-bor said that several studentsat Xaverian High School, atShore Road and 71st Street,were outside the school andmay have seen the body.
A spokeswoman for thecity medical examiner’s officesaid the cause of death couldnot be determined at presstime.
The garden was establishedin 1995 by neighborhood res-idents who volunteered toclear out litter and restore thesoil and plant new trees. Overthe next several years, thegroup planted rose gardens,Lady Slipper Orchids andblueberry, bayberry and su-mac bushes.
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A Brooklyn native, Richard Izzo was born andraised in Coney Island. The fourth of twelve chil-dren, his parents were also born in Brooklyn.Richard and his wife Ellen Izzo live in Bay Ridgewith their three children.
Richard Izzo attended Lincoln High school andgraduated from Brooklyn College summa cumlaude. He went on to receive his Law Degree fromBrooklyn Law School.
As a lawyer in private practice for 22 years,Richard Izzo has represented clients in both civil
and criminal matters. He has been successful inboth trial and appellate work. He has earned areputation for high standards and a dedication tohis clients.
Always involved, Richard Izzo has served forover 12 years as a member of the 68th PrecinctYouth Council. He has been Director of variouschildren’s athletic programs throughout Brooklyn.
Richard is a member of the Lions Club, theShriners’ Shepherds Unit,and various other com-munity, civic, and charitable organizations.
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Sez Dolly’s Netsstake is ‘corrupt’To the editor:
Congratulations to TheBrooklyn Papers for exposingthe corruption in current citygovernment through your arti-cles on Dolly Williams’ own-ership in the Bruce RatnerNets and arena plan [Aug. 21and Aug. 28 editions].
That a commissioner of CityPlanning should also invest in aprivately developed real estategrab that would damage thehealth and welfare of a largesection of Brooklyn (the “Netsarena”) reminds me of the scan-dals in the early part of the 20thcentury, when “Tammany Hall”was a front for unscrupulouspoliticians who filled theirpockets at public expense.
Now we read of a high cityofficial personally investing inthe overblown scheme to buildan enormous stadium, whichwould interfere with the LIRRtransportation line, bring infour tremendous office towersand create high-priced apart-ments for 10,000 people.
This commissioner and thepresident of the Borough ofBrooklyn are to be condemnedfor their self-serving. If this isnot corruption in high places,what is? — Clara Avis,
Brooklyn Heights
Fix was inTo the editor:
With the Democratic Partysinking to new lows, is anyonesurprised that City PlanningCommissioner Dolly Williamsis on the list of people investingin the Nets basketball team?
She just voted in favor of theseriously flawed DowntownBrooklyn Master Plan that willallow the construction of theRatner arena on Flatbush Av-enue and Dean Streets andbring the Nets she invested into Brooklyn. One only wonderswhat “perks” have been or willbe given to Borough PresidentMarty Markowitz, [Park Slope]
Councilman Bill DeBlasio or[Brooklyn Heights-Downtown]Councilman David Yassky fortheir support of the DowntownBrooklyn Plan and the arena.
“Brownstoners” spent manyyears and their own dollars tomake Brownstone Brooklyn agreat place to live. Now, greedyjackals and hyenas are workinghard to destroy what thesebrownstoners have achieved.
— Robert Ohlerking, Prospect Heights
Arena may go‘belly-up’To the editor:
Please note that in Portland,Oregon, a publicly financedbasketball stadium built nineyears ago for the PortlandTrail Blazers is now in Chap-ter 11 proceedings. The ownerof the team is Microsoft bil-lionaire Paul Allen, and he isnot liable to pay his creditors.Oregonians put up $155 mil-lion to construct the facility.
It is the only stadium of itskind in the area and hostsevery stadium-sized eventpassing through town and stillcannot handle its debt. TheBrooklyn arena would have tocompete with Madison SquareGarden for events.
Will Ratner be responsibleif the building goes belly up?And who will truly pay forthis facility?
— Michael Hornburg, Brooklyn Heights
Defends coverageTo the editor:
I would love to respond toArthur Piccolo’s letter to theeditor that was headlined “Stopbashing Ratner’s Nets” [TheBrooklyn Papers, Aug. 28].
First, Mr. Piccolo, if youhope “someone” has the fore-sight to start a new paper then,how about you? Second, TheBrooklyn Papers is one of thefew publications in the entirecity that is not holding handswith your loved Ratner. There-fore, I personally turn to thispaper every week to get a tasteof how Forest City Ratner iseating alive the borough I love.
Mr. Piccolo, what if theywere taking your home?What if it was your friend’shome? For what? Twentyyears of construction, jobs forout-of-towners, and the merehope that maybe Ratner willkeep some of his supposedhonored promises.
Look up your history, whatis happening is neither newnor an improvement. Do youprefer not to be told aboutwhat is happening in yourneighborhood? There is noproper way to write about this— it’s a dirty project!
I am sad that you think bully-ing residents, gagging people’srights, bypassing democraticprocesses and building a ChuckE. Cheese’s is “improvement.”
Your comments seem tosuggest that ignorance reallyis bliss, and that a local papershould not write about some-thing that affects its readers.No doubt, if this arena and 17high-rise buildings ever breaksground, thousands will won-der why they did not know,and what they can do to stopit. They will wonder whythere is traffic, they will won-der why they are still unem-ployed, they will wonder whythey cannot afford their “af-fordable” rent, why theirchild’s asthma is getting worse— they will wonder wheretheir neighborhood went.
At the very least, TheBrooklyn Papers can say, “Hey,we tried to give you the story.”
Tired of hearing about Rat-ner? Go read the New YorkTimes — you won’t see a word.
— Deborah R. Goldstein, Park Slope
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Democratic candidatesrunning for the gerryman-dered 23rd district seatbeing vacated by retiringstate Sen. Seymour Lach-man — in which con-stituents are split betweenthe north shore of StatenIsland and seven neighbor-hoods in Brooklyn — saythey would open more dis-trict offices than their pred-ecessor.
Anticipating a close primaryon Sept. 14, Diane Savino,Kelvin Alexander, Cole Ettmanand Rodney Knight say theywould try to overcome obsta-cles that Lachman, who is re-tiring in November, could not.Since 2002, when the legisla-tive lines were redrawn, somesay the district has become acollection of disparate neigh-borhoods in which constituentshave trouble identifying theirelected officials.
According to the Board ofElections, 45 percent of thedistrict lies in Staten Island;the remaining 55 percent inBath Beach, Bensonhurst,Borough Park, Coney Island,Fort Hamilton, Gravesend,Seagate and Sunset Park.
“It is the worst example ofpartisan gerrymandering thatI’ve ever seen. There’s noconnection between any of theneighborhoods, at all,” saidSavino, a Staten Island laborleader who on Thursdayadded Borough PresidentMarty Markowitz to a list of
more than 30 elected officials,including 21 still in office,who have endorsed her candi-dacy.
Both Savino and Alexan-der, a former New York Citypolice officer and the currentnational field director for AlSharpton’s National ActionNetwork, said they would es-chew Lachman’s decision toopen only two district offices.Both would add a third officein Brooklyn.
Savino, 40, said she has“put serious thought” intoopening three district offices ifelected — two in Brooklynand one in Staten Island. Bycomparison, Lachman has oneoffice in Staten Island and asecond in Bensonhurst.
Alexander, 38, said hewould open a district office inStaten Island, another at thewestern tip of his district —either in Sunset Park or Bor-ough Park — and a third inConey Island.
But in a tight, sometimesprickly race split between can-
didates living in Staten Islandand Coney Island, each con-tender has their own idea onhow to forward their messageto constituents.
Ettman, 27, a formerdeputy chief of staff to formerCouncilman Howard Lasher,said that he would seek toopen satellite offices through-out the district to provide out-reach. He suggested that rep-resentatives at bank branchesin each neighborhood couldbe positioned two days a weekto take calls and answer ques-tions.
“The district is basically thescraps left over,” said Ettman.“It’s made for a young, dedi-cated, unbiased communityactivist, and that’s what I am.”
Rodney Knight, a ConeyIsland resident and teacher inDistrict 21, said he wouldopen “two to three” offices ineach borough, an unprece-dented task that he did nothave a comprehensive plan forfunding.
“I would like to place two
to three offices in both Brook-lyn and Staten Island,” saidKnight.
“I would hold fundraisersand ask for contributions frommany of those in the profes-sional ranks.”
Knight boasted that he hasmade a greater effort than hisopponents to travel the neigh-borhoods.
“You have Kelvin, and he’sjust promoting within theAfrican-American communi-ty,” said Knight.
“My campaign has gonethrough the whole district —Sunset Park, Borough Park,Bensonhurst. I’m basically alegislator without the position.”
Knight wasn’t the only oneto wage a negative attack.Since earlier this year, allega-tions, mostly aimed at Savino,a front runner, have marredthe race. Most recently,Alexander accused Savino ofreceiving most of her cam-paign funding from outsidethe district. Ettman has ac-cused Savino, a political direc-
tor of Local 317 of the SocialService Employees Union, ofbeing a machine Democrat.Ettman hesitated only brieflybefore calling Knight a long-shot.
Savino, meanwhile, saidthat, more so than her oppo-nents, she would represent theentirety of the district.
“My opponents like to talkabout their communities, butwhat they really mean is theirethnic identity,” said Savino.“I’m not going to just repre-sent the Italians or short peo-ple,” she quipped.
Gerry O’Brien, a politicalconsultant with ties to the Re-publican Party, said that de-spite Savino’s front-runnerstatus, victory would come towhoever best mobilized sup-porters on Sept. 14.
“In a four-way primary likethis one, theoretically you haveto win 26 percent of the vote,”said O’Brien. “What they needto be able to do is move theirpeople to the polls. It may allcome down to Election Day.”
Diane Savino Rodney Knight Cole Ettman Kelvin Alexander
By Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers
Bay Ridge Democraticdistrict leader Joanne Sem-inara, a three-time candi-date for City Council, isbeing challenged by GailAsfazadour, a political no-vice.
But the Sept. 14 primarymay be tighter than expected,thanks to Asfazadour’s men-tor, district leader Ralph Per-fetto, who handpicked thePTA member to unseat his fe-male counterpart. Since May,when Asfazadour announcedher candidacy, all 70 of thecounty committee members inthe 60th Assembly Districthave thrown their weight be-hind Asfazadour.
“He and I have known eachother throughout the years andhe’s a very caring person whohelps people,” Asfazadoursaid of Perfetto, a 12-year in-cumbent. “I don’t have otheragendas. I would be someonewho would support him andI’d be happy doing that.”
She added, “He probablydoesn’t want Joanne to win,but that’s because he wantssomeone who will work as ateam. He wants to unite theparty, not dissect it.”
Although Asfazadour’ssupporters are touting the can-didate’s successful petitiondrive in June, in which 3,173signatures were collected toSeminara’s 798, the incum-bent said the number is besidethe point. Candidates are onlyrequired to collect 500 signa-
Asfazadour, Seminara inheated leadership battle
tures.“There really is no issue,”
Seminara said, adding that al-though Asfazadour’s husband,Al Asfazadour, challengedSeminara’s signatures, Semi-nara did not act in kind.
Seminara said that the cam-paign aside, she and membersof Brooklyn Democrats forChange are discussing ways toreform the judicial screeningprocess, which came under firefollowing the indictment ofBrooklyn Supreme CourtJudge Gerald Garson onbribery charges. She said shewould like to oversee the cre-ation of an independent caucusthat would allow for inter-views with civil and supreme
court candidates.Although the Kings County
Democratic Committee hasplaced a moratorium on en-dorsing candidates, the NewYork Bar Association puts outa list of the candidates itdeems qualified.
“I’m proud of my independ-ence, and as a lawyer I feeluniquely qualified to do this,”said Seminara, whose club hasendorsed Harley Diamond andApril Newbauer for county-wide civil court positions.“Changes need to be made.”
But it’s precisely that drivefor change of which Perfetto iscritical. Both he and As-fazadour accuse Seminara of amore liberal ideology that is
divisive among Democrats inBay Ridge, which is describedin a press release from hisAmerican Heritage Democrat-ic club as “centrist” and “mid-dle-American.”
The bad blood betweenSeminara and Perfetto stemsfrom as far back as 2001, dur-ing her second campaign forthe Bay Ridge council seat.Perfetto agreed to endorse thelawyer if she, in turn, wouldendorse then-Public AdvocateMark Green, for whom Perfet-to was ombudsman and a localcampaign coordinator in hismayoral run. But Perfettoclaims that after Seminaraagreed to those conditions, shebegan petitioning instead for
Council Speaker Peter Vallonefor mayor.
Seminara has countered thatshe and Perfetto had agreedthat she could circulate theVallone petitions out of thedistrict. She said only 39 sig-natures in support of Vallonecame from the district.
“I’ve been a very active De-mocrat for many years,” saidSeminara, who has earned en-dorsements from Rep. JerroldNadler, Assemblywoman AdeleCohen and the Lambda Inde-pendent Democrats. “I’ve al-ways done what’s in the best in-terest of the Democrats in mydistrict and I make decisionsbased on merit and independentjudgement.
By Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers
ARepublican district leader with tiesto Bensonhurst but little name rec-ognition will challenge incumbent stateSen. Marty Golden in Tuesday’s pri-mary election.
Jessica Sutliff is running in place of herhusband, James Sutliff, who in Februaryannounced plans to challenge Golden be-fore bowing out in May following a deathin his family. The attorney said that hername appeared in place of her then-fi-ance’s during a petition drive in June.
“Originally, Jim was going to be thecandidate,” Sutliff said in an e-mail lastmonth. “Due to a recent death in Jim’sfamily — and some illnesses — Jim has
been busy with family matters. My nameappeared on the petitions since the firstday to collect signatures.”
It is unclear how thoroughly Sutliff hascampaigned since June. No press releaseshave been issued to the media and the at-torney, who lives on Bay 34th Street inBensonhurst, has in previous months de-clined to return phone calls. When askedlast month for references, she refused.
“I am capable of answering your ques-tions directly rather than have paid surro-gates speak for me like Golden (GerryO’Brien, William O’Reilly, etc.),” read here-mail. “I do think that if you quote anemployee of Golden’s campaign for thestate Senate, you should indicate their sta-tus because it does affect their credibilityin the minds of your readers.”
O’Reilly is a campaign spokesman forGolden, and O’Brien, a political consult-ant, has been involved in Golden’s earliercampaigns. Jerry Kassar, chairman of theKings County Conservative Party, is alsoon the senator’s staff.
The campaign for the Republican nom-ination in the 22nd state Senate District isSutliff’s first run for an elected position,despite working as a political consultantfor her husband.
Besides his brief campaign earlier thisyear, James Sutliff, 34, drew attention af-ter running an unsuccessful City Councilcampaign against Howard Lasher in 1998.He followed that defeat with losing racesagainst state Sen. Seymour Lachman in2000 and Councilman Domenic Recchialast year.
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Vigils and memorials to markthe third anniversary of 9-11, thefirst of which unfolded on Thurs-day, are planned throughout BayRidge, Dyker Heights and Benson-hurst, with the biggest of the eventsexpected to draw hundreds to theVeterans Memorial Pier.
Southwest Brooklyn was hometo nearly 100 victims of the attacks.
As in previous years, Brook-lynites throughout the borough areexpected to gather Saturday eveningon the landing, better known as the69th Street Pier, where thousandswatched in horror on Sept. 11, 2001,as the World Trade Center towerscollapsed.
Bay Ridge-Bensonhurst stateSen. Marty Golden, a host of thevigil, said that two sets of yellowballoons, symbolizing peace, willbe released into the air following a21-gun salute from the Fort Hamil-ton Army Base. Like last year, bal-loons will be released in sets of
nine and 11 by family memberswho lost loved ones in the attacks.Candles will also be lit anddropped into the Bay Ridge Chan-nel.
Local singer Dakota McCloudwill sing her original song, “Towersin the Sky,” as part of a perform-ance on the pier.
The ceremony will open at 8 pm,with a prayer by U.S. Army Garri-son Fort Hamilton Chaplain StevenNagler and will conclude with theXaverian High School Bagpipers’performance of “Taps.”
“Thousands of people went tothat location and were watching asthe towers were burning, and whatwe’ve done is we’ve maintainedthat pier over the past three years,”said Golden, who added, “At somepoint in the evening you’ll see tearscoming down our eyes.”
In Bensonhurst, a candlelightvigil is planned Saturday outsidethe New Utrecht Reformed Church,the 112-year-old landmark on 18thAvenue at 84th Street. The event, tobegin at 7 pm, will include music
and attendees are asked to bringtheir own candles, chairs and flags.
Although there is no admissionfee, donations will be collected torestore parts of the church, includ-ing its roof, walls and ceiling.
And people are invited to visitthe Brooklyn Wall of Remem-brance at Keyspan Park in ConeyIsland throughout the day. Thewall, which commemorates 155firefighters and New York and PortAuthority police who either livedor worked in Brooklyn, bearsplaques with the likeness, nameand unit of each of the fallen on a20-foot granite wall outside theballpark facing the parking lot. Thepark is at Surf Avenue and West16th Street.
Smaller memorial events, bothof which will be attended by Gold-en and other elected officials, areslated for Marine Park and Gerrit-sen Beach at 6 pm.
Besides the events on Sept. 11,however, a half dozen others arescheduled before and after the an-niversary.
On Thursday, Bensonhurst Coun-cilman Domenic Recchia co-hosted amemorial ceremony at Asser LevyPark, on Ocean Parkway and SeaBreeze Avenue along with BoroughPresident Marty Markowitz and con-gressmen Jerrold Nadler and Antho-ny Weiner. The event featured a colorguard performance and the singing ofpatriotic songs.
“Basically it’s to remember whathappened on that terrible day,” saidRecchia. “But also it’s so we don’tforget what happened to these peo-ples’ loved ones.”
On Friday, Bay Ridge Council-man Vincent Gentile hosted a me-morial event in the 9-11 readingroom at the Amico Senior CitizensCenter, on 13th Avenue at 59thStreet in Borough Park.
On Sunday, Sept. 12, St.Ephrem’s Church, at 929 BayRidge Parkway, will hold a cere-mony after its noon mass, in itsnewly completed “Sept. 11 Memo-rial Garden of Hope.”
The church, which lost nineparishioners in the attacks, will of-
ficially unveil an unnamed statue inthe garden depicting a figure of theGood Shepherd holding the WorldTrade Center towers to his heart.
Mary Jane LaVache, co-chair ofthe Sept. 11 Memorial Committee,the group spearheading the project,said that the families of parish-ioners who died on 9-11 will ap-proach trees lined up behind thestatue one by one, each droppingflowers at the base. Nine of thetrees have plaques with the name ofthe parishioners on them, she said.The 10th is in honor of everyoneelse who died that day.
“This is our response to the evilthat happened on Sept. 11,” saidLaVache, whose mother, Maria,died that day.
On Tuesday, Sept. 14, XaverianHigh School, which lost 21 alumnito the attacks, will continue its tra-dition of holding a vigil and prayerin front of its own memorial to vic-tims, an eternal flame.
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Doggy wedding topromo new shelterBy Jess WisloskiThe Brooklyn Papers
For the last 10 months Todd Pumacomplains, he’s had “no life.”
Puma’s been pulling some late nightsfor work, which in his case, means keep-ing 18 dogs quiet in his two-floor brown-stone apartment, so the neighbors don’tcomplain, and still managing to get themoutside for their walking schedule, inwaves.
“Having a shelter would take a loadoff,” he said, both for himself and hiswife, Jackie.
The shelter to which Puma refers thisweek became a reality, housing the 11-year-old, no-kill animal rescue organiza-tion Hearts and Homes.
Hearts and Homes, operated out of avan and members’ homes until now,opened the doors to its first permanentshelter on Sept. 8.
To celebrate the opening, Puma willhost a fundraiser, the centerpiece ofwhich will be the marriage of two younghomeless pups, a bulldog mix named Pe-tey, and Dot, a pit bull terrier. Petey andDot will cement their vows by sharingthe same doggy treat and sipping chick-en-broth “champagne.”
On their bridal registry (www.heart-sandhomes.org) they request donationsof pet food, a truck or van, washing ma-chine and dryer, wee-wee pads, dogcoats, rags, blankets, and more, not forthem, but for their buddies at the animalshelter. The wedding-fundraiser will beheld from 7 pm to 11 pm (the ceremonyis at 7:30) on Sept. 18, at the CynthiaKing Dance Studio, 1256 Prospect Ave.,in Windsor Terrace. Donations of $20 aresuggested, and the first 150 arrivals re-
an office tower. Quickly rising to theplatitudes of the city’s other prepschools, the facility, then known asthe Brooklyn Collegiate and Poly-technic Institute, grew over 40 yearsto become one of the largest of itskind in the nation.
In 1916, a generous endowmentallowed trustees to move to its cur-rent site in Bay Ridge, at the time oc-cupied by the golf course that it nowneighbors to the east. Since then, theschool has grown by leaps andbounds, sometimes in ways that itsneighbors have found troubling.
In July, residents along BatteryAvenue objected to what they be-lieved was to become a third en-trance to the school, which they sayhas added traffic to its already con-
gested streets. Although that issuewas resolved, with ease in fact, somein the neighborhood contend that theschool has sustained over the yearsan exclusionary attitude. In yearspast, say some, neighbors have com-plained that administrators have notwelcomed them onto the privatecampus.
As for Poly Prep’s future, Harmansaid that several new buildings arebeing discussed for the campus, in-cluding those that would expand onits dining room and arts facilities.More important, he said, is an initia-tive to build the school’s endowment.Although its alumni includes formerGeneral Motors President Alfred P.Sloan, and Ken Duberstein, a chiefof staff to Ronald Reagan, theschool, said Harman, could gainfrom a larger pool of philanthropists.
“One of our major goals is to buildour school’s endowment,” he said.“We think we’re still a little under-endowed for a school of our size.”
From now until December, theschool will be hosting a series of cel-ebrations, including a gala on Oct. 2at the New York Marriott Brooklynon Adams Street downtown. Besidesthe gathering of several hundred ofthe school’s alumni, the black-tieevent will feature comments fromformer SEC chief Leavitt. The fol-lowing day, former classmates willgather at the campus for an 11 amdedication of the Alumni House.
As for Holden Caulfield, Chand-hok said that Poly’s English depart-ment still includes “Catcher in theRye” in its reading curriculum.
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ceive a $15 gift certificate to AuntSuzie’s Italian restaurant in Park Slope.
Hearts and Homes’ new shelter, at908 McDonald Ave. in Kensington, willbe the first facility to house the organiza-tion, which started as a network of fosterhomes for found animals. Just like thepooches for which they try to find lovinghomes, the group has been pretty muchhomeless since it began, working out oftrucks and vans and reaching out to po-tential pet owners by turning up at busyshopping areas, and stationing them-selves regularly on sidewalks throughoutManhattan and Brooklyn, especially onMontague Street off Henry Street inBrooklyn Heights, and on Court Street,in front of Borough Hall plaza.
Puma took over operations for the
group last October, and said he made it“halfway through the winter before I re-alized this was practically impossible.”His home had become overrun with dogs(he already had three of his own), and hefound himself sitting in his car with theheat on all night so pets would have aplace to stay.
Puma said the group has a long-termlease for the new shelter — they receiveda $1,000 price cut from the landlord —which has two levels and 3,000 squarefeet of space for the animals. A recent$10,000 donation from a 9-11 firefight-er’s widow, whose husband used to alsodo animal rescue, helped them to buy 25modular crates, four modules per crate.The crates are state-of-the-art, in terms ofcomfort for the pets, and cost plenty, saidPuma, but the luxury, for the dogs atleast, doesn’t end there.
“It’s going to be doggie day-spastyle,” said Hearts and Homes DirectorLaurie Bleier. She said the 1,800-square-foot backyard, where they’re putting upthree separate dog runs, will also have atrainer to work with some of the moodyand misbehaving mutts.
The shelter aims to keep itself self-suf-ficient by running an in-house pet storeand grooming facility, as well as offeringgroup and individual training classes,seminars on cat ownership, and spayingand neutering, which they’d like to makefree for lower-income pet owners whomight otherwise forego the procedure.
Though Bleier said that the “heart andsoul” of Hearts and Homes was the dog-gy foster care network, which their Website boasts has 30 regular boarders, Pumamade it quite clear that the foster carealone wasn’t doing the job.
“Foster homes are few and far be-tween. We have about three dependablefoster homes, but at any given time Ihave 20 dogs with me,” Puma said. Hethinks a shelter will help showcase thedogs, more so than do the organization’stypical street appearances.
“When you’re on a busy street cornerit’s hard to see what the dogs are reallylike,” Puma noted.
Bleier is also excited, but she thinksthe foster care will still be an essentialpart of their service.
“Even when we have the shelter, wewant to keep the foster care going,” shesaid. “Eighty percent of the time a persontakes in a pet, they end up keeping it.They get attached.”
She explained that foster parents are alsogood for a dog’s socialization.
“It makes them happier animals, andbetter pets, and they get homes quicker,”Bleier said.
The problem with a regular shelter isthe lack of human contact, she said. Thedogs get walked maybe twice a day, anddon’t get to form any real bonds. Pumamentioned a solution to that.
“Sponsor a dog,” he says to apprehen-sive wannabe dog owners. For those whomay not have enough room in their apart-ment, enough money to care for them, orthe necessary time for ownership, hesaid, sponsoring a pet for three weeksalone could help.
“Come in every day and spend anhour or two with the dog. They couldtake one for a walk, play with them, playin the yard, and the dogs really, really en-joy it. We not only need financial spon-sors, we need moral sponsors, too.”
Petey and Dot will be married onSept. 18 at Cynthia King DanceStudio in Windsor Terrace
Downtown, college studentsmove into St. George HotelBy Jess WisloskiThe Brooklyn Papers
On a weekend when Brook-lyn families fired up grills inbackyards and thousands flock-ed to the West Indian Americanparade, more than 400 collegestudents arriving for the fall se-mester lined up outside the St.George Hotel in BrooklynHeights.
Like vagabonds of an erawhere foam mattress pads andSamsonites on wheels replacedcarpet bags and apple crates,the students and their parentsstood by on Henry Street atClark Street last Saturday, wait-ing to move in.
Educational Housing Ser-vices (EHS), the Manhattan-based company that matches stu-dents from universities citywidewith the dorm-like single anddouble studios, has been the solelessee of the St. George for eightyears. This year, the hotel willhouse 815 students from up to 75different schools, more than halfof whom are attending LowerManhattan’s Pace University.
Part of a group of neo-Re-naissance style buildings thatonce constituted one of thelargest hotels in the world, theSt. George was built between1885 and 1929. It’s heyday wasjust before and following WorldWar II. By the early 1990s,owner Moshe Drizin was rent-ing much of it to the homelessunder a contract with the Hu-man Resources Administration.
The hotel once housed a gi-ant, salt-water swimming pool,and hosted, according to litera-ture distributed proudly by EHSaides, greats like Marilyn Mon-roe, Leonard Bernstein (whorecorded a track of Gershwin’s“American in Paris” there), andthe filming of scenes for “TheGodfather.”
In 1996, a large portion of thehotel, facing Clark Street, was de-stroyed in a raging inferno.
Property manager AmyKaufman said the building’s
owners are glad to now housethe somewhat humbler gaggleof students. “We have an excel-lent relationship,” she said, not-ing that EHS has held a long-term lease for the building since1996. “We’re a prime location.Students are very happy thatwe’re right above the [2/3 line]subway, and everything a stu-dent would need in the world iswithin a five-block radius.”
Larry Maxwell, a returning
Pace student entering his sopho-more year, lived in Manhattan lastyear. Standing on Henry StreetSaturday he guarded his moundof luggage, bedding and bookswhile his mother, who drove upwith him from Alabama, lookedfor a parking spot.
Maxwell said he was anxiousabout seeing his new room, ofwhich he’d only seen a blueprint.It was his first visit to Brooklyn.
The long line of students and
their stuff didn’t seem to shrinkas the afternoon wore on. Foreach one who had his namecalled by the green-shirted resi-dent advisers and had his be-longings whiz past in a giantplastic cart, another arrived, un-loading from the back of anSUV with out-of-state plates,and plunking themselves downto join the queue.
Amanda Weiss, 22, of upstateGuilderland, passed the time by
watching anime shorts on aportable DVD player with two ofher friends who came out to helpwith the move.
“I was supposed to be at an-other hall but they told us be-cause it was being renovated theywould stick us here for awhile,”said the Pace graduate student.
“This is the first time I’ve everbeen to New York for an extend-ed period of time,” she said, ad-mittedly apprehensive about citylife. “I don’t know very muchbecause I’ve never been here be-fore, but I’m going to get settledin and explore around.”
Jenny Pham, a veteran resi-dent advisor and a music per-formance student at Hunter Col-lege, was busy laminating IDcards. She said one of the goalsof the15 RAs was to build a so-cial scene outside of the hotel.
“We’re trying to patronize theHeights community,” she said.
Plans for the week includeda walking tour of BrooklynHeights culminating in a trip tothe Brooklyn Ice Cream Facto-ry at Fulton Landing, an “intro-duction to sushi” night, and agame night in the chandelier-festooned lounge. The roomscome with amenities that in-clude TV and cable, localphone hookups, free internetconnections, refrigerators andbasic utilities.
For a bed in one of the dou-bles, an individual student pays$4,950 to $5,250 per semester.
“It’s a good deal,” saidChristy Gaiti, EHS vice presi-dent for Student Life.
ANew School University stu-dent who had been living at St.George for about a week dis-agreed. “I hate it. It’s disgusting,”said the student, who said shewanted to remain anonymousuntil she could find another placeto live. “They charge $2,200 amonth and they’re tiny, they’rereally small, and there’s nokitchen facilities.”
Her friend Leon chimed in:“But I guess Marilyn Monroestayed here, so …”
Pace University student Larry Maxwell, 20, surveys the load he brought with him from Al-abama in front of the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights.
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Brooklyn 7Hudson Valley 1Sept. 3, at Hudson Valley
The Cyclones defeated theHudson Valley Renegades inBrooklyn’s regular seasonhome finale.
The game had no bearingon the playoff positioning forthe first-place Clones (43-30), but the contest wasmeaningful for Hudson Val-ley (38-33), still in the racefor a wildcard spot in thepostseason.
Gabriel Hernandez (1-0),making his debut for Brook-lyn, took the win in relief ofEvan MacLane, who startedand threw only 26 pitchers ina tune-up for his playoff-opening start scheduled forSept. 6 at Tri-City.
The Cyclones took a 1-0lead in the second inningwhen Grant Psomas doubledto score Jim Burt.
In the fifth, Corey Colesscored on Dante Brinkley’ssingle and then Psomas droveBrinkley home to advancethe Clones margin to 3-0.
In the sixth, the Cyclonesscored two more runs as Der-ran Watts and Corey Colesscored on Dante Brinkley’ssingle.
Hudson Valley scored arun in the top of the eighth tocut the Brooklyn lead to 5-1.
The Cyclones came backwith two more runs in thebottom of the frame to closeout the scoring when Wattsscored on a wild pitch andJim Burt singled in Brinkley. Hudson Valley 7Brooklyn 1Sept. 4 at Hudson Valley
The Cyclones wrapped upthe regular season with a lossto the Hudson Valley Rene-gades.
With a playoff spot alreadydecided for the McNamaraDivision-winning Cyclones(43-31) and Hudson Valley(39-33) eliminated from theplayoff chase, the game heldno postseason implications.
Brooklyn starter ScottHyde (4-4) took the defeat ashe was hit hard, giving up sixruns, all earned, on six hitsand two walks in four in-nings.
Hudson Valley scored asingle run in the first inning,two runs in each of the nextframes, and another run in thefourth inning to jump out to a6-0 lead.
The Cyclones scored theteam’s lone run in the fifthwhen Jim Burt doubled tocenter and was driven homeby Travis Garcia’s singledown the right field line.
Hudson Valley tacked on
one more run in the eighth togive the Renegades a 7-1lead and close out the scor-ing.Brooklyn 2Tri-City 0Sept. 6 at Keyspan Park
The Cyclones shutout theTri-City Valley Cats behindthe outstanding pitching ofstatrer Evan MacLane in thefirst game of the best of threeseries in the opening round of
the New York-Penn Leagueplayoffs.
MacLane, with a record of5-3 in the regular season,picked up the win after goingseven innings in blanking theValleycats on only four hits.
Brooklyn broke open ascoreless game in the sixthinning when Dante Brinkleyled off with an infield single.
After both Tyler Davidsonand Ambiorix Concepcionstruck out, Brinkley stole sec-
ond. He scored on Jim Burt’ssingle.
The Clones added an in-surance run in the eighthwhen Derran Watts doubleddown the right field line.Matt Fisher sacrificed Wattsto third. After Dante Brinkleywalked, Tyler Davidson hit agrounder that forced Brinkleyat second and drove in Watts.
Eddy Camacho pitchedtwo shutout innings to pickup the save.
with Ed Shakespeare
The Play’s the ThingThe Play’s the Thing
THE CYCLONES’ SEASON seems to ride along muchlike a trip on the roller coaster for which the team isnamed. There’s a long, slow ascent, as most of the future
members of the Cyclones short-season team take part in extend-ed spring training in Florida, or perform for college teams priorto the baseball draft in early June. Meanwhile, the full-seasonteams in minor league baseball begin their seasons in early April.
The Cyclones schedule began on June 18, and after the ex-tended climb towards the heights of Opening Day, the early sea-son seems like the first drop on the ride — it’s steep and fast. TheBrooklyn team was scheduled for 20 straight days until the firstoff day on July 9, and the season races along with only two morescheduled off days during the remainder of the 76-game season.
This year, the playoffs started on Labor Day, with only fourteams making the cut, with the semi-final and final serieseach being best-of-three affairs.
The McNamara Division champions defeated the Tri-CityValley Cats in the first game of the semi-final series at KeyspanPark on Labor Day, and the Brooks left soon after that game forTroy, N.Y., in the hope of wrapping up the series the next night.
The Cyclones were winning that game by a 2-0 score go-ing into the bottom of the eighth inning when the amusementpark cars carrying the Cyclones became stuck.
The Valley Cats would start the inning by sending up Jon-ny Ash, the left-handed batting lead-off man who hit .297during the regular season. Next up was right-handed batterJames Cooper, the left fielder. The third scheduled batter wasBen Zobrist, a switch-hitter who led the league with a .339batting average, and a batter of whom Tony Tijerina said,“We want to turn him around to bat righty when we can.”
Should any Valley Cat reach base, the fourth hitter in theinning was scheduled to be left-handed cleanup man MarioGarza, who led the league in home runs, with 15, and in runsbatted in with 65.
So Tijerina went to the bullpen.The situation called for a left-hander to face Ash, Zobrist
and possibly Garza. Tijerina selected lefty Eddy Camacho.
CAMACHO HAD PITCHED in 20 games for Brook-lyn, all in relief. He had thrown 41 innings allowing23 hits with a miniscule ERA of 1.10. Camacho had
pitched in relief the day before, but pitching back-to-backgames was nothing new for him.
Tijerina, a chess player, was ready for the end game, with theproper pieces in position to checkmate the Valley Cats. TheBrooklyn manager had right-handed closer Celso Rondon, with12 saves and a 1.51 ERA, ready to come in for Camacho whenthe Cats had moved past Garza in the lineup.
The Brooklyn manager had the Tri-City guys right wherehe wanted them, but it was a couple of women who wouldmake their appearance in the series to change things. The firstof these females is known as “Lady Luck,” and here’s whereshe came into the game.
Camacho walked Ash, and the next scheduled batter wasCooper, who hit only .232 for the season. But Cooper had injuredhis arm earlier in the game, a piece of seeming bad luck for theValley Cats. The Tri-City manager went to his bench and sent up.143 hitter Mitch Einertson, a righty, to hit. But the .143 averageis deceiving. Before he reported to Tri-City near the end of theCats’season, Einertson played for Greenville where he hit an Ap-palachian League-record 24 home runs this season, plus threemore in the league play-offs, and his only regular season hit forthe Valley Cats, in a mere seven at bats, was a homer.
Well, Einertson struck out swinging. That brought up Zobrist who, despite being turned around to
bat righty, powered a ball over the left field fence to tie the score.After Garza walked, Tijerina brought in Rondon, who got theCyclones out of the inning without any further damage.
After Brooklyn failed to score in the ninth, Rondon hadtwo out and two on in the bottom of the frame with Einertsonat bat. Remembew what I said about his deceptive numbers?Well, this time he singled to left center to win the game.
So now Tri-City had evened the series at 1-1, and the Cy-clones would simply have to board the bus for the short trip backto the team hotel, the Day’s Inn, in nearby Colonie, N.Y.
Not so simple. When the team was ready to leave for the fieldthat day, they had already checked out of the hotel. Minor leagueteams aren’t going to pay for 20-plus rooms that they won’t use.
SO THE TEAM had gone to the ball field that night withthree possibilities. If Brooklyn lost, the club would stay inTroy and play the next day. If the Cyclones won and
Auburn defeated Mahoning Valley to even the New York-PennLeague’s other semi-final series at 1-1, then the Cyclones wouldhead home right after the game, arrive in Brooklyn at around2:30 am and wait to see what would happen in the other series. Ifthe Cyclones won and Mahoning Valley went on to win that se-ries, then Brooklyn would go directly by bus to Mahoning Val-ley, Ohio, to begin the final series on Thursday.
“Just win the game and get on the bus,” was the commonsense advice that batting coach Donovan Mitchell promulgat-ed to a few players before the game.
After the loss to the Valley Cats, the Cyclones traveledback to the Day’s Inn and checked into rooms — albeit notthe ones they had left that afternoon.
Trainer Ruben Barrera, who doubles as the Cyclones’ trav-eling secretary, had to scramble to make sure that all the Cy-clones had rooms, and the uniforms were washed and readyfor the next night’s contest.
On the next afternoon, Brooklyn once again checked out ofthe Day’s Inn and loaded all the baseball equipment and civil-ian clothes onto their Academy bus for the trip to Joseph L.Bruno Stadium for the final game of the series.
Now “Lady Luck” was joined by “Mother Nature” as apossible determiner of the Cyclones’ fate.
Hurricaine Frances was moving up the coast from Florida,and the hurricane’s remnants were expected to bring rain intothe Troy area that evening.
On a rainy Wednesday afternoon, the Cyclones againchecked out of the hotel and bused to the ballpark.
The weather reports made the completion of a full gameunlikely but, despite a drizzle, the game began at 7:22 pm.The umpires called the game because of a hard downpour, andthe contest would resume from scratch on the next night, Sept. 9.
Once more, the team got back on the bus and went to theDay’s Inn — to new rooms once again.
More rain from the residue of Hurricane Frances was pre-dicted and the rain in the morning was heavy.
In the afternoon, the Cyclones again checked out of the hotel.and headed for the Valley Cats’ballpark. Later that evening, threethings could happen: The Cyclones could be victorious and onthe bus heading for Niles, Ohio and the opening round of thechampionship series against Mahoning Valley; they could be de-feated, their season over and headed for Brooklyn; they could berained out and headed back to the Day’s Inn.
Despite the right strategic moves of their chess-playingmanager, the Cyclones were stuck in rain and a temporarystalemate. Lady Luck and Mother Nature were making theCyclones feel like residents of Troy.
As the Cyclones slugger Tyler Davidson said after theSept. 8 rainout, “We want to get out of here!”
From Davidson’s tone and body language, you knew hedidn’t want to leave with a defeat. After all, that would be noway to end this season’s ride.
Brooklyn Papers columnist Ed Shakespeare’s book, “WhenBaseball Returned to Brooklyn,” is available at Amazon.com.
On the day of the Cy-clones’ playoff opener athome against Tri-City, theteam checked out of theirtemporary quarters in aBay Ridge hotel. It was a-round 11 am, and theClones had a window of afew hours before they hadto report to Keyspan Parkfor that evening’s game.
215 Montague St. to get a ticketto see a game at Ebbets Field.
“My name was still listedon one of the blackboards thatthe Dodgers had on whichthey kept track of every play-er in their farm system,” saidDavis.
“That was in the movieabout Jackie Robinson,” henoted. “If you look at theblackboard in the Dodgers’offices, there’s my name.”
Tijerina keeps Clones cool —by taking them to Coney Island
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And their manager mightbe with them!
Clones take final two, split playoffs
WRAP-UP
[a popular Boardwalk amuse-ment that allows players toshoot paint pellets at a man re-galed in anti-paint pelletequipment] and he did justthat,” said an admiring Watts.
Warming up by firing a toyrifle at the human target called“The Freak” might have beenbetter than batting practice for
Brooklyn connection
Duke Davis was a spectatorat this year’s first playoffgame in Tri-City. Davis livesnear Binghamton, N.Y., andhe was a catcher in the Brook-lyn Dodgers farm system.
Back in 1943, Davis wasworking for IBM. He grew upin the Binghamton area, andhe used to catch batting prac-tice for the BinghamtonTriplets.
“The Dodgers Jake Pitlerknew me from my playingball in Binghamton, so he gotthe Dodgers to offer me abonus of $500 if I’d sign,” re-lates Davis. He was 4F for themilitary draft, and he signed a
contract with Brooklyn. In his first season, Davis
played for Olean in the PONYLeague (So named because itconsisted of teams from Penn-sylvania, Ontario and NewYork), the forerunner of theCyclones’ New York-PennLeague. Batavia and James-town are cities represented inthe PONY League in Davis’day that are now in the NewYork-Penn League.
In fact, when Davis was inthe Dodger organization, heplayed on the same team inOlean as George Shuba, theDodger outfielder better
known by his nickname:“Shotgun Shuba.” In fact,Davis was on the team whenShuba earned his famousmoniker — for uplifted “shot-gun” shots into State Streetover the 250-foot right fieldfence.
In 1944, Davis once caughtHall of Fame hurler Cy Youngwhen Young, long past hisplaying days, was an instruc-tor at Erie demonstratingproper pitching techniques.
Davis never made theBrooklyn Dodgers, but after hisplaying days were over, he vis-ited the Dodger front office at
Just desertsAnother Brooklyn fan pres-
ent at the first Cyclones gameat Tri-City was Jack Kraft,known as “The Desert Viking”because Kraft lives in Las Ve-gas and claims to be a descen-dant of both Leif Ericson andKing Harold III.
“I’m a direct lineal descen-dent on my mother’s side ofLeif Ericson and on my father’sside of King Harold III, theViking king,” he claims
But Kraft’s more recentbackground shows that he’s aBrooklynite who attendedBrooklyn Technical HighSchool.
Kraft loves minor leaguebaseball, and he has seen gamesin over 60 minor league cities.He flew all the way from hisNevada home to Albany so thathe could see the first Cyclonesplayoff game at Troy.
“I grew up with theDodgers,” stated Kraft. “Thefirst Dodgers game I went towas in 1946, and I was inEbbets Field when JackieRobinson played his first gamein 1947, and I was present forThomson’s home run in 1951when they lost it all, and I wasin Yankee Stadium when theDodgers won it all in 1955.”
Jack Kraft even shows thathe and other Dodger fans havea forgiving nature. WhenKraft attended the first-everCyclones game at KeyspanPark, Ralph Branca, who gaveup Thomson’s famous “ShotHeard ’Round the World,”was there to throw out a cere-monial first pitch.
“We applauded him,” saidKraft. “Fifty years is enough!”
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The Tri-City Valley Catsevened the best-of-three semi-final playoff series at a gameapiece with a come-from-be-hind victory at Troy, N.Y.
Brooklyn received 3 1/3 in-nings of shutout pitching fromstarter Michael Devaney and 32/3 more scoreless inningsfrom reliever Blake Eager asthese seven consecutive score-less innings ran the Cyclones’consecutive shutout string to16 straight innings against theValley Cats.
Brooklyn opened the scor-ing in the fourth. With oneout, Matt Fisher doubled toright center and was driven inone out later on Tyler David-son’s homer to left center.
Tri-City evened the score inthe eighth. Eddy Camachocame in the game to start theinning, and he walked the firstValleycat batter, Jonny Ash.Mitch Einertson pinch hit forinjured left fielder JamesCooper, and Einertson struckout. Then Ben Zobrist home-red to left to make the score 2-2.
With closer Celso Rondonon the mound in the ninth in-ning , the Valley Cats’ LouSantangelo singled with oneout. After Drew Sutton struckout, Ash walked. Then Ein-ertson singled in the winningrun.
Did manager TonyTijerina call a teammeeting to go overstrategy? Did he tryto get his players psy-ched for the post sea-son?
No, that’s not themanager’s style. Ti-jerina believes inletting the playersrelax before a game,especially — a play-off game.
“If you startyelling and scream-ing before a biggame, and tellingthe players theycan’t play ping-pong in the club-house, all it does ismake the players nervous be-cause you’re acting differentlythan you’ve acted all year,”said Tijerina, a six-year minorleague managing veteran atonly 34 years of age.
So the Cyclones managerlets the players relax. How?
“We shuttled everybodyover to the ballpark and six
players and myself rode theCyclone and shot the freak,and then we walked theboardwalk,” said the Cyclonesleader, describing some of theattractions along the board-walk.
“We were screaming a loton the Cyclone,” Derran Wattssaid of his first ride on theclassic coaster, “I’ll admitthat.”
“Dante Brinkley said hewas going to shoot the freak
Brinkley goes battyThe Cyclones had clinched the
McNamara Division title, and theywere playing out the string at Hud-son Valley.
Dante Brinkley was in left fieldand Derran Watts was in center, andWatts noticed that Brinkley was edg-ing towards the left field line.
“Dante kept moving more andmore towards the line, more than heshould for the batter that was up,“said Watts. “I called out to him andasked him what he was doing and atfirst he wouldn’t answer,” recalledhis friend and fellow outfielder.
“Finally, he yelled back to me andsaid, ‘Bats!’ ” recalled Watts.
Brinkley quickly scooted into foulterritory, time was called, and even-tually a pair of bats was removedfrom the field.
Brinkley stands in against a ballthrown at over 90 miles per hour, buthe was one of a select few playersever brushed backed by a bat.Dante Brinkley takes a hack.
Matt Fisher doubles during Monday’s playoff game against the Tri-City Valley Cats atKeyspan Park. The Cyclones won the game 2-0.
Ambiorix Concepcion gets caught stealing second during Tuesday’s Game 2 loss to Tri-City.
Troy storyTroy, the site of the Tri-City
Valley Cats’ballpark, has a richbaseball past. The city had sev-eral major league franchises inthe 1800s, including one knownas the Trojans, or alternatively,as the Haymakers, a name giv-en to them by New York City-area teams who viewed them ascountry bumpkins.
The following Hall ofFame players were just a fewof the stars to play majorleague baseball for Troy:
Big Dan Brouthers playedfor the Troy Trojans from 1879to 1880. He won more battingcrowns — five — than any oth-er 19th-century ball player.
Tim Keefe was a Troypitcher who twice won morethan 40 games in a season.
Roger Connor was the lead-ing home run hitter of his timeand he played with the TroyTrojans from 1880 until 1882.
Buck Ewing, who playedwith Troy from 1880 to1882,was considered the greatestcatcher of the 19th century.
Eventually, the Troy majorleague team was expelled fromthe National League after the1882 season when John B. Dayhad been awarded a New YorkCity franchise. He subsequentlybought the defunct Troy club.
So, in effect, the Troy clubbecame the New York Giants,the great rivals to Brooklyn’sDodgers.
8 AWP September 11, 2004THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM
Photo festThe Art + Commerce Festival will feature the
works of 60 up-and-coming photographers from thetri-state area in the historic Tobacco Warehouseabutting the revamped Empire-Fulton Ferry StatePark, beginning Sept. 17. The free “2004 Festival ofEmerging Photographers” opens on Friday with aprivate gala and opens to the public on Saturday,Sept. 18, duringregular park hours.
Nearly half ofthe featured shutter-bugs are fromBrooklyn, accord-ing to Michael VanHorne, co-curatorof the show, whichis organized by Art+ Commerce, anagency that repre-sents creative talentin the areas of pho-tography, art direc-tion and styling.Among this borough’s talents on display is RichardKoek, whose 2002 photo “Feet” is pictured above.
Brooklyn Heights resident Jimmy Moffat, a part-ner in the Art + Commerce agency, came up withthe idea to spotlight both these emerging talents andthe slowly evolving Brooklyn Bridge Park withBrooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Executive Di-rector Marianna Koval.
“She and I are good friends and neighbors,” ex-plained Moffat. “We always fantasized when wewere walking our dogs down there that we could dosomething that would both help young artists, whodon’t have any exposure in the public arena, andbring people to the park. It’s been a great collabora-tion.”
Among the celebrities that Art + Commerce rep-resents are Annie Leibovitz, Steven Meisel andWilliam Eggleston.
“[Art + Commerce] have our feet in lots of dif-ferent aspects of the photography world — bookpublishing, advertising, magazines — where histor-ically, agencies inhabit only one of those worlds,”said Moffat. “We wanted to do something where wecould bring together all those worlds and have anopen and participatory event.”
Moffat said the agency received 12,000 submis-sions from 1,000 artists, and with a panel of judgesfrom various backgrounds, narrowed the number offeatured photographers to just 60.
“Nothing is being done for profit,” said Moffat.The show is free and open to the public and in-
formation will be provided at the roofless ware-house — located off Water and Dock streets — forthose interested in purchasing photographs or hir-ing the photographers whose works are on display.For more information, log on to www.artandcom-merce.com or call the Brooklyn Bridge Park Con-servancy at (718) 802-0603. — Lisa J. Curtis
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By Kevin Filipskifor The Brooklyn Papers
John Boorman has remained an enigmathroughout his four decade-long careeras a director.
The British-born filmmaker has neverbeen pigeonholed by a style orgenre, so it is fitting that the ti-tle of the retrospective thatthe BAMCinematek ismounting from Sept.20 to Oct. 5 is “TheAdventures of JohnBoorman.”
“Festivals aremounting retro-spectives of myfilms all over theworld,” the direc-tor said via e-mailfrom Italy, where heheaded the jury dur-ing the recent VeniceFilm Festival. “Perhapsthese are gentle hints to tellme to stop.”
His tongue, of course, is firmly incheek.
While BAM’s title may seem a bit of ageneric description of Boorman’s filmmak-ing history, that’s the point, it seems. Boor-man as a director has been all over the cine-matic map: he’s made comedies, thrillers,mysteries, science fiction, historical dramas,autobiographical dramas, even the infamousfirst sequel to “The Exorcist.” (There havebeen two since then, you may or may not
know.) Put all those different types of genreson a director’s resume, and you end up with“The Adventures of John Boorman.”
The 11 films in the BAM retro range from1965’s “Catch Us if You Can,” his debut fea-ture starring the Dave Clark Five, a faddishBritish Invasion band that rode the crest of
the Beatles’ wave in the early ‘60s,to 1995’s “Beyond Rangoon.”
(His most recent feature,the riveting 1998 gang-
ster pic, “The Gener-al,” will not bescreened.)
The series —which also includeshis nervy, unset-tling adaptation ofJames Dickey’snovel “Deliver-ance” (1972) — is
bookended by histwo strongest pic-
tures, opening with hisWorld War II reminis-
cence, 1987’s “Hope andGlory,” and ending with anoth-
er WWII-era film, the riveting LeeMarvin-Toshiro Mifune mini-psychodrama,“Hell in the Pacific” (1968).
Boorman’s films often have a curious his-tory; in several instances, they were critical-ly drubbed upon release, only to see theirreputations grow over time, not unlike thefilms of Stanley Kubrick. His strangely com-pelling fictional biopic “Leo the Last”(1970), starring Marcello Mastroianni; hisfuturistic epic “Zardoz” (1974), with Sean
Connery; and, most outrageously of all, “Ex-orcist II: The Heretic” (1977), with RichardBurton, have all seen initial boos turn intobravos as the years go by.
Boorman himself is perplexed about thisdevelopment.
“I can’t explain why some of my filmshave grown in reputation as time passed, ex-cept that all films either grow or diminishwith time,” he said. “Probably the films youmention [‘Leo the Last,’ ‘Zardoz’ and ‘TheHeretic’] are unconventional, even originalin style, which is always disturbing to audi-ences. Time magazine called ‘Point Blank’‘a fog of a film’ and many people found itperplexing. When it was revived years later,all those problems seemed to have disap-peared. The film had not changed, but theaudiences had.”
That goes double for “Exorcist II,” whichfound critics reaching for their thesauri tocondemn the movie as vociferously as theypraised the original William Friedkin clas-sic. Boorman defends his work on that filmby returning to the source material: WilliamPeter Blatty’s best-selling novel.
“I was offered ‘The Exorcist’ but turned itdown.” he insists. “I found it repulsive as abook: it was all about torturing a child. Isaw ‘The Heretic’ as a riposte to the [origi-nal]; the healing and burgeoning of thatchild and her redemption, which is why Iwanted to make it. The audience rejected it
because they wanted more shocks and blood[like the original].”
Along with his films — which are unani-mously praised for their varied locationshooting — Boorman has kept the art of cin-ema moving forward by serving as directorof the British Film Institute and the co-editorof the excellent “Perspectives” series of filmanthology books.
One recent development that every direc-tor must now deal with is the ascension ofDVD to a level now surpassing that of initialtheatrical runs. Boorman sees it quite rightlyas a necessary evil, but hopes to subvert itsseeming preeminence over the actual workitself.
“Directors are now required to do a com-mentary for the DVD,” he says matter-of-factly. But, he happily admits, “I have neveradded in extra scenes [for the DVD, where‘deleted scenes’ have become a standardmarketing tool]. I have always had final cut[on my films], so for better or worse the re-leased version is mine.”
Now, as he’s about to enter a fifth decademaking features, Boorman shows absolutelyno signs of slowing down, and “The Adven-tures of John Boorman” shows a versatiledirector who still calls the shots.
I love the Seventies: Director John Boor-man has directed Sean Connery (aboveleft) in the 1974 sci-fi flick “Kardoz” andLinda Blair (inset) in the 1977 sequel to“The Exorcist,” “The Heretic.”
“The Adventures of John Boorman”runs at the BAMcinematek (30 Lafayette Ave.at Ashland Place in Fort Greene) from Sept.20 to Oct. 5. Tickets are $10, $6 for seniorsand students with a valid ID. For a completelist of films, screening dates and times, call(718) 636-4100 or visit the Web site atwww.bam.org.
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On Sunday, Sept. 19, Williamsburg will celebrateits 18th annual Parade and Dog Show.
The parade, which will start at noon at the BQEPet Store and Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition(BARC) shelter at 253 Wythe Ave. on the corner ofNorth First Street, ends at McCarren Park, at Bed-ford Avenue and North 12th Street.
Following the parade, the dog show will get under-way in McCarren Park. Among the highlights are abest-dressed dog contest — this year’s theme is the“Wild Wow West,” see Troy, pictured — and even adog and human kissing contest. Winners receive good-
According to coordi-nator Shelley Bernstein,the event draws 1,000 to2,000 people every year.
Vinny Spinola, anemployee at the BARCShelter, confirms thatcelebrity pet lovers canalso be expected at theevent; at press time,Broadway actress EllieMcKay and WABC-
TV’s weatherman Dave Brown will be among them. Expect a lot of people and definitely plenty of
dogs at this five-hour, outdoor event. There will alsobe children’s games at the pooch party.
According to employee Debbie Williams, oppor-tunities to adopt dogs will be available throughoutthe afternoon.
The event is free and open to the public. TheBARC is a not-for-profit, no-kill animal shelter. Formore information, call BARC at (718) 486-7489 orvisit its Web site at www.barcshelter.org.
— Gabriel Gonzalez
Wild BoormanFilmmaker John Boormanreflects on his varied movies on eve of BAM retrospective
Count ’em: Boorman’s 1970 film “Leo the Last,” about an aristocrat who inherits aLondon mansion in a racially divided neighborhood, features Italian screen legendMarcello Mastroianni in his first English-speaking role.
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Blue Star254 Court St. at Kane Street, (718) 858-0309 or (718) 858-5806 (Cash only) Entrees:$12-$19. �“There are no cliches on my menu,” boastsBlue Star chef and owner Marc Elliot. “I’drather do something creative and interesting.”That’s exactly what Blue Star’s menu offers.
For dessert, try the “Chocolate Sushi,” roundslices of fudge rolled in sweet, shreddedcoconut (to look like rice). It is served with a sil-ver cup full of Kahlua for dipping, tiny scoopsof homemade wasabi ice cream and sticks ofcrystallized ginger.
On the last Sunday of every month, Elliotoffers a cooking class for $75 including brunchand wine. After class, invite a friend to join youat Blue Star to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
Enjoy “Tuesday Blues Day” and feast on $1blue point oysters, blue crabs and Pabst BlueRibbons all day while listening to live bluegrassfrom 7 pm to 10 pm. Dinner is served daily.Lunch is served Wednesday through Sundaystarting at noon. Brunch is available Saturdaysand Sundays.
Cobble Grill212 DeGraw St. at Henry Street, (718) 422-0099, www.cobblegrill.com (Cash only)Entrees: $7.25-$9.75.
Chef Daniel Williamson and his staff can whipup a mean grilled sandwich, salad or burger atthis friendly cafe with street-side tables and aninviting entryway. Try the Brooklyn Burger,topped with onion rings and chipotle mayo orthe overstuffed grilled cheese sandwich, withsmoked gouda and fontina cheeses, peppers,artichoke hearts and mushrooms. Lighter fareincludes a bevy of salads. Top off your mealwith a fresh-baked brownie, blondie or one ofthe grill’s daily dessert specials. Open dailyfrom noon to 10 pm.
Cousins II160 Court St. at Amity Street, (718) 596-3514(AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $7-$20.
Cousins II has come a long way from its firstincarnation as Dem Bums, a bar named afterthe Brooklyn Dodgers, 24 years ago. Underthe tutelage of co-owners — and cousins —Vincent Chesari and Robert Cardillo, this barand restaurant has kept all the energy, enthu-siasm and camaraderie that makes Brooklynthe friendliest borough.
Cousins II has 12 beers on tap, as well asimports, domestics and local brews by the bot-tle; and all the finger-licking foods that go withthem — Buffalo wings, mozzarella sticks andchicken fingers. Diners also enjoy burgers, sal-ads, sandwiches and a choice of entrees thatincludes grilled New York shell steak, shrimpscampi and chicken Marsala. Cousins alsooffers Saturday and Sunday brunch, KaraokeFridays, and live music on Saturdays. OpenMondays and Tuesdays at 4 pm; Wednesdaysthrough Sundays at noon.
Joya 215 Court St. at Wyckoff Street, (718) 222-3484 (Cash or personal checks only)Entrees: $6.50-$7.95.
Thank goodness partners Ariel Aparicio andAndrew Jerro brought inexpensive, scrump-tious Thai food to Court Street. The restaurantfeatures a modestly priced menu and a darkbut chic atmosphere. The hipster vibe is rein-forced by DJs spinning an array of energetic,ambient tunes on Fridays, Saturdays andSundays. The “kang masaman,” a not-too-spicy chicken and potato coconut curry, is aneighborhood favorite. The “pad thai” isJoya’s signature dish, but Jerro also suggeststhe (running special) mango salad and grilledskirt steak. There are nightly fresh fish specialsand desserts are fun — fried banana rolls orcoconut sticky rice with mango. Outdoor din-ing on the rear deck is available, weather per-mitting. Open daily for dinner.
Lobo218 Court St. at Warren Street, (718) 858-7739 (Cash only) Entrees: $6.95-$13.50.
This Tex-mex restaurant retains the rustic,relaxed atmosphere of its former inhabitant,Harvest restaurant. Lobo serves lunch,brunch, dinner and even breakfast (featuringbreakfast tacos, huevos rancheros and more).The dinner menu is extensive featuring every-thing from Mexican-style fondue, to cevicheof the day, to salads, to fajitas, tamales andenchiladas. The “For All You Gringos,” section
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of the menu has comfort food classics such asmacaroni and cheese and a 10-ounce char-grilled burger. Kids can choose chicken fin-gers, a burger, a “teenie taco” and more —each served with fries or rice, juice box anddessert. Adults can choose from churros withvanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce or flanfor a happy ending.
Marquet Patisserie221 Court St. at Warren Street, (718) 855-1289 (AmEx) Pastries: $1.25-$3.75. Cakes:$16-$22.
Take your gourmet coffee and baked goodsto-go from these charming patisseries — boththe Cobble Hill and Fort Greene locations areoffshoots of husband-and-wife team Jean-Pierre Marquet and Lynne Guillot’s Marquet,in Manhattan. Co-owner Celeste DiFiore saysselections include everything from raspberrymousse for one to sandwiches (fresh moz-zarella, roasted chicken, turkey breast, toname a few) to larger tarts and cakes for thewhole family. Their sister cafe is located inFort Greene at 680 Fulton St. at SouthPortland Avenue, (718) 596-2018. Prices maydiffer at Fort Greene and Manhattan loca-tions. Open daily.
Moroccan Star148 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street, (718)643-3042 (AmEx, MC, Visa) Entrees:$10.95-$14.95.
This North African restaurant with a Brooklynaccent has been a neighborhood favorite for35 years. Chef Kaid Zanta serves top-notchMoroccan, French and Middle Eastern cuisine.Meat and seafood lovers will fall for the menuof escargot, kebobs, steaks and Moroccan-style bluefish.
Among the choices are the “chickenprincess,” a breast of chicken sauteed withmushrooms, lemon, artichoke hearts, andspices, served with rice and vegetables; andthe lamb tiffaya sauteed with onions, raisinsand prunes, served with couscous. Fordessert, the kanafa, a Middle Eastern pastry, isstuffed with pistachios and honey, andtopped with shredded coconut. Word hasspread, too; a recent visit overheard guestsclaiming they drove 50 miles to dine here.Open daily from 11:30 am to 10 pm.
Quercy242 Court St. at Baltic Street, (718) 243-2151(AmEx, DC, MC, V) Entrees: $12-$24. �Ooh la la — French food cooked by a realFrenchman in Cobble Hill! Chef-owner Jean-Francois Fraysse claims his cassoulet (meatand bean stew) is “one of the best in the city.”Other classic country dishes include foie gras,rabbit stew and beef bourguignon — perfectcomfort food for a chilly fall day. Quercy servesa prix-fixe lunch Tuesday through Friday, twocourses for $10.75 and three courses for$14.75. Quercy offers brunch, too, Saturdaysand Sundays, with brioche french toast,omelets or grilled lamb sausage with sauteedapples. Open for dinner only on Mondays.
Tripoli Restaurant156 Atlantic Ave. at Clinton Street, (718)596-5800, www.tripolirestaurant.com(AmEx, DC, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $7-$14.50.
Enter this Atlantic Avenue landmark and you’llswear you’re skimming the south shores ofancient Lebanon. Maybe that’s a stretch, butan impressive mural of Tripoli’s coast bedecksthe spacious interior of this Lebanese eatery,now in its 31st year. Tripoli Restaurant is com-mendable for its “Coussa B’Leban,” or stuffedsquash with ground lamb, rice, and pine nuts,cooked in a yogurt sauce with mint, and its“Seleck B’loubia,” or black-eyed peas and cel-ery with sauteed onions and coriander. Tripolirecently renovated their downstairs room forprivate parties. Open daily.
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By Tina Barryfor The Brooklyn Papers
Overlooking the Brooklyn water-front in DUMBO is an 8,000-square-foot space that has been
the home to several short-lived restau-rants. Its latest occupant is Bubby’s,the second outpost of the country-stylerestaurant that has been dishing outmeatloaf and fixings to TriBeCa fami-lies since 1990.
That much glass-walled, high-ceilinged space doesn’t conjure up vi-sions of a family restaurant, but RonSilver, Bubby’s owner, was determinedto give his year-old eatery a small-restaurant feel. As far as the ambiencegoes, he’s succeeded; however, themenu of classic American dishes, de-veloped by Silver and chef StevenRice, need fine-tuning.
The room is broken into three levels— a balcony withtables, a centerdining area, and anarrow, lowerdining space —which each havespectacular viewsof Manhattan’sskyline. Thedecor is farm-house chic withmismatched vin-tage enamel ta-bles and assortedchairs, pie safestopped with glasscandy jars andbig blackboardswhere the spe-cials of the dayare written.
A long, wind-ing bar covered inwood is meant toresemble a picketfence. The “eatwith the farmers” vibe has been aroundso long, diners recall other restaurantswith similar conceits before they re-member (if they remember) eatingGrandma Annie’s apple pie with thekinfolk.
Speaking of kinfolk, expect to eatwith a lot of children when you visit.One evening there was a birthday par-ty winding down with a bunch of
cranky, over-stim-ulated kids andmothers in over-alls. At anothertable, a tired babywhined non-stopwhile her momserenely gobbledpie, and adorableMax turned overa chair inchesfrom my foot.
If you’re theparent of a youngchild, the hubbubwon’t faze you.
Diners without children, or parentswho have tucked this particular night-mare away, may wonder if they’vestumbled into kiddy hell. If you preferan adult dining experience (and let’sface it, who doesn’t?), eat later in theevening when the under 10 demo-graphic is fast asleep.
Silver and Rice offer dishes ourBubbys served. (Mine is represented by the matzo ball soup and potato sal-
ad, or “solid,” my nana’s pronuncia-tion, a fitting description of her cook-ing.) All the muffins, breads, jams andeven mustard are house-made, as aretheir famous pies and ice cream. Someof the cooking is very good; otherdishes are less so.
A constant problem — serving foodat inappropriate temperatures —plagued the meal from start to finish.
A spring pea soup with mint and yo-gurt sounded lovely, but was servedlukewarm when it should have beenchilled. And it was watery. Avoid it.
Heavy buttermilk biscuits are servedwarm in a basket — always a treat.
An appetizer portion of St. Louisbarbecued ribs with a mild dry rubwere lusciously fatty and sides ofsmoky sauce, and another of vinegar,lent the meat sharp tang.
Moist buttermilk fried chicken witha crispy coating needed salt badly. Itsplate-mates — macaroni and cheeseserved in a little ramekin with nicelybrowned crust and asparagus left ten-der and charred from their few mo-ments on the grill — can’t be faulted.A big heap of moist, pulled pork left avinegar-tinged tingle in the mouth. Ifyour mama served collard greens,
you’ll want to pass on Bubby’s limp,under-seasoned side dish.
The pies were a disappointment, afact made especially ironic since thatis what Bubby’s is known for. Thefruit in my sour cherry pie was fine —firm and just sweet enough — but thetop of its buttery crust rested limplyover the filling and the bottom wasclammy.
I doubt the apple pie was ever muchto brag about. Too much flour lent thefilling a chalky taste, and more cinna-mon and a bit of lemon would havebrightened its flavor. Warming bothdesserts as we requested, instead ofbarely warm, would have boostedtheir taste.
And, if you know something is ter-rible, like the cup of bitter, lukewarmdecaf that the waiter set in front of mebefore saying, “Let me know if this isOK,” then don’t bring it to the table.
There’s so much about Bubby’s toappreciate. The comfortable space of-fers local DUMBO families, and resi-dents of nearby Brooklyn Heights, arefuge where they can eat comfortably.For Bubby’s to entice the childlessthough, the preparations need to betweaked, the service fine-tuned and,for Pete’s sake, serve the coffee hot.
Fifth Avenue has its share of bistros,Thai places and bars, but finding sim-ple American cooking at reasonableprices takes work.
On Tuesday, Sept. 14, your search isover.
Two Josh’s — Grinker (right), whoserved as sous chef at River Cafe, andFoster (left), who spent seven years asdirector of purchasing at the TribecaGrill — will open the Stone Park Cafe,named for the Old Stone House histori-cal museum located in the playgroundacross the street.
According to Grinker, the team’s“New American cooking” includes hotsmoked black cod with fava beans andsweet corn succotash, and a prime,grilled rib-eye steak with creamy mush-
room sauce. For the finale, cocoa fanscan dig into a double chocolate soufflewith vanilla ice cream or take the tartroute with a rich lemon cake toppedwith honeyed goat cheese and freshberries.
Brick walls, wood floors and ceilingbeams form a casual backdrop. Thecafe offers a kids’ menu and a full bar,too. (Try having one without the other.)
Stone Park Cafe (324 Fifth Ave. atThird Street in Park Slope) acceptsAmerican Express, MasterCard andVisa. Entrees: $14-$23. Dinner will beserved six nights a week. Brunch willbe served all day Saturdays and Sun-days. Closed Mondays. For informa-tion, call (718) 369-0082.
— Tina Barry
Bubby’s Brooklyn (1 Main St. betweenWater and Plymouth streets in DUMBO)accepts Diner’s Club, Discover, MasterCardand Visa. Entrees: $8.95-$19.95. Therestaurant serves lunch and dinner sevendays a week; brunch is served Saturdaysand Sundays from 10 am to 4 pm. Childrenunder 8 eat free on Sunday evenings. Forreservations, call (718) 222-0666.
On Sept. 12, Bubby’s and the Brook-lyn Bridge Park Conservancy will host thefirst annual Pie Social. Anyone with arolling pin and a favorite recipe can enter.Show up at noon at Brooklyn Bridge Park(Main Street between Water and Ply-mouth streets) with two home baked pies— sweet or savory — cobblers or crispsthat are ready to share. The entry fee is$10 (five tasting tickets are included). Fornon-bakers, the fee is $20 for five tickets,or the family special, $50 for 15 tickets.Applications can be picked up in personat Bubby’s or downloaded at www.brook-lynbridgepark.org. For more information,call Christina, at Bubby’s Tribeca, at (212)219-0666 or Samara, at the Conservancy,at (718) 802-0603.
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By Paulanne Simmonsfor The Brooklyn Papers
Straight on ’Til Morning,” anew play now at 78th StreetTheatre Lab, is supposedly in-
spired by J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan”;the title is from his directions to Nev-erland. But while Barrie’s enchantingtale has been delighting people of allages for 100 years, “Straight on ’TilMorning” has anappeal that ismostly limited toa generation stillcarded at theWilliamsburgbar the play de-picts, and it willhopefully be for-gotten when itcloses on Sept.25.
The play, writ-ten by Trish Har-netiaux (who hasbeen living in Williamsburg for thepast five years) and directed by JudeDomski (also a Williamsburg resi-dent), takes Peter (Pan), played byrock star wannabe Michael ColbyJones, out of ephemeral Neverlandand puts him in the changing world ofthis once working-class Brooklynneighborhood where he seeks star-dom as an indie-rock promoter.
The play might be a satire for thesmall group of individuals who live inWilliamsburg and get all the inside
jokes. But even so, the play is con-stantly dragged down by symbolismthat was already over-used a centuryago and melodrama masquerading asemotional conflict.
The set, designed by SarahPearline, cleverly reproduces thebrick walls of the theater in a contin-uous line and contains a convenientwindow, door and balcony for quickentrances and exits, and many hidden
storage boxeswhere additionalstage props arestored. The set is— hands down— the best partof the play.
“Straight on’Til Morning”runs for about anhour and 45 min-utes. Take out thef-word, and it runsfor about an hour.The rest of the di-
alogue contains gems such as “itboggles the mind,” “the sky’s thelimit” and “he lived in the now.” Infact, the dialogue is so horrendous itwould be hard to know whether theacting is really so stilted and hollowor the lines are just impossible to say.Then again the dramatic poses theperformers kept adopting wereridiculous, too.
So what is “Straight on ’Til Morn-ing” all about? Well, it’s hard to say.There are several themes running
around here like a rat trying to findhis way out of a maze.
First there’s the machinations ofHoard (Edward Furs), a Polish realestate developer who has lost threefingers of one hand, making him adigital dead ringer for the infamousCaptain Hook. Hoard wants to buildcondos all over this Williamsburgneighborhood, destroying the beloved
McCarren Pool in theprocess.
Then there’s Peter’svacillation between hisWendy, the Idaho-bredgirlfriend, Moira (KateTurnbull), and the Tin-kerbell character, hislongtime friend, the sin-ister Isabelle (Corey Taz-mania Stieb), a hard-drinking, foul-mouthed,tattooed bass player whowants to lead him astray.
Finally, there’s Peter’s Uncle Price(David L. Carson) who comes toWilliamsburg to bring Peter backhome to face his tragic past. (Hisbrother Michael died mysteriously ina lake, but one would like to think hereally drowned in cliches.)
The play has a chorus-like figure,Friendly (Maurice Edwards), a bar-tender of Italian descent who sounds
about as Italian as Snoop Doggsounds Jewish.
With rings in both ears and hisnose, Nico (Jason Griffin) is presum-ably a pirate, although it isn’t clearwhat he adds to the play.
“Straight on ’Til Morning” mighthave been vastly improved if Harne-tiaux had found some way to includeNana the dog.
Fortunately, this ill-conceived,badly directed and poorly performeddebacle was made palatable by themagnificent scene changes. Withgreat panache, the actors pulledboards down from walls and benchesout of cubbies. They threw chairs toeach other and scampered about withgreat gusto. It was a pleasure to be-hold.
Anyone who aspires to being astagehand should not miss this show.Everyone else can stay home inBrooklyn.
Peter getspannedWilliamsburg-based ‘PeterPan’-inspired play is besetby cliches & awful dialogue
Peter principle: (Above) In a scene from “Straight on ‘TilMorning,” a new play set in Williamsburg and inspiredby “Peter Pan” are Michael Colby Jones as Peter (right)and David L. Carson as his Uncle Price. (At left) JasonGriffin as Nico.
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a special treat for subscribers,a two-for-the-price-of-onedouble-bill with Tony Kushn-er’s “Angel’s in America.”
“‘Guys and Dolls,’ ‘Any-thing Goes’ and ‘South Pacif-ic’ are very popular,” member-at-large John Bourne told GOBrooklyn. “We’re also doingthe new plays this year hopingto get more people interested.”
The season kicks off onSept. 10 with one of Neil Si-mon’s later plays, “45 Sec-onds from Broadway,” di-rected by Susan Montez. Thecomedy consists of four slice-of-life pieces, all set in arestaurant located in the theaterdistrict. The establishment isfrequented by a comic, aBroadway star, a producer andan aspiring actress, or asBourne says, “a typical NeilSimon group of people dis-cussing theater.” The play runsthrough Sept. 26.
The Heights Players’ second
production is the old war-horse— but forever young —“Guys and Dolls.” Based onDamon Runyan’s colorfulshort stories of Broadwaygamblers and their women,and blessed with a book by JoSwerling and Abe Burrowsand a score by Frank Loesser,this play has proved to be a
perennial favorite on stage, onfilm and, most originally, onBroadway in 1976 with an all-black cast. Ellen Pittari directs.“Guys and Dolls” will run Oct.8 through Oct. 24.
With “Look HomewardAngel,” the Heights Playerstakes a turn toward more seri-ous drama. Ketti Frings’ dra-
ma, based on Thomas Wolfe’snovel, is a powerful coming-of-age story about a teenageboy whose thirst for knowl-edge takes him beyond theborders of his mother’s board-inghouse. It won the 1957Pulitzer Prize and New YorkDrama Critics Circle Award.
“The play has been on ourlist for a long time, but we’venever done it before,” saysBourne. “It’s a strong play, andwe’ve got a new director,Fabio Taliercio, who made hisdebut here with AgathaChristie’s ‘Toward Zero.’ Healso played the lead [TommyAlbright] in ‘Brigadoon’ andhe’s stage managed a fewshows.”
Bourne told GO Brooklynthat when Wolfe wrote thebook he was living on Veran-dah Place in Cobble Hill.Years later, says Bourne, Bar-bara Elliot, a former HeightsPlayers president, lived in thatvery same apartment. “LookHomeward Angel” runs Nov.5 through Nov. 21.
With all the buzz over “De-Lovely,” Irwin Winkler’s newmovie about the life of ColePorter, “Anything Goes,” apopular 1930s musical that in-troduced many Porter stan-dards — “I Get a Kick Out ofYou,” “All Through the Night”and “You’re the Top” — cer-tainly makes a timely arrivalon the Heights Players’ stage.
Although the musical, aboutsociety folk and con menaboard a transatlantic oceanliner, was originally conceivedas a vehicle for stars Ethel
Merman, William Gaxton andVictor Moore, its continuedpopularity goes well beyondstar value. Steve Velardi di-rects. “Anything Goes” runsDec. 3 through Dec. 19.
The Heights Players willpresent “Angels in Ameri-ca,” Tony Kushner’s PulitzerPrize-winning drama aboutAIDS, politics, sex and reli-gion, in its entirety with both“Millennium Approaches” and“Perestroika.”
“[Director] Robby [Wein-stein] liked the play. He asked ifhe could do both parts,” Bourneexplains. “When subscribershand over their vouchers for thefirst show, the vouchers will bepunched and given back for thesecond show.” Part One runsJan. 7-9, Jan. 13 and Jan. 14;Part Two runs Jan. 15, Jan. 16and Jan. 21-23.
“The Hobbit,” PatriciaGray’s adaptation of J. R. R.Tolkien’s novel, is a fantasticaladventure that appeals to the-atergoers of all ages.
“We’re doing this play forthe first time,” says Bourne.“It’s something for the entirefamily.” Bill Wood directs.“The Hobbit” runs Feb. 4through Feb. 20.
“Stalag 17” is best knownas Billy Wilder’s classic 1953film. But it was originally astage play that went to Broad-way by Donald Bevan and Ed-mund Trzcinski.
Bevan and Trzcinski hadboth been prisoners of war inGermany, and their story of agroup of American POWs try-ing to discover the traitor
among them has the ring ofauthenticity. Ed Healy directs.“Stalag 17” runs March 4through March 20.
“When Ed [Healy] came upwith a play for 17 men [‘Sta-lag 17’] and no women, peo-
Year in reviewThis season, the Heights Players offer10 productions for the price of nine
Coffee talk: Jan VanderPutten as Cindy (left) and Eileen Del-gado as Arleen in a dress rehearsal of “45 Seconds fromBroadway,” the first play of the Heights Players new season.
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MOON LIGHT RIDE: Time’s Up hostsa bike ride through Prospect Park. 9pm. Meet at Grand Army Plaza.(212) 802-8222. Free.
FLEA MARKET: Old stuff and newstuff in Red Hook. 10 am to sunset.399 Van Brunt St. (718) 369-1515.
PERFORMANCEDANCE: New York Dancer presents
“Dance for Peace,” a live eventwith themes of peace. 3 pm. FortGreene Park. www.newyork-dancer.com. Free.
ARTS AT ST. ANN’S: presents “De-casia,” a collaboration betweenfilmmaker Bill Morrison and Bangon a Can co-founder MichaelGordon. Film is a rumination onlife, death, cinema and history.Accompanied by 55-memberTactus Contemporary Ensemble.$40. 7:30 pm. $25 for 10 pm per-formance. St. Ann’s Warehouse, 38Water St. (718) 254-8779.
BROOKLYN LYCEUM: presentsGogol’s “The Nose and TheOvercoat.” $20. 7:30 pm. 227Fourth Ave. (718) 857-4816.
DANCE: Williamsburg Art Nexus pres-ents an evening of choreographywith Christina Towle. $15, $12 stu-dents. Wine tasting follows per-formance. $10 surcharge. 205North Seventh St. (917) 558-5861.
GALLERY PLAYERS: presents “CloudNine,” a play about gender, race,power, hypocrisy and sex. $15, $12children. Call for performance time.199 14th St. (718) 832-0167.
CHILDRENBROOKLYN MUSEUM: Story and Art
hour presents “Similar and Different.”$6, $3 students and seniors. Freefor members and children 12 andunder. 4 pm. 200 Eastern Parkway.(718) 638-5000.
OTHERTIME TO SHOP: Discarded treasures
and other stuff. 9 am to 4 pm. HolyApostles flea market, 612Greenwood Ave. (718) 871-1615.
OPEN HOUSE: YWCA of Brooklynoffers tours of its fitness and aquaticfacility. 9 am to 3 pm. 30 Third Ave.(718) 875-1190. Free.
FLEA MARKET: at St. Thomas AquinasChurch. 9 am to 5 pm. 1550Hendrickson St. (718) 253-4404.
BLOOD DRIVE: at NY Aquarium. Alldonors receive free admission forthe day. 10 am to 4 pm. SurfAvenue and West Eighth Street.(718) 265-FISH.
OPEN HOUSE: Temple Beth Emethinvites all Jewish, interfaith andalternative families to learn aboutits programs. Open house brunch.10 am. 83 Marlborough Road. (718)282-1596. Free.
BLOOD DRIVE: Maimonides MedicalCenter and the New York Aquariumteam up to ensure steady supply ofhealthy blood for patients in need.Must be in general good health, be-tween ages of 17 and 75 and weigh
Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancyhost the first annual Pie Social. Baketwo pies, 9-inches or larger, andshow up for fun. Admission fee forbakers is $10; for non-bakers $20.Noon to 6 pm. Brooklyn BridgePark, Main Street between Waterand Plymouth streets. (718) 802-0603.
BLOOD DRIVE: NY Blood Centerhosts a drive at the Sunset ParkStreet Festival. Noon to 5:30 pm.Fifth Avenue and 50th Street. (800)933-BLOOD.
ANNIVERSARY EVENT: LeNell’s Ltd., awine and spirit boutique, celebratesits one year anniversary with food,wine and music. Noon to 9 pm. 416Van Brunt St. (718) 360-0838. Free.
OPEN HOUSE: Brooklyn Conservatoryof Music invites all instrument play-ers and the general public to takemini-lessons from its faculty mem-bers. Bring your own instrument.Also, guest speaker from AaronCopland House. Noon to 5 pm. 58Seventh Ave. (718) 622-3300. Free.
OPEN HOUSE: Urban Glass hosts itsfall open house featuring tours ofthe studio, blown glass demos, wineglass sandblasting workshops andmore. Demos of wine-related glassart. Pre-register for workshops (feeper class). Noon to 5 pm. 647Fulton St. (718) 891-7680. Free.
LECTURE SERIES: Brooklyn PublicLibrary, Central branch, hosts a four-part series “Brooklyn in Transition:Neighborhood Change in the City’sLargest Borough.” Today: “ThreeCase Studies: Brownsville, East NewYork and Park Slope.” 2 pm. GrandArmy Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free.
MEET BROOKLYN AUTHORS:Brooklyn Historical Society presents“350 Years of Jewish Life in NewYork.” $6, $4 members. 2 pm. 128Pierrepont St. (718) 222-4111.
SUNDAY AT SUNNY’S: Readings bypoet Anthony McCann. $3 includeslight refreshments. 3 pm. 253Conover St. (718) 625-8211.
Canal Community DevelopmentCorp. hosts a workshop to create avision for the future of the Gowanuscommunity. 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. St.Thomas Aquinas Church, 249 NinthSt. (718) 858-0057.
MEETING: Community Board 6,Economic and WaterfrontCommittees, meet. 6:30 pm. 250Baltic St. (718) 643-3027.
DISCUSSION: Community Board 6hosts a talk “The Governors IslandPlanning Process Continued.” 6:30pm. PAL Miccio Center, 110 W.Ninth St. (718) 643-3027. Free.
BOATING COURSE: Brooklyn PowerSquadron hosts a course on how tooperate a Jet Ski. Two hours ofweekly instruction for four weeks. 7pm. Call for fee info. Ryan Center,Floyd Bennet Field. (718) 680-2050.
SCREENWRITERS CLASS: BrooklynYoung Filmmakers hosts a class foradults and youth 15 years and older.Four sessions. $100, $80 collegestudents, $70 high school students.7 pm to 9:30 pm. BrooklynCommunity Access Television, 57Rockwell Place. (718) 852-9342.
AUDITION: Brooklyn PhilharmoniaChorus holds auditions. 7:30 pm to10 pm. First Presbyterian ChurchHall, 124 Henry St. Call to schedule.(718) 624-6719.
FILM: Barbes Traveling Cinema FilmSeries presents a musical tribute tothe Marx Brothers with “Ballin’ theJack Does the Marx Brothers.” 8pm. 376 Ninth St. (718) 965-9177.Free.
FAMILIES FIRST: Center reopens. Babyand toddler classes. 9 am. 250 BalticSt. Call for program info. (718) 237-1862.
TUES, SEPT 14SMOKING CESSATION: Long Island
College Hospital offers a class to stopsmoking. Free nicotine replacementtherapy patches offered. 1 pm to 4pm. Tuesdays and Thursdays through-out September. 339 Hicks St. (718)789-1278. Free.
EVENING PAINTING: Brooklyn BotanicGarden hosts a class to improvedrawing and painting skills. $165,$149 members. 5:30 pm to 7:30pm. 1000 Washington Ave. (718)623-7220.
ENTREPRENEUR TRAINING: Brook-lyn Economic Development Cor-poration begins its 14-week pro-gram. $225. 6 pm to 9:45 pm. 175Remsen St. (718) 522-4600, ext. 17.
READING SERIES: Ozzie’s Bar hostsThroaty Uprising, a reading with LillianAnn Slugocki. Also, guitarist-singerMishti Roy plays. 8 pm. No cover.57 Seventh Ave. (718) 857-9275.
DINNER ON THE SEA: NY Aquariumhosts its annual fundraising eventaboard the glass topped boatBateaux. $350. 6 pm. Departs fromChelsea Piers, 23rd Street and theHudson River, Manhattan. Call forreservations. (718) 265-3427.
BOATING COURSE: Brooklyn PowerAquadron hosts a course on how tooperate a Jet Ski. Two hours ofinstruction for four weeks. 7 pm.Call for fee info. St. Francis College,180 Remsen St. (718) 680-2050.
DRUMMING CIRCLE: Donna Henes,Urban Shaman, hosts an event. $20.7:30 pm. Call for reservations andmeeting location. (718) 857-2247.
MUSIC: Park Slope Jewish Center pre-sents the Brooklyn Jewish Chorus.7:30 pm. Eighth Avenue and 14thStreet. (718) 768-1453. Free.
MEETING: Carroll Gardens Neigh-borhood Association meets. 7:30pm. 106 First Place. (718) 858-4699.
WEDS, SEPT 15Jewish New Year
begins at sundownMAMMOGRAM SCREENING: State
Sen. Martin Golden’s office offers ascreening. 9 am to 5 pm. Mobileunit parked outside Golden’s office,7403 Fifth Ave. Appointment nec-essary. (800) 564-6868. Free.
MEETING: Bay Ridge Council onAging. 9:30 am. Good ShepherdLutheran Church, 7420 Fourth Ave.(718) 921-5949.
EXHIBIT: St. Joseph’s College presentsphotography by E. Jane Beckwith“Seven Years of Happy Farmers.”Beckwith gives a gallery talk. 12:40pm. 245 Clinton St. (718) 783-0374.Free.
MEETING: of Bay Ridge AmericanAssociation of Retired Persons. 2pm. Our Lady of Angels, 337 74thSt. (718) 788-7372.
SUPPORT: American Cancer Societyand The Brooklyn Hospital Centerhosts “Man to Man,” a supportgroup. 6 pm to 8 pm. 121 DeKalbAve. (718) 250-8370. Free.
RECEPTION: Royal Thai Consulatehosts “An Evening with Thai Artists.”6 pm to 9 pm. SEA, 114 North SixthSt. (212) 754-2537. Free.
TOASTMASTERS: Perfect your publicspeaking and presentation skills.
at least 110 pounds. 10 am to 4pm. NY Aquarium, Education hall,Surf Avenue and West EighthStreet in Coney Island. (718) 283-8200.
MEETING: Older Women’s Leaguepresents a speaker addressing“The Presidential Election: WhereDo Bush and Kerry Stand on theIssues?” 10:30 am. BrooklynCollege, New Ingersoll Hall, room432. (718) 891-2490. Free.
MEETING: AARP Ovington Chaptermeets. 1 pm. Bay Ridge Center forOlder Adults, 6935 Fourth Ave.(718) 748-0650.
MEMORIAL DEDICATION: Families ofSacred Hearts and St. Stephenparish host a ceremony to remem-ber those lost in the World TradeCenter. 5:30 pm. Corner of Summitand Hicks streets. (718) 596-7750.Free.
READINGS: Spiral Thought Magazinehosts a reading featuring localpoets, writers, performance artistsand musicians. 7 pm to 9 pm.Shakespeare’s Sister, 270 Court St.(718) 832-2310. Free.
OPENING: Open Ground presents itsfifth exhibition of Open Seasonwith “Liminal: Finding Utopias inthe Dark.” 8 pm to late. 252 GrandSt. (718) 387-8226. Free.
RECEPTION: The Dollhaus Gallerypresents 46 dollhouses by 46artists. 8 pm to midnight. 37Broadway, Williamsburg. (917) 667-2332. Free.
MEMORIAL CEREMONY: State Sen.Martin Golden’s office hosts amemorial to commemorate thethird anniversary of the attacks onthe World Trade Center. 8 pm. 69thStreet Pier, Bay Ridge Avenue andShore Road. (718) 238-6044. Free.
SUN, SEPT 12
OUTDOORS AND TOURSBIKE RIDE: Transportation Alternatives
hosts a ride in the NYC CenturyBike Tour. Bike through Manhattan,Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx.Participants choose from five routelengths: 15, 35, 55, 75 or 100 miles.Cost: $45 to $65. Start at LenoxAvenue and 110th Street, Manhat-tan. (212) 629-8080.
FLEA MARKET: at RC Church of St. Fin-bar. 9 am to 3 pm. Bath Avenue andBay 20th Street. (718) 236-3312.
FARMERS’ MARKET: Park Slope Far-mers Market offers New York State-grown vegetables and fruits. Also,pasture-raised poultry and meats,breads, pastries and more. 8:30 amto 3 pm. Rain or shine. JJ ByrnePark, Fourth Street. (914) 923-4837.
WALK-A-THON: Dynamite YouthCenter, an adolescent substanceabuse treatment program, hosts itsseventh annual fundraising event.10 am. 69th Street and Shore RoadPier. Call. (718) 376-7923.
EVERGREEN CEMETERY: A tour guideexplains the cast-iron tomb of WHGuild and other intriguing memori-als located on its 225 acres. 11 am.Corner of Bushwick Avenue andConway Street. (718) 455-5300. Free.
WILD TOUR: Naturalist “Wildman”Steve Brill leads a “Wild Food andEcology Tour” of Prospect Park.
$10, $5 children. 11:45 am. GrandArmy Plaza entrance to park. (914)835-2153.
RAILROAD TO THE SEA: NY TransitMuseum takes a tour of theRockaway Peninsula. Subway histo-rian Joe Cunningham leads thetour. $20, $15 members. Noon. Callfor reservations. (718) 694-1600.
FORT GREENE TOUR: New York Likea Native Tours offers an introduc-tion to Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.$13. 1:30 pm to 4 pm. Call formeeting place. (718) 393-7537.
FLEA MARKET: Old stuff and newstuff in Red Hook. 10 am to sunset.399 Van Brunt St. (718) 369-1515.
PERFORMANCEGOSPEL MUSIC: Mauricio Lorence
leads an event featuring gospelmusic. Tour of downtown Brooklynfollows performance. $25. 10 am to1 pm. Meet at Marriott Hotel, Adamsand Tillary streets. (718) 789-0430.
OUTDOOR THEATER: The Shakes-peare Project presents its firstannual “Play Outside!” a festival ofoutdoor theater. Circus Amok per-forms in “The Back to SchoolShow.” 1 pm and 4 pm. ProspectPark’s Tennis House South, NinthStreet and Prospect Park West.(212) 479-7800. Free.
MUSIC: The Corona String Duo per-forms. 4 pm. Reception follows. St.Jacobi Ev. Lutheran Church, 5406Fourth Ave. (718) 439-8978. Free.
BROOKLYN LYCEUM: presents Gogol’s“The Nose and The Overcoat.” 2pm and 7 pm. See Sat., Sept. 11.
ARTS AT ST. ANN’S: presents“Decasia.” 8 pm. See Sat., Sept. 11.
CHILDRENFAMILY DAY: Assemblyman Steven
Cymbrowitz’s office sponsors theRussian American Kids Circus.Noon. Kingsborough CommunityCollege’s Performing Arts Center,2001 Oriental Blvd. in ManhattanBeach. Reservations necessary. (718)743-4078. Free.
THEATER: Creative Theatrics offersafter-school courses for kids Pre-Kand older. 53 Prospect Park West.Call. Program begins week of Sept.27. (718) 398-3658.
OTHEROPEN HOUSE: Learn about the pro-
grams offered by Kane StreetSynagogue. 10 am to 2 pm. 236Kane St. (718) 248-7411. Free.
PRAYERBOOK HEBREW: Park SlopeJewish Center offers a beginner’sclass. $150, $100 members. Eightweeks. 10:15 am to 11:45 am.Course meets at home of instruc-tor. Call for registration information.(718) 768-1453.
ADOPT A PET: Brooklyn Animal Careand Control hosts an Adopt-a-thon.Bring home a kitten, cat, dog orpuppy. Microchip clinic available for$10 fee. Adoption fees dropped to$75 for dogs and $25 for cats. Feesinclude neutering, spaying andshots. Animal training demos andbehavior tips. Noon to 4 pm. 2336Linden Blvd. at Shephard Avenue.(212) 788-4000.
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6:45 pm to 7:45 pm. VA Hospital,800 Poly Place, room 2-415.
WINE SERIES: A Cook’s Companionhosts a wine tasting and lectureseries. Today, sample wines ofGermany and Austria. $50. 7 pm.Reservations necessary. 197 AtlanticAve. (718) 852-6901.
LIBRARY EVENT: To celebrateNational Hispanic Heritage Month,Brooklyn Public Library, Centralbranch, offers “Latino Writers: Howto Get Published.” 6 pm. GrandArmy Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free.
JAZZ FEST: Second annual Williams-burg Jazz Festival presents MareksJazz Vision. 8 pm. Also, The Ko-meda Project. 10 pm. 70 NorthSixth St. Also, Io Restaurant pres-ents Pesado at 9 pm; Ray Vega at11 pm. 119 Kent Ave. Laila Loungehosts an electro jazz night. Sets at8:30 pm and 10:30 pm. 113 NorthSeventh St. $5 per night with aone drink minimum per set. (718)599-8906.
FIVE MYLES: presents “Man, theFlower of All Flesh,” a TheaterWithout Actors production per-formed by Hanne Tierney. $20.7:30 pm. 558 St. Johns Place. (718)783-4438.
BROOKLYN LYCEUM: presentsGogol’s “The Nose and TheOvercoat.” $20. 7:30 pm. 227Fourth Ave. (718) 857-4816.
FRI, SEPT 17DEDICATION CEREMONY: In memory
of Billy Lake, the basketball courtsare dedicated to his memory. 1 pm.Owl’s Head Park, 67th Street andColonial Road. (212) 872-9603.
BAMCINEMATEK: presents “Contain-ment: Life After Three Mile Island”(2003). $10. 2 pm. Also, “Inventos:Hip Hop Cubano” (2003). 4:30 pm.“Nobody Needs to Know” (2003).6:50 pm. “Crash Test” (2003). 9:15pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100.
BEER GARDEN: Brooklyn HistoricalSociety beer garden features beersof Brooklyn Brewery. Beers: $2.Admission: $6, $4 students andseniors. 6:30 pm to 8 pm. Also, fallfashion show. 6:30 pm to 8 pm. 128Pierrepont St. (718) 222-4111.
RECEPTION: Drawing and paintingexhibit by Nadia. 7 pm to 9 pm.Tillie’s of Brooklyn, 248 DeKalb Ave.(718) 783-6149. Free.
BLUEGRASS FEST: Good Coffeehousehosts its seventh annual old-time
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JRG Fashion Cafe177 Flatbush Ave. at Fifth Avenue in FortGreene, (718) 399-7079.Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays: Live DJ, 11 pm,$10 after 12 am.
The Jazz179 Marcus Garvey Blvd. at KosciuszkoStreet in Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 453-7825, www.thejazz.8m.com.Mondays: Jam Session, 8 pm, $5; Sept. 11:Charles Davis Quartet, 9 pm, $10; Sept. 17: KimClarke Trio, 9 pm, $10; Sept. 18: Tim SicilianoTrio, 9 pm, $10.
Kili Bar-Cafe81 Hoyt St. at State Street in Boerum Hill,(718) 855-5574.Saturdays: Live DJ music, 10:30 pm, FREE;Fridays: DJ Chappy plays rock, hip-hop andfunk, 10:30 pm, FREE.
Laila Lounge113 N. Seventh St. at Wythe Avenue inWilliamsburg, (718) 486-6791, www.laila-lounge.comSept. 11: Upstairs: DEN ONE (hip hop for grown-ups), upstairs, 10 pm, FREE, Downstairs: RobTroise, 9 pm, FREE, Kat Hayman, 10 pm, FREE;Sept. 12: Jazz Concert Series: Rick Parker –Ambient Assault, 9 pm, FREE; Sept. 14: Upstairs:“Detentions Report for Duty” featuring DJMeatball Jack, 9 pm, FREE, Downstairs: “WhiskeyBreath” featuring Rick Royale & Alexander Lowryw/special guest The Animators, 9 pm, FREE; Sept.15: Upstairs: Songwriters night with open-mic, 8pm, FREE, DJ John, 10 pm, FREE; Sept. 16:Williamsburg Jazz Festival (upstairs): SylviaGordon of KUDU featuring Jeremy Pelt, 8:30 pm,Joy Askew and Echo, 10:30 pm, $5 festival pass;Sept. 17: Williamsburg Jazz Festival (upstairs):Victor Prieto, 9 pm, Nellie McKay, 11 pm, $10 inadvance; Sept. 18: Williamsburg Jazz Festival(upstairs): Danny Mo & the Schlesstones, 8:30 pm,Chris Tarry, 10:30 pm, $5 festival pass.
Liberty HeightsTap Room34 Van Dyke St. at Dwight Street in RedHook, (718) 246-8050.Thursdays: Open mic, 10 pm, FREE; Sept. 17:Ray Greiche, 9 pm, FREE, Jonathan Townes, 10pm, FREE.
Life Cafe 983983 Flushing Ave. at Central Avenue in Bush-wick, (718) 386-1133, www.lifecafenyc.com.Mondays: Bush Flix movie night, 8 pm, FREE;Tuesdays: Bingo for Beer, 8 pm, FREE; Wed-nesdays: Open Mic with Chuck, 9 pm, FREE.
The Lucky Cat245 Grand St. at Roebling Street in Williams-burg, (718) 782-0437, www.theluckycat.com.Saturdays: “Sugarlight Saturdays” DJs spinpunk rock, 10 pm, FREE; Mondays: Chess club,8 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Hex!, with DJJeremy, 10 pm, FREE; Fridays: Satanic HappyHour, hosted by DJ Subtech, 6 pm, FREE,Futurefunk Sessions with DJ Sport Casual, 10pm, FREE; Sept. 11: “Punk Rock the Vote” fea-turing Charge, 8:30 pm, Billy Club Sandwich,9:15 pm, Cause for Alarm, 10:15 pm, Flat EarthSociety, 11:15 pm, and special guests, $5; Sept.12: Dirtylovely Burlesque, 10 pm, FREE; Sept.14: Open mic, 8 pm, FREE, Joe McGuinty’sKeyboard Karaoke, 10 pm, FREE; Sept. 16:Electrajet, 9 pm, FREE; Sept. 18: Ellicit, 9 pm,FREE, Ofays, 10 pm, FREE, Sugarlight Satur-days, 11 pm, FREE.
The LuLu Lounge(Under TacuTacu) 134 N. Sixth St. at BedfordAvenue in Williamsburg, (718) 218-7889,www.ricerepublic.com/specials.html.Sundays: Jose Luis Martinez Trio, 7 pm, FREE;Mondays: “Random Ass Stand-Up,” 8 pm, $6(includes free drink); Thursdays, Fridays,
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Singer and saxophonist SheilaCooper plays Palmira’s Sept. 12.
By Paulanne Simmonsfor The Brooklyn Papers
Anyone who might see atheme in the GalleryPlayers choosing both
“The Full Money” and “Hair”for their 38th season would bemistaken, says Gallery Play-ers President Heather Curran.Despite the fact that bothplays containmale nudity, sheinsists it was “justone of those won-derful things. Theselection commit-tee looks forplays that wouldmake a nice vari-ety for our sub-scribers.”
This “nice vari-ety” includes mu-sicals, dramas,period pieces and zany inter-pretations.
The season starts on Sept.11 with English playwrightCaryl Churchill’s “Cloud 9,”directed by Tom Herman(“Lobby Hero”).
“The play was very popularin the early ‘80s,” says Curran.“It’s about a fantastical, surrealjourney of a family … fromVictorian Africa to 1979 Lon-don. But for the characters,
only 28 years have passed.”By examining the uptight
Victorian era and the liberated’70s, the play touches on thestill relevant issues of gender,race, power and hypocrisy.“Cloud 9” runs Sept. 11through Sept. 26.
When “Hair” opened in1968, Gerome Ragni andJames Rado’s “tribal rock”
musical caused quite a stir.The country was engaged in acontroversial war and prepar-ing for a presidential election.Thirty-six years later, Curranbelieves a revival couldn’t betimelier.
“The idea of protest willresonate with New Yorkerslooking back and seeingwhat’s changed and notchanged,” says Curran.“We’re not updating the play,
because so many thingshaven’t changed.”
“Hair” will be directed andchoreographed by StevenSmeltzer, who directed lastyear’s highly acclaimed “TheMystery of Edwin Drood.”“Hair” plays Oct. 16 throughNov. 7.
Curran herself will directthe Gallery Players’ thirdshow, “Side Man,” by War-ren Leight.
“I love it. It’s a great explo-ration of a family and its de-mise,” she says. “It’s a greatAmerican story.” “Side Man”plays Nov. 27 through Dec.12.
Curran calls “The SpitfireGrill” a “chamber musical”because, although it is a musi-cal, it’s not “big and showy.”With a book by Fred Alley andJames Valcq, lyrics by Alleyand music by Valcq, the playtells the story of a woman whoseeks a new beginning in thepicturesque town of Gilead,only to find she’s not the onlyone there haunted by the past.
The play will be directed byM. R. Goodley. “The SpitfireGrill” runs Jan. 8 through Jan.30.
Richard Sheridan’s Restor-ation play, “The School forScandal,” with its rumors and
vicious gossip, proves that the18th century was not so differ-ent from the 21st. That is whythe Gallery Players have cho-sen to perform the comedy inperiod costumes with no at-tempt at updating.
“It deals with what aremorals and what is the rightthing to do,” says Curran. “It’sa very timely piece … It has-n’t been revived in a while.”
Director to be announced,“The School for Scandal” runsFeb. 19 through March 6.
“The Complete Worksof William Shakespeare(Abridged)” by Jess Borge-son, Adam Long and DanielSinger, is “an absolute hoot,”according to Curran. The three
writers perform Shakespeare’sentire oeuvre in 90 minutes,which is in itself quite a feat.But Curran says the play isalso “a great family show … agreat way to introduce kids toShakespeare.”
“I saw it in London,” shetold GO Brooklyn. “And I waslaughing until I was crying.”
“The Complete Works ofWilliam Shakespeare” will bedirected by Neal Freeman. Itruns March 26 through April10.
“We are privileged to be thefirst New York revival of ‘TheFull Monty,’” says Curran.“Terrance McNally [the play-wright] is a friend of theGallery Players, and that had
something to do with it.”The show is about six out-
of-work, out-of-shape Buffalosteelworkers who become theworld’s most unlikely strip-pers. Says Curran, “We’re put-ting out the call now for menwho can sing and dance andare willing to do the full Mon-ty.”
Director to be announced,“The Full Monty” runs April30 through May 22.
The regular season will befollowed by the eighth annualBlack Box new play festival.
Spicy, saucy and bitter-sweet, it looks like the GalleryPlayers’ new season will havesomething for everyone’staste.
Naked truthThe Gallery Players 38th seasonhas male nudity, ‘Scandal’ & more
What a drag: The Gallery Players kicks off its new season with “Cloud Nine,” featuringMark Battle as Clive (left) and Tim Demsky as Betty.The Gallery Players season opens
Sept. 11 with “Cloud 9.” Further informa-tion can be found at the Web site,www.galleryplayers.com.Individual ticketsfor each performance are $15 for adultsand $12 for seniors and children 12 andunder. The Gallery Players theater is locat-ed at 199 14th St., between Fourth andFifth Avenues, in Park Slope. For reserva-tions, call (718) 595-0547.
THEATER
ple asked me to do ‘TheWomen,’” says Bourne, whois scheduled to direct ClaireBoothe Luce’s classic 1930scomedy about feminine folly.
“It’s about a woman whosehusband has beencheating on her.Her friends get herto go for a divorcein Reno where in-teresting thingshappen,” Bournesays.
There are 32 fe-male speaking rolesin this play, butBourne, who did the play forthe Heights Players years ago,claims he can make due with25, because “there are rolesthat can be doubled up.”Viewers can judge for them-selves when they attend a per-formance of “The Women,”which runs from April 1through April 17.
The Heights Players wrapup the season with Rodgersand Hammerstein’s “South
Pacific” directed by ThomasTyler. The tale of two sets oflovers on an island in the Pa-cific during World War I is thevehicle for some of the duo’sbest-loved songs — “There’sNothing Like a Dame” and“Some Enchanted Evening.”
When the Heights Playersproduced the show back in1972, Broadway star Mitch
Gregg (“No Strings,” “TheUnsinkable Mollie Brown,”“Music in the Air”) took therole of Emile de Becque.
“He was 65, but so good-looking you wouldn’t knowit,” recalled Bourne.
The Heights Players isBrooklyn’s oldest, self-sustain-ing, not-for-profit communitytheater. This year, the seasonedcompany may offer the mostvalue of the season.
The Heights Players season runs Sept.10 through May 22. Performances takeplace at 26 Willow Place at State Street inBrooklyn Heights. Subscriptions are $80 for9 tickets and $150 for 18 tickets. For moreinformation, call (718) 237-2752.
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The BackroomInside Freddy’s Bar, 485 Dean St. at SixthAvenue in Prospect Heights, (718) 622-7035, www.Freddysbackroom.com.Sept. 11: The Wissler Family, 9:30 pm, FREE,Sweet William, 10:30 pm, FREE, The Crevu-lators, 11:30 pm, FREE; Sept. 12: Angry Chick 8pm, FREE; Sept. 13: Hepcat Poetry, 9 pm,FREE; Sept. 14: Will Vinson, 9:30 pm, FREE;Sept. 15: Karaoke (Big Ass Ham), 9 pm, FREE;Sept. 16: Kings County Opry featuring SongCircle, 8 pm, American String Conspiracy, 9 pm,The Flanks, 10 pm, FREE; Sept. 17: Krapps lostTapes, 9:30 pm, Nick Trotter, 10:30 pm, TheBitter Poet, 11:30pm, FREE; Sept. 18: R.Kershenbaum, 9:30 pm, Naked Idiot, 10:30 pm,Matt Lenny & The New Reds, 11:30 pm, FREE.
Barbes376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park Slope,(718) 965-9177, www.barbesbrooklyn.com.Sundays: Stephane Wrembel Trio, 9 pm, FREE;Mondays: Traveling Cinema, 8 pm, FREE;Tuesdays: Slavic Soul Party, 9 pm, $8 suggest-ed; Wednesdays: “Night of the RavishedLimbs” 9 pm, $8; Sept. 11: Nikitov, 7 pm, FREE,Cocktail Angst, 9 pm, FREE; Sept. 12: ChristinaDrapkin w/John Merrill and Dan Shuman, 7 pm,FREE; Sept. 13: Ballin’ the Jack Does the MarxBrothers, 8 pm, FREE; Sept. 16: Tasty Morsels,9 pm, FREE; Sept. 17: Stephanie Winters, 7pm,Bill Carney’s Jug Addicts, 9 pm, FREE; Sept. 18:Jessica Jones Quartet, 7 pm, The Blue Vipers, 9pm, FREE.
Black Betty366 Metropolitan Ave. at HavermeyerStreet in Williamsburg, (718) 599-0243,www.blackbetty.net.Saturdays: DJ Lil’ Shalamar, 11 pm, FREE;Sundays: Brazilian Beat with DJ Sean Marquandand DJ Greg Caz, 10 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: HotRocks, 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: DJ Akalepse,10 pm, FREE; Thursdays: The Greenhouse withDJ Monkone and DJ Emskee, 11 pm, FREE;Fridays: “Mihoko’s Way” with DJ Mihoko, 11pm, FREE.
Bluestone Bar &Grill117 Columbia St. at Kane Street inColumbia Street Waterfront District, (718)403-7450.Wednesdays: “Bluestone’s Bossanova, Blue-grass, and Swing” series, 8 pm, FREE; Sept. 15:Kelsey Jillette Trio (standards), 8 pm, FREE.
Boudoir Bar(At East End Ensemble) 273 Smith St. atSackett Street in Carroll Gardens, (718) 624-8878, www.eastendensemble.com.Saturdays: The Brooklyn Brew-Ha-Ha w/MCJosh Comers, 9:30 pm, $5 with 2 drink mini-mum; Tuesdays: Tuesday Jazz Series, 8 pm,FREE; Sept. 11: Sept. 14: Benjy Kaplan,Saudade (Brazilian), 8 pm, FREE; Sept 18:Guests include: Bryan Olsen, Larry Getlen, RitchDuncan, Val Kappa, Rena Zager, Carmen Lynch,9:30 pm, $5 with two drink minimum.
BrooklynHistorical Society128 Pierrepont St. at Clinton Street inBrooklyn Heights, (718) 222-4111,www.brooklynhistory.org.Sept. 17: Beer Garden with live music, 6:30 pm,FREE with museum admission ($6 adults, $4 stu-dents and seniors 62 and over); BrooklynDesigners Fall Fashion Show, 6:30 pm, FREEwith admission.
Cafe 111111 Court St. at State Street in DowntownBrooklyn, (718) 858-2806, www.cafe111-online.com.Sept. 11: Synthetic Folk Hero, 8 pm, FREE,Innocent Bliss, 9 pm, FREE, The Citizens, 10 pm,FREE, Baby Strange, 11 pm, FREE, SXAddict,12 am, FREE; Sept. 12: Silkweed, 8 pm, FREE,Awry, 9 pm, FREE, Frank LoCrasto Trio, 12 am,FREE; Sept. 13: Lauren Cregor, 8 pm, FREE,Osage County, 10 pm, FREE, Rob Wilkerson, 12am, FREE; Sept. 14: Chris Belden, 8 pm, FREE,Laura Meyer, 9 pm, FREE, Teddybut, 10 pm,FREE, Tony Scherr, 11 pm, FREE; Sept. 15:Deanna Witkowski, 7:30 pm, FREE, PeteYellin/Jam Session, 9:30 pm, FREE; Sept. 16:Jodelle, 8 pm, FREE, Lara Ewen, 9 pm, FREE,Keir Woods, 10 pm, FREE, Richard Alwy, 11 pm,FREE; Sept. 17: Jay Collins, 8 pm, FREE,Morley, 10 pm, FREE, Third Life, 11 pm, FREE,Super Lowrey Brothers, 12 am, FREE; Sept. 18:“Critical Mass” featuring Mark Vohrey, 8 pm,Lisala Beatty from Burnt Sugar, 9 pm, RavenQuiet, 10 pm, Hashbrown, 11 pm, $10 cover,SXAddict, 12 am, FREE.
Cha Cha’s1227 Riegleman Boardwalk at StillwellAvenue in Coney Island, (718) 946-1305.Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays: Live music(rock, blues, heavy metal, country), 4 pm, FREE;Sept. 11: Blues Prophetz, 3 pm, FREE, DJ Dance
jamboree. Today: James Reamsand The Barnstormers. $10, $6kids. 8 pm to 10 pm. 53Prospect Park West. (718) 768-2972.
WHITE COLLAR BOXING: atGleason’s Gym. $20 registrationfee; $15 spectator fee. 7:30pm. 83 Front St. (718) 797-2872.
JAZZ FEST: Williamsburg JazzFestival continues with VictorPrieto and others at LailaLounge. 9 pm. 113 NorthSeventh St. Also, Jesse Selen-gut and Noir perform. 8 pm.Galapagos, 70 North Sixth St.$5 per night with a one drinkminimum per set. (718) 599-8906.
VAUDEVILLE: Fred Kahl, aka TheGreat Fredini, hosts America’sFavorite Burlesque Game Show“This or That!” Show is a hom-age to classic game shows.$15. 10 pm. Coney Island USA,1208 Surf Ave. (718) 372-5159.
BROOKLYN LYCEUM: presentsGogol’s “The Nose and TheOvercoat.” 7:30 pm. See Sat.,Sept. 18.
DOG SHOW: Runway for dogs atthe Red Hook Flea Market. 399Van Brunt St. Call for time andinfo. (718) 369-1515.
SAT, SEPT 18
OUTDOORS AND TOURSTRAIN TOUR: To commemorate
the subway’s centennial, NYTransit Museum hosts a tour ona restored Brooklyn Unionwooden elevated train. Ridethe vintage train from Colum-bus Circle in Manhattan to theTransit Museum in Brooklyn.$50, $20. 10 am. Call for reser-vations. (718) 694-1867.
WATERFRONT FEST: CommunityBoard 7 hosts its annual, family-oriented event. Music, art, har-bor cruises, demonstrations,community information andmore. 10 am to 5 pm. 58thStreet Pier, Sunset Park. (718)854-0003. Free.
INSIDE FORT GREENE: FirsthandNY Walks takes a tour aroundFt. Greene. $10. 11 am. Meetacross from LIRR stop at cornerof Hanson Place and AshlandStreet. Call for reservations.(718) 907-6185.
WALKING TOUR: BrooklynHistorical Society takes a tourof Manhattan Avenue andBedford Avenue in Greenpoint.$15, $10 members. Pre-pay-ment required. 2 pm. Call toreserve. (718) 222-4111.
BEACH CLEAN UP: AmericanLittoral Society organizes aclean up event at over 300beaches statewide. Visitwww.alsnyc.org for a listing.
PERFORMANCEBLUEGRASS FEST: Good Coffee-
house hosts its seventh annualold-time jamboree. Today:Workshops in harmony singing,old-time banjo, guitar mainte-nance and harmonica start at12:30 pm. Jamming goes on allday. Evening showcase concertsstart at 6 pm. $3. 53 ProspectPark West. (718) 768-2972.
JAZZ FEST: Williamsburg JazzFestival hosts a classic jazzevent at Io Lounge. 9 pm. Also,Danny Mo and the Schles-stones. 8:30 pm. Laila Lounge,113 North Seventh St. Galapa-gos presents Devils WorkshopBand. 10 pm. $5 per night witha one-drink minimum per set.(718) 599-8906.
OUTDOOR THEATER: TheShakespeare Project presentsits first annual “Play Outside!”festival of outdoor theater.Airmid Theater Co. performs“Swetnam the Woman-Hater.”3 pm. Sunset Park, 41st Streetand Fifth Avenue. (212) 479-7800. Free.
WEDDING RUFFCEPTION:Cynthia King Dance Studiocommemorates the opening ofa Brooklyn animal shelter.“Residents” Petey and Dotwalk down the aisle and tie theknot. $20 includes dinner anddancing. 7:30 pm. 1256Prospect Ave. (718) 437-0101.
BROOKLYN LYCEUM: “Too MuchLight Makes The Baby Go Blind(30 plays in 60 minutes).” $15online (www.gowanus.com) or$9 plus the roll of a single six-sided die. 11:30 pm. 227Fourth Ave. (718) 670-7234.
CHILDRENBARNES AND NOBLE: presents
author Fiona Robinson readingfrom her book “The UsefulMoose: A Truthful, MoosefulTale.” Noon. 267 Seventh Ave.(718) 832-9066. Free.
BROOKLYN MUSEUM: Story andArt hour presents “Tales of theLower East Side.” $6, $3 stu-dents and seniors. Free for mem-bers and children. 4 pm. 200Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000.
OTHERFLEA MARKET: at 260 65th St. at
Third Avenue. (718) 748-2067.
FLEA MARKET: Old stuff and newstuff in Red Hook. 10 am tosunset. 393 Van Brunt St. (718)369-1515.
YARD SALE: hosted by AmericanLegion Ladies Auxiliary. 10 amto 2 pm. 345 78th St. (718)748-7823.
FLEA MARKET: St. Ann and theHoly Trinity hosts an event fea-turing a variety of housewares,jewelry, toys, clothes, booksand more. 10 am to 6 pm. 157Montague St. (718) 875-6960.
OPEN HOUSE: Brooklyn ArtsExchange offers sample danceand theater classes throughoutthe day. 10 am to 4:30 pm. 421Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. Free.
WATER SHOW: BrooklynWaterfront Artists Coalitionpresents The Solo Art Showand Solo Performance Series.Meet-the-artists reception,music, art and more. Noon to 5pm. 499 Van Brunt St. (718)596-2506. Free.
BOOK SIGNING: Jennifer Weiner,author of “Little Earthquakes,”signs her book. 5 pm. 690611th Ave. (718) 680-3680. Free.
RECEPTION: Hogar Collectionpresents the group exhibit“Photography from A-Z.” 6 pmto 9 pm. 111 Grand St. (718)388-5022. Free.
MULTIMEDIA ART: Awair Gallerypresents the work of 20 emerg-ing artists with multi-disciplinaryart. Art environment includespaintings, photography, sculp-tures, video projections, inter-active installations, live per-formances and music. 6 pm to9 pm art exhibit; 9 pm to 11pm live performances; 11 pmto 4 am party. Free until 9 pm.$10 after. 172 Classon Ave.(718) 623-9689.
am. Meet at Park Drive andLincoln Road. (917) 952-7957.Free.
FARMERS’ MARKET: Park SlopeFarmers Market offers NewYork state-grown vegetablesand fruits. Also, pasture-raisedpoultry and meats, breads, pas-tries and more. 8:30 am to 3pm. Rain or shine. JJ ByrnePark, Fourth Street. (914) 923-4837.
HARVEST FAIR: Lefferts HistoricHouse needs help with itscrops. Harvest and cook veg-etables, churn butter, makeapple cider and more. 1 pm to4 pm. 95 Prospect Park West.(718) 372-5159. Free.
PARK WALK: Friends of ProspectPark hosts a walk through thepark to celebrate the 35thanniversary of Mayor JohnLindsay’s cabinet meeting atthe new Pools. $1. 1:45 pm.Meet at Prospect Park’s GrandArmy Plaza entrance by theJames Stranahan statue. (nocontact phone number)
PERFORMANCEGOSPEL MUSIC: Mauricio
Lorence hosts an event featur-ing gospel music. Tour ofDowntown Brooklyn followsperformance. $25. 10 am to 1pm. Meet at Marriott Hotel,Adams and Tillary streets. (718)789-0430.
BROOKLYN LYCEUM: presentsGogol’s “The Nose and TheOvercoat.” 2 pm and 7 pm.See Sat., Sept. 11.
OTHERVICTORIAN FLATBUSH: Brooklyn
Historical Society hosts a tourof the landmarked communitiesof Prospect Park South, DitmasPark and Beverly Square West.$11, $9 members, $8 seniorsand students. 10:30 am. Meetat street level of the Q train,Newkirk Avenue Station. (718)222-4111.
DOG SHOW: Brooklyn AnimalResource Coalition (BARC)hosts its 18th annual mixedbreed/ all breed dog show andparade. Noon. Parade starts at253 Wythe Avenue. Dog showfollows in McCarren Park. (718)486-7489. Free.
BAMCINEMATEK: presentsBrooklyn Digifest Shorts. 2 pm.Also, “Intervention” (2004).4:30 pm. $10 per film. 30Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100.
LIBRARY EVENT: Series “Brooklynin Transition” lecture series pres-ents David Gonzalez in a discus-sion “Improbable Gentrification:Bushwick and Williamsburg.” 4pm. Grand Army Plaza. (718)230-2100. Free.
WATER SHOW: BrooklynWaterfront Artists Coalitionpresents The Solo Art Show.Art auction. Noon to 5 pm. SeeSat., Sept. 18.
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NightlifeSaturdays: “Karaoke Nights”, 8 pm, FREE; Sept.15: “Stilted on Stage” comedy show, 8 pm, $6includes free drink at the bar.
M ShanghaiBistro & Den129 Havermeyer St. at Grand Street inWilliamsburg, (718) 384-9300.Sundays: Hip-hop karaoke w/Dynamic Damienand DJ Harry Ballz, 10 pm, FREE; Spet. 18: DiscoDance Party w/Dynamic Damien and DJ HarryBallz, 10 pm, FREE.
Magnetic Field 97 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street in BrooklynHeights, (718) 834-0069, www.Magnetic-Brooklyn.com.Thursdays: 80 Proof Thursdays (’80s night), 10pm, FREE; Sept. 11: Local Firehouse Benefit fea-turing The Yams, The Electric Shadows, 7:30 pm,$5 suggested donation; Shakin’ not Stirred, 10pm, FREE; Sept. 13: Rock ‘n Roll DJ Exchange,9 pm, FREE; Sept. 17: DJs: “In the Keys of theMeow,” 9 pm, FREE; Sept. 18: The Crybabies,The Spittoons, 7:30 pm, $3, DJs “El Paso Hifi,”10 pm, FREE.
Magnolia486 Sixth Ave. at 12th Street in Park Slope,(718) 369-4814.Saturdays: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE; Tuesdays:Jam Session with The Noah Haidu Trio, 10 pm,FREE with $5 minimum; Fridays: Live jazz, 10pm, FREE; Sept. 11: Jay Villnai Trio, 10 pm,FREE; Sept. 17: Braxton Hicks & Joe DeMarco,10 pm, FREE; Sept. 18: Jeff & Dave BrazilianJazz, 10 pm, FREE.
NationalRestaurant273 Brighton Beach Ave. at BrightonSecond Street in Brighton Beach, (718) 646-1225, www.come2national.com.Saturdays: Live Russian music and dance show,9 pm, FREE (with prix fixe dinner $60); Fridays,Sundays: Live Russian music and dance show, 9pm, FREE (with prix fixe dinner $45).
Night of theCookers767 Fulton St. at South Portland Avenue inFort Greene, (718) 797-1197.Saturdays: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE; Sundays: Livejazz, 12 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Live jazz, 8 pm,FREE; Fridays: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE.
Northsix66 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Williams-burg, (718) 599-5103, www.northsix.com.Sept. 13: Nebula, Cobra Verde, Darediablo, 8pm, $10 in advance, $12 DOS; Sept. 16: The FarSide, papercranes, Tigers & Monkeys, 8 pm, $8in advance, $10 DOS; Sept. 17: Richard Buckner,Daniel Brummel (of Ozma), 8 pm, $10; Sept. 18:Lungfish, Arbouretum, Entrance, 8 pm, $10.
Palmira’s41 Clark St. at Hicks Street in BrooklynHeights, (718) 237-4100Sept. 11: Sharon Young Quartet, 8:30 pm, FREE;Sept. 12: Sheila Cooper, 12 pm, FREE; Sept. 17:The Roz Corral Trio, 8:30 pm, FREE; Sept. 18:The Roz Corral Trio, 8:30 pm, FREE.
ParlorJazz119 Vanderbilt Ave. at Myrtle Avenue inClinton Hill, (718) 855-1981, www.parlor-jazz.com.Sept. 18: The Aziza Miller Quartet, 9 pm, $20donation.
Peggy O’Neill’s(Two locations)1904 Surf Ave. at Keyspan Park in ConeyIsland, (718) 449-3200, www.peggy-oneills.com.Wednesdays: ’80s Night, 10 pm, FREE; Sept. 11:“The Great Irish Fair” featuring the live blues ofBlusolini, 10 pm, FREE; Sept. 12: Karaoke SundayAfternoon Beach Party, 2 pm, FREE; Sept. 17: 1/2Way to St. Patrick’s Day party, 8 pm, FREE.
8123 Fifth Ave. at 81st Street in Bay Ridge,(718) 748-1400.Fridays, Saturdays: Live DJ, 10 pm, FREE;Mondays, Thursdays: “Karaoke Nights”, 10 pmFREE; Sept. 12: NFL Football Party, 1 pm, $25open bar and food.
Pete’s CandyStore709 Lorimer St. at Richardson Street inWilliamsburg, (718) 302-3770, www.petes-candystore.com.Sundays: Open Mic, 6-8:30 pm, FREE; Sept. 11:Ben Murphy, 9 pm, Jay May, 10 pm, SmallPotatoes, 11 pm, FREE; Sept. 12: Katie Pawluk,9 pm, FREE; Sept. 13: Pete’s Big Salmon, 7 pm,Alina Simone, 9 pm, Matthew Gabel, 10 pm,Cuban Cowboy, 11 pm, FREE; Sept. 14: Chris
Maxwell, 9 pm, Kate Diamond, 10 pm, FREE;Sept. 15: The Love Story, 10 pm, Prince Lefty &His Ramblin’ Kings, 11 pm, FREE; Sept. 16:Aaron Jennings, 9 pm, Seafoxx, 10 pm, Loiter, 11pm, FREE; Sept. 17: “Milton’s Birthday Party”w/Naomi Sommers, 9 pm, Milton’s All Star Band,10 pm, The Isrealities, 11 pm, FREE; Sept. 18:Bootleg Remedy, 9 pm, Kathy Zimmer, 10 pm,Julian Velard, 11 pm, FREE.
SambaRestaurant &Nightclub9604 Third Ave. at 96th Street in Bay Ridge,(718) 439-0475.Saturdays (starting Sept. 18): “Havana Nights”w/DJ Nino Torre spinning Latin rhythms, clubclassics, disco and more, 10 pm, FREE for ladies,$10 for men (women ages 24 and older, men 26and older); Thursdays: Carnivale with DJs Meeseand Sizzahandz, Riz & Ava, Samba Dancers &Bongo Percussion, 10 pm, FREE; Fridays: DJsExplor and Ava, 11 pm, $10 (women ages 21and older, men 25 and older).
Sideshows by theSeashore3006 W. 12th St. at Surf Avenue in ConeyIsland, (718) 372-5159, www.coney-island.com.Saturdays and Sundays: Sideshows by theSeashore, featuring 10 talents, including Ravi“The Scorpion Mystic” and Eak “The IllustratedMan,” 1 pm, $5 adults, $3 children under 12.
Six6Seven 667 Fulton St. at Rockwell Place in FortGreene, (718) 855-8558,www.pgenyc.20m.com.Saturdays: “Rhythm Saturday” w/DJ HFredPierce and Carlos Sanchez, 8 pm, FREE;Sundays: “Expansions” w/DJ Ras and DJ HiroMizuno, 9 pm, FREE; Mondays: “EffervescenceMondays,” 9 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Karaokew/K.J. Frank Smooth and hostess Connie ofCrowd Pleasers Entertainment, 6 pm, FREE;Wednesdays: “Atmosphere Wednesdays”w/DJs Keith Porter, James Vincent and MarkusRice, 5 pm, FREE; Thursdays: “Rendezvous”w/DJ Kayo, Big Daddy Crugar, 6 pm, FREE;Fridays: “Brooklyn Kulture Fridays,” w/DJDaddy Crugar, DJ Eastwood, 4 pm, FREE.
Southpaw125 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in ParkSlope, (718) 230-0236, www.spsounds.com.Sept. 11: “Virgo Bash ‘04” featuring Revolu-tionary Love in the Pleasure Dome, a benefit forThe League of Pissed Off Voters including live per-formances, raffles and DJs Chris Maestro, Black& Tan, Rekha (SOBs), 8 pm, $donation suggest-ed; Sept. 13: “Sahara Hotnights” w/the Every-others, 8 pm, $10; Sept. 14: Hayden w/Cuff theDuke and Elk Lake Serenaders, 8 pm, $12; Sept.15: Jucifer, The Big Sleep, 8 pm, $10; Sept. 16:DeFalco presents “Queercore Muffler Party”featuring Sit ‘n Spin, Grounded, Secret Cock, 8pm, $7; Sept. 17: DeFalco presents RadioMundial, Soulsa, Council of the Sun, w/DJ StaceyHoffman, 8 pm, $12 in advance, $15 DOS; Sept.18: Allison Moorer, Tandy, Julia Darling doingacoustic, 8 pm, $12 in advance, $14 DOS.
Teddy’s Bar and Grill96 Berry St. at North Eighth Street inWilliamsburg, (718) 384-9787Sundays: Live jazz and pop standards, 9 pm,FREE; Sept. 12: Rebecca Prosky, 8 pm, FREE.
Trash Bar256 Grand St. at Driggs Avenue in Williams-burg, (718) 599-1000, www.thetrashbar.com.Tuesdays: Shellshocked, 8 pm, FREE; Sept. 11:Mancino, 9 pm, Children of Logic, 10 pm,Perfect Strangers, 11 pm, Jabka, 12 am, $5;Sept. 12: Drayton Sawyer Gang, Death Pool,The Desert Fathers, This Sheep Those Sheep, 8pm, $6; Sept. 13: Liza Garelick & theWonderwheels, 8 pm, $5; Sept. 14: Shell-shocked w/Glucose Ink, 8 pm, FREE; Sept. 15:Mr. Andersonic, 9 pm, 33hZ, 10 pm, ADM, 11pm, Purple Crush, 12 am, $6; Sept. 16: SteveBlush presents: The Ladies Room, 9 pm, $5;Sept. 17: The Stammers, The Boxes, Telecom,Sex Sells, 8:30 pm, $6; Sept. 18: Pop-Art Soundspresents: Dirty Rainbow, Baka Rocks, The MudCubs, Langhorne Slim, Wellington LadiesWelfare League, and DJ Georgi, 7 pm, $7, Latenight Free-k Out, 12:30 am, FREE.
200 Fifth 200 Fifth Ave. at Sackett Street in ParkSlope, (718) 638-2925, www.200fifth.net.Saturdays: College football gatherings, 12 pm,FREE; Sundays: NFL Football Extravaganza (allgames shown), 1 pm, FREE; Fridays: Fridaynight Salsa w/DJs Blazer One and Big Will spin-ning salsa, reggae, hip-hop, 10 pm, ladies $5,men $10.
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Dakar Cafe285 Grand Ave. at Lafayette Avenue inClinton Hill, (718) 398-8900, www.dakar-cafe.netSundays: Badou & Mike, a guitar and trumpetduo, 8 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Spoken Word, 9 pm,FREE.
Five Spot459 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue inClinton Hill, (718) 852-0202, www.fivespot-soulfood.com.Sept. 17: BK Nightlife Showcase featuring MayaAzucena, Chocolate Genius, 9 pm, $5.
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iO Restaurant119 Kent Ave. at North Seventh Street inWilliamsburg, (718) 388-3320, www.iorestau-rantandlounge.com.Saturdays: DJ spins salsa and house, 10 pm,ladies FREE all night, men $5 after 11 pm;Wednesdays: Karaoke, 10 pm, FREE; Fridays:DJ spins salsa and house, 10 pm, ladies FREE allnight, men $5 after 11 pm; Sept. 16: “Latin JazzNight” featuring Pesado, 9 pm, Ray Vega, 11pm, $5 cover for all Williamsburg Jazz Festivalvenues; Sept. 17: Talat, 8:30 pm, HowardFishman, 10:30 pm, $5 cover for all WilliamsburgJazz Festival venues; Sept. 18: “iO Classic Jazz
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Patients enrolled in this program are operated on by a Fellow in Plastic Surgerywho has completed a residency in Plastic Surgery and is spending an extra yearof specialist training in cosmetic plastic surgery at the Infirmary rather thanimmediately entering private practice. The operations are all done in the pres-ence of one our Board Certified Private Plastic Surgeons who assists at the entireoperation. The Department insists that the care of each patient be comparableto that given in each surgeon’s private office, thus assuring our patient's highestpossible levels of satisfaction and comfort.
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NY Methodist’s “Give a pint, get apint” program entitles donors to a pintof ice cream or ices at participating Un-cle Louie G’s stores. Donors also get afree mini-physical with cholesterolcheck, blood pressure and hemoglobinscreening.
Donors can come in six days a weekto give blood, in the lobby of 273 Sev-enth Ave., next to Barnes and Noble:Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridaysfrom 9 am to 4:30 pm, Tuesdays andThursdays, from 9 am to 8:30 pm, andSaturdays, from 8 am to 3:30 pm. Ap-pointments are not necessary. For moreinformation, call the NY MethodistBlood Donor Room at (718) 780-3644.
The Maimonides Blood Donor Cen-ter is teaming up with the New YorkAquarium for a Blood Drive on Satur-day, Sept. 11, at the Aquarium. Each
Donate blood at MMC, NYMdonor will receive a complimentaryadmission ticket to the New YorkAquarium, valid for one year. TheBlood Drive will take place from 10am to 4 pm in the Education Hall ofthe Aquarium, located off the Board-walk at West Eighth Street and SurfAvenue in Coney Island.
Maimonides is also offering a freemovie or food voucher for each plateletor whole blood donation at the Mai-monides Blood Donor Center throughSept. 15. Each platelet donor will re-ceive either a pair of movie tickets forany Loews Cineplex Movie Theater or$20 in food vouchers to select kosherrestaurants. Each whole-blood donorwill receive either one free movie ticketor a $10 food voucher.
Remember how after 9-11, donorswere so plentiful they were turnedaway? Blood banks were filled tooverflowing three years ago. Sadly, theamount of blood available today isstaggeringly small.
The need for blood never stops, anddonating is quick, easy and takes placein a comfortable setting. Blood can bedonated every eight weeks. Candidatesmust be between the ages of 17 and 75,and weigh at least 110 lbs. Type O
blood is especially needed. The processis easy and takes approximately onehour. Refreshments are served.
The Maimonides Blood Donor Cen-ter is open 50 hours a week and donorscan simply walk right in. Complimenta-ry parking is available. Eisenstadt Ad-
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For more information, call the Mai-monides Blood Donor Center at (718)283-7657.
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ed an inaugural nursing leadership awardsceremony to honor nurses who have con-sistently proven to be exceptional leadersin their field.
The ceremony introduced, for the firsttime, the Maakestad Award for Distin-guished Nursing Leadership named forLutheran’s premier nurse, Martha Maake-stad, RN, who retired this year.
The award was presented to EileenGreene, RN, a nurse leader whose corevalues and dedication have mirrored thatof Maakestad and the overall mission ofLutheran Medical Center throughout hertenure.
“Lutheran Medical Center is extremelyfortunate to have such a rich history of
strong nursing leaders who have providedinvaluable guidance throughout thedecades. They have been critical to devel-oping new ways to improve patient care,”said Wendy Goldstein, president and chiefexecutive officer.
“This year, Eileen Greene symbolizesthe tradition of leadership that MarthaMaakestad started 35 years ago.”
Greene, a medical-surgical nurse man-ager, has 20 years of experience providingand coordinating quality care at LutheranMedical Center.
From her start as a nurse helping patientsbattle cancer in Lutheran’s medical oncolo-gy unit to coordinating nursing strategies toimprove performance to her current role asa nurse supervisor, her commitment to carehas been exemplary. Like Maakestad be-fore her, she serves as role model to herpeers and new nursing staff.
“I am honored to have been presentedwith the first Maakestad Award. To beconsidered a nurse in her league is an ex-treme honor,” said Greene.
Early in her 35-year nursing career,Maakestad would become an integralmember of the Lutheran staff.
In 1970, Maakestad helped lead an ex-ecutive design team to relocate Lutheranto its present location on Second Avenue.
The new hospital effectively took thelead in revitalizing a depressed communi-ty and reversing a 30-year decline in aonce vibrant section of Brooklyn.
Her impact reverberates throughout themedical center and community today.
“The Maakestad Award will forever besynonymous with her insatiable appetite toachieve and her dedication to patient care.Most importantly, she set an example forothers to follow,” added Goldstein.
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By Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers
Wedged between a handfulof auto repair shops and ascrap-metal yard that shipsmillions in leftovers to Chinaeach year, the Bedi-MakkyFoundry is as inconspicuousas its role in history.
From the outside, the ram-shackle Greenpoint metal shop,one of the oldest fine arts-focusedsmithies in the city, is as illusory asthe mammoth and frequently fa-mous sculptures it has cast overnearly a century — the chargingbull on Wall Street, the eagle inBattery Park, and the Iwo Jimamemorial in Arlington, Va. Sinceits beginnings in Manhattan, andits move to Brooklyn in 1940, themill has cast more than a thousandmetallurgical masterpieces.
In October, the foundry will addanother piece of history to its collec-tion, an official memorial to the 283men and women from Brooklynwho died on Sept. 11, 2001.
Since March, Bill and IstvanMakky, the foundry’s father-and-son owners, have been toiling overthe monument, which they hope to
Foundry finishing memorial
Dragan Slavich works on a piece of the bronze 9-11 memorialstatue, designed by Robert Ressler, at Bedi-Makky Art Foundry.
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“[The Makkys] really did thisbecause they’re sympathetic to theproject,” said Robert Ressler, thesculptor selected among more than50 artists in February to design thememorial. “There’s very little mon-ey out there to do this type of thing,but this is for everyone and that’ssomething they were willing to do.”
The piece itself, said Ressler,50, is symbolic of hope — a 25-foot depiction of a firefighter’strumpet on end, complete with il-luminative, white, 3,000-wattlights that in later years will blendwith those shining as the “Tributein Light” from the base of theWorld Trade Center site.
William Guarinello, chairmanof both Community Board 11 andBrooklyn Remembers, the com-mittee spearheading the memorialproject, said the committee initial-ly believed the statue would beready by August, but several de-lays, both from the city and fromwithin the foundry, set the projectback by months. Guarinello saidthat an engineer is only now com-
pleting his survey of what impactthe memorial will have on the pier.Ressler, meanwhile, said that tech-nical difficulty arose from the let-tering, which will be raised ratherthan engraved as was originallyplanned.
“At a foundry sometimes,you’re very ambitious about thetimeframe, and often the scheduleis unrealistic,” said Ressler.
The foundry, at 227 India St.,has remained a slice of predomi-nantly Polish Greenpoint ever sinceIstvan Makky was commissionedto cast the Iwo Jima Memorial.Near the end of World War II, a de-cision was made to move to thelabyrinthine 7,500-square-foot ware-house, which he thought would bemore accommodating to the stat-ue’s 40-foot proportions.
Although traces in the foundryof the world-famous memorialonly survive in photographs, evi-dence of more than 20 other proj-ects are strewn throughout half adozen rooms. In one, small, wax-en figures stand on worktables. Inanother, a piece by Arturo DiModica, the artist who created thetail-wagging “Charging Bull” nearthe New York Stock Exchange,
9-11 events in Brooklyn Heights, SlopeBy Jess WisloskiThe Brooklyn Papers
Despite being a river away, theSept. 11, 2001 attacks on the WorldTrade Center towers hit Brooklynitesjust as hard as it did those in Manhat-tan.
Whether our vantage was from theBrooklyn Bridge or the Heights prome-nade, a rooftop in Park Slope or a livingroom TV set, everyone was changed irrev-ocably by the unfettered view of the de-struction.
Many organizations are memorializingthe third anniversary of 9-11 Saturday,Sept. 11, 2004, with vigils, services andspeakers, and the public is invited to at-tend the events and share in the feelings ofthe day.
At 8:46 am, the time when the firstplane hit the North Tower, and 9:03 am,when the South Tower was struck, mem-bers of Congregation Mount Sinai will bereciting psalms and the Mourner’s Kad-dish, a prayer for the dead, in their syna-gogue at 250 Cadman Plaza West. Theircommemorative service is open to thepublic, and begins at 8:30 am.
“We decided that it is best to be togeth-er as a community at that period,” ex-plained Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, a Fire De-partment chaplain and leader of thecongregation. After the service, at 11 am,the group will walk to the BrooklynHeights promenade at Clark Street, for a
moment of reflection. “One of the things we’ve hopefully
learned after 9-11 is that we have to be asembracing as possible, as open as possi-ble,” said Potasnik, who urged everone toattend.”When God created the world hedidn’t assign different denominationsfirst. It should be meaningful for us all.”
The Rev. Dan Meeter, pastor of theOld First Reformed Church, at 126 Sev-enth Ave. at Carroll Street in Park Slope,shares that sentiment, and the programsarranged for his church’s 9-11 remem-brance reflect their objectives for diversi-ty. The church will be open to the publicfrom 9 am to 7 pm, for private prayer andreflection for those of all spiritual inclina-tions. “We want to provide public sacredspace, not just for Christians,” saidMeeter.
There will be piano and organ musicthroughout the day and readings fromscripture every hour on the hour. Decorat-ing the walls of the chapel will be 20“huge sheets, we call prayer sheets,”Meeter said, “where people wrote theirprayers immediately after 9-11.” He con-siders it a historical artifact.
Firehouses have separate events ar-ranged, some open to the public, somenot, on Saturday, Sept. 11. Members ofSquad 1, on Union Street near Sixth Av-enue in Park Slope, will be taking part ina Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church, atthe corner of Carroll Street, at 11:30 am.Engine 219/Ladder 105, at 494 Dean St.,
will have a Mass inside St. Augustine’sChurch, at 116 Sixth Ave. at 11 am.
Other firehouses will have private cer-emonies, like that at Engine 202/Hook &Ladder 101, in Red Hook, where a priestwill attend along with firefighter families.Though not officially public events,“stopping by,” said many station heads,like Engine 202’s Captain Morrisey,would be welcomed.
Engine 226, at 409 State St., will behaving their own small Mass, with mem-bers from other firehouses attending, andEngine 205/Ladder 118, on MiddaghStreet at Henry Street in Brooklyn Heightswill be hold a breakfast ceremony.
For those looking for a more physicalway to spend the day, the Prospect ParkAlliance invites volunteers to come andwork on the 9-11 Memorial Grove, in theNorth Long Meadow, from 10 am to 2 pmon Saturday. Volunteers will meet up at9:50 am at the picnic house, and spend afew hours weeding, grooming and plant-ing at the grove, which is between the En-dale and Meadowport arches and markedby eight benches and a stone plaque com-memorating 9-11.
“The grove was planted with fundsfrom the USDA Forest Service LivingMemorials project, with the objective torecognize 9-11 and invite others to planttrees in recognition of it,” explained RobinBellamy, vice president of developmentfor the alliance. Several trees and shrubswere donated by families, and the rest
were given by the USDA, and includeoaks, sweet gum, cucumber magnolia,dogwood, pines and hollies.
“What makes the area such a wonder-ful place for the 9-11 grove is that it’s oneof our most beautiful vistas,” said Bel-lamy. “You see green for as long as theeye can see. It’s a beautiful area.”
The Brooklyn Public Library open Sat-urday to critical thinking and culture as ithosts pianist Sara Maniscalo, who will beplaying Beethoven, Brahms and Schubertcompositions starting at 10 am in the Cen-tral Library at Grand Army Plaza. Later,the library will feature a discussion led byThomas Bender, an NYU professor in hu-manities and history. Bender will mediatea discussion about post-9-11 issues ofdemocracy, civil liberties and the U.S.Constitution.
“I love that combination of both thecontemplative, of sitting with yourself,and of joining in together with your com-munity,” said the library’s executive direc-tor, Ginnie Cooper.
On Saturday night, at 7:30 pm, mem-bers of the Old First Reformed Churchwill attend a joint service with Congrega-tion Beth Elohim, at their synagogue at274 Garfield Place, which will be fol-lowed by a viewing of the film “Faith andDoubt at Ground Zero” with discussionafterwards. The service will open andclose with prayers from Jewish liturgy.
The event planned by CongregationB’nai Avraham of Brooklyn Heights
brings a close to Sept. 11, at 9 pm. Thesynagogue will host a memorial serviceon the promenade at Pierrepont Street, di-rectly across the river from the WorldTrade Center site.
“Being from Brooklyn Heights wewere able to see the Twin Towers,” saidRabbi Aaron Raskin, spiritual leader ofthe congregation at 117 Remsen St., whosaid they rearranged the time of theirweekly “havdalah” sabbath-ending serv-ice to include the community and be near-er to the site.
A torch, used in the “havdalah” serv-ice, “will represent the souls that died inSept. 11th,” Raskin said.
The rabbi will also blow a “shofar,” orram’s horn, “reminding us of the cries ofthe victims and reminding us to makenew resolutions for the oncoming year.”The “shofar” is traditionally sounded inanticipation of Rosh Hashanah, the Jew-ish New Year, which begins at sundownWednesday.
Said Raskin, “Every human being whowants to participate is welcome to comeover there and be with us. We want out-siders there.”
On Sunday, Sept. 12, Old First Re-formed Church’s Meeter will be at FireDepartment headquarters, 9 MetrotechPlaza in Downtown Brooklyn, where, at 1pm, in the ground-floor auditorium, an in-terfaith service will be held for firefight-ers, FDNY personnel and any communitymembers who want to attend.
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From there, Bill and IstvanMakky fed the images into amilling machine, a tool that takesblocks of Styrofoam and carveseach piece to resemble interlock-ing parts of the statue. Resslerthen took those pieces back to hisstudio to refine.
Back at the foundry, the Styro-foam model was used as a refer-ence as the Makkys began tomake French sand molds for eachof 16 pieces, a treatment that BillMakky said is his specialty, be-cause few of the city’s other artfoundries — all three of them —choose to import the French sand.
“It’s a trade secret,” he said.“Basically, we never showed any-one else how to do it, so it’s man-aged to stay with us.”
Finally, said Ressler, the pieceswill be bronzed and welded to-gether. After Parks Departmentapproval, the memorial will be in-stalled on the pier.
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In a unanimous vote, theCity Planning Commissionon Wednesday approved theproposal to build an Ikeamegastore on the Red Hookwaterfront.
The 9-0 vote leaves theplan’s fate in the hands of theCity Council, which will nexthold a public hearing and has50 days to render a decision.
The project, which promisesthe community job opportuni-ties and a public esplanade,has nevertheless deepened thesocioeconomic divide in RedHook.
The Swedish home furnish-ings store, which markets itsproducts to largely middle-in-come consumers across thecountry, would be the first
within the five boroughs.Some Red Hook residents saythe area will not be able tohandle the traffic and that thewaterfront, with its prizedviews of the Statue of Libertyand New York Harbor, couldbe put to better use.
But the company has galva-nized a following among resi-dents of the Red Hook Hous-es, a series of low-incomepublic housing projects thatcomprise 75 percent of RedHook’s population. Unem-ployment within the Red HookHouses is near 20 percent.
The City Planning Commis-sion approval was the lateststep in the review process forthe plan, which has alreadywon the endorsement of Bor-ough President Marty Marko-witz, and Community Board 6.Red Hook CouncilwomanSara Gonzalez has stated her
support for the plan.Amanda Burden, the direc-
tor of City Planning and chair-woman of the commission,carefully worded her vote ofapproval at the meeting, andemphasized that her reasonsfor favoring the project stoodin response to a need for em-ployment opportunities in thearea.
“Having spent four yearsbuilding a community justicecenter in Red Hook,” she said,describing a project she hadworked on prior to her role inthe planning commission, “Iknow how acutely this com-munity needs job opportuni-ties. The job-training programby Ikea is essential to myvote.”
Burden also said that whilethe issue of transportationproblems is an unknown, itwas one that would be moni-
tored while the developmentproceeded. Ikea has agreed toconduct a traffic impact studythat will commence prior toconstruction of the 346,000-square-foot store. That study isto be completed by Ikea withina year.
While other commissionersvoiced enthusiasm for the wa-terfront green space that Ikeawould build and for the ex-pected flow of money into theborough, few aired the con-cerns over neighborhood traf-fic or long-term waterfront de-velopment and beautificationthat so many local residentswho have opposed the projecthave treated as urgent priori-ties.
“I’m still not convinced thisis the best location for thisproject; however, I am im-pressed by the esplanade anddo agree with the need forjobs,” said Brooklyn BoroughPresident Marty Markowitz’sappointee to the commission,Dolly Williams.
Following the hearing, Ikearepresentatives shared celebra-tory hugs in the hallway.
“We’re thrilled,” said Ikeaspokeswoman Joni Yoswein.“We believe that the commis-sion was thoughtful and theirdiligence to make sure thatthis project was the right thingmade us work harder. It’s nev-er a shoe-in, and it nevershould be in this city. It shouldbe hard to build.”
Among the concessions thecompany made was a 30-dayperiod during which only resi-dents of the 11231 ZIP code,which includes Red Hook, canapply for jobs.
Beyond that, said Ray Hall,director of the communitygroup Red Hook Rise, Ikeaowes the community no com-mitments. Hall’s organization,which serves to empower mi-nority youth — primarilyfrom the Red Hook Houses —believes Ikea’s just being therewill be enough.
“It’s a blessing that people[the commission] realize it,and the need for jobs. If itwasn’t a good thing theywouldn’t have supported it,”he said upon hearing the com-mission’s verdict.
Hall said he plans to “makesure that they do their part,what they agreed to in the be-ginning,” but doesn’t want orneed a commitment on hiringfrom the company.
“I expect the same commit-ment that they do for all theother stores. They’re not do-ing anything special for RedHook,” he said, adding thatthe jobs would speak forthemselves to the unem-ployed.
He voiced some resentmentthat the plan wasn’t supportedby the whole of Red Hookand felt frustrated at what heperceived as discrimination onthe part of his middle-classneighbors.
“They don’t want to see thepeople get out of poverty, theywant people to stay stuck intime so they can take over,”Hall charged. “We’re going tofight for this community,based on what we were 20years ago.”
An outspoken communityleader against the Ikea plan,Lou Sones said that despitethe omnipresent talk of jobs,he never saw a majority ofresidents show up at anymeeting in support of the plan.He specifically noted the com-mission’s hearing on July 28.
“Twice as many peopleshowed up against it as for it —30 arguments were against itand one for it,” said Sones. “Wecan have 10 times the amountof jobs with waterfront-appro-priate use, that’s a no-brainer foranybody with a vision.”
He defined “waterfront ap-propriate” as development thatis waterfront dependent andwaterfront necessary, such asnice restaurants, hotels and“even luxury housing units.”
“The political fix is in,”Sones said, somewhat re-signedly. “So it doesn’t matterwhat’s good for Brooklyn,what’s good for New York,the deal’s already been madein the back room.”
Sones said the only conso-lation he had was his beliefthat the store would sink, fi-nancially.
“I just think it’s going to betoo hard to get to. The storewill fail,” he predicted. “Theywill lose money. They will bea business failure. That’s theonly reason I’m not shootingmyself in the head right now.”
charging Clarke, a former ally,with “ethnic demagoguery,”which he compared to AdolfHitler.
Meanwhile Boyland, 36, isthe daughter of former Browns-ville Assemblyman William F.Boyland and sister of currentAssemblyman William BoylandJr. Her father, a 10-term incum-bent who Owens first helped getelected, gained re-election in2002, only to resign before hisinauguration, announcing hisson as successor on the Democ-ratic line for a February 2003special election, which BoylandJr. handily won.
Owens said that the chal-lenge from Tracy Boyland,who he had hired as a congres-sional aide, came as a shock.
“I’m old enough to be morecynical,” Owens told TheBrooklyn Papers recently, “butI’m not that cynical to believethat Tracy Boyland would runagainst me. I just couldn’tfathom that. I was shockedwhen she told me that she’dfiled already.” Owens saidBoyland told him in a tele-phone conversation.
It was word of a WilliamBoyland-like scenario thatmay have led Clarke to enterthe race. Until Owens an-nounced his bid for one finalterm, it seemed as though he
might be propping up his son,Chris Owens, for a run for theseat. Even after Owens an-nounced his intention to runrumors started to fly thatOwens might drop out at thelast minute and cede his ballotslot to Chris, 45, who was al-ready making known his in-tention to succeed his father.
Chris Owens didn’t helpmatters much when, early on,he campaigned around the dis-trict, introducing himself andtalking about the 2004 elec-tion, leaving the implicationthat he, and not his father,would be on the ballot comeNovember. That led ProspectPark state Sen. Carl Andrewsto mull a run for the seat. Heeventually decided against arun after Owens appointedhim to his vacancies commit-tee, assuring him that hewould have a say should thecongressman decide to retire.
Clarke said that when shefirst started considering a run,she thought she would be run-ning against Chris Owens.
“I was confronted by anumber of stakeholders in thecommunity who had actuallybeen approached by ChrisOwens. For Chris Owens’owncampaign,” Clarke told ThePapers. “So, you know, they inturn reached out to me andsaid, ‘You’ve been doing great
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work. It appears as though thecongressman will not be run-ning for re-election. Have youthought about running as acandidate?’
“We did not make a big is-sue of it at that time but wewanted to see where thingswere going,” she added.
After only two and a halfyears in the council, Clarke isthe less seasoned of the twochallengers — Boyland wasfirst elected in 1997 — but hasgarnered respect among Brook-lyn Democrats. She helped es-tablish the first women’s cau-cus for the planning of the citybudget, which helped securefunding for nonprofit women’sorganizations, and boasts of herwork keeping the BrooklynHospital Center’s CaledonianCampus open for treatment ofHIV/AIDS and other seriouslyill patients.
Clarke insists that duringOwens’ tenure she has seen adecline in her community.This despite his accomplish-ments of sponsoring morethan 20 bills that made it tolaw and over $1.8 million infunds being allocated to fur-ther the development of vari-ous large-scale educationalprojects in Brooklyn.
“He’s already announcedhis retirement — looking atthe activism in this day andage, we’re really in a transi-tion period,” Clarke said, not-ing Owens’ lame-duck statusshould he be re-elected.
Kaminsky, 27, said that shewould provide additional po-lice patrols throughout thepublic housing projects in thedistrict and add extra policeoutside of the Coney Islandamusement district. Echoingthe oft-repeated statistic pre-ferred by Cole Ettman, afriend from John Dewey HighSchool who is running in the23rd state Senatorial District,Kaminsky said that mostcrime in the area happens be-tween 3 pm and 6 pm, whenkids are out of school. Shesaid that she would work to-ward opening a recreationalcenter inside the Abe Stark IceRink, next to Keyspan Park.
“There are a lot of problemsin Coney Island,” said Kamin-sky. “The teenagers, the youth,they have nowhere to go. Oneof the platforms I have is cre-ating a real recreation center
for the youth.”The mayor has already
committed to an amateur ath-letics facility in Coney Islandthat would likely extend its fa-cilities to neighborhood youth.Councilman Domenic Recchialast month told The BrooklynPapers that he, New YorkKnicks star and Coney Islandnative Stephon Marbury andthe Bloomberg administrationare in the initial planningstages for the project.
George McFay, president ofthe newly formed Coney Is-land Democratic Club, saidthat the group threw its en-dorsement to Kaminsky earlierthis year in hopes that theRussian emigre would bemore receptive to quality-of-life issues. McFay furthercharged that seniors have beenignored by Cohen.
“I really don’t feel like she’sin touch with the people out
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there,” said McFay, who untilthis year said he was an occa-sional volunteer for Cohen.“There are seniors who aregetting mugged in their hall-ways, Russians getting beatenup. It’s bad when people areafraid to walk out of theirhomes.”
Since January, the 60th Po-lice Precinct, which patrolsmost of the district, recorded12 homicides, a 50-percent in-crease from last year. Howev-er, most other major crimecategories, including rape,robbery and felony assault,have shown improvement.Overall, crime is down 10 per-cent from last year. Crime isalso down slightly in the 68thPrecinct, which patrols theBay Ridge and Dyker Heightsportion of the district.
“Crime is way down,” saidCohen. “We work with thepolice. There are more officerson the boardwalk and morepatrols in the buildings. We’reworking with the auxiliariesand the housing police.”
A man burst into theGravesend home of his ex-girlfriend’s new beau andpumped fatal shots into theman and his father beforeshooting himself in aschoolyard across the street.
Police say Michael Jobsky, a42-year-old mechanic, firedthree shots into Vincent Rotun-da, 40, and two shots into Ro-
tunda’s 73-year-old father, Vin-cent Sr. The Sept. 5 rampage,which happened hours afterJobsky reportedly bashed in thewindows of the younger Ro-tunda’s truck, killed both men.
Jobsky and his ex-girl-friend, whose name was re-vealed only as Jeanine, sepa-rated two years ago, butaccording to a published ac-count, police believe the cou-ple had been seeing each othermore recently. When she
moved into Rotunda’s base-ment apartment, Jobsky beganthreatening to slit her throat,something she did not tell hernew boyfriend, according topublished reports.
Jobsky burst into the homeon West 13th Street at AvenueS at around 10:30 am, pushinghis ex-girlfriend to the sideand heading straight for herboyfriend, who he shot with adouble-barrel .30-caliber hunt-ing rifle.
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Family Owned Since 1991We’ll handle all your insurance claims.
TILLARY AUTO INC.249 Gold Street, Bklyn, NY 11201
718-488-9725R28-05
alfaMOTORALL AUTO REPAIR
We LoveEuropean Cars
Computer DiagnosticsCheck engine reset and diagnostics
718-596-3977547 Hicks St. Bet. Sackett & Union
R39
Brooklyn
Honey’s HomeAn Inviting Friendly and RelaxingPlace to be while visiting Brooklyn,New York. A home away from home.Our phone (917) 873-9493
See us atwww.honeysbedandbreakfast.com
R39
Child Care AvailableOur experienced nanny seeks F/Tor P/T position. Excellent references.Call Sondra or Vanisca. (718) 622-3788. R32
Caregiver/companion available,live in or out, for elderly person. 16years experience and great refer-ences. Certified nurse auxiliary.(774) 836-0499. W32
CHILDREN &CHILD CARE
BED & BREAKFAST
AUTOMOTIVE TutoringTest Prep/Tutor
SAT • LSAT • GREGMAT • SCIENCE HS EXAMSENGLISH & MATH Tutoring
All ages; 6 yrs. exp. w/referencesFlex hrs./rates Bklyn or Mhttn.
Get the results you need!Eric (718) 398-7509 R36
IMPROVESTUDY SKILLSPrivate tutoring in your home ormy office. Experienced teacher withmaster’s degree. Children & adults.
Bob Blumenthal718-499-4787Reasonable Rates R35
Study TimeImprove Grades & Study Habits
All Subjects • All LevelsMath • Science • English
Regents • SAT • GEDTest Taking Techniques
(718) 288-5470 R37
TUTORINGAll Subjects • All GradesExpert Test Preparation
Since 1955, we’ve helped primary,Secondary, college and adult students to excel.Reasonable Rates • Home Lessons
Certified Tutoring Service, Inc.®
(718) 874-1042 R35
SAT Test Prep/TutoringSAT I, SAT II WRITING, SHSATPrinceton Grad - 10 yrs expteaching for top SAT programs.Learn the most effective proventechniques - how to use them.
Edward Antoine(718) 501-5111
R43
SAT/PSAT TutorHarvard graduate offers expert SATinstruction in your home. Experienced,patient tutor has succeeded with stu-dents at all levels of ability.Reasonable individual and small group rates
Steven(718) 707-1033
R28-05
Antiques & Collectibles
R28-07
L(.)(.)K!OLD CLOCKS &
WATCHES WANTEDby collector.
Regardless of conditionHighest prices paid
212-517-8725
MERCHANDISEWANTED
Open House for RNs/LPNs, PTs and OTsNYC, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx Wednesday, September 22nd; 9:30am to 4pm50 Court Street, Suite 1202Brooklyn, NY (Cross streets are Livingston and Joralemon, #2, 3 and 4 trainsto Boro Hall.)
Join Gentiva’s team of dedicated professionals and see why Gentiva is theLeading provider of Home Health Care Services in the Country.
At Gentiva, you will enjoy:
Join us at our Open House!
Commit to us and we’ll commit to you.
Ready for the best? Call 1-866-GENTIVA or visit careers.gentiva.com
Come home to Gentiva.America’s home healthcare leader
EOE
READY to take your career to new heights?
• Full or Part-time Opportunities• Medical/Dental/401k Benefits• Career Advancement
• One-on-One Homecare Training• A very Supportive Team
Environment
Healthcare
W36
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HOMEIMPROVEMENT
Movers (Licensed)
W28-52
Shower Doors
S H O W E R D O O R SShower Door
Specialists7521 13th Avenue • (718) 621-5247
www.mirageusa.com • Satisfaction is our main attraction!Mention this ad Complete Showroomfor 10% OFF Open Every Thursday til 8pm
Roofing • Bathrooms • KitchensCarpentry • All Renovations • Brickwork
Dormers • Extensions • WindowsWaterproofing
Free Estimates, Licensed & Insured
718-276-8558R37/42/28-32
Custom Woodworking
WOOD WORKSARCHITECTURAL
WOODWORK/CUSTOM FURNITURE
We produce entrance doors,windows and staircases, as wellas wall units, bookcases andentertainment centers. Designto meet your specific needs.We use the finest hardwoods & veneers
and employ superior techniquesto produce heirloom quality results.
Call for an appointment(718) 238-4626
R32/37
Decks
R28-14
Electricians
ALECTRA INC.Have an electrical problem?No job too big, no job too small!
TOILETS • YARD DRAINS24/7 • Emergency Service745-7727 or 848-5654
$ LOW, LOW, PRICES $
® ®®
Fully Insured Free Estimates
OWNER OPERATED
“Top Quality Work, DependableService and a job that will last!”• Painting • Skim Coating • Plastering• Wallpaper Removal and Installation
• Specializing in Faux Finishingand Decorative Painting
• Stain & Varnishing
Call (718) 332-7041
Finishing TouchPAINTING
ART & INTERIORS–––––––––––––––PAINTING COMPANY
PAINTINGFAUX FINISHES
MURALSSTENCILS
RESTORATION
FINE QUALITY FOR 25 YEARSAT REASONABLE RATES
646-221-4361
Movers (Licensed)
R38
R46
Dave’s D.J. Moving& Storage Available
Written Binding Estimates Available.Commercial and residential. Wecarry building insurance. All furniturepadded Free. Courteous, reliableservice. Weekends avail., packingsupplies, van service. Serving Bklynfor over 10 years.
(718) 843-4417Lic. and Ins. DOT #32241
83 Davenport Ct.Howard Beach, NY 11414
R34
Moving SuppliesWe carry a full
line of packing &moving supplies
We have wardrobe boxes, bubble &foam wraps, peanuts, and protectivedish kits. We also ship via UPS & FedEx.
41 Schemerhorn St.(bet. Court & Clinton)
718.858.6969 R38
TruckersDo You Need
2 Men with a Van?$250 1/2 day$400 full day
Call (718) 921-6601R33
PaintingY&R COMPETITIVE
PAINTINGInterior, quality American and Euro-pean workmanship • Custom Painting• Plastering • Wallpaper removal andhanging • Carpentry work • Privatehomes and Commerical bldgs.
Free Estimates(718) 769-0236 R45
R28-12
Plaster RestorationOrnamental • Skim Coating
Wallpaper • Custom PaintingStripping
(718) 783-4868Demetrious
25 years in Park Slope R34
R34/37/28-24
SUNSHINEPAINTING
CO.NYS Registered 1974
LIC# 0933304Int./Ext. • Comm./Resid.
MASTER @ PLASTERDRYWALL • SKIM COAT
sunshinepaintingny.comCall Anton
718-748-6990B.B.B. + Rating! Lowest Prices!
We do last minute jobs!Expert packers
Packing materials • Fully insuredPrompt • Cordial
TOP HAT MOVERS86 Prospect Park West, Bklyn, NY 11215
718-965-0214 • 718-622-0377 • 212-722-3390
DOT # T-12302 Visa/MCAMEX
MOVERS
MOVING & STORAGE
MOVING?NEED STORAGE?
Local/Long DistanceResidential/Commercial
UP to 50% OFFall Long Distance Moves
1 Month Free Storage
718-567-3788AA Arrow Moving & Storage, Inc.
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A18/28-14
All Systems RoofingRubber, Slate, Shingles
Commerical, ResidentialFree Estimates • All work guaranteed
