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Bonnie Steinsnyder and Chris Toulouse mourn their 8-year-old son, Alexander Toulouse, who was struck and killed by a postal truck at the corner of Livingston Street and Boerum Place on Saturday. The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan By Sarah Portlock The Brooklyn Paper Downtown Brooklynites will be un- suspecting guinea pigs at a new deli on Court Street: the Italian-sounding F. Martinella delicatessen near State Street is actually a retail concept store for the Boar’s Head cold-cut conglom- erate. The old-fashioned-style delicates- sen will offer Boar’s Head meats and cheeses, as well as salads, soups, coffee and bread baked by local hands — but when the quick-serve res- taurant opens at the end of Sep- tember, its part- ner companies — Boar’s Head Provi- sions and Deli Holdings LLC — will be studying customer habits, service and selling programs, and how its products move throughout the store, explained spokeswoman RuthAnn LeMore. “It’s a greenhouse to develop and test new product concepts … and respond to the ever-changing marketplace,” she said. “We want to understand the retail environment and to test new products, test new concepts, and bring them out to our retail distributors and partners.” As for the “proper” sounding deli name, it’s an aggregate of the company heads’ The Brooklyn Paper A 28-year-old upstart candidate for a Brooklyn Heights state Senate seat beat a man who has been in office lon- ger than the challenger has been alive — the lone upset in the area’s four main primary elections on Sept. 9. Longtime incumbent Rep. Ed Towns cruised to victory over hip-hop writer and inspirational speaker Kevin Powell in the Democratic primary for the 10th congressional district, while Council- man Mike McMahon (D–Staten Island) demolished Bay Ridge lawyer Steve Harrison for the Democratic nomina- tion for the 13th congressional district seat being vacated by scandal-tarred Rep. Vito Fossella. In the GOP primary for the same seat, former Assemblyman Robert Straniere crushed Jim Wyne. Here’s all the news and notes: By Ben Muessig and Mike McLaughlin The Brooklyn Paper Brooklyn got a double dose of half-naked irony last Friday with dueling satirical beauty pageants glorifying Coney Island’s trashy vaudeville soul and celebrating Williamsburg’s famous irony. Miss Coney Island In the sixth annual burlesque show pageant, seven buxom and bawdy ladies (and one trans- vestite) stripped, strutted and grinded their way across the stage at Coney Island USA’s Surf Avenue theater. “The girls get pretty serious about it, but it’s kind of a spoof and parody of your typical beauty pageant,” said “Bambi the Mer- maid,” a former contest winner who is now the brain’s behind the scantily clad operation. Stealing the show and the hearts of the beer-guzzling audi- ence was “Gal Friday,” a 27-year- old starlet who vowed “to start eat- ing again” if she won the crown, the sash and one year’s worth of bragging rights that makes the ti- tle Miss Coney Island the fantasy of up-and-coming exotic dancers from Queens to Parsippany. In spite of her win, she’s keep- ing her heels on the ground. “Miss Coney Island is won- derful, but it’s not going to pave the way for me for the rest of my life,” she said. Titillating the audience and propelling her to victory was her admittedly atonal a cappella version of “My Country ’Tis of Thee” and followed up with a rousing version of “America! F— Yeah!” from “Team America: World Police.” “God bless America,” said a man in the third row. Miss Williamsburg Two scenesters took the ti- tles of Mr. and Miss Williams- burg in a pageant mired in con- troversy. CJ Johnson earned the tiara thanks to her unique “talent”: guz- zling a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer while simultaneously remov- ing her panties. Johnson’s complicated ma- neuver gave her an edge over ri- vals — whose talents included blogging and complaining. Despite the fun, contestants claimed that the whole event, in the sweaty back room of the North Eighth Street bar Supreme Trading, was a set-up. Organizer Misha Calvert said she created the event to fulfill the community service sentence she received after shoplifting two 40-ounce bottles of Colt 45 from a Williamsburg bodega. But one snubbed beauty queen says Calvert invented that back story to generate buzz for the party — which was generously sponsored by, you guessed it, the makers of Colt 45 malt liquor. Slighted competitor Lola Wake- field made an even more offen- sive allegation: that Johnson was not actually a Brooklynite. Johnson told The Brooklyn Paper that she lives at the cor- ner of South Fourth Street and Bedford Avenue. Whew! “Gal Friday” is crowned Miss Co- ney Island by former pageant win- ner Bambi. The Brooklyn Paper / Jeff Bachner Now that’s talent: Miss Williams- burg winner “CJ” won by drinking beer and doffing her drawers. Katie Chao ‘F. Martinella’ a wild pig concept BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DOWNTOWN–NORTH BROOKLYN WITH CARROLL GARDENS, COBBLE HILL, BOERUM HILL, FORT GREENE, CLINTON HILL, DUMBO, WILLIAMSBURG, GREENPOINT Brooklyn’s Real Newspaper BrooklynPaper.com (718) 834–9350 Brooklyn, NY ©2008 AWP/16 pages Vol. 31, No. 36 Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008 FREE By Sarah Portlock The Brooklyn Paper A bike rider was run over and killed by a school bus on a busy Park Slope street on Wednesday — the second cyclist killed in four days. The death of 50-year-old Jonathan Millstein, killed when his bicycle collided with a turning school bus at the intersection of Eighth Avenue and Pres- ident Street, and 8-year-old Alexander Toulouse, who was run down by a postal truck at Livingston Street and Boerum Place in Downtown on Satur- day, were fresh reminders that even as biking soars in popularity, two-wheelers and four-wheelers are still finding it hard to share the road. “Our streets have not caught up to who’s using them,” said Wiley Norvell, a spokesman for the bike advocacy group, Transportation Alternatives. Witnesses said Millstein, who lived in Boerum Hill with his wife and two sons, had been wearing a helmet during his crash, which occurred just af- ter 8 am. There were no children on board the bus that killed him, and police did not issue a summons or arrest the driver, cops said. A spokeswoman for the bus operating company, Atlantic Express Transportation Corp., said the pro- fessional driver has an otherwise clean driving re- cord and is “extremely shaken.” Toulouse’s death on Saturday sent a similar shock- wave through Downtown. The 8-year-old and his father, Christopher, were on an afternoon ride near their Cobble Hill home when the truck ran over him. Cops did not charge the driver for the accident. By Ben Muessig The Brooklyn Paper Opponents are calling on the city to put the breaks on a one- and-a-half-mile portion of a bike route that would stretch from Newtown Creek to Sunset Park — saying Williamsburg doesn’t need more bike lanes. “There is already a bike lane on Wythe Avenue — now they want a bike lane on Kent Avenue?” Si- mon Weisser, a member of Com- munity Board 1, told his fellow board members at a Sept. 8 meet- ing. “You can’t accommodate every single street with a bike lane.” Weisser, and others, argued that the Department of Transportation should not stripe Kent Avenue — the first phase of the so-called Kent Avenue Greenway, a stretch of bik- ing and walking paths that are sep- arated from car traffic — until further review. Weisser wants to see the exist- ing bike lanes — on Wythe and Bedford avenues — eliminated when the Greenway is done. He added that “the whole com- munity” is behind him, a reference to South Williamsburg’s strong Ha- sidic bloc. But the board rolled over Weisser’s call. “He sees the greenway as a way to eliminate the bike lanes, but they don’t have the same function,” said Teresa Toro, chair of the Transpor- tation Committee. The one-way lanes on Bedford and Wythe avenues are necessary commuter routes that connect Wil- liamsburg with Central Brooklyn, while the greenway on Kent Ave- nue would be more like a “linear park” than a bike lane, Toro said. 8-year-old, 50-year-old killed in bike accidents A bicycle rider was killed in a collision with a school bus just after 8 am on Wednesday at the corner of President Street and Eighth Avenue in Park Slope. The Brooklyn Paper / Joe Marino By Mike McLaughlin The Brooklyn Paper Coney Island’s beloved Astro- land amusement park closed on Sunday — apparently for good, despite a last-ditch city effort to eke out another year for the 46-year-old carnival. City officials told The Brook- lyn Paper that they tried to negoti- ate with the area’s main landlord, Thor Equities, but those talks “went nowhere,” said Astroland owner Carol Albert. The failure of those negotia- tions means the sun has set for the Space Age–themed theme park — a fate that was set into motion in 2006 when Albert sold her land to Thor Equities for $30 million. She and her rides remained on site be- cause Thor gave her two one-year leases. But this year, Thor did not offer Albert an extension by her self-im- posed deadline of Thursday, Sept. 4 — so she closed the place down. The closure set about a mad scene at the amusement park, as huge throngs crowded the park, delaying the schedule 9 pm clos- ing until after midnight. The lights on each of the park’s 22 rides were turned off one by one with the final darkness descending after the illuminated Astro Tower was lowered to the ground. “There were a lot of crying chil- dren,” Albert said. Earlier in the day, the Circus Amok troupe used the closing as a leitmotif for a show that hit all the key circus notes: juggling, ac- robatics, mime and the exploita- tion of the underclass. In addition, Dick Zigun — the self-proclaimed “mayor of Coney Island” and founder of the Coney Island Circus Sideshow — and the showboating Rev. Billy gave last rites to the moribund Astroland, which stands near West 10th Street and Surf Avenue. The duo also tried Thor Equi- ties’ owner Joe Sitt in a kangaroo court for “this travesty” that allows Astroland to close while Sitt and Mayor Bloomberg fight for con- Once again, it’s Lastroland McMahon and Straniere to face off for Fossella seat; Cohen’s a judge Throngs turned out for what could be the last day of Astroland. Its owner says she can’t get a lease from landowner Joe Sitt. The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan Daniel Squadron, 12,912 (54%) Marty Connor, 10,980 (46%) State Senate, District 25 (Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Williamsburg, Cobble Hill and Car- roll Gardens) One of the city’s most-bitter campaigns, which pitted well-financed and Mayor Bloomberg–endorsed newcomer Squad- ron against 30-year incumbent Connor, ended with a relatively easy victory for the first-time candidate. For most of the year, Squadron, who lives off a sizeable trust fund established by his late father, the powerhouse lawyer Howard Squadron, had been hammering away at Connor, depicting him as a key cog in a moribund Albany machine. He also took swipes at Connor’s ethics, cit- ing everything from legal campaign con- tributions from real-estate developers to Connor’s purchase of a Brooklyn Heights apartment for just $12,000 in 1994. Connor fought back, claiming that Squad- ron, at age 28, was too inexperienced to know the ways of the world, let alone Al- bany. Knowledge or not, Squadron showed intense energy on the campaign trail, is- suing position papers as quickly as they could be printed — and all the while, Con- nor complained that he was busy in Al- bany doing the people’s business. Speaking to 300 supporters at a China- town restaurant late Tuesday night, Squad- ron said “the first thing [that came to mind when he heard that he’d won] was what an amazing job these staffers did.” Later, he paid tribute to Connor, saying, “It was a good race and we really should honor his 30 years of service.” Reached by cellphone later, Connor said, “I’ve enjoyed represening the people for nearly 30 years, but I look forward to hav- Rep. Ed Towns feels good after beat- ing upstart Kevin Powell. The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig Newcomer Daniel Squadron thrashed 30-year incumbent Marty Connor. The Brooklyn Paper / Sarah Portlock Councilman Mike McMahon won the Democratic nod to replace Vito Fossella. The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan See ACCIDENTS on page 13 See HIT on page 13 See EASY WIN on page 13 See ASTROLAND on page 13 See BOAR on page 13 WINNER WINNER WINNER CONEY W’BURG

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Bonnie Steinsnyder and Chris Toulouse mourn their 8-year-old son, Alexander Toulouse, who was struck and killed by a postal truck at the corner of Livingston Street and Boerum Place on Saturday.

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Downtown Brooklynites will be un-suspecting guinea pigs at a new deli on Court Street: the Italian-sounding F. Martinella delicatessen near State Street is actually a retail concept store for the Boar’s Head cold-cut conglom-erate. The old-fashioned-style delicates-sen will offer Boar’s Head meats and cheeses, as well as salads, soups, coffee and bread baked by local hands — but when the quick-serve res-taurant opens at the end of Sep-tember, its part-ner companies — Boar’s Head Provi-sions and Deli Holdings LLC — will be studying customer habits, service and selling programs, and how its products move throughout the store, explained spokeswoman RuthAnn LeMore. “It’s a greenhouse to develop and test new product concepts … and respond to the ever-changing marketplace,” she said. “We want to understand the retail environment and to test new products, test new concepts, and bring them out to our retail distributors and partners.” As for the “proper” sounding deli name, it’s an aggregate of the company heads’

The Brooklyn Paper

A 28-year-old upstart candidate for a Brooklyn Heights state Senate seat beat a man who has been in office lon-ger than the challenger has been alive — the lone upset in the area’s four main primary elections on Sept. 9. Longtime incumbent Rep. Ed Towns cruised to victory over hip-hop writer and inspirational speaker Kevin Powell in the Democratic primary for the 10th congressional district, while Council-man Mike McMahon (D–Staten Island) demolished Bay Ridge lawyer Steve Harrison for the Democratic nomina-tion for the 13th congressional district seat being vacated by scandal-tarred Rep. Vito Fossella. In the GOP primary for the same seat, former Assemblyman Robert Straniere crushed Jim Wyne. Here’s all the news and notes:

By Ben Muessig and Mike McLaughlinThe Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn got a double dose of half-naked irony last Friday with dueling satirical beauty pageants glorifying Coney Island’s trashy vaudeville soul and celebrating Williamsburg’s famous irony.

Miss Coney Island In the sixth annual burlesque show pageant, seven buxom and bawdy ladies (and one trans-vestite) stripped, strutted and grinded their way across the stage at Coney Island USA’s Surf Avenue theater. “The girls get pretty serious about it, but it’s kind of a spoof and parody of your typical beauty pageant,” said “Bambi the Mer-maid,” a former contest winner

who is now the brain’s behind the scantily clad operation. Stealing the show and the hearts of the beer-guzzling audi-ence was “Gal Friday,” a 27-year-old starlet who vowed “to start eat-ing again” if she won the crown, the sash and one year’s worth of bragging rights that makes the ti-tle Miss Coney Island the fantasy of up-and-coming exotic dancers from Queens to Parsippany. In spite of her win, she’s keep-ing her heels on the ground. “Miss Coney Island is won-derful, but it’s not going to pave the way for me for the rest of my life,” she said. Titillating the audience and propelling her to victory was her admittedly atonal a cappella version of “My Country ’Tis of Thee” and followed up with a

rousing version of “America! F— Yeah!” from “Team America: World Police.” “God bless America,” said a man in the third row.

Miss Williamsburg Two scenesters took the ti-tles of Mr. and Miss Williams-burg in a pageant mired in con-troversy. CJ Johnson earned the tiara thanks to her unique “talent”: guz-zling a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer while simultaneously remov-ing her panties. Johnson’s complicated ma-neuver gave her an edge over ri-vals — whose talents included blogging and complaining. Despite the fun, contestants claimed that the whole event, in the sweaty back room of the

North Eighth Street bar Supreme Trading, was a set-up. Organizer Misha Calvert said she created the event to fulfill the community service sentence she received after shoplifting two 40-ounce bottles of Colt 45 from a Williamsburg bodega. But one snubbed beauty queen says Calvert invented that back story to generate buzz for the party — which was generously sponsored by, you guessed it, the makers of Colt 45 malt liquor. Slighted competitor Lola Wake-field made an even more offen-sive allegation: that Johnson was not actually a Brooklynite. Johnson told The Brooklyn Paper that she lives at the cor-ner of South Fourth Street and Bedford Avenue. Whew!

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By Sarah PortlockThe Brooklyn Paper

A bike rider was run over and killed by a school bus on a busy Park Slope street on Wednesday — the second cyclist killed in four days. The death of 50-year-old Jonathan Millstein, killed when his bicycle collided with a turning school bus at the intersection of Eighth Avenue and Pres-ident Street, and 8-year-old Alexander Toulouse, who was run down by a postal truck at Livingston Street and Boerum Place in Downtown on Satur-day, were fresh reminders that even as biking soars in popularity, two-wheelers and four-wheelers are still finding it hard to share the road. “Our streets have not caught up to who’s using them,” said Wiley Norvell, a spokesman for the bike advocacy group, Transportation Alternatives. Witnesses said Millstein, who lived in Boerum Hill with his wife and two sons, had been wearing a helmet during his crash, which occurred just af-ter 8 am. There were no children on board the bus that killed him, and police did not issue a summons or arrest the driver, cops said. A spokeswoman for the bus operating company, Atlantic Express Transportation Corp., said the pro-fessional driver has an otherwise clean driving re-cord and is “extremely shaken.” Toulouse’s death on Saturday sent a similar shock-wave through Downtown. The 8-year-old and his father, Christopher, were on an afternoon ride near their Cobble Hill home when the truck ran over him. Cops did not charge the driver for the accident.

By Ben MuessigThe Brooklyn Paper

Opponents are calling on the city to put the breaks on a one-and-a-half-mile portion of a bike route that would stretch from Newtown Creek to Sunset Park — saying Williamsburg doesn’t need more bike lanes. “There is already a bike lane on Wythe Avenue — now they want a bike lane on Kent Avenue?” Si-mon Weisser, a member of Com-munity Board 1, told his fellow board members at a Sept. 8 meet-

ing. “You can’t accommodate every single street with a bike lane.” Weisser, and others, argued that the Department of Transportation should not stripe Kent Avenue — the first phase of the so-called Kent Avenue Greenway, a stretch of bik-ing and walking paths that are sep-arated from car traffic — until further review. Weisser wants to see the exist-ing bike lanes — on Wythe and Bedford avenues — eliminated when the Greenway is done. He added that “the whole com-munity” is behind him, a reference

to South Williamsburg’s strong Ha-sidic bloc. But the board rolled over Weisser’s call. “He sees the greenway as a way to eliminate the bike lanes, but they don’t have the same function,” said Teresa Toro, chair of the Transpor-tation Committee. The one-way lanes on Bedford and Wythe avenues are necessary commuter routes that connect Wil-liamsburg with Central Brooklyn, while the greenway on Kent Ave-nue would be more like a “linear park” than a bike lane, Toro said.

8-year-old, 50-year-old killed in bike accidents

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Coney Island’s beloved Astro-land amusement park closed on Sunday — apparently for good, despite a last-ditch city effort to eke out another year for the 46-year-old carnival. City officials told The Brook-lyn Paper that they tried to negoti-ate with the area’s main landlord, Thor Equities, but those talks “went nowhere,” said Astroland owner Carol Albert.

The failure of those negotia-tions means the sun has set for the Space Age–themed theme park — a fate that was set into motion in 2006 when Albert sold her land to Thor Equities for $30 million. She and her rides remained on site be-cause Thor gave her two one-year leases. But this year, Thor did not offer Albert an extension by her self-im-posed deadline of Thursday, Sept. 4 — so she closed the place down. The closure set about a mad scene at the amusement park, as

huge throngs crowded the park, delaying the schedule 9 pm clos-ing until after midnight. The lights on each of the park’s 22 rides were turned off one by one with the final darkness descending after the illuminated Astro Tower was lowered to the ground. “There were a lot of crying chil-dren,” Albert said. Earlier in the day, the Circus Amok troupe used the closing as a leitmotif for a show that hit all the key circus notes: juggling, ac-robatics, mime and the exploita-

tion of the underclass. In addition, Dick Zigun — the self-proclaimed “mayor of Coney Island” and founder of the Coney Island Circus Sideshow — and the showboating Rev. Billy gave last rites to the moribund Astroland, which stands near West 10th Street and Surf Avenue. The duo also tried Thor Equi-ties’ owner Joe Sitt in a kangaroo court for “this travesty” that allows Astroland to close while Sitt and Mayor Bloomberg fight for con-

Once again, it’s Lastroland

McMahon and Straniere to face off for Fossella seat; Cohen’s a judge

Throngs turned out for what could be the last day of Astroland. Its owner says she can’t get a lease from landowner Joe Sitt.

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Daniel Squadron, 12,912 (54%)Marty Connor, 10,980 (46%)State Senate, District 25 (Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Williamsburg, Cobble Hill and Car-roll Gardens) One of the city’s most-bitter campaigns, which pitted well-financed and Mayor Bloomberg–endorsed newcomer Squad-ron against 30-year incumbent Connor, ended with a relatively easy victory for the first-time candidate. For most of the year, Squadron, who lives off a sizeable trust fund established by his late father, the powerhouse lawyer Howard Squadron, had been hammering away at Connor, depicting him as a key cog in a moribund Albany machine. He also took swipes at Connor’s ethics, cit-ing everything from legal campaign con-tributions from real-estate developers to Connor’s purchase of a Brooklyn Heights apartment for just $12,000 in 1994.

Connor fought back, claiming that Squad-ron, at age 28, was too inexperienced to know the ways of the world, let alone Al-bany. Knowledge or not, Squadron showed intense energy on the campaign trail, is-suing position papers as quickly as they could be printed — and all the while, Con-nor complained that he was busy in Al-bany doing the people’s business. Speaking to 300 supporters at a China-town restaurant late Tuesday night, Squad-ron said “the first thing [that came to mind when he heard that he’d won] was what an amazing job these staffers did.” Later, he paid tribute to Connor, saying, “It was a good race and we really should honor his 30 years of service.” Reached by cellphone later, Connor said, “I’ve enjoyed represening the people for nearly 30 years, but I look forward to hav- Rep. Ed Towns feels good after beat-

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Seamus O’Toole, the co-owner of the beloved Brook-lyn Heights bar and restau-rant Eamonn’s and a de facto “Mayor of Montague Street,” has died. He was 58. O’Toole died on Saturday from massive head injuries stem-ming from an accidental fall in a stairway at one of his new res-taurants in Manhattan, said a spokeswoman for the Medical Examiner’s office. “We’re all devastated,” said longtime customer Samaris, who earned the nickname “Lucky Larry” from O’Toole. “We lost a dear friend and good guy … who just knew everybody by name.” A very charitable man, O’Toole’s active role in the com-munity was evident in the numer-ous plaques and wards lining the walls of his restaurant, including praise from the Red Cross, Patrol-men’s Benevolent Association, and New York Fire Department. Borough President Markow-itz fondly remembered O’Toole as a popular figure in the area, always happy to open his doors to anyone. “He was a leader in the Irish-American community and a prominent business member of Downtown Brooklyn, and especially Montague Street,” Markowitz said. “He will be missed.” The saloon opened in the mid-1990s at 174 Montague St. and was a favorite spot among area office workers, lawyers, jurors and business owners — and a popular setting for meetings and parties in its second-floor event space. The restaurant is expected to stay open — “Seamus would want it open,” Samaris said. Friends and family streamed into his wake on Tuesday and Wednesday, which was held at McLaughlin & Son’s Funeral Home in Bay Ridge. A mass was scheduled for Thursday at 10:45 am at St. Bernadette’s Church in Dyker Heights, where O’Toole lived. O’Toole is survived by his wife, Catherine; two young chil-dren, Ryan, 8, and Saoirse, 4; and two older boys from his first marriage, Aaron and Cathal.

O’Toole’s family has request-ed that supporters donate money to St. Jude’s Children Hospital or to the Community Mayors Association in lieu of flowers.

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Long-divided DUMBO was reunited on Monday when the city finally reopened a walk-way under the Manhattan Bridge to pedestrian traffic. The Manhattan Bridge arch-way, which is actually a por-tion of Water Street between Adams Street and Anchorage Place, will now serve the pub-lic as a plaza and walkway be-tween East DUMBO and West DUMBO — which have devel-oped different cultures and cus-toms over the years, despite their proximity. By next fall, in time for the bridge’s 100th birthday in Octo-ber 2009, it will expand to a full-fledged venue with $500,000 in benches, elaborate lighting, and landscaping. “It’s like the reunification of Berlin,” said DUMBO’s coun-cilman David Yassky, referring to the fall of the Berlin Wall. “The reality is that [the wall] has been a needless division of two points of the neighborhood. … It’s a magnificent public space that is totally in keeping with the DUMBO ‘industrial chic’ ethic.” If Yassky’s comment sounds over the top, you don’t know DUMBO. Around about the time that President Reagan was in Berlin telling Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall,” the city was doing the opposite for its once-unified DUMBO residents, sealing off the 7,000-square-foot archway that once connected the east-ern and western part of Water Street. Yet even as the Berlin Wall fell, the Cold War ended, the So-viet Union collapsed and Rea-gan got an airport named after him, the Department of Trans-portation continued to use the spot to store equipment. For several years, the DUMBO Improvement District has pushed for the archway to be turned into a walkway so that West DUMBO residents, eager to sit in the Pearl Street Triangle or access the fur-niture shops along Jay Street, or East DUMBO residents hoping to visit a gallery or get a Jacques Torres cookie, would no longer be forced to circumnavigate the bridge or go out of their way by using Front Street. Now, between 8 am and 4 pm, intra-DUMBO pedestrians can stay on Water Street. The throughway will be fully open for 24-hours a day next fall. Improvement District Execu-

tive Director Kate Kerrigan said she hopes to include art exhibits by local artist groups and events

in the space, starting in the fall once the preliminary restoration work is finished.

“It’s something that the whole community’s been looking to achieve, and it’s really about the connectivity, recapturing of open space,” said Kerrigan. The well-received opening of this public space comes just weeks after the Department of Transportation gave itself a black eye by seizing another neigh-borhood open space, the just-cleared area under the Brooklyn Bridge where the 1920s-era Pur-chase Building had stood. That building was knocked down by the Brooklyn Bridge Park De-velopment Corporation to build a grand public piazza that was set to open next fall — until the city took it back for at least an-other five years. “They got this one right at least,” said one Brooklyn Bridge Park insider.

The Department of Transportation finally unsealed a cor-ridor between East and West DUMBO.

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By Mike McLaughlinThe Brooklyn Paper

The city reversed itself and halted work on an embattled raw bar being built on a res-idential block of Hoyt Street in Carroll Gardens. The Department of Buildings on Aug. 21 stopped construction at prolific Brooklyn restaura-teur and bar-owner Jim Mama-ry’s latest venture, planned for around the corner from his Black Mountain Wine Bar at Union and Hoyt street. The new, still-unnamed, restaurant has been under fire since January, when neighbors rose up against Ma-mary’s application for a liquor license. Back then, the Buildings De-partment gave Mamary a per-mit fully knowing he intended to build an eating and drinking establishment, according to city records. But then, amid neighbor-hood complaints about Mama-ry’s plans, the city reviewed the

project and, in August, took issue with the restaurateur’s plans. “The objections related to the proposed use of the site as an eating and drinking estab-lishment,” department spokes-woman Carly Sullivan said. She did not say why the work was halted. She also declined to say why the agency revisited a project that it had approved only months earlier. Mamary hopes to restart his project after meeting with the Buildings Department. “I’m not emotionally attached to it. It’s just business,” he said. “But I am going to do what it takes to get the project back in line.” It’s not the first time that the project has faced a bumpy road. In January, neighbors launched the high-profile campaign to get Community Board 6 to reject Mamary’s bid for a liquor li-cense — though the board ul-timately sided with Mamary. At the time, opponents said that an additional watering hole

Restaurateur Jim Mamary, seen here in his Ditmas Park eatery, Pommes de Terre, is facing new troubles in his ef-fort to open an oyster bar on Hoyt Street.

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on the block might upend their quiet corner of Carroll Gardens and turn it into a junior version of Smith Street, a bon vivant’s paradise. “It really threatens our way of life,” Mary Hedge said back then. Hedge and others who crit-icized the project could not be reached for comment about the Department of Building’s work-stoppage.

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It might be too late to save the “Green Church,” but preserva-tionists are hoping they can res-cue a tiny piece of the emerald-stoned house of worship’s history before the wrecking ball arrives next week — a time capsule. In 1899, the founders of the Bay Ridge United Method-ist Church — then called the New Grace Methodist Episco-pal Church — tucked some pe-riod relics behind the church’s cornerstone. “In the little copper box which was placed in the corner stone were a Bible, a hymn book, a book containing the names of the mem-bers of the Ladies’ Aid Society, the Epworth League and the Build-ing Committee; a photograph of Simon De Nyne, now deceased, a pioneer Methodist in the Bay Ridge section; a history of the church, a picture of the first church of the Methodist denomination in the vicinity, which was erected on Cowenhoven’s lane in 1830; a picture of the second church, which stood on Stewart avenue, and a photograph of the present church,” the Oct. 22, 1899, edi-tion of the long-defunct Brook-lyn Eagle reported. “There was also a copy of a newspaper, containing the account of the capture of Manila by Dewey, in the box,” the Eagle reported. Church officials think that the time capsule — and all of the 19th-century heirlooms with it — is still be behind the cornerstone.

“When we do the demoli-tion, we’ll look into it,” said Pastor Robert Emerick, who has succeeded in his quest to tear down the gorgeous, but dif-ficult-to-maintain, structure, sell the church’s land at the corner of Ovington Avenue, relocate the 211 bodies buried on the grounds, and build a smaller, more modern and more manage-able house of worship that bet-

ter fits the tiny congregation. The demolition is pending Department of Buildings ap-proval, but workers have already removed many of the church’s stained glass windows. For some of the preservation-ists who rallied and petitioned to save the historic church, retriev-

ing the time capsule is crucial. “If the building comes down, the time capsule needs to be taken care of,” said Eric Rouda, a mem-ber of the Committee to Save the Green Church. “On top of every-thing else, I would hate to see that piece of history lost as well.” But for other activists, the time capsule can’t stand in for the soon-to-be demolished church. “When you compare the time capsule to the whole experience of what is happening — remains being moved, the church being stripped, and the crosses being taken down — this is so minis-cule,” said Victoria Hofmo, who is a member of the committee. The time capsule isn’t the only part of the church that might be salvaged. Over the last two weeks, work-ers from the architectural an-tique shop “Olde Good Things” have been stripping the church clean. An employee told The Brook-lyn Paper that the company can resell “any architectural details, all the way down to the boards in the wall. It could be stained glass, it could be lighting. It could be the pews. It all depends on the building.” All of the salvage work go-ing on this week at the church is mere prelude to the demoli-tion of the building itself, which is expected to begin next week. For months, local preservation-ists have sought a way to save the church from the wrecking ball, but the congregation held firm that demolition was nec-essary.

By Sarah PortlockThe Brooklyn Paper

It wasn’t high rent, but overly zealous environmentalism, that ultimately did in the Pumpkin’s Organic Market — an irony, considering that the one neighborhood where the eco-friendly grocer might have had a chance was crunchy ol’ Park Slope. Two years ago, Pumpkin’s owner and longtime Slope resident Christina Cassano did away with landfill-clogging disposable cof-fee cups and insisted her customers buy their grains, spices, and other sundries in bulk rather than in wasteful small packages. But despite those Earth-hugging moves, the customers never came in droves; within the next few months, the Eighth Avenue natu-ral foods store will close. “Our whole goal here was just to reduce waste and to in-form people about what is going on [when we pollute the en-vironment],” Cassano said. “We were really trying to educate people, so it’s been disappointing, the response.” This week, Cassano admitted that the Tuesday after Labor Day was her worst day in six-and-one-half years. The closing of the market, which is at 13th Street, comes as several new markets moved into the area, including Union Market one block away on Seventh Avenue between 12th and 13th streets, and the 12th Street market’s recent changeover from run-of-the-mill bodega to a more unique organic pro-duce bodega. When Fairway opened in Red Hook in 2006, it didn’t help things either, Cassano said. But in the face of such serious competition, Cassano went vegan and unveiled more green touches, including selling laun-dry detergent to people who brought their own containers. Some found a certain charm to bringing mugs for one’s morn-ing coffee or empty bottles for cleanser, but not everyone ap-preciated the larger goal of saving the planet. “I went in there to buy a cup of coffee on Sunday — you know, to show some support for the little guy — and the guy behind the counter says to me, ‘Do you have a cup?’” re-counted one longtime Park Slope resident. “I try to be envi-ronmental, but for want of a simple, two-cent recycled paper cup, they lost a $1.50 sale. And I might have even bought a vegan cookie, too!” It’s somewhat odd that in a place like Park Slope, where even the very user-unfriendly Food Co-op watches its mem-bership grow each year despite work requirements and a re-cent ban on bottled water and plastic bags, Pumpkin’s couldn’t quite master success. “They have such a limited selection of products — I look for one-stop shopping, and that is just not the place,” said one Sloper, Brett Comack, 30. The expensive prices didn’t lure customers in either, even if the $3.99-per-pound apples were organic and delicious.But some shoppers liked the select-your-own quantities and fresh ingredients. “They had a nice run, and they were [environmentally-sound] for real, with the canvas bags and the bottles to refill your laun-dry detergent,” said Slope resident Diane Fitzgerald, 32. “It is such a great concept, but people are just too conventional.” Up next for Cassano is a move to Minneapolis later this fall, where she said she wants to open a new food store. — with Michael Lipkin

PARK SLOPE

The Green Church contains a century-old time capsule in its cornerstone (right). Its stained glass windows have been removed (above).

Christina Cassano, owner of Pumpkins Market, a tiny organic grocery store on Eighth Avenue in Park Slope, said her store will close.

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By Sarah PortlockThe Brooklyn Paper

Two sets of playing fields in J.J. Byrne Park have been ren-dered useless as the city began renovating the northern section of the park before a private de-

veloper finished his long-over-due, and city-mandated, rehab of the southern park. “The situation is intolera-ble,” said Community Board 6 District Manager Craig Ham-merman of the park, which is

City tears up part of field before other rehab is done

bordered by Third and Fourth streets and Fourth and Fifth ave-nues. “We have parks users who have been more than patient and reasonable and, frankly, we’re going to have to take a look at what other options we have.” In 2005, the city let devel-oper Shaya Boymelgreen, who is developing the Novo condos at 343 Fourth Ave., use the south-ern handball courts and cement ballfield as a staging area for his 12-story, 113-unit behemoth. In return, Boymelgreen was required to complete the renova-tions before his residents could move in. The first deadline in 2006 came and went, as did the most recent deadline on Aug. 27, yet Boymelgreen was given a tem-porary certificate of occupancy in June anyway, said a Depart-ment of Buildings spokeswoman. Tenants are moving in, and the whole situation is “outrageous,” Hammerman said. “[Boymelgreen] negotiated in good faith a plan to make the park whole again, and they have been unable to meet any of their deadlines for comple-tion,” he explained. “They’re un-der an agreement with the Parks Department to repair the park before they would be allowing people to move in.” Parks spokesman Phil Abram-son said the agency still be-lieves that Boymelgreen will make good on his promised $1.6-million renovation, which will include new handball courts, basketball courts, a dog run, a garden, and a skate park. Abramson added that the city didn’t want to hold up its own ren-ovations of the park and started its $3-million renovations to con-vert an asphalt yard to a synthetic turf field. Playground renovations will begin once the field renova-tions are complete.

“Initially, we didn’t want to start until [Boymelgreen’s reno-vations] were all done, but now we don’t want to delay it even more,” Abramson said. “Our staff inspects their site twice a week and we’re in com-munication with them. We hope that construction will be done relatively soon and that that part of the park can be reopened.” A spokeswoman for Boymel-green did not return messages for comment.

The Parks Department has begun work on the ballfield and handball courts on the north side of J.J. Byrne Park — before the south side is done.

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84TH PRECINCTDUMBO–Brooklyn Heights

Downtown–Boerum Hill Cops have narrowed their search for two perps who smash car win-dows in DUMBO, and now sus-pect two teenagers from Vinegar Hill, a source said on Tuesday. The search began two weeks ago when cops arrested a career criminal for a spate of car break-ins — but then at least six cars were broken into after the suspect was in jail. The cop said that one victim — and a witness — later identified the two perps in a photo lineup. The officer said the NYPD had beefed up patrol in the area to find the punks. “They have a criminal history,” the cop said. “The detective squad has the names, and they’re just looking for [the kids].” But there were no break-ins this week, the cop said, presum-ably because the kids are back in school and, on Saturday, the rain kept everyone inside.

Shoot! A chute! A burglar broke into a Hicks Street apartment building on Sept. 7 by reaching through the front door mail chute, cops said. The man then opened the door, which is near State Street, and stole two bikes parked in the ves-tibule, worth $800. But during his break-in, the man cut himself and left behind DNA evidence, which cops said they are promptly testing.

Road rager A sedan and a motorcycle got into a minor accident on Atlantic Avenue on Sept. 5, but what en-sued was anything but minor. Before the driver could even get out of his car, near Hicks Street, one motorcyclist jumped off the bike and started punching the man. As the victim stumbled out of his seat at around 10:20 pm, the other motorcyclist came up, took off his helmet, and started beating the man with it, knock-ing out four teeth, and sending him to the hospital. — Sarah Portlock

78TH PRECINCTPark Slope

Hand job A Spanish-speaking thief used only gestures to rob a woman of $80 on Sterling Place on Sept. 1. The woman said she was walk-ing home and was near Seventh Avenue at just after midnight when a man approached and gestured to her bag and to his waist, where, presumably, he had a gun. Though he never uttered a

threat in English, his Spanish threats and his gestures con-vinced the woman that a rob-bery was afoot.

Bend over A thief acted quickly when a man bent down at a check-cash-ing joint to retrieve something. The man told cops that he had put his wallet on the counter of the store, which is on Flatbush Avenue between Bergen and Dean streets, at around 5:30 pm on Aug. 19. He dropped something, picked it up and didn’t notice that a thief had swiped his credit card — until the bill came a month later and revealed all sorts of charges.

Church louse Someone stole a St. Johns Place church’s debit card — and rang up more than $1,400 in charges before anyone noticed. Cops say that the card, taken from a locked cabinet in the church, which is between Sixth and Sev-enth avenues, was discovered on Sept. 2 by a church secretary.

Wheels rolled At five vehicles were broken into — and two stolen — in the neighborhood last week: • A 1995 Honda Accord parked on Second Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues on Sept. 2 was gone three days later. • A woman who double-parked her car on 12th Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues at around 10:30 am on Sept. 2 re-turned 20 minutes later to find that her purse had been taken, along with its contents: a fancy wallet, a cellphone and $35. • The owner left his 2002 Saab left unlocked on President Street between Seventh and Eighth ave-nues overnight on Sept. 3. He re-turned the next morning to find a Coach bag and a Gucci jacket missing. • A thief broke into a car that was parked in a drugstore lot on Ninth Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues on Sept. 4. The owner parked the car at around 11:30 am and was gone for only a few minutes — enough time for the crook to take a fancy laptop. • A company van containing thousands of dollars in equip-ment was stolen between Aug. 30 and Sept. 2.

Bunch o’ burgs • A laptop was stolen from a Fifth Avenue video store on Sept. 1. The clerk told cops that she had stepped out of the store, which is at St. Johns Place, for just a moment, only to return to find the computer missing. Also taken? A movie script she was working on. • A thief broke into a Seventh Av-

enue apartment on Sept. 2 and took a laptop, a fancy watch, a Black-berry and a Metrocard. The ten-ant said she was asleep from 6:30 to 11 pm, when the thief entered the building, which is between St. Johns and Lincoln places. • A Ninth Street office was relieved of $400, two laptops, a digital camera and a safe some-time between Aug. 30 and Sept. 2. Cops don’t know how the thief got into the building, which is be-tween Fifth and Sixth avenues. — Gersh Kuntzman

76TH PRECINCTCarroll Gardens–Cobble Hill

Red Hook

Can’t take heat A baker warded off a gun-tot-ing mugger in the wee hours of Sept. 7 on Court Street. The 45-year-old bread maker was also a bread winner by refus-ing to open his safe even though a masked man pointing a gun. The robber eventually gave up and fled the store, between Sack-ett and Union streets, at 5 am.

Plumb out A Smith Street man returned home on Sept. 4 to discover that his gadgets and prized Rolex watch were gone. The 32-year-old man, who lives between Carroll and Sec-ond streets, told police he thought the intruder infiltrated his apart-ment by climbing through an un-locked living room window.

Phone shark A crook broke into a rented delivery truck on Court Street on Sept. 4 and stole the lines of communication. The driver told police the Ford van was parked between Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Street from 9 to 11:30 am. When he came back, he told police that his set of walkie talkies and cellphone had been swiped.

Three stooges Three men robbed a food deliv-eryman who arrived with a food order at a First Street apartment on Sept. 3. The goons menaced the 17-year-old who showed up to his destination between Hoyt and Bond streets at 2:35 am. “Give us everything and we won’t hurt

you,” one said. The worker on the graveyard shift lost his phone, $75 and $60 of hot food.

Bagged her A woman’s bag was stolen from a Columbia Street bar while she powdered her nose. The 27-year-old reveler told police that someone stole her purse while she was in the la-dies’ room of the watering hole between Woodhull and Rapel-eye streets at 3:27. The pocketbook contained $40, a camera, her credit cards and ID. — Mike McLaughlin

90TH PRECINCTWilliamsburg–Bushwick

Crime time Two thugs used the oldest trick in the book — the ol’ distraction ploy — to mug a pair of schoolboys on their way to class on Sept. 5. “What time is it?” one of the crooks asked the 12- and 14-year-old victims as they passed the cor-ner of Walton Street and Harri-son Avenue at around 8:20 am. Before the victims had time to answer, the crooks pushed them against a wall and pilfered their pockets.

Film flam Crooks snatched more than $5,000 of video equipment from a film shoot on Harrison Street, between Bogart Street and Mor-gan Avenue, between 5:45 am and 9:45 am on Sept. 2.

Car attack Crooks tried to mug a 44-year-old man as he passed the corner of Grand Street and Morgan Ave-nue — while he was in his car! The thugs approached the ve-hicle at around 4:30 pm on Sept. 4 — just after the victim depos-ited cash at a nearby bank — and tried to pull the victim from his car, repeatedly striking him in the head and body as they at-tempted to grab his wallet. The victim was able to hold onto his belongings, and drove himself to the emergency room at Woodhull Hospital.

Lockbuster Thieves got into a Broadway apartment on Sept. 5 and stole everything they could carry — including a getaway vehicle.

The crooks broke a lock to get into the apartment, which is between Havemeyer Street and Marcy Avenue, while the victim was at work between 1–9 pm. Once inside, the thieves grabbed a digital camera, two laptop computers, jewelry in a case, and a Bianchi bicycle. — Ben Muessig

94TH PRECINCTGreenpoint–Williamsburg

Morning person Two surly crooks slapped a woman in the face after she woke them up near her North Sixth Street apartment’s on Sept. 4. The victim was taking out her trash at around 4:15 am, when she stirred the delinquents, who had been dozing on the stoop of the building, which is between Berry Street and Wythe Avenue. “You woke me up,” said one, before smacking the victim in the face, knocking her to the ground, and fleeing.

Pedal-pushing A bike-riding baddie stole a woman’s purse as she returned to her Humboldt Street home on Sept. 1. The pony-tailed mugger pulled the black handbag from his 22-year-old victim’s shoul-der just after she exited a cab at the corner of Driggs Avenue at around 2:40 am.

Cash snatch A quick-fingered crook yanked $150 out of a frustrated shopper’s hand on North Seventh Street on Sept. 2. The crook confronted the vic-tim between Bedford Avenue and Berry Street at around 7 pm.

Photo-graft! A crook stole film equipment from a North Henry Street pho-tographer’s apartment while she was asleep on Aug. 31. The thief broke in between 3 am and 7:30 am and snatched a Holga camera, a Super 8 camera, and a 16 mm camera, a lens, a laptop and a set of keys from the apartment, which is between Her-bert and Richardson streets. — Ben Muessig

68TH PRECINCTBay Ridge

Bloody hairy A party at a Fifth Avenue nightclub turned violent when a 52-year-old man was stabbed in the chest on Sept. 2. The victim and a friend were at the bar of the club, which is between 94th and 95th streets, at around 2 am when they were approached by

a stranger, cops said. Without speaking, the suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim in the chest several times before running out the building’s front door and disappearing down 94th Street.

Teen mugged Two thugs cornered and robbed a teenage boy as he walked down 78th Street on Sept. 4. The 15-year-old victim was walking home from school at around 2 pm when a man and a woman approached him at the corner of Fifth Avenue, cops said. The man held him down while the woman snatched the $300 phone off of his belt.

Roughed rider Someone roughed up a 38-year-old man as he exited the Bay Ridge Avenue subway station on Sept. 3. The victim was walking out of the R train station, at around 7:30 pm when the suspect came from behind, pushed him to the ground and grabbed his wallet.

Gross necking Someone snatched jewelry off of an unsuspecting woman as she sat in front of her 84th Street home on Sept. 1st. The 72-year-old victim told cops she was sitting in a beach chair on her front porch, be-tween Fourth and Fifth ave-nues, at around 5 pm when a man walked up to her. Before she could react, the thief reached out and grabbed the $250 chain from around her neck before flee-ing up 84th Street.

Bling blung Someone broke into a 77th Street home on Sept. 1 and stole a lot of bling. The 44-year-old owner of the home, which is between First and Second avenues, said he left the place at around 7 pm. When he

returned just three hours later, someone had broken a basement window and made off with vari-ous pieces of gold and diamond jewelry. — Emily Lavin

88TH PRECINCTFort Greene–Clinton Hill

Apartment hunt It’s every apartment-seekers worst nightmare — falling prey to a phony broker. A con artist hoodwinked two female roommates out of $2,600 on Aug. 27 for a deposit and rent on an apartment she didn’t even control. The victims, aged 24 and 25, claim a 30-year-old imposter fleeced them out of cash, which they handed over to her on the corner of Clermont and Myrtle avenues at 5 pm.

Hard rock Four hooligans tried to car-jack a man and injured his chil-dren as the father dropped the youngsters off at their Carlton Avenue home on Sept. 7. The ambush began at 7:15 pm between Atlantic Avenue and Ful-ton Street when the quartet tried to drag the 32-year-old dad out of his parked vehicle. He fought them off, but they snatched away his necklace. The paterfamilias then drove off, but someone in the attack-ing quartet hurled a rock at his rear window. The pane shattered and the flying shards cut several of his backseat tykes.

Hammer head A man bashed another man in the noggin with a hammer on Flatbush Avenue Extension on Sept. 9, and was soon arrested for his heads up fighting. The victim and attacker were locked in an argument between Willoughby Street and Myrtle Av-enue at 8 pm when the 23-year-

old suspect swung the tool and connected with his verbal adver-sary’s cranium. According to the police report, it caused “serious physical injury.”

Retaken A quick-thinking man foiled a mugging on the corner of Wa-verly and DeKalb avenues on Sept. 5. Three hoodlums stole the 29-year-old man’s iPod and phone after they simulated possession of a gun at 3:45 pm and stated, “Let’s make this quick. Where’s the money?” The victim then pleaded for help from a passerby, but it was just a ruse to distract the mug-gers. He then yanked the iPod and cell back and chased, but could not catch, the miscreants to an apartment on Clinton Avenue.

Red handed Police nabbed a man stealing copper pipes from a Vanderbilt Avenue apartment on Aug. 31. Cops observed the 56-year-old suspected burglar inside the resi-dence, between Gates and Greene avenues, at 11:47 pm and carrying a duffel bag crammed with bolt cut-ters and precious metal piping.

Stop & shop(lift) A teenager’s eyes were too big for his own good, as secu-rity guards put the kibosh on his gargantuan shoplifting attempt from a Flatbush Avenue depart-ment store on Sept. 1. The 19-year-old alleged thief tried to leave the national re-tailer, between Atlantic Avenue and Hanson Place, at 10:23 am laden with stolen CDs, DVDs, video game controllers, a can opener, a knife, cellular phones, cameras and headphones but the heist wasn’t easy to conceal. Se-curity guards detained him un-til police arrived

— Mike McLaughlin

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Cops are tracking a new breed of crim-inal — the sucker seer. Police in Park Slope’s 78th Precinct say they’re inundated with reports of thefts of satellite guidance systems from cars with a tell-tale sign: the suction cup that connects the fancy digital maps to the windshield.

“Those suction cups are the dead give-away,” said an officer at the 78th Precinct. “The thieves see it and they know there’s a GPS in the car somewhere — and we’re see-ing a spike in those crimes.” The extent of the problem is unclear, but cops are clearly concerned. “Tell everyone: take the suction cup off the windshield,” the officer said.

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To the editor, I think your article about the legality of drinking beer on your own stoop misses a larger point (“This Bust’s for You,” Sept. 4). I agree that the officers in the incidents in question used poor judgment, ticketing people who were apparently doing noth-ing wrong. However, the tone of the story, especially when the writer compared the stoop-drinking summons to the incident when the 6-year-old got a chalk-ticketing warning last year — implies that this is all just silliness, that the law shouldn’t exist and that it certainly shouldn’t be enforced. As someone who has lived for years across the street from rowdy, beer-drinking, stoop-sitting alcoholics, who have a penchant for

screaming and shouting up and down the block all night (and into the early hours of the morning), I can tell you this law should be on the books … and the police should employ it when called for. Unfortunately on our block, the police have in the past dismissed our complaints about these people as the price we pay for living in Brooklyn. That echoes your arti-cle’s tone and seems deaf to the concerns of ordinary families. Stuart Miller, Park Slope

To the editor, I’ve read with great interest your stories about damaged and dead trees adjacent to the public art installation, “The New York City Waterfalls” created by Olafur Elias-son (“More aborcide from art project,” Aug. 23). I am very glad to see that a certified ar-borist was brought in by the Parks Depart-ment to assist in these efforts. There is no question that salt spray, such as that generated by the waterfalls, can have deleterious effects upon trees, both on the foliage as well as on the roots in the soil. The steps taken to “wash” the salt depos-its from the foliage AND the soil are very positive measures that should greatly re-duce any long-term negative effects.

To the editor, Thank you for that article about the Asian tiger mosquito invasion (“Buzz off!” The Brooklyn Angle, Aug. 21). Three summers ago, I was bitten on my ribs in long strands and circles; I guess they got me when I was trimming the higher reaches of the wisteria in my backyard. The welts were so painful that I won-dered if I had shingles, and actually went to a physician. Last winter, I even had mos-quitoes in my house — through February. This Brooklyn native has never experienced critters quite like these. Nowadays, I put on Deet, trim the wis-teria almost in panic-mode, and then, in a sweat, get back indoors as fast as I can. I’m so glad I bought a detached house so that I could enjoy nature all around me! Barbara Minakakis, Ditmas Park

To the editor, With the primary elections come and gone, perhaps this is a good time to thank our elected officials for the atrocious rezon-ing of Fourth Avenue a few years ago. As a result of that misguided upzoning, developers have constructed the most ex-

By e-mail: [email protected] mail: Letters, The Brook lyn Paper, 55 Wash ington St., Brooklyn, NY 11201.

and include the writer’s home ad dress and phone number (only the writer’s name and neigh-bor hood are published with the letter).

Action taken to reduce the hours of op-eration for the waterfalls as well as the du-ration of the installation are also very ap-propriate. Please don’t hesitate to call upon the In-ternational Society of Arboriculture as a valuable resource if we can be of any as-sistance. Lauren Lanphear, South Euclid, OhioThe writer is president of the International

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ou have to at least give Borough President Markowitz some credit for saying what’s on his mind.

Like every elected official, Marko witz doesn’t want to leave office. But while other careerist pols are using cagey asides to couch their contempt for the city’s term-limits law, Markowitz is openly, proudly, dismissive of the two voter-approved ref-erenda that created the city’s current two-term limit for members of the Council, the borough presidents, public advocate, comptroller and mayor. “Clearly I’m against term limits. I think the electorate made a terrible mis-take,” Markowitz said on Monday at a gathering of all five borough pres-idents at his beloved Junior’s restau-rant in Downtown Brooklyn. “I think it’s bad government.” There is, indeed, a problem with

term limits. In the name of creating a stronger, more-vibrant democracy, such limits deprive voters of one of their very reasonable options: sending a qualified, experienced public servant back for another term. Both referenda — in 1993 and 1996 — included an unanticipated flaw: be-cause term limits are not staggered, virtually all of the city’s elected offi-cials — some of them actually wor-thy of re-election — are forced out of office all at once, leaving a potential void of leadership. But whatever its flaws, the people have spoken: voters have shown, twice, that they want term limits — and that’s good enough for us. We believe it is morally wrong for current officeholders to circumvent the clearly stated wishes of their constitu-

ents — especially when they would gain a direct personal benefit by doing so. We might support Markowitz’s call for changing term limits if his power grab were not so blatant; a slight change in the current situation — like a three-term limit, perhaps — would be a rea-sonable option, but only under one con-dition: if the proposal was again put before the public instead of made in a classic backroom deal. Indeed, there is nothing as egregious as a politician who wants to pass a law just in time for the law to apply to him-self. Even in Congress, when a salary increase is approved, it doesn’t take effect until after the next election. So until the pols are willing to take their case to the voters in a popular ref-erendum, term limits are better off left alone.

cruciatingly banal buildings known to man to house trust-fund kids — the poor can’t afford them. Because of this construction, more than 1,000 poor people have been displaced. Because of this construction, Brooklyn is an uglier and morally diminished place. Because of this construction, gentrifica-tion around these ugly buildings will force more poor people to compete for a diminish-ing number of affordable housing units. For this we should thank our elected of-ficials. Bob Ohlerking, Park Slope

To the editor, Regarding your article about illegal grill-ing in Prospect Park (“Park goes to pork,” The Brooklyn Angle, Park Slope edition and online, Sept. 4), I have been sickened to see people setting up grill spots wher-ever they pleased. I am a big fan of charcoal grills, but this year at the park, I had some family get-to-gethers, and a charcoal grill sometime doesn’t cut it with respects to volume cooking. I am one of those people mentioned in your story who brings a gas grill with a cargo van, and propane tank. Yes, it is more like a small station wagon, but I usually have parties with 15 to 20 people, and there is no way a small grill would put out that much

food. But I stay in the designated barbe-cue zones — and no matter how packed it is, there is always room. I do bring a fire extinguisher with me and stay in the shade to prevent any pro-pane tank issues or mishaps. I make sure I can do everything possible so that the ex-perience is a safe and happy one. It’s possible to barbecue in the desig-nated areas, and if it spills over a bit, I don’t see an issue, but some idiots barbecue near brushes, and that poses a fire hazard. I have pointed this out to some people, and some were quick to thank me for the tip, and re-located while other snickered, and kept do-ing what they were doing. I think that if people stayed within the zones or spilled out near the existing bar-becue spots, there would be no issue. But people who setup grills wherever they want should have them confiscated or higher fines because I saw way too many rookie mis-takes while I was there this summer. Al Spahi, Kensington

• • •To the editor, I wish your column about illegal barbecu-ing came out sooner because after reading it, I decided to forgo the park for my post-La-bor Day barbecue. The upside? I found Moon-shine bar in Red Hook. You bring the meat, then beautiful gas grills are yours for the us-ing. Jenny R. Horne, Carroll Gardens

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Let’s get ready to mumble! Yes, the first ever Craft Beer week begins this week-end, ushering in a weeklong tribute to — and endless consumption of — New York’s best small brews. Starting on Saturday, the festivities include “beer

crawls” throughout Brook-lyn, which is not only home to several hands-on brew-ers, but many of the bars that nurture their elixers. Participating taverns in-clude Beer Table, Pacific Standard (pictured) and the 4th Avenue Pub in Park Slope; Bar Great Harry and Gowanus Yacht Club on Smith Street; the Brazen

Head in Boerum Hill; the Gutter in Greenpoint; and Barcade and Mugs Ale House in Williamsburg. Sixpoint Craft Ales, the Red Hook-based brewery, will have all its grog available, including the Hop Obama, an ale that sold out during the heated primary season. “For us, participating in the crawl was a no-brainer,” said Jeff Gorlechen, the brewery’s marketing man. “We’re a craft brewer, so it all made sense.” New York Craft Beer Week runs from Sept. 13–21. For maps and a full list of participants, visit www.nycbeerweek.com. — Gersh Kuntzman

Come on, admit it: you want to learn how to butcher a pig. You’re not alone. Taylor Erkkinen, who owns the Brook-lyn Kitchen in Williamsburg, says her butchering classes are packed with foodies who want to learn how to hack their own cut. “We have people who share animals with friends,” said Erkkinen. Share animals? “They go in with a few friends, pay a farmer to raise the pig from a pig-let and then split it up. It’s the new thing.” The class is led by Tom Mylan (pictured), the head butcher for Diner, Bonita and Marlow & Sons, who will teach not only technique, but give pointers about cooking (skip the fancy cuts and use the shoulder — but slow-cook it or it’ll be tough!). And don’t show up late because the best stuff hap-pens right at the start, Erkkinen said. “There’s a moment at the start when Tom makes his first cut into the belly and you see it — an unmistak-able side of bacon,” Erkkinen said. “There’s always an audible gasp. That’s the money shot.” The pig butchering class starts at 6:30 pm at the Brooklyn Kitchen (616 Lorimer St., at Skillman Street in Williamsburg, [718] 389-2982). $75. Register in advance. — Gersh Kuntzman

The leading lobbyist for one of the largest, but weak-est, special interest groups — the “non-theistic” — is coming to Park Slope to champion the oft-elusive sep-aration of church and Sarah Palin. Lori Lipman Brown is the director of the Secular Coali-tion for America, which advocates for atheists, and she’ll

cite some recent victories, such as fewer anti-same sex marriage legislation. Then again, the rise of religion-based candi-dates like vice-presiden-tial hopeful Palin send a chilling wind through the atheists’ neighborhood.

“There’s a de facto religious test to become presi-dent,” Lipman Brown told GO Brooklyn. If it were up to her, politicians would only answer one question about God on the campaign trail: “Will you impose your religious beliefs on civil law?” “We can share values without sharing a belief sys-tem,” she said. Lori Lipman Brown will speak on Sunday, Sept. 14, at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture (53 Pros-pect Park W., between First and Second streets in Park Slope), free, 11 am. Call (718) 768-2972 for info. — Mike McLaughlin

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The Feelies are back! The band, which came out of Jersey in the late 1970s and disbanded in 1992 after releasing four underappreciated albums, has reunited for a show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Sept. 20. Let’s hope they play every cut from their seminal 1986 album, “The Good Earth” (and let’s hope Pe-ter Buck from REM, who produced it, will just happen to be in the neighborhood). Music Hall of Williamsburg (66 N. Sixth St., between Wythe Street and Kent Avenue), Sept. 20, 9:30 pm. Tickets are $17 in advance, $20 day of show. Call (718) 486-5400 or visit the www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com for information.

The sizzling, once-little-known indie rock-ers (turned commercial hit band) Pinback will play the equally hip Music Hall of Williams-burg this month. The group, led by guitarist Rob Crow, is touring for its fourth album, “Autumn Of The Seraphs.” Pinback at the Music Hall of Williamsburg (66 N. Sixth St., between Wythe Street and Kent Avenue), Sept. 27, 9:30 pm. Tickets are $17 in advance, $20 day of show. Call (718) 486-5400 or visit the www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com.

A string strumming session at the Lafay-ette Avenue Presbyterian Church kicks off the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music’s 21st sea-son in style. The nationally renowned, award-winning Alianza String Quartet’s performance is the first of six soothing concerts to be played in the borough. Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church (85 South Oxford St. at Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene), Sept. 28, 3 pm. Tickets are $20. Call (718) 855-3053 for information.

Booze, DJ’s, bands, movies, a Wii game set-up, a lounge and ping pong. All night long. Yes, last year’s wild, BAM-a-ganza, Take-over, is back by popular demand. The Brook-lyn Academy of Music’s bash could become the hottest annual all-nighter around. Takeover at the Brooklyn Academy of Mu-sic (30 Lafayette Ave., between Ashland Place and South Felix Street in Fort Greene), Sept. 27, 9 pm–4 am. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 (cash only) at the door. Call (718) 636-4100 or

By Daniel Bushfor The Brooklyn Paper

chool kids have taken back the streets, nights are cooling down and summer vacation is a distant, muggy memory. Fall is here and

there’s nothing you can do about it. But before you start dreaming of next year’s beach-side bar-becue, remember, Brooklyn is even more fun in autumn. Here’s a taste of what’s on tap (items are in chronological order by category):

He wrote “The Ice Storm.” He wrote “The Diviners,” but if that isn’t good enough for you, former Brooklyn Heights resident Rick Moody’s new book, “Right Livelihoods,” a collection of three novellas, is out in paperback. Is it a must-read? Of course, especially if you like stories set in an apocalyptic New York City.

Our comprehensive guide to the entire autumn season

visit www.BAM.org for information.

In November, 35 unsigned bands will bat-tle for bragging rights at the Brooklyn Rocks! Festival in Greenpoint. Show up, drink a beer, and consider cheering on these hapless hope-fuls an act of random kindness. Brooklyn Rocks! Festival (Red Star Club, 37 Greenpoint Ave., between Franklin and West streets in Greenpoint), Nov. 6-8, 13-15, 7 pm. Tickets are $10. Call (718) 783-1776 for infor-mation.

“Right Livelihoods” (Back Bay Books) is available at BookCourt [163 Court St., between Pacific and Dean streets in Cobble Hill, (718) 875-3677].

Everyone loves cassaroles, but who still makes them? Well, Emily Farris does — and now she

What do a Civil War-era Red Hook ware-house, live music and contemporary art have in common? Art in Free Fall, The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists’ Coalition’s Fall Group Art Show, which opens on Saturday and runs through Oct. 26. The exhibition will feature photography, sculpture, painting and much more, accompanied by live jazz, blue grass and other music. The month-long, weekends-only show is free, though the art is not; works range from a modest $25 to $30,000. Art in Free Fall (499 Van Brunt St., south of Reed Street in Red Hook), weekends from Sept. 13-Oct. 26, 1–6 pm. Free. Call (718) 596-2506 for information or visit www.bwac.org.

The Brooklyn Museum’s renovated Con-temporary Art Galleries launches a new era this fall with an exhibit, “21: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Brooklyn Mu-seum,” which places 40 works on long-term view. Now you can ogle Andy Warhol’s Frag-ile Dress (1966), among others, almost every day of the week. “21: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Brooklyn Museum” opens Sept. 19 at the Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Pkwy., between Underhill and Washington avenues in Prospect Heights), which is open Wed–Fri, 10 am–5 pm; and Sat–Sun, 11 am–6 pm. Suggested contribution is $8. Call (718) 638-5000 or visit www.brooklynmuseum.org for information.

Tired of celebrity-laden paparazzi pics? Want to know what the average Joe looks like? Check out photographer Blake Little’s

has a cookbook so you can get in on the fun, too. Farris — a former Brooklyn Paper writer, by the way — explores the much-mocked history of the beloved cassarole, including plumbing the depths of her own horrifying personal discov-ery: learning that the secret ingredient in her Aunt Susie’s tuna-noodle cassarole was Cheeze Whiz. Most important, the book is crammed full of great recipes. “Cassarole Crazy” (Home) will be published on Oct. 7.

New York Times bestseller Peter Golenbock (“Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodg-ers”) explores all things Brooklyn in his 663-page oral history ambitiously titled, “In the Country of Brooklyn: Inspiration to the World.” From Jackie Robinson to the Guardian Angels, Go-lenbock leaves no stone unturned. He even in-terviewed Marty Markowitz! “In the Country of Brooklyn: Inspiration to the World” (William Morrow) will be published on Oct. 14.

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The war at home: The National Theater of Scotland’s searing Iraqi war drama, “Black Watch” (top photo), will return to St. Ann’s Warehouse in October. (Above) Wessel + O’Connor Gallery’s new exhi-bition, “In the Company of Men,” fea-tures photos of rugged “men’s men” by Blake Little. Emily Farris (left) loves cas-saroles — and you will, too, after read-ing her cookbook, “Cassarole Crazy.”

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WHERE TOSATURDAYSept. 13

Blood on the snacksToday, Clin-ton Hill’s Pil-low Cafe holds its sec-ond-annual Bloody Mary contest — but the real winner is you. Bartenders from Rustic, Bonita, Chez Oscar, Ma -diba and Alibi will bat-tle it out for borough hegemony. Judging will be blind, we’re told. Of course, given how many drinks will get downed in the name of certitude.

4 pm. Pillow Cafe [505 Myrtle Ave., between Ryer son Street and Grand Avenue in Clinton Hill, (718) 246-2711]. $10 (includes a Bloody Mary).

SUNDAYSept. 14

Paperback writersMarty Markowitz may not look like he reads anything but a menu, but our beep has put together another clas-sic Book Festival. This year’s lineup includes Jimmy Breslin, Joan Didion, Nathan Eng-lander, Jonathan Fran-zen, Pete Hamill (pic-tured) and a whole nother two-thirds of the alphabet!

10 am to 6 pm. Borough Hall (209 Joralemon St., between Court and Adams streets). Full lineup at www.brooklyn-bookfestival.org.

TUESDAYSept. 16

Crash coursesTonight, the “Adult Edu-cation” lecture series continues. This month’s topic is scandal — and Editor Gersh Kuntzman (pictured) will explain how Takeru Kobayashi cheated at this year’s hot dog contest and how he, Kuntzman, bears no cul-pability even though he, Kuntz man, was Koba-yashi’s judge!

8 pm. Union Hall (702 Union St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Park Slope). $5. For info, visit www.adult-ed.net

THURSDAYSept. 18

BloomersCan you beat this? The Gallery Players have just opened “The Underpants,” a classic German play, adapted by Steve Martin, about a woman whose under-wear momentarily drops in public, setting off a chain of events that causes her hus-band to fear reprisals and his wife to become the object of significant affection. A must see.

8 pm. The Gallery Players (199 14th St., between Fourth and Fifth avenues in Park Slope). $18. Call (718) 595-0547 or visit galleryplayers.com for info.

SUNDAYSept. 21

Booze 101Don’t know the differ-ence between rye and malt whiskey? Can’t tell your Canadian from your Irish? Is your Scotch on the rocks? Learn all about these delectable brown bev-erages from the great LeNell Smothers her-self in this tasting.

3 pm. LeNell’s [416 Van Brunt St., between Coffey and Van Dyke streets in Red Hook, (718) 360-0838]. $75. Register in advance.

EDITORS’ PICKS

SAT, SEPT 13

OUTDOORS HIKE CONEY ISLAND: Shorewalkers

hosts a four-mile stroll along the Board-walk. See remains of Steeplechase Park and the New York Aquarium. Meet at 11 am at Nathan’s on Stillwell Avenue at Surf Avenue. Donation requested. (516) 466-8673. www.shorewalkers.org

WATERFRONT DISTRICT FEST: Carroll Gardens Association hosts a fall festival. Music, crafts, antiques, international food and more. 11 am to 6 pm. Colum-bia Street from DeGraw Street to Union Street and along Union Street from Columbia Street to Hicks Street. (718) 243-9301.

Big Onion Walking Tours explores this Victorian “City of the Dead.” Tour introduces the history, architecture and people of this landmarked cemetery. $15, $12 seniors and students. 1 pm. Meet at the en-trance at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street in Sunset Park. (212) 439-1090.

PERFORMANCE All-day bluegrass

and old-time mountain music, with hands-on workshops. $4. 12:30–10:30 pm. Brooklyn Ethical Society [53 Pros-pect Park West at Second Street, (718) 788-2048].

“PENNY DREADFUL”: Episode 11 of the serialized horror-mystery story. $8. 10:30 pm. The Brick Theater (575 Metropolitan Ave., between Lorimer Street and Union Avenue in Williamsburg). Re servations: [email protected].

BEETHOVEN SONATAS: Classical music concert featuring all 32 sonatas. $35, $20 students. 8 pm. Bargemusic [Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Street at the East River, (718) 624-2083].

“NO SEX PLEASE, WE’RE BRITISH”: Heights Players perform this theatri-cal comedy. $15. 8 pm. 26 Willow Pl., between Joralemon and State streets in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 237-2752.

“THE UNDERPANTS”: Gallery Players presents this social satire. $18, $14 seniors and kids. 8 pm. 199 14th St., between Fourth and Fifth avenues. (212) 352-3101.

FUNNY LECTURES: This month’s theme of the Adult Education program is scan-dals. Various speakers and wacky Pow-erPoint presentations. 8 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, (718) 638-4400]. For info about the series, visit www.myspace.com/adult_education.

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Free. 10 am to 5 pm. Spoke the Hub

[748 Union St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Park Slope, (718) 408-3234].

WINE TASTING: Noon to midnight. LeNell’s [416 Van Brunt St., between Coffey and Van Dyke streets in Red Hook, (718) 360-0838].

LEARN TO SKATE: Roller Skating classes. $20 plus $5 skate rentals or bring your own. Noon to 1 pm. Lola Staar’s Dream-land Roller Rink (Coney Island Board-walk at West 21st Street). Visit www.dreamlandrollerrink.com/classes.html.

CRAFT FEST: Artisans show their wares including jewelry, fashion, accessories, toys, home goods and more. 1 pm to 6 pm. End of Van Brunt Street, south of

Reed Street in Red Hook. (917) 655-2980. Learn how to con-

struct your own totebag. $120 for three weekly classes. 2:30–4:30 pm. Etsy Labs [325 Gold St., just east of Flatbush Av-enue Extension, (718) 855-7955, www.etsy.com.]

Free. 3 pm at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition [499 Van Brunt St, south of Reed Street in Red Hook, (718) 596-2508].

Robert Flaherty talks and shows “The Exiles” (6:50 pm) and “Casa De Lava” (4:30 and 9:15 pm). $11 per film; $7.50 seniors and kids 12 and under. Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafayette Ave., between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100].

ART OPENING: “Crossing” by Sarah Bed-dington. Free. 6–9 pm. Dumbo Arts Center [30 Washington St., at Water Street in DUMBO, (718) 694-0831.

Live piano accompanist with free pop-corn. $5. 8 pm. Coney Island Museum [1208 Surf Ave., between Stillwell Av-enue and West 12th Street in Coney Island, (718) 372-5159].

NERD NIGHT: Rob Kutner offers a talk, “What to Expect When We’re Explod-ing: Different Religions’ Beliefs About the End.” Also, Jeremy Kay addresses: “The Neurobiology of Zombies.” $5. 8 pm. Galapagos Art Space (16 Main St. at Water Street in DUMBO). For info, www.galapagosartspace.com.

SUN, SEPT 14

OUTDOORSFREE ROWING: First-come, first-served

basis. Must know how to swim. Free. 11:30 am to 3 pm. The Cove (city section of Brooklyn Bridge Park, foot of Main Street in DUMBO). For info, visit www.brooklynbridgepark.org.

An over-view of all the plans that never hap-pened. Free. 1 pm. Fort Greene Park Visitors Center [enter park at Myrtle Avenue between Washington Park and North Portland Avenue, in Fort Greene, (718) 722-3218].

PARK SLOPE WALK: Big Onion Tours ex-plores Park Slope’s landmarked district. $15, $12 seniors and students. 1 pm. Meet at the newsstand at the southeast corner of Plaza Street West and Flat-bush Avenue. (212) 439-1090.

SUNSET CRUISE: Cruise to see Olafur Eliasson’s “New York City Waterfalls” project. $60 includes wine and cheese. 6:30–8:30 pm. Meet at Fairway Pier (foot of Van Brunt Street in Red Hook). Call for reservations, (718) 748-5950.

PERFORMANCE Mambo-Jazzi perform Latin-

rhythms. Free. 3–4 pm. Brooklyn Water-front Artists Coalition [499 Van Brunt St, south of Reed Street in Red Hook, (718)

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MONDAY, SEPT. 15 Monthly meeting.

Shore Hill Community Room (9000 Shore Rd. at Narrows Avenue in Bay Ridge), 7:15 pm. For info, call (718) 745-6827.

Monthly meeting. North Fork Bank (804 Manhattan Ave., at Calyer Street, in Greenpoint). Call (718) 383-5298 for info.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 16

Monthly meeting. 68th Precinct station-house (333 65th St. between Third and Fourth avenues in Bay Ridge), 7:30 pm. Call (718) 439-4220.

Monthly meeting. 62nd Precinct station-house (1925 Bath Ave., at Bay 22nd Street in Bensonhurst), 7 pm. Call (718) 236-2501.

Monthly meeting, 7 pm. St. Francis College (180 Remsen St., between Court and Hicks streets). Call (718) 875-6811 for info.

Monthly meeting. 85 South Oxford St. (between Lafayette and Greene avenues in Fort Greene), 7:30 pm. Call (718) 636-6511 for info.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17

Monthly meeting. PS 229 (1400 Benson Ave. at 14th Avenue in Dyker Heights),

7:30 pm. Call (718) 759-3921. Monthly board

meeting. Board offices (4201 Fourth Ave., entrance on 43rd Street in Sunset Park), 6:30 pm. For info, call (718) 854-0003.

” Meet GOP politicians. St. Francis College (180 Remsen St., be -tween Court and Clinton streets in Brook -lyn Heights), 6 pm. To RSVP, e-mail [email protected] or call (718) 360-9583.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 20 Crime prevention tips. Key

Food Parking Lot (224 McGuinness Blvd. between Calyer Street and Green point Avenue in Greenpoint), 11 am to 2 pm. Call (718) 383-8253 for info.

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solo show, “The Company of Men,” at DUMBO’s Wessel + O’Connor Gal-lery. Little, who does indeed photo-graph celebs for fancy glossy mag-azines, said this exhibit is all about photos that are “the antitheses of a celebrity shoot.” “The Company of Men” runs Sept. 18–Nov. 11 at Wessel + O’Connor Gallery (111 Front St., between Wash-ington and Adams streets in DUMBO). Hours: Wed-Sat, 11 am-6 pm. Call (718) 596-1700 for info.

The 12th annual “Art Under The Bridge Festival” will again transform DUMBO — the above-referenced neighborhood under the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges — into one gi-ant art project. Everything will be fair game: event planners promise public art projects will be made on the water, in lobbies, elevators, side-walks and anywhere else you can think of. Last year, that even meant a guy running down Water Street dressed in a pink, green, purple and black camouflage-style body sock. Yes, it’s art, people! “Art Under The Bridge Festival” takes over DUMBO, Sept. 26–28. Free. Call (718) 694-0831 or visit www.dumboartscenter.org for info.

A walking-tour of the Gowanus Canal never smelled so good. Visit 28 artists’ studios to see what life is like for the brave souls toiling away in all those abandoned-looking fac-tory buildings along Brooklyn’s foul-est waterway. Gowanus Artists Studio Tour, Oct. 18-19, 1–6 pm. Free. Call (718) 393-8383 or visit www.agastbrooklyn.com for a full map and information.

The Gallery Players — now in their 42nd year — are prepping a great fall season that kicks off on Sept. 13 with Carl Sternheim’s, “The Underpants.” Adapted by Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin), the show is an absur-dist take on the events that transpire after a woman’s bloomers acciden-tally fall in public. After that, the team presents a new musical, “Like You Like It,” as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival. It’s basi-cally Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” — as envisioned by John Hughes. “The Underpants,” Sept. 13–28, and “Like You Like It: A New Musical,” Oct. 18–Nov. 2, at The Gallery Play-ers (199 14th St., between Fourth and Fifth avenues in Park Slope). Call (718) 595-0547 for tickets or information.

The Iraq War is coming to Brooklyn. For the second year, St. Ann’s Warehouse and The National Theatre of Scotland have teamed up to present the critically acclaimed play “Black Watch,” a sear-ing drama about a Scottish Army regi-ment’s wartime experience. The inno-vative performance involves elaborate battle scenes and a live orchestra (fea-turing, of course, bagpipes). “Black Watch” runs Oct. 9–Nov. 30 at St. Ann’s Warehouse (38 Water St., between Main and Dock streets in DUMBO). Tickets are $55. Call (718) 254-8779 for info.

Science fiction and adventure col-lide on opening night of the Brook-lyn Center for the Performing Arts’ fall season, thanks to back-to-back productions of plays by H.G. Wells and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, inven-tors of the fictional time machine and the equally fictional Sherlock Holmes, respectively.

“War of the Worlds/The Lost World,” Oct. 26 at the Walt Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn College (2900 Campus Rd. near Nostrand Avenue in Flatbush), 3 pm. Tickets are $20–30. Call (718) 951-4500 for information.

All you fans of Andrew Lloyd Webber (and who isn’t, really) have to check out the Narrows Commu-nity Theater’s production of “Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dream-coat” in November. This trippy 1968 musical is based on the biblical tale of Joseph, his 11 sons and his coat of many colors. Like many Webber pro-ductions, this one is best on acid. “Joseph and his Amazing Tech-nicolor Dreamcoat,” Nov. 14–23 at

St. Patricks Auditorium (9511 Fourth Ave., between 95th and 96th Streets in Bay Ridge). Call (718) 482-3173 for info or tickets.

It wouldn’t be a fall season without a “Marriage of Figaro,” and thank-fully, Brooklyn Repertory Opera is accommodating us with its produc-tion of Mozart’s classic comic opera. A sort-of sequel to “The Barber of Seville,” the tale is again set in Spain and, like all good comedies, involves infidelity, jealous, entangling fam-ily alliances and royal families. “The Marriage of Figaro,” Nov. 1–16 at the Brooklyn Lyceum (227 Fourth Ave., at President Street in Park Slope). Call (718) 398-7301 for info.

Dust off your dancing shoes and go stomp your feet to a bevy of fid-dles and banjos at the annual Park Slope Bluegrass & Old Time Jambo-ree. The three-day festival features two original members of the legend-ary string band, the New Lost City Ramblers, and many other top-notch acts from across the Northeast. Park Slope Bluegrass & Old Time Jamboree, Sept. 12–14 at the Brook-lyn Society for Ethical Culture (53 Prospect Park W., between First and Second streets in Park Slope), 7:30 pm. Tickets are $6–10. Call (718) 768-2972 for info.

What could be better than eating hot chile peppers and listening to Pete Seeger (yes, that Pete Seeger!) at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens’ annual Chile Pepper Fiesta on Sept. 27? Well, if Seeger and spice isn’t enough for you, how about gumbo by the Sauce Boss? Or the “indie Hindi” sounds of Indian singer Falu? Or chutney-mak-ing sessions? Or flame eating (actual flame eating) by Robbins and Rin-gold? There are even arts and crafts for kids (who love hot chile peppers, you know). The 16th annual Chile Pepper Fiesta, Sept. 27 at Brooklyn Botanic Garden (1000 Washington Ave., just south of Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights). Call (718) 623-7200 for info.

Bake and bring your own pie to share, try other people’s pies, dis-cover your neighbor’s grandma’s se-cret recipe and and don’t worry, the pounds of pie you’ll put on at Bub-by’s fifth annual “Brooklyn Pie So-cial” are for a good cause (proceeds from the event benefit two local pub-lic schools).

Brooklyn Pie Social, Sept. 28 at Bubby’s (1 Main St., at Plymouth Street in DUMBO), noon–3 pm. Tick-ets are $10 for pie bakers, $25 for pie tasters. Call (212) 807-6509 to find out how to participate.

DUMBO’s “talented cultural com-munity” will stage surprise perfor-mances while boxers pummel each other to pieces. Welcome to Dumbo Fight Night, where your date can enjoy something classy while you watch some guy knock out some other guy. DUMBO Fight Night, Oct. 2 at St. Ann’s Warehouse (37 Water St., between Main and Dock streets in DUMBO), 6 pm. Tickets start at $75. Call (718) 237-8700 or visit www.dumbonyc.org for information.

Yes, lots of street fairs are just one long orchestrated campaign to sell you sweat socks and curly fries. But the Atlantic Antic, now in its 34th year, is different. Spanning Brook-lyn’s longest east-west street from Hicks Street all the way to Flatbush Avenue, hundreds of mom-and-pop vendors who make up the soul of At-lantic Avenue will offer their wares and services in the borough’s best street fair. And you can also meet the staff and the editors of The Brook-lyn Paper, who will be manning a table somewhere along the route. The Atlantic Antic, Oct. 5 on Atlantic Avenue (between Hicks Street and Flatbush Avenue). For info, call (718) 875-8993 or visit www.atlanticave.org.

Hot folk: Pete Seeger, here flanked by Tao Rodriguez-Seeger and Guy Davis, will perform at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens’ annual Chile Pepper Fiesta on Sept. 27. Catia Ojeda stars as Louise, who loses her draw-

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“NO SEX PLEASE, WE’RE BRITISH”: 2 pm. See Sat., Sept. 13.

“THE UNDERPANTS”: 3 pm. See Sat., Sept. 13.

BEETHOVEN: 3 pm. See Sat., Sept. 13.

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ket — and food! 10 am–5 pm. Bishop Loughlin HS (Lafayette Avenue between Clermont and Vanderbilt avenues in Fort Greene). For info www.brown-stoner.com/brooklynflea.

LECTURE ON RELIGION: Lori Lippman Brown, director of the Secular Coalition of Amer-ica, speaks at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture [53 Prospect Park West, (718) 768-2972]. Free. 11 am.

STOOP SALES: Carlton Avenue (between Myrtle and Lafayette avenues in Fort Greene). 11 am to 5 pm. No contact phone number.

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OUTDOORBROOKLYN BRIDGE WALK:

Big Onion Tours takes a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and explores Brooklyn Heights. Stops include Plym-outh Church, the Low Mansion and sites associated with Ar-thur Miller, Victoria Woodhull, Robert Moses and Norman Mailer. $15, $12 seniors and students. 1 pm. Meet at south-east corner of Broadway and Chambers Street in Manhat-tan. (212) 439-1090.

PERFORMANCE Freddy’s Back-

room [485 Dean St. at Sixth Avenue in Prospect Heights, (718) 622-7035].

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TIETH CENTURY”: $11; $7.50 seniors and kids 12 and under. 6:50 pm and 9:15 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafay-ette Ave., between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100].

HEALTHY EATING: What to eat to prevent a stroke. Free. 3:30–5 pm. Long Island Col-lege Hospital [339 Hicks St., just south of Atlantic Avenue in Cobble Hill, (718) 780-1123, ext. 408.

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$11; $7.50 seniors and kids 12 and under. 6:50 pm and 9:15 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafay-ette Ave., between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100.

Membership in AARP is open to people over 50. Free. 2 pm. Shore Hill Housing [9000 Shore Road at 90th Street in Bay Ridge, (718) 748-9114].

WINE TASTING: Celebrate Mexi-can Independence Day by tasting tequila. Noon–9 pm. Le Nell’s [416 Van Brunt St., be-tween Coffey and Van Dyke streets in Red Hook, (718) 360-0838].

PIG BUTCHERING: Learn how to cut up half a pig. Each par-ticipant receives at least six pounds of meat to take home. $75. 6:30 pm to 8 pm. The Brooklyn Kitchen [616 Lorimer St., at Skillman Street in Wil-liamsburg, (718) 389-2982]. Register in advance.

WEDS, SEPT. 17

PERFORMANCE “Here and Now”

contemporary American music features music with Real Quiet. $35, $15 students. 8 pm. Ful-ton Ferry Landing [Old Fulton Street at the East River in DUMBO, (718) 624-2083.

OTHERHOWARD HAWKS’S “TO HAVE

AND HAVE NOT”: $11; $7.50 seniors and kids 12 and under. 6:50 pm and 9:15 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafay-ette Ave., between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100].

ART OPENING: Free. 6 pm to 9 pm. Henry Gregg Gallery [111 Front St., between Front and Adams streets in DUMBO, Suite 226, (718) 408-1090].

THURS, SEPT. 18

PERFORMANCE $35, $20 students.

8 pm. Bargemusic [Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Street at the East River, (718) 624-2083].

Lady of Sorrows feast featur-ing Italian food, vendors, rides, games and entertainment. 3 pm. Our Lady of Sorrows [125 Summit St., between Hicks and Henry streets in Carroll Gar-dens, (718) 596-7750].

WANG: “God is My Safest Bunker” (2008) and “The Land” (1942). $11 per film; $7.50 se-niors and kids 12 and under. 4:30 pm and 6:50 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafay-ette Ave., between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100.

CLASSES: See Sat., Sept. 13.CRAFT FEST: 1–6 pm. See Sat.,

Sept. 13.

OTHERHOWARD HAWKS’S “BRING

ING UP BABY”: $11; $7.50 seniors and kids 12 and under. 6:50 pm and 9:15 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafay-ette Ave., between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100].

LECTURE: Lorraine Diehl, author of “The Late, Great Pennsyl-vania Station.” Free. 2 pm. Heights and Hill Community Council [160 Montague St., between Clinton and Henry streets in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 596-8789].

ART OPENING: “Targets and Etchings.” 6–8:30 pm. 5 + 5 Gallery [111 Front St., between Front and Adams streets in DUMBO, suite 210, (718) 488-8383].

FRI, SEPT. 19

PERFORMANCE Erik Deutsch performs at

9 pm. Lady Clown at 10 pm. I-Beam (168 Seventh St., at Third Avenue in Park Slope). Visit www.ladyclown.com.

FESTIVAL OF ONE ACTS: “Mid-night Radio Hour” by Vince Mazza. $10. 8 pm. Brooklyn One Theater [St. John’s Parish, Fort Hamilton Parkway at 99th Street, (718) 907-3490]. Visit www.brooklynonetheater.org for info.

“NO SEX PLEASE, WE’RE BRITISH”: 8 pm. See Sat., Sept. 13.

“THE UNDERPANTS”: 8 pm. See Sat., Sept. 13.

8 pm. See Sun., Sept. 14.

BEETHOVEN: 8 pm. See Sat., Sept. 13.

SAT, SEPT. 20

OUTDOORSCOASTAL CLEANUP: Prospect

Park needs volunteers to help clean the parks’ waterways. 10 am to 2 pm. Meet at Rustic Shelter (near the Parkside and Ocean avenue entrance). For info, visit www.prospectpark.org.

PERFORMANCE“THE UNDERPANTS”: 2 and 8

pm. See Sat., Sept. 13.ITALIAN ARTS FEST: Ciao Italy

Performing Arts Festival pres-ents Italy-inspired work by contemporary performers and scholars. $30 for a one-day pass. $15 single event. 233 Ainsile St., second floor in Wil-liamsburg. (678) 634-3162.

“NO SEX PLEASE, WE’RE BRITISH”: 8 pm. See Sat., Sept. 13.

Selections by Handel, Beethoven and Pablo de Sarasate. $35, $20 students. 8 pm. Bargemusic [Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Street at the East River, (718) 624-2083].

ONE ACTS: 8 pm. See Fri., Sept. 19.

OTHERHOWARD HAWKS’S “HIS GIRL

FRIDAY”: $11; $7.50 seniors and kids 12 and under. 6:50 pm and 9:15 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafay-ette Ave., between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100].

9 am–4 pm. Church of the Holy Spirit [8117 Bay Pkwy at 81st Street in Bay Ridge, (718) 837-0412].

CRAFT FEST: See Sat., Sept. 13.IRISH FEST: Short films and

music. Donations appreciated. 6:30–11 pm. PowerHouse Arena [37 Main St. at Water Street in DUMBO, (718) 666-3049].

DONALD O’FINN: Finn will take questions after film. Free. 2 pm. BWAC Screening Room [499 Van Brunt St., south of Reed Street in Red Hook. (718) 596-2506].

SUN, SEPT. 21

OUTDOORSCLINTON HILL TOUR: Walking

tour of the historic district. Free. 10 am–noon. Meet at corner of Lafayette and Cla-remont avenues. Call (718) 885-3466.

PERFORMANCE

SCHUBERT: $35, $20 stu-dents. 4 pm. Bargemusic [Ful-ton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Street at the East River in DUMBO. (718) 624-2083].

ITALIAN ARTS FEST: See Sat., Sept. 20.

See Sun., Sept. 14.

“NO SEX PLEASE, WE’RE BRITISH”: 2 pm. See Sat., Sept. 13.

“THE UNDERPANTS”: 3 pm. See Sat., Sept. 13.

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ere’s an offer you can’t pass up: Free food. On Sept. 18, dozens of eateries along Park Slope’s Seventh Avenue —

the dowdy older brother to hot hip restaurant rows on Fifth Avenue and Smith Street — will be doling out hors d’oeuvres and other toothsome samples in the latest phase of the Park Slope Chamber of Commerce’s “Buy in Brooklyn” campaign. Chamber of Commerce Vice President Catherine Bohne said she came up with the idea when she no-ticed that she was go-ing to the same res-taurants and ordering the same things even though she knew that there were more fish in the Seventh Ave-nue sea. So Bohne and Barrio restaurant owner Spencer Rothschild organized a tour aimed at Slopers all too accustomed to the same steamed vegetable dumplings at Red Hot II or favorite Malbec at Slope Cellars. “We saw it as an opportunity to intro-duce Park Slope to all the restaurants that are in its backyard … and to places [res-idents] may have walked by a hundred times, but never had the chance to come in and see what it’s about,” said Roth-schild. Plus, it’s a great chance to show off Seventh Avenue’s slowly reviving dining scene and let people try something new with little risk. “All you have to do is walk in, try an hors

d’oeurve, get a sense of the place, and hope-fully people will come back,” Bohne said. “And then it’s fun for the neighborhood.” The flier for the event, which is hang-ing in neighborhood restaurants, is pure Park Slope, promising a chance to try a “soupçon of quelque chose” (which, we’re

told, tastes like chicken). The event is the latest of the Chamber’s support-your-local-businesses campaign, following a program last fall where shop owners loaned shoppers umbrellas, and a late-night shopping extravaganza in mid-December.

Park Slope strip offers night of exploration

Tour will be on Sept. 18 and run from Flatbush Avenue to 15th Street. Menus and a full list of participants will be post-ed early next week on the Park Slope Chamber of Commerce’s Web site, www.buyinbrooklyn.com.

Barrio, which is at Seventh Avenue and Third Street, will be participating in the first Park Slope Restaurant Tour on Sept. 18.

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 1311 am-1 pm: Free lunch and music. Giggles and Green (369 Court St. near First Place in Carroll Gardens). Free. Call (718) 499-0010 for info.12:30 pm and 2:30 pm: “Hansel and Gretel.” Puppetworks (338 Sixth Ave. at Fourth Street in Park Slope). $7 kids, $8 adults. Call (718) 965-3391 for info. 1 pm: Creative nature crafts. Salt Marsh Nature Center (33rd Street and Avenue U in Marine Park). Free. Call (718) 421-2021 for info.1-4 pm: Harvest, cook and eat apples. Lefferts Historic House (enter Prospect Park at Flatbush Avenue just north of Empire Boulevard). Free. Visit www.prospectpark.org.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 142-4 pm: Learn about seeds and make arts and crafts. Brooklyn Botanic Garden (enter at 900 Washington Ave., just south of Eastern Parkway). $8 adults, $4 kids. Call (718) 623-7200 for info.12:30 pm and 2:30 pm: “Hansel and Gretel.” See Saturday, Sept. 13.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 1611 am: Sing-along. Moxie Spot (81 Atlantic Ave. at Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights). Free. Call (718) 923-9710 for info.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 193 pm: Free admission. New York Aquarium (West Eighth Street and Surf Avenue in Coney Island). Call (718) 265-FISH for info.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 201-4 pm: Butter churning, potato sack races and spinning flax into linen thread. Lefferts Historic House (enter Prospect Park on

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Flatbush Avenue just north of Empire Boulevard). Free. www.prospectpark.org.4 pm: Explore city history in comic books. Fort Green Park Visitors Center (enter park at Myrtle Avenue between Wash-ington Park and North Portland Avenue in Fort Green). Free. Call (718) 722-3218 for info. 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm: “Hansel and Gretel.” See Saturday, Sept. 13.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 2112:30 pm and 2:30 pm: “Hansel and Gretel.” See Saturday, Sept. 13.

By Louise Crawford

Our beloved Smartmom — Louise Crawford — lost her father, Monte Ghertler, on Sunday. The Brooklyn Paper staff offers its full condolences — and, in fact, was so moved by our columnist’s writings about her father’s death on her Web site, Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn, that we have compiled these excerpts:

Dad, we love you My dad died yesterday at 4:15. I was with him when it happened. He was in hospice

in the sunny living room of his Brooklyn Heights apartment on the 27th floor with its view of the Manhattan skyline he adored. For most of the day he moaned softly. At 3:45 or so, my sister played one of his favorite re-cords, scratches and all, on the phonograph: “Kinderszenen or Scenes from Childhood,” by Rob-ert Schumann. Just before he died he had three labored breaths. But there was no fear, no panic in his eyes.

Writing the Eulogy Last week at the hospital, Hil-lary, my stepmother, told me that my father wanted me to speak at his funeral. That was an honor like no other, but also a huge pressure. How could I write something — anything — that would com-pare to what my father would say on such an occasion? His wanting me to do this was his way of showing his faith in me about this most important thing that we share: the ability to turn experience into words, to find the right way to say that which is so hard to express. Hillary also said that my fa-ther wanted me to read a poem and that I’d know which one. Hmm. I was stumped. Was it something by Yeats, Shakespeare or Frank O’Hara? I really didn’t know what poem he was talking about. And I was stressed. But then it came to me: he probably meant the last two pages of “The House at Pooh Corner,” by A.A. Milne, a book he cherished. I read this section at my high school graduation and my father was moved to tears. So I am putting all my grief, shock, and numbness into the writing of this eulogy. At my computer is the only place I want to be right now tinkering with it, making it better, adding things, trying to write something wor-thy of the man.

Planning The Funeral Sitting in the funeral direc-tors plush office at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel was sur-real; one of those situations you dread your whole life but is much

“Flowers or no flowers?” My sister wanted flowers, my stepmother did not. No real stale-mate. We decided against them, because we couldn’t really think of a flower that represented my father. The secretary typed up the New York Times death announcement and we proofread it. “It needs a comma here,” I said reaching for a pen.

It all felt so ordinary.

Meeting The Rabbi This morning, my sister and I met with Rabbi Andy Bach-man at Congregation Beth Elo-him. He asked a lot of questions and we got a chance to tell him much about my father’s life. Rabbi Bachman seemed to en-joy the story about the time my fa-ther went to work at a shoe store. My father, then 19 or 20, assured the store’s owner that he had plenty of experience in the shoe busi-ness, but when he was caught in-expertly trying to force a shoe onto a large woman’s foot, the owner replied: “You’re no shoe man, Ghertler.” My sister told Rabbi Bachman what a funny storyteller my father was. It felt sad to have to describe it knowing that we’d never again see my father rub his hands the way he did when he was warm-ing up for a great punchline. Afterwards, we waited under the scaffolding at Beth Elohim for a fierce downpour to die down. I walked toward Seventh Av-enue, but the sudden feeling of wet and cold made me rethink my plan. Then I saw a black car and I hopped in the back. “You got lucky,” said a man who was standing on the cor-ner of Eighth Avenue as I got into the car. Today, the grief was a fog around my forehead. I had the sense that the world was moving on and I wasn’t part of it. I wanted to say, “Don’t these people know that Monte Ghertler is gone?”

Friends Friends called all day. One helpfully stopped by my apart-ment to pick up an envelope that needed to be driven over to my stepmother’s apartment in Brooklyn Heights. I feel overwhelmed at the thought of seeing a lot of peo-ple today. I feel so inside my-self and I don’t know if I will be able to connect with anyone. I’m nervous about my eulogy and keep thinking of all the things I didn’t say in it.

Monte Ghertler, 1929–2008 Monte Ghertler, legendary ad-vertising copywriter and creative director, author, songwriter, con-noisseur of art, literature, music, philosophy, birdwatching, opera, and thoroughbred horse racing, died peacefully in his Brook-lyn Heights home on Septem-ber 7, 2008, surrounded by lov-ing family members. Monte, who had a successful career in advertising, had a way with words, a sharp intellect, a hi-larious sense of humor, and a love of books, music and his family. He is survived by his wife, Hil-lary; his daugheters, Louise and Caroline; his sons-in-law, Hugh Crawford and Jeffrey Jacobson; and three grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking for donations to the Crandall Library, 251 Glen St., Glens Falls, NY 12801.

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7509 Third Ave. at 75th Street, (718) 238-9260, www.saltydogbar.com.

Live DJs, 9 pm, FREE; Karaoke Night, 9 pm, FREE.

8415 Fifth Ave. at 84th Street, (718) 921-0601, www.wickedmonk.com.

Halfway to St. Patty’s Day with Holla Back, 11 pm, $5; Adam Verona Acoustic, 10 pm, $5; Stand-Up Comedy, 8 pm, $5, Twisted Thursdays with DJ Tony Bobo, 11 pm, $5; Frequency, 8 pm, $5, The Gyst, 11 pm, $5.

BOERUM HILL

368 Atlantic Ave. at Hoyt Street, (718) 222-3692, www.deitynyc.com.

“Bi-Polar Thursdays” with Ali Shaheed Muhammad (of A Tribe Called Quest and Lucy Pearl), 10 pm, $5 before Midnight, $10 after Midnight; Brooklyn Bounce, 10 pm, $TBD; DJ Seismic, 10 pm, $TBD.

46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue, (718) 625-8003, www.exitfive.com/hankssaloon.

Jam Band Sundays, 5 pm, FREE; Live band kuntry karaoke, 10 pm,

FREE; Live band “Rockstar Karaoke,” 9:30 pm, FREE; Hot Rod Walt, Phyco DeVille, 10 pm, FREE; Oh Liza Jane, 9 pm, Holy Ghost Tent Revival, 10 pm, FREE; Low Mass Tone, 9 pm, Crescent Moon, 10 pm, Ellisa Ashbrook, 11 pm, Zebu, Midnight, $10.

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS

136 Atlantic Ave. at Clinton Street, (718) 222-9198, www.lastexitbar.com.

“Kayo’s Knockout,” DJ Kayo’s booty-shakin’, jam-jumpin’, all night get down party, 10 pm, FREE; Pub Quiz, 8:30 pm, $5 per person; DJs Red Head Terror League, 10 pm, FREE; DJ Defender, 10 pm, FREE.

CLINTON HILL

459 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue, (718) 852-0202, www.fivespotsoulfood.com.

DJ Aki, 7 pm, FREE; RPM-Open Turntables hosted by DJ Copa (bring your own needles and vinyl), 8 pm, FREE; 5 for Funny Tuesdays hosted by Dave Lester, 10 pm, $5; Open Mic with Nate Jones and Da Feel, 9 pm, $5 ($10 after 10 pm).

262 Taaffe Pl. at DeKalb Avenue, (718) 398-6666, www.barsputnik.com.

DJ Raulph, 9 pm, FREE; DJ Evil Dee of the Beatminerz, 8 pm,

FREE; “That’s my Jam—Queer Dance Party 4 Brooklyn,” 9 pm, $3.

DUMBO

80 Washington St. at York Street (below Rice), (718) 222-9880.

Conjunto Guantanamo, 9 pm, FREE.

FLATBUSH

1022 Cortelyou Rd. at Stratford Road, (718) 940-2084, www.voxpopnet.net.

Open mic, 7 pm, FREE with 2-drink/snack minimum; Game Night, 7 pm, FREE with 2-drink/snack minimum;

Bill Bernthal’s Ripe Local Produce with Emma Graves and John Mulkerin, 8 pm, FREE with 2-drink/snack minimum; “A to Z Emcee” hosted by Tah Phrum Duh Bush, 7:30 pm, $3; Scott Blakemam in “Laughs From the Left,” 8 pm, FREE with 2-drink/snack minimum; Shira Tarrant, “Men Speak Out,” 7 pm, FREE with 2-drink/snack minimum; Jazz Jam, 5 pm, FREE with 2-drink/snack minimum.

FORT GREENE

15 Putnam Ave. at Grand Avenue, (718) 930-1316, www.reggaesundays.com.

Revival Reggae Sundays featuring DJs Silence, Jase, and Natural Mystik, 9 pm, FREE for ladies and reduced with RSVP for gentlemen before midnight, $10 after mid-night; Revival Reggae Film Series, “Rockers,” 9:30 pm, FREE.

195 DeKalb Ave. at Carlton Avenue, (718) 855-9190, www.madibarestaurant.com.

“Meet me at Madiba,” speed networking with Valerie Oliver Durrah, 5 pm, FREE; Bakithi Kumalo and Tony Cedras, 8 pm (3 sets), $5.

GOWANUS

232 Third St. at Third Avenue, (718) 330-0313, www.issueprojectroom.org.

Issue Project Room and WFMU present “A Month of Collaborative Concerts” featuring DJ Tony Coulter, Sterling Base-ment, If, Bwana and Michael Peters, 8 pm, $10; Barry Weisblat, Toshio Kajiwara, Aki Onda, Margarida Garcia, Bryan Eubanks, 6 pm, $5; Music of the Dublin Collective Grupat performed by Object Collection and curator Jennifer Walshe, 8 pm, $10; Bethany Ryker, Bloodcount, Normal Love, 8 pm, $TBD.

GREENPOINT

98 Meserole Ave. at Manhattan Avenue, (718) 383-5723, www.europaclub.com or www.europalive.net.

VIP Dance Party, 10 pm, FREE before 10:30 pm, $15 after 10:30 pm;

Karaoke Night, 8 pm, FREE; Sexy Progressive/Dance party, 10 pm, FREE before 10:30 pm, $15 after 10:30 pm; Reagan Youth, Endangered Feces, Common Enemy, Aggressive Force, 4 pm, $8; Slick Rick with guests, 8 pm, $22.

GREENWOOD HEIGHTS

245 23rd St. at Fifth Avenue, (718) 499-1505, www.myspace.com/livingroom-brooklyn.

DJ Kurt, 8 pm, FREE; Open Mic Night, 8 pm, FREE;

Guitar Hero III, 7 pm, FREE.

PARK SLOPE

287 Ninth St. at Fifth Avenue, (718) 832-0085, www.ajibarlounge.com.

Charles Sibirsky, 7 pm, FREE; Charles Sibirsky with Ted Brown

and Dan Shuman, 7 pm, FREE; Edwin Vazquez, 9 pm, FREE.

376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue, (718) 965-9177, www.barbesbrooklyn.com.

Slavic Soul Party, 9 pm, $10; Brooklyn Qawwali Party, 9:30 pm, $10

suggested donation, Red Baraat, 11 pm, $10 suggested donation, Sean Condron, Midnight, $10 suggested donation; Mamie Minch, 9 pm, $10 suggested dona-tion, C.W. Stoneking, 10 pm, $10 suggested donation; Chicha Libre, 9:30 pm, $10 suggested donation; Kevin Tkacz’s Lethal Objection, 9 pm, $10 sug-gested donation; Ches Smith and Mary Halvorson, 8 pm, $10 suggested dona-tion, The Mandingo Ambassadors, 10 pm, $10 suggested donation; Audiopool, 8 pm, $10, Matt Munisteri, 10 pm, $10 sug-gested donation; Musette Explosion, 8 pm, $10 suggested donation, Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra, 10 pm, $10 suggested donation.

227 Fourth Ave. at President Street, (718) 857-4816, www.gowanus.com.

Jazz on Sundays curated by Chris Komer, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, $10 per set; (Downstairs) Dan Pratt, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, $10 per set; (Downstairs) George Schuller’s Circle Wide, 8 pm, 9:30 pm, $10 per set.

179 Fifth Ave. at Degraw Street, (646) 810-1916, www.patiolounge.com.

Dance Party, 9 pm, FREE Comedy Night hosted by Omar, 9

pm, $5; Game Night, 7:30 pm, FREE; “Brooklyn Speaks,” an Open Mic and Spoken Word night, 9 pm, $5.

125 Fifth Ave. near St. Johns Place, (718) 230-0236, www.spsounds.com.

Death Threat Marauder, Crowns of Kings, Loved and Hated, Backtrack, Turn it Up, DJ Spea, 7 pm, $12; The Early Hours, The New Up, Actual Facts/Cinema Cinema, 7:30 pm, $8; The 5th Annual Brooklyn Country Music Festival fea-turing Andy Friedman & The Other Failures, The Flanks, The Defibulators, Brownbird Rudy Relic, The Newton Gang, and WNYU DJ Honky Tonk Girl, 7 pm, $10 .

506 Fifth Ave. at 12th Street, (718) 840-0089, www.royalebrooklyn.com.

“Kiss the Sky” with DJ OBaH, 11 pm, FREE.

514 Second St. between Seventh and Eighth avenues, (718) 499-3253, www.twobootsbrooklyn.com.

Jason and Elysa, 9 pm, FREE; Raoul Otis & His Blue Serenaders,

10 pm, FREE.

702 Union St. between Fifth and Sixth ave-nues, (718) 638-4400, www.unionhallny.com.

Hayden, Mascott, 8 pm, $15; Tearing the Veil of Maya, comedy with

Eugene Mirman and Michael Showalter, 7:30 pm, $7, The Gospel Train with Eli “Paperboy” Reed, 9 pm, FREE; Lymbyc Systym, This Will Destroy You, Joemca & The Poets, 7:30 pm, $8; Adult Education hosted Charles Star, 7:30 pm, $5; Katjon Band, Chris Mills, The Doughboys, 7:30 pm, $10; Oppenheimer, Merz, 8 pm, $10.

PROSPECT HEIGHTS

807 Classon Ave. at St. Johns Place, (718) 399-3200, www.abigailbrooklyn.com.

Curtis Forbes, 8 pm, $5 suggested donation.

485 Dean St. at Sixth Avenue, (718) 622-7035, www.freddysbackroom.com.

Tricky Sheep, 9 pm, Al Lee Wyer, 11 pm, FREE; Frank Schiazza, 1 pm, Brooklyn College Reading Series, 8 pm, FREE.

RED HOOK

315 Columbia St. at Woodhull Street, (718) 395-3214, www.jalopy.biz.

Country Blues Jam, 9 pm, FREE; Roots n’ Ruckus, a night of folk,

old-time, and blues, 9:30 pm, FREE; Jarana Beat (Latin American Afro Beat), 9 pm, $10; Crooked Road Show, 7 pm, $12; Brass Bonanza with Veveritse, 9 pm, Red Hook Ramblers, 10:30 pm, $10.

34 Van Dyke St. at Dwight Street, (718) 246-8050, www.rockysullivans.com.

Seanchai and The Unity Squad, 9 pm, FREE; Sean Kershaw & The Terrible Two, 1 pm, FREE; The Trad Sounds of Chris Byrne and Andrew Harkin, 8:30 pm, FREE; Live jazz, 7 pm, FREE;

Soul Night with Sugar time, 9 pm, FREE.

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366 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Street, (718) 599-0243, www.blackbetty.net.

DJ Emskee and G Man the MC present the “Make Love, Not War” party, 10 pm, FREE; “Brazilian Beat Brooklyn” with DJ Sean Marquand and DJ Greg Caz, 9 pm, FREE; Rev. Vince Anderson and his Love Choir, 10:30 pm, FREE; “Saturday Night Tuesdays,” 10 pm, FREE;

“What is Soul?” with DJ Adrian Hibbs, 9 pm, FREE; The Greenhouse with DJ MonkOne and DJs Emskee and MC G-man, 11 pm, FREE; Mishka Shubaly, 10 pm, FREE.

49 S. Second St. at Wythe Avenue, No phone.

TK Webb and The Visions, Auto-passion, Children, 8 pm, $TBD.

90 Manhattan Ave. at Boerum Street, (718) 218-6914, www.myspace.com/donpedrobarlounge.

Hullabaloo, 8 pm, $TBD; Summercamp, Beards, Bolt of Lightning, 8 pm, $TBD; Kabuki Killers, Another Saturday Night, 8 pm, $TBD; Ooga Boogas, The Brooklyn What?, 8 pm, $TBD.

58 N. Third St. at Kent Avenue, (718) 384-1369, www.monkeytownhq.com.

Ichie and The Magic Lantern, 7:30 pm, $5 with $10 minimum, The Cheaters Club, Bare Teeth, 10:30 pm, $5 with $10 minimum;

The Psychasthenia Society, 8 pm, $7 with $10 minimum; Apollo Sunshine, 8:30 pm, $10 with $10 minimum; Apollo Sunshine, 8:30 pm, $10 with $10 minimum;

Leerraum Night, 8 pm, $7 with $10 minimum; Draw, Alex Waterman, Bruce Andrews, 8 pm, $10 with $10 minimum;

Jeff Gretz, Lonely Ghost, Heaven People, 8 pm, $5 with $10 minimum, Club Vortex featuring Maggie Horn (live) and DJs James Nasty and Kingdom, 11:30 pm, $5.

66 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue, (718) 486-5400, www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com.

The A-Bones, The Ettes, Nouvellas, 9 pm, $10 in advance, $12 day of the show;

Trouble, Minsk, Kill Code, 8 pm, $14 in advance, $17 day of show; A Place to Bury Strangers, Sian Alice Group, Amazing Baby, Artanker Convoy, 8 pm, $13 in advance, $15 day of the show; Sunset Rubdown, Parenthetical Girls, 8 pm, $15 in advance, $17 day of the show; The Stills, 8 pm, $16 in advance, $18 day of the show; Brian Jonestown Massacre, 8 pm, $25 in advance, $25 day of the show.

709 Lorimer St. at Richardson Street, (718) 302-3770, www.petescandystore.com.

Pete’s Backyard Barbecue, 5 pm, $6, Sasha Dobson, 8:30 pm, FREE; Spelling Bee, 7:30 pm, FREE; Bingo, 7 pm, FREE; Quizz-Off, 7:30 pm, FREE; C.W. Stoneking, 9 pm, Brownbird Rudy Relic, 10 pm, Michael Holland, 11 pm, FREE; Scotty Karate, 9:30 pm, C. Gibbs, 10:15 pm, Gregory Stovetop, 11:15 pm, FREE; Ryan Lee Crosby, 9:30 pm, Dali’s Elvis, 10:30 pm, FREE;

Patrick Porter, 9 pm, The Never-beens, 10 pm, Adam Rose and The Gallants, 11 pm, FREE; A Loco motive, 10 pm, Leo Maymind, 11 pm, FREE; The Mumble Vaudeville Variety Night, 9 pm, FREE; Emily Hope Price, 8 pm, Vessel, 9 pm, Hop Along, Queen Ansleis, 10 pm, Pearl and The Beard, 11 pm, FREE.

70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue, (718) 782-5188, www.publicassemblynyc.com.

(Front room) Sid & Buddy Karaoke, 9 pm, FREE; Monday Night Burlesque, 8 pm, $10; VJ/DJ Friday Nights, 10 pm, FREE; (Front room) Ghetto Metal, 10 pm, $10; (Backroom) Vicious Vaudeville, 8 pm, $10, Ringers/Conversation party, 10:30 pm, $TBD; (Backroom) Kittens Ablaze, 10:30 pm, Ludlow Lions, 11:30 pm, Schwervon!, 12:30 am, No Eye Contact, 1:30 am, and DJ Crystal Wolf, $TBD;

(Backroom) Song Fair Open Mic, 7 pm, $5; (Backroom) Weekends are Overrated with Edible Red, Will Know, Akudama, Tom Thumb & Cynthia Lin, 9 pm, $7, (Front room) Bright Red, Villa Vina, The Netherlands, DJ New York Night Train, Time TBD, $6; (Front room) Blown Speaker Productions presents Tigercity, Heloise & The Savoir Faire, Earl Greyhound, & Miracle Fortress, 8 pm, $15; (Backroom) Crescent Moon, Brother Through Glass, Time TBD, $TBD, (Front room) Vinyl Life, House of Rhumba, Peephole, DJ Doug Gomez, and videos, 9 pm, $5; (Backroom) We’re all Broken, 8 pm, Mussels, 8:45 pm, Padre, 9:30 pm, $8, The Bunker, 11 pm, FREE, (Front room) Burning Angel.com presents Jessie Lee Pretty in Pink B.day Bash, 10 pm, $10 ($8 if you wear pink).

110 Bedford Ave. at North 11th Street, (718) 388-8090, www.soundfixrecords.com.

JezebelMusic.com presents “Songfair,” an open mic, 6:30 pm, FREE;

Comedy Free Williams burg with John & Ed, 8 pm, FREE; Max Silvestri, Gabe & Jenny, 8 pm, FREE;

Callers, 8 pm, Phast Phreddie, 10 pm, FREE; Apollo Sunshine, 6 pm, FREE;

Roar Shack, 8 pm, FREE; Amanda Palmer, 8 pm, FREE.

184 Bedford Ave. at North Seventh Street, (718) 218-9737, www.spikehill.com.

Open Mic Night, 7 pm, FREE; Mark Sinnis, 8 pm, Melting Point, 9

pm, Gutz, 10 pm, Sir Majesty, 11 pm, FREE; Olentangy John, 7 pm, Virgin

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Forest, 8 pm, Austin McCutchen, 9 pm, Andy Mullen, 10 pm, The Flanks, 11 pm, FREE;

Nate Wooley, 8 pm, Irish Session with Lizabeth Kennedy, 8:30 pm, Noveler, 9 pm, Kyle Bobby Dunn, 10 pm, Jerkagram, 11 pm, FREE; For Feather, 8 pm, FREE;

Jessie Murphy, 8 pm, Corsica, 9 pm, Johanna & The Dusty Floor, 11 pm, FREE.

766 Grand St. at Humboldt Street, (718) 387-7840, www.stainbar.com.

“PAINTstain,” 6:30 pm, FREE; “JAMstain,” an informal open

mic hosted by singers/songwriters, 9 pm, FREE; Rob Bettega, 8 pm, Marc Barnhill and “The Sorely Missed,” 9 pm, FREE; The Wiggins Sisters, 8 pm, Joe Berg, 9 pm, FREE; Sten Hostfalt and Blaise Siwula, 8 pm, Robyn Siwula and friends, 9 pm, FREE.

245 Grand St. at Roebling Street, (718) 782-0437, www.theluckycat.com.

“Sad Song Mondays” hosted by Jeremy Hiliard of Turbine, 10 pm, FREE;

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in only the season opener for the Clones before leaving the game with a right foot injury — and putting Lutz on the shelf for the rest of the season. This year, Lutz came back and was terrific, hitting .333 with three homers and 12 RBI in 24 games. Unfortunately, several injuries — foot, quad, and even lower back — send him back on the disabled list for the remainder of the season. The Scott Kazmir Memorial “Sure Bet to Make the Bigs” Award: And the Clonie goes to Brad Holt. Selected as the Mets’ supplemental pick (33rd overall) in this year’s draft, Holt more than lived up to expectations. After a shaky start, he went 5-3 and had a stingy ERA of 1.87. (See more on Holt in his week’s column, “The Play’s the Thing,” right.) The Pedro Martinez Me-morial Award for being Pe-dro Martinez: And the Clo-nie goes to Pedro P. Martinez. This award, in honor of the Mets’ future Hall of Fame pitcher, is awarded to the Cyclones’ starter

By Ed Shakespearefor The Brooklyn Paper

It’s post-Labor Day, and the kids are back in school with their report cards months away, but for the Cyclones the school year is over, and the final grades are out. Here’s how this year’s class at Brooklyn’s P.S. 1404 (the Surf Avenue School) performed: Ike Davis (first base): C–. Davis was headed for a D, but a late-season surge brought up his average to .256. Da-vis has great bloodlines — he’s the son of former Yankee reliever Ron Davis — and he’s big and strong at 6-foot-4 and 215 pounds. But the Mets’ first-round draft pick failed to homer for Brooklyn and had only 17 RBI in 58 games. “He wasn’t staying back on the ball earlier in the season, but at the end he was coming around,” said manager Ed-gar Alfonzo. Still, Davis has terrific potential and when he gets used to wood bats, he could start to climb quickly up the ladder to the majors. Josh Satin (second base): B–. Satin started slowly, fail-ing to hit in his first 15 at-bats, and when he started to hit bet-ter, a leg injury slowed him down. He was upper-cutting the ball too much in mid-season, but he straightened that out and started to exhibit more of his power. He hit four homers in 45 games. He fielded well, making only two errors. Wilmer Flores (shortstop): A. Flores, at a just-turned 17, is the age of a high school senior. He hit .267 for Brooklyn in eight games and exhibited smooth moves in the field and a fine arm. He looks so young, yet he has a calm maturity needed to quickly climb through the minors. He’s already 6-foot-3 and should put on muscle, so he may grow out of the short-stop position, but he has the skills to play anywhere. Reese Havens (shortstop): Incomplete. Another Reese at shortstop for Brooklyn seemed to be a good omen, but things didn’t work out. Reese suffered an elbow injury at the start of the season, and later had a groin pull. He played more at designated hitter than at shortstop and appeared in only 23 games all told. He hit .247 with three homers, but the left-handed hitter is much better than that. Zach Lutz (third base): B. Back for a second try at Brooklyn after a lone game in 2007, Lutz hit .333, but he was plagued by injuries all year and played in merely 24 games. Eric Campbell (third base/outfield): B. Played third and also left field. Showed flashes of power (four homers) and hit .260. Seth Williams (left field): B+. Williams became a reg-ular late in the season and hit .295, but failed to homer. Sean Ratliff (center field): B. Ratliff started slowly at bat, but picked up steam and tied for the club lead with seven homers. He fielded well after being shifted from right to center field, but he hit only .229. Kirk Nieuwenhuis (right field): A. Nieuwenhuis hit .277 and tied Ian Bladergroen and Caleb Stewart for the all-time Cyclones record for games in a season (74) and tied Am-biorix Concepcion and Dustin Martin for the all-time sea-son lead in hits (79). Jordan Abruzzo (catcher): A. The switch-hitting catcher hit .275 tied Ratliff for the club lead in homers with seven. He also handled the pitching staff with aplomb. Brad Holt (starter): A+. Holt finished second in the league with a 1.87 ERA and hit 100 miles per hour on the radar gun in a late season game at Aberdeen. He will be a big league front-line starter some-day (soon, we hope!). Scott Shaw (starter): A. Shaw was 6-3 with a 2.80 ERA and had great command of his pitches. Jenry Mejia (starter): B. Only 18 years old, Mejia went 3-2 with a 3.49 ERA. Chris Schwinden (starter): A. All-Star Schwinden has great control, striking out 70 and only walking 12 in 62-2/3 innings. Had a 2.01 ERA. Pedro P. Martinez (starter): C+. Martinez went 3-2 with a 3.63 ERA. Worse, he gave up 72 hits in 67 innings with only 55 Ks. Yury Santana (closer): B+. The former Cyclones’ in-fielder is still learning to pitch, but he had an impressive 2.45 ERA with a team-leading 13 saves. Jimmy Johnson (reliever): A+. When you go 5-0 with a 1.25 ERA, you deserve a great grade (which he got) — and to be named to the All-Star team (which he did not!). John-son was used in tough situations all year and came through time-after-time. Roy Merritt (reliever): A+. Merritt is a side-armer who is particularly hard on lefties as his 3-0 record and 1.49 ERA attest.

CHANNELING THE BARD And now, the last bit of iambic pentameter from the famed Bard of Avon’s descendent, Ed Shakespeare. This week’s poem is entitled, “In Storage ’Til June”: The season’s over, the bats put away. Brooks’ players gone, no more winner or goat. See you in June, Coney Isle, sunny day. The pen joins the bats, for that’s all he wrote.

By Ed Shakespearefor The Brooklyn Paper

The entertainment industry gives out the Oscar for the mov-ies, the Tony for theater, the Emmy for television, and the Grammy for music — all very prestigious awards. In fact, some entertainers have even won awards in several of the above-named categories. But it’s an indisputable fact that no actor or musician, either before or after winning his Os-car, Tony, Emmy, or Grammy, has ever won a Clonie, thus prov-ing the exclusivity of the Clonie, the annual award given by The Brooklyn Paper to a Cyclone player, or to any other highly de-serving person associated with Cyclone baseball. Cue the drum roll. The en-velopes, please: The Jimmy Piersall Memo-rial “Battered and Bruised” Award: And the Clonie goes to Zach Lutz. Although awarded this year, the award is based on cumulative results for the 2007-8 seasons. Last season, Lutz played

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who has the same name. Did the Class A Pedro live up to his name-sake’s standards? Well, sort of: He was dominant one game and then a mere mortal the next. He ended up 3–2 with a 3.45 ERA. The Dave Campanero Me-morial “Lifetime Achieve-ment” Award: And the Clo-nie goes to Edgar Alfonzo. This is the third time around for Al-fonzo as the Brooklyn manager. As Brooklyn’s skipper during the inaugural 2001 season, Al-fonzo led the Cyclones to a 52-24 regular season record (still the franchise’s best mark) and a share of the New York-Penn League championship (the se-ries was suspended with Brook-lyn leading Williamsport 1-0 because of 9-11). Last season, Alfonzo was back at the helm and Brooklyn went 49-25 and swept Staten Island in the play-offs before losing to Auburn in the championship series. This year, the Cyclones were 45-30 and won 12 of their last 16 games before being nosed out of the contention for the play-offs (see main story above). In the regular season, Alfonzo-led Cyclone teams have a record of 146-79 (.649), and including the playoffs, Alfonzo has won 151 games for Brooklyn. The man is a winner. The Darryl Strawberry Memorial “Big League/Small Years” Award: And the Clonie goes to Wilmer Flores. Late in the season, Flores was called up from Kingsport and became Brooklyn’s regular shortstop. Yet he’s only 17 years old! And he looks it, having a young face and even wearing braces. After a fast start, going 6-for-8 com-bined for his first two games, he tailed off, hitting .267 for his eight-game Cyclone season. The good news is that he’s big — He’s 6-foot-3 and possibly still growing. And at 175 pounds, he’ll get more muscle as he ma-tures. He’s also big on potential — very big. The Hilda Chester Me-morial “Fan of the Year” Award: And the Clonie goes to John Davenport. Chester was the Brooklyn Dodgers’ best-known fan, ringing her cowbell and reigning insults on oppo-nents. Davenport doesn’t ring a cowbell, but the long-time Windsor Terrace resident was an Ebbets Field regular, and he attends nearly every Cyclones’ game with his wife Eleanor. John is usually encouraging, but he can still hurl down a boo or jibe with the best of them. As a die-hard fan, he believes in tough love. “I’m hard on these kids sometimes,” said Davenport. “But I’m really helping them to toughen up. If they can learn to take us here, they’ll really be ready for the majors.” The Rod Serling Memo-rial “Twilight Zone” Award: And the Clonie goes to Ralph Henriquez (with an assist from Pat Venditte). Henriquez hit only .210 with the Cyclones this year, but the switch-hitting catcher was involved in one of the strang-est incidents in baseball history. On June 19, the Cyclones were at home, trailing the Staten Is-land Yankees 7-2 in the ninth. Pat Venditte, an ambidextrous pitcher, was on the mound for the Yankees. Pitching right-handed, Venditte retired the first two Cy-clones. Up to bat stepped Hen-riquez, who saw Venditte now wearing his special two-way glove on his right hand. So Hen-riquez stepped into the batter’s box intending to bat right-handed against Venditte’s left-handed throws. Venditte then switched the glove to his left-hand so he could throw righty and gain the righty-righty advantage against Henriquez, who switched sides himself. This dance went on for some time, prompting howls of laughter from the fans and play-

ers. Eventually, umpire Shaylor Smith ordered Henriquez to bat righty. Venditte pitched right-handed and struck Henriquez out swinging. The George W. Bush Me-morial “Support the Troops” Award: And the Clonie goes to Sean Ratliff. Let’s face it: No one looks good in camouflage. Whether the classic desert dun-colored mixture or the newfangled “snow camo” look, the military-style duds are a dud with fashioni-sta. So when the Cyclones marked their annual Military Day on Aug. 28 by wearing camouflage uni-forms, most team members looked as if they wanted their outfits to do what they’re designed to do: hide them. But Ratliff looked like a million bucks. The Forrest Lawson Memo-rial “Cream Pie Face” Award: And the Clonie goes to Reese Havens. The Cyclones have a tra-dition of tossing a shaving cream pie in the face of the star of the game as he’s being interviewed by a camera crew — and both Sean Ratliff and Havens got the treatment, thanks to game-win-ning homers. But Havens’s July 14 game-winner earned him the nod in this tight contest. The Ariel Sharon Memo-rial “L’Chaim” Award: And the Clonie goes to Josh Satin. It’s one thing to be ordered to wear Hebrew-language uniforms. But it’s still another to look good do-ing it. Satin, who is Jewish, wore the “Tzyklon” uniform on Jew-ish Heritage Night with pride — and also had to pose for public-ity photos. One thing for sure? His mother was proud. The Steve Cohen Memo-rial “Best General Manager in the Business” Award: And the Clonie goes to Steve Cohen. Look, this is not just brown-nos-ing. Ever player and front-office official in the New York-Penn League knows it: Cyclone GM Steve Cohen is the hardest work-ing man in pro baseball. Case in point: The Cyclones held a “Superhero Night” and encour-aged fans to get in on the fun and wear costumes. Cohen got into the spirit, but a rain delay forced him to doff his super-hero garb and become a true hero, running all over the field like a member of his own hard-working grounds crew, getting everything ready for the game. Is it any wonder he was named the league’s “Executive of the Year” last year?

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The Cyclones’ surge to the playoffs ended with a heart-breaking, extra-inning loss on Friday night — one of just four losses that the team suffered in its last 16 games. Despite that string, the Cyclones never pulled far enough ahead of their main wild-card rival, the Jamestown Jammers — so when the Jammers swept a doubleheader on the same night, the Cyclones suddenly found themselves on the out-side of the New York-Penn League playoffs looking in. “You know what? I feel sad, but also I feel very happy, because to me, everybody got better [down the stretch],” said manager Edgar Alfonzo, whose team looked dead before the amazing

run. “To me, when you’re 15 games over .500 [the Cyclones ended the year at 45-30], it is a success-ful season.” “After the game, I said, ‘Guys, I’m proud, and I’m happy because you worked so hard. You guys got here in June and you had no clue as to what was going on. You strug-gled for a month, and we tried to teach you guys the game, and you worked hard and that paid off at

the end.’ I told everyone I wasn’t upset.” Alfonzo blamed injuries more than anything else. “We had injuries and a lot of people coming in and out,” he said. “It’s kind of hard, to go day-by-day and lose games, but we have to play with the players we have. I have more gray hair now.” Just because the Mets minor-league affiliate didn’t make the playoffs doesn’t mean the Big League squad doesn’t have reason to cheer. This year, a future Seaver emerged in the form of Brad Holt, a first-round draft choice who initially struggled, but poured it on in the end, finishing with a 5–3 record and a stingy 1.87 ERA. He struck out 96 batters in 72-1/3 innings. “The other night at Aberdeen, Holt hit 100 miles-an-hour on the gun,” said pitching coach Hector Berrios. “Three digits. I’ve never seen that live myself. “Holt will be a starter. He’s very athletic, and with a world of talent. The sky’s the limit once he gets [his sec-ondary pitches]. He’ll be a guy at the front of the Mets’ ro-tation, maybe two years down the road.” Here’s how the last game — and this season — went down:Ironbirds 5Cyclones 3 (11 inns.)Sept. 5 at Keyspan Park The contest started out so well, too. The Cyclones scored in the first — on Eric Campbell’s SAC fly — and added two runs in the second after a Seth Williams leadoff triple, back-to-back singles by Josh Satin and Ike Davis and back-to-back sacrifices by Wilmer “Kid” Flores and Jose Jimenez. But that was all the scoring for the Clones. Aberdeen tied the score with three in the fourth and then won it in the 11th with a barrage of hits against Yury San-tana, the Cyclones closer who was so reliable all year. As they say in Brooklyn, wait ’til next year.

Brooklyn’s playoff push abruptly ends

Brad Holt: A+

(Above) The Cyclones donned camouflage uniforms on Aug. 25, earning the front of-fice the coveted “Support the Troops” award. (Top left) Reese Havens didn’t play much this season, but when he did, he was explosive. Here, he wins the “Best cream pie face” award after his game-winning homer on July 14. (Bottom left) Josh Satin looked great in the Cyclones’ Hebrew uniforms.

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trol of the tumbledown area. “[Allowing Astroland to close] shows a total dis-regard for low-income jobs in our neighborhood,” said Zigun. “Some 500 people work at Astroland and if there is no way — and there is no way — that next year Thor or anyone else could be build-ing, why are we throwing away all those jobs? “I wish the city had the guts to step up and do something now, but I don’t see a real commitment to the amusement park from the city either,” Zi-gun added. Mayor Bloomberg begged to differ. Asked about the Astroland closing at his daily press availabil-ity on Tuesday, Hizzoner said that his adminis-tration was actively trying to get Astroland “an-other one-year extension of their lease” because “it would be a great shame if the amusements, which have been around for so many years and defined Coney Island [were] lost.” A city official, speaking on background, said that if Sitt did extend the lease for one more year, the city would clear some existing — but unidentified — publicly owned parcel in Coney’s amusement zone for Astroland to return in the summer of 2010. Of course, the closing of Astroland is just the backdrop for a larger battle between Bloomberg and Thor Equities. Both sides envision a vast, 24-7-365 indoor-outdoor theme park, but quib-ble over the substantial details of a proposal that is still years from realization. In either case, Astroland might have to go; nei-ther the Bloomberg plan for a city-owned theme park, nor Thor’s plan for a larger, entertainment, retail, hotel and amusement zone call for the run-down funland to stay.

That didn’t prevent the mayor from taking a swipe at Sitt. “There are private developers [in Coney Island] who have their own economic interests and then there’s the public that has a broader interest and we’re trying to reconcile property values with what’s in the public interest and hopefully we will come to an agreement,” he said. “It continues to be a diffi-cult negotiation and I think that if everybody can pull together we’ll be successful.” Thor’s spokesman Stefan Friedman told The Brooklyn Paper that the city had not contacted the developer, though both Kelly and Bloomberg have confirmed that negotiations are ongoing.

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ing a life where I get to take off week-ends and take vacations.” Squadron, who had been endorsed by the New York Times and The Brooklyn Paper, will now face Re-publican candidate John Chromczak, but as in most districts in New York City, the Democratic primary is con-sidered tantamount to election.

Ed Towns, 22,586 (67.2%) Kevin Powell, 11,046 (32.8%)10th Congressional District, DUMBO, Downtown, Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and East New York Voters chose real world experience over “Real World” experience. Towns, a 13-term incumbent, ran away with the race, in which he faced a challenger whose under-funded cam-paign was dominated with rookie mis-takes. Congressional hopeful and former MTV “Real World” star Kevin Pow-ell had trouble raising money, didn’t file campaign paperwork on time, called attention to his prior history of violence, was difficult for report-ers to get a hold of, scheduled cam-paign events featuring big-name ce-lebrities who failed to show up, and then issued a 58-page “vision plan” for the district just five days before the primary (even though he’d prom-ised it to reporters months earlier). Not that Towns brought up any of that at his victory party at Eden Pal-ace, a catering hall in Clinton Hill. “I’m delighted [by the results] and, in fact, I’m anxious and eager to get started again,” he told The Brooklyn Paper. Towns, who’s rarely faced challengers, said he did not take Powell lightly. “I actually focused on the campaign this time,” he said. “The last time I just focused on my legislative work.”

For his part, Powell vowed to take on Towns again in 2010. “Honestly, we need to raise more money next time, that’s the bottom line,” he told supporters at the Five Spot Restaurant in Fort Greene. “For now, I’ll go back to being a community organizer [but] I am de-termined to focus on parts of the dis-trict I wasn’t able to cover well this time, like Williamsburg and East New York. This time, we were really just trying to get the name and message out there. In 2010, we will win it.” The hip hop campaign came to a hip hop conclusion — immediately after Powell thanked staffers and vol-unteers the DJ played Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power.” But later, the DJ changed the record and old school rapper Kurtis Blow crooned: “These are the breaks.”

Mike McMahon, 11,792 (74%)Steve Harrison, 3,885 (26%)Democratic primary, 13th Congressional District, Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst

Robert Straniere, 3,617 (58%)Jim Wyne, 2,539 (42%)Republican primary, 13th Congressional District, Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst Voters in Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst had barely finished casting their ballots in Tuesday’s con-gressional primary when the newly minted candidates — Councilman Mike McMahon (D–Staten Island) and former Assemblyman Bob Straniere (R-Staten Island) — started sinking their teeth into each other. Straniere, a former 12-term Staten Island assemblyman and currently a Manhattan hot dog restaurateur, struck first. Before he’d even officially van-quished Jim Wyne in the GOP con-

test, Straniere’s camp issued a state-ment lashing McMahon and his party’s presidential ticket. “The [Barack] Obama-[Joe] Biden-McMahon ticket promises more taxes, more government and an inexperi-enced group of liberals to run our nation,” Straniere said. Before midnight, Team McMahon hit back with a statement that high-lighted Straniere’s vulnerabilities. “Straniere’s campaign heads into the general election low on resources and local support,” the statement said. It also quoted several GOP officials as bashing Straniere, who had became an outsider in his own party and, as an incumbent assemblyman, had lost a primary in 2004. McMahon handily won his race against Bay Ridge attorney Steve Har-rison for the Democratic nomination to succeed scandal-tarred Rep. Vito Fossella. The well-funded McMa-hon, who enjoyed the endorsement of Sen. Clinton, Gov. Paterson and

former Mayor Koch, netted 75 per-cent of the vote and even won in the Brooklyn third of the district in Har-rison’s base. In his Bensonhurst field office on 15th Avenue on Tuesday night, Mc-Mahon pledged his commitment to his constituents. “The people of Brooklyn and Staten Island believe they should have some-one in Congress that represents them — not the special interests, not the big fat cat corporations,” he told a room full of staffers, volunteers and elected officials. But Harrison attributed the mar-gin of victory to two other factors. “The difference came down to money and star power,” he said at his Bay Ridge home, where his sup-porters and family gathered mourn-fully. In spite of the loss, he said he would support McMahon in the gen-eral election. The loss was especially bitter for Harrison because he had run in 2006

against Fossella and done better than any previous Democratic challenger to the six-term incumbent. But more candidates — including McMahon — came forward when Fossella de-cided not to seek re-election in the wake of an arrest for drunk driving in May and a subsequent admission that he had sired a lovechild with a woman not his wife. McMahon quickly corralled the support of local and national Dem-ocrats. He was also backed by many editorial boards, including that of the New York Times, the Staten Island Advance and The Brooklyn Paper. The Republicans were more di-vided on picking a successor. Even-tually, Frank Powers, an MTA board member and retired Wall Street hon-cho, garnered the backing of the Re-publican organizations in Brooklyn and Staten Island. But he suddenly died in June from a heart attack, which sent the GOP scrambling to find its second replace-

ment. Many prominent elected Repub-licans declined to run, which allowed Straniere to slip into an almost-empty field and run on a shoestring budget against the wealthy first-time can-didate Jim Wyne, a cardiologist and finance chairman of Staten Island’s GOP.

Devin Cohen, 3,970 (51.76%)Roger Adler, 3,700 (48.24%)Civil Court, District 1 (Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Down-town, DUMBO. Fort Greene and a sliver of Park Slope) Cohen, a Democratic club leader, attorney and activist, did not earn an “approved” nod from the New York and Brooklyn bar associations, but he was endorsed by more Demo-cratic voter than Adler, an attorney who represented disgraced Assem-blyman Clarence Norman and who helped the Conservative Party fight same-sex marriage. On Election Night in this tight race, Cohen said he gained confidence when early results showed that he had won precincts in Brooklyn Heights and Concord Village, where Adler and politically connected family mem-bers live. To win, Cohen had to confront Adler’s negative ads that he was a political insider and his “not ap-proved” rating from the city bar as-sociation, which gave Adler a stamp of approval. On Wednesday, Lambda members breathed relief and took some credit for tipping the vote in Cohen’s favor. “Once the word got out that the opponent Roger Adler did not repre-sent progressive values, I think that changed the outcome,” said Dan Wil-son, a member of Lambda Indepen-dent Democrats, a gay clubhouse.

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“Zander was a very popular little boy at his school and the neighborhood where he was known for being polite and very smart,” his father said in a statement re-leased to the Brooklyn Heights Blog. “He was a joy to his parents who are utterly devastated by their loss.” Both accidents come as soaring gas prices — and summertime weather — has sent bikers onto the roadways in droves. And bike fatalities tend to be highest in the summer, Norvell said. The Department of Transportation has created 70 miles of new bike lanes to accommodate the hordes, but the new paint often provokes a backlash from drivers, said Community Board 1 trans-portation committee chair Teresa Toro,

whose board, like others in Brooklyn, has heard pleas from residents to both add and eliminate bike lanes. “There’s an attitude that bikes are toys … and people are not taking bik-ing seriously as a real form of transpor-tation,” Toro said. “A lot of the fighting comes around the presence or absence of a bike lane, where motorists feel en-titled to use the entire street.” Then again, bikers don’t always stay in designated lanes, preferring, as driv-ers do, the most-direct route. “We can get to zero fatalities by giv-ing attention to streets that are crying out for improvements,” Norvell said. “It’s not stuff that breaks the bank — and, really, we can’t let another year slip with-out giving attention to streets like this.”

names: ‘F.’ for Boar’s Head Provisions founder Frank Brunckhorst, ‘Martin’ for its CEO Robert Martin, and ‘-ella’ for its president Michael Martella. The Lost City blog uncovered the mys-tery last week, which LeM-ore later confirmed. The Florida-based deli meat producer chose to con-duct its edible experiment in Brooklyn because the com-pany’s sales, distribution, and marketing arms are headquar-tered here, LeMore said. But the stretch of Court Street from Atlantic Avenue north to Cadman Plaza is a particularly good spot to open a company’s first re-tail store, particularly if it’s a concept store, said real estate broker Tim King of CPEX Realty. “Court Street is like the connective tissue that joins the … half-dozen constitu-ency bases in the area,” King said. “You put all these dy-namic forces together and it’s why Court Street would be a dynamic place to put a food store, particularly an inno-vative food store that peo-ple would come out of their way to go to.” And as a result, rents along this strip are astro-nomical. The rent for the 2,500-square-foot F. Marti-nella storefront is “at a nose-bleed level,” said King, who was originally involved in the deal, but did not close it. To compare, a 650-square-foot space for a yogurt shop at 32 Court St. recently went for $14,000, King added. LeMore said the company is excited to see how the store plays out, but added that F. Martinella will be Boar’s Head only foray into retail, as the company has no plans to franchise the concept.

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Here’s our photo op of the week — all five borough presidents (who are they again?) dining with our own Beep, Marty Markowitz, at Junior’s on Monday. The borough czars (from left) — Scott Stringer (Man-hattan), James Molinaro (Staten Island), Markowitz, Helen Marshall (Queens) and Adolfo Carrion (The Bronx) — chewed over the big issues of the day (what are they again?) and, of course, weighed in on the one issue that actually affects them: term limits. Isn’t that special? “Clearly I’m against term limits,” Markowitz said. “I think the electorate made a terrible mistake. I think it’s bad government.” The others agreed, more or less, with Markowitz. Also on the menu was brisket, which voters tend to swallow a lot easier.

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30-year state Sen. Marty Connor (D–Brooklyn Heights) and congressional hopefuls Kevin Pow-ell (10th district) and Steve Harrison (13th district) were repudiated by voters.

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EASY WIN FOR TOWNS, MCMAHON…

Third place went to “Urban Stripes,” with Flatbush Av-enue as a two-way street.

“A Place for Brooklyn,” finished in fourth place. It was the only award winner created by Americans.

By Sarah PortlockThe Brooklyn Paper

The French apparently hold the key to fixing Grand Army Plaza. Three of the four teams that won prizes in a new design com-petition to reimagine the clogged traffic artery in the heart of Brooklyn are from France. The gall!

Two organizations — the Design Trust for Space and the Grand Army Plaza Coali-tion — invited architects and urban planners to craft a new vision for the plaza. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that the top prizes went to teams with a close personal connec-tion to Paris’s Place Charles de Gaulle — the notorious traffic

should happen to this place to suit the needs of the people who live around it and the people who pass through it,” Marton said. “We wanted to use this as a way to flush out visionary ideas … and to work on out what the possibilities are and to build the support for moving for the next phase,” Marton explained. When the exhibition comes down, city planners and traffic engineers will consult the con-ceptual designs while creating a master plan, Marton said. Grand Army Plaza Coali-tion Vice Chair Michael Cairl said that residents and users will be involved at every step of the way, which is the point: “The best thing the designs can do is give the community a sense of what the out-of-the-box ideas are,” he said. “Ultimately, it’s going to be better for the community to sit down and come to a consensus of what it wants, what is build-able, and what best serves our

objectives,” he added. But the design competition has no official capacity. Even as Brook-lynites browse the exhibition, the Department of Transportation is planning its own parallel track of traffic-calming measures and us-ability studies for the hectic space which was designed by its original visionaries, Olmsted and Vaux, as a grand gateway to their master work, Prospect Park. Last October, the city trans-formed 11,000 square feet of street space into three concrete pedestrian islands, five new crosswalks, 10 new pedestrian signals, and a protected bike path. The city also has painted several additional bike lanes throughout the plaza. Other proposed plans include closing the southern part of the traffic circle and rerouting new, two-way roads within the cir-cle and onto a two-way Pros-pect Park West. Several design ideas from this contest proposed trans-

Milton Puryear, director of planning for the Brook-lyn Greenway Initiative, agreed. “The whole idea for the greenway is to provide a ben-efit to the people of the com-munity — not just bike rid-ers — by making a truck route into a more inviting streetscape,” said Puryear. “If you look at Kent Ave-nue now, it’s just not a place you want to stroll, or ride a bike. Once it’s built, you’re not going to find anybody who will be sorry they traded in what was here.” The morning after the contentious board meeting, a commuting cyclist was struck by a car service se-dan on the future greenway path at the corner of North Seventh Street and Kent Av-enue, leaving him with a bro-ken elbow and collarbone. The driver fled the scene, a friend of the victim told The Brooklyn Paper. CB1 is not the only area with some anti–bike lane sentiment. In 2006, Fort Greene’s CB2 voted down a Willoughby Avenue lane, but the city painted it anyway.

hub where 12 avenues meet and, like our own Grand Army Plaza, there’s even a large, ceremonial memorial arch in it. All 30 finalists will go on dis-play in the inner plaza on Sept. 13 — and Brooklynites long exasper-ated with the once-illustrious gate-way to Prospect Park will even get to vote for their favorite. Eventually, one of the chosen designs may even become a re-ality, said event organizer Deb-orah Marton, the executive di-rector of the Design Trust. Two French teams — one from Nantes and one from Paris — tied for first place. Both the winning plans envision a paved — though car-free — zone be-tween the park’s Union Street entrance and the Soldier’s and Sailor’s Arch, currently a busy car link between Park Slope and Eastern Parkway. The second-prize winner, from another Paris-based team, imag-ines a reflecting pool, an amphi-theater and kiosks for newspa-

pers, food, and bicycle rentals. Flatbush Avenue, currently di-vided into wide, north- and south-bound segments rushing through the circle, would become a sin-gle, two-way street on the east side of the plaza while the cur-rent south-bound lanes would be given back to pedestrians. The lone homegrown team, a Brooklyn-based partnership be-tween Garrison Architects and the transportation consulting firm of Nelson\Nygaard, won the third prize with a plan to expand the center oval and push both seg-ments of Flatbush Avenue further to the outer edge of the circle. In addition, this team would build an elevated pedestrian walk-way to the inner plaza, and add a formal system of bikeways. Users of Grand Army Plaza — drivers, bikers, pedestrians and open space enthusiasts — are eager to view new ideas of how best to use the 11-acre space. “There’s never been a kind of comprehensive look at what

forming Eighth Avenue and Prospect Park West into two-way streets, and abandoning the traffic circle idea altogether and constructing a more conservative square-shaped intersection. The exhibit opens to the public with a party on Satur-day, Sept. 13, 11 am to 4 pm in the center of the plaza. Visi-tors will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite ideas via text message; the results will be announced on Oct. 8.

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Notice of Formation of JCM REALTY LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/07/2004. Office location, Kings County. SSNY designated as Agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: JCM Realty, LLC 107 Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237. Purpose: any lawful activity

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Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 28th day of August, 2008, bearing Index Number N00786/2008, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me the right to assume the name of Jazmin A. Lunceford-Christie. My present name is Jazmin A. Lunceford. My present address is 735 Lincoln Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11208. My place of birth is Brooklyn, NY. My date of birth is April 25, 1995. BP36

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 21st day of August, 2008, bearing Index Number N00753/2008, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me the right to assume the name of Jane Dorogoyer. My present name is Jane Dorogoer a/k/a Jane Dorogoyer. My present address is 1510 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11230. My place of birth is Kishinev, Moldova. My date of birth is July 5, 1970. PS36

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LEGAL NOTICENOTICE OF FORMATION of Beeman Construction, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/16/2008. Office loca-tion: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to LLC, 912 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. BP-NBZ 31-36

LEGAL NOTICESNotice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 4th day of September, 2008, bearing Index Number NC-000805-08/KI, a copy of which may be exam-ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me the right to assume the name of Gabriella Ana Ayala. My present name is Gabriella A Ayala. My present address is 6601 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11204. My place of birth is Brooklyn, NY. My date of birth is September 17, 2007. BEN36

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 3rd day of September, 2008, bearing Index Number NC-000800-08/KI, a copy of which may be exam-ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me the right to assume the name of Anastasia Pavo. My present name is Anastasia Smith. My present address is 341 10th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215. My place of birth is Jacksonville, FL. My date of birth is November 18, 1985. BP36

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 3rd day of September, 2008, bearing Index Number NC-000796-08/KI, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me the right to assume the name of Morris Abadia. My present name is Abdullagadzhi Kazilov. My present address is 2277 Homecrest Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11229. My place of birth is Kayakent, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. My date of birth is March 1, 1956. BEN36

LEGAL NOTICESNotice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 5th day of September, 2008, bearing Index Number NC-00813-08/KI, a copy of which may be exam-ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me the right to assume the name of Matvey Evgeny Lubaev. My present name is Matvey Yevgenyevich Lyubayev. My present address is 1818 79th Street, #A2, Brooklyn, NY 11214. My place of birth is Ufa, Russia. My date of birth is May 20, 2000. BEN36

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 8th day of September, 2008, bearing Index Number NC-00814-08/KI, a copy of which may be exam-ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me the right to assume the name of Alexandra Evgeny Lubaev. My present name is Aleksandra Yevgenyevna Lyubayeva. My present address is 1818 79th Street, #A2, Brooklyn, NY 11214. My place of birth is Ufa, Russia. My date of birth is August 7, 1998. BEN36

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 5th day of September, 2008, bearing Index Number NC-00815-08/KI, a copy of which may be exam-ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me the right to assume the name of Daniel Evgeny Lubaev. My present name is Daniel Lyubayev. My present address is 1818 79th Street, #A2, Brooklyn, NY 11214. My place of birth is Brooklyn, NY. My date of birth is September 30, 2006. BEN36

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 27th day of August, 2008, bearing Index Number N00781/2008, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me the right to assume the name of Anna Mariategui-Levi. My present name is Ana Carolina Politi. My present address is 1042 E14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11230. My place of birth is Potsdam, NY. My date of birth is October 19, 1983. BP36

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 8th day of September, 2008, bearing Index Number N00822/2008, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me the right to assume the name of Vadym Arturovich Kobzev. My present name is Vadym Arturovich Kobzyev a/k/a Vadym Arturovich Kobzev a/k/a Vadym A. Kobzev a/k/a Vadym Kobzyev. My present address is 1901 Avenue P, Brooklyn, NY 11229. My place of birth is Kiev, Ukraine. My date of birth is September 22, 1989. BP36

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 5th day of September, 2008, bearing Index Number N00816/2008, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me the right to assume the name of Vanessa Alamo. My present name is Vanessa Cardona a/k/a Vanessa Alamo. My present address is 3045 Brighton 8th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11235. My place of birth is Brooklyn, NY. My date of birth is March 31, 1988. OP36

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 5th day of September, 2008, bearing Index Number N00807/2008, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me the right to assume the name of Jennifer Kennedy Park. My present name is Jennifer Ann Kennedy a/k/a Jennifer Ann Park. My present address is 424 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231. My place of birth is Meriden, Connecticut. My date of birth is June 17, 1977. BH36

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Trevisani Diana BrescianoFeatured at Restaurant Babbo!

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