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Aug. 16-22, 2013

A CNG Publication Vol. 68 No. 33

BY COLIN MIXSONYou might say she’s a real wel-

fare queen.A Brighton Beach woman who

lives in a beach-front penthouse and owns three luxury cars has made taxpayers pay for her fami-ly’s healthcare for the past decade by defrauding the state’s Medic-aid program that funds medical care for the poor, according to an indictment handed down by the District Attorney’s offi ce.

Kristina Zelinsky subsidized her lavish lifestyle to the tune of $25,000 in taxpayer money in-tended for the needy, according to DA Charles Hynes.

“Public assistance funds are meant to help families who can’t afford basic needs, such as health care,” said Hynes. “People like this defendant may think she is committing a victimless crime. But she and others who engage in

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Annual event features, food, gamesBY COLIN MIXSON

Citizens for a Better Commu-nity, a super block association representing 14 residential blocks within East Flatbush, held its 12th annual Family Day event at Pae-

dergat Park on Saturday, featur-ing good food, good fun, and some great talent.

“I was hoping that we would fi nd a diamond in the rough at this

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HOW’D SHE GET SO TALL?: Four-year-old Jessica Randall gets a ride from mom, Susan, at the Paerdegat Park Family Day event on Aug. 10. Photo by Steve Solomonson

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BY NATALIE MUSUMECISterling Street is fi nally the greenest in

Brooklyn. The foliage-fi lled block between Washington

and Bedford avenues in Prospect Lefferts-Gar-dens was named the “Greenest Block in Brook-lyn” last Wednesday — after nearly a decade of vying for the title.

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden awarded the horticultural honor, judging on the basis of gar-den lushness, fl oral home adornment, and com-munity elbow grease.

“It won because it was absolutely the most impressive,” said Robin Simmen, director of GreenBridge, the arm of the botanical garden that runs the verdant tournament, which is now in its 19th year.

The block is lined with well-preserved, two-story brownstones and brick row houses and its shrubbery and window planters beat out 200 other stretches of road in neighborhoods from Greenpoint to Coney Island.

Sterling Street’s yeoman yard workers have entered the contest eight times before, but this year they wooed a panel of judges, who visited not once, but three times, by lining the curb with whiskey barrel planters and decorating house fronts with window boxes and stoop pots. The Sterling team was exhilarated by the win.

“We’re very thrilled. We worked hard,” said Claudia Loftis, a 20-year resident and the chair of the block’s garden committee. Loftis cited the green-thumbed residents’ commitment as the key to their victory. She added that the neigh-borly gardeners often water the fl owers of elderly block residents who are unable to do it them-selves, and even care for the plants in front of an abandoned home.

“If everybody’s doesn’t look good, no one’s looks good,” she said.

The block, which came in fourth place last year, was decked out this time with vibrant black-eyed Susans, begonias, petunias, geraniums, coral-bells, and vinca fl owers. The prize comes with $300 and, of course, borough-wide bragging rights.

Other winners of this year’s competition include: Atlan-tic Avenue between Bond and Nevins streets in Boerum Hill, which won greenest commer-

cial block; Macon Street between Ralph Avenue and Howard Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, which won best tree beds: and Fulton Street’s My Brooklyn Baby, which took home the title of greenest storefront.

Organizers say that the neighborhoods that usually have the most entries are Bed-ford-Stuyvesant and East Flatbush.

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GREEN-THUMBS: (Above) Sterling Street residents Alicia Boyd and Claudia Loftis helped the block win the title of “greenest” in the borough, thanks to beautiful fl ora located throughout the block (be-low and right). Photos by Stefano Giovannini

Sterling Street voted Greenest Block in Brooklyn after years of effortVICTORY GARDEN

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By Jaime Lutz

Everybody’s thinking it: it’s like summer never happened.

After a short heat wave in July, New York City’s famous crazy summer hasn’t really reared its ugly head this year, and yet it’s half-way through August and it looks like kids will be going back to school soon and adults will be switching from iced coffee to pumpkin spice lattes any moment now.

But don’t hang up your flip flops just yet — there’s still time to make this season worthwhile. Here are some things you should not miss out on before the heat is all but gone.

Book yardIt’s the perfect combination for the shut-in

book worm and the habitual beach reader. At Unnameable Books in Prospect Heights, you can find a huge variety of used tomes just waiting for you to flip through and also enjoy the beautiful back yard which hosts readings.

Unnameable Books [600 Vanderbilt Ave. in Prospect Heights, (718) 789–1534]. 11 am–11 pm.

BBQ with a viewBuy ingredients for a barbecue at the

Borough Hall Greenmarket — think vegetable skewers, corn, even hunks of good bread — and then take your bounty to Brooklyn Bridge Park with some grilling supplies. Grills get filled up fast on the weekends, so try to find time during the week.

Grills at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 5 (Joralemon Street past the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway).

Borough Hall Greenmarket (Court Street and Montague Street in Downtown, grownyc.org).

Rent a bridgeThis is what CitiBike is basically for, right?

If you’re not a great bike rider — that is, you don’t ride around with a chain strapped to your chest — the Brooklyn Bridge makes the perfect route in the summer. It’s not just for tourists and in fact, don’t let the beautiful view cause a collision with one.

Rent a bike at a nearby station and ride to the bike path at Tillary and Adams streets Downtown. citibikenyc.com.

Take yourself outIt’s time. Time to go see some baseball.

No, not the Yankees. Not the Mets, either. Go see the Brooklyn Cyclones in all their minor-league glory, with fun themed nights such as bring your dog to the ball park night, photo opportunities with Sandy the Seagull, and of course, a real good game of hardball.

MCU Park [Surf Avenue and W. 16th Street in

birdclub.org/prospark.htm and prospectsight-ings.blogspot.com

Learn valuable news about birdwatch-ing from enthusiast Dr. David A. La Puma, at Woodcreeper.com

Peeping FranzenYou’ll finally have something in common with

the author of “The Corrections,” and “Freedom” — whether or not that’s a good thing. Either way, learning to birdwatch is easier than ever. With a robust online community, along with the bounte-ous offerings of winged friends in Prospect Park, and even an app for tracking bird movements, you’ll be seeing birds in no time.

The Brooklyn Bird Club at www.brooklyn-

Coney Island, (718) 449–8497, brooklyncyclones.com]

Adult swimIt’s okay, you can admit it. The worst part

about public swimming pools are the kids. It’s not your fault you’re getting old and all you want is to practice your stroke. Avoid youthful fun by going to the Red Hook Pool, where you have to be 18-plus to swim during lap hours.

Red Hook Pool [155 Bay St. near Clinton Street in Red Hook, (718) 722–3211]

Thar she blowsWho knows? Maybe summer isn’t done

with us, yet. In case of freak heat wave, open-ing up a fire hydrant for a refreshing soak is legal, if you do it right. Just go to your local fire department to get a spray nozzle and ask a firefighter to do it for you.

LAST HEAT UNTIL FALL

Sunny days still ahead: (From top, clockwise) Adam Tobin, the owner of the Unnameable Books store in Prospect Heights, shows what he’s reading at a poetry event in the bookstore’s backyard. Riding across the Brooklyn Bridge on a bike is easier than ever now — but still watch out for tourists! If you’re not a kid any-more, you will probably prefer the adult swim hours at Red Hook pool. William and Andrew Dresher enjoy a day out at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 5, where there are plenty of spots to bbq.

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Deno’s Wonder Wheel hosts Coney throwback

TURN OF THE CENTURY: (Clockwise from above) Jeff Wilday of the Coney Island History Project welcomes visitors to Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park. The Banjo Rascals pluck out some 19th-century tunes. Stilt dancer Kae Burke shows off her extra high heels at the celebration. Ian Fraser, a member of the Carousel Organ Association of America, shows off his musical skills. Organ grinder Lola and Master Bob perform at the Coney Island History Day on Aug. 10. Photos by Elizabeth Graham

World of wonder!BY WILL BREDDERMAN

Thousands of visitors turned back the clock to the last century at the third annual Coney Island History Day at Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park on Saturday.

The event is the brainchild of the Vourderis family — which owns the park and the 83-year-old Ferris wheel that gives it its name — and Charles Denson, founder of the Coney Is-land History Project. The Proj-ect, a mini-museum of People’s Playground artifacts, inhabits a storefront on W. 12th Street between Bowery Street and the Boardwalk that the Vour-derises donated to Denson.

“We decided to celebrate the rich history of the Wonder

Wheel, and all the wonderful stuff we have from all of our years in Coney Island,” said Dennis Vourderis, who runs the park with his brother Steven.

With Denson’s help, the Vourderises revived the era when their landmark wheel fi rst came to Coney, with or-gan grinders and a banjo band cranking out 1920s tunes. Visitors who dressed in Great Gatsby-style garb rode the Won-der Wheel for free. And Sodom by the Sea history buffs com-peted in Coney Island trivia contests to win Wonder Wheel pins and free tickets on the park’s rides.

The day had a special sig-nifi cance for the Vourderis brothers, since 2013 marks the

30th year since their late father, Denos Vourderis, bought the wheel. Denos Vourderis — who passed away in 1994 — opened a concession stand on the Board-walk in 1966, and bought the nearby kiddie park in 1976, be-fore acquiring the iconic turn-ing attraction. Denson set up a special exhibit dedicated to the family’s work in Coney Island, which now includes the Vour-derises’ sons. Dennis Vourderis said it was diffi cult to imagine how long he has been part of the People’s Playground.

“Time fl ew. Thirty years, and here we are,” said Vourd-eris, who began working at his father’s concession 43 years ago at age 15. “It’s quite an achieve-ment.”

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BY COLIN MIXSONThe Army is going to

be storming the beaches of Southern Brooklyn.

That is, the Army Corps of Engineers will rebuild-ing the coastline of Brigh-ton Beach and Coney Island with $7.2-million worth of brand-new, tax-payer-funded sand to replace the beaches washed away by su-perstorm Sandy.

Beginning sometime around Labor Day, contrac-tors will start dredging up sand from the bottom of Rockaway Inlet and dump-ing it along Brooklyn’s southernmost coast.

The project is designed to protect residents and businesses in Coney Island and Brighton Beach — as well as vital infrastructure like the Belt Parkway — from the ravages of future storms and tidal surges, but not even the Army can prevent Brooklynites from using the expanded beach-front for a little summer fun, said Corps spokesman Chris Gardener.

“The purpose of the project is costal-storm risk reduction, although it ob-viously has a considerable recreational value,” he said.

Unlike most sandy stretches around the world, Coney Island and Brighton’s beaches are actually not the product of a million years worth of gradual deposits by gentle ocean currents, but rather a single year of dredging and dumping in the mid ’90s that amassed 2.4 million cubic-yards of sand along the coast — enough to bury four football fi elds nearly 100 feet deep.

Following about two de-cade’s worth of erosion and storm damage, the Army has decided that it’s about time to restore Brooklyn’s favorite tanning spots to their glory days of the ’90s, back when new episodes of “Friends” were airing on NBC and MTV still showed the occasional music video.

Hurricane Sandy, which stripped those beaches of about 272,000 cubic-yards

of sandy beach front — or about 42 feet of sand on top of a single gridiron — was the proverbial fi nal straw, inciting the Army Corps to revisit the project.

The extra sand made all the difference during Hur-ricane Sandy, according to Gardener, who said that, while there was certainly some fl ooding coming up from the south, most of the damage in Coney Island oc-curred from tidal surges coming from Coney Island Creek in the north.

“The community was severely impacted during Sandy, but the project worked quite well, because most of the damage came from the creek,” Gardener said.

This year’s beach restora-tion will see about 600,000-cu-bic-yards of sand deposited along three miles of uninter-rupted shoreline, starting at W. 37th Street in Coney Island and ending at Corbin Place in Brighton Beach.

The Army said there

will be “rolling closures” of 1,000-foot-wide sections of the beach while the contrac-tors are working along the shore front, although the majority of the beaches will remain open throughout the duration of the project.

The Boardwalk is ex-pected to remain largely un-affected, although Gardener wouldn’t rule out the possi-bility that pedestrians may be warned away from certain beach-side ramps located ad-jacent to work zones.

“They may close off en-trances to the beach, but the idea is to limit the impacts to recreation as much as possible,” he said.

Assemblyman Steve Cymbrowitz hailed the project as a welcome blast from the past and said he can’t wait to feel safe from the sea again.

“The beach will look the way it used to, and what’s even better is that it’ll pro-tect us for the future,” said Cymbrowitz.

MERMAIDS: Coney Island beachgoers Anna Polyanichko, left, and Natella Bodoleamu, right, will have even more beach to enjoy once the Army Corps of Engineers fi nishes its massive restoration proj-ect in Coney and Brighton Beach. Photo by Paul Martinka

New sand coming to boro’s beaches

There are many items in your house that can make your pets ill if they come into contact with them. These include different toxins, plants and foods. Rodenticide (aka mouse/rat poison) is extremely toxic to pets if ingested. The most common type of rodenticide used in households is anticoagulant which impedes the blood from clotting and can be fatal if left untreated. Also, if you not any unexplained bruising, trouble breathing, bloody urination or defecation, seek veterinary care immediately. Please keep any mouse/rat bait in areas where your animals cannot reach them and if you think your pet may have ingested rodenticide, contact your veterinarian IM-MEDIATELY to discuss options.

Many different plants in the household can also be toxic to animals. Several plants can cause gastrointestinal upset such as vomiting, diarrhea, nausea and loss of appetite. Specifi cally, lilies of several varieties can cause acute renal failure in cats. The amount ingested is NOT related to the side effects thus, one cat can get sick from chewing a leaf while another can ingest the entire plant before side effects are seen. Sago palm, though uncommon in the NY area, is an extremely toxic plant and can cause liver failure in dogs. Please contact your veterinarian if you suspect that your animal has ingested plants in your household. You can try to research if a certain plant is toxic to dogs or cats on the ASPCA Toxic Plant website.

Many people are unaware that many of the foods we eat on a day to day basis can be extremely toxic to animals. Chocolate contains certain ingredients that can lead to gastrointestinal upset, pancreatitis (infl ammation of the pancreas), cardiac arrhythmias and/or neurologic side effects (seizures, etc) depending on the type of chocolate and the dose ingested. As soon as you realize that your pet may have in-gested chocolate, please contact your veterinarian to discuss. It is very helpful if you have the wrapper and know how much could have possibly been ingested. Your veterinarian will try to calculate the dose ingested based on your dog’s body weight and will advise you as to if you need to bring your pet in immediately or if you can monitor them at home.

Grapes and raisins are also toxic to dogs and can cause acute renal failure. Un-fortunately, at this time, the medical community is unsure the dose that can lead to these side effects and the reaction is considered idiosyncratic. It is important that any dog that ingests grapes/raisins have their kidney values monitored and often times they should be placed on intravenous fl uid diuresis to avoid renal failure side effects of this human food.

Onions and garlic are not recommended for animals- both cats and dogs as they can cause anemia (low red blood cell count). Usually, these foods need to be ingested in large amounts or chronically over a long period of time to see side effects but these effects can be detrimental and very dramatic and often times require hospitalization and in rare instances, blood transfusions.

Xylitol is a common household toxin that most owners are unaware can be fatal to animals. Xylitol is commonly found in sugar free gum and sugar substitutes (ex-ample: Splenda). Based on the amount ingested and the body weight of the animal, hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and acute liver failure can occur.

Finally, it is important to mention that all human medications should be kept away from animals. Most human medications can lead to serious side effects and even death when ingested by animals. For example, NSAIDs can lead to gastric ul-ceration and in some cases, liver/renal failure. Do not administer any over the coun-ter medication to your pet without fi rst speaking with a veterinarian.

In conclusion, if you suspect that your animal has ingested any toxins, plants or human food, please contact your veterinarian immediately. They will help to deter-mine what the next step should be whether it means seeing your veterinarian, moni-toring at home or contacting a Poison Control Hotline. Time is pertinent in most of these cases, thus the sooner you contact your veterinarian, the more likely treatment can be instituted and be successful.

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BY WILL BREDDERMANThere’s nothing bizarre

about this bazaar!Some 3,000 Middle East-

ern-Americans from across the New York metropolitan area descended on Shore Road Park on Aug. 11 for the seventh annual Arab-Amer-ican Bazaar — a medley of food, dance, and politics.

Organizers said the fes-tival seeks to call attention

to a growing part of Brook-lyn’s — and particularly Bay Ridge’s — ethnic mosaic.

“We’re a community that’s here to stay, we’re a big community, we have a culture, and we want to cel-ebrate it,” said Linda Sar-sour, executive director of the Arab-American Associ-ation of New York, the group that founded the festival.

Sarsour said the bazaar

attracted Arab-Americans from as far away as Yonkers and as close as Staten Island and Bensonhurst, as well as from Bay Ridge and Sunset Park. The crowd included Brooklynites with roots in crisis areas like Egypt , Syria , and the Palestinian territo-ries — which Sarsour said made expressing cultural pride even more important.

“Wherever there’s a prob-

lem, you’ll see more people coming out,” the Palestin-ian-American activist said.

The bazaar also had a poltical tinge to it, as the Arab-American Associa-tion got 350 attendees to sign postcards in support of allowing illegal immigrants to obtain United States citi-zenship. The organization also registered more than 80 new voters.

FLAGS FLYING: (Above) One-year old Ismail Hamideh of Westchester dances in a traditional scarf. (Left) Moustafa Kalo of Bay Ridge fi les the fl ag of the Syrian revolution, while others wave the fl ags of Egypt and Lebanon (center). Photos by Elizabeth Graham

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BY WILL BREDDERMANA cup of Tea really can

perk you up. Pastor Connis Mobley

of the United Community Baptist Church was booted off the Democratic primary ballot in the race to fi ll the seat of term-limited Coun-cilman Domenic Recchia (D–Coney Island) due to ir-regularities in his petition fi ling — but the candidate is continuing his campaign with some help from former Brooklyn Tea Party presi-dent Joseph Hayon .

To compete in the Sept. 10 Democratic primary, Mobley needed 450 signa-tures from registered Dem-ocrats in the district span-ning Coney Island, Seagate, Gravesend, and Benson-hurst. The city Board of Elections said the pastor of the church at the corner of W. 27th Street and Mermaid Avenue submitted 766 — but it ruled that 425 of them were invalid. The agency suggested that Mobley’s team had collected signa-tures from people either not registered to vote, not regis-tered as Democrats, or not registered in the district. The 341 remaining signa-tures left Mobley well short of qualifying to run for the Democratic line.

The minister acknowl-edged that some of those who collected signatures for him — mostly members of his congregation — had made mistakes in their ea-gerness to get him on the ballot.

“We understand that some of our petitioners did not follow the rules, we know that, but they were just doing their best to get signatures,” Mobley said.

But the aspiring politi-cian said the blow to his campaign left him hungrier than ever to capture the seat — and spread his mes-sage of black community empowerment.

“I’m not giving in, I’m not giving up. I still want

to run. This has just added fuel to the fi re,” said Mob-ley. “In America, everyone has a right to run and dis-cuss the issues.”

So the campaign turned to Hayon, an old friend and early donor. The one-time Republican challenger of Assemblyman Steve Cym-browitz (D–Sheepshead Bay) recommended that the preacher collect another 450 voter signatures before Aug. 20 to run as an inde-pendent candidate in the general election in Novem-ber — and even agreed to let Mobley run on his School Choice Party line.

Hayon said he met with Mobley early in the cam-paign, and said the minis-ter’s religious convictions and community ties ap-pealed to him.

“I work with anybody regardless what they’re

labeled as — as long as I believe that they will do what the people need, not what politicians need,” said Hayon. “He’s a pastor, and that means he wants to help people. That’s why he’s a pastor.”

And, even though Mob-ley is a registered Demo-crat, both his campaign manager and campaign spokesperson are Republi-cans — and argued that the pastor’s values and stand on social issues tilt rightward.

“Part of what we believe in is teaching people to be self-suffi cient, not to rely on government programs, and that is conservative,” said spokeswoman Dana Monroe .

But while Hayon said he was happy to help Mobley get on the ballot, the con-servative activist won’t be giving him his vote in No-vember. The registered Re-publican said he decided to support Republican candi-date Andy Sullivan after the fellow Tea Partier jumped into the race in May .

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WELCOME TO THE PARTY: Pastor Connis Mobley (above) won’t let the Board of Elections kick him out of the race, and is getting back in the game with the help of Tea Partier Joseph Hayon (left).

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iFightA thug beat and robbed a woman on

Bedford Avenue on Aug. 12, taking her iP-hone 5.

The victim told police that she was be-tween Avenues Y and Z at 2:30 pm when the crook waltzed up and punched her on the right side of her face, before grabbing her smart phone, and fl ed on foot heading east along Avenue Y.

Jewel thiefA prowler looted a 78-year-old woman’s

Nostrand Avenue apartment of her jew-elry on Aug. 9.

The victim, speaking through an inter-preter, told police that she left her apart-ment between Avenues T and U at 9 am, and returned at 2 pm to fi nd her front lock tampered with, her door ajar, and several thousand dollars worth of jewelry miss-ing.

Subway brawlCops arrested at 23-year-old man in the

mezzanine of an Avenue U subway station for allegedly trying to rob a man on Aug. 10.

The victim told police that he was en-tering the subway station near McDon-ald Avenue at 3 am when the suspect ap-proached him and uttered his demands.

“Give me your wallet,” the suspect al-legedly growled.

“F--- you,” the victim replied.The suspect then allegedly tried to

grab the victim’s wallet from his pockets, and the two began battling, in a fi ght that eventually spilled into the mezzanine, where police found the pair and arrested the suspect.

Bad dateCops are hunting a 50-year-old man

who they say raped a 32-year-old woman inside his Nostrand Avenue apartment sometime in April.

The victim told police that she was hanging out with the older man when he took her back to his home at the Sheep-shead Bay houses, between Avenues W and X, at midnight, where he tried to kiss her.

When she refused his advance, how-ever, the man held the woman’s arms be-hind her, ripped off her clothes, and then forced himself on her, according to police.

The victim, who reported the crime on Aug. 11, said she only remembers the date as sometime in April, cops said.

Barbershop beat downA goon beat and robbed an 18-year-old

man inside a Nostrand Avenue barber shop on Aug. 9 — taking his Beats head-phones.

The victim told police that he was be-tween Avenues V and W at 4:30 pm, when the suspect struck him in the face and

grabbed his pricey headphones.

Bottled upCops arrested a 22-year-old man for al-

legedly attacking some other guy with a broken bottle on Avenue X on Aug. 10.

The victim told police that he was near Brigham Street at 8:43 pm when the sus-pect punched him in the face and then at-tacked him with the glass shiv.

The victim said he had never met the suspect before the attack. Police said they found a “twist” of marijuana in one of the suspect’s shoes, but didn’t elaborate.

In plain sightA 19-year-old man was arrested for his

alleged attempts to break into a man’s E.

26th Street home on Aug. 10 — while in plain view of the victim and his neighbor, police said.

The victim told police that he was at his home between Avenues S and T at 9:15 pm, when the suspect began making repeated attempts to pull, yank, and kick his way into the man’s house.

When the suspect decided he wasn’t getting in through the front door, he al-legedly hoped over a fence and tried the back door, which is where cops found and arrested him.

Gang attackFive thugs beat and robbed a man of

his Samsung Galaxy cellphone on Brown Street on Aug. 11.

The victim told police that he was near Avenue V on 8:25 pm when the pack of thieves ambushed him from behind, bash-ing him on the back of the head and taking his phone and wallet while he lay on the ground. — Colin Mixson

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Deadliest catchTwo gun-toting punks robbed a fi sher-

man on the Shore Parkway promenade on Aug. 12, according to cops.

The victim said he was angling for a bite near the end of 20th Avenue at 3:20 pm when the pair of goons came up.

One showed him a fi rearm tucked in his waistband, and both demanded his watch and jewelry.

The victim surrendered his valuables, and the crooks fl ed in the direction of Cae-sar’s Bay.

Shop and stopA pair of knife-wielding fi ends stuck

up a man on 68th Street on Aug. 8, police state.

The victim said he was near 18th Ave-nue, walking home from the grocery store, at 7:45 pm when the perps approached him and displayed the blade.

They then reached into his pockets, pulled out $40, and scrammed in an un-known direction.

Big black carTwo goons driving a black sedan

jumped a man on 79th Street on Aug. 5, cops report.

The victim told police the was near 15th Avenue at 11:30 pm when the vehicle rolled up at the curb next to him, and the thugs jumped out and shoved him to the ground.

The lowlifes then pulled two cellphones from his pocket, jumped back in the car, and sped off.

Pedal painA crook on two wheels snatched a man’s

cellphone right out of his hands on Kings Highway on Aug. 11, authorities say.

The victim said was near W. Second Street, texting, at 10:20 pm when at the low-life pedaled up behind him and grabbed the mobile device.

The slick cyclist then rode on.

Batter upA savage bashed two men over the head

with a baseball bat on Benson Avenue on Aug. 11, according to police.

The victims reported that they were walking near the corner of 18th Avenue at 2 am when the villain ran up with the slug-ger and cracked them both on the skull.

The two men went to Lutheran Medi-cal Center for care.

— Will Bredderman

CuffedA man was carted off to Kings County Hospital in handcuffs on Tuesday after a tense standoff with police outside an E. 17th Street home, but was later released without any charges fi led, according to police. Cops were called to the scene between Avenue R and Moore Place at noon, after 911 operators received complaints that an emotionally disturbed person had barricaded himself inside. After offi cers with the NYPD’s SWAT unit stormed the brick and mortar duplex, the man was escorted out in handcuffs and sent to Kings County Hospital. Photo by Paul Martinka

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BY MELISSA GOLDINChristmas came early

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Last year’s holiday sea-son was a diffi cult time for many Coney Island families still feeling the devastat-ing affects of Sandy, but on Friday, approximately 200 Brooklyn youngsters were treated to a Christmas in Summertime party featur-ing recreational activities and a carnival. The Police Athletic League, a youth de-velopment agency, worked with the Brooklyn Cyclones and Lend Lease, an interna-tional property and infra-structure company, to get the event off the ground.

“All season long we try to do things that can help peo-ple’s lives return to normal,” said Cyclones spokesman Billy Harner. “It was a little odd to see Santa Claus in Au-gust, but the kids seemed to have a great time with it.”

The day began on MCU Park’s ball fi eld. The chil-

dren — between the ages of 3 and 16 — played kickball on the baseball diamond, participate in an obstacle course, and brushed up on their soccer skills with coaches from the Police Athletic League’s soccer club before they headed to a carnival in the stadium’s parking lot. The celebration included carnival games, a barbecue, a free raffl e to win tickets to Coney Island attractions such as a Cy-clones games, Luna Park,

and the New York Aquar-ium, a dunk tank, a bounce house, and even a visit from Santa Claus, plus other en-tertainment. All of the chil-dren were sent home with a backpacks stuffed with school supplies and other small treats.

The Police Athletic League held a series of recreation-focused events as part of its Playstreets program at Coney Island’s Shrine Church of Our Lady of Solace and Kaiser Park in

November and December. These events were intended to give families in the com-munity a chance to social-ize and step away from the stress of recovery efforts. Friday’s festivities were a long-awaited follow-up.

“We want the kids in the community to know that the Police Athletic League is still there for them and that they won’t be forgot-ten,” said Police Athletic League Executive Director Alana Sweeney.

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BY WILL BREDDERMANIt may have rained, but

the organizers behind Bay Ridge’s third Summer Stroll of 2013 say the event was anything but a wash-out.

The stretch of Third Av-enue between 69th and 80th streets closed off to traffi c and turned into a European-style pedestrian plaza for the fi rst time ever — two weeks after the section between 80th and 90th streets under-went a similar transforma-tion for the second year in a row . Stores, restaurants, bars, and neighborhood

groups put tables and chairs out on the street and custom-ers came to fi ll them — after a few evening showers.

“The initial crowd was scared away, but once it stopped raining, we had a great showing,” said Chuck Otey, executive secretary of the Merchants of Third Av-enue business group and co-founder of the Stroll .

Otey noted that the tem-porary piazza had a dis-tinctly different fl avor last Friday than on previous nights, due to a lower con-centration of stores and a dif-

ferent ethnic mix of restau-rants on the blocks between 69th and 80th streets. But he said business was buzzing at nearly all the participating merchants — in sharp con-trast to the usual desolation of a summer night.

“Normally, you can roll a bowling ball down the av-enue on a hot August Fri-day,” Otey said.

Otey also said the event offered an outlet for the neighborhood’s bored youth.

“Kids have been heating up all week long looking for something to do. I saw par-

ents literally being dragged by their kids,” he said.

Otey developed and pitched the Summer Stroll concept in 2011 with Bina Valenzano, owner of the Bookmark Shoppe between 84th and 85th streets, and neighborhood pols. But the open-air fair failed to take fl ight that year, as mer-chants and residents raised fears that the event would bring drunken chaos to the corridor . But the idea fi nally won approval from Community Board 10 in

ON FIRE: (Above) Mikayla Cruz sports a painted face and fi refi ghter hat at the stroll. (Center) Amanda Channer and Nicole Yu take cover under a parasol at the Aug. 9 Summer Stroll, which was hit with a rain shower. (Right) Caroline Hanna, Arianna Gnerre, Juliana Bambina, Any-ssa Cadotte strolled despite the rain. Photos by Arthur De Gaeta

Rain didn’t dampen Summer Stroll

Communication leads to understanding — and that is one of the goals of T.E.A.L., an acronym for the organization Tell Ev-ery Amazing Lady About Ovarian Cancer, Louisa M. McGregor Ovarian Cancer Foundation.

The organization was founded in 2009 by two sis-ters, after one of them — Louisa McGregor — was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Sadly, McGregor succumbed to the illness in 2011, but her sister and co-founder, Pamela Espos-ito-Amery, continues to raise awareness about this deadly disease.

One way she does this is by holding an annual walk to raise funds for ovarian cancer research. This year’s event will be held Saturday, Sept. 7 at the Prospect Park Bandshell. Those who wish to par-ticipate should register at the organization’s website,

www.TEALWALK.org. This is the first year

that the event also includes a run. The entire family can participate, says Espos-ito-Amery, as afterwards, there will be educational booths, entertainment, face-painting, and prizes.

Also new this year, Brooklyn Borough Hall will be lit teal, the color that symbolizes ovarian cancer, on Sept. 3, in honor

of September being Ovar-ian Cancer Awareness Month.

“Since 2009, T.E.A.L. has raised over $287,000, di-rectly benefitting ovarian cancer research,” she says. “The foundation’s mission is to promote awareness of the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer, to enable early detection, and to help find the cure for this deadly disease.”

Early detection is ex-tremely important, but there is no test that can diagnose ovarian cancer, says Esposito-Amery.

“It does not exist. Many women think a PAP smear will test for this, but it does not.”

Yet, “ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death from gynecologic cancers in the United States, and is the fifth-leading cause

of cancer death among U.S. women,” she says. “In the United States alone, there will be approximately 22,000 new cases of ovar-ian cancer each year, and about 15,500 women will die from the disease.”

The symptoms of ovar-ian cancer are often vague, making it difficult to diag-nose. Abdominal bloating, indigestion, a feeling of fullness, frequency of uri-nation, weight gain or loss, change in bowel habits, fa-tigue, shortness of breath, and postmenopausal bleed-ing may be signs.

Still, there are steps women can take to become pro-active, says Esposito-Amery. The foundation recommends that women speak with their doctors about tests that can help “put up red flags” about the disease. These include trans-vaginal ultra sounds, vaginal-rectal pelvic ex-ams, and a CA 125 blood test that measures the level

of a substance in the blood that may increase when a cancerous tumor is pres-ent, she says.

“Until we have better early detection tools, all women should be educated about the disease so they can achieve early diagnosis and successful treatment,” says Esposito-Amery.

Tell Every Amazing Lady About Ovarian Can-cer, Louisa M. McGregor Ovarian Cancer Foun-dation [P.O. Box 340947, Brooklyn, NY 11234, (917) 310–4835, www.TEAL-WALK.org]. Email: info@tealwalk.org.

T.E.A.L. Walk at Pros-pect Park Bandshell (62 West Dr., www.TEALWALK.org). On Sept. 7. Check in starts at 8 am, with the run beginning at 9 am and a non-competitive walk at 10:45 am. Register online by July 31, $25. After that, fees go up another $10. Online registration open through Sept. 1.

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BY WILL BREDDERMANThe long-neglected pe-

destrian bridge over Surf Avenue fi nally got some at-tention from city workers last Wednesday — who took it down overnight.

The shark-painted span linking the W. Eighth Street-New York Aquarium train station to the Boardwalk fi -nally sank, as a demolition crew ripped it down in the dark of night on Aug. 7.

The fi shy bridge net-ted both fans in detractors in the 50 years that it took visitors over Surf Avenue to the Boardwalk — and its demise went over swim-mingly with some, but left others high and dry.

The elevated pathway was long an orphan, with neither the Metropolitan Transit Authority, nor the Parks Department willing to take responsibility for maintaining it. The paint job chipped and rusted, the pathway became pitted, and an analysis last year con-cluded it was in danger of falling down eventually.

“I’ve been working on it for 17 years, and it’s fi nally gone,” rejoiced Community Board 13 district manager Chuck Reichenthal.

Others lamented the loss of an iconic part of the Peo-ple’s Playground — and of an easy and safe route from the train onto the Boardwalk.

“If you went to Coney Island as a kid, you got off that subway, you crossed that bridge, and you were in Coney Island,” said CB13

member Pat Singer. “We’ve been hung out to dry.”

Singer, who had fought to get the city to fi x up the span over the years, argued that it should build a new one. But the New York City Economic Development Corporation — the semi-public agency that acts as the city’s liaison to busi-

ness, and which paid to de-molish the structure — said no such plans are in the works. Instead, the Corpo-ration said the city intends to widen the sidewalks, install a traffi c light at W. Eighth Street and Surf Av-enue, and create a new en-trance to the seaside prom-enade at W. 10th Street.

Locals boo loss of path from train to Boardwalk

MIND THE GAP: The shark-painted span (top) no longer provides a safe crossing of busy Surf Avenue, after the city’s Economic Devel-opment Corporation tore it down (above) The city plans to widen the sidewalks and install a traffi c light at W. 10th Street to ease pedestrians across Surf Avenue (below). Photos by Steve Solomonson

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“My campaign is about helping people and solving community problems,” he said. “Somebody doesn’t want me winning this race and they’re using every tac-tic to oppose me.”

Kagan was stirred, not shaken by the bizarre smear campaign, and re-mained confi dent that the voters will turn out in his favor in the democratic pri-mary next month.

“People who have volun-teered and donated to my campaign have expressed their outrage,” he said. “But I believe the people in this dis-trict are smart, hard work-ing, and they’ll vote for me on Sept. 10, no matter what.”

Bela Gubernko, a Rus-sian-speaking Midwood res-ident, said she was at work when her husband Lazar, who does not speak English, got the Kagan KGB call.

“Somebody speaking Russian said that Ari is ‘agent of KGB,’ ” she said. “He told me that it was a woman in the recording.”

Despite the allegations of espionage, Gubernko said she know’s Kagan as an up-standing community activist and never doubted his alle-giance to the United States.

“I knew him for many years, he’s helped the com-

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crats living in 48th Council District have recently been receiving disturbing auto-mated phone calls, in which a woman speaking Russian ac-cuses Kagan of having links to the long-abolished spy service of the former Soviet Union — the notorious KGB.

“There were two maybe, three robocalls, with a female voice, saying ‘Kagan was with the KGB,’ ” explained Kagan, a council candidate and former journalist.

Kagan, who categori-cally denied that he was ever involved with the same Soviet spy ring that antago-nized America and Rus-sians alike during the Cold War, said his campaign is about providing answers to problems facing the res-idents of his district, not funneling information back

munity, he’s a good journal-ist,” she said. “He doesn’t strike me as a spy.”

Furthermore, the fact that these accusations are be-ing pushed during the cam-paign season is not lost on Gubernko or her husband.

“It’s election time,” Gu-bernko said. “It’s pretty ob-vious what’s going on.”

These automated mes-sages aren’t the fi rst time Kagan’s been accused of spying for the Soviets.

When Kagan fi rst an-nounced his intention to replace term-limited Coun-cilman Mike Nelson in March, heckler Zev Your-man emerged from the crowd and alleged that Ka-gan’s journalistic career was predicated on subduing rebellious Russians.

“The purpose of a jour-nalist in the Soviet Union was to disturb the people and to harass them. They were the foot soldiers of the KGB,” Yourman said, according to a blog report. “Journalists con-ducted surveillance on the population to harass Jews and spread propaganda.”

Kagan is open about his early career as a military journalist in waning years of the Soviet Union, but he points out that under Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of glas-nost (“openness”) he was en-couraged to report critically on the military, rather than serve the party line.

After working for anti-communist papers in post-Soviet Latvia, Kagan immi-grated to America in 1993. When he went to work for Rep. Michael McMahon, Kagan was subjected to an additional security screen-ing, which turned up noth-ing untoward.

“My biography was known by the immigration agents when I immigrated,” said Kagan. “I had nothing to do with the KGB, and it’s ri-diculous say that after living in America for over 20 years and working for a United States congressman. People are far too sophisticated to believe this nonsense.”

Despite the absurdity and inherent insult to intel-ligence, Kagan’s campaign advisor Jake Oliver said that whoever is behind the smear is likely a skilled operative.

“We haven’t heard of anyone who’s gotten this message who wasn’t a Rus-sian, or a democrat,” said Oliver. “That shows there’s a disturbing amount of so-phistication involved in these attacks.”

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StrollFeb. 2012, as supporters pitched it as a cultural counterblast to the de-piction of Bay Ridge as a dim-witted, party-hearty haven in the short-lived “Jersey Shore” knock-off “Brooklyn 11223.”

Wet weather put a damper on two of the four Stroll nights last year, but Valenzano said busi-nesses on the avenue saw a 15 to 50–percent boost in revenue nonetheless.

Otey said he hoped to see the plaza get another extension next year — and run another four nights. Otey argued an eight-eve-ning Stroll would boost commerce even more, and attract visitors from other neighborhoods.

“It would be very good for business, and it would bring a lot of people in,” Otey said.

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BY WILL BREDDERMANCall ’em cop blockers.Every week, platoons of off-

duty cops descend on Bath Ave-nue, illegally parking their civil-ian cars, blocking bus stops and fi re hydrants and destroying lo-cal business — all while the city does nothing — say neighbors.

Store owners between 18th Avenue and Bay 20th in Ben-sonhurst complain that cops in street clothes have arrived every Wednesday morning at 9 am for the past two months. The offi cers park their personal cars — each with an NYPD Restricted Park-ing placard in the window — all along the block without regard for parking laws. Then they pile into a nearby building en masse and don’t leave until 2 pm.

“If we ever parked at a bus stop or a hydrant, we’d get ticketed in a second,” said Tom Prince, owner of Christy Industries at the cor-

ner of Bay 19th Street. “How is it that they’re allowed to park wher-ever they want?”

Prince argued that the cops’ habits are endangering the wel-fare of the entire community.

“People with carriages and old people have to walk through the cars to get the bus, you should see

it,” Prince said. “And what if there was a fi re and the truck couldn’t get to the hy-drant?”

Other store owners said the cops are monopolizing all available spaces and hurting their profi ts.

“Since morning ’til 2 pm, no one can park. I come to work and I can’t park my car. My customers can’t park,” said Alex Geb, owner of Bath Avenue Hardware at the corner of 18th Avenue.

Geb isn’t the only one hurting.

“Customers are spinning around for 40, 50 minutes, then they say they go back home be-cause there’s no parking,” said Arthur Leviy of Style By Johnny Barbershop next door.

The store owners said that re-peated calls to 311 yielded no re-sults.

On Aug. 7, when dozens of vehicles with NYPD Restricted Parking placards lined ‘No Park-ing’ areas, Prince again dialed 311, but no traffi c enforcement agent responded.

A police department spokes-man confi rmed that Restricted Parking plates do not allow ve-hicles to block bus stops or fi re-plugs.

“No, they shouldn’t be doing that,” the spokesman said.

One of the offi cers on the scene said that the cops were all attend-ing a course for the sergeant ex-amination — and defended the parking practices as harmless.

“It’s one day a week, just a cou-ple hours, it’s not bad,” said the offi cer, who declined to give his name.

Neighbors: Cop parking endangering community

BUS BLOCKADE: Residents complained that cars with police plates illegally clog the B64 bus stop on Bath Avenue between 18th Avenue and Bay 19th Street every Wednesday. Photo by Arthur De Gaeta

PLACQUE PLAGUE

The Athens Market in Bay Ridge re-located this June, moving from its 96th Street storefront to a new locale at Third Avenue be-tween 83rd and 84th Streets. It is now known as the “New” Athens Market, and it is decorated with the colors of Greece — blue and white.

The 1,200-square foot store still carries an array of Greek specialty items — cheese, meat, yogurt — and a bakery department that prepares favorites such as powdered sugar cookies, custard pies (bougatsa) spin-ach pies, and baklava.

A full-service butcher is on the premises, ready to serve the customers’ needs. Fresh Greek salads are prepared daily. The coffee is fresh-roasted, and both American and espresso are served. Come in and enjoy a cup of the tantalizing brew, with a piece of pie, for $3.99,

one of several specials that are offered.

“New” Athens Market takes pride in its incred-ible breads — whole wheat, sourdough, Italian, walnut and raisin, and a rosemary and olive. The store’s owner, Steve Fragoulopoulos says, “We use only pure materials. No sugar; a little honey.”

And the secret to creat-ing bread that is so light and tasty?

“Sunflower oil,” he says.Soon, the store expects

to be doing a lot more of the cooking, allowing you the op-portunity to stop by the store, grab a meal, and go. Greek fa-vorites will be on the menu, such as moussaka: egg-plant, zucchini, potato, and chopped meat; as well as pas-ticchio — “Greek lasagna” — prepared with chopped meat, parmesan cheese, and a Be-shamel sauce.

Fragoulopoulos notes that many people enjoy his

famous chicken with lemon and potatoes.

“It was a favorite at the old location, and it will be served here, too,” he says.

In addition, he antici-pates grilling shish kabobs, lamb, and burgers, on an outdoor grill, and offering these items.

“Everything will be done on the premises, making us a gourmet store,” he says.

Fragoulopoulos has a knack for the business, as his family owned a simi-lar marketplace in Greece for more than 30 years. The store is modeled, in part, on that success, but Fragoulo-poulos is also an educated business person. He has earned an MBA, and is com-pleting his PhD in business — the first in his family. The insight will allow him to “analyze markets in an or-ganized and scientific way, becoming more practical,” he says. It all translates to

better customer service for patrons.

He and his wife, Julie, make it a point to care for their customers, providing them with both the specialty items they want and the service they need. As we’re all “on-the-go,” the shop of-fers curb-side service. Call ahead; they’ll get your order ready. Drive up, and they’ll place the bags in your car. No worries about parking. No getting in and out of the car. It doesn’t get more con-venient than that.

Flyers, with weekly spe-cials, are distributed in the neighborhood. Customers can also find promotions in value pack coupons that are sent in the mail. Free deliv-ery is provided in the neigh-borhood.

“New” Athens Market [8316 Third Ave. between 83th and 84th streets in Bay Ridge, (718) 238–0741]. Open seven days a week, 8 am–9 pm.

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COP OUT: All of the illegally parked vehicles had New York City Police Department Restrict-ed Parking Plates in the windows. Photo by Arthur De Gaeta

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this type of fraud are steal-ing thousands of dollars out of innocent people’s pock-ets.”

The 34-year-old resi-dent of the Oceana Condo-miniums — who, records show, makes extravagant purchases from Juicy Cou-ture — claimed that she was entirely dependent on her husband’s $22,000-per-year income when she fi led for Medicaid back in 2003, and the city enrolled her, her husband, and their two children in the state’s Health Plus Medicaid Bene-fi ts program later that year, according to spokeswoman for the DA.

Zelinsky continued fi l-ing annual income disclo-sures ever since that never exceeded the Medicaid maximum-income guide-lines, despite purchasing a penthouse condominium at Oceana in 2007 with an $850,000 mortgage, accord-ing to Hynes.

The alleged scamstress

was depositing an aver-age of $4,600 a month into her personal bank account throughout 2008, records show — nearly double the amount that Medicaid guidelines allow for a entire family of four.

Far from being depen-dent on her husband’s sup-posedly measly salary, in-vestigators for Medicaid Inspector General James Cox found that Zelinsky was taking in money from her own business — Bronx-based Kristy’s Billing and Collection — which, ironi-cally, profi ts from making residents of that predomi-

nantly poor borough pay their bills.

Hynes plans on us-ing the defendant’s lavish spending habits against in her court, and said that purchases she made at Jimmy Choo, Juicy Cou-ture, and several Vegas-area hotels and restau-rants should help convince the jury that Zelinsky was ripping off the taxpayers.

If that weren’t enough, Cox found records of a Porsche, a BMW, and an Aston Martin — famously favored by James Bond — registered in her name.

“When a person such as Ms. Zelinsky lives in luxury and owns vehicles that most people only see in movies, New York State taxpayers should not fi -nance her health care,” Cox said.

When reached by this paper, Zelinsky’s law-yer Jonathan Kaye didn’t sound too worried, pre-dicting that once every-thing’s said and done, his client won’t be trading her beach-front penthouse for a jail cell.

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BENEFITS DENIED: Kristina Ze-linsky was indicted for alleged-ly ripping off taxpayers to the tune of $25,000 for Medicaid. Brooklyn District Attorney

year’s talent show,” said or-ganizer Yvette Barrow. “We have this young girl, Victo-ria Chyrack, who plays the violin and after she played, she started singing. As soon as she opened her mouth in was like a nightengale sing-ing. I know she’s going to go far.”

The long-running, fam-ily-oriented party has an interesting past, which stretches back to before the event was held in Paerdegat Park.

Back then, Family Day was like any other block party, albeit, with one ex-ception — the organization may represent 14 blocks, but Family Day orgainiz-ers could only choose one in which to hold the event, and residents of the 13 other blocks were prone to jeal-ousy whenever their street wasn’t chosen to host the party.

“Because we have 14 blocks belonging to one orginization, it can be dif-fi cult for any of the other blocks, which got to feel-ing left out,” said Barrow. “That’s when we decided to

host the event in Paerdegat Park.”

Since then, organiz-ers like to boast that there hasn’t been even a single incident of bullying, or any other form of kid versus kid violence.

“In 12 years, not one child has hit another at our Family Day,” said Barrow.

The day begins with a series of athletic events for

the young sports fans, in-cluding sack and foot races, with the winners receiving trophies and ribbons for their feats of athelticism.

Another reoccuring treat that kids look forward to every year is a pony or two, which Citizens for a Better Communtiy bring to the park and let the kids ride around on for a while.

This year, however, or-ganizers went with a differ-ent stable than usual, Kens-ington Farms, and saved $500 — however, you get what you pay for, and these ponies weren’t a big fan of the event’s tradtional Car-ribean music.

“The ponies were al-right, but they’re not Car-ribean ponies,” said Bar-row. “They’re afraid of the music.”

That’s right, apparenlty the ponies at Kensington Farms aren’t the biggest fans of Carribean tunes and became agitated with the music.

So organizers compro-mised with the little horses, and trotted them down to Foster Avenue, where the ponies chilled out enough that the kids were able to get their rides in — in the end, it was all worth it.

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HOT POTATO: Carlessa Ben-nett hops to the fi nish line during the potato sack race at the Paerdegat Park Family Day event on Saturday. Photo by Steve Solomonson

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BY SCOTT HANSENA long time ago, in a

stadium far, far away, the Empire’s army of State Col-lege annihilated the Brook-lyn Alliance on Star Wars Night at MCU Park.

The evil Spikes took a 2–0 lead in the second. Ma-son Katz, who reached base by using his eyes and mind to determine that spheres thrown his way were not on target — and was awarded the fi rst bag by a weak-minded trooper who was fooled into seeing things his way.

“You don’t need to call these pitches strikes,” he is believed to have whispered as he stepped up to the plate. “These aren’t the pitches you’re looking for.”

Flustered, Cyclones hurler Miller Diaz hit the next opponent who chal-lenged him with his fl ying sphere, then threw wildly, allowing both to advance their positions.

Alex De Leon next used his saber to loft a lazy fl y ball toward Cloud City that would otherwise have been caught for an out.

But not this time.“It’s a trap!” screamed

the hordes who had gath-ered to witness the diaboli-cal plot unfold.

And a trap it was, as Katz scampered to his home base

for the fi rst run.The sage management of

the Brooklyn Alliance then called in reinforcements, bringing Paul Paez in to re-place Diaz.

“Your night, it is not,” manager Rich Donnelly may have said to Diaz be-fore handing the sphere to Paez and stating, “You’re all clear, kid. Let’s blow this thing and go home.”

Alas, this new hope was not to be, as Steven Ramos’s RBI single gave the State the run that would lead to its eventual triumph.

The Spikes earned two

more points in the fourth frame when Katz hit an RBI triple deep to center quad-rant, and Brett Wiley sin-gled him back to base.

The Brooklyn Alliance used its sabers lightly.

In the seventh, L.J. “Luke” Mazzilli led off with a double and Matt “Obi-Wan” Oberste’s single tal-lied the only run for the Al-liance.

The saga continues as the Cyclones make a push toward the playoffs, when the Jedi will return.

May the Force be with them.

Force fl eeting on Star Wars night at MCU

“WARS” AT CONEY: The force was with Danielle Mattes (dressed as Darth Maul), Rubin Polizzi (Koda), and James Ellerby (Tokan) for Star Wars Night at MCU Park last Friday.

Attack of the Clones

A NEW HOPE: (Above) Cyclones mascot Sandy the Seagull, dressed as an Ewok, gets a hug from Gianna Lupo, 5, of Ber-gen Beach. (Left) Darth Vader throws out the fi rst pitch. Photo by Steve Solomonson

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BY NATALIE MUSUMECIThey had the need for

speed.More than 45 kids took

to the streets of South Slope in handcrafted vehicles for some old-fashioned road racing during the neigh-borhood’s annual Soap Box Derby on Saturday, put on by Open Source Gallery.

Contenders between the ages of 7 and 15 zoomed down inclined 17th Street on the one-block race route between Fifth and Sixth av-enues for the all-American, Depression-era pastime in which motors are forbidden.

“It just gets better ev-

ery year,” said artist Mon-ika Wuhrer, creator of the neighborhood race that’s now in it’s fi fth year. “The cars get better, the audience gets better — it was just re-ally great. The kids really prepare for it.”

Wuhrer hosted weeks-long summer-camp building workshops at the 17th Street arts space prior to the com-petition, to help participants craft the do-it-yourself, grav-ity-powered racecars that are strictly made out of recy-cled materials like ironing boards, skateboards, stroller and bicycle parts, and shelv-ing units.

“Every car has a com-pletely different look and design,” said Wuhrer, who collects the parts for the handmade creative cars. “It’s very special that [the kids] are allowed to have the cars that they made themselves and that they are allowed to test out the constructions they made.”

A panel of judges rated each soap box based on de-sign, originality, engineer-ing, and, of course, speed, on a 1-to-5 scale. Thirteen-year-old Dany Sainz-Goo-tenberg of Cobble Hill took home the trophy for coming in fi rst place overall.

But 11-year-old Jack Kerri-gan, who managed to out-race the pack in his three-wheeled vehicle made out of wood and bike handlebars, crossed the fi nish line with the fastest time of 30 seconds.

“[Jack] said he avoided a drain that protruded from the ground and tried to hold his line in the middle, put his head down, and just kept going,” said Jack’s dad, Brian Kerrigan. “He abso-lutely loved it.”

The gravity-propelled summer sport also gave the adults a chance to race after the kids fi nished barreling down the street.

AND THEY’RE OFF!: (Above) Emil Regl of Austria whizzed down 17th Street during the popular South Slope Soap Box Derby, now in its fi fth year. (Center) More than 45 kids ages 7 to 15 raced their rides made out of recycled materials down the one-block race route on Aug. 10. (Left) Hubert Dobler, the co-organizer of the derby, waved the fl ag denoting the start of the race on 17th Street. Photos by Stefano Giovannini

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BY COLIN MIXSONDozens of would-be pro-

fessional basketball players from across the city showed up for the Brooklyn Black-out’s second round of try-outs at the Aviator Sports and Events Center on Sat-urday, and the owners of the up-and-coming sports club say that, just because the team is heading into its freshman year, doesn’t

mean it won’t be gunning for a title.

“I’m confi dent we’ve been building a champion-ship contender from day one,” said co-owner Neal Booker.

Brooklyn’s newest bas-ketball squad, which is ex-pected to play its fi rst game with the American Basket-ball Association against the Staten Island Vipers at

Aviator on Sept. 21, won’t be ready to announce its ros-ter until later this month, when Booker and partner Onez Onnasis will name their picks and show off the team’s colors during an on-line live streaming event.

New York City’s legend-ary stock of former college ballers and semi-pros has left Onez and Booker with no shortage of talent to

choose from, and Blackout owners will be narrowing down their options along with Coach Mark Cook through a series of one ver-sus one tryouts in the com-ing weeks leading up to the announcement.

“I wanted to see how they fared against some competition they might not be used to before we made a

Pick and roll: (Above) Lloyd Antoine from East New York prepares to shoot at the Brooklyn Blackout’s second round of tryouts at the Aviator Sports and Events Center on Aug. 10. (Center) Quintin Stew-art came down to Aviator from Bedford-Stuyvesant to compete for

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BY MELISSA GOLDINCarl Strauss, a beloved

physician, family man, and philanthropist, died Aug. 6 from natural causes. He was 92.

Strauss was a family doctor for more than 50 years and devoted his life to treating generations of Brooklyn families — in-cluding that of our own Carmine Santa Maria — mostly in Bensonhurst, Bay

Ridge, and Coney Island, a dedication perhaps best ex-pressed by his motto: “from the womb to the tomb.”

“Payment to him was just a small token,” said Elton Strauss, his son. “He was more concerned about the patient getting well.”

A physician from days gone by, Strauss made house calls throughout his career. He delivered more

than 5,000 babies during that time, the fi rst of which are now in their 60s. Pa-tients continued to consult with him even after he retired at age 78 and chil-dren who had moved out of Brooklyn would often re-turn to see him if they had a problem their local phy-sicians couldn’t address, said Elton.

Strauss was a compas-sionate, understated man

who went into med-icine with the hope that he could truly help people. He was also known for be-ing a brilliant di-agnostician and who cared about the mental and emotional states of his patients in addition to their physical well-be-ing, according to Bonnie Carroll, his daughter.

“He treated the whole person,” she said.

At home, Strauss, a Bushwick native, was a strict but encouraging fa-ther who stressed the im-portance of education. He was married to his wife, Shirley, for 67 years — the pair lived in Flatbush and Manhattan Beach for ap-proximately 30 years each and moved to East Midwood two years ago. A true poly-math, medicine was not his

Beloved Brooklyn doctor passes away at 92only passion — he had a soft spot for Shakespeare and loved “Star Trek.” He also made a hobby of painting and sculpting, often work-ing on projects late into the evening while waiting on a maternity case.

“He was an all-around guy,” said Elton. “He never had a bad word to say about anybody.”

His commitment to

health reached beyond the workplace. He donated both his time and money to numerous organizations over the years, including the Knights of Pythias, a fraternal organization, the East Midwood Jewish Cen-ter, Turning Point, a reha-bilitation center for young adults with addictions, and Mount Sinai Hospital. He was named Bensonhurst’s

Man of Year by the West End Community Group in 1993 among several other similar honors.

Strauss earned his Bachelor’s degree in bi-ology at Brooklyn Col-lege and went to medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Funeral services were held at Sherman’s Memo-

rial Chapel in Midwood on Aug. 11 with nearly 300 guests in attendance. Con-tributions can be made to East Midwood Jewish Cen-ter, Temple Beth El in Man-hattan Beach, or Turning Point.

Strauss is survived by Shirley, 86, Elton, 63, Car-roll, 61, three grandchil-dren, and two great-grand-children.

FAMILY MAN: Family doctor Carl Strauss with two of his grandchildren, Eric and Elisa, and his wife, Shirley, in Spring Val-ley, NY. Eric Strauss

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BY JAIME LUTZTwo men were shot and

killed in Fort Greene Park last Friday, but by Monday afternoon the bloody crime scene was far from the minds of most park goers.

Children played in foun-tains, joggers pounded up the park’s challenging stairs, and workers shot some hoops on their lunch break, just feet away from where a shooter let off nine rounds, killing Jahmal Is-sac Page, 21, and Anthony Earl-Govon, 22, and injur-ing a third man at 11:30 pm three days earlier. The kill-ings, which reportedly took place as some 50 kids hung out nearby , were a grisly re-minder of a time when Fort Greene was synonymous in some people’s minds with crime . One park-goer said that the past violence was not confi ned to the neigh-borhood, which has been a bohemian hot spot since the 1980s , but was a fact of life in the whole borough.

“It’s Brooklyn,” said Do-menick Propati, sitting on the sidelines of a basket-ball game. “Depending on how long you’ve lived in Brooklyn, that’s what you expect.”

Police have no suspect so far in the killings, which occurred on the Myrtle Av-enue side of the park near Saint Edwards Street, po-lice said.

Sean and Colleen Greene of Kensington were dog-sitting in the neighborhood but, after being informed of the killings, said that they would not return to the park. Despite the vow to keep away, the pair said the shooting did not come as a shock.

“I’m not surprised, per-sonally,” Sean Greene said.

Long-term neighbor-hood residents vowed to stay put, saying that they do not want to cede ground to criminals.

“I’ve been living here for 23 years,” said Mayra Gon-

zalez, a Fort Greene resi-dent who walks through the park every day. “I can’t let them bully me out.”

There have been seven shooting incidents in the Fort Greene area so far this year, compared with the same number last year at this time, according to po-lice statistics. That is down

from 14 shootings at this time in 2001 and 60 by Au-gust of 1993.

On Monday afternoon, two men walking out of the park referred to Myrtle Av-enue by a nickname that one does not hear as often nowadays.

“Do you want to take Murder?” one man asked.

BY DANIELLE FURFAROA robber pistol-

whipped a guy in broad daylight on a Greenpoint street cor-ner on Sunday after-noon, cops said.

The 34-year-old robber approached the 32-year-old vic-tim on the corner of Guernsey Street and Norman Avenue at 2:43 pm on Sunday, went through his pockets, and bashed him over the head with a gun several times, according to police reports.

The pistol-whip-per then fl ed as the victim lay bleeding in the street, police said. Offi cers caught

the suspect a few blocks away.

Neighbors say they saw the suspect ask the victim for di-rections and spare change and that, when the victim stuck his hand in his pocket, the gun-toter started clubbing him.

The victim suffered a broken jaw, several cuts to the head, and other injuries. Emer-gency services took him to Bellevue Hos-pital, where he is in stable condition.

Police charged the robbery suspect, who is from Brownsville, with assault, robbery and criminal posses-sion of a weapon.

The shooting deaths left locals shaking their heads but unsurprised

KEEPING WATCH: A police car lingers in Fort Greene Park, a few days after three people were shot and two were killed in the green space. Community Newspaper Group / Jaime Lutz

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This was the Blackout’s sec-ond round of tryouts, but it was the team’s fi rst exhibition — of sorts — and the owners sold

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BY DANIELLE FURFAROThey gave us delicious

meatballs and Ikea. Now, Brooklyn is giving Sweden an injection of indie rock and artisanal eats.

A four-day, Brooklyn-themed festival, called

Brooklyn, Sweden, will bring a quirky cross-section of the borough’s food, art, and mu-sic scenes to the strange soil of Stockholm, starting on Aug. 22. The party is in its second year and organizers say Brooklyn residents have

more in common with their city-dwelling Swedish coun-terparts than they might think.

“Scandinavia has be-come known for many of the same things that Brooklyn is known for: a simplicity and foraging in cooking, and there is an explosion of in-die rock from both places,” said Ben Hedson, market-ing director at the Brooklyn Brewery, which put the fest together in partnership with Swedish music promoters Debaser (yes, like the Pixies song ).

In characteristic Swed-ish fashion, the folks at De-baser are more blunt about the similarities.

“Brooklyn and Sweden both have loads of hipsters,” said promoter Annelie Tel-ford.

Performers will include rapper El-P, punk goddess Lydia Lunch, and electronic dance composers Designer Drugs. The cineastes from

the Found Footage Festival and the Bicycle Film Festi-val will screen their movies and organizers of the an-nual Brooklyn Blowout BBQ will team up with Brooklyn Brewery head chef Andrew Gerson to serve up local meats to the hungry Nordic hordes.

Sweden is the brewery’s second-largest market after Brooklyn. The Williams-burg brew pub itself gets some of the action: about 20 percent of the visitors who take tours of the beer works are from Sweden.

The borough suds pur-veyors are hosting the festi-val to promote their second brewery, which they are currently building in Stock-holm. The company expects to open the ale factory in January and begin manu-facturing a new line of beer called New Carnegie.

No word on whether a Stockholm-themed shindig under the J train is next.

Brooklyn invades Sweden

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BROOKLYN, SWEDEN: Swedish beer-seeker Karin Kjellgren (above) tours the Brooklyn Brewery, pondering the upcoming, universe-in-versing Brooklyn festival soon to arrive in her homeland. Therese Flemstrom of Karlskoga, Sweden tours the Brooklyn Brewery, presaging the massive, table-turning invasion of Stockholm that is scheduled to begin Aug. 22. The Williamsburg beermakers estimate that some 20 percent of their tap tourism comes from Mother Svea. Photos by Elizabeth Graham

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could be on the verge of be-coming a famine!

Organizers of Benson-hurst’s annual Festa di Santa Rosalia say that pa-perwork problems might cause the last-minute can-cellation of the summer-capping street fair this year — and the end of the festival as we know it!

The city rejected re-quests for street closure permits from the Santa Ro-salia Society, the Italian-American social club that started the celebration seven decades ago, on the grounds the group left out vital tax documents. The society claims that a city clerk’s butterfi ngers are to blame for the lost docu-ments and has resubmitted the application, but it is un-clear whether the city will grant the license by the last week of August, when the feast traditionally kicks off.

“We’re trying to get it up

and running for this year, but we’re not sure if the city is going to make up its mind in time,” said Angelo Timer-oni, the society’s accountant.

A similar permit dis-pute led to the festival being canceled in 2011 . The event resumed in 2012 with a full spread of cannolis, sau-sages, and peppers. But one club member said that, be-tween the neighborhood’s shrinking Italian popula-tion and the yearly pape-work headaches, many in the group are all but fed up with putting on the feast.

One member, who asked to remain anonymous, said that the group is weighing whether to have a private event company run the feast in the future, point-ing out that Little Italy’s an-nual Feast of San Gennaro has survived for the past 16 years despite the near-total exodus of Italian-Ameri-cans from the neighbor-hood, thanks to the help of an outside contractor.

But Timoneri insists that Bensonhurst’s remain-ing Italian-American youth should carry on the tradi-tion started by their fathers

and grandfathers.“We’re going to try to

keep it status quo,” Timon-eri said. “We need the sup-port of the community.”

ENDANGERED: Romolo De Chiara (left) and Rosemarie Basile (right) may not be able to enjoy the 18th Avenue Feast honoring St. Rosalia as they have in years past unless the next generation takes over planning the festival.

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To the editor, Thank you for running the story

about the dog stabber in Prospect Park (“Alleged dog stabber jailed,” Aug. 9–15). It is because of the light the media has given this situation that so many people around the area who use and care about Prospect Park and its safety are now more aware.

The follow-up to this story is now more important than ever. On Aug. 9, two of the people victimized went before the Grand Jury to tell their stories and make sure that this danger would be removed, at least for a time, from the park. Unfortu-nately, the arresting officers didn’t show up and the matter has been adjourned until Monday. The result is that Barden has been released from custody on bail and is back out on the street — we hope not in the park.

The spotlight now has to be pointed on the arresting officers who created what is most likely putting us in even greater danger. Barden’s dog is “on hold” with Animal Care and Control and he is likely to get it back. When a suspect with a vio-lent past and the obvious willingness to shoot at cops, stab dogs, and aggressively harass and menace the public is allowed to walk the streets because of either po-lice failure or plain neglect, the problem goes beyond anything we as a commu-nity can do.

Since February, the police have not been able to effect any resolve to the com-plaints and danger. When we started rallying the community with flyers on a Saturday we effected a positive result by Monday morning. Four days later that result has been negated and safety for the community is once again compromised. I hope you can be a loud voice for the con-cerns we now have. David Cobell

...To the editor,

I read the story written by Ms. Musu-meci. As a pet parent, I was appreciative of the coverage the Brooklyn Courier has given this story and wish to update it.

On Thursday, Aug. 9, Donnell Barden was before the Grand Jury to face charges of aggravated animal cruelty, menacing,

harassment, and criminal possession of a weapon. Unfortunately, the arresting officers were nowhere to be found. Due to this unfortunate disregard for public safety, Barden was released on bail.

It should come to light that the po-lice were less than interested in appre-hending this individual from the start. Barden was allowed to menace and phys-ically harm both dogs and persons in a public arena for months. Were it not for concerned citizens who use the park on a daily basis, their attention to main-taining civility and safety (while putting themselves at risk for retaliation), and the desire to remove such a person from harming others, Barden probably would continue to be the menace that he is. He is out walking the streets and parks with malicious intent!

Taking into account Barden’s crimi-nal record, I cannot abide by the New York Police Department’s lack of interest in protecting its citizens from individu-als who pose a real threat to any and all who use Prospect Park. What will it take for the police to take this account seri-ously?

I hope we do not get the chance to find the answer to this question.

Frank Niesuchouski

To the editor,Mayor Bloomberg expounds that the

murder rate has gone down in the years since he took office. But as I watch my lo-cal news station, how come all I hear is news of more shootings, and small chil-dren getting injured by gun fire?

Let’s not forget when the mayor de-cided to cut the pay for new police re-cruits, many would-be applicants turned to other city positions.

Then we lost about 5,000 police offi-cers, with many seeking police work in Long Island, where the starting pay is higher. Jerry Sattler

Brighton Beach

To the editor,Tawana Brawley will not have to pay

Steven Pagones $431,000 for a rape that has now come out that he did not com-mit more than 25 years ago. This is not the first time an innocent man has been framed for a rape he did not commit, nor will it be the last.

I am reminded of the Gary Dotson case in Chicago in which the plaintiff, Cathleen Webb, who he met at a party, framed him three years earlier because she became

pregnant from somebody else and was ashamed to face her boyfriend and parents.

While nothing is foolproof, nor can innocent people be protected completely from anything, I believe the right to lifers and the Tea Party who practically curtail or abolish a woman’s right to a therapeu-tic abortion will cause more innocent men to suffer with or without the girl’s consent because pregnancy might occur.

While DNA has its beneficial effect for many defendants to exonerate themselves, unfortunately it is only stored for 10 years and then discarded, which causes many innocent men to rot in prison for a crime they did not commit. Elliott Abosh

Brighton Beach

To the editor,The article by Colin Mixson (“ ‘Love’s’

labor lost,” Aug. 9–15) seems to glorify the graffiti artist who painted up our commu-nity. For those people who like the “mes-sage of peace and love,” please invite the artist to put his message on your prop-erty. For the graffiti artist himself, note that putting your messages on other peo-ple’s property is in and of itself a message of hate. M. Katz

Marine Park

To the editor, We have two local parks along the

Prospect Expressway which have “ca-sual” names with the Parks Department personnel who service them, but only “park” on their signs. The real problem with the mere designation “park” is that when you need service for them they are not listed in the 311 Parks Department drop down list and therefore don’t exist!

Our local orphans are: Pigeon Park (due to numerous avian residents) at Sixth and Prospect avenues and Barney (or Purple) Park (due to its light purple fence) on 17th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. A name or even a dis-played unique number for each space, reference in New York City’s 311 data-bases, would put all greenspaces on the official radar where they belong. Thank you to Natalie Musumeci for her article. Barbara Eidinger

Park Slope

To the editor,Just read Joanna DelBuono’s column

(“Chaucer, Joanna, and Access-A-Ride,” Aug. 2–8). Sorry to read that your knees are failing you. The people that are sup-

posed to be helping the handicapped are making things harder.

My aunt (age 75), has been getting the placard from New York City. Her current placard expired June 30, 2013. She sent in all required documents. Still no response. We are now in August. She can’t go to the doctor or shopping. My neighbor called the Department of Transportation to ask about her husband’s status and was told they are still working on June’s. I think an investigation is warranted.

M. McNamara

Brighton Beach

To the editor, Where is the election coverage? I

don’t know who is running for Brooklyn borough president. Who besides Daniel Squadron is running for public advocate? Seems like the mayoral and comptroller races get all the publicity because of our two miscreants and the rest get nothing. Help, please. Pamela Roderick

Brooklyn Heights

To the editor,As parking spaces disappear, surren-

dered to CitiBike stands, bike lanes, and bulbous extensions of the sidewalks at intersections, the latest thoughtless in-convenience for automobile drivers, and especially their passengers, has recently been unveiled on the north side of Court Street between Union and Sackett streets. At the curb, and extending for practically the length of the entire block between Union and Sackett, in place of the usual tree pits, the developers of the new build-ing have installed an uninterrupted, landscaped planting strip.

The result is impressive, mature trees, grasses, and flowering plants — but it is very impractical. Passengers getting out of a parked car will step right into the planting bed, destroying it, risking a fall if the area is wet and muddy, and at the very least getting their shoes messed up.

Was this continuous planter design ap-proved by the Department of Transporta-tion? When the building management gets tired of the expense of maintaining the plants that get trodden down, will they at-tempt to put a fence all around? Or is the plan to entirely eliminate parking on this block? There is no kiosk vending parking receipts on this block and one would have to scurry back and forth through traffic to the kiosk across the street.

Anthony Marchese

Gowanus

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I ‘m madder than Herb Stempel after he “lost” to that hack Van Buren

over the fact that the latest quiz show debacle proves that I can’t trust what I see on television, especially when it is told to me by that other hack Alex Tieback.

Look, you all know that I’ve had problems with this particular game show host before when the company he was hootin’ and hollerin’ about on the Zenith wouldn’t insure my precious life be-cause I am old, a tinge over-weight, and I refuse to move to New Jersey.

So you can imagine just how upset I was when poor little Thomas Hurley III was disqualified by that Cana-dian because he spelled the correct question wrong dur-ing Final Jeopardy when we all know for a fact that he got the answer right!

I nearly fell off Tornado!My lovely wife Sharon

had to talk me down as I screamed at the television, demanding the re-count that would hand that kid the cash and prizes he so rightly deserved. And to

think, now, because of Tra-back, all he gets is a lousy copy of the home game! I won’t stand for it!

Since when did Jeopardy become a spelling bee? Last I checked, they never ask anyone to spell the ques-tions during the lightening round. All the contestants have to do is spit it out, and that smart Alex gets to tell

them if they are right or wrong, based on the an-swers (or questions?) he has on a card in front of him — where they are probably spelled foe-net-ick-lee.

And who made him jury and executioner, anyway? I mean, couldn’t they have just broke for a commer-cial and had the so-called “judges” — who I am sure are getting paid top-dollar to just sit around on their hands — get together and make the right decision instead of leaving it up to a guy who I haven’t recog-nized since he shaved his moustache?

And what’s with all this stuff about phrasing your answer in the form of a question, anyway? Seems to me if Alex is giving them the answers shouldn’t they all win?

Well, I’ll tell you one thing: old Pat Sajak would never have made the same mistake, because that guy makes sure the Wheel of Fortune never spins out of control and slices off the legs of contestants — which I fear will happen every

time someone spins it so hard it goes around four or five times. Everytime that things spins it’s like watch-ing a train wreck!

Thankfully, Sajak keeps things in order, and that’s why I still have Betamax tapes of his late-night talk show that I watch promptly at 11:30 each and every night, thank you very much.

As always, I have the answer that will solve this problem and get Trey Hurley the cash award he deserves: have Alex the bazillionaire pay him his rightful win-nings out of his own pocket.

That will teach that not-so-know-it-all to make as-sumptions based on spell-ing.

Screech at you next week!

Most questions are usually asked to gather informa-

tion. Often, the question itself makes a statement. Either way, any of the following can be used to stimulate conversation when it slows down to a boring halt at your next cocktail party.

Do women deserve the same salary as men? Absolutely, but only if they do the same job. As the former owner of sev-eral businesses, I always started my employees off at the same pay.

Unfortunately, it never stayed that way. Would anyone care to know why?

Whatever happened to the “www” that was nec-essary for looking up var-ious internet sites?

Why do people say, “to make a long story short” and then continue to ramble on and on and on? Why do some people open a conversation with “I have news for you,” when they usually don’t?

Did President Obama stir the Trayvon pot to distract us from the scan-dals? There are many who say yes and are ready to argue their point.

Why does Billy Joel always look like he needs a shave? Could it be be-cause he always needs a shave?

The city commission-ers of Wildwood New Jersey passed a new law prohibiting overly saggy pants on the boardwalk exposing an inch of tuckus cleavage. An inch or two of female chest cleavage is OK, but bar-ing some tushy can cost the offender a fine as high as a hundred bucks an inch. Do you consider that fair?

Why did the Depart-ment of Homeland Secu-rity buy 2 billion rounds of ammunition, 2,700 ar-mored personnel carri-ers, and 7,000 fully auto-matic assault rifles? Was Janet Napolitano plan-ning to declare war on us?

I hold with those home-less advocates who say we should donate gener-ously to programs for the hungry, but give nothing directly to panhandlers. I agree, but if those pro-grams are not listed on CharityNavigator.Org, how do I know they’re le-gitimate?

How about that judge who instructed the jury to disregard something that was already said? How is one supposed to un-hear something that she already heard? How do you un-ring a bell?

Did Malia Obama take an expensive Spring Break in 2013 like she did in 2012 at taxpayer’s expense? The rumor is that she did and the White House attempted to squash any news so that my President wouldn’t look like he’s squandering our money. Either way, true or not, it wouldn’t help. He does squander our money. He is a real big spender with taxpayer’s money. One hundred million dollars to visit Africa?

I am StanGersh-

bein@Bel lsouth.net asking, how many of you think the Internal Revenue Service, NSA, and Benghazi are really “phony scandals”?

What the flip?Flipping, it’s the latest scheming

sensation sweeping the na-tion for criminals to make a buck. And according to po-lice, it’s growing. Flipping is dog napping, and depending on the breed, you can make upwards of $1,000. Hey, it sure beats working for a living.

This is how it works:The scammer finds a

pooch lost on the street, or steals it, whatever, then tries to flip it on a website. If that doesn’t work or the owner discovers the flimflam scam, the scammer-thief then tries to extort a tidy sum to give the pooch back.

“The Today Show” did a piece on Flipping last Mon-day.

Pet owner Leisa Wag-goner lost her pet schnau-zer Rosie on the streets of Indianapolis. Heart broken, she did what any pet-loving owner would do. She put out flyers and surfed all the pet websites. Lo and behold, she discovered an ad for her very

own Rosie. So she contacts the person who put the ad in, and finds that her adorable pooch was up for sale for $50 on Craigslist. Then, she con-fronts the woman, Jennifer Dodd, who put the ad in. And this is what happens.

Dodd has the dog and tries to extort money from Waggoner, holding Rosie for ransom. “She texted

us,” said Waggoner, adding, “That if we gave her a $250 reward, she’d give our dog back to us.”

Waggoner then called in the police. They tracked down Dodd and arrested her, at which time Dodd plead guilty to felony theft.

“The Today Show” sent a reporter to interview Dodd to ask if she felt any re-morse. Dodd replied, “I felt sorry for the dog.”

But she took the dog and tried to shill it on Craigslist anyway and then later tried to extort money from Waggoner because she [Dodd] needed the cash to buy diapers.

“I’m a single mom, I have fraternal twins on the way and I have a 1-year-old, and you know, the economy’s hard and stuff nowadays,” she said as she slammed the door.

That’s it. The economy is hard. Yup, the times sure are hard. So why work when scamming is so much easier?

The reporter didn’t say what the fine or punishment

was for Dodd. But chances are, given the fact that she is a single mother, with one child and another two on the way, she will get some sort of break, pay a fine, and go her merry way, to flip, scam and sham another day.

Not for Nuthin™, but the next time you want to know how flipping far down the hole this country has gone, remember the tale of Rosie the schnauzer and owner Leisa Waggoner. Flipping for a living — you know, “the economy’s hard and stuff nowadays,” sure beats working.

PS: the show gave sug-gestions on how to avoid be-ing a victim. Keep your pet securely on a leash, do not leave your pet unattended, even in your own back-yard with a fence, and have a microchip implanted in your pet at the vet. It makes tracking, proof of owner-ship, and finding your pet a lot more possible.

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subway stations each morn-ing shaking hands and passing out flyers.

Then there’s the endless public events and candidate forums that occupy every waking moment — when you’re not on the phone with potential donors plead-ing for money.

But perhaps the great-est ignominy heaped on the good citizens of New York running for public office in 2013 is that they are all be-ing virtually ignored while the traveling Anthony Weiner circus — and the oc-casional Eliot Spitzer cara-van — sucks all the oxygen out of the political season.

There are two other pretty important — and very competitive — races going on citywide and in Manhattan: for public advo-cate and for Manhattan bor-ough president.

The public advocate

is technically the second-highest office in the city and is akin to the vice-pres-ident’s role in the federal government — if the mayor dies or is incapacitated, the public advocate ascends to be mayor.

As the first vice-presi-

dent John Adams famously said: “Today, I am nothing. Tomorrow, I may be every-thing.” Same is true of pub-lic advocate, an otherwise toothless job with very lit-tle staff.

However, some people, such as Mark Green and Bill DeBlasio, have used the office in the past to be a thorn in the mayor’s side and as a jumping-off point to launch a later campaign for mayor.

This year, four rela-tively unknown people are vying for this office: Broo-kyln’s Councilwoman Tish James and state Sen. Dan-iel Squadron, and two non-elected candidates, Reshma Saujani and Cathy Guer-erro.

Their debates and pub-lic policy ideas have largely been ignored by the main-stream media; all four are thoughtful and intelligent people who want to be one of the three top citywide offi-cials in 2014 and it behooves

us to start paying close at-tention.

One of them could, through succession or fu-ture elections, become mayor, although unless Bill DeBlasio wins in Novem-ber, no public advocate has yet moved up the ladder in city government.

In the Manhattan bor-ough president’s race, there is a fascinating mix of geo-graphically diverse candi-dates: Upper Manhattan Councilman Robert Jack-son, Lower Manhattan’s former Community Board chairwoman Julie Menin, West Side Councilwoman Gale Brewer and East Side Councilwoman Jessica Lap-pin.

Each has represented a different slice of Manhat-tan and each has particu-lar strengths that would make them worthy succes-sors to current Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

Here, too, the media and

the public don’t seem to be paying enough attention to an important race. The Manhattan Borough Presi-dent has important land-use powers, as recently exhibited by Stringer’s conditional endorsement of Mayor Bloomberg’s bold re-zoning of the midtown com-mercial district.

I have met, and in some cases worked closely, with these eight fine public ser-vants and they deserve our attention and our respect during this important elec-tion season. They care about the important issues facing us in the years ahead — how we fix our public school system, how we save our city hospital system, how we balance the need to build and develop residen-tial and commercial space while improving our in-frastructure in a growing city, how we improve mass transit, and other pressing issues.

These two races — un-

like the mayoral and comp-troller races — have been free of personal drama and I find that refreshing. No one is speaking about sexual peccadillos, failing marriages or other largely irrelevant topics when judg-ing our leaders.

Perhaps this is because six of the eight candidates in these two races are women?

I hope over the next month my colleagues in the media give these two races the ink, airtime, and digital space they richly deserve.

Issues and vision and management skills should trump personal issues and self-destruction when we decide who to vote for in September.

Tom Allon, a former public school teacher, is the president of City & State media and a former Liberal Party-backed candidate for mayor. Questions or com-ments? E-mail tallon@cit-yandstateny.com.

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Picking a career path in which to wisely in-vest your education dollars can be tricky, especially if you don’t want to graduate

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“Beauty careers change lives and make people feel good about them-selves, inside and out,” explains Ly-nelle Lynch, president of Bellus Acad-emy, an elite beauty and cosmetology school in San Diego that offers award-winning career training and multiple license programs. “A bad economy doesn’t eliminate that basic need.”

Whether you plan to become a hair stylist, nail technician, esthetician, massage therapist, or owner of a spa or salon, a high-quality education can prepare you for a premium career in a thriving industry.

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METRO CREATIVE CONNECTION

In their heyday, techies could immerse them-selves in their world of,

well, technology.Nowadays, they need to

be just as savvy with people, on the phone, and at meet-ings.

The jobs that are staying in North America are more sensitive and require more interaction with people at different levels, according to experts.

“We’re starting to see people who are splitting their careers and studies between computer science, informa-tion systems, and business management, and they’re be-coming more well-rounded professionals,” says Bob Co-hen, senior vice president at the Arlington, VA-based Information Technology As-sociation of America.

The shift is good for

women and minorities, who took the hardest hit during the technology bust. The percentage of women in the IT workforce declined from a high of 41 percent in 1996 to 32.4 percent in 2004, ac-cording to an annual study conducted by the Informa-tion Technology Associa-tion. Women in the overall workforce remained largely unchanged, from 46 to 46.5 percent, during the same pe-riod.

The Technology Associa-tion also found wide under representation among His-panics and African Ameri-cans in the IT workforce in 2004, though their numbers have increased slightly since 1996.

The drop among women occurred because one out of every three women in the IT workforce fall into adminis-trative job categories, which

experienced huge declines in recent years. Those type of jobs, including project management and technical troubleshooting, are now in demand again.

A recent survey of chief information offi cers, com-pleted by Robert Half Tech-nology in Menlo Park, CA, found that help desk/end-user support was ranked number one for the fi rst time in its IT Hiring Index and Skills Report. At 17 percent, the category tied with net-working, a longtime top spot on the list of high-demand jobs. Robert Half Technology, a provider of IT profession-als on a project and full-time basis, has been tracking IT hiring activity in the United States since 1995.

Chief information offi cer survey respondents said that the technical skills in great-est demand are those held by

Microsoft Windows admin-istrators. Wireless network management is also a sought-after specialty, followed by SQL Server management.

“In addition, as fi rms become better able to offer promotions to retain and reward those who took on more responsibilities dur-ing the downturn, the en-try-level help desk positions these individuals occupied must now be fi lled,” says Kathleen Spencer Lee, exec-utive director of Robert Half Technology.

The survey said that New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) should lead the nation in technology hiring since 24 percent of chief in-formation offi cers reported planning to expand their IT departments and with three percent anticipating per-

sonnel cutbacks. The net 21 percent increase is 10 points higher than the national av-erage.

Offi cers in the West South Central States (Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas) forecast hiring activ-ity well above the national average. Twenty percent of technology executives in this region expect to add staff and one percent anticipate reduc-tions in personnel, resulting in a net 19 percent hiring in-crease.

Cohen said that the in-dustry is pushing hard to increase IT employment among women and minori-ties.

The perceived hurdles for women and minorities include social barriers, such as stereotypes that women and certain minorities are not skilled in math and sci-ence; a lack of mentoring

and roles models in leader-ship positions; and negative perceptions of IT work.

Groups throughout the nation help minorities and women succeed in technol-ogy fi elds. For instance, the national Alliance of Tech-nology and Women unites people who share the com-mon interests of empower-ing women in technology, increasing the number of women in executive roles and encouraging women and girls to enter technol-ogy fi elds.

Liza Danzer, president of the Dallas chapter, says these types of organizations offer great networking op-portunities.

“You not only get to meet people, but you learn about what other companies are doing and what opportu-nities may arise in the fu-ture,” she says.

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If your image of manu-facturing involves a string of white-coated

workers hunched over an assembly line, welcome to the club.

“The perception most people have of manufactur-ing dates back 30, maybe 50 years,” says Terry Iverson, president of Iverson and Co., a machine tool provider in Des Plaines, IL. When most of us weren’t looking, com-puters reinvented the pro-cess. And, while “you still have people who can pro-cess and check the parts, program the machines and monitor the process,” Iver-son says, silicon chips — not line workers — are the heart of manufacturing.

Enter the machinist — or, more accurately, the computerized numerical control machinist, says Dan Kiraly, director of edu-cation for the Tooling and Manufacturing Associa-tion in Chicago.

“Today, it’s all computer driven,” says Kiraly. That’s changed the role and skill set of machinists. Those who use machine tools to produce precision metal parts now rely on computer programs and high-tech tools.

Outlook: Kiraly compares what’s

happened in machining to the changes in American farming.

“Back in the 1800s, thou-sands of people worked on farms,” he says. But with machinery and advance-ments, one person can do the work that once required 50 or 60 people. In manufac-turing, he says, “the advent of [computerized numeri-cal control] for wire cutting and so many different pro-cesses, means you actually don’t need as many people to do the work anymore.”

Although non skilled manufacturing and ma-chinist jobs have virtu-ally disappeared, say Iver-son and Kiraly, there’s a big need for people with computerized numerical

control machining skills. There may not be a lot of jobs, but anyone willing to learn the skills — and keep learning as technology changes — can replace re-tiring machinists.

The routine: Machinists fi rst may review electronic specifi cations for a job and then select tools and ma-terials. They position ma-terials into the tool and ensure that the machine and computer work in sync and that the process moves smoothly. The machinist may oversee and trouble-shoot production of a small number of very specifi c and important parts, like those destined for use in airplanes, or produce large quantities of a single part, such as a simple bolt.

Tool kit: Aside from the specifi c

skills you’ll learn in train-ing, a good grasp of math and chemistry help.

“Be able to work in teams and to do some ba-sic problem-solving,” says Kiraly. He adds that em-ployers are looking for people who are responsive and who take pride in their work. Accuracy and preci-sion are essential.

Ups and downs: You have to accept that

the technology behind your job will continue to change and be willing to adapt and train as needed. Although computers are a big part of machining now, it’s still a hands-on job, says Kiraly.

“That’s what I enjoyed about the trade,” he says. “I enjoy creating things.”

The money: Pay varies depending

on region, experience, and type of manufacturing. Kiraly says that comput-erized numerical control machinists in the Chicago area can make $26 to $30 an hour, but it’s higher there than in other regions and at the top of the Bureau of Labor Statistic range for 2008. The Bureau average is closer to about $18 an hour.

Manufacturing the

Future says machinists make an annual salary of $38,043.

Training: Vocational schools, com-

munity colleges or appren-ticeship programs train machinists.

“They spend a lot of time getting basics such

as geometric tolerancing, processing of parts, or com-puter programming,” says Iverson. Some also learn on the job, but it’s hard for manufacturers to afford the downtime needed for training, says Kiraly, so the more skills a machinist can get in education programs,

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As overseas produc-tion operations re-turn to the United

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to place students in elite externships or work with industry icons at special events. This is an opportu-nity to network and gain insight into the professional industry.

• Get a great return on your educational invest-ment by opting for a school with career services. For ex-ample, Bellus Academy of-fers resume assistance and job-interview preparation to students and alumni and up-dates its job listings weekly. The school also prepares students to pass exams for licensure or international certifi cation.

• Financing your train-ing doesn’t have to break the bank. Like degree programs in medicine or law, there are opportunities like scholar-

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the better. “Employers want some-

one who can hit the ground running,” he says. Many states and community col-leges have certifi cate pro-grams that give you the basic skill set.

The way there: Iverson says Project

Lead the Way — and other programs across the coun-try designed to engage more students in science, technology, engineering and math fi elds — can help high school students get started in manufacturing careers.

“Anyone interested in science and math would be very good in manufactur-ing,” he says. He adds that many guidance counselors

don’t mention machinist and other manufacturing jobs when students stop by for advice. Check for

nearby community college and apprenticeship pro-grams. Kiraly says state workforce boards can

point you to training pro-grams.

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HARBOR WATCHSeveral distinguished

guests, including Coast Guard Rear Adm. June E. Ryan, military advi-sor to the Secretary U.S. Department of Homeland Security, arrived at the U.S. Army North (Fifth Army) Exercise Vibrant Response 13-2 Joint Visi-tors’ Bureau during the early morning of Aug. 3, to receive an overview of the nation’s largest chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear disaster response drill.

As part of the overview, Ryan and other guests re-ceived briefings on the intended purpose and pro-posed outcome of the ex-ercise. Additionally, they went to the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, or MUTC, Ind., to view the training being conducted.

According to Army Col. Joe Birchmeier, command engineer, USARNORTH, Vibrant Response 13-2, or VR 13-2, is an extensive ex-ercise focusing on how the Department of Defense can support civil authorities and coordinate and train for a national response to a catastrophic chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear, known as CBRN, incident.

Falling directly in line with the intended purpose of VR 13-2, Ryan, due to her role as military advi-sor to the DHS Secretary, is linked in with how the nation would respond if such a disaster ever hap-pened.

Ryan’s responsibilities are to provide counsel and support the DHS Secre-tary in affairs relating to the coordination and ex-

ecution of policy and op-erations between the DHS and the Department of De-fense.

“I am the link between DOD and DHS,” said Ryan. “Anything between wild fires and WMDs (weapons of mass destruction).”

While at MUTC, Ryan saw how this first-class training center could fa-cilitate a multitude of sce-narios ranging from bus, train derailment and gas stations to a fully func-tioning power plant and hospital complete with a morgue.

“This is a great multi-faceted training site,” said

Ryan. “It’s a real national treasure.”

Maj. Gen. R. Martin Umbarger, adjutant gen-eral, Indiana National Guard, agreed that one of the great things about having a training site like MUTC located in a rural part of southern Illinois is that trainees can use py-rotechnics and smoke ma-chines without disrupting the local populace.

While at MUTC the ex-ercise, controller’s took the admiral around to a few of the structures in-cluding the collapsed parking garage.

“This is an amazing op-

portunity to put person-nel through this type of training scenario,” said Ryan in regards to the col-lapsed parking garage. “It looks just like something I saw during Hurricane Ka-trina.”

According to Ryan as-sisting in emergency re-sponse situations like Ka-trina and others is why she finds her role at DHS gratifying.

“I love it,” said Ryan. “I absolutely enjoy it, because everyone there is focusing in the right direction, sav-ing lives. How can you not love a job where you can have an impact like that.”

HARBOR WATCHVeterinary care for

military working dogs is essential to keeping four-legged warriors “mission ready,” both in garrison and downrange.

That’s why the Baum-holder, Germany-based 64th Medical Detachment (Veterinary Services), took time recently to brush up on its skills prior to deployment to Afghani-stan. On July 24, Dog Cen-ter Europe personnel tested the detachment’s skills and assessed their readiness during train-ing at U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern’s Pulaski Barracks.

Their goal was to hone their abilities in garrison to prepare for the chal-lenges of a deployed envi-ronment, said Maj. Kent Vince, an Army veteri-narian who is the center’s director.

“It’s imperative that these teams get training in clinical medicine be-fore going downrange,” Vince said. “You never know what they might

face when they’re down there.”

Since ancient times, military working dogs were used as front-line attackers, guard dogs, scouts, and messengers. More recently they’ve been used to detect explo-sives. They’ve even been attributed as saving thou-sands of lives during con-fl icts in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

The Army values its canine corps and specifi -cally trains a dedicated cadre of veterinarians and technicians to take care of the health of these often courageous animals. Members of the 64th said they take every chance they get to work on bet-tering themselves, said Army Capt. Lindsey Day, a veterinary corps offi cer.

“This was another op-portunity to practice our skills, and a chance to work together,” Day said.

Three teams of veteri-narians and technicians performed surgeries while being observed and evalu-

Service members oversee drills at training center in Ind.

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WOOF!: Spc. Nicole Lamanna, animal care specialist, prepares her furry patient for surgery in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Sgt. First Class Randall Jackson

AT EASE: Rear Adm. June E. Ryan, pets a camel during a visit to the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, in Muscatatuck, Ind., on Saturday. Staff Sgt. Thomas G. Collins

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45 women gathered at a special WAVES anniver-sary event held in Virginia Beach, Va., to commemo-rate the service and sac-rifi ce of Navy women, in-cluding two WAVES who served during World War II. The event, hosted by the Tidewater Tidal WAVES or-ganization, has been held annually for more than 11 years. Navy participants included Senior Chief Yeo-man Norma Schrader and Aviation Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class Betty Allen, who both served as WAVES dur-ing World War II.

“It has been an honor to meet women who served and laid the foundation for women in today’s Navy,” said Rear Adm. Ann Phil-lips, the event’s guest speaker. “It is important to remember their contribu-tions and the impact they had and will continue to have as servicewomen’s op-portunities expand.”

Today, having the oppor-tunity to meet WAVES who served during World War II is very rare, but meeting a World War II WAVES who retired from 20 years of na-val service, is even more so. Schrader happens to be both. During Schrader’s time, women were not af-forded equal rights within the services. It was not until 1972, after the Equal Rights Amendment was passed by Congress, that women were allowed to serve equally with men. The following year, in 1973, pregnancy as a reason for mandatory separation was abolished. Before 1973, women were automatically discharged if they became pregnant. Many WAVES decided not to continue to serve due to this rule. Schrader, however, was one of the rare women that made it through a full twenty-year Navy career.

“If I was able it to do it all over again I defi nitely would,” said Schrader.

Although women have served in every major American confl ict, WAVES

did not gain a foothold in Navy service until well after World War I. After World War I, only a small corps of Navy nurses were left on active duty. The ma-jority of Navy nurses and all enlisted women (Yeomen (F), also known as “Yeo-manettes”), had been sent home. It wouldn’t be until 23 years after fi rst offi cially serving during World War I that Navy women would return to general service in 1942, during the height of World War II. The Navy was preparing to accept not just a large number of enlisted women, as it had done dur-ing World War I, but also female commissioned offi -cers.

The initial response to the recruitment of women was overwhelming and leadership quickly realized these new Navy women had to be managed, training es-tablishments had to be rap-idly set up, an administra-tive structure needed to be put in place, and uniforms needed to be designed.

WAVES were easily iden-tifi ed by their classic uni-form design, which became a prominent feature on World War II Navy recruit-ing posters. The Navy still uses basic elements from the original WAVES uniforms

seven decades later. Though modifi ed slightly over time, the original WAVES com-bination cover has become a traditional and historic symbol which represents Navy women’s heritage.

Naval Reserve Lt. Cmdr. Mildred Helen McAfee, a prominent educator and president of Wellesley Col-lege, was selected as the fi rst female commissioned offi cer and the fi rst wartime

director of the WAVES on Aug. 3, 1942. Though many challenges had to be over-come, within only one year, more than 27,000 women wore the WAVES uniform.

McAfee would eventu-ally guide the growth of the WAVES to a force of more than 80,000 Navy women, who would serve in a vari-ety of occupational special-ties. Traditionally, women would fi ll secretarial and clerical jobs; however, the wartime demand required thousands of Navy WAVES to perform duties as air traffi c controllers, cryptolo-gists, draftsmen, meteorolo-gists, and translators.

At the end of World War II, Navy women were un-certain about their future serving in a peacetime Navy. Many WAVES faced the same demobilization process that had occurred after World War I. McAfee left the Navy in 1945, eager to return to her position at Wellesley College, and Cmdr. Jean Tilford Palmer

was named her successor. Palmer immediately began work on legislation to au-thorize permanent status for women in the regular Navy. To help convince Con-gress, Palmer partnered with Cmdr. Joy Bright Han-cock, who was the assistant director (plans) of the Wom-en’s Reserve until 1946, and Capt. Ira Nun of the Judge Advocate General’s staff. A fl eet-wide survey was conducted, a meeting was held with the chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, and various committee hearings fol-lowed. Eventually a bill was drafted to establish a per-manent place for women in the regular Navy, but more work was still needed to ac-complish this goal.

Today, women continue to make indispensable con-tributions to our Navy. More than 66,000 women serve in the active and Re-serve components, compris-ing 18 percent of our Navy force.

HARBOR WATCHVice President Joe Biden vis-

ited the littoral combat ship USS Freedom, currently on a rotational deployment to Southeast Asia, on July 27.

The visit to Freedom was part of a six-day trip to India and Sin-gapore in which the vice president met with military, civilian, and business leaders to strengthen partnerships within the region and reaffirm the U.S. commitment to the Asia-Pacific rebalance. The vice president made a special de-tour to Changi Naval Base, where Freedom is moored, to visit the Navy’s first littoral combat ship and express support for the mili-tary men and women currently de-ployed to the Asia-Pacific region.

After touring the ship, Vice President Biden conducted an all-hands call with Freedom’s crew and sailors from the guided mis-sile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), which was also docked at Changi Naval Base where both

ships participated in the recently concluded Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise with the Republic of Sin-gapore Navy.

“I came for two reasons,” said the vice president to the more than 140 sailors and American embassy staff assembled in Freedom’s air-borne mission zone. “One to dem-

onstrate that this ship, one of the newest additions to the United States Navy, is an incredible and crucial part of our Navy’s capac-ity. And two, to let the world know how proud we are of you.”

“You only make up one percent of the nation’s entire population. But you are warranted the grati-tude and thanks of 100 percent of our population,” Biden said.

Throughout the tour, the vice president stopped several times to shake hands and talk with en-listed sailors on the bridge, han-gar, flight deck, and boat ramp. The vice president also asked the deployed crew to thank their fami-lies, many of whom are waiting pa-tiently in San Diego for Freedom’s “Gold” crew to return home next month, after they complete a crew swap with the incoming “Blue” crew.

“It was an honor to meet the vice president, and to see his sup-port for the crew of the ship, and

Military servicewomen celebrate the Tidewater Tidal organization

WELCOME ABOARD: Vice President Joe Biden greets sailors on board the littoral combat ship USS Freedom. MC3 Karolina A. Oseguera

MAKING WAVES: Ret. Senior Chief Yeoman April Maletz speaks to Expeditionary Strike Group 2. Lt. Cmdr. Candice Tresch

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our work out here,” said Aviation Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Scott Strat-ton, a husband and father assigned to Freedom’s embarked Helicopter Maritime Strike Squad-ron (HSM) 73. “What hit home with me was that he thanked my family for the sacrifice they are making dealing with me being on deployment for six months away from them.”

Freedom’s command-ing officer, Cmdr. Timothy Wilke said it was an honor and a privilege to host the

vice president. He was es-pecially appreciative of Biden’s comments about the sacrifices made by the sailors and their families to complete a successful deployment.

“The vice president drew a line from the U.S. National Security Strategy and the Asia-Pacific rebal-ance to how Freedom’s presence in Southeast Asia supports regional secu-rity, stability and prosper-ity,” said Wilke. “In addi-tion to lauding the crew’s hard work on deployment, it was gratifying to hear the vice president express his appreciation for our families who have taken

a toll from not having us around or at home.”

Days after participa-tion in CARAT Singapore, Freedom’s “Gold” crew is getting ready for a crew-swap with the “Blue” crew, which will continue the ship’s first rotational deployment to South-east Asia, which began on March 1. Fast, agile, and mission-focused, LCS platforms are designed to operate in near-shore en-vironments and employ modular mission packages that can be configured for three separate purposes: surface warfare, mine countermeasures, or anti-submarine warfare.

ated. Spc. Nicole Lamanna, an Army animal care spe-cialist, said she loves the at-mosphere.

“Every chance I get to work in a clinic is amaz-ing,” Lamanna said. “It just shows I can use what I’ve learned under stress.”

Veterinarians also of-

fer fi rst aid training for dog handlers — informa-tion that once helped Air Force Staff Sgt. Jonathan Forgham, from the 86th Security Forces Squad-ron, whose canine partner severely injured his head when jumping through a window.

“We had to rush him across the base to get him to the veterinarian,” Forgham said. “The whole time I was

in the cage with him stop-ping the bleeding. We got to use the training they gave us and it helped.”

The care veterinary teams offer to working dogs in turn pays off for hu-mans.

“Not only are dogs lives dependent on you, but also humans’ lives,” Lamanna said. “The dogs save lives. So, by saving the dog, we’re saving other soldiers.”

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Everybody’s thinking it: it’s like summer never happened.

After a short heat wave in July, New York City’s famous crazy summer hasn’t really reared its ugly head this year, and yet it’s half-way through August and it looks like kids will be going back to school soon and adults will be switching from iced coffee to pumpkin spice lattes any moment now.

But don’t hang up your flip flops just yet — there’s still time to make this season worthwhile. Here are some things you should not miss out on before the heat is all but gone.

Book yardIt’s the perfect combination for the shut-in

book worm and the habitual beach reader. At Unnameable Books in Prospect Heights, you can find a huge variety of used tomes just waiting for you to flip through and also enjoy the beautiful back yard which hosts readings.

Unnameable Books [600 Vanderbilt Ave. in Prospect Heights, (718) 789–1534]. 11 am–11 pm.

BBQ with a viewBuy ingredients for a barbecue at the

Borough Hall Greenmarket — think vegetable skewers, corn, even hunks of good bread — and then take your bounty to Brooklyn Bridge Park with some grilling supplies. Grills get filled up fast on the weekends, so try to find time during the week.

Grills at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 5 (Joralemon Street past the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway).

Borough Hall Greenmarket (Court Street and Montague Street in Downtown, grownyc.org).

Rent a bridgeThis is what CitiBike is basically for, right?

If you’re not a great bike rider — that is, you don’t ride around with a chain strapped to your chest — the Brooklyn Bridge makes the perfect route in the summer. It’s not just for tourists and in fact, don’t let the beautiful view cause a collision with one.

Rent a bike at a nearby station and ride to the bike path at Tillary and Adams streets Downtown. citibikenyc.com.

Take yourself outIt’s time. Time to go see some baseball.

No, not the Yankees. Not the Mets, either. Go see the Brooklyn Cyclones in all their minor-league glory, with fun themed nights such as bring your dog to the ball park night, photo opportunities with Sandy the Seagull, and of course, a real good game of hardball.

MCU Park [Surf Avenue and W. 16th Street in

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Learn valuable news about birdwatch-ing from enthusiast Dr. David A. La Puma, at Woodcreeper.com

Peeping FranzenYou’ll finally have something in common with

the author of “The Corrections,” and “Freedom” — whether or not that’s a good thing. Either way, learning to birdwatch is easier than ever. With a robust online community, along with the bounte-ous offerings of winged friends in Prospect Park, and even an app for tracking bird movements, you’ll be seeing birds in no time.

The Brooklyn Bird Club at www.brooklyn-

Coney Island, (718) 449–8497, brooklyncyclones.com]

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about public swimming pools are the kids. It’s not your fault you’re getting old and all you want is to practice your stroke. Avoid youthful fun by going to the Red Hook Pool, where you have to be 18-plus to swim during lap hours.

Red Hook Pool [155 Bay St. near Clinton Street in Red Hook, (718) 722–3211]

Thar she blowsWho knows? Maybe summer isn’t done

with us, yet. In case of freak heat wave, open-ing up a fire hydrant for a refreshing soak is legal, if you do it right. Just go to your local fire department to get a spray nozzle and ask a firefighter to do it for you.

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Sunny days still ahead: (From top, clockwise) Adam Tobin, the owner of the Unnameable Books store in Prospect Heights, shows what he’s reading at a poetry event in the bookstore’s backyard. Riding across the Brooklyn Bridge on a bike is easier than ever now — but still watch out for tourists! If you’re not a kid any-more, you will probably prefer the adult swim hours at Red Hook pool. William and Andrew Dresher enjoy a day out at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 5, where there are plenty of spots to bbq.

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If they’re letting you on stage, you bet-ter have something to show for it.

A comedy show in Williamsburg is recreating the classroom atmosphere of show-and-tell — and just like when you were a kid, it takes more than words to impress your classmates.

“I was always the king of show and tell when I was a kid because I would bring in weird stuff,” said Lukas Kaiser, the host and organizer of the monthly Showcasey Jones.

“[My mom] was an anatomy instructor and would have model hearts, anatomy books — one time she brought in a brain in a jar for me.”

Before presenting a night of stand-up comedy, the show asks audience members to come on stage and show off something weird or cool. The two parts of the night go hand-in-hand, as Kaiser says the kid activity is not unlike standing on stage and telling jokes.

“I would bring in something weird and riff on it and get laughs,” he said. “It was probably the first comedy gig I’ve ever been booked on, second grade show-and-tell.”

In Brooklyn, the popularity of adult kickball , scavenger hunts , and Popsicles indicate there isn’t a shortage of nostal-gia. Kaiser hopes to bring the childlike compulsion to show off weird stuff to comedy.

“I’ve been doing stand up comedy for about five years and it’s fantastic,

performing in front of audiences all over New York, but I missed the participation element of those days when I was a kid,” said Kaiser.

So far, Brooklynites have brought in some impressively bizarre objects to show off — last month, that included inappro-priate tattoos, photographs of a dead goat, a homemade tube amplifier, a Shaquille O’Neal comic book, oddly enough, a bag

of donuts with a remote control.In every show the audience votes on a

winner to take home a grand prize — this time $100 in cash “to be placed inside an odd, yet to be determined item,” Kaiser said.

Showcasey Jones at Over the Eight [594 Union Ave. between Richardson and Frost streets in Williamsburg, www.over-theeight.com] Aug. 17, 8 pm, free.

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Look what I got: Lukas Kaiser is holding an old-fashioned night of show-and-tell — for adults — at Over the Eight bar in Williamsburg. Photo by Stefano Giovannini

By Will Bredderman

Aspiring puppeteers now have the chance to step into a Fort Greene workshop to carve a character of their choice out of foam-rubber — the same squishy sub-

stance that fills couches and mattresses. Puppet maker Kevin Augustine, founder of the Lone Wolf

Tribe puppet theater company, said those who enter his labora-tory come in with a simple front and side sketch of a face, and leave with something astonishing and strange.

“People are really surprised,” he said. “They come in with no idea with how they’re going to do

this, and they leave with this puppet head.” Over the course of three-and-a-half hours, the participants

learn to shape the block with knife and scissors — a tech-nique Augustine has perfected during the 16 years the Lone Wolf Tribe has been in operation. The marionette master said his fascination with the art form began in childhood, with a plaything his grandmother made for him from a sock, a buck-toothed dragon Augustine named Fang.

“She made this toy for me, a toy that no other kid could go and buy,” said Augustine.

“That’s what made it so special for me.”Years later, when Augustine was a budding playwright

struggling to find the perfect performers to bring his stories to life, he turned to puppets again — and discovered that they unlocked great creative doors for him.

“I tried to form a company, but I could never get enough actors to share a vision and stick together. So I went back to my past, and I thought, ‘Oh, wow, I can make my own actors,’ ” Augustine said.

“Once you create the puppet, you can create the world it lives in, and then you can write the play.”

Ultimately, Augustine decided to mold the Lone Wolf Tribe’s troupe from foam-rubber, rather than from socks or felt or polished wood. The puppeteer said he picked the material for its spongy, almost flesh-like quality, which he argued gives his characters a distinctive personality.

“For me, there’s a real emotional texture to the foam. Something about how the light falls on it, it really comes alive in a way that is not as precious as some really smooth, porce-lain doll face,” Augustine said.

“There’s something more organic to the foam, something that people say really gives the puppet a soul.”

Most people who go into the workshop only create the pup-pet’s head — often resembling a pet or family member. But Augustine said that he welcomes returning visitors looking to give their creation a body. The customers range from curious amateurs to school teachers to professional puppeteers, each of whom give life to their individual vision. Augustine compared the craft to Renaissance sculpture.

“Michelangelo believed the figure is already in the block of stone, or the chunk of foam… and you release it,” said Augustine.

Puppet-Sculpting Workshop at the Lone Wolf Tribe, inside the Alliance of Resident Theatres Studio [138 South Oxford St., between Atlantic Avenue and Hanson Place, in Fort Greene, (718) 398–3701, www.lonewolftribe.com]. Aug. 25, 2 pm, $65.

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Dog days: Kevin Augustine will show you how to make your own foam puppet-head on Aug. 25. Photo by Rachel Eisley

It’s the new kids on the rockA young Brooklyn band brings classic sounds alive

By Danielle Furfaro

The band members might all be in their teens, but between them, they have

several decades of musical knowledge.

The Skins members ages range from 14 to 19, and with two years of touring and record-ing under their belts already, the Brooklyn talents are a well-worn, solid machine of soulful, frenetic rock.

“Even our ballads are heavy,” said musician Bayli McKeithan.

Bayli was 14, and his siblings Kaya and Reef were 13 and nine when they started going to Paul Green’s School of Rock in Manhattan. Since then, they have lived and breathed music. There, they met classmates and dueling guitarists Daisy

Spencer and Russell Chell.They have already played

a bunch of Brooklyn and Manhattan venues, including Spike Hill, the House of Yes, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Brooklyn Bowl.

The band members never

dreamed that they would become full-time musicians. They planned to go to and fin-ish college and get a regular job. But now, that seems to be changing. All of the members in college plan to take a year off and 14-year-old Reef will be

home schooled. “We surprised ourselves,”

said Bayli McKeithan. “It’s not that we were not serious about it, but we didn’t know we would get this far or gain this level of success.”

The Skins plays music that draws heavily on 1960s classic rock like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Led Zeppelin, but also throws in influences funk 1970s funk, reggae, hip-hop, and modern day hard rock. The band put out one EP so far, and is planning to travel to Los Angeles to work on its first album.

The Skins at the AfroPunk Festival at Commodore Barry Park (Nassau Street at Navy Street in Fort Greene, afro-punkfest.com). Aug. 24–25, free.

Here they are: The Skins are taking classic hard rock and bringing it back to Brooklyn at the AfroPunk festival on Aug. 24.

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Author Francesco Marciuliano has helped cats speak their poetic minds in “I Could Pee On This and Other Poems By Cats,” and with his latest “I Could Chew On This,” the

author is publishing some of the best work canine lyricists from an “unprecedented — and unaccredited — writing program” have produced, such as “I Lose My Mind When You Leave the House,” and “I Dropped A Ball.” On Aug. 28, the author will invite humans and dogs to a reading at the powerHouse Arena in Dumbo.

Now, with Marciuliano’s help, we checked in with a real Brooklyn dog:

Sol Park: What do you think is a city dog’s greatest fear is? Greatest joy?

A dog: A city dog’s greatest fear is that their person completely mis-judged their size in relation to their apartment. After all, no giant Mastiff wants to enter his new forever home and find only so much space for him to walk in a tight circle and sleep.

A city dog’s greatest joy is that first day with their new family — and every day after that. Oh, and when someone rings the doorbell, because there is always the chance that the person at the door may have not sufficiently cleaned his or her face after eating.

SP: What kind of improvements might a dog suggest to the next mayor?

AD: For years, dogs have been trying to make mayors aware of their needs only to be met with such responses as “Who’s a good doggy?” “Who’s a good, good doggy?” And “No! That is not how we greet people here!” So instead dogs have taken to forming their own community action groups to make certain there is always something muddy and rancid to roll in.

Also, they’re creating their own food co-ops so dogs can enjoy the finest that can be found in overturned trash cans. And they’re starting their own political campaigns with posters featuring a photo of a dog and the slogan “Won’t walk off in mid-press confer-ence like a cat.”

SP: Do you know any dog writers who are planning to publish

the great American novel?AD: Despite their usual open nature, dogs can be very secretive

when it comes to their book pitches. You can be running around in the park with them, wrestling with them, getting licked by them. But the moment you ask, “So, how’s that historical fiction novel you’re working on about the two incompatible samurais who run a B&B going?” and suddenly the dog will get very quiet. He will avoid your gaze. He will drop the tennis ball from his mouth. He will say in a very quiet but clearly very aggravated tone that he shared that idea with you in private and here you are yelling it out at the dog park where you just know that thieving schnauzer who stole his idea about “ ‘The Da Vinci Code’ but with chew toys” will rip it off as well. Then he will refuse to go to the bathroom until you are back home again.

SP: Favorite poets? AD: Well, there is a Springer Spaniel in Cobble Hill who spe-

cializes in the spondee meter. There is also a Portuguese Water Dog in Gowanus who has penned countless volumes in blank verse. And there was a Whippet in Red Hook who was a master of the elegy but has lately fallen under the spell of visual minimalist poetry and now all his pieces involve nose smudges against glass. Finally, there is “The Power of the Dog” by Rudyard Kipling, which is about how heartbreaking having a pet can be, so most canine poets agree that “Rudy” should have just stuck to writing verse about the mongoose.

SP: Now for the tough questions. What are some of the best and worst odors in Brooklyn?

AD: To a dog there are no bad odors. Every odor uncovered during a walk must be properly sniffed and snuffed, analyzed and itemized, reviewed and re-experienced until the dog’s person real-izes three days have passed and the dog has only moved a quarter of an inch down the sidewalk.

SP: What do you call the thing on top of a house?AD: Gambrel? Eaves? Truss? Cupola? Clearly the dog poet over

here is either trying to show off or simply typed “roof” into thesau-rus.com and just replied with the first four synonyms.

SP: Who’s the greatest baseball player of all time?AD: Anybody who throws a ball to a dog for a game of catch is

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Composed canine: What is Penelope the Toy Shepherd thinking? A book of poetry called “I Could Chew On This” provides a glimpse into the canine mind. Photo by Stefano Giovannini

By Colin Mixson

A journalist’s new book tells the story of how a set of 20-sided dice, a character sheet, and a monster manual known as

Dungeons and Dragons changed the world.Like modern day video games, there was

no shortage of fear and loathing directed at the seemingly innocuous hobby, and while the author explains how the game grew out of chess, oppo-nents had a different argument — it came from Hell!

“In the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was some hysteria about Dungeons and Dragons being Satanic, corrupting children, and causing them to commit crimes and suicide,” said Forbes Magazine’s resident video-game honcho David Ewalt. “There were a series of coincidences where a distraught kid committed suicide or a robbery,

and investigators found Dungeons and Dragons in his basement.”

Ewalt is celebrating the unveiling of his new project, “Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It,” at the Greenlight bookstore on Aug. 23, which details the millenium-old influences that spawned the pen and paper behemoth and how a $70 billion nerd industry might not have existed without the world’s geekiest past time.

“I really wanted to tell the history of the game and explain to the rest of the world, ‘This is what this game is,’ ” said Ewalt. “There are a lot of weird preconceptions about the Dungeons and Dragons, but it’s really an awesome past time.”

Ewalt traces Dungeons and Dragon’s origins to chess, the original tabletop war game, where players assemble armies of miniature soldiers

and battle. Tabletop war games added dice to calculate one warrior’s chance to hit another, but what Dungeons and Dragons creators Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson did differently, Ewalt argues, is they shifted the player’s focus from the com-mander of an army, to the perspective of one hero — the result was nothing short of magic.

“Dungeons and Dragons came out of nowhere,” the author said. “In the space of a few years it was one of the biggest games in the world, especially in the US.”

Since then, the pen and paper game has gone on to inspire a generation of creative minds, including, Ewalt says, Iron Man director Jon Favreau, who learned how to craft riveting narratives by battling orks and beholders with the roll of a d20.

“Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It,” at the Greenlight Bookstore [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliot Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246–0200, www.greenlightbookstore.com]. Aug. 23, 7:30 pm. Free. A limited number of people who pre-order the book, or buy it at the launch event will receive an invitation to a secret game of Dungeons and Dragons somewhere in Brooklyn.

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SOUL CLAP & DANCE-OFF: DJ Jonathan Toubin spins obscure 1960s soul 45s, with a short dance contest in the middle. $7. 11:30 am. Brooklyn Bowl [61 Wythe Ave. between N. 11th and N. 12th streets in Williams-burg, (718) 963–3369], www.brooklynbowl.com.

SPOONS, TOONS & BOOZE: Gorge on Saturday morning cartoons, cereal, and cocktails. $15. Noon. Nitehawk Cinemas [136 Metropolitan Ave. be-tween Berry Street and Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) 384–3980], nitehawkcinema.com.

POP UP MACY’S FISHING CLIN-ICS: Children 15 years old and younger learn how to fl y fi sh and ecology. Free. Noon–5 pm. Prospect Park Audubon Cen-ter [Enter park at Lincoln Road and Ocean Avenue in Prospect Park, (718) 287–3400], www.prospectpark.org/audubon.

PINOCCHIO: For children ages 3 years old and up. The clas-sic story comes to life on the puppet stage. $9 ($8 children). 12:30 and 2:30 pm. Puppet-works [338 Sixth Ave. at Fourth Street in Park Slope, (718) 965–3391], www.puppetworks.org.

ART, “‘SCAPES”: Exhibition of landscapes, cityscapes, sea-scapes, and dreamscapes by more than 200 artists. Free. 1–6 pm. Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition [499 Van Brunt St., near Reed Street in Red Hook, (718) 596–2506], www.bwac.org.

SHAKESPEAREAN-THEMED PUB CRAWL: Explore four bars while performances erupt around you. $40 (includes four drinks). 3–6 pm (check–in at 2:30 pm). Mission Dolores [249 Fourth Ave. between Carroll and President streets in Park Slope, (347) 457–5606], www.missiondoloresbar.com.

FILM, “UNDER THE BUS”: As part of The Art of Brooklyn Film Fes-tival. $10. 6 pm. St. Francis Col-lege [180 Remsen St. between Court and Clinton streets in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 489–5200], www.aobff.org.

ONE-ACT FESTIVAL: Abingdon Theatre Company presents staged readings of three world premiere short plays by James Allston, Stephen Kaplan, and Katalina Mustatea. $10 ($25 families). 7 pm. Christ Church Bay Ridge [7301 Ridge Blvd. at 74th Street in Bay Ridge, (212) 868–2055], www.abingdonthe-atre.org.

FILM, ROOFTOP FILMS CLOSING NIGHT: Featuring live music and short fi lms. $13. 8 pm. The Old American Can Factory [232 Third St. at Third Avenue in Gowanus, (718) 417–7362], roof-topfi lms.com/2013/schedule/rooftop-shots-3.

FLOATING KABARETTE: Featur-ing aerial and acrobatic feats, a late-night dance party, and more. $25 ($20 in advance). 10:30 pm. Galapagos Art Space [16 Main St. at Water Street in DUMBO, (718) 222–8500],

10:30 am. Shore Hill Neighbor-hood Center [9000 Shore Rd. at 91st Street in Bay Ridge, (718) 630–7588], www.lmcmc.com/OurFacilities/SeniorHousing.

TOUR, BATTLE OF BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD WALK: Led by Professor William J. Parry. $12 ($10 Old Stone House members}. 6–8:30 pm. Grand Army Plaza entrance [Prospect Park West and Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 768–3195], theoldstonehouse.org.

READING, DAVID EWALT: Author of “Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It.” Free. 7:30 pm. Greenlight Book-store [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246–0200], greenlightbook-store.com.

FILM, “WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?: Bring a chair or blan-ket enjoy refreshments and take a chance on a fi fty/fi fty raffl e. Free. 8 pm. Narrows Botanical Gardens [Shore Road at 71st Street in Bay Ridge, (718) 748 4810].

FILM, “SMORGASBORD OF SHORTS”: As part of The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival. $10. 8 pm. St. Francis College [180 Remsen St. between Court and Clinton streets in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 489–5200], www.aobff.org.

SAT, AUG. 24HISTORY WORKSHOP: Children

5 and older head to the Tech lab and become the conduc-tor. Free with museum admis-sion. 1:30 pm. New York Transit Museum [Boerum Place at Schermerhorn Street in Down-town, (718) 694–1600], www.mta.info/mta/museum.

FILM, “THE MOTIVATION”: As part of The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival. $10. 7:30 pm. St. Fran-cis College [180 Remsen St. be-tween Court and Clinton streets in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 489–5200], www.aobff.org.

FAMILY FIELD DAY: Games, sports and activities for children 4 to 10 years old. Free. 10 am–1 pm. Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 5 (Joralemon and Front streets in Brooklyn Heights), www.ny-cgovparks.org.

AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR REENACTMENT: Watch a historic depiction of maritime history, camp life, community, and the role of Fulton Ferry Landing during the war. Free. 11 am. Brooklyn Bridge Park [Main and Plymouth streets in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 768–3195], www.brooklyn-bridgepark.org.

THEATER, “SANITATION OR OFF THE GRID”: An operetta pre-sented by Theater for the New City about three voyaging New York City sanitation workers who have fantastical adven-tures when their cruise ship breaks down at sea. Free. 2 pm. Sunset Park [Sixth Avenue and 44th Street in Sunset Park, (212) 254–1109], www.theaterforth-enewcity.net.

SALES AND MARKETSFORT GREENE FLEA: 10 am–5

pm. See Saturday, Aug. 17. GREENMARKET: 8 am–3 pm. See

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FRI, AUG. 16STREET GAMES: Enjoy traditional

sidewalk games and learn from a wide range of recreational and cultural arts programs, including Double Dutch jump rope, hopscotch, nok hockey, and basketball. Free. 9 am–5 pm. Fox Playground (E. 52nd Street and Avenue H in Mid-wood), www.palnyc.org.

ART, “ALBUM TRACKS: Subway Record Covers”: Exhibition cel-ebrates album artwork that fea-tures the New York City subway and elevated system. $7 ($5 children and seniors). 10 am–4 pm. New York Transit Museum [Boerum Place at Schermer-horn Street in Downtown, (718) 694–1600], www.mta.info/mta/museum.

DJ KAKEZ IN THE CAFE: Enjoy the sounds of Brooklyn hottest female artists. Children create and work with the Big Blocks. Julio Jean performs on African drums. Free. 4:30–6:45 pm. Brooklyn Children’s Museum [145 Brooklyn Ave. at St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, (718) 735–4400], www.brooklynkids.org.

THEATER, “SANITATION OR OFF THE GRID”: An operetta pre-sented by Theater for the New City about three voyaging New York City sanitation workers who have fantastical adven-tures when their cruise ship breaks down at sea. Free. 6:30 pm. Coney Island Boardwalk [West 10th Street and Board-walk West in Coney Island, (212) 254–1109], www.theaterforth-enewcity.net.

MUSIC, DANYUL KOSTIN, LUKKA: Free. 9 pm. Freddy’s Bar [627 Fifth Ave. between 17th and 18th streets in Green-wood Heights, (718) 768–0131], www.freddysbar.com.

TWINKIE AUCTION: Bid for the last two packages of original Hostess Twinkies in Brooklyn. Proceeds go towards obesity awareness. No joke. Free. Mid-night. Freddy’s Bar [627 Fifth Ave. between 17th and 18th streets in Greenwood Heights, (718) 768–0131], www.freddys-bar.com.

SAT, AUG. 17MUSIC, HAPPY LIVES: Free. 7:30

pm. Spike Hill Tavern [184 Bed-ford Ave. at N. Seventh Street in Williamsburg, (718) 218–9737], www.spikehill.com.

MUSIC, MADONNATHON: Cel-ebrate Madge with renowned Madonna tribute artist Chris America, backed by the Mate-rial Girls and Boys. $12. 8 pm. Brooklyn Bowl [61 Wythe Ave. between N. 11th and N. 12th streets in Williamsburg, (718) 963–3369], www.brooklynbowl.com.

MUSIC, ELIZA AND THE OR-GANIX: Free. 9 pm. Freddy’s Bar [627 Fifth Ave. between 17th and 18th streets in Green-wood Heights, (718) 768–0131], www.freddysbar.com.

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SALES AND MARKETSFORT GREENE FLEA: Explore

goods and food from more than 150 vendors. Free. 10 am–5 pm. Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School (Lafayette Ave. be-tween Clermont and Vanderbilt avenues in Fort Greene), www.brooklynfl ea.com.

GREENMARKET: Free. 8 am–3 pm. Walgreens (Third Avenue at 95th Street in Bay Ridge), www.grownyc.org/greenmar-ket-site/brooklyn/bay-ridge-greenmarket.

SUN, AUG. 18FOOD TRUCK RALLY: Samples

treats from some of the city’s best food trucks. Free. 11 am–5 pm. Grand Army Plaza (Union Street between Flatbush Av-enue and Prospect Park West in Park Slope), www.prospect-park.org/visit/plan/food-trucks.

FILM, “GREASE”: Come early and grab a seat in the courtyard. Free. 8 pm. Habana Outpost [757 Fulton St. at S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 858–9500], www.habanaout-post.com.

MUSIC, FIDDLE JAM SESSION: Free. 3 pm. Freddy’s Bar [627 Fifth Ave. between 17th and 18th streets in Greenwood Heights, (718) 768–0131], www.freddysbar.com.

MUSIC, OPEN MIC: With Punx-sutawney Jesus. Free. 7 pm. Freddy’s Bar [627 Fifth Ave. be-tween 17th and 18th streets in Greenwood Heights, (718) 768–0131], www.freddysbar.com.

MARCUS GARVEY EARTH DAY CELEBRATION: Featuring live performances, health vendors, and arts and crafts. $5 (children free). 4–11 pm. Restoration Plaza [1368 Fulton St. at Marcy Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 636–6996], www.restora-tionplaza.org.

FILM, “MARRIED & COUNTING”: As part of The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival. $10. 6 pm. St. Francis College [180 Remsen St. between Court and Clinton streets in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 489–5200], www.aobff.org.

CIRCUS NIGHT: Featuring clowns, escape artists, break dancers, magicians, and more. $12 ($8 for children under 12). 8 pm. Sideshows by the Seashore [1208 Surf Ave. between W. 12th Street and Stillwell Avenue

in Coney Island, (718) 372–5159], www.coneyisland.com.

SALES AND MARKETSFLEA MARKET: Bargain hunt

for clothes, memorabilia, and more. Free. 8 am–3pm. Rich-mond hill [117-09 Hillside Ave. in Richmond Hill, (347) 709–7661], www.richmondhillfl eamarket.com.

STOP AND SWAP: Exchange your unwanted stuff for other people’s unwanted stuff, or just stop by and take a peek. Free. Noon–3 pm. Bay Ridge Jewish Center [8025 Fourth Ave. at 77th Street in Bay Ridge, (718) 836–3103].

MON, AUG. 19CONEY ISLAND CUISINE WEEK:

Enjoy a special, discounted menu at nearly 20 Boardwalk-area eateries to benefi t the Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Program., (718) 385–6700 ext. 21, www.facebook.com/ldcsan-dyrelief.

TUES, AUG. 20READING, WORDS ON THE WA-

TERFRONT: Word Bookstore reading series featuring Atlas Review, Electric Literature, and Emily Books. Free. 7 pm. Trans-mitter Park [Greenpoint Avenue and West Street in Greenpoint, (718) 383–0096], www.word-brooklyn.com.

READING, ALISSA QUART: Au-thor of “Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dream-ers and Rebels.” Free. 7 pm. BookCourt [163 Court St. be-tween Pacifi c and Dean streets in Cobble Hill, (718) 875–3677], www.bookcourt.org.

READING, BOOK GROUP: Discussion of Jane Gardam’s “Old Filth.” Free. 7:30 pm. Greenlight Bookstore [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246–0200], greenlightbookstore.com.

FILM, “CADDYSHACK”: Screen-ing as part of the summer movie series Red Hook Flicks. Free. 8:30 pm. Valentino Pier (Ferris Street between Coffey and Van Dyke streets in Red Hook), redhookfl icks.com.

MUSIC, MISS IDA: Free. 11 pm. Freddy’s Bar [627 Fifth Ave. be-tween 17th and 18th streets in Greenwood Heights, (718) 768–0131], www.freddysbar.com.

WED, AUG. 21GREENMARKET: Featuring locally

grown produce, cooking dem-onstrations, and family-friendly activities. Free. 8 am–4 pm. Barclays Center [620 Atlantic Ave. at Pacifi c Street in Pros-pect Heights, (917) 618–6100], www.barclayscenter.com.

DREAM INTERPRETATION WORKSHOP: For seniors. Free. 10 am. Carmine Carro Commu-nity Center [3000 Fillmore Ave. at Marine Parkway in Marine Park, (718) 869–0100].

CRAB BOIL: Enjoy blue crab, corn, potatoes, and sausage served with Old Bay seasoning and melted butter. $28 for six pieces, $54 for 12 pieces. 5 pm. Pork Slope [247 Fifth Ave. be-tween Carroll Street and Gar-fi eld Place in Park Slope, (718) 768–7675], www.porkslope-brooklyn.com.

MUSIC, CHICAGO: Part of the Seaside Summer Concert Se-ries. Free. 7:30 pm. [W. 21st Street and Surf Avenue in Coney Island, (718) 222–0600], www.brooklynconcerts.com/seaside.html.

READING, MITCHELL JACK-SON: Author of “The Residue Years.” Free. 7:30 pm. Green-light Bookstore [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246–0200], greenlightbookstore.com.

THE LOOSE CABOOSE SHOW: A vaudeville spectacle hosted by Scott Baker. $10. 9 pm. Side-shows by the Seashore [1208 Surf Ave. between W. 12th Street and Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island, (718) 372–5159], www.coneyisland.com.

THURS, AUG. 22FILM, “VERTIGO”: Outdoor

screening. Free. 6 pm. Brooklyn Bridge Park [Pier 1; Old Fulton Street, (718) 802–0603], www.brooklynbridgepark.org.

MUSIC, UKULELE JAM SESSION: Bring your uke! Free. 7:30 pm. Freddy’s Bar [627 Fifth Ave. be-tween 17th and 18th streets in Greenwood Heights, (718) 768–0131], www.freddysbar.com.

READING, WAYNE KOES-TENBAUM: Author of “My 1980s and Other Essays.” In conversation with Christo-pher Schmidt. Free. 7:30 pm. Greenlight Bookstore [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246–0200], greenlightbookstore.com.

MUSIC, SELF HELP, THE PARTY FAITHFUL, A.K.: $8. 8 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638–4400], www.unionhallny.com.

MUSIC, SLIM WRAY: $7. 9 pm. Trash Bar [256 Grand St. at Dri-ggs Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) 599–1000], www.thetrash-bar.com.

“THE FUTURE THAT NEVER WAS”: Futuristic-themed bur-lesque show. $12. 9 pm. Side-shows by the Seashore [1208 Surf Ave. between W. 12th Street and Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island, (718) 372–5159], www.coneyisland.com.

FRI, AUG. 23MUSIC, BAROQUE MUSIC: Per-

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By Samantha Lim

You know a place is special when architects keep sketching it well-after the blueprints have been drawn.

A contest asking for artistic renditions of the famous Grand Central Terminal has brought out

the poetic side of architects and designers — nota-bly Zach Downey, who hasn’t entered this type of thing in quite a while.

”I thought this competition could be a nice way to shake off the rust and see if I could still draw,” said Downey.

“As an architect, it was a great exercise and chal-lenge trying to communicate some of my favorite

aspects of Grand Central in such a small format.”The pen and ink drawing titled “Eddies of

Pause” is noticeably the most eloquent piece in the Grand Central Sketchbook exhibition at the New York Transit Museum. Icons associated with New York’s beloved landmark — Grand Central Oyster Bar, the four-faced clock crowning the information booth, concrete cherubim, and the starry ceiling — are harmoniously entwined like lines in a haiku.

“I think spaces sometimes evoke words, but more often I think words evoke spaces,” said Downey. “Maybe this is the architect in me.”

Grand Central Sketchbook: Designers Dream, one of many special events that celebrate the 2013 Centennial of Grand Central Terminal, welcomed all architects and artists to participate. Contestants weren’t expected to build a better mousetrap, but to reinterpret and depict Grand Central Terminal through fresh eyes. The 20 winning entries, chosen for their imagination and originality, are on display at the New York Transit Museum through Dec. 1, and the works are have been published in a book titled “Grand Central Terminal Sketchbook” on sale at the museum store.

“Grand Central Sketchbook: Designers Dream” New York City Transit Museum [130 Livingston St., underground entrance located at Schermerhorn Street and Boerum Place in Downtown, (718) 694–1600, www.mta.info/mta/museum]. Through Dec. 1, $7, $5 children and seniors.

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PROSPECT HEIGHTS

Professor Illya Azaroff, that’s who. The dashing expert on all things disaster recovery is an associate professor of archi-tectural technology at City Tech and co-chairman of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects De-

sign for Risk and Reconstruction Com-

mittee.

With hurricane season upon us (yes folks, it’s here), the good professor is kept hopping. But what would make a suave pro-fessor of architecture dig into the gritty world of recovery? Standing O asked and the professor answered.

“Growing up in tornado-prone Ne-braska helped me understand the toll of

destruction caused by natural disasters.” Combine that with his degrees in geography and architecture and you have a professor who has a clear vision about the relationship of earth science and the way we build and live in a world where

disaster can strike in a matter of seconds.“The goal of resilience is to get busi-

nesses back in business and people back in their homes as soon as possible, in the safest way possible after an event such as Sandy.”

Standing O is glad the good professor has our backs, sides, and sea-fronts, too.

City Tech [300 Jay St. at Myrtle Avenue in Downtown, (718) 260–5900].

STANDING O’S SCHOOL NEWS

Bay RidgeStanding O hears that the Catholic

school at St. Anselm’s, which closed in June, will be reopening in September as the St. Anselm’s Catholic Academy. The change occurred as part of the Diocesan plan for Catholic Education.

Standing O sends a quick prayer for the academy’s success.

St. Anselm’s Catholic School [365 83rd St. at Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge (718) 745–7643].

BensonhurstBishop Kearney High School has be-

come the only all-girls high school in the borough to offer a medical Science and Profession Program. The school partnered with Calko Medical Center in June to pro-vide the education course this September. The program will be offered to students who are interested in the medical sciences and will offer opportunities including med-ical internships, symposiums and clinical experiences.

Bishop Kearney HS [2202 60th St. at Bay

Parkway in Bensonhurst, (718) 236–6363].

Bay Ridge, againHip hip hooray, it’s offi cial — PS 971 will

now be known as the School of Math, Sci-

ence and Healthy Living. The requested renaming was granted late July and will open in September with the new moniker.

PS 971 [6214 Fourth Ave. at 62nd Street in Bay Ridge, (718) 765–2200].

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS

Press that easy button. The Staples Foundation has granted

$2,000 to support the Summer Science Acad-emy at St. Francis College. Now in it’s 13th year, the program encourages high-school juniors and seniors with an interest in sci-ence to follow their dreams in a three-week, full-day, hands-on science experience.

“We are grateful for the support,” said

Kathleen Nolan, chairwoman of the de-partment of Biology and Health Promotion.

Standing O says, “That was easy.”St. Francis College [180 Remsen St. at

Court Street in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 489–5200].

BAY RIDGE

Opa and Efharisto!Three cheers to Spartan Souvlaki Res-

taurant. The owners George and Maria

Lykourezos presented a check for $3,300 to the Guild for Exceptional Children.

Councilman Vincent Gentile (D–Bay Ridge), was on hand when George and Ma-ria handed the check to Paul Cassone, ex-ecutive director and CEO at the Guild.

Standing O says, “Break out the ouzo.”Spartan Souvlaki Restaurant [6824

Eighth Ave. at Bay Ridge Avenue in Bay Ridge, (718) 748–5838].

STANDING Brooklyn’s Biggest Boosterby Joanna DelBuono

PARK SLOPE

Mae West once said that an ounce of performance is worth pounds of prom-ises.

The borough’s fi rst diva, the plati-num-haired West was the saucy, sexy goddess that had men’s hearts afl utter. To celebrate her birthday, (she was born in Bushwick on Aug. 17, 1893), borough daughters LindaAnn LoSchiavo and Darlene Violette are putting on a perfor-mance of West’s fi rst Broadway success, “Diamond Lil.”

LindaAnn, a long time fan of the devilish diva, has organized Mae West birthday bashes for the past nine years, and Darlene has worked on stage and on

screen in appearances on “Law & Or-der,” “White Collar,” and “Ugly Betty,” among others.

The original three-hour production of the classic play has been pared down to about 85 minutes and stars Darlene as the famous West character doing the things she does best (wink, wink), and the per-formance promises to “feature all of the sex and none of the censorship” of the original production (wink, wink again!).

So come on down and see it on Aug. 17, 7:30 pm, at the John Strasberg Studios at 555 Eighth Ave. in Manhattan, where tickets are just 10 bucks, or on Aug. 18, 7 pm, inside Don’t Tell Mama at 343 W. 46th Street, a fancy place where ducats will run you $15.

CONEY ISLAND

101 and countingLast year it was Gargiulo’s Res-

taurant in Coney Island (Standing O was there), and this year it was Kings Buffet in Bensonhurst. Gee whiz, centenarian-plus-one, Nannie Har-

rison really knows how to celebrate! “She loves fruits and veggies,”

says daughter, Virginia Ay-ala, “But she really likes clams, crabs, and oysters.”

So it was off to King Buffet for the 101st fete.

Our pal Nannie, who was born on July 24, 1912 in Virginia, has seen many birthdays, but none as special as this one. On July 27, daughters Virginia, Beatrice Swinton, and Naomi Johnson, along with grand-children Keisha Lomax, Nadine,

Eddie, Evette, Taesha, Carmen,

and Elijah helped Nannie blow out the candles and have a piece of cake. Granddaughter Keisha tells Stand-ing O, “Granny has 46 grandchildren and 112 great grandchildren.”

Standing O caught up with daugh-ter Virginia and asked, “Why do you think your mom has lived so long?”

“Well,” she said, “she likes to go to church and serve God, and she eats well.”

Daughter Naomi added, “She goes fi shing and plays cards, too.”

Then Keisha chimed: “Nannie also loves having her grandchildern around to show her love, and keeps busy all the time.”

From New Hope Church in Vir-ginia to Bay Ridge Christian Cen-

ter, Nannie keeps her faith strong and enjoys listening to gospel music.

And she’s always on the move.“My mom is pretty self suffi -

cient,” said Virginia, “aside from a little high-blood pressure, she’s very healthy.”

And she’s a pleasure to talk to.“I’m so happy that she lives with

me,” concluded Virginia. “She tells me about old times, and she keeps me on my toes.”

Standing O whishes Nannie a very happy birthday, and can’t wait to say “Happy 102nd!”

BIRTHDAY BASH: Left, LindaAnn LoSchiavo and, right, Darlene Violette team up to celebrate Mae West’s B-day in their version of “Diamond Lil.”

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BY DANIELLE FURFAROThe party promoter who

got himself and two disc jockey pals arrested for throwing a giant shindig on the Manhattan Bridge this weekend said he will continue to organize il-licit bashes because young Brooklynites are strapped for nightlife.

“We saw a bunch of young people with noth-

ing to do and we gave them something to do,” said Alex Shlaferman, a 19-year-old Bensonhurst native who goes by Alex Xander and hosts un-sanctioned parties around the borough.

The Manhattan Bridge event started at about 10 pm on Friday night. A Facebook invitation instructed rev-elers to walk up the pedes-trian path from the Brook-

lyn side and gather near the middle, where the walkway is wider. What they found was a booming, generator-powered sound system and a young crowd waving bot-tles in the air. Close to 400 people were there by the time the last disc jockey got rolling at midnight, accord-ing to one report , many of them teenagers, according to another , though Shla-

ferman puts the number at 1,000.

“Will I get arrested?” asks a hypothetical at-tendee in the party invite.The organizers’ answer:

“No, but we might.”Cops from Downtown

Brooklyn’s 84th Precinct raided the party at about 12:40 am, arresting Shlafer-man and a disc jockey duo called Bear Sauce,

WHERE’S THE PARTY?: Revelers (above) of an illicit party on the Manhattan Bridge last Friday night crowded onto the bike lane (center) of the bridge, making it impassible for bicyclists. Party promoter Alex Shlaferman, who was arrested for the bash, is a self-made entrepreneur who throws illicit parties on bridges and fi elds and started his own business as a teenager. Alex Shlaferman

Can’t stop, won’t stop — cops stop party

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• ‘It shows that New York City basketball is still in effect and has talent.’

• ‘As far as streetball goes, this is the best moment for me.’

BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKIZamal Nixon is taking the

New York City streetball scene by storm.

In just his second year on the Nike summer basketball circuit, the former Xaverian and Boys & Girls guard is beginning to make a name for himself. Nixon claimed took center stage in The Franchise-Sean Bell’s thrilling 98–95 win over Big Apple Basket-ball in the prestigious Nike Pro City fi nal at Baruch College on Aug. 8.

Nixon scored 16 of his 25 points in the second half and earned most valuable player honors for helping to rally unbeaten Sean Bell from 11 points down in the fourth quarter.

Holding the MVP trophy after the game, Nixon took a moment to savor what he accomplished.

“As far as streetball goes, this is the best moment for me,” he said. “This is one of the better tournaments in the city, so it’s defi nitely one of the biggest mo-ments for me.”

Big Apple Basketball led 76–65 early in the fourth after it out scored Sean Bell 30–17 in the third quarter behind former Robeson guard Gary Ervin (28 points) and former Rice star Keydren Clark (24 points). The 6-foot-1 Nixon, who played professionally in Ger-many last season, didn’t want to try to personally take on the two summer ball legends. But he did know his team needed a spark to win the tournament widely con-sidered the crown jewel of the Nike summer circuit.

“It was really a collective ef-fort,” Nixon said. “I just picked my spots at the right time where I had to do a little more than others.”

He answered Big Apple’s lead with a 3-pointer to start a torrid fourth quarter. His biggest shot was an astounding crossover into a step back jumper from the left elbow. The 3-point play pulled Sean Bell within 86–81 with 4:23 left in regulation and brought the packed house to its feet.

“It was a little momentum for us,” Nixon said.

BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKISome Division I colleges took

some convincing to believe Naza-reth’s Jen Fay could play at that level after she missed time as a sophomore because of a torn liga-ment.

Quinnipiac needed no such pep talk.

The Bobcats and women’s bas-ketball coach Tricia Fabbri took an interest in the 5-foot-10 wing last December and were relentless in their recruiting. Their aggres-siveness in making her a top re-cruiting target meant a lot to Fay.

It was the deciding factor in her verbally committing to Quin-nipiac this week. She chose the Connecticut school and defend-ing Northeast Conference cham-pions over Richmond, North-eastern, and UNC-Wilmington because of the bond she formed with Fabbri.

“She was telling me I am a pri-ority,” Fay said. “She had to get me up here. I know as long as I go there and work hard I am going to play.”

The rising senior, who was also impressed with the school’s medical program, got a late start impressing college coaches. The knee injury kept her off the court

her entire sophomore year with her Exodus travel team as the Lady Kingsmen won a second straight Catholic Class AA state title. The strong and athletic Fay, who plays either a small or power forward, returned this year to start for Nazareth and earn All-Brooklyn fi rst team honors from this paper.

Fay is an excellent outside shooter and rebounder, who can also score in the paint. As her con-ditioning improved, she was able to run the fl oor better and defend at

a higher level. Still, it took time to rehab fully and put all of her skills on display.

“Jennifer is not the typical bas-ketball type when you look at her,” Nazareth coach Ron Kelley said. “She looks like she is slower than she is, she looks like she is not as good as she is. Then she gets on the fl oor and gets everything done and surprises a lot of people.”

Fay surprised herself. She fi nished with 15 scholarship of-fers after a strong season with Exodus NYC this summer. Exo-dus ended the live recruiting pe-riod by fi nishing second at the United States Junior Nationals in Washington D.C. and winning the Peach State Elite 32 event in Georgia.

“It was pretty awesome,” she said. “I didn’t think I’d have as many offers.”

Kelley expects a big year from her this coming season after she lost weight and worked on her agility. It will further allow people to see what he and fellow coach Lauren Best already knew about Fay.

“I’m very proud of her turn-around,” Kelley said. “We always thought she would be a pretty good ball player.”

— Abraham Lincoln guard Isaiah Whitehead on the City team’s win in the Big Strick Classic

— Zamal Nixon on his star turn in the Nike Pro City championship

REDEMPTION: Nazareth rising senior Jen Fay beat an injury to earn a schol-arship to play women’s basketball at Quinnipiac. Photo by Ken Maldonado

EN GARDE!: Former Robeson guard Gary Ervin, right, tries to attack the hoop for Big Apple Basketball. Photo by Steven Schnibbe

Nazareth’s Fay overcomes injury to win scholarships

Sean Bell team wins Nike Pro City crown

BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKIChrist the King ris-

ing senior wing Sierra Calhoun, a Brooklyn na-tive, has verbally com-mitted to play women’s basketball at Duke Uni-versity.

Calhoun, the No. 10 ranked player in the country in her class, ac-cording to ESPN, chose the Blue Devils over UConn and Notre Dame. She built a strong rela-

tionship with Duke head coach Joanne P. McCal-lie, whose style of play fi ts Calhoun’s game.

“The relationship that I have with Coach P. and the rest of the coach-ing staff and the players made me feel like that was the place for me,” she said. “That was the place I wanted to be. Her vision for me is be-ing an impact freshman as soon as I step on the

campus at Duke.”Calhoun, who plays

her travel ball with the New York Gauchos, joins a Duke team that lost to eventual national champion Connecticut in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament last season and has been to two national title game since 1999. Christ the King coach Bob Mackey believes that the Blue Devils and the Atlantic

Coast Conference are a perfect fi t for her.

“It’s a great league where I think she will do really, really well,” Mackey said. “Joanne plays just such a great up-tempo, open kind of style that I think really fi ts Sierra.

Calhoun averaged 22 points and seven re-bounds for the Royals last season. Her brother

Calhoun commits to Duke basketball

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Cyclones 4Connecticut 3Aug. 7 at MCU Park

The Cyclones had four straight hits in the eighth inning, including the go-ahead RBI single by Tomas Nido to steal the game from Connecticut last Wednes-day afternoon, despite an ugly performance from the infi eld, which committed two errors.

Jonathan Clark scored after he singled in the sec-ond and Connecticut pitcher Chase Edwards walked the next three batters. Anthony Chavez matched another Tiger score in the fi fth off an RBI double by Alex San-chez.

Down 3–2 in the eighth, the Clones went into of-fensive gear. Matt “Bright Eyes” Oberste and James “Papa” Roche hit a single and a double to start things off. Clark and Nido then hit back-to-back RBI singles to tie the game, then take the lead.

Pitcher Robert “Not-so-silent G” Gsellman threw fi ve solid innings despite playing with the fl u, Paul Paez picked up the win in relief, and John Mincone notched his sixth save of the season.

Connecticut 7Cyclones 3Aug. 8 at MCU Park

Connecticut scored fi ve runs in the fi rst two in-nings and the Cyclones never recovered on the way to a disheartening loss.

New starting pitcher Ricky Knapp, taking the place of Seth Lugo, who was optioned to Savannah, got off to a shaky start by al-lowing hits to the fi rst three batters he saw. The Tigers went on to score three runs in the same inning and two more in the second.

The Cyclones’ offense re-sponded to the Tigers in the fi rst three innings — albeit in less powerful fashion — by scoring a run in each

inning. Patrick “To Infi n-ity and” Biondi scored two

runs on two RBI singles by L.J. “Mini-Maz” Mazzilli in

the fi rst and third, and Jon-athan Clark added a run in the second off a center-fi eld shot by Eddie Rohan, but the damage was already done.

State College 4Cyclones 1Aug. 9 at MCU Park

More hits is never more valuable than more runs.

State College second baseman Mason Katz had two runs on two hits in leading the set from the Cy-clones despite being out-hit 8–7 on Star Wars Night at MCU Park.

The Spikes took a 2–0 lead in the second when a walk, hit batsman, wild pitch, and sacrifi ce fl y scored the fi rst run before a single by Steven Ramos scored the second.

The Spikes earned two more points in the fourth when Katz hit an RBI triple deep to center, and Brett Wiley singled him in.

Brooklyn’s lone run

came in the seventh when L.J. “Mini-Maz” Mazzilli doubled and came home on a Matt “Bright Eyes” Ober-ste single.

The Clones added three more hits in the last two innings, but all three base runners were left stranded by the State College hurl-ers.

Cyclones 2State College 1Aug. 10 at MCU Park

L.J. “Mini-Maz” Mazzilli and Gavin Cecchini drove in the runs early and Brooklyn pitchers allowed only two hits in the win over State College.

Patrick “To Infi nity and” Biondi led off the fi rst with a double to left fi eld and Cecchini followed up with a single to put runners on the corners. Mazzilli then hit a sacrifi ce fl y to right fi eld to score Biondi.

In the fourth, State Col-lege pitcher Willy Paulino

Brooklyn’s Boys of Summer trade wins, losses with Tigers and Spikes at MCU Park

STARTER PISTOL: Cyclones starting pitcher Miller Diaz fi res a pitch during Friday’s home game against State College. Photo by Steve Solomonson

Cyclones relax for week at home

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walked Ismael “T.J.” Ti-jerina and Anthony Chavez back-to-back. After Nick Petree replaced Paulino, Cecchini hit an RBI single to left to score Tijerina.

Brooklyn’s starter John Gant held the Spikes with-out a hit until the sixth in-ning, when Cesar Valera broke the no-hitter bid with an infi eld single. Valera later made it home off an RBI single by Carson Kelly.

But the Spikes didn’t re-cord another hit the rest of the way, as relievers John Mincone and Johnny Ma-gliozzi combined to pitch three hitless innings to close the game out.

Cyclones 9State College 2Aug. 11 at MCU Park

The Cyclones recorded a season-high 16 hits and

nine runs to win the rub-ber match against the State College Spikes, returning to .500 just before the All Star break.

Five different Cyclones recorded multi-hit games in the blowout win. L.J. “Mini-Maz” Mazzilli went 4-for-5 with three runs and two RBIs on the night, while Alex Sanchez had three hits, including an eighth inning two-run homer that sailed well over the score-board on the left fi eld wall.

Matt “Bright Eyes” Oberste also connected with three hits on the day, while Eddie Rohan and Gavin Cecchini each had two hits. Rohan would later score both times he made it on base.

With the Brooklyn win and Aberdeen’s loss, the Cy-clones fi nd themselves only one game out of fi rst place in the McNamara Division heading into the All-Star break. — Scott Hansen

Abraham Lin-coln’s Isaiah Whitehead was

more than just a partic-ipant in the Big Strick Classic high-school bas-ketball all-star game last weekend. The rising senior was the de facto host and the face of New York City basketball at the event that drew some of the top players in the country to take on the metro area’s best talent.

“I tell them where to go, where to eat and everything like that,” Whitehead said of the out-of-town players.

It’s a role familiar to the 6-foot-4 Coney Island guard, ranked in the top 20 nationally in his class by multiple scouting ser-vices. He was the focal point coming into last year’s Big Strick Classic and he is the lone New York City player invited to the prestigious Elite 24 game to be played un-der the Brooklyn Bridge at the historic Tobacco Warehouse on Aug. 24.

Whitehead said the at-tention comes from usu-ally being the lone player from the city at camps run by NBA stars LeBron James and Deron Wil-liams along with multiple top 100 camps throughout the summer. People think of New York City and think of him.

It’s a responsibility he doesn’t take lightly, since there is a growing consensus in the basket-ball community that the talent in his hometown is diminishing. He proved that wrong by scoring 16 points in Team New York City’s 126–110 win, and won the 3-point contest.

“I have to show people that New York City isn’t fi nished like they say it is,” Whitehead said.

He is a perfect per-son to take on that task. Whitehead spent his en-

tire career in New York City, unlike the numer-ous players who bolt for prep schools or New Jer-sey. Since his sophomore year he learned how to handle the attention and media with class and conviction. Whitehead is also a champion after helping Lincoln to its fi rst Public School Ath-letic League city title since 2009.

Where Whitehead will take his skills next is still to be decided. He has yet to commit to a college, but has nar-rowed his list down to Arizona, UCLA, Minne-sota, Indiana, Syracuse and Miami. He plans on making a decision before his senior season begins, after taking campus vis-its in September.

For the remainder of the summer, the only town he cares about is New York City as some of high-school basketball’s top events descend on it. His job is to continue to help represent his home-town in the best light.

“It’s just great for ev-erybody to come to New York City and see it,” Whitehead said. “Ev-eryone had heard about New York City and how great it is.”

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by Joe Staszewski

BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKIThe Big Strick Classic

was more than just another all-star basketball game for Abraham Lincoln guard Isaiah Whitehead and his teammates.

For the rising senior, the third-annual contest was a battle for bragging rights against some of the best players from the rest of the nation. It also a chance to disprove the idea that the Big Apple isn’t the same breeding ground for top basketball talent it was in the past.

The New York City team offered an empathic rebut-tal with a convincing 126–110 win over the USA squad at Gauchos Gym in the Bronx last Saturday night. It avenges a one-point de-feat in last year’s game and gave the city players plenty to talk about after the third annual contest to honor the memory of streetball legend John Strickland, who died three years ago.

“It shows that New York City basketball is still in effect and has talent,” said Whitehead, who dropped in 16 points and recently got a

scholarship offer from Indi-ana. “It was great to get the win.”

Bishop Loughlin’s Mike Williams provided one of the games biggest plays during a huge fourth quar-ter for the city. The Rutgers-

bound guard quickly fl ipped the ball up to Bronx native and Syracuse commit Chris McCullough of Brewster Academy for a vicious one-handed slam that brought the crowd to its feet as the city grabbed a 98–91 lead

with 6:40 left in the game. “When Chris dunked

it, the momentum changed greatly,” Williams said.

The city team, which also featured players from New Jersey and Long Is-land, never looked back from there and the lead bal-looned to 116–98 with 2:30 left to play. Cheick Diallo of Our Savior New Ameri-can paced the city with 23 points and 12 rebounds and Isaiah Brisco of Rosedale Catholic added 11 points. Bishop Loughlin’s Khadeen Carrington chipped in six points. Kelly Oubre of Find-lay Prep in Las Vegas led Team USA with 25 points.

No matter the margin it was mission accomplished for the city squad.

“As long as we won the game and showed that New York City is back, then I’m happy,” Whitehead said.

Carrington recently picked up college scholar-ship offers from Vanderbilt and Wake Forest, adding to a list that already includes Cincinnati, St. John’s, Con-necticut, West Virginia, Seton Hall and Pittsburgh among others.

Brooklyn’s star helps home team beat out-of-towners

HOMETOWN HERO: Abraham Lincoln star Isaiah Whitehead scored 16 points for team New York City at the Big Strick Classic. Photo by Robert Cole

City team wins Big Strick Classic Lincoln star’s new role as face

of city hoops

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Cyclonesis Omar Calhoun, a ris-ing sophomore on UConn’s men’s basketball team, but she made clear early on that she would chose her school based on which pro-gram was best for her, not on family ties.

“I feel like what Coach P. and what that coaching staff is putting together is knocking on the door of greatness,” Calhoun said. “I feel like it is only a mat-ter of time before we win a national championship.”

The Duke women’s team has become one of the premier women’s basket-ball programs, but it has yet to win a national cham-pionship. Calhoun believes Duke, which also offers a top-notch education, is closing in on a crown be-cause she joins two top-100-ranked recruits in Azura

Stephens and Erin Mathies in her recruiting class. They join rising junior point guard Alexis Jones on a talented squad.

“Everyone is going to handle the ball,” Mackey said. “You are going to see Sierra pushing it up from the wing. It’s going to be a group effort, but I think she is going to be in a great situation.”

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COLLEGE-BOUND: Brooklyn-native Sierra Calhoun has cho-sen Duke. Photo by Robert Cole

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