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BY WILL BREDDERMANMini-libraries are letting

storm-shattered neighborhoods turn the page on Hurricane Sandy.

Bright orange boxes fi lled with up to 100 books have popped up outside fl ooded branches that remain closed in Coney Island,

Gerritsen Beach, and Red Hook — and users of the free literature exchanges don’t have to worry about late fees or that pesky Dewey Decimal System!

The lit-depots are a venture of

Urban Librarians Unite, an advocacy group that said it wanted to bring Sandy-soaked Brooklyn the joys of the written word, creating a veritable reading rainbow in the aftermath of the storm.

“It’s still pretty rough out there, and we wanted to provide everybody with a bit of entertain-ment and insulation,” said spokes-man Christian Zabriskie.

Zabriskie said the mini-librar-ies will remain open until the main buildings dry out. He added that Urban Librarians Unite has collected 22,000 books through

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Locals fi ght Bay detox centerBY COLIN MIXSON

A drug counseling center is suffering from withdrawal of com-munity approval, after its new location in Sheepshead Bay was okayed by the community board, but then rejected by the commu-nity — and now even its landlord.

After One World Counseling’s plan for a Gravesend offi ce on Kings Highway near McDonald Avenue was shot down by Com-munity Board 11, it was approved by Community Board 15 for a spot on E. 17th Street near Kings High-way last November, only to face a backlash from residents after they read about the decision in this paper .

“If not for the article, we would

have never known,” said nearby resident Tispora Borger. “There was no notice about this whatso-ever.”

Even the drug counselor’s pro-spective landlord, John Notias, said he had no idea that One World Counseling dealt with people bat-tling addiction, and that he took the business on as a tenant under the assumption that it provided general therapy.

“I had no idea,” said Notias. “I feel like I’ve fallen into a trap.”

Furthermore, the E. 17th Street building’s owner said that if One World Counseling provides ser-vices to drug addicts, its current contract will be null and void.


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By Danielle Furfaro

It’s pop music — but it’s definitely off-beat.Man Man leader Ryan Kattner swears

that he’s just trying to write the next great pop song, yet he boasts about how the band’s sound is completely different compared to any-thing else in contemporary music.

“Musically, I don’t feel like we have a kin-ship with any bands and, five records later, we still don’t,” said Kattner, who sings and plays keyboard and piano.

Comfortably setting itself apart from others, Man Man has been a torch bearer of experi-mental indie rock for a decade, producing an amalgamation of eccentric acts in the vein of Mr. Bungle and Tom Waits.

Kattner, who goes by the stage name Honus Honus, said mov-ies and visual art have influenced him more than other musical acts — which is clear from the band’s raucous live shows, with members some-times adorned in day-glo warpaint, looking absolutely radioactive.

Other members go by Pow, T-Moth, and Chang — also known as Chris Powell, Jamey Robinson, and Billy Dufala.

For the band’s last album “Life Fantastic” producer Mike Mogis, best known for being a member of Bright Eyes, helped weave a dense and frenetic tapestry of synth, melodica, horns, and orchestral strings. The lyrics are much more personal on previous albums than on this outing, but the zaniness remains.

Mogis is also producing Man Man’s newest album, which the band plans to test drive during the tour — just to see if it’s got the right balance of pop and preposterousness.

“If we don’t blow all of our deadlines, it will hopefully be out by this summer,” said Kattner. “You make your monster in the lab and then you take it out and see if it picks flowers for the little girl or if it eats the girl.”

Man Man at Music Hall of Williamsburg [66 N. Sixth St., between Wythe and Kent avenues in Williamsburg, (718) 486–5400, www.musichall-ofwilliamsburg.com]. Feb. 28, 7:30 pm, $20.

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By Sol Park

Brooklyn is in house — and in the temple.

The Barclays Center has shone the limelight on home-grown talents Barbra Streisand and Jay-Z, but now the stadium concert hall is bringing to stage violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman to showcase one of Brooklyn’s greatest musical contributions: Jewish cantorial music.

Joining Perlman on Feb. 28 will be cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot to get the crowd clapping to Israeli and Klezmer songs, but the main attraction will be a sono-rous display of liturgical singing often used to lead a synagogue congregation in prayer.

“Brooklyn is where canto-rial music was born in the states. Some of the greatest Jewish voic-es came from synagogues [here],” said Helfgot through translator and cantor Benny Rogosnitzky. “This is the largest cantorial event in the last five or six years and there’s a lot of great buzz.”

Helfgot’s collaboration with Perlman has produced the album “Eternal Echoes: Songs and Dances for the Soul,” a tour de force of the Helfgot’s soar-ing vocals and Perlman’s singing

strings that touch on themes often reserved for Jewish holidays such Yom Kipur, the day of atone-ment.

And while Perlman is a house-hold name, the violinist was ada-mant that Helfgot’s singing prow-ess was not to be missed.

“His voice, his timber, and the

complexity of his voice is amaz-ing,” said Perlman. “I’m always affected by sound, whether it’s sound of an instrument or of a voice, it’s like your calling card.”

Indeed the cantor’s voice has an operatic quality that dances between the mournful and life-affirming. The song “Kol Nidrei,”

with its undulating notes and powerful declarations, is bound to bring any listener to their knees, while “Mizmor L’Dovid” may encourage folks to sing along to the slow waltz-like rhythm.

But the concert won’t be all from the album, and Perlman promised he and the cantor would have the crowd on their feet with Jewish favorites.

“We want to make it a sim-cha!” he said. “It’s a happening — a happy happening!”

Helfgot said the concert at the Barclays Center will be a special event for him as well — not only because he gets to perform in his hometown, but also because it’s his first time inside the big-gest and latest addition to the borough.

“I’ve been to many halls around the world, but I haven’t been to the one right in this neigh-borhood,” he said. “Until now, waiting in traffic I didn’t know what it was all for — but now it’s come full circle.”

Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Helfgot at the Barclays Center [620 Atlantic Ave. at Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Heights, (212) 359–6387, www.barclaysc enter.com]. Tickets start at $65.75.

CANTOR CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOPItzhak Perlman and Cantor Helfgot bring Jewish music to Barclays

By Eric Dryden

Motown has never been so hardcore.

Mellif luous melo-dies of Motown and the thrashing guitar and machine-gun drums that characterize hardcore come together when Joey Steel and the Attitude Adjusters go on stage.

Lead vocalist Steel says both genres are all about raw passion.

“Motown was the most pas-sionate music ever made,” said Steel, whose band is performing at Hanks Saloon on Feb. 22. “I always thought that if bands like the Temptations had started in the ’90s they would have been a hard-core band. When I heard these songs, that’s how I heard them: as hard tunes.”

The artists rearrange clas-sics like “Tears of a Clown” and

“Heard it Through the Grapevine” into ferocious hardcore tracks as way of honoring, never insulting, these old favorites.

The Attitude Adjusters have a three-piece horn section, an arrangement atypical to hardcore music, as part of their dedication to staying true to the soul of the Motown.

“We wanted to bring positive tunes to the scene. I love music that you can smile and be happy to, and convey a message,” said Steel. “I wanted to see a hard-core crowd that was smiling and dancing.”

Joey Steel and the Attitude Adjusters for Moosehead’s Birthday Bash at Hank’s Saloon (46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, www.exitfive.com/hankssaloon). Feb. 22, 8 pm, $7.

Strings with songs: Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Helfgot are bringing a variety of Jewish, Israeli, and cantorial music to the Barclays Center on Feb. 28. Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Hard harmonies: (clockwise from bottom right) Joey Steel and his gang of motown rockers Calder, Filthy Phil, Mike Moose, Matt D., and Brian Kleve take classics and make them hardcore. Photo by Geraud Krawezik

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BY ELI ROSENBERGForget East Williamsburg — re-

altors say the hottest new neighbor-hood for Brooklynites looking to re-locate is East Stroudsburg.

A growing number of Brooklyn residents are moving to Pennsyl-vania’s Poconos according to real estate insiders, who claim rock-bot-tom real estate prices, fresh moun-tain air, and 90-minute New York City commutes are drawing Kings County locals in droves.

“New York buyers have always been familiar with the Poconos, but at some point it turned into a pri-mary location as opposed to just a weekend resort type of area,” said Christine D’Amico, a sales represen-tative with Toll Brothers developers, which manages multiple communi-ties in the wooded area and will de-velop condos and a hotel in Brooklyn Bridge Park . “People are able to af-ford a brand-new home and at what they’re paying in rent — a three-bed-room or four-bedroom home.”

In the past two years, nearly half of Toll Brothers sales — nine out of 20 in two developments near Stroudsburg — have gone to Brook-lyn buyers, D’Amico claims, with a sizable amount of those homeown-ers coming from East New York, Ca-narsie, Ditmas Park, and Flatbush.

And with reliable bus service shuttling workers to Port Author-ity in Manhattan every morning, some borough-residents are willing to trade in the perks of the big city for country living.

“I kept looking at houses in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, but I couldn’t afford it,” said Linda Porter, a lifelong Brooklyn resident who moved from Fort Greene to East Stroudsburg with her daughter, son-in-law, and their two children in May. “You don’t get a lot for your money [in Brooklyn]; but you get a lot for your money out here.”

Homes in the Poconos can go for as little as $120,000, said Stroudsburg real estate agent Kriss Ferrara , her-self a longtime New York City resi-dent who bought a vacation home in the area, then decamped for good.

“Oh my goodness, it’s almost like a bedroom community for New York City,” said Ferrara. “After sev-eral years of living in New York City people can’t take it any more and have to get out.”

Ferrara says it’s a migration trend that’s been going on for more than a decade — which isn’t so surprising considering a whole generation of Brooklynites grew up knowing the jingle to Mount Airy Lodge in the Po-conos thanks to its memorable, if not over-played, TV commercial .

But the Brooklyn infl ux has only picked up in recent years, as prop-erty values neared pre-Recession levels in Brooklyn but continued to lag in the Poconos. Sale prices in Brooklyn have depreciated just 3.2 percent since February 2008 to a median of $581,000, but they have been cut in half in East Strouds-burg over the same period, falling from $250,000 to $125,000, according

to the real estate site Trulia.Porter, who commutes to a 9–5

job in Manhattan’s Financial Dis-trict, says she can hardly go any-where in the Poconos without bumping into old faces.

“Everywhere I go I see someone from Brooklyn that I knew,” said Porter, whose sister also moved to the area from the borough. “I’m like, ‘What are you doing out here?’ ”

An old neighbor from East New York lives nearby and now attends the same Pennsylvania church.

It’s not just space and skiing — the Poconos offer more of a commu-nity, some Brooklyn expats claim.

“I’m originally from Trinidad; we’re accustomed to having homes with backyards and more of a com-munity atmosphere,” said Lauren Luces-Burris, who will move with her husband and daughter from a two-bedroom Crown Heights rental to a brand-new, four-bedroom Toll

Brothers home slated to be com-pleted this summer. “Here it’s tough to forge a strong sense of community in an apartment, and everyone is on the go. There you have kids playing in the street, it’s safer, and you have stronger programs in the schools.”

Luces-Burris, like many Pocono transplants, says she will continue to commute to her job as the manager of a Starbucks near the Empire State Building after the move. And com-mutes could get even better — and real estate more expensive — if a pro-posed train link from the Poconos to Penn Station ever comes to fruition .

And residents say that though they have moved away, Brooklyn is never too far away.

“I guess sometimes I wish I could just walk to the store, or something like that,” said Porter, who still has family in Brooklyn. “But I can still go to Fort Greene Park any time I want.”

Ex-Brooklynites fl ock to PA for cheap real estate, fresh air, 90-minute commutes

OUTERMOST BOROUGH: Would you trade the Gowanus Canal for the Lehigh River Gorge — and the hustle and bustle of Brooklyn for bucolic country living in the Poconos?

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BY WILL BREDDERMANHizzoner hopeful Sal Al-

banese says he can get New York City’s malfunctioning transit system back on track — by bringing it under may-oral control.

The former city coun-cilman told the Bay Ridge Democrats for Change club on Feb. 7 that he would roll in a new era of effi ciency and end constant fare hikes and service cuts by getting the state government to turn over the buses and subways to him.

“Too often, we have to go begging to the state legisla-ture to get things done,” said Albanese. “It’s a city service, and the mayor is the voice of the people of New York City, so it should be under mayoral control and the mayor should be accountable for it.”

Albanese said he would model his plan on London’s tube system, which the Eng-lish capital’s mayor manages through a board of appointed directors — and which the candidate claimed leads to a far smoother-running pub-lic transportation network. The state would need to create a new agency to run the Metro-North trains and Long Island Railroad.

Albanese said he would assemble a crack team of bus and subway experts from across the globe to serve as his system overseers, rather than just businessmen like Cuomo-appointed Metro-politan Transit Authority ex-chairman — and Repub-lican mayoral candidate — Joe Lhota.

“I wouldn’t have ap-

pointed Lhota. He’s a good administrator, but he doesn’t know anything about tran-sit. It doesn’t make any sense,” said Albanese.

T r a n s -ferring the MTA’s head-quarters to Gracie Man-sion would be a radical track change from 60 years of transit pol-icy. Private companies built and operated the subway system from the early 1900s, until the city bought and consolidated them in 1940 . Crippling strikes led to the

1953 formation of the state-managed and -funded semi-private New York Transit

Aut ho r it y , which the M e t r op ol i -tan Transit A u t h o r i t y later ab-sorbed.

Albanese said he would still seek

state funding for his new municipal transit authority, as well as lobby for federal money and for the reinstate-ment of the commuter tax to fi nance the system.

“Commuters come here and use our services, and

they should help pay for them,” said Albanese. “I’m going to pressure as many people as I can for fund-ing.”

Although the transit transition would be compli-cated, Albanese assured club members that making the mayor the head conductor would pay off in increased effi ciency — and failing to could cost dearly.

“If we can’t move people around the city, properly, the economy is going to suf-fer,” Albanese said.

A city takeover of the transit system isn’t the fi rst bold vision Albanese has laid out in his quest to take City Hall.

Last month the former Ridge councilman vowed to add 3,300 more cops and 500 new detectives to the city’s police force if elected in No-vember.

After the city schools for-feited millions of dollars in state funding because the Board of Education failed to reach an agreement with the teacher’s union, the for-mer teacher declared that as mayor he would conduct the union negotiations person-ally.

Although Albanese sug-gests he might reach more generous accommodations with municipal unions, he has also ruled out taxing the rich to pay for city ser-vices — a populist proposal being pushed by rival Bill DeBlasio — arguing that it would drive wealth from the city, harming the economy, and the tax base, in the long run.

BY WILL BREDDERMANCouncilman Vincent

Gentile is gearing up for a head-on collision with the mayor over parking permits for community board chairs — ques-tioning hizzoner’s grip on reality — and civil-ian parking advocates are on the Bay Ridge pol’s side!

Gentile (D–Bay Ridge) has a bill that would require the city to issue three-hour free-parking placards for the volunteer civic leaders, after hizzoner decided to tow away the long-standing privilege in January — and the city councilman’s proposal is already gaining sup-port from unexpected corners.

Gentile argued that local board chairs de-serve the right to park at any metered space for up to three hours, free of charge, because they do-nate their time to resolve community problems and receive no other compensation — and he scoffed at Bloomberg’s decision to nix the perk as absurd.

“There’s a lot of de-mands on their time, and they’re all volun-teers, and their park-ing permit is a way of saying ‘thank you,’ ” said Gentile. “Taking it doesn’t make any ra-tional sense. Maybe the

mayor isn’t rational.”The mayor’s office

declined to comment on Gentile’s legislation and remarks, but noted that the repeal of permits for board chairs is part of a larger plan to reduce special parking plac-ards citywide, which hizzoner hopes will ease pinched parking and encourage use of trains and buses.

“A reduction in plac-ards isn’t just about opening up curbside parking spaces,” Trans-portation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan said in 2008. “It also speaks to the city’s efforts to be smarter about the allo-cation of our transporta-tion resources.”

But Gentile said this plan reflects the may-or’s Manhattan-centric worldview, since public transportation is sparse in areas like Southern Brooklyn.

BY SHAVANA ABRUZZOThe Small Business Administra-

tion has extended its deadlines for Sandy-hit small businesses and hom-eowners to apply for disaster loans — and it’s offering application help from the experts.

Storm victims should apply for physical damage claims by Feb. 27, and by July 31 for economic injury loans.

The loans apply to small businesses and homeowners who sustained phys-ical damage to their properties — as well as to renters who lost their pos-sessions — and include damage to, or loss of, any vehicles. Small business owners are also eligible if they lost business due to the storm.

Financial experts will be on hand at three locations across the city to help with applications and answer any

questions. Reservations are required. Brooklyn Public Library at Cad-

man Plaza West, Feb. 21 from 10 am–noon [RSVP to [email protected] or (212) 264–1473]; Baruch College in Manhattan, Feb. 21 from 6–8 pm [RSVP to [email protected] or (212) 264–2734]; and St. George Li-brary Center on Staten Island, Feb. 25 from 6–7:45 pm [RSVP to [email protected] or (212) 264–1473].

Albanese: As mayor, I’ll be in charge of the subways

BRING BACK THE PLAQUE: Councilman Vincent Gentile (be-low) wants to give Community Board 15 chairwoman Theresa Scavo a free place to park her car. Photo by Steve Solomonson

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SUB-TALK: Mayoral candidate Sal Albanese says that, if elected, he will grab hold of the transit system and put it on the right track. Photo by Arthur De Gaeta

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BY ELI ROSENBERGA heavily publicized Brooklyn College

lecture on boycotting Israeli goods didn’t differ much from the run-of-the-mill dis-cussions commonplace at universities around the world — and the borough poli-ticians who turned it into international news wound up looking as impressionable as fi rst-semester freshmen when it was all said and done last Thursday night.

The school’s talk with gender theorist Judith Butler and Palestinian rights ad-vocate Omar Barghouti went off without a hitch after college president Karen Gould refused to budge to demands that the po-litical science department withdraw its co-sponsorship of the event.

The huge build-up before the forum drew dozens of opponents and supporters who rallied outside behind police barri-cades, while students and lecturers inside pondered why, exactly, this discussion be-came the biggest story in Brooklyn .

“At the time I thought it would be very much like other events I have attended, a conversation with a few dozen student ac-tivists in the basement of a student cen-ter,” said Butler in prepared remarks that vigorously defended academic freedom — and the merits of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which pushes

for Palestinian rights. “[Y]our being here this evening confi rms your right to form and communicate an autonomous judg-ment, to demonstrate why you think some-thing is true or not, and you should be free to do this without coercion and fear.”

Debate over the forum had as much to do with free speech as it did with the con-tent of the lecture itself — and local politi-cians turned out proving that in America you can argue any point you want, and even take both sides of an issue if you like.

Lawmakers such as Councilman Brad Lander (D–Park Slope), four top mayoral candidates, Borough President Markow-itz, and Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D–Fort Greene), Jerrold Nadler (D–Pard Slope), and Yvette Clarke (D–Flatbush) all called for the school to withdraw sponsorship in the days before the event, then fl ip-fl opped and cheered Brooklyn College’s leader-ship.

And it sounded like a couple of them hadn’t quite done all their homework.

Councilmembers Letitia James (D-Fort Greene) and Steve Levin (D–Wil-liamsburg) signed a letter sent to Gould along with eight other lawmakers hinting that Council could withhold funding from the school if it did not comply with the

wishes of taxpayers — then announced they would symbolically remove their im-primaturs from the missive because they did not support that very idea.

“I would say that it’s a lesson in how important it is to choose your words care-fully,” said Levin.

Councilman Jumaane Williams (D-Flatbush) put out a press release urging the school to open up the debate to pro-Israel groups so the issue could “be dis-cussed with equity, preferably in the same forum.” Days later, he sent out a second release expressing his “confi dence in aca-demic freedom at Brooklyn College.”

Mayor Bloomberg, who vocally de-fended the college and academic freedom last Wednesday, was one of the only high-profi le elected offi cials who did not waver in his support for the college.

Brooklyn College students understood the subject of the lecture was controver-sial — but were surprised it got attention from anyone off campus.

“I was shocked to see that it became such a big deal,” said linguistics major Daniel Barry as he waited in the line for the forum. “All these people were getting upset because some academic department is hosting Judith Butler. I was like, ‘Isn’t this what academia does?’ ”

RALLY POINT: Pro-Israel demonstrators marched behind police barricades while rabbi Mordechai We-berman of Williamsburg protested against the pro-test. Photos by Stefano Giovannini

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BY WILL BREDDERMANIt’s Bay Ridge’s edgiest

nightclub!Cops say a thug stabbed

a bouncer in the buttocks inside Nouveau Restaurant on Third Avenue at 3:31 am on Feb. 3 — a bit more than a month after a mafi a-linked wiseguy knifed another patron at the glossy hang-out between 82nd and 83rd streets.

The victim told cops that

he was trying to separate brawling patrons when a perp in a hooded sweatshirt came up behind him and jabbed him in the backside with a blade.

Video cameras outside showed the cheeky villain fl eeing on Third Avenue in the direction of 82nd Street.

The incident followed the Dec. 23 stabbing of Nunzio Fusco, which authorities al-

leged was the work of Bat-tista “Benny” Geritano, an associate of the Gambino crime family. Both knifi ngs occurred during a weekly dance promotion called “ The Big Show .”

Nouveau occupies the same address as problem-plagued Level Cafe and Ibiza, both now defunct . The club’s management failed to return repeated calls for comment.

NOTHING NOUVEAU: Two people have been stabbed inside Nouveau Restaurant in the last two months. Photo by Elizabeth Graham

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BY WILL BREDDERMANBay Ridge is great, but it

ain’t the beach.That’s what refugees

from Sandy-shattered neigh-borhoods say about their ad-opted home, declaring their intentions to return to their storm-damaged homes as soon as possible — though they don’t know when that will be.

Ridge native Jane Far-rell is one of many Breezy Point residents who came back to her old stomping grounds as fl oodwaters rose — but she and her hus-band Peter are still in love with their seaside lifestyle. The retired PS 102 teacher said she and her husband adore Bay Ridge’s small businesses and close-knit community, but plan on re-turning to Breezy once they get the mold cleaned out of

their house and the fl ooring replaced.

“We love all the restau-rants and the stores here, and the people are just as friendly as they were be-fore, but there’s something about sand between your toes,” said Farrell. “You can’t take Bay Ridge out of a person, but I’m much more acclimated at this point in my life to living near the beach.”

Still, Farrell said the re-building process that could take months, especially as she and her husband navi-gate the treacherous waters of private insurance and government assistance. But not even a rising tide of ex-penses or the threat of an-other superstorm will keep the couple from returning to Breezy Point.

“We’re hoping Sandy

was an anomaly, and it’s not going to occur again in our lifetime,” said Farrell.

Jeannette and Bob Is-rael — who suffered simi-lar damage to their Breezy Point home, and also found shelter in Bay Ridge — agree.

“I don’t think I’m going to live the two or three hun-dred years till something like that happens again,” said Bob.

The Israels — natives of Midwood — said they moved to Bay Ridge be-cause of its abundant ame-nities, and were lucky enough to fi nd a building with available apartments for their son’s family, their in-laws, and their friends, who all fl ed the fl ooded Rockaways.

“We were very grateful that we got a place that’s

so convenient,” said Jean-nette. “We’ve been spoiled here going to so many nice restaurants and stores within walking distance.”

But the Israels said their entire circle will return to Breezy as soon as they are able, come hell or high fl ood-insurance rates.

“We decided a long time ago we liked living at the beach,” said Jeannette.

“The insurance and the re-pairs are part of our choice to live there.”

But not all the newcom-ers are eager to leave. Ma-ria Vitt and her mother El-ena came to Bay Ridge from devastated Midland Beach in Staten Island, drawn to the neighborhood’s lofty-sounding name.

“Literally, we chose Bay Ridge because of the ‘ridge,’

because it seemed higher and safer,” said Vitt, who grew up in Brighton Beach.

Vitt, a nurse at Coney Island hospital, said her lin-gering fears about mold and airborne diseases keep her from wanting to return to her water-ravaged home.

“There’s so many organ-isms that are thriving there right now, it’s pretty much unliveable,” said Vitt.

HOMESICK: Sandy refugees (from left) Ginny O’Brien, Jeanette and Bob Israel, Tom Manzo, and Pat and Frank O’Brien all came to Bay Ridge from the fl ood-damaged Rockaways — but plan on going back. Photo by Elizabeth Graham

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This year, the fair will run on July 19, July 26, Aug. 9 and Aug. 16, from 6 to 10:30 pm.

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60TH PRECINCTCONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—SEAGATE

Knife guyA 30-year-old man was arrested for al-

legedly threatening another man at knife-point on W. 17th Street on Feb. 11.

The victim told police that he was be-tween Neptune and Mermaid avenues at 5:10 pm when the suspect pulled a knife on him and began shouting threats. When cops nabbed the suspect, they found him in possession of an illicit gravity knife, of-fi cials said.

Late-night pickingsPolice arrested a 30-year-old man who

they say stole cellphones from sleeping passengers on an F Train near the Nep-tune Avenue subway station on Feb. 8.

A victim told police that he was rest-ing his eyes on the train as it approached the station near W. Sixth Street at 4:20 am when he awoke to fi nd the suspect pull-ing his cellphone from its belt holster. The victim got to his feet and chased after the suspect and his phone, eventually catch-ing up and taking his phone back.

When cops caught up with the suspect, they found him in possession of three ad-ditional stolen cells, police said.

Beer banditA 48-year-old man was arrested for al-

legedly helping himself two six packs of Modelo from a Neptune Avenue grocer on Feb. 6.

The victim told police that he was work-ing the counter of the bodega between W. 17th and W. 19th streets at 1:58 am when the suspect grabbed the beer and hustled out the door without paying.

61ST PRECINCTSHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND

Told you soCops in the 61st Precinct weren’t just

blowing wind last week when they asked this paper to warn renters and readers to lock their fi re escape windows, as this week has seen yet another rash of fi re-es-cape-assisted burglaries.

• A thief ransacked a man’s E. 15th Street apartment on Feb. 7, taking jew-elry.

The victim told police that he left his home between Avenues U and V at 6 am, and returned that evening to fi nd that his apartment was in upheaval, and a window leading to his fi re escape was unlocked.

• A burglar looted jewelry and designer shades from a woman’s E. 15th Street apartment on Feb. 7.

The victim told police that she left her home between Avenues U and V at 8 am, and returned at 7:45 pm to fi nd she was missing a pair of Dolce and Gabana sun-glasses, two watches, and a pair of ear-rings. The victim said she left her door bolted and locked, but that she forgot to

shut the latch on her fi re escape window.• A burglar plundered a woman’s E.

17th Street apartment on Feb. 5, gaining entrance by — surprise, surprise — scal-ing the victim’s fi re escape and entering her unlocked window.

The victim told police that she left her home between Avenues R and S at 3 pm, and returned at 8:30 pm to fi nd thousands dollars worth of designer watches — in ad-dition to an iPad 2, Prada sunglasses, and a Samsung Galaxy cellphone — gone.

• A burglar ransacked a woman’s E. 17th Street apartment on Feb. 5.

The victim told police that she left her home between Avenues R and S at 5 pm, and returned at 8 pm to fi nd that her apartment was in shambles and that she was missing $5,000, an HP laptop, an iPad Mini, and thousands more in jewelry and precious stones. Her bedroom window — the one attached to a fi re escape —was open.

• A thief’s attempt to break into a wom-an’s E. 12th Street apartment on Feb. 6 was foiled, because the victim actually locked her window!

The victim told police that she left her home between Avenues R and S at 8:45 am, and returned at 9:45 pm to fi nd the top portion of her fi re-escape window pulled down, and the blinds mangled. For-tunately, the crook couldn’t make a gap large enough to fi t through and eventually fl ed, cops said.

Bad behaviorA college student bit a cop while resist-

ing arrest for acting up in a classroom at the school’s Oriental Boulevard campus on Feb. 5, police said.

The arresting offi cer said she was sta-tioned at the college near Oxford Street at 8:20 pm when she noticed the suspect shouting and causing a scene inside a classroom. She placed him under ar-rest, but he resisted as the offi cer and her partner walked him out, and at one point lashed out and bit one of the cops.

Brass bashTwo thugs cracked a man’s skull with

a set of brass knuckles on E. 28th Street on Jan. 27.

The victim told police that he was near Avenue U at 3 am when the suspects ap-proached and asked if he had a cellphone. The victim said he did not and walked on, but the suspects followed him.

One of the thugs, wielding brass knuck-les, fractured the victim’s skull during the fracas, for which he was treated at Kings County Hospital, cops said.

Guacamole goonA 45-year-old man was arrested for

pelting a woman with avocados in an Av-enue Y bodega on Jan. 29.

The victim told police that she was in-side the grocery store between E. 17th and E. 18th streets at 3 pm when she and the suspect began arguing. Eventually, the suspect got fed up and began hurling avo-cados, striking the victim in the face.

— Colin Mixson

68TH PRECINCTBAY RIDGE—DYKER HEIGHTS

DebarredA crook cut the basement window

bars of an 80th Street home and swiped a pricey television set from inside on Feb. 9, cops claim.

The victim said he left his house be-tween 12th and 13th avenues at 4:30 pm and returned at 9 pm to see the guard in pieces and the window open. When he went in-side, he saw his boob tube was gone.

Car theftA lowlife jacked a wallet from the desk

of a Fifth Avenue car dealership employee on Feb. 7, police report.

The victim said he left his billfold — containing his Kingsborough Community College identifi cation and $10 in cash — behind at his work station of the car deal-ership near 65th Street at 12:45 pm when he went to get a glass of water.

When he came back, the wallet was gone.

Nowhere safeA pair of perps busted into a house on

70th Street on Feb. 5 and stole a safe full of jewelry, according to cops.

The victim said he left his home be-tween Eighth and Ninth avenues at noon and returned at 10 pm to fi nd his basement doors kicked open and his 250-pound safe — containing his passport, credit cards, house deed, birth certifi cate, 10 rings, a necklace, fi ve gold coins, two gold wed-ding bands, and his nursing license and registration — vanished.

A neighbor reported seeing two men creeping up the victim’s driveway at 2 pm.

House of horrorA scaredy-cat burglar slipped into

a two-family apartment house on 70th Street on Feb. 6 and raided the fi rst-fl oor

residence, but took off at the sight of the second-story tenant, police say.

The ground-fl oor tenant said she left her pad between 10th and 11th avenues at 10 am and came home to see her rear window jimmied open and $4,080 in cash, plus an expensive watch, taken from her home.

She then learned from her neighbor that the fi end had kicked open the sec-ond-fl oor door at noon, but turned and ran upon realizing that the resident was home.

Hard as nailsA bandit chucked a rock through the

front door of a 13th Avenue nail salon and stole $100 from the till overnight on Feb. 9, police claim.

The business owner said he shut the beauty shop between 84th and 85th streets at 8 pm.

When he returned at 9 am the next day, he saw his glass door in shards, a rock in-side, and the money missing from the reg-ister.

Off the rimA rubber-hungry villain took the tires

and rims off a vehicle parked on Seventh Avenue sometime overnight on Feb. 6, cops say.

The victim said she left her car be-tween 81st and 82nd streets at 10 pm, and came back at 10:30 am the next day to see that a crook had stripped her wheels to the hubs.

62ND PRECINCTBENSONHURST —BATH BEACH

Choked up A thug grabbed a woman by the neck

and threw her to the ground on Bay 17th Street, then took off with her handbag, on Feb. 3, according to cops.

The victim reported that she was be-tween 86th Street and Benson Avenue at 5:25 am when the fi end ran up behind her and seized her around the throat.

“Give me your phone,” the villain said as he pushed her down.

The crook then yanked away her purse and fl ed toward Bath Avenue.

Punch buggyA pair of punks hit a man in the face

repeatedly in a botched attempt to steal his cellphone aboard the N train on Feb. 3, police report.

The victim told cops he boarded the train at the New Utrecht Avenue station near 62nd Street at 4 am, and the crooks sat down on either side of him as the train pulled out of the Eighth Avenue stop. They then struck him in the face.

“Give me your phone,” one of the thugs ordered.

The victim refused, and the two goons struck him again and again in the head, before fl eeing into another car — without getting anything from their prey.

— Will Bredderman


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BY WILL BREDDERMANQuarters won’t buy an-

other life for the Coney Is-land Arcade.

Bowery Street game man Manny Cohen agreed

in court to leave his 22-year spot near W. 12th Street by April 28 after weeks of legal wrangling , joining a carny exodus from the corridor. But landlord Matt Weinberg

promised that his booths will still offer honky-tonk fun this summer.

Cohen, who got an evic-tion notice in January, said he had no problem unplug-

ging his machines from his longtime address because he was sick of dealing with Weinberg and his partner Jeff Persily.

A fi re destroyed half of Cohen’s operation in 2010 , an incident he blamed on his landlords in a lawsuit. Wein-berg denied he and Persily were at fault for the blaze.

“All I wanted was 75 days. If they let me stay for free, I wouldn’t stay any longer,” said Cohen, adding that he did not know what he will do after closing up shop.

Weinberg said he already has another tenant lined up to move into Cohen’s spot — and, though he couldn’t say who it is or what kind of op-eration it will be, he prom-ised the new arrival would not be a slick national fran-chise.

“They’re mom-and-pop carnival people. We’re look-ing to keep the fl avor of Co-ney Island the same,” said Weinberg.

Other evictees from

the Weinberg- and Persily-owned block are fi shbowl game operator Jeff Brooks, who agreed to leave at the end of March, and Balloon Water Race owner Victoria Glover, who never appeared in tenants court and whom Weinberg said he intends to remove as soon as possible. Brooks said his one-year-old booth wasn’t profi table enough for him to care about leaving.

“You usually make big money with a fi shbowl game. I didn’t make big money. It’s an awkward location,” said Brooks, who has worked in the People’s Playground for most of his life.

Glover could not be reached for comment.

Weinberg and Persily are allowing the Wally and Dinah arcade and Bernard Farmanski’s hot dog stand to remain on the block for the time being. Weinberg said he kicked out Cohen and his fellow carnies — none of whom had leases — because they were not

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land — and of one-time resi-dent Woody Guthrie — lives on in the latest song by the poet laureate of the People’s Playground, Amos Wen-gler.

The troubadour who brought the world songs about the Nathan’s Fourth of July hot dog-eating con-test and the New York Aquarium is serenading his favorite neighborhood once again, this time with a tune celebrating the amuse-

ment district’s emergence from the waters of Hurri-cane Sandy, entitled “Co-ney’s Coming Back.”

Wengler, who moved to Coney from Iowa in 1962, said he was aghast at seeing the devastation to his beloved Playground of the World on the day after the storm.

“When I saw the beach, I’d never seen anything like that, so much debris. I saw houses, places fl ooded, people throwing things out, everything in ruin. It really affected me,” said Wengler.

But the strong recovery ef-fort gave Wengler fresh hope, and a song request from Co-ney’s unoffi cial mayor got his creative mojo rising again.

“Dick Zigun, he told me, ‘Hey, Amos, we need a comeback song for Coney Island,’ ” said Wengler, who soon got to work. “I’m very optimistic about it, and this is my way of contributing, giving encouragement that it’s coming back.”

While the start of the song laments the destruc-tion Wengler witnessed,

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the last few verses are more upbeat, promising the Peo-ple’s Playground’s return to its former glory. And to add an extra touch of inno-cence and wonder, Wengler is getting the kids at P.S. 90 on W. 12th Street between Surf and Neptune avenues in on the act, rehearsing the song with the school choir. Wengler said having neigh-borhood children join in fi t both the song’s sound and its message.

“They’re right in the middle of Coney Island, they really got hit,” said Wengler. “And I realized after I wrote the song, that a children’s choir would fi t in real nice, because it’s al-most a kid-oriented song, like John Lennon’s ‘Happy Christmas.’ ”

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The development on Ca-ton Place will be led by the Hudson Companies, an out-fi t that gained notoriety for live-blogging the construc-tion of another development it completed in Gowanus in 2010. It bought the Kens-ington lot for $2,850,000 in 2011.

The developer will work with borough archi-tects Kiss-Cathcart on the project, which will break ground in March or April and will take 18–20 months to complete.

The development will add life to a lot that for-merly housed a chalkboard factory but has been an eyesore for years, and lo-cal leaders have long spot-lighted as a stalled site .

Councilman Brad Lander (D–Kensington) said he supported the proj-ect, even though all 73 units would be market-rate.

“That is a disappoint-ment of mine on the proj-ect,” said Lander. “I wish we had it here and I’m sorry that we don’t.”

Lander said the develop-ers had contacted the city at his behest to see if it could work out a deal with the De-partment of Housing, Pres-ervation and Development to subsidize some afford-able units, but no avail.

“I will say they engaged in a serious effort,” he said. “The city … basically said it can’t provide the level of subsidy that would be needed to make 20 percent of those units affordable in a way that works.”

But not everyone is looking forward to the new

(human) foot traffi c in the area.

“This little space the city called underdeveloped is kind of nice for horses,” said Walker Blankinship, the owner of Kensington Stables. “It’s going to be a lot more traffi c of people, horses being in the way, and potentially people com-plaining about the smell …but [the developers] sound pretty nice.”

The Hudson Companies will not be live-blogging the construction, vice president Alison Novak said.

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CONDO CAN DO: This 73-unit development will rise above Caton Place, builders hope. Courtesy of Hudson Companies

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“If he treats drug ad-dicts, then he played a game with me,” said Notias. “If that’s the case, he would forfeit the lease.”

One World Counseling owner Dmitri Oster refuted Notias’s claim that he was anything but completely open about the nature of his business, which he says treats many working pro-fessionals who have alcohol and drug abuse problems.

“Of course we were up front,” said Oster. “We’re absolutely up front with ev-erything we’re doing. We are going to be an outpa-tient, substance-abuse facil-ity, so people will be coming to us primarily with alcohol and drug abuse problems, but they’re a whole range of people. Many professional, working people, not crimi-nals.”

Borger and others in the area organized a petition drive aimed at reversing the board’s decision.

“Once we found out, the residents got together with the schools and we decided that this is outrageous and that we all agree that we don’t want this place,” said Borger. “Our petition has at least a couple of hundred signatures. I’m not sure what the total amount is, but nobody wants this place around.”

Local business owners are wary that One World’s patients will scare off the foot traffic that gives their Kings Highway loca-tions prestige and profit-ability.

“Indirectly this will af-fect my business, sure,” said Joseph Pavilion, owner of Pavilion Jewelry. “The 20,

30, 40 people they’ll bring to the neighborhood will come into contact with my clientèle and deter them from coming to the neigh-borhood. This area has a lot of foot traffi c and if people don’t feel comfortable walk-ing around here, then busi-nesses will fail.”

The jeweler’s security guard put it more bluntly.

“Yeah, I’m a security guard, and if this place comes to town, everyone is going to need one,” the guard said.

The community board faced angry residents at the monthly meeting in January, prompting chair-woman Theresa Scavo to send out an e-mail to all 49 board members asking them if they’d like to change their vote.

Board members by and large said they were satis-fi ed with their original de-cision, despite the growing grassroots opposition.

“Basically, they felt that the proposal was sound,” said Scavo.

“It’s in a commercial area, near public transpor-tation, and the owner said he wouldn’t receive any cli-ents from the courts. We have to take him at face value.”

Oster accuses his oppo-nents of intentionally exag-gerating the type of prob-lems associated with his business, which does not dispense drugs like Metha-done, or deal with hardened criminals.

“This is willful mis-representation on those people’s part,” said Oster. “We’re not going to receive any referrals from the courts. We have a variety of social support services that we’ll work with, it’s not criminals and drug ad-dicts.”

When Oster was inter-viewed for a previous story, however, he admitted that, while One World Counsel-ing receives most of its cli-ents from social support ser-vices and cultural groups, they do receive some court referrals.

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BY WILL BREDDERMANThe candidates vying

for Domenic Recchia’s City Council seat seem to agree on everything — especially that their opponent is to-tally unqualifi ed.

Neighborhood activist Todd Dobrin and City Coun-cil fi nancial analyst John Lisyanskiy — both Demo-crats hoping to replace the term-limited Recchia (D-Coney Island) — are on the same side when it comes to favoring a wooden Board-walk over concrete and plastic decking, keeping casinos out of the People’s Playground, and restoring Sandy-smashed vital ser-vices. But accusing each other of being out of touch or delusional, both argue that the other is completely unqualifi ed to represent the district, which includes Coney Island, Seagate, and parts of Bensonhurst, Gra-vesend, and Bath Beach.

Dobrin, founder and president of the commu-nity group Friends of the Boardwalk, alleged that Li-syanskiy doesn’t have the vital experience of work-ing with residents of the district, and campaigning for local issues like keep-ing the wooden promenade and keeping out gambling parlors.

“He has no track record in the district,” said Dobrin, who grew up in Gravesend and now lives in Seagate. “The district wants some-body who is from the peo-ple, for the people and with the people, and the choice of the people should be the voice of the people.”

Lisyanskiy, born in the Ukraine and raised in Ben-sonhurst, fi red back with the accusation that Dobrin is ig-norant and unaccomplished.

“I think he’s delusional about his having a track record,” the Community

Board 13 member said. “What has Friends of the Boardwalk actually done? He’s an empty suit.”

Lisyanskiy claimed that when Dobrin was still a CB13 member, he appeared unfamiliar with basic pro-cedures like making an in-

quiry to the Parks Depart-ment about changes to the Boardwalk. By contrast, Lisyanskiy touted his own experience working un-der Recchia and Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D–Chelsea).

“You want to bring some-

one in who understands deeply how the government works. My experience sets me apart,” Lisyanskiy said.

Dobrin defended Friends of the Boardwalk’s record, claiming his group had awarded $50,000 in life-guard scholarships and or-ganized numerous Board-walk cleanups, as well as signed on to a lawsuit to prevent the city from go-ing forward with its plan to convert the iconic seaside walkway to concrete .

He shot back with accu-sations that Lisyanskiy had failed to testify against the switch to artifi cial materi-als at the city hearings, and had been silent on issues like the proposed Coney Is-land casino before making the decision to run. Dobrin also claimed Lisyanskiy rarely attended CB13 meet-ings in 2008 and 2009, dur-ing crucial debates over the rezoning of the People’s

Playground for new devel-opment.

“Why didn’t he stand up and testify when we needed him? Where was he? Where has be been for the last 12 years?” Dobrin demanded.

But former CB13 chair-woman Marion Cleaver said that Lisyanskiy had a good excuse for his ab-sences during those years, since he was recovering from a skiing injury, and he was far from the only per-son on the panel who failed to show up.

“There were many board members whose attendance rate was not good,” said Cleaver, who lives outside the district.

As of the end of January, Dobrin is beating Lisyans-kiy in the money game.

The electrician’s cam-paign has just under $58,000 in the bank, com-pared to the fi nancial ana-lyst’s $28,000.

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GAME ON: Council contenders (left) John Lisyanskiy and Todd Do-brin both want to represent Coney Island. Courtesy of John Lisyanskiy

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rescue ladders around the banks of Prospect Park’s frozen lake put lives in jeop-ardy, park watchdogs claim.

The Parks Department sets up 43 rescue stations around the 60-acre waterway every winter, each equipped with a single eight-foot wooden ladder and signs in English and Spanish warn-ing of the risk of thin ice.

But on a recent visit, one ladder was out of reach be-hind a waist-high chicken wire fence, while crucial attachments that allow for multi-ladder rescues were broken or missing at at least four sites. Those attach-ments are used to link two ladders in a common rescue strategy that better distrib-utes weight across the ice — keeping rescuers them-selves from plunging into the freezing depths.

“The ladders give a mis-impression to somebody who happens to come to the lake that thinks they are safe to use as they are,” said park watchdog Ed Bahlman, who claims the broken and miss-ing pieces will make a link

between two ladders unsta-ble, if possible at all. “It may cost somebody their life.”

Parks Department spokes woman Meghan Lalor said the ladders are checked weekly and “fi xed as neces-sary” by maintenance staff.

“Parks staff last in-spected the ladders in Pros-pect Park on Sunday, Feb. 3, and found that all equipment was in good condition and all signs were in place,” said Lalor, who noted that the lad-ders pictured in this story “appear to be functional.”

But that doesn’t mean you should grab one in an emer-gency — like when two men fell through ice into a pond in Manhattan’s Central Park last Tuesday. The Parks De-partment says its ladders are “intended for use by trained rescuers only, not by the gen-eral public,” even though the signs at rescue stations say nothing of the sort.

The fact the ladders are for the pros comes as a sur-prise to Prospect Park reg-ulars, who say they would grab one — damaged or not — in the heat of the moment.

“My fi rst instinct would be to use the ladder even if

it was broken,” said Kens-ington resident Jena Batta-glia. “Why would the lad-ders even be there if they weren’t meant for that?”

The Parks Department urges bystanders to call 911 rather than attempting to make rescues themselves.

Fire department captain Liam Flaherty of a Bergen Street rescue company said many good Samaritans be-come victims themselves.

“Don’t think because you have that ladder that you can walk right up and pull a person out of a hole,” he said, adding that the FDNY does not use the Parks De-partment’s emergency ice

ladders because responders have their own equipment. “We are trained profession-als. You want us here.”

Parks employees who re-spond to emergencies don’t just rely on the ladders set up every 400 feet around the waterway — they bring ad-ditional ladders, as well as ropes and life buoys, Lalor said.

But the missing and damaged components mean the city is walking on thin ice, according to Bahlman.

“If they aren’t going to be maintained and give a false sense of security then there is no purpose for them to be there,” he said.

LIVE SAVERS: Firefi ghters of Rescue Company No. 2 practice an ice rescue in Prospect Park. CNG / Natalie Musumeci

LADDER BAD: Park watchdog Ed Bahlman says damaged emergency ice ladders (inset) that surround Prospect Park’s 60-acre lake give a false sense of security to park-goers and would-be rescuers.

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several charity drives to keep the stands stocked, meaning that paperback fans can choose to keep the tomes rather than return-ing them.

“If you want to bring them back, that’s fi ne, if you want to give one to a friend, that’s fi ne, if you want to put

it on a bookshelf, that’s fi ne too,” said Zabriskie, who added that his group set up the boxes with permission from the Brooklyn Public Library.

A library spokesman did not immediately respond to inquiries, but Zabriskie said the project is a way to re-mind people that the spines lining the shelves at the local branch are part of the back-bone of the neighborhood.

“The library is an essen-

tial element of the commu-nity,” said Zabriskie. “It’s important that the people in the community know we’re looking out for them.”

Brooklyn lit lovers are giving good reviews to the book boxes.

“Anything that can help our libraries, because they were completely devas-tated, is good,” said Chuck Reichenthal, district man-ager of Coney Island’s Com-munity Board 13.

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Restaurateur Danny Meyer’s burger chain, fa-mous for its all-natural suc-culent patties and creamy milkshakes, will replace the homeware store Fur-niture House in a prime Flatbush Avenue location between Dean and Pacifi c streets, steps from the 18,000-seat entertainment mecca’s main entrance.

Shake Shack, which opened its fi rst borough lo-cation in 2011 at the head of the Fulton Mall, is join-ing a wave of patty parlors, including 67 Burger and Burger Bistro, that sprouted up within a half-mile of the home of the Nets in the past two years.

But Shake Shack hon-chos aren’t worried about getting fried by the compe-tition.

“New York City is our hometown, and the Shack will be the place where New Yorkers can come to-gether to celebrate the best of Brooklyn’s thriving cul-ture, sports, and entertain-ment,” said Shake Shack CEO Randy Garutti in a statement.

Brooklyn burger lovers are ecstatic that the bor-ough is getting a second dose of the much-loved fast

food restaurant. “I’m so excited! I’m go-

ing to be there for break-fast, lunch, and dinner,” said Shake Shack fan Iris Arcala of Park Slope while she waited for her meal — a “ShackBurger” with cheese fries — at the Fulton Mall location.

Calls to the owner of Furniture House were not returned by this newspa-per’s deadline.

TOOTHPICK AND ROLL: The burger chain Shake Shack will open a new location beside the Barclays Center, joining an infl ux of patty purveyors around the new arena. CNG / Ben Muessig

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BY JAIME LUTZThey fi nally pulled the

plug.Undeterred by interrup-

tions from loud protestors, the board of the State Uni-versity of New York voted to close Long Island College Hospital after years of fi -nancial trouble.

“This is no blame to LICH; this is unfortunately just one of the things we just have to do,” Downstate Medical Center president Dr. John Williams told the board on Friday morning.

The shutdown of the 155-year-old institution was widely expected , after Wil-liams told doctors last Mon-day that he would formally recommend closing the Cobble Hill hospital to the board of directors.

Last Thursday, Wil-liams told a rowdy crowd at a meeting of the university board in Manhattan that the hospital was bleeding Downstate’s money.

The whole State Univer-sity hospital system likely lost $200 million in 2012, largely due to Long Island College Hospital, accord-ing to a report released last month by the state comp-troller.

The State University stands to gain a lot from a sale of the hospital’s facili-ties: the institution’s prop-

erty, building, and equip-ment are worth between $200 and $500 million, according to Downstate, which contributed the num-ber to the comptroller’s au-dit.

When the State Univer-sity used $62 million in

state grants to merge with Long Island College Hospi-tal in 2011, the hospital was already in dire fi nancial straights.

In 2008, previous owners Continuum Health Partners fi red 300 employees and sold several buildings to man-age the hospital’s debt.

State health authori-ties cannot sign off on the closure until determining whether or not the people that the hospital serves can fi nd quality care elsewhere, but the board vote has likely sealed the hospital’s fate, in-siders say.

MEDICAL INTERVENTION: (Above) Demonstraters urged authorities to postpone the vote to kill Long Island College Hospital (left). They did not succeed. Photo by Jaime Lutz

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“The Mayor’s state-ment clearly shows he has no concept of reality in the outer boroughs,” said Gentile.

And residents known for battling for a spot to leave their car are back-ing up Gentile’s bill. Louis Camporeale — also known as the Parking Pal, whose website helps motorists avoid tickets — said he be-lieves panel chairs should get a pass to help them

with their com-munity work, though with daytime-only restrictions to avoid abuses.

“If you’re p e r f o r m i n g duties and not being compen-sated for it, there should be some leni-ency in parking involved,” said Camporeale, who left Bay Ridge for Gravesend because of the lack of places to put his car.

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BY COLIN MIXSONGovernment advice

to use bleach to clean up mold could leave Gerritsen Beachers in a bad spot, ex-perts say.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been handing out fl iers in Gerritsen Beach advocat-ing the use of a bleach and water solution to cleanse homes affected by mold, but community activists and mold experts say that method doesn’t really solve the problem and that, come warmer weather, the own-ers of fl ood-damaged homes will see the unhealthy blight return.

“About 2,000 homes were severely fl ooded and of those 2000 homes, 70 percent have only used bleach, vinegar, and water,” said Mike Tay-lor, president of Gerritsen Beach Cares, a non-profi t that’s been leading the charge to restore normalcy to Gerritsen Beach following Hurricane Sandy. “When things warm up, those peo-ple are going to have a big problem in the spring.”

The pamphlet tilted, “Mold and Mildew: Clean-ing Up Your Flood Damaged Home,” which FEMA has been circulating through-out Gerritsen Beach and other affected neighbor-hoods, advises resident’s with water-damaged prop-erties to clean affected sur-faces with a “non-ammo-nia soap, or commercial cleaner,” before disinfect-ing it with a chlorine bleach solution of “one-and-one-half-cup bleach per one-gal-lon-of-water.”

The bleach will indeed knock out the mold that has already grown on the soggy portions of a fl ooded-out home, but it does nothing to kill the hardy spores that have burrowed deep into the wooden framework, say experts, leaving residents facing potentially serious health and fi nancial risks later on due to recurring mold that can harm resi-dents’ health and home re-sale values.

“Bleach is 90-percent water, so you’re adding a

harsh chemical and another moisture source for the mold, which takes the color out, but leaves the mold to grow,” said Justin Hopkins, who has been doing regu-lated mold remediation for fi ve years for US Fire and Water Restoration. “You’re actually adding moisture to it, so it smells fresh and clean, but you still have a mold growth problem.”

Despite the FEMA rec-ommendation, bleach is not recognized as an anti-fun-gal biocide by the Environ-mental Protection Agency and cannot be relied on to penetrate wood and kill mold spores.

“Here’s the funny thing, if you go to Clorox’s web-site it doesn’t say anything about bleach killing mold,” said Hopkins. “If it did kill mold, they would put it on there, wouldn’t you think?”

Just like people, mold tends to fl ourish in the warm, humid conditions that come with the Spring, meaning that many peo-ple who assumed they had cleaned the mold from their houses over the winter will eventually fi nd that it was

only waiting for warmer weather.

“Mold lives in the same environment we do, which is going to be your typical spring weather,” Hopkins explained. “It likes warm and moist, not dry and cold. So everything’s go-ing to be minimized now, but come spring it’s going to really take off.”

Mold can cause hay fever-type symptoms like sneezing, runny nose, red eyes, and even rashes in people with allergies and poor immune-systems. It can also trigger attacks in people with asthma, and even irritate the nose and lungs of those without al-lergies.

Even worse, however, in a case of the cure being worse than the disease, fumes from the bleach it-self can cause irritation, as gloriously named Ger-ritsen Beach resident Prin-cess Grace discovered when she was cleaning up after six feet of water fl ooded her basement.

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“I had a throbbing head-ache for a week.”

But she thought she had no alternative to enduring the noxious fumes, given the advice in the govern-ment pamphlet. “FEMA said we need to use bleach so we can avoid the mold,” said Grace. “I used a lot of bleach.”

To be fair, the FEMA pamphlet does say that if more than 25 square feet need to be cleaned, hom-eowners should hire a con-tractor, but local advocates say that caveat makes the bleaching advice not just ineffective and possibly dangerous, but also entirely irrelevant.

“FEMA’s own literature says bleach is not for a prob-lem bigger than 25-square-feet, so why hand it out in neighborhoods where the fl ooding is more severe?” asked Steve Barrison, pres-

ident of the Bay Improve-ment Group, who has been organizing a series of mold education nights through-out southern Brooklyn.

“I’m not sure why they’re not handing out literature that doesn’t ap-ply to our situation,” said Barrison, “and why they can’t come up with some-thing new that is applicable to our fl ooding, not a little spill in the corner of your basement.”

FEMA declined to com-ment by press time, saying they needed more time to come up with an answer.

“We’re continuing to work on a response to your inquiry,” said agency spokesman Jim Homstad.

Meanwhile, Gerritsen Beach residents continue to work on cleaning up their homes, unsure whether they might have to do it all over again in the spring.

What do old bread, gourmet cheese, and post-Sandy Brooklyn have in

common? Mold. This variety of fungus not only spoils food and gives

blue cheese its bite, but it also lurks within the depths of water-logged

walls and furniture in fl ooded houses. There it can result in serious

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How do I annihilate spores?

Homeowners or their contrac-tors should perform a four-step pro-cess to remove the mold, and make sure it doesn’t come back.

1) Demolition: If your home or

basement sustains serious fl ooding, your only recourse is to gut it. Fur-niture, cupboards, dry wall, and in-sulation all must go. When tearing out dry wall, make sure you remove everything up to four feet above the high water mark in your home.

2) Dry: The drying process be-gins. Contractors and mold reme-diators should use fans to pull the moisture out of the support beams, and dehumidifi ers fi lters to suck the spores out of the air.

3) Clean: The manual approach works best, going over the affected woodwork with wire brushes and sand paper. The rub down will re-lease spores into the air, so it’s im-portant to run an air purifi er dur-ing this phase.

4) Treat: To kill off any remain-ing spore and prevent a recurrence of the mold, contractors should ap-ply a biocide that — unlike bleach

— is certifi ed by the Environmen-tal Protection Agency as an anti-fungal. If the wood is nice and dry, your home’s support beams should absorb the biocide like a sponge, leaving you with a minimal risk of future mold growth. An additional step is recommended — apply-ing an encapsulate, which perma-nently bonds to the surface of the wood and kills mold spores on con-tact. Contractors typically won’t provide a warranty on the work unless the homeowner forks over the extra cash for the encapsula-tion process.

Mold expertise courtesy of Tony Daddona, chief operating offi cer of Clearstream mold remediation services; and Justin Hopkins, a contractor for US Fire and Wa-ter Restoration who has fi ve years experience performing regulated mold remediation.

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To the editor,Thank you, Shavana Abruzzo (“A Brit-

isher’s View”) for your column on the Tawana Brawley hoax and fiasco (“Time to come clean, Tawana,” Feb. 8).

It caused such an enormous amount of grief, namely to Steven Pagones and to many New Yorkers. Then-State Attorney General Robert Abrams also suffered se-vere humiliation as a result.

As far as Tawana Brawley is con-cerned, she obviously is devoid of enough character to tell the truth, even after all this time. Al Sharpton, who conspired with his lying cohorts C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox, has never been man enough to say, “I’m sorry, I was wrong.”

We should not forget this hoax, as it caused much grief for many.

Good luck to Steven Pagones as he tries to rectify the hell he was falsely sub-jected to. Ruth Weiner Sheepshead Bay

To the editor,This letter is in response to those

people who agreed that the speakers call-ing for divestment and other measures against Israel are free to talk, due to our freedom of speech provision.

Let us remember that anti-Semitism begins to thrive during increasingly dif-ficult economic conditions. We saw this with the rise of Nazism in Germany. Didn’t the Nazis call for a boycott of all Jewish owned businesses on April 1, 1933?

Yes, we have freedom of speech, but we can’t go into a movie theater and yell “fire” as an example.

Let’s face it. Despite what others say, these advocates of a boycott and divest-ment are Jew-haters in every sense of the word. They hide behind their hatred for Israel by advocating all sorts of anti-Israeli measures.

We must always be on guard. Ed Greenspan

Sheepshead Bay

To the editor,I read with great interest about artist

Mie Olise using mud from our famously

polluted Gowanus Canal for her works (“Mudslinging Art,” Feb. 8).

A recent visit to Nashville brought me the revelation that our “totally Brooklyn” canal can also be found in the OpryLand River.

Yes, during construction of the Grand Old “Opryland Hotel” in Tennessee, a large, navigable indoor river was con-structed to ferry visitors around the mammoth complex. Builders decided to fill this river with water from every river-canal and named stream across the U.S. The oceans were included for good mea-sure too.

A series of bronze plaques were strate-gically placed to tell the onlooker which state, river, or canal the water was taken from and placed into this grand man-made waterway. As one walks through the lush gardens and reads these plaques, it is a great feeling to see the majestic Mississippi, the powerful Colorado, the serene Monongahela, and our Gowanus flowing along the banks, together.

So when in Nashville for a great coun-try music concert at the Grand Old Opry, stop by the hotel, look around and have dinner at the old Jack Daniels Saloon, or other restaurants on the banks of the Gowanus! Robert W. Lobenstein Marine Park

To the editor,If our illustrious mayor wants to re-

move clutter from the streets of New York by removing no-honking signs, why not remove the parking meters that have been replaced by Muni-Meters?

Paint a small line on the curb for each parking spot. This will give pedestrians more walking room and less of a chance to bump into them, while not paying at-tention to where they are going, while chatting on their cellphones.

Michael Mangiari Dyker Heights

To the editor,I must disagree with Ed Greenspan

about teachers writing suspensions (“Class Control,” Letters to the editor, Feb. 8).

That would be a perfect out for the flunky teacher who cannot teach, and would spend the period writing suspend referrals. A good teacher usually has good class control and spends the period motivating students to learn.

There was a system in place whereby there was a dean of discipline for each grade, along with an assistant principal and a guidance counselor. Referrals were made by the teacher to the dean.

Infractions could be delivered for disruptive students, cutting class, fight-ing, bullying, stealing, and possession of weapons. The student would be called to respond to the referral. When neces-sary, a guidance counselor or parents were called in. Suspensions were down the road. Sadly, the shuffle was, in effect — you send me a bad apple, I’ll send you one of mine.

In 1988, New Jersey principal Joe Clarke maintained order with a bull horn and a baseball bat. Being fair, firm, and listening to students solved many prob-lems. Ugo M. Rosiello Mill Island

To the editor,Bicyclists from Chinese restaurants

and pizza restaurants are terrorizing pe-destrians.

I see them everyday riding their bicy-cles or motorized bicycles in both direc-tions on the sidewalks, and in the street gutters against traffic. These creeps don’t even stop at red lights!

Last night I was almost killed by one of these delivery mules, who was not wear-ing any outer identification, making it impossible to tell which Chinese restau-rant employed him.

Bicyclists also ignore the rules of the road. I am dreading the day when Mayor Bloomberg unleashes hoards of new cy-clists on the city. I haven’t seen the police stopping to ticket improper bicyclists.

If a car was driving the wrong way, or on the sidewalk, our police would be all over them.

This is a sorry state of affairs! Justine Swartz

Brooklyn Heights

To the editor,The worst kept secret in City Hall was

Public Advocate Bill DeBlasio’s mayoral ambition (“Checkin’ in with: Bill DeBla-sio,” online Feb. 6). The lines are clearly blurred between his day job and the new job he seeks.

DeBlasio has been engaged in a non-stop series of daily press conferences, news releases, issuances of various re-ports, letters to the editor, guest columns

in newspapers, and publicity stunts for years. All of this was at taxpayers’ ex-pense to raise his name identification with voters and grease the wheels for his intended 2013 mayoral run. Don’t forget his visiting every local and county Demo-cratic Party clubhouse from the day after lame-duck Mayor Bloomberg took his last oath of office in January 2010.

Any public-opinion poll can tell you that the average citizen believes taxpay-ers would be better off if the useless office of the public advocate was abolished.

There has been a consistent political quid pro quo with DeBlasio. This started when he was a member of the City Coun-cil, and continues with him serving as public advocate. Look at his record with the United Federation of Teachers, and virtually all municipal labor unions. He has supported virtually all of the U.F.T. and city labor union demands. I challenge anyone to find examples of DeBlasio pub-licly disagreeing with the U.F.T. or other municipal labor unions on any major is-sues during his career. Check DeBlasio’s campaign filings with the Campaign Fi-nance Board and see for yourself.

DeBlasio, like many other elected of-ficials, are puppets of the U.F.T. and city labor unions’s strings, just like the poli-ticians and judges were in the pocket of Don Corleone in “The Godfather.”

He would clearly not be able to repre-sent the interests of parents, taxpayers, and business people when negotiating fu-ture contracts with the U.F.T. or any mu-nicipal labor unions if elected mayor.

The city will have a $70-billion budget next year with more than 200,000 employ-ees. This is greater than most states and many nations. DeBlasio has never built a business, created jobs, met a payroll, bal-anced a multi-billion dollar budget, or managed any significant agencies with large numbers of employees.

His ego, just like those of his predeces-sors Mark Green and Betsy Gotbaum, is attempting to use the public advocate’s of-fice as a stepping stone to the mayor’s of-fice. He has no real qualifications for the second toughest job in America.

Now that he has finally come out of the closet and declared his candidacy, DeBla-sio should avoid the appearance of any conflict of interest by resigning as public advocate today. End the charade and be honest enough to run full-time for mayor on his own time and dime. Larry Penner

Great Neck, N.Y.

LET US HEAR FROM YOU

Thanks for taking on Tawana, ShavanaSOUND OFF TO THE EDITOR


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We have all read books, watched movies, and par-

ticipated in discussions about the Holocaust, but nothing can stir your emo-tions and bring tears to your eyes as much as listen-ing to a survivor talk about his tragic experiences. I just returned from the local library where 86-year-old Leon Schagrin spoke of his life before, during, and af-ter the horrors of living in concentration camps.

I was spellbound and mo-tionless as, for the first 60 minutes, he spoke about the cattle car filled with those who had the strength to stand. He said that as he ex-ited, he waited in a long line where one uniformed Nazi instructed “tso der link, tso der recht.” He wanted to go to the right, because that’s where everybody was be-ing sent. He was pushed to the left, and only later did he learn that those being sent to the right were put to death.

The second 60 minutes was a question-and-answer session, which could have gone on for hours. Mr. Scha-grin’s softly spoken words filled our imaginations with the sights, sounds, and smells of Szebnia, Auschwitz, and Tarnow. There were horrifying tales of hiding from the Nazis, running from them, and the hopes and prayers of possi-bly escaping from this most-disturbing chapter in the history of man’s inhuman-ity to man. He spoke about Belzec as a place that most Americans are not familiar with. As a former resident, he returned to Poland and worked diligently with the various authorities to have a memorial built honoring the Jews who perished in the Belzec Concentration Camp.

He gently asked, “How can there not be a memo-rial to honor the more than 600,000 people who perished there? Only one Jew made it out of this hell. All others were put to death.”

As time passes, each

year the number of actual witnesses grows less and less. There are people on this planet who say that the Holocaust never happened. Way back in the 1980s, I was friends with Rabbi Joseph Frankel of East Flatbush. I vividly recall him saying that we must keep the mem-ories of this horrific era alive. He quoted Edmund Burke: “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.”

He also said that we, the Jewish people, must retell our story and write about it, well, because, “One hun-dred years from now, some-one will pick up the works of an anti-Semitic non-believer, read it, and then read the works of a Jew who perhaps didn’t express his thoughts as well as the skeptic.” Then he might say, “This one writes so much better, and what he says is so convincing that it must be true. Therefore the Holo-caust didn’t happen.”

Rabbi, we’re fighting that fight right now. We must keep it alive.

I am [email protected] saying that there are many versions of the Burke quote. Here’s just one of them written almost two centuries after Burke’s death. George Santayana wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are con-demned to repeat it.”

Who the heck is Rex Reed any-way? And since he is older than the Crypt Keeper,

shouldn’t he be retired already?Don’t get your knickers in a twist, I

know who he is. I just don’t like him. The movie critic is really too long

in the tooth to still be writing any movie reviews. He should have quit before the talkies came in. His lat-est rant against Melissa McCarthy proves that.

When did it become okeydokey and peachy keen to base your criticism of a movie on the weight or appearance of the cast? Shouldn’t the movie critic consider the plot? Whether McCarthy is 100 pounds or 1,000 pounds shouldn’t be the basis of you liking the film or not. Unless McCarthy was portray-ing a hippo and not doing a good job or was a crappy tractor, then I don’t think Reed’s comments have any value.

But I guess it is politically correct to insult a fat woman. After all, he was only doing it for her health.

In reviewing the actress’s lat-est hit “Identity Thief,” (it opened to $38.6 million last weekend, so ha!), the cranky old film critic called Mc-

Carthy “cacophonous, tractor-sized,” and a “female hippo.”

When Hollywood reared its hind legs to kick him in the teeth, he tried to weasel his way out by explaining the age-old same-old same-old, “I have too many friends who’ve died [from obesity-related issues],” and “I object to using health issues like obe-sity as comedy talking points.”

Puleeeze! Get over yourself, Rex, you can take your comments and stuff them where the sun don’t shine. You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch, and there ain’t no two ways about it.

I’d like to see how good old Rex would react if critics decided to cri-tique his writing style and instead of calling him a long-winded, pomp-ous old hack (which he is) that don’t know a hill of beans about his sub-ject (which he don’t), the critic would choose to insult Rex’s sexuality or the fact that Mr. Reed is older than mold and wears more makeup than Zsa Zsa Gabor, with sagging jowls in need of a good plastic surgeon.

I’m not one to throw stones — my glass house is out in the open, so I re-ally don’t like those that do.

If you don’t like the movie, the book, the play, the concert, whatever, attack the product, not the person’s appear-ance. It shows a dearth of class and a tremendous lack of professionalism.

Not for Nuthin™ Rex, but if you don’t have anything good to say, just keep that aging, sagging mouth closed.

Follow me on Twitter @JDel-Buono.

NOT FORNUTHIN’

Joanna DelBuono

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OPINIONStanley P. Gershbein

Joanna’s bad review of Rex Reed

Stan writes so you remember

Christians began their 40-day holy period of prayer and fasting

this week on Ash Wednes-day, but some 100 million of them living in Muslim nations did so at the risk of imprisonment, lashing, de-portation, torture, and even death, because they are forbidden to prac-tice their religion freely.

Their persecution is a forgotten epidemic. It barely registers a blip on a public radar in our nation where civil rights attorneys sue the NYPD for daring to keep an eye on Muslims as part of their counter-terrorism ef-forts, even though U.S. law enforcers have foiled 53 terror plots since 9-11 — all of them hatched by Islamo-nuts, the likes of whom have memorably passed themselves off before as up-standing civilians.

The 9-11 hijackers blended silently and seamlessly into their main-stream communities, and proved that untold disasters lie just one success-ful scheme away.

The FBI erodes, moreover, any no-tions of anti-Muslim sentiment with cold, hard facts.

It reported 157 hate crimes against Muslims in 2011 — the latest figures

available — compared to a whop-ping 771 against Jews. But that hasn’t stopped Muslims from advancing their fiction in the planet’s most tol-erant city by taking to the streets in Queens last month to protest their al-leged abuse.

The egregious double standard is exposed by Open Doors U.S.A. in a damning new report of 50 nations where Christian persecution is the most intense. It is no coincidence that 39 of them are Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia — the birth-place of Islam and a model for all Muslim nations — whose constitu-tion bans religious freedom.

The blow-by-blow account also noted violence against Christians in Africa — an escalating hotbed of Is-lamic fundamentalism — and warned of more to come.

“Radical Islamic groups are pa-tiently waiting for the right time to show their power,” the group as-sessed.

Incidents of Christian persecution in the Muslim world are staggering.

Three pastors are ar-rested in Laos for spread-ing their faith. An Iranian-born pastor and U.S. citizen is sentenced to eight years

in prison for doing missionary work in Iran, including helping to build an orphanage. Two boys, ages 9 and 10, stand trial in Egypt for “insulting” the Koran, after their mother con-verts her family to Christianity. A pastor is fined for reading the Bible “illegally” in Kazakhstan. More than 200 Muslims pelt rotten eggs at Chris-tians holding a Christmas Mass on barren land in Indonesia after their church is illegally shuttered. Twelve Christian worshippers, including the pastor, are killed during Christmas Eve services in Nigeria.

And on and on — and on — ad nau-seum. But not a peep, mind you, out of Muslims who are too busy crying wolf.

We don’t need Ash Wednesday to reflect on the rampant, unchecked violence directed at Christians — but it’s as good a time as any to start.

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I’m madder than Gilbert Godfried when he got fired as the voice of the

Aflac goose over the fact that to me, my life is worth more than a million bucks, but to some people — in-cluding one insurance com-pany that advertises a lot when I’m watching televi-sion — it is not worth a pig in a poke.

Look, you all know that the ol’Screecher’s body isn’t in the Adonis-like shape that it was when I was a lifeguard on Co-ney Island at the age of 16. Over the years, I may have overindulged a bit, to the point that now it hurts my 78-year-old knees so much when I walk that I prefer to ride around in my trusty scooter Tornado!

But that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be able to in-sure myself, so that when the time comes, my lovely wife Sharon can afford that tank-sized casket they’ll need in order to give me a proper burial.

And don’t think for a minute Sharon doesn’t know that!

So when she saw the commercial with Alex Tie-back (you know, the smart guy from the quiz show

where the answers are the questions) promising $500,000 coverage for as lit-tle as 50¢ a day, she raced to the phone and put in a call to the insurance company to see what was up.

She got through pretty quickly and spoke to some guy who was not the host of “Jeopardy” and explained that I was within the age parameters 50 to 85 years mentioned in the commer-cial. The guy said he’d send over the paperwork, and

that’s when the screechin’ started happening.

The letter from insur-ance company said that I didn’t fit into its age param-eters because it only was to 75 years — not the 85 years Trabeck advertised. So Sha-ron called an 800 number and was told that because we live in New York State, the company couldn’t grant the coverage as advertised. So what happened to the guaranteed coverage, Alec?

Now, I wrote all this up for a column last week, but my editor — who for some stupid reason doesn’t be-lieve every word I write — said he couldn’t run it with-out positive proof that all this was absolutely true.

Of course, Sharon is such a neat freak that she threw out all the paperwork we received once she realized she wasn’t getting her big pay day when I kicked the bucket. So I hatched a plan to get turned down again — that would ensure the guys at the insurance company wouldn’t be wise to me.

First, I sat in front of the Zenith in the living room and watched for the com-mercial to come on. Then, I took down the phone num-ber, called up, and gave

them all of my information — but used a phony name (I’m sure if I said “Carmine Santa Maria” they would have known what they were in for, and hung up in-stantly).

A couple of days later I received a letter from the insurance company ad-dressed to one “Dominic Recchia.” It read as follows:

“Dear Friend,“We appreciate your in-

terest in our guaranteed-is-sue life insurance plan.

“Unfortunately, we can-not fulfill your request for further information at this time. Our records indicate that your age does not meet the requirements for this coverage in New York; you must be age 50–75 to qual-ify.”

Can you believe it?!? What happened to 85? Well, apparently, that’s the age they’ll go to in some other state!

So I guess that if the an-swer is “Alan Traback,” the question must be “The guy whose insurance commer-cials appear in New York even though the stuff he is selling is only good some-place else.”

Screech at you next week!

Carmine’s life insurance story

BIGSCREECHERCarmine Santa Maria

A third generation of Gamblings — all named “John” — is

broadcasting daily over our WOR Radio New York, he is.

The name Gambling has been a virtual perennial on this major radio station — one of just a few that retains its original three call let-ters, as opposed to the four most radio stations use.

Mine ears first heard the voice of a John Gambling in the 1920s, when we were in-troduced to the magic of ra-dio broadcasting that began during my youthful school days. Radio WOR or WJZ filled my youth with news, music, and daily forecasts, often injected with humor, it did.

We personally recall each of the three genera-

tions of Gamblings, but the only one that we recall going to war was the first John Gambling, who drew a desk job in Washington,

while bullets — and the atom bombs — exploded in the trenches “over there.”

The Gambling genera-tions now do their daily radio program from Man-hattan, a far throw from Midtown, or the world’s bat-tlefields.

We must include that they were “downtown” when maniacs blasted the ill-fated World Trade Tow-ers and again when march-ers exploited the streets near Holy Trinity Church on Broadway opposite the newest WOR radio station. WOR officials quite proudly hail their newest locale down where major actions have taken place, often un-fortunately!

Of the three major ra-dio station locations, WOR had dually grown greatly

out of its original locale in Bamberger’s Department Store in Newark, New Jer-sey. It followed to New York City on Broadway and 40th Street, and are now in the hub of Manhattan’s Down-town growth in an office tower amidst the traditions of the empirical Wall Street Stock Markets, the federal and international towers and world markets.

As WOR thrives, New-ark is just a wake of neglect, or in its own world of hor-ror and disarray!

Through it all, the Gam-bling traditions ride the crest of helping our public to uphold the traditions and the histories of the past and the cloning of our futures! Forever we will be “Ram-bling with Gambling!”

This is Lou Powsner.

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BY DANIELLE FURFAROThe battle between Brooklyn’s

all-female Guns N’ Roses cover bands is turning into an all-out civil war that’s pitting musical prowess against a---less chaps.

Last summer, Guns N’ Hoses took Brooklyn by storm , reintro-ducing women to glam and the leather-pants spirit of the ’80s with temporary tattoos and enough hair spray to threaten the ozone layer.

Now, another group of twisted sisters is paying tribute to metal heroes Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagen, Izzy Stradlin, and Ste-ven Adler , performing under the name the Rocket Queens.

And this rivalry is the biggest Guns N’ Roses battle since Rose had a beef with Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil .

Of course this metal fi ght, much like Rose’s Motley feud, comes down to substance versus style.

“I know these songs note for note,” said Lily Maase, who plays Slash in the Rocket Queens. “They don’t have that going on.”

That’s because Guns N’ Hoses say a cover isn’t just about hitting

the right notes — it’s mainly about sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll.

“We embody our beloved Axl, Slash, Duff, Izzy and Steve in every way we know how,” said Mia Von Glitz, who plays “Muff” McKagen in Guns N’ Hoses . “Gash humps her Les Paul and shreds her solo while Axl Hose screams, crabs and falls to the fl oor, only to be faced with the up-the-skirt-shot of my vajungle … [Lizzy Straddling] sexily headbangs her incredible red mane to the solid beat given by killer Stevie Rattler on the kit.”

It is, in fact, quite a show.But the Rocket Queens has its

own secret weapon: a keyboard.The six-piece act’s electric

piano lets the band play Guns N’ Roses’s proggy riffs and ballads, most notably “November Rain.”

Guns N’ Hoses, on the other hand, prefer the rawness of ear-lier anthems like “Out Ta Get Me” and “You’re Crazy.”

“If you love something, you em-ulate it to the best of your ability,” said Guns N’ Hoses’s Von Glitz, who bought an all-white Fender Precision bass that looks like the

one McKagen used to play. “In truth, learning Duff’s bass lines has made me a much stronger bass player. The dude is an animal.”

Clearly, Guns N’ Roses means a lot to these women.

Maase grew up in a conserva-tive household where her mother forbade rock music. But her fa-ther sneaked her a copy of “Sweet Child O’ Mine” when she was in elementary school and it changed the course of her life.

“It was the fi rst time I had heard any electric guitar,” said Maase. “It was like someone fl ipped a switch in my brain. Since then, I’ve had a life-long love affair with Slash.”

The rival rockers are willing to put down their axes and forge an alliance, that is if they can con-vince other female Guns N’ Roses fans to take up the trade.

“If there were fi ve (female Guns N’ Roses tribute bands), we could have a festival,” said Maase.

Von Glitz agrees.“We’d just start an orgy to the

sound of the poetically sinful ‘No-vember Rain’ and melt into the ho-rizon on a slow fade,” she said.

Is boro big enough for two female Guns N’ Roses cover bands?

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE: (Above) Jennifer Eden, Lindsay Wade, Hana Mess, Mel Flannery, Nikki D’Agostino, and Lily Maase say their musical prowess makes the Rocket Queens the borough’s preeminent female Guns N’ Roses cover band. (Below) Emily Long, Mia Von Glitz, Charlene Kaye, and Erin Marsz say their rock ’n’ roll attitude makes Guns N’ Hoses superior.

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HARBOR WATCHThe U.S. Air Forces in

Europe Band joined bands from seven other nations at the Musikschau Der Na-tionen (Music Show of the Nations) from Jan. 23 to 27 to remember veterans of all nations who fought in both world wars.

The fi ve-day festival, which was attended by 22,000 people, displayed how music can transcend culture and help nations create valuable diplomatic effects.

Bands from Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Mexico, Sweden, Austria, and Russia participated in the festival. After rehears-als, fi ve shows were pre-sented to capacity crowds in Bremen’s OVB Arena.

Lt. Col. R. Michael Mench, commander and conductor of the Air Force Band, led the band through several songs including selections from the Broad-way show “Wicked” and Louis Prima’s hit “Sing, Sing, Sing.” After the per-formance, Mench explained the diplomatic effect the band had.

“We saw the souls of the countries expressed on the marching fi eld and what lies in each country’s heart was revealed to us in the in-teractions of the people,” he said. “This building of part-nerships united all of us.”

Staff Sgt. Chantelle Friedman, the band’s clari-netist, echoed the colonel’s sentiment.

“Music has long stood as a bridge between cul-tures because it is common ground, the world’s only universal language,” Fried-man said. “It was amazing to watch the camaraderie develop into genuine friend-

ships in just fi ve days.” Earlier in the week, Isa

Nolle, organizer and direc-tor for Volksbands Deutsche Kriegsgraberfursorge, led a group of commanders from each band to Bremen’s city cemetery for a wreath-lay-ing ceremony at the graves-ite of thousands of Euro-pean citizens who lost their lives during the fi rst and second world wars.

“It was a moving mo-ment to lay roses on graves of German soldiers,” Mench said. “The Germans haven’t forgotten about those who fought and died during

World War I and II and the care they provide to their soldiers fi nal resting place is very impressive.”

The U.S. is committed to maintaining strong coop-erative relationships with its allies in Europe. These relationships sometimes re-quire gradual, incremental approaches often achieved through artistic, cultural exchange.

“For some of these folks, this is their fi rst contact with Americans, and a fi rst impression is a lasting impression,” said Master Sgt. Charles Anderson, the

U.S. band’s trombonist and NCOIC, as he refl ected on the concerts.

“Two generations from now, these people will still see us for who we are and the impact will be fantastic,” Anderson said. “Through music, we are able to put America’s best foot forward and we get the opportunity to learn something new as well. That is something you just cannot put a price tag on. It is invaluable.”

For more information about the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Band, visit www.usafeuropeband.af.mil.

HARBOR WATCHRetiring Defense Sec-

retary Leon E. Panetta expressed his gratitude on Feb. 8 for all those he served with through fi ve decades of public service to the nation during his fare-well ceremony in Virginia.

The Armed Forces Farewell tribute, hosted by President Obama, and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, drew a distinguished au-dience of current and for-mer military and govern-ment leaders as Panetta refl ected on his career.

“It’s been 50 years of public service, and I will always cherish the deep and lasting friendships that I’ve made here in Washington,” Panetta said. “I’m extremely grate-ful that so many of those friends could be here this afternoon.”

“I have spent a long time in this town,” he said. “As the son of immigrants I have truly lived the American dream. Being an Italian-American in Congress, at senior levels

in the executive branch, has been for me a very unique experience.”

Panetta said he is still impressed by the sight of the Capitol and the White House at night, calling it a “very special experience.” He thanked the president for giving him a chance to lead the Defense Depart-ment.

“Mr. President, I want to express my deepest thanks to you for the op-portunity to serve this country again as a mem-ber of your administra-tion,” he said. “It has been a tremendous honor and a tremendous privilege these past four years, and especially now as the 23rd secretary of defense.”

“I hope that in some small way I have helped to fulfi ll the dream of my parents, the dream that they wanted, and the dream that all of us want, of giving our children a better life,” he said.

Panetta recalled some of the proudest moments of his career and some of the experiences and mem-

Music mends fences and brings countries together


FAREWELL TO THE TROOPS: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta walks away after delivering his fairwell speech on Feb. 8. Photo by Staff Sgt. Teddy Wade

STRIKE UP THE BAND: Members of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Band perform during the show in Bremen, Germany. Courtesy of U.S. Air Force

Leon Panetta says his farewell

AF band builds partnership

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HARBOR WATCHMentors are important

no matter the age of those they mentor. For the chil-dren of fallen service mem-bers, mentors provide a vi-tal role, which employees of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command-Army Forces Strategic Command, got the chance to fi ll while having fun — Mardi Gras style — at The Overlook on Redstone Arse-nal in Alabama on Feb. 9.

The event, sponsored by U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command-Army Forces Strategic Command and Survivor Outreach Services, is for the families of fallen sol-diers, and one of the focuses of these events is mentoring children.

“We sought among our volunteers not just people who would do activities, but volunteers who would choose to be adult men-

tors and fi nd a surviving spouse, or mom or dad, or brother or sister, and com-municate in a very car-ing and genuine way with them,” said Lt. Gen. Rich-ard P. Formica, command-ing general. “Then we have adult mentors who would reach out to a surviving child who might be missing a father fi gure, and for one day establish a special rela-tionship with an adult who can reach out to them and make them feel important in an environment that is focused on them and their needs.”

Rick Judy, a retired ser-geant major who now works at the command as a De-partment of the Army ci-vilian, has been 5-year-old KayCee Chaney’s mentor for the past three survivor events.

“I love to do this, and it’s a good way to give back,” Judy said. “These families

have made the ultimate sacrifi ce. This is little bitty stuff compared to what they’re going through. I’ve had KayCee three times. I hope I make a good impres-sion on him and he’ll take something away from this.”

According to KayCee’s mom, Krystal Chaney, who lost her husband in 2008, these survivor events are benefi cial to KayCee.

“I think these events help KayCee to realize that the Army doesn’t forget,” Chaney said. “I think it helps to put a face on the Army, and Rick has been a positive male role model for my son. These have been amazing.”

Being a positive role model is exactly why Judy likes to pair up with Kay-Cee.

“I feel sad for him be-cause he doesn’t have a fa-

ther fi gure in his life right now,” Judy said. “If I can kind of fi ll that role a little bit, kind of give him the man thing, I love it. In fact, if we could do this more of-ten, it would be better. Kay-Cee’s fun, enjoyable, and full of energy.”

KayCee, when asked if he looked for Judy when he ar-rived at the event, said em-phatically, “Yeeeaaaah!!!”

Chaney said these events really mean a lot to her and other surviving families.

“Part of what you lose when you lose your soldier is the sense of community,” Chaney said. “This helps that and helps transition us back to civilian life. Survi-vor events keeps growing and evolving, and it’s been fantastic.”

According to Judy, sur-vivors are still part of the Army family.

“If you show that all these people still mean something, that they’re still important to us, then you can’t ask for more than that,” Judy said. “I believe in the Army family. These are amazing events with amazing people and you have volunteers who give freely. They would come do this every day if you asked them.”

Kerrie Branson, a sur-

vivor outreach coordina-tor, said these events re-mind her that survivors are cared about and their fallen soldiers are not forgotten.

“Mentors taking time out on their Saturdays and paying special attention to the children who have lost someone signifi cant in their life is very touching,” Branson said. “Adult survi-vors, like Karen Kennedy, have told me that watching the children interact with mentors encourages them, and they see there is life af-ter loss. Although diffi cult, survivors are given hope and strive to pull each other along the path.”

Formica always tells the surviving families that he, the command, and the Army will remember them and their loved ones.

“These are great events and they are wonderful op-portunities for us to remind the surviving families that they will never be forgot-ten,” Formica said. “I’ve been overwhelmed by the response from within the command and among the community. There are so many people who are will-ing to volunteer as adult mentors, mentors for the kids, or to do the many ac-tivities, and I’m very appre-ciative of that.”CMU’s Global Campus offers recognized, accredited degree

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Annual outreach program extends a hand to family members of fallen soldiers

QUICK, UP AT THE SKY: Lt. Col. Philip Speth, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, tells his young charge to look up so he can paint her design of choice on her cheek during Survivors Out-reach Services Mardi Gras at the Overlook on Feb. 9. Photo by Carrie David

Survivors receive needed mentoring

ories he will cherish.“I will never forget the

pride and exhilaration when I walked out of the White House after the presi-dent announced the success of the bin Laden operation,” he said.

“I could hear the chants of those people who were gathered around the White House and in Lafayette Park yelling, ‘USA, USA,’ ” Pa-netta said. “Thank you, Mr. President, for your strong support in what was a very tough decision. The memory of that operation and the team that helped put it to-gether, both the intelligence

team and the military team, will be with me forever.”

The defense secretary said he’ll remember vis-iting deployed troops on bases around the world, and “looking into the eyes of brave men and women who are putting their lives on the line every day for this country.”

Panetta cited moments where he honored veterans of past wars, and was in-spired by wounded warriors returning home from war.

“I’ll always remember the moments of grief, when this nation has rendered fi nal honors to our fallen heroes and when we’ve had to com-fort their families,” he said.

“Writing notes of con-dolence to those families

who have lost loved ones has been for me one of my toughest jobs,” Panetta said. These moments of selfl ess-ness, courage and sacrifi ce, and heroism provide opti-mism and a renewed sense of pride in our country.

Panetta said he would have “no greater honor” in his life than leading the men and women of the U.S. mili-tary as secretary of defense, serving alongside Dempsey and the Joint Chiefs.

“As we used to say when I was in the Army, there isn’t anyone I’d rather be in the foxhole with than Marty Dempsey,” he said. “I can-not tell you what a privilege it has been to work with you and to work with all of the service chiefs.”


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Cheers to Dr. Ilya Bilik, the new chief of the Department of Medicine at Beth Is-

rael Medical Center Kings Highway Di-

vision. President Dr. Harris Nagler made the announcement on Feb. 3 that our pal Dr. Ilya will be heading the department. “I

congratulate Dr. Bilik on his appointment. He will work closely with our clinical and administrative leader-ship team here.”

Dr. Ilya served as director of community medicine before this step up, and played an integral role in im-

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Wax on, wax offDon those black belts and put on your

gi for Ricardo Louis, Alexis Watson,

Roberto Betancourth, Brandon Pierre,

Woodlynn Pierre, and Aneisha Pierre. The black-belt wonders have chopped, kicked, and blocked their way into repre-senting the good-old U.S. in the world com-petition in Australia.

The kickers are all members of the Kokoro Karate & Fitness Center, and have been selected by the Amateur Ath-letic Union to participate in the 2013 W.K.C. World Championships this spring.

But you know these trips ain’t cheap, so any sponsorship is welcome. If you are so inclined to help out, you can check out the website at www.kokorokaratecenter.com.

Standing O wishes the black belters, “Gam-batte Kudasai” (do your best, in Japanese). Kokoro Karate & Fitness Center [5212 Av-enue N, between E. 52nd and E. 53rd streets in Mill Basin, (718) 253–0303].

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Techno improvementsThanks again to state Sen. Marty

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PS/IS 229, IS 259, PS 102, PS 186, IS 201,

PS 222, and PS 247.

These funds will help get laptops, smart-boards, new wiring, and loo renovations. Yippee!

The senator told Standing O, “I am proud to have been able to secure this funding to support the needs of our schools.”

Standing O sends out thanks 400,000 times over to the hard-working pol.

STANDING Brooklyn’s Biggest Boosterby Joanna DelBuono

DYKER HEIGHTS

Jessica Moran and Nicholas Pi-

lacinski are not just your average eighth grade students — both have an incredible talent for writing essays. And both won the Innovative Essay Contest, sponsored by state Sen. Marty Golden (R–Bay Ridge) and Councilman Vincent

Gentile, (D–Bay Ridge). The duo wrote about prescription drug abuse and com-bating litter, respectively. The gifted writers were congratulated and feted at the school, and presented with certifi -cates, as well as a summer internship in the electeds’ offi ces.

Our pal Jessica will be helping the senator from Bay Ridge with combating prescription drug abuse.

“I am honored to have Jessica intern-ing with my offi ce, and I look forward to listening to her views on this matter of prescription drug abuse, which effects both the young and the old of our com-munity,” Sen. Golden told us.

Pal Nicholas intoned about the

scourge of litter in the community and how to eradicate it, which really pleased Councilman Gentile because he likes his town clean.

“Taking pride in your community at an early age is very important,” he told Standing O. “Giving back is one of the most rewarding, experiences that both parents and children can do together.”

He should know — the councilman has been serving the public since he was in diapers.

Superintendent of District 20 Kar-

ina Costantino, who didn’t want to be left out, told Standing O, “Believing that education takes place beyond the four walls of a classroom, I am delighted that Sen. Golden and Councilman Gentile en-dorsed internships for our students.”

She also thinks it’s best to learn early, “It is never too early to have our students play an active role in preserv-ing their community,” she said.IS 201 The Dyker Heights School [8010 12th Ave. between 79th and 80th streets in Dyker Heights, (718) 833–1786].

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Swearing inHuzza, huzza to freshman Ron-

ald Honka, Jr. The lucky SOX (Son of Xaverian) was invited to attend the second inauguration of President Barack Obama.

The fortunate scholar was invited to attend the auspicious occasion in Washington because of his long mem-bership in the Congressional Youth Leadership Council. As a member of the elite club — since third grade, mind you — of future Dems and Reps, our pal Ron not only watched the 57th president of our nation being sworn in on a stack of bibles, but he was then invited to attend a speech by for-mer Secretary of State Condoleeza

Rice at the National Air and Space Museum.

After the speechifying, Rice in-vited Ron, out of thousands of stu-dents, to take a snap with her.

Our pal Ron was verklempt at the opportunity, gushing to Standing O, “It was very nice, but chaotic and cold,” you betcha, son. “There were more than 800,000 people there and I was very proud to be a part of such an important day.”Xaverian High School [7100 Shore Rd. at 71st Street in Bay Ridge, (718) 759–5728].

HERE’S TO THE WINNERS: (Left) Superintendant of District 20 Karina Costantino, winners Jes-sica Moran and Nicholas Pilacinski, state Sen. Martin Golden, and Councilman Vincent Gentile, share the stage during awards ceremony at IS 201. Courtesy of State Sen. Marty Golden

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It’s pop music — but it’s definitely off-beat.Man Man leader Ryan Kattner swears

that he’s just trying to write the next great pop song, yet he boasts about how the band’s sound is completely different compared to any-thing else in contemporary music.

“Musically, I don’t feel like we have a kin-ship with any bands and, five records later, we still don’t,” said Kattner, who sings and plays keyboard and piano.

Comfortably setting itself apart from others, Man Man has been a torch bearer of experi-mental indie rock for a decade, producing an amalgamation of eccentric acts in the vein of Mr. Bungle and Tom Waits.

Kattner, who goes by the stage name Honus Honus, said mov-ies and visual art have influenced him more than other musical acts — which is clear from the band’s raucous live shows, with members some-times adorned in day-glo warpaint, looking absolutely radioactive.

Other members go by Pow, T-Moth, and Chang — also known as Chris Powell, Jamey Robinson, and Billy Dufala.

For the band’s last album “Life Fantastic” producer Mike Mogis, best known for being a member of Bright Eyes, helped weave a dense and frenetic tapestry of synth, melodica, horns, and orchestral strings. The lyrics are much more personal on previous albums than on this outing, but the zaniness remains.

Mogis is also producing Man Man’s newest album, which the band plans to test drive during the tour — just to see if it’s got the right balance of pop and preposterousness.

“If we don’t blow all of our deadlines, it will hopefully be out by this summer,” said Kattner. “You make your monster in the lab and then you take it out and see if it picks flowers for the little girl or if it eats the girl.”

Man Man at Music Hall of Williamsburg [66 N. Sixth St., between Wythe and Kent avenues in Williamsburg, (718) 486–5400, www.musichall-ofwilliamsburg.com]. Feb. 28, 7:30 pm, $20.

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By Sol Park

Brooklyn is in house — and in the temple.

The Barclays Center has shone the limelight on home-grown talents Barbra Streisand and Jay-Z, but now the stadium concert hall is bringing to stage violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman to showcase one of Brooklyn’s greatest musical contributions: Jewish cantorial music.

Joining Perlman on Feb. 28 will be cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot to get the crowd clapping to Israeli and Klezmer songs, but the main attraction will be a sono-rous display of liturgical singing often used to lead a synagogue congregation in prayer.

“Brooklyn is where canto-rial music was born in the states. Some of the greatest Jewish voic-es came from synagogues [here],” said Helfgot through translator and cantor Benny Rogosnitzky. “This is the largest cantorial event in the last five or six years and there’s a lot of great buzz.”

Helfgot’s collaboration with Perlman has produced the album “Eternal Echoes: Songs and Dances for the Soul,” a tour de force of the Helfgot’s soar-ing vocals and Perlman’s singing

strings that touch on themes often reserved for Jewish holidays such Yom Kipur, the day of atone-ment.

And while Perlman is a house-hold name, the violinist was ada-mant that Helfgot’s singing prow-ess was not to be missed.

“His voice, his timber, and the

complexity of his voice is amaz-ing,” said Perlman. “I’m always affected by sound, whether it’s sound of an instrument or of a voice, it’s like your calling card.”

Indeed the cantor’s voice has an operatic quality that dances between the mournful and life-affirming. The song “Kol Nidrei,”

with its undulating notes and powerful declarations, is bound to bring any listener to their knees, while “Mizmor L’Dovid” may encourage folks to sing along to the slow waltz-like rhythm.

But the concert won’t be all from the album, and Perlman promised he and the cantor would have the crowd on their feet with Jewish favorites.

“We want to make it a sim-cha!” he said. “It’s a happening — a happy happening!”

Helfgot said the concert at the Barclays Center will be a special event for him as well — not only because he gets to perform in his hometown, but also because it’s his first time inside the big-gest and latest addition to the borough.

“I’ve been to many halls around the world, but I haven’t been to the one right in this neigh-borhood,” he said. “Until now, waiting in traffic I didn’t know what it was all for — but now it’s come full circle.”

Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Helfgot at the Barclays Center [620 Atlantic Ave. at Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Heights, (212) 359–6387, www.barclaysc enter.com]. Tickets start at $65.75.

CANTOR CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOPItzhak Perlman and Cantor Helfgot bring Jewish music to Barclays

By Eric Dryden

Motown has never been so hardcore.

Mellif luous melo-dies of Motown and the thrashing guitar and machine-gun drums that characterize hardcore come together when Joey Steel and the Attitude Adjusters go on stage.

Lead vocalist Steel says both genres are all about raw passion.

“Motown was the most pas-sionate music ever made,” said Steel, whose band is performing at Hanks Saloon on Feb. 22. “I always thought that if bands like the Temptations had started in the ’90s they would have been a hard-core band. When I heard these songs, that’s how I heard them: as hard tunes.”

The artists rearrange clas-sics like “Tears of a Clown” and

“Heard it Through the Grapevine” into ferocious hardcore tracks as way of honoring, never insulting, these old favorites.

The Attitude Adjusters have a three-piece horn section, an arrangement atypical to hardcore music, as part of their dedication to staying true to the soul of the Motown.

“We wanted to bring positive tunes to the scene. I love music that you can smile and be happy to, and convey a message,” said Steel. “I wanted to see a hard-core crowd that was smiling and dancing.”

Joey Steel and the Attitude Adjusters for Moosehead’s Birthday Bash at Hank’s Saloon (46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, www.exitfive.com/hankssaloon). Feb. 22, 8 pm, $7.

Strings with songs: Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Helfgot are bringing a variety of Jewish, Israeli, and cantorial music to the Barclays Center on Feb. 28. Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Hard harmonies: (clockwise from bottom right) Joey Steel and his gang of motown rockers Calder, Filthy Phil, Mike Moose, Matt D., and Brian Kleve take classics and make them hardcore. Photo by Geraud Krawezik

Man Oh Man have created a worldwide cult fanbase on their intricately weird pop songs.

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By Samantha Lim

A Greenpoint jewelry studio is tak-ing a page from Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.

Every spare inch of the workshop is filled with boxes, bags, and Tupperware containing fruit, candy, and snacks — drawn from all over the world. And those goodies serve as the raw materials for necklaces and earrings that look simply delicious.

You can’t eat the jewelry, but they are made with tons of tasty morsels.

“There’s a Japanese food website where you can get Japanese groceries — they have hard candy with teeny pictures of cherry blossoms, Samurai, Kabuki faces,” said Debbie Tuch, the bubbly designer behind Glitterlimes. “Japan and Barcelona have the coolest candy.”

The Glitterlimes line of no-longer-edible accessories came from a successful experiment with dehydrated lime slices and glittered resin, giving birth to a whole slew of fruit and candy wearables that not only retain their natural juicy appearance — but sparkle, too.

When Tuch founded the company in 1996, she initially favored using citrus fruits such as limes, lemons, oranges, and pomelos. Since then, her range of jewelry has expanded to include the likes of pears, star fruit, kiwano melon, and even veg-etables such as the porous lotus root.

Plus, Tuch constantly keeps her eyes peeled for new materials that would work as jewelry, sourcing conventions such as the Sweets and Snacks Expo in Chicago.

“The event is crazy,” she says. “You can get anything from Peanut Chews to Peeps to Godiva to artisan bacon-choco-

late, or snacks like Lays potato chips to some crazy little cracker that no one’s heard of before.”

Seeing Glitterlimes grow is a sweet dream come true for Tuch, who has been making jewelry since she was thirteen. She never imagined celebrities would one day wear her work. Tennis star Venus Williams appeared on the cover of Time Magazine during the 2001 US Open wear-ing a pair of miniature lime earrings. Legendary songstress, Madonna, ordered Glitterlimes goods to give to her crew on the “Hard Candy Tour.” Just last winter, Lady Gaga unveiled a pop-up shop at Barneys carrying Glitterlimes jewelry. Tuch had to get extra hands on board to make 4,500 pieces of jewelry out of glimmering rock candy, rainbow swirled lollipops, and gummy Cokes.

But the company hasn’t come this far without a few sticky situations.

For instance, Tuch had to learn how to deal with an unwanted fan base — bugs.

That challenge only led Tuch to use a special dehydrator to eliminate moisture, resulting in extremely durable and water-proof jewelry that remains surprisingly lightweight.

Most recently, Tuch’s jewelry line was the highlight of a Valentine’s Day trunk show at the Brooklyn Museum, and earned a slot in the museum’s shop — proving sweet things never go out of style.

Glitterlimes at the Brooklyn Museum Store [200 Eastern Pkwy. at Washington Avenue in Crown Heights, (718) 638–5000, www.brooklynmuseum.org], and Kaleidoscope Toy Store [8722 Third Ave. between 87th and 88th streets, (718) 491–2051, www.glitterlimes.com].

By Vinson Cunningham

It’s a play within a movie within a play.As if Jacques Rivette’s 1969 film “L’Amour

Fou” — which follows a film crew document-ing a theater group during rehearsals — weren’t complicated enough, a Williamsburg stage adap-tation of the same name is incorporating live video and projections to take the play to another level of complexity.

“It’s a movie about people rehearsing a play,” said Doris Mirescu, the director and designer of the show, which opens at the Brick on Valentine’s Day and runs through March 10. “Now we’re making a play about it.”

If Mirescu has her way, audience members will experience a radical new form of storytelling — and while they are at it, feel something, too.

“I would hope that they would experience some kind of emotion,” she said. “They’ll go on a journey on us that will surprise them, and get rid of any assumptions about where performance can lead them, and what performance can do.”

Central to the surprise is play’s use of video.

“We’re using live media and cameras — mix-ing film into theatre,” she said. “It plays with the original movie, but at the same time becomes very personal for my own quest, my own directo-rial search.”

This isn’t Mirescu’s first foray into Rivette’s filmography: she and the members of Dangerous Ground, her theatre company, presented a version of “Celine and Julie Go Boating” in Bushwick as part of last year’s undergroundzero festival .

They’ll continue their exploration of Rivette’s work all year at the Brick, following “L’Amour Fou” with another production of “Celine and Julie,” and completing the cycle with an adapta-tion of the epic “Out 1.”

“Rivette is one of the filmmakers I like the most,” Mirescu said. “He has an ability to play with narration and different dimensions — it’s an inspiration and a challenge.”

“L’Amour Fou” at the Brick Theater [579 Metropolitan Ave. at Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, (718) 285–3863, www.brickthe-ater.com]. From Feb. 14 to March 10, $18.

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Next blizzard, don’t get stuck at home with regular whiskey.

Brooklyn grown-ups prepping for their next snow day can enjoy free samples of whiskey at a celebratory tasting of a Red Hook distillery’s second-ever concoction on Feb. 23 at the Bell House in Gowanus

“This is just a very, very small batch hand-crafted malt whiskey made with care and love,” said Daric Schlesselman, owner and distiller of Van Brunt Stillhouse.

Here’s how small that batch is: there are only 60 gallons, or about 50 cases, of this whis-key in existence.

It’s the first malt whiskey from the brand new distillery. Its only previous whiskey was an American-style whiskey released in December; later this year, it will release a rye whiskey as well.

The malt whiskey taste is a bit like a scotch whisky, but oakier, because it is aged in a new, small barrel instead of a large, used bourbon barrel, Schlesselman said.

Schlesselman — who just opened the dis-tillery in early 2012 after working as a video editor at “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” — acknowledges he’s lucky. After all, some distilleries in Red Hook were badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

But Van Brunt Stillhouse didn’t even get flooded — fortuitously, for a business so small that it has only four employees, including Schlesselman and his wife.

It’s something worth celebrating — drink in hand.

Whiskey Tasting at Bell House [149 Seventh St. between Second and Third avenues in Gowanus, (718) 643–6510, www.thebellhouse-ny.com]. Feb. 23, 5-8 pm. Free.

Small batch, big punch: Van Brunt Stillhouse distill-ery’s latest offering is its first malt whiskey. Photo by Stefano Giovannini

By Natalie Musumeci

These performers are giving a face to radio.

Radio stories are com-ing to life in a “Radio Cabaret,” a variety show featuring actual radio producers, journalists, musicians, and storytellers at Williamsburg’s UnionDocs on Feb. 16.

For audience members it won’t just be a feast for the ears, but also a treat for the eyes thanks to live music, animation, and other theatrics.

“If you close your eyes and imagine the possible scenes while you’re listening to a radio story — that’s what we bring to the stage,” said radio journalist Audrey Quinn, the show’s co-director, who has worked for Public Radio International and National Public Radio.

“Radio stories are wonderfully immersive, but when there’s some-thing to draw your eyes onto the stage too it just adds that extra layer that puts you in another world,” said Quinn, who has put on the show four times since its inception last year with radio pro-ducers Kaitlin Prest and Sharon Mashihi.

It’s like television — but better.Each show is made up of a

handful of different performers who come up with their own short, unrelated, and typically non-fic-tion-based acts that all incorporate the use of recorded sound, giving the show its radio feel.

Quinn will join forces with musician Pierre de Gaillande to tell the story of Solresol, a dead language invented by a French musician in the early 1800s, using archival sounds.

The show will also feature performances by radio journalists Alex Gallafent, who will put on a one-man comical bit, and Karen

Michel, who toured the country asking people what they would live, die, and kill for the most.

Can’t make it out of the house? Don’t worry: two sound artists will even transmit the event on an actual FM radio signal during their performance — albeit with-out those awesome visuals.

“If you enjoy radio on its own

there is no way you couldn’t enjoy the enriched quality of ‘Radio Cabaret,’ ” said Quinn. “It’s like radio plus.”

Radio Cabaret at UnionDocs [322 Union Ave. between Ten Eyck and Maujer streets in Williamsburg, (718) 395–7902, get tickets at www.artful.ly/store/events/737]. Feb. 16, 7:30 pm. $9.

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Giving a sip: Red Hook distillery lets

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By Danielle Furfaro

Who says it’s bad manners to kiss and tell?

Jefferson Bites’s true story tell-ing series “Spill!” invites the adventurous and the unafraid to tell their own tales of queer romance and sex.

The confessional show is an offshoot of “Bare ,” which Bites came up with by combin-ing the spoken word-style performances made famous by the Moth with his own blog about the “life of a parent, and pervert, in New York City.”

There’s only one requirement: everyone must tell the truth.

“When I offer advice to the performers, I tell them ‘Your story doesn’t have to be raunchy, but you can feel comfortable saying what you want to say,’ ” said Bites, who uses a pseudonym for his performances and writing.

Booked for the February edition of “Spill!” is J. La Londe, a comedian and storyteller who often focuses on his family tree, which “if you had it, you’d try to hang yourself from it, but you couldn’t because it’s not sturdy enough.”

The story he will tell is about his mother, who sold lingerie by hosting parties at his house.

“As a puberty-stricken boy, I would put my ear to the wall and listen to these housewives who are trying to spice up their marriages,” said La Londe. “I’ll discuss how that has affected my life.”

“Spill!” usually follows the structure of one musical guest, four or five curated performers, and at least one open mic performer.

“The person spontaneously doing the open mic might be someone I know or might just be someone who got a hair to tell a story,” said Bites. “We’ve heard some great stories come out of the audience.”

The best part of the show, said Bites, is the close-knit, sex-positive community that’s growing out of all that over-sharing.

“It feels a little like a movement,” said Bites. “Socializing afterwards is highly encouraged.”

“Spill! True Stories of Queer Sex, Desire and Romance” at Public Assembly [70 N. Sixth St., between Wythe and Kent avenues in Williamsburg, (718) 384–4586, publicassem-blynyc.com]. Feb. 26, 8 pm, free.

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Seeing the light: Spoken word artist J. La Londe will riff on his early sexual experiences with desperate housewives at the next installment of “Spill! True Stories of Queer Sex, Desire and Romance.” Photo by Stefano Giovannini

Mic check: Producers Sharon Mashihi, Kaitlin Prest, and Audrey Quinn are creating a live radio show that’s just as fun for viewers as it is for listeners. Photo by Stefano Giovannini

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based artist Naomi Safran-Hon heavily integrates cement in her artwork, which is mostly a hybrid of photography and painting. $12 contribution. 11 am–6 pm. Brooklyn Museum [00 Eastern Pkwy at Washington Avenue in Prospect Heights, (718) 638–5000], www.brook-lynmuseum.org.

FILM, NEW VOICES IN BLACK CINEMA: With an unprec-edented ten New York pre-mieres, Actnow Foundation is proud to announce the return of our annual fi lm festival New Voices in Black Cinema. $12. noon. BAM Rose Cinemas [30 Lafayette Ave. in Fort Greene, (718) 636–4100], BAM.org.

ART WORKS: Little Picasso’s explore their artistic side. Free with museum admission. 2:30 pm. Brooklyn Children’s Museum [145 Brooklyn Ave. at St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, (718) 735–4400], www.brooklynkids.org.

ART, FONDUE AND FLANNELS: Loft 594 is pleased to pres-ent the opening of “Others,” a group show curated by Loft 594’s Resident Curator, Marga-ret Coleman. $5–10 dollars slid-

ing scale, except opening re-ception. 6–10 pm. Loft 594 (594 Bushwick Ave. in Bushwick), loft594.com.

ART SHOW ABOUT ART HIS-TORY: Studio10 presents 20/20/2013, a group exhibition of work by Kevin Curran, Paul D’Agostino, Barbara Friedman, Joan Logue, Cathy Nan Quinlan and Adam Simon. These artists use art history as a participatory matrix for their practice. Free. 7–9 pm. Studio10 [56 Bogart St. in Bushwick, (718) 852–4396], www.studio10bogart.com.

PHOTOGRAPHY, BOROUGH BORDERLANDS: The presenta-tion will photographically carry viewers from the Newtown Creek’s junction with the East River all the way back to the heart of darkness found at its end. $12. 7–9 pm. The Observa-tory (543 Union St. in Gowanus), www.atlasobscura.com/events/obscura-society-nyc-up-the-creek-with-mitch-waxman.

LARGE ENSEMBLE JAZZ: Renowned composer and saxophonist Andrew Rathbun, brings his large ensemble to Brooklyn Jazz Wide. $10. 8 pm. Brooklyn Conservatory of Music [58 Seventh Ave. between Lin-coln Place and Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 622–3300 or

email: [email protected]], www.bqcm.org.

THEATER, NOISES OFF: Narrows Community Theater presents the hit comedy “Noises Off”, A Play in Three Acts by Michael Frayn. $15 Adult; $12 Senior/Child. 8:00pm. St. Patrick’s Au-ditorium [97th St. and Fourth Avenue, (718) 482–3173], www.NCTheaterNY.com.

ART EXHIBIT: Pierogi is pleased to present “Sudden Leap Into the Interior,” an exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper by Darina Karpov. Free. 11–6pm. Pierogi [177 N. Ninth St., (718) 599–2144], www.pierogi2000.com/2013/01/darina-karpov-at-pierogi-2.

SAT, FEB. 16THEATER, LAMARIE PROJECT

CYCLE: The Brooklyn Acad-emy of Music will showcase the controversial play “The Laramie Project,” which tells the story of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepherd, and for the fi rst time ever present it alongside its epilogue: “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later.” $20. 2:30–7:30 pm. BAM Harvey Theater [651 Fulton St. at Rockwell Place in Fort Greene, (718) 636–4100], www.bam.org.

MUSIC, TENOR SAX: Show featuring Javon Jackson on the tenor saxophone, and Ron Carter, bass, and George Cables, piano, and McClenty Hunter, drums. One Concert: $25 seated, $20 students/se-niors, $15 standing, $10 children

under 10. Two Concert Pack-age Discount: $40 seated, $30 students/seniors, $20 standing. 7 pm. Brooklyn Conservatory of Music [58 Seventh Ave. be-tween Lincoln Place and Sev-enth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 622–3300 or email: [email protected]], www.bqcm.org.

TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC MASS: This is the best way to learn the Church’s revered liturgy and practices. free. 12:00. Our Lady of Peace RC Church [522 Carroll St. between 4th Ave and 3rd Ave., (718) 624–5122], Latin-MassBrooklyn.org.

SHOW FOR KIDS: Out of the Shabbox’s programming fea-tures Avodah Dance’s Julie Gayer Kris (movement), Back-yardigan Live!’s Shawn Shafner (storytelling) and Ruach Rocker Jay Rapoport (minstrel). Join an interactive, fun fi lled program-ming where families can come together to sing, dance and tell stories. Free. 9:30 – 11:00 am. Union Temple [17 Eastern Parkway; 4th Floor in Prospect Heights, (718) 638–7600], www.uniontemple.org.

RELIGION, CATHOLIC MASS: The mass will be presented in the original Latin. there will be translation booklets, and Gre-gorian Chants. Noon–6 pm. Our Lady of Peace [522 Carroll St. between Fourth and Third avenues in Carroll Gardens, (718) 624–5122].

“THE PRINCE AND THE MAGIC FLUTE”: Puppetworks presents the comic adventure, based on the classic Mozart opera. The

tale is of the brave prince and a bird catcher, who attempt to try and rescue the princess. Rec-ommended for children 3 years old and older. $8 ($9 adults). 12:30 and 2:30 pm. Puppet-works [338 Sixth Ave. at Fourth Street in Park Slope, (718) 965–3391], www.puppetworks.org.

FLEE FROM THE COLD: Come in and get roasty toasty and learn how to play Nine-Man Morris and make a playing board to take home. Free. 1–3 pm. Lef-ferts Historic Homestead [452 Flatbush Ave. between Empire Boulevard and Eastern Parkway in Park Slope, (718) 789–2822], www.prospectpark.org.

SUN, FEB. 17CHAMBER MUSIC: Come hear

the Horszowski Trio play the works of Faure, Shields, and Schubert. $20. $10 for students. 3 pm. Lafayette Avenue Pres-byterian Church (85 S. Oxford St. at Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene).

THEATRESPORTS: Freestyle Repertory Theatre is bringing improv to a new level and add-ing children to the mix. Groups of teens challenge each other to create scenes on the spot. Come with your children and have as much fun as they do. $10 (Parents free). Noon. Gal-lery Players [199 14th St., be-tween Fourth and Fifth avenues in Park Slope, (212) 352–3101], galleryplayers.com.

COMEDY TIME: Talent booker for Pretty Good Friends and Pro-

ducer of The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, Caroline Cre-aghead is taking over weekly Sunday comedy shows at Union Hall with her own show: Cre-aghead & Company. $7. 7:30 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638–4400], www.union-hallny.com.

MON, FEB. 18WINTER WORKSHOPS: New se-

ries of discovery programs for children. Hands-on discovery for children of all ages. Activi-ties are indoors. Free with gar-den admission. 10 am–noon. Brooklyn Botanic Garden [1000 Washington Ave., at Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, (718) 623–7220], www.bbg.org.

“THE PRINCE AND THE MAGIC FLUTE”: Puppetworks presents the comic adventure, based on the classic Mozart opera. The tale is of the brave prince and a bird catcher, who attempt to try and rescue the princess. Rec-ommended for children 3 years old and older. Special weekday President’s Week performance. $8 ($9 adults). 12:30 and 2:30 pm. Puppetworks [338 Sixth Ave. at Fourth Street in Park Slope, (718) 965–3391], www.puppetworks.org.

WINTER IN THE WILD: Wonder-ing what your favorite Park animal is doing this winter? Join with staff and discover the strategies these animals use to survive. Free. 1–3 pm. Prospect Park Audubon Center [Enter park at Lincoln Road and Ocean Avenue in Prospect Park, (718) 287–3400], www.prospectpark.org/audubon.

READING, AUTHOR LAUNCHES NEW BOOK: Author Karen Russell will present her new short story collection entitled, “Vampires in the Lemon Grove,” that explores stories that infuse martial struggles, teenage longings, and political awakenings. 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.

TUES, FEB. 19PLAY BALL!: Children 5 years old

and younger learn all about super slugger Jackie Robinson. Free with museum admission. 11:30 am. Brooklyn Children’s Museum [145 Brooklyn Ave. at St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, (718) 735–4400], www.

Hate cycle: Actors Amanda Gronich and Andy Paris give riveting performances in the “Lamarie Project Cycle,” a play about the hate-motivated murder of Matthew Shepherd in 1998 — and the decade that followed. See it at BAM on Feb. 16 and 17. Photo by Julieta Cervantes

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back children 5 years old and younger explore art, science and culture in a fun and excit-ing way. Free with museum admission. 11:30 am. Brooklyn Children’s Museum [145 Brook-lyn Ave. at St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, (718) 735–4400], www.brooklynkids.org.

“MEET THE CUPCAKE CHAMP: Chloe Coscarelli will be on hand with her new book and head the bake off on her winning confections, Mojito Chocolate chip Cookies and Chocolate Or-ange Cupcakes. Pick up a copy of her recipes and then put your own spin on them -but you have to keep them vegan. Pre-register between now and Jan. 31. $20 (includes demo, book and tasting). 7 pm. Boulevard Books & Cafe [7518 13th Ave. at 75th Street in Dyker Heights, (718) 680–5881].

BARCLAYS, NBA BASKETBALL: The Brooklyn Nets take on the Milwaukee Bucks. Starting at $15. 7:30 pm. Barclays Center [620 Atlantic Ave. at Flatbush Avenue in Downtown, (212) 359–6387], www.BarclaysCen-ter.com.

DISCUSSION, BOOK GROUP DISCUSSION: Greenlight Book-store’s Greenlight Fiction Brook Group will have their monthly book discussion and this month the paperback of choice will be, “The Book of Night Women,” by Marlon James. 7:30 pm. Greenlight Bookstore [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246–0200], greenlightbookstore.com.

COMEDY AND KARAOKE: Ev-eryone on the line-up performs something inspired by a song-be it stand-up, a story, or a writ-ten piece-then sings that song karaoke. Performers choose their own songs based on the theme for that month’s show; each one is a type of playlist or mixtape. $8. 7:30 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Av-enue in Park Slope, (718) 638–4400], www.unionhallny.com.

WED, FEB. 20ANANSI THE AFRICAN SPIDER-

MAN: Children listen to African folk tales about the super spi-der. Free with museum admis-sion. 11:30 am and 2:30 pm. Brooklyn Children’s Museum [145 Brooklyn Ave. at St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, (718) 735–4400], www.brooklynkids.org.

CLUB, FIRST DOLLS CLUB: For doll collectors. Meets the third Wed. of each month. No meet-ing in December and end of year luncheon held in June. Free. 2 and 4 pm. Chapter of the UF of Doll Clubs [301 Seabreeze Ave. at W. 5th Street in Brighton Beach, (718) 373–7990].

DANCE CLASS: The Federation of Italian American Organi-zations of Brooklyn (FIAO) is again sponsoring its popular free ballroom dance instruc-tion for teens and seniors alike in its ballroom dance classes on Wednesday nights. Special bonus: the instructor will be Carmine “Big Screecher” Santa Maria. Free. 6 pm. I.S. 96 [99 Avenue P, between W. 11th and W. 12th streets in Gravesend, (718) 232—2266].

READING, BLACK HISTORY

MONTH EVENT: Greenlight Bookstore in collaboration with Akashic Books and Mosaic Magazine will present a read-ing and discussion with two notable black authors, Bernice L. McFadden and Courttia Newland, in celebration of Black History Month. 7:30 pm. Greenlight Bookstore [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246–0200], greenlightbookstore.com.

STAND-UP COMEDY: Nick Turner, Nikki Glaser, and Colin Quinn do stand-up at Union Hall. $8. 8:30 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638–4400], www.unionhallny.com.

THURS, FEB. 21READING, A WARHOLIAN EVE-

NING: Join Thomas Kiedrowski, author of Andy Warhol’s New York City (published by The Little Bookroom) and Catherine Johnson, author of Thank You Andy Warhol (Published by Glit-terati Incorporated) for an en-gaging discussion as to why we are still so infl uenced by War-hol’s life, his work and his wig. Free. 7 pm. PowerHouse Arena [37 Main St. at Water Street in DUMBO, (718) 666–3049], www.powerhousearena.com.

FUND-RAISER, BROOKLYN LOVE: A Valentine to Our Borough: Food, drinks, music, poetry, fi lms, and art at the fi rst annual Brooklyn Love fundraiser benefi ting Brooklyn Commu-nity Foundation’s Arts for All Fund. $20. 7–10 pm. Five Myles Gallery (558 St. Johns Place in Crown Heights), https://con-nect.brooklyncommunityfoun-dation.org/events/brooklyn-love.

DISCUSSION, LITERARY HUMOR SERIES: Every third Thursday of the month, comedian and author Bob Powers hosts the city’s best humor writers for a night of laughs infused with wine. The show will feature author and cartoonist Michael Kupperman and Saturday Night Live’s Rachel Dratch. 7:30 pm. Greenlight Bookstore [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246–0200], greenlightbookstore.com.

FRI, FEB. 22JAMMIN’ OUT: Children celebrate

African American Heritage month and learn about African instruments and then create their own musical instrument to take home. Free with mu-seum admission. 11:30 am and 2:30 pm. Brooklyn Children’s Museum [145 Brooklyn Ave. at St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, (718) 735–4400], www.brooklynkids.org.

BARCLAYS, NBA BASKETBALL: The Brooklyn Nets take on the Huston Rockets. Starting at $15. 7:30 pm. Barclays Center [620 Atlantic Ave. at Flatbush Avenue in Downtown, (212) 359–6387], www.BarclaysCen-ter.com.

SKETCH COMEDY: From the Civil Rights Movement to interracial dating to blaxploitation fi lms, American Candy: Too Black, Too Strong!! dares to touch the hot buttons of Black American culture just in time for Black History month. $20 includes open bar. 8 pm. South Oxford

Space (138 S. Oxford St. in Fort Greene), www.americancan-dytv.com.

MUSIC, PROG TRANCE: We are happy to welcome TWO leg-ends of techno and progressive trance in the world today: Emok the head of the notorious Iboga Records and Perfect Stranger. $25 advance , $35@ the door. 10 pm. SRB Brooklyn (2nd Ave. at 14th Street in Gowanus), www.trancedirect.com.

SAT, FEB. 23MUSIC, KARAOKE AND DANC-

ING: Karaoke Killed the Cat is the infamous karaoke party for people who never thought they’d like karaoke. Karaoke Killed the Cat brings together equal parts vocal chord shatter-ing sing-along and booty pop-ping party. Free. 12 am. Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Av-enue in Park Slope, (718) 638–4400], www.unionhallny.com.

COMEDY, STORY-TELLING AND MUSIC: The Little Top Circus & Medicine Show comes to Union Hall. Led by the evangelically infamous Good Reverend Doc-tor Professor Elucius Clay, this sideshow of cautionary tales will horrify (watch as Stitch the Geek mutilates his own fl esh!), fl ummox (recoil at Bobby Pho-bia’s feats of physiology), and titillify (surrender to the undu-lant charms of burlesque) all to the blood-stirring musician-ing of Ratty Mousebites, Miz E of The Hot Sardines. $8. 10 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638–4400], www.union-hallny.com.

READING, BLACK HISTORY MONTH CHILDREN’S STORY TIME EVENT: In celebration of Black History Month Greenlight Bookstore will host an event featuring great picture books about African American people and history. Organizers will read books about people like Marian Anderson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Hank Aaron. The event is appropriate for children ages 3 to 8. 11 am. Greenlight Book-store [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246–0200], greenlightbook-store.com.

FUND-RAISER, MUSIC THERAPY: Join us in welcoming children’s music recording artist and music therapist, Jon Sampson, for an afternoon of great music, dance and fun in support of Brooklyn Conservatory of Mu-sic’s Music Therapy Program. $20 suggested donation. 11 am–1 pm. Brooklyn Conserva-tory of Music [58 Seventh Ave. between Lincoln Place and Sev-enth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 622–3300 or email: [email protected]], www.bqcm.org.

QUILTING WORKSHOP: Children discover the art of quilting and story telling. Free with mu-seum admission. 11:30 am and 2:30 pm. Brooklyn Children’s Museum [145 Brooklyn Ave. at St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, (718) 735–4400], www.brooklynkids.org.

STAND-UP COMEDY: Acclaimed comedian Greg Johnson (and maybe some surprise special guests) do stand-up at Union Hall. $5. 8 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638–4400], www.unionhallny.com.

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Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 2pmA Target StorybookSeries presen-tationTickets $7. Recommended for ages four and up

From “once upon a time” to “happily ever after,” American Family Theater’s musical tale of fairy godmothers, magic spells, and true love will enchant the entire family. Download the ac-companying Parents Guide to further engage your kids with literary-based activities, dis-cussion topics and reading tips: www.BrooklynCenterOnline.org/Target_Storybook.asp.

Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 8pmTickets $36

A Grammy nominee in his own right, Freddy Cole makes no apology for sounding like his brother, Nat “King” Cole. And he stands shoulder to shoulder with today’s jazz greats. This master vocalist and pianist cap-tivates listeners with his warm presence, subtle phrasing, and world-class jazz.

Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 2pmTickets $30

Klezmer has a long history, dating back to medieval East-ern Europe where itinerant Jewish troubadours played at joyful community events. Enjoy klezmer music that approaches tradition with both irreverence and respect.

Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 2pmTickets $7. Recommended for ages five and up

Celebrate Earth Day 2013 with a family-friendly concert of music and storytelling. The en-vironmental performance group Bash the Trash uses African-inspired musical instruments made from recycled and reused materials accompany the stories and songs. Following the perfor-mance, enjoy the free National Grid Earth Day Celebration on the plaza outside Walt Whitman Theatre, featuring interactive

family activities, educational materials, street performers and give-aways.

Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 3pmTickets $45 orchestra, $36 mezza-nine

This iconic musical tells the story of the residents of a small Russian village on the eve of the Bolshevik revolution, who attempt to maintain fam-ily and Jewish religious tradi-tions while outside influences encroach upon their lives. Fea-turing heartwarming songs like “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” “Sunrise, Sunset,” and “If I Were a Rich Man,” this landmark Broadway musical cuts across barriers of race, class, national-ity and religion.

Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 3pmTickets $40 orchestra, $30 mez-zanine

Performed by the Ballet-théâtre atlantique du Canada and based on the life of Wolfgang

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Amadeus Mozart, this original full-length ballet in two acts fol-lows the young prodigy’s arrival at the Austrian court, his fierce rivalry with Antonio Salieri, and the creation of his greatest com-positions. This piece touches on themes of isolation, envy, and the solitary life of the outsider. The performance will be immedi-ately followed by a Q&A with Ar-tistic Director Igor Dobrovolskiy and members of the company.

Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 8pmTickets $36

Daughter of showbiz royalty Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, Lucie Arnaz performs a concert featuring new arrangements of favorite standards by Gershwin, Ellington, and Porter, as well as Latin tunes made famous by her father and showstoppers from her Broadway career. Lucie Arnaz has had an extremely diversified career spanning over 45 years in show business. Her newest CD, “Latin Roots,” is a celebration of

just that. With her brother, Desi, she manages Desilu, too, LLC.

Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 1pmTickets $15

Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music is like karaoke for your favor-ite childhood movie. The film is screened with subtitles and the au-dience is encouraged to sing along. Before the movie begins, the host will lead the audience through a vocal warm-up, teach the group activities that will unfold at cer-tain moments of the show, and host a costume competition. At-tendees are encouraged to come in costumes related to The Sound of Music, and are given goody bags full of props to use at designated moments in the show.

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• ‘I told the coaches that if we can’t beat them here, then we can’t win a championship.’

• ‘We needed a game like this. We hadn’t been challenged in a while.’

BY MIKE MORTONLong Island University

nearly watched a 14-point fi rst-half lead get away, but fended off St. Francis 83–75 in the Battle of Brooklyn at the Barclays Center on Sun-day afternoon.

St. Francis, which trailed 42–28 with 1:07 left in the fi rst half, rallied after the break behind the play of sophomore reserve P.J. San-tavenere, who scored 13 of his 16 points in the second half.

The Terriers briefl y held their fi rst lead 69–67 with 5:13 remaining in the game after a Santavenere jumper. The Blackbirds re-sponded by fi nishing the game on an 11-0 run over the fi nal 2:56 to put the game away.

“It was a wild game,” Blackbirds coach Jack Perri said. “Down the stretch we got stops where we needed it.”

Jamal Olasewere scored 20 points and C.J. Garner put in 17 for Long Island University (12–11, 7–4), which is tied for third place in the Northeast Confer-ence. Junior point guard Jason Brickman scored 11 of his 14 points in the sec-ond half and had nine as-sists. St. Francis took away his passing lanes in the sec-ond half and dared him to score.

“I was just trying to be aggressive and take what-ever they gave me,” Brick-man said.

The Blackbirds gave St. Francis (9–13, 5–6) a huge break with 13:20 remaining in the game. Santavenere picked up a steal and drove in. Garner intentionally

fouled Santavenere, who made the basket and the ensuing two free throw at-tempts.

He then hit a 3-pointer with 13:07 remaining in the game to conclude a seven-point possession that cut the LIU lead to four in just 13 seconds. Akeem Johnson paced St. Francis with 22 points but Santavenere was the spark they needed.

“I just try to bring en-ergy every time I get in,” Santavenere said.

BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKIXaverian running back

Laray Smith struggled with the choice between playing football or run-ning track at a high level in college, but now that he’s committed to Indiana University, he’ll do both.

Smith chose the Hoo-siers over Syracuse and the University of Con-necticut last Wednesday, ensuring he’ll be able to run with the seventh-best track team in the country — and carry the ball for a Big 10 team.

“It’s a great fi t for both football and track,” he said. “They are nationally ranked [in track], and the football team plays in a good conference.”

In track, the 6-foot-1, 185-pound Smith will be a big addition, as he holds the nation’s best high school times in the

200-, 300-, and 400-meter dashes. As for the grid-iron, Smith was the fi rst Xaverian football player ever named an All-Ameri-can, and as a junior he ran for 993 yards and 10 touch-downs.

Indiana wasn’t always Smith’s top choice. He wanted to go to Syracuse, but reconsidered when coach Doug Marone left to become the head coach of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills.

“When you are re-cruited by someone for four years and then they leave, it’s a big difference,” Smith said.

He said his visit to Bloomington, Ind. last weekend put things in per-spective. Smith felt com-fortable with the school, not just the athletics side, and took to the nature of Hoosier coach Kevin Wil-son and his staff.

— Lincoln coach Dwayne Morton — South Shore coach Anwar Gladen


HOOSIER: Xaverian running back Laray Smith in Indiana, where he’ll play football and run track. Courtesy Laray Smith

BREAK OUT: (Top) Blackbirds juinor point guard Jason Brick-man heads for the basket. (Left) St. Francis sophomore P.J. San-tavenere scored seven points for the Terriers in 13 seconds during the Battle of Brooklyn on Feb. 10. Photo by Elizabeth Graham

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BY FRANK STAMPFLThe Bishop Ford girl’s

basketball team narrowly missed its chance to make school history and clinch its fi rst-ever Brooklyn-Queens Division I regular season title.

The Falcons’ late rally fell short and the team dropped a tough 45–44 decision to host Christ the King on Sunday night. Instead of being alone at the top, the loss pushed Ford into a three-way tie for fi rst place in the league with Christ the King and Arch-bishop Molloy.

Bishop Ford head coach Mike Toro remains winless on the road against Christ the King over his four-year career, including last sea-son’s diocesan title game. The Falcons beat the Roy-als at home in Park Slope in November, but Toro said

this time around his team didn’t play with that “sense of urgency” to realize its championship dream.

Ford (17–6, 10–2) still had a chance to win in the closing seconds. St. John’s-bound guard Aaliyah Lewis

“I wasn’t really scoring at fi rst, but I ended up hav-ing a good day making shots and they went in.”

The Terriers’ late rally gave the crowd at Barclays the game it had hoped for between the two long-time rivals, charging up both sides in the stands.

“With fi ve minutes left, the crowd really got into it,” Olasewere said.

“I heard our side. I heard their side’s fans.

“I couldn’t tell which one it was.”


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HIGH SCORE: Long Island Univeristy’s Jamal Olasewere scored 20 points against St. Francis on Feb. 10 at the Barclays Center. Photo by Elizabeth Graham

scored fi ve of her 10 points in the last three minutes to pull her team within 44–42 with 40.9 seconds left.

An Aaliyah Jones layup cut the Christ the King (14–7, 7–2) lead to one point with 18 seconds remaining. Following an immediate steal by Tanasia “Sweets” Blake at midcourt, Ford had two great chances to score, but Jones missed a 3-pointer from the left court and Blake couldn’t convert a put back.

“When I drove down, I saw Aaliyah Jones and I knew she could shoot the ball but it came off short,” Lewis said. “Tanasia Blake got the rebound, went up, missed and that was the end of it.”

Ford lost to Christ the King even with Royals star guard Sierra Calhoun out with patella tendonitis. Toro credited Calhoun’s teammates for stepping up against his team. Kollyns Scarbrough scored 15 points and grabbed 14 rebounds and Taylor Butigian had 13 points, 10 rebounds and seven blocks.

“Sierra is a great player but you can’t count those other kids out,” Toro said.

In the fi rst half, Christ the King forced Bishop

Ford to settle for long jump shots and kept players from slashing to the basket. As a result, Bishop Ford endured multiple scoring droughts.

The longest lasted nearly eight and a half min-utes over the fi rst and sec-ond quarters, while Christ the King went on 12–1 run to grab a 14–6 lead. Ford senior Jill Conroy, who scored 12 points, ended it with a free throw. Bishop

Ford would also open the fourth quarter without a fi eld goal for the fi rst fi ve minutes. This allowed Christ the King to grab a nine-point advantage. Toro felt his team went away from its strength.

“I think we shy away from things that work,” Toro. “We’re a great shoot-ing team but that only opens up once we attack the basket.”

KEEPING UP WITH THE JONES: Bishop Ford’s Aaliyah Jones takes the ball down the court.

BLOCKED: Bishop Ford’s Aaliyah Lewis heads to the basket, but Christ the King’s Kristen Drogsler stands her ground, making for a diffi cult shot. Photos by Christina Santucci


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iah Whitehead was eager for redemption as he was fouled with 19.9 seconds re-maining and headed back to the line, with fi rst place up for grabs, and his team up by just one point.

He had missed the front end of a 1-and-1 just seconds earlier and wasn’t about to let that happen again after securing the rebound of a missed free throw by South Shore’s Tavid McIntosh.

Whitehead, a junior, calmly made both free throws this time, and after South Shore’s Doudmy St. Hilaire’s contested 3-pointer went long, Lincoln held on for a 61–58 win on the road last Thursday afternoon.

“The fi rst one slipped out of my hand, so I was a little mad at myself,” said White-

head who scored 19 points overall. “I had to get the re-bound and win the game for my teammates.”

The victory earned the Railsplitters (15–1) the Brooklyn Class AA division title and the No. 1 seed in next week’s borough play-offs. Lincoln won the fi rst meeting between the two teams, 73–61, and bounced back from a 65–57 loss to Thomas Jefferson last Tues-day. Railsplitters coach Dwayne (Tiny) Morton said winning in front of a rau-cous crowd at South Shore would tell him a lot about his team.

“I told the coaches that if we can’t beat them here then we can’t win a champi-onship,” he said.

His son Trevonn Morton buried a 3-pointer to give Lincoln a 59–56 lead with

40 seconds left in the game. The senior’s guts didn’t sur-prise his teammates.

“He’s been doing it all year for us, knocking down threes,” Whitehead said.

Lincoln made all the important plays down the stretch, but it was a struggle getting in position to do so. South Shore (12–3), which needed a win to tie for the division lead, used a 10–0 run to go up 14 points in the fi rst quarter. It did so with-out Towson-bound forward Shamiek Sheppard because of an ankle injury.

Behind the inside play for Elijah Davis (18 points), Michael Vigilance and Desi Rodriguez, Lincoln got within 30–25 at the half. It used a 10–0 run to grab its fi rst lead, 46–44 on a steal and two-handed slam in transition by Rodriguez

midway through the third quarter.

Whitehead made it hap-pen by attacking the South Shore press and taking the ball strong to the hoop, un-like the way he played in the loss to Jefferson.

“He came up clutch for us,” Davis said.

South Shore did not. Vi-kings coach Mike Beckles said his team didn’t seize the opportunity and it might cost them the No. 2 spot in the borough playoffs seed-ing process because of Jef-ferson’s win over Lincoln. He doesn’t expect Sheppard back until the city playoffs at the earliest. Even with-out him his team missed the chance of a big win.

“We got to fi nish,” Beck-les said. “We got to make plays. That was the differ-ence in the game.”

The city is making it tougher for stu-dent athletes who

struggle in the classroom to get in the game, and that’s good news for our public high school players who have the most to gain from a good education.

More formidable aca-demic standards demand players graduate on time; complete their core courses, including Eng-lish, math, social stud-ies, and science, sooner; and be in class more of-ten — ensuring eligibil-ity for scholarships doled out by colleges.

The city let kids skate by for years, and the stu-dents paid a price: this sea-son, potential Division-I players Mike Taylor and Antione Slaughter from Boys & Girls High School, and Thaddus Hall from Jefferson missed out on scholarship opportunities since they didn’t meet Na-tional Collegiate Athletic Association standards.

Now it wants to push the borderline students, their coaches, and par-ents to do more.

“There has to be a really good relation-ship between parent, athlete, guidance coun-selor, coach,” Midwood athletic director Artie LaGreca said.

Some coaches, includ-ing Erasmus Hall football head man Danny Land-berg, will now be taking extra steps to make sure players don’t fall behind. On his team, assistant coaches will be respon-sible for monitoring play-ers’ academic progress.

“It will cause kids to step up their game a lit-tle bit,” Landberg said. “It’s necessary for more coaches to care more about that part of the game rather than just getting them by.”

The move was made to raise overall gradua-

tion rates and ensure the city’s athletes meet the new, more challenging NCAA standards to play Division I and Division II sports. The organization that oversees all college athletics now requires a 2.3 grade-point average — a 78 in number scores, and a “C” in letters — and that incoming ath-letes complete 10 of their 16 required core courses before senior year.

The city is also de-manding players have a 90 percent attendance re-cord — or four absences — each marking period if they want to play.

Coaches say the kids will now have to hit the books to hit the fi eld.

“It forces kids to be accountable,” South Shore boys basketball coach Mike Beckles said. “It increases their chances of going Divi-sion I or qualifying to go to school, period.”

The new standards will push more kids to-ward college, but will leave others on the side-lines. Some have low grades because they don’t care, but others struggle because learning doesn’t come easy, or they hold a job to help support their family.

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by Joe Staszewski

BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKIThe South Shore girls

basketball team hadn’t played a game together since last Thursday, thanks to the winter storm that hit the area — and it showed.

The Vikings suffered a disappointing 44–38 loss to Long Island power St. Mary’s during The Mecca girls bas-ketball event at Gauchos Gym in the Bronx on Sun-day afternoon. South Shore, which saw its Senior Day game against Medgar Evers cancelled on Friday because of the snow, had just two points in the fi rst quarter and trailed 24–11 at the half.

“We were a little rusty, but that’s no excuse,” South Shore coach Anwar Glad-den said.

His team eventually woke up in the fourth quar-ter, after poor shooting and turnovers haunted it for the fi rst three. South Shore rallied behind a stifl ing full-court press, convert-ing turnovers by St. Mary’s (16–3) into points. The Vi-kings (18–3) pulled as close as 43–28 with 32 seconds left in the game on a layup

by Iona College-bound for-ward Aurellia Cammock, who delivered 13 points overall. Aliyah Cooley chipped in 11 points, but the push wasn’t enough.

“We played very lacka-daisical in the beginning, but toward the end we started picking it up,” Cam-mock said. “By then it was too late.”

The team’s defense was one of the few things that pleased Gladden, outside of the opening minutes. He watched St. Mary’s point guard Mei-Lynn Bautista and forward Alyssa James score 11 points each. Glad-den was also upset with his squad’s poor passes, noting the team’s fi rst three pos-sessions of the game were turnovers. That set the tone early.

“We’ve got to take care of the ball and fi nd ways to score,” he said.

Gladden was happy to get tested, despite the loss, by one of the top teams in the area before the playoffs be-gin on Feb. 28. South Shore is in line for the top seed and is one of the favorites to win the Public School Ath-letic League Class AA title. The loss to St. Mary’s is one the team can quickly put be-hind it.

“Our goal is to win a city championship,” Glad-den said. “We needed a game like this. We hadn’t been challenged in a while. We wanted to see what we needed to work on.”

Rusty South Shore has slow start, falls to St. Mary’s

ON THE BALL: South Shore’s Malika Chisolm heads up the court. Photo by Priyanka Katumuluwa

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Notice of Formation of 789 East 91st St., LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/23/13. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Incorp Services, Inc., One Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington Ave., Ste. 805-A, Albany, NY 12210-2822. Principal office: 1590 Troy Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11234. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of JGB 38TH STREET REALTY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/27/12. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 560 Victory Pl., River Vale, NJ 07675. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: BOROUGHPLEX LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/24/2012. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Daniel Cho, 1210 64th St., #D, Brooklyn, NY 11219. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Trista Huang, 434 Clermont Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11238. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: PEARL SOLUTIONS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY)

NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: JG EIGHTH AVE LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/03/2013. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Cara Jiang, 861 46th Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: THE FRITZ CONSULTING GROUP, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/25/2012. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Angela S. Fritz, 650 E. 29th Street, #4D, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: KWO DESIGN, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/24/2013. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Business Filings Incorporated, 187 Wolf Road, Suite 101, Albany, NY 12205. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 1710 86th STREET LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/23/12. Office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Aurelio Ceccacci, 32 Bay 22nd Street, Brooklyn, New York 11214. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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on 12/12/2012. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Richard Pearl, 1013 Avenue J, Second Floor Suite B-6, Brooklyn, NY 11230-3540. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of SANGJO, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/20/12. Office location: Kings County. Princ. office of LLC: 1472 70th St., Brooklyn, NY 11228. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: TAUBI’S ETHNIC FUSION CUISINE, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/02/2012. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Patrick C. Sealy, Esq., THE LLC, 110 Wall Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: THE REAL WEDDING SINGERS OF NEW YORK ENTERTAINMENT LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/08/2012. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Joe Biondo, 305 80th Street, Apt. C2, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: E. BRYANT CREATIVE, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/02/2012. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Edward Hamel, 137 Starr Street, #1-L, Brooklyn, NY 11237. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Z AND C REALTY LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/23/12. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 627 49th St., Brooklyn, NY 11220. General Purposes.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: 84 CENTRAL REST GROUP LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/21/2012. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: THE LLC, 84 Central Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11206. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: OKSAHO WATER LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/20/2012. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 401b 12th Street LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/08/13. Office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 83 Jewett Avenue, Staten Island, New York 10302. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: BESL LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/11/2012. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Brian Stuss, 72 2nd Place, Apt. 2, Brooklyn, NY 11231. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: ARIEL HOME RENOVATIONS, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/27/2012. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: The

NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: ESPERANTO HAUS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/27/2012. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: THE LLC, 32 Kosciuszko St., Brooklyn, NY 11205. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Plexus Interior, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/28/13. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 962 E 31st St., Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of SOLFIRE CLOTHING COMPANY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/15/13. Office location: Kings County. Princ. office of LLC: 483 Driggs Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of SOLFIRE ENTERPRISES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/15/13. Office location: Kings County. Princ. office of LLC: 483 Driggs Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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LLC, 577 Avenue Z, Apt. 5D, Brooklyn, NY 11223. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of Applied Behavioral Interventions, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 10/23/12. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in DE on 10/18/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Duane Morris LLP, 1540 Broadway, NY, NY 10036-4086, Attn: Jerome T. Levy, Esq. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of Fort Greene Brooklyn NY LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/17/13. Office location: Kings County. Princ. bus. addr.: 999 South Shady Grove Rd., 600, Memphis, TN 38120. LLC formed in DE on 12/20/12. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: National Corporate Research, Ltd., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016. DE addr. of LLC: 615 S. DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of The Boltion Group Public Relations LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/28/12. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to 7014 13 Ave. #202, Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Qualification of JEFFREY FARKAS, M.D., LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/04/13. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in

Notice of Qualification of Wanderlust Festival, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/22/13. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in VA on 4/21/09. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. Principal office address: 26 Dobbin St., 3rd Fl., Brooklyn, NY 11222. Cert. of Org. filed with VA Sec. of Commonwealth, 1111 E. Broad St., Richmond, VA 23219. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

R A I N S W O R T H PRODUCTIONS LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/27/12. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 2 Northside Piers, Unit 24D, Brooklyn, NY 11249. General Purposes.

SP AMERICAN LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/20/12. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 158 Bay 49th St., Brooklyn, NY 11214. General Purposes.

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New Jersey (NJ) on 12/12/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Garfunkel Wild, P.C., Attn: Steven R. Antico, Esq., 411 Hackensack Ave., 5th Fl., Hackensack, NJ 07601. Purpose: Practice of medicine.

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Strivers Partners LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY

THREE MUSKETEERS, LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/23/12. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 130 Utica Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11213. General Purposes.

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(SSNY) on 1/15/13. Office in Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 5114 Ft Hamilton Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11219. Purpose: General.

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Notice of Formation of Harkavy Parkdale Family Limited Partnership. Certificate filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/27/12. Duration: 12/31/2052. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Harkavy Parkdale, Inc., 34 Wimbleton Lane, Great Neck, NY 11023. Principal office: 16 Court St., Brooklyn, NY 12201. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of professional limited liability company (PLLC). Name: LAW OFFICE OF MEDYUKH & ASSOCIATES, PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/13/2010. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: The LLC, 7819 Bay Parkway, Suite 1, Brooklyn, NY 11214. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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JONE INC to sell beer, liquor and wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 2364 MCDONALD AVENUE, BROOKLYN NY 11223 for on premises consumption.

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