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Victims’ families rally for DWI justice By Heather J. Wilson The Brooklyn Papers

Eric “Badlands” Booker (left) consumes his 16th frankfurter during Nathan’s annual hot dog-eating contest in Coney Island July 4. Takera “The Tsunami” Kobayashi (inset), downed 50-and-a-half dogs to win the contest, and break his own record. The Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango

Dog day afternoon Japanese dynamo downs 50+ franks in Coney Island contest By Patrick Gallahue The Brooklyn Papers

He beat his competitors by nearly 2-to-1, but when it came to his own world hot dog-eating record Takeru Kobayashi made it, quite literally, by a nose.

For the second straight year, American competitors helplessly chewed as the reigning champion, Kobayashi of Japan, swiftly sucked down a recordsetting 50-and-a-half hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes. A fitting display for a man nicknamed “Tsunami.” In so doing, he defeated a battle-

hardened array of challengers including “Hungry” Charles Hardy, the 2000 matzo ball eating champion; Thomas Mainka, the sausage-eating champion of Germany; and “Crazy Legs” Conti, the World Oyster Eating Champion, who holds the record for eating 14 dozen raw oysters in 10 minutes.

In the end, though, whether Kobayashi broke or merely tied his record-setting pace of last year hung in the balance of half a hot dog bun that nearly escaped through his nostrils. (More on that later.) For some, the July 4 Nathan’s FaSee WEINERS on page 7

DA: Prostitute school for johns caught in act The Brooklyn Papers

District Attorney Charles Hynes wants to send naughty men caught patronizing the services of prostitutes back to school — “Johns School.” While the name may conjure images of a roomful of petty sex offenders honing their pick-up skills, the program is, in fact, designed to educate men who pay for sex on the health risks, the effects on the community, as well as the impact on the lives of prostitutes themselves. “The participation of a former prostitute at the school is a key ingredient to the success of the program because it puts a face on the victim,” Hynes said during a July 9 press conference announcing the program’s establishment. According to Hynes, prostitutes as young as 11 years old have been discovered working the streets of Brooklyn. Formally called “Project Respect,” the Johns School was born out of earlier programs initiated by Hynes’ office to provide services to underage girls employed as sex workers in Brooklyn. While efforts have been undertaken to constrict the supply side of the skin trade, the latest initiative is now focused on shrinking demand. “The announcement this morning goes to the very heart of the problem presented by the so-called ‘oldest profession,’” said Hynes. “It deals with demand reduction.” Traditionally those arrested for soliciting the services of a prostitute have been given a slap on the wrist with community service or an Ad-

journment in Contemplation of Dismissal (ACD) meaning that if the defendants avoid being arrested for a stated period the charges are sealed. Under the latest initiative, deals will no longer be offered to defendants, who will be given the option of attending the program or facing trial. “You roll the dice or you go into the school,” Hynes said. As a class-B misdemeanor, defendants could face as much as 90 days in jail if found guilty of patronizing the services of a prostitute. Defendants with violent felony convictions on their records would

New chief for 68 Pct By Heather J. Wilson The Brooklyn Papers

With just a few more boxes yet to be unpacked, Deputy Inspector Matthew Pontillo — who took over as commanding officer of Bay Ridge’s 68th Precinct on June 1 — is bringing 16 years of experience back to the precinct that hosted his first day of patrol when he was just 20 years old. Former commanding officer Capt. Steven Zolga is moving on to the NYPD’s Organized Crime Control Bureau in Manhattan. According to Pontillo, born and raised in Borough Park, his first week on the job has involved getting to

Deputy Inspector Matthew Pontillo

Angela and Kalliopi Kiladitis, sister and mother of Bay Ridge man struck and killed by an allegedly DUI offduty police officer, look at his photo at rally last week.

Old school dig Brooklyn College students unearth New Utrecht school George Washington visited By Heather J. Wilson The Brooklyn Papers

It’s a dirty job, but a group of Brooklyn College students took history into their own hands when they dug up remains of an 18th-century school once visited by George Washington in New Utrecht.

inars from former prostitutes, employees from the city Department of Health Sexually Transmitted Disease office, police officers, assistant district attorneys and social workers. Between the fee from the defendants and the volunteer status of the educators, the program is expected to be of no cost to taxpayers, according to Hynes. While Brooklyn is the first borough in New York City to experiment with such a program, others across America have enjoyed considerable success with the school. The seminal program in San FranSee SCHOOL on page 4

not have the option of enrolling. Since the program became official on July 1, 16 people have been arraigned on charges of patronizing prostitutes, 14 of whom have opted into the program, according to assistant district attorney Deborah Cohen. Cohen added that about 1,000 people are arrested each year for soliciting prostitutes. John School students will be forced to pay a fee of $250 for the class, most of which will be used to cover costs. The five-hour class will be operated out of the DA’s office in Downtown Brooklyn, and will include sem-

The Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango

By Patrick Gallahue

Three weeks after Kostandi buried his best friend and the Kiladitis family their son, Stefanos Kiladitis, a 21year-old Bay Ridge man struck and killed June 19 by an off-duty police officer who prosecutors have charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol, a fight for justice is taking shape. With the picture of her son in hand, Kalliopi Kiladitis and her husband, Eltherios demanded at a press conference in front of the Brooklyn Supreme Court on Cadman Plaza West, Downtown, last week an end to special treatment for law enforcement officials who commit a crime, espeSee ENOUGH on page 7

The Brooklyn Papers / Tom Callan

“She carries his picture around with her everywhere,” Anthony Kostandi, 25, said of his best friend’s mother on Tuesday. “And the father just tries to stay strong for her. It hurts him, but he stays so strong.”

know the 131 police officers and officials of his new command. Pontillo recently worked as a commander of the NYPD Operations Unit, where he oversaw 80 officers. The unit, he told The Brooklyn Papers, works as the communications link between the cop on the street and the executive command. It is the main hub of incoming information about police activity and major events citywide. The unit reports directly to the chief of department as well as to the first deputy commissioner and the police commissioner. “In essence, some of the issues of both jobs are the same,” he said. “But a precinct is much more community involved. Before I was dealing with a See TOP COP on page 6

The uncovered foundation of a school house in New Utrecht that was visited by George Washinton in 1790. BP / Greg Mango

Arthur Bankoff, chairman of the anthropology and archeology department at Brooklyn College, at the site. BP / Greg Mango

Digging on an inkling that the school might be located behind the historic Second New Utrecht Reformed Church on 18th Avenue and 84th Street, archeologists and students discovered in the second week of a three-week excavation studies class in June, that indeed vague historical references to the site were legitimate. On June 12, the first day of excavating three 2-meter squares, students unearthed a series of stacked, large stones. Gentle shoveling and dirt removal revealed about 6 feet of piled stones. Arthur Bankoff, chairman of Anthropology and Archeology at Brooklyn College and the leader of the 15-student field class, said the discovery is believed to be the foundation of the Revolutionary War-era school. Several artifacts dating from the 18th century to the early 19th century were also found, including a bone comb, pottery, a silver Mexican coin minted in 1780 and pieces of old wine bottles. “I have muscles popping up from all of this digging,” said student Kate Krivogorskaya, 20. “Since we have found the wall, we are digging to find out where it proceeds. This is my first time doing anything like this. It is really interesting to have physical evidence of history in your hands.” The findings, said Robert Buonvino, president of Friends of Historic New Utrecht, prove that George Washington did indeed visit the area and the school in 1790, as he mentioned briefly in his jourSee OLD SCHOOL on page 6

Five Clippers drafted by pros By Heather J. Wilson The Brooklyn Papers

Five Xaverian seniors faced the biggest decision of their young lives this summer when the baseball players found out that they had been selected in major league baseball’s amateur draft.

(Left to right) Chris Garcia, Michael Hernandez, Danny DeSouzia.

Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango

Now the five Clippers must decide not just between colleges but between college and the pros. The chosen were pitcher Danny Christensen, a fourthround pick of the Kansas City

Royals; pitcher Chris Garcia, a 21st-round pick of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays; outfielder Michael Hernandez, a 27thround pick of the Royals; outfielder-first baseman Danny DeSouiza, a 39th-round pick of the Chicago Cubs; and outfielder John DeFendis, a 41st-round pick of the Colorado Rockies. Xaverian baseball coach Dennis Canale said at a June 18 award ceremony to recognize the draftees that having simply one player taken in the draft was a jaw dropper. Five, he said, is unheard of. In fact, hosting more than a couple of

draftees at one high school in one year is a feat that Xaverian shares with only one other school. “We are only the second high school in the nation to have this many drafted. Seminole High School in Florida had six,” Canale said. “It’s pretty huge.” Canale said Xaverian brings a lot of quality baseball players to its fields, with one of the top baseball programs in the state. “In the last six years we have come out as one of the top 50 of the country,” Canale said. “We have an excellent coaching

staff. I have to give more credit to the kids, though. We seem to have an influx of talented people that come into Xaverian.” In any given major-league draft, Canale said, about1,500 students are usually drafted out of all the high schools in the nation. This year’s draft, the proud coach said, made the blow of the season’s end — Xaverian was beat by Moore Catholic in the CHSAA quarterfinals — a little easier to swallow. The games always drew a number of scouts throughout the season, he added, bringing a

normal ballgame to a more serious level for the players looking to make it to the bigleagues or get athletic scholarships. Now, the Xaverian five have to make the big decision to jump into the lowest levels of the pros or go ahead with their plans for college and possible college draft success years down the line. Canale said Christensen will most likely hit the books before he hits the field as a major league pitcher. “All indications point out that See GOING PRO on page 7

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Free shuttles to Sunset Park ferry service By Heather J. Wilson The Brooklyn Papers

A free shuttle bus from Bay Ridge to the free ferry at 58th Street’s Pier 4 in Sunset Park, which came to a halt last month, is up and running once again after residents and city officials pushed for its resumption — a push that also triggered the establishment of a Sunset Park shuttle. Upon signing a six-month, $1.5 million subsidy contract with the city Economic Development Corporation to take control of the ferry service from July 24 through the end of the year, private ferry operator New York Waterway also agreed to take over the opera-

tion of two free shuttle buses to the ferry from both Bay Ridge and Sunset Park. For 10 months, the city’s Department of Transportation had operated the free ferry service with Staten Island ferries from Pier 4 to the Whitehall Ferry Terminal in Lower Manhattan. The route was initiated on Sept. 17 after the attacks on the World Trade Center disabled the N and R subway lines. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funded that service and promised to continue its operation through December by subsidizing a private operator to take over the service. New York Waterway is operating two 300-passenger ferries from Pier 4 to Pier 11 at

the foot of Wall Street, a slight change in route so that passengers can transfer to other NY Waterway ferries from Pier 11 to the Upper East Side and to Hoboken and Jersey City across the Hudson. In May, the shuttle service that had been operating along Shore Road in Bay Ridge to the ferry — funded by FEMA — was nixed and altogether stopped running on May 31. Monies for its continued operation could not be secured because FEMA could only afford to fund the ferry itself, according to DOT spokesman Tom Cocola. “It’s a cost situation,” Cocola said in May. “It’s tough during this fiscal crisis. We were lucky we could sustain [the ferry] till June. During the FEMA negotiations we were hoping we would get something for [the shuttle]. We just thank God they came through for reimbursement for ferry.” Transportation officials said the shuttle service cost somewhere around $10,000 a month. New York Waterway will now offer the shuttle via their own buses, which they offer to users of the New Jersey to Manhattan ferries, and which are distinct by their red, white and blue colors. New York Waterway began offering the Bay Ridge shuttle on June 24, the same day they began operating the ferry. The Sunset Park ferry began running on July 1 in response to consumer demand, officials said. But Jeremy Laufer, the district manager of Community Board 7, believes the shuttle is not being used much in Sunset Park for the simple fact that people do not know it exists. “I am not pleased that they have not been advertising it here. I am concerned the information is not out in the public just yet,” Laufer said. New York Waterway spokeswoman Nadine Woloshin said the company was working on a marketing plan to inform the public regarding the ferry and shuttles. The Sunset Park shuttle comes after nine months of rallying by the community board for its service, Laufer said. Bay Ridge was serviced by a free shuttle bus since the ferry began operating in September. According to Laufer, CB7 lobbied by writing letters to public officials beginning in

September, after residents found it ironic that Bay Ridge was secured bus transportation to the ferry while Sunset Park — the neighborhood hosting the ferry — was offered nothing. “That is something we have been complaining about since probably less than a week after the ferry started running in Sep-

tember,” Laufer said. “It is something we felt was extremely unfair. We were asked to host the service but a more affluent community was allowed a shuttle. How is that fair?” The shuttle bus begins its route 20 minutes before the first ferry leaves each morning. At 5:40 am, the first shuttle be-

gins operating and continues to run every 30 minutes until 9:40 am. The bus leaves the pier every half-hour from 3:45 pm to 7:45 pm during the evening rush hours. Riders can catch the bus at the following stops: Fourth Avenue at 39th Street; Fifth Avenue at 39th Street; Fourth Av-

enue at 45th Street; Fourth Avenue between 53rd and 54th Streets; Fourth Avenue at 60th Street; and Second Avenue at 60th Street. The ferry terminal at First Avenue and 58th Street is also served by the MTA B11 bus. In Bay Ridge, Express shuttle buses depart from Shore

Road and Fourth Avenue along the following routes: Shore Road North to 69th Street; east along 69th Street to Second Avenue; north onto Second Avenue to 58th Street; west onto 58th Street, one block to the ferry entrance. The buses return to Shore Road and Fourth Avenue via Shore Parkway.

Ridgite gets anti-poop sign By Heather J. Wilson The Brooklyn Papers

A longtime Bay Ridge resident who began rallying a couple of months ago for the city to get tougher on dog poop piling up on her block is walking with a bit more ease these days now that the Department of Sanitation has posted signs warning of fines for not cleaning up after your dog. Annette Cordina, who lives on Bay Ridge Place between Bay Ridge and Ovington avenues, said in mid-May that area sidewalks were being tainted on an everyday basis by dogs with careless caretakers. The waste has been such a problem that Cordina posted her own homemade signs around her property asking those who pass by to pick up whatever their pets leave behind. Cordina noted back in May that the area in which she lives and other areas in Bay Ridge did not have Sanitation Department signs noting that all dog owners must clean up their pets’ waste in accordance with the city’s Pooper Scooper Law. Established more than 20 years ago, the law requires dog owners to clean up any waste dropped by their dog throughout the city. Owners in violation of the law are subject to fines that can total as much as $2,000 depending on the nature of the violation. Cordina contacted Councilman Marty Golden’s office in May to note that the area needed signs. According to a Golden spokesman, his office works with Sanitation to get such

A number of “Clean up after your dog” signs, like this one on Bay Ridge Place, have been installed after residents complained that dog feces was piling up. The Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango signs up in a timely manner. Two weeks after Cordina’s request was made, and following The Brooklyn Papers coverage of her complaint, Sanitation posted a “Clean Up After Your Dog” sign on her block. The Sanitation Department also said that local sanitation officers and enforcement personnel would be monitoring the area more closely and issuing violation tickets when infractions are observed. More signs will be posted in the next couple of months, as well. Cordina and some of her neighbors had expressed concern in May that residents

were not complying with the law because monitoring by Sanitation Department enforcement agents was weak, since only nine staff members are assigned to make sure the law is enforced throughout the entire city. Kathy Dawkins, a Sanitation Department spokeswoman, said that regardless of the number of people monitoring, compliance with the law really comes down to the civic-mindedness of dog owners. The fact that the ordinances stipulate that an officer of the law must actually witness the offense to impose a

fine, means that few violators are caught, she added. “We remind people they do have to pick up behind their dogs. But we cannot be everywhere at once,” Dawkins said. “It is really their responsibility.” It is also the responsibility of citizens to tell the DOS to post signs, Dawkins said. At a citizen’s request, if a metal pole is available, Sanitation will post a sign once it is requested through the Sanitation Department’s Action Center hotline. If a citizen or community would like a sign on a fence, a call and request to the

Action Center will also initiate the posting of a sign. However, if a pole does not exist where a sign is needed, a pole request has to be made through the local community board or the Department of Transportation before the sign can be posted. Although it is obviously in good taste to clean up after your dog, serious health and environmental issues also come into play, Sanitation officials warn. According to the city Department of Health, dog waste often contains a variety of organisms — including bacteria and internal parasites — that may be both communicable and harmful to humans, especially children. Fecal coliform bacteria, for example, can cause extreme stomach illness and rashes. Furthermore, various diseases and parasitic infestations also can be spread from dog to dog through uncollected feces. Animal waste may also pose an environmental hazard in some locations, especially in dog parks and other canine byways, where uncollected waste may contaminate streams and other sources of water. Sanitation noted that enforcement can be strengthened if residents note and report specific incidents when dog owners fail to remove canine waste. If residents observe violators who follow a set routine and are able to make a note of information on their reoccurring actions — such as the time of day, day of the week and street name — the Sanitation Action Center should be informed by calling them at (212) 219-8090, Monday through Friday.

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When Zuleyka Farro moved into her Bay Ridge brownstone three years ago, her approach to interior design was literally in the woodwork — which dated back to 1907 and had remained untouched. Farros’ residence, along with the other properties on Senator Street between Third and Fourth avenues, hold the remains of the past in their porches, street lights, front doors, staircases, floors, molding, doors and doorknobs, fading wallpaper and other interior assets. Now, the residents of the block have proposed to make Senator Street a state and federal historic district in order to recognize the building’s heritage regarding their exterior architecture and to preserve it. According to Ron Gross, the block’s residents decided to pursue listing in the national and state registers of historic places in April. Through historical and architectural research, Gross and neighbor Eric Rouda took the process of applying for listing into their own hands. To begin with, an application for listing a property must be submitted to the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation for evaluation. If the property is determined eligible, the nominating sponsor — Gross and Rouda in the case of Senator Street — is responsible for providing documentation that describes the property’s setting and physical characteristics, and that documents its history. “That did not take all that long to do,” Gross said. Once complete, the nomination is reviewed by the state Board for Historic Preservation. If the board recommends the nomination, the property is listed on the State Register of Historic Places and the state forwards it to the National Parks Service for review and listing on the National Register of Historic Places. “So the state board votes on it and then it goes to the commissioners of parks and then if it is signed it goes to Washington,” Gross said. “That is where it would be approved for the National Register.” Gross, Rouda, Zuleyka and their neighbors are waiting to hear from the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, who are expected to make a decision by July 10. “My guess is it’s a shoe-in,” said Gross. “We would be the first landmark district in this end of Brooklyn.” In a glance, the block stands out for its 40 brownstone row houses of distinction — all with high stoops, unique molding and other historical ornaments. Since the area in Bay Ridge in which the block is located mostly consists of brick, limestone and frame houses and apartment buildings, its out-of-the-ordinary design brings people by for a look, Farro said. “It’s a beautiful block and people have grown to take good care of their properties,” she said. “It has history and character — it will be hard to leave.”

According to Gross and Rouda’s research, 38 of the row houses were designed by local architect Fred Eisenla and built between 1906 and 1912 in the neo-Renaissance style. They are all three-story bow-front brownstones, Gross noted, with wood double-leaf doors that have kept their original clear, glass door knobs. To the left and right of the entries are engaged columns that are crowded with decorative capitals, each brownstone having its unique capitals. Gross said the brownstones’ stoops leading to the main entrance have wrought-iron handrails. The most distinctive and eye-catching is the lion’s head carved into the stone at the top of each railing on the block. The street name itself, according to Gross and Rouda’s research, depicts an interesting story behind it. Senator Street derives its name from Henry C. Murphy (1810-1882). Murphy was Mayor of Brooklyn, ambassador to the Netherlands, a congressman, owner of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and finally a New York State Senator, for which he is most remembered in Bay Ridge. Gross and Rouda’s investigations into the history of their block revealed that Murphy was instrumental in changing the name of Yellow Hook to Bay Ridge following the yellow fever epidemic of 1848-1849, to maintain the image of the area. The development of Senator Street between Third Avenue and Fourth avenues, Gross said, typified housing trends of the period. The row houses, like most, were constructed to share party walls with adjacent houses in order to save space and lower construction costs so that the cost of a single unit in a large row was lower than that of a free-standing house with the same dimensions and materials. Gross said the listing may encourage other Brooklyn blocks to do the same. “There are a couple of other blocks that are being looked at, but they have not even started the application process yet,” Gross said. “I am pushing for them to get on board.” Listing on the national and state registers affords properties a measure of protection from the effects of federal- and state-sponsored or assisted projects, provides eligibility for certain federal tax provisions and renders certain properties eligible for state and federal preservation grants. “The big thing is it provides an increase in real estate value and bragging rights,” Gross said. “We would get low-interest loans for exterior brownstone repair and small tax credits. If there is any kind of project that uses state or federal funding, those projects need to be approved by the [state] Parks Department landmarks people.” Gross said Senator Street, for example, was plotted by the Department of Transportation in 1920 as part of a subway route from Brooklyn to Staten Island. Although the project was never pursued, Gross said it was likely that under the historic designation the street would never be OK’d by the state Parks Department for such construction.

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A 68th Precinct police officer was injured June 27 while trying to arrest five disorderly males. The five men, ages 16, 17, 18 and 21, were found to be acting out-of-line on Ovington Avenue at 13th Avenue when police were called to make the arrests. The incident occurred around 10 pm and ended with the officer sustaining minor injuries and the disorderly men apprehended.

Wrestle mania A “play fight” turned into a rumble on June 26 when two boys began wrestling inside a home on Ridge Boulevard at 67th Street, according to police. Police said a 17-year-old male sustained injuries to his head and arms after the other male, whose age was not reported, hit him with a glass candle holder around 9 pm. Police made no arrests.

Can-do crook Someone broke into a business on 86th Street at Third Avenue around 3:30 am on June 27, police said, by breaking the property’s glass front door with a metal garbage can. Once inside, the perpetrators robbed the business of $50. Police have no suspects.

Rerun robbers Two burglars returned to the scene of a previous crime June 30 coming back to rob a house on 95th Street at Third Avenue that they had hit just four days earlier. At 11:15 pm, two men forced their way into the residence through a rear window, according to police. While one man acted as a lookout, the other entered the property. But unlike their prior breakin of the same property on June 26, the men fled the home without taking anything, police said. The 46-year-old homeowner was only able to identify one suspect, age 16.

Nothing inside A burglar thought he had hit the jackpot when he robbed a safe from a home on Third Avenue at 83rd Street the night of June 25. However, after breaking two

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A store located on 20th Avenue at 80th Street was broken into around 6 pm on June 28, according to police. Unknown persons obtained entry to the store through its rear window and stole $150 in cash and cartons of cigarettes valued at $500.

A shoe store on 86th Street at Fourth Avenue was found in disarray on June 26 by a store employee, police said. Upon opening the store that morning, the employee found merchandise scattered all over the floor and ceiling damage throughout the property. However, no shoes or other merchandise were found stolen and no sign of forced entry was discovered.

Knife and gum A man with a knife threatened a store clerk on Third Avenue at 67th Street after taking a box of gum and an iced tea and refusing to pay for them. At 10:30 pm on June 27, an unknown man waved a knife at the man behind the counter of the store threatening to hurt him if he did not let him take the merchandise. Police reported the man stole a grand total of $13, the box of gum, valued at $12 and the $1 iced tea.

‘No’ to gunman A clerk working in a store on Fourth Avenue at 91st Street did not give up the money in her drawer easily when a man threatened her life with a gun around 12:50 pm on June 27. Police said the female clerk was approached by the gunman, who said, “Give me all the money in your drawer.” The woman told the robber she did not have any, and only offered $10 when the man called her a liar. After grabbing the bill from her hand and placing the gun back in his pants, the bandit left.

Held & beaten Three young men, ages 20, 22 and 28, attacked an 18-yearold man on June 30 with a bottle, police reported. Around 8 am, the three men approached the victim on Bay 22 Street at 86th Street and held him down, while one perpetrator hit him with the bottle causing injuries to his face and arm. Police arrested all three men.

Bat attack Around 4 am on June 30, two men — ages 18 and 19 — attacked two others — ages 15 and 23 — with a bat, police said. The men caused serious injuries to the victims, including bleeding to their head. Police arrested the two men.

N train mug Around 4 am on Sunday, a 34-year-old male riding on the N train that had stopped at West Seventh Street and Bay Parkway, was attacked by two men. One grabbed the victim by the throat while the other went through his pockets and retrieved his wallet. The two thugs then fled the train, taking $300 and three credit cards with them. Police have no suspects.

Bottle to head A 41-year-old man was hit on the head with a glass bottle while walking home on 67th Street at 18th Avenue on June 28. Police reported the man sustained injuries to his left eye after an unknown man hit him and then fled. Police have no suspects.

Door downed A home on 68th Street at Avenue N was broken into between 8 am and 9 pm on July 1. Police reported unknown persons obtained entry to the property by breaking the front door down. They reportedly stole $6,000

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Hit him anyway A 43-year-old clerk was threatened by an unknown man with an iron bar in a gas station on New Utrecht Avenue at 73rd Street. The menacing thief demanded money. After the clerk gave him $40 from his drawer, the perpetrator struck the employee with the bar on the side of his head for good measure, causing lacerations. He then fled the store. Police have no suspects.

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No dorm without representation To the editor: It seems that regarding the Brooklyn Law School dormitory (“Law School Tower OK’d,” July 1) the City Council should defer from making any decision until the area most affected by that decision, Brooklyn Heights and Downtown Brooklyn, is effectively represented by a councilman. Certainly Councilman David Yassky’s recusal on an issue he must have long been aware would come up during his term in office has left those of us living in DowntownBrooklyn Heights with no representation on this issue. What was that old adage about “no taxation without representation”? By the way, why does Mr. Yassky even feel that he should have a potential conflict of interest? Wasn’t he elected to represent those who voted for him, and not his employer? I do not seem to recall him saying during his campaign for office that he would only represent his constituency if it did not interfere with his day job. — Dan Freeman, Downtown

Get cars out of park To the editor: In regards to your July 1 article “A carfree P’Park?” I would like to relate an incident that occurred in March. I was riding my bicycle on the loop in the park one early afternoon during the week. I was approaching the pond at the south end when I noticed a motorist following behind me. I paid it relatively little attention until the motorist cruised up beside me and hurled a bottle at me. Luckily I was not struck, however, the motorist sped past and swerved into the recreation lane presumably to knock me off my bicycle. Automobiles have no business being in Prospect Park at any time of day. Also, I want to express my utter shock in seeing on your July 1 front cover a picture of a grieving father clearly posing for a photo over his dead son, embalmed and laying in his casket. I cannot recall seeing a more distasteful attempt to sensationalize a tragic story. While I truly sympathize with the family and hope the suspected killer is properly prosecuted, this sort of journalism trivializes their sorrow in a sick and macabre manner. It also turns public opinion against the accused before a trial has ever occurred. — Andrew Brown, Park Slope To the editor: I present to you a dozen reasons to make Prospect Park car-free: 1. Cars speed through the Park and drive recklessly. 2. They bring noise, pollution and litter. 3. Children, animals and families recreate in the park. 4. Proportionally, there is more crime in the park when cars are allowed in. 5. Cars have hit and damaged three trees in the last few months. One car overturned in

the recreation lane during the winter. 6. Brooklynites should have an urban oasis that is peaceful and quiet refuge from the city. 7. The park was never designed to carry automobiles. 8. Having the park open is a magnet for traffic. 9. The drives could be re-striped to reduce conflict between runners, walkers, cyclists and Rollerbladers. 10. A majority of drivers are not from our neighboring communities. 11. Weekdays, the park is open to cars when the most people are using it. Logically, this makes little sense. Even more people would use the park if it were closed to vehicles. 12. Brooklyn residents have overwhelmingly endorsed [a car-free park] for over 10 years. Time is long past for a car-free Park. It’s time to try it out for three months and see what happens. — Clarence Eckerson, Carroll Gardens Chairman, Brooklyn Transportation Alternatives Volunteer Committee

Verizon sign is like cemetery billboard To the editor: This letter is in response to Robert Jacobson’s brilliant letter concerning the ugly, garish Verizon sign that now partially ruins my view of Manhattan (“Verizon destroying view of Bridge,” June 24). Where did Verizon find the courage to blast their brand image, overlooking one of the most sacred and fragile spots in America? Perhaps I’m being dramatic, but I can’t escape the feelings I still experience when I gaze at Downtown Manhattan. Through our eyes, we’ve witnessed much smoke and confusion, a disappearing act, and now a barely understood void. Recovery time seems in order. How long? Maybe forever, but Verizon doesn’t “see” it that way. Like posting a billboard in a cemetery, flashing their company name-design logo in such a spot, Verizon does a great disservice to all who have to put with it. So, where can I sign a petition? — Kory Smith, Fort Greene

Sign adds to skyline To the editor: I have lived in Brooklyn Heights for 23 years. I live near Theresa’s restaurant and after dinner, I stroll the promenade to enjoy the world-class, spectacular view. The promenade on these gorgeous spring evenings is stirring with the colors and sounds of fresh new life. As I sit on the benches facing the river, I focus on the Statue of Liberty in the distance to my left. I then enjoy sweeping my focus across the skyline to my favorite, the elegant

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Quote of the week “In Glutton Bowl … I got about 4 feet into the sushi roll and I started to bring it up. I pushed it back in but at the same time it started dripping out my hands. A couple of rice grains and I got cut ... I wasn’t mad. I was a true sportsman.” — “Hungry” Charles Hardy, who came in sixth in the Nathan’s hot dog-eating contest, on why Takeru Kobayashi, who ate more than twice as many dogs, should have been disqualified for “nosing” a piece of bun.

Empire State Building. After awhile, I start becoming aware of the skyline of Lower Manhattan. The sterile, boxy buildings with some of the remaining older, elegant buildings behind them. I regret the loss of beauty and elegance but I suppose we must have “progress.” At any rate, I have also noticed the Verizon logo on top of the telephone company building. But compared with some of the other skyline buildings the Verizon building is somewhat attractive and I find the Verizon logo colorful and interesting. So I will conclude with the observation that ugliness, as well as beauty, is in the mind of the beholder. — Jerry Jacobs, Brooklyn Heights

Answers ‘response’ To the editor: I respectfully reject James Steele’s suggestion (“Catholic response,” July 1) that I offer my services as a certified social worker to bishops, priests, deacons and the laity. Such (except perhaps the laity) would not benefit since they are closed to any outside intervention. It is they who are our teachers — or were until now, when it is doubtful anyone would listen to them. As a practicing Catholic, I am not obligated to support pedophiles who deal a life sentence to their victims. The clergy benefit from our generosity. They have violated our trust and generosity. They deserve no contributions. — Theresa Folan, MSW, CSW Park Slope

O YOU know anyone who has ever smoked marijuana, or used cocaine or sold small amounts of an illegal drug to someone else? I’ve never even smoked pot but I’m pretty sure people I know have used these drugs. In truth, nobody I know has gone to jail for possession or distribution of drugs. Perhaps that’s because my friends, for the most part, come from the middle class or above. Getting high in the confines of their nice homes and apartments, they’re less likely to get caught than some poor kid hustling dope on a corner. So we have two societies: one comprised of those who can buy, use and maybe even sell a little dope without getting arrested and the other of those who will be caught up in the law’s mighty wrath and indignation and put in prison, at tremendous cost, for the rest of their lives. It has been estimated that one quarter of the people in our prisons are there because of drugrelated offenses. We are spending huge amounts of money to keep a portion of our population incarcerated. Shouldn’t we instead be using that money on education and drug rehabilitation? It’s no wonder that these poor kids, getting old behind prison walls, are filled with rage. They know that they are doing time while others are getting away scot-free. Suppose you were the one sitting there in that cell. How would you feel? The better people in our society, people like former state senator and U.S. Justice Department official John Dunne, a Rockefeller Republican who originally voted for the draconian drug laws, have turned around and are doing everything that they can to end the travesty. Earlier this year we were told that Gov. George Pataki understood and was willing to change the law. While the sentiment for change is now overwhelming among those who have seriously studied the question, some powerful district attorneys in New York want to stay with the mandatory sentencing program that is the basis of the Rockefeller gulag system. They seem to fear that judges, those closest to the cases, might give some of these users and pushers another chance. Now Carl McCall, running hard for governor, has called Pataki to task on the matter.

ALAN S. CHARTOCK “If hypocrisy were an Olympic sport, George Pataki would be competing for the gold medal,” writes McCall. “Nowhere is this more clear than on his promise to reform the archaic and unfair Rockefeller drug laws. In his State of the State speech, the governor claimed to be for reform. But when it comes time to act, he is nowhere to be found.” Some will say that McCall is working so hard toward repeal of the laws because he needs to draw a line in the sand, not only between himself and Pataki but with Andrew Cuomo, his rival for the Democratic nomination. If he is to succeed in his uphill battle and win the nomination, he will need a massive turnout among those people who have been most hurt by a system that has imprisoned their sons and daughters. That means black and Hispanic voters. It’s no secret that Pataki has gone out of his way to attract Hispanic voters, drawing a line between the black population that he seems to have largely written off and the Hispanics whose support he believes he needs to win. Perhaps that’s why McCall has gone out of his way to bring the Rockefeller drug laws to the attention of the Hispanic community, who know what it means to lose inordinate numbers of their children and husbands to the prisons around the state. Says McCall, “Now Gov. Pataki has added insult to injury. While his Spanish-language campaign ads make the deceitful claim that he’s ‘... fighting to reform the Rockefeller drug laws,’ he seeks to silence opposition by having the genuine voices of Rockefeller drug law victims removed from New York’s Spanish-language television stations.” Pataki is in a trap. If he doesn’t follow through on his State of the State pledge, Hispanics will call him a liar and a fair-weather friend. Maybe he should eschew politics and just sit down and try to put himself in the place of a bereft parent who had lost a child to prison for doing something others get away with every day. It just isn’t right. Alan S. Chartock is the executive publisher of The Legislative Gazette, a weekly newspaper about New York government.

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HE DOG days of summer scream for refreshment, and to that end, Americans eat more ice cream in July than in any other month. In the past, we rushed to the cool Flatbush ice cream parlors — Karp’s, Henry’s, Jentz’s and Jahn’s (remember “The Kitchen Sink?”). Others searched for a Howard Johnson’s, Peter’s or even a genteel Schrafft’s. For stay-at-homes, the Good Humor truck brought curbside service. (Ever win a free ice cream bar with a “Lucky Stick?”) Now you drive to storefronts for the pricey Baskin-Robbins, Haagen-Dazs (a New York-born company named so because it sounded Danish), Ben & Jerry’s, maybe a Hershey’s, or the still popular Carvel. There are still a few ice cream parlors out there, like the Once Upon a Sundae ice cream parlor in Bay Ridge, Tom’s Restaurant on Washington Avenue, Uncle Luigi’s at Prospect Park, Taste of the Tropics in Flatbush and the newcomer of the group, the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory at Fulton Ferry. But mostly it’s eat, drip and run. The egg cream — a cheaper refreshment than ice cream — is strictly Brooklyn. Originally, when Brooklynite Louis Auster created it in 1890, the drink may have contained both eggs and cream. But it definitely contained 1 to 2 ounces of Fox’s U-Bet chocolate syrup from another Brooklyn firm still in business. A dash of milk and squirts of seltzer were added — but not ice cream. That would make the drink too expensive. Ice cream originally graced the tables of the European rich and royal. In Europe, ice cream was a familiar luxury since the Roman times when ice and snow were brought from the mountains to cool the emperor’s fruit drinks. Apocryphally,

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BOUT A week ago, Brooklyn Bishop Thomas Daily met with all the priests of Brooklyn and Queens to discuss the American Bishops’ three-day meeting in Dallas that attempted to resolve the scandal of child sexual abuse in the priesthood. According to one pastor who attended the meeting, Bishop Daily didn’t really participate except for a short “ferverino” at the end and the meetings “didn’t reDICK RYAN solve anything.” Chaired by a lawyer, naturally, and two diocesan officials, the meetings were intended to placate the priests, many of whom feel betrayed, ridiculed and outraged by the behavior of some of their fellow priests, the negligence and brazen cover-ups of church leaders such as Bishop Daily and the lack of communication that seems to define the Church from the top down. If there had been anger, disbelief and a sense of being castaways on la-la land among the priests before the meetings, those feelings had to be compounded after hearing Bishop Daily utter a totally incredible sentence during his brief rah-rah talk at the end. “We may go down the tubes together,” he said solemnly and with a straight face, “but we’re going together.” Not exactly reassuring to all those priests sitting there who had done nothing to warrant going down any tubes and had to be shaking their heads in disbelief and disgust. It probably was enormously reassuring to someone like Father John Thompson, who was recently removed as pastor of a Queens church where, among other things, almost $150,000 in parish funds is still missing. Father Thompson admits to being a “sugar daddy” to a 19-year old male prostitute/go-go dancer who had been living with him in his rectory and, at Thompson’s orders, working in the school! Father Thompson also talked openly about visiting gay bars in Greenwich Village and allegedly stole $14,000 from a school candy drive as well as student tuition money and the school safe to support his live-in companion and pay for trips to gay resorts in Florida. At the moment, both he and Bishop Daily have been named in a $5 million civil lawsuit filed by the school principal, alleging negligence, sexual harassment and that Bishop Daily knew about past allegations of sexual misconduct against Thompson when he originally assigned him to the Queens parish. So Bishop Daily may be taken at his word about going down the tubes together especially as the jury recalls Thompson’s earlier boast that as long as Bishop Daily remains Bishop of Brooklyn, “nothing will happen to me.” It may be that in his bizarre comment Bishop Daily was desperately grasping at the good reputation and moral integrity of most of his priests as a life preserver for his own eroded career. But the last thing that any good priest needs today is a guilt-byassociation tag that comes with any alliance with church leaders who are scrambling to climb out of the mess that they have created and don’t really care who gets hurt, or smeared, in the process. It is the vilest kind of vulgarity for any bishop, named in several lawsuits, to claim that he is “going down the tubes” with a group of men who don’t belong in the same room, or on the same altar. To say that they are “going down the tubes together” suggests that innocent, excellent priests are somehow accomplices in the scandal and that is an obscenity beyond words. But perhaps nobody has said it better than Daily’s own auxiliary bishop, Joseph Sullivan, when he commented in Dallas that “my grave concern is that we have deflected the primary anger of our Catholic people from the bishops to the priests.” Sullivan also remarked, “I felt it was absolutely necessary that some bishops tender their resignation to restore credibility. That would have been a symbolic gesture that indicated to people that they got the message. But it didn’t happen.” On Sept. 23, Bishop Daily will turn 75 and submit his official retirement papers to the pope. The pope’s decision to accept it or refuse it will largely determine whether the Brooklyn diocese and its future will go down the tubes together.

JOHN MANBECK Marco Polo brought ice cream — as well as spaghetti — back to Rome from Asia. In Italy, the descendent is the superb gelato, with tastes not duplicated in America. The Italian owner of Paris’ Cafe Procope offered ice cream on his menu in 1660, while another Italian, Tortoni, sold biscuit tortoni to Parisians. Here in America, Philip Lenzi, a London caterer, opened an “iced cream shoppe” in New York in 1774. Augustus Jackson, a black confectioner from Philadelphia, sold several ice cream recipes in 1832. Nancy Johnson, from New Jersey, invented the hand-cranked freezer in 1846, which froze an ice cream mix in a bed of salt and ice. By 1851, Jacob Fussell started the first ice cream factory in Baltimore. Among our royalty who cherished ice cream were George Washington, who owned two pewter “ice cream pots”; Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, who served ice cream regularly; and the famous Dolley Madison, wife of President James Madison, who served her favorite — mounds of strawberry ice cream — at her husband’s 1813 inaugural ball. (Supposedly, she had procured the recipe from a freed slave in Delaware, Aunt Sallie Shadd, who used a combination of frozen cream, sugar and fruit.) Over in Philadelphia, William Breyer creat-

ed his brand in 1866. By the time the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at the St. Louis World’s Fair opened in 1904, the ice cream cone materialized. Many inventors claim credit for this development. Italo Marchiony, who had operated a New York pushcart since 1896, was issued a patent for a cone in 1903. The concept was not lost on Frederic Thompson, architect of Luna Park in Coney Island, who intentionally designed the amusement park’s second tower in the shape of an upside down ice cream cone. Soda fountains, popularly known as “sanitary soda fountains” in several Coney Island locations, had been patented in 1819. By 1921, the Eskimo Pie — a chocolate-coated ice cream bar — was created by Chris Nelson in Iowa. Henry Burt of Youngstown, Ohio, expanded the concept with the Good Humor bar on a stick in 1923; Epperson of California gave us the Popsicle in 1926; and Samuel Isaly of Pittsburgh added the Klondike Bar in 1929. Tom Carvel created soft ice cream in 1939. Back in Brooklyn, we had Bassett’s, sold in Coney Island and manufactured by the Paris Ice Cream Company. Gold-Seal Riviera Ice Cream Company started here in 1932, followed by AlpenZauber Ice Cream. In the 1930s, more than 99 ice cream factories operated in New York City. Today, ice cream is an $11 billion retail industry. Despite Ben & Jerry’s, the three most popular flavors are still vanilla, chocolate and butter pecan. The United States is the top ice cream consuming country followed by New Zealand and Denmark. As the song says: “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!”

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TOP COP… Continued from page 1 lot of governmental agencies and some of them had conflicting goals. It was a challenge to get everyone together and get them moving in the same direction.” Pontillo said his new job includes the handling of administrative tasks, such as payroll and scheduling. Recently, two squads of police department rookies finished their training, sending the names of 15 men to Pontillo’s desk for squad assignments. But Pontillo said that as the precinct’s commanding officer, the most important aspect of his job is to have a tight handle on the community his precinct is policing and on his police officers. “I read every police report that comes through here, from simple harassment to bank

robberies,” Pontillo said. “I hold meetings with the squads and crime analysis personnel and get the lowdown on what is going on within each department everyday.” Within the 68th Precinct, Pontillo said crime is at a manageable and safe minimum. According to the nine-year trend report undertaken by the police department to analyze each precinct, the 68th Precinct is operating under less crime than in the past, Pontillo said. “This neighborhood is very stable,” he said. “Grand larcenies and burglaries are two categories of concern, but those are the constant challenge and that is what we are focusing on.” Pontillo points to the community as the reason why crime has hit a low. Because

communication between the general public and the police has been made more open, Pontillo said both police officials and residents are beginning to fight crime together. “We speak to the local community on a daily basis,” he said. “Sometimes just to say

hello and sometimes to address a concern. This is a very concerned and attentive community. The 68th Precinct Council points to that.” Precinct Community Council President Frank Grassi said the council’s recent efforts to meet outside of the precinct have al-

OLD SCHOOL... Continued from page 1 nal. Buonvino’s group and the New Utrecht Reformed Church invited Brooklyn College to excavate the site. Since the property is private, city or state funding could not be obtained to cover the cost of excavating the site. So Buonvino offered an educational experience to Brooklyn College in exchange for uncovering the buried artifacts.

“On April 16, 1790, Washington wrote that he took a trip and stopped here,” Buonvino said. “The teacher of the academy here sent the kids home to clean up and he [Washington] went to have dinner. Then he came back to the academy to shake the hands of the children.” Researchers also found a reference to the school and its general location in a speech made at the church’s bicenten-

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ready garnered the public response both the precinct and board were looking to achieve. The “Roadshow” — the name given to the council’s effort to hold the precinct council meetings throughout the community, on an every-othermonth basis, allows residents,

business owners and local elected officials to meet with the commanding officer and members of the 68th precinct. Precinct officials, including Pontillo — who will attend his first meeting in September — address residents’ questions. Pontillo said his NYPD

come suddenly when he was 19 and found out a police exam was being offered to high school seniors. Pontillo, an only child, said his father worked for the Transit Authority while his mother tended to the house and raising him.

“It kind of came out of nowhere and it just happened. When I was a kid, I always admired and respected the police,” Pontillo said. “I just like the idea of public service and that police in general perform a critical role in society. We can really make a difference.”

nial celebration in 1877. The New Utrecht Reformed Church will turn 325 in October, Buonvino added. Bankoff said the all-boys academy unearthed in the dig consisted of a single large room. Census reports show that 27 16-year-old boys attended the academy. Beyond that, nobody knows exactly when the school was built. The lab director of the Brooklyn College Research Center, Alyssa Loornya, said the school could have been built anytime between New

Utrecht’s founding in the mid 17th century and Washington’s visit in 1790. “[The school] was probably torn down before the [New Utrecht Reformed] Church was rebuilt here in 1828,” Bankoff said. “The first church was located a few blocks away and was built in 1700. It’s hard to say, but we knew there was a historical academy here.” Just where it was and if there were any remains, however, was not known, Bankoff said. “It didn’t take too long to hit stone,” he said. “It has been re-

ally exciting for these kids. Archeology gets your hands on the past instead of just reading about it.” Bankoff said the students prepared for the dig with two days of lectures and training, and then hit the site on June 12 with shovels, brushes, sifters, magnifying glasses and other archeological tools. After leaving the site on June 27, the students were to document their work and what they had discovered. All that has been found belongs to the church and will be put on display after Brooklyn

College has finished its studies of the site. The school may become a stop on an in-the-works American Revolution Heritage Trail being talked about by borough historical officials. Sergey Babyrew, 19, said he was taking the class as a prerequisite to a one-month Viking archeology class in Iceland, for which he and Krivogorskaya left this week. “This has been exciting,” he said. “When we found the wall, we all started digging a little faster. And it’s better than being in a lecture hall.”

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Judge to plead guilty to extortion charge By Patrick Gallahue The Brooklyn Papers

The corruption case against Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Victor Barron could come to a close before it even gets under way. Barron has already submitted resignation papers to the Office of Court Administration that will take effect on July 31, Barron’s attorney, Barry Kamins, told the New York Law Journal this week. And in court papers filed by his attorneys, Barron said he intends to plead guilty on Aug. 5, his next court date. According to a petition filed by Kamins on July 1, the indicted judge plans to plead guilty to charges that he demanded a $115,000 bribe. The documents seek to prohibit cameras from the courtroom on Aug. 5, because “plea negotiations have taken place and it is anticipated that that defendant will enter a guilty plea.” Kamins did not return calls for comment. State Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Colabella, brought in from Westchester to ensure impartiality, ruled that cameras would be allowed in the court prior to the arraignment. Barron’s trial was to be the first televised case in New York City since 1997. On Jan. 22, Barron was arrested outside his Marine Park home by investigators from the Brooklyn district attorney’s office for allegedly demanding the six-figure bribe from attorney Gary Berenholtz. The bribe, prosecutors charge, was solicited to settle a $4.9 million personal-injury lawsuit over which Barron presided based on an accident that left a 3-month-old girl blind and severely brain-damaged. Berenholtz, who had bargained Barron down from a demand of $250,000, according to prosecutors, tipped off the district attorney’s office and wore a wire when making the first payment of $18,000 in marked bills on Jan. 18. District Attorney Charles Hynes, who opted to personally prosecute the case, his first prosecution since taking office in 1989, entered as evidence a transcript of Barron’s recorded conversation with Berenholtz and the marked $18,000, at Barron’s arraignment in February. During a sit-down with local reporters on June 26, Hynes said, “I’m not anticipating any resolution. I’m preparing for trial.” Should Barron enter a guilty plea, it would not be due to any plea deal made with Hynes, according to the district attorney’s spokesman, Jerry Schmetterer. A guilty plea would circumvent a trial, though it would put Barron at the mercy of the judge. Hynes could still push for the maximum sentence of

five to 15 years in prison, but Barron could also plead for leniency in admitting his offense to the judge. Under state law, according to Office of Court Administration spokesman David Bookstaver, Barron will receive his pension — which has been estimated at $97,000 a year — even if he retired after being convicted. The Barron case has stood as a symbol of allegedly rampant corruption and cronyism in the Brooklyn judicial system. News that Barron will likely plead guilty comes a little over a week after the state Commission on Judicial Conduct recommended the removal of one of his colleagues, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Reynold Mason. On June 21, the commission recommended Mason be removed from office for illegally subletting his apartment for more than 10 years to his brother-inlaw, depositing the money paid to him into an escrow account and, according to the commission, refusing to give the landlord more than $15,000 in rent that was instead paid into the escrow account when the landlord refused to take checks from the subtenant. According to the commission,

ate appellate division. Barron was elected for a term beginning in January 1998. Following Barron’s arrest there were several more shake-ups to the embattled Brooklyn judiciary including the replacement of the borough’s former chief administrative judge, Michael Pesce, with Judge Ann Pfau. That decision came on the heels of the reassignments of Justices Richard Huttner and Edward Rappaport. Last year, Huttner was censured for partaking in litigation involving his Manhattan housing co-operative and widely published reports stated that Rappaport is being investigated by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct for failing to report knowledge of Barron’s alleged bribe solicitation. Last December, the state Commission on Fiduciary Appointments released its findings that a widespread system of “cronyism” and “nepotism” existed between the Kings County Democratic Party and the state court system with respect to the distribution and oversight of receiverships and guardianships in the state. More than a dozen Supreme Court judges and attorneys were recommended for disciplinary action.

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Judge Victor Barron eyes his lawyer during his arraignment last February on charges of extorting a bribe. The Brooklyn Papers / File photo

over the next eight weeks!’” And the world did watch, attracting stories in print and broadcast media from around the country and even the world. Markowitz listed Germany, Japan, England, Spain and Finland as countries that “all followed the campaign.” To announce the winners, Markowitz was featured on the “Today” show on June 28, which plugged no fewer than five of Brooklyn’s commercial institutions and eateries during

anchorwoman Ann Curry’s narrative, from Keyspan Park in Coney Island to Damascus Bakery on Atlantic Avenue between Court and Clinton streets. Broadcast from Sheepshead Bay/Kings Highway, the borough’s biggest loser — of weight that is, at a whopping 26,385 pounds — Markowitz stood alongside Lighten Up participants to encourage better health and to do his obligatory cheerleading for Brooklyn. “We do it different here in

Brooklyn,” Markowitz said. “Bigger and better.” The male and female weight-loss champs were also announced on June 28. Anthony Drayton, 39, of Canarsie took the men’s title by dropping 24 pounds. For that he won a four-day trip to the Bahamas courtesy of the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism. Drayton, a UPS employee, was introduced to the campaign because state Sen. Carl Krueger’s district office, at 2201 Avenue U in Sheepshead

Bay, is part of his route. To lose the weight, Drayton stopped eating heavy foods after 10 pm and quit drinking beer. “That was the tough one,” he said, of his beer-less eight weeks. There was a tie in the women’s category between Una Alcine, 55, of Crown Heights, and Lorraine Salas, 44, of East New York, who each lost 25 pounds. A drawing awarded Salas the trip to the Bahamas, though she said she would stick to her diet despite being challenged by the tempting Caribbean cuisine. “No, I’m going to be good,” she said, before stating her ongoing weight-loss goal. “Forty more pounds.” Markowitz, who lost 11 pounds, reigned victorious in his bet against Mitchell Modell, owner of Modell’s Sporting Goods, resulting in Lighten Up participants getting a 15-percent discount on all non-sale items at Modell’s throughout July. How much weight, if any, Modell lost will remain a secret. “I’m too much of a gentleman to tell you how much he failed,” Markowitz joked. To receive the discount, participants must present their Lighten Up health cards, which they received during their weigh-in.

ilies publicly demanded that no special treatment and no double standards be applied to uniformed officers and firemen. If they refuse a Breathalyzer, like Wilson did, they should be arrested like any civilian, Galarza said. The families are also seeking an end to alleged cover-ups, in whatever form they may take, including waiting hours before administering sobriety tests to police. According to police, Wilson failed a field sobriety test after hitting Kiladitis. He then refused to take any other Breathalyzer test. A blood-alcohol content of between .05 and .10 indicates a person is “under the influence,” while a level of .10 or higher is considered “intoxicated,” DA officials said. “[Friends] told me they were giving [Wilson] water,” Kostandi said on June 26, at Kiladitis’ wake. Galarza said the similarities between the family tragedies were eerie. During the trial, Gray testified that he drank as many as 13 beers during a 12-hour drinking binge that went from the

precinct parking lot to a topless bar at 39th Street and Second Avenue, called Wild Wild West, which was off-limits to the officers of his 72nd Precinct. A toxicologist testified that Gray’s blood-alcohol level would have been .23 at the time of the accident, more than twice the legal limit. Galarza said witnesses at the scene said Gray was also given water. “I heard anything from water to lemonade was given to Wilson at the scene,” Galarza said. “We have seen the great blue wall of cover-up with all of these cases.” Wilson remains under police investigation. He pleaded not guilty to vehicular assault, reckless endangerment and operating a car while under the influence of alcohol. He was released on $10,000 bail following his arraignment on June 20. Prosecutors may seek an upgrade of the charge to include vehicular manslaughter. The more serious crime is punishable by up to 15 years in prison, according to the Brooklyn district attorney’s office. Police officials denied any

comment regarding their own investigation of Wilson or his suspension. Wilson has been suspended for 30 days without pay. He could be the first officer to be dismissed from the force under a new policy that mandates officers convicted of causing serious injury while driving under the influence be fired, which was enacted after the Gray incident. Galarza said the families will continue to rally for change. “Yesterday I buried my son and today I want justice,” Eltherios said from the press conference podium as members of the four other families stood behind him. Miguel Rivera was killed on Dec. 10, 1998. when a drunken off-duty firefighter ran a stop sign and crashed into him. Firefighter Edward Jackson’s case was delayed for a year and eventually thrown out. Afif Hazim was killed in the early morning of Oct. 20, 1999 while he was working as part of a repaving crew on the Throgs Neck Bridge. Captain

James O’Conner, the driver of an unmarked NYPD car, struck and killed Hazim after drinking heavily at a party. O’Conner is still on active duty and holds a driver’s license. Allan Duarte and Juan Carlos Garcia were both killed on May 27, 2001 after off-duty NYPD Sgt. William Milley smashed into their car. Although Milley was charged and indicted on multiple counts, he is still working on “modified duty.” Eltherios Kiladitis said his son was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident and rode his bike cautiously with his friends on a normal basis. He had just turned 21 on Father’s Day, three days before the accident. More than 30 of Kiladitis’ friends boarded their bikes and rode for one final time in the funeral procession to GreenWood cemetery on June 27. Kostandi said he sold his bike on Monday. “We won’t be riding our bikes anymore,” Kostandi said. “I got rid of it yesterday. We are all selling them.”

mom to get me into a league. It turned into a lot of hard work. I learned to stay focused.” DeSouiza said Canale approached the issue of college vs. pro ball by asking them questions pertaining to their personal goals. “But he left the decision up to us,” he said. That coaching through a difficult decision brought Hernandez to enroll in Daytona Beach Community College, along with Garcia. This summer, he will play for his sandlot team in the Youth Services League, a squad that also includes Garcia and DeSouiza. He’s hoping for an offer from the Royals, he said. “I still think it is amazing,” said Hernandez, who started

playing ball at age 3. “I just love the game,” he said. “I am nothing without it.” Danny Christensen, on the single-A Gulf Coast Royals, took the mound against the Clearwater Phillies on June 22 in his first pro start. According to his Xaverian teammates, the 6-2, 205-pound lefthander signed for a bonus of more than $300,000 four days after the draft. According to Canale, Xaverian center fielder DeFendis has a full scholarship to Cal State-Fullerton and has told teams that unless he got fifth-round money — about $250,000 — he would be hitting the books as well. Canale said that upon his first day in class, the Rockies lose De-

Fendis’ rights and he won’t be draft-eligible for three years. “John had a great deal going for him,” Canale said of the Staten Islander. “He has a fullride scholarship … He is not even considering the draft.” Garcia is looking to sign with the Devil Rays this summer or after his first year at Daytona Beach Community College. Garcia said has been pitching since he was 11. His father, Gus, a football and baseball player for Lafayette High School supported his son in being a ballplayer. “I am just not sure yet of what I want to do,” Garcia told The Papers. “My parents have been supportive of whatever I want to do. It’s a win-win situ-

ation either way.” According to Canale, Xaverian has graduated a number of major leaguers, including pitcher Frank Seminara (class of ’95), who went 12-9 in parts of three seasons (1992-1994) with the San Diego Padres and the New York Mets; shortstop Rich Aurilia (’89), who is in his eighth season with the San Francisco Giants and was an All Star last year, hitting .322 with 37 homeruns. Outfielder Johnny Hernandez, a ’98 grad, hit .265, with 1 HR, 34 RBI and 12 stolen bases last year for the single-A Potomac Cardinals, and pitcher Ruddy Lugo (’99), went 5-1, with a 1.77 ERA last year for the single-A Vero Beach Dodgers.

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Nearly 6,000 Brooklynites lost a combined 41 tons over the course of eight weeks in Borough President Marty Markowitz’s “Lighten Up Brooklyn” weight-loss campaign. On June 28, the Borough President celebrated the individual and collective winners of the program on the steps of Borough Hall. Forsaking some of the borough’s signature culinary excesses such as Junior’s cheesecake, Nathan’s hot dogs and an international array of foods, participants lost an average of 14 pounds each. The task of losing weight in the Valhalla of victuals was no easy task, especially for the cherubic Markowitz, who made himself the campaign’s poster boy and seemed to begrudge his own efforts every step of the way mourning the absence of his beloved cheesecake and sandwiches. “Not a lot of politicians are going to step up to the plate, recognize a problem in the community and say, ‘I want to do something about it,’” said Dr. Howard Shapiro, who advised Markowitz on food selection during the campaign. “He also became the poster boy, stood on this stage, he took his shirt off, let his stomach hang out and he said, ‘I am the poster boy, watch me

Downtown Brooklyn. But Kalliopi Kiladitis was not alone, as she clutched a photo of her son and stared at it, red-eyed. Ramona Hernandez, whose niece Maria Hernandez was killed last Aug. 4 by former cop Joseph Gray, took a stand right next to Kalliopi. Last May, Gray was convicted of four counts of vehicular manslaughter for running down a Sunset Park family with his van on Fourth Avenue after an all-day drinking binge. Gray struck and killed eightmonths pregnant Maria Herrera, 23; her sister, Dilcia Pena, 16; and Herrera’s 4-year-old son, Andy. Herrera’s unborn child died within 24 hours of the accident following an emergency caesarian section. Three other families who had experienced a loss due to a drunk-driving police officer, also attended the June 27 press conference, according to Sunset Park activist David Galarza. First, and foremost, the fam-

GOING PRO… Continued from page 1 he is going to be going to college,” Canale said. “That is where you can prove your skills even more, and then you might be drafted higher. You are taking a risk. Sometimes you get worst, but I always look at the fact that at least you have college. I would rather advocate school than taking a shot at a dream.” Danny DeSouiza has decided to attend Conners State a junior college in Warner, Okla., where he plans to get his B.A. while playing ball. “I am going to college,” DeSouiza told The Brooklyn

six letters seeking his response to the allegation of misconduct.” Gentile, however, said Mason began to feel harassed by the commission and ceased to even open mail sent to him by the agency, leading to a “personal” rift between Stern and the judge. “It’s a serious charge,” Stern said of the allegations against Mason. “And I think if you ask any judge, lawyer or layperson that if a judge does not respond, as required by law, he or she will tell you that there will be a price to pay.” Gentile said his client would appeal the commission’s recommendation leaving it in the hands of the court of appeals to decide whether or not he should be removed from the bench. The court will also decide if Mason should be suspended as the matter is adjudicated. Gentile said this week that it was still too early to determine when a decision would be issued. Barron was appointed to the civil court in 1987 by then-Mayor Ed Koch and was elected for a term beginning Jan. 1, 1988. Nine years later, in November 1997, Barron was appointed to the state Supreme Court by Chief Administrative Judge Jonathan Lippman, in consultation with the presiding justice of the appropri-

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ENOUGH… Continued from page 1 cially when that crime involves drunk driving and an innocent person’s death. Kiladitis was taken off life support by his parents at Lutheran Medical Center on June 22, three days after Officer Victor Wilson, 43, of Staten Island’s 120th Precinct, allegedly ran a red light and struck Kiladitis’ Kawasaki ZX9 motorcycle around 10:30 pm. Kiladitis had been heading west on Fort Hamilton Parkway when Wilson slammed into him with the driver’s side of his 1995 Chrysler Cirrus, as he was making a left turn from 88th Street onto Fort Hamilton Parkway. “Alcohol is a legal gun,” Eltherios Kiladitis said while staring at his son as he lay in a coffin at his wake on June 25. The next day the Kiladitis family buried their son in Green-Wood Cemetery. On June 27, they appeared, exhausted and emotional, on the steps of the courthouse in

when Mason became a judge, he closed the escrow account — a non-interest bearing account that lawyers generally use as a trust for clients or in disputes between landlords and tenants — and transferred the money into his personal checking account. Mason’s attorney, Paul Gentile, charges that it is unusual for the commission to get involved in a landlord-tenant dispute and that his client is being caught up in the fury surrounding the Brooklyn judiciary. “It’s likely that people involved in this process were caught up in this frenzy involving Brooklyn judges,” Gentile said. Gerald Stern, the administrator of the court commission, noted that the hearings began in September, months before Barron was indicted, and that the funds were moved between his escrow and personal checking account, which indicated a serious breach in ethics. “You’re dealing with escrow funds in the first instance that were co-mingled with his own personal funds,” Stern said. “These are matters pertaining to ethics, not a landlord-tenant dispute.” The commission’s report further stated that Mason was uncooperative during the investigation and “that he failed to respond to

Papers. “I want to perfect my game first.” Every morning, DeSouiza said, he shakes his head at the fact that he and his four teammates were drafted. “It was unexpected,” DeSouiza said. “We knew at least three of use were going, but God — for sure that was a crazy moment.” DeSouiza said he started playing baseball “kind of late,” specifically at the age of nine. “It was my favorite thing to do and is my favorite thing to do,” he said. “I used to play on the corner and then I asked my

Borough President Marty Markowitz and lighter Brooklynites.

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Continued from page 1 mous hot dog-eating contest in Coney Island bears all the significance of the Super Bowl, the World Series and the World Cup combined. Where orthodox sporting events test only the efficacy of a finely honed group of athletes, the gastronomic spectacle of a 24-year-old, 113-pound Japanese man out-eating a slew of rivals primarily ranging from pot-bellied to obese, challenges the laws of digestive science and perhaps, even the order of the universe. Then again, Kobayashi did win FOX-TV’s “Glutton Bowl” in February, downing 17.7 pounds of pan-seared cow brains. “This man is a master, he is a magician, he is an alchemist who has transformed athletics into mathematics, mathematics into poetry,” George Shea, chairman of the International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFCE), which organizes the annual event, said of Kobayashi. “He is here today as a demonstration of just what can be done in sport and with the human will.” Gagged by the sweltering bib of a 100-plus-degree day, the competitors began to chow down under a scorching noon sun. Within four minutes of the opening bell, Kobayashi had devoured 23 hotdogs, breaking the will of several other challengers who seemed to lose all their hunger for the coveted mustard belt, and dropped their chewing pace to a slow, slouching, defeated rumination. At no point was Kobayashi competing against the other men at the table, and it was clear that his appetite was focused solely on breaking the record he set last year. Midway through the contest, Kobayashi had consumed 35 hot dogs and buns using his patented method of breaking the sticks in half and stuffing them into his mouth independent of their doughy counterpart, which would later be dipped in water and swallowed separately. However, the latter half of the contest proved slower for the reigning champ, and with three minutes to go Kobayashi had only eaten 43 dogs and appeared slightly sluggish in his gorging. The final sprint, however, proved thunderous, with Kobayashi tying his own record with 10 seconds left. His mouth, however, was still full and it seemed doubtful that Kobayashi could fit in another frank. The crowd screamed for history to be made, and in what can only be described as a last gasp, he parted his lips and stuffed half a hot dog and bun into the seemingly bottomless cavity to barely inch past his previous record. But then a choke, followed by a snort cast the entire outcome in doubt. The announcement of a winner was briefly halted as the judges were consulted as to whether or not “a Roman Method” — an IFCE euphemism for vomiting — had occurred. Some contended that a portion of the last dog exited Kobayashi’s mouth and should have resulted in his disqualification. The judges, however, assessed that Kobayashi’s victory was kosher and his new record stood to the vocal displeasure of some of his rivals. “When he started to regurgitate he shouldn’t have won,” said the 360-pound Hardy, who came in sixth place with 20 dogs. “In Glutton Bowl,” Hardy said, “I was doing the same exact thing. I was eating a 15-foot-long sushi roll … I got about 4 feet into the sushi roll and I started to bring it up. I pushed it back in but at the same time it started dripping out my hands. A couple of rice grains and I got cut. And I wasn’t mad. I was a true sportsman.” In the end, a judge ruled that, by hook or by crook, Kobayashi had indeed ingested the final bit of bun. “He was desperately trying to get past the record,” said Gersh Kuntzman, a Brooklyn Papers and New York Post columnist who served as the judge presiding over Kobayashi. “He stuffed that last half a hot dog in as the gong sounded … and he took one cough and a lot of the dog itself actually came up through the nose. Part of the bun — that was not mucous, that was bun — came out through his nose. “But, a lot of people couldn’t see that he actually inhaled it back in, thereby qualifying that half-a-dog,” Kuntzman contended. Throngs of Japanese fans in attendance cheered the decision. “All Japan knows him,” said Miho Akiyoshi, a native of Osaka now living in Queens. “We lose at World Cup in soccer,” said Akiyoshi’s friend, Miki Masuda, also of Osaka. “But today is our World Cup.” The 410-pound Eric “Badlands” Booker, of Long Island, came in a distant second, devouring 26 hot dogs. Although out-dogged by nearly 2-to-1, Booker maintained that Kobayashi was not unbeatable. “There’s always somebody out there that’s good,” Booker said. “There’s always somebody out there that’s determined to beat him. Right now, I’m just going to focus my efforts on next year.” It could be a long time however, before the title returns to the United States. According to some competitive eating enthusiasts, a storm is brewing from the east and next year could feature Japanese carnivores with an even greater capacity than Kobayashi. According to Yuki Kawate, a Japanese fan, Kobayashi came in third place in an eating contest televised in Japan a year ago. “I hope the other guys come next year,” Kawate said. In a post-feast interview, Kobayashi acknowledged that there are competitors in Japan who have out-eaten him but that he feared competition from both sides of the Pacific equally. Shea said he had heard of past defeats but that Kobayashi is unbeaten in the Nathan’s Famous contest, which he called the “Masters or World Cup of competitive eating.” “All I know is that no one has eaten 50 and one half hot dogs in 12 minutes,” said Shea. “And he is by far the greatest eater in the world.”

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DWI COPS… Gray struck and killed eightmonths pregnant Maria Herrera, 23; her sister, Dilcia Pena, 16; and Herrera’s 4-year-old son, Andy. Herrera’s unborn child died within 24 hours of the accident following an emergency caesarian section. Three other families who had experienced a loss due to a drunk-driving police officer, also attended the June 27 press conference, according to Sunset Park activist David Galarza. First, and foremost, the families publicly demanded that no special treatment and no double standards be applied to uniformed officers and firemen. If they refuse a Breathalyzer, like Wilson did, they should be arrested like any civilian, Galarza said. The families are also seeking an end to alleged cover-ups, in whatever form they may take, including waiting hours before administering sobriety tests to police. According to police, Wilson failed a field sobriety test after hitting Kiladitis. He then refused to take any other Breathalyzer test. A blood-alcohol content of between .05 and .10 indicates a person is “under the influence,” while a level of .10 or higher is considered “intoxicated,” DA officials said. “[Friends] told me they were giving [Wilson] water,” Kostandi said on June 26, at Kiladitis’ wake. Galarza said the similarities between the family tragedies were eerie.

Continued from page 1 cially when that crime involves drunk driving and an innocent person’s death. Kiladitis was taken off life support by his parents at Lutheran Medical Center on June 22, three days after Officer Victor Wilson, 43, of Staten Island’s 120th Precinct, allegedly ran a red light and struck Kiladitis’ Kawasaki ZX9 motorcycle around 10:30 pm. Kiladitis had been heading west on Fort Hamilton Parkway when Wilson slammed into him with the driver’s side of his 1995 Chrysler Cirrus, as he was making a left turn from 88th Street onto Fort Hamilton Parkway. “Alcohol is a legal gun,” Eltherios Kiladitis said while staring at his son as he lay in a coffin at his wake on June 25. The next day the Kiladitis family buried their son in Green-Wood Cemetery. On June 27, they appeared, exhausted and emotional, on the steps of the courthouse in Downtown Brooklyn. But Kalliopi Kiladitis was not alone, as she clutched a photo of her son and stared at it, red-eyed. Ramona Hernandez, whose niece Maria Hernandez was killed last Aug. 4 by former cop Joseph Gray, took a stand right next to Kalliopi. Last May, Gray was convicted of four counts of vehicular manslaughter for running down a Sunset Park family with his van on Fourth Avenue after an all-day drinking binge.

During the trial, Gray testified that he drank as many as 13 beers during a 12-hour drinking binge that went from the precinct parking lot to a topless bar at 39th Street and Second Avenue, called Wild Wild West, which was off-limits to the officers of his 72nd Precinct. A toxicologist testified that Gray’s blood-alcohol level would have been .23 at the time of the accident, more than twice the legal limit. Galarza said witnesses at the scene said Gray was also given water. “I heard anything from water to lemonade was given to Wilson at the scene,” Galarza said. “We have seen the great blue wall of cover-up with all of these cases.” Wilson remains under police investigation. He pleaded not guilty to vehicular assault, reckless endangerment and operating a car while under the influence of alcohol. He was released on $10,000 bail following his arraignment on June 20. Prosecutors may seek an upgrade of the charge to include vehicular manslaughter. The more serious crime is punishable by up to 15 years in prison, according to the Brooklyn district attorney’s office. Police officials denied any comment regarding their own investigation of Wilson or his suspension. Wilson has been suspended for 30 days without pay. He could be the first officer to be dismissed from the force under a new policy that mandates officers convicted of causing serious injury while driving under the influence be fired, which was enacted after the

Gray incident. Galarza said the families will continue to rally for change. “Yesterday I buried my son and today I want justice,” Eltherios said from the press conference podium as members of the four other families stood behind him. Miguel Rivera was killed on Dec. 10, 1998. when a drunken off-duty firefighter ran a stop sign and crashed into him. Firefighter Edward Jackson’s case was delayed for a year and eventually thrown out. Afif Hazim was killed in the early morning of Oct. 20, 1999 while he was working as part of a repaving crew on the Throgs Neck Bridge. Captain James O’Conner, the driver of an unmarked NYPD car, struck and killed Hazim after drinking heavily at a party. O’Conner is still on active duty and holds a driver’s license. Allan Duarte and Juan Carlos Garcia were both killed on May 27, 2001 after off-duty NYPD Sgt. William Milley smashed into their car. Although Milley was charged and indicted on multiple counts, he is still working on “modified duty.” Eltherios Kiladitis said his son was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident and rode his bike cautiously with his friends on a normal basis. He had just turned 21 on Father’s Day, three days before the accident. More than 30 of Kiladitis’ friends boarded their bikes and rode for one final time in the funeral procession to GreenWood cemetery on June 27.

July 15, 2002

Residents to get say on park development plan By Patrick Gallahue The Brooklyn Papers

As required by the document that created the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation, a citizen advisory board is being formed. The document, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) is an official agreement between the city and state on guidelines for the creation of the commercial and recreational development and its subsequent operation. The MOU was signed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. George Pataki in the spring. “This would be an official arm of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation,” James Moogan, the executive director of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation (BBPDC) said of the citizen’s advisory council. “They will represent a broad spectrum of citizens and we anticipate they will convene larger public meetings to facilitate larger public input.” The 21-member council will be culled from appointees put forth by the elected officials and community boards whose districts abut the park, along with recommendations from local neighborhood groups. Among those elected officials will be Borough President Marty Markowitz, state Senate Minority Leader Martin Connor, Assemblywoman Joan Millman, and City Council members David Yassky and Angel Rodriguez. Six “resource members” will also be appointed to the board, Moogan said, by the Department of State’s Division of

Coastal Resources and Waterfront Revitalization, the Department of City Planning, the state and city Parks Departments, the state Department of Environmental Conservation and a representative from the National Parks Service Harbor Unit. These groups, according to Moogan, “will serve as a resource to the citizens council to help guide their discussions.” While no names have been attached to the council yet, Moogan said he anticipates appointments will be made on Aug. 1. As figures appear on the board, the matter of representation will clearly be one that is watched closely by neighborhoods around or near the park. The issue of representation and influence on the guidance of the park has been an issue of some strife along the border of Atlantic Avenue, which divides community boards 2 and 6. Last February, a few months after Rep. Nydia Velazquez secured $1 million in funding for a transportation study on the park, CB6 Chairwoman Irene Lo Re, sent a letter to Velazquez urging for the funding to “produce a fair and open study.” While names and groups were absent from the missive, the letter seemed to subtly distinguish Brooklyn Heights, on whose border most of the waterfront development will lie, as having disproportionate sway over the process. Craig Hammerman, the district manager for CB 6, said, “I’d like to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and we’ll all be offered seats at the table. I think that certainly, speaking on our be-

half, we have very substantive material things to contribute and can only hope we’re recognized for that.” With neighborhoods such as Red Hook, Cobble Hill and Park Slope believed to be vehicular access routes by CB6, Pauline Blake, the board’s representative to the local development corporation that for the past two years planned the park and commercial venture, said that access would be a key issue to the communities within CB6. The Brooklyn Heights Association (BHA), however, the most active and powerful of the Heights community groups, has yet to be invited to make a recommendation for appointment, said BHA president Nancy Bowe. “We’re kind of in the middle of it all, and it’s being sorted it out,” she said of the council’s formation. While transportation remains a priority, Bowe listed the inclusion of Pier 6, at the foot of Atlantic Avenue, among the top of the BHA’s ambitions for the park. While the pier is drawn in as part of the park on the outline of the Brooklyn Bridge Park master plan released to the public and the media, that portion was not dedicated to the BBPDC by either the mayor or the governor as they signed over piers 1, 2, 3 and 5. Pier 4 is privately owned though heavily encumbered by tax liens, and Joanne Witty, president of the park planning entity and a member of the master plan implementation entity created with the same name, BBPDC, said she was confident the state would condemn the property if necessary.

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Brooklynites shed 41 tons By Patrick Gallahue The Brooklyn Papers

Nearly 6,000 Brooklynites lost a combined 41 tons over the course of eight weeks in Borough President Marty Markowitz’s “Lighten Up Brooklyn” weight-loss campaign. On June 28, the Borough President celebrated the individual and collective winners of the program on the steps of Borough Hall. Forsaking some of the borough’s signature culinary excesses such as Junior’s cheesecake, Nathan’s hot dogs and an international array of foods, participants lost an average of 14 pounds each. The task of losing weight in the Valhalla of victuals was no easy task, especially for the cherubic Markowitz, who made himself the campaign’s poster boy and seemed to begrudge his own efforts every step of the way mourning the absence of his beloved cheesecake and sandwiches. “Not a lot of politicians are going to step up to the plate, recognize a problem in the community and say, ‘I want to do something about it,’” said Dr. Howard Shapiro, who advised Markowitz on food se-

lection during the campaign. “He also became the poster boy, stood on this stage, he took his shirt off, let his stomach hang out and he said, ‘I am the poster boy, watch me over the next eight weeks!’” And the world did watch, attracting stories in print and broadcast media from around the country and even the world. Markowitz listed Germany, Japan, England, Spain and Finland as countries that “all followed the campaign.” To announce the winners, Markowitz was featured on the “Today” show on June 28, which plugged no fewer than five of Brooklyn’s commercial institutions and eateries during anchorwoman Ann Curry’s narrative, from Keyspan Park in Coney Island to Damascus Bakery on Atlantic Avenue between Court and Clinton streets. Broadcast from Sheepshead Bay/Kings Highway, the borough’s biggest loser — of weight that is, at a whopping 26,385 pounds — Markowitz stood alongside Lighten Up participants to encourage better health and to do his obligatory cheerleading for Brooklyn.

Borough President Marty Markowitz (center foreground) announces the results of his “Lighten Up Brooklyn” weight-loss campaign at Borough Hall. Brooklyn lost 82,655 pounds or more than 41 tons during the eightweek program. Kathryn Kirk “We do it different here in Brooklyn,” Markowitz said. “Bigger and better.” The male and female weight-loss champs were also announced on June 28. Anthony Drayton, 39, of Canarsie took the men’s title by dropping 24 pounds. For that he won a four-day trip to the Bahamas courtesy of the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism.

Drayton, a UPS employee, was introduced to the campaign because state Sen. Carl Krueger’s district office, at 2201 Avenue U in Sheepshead Bay, is part of his route. To lose the weight, Drayton stopped eating heavy foods after 10 pm and quit drinking beer. “That was the tough one,” he said, of his beer-less eight

weeks. There was a tie in the women’s category between Una Alcine, 55, of Crown Heights, and Lorraine Salas, 44, of East New York, who each lost 25 pounds. A drawing awarded Salas the trip to the Bahamas, though she said she would stick to her diet despite being challenged by the tempting Caribbean cuisine. “No, I’m going to be good,” she said, before stating her ongoing weight-loss goal. “Forty more pounds.” Markowitz, who lost 11 pounds, reigned victorious in his bet against Mitchell Modell, owner of Modell’s Sporting Goods, resulting in Lighten Up participants getting a 15-percent discount on all non-sale items at Modell’s throughout July. How much weight, if any, Modell lost will remain a secret. “I’m too much of a gentleman to tell you how much he failed,” Markowitz joked. To receive the discount, participants must present their Lighten Up health cards, which they received during their weigh-in.

Fulton Ferry water taxis start soon Service to Manhattan delayed two weeks so boat can be upgraded By Patrick Gallahue The Brooklyn Papers

With seats arriving from Australia and rugs from England, the launch of New York Water Taxi, originally scheduled for July 4, has been pushed back two weeks. According to Tom Fox, the founder and president of New York Water Taxi, upgrades to the boat and shipping delays have briefly set the inaugural launch back to July 15. “It’s like buying a car only it hasn’t been built yet,” Fox said, joking about the brief delay. Once vessels are in the water, the rest of July will be used for familiarization tours with tourist companies, hotels and

city agencies to introduce groups to the new service. On Aug. 15, the public will be able to enjoy the midday tours on two boats, running from Fulton Ferry Landing to Manhattan, with stops at South Street Seaport, West 23rd Street and West 42nd Street. By mid-September, the third boat is expected to arrive and service will begin to commuter stops at Pier 11 on Wall Street, Pier A in Battery Park and North Cove in Battery Park City, with an official launch planned for Sept. 17. The ferry will have 54 seats with a capacity for 20 more standing passengers, at a cost of $25 for a book of 10 tickets or $4 per individual ticket. Additional services from Greenpoint, running to East

23rd Street in Manhattan and Wall Street, are hoped to operate in 2003. The first vessel will be named after the late local waterfront activist and long-time Brooklyn Heights resident Mary “Mickey” Murphy. Murphy, 84, a friend of Fox’s, died in January of pneumonia after spending more than 60 years in the Heights dedicating herself to the activities of Community Board 2, the Brooklyn Heights Association, the Historic Districts Council and the neighborhood advisory committee of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Coalition. “Every waterfront has a lot of unsung heroes,” Fox said. “And what we’re going to do is try to give some of them

recognition to the public and hopefully inspire other people to get involved.” Fittingly, the vessel in her name, will collect passengers only feet from where Murphy’s friend of 25 years, Olga Bloom, operates her own waterborne enterprise, Bargemusic. The other two boats will be named after other late, great, waterfront activists: Michael Mann, former chairman of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Club; and Kurt Berger, who served with Fox on the board of the West Side Waterfront Panel. Mann, of Flatbush, died two years ago. In addition to his work with the Hudson River Sloop club, he was head of the Brooklyn Sloop chapter and scout leader for Boy Scout

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LIBRARY... Continued from page 1 system is installed. the branch is scheduled to reopen on Monday, July 15, Valerie Geiss, a BPL spokeswoman told The Brooklyn Papers. “The branch will reopen when the new air conditioning is in place so that the library can ensure a comfortable temperature for staff and patrons,” she said. According to Geiss, the new air conditioning will be a modular, chilled water system. The previous system used absorption equipment. Although new air conditioning was installed when the library was renovated 10 years ago, and the system has been repaired several times since then, breakdowns have continued to plague the branch. In July 2000, the library installed a new solution pump engine. Although the air conditioning was still under warranty, that part was not. The closing of the library follows a period of intermittent shutdowns this year and is just one more inconvenience for those who use it on a regular basis. Gwen Fischman goes to the Brooklyn Heights branch about every two weeks “to get books and return books, and sometimes to use the computer for genealogical research.” But on several days in late May and June she found the doors closed. “There was a sign saying they were sorry for the inconvenience, but the library was closed due to the heat,” she said. Fischman eventually called Brooklyn Heights Councilman David Yassky’s office and found out that the library’s air condition-

ing was again inoperative. The branch had been closed because the union contract specified that employees not work in intense heat. Evan Thies, a Yassky spokesman, told The Papers that when the indoor temperature-humidity index hits 165, the library is closed and employees are sent to work at other branches. Fischman was less upset by the closing than by the perplexing nature of the sign, which didn’t mention the faulty air conditioning. “It left you scratching your head wondering if the library would be closed for the rest of the summer,” she said. “Some of the people who couldn’t get into the library were angry.” John Repaci, also a Brooklyn Heights resident, was one of those who were upset by the closing. “I thought, firemen go into burning buildings and it’s hot, people who clean furnaces work in the heat, my wife is a teacher and she works in schools when it’s hot,” he said. Since that time, a new sign has been posted explaining that the library will reopen on July 15 after the new air conditioning system is installed. Until the library reopens, Geiss advises patrons to visit neighboring branches like the Carroll Gardens Branch, Clinton Street at Union Street, (718) 596-6572; the Walt Whitman Branch, St. Edwards Street and Auburn Place in Fort Greene, (718) 935-0244; Pacific Branch, Fourth Avenue and Pacific Street in Park Slope, (718) 638-1531; Clinton Hill Branch, Washington Avenue at Lafayette Avenue, (718) 398-8713 and the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza, (718) 230-2100. But people like John Repaci have found their own solutions. “It’s like everything else in New York; you learn to adjust,” he said. “I went out and bought the book.”

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That precocious Erasmus Hall High School graduate Barbara Streisand (pictured with Robert Redford), will return to Brooklyn — on the silver screen — on July 25 as part of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Summer Film Series. “The Way We Were” (1973), starring Streisand and Redford, will be screened at Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park (enter on Water Street between Main and Dock streets). Other films in the series include “Double Indemnity” (1944), starring Barbara Stanwyck, on July 11, “My Cousin Vinny” (1992), starring Marisa Tomei, on July 18 and “My American Girls,” a 2000 documentary about a Dominican couple in Brooklyn raising three daughters, on Aug. 1. Rain dates for the films, which begin at 8:45 pm, will be the following Fridays (July 12, July 19, July 26 and Aug. 2). For more information go to www.bbpc.net or call (718) 802-0603. — Lisa J. Curtis

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t’s an old event thrown from a new office. . Although Marty “Party” Markowitz has abdicated his state Senate seat to assume the borough presidency, his two signature summer concert series will take place without pause. The 20th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. concert series at Wingate Field in Prospect Lefferts-Gardens presents shows every Monday beginning at 7:30 pm until Aug. 18, at the field located between Winthrop Street and Kingston Avenue, opposite Kings County Hospital. On Monday, July 15, the Martin Luther King Jr. series will present an evening of gospel with Shirley Caesar, Keith “Wonderboy” Johnson and the Spiritual Voices in addition to Dottie Peoples. The following week the Isley Brothers, famous for such songs as “Shout,” “Love is a Wonderful Thing” and “Fight the Power,” will join jazz virtuoso Roy Ayers. Teddy Pendergrass and Ashford & Simpson will headline the July 29 program to be followed on Aug. 5 by “WBLS Mystery Night of Today’s R&B.” On Aug. 12, Teena Marie and Kool & the Gang’s J.T. Taylor will take the stage for the second to last show. Topping the series will be a flashback to last summer’s race for Borough Hall, with Markowitz’s Caribbean campaign clarion, the Mighty Sparrow, hosting the winning performers of the 2002 Trinidad and Tobago Carnival band contest. Meanwhile in Coney Island, the Seaside Summer Concert Series at Asser Levy Park on West Fifth Street at Surf Avenue, will open at 7:30 pm this Thursday, July 11 with Sinatra — Frank Sinatra Jr., that is — performing with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra. “Brooklyn is Brooklyn,” Sinatra Jr. said in a Borough Hall press release. “Brooklyn has become a place of American folklore. The people have always been very good to us. They have always been wonderful. The New York crowd is very fond of Frank Sinatra [senior] and always have been very good to him.” The band will feature a homecoming of sorts for longtime Sinatra pianist, Bill Miller, who grew up in Bensonhurst and spent 40 years playing with “Ol’ Blue Eyes.” He will join junior for the seaside set — Sinatra’s first since the ’70s. The following week, Coney Island will erupt with the Classic Rock Explosion, featuring Alan Parsons, Christopher Cross, Jack Bruce of Cream, Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad and Eric Carmen. A slightly mellower set will envelope the beachfront on July 25, with a tribute to Motown with the Four Tops, and Dennis Edwards’ Temptations followed on Aug. 1 with the Beach Boys. The Swedish sensation ABBA, featuring some of the original band members, will perform on Aug. 8, to be succeeded by a slightly more patriotic evening of oldies on Aug. 15 with Jay Black & The Americans, Ben E. King, Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge. The series will be capped on Aug. 22 with the annual “Salsa by the Sea,” a best of Latin music celebration. But that’s not all Party Marty has up his musical sleeve as he will host performances at Borough Hall plaza, in front of the Borough Hall steps at noon every Wednesday. On July 17, folk-pop threesome K.J. Denhert Trio will perform, followed by experimental jazz group Jazz Beatniks. Gordon, Bennett and Barbado will perform country blues on July 24, and July 31 will bring the Latin ska sounds of RedRube to Downtown Brooklyn.

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Fancy feast: (Clockwise from top left) Mincarelli’s lemon-flavored amaretti cookies, Cheshire Garden’s wine vinegar, Sweet Melissa’s biscotti and granola and Cranberry Fool compote all make great hostess gifts. The Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango two with some freshly baked scones (no, they don’t have to come from your oven) and you’ll have a memorable light breakfast, snack or late night treat. Pre-cooked, just add hot water, organic grains are a Mary Jane’s Farm specialty ($4.15). Each pouch serves one for lunch or two as a side dish. Try the spicy couscous and lentil curry combination. The 1940s looking housewives, who appear aproned and smiling on the bags’ labels, have a Norman Rockwell charm. Brooklynites who crave a taste of the neighborhood will love Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pie ($3.99, $12.99 and $16.99), which comes in individual and two multi-serving sizes. The pie looks deceptively humble, but don’t be fooled. Inside that crisp, crumbly, graham cracker crust is a filling so understated, so delicately lime-infused that it makes other lurid green, aftershavish, key lime pies seem, well, a little tarty. Fresh greens from a farmer’s market call for a light, herby salad dressing. Patti and Ralph of Cheshire Garden’s grow herbs for their “gardens in a bottle” wine vinegars (small $5.29, large $8.99). Fla-

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ometime in his life playwright Johnathan Cerio found out that we all die. Apparently, he never got over this profound discovery. His new play, “Introspective,” now at Ryan Repertory Company’s Harry Warren Theatre, tells the story of eight people who have one thing in common — they have all lost someone dear to them. It is directed by Nick Lugo, who does his best with a small space, lots of characters and a rambling plot that never quite finds its center. Anthony Tolve plays an aged opera singer who has lost his wife to sickness and old age. David Risley portrays a young man whose wife has died in childbirth. Diane Brereton acts the part of a young lady who has a brief relationship with a man named Dean (Dean Grillo), who meets her in a bar, changes her life, then promptly gets killed in a car accident. The advice that transforms her is simply, “If you want to write, just write.” Wow! Patricia Kane appears briefly as a bereaved widow whose bed is no longer warmed by her spouse. And Ed Basil plays a young man in love with a girl named Tiffany. Tiffany doesn’t die but goes one better. She marries another man. Most of these characters are defined only in terms of their loss. And those characters that are more deeply explored, like the opera singer (who speaks in a “Godfather” whisper) sometimes end up as caricatures, despite the best efforts of the by-andlarge capable actors. Cerio is not only the playwright but also the narrator. He makes penetrating statements like, “Why is there loss?” In the second half of the play Cerio morphs into Jay, lover of Mark (Marc Basi), who not too surprisingly turns out to be afflicted with AIDS. It’s not clear whether or not the playwright is actually gay himself, but he certainly

T H E AT E R Ryan Repertory Company’s production of “Introspective” plays through July 20, Thursdays and Fridays at 8 pm; Saturday, July 13 at 5 pm and 8 pm; Sunday, July 14 at 2 pm and 5 pm; and Saturday, July 20 at 2 pm and 8 pm. Performances are at the Harry Warren Theatre, 2445 Bath Ave. at Bay 38th Street. Tickets are $15 on Thursday, $18 on Friday, $24 and $22 Sundays. Seniors and students $20 all dates. For reservations call (718) 996-4800 or email [email protected].

Death trap: (Above) Diane Brereton and Dean Grillo in a scene from the new play “Introspective” by Johnathan Cerio (top right). The Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango

WHERE TO THURS, JULY 11 BRIDGE WALK: Big Onion Tours takes a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and around Brooklyn Heights at twilight. Stops include Plymouth Church, A.A. Low Mansion, and sites associated with Arthur Miller, Robert Moses and Norman Mailer. $12, $10 students and seniors. 5 pm. Meet at southeast corner of Broadway and Chambers street, lower Manhattan. (212) 439-1090. REASON FOR HOPE: Park Slope Food Co-op talk on Maitreya, a voice of reason. 7 pm. 782 Union St. (718) 622-0560. Free. BARNES AND NOBLE: Colette Brooks reads from “In The City: Random Acts of Awareness.” 7:30 pm. 267 Seventh Ave. (718) 832-9066. Free. BARGEMUSIC: Chamber music of Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. SEASIDE SERIES: Seaside Summer Concert Series presents Frank Sinatra Jr. with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. 7:30 pm. Seaside Park, West Fifth Street and Surf Avenue. (718) 469-1912. Free. FILM SERIES: Brooklyn Bridge Park Summer Film series. Tonight: “Double Indemnity,” with Barbara Stanwyck. 8:45 pm. Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, New Dock Street at Water Street. Rain date is July 12. (718) 802-0603. Free.

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the very beginning and more centered on his real concern throughout. The play does have some high points. Craig Kwasnicki, dressed in a red jacket and red striped vest, dazzles as the charismatic and cynical clown. More evil than amusing, he performs magic, jokes and teases the audience. Lugo and Ryan Repertory Executive Director Barbara Parisi have created some excellent lighting effects — especially when the opera singer appears in a tiny dressing room on the other side of a stage door. Kwasnicki uses the small space rather well — sauntering down the aisle and jumping onto the stage. But

harbors some strange ideas about the disease, for instance the belief that one can contract HIV by drinking infected blood. Making the narrator into the central character deprived of his lover by AIDS may give some the impression that the play is really about how the AIDS epidemic has ravaged the gay community, and all the other stories are merely window dressing. Another play about AIDS may be disappointing or exhilarating, depending on your point of view. But if this is where the playwright’s heart really lies, the play might have been much better if he had been more forthcoming from

the smallness of the theater has resulted in some weird blocking, with the action on two levels, often for no apparent reason, and actors crowded onto the stage or facing the audience rather than each other. It may be that Cerio’s play is just too ambitious for the space provided. “Introspective” is Cerio’s first play. It definitely shows ability. His dialogue moves nicely and is occasionally funny. But it relies too much on cliche and audience-specific jokes. Most important, Cerio needs to choose less sophomoric themes and treat them in a more mature manner. We all know we’re going to live lives of successive loss until the ultimate loss of life itself. But life also gives us great gifts. The challenge is not to figure out why we die but rather what to do with the time we are given. This is the stuff of great literature and great plays. If Cerio were to follow this route, who knows what might happen?

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OUTDOORS AND TOURS AUDUBON CENTER: Weekend program features nature tours. Also, electric boat tours. $3 per ride. Prospect Park. Call for information. (718) 287-3400. GRAVESEND CEMETERY: Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment presents thanatologist Roberta Halporn. She leads walk through cemetery and highlights Victorian markers. $8, $6 members. 11 am to 1 pm. Meet at Avenue U station of the F line. (718) 788-8500. PEDAL BOATING: On the lake in Prospect Park. $10 per hour. 11 am to 4 pm. Rentals behind Wollman Center. (718) 282-7789. WALKING TOUR: NY Like a Native takes a walk around Park Slope, Prospect Park and Brooklyn Heights. $13. 1:30 to 4 pm. Call for reservations and meeting place. (718) 393-7537.

PERFORMANCES CELEBRATE BROOKLYN: presents an African Festival with a variety of music. Also, African marketplace. $3. 2 to 9 pm. Prospect Park Bandshell, 9th Street and Prospect Park West. (718) 965-8999. OUTDOOR THEATER: Lite Company presents production of Carlo Gozzi’s “The King Stag,” a fable of magic, intrigue and romance. 3 pm. Music Pagoda, near the Boathouse, Prospect Park. (212) 414-7773. Free. BARGEMUSIC: Chamber music program of works by Brahms. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. MOONLIGHT RIDE: Moving for a Better Environment invites cyclists to discover Prospect Park at night. Meet at 9 pm at

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CHILDREN FISHING CONTEST: Annual weeklong contest for kids 14 and younger. All equipment provided. 10 am to 2 pm. Prospect Park, near Wollman Rink. (718) 965-6975. Free. AQUARIUM: Celebrate America and the animals found along our shores with the theme event “From Sea to Shining Sea: A Marine Mammal Celebration.” NY Aquarium offers workshops, live music, antique cars and more. $9.75. 11 am to 4 pm. West 8th Street and Surf Avenue. (718) 265-FISH. PROSPECT PARK ZOO: Visitors are invited to chat with and find out about zookeepers’ work. Today “Land Lubbers” invites participants to create and identify animal footprints, clean a mock animal exhibit and discover what animals eat. $2.50, $1.25 seniors, 50 cents for children 3 to 12. 1 to 3 pm. 450 Flatbush Ave. (718) 3997339. WYCKOFF HOUSE: Kids are invited to sample herbs from the garden. Learn medicinal, spiritual and culinary uses of plants. 1 to 3 pm. 5816 Clarendon Road. (718) 629-5400. Free. PUPPETWORKS: presents “Pinnochio.” $7, $6 children. 12:30 pm. 338 Sixth Ave. Reservations suggested. (718) 965-3391. BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: presents “Family Science Workshop: Science Fair with Flair.” $4. 2 to 3:30 pm. 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400. Free. BARGEMUSIC: Children’s concert series of music by Brahms and Beethoven for kids 4 and older. $10 children, $15 adults. 3 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. PLAYGROUND PROGRAM: Imagination Playground weekly program for kids. Today: Urban Renaissance Theater presents a hip-hop program. 3 to 4 pm. Harmony Playground, enter at

Yo Brooklyn Indie rockers Yo La Tengo (pictured) will perform on July 12 at 7:30 pm as part of the Celebrate Brooklyn performing arts series at the Prospect Park Bandshell (Prospect Park West and Ninth Street in Prospect Park). Opening the show is Everton Sylvester, the lead poet of the Brooklyn Funk Essentials. Admission is $3. For more information, call (718) 855-7882 ext. 45. Prospect Park West and 9th Street. (718) 965-6973. Free. FAMILY THEATER: “Alice in Wonderland.” $12 for all ages. 4 and 8 pm. Church of Gethsemane, 1012 Eighth Ave. (718) 670-7205.

OTHER RECEPTION: Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment presents the exhibit “Fish Out of Water: Architecture Against Blue Skies.” 2 to 5 pm. Tennis House, Prospect Park. (718) 788-8500. Free. BA CINEMATEK: “New French Connection” series. Today: “Replay” (2000). 2 pm. Also, “Mischka” (2002). 4:30 pm. Also, “Roberto Succo” (2000). 6:50 pm. Also, “Wild Innocence” (2001). 9:20 pm. $9. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100.

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Bastille Day OUTDOORS AND TOURS CRUISING THE GOWANUS: Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment hosts a cruise aboard the Chelsea Screamer. Learn about the Gowanus Canal and its renaissance. $45, $35 members, seniors and students. 9 am to noon. Meet at Chelsea Piers, Pier 62, Hudson River at 22nd Street. (718) 788-8500. NOSTALGIA TRAIN: NY Transit Museum takes a trip back in

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t may not rank with Columbus hitting upon America, but dining guide guru Tim Zagat has discovered Brooklyn. This week he unveils his “Zagat Survey: Brooklyn,” acknowledging for the first time that restaurants in this borough deserve his undivided attention. He’ll celebrate with a launch party July 11 at The Grocery restaurant on Smith Street. In his annual “New York City Restaurants” survey, a sprinkling of Brooklyn’s most famous restaurants, like Peter Luger’s steakhouse in Williamsburg have made the cut since the 1970s, Zagat told GO Brooklyn on Wednesday. Now, for the first time, Zagat has published a guide solely dedicated to the restaurants, attractions, nightlife and shopping in Brooklyn.

“Eight years ago, there was the fear factor,” said Zagat. “People were scared to go to New York, and they were scared to go anywhere in the outer boroughs. Now with improved safety, cleanliness and shopping amenities in Brooklyn, it’s almost revolutionary.” Zagat said that like the “New York City Restaurants” survey, he’s committed to updating the Brooklyn version annually. “When we first started we had six Brooklyn restaurants; now we have 140,” said Zagat. “It’s really gotten so it’s really serious. It’s almost the size of a restaurant guide in any other city — except for New York. “People in Brooklyn tended to be voting for Brooklyn restaurants. Now … people from Manhattan are going to Brooklyn. It used to be one-way — Brooklyn to New York. Starting two or three years ago it became a two-

What do you think? These are the favorite restaurants in each neighborhood, listed in order of food rating, according to the new “Zagat Survey: Brooklyn,” edited by Benjamin Schmerler (Zagat Survey LLC, 2002). Bay Ridge

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Areo (8424 Third Ave. at 85th Street) Tuscany Grill (8620 Third Ave. at 86th Street) St. Michel (7518 Third Ave. at Bay Ridge Parkway)

Blue Ribbon (280 Fifth Ave. at 1st Street) Cucina (256 Fifth Ave. at Carroll Street) Rose Water (787 Union St. at Sixth Avenue)

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Smith Street

Grimaldi’s (19 Old Fulton St. at Front Street) River Cafe (1 Water St. at Furman Street) Queen (84 Court St. at Livingston Street)

Grocery (288 Smith St. at Sackett Street) Saul (140 Smith St. at Bergen Street) Smith St. Kitchen (174 Smith St. at Warren Street)

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He suggests that interested readers take advantage of Queen’s prix fixe lunch to find out what all the fuss is about. Although it might not be a surprise that there are top-quality Italian restaurants in Brooklyn, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. “The range of cuisine speaks well for the borough,” said Schmerler. “You’ll find Austrian, Cambodian, Peruvian, Mexican, Malaysian and even South African — like Madiba in Fort Greene.” Other subheadings in the book corral places to eat when on jury duty, attractions, historic places (open longer than 50 years) and eateries with children’s menus. It’s apparent that with all it has to offer, a Zagat guide to Brooklyn is overdue. “Brooklyn seemed to be in a renaissance,” Zagat explained as his reasoning for the new volume. “There’s a lot of nightlife. It’s a lot more exciting certainly than I had realized. There are so many things that, when put together, I had a really interesting book.” “Brooklyn had already reached the stage in terms of great institutions like the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and BAM,” observed Zagat. “But when people go somewhere they want to go before or after to eat or drink. Now Brooklyn has a lot of those amenities.”

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neath the waters covering what used to be New York City is located in what remains of Coney Island. Although frustrating to watch because no attempt is made to connect the movie’s disparate sections — the beginning domestic drama, the “Mad Max”-style mayhem, the “Waterworld”-like visuals, then the climactic, unfathomable creatures appearing to David 2,000 years in the future, all with no rhyme or reason — “A.I.” is filled with wondrous effects, including the vivid re-creation of a waterlogged Coney Island. As the DVD’s extra features show in myriad detail, Spielberg’s technicians have fashioned a plausible underwater New York City. Watching behind-the-scenes footage of the FX wizards creating miniatures of several Coney Island attractions is far more entertaining than sloshing through the entire 150-minute behemoth that is “A.I.”

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of years in the future, it returns to 1883, when the Brooklyn Bridge was first being constructed. The bridge figures prominently in this sappy romantic comedy, a Meg Ryan vehicle carjacked by Hugh Jackman as the 19th-century gentleman who steals her jaded 21st-century heart. The portal where characters move between the two centuries is on the bridge itself. (Don’t ask!) When we first meet Leopold, he’s at the foot of the bridge during its construction. It’s a superbly realisticlooking special-effects shot. There’s a wonderful scene later on, after his arrival in 2001 New York City, when Leopold sees the finished bridge in all its breathtaking splendor for the first time. “It’s a miracle!” he exclaims to a garbage collector nearby, who harrumphs in response, “It’s a bridge.” The DVD of “Kate & Leopold” includes an “on the set” featurette, where one of the technicians talks about the large set they built at the foot of the bridge, coincidentally, near where that gruesome burial occurs in “Romeo Is Bleeding.” Several of the matte shots that seamlessly blend the partially completed bridge with the surrounding neighborhoods are shown. On his audio commentary, director James Mangold doesn’t hold back his awe of the structure. “We exploited it as much as somebody could,” he admits, then, sounding remarkably like Leopold, says, “The bridge is really a glorious and beautiful structure, an icon of New York.” At least our Brooklyn icons emerge unscathed from “Kate & Leopold” and “A.I.”

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Two of the greatest Cyclones of all time — Joe Jiannetti and John Toner — returned triumphantly to Brooklyn last week. OK, maybe “triumphantly” is a bit overstated: Jiannetti rejoined the team because he injured his shoulder while playing for the Mets’ class-A (full-season) team in Columbia, S.C., while Toner, who was tearing up the South Atlantic League for the same team, returned to Brooklyn to get more at-bats. “I was only playing every other day,” Toner said. Despite the mundane circumstances of their return — a rehab assignment and a bid for more playing time — the pair were treated to stronger-thannormal applause during their plate appearances. “It’s nice to be remembered,” Jiannetti admitted, “but.” When his voice trailed off, it was clear that he never thought he’d be back at Keyspan Park, which, despite the sellout crowds and memories of last year’s champi-

onship season, is still a halfstep back on the inexorable path to the big leagues. Toner, meanwhile, was more optimistic about his new assignment. “Last year, I was just a confused, mixed-up kid,” he said. “This time, I can take more away from the experience.” None of the current Cyclones were all that impressed to be playing alongside last year’s champions. “I must say I’m honored just to be in the dugout with Cyclone legends like John Toner and Joe Jiannetti,” joked infielder Chase Lambin. On the field, it appears that Toner is enjoying the experience even more than his once and present teammate, Jiannetti. In six games as a re-’Clone, Toner is hitting .231. And on

Relishing the contest With the Cyclones on the road on July 4, pitcher Kevin Deaton, a true frankophile, was forced to watch coverage of the Nathan’s hot dog-eating contest on ESPN. Although astounded that his hero, Japanese eater Takeru Kobayashi surpassed his own record by downing 50 and a half hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes to retain the Mustard Yellow International Belt, Deaton weighed in on the growing controversy surrounding Kobayashi’s win. “If something comes out of your nose,” Deaton said, referring to allegations that Kobayashi vomited just as the

final bell sounded, “that’s a hurl.” When reminded that International Federation of Competitive Eating rules clearly state that a contestant can only be disqualified for a “Roman incident” — if the regurgitate hits the table — Deaton was unswayed. “If you’re at a restaurant and the guy next to you starts blowing stuff out of his nose, that’s a Roman incident,” he said. Deaton was saddened to not be able to attend the contest in person. Before the game in Williamsport, a local hot dogeating contest was held. The winner ate a paltry four hot dogs in five minutes. “It was depressing,” Deaton said, dismayed by the quality of the local gustatory athletes.

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Comings and goings Noel Devarez, a Cyclones holdover from last year, has been promoted to Columbia. Devarez hit .200 with 1 home run and 2 RBIs during eight games with the Clones this season. Brendan Mannix and Will Hudson have been sent to Kingsport (rookie league) to get more playing time.

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Cyclones 3 Crosscutters 1 Thu., July 4, at Williamsport Alhaji Turay did most of the damage offensively, going 3-3 including a double, home run and 2 RBI.

Cyclones 4 Crosscutters 1 Friday, July 5, at Williamsport The Cyclones broke a 1-1

tie with three runs in the ninth, the game-winner knocked in by none other than former Cyclone John Toner, who rejoined the team earlier in the week. (See “Ups & Downs” above). Alhaji Turay knocked in Toner with a triple. Earlier in the game, Bobby Malek got the ‘Clones on the board in the fifth with an RBI double. Starter Miguel Pinango gave up just one run in 5.1 innings.

Cyclones 4 Yankees 3 Sat., July 6, at Brooklyn (13 in.) After taking an early 2-0 lead on Joe Jiannetti’s RBI double in the first, the Cyclones blew the lead on a questionable balk called on starter Kevin Deaton (5 innings, 2 earned runs, 10 strikeouts). Later, the ’Clones went ahead 3-2 when Jonathan Slack doubled and eventually sneaked home when Jiannetti got caught in a rundown be-

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We guess he didn’t hear that the annual “Welcome Back to Brooklyn” party was canceled. In his third game back since re-joining the Cyclones last week, outfielder John Toner — who last year patrolled the

grounds of Keyspan Park, made a splash, knocking in the game winner on Friday in Williamsport agianst the Crosscutters. But Toner sealed his hold on this week’s award with his gamesaving catch in the ninth inning of Saturday’s victory over the hated Staten Island Yankees.

John Toner returned to the Cyclones this week, and helped win two games.

tween first and second. But the Yankees came back in the ninth, scoring after a Jiannetti error. Only a spectacular catch by right-fielder John Toner saved the game in the ninth. In the 13th, Ender Chavez’s double scored Slack, who had singled. The Yankees have yet to beat Brooklyn at Keyspan Park. Coupled with Williamsport’s loss, the Cyclone victory moved the team into a tie for first.

Yankees 3 Cyclones 2 Sun., July 7, at S.I. (10 in.) Staten Island Yankee Matt Mamula drove home Gabe Lopez with a sacrifice fly, leading his team to victory at Richmond County Bank Ballpark at St. George. The Yankees, who had lost six games in a row, tied the contest up in the ninth thanks to an RBI double by Tommy Rojas. Clones reliever Timothy McNab picked up the loss thanks to two innings of sloppy relief, which included a wild pitch and a hit-batsman. The Cyclones loss was their first to the cross-Narrows rival Yankees in eight games.

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lence to animals, says kids of all ages, including high school students, benefit from being reminded: “Treat others as you want to be treated.” Dr. Frank R. Ascione, a psychology professor at Utah State University, has extensively researched animal cruelty as a predictor of future violence against people. The link between animal cruelty and serious violent behavior by youth offenders has drawn lots of interest in the past two decades. But, Ascione says, animal abuse still hasn’t received enough attention as one of several red flags — including fire-setting and other anti-social behavior — that could help identify children who are at risk for violence against people, as well as kids who have been victimized. Intervention early on may add one more piece to the puzzle of how to prevent youth violence, Ascione says. Other tips: • Seek out local educational programs designed to teach kids how to respect and care for animals. • Praise your child when he gently touches the family dog, remembers to provide food and water, and respects how the pet doesn’t like to be teased. • Parents also should recognize that if animals feel threatened, they may bite. For more information about research on the correlation between violence against animals and violence toward people, contact the American Humane Association at (877) LINK-222.

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CLIMB THE LADDER TO SUCCESS!

Retail Sales Specialist

(646) 210-0716

Staten Island/Brooklyn

Income Opportunites

• Responsible for selling, maintaining distribution and merchandising of Hershey products • 3-4 years food retail/merchandising experience; hospitality a plus • HS Diploma required • A company car and laptop will be provided • Bilingual Spanish preferred • A Valid driver’s license (in good standing) is required

It is suggested that companies be researched before sending any money. Long distance rates may apply.

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WAREHOUSE STAFF IMMEDIATE HIRE! $13.85/HR. 40/HR Week. Training Provided

(718) 862-1134 W27 An Extraordinary Business Opportunity

www.resjobs.com/hersheys We will only respond to those individuals who will be interviewed. Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V.

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Billion $ NY Stock Exchange Corporation with Lee Iacocca offers 100 thousand franchise-like “Distributorships” for new home business owners. Earn $5,000 to $15,000 plus monthly. Enroll now! Free business briefing. Call, Sayesman Home Business Group: 1 (800) 844-8533. R35

$500 LOAN CALL NOW!

Career Preparation

Interviews Guaranteed Customized Resumes, Cover Letters and Interview Coaching

Cash Tomorrow In Your Checking Account. Need Income of $1500/month. Call Easycash, Member FDIC. 1-800-220-4506. www.moneybyfax.com. W28

Recent HS Grads (18+)/College Students

By Certified Employment Interview Professional

FREE RESUME ASSESSMENT

Fun, Food, Chicks, Guys, Drinks, Dates, Clothes

First Impression

$18.25 base-appt. FT/PT shifts

CAREER SERVICES

We also award scholarships. Positions are being filled fast.

All costs money, so get a job.

Convenient Park Slope Location

917-576-2821 Active Member of PARW/CC & CMI

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Parties

Foy House Bed and Breakfast in the heart of Park Slope

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CHILDREN & CHILD CARE

Sunflower

(718) 488-8562

R25-22

Caring, reliable mature woman seeks FT/PT position as babysitter. 6 yrs exp. Excellent references. (718) 375-7488. L28

834-9161

ask for classified Monday through Friday 9am-5pm

DEADLINE! For ALL Categories - Tuesdays, 4pm •

What, When and How of our Classified Ads • The Brooklyn Classifieds appear in neighborhood editions of The Brooklyn Papers published during the week in which an ad runs. • Ads ordered and paid for by deadline are generally included in the next edition. But sometimes ads may be held for an additional week, based on production and space considerations. The Brooklyn Papers shall be under no liability for its failure for any cause to insert an advertisement. • Once ordered, a Classified Ad may NOT be cancelled before its first insertion. • Ads ordered to run more than one week may be cancelled after the first week. However, while the ad may be cancelled, NO REFUND OR CREDIT will be issued. • Contract rates for Classified Ads are “rate holders” — no skipped issues permitted. • Special “package price” and other discounted multiple insertion rates require prepayment for the total number of weeks ordered, may not be cancelled and may not be short rated to achieve a lower rate on renewal. • In the event of an error in a published ad, please contact The Brooklyn Papers by the first deadline following publication date.

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Call (718) 288-5470

Best Services for your Parties & Special Occasions

TUTORING

Se Habla Español L32

Accomodates 75 people Parties for all occassions

RICO

The Party Clown & Magician Birthday parties and special occasions — Adults & Kids. Comedy, Magic, Balloon Sculpting, Puppets, Games, M.C., Comic Roastings.

PA R TY ROOM FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS. YOU DO NOTHING. ENTERTAINMENT TO GO. DJS FOR ALL OCCASIONS.

KPS 718-238-6733R26

INSTRUCTION Glass courses at workspace11

Nanny Housekeeper. Fixed full time live in or live out position. Flexible, reliable, and energetic. Great references. (718) 675-4985. L26

Learn glassmaking techniques at Williamsburg glass studio. Night classes and weekend workshops, Summer & Fall courses. Call (718) 218-7643 or email [email protected]

Arts

R32

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PARK SLOPE

Cleaning Svcs Available

Painting and Drawing Lessons

TRUE CHOICE CLEANING SERVICE

(718) 499.1494

APARTMENT • STUDIOS HOUSES • OFFICES • BOATS

Private Instruction. All ages and levels welcome. Will come to your home! L28

Martial Arts

Call (718) 826-0500

L29

Est. 1980

“Old Fashioned Irish Cleaning” Specializing in: • All Phases of Domestic Service • Residential and Commercial

Gift Certificates Available

718-279-3334

BROOKLYN

AIKIKAI TRADITIONAL AIKIDO SCHOOL • Aikido means, “way of harmony with the unviersal force.” • Training improves flexibility, muscle tone, endurance, stimulation and direction of Ki (universal energy).

tel 917.576.9149 www.brooklynaikikai.com

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“Let us maintain your hallways”

718-573-4165 Bonded

R32

ALWAYS SPRING CLEANING SERVICE Reliable, responsible, reasonable rates.

$50 and up.

(718) 499-2971 (347) 249-3342

CLEANING LADY AVAILABLE No Cleaning Exclusions “I’ll give my best to your mess...”

(917) 697-7133

R27

PLEASE CALL

(646) 267-8410 R25-50 Support for your child. Reading, Writing, Math.

Music

Call (718) 369-8205

SLOPE MUSIC

Making Musicians for 30 Years

YOGA KIDS® Yoga class for children of all abilities. Located at Creative Arts Studio, 310 Atlantic Ave. (off Smith St.) 5 week summer series, children 3 to 5 yrs old. Tues: July 9, 16, 23, 30 and Aug. 6th from 3:30-4:15pm.

Contact: Joan Maguire (718) 858-7520

271 9th St.

P34

R29

(718) 832-6598

R32

Flute Lessons 22 Years of Experience

Many Styles • All ages Welcome PARK SLOPE AREA

718-399-2402

R34

MERCHANDISE

Bookshelves, dishes, TVs, clothing, furniture at LOW prices. Call Denise for details. (718) 788-3952. R27 AIDA Tickets - Show is on Tuesday, 7/16/02 @ 8:00pm. Call (718) 4533352 x107 or (718) 455-3464. Selling @$150 for 2 tickets or best offer. R27

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PROBLEMS SOLVED ! CallRemington Jaz Networks

Free Site Survey, Estimate and Consultation

Microsoft, Dell, Acer and Novell Certifications

Computers

DOUGLAS CONDON

Call the TECH VET!

R40

HE MAKES HOUSE CALLS!

Attorneys PERSONAL INJURY

646-932-3744

TOP CASH PAID

(800) 530-0006 (212) 751-0009

L(.)(.)K! by collector. Regardless of condition

800-675-8556 GREGORY S. GENNARELLI, ESQ The Woolworth Building 233 Broadway – Suite 950 New York, NY 10279 * free consultation [email protected]

SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY APPEALS FREE OFFICE CONSULTATION NO RECOVERY, NO FEE Stewart J. Diamond, Esq. 111 Livingston Street, Suite 1110 Brooklyn, New York 11201

(718) 210-4738

R50

BANKRUPTCY • REAL ESTATE STOP FORECLOSURE RICHARD S. FEINSILVER, ESQ. FREE CONSULTATION BROOKLYN: 111 Livingston Street

Highest prices paid

212-517-8725 R26-17

BUYING OLD FURNITURE

TOP PRICES • ALL CASH CALL JOHN MARTIN

718-843-1873

Exclusive Plaintiff’s Practice

R26-04

We buy entire estates. Clean outs. We come to you!

R34

800-479-6330

R29

Law Offices of

Ana Bunescu & ASSOCIATES

Personal Injuries, Workers’ Compensation, Wills, Estate, Probate, Divorce, Immigration, Real Estate FREE CONSULTATION 225 Broadway: (212) 587-0563 7117 12th Ave., Bklyn: (718) 745-0066 Spanish speaking: (718) 545-8358 bet. 9am-2pm R43

PERSONAL CARE

Jeffrey D. Karan

Massage

Attorney at Law 32 Court St., Suite 1702 718-260-9150

A-1 BODY RUB Brooklyn’s #1 massage therapy. Guaranteed stress relief.

(718) 238-7277

• Wills & Estates • Planning • Family Law • Real Estate • Landlord • Tenant • Commercial Litigation • Accidents • Malpractice • Divorce Evenings and home visits available

R31

Capital Available

GLORIA’S

2216 65th St. - (718) 837-8034 2192 Flatbush Ave. - (718) 253-7338

CALL NOW FOR DETAILS...

Pet foods: Innova, California Natural, Wysong, Pet Guard, Pro-pac, Solid Gold, Natural Choice, Canidae, Felidae and others.

$10 off, FULL GROOMING, for first time grooming customers with this ad only. exp. August 30, 2002. R36

Flat Rate and Hourly Service MAC and Windows

Yes, that’s a local call! For Fast Computer relief, Call

DOCTOR DATA

We make house and office calls to repair, upgrade or install any brand computer. Also installs network. Our 15 yrs of exp. will solve your computer problems. Our prices are reasonable and we guarantee our work. Call for a free phone consultation.

718-998-3548

email: [email protected] world wide web: http://www.drdata.com

INTRODUCTORY JUNE SPECIAL $179.00 / month Color Copier/printer includes delivery, installation and one-year warranty on the printer. The print head has a 5-year warranty. Monthly payments are based on a 36-month lease. $179.00/mo. Contact: Marc Bochner, Acc’t Executive Konica Business Technologies, Inc. Phone: 800-283-9360 x259 Facsimile: 212-972-4154 R33

Financial Services Financial Advisors Registered investment advisors will assist you with investment & financial planning needs. Whether investing for retirement, education or profit, our professional and personalized service will help you achieve your financial goals.

WALNUT INVESTMENT SERVICES LLC 1018 8th Avenue, Park Slope Tel: 788-4875 e-Mail: [email protected] Or visit our web site at: www.walnutfund.com R27

Typing Call BUTLER SECRETARIAL IF YOU WANT QUICK ACCURATE SERVICE • Academic & Professional Papers • Manuscripts • Resumes • Etc. (718) 369-0078 Fax: (718) 832-1615 e-mail too! R26-17

Writing Coach

Tracks Across the Page Writing Consultant Workshops in Journal Keeping and Memoir

718.714.1612 advanceme, inc.

R25-50

Copiers

Restaurants & Retailers Solve Business Cash Flow Problems Our unique no hassle program gives you up to $75,000 cash now against your future credit card sales. No fees or collateral. Easy & fast approval.

Grooming Cats and Dogs. All sizes and breeds. NO tranquilizers used. NYC Health Dept approved.

catch cold?

718-788-3913

Automobile – Construction – Products General Negligence

silver, paintings, china, porcelain, jewelry, chandeliers, lighting, oriental rugs, furniture, ancient artifacts, etc.

computer

• tax planning and preparation • accounting, auditing • advisory services • co-op and condo management Park Slope Office

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

DOG BEAUTY SALONS

W29

R30

COMPUTER & NETWORK

Merchandise Wanted

Grooming

1-800-220-4506

Repairs Training Internet

Accountants & Tax Services

PET SERVICES

Call Easycash, Member FDIC

Home Office School

Certified Public Accountant

L36

Cash Tomorrow In Your Checking Account. Need Income of $1500/month.

R26-23

Computers

Soundproof booth for recording. 7-1/2 ft. high x 3-1/2ft. deep x 6ft. long. On wheels, glass window. Worth $1,500, selling for $900 or best offer. Nancy. (718) 834-9161 ext. 112. W27

all major credit cards accepted

$500 LOAN CALL NOW!

Elderlaw • Probate • Estate Litigation • Deed Transfers Medicaid Planning • Home and Hospital Visits Available 189 Montague Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201

Merchandise For Sale

Dining & bedrooms, odds & ends, statues, vases, bronze & marble items, Oriental Rugs, Paintings, Etc.

Explore Drumming through various styles of music: Rock, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Pop, Latin, etc. All ages & levels. Lesson space provided. No drum kit required. Affordable Rates.

LAW OFFICES OF Peter G. Gray, P.C.

(718) 237-2023

(718) 385-1685

Certified: CYKF/Early Childhood Teacher

Msg. 718-768-3804

Park Slope DRUM LESSONS

R49

Trusts, Estates, Wills, Proxies Free Consultation Availableat

R31

OLD CLOCKS & WATCHES WANTED

Most Instruments: Jazz/Voice Jazz • Classical • Folk Call for free interview Charles Sibirsky, Jazz Pianist

(718) 369-5805

Science, Social Studies, English. Ages 6-13. Special needs welcomed. NYS certified teacher. MS. Ed.

R29 R25

R29

ENLIGHTENED

Math, Science, Accounting All Levels Private tutoring in your home. Grades 5-12, GED, elementary and intermediate algebra. All Boroughs. Flex hours, including weekends.

ANTIQUES WANTED:

CORPORATE ACCOUNTS WELCOME.

We handle all aspects of cleaning. FREE ESTIMATES. For reliable service:

R29

Yoga R36

Responsible, honest, caring babysitter seeks FT job. Excellent references. Call Adanna (718) 241-3408. R26

CLEANING SERVICES

Residential & Commercial • Illegal Apt. Problems • Holdovers Evictions (non-payments) • Real Estate Closings Nuisance Tenants • Personal Injury

R42

I can help you earn better grades. All ages welcome. Specializing in Math, Science and English.

Party Room

637 Fifth Avenue (corner of 18th St.), PARK SLOPE

Bob Blumenthal

CLOWNS • MAGICIANS

Tel. (718) 596-1518

Law Offices of Joseph M. Rizzo, P.C. FREE PHONE CONSULTATION All Landlord & Tenant Matters Emergency Service 24 hrs / 7 days a week

Private tutoring in your home or my office. Experienced teacher with master’s degree. Children & adults.

In school this summer?

BuBuLuBu

Entertainment

Attorneys

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Reasonable Rates

718-434-9697 917-318-9092

Child Care Available

Eric (718) 398-7509 R38

718-499-4787

R35

Apts • Houses • Offices R31

To advertise call

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(917) 723-8742

Ages 3 mos. - 4 yrs. 8am-6pm. Organic meals included. Backyard, music classes. Licensed. Carroll Gardens & Park Slope. Call Ilene.

Nutrition & Beauty Co. seeks people to distribute their products. 25-50% commission + wholesale + bonus profits. P/T or F/T. No exp. necessary. Start immediately.

VIC CANTONE P.O. BOX 1039, NYC, NY 10116-1039

P/T Floor Waxer

R27

SAT • LSAT • GRE GMAT • SCIENCE HS EXAMS ENGLISH & MATH Tutoring All ages; 6 yrs. exp. w/references Flex hrs./rates Bklyn or Mhttn. Get the results you need!

Honey’s Home

M,W,F from 7:00-10:00am. Must have experience & references. Call M-F, 10am-2pm.

(631) 666-3081

Test Prep/Tutor

An Inviting Friendly and Relaxing Place to be while visitng Brooklyn, New York. A home away from home.

R31

Business Services

R40

Have tux will travel PARTIES & SPECIAL OCCASSIONS OFFICE OR HOME GRAND OPENINGS WEDDINGS BAR/BAT MITZVAHS GIFTS (VIA) PHOTOS CUSTOM T-SHIRTS

(917) 704-1160

Family Group Childcare

Business Opportunites Salespeople

For detailed job descriptions, additional openings and to apply online, visit us at:

Brooklyn

Our phone (718) 434-7628

P/T Help Wanted

A lot more goes into the making of Hershey Foods’ successes than just great ingredients. Behind our global reputation lies a history of innovation, a constant commitment to quality and leadership, and leading edge processes. Plus something even more special...the expertise and collaboration of our people.

BED & BREAKFAST

See us at www.honeysbedandbreakfast.com

LA Weight Loss Centers, an industry leader, is seeking a sales oriented professional with management experience and a proven track record. If you are looking for advancement, are dynamic and a proven closer, come join the team in our BENSONHURST & BROOKLYN HEIGHTS locations. We’ll provide the leads while you enjoy a base salary, unlimited commissions + BONUS, great benefits, 401k and opportunity for advancement to the top. Consultative/ directs sales experience in the beauty/image industry preferred. Call 866-691-8105, fax 888-699-0210 or e-mail [email protected]. EOE. R27

than most people know.

Expert Test Preparation 40 years helping primary, secondary college and adult students to excel Reasonable Rates • Home Lessons Certified Tutoring Service, Inc.® (718) 434-0944 MC/VISA/AmEx

1994 Ford Van (350) 10 passenger with wheelchair lift. 60k miles. $6,000 negotiable.

Tutoring TUTORING ALL SUBJECTS • ALL GRADES

Caricatures

Autos for Sale

(718) 748-0650 x119

Reliable and experienced (Min 5 years). Must have own tools, vehicle and comp insurance. Steady jobs in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Kitchen, Bathroom, etc. Fax Resume (718) 8361095.

ENTERTAINMENT

R24

To advertise in

Business Services Call (718) 834-9161

Do you need help? • Reports – Grants • Correspondence • Applications • Personal Statements • Brochures • Pamphlets

Experienced – Personable

ELOISE KLEIN

MFA

(718) 624-4939

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980-9019

DAYS • EVES • WEEKENDS Free Information W40

COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTAIL. Complete interior renovations. Renovations/complete finished basements. Ceramic and marble work, bathroom/kitchen, hardwood floors. Framing/sheetrock install windows, doors, taping, painting. Free estimates. Licensed and Insured. Call now.

(718) 847-7233 (718) 802-1016

Architects AWARD WINNING

General Contracting & Repairs Houses, Apartments & Offices

LICENSED

E-MAIL: [email protected]

R35

ARCHITECT & INTERIOR DESIGNER • From Conception to Completion Residential, Commercial, Manufacturing Alterations & New Buildings • Realistic Estimates & Time Schedules • Construction Management • Expediting Approvals & Permits Department of Buildings & Landmarks • Zoning Analysis & Property Potential To buy or not buy

ARCHITECT

FAX (718) 596-2579

EMAIL [email protected]

Bathrooms

Three generations • 23 years of quality honest work Kitchens • Bathrooms • Basements Cement Work • Carpentry • A/C Sys. Cabinets • Iron Work • Roofing Water Proofing • Plaster • Painting

HOME IMPROVEMENT CO. Specializing in Brownstone Renovations. Also: Brick-laying, Painting, Carpentry, Roofing, etc. Lic# 1094488

DECKS

by Bart

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R OOF ¥ GARDEN ¥ TERRAC E

BROOKLYN CONSTRUCTION

Fences Too! • Free Estimates

Painting Interior & Exterior

We build year round Plan Ahead (718) 284-8053 800-YES-4-DECK

(718) 437-4221 Mazba (917) 478-6682 Solomon (718) 275-1509

R30

Call Bart: 15+ years experience

Design Assist./Archit. Enginr. www.decksbybart.com R26-17

Electricians

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EASTECH BATHROOMS & RENOVATIONS CERAMICS • QUARRY TILE • JACUZZIS

License # 904813 • Insured

FREE ESTIMATES

718-875-1200

R26-22

License# 1068550

R48

Bathtub Refinishing Amazing Reglazing FREE ESTIMATES • FREE COLOR MATCH

Call Today 4 Your

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Tel: (718) 871-7677 Fax: (718) 871-2229

R29

“You’ve tried all the rest, now go with the best.” Do it right the first time.

Carpentry We do installation DOOR • LOCKS • SINK MOULDING • FLOOR MOULDING & OTHER CARPENTRY WORK

(718) 769-0236 R36 Carpet Cleaning

A & J Carpet Co. Upholstery Cleaning & Professional Carpet Cleaning Pet Stains • Floods • Wood Floors Waxed & Refinished

(212) 831-1189 Affordable Prices • Eves & Weekends R26-03

Closets

17 YEARS EXPERIENCE LICENSED • BONDED • INSURED

718-965-1857 or 718-692-7163 R26-07

Timeless CONSTRUCTION & RESTORATION CORP.

Complete interior renovation specialist continuing two generations of fine craftsmanship

Specialties include: * Kitchens and Baths * Custom Cabinetry and Woodwork * Plastering * All Flooring and Tile * Painting and Faux Finishes * Finished basements and additions Licensed and Insured

(718) 979-0913

R29/26-18

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN INTERIOR RENOVATIONS

COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL

more than just closets... custom closets & wardrobe design furniture & office design

license # 1036367

R26-11

Construction

BAUEN

FREE ESTIMATES

(718) 668-2063 BUILDING OUR REPUTATION R26-18

KNOCKOUT Renovations Lots of References!

A&D Heating and

RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL Install Fixtures, Ceiling Fans, Outdoor Receptacles, Motion Sensors. Running TV & Phone Cables. Electrical Wiring, Circuit Breakers, Air Conditioning, Electric Heating.

Home Improvement

(718) 434-1042

A Norway Electric

Licensed Electrician 24/7 Emergency Service Serving all of Brooklyn

1-888-GO-KOSHER

718-596-7177

ALECTRA INC. Have an electrical problem?

No job too big, no job too small! Call me. Anthony Illiano LICENSED ELECTRICIAN

718-522-3893

(718) 499-0478

1 (917) 847-8307

UFN

“IT’S SPRING” Wake up Your Garden Landscape - Garden Service Annuals - Perennials, Herbs Maintenance - General Clean up Brownstone Yards - Terraces - Co-ops

Marilyn Manning

718-753-9741

R32

Chris Mullins Contracting

Senior Citizen Discount $15 OFF Any Initial Visit $100 OFF Any Termite Treatment

Free Estimates, Licensed & Insured

718-276-8558

R35

General Contractor kitchens • baths • painting

FREE ESTIMATES / GOOD RATES

LICENSED & INSURED.

Eric (718) 399-2183

R35

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Interior/Exterior Painting Taping • Sheetrock Complete Apartment & Home Renovations. Affordable Prices Quality Work • Free Estimates

License #1068550

Call John (718) 543-1934 Cell: 1 (646) 339-3160 L29

Sam’s Transportation 15 Passenger Van + Mini Van Light Moving – All 5 Boroughs New Jersey, Connecticut and Atlantic City

917-731-4826

L43

Painting

718-921-6176 R26-18

Paint Removal PSST!!

Recapture the original beauty of your fine architectural woodwork. We strip-restorerefinish doors, mantels, columns, shutters, banisters with non-toxic, environmentally safe, removers and finishes. Careful considerate workmanship since 1959. Call the P ark S lope Stripping Team

@ 718 783-4112. w w w.eastendw oodstrippers.com R40

Painting - Plastering Paper Hanging - Glazing FREE ESTIMATES/FULLY INSURED

718-522-3534 R26-25

Plaster Restoration Ornamental • Skim Coating Wallpaper • Custom Painting Stripping

Plastering Absolute Plastering Inc. Ornamental, run cornice mould, and tinted plaster. Skim coating & domes and vaulted ceilings.

(718) 322-3436 (917) 412-5593 Ask for Fitz Custom Design & Restorations R41

(718) 783-4868

WALSH PLASTERING

25 years in Park Slope

Ornamental Plaster Repaired & Restored

R49

Master Painter EXCELLENT PAINTING & PAPER HANGING OVER 25 Years Exp. INSURED / FREE EST

Fully Insured

®

R26-19

Schwamberger Contracting All Roofing, Rubber, Skylights, Pointing and Basements. Excellent References Available License #0831318 15th year with Brooklyn Papers

718-646-4540

Free Estimates

PAINTING

Movers (Licensed)

WOOD FLOOR

US DOT#796162

SPECIALISTS Insured/Bonded

Sand • Stain • Bleach • Pickle Installation and Repairs Reasonable. Free Estimates

718-321-0635 or 1-800-870-0635 R26/26-22

D&K

FINITY IN MOVING

Low Low Rates Experts on all kinds of moving Free Estimates

(718) 627-9896

SUNFLOORING

Excellent References

718-834-0470

R26-17

PAINTING Inteior/Exterior Painting Wallpaper, Plastering, Taping, Power Washing, Texture Ceilings

718-253-6544 R35

P

rofessional ainting

Sanding • Refinishing • Repairs References Available • Free Estimates • Reasonable Prices

R46

Emergencies Welcome NYC Master Plumber, Lic #376

(718) 336-4826

1 (347) 385-4696 R47

Call 718-720-0565

R30

• New Hot water heaters • New faucets installed • Boilers repaired • Leaky pipes • Shower bodies • All heating repairs & conversions • Frozen pipes Thawed • Basements pumped • In-line TV inspections Specializing in High Pressure Water Jetting

24 HOURS • 7 DAYS

718-769-5400 718-377-9335

R26-06

L24/34

Restoration RESTORATIONS Done Reasonably and Well

Carpentry • Built-Ins • Paneling Restoration Work Window Repair • Painting Garden & Landscaping Work R43

R26-12

Heights Woodworking

Brownstone Staircase Specialists • Restoration and Repair • Custom Handrails, Newel Posts, Spindles/Balusters, Treads, and Risers in Oak, Pine, and Mahogany • Woodcarving • We Can Recreate Any Spindle or Moulding In Business Since 1949 Thousands of Satisfied Customers!

8805 3rd Ave. Bklyn, N.Y. 11209

718-875-7497

ROOFING CO. • Hot & Cold Tar - Shingling • Rubberize - Steam Cleaning • Cement & Brick Work

718-833-5752 646-261-4805

R35

Upholstery R26-19

Rubbish Removal Roll-Off Container Service Gumball Rubbish Removal Container Sizes & Prices 10 yd $295 + tax 20 yd $495 + tax 30 yd $595 + tax Prices reflect services for household goods only: furniture, clothing, appliances. Demolition Debris is additional price. Clean out truck 9 yd $325 per load. Interior Demolition, Cleanout All major credit cards

718-230-8488 R26-10

LIVING ROOM FURNITURE REUPHOLSTERED • Kitchen & dining chairs recovered • New foam cushions • Slipcovers • Vertical and mini blinds

• Shop at Home • Free Est.

Perfect Touch Decorators

718-263-8383

Quality Work • Serving the 5 Boros R35

Windows Quality Replacement Windows and Repairs Repair ALL TYPES of windows. Screens and insulated glass.

Rubbishworks

Same Day Service • Licensed & Insured Reasonable Rates • Emergency Service

“THE BETTER ALTERNATIVE” INTERIOR / EXTERIOR

Call Rene (718) 227-8787

• Rubbish Removal • Basements • Houses • Attics • Residential/Commerical • Real Estates Welcome

Window Washing

Serving All 5 Boros TOLL FREE:

(866) 884-6000

R36

A royal pane... in the glass.

Treat your mom! Expert service – reasonable rates. Call now.

(718) 748-2426 (917) 749-1195

Rubbish Removal Indoor/Outdoor, Attics,

PS - We clean gutters too.

Basements, Garages, etc. Fast, clean, cheap. All Types Cleanouts

Woodwork Restorations

FREE ESTIMATES • 10% OFF WITH THIS AD

718-659-1844 W27

Ryan & Paul 718-857-3661

Restore old surfaces. Benjamin Moore Paints used. Taping, plastering, wallpaper removal. Free Estimates

(718) 398-8180 (917) 466-2718 R35

Master Plasterer/Painter

TASOS GOFA S

R45

FREE ESTIMATES

R34

Old Walls Saved

FLOOR SERVICE, INC.

* Lowering Basement Floors * Extensions / Additions * Complete Kitchen & Bathroom * Finished Basements and more. Free estimates, all work guaranteed. Licensed & Fully Insured

Call (718) 332-7041

Repair, Install, Moldings, Skim Coats

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718-720-2555

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Free Estimates • Licensed/Bonded & Insured

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Creative Plaster Finishes & Specialty Tints Available

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NYS Registered 1974

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Man with Van/Truck

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Painting

A. Walsh 718-875-3033

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No job too big or too small

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CONTRACTORS

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Martin della Paolera 65 Saint Felix Street Brooklyn NY 11217

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Brooklyn’s Newest Showroom

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