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City bows to Golden, irate Ridgites By Dan MacLeoD
The city threw a bone to irate residents in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, and state Sen. Marty Golden, by adding one extra pick-up a week to public garbage bins that many say are causing the neighbor-hoods to become filthy because they are overburdened with trash.
But the move, which requires the Department of Sanitation to pick up trash from public bins seven days a week — up from as few as five and as many as six — still falls way short of the up to 21 pick-ups the city used to make before it chose to cut back to cut costs, a fact that wasn’t lost on
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By Dan MacLeoDA mysterious mushroom is
feasting on Bay Ridge trees, an arborcidal mycomaniac that ap-
pears to be hell bent on murder.
At least eight trees in the area bounded by Third and Sixth av-enues and 74th and 78th streets have tested
positive for the frisky fungus, which appear to be slowly killing them.
“It wouldn’t surprise me if the mushrooms killed the tree,” said famed mycophile “Wildman” Steve Brill. “They’re not virulent parasites, but they don’t do the
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Orange you cute!Little Cole Louie, 18 months, makes for one cute Big Bad Wolf as he plays in a pumpkin patch at the Bay Ridge Halloween Walk, held on Monday in Owls Head Park. For more on the festivities, see page 7. Photo by Steve Solomonson
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Finally — a burger that eats like a donut.
The geniuses at the Burger Bistro in Bay Ridge have done what once seemed the impossible: they’ve taken the sublime joy of chopped meat, American cheese and Applewood smoked bacon and stuffed it into the ultimate Platonic treat, a bakery-fresh sugar-glazed donut.
Did I forget the fried egg? It’s in there, too.
Could this thing get any better?“We were originally thinking of doing a
take on a Boston cream donut, with chocolate ganache over the top and a burger that oozed some sort of cheese,” said co-owner John Agnello. “But that went a little too far.”
But does the Donut Burger also exceed the boundaries of good taste? Not for our mouths.
Sure, we were suspicious about the unapologetically excessive idea — burger,
bacon, egg, cheese and donut — but it was love at first bite: the Donut Burger is an unex-pected explosion of harmonious, umami-rich flavor.The beef patty is juicy, the egg yolk and cheese properly unctuous, and the bacon and sugar do an oral lambada that should be illegal.
We didn’t even feel particularly greasy or gluttonous when we were done — at least, not until we had finished our side of fries, a pint of beer, and a few exemplary tater tots appro-
priated from a fellow diners plate.Now, before you plan your week around
this diet buster, understand that the Donut Burger is not a regular menu item, but a special that Agnello posts on his Facebook page.
So if you want to start liking this burger, start liking Burger Bistro’s Facebook page.
The Burger Bistro [7217 Third Ave. between 72nd and 73rd streets in Bay Ridge, (718) 833-5833].
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By Thomas Tracy Canarsie’s history is
as rich as Jamaica Bay is deep — and to most Brook-lynites, it’s just as murky.
Few know the storied past of the place rising up from the bay, whose pier rivals the one in Coney Is-land, and whose name con-jures up images of Duke Snider hitting a home run and the southern drawl of Red Barber reminding resi-dents of Brooklyn’s eastern extremity that a ball might soon be landing nearby.
No, most people don’t know Canarsie’s history, and most haven’t been to its History Museum.
But how can you, if the museum doesn’t have a home?
Of course, all that would change if Ramon Martinez, the curator of that museum, had his way.
Since 2002, when he chartered his museum with the state Department of Education, he’s been try-ing to find a permanent home for his exhibits — pieces of Canarsie’s history that, much like the area’s famed Golden City Amuse-ment Park, could be buried by the sands of time if that home isn’t found.
And that would be a shame, because now, if you want to get a taste of that history, you have to find that museum at one its re-volving locations like the Hebrew Educational So-ciety on Seaview Avenue at 95th Street, or at the Thomas Jefferson Demo-cratic Club on Conklin Av-enue.
The Museum has to tell — Canarsie’s stories.
If you were a zoot-suited
gangster who wanted to take your new dame to a day of thrills followed by a night of drinking, dancing, and some under the table blackjack in 1920s Brook-lyn, you certainly didn’t have to go to Atlantic City. You went to Canarsie.
All you had to do was take that new-fangled sub-way to the end of the line and then hop a trolley to Brooklyn’s “Boardwalk Em-pire,” where a never-end-
ing supply of amusements — including rides, hotels, casinos, and beer halls — dotted the landscape of the one-time fishing village.
Just picture it: days were spent taking leisurely boat rides that cast off from the Canarsie Pier, and nights included rides on “The Whip,” a roller coaster at the amply lit Golden City Amusement Park, which shined like the Hope Dia-mond on a black velvet
cloth thanks to its 140,000 lights.
Canarsie’s close-knit wa-terfront resort Xanadu was a perfect spot to vacation: it had everything that Coney Island had — including its own Boardwalk on what is now Seaview Avenue.
Alas, those days are gone. There are no more ho-tels on Avenue L, just an as-semblage of medical supply stores, bodegas and 99-cent stores. The casinos, which
were actually just gather-ing places, and not full-fledged gambling halls, are all gone as well.
But that doesn’t mean Canarsie’s future isn’t bright. The thriving neigh-borhood now sports a grow-ing Jamaican and Trinida-dian community, and the promise of its greatness is always just a high (or low) tide away.
And like the tide, Canar-sie will rise again.
Canarsie’s historyTraveling museum seeks to share neighborhood’s fascinating past
Curator Ramon Martines’s Carnarsie Museum published a history book — which featured pictures like these (above) — in 2006. Photos by Steve Solomonson
Very few people know the roaring good time people had in Canarsie — especially in Whittakers Casino — at the turn of the 20th Century.
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BY ELI ROSENBERGA crew of old-school
Brooklyn politicians failed to embrace Wall Street’s “occupiers” on Tuesday, ral-lying at Borough Hall and marching over the Brooklyn Bridge, but abandoning its mission before getting to the epicenter of movement, Zuc-cotti Park in Manhattan.
Elected offi cials and union representatives led by Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Vito Lopez stopped short of meeting with those who have been occupying the park for the past month — or making any speeches in solidarity with the pro-testers in Manhattan — in-stead opting to break up and go their separate ways once they reached the park where impromptu politi-cal speeches are a common practice.
In fact, some of the “oc-cupiers” had no idea that a panoply of Brooklyn pols had shown its support.
“They could have gotten on the people’s mic to an-nounce what was going on,” said Amelia Marzec, refer-ring to the group chanting system used by protesters to amplify public speakers. “I did not even know they were there.”
Marzec added that she didn’t see the group men-tioned on the Occupy Wall Street calendar that lets peo-ple know what’s going on at the park from day to day.
But before heading to Manhattan, the politicians, including Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries (D–Fort Greene), Councilman Steve Levin (D–Williamsburg) and Councilman Jumaane Williams (D–Flatbush), and Borough President Markow-itz, talked the talk — even if they failed to walk the walk after their trip over the bridge.
“Brooklyn is in the house!” shouted Lopez, an assemblyman who repre-sents Williamsburg and Bushwick. “All we’re do-ing here is advancing the agenda we’ve had for a long time around affordable housing and job creation.”
And others who took the microphone echoed the
ethos of the “occupiers,” who say they are worried that the wealthiest one per-cent of the country controls at least one-third of the over-all wealth .
“In New York City, 44 percent of all income goes to one percent of the popu-
lation,” said Stuart Appel-baum, the president of the Retail, Wholesale and De-partment Store union.
Once the speeches were over, many headed toward the bridge for the march, with protesters carried signs reading “We are the 99
percent,” and “Millionaire’s tax now,” a plea to extend a state surcharge on incomes over $200,000, which expires on Dec. 31.
The rally in Brooklyn was organized without the help of Occupy Brooklyn, which rallied at Grand
Army Plaze two weeks ago , and warily embraced Lopez and his gang .
“It’s good to see politi-cians get involved with the cause — provided they don’t co-opt the message,” said Occupy Brooklyn organizer Brian Merchant, who did
not attend Tues-day’s march.
But rallying pol-iticians dismissed the notion that they were marching for their own benefi t.
“You’ll have to explain that to me,” said Lopez. “What’s there to gain?”
Other leaders noted that politi-cians involvement was necessary to get things done.
“Elected offi -cials need to har-ness the energy out there and turn it into the policy that people are going for,” said Williams, who added that he’d like to see “occupi-ers” set up a base in Brooklyn. “People need to feel the con-nection between
what’s going on here and there.”
Occupy Brooklyn gen-eral assembly (918 Kent Ave. between Willoughby and Myrtle avenues in Clinton Hill), Oct. 27, 7 pm. For info, visit www.occupybrooklyn.org.
BY ELI ROSENBERGCall it arrest-app development.Midwood-based software developer Jason
Van Anden has created a Smartphone applica-tion tailored to the Occupy Wall Street crowd — a program that allows you to send a mass text message at the moment you are getting collared by cops.
It’s called, appropriately, “I’m Getting Ar-rested.”
“It’s a technology that fi ts well with democ-racy,” said Van Anden.
The software designer came up with the idea after hearing that a Wall Street-occupy-ing friend had come within one nightstick swing of being arrested. It made Anden won-der how he would have known if someone close to him had actually been detained.
“The next two nights I burnt the midnight oil,” he said, describing his feverish program-ming that resulted in the “I’m Getting Ar-rested” app for Android phones.
The app has proliferated with the help of Smartphone-savvy Wall Street protesters (as anti-Esblishment as they are, they’re pretty
quick with consumer technology). In just two weeks, it’s been download more than 5,600 times around the world — mostly in the United States, though a sizable customer base lives in the United Arab Emirates and Belarus.
“You have to wonder if [the download info] can forecast what people are thinking,” said Van Anden.
Here’s how it works:Before you do anything that could earn you
detention, open the app and write a text mes-sage to any number of recipients. Then, just as you’re about to be arrested, open the app and press a big red target on the phone’s screen. Faster than a cop can say, “You have the right to remain silent,” you’ll be alerting your mom, your friends, your roommate, and even your favorite newspaper reporter (phone number below!) of your impending detainment.
Currently, the free program is only avail-able on Android phones, though Van Anden hopes to develop it for iPhones as well.
The irony is that Van Anden is not an Oc-cupy Wall Street protester himself — prefer-ring to keep his day job as a software developer
for companies including Tif-fany & Co. and Citibank — but he be-lieves in the movement.
“I support what they’re doing,” he said. “I was glad that I was able to con-tribute some-thing with my skill-set.”
Best of all, the free app is easy to down-load — just in time for Tues-day’s “day of solidarity” being planned by Brooklyn elected offi cials .
To get the app, visit https:// market.an-droid.com/details?id=us.quadrant2.arrested.
Arrested? There’s an app for that!
Jason Van Anden has created the “I’m Getting Arrested” app to help detained Occupy Wall Street protesters alert their buds. Photo by Elizabeth Graham
WHO NEEDS ZUCCOTTI PARK?Pols march to support ‘Occupy Wall Street’ — but then don’t make it to Wall Street!
Brooklyn Democratic party boss Vito Lopez donned fl annel to lead Tuesday’s rally at Borough Hall and subsequent march in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street — but when it came time to actually “occupy” the Financial District with protesters, the pols were nowhere to be found. (Right) The group carried Lopez’s banner across the Brooklyn Bridge. Photos by Stefano Giovannini
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BY DAN MACLEODChristopher Mega, a former
Republican state senator and as-semblymen whose prolifi c career, work ethic and omnipresence at community events transformed the way Bay Ridge politicians did business, died Sunday after a long illness. He was 80.
The Borough Park native served in the state assembly in the mid-1970s and was later elected to the state senate, where a defeat to Democratic challenger Joe Mon-talto by a mere 300 votes after his fi rst term changed the way he did business.
“He never stopped running,” Montalto remembered. “I would go to a community meeting and he’d be at that community meet-ing. I’d send out a mailer and he’d send out a mailer. He had energy and zeal for that kind of job and he wasn’t going to give up.”
That doggedness paid off for Mega, who went on to win the next two elections and became chair of the senate’s judiciary committee, where in the early-1990s during the height of the crack epidemic, he lobbied successfully to expand
state prisons to accommodate the huge infl ux of inmates convicted on cocaine-related charges. He also was an advocate for tougher sentences for convicted sex of-fenders .
He helped bring pre-kindergar-ten programs to his district and sponsored the bill that required
restaurants to display posters showing Heimlich maneuver in-structions in their eateries.
Mega was appointed judge to the state Court of Claims in 1993, where he served until stepping down in 1998 to run one last time against Vince Gentile for his old senate seat. The move drew criti-
cism because he would have been paid his pension as a judge and former state senator, in addition to his full salary, were he elected. But he lost that election to Gen-tile, presently the neighborhood’s councilman, who remembered the race, and Mega, fondly.
“It was an epic battle,” said Gentile. “We may not have agreed on certain issues, but I respected him for his principles that he stood by. He was a good advocate for the community.”
Mega graduated from Fort Hamilton HS, then studied at St. Francis College and Brooklyn Law School.
His fi rst job was as an attorney at a Fifth Avenue law fi rm, where he was partner. In 1973, he ran for an open assembly seat during a special election in 1973, a seat he held until 1978, when he ran — and won — his fi rst state senate seat, which at that time covered much of southern Brooklyn.
But he was most remembered for his omnipresence in the neigh-borhood.
“He told me one thing,” remem-bered state Sen. Marty Golden
(R–Bay Ridge), “ ‘People want to see you, to be a part of you, and to know that you’re going to respond to their needs.’ ”
This work ethic meant that Mega was seen everywhere in his district — sometimes attending fi ve community events a night.
“You knew exactly who your state senator was because he was always there and always present,” said Gentile. “It set a standard for other elected offi cials to work as hard as he did.”
Mega died surrounded by family at his home in Saratoga Springs, NY.
He is survived by his wife, Madelyn; his two sons, Chris and Jeffery; and his two daughters, Valerie and Jackie.
A viewing will be held at Clavin’s Funeral Home [7722 Fourth Ave. between 77th and 78th streets (718) 745-1445] on Thursday at 7 pm, and Friday at 1 pm and 7 pm. The funeral will be held at St. Ephrem’s Church [929 Bay Ridge Parkway between 10th Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway (718) 883-1010] on Satur-day, Nov. 5, at 9:30 am.
Former state Sen. Christopher Mega (R–Bay RIdge) passed away on Sunday after a long illness.
PROLIFIC BAY RIDGE POLITICIAN IS DEADChristopher Mega, former state senator and judge, was an advocate for schools, prisons
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Your Election Day primer!BY THOMAS TRACY
A disgraced School Con-struction Authority trustee whose decision to hand out a patronage construction job ultimately led to a teen-ager’s death in 1998 wants to make more life-altering calls — this time from behind a judge’s bench.
Bay Ridge Parkway at-torney Paul Atanasio is run-ning on the Conservative line for Supreme Court, one of eight candidates vying for six available slots in this year’s otherwise dull, off-cy-cle election.
Atanasio has run for Su-preme Court — which han-dles trials and felony crimi-nal cases — before.
But he’s failed each time — possibly because of his checkered past.
In January, 1998, a brick from a construction project atop PS 131 on Fort Hamilton Parkway in Borough Park fell on 17-year-old Yan Zhen Zhao, killing her. A city in-vestigation later determined
that a “lethal combination of incompetent contractors, halfway safety measures and laissez-faire supervision” led to the girl’s death.
The accusatory fi nger was specifi cally pointed at project leader Gary Mar-rone, the husband of Con-servative Party Leader and Dyker Heights Civic Asso-ciation President Fran Vella-Marrone.
But the city also found that Atanasio was also to blame: he gave Marrone the PS 131 project at the behest of Vella-Marrone, who was Ata-nasio’s aide at the time.
Atanasio resigned from the School Construction Au-thority in 1999.
Calls to Atanasio were not returned, but Vella-Ma-rone was quick to come to his defense.
“He’s a good, very intelli-gent person and is a fi ne can-didate for judge,” she said, adding that the PS 131 scan-dal is irrelevant to Atanasio’s ability to be a Supreme Court
judge. “I don’t think it’s an is-sue.”
Overall on Election Day, Nov. 8, voters boroughwide will be asked to vote for six out of eight Supreme Court candidates and two out of four civil court candidates. There are no city, state or federal elections in Brooklyn this year.
Three of the eight Su-preme Court candidates — Lawrence Knipel, Betsy Barros, and David Friedman — are judges seeking re-elec-tion to another whopping 14 year-term.
Other Supreme Court can-didates include Carl Landi-cino, former election lawyer for the Kings County Demo-cratic Party; Acting Supreme Court Justice Rachel Adams, who is seeking a permanent seat; Civil Court Justice Johnny Baynes; and probate lawyer Renata Landskin.
To fi nd your polling place, visit the Board of Elec-tions website at vote.nyc.ny.us.
Scandal-tarred ex-city offi cial wants to be a judge
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BY DAN MACLEODA far-fl ung Norwegian province likes
Brooklyn so much that it is recreating the look and feel of the borough during its post-War glory years with an extensive redesign of the center of the town — aptly dubbed Brooklyn Square.
Farsund’s love affair with Brooklyn was consummated on Saturday when the mu-nicipality signed a Sister City agreement with Bay Ridge — despite the fact that Bay Ridge is not a city.
The signing between Councilman Vince Gentile (D–Bay Ridge) and Henrik Width, deputy general consul of the Norwegian Consulate, took place in the shelter of a Sixth Avenue church during the snow is meant to show support and good will to-ward the region.
Farsund, which is a municipality of Vest Agder, Norway, hosts an “American Festi-val” every year — featuring 1950s and 1960s American music, classic American cars, and a Norwegian Elvis impersonator — and is currently recreating the look and feel of a post-war Bay Ridge on the town’s Eighth Avenue in its “Brooklyn Square.”
“We have American shops, an American bar and supper club with American food
and music, a museum — and we have even changed the name of our street into Brook-lyn Square,” said Hans-Egill Berven of Far-sund, one of the planners of the project.
Brooklyn’s ties with Norway stretch back at least 150 years, when thousands of Nordic craftsmen set sail for the promised land to help build the rapidly growing city.
Norwegian transplants who remem-bered Farsund in the economic doldrums following World War II said Brooklyn was appealing because of the prevalence of jobs in the shipbuilding trade.
SISTER ACT!
On Saturday, (from left) Victor Samuelson, a rela-tive of the mayor of Farsund, Norway; Councilman Vincent Gentile (D—Bay Ridge); and Henrik Width, deputy consul general of the Royal Norwegian Consulate in New York; signed a sister city agree-ment between the small Norwegian town and Bay Ridge. Photo by Matthew Nedbalsky
Farsund, Norway, and Bay Ridge are linked by more than a declaration among politi-cians, or a history of immigration. They also are bonded by their 1950s nostalgia, street fairs, and love of burgers.
NEIGHBORHOOD AMERICAN FOOD ATTRACTIONS
STREET FAIRS FAMOUS NATIVES LOCAL GRIPES
The neighborhood is lousy with restau-rants.
Skinfl int’s has good burgers; Hinsch’s has good character.
Owls Head Park, Shore Road Park and Leif Erickson park are among the public works in the neighborhood, at-tracting thousands yearly.
Home to the Raga-muffi n Parade and the Third Avenue Festival.
C.C. Deville of hair metal band Poison; Maria Bartiromo, CNBC anchor.
Parking, trash in the streets and the infamous Owls Head Smell
Lista, a small com-munity in Farsund municipality, is a sprawling commu-nity that is also a park, with sandy beaches, moun-tains and fjords.
Home to the annual American Festival. The spectacle at-tracts some 15,000 visitors every June and features a pa-rade of classic cars, American oldies music, and a Norwe-gian Elvis imper-sonator.
Kjell Elvis, Scan-danavia’s only full-time Elvis imper-sonator, has gotten plastic surgery to look more like the king.
Long, miserable winters and the smell of cow ma-nure.
The Eighth Avenue Bar & Supperclub in Vanse is known for its burgers, accord-ing to Hans-Egill Berven.
“They also serve proper American spare ribs and fat sandwiches,” he said.
Tale of the tape! Bay Ridge vs. Farsund
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BY DAN MACLEODBoo!Scores of werewolves,
witches, ghosts, ghouls — and one Beatle — showed up at Owls Head Park on Mon-day for the Halloween Walk, a yearly event aimed at pro-viding a safe place for kids to have fun on All Hallow’s Eve.
It was the 16th year of
the party, which featured a costume contest, pony rides, a haunted walk, pumpkin patch and, oh yeah, the Bat-mobile.
For parents, the event was a blast because every-thing that could possibly hold a kid’s attention was in one place — even the play-ground.
“We loved seeing fi refi ght-
ers there because we were all dressed up as fi remen and Dalmations,” said Joy Fields of Bay Ridge. “We loved the costume contest because we got to see everyone’s cool cos-tumes up on the stage.”
“Every year there is a great turnout and it was a good environment for kids to bring their kids that was safe,” said Assemblywoman
Nicole Malliotakis (R–Bay Ridge), who dressed her Chi-huahua, Peanut, as a frog.
Organizers estimated roughly 10,000 people at-tended the event.
The winner of the cos-tume contest was Pauline Cook, 10, of Bay Ridge, who was the spitting image of John Lennon in his post-Beatles years.
Jake Wipper, of Park Slope, made an appearance as Batman — complete with his Batmobile.
Halloween walk at Owls Head Park
Peter Plevritu, 3, of Mill Basin, dressed as a scarecrow for the an-nual Halloween Walk at Owls Head Park on Monday. Photo by Steve Solomonson
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The ’70s returnVandals tagged two train cars that
were parked at the 95th street stop on Oct. 27, a harrowing reminder of the 1970s.
The switchman told cops that the graf-fi ti “artists” covered two cars in multiple colors with tags including “Some” be-tween 10 am and 4 pm, causing $6,108 in damage.
FacelessA cowardly punk snatched a man’s
phone out of his hand on Fort Hamilton Parkway on Oct. 25.
The victim told cops that he was talk-ing while walking between Bay Ridge Av-enue and 70th Avenue at 7:10 pm when the perp — who was covering his face — came from behind and snatched the fancy iP-hone from his hand.
Feel the burnSweat hogs busted into a 65th Street
gym overnight on Oct. 27 and made off with more than $4,000.
The owner told cops that he locked the business between Seventh and Eighth avenues at 10 pm the night before. When he returned at 9 am, he found perps had busted the front lock and stolen $4,400.
Electro heistThieves sneaked into a 72nd street
apartment on Oct. 28 and made off with a computer and smartphone.
The victim told cops that she left her house between Fourth and Fifth avenues at 11 pm. When she returned — only a few minutes later — her MacBook and Black-berry were both missing.
Jewel heistGoons busted into a 63rd Street home
on Oct. 28 and made off with electronics and jewelry.
The victim told cops that he left his apartment between 11th and 12th avenues at 8:10 am. When he returned at noon, he found his door had been jimmied open, and two laptops and a Tiffany necklace were missing. — Dan MacLeod
62ND PRECINCTBENSONHURST-BATH BEACH
Beaten for cellThree thugs attacked a 25-year-old on
Avenue O on Oct. 22 — stealing the man’s cellphone after they cracked a bottle over his head.
The victim was between W. Seventh and W. Eighth streets at 3 am when the suspects jumped him, leaving him with injuries that required medical attention at Lutheran Medical Center.
Two on twoA pair of crooks jumped two teens on
63rd Street on Oct. 24, robbing them of their cellphones and backpack.
The victims, both 16, were approach-ing 18th Avenue when the suspects ap-proached.
One of the thugs punched one of the victims in the face while the other put his prey in a headlock during the 7:30 pm rob-bery, police were told.
Sneaker stealersCops arrested two men who they claim
swiped a pair of sneakers from a 14-year-old boy on 15th Avenue during an Oct. 24 robbery.
The teen was nearing 70th Street at 6:10 pm when the thieves approached and attacked — punching their victim repeat-edly as they forced him to give up his foot-wear.
The thieves ran off, but they didn’t get far: cops caught up with them later that evening, charging them with robbery.
Coach crimeA thief broke into a 19th Avenue home
on Oct. 27 — taking four pricey Coach bags.
The victim, 39, said she left her house near 19th Lane at 11 am. When she re-turned several hours later, she realized that the thieves had forced in the front door and ransacked the place.
Brazen bike theftA sneaky thief crept down an 85th
Street resident’s driveway on Oct. 26 just so he could get his hands on a bike locked up by the back of the house.
The owner of the home near 21st Ave-nue said her son had locked up his prized Trek bike at 9 pm. When he went out to get it early the next morning, it was gone.
Up in smokeA burglar swiped more than $20,000
from a 61st Street home on Oct. 23 — but then had to make a hasty exit when his crime was discovered.
Police were told that the thief jimmied the lock to the basement door of the home near 19th Avenue at 12:10 am and found the cash in a cigar box, but was seen com-ing out of the home. The thief was last seen running toward 20th Avenue as po-lice were called.
Laptop pilferA thief broke into a 15th Avenue home
on Oct. 22, taking two laptop computers.
The victim, who lives near 89th Street, told police that someone forced in a back window sometime after 9 am.
Card swipeA thief broke into a car parked on 85th
Street on Oct. 26, taking a wallet full of credit cards.
The 60-year-old victim left the car near 17th Avenue at 4 pm, but when he returned a few hours later he realized that someone had forced open his window and removed his wallet — then used the cards to make a number of purchases, police said.
60TH PRECINCTCONEY ISLAND-BRIGHTON BEACH-SEAGATE
Generation gapPolice arrested a 60-year-old man and a
24-year-old woman who they say attacked each other on Surf Avenue on Oct. 29.
Witnesses said the two, described as “friends,” were arguing near Beach 50th Street in Sea Gate, when the senior at-tacked the young woman with a knife, cut-ting her fi nger.
But payback can be painful: the woman also pulled a knife and slashed at the older man, leaving her attacker with a fi nger cut as well.
Never backing downCops say a 19-year-old goon attacked a
cop on an R train as it entered the Stillwell Avenue station on Oct. 29 — then tried to fi ght off the cop when he tried to arrest him.
The cop told prosecutors that he was walking through a train car at 2:30 am when the suspect punched him in the back of the head, leaving him with a small in-jury.
The cop recovered quickly and tried to arrest the teen, but the suspect began fl ail-ing his arms, refusing to be handcuffed, offi cials said.
Helping hooliganCops arrested a 43-year-old man who
allegedly agreed to hold a young woman’s backpack on Stillwell Avenue on Oct. 22 — then walked off with her possessions.
The victim was standing with the would-be thief near Neptune Avenue at 5 pm when she asked him to hold her knap-sack, which contained her cellphone, social security card and ID. She told the man that she would be back in a few mo-ments to retrieve her stuff, but when she returned, the 43-year-old was gone.
Cops from the 60th Precinct caught up
with him on Oct. 29, charging him with petit larceny.
Two missingCops are looking for two people who
went missing in Coney Island last week.Joseph Rodriguez, 16, was last seen
leaving his home on Stillwell Avenue near Neptune Avenue at 7:45 am on Oct. 28. He was last seen wearing a black coat, blue jeans and a gray sweater.
A day earlier, 46-year-old Michael Pru-zansky left his home on Surf Avenue near W. 23rd Street at 9 am and disappeared. Pruzansky is 6-feet-tall, has a heavy build, and has brown hair and a beard. He was last seen wearing a black coat, black jeans and black shoes, offi cials were told.
Anyone with information regarding either missing person is urged to call the NYPD CrimeStoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confi dential.
61ST PRECINCTSHEEPSHEAD BAY—GRAVESEND—MANHATTAN
BEACH—HOMECREST—MIDWOOD
Break-in crewPolice arrested six people who they say
broke into a Brigham Street home on Oct. 28.
They say the suspects, four men and two women between 18 and 32, forced open the rear door of the home near Emmons Avenue sometime after 2 am — but were caught by the homeowner, who called po-lice.
Blade boob arrestedCops arrested a 29-year-old man for
threatening another man with a knife on Ocean Avenue on Oct. 28 — right in front of a passing police offi cer.
Police said that the patrolman wit-nessed the 29-year-old suspect fl ash his weapon and threaten his victim near Av-enue Y at 1:59 am.
The thug ran off as the cop approached, prompting a brief chase.
Two knives were recovered from the suspect after he was in custody, cops said.
Senior attackedA thug beat up a 70-year-old man fol-
lowing an Oct. 28 fender bender on E. Sev-enth Street, said cops.
The senior and his assailant were ar-guing over who was responsible for the 2 pm crash near Avenue S when the 48-year-old suspect, who was later arrested, punched the senior in the face, cutting his left ear.
Oxy-bustPolice arrested two men who they say
were found carrying a supply of Oxy-codone pills without a valid prescription on Ford Street on Oct. 28.
The suspects, ages 29 and 33, were seen holding the pills on a public sidewalk at 2:40 pm. — Thomas Tracy
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The Cobble Hill PTA treasurer who stole more than $82,000 from her fellow school parents — then nearly landed in jail when she claimed she couldn’t pay back the money — escaped the big house on Tuesday after hand-ing over $50,000 and agreeing to a payment schedule for the rest.
Providence Hogan capped an eight-month drama by handing over the $50,000 check to PS 29 PTA co-president Maura Sheehy, fulfi lling the fi rst part of a restitution agreement that will now require her to make quarterly payments of $4,000 each for the next two years.
Supreme Court Judge Suzanne Mondo warned the for-mer PTA mom and Atlantic Avenue day spa owner that those checks had better come in on time.
“If you fail to make one payment, I will order a war-rant for your arrest, and when you are brought in, you will be incarcerated,” Mondo said, threatening a six-year sentence if Hogan reneged on the deal. “I an not going to accept any excuses for your failure to make a payment.”
Hogan agreed, then choked back tears as she apolo-gized to all the school parents who “put their trust in me.”
“I know that simply asking for forgiveness does not mean that I will get your forgiveness,” added Hogan, whose descent into the criminal justice system began in March with her arrest for embezzlement.
As treasurer between 2008 and 2010, Hogan had access to the school’s PTA checkbook, and cut checks to herself for fertility treatments and rent on her home and her Providence Day Spa.
At fi rst, District Attorney Charles Hynes allowed Ho-gan to avoid prison if she paid back everything she stole.
But Hogan never came up with the fi rst payment of $40,000. She claimed she was destitute — and said she would rather go to jail than return money that she said she did not have.
But weeks later, her lawyer Stephen Flamhaft met with Mondo and asked for some leniency.
The lawyer also explained how Hogan came up with the $50,000 for Tuesday’s payment when she had long in-sisted that she didn’t even have $40,000.
Flamhaft said an acquaintance of Hogan’s bought a sizable portion of her spa business, though he wouldn’t name the investor. She also received donations from neighbors and congregants from the Kane Street syna-gogue after the New York Times wrote a sympathetic por-trait of the thieving mom .
Drug cop convictedThe Brooklyn South cop accused of planting drugs
on innocent people to juke his stats — and overtime — was found guilty on Tuesday, and is now facing four years in prison.
During a ruling held on Nov. 1, Supreme Court Judge Gustin Reichbach found Police Offi cer Jason Arbeeny, a 14-year veteran of the force, guilty of taking drugs dur-ing police raids, then either giving the narcotics to in-formants or innocent victims that he wanted to see in jail.
Arbeeny was one of eight Brooklyn South Narcotics cops involved in the 2008 shake-up after it was learned that they pocketed drugs and committed an act known as fl aking, when they would plant drugs on innocents.
The team was put under the microscope when it was learned that Brooklyn South Narcotics veterans Det. Sean Johnstone and Police Offi cer Julio Alvarez had “cooked the books” on drug seizures.
The two cops were charged with executing a search warrant on an alleged drug dealer’s Coney Island home on Sept. 13, 2008, fi nding more than two dozen bags of cocaine. Later that day, Det. Johnstone was heard brag-ging that he and Alvarez had recovered 28 bags of co-caine, but only vouchered 17 of them. Johnstone wanted to use the rest of the cocaine to pay off informers, inves-tigators alleged.
The prosecution’s case against Arbeeny took a twisted turn when the cop on trial was accused of de-manding oral sex from his strung-out confi dential in-formants.
PTA treasurer starts paying school back
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BY SHAVANA ABRUZZOTalk about doing devilish double duty!Seekers of thrills got their freak on — and felled
pins like spooktacular alley cats all evening long — when the Brooklyn Public Library held a Masquerade Bowl After-Party last Thursday at Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg.
The benefit revel drew a red carpet crowd, including Amanda Setton of “Gossip Girl,” and author and come-dian Amanda Stern, in addition to (obviously) Borough President Markowitz, who doled out citations, and re-
ality stars Alex McCord and Simon Van Kempen, re-cently dumped by Bravo TV’s “Real Housewives of New York,” who masked their sorrows by strutting their statuesque selves in twin peek-a-boo eye shades.
The crowd wigged out to ’80s music by tribute band Rubix Kube and triff tunes spun by DJ Mikey Palms, while celebrated Brooklyn author Paul Auster — the man behind such jolly good tales as “The New York Trilogy,” “Leviathan,” “Mr. Vertigo” and “Sunset Park” — was given special honors for his part in ad-vancing the good word, and making Brooklyn a global
hub of great literature.The festive frolic was also a phant-tastic chance to
support a great cause, plus let your hair down, accord-ing to Linda Johnson, the library’s president and CEO.
“The gala gave an opportunity for everyone who be-lieves in the enormous importance and potential of the library a chance to be a part of its success while also enjoying a great party!” she extolled.
The exec added that event proceeds will help sup-plement books, materials and programming at all 60 Brooklyn neighborhood library branches, which have seen their funding cut by the budget axe.
‘Masquerade Bowl’ was spectacularBrooklyn Public Library’s Halloween masked ball at Brooklyn Bowl fun for all
Howling Halloween! Big-hearted alley cats wig out at the Brooklyn Public Library’s masquerade ball at Brooklyn Bowl. Photo by Phillip Greenberg
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BY JULIET LINDERMANThe cash-strapped
Brooklyn Museum has in-creased its “suggested” ad-mission fee to $12, a 20-per-cent jump caused by the poor economy, Museum of-fi cials said last Thursday night.
The announcement comes on the heels of the Museum’s elimination of
its popular Friday night hours ; and the high-pro-fi le cancellation of a ma-jor spring 2012 exhibi-tion , “Art in the Streets,” a controversial show that chronicles the history of graffi ti and street art.
“The fi nancial climate is such that we unfortu-nately need to raise the prices of suggested admis-
sion to cover the costs of operation — presenting ex-hibits, personnel, a whole range of things,” said Mu-seum spokeswoman Sally Williams. “But it’s sug-gested, so visitors can pay what they want, but we’re suggesting they pay $2 more.”
The recent cutbacks are consistent with the fi nan-
cial crush the Museum has been experiencing since 2009 when, due to a $23 million loss in city funding over a three-year period, it cut staff, offered buyouts to its 281 full-time employ-ees, and slashed salaries.
In raising fees, the Mu-seum is following the lead of institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in Manhattan, which raised its suggested dona-tion in July from $20 to $25, also blaming the economy.
Williams said that a $2 increase would not dis-suade anyone from coming to the Museum, claiming that the last such increase — from $8 to $10 in 2009 — did not cause a drop in visits.
In 2011, 409,561 people visited the Museum, com-pared to 377,069 in 2010, 65 percent of whom paid the full admission price, Williams said, though ac-cording to the New York Times, visitors decreased by 23 percent between 2008 and 2009, and a quar-ter of Brooklyn Museum visitors were there for free events.
“It has nothing to do with attendance. We’re al-ways refreshing and main-taining our collections, and we do an amazing ar-ray of public programs for adults and kids,” she said. “This price hike is a fairly straightforward thing.”
Despite the hike, many residents are willing to shell out two extra dollars and pay full-price for ad-mission to the Brooklyn Museum, which is still cheaper than many other cultural institutions.
“We go to the Met, and it’s $25,” said Bob Higgins, who lives in Manhattan and was visiting the mu-seum last Friday after-noon with his wife. “$12 is a bargain. We both gave them $20.”
Park Slope resident Michelle Radtke also ex-pressed willingness to pay full-price — that is, if it will enable Museum im-provements.
“I would still pay $12,” she said. “If it costs a little more to have better exhib-its, I think it’s worth it.”
But others see it differ-ently.
“$12 is kind of steep to go to the Brooklyn Mu-seum,” said Alison Lad-man, who lives in Manhat-tan. “I’d pay no more than $8.
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The fi rebrand Brooklyn Assemblyman who led last week’s solidarity march to Occupy Wall Street is actu-ally not one of the “99 per-cent.”
Assemblyman Vito Lopez protested income inequality at the rally — but he and his girlfriend have a combined income of $493,000, putting their household in the top one percent nationwide.
The 69-year-old pol makes $92,000 as an assem-blymember — a part-time job — but also collects his $64,634 pension, thanks to a state loophole .
That adds up to $156,630, putting his individual in-come among the top fi ve percent of wage earners, according to 2009 IRS data.
Meanwhile, Lopez’s longtime, live-in girlfriend, Angela Battaglia, collected about $337,090 last year — $282,940 as the housing di-rector of the Lopez-founded Ridgewood Bushwick Se-nior Citizens Council, and
a $54,150 stipend as a city planning commissioner.
The quite-grand grand total — $493,000 — easily puts the power couple in
the top one percent of earn-ers, which the Congressio-nal Budget Offi ce, using IRS statistics, says is any household earning more than $350,000.
Lopez and Battaglia’s wages don’t include as-sets that the couple has accumulated, including a Queens condo that Batta-glia bought in 1992, and a quaint Suffolk County summer house that Batta-glia and Lopez purchased in 1997 for $173,000, which a town assessor estimates could be worth half a mil-lion dollars .
Still, Lopez proclaimed his solidarity with the Oc-cupy Wall Street protest-ers, who have camped out in Lower Manhattan for more than a month, by call-ing for a higher state in-come tax.
“We trying to push for an agenda to make those making the billions of dol-lars to give back to the city they’re making it from,” Lopez told Good Day New York last Tuesday .
Assemblyman Vito Lopez and his girlfriend Angela Battaglia have a household income of al-most $500,000 — putting them in the top one percent of wage earners. File photo by Steve Solomonson
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BY THOMAS TRACYBrooklyn’s biggest de-
veloper has pulled out of a controversial, Carl Kruger-backed plan to build a shop-ping center that would in-clude a Walmart-sized store on city owned land near Kings Plaza, killing the Flatbush Avenue project.
Forest City Ratner Com-panies is walking away from it’s plan to build a big-box retail outlet on the city-owned Four Sparrows Marsh next to the Toys ’R’ Us on Flatbush Avenue be-tween Avenue U and the Gil Hodges Bridge, which the scandal-scarred state sena-tor had been pushing the company to get done.
Insiders say Forest City Ratner Companies owner Bruce Ratner, who is cur-rently building the contro-versial Atlantic Yards, the biggest development project in the borough, canned his plans for the Four Sparrows Marsh when he couldn’t fi nd a suitable tenant.
“Forest City couldn’t find someone that would have been compatible with the property, fit in with what the community wants and still be profit-able,” one source close to the project told this paper. “This project has dragged on for about 10 years, so they gave up.”
Other sources said Rat-ner didn’t want to deal with possible lawsuits from envi-ronmentalists who threat-ened to sue if he broke ground on the marshlands.
But there’s also the Kru-ger (D–Brighton Beach) connection: the project was named in the bribery indictment against Kru-ger, who prosecutors say pocketed nearly $1 million to promote the interests of deep-pocketed developers and lobbyists.
Investigators claim Kru-ger tried, unsuccessfully, to get Forest City to give a por-tion of the Four Sparrows project to developer Aaron Malinsky, one of the devel-opers behind the stalled $750-million City Point
project Downtown.Malinsky, who was ar-
rested with Kruger and has since been kicked off the City Point project , wanted to build a department store at Four Sparrows, and was funneling money into a dummy company run by Kruger’s alleged lover Mi-chael Turano — the son of Community Board 18 district manager Dorothy Turano — to grease the wheels for him.
But Kruger’s links to Forest City Ratner Compa-nies don’t end there. Pros-ecutors also:
• Arrested Richard Lip-sky, a lobbyist hired by Forest City Ranter Compa-nies, for giving more than $250,000 to Kruger. Forest City fi red Lipsky after his arrest.
• Recorded Forest City Vice President Bruce Bender haggling with Kruger, who had already steered millions in tax-payer dollars to the $4-bil-lion Atlantic Yards project, over money. Federal wire-taps revealed that Bender had asked Kruger to funnel $2 million to the Four Spar-rows project, but ultimately settled for $500,000 for the Lakeside Center in Pros-pect Park. Forest City isn’t involved in the Lakeside
Center project, but Bend-er’s wife is a member of the Prospect Park Alliance’s Board of Directors, and the couple lives in Park Slope.
Neither Bender nor For-est City Ratner Companies were named in Kruger’s in-dictment and were never ac-cused of any wrongdoing.
Insiders say Kruger’s links to the Four Sparrows project may have made Rat-ner “feel uncomfortable” — but the mega-developer would have quickly put those feelings aside to make a profi t.
“If there was money to be made, he would have devel-oped the property,” said one source. “[Kruger’s involve-ment] would have been an unpleasant reminder, but it would have been acceptable enough to go forward.”
Kruger wasn’t men-tioned in Forest City’s statement about why it abandoned the Four Spar-rows project, which was fi rst reported on an envi-ronmental blog.
“Forest City’s part of this project was small, and they are right now con-centrating on a number of larger ones,” spokesman Joe DePlasco said.
Four Sparrows may not have been as large as Atlan-tic Yards, but it was far from
small: before Ratner bowed out, the city was wrestling with two possible develop-ments for the marsh: two buildings that would in-clude a one-story structure the size of a football fi eld and a two-story construc-tion for multiple tenants, or a mammoth building the size of three football fi elds that could have easily fi t a Walmart superstore .
Residents blasted the big-box selection last Feb-ruary, saying it would ulti-mately undercut neighbor-hood businesses.
Calls to Forest City for further comment were not returned. Kruger, whose trial is expected to begin in January, also did not re-turn calls.
The gears are still turn-ing on the city’s plan to sell the land on which the Toys ’R’ Us currently sits, of-fi cials said. The toy store emporium and Kristal Au-tomall, the city’s largest minority-owned car dealer-ship on Kings Highway in Canarsie, are expected to buy the property — which is more than the size of two football fi elds — for $17 mil-lion.
Community leaders say they aren’t too worried that the Four Sparrows develop-ment went south.
City kills Kruger-backed retail project
The city has scrapped plans to build a retail development on Four Sparrows Marsh after Forest City Ratner Companies bowed out of the project. The city intends to develop portions to the left of this rendering. Source: New York City Economic Development Corporation
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Winfrey chose the “cho-sen people” to fi lm a seg-ment of her new TV show “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” and visited both Borough Park and Brooklyn Heights to hang out with some Ha-sidic Jews.
Residents gathered out-side to catch a glimpse of the TV baroness, though, face it, jaded Brooklyn Heights residents have seen a few bold-faced names in front of the Remsen Street shul (yes, we are talking about you, former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni!).
A mikvah is a tradi-tional bath drawn from natural water sources — in this case fi ltered rain — where Orthodox women go after their menstrual cycle to cleanse themselves be-fore resuming “relations” with their husbands.
An archaic tradition? Religion-backed misogyny? The rabbi begs to differ.
“This is the best thing for a marriage,” said Rabbi Aaron Raskin, who leads the orthodox congregation and has been married to the same woman for 22 years. “Absence makes the heart grow stronger.”
Winfrey did not bathe in the mikvah, though it is open to women of all reli-gious persuasions. Her new show “Oprah’s Next Chap-ter,” will premiere on her OWN Network in January and will feature interviews with spiritual leaders all
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(Above) Queen of all Media Oprah Winfrey stopped by Con-gregation B’Nai Avraham in Brooklyn Heights last Wednes-day to check out the cool new mikvah, (left) where orthodox Jewish women “purify” after their monthly menstrual cycle. Want to join them? Just call (718) 596-WATER (we are not making that up). CNG / Eli Rosenberg
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“I have been district manager for eight years, and have never gotten complaints about a fungus in a tree,” said Josephine Beckmann of Community Board 10.
Rain or not, you can’t have mushrooms with-out a willing host, said a Brooklyn College biologist when we showed him pic-tures of the parasite, add-ing that the affected trees probably only had a few years left.
“Mushrooms like these imply that the tree is dy-ing gradually because the fungus is digesting dead tissue and using the re-sources harvested from the plant to colonize and kill live tissue,” said the biologist, who declined to give his name out of fear of affecting his tenure chances (it’s an academic
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The fungus, which Latin speakers know as Ganoderma lucidum, is common in the states, but rare in China , where it is coveted in the fight against cancer.
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It’s no secret that Man-kind has long been locked in a vicious death struggle with his wooden brethren — which, left unchecked, would quickly reclaim the planet — so some resi-dents actually cheered the demise of the trees.
“I hate big trees,” said Shadi Batal. “The big ones are really scary with the wind. Good riddance.”
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some in the neighborhood who think it would be bet-ter off if the cans were re-moved altogether.
“It should make a dif-ference but in the long run, we could use two pickups a day,” said Greg Ahl, who believes the best way to solve the trash problems is to get rid of the cans . “But I would still rather have the cans removed.”
The debate over what to do about litter lining the neighborhoods’ com-mercial strips has been ongoing for more than a year, since the city’s cut in can pick-ups resulted in an increase in the amount of trash left sitting on the street, thanks mainly, some say, to inconsider-ate residents who illegally throw out their household trash in the public cans to avoid having to recycle. With less pick-ups, cans consistently overflowed, creating nasty condi-tions and attracting rats, residents and merchants claimed .
The trash problem got so bad that Community Board 10 had the city re-move cans to squelch the illegal dumping .
The fight came to a boil in June when the city returned garbage cans
that had been removed to Fourth Avenue at the re-quest of Golden (R–Bay Ridge), and to the dismay of Ahl, the chairman of CB10’s Environmental Committee.
Now, the city is again bowing to Golden, who helped broker the deal for the extra pick-ups that was made after city reps toured the refuse-lined avenues
last week.“You could see that
the requirement here is different than other com-munities,” he said. “They agreed we needed addi-tional pickups.”
Starting immediately, the Department of Sanita-tion will increase its pick-ups from six days a week to seven on routes along Third, Fourth and Fifth avenues, Fort Hamilton Parkway, and 13th Ave-nue.
The city claims it found ways to increase efficien-cies along its routes to add another day to its pickup schedule.
“It’s a combination of a dedicated litter basket col-lection truck, combined with the district’s regular refuse collection trucks that go through or are nearby these commercial streets,” said Sanitation spokesman Matt LiPani.
That was good news to those who think that the more pick-ups the city makes, the cleaner the neighborhoods will be.
“I hope that it has a big effect on trash. The num-ber one complaint I get at my meetings is garbage,” said Fran Vella-Marrone, of the Dyker Heights Civic Association. “At least we will be having one pickup a day. [In the past] we had pickups on four, maybe five days a week.”
BY DAN MACLEODThe District Attorney is
considering reopening doz-ens of cases involving the eight Brooklyn cops who were busted last week for allegedly running an inter-state smuggling racket, fo-cusing on cases where the accused crooked cops had a direct role in investigations that went to trial.
Jerry Schmetterer, a spokesman for District At-torney Charles Hynes, said the number of cases that could be reopened — some of which could be nearly 20 years old — is unclear.
“We want to make sure that all the cases we are in-volved in were sound cases,” said Schmetterer.
The accused offi cers — William Masso, Eddie Goris and John Mahoney of the 68th Precinct, Gary Or-tiz of the 71st Precinct, Ali Oklu, of the Brooklyn South Task Force, and retired 68th Precinct cops Joseph Trischitta, Marco Vene-zia and Richard Melnik — are charged with illegally transporting $1 million worth of cigarettes, slot ma-chines and guns, including M-16 rifl es, handguns and
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D.A. investigating cases by cops in alleged gun ring
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Greg Ahl, who had been on a mission to stop the illegal dumping of household trash in public cans, should be happy that the city announced it is in-creasing pick-ups in Bay Ridge. File photo by Arthur De Gaeta
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To the editor,More than 50 years ago, state Sen. Mac-
Neil Mitchell (R–Manhattan) and Assem-blyman Alfred Lama (D–Brownsville) sponsored the Mitchell-Lama Housing Program, the largest subsidized middle-income affordable housing in the U.S.
The Housing Preservation and Devel-opment’s board then adapted a project of replacing all the bricks of the Luna Park Housing Corp. This was done under reme-diation, according to local law.
In 2008, an engineering fi rm submitted a proposal for repairs as needed, with an approximate cost of $20 million, but the agency had a different agenda. It imposed a contract with a more inexperienced fi rm for $43 million, and gave permission to commence the work without a perfor-mance bond, which is against Mitchell-Lama regulations.
The maintenance was raised 59 per-cent, and the board took a loan for $47 mil-lion to fi nance the project. The agency in-sisted on banking with Wells Fargo, even though the interest rate at other banks was two percent lower.
The agency encouraged residents who could not pay increased maintenance charges to apply for a Section 8 subsidy, which they received promptly, even though city offi cials stated that 10,000 applicants had waited for years and never received the same subsidies due to lack of federal funds. According Mitchell-Lama, share-holders must have a vote to fi nance any capital projects, but this was not done.
We are Luna Park shareholders, and consider this to be violation because we cannot afford to pay off the loans and in-creased maintenance fees. Michail Diner and Tatyana
Yezerskaya Coney Island
‘Brake’ for cabbiesTo the editor,
I don’t know why anyone is complain-
ing about cab drivers (“Taking a stand: Residents, cabbies battle over parking,” Oct. 20).
I know that when I come home from work and get off the train at Sheepshead Bay Road, I am so happy there are drivers there to take me home after a long day!
They don’t make the traffi c worse be-cause they are all pulled over to the side, and there is more than enough room for buses to get through.
Please don’t change the pattern. It’s a welcome sight for passengers to see a car ready and waiting. Rita Nanes Sheepshead Bay
Crime, not ‘courtesy’To the editor,
The cops accused of fi xing tickets and other crimes admitted professional cour-tesy was the reason for their actions.
Professional courtesy is not an excuse for breaking the law, according to them, but why did they get the opportunity to turn themselves in and not be subjected to a perp walk like other suspects.
Was it because of professional cour-tesy? Mark Romeo Marine Park
Grapel-ing with logicTo the editor,
I’m so glad Ilan Grapel is home safe and sound after being held captive in Egypt since June.
I just can’t understand why someone who lives in America, someone who went to school here here, someone whose family is here, someone who reaps all the great things this country has to offer, would leave and serve the Israeli army, and not his own country.
I realize he has dual citizenship, but I also know Matthew 6:24: “A man cannot serve two masters; for either hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to one and despise the other.” Maureen Parker Sheepshead Bay
MTA’s trash-tastrophe!To the editor,
There is more to the MTA’s plans to re-move trash cans as a way to reduce gar-bage (“Trash War!” Oct. 27).
Why not install separate cans for recy-cling newspapers, plastic and glass along with regular garbage? Also, selling ad-vertising on side of cans could generate revenues to help cover the costs of more frequent off-peak, and late-night collec-tion and disposal. Then, require the De-
partment of Sanitation to do the same on the street adjacent to subway station en-trances.
There are also solutions to dealing with the urge “to go.”
Until the early 1960s, most subway sta-tions had clean, safe, working bathrooms with toilet paper. Revenues generated from a 10-cent fee helped cover the costs. Why not consider charging a fee between 25 cents and a dollar? That would generate revenue to assign an attendant, and cover security and maintenance costs. This could help provide clean, safe, secure, fully-equipped bathrooms at most subway stations.
Many riders would gladly pay this small price to insure working bathrooms, rather than face the current unpleasant alternatives which contribute to dirty subways. Larry Penner
Great Neck, N.Y.
Beacon of lightTo the editor,
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Who offers her welcome to whomever may call
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To signal to all passing through, that liberty, justice and the pursuit of happi-ness and opportunity in America is here to stay iIn the good old U.S.A. Joseph Martino Bensonhurst
Rep. Turner’s sex driveTo the editor,
Nothing illustrates the hypocrisy of Brooklyn’s 9th Congressional District, Rep. Bob Turner (R–Marine Park) and the Republican Party than the attempt by Turner to legislate sex education in our public schools (“Pols: Let’s not talk about sex,” Oct. 27).
Public schools are not religious schools. It is not their job to teach abstinence, as Turner contends. If there are people who are offended by the new sex education classes being taught in our schools, they have the freedom to send their children to religious private schools.
The Republican Party is always pon-tifi cating about the size of government — the smaller the better, it contends. How-ever, if you look closely at the ideas of these right-wing hypocrites, their vision of a small federal government only per-tains to business and their drive to turn this country into a corporate oligarchy.
The smaller the government, the more rights these corporations have and the more power they obtain to rule over us. Conversely, those of Turner’s ilk be-lieve in big government when it comes to women’s rights, gay rights, voting rights, worker’s rights, and civil rights in gen-eral.
Since the Republican “Taliban” has taken over Congress, it has not created a single job, and I am not surprised that the fi rst piece of legislation Turner wants to pass is to interfere with sex education in our secular public schools.
If he was serious about the job crisis, he would better serve the public by com-ing up with legislation that would create jobs, not legislation that dictates what is taught in our public schools.
The only kind of abstinence that should have been practiced was the one by Turner’s parents. Had they done this, we would have one less Republican moron in this country. Gary Perl Sheepshead Bay
. . .To the editor,
Our school leaders are focusing on sex education instead of on school overcrowd-ing, excessed teachers, disruptive pupils, the need for 600 schools, schools led by principals who never taught, and working steadily towards academic and vocational education.
This area has no business whatsoever to be taught in our schools. That’s for the parents to do as teachers have enough to do — they don’t need this added burden!
I was a public school English and So-cial Studies teacher for 32 years. Many years, I was forced to teach hygiene, which was out of my license area. Many of us resented this, but there was nothing we could do about it.
What’s next for our schools — demon-stration lessons on sex in the classroom? Ed Greenspan Sheepshead Bay
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Deception is especially loathsome when the out-law engaged in it also
wears the badge of a lawman. The collars of the eight NYPD
offi cers, cuffed last week in a sting operation against a “dirty dozen” ring of alleged smug-glers, prove the polluted point.
All of the Brooklyn cops stand ac-cused of abusing their authority by helping to shift more than $1-million worth of guns, slot machines, counter-feit goods and cigarettes across state lines, cockily mocking our conscien-tious crime-fi ghting efforts by alleg-edly directing 20 fi rearms into the city as recently as Sept. 22, before the law fi nally caught up with them .
Charged in the case are Offi cers William Masso, Eddie Goris and John Mahoney of the 68th Precinct, Gary Ortiz of the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights and Ali Oklu of the Brook-lyn South Task Force, in addition to retired cops Richard Melnick, Marco Venezia and Joseph Trichitta, New Jersey correction law enforcer Da-vid Kanwisher, ex-Sanitation cop An-thony Santiago, and civilians Michael Gee and Eric Gomer.
If they did it, the accused offi cers clearly must have know that their ac-tions were lawless, but that didn’t stop them from allegedly swindling the
public’s trust and lining their pockets , according to a complaint fi led in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Cop-community relations are shaky enough without sickening instances of police corruption blighting the fi nest law enforcement agency in the world while wasting its valuable time on humiliating internal investigations, squandering taxpayer dollars on te-dious trials, and making sensational headlines in the nations of our gloating enemies. Moreover, if you can’t trust a police offi cer, who can you trust?
The brazen case is no isolated inci-dent, either.
Masso and company’s arrests come just weeks after the biggest NYPD em-barrassment in more than 20 years in the form of a ticket-fi xing scandal, in-volving more than 500 cops and alleg-edly spawning from the streets of the Bronx all the way to the hallowed halls of One Police Plaza in Manhattan .
Then, over the summer, cop-turned-hood Jorge Arbaje-Diaz was slapped with 20 years in federal prison for
robbing drug dealers and stick-ing children up at gunpoint as a member of a vicious gang, prompting a tongue-whooping from the disgusted judge, who declared, “ You are the poster boy for a sentence that will deter others from the kinds of
acts you engaged in .” Right on!And back in April, veteran Rikers
Island correction offi cer Robert Whit-fi eld was nabbed for agreeing to spring a drug dealer from jail in exchange for cocaine, constituting a double whammy of offi cial misconduct for allegedly so-liciting bribes from an inmate while collecting payment in drugs .
It stands to reason that no amount of vetting can fully reveal a person’s compunction for breaking the law, but most shocking of all about NYPD’s growing gallery of rogues is that some of the suspects had decades on the force, raising questions about other undiscovered crimes they may have committed on the job.
Cops who betray their badges for personal profi t are among the worst types of offenders around. The guilty ones should have the book of justice tossed at them for deceiving the public and dishonoring those police offi cers who are actually committed to uphold-ing the law.
I needed some cash for my latest trip so I stopped at the bank on the way to
the airport. Before consum-mating the transaction, it was necessary for me to show my driver’s license to the pretty teller. I didn’t return the photo ID license to my wallet because I knew I’d have to produce it again when checking in. Then again, for the third time that morning, I confi rmed my identity when passing through the security line before boarding.
We landed on time and, immediately after picking up our luggage, I scooted over to the car rental coun-ter where, naturally, I had to produce my driver’s license again. Hey, you know that commercial about choos-ing any car in the lane? My roommate and I selected a brand we’ve never driven before. We were thinking that renting is a great way of testing a brand before buying.
As we left the airport, Carol reminded me that I didn’t want to pack the used toothbrushes. I recalled say-ing that we’ll stop off for new ones on the way to the hotel (more on that coming up). I charged the new brushes along with a few other items on my Master Card and, as the cashier requested, I had to show my photo ID once again. And still once more when we checked into the Marriott. Someday I will tell you about the sensa-tional prices we paid for the hotels and car by bidding on Priceline.
To prevent fraud I will-ingly show appropriate ID wherever and whenever I am asked. Some states are passing laws demanding proper ID at the polls for the same reason. Why is there so much resistance to showing it on Election Day? According to the American Civil Liberties Union, new laws requiring photo ID on Election Day in several states will “disenfranchise people of color, the elderly, people with disabilities and students who are less likely to have a current state driv-er’s license or state identifi -cation.”
That does make a lot of
sense, but my thinking is if America wants to pre-vent voter fraud — and if those just mentioned can make it to the polls to vote — then they can make it to the proper municipality to be photographed for an offi -cial identifi cation card. Do-ing that will take a lot less energy and ink than it will to fi ght it. Furthermore, if they are sincerely inter-ested in voting in the next presidential election they have a whole year to obtain ID.
• • •When was the last time
you bought a new tooth-brush? Most people say that they buy a new brush every three months. I wait for a sale and buy six or eight at a time. We needed new brushes and stopped to shop on our way to the hotel. I couldn’t help but no-tice where the brushes were manufactured. The Colgate 360s are manufactured in Switzerland. Colgate Max-whites, China. China also for the Arm and Hammer Spinbrush. Oral B Vitality. The Oral B Complete Ac-tion is made in Germany. Colgate’s battery operated Transformer brushes are made in Canada. It took a few minutes before we lo-cated the G-U-M Brand of toothbrushes which were made in the good old U.S. of A. Are they any good? I am [email protected] telling you to ask me that question in another week or two.
Have the 99 percent become the one percent?
It seems that the organiz-ers of the movement are working hard to protect their belongings, as well as their stash of food from freeloaders, at least according to an article by Harry Siegel in Sunday’s Daily News .
“Organizers, who have already cut kitchen hours and taken other steps to discourage freeloading, are hoping that the winter cold will help clear out hangers-on and give the active partici-pants time to … refi ne their structures (including a bid to shift some power from the general assembly comprised of the semi-random group of people who show up on the Broadway steps each evening to the working group members who have invested time and effort in the occupation).”
What’s that shift — power from the many to the few?
So now the organizers are acting like the organizations they despise so much.
Yes, just like the Wall Street corpo-rations, who, by the way, have invested time and effort in amassing what they have, the members of the movement are making sure the johnny-come-late-lies who are only interested in getting a free ride don’t take advantage of them.
I’ll call it what it is: he heads of Oc-
cupy Wall Street are excluding the haves from the have-nots, protecting their be-longings from those who would take it.
Not that I blame them.UEvery person that owns some-
thing wants to protect it, hold on to it, and have it for a rainy day. I’m not say-ing that CEO’s aren’t extremely greedy, but its the nature of the beast. In a way, we are all greedy, whether little or big — self-preservation is the name of the game. Wanting more and saving is hot-wired into our psyche.
So is the protest working? Nah. The occupation of Zuccotti Park is just a re-enactment of the larger issue. The haves want to keep it for their hard work and effort and not give it away for free to the freeloaders that just want it because the haves have it.
The communist movement wanted all the haves and have-nots to be equal. It wanted the one percent to share the wealth with the 99 percent who didn’t have much. That party was built on the principal, “All for one, and one for all.”
And we all saw how grand that movement turned out: the one percent had it all, they kept the 99 percent at bay with intimidation, torture, im-prisonment and denial. No one was al-lowed to speak their peace.
It’s fundamentally the difference be-tween this country where the 99 percent have the right to free speech, the right to protest without any fear of reprisal, where their family members aren’t carted off in the middle of the night and never heard from or seen again.
Not for Nuthin™, buy maybe it’s time for the 99 percent to admit that what gives them their rights is exactly what gives the one percent the right to keep what they have worked for. Socialism, communism, and too much government hand outs just doesn’t work.
NOT FORNUTHIN’
Joanna DelBuono
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I’m madder than a pray-ing mantis at an athe-ist convention over this
deal Israel made exchang-ing more than 1,000 danger-ous prisoners for one guy.
Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Carmine, you work for a local paper, and you write about local things, so why are you sud-denly going off on some tan-gent that involves interna-tional intrigue and James Bond superspy stuff?”
Well, I’ll tell you why: because I feel like it!
Look, you all know that Israel has always been the staunchest ally of the United States, so it is totally mind-boggling to me that it would do such a dangerous action that sets a cowardly precedent. I’ve always ad-mired Israel, but cannot understand or condone the release of all those killers and terrorists in exchange for Gilad Shalit .
Of course, if they re-leased all those thugs to bring Gene Shalit back to the Today show , I’d be all
for it! That guy’s a national treasure!
And in other interna-tional news, how about all these companies sending jobs to countries where the people speak bad English?
Well, here’s a hot tip from the Ol’ Screecher on how to get back at those companies
that make you talk to some-body on the other side of the planet every time you need help getting your Interweb connection back up. The next time you’re stuck talk-ing to a customer service representative who speaks with anything other than a Brooklyn accent, do what I do:
• Step 1: Make sure they are not in the U.S.A. The simplest way to do so is to ask them how the weather is. If they say it’s sunny and 75, and you know that it is cloudy and 70, they are someplace else!
• Step 2: Don’t hang up! Politely say to them, “I’d like to speak to a customer service representative in the United States of Amer-ica.” At that point, the rep will suggest talking to a manager. Don’t fall for it, because the manager is sitting right next to them, laughing! So politely say, “No thank you. I’d like to speak to a customer service representative in the United States.” The foreign rep will
again try to assist you and so will the manager, so hold your ground and insist that you won’t do anything to your machine unless you speak to an American. At that point, you will immedi-ately be connected to a rep from the United States. And best of all, it’s the law — you just have to be patient enough to jump through those hoops.
STEP 3: Wait patiently, because it can take a few minutes for your call to be re-directed back to the U.S., but the end result is worth it. Tonight, when I got re-directed to an American named Mary Ann, I asked where she was and how the weather was — she said she was in Somerset, New Jer-sey, and I have the weather from there on my iPhoney because I vacation there sometimes , so I knew she wasn’t lying.
STEP 4: Restart your computer. That always solves the problem.
Imagine what would happen if every U.S. citizen
insisted on talking to only United States reps from this day on. Imagine how many U.S. jobs that would need to be created!
But I’ve got one warn-ing for you — try not to be abrupt or rude to a foreign phone rep. Like you and me both, they are only trying to make a living. It’s not their fault that they got a job that one of our greedy cor-porations exported. But if you stick to your guns, you will get correct answers, good advice, and solutions to your problem — in real American English.
Of course, I could be wrong , but you can’t believe everything you read.
In local news, what has the MTA got against feed-ing rats? I just heard that the guys responsible for our trains and buses want to remove the garbage cans along the platforms , just like the city has done on 18th Avenue .
That’s just swell. You know something, the MTA could save a lot of money if
it reverted back to its 1970s policy of having everyone throw their garbage under their seats, and get rid of all their extra spray paint on the sides of the trains .
If the MTA used MY plan, it could save a lot of cash — and save travelers time by not having to wait for that garbage train that interrupts service! Guys could just clean up the train when it gets to that last stop in Coney Island! It’s too bad none of the trains go to Staten Island, because then they could just open the doors and sweep the stuff out there. You can see that dump from space !
Helloooo! If you want to keep the station and trains clean, hire cleaners instead of six fi gure know-nothing, do-nothing executives. That’s even more jobs for Americans!
Now’s the point in the column where I take a minute to wish all of you a Happy Halloween, and to tell you that I’ll screech at you next week! Boo!
International rules: Carmine spells it out for you!
BIGSCREECHERCarmine Santa Maria
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BY SARAH LINCOLNMaimonides Medical
Center is now better able to serve women and their families with its new Breast Cancer Center, which opened on Oct. 11.
Doctors, elected offi cials and community leaders were all in attendance at the opening, during which Pamela Brier, Maimonides president and CEO, thanked them all for their support of the $8.6 million facility on 64th Street.
The new center com-prises 14,750 square feet of space with energy-effi cient heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems. What patients appreciate most, though, is the spa-like décor.
“Everyone who enters
feels immediately at ease,” said Dr. Christina Giuliano, director of Breast Imag-ing at the Center. “It makes the experience of getting your mammogram or other breast exam less stressful, knowing you are getting the best available care in a serene and beautiful envi-ronment.”
Services provided in-clude screenings; diagnos-tic, medical and surgical breast services; as well as nutrition and genetics counseling; and a full array of psycho-social support for patients and families.
The team of experts is comprised of medical on-cologists, dedicated breast surgeons, radiologists, pa-thologists, radiation on-cologists, reconstructive
surgeons, specialty-trained nurses and physician assis-tants, genetics counselor, nutritionist, social worker and other personnel work-ing collaboratively.
Maimonides Medical Center’s Breast Cancer Center [745 64th St. between Seventh and Eighth ave-nues in Borough Park, (718)
283-6000]. For more, visit www.maimonidesmed.org/breastcancer.
Presentation on “Wom-en’s Breast and Heart Health” at Sephardic Com-munity Center [1901 Ocean Pkwy. between Avenues S and T in Sheepshead Bay, (718) 954-3146] Nov. 8 at 11 am.
Understanding ankle fractures
METRO CREATIVE CONNECTIONAnkle fractures are one
of the most common types of broken bone injuries.
The ankle is a joint of the body where three bones meet at the foot. The talus is the bone below the ankle joint. The tibia is the larger shin bone, and the fi bula is the smaller outside bone of the leg. The ankle is a weight-bearing joint, and the tibia alone is responsible for carrying 90 percent of the weight-bearing pressure while walking.
In an ankle fracture, any number of scenarios may oc-cur as to where the break is located. Fractures can also occur in multiple locations. Because of this complexity, an X-ray must be taken and a doctor must tailor treatment on an individual basis.
There are a number of symptoms that may indi-cate an ankle fracture. Pain, swelling, bruising, inability to put weight on the ankle, and deformities, are all pos-sible symptoms.
Here are typical treat-ments for an ankle fracture.
• Ice and elevation: Elevat-
ing the foot and applying ice helps reduce swelling and prevent damage to surround-ing tissues.
• Reduction: If there is dis-placement of the ankle joint, a reduction — where they re-align the joint and bones — will be performed. This may be done under mild an-esthesia.
• Surgery: Surgery will be discussed on an individual basis and may require the insertion of metal hardware (such as plates, wires, pins, or screws) to further stabi-lize the bones. The hardware may be left in unless it poses discomfort, or removed after the stabilization is complete.
• Immobilization: Some type of immobilization of the ankle will occur — ei-ther with a splint, short-leg cast, removable cast, or what-ever the orthopedist recom-mends. A patient may start out in a splint, progress to a cast, then be given a walking support boot.
• Non-weight bearing: Crutches, canes and walkers can be used to support
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The stunning new Breast Cancer Center is designed to put all pa-tients and their families at ease.
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We fixed that.Wound Care and Hyperbaric CenterOne Prospect Park West, Brooklyn
“Because of my diabetes I was getting blisters and wounds on my feet.”Today, doctors can speed wound recoveryby dramatically increasing blood oxygen levelsusing hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Using thistechnology as well as other treatments, theteam at New York Methodist Hospital’s WoundCare and Hyperbaric Center can help save thelimbs of people with diabetes, and promotehealing of many other types of wounds.
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the body and prevent weight from being placed on the foot. Typically, it takes six to eight weeks for a fracture
to heal in an adult. Many doc-tors prefer little to no weight be placed on a fracture for several months. It could be three to four months before a normal shoe can be worn.
• Physical therapy: The doctor may recommend physical therapy to help
strengthen the muscles sur-rounding the ankle and im-prove fl exibility of the joint.
It’s important not to get discouraged during ankle fracture treatment. With time, most of the range of mo-tion and strength of the ankle will resume.
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Regardless of what sea-son it is, skin — including the skin on your feet — seems to bear the brunt of weather’s wrath. Whether it’s the sun beating down in the dog days of sum-mer, or the wind whipping around and causing skin to crack when the weather starts to turn cold, skin is never fully safe from the el-ements.
Each season poses its own unique challenges to the skin on your feet, and this year fi gures to be no different. With winter on the horizon, it’s important for men and women to prac-tice proper skin care in an effort to protect their feet from dry skin, which can
be irritating and unsightly. Though an extra layer of clothing might hide dry, fl akey skin from view, it won’t do much to relieve the irritation and damage that result from severely dry skin. This fall and win-ter, consider the following tips to help your feet sur-vive the woes of winter.
• Take quick, temper-ate showers. It might feel good to get in from the cold and take a hot bath or shower, but this actually breaks down lipid barriers in the skin, potentially rob-bing your feet of moisture. In lieu of a long, steamy bath or shower, take a quick shower in warm water.
• Moisturize every day. Moisturizers are designed to relieve dry skin irrita-
tion, particularly on your feet —which can be trou-blesome during the winter months. Look for creams that contain water and glyc-erin that will help to draw
moisture into the skin and stimulate the body’s natu-ral repair process. Moistur-izers that are non-greasy, non-oil based and fragrance free tend to work the best
to repair dry skin on feet. Oil-based creams will actu-ally repel water that would otherwise hydrate the skin causing further damage.
You should also make moisturizing a part of your nightly routine before going to bed. Skin temperatures rise during sleep, resulting in increased circulation and healing, so be sure to moisturize each night be-fore going to bed.
• Wear a winter ward-robe. Protective cloth-ing boots and thick socks not only keep feeet warm through the winter, but they also keep skin safe as well. Strong winter winds and below freezing temper-atures can damage the skin on your feet signifi cantly, so bundle up when going
outdoors. And be sure to avoid wet socks, which can irritate your feet and cause itching and cracking, and might even result in the for-mation of sores.
• Stay hydrated. Stay-ing hydrated is another skin care pointer people primarily, and incorrectly, associate with summer. But staying hydrated is just as important in the winter as it is during the summer. Staying hydrated is impor-tant for your feet and your overall health. If you enjoy caffeinated beverages like coffee and soda, you should know that caffeine is a di-uretic that draws water out of the skin. So be sure to counter caffeine consump-tion by drinking plenty of water.
Protect feet from worst weather has to offer
This winter, remember to wear warm socks and take care of your feet to prevent dry skin.
FOCUS ON FOCUS ON Health
BY SARAH LINCOLNFor people with diabetes,
foot wounds can be serious. These doctors can help.
Diabetes affects more than 25 million children and adults in the United States. Because of potential compli-cations associated with the illness, such as a weakened immune system and nerve damage, people with diabe-tes are more prone to devel-oping hard-to-heal wounds.
Fifteen percent of adults with diabetes develop foot ulcers, which may become chronic wounds. In cases where foot ulcers don’t re-spond to conventional treat-ments — such as removing infected tissue — patients may benefi t from a variety of treatments offered at New York Methodist Hospital’s Wound Care and Hyper-baric Center. These include advanced wound dressing, skin grafting (in which
skin or a skin substitute is placed over a non-healing wound), and hyperbaric ox-ygen therapy.
This form of therapy is an advanced technique that involves breathing 100 per-cent oxygen while resting in a sealed chamber. Increased oxygen circulates through the blood, aiding the growth of new blood vessels, infec-tion-fi ghting white blood cells, and stem cells, which may promote healing.
“Our goal is to heal wounds, reduce pain, and improve quality of life,” said Ronald Soave, DPM, chief of podiatry at Methodist.
Many people with diabe-tes also experience neurop-athy — reduced sensation in their hands or feet — which means that a wound may go unnoticed and progress to infection, causing seri-ous damage to the tissue. Diabetes can also result in
decreased blood fl ow to the legs and feet, causing in-juries to heal more slowly than they would ordinarily. Adults with diabetes may fi nd caring for wounds and injuries challenging.
The Center’s team of spe-cialists takes a multi-disci-plinary approach to heal-ing wounds resulting from diabetes, radiation therapy, and other tissue conditions. Physicians work closely with each patient, assessing his or her specifi c wound care needs. For an appoint-ment or for more informa-tion on hyperbaric oxygen therapy and other treat-ments for wound care, call 718.622.2608.
New York Methodist Hospital’s Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center [1 Pros-pect Park West at Union Street in Park Slope, (718) 622-2608]. For more, visit www.nym.org/.
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Because everyone knows
someone with breast cancer.
A FriendA Neighbor A DaughterA Mother
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Pass ionate about medicine . Compass ionate about people .
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Because one out of eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. And breast
cancer has a way of turning those numbers into the names and faces of people you know
and love: a mother, a sister, a daughter, a friend, a neighbor, you.
Because every woman dreads hearing the words “you have breast cancer.”
Because over the past six years, Maimonides has diagnosed and treated thousands
of Brooklyn women and celebrated the lives of so many breast cancer survivors. Because
it is one of only 5% of hospitals in the country to have been accredited by the American
College of Surgeons National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.
Because we want to make the best even better. That’s why we’ve built Brooklyn’s
first, fully dedicated breast cancer center. It offers the same advanced, state-of-the-art
treatments that save lives in a new healing environment that affirms life. It’s a place
where every woman has her own team of highly skilled breast cancer specialists.
The Maimonides Breast Cancer Center. For every friend, every mother, every
sister, every daughter. For you.
We’ve built Brooklyn’s first Breast Cancer Center
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When your child is seriously ill…The most advanced care is close to home. The Brooklyn Hospital Center’s new Pediatric Intensive Care Unit offers comprehensive pediatric services in a state-of-the-art facility. With six private rooms, it’s also the most compassionate, comfortable setting for pediatric patients and their par-ents. This facility offers the best care close to home for children with seri-ous medical conditions while allowing their families to remain with them.
Dedicated pediatric intensivists and nurses offer 24/7 care for patients from infancy to 21 years of age. Pediatric subspecialty services include hematology, oncology, cardiology, neurology, infectious disease, gastro-enterology, adolescent medicine, rheumatology, endocrinology and rheumatology.
Each year, millions of American adults suffer from the flu. For most people it’s a mild illness. For older people, the flu can be very serious, even life-threatening.
But did you know that children are also particu-larly vulnerable to the flu? In fact, 115 kids under 18 in America died from flu-related causes last year, underscoring the importance of annual vaccinations and antiviral treatment for children.
Many people think healthy kids can easily with-stand the flu, but about half of the children who died had healthy medical histories.
In the September 15 edition of HealthDay News,Dr. Kenneth Bromberg, director of The Brooklyn Hos-pital Center’s Vaccine Research, said, “The fact that children die from influenza may not be adequately appreciated. Vaccinating children protects the whole population, other family members and children who may not be protected against influenza. It is clearly the right thing to do for everyone.”
To schedule a flu shot for your child, contact your pediatrician or call our Children’s Health Center at 718.250.8671.
A simple lesson in keeping your children healthy and safe at school. You’ve gotten your kids all the school supplies they need. You’re boning up on your math so you can help with their homework. But making sure they’re healthy and safe is probably the best way to equip your children for success in school.
So have your child’s vision and hearing test-ed, and make sure their immunizations are up to date. If your child has a physical impairment or medical condition, make the school aware of it. And tell the school immediately if you sus-pect a learning disability.
See that your child always eats a healthy, nutritious breakfast and lunch. Make sure the school has your current contact information on file. And, if your child is still anxious and ap-prehensive several weeks after starting the new school year, notify their teacher so you can work out a solution.
Call our Children’s Health Center at 718.250.8761 if you would like to schedule a checkup for your child.
Don’t kid yourself: childrenneed flu shots, too.
Find a Physician by name or specialty CALL 877.TBHC.DOC
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HARBOR WATCHTwo Air Force Special
Operations Command com-bat controllers were pre-sented military decorations by the air force chief of staff for exhibiting extraordi-nary heroism in combat.
Staff Sgt. Robert Gutier-rez, Jr. was presented the Air Force Cross and Tech. Sgt. Ismael Villegas was presented the Silver Star by Gen. Norton Schwartz in a joint ceremony. The Air Force Cross is the service’s highest award and is second only to the Medal of Honor. The Silver Star is awarded for valor, to include risk of life during engagement with the enemy.
Both airmen received their awards for gallant ac-tions during combat opera-tions in 2009 that directly contributed to saving the lives of their teammates and decimating enemy forces. Gutierrez and Vil-legas were both assigned to the 21st Special Tactics Squadron, Pope Field, N.C., when they deployed in sup-port of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2009, although the two medals are not re-lated to the same operation. Freedom Hangar was a sea of berets as more than 1,000 gathered to watch Schwartz present the airmen their awards.
The general credited the two combat controllers for not only being courageous, but for also being humble in recognition.
“With the modesty that is characteristic of the quiet professional, these two joint terminal attack control-lers would hardly hesitate
to claim that, during the incidents for which they are being decorated today, they were merely perform-ing as they were trained,” Schwartz said. “And they are accepting the honors on behalf of the entire team that worked with them.”
Gutierrez and Villegas attribute their exceptional performance on the battle-fi eld to training they re-
ceived at Air Force Special Operations Command.
“You don’t have a lot of time to think about your-self,” Villegas said. “Your training allows you to do your job so you can over-come any obstacle and, ul-timately, bring brothers on the battlefi eld home safely.”
Gutierrez, now an in-structor at the Special Tac-tics Training Squadron, is
the second living recipient of the Air Force Cross. Like Gutierrez, the last fi ve re-cipients of the medal have all been Air Force Special Operations Command air-men. Gutierrez accepted the Air Force Cross on be-half of all of his fellow air-men in combat.
“It is for every airman who is fi ghting,” he said.
HARBOR WATCHWashington provided
the backdrop for the 36th annual Marine Corps Marathon on Oct. 30. This year’s “People’s Mara-thon” hosted 30,000 run-ners and thousands of spectators who witnessed the historic 26.2 mile jour-ney and the Marine Corps 10k.
The marathon began with two MV-22 Osprey fl ying from the Pentagon over the starting line, the roaring thunder of a 105mm Howitzer, and a 21-gun rifl e salute to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Prior reserve Marine Drew Carey, familiar co-median and host of “The Price is Right,” fi red the starting pistol to begin the race and then joined the runners on their voy-age.
Army Reservist 1st Lt. Chad Ware was fi rst to complete the 26.2 miles,
posting a time of 2:19:16. Ware, who has run 12 other marathons in his lifetime, posted a personal best time.
“I wasn’t planning on running a fall marathon because I was sick of chas-ing a time and having the problems I was having,” Ware said. “I wanted to run for place with the all Army Team. The time was there so I went for it in the end.”
More than 11,000 of the participants were fi rst time marathoners. 1st Lt. Bill Prom, a basic fi eld artillery offi cer with 5th Battalion, 11th Marines, 1st Marine Division, and a member of the Marine Corps Racing Team, com-pleted his fi rst marathon on Sunday.
“I’m happy to fi nish,” Prom said, who completed the race at 2:29:46 and was the fi rst Marine to cross the fi nish line. “I felt
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Participants in the 36th annual Marine Corps Marathon kick off the race through the nation’s capital Oct. 30. Actor Drew Carey fi red the starting shot and there were a total of 30,000 partici-pants from all walks of life who ran the 26.2 mile race. Photo by Kuande Hall
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Gen. Norton Schwartz, Chief of Staff of the U.S. air force, presents the Air Force Cross to Staff Sgt. Robert Gutierrez, Special Tactics and Training Squadron combat controller, during a ceremony at Hurlburt Field, Fla. Photo by Sgt. Sharida Jackson
Airmen receive Air Force Cross, Silver Star
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for takeoff” never sounded so good as aerial perform-ers from all fi ve armed forces, and plenty of fl y-ing acts from government agencies and the civilian world, fi lled the skies above roughly 100,000 spectators from Fort Bliss, the El Paso community, and abroad at the post’s Biggs Army Air-
fi eld for the 30th annual Amigo Airsho.
Included in the lineup were the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team, the air force’s A-10 West Demonstration Team, and, for the fi rst time since 1997, the navy’s Flight Demon-stration Squadron, the Blue Angels. Their arrival to Fort Bliss was fi tting, as 2011 marked 100 years of na-
val aviation and 65 years of Blue Angels performances.
It wasn’t only a mili-tary presence, however, as acts, including Tim Weber’s GEICO Extra 300S and Bob Carlton in his Jet Powered Sailplane, graced the skies.
“I enjoyed seeing the jet-powered glider,” said Chief Warrant Offi cer 4 Daniel T. May, brigade standard-ization offi cer for 1st AD’s Combat Aviation Bde. “The highlight of the show for me was the Customs and Bor-der Patrol demonstration. It’s not something that you see at every air show, and I’ve been to quite a few.”
Department of Defense civilian Gabriel Acosta said the Blue Angels were the highlight of the show for him.
While the Blue Angels might have been the head-liner for many, at least one pilot credited those with less glamorous jobs for their success.
“The real stars of the show are the men and women in the dark uni-forms; the enlisted men and women, the ones who fi x the airplanes and make the show happen,” said Ma-rine Capt. Benjamin Blan-ton, one of a team of offi cers who pilots the Blue Angels’ C-130 Hercules, also known as “Fat Albert.”
Also making the Amigo Airsho possible were the hundreds of volunteers, hired hands, sponsors and contributors, including Paul Foster of Western Re-fi ning, who purchased tick-ets for all of the soldiers so they could attend for free.
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“This is a representation of them and their sacrifi ce. I just get the honor of wearing [the medal] for them.”
Gutierrez received the Air Force Cross for actions during a four-hour battle in Herat Province, Afghanistan, in October, 2009. The team was am-bushed during a high-risk night raid to capture the number two Taliban leader in the region. The team leader was shot in the leg, and the remaining 10-man team was trapped in a build-ing with no escape route. Assigned as the joint terminal attack controller to an Army Special Forces detachment, Gutierrez’s job was to call in air sup-port for his teammates.
During the fi refi ght, he was shot in the chest and suffered a collapsed lung. Still, Gutierrez continued to re-turn fi re while calling in precision strafi ng runs from an A-10 Thunder-bolt II nearby. Though bleeding out and struggling to inhale enough oxy-gen to breathe, let alone speak into his radio, death was not on his mind, he said.
“Your time is in front of you. You’re not thinking of that,” he said. “I was thinking, ‘I am going to do everything I can to get the mission done before I bleed out.’ ”
Following the fi rst strafi ng run, the team medic re-infl ated Gutierrez’s lung with a needle decompression,
which allowed him to direct two more strafi ng runs within 30 feet of enemy forces, decimating the enemy, and al-lowing the team to escape.
For Villegas, learning he would receive the Silver Star came as a sur-prise to the Del Rio, TX, native.
“I didn’t expect this. I was told I was nominated, and it was an honor. But to receive it…it’s the biggest honor I can have,” he said. “This is for my
guys. They put their lives on the line each day. I’m taking this on behalf of all of those guys out there.”
In September, 2009, Villegas was clearing a road of improvised explo-sive devices near Bagh Khosak, Af-ghanistan, when his team was am-bushed. Villegas ran 200 feet across an open minefi eld to achieve a better position from which he could return fi re with his personal weapon while calling in air support. As the only JTAC assigned to an Army Special Forces team, Villegas directed preci-sion fi repower from artillery, as well as fi xed- and rotary-wing assets, to kill 32 enemy insurgents during the 16-hour fi refi ght and save the lives of his teammates.
While there were many heroes in the crowd wearing the air force uni-form, Schwartz also pointed out the unsung family members who sacrifi ce for their airman so they may serve their country.
“Your quiet, understated sacrifi ce gives deep personal meaning to your loved ones’ service,” Schwartz said to the families of Gutierrez and Villegas. “You have my personal thanks and the appreciation of a grateful nation, and certainly the appreciation of the U.S. air force.” Demetria Saucedo, Vil-legas’ mother, said it is days like these that make the sacrifi ce worthwhile. “It was a lot of sleepless nights while he was gone, but today is a good day,” Saucedo said. “I am so proud of my son.”
pretty lousy most of it.”Prom said he had a large
blister pop around mile 17 and ran the last nine miles with a bleeding foot.
The marathon course featured two time hurdles, which runners must com-plete for them to offi cially continue on the course. Par-ticipants needed to main-tain a 14 minute-per-mile pace to bypass hurdle one, the National Mall Gauntlet at mile at 17.5. Runners then must cross the 14th Street Bridge, aptly named “Beat the Bridge,” at mile 20 be-fore the bridge is reopened to Washington downtown traffi c. A total of 20,895 runners offi cially Beat the Bridge and completed the marathon.
Many Marines and run-ners were running in honor of wounded or fallen service member.
Darrell General, a 37-time marathon runner and two-time Marine Corps Marathon champion, ran for his brother, James R. General, who passed away in 2009. General posted a
fi nishing time of 2:48:06.Capt. Jason W. De-
quenne, an active duty Ma-rine who completed 236 miles from the Tun Tavern marker in Pennsylvania to the marathon’s fi nish, dedi-cated each mile of his jour-ney to a fallen Marine or sailor.
The spectators moti-vated the participants with constant cheers of encour-agement and held signs hon-oring those who were run-ning and those who were being remembered.
“[The Marine Corps Marathon] is not about a bunch of professionals get-ting money, it’s about ev-eryone,” Prom said. “I don’t know how many times I heard my mom screaming. She’s pretty loud.”
The Marine Corps Mar-athon was voted the best marathon for families. Runners from all walks of life participate annually in the largest marathon not to offer prize money. It is the fi fth largest marathon in the nation and ninth larg-est in the world.
It is great for fi rst time runners and all branches of services to run in, Ware said.
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Gen. Norton Schwartz presents the Silver Star to Tech. Sgt. Ismael Villegas. Photo by Sgt. Sharida Jackson
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Hubba, hubba. What does George Haber have to do with our little paper? Well Standing O pal George worked for the Kings Courier back in the day, well before we were a twinkle in News Corporation’s eyes. Haber was fi rst an intern, then a cub crime reporter for former publisher Ed Luster. Now you might say this is one heck of story, but it only gets better. The best part is that George, along with fellow Lafayette HS alum, celebrated their 50th reunion this past October and danced, kibitzed and schmoozed the day away at Gargiulo’s, re-living those glory days of 1961. “We received a terrifi c education at Lafayette and didn’t appreciate it at the time,” said Miriam Kagan Leberstein, classmate and retired attorney. Former teacher Malcolm Larg-mann, added, “As teachers we were as in-spired by you as much as you were inspired by us.” Now Standing O is inspired to go to her own reunion.
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS
A run for the moneyAndrew Rausa started running three
years ago when his dad Sam was diag-nosed with cancer. It was a way that both could deal with the prognoses (Sam is now in remission), and also cope with Sam’s many treatments. Although each has com-
peted before, this Sunday is the fi rst time that they will compete together in the New York City Marathon. Our pal Andrew has also been selected by Foot Locker to repre-sent our borough in a “race within a race” pitting him against schlubs from the four non-Brooklyn, and therefore uninterest-ing, boroughs. The winner not only gets to brag, but wins a Tiffany trophy and a $1,000 donation to the charity of his or her choice. Standing O wishes all fi ve city runners good luck, but will be offering special cheers for Brooklyn’s own Andrew. Is it wrong to say, “Break a leg”?
FORT GREENE
What a bambinoAfter a labor of love, My Brooklyn Baby
bounced onto Fulton Street last month of-fering the cutest, bestest baby items. Not only does the shop provide toys and clothes, for children up to 4 years old, but it boasts a diaper-changing station, play area and place for moms to kick back and rest their weary tootsies. Owner Darcey LeFleming knew that a baby store is what she really wanted to open — and just what the com-munity needed. As a new mom, Darcey dis-covered that whenever she needed to shop for baby stuff, she had to travel out of the neighborhood just to buy essentials. “Until my store opened here, moms had to travel to Park Slope, shop online or go to big box stores to get supplies. My store offers a local shopping option for them,” Darcey told us.
“It’s amazing how supportive the commu-nity has been and such a treat to watch the children play in this space I created.” Dar-cey is also hosting a Santa’s Village on Dec. 9–11 where you can take pix with the Jolly Old Elf and then make some nifty crafts to take home.
My Brooklyn Baby [692 Fulton St. near S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (347) 889-6026]. Open every day from 11 am to 7 pm.
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Slainte!Irish eyes are smiling for native son
Frank Comerford, who has been named the Grand Marshal of the 2012 St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Frank is dusting off his tam-o-shanter, polishing up his shillelaghs, and gearing up to march that long green mile
down Fifth Avenue in that other borough. “It was an honor to be with the Committee when they announced Frank would lead the march,” State Sen. Marty Golden (R-Bay Ridge) told us. “Frank has long been a leader in the community and it’s only fi tting that he be selected.” Standing O thinks so, too, and will be hoisting a pint in Frank’s honor come March 17.
DOWNTOWN
For HopeHats off to developer Bruce Ratner for
pledging $15,000 per year for the next fi ve years to the Hope Reichbach Memorial Fund, a charity created after the untimely death of the rising political star and aide to City Councilman Steve Levin (D–Brooklyn Heights). The an-nouncement was made at a kick off at Brooklyn Borough Hall with Hope’s family and friends. Hope is the daughter of Judge Gus Re-ichbach, an old college buddy of our pal Bruce. The memo-rial fund will pay interns who volunteer with local community groups. Borough President Markowitz (pictured) also of-fered his praise to Reichbach.
STANDING Brooklyn’s Biggest Boosterby Joanna DelBuono
PARK SLOPE
Stop the presses, New York Meth-odist, a leader in cutting-edge diagnos-tics, now offers navigational bronchos-copy, a new option in the diagnosis and treatment of lung disease, which is the number one cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States — it claims more lives than colon, prostate and breast cancer combined! Holy moly. But the good news is that lung disease can be treated if caught in its earliest stage, which is where this new technology comes in handy. Until now, physicians relied on tried and true methods like CT scanning, x-rays, or sputum cytol-
ogy (eek). If a mass was detected, a sur-gical biopsy was performed. But this minimally invasive new bronchoscopy uses a thin tube to evaluate the lungs — and then doctors can snip a sample for testing. “With navigational bron-choscopy, recovery is faster than for patients who have had more invasive biopsy procedures,” Dr. Suhail Raoof, chief of pulmonary medicine told us. As usual, New York Methodist is cur-rently the only hospital in Brooklyn to offer this new procedure.
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(Left) Marathon hopeful Andrew Rausa with dad Sam.
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Brooklyn’s about to get BAMboozled — and by BAMboozled, we mean boozed up at BAM.
On Nov. 10, in collaboration with the Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn Academy of Music will unveil its first signature beer — affectionately dubbed “BAMboozle” — at the world premiere of performance piece, “Brooklyn Babylon.”
“This isn’t your average tote bag celebration item,” said BAM President Karen Brooks Hopkins of the custom brew, which BAM will serve beginning in
mid-November. “Brooklyn Brewery is cool and creative; it’s great when two Brooklyn institu-tions can work together like this.”
The light and hoppy BAMboozle brew is made of Belgian yeast, and features wildflower honey harvested from local family apiary Tremblay Farms. It is fermented in a cham-pagne-like bottle, and boasts a col-orful label by graphic design guru Milton Glazer.
“We’ve seen huge changes in Brooklyn, and in BAM itself,” said brewmaster Garrett Oliver, who has lived in Boerum Hill for 18 years. “I think of BAM as one of the symbols of the revival of Brooklyn. Now it has the polish on it that brings the entire world to our doorstep [so] I wanted the beer to be elegant.”
BAMboozle at the premiere of “Brooklyn Babylon” at BAM Harvey [651 Fulton St. between Rockwell and Ashland places in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100], Nov. 9, 7:30 pm. Tickets, $20. For info, visit www.bam.org.
– Juliet Linderman
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Finally, a chance to take those Parliament records, 1990s dancehall sin-gles, and even those uncool
REO Speedwagon 45s, off the shelf and give them new life.
It happens at “The Vinyl Club,” Sycamore’s monthly spin-your-own-disc night that celebrates every type of music ever laid down on wax — except digital.
“Sycamore is a record-only bar,” said Naomi Donabedian, host of the Vinyl Club, which invites acetate advocates to spin 20-minute sets from their own collections. “If you don’t play vinyl, they don’t want you.”
The next set is Nov. 7 — and it might sound like a risky venture in musical crowd-sourcing or worse, 20 minutes from some-body’s collection of Gregorian chants — but it’s actually been a smashing success.
“Vinyl Club been one our most consistent, well-received events,” said John Hagen, the bar’s booker. “It’s rare that someone can throw five records under his arm and walk to his local bar to share music with other people.”
The event at Sycamore draws a mix of expe-rienced DJ’s, but rookies need not be shy about their musical selections; the hosts might even show you around the two turntable set-up.
“If a customer shows up unaware of the set-up, we’ll have someone show them a little about
mixing and fading — then give them the head-phones and let them go at it,” said Hagen.
Impress enough people and maybe you’ll even get a regular slot: two Monday Vinyl Club fixtures have gone on to hosting their own nights at Sycamore.
Vinyl Club at Sycamore [1118 Cortelyou Rd. between E. 11th Street and Westminister Road in Ditmas Park, (347) 240-5850], Nov. 7, 8 pm to midnight. No cover. For info, visit www.sycamorebrooklyn.com.
– Eli Rosenberg
BAM-boozle!
Bitters makes it better!What’s a cocktail without bitters?
Frankly, it’s not a cocktail at all, if you ask Brad Thomas Parsons.
And Parsons should know, given that he’s the author of “Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All,” which he’ll release — with a tasting! — at Greenlight Bookstore on Nov. 10.
“The original definition of cocktail was any liquor with spir-its, water, sugar and bitters — it’s absolutely crucial,” Parsons said. “If your drink doesn’t have bitters, you’ll know. Just a dash or a drop — there’s magic held in it.”
Bitters is a mysterious elixir that can turn a $4 happy hour special into a cocktail worth paying $11 for. But what is bitters anyway?
“People say bitters is the salt and pepper of the bar, but I think it’s more like a liquid spice rack,” Parsons explained. By definition, bitters is a high-proof alcohol infused with a flavoring agent — anything from citrus peel to cardamom to celery to lavender — and a bittering agent, like root or bark.
“You might reach for a bottle of cinnamon, but with bitters, you can reach for a licorice flavor, floral bitters, citrus bitters — it heightens and elevates all flavors.”
Parsons’s book offers inventive and original recipes for charred cedar bitters, cherry-hazelnut bitters, root beer bitters and coffee pecan bit-ters; old-guard cocktails like a Horse’s Neck, a
Martini (which isn’t a true Martini without bit-ters), and a Dark and Stormy; new craft cocktails like a Turkey Shoot with 101-proof Wild Turkey rye and cranberry bitters; and bitters-infused snacks like sweet and spicy bitter bar nuts, hot and sticky bitter wings, and bitters-sweet choco-
late malted pudding.It’s all part of a nation-wide —
or, at least Brooklyn-wide — bitters renaissance that Parsons attributes to an increasing interest in artise-nal foods and beverages, as well as the recovery and resurgence of old recipes for classic cocktails — all of which call for bitters.
“There used to be one kind of bitters — Angostura, which is a clove and allspice flavor — but you need orange bitters for a Martini, so
for a long time you couldn’t even get a real one,” Parsons said. “By 2000, there was only one type of orange bitters. But now, you can choose what
type of orange you want: fresh orange, dry orange, spicy orange — people are filling in the flavor gaps.”
Don’t believe the bitters hype? Come taste for yourself.
Brad Thomas Parsons reads and drinks from “Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All,” at Greenlight Bookstore [686 Fulton St. between S. Portland Street and S. Elliott Place in Fort Greene, (718) 246-0200]. Free, 7 pm. For info, visit www.greenlightbookstore.com.
– Juliet Linderman
Writer, editor and food blogger extraor-dinaire Rachel Wharton will celebrate the release her “Edible Brooklyn: The
Cookbook,” at the Brooklyn Kitchen Labs in Williamsburg on Nov. 7 with — what else? — a big, fat, delicious potluck party.
After all, there’s no better way to show-case the 100 scrumptious recipes from some of Brooklyn’s finest foodies than to whip up the dishes and devour them among friends.
“Brooklyn is so much about shar-ing,” Wharton said. “People who own butcher shops, or shop at mar-kets, come together to share food and tips. Food culture is where the entire world and food intersect — why people eat what they do, the science, anthropology and culture — food makes people feel good when they eat it, when they make it, when they grow it, when they buy it.”
For the cookbook, Wharton uses recipes to tell the story of the borough’s exotic and colorful food scene, from farm to table. In the cookbook are recipes for bacon-maple-bourbon-coffee caramel corn from Jen King, pastry chef and co-owner of sweet shop Liddibit; pickled fiddlehead ferns from Shamus Jones, owner and founder of Brooklyn
Brine; egg noodles with creamy red cabbage and sweet corn from Erin Fairbanks, co-host of radio show “The Farm Report”; Sheepshead Bay fried bluefish with tartar sauce from Brooklyn College nutritional science professor Annie Hauck-Lawson; a pear old-fashioned cocktail from Damon Boelter, bartender at Prime Meats in Carroll Gardens; and many more.
Wharton views her cookbook as a way to foster Brooklyn’s culinary commu-nity.
“It’s meant to be a community cookbook, albeit one for the cur-
rent Brooklyn food world,” Wharton said. “Our recipes are from all kinds of people: beekeepers and shop owners and gardeners and fisher-men and pickle makers and bakers and chefs and mix-ologists and chocolatiers; Each little recipe is a piece of the story, and gives a snapshot of what’s happen-ing here right now.”
“Edible Brooklyn: The Cookbook” potluck at The Brooklyn Kitchen [100 Frost St. between Leonard Street and Manhattan Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) 389-2982], Nov. 7, 6:30 pm. Free.
Bring a dish to share. For info, visit www.brook-lynkitchen.com.
– Juliet Linderman
The “Phantom Tollbooth” is one of the most beloved children’s books of all time — and it might be the most Brooklyn one, too.
Consider that author Norton Juster and cartoon-ist Jules Feiffer, who illustrated the book, met and decided to collaborate after realizing that they lived in the same Brooklyn Heights building.
“The idea of a tollbooth is very New York, but the idea that Jules Feiffer lived above Norton Juster in Brooklyn Heights — it’s so neighborhoody,” said Keara Duggan of the Brooklyn Historical Society, which will host Juster for a 50th anniversary event on Nov. 11.
“In Brooklyn, people live together and wind up collaborating — there’s something special about this place,” she added. “This shows the Brooklyn roots of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth,’ which aren’t particularly well-known to the general audience.”
“The Phantom Tollbooth” tells the story of a maudlin little boy named Milo, who drives through the titular gateway in a toy car, and finds himself in a fantastical world full of riddles, puzzles and peculiar characters.
In celebrating “The Phantom Tollbooth,” with Juster himself — who is now 82 years old — orga-nizers hope to pique the interest of today’s genera-tion of young Brooklynites.
“There’s such an intimate connection between Brooklyn and Juster,” Duggan said. 50 years later, we hope to promote it to a whole new generation.”
Norton Juster’s “The Phantom Tollbooth” at the Brooklyn Historical Society [128 Pierrepont St. between Clinton Street and Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 222-4111], Nov. 13, 2 pm. Free with RSVP. For info, visit www.brooklynhis-tory.org.
– Juliet Linderman
‘Phantom’ 50
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Brooklyn’s ‘Edible’ book!
Naomi Donabedian, who hosts the monthly spin-your-own vinyl night at Sycamore in Ditmas Park, shows off a classic. Photo by Steve Solomonson
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By Dan MacLeod
Ex-pat Midwesterners have a home-away-from-home at Burnside, a new Williamsburg bar specializing in
food, beers, and cocktails of the fly-over states.
Co-owners Tim Miller, John McWilliams and Amy Anstett founded the cozy bar on Grand Street after realizing their Badger and North Star state friends had woefully few options for fried cheese curds and Leinenkugel Honey Weiss.
“All of our friends are from the Midwest,” said Anstett. “They like to hang out with other Midwesterners. We thought it was weird that there’s no place to find cheese curd.”
It’s the first bar in Brooklyn that caters to a crowd known for its penchant for cheese curds and Cheeseheads.
The bar, which is between Union and Lorimer streets, stocks a variety of spe-cialty cocktails and Midwestern beers, but its list favors micro-brews over Miller and Anheuser-Busch.
“We’re not a big fan of working with the big boys,” said Miller.
One specialty is the Special Lager from Steven’s Point Brewery in Wisconsin, a fairly straightforward beer with a slight hop aroma.
“It’s something that people from Wisconsin really identify with,” said
Anstett. “It makes them feel at home.”But Brooklyn Paper reporter and
Chief Midwestern Affairs correspondent Kate Briquelet, an Oshkosh native, was most impressed with the bar’s stockpile of Milwaukee’s Best.
“Put aside all of your preconceived notions about ‘the Beast,’ and have two to four cans,” she said, using the local argot for the beer. “It’s delicious accompanied by the cheese curds. I felt at home. It brought out my Wisconsin accent.”
The aforementioned snack — a Wisconsin staple — is a cheddar cheese by-product dipped in a beer-and-egg batter, fried, and served unpretentiously in a paper boat. It is salty, fatty and, of course, amazing.
The burger — oddly called “The Jucy Lucy” — is also a real winner.
Your heart surgeon won’t appreciate your patronage at Burnside Brooklyn, but your soul will.
Burnside Brooklyn [506 Grand St. between Union and Lorimer streets in Williamsburg, (347) 889-7793].
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How’s this for gut-busting gossip? You can belly up to the
bar in Williamsburg, have your fill of fried chicken in Carroll Gardens, or get good and cheesy in Park Slope — just don’t look to pad your tummy with Prospect Heights’ dumplings or Red Hook banh mi.
Burn notice: Yes, there are officially more bars in Williamsburg than there are double-wide strollers in Park Slope — but we’re still excited about Burnside
Brooklyn’s bread basket theme. The recently opened Midwestern drinkery at Grand Street and Union Avenue pairs its Bible Belt brews with cold weather belly busters such as fried cheese curds, Sheboygan brats, and yes, even Juicy Lucy burgers, with gobs of gooey dairy oozing out the middle. Wear a down vest — it’ll cover up your beer gut just fine.
Belly up: Fultummy’s — the quirky pan-Asian sandwich spot on Columbia Street in Red Hook — has closed. “As I was operating the business every day, I realized it will be too dif-ficult for me to run it by myself, so I had to put the cafe on sale,” the owner said on her Facebook page. “I really didn’t want to make this decision, but I had no choice.” Sayonara to brown rice burgers, pork katsu, Vietnamese sandwiches, and teriyaki tofu!
Dumpling downer: Another blow for Asian-fusion — Brownstoner reports that the Prospect Heights outpost of dump-ling mini-chain Eton has closed after just one year. Fans of the Hawaiian ramen
and porky potstickers can rest easy — they can still be found at Eton’s original Sackett Street location.
Over Ice-a: Twenty months after being approved by Community Board 1, Taavo Somer’s high-flying Williamsburg project, Isa, finally has a liquor license to go with its fried sardine skeletons. We’re sure the cocktail list will be every bit as quirky as the food menu, but can’t even hazard a guess at what wine to pair with pig tails, consomme,
spelt, cabbage and egg, or Treviso with nut cheese and granola.
Doggone delicious: Can’t stomach the wait for a table at Buttermilk Channel in Carroll Gardens? According to Eater, a former BC wait-ress is taking the Southern fried goodness to the streets with the Fat Beagle, a food truck featuring North Carolinian fare. Think fried pickles and okra with spicy yogurt, pimiento cheese on toast, and slow-roasted pulled pork sandwiches with coleslaw and pepper vinegar! But remember, no one serves duck meatloaf like the maestros on Court Street.
Good shepherd: Park Slope now has Valley Shepherd Creamery, a cheese store owned and operated by real dairy farmers, to go along with Fleisher’s, a butcher shop owned and operated by real butchers. According to Here’s Park Slope, pro-prietor Eran Wajswol will sell over 35 varieties of the small-batch, farmstead cheese that he makes at his 120-acre New Jersey farm, at his new Seventh Avenue store.
By Juliet Linderman
Talk about a Greek bailout!Starting on Nov. 4, the spirit of
Occupy Wall Street will come to Santorini Grill, a Mediterranean eatery in Williamsburg that will roll out a month-long “pay what you wish” deal that offers “99 percenters” a chance to enjoy a fancy meal tailored it to their particular budget-ary constraints.
The Grand Street restaurant will have no listed prices, and diners will be encour-aged to order whatever they want — and pay what they think it’s worth.
Good deal? Sure, but don’t leave your wallet at home.
“A lot of my customers lost their jobs in this economy,” said owner Paula Dourales, who cooks all the food from scratch each morning. “Greece needs help. The United States needs help, the whole world needs help. I need help, my customers who can’t afford to eat at restaurants need help. I thought, if I do this, we can help each
other.”For Dourales, the scheme could be a
“win-win”: it’s a reward for loyal custom-ers, a big draw for newcomers, and a bail-out for the less-fortunate.
It’s just crazy enough to work.“People will come out of curiosity, and
if people don’t abuse it and it works, I won’t
stop it,” Dourales said. “This neighborhood hasn’t shown me anything but goodness.”
The menu includes Greek staples such as grape leaves, babaganush and souvlaki, as well as fusion fare like Greek burgers (with tomato and feta), though Dourales is removing dishes with lamb, octopus, fish and shrimp due to cost, and replacing them with spaghetti with meat sauce, and a broiled chicken dish.
If the whole thing’s a disaster, Dourales will chock it up to an experiment she had been dying to try.
“If I lose my shirt,” she said. “I’ll buy another shirt.”
At least one regular says he’ll do his part to allow Dourales to retain her duds.
“See you on Nov. 4,” he said after greet-ing Dourales with a kiss on the cheek. “But I’m paying full-price!”
Santorini Grill [167 Grand St. between Bedford Avenue and Berry Street in Williamsburg, (718) 388-3668]. Deal begins at 5 pm on Nov. 4.
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Brew ha ha: Tim Miller, co-owner of Burnside in Williamsburg, cel-ebrates all things Midwestern (we’re talking beer and cheese curds, of course). Photo by Stefano Giovannini
Opa! Santorini Grill owner Paula Dourales will implement a “pay-what-you-wish” system at her restaurant for one month, beginning on Nov. 4th.
Photo by Stefano Giovannini
The Midwest in Brooklyn
All beef, no badger: The “Jucy Lucy” is a clas-sic burger, whether you are from Wisconsin or Williamsburg. Photo by Stefano Giovannini
StarterThe Pikilia greek spread platter
comes with four traditional spreads: A hum-mus of sun-dried tomatoes and roasted red peppers, which was tasty, if not unremarkable; melitzanosalata, a smoky eggplant spread with a serious garlic kick; a strikingly flavorful tza-tziki that is the best I’ve had in a long time; and taramosalata, a caviar-lemon spread blended with olive oil and potatoes.
The platter comes with eight hefty squares of pita bread and, after devouring a third of it, I was surprisingly stuffed. But then, I ate the rest of the tzatziki because yeah, it’s that good.
Price: $8What I’d pay: $8–$10.Why: This is a dish that you are definitely
going to split with someone — and $4 is extremely reasonable. I might even go to $5.
By Juliet Linderman
I ate a meal at Santorini Grill to see what these dishes are actually worth. And I was pleasantly surprised. But would the “pay what you wish” plan
leave me money for dessert, or make me feel like I was paying too much?
What would I pay? Main courseOrganic chicken souvlaki
The dish consists of an enormous platter with giant chunks of grilled chicken, triangles of pita bread, a pile of thin strips of lettuce drizzled with lemon, garlic and olive oil, another pile of seasoned rice with diced carrots and pease intermixed, a few sliced tomatoes and — to my delight — more tzatziki. The chicked was perfectly done: slightly charred on the outside, hot and juicy on the inside, and the garlicky olive oil blended perfectly with the rice (which is, admittedly, the dish’s weakest link — the flavor is curried and smoky, but it’s a touch too salty).
Price: $18What I’d pay: $14.Why: It’s a delicious meal, but at the end of the day,
it’s just chicken and rice. If I was splitting it, though, I’d probably be willing to pay $9, bringing the total up to the restaurant’s list price.Chicken Souvlaki and a plate of Mediterranean
spreads at Santorini Grill in Williamsburg. *Don’t forget to tip your waiters and waitresses — that’s a non-negotiable!
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MAGIC SHOW: The latest gradu-ates of the Coney Island Side-show Magic Course will dem-onstrate tricks. $10 ($7 children under 12). 7 pm. Coney Island Circus Sideshow (1208 Surf Ave. at the Boardwalk in Coney Is-land), www.coneysialnd.com.
SUN, NOV. 6PERFORMANCE
MUSIC, PERFORMANCE AND WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG MU-SICIANS: $5 suggested dona-tion. 2 pm. Douglas Street Music Collective [295 Douglass St. be-tween Third and Fourth avenues in Park Slope, (718) 369-6931], www.connectionworks.org.
THEATER, “ALICE, OR THE SCOT-TISH GRAVEDIGGERS”: 3 pm. See Friday, Nov. 4.
MUSIC, CLASSICAL CONCERT: Manhattan Brass performs com-positions by Carlo Gesualdo. Free. 4 pm. Brooklyn Public Library’s Central branch [Flat-bush Ave. at Eastern Parkway in Grand Army Plaza in Park Slope, (718) 230-2100], www.brooklyn-publiclibrary.org.
MUSIC FROM GOOD SHEPHERD: Sunday music recital with Daniel Lippel on the classical guitar. Free. 6 pm. Good Shepherd Church [1950 Batchelder St. at Avenue S in Marine Park, (718) 998-2800].
OTHERINSIDER’S TOUR: Visitors can go
behind the scenes at the shark tank or inside the Alien Stingers
exhibit. Children must be at least 6 years old to attend. $28 ($19 member adult; $23 non-mem-ber child; $14 member child). 10–11:30 am. New York Aquar-ium [602 Surf Ave. between W. Eighth and W. Fifth streets in Coney Island, (718) 265-3448], www.nyaquarium.com.
MOVIES, CHARLIE CHASE SHORTS: Silent movie mati-nee features, “Looking for Sally,” “Should Husbands be Watched,” and “What Price Goofy.” Free. 1:30 pm. Brooklyn Public Library’s Central branch [Flatbush Ave. at Eastern Park-way in Grand Army Plaza in Park Slope, (718) 230-2100], www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org.
MOVIES, HAROLD LLOYD SHORTS: Silent movie matinee features, “Girl Shy” and “Gradu-ate.” Free. 1:30 pm. Brooklyn Public Library’s Central branch [Flatbush Ave. at Eastern Park-way in Grand Army Plaza in Park Slope, (718) 230-2100], www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org.
HEALTH, AQUASIZE: For the 55 and older set, water aerobics; bring bathing suit, towel, water shoes and a lock. $75 (seven ses-sion course). 2–3 pm. Kingsbor-ough Community College [2001 Oriental Blvd. at Decatur Avenue in Manhattan Beach, (718) 368-5050], www.kingsborough.edu.
5 DUTCH DAYS: 2–6 pm. See Fri-day, Nov. 4.
MON, NOV. 7TALK, BLACK SOLIDARITY DAY
AT CITY TECH: Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, will speak on “Historical Literacy in the 21st Century: Arturo Alfonso Schom-burg’s Legacy -- Then and Now.” Free. 11:30 am. New York City College of Technology Klitgord Center Auditorium [285 Jay St. at Tillary Street in Downtown, (718) 260-5102], www.citytech.cuny.edu.
TALK, A PANEL DISCUSSION OF BAM: The complete works: Fea-turing panelists Sharon Lehner (Director of BAM Archives), Phil-lip Lopate (Contributor), John Rockwell (Contributor), and Susan Yung (Associate Editor and Contributor), Moderated by editor Steven Serafi n. Free. 7:30 pm. Greenlight Bookstore [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246-0200], greenlightbookstore.com.
OPEN REHEARSALS: Brooklyn’s Sweet Adelines Barbershop Chorus welcomes singers of all voice ranges. Free. 7:30 pm. Call for location, (718) 567-8190.
Come see Nasty Canasta do her thing at Wasabassco Burlesque’s Seventh Anniversary Extravaganza at the Bell House on Nov. 4 and 5!
FRI, NOV. 4HEALTH, ZUMBA GOLD: For
the 55 and older set, aerobic workout, bring two two pound weights, jazz shoes or dance sneakers. $75 (seven session course). 11:45 am–1:15 pm. Kingsborough Community Col-lege [2001 Oriental Blvd. at Decatur Avenue in Manhattan Beach, (718) 368-5050], www.kingsborough.edu.
HEALTH, AQUASIZE: For the 55 and older set, water aerobics; bring bathing suit, towel, water shoes and a lock. $75 (seven ses-sion course). Noon–1 pm. Kings-borough Community College [2001 Oriental Blvd. at Decatur Avenue in Manhattan Beach, (718) 368-5050], www.kingsbor-ough.edu.
5 DUTCH DAYS: Annual celebra-tion of New York’s Dutch infl u-ence. $6. 2–6 pm. Brooklyn His-torical Society [128 Pierrepont St. at Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 222-4111], www.brooklynhistory.org.
READING, “MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON — THINGS ABOUT ME” BOOK LAUNCH: Creators Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp perform. Free. 6:30 pm. PowerHouse Arena [37 Main St. at Water Street in DUMBO, (718) 666-3049], www.powerhousearena.com.
BALLET: Prima ballerina Nina Anan-iashvili will perform a program by choreographer Alexei Rat-mansky. $35. 7:30 pm. Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College [2900 Cam-pus Rd. between Amersfort Place and Kenilworth Place in Midwood, (718) 951-4500], www.brooklyncenteronline.org.
THEATER, “ALICE, OR THE SCOT-TISH GRAVEDIGGERS”: $18. 8 pm. Old Stone House [336 Third St. between Fourth and Fifth avenues in Park Slope, (718) 768-3195], www.theoldstone-house.org.
MUSIC, JACLYN DIMA, ANDI RAE AND THE BACK RIVER BUL-LIES, ANIMAL PHARM AND THE GOAT RODEO: Free. 9 pm. Freddy’s Bar [627 Fifth Ave. between 17th and 18th streets in Greenwood Heights, (718) 768-0131], www.freddysbar.com.
SAT, NOV. 5PERFORMANCE
MUSIC, DEEDLE DEEDLE DEES: The educational rock band will perform. $10 ($20 for a family pass). 11 am. Knitting Factory [361 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg, (347) 529-6696], ny.knittingfactory.com.
THEATER, “ALICE, OR THE SCOT-TISH GRAVEDIGGERS”: 8 pm. See Friday, Nov. 4.
MUSIC, SPLIT SCREENS, STARING AT CLOUDS, AND BLUE CAST CATALYST: Free. 8 pm. Freddy’s Bar [627 Fifth Ave. between 17th and 18th streets in Greenwood Heights, (718) 768-0131], www.freddysbar.com.
OTHERBIRD SHOW: Cages, birds and sup-
plies and a bird contest. Astoria Bird Club. Free. 8 am–4 pm. Shrine Church of St. Jude School [1696 Canarsie Rd. at Seaview Avenue in Canarsie, (718) 763-6300].
WORKSHOP, JOB TRAINING: Computer literacy and job readi-ness classes. 10 am–1 pm. Pros-pect Park YMCA [357 Ninth St. between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Park Slope, (718) 768-7100], www.ymcanyc.org/prospect-park/prospect-park-home.
HEALTH, BLOODLESS MEDICINE SEMINAR: SUNY Downstate LICH and Borough President Markowitz will be giving free fl u shots to the public. Free. Noon–4 pm. SUNY Downstate LICH [339 Hicks St. at Congress Street in Cobble Hill, (718) 780-1006].
5 DUTCH DAYS: 2–6 pm. See Fri-day, Nov. 4.
READING, ESMERALDA SAN-TIAGO: Author reads from her latest novel, “Conquistadora.” Leonard Lopate hosts. Free. 4 pm. Brooklyn Public Library’s Central branch [Flatbush Ave. at Eastern Parkway in Grand Army Plaza in Park Slope, (718) 230-2100], www.brooklynpubli-clibrary.org.
BROOKLYN BEER WEEK PARTY: Kick off “Brooklyn Beer Week,” with food, music and lots of beers on tap! 4 pm. Sycamore [1118 Cortelyou Rd. between Stratford and Westminster roads in Ditmas Park, (347) 240-5850], www.sycamorebrooklyn.com.
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READING, ALEX ROSS: Author of “Listen to This,” a collection of his essays for “the New Yorker.” Free. 7 pm. PowerHouse Arena [37 Main St. at Water Street in DUMBO, (718) 666-3049], www.powerhousearena.com.
READING, GREENLIGHT MOMS BOOK GROUP: Led by local moms Sharon and Satya, this group of Fort Greene moms reads contemporary fi ction and nonfi ction. Free. 7:30 pm. Greenlight Bookstore [686 Ful-ton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246-0200], green-lightbookstore.com.
WED, NOV. 9WORKSHOP, TANGO LESSONS:
For adults and youngsters in-terested in ballroom dancing. No experience and no partners necessary. Pre-registration for youngsters required. Free. 6–9 pm. IS 96 [99 Ave. P at W. 11th Street in Bensonhurst, (718) 232-2266].
WORKSHOP, JOB TRAINING: 6:30—9:30 pm. See Saturday, Nov. 5.
MUSIC, ENSEMBLE CONCERT: Ljova and the Kontraband perform original compositions featuring eastern European and Gypsy melodies, Latin rhythms, and jazz improvisations. Free. 7 pm. Brooklyn Public Library’s Central branch [Flatbush Ave. at Eastern Parkway in Grand Army Plaza in Park Slope, (718) 230-2100], www.brooklynpubli-clibrary.org.
READING, LATINA VOICES — SHARING OUR EXPERIENCES: Featuring Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, author of “Daugh-ters of the Stone”; Lyn Di Iorio, author of “Outside The Bones”; Toni Margarita Plummer, author of “The Bolero of Andie Row.” Free. 7:30 pm. Greenlight Book-store [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Av-enue in Fort Greene, (718) 246-0200], greenlightbookstore.com.
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GRAMS: Free. 2 pm. PS 376 [194 Harman St. at Wilson Avenue in Bushwick, (877) 628-9090].
WORKSHOP, CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH (ADVANCED): De-velop fl uency by watching epi-
sodes of the TV show “We are New York.” “Free”. 6-9 pm. Park Slope Armory [Eighth Avenue at 15th Street in Park Slope, (212) 673-7030], www.ymcanyc.org/armory-sports-complex/armory-sports-home/facility.
READING, BRAD THOMAS PAR-SONS: Author of “Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas” in conversa-tion with Zach Feldman of Bit-ters, Old Men Bitters & soda at Greene Grape. Bitters tasting at 8:30. Free. 7:30 pm. Green-light Bookstore [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246-0200], greenlightbook-store.com.
MUSIC, WOODEN SHIPS WITH BIRDS OF AVALON: $15 ($13 advance). 8 pm. Music Hall of Williamsburg [66 N. Sixth St. be-tween Kent and Wythe avenues in Williamsburg, (718) 486-5400], www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com.
THEATER, “ALICE, OR THE SCOT-TISH GRAVEDIGGERS”: 8 pm. See Friday, Nov. 4.
MUSIC, OPERA ON TAP: Come sing opera with the constraints of a concert hall. Free. 8 pm. Freddy’s Bar [627 Fifth Ave. be-tween 17th and 18th streets in Greenwood Heights, (718) 768-0131], www.freddysbar.com.
FRI, NOV. 11HEALTH, ZUMBA GOLD: 11:45
am–1:15 pm. See Friday, Nov. 4. HEALTH, AQUASIZE: Noon–1 pm.
See Friday, Nov. 4. HEALTH, NO-COST MAMMO-
GRAMS: Free. 2 pm. Grand Street Settlement Program [72 Columbia St. at Warren Street in Cobble Hill, (877) 628-9090].
HEALTH, NO-COST MAMMO-GRAMS: Free. 2 pm. Saint Gabriel’s Episcopal Church [331 Hawthorne St. between Nos-trand and New York avenues in Crown Heights, (877) 628-9090].
MUSIC, JAZZ, BLUES AND A FUNDRAISER: A fundraiser jazz concert to benefi t the Friends of Douglass Green Park. $20 ($11 for Facebook friends). 7 pm. The Marriott Hotel [181 Third Avenue at Douglass Street in Park Slope, (917) 868-5332], www.friendsof-douglassgreenepark.org.
THEATER, “ALICE, OR THE SCOT-TISH GRAVEDIGGERS”: 8 pm. See Friday, Nov. 4.
MUSIC, THE DO-OVERS WITH GIANT FLYING TURTLES AND SAM MCTAVEY: Free. 8 pm. Freddy’s Bar [627 Fifth Ave. be-tween 17th and 18th streets in Greenwood Heights, (718) 768-0131], www.freddysbar.com.
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Eatery celebrates anniversary with specials for youBy Camille Sperrazza
Long before big-chain coffee houses popped up at every corner in America, savy Brooklynites knew where to go for the best cup of coffee — the Cappuccino Cafe in Bay Ridge.
For 30 years, this cozy nook has served delicious, steaming cups of cappuccino, topped with sweet whipped cream. It’s been the place to go after a movie on date night, a place where you can linger over a cup of brew and enjoy one of the shop’s decadent desserts, such as a Belgian waffle or crepe.
Over the course of time, the Cappuccino Cafe has evolved into much more than a coffee shop. Today, it has a full menu of won-derful food, all reasonably priced. To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the Cappuccino Cafe is giving cus-tomers a present. For $7.95, every day from noon until 10 pm, cus-tomers can enjoy a three-course extravaganza that includes a cup of that great cappuccino, soda, bottled water, coffee, or tea, with an entree and dessert. It has to be the best deal in the borough.
Choose from several enticing entrees such as: the cafe club sand-wich — a triple decker of ham, cheese, turkey, bacon, lettuce and tomato, with French fries; the cafe burger — a cheeseburger topped with bacon, lettuce, tomato, pick-les, and onions, served with fries; the nanny — grilled chicken on nan bread, with basil and an olive spread, served with garden greens and raspberry vinaigrette; grilled chicken, served with a Caesar salad and fries; black and white quesadillas — turkey, ham, and Swiss, in a garlic herb tortilla;
Twist on BLT — chicken, bacon, garden greens, tomato, and honey Dijon dressing on a tortilla; or buffalo chicken wrap — breaded chicken fingers, served with hot sauce, blue cheese, lettuce, toma-toes, and celery on a flat tortilla.These are all full-size portions, so come hungry.
For dessert, choose between a scrumptious brownie or chocolate chip cookies. It really doesn’t get any better than this.
The shop has expanded the en-trees offered on its regular menu,
too. A personal favorite is the Med-iterranean salad, a mix of fresh ro-maine, peppers, goat cheese, and toasted walnuts, dressed with a balsamic vinaigrette. Add shrimp, steak, chicken, or salmon, and it’s a meal.
Likewise, the steak sandwich is served on what must be a half loaf of Italian bread, oozing with your choice of cheese, plus a pickle, lettuce, tomato, and a side of fries. It’s a feast, for $10.
The setting is as appealing as always. Brick walls are adorned with photos that provide snap-shots of Brooklyn happenings,
and include politicians such as Borough President Markowitz and Mayor Bloomberg. I like to sit at one of the tables in front of the huge glass wall that overlooks busy Third Avenue.
The restaurant is owned by John Keegan and Bobby Daquara, the same men who own the Green-house Cafe next door. In fact, the same catering menu offered there is available at the Cappuccino Cafe. Boutique weddings, show-ers, anniversary celebrations, and parties, for up to 65 guests, can be held here, all in a wonderful, inti-mate atmosphere.
The Cappuccino Cafe [7721 Third Ave. between 77th and 78th streets in Bay Ridge, (718) 238-8700] Open Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thurs-days, and Sundays, from 11 am to 11 pm; and on Fridays and Saturdays, from 11 am to 1 am. Free delivery. For more infor-mation, visit www.greenhouse-cafe.com/capcafe.php.
Photos by Steve Solomonson
Cappuccino Cafe waiter Charlie Salino serves up a delicious burger.
Regina, of Bay Ridge, enjoys a brownie — just one of the delectable desserts.
The Cappuccino Cafe in Bay Ridge is turning 30!
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THAT’S ALL, FOLKESBY ZACH BRAZILLER
As a driving snow pelted Canarsie’s football fi eld and created a thick white sheet where turf used to be, Lin-coln’s football team reveled in the poor conditions. The Railsplitters hadn’t played in such inclement weather since they were children.
“It was like when it snows on Christmas and your eyes light up,” Lincoln two-way lineman Armani Gordon said.
Christmas indeed, as the undefeated Railsplitters re-ceived plenty of gifts — fi ve Canarsie turnovers and two botched punts — in their surprisingly dominant 54–0 shutout of the high-powered Chiefs in Public School Ath-letic League City Champi-onship division football on Saturday afternoon.
Senior running back Kareem Folkes was the pri-mary recipient, running for a career-high of fi ve touch-downs, with four in the fi rst half, as Lincoln ran rough-shod over Canarsie. Folkes had no problem with the snow, scoring on runs of 70, 31, 30, 23 and 17 yards.
“I just had to take short, choppy steps at the line of scrimmage and when I got past the fi rst level I turned the jets on,” said Folkes, who ran for 175 yards on 13 carries and now leads the City Championship divi-sion in touchdowns with 19. “I just ran hard and pro-tected the ball. It was fun. I felt like a little kid.”
Canarsie coach Mike Camardese surmised, “He must’ve had snow shoes on.”
It certainly helped that Folkes was hardly touched on several of his big gains, a nod to the fi ne work done up front by the Gordon- and
Robert Kitching-led offen-sive line.
“We feel like it’s our job to get him where he needs to go,” Gordon said.
The Chiefs (6-2), mean-while, played like they were playing in cement. The de-fense missed tackles and was out of position on Fol-kes’ cutbacks. Quarterback Giovanni Alexis lost two fumbled snaps and threw an interception, Antonio Snell coughed up the game’s opening kickoff and tail-back Jordan Gillies lost a
backward toss from Alexis.“I’ve got a bunch of young
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Lincoln (8-0) never stopped – its defense didn’t allow a fi rst down the entire way — and when the game went fi nal, the Railsplit-ters didn’t want to leave the snow-covered fi eld. While Canarsie sprinted to its locker room, Lincoln soaked
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“It felt amazing,” Gor-don said. “Just playing in some is a different feeling. You see snow and you want to run and jump in it.”
It was clear the Coney Island school was comfort-able despite the inclement weather early on, and Ca-narsie wasn’t. When Folkes scored his second touch-down, he hopped in the air and sat in the snow. The Chiefs, on the other hand, struggled to hold onto the ball, let alone gain positive yardage.
It was another impres-sive win for last year’s run-ner-up, which, despite grad-uating a host of seniors, is the lone undefeated team left in the City Championship division. Some questioned Lincoln after it dispatched a host of weak opponents in lopsided fashion over the season’s fi rst six weeks. But now, after treating play-off contenders Sheepshead Bay and Canarsie the same way, outscoring them by a combined 90–14, there isn’t much to doubt.
“If we keep working hard, we’re capable of some-thing special,” Folkes said. “We’re just hungry for a championship.”
The two wins were also vastly different. Lincoln beat Sheepshead Bay with its speed and vertical pass-ing attack while its power was on display on Satur-day.
“It shows we’re a good football [team] that is bal-anced,” Lincoln coach Shawn O’Connor said. “We’re getting better.”
That’s a scary thought for the rest of the PSAL – particularly if it snows in the playoffs.
Saturday’s snowfall was an early Christmas present for Lincoln, as running back Kareem Folkes scored fi ve touchdowns against the Canarsie Chiefs. Photo by An Rong Xu
Fontbonne takes Cleveland tourney
BY MARC RAIMONDIA loss to Archbishop
Molloy in the Catholic High School Athletics Association Brooklyn-Queens Division I semifi -nals on Thursday would have normally ended Fontbonne Hall’s sea-son. Instead, coach Linda Strong gave her players a choice. The Bonnies were already booked in the Gro-ver Cleveland tournament two days later, but had the option of backing out.
The players were not ready to start their offsea-son.
“They were like, ‘Yes!’ ” Strong said when she asked them if they still wanted to play. “I said, ‘OK, that’s the answer I wanted you to say.’ ”
Fontbonne Hall had an even better response on
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“I said to them, just have fun and play,” Strong said.
Lauren Ganun had 10 kills and two blocks, Val-erie Good had eight kills, Mary Kate Nestor had fi ve digs, Kristen Sullivan had six kills and Siobhan Sammon had seven digs and four aces in the cham-pionship match.
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Fontbonne Hall’s Katie Lang led her squad to victory at a tourna-ment in Cleveland, OH. Photo by Denis Gostev
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Our pigskin Prokofi ev hit all the right notes this week, going 6-6-1 to improve her overall standing to a harmonious 58-50-6, and nailing her Kryptonite Lock of the Week with the detached precision of a Dutch mathematician. Still, it’s been a bittersweet symphony. Every night for the past fi ve days, Ida has been spied walking with great purpose along Batchelder Street, holding a yellowed envelope in her left hand and an overstuffed plastic bag from the Silver Star meat market in the other. Each time as she approaches Avenue X, at precisely 10:44 pm, she opens the envelope, extracts a tattered missive, reads it — and emits a sonorous wail.Those who know Eisenstein best say they can only recall similar behavior after the 1989 season, when Steve Largent retired from her beloved Seattle Seahawks. But why now? Asked about her doleful turn, Eisenstein would reveal little, except her inspiration of the week, cour-tesy of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami: “Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.”
IDA’S PICKS:Falcons (-9), Saints (-7.5), Texans (-10.5), Chiefs (-5.5), Raiders (-8), Ben-gals (+3), Rams (+4.5), Packers (-5.5) Steelers (-3.5), Eagles (-6.5).IDA’S BREAKOUTS:Jets (+1.5) over Bills: “Because they’re the Jets.”GIANTS (+9) OVER PATRIOTS: “The Giants are not that bad a team.”49ERS (-3.5) OVER REDSKINS: “The 49ers haven’t played like this in a long time.”IDA’S KRYPTONITE LOCK OF THE WEEK:Seahawks (+12.5) over Cowboys: “I don’t think the Cowboys will beat them by 12 and a half points. Twelve, maybe, but not 12 and a half.”SEASON RECORD: 58-50-6; 6-2 on Kryptonite Lock of the Week.
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BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKITushaun Plummer ran
through the list of things he can do on the football fi eld.
“I can throw the ball a little bit, run the ball, I can catch the ball, do the whole blocking. I could be the holder,” the Xaverian senior said. “I’m going to do it to perfection.”
His description wasn’t far off.
Plummer did a little of everything in Xaverian’s impressive and important 41–21 win over Chaminade in a Catholic High School Football League Class AAA game at Kings Bay on Fri-day night.
He scored four touch-downs, all in the fi rst half. Plummer caught 13 passes from Zach Kearney, scored on an 11-yard reverse and even scooped up a fumble and ran it 35 yards back to help the X-Men take a com-manding 41-0 lead into the half.
“[Tushaun] is the most unselfi sh kid you could possibly imagine,” Xaver-ian coach Joe DeSiena said. “He is playing edge receiver when he could have been the starting running back for the last three seasons. He will do anything we need him to do to win and do it at an all-city and all-league level.”
Plummer added: “I didn’t know I was going to start out that well. Every-thing just came my way. I just took it and ran with it.”
He fi nished what Laray Smith started. The Clippers (6-2, 5-2), ranked fi rst in the city by The New York Post, and talked all week about making a statement in ex-plosive fashion knowing a win earned them a home playoff game and meant possibly avoiding top-seeded St. Anthony’s until the fi nal. The junior run-ning back took Xaverian’s fi rst play from scrimmage 80 yards for a touchdown.
“When they called that play I was just thinking end zone,” Smith said. “We had to set a tone.”
The hole up the middle closed, so Smith bounced it out wide and outran the
Xaverian’s Tushaun Plummer was responsible for the Clippers 41 -point fi rst-half lead versus Chaminade. Photo by Denis Gostev
X-Men rout Chaminade
Xaverian’s Eric Kalman — here with coach Frank Del George — is head-ing to George Washington University. Photo by Denis Gostev
Clipper Kalman going to George Washington U.BY ZACH BRAZILLER
Eric Kalman, Xaver-ian’s well-rounded third baseman, visited George Washington University in late August. He felt com-fortable with the coaching staff, notably head coach Steve Mrowka and assis-tant Tim Brown, the pro-gram’s players, and was enthralled with the pictur-esque Washington cam-pus.
A little over a month later, the senior was offi -cially a Colonial.
“All around, it was the best choice for me,” Kal-man told The New York Post. “The depth chart is open for me to play right away. Academically it’s very good, it’s one of the top schools in the country and when I went down on my of-fi cial visit, the campus was beautiful.”
Kalman chose GW over offers from Fordham, Sa-cred Heart and Rider. The Colonials began recruiting Kalman during the spring and saw him perform in a win over Archbishop Mol-loy when he made a few ex-ceptional plays in the fi eld. He’s hit in the middle of the Clippers’ high-powered batting order the last two years, has been among the program’s leading base stealers, and was leading last year’s city champion in RBIs’ before sustaining a hamstring injury.
“The feeling I got from them and the relationship
I built with them over the recruiting process was a big thing,” the 17-year-old Coney Island native said. “They have my best inter-est in mind.”
Kalman played third base for Xaverian and was a shortstop over the sum-mer for the Richmond County Baseball Club, but George Washington may use him at both spots and second base, too. They like his versatility, Xaverian as-sociate head coach Frank Del George said.
Del George described George Washington and Kalman as a “perfect fi t” for eachother.
“I think he can handle that level pretty good,” Del George said. “The coaches at George Washington think he can step in and do well offensively. For a kid his age, he’s very mature, hitting-wise. He knows how to hit, he’s very confi -dent in himself, he can hit a breaking ball, he hits to all fi elds.”
Kalman has always wanted to play college base-ball and now he has a Divi-sion I scholarship. George Washington’s program has produced MLB draft picks each of the last 12 years and the Atlantic 10 is a strong Northeast conference.
“To commit early and not have to wait all the way through my senior year, it’s a load off my shoulders. It’s a very comfortable feeling, said Kalman.
Versatile Plummer scores four times to lead ClippersChaminade defense to pay dirt. He rushed for 188 yards and two touchdowns on just six carries while Kearney added 178 yards of total offense and two scor-ing strikes.
“We had to prove a point,” he said. “We really want a home game [next week] ... We wanted to blow that score-board up, and we did.”
Plummer scored the next four touchdowns, which in-cluded running a fumbled pitch back a play after scor-ing on a 13-yard pass to help give Xaverian a 27–0 lead after one quarter. Smith closed the half with a 6-yard scoring run. The Xaverian defense, led by linemen Joe Magnavita, Ryan Gordon and Rocky Iannocone, was again superb.
“This defense has been as good as any we have been around in blue and gold,” DeSiena said.
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BY THOMAS TRACYThe New Jersey Outlaws stole
the thunder of our beloved Brook-lyn Aviators Saturday night when the greatest hockey team in the world dropped its home opener to the hated squad from the Garden State, 7–4.
The Outlaws, which pilfered veteran center John Goffredo and Matthew Puntureri from our Brooks in the off-season, came out shooting, scoring four fi rst-period goals at the Hanger inside Floyd Bennett Field’s Aviator Sports and Events Center, causing a se-rious case of whiplash in Aviator goalie Tommy “Big Stick” Lee, and knocking the wind out of the more then 200 on hand to welcome in the new season.
The outburst proved too much for the Aviators, whom coach Bob Miller said got outplayed by a squad loaded with seasoned tal-ent.
“[The Outlaws] have about seven veteran guys,” Miller said. “They capitalized on our mis-takes. That’s what players who have spent time in the higher leagues do.”
Aviator right winger Chris Jones got his team on the board be-fore the fi rst buzzer sounded, but the Outlaws had already set the pace — and by the time the period came to a close, about a third of the audience, which had trudged
through the fi rst October snowfall in nine years to watch the Avia-tors skate at home, trudged back out to head to their homes.
Both teams scored again dur-ing the second period, but the Out-laws circled their wagons in the third, when they netted two more. Center Jesse Felton and right
winger Anthony Monte managed to double the Aviators’ score dur-ing garbage time.
The loss came after a tortur-ous season-opening two-game road trip where the Aviators won one and lost one in overtime while traveling 800 miles from Brook-lyn to Lewiston, Me., on to Hyan-
nis, Ma., and back home again.The squad kicked off the sea-
son last Thursday with a 3–2 vic-tory over the abhorred Akwesasne Warriors, the team that snatched the coveted Commissioner’s Cup from the Aviators comfy fi rst-class seats in fi nals last year. But they got squished by the fi sh the
following night, with an overtime 3–2 loss to the Cape Cod Bluefi ns on the other side of the Borne Bridge.
The high-powered Outlaws, which joined the Federal Hockey League this year and are coached by Chris Firriolo, who was the chief of the now-defunct Brooklyn Aces, are off to a 2-1 start, having scored a whopping 16 goals. Cur-rently, four of the Federal Hockey League’s top-10 scorers are on the Outlaws’ roster. The Aviators have no one in the top-10.
But Miller said he’s still opti-mistic about the season.
“We have 50 games left,” he said, noting that the squad made it to the fi nals last year after start-ing the season 0-3. “I’m not wor-ried.”
But Brooklyn fans, long-known for their win-now-at-all-costs ethos, may not be as patient.
“It’s disappointing to see a home opener go down like that,” said Coney Island resident Dmitry Kristal. “We expected much bet-ter.”
The Brooklyn Aviators will be back home to play the Cape Cod Bluefi ns at Aviator Sports [3159 Flatbush Ave. in Floyd Bennett Field in Marine Park, (718) 758-7580] on Nov. 5 at 7:05 pm. Tickets $12 ($10 for seniors and children under 14). For information visit www.brooklynaviators.com.
Hijacked! Outlaws steal opener Aviators come up short at home after splitting two on the road
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Starace. The 5-foot-6 outside hitter, who switched from libero this year, got better as the season progressed — she was also used as an un-dersized middle — and also had eight kills and six digs in a 20–25, 25–12, 25–20 win over host Cleveland in the semis Saturday.
“Victoria, even I’m scared of you now,” Strong
told her with a laugh.Lang had 24 assists
in the semis, Ganun had 12 kills and three blocks, Nestor had six digs and fi ve aces and Good had fi ve kills. Sammon had seven digs and Sullivan added fi ve of them.
In the other semifi nal, Francis Lewis beat Bronx Science in three sets. Lisa Camargo was selected to the all-tournament team from the Patriots, who fi n-ished fi rst in their pool in front of Cleveland by
one point, splitting with the Tigers, 25–22, 23–25. Those teams were followed by Forest Hills and New Utrecht. Townsend Harris and Richmond Hill came in behind Fontbonne Hall and Bronx Science in the other pool.
Also making the all-tournament team were Bronx Science’s Mary Platt, Cleveland’s Caro-lina Alfonso Reyes, New Utrecht Siqe Xu, Richmond Hill’s Helen Armijo, Nicole Lopilato of Townsend Har-
ris and Imani Frances of Forest Hills.
All those teams will go on to compete in Public School Athletics League play, mostly in postseason. But that is all for this sea-son for Fontbonne and a se-nior group that helped take the Bonnies to new heights in Catholic High School Athletics Association.
“It was an all-around good day and it ended on a happy note,” Strong said. “It was really a good sea-son.”
The Flyers (5-3, 4-3) fi rst touchdown came when Joe Anile connected with Thomas Zenker for a diving grab on a 16-yard scoring pass on the opening drive of the third quarter. Matthew Correa had a scoring run of three yards and Tim Muller had a 16-yard touchdown run in the closing seconds. Correa was Chaminade’s
leading rusher with eight carries for 37 yards.
Xaverian, which has only lost to Holy Cross and St. Anthony’s, can now sit and wait to see how the league’s power points work out and fi nd out who its fi rst-round opponent will be.
“If we wanted to set our-selves up to win a champi-onship, it had to be done to-night,” DeSiena said. “It had to be an explosion. These guys, they were set on send-ing a message again. They want to explode.”
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