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Democrats sent conflicting messages with their votes in the all-important primary in four key City Council districts in Brownstone Brooklyn on Tuesday, backing incumbents Letitia James (D–Fort Greene) and Diana Reyna (D–Bushwick), and anointing political outsider Brad Lander in a hotly contested race in Park Slope while choosing a party insider, Steve Levin, in another open-seat race for a Williamsburg–Brooklyn Heights district. Here are the results that everyone’s talking about:

33RD DISTRICTGreenpoint, Williamsburg, DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights,

Downtown & parts of Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill and Park Slope

Steve Levin: 5,199 (33.7%)Jo Anne Simon: 3,109 (20.2%)Isaac Abraham: 1,937 (12.56%)Evan Thies: 1,915 (12.4%)Ken Diamondstone: 1,324 (8.6%)Ken Baer 811 (5.3%) Levin, the hand-picked candidate of the county Democratic Party leader Vito Lopez, spoke to our reporter Ben Muessig outside Lo-pez’s clubhouse, the Bushwick Council of the Knights of Co-lumbus at Wyckoff Avenue and Grove Street. The clubhouse is actually in the 34th District, which Lo-pez-backed candidate Maritza Davila appears to have nar-rowly lost to former Lopez-staffer Diana Reyna (D–Williamsburg). That added a slight tinge of disappointment to the air, especially among staffers sporting

39TH DISTRICTPark Slope, Windsor Terrace, Kensington

and parts of Carroll Gardens, Gowanus and Cobble Hill

Brad Lander: 5,129 (41.1%)Josh Skaller: 3,180 (25.5%)John Heyer: 2,753 (22.1%)Bob Zuckerman: 930 (7.5%)Gary Reilly: 472 (3.8%) Lander, an affordable housing developer best known for his work leading the Fifth Avenue Committee and the Pratt Center for Commu-nity Development, dominated his four Dem-

ocratic rivals, winning all but one polling location outside the heavily Orthodox Jewish, and largely conservative, Borough Park portion of the district. In that neighborhood, Heyer, who ran on a message of school vouchers and an op-position to gay marriage and

abortion, crushed all his rivals, winning 74 per-cent of the vote to Lander’s 13. But those conservative votes were a tiny frac-

By Ben MuessigThe Brooklyn Paper

Hate and profanity filled the skies over Down-town Brooklyn on Wednesday when an anony-mous pamphleteer threw hundreds of copies of an obscene, anti-Obama poem from the top of a building in the Metrotech office complex. The graphic verse, titled “F— YOU OBAMA!!” cursed the president — literally — for his “American hating wife,” his “Ameri-can hating life,” the “isms” of his teachers, the “hatred” of his preachers, the books he reads, and the “liberal blood” he bleeds, among other things. Photocopies of the profane prose, which in-cludes the word “f—” 29 times in its 42 lines, fluttered to the ground at around noon — and witnesses first reported that a lone poet hurled the rhyme from the roof of The Brooklyner, a 52-story tower under construction on Law-rence Street between Willoughby Street and Myrtle Avenue. “The pamphlets came off the roof of 111 Lawrence St.,” said Peter Coyne, director of public safety for the Metrotech Business Im-provement District. “I would say it’s a con-

Anti-Obama fl iers tossed from tower

Someone threw thousands of virulantly anti-Obama fliers (circled) off a skyscraper in Down-town on Wednesday afternoon. The redacted text (inset) shows just how hateful it was.

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By Lysandra Ohrstromfor The Brooklyn Paper

Wake up, Williamsburg! While you were sleeping last Saturday morning there were real live Mormons clean-ing up McCarren Park. More than 100 19- to 30-year-old Mormons from across the tri-state area woke up at 7 am, prayed, and trekked to Greenpoint to pick up trash and rake leaves as part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ annual com-munity service day for young singles. Most of the stubbly, pierced, carefully disheveled masses woke up well after their Mormon cohorts left at 12:30 pm, and few of those who were awake ventured out in the gloomy weather last Saturday to notice the interlaced-hands logo on the volunteers’ yellow-mesh jerseys. Jessica Weinschenk and her boyfriend Justin Urra, 24, woke up at 3 pm and were shocked to learn that Mormons had briefly descended on their neigh-borhood. “Really? Mormons?” asked 22-year-old Jessica Weinschenk. “I guess it’s not that weird because religious peo-ple do stuff like that. And hey, it’s cool if someone wants to clean our park for

since high school. Urra has never done community service and even chose to go to jail rather than do a court-man-dated subway cleanup. “I threw my bike through some guy’s window who hit me and they ordered me to clean-up the Houston Street station. I got the date, and went there, and some guy handed me cleaning stuff,” he said.

us. But why Williamsburg?” Though it’s tempting to think that the Mormons chose Williamsburg be-cause it is packed with aimless, Godless, young people crying out for conversion, the Church chose this particular park because the Parks Department identi-fied it as the most in need of mainte-nance of any in the five boroughs. The act of largesse confused Wein-schenk, who said she had not volunteered

Latter-day Saints clean up Hipster MeccaMilton Zinn, Mormon Name, affiliation Justin Urra, hipster

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Cadet at West Point Job “Nothing. I shop. Really. I’m always falling ass-backwards into money. I’ll sell a bike fender or someone dies and leaves me money.”

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Special feature Tattoo on chest reading, “All we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

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prayed for a good 10 minutes; and hit the rack

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What did you do Friday night?

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“A cinnamon bagel twist, a glazed donut, and some orange juice from Dunkin’

Donuts.”

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“We didn’t wake up until 3 pm.”

GOOD MORMON TO YOU! A few dozen members of the Church of Latter Day Saints cleaned up the heart of Hipsterville on Saturday, naturally inviting our first-ever “Mormon vs. Hipster” smackdown.

Mormons fanned through McCarren Park at 7 am last Saturday to clean up. We managed to capture it on film!

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By Gersh KuntzmanThe Brooklyn Paper

Enjoy the new renderings of the Barclays Center while you can — because if the economy gets back on track, the look of the rippling steel building will be altered radi-cally to include new buildings, in-cluding one atop the arena’s sig-nature entrance way. That was the main bit of news from Monday night’s presentation by the architecture team behind developer Bruce Ratner’s proposed basketball arena at the intersec-tion of Flatbush and Atlantic av-enues. Before a crowd of nearly 150 architecture and urban planning professionals, Bill Crockett of the large Midwestern firm Ellerbe Becket, and Gregg Pasquarelli of the Manhattan firm, SHoP Architects, which joined the de-sign team in June to diffuse out-rage over the firing of original de-signer Frank Gehry , presented the

night was the explanation that the freshly drafted design would be radically altered to make room for the so-called Miss Brooklyn tower, officially building B-1, that would stand at the actual intersection of the busy avenues. Gehry had designed that tower to be an iconic gateway to the rest of the project, fronted by a 10-story, glass-walled “Urban Room” that would function both as a public atrium, a route to the subway sta-tions below and an entrance to the arena. In the current design scheme, that area is an open plaza below a canopy (the bill of the baseball cap, if you will) with a large hole cut into it. But if building B-1 is ever built, the canopy, which Pasquarelli had called a “grand urban ges-ture,” would likely be removed, he said. And on the Dean Street and Sixth Avenue sides of the build-ing, the designers’ current ren-dering features open plazas that would also give way to tall towers if the economy improves and Rat-ner achieves his current vision of a basketball arena flanked by four mostly residential buildings. Phase 2 of the project, which includes the public open space, the vast majority of the below-market-rate housing, and other public ben-efits is currently off the table until the economy further improves. Other details emerged from the session: • Of the limited retail space on the ground floor of the arena, the largest space is reserved for a team store on Flatbush Avenue. • Basketball fans will still be able to see the scoreboard from the street during games, a key Gehry design. • Advertising signage has been dramatically scaled back from Gehry’s scheme, which called for

jing, and asked what nickname they would give to their own de-sign. Neither even joked an answer, lest the name stick to a building that some have likened to a George Foreman grill, a baseball cap, a waffle iron, a deflated basketball and a clamshell. The biggest bombshell of the

design in greater detail than last week’s rendering release . One thing they didn’t say was what they call it. Both designers squirmed un-comfortably when moderator Rick Bell of the Center for Architecture mentioned other stadia around the world, such as the famed “Bird’s Nest” Olympic Stadium in Bei-

Architect: Arena will be altered for big towers

It looks nice now, but the design and context of Bruce Rat-ner’s basketball arena will change dramatically if he moves forward with other buildings.

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FIRE UP THE OVENConey institution Totonno’s to reopenBy Ben MuessigThe Brooklyn Paper

Toton-YES! One of the world’s greatest pizzerias, Toton-no’s in Coney Island, will reopen next month — seven months after a devastating fire closed the pie paradise. The good news was first reported by Slice, the seminal pizza blog , but was confirmed this week by The Brooklyn Paper. “Sometime in October is the target date,” said J.D. Strauss, manager of the Upper East Side branch of the acclaimed pizzeria, which missed its first two such “targets” for reopening. It wasn’t all the fault of the pizzeria’s owners Law-

rence and Louise “Cookie” Ciminieri, who said the Mermaid Avenue restaurant was so badly damaged by the March fire that the structure couldn’t even support the weight of the celebrated coal-burning oven, one of the few of its kind in the city. “It would have been easier to just knock the place down and start over,” Ciminieri told the blog, “but we’re already in the middle of this [renovation] and just have to finish now.” Strauss said that pizza fans could enjoy To-tonno’s pies at both his Upper East Side branch as well as one on Second Avenue, a Manhattan boulevard. But pizza lovers know that it’s not the same as making a pilgrimage to the original, 104-year-old pie shop.

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90TH PRECINCTWilliamsburg–Bushwick

A thief swiped stuff from two apartments in the McKib-bin Street lofts during and af-ter a big house party on Sept. 12. In the other thief, the vic-tim told cops that he was host-ing the big, building-wide af-fair, which included three crashers. No one saw the crashers take anything, but at around 4 am, the party-thrower noticed that a laptop, an iPod and var-ious cards had been taken. But the thief wasn’t done. Sometime between 4:30 and 7 am, he struck another apart-ment in the building, which is between Bushwick Avenue and Siegel Court, taking a lap-top, various cards, and an iPod from an apartment shared by two women and one man in something of a “Three’s Com-pany” situation.

Baseball furies Two thugs pummelled a teenager with a baseball bat on the corner of Hooper and S. Second streets on Sept. 12 — but didn’t end up stealing anything. The teen told cops that he was standing on the corner at 9 pm when the two ne’er-do-wells approached. “Give me the Sidekick,” said one of the men, who then punched the victim. Dazed, the victim was then bashed over the head with the bat by the other thug. He was badly injured, but

the thieves fled without get-ting the popular phone.

Lapstop Burglars were running wild in the neighborhood last week. Here’s a round-up: • A thief broke into a Roe-bling Street apartment and swiped a woman’s laptop. The tenant told cops that she was not in the apartment, which is between Metropolitan Ave-nue and Fillmore Place, from 1 pm on Sept. 11 and 1 pm the next day, when she dis-covered the stolen Mac. • A Humboldt Street wo man lost her laptop to a thug who broke into her unit, between Scholes and Meserole streets between 8:30 am and 9 pm.

Bicycle thief A two-wheeling marauder swiped a woman’s purse early on Sept. 11 without even getting off his bike — but cops later caught up with their man. Police say that the 15-year-old bike-riding thief grabbed the purse while its owner, a 28-year-old woman, was near the corner of Judge and Powers streets at around 12:30 am. The bag contained a pass-port, a smartphone and $5. Details of the arrest were not provided.

12 buck beat A thief mugged and bat-tered a man after asking him for a few bucks near the cor-ner of Devoe and Leonard streets on Sept. 12. The victim told cops that he was near the intersection at around 6:25 am when man

lantic Avenue on Sept. 8. The perps grabbed the vic-tim’s Coach bag — which contained her credit card — at around 7:30 pm. — Ben Muessig

88TH PRECINCTFort Greene–Clinton Hill

Kindled! In what might be the first robbery of its kind, three muggers robbed a woman and stole her Kindle — a digital book-reading device — on Sept. 10. The perps confronted the victim near the corner of Lafayette Avenue and S. Oxford Street at around 10:45 pm and pulled out a knife. They got away with her iPhone, credit cards, ID, and the Kindle, which is making its first appearance in our po-lice blotter ever.

Cane pain For the second week in a row, crooks wielded a cane in a shocking mugging on Cler-mont Avenue on Sept. 7. The perps confronted the victim between Lafay-ette and DeKalb avenues at around 1:48 am at initially asked him for the time. “You got the time?” one of the crooks asked before de-manding the 29-year-old’s be-longings. “Run your pockets — give me what you got.” When the victim didn’t fork over his goods, the perps increased their threats. “Do you want me to beat you with this cane?” a crook asked. The victim handed over his black leather wallet, credit cards, IDs, iPod, and $38.

Target targeted A robber set his sights on Target on Atlantic Avenue, but a brave employee at the big box store scared him away on Sept. 13. The crook approached a cashier at around 5:53 pm, told the worker that he had a gun and ordered him to open the register. But the employee said no, and the perp fled from the store, which is near Flatbush Avenue. The attempted robbery comes just one week after a crook successfully heisted $1,300 from the shop.

MyPhone Cops nabbed a 17-year-old suspected of snatching an iPhone from a pedestri-an’s hand on Sept. 13. The perp allegedly grabbed the phone on Waverly Ave-nue between Myrtle and Park avenues at around 12:20 pm and dashed away, but didn’t get far. Cops locked up a perp five blocks away at the cor-ner of Park Avenue and Steu-ben Street.

Robber nabbed Police cuffed a 17-year-old suspected of sticking-up a 24-year-old for his phone on Sept. 13. The mugger allegedly confronted the victim near the corner of DeKalb Ave-nue and South Portland Av-enue at around 4:13 am and demanded his cash. “Give me your money,” the thug demanded, threatening to strike the victim. The victim handed over his phone, but cops locked up a perp later that morning.

Friends like … A Lafayette Avenue resi-dent left a friend in his apart-ment when he went to work on Sept. 4 — but when he got home, the apartment had been cleaned out. The 40-year-old victim left his pal in his home, which is between S. Portland Avenue and S. Oxford Street between 9 am and 1:30 pm. When the victim returned, his friend was gone — and so was his Sony laptop, digital camera, Motorola Bluetooth receiver, Nike sneakers, and T-Mobile Sidekick cellphone.

Clean getaway A crook heisted a 42-year-old woman’s bag from a Put-nam Avenue Laundromat on Sept. 12. The thief snatched the un-attended purse from a laun-dry basket between 3:45 pm and 5:15 pm and fled from the business, which is near the corner of Fulton Street. The bandit escaped from the shop with the victim’s wallet, which contained credit cards and IDs.

$3 folly A mugger demanded that a 67-year-old hand over $3 on Sept. 10 — and when he didn’t, the crook punched him in the mouth. The perp trailed the victim for nearly two blocks before de-manding the cash near the cor-ner of Lefferts and St. James places at around 5 pm. “Give me $3,” the crook demanded. The victim refused and the crook slugged him in the face and dashed away.

Footprint felon A burglar heisted a Dell laptop from a Waverly Ave-nue apartment overnight on Sept. 8, but he left his foot-print behind. The thief got into the third-floor residence, which is be-tween Myrtle and Willoughby avenues, and left his footprint on a pillow in a bedroom with fire escape access at some time between 1:30 pm and 2:30 am the following morning.

Apple jacked! Thieves heisted a Mac lap-top and an iPod from a Waverly Place apartment on Sept. 8. The crooks got into the apartment between 8:10 pm and 10:45 pm while the res-ident was out to dinner with friends. The 39-year-old victim might have left the door of his apartment, which is be-tween Myrtle and Willoughby avenues, unlocked. — Ben Muessig

78TH PRECINCTPark Slope

Subway snatch A teenager snatched a straphanger’s wallet as she waited to swipe through the turnstile at the F train station at Eighth Avenue and Ninth Street on Sept. 10. With subway riders pa-tiently queuing up at the turnstile during the morn-ing rush, as 16-year-old boy ran down one flight of steps, rushed through the mezza-nine level, grabbed a wom-an’s wallet and then fled up the opposite flight, knocking down another subway rider in the process. The woman who’s wallet was grabbed gave chase, but

did not catch the swift assail-ant, who got away with vari-ous cards and $5. “I was directly behind the poor woman who was mugged and I was knocked down as a result,” the other victim posted on the popular Park Slope Par-ents Web site. “Out of nowhere, this young kid runs between my-self and the woman in front of me and takes the wallet right out of her hand. In his haste, he pushed me out of his way and I fell.” “I am shocked at the audac-ity” of the thug, the woman added.

Gun scare Two thugs flashed a hand-gun, but didn’t take anything during an attempted mugging late on Sept. 11. The would-be victim told cops that he was on Third Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues at around 11:40 pm when he felt a pres-ence behind him. He turned around to find himself staring down the bar-rel of a pistol. “Give me everything you’ve got,” the gunman said. “Don’t try to run.” Despite the warning, the man did run away, fleeing the scene and the hapless muggers.

Gym rat Yet another gym member had his locker broken into at the New York Sports Club on Ninth Street on Sept. 10. The workout fiend told cops that he had been ex-ercising in the gym, which is at Fifth Avenue, between noon and 1:15 pm, when he returned to the changing room to find that credit cards had been taken from his once-se-cure locker. Three purchases had been made before the cards were cancelled.

Break-in central At least four homes were busted into by thieves last week. Here’s a round-up: • A thief kicked in the rear basement window of a house on Ninth Street be-tween Eighth Avenue and Prospect Park West and took $6,500 in power tools. The victim told cops that the house was being worked on, giving the thief easier access between 6 pm on Sept. 5 un-til the crime was discovered at 8 am on Sept. 8. • A Union Street man re-turned home on Sept. 8 to find that a thief had busted through his apartment door and stolen his iPod. The vic-tim told cops that he was out of the unit, which is between Sixth and Seventh avenues, from 9:30 am until 7 pm. • More than $20,000 in jew-elry was swiped from a Presi-dent Street apartment on Sept. 10. The tenant in the apartment, which is between Fourth and Fifth avenues, told cops that she was not home from 1 pm until 11 pm, when she returned to discover that hundreds of pieces had been taken. • Nearly $20,000 in high-tech electronic toys were taken from an apartment on Ninth Street between Second and Third avenues in a one-hour blitz on Sept. 13. The victim told cops that he was not in the apartment between 8:30 and 9:40 pm, when he returned to discover that a veritable electronics store had been taken. — Gersh Kuntzman

68TH PRECINCTBay Ridge

Chain gangster A thug grabbed the gold chain right off a woman’s neck on 72nd Street during a daring daytime theft on Sept. 7. The victim told cops that she was between Fourth and Fifth avenues at around 1:40 pm when the thief crept up behind her, yanked at the gold chain and ran off with it.

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approached and said, “Give me $12 or I’m going to shoot you.” The thief did not display a gun, and the would-be victim declined to provide the cash. That’s when the thug — who cops said has a tattoo depicting three raindrops — pummeled the man, knocking him to the ground and taking his wallet, which contained a lot more than $12. The thief fled with $140 — and the victim ended up in Woodhull Hospital.

Man without van A car thief stole a min-ivan off Lorimer Street on Sept. 11. The owner told cops that he had parked the Toyota Sienna van — a popular model in the Hasidic section of Williams-burg — between Marcy and Lee avenues at around 12:30 pm. — Sabrina Jaszi

84TH PRECINCTBrooklyn Heights–DUMBO Boerum Hill–Downtown

4 crooks, $5 A gang of four held up a 28-year-old in a Livingston Street parking lot on Sept. 8. One of the perps ap-proached the victim at around 4:30 pm and told him, “Run

your pockets” inside the ga-rage, which is near the cor-ner of Hanover Place. When he refused, the thugs started punching the victim in the face and body. The victim fell to the ground and tried to scramble away from his assailants, but two other thugs caught up to him and began pummeling him, leaving the victim with bruises to his lip and forearm, police reports indicated. The thieves got $5.

Chase case A would-be bank robber failed to hold up the Chase bank at the corner of Fulton Street and DeKalb Avenue on Sept. 9. The crook approached a teller at around 8:55 am and handed the employee a message scrawled on a withdrawal slip: “Give me all the money.” The teller declined and handed the slip back to the perp, who then fled.$10 and the crook fled.

Stroller rollers Thieves targeted strollers this week, heisting valuables from at least two unattended baby carriages. Here are the horrifying details: • A crook snatched a 22-year-old woman’s wal-let from a stroller on Sept. 11 as she shopped in a Ful-ton Mall department store. The perp grabbed the victim’s black leather Nine West wallet — containing her credit cards, IDs, and pho-tos — from a pouch in the back of the carriage between 10 am and 10:40 am inside Cookie’s, which is near the corner of Flatbush Avenue. • A thief snatched a wom-an’s wallet from a stroller as she shopped on Montague Street on Sept. 13. The crook struck between 3:30 pm and 4 pm and escaped from the block between Court and Clinton streets with the 44-year-old victim’s credit cards and IDs.

Mac attack A burglar heisted Mac electronics and work docu-ments from a Warren Street apartment. The thief broke in be-tween 12:30 am on Sept. 9 and 8:30 am the following day and heisted the 32-year-old victim’s MacBook Pro, iPhone, bag, ID, and docu-ments before escaping from the residence, which is near the corner of Court Street.

Blocked! Crooks stole tires and wheels from a Honda Fit between 9 pm on Sept. 6 at and 6 pm on Sept. 7. The thieves heisted the components — valued at $2,000 — from the orange sedan, which was parked on Pacific St. between Nevins Street and Third Avenue. It must be easy to lift the light vehicle, as this is the third such crime in as many months against the same fuel-sipping Honda.

Pocket-took! Three thieves heisted a woman’s pocketbook at the corner of Bond Street and At-

Police believe that the thief followed the woman from a nearby ATM.

Lexus looting A thief broke into a Lexus parked on 84th Street on Sept. 7 and took a purse that had been left inside. A 42-year-old woman said that she had parked the car at about 1 pm near Ridge Bou-levard and returned to the car about 45 minutes later to dis-cover the dastardly crime. The purse had contained credit cards, an iPhone and Prada sunglasses.

Home raids Two burglaries bookended the week. Here’s the details: • Someone broke in through the back window of a Bay Ridge Avenue apartment on Sept. 3, helping himself to an engagement ring, two video game consoles and $1,500 in coins. The 36-year-old homeowner told police that she returned home at 5 pm and a neighbor told her that a man claiming to work for the cable company had asked for access to the fire escape earlier that day. • On Sept. 12, someone swiped $12,000 in jewelry from a home on 71st Street near 13th Avenue. Police said that the thief entered by squirming through a rear window between 6:30 pm and 11 pm and took a di-amond engagement, a brace-let, a watch and three dia-mond crosses. — Thomas Tracy

94TH PRECINCTGreenpoint–Williamsburg

Not chill Two thugs, one of them armed with a gun, stole a Sidekick and a wallet from a man in the Bedford Avenue L-train station on Sept. 10. The victim was going down the stairs at around 3:25 pm when the first goon came up and started jostling his pock-ets as though he were look-ing for change. “What’s that?” the thug asked. The victim told him to “Chill,” but the goon’s accom-plice responded by lifting his shirt to reveal a handgun. “You don’t want to get shot over nothing?” he threatened before he and his partner in crime forced the victim to the ground and took the phone and cash.

Came in threes Three thugs, one with a gun, robbed and beat a woman, tak-ing her for her iPod, cell phone, cards and cash on Sept. 11. The woman was near the corner of N. 10th Street and Wythe Avenue at 11:05 pm when the terrible trio ap-proached. One man pulled a black and silver handgun and said, “Give me your purse.” The woman and her boy-friend tried to run, but the gunman bashed the woman three times in the head, and ran off with her valuables.

Fake out A middle-aged man swiped a woman’s purse near the cor-ner of Kent Avenue and N. Eighth Street on Sept 11. The victim was passing the corner at around 2 am when a man in his late 40s walked past her, then doubled back to snatch her handbag. He got cash and cards.

Shutterbugged A thief broke into a car that had been parked un-der the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway in the heart of hip, happening Williamsburg and stole a camera. The man told cops that he had parked the car near Meeker and Union avenues at noon on Sept. 10 and returned 10 hours later to find a broken side win-dow and the camera gone. — Sabrina Jaszi

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A city panel rubber-stamped a $20-million federal stimulus bailout for a stalled Downtown development on Tuesday, push-ing ahead plans for a mall, res-idential units and office space where the Albee Square shop-ping center once stood. Supporters have long touted the need for affordable housing and job creation that the ailing CityPoint tower on the Fulton Mall near Flatbush Avenue Ex-tension project would provide, while opponents chided the for-profit developer for mak-ing a bad investment when it bought the land for $125 mil-lion from Coney Island devel-oper Joe Sitt, who had pur-chased it for just $25 million six years earlier. “This is a straight-up Bloom berg bailout of de-velopers who speculated and made poor financial de-cisions,” said John Tyus, a member of Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, echoing a recent Brooklyn Paper editorial. “CityPoint developers chose to pay an astronomi-cal price for the land,” added Tyus, whose organization has battled against the CityPoint development since merchants of the Albee Square Mall were evicted from their busi-

nesses to make room for the project. “Now they’re in trou-ble, but that’s not our respon-sibility. Their poor choices do not merit a bailout.” Other bailout foes claim that the jobs created by the de-velopment wouldn’t be good ones, that neighborhood mer-chants might suffer from the arrival of national retailers, that the affordable housing won’t be affordable enough for low-income residents of the neighborhood, and that the money would be better spent elsewhere. The struggling proj-ect once called for the tall-

est building in the borough with a mix of luxury units and affordable housing, but now needs the loan in order to get off the ground, accord-ing to Seth Pinsky, president of the city’s Economic De-velopment Corporation. According to Pinsky, the tax-free bonds will cost the city about $308,000 in tax revenues over 30 years — a cost that is well worth the ben-efit of $340,000 in construc-tion-related tax revenues, $5.7 million in tax revenue from “ongoing operations,” as well as the creation of 100 con-struction jobs and nearly 70

permanent retail jobs in the portion of the project funded by the stimulus dollars. “A relatively small amount of foregone city tax revenue will … jumpstart larger de-velopment projects that will bring affordable housing, re-tail, and other amenities to neighborhoods that have long been underserved,” he said. The current plan for City-Point — which last year sought a $400 million tax free loan — would use the tax-exempt bonds for the construction of a four-story, 63-foot tall, retail development that could begin construction in March 2010.

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Prospect Heights, long seen as the ne’er-do-well sister of Park Slope, is about to become the city’s 97th his-toric district. The City Council’s land-use commit-tee unanimously approved the designa-tion last week, and the full legislature was poised to rubber-stamp the vote on Thursday, formally creating the fifth-largest landmark district in the city. “[The designation] of Prospect Heights, an architecturally diverse and human-scaled neighborhood is much deserved, and needed now more than ever due to development pressures,” said Councilwoman Letitia James (D–Fort Greene). The historic zone to the north of ton-ier Park Slope is roughly bounded by Atlantic Avenue, Eastern Parkway, Flat-bush Avenue and Washington Avenue, and comprises 850 buildings, many con-structed between the mid-19th century and early 20th. Landmarks Preservation Commis-sion Chairman Robert Tierney spoke glowingly about the neighborhood’s “architectural integrity and diversity, scale, tree-lined streets and residential character.”

Prospect Heights gets landmark status

By Sabrina Jaszifor The Brooklyn Paper

It was a hot Saturday night at Down-town’s popular Court Street multiplex, where the second popcorn machine fire in six weeks shut down date night screen-ings and sent hundreds of moviegoers out into the rain.

Just as in the Aug. 4 blaze, no one was seriously injured, and the fire started in a popcorn maker — though not the same one as the first time, a manager of the Court Street Cinemas said. Flooding from sprinklers caused some minor damage, but the movie house was open for business by Monday, with a line

down the block filled with patrons hoping to see the ubiquitous Tyler Perry’s new film, “I Can Do Bad All By Myself.” A spokesman for Regal Entertain-ment Group, the movie theater’s par-ent company, did not return calls in time for The Brooklyn Paper’s fiery online deadline.

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“These features lend the neighbor-hood its unique sense of place, mak-ing it a natural for historic district sta-tus,” he added. Prospect Heights started its transfor-mation from farmland and forest into a residential neighborhood in the mid-19th century. Its growth was primarily fueled by transportation improvements and the development of Prospect Park, which was completed in 1873.

By Zeke Fauxfor The Brooklyn Paper

Organic plants, not con-crete plants! That was the message that Red Hook residents delivered last Saturday, when about 40 neighbors donned face masks to protest the planned opening of a concrete plant next to the Beard Street Ikea — across from a community farm and near popular playing fields. The neighbors, who car-ried signs reading “No More Pollution” and “Honk 4 No Cement,” said they oppose the plant because its fine dust would coat the organic pump-kins and eggplants at the Red Hook Community Farm. “What ticks me off is that it’s next to an organic farm. I don’t think those vegetables would be organic any more,” said J.E. McKnight, co-chair-man of the Red Hook Civic Association. US Concrete, the Texas-based conglomerate that is putting the finishing touches

borhood’s Little League. The activists face an up-hill battle. The site is zoned for heavy industry — a le-gal designation that permits even more noxious uses like glue factories, slag heaps and garbage incinerators — and the plant appears to be nearly ready to open. Councilwoman Sara Gon-zalez skipped the protest, but an aide to state Sen. Velma-nette Montgomery (D–Red Hook) said his office would keep fighting the plant be-cause the neighborhood has changed since the “heavy in-dustry” zoning was put in place decades ago. “I don’t think they appre-ciate the density of this area and how litigious New York-ers can be,” said the aide, Jim Vogel. “If you’re open-ing a cement plant in an area with a 40-percent asthma rate, you’d better open your pocket book, because you’re going to be spending a lot of time in court.”

“We worked very hard to get a field for the Little League, but I don’t think we’d bring the kids here to breathe fumes,” said Pete Morales, commissioner of the neigh-

on the plant, has said that 15-20 trucks would be based there, and one protestor said that could drive baseball play-ers out of Red Hook Park one block away.

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tion of the more than 11,000 cast in one of the city’s hot-test races for the Democratic nomination to succeed Bill DeBlasio, who opted to run for Public Advocate. Lander said the key to his victory was the strength of his positions on the “is-sues that matter to the dis-trict: affordable housing, livable communities, jobs and good schools.” “Voters wanted someone with a record of results,” he concluded, accept ing the hugs and handshakes of his supporters at Com-monwealth Bar on Fifth Avenue and 12th Street in Park Slope. Surprisingly, Lander won a majority of votes — 52 percent — in Park Slope, a neighborhood where Skaller, a resident, had hoped to run well. He did land 33 percent of the vote, but needed to do much better, considering his trouncing elsewhere.

“As badly as we lost, we also won something,” Skaller told his support-ers at Johnny Mack’s on Eighth Avenue and 12th Street. “Before we got into the race, the importance of taking on Atlantic Yards was not seen as serious, the need to fight develop-ers in Carroll Gardens was not on the agenda, and the urgency of a Superfund clean-up of the Gowanus Canal was not understood — but it all is now.” He said that the reason he did so poorly in Borough Park is that he is a proud lib-eral who wouldn’t change his message to pander to conservatives. “It was easy to go into Borough Park and say, ‘I am for gay marriage,’ be-cause I am,” he said. The Skaller loss came despite last week’s late-campaign endorsement by none other than upstate New York Rep. John Hall.

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“I had a great team. We worked really hard. And honestly, Vito Lopez’s mentorship and his advice and guidance was remarkably helpful.”

“Elated. But also hopeful and a deep feeling of responsibil-ity to live up to the trust that people have put in me.”

“I’m at an 8 out 10 on a scale of exhaustion.” Lopez declined to talk to our reporter, asking why he was not at a party being thrown by Thies, who was endorsed by The Brooklyn Paper earlier this month. Levin ushered Muessig outside and spoke to him there. Levin’s victory came after an endorsement that clearly did not send the shockwaves that its recipient predicted. Over the weekend, Biviano had been anointed by last year’s presidential also-ran Dennis Kucinich, who had called Bi-viano “an exceptional candidate with the ability to be an outstanding member of the City Council. Kucinich called on “all my supporters in Brooklyn … to go to the polls and vote for him” — judging by the re-sults, that may have been the case. After all, Kucinich got all of 840 votes out of 277,000 cast in the entire borough in the February, 2008 presidential primary.

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39TH… Can’t place the name? Hall was once the lead singer in the cloying, soft-rock band Orleans, famous for its hit, “Still the One.” Though winning the Democratic nomination is tantamount to victory, Lander promised to run a serious campaign against Republican nominee Joe Nardiello. A Green Party candi-date, David Pechefsky, is also in the race.

Brad Lander Letitia James Steve LevinDiana Reyna

★ ★34TH DISTRICTBushwick–Williamsburg

Diana Reyna:4,205 (45.57%)Maritza Davila:3,982 (43.15%)Gerry Esposito:1,041 (11.28%) Incumbent Councilwoman Reyna narrowly defeated a Democratic Party-backed up-start in what turned out to be one of the closest races this primary season. Reyna — who came into politics under the tutelage of powerful Democratic Party boss, Assemblyman Vito Lo-pez (D-Bushwick) — beat her Lopez-supported foe by just 223 votes, capping off a bizarre race that cen-tered around the city’s con-troversial plan to allow de-

35TH DISTRICTFort Greene–Clinton Hill

Letitia James: 7,479 (81.2%)Delia Hunley-Adossa: 1,275 (13.9%)Medhanie Estiphanos: 460 (5%) The popular incumbent James fended off a challenge from Hunley-Adossa. Backed by construction union workers thanks to her support for the Atlantic Yards mega-project, Hunley-Adossa was able to raise more money than the incumbent — a rar-ity in New York. But her inaccessability, and poor performance in a Commu-nity Newspaper Group-spon-sored debate, hurt her ability to capitalize on her funding.

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Now that he’s won the Dem-ocratic nomination for the 39th Council District, Brad Lander is facing two challengers: Repub-lican Joe Nardiello and Green Party nominee David Pechefsky. We checked in with both upstarts to see if they stand a chance against the better-funded, better-known Democrat.

Joe Nardiello Carroll Gardens resident Joe Nardiello is a man of contradictions. He touts the economic de-velopment work he did for both the Dinkins and the Giuliani ad-ministration, yet lambastes gov-ernment waste. He champions the heroic work done by public school teachers, yet says he’ll take on their union. He says he’s done a bang-up job as the director of business development for his legal services com-pany, yet also admits he just got laid off because the company isn’t doing as well as it once did. And even when discussing whether he can beat Democrat Brad Lander, Nardiello is all over the place. “I can beat him — 80 percent of the public has had enough with politicians and politics as usual,” he said. “Brad Lander is politics as usual.”

Then, a few seconds later, he challenged Lander to reject pub-lic financing of his campaign for the oddest of reasons. “He doesn’t need public money to beat me,” Nardiello explained. “Why should he spend taxpayer dollars on mailers when he can

win without them?” Nardiello promised to campaign on several issues: opposing residential parking permits, making pub-lic schools better (including PS 58, where he sends his 8-year-old), and working for the dissolution of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He was reminded that he’d still likely lose even if every Republican in the strongly liberal 39th District voted for him. “This campaign will cross over,” he said. “Peo-ple think politicians are lower life forms. But I’m a crossover candidate. I’m an organic Republican. I belong to the Park Slope Food Co-op. I haven’t spent my whole life trying to get elected. “I don’t want to be labeled, except this,” he added. “I am a Brooklynite.”

David Pechefsky The Green Party standard-bearer also isn’t sure if he can beat Democratic nominee Brad Lander. When asked how he could triumph over a pop-ular Democrat in a hugely Democratic district, Pechefsky paused for about 20 seconds. “We have to engage him,” he said, pausing some more. “There were so many unanswered questions from the primary campaign, such as what are you going to do when you get to the City Council?” We pressed Pechefsky for his own answer to the same question. “It’s not so much what will you do, but how will

you function in that environment where the speaker has all the power?” he said. “We have to show vot-ers that they don’t have to accept that this is the way it is, that we could have something different.” Changing the culture of the Council is this 41-year-old former Council staffer’s main reason for running. In fact, whenever Pechef-sky talks about his three stints on the legislative side of City Hall, he talks about the “institu-tional reform” he’d seek if elected. When reminded that voters tend to nap whenever a can-didate talks about institutional reform, Pechefsky, the fa-ther of two public school kids, said his priorities would be getting more pre-K seats in the district and clean-ing the Gowanus Canal. But he always comes back to the Speaker. “I am someone who can build a coalition in-side the Council to take on the speaker,” he said. “That’s the key issue. You can only have business as usual unless we do that.” But is that the key to beating Brad Lander? Again, a long pause. “Yeah, why not?” he said. “I stack up well in ev-ery way. I have experience and substance. If people really want change, I will beat Brad Lander. If peo-ple are happy with the status quo, he wins easily.” Election day is Nov. 3.

WAITING IN THE WINGSGOPer, Green: We’ll beat Brad

Tish, Reyna hold onto their Council seats

velopers to build housing in a largely industrial swath of land called the Broadway Tri-angle in the neighboring 33rd Council District. Reyna opposes the plan

because it grants land to two non-profits with ties to Lo-pez, while her opponent, Da-vila — an employee of one of the non-profits — supports it. “This was your victory, this was the people’s victory,” Reyna told supporters, who were jubilant and visibly re-lieved after the nail-biting conclusion of the tight race. The Brooklyn Paper

It ain’t over yet! Primary day came and went, but Councilmen Bill DeBlasio (D–Park Slope) and David Yassky (D–Brook-lyn Heights) both face another hurdle in their battles to be-come public advocate and comptroller, respectively — a Sept. 29 run-off election.

DeBlasio pulled off a shocker when he finished first in the primary to be-come the city’s ombudsman with 32.63 percent of the vote, but he couldn’t secure the 40 percent of the vote needed to avoid the run-off against second-place finisher, in this case, former Public Advocate Mark Green, who landed 30.1

percent. Meanwhile, Yassky landed enough votes to come in sec-ond with 30.5 percent, while first place finisher Council-man John Liu (D–Queens) fell just two points short of securing the Democratic nod outright. The Democratic runoff election is on Sept. 29.

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Smartmom is overprotective!

By Louise Crawford

A few days ago, the Oh So Feisty One told Smartmom that in

just one week, she’d gone from being a “nice mom” to an OPP. “An OPP? What’s an OPP?” Smartmom won-dered. “An over-protective par-ent,” OSFO replied. “Where’d you hear that acronym?” she said. “I made it up myself,” OSFO said. Smartmom was proud. Her girl was making up cool ac-ronyms. But she didn’t let on because this was serious busi-ness. There was a new re-gime on Third Street and un-less OSFO started following some basic rules, Smartmom was going to become a Very

Over Protective Parent. It all started on the first day of school, when OSFO scared the bejesus out of her. Here’s what happened: OSFO left to meet Luvbud at 8 in the morning for the first day of seventh grade. But Smartmom didn’t hear from OSFO for the rest of the day. There was no phone call or text at 3 pm to say that she was leaving school. Granted, OSFO had lost her cellphone on vacation in California and she hadn’t gotten a new one yet. But she was in the cus-tom of using Luvbud’s phone to stay in touch. And there was no call or text at 4 pm. And no call or text at 5 pm. But Smart-

mom wasn’t really wor-ried. Yet. Last year, OSFO and her friends usually went to Barnes and Noble after school. But she never got home later than 5 pm. When Smartmom got home from her therapy ap-pointment at 6:30 pm, she fully expected OSFO to be doing her homework or Fa-cebook in the living room.

aled Luvbud’s phone number, but it went straight to voice-mail. Smartmom dialed Lu-vbud’s mother’s phone number, but it went straight to voice-mail. She dialed Luvbud’s home number. But there was no answer. Anywhere.

Thoughts of ax mur-derers, rapists, mug-gers and kidnappers

danced ominously in her head. At 7:30, she walked over to Luvbud’s house a few block away. During the walk, Smart-mom’s emotions catapulted from fear to anger to terror to fear in rapid succession. On Luvbud’s block, she ran all the way from Seventh Av-enue to her brownstone near Sixth Avenue. She rang Luvbud’s door and finally Luvbud came downstairs followed by OSFO.

Smartmom was relieved to see them, but before she could even appreciate the fact that her daughter hadn’t been murdered she was furious. She yanked her daughter’s arm and pulled her toward the front door. “You are so grounded. How dare you not call me? What’s the matter with using the telephone?” she cried. “I didn’t realize how late it was,” OSFO said. “I didn’t know where you were and I thought some-thing terrible had happened.” Smartmom screamed. “Calm down, Mom,” OSFO said. There’s nothing worse than being censured in front of your friends. Luvbud looked stunned. She’d never seen Smartmom angry before. Smartmom could tell that OSFO was embarrassed — and angry. “I didn’t know what time it was,” she told Smartmom rolling her eyes. “Yeah, right. You got out of school more than four hours ago,” Smartmom screamed. “I didn’t realize how much time had passed,” she said. Smartmom and OSFO

walked home in an angry funk. When they got to the apartment, OSFO went straight to her room and slammed her door. Later when she came out Smartmom laid down some basic ground rules for sev-enth grade. “I am more than willing to let you be independent, but you must check in with me or your dad on a regular basis. “Otherwise you ain’t go-ing nowhere!” Smartmom fumed for the rest of the night. She’d never had this problem with Teen Spirit in seventh grade. It wasn’t until he was in 10th grade that he started acting this way. But OSFO seemed to be on an expedited timetable. She was spreading her wings and starting to fly. But it was im-perative that she learn some basic rules — like, Call your mother. So, OSFO’s right. Smart-mom is an OPP. Maybe it did happen overnight, but you know what they say: neces-sity is the mother of inven-tion. The smart mom of inven-tion, that is. After all, even Lenore Ske-nazy, who let her 9-year-old kid ride the subway all by himself, would agree, no? Smartmom didn’t need to be an OPP until OSFO started crossing the line. And now Smartmom’s a VOPP. It’s a cute term. But OSFO better get used to it. This VOPP is here to stay! Louise Crawford also writes the Web site, “Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn.”

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Part of the Big Movies for Little Kids series. $6.50. Cobble Hill Cinema [265 Court St. at Butler Street in Cobble Hill], bigmoviesfor-littlekids.blogspot.com.

FRI, SEPT. 25 Feast of St. Finbar.

Annual celebration with food and fun. St. Finbar Center [138 Bay 20th St. at Bath Avenue in Benson-hurst, (718) 236-3312].

SAT, SEPT. 26Noon: “Zuly In the Last Place on Earth.” A kids musical. $5. Moxie Spot [81 Atlantic Ave. between Hicks and Henry streets in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 923-9710], themoxiespot.com.

Nature Crafts. See Saturday, Sept. 19.

Science Power Hour. See Saturday, Sept. 19.

Learn about hot peppers. Free. Brooklyn Children’s Museum [145 Brooklyn Ave. at St. Marks Avenue in Bedford-Stuyve-sant, (718) 735-4400], www.brooklynkids.org.

Early American crafts and games. See Saturday, Sept. 19.

“Zuly In the Last Place on Earth.” See noon entry above.

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struction worker. That’s a se-cure building.” The Clarett Group, the de-veloper of the borough’s tallest building, issued a statement on Thursday claiming that it had “not found any evidence that political fliers were dropped” from the site. The company pledge to “fully cooperate with any and all law-enforcement authorities inves-tigating the incident.” Regardless of who is to blame, those on the ground were hor-rified. “I just thought it was an old packet of papers from an office until it landed on the ground,” said Will Aviles, an employee at a Sprint store on Jay Street. “It’s childish. I guess who-ever did this is just trying to vent.” Though he disapproved of the obscene poem, Mitchell Angel Soto — an employee at a differ-ent cellphone shop on Jay Street — said he was more frustrated by the litter than the lyrics.

“I think it’s ignorant — but this is America, so they have a right to free speech,” he said as he ripped apart a copy. “But I don’t think they have a right to throw it in front of my store so I have to clean it up.” Written in all capital letters and mostly in quatrains with an AA/BB rhyme scheme remi-niscent of a more crass — and more conservative — Dr. Seuss, the prose suggests that the pres-ident:“Leave this house, once

graced by Reagans Take the liberals, commies,

Satans and pagans Go to hell with your song

and dance America doesn’t need ya,

go live in France!”

One onlooker disagreed with the pamphleteer’s message — though he empathized with its language. “That’s f—ed up,” he said, gazing at the sky. “I wish I could smack the s— out of whoever did that.”


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150-foot billboards on either side of the “Urban Room.” • The architects have signed onto Ratner’s opti-mistic timeline of breaking ground in December and then finishing the entire building in 26 months so that it can be of use during the 2011-12 basketball season. A brief argument en-sued after the question and answer session. The design-ers themselves were spirited away from reporters after the session by a spokesman for Ratner, so some members of the public took out their hostilities on moderator Bell

He conceded that com-munities “are not always right,” but hastened to add that “these architects had a responsibility to talk to op-ponents and understand the issues before putting out ren-derings that are now being used as a marketing scheme for the developer. “This project is removing people from property that they own and on the basis of a flawed finding of blight, so they should have turned down the commission.” Earlier in the evening, Pasquarelli unintentionally addressed Shiffman. “We love this city dearly,” he said. “Suburban arenas are like nuclear reactors in a parking lot. This arena is nothing like that.”

for omitting any questions about the development pro-cess, sticking only to design issues. As a small group berated Bell for that decision, Ron Shiffman, a former city plan-ning commissioner and an opponent of Atlantic Yards, told reporters that the mod-erator should have allowed some “process” questions be-cause the process by which Atlantic Yards came about was so ugly that it can not be beautified simply with good architecture. “There is an ethical part of architecture,” Shiffman said. “Do you take any commis-sion?”

“I sat down for a minute, thought about it, and was like, ‘I’m out of here.’ So I went to brunch at Café Colonial.” Of 20 Williamsburg residents in the park on Sunday, photographer Phillip Angert, 25, was the only person who said he had served a community in

said 25-year-old Greg Reeves, who helped organize Saturday’s event. “The other day, there were these Japanese girls try-ing to get off the subway and they had these huge bags of luggage so I helped them carry up their bags.” Reeves believes that someone else would have helped the travelers if he had not. “New Yorkers have a hard shell, but I think generally they are pretty nice people,” he said.

some form. “I just got back from Burning Man and when you leave you have to spend four hours cleaning up after yourself,” he said. “It’s this really amazing ex-periment in community.” The Mormons, on the other hand, volunteer regularly, whether it’s do-ing public service events organized by a local congregation or mission-ary work in different countries. “You just try to think of others, right?”


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The basketball arena at the core of the Atlantic Yards mega-project is actually a money pit that will cost city taxpayers nearly $40 million more over the next 30 years than they will get back in rev-enues, according to a new re-port issued last week. Though the arena was ap-proved in 2006 with promises that it would be a net gain for city coffers, the Independent Budget Office said today that it would soak taxpayers for $39.5 million over the next 30 years. The report also concluded that developer Bruce Ratner is enjoying $726 million in “spe-cial government benefits.” “The arena would cost the city’s budget $169 mil-lion (present value),” the study said. “These costs exceed the $130 million in new revenues from economic activity … over 30 years.” The latest report by the non-partisan budget watch-dog reverses the group’s own 2005 analysis that found new jobs and spending at Nets bas-ketball games would raise $28.5 million in revenues for the city over 30 years. But earlier this year, IBO Deputy Director George Sweeting started reconsider-ing those numbers because of the arena’s escalating costs, from its original $435 mil-lion to nearly $1 billion be-fore architect Frank Gehry was shelved in favor of the new, cost-conscious team of Ellerbe Becket and SHoP Ar-

chitects. Opponents seized on the IBO study as evidence that one of the $800-million arena’s main selling points — that it would raise money for the city, not cost it millions — had vanished. “It is clear that the highly subsidized Atlantic Yards proposal has a negative bene-fit for the public while provid-ing enormous financial ben-efits to Forest City Ratner,” said Daniel Goldstein of De-velop Don’t Destroy Brook-lyn, who added that this “stark imbalance” will be a part of his group’s upcoming chal-lenge in the state’s highest court. The IBO report also raised

a red flag over whether Rat-ner’s arena will generate enough revenue to pay back the $700-million tax-free loan that finances the arena. If true, the result would be either be an increase in the city’s assessment of the value of the arena land or the need for more money put into the project by its cash-strapped developer, Goldstein said. “The question is will the arena land assessment be ille-gally inflated by the Finance Department to meet Ratner’s desired debt service or will the bond amount be low-ered, requiring a greater in-vestment by the developer,” he said. “This complicated is-sue is precisely what Assem-

blyman Richard Brodsky in-vestigated with hearings and subpoenas on the new Yan-kee Stadium. He should play the same watchdog role with the Nets arena.” A spokesman for Ratner slammed the report. “The IBO’s analysis is wrong,” said the spokes-man, Joe DePlasco. “Their assumptions … seem to be in-tentionally low-balling sales and tax revenue. Also, [the IBO is] conveniently apply-ing the state and city subsi-dies to the arena while ignor-ing the benefits of the larger project: the development of the housing, office and other uses, creating jobs and tax revenues.”


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an attack on President Obama — it was an affront to every Brooklynite. As reported on our front page in this edition , someone tossed hundreds of copies of a vicious collection of verses, allegedly from the top of the borough’s tallest building, a 52-story tower that is still under construction on Lawrence Street. The stanzas decry the president with the usual conservative talk radio accu-sations: that he hates America, that he’s a Socialist, that he reads, and that he is in league with Satan. But it went further, trotting out some of the vile tropes of the past, with a reference to the president’s male en-dowment, and a vague suggestion that the president should bleed his “liberal blood.” The overall affect is one of thuggery. At the end of the day, the actual crime committed by the flier-tossing boor is

should not be met with a mere shrug. The Clarett Group, which is develop-

ing the building, issued a cur-sory statement, but elected of-ficials should demand im-mediate, and heavy, sanctions against the com-pany if the fli-ers came from its rooftop. Beyond that, a full investiga-tion of how some-one got to the top of one of the tall-est buildings in

the city — perhaps the tallest one in Brooklyn — demands a full investiga-tion. The crime this week may have been small, but the potential for a future di-saster is enormous.

littering. But we believe that a much larger public trust has been violated, especially if the fliers came from the top of the Brooklynite, a tower ad-jacent to the Metrotech of-fice complex. That building is still un-der construction, meaning that the hate-filled writer is either one of the work-ers on the project, or an acquaintance of a construction worker who assisted in getting the papering poet to the top of the building. In either case, such a security breach

All of Brooklyn is also a victim of the repugnant anti-Obama fliers that cascaded from a Downtown skyscraper on Wednesday.

LETTERS

To the editor, After reading your recent on-line story about the alleged theft of your bike (“Not again! — Gersh’s bike stolen for the third time in 15 months,” Sept. 5 ), I was just wondering if there’s any possi-bility that we, not Gersh, are the true victims here? Is it possible that Gersh’s entire tenure at The Brooklyn Paper has been a giant free bike and insur-ance scam? Has anyone actually seen Gersh riding (not posing) on a bike? Are we certain that any bikes were actually stolen? And while we’re on the subject, how much tax-payer-funded Medicare did Gersh receive for his “accident”? I never saw any blood — did you?

Southern pride, it is often used by racists to represent white domina-tion of African-Americans. The flag remains the subject of con-troversy because some Southern states still fly it from public build-ings or incorporate its design into their state flag. “The flag is also used by rac-ists as an alternative to the Amer-ican flag, which they describe as a symbol of the Jewish-controlled government.” How would Americans feel if a band called “The Third Re-ich” played in front of the Nazi flag? Lew Friedman, Park Slope

To the editor, I would like to make two cor-rections to Louise Crawford’s arts section cover story about my new novel, “Prospect Park West” (“It’s fantasyland! — The neighborhood in Sohn’s book ain’t the Slope we know,” Sept. 3) . While employed at the New York Post, I never ogled the pe-nises of local baseball players. I did write a column about the Yankees clubhouse but on my one and only visit there, I was not lucky enough to see Joe Gi-

rardi, Derek Jeter or Paul O’Neill in the nude. Second, I never expressed my opinions on work/life challenges facing modern mothers in my “Mating” column in New York magazine. I expressed them on my Web site, www.amysohn.com, back in 2006. Amy Sohn, Park Slope

To the editor, Taking my daily walk on Fifth Avenue, I’ve noticed the lovely, new bike lanes in each direction here in the South Slope (“No pain no lane — crash led to the first real bike lane,” Sept. 15) . I’ve also noticed pro–bike lane articles and comments in your pa-per and I just wondered if all that clout can now be directed toward getting bikers to follow the law namely, this one, which comes from the motor vehicle code: “Sec-tion 1231: Bicyclists are granted all of the rights and are subject to all of the duties as the driver of a motor vehicle.” As with many things in our society, rights come with those pesky, ignored obligations. Cross-ing the avenue, not once has a

biker even considered stopping for a light as do (most of) their motorized cousins. Check it out for yourselves. I know it twists my knickers. Barbara Eidinger, Park Slope

To the editor, I enjoy reading The Brook-lyn Paper online and I particu-larly enjoy your police blotter — especially the colorful language you use, such as “perps,” “goons,” “dastardly duo” (“Give me the money – or it’s homicide!” Aug. 12 ). Keep it up. Sandra Stokley, Riverside, Calif.

• • •To the editor, Although I appreciate the ef-fort and the information about crime in our borough, I find the mini headlines rather tasteless. It is not appropriate to use “puns” or clever headlines in the police blotter. These stories are frightening and not a subject to be dealt with lightly. Liron Unreich, Clinton Hill

the decisions they have made for their child including conception, pregnancy, birthing, breastfeed-ing, family sleeping arrangements, the teaching of speech and reading, sibling relationships, pre-school, etc? What makes this truly absurd is the fact that a councilmember has no input in the running of the schools. How about the can-didates not judge the other can-didates on personal choices that they have made? And how about the editors of newspapers not feeding into this non-productive discussion? Enough of these foolish at-tacks! Lucy Koteen, Fort Greene

To the editor, Who cares about Southern Comfort — it’s just a corpora-tion (“‘Southern’ Hospitality! Band finds no ‘Comfort’ in cease-and-desist order,” Sept. 12) ? But what about the confederate flag in the photo in the article? Many consider that banner a symbol of hate. According to Anti-Defamation League, “Although the flag is seen by some simply as a symbol of

school for their child is the public school for which they are zoned. If not, and you aren’t lucky enough to lottery into the public school that is right for your child, you have a very difficult decision as a parent. Suggesting that schooling de-cisions are a fair evaluation of a parent’s character completely ignores all of the factors that go into that decision. You have favored a complete oversimplification, reducing the issue to a public vs. private school competition. You have done your readers a disservice. Rebecca Selvenis, Park Slope

• • •To the editor, All this talk about where some-ones child goes to school is a dis-traction from issues. Parenting de-cisions are complex and personal. I am sure that if we looked into any household, someone would find a parenting decision that he disagrees with. As a parent educator, I resent that a politician would use an op-ponent’s parenting decision and his child as a pawn in his game. How about at the next candidates forum, we present all the candi-dates with a list of questions about

Before readers send yet another free bike down this rabbit hole, I think we need more details, and proof that Gersh isn’t doing most of his “reporting” from the back of a roomy limousine. Suspiciously yours, Carlton Goss, Park SlopeEditor’s note: Goss’s letter is rid-dled with lies, half-truths, libelous assertions, and just plain mean stuff. For one, Goss should ask former De-partment of Transportation Com-missioner Iris Weinshall about the blood that Kuntzman spilled on her at the official opening of the Red Hook Fairway after a crash (Iris would remember). Or he should ask the 84th Precinct, which is in pos-session of a sworn affidavit from Kuntzman after his second bike theft. Or he should ask the good people of Smith Street, who wave cheerfully almost every morning when Kuntz-man pedals past. Unlike Goss, they appreciate the full service and cov-erage they get from a reporter/edi-tor on wheels.

To the editor, Your Aug. 13 editorial ( “A pol’s kid goes to school — it is an issue!” ) completely missed the point. A parent is fortunate if the right

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Sometimes you just need a good cookie. This was Pete Solomita’s “Eureka” reve-lation. A longtime chef, he came to this real-ization when he was between jobs and found

himself hanging out at coffee shops with his young son, Jack. “No one had a good cookie,” he said. Hence, the Little Buddy Biscuit Com-pany was born. Initially operating out of Solomita’s apart-ment, the company sup-

plied some of the increasing number of coffee shops in the South Slope with baked goods. But last month, Solomita (pictured) put out his own shingle on Fifth Avenue, near where he has lived for 30 years. The product line has expanded to about a dozen cookies (don’t miss the Oaxachan chocolate chunk, with not too much cinnamon and chili), brownies, lemon bars, birthday cakes and savory treats such as a cheddar and black pepper biscuit and a red pepper and feta muffin (it’s a standout). Little Buddy Biscuit Company [635 Fifth Ave. at 18th Street in Greenwood Heights, (718) 369-6355]. Open seven days. — Moses Jefferson

The King of Pop — a god? That’s sort of the idea behind “The Cult of Michael Jackson,” a deity-themed “church” ded-icated to the ultimate American icon at a Wil-liamsburg gallery. The man in the mir-ror on Jackson’s god-like status is Rusel Par-ish, whose exhibition doesn’t so much elevate Jackson to the heavens, but at least makes the artistic link between Jacko’s sequined glove and classic religious reliquary. “I do not want to portray him as godlike,” Parish said. “It’s a discussion about how, as a society, we put figures on a pedestal. It’s prob-ably a study of my own addiction.” Spread out over two rooms, the “Chapel” at Figureworks is intended to afford devotees and the just plain curious with a place to come and contemplate MJ through faux-orthodox iconography and a “full line of dolls repre-senting the reinvention of his life.” You can also pick up some collectible soap, candles and T-shirts. “‘The Cult of Michael Jackson’ transcends thousands of years of hate, war, and spiritual prisons of other religions; and instead brings the world into a new order: one of love, soul, funk and pop,” Parish said. “We could end the entire world’s suffering and we could literally blame it on the boogie.” The Cult of Michael Jackson at Figureworks [168 N. Sixth St. between Bedford and Driggs avenues, (718) 486-7021]. — Joe Maniscalco


ummer is over and it’s time to put away foolish things like the beach and get back into the rhythm of urban life.

To help, The Brooklyn Paper has assem-bled this full guide to fall fun.

SHAKESPEARE SHAKE-UP Here’s a new twist on one of Shake-speare’s most popular plays. Like jazz mu-sicians riffing on a Gershwin standard, the Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble and the French music troupe Anitya will use the Bard’s “Macbeth” as a departure point for an improvisational performance merging physical theater, dance, and music, dubbed the “Macbeth Variations II.” “Macbeth Variations II” at the Irondale Center [85 S. Oxford St. between Lafayette and Greene avenues in Fort Greene, (718) 488-9233], Oct. 1–3 at 8 pm. Tickets $20 to $40, available at www.strikeanywhere.info.

HAPPY BAUH-THDAY In celebration of the 90th birthday of the influential Bauhaus movement, the Nerve Tank troupe — best known for physical theater and site-specific design — will put on a show called “bauhaus the bau-haus” that will reflect upon the functional-ist movement’s Utopian ideals. “bauhaus the bauhaus” at the Brooklyn Lyceum [227 Fourth Ave. between President and Union Streets in Park Slope (718) 857-4816], Oct. 9–Nov. 22. RIDE THE WAVE Brooklyn Academy of Music’s acclaimed Next Wave Festival is still rolling forward, bringing with it a surge of cutting-edge perfor-mances including: • Director Robert Lepage’s epic “Lipsynch” (Oct. 3–11) spans sev-eral continents, multiple decades — and eight and a half hours! — to tell nine distinct stories in this memorable theater marathon. • Acclaimed choreographer William Forsythe’s U.S. premiere of “Decreation” (Oct. 7–10) addresses love, jealousy, and the search for God. • Greenpoint-based experimental drum troupe So Percussion collaborated with video artist Jenise Treuting on “Imaginary City” (Oct. 14–17), which merges music, film, and art to tell the story of a made-up metropolis and its inhabitants in homage to Italo Calvi-no’s 1972 tome “Invisible Cities.” • Swedish troupe Cirkus Cirkör and New Wave dub-punk band Irya’s Playground created “Inside Out” (Nov. 12 to 15), a captivating amalgamation of skilled ac-robatics, musical theater, and good old-fashioned spectacle. The Next Wave Festival is ongoing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafayette Ave. near St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100]. Check www.bam.org for locations and times.

ONE STELLA SHOW Tennessee Williams’s classic “A Street-car Named Desire” might have the whole

borough shouting “Stellaaaaa!” Boasting an all-star cast including Cate Blanchett — who already wowed Brooklyn in “Hedda Gabler” — this rendition by the Sydney Theatre Company could turn being fall’s must-see show. “A Streetcar Named Desire” at BAM Harvey [651 Fulton St. between Rockwell and Ashland places in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100]. Nov. 27–Dec. 20; Tickets $30 to $120. For info, visit www.bam.org.

TV ON THE STAGE! Indie stalwart Kip Mallone — the big-haired bassist in TV on the Radio — will launch his much anticipated solo act, Rain Machine, with a show at the Bell House. Rain Machine at the Bell House [149 Seventh St. between Second and Third avenues in Gowanus, (718) 643-6510] on Sept. 21 at 7:30 pm. Tickets, $15.

SUNN O)))-DAY! Hipster doom metal band Sunn O))) will drone out earsplitting noise tracks,

with help from Earth, Pelican and Eagle Twin. Sun O))) at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple (317 Clermont Ave. at Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene) on Sept. 22 at 8 pm. Tickets, $25. For info, visit www.brooklynmasonictemple.com.

CHAMBER MUSIC The borough’s beloved Chamber Mu-sic Society is back for another season this fall, with four concerts at the First Uni-tarian Church in Brooklyn Heights. Also churning out chamber tunes is the legend-ary Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music, which will put on three shows this fall. Brooklyn Chamber Music Society at the First Unitarian Church [50 Monroe Pl. at Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 858-0718]. Sept. 25, Oct. 23, Nov. 20 and Dec. 18 at 8 pm. For information, visit www.brooklynchambermusicsociety.org; Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music perform at different locations on Oct. 18, Nov. 15 and Dec. 6. Tickets, $20 (stu-dents, $10). For information, visit www.brooklynfriendsofchambermusic.org.

BUILT TO THRILL! Acclaimed indie rockers Built to Spill will bring their brand of guitar rock to the Music Hall of Williamsburg for a two-night stand. The band behind must-own records like “Perfect From Now On” and “Keep It Like a Secret” have already sold out one night, but tickets are still avail-able for their other performance. Other much-hyped Music Hall shows by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sufjan Stevens, and the Dirty Projectors have already sold out, but tickets remain on sale for Teen-age Jesus and the Jerks (Oct. 3), the Do-dos (Oct. 13), the Raveonettes (Oct. 18) and Har Mar Superstar (Oct. 26). Built to Spill at Music Hall of Williams-burg [66 N. Sixth St. between Kent and Wythe avenues in Williamsburg, (718) 486-5400] on Oct. 14 at 8 pm. Tickets, $30 (advance), $35 (door).

RAINY DAY! Seminal twee punkers the Raincoats will help perl the new Knitting Factory, just opened in Williamsburg after a long run in Manhat-tan. The acclaimed all-female band earned its reputation in the late 1970s and early ’80s, but the group’s catchy tunes still get heads nodding and fists pumping today. The Raincoats at Knitting Factory

The best new place to get homemade, spe-cialty and ethnic foods isn’t some fancy gour-met place, but a church cafeteria. The recently launched Greenpoint Food Mar-ket at the Church of the Messiah is a food lov-er’s dream, with about 30 vendors hawking Chi-

nese pancakes, kimchee, ginger syrup, red velvet cupcakes, soup, architec-ture-inspired cookies from Sugarbuilt, jellies from Anarchy in a Jar and more. The food market is the brainchild of writer Joann Kim, who was dis-

satisfied with other markets when it came to sell-ing her own baked goods. “I started thinking about a market catering only to food — made by locals and people from their home,” she said. To liven up the mood for food connoisseurs, the market will also have live music and art. “I wanted the market to be a multi-sensory expe-rience,” said Kim, “where a visitor will walk in and taste and smell the food, and at the same time can view the artwork that references food. It’s kind of an all-around experience that can stimulate all kinds of reactions from a visitor.” Greenpoint Food Market at Church of the Messiah [129 Russell St. in Greenpoint, (646) 696-0154], every Saturday, noon–5 pm.

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Juliette Binoche. $11. 4:30, 6:50 and 9:15 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafayette Ave. near St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100], www.bam.org.

”Buddy List,” curated by Nathan Lee. 7 pm. Space 414 [414 Van Brunt St. in Red Hook, (718) 408-1643], space414.com.

Featuring Lisa Forrest, Andrew Rippeon, Janet Holmes and Jillian Weise. Free. 7 pm. Pete’s Candy Store [709 Lo-rimer St. at Richardson Street in Wil-liamsburg, (718) 302-3770], www.petescandystore.com.

Dance piece starring Juliette Binoche. $25-$70. 7:30 pm. BAM Harvey Theater [651 Fulton St. at Rockwell Place in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100], www.bam.org.

John Guare’s classic farce. $18. 8 pm. Gallery Players [199 14th St., between Fourth and Fifth avenues in Park Slope, (212) 352-3101], galleryplayers.com.

A fun event involving five composers acting as DJs with live musicians. $12 (ad-vance). 8 pm. Brooklyn Lyceum [227 Fourth Ave. at President Street in Park Slope, (718) 857-4816], www.brooklynlyceum.com.

Fools on Fire present a “clown noir.” $15. 8 pm. Triskelion Arts [118 N. 11th St. in Williamsburg, (917) 495-0506], foolsonfire.org.

Featuring Patsy Grant and Tulivu Donna Cumber-batch donation $15.00. 8 and 10 pm. Jazz 966 [966 Fulton St. at St. James Place in Clinton Hill, (718) 638-6910], www.illbrew.com.

The hip-hop/punk/metal powerhouse helps BAMCafe celebrate its 10th birthday. Free. 9 pm. BAM Café [30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort Greene, (718) 230-4100], www.bam.org.

Free. 1-6 pm. Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition [499 Van Brunt St., near Reed Street in Red Hook, (917) 655-2980], www.bwac.org.

2 pm. See Friday, Sept. 18.

Try out for BrooklynOne Theater’s production of “Nunsense” — with an all-male cast! 5 pm. St. John’s Episcopal Church [461 99th St. in Bay Ridge, (718) 964 3140].

See Friday, Sept. 18. Singer per-

forms songs of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. $35. 8 and 10 pm. Gala-pagos Art Space [16 Main St. at Water Street in DUMBO, (718) 222-8500], www.galapagosartspace.com.

8 pm. See Friday, Sept. 18.

R&B-infused rock — with Bad Rabbits and MC Prophit. Free. 9 pm. BAM Café [30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort Greene, (718) 230-4100], www.bam.org.

The CD release party for “Smokey’s Secret Family.” $10 suggested donation. 10 pm. Barbes [376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 965-9177], www.barbesbrooklyn.com.

SALES AND MARKETS Free. 9 am-5

pm. PS 321 schoolyard (Seventh Av-enue and First Street in Park Slope), www.parkslopefleamarket.com.

Free. 9 am-3 pm. Hattie Carthan Community Market [Clifton Place and Marcy Avenue in Bed-ford-Stuyvesant, (212) 594-2155].

Free. 10 am-5 pm. [194 20th St., between Fourth and Fifth avenues in Green-wood Heights, (347) 596-9614], www.brooklynfleamarket.com.

Free. 10 am-5 pm. Bishop Loughlin HS (357 Clermont Ave. at Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene), www.brownstoner.com/brooklynflea.

Free. 11 am-6 pm. (129 N. Sixth St. between Bed-ford Avenue and Berry Street in Wil-liamsburg), www.artistsandfleas.com.

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Bay Ridge Jewish Center is doing the impossible: free Rosh Hashana tickets. Free. 11 am-5 pm. Bay Ridge Jewish Center [405 81st St. in Bay Ridge, (718) 836-3103], www.bayridgejewishcenter.org.

See Saturday, Sept. 19.

Bay Fest Series. Free. 11 am. Bay Parkway Park [Cropsey Avenue and Bay Parkway in Bensonhurst, (347) 224-5828], www.urbandivers.org.

Crafts, exhibit, and a hawk watch. Live one-hour bird shows. Free. 12-5 pm. Prospect Park Audubon Center [Enter park at Lincoln Road and Ocean Avenue in Prospect Park, (718) 287-3400], www.prospectpark.org/audubon.

Free. Noon. Prospect Park Audubon Center (see venue info above).

Spe-cial free tour. 1-4:30 pm. Lefferts Historic House [Enter park at Fla-bush Avenue at Empire Boulevard near Prospect Park, (718) 287-3400 X101], www.heartofbrooklyn.org/childrenscorner.

PERFORMANCE More than 250

artists in “The Words of Color.”

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OUTDOORS AND TOURS Transportation Alternatives

leads a bike ride starting in Brook-lyn and going through Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx. Free. 8:30 am-noon. Grand Army Plaza (Under the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch in Park Slope), www.transalt.org/summerstreets.

Nature lovers around the world clean up Brooklyn’s only lake. Free. 10 am-2 pm. Prospect Park [Meet at the Rustic Shelter near the Rink parking lot in Prospect Park, (718) 287-3400], www.prospectpark.org.

The nature and maritime Enviromedia Mobile. Exhibits, eco-cruises, fishing, touch tank, movies, refreshments, music. International

WHERE TOMONDAYSeptember 21

Sad comedyLook, we realize that Charlie Chaplin is seen as one of the world’s greatest comic geniuses of all time, and we realize that this screening is part of the Big Mov-ies for Little Kids series, but be fore-warned: your kid is going to need a box of Kleenex at “The Little Tramp” today. No one does sad-ness and mirth the way Chaplin did.

4 pm. “The Little Tramp.” Cobble Hill Cinema [265 Court St. at Butler Street in Cobble Hill]. Tickets, $6.50. For info, visit bigmoviesforlittlekids.blogspot.com.

TUESDAYSeptember 22

Pack ratsThis is a great “get” for humble little BookCourt: E.L. Doc-torow, one of Ameri-ca’s true living literary legends, will be read-ing from his new book, “Homer & Lan-gley,” a clean little yarn about the filthy Collyer brothers. This is a great story by a great author — and a rare treat for locals.

7 pm. BookCourt [163 Court St. between Pacific and Dean streets in Cob-ble Hill, (718) 875-3677], www.bookcourt.org.

WEDNESDAYSeptember 23

Roger WilcoWhen he’s not the keyboardist of Wilco, Mikael Jorgensen also fronts a band called Pronto, whose first album, “All is Golden,” is a stun-ning collection of catchy pop. To avoid sophomore slump, Jorgensen and his troupe put out an all instrumental LP called “The Chee-tah.” We’re hoping he sticks to the songs with words, like “When I’m on the Rocks,” tonight.

8 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638-4400], www.unionhallny.com.

THURSDAYSeptember 24

Peebles get readyYou know him as the man behind “Sweet Sweetback’s Baa-dasssss Song” and other blaxploitation classics from the 1970s, but Melvin Van Peebles is back with a graphic novel, “Confessions of a Ex-Doofus Itchyfooted Mutha.” Sounds like a sequel to his seminal earlier memoir about filmmaking, “How to Get the Man’s Foot Outta Your Ass.”

8 pm. Melvin Van Peebles at the Old American Can Factory [232 Third St. between Third Avenue and Nevins Street in Gowanus, (718) 643-9193], www.akashicbooks.com.

SATURDAYSeptember 26

Street artSome neighborhoods have art galleries, but every year, all of DUMBO becomes an exhibition during the Art Under the Bridge Festival, which started yesterday and continues through Sunday. In recent years, we’ve seen a man covered entirely in yarn, a sidewalk made of grass and a dancer wearing only cellophane.

All day. Art Under the Bridge Festival. DUMBO Arts Center [30 Washing-ton St. between Ply mouth and Water streets in DUMBO, (718) 694-0831], www.dumboartscenter.org.

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No cost. 10 am. Brooklyn Botanic Garden [1000 Washington Ave., at Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, (917) 548-4665].

MON, SEPT. 21 Monthly full

board meeting. 7:15 pm. Shore Hill Community Room [9000 Shore Rd. in Bay Ridge, (718) 745-6827], www.bkcb10.org.

Monthly meeting. Free. 7:30 pm. Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church [85 S. Oxford St. at Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 875-1855], www.historicfortgreene.org.

Monthly meeting. [email protected]. 8 pm. Seth Low Intermediate School [9 Ave. P. in Bensonhurst, (718) 946 6667].

WED, SEPT. 23

Monthly meeting. 6:30 pm. Community Board 6 [250 Baltic St., between Court and Clinton streets in Cobble Hill, (718) 643-3027], www.brooklyncb6.org.

Monthly meeting. $15. 7 pm. PS 180 [5601 16th Ave., (718) 759-3921].

Man slain by a city cop will be remembered. 7 pm. Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian

Church (85 S. Oxford St. at Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene).

THURS, SEPT. 24

Monthly meeting. 6 pm. Community Board 6 [250 Baltic St., between Court and Clinton streets in Cobble Hill, (718) 643-3027], www.brooklyncb6.org.

FRI, SEPT. 25

A briefing by Dr. Malcolm Bowman, a big professor of this kind of thing. 6:30 pm. Long Island College Hospital [339 Hicks St., near the corner of Atlantic Avenue in Cobble Hill, (718) 643-3027], www.brooklyncb6.org.

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WONDER BOY Literary legend Michael Cha-bon — the writer of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,” “Wonder Boys” and “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” — will discuss the art of nonfiction writing in a read-ing of his new book, “Manhood for Amateurs,” at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Michael Chabon at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library [Grand Army Plaza between Flat-bush Avenue and Eastern Parkway (718) 230-2100] on Oct. 8 at 7 pm.

PAUL’S PARTY Famed Park Slope scribe Paul Auster — author of “The Brooklyn Follies” and “Timbuktu” — will read and sign copies of his new novel, “Invisible.” Paul Auster at PowerHouse Are-na [37 Main St. at Water Street in DUMBO, (718) 666-3049] on Nov. 12 at 7 pm.

ROCK SHOW In world of rock and roll, how you look can be just as important as how you sound. So it’s no surprise that the Brooklyn Museum has decided to honor the photographers who have turned struggling singers into stars. In the new exhibit, “Who Shot Rock and Roll,” visitors will see iconic im-ages of their favorite rockers. “Who Shot Rock and Roll” at the Brooklyn Museum [200 East-ern Pkwy. at Washington Avenue in Crown Heights (718) 638-5000]. Opens Oct. 30.

ART IN DUMBO Almost all of DUMBO will be on show from Sept. 25–27, when the Arts Under the Bridge festival trans-forms the neighborhood into a veri-table gallery space. Dozens of artists will set up installations indoors and outdoors at the 13th annual iteration of the festival, including one work highlighting the city’s history as a hub for oysters, and another titled “Wel-come to NYC; Boomtown,” which

details the city before last year’s real estate bust. Art Under the Bridge in DUM-BO. Sept. 25–27. For info, visit www.dumboartscenter.org.

WORDPLAY More than 250 artists have lent their works — and their words — to “The Words of Color,” a group show combining visual art with written ex-planations composed by the artists themselves. “The Words of Color” at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition [499 Van Brunt St. at Reed Street in Red Hook, (718) 596-2506]. Week-ends from 1–6 pm until Oct. 25.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s ongoing BAMcinematek series will

screen a number of noteworthy flicks and film series this falls, including: • A retrospective on the work of Ni-colas Winding Refn — a Danish film-maker known for dark, violent, master-fully directed crime movies, including “Fear X” (Oct. 1) and the “Pusher” tril-ogy (Oct. 4), before which the movi-emaker will take part in a Q and A. • An exploration of contemporary filmmaking in Uruguay (Oct. 16–18) featuring “The Pope’s Toilet,” “La Per-rera” and “Kill Them All.” • A series on new French films (Nov. 11–15) including “Irene,” “Please, Please Me,” and “Park Benches.” BAMcinematek at the BAM Rose Cinemas [30 Lafayette Ave. be-tween Ashland and St. Felix places in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100]. For information and a full schedule, visit www.bam.org.

SUPER DUPER 8 Talk about a rough cut! Moviemak-ers taking part at Flicker NYC will film a 50-foot spool of Super 8 film, process it, and immediately screen their unedited picture for the first time in front of a live audience. Flicker NYC at the Brooklyn Ly-ceum [227 Fourth Ave. between President and Union Streets in Park Slope (718) 857-4816] on Oct. 9 at 7:30 pm. Tickets, $7.


Fall into it: The Atlantic Antic (above) takes place on Oct. 4. The Brooklyn Museum’s big fall show is “Who Shot Rock and Roll,” featuring some of the greatest music photography ever, including this shot of a sweaty Tina Turner.

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HOT PEPPERS Get ready to get hot! In honor of hot peppers and the cultures that love them, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden will celebrate the “Chile Pepper Fi-esta,” an all-ages event with concerts, hot sauce tastings, and chocolate pair-ings that will merge spicy and sweet flavors. “Chile Pepper Fiesta” at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden [1000 Washington Ave. between Crown and Montgomery streets in Crown Heights, (718) 623-7200] on Oct. 3 from noon–6:30 pm.

RAGA-TON! Bay Ridge’s legendary Ragamuffin parade is the perfect warm-up for Hal-loween. Almost a month before the hol-iday, tykes can try out their costumes in a romp down Third Avenue. Ragamuffin Parade (Third Avenue in Bay Ridge) on Oct. 3. Final location yet to be determined. For info, visit www.thirdavenuebayridge.com.

GET ANTIC-UATED! The Atlantic Antic — the epic, 10-block long street festival now in its 35th year — will bring more than 500 venders to the roadway that sep-arates Brooklyn Heights and Down-town Brooklyn for Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill. Atlantic Antic (Atlantic Avenue between Hicks Street and Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill and Cobble Hill) on Oct. 4 from 10 am–6 pm.

THE REAL PARADE The granddaddy of all Halloween galas, the Park Slope Children’s Hal-loween Parade, marches down Sev-enth Avenue from 12th Street to Third Street and then onto J.J. Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue. It’s a new route for what is undeniably one of the greatest traditions in America, a country that may be big, but does not have a larger children’s parade than this one. Earlier in the day, kids can warm up with games, face painting, and a costume contest at the fourth annual Puppetry Arts Haunted Halloween Carnival. Puppetry Arts Haunted Hallow-een Carnival at PS 372 [First Street between Third and Fourth avenues in Park Slope, (718) 768-3703] on Oct. 31 from 11 am–4 pm. Park Slope Chil-dren’s Halloween Parade (Seventh Avenue at 12th Street to Third Street to J.J. Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue) on Oct. 31 from 6:30–9 pm.

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WONDER BOY Literary legend Michael Cha-bon — the writer of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,” “Wonder Boys” and “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” — will discuss the art of nonfiction writing in a read-ing of his new book, “Manhood for Amateurs,” at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Michael Chabon at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library [Grand Army Plaza between Flat-bush Avenue and Eastern Parkway (718) 230-2100] on Oct. 8 at 7 pm.

PAUL’S PARTY Famed Park Slope scribe Paul Auster — author of “The Brooklyn Follies” and “Timbuktu” — will read and sign copies of his new novel, “Invisible.” Paul Auster at PowerHouse Are-na [37 Main St. at Water Street in DUMBO, (718) 666-3049] on Nov. 12 at 7 pm.

ROCK SHOW In world of rock and roll, how you look can be just as important as how you sound. So it’s no surprise that the Brooklyn Museum has decided to honor the photographers who have turned struggling singers into stars. In the new exhibit, “Who Shot Rock and Roll,” visitors will see iconic im-ages of their favorite rockers. “Who Shot Rock and Roll” at the Brooklyn Museum [200 East-ern Pkwy. at Washington Avenue in Crown Heights (718) 638-5000]. Opens Oct. 30.

ART IN DUMBO Almost all of DUMBO will be on show from Sept. 25–27, when the Arts Under the Bridge festival trans-forms the neighborhood into a veri-table gallery space. Dozens of artists will set up installations indoors and outdoors at the 13th annual iteration of the festival, including one work highlighting the city’s history as a hub for oysters, and another titled “Wel-come to NYC; Boomtown,” which

details the city before last year’s real estate bust. Art Under the Bridge in DUM-BO. Sept. 25–27. For info, visit www.dumboartscenter.org.

WORDPLAY More than 250 artists have lent their works — and their words — to “The Words of Color,” a group show combining visual art with written ex-planations composed by the artists themselves. “The Words of Color” at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition [499 Van Brunt St. at Reed Street in Red Hook, (718) 596-2506]. Week-ends from 1–6 pm until Oct. 25.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s ongoing BAMcinematek series will

screen a number of noteworthy flicks and film series this falls, including: • A retrospective on the work of Ni-colas Winding Refn — a Danish film-maker known for dark, violent, master-fully directed crime movies, including “Fear X” (Oct. 1) and the “Pusher” tril-ogy (Oct. 4), before which the movi-emaker will take part in a Q and A. • An exploration of contemporary filmmaking in Uruguay (Oct. 16–18) featuring “The Pope’s Toilet,” “La Per-rera” and “Kill Them All.” • A series on new French films (Nov. 11–15) including “Irene,” “Please, Please Me,” and “Park Benches.” BAMcinematek at the BAM Rose Cinemas [30 Lafayette Ave. be-tween Ashland and St. Felix places in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100]. For information and a full schedule, visit www.bam.org.

SUPER DUPER 8 Talk about a rough cut! Moviemak-ers taking part at Flicker NYC will film a 50-foot spool of Super 8 film, process it, and immediately screen their unedited picture for the first time in front of a live audience. Flicker NYC at the Brooklyn Ly-ceum [227 Fourth Ave. between President and Union Streets in Park Slope (718) 857-4816] on Oct. 9 at 7:30 pm. Tickets, $7.


Fall into it: The Atlantic Antic (above) takes place on Oct. 4. The Brooklyn Museum’s big fall show is “Who Shot Rock and Roll,” featuring some of the greatest music photography ever, including this shot of a sweaty Tina Turner.

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PIES ON THE PRIZE Brooklyn sweet tooths will cele-brate the art of the pie in DUMBO on Sept. 27, when more than 150 bak-ers will serve the beloved desserts in Bubby’s sixth annual pie social. Show off your culinary skills by bringing your own pie ($5), or grub on five samples ($25). Bubby’s Pie Social [1 Main St. be-tween Plymouth and Water streets, in DUMBO (718) 222-0666] on Sept. 27 from noon–3 pm. Tickets, $25 for five samples, $5 if you bring your own pie.

HOT PEPPERS Get ready to get hot! In honor of hot peppers and the cultures that love them, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden will celebrate the “Chile Pepper Fi-esta,” an all-ages event with concerts, hot sauce tastings, and chocolate pair-ings that will merge spicy and sweet flavors. “Chile Pepper Fiesta” at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden [1000 Washington Ave. between Crown and Montgomery streets in Crown Heights, (718) 623-7200] on Oct. 3 from noon–6:30 pm.

RAGA-TON! Bay Ridge’s legendary Ragamuffin parade is the perfect warm-up for Hal-loween. Almost a month before the hol-iday, tykes can try out their costumes in a romp down Third Avenue. Ragamuffin Parade (Third Avenue in Bay Ridge) on Oct. 3. Final location yet to be determined. For info, visit www.thirdavenuebayridge.com.

GET ANTIC-UATED! The Atlantic Antic — the epic, 10-block long street festival now in its 35th year — will bring more than 500 venders to the roadway that sep-arates Brooklyn Heights and Down-town Brooklyn for Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill. Atlantic Antic (Atlantic Avenue between Hicks Street and Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill and Cobble Hill) on Oct. 4 from 10 am–6 pm.

THE REAL PARADE The granddaddy of all Halloween galas, the Park Slope Children’s Hal-loween Parade, marches down Sev-enth Avenue from 12th Street to Third Street and then onto J.J. Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue. It’s a new route for what is undeniably one of the greatest traditions in America, a country that may be big, but does not have a larger children’s parade than this one. Earlier in the day, kids can warm up with games, face painting, and a costume contest at the fourth annual Puppetry Arts Haunted Halloween Carnival. Puppetry Arts Haunted Hallow-een Carnival at PS 372 [First Street between Third and Fourth avenues in Park Slope, (718) 768-3703] on Oct. 31 from 11 am–4 pm. Park Slope Chil-dren’s Halloween Parade (Seventh Avenue at 12th Street to Third Street to J.J. Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue) on Oct. 31 from 6:30–9 pm.


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CINEMA, “DAMAGE”: Star-ring Juliette Binoche. $11. 2, 4:30, 6:50 and 9:15 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafayette Ave. near St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100], www.bam.org.

READING, FRANK PORTMAN: The author of “An-dromeda Klein.” Free. 4 pm. Word [126 Franklin St. at Milton Street in Green-point, (718) 383-0096], wordbrooklyn.wordpress.com.

ART, “ORGY OF FRUM”: An international showcase of the best artists of our time. Free. 5-8 pm. Jon Frum Art Foundation [66 Washington Ave. in Fort Greene, (646) 895 6368], www.jonfru-martfoundation.com.

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OUTDOORS AND TOURSHAWK WEEKEND: See Satur-

day, Sept. 19.LEFFERT’S HISTORIC

HOUSE: See Saturday, Sept. 19.

PERFORMANCEMEGA ART SHOW: See Sat-

urday, Sept. 19.THEATER, “THE HOUSE OF

BLUE LEAVES”: 3 pm. See Friday, Sept. 18.

3 pm. See Fri-day, Sept. 18.

THEATER, “KILL ME LOUDLY”: 8 pm. See Fri-

day, Sept. 18.

SALES AND MARKETS See

Saturday, Sept. 19.BROOKLYN FLEA MARKET:

See Saturday, Sept. 19.FULTON FLEA: Weather per-

mitting. 10 am. Brooklyn Plaza Medical Center (650 Fulton St. near Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene), www.fultonflea.com.

ARTISTS AND FLEAS: See Saturday, Sept. 19.

FARMERS MARKET: Free. 11 am–5 pm. J.J. Byrne Park (Fifth Avenue and Fourth Street in Park Slope).

OUTDOOR ART SHOW AND SALE: Free. 11 am–4 pm. Narrows Botanical Gar-dens [Shore Road and Bay Ridge Avenue in Bay Ridge, (718) 748-9848], www.nar-rowsbg.org.

OTHERFREE HIGH HOLIDAY SER

VICES: See Saturday, Sept. 19.

MEGA ART SHOW: See Sat-urday, Sept. 19.

CINEMA, “FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON”: Starring Juliette Binoche. $11. 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafayette Ave. near St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100], www.bam.org.

LECTURE ON COMEDY: “Why Talented People Cre-ate Terrible Shows,” hosted by Eric Slovin and Leo Allen. $7. 3 pm. The Bell House [149 Seventh St. at Third Avenue in Gowanus, (718) 643-6510], www.the-bellhouseny.com.

READING, ALASTAIR REID: The author of “Ounce Dice Trice.” Free. 3 pm. Word [126 Franklin St. at Milton Street in Greenpoint, (718) 383-0096], wordbrooklyn.wordpress.com.

WOMEN AND BUSINESS: Networking and learning event — with drinks! 4 pm. Cafe Nijasol [173 Montrose Ave. in Greenpoint, (718) 599-1612].

ART, “ORGY OF FRUM”: See Saturday, Sept. 19.

READING, DIRK WITTENBORN: The author of “PHARMAKON… or The Story of a Happy Fam-ily.” Free. 7 pm. Freebird Bookstore [123 Colum-bia St. in Columbia Street Waterfront, 718-858-1983], freebirdbooks.com.

MON, SEPT. 21FREE HIGH HOLIDAY SER


CINEMA, “BLUE”: Starring Juliette Binoche. $11. 4:30 and 6:50 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafayette Ave. near St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100], www.bam.org.


WOMEN’S WRITING GROUP: All genres, all skills welcome. Free. 6 pm- 8 pm. Abigail Cafe and Wine Bar [807 Classon Ave. at St. Johns Place in Prospect Heights, (718) 399-3200], www.abigailbrooklyn.com.

READING, “WALRUS OF LOVE: Barry White and the American Experience”: Led by James Hook. 7:30 pm. Pete’s Candy Store [709 Lorimer St. at Richardson Street in Williamsburg,

(718) 302-3770], www.pet-escandystore.com.

THEATER, “MONDAY I’M IN LOVE”: A weekly evening of Provacative Theatrical Dance, Cabaret, Comedy and Magic. $10. 8pm. Pub-lic Assembly [70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Wil-liamsburg, (718) 782-5188], www.publicassemblynyc.com.

THEATER, “KILL ME LOUDLY”: See Friday, Sept. 18.

TUES, SEPT. 22FREE HIGH HOLIDAY SER


CINEMA, “FAMILY LIFE”: Starring Juliette Binoche. $11. 4:30, 6:50 and 9:15 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafayette Ave. near St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100], www.bam.org.


TASTE OF RED HOOK: Third annual eating event in a great eating neighbor-hood. $100 (advance). 6 pm. Kidd Yellin Gallery [131 Imlay St. in Red Hook, (718) 858-678], www.rhicenter.org.

The author of “Ragtime” reads from his new book, “Homer & Langley.” Free. 7 pm. BookCourt [163 Court St. between Pacific and Dean streets in Cobble Hill, (718) 875-3677], www.bookcourt.org.

THEATER AUDITIONS: 7 pm. See Saturday, Sept. 19.

7:30 pm. See Friday, Sept. 18.

READING, DAVID FARLEY AND TONY PERROTTET: A literary debate between the author of “Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church’s Strangest Relic in Italy’s Oddest Town” and ” Napoleon’s Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped.” Free. 7:30 pm. The Dia-mond [43 Franklin St. be-tween Calyer and Quay streets. in Greenpoint, (718) 383-0096], word-brooklyn.wordpress.com.


WED, SEPT. 23FREE HIGH HOLIDAY SER



READING, MEGAN MCANDREW: The author of “Dreaming in French.” Free. 7 pm. BookCourt [163 Court St. between Pacific and Dean streets in Cobble Hill, (718) 875-3677], www.bookcourt.org.

READING, TAD FRIEND: The author of “Cheerful Money — Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor.” Free. 7 pm. BookCourt [163 Court St. between Pacific and Dean streets in Cobble Hill, (718) 875-3677], www.bookcourt.org.

7:30 pm. See Friday, Sept. 18.


MUSIC, PRONTO: Great band led by Wilco keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen performs. 8 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638-4400], www.unionhallny.com.

THURS, SEPT. 24FARMERS MARKET: Lutheran

Hospital offers a greenmar-ket. 8 am-5 pm. Lutheran Hospital (100 55th St. between First and Second avenues in Sunset Park).

FREE HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICES: See Saturday, Sept. 19.

ENVIRONMENTAL FAIR AND SYMPOSIUM: ”Green Brooklyn…Green City” focuses on a sustain-able future through work-shops, a textile sculpture and activities for kids. Free. 11:30 am-6 pm. Brooklyn Borough Hall [209 Jora-lemon St., between Adams and Court streets in Down-town Brooklyn, (212) 788-7900], www.cenyc.org.

CINEMA, “MAUVAIS SANG”: Starring Juliette Binoche. $11. 4:30, 6:50 and 9:15 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafayette Ave. near St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100], www.bam.org.


READING, EMMA STRAUB: The author of “Fly-Over State.” Free. 7 pm. BookCourt [163 Court St. between Pacific and Dean streets in Cobble Hill, (718) 875-3677], www.bookcourt.org.

READING, ADDICTION IN PRINT: Authors Joshua Lyon, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, and Lesley Arfin talk about addiction. Free. 7 pm. Pow-erHouse Arena [37 Main St. at Water Street in DUMBO, (718) 666-3049], www.pow-erhousearena.com.

DARFUR LECTURE: Two pro-fessors talk about the on-going disaster. Free. 7 pm. Brooklyn Friends Meeting House [110 Schermerhorn St. at Boerum Place in Downtown Brooklyn, (718) 642-5921].

READING, ROCK JOURNALISTS TELL ALL: Three journalists and one musi-cian talk about the rewards and difficulties of covering rock and roll. Free. 7:30 pm. Word [126 Franklin St. at Milton Street in Green-point, (718) 383-0096], wordbrooklyn.wordpress.com.

See Friday, Sept. 18.

THEATER, “THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES”: 8 pm. See Friday, Sept. 18.

READING, MELVIN VAN PEEBLES: Moviemaker discusses his new graphic novel, “Confessions of a Ex-Doofus Itchyfooted Mutha.” Free. 8 pm. Old American Can Factory [232 Third St. between Third Av-enue and Nevins Street in Gowanus, (718) 643-9193], www.akashicbooks.com.


MUSIC, POLITE SLEEPER: Post-folk trio 8 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638-4400], www.unionhallny.com.

FRI, SEPT. 25ART UNDER THE BRIDGE

FESTIVAL: The annual art show that turns DUMBO into an open-air museum. Free. All day. DUMBO Arts

Center [30 Washington St. between Plymouth and Water streets in DUMBO, (718) 694-0831], www.dum-boartscenter.org.

CINEMA, “LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE”: Starring Juliette Binoche. $11. 3, 6 and 9 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafayette Ave. near St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100], www.bam.org.



MUSIC, GUITARIST MAJORIE THOMPSON: $15. 7:30 pm. Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture [53 Prospect Park West at Second Street in Park Slope, (718) 768-2972], www.gchmusic.org.

THEATER, “THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES”: 8 pm. See Friday, Sept. 18.


CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT: Works by Alan Paul, Dvorak and Bartok. $30. 8 pm. First Unitarian Church [Pierrepont Street between Clinton Street and Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 858-0718], www.brooklynchamber-musicsociety,org.

MUSIC, MALENE YOUNGLAO: The alternative rocker helps BAMCafe celebrate its 10th birthday. Free. 9 pm. BAM Café [30 Lafay-ette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort Greene, (718) 230-4100], www.bam.org.

SAT, SEPT. 26

OUTDOORS AND TOURSBIKE IT: See Saturday, Sept.

19.ENVIRONMENTAL MUSEUM

ON WHEELS: The nature and maritime Enviromedia Mobile. Exhibits, ecocruises, fishing, touch tank, movies, refreshments, music. Nature at the Beach Series. Free. 11 am. Valentino Park [Coffey and Ferris Streets in Red Hook, (347) 224-5828], www.urbandivers.org.

INTRODUCTION TO BIRDWATCHING: See Saturday, Sept. 19.

LEFFERT’S HISTORIC HOUSE: See Saturday, Sept. 19.

PERFORMANCEFREE OUTDOOR CON

CERT: Alan Friend, HIP LIKE [blank], Rachel Lee Walsh perform. Free. Noon. Grand Army Plaza [Flatbush Avenue at Union Street in Park Slope, (718) 965-8999], www.prospect-park.org.


THEATER, “THE HOUSE OF

BLUE LEAVES”: 2 pm. See Friday, Sept. 18.

SHAKESPEARE’S “THE TEMPEST”: Brave New World Repertory Theatre pres-ents a classic. Free. 3 pm. New York Aquarium educa-tion building (Boardwalk at W. 10th Street in Coney Island), www.bravenew-worldrep.org.

MUSIC, RECORD COMPANY PARTY AND BBQ: Bloodshot records celebrates its 15th anniversary with free food for the first 150 people. Exene Cervenka, the Silos will be there, too. $5. 4 pm. The Bell House [149 Seventh St. at Third Avenue in Gowanus, (718) 643-6510], www.thebellhouseny.com.

DANCE, CAPOEIRA ENCOUNTER: A mix of music, dance and martial arts. $10. 6 pm. Berkeley Carroll Ath-letic Center [762 President St. between Sixth and Sev-enth avenues in Park Slope, (917) 656-1860], www.ca-poeirabrooklyn.com.

MUSIC, SHOWPAPER BENEFIT: Kendrick Strauch, Shilpa Ray, The Trachten-burg Family Slideshow Players, Rebecca Schiff-man, Sarah and Michelle Cagianese, and surprise guests will perform. $8-$25 (pay what you can). 7 pm. Red Hook Labs [133 Imlay St. in Red Hook, (917) 375-5433], www.myspace.com/showpaper.


SALES AND MARKETS See

Saturday, Sept. 19.HATTIE CARTHAN COMMU

NITY MARKET: See Satur-day, Sept. 19.

BROOKLYN FLEA MARKET: See Saturday, Sept. 19.

BROOKLYN FLEA: See Satur-day, Sept. 19.

ARTISTS AND FLEAS: See Saturday, Sept. 19.

OTHERART UNDER THE BRIDGE

FESTIVAL: See Friday, Sept. 25.


CINEMA, “CACHÉ”: Starring Juliette Binoche. $11. 2 and 6:50 pm. Brooklyn Acad-emy of Music [30 Lafayette Ave. near St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100], www.bam.org.

CINEMA, “CODE UNKNOWN”: Starring Juliette Binoche. $11. 4:30 and 9:30 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafayette Ave. near St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100], www.bam.org.


Legendary songstress Ute Lemper will sing the songs of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill at Galapagos Art Space on Sept. 19.


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staffing levels are low, patients are more likely to develop complications and infections.

The RNs are in contract negotiations with the hospital, and are striving to add enforce-

able staffing improvements to the new contract. Unfortunately, the hospital is unwilling

to commit to improved staffing.

To recruit and retain the best nurses, RNs must be recognized for their contribu-

tion. Currently the hospital is demanding pay cuts for RNs. If salaries fall below that of

surrounding hospitals, there may be an exodus of nurses and care will suffer.

To make TBHC into the best provider of inpatient and outpatient services, the hospital’s

management team, the professional and non-professional staff, and the community must

all pull together and do their part.

Community residents can help by urging the hospital to:

Agree to enforceable RN staffing proposals

Drop their demands for pay cuts and agree to a salary increase comparable to

wages at other area hospitals.

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If your all-star team in-cludes Henry David Tho-reau before Henry Aaron, Edgar Allen Poe before Ed-gar Renteria, and Walt Whit-man before … Walt Weiss, then you’re in luck. Two bookish baseball fans have drafted these famed au-thors — as well as other ca-nonical American literary figures like Huck Finn and Captain Ahab — as players on a fictional ballclub, and they’re selling team jerseys for $25 apiece. David Bukszpan came up with the idea on the sub-way when he looked up from his Whitman tome to spot a Yankees fan sporting a Derek Jeter replica jersey. “I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing if I had a shirt

think that “pitching” is some-thing you do to a publishing house, and “the count” refers to a number of pages. “People get to know these characters or these authors much better than they do an athlete,” he said. “When you watch Jeter bat, you get a sense of who he is, but it’s nothing like the relationship you can have with Huck Finn when you spend a couple hun-dred pages with him.” The team’s line-up also in-cludes catcher Moby Dick, leftfielder Bartleby the Scriv-ener, second baseman Tom Sawyer, and first basewoman Hester Prynne. Novel-T launch party and barbeque at Freebird Books [123 Columbia St. at Kane Street, (718) 643-8484] on Sept. 20 from 2 to 5 pm.

celebrate its official launch at Freebird Books on Sunday. Bukszpan said his tees should become the game-day shirts of Brooklynites who

with someone’s name I really wanted on my back — one of my heroes?’” said Bukszpan, co-founder and general man-ager of Novel-T, which will

By Helen Rittelmeyerfor The Brooklyn Paper

Baseball is an old-fashioned game, but not usually quite as old-fashioned as it was on Sunday, when the Brook-lyn Atlantics — the spiritual heirs to New York’s original diamond dynasty — met the New York Gothams in Wash-ington Park and played the game as it would have been played in 1864. The Dodgers this ain’t. It took most onlookers a while to figure out what was going on, given that the pitchers throw underhand; fielders don’t wear gloves; players can catch the ball on one bounce yet still record an out; and the uniforms look weird — just as in 1864. “No, these aren’t capri pants,” vin-tage baseball player Brad Shaw told a crowd amused by his short pants, bib-front uniform, and newsboy cap. Vintage baseball players also tone down their heckling, as a way to rec-reate the gentlemanly courtesy of the 19th-century game. That said, there’s still 1860s-style trash-talking. “It’s not very manly to catch the ball on a bounce for an out,” he told the crowd. “So if you see somebody do that, even on the Brooklyn team, please yell out, ‘Not manly!’” There are about 200 vintage baseball teams in the United States. The Atlan-tics play a full season, with games al-most every weekend from April to Oc-tober. “We play by 1864 rules because the original Atlantics were champions that year,” said Elmore.

That said, Washington Park figures prominently in the history of Brooklyn baseball. The park’s location on Fifth Av-enue between Third and Fourth Streets was the site of the home of the Brook-lyn Dodgers before Ebbets Field opened in 1912. One big difference between old Washington Park and the new one: fake turf. “These vintage teams don’t usually play on synthetic turf, but they made a special dispensation because of the his-tory of the field,” said Kim Maier, exec-utive director of the Old Stone House, the restored 17th-century Dutch farm-house whose history as a Revolution-ary War battleground pre-dates even baseball.

The old Brooklyn Atlantics were in-deed champions in 1864. And in ’59, ’60, ’61, ’65, and ’66, making them base-ball’s first dynasty. The 1860s were a golden age for Brooklyn baseball, a time when the look and style of the modern game was being established. “Brooklyn teams went on tours in the 1860s, and when teams from Balti-more, Boston, and Philadelphia saw how the Brooklyn teams were playing, they gave up their local styles,” said baseball historian Tom Gilbert, author of “Ely-sian Fields: The Birth of Baseball.” Shaw wasn’t as definitive as Gilbert. “They have bat-and-ball games on hieroglyphics in Egypt,” he said. “No-body invented baseball. History invented baseball.”

PLAY BALL!

OLD SCHOOL: The Brooklyn Atlantics beat the New York Gothams, 14–2, in vintage baseball at the Old Stone House on Sunday.

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Who knew there was a wild boar residing on Garfield Place? It just doesn’t seem like the place for such a beast — or maybe it does. The wild boar, and dozens of other animals, populate lots of Brooklyn neighborhoods — and that’s the point behind architectural historian Isabel Hill’s new picture book for children, “Urban Animals,” which was pub-lished by Star Bright Books on Sept. 9. The book’s goal is to teach children to look around and observe the details, such as the dogs that are part of a column on West 84th Street in Manhattan, or the rab-bits on the cornice of the Bunny Theater on Broadway. “I know this might sound hokey,” Hill said, “but since having a child of my own, I’ve been aware of how impor-tant it is to start observing your environment early.” Developing an awareness of building details causes children, and adults as well, to take pride in their commu-nities, and when that happens, Hill said, people become

committed to their neighborhoods and want to preserve whatever is spe-cial about them. Hill has made a career out of appre-ciating the details of architecture. Originally trained as a historic pres-ervationist, her di-verse job history in-cludes working for

the American Building Survey in National Parks, being a city planner in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, and even standing hundreds of feet in the air on a scaffold in the middle of New York Harbor photographing the Statue of Liberty during her last restoration in 1986. In Brooklyn, Hill is best known for her filmmaking. Her first documentary, “Made in Brooklyn,” explored manufacturing in Brooklyn and her second, “Brooklyn Matters,” focused a laser beam on the controversial At-lantic Yards project. Yet an-other, still in planning, will explore public housing. Hill’s interest in building details is heartfelt. “I keep my camera with me always,” she said. When her daughter, Anna, now age 13, was small, the pair would wan-der in search of animal images that had been incorporated into the details of city buildings. Many of their finds appear in “Urban Animals,” which Hill hopes will be the first in a series of six books for children about urban architecture. She would not reveal the themes of those tomes, but did reveal the location of that wild boar: It’s at 250 Gar-field Pl. between Seventh and Eighth avenues. At the book party on Tuesday, she’ll give away other secrets, including the location of a building in Park Slope with three dogs on it. Book party for Isabel Hill’s “Urban Animals,” Tues-day, Sept, 22 at 7 pm at the Old Stone House [336 Third St. between Fourth and Fifth avenues in Park Slope, (718) 768-3195].

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