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‘Flea’ marketBy Lisa J. CurtisGO Brooklyn Editor

The Gallery at Artists & Fleas will cele-brate its grand opening this Saturday, June5. The new Williamsburg gallery is a rotat-ing “show and sell” space created exclu-sively for Brooklyn artists, according tocurator Jess Levey.

The gallery exhibits will feature the works ofeight to 10 emerging visual artists (painters, photog-raphers and multimedia artists) on its walls with ad-ditional space to shelve and display smaller works.The artists on display this weekend include CrownHeights resident Kit Kaplan (whose 2004 photo-graph “Cycle Diner” is pictured above), as well asLevey, Hayley Hara, Kimberly Ng, Rondall

Reynoso, Miranda Hellman and Lara Robby. Newartists will be featured every two to four weeks.

The “casual gallery” is inside an existing4,000-square-foot flea market, which opened inDecember 2003, said Levey. The gallery willnot be taking a commission for large works, sheexplained, resulting in affordable prices for col-lectors.

Artists & Fleas is located at the M&V Ware-house, 146 N. Sixth St. between BedfordAvenue and Berry Street. The gallery isopen June 5, from noon to 7 pm, witha reception from 7 pm to 10 pm, aswell as during Artists & Fleas mar-ket hours: Sundays, from noonto 7 pm. For more informa-tion, visit www.artistsand-fleas.com.

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PIGGY-BACKED BANKSources: Walentas to buildabove Atlantic Ave. Indy

Sources say developer David Walentas wants to build above and adjacent to the historic Independence Bankat the corner of Court Street and Atlantic Avenue in the Cobble Hill Historical District.

By Deborah KolbenThe Brooklyn Papers

Real estate developer DavidWalentas, best known forbuilding up DUMBO, has nowturned his eye south, to CobbleHill.

The developer is in discussionswith Independence CommunityBank to build a five-story apart-ment building in the parking lotadjacent to their historic mainbranch on the corner of CourtStreet and Atlantic Avenue,sources told The Brooklyn Papers.

The new construction wouldalso extend over the top of thebank, a Florentine Renaissance-style brick building built in 1922

that is part of the Cobble Hill His-toric District.

Michael Armstrong, spokesmanfor Independence CommunityBank, declined to comment on theproject.

Asked if the bank was consider-ing moving to another location,Armstrong said, “Absolutely not,it’s our branch number one.”

In the early 1990s, the bankconsidered building an officebuilding on the parking lot to ac-commodate the growing numberof employees.

“But it was decided that a largeenough space could not be builtthere,” said Armstrong.

The office space was ultimatelypicked up at 195 Montague St.

Simeon Bankoff, executive di-rector of the Historic DistrictsCouncil, raised some concernsabout building over the bank.

“You have to be really carefulwhen adding to a historic building.We don’t want the situation whereyou have the addition that ate thebuilding,” said Bankoff.

If the deal goes through, the At-lantic Avenue building would be thefourth site owned by Walentas in thegreater Downtown Brooklyn areaoutside DUMBO.

The DUMBO real estate mogulrecently razed the municipal park-ing garage across the street, at At-lantic Avenue and Court Street, tomake way for a 12-story buildingwith 20,000 square feet of ground-

floor retail space, about 600 under-ground, public parking spaces and250 apartments on the secondthrough 12th floors. A 40,000-square-foot YMCA is also part ofthe project.

Earlier this year, Walentas wona bid to convert the former Boardof Education headquarters at 110Livingston St. into luxury condo-miniums.

Walentas is also in contract for afour-story building at 168 AtlanticAve., near Clinton Street, formallyoccupied by the family-run ClintonHouse Furniture store.

Jed Walentas, a principal of hisfather’s Two Trees Management,declined to comment on the Inde-pendence Community Bank project.

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Support the Nets … and win aprize!

Drumming up support for his mas-sive Atlantic Yards development proj-ect, real estate mogul Bruce Ratner sentout 350,000 glossy pamphlets toBrooklyn homes over Memorial Dayweekend promising residents a free giftif they back his plan.

The colorful foldout, with words ofpraise from Sen. Charles Schumer,Borough President Marty Markowitz

and a slew of other politicians, is thefirst major mailing Ratner has put outsince he first announced the $2.5 billionbasketball arena, and retail and residen-tial development last December.

In addition to photos of children andyoung families, the mailing includes aperforated tear-away postcard with thewords — “Yes! I support AtlanticYards.”

Residents who send the card back

are promised “a free Brooklyn NetsSouvenir.” Each card also contains abarcode that includes their address in-formation.

There is no place to indicate opposi-tion to the plan.

“It’s such a sleazy tactic to say if youfill this out you get a free souvenir,”said Jackie Connor, a Park Slope resi-dent who said she scribbled the words“eminent domain abuse” on the card

before sending it back. “I hope they’ll see that as a no,” she

said.As part of the sweeping plan Ratner,

principal owner of Forest City Ratner,seeks to either buy-out or have the statecondemn 11-acres of privately ownedland.

The rest of the 21-acre project,which encompasses six blocks in

By Ed Beesonfor The Brooklyn Papers

The granddaddy of Brooklyn beers isready to come home.

Officials of the Rheingold Brewing Companyannounced Wednesday that the company willsoon resume brewing in Brooklyn for the firsttime in 28 years.

By late June or early July, Rheingold will rollout a new draft lager from the Greenpoint BeerWorks in Clinton Hill.

The new brew, “1883,” is named for the yearthat the Rheingold brand launched from Bushwickand is based on a recipe from that time.

“It feels great to be back,” Rheingold’s CEOand president, Tom Bendheim, told reporters atthe Brooklyn Historical Society in BrooklynHeights. “We look forward to being New York’sNo. 1 brewer once again.”

Bendhiem was joined at the June 2 press con-ference by Borough President Marty Markowitzand a descendant of the brewery’s foundersagainst a backdrop of Brooklyn brewing memo-rabilia that is part of the historical society’s cur-rent “100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” exhibit.

Although Rheingold will continue to brewmost of its product in upstate Utica, the movesignals the company’s boldest move yet to re-

capture its past glory.Rheingold once held about a third of the New

York City market. And the brewery, originallycalled the Liebman Brewery for the German immi-grant family who founded it in 1851, sponsoredeverything from the Mets to an annual Miss Rhein-gold contest.

But growing competition from national brandslike Anheuser-Busch and Miller proved toofierce. In 1976, Rheingold closed its landmarkBushwick brewery, and the beer soon disap-peared from the city.

In 1998, Rheingold reopened under a Lieb-man descendant named Walter “Terry” Lieb-man. In 2002, Bendheim bought the company.Leibman remained on as chairman of the board.

Markowitz hailed the return of one of thecity’s most guzzled icons as proof of people’sfaith in the new Brooklyn.

“People who left Brooklyn are coming back,”Markowitz told The Brooklyn Papers. “If it’s notthem, then its their kids and grandkids.

“I wish them luck,” Markowitz said of Rhein-gold. “The better they do, the more people theyhire.”

Both Bendheim and Liebman declined to sayhow many new jobs would be created in ClintonHill. Kelly Taylor, the brewmaster at the Beer

BEER HERERheingold back in Brooklyn

Borough President Marty Markowitz with Miss Rheingold 2004 Dani Marco at BrooklynHistorical Society annoucement that brewer will return to the borough.

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‘Duck’boats in HookLand-Water toursset to launchBy Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers

While not indigenous to Brooklyn, ducksmay be migrating to Red Hook later this year.

Not the webbed-footed waterfowls, which havespread throughout the marshlands as liberally as ratson Governor’s Island. But rather the amphibiousmotor vehicles once championed by Gen. GeorgePatton during World War II and later reinvented astourist attractions from Seattle to Washington, D.C.

An entrepreneur who saved his pennies over thepast 15 years as the owner of several Central Parkhorse carriages plans to duplicate the watery attrac-tion that’s been floating — and driving — most fa-mously in Boston, but longest in Branson, Mo., sincethe late 1940s.

Scott Baker, a Red Hook resident and some-thing of a renaissance man, plans to house his23,000-pound, 40-seat duck boat at Pier 41, nearBeard Street, a spot destined to draw crowds as theneighborhood continues to reinvent itself amid on-going redevelopment.

“The trolley boat was built from the ground up forthe purposes of sightseeing,” said Baker, a talented

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The incident happened at 5pm on May 26.

The victim, 27, was enter-ing her building at AtlanticAvenue and Hicks Streetwhen the attacker walked upfrom behind and slammed herhead and the right side of herface against a wall severaltimes.

The woman began scream-ing and her assailant yelled ather to, “Shut up.” He made offwith a white handbag, $60 incash and a cell phone, policesaid.

Home tossedWhen a man returned to his

Remsen Street apartment afterbeing gone for a day, he foundthe whole apartment turnedupside down.

Burglars had apparentlybusted through the front doorof his home near ClintonStreet and ransacked theplace, opening drawers andemptying closets, the 29-year-old victim told police.

The incident occurredsometime between 10:30 pm

on March 25 and 8 pm thenext night.

The bandit made off with astash of loot including a slewof DVDs, speakers, a silverpocket watch, cufflinks andpile of loose change totaling$150, according to police.

Ask & answer“You ever been robbed?

You even been stabbed?” arenot exactly the words some-one walking alone in the earlymorning hours hopes to hear.

But that was exactly thesweet nothing uttered to a 17-year-old boy making his wayalong Court Street near De-graw Street at 3 am on May31.

After asking the questions,the suspect — wearing a bluebaseball cap and white sneak-ers — clicked open a switch-blade in his pocket and askedthe teen for his money.

The victim handed over aMetroCard and student IDcard and the suspect ran off.

Laptop burgleA man said goodbye to his

laptop computer this week af-ter burglars broke into hisapartment at the corner of Jo-ralemon and Henry streets.

The victim, 25, went out at

4:30 pm on May 24 and re-turned home at 5 am the nextday to discover the front doorforced open and his IBM lap-top, which he valued at$3,500, missing.

High rollerForget car-jacking or even

bicycle thefts, a 44-year-oldthief was placed under arrestthis week when police noticedhim stealing a pair ofRollerblades and wrist guardsfrom an apartment on RemsenStreet between Henry andHicks streets at 12:20 pm onMay 26.

Police say they found asmall amount of heroin in thesuspect’s pocket, as well as anumber of burglary tools.

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The incident began at 11:45am when a store clerk onBridge Street near FultonStreet noticed the man stealingitems and confronted him.

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with $30 worth of clothingand a cell phone valued at$100, police said.

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grabbed a woman’s bag at3:30 pm on May 28 as shewas exiting the 4 train at theBorough Hall station.

The victim, 47, told policeshe was carrying the purse inher hands when the crook ap-proached and grabbed it away.

A cell phone and $40 wereamong the missing items.

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dler hocking cigarettes on theFulton Mall this week, thesuspect tried to make a scene.

The 25-year-old was al-legedly caught selling untaxedcigarettes on the corner ofFulton and Bridge streets at1:30 pm on May 27.

When police tried to placehim under arrest, the tobaccolarcenist yelled out obsceni-ties, gathering a crowd aroundhim, and punched the officerin the face, police said.

Nap attackA woman snoozing on a

Brooklyn-bound D train mayhave been catching up on herzzz’s, but it cost her a bit ofdough.

The 28-year-old Bronxwoman woke up at AtlanticAvenue at 3:35 am on May 28and noticed that somebodyhad snagged her purse fromoff her left shoulder.

The bag contained a cellphone, driver’s license andkeys, police said.

Left printsUh oh, he forgot to wear his

gloves.Following a burglary on

Sackett Street near Hoyt Streetthis week, police were able tolift a set of fingerprints fromthe door panels.

The 41-year-old resident re-turned home on May 30 afterbeing away for five days anddiscovered his second-floorapartment in disarray.

Police believe the suspectmay have entered through thebasement door.

The burglar made off with$200, police said.

Green quits, thenvows to run againBy Marc HumbertAssociated Press

Calling his resignation thisweek from the state As-sembly “a needed act of con-trition,” the scandal-scarredRoger Green said Thursdayhe was definitely going torun for re-election this fall.

“I’ve been very moved bythe amount of support I’mfinding on the street,” said theProspect Heights Democrat ina telephone interview with theAssociated Press.

Green pleaded guilty in Feb-ruary to three misdemeanorcharges including two counts ofpetty larceny and one count ofoffering a false instrument. Thecase stemmed from a probe intofree transportation furnished tolawmakers by a state contractor.

Green was sentenced tothree years’ probation for steal-ing from the state by submit-ting fake travel vouchers forexpenses he never incurred. Aspart of a plea deal, Green wasordered to pay $3,000 in resti-tution and a $2,000 fine.

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tee calling for further sanc-tions against him, Green choseto resign Tuesday. Hours later,he announced he would seekre-election.

Green’s comments Thurs-day came a day after Assem-bly Speaker Sheldon Silver, afellow Democrat, had raiseddoubts about whether the ex-assemblyman would reallyrun for re-election.

“I feel compelled to run,”Green said Thursday. “If Idon’t win, I can live with that.”

Elected to the Assembly in1980, Green said Thursday thathe feels his prosecution wasbased in part on the fact that heis black and because he is astate legislator. He called it“celebrity prosecution.” Greencomplained that the news me-dia was quick to jump on thestory for the same reasons.

“There is a presumption ofguilt before a presumption ofinnocence,” he said of being ablack defendant.

As he has in the past, Greensaid his conviction stemmedfrom a lack of clear guidelinescovering legislative travel ex-penses.

“I did not intentionallybreak the law, but I acknowl-edge that the law was broken... I have a responsibility to ac-knowledge to my constituen-cy, to the state and to my col-leagues that I definitely madea mistake,” he said.

In resigning his Assemblyseat, Green loses his $79,500-a-year salary and the $12,500-a-year stipend he had received aschairman of the chamber’s Chil-dren and Families Committee.

The Green probe began af-ter a fellow state Assemblymember, Democrat GloriaDavis of the Bronx, resignedher seat and pleaded guiltyearly last year to briberycharges in connection withsteering state contracts to aBronx businessman.

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Uzi-toting hamburglarsinvade Fourth AvenueBy Deborah KolbenThe Brooklyn Papers

Two gun-toting punkswere looking for more thana happy meal when theybusted into a McDonalds onFourth Avenue at FirstStreet on May 24 at 9 pm.

After drawing what ap-peared to be an Uzi sub-ma-chinegun, one crook orderedthe customers into the backbefore turning the gun on themanager and demanding heopen the safe.

When the manager fumbledand was unable to gain accessat first, one of the suspectssmacked him on the head withthe gun.

The manger eventuallyopened the safe and handedover the money. At the sametime, the other bandit helpedhimself to the contents of the

store registers and the pair fledon foot down Fourth Avenue,making off with about $8,000.

Bike fiendsTwo friends riding bikes in

Prospect Park were attackedby a trio of teens this week.

The victims, both 13, wereriding near Wollman Rinkwhen the three thugs stoppedthem at 8 pm on May 23.

The attackers punched oneboy in the stomach beforesnatching his red bike andthen slugged the other boy inthe stomach and grabbed hisblack bike.

Carroll cars goCarroll Street was no friend

to motorists this week.A man parked his Toyota

Tercel on Carroll Street nearSixth Avenue at 5:15 pm onMay 25. But when he returnedthe next day at 4:30 pm thecar was nowhere to be found.

Meanwhile, when a womanwho parked her BMW blocksaway near Prospect Park Westwent to fetch the vehicle at4:30 pm the same day, shediscovered both headlightsmissing. She had parked thegray BMW at 8 am the previ-ous day, police said.45 or less

They came through thekitchen window.

A woman left her apart-ment on Prospect Park Westnear 12th Street at 8:45 am onMay 27 and by time she re-turned 45 minutes later some-body had broken in and stolenjewelry, a Blackberry textmessaging device and $100 incash.

Police believe the banditentered through the rear kitch-en window. Bags take trip

Stop, driver! You took myluggage!

A man heading to KennedyInternational Airport was infor a surprise this week when

a livery driver sped off withall his belongings.

The 35-year-old travelerwas loading his bags into thetrunk of the white LincolnTown Car at 6:30 am on May29 when he remembered hisgolf clubs upstairs.

The man ran back insidehis house at Seventh Streetnear Fifth Avenue to grab thebag, but when he returned hesaw the car service driverspeeding off down the streetwith his stuff.

The goods included a Sonylaptop, a passport, CDs, aleather duffel bag full ofclothes and a Canon digitalcamera.Low at Lowe’s

After perusing aisles ofpower tools, drill bits andlumber a shopper at the newLowe’s home improvementstore at Second Avenue and10th street was in for a shockwhen he returned to the park-ing lot.

The 58-year-old from Flori-da discovered that his 1993Lincoln Mark 5 was stolenfrom the lot, adjacent to theGowanus Canal, sometimebetween 8:30 am and 9 am onMay 27.

Security cameras at thestore captured images of thecar being driven out of the lot,police said.

Bank robberhas a sliceBy Deborah KolbenThe Brooklyn Papers

Make that to go.Apparently unable to resist

the wafting aromas of pizzabaking in the oven, a manwho robbed a Chase Bank ona busy stretch of Seventh Av-enue near CarrollStreet in Park SlopeWednesday, firststopped in for aslice.

“The guy camein and bought oneregular slice,” saidan employee atJoe’s Pizza. He saidthe man took hispizza to go.

The stocky ban-dit — who lookedlike he could han-dle another coupleof slices — laterwalked into theChase Bank onSeventh Avenueand Carroll Streetjust after 2 pm on June 2.

He passed the teller a notedemanding cash “or else,” ac-cording to police sources.

The teller handed over themoney, estimated at $5,000,and the unarmed pizza thieffled through the front door.

But not before a securitycamera captured a photo ofthe bandit who was describedas a heavyset man, about 5-foot-7, wearing blue jeans, ablack T-shirt and sneakers.

Following the heist, police

cordoned off the bank andsent customers to nearbyATMs.

Later, a police officer cameinto the pizza place with a stillfrom the bank’s surveillancecamera showing the banditand the pizza man recognizedhim.

Surveillance photo of bank rob suspectleaving Chase Bank on Wednesday.

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Cancer survivors to celebrateat Lutheran Medical Center


Borough President MartyMarkowitz made one thingperfectly clear at a publichearing on Tuesday night— he doesn’t want anybodymessing with the BrooklynBridge.

Those comments were par-ticularly directed towardDUMBO real estate developerDavid Walentas, who wants tobuild a 16-story apartmentbuilding adjacent to the his-toric landmark.

The proposed 178-foot-tallresidential and commercialbuilding would rise at 38 WaterSt., which is now home to thesingle-story St. Ann’s Ware-house. Walentas’application tobuild the 200-unit apartmentbuilding requires a zoningchange among other permis-sions and must therefore passthe city’s Uniform Land UseReview Procedure (ULURP).The application is now beforeMarkowitz after CommunityBoard 2 last month voted todeny the proposal.

The plan has raised the ireof DUMBO and BrooklynHeights residents who com-plain the massive building isout of scale and would blockviews of the bridge and detractfrom the borough’s major icon.

“You have a hard sell aheadof you,” Markowitz told JedWalentas, who represented hisfather’s Two Trees Manage-ment company at the publichearing at Borough Hall onJune 1.

“To me the overarching is-sue is the issue of the Brook-lyn Bridge and what it meansto the borough,” Markowitzadded.

At the hearing, severaldozen residents came to voicetheir opposition including rep-resentatives of the DUMBO,Brooklyn Heights, Fulton Fer-ry Landing and Vinegar Hillneighborhood associations.

Nancy Webster, presidentof the DUMBO Neighbor-hood Association, called theproject “intrusive” and askedthe developers to scale itback.

“The Brooklyn Bridge isthe most recognized andbeloved symbol of the bor-ough,” said Webster, adding

that the project is too close tothe bridge, would cast shad-ows on the pedestrian road-way and would overwhelmthe adjacent Civil War-eraEmpire Stores warehouses.

DUMBO resident SanjayMody said he would love tosee more pedestrian traffic butopposed the new building be-cause it would “privatize pub-lic views of the wonderful na-tional historical landmark.”

According to Jed Walentas,the architectural firm of Bey-er, Blinder, Belle spent a sig-nificant amount of time ensur-ing the building would notencroach on the bridge.

“There is no significant im-pact on the Brooklyn Bridge,”said Walentas, who made apoint of saying that while thebuilding is just 70 feet fromthe bridge, it is 600 feet fromthe bridge towers. He said thebuilding fits in with the rest ofthe neighborhood.

While local neighborhoodassociations came out in forceagainst the proposal, local busi-

ness owners, most of whocount David Walentas as theirlandlord, argued the new con-struction would add hundredsof residents and provide much-needed shoppers.

Owners of the Jacques Tor-res chocolate shop, Bubby’srestaurant and Rice restaurant,each of which awarded low-rent leases by Two Trees toentice them to DUMBO,spoke in favor of the proposal.

Jacques Torres, whoopened his critically ac-claimed shop down the blockfrom 38 Water St. three and ahalf years ago, praised theplan and emphasized the needfor more parking in the area.Tourists flock to buy his high-end chocolates and he willsoon open a bakery in a for-mer spice factory that wasrenovated by Walentas acrossthe street.

Bruce Silverglade, owner ofthe famous Gleason’s boxinggym on Front Street, said hemoved his business to the area20 years ago when the streets

were still filled with “crack ad-dicts and prostitutes.”

“They were visionaries,”Silverglade said, referring toWalentas’ Two Trees, whichbegan buying up property inthe 1980s and is credited withthe neighborhood’s transfor-mation.

“The building will onlyhelp the area, it won’t hurt it,”said Silverglade.

But Judy Stanton, executivedirector of the BrooklynHeights Association, coun-tered, “The future of DUMBOdoes not rest on this one build-ing.”

Several new residentialbuildings are slated for con-struction just blocks away.

The 38 Water St. buildingwould include 8,000 squarefeet of retail space along Wa-ter Street, an 8,500-square-foot performance space thatwould be rented to a non-prof-it arts group and a 327-spacepublic parking garage with anentrance and exit along FrontStreet.

If approved, constructionwould begin in three years,Jed Walentas said.

As part of the proposal Wa-lentas, is also seeking to knockdown a four-story, red-brickbuilding, which is listed on theNational Register of HistoricPlaces.

That building currently

houses the Smack Mellon Stu-dios art gallery. The studio willbe relocated to PlymouthStreet, Walentas said.

Markowitz must release hisdecision on the plan by thefirst week of July and it willthen be sent on to the CityPlanning Commission andCity Council.

Markowitz calls Walentas’ DUMBO tower a ‘tough sell’

By Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers

The Lutheran MedicalCenter is gearing up forNational Cancer SurvivorsDay this Sunday, June 6,with a host of specialguests, including a handfulof television news person-alities.

Billed as a celebration oflife, the event on will run from1 to 5 pm in the hospital’sparking lot on 56th Street be-tween First and Second av-enues in Sunset Park, rain orshine.

Besides the speakers, whoinclude WABC-TV news an-chorman Bill Ritter and LynBrown of “Good Day NewYork,” food and free-give-aways will be available to thepublic, said Neal Gorman, aspokesman for the hospital.

The national day of recog-

nition is heading into its 17thyear. But while the event hasgrown to about 700 communi-ties nationwide, a definitivetreatment for the disease re-mains undiscovered.

Of 89,000 New Yorkerswho were afflicted with can-cer in 2002, nearly 10,000were living in Brooklyn, ac-cording to the most recentNew York State Cancer Reg-istry figures, which are com-pile by the state Departmentof Health. In that year alone,184 people died of the diseasein Sunset Park, where canceris the second leading cause ofdeath.

But Gorman said that onereason to cheer is the recentaddition of new radiation ther-apy to the hospital. The newIntensity Modulated RadiationTherapy delivers a more pre-cise dose of radiation to can-cer tumors while minimizing

damage to surroundinghealthy tissue, he said.

An early cancer Survivor’sDay event was thrown at NewYork Methodist Hospital inPark Slope on Seventh Avenueat Sixth Street last week.

Attracting a crowd of morethan 400, including cancer sur-vivors, the event went offwithout a hitch, said the hospi-

tal’s spokeswoman, ShannonHeaney. Besides informationaltables, Banjo Bob entertainedthe crowd while ThereseSchorne, a clown, made themlaugh, especially with her otterpuppet, said Heaney.

For more information onSunday’s event at LutheranMedical Center, call (718) 630-7155.

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Prospect Heights emanatingeast from the intersection ofAtlantic and Flatbush av-enues, would be built overMTA-owned land.

In addition to building abasketball arena to house hisnewly purchased New JerseyNets, Ratner is seeking tobuild 4,500 units of housingand four soaring office towers.

“What a nice gimmick,”Prospect Heights Council-woman Letitia James, an ar-dent opponent of the project,said when she heard about themailing.

“It’s a marketing tool and[Ratner] is trying to danglejobs and goodies in front ofpeople who really need to beat the table and a part of theprocess,” she said.

Although it strongly sup-ports his plan, neither Ratner’sname nor the name of hiscompany appears anywhereon the six-sided mailing.

Patti Hagan, a spokes-woman for the anti-arenaProspect Heights ActionCoalition, said she was out-raged when she saw the pam-

CRACKER JACK MAILER…Continued from page 1


When Mayor Michael Bloombergaddressed a Brooklyn Chamber ofCommerce luncheon Thursday, hetalked about Bruce Ratner’s Netsarena plan as a done deal and saidconcerns from the local communityabout the Downtown Brooklyn Planhad been resolved.

But City Council members LetitiaJames and David Yassky disagree.

After Bloomberg made his com-ments, James, an ardent opponent ofthe $2.5 billion arena and office towerplan in Prospect Heights, which Ratnercalls Atlantic Yards, said the mayor“made a lot of assumptions.”

Addressing more than 500 attendeesat the annual event, hosted at the NewYork Marriott Brooklyn on June 3,Bloomberg said, “We‘ve addressed a

lot of [James and Yassky’s] concerns interms of rezoning Downtown Brook-lyn. I think the concept is going to gothrough and it will end up with CityCouncil approval,” the mayor said.

But James and Yassky said they stillhave several concerns.

“I do believe development in Down-town Brooklyn is good for the city, Ijust want to make sure that we’re work-ing toward a package,” said Yassky,who is pushing for traffic mitigationand is seeking pilot permit parking pro-gram for residents as part of the plan.

The Downtown Brooklyn Planwould allow for the construction of atleast 6.7 million square feet of officespace, 1 million square feet of retail,1,000 units of housing and 2,500 park-ing spaces. The comprehensive rezon-ing of 60 blocks — much of whichwould be classified as urban renewal— would pave the way for office, resi-

dential and academic towers.City and borough officials say the

plan, which also requires condemningat least seven acres of private property— including 130 residential units and100 businesses — will turn the areainto a bustling, 24-7 hub.

James, whose district includesProspect Heights and Fort Greene, isseeking height limits on the towersalong Flatbush Avenue — a portion ofthe plan that is in her district.

She is also working with communitymembers along Duffield Street whosehomes and businesses would likely betaken under the city’s power of eminentdomain to make way for office towers.

Some of those residents claim theUnderground Railroad ran beneaththeir property and should therefore bepreserved.

Bloomberg also praised Ratner’s$2.5 billion Atlantic Yards residential

and commercial plan, which is centeredaround a basketball arena to house theNew Jersey Nets.

“[Borough President] Marty [Mark-owitz] mentioned the New Jersey Nets,and, yes, they’ll come and Brooklyn isa great sports borough,” saidBloomberg.

“It’s an assumption, and you knowwhat they say about assumptions,”James quipped after the luncheon.

Ratner still needs to secure air rightsto build over the Long Island Rail Roadyards at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues.As part of the plan, Ratner seeks to ei-ther buy-out or have the state condemn11 acres of privately owned land.

James wants an open biddingprocess for the yards site and has raisedquestions about the amount of publicfunds needed for the project, for whichneither the city nor Ratner have provid-ed a clear answer.

Bloomie’s DowntownMayor sees Nets, D’Town plan as done deals


A rezoning plan thatwould turn much ofDowntown Brooklyninto an urban renewalarea ripe for the devel-opment of office andresidential towers isnearing the final stagesof the city reviewprocess.

A City Council commit-tee will host the final pub-lic hearing on the sweep-ing Downtown BrooklynPlan at 9:30 am this Tues-day, June 8, in the councilchambers at City Hall.

If approved by the fullcouncil, the rezoning andurban renewal plan wouldallow for the constructionof 6.7 million square feetof office space, 1 millionsquare feet of retail space,1,000 units of housing and2,500 parking spaces.

As part of the $100 mil-lion plan, the governmentwould also condemn sevenacres of private land in-cluding 130 residentialunits, and 100 businesses.

The plan has been ap-proved by Borough Presi-dent Marty Markowitz andthe City Planning Com-mission.

Critics are calling formore transportation andinfrastructure improve-ments and are asking thecity to scale back the proj-ect.

Some Duffield Streetresidents and businessowners whose propertieswill face the wrecking ballclaim the UndergroundRailroad ran beneath theirhomes and say the planwould jeopardize the his-torical slave freedom trail.

The Land Use Subcom-mittee for Zoning andFranchises will host thepublic hearing. The fullcouncil is scheduled tovote on the plan on Mon-day, June 28.

FinalD’townmeetTues.

phlet this week.“It’s kind of a desperate ploy

to spend all this money to tryand persuade people of some-thing and play it off as if theNew York Times is somehowsupporting the whole thing,”

said Hagan referring to a quoteand large logo from the paperof record used on the pamphlet.

Under a snippet ostensiblypulled from a Times article ap-pears the full Times logo.

According to the mailing,

the project will create “10,000new, permanent jobs” and“15,000 construction jobs.”

“They’re not new jobs,”said Hagan, “they’re just jobsbeing moved over from Man-hattan or somewhere else.”

Hagan said arena oppo-nents do not have the moneyto put out that kind of slickmarketing material.

The pamphlet hit mailboxesthis week just as a televisioncampaign criticizing the heavilysubsidized Manhattan Jets Sta-dium hit the airwaves. Thoseadvertisements are sponsored inpart by a coalition backed byMadison Square Garden’s own-ers, Cablevision.

It is still unclear how muchpublic money will be neededfor the Ratner project. At a CityCouncil hearing last month aForest City Ratner executive es-timated the pubic contributionto be “hundreds of millions.”

Some residents also raisedconcerns this week about Rat-ner using cards promising freegifts to gauge public opinion.

But according to Ratnerspokesman Joe DePlasco, thecards are not a poll.

“They wouldn’t provide avery official count,” he said.“Its just something fun to do… it’s just a giveaway.”

He said there was no partic-ular reason they decided tosend out the mailing now.

“It just seemed like the righttime, the colors are nice andspring-like and now the weatheris nice and spring-like.”

Mailer coupon from Bruce Ratner offering a Nets “souvenir” for supporting the Atlantic Yards.

To the editor:The word “hearing” says it

all ... it takes ears to hear, andwe had none at the City Coun-cil hearing on the plans for aNets arena in Brooklyn. Webeg [for] another hearing sothat the “pro-community de-velopment” community can beheard.

Ratner’s plans are too similarto the horrific history of redlin-ing, displacement and back-room deals that are lacedthroughout the history ofBrooklyn, especially in neigh-borhoods predominantly madeup of people of color.

The alternative plans present-ed by Marshall Brown and JoelTowers and the concrete alter-natives offered by DevelopDon’t Destroy and other fac-tions deserve to be seen, heardand experienced. They repre-sent real community vision thatconnects, brings jobs, beauty,diversity and culture — that iswhat Brooklyn has and needsmore of, not towering skyscrap-ers that cast shadows on thepeople.

Ratner’s people use theword investment to mean

money and money only.Where is the investment in thepeople of Brooklyn? Is offer-ing 10,000 union constructionjobs the best that we can do?Where will those people reallycome from?

Is Ratner going to end insti-tutional racism and classismall with his arena? Can it bethat simple? Does a developerwho builds buildings that re-semble jails really have a vi-sion that is progressive andunifying?

I’m not “feeling” it! I’m terribly saddened by

the plans that Forest City Rat-ner has, more so I am scaredof the empty promises, the im-plications of which reach farinto the apparently unforesee-able future. Why has the CityCouncil detached itself fromhistory? Why do we merely“believe” that Ratner’s inten-tions are good? Why are thesequestions not being asked byotherwise intelligent people?Is re-election and money real-

ly worth the demise of a bor-ough? I have a dream, and inthat dream the answer is no.

Whether Ratner buys outthe tenants who stand in hisway, and regardless of the gagorder he has contractually puton them to stay shut about it,displacement is still the out-come, make no mistake aboutthat.

Please do the right thing.Have another hearing, and lis-ten, and please hear.

— Deborah Goldstein, Fort Greene

‘Ratner’ newword for hackTo the editor:

Human-scale architecture,inviting architecture, recogniz-ing existing architecture, con-sideration of the pedestrianand open spaces, dynamics ofscale in the environment, aes-thetics, quality of life and thepeople who live and play here.I guess it was too much to ask

Bruce Ratner when these con-cepts were considered whenprogramming his latest ram-page across Brooklyn.

How many chances at thegolden ring do we give himbefore we realize that one manhas permanently scarred thenexus of our town. This is theman who brought us the houseof cards called the AtlanticCenter, looking ready to foldin a strong breeze, andMetrotech, a walled commu-nity without community. Progress needs to be partneredwith responsibility or we endup with pure arrogance, acommodity apparently in toogreat a supply. Like Kleenexis for facial tissue, Ratner isfor hack.

Shall we alert Webster ofthe new lexicon for the nextaddition? — John Crossley,

Prospect Heights

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The Beer Works opened lastyear in a former Borden dairy fac-tory on Waverly Avenue betweenFulton and Atlantic avenues andhas been producing beer forHeartland Brewery’s restaurants.

Bendheim said he will contin-ue to invest the company’s “limit-ed resources” in promotions tocapture the lucrative 21- to 29-year-old crowd. The companysponsors concerts at such rockvenues as Park Slope’s Southpawand Magnetic Field in BrooklynHeights. Miss Rheingold is nolonger genteel, but a brash andbuxom bartender.

A series of rambunctiousRheingold ads left Mayor MichaelBloomberg publicly bristling inApril. The campaign, called “TakeBack New York,” mocks contro-versial ordinances like the indoorsmoking ban and the prohibitionon dancing in bars without cabaretlicenses.

In April, Bloomberg, respond-ing to the Rheingold attack ads,told an Associated Press reporterthat Rheingold “walked out on thecity 20 years ago,” and fired about4,000 workers “almost overnight.”

Several times Wednesday,Bendheim disassociated his com-pany from the one that left Brook-lyn. He noted that a “large, non-brewery corporation” boughtRheingold from the Liebmans in1963 and they were the ones whoshut it down 13 years later.

As for the recent ads, he saidhe is “not looking to be a protes-tor,” but to give his customers avoice.

Markowitz was more direct. “I got to tell you, we’re not

some straight-laced folk here,”the borough president chimedin. “We say fughedaboudit.”

One Brooklyn brewer washappy to hear he has a newneighbor.

“I think it’s great,” said SteveHindy, president of BrooklynBrewery, a Williamsburg-basedregional brewer. “The more ofus out there promoting localbeer, the better.”

Which is to say that NewYork is a tough beer market toenter. In Brooklyn Brewery’s 16years, Hindy said at least 10start-ups, like the Park SlopeBrewery, have tried and died.

“They’ve revived a great oldname in New York brewing,”Hindy said of Rheingold. “Butthey’re still facing, as we do,very tough competitors.”

Those competitors includethe same ones that knocked outRheingold the first time. Andthere are new powerhouses likeInterbrew, the Belgian companythat imports Stella Artois.

Hindy’s advice to Rheingold?“Unrelenting hard work.”

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But can’t reachconsensus ongay marriageBy Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers

Brooklyn Republicanshave a sweet tooth, but notnecessarily for gay mar-riage.

A bittersweet, and odd, pro-posal to ban the “manufacture,importation, sale, possession,transfer and ingestion of can-dy in Kings County,” was de-railed by hundreds of sugar-savoring Republicans.

But while 88 percent of theparty’s loyalists voted againstthe measure, they couldn’t“Charleston” choose what todo about gay marriages andcivil unions at the KingsCounty Republican Commit-tee’s annual meeting, held inMarine Park last month.

The candy-coated resolu-tion was introduced, in jest tomake a point, by Gary Popkin,a member of the Kings Coun-ty Republicans and of the Lib-ertarian Party, who said his in-tentions were simply tocomment on the government’sinfringement on individualrights.

But rather than snickers,Popkin, who resides in ParkSlope, managed to fool manyof the party’s most faithful,some of whom fully support-ed the notion and others, high-er up in the GOP hierarchy,who were embarrassed that itwas on the agenda.

“Never saw it,” said HySinger, chairman of the KingsCounty Republican Commit-tee, just minutes before morethan 500 voters cast their bal-lots. “That’s a ridiculousthing, banning candy.”

But others in the party, whocited health concerns, wereready to nix Nestle’s.

Joan Braunstein, a BrightonBeach home instructor who

has acted as an extra threetimes in HBO’s “Sex and theCity,” said she was all for aban on Bit-O-Honey, But-terfinger and Baby Ruth.

“I see what it does to chil-dren,” she said. “It’s worsethan coffee and cigarettes. It’smaking them so manic, andthen they give them Ritalinand they’re all zombies.”

But as sweet as they wereon candy, Republican loyalistswere sour on gay marriage.

About 525 members of theparty’s county committee splittheir vote four ways, scatteringthe results so equally that inthe end, the final tally — 247votes in favor of both a consti-tutional amendment againstgay marriage and a ban on civ-il unions — fell short of the 50percent required for the resolu-tion to pass.

Committee members hadthe choice to pick from fourdifferent variations — for oragainst the constitutionalamendment and for or againstgay civil unions, which wouldextend benefits to gay coupleswho aren’t actually married.But by using a single transfer-able vote system, the final re-sults showed that, unsurpris-ingly, Republicans wereagainst gay communalismacross the boards.

“If we do not stand up tothis, we are going to lose theright to have a family,” saidViviana Hernandez, a Republi-can committeewoman fromthe 51st Assembly District,which encompasses SunsetPark. “This is not an option.This is already happening inCalifornia. Canada, too, hasgone the way of gay mar-riage.”

What was surprising, how-ever, was how close the votewas, said Aaron Maslow, sec-ond vice chair of the countycommittee. He revealed thatinitially the 152 votes cast infavor of the constitutionalamendment and opposed to

civil unions just barely edgedout a resolution in favor of theamendment and in favor ofcivil unions, which received130 votes.

“I’m not surprised by that,”said Maslow. “A lot of people,while they oppose the conceptof gay marriage, they do sup-port gay people having thesame rights as heterosexualcouples, which includes insur-ance and those type of things.”

But many of the largelysenior citizen members at theMay 24 meeting, which washeld at Marine Park Intermedi-ate School on Stuart Street atFillmore Avenue, seemed con-fused when faced with votingon the constitutional amend-ment.

First proposed by PresidentGeorge W. Bush in February,the amendment would makemarriage exclusive to a manand woman. Several peoplesitting behind a reporter at themeeting were under the as-sumption that voting for anamendment was tantamount tovoting for gay marriage.

“We had three local meet-ings where we went throughthis much more slowly,” saidMaslow, who contended therewas no confusion.

Republicans at the meetingalso voted on a hodgepodge of14 other issues, both great andsmall — including whether tostay the course in Iraq and onthe right to keep firearms inthe home.

According to the results, 58percent voted to stay thecourse in Iraq; 27 percent saidthey favored a structural with-drawal; and 15 percent de-manded an immediate with-drawal.

On firearms, a majority of57 percent voted to support theright to keep them in thehome.

By a small margin, 52 per-cent of Republicans opposedan exemption from minimumwage laws for teenagers.

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Skipping rocks, detailed inLee’s book, has been a favoritefor the children of a divorcedfather. He is among dads whohave seen fond moments withhis kids over the years turn intolasting memories.

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If you’re looking for the perfect place to stock upon your beach reading, look no further than the thirdannual Brooklyn Alternative Small Press Fair at theOld Stone House in Park Slope.

A labor of love for fair organizer Emily Brown(pictured), this annual event corrals books frommany local, independent presses and from acrossthe nation, too. This is an opportunity to peruserarely seen books, magazines, examples of electron-ic publishing, literary audio recordings, literarycrafts and more.

This year’s fair, Brown told GO Brooklyn, willalso feature performers cavorting through J.J. ByrnePark as well as authors giving live readingsthroughout the course of the event in the Old StoneHouse.

“Some of the presses are doing amazing things— from the political to art stuff,” said Brown, whoalso organizes the Spiral Thought reading series.“It’s amazing what people are producing, and youdon’t even see it in independent bookstores.” Thefair will also include presses publishing works inArabic and other languages.

Continue the thrill of discovering new authorsand poets after the event with “The AlternativeSmall Press Directory,” a full listing of this year’sfair participants as well as those who have partici-pated in previous years, which Brown has compiledand published. The directory will be on sale at theevent for $3 ($4.50 after the event, including ship-ping and handling).

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Award-winning Brooklyn Heights author RonChernow (pictured) will read from his critically ac-claimed new book “Alexander Hamilton” on June10 at Middle School 51, with a reception and booksigning to follow at the Old Stone House in ParkSlope.

Chernow’s biography of the Founding Fatheris just the latest in a series of ambitious works bythe Brooklyn native, including “The House ofMorgan: An Amer-ican Banking Dy-nasty and the Riseof Modern Fi-nance” (Grove/At-lantic, which wonthe 1990 NationalBook Award forNonfiction), “TheWarburgs” (Ran-dom House, 1993)and “Titan: TheLife of John D.Rockefeller, Sr.”(Random House,1998).

“Alexander Ha-milton” (PenguinGroup, $35) tracesthe colorful histor-ical figure fromhis childhood asan illegitimate or-phan from the Caribbean to his death in a duel withAaron Burr in July 1804.

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By Kevin Filipskifor The Brooklyn Papers

M ark Morris might choreographdances to existing music, but thatdoesn’t mean he has dozens of ballet

scores in his head.“I usually shy away from music that was

written for dance,” Morris tells GO Brooklynin an interview in his Fort Greene office, astone’s throw from the Brooklyn Academy ofMusic’s Howard Gilman Opera House, wherehis troupe will perform June 8 and June 10-12at 7:30 pm.

“For me, [ballet music] is often too pro-grammatic, and it tells me too much aboutwhat should happen onstage,” he says. “I pre-fer that it be me who is deciding what shouldhappen instead of the music doing that forme.”

On the bill are two local premieres — thefirst New York-area performance of “AllFours,” set to the music of Bela Bartok, andthe world premiere of “Violet Cavern,” set tothe music of the jazz trio The Bad Plus.

Creating a dance to Bartok’s Fourth StringQuartet, a scintillating piece of music but notone that most listeners would associate withchoreography, seemed a no-brainer to Morris.

“That’s a piece of music I’ve known for 30years,” he says, explaining, “every dance I dois specifically because of a piece of music. Ilove music, I listen to and study it all the time— and if I decide that I can bear to listen to ithundreds of times, then I make up a dance toit!”

Transforming Bartok’s “scary modern mu-sic,” as Morris jokingly refers to it, into some-thing danceable was a definite challenge.

“Bartok based his quartet on his ongoing

research into Hungarian folk music, eventhough it sounds scary to most people,” Mor-ris says. “The dance turns it into friendlier mu-sic — it’s difficult both to play and to dance to— and watching the dance helps many peoplegrasp the music.

“‘Oh, of course!’ they say when they’rewatching [the dance], whereas they might beonly listening to [the music] and say, ‘Oh myGod! That’s scary modern music!’ And, al-though it doesn’t look like it onstage, there’san element of folk music, too, in some of themovements.”

Morris is such a fan of Bartok that he’deven consider scuttling his usual edict of not

choreographing ballets to get the chance towork on Bartok’s balletic masterpiece, “TheWooden Prince.”

“‘The Wooden Prince’ is just a thriller,” heexclaims. “I’d love to do it some day, eventhough it needs 100 musicians in the orchestra,which doesn’t help.”

As for “Violet Cavern,” this world-pre-miere dance is based on music by Ethan Iver-son of the improvisational jazz trio The BadPlus. Iverson was music director of the MarkMorris Dance Group until 2002, so he andMorris have a good working relationship, al-though, as Morris himself jokes, “It’s still atotal mystery how we came up with thispiece. The composer sent me the music fromJapan, where he was recently. ‘Violet Cavern’was specifically done for my troupe, but thereis a certain amount of improvisation involvedin the piece because they’re a rhythm trio.”

Compared with the running time of “AllFours” (the Bartok quartet is about 30 min-utes in length), Iverson’s composition is posi-

tively epic. “The piece is about 50 minutes, and it’s in

seven movements,” Morris says, “and there arelots of variations on themes, so to work throughall of the permutations of the music, we need allof those minutes.

“It is kind of long for a modern dance piece,but why not?” he says, shrugging.

“There’s a certain amount of mind-readingamong the two of us,” Morris continues, refer-ring to his and Iverson’s long-time collabora-tion. “I don’t know how it works, but it works.We can finish each other’s sentences artistical-ly, so it’s always fun to work together.”

Formed in 1980, the Mark Morris DanceGroup has its roots in Brooklyn, even thoughthey’ve only called Fort Greene home sincethe fall of 2001. And Morris’ company hasbeen an integral presence at BAM for manyyears, including his celebrated production“The Hard Nut,” which has become an occa-sional Christmas staple. This appearance isthe group’s 20th at BAM.

One-two punchMark Morris DanceGroup tames pair ofdifficult composers’works this week

Making a pointe: Mark Morris Dance Group dancers Bradon McDonald, Julie Worden andMarjorie Folkman in “All Fours.”

The Mark Morris Dance Group will per-form “All Fours” and “Violet Cavern” at theBAM Howard Gilman Opera House, 30Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort Greeneon June 8 and June 10-12 at 7:30 pm. Ticketsare $20, $40 and $60. For more information,call (718) 636-4100 or visit www.bam.org.

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The story is so incredible that itseems apocryphal. But it’s true.

In 1673, the 51-year-old Moliere— who, in his day, was as well-knownas an actor as he was a playwright —was playing the lead role of Argan inhis play “The Imaginary Invalid,” a de-licious stab at the medical professionthat still holds up a relevant mirrormore than three centuries later.

Already ill while writing the play,Moliere (whose real name was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) suffered a hemor-rhage during a performance and died.

Like French composer Jean-BaptisteLully’s death — which stemmed froman infection he received after jamminghis counting stick into his foot whilekeeping time during a performance ofone of his operas — Moliere’s death isamong the strangest for any artist, espe-cially since he was playing a hypochon-driac, and at first, everyone thought it

was part of the performance.“It is so ironic, isn’t it?” asks Joseph

Melillo, executive producer of theBrooklyn Academy of Music, whichpresents France’s acclaimed Comedie-Francaise in five performances of “TheImaginary Invalid” at the BAM HarveyTheater June 9-13. “Truth definitely isstranger than fiction. It was definitely atheatrical conclusion to his life.”

Moliere’s plays — cunning, wittytexts that savagely lampoon social in-

Strange but trueComedie-Francaise’s tragicomic Moliere at BAM

See COMEDIE on page 14The best medicine: A scene from Comedie-Francaise’s production of“The Imaginary Invalid,” coming to BAM June 9-13.

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Circles192 Prospect Park West at 15th Street, (718)499-5595 (Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $12.95-$18.95.

Appropriately named for its location on theBartel-Pritchard traffic circle southwest ofProspect Park, this spacious restaurant and baroffers a selection of hearty dishes and tradi-tional American cuisine. Sample the portabellopork chops, 16-ounce marinated shell steak,tomato pesto salmon served with roasted pep-pers, as well as 17 kinds of gourmet pizza andnightly specials. Low-hung ceilings and antiquefurnishings accent the cozy interior.

Elora’s Restaurant272 Prospect Park West at 17th Street, (718)788-6190 (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees:$7-$38.

Spanish-speaking locals gather at this sit-downrestaurant to feast on over-stuffed Cubansandwiches, sizzling fajitas and steamy oxtailsoup amid the romantic plucking of musica his-panica.

The stark decor, adorned with several beadedsombreros and dark-wood paneling, recalls theaustere furnishings of a Western saloon. Butdon’t let its simplicity fool you. The menuoffers a selection of Biblical proportions repre-senting a litany of Latin American countries, aswell as offering live lobster and Iberian seafooddishes, prepared by chef Jose Nuneza.Margarita happy hour is Monday throughFriday, 4 pm to 7 pm.

Jhinuk Restaurant478 McDonald Ave. at Church Avenue (718)871-5355 (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees:$2.50-$6.

Situated in north Kensington, this home-styleIndian restaurant serves its dishes Bangladeshistyle: hot, spicy and with a dab of yogurt anddash of herbs. The menu offers an eclecticselection of familiar Indian dishes and thosethat will leave you scratching your head.Owner Mahabub Khan suggests the kacchibiriyani, a fried Basmati rice dish topped withmeat and spices, or a boti kabab with marinat-ed mutton. Adjust the flavors of each dish byadding additional spices, herbs and nutsoffered at the counter and give it a kick by top-ping it off with a pan-beetle leaf, an ingredientnative to Bangladesh.

Lassi, a yogurt drink with mango pulp, is avail-able in the summer, as are fresh-water lobsterdishes. If you decide to eat in, feel free to tossyour silverware. Eating with your hands is theBangladeshi way. Open daily.

Laura’s GourmetKitchen1235 Prospect Ave. at Reeve Place, (718)436-3715 (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees:$9-$26.

“Everything on our menu is carefully preparedfrom old family recipes and simply the freshestfood we can find,” says owner Laura Leone.“Some of our recipes originate from theGenovese region of Italy, where my motherand I come from, and some from Sicily, wheremy husband, [chef] Sal [Leone] comes from.North or south, we’ve been making authenticItalian dishes on this corner for 25 years.”Laura’s is available for private parties, offerstakeout and delivery, catering and brick-ovenpizza. Laura’s is open 3 pm to 10 pm, Tuesdaythrough Sunday.

Jhinuk curry specialist, Maksuda Khan,holds a plate of Shami kebobs, a com-bination of chicken, lentils, spices andherbs.

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A green chalkboard sign on the corner ofProspect Park West and 16th Street modestlyannounces this Mediterranean food standtucked between the gentle brownstones ofProspect Park West. Less than five feet acrosswith little standing room, the 16th StreetGourmet serves up a sophisticated selection ofMiddle Eastern delights: falafel stuffed with pars-ley and scallions; couscous speckled with slicesof carrots, zucchini and butternut squash; andflaky baklava oozing with honey, cinnamon andground walnuts. While most diners opt for take-out, the stand offers a couple of sidewalk tables.

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“There are moments of genius in Jimmy Liu’scooking,” writes GO Brooklyn dining critic TinaBarry about the chef and owner of this elegantand unassuming sushi bar. The restaurant spe-cializes in sushi rolls, offering an assortment ofseasonal and weekly specials, as well as noodleand teriyaki dishes. For the summer, Liu willoffer two seasonal rolls: the sunflower rollstuffed with tempura whitefish and mango,and the orchid roll, an eel and cucumber com-bination topped with tobiko (flying fish eggs).Seating is available at tables or at the bar,where diners are entertained by watching thesushi chefs at work. Open daily.

Terrace Bagels & Cafe222A & 224 Prospect Park West at WindsorPlace, (718) 768-3943 (Cash only) Entrees:$5.25-$7.25

While New York City may be the bagel capital ofthe world, there are few shops that still roll theirbagels by hand and Terrace Bagels is one ofthem. For more than 14 years, principal bagelmaker Vicharn Tangchitsumran has been rollinghis bagels to perfection, creating a product thatis crusty on the outside, chewy within, and capa-ble of attracting even Manhattanites to thisneighborhood on the edge of Prospect Park.The shop, which occupies two storefronts, onewith a seating area, also offers a menu of over-stuffed, jaw-locking sandwiches with whimsicalnames like the “Cajun Tornado” and “The God-father.” Breakfast specials are offered Mondaythrough Friday, 7 am to 10 am. Open daily.

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If it’s 4 o’clock in the afternoon and you sud-denly get a craving for Belgian waffles, headover to the Trio Cafe where the griddle stays hotall day. Trio’s diner-style menu and diverse selec-tion of vegetarian dishes will be sure to satisfyany appetite. Not hungry for breakfast? Try the“Beetle Bailey Burger,” topped with three stripsof bacon, or “Grandma’s Meatloaf,” freshlybaked and served with homemade mashedpotatoes and gravy. Customers dine on sleekaluminum tabletops and can choose betweensitting at the counter or in the seating area.Brunch is served 9 am to 4 pm, on Saturdaysand Sundays, and comes with a choice ofmimosa or sangria ($12.95). A kid’s menu is alsoavailable on request. Open daily.

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F irst impressions can be tricky. TakeBanana Leaf bistro in Bay Ridge.The restaurant’s decor is as nonde-

script as anything you’ll find in China-town, right down to the bright lightingand Formica tables. There’s even a fishtank filled with striped bass that do alazy shimmy along its bottom. The mu-sic — all instrumental versions of un-popular tunes — would makeLawrence Welk cringe.

But to dismiss Banana Leaf for itsordinary appearance would be a graveerror in judgment.

Banana Leaf, which opened in Sep-tember, offers a menu of Malaysiandishes. With its Indian, Thai and Chi-nese influences, this cuisine can be toomuch of a good thing for a chef with aless refined sensibility, but the restau-rant’s owner and chef is Peter How,who honed his considerable skills atJean-Georges and the Mercer Kitchenin Manhattan.

How’s cooking is vibrant, light andclean, and at other times, rich andcomplex. His curries are smoky andthe spices distinct; his pairing ofseafood and fruit enhances both part-ners; even his de-lectable desserts,so often an after-thought in Asianrestaurants, areobviously influ-enced by hisstints in Jean-George’s exultedkitchen. His plat-ing reflects amodernist’s eyefor simplicity.

A fine exampleof How’s visual dexterity is his soft-shell crab and mango salad. The pinkybeige crab is perched over a mound ofmango cubes strewn with slivers of redonion. The dish is as pretty as a sum-mer dress.

Right now, soft-shell crabs are intheir musky, sweet prime. How’s heftycrab is lightly battered and fried so thateach bite possesses a satisfying crackleof soft shell, delicate meat and crispcrust. Red onions cut the cinnamonysweetness of the fruit and bits ofcilantro add a note of freshness.

He works the same magic with fourplump, pan-seared scallops. Rare in-

side the brittle, smoky crust, each scal-lop is crisscrossed with a sliver of redpickled ginger. Beneath the fish aremounds of sprightly chopped orangeand lemon. The clean citrus notes of

the fruit pairedwith the sweetfish and the pile ofbeet greens sittingin the center of thedish, dressed in alight, ginger-en-hanced dressing,do an enthusiasticcha-cha on thetongue.

I loved the eggypancake studdedwith soft onion,

too. Dip a triangle of the chewy appe-tizer into the little bowl of curriedchicken sauce. Use the pancake to lift achunk of the tender chicken, with itsaroma of ginger and cardamom, to yourmouth and smile as your lips begin toglow.

Between courses you’ll need some-thing to refresh your palate. Give thewatermelon juice a try. It’s freshlymade, almost frothy. With a squeeze oflemon, the drink is not at all sweet.Several of the Asian beers that are of-fered are better than the (decent) pinotgrigio and merlot for cooling the heat.

Two reasons to order the “Nasi

Lemak” are its beautiful presentationand array of pungent flavors. Actually,make that three reasons. The third is theprice: $4.25. It’s so little to pay forsomething that offers so much pleasure.In the center of a long, white platter is amound of jasmine rice that has beencooked in coconut milk delicately sea-soned with cloves. The rice is sticky ina good way, almost like a steamed pud-ding; slice it with chopsticks or a fork.Around the rice are small piles of deli-cious mixtures. There are a few cubesof tender chicken that have absorbed adeep curry sauce. Tiny anchovies arefried with onions and lime until they’retart and chewy. Long sticks of cucum-ber never tasted as fresh. Peanuts add abit of salt and pleasant crunch to theworks.

One entree that’s a bit of a clunkercompared to the others is the homeylamb shank. The size is obscenely largeand the meat, while tender, was strong-ly flavored — pluses or minuses de-pending on who’s eating the dish. Yuchoy, a green vegetable with a spinach-like taste, added color to the plate, apuddle of curry sauce moistened thelamb, and a disc of that supernal co-conut rice worked as well with the meatas it did with the chicken.

Near us, a group of Asian dinersshared a pan-roasted lobster flavoredwith curry leaves. Each diner dipped

the lobster meat into a shrimp saucewith an aroma that had me sighing.Judging from their murmurs of appreci-ation, the lobster is worth ordering.

I don’t think I’ve had a dessert in anAsian restaurant in Brooklyn that didn’tmake me think, “So what?” How hastwo on his dessert roundup that are ascarefully conceived and beautifullyplated as his savory dishes. One youmust try is the sesame creme brulee.

How’s version is served in a deepteacup. This creme is really a lush, nut-ty-flavored pudding with a lid ofcaramelized sugar so thin you barelynotice it until your spoon cracks its sur-face. With the creme is an orb of house-made strawberry ice cream that tastesof freshly picked berries surrounded bycaramelized bananas. The creme couldstand on its own, but the ice cream andbananas add a lot visually and are toogood to pass up.

A pleasant panna cotta (a moldedcustard) with a subtle hint of lemon-grass didn’t have the personality of thecreme brulee. The green tea ice creamthat accompanied the custard overpow-ered the dessert’s delicacy, but on itsown, the ice cream was a winner.

I’ve eaten in enough restaurants thatdazzle with their good looks and disap-point with pedestrian dishes. With Ba-nana Leaf all the fireworks are on theplate and that’s just fine with me.

Off the beaten path in Clinton Hill, hungry Brook-lynites are getting lucky, thanks to Anderson Ruiz andMarcelo and Maria Arias. All chefs at heart, the trioopened Mojito three months ago to “combine andrecreate all of our family recipes,” Maria Arias toldGO Brooklyn.

Named for the classic Cuban cocktail, Mojito mixesdelicious non-alcoholic shakes and mojitos in strawber-ry, passion fruit and mango flavors, to name a few. (Mo-jito is currently a BYOB establishment, but will open afull-service bar soon.)

The menu offers an array of empanadas such asham and cheese or beef and cheese for only $1.50each. Perhaps the most unusual is the guava andcream cheese empanada, a scrumptious combinationof sweet and salty wrapped in crispy fried dough.

Traditional plates of carne asada (black angussteak) and ropa vieja (shredded steak with grilled veg-etables) are served with bread, soup or salad and riceand beans, while the Cuban sandwich comes withpineapple coleslaw.

The dessert menu, although limited to four items,is sure to please any sweet tooth. Try the cuatro lech-

es (four milks), a piece of pound cake soaked withthree different kinds of milk and served withwhipped cream and dulce de leche (a kind of caramelcream) on top. The postre de limon de la Tita (Tita’slime pie) is extra special because it is Maria’s moth-er’s recipe.

Although Mojito resides beneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the sounds of Latin musicians,reminders of Cuba from cigar boxes to posters, andthe cool breeze blowing in from the open door, aremuch more powerful than any outside noise. Closeyour eyes and you might even feel like you’re slip-ping away to that tropical island.

Like their slogan says, Marcelo and Maria Ariasand Anderson Ruiz have truly recreated “a piece ofCuba in the heart of Brooklyn.”

Mojito (275 Park Ave. at Washington Avenue,Store No. 2, in Clinton Hill) accepts American Ex-press, MasterCard and Visa ($15 minimum). Entrees:$5-$12.50. The restaurant serves lunch and dinnerdaily. For more information, call (718) 797-3100 orvisit their Web site at www.mojitocubancuisine.net.

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Brooklynite Jackie “Divali-cious” Gordon strides upto the microphone on the

small stage of the LaurieBeechman Theatre in Manhat-tan. After a rousing renditionof Tommy Wolf’s “SayCheese,” Gordon rips off herwhite lab coat. Under the wrapis a Billy Holiday-style brownsatin gown — adorned withyellow satin wedges of cheese.

It’s safe to say, no onewears a fake cheese-coveredgown like Gordon.

The tall, striking, singingchef from Boerum Hill stars in“Say CHEESE!: A tongue-titil-lating tasting of artisanalcheeses, wines and the songsthey inspire.” Think of it as themost amusing wine and cheeseparty you’ll encounter in a life-time.

In her first one-woman showin the United States, Gordonperforms 90-minutes of songand conversation. While shesings, photos of her charmingthe rind off a fantasy man madefrom huge wheels of cheeseflash upon a screen.

During the performance, au-dience memberssample eight inter-national cheesesfrom the ArtisanalCheese Center on37th Street in Man-hattan. The cheeseis paired with twored and two whitewines from the Dia-geo Chateau & Es-tate Wines Compa-ny.

Each of the eightcheeses is presented with asong that illustrates its history.For example, the Bayley HazenBleu Cheese from Jasper HillFarms is introduced with “MilkCow Blues.”

“If I Could Date Cheese,”“All We Are Saying is GiveCheese a Chance,” and “Don’tYou Make my Bleu CheeseBlue” are sung in Gordon’ssmoky, smooth voice.

Audience members areasked to rate each of the cheese-and-wine pairings, which leadsto good-humored banter amongthose seated and between theaudience and the performer.

Gordon, who has lived inBoerum Hill “foreva,” said sheconceived of the show after anepiphany in the cheese depart-ment of Zabar’s, the famous,Upper West Side food empori-um. Rows of creamy goatcheese, called chevre; smelly,succulent bleus with theirblue-veined centers; and sharp,nutty sheep cheeses seemed tocall to her. But which of thehundreds of offerings shouldshe select?

If someone like Gordon,who says she “majored inrestaurants” after graduating

from Brooklyn Technical HighSchool, in Fort Greene, wasbamboozled by the choices,wouldn’t a food novice in thesame situation run screamingback to their Velveeta?, shewondered. Gordon then con-ceived of the learn-while-you-

eat performance that would ed-ucate the cheese-loving public.

In 2003, she approachedTerrance Brennan, founder ofthe Artisanal Cheese Center(ACC) in Chelsea with theconcept for her song-and-sam-ple musical. Brennan, who hadjust opened the doors to thecenter, loved the idea and be-came Gordon’s sponsor for theproject, supplying the cheesefor all of Gordon’s perform-ances. (In addition to his workat ACC, Brennan is the chefand proprietor of two Manhat-tan restaurants, Artisanal andPicholine.)

If it seems like a stretch towalk through a food aisle andthen think of turning the expe-rience into a multimedia, song-and-tasting experience, it isn’tfor Gordon. She is an “eater-tainer,” a skilled singer andchef with two successful“eatertaining” shows to hercredit. During a recent phoneconversation, Gordon told GOBrooklyn how her unique styleof entertainment evolved.

In 1991, she left BoerumHill and moved to Melbourne,Australia, with a friend. Gor-don’s first one-woman per-

formance, “Black Pearls andStrange Fruit,” was a huge hit,she said, in the 1998 FringeFestival of the Arts in Australia,a performance venue featuringavant-garde acts. “BlackPearls” told the history of blackwomen singers and their strug-gle for racial equality.

Of that performance Gor-don said, “Black Americanfood came through in everystory.”

Her second production,which debuted in 1999, “TheFried Chicken Theory Accord-ing to Jackie Gordon,” was afour-hour extravaganza thatshe performed at the Mel-bourne Food & Wine Festival.Gordon sang her “History ofSoul” music accompanied byan eight-piece band and 22-member gospel choir. Twokitchens were erected to pro-duce a 10-course buffet usingGordon’s recipes. Diners feast-ed on gumbos, fried chicken,ribs, turnip greens and maca-roni and cheese, followed bysix down-home pies includingGordon’s black bottom bananacream.

Just five days before Sept.11, 2001, Gordon resettled inBoerum Hill.

“I was rushing to get home. Ijust sensed something was hap-pening and I needed to be inBrooklyn,” she says. Since herreturn, Gordon has started aquarterly newsletter (informa-tion at www.Divalicious.biz),that offers tips on improving lifein New York.

Looking ahead, Gordon has“something sweet in mind” af-ter “Say CHEESE!,” butwouldn’t elaborate further.“Say CHEESE!” is an eater-taining opportunity to see herin action. She is a versatilesinger with a rich, velvetyvoice, and an appealing stagepersonality.

The moniker “Divalicious”suits her.

Lady sings the bleus: Jackie Gordon, a.k.a. Divalicious, re-gales audiences with her show, a concert and tasting com-bo, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in Manhattan.

Jackie Gordon’s “Say CHEESE!” is per-formed in the Laurie Beechman Theater,407 West 42nd St., Manhattan Plaza, in thedownstairs performance area of The WestBank Cafe, June 9 and 11. Shows start at7:30 pm; doors open at 7 pm. The theateris wheelchair accessible with prior notice bycalling The West Bank Cafe management(212) 695-6909. Tickets are $60 (includescheese and wine samples) and can be pur-chased through www.ticketcentral.com.

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By Paulanne Simmonsfor The Brooklyn Papers

Downtown Brooklyn will be theplace this summer for soul, jazz,funk and reggae fans as the

Brooklyn Academy of Music andMetrotech Center present another siz-zling roster of world-famous artists intheir annual Rhythm & Blues Festival.

The noontime concerts on theMetrotech Commons, which beginJune 10 and run through Aug. 12, willbe launched by the seminal go-go bandChuck Brown and the Soul Searchers,and followed by the legendary Chicwith Nile Rodgers on June 17.

Rodgers tells GO Brooklyn the showwill be as special for him as for his au-dience.

“When we started Chic, we[Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards]were living in Brooklyn,” saysRodgers. “None of us were born inBrooklyn. My girlfriend lived onOcean Avenue and Ditmas. BernardEdwards lived down the street on Flat-bush and Church. So we could writethe songs in my living room.

“We played in Brooklyn a lot,” recallsRodgers. “In the mid- and late-‘70s, liveshows were in almost every bar. A lot ofthe clientele were working at the NavyYard. We used toplay at a placecalled Rudy’sNight Owl. Weused to also playat 2001 Odysseywhere they filmed‘Saturday NightFever.’”

Although Chicis most closelyassociated withdisco music (songs like “Le Freak,”and “Good Times” are still heard ondance floors around the world),Rodgers said Chic is much more thanthat. “We are an R&B dance band,”says Rodgers. “There weren’t any realdisco bands. They were traditionallyproducer-driven groups and solo artists.We are real musicians.”

In fact, Rodgers has collaboratedwith many artists. He produced “WeAre Family” for Sister Sledge, “I’mComing Out” for Diana Ross, “Let’sDance” for David Bowie and “Like a

Virgin” for Madonna. “Some of our songs have been sam-

pled by rap artists,” said Rodgers.“Our record ‘Good Times’ was the offi-cial beginning of hip-hop.” (In 1979,

“Good Times”provided the bassline for Sugar HillGang’s “Rapper’sDelight,” the firstrap song ever tohit the top 40.)

Most recentlyChic has supplieda song for the ani-mated film “Shrek2” and Rodgers

produced the band Maroon 5. Chic iscurrently cutting its own album withthe working title “Let’s Bounce.”

“The greatest thing about my life isthat I have balance. When one part ofmy life becomes frustrating, I have an-other part. When I’m making a record,I can’t wait to play it live. When I’mplaying live, I can’t wait to make mynext record,” says Rodgers.

But whatever side of the stage he’sworking on, Rodgers has one goal —to entertain.

“I believe in the power of music to

transform the way you feel,” he says.“Our basic job is to make people feelgood. Ninety percent of the songs I’vewritten are feel-good songs that re-flected a time in America when wewere really happy. Our music takesyou back to the time when you couldbe an individual — get on the dancefloor and do what you feel like do-ing.”

Chris Thomas King, who will per-form on June 24, also talked about hisupcoming Brooklyn gig — wherehe’ll slip easily from New Orleansfunk to urban rap — in a telephone in-terview with GO Brooklyn.

King, who began singing profes-sionally at the age of 9, and recordedhis first album “The Beginning” (re-released as “It’s a Cold Ass World”)while he was still in his teens, got abig career boost playing blues legendTommy Johnson in the Coen Brothers’film “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”

“It gave me a wider audience for mymusic,” he said. “I’d have to play forthe next 20 years every night to reachthe same amount of people.”

King’s Metrotech concert is part ofan East Coast tour.

“I’ll be appearing with my band DJSpin. We’ll do favorite songs peopleexpect from me [including songs fromhis latest album “Dirty South Hip HopBlues”]. But I’ll also try to throw innew material. I’m working on a new al-bum right now. I just might throw in afew of those songs.”

King says he’s a “modern bluesman,” and his music is neither typically

blues or hip-hop, but “something in be-tween.”

“My style comes straight up fromLouisiana. We’re not Sunday school,we want everyone to have a good time.But we’re not rap. We mix blues poetrywith rap poetry so it gets deeper thanwhat you hear on radio,” he said.

King’s biggest Louisiana influencemay be his own father, Tabby Thomas,who he says is “not playing as much ashe used to, but still around.”

“I learned about blues at his joint[Tabby’s Blues Box] as a kid. I wasplaying music with the old folks. I wasexposed to that music on a daily basis,”he recalled. At the same time, Kingsays he was also influenced by MTVand the music his friends were listeningto. The result is a very unique blendthat comes with some very expressiveguitar playing which has elicited com-parisons to Jimi Hendrix.

On his new album, King says he’s“cranking up the blues guitar. My newalbum has a dance beat under the rapmelodies.”

In addition to his East Coast tour andhis new album, King has a role in Uni-versal’s fall movie, “Ray,” the story ofRay Charles.

The rest of the Rhythm & Blues Fes-tival schedule is as follows: The Soul ofJohn Black and Ellis Hooks in a doublebill on July 1; Oumou Sangare on July8; Bettye LaVette on July 15; TheNeville Brothers on July 22; LuckyDube on July 29; the Ohio Players onAug. 5; and Roy Hargrove and the RHFactor on Aug. 12.

The BAM Rhythm & Blues Festivalruns June 10 through Aug. 12, everyThursday, from noon to 2 pm, on theMetrotech Commons, located at thecorner of Flatbush and Myrtle avenues.Admission is free. For information call(718) 636-4100 or visit www.bam.org.

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Past present: Among the acts to perform at this summer’s Rhythm & BluesFestival are (left to right) Silver Logan Sharp, Nile Rodgers and JessicaWagner of Chic and Roy Hargrove (far left).

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OUTDOORS AND TOURSBROOKLYN BEST: Borough President

Marty Markowitz hosts “BrooklynBest” celebration at Coney Islandwith fireworks, movies on thebeach, fashion shows and more. 6pm-11 pm. For a full schedule ofevents log onto Markowitz’s Website at www.brooklyn-usa.org or call(718) 802-3700.

PEDAL BOATING: on Prospect Park lake.$12.50 per hour. (718) 965-7777.

NEIGHBORHOOD TOUR: MauricioLorence leads a tour of Ft. Greene,Clinton Hill and Brooklyn Heights.$25 per person. 2 pm to 5 pm. Meetat New York Marriott Brooklyn, 333Adams St. (718) 789-0430.

PERFORMANCEOPERA: Regina Opera presents “Don

Pasquale.” $15, $10 seniors, $5 teens.7 pm. Regina Hall, 65th Street and12th Avenue. (718) 232-3555.

ONE ACT PLAYS: Kef Productionsfestival. Live music and theater per-formances of comedy, improv andhula hooping. $15. 7:30 pm.Charlie Pineapple Theater, 248North Eighth St. (212) 591-2845.

MUSIC: Brooklyn Youth Chorus pres-ents a program of works celebrat-ing love and spring. $25 preferen-tial seating, $15 adults, $8 childrenunder 10 and seniors. 7:30 pm. St.Charles Borromeo Church, 21Sidney Place. (718) 243-9447.

CONCERT: Son of Lion Gamelan con-cert. $15. 7:30 pm. Union Street Space,748 Union St. (718) 408-3234.

PLAY: Piper McKenzie’s workshop pro-duction of S.I. Witkiewicz’s “ThePragmatists.” $12. 8 pm. The Brick,575 Metropolitan Ave. (718) 907-3457.

BLACK BOX SERIES: Gallery Playershosts its seventh annual festival ofplays by tri-state area playwrights.Full length production of “AWedding Album.” $15, $12. 8 pm.199 14th St. (718) 595-0547.

ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Labapa-looza!” festival of puppet theater. $20.8 pm. 38 Water St. (718) 254-8779.

ROOFTOP DANCE: Office Ops hostsSunset Clause, a performance. $8. 8pm. 57 Thames St. (718) 418-2509.

THEATER: Brooklyn Arts Exchangehosts a presentation by its teen stu-dents. $8, $5 students. 8 pm. 421Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018.

BROOKLYN LYCEUM: presents “TooMuch Light Makes The Baby GoBlind (30 plays in 60 minutes).” $15online (www.gowanus.com) or $9plus the roll of a single six-sideddie. 11:30 pm. 227 Fourth Ave.(718) 670-7234.

CHILDRENFAMILY ARTS: Brooklyn Historical

Society hosts “King or Queen For ADay: Create Your Own Crown.” Artsand crafts for kids. $10, $5 mem-bers. 10 am to noon. RotundaGallery, 33 Clinton St. (718) 222-4111, ext. 238.

FAMILY WORKSHOP: Brooklyn PublicLibrary Foundation hosts “The Artof the Artist’s Book.” Learn aboutnontraditional bookbinding tech-niques in the making of an artist’sbook. $20, $15 members. Childrenages 8 or older $10 if attendingwith an adult. 10:30 am to noon.Brooklyn Public Library, Centralbranch. Grand Army Plaza. (718)230-2100.

ROCK AND ROLL BRUNCH: Toddlersand pre-schoolers are invited to abrunch and performance by TheDeedle Deedle Dees. 11 am and 1pm. Goga Cafe, 521 Court St. Callfor price. (718) 260-8618.

CARIBBEAN VOICES: Brooklyn PublicLibrary, Business branch, hosts afamily event of readings, perform-ances and book signings withCaribbean authors. Noon. 280Cadman Plaza West. (718) 623-7000. Free.

SUMMER READING: Kick off for NewYork State’s Summer ReadingProgram, an initiative for children.Live music and dance, puppetry, kite-making workshops and face painting.1 pm to 5 pm. Brooklyn PublicLibrary, Central branch. Grand ArmyPlaza. (718) 230-2100. Free.

OTHERPIER SHOW: Brooklyn Waterfront

Artists Coalition presents art showfeaturing 1,000 works of art by over300 emerging artists. Also, slide

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MEETING: of Community Board 6. 6:30pm. Wesley House, 501 Sixth St.(718) 643-3027.

BARNES AND NOBLE: presents authorMichael Boyajian reading from hisbook, “Green Enchantments,” aguide to the Catskills. 7 pm. 106Court St. (718) 246-4996. Free.

PERFORMANCE & DISCUSSION: WalkTall Girl Productions presents “MySoul To Keep: Black Women Art andSpirituality.” Several authors readfrom their works. $10. 7 pm to 9 pm.ART/New York South Oxford Space,138 South Oxford St. (718) 919-5553.

JEWISH LEARNING: David Berg LectureSeries offers a course in “Genesisand the Big Bang.” 8 pm to 9 pm.Congregation B’nai Avraham, 117Remsen St. (718) 596-4840. Free.

BARBES BAR: Traveling Cinema filmseries presents “J’Ai Ete Au Bal/IWent to the Dance” (1989).Donations accepted. 8 pm. 376Ninth St. (718) 965-9177.

FREDDY’S BAR: Comedy night. Nocover. Call for time. 485 Dean St.(718) 622-7035.

BOATING COURSE: Brooklyn PowerSquadron eight hours of boating ed-ucation. Course is free; small chargefor materials. Call. (718) 768-6764.

TUES, JUNE 8SMALL BUSINESS TALK: Brooklyn

Economic Development Corp. offera workshop “Understanding How toMarket and Promote a Restaurant.”10 am to noon. 175 Remsen St.,suite 350. Call to register. (718) 522-4600, ext. 15. Free.

HARP MUSIC: Brooklyn Public Library,Bay Ridge branch, presents Kitty Sul-livan in a musical performance. 2 pm.7223 Ridge Blvd. (718) 748-5709. Free.

FILM AND VIDEO FEST: Brooklyn ArtsCouncil hosts its 38th InternationalFestival featuring “Youth Videos:Brooklyn and Beyond.” Films andvideos by independent, college stu-dents and youth. 5:30 pm to 8:30pm. Spike Lee Screening Room,Long Island University, FlatbushAvenue Extension and DeKalbAvenue. (718) 625-0080. Free.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: The Doll andToy Museum of NYC holds a kick-offmeeting. Volunteers, ages 18 and up,are needed. 6 pm to 7:30 pm. Brook-lyn Public Library, Heights branch, 280Cadman Plaza. (718) 243-0820.

DANCE: Brooklyn Ballet hosts “TakeBallet to the Streets.” 7 pm. MarinePark, near the Field House. (718)237-2204. Free.

BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music pres-ents the Mark Morris Dance Groupin the premiere of “Seven Visions,”featuring music composed and per-formed by The Bad Plus. Also on theprogram is “All Fours,” performed toBela Bartok’s music. $20, $40, $60. 7:30pm. Howard Gilman Opera House, 30Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100.

WEDS, JUNE 9LUNCHTIME CONCERT: Brooklyn

Borough President Marty Markowitzhosts his annual lunchtime series.Today, several youth choruses sing.Noon to 1:30 pm. Plaza at BrooklynBorough Hall. (718) 802-3832. Free.

MEETING: General board meeting ofCommunity Board 6. 6 pm. FamilyReception Center, 441 Fourth Ave.(718) 643-3027.

MEMBERSHIP MEETING: Pratt AreaCommunity Council hosts its annualmeeting. 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.Lafayette Presbyterian Church. (718)522-2613, ext. 22.

PARTY: Brooklyn Heights Music Societyhosts its annual event at Bargemusic.Borough President Marty Markowitz isspecial guest. $75 per couple; $40 perperson. Includes buffet dinner at 7 pmand chamber music at 8 pm. FultonFerry Landing. (718) 855-4722.

POETS CIRCLE: Meeting of thePierrepont Players. All invited. 7 pmto 9:15 pm. First Unitarian Church,Pierrepont Street, corner of ClintonStreet. (718) 377-1253. Free.

OPEN REHEARSAL: One World Sym-phony hosts a rehearsal. $5. 6 pm.Concert follows. $10. 8 pm. St. Annand the Holy Trinity, corner Montagueand Clinton streets. (718) 462-7270.

BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music pres-ents “The Imaginary Invalid” byMoliere. Performed in French withEnglish surtitles. $25, $40, $60. 7:30pm. Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St.(718) 636-4100.

FREDDY’S BAR: Trivia night. No cover.Call . 485 Dean St. (718) 622-7035.

THURS, JUNE 10Brooklyn-Queens Day

CONFERENCE: Gowanus Canal confer-ence “Perspectives on UrbanEnvironmental Restoration.” 8 am to6 pm. Lunch is included. BrooklynCollege, Student Union, one blockfrom the intersection of Flatbush andNostrand avenues. Pre-registrationnecessary. (718) 951-5631. Free.

MADE IN BROOKLYN: Learn aboutmarketing trends and influences inthe specialty and health food indus-try. Breakfast included. 8:30 am to10 am. Brooklyn Public Library,Business branch, 280 Cadman PlazaWest. Registration required. (718)623-7000, option 4. Free.

KIDS ART: Rotunda Gallery exhibit, fea-turing art created by NYC students.All-day event includes art-makingworkshops for artists of all ages.Reservations necessary. 33 ClintonSt. (718) 875-4047, ext. 16. Free.

WATERFRONT FESTIVAL: Waterfrontactivities during the annual NewtownCreek event. Eco-cruises with theUrban Divers, presentations by sev-eral institutions, Manhattan SailClub, more. 10 am. Meet at 1155Manhattan Ave. (718) 383-4388.

RHYTHM AND BLUES: Annual lunch-time series at Metrotech. Today:Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers.Noon to 2 pm. Corner of Flatbushand Myrtle avenues. (718) 636-4129.

EXHIBIT: Portuguese American pho-tographer Carolina Fernandes pres-ents her work. 5 pm to 7 pm. St.Francis College, 180 Remsen St.(718) 797-9606. Free.

BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE:Performances by circus and acrobat-ic students from BrooklynInternational High School, bi-lingualtheater students from the BrooklynSchool for Collaborative Studies,theater and dance students fromBrooklyn New School. Others. 5 pm.421 Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. Free.

FAMILY PROGRAM: Spoke the Hubhosts “Class Sharings.” 6 pm and7:30 pm. 295 Douglass St. (718) 408-3234. Free.

OPEN STUDIOS: Smack Mellon invitesthe community to visit its Artist Stu-

dio Program. 6 pm to 9 pm. 70 Wash-ington St. (718) 422-0989. Free.

OLD STONE HOUSE: Local author RonChernow reads from his work “Alex-ander Hamilton.” $10. 7 pm. MiddleSchool 51, Fifth Avenue and FourthStreet. (718) 768-3195, ext. 2.

BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music pres-ents the Mark Morris Dance Group in“Seven Visions.” 7:30 pm. See Sat.,June 12. Also, BAM Dialogue withClaude Stratz and Marcel Bozonnet.Discussion of Moliere’s final work:“The Imaginary Invalid.” 6 pm. 30Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100.

EVENING OF BROADWAY: MarcoPolo Ristorante presents an eveningof dining and Broadway songs. Nocover charge; a la carte menu. 8pm. 345 Court St. (718) 852-5015.

MOLIERE: “The Imaginary Invalid.”7:30 pm. See Sat., June 12.

FRI, JUNE 11GROUP SHOW: Black and White

Gallery presents “Crit’s Pix,” a sum-mer show curated by critic LillyWei. 6 pm to 9 pm. 483 DriggsAve. (718) 599-8775. Free.

CLINTON HILL ARTS: Reception forClinton Hill’s growing community ofartists. 6 pm to 8 pm. PrattInstitute, 200 Willoughby St. (718)622-3432. Free.

STUDENT SHOW: Creative OutletDance Theater of Brooklyn presentsits student artists in a program. 7 pm.NYC Technical College, KlitgordTheater, 300 Jay St. Call for ticketinfo. (718) 636-9312.

FISH TALK: Brooklyn Aquarium Societypresents Richard Koogle in a talk “AnOverview of Ponds.” $5 donation fornon-members. 7:30 pm. NYAquarium, Surf Avenue and WestEighth Street. (718) 837-4455.

GOOD COFFEEHOUSE: Main SqueezeAccordion Orchestra performs. $10,$6 children. 7:30 pm. Brooklyn So-ciety for Ethical Culture, 53 ProspectPark West. (718) 768-2972.

FILM: presents “On The Waterfront”(1954) with Marlon Brando. $8. 7:30pm. Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 FourthAve. (718) 857-4816.

BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE: pres-ents “The Circle Goes Round.”Performance features advanceddance performance workshop mem-bers ages 13 to 17. $25, $10 studentsand low-income. Reception follows. 8pm. 421 Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018.

OPERA: Chapel Theater hosts “Cham-pagne and Candlelight, Opera diCamera.” Production featuresPergolesi’s “La Serva Padrona.”$20, $15 seniors, students. 8 pm.Corner of Pierrepont Street andMonroe Place. (347) 596-3882.

GALAPAGOS: Floating Vaudeville. $5.10 pm to 1 am. 70 North Sixth St.(718) 782-5188.

BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Musicpresents the Mark Morris DanceGroup in “Seven Visions.” 7:30 pm.See Sat., June 12.


BLACK BOX SERIES: Gallery Playershosts its festival of plays. 8 pm. SeeSat., June 12.

BROOKLYN LYCEUM: “Too MuchLight Makes The Baby Go Blind.”11:30 pm. See Sat., June 12.

SAT, JUNE 12

OUTDOORS AND TOURSBIKE RIDE: Bay Ridge Consumer

Federation hosts a ride along theNarrows. 9 am. Meet at 9000Fourth Ave. (718) 745-6383.

WALKING TOUR: Historic Fort GreeneAssociation hosts a tour of area.$10. 11 am. Meet at entrance toHSBC, Hanson Place near FlatbushAve. (718) 237-9031.

BROOKLYN PRIDE: Festival and 5Kfun run. Outdoor market, perform-ers and more. 11 am to 6 pm.Prospect Park West between 9thand 14th streets. (718) 670-3337.

PERFORMANCEBAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music

presents the Mark Morris DanceGroup in the premiere of “SevenVisions,” featuring music composed

and performed by The Bad Plus.Also on the program is “All Fours,”performed to Bartok. $20, $40,$60. 7:30 pm. Howard GilmanOpera House, 30 Lafayette Ave.(718) 636-4100.

ONE ACT PLAYS: Kef Productionshosts its first festival. Live music andtheater performances of comedy,improv and hula hooping. $15. 7:30pm. Charlie Pineapple Theater, 248North Eighth St. (212) 591-2845.


BRIC STUDIO: Dancewave presentsKids Company featuring works byMark Morris, David Dorfman andDoug Varone. $16, $12 kids 12 andunder. 7:30 pm. 57 Rockwell Place.(718) 522-4696.

CONCERT UNDER THE STARS:Kingsborough Community Collegehosts concert “Summer Breeze.” 8pm. End of Oriental Boulevard.(718) 368-5051. Free.

BLACK BOX SERIES: Gallery Playershosts several plays. 8 pm. See Sat.,June 5.

VAUDEVILLE: Brooklyn Lyceum pres-ents “Swampking,” a program ofnew work by new playwrights,along with comedy, video anddance. $12. 8 pm. 227 Fourth Ave.(718) 857-4816.

BROOKLYN LYCEUM: “Too MuchLight Makes The Baby Go Blind (30plays in 60 minutes).” $15 online(www.gowanus.com) or $9 plus theroll of a single six-sided die. 11:30pm. 227 Fourth Ave. (718) 670-7234.

CHILDRENNY AQUARIUM: Kids are invited to get

an up close view of sharks. See theirsharp teeth, rough skin and powerfulfins during a program “Extreme Teeth,Tentacles and Tales.” Appropriate forkids 2 to 12 years. $11, $7 kids ages2 to 12 and seniors. Noon to 4 pm.West Eighth Street and Surf Avenue.(718) 265-FISH.

MEET BROOKLYN AUTHORS: BrooklynHistorical Society presents MariTakabayashi. She reads from herbook “I Live in Brooklyn.” Admissionof $6, $4 students and seniors. 2 pm.128 Pierrepont St. (718) 222-4111.

OTHERPIER SHOW: Brooklyn Waterfront

Artists Coalition art show featuring1,000 works of art by over 300emerging artists. Also, Middle-Eastern bellydancing with Rahnine.Noon to 6 pm. Red Hook Pier, 499Van Brunt St. (718) 596-2507. Free.

ROSE PAINTING: Brooklyn BotanicGarden offers a sketching andpainting class. $59, $54 members.10 am to 3:30 pm. 1000Washington Ave. (718) 623-7220.

PARADE OF FLAGS: Sunset Parkhosts its 11th annual event. Marchalongside, or carry one of the flagsprovided by the Fifth AvenueBusiness Improvement District.11:30 am. Meet at 44th Street andFifth Avenue. (718) 439-7767.

MEET THE WRITERS: NY Transit Mu-seum presents “The Subway and theCity,” by authors Stan Fischer andJohn Henderson. Learn how NYCgrew in size and substance aroundthe subway system. 12:30 pm. NYTransit Museum, Boerum Place andSchermerhorn Street. Call for admis-sion charge. (718) 694-5100.

STRAWBERRY FEST: Christ Church ofBay Ridge. $10 includes salad andstrawberry shortcake. 1 pm to 4 pm.7301 Ridge Boulevard. (718) 745-3698.

DINNER GALA: Better BrooklynCommunity Center hosts its springevent. $50 includes dinner. 6:30pm. Hillis Hall at Plymouth Church,57 Hicks St. (718) 624-1992.

SUN, JUNE 13

OUTDOORS AND TOURSGARDEN WALK: Brownstone

Brooklyn Garden District hosts itsannual event. 15 private and 8 com-munity gardens are on a self-guid-ed tour. $12. 11 am to 5 pm. Pickup tickets at Tillies, intersection ofFulton Street and Lafayette Avenue.(718) 707-1277.

WILDMAN TOUR: Naturalist andauthor Steve Brill hosts a wild food

presentation “Van Gogh andGauguin in Paris.” Noon to 6 pm.Red Hook Pier, 499 Van Brunt St.(718) 596-2507. Free.

FIRST SATURDAY: Brooklyn Museumhosts the seventh annual BrooklynInternational Film Festival. 100 filmsfrom 30 countries. Call for programinfo. Evening also includes music byPaul Burch, poetry by JoshuaBeckman and Matthew Rohrer anda dance party with live entertain-ment. 5 pm to 11 pm. 200 EasternParkway. (718) 638-5000. Free.

CIVIL WAR ENCAMPMENT: In cele-bration of its Liberty Weekend, TheNew Utrecht Reformed Churchhosts an encampment. 10 am to 4pm. Also, historic site tours of thegrounds. 84th Street and 18thAvenue. (718) 256-7173. Free.

WRITING WORKSHOP: BrooklynPublic Library, Carroll Gardens branch,offers a workshop “Memoirs forMoms.” Women are invited tobegin work toward writing essays,articles and books. 10 am. 396Clinton St. (718) 596-6972. Free.

CLINTON HILL ART FEST: CorridorGallery, Gallery D3 and KB Gallerypresent over 40 artists’ works.Noon to 6 pm. All located onGrand and Lexington avenues.(718) 6223-3432. Free.

DUMBO BAZAAR: Flea market featur-ing local artists, live music and abar. Noon to 8 pm. 88 Front St.(646) 489-7380.

PENNY SOCIAL: at Flatbush DutchReformed Church. $5, $2 children.12:30 pm to 4 pm. Church andFlatbush avenues. (718) 284-5140.

POETS UNDER GLASS: Writing work-shop and open reading. 1 pm to 3pm. Brooklyn Public Library, Brook-lyn Heights branch, 280 CadmanPlaza West. (718) 623-7100. Free.

RECEPTION: Williamsburg Art andHistorical Center presents its sev-enth annual mermaid show, cele-brating the Coney Island MermaidParade. 4 pm to 7 pm. 135Broadway. (718) 486-7372. Free.

ARTISTS’ RECEPTION: Smack Mellonhosts the exhibit “Sunrise Sunset.”Meet the artists from 6 pm to 9 pm.56 Water St. (718) 834-8761. Free.

BAMCINEMATEK: Best of 2003 with“Goodbye, Dragon Inn” (2003).Introduced by Village Voice film crit-ic J. Hoberman. $10. 6:45 pm. $10.30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100.

SPRING FEST: St. Patrick’s Parish hostsa festival of music, food and fun. 7pm to 11 pm. 97th Street andFourth Avenue. (718) 238-2600.

FILM: Coney Island Saturday NightFilm Series presents “Night of theLiving Dead.” $5 includes popcorn.8:30 pm. Coney Island Museum,1208 Surf Ave. (718) 372-5159.

SUN, JUNE 6

OUTDOORS AND TOURSBROOKLYN BEST: Borough President

Marty Markowitz’s celebration con-tinues with sand castle contest, armwrestling championship, baby strollerparade and more. 10 am-8 pm. Fora full schedule of events log ontoMarkowitz’s Web site at www.brook-lyn-usa.org or call (718) 802-3700.

ROSE MONTH: Brooklyn BotanicGarden begins its month-long event.Guided tour of over 5,000 varietiesof roses in Cranford Rose Garden.Noon. Also, chamber music concertfeaturing David Yang’s “QuartetBotanica.” 2 pm. Additionally, poetryreadings and dancing and a rose-inspired kimono fashion show.Included in admission fee of $5, $3seniors and students. 1000Washington Ave. (718) 623-7200.

BIRD WALK: Audubon Center offers awalk. 8 am to 10 am. ProspectPark. (718) 287-3400. Free.

GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: Tourcemetery’s points of interest withguide John Cashman. $6. 1 pm.Meet at Fifth Avenue gate at 25thStreet entrance. (718) 768-7300.

HISTORIC FUND TOUR: Visit Green-Wood cemetery. Jeff Richman, thecemetery’s historian, leads tourthrough Valley Water, the ReceivingTomb, the grave of the SodaFountain King and more. $10. 1 pm.Meet at main entrance, 25th Streetand Fifth Avenue. (718) 768-7300.

BOERUM HILL HOUSE TOUR: Selfguided tour. $20 includes refresh-ments. 1 pm to 5 pm. Exhibit ofMohawk high-steel workers at con-clusion of tour. Register at Bishop

Mugavero Geriatric Center, 155Dean St. (718) 858-3822, ext. 100.

CONEY ISLAND TOUR: BrooklynHistorical Society hosts a walk anddiscusses the history of the neigh-borhood. Walk along the Boardwalkand back streets. $15, $10 mem-bers, $5 children. 2 pm. Meet infront of Nathan’s Famous locatedon Surf and Stillwell avenues. Reser-vations necessary. (718) 222-4111.

PERFORMANCEMUSIC: Brooklyn Public Library, Central

branch, presents the Yale Strom KlezmerOrchestra concert. 2 pm. GrandArmy Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free.

ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Labapa-looza!” 3 pm. See Sat., June 5.

BLACK BOX SERIES: Gallery Playershosts several plays. 3 pm. See Sat.,June 5.

OPERA: “Don Pasquale.” 4 pm. SeeSat., June 5.

CHILDRENSTREET FAIR: Learn about nutrition,

health and safety. Also, moon walk,face painting, storytelling anddemonstrations. 10 am to 5:30 pm.Sixth Avenue between Union Streetand Berkeley Place.

PINKSTER CARNIVAL: Activities includeperformances, gourd making work-shop, carnival games and prizes,Dutch shoe races, egg eating con-test, candy, more. Noon to 4 pm.Free admission. Wyckoff Farmhouse,5816 Clarendon Road. (718) 629-5400.

PIZZA PARTY: Italian restaurant Io inviteskids to make their own pizzas. Kidschoose toppings and decorate theirown personal portions. Ages 4 andup. $15 per child includes ingredientsand soda or juice. Noon. 119 KentAve. (718) 388-3320.

INTERNATIONAL STORY STEW: Brookl-yn Public Library, Midwood branch,presents storyteller Barbara Aliprantis.She tells world folktales through songsand picture book stories. 1 pm. 975East 16th St. (718) 252-0967. Free.

OTHERPARADE: New Utrecht Liberty Week-

end hosts a parade which begins at84th Street, in front of the New Ut-recht Church. 11 am. (718) 256-7173.

STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL: FlatbushReformed Church annual event. $5includes ice cream and strawber-ries. 12:30 pm. Flatbush andChurch avenues. (718) 284-5140.

ARM WRESTLING: New York ArmWrestling Association hosts theGolden Arm Championships. Regis-tration and weigh-in at 10 am. Starttime at 12:30 pm. Finals at 3:30pm. White Castle sponsors event.Main Stage, between 10th and12th streets in front of Astroland,Coney Island. (718) 802-3875. Free.

LECTURE: Hadassah, Bay RidgeChapter, hosts “Jewish Women inGovernment.” $8. 10 am to noon.Bay Ridge Jewish Center, 405 81stSt. (718) 382-6454.

SMALL PRESS FAIR: Third annualBrooklyn alternative small press fair.Local small presses, chapbooksmade by writers and poets, elec-tronic publishing, spoken word CDrecordings, literary crafts and more.Noon to 6 pm. Old Stone House,336 Third St. (718) 832-2310. Free.

CANCER SURVIVORS DAY: LutheranMedical Center takes part in thisnational event. Guest speakers,entertainment, education and food.1 pm to 5 pm. 150 55th St. (718)630-7000. Free.

SUNDAY AT SUNNY’S: Reading bypoet Jen Bervin. $3. 3 pm. 253Conover St. (718) 625-8211.

SUNDAY VIGIL: Brooklyn Parents forPeace stage a series of vigils tourge Sen. Chuck Schumer to sup-port change in US policy in Iraq.Reading of names of Americans,Iraqis and others who have beenkilled in the war. 7:30 pm. ProspectPark West and Carroll Street, nearGrand Army Plaza. (718) 624-5921.

MON, JUNE 7DECISION-MAKING DAY: Health Care

decision planning session offered atNY Community Hospital. Topicsinclude Power of Attorney andHealth Care Proxy; how to choosean agent for Power of Attorney;what insurance and financial docu-ments should be maintained; why awill is important. More. 11 am tonoon.. 2523 Kings Highway. (718)692-5336. Free.

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stitutions, from “The Misan-thrope” and “The Miser” to“Tartuffe” and “Don Juan”(which the Comedie-Francaisebrought to BAM on its lastBrooklyn visit eight years ago)— remain alive and vital to the-atergoers and readers alike be-cause they have not dated oneiota.

Melillo’s thoughts on “TheImaginary Invalid” apply to allof Moliere’s work.

“It’s hysterically funny, andyou don’t need to know French[culture and society]to get it,” he ex-plains. “It is deli-ciously hysterical,and it’s all to theplaywright’s creditthat he wrote this in1673, and he knewhow to focus our at-tention on the gulli-bility of hypochon-driacs and themedical profession. Its socialcommentary — what’s true thenis true now — is why the playsustains itself.”

Dubbed “The House ofMoliere,” the Comedie-Fran-caise has been around nearly aslong as the master’s plays:King Louis XIV established thecompany in 1680, seven yearsafter Moliere’s death. In the324 years since, only the startof the French Revolution keptthe troupe off the stage, andthen only for a brief period.

Melillo was especiallyhopeful to bring the companyback to Brooklyn, even thoughtheir tours are sporadic at best.(Their only other BAM ap-pearance was in 1979, withGeorges Feydeau’s farce “AFlea in Her Ear.”)

“I specifically went [to seethem in Paris] to find a workto get them to return them toBAM,” he says. “I spent a lotof time looking at a wholerange of their work, and I fo-cused on this particularMoliere play because it’s sim-ply exceptional.”

Melillo discusses the diffi-

culties of securing their ap-pearance.

“It’s definitely challenging,”he admits. “They’re a reperto-ry theater and they don’t gen-erally tour, and the main rea-son why we were able toinvite them here this time isthat there is going to be con-struction on their main stage,so they have the ability to tourthe United States.”

The primary strengths of theComedie-Francaise are its resi-dent artists, both the actors anddirectors. Claude Stratz, theSwiss director who is staging“The Imaginary Invalid,” hasbeen with the company since1999 and receives special praise

from Melillo. “Claude Stratz has directed

with extraordinary style andauthenticity,” he says. “Thiswill be his directorial debut inNew York. What he does isoversee the conservatory there,so he’s always working withactors — usually young andemerging actors. He’s like anacting coach for the company.And his cast for this play is amix of the best of the[troupe’s] senior actors andsome of the younger ones.

“It’s the combination of theseactors who I believe are the bestin France — and I spend a lot oftime looking at theater in France— and the director who distin-guish this work. It’s unfortunatethat we have only rare opportu-nities to see them.”

The company’s pre-eminencein the world of the theater showsno signs of abating, even afterthree centuries of performing.

“They’re definitely not a mu-seum,” Melillo insists. “This is avital producing theater that bal-ances its calling card, classicalwork, with a lot of contempo-rary work.”


and ecology tour of ProspectPark. $10, $5 children under 12.11:45 am. Meet at Grand ArmyPlaza entrance to ProspectPark. (914) 835-2153.

PIER SHOW: Brooklyn WaterfrontArtists Coalition presents its artshow featuring 1,000 works ofart by over 300 emerging artists.Also, music with The MamboJazzy Latin Band. Noon to 6pm. Red Hook Pier, 499 VanBrunt St. (718) 596-2507. Free.

UNDERGROUND MUSES:Brooklyn Center for the UrbanEnvironment presents a talkwith Ruth Edebohls at Green-Wood Cemetery. $11, $8 sen-iors and students. 1 pm to 3pm. Meet at Gothic Arch insidethe entrance at 25th Street andFifth Avenue. (718) 788-8500.

WALKING TOUR: Brooklyn Centerfor the Urban Environment takesa tour of Green-Wood Cemetery.Hear the stories of LeonardBernstein, Asher Durand, LauraKeene, Louis Comfort Tiffany andothers. $10. 1 pm. Meet at mainentrance at 25th Street and FifthAvenue. (718) 768-7300.

BASEBALL TALK: Brooklyn His-torical Society presents authorThomas Gilbert. He gives anillustrated talk about baseball,followed by a walk to historical-ly significant baseball sites inBrooklyn Heights. $10, $5 mem-bers. 2 pm. 128 Pierrepont St.(718) 222-4111.

PERFORMANCECONCERT: Park Slope Singers

presents an All-American con-cert. $10. 3 pm. Reception fol-lows. St. Saviour’s Church,Eighth Avenue and Sixth Street.(718) 788-2282.

SLOPE SINGERS: Second annualBrooklyn Gay Pride Concert withthe 45-voice Stonewall Chorale.Music by Meredith Monk, PaulaKimper and others. $10. 4 pm.Park Slope United MethodistChurch, Sixth Avenue and EighthStreet. (718) 499-3788.

MUSIC: Music Healing Ministry ofSt. Jacobi Ev. Lutheran Churchhosts “The Messiah” communi-ty sing-in. 4 pm. Donationsappreciated. 5406 Fourth Ave.(718) 439-8978.

MOLIERE: “The Imaginary Inva-lid.” 3 pm. See Sat., June 12.

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BAMcafe30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in FortGreene, (718) 636-4100, www.bam.org.June 5: Martha Redbone and the Fellaz, 9 pm,FREE with $10 food/drink minimum; June 11:JC Hopkins Biggish Band, 9 pm, FREE with $10food/drink minimum.

Barbes376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park Slope,(718) 965-9177, www.barbesbrooklyn.com.Sundays: Stephane Wrembel Trio, 9 pm, FREE;June 5: The Blue Vipers, 9 pm, FREE; June 6:Jazz Passengers with Roy Nathanson, 7 pm,FREE; June 8: Estonian poetry reading by KarlMartin Sinij?rv and Asko K?nnap, 7:30 pm,FREE; June 8: Jenny Scheinmann, 9 pm, FREE;June 9: Michael Yednak Quartet, 7 pm, FREE,Nights of the Ravished Limbs, with Schulldogs,9 pm, $8; June 10: Golem, 9 pm, FREE; June11: Dave Phillips and Freedance, 7 pm, FREE;June 11: Ben Monder, 9 pm, FREE, June 12:Uncle Moon, 7 pm, FREE.

Boudoir BarAt East End Ensemble, 273 Smith St. atSackett Street in Carroll Gardens, (718) 624-8878, www.eastendensemble.com.Saturdays: Comedy with the Brooklyn Brew-Ha-Ha, 9:30 pm, $5 with two drink minimum.

BrooklynHistorical Society128 Pierrepont St. at Clinton Street inBrooklyn Heights, (718) 222-4111,www.brooklynhistory.org.June 11: Beer Garden at BHS, with music fromMan vs. Robot, 6:30 pm, FREE.

Cafe 111111 Court St. at State Street in Downtown,(718) 858-2806, www.cafe111online.com.June 5: Lanky, Licks n Kicks, Pasha, SxAddict, 8pm, FREE; June 6: 4th Street Night Owls,Q2QL3, 7 pm, FREE; June 7: Tom GuaranaBand, Osage County, 8 pm, FREE; June 8: AntjeDuvekot, Teddybut, Tony Scherr, 8 pm, FREE;June 9: Russ Spiegel’s Big Bad Big Band, PeteYellin, 8 pm, FREE; June 10: East Coast SingerSongwriter’s Circle, time TBA, FREE; June 11:Jared Booty, Rough Stars, Shelly NicolesBlakbüshe Acoutic Acoustic, 8:30 pm, FREE.

Chocolate Monkey329 Flatbush Ave. at Seventh Avenue inPark Slope, (718) 813-1073.

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NightlifeFridays: “Reggae after Work” with Winston Irieand the Collective Crew, 7:30, FREE.

Five Spot459 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue inClinton Hill, (718) 852-0202, www.fivespot-soulfood.com.June 5: Grown Folk Bi’ness, 8 pm, $10; June 7:Red Bull Music Academy presents DJ Radarwith appearances by Steinski and Grand WizardTheodore, 7 pm (DJs only), 9 pm (open to pub-lic), FREE; June 10: True Story, 9 pm, $10.

Flying Saucer Cafe494 Atlantic Ave. at Nevins Street inBoerum Hill, (718) 522-1383.Saturdays: ‘Relief’ with DJ John Burns, 7:30 pm,FREE; Sundays: ‘Sunday Service’ with DJ JohnBurns, noon, FREE; Wednesdays: ‘Rock andFolk’ jam, 8 pm, FREE; Thursdays: ‘Lounging’with DJ John Burns, 9 pm, FREE; Fridays: ‘LiveJazz Atmosphere,’ 7:30 pm, FREE.

Frank’s Lounge660 Fulton St. at South Elliott Place in FortGreene, (718) 625-9339,www.FranksCocktailLounge.com.Saturdays: Sinful Saturdays w/ DJs Tyrone andInfinite, 9 pm, $5; Sundays: Live jazz, 7 pm, FREE;Thursdays: Lonnie Youngblood & The BloodBrothers, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Ffun Dance Party,10 pm, $5; June 8: Tuesday Night Live withRhian, 9 pm, FREE with two-drink minimum.

Freddy’s Bar& Backroom485 Dean St. at Sixth Avenue in Prospect Hts,(718) 622-7035, www.Freddysbackroom.com.June 5: Rachel Kershenbaum, The Minors, I Liveon Earth, 9 pm, FREE; June 6: Dirk Richardson,9 pm, FREE; June 7: Comedy night hosted byPat O’Shea, 9 pm, FREE; June 8: Will Vinson, 9pm, FREE; June 9: Quiz night, 9 pm, FREE; June10: Agua Trip, DJ Professor Rockwell, ¿Threat?,9 pm, FREE; June 11: Misty LaFleur, My PocketZoo, Bitter Poet, 9 pm, FREE.

free103point9Gallery97 S. Sixth St. at Bedford Avenue, secondfloor, in Williamsburg, no phone, www.screw-musicforever.com/free103/schedule.htm.June 5: Jazzkammer (from Norway), HowardStelzer, sc.all, 9 pm, $5.

Galapagos70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in

Williamsburg, (718) 782-5188, www.gala-pagosartspace.com.Fridays: Galapagos Floating Vaudeville, 10 pm,$5; June 5: Irwin, time TBA $6; June 6: JonLundbom and Big Five Chord, 9:30 pm, $5;June 7: Lightning Strikes Theater, 7 pm, $10;June 7: Monday Evening Burlesque: “HulaHoop Contest” hosted by Miss Saturn andTanya Gagne of The Wau Wau Sisters, 9:30 pm,FREE; June 8: The Inevitable Breakups, CallFlorence Pow, The English Dept., 8 pm, $8;June 9: Wednesdays in Residence with EvanHause, 8 pm, $8; June 9: Pant (MaleBurlesque), 10:30 pm, $5; June 10: Uncomun,10 pm, $8; June 11: Green Home NYCSummer Benefit, 6 pm-10 pm, donation $TBA;DJ Boy Racer, 1 am, FREE.

Good Coffeehouse 53 Prospect Park West at Second Street inProspect Park, (718) 768-2972, www.bsec.org.June 11: The Main Squeeze AccordionOrchestra, 8 pm, $10 adults, $6 children.

The Hook18 Commerce St. at Columbia Street in RedHook, (718) 797-3007, www.thehookmusic.com.June 5: Real Kids, The Konks, Some Action,The Shop Fronts, 8:30 pm, $10; June 8: PerfectOrange, Suburban Legends, High SchoolFootball Heroes, Bum Ruckus, 8 pm, $7; June10: Bill Konig, Eric Stuart Band, East of Autumn,Jim Malone and Standpipe, 8 pm, $6.

iO Restaurant119 Kent Ave. at North Seventh Street inWilliamsburg, (718) 388-3320, www.iorestau-rantandlounge.com.Fridays: Live DJ spins salsa and house, 10 pm,FREE; Saturdays: Live DJ spins salsa and house,10 pm, FREE. Proper casual dress required.

The Jazz179 Marcus Garvey Blvd. at KosciuszkoStreet in Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 453-7825, www.thejazz.8m.com.Mondays: Jam Session, 8 pm, $5; June 5: MS.Lakesia Benjamin Quartet, 9 pm, $10; June 11:Peter Kaufmann Quartet, 9 pm, $10.

Jazz 966966 Fulton St. at St.James Place in Fort Greene,(718) 638-6910, Ext. 25, www.illbrew.com.June 11: Opening reception of “30 years ofSubway Art Legends,” hosted by Poppy, honor-ing graffiti artist JamesTop, music by DJ Kwest,King Uprock and Pete “DJ” Jones, 6 pm, FREE,Music, battles and break dance competition,with Freedom Williams of C&C Music Factory,Mack Mama, DJ 50 Grand, Brooklyn StreetDancers, 9 pm, $5 donation; Also on June 11:The Dina Vera Quartet, 8 pm, $10, includes food;Art Jenkins Quarter, 10 pm, $10.

Kili Bar-Cafe81 Hoyt St. at State Street in Boerum Hill,(718) 855-5574.Saturdays: Live DJ Music, 10:30 pm;Wednesdays: The Love Shack with DJ Matteo,10:30 pm, FREE; Fridays, DJ Chappy plays rock,hip-hop and funk, 10:30 pm, FREE.

Laila Lounge113 N. Seventh St. at Wythe Avenue inWilliamsburg, (718) 486-6791, www.laila-lounge.com.Saturdays: (Upstairs) DJ DEN ONE, 10 pm,FREE; June 5: (Downstairs) Andrew HendryxEnsemble, Adam Sorenson Band, DJs Lady Nik& Major Tom, 9:30 pm, $5; June 6: Jazz JamSession, with the Jesse Selengut Trio, 9 pm,FREE; June 8: Stephen Norfleet and The Devil’sWorkshop Big Band, sets at 9:30 pm and 11pm, FREE; June 9: Shababat Rusciolelli, EvanBrum, Luis Betancourt, Matt Hawks, 8:30 pm,FREE; June 10: Upstairs: Discovered with DJSpanky, 10 pm, FREE, Downstairs: Charlie Irwin,Postmidnight, J. Simone and Friends, TheTruthseekers, DJ Popcorn, 9 pm, $5; June 11:Upstairs: Dj Rainjah 10 pm, FREE; Downstairs:Pure, Animators, Rob Troise, 9 pm, $5.

Liberty HeightsTap Room34 Van Dyke St. at Dwight Street in RedHook, (718) 246-8050.Thursdays: Open mic, 10 pm, FREE; June 5:The Electrix, 10 pm, $10; June 11: HowardFishman Quintet, 10 pm, FREE.

The LuLu Lounge(under TacuTacu) 134 N. Sixth Street at Bed-ford Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) 218-7889,http://www.ricerepublic.com/specials.html.June 7: “Stilted On Stage” (live comedy), 8 pm,$5, includes a free drink.

The Lucky Cat245 Grand St. at Roebling Street in Williams-burg, (718) 782-0437, www.theluckycat.com.June 5: Madhu, 9 pm, FREE, Sugarlight Satur-days with DJ Jenny Jeans, 11 pm, FREE; June6: Backyard BBQ, 6 pm, FREE, reLM wild, 9pm, FREE; June 7: Open Mic, 8 pm, C. Depp,9 pm, FREE; June 9: Dogs Blood Rising host-ed by Princess Coldheart, 10 pm, FREE; June10: live performance by Franny, 8 pm, FREE;June 11: Futurefunk Sessions with DJ Sport

Casual, 10 pm, FREE.

Magnetic Field 97 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street in BrooklynHeights, (718) 834-0069,www.MagneticBrooklyn.com.Thursdays: 80 Proof Thursdays (’80s night), 10pm, FREE; June 5: The Whirls, The Demands,7:30 pm, $3; El Paso HiFi with DJ Dom, 10 pm,FREE; June 7: Live Band Karaoke, hosted byBunnie England, 10 pm, FREE; June 11:Sparklemotion, DJ French Toast, 9 pm, FREE.

Magnolia486 Sixth Ave. at 12th Street in Park Slope,(718) 369-4814.Tuesdays: Jam with The Noah Haidu Trio, 10pm, FREE with $5 minimum; June 5: MikeDiRubbio Trio, 10 pm, FREE; June 11: JoelChasin, 10 pm, FREE.

Meson Flamenco135 Atlantic Ave. at Clinton Street inBrooklyn Heights, (718) 625-7177.Fridays and Saturdays: Live flamenco musicand dance performance, 8:30 pm and 11 pm,$5, $20 for table.

Moda Cafe294 Fifth Ave. at First Street in Park Slope,(718) 832-8897, www.modacafebrooklyn.com.June 5: Magic Carpet Cleaners, Inc., 21stCentury Vaudeville party, FREE, 10 pm; June11: DJ Seth and DJ Amanda, 9 pm, FREE.

NationalRestaurant273 Brighton Beach Ave. at BrightonSecond Street in Brighton Beach, (718) 646-1225, www.come2national.com.Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays: Live Russianmusic and dance show, 9 pm, FREE.

Night of Cookers767 Fulton St. at South Portland Avenue inFort Greene, (718) 797-1197.Thursdays: Live Jazz, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: LiveJazz, 10 pm, FREE; Saturdays: Live Jazz, 10 pm,FREE; Sundays: Live Jazz, 4 pm, FREE.

Northsix66 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Williams-burg, (718) 599-5103, www.northsix.com.June 5: Maritime, Snailhouse, Miso, 7 pm, $10;June 6: Broken Spindles, Passage/RestiformBodies, Alan Astor, Von Iva, 7 pm, $8advance/$10 day of show; June 7: My HotelYear, Feable Weiner, River City High, HighTigers, 7 pm, $10; June 9: Grant Lee Phillips,John Doe, 8 pm, $15 advance/$18 day of show;June 10: Don Piper, Kyle Fischer, ChrisMacFarland, 8 pm, $7; June 11: Trans Am,Bobby Conn, The Frequency, 8 pm, $12.

Office Ops57 Thames St. at Morgan Avenue, Williamsburg,(718) 418-2509, www.officeops.org.

June 5: The Sunset Clause dance performance,8 pm, $8; June 11: La Boca Del Lobo: ItinerantFilm Festival, 8 pm, $7; June 12: La Boca DelLobo: Itinerant Film Festival, 8 pm, $7.

ParlorJazz119 Vanderbilt Ave. at Myrtle Avenue in Clin-ton Hill, (718) 855-1981, www.parlorjazz.com.June 5: Marilyn & her Fabulous Trio, 9 pm, $15.

Peggy O’Neill’s(Two locations)1904 Surf Ave. at Keyspan Park in Coney Is-land, (718) 449-3200, www.peggyoneills.com.June 5: Benefit for the American Cancer Societywith Frankie Bones, Nigel Richards, Adam X,Jason BK, and many more, 2 pm - 4 am, $5 dona-tion; June 10: ‘80s Night, 8 pm, FREE.

8123 Fifth Ave. at 81st Street in Bay Ridge,(718) 748-1400.Fridays: Live DJ, 10 pm, FREE; June 5: shade ofgray, 10 pm, [free or cover charge??]; June 6: FifthAvenue Festival with Dirty Seance, 10 pm, $5.

Pete’s Candy Store709 Lorimer St. at Richardson Street in Williams-burg, (718) 302-3770, www.petescandystore.com. Sundays: Open Mic, 6:30-8:30 pm, FREE; June5: Milo Jones, John Dylan Keith, Kate Diamond,9 pm, FREE; June 6: Open mic, 6 pm, TheHaywards, 9 pm, FREE; June 7: Dani Linnetz,Matt Keating, Jeff London, 9 pm, FREE; June 8:Jack Grace, Pee-Air (of Melomane) & ChristianGibbs, 9 pm, FREE; June 9: Ellis Traver & Loiter,10 pm, FREE; June 10: Julian Velard, LizDeschel, Chris Lee, 9 pm, FREE; June 11: TheTrolleyvox, Swivel Chairs, The Moonlighters, 9pm, FREE.

Sideshows bythe Seashore3006 W. 12th St. at Surf Avenue in ConeyIsland, (718) 372-5159, www.coneyisland.com.Saturdays: Sideshows by the Seashore, featur-ing 10 talents, including Ravi “The ScorpionMystic,” Eak, “The Illustrated Man” and TheAmazing, Blazing Tyler Fyre, 1-11 pm, $5 adults,$3 children under 12; Fridays: Sideshow by theSeashore: 2-8 pm, $10; June 11: StarshineBurlesque, 10 pm, $15.

Southpaw125 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in ParkSlope, (718) 230-0236, www.spsounds.com.

June 5: The RUB with DJ Ayers, 9 pm, $10.

Trash Bar256 Grand St. at Driggs Avenue in Williams-burg, (718) 599-1000, www.thetrashbar.com.June 5: Strega, Au revoir Simone, Somnam-bulants, My Favori, 8 pm, $6; June 6: Nightmeri-kkka, Best Fwends, Tuxedo Killers, Panda, Cja-mesa Mesa, 8 pm, $5; June 7: Atomic Number76, Battle Torn, Desperation Radio, 9 pm, $5;June 8: Talibam, Kiss-Kiss, Fast Fourier, 8 pm, $5;June 9: Wetnurse, Two Dead Sluts, A ThousandVendettas, 8 pm, $5; June 10: Fresh Kills’ birth-day party, 8 pm, FREE; June 11: El Jezel, TransitBelle, Trashtalk In The Kingdom, 8 pm, $7.

Two Boots514 Second St. at Seventh Avenue in ParkSlope, (718) 499-3253, www.twobootsbrook-lyn.com.June 5: The Defenders, 10 pm, FREE; June 11:The Dixie Trixies, 10 pm, FREE.

200 Fifth 200 Fifth Ave. at Sackett Street in ParkSlope, (718) 638-2925, www.200fifth.net.Fridays: Live Latin Music, 11 pm, $5 before 10pm, $10 after, ladies free; Saturdays: DJ Blazerspins salsa, reggae, hip-hop, 11 pm, $5 before10 pm, $10 after, ladies free.

Up Over Jazz Cafe351 Flatbush Ave. at Seventh Avenue in ParkSlope, (718) 398-5413, www.upoverjazz.com.Mondays: Vincent Herring Quartet, 9:30 pm,$10 cover plus $5 food/drink minimum;Tuesdays: Enos Payne Trio, 9:30 pm, $10 coverplus $5 food/drink minimum; Wednesdays:Jam session, $10 cover plus $5 food/drink min-imum; Thursdays: Robert Glasper Trio, 10 pm,$10 cover plus $5 food/drink minimum; June 5:Robert Glasper Quarte, sets at 9 pm, 11 pm,and 12:30 am, $18, plus $5 food/drink mini-mum; June 11: Valery Ponomarev Quartet, setsat 9 pm, 11 pm, and 12:30 am, $18, plus $5food/drink minimum.

Waterfront AleHouse155 Atlantic Ave. at Clinton Street inBrooklyn Heights, (718) 522-3794,www.waterfrontalehouse.com.June 5: Sachal Vasandani Quartet, 11 pm, FREE.

—compiled by Ed Beeson

The Eric Stuart Band will per-form at The Hook on June 10.

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shutterbug who said he also cre-ated something called “SoapPrize,” a transparent bar of soapwith a toy in its middle.

“The difference betweenthem and the original is thatthe originals were used duringthe Normandy invasion,” hesaid of the boats, which cantravel on land or water.

Indeed, about 2,100 of thevehicles, called DUKWs dur-ing World War II, were builtwith more than two tons ofsheet metal between 1942 and1945, said Baker. His so-called trolley boat, however,was built from fiberglass inorder to better withstand saltwater.

Carrie McIndoe, a consult-ant with Baker’s Big AppleDucks company, and a share-holder in its Boston counter-part since 1994, said theyhope to launch the Red Hookduck by this fall. If successful,the company would add an-other 38-foot long vehiclesoon after.

Most of the details will behashed out once the companygets the necessary permits, butMcIndoe expects the attrac-tion will cost roughly $50 aride, and last about two hours.The ride, which will split itstime between land and water,will feature a tour guide.

The vehicle would leaveRed Hook possibly twice aday, crossing paths with dozens

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$114-a-month tenantclaims landlord abuseBy Deborah KolbenThe Brooklyn Papers

While diners at the swanky St.Mark’s Bistro munch on goat cheesesalad and Maine sea scallops, a ten-ant who lives above the restaurantsays he’s living in a hellhole.

Richard Todd, 61, moved into his apart-ment at 76 St. Mark’s Place more than 30years ago, when few upscale folk were in-terested in the neighborhood.

But Todd, a rent-controlled tenant whopays just $114 a month, says his landlordhas refused to make the necessary repairs onhis apartment in an effort to force him out.

With pealing paint, cracked walls, holesin the bathroom floor and leaky faucets,Todd reached out to the Fifth AvenueCommittee and Pratt Area CommunityCouncil for help.

The non-profit organizations are nowworking with Todd and are helping himtake his landlord to housing court.

The groups also organized a news con-ference outside the building near SixthAvenue on May 27 and led reporters on atour.

“I’m completely fed up,” said Todd,who lives in the apartment with hisdaughter Shian, 13, and son, Theo, 11. “Ihave been here 30 years and it’s obviousthat my $114 [rent] doesn’t measure up.”

“This is not the only apartment thatneeds work,” he added.

Reached this week, Kathy Kleiman,who owns the 15-unit building, deniedthat she was trying to force Todd out inorder to bring in higher-paying tenants.

of landmarks, including theStatue of Liberty, Central Park,Ground Zero — and, ofcourse, Red Hook.

“I thought, ‘What a uniquebusiness opportunity,’ and Ithought the tourists would geta kick out of it,” said Baker.“Brooklyn is an importantpiece of our tour in the sensethat we’ll go throughout RedHook and we’re going to

show tourists — and there area lot of them — an undiscov-ered part of the world.”

McIndoe said that, as of now,it isn’t certain whether the land-based portion of the tour wouldwander elsewhere in Brooklyn,but said the vehicle would bestored in Red Hook.

Greg O’Connell, a RedHook real estate developerwho leased the pier to Big Ap-ple Ducks earlier this year,predicted that the attractionwould be a boon for the water-front, which is already home

to New York Water Taxi, an-other watery transit line thatmoved its offices to Red Hookin 2001.

Despite an absence in NewYork, the duck boats haveblossomed to nearly 50 loca-tions, including seaside spotsin Ireland.

Gotham’s reluctance to em-brace the ducks, say some, re-sults from its ambivalence to-ward taking back its borough’swaterfronts, which historicallyhave been reserved for ship-ping, not socializing.

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“I’m not trying to push him out, my in-tention has never been to push him out,”she said, adding that the apartment didneed a good paint job.

“She just wants to paint things up andthat’s not what needs to be done,” saidDenyse Gibbs, an organizer for the FifthAvenue Committee.

While Councilman David Yassky de-ferred direct comment on the case to theFifth Avenue Committee, with which hehas been in contact, according to an aide.

“When rents change as fast and asmuch as they have there’s a temptation forlandlords to try and increase rent enor-mously,” Yassky said. “Unfortunately, Iexpect to see more cases of forced dislo-cation.”

Kleiman and Todd are scheduled to ap-pear in housing court on June 10.

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By Patrick GallahueThe Brooklyn PapersEach Thursday night, St. Francis

College students and staff gather to

watch “Survivor” in an administra-

tive office at the school on Remsen

Street between Court and Clinton

streets in Brooklyn Heights. But these are not throwbacks to the

sorority-like assemblies from the days of

“Melrose Place” or “Beverly Hills

90210.” No, this is Brooklyn rooting for

one of its own. Ken Stafford, a Bay Ridge resident, St.

Francis alumnus and police officer with

the 79th Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant,

has joined the latest lineup of island cast-

aways to scheme, connive and socialize

their way to a $1 million prize. This season, Stafford, along with 15

other competitors, have been marooned

on the remote region of Koh Tarutao,

Thailand.Stafford, 30, holds a bachelor’s degree

from St. Francis College, earned last May,

and a degree in Police Science from the

New York City Police Academy. He also

holds a certified fitness professional cer-

tificate from the National Academy of

Sports Medicine.“The whole St. Francis community is

pulling for him,” said college President

Frank Macchiarola. “I know Ken is used

to taming the concrete jungle in Brooklyn

— I hope he’ll be as successful taming the

jungle in Thailand.”Due to contractual agreements, Stafford

is not allowed to speak with reporters un-

til the show’s completion. A resident of Bay Ridge, Stafford, is

unmarried with two American bulldogs,

Bubba and Thumper. Stafford’s “luxury

item,” one item per person that they can

bring with them to the island, was his

NYPD shield, and his status of “New

York City Police Officer” has earned him

applause from the other competitors. The beached contestants were divided

into two teams, or tribes, named “Chuay

Gahn” and “Sook Jai,” selected by the

eldest male and female castaways. Stafford was a third-round pick of the

younger, sexier Sook Jai tribe, along with

the tongue-pierced Erin Collins, a real es-

tate agent from Austin, Texas; Robb Zbac-

nik, a laid-back 23-year-old bartender

from Scottsdale, Ariz.; Stephanie Dill, a

29-year-old firefighter from Fayetteville,

Ariz.; and three other toned and tanned

20-somethings, along with Jake Billings-

ley, a 61-year-old land broker from Texas.

“I based picking the teams on athleti-

cism and just that gleam in their eyes that

look like they’ll be here for the duration,”

Billingsley said after picking his team.Over the course of 42 days, the survivor

contestants hold periodic “tribal councils” to

secretly vote off one person from the island.

The person with the most votes is immedi-

ately sent packing, back to civilization.One by one, survivors are voted off un-

til only two people remain, at which point

the seven most recently banished survivors

Including The Bensonhurst PaperPublished weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 26 Court St., Brooklyn 11242 Phone 718-834-9350 AD fax 718-834-1713 • NEWS fax 718-834-9278 © 2002 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 14 pages including 4 pages GO BROOKLYN • Vol.25, No. 39 BRG • October 7, 2002 • FREEHOLY CHUTE!

‘Survivor’ hunk a cop from Ridge

Beep hopes to revive landmark

Rep. Anthony Weiner, left, with Sally Regenhard, mother of Firefighter

Christian Regenhard on the steps of City Hall Monday.BP / Tom Callan

Members of New Utrecht High School’s football team practice on their new field this week.

The Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango

Coney Island’s Parachute Jump was fully operational when this pho-

to was taken in 1952. It was shut down in 1968.Associated Press

“Survivor” castaway and New York City police

officer Ken Stafford in Thailand. CBS / Monty Brinton

Salavatore Bilancione plays Danny to sister Gabriella’s Sandy as they

re-create a scene from the movie “Grease” on Third Avenue Saturday.

By Heather J. WilsonThe Brooklyn PapersBill O’Keefe remembers thelong lines he and his friendsused to suffer through asteenagers waiting to rideConey Island’s famedParachute Jump, the 262-foot-high thrill ride that was oncepart of Steeplechase Park.

In 1950, when he was just 16,O’Keefe remembers, the ParachuteJump — although tame by the stan-dards of today’s amusement parkrides — made the experience of sit-ting that high in the air on a smallseat, very unsettling. Especially, headded, when he and his friend werestuck in midair for 20 minutes.

“We kept talking to one anotherand we would not look down, justout,” O’Keefe remembers, laugh-ing. “Occasionally you did getstuck up there, and they would tellyou it was something mechanical.But it was a very poplar ride. Wehad to wait in a long line to go upthere and get stuck.”Now, 61 years since it first

opened, the Parachute Jump mayfind the technology it requires inorder to be restored as a workingamusement park ride. On Sept. 26,Borough President MartyMarkowitz revealed that the cityEconomic Development Corp.would undertake a $5 millionrestoration of the Parachute Jump,which since 1968 has stood dor-mant, first as a rusting tower andthen as a repainted city landmark.

“Today is not 1950, today is2002,” Markowitz said Thursday,

Vincent GentileBP / File photo Marty Golden

BP / File photo

Weiner calls for 9-11 files

Gangemi may get a deal

By Patrick GallahueThe Brooklyn PapersSally Regenhard, the motherof Red Hook FirefighterChristian Regenhard, who per-ished in the World TradeCenter on Sept. 11, has experi-enced many bittersweet victo-ries over the past 13 months.

She founded the SkyscraperSafety Campaign to advocate forsafer highrise buildings. She successfully lobbied for the

National Construction Safety TeamAct, which would require the Na-tional Institute of Standards andTechnology (NIST) to dispatchconstruction safety experts to build-ing disaster sites for a thorough in-vestigation. Regenhard also developed two

powerful political allies in Sen.Hillary Clinton and Rep. AnthonyWeiner, who co-sponsored the billin the Senate and House, respec-tively. President George Bushsigned the disaster investigation billinto law on Tuesday. This week, Regenhard also

By Heather J. WilsonThe Brooklyn PapersFacing 15 years in prison ifconvicted, the son of one ofBay Ridge’s most prominentpolitical families, former attor-ney Frank Gangemi, may workout a plea deal with prosecutorsrather than stand trial on

charges that he swindled clientsout of $6 million.Gangemi’s father is former Bay

Ridge Councilman John GangemiSr. He is the brother of past candi-dates for state and city elected of-fice John Gangemi Jr. and UrsulaGangemi.

Gangemi’s attorney, formerSupreme Court Justice Ronald Aiel-

lo, said his client’s Oct. 1 court ap-pearance before Judge Neil Firetogin Brooklyn Supreme Court Down-town ended with an understandingbetween assistant district attorneyPatricia McNeill and himself that“discussions would continue in anattempt to resolve the issue” untilthe next court date, on Nov. 6.

Ex-cop Marty Golden:Mom threw out my gun

By Patrick GallahueThe Brooklyn PapersThe race between state Sen.Vincent Gentile and Council-man Marty Golden was sup-posed to be a dog fight and intheir first debate, a brief 15-minute affair on cable newschannel NY 1, the opponentscame out barking. Golden and Gentile, vying for

the newly drawn 22nd state SenateDistrict, which includes all of BayRidge and Dyker Heights, focusedtheir attacks on each other’srecords in the Sept. 25 debate.

But one of the most contentiousmoments came when Gentileasked Golden to speak about hisNYPD disciplinary record andGolden admitted he had been dis-ciplined for losing his gun while apolice officer.

record and responded, “What theywant is my disciplinary records,and they’re not going to get them.”Gentile asked him why he wouldnot open his police record to pub-lic scrutiny. “Vinnie, I’m so surprised that

you would stoop to such lowness,”Golden responded. The two immediately began

bickering, with Golden defendinghis record and Gentile demandinghe answer the question. Finally,Kirtzman intervened and askedGolden, “For what were you disci-plined while serving on theNYPD?”

“There was a loss of a gun thatI lost in … 1978 when my motherthrew a gun out while I was awayon a vacation,” Golden finallysaid. “If somebody wanted toknow about the loss of a gun wellnow you know about it.“There was nothing I’ve been

disciplined for except the loss of agun,” Golden added.

After moderator Andrew Kirtz-man asked each candidate a ques-tion he gave them each the oppor-tunity to ask a question of theiropponent. Gentile referenced aDaily News article in which Gold-en was asked about his police

Golden countered that Gentile,a three-term incumbent, has failedto deliver for his district. “He hasn’t brought any money

home, he probably brings about$200,000 a year,” Golden said.

Gentile countered that he cham-pioned a bill that increased fund-ing for pre-Kindergarten programsfrom $800,000 to $8 million in

Golden vowsto release hispolice recordsThe Brooklyn PapersCity Councilman Marty Gold-en, responding to questionsabout his police record and thecircumstances of his retirementthat have been raised during hiscampaign against state Sen.Vincent Gentile, announcedthrough his campaign officethis week that he has requestedthe police department turn overhis records so they can be madepublic.

“We are going to release therecords and we put the requestin yesterday. We are releasing hisrecords on his medals, his cita-tions and disciplinary records,”Golden campaign managerWilliam O’Reilly told The Brook-lyn Papers on Tuesday. Asked whether those records

Ragamuffinsparade on 3rd

By Heather J. WilsonThe Brooklyn PapersDogs, dads and most of all,kids paraded down Third Avenuein Bay Ridge on Saturday in the36th Annual Ragamuffin Parade,wearing handmade costumesthat put manufactured ones toshame.

From 1 to 3 pm, running from67th Street to 92nd Street, cheerlead-ers and knights, cartoon charactersand farm animals, showed off thecraftsmanship of their mothers andfathers whose sewing skills, alongwith the creativity of their children,combined to make costumes that, ac-

cording to one parent, “MarthaStewart would be proud of.”That mother dressed her 6-

month-old daughter, Jenna LynnImmitt, in a feathered chicken cos-tume — complete with whitefeathers attached to a baby onesyand rubber glove shoes representa-tive of a chicken’s webbed feet.

“I found the idea in a MarthaStewart catalog,” said Bay RidgiteCarolyn Immitt. “It really was notthat difficult to make.”Immitt pointed out that like all

parade attendees, Jenna received afree gift — a stuffed red, white andblue teddy bear. And, because she

New field for New Utrecht

By Heather J. WilsonThe Brooklyn PapersFor the New Utrecht HighSchool Utes, it’s been a longroad home.The Bensonhurst school has for

more than 80 years done withoutan athletic field, forcing their Divi-sion I football team to play theirhome games at the Erasmus HallHigh School field at Flatbush andChurch avenues.But three weeks ago, New

Utrecht hosted its first true homegame on a brand new field.The Sept. 14 game against

South Shore High School was re-

plete with an opening ceremonythat included a chorus and bandperforming the “Star SpangledBanner” and “God Bless Ameri-ca.” Sports Illustrated even docu-mented the event, said the school’sprincipal, Dr. Howard Lucks.

“This has brought the communi-ty together,” said Sara Steinweiss,New Utrecht’s coordinator of stu-dent activities. “The students loveit because when they come out ofthe train station it is the first thingthey see. It has a scoreboard and[goal] posts … it is something theyhave pride in.”Steinweiss said the next step is

to find a way to seat the larger

crowds the team draws to their realhome field. If New Utrecht administrators,

students and jocks are walkingwith a bit more spring in their stepsthese days they can thank one oftheir own for making the pigskinfantasy a reality. The Public School Athletic

League (PSAL), which doles outthe funding for things such assports equipment and athleticfields, had determined that NewUtrecht did not have enough roomto build a regulation-size field,Steinweiss said. But New Utrechtalumnus Robert Catell, the CEO ofKeyspan, thought otherwise last

summer when he surveyed the sitefor himself.Catell got in touch with “Take

the Field,” a public-private partner-ship started in 2000 that works toreinvigorate the physical educationcurricula, intramural programmingand sports participation for citypublic school students through therebuilding of crumbling highschool sports facilities. Robert Tisch, co-chairman of

Loews Corporation and co-ownerof the New York Giants footballteam, along with Richard Kahan,chairman of the Urban Assembly,

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By Paulanne Simmons and Lisa J. Curtisfor The Brooklyn PapersT he egg cream. Beyond a doubt, this

concoction of milk, chocolate syrupand seltzer is as Brooklyn as stoop-

ball. And this summer, in recognition of

the unique place egg creams hold in the

hearts of Brooklynites, Borough President

Marty Markowitz is hosting an Egg

Cream Extravaganza at noon on Aug. 26

at Borough Hall Plaza. The celebration will feature an egg

cream-making contest open to restaurants,

ice cream parlors, delis and luncheonettes,

plus plenty of the unofficial drink of

Brooklyn and borough trivia contest

prizes for the audience.“Everybody knows that the best place

in the world to get a great egg cream is in

Brooklyn,” said Markowitz. “But it is time

to settle, once and for all, who makes the

best egg cream. And I can’t wait to taste

every single one of them.” And he’s serious.“For many years, it’s been dormant,”

Markowitz said Wednesday morning in an

interview at Junior’s on Flatbush Avenue.

“People 40 and 50 years and up —

who’ve been here since they were a kid —

remember them. But there’s a large immi-

grant base in Brooklyn, who’ve been ar-

riving for the last 30 years, and the egg

cream is not a drink they have knowledge

of. This contest is a friendly effort to

rekindle and share this Brooklyn tradition,

the history.“They had egg creams in the Bronx,

too,” said Markowitz, “ but they skimped

on the chocolate syrup.” Although the egg cream has certainly

flourished in Brooklyn, no one really knows

exactly when or where it was invented.According to “The Encyclopedia of

New York City,” edited by Kenneth Jack-

son, one account credits the Yiddish actor

Boris Thomashevsky with inventing the

drink after sampling chocolat et creme

during a tour of Paris. But another hails

candy store owner Louis Auster as the

originator. In fact, it has been said that

Auster sold morethan 3,000 eggcreams a day fromhis stores beforethey closed in the1950s.Whoever invent-ed egg creams, onething’s for sure:They contain nei-ther eggs nor cream.“Brooklyn Alman-ac,” a Brooklyn Educational & Cultural

Alliance publication, suggests the name is

derived “from their foamy heads, which

resemble beaten egg whites.”Egg creams became popular in candy

stores in the 1920s, so popular that Elliot

Willensky, in “When Brooklyn Was the

World: 1920-1957,” wrote “a candy store

minus an egg cream, in Brooklyn at least,

was as difficult to conceive of as the Earth

without gravity.”“When I was growing up,” said

Markowitz, “egg creams were the drink

in Brooklyn. Families would get them at

candy stores and luncheonettes. They

were rated by the quality of their eggcreams and limerickeys.”Willensky callsthe candy store“the true anchor ofa Brooklyn neigh-borhood,” and thesoda fountain, “whatreally made a candystore a candy store.”“Every fountainhad three chromi-

um-plated brass spigots, with black Bake-

lite handles,” writes Willensky. “The cen-

ter one dispensed tap water. But the other

two ‘shpritzed’ cold seltzer, the elixir of

Brooklyn’s candy stores.”Mixing seltzer with “syrups displayed

in wrinkly glass containers” made fruit

drinks. Even Cokes were mixed by hand

from Coca-Cola Company syrup and

seltzer. Cherry Cokes and vanilla Cokes

were “products of the combined imagina-

tion of soda jerk and customer,” Willensky

writes. He speculates that egg creams

must have been “a product of that same

combined imagination.”Markowitz says that if you went to lunch-

eonettes at Empire Boulevard and Brooklyn

Avenue or Nostrand Avenue and Empire

from 1953 to 1956, you may have been sip-

ping on an egg cream made by his own

hand, as he worked as a soda jerk as a kid.

The borough president is putting his

first-hand knowledge to work on Aug. 26

when, as one of the panel of judges, he

will crown the victorious egg cream mak-

er. He did offer this advice to contestants:

“The head is very important. It should be

light and as foamy as possible.”Kevin Rosen, co-owner of Junior’s, says,

“The key is the seltzer. It has to be out of the

[pressurized] container.”“And stir at the same time!” said

Markowitz.Egg cream makers can enter one of two

contest categories: nouveau or traditional.

In Brooklyn, the historical popularity of

the egg cream was no doubt enhanced by

another borough favorite: Fox’s U-Bet

Chocolate Flavor Syrup.H. Fox and Company was founded in a

Brownsville basement during the early

1900s, and according to Lyn Stallworth

and Rod Kennedy Jr. in “The Brooklyn

Cookbook,” “You absolutely cannot make

an egg cream without Fox’s U-Bet.”The cookbook refers to Fox’s grandson,

David, for the story of the syrup’s name:

“The name ‘U-Bet’ dates from the late-

’20s, when Fox’s grandfather got wildcat-

ting fever and headed to Texas to drill for

oil. ‘You bet’ was a friendly term the oil-

men used. His oil venture a failure, he re-

turned to the old firm, changing Fox’s

Chocolate Syrup to Fox’s U-Bet. He said,

‘I came back broke but with a good name

for the syrup,’ his grandson relates.”The recipe for U-Bet has remained the

same since those early years: Brooklyn

water, sugar, corn sweeteners, cocoa and

some “secret things.”“The Brooklyn Cookbook” also con-

tains an egg cream recipe that high school

math teacher Rod Schweiger got from his

grandparents and uncle, who owned a

candy store on West Eighth Street and Av-

enue S during the ’40s and ’50s:“First, you use Fox’s U-Bet. Take a tall

Coke-type glass, from the 1950s. Put in

3/4-inch of syrup, then milk up to one-

third of the glass. Then you add seltzer

from a spritz bottle, the heavy kind with

seltzer under pressure. You tilt the glass; if

it’s tilted, the force of the seltzer squirted

under the milk and syrup pushes foam up

on the other side. Fill the rest of the glass

with more seltzer, stirring as you spritz.

The foam should be white, and at least

1/2-inch thick. The greatest!”Markowitz has high hopes that his

“Egg Cream Extravaganza” will return the

confection to the menus of diners all over

Brooklyn — and the United States.“Maybe it will again have a national

following,” Markowitz said hopefully. “At

the very least the contest will put a smile

on the faces of some folks.”

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(718) 834-9350 • August 19, 2002 Chic family bizPark Sloper Christine Snell (above left with Roddy Moon

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scented wild rice and grilled asparagus) and of course, steak

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Giant birthdayThey Might Be Giantscelebrates 20-year careerthat began in BrooklynBy Anthony BreznicanAssociated Press

T ake two restless buddies from Brooklyn, a telephone tape

machine and a rally for a leftist Latin American regime

and you’ve got the start of They Might Be Giants.

Twenty years later, the musical duo that plays with listen-

ers’ heads as deftly as they play their instruments is celebrat-

ing a career of relentlessly cheerful melodies, desperately sad

lyrics and upside-down logic. Keyboardist and accordion player John Linnell and gui-

tarist John Flansburgh had been tinkering with a few songs

in 1982 when a friend asked them to play at a concert in

New York’s Central Park — which they didn’t realize was a

rally for Nicaragua’s Sandin-ista government. “It turned out we were the

only English-speaking bandon the entire bill,” recalledLinnell, who said they ex-hausted themselves by drag-ging their instruments — in-cluding a Farfisa organ —through the park to the stage.

“It was an absurd sce-nario,” added Flansburgh.“We were so alone in our lit-tle rock ’n’ roll dream.”On Aug. 15, the pair plan

to perform another free con-cert in Central Park to com-memorate the 20th anniver-sary of the first time a groupof strangers failed to “get”their music. They’ve provoked a lot

more head-scratching since,singing accordion-heavy songsabout offbeat topics such asPresident James K. Polk, achild’s night light, the scien-tific characteristics of mam-mals, a man with “extra savoir-faire” and a “particle man”

who faces down the universe. A track called “Dirt Bike” is surprisingly melancholy,

while the instrumental “Minimum Wage” is deceptively

perky. They Might Be Giants has edged into the mainstream late-

ly with their Grammy-winning song, “Boss of Me,” from the

Fox sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle” and the theme to Com-

edy Central’s news satire, “The Daily Show.”

The group is now touring to support last year’s album,

“Mink Car,” and a new lighthearted record for children

called “No!” — which is deliberately more optimistic than

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Borough President Marty Markowitz’s

Egg Cream Extravaganza takes place at

noon on Aug. 26 at Borough Hall Plaza, on

Court Street at Joralemon Street. All those

who would like to volunteer to be on the

judging panel or to obtain a participation

form for their establishment, should call Eileen

Newman at Borough Hall at (718) 802-3806.

DINING

U-Bet it’s goodMarty Markowitzto toast boro’s topegg cream makerat Borough Hall

At Junior’s restaurant on Flatbush Avenue Wed-

nesday, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Marko-

witz demonstrated his egg cream-making expert-

ise. Among the contestants at his Egg Cream

Extravaganza will be Hinsch’s luncheonette

(above) of Bay Ridge.The Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango

“[They Might Be Giants] feel the entire

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(718) 875-6100(212) 475-6100

R25

ALECTRA INC.Have an electrical problem?No job too big, no job too small!

Call me. Anthony IllianoLicensed electrician

718-522-3893R24

Exterminators

R25

Floor Maintenance

– Ace Floors –Specializing in hardwood floor sand-ing, staining & refinishing and newfloor installation. Borders & patterns,ceramic tiles & bathroom renova-tions, plastering & painting.

(718) 363-2593 Office(917) 219-0146 Pager

FREE ESTIMATES R30

ADIRONDACKFLOOR SANDING

Expert Repairs & InstallationsGuaranteed Quality & Satisfaction

10 Years Serving Brooklyn

(718) 645-0112(917) 838-7549

R33

D & KFLOOR SERVICE, INC.

Parquet and wood floors sanded,repaired, installed & refinished.

Carpets steam cleaned &shampooed professionally.

Tile floors stripped & waxed

718-720-2555R26

Since 1969 Father & SonOwned and Operated

COMPLETE PEST CONTROLDifficult Termite Problems

– Our SpecialtyTermites • Roaches • AntsBees • Fleas • BedbugsMoths • Mice • Rats

TRAPPINGSquirrels • Cats • Raccoons

LICENSED & INSURED

RESIDENTIAL &COMMERCIAL

ANT TERMITE

Save a Sample

AFEDERAL EXTERMINATING, LTD.

FREE ESTIMATES

259-8799

A. NorwayElectricLicensed Electricians

Anything In Electric & Heat

When Con Ed Says You NeedAn Electrician . . . .

Call Us First10% DISCOUNT FOR FIRST TIMECALLERS OR SENIOR CITIZENS

ELECTRICIAN

24/7EMERGENCY SERVICE

718-774-5963

BERGERQUALITY ELECTRIC

COMMERCIAL& RESIDENTIAL

ELECTRICALCONTRACTORSC&C

Floor MaintenanceBill’s Floor ServiceRefinishing • Resurfacing

Call (718) 238-9064(917) 805-8161

30 years experience

FREE ESTIMATESR28-08

GardeningSTONE & GARDENSPECIALISTS IN NATURAL STONE

SUPPLY • CONSULT • DESIGNINSTALL • PERMACULTURE

patios, ponds, landscaping

“Best variety of stone supply”(718) 622-1608

www.stoneandgarden.netR27

R28-14

R30

Gates

R14/27-34

Handyman

Home Improvement

CALL NEDPlastering • Roofing • Sheetrock

Ceramic Tile • CarpentryCement Work • Painting

Wallpaper • FREE ESTIMATES

718-871-1504R32

S&D Home ImprovementSheetrock, taping, int/ext painting,wallpaper, wood floors, tilework,windows, doors, decks, store interiors ––remodeling kitchens & baths our specialty.

FULLY INSURED. LIC #1147276All work guaranteed

(718) 998-1110 SimonW20

Locksmith

UFN

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AMERICAN EXPRESS ®

KBM ContractingBathrooms • Carpentry

Tiling • Decks • WindowsFlooring • Roofing • Doors

Painting • StaircasesPiping • Heating

Violations RemovedFREE ESTIMATE

(718) 763-0379licensed, insured R34

The Best in Ornamental Iron WorksAll Types of Iron Gates

Fences/PorchesSecurity Doors

Window Guards/AC GrillsSidewalk Trap Doors

Railing, Steps, Staircasesand Fire Escapes

Architectural & Structural Steel WorksCustom Iron Works

FREE ESTIMATESFREE DELIVERY

(718) 852-8787

ROOFTOP, GARDEN,CONTAINER

Design & Maintenance

Call Chuck & Maggie’s

(718) 857-4090 DIG?

Wake up Your GardenGarden Service

Annuals - Perennials, HerbsMaintenance - General Clean up

Brownstone Yards - Terraces - Co-ops

718-753-9741

“IT’S SPRING”

Painting

MasterPlasterer/Painter

Old Walls SavedRepair, Install, Moldings, Skim Coats

Excellent References718-834-0470

R28-12

rofessionalPaintingRestore old surfaces.

Benjamin Moore Paints used.Taping, plastering, wallpaper removal.

Free Estimates

Call 718-720-0565R29

R28-12

MK Painting• Interior & Exterior Painting• Sheetrock • Tile • Carpentry

Home RepairOwner operated. Ask for Richard.

(917) 881-3366(718) 745-8196

W23

R19

Plaster RestorationOrnamental • Skim Coating

Wallpaper • Custom PaintingStripping

(718) 783-4868Demetrious

25 years in Park SlopeR34

PlasteringWALSH PLASTERING

Ornamental PlasterRepaired & Restored

New Designs CreatedNew Walls and Ceilings Created

Creative Plaster Finishes& Specialty Tints Available

A. Walsh 718-875-3033R28

AbsolutePlastering Inc.

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

(718) 322-3436(917) 412-5593


R37

Plumbing

R27

For All Your Plumbing Needs

FREE ESTIMATESEmergencies WelcomeNYC Master Plumber, Lic #376

(718) 376-4909(917) 560-0819 R29

R28-19

RestorationRESTORATIONSDone Reasonably and Well

Carpentry • Built-Ins • PanelingRestoration Work

Window Repair • PaintingGarden & Landscaping Work

Ryan & Paul718-857-3661 R25

NEIGHBORHOODSewer & Drain Cleaning

PlumbingTUBS • SINKS • MAIN SEWER

TOILETS • YARD DRAINS24/7 • Emergency Service745-7727 or 848-5654

$ LOW, LOW, PRICES $

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VIOLATIONS REMOVEDSEWERS & DRAINS CLEANED

BOILERS & HOT WATERHEATERS INSTALLED

ALL ABOUTPLUMBING& HEATING* Fully Licensed & Insured *

* Complete Expert Plumbing ** Heating & Drain Cleaning *

* All Work Guaranteed ** 24/7 Emergency Service *

* Reasonable Rates * Boilers** Water Heaters * Leaks ** Bathrooms Remodeled *

(718) 858-8822242 Nevins StreetNYC Master Plumber

LIC#1971

John Haviaras

PAINTINGInterior/Exterior Painting

Taping • SheetrockComplete Apartment & HomeRenovations. Affordable PricesQuality Work • Free Estimates

718-921-6176

SUNSHINE, INC.

NYS Registered 1974 Painter718-748-6990

Int./Ext. • Comm./Resid.Painting • Plaster • SheetrockGuaranteed Lowest Prices

Bonded • Insured • Lic# 0933304www.sunshinepaintingny.com

Movers (Licensed)

R34

R46

Dave’s D.J. Moving& Storage Available

Written Binding Estimates Available.Commercial and residential. Wecarry building insurance. All furniturepadded Free. Courteous, reliableservice. Weekends avail., packingsupplies, van service. Serving Bklynfor over 10 years.

(718) 843-4417Lic. and Ins. DOT #32241

83 Davenport Ct.Howard Beach, NY 11414

R23

R19/38

Moving SuppliesWe carry a full

line of packing &moving supplies

We have wardrobe boxes, bubble &foam wraps, peanuts, and protectivedish kits. We also ship via UPS & FedEx.

41 Schemerhorn St.(bet. Court & Clinton)

718.852.0082 R27

TruckersDo You Need

2 Men with a Van?$250 1/2 day$400 full day

Call (718) 921-6601R24

Do you need atruck with 3 men?

1/2 day $350Full day $450

(646) [email protected] R27

Painting

R23

R29

R30

Reasonable Rates Free Estimates

Johnny MacContracting

Specializing in Plastering, PaintingSpray Painting, Sheet Rock & Taping

Cell: 1-917-838-5024Call: 718-871-4092

Servicing Park Slope for over 20 yearsR26

Fully Insured Free Estimates

OWNER OPERATED

“Top Quality Work, DependableService and a job that will last!”• Painting • Skim Coating • Plastering• Wallpaper Removal and Installation

• Specializing in Faux Finishingand Decorative Painting

• Stain & Varnishing

Call (718) 332-7041

Finishing TouchPAINTING

Painting • Decorative SurfacesPlastering • Paper Hanging

FREE ESTIMATES/FULLY INSURED

718-522-3534

JP

MOVING & STORAGE

MOVING?NEED STORAGE?

Local/Long DistanceResidential/Commercial

UP to 50% OFFall Long Distance Moves

1 Month Free Storage

718-567-3788AA Arrow Moving & Storage, Inc.

mc352916 usdot 790153

We do last minute jobs!Expert packers

Packing materials • Fully insuredPrompt • Cordial

TOP HAT MOVERS86 Prospect Park West, Bklyn, NY 11215

718-965-0214 • 718-622-0377 • 212-722-3390

DOT # T-12302 Visa/MCAMEX

MOVERS

US DOT#1178151

MOVINGExperts on all kinds of moving

Free Estimates

(718) 339-1339

AA SUPREME

Roofing

R22/28-17

C Johnston Roofing & Waterproofing

FLAT ROOFSPECIALISTSAffordable, Prompt & Experienced

Rubber Roofing & All Types ofProtective Coatings for Roofs & Walls –

Aluminum / Silicone Roof CoatingsShingles • Leaders • Gutters

Skylights • Chimneys • CornicesMasonry • Brick Pointing

Fully Licensed & BondedEmergency Svce • Avail 24 Hrs - 7 days

Ask About Our Guarantees

866-487-5799212-206-2342

LIC# 0924152 R28-12

A18/28-14

R28-07

Rubbish RemovalRUBBISH REMOVALIndoor and Outdoor, Attics,Basements, Garages, etc. Fast,clean and cheap. All types ofCleanouts.

FREE ESTIMATES(718) 495-2000 R24

R36

AJ Trash RemovalWe Do Clean Outs

Houses, yards, basements, stores, oldfurniture & appliances removed. 2men & a truck. FREE phone estimate.

718-946-9027Job Left Broom Clean R20

ADAX, INC.All Waste Removal/Collection

Residential(home/yard/garage)

Commercial(constr. debris/container svc)

Recycling • Appliances • PaperBIC #1226 • INSURED • FREE EST.

24 HRS: (917) 533-8306

SchwambergerContracting

All Roofing, Rubber, Metal, Skylights.

Excellent References AvailableLicense #0831318

17th year with Brooklyn Papers

718-646-4540NO JOB TOO BIG OR TOO SMALL.

IN BROOKLYN OVER 25 YEARSRoofing • Flat Roofs • Pitch

Skylights • Shingles • LeadersGutters • One-Ply Rubber

TOP QUALITY WORKLOW RATES

Emergency RepairsFree Estimates Cheerfully Given

Bill Boshell

(718) 833-3508Licensed & Insured HIC #0945754

Do It The SAFE “Cool” Way

CRYSTAL ROOFINGCall For Details and a FREE Estimate

1-718-238-9433For Immediate Attention Call:

1-917-737-9043Shingle Roofs Also Installed

NYC DCA # 1133009

ATTENTIONHOMEOWNERS!

Leaky Roof?Need A Flat Roof?Don’t Get Burned.

Rubbish Removal

R28-15

Tiling

Plumbing and Tile Work. Toilets,faucets and shower bodiesreplaced. Specializing in tile jobs– large and small.Free Estimates • Reasonable Rates

John Costelloe (718) 768-7610R26

Upholstery

Free Estimates

718-263-838330 yrs experience • Serving the 5 Boros

R35

WindowsQuality ReplacementWindows and RepairsRepair ALL TYPES of windows.

Screens and insulated glass.Custom Window Installation

Licensed & Insured • Reasonable RatesCall Rene (718) 227-8787

R35

Wood Stripping

R28-04

E & S ProfessionalWood Care

Floor Sanding • Paint Stripping &Refinishing • Doorways • MoldingWainscotting • Window Frames

Emerald(347) 451-7982 / (718) 345-5130

16 YEARS EXP. R33

DOORS • FRAMES • CABINETSFIREPLACES • REFINISHING

OLD STAIN REMOVALALL WOOD MATERIALS

Careful, clean, professional work.No Job Too Big or Small.Reasonable prices.16 years

(718) 647-2121W28-04

#1 MasterwoodSTRIPPINGP&D

PSST!!Recapture the original beauty of yourfine architectural woodwork. Westrip-restore-refinish doors, mantels,columns, shutters, banisters with non-toxic, environmentally safe, removersand finishes. Careful considerateworkmanship since 1959. Call thePark Slope Stripping Team@ 718 783-4112.

Perfect TouchDecorators

• Kitchen and dining chairs• New foam cushions• Slipcovers• Window Treatments

and verticals• Table Pads

A GoodPlumber

GREG’S EXPRESSRUBBISH REMOVALBasements Cleaned • Yards

Construction DebrisHouses & Stores

All appliances removedALL Contractors Welcome!Commercial Stores Welcome!

Demolition6, 10, & 15 yard containers

Serving the CommunityMember Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce

Prompt & Professional • 24hr - 7 days

(866) MR-RUBBISH6 7 - 7 8 2 2 4

CELL 917-416-8322Lic: BIC-1180 Fully Insured

8th year with The Brooklyn Papers

ArchitectsAWARD WINNING LICENSED

ARCHITECT &INTERIOR DESIGNER

• From Conception to CompletionResidential, Commercial, ManufacturingAlterations & New Buildings

• Realistic Estimates & Time Schedules• Construction Management• Expediting Approvals & PermitsDepartment of Buildings & Landmarks

• Zoning Analysis & Property PotentialTo buy or not buy

Martin della PaoleraARCHITECT

65 Saint Felix StreetBrooklyn NY 11217TEL (718) 596-2379

FAX (718) 596-2579

EMAIL [email protected] UFN

Bathtub Reglazing

Save up to 90%replacement cost!We reglaze tubs, tiles & sinks, all likenew. Ready to use in 24 hrs.

www.ameriglaze.com

866-252-2847We sell and install shower doors &vanities. Come see our showroom!

W43

Blinds

W16/49

Cabinetry

Quality Custom WoodworkingSpecializing in

cabinetry • entry doorscarriage house doors

windows • wood interiors

(718) [email protected]

R27

Closets

R23/27/28-15

Construction

R28-10

TimelessCONSTRUCTION &RESTORATION CORP.

Complete interior renovationspecialist continuing two genera-tions of fine craftsmanship

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

Licensed and Insured

(718) 979-0913R25

Renovations & RestorationsAll Home Improvement Needs

Kitchen • Bath • Paint • CarpentryFully equippedwith all trades

Equipped withDESIGNERS • ARCHITECTS • EXPEDITERS

“You’ve tried all the rest,now go with the best.”

Do it right the first time.

17 YEARS EXPERIENCELICENSED • BONDED • INSURED

718-965-1857 or 718-692-7163

more than just closets...custom closet, wardrobe, furniture,

office & pantry/utility designinterior design & renovation

718.624.0328www.closetsbydg.com

license # 1036367

Roman & Cellular Shades, Draperies,Silhouettes, Luminettes, Blinds, Verticals,

Shutters and Decorative Accessories

Featuring Hunter Douglas, Robert Allen,Graber, Lafayette and more.

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