March 10, 2007: Vol. 30, No. 10
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Victory finds partner
Bay Ridge: Victory Memorial Hospital has been saved, The Brooklyn Paper has learned. Comment.
Clarification
A headline in last week’s edition, “Federal judge: Suit is hot air,” suggested that federal magistrate Robert Levy had recommended that a suit against Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project be dismissed because it lacked merit. Comment.
Saving Bruce Ratner’s cats
Atlantic Yards: While opponents of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project continue to work around the clock — figuratively — to block the developer’s wrecking ball, cat lovers are working around the clock — literally — to rescue a colony of feral felines who are also about to lose their homes to make room for the 16-tower mega-project. Comment.
Civic Calendar
All the important meetings you should be going to. Comment.
Bloomy comes to Brooklyn Tech
Fort Greene: Mayor Bloomberg traveled to Fort Greene on Tuesday to unveil a plan that he hopes will make all city high school students as successful as their Brooklyn Tech counterparts. Comment.
7 for ’07 in Slope
Park Slope: Members of the Park Slope Civic Council sat down and drew up a list of seven top priorities for the year. Here they are. Comment.
Wreck finally gone
Downtown: An abandoned car was finally removed after three weeks on the street. Comment.
Walentas ‘Independence’ plan back on track
Development: A Cobble Hill apartment building project that was temporarily suspended last year is back in full swing. Comment.
Bellying up to the barista
Carroll Gardens: Carroll Gardens caffeine addicts are uniting to raise money for a Naidre’s barista who has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease. Comment.
Fight to save church needs Hail Mary
Bay Ridge: Preservationists and residents are cursing an unholy plan to tear down one of Bay Ridge’s most distinctive churches to make room for luxury condos. Comment.
Purim is one wacky holiday
At synagogues and community centers throughout Brooklyn, Jews celebrated Purim, last Saturday night and Sunday, with costumed frivolity that commemorated the rescue of Jews in ancient Persia. Comment.
Slope goes down wrong-way street
PS … I Love You: In what seems like a monthly endeavor, our columnist attended yet another forum on where Park Slope is headed — and left cynical as ever. Comment.
New York can’t find Brooklyn
Heights Lowdown: Has New York Magazine no sense of decency at all? Comment.
Vegas Diner owner smells a rat
Bay Ridge: The owner of the Vegas Diner believes he was shut down because of rats — the ones in government, not the ones in his restaurant. Comment.
Putting Walt in a time vault
Greene Acres: Our columnist finds Walt Whitman’s former home. Why is it not protected? Comment.
Beautiful Smile tells all: Secret of life: ‘Kids, love and God’
Smartmom: Smartmom has an exclusive sit-down with her nanny, Beautiful Smile. Dumb Editor accuses her of double-dipping. Comments (1).
Save the Green Church. Why?
Yellow Hooker: Our columnist takes a contrary view about saving a Bay Ridge church that is slated to be torn down for condos. Comments (1).
Windsor Terrace PO’d by new postal hours
Park Slope: Do postal workers deserve a lunch break? Of course. Should the post office close? Of course not. Comment.
Babyless writer in giftless jam
Brooklyn South: Our baby-mocking columnist finds herself in the belly of the beast after her sister gives birth. Comment.
Trio loads up on Treos in brazen midday rob
Park Slope: This week’s crime report from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment.
Bubby’s is back!
Downtown: After being snared in the Health Department sweep, Bubby’s is back and better than ever. Comment.
Smile! You may be on DOT camera
Carroll Gardens: The city has installed a red-light “camera” on Smith Street — but no one knows if it’s real. Comment.
Helen Selsdon, anti-war mom
Checkin’ in with: We check in with Helen Selsdon, an anti-war mom who is organizing a protest march all by herself. Comment.
Fifty-eyed thief strikes Bay Ridge
Bay Ridge: A Kings Highway deli was robbed on March 4, after its owner left the counter for a bathroom break. Comment.
A deluxe singles bar in the sky
Downtown plan: The tallest singles club in Brooklyn is open for business. Comment.
Bad awnings make bad neighbors
Park Slope: Three inches are all that stand between Richard Muzio and a good night’s sleep — but he can’t get the Department of Buildings to order his neighbor to take down her awning. Comment.
Get hungry, Brooklyn!
Borough President Markowitz noshed — but only a bit! — at this week’s “Dine in Brooklyn” kickoff. Comment.
Crass menagerie
Theater: At Brick Theater’s new production, these Wingfields are more like wing nuts. Comment.
Some Zagat jive for ‘Turkey’
Fort Greene: The Myrtle Avenue BID wants you to vote for Jive Turkey so the caterer can get into the prestigious Zagat Survey. Fair? Who cares?! Comment.
Corcoran’s still hot on the Hook
Carroll Gardens: Barbara Corcoran’s vanity property in Red Hook isn’t moving. Comment.
Bensonhurst wants to get Gore-d
Bay Ridge: An activist battling the city’s plans to build a waste transfer station on Gravesend Bay is so desperate for help that’s she’s reached out to the greenest celebrity of them all: Al Gore. Comment.
Coney Island looks like bomb hit it
Coney Island: Joe Sitt is clearing land throughout Coney Island, even as his $2-billon Vegas-on-the-Boardwalk plan appears stalled. Comments (2).
Another Marty, another ‘maybe’ for mayor
Politics: State Sen. Marty Golden is apparently running for mayor — though like a fellow Marty (Borough President Markowitz), the Bay Ridge Republican is being a bit coy about it. Comment.
Wind in the sales
Dance: BAM’s ‘Scissorhands’ marketing bonanza. Comment.
Marty: I am a wiener!
Politics: Borough President Markowitz took a page from President Kennedy when he declared, “Ich bin ein Wiener” in a speech this week. Here’s how MM and JFK match up in our first-ever Presidential Smackdown. Comment.
Brooklyn and Vienna: Perfect together
Politics: Brooklyn and Vienna’s Leopoldstadt district have a lot in common — Jews, high-fat foods and leaders with an eye on the future — so no wonder they just signed a partnership. Comment.
Exclusive: Inside Broken Angel
Fort Greene: Our reporter goes inside Arthur Wood’s quirky Clinton Hill mansion — an exclusive! Comment.
Cold bothers crooks, too
Crime: Here’s at least one reason to love the cold weather: criminals don’t show up for work as often. Comment.
Running man sitting on couch
Brooklyn’s “Running Man” still hasn’t gotten back on the road — a full week after he said he would. Comment.
(Law)breaking news: Columnist arrested!
Bay Ridge: Our columnist gets arrested — for littering! Comment.
Marty for mayor? He’s spending like it
Borough President Markowitz hasn’t formally declared for mayor — but he’s spending like he has, a Brooklyn Paper investigation reveals. Comment.
High Noo Na
Dining: Beyond basic barbeque, Noo Na bring sophisticated Korean to Prospect Heights. Comment.
When will Atlantic Yards be done? Depends on which Ratner you ask
Atlantic Yards: The Nets arena will open a year later than promised — and the rest of Atlantic Yards won’t be done until 2022 — six years behind schedule, two key officials said this week, contradicting a promises by Bruce Ratner that the mini-city would be completed on schedule by 2016. Comment.
Marty goes on the record on Barclays
Atlantic Yards: Borough President Markowitz gives us his opinion on Bruce Ratner’s naming-rights deal with a slavery-linked British bank. Comment.
Bruce’s Yards built on lies
Editorial: This week brought yet more evidence that Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-project is built on a foundation of deception. Comment.
Little guy beats Ratner in not-so-little case
Atlantic Yards: A state judge has ruled that a backroom deal between Bruce Ratner and another big-time developer for control of a key piece of real estate in the Atlantic Yards footprint was “improper.” Comment.
Slope going nuts over ‘insane’ one-way plan
Letters: The plan to make Seventh and Sixth avenues into one-way thoroughfares filled the mailbag; also, letters about the F train, postal service, Whole Foods and censorship. Comment.
Wrong way! Park Slope united against Seventh and Sixth avenue one-way conversions
Atlantic Yards: City officials backtracked a bit this week from a bombshell proposal to convert Seventh and Sixth avenues into one-way thoroughfares, saying the much-reviled proposal would be killed if residents reject it at a meeting next week. Comments (1).
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