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Ratner ups the ante Says he might add ‘mini’ arena for kid sports to Netsplex site While it isn’t clear whether the facility would be housed within the proposed 800,000-square-foot, 19,000-seat professional basketball arena or elsewhere, amateur athletic sgroups working closely with Forest City Ratner say they have been told that a 3,000-seat “gym” adjacent to the arena was being considered. “We have been talking to local sports folks and they’ve indicated

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Tonight (Saturday, April 3) at 11:30 pm, the New York cast of Neo-Futurists will perform Greg Allen’s “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 plays in 60 minutes)” at the Brooklyn Lyceum in Park Slope. Each play is written by a Neo-Futurist ensemble member, honed by the troupe, and randomly collaged with 29 other plays through high-energy audience participation. (Each week, two to 12 plays — literally, depending on rolls of the dice — are replaced as ensemble members add new plays to the existing body of work.) “It’s never the same show, even on the same weekend,” explained Neo-Futurist ensemble member Michael Cyril Creighton, who made the cut with 10 other members by surviving auditions hosted by Allen. “The shows are a mixture of everything, ranging from comedy to very current events to very abstract pieces, even some movement stuff,” said Creighton. “It’s a hodgepodge of all different kinds of theater.” The scripts are based on the actors’real experiences,

explained Creighton. “We are always seeking from ourselves, not trying to fool the audience,” he said. “It’s not just acting. It’s all based in honesty and truth. “It’s an ensemble of 10 people and everyone has very different things to say. It’s a living collage of life experiences — a wild, crazy spontaneous night with a fun group of people.” “Too Much Light” has been a Chicago institution since 1988 and came to Manhattan in the mid-1990s for a brief run. Neo-Futurists who might be familiar to Brooklynites include Boerum Hill residents Ayun Halliday, an author, and her husband, Greg Kotis — who won a 2002 Tony for his little project called “Urinetown: The Musical” (which starred another Neo-Futurist, Spencer Kayden). “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind” continues every Friday and Saturday night at 11:30 pm at the Brooklyn Lyceum [227 Fourth Ave. at President Street in Park Slope, (718) 6707234]. Doors open at 10:30 pm. Admission is $9 plus the roll of a single, sixsided die ($10-$15 total). For more information, log onto www.neofuturists.org.

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Robert Levine, a Manhattan-based developer with nationwide interests, told The Brooklyn Papers this week that he was working out the final details to purchase the property, located at the foot of Joralemon Street. He said he would convert at least part of it to residential use. “We will work with the city and state to realize the best possible project,” said Levine, principal owner of RAL Companies & Associates. He declined to further comment on the deal until the contract is signed. Levine is best known for converting the former Arthur Levitt State Office Building, at 260 Broadway at Chambers Streets in Lower Manhattan, into a combination of condominiums, rental apartments and offices. He purchased the 28-story building , which was used by the state for more than 50 years, for $38 million in 2000. Ever since the property on Furman Street north of Atlantic Avenue hit the market last June, speculators have wondered what connection the building might have — both physically and financially — to the planned Brooklyn Bridge Park, a 1.3-mile commercial and recreational development planned for the waterfront between the Manhattan Bridge and Atlantic Avenue. Atlantic Avenue would serve as a gateway to the park and visitors would have to walk around the Furman Street building to get to most of the park. See FURMAN on page 4

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THE NEW BROOKLYN Nets arena would host Public School Athletic League (PSAL) championship basketball games, a flurry of other ideas have been suggested, although none are certain. Vernon Jones, president of NYC Basketball.com, expressed doubt that the extra facility would be anything more than a practice facility for the New Jersey Nets, which Ratner agreed to purchase in January for $300 million. If that were the case, he said, area youth groups

would likely only be allowed access on an irregular basis. At an anti-Ratner rally on Sunday, and later in telephone conversations, Jones suggested that $67 million earmarked four years ago for the construction of Sportsplex, an amateur athletic arena planned for Coney Island, could be usurped by Ratner and put toward the Atlantic Yards project under the guise of being used as a facility for amaSee RATNER on page 14

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an interest in an amateur athletic facility and that is something we would like to discuss further with them and consider,” said Joe DePlasco, a spokesman for Ratner, who declined to elaborate on where it would be located or how regularly it would be available to amateur organizations.

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A Brooklyn Heights beat officer chased down a suspected bank robber Friday. Patroling in a scooter on March 27, Officer Brian Karuschkat, 27, raced off towards the Independence Community Bank at the corner of Court Street and Atlantic Avenue in Cobble Hill when the call came in about the heist just after 3 pm. As Karuschkat, who is usually assigned to bike patrol along Montague Street, headed towards the scene of the crime in the neighboring 76th Precinct, a call came in over the police radio describing the bandit as 6 feet tall, wearing jeans, a dark jacket and white sneakers. When a man fitting that description ran by Karuschkat, the officer gave chase in his threewheeled scooter and followed him down Smith Street. The 6-foot-2 Karuschkat caught up to the suspect at Baltic Street and slapped handcuffs on him before he even had a chance to run. The suspected bank thief handed over the stolen cash, which he had stashed in a black plastic bag. The mayhem began just before 3 pm, when David Daniels, 37, of Manhattan, allegedly walked into See BANDIT on page 4


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“We do very much want to incorporate a larger amateur athletic program overall into the effort,” Dellasco added. “And we are certainly open to discussing using the NBA facility for major school games, etc.” Ratner’s Atlantic Yards site stretches east into Prospect Heights from the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues. Richard Lipsky, a lobbyist for Ratner who works closely with amateur athletics groups and youth organizations, said that he’s met with more than 60 groups to discuss an outreach program sponsored by Forest City Ratner. He said that besides discounted tickets to Nets games and a possibility that the

Officer Brian Karuschkat, outside the Independence Community Bank at 130 Court St.

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Lawyer jokes aside, Lynn Lewis, the 175pound lawyer cum linebacker for the New York Sharks professional women’s tackle football team, said her two passions suit her like cease and desist, law and order, block and tackle. “I’m pretty tough, so it’s very aggressive,” she said. “And being a lawyer, you gotta be tough, so the two go together, I guess.” Lewis, a Bay Ridge resident who since 1999 has been roughing it in the Independent Women’s Football League (IWFL), will strap on the shoulder pads for her first game of the season on Saturday, April 3, when she and the Sharks face the Atlanta Xplosion in Queens. But Lewis, who shares the field with Veronica Simmons, another Brooklyn-born linewoman, said her sights are set on other foes. The season, which spans eight games through June, will give the Sharks a second chance to beat the Sacramento Sirens, who last year defeated Lewis and her teammates 41-30 in the IWFL Championship game, the league’s Super Bowl. The loss surprised Lewis, whose team was the defending champion and ended

the regular season undefeated. “When that game comes, we will win,” she said, boldly predicting this season’s first meeting between the teams. The 44-year-old Bay Ridge native and Fort Hamilton High School alum has torpedoed the pigskin since she was a kid, when she competed with the boys in afternoon games of touch football. Even after her mother scolded her for playing with the boys, Lewis continued, now with a team full of police officers, nurses and stockbrokers. The Sharks were formed in 2000, after a Manhattan businesswoman scooped it up and added it to more than 20 women’s tackle teams nationwide. In Lewis’ first-ever game with the team, the Sharks beat the Minnesota Vixens 12-6, proving that New York was ready for some football. Besides the 5-foot-8 Lewis, at least five other Brooklynites play on the Sharks, including Rose Addison, of Bay Ridge; Darleen Hall, of Park Slope; Lori DeVivio, of Marine Park; and Virginia “Chachi” Leon, a Coney Island-born running back now living on Staten Island. “We have more Brooklyn roots this year in terms of coaching,” said Lewis, whose Sharks See FOOTBALL on page 6


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Linebacker Lynn Lewis, of Bay Ridge, at practice on the Fort Hamilton High School athletic field in Bay Ridge Sunday. Lewis plays for the New York Sharks, a women's tackle football team.

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Producer: Marty’s a BCAT hog By Jotham Sederstrom The Brooklyn Papers


A Brooklyn cable-access television producer has filed a petition with the state charging that Borough President Marty Markowitz dominates what are supposed to be public airwaves.

Borough President Markowitz at last Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Parade in Bay Ridge. A complaint charges he manipulates BCAT programing.

And, apparently, he’s already seeing results. Since the petition was filed against Brooklyn Community Access Television (BCAT) on March 5, six of eight time slots filled by the Markowitz-produced “Everything Brooklyn” show have been pulled from the network, according to a lawyer for Ronin Amano, the cable access producer who filed the complaint. In his petition to the Public Service Commission, Amano, producer and co-founder of the program “Rent Wars News” accuses Markowitz and the publicly funded — and federally mandated — BCAT, of squeezing out his tenantrights program and dozens of other shows to make room for more Borough Hall-driven productions. The Public Service Commission (PSC) oversees utilities and public access television. “That’s like Rudy Giuliani coming into the Brooklyn Museum of Art, ripping up the artwork and fir-

ing the curators,” said Amano, referring to the controversy over the “Sensation” exhibit in 2000. “Don’t get me wrong,” he said, “this may be an issue of the people under Marty really not understanding how threatening co-opting a public forum can be.” Through a spokeswoman, Markowitz, a former tenant leader who twice has appeared as a guest on “Rent Wars News,” declined to comment. “It would be inappropriate for us to comment on the judicial process with respect to this matter at this time,” said Sharon Toomer, a spokeswoman for Markowitz. “We feel that the petition is without merit,” said BCAT spokeswoman JoAnne Meyers. Thomas Hillgardner, the Queens-based lawyer representing Amano, said that since January “Everything Brooklyn,” a program conceived and produced by Markowitz, had ballooned to eight hours on 16 time slots while shows like “Teenz at Large,” which airs at 10 pm on Fridays, were cut to just one half-hour broadcast. As recently as last year, shows airing Friday through Monday had been broadcast on two of BCAT’s four channels, but quarterly programming changes have reduced those broadcasts to one.

“Marty is entitled to a program on the public access channel like everyone else, and if he’s doing it with his dime, like everyone else has to, than that’s fine,” said Hillgardner. “But he’s not entitled to 16 times the programming.” According to Amano’s petition, programs on BCAT are limited to 28 minutes, but “Everything Brooklyn” generally runs about an hour and airs more frequently. Since the complaint was filed, it has been scaled back to twice a week, on Wednesdays, at 11 am and 7 pm. The program covers goings on in Brooklyn, ranging from a Women’s History Month celebration to information about a push to launch the borough’s first cruise line. State law and cable regulations prohibit local governments from exercising editorial control over programming on public access channels. State cable regulations also require that programming is aired on a first-come, first-served basis, which Hillgardner said likely hasn’t happened at BCAT. The petition, if successful, would benefit shows like “Ghettonomics,” “Alexandra’s Psychic Eye,” “1001 Ways to Cope with Stress” and “Talking to My Mom,” each suffering from a deci-

sion by BCAT to eliminate “double-slotting” Friday through Monday. But Meyers countered that they’re running the station by the book. “BCAT’s actions have been completely consistent and in accordance with its programming policies, the franchise agreement between the city and the franchisees, the PSC approval of those franchises, the PSC rules and regulations and federal and state law,” said Meyers. BCAT officials said they could not comment further while the petition was being considered. Hillgardner is no stranger to filing complaints against public access networks. Executives and spokespersons at Queens Public TV, Manhattan Neighborhood Network and Great Neck’s Public Access Television Corporation, declined to comment for this article, citing current litigation or complaints filed against them by Hillgardner. In cases pending in the state Court of Appeals against QPTV and MNN, Hillgardner is seeking to reverse lower court decisions and compel the Public Service Commission to turn over records indicating the producer of every show broadcast and when they first requested to

be put on the air. In doing so he hopes to show that the networks did not follow a first come, first served policy. If he is successful he would use that precedent to get BCAT to open up its records or to get the information from the PSC in the hope of proving that Markowitz was given preferential treatment with regards to time slots and airtime. Hillgardner is representing Amano in his complaint against BCAT pro bono on behalf of the Association of Cable Access Producers. Since 1992, the publicly funded BCAT has offered what Hillgardner and others describe as a soapbox to Brooklynites, offering a stage for such multifarious offerings as hip-hop, self-discovery and the perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche. When “Rent Wars News” premiered in 2000, it aired at 10:30 am and 6:30 pm on Mondays. The show follows housing court issues faced by tenants and homeowners, most of whom cannot afford their own lawyers. “I never expected to sue Marty Markowitz,” said Amano. “I like him, he’s a former tenant activist. But everyone is coming to me and saying, your friend is ruining BCAT.”

Billion dollar suit over Holocaust artwork sales By William J. Kole Associated Press

Using a musty bank vault as a backdrop, a prominent American lawyer announced Thursday he was filing a $1 billion lawsuit on behalf of Holocaust victims whose precious artworks were stolen by the Nazis and sold off after World War II. Edward D. Fagan, a New Yorkbased attorney who has fought for reparations for American blacks who are descendants of slaves and for victims of South Africa’s apartheid system, said the suit would be filed later Thursday in U.S. District Court in New York. The suit, brought by a new group calling itself the Association of Holocaust Victims for the Restitu-

tion of Artwork and Masterpieces, calls on two leading Austrian banks, the Austrian government and Sotheby’s auction house to return paintings and other works allegedly sold without the permission of their original Jewish owners. “Not one painting has been restored — not one,” Fagan said, contending the missing artworks include paintings by Monet, Cezanne, Delacroix and other Impressionist masters. “These victims are suing to recover their property.” The plaintiffs, who were not identified by name, were said to include several dozen families, mostly Jews, from Austria, Belgium, France, Hungary, Germany, Israel, Poland, Switzerland, the United States and other countries. Their suit, alleging “the system-

atic theft of great artwork, masterpieces and collections,” seeks between $100 million and $1 billion (U.S. currency) in damages if the artworks — valued at between $2 million and $5 million (U.S.) apiece — cannot be returned. “We would like the paintings back, but the likelihood is not so good,” Fagan said. At a press conference in a Vienna cafe, Fagan showed reporters a sketch he said was drawn by an unidentified former employee of Bank Austria/Creditanstalt, purportedly showing the location of a secret vault concealed beneath a trap door that once contained priceless paintings unclaimed after the war. He then led several dozen journalists on a walk to the bank’s near-

by headquarters, where flustered officials agreed to unlock the cellar and open several vaults. None contained anything more than old books and dusty boxes of documents and files. Nonplussed, Fagan said he never expected to see artworks, which he contended were sold off by Sotheby’s and other auction houses with the complicity of Bank Austria/Creditanstalt, Erste Bank and the Austrian government, which he said issued export licenses allowing the works to leave the country. The works’ rightful owners, he said, were mostly Jews who perished in the Holocaust — the Nazis’ extermination of 6 million people. Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938, one year before

the war began in Europe. “We are accusing the banks of engaging in the trafficking of stolen Holocaust artwork,” Fagan said. “It’s not sufficient to say, ‘We don’t have anything.’ A New York court is going to say, ‘Well, you’ve got something — show me.’” The 16-page lawsuit alleges that the banks “developed systems and schemes through which they collected, took title to and/or profited from artwork ... which the defendant Austrian banks knew, had reason to know and/or upon the exercise of reasonable diligence could have discovered were stolen from Holocaust victims.” Bank Austria, which recently merged with Creditanstalt, paid $45 million (U.S.) in 1999 to settle a lawsuit brought by Fagan on behalf

of Jews whose gold and other financial assets were stolen by the Nazis and allegedly fell into the bank’s hands after the war. Spokesman Peter Thier said the bank was eager to cooperate in any way and show it does not possess artworks or other valuables seized by the Nazis. He said the bank was working closely with an independent historical commission set up in the mid1990s to handle claims by victims of Nazi looting. Oliver Rathkolb, a ranking member of the commission, told the Austria Press Agency there was “no evidence of a connection between art theft” and the bank. “We have no problem with exposing the truth. We want to be as transparent as possible,” Thier said,

conceding that if proof exists that the bank was involved in illegal sales of artwork, “it would be a catastrophe.” A respected Austrian newspaper, Der Standard, reported Thursday that one of the disputed masterpieces is “Mount Sinai,” an oil by El Greco that surfaced a decade ago at an open market in Vienna, only to disappear until it was auctioned by Sotheby’s for $5 million (U.S.) five years ago. Fagan said he was pressing the Austrian government for a list of export licenses issued for all paintings that left the country between 1945 and 1998. He told the Associated Press he also was in contact with the U.S. Justice Department and the White House about possible involvement.

Real Answer to Social Promotion By Randi Weingarten Social promotion doesn’t work. No one knows this better than teachers, particularly those who find themselves in classrooms with children who don’t have the basic knowledge and skills they need to do grade-level work. The UFT took an of ficial stance against this practice long before Mayor Giuliani made it an issue, much less Mayor Bloomberg. But teachers also know that while the politically easy answer a “get tough” retention policy may score political points for a mayor or chancellor, it doesn’t really offer much to the students who are struggling. Making thirdgraders who didn’t get it the first time sit through the same curriculum in the same classroom again has been tried. The evidence is overwhelming that students who are simply held back and not provided with enriched opportunities to learn generally don’t make significant academic progress and are at increased risk of dropping out in later years.

“Conditional” 4th grade There are very concrete, common-sense ways to end social promotion. Early and dramatic inter vention, as early as prekindergarten, is one approach. Another is the proposal the UFT put forward in response to the Mayor’s plan to establish a “gate” for this year’s 3rd graders. Under our plan the system would create “conditional” 4th grade classes next year for third-graders who score at Level 1 - the lowest range - in reading or math. Such conditional classes would be capped at 15 students instead of the 28 or more that we currently have in our 4th grade. The classes would be taught by highly trained teachers and would provide a specialized curriculum ADVERTISEMENT

for struggling students. And instead of giving such students just a few hours a week or a few months of help, our proposal would give students a full year of enriched academic and support services. The instructional program would be tailored for the needs of students who have not gained basic skills with less structured approaches. At the same time, the program would also be specific to the needs of students. For example, it makes no sense to restrict a child to 3rd grade math or making him repeat 3rd grade science simply because his English reading skills are poor. This is particularly important for English language learners who might be doing better in math than in reading in a language that is unfamiliar to them. Ed Koch, who was mayor when the city first tried its “gates” program in the 1980s, has praised this approach. Is intervention - in this or some other form - a better strategy than retention? The Chicago school system, after a seven-year experiment with holding students back, has eased its strict promotion requirements. Why? Because an independent study of the policy has demonstrated that retention alone has not improved student performance.

Taking the 4th grade test Another benefit of the UFT approach is that the conditional 4th graders would take the state’s 4th grade test, making it easier to compare the progress of this group with their peers. (Under Mayor Bloomberg’s plan, the students who are held back would take the city’s 3rd grade test next year.) While conditional 4th grade classes should help move large

numbers of children out of the lowest level by the end of the school year, those students who are still unsuccessful would be retained in a 4th grade class but with a guarantee that they will receive additional services. We propose that each of those children have an Individual Academic Ser vices Plan similar to the Individual Education Plan that is used for special education students. They also would receive instruction both before and after school, along with other assistance promised by the chancellor. The UFT offered this proposal as a way of helping children, and also to quell the cynicism that the process was being rigged to ensure higher test scores for 4th graders next year when the Mayor will be seeking re-election. But we do not think that it is the only approach that could work. Others have also of fered thoughtful alternatives. The administration, however, is not interested in listening to any alternatives at all. In fact, Mayor Bloomberg had to fire two members of his Panel for Educational Policy - and engineer the firing of a third member by the Staten Island borough president - to ensure that his plan and only his plan - got a hearing. Is our approach expensive? It’s probably less expensive than swelling existing 3rd-grade enrollment by 30 percent, which could be the cost of the Department of Education’s proposed approach. Besides, instruction is supposed to determine the budget, not vice versa. Serving the needs of children must be the main concern and driving force behind any educational policy initiative - not politics.

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throughout the city. Previously, Lyles worked as assistant principal at Erasmus Hall High School and principal at Paul Robeson High School, in Crown Heights. Under her leadership Paul Robeson HS was named a Redbook magazine “America’s Best Schools Project Winner” for classroom innovation. As superintendent of District 16 she created four new middle schools and redesigned professional development for teachers and administrators. Lyles has also worked as an English teacher at Washington Irving High School, in Manhattan, served as an English teacher at Curtis High School in Staten Island, and worked for the superintendent of Brooklyn and Staten Island Schools (BASIS). Farina’s predecessor, Diana Lam, resigned amid a cloud of controversy after an investigation found she had helped her husband get a job in the department without going thorough the proper conflict of interest channels. Farina has been working in

the city’s public schools for more than 38 years. As a curriculum coordinator in District 15 she authored a multicultural program that was replicated in every district in the city. “I believe all children must have equal opportunity,” Lyles told about 150 parents and educators in attendance Monday. She graduated from Hunter College in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She earned a master’s in English from New York University in 1976 and a doctorate from the Teachers College at Columbia University in 1992. “She did great things for the district,” Nica Lalli, PTA president of PS 107, on Eighth Avenue and 13th Street in Park Slope, said of Farina. She said she came to meet Lyles Monday to learn “who would be making decisions” in the district. Asked what she hoped to bring to the Department of Education, Farina motioned to the people around her. “The feeling of community in this room,” she said. “I want to take it citywide.”

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sociation, which has been fighting for years to close the “dirty” site. Located at the Hudson Avenue Station, near the westernmost edge of the Navy Yard, Boiler 100, one of five generators on the site, was built in 1951. The generator burns oil and produces steam that is pumped into Manhattan. It was considered one of the most polluting power plants in the city before it was taken offline in 1997. The neighborhoods within a fivemile radius would be most affected by emissions from the plant, according to Lisa Garcia, an attorney for the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG). Within that radius are Vinegar Hill, DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill and Fort Greene. But following the blackouts that

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Residents of Vinegar Hill and DUMBO breathed a sigh of relief this week when Con Edison announced it would be pulling the plug for good on one of the city’s most highly polluting power generators. That generator, known as Boiler 100, is located in Vinegar Hill just a stone’s throw from hundreds of residents, a school, and the Farragut Houses, a public housing development. The controversial generator will be taken out of service in October when a three-year special permit expires on Oct. 1, according to D. Joy Faber, a spokeswoman for Con Edison. “This is absolutely great news for all of us,” said Monique Denocin, vice president of the Vinegar Hill As-

devastated California in 2001, Con Edison sought a permit to reopen the site using emission credits it had received for closing the facility just four years earlier. That outraged the community, which argued that the company should have to comply to a new standard set by the federal Clean Air Act. After several protests, Con Edison reopened the facility with a threeyear permit from the state Department of Environmental Conservation. A spokeswoman for Con Edison said this week that the company would not seek a renewal of the permit and reiterated that the boiler has “always operated in compliance with the DEC guidelines.” “This is a major victory for the community,” said Garcia, who helped file a lawsuit last year on be-

half of the community to demand that the generator comply with more updated standards. “It was their pressure that got Con Edison to this point, I think now the pressure needs to stay on Con Edison from the community and elected officials so they do not attempt to restart it,” Garcia added. Some residents said they were skeptical that Con Edison would really keep the generator closed this time, after it made a similar announcement and then reopened the plant. “It was unknown to us that the boiler was a very polluting one,” said Denoncin. “And one day three years ago, there was an article on the front page of the New York Times talking about our Con Edison plant and they called the boiler one of the worst in New York City.” Rachel Gold, chief of staff for

Brooklyn Heights state Sen. Martin Connor said the closure marked a huge feat for the community. “It also creates a good-neighbor policy to help build a good relationship between Con Ed and its neighbors,” said Gold. Once predominantly industrial neighborhoods, Vinegar Hill and DUMBO have been attracting more and more residents into recently converted condominiums and luxury apartment buildings. Rep. Nydia Velasquez, whose district includes the Brooklyn waterfront, has been asking Con Edison to close the generator for years. “This is great for the community,” said Velazquez. “Con Edison’s decision to shut down the plant at the end of the temporary, three-year DEC permit will mean closing one of the oldest, dirtiest boilers in the city.

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The private Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights has announced a successor to its founding headmaster. Dr. Lawrence Weiss, who for seven years headed the Upper Division of the Horace Mann School in Riverdale will replace Stanley Bosworth, 76, a driving force in the success of the Pierrepont Street school. Bosworth, who will step down in July, had announced his retirement five months ago. He played a major role in shaping the 39-year-old institution’s creative and far-reaching curriculum, which eschews both grades and ranking. Weiss, 54, has served as the director of the Chinese Studies program at the Sidwell Friends School, in Washington, D.C., where President Bill Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, attended. He began his career in education as a history teacher at

Dr. Lawrence Weiss the nearby Brooklyn Friend’s School in Downtown Brooklyn. “Larry brings to us a depth

of experience, richness of intellect, and a commitment to the special qualities that characterize Saint Ann’s,” said Ann Ash, president of the school’s board of the trustees. The board spent the past five months searching for a headmaster to replace Bosworth and offered the position to Weiss last week. Saint Ann’s has a student body of 1,067 in pre-school through twelfth-grade. The non-sectarian school was founded in 1965 with 63 students and seven teachers in the basement of St. Ann’s Episcopal Church. In 1982, the school formally disaffiliated from the church. Bosworth, who plans on writing a book, says he will remain closely involved in the school after his retirement. He also has one daughter and three grandchildren currently enrolled there. Asked about the legacy he leaves behind at the school, Bosworth said, “We’ve led children into loving school and doing what they do best.”

Continued from page 1 “I would very much like to see a portion of the revenue [from 360 Furman St.] go towards the park maintenance,” Brooklyn Heights Councilman David Yassky told The Papers after the property went on sale last summer. Yassky also sent a letter in January, as did the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy (formerly the Brooklyn Bridge Park Coalition) to the Watchtower Society in January, asking that the buyer be required to contribute to the park. “It is clear that the commitment to create Brooklyn Bridge Park has substantially increased the value of 360 Furman Street,” the letter read. The 1 million-square-foot property, which stands next to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, is currently zoned for light manufacturing. The buyer would have to seek a variance from the city in order to develop the property for any other use. According to some estimates the religious society, also known as the Jehovah’s Witnesses, paid approximately $10 million for the building in 1983. Built in 1928, the building is currently used for storage, shipping and laundry services for 3,000 Watchtower Society members. Most of those operations will be consolidated at 117 Adams St., while the group’s printing operations are relocating to Wallkill, N.Y. The Watchtower Society owns 31 buildings in Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO totaling nearly 3 million square feet. David Semonian, a spokesman for the Watchtower Society, declined to comment on the sale. Many real estate experts believe converting the property into condos with sweeping views of Manhattan would be most lucrative. Inside 360 Furman St., columns are spaced about every 20 to 25 feet. Ten-foot by 15-foot windows flood the floors with light. The first, second and third floors are connected by a mile-and-a-half of conveyer belts, which transfer books that are to be shipped around the world. Last year alone, 37.5 million pounds of literature and videos were distributed from the Furman Street building to international and domestic locations. The building is shaped like a giant letter ‘H’ with the east-west core holding 14 freight elevators, some big enough to carry 30-foot trucks. Like other Watchtower Society structures, the building is in good shape and has an in-house maintenance crew that regularly paints and cleans it. “We feel that whatever happens to the building should be sensitive to Brooklyn Bridge Park and reflect the increased value the park will bring to the building,” said Janel Patterson, a spokeswoman for the city Economic Development Corporation. Paterson declined to comment on any discussions between the city and the seller and buyer over future use of the building. The Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corp., an offshoot of the Empire State Development Corp., did not return telephone calls seeking comment on the role the building may play in the park. “To be a good neighbor to Brooklyn Bridge Park, a redeveloped 360 Furman must be integrated into the park’s overall design,” said Sharon Soons, a spokeswoman for the conservancy. “To be an outstanding neighbor, the developers should contribute funds to the park’s development and operation, and provide housing opportunities to low- and middle-income families,” Soons added.

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Bicycle thief A thief using a two-wheeled getaway vehicle snatched a woman’s purse at Duffied and Willoughby streets at 4:50 pm on March 22. The victim, 37, told police she was walking down Duffield Street when a man approached on a bicycle, grabbed the satchel off her shoulder, and fled eastbound on Fulton Street, police said. The bike bandit made off with $250, credit cards, a birth certificate and a green card, police said.

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described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale. Approximate amount of judgment $64,402.64 plus interest and costs. INDEX NO. 32257/03. Martin Evans, Esq., REFEREE. BP12-15 Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, of the City of New York, County of Kings, on the 22nd day of March, 2004, bearing Index Number N00640/03, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room number 007, grants me the right to assume the name of ALEKSANDR RICHARD WATSON. My present address is 57 Bay 31st Street, Brooklyn, New York 11214; the date of my birth is June 29, 1998, the place of my birth is Boston, Massachusetts; my present name is ALEKSANDR RICHARD SIMILIO. BP13 Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 24th day of March, 2004, bearing the Index Number N00214/04, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me rights to: Assume the name of: Tricia Jean Moriarty Gold. My present name is: Patricia Jean Moriarty. My present address is: 138 Court Street, #377, Brooklyn, NY 11201. My place of birth is: Summit, New Jersey. My date of birth is: May 18, 1967. BP13 Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 23rd day of March, 2004, bearing Index Number N00211/04, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the Clerk, located at 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room number 007, grants EVANGELINA ROMAN the right, upon compliance

with the provision of this Order to assume the name of EVA ROMAN. Petitioner’s present address is 15 Ashford Street, Brooklyn, New York 11207. Petitioner’s place of birth is Salinas, Puerto Rico. Petitioner’s date of birth is June 28, 1948. BP13 Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 25th day of March, 2004, bearing the Index Number N00221/04, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me rights to: Assume the name of: Wendy Chan. My present name is: Xing Yu Chen a/k/a Wendy Chan. My present address is: 30 Bay 19th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11214. My place of birth is: Canton, China. My date of birth is: May 30, 1978. BP13 Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 26th day of March, 2004, bearing the Index Number N00223/2004, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me rights to: Assume the name of: Valentin Gallan. My present name is: Valentin A. Galantsev. My present address is: 6110 20th Avenue, #2A, Brooklyn, NY 11204. My place of birth is: City of Moscow, Russia. My date of birth is: 06/10/1986. BP13 Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 30th day of March, 2004, bearing the Index Number N00229/2004, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me rights to: Assume the name of: Roger Zou. My present name is: Razerler Zou. My present address is: 4711 8th

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and “9” and fully described on Exhibit “A” annexed to the said Verified Complaint being tax parcel 6.12-1-50 situate in the Town of Alexandria within the County of Jefferson and State of New York, wherein Plaintiffs demands judgment as follows: (1) that the Defendants, and all persons claiming under them or under any of them be forever barred of all claims to an estate or interest in the Premises; (2) that it be adjudged and finally determined that the Plaintiff is the lawful owner and is vested with an absolute and unencumbered title in fee to the Premises; (3) that sole and complete possession of said Premise be awarded to the Plaintiff and Plaintiff is entitled to remain in possession thereof; (4) that the Plaintiff recover his costs, disbursements, and allowances against any and all Defendants answering in this action; and (5) that the Plaintiff have such other and further relief as the Court may be deemed, just, equitable, and proper. Dated: November 17, 2003. MENTER, RUDIN & TRIVELPIECE, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff. By: Donald P. Colella, Esq. Office and Post Office Address. 500 South Salina Street, Suite 500, Syracuse, New York 13202, (315) 474-7541. BP11-14 SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS. MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AEGIS MORTGAGE CORP., Plaintiff, Against DAVID ANGEL HERNANDEZ, et al. Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly entered 1/23/2004 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the KINGS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, ROOM #261, 360 Adams St., Brooklyn, NY on 4/22/2004 at 3:00PM premises known as 1084 Madison St., Brooklyn, NY, ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings City and State of New York Block 3368 Lot 12 Approximate amount of lien $338,046.59 plus interest and costs Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment Index# 03-13828. JEROME COHEN, Esq., Referee. Jordan S. Katz, P.C., Attorneys at Law, 585 Stewart Avenue, Suite L-70, Garden City, New York 11530. Dated: 3/3/2004 File#: Jsk 4498 jvr. BP11-14

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Longtime dancer and choreographer Lynn Parkerson founded Brooklyn Ballet, in Brooklyn Heights, in 2000. The organization began an active schedule last season, including an educational outreach program, “Elevate,” in five Brooklyn schools. On April 4, Parkerson’s company will perform “Mystery Sonatas,” inspired by the works of 17thcentury composer Heinrich Biber as part of the 92nd Street Y’s Harkness Dance Center series. “I’ve worked on this piece for two years and shown parts of it before, but this is the first time we’re doing the entire hour-long piece [for an audience],” Parkerson explains. “The Q&A session afterwards is a way for me to get valuable feedback. I hope to premiere the whole piece in Brooklyn next season.” Parkerson is the first to admit that Biber’s music might seem a strange choice. “For a long time it had not been played, and then slowly people started to become interested in it again,” she says. “It’s an odd piece of music. There are 15 sonata sections, each with a different tuning, so a new arrangement was needed so that the modern violin would not have to be tuned each time.” (Gil Morgenstern performs the demanding violin parts.)

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Remember when: The author and star of “Accidental Nostalgia,” Cynthia Hopkins, explores the “pros and cons of amnesia” in her new operetta now on stage at St. Ann’s Warehouse. (Above) Hopkins with Jeff Sugg.

blind alleys — and a trip to Morocco — who she really is. Hopkins’ sweet, simple, but highly evocative voice is backed by her alt-country band, Gloria Deluxe, composed of trombone and guitar (Curtis Hasselbring); drums (Kristin Mueller); bass (Josh Stark); violin, guitar and spoons (Philippa Thompson); and viola (Karen Waltuch). Gloria Deluxe is a familiar band to Brooklynites who may have seen their raucous sets at Celebrate Brooklyn, the BAMcafe and Pete’s Candy Store. The music the band plays is a subtle blending of country, blues and jazz, with strains that sound like anything from Kurt Weill to Klezmer. The lyrics have the down-and-out

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ynthia Hopkins’ “Accidental Nostalgia,” now on stage at St. Ann’s Warehouse, is billed as an “operetta about the pros and cons of amnesia.” But it is really an exploration of how we create ourselves through what we choose to remember and what we choose to forget. Hopkins, a Bessie award- and two-time Obie award-winner who has written the book, composed the music and produced the show, stars as Henrietta Bill, a neurologist and author suffering from psychogenic amnesia who sings her way into the dark recesses of her past. (She also plays the accordion, from time to time.) Hopkins is ably directed by DJ Mendel, who obviously knows how to make the irrational not only understandable, but in some eccentric way, logical. Returning to her hometown, Henrietta answers various mysteries in her life: Who is her real father? Has she killed him? Is he alive or dead? Has he abused her, and why? She also discovers, after walking down a few


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attire usually associated with musicians or DJs, or a Bob Fosse revue. They occasionally dance with her, or throw her a change of clothing, or interact with her in a very sensual manner. Hopkins is also backed by a videoscape, created by designers Findlay and Sugg, diagrams and pictures displayed on a suspended screen. The video of her father, played by real life dad John Hopkins, reading his explanatory and exculpatory letter is particularly effective and affecting. Kristen Lapham and Tara Webb have dressed Hopkins in clothing that is bizarre, to say the least. For some reason, she wears kneepads, bandages on her hands and a kind of tunic over a jacket. At one point she strips and stands naked before the audience, then dresses in new clothing, to clearly demonstrate that she has taken on another identity. Which brings us to nudity on stage — seldom necessary, rarely justified, always eclipsing every other aspect of a production. It’s too bad this one act of self-indulgence mars an otherwise perfect performance. In fact, despite the utter, shocking weirdness that characterizes much of this show, all of its elements seem perfectly in place and perfectly appropriate. Such is the genius of “Accidental Nostalgia’s” conception and execution. “Accidental Nostalgia” is the kind of theater that does for the stage what the Big Bang did for the universe — create an explosive chain reaction that keeps producing light and life and is capable of infinite transformation.

Beginning Sunday, Astroland Amusement Park will open at noon, on weekends only, until mid-June, when they’ll be open daily, noon to midnight. The Cyclone is located at Surf Avenue at West 10th Street. Tickets to ride the Cyclone are $5, and $4 for re-ride tickets. For more information, call (718) 2652100 or visit www.astroland.com. — Lisa J. Curtis

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Stress free Now through April 8, “PMS” is on display inside the Brooklyn War Memorial. The exhibition of artworks — rather than the bloating or mood swings — of “women Painters, Musicians and Sculptors” is a stunningly diverse show. Among the more than 40 artists whose work is on display are Kristen Benson’s “TV 2004,” a vintage television console with an ant farm — filled with bustling sand harvester ants — behind its screen (pictured), as well as Chanika Svetvilas’ diorama of flowers formed from fast food wrappers inset into suitcases, and Carmen Hay Kolodzey’s hand-painted textiles which hang above the stage in the exhibition hall. “PMS,” inside the memorial at 195 Cadman Plaza West in Downtown Brooklyn, is presented by the Brooklyn College Art Gallery in collaboration with the Brooklyn Arts Council, South of the Navy Yard Artists and the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. Admission is free. For more information, call (718) 951-5181. — Lisa J. Curtis

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Bites MYRTLE AVENUE 511 Myrtle Ave. at Grand Avenue, (718) 3981459 (Cash only) Entrees: $6-$11.50. The smell of grilled meats and rice and beans greets customers at Castro’s, while the sounds of traditional Mexican music booms from the jukebox up front. “Customers love our mole poblano because the sauce is homemade,” boasts owner Humberto Castro. Chef Alberta Mendoza combines various peppers, toasted sesame seeds, garlic, chocolate, raisins and cinnamon to make this typical Mexican dish. Vegetarians should try the burrito with broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, zucchini, jack cheese, rice, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, sour cream and guacamole. (Pico de Gallo is served on the side.) All entrees come with chips and salsa and a side of rice and beans. During spring and summer, enjoy a meal in the backyard patio. Castro’s also offers an array of breakfast burritos and morning specials. Delivery and takeout available. Open 7 am to 11 pm.

Five Spot Supper Club 459-461 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue, (718) 852-0202, www.fivespotsoulfood.com (Disc, MC, V) Entrees: $5.95-$11.95. A 60-foot bar, hardwood floors and an intricately patterned tin ceiling decorate Five Spot’s dining room, while exposed brick, crushed red velvet and a wood-burning fireplace adorn the walls where co-owners Malik and Kim Armstead have been serving good ol’, down home cooking since 1996. Southern fried chicken and hickory smoked spare ribs are just two of their popular dishes. Five Spot offers a daily lunch special for $5 that includes meat or fish and two side orders. Side dishes range from black-eyed peas and collard greens to macaroni and cheese and candied yams. Homemade cornbread is served with all dinner entrees. For dessert try Five Spot’s individual pecan pie or peach cobbler. In the evening, live music is performed by bands and DJs from the stage in the back corner. Check the Web site for a calendar of upcoming performers. Open for take-out from noon to midnight. Dinner and full bar service begins at 4 pm daily.

Gourmet Kitchen 402 Myrtle Ave. at Vanderbilt Avenue, (718) 643-9423 (Cash only) Lunch entrees: $5.25$12.60. In traditional diner style, Gourmet Kitchen serves eggs, grits, homefries, French toast, pancakes, bacon, sausage and “omelets galore” for breakfast to hungry customers sitting quietly at the counter. They even serve homemade crab or salmon cakes on the side if you desire. For lunch, the menu offers soups, salads and sandwiches, among other entrees. The overstuffed sandwiches, packed with your choice of either pastrami, roast beef or corned beef, and topped with melted Swiss cheese and sauerkraut, are a real treat. “It is so big that when you go to eat it, you don’t even leave a bite mark,” says owner Jimmy Iliopoulos. Open daily for breakfast and lunch.

Jive Turkey 441 Myrtle Ave. at Waverly Avenue, (718) 7971688 (AmEx, MC, Visa) Whole turkeys: $44.95$74.95. Decorated in bright colors, Jive Turkey looks just like your own kitchen. The wooden countertop and cabinets hold recipe books and turkey figurines, while the curtained window just above the “kitchen sink” displays a flower box waiting for warm weather. The signature dish at Jive Turkey is the whole fried turkey. “We deep-fry the turkeys in very hot oil for 18 to 24 minutes. The result is much juicier on the inside with a light crisp on the outside,” says Jive Turkey owner Aricka Westbrooks. What is most amazing about the turkeys is that they come in 15 different flavors ranging from honey pecan and lemon pepper to peach bourbon and Mexican mole. Chef Kat Rodrigo not only fries whole turkeys, but also whips up a menu of desserts including extra large Rice Krispy treats, cookies, cupcakes and tarts. While Jive Turkey offers limited seating,

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Kum Kau 465 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue, (718) 638-1850 (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $5.95-$12.75. At Kum Kau, anything is possible. “Customers are free to customize their own dinners,” boasts manager Peter Cheng. While coowners and chefs Jimmy and Amy Cheng make all of the sauces, other chefs divide duties depending on their specialties. A favorite at Kum Kau is the crispy baked shrimp with mild spices and rice. On Wednesdays, Kum Kau offers an “all you can eat” buffet for lunch ($5.99) and dinner ($10.99) including Chinese cake. Each week the buffet menu changes to allow customers to enjoy various traditional Chinese entrees. Kum Kau offers a special family menu for two or more people including soup, an appetizer, an entree, rice and dessert, all for $11.95 per person. Takeout and private parties also available. Open daily.

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While a raw food meal isn’t prepared the traditional way — over a stove or in the oven — it’s far from a alfway through a multi-course simple slice-and-dice affair. Before a tasting dinner at Green Paradise, a meal hits the table, ingredients are raw foods restaurant in Prospect whirled in a food processor or Heights, my husband said, “I’ve never blender; whipped in a Vita-Mix; and grains are opened in a “sprouter” (a tasted anything like this.” The “this” was a faux “pizza” with a layered contraption in which seeds — nut crust, and pepper and pineapple alfalfa, broccoli, mung beans and toppings, one of several raw food radishes, to name a few —are watered wannabes we sampled that tried hard and in two to four days, sprouts are sprung). Fruit and vegetables are reto mimic the real thing. The restaurant’s chef and owner, duced to their essence in a dehydrator. What emerges are raw food imMawule Jobe-Simon, is a vegan and posters of dishes raw foods enthuso ingrained in siast from Triniour minds to taste dad who opened a certain way, his tiny, mostly Green Paradise (609 Vanderbilt that anything trytakeout restauAve. between St. Marks Place and ing to mimic their rant, in SeptemBergen Street in Prospect Heights) accepts cash only. Grand re-opening on flavors will disber 2002. March 5, 2-8 pm. Entrees: $5-$7.50. appoint us. As Jobe-Simon has Daily specials $10-$14. Lunch and dinanyone who has worked in the ner is served Tuesdays through Sundays. Closed Mondays. For information, ever eaten a kitchen of Quincall (718) 230-5177. “veggie burger” tessence, a res— hoping to entaurant with two joy it as much as branches in Manhattan that is known for gourmet raw the fabulous, fatty beef thing off the foods. His mentor is Aris La Tham, a grill — will tell you, simply giving a chef who opened the Sunfire Juice dish a familiar name, as Jobe-Simon Club in Park Slope, where Jobe-Simon has done, doesn’t make it so. “Pasta” made of shredded zucchicooked, before La Tham decamped to Negril where he opened the Sunfire ni doesn’t make it pasta, and calling a dish layered with ground nuts, faux Spa. Raw foodists believe that heating cheese and dehydrated tomatoes a food over 116 degrees destroys the “pizza” won’t fool anyone, either. Raw food enthusiasts say that their enzymes that aid in digestion, causing toxicity in the body. A raw foodist cuisine should be appreciated without eats organic fruit, vegetables, nuts, comparison to the delicious, unseeds, grains, sea vegetables, olives healthy SAD (standard American diet) and cold-pressed olive oil and nuts — foods most of us enjoy. I agree in theory, but bad-for-you lots of nuts — but no animal or dairy products, nothing processed and no food is my only point of reference. Without the aid of heat to soften sugar. Raw food extremists shy away flavors and crisp textures, and no butfrom honey — it’s a byproduct of an ter to enrich sauces, Jobe-Simon insect. Some eschew any kind of “hy- works hard to blend flavors. He brid” fruit or vegetable preferring na- grinds pecans and mixes them with olive oil, cilantro and a touch of orture’s unadulterated offerings.

ange juice, then adds a smoky finish with dried chipotle pepper for a hearty (nothing I tasted could be described as light) hot, spicy and smoky dip. Celery stalks were used in place of crackers. The falafel, made of chickpeas and sunflower seeds, looked and tasted like balls of dark rye bread, although their cashew sauce was pleasantly creamy and nutty. The best dish of the evening was the sweet and sour plantain salad served as a side dish with the falafel. Slices of the sweet banana were tossed with lemon juice and olive oil and brightened with parsley. Whole mushrooms marinated in pineapple juice and ginger, served in a lush Brazil nut and garlic cream sauce, were delectable — firm yet tender and with the heat of the ginger adding a kick to the sauce. I enjoyed the nutty flavor of a wild rice salad seasoned with lots of garlic and olive oil, but not its texture. The grain is soaked, not simmered, until it sprouts. I’ll be kind and say it was chewy. Two forkfuls gave my mouth a workout. There was an odd “pizza,” with layers of macadamia nut “cheese”; a sauce made of dehydrated tomatoes that tasted like good tomato paste mixed with green, red and yellow peppers; olives; mushroom slices; and

(Left to right) Anthony and Louis Ballarino with freshly made cheese ravioli at their Dairy Maid Ravioli Company.

“For a small to medium-size firm to make it to 50 years, in today’s day and age of big conglomerates, is a major accomplishment,” says Louis Ballarino, of the Dairy Maid Ravioli Company in Gravesend that he owns with his brother, Salvatore, The company, which celebrated its landmark anniversary on Oct. 11, 2003, produces fine pasta products such as manicotti, stuffed shells, tortellini and cavatelli. To pair with the pasta, Dairy Maid sells containers of marinara, meat, Alfredo, calamari and scungilli sauces. And to keep up with changing customer demand, the Ballarinos have added lobster, asparagus and portobello mushroom ravioli to their standard meat and cheese offerings.

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Peaches & Cream Cafe 436 Myrtle Ave. at Clinton Avenue, (718) 8522243 (Cash only) Paninis: $4.50, focaccia: $5.50, soups: $3.50-$4.75, ice cream: $1.95 a scoop, $2.75 for two, $4.25 a pint. Lunchtime brings people in for the paninis, focaccia, soups and salads, and nighttime probably brings them back for a scoop or two of the cafe’s homemade ice creams. While the chicken corn chowder and turkey panini with pepper jack cheese and roasted red peppers sounds delicious, let’s be frank here — it’s the banana ice cream pudding you really want. Or the ginger ice cream with honey grahams. Or the strawberry cheesecake ice cream. Heck, get a slice of sweet potato cheesecake or red velvet cake while you’re at it. Individual pies such as the sour cream apple walnut or banana cream are also available. This month, Peaches & Cream will add breakfast paninis to its menu. Open daily.

Thai 101 455A Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue, (718) 855-4615 (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $5.95-$12.95. The effect of the orange, art-deco lamps reflecting off of Thai 101’s crisp, white-painted, exposed brick walls, gives it a modern and airy feel. Thai 101 favorites include deep-fried duck or fish served with their special house sauce, mixed vegetables and pineapple. Also popular is the pad Thai because customers have the option of eating it with beef or chicken versus solely with vegetables or shrimp. Anything can be added to any meal to suit the desired tastes of Thai 101 customers. For dessert, owner Angelia Chou recommends the FBI, also known as Fried Banana Ice cream, or the pumpkin custard. Lunch specials served daily for $4.95. Open Monday through Saturday for lunch and dinner. Sundays for dinner only.

Healthy alternative: Chef Robert Victorian at Green Paradise restaurant in Prospect Heights. (Above left) “Treefish” with curry plantains, side of avocado and sun dried tomatoes and “sea salsa” with pasta.

472 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue, (718) 623-5522 (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $4.50-$14. According to Zagat, co-owners and chefs Ahmad Samhan and Faried Assad, serve the No. 1 Middle-Eastern food in New York City. Tapestries and antique lamps adorn exposed brick and warm, red walls, while brightly patterned fabric covers comfy benches, couches and chairs. The chicken shawarma, lemon-marinated chicken from the rotisserie served with rice and salad and a choice of hummus or babaghanouj, has been a customer favorite since the restaurant opened in December 2002. Another favorite among customers is Zaytoon’s variety of pitzas, a combination of pizza and pita. (All of Zaytoon’s pita is made fresh to order.) Try the lahmbajin pitza, covered in lamb, beef, onions, tomatoes, parsley and spices. A belly dancer performs two shows every other Friday. (Reservations are recommended on those nights.) Takeout, delivery and catering available. Open daily.

pineapple (I liked the pineapple) spread over a dense chickpea and sunflower seed crust. As a vegetarian offering, it wasn’t bad, but even with the pineapple, I wanted it served warm and I was in the wrong place for that. The disaster of the evening was the banana pancakes. They looked dark and damp and tasted like batter that came off the grill too soon. A tart, well-made raspberry sauce and banana slices were a welcome relief. Two of the three sweet “pies” were satisfying dessert choices. (The third, flavored with pods from the mesquite tree, had no flavor.) For his mango pie, Jobe-Simon grinds walnuts with dates for a sweet, chewy crust. He then tops the crust with a delicious mango pudding and scatters fresh raspberries on top. In another dessert, with the same crust, he layers slices of bananas and tops it with a fluffy banana-and-coconut pudding and a crunchy topping of crisp almonds. All I needed with the pies was a cup of coffee, but that was not to be. If I ate only raw foods, I suspect I would live a longer, healthier life — after all, everything on the diet is pure, fresh and rich in fiber. But without coffee and chocolate, bread and butter, and the occasional rare burger and glass of red wine to look forward to, I’m not sure I’d want to.

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Easy being green: John Blaylock, Brooke Delaney, Patrick Toon and Mike Durkin in the Gallery Players production of “The Weir,” which is set in an Irish pub.

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the compassion, friendship and common decency in all four men. In an exceedingly laudatory review, Fergus McGillicuddy called the London production of “The Weir,” “a darkly magical, lyrical little play with no

plot to speak of beyond the transforming effects of the spoken word.” Apparently he didn’t mind this lack of plot. Neither did the respondents to The Royal National Theatre’s survey who voted “The Weir” one of the most significant plays of the 20th century, nor the London Evening Standard, which gave McPherson its Most Promising Playwright award. And when the production moved to a theater on England’s West End, it won the 1999 Olivier Award for Best New Play. But this reviewer did mind. And, possibly, American audiences did, too. “The Weir” opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre on April 1, 1999 and closed seven months later, after 277 performances. Not exactly a stellar run. A weir is a dam, and a dam can either hold water or let it come forth, sometimes as a powerful flood. In McPherson’s play the weir metaphorically breaks and lets loose a flood of words that sets free the emotions each storyteller has kept bottled up — sometimes for years. But after the stories are over, as beautifully rendered as they are, one does not get the feeling that much has changed. No new decisions have been made, no old ones broken. No one has changed his mind or resolved to take new steps. There’s a touch of regret, a bit of advice and everyone leaves to go home. Perhaps at a time when we are saturated with the meaningless dialogue of television sitcoms and blockbuster movies, when films can sweep the Academy Awards without garnering a single award for acting, many may think it enough for a play to have good dialogue delivered well and with feeling. But we have a right to demand more of our playwrights. We have a right to demand vision. We have a right to demand movement. We have a right to demand problems, and alternatives if not solutions. “The Weir” is a wonderfully executed production. It is a sheer pleasure to watch every one of these talented actors. But at the end of the play, one may wish they were given a little more to say.

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he told her he had lived in Boston for 20 years and had not once been in the house of a white person. “We’re still a segregated society in some very fundamental ways,” Smilow says sadly, but adds that she found music was a way to move integration forward. “It became apparent through the music that the two communities had more in common than they thought.” Hampton and Smilow put together the “Freedom Music Project,” mixing Passover tunes with black spirituals. The 10 songs range from “Wade in the Water” to “Avadim Hayinu (Once we were slaves, now we are free).” She was finally able to join her disparate worlds of spirituality, education and entertainment. Fate brought Smilow back to New York when she married NY 1 newscaster and fellow folksinger Budd Mishkin, and now the buffet table in their railroad apartment is crammed with pictures of

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Singer Peri Smilow’s music joins Passover with civil rights and intergenerational non-profit group. She earned a master’s degree in education from Harvard, and was happy to his is beshert,” Peri Smilow says leave entertaining behind … sort of. For fun, she joined a songwriting when I visit her in her Park Slope group that met monthly, and sang for her apartment. The word is Yiddish for “meant to congregation. As technology changed be,” and Smilow, 43, an educator and and home-recording studios grew, singer-songwriter of contemporary Smilow found she could satisfy the reJewish music, feels destiny has brought quests of her newfound fan base, and lay some tracks down. Her first album, her to Brooklyn. Today, fate has found the perpetually “Songs of Peace,” came out in 1993, and smiling, petite musician home instead included four of her own songs. “It was amazing,” says Smilow. of on the road, an anomaly since Smilow’s third CD, “The Freedom Mu- “People began to call and say, ‘Hey, do sic Project: The Music of Passover and you do concerts?’” And suddenly, as if fated to be, a the Civil Rights Movement,” often has folksinging career was born. The only her traveling. Passover honors the story of the Jews’ problem was, the educational career exodus from the enslavement of the was still in full swing. “I was working 60 or 70 hours a Egyptians, and a key component of the week, and then on Seder, the tradinights and weektional Passover ends I would go ceremony and dinsing,” says Sminer, is to acknowlPeri Smilow’s CDs, “The Freedom low. “At a certain edge the plights of Music Project: The Music of Passover point I realized I other struggling and the Civil Rights Movement,” “Ashrey” and “Songs of Peace” (Sign could no longer groups. Smilow’s of the Dove Music) are available at do both.” own journey has www.cdbaby.com or www.soundsThat point came led her to do just write.com or by calling (800) 9SOUND9. For more information, visit www.periwhen she was that, through musmilow.com. driving from work sic. The CD is a to a concert, culmination of changing into many years’ work in entertainment, education and Jewish pantyhose while trying to steer. She respirituality, but it’s the first time she’s alized that entertainment — albeit Jewish spiritual entertainment — had been able to bridge these various worlds. Smilow grew up singing. Her father, called her back. Smilow is not the first artist to take on a doctor, performed regularly in the community theater in her hometown of contemporary Jewish music — music East Brunswick, N.J., and her mother that marries the sounds of modern folk, played piano and danced. For her like Joan Baez or James Taylor, to the eighth birthday, her parents bought her spiritual presence and liturgy of Judaism. There’s Debbie Freedman, who also has a guitar, but no lessons. “I told them to hire babysitters who a line of Hallmark cards, and Jeff Klepcould play guitar, and after my little sis- per, who both created the sound. “But I’m different in that I focus on isters went to sleep I would stay up and learn a little from them,” said Smilow, sues of social justice,” says Smilow. “I who now has a 10-month-old baby of talk about politics. I encourage the Jewish community to reach out.” her own who’s perfecting her crawl. In 1996, Smilow teamed up with MinSmilow came to New York in the early 1980s, and worked in theater by ister LeRoix Hampton from the New night and afterschool programs for un- Covenant Christian Church in Mattapan, derprivileged children by day. When Mass., to provide music for the Antishe realized she cared more about the Defamation League’s annual Black-Jewkids than her audition schedule, she ish Seder in Boston. When she had moved to Boston to head an interracial Hampton and his family over to dinner,

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OUTDOORS AND TOURS OPENING DAY: Celebrate Prospect Park’s official opening day 2004. Little League baseball parade, and opening ball toss, begins at 10 am. Corner of Carroll Street and Seventh Avenue. Activities include carousel rides ($1 each), Prospect Park Zoo activities, Lefferts Historic House tour, Audubon Center events. More. For all info visit www.prospectpark.org. Call (718) 965-8960. WATERFRONT TOUR: Brooklyn Public Library Foundation hosts “Fulton Ferry and DUMBO: What’s New on the Waterfront?” Tour visits art galleries, performance spaces, Vinegar Hill, and more. $12, $8 members. 11 am. Meet in front of Eagle Warehouse, 28 Old Fulton St. (718) 230-2780. BROWNSTONE BROOKLYN WALK: New York Like a Native talks a walk through Park Slope, Prospect Park, Fort Greene and downtown Brooklyn. $36 includes lunch. 11 am to 3:30 pm. Call for reservations and meeting place. (718) 393-7537. WALKING TOUR: Big Onion Walking Tours takes a walk through Brooklyn Heights and over the Brooklyn Bridge. $12, $10 students and seniors. 1 pm. Meet at southeast corner of Broadway and Chambers Street. (212) 439-1090. EGG HUNT: Owl’s Head Park. 1 to 4 pm. 68th Street and Colonial Road. (718) 238-6044. Free. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS HUNT: Watson Adventures hosts a scavenger hunt around Brooklyn Heights. Visit places associated with Lincoln, Capote, Mailer and others. Hunt takes participants to NY Transit Museum. $20 plus museum admission. 2 pm. Meet at front steps of Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon St. (212) 726-1529.

PERFORMANCE BARGEMUSIC: presents a chamber music concert of works by von Weber, Lees and Schumann. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. GALLERY PLAYERS: presents “The Weir.” $15, $12 seniors and children 12 and under. 8 pm. 199 14th St. (718) 595-0547. BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE: presents First Weekends New Performance and Discussion series. Tonight: Melissa Briggs Dance and Nami Yamamoto. $15, $10 members, $8 low-income. 8 pm. 421 Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. BRIC STUDIO: Dancespace Project presents “Out of Space,” a program of solos. $10, $8 students. 8 pm. 57 Rockwell Place. (718) 855-7882. ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: presents “Accidental Nostalgia: An Operetta About the Pros and Cons of Amnesia.” $25. 8 pm. 38 Water St. (718) 254-8779. DANCE: New York’s Creative Outlet Dance Theater performs. $40, $30, $20. 8 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St. (718) 636-4100. BARBES BAR: River Alexander and the Mad Hatters play ‘20s and ‘30s swing music. 7 pm. Also, The Wiyos plays Blue Ridge music at 9 pm. 376 Ninth St. Call for price. (718) 965-9177. PARLOR JAZZ: The Victor Jones Quartet play. $15 donation includes two sets, beverages and snacks. 9:30 pm and 10:45 pm. 119 Vanderbilt Ave. (718) 855-1981. UP OVER JAZZ: Adonis Rose Quintet. $15 plus $5 minimum. 9 pm, 11 pm and 12:30 am. 351 Flatbush Ave. (718) 398-5413. FREDDY’S BACKROOM: Acoustic Trauma plays folk-punk. No cover. 9:30 pm. Other groups. 485 Dean St. (718) 622-7035. CLOSENUF: Classic rock music. 10 pm. Cousins II, 160 Court St. (718) 596-3514. JAZZ: Magnolia Restaurant presents Braxton Hicks Group. No cover or minimum. 10 pm to 1 am. 486 Sixth Ave. (718) 207-3613. GALAPAGOS: Emerging artists series. 70 North Sixth St. Call for time and tickets. (718) 782-5188.

CHILDREN DANCE PARTY: Prospect Park YMCA hosts a day-long demo of Kinderdance and gymnastics. Appropriate for ages 3 to 8 years. 10 am to 4 pm. 357 Ninth Ave. (718) 965-7543. Free. ARTY FACTS: Brooklyn Museum of Art invites kids to “Spaces and Places.” Participants visit the 350-year-old Schenk farmhouse and period rooms on the museum’s fourth floor. $6 for adults, free for children 12 and under. 11 am and 2 pm. 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638- 5000. BARNES AND NOBLE: Winnie the Pooh storytime appearance for kds of all ages. 11 am. 106 Court St. (718) 246-4158. Free. CIRCUS: “Soul in the City” by Universoul Circus. $10 and up. Wollman Rink lot, near Parkside and Ocean avenues, Prospect Park. Noon, 4 pm and 8 pm. (718) 826-8300. PUPPETWORKS: “Jack and The Beanstalk.” $6 kids, $7 adults. Ages 3 and older. 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. 338 Sixth Ave. (718) 965-3391. EASTER EGGS: Brooklyn Botanic Garden invites kids to make Ukrainian Easter Eggs. All materials provided. Children must be at least 12 years old. $33, $29 members. 2 pm to 5 pm. 1000 Washington Ave. (718) 623-7220. BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Japanese storytelling. $4. 3 pm to 5 pm. 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400.

OTHER FIRST SATURDAY: Brooklyn Museum of Art celebrates Haiti’s independence with Haiti on Screen film festival. Movies include “Black Soul” (2002), “Bonjour La Rezone” and “La Peur d’Aimer.” $6, free for members and children 12 and under. 11 am to 6 pm. 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000. FLEA MARKET: at St. Thomas Aquinas Church. 9 am to 5 pm. 1550 Hendrickson St. (718) 253-4404. SALE: Sunset Park Community Church. 10 am to 3 pm. 5324 Fourth Ave. (718) 439-6944. BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN: Class on “Sketchbook Journal.” Discover the pleasure of keeping a journal as a travel book, garden diary or personal art book. 10 am to 1 pm. 1000 Washington Ave. Call for registration information. (718) 623-7220. ENGLISH CLASS: Brooklyn Public Library, Central branch, offers an adult literacy class. 10 am to 4 pm. Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. ELECTRONIC RECYCLING DAY: Bring your outdated computer and electronic equipment to Grand Army Plaza. Noon to 3 pm. (718) 499-7881. RECEPTION: Benefit exhibit and fine art sale for NURTUREart. All artworks priced at $100. $10. Pre-opening sale from noon to 6 pm. Free admission from 6 pm to 9 pm. Artwork then priced at $175. 475 Keap St., Williamsburg. (212) 795-5566. ITALIAN CONVERSATION: Speak and practice Italian during a three-week course. Noon to 1:30 pm. Brooklyn Public Library, Central branch. Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. POETRY: Poets Under Glass meets for a writing workshop. 1 pm to 3 pm. Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Heights branch, 280 Cadman Plaza West. (718) 972-9848. Free. REUNION: Class of 1979 re-meets. Noon. Classes of 1969, 1974, 1984, 1989, 1994 and 1999 meet at 3 pm. Bishop Kearney High School. (718) 236-6363. AUCTION: Preview party at First Unitarian Church. $10. 6:30 pm to 8 pm. Pierrepont Street at Monroe Place. Fundraising event at Brooklyn Historical Society. $100 includes eight course dinner and music. 8 pm. (718) 875-2652. READING: Spiral Thought poetry and prose reading by emerging and established writers. 7 pm to 9 pm. Shakespeare’s Sister, 270 Court St. (718) 832-2310. Free. DANCE PARTY: Spoke the Hub Dance hosts a spring event. $15 donation. Basic swing

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Literary ladies: Brooklyn Arts Exchange artists in residence Melissa Briggs Dance and Nami Yamamoto will present new dance works “Book Dances” and “The Last Word was PAPIREPOSE,” respectively, at BAX on April 3 at 8 pm and April 4 at 6 pm. dance instruction from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Open dancing from 8:30 pm to midnight. 295 Douglass St. (718) 408-3234. ROCK ‘N’ ROLLERSKATE: at Office Ops. Several bands perform in a cage while the skaters go around and around. $5. 9 pm. 57 Thames St. (718) 418-2509. COMEDY: at Brooklyn Brew-Ha-Ha. $5 plus two-drink minimum. 9:30 pm. 273 Smith St. (718) 624-8878.

SUN, APRIL 4

Palm Sunday OUTDOORS AND TOURS WILLIAMSBURG WALK: New York Like a Native talks a walk around Brooklyn’s most diverse neighborhood. $16. 2:30 pm to 5 pm. Call for reservations and meeting place. (718) 393-7537. OPENING DAY: Astroland invites kids who are at least 54 inches tall to have a ride on the Cyclone rollercoaster for free on opening day of the 2004 season. Arrive by 11 am. Also, Hungry March Band and face-painters. Surf Avenue at West 10th Street, Coney Island. (718) 265-2100. Free. GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: Peter Nash hosts “The Baseball Pioneers Walking Tour.” $10. 1 pm. Green-Wood Cemetery, main gate, Fifth Avenue and 25th Street. (718) 788-7850.

PERFORMANCE BARGEMUSIC: presents a chamber music concert of works by von Weber, Lees and Schumann. $35. 4 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. CHORAL MUSIC: Brooklyn Contemporary Chorus performs “The Seven Last Words of Christ.” $18. 4 pm. Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, corner of Lafayette Avenue and South Oxford Street. (718) 953-8727. MUSIC AT PLYMOUTH: Plymouth Choir with orchestra performs parts 2 and 3 of Handel’s Oratorio Messiah. $15, $10 students and seniors. 5 pm. 75 Hicks St. (718) 403-9546. BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE: presents First Weekends New Performance and Discussion series. Tonight: Melissa Briggs Dance and Nami Yamamoto. $15, $10 members, $8 low-income. 6 pm. 421 Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. BARBES BAR: Violinist Jenny Scheinman plays. 7 pm. 376 Ninth St. Call. (718) 965-9177. FREDDY’S BACKROOM: Anti Elevator Mission plays improv music. No cover. 9:30 pm. Other groups. 485 Dean St. (718) 622-7035. GALLERY PLAYERS: “The Weir.” 3 pm. See Sat., April 3. ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Accidental Nostalgia: An Operetta About the Pros and Cons of Amnesia.” 7 pm. See Sat., April 3.

CHILDREN MODEL SEDER: Children are invited to a Passover Seder at Bay Ridge Jewish Center. 10:30 am. 405 81st St. Reservations necessary. (718) 836-3103. Free. MAKE YOUR OWN PIZZA: Io Italian Restaurant invites kids to be a chef for an afternoon. Choose toppings and decorate pie. Ages 4 and older. $15 per child. Noon. 119 Kent Ave. (718) 388-3320. SEA STORIES: NY Aquarium presents storyteller LuAnn Adams. She presents marinelife tales for kids ages 3 to 7. $11, $7 children 12 and under and seniors. 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm and 2:30 pm. Also, Deadly Deep class discusses animals that are armed and dangerous. $24, $19 members. Appropriate for ages 9 to 12 years. 2 pm to 3:30 pm. West Eighth Street and Surf Avenue. (718) 265-FISH. BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN: Japanese storytelling. Included in admission of $4. 1 pm to 3 pm. Steinhardt Conservatory, 1000 Washington Ave. (718) 623-7200. PUPPETWORKS: “Jack and The Beanstalk.” 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. See Sat., April 3.

OTHER AUCTION: at First Unitarian Church. $10 includes lunch. 12:30 pm. Pierrepont Street at Monroe Place. (718) 875-2652. SUNDAY’S AT SUNNYS: Anna Moschovakis reads. Others. 3 pm. 253 Conover St. (718) 625-8211. Free. HEBREW CONVERSATION: Speak and practice Hebrew. 4 pm to 5 pm. Brooklyn Public Library, Central branch. Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. CINEMA: Ocularis weekly film festival presents Open Zone, a forum for new works by local film and video makers. $6. 7 pm. 70 North Sixth St. (718) 384-4586.

MON, APRIL 5

First Passover Seder tonight CONCERT: Congregation Mt. Sinai children’s concert with Laurie Berkner. $18. 11 am. 250 Cadman Plaza West. (718) 875-9124. GALAPAGOS: presents “Lightning Strikes Theater: First Mondays,” featuring comedy, readings, improv and films. $10. 7 pm. 70 North Sixth St. (718) 782-5188. TENEBRAE SERVICE: RC Church of St. Finbar hosts a solemn celebration. 7:30 pm. In Spanish in the Upper Church. 138 Bay 20th St. (718) 236-3312. PASSOVER SEDER: Ocean Parkway Jewish Center. 8 pm. 550 Ocean Parkway. Call for reservations and info. (718) 436-4900. FREDDY’S BACKROOM: Ed Sullivan on Acid: stand-up comedy night. No cover. 9:30 pm. 485 Dean St. (718) 622-7035.

TUES, APRIL 6

Second Passover Seder tonight MUSIC: Long Island University hosts a jazz clinic with The New Jazz Composer’s Octet. 4 pm. Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue. (718) 488-1668. Free. PASSOVER SEDER: Temple Beth Ahavath Sholom. $28 includes traditional meal. 6:30 pm. 2166 Benson Ave. Reservations necessary. (718) 372-0933. HIP HOP SEMINAR: Learn how to get in and stay in the music industry. Jayson Jackson of Urban Music at Virgin records

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ELDER LAW SEMINAR: Make sure your wealth passes to your heirs, plus advice on nursing home costs, long term care insurance. Two sessions, 11 am and 2 pm. 15 Bay Ridge Ave. (800) 395-5762. Free. HIP HOP: Dance workshop with Julian Thorn. 12:45 pm. St. Joseph’s College, 245 Clinton Ave. (718) 399-2602. Free. MEET THE AUTHOR: Author and illustrator Megan Cash reads from her book “What Makes the Seasons?” $4, free for members. 2:30 pm. Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400. MEDITATION: at Brooklyn Public Library, Carroll Gardens branch. 6:30 pm to 7:45 pm. 396 Clinton St. (718) 833-5751. COMEDY: Grand Central Bar presents several entertainers doing stand-up. No cover. 8 pm. 659 Grand St. (718) 387-5515. Free. BARBES BAR: Night of the Ravished Limbs plays. $8. 9 pm. Other groups. 376 Ninth St. Call. (718) 965-9177.

THURS, APRIL 8 BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN: Adult ed class: “Composition on the Page.” Learn how to illustrate by interpreting the style of botanically illustrated plants. 10 am to 1 pm. Four sessions. Call for fee and to register. 1000 Washington Ave. (718) 622-7220. STORIES FOR JEWISH HOLIDAYS: Author and storyteller Sydelle Pearl reads from her book “Elijah’s Tears.” $4, free for members. 2:30 pm. Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400. LAW ENFORCEMENT: Youth program invites kids to learn about law enforcement as a career. Meet with local police officers and guest. 3:30 pm. NYPD 76th Precinct. 191 Union St. (718) 834-3218. Free. SYMPOSIUM: Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, presents William Katavolos, professor, Pratt Institute. He discusses experimental structures. 6 pm. Higgins Hall South, room 115, 200 Willoughby Ave. (718) 399-4303. Free. BARGEMUSIC: presents a chamber music concert of Beethoven. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. MUSIC: Café 111 hosts pop, rock and folk music performers. No cover. 8 pm. 111 Court St. (718) 858-2806. BARBES BAR: Renku with Michael Attias. 9 pm. Other groups. 376 Ninth St. Call. (718) 965-9177. FREDDY’S BACKROOM: Open mic night. No cover. 9:30 pm. 485 Dean St. (718) 622-7035.

FRI, APRIL 9

Good Friday BAMCINEMATEK: Series of films by French director and photographer Raymond Depardon. Today: “Profils Paysans: L’Approche” (2001). $10. 2 pm, 4:30 pm, 6:50 pm and 9:10 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. MOVIE NIGHT: Brooklyn Historical Society and the Brooklyn International Film Festival present “Black Picket Fence.” $6, $4 students and seniors. 6:30 pm. 128 Pierrepont St. (718) 222-4111. BARBES BAR: Gina Leishman plays everything from the alto sax to the bass clarinet. 9 pm. Other groups. 376 Ninth St. Call. (718) 965-9177. EASTER SHOW: Family entertainment. Easter baskets given to the first 100 children, 12 and under, who attend. 7:30 pm. Sunset Park Community Church, 5324 Fourth Ave. (718) 439-6944. Free. FISH TALK: Brooklyn Aquarium Society hosts a talk “Dwarfs on Parade: The Apistogramma Family.” $5 for non-members. 7:30 pm. New York Aquarium, Surf Avenue and West Eighth Street. (718) 837-4455. PASSION PLAY: St. John/ St. Matthew Emanuel Lutheran Church hosts its sixth annual performance of “The Passion of Jesus: An Eyewitness Account.” 7:30 pm. 283 Prospect Ave. (718) 768-0528. Free. BARGEMUSIC: presents a chamber music concert of Schubert and Mozart. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. GOOD FRIDAY PROCESSION: Procession starts at Shallow Junior High School, 65th Street and 16th Avenue. 8 pm. Final ceremony at Church of St. Athanasius, 2154 61st Street. Bring your own candle. JAZZ: Magnolia Restaurant presents Willie Martinez Trio. No cover or minimum. 10 pm to 1 am. 486 Sixth Ave. (718) 207-3613. FREDDY’S BACKROOM: Atomic Grind show. No cover. 9:30 pm to 1 am. 485 Dean St. (718) 622-7035. GALLERY PLAYERS: “The Weir.” 8 pm. See Sat., April 10.

SAT, APRIL 10

OUTDOORS AND TOURS CYCLING CLUB: Kissena Cycling Club holds a road race in Prospect Park. $15 for juniors, $25 for all others. Race starts at 6:30 am. Call for meeting place. (718) 636-0508. BROOKLYN WALK: New York Like a Native talks a walk around several neighborhoods. $13. 1:30 pm to 4 pm. Call for reservations and meeting place. (718) 393-7537.

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ianist Yefim Bronfman’s performance at Bargemusic on April 8 and 10 will also serve as a reunion with Mark Peskanov, the floating venue’s artistic director and frequent violinist. “Mark is an old friend from our school days,” Bronfman tells GO Brooklyn. “And it’s always great to perform with him.” Bronfman and Peskanov, who attended Julliard together in the late 1970s, begin both programs with Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, best known as the “Spring Sonata.” “This sonata is one of the most lyrical and yet very dramatic pieces Beethoven ever wrote, and he plays with those two elements in the most effective way,” says Bronfman. “Beethoven wasn’t the greatest melodist, but this sonata contains some of his most beautiful melodies.” “Then there’s the drama that he brings to it, one of the most important elements making Beethoven a very special composer,” he adds. “Also, this sonata has one of the best in- Overheard: Pianist Yefim Bronfman says Beethoven’s terplays between violin and piano, sounding at times like a ‘Spring’ Sonata sounds “like a conversation between two conversation between two lovers we’re eavesdropping on.” lovers we’re eavesdropping list Mark Holloway and cellist cause it was where he got on.” Bronfman feels the timing Nicholas Canellakis. At 30 much of his inspiration. His is right for performing a sonata minutes, Schumann’s quintet quintet has the flavor of rodubbed “Spring,” by an enter- has an epic quality rare for manticism and a beauty unparsuch an intimate work: he alleled in any of his other muprising music publisher. “The title wasn’t Beet- composed it in 1842 as a gift sic. It’s really a unique piece to hoven’s, obviously, but it’s ap- to his bride, Clara, a gifted pi- play because it shows his fascination with this particular propriate playing it combination of instruments.” this time of year,” Bronfman, who will celehe says. “Listening brate his 46th birthday on to this piece brings Beethoven, Francaix and Schumann will April 10, has two CDs with in a lot of sunbe performed April 8 at 7:30 pm, and April fellow pianist Emanuel Ax shine, instead of 10 at 2 pm, at Bargemusic (Fulton Ferry Landing at the end of Old Fulton Street on the coming out later this year on clouds. And after a East River). Tickets are $35, $20 for full-time the Sony Classical label. long winter, this students. For more information, call (718) 6242083 or visit www.bargemusic.org. Also on the Bargemusic piece will help programs is a work Bronfman with our ‘thaw.’ doesn’t play — the String Trio It’s good any time anist and composer who by Belgian Jean Francaix of year, but especially now.” (1912-1997), an elegant, beAfter an intermission, played in its premiere. “This quintet is one of guiling composer whose muBronfman and Peskanov play Robert Schumann’s E-flat Ma- Schumann’s best,” says Bronf- sic, unaccountably, is infrejor Piano Quintet — with vio- man. “Chamber music was a quently performed. Peskanov calls Francaix’s linist Elizabeth Krupnick, vio- focal point for Schumann be-

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CHILDREN BARNES AND NOBLE: Help celebrate the birthday of Elmo, of Sesame Street. Giveaways include stickers, party hats and coloring pages. 11 am. 106 Court St. (718) 246-4158. Free. EGG HUNT: Children are invited to an Easter egg event. Face painting too. 11 am to 2 pm. First 200 children receive goodie basket. Brooklyn Bridge Park, enter at Main Street. (718) 802-0603, ext. 17. Free. ARABIC FESTIVAL: Live musical performance and folkloric dance. Other Arabic activities. $4, free for members. 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm. Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400. BARGEMUSIC: family chamber music concert of Beethoven. 2 pm. Call for ticket info. Fulton Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. AUDUBON CENTER: Eggshaped Productions Puppet Show “Baby Who?” 2 pm to 3 pm. Prospect Park. Free.

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trio, which he performs with Holloway and Canellakis, “an absolutely gorgeous piece.” “He has a great sense of musical colors and a wonderful sense of humor,” Peskanov tells GO Brooklyn. “He has a very particular way of dealing with harmonic and rhythmic structure — you cannot listen to his work without knowing it’s him. He has a unique accent, which is great to hear. “The trio’s slow movement is so beautiful and sad, but has a serenity as well,” Peskanov continues. “The last movement is a little march, and you can hear many characters marching through, some with a limp and others with more confidence in their steps. He always has a little irony in his voice. There’s never an extra note or unneeded nuance — everything is perfect.” Peskanov shakes his head when asked about Francaix’s obscurity. “He uses odd instrumentation, like in his octet,” he says, “so it might be difficult for some ensembles to pull it all together for a performance. His trio is quite virtuosic and calls for a great violist, which we have, luckily [with Holloway]. His music doesn’t have a ‘rah-rah’ sound to it, nor does he wear his heart on his sleeve. He’s more tongue in cheek.” Still, as far as Peskanov is concerned, those excuses don’t wash. “Francaix’s music is so sincere and beautifully written,” he says. “It’s unfortunate that you don’t hear more of his work, but we’re trying to change that.” Also trying is the Hyperion CD label, which has already recorded several discs of Francaix’s urbane and witty music. The label’s latest disc of Francaix’s orchestral music, including his Piano Concertino, which is a small jewel, and two ballet scores, has just been released, and is worth seeking out by Bargemusic concertgoers who will undoubtedly want to hear even more Francaix after being introduced to his refined, stylish music. As for Bronfman, he’s excited to return to the East River barge to perform and, as he notes, sit in the audience for the Francaix trio. “At the end of the day, it’s like any other concert hall, because they focus on the music,” the pianist says. “But the view is the most beautiful around, and I love to go outside during intermission and walk by the water. In that sense, it’s unlike any other place to perform in the world.”

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Hundreds showed up for the "Rally at the Railyards," on Pacific Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues Sunday.

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Katie Weity, 31, shouts her opposition to Bruce Ratner's development plans at Sunday’s rally.

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Chanting “No eminent domain for personal gain,” hundreds of protesters gathered in Prospect Heights Sunday, within three-point range of the site planned for a professional basketball arena that has been mightily opposed since it was proposed by developer Bruce Ratner last year. The rousing, sometimes teary “Rally at the Railyards,” drew more than 500 people to a stretch of Pacific Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues which, under current plans, would be de-mapped and resurfaced as roughly center court for the New Jersey Nets, the NBA team that Ratner purchased in January.

Community leaders and elected officials who oppose the plan to build an arena, office towers and high-rise apartment buildings along a swath of the neighborhood extending east from the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, banded together Sunday afternoon to voice their disapproval. The $2.5 billion Atlantic Yards development relies on the state’s condemnation of private property that would force the relocation of 350 residents and 250 employees at 40 businesses. The rest of the development would be built over Long Island Rail Road storage yards at the north end of the site. Among some 15 speakers who railed against the project, Councilwoman Letitia James, clearly pleased with the

turnout, incited the crowd’s vigor with a plea that veered toward call-and-response. In response to her shouts of “Where we from?” James’ supporters chortled “Brooklyn.” When she yelled “No justice, no peace, whose streets?” the crowd dutifully echoed her rallying cry. “We stand in your path, Mr. Ratner,” said James, who has been a vocal opponent of the plan since its conception. “And when you said there were only a few voices, you were clearly wrong.” Aside from elected officials, including state Sen. Velmanette Montgomery and Rep. Major Owens, an eclectic group of musicians echoed the call for opposition with lyrics tailor-made to the rally. The Jaybirds, a Prospect Heights-based three-piece fea-

turing guitar, mandolin and accordion, performed “Don’t Tear Us Down.” Led by Sam Zygmuntowicz, the group breezed through its anti-arena tune, earning the prolonged applause of a crowd that came and went as the afternoon turned brisk. “Maybe some day you’ll be passin’ by and see the high towers fill the sky,” sang Zygmuntowicz, a violinmaker on Dean Street who would be relocated by the plan. “Would anyone remember that the big sports dome was built on the spot that we call our home?” Many attending the rally were tenants, homeowners and merchants who said their buildings would be condemned under the arena proposal. The gathering moved Israel Amador, who said that he has

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Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Peter Kalikow said this week he would seek “maximum value” for an 11-acre Long Island Rail Road storage yards site in Prospect Heights — over which developer Bruce Ratner is looking to build a colossal arena complex — but demurred when asked if he would put the property through an open bidding process. “I fight tenaciously for the rights of the MTA and the values of their properties,” Kalikow told reporters after a monthly meeting of the MTA board Wednesday morning. But when asked if the MTA planned to put out a request for

proposals on the site, Kalikow said, “I don’t know.” Asked if the Atlantic Yards site would go to Ratner or simply to the highest bidder, Kalikow responded, “That’s complicated.” During the meeting, Prospect Heights residents opposed to the arena plan, many of whom would be displaced to build it, asked the MTA chief to open up the property to a public biding process and seek community input before handing it over to Ratner. The developer is an old law school buddy of the man who appoints the MTA board, Gov. George Pataki. Ratner’s plan would require seizing more than two square blocks of private land south of the rail yards and displacing approximately 500 residents and businesses. His $300 million bid for the

Poll: NYers won’t pay for arenas Associated Press

A majority of New York City voters don’t want their tax dollars to go toward two proposed sports facilities, one for the basketball Nets in Brooklyn and another for the football Jets on Manhattan’s West Side, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday. However, 75 percent of respondents said they would support the building of a basketball arena in Brooklyn if no tax money were used; 59 percent opposed using tax money for the arena. On the plan for a football stadium in Manhattan, 60 percent opposed it if they had to pay for it, while 38 percent said they would support a stadium if the tax money came from higher tax revenue in the surrounding neighborhood. “Nets yes! Jets no! New Yorkers love the idea of Nets basketball in Brooklyn, if they don’t have to pay for the arena,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. “But they oppose the Jets stadium, even if they can be convinced it would be built without raising their taxes.” The poll also found that 85 percent of New Yorkers supported extending the No. 7 subway line to the far West Side if it can be done without raising taxes. In response to a question on whether they supported Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to end social promotions for third graders, 63 percent said they approved of the idea, while 30 percent said they disapproved. Still, 61 percent said they did not like the way Bloomberg fired two education panel members who disagreed with him on the plan, and 45 percent said they disapproved of the way Bloomberg is handling the city’s schools. Forty-two percent said they backed the way the mayor has dealt with public school education, the poll found. The poll, conducted between March 23 and March 29, surveyed 1,159 New York City registered voters. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.

New Jersey Nets was accepted in January and he awaits final NBA approval and is in the process of finalizing the financing for the purchase, which includes investors such as rap star Jay-Z. He wants to move the team to Brooklyn. Opponents of the plan accused Ratner of having a “backroom deal” with the MTA to purchase the air rights to develop the site. “The MTA has a history of closed books and no oversight,” said Daniel Goldstein, a resident of 636 Pacific St., a nine-story luxury apartment building that would be razed to make way for the project. Goldstein attended the board meeting along with several opponents of the plan. Questions about such deals between the MTA and Ratner first surfaced last year when an MTA spokesman incorrectly told The

Brooklyn Papers on three different occasions that Ratner had already purchased the air rights to develop over the storage yards. The spokesman later said that he had made a mistake and that Ratner did not hold the rights. But speaking at a buildings trade conference in Manhattan earlier this month, Ratner thanked the MTA for “supporting” his plan. “The MTA has been wonderful in supporting both projects,” Ratner said, referring to both his plan and a plan to build a new football stadium for the New York Jets on Manhattan’s West Side. The MTA said it has not received an application to review the plan. Frank Gehry, known for designing the Guggenheim Bilbao, in Spain, is designing the 7.7-million-square-foot development.

Patti Hagan, of the Prospect Heights Action Coalition, at the MTA meeting on Wednesday.

Jon Crow holds a sign protesting Ratner's proposal to build towers in Prospect Heights. lived in a building on Dean Street for 35 years. As he mouthed rallying cries by Norman Siegel, the former head of the New York Civil Liberties Union who is representing Prospect Heights residents threatened with eviction in a planned lawsuit, Amador admitted that the rally was a first for him. “I’ve never seen something like this before,” he said while standing next to a friend. “This is something, I think, that’s kind of special.” Speaking first, the Rev. David Dyson, of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, told the crowd that upon learning of Ratner’s plans he looked up a definition of eminent domain. He remarked that the provision of law whereby the government can take private property for the public good, is normally used to make space for such public facilities as hospitals, schools, parks and roadways, not private endeavors. “They didn’t say nothin’ about a basketball arena,” said Dyson, a self-proclaimed activist since 1972 who has worked alongside Cesar Chavez, the California migrant workers organizer. “Seems to me that this is not so much eminent domain as it is imperial domain.” Although Ratner didn’t attend the rally, a spokeswoman at the event on Sunday passed out a statement to reporters that promised continued community involvement as the plan proceeds. In the statement, Bruce Bender, executive vice president of Ratner’s Forest City Ratner Co., said that the development would create 25,000 jobs, of which 15,000 would be

temporary construction jobs. He also stated that 4,500 units of mixed-income housing would be created. “We understand that there are concerns in parts of the community and it has always been one of our guiding principles to listen to and learn from the community and work towards minimizing the impact this project may have,” said Bender in the statement, which was handed out just before the rally began. Asked for a comment on the event itself, a Ratner spokeswoman, Beth Davidson, declined, saying, “We have no further comment on the rally.” Despite an energetic crowd, which included children and at least a dozen anti-development dogs, some clad in sweaters scrawled with protest slogans, the rally was intermittently clouded with sadness. Simon Liu, the owner of a canvas-stretching business on Dean Street, sang an operatic rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” before breaking down in tears before the crowd. He had warned onlookers that he might cry and when he did, several friends, including Patti Hagan, president of the Prospect Heights Action Coalition, hugged him as he descended the stage. Twenty minutes later, Hagan fought back tears as she read an essay written by 10-year-old Nestor Roman, whose relatives would be displaced under the arena plan. “Roots will be torn from the ground,” she read from Roman’s essay, “not giving future children the opportunity to know some great history of a special part of Brooklyn.”

Institute off chopping block? By Deborah Kolben The Brooklyn Papers

A week after the City Planning Commission hosted a public hearing on the Downtown Brooklyn Plan, it is considering making two major changes, according to sources. Those changes would include saving an architectural college and removing from the plan’s consideration a plot of land at Flatbush and Atlantic avenues where developer Bruce Ratner is looking to construct the tallest of his Atlantic Yards office towers. As part of the Downtown Brooklyn Plan, the city seeks to condemn 130 residential units and 100 businesses. Included among those is the Institute of Design and Construction, a nearly 60-year-old college at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and Willoughby Street. The school would be razed to create clearer sight lines from Flatbush Avenue Extension to a 1.5-acre open space — Willoughby Square — which the city plans to build across the street. But the school may be saved, according to Dolly Williams, Borough President Marty Markowitz’s appointee to the 13-member City Planning Commission, which is currently reviewing the mas-

The Brooklyn Papers File / Jori Klein

By Deborah Kolben


MTA seeks as much money as it can get … from Ratner



On site, chants of ‘No eminent domain for personal gain’

Vincent Battista, 58, president of the Institute of Design and Construction, stands in front of the school's building at 141 Willoughby St. The building may be spared from the city’s Downtown Plan, which would have demolished it. sive Uniform Land Use Review Procedure application for the Downtown Brooklyn Plan. “This business has really been there a long time. It’s a good Brooklyn employer and provides good service,” Williams told The Brooklyn Papers this week, adding, “I really think we should make a concerted ef-

fort in saving this building.” When he reviewed the Downtown Plan, Markowitz recommended sparing the school and putting the money slated for its condemnation into restoring area parks. The City Planning Commission is scheduled to vote on the massive rezoning and urban re-

newal plan, which involves 22 separate actions, on May 11. On April 26, at 1 pm, the commission will discuss the plan at a public review session hosted at its Lower Manhattan office at 22 Reade St. The commission has the authority to modify, approve intact or disapprove the plan be-

fore it is sent to the City Council. Vincent Battista, president of the design college, said he will believe the school is to be saved when he “sees it in writing.” Even if the three-story college is spared in this go around, he said, its future would still be

far less than certain since the city intends to extend the timeframe for the urban renewal area in which it sits for another 40 years. “We would have this hanging over us for 40 years,” Battista said, explaining that the city could still swoop in at any time and condemn the property. According to sources close to the plan, the planning commission is also in considering removing a triangular parcel of land where Ratner seeks to build a 620-foot tower. That skyscraper, designed by architect Frank Gehry, is part of Ratner’s Atlantic Yards plan, a $2.5 billion residential and office complex centered around a basketball arena to house his newly purchased New Jersey Nets. The site is the only parcel of land included in both the Downtown Brooklyn and Atlantic Yards plans, and it is where Ratner would build the tallest of his Gehry-designed structures. That has troubled Prospect Heights Councilwoman Letitia James and other elected officials and residents who believe that the entirety of the two plans should either be looked at as one or as completely separate. James last week called on the city to remove Ratner’s parcel from the Downtown Plan.

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Seltzer man Ronny Beberman totes a 60-pound case, trying to keep his schedule of about 20 households by noon. 24, as Beberman’s truck passed her on a Prospect Heights street. “It seems so ‘old New York,’ like something out of an old photograph or newsreel.” After delivering several 60pound boxes holding 10 bottles each and picking up empties from a home in Brooklyn Heights, the wiry, gray-haired Beberman paused for a moment to muse on all things bubbly. “You can’t get this anywhere,” he said, swigging a spritz from his own personal bottle. “It’s so much better than the store-bought kind because that stuff goes flat the second you open it. Plus this stuff is triple-filtered.” At The Gomberg Seltzer Works in Canarsie, where Beberman fills his bottles, the triple-filtered process is the company’s trademark. Not that it really matters: It’s the only seltzer works left in town. There, the last seltzer men haul in crate after crate of empty blown-glass bottles for refilling on “The Monitor” — a machine built in London nearly 100 years ago, with a look that’s positively industrial revolution. “It’s still here because it’s always been here,” said Gomberg’s third-generation owner, Kenny Gomberg. “When my grandfather started this was the business.” Although Gomberg now makes most of his earnings as a beer and soda wholesaler, he still keeps the Barnett & Foster syphon filler running because he knows what would happen if he shut it down. “If I stopped doing this, these few guys would be out of business,” he said. “It’s dying slowly. A decade ago there were about 30 guys. Now it’s down to 10. People retire, guys pass away.” The only other seltzer

works in the region, Castle Seltzer in Derby, Conn., bottles its own brand and delivers to Connecticut, Manhattan and northern New Jersey. Castle Seltzer owner Brian Dworkin, who helps others maintain their equipment with parts he has collected over the years, said he is aware of only four other seltzer works nationwide — one in Pittsburgh, one in Florida, and two in California. During their heyday, from the 1920s through the 1950s, seltzer men delivered their wares across New York City and the country, alongside their brethren like the milkman and the iceman. Now most of the seltzer men who work out of Gomberg stay only in Brooklyn. “I would say I deliver to about 100 families and maybe a dozen businesses,” seltzer man Steve Levine said recently as he filled his bottles at Gomberg. “But only in Brooklyn, because it’s too hard to haul this stuff around.” A 35-year veteran, Levine said each bottle — mostly made in Eastern Europe in the early part of last century — is a piece of history. “This is pure Americana. There are bottles from every state in the union, from towns and villages you’ve never heard of. Remember, every town had a seltzer works,” he said. Despite the age of the equipment, and the dustiness of some of the bottles, it’s what’s inside that counts, Levine said. “The bottles may look lousy, but what’s inside is pure magic,” he said. Back on the delivery route, the rattling of the bottles grew louder as Beberman’s truck, its cab littered with broken bottle tops and papers, passed over cobblestone streets near the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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