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Hard-hit Ridge pays tributeStreet for Moira Smith; Xaverian HS to light eternal flameBy Heather J. WilsonThe Brooklyn Papers

Bay Ridge, which lost 32 residentson Sept. 11, will mark the firstanniversary of the terrorist attackswith a number of ceremonies andcandlelight vigils.

Neighboring Dyker Heights lost about10, and Bensonhurst and Bath Beach lostnearly 20 residents, according to statisticsreleased by the city medical examiner’soffice on Aug. 19.

The tributes will begin Saturday, Sept.7, with the unofficial renaming of 74thStreet between Fifth and Sixth avenues af-ter Police Officer Moira Smith.

Smith, who lived on that block formore than 18 years, was the only femalepolice officer to die in the World TradeCenter attacks.

In May, residents submitted a petition

to Community Board 10, which approvedit and formally asked Councilman MartyGolden to introduce legislation to renamethe street in Smith’s honor.

Since passage of the renaming legisla-tion is all but assured, according to aGolden aide, when the City Councilmeets on Sept. 9, and since Sept. 7 is thedate of the annual block party on thatstreet, police officials led by Police Com-missioner Ray Kelly, Golden, the Smithfamily and civic leaders will gather at thecorner of Sixth Avenue and 74th Street fora small ceremony to unveil the street signproclaiming “P.O. Moira Smith Way,” be-fore the start of the block party.

Smith was last assigned to the 13thPrecinct in Manhattan’s Kips Bay section.She was the only woman among the 23NYPD officers — 72 officers in total in-cluding the Port Authority, federal agentsand court officers — lost in the terrorist at-

tacks. The 38-year-old officer was last seenevacuating people from the South Tower.

Smith attended the Our Lady of Angelselementary school and Our Lady of Per-petual Help High School, and married herhusband, James, in St. Patrick’s Church onFourth Avenue at 95th Street. She left be-hind a 2-year-old daughter, Patricia Mary.

The NY Waterway ferry line named avessel after Smith in February. The vesselbearing her name is one of four new fer-ries to travel the East River. Smith has alsobeen named a Women of Distinction aspart of the state’s Women’s History Monthobservance, which was inducted in May.

Smith received the NYPD’s Distin-guished Duty Medal in 1991 for savinglives after a subway crash, and wasnamed Woman of the Year in 2001 by thePolicewoman’s Endowment Association.

Also on Sept. 7, Xaverian High School,

By Patrick GallahueThe Brooklyn Papers

On Sept. 11, crowds gathered inhorror as the attacks on the WorldTrade Center felled the Twin Towers.

People seemed unable to remain in theirhouses and gathered in churches, syna-gogues or public places such as the Brook-lyn Heights promenade, which offered anunfettered view of the fractured skyline.

Now, as then, those institutions andspaces will play host to a public seeking sol-ace, consolation or simply a vantage point toremember what was lost a year ago.

Congregation B’nai Avraham will holdits regular morning prayer service on thepromenade at the Pierrepont Street en-trance. The service will start at 7:45 amproceeded by a blowing of the shofar, a

bugle-like instrument made from a ram’shorn and sounded during the Jewish HighHoly Day season, and then a minute of si-lence at 8:46 am, the exact time that theNorth Tower was hit. Then there will be acommunal reading of psalms, followed bya second shofar blowing and anotherminute of silence at 9:02 am, the time thesecond plane hit the South Tower.

An interfaith service hosted by theBrooklyn Heights Clergy Association willbegin at noon at the Plymouth Church ofthe Pilgrims at 75 Hicks St.

The multi-faith service will end with asilent march to the promenade stretchingroughly between Remsen and Cranberrystreets along the waterfront. A wreath willbe laid in honor of the nearly 3,000 vic-tims of the terrorist attacks.

Later that night, the Arab American

Family Support Center will march at 6pm from Court Street at Atlantic Avenueto the promenade, followed by a candle-light vigil from 7 pm to 9 pm. Organizersdescribe the event as an occasion formourning, void of political objectives.

The event recalls the days after Sept.11, when members of the Arab-Americancommunity and the Brooklyn HeightsClergy Association (BHCA), gathered atCourt Street and Atlantic Avenue for asimilar procession to the promenade.

They will doubtless be joined by spon-taneous gatherings such as those that tookplace on Sept. 11, and the days and weeksafter, and on March 11 for the six-monthcommemoration that featured the lightingof the “Towers of Light” memorial.

“Because of the view it has of the

Vigils, marches & prayerin Brownstone Brooklyn

Relationships built from sorrowBy Patrick GallahueThe Brooklyn Papers

Last Sept. 14, thousandsof Park Slope residentsgathered outside Squad 1on Union Street, betweenSixth and Seventh avenues,in a show of support for thebeleaguered firehouse.

A dozen men had been lostat the World Trade Centerthree days prior, and personalgrief and communal sympathyseemed to merge outside thefirehouse that day.

At Squad 1 last September,people seeking to make sense ofwhat had happened — some ofwhom had not even lost some-one personally — wept openlyat the doorway of the building,where the silent march and vigilconcluded. Ayear later, the com-munity has maintained its devo-tion but has turned to subtler dis-plays of affection, said Squad 1Firefighter Joe O’Donnell.

“It’s in a smile, it’s in a

wave — people still wave,”O’Donnell said. “It’s in some-one who stops by to ask howwe’re doing.”

The World Trade Center at-tacks redefined the role of fire-fighters in the community andthe institution stood as a bea-con of heroism in an otherwisedeplorable tragedy.

Of the 343 firefighters whodied on Sept. 11, 95 were fromBrooklyn and more than 40were from the brownstone beltof Brooklyn Heights, Down-town, Cobble Hill and ParkSlope, in addition to Red Hook.

The proximity of those areasto the Brooklyn and Manhattanbridges, and the Battery Tunnel,made them some of the earliestresponders to the attacks on theWorld Trade Center and some ofthe hardest hit by the buildings’eventual collapses.

In the weeks following Sept.11, many firefighters placedtheir concentration on thewreckage at Ground Zero, re-

fusing to term any man “lost”or any wife a “widow.” Astime chipped away at the hopeof a rescue, the mission turnedto recovery. All the while, dig-ging through “the pile” re-mained the focus.

“I don’t think hope ever gaveout,” O’Donnell said. “Butwhat you were hoping forchanged. First, you hoped forall of the guys back, and thenyou hoped to rescue a couple ofthe guys. And then you hopedfor the recovery of the guys.”

While externally, the com-munity’s bond with its fire-house was established on orshortly after Sept. 11, internal-ly, the firehouse itself is stillbeing rebuilt.

In a profession where menwork, sleep, eat and live to-gether — the loss of any singlemember is akin to a death inthe family.

Between the men that werelost on 9-11, retirements andpromotions, some local firehous-

es are receiving close to a dozennew members. One firefighterdescribed it as feeling “like astranger in your own firehouse.”

Engine Company 205 andLadder 118 on Middagh Street,between Henry and Hicksstreets in Brooklyn Heights,lost eight men, and now hasnine new probationary fire-fighters, known as “probies.”

“It’s a very big learningprocess,” said Engine 205 Fire-fighter John Sorrentino. “Usual-ly you might get one or two newguys over the course of a year.”

And Squad 1, which lost 12of its men, now has three newofficers in addition to 11 newfirefighters. Engine 279 andLadder 131 on Lorraine Streetbetween Court and Smithstreets in Red Hook, which lostfive men, has taken on a half-dozen “probies.”

For the firefighters who sur-vived 9-11, creating new bondswhile still grieving for lostbrothers is a challenge, said

Ladder 131’s Lt. Tom Coleman. “[The bond] hasn’t been re-

established and it’s taken a longtime,” he said. “I don’t thinkwe’ll ever get back to where wewere before Sept. 11.

“We’ve all had to live withghosts in the past, of peoplewho’ve passed away,” he said.“Now the ghosts are more cur-rent.”

Added to that are newstresses of the job.

“The way we look at our-selves and the way the publiclooks at us when we go out thedoor [is different],” said Cole-man. “We never thought of ter-rorism when we went out thedoor. It was just a fire beforeand now there’s so many thingswe have to be aware of.”

“I think our job descriptionhas changed dramatically,”Sorrentino agreed.

In the meantime, however,the resources of the firehousehave been restored, and thehouses, many of which were

using borrowed rigs, are fullyfunctional once again.

New engines have arrived atSquad 1 and Ladder 118 afterthe originals were destroyed atthe World Trade Center.

The probies that arrive alsoenter a friendly neighborhoodand are greeted with a warmthfrom the local residents, O’-Donnell said.

Their arrival is greeted morenoticeably, and warmly than themen who came before Sept. 11.

Approaching the one-yearanniversary, many Brooklynfirefighters will spend the day inprayer and memorial services, atGround Zero or gathering withthe families of lost brethren.While the day will be a socialobservance of pause and reflec-tion, the memories of their lossand sacrifice will not be far off,nor will the public’s reflectionsbe without reciprocation.

“We could never repay thekindness we’ve received,”O’Donnell said.

Squad 1 firehouse on Union Street at Seventh Avenue wasflooded with tributes in the days following Sept. 11. BP / File Photo

Around Brooklyn firehouses, camaraderie’s born out of shared tragedy

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Americans split over holiday on 9-11

By Heather J. WilsonThe Brooklyn Papers

Maimonides Medical Cen-ter paramedic Peter Cuzzo-lino can no longer lift a gur-ney. He did for 15 years, butthat was before somethingheavy and solid fell fromthe sky as he was runningfrom the collapse of thesouth tower of the WorldTrade Center on Sept. 11.

To put it bluntly, his leftarm is a mess.

From Cuzzolino’s elbowdown, he is missing muscleand bone, and skin graftscould not fill in what thatunidentified object took out.But Cuzzolino, 44, is grateful.Talking along with three otherMaimonides paramedics toThe Brooklyn Papers thisweek, he said he was gratefulto have only lost his glasses,wedding ring and fragments ofhis arm when the blast ofsteel, glass and ash hit himand his supervisor, Alan Si-mon that Tuesday morning.

Maimonides, at 10th Avenueand 48th Street in BoroughPark, is just a mile from theBrooklyn Battery Tunnel con-necting Brooklyn to LowerManhattan, and the hospitalwas prepared to offer a conven-ient source of skilled personneland blood supplies as well as areception center for less seri-

Maimonides Medical Center paramedics Paul Ferguson, Philip Poullada and Peter Cuzzolino,who was hit by WTC debris, were all working on Sept. 11. The Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango

Squad 1 hero’s memory aliveBy Patrick GallahueThe Brooklyn Papers

As the story of Lt. DavidFontana, a firefighter withPark Slope’s Squad 1 wastold, it seemed too big toend on Sept. 11.

It needed to bear some workof art, a book or a chapter inhistory — each passions in hislife, as were his wife, Marian,and their 5-year-old son, Aidan.

Fontana was an elite fire-fighter with the rescue unit onUnion Street between Sixthand Seventh avenues in ParkSlope. He and Marian andAidan lived together onFourth Street and he proposedto Marian in Prospect Park.

A sculptor and amateur his-torian, Fontana spent his entirecareer near his Park Slopehome, first at Ladder 122 on11th Street, between Seventhand Eighth avenues, and thenat Squad 1.

He was among 12 menfrom Squad 1 lost on Sept. 11.

His remains were recoveredlast December, although a me-morial service was held forhim on Oct. 17, on whatwould have been his 38thbirthday.

The past year has seen hislegacy take many forms.

Fontana’s sculptures are cur-rently on tour after being dis-played at the Municipal Arts So-ciety in Manhattan. One wasalso featured at the Snug Harbor

Cultural Center on Staten Islandin November and December.

And Marian Fontana hasemerged as one of the leadingadvocates for the families of 9-11 victims, in her role as presi-dent of the September 11thWidows and Victims Families’Association (WVFA).

Marian founded the organi-zation, now nearing a mem-bership of 1,000, with MarthaButler, the wife of anotherSquad 1 hero, Firefighter TomButler, as well as survivingSquad 1 firefighters Joe Mic-cio and Mike Stackpole, torepresent the victims’ familiesin both the recovery processand in the planning for the fu-ture of Ground Zero.

Primarily the organization

fought for the dignified recov-ery of all those lost at theWorld Trade Center. She stoodup to then-Mayor Rudy Giu-liani last November when hewanted to drastically reducethe number of Fire Departmentpersonnel working at GroundZero, and won.

Now, as the dreadful an-niversary approaches, the sub-tle and gradual changes in thegroup’s mission have becomeapparent.

From an organizationalstandpoint, there is a new cityadministration and relation-ships that had existed withGiuliani had to be re-estab-lished with Mayor MichaelBloomberg. The recovery hasgone from Ground Zero to the

brate their eighth wedding an-niversary that day with a tripto the Guggenheim Museum.

After waiting for half anhour she returned home,vaguely annoyed that workhad somehow impeded theiranniversary, unaware of thegravity of the disaster.

“I went home and turned onthe TV,” Marian told The Pa-pers last September. Then shesaw the towers crumble. “I justcollapsed. Because I knew thatwould probably be the end.”

She has opted to retreatfrom the frenzy that will mostlikely ensue this Wednesdayand observe the day privately,spreading her husband’s ashesat Jones Beach.

Fontana was a lifeguard onthe Long Island beach for 12years.

“I want to pull back fromthe event and think about hislife,” she said. “Not the wayhe died.”

While she will remain ac-tive with the WVFA, seekinga pay raise for firefightersamong other objectives of theorganization, Marian looks tothe next year hoping to reani-mate a creative life that hasbeen dormant since 9-11.

Marian is also planning onwriting a book, she said, re-membering her life with Dave.

She hopes it will serve as atherapeutic process, she said,“To exorcise all the things thathave happened this year.”

Firefighter David Fontana with his son Aidan before theevents of Sept 11 took him away. The Brooklyn Papers / File photo

Maimonides paramedics on 9-11 and the road back

city medical examiner’s officeand the myriad interests in-vested in the World TradeCenter site are already comingtogether with designs of whatshould rise in place of theTwin Towers.

Marian Fontana said her re-lationship with the Bloombergadministration is progressing.She had glowing words for themedical examiner’s office andshe holds a seat on the Fami-lies Advisory Council of theLower Manhattan Develop-ment Corporation.

WVFAis also helping organ-ize a fundraiser for Sept. 20 atMadison Square Garden, in anevent called “Stars, Stripes andSkates” to benefit a fund to as-sist victims of crime and futureterrorist attacks.

The passage of time, howev-er, does little to heal the emo-tional wounds of Sept. 11, 2001.

“It’s been the shortest and thelongest year of my life,”Fontana said this week. “I’msurprised at how fresh thewounds still feel and howdeeply in grief everyone still is.”

For Marian Fontana, the one-year observance of Sept. 11holds an added fragility, for it isalso her wedding anniversary.

On the morning of Sept. 11,David Fontana was 10 min-utes from finishing his shiftand Marian was waiting at theConnecticut Muffin coffeeshop on Seventh Avenue. Shehad planned for them to cele-

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Vito Colucci and his fiance,Linda Decorso, believed run-ning his Bensonhurst carpetstore together would onlybring them closer.

But since the business has beenticketed by the city Department ofSanitation for posting three Ameri-can flags on poles in the sidewalkin front of the store, Colucci andDecorso have found a fight thatwill do the same, a fight to protecttheir right to show their patriotism.

And on a fitting day, he adds.Colucci is scheduled for an 8:30

am hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 11,before the Environmental ControlBoard (an administrative agencythat provides hearings on notices ofviolations issued by other city agen-cies for various infractions of citylaws) in Downtown Brooklyn.

Colucci, a Vietnam veteran whoserved in the Marine Corps from1968 to 1970, vowed to fight theAug. 3 ticketing of his business,Neighborhood Carpet and Floor-ing, on 86th Street at Bay 20thStreet.

Colucci, 51, who bought thestore last March, said he did notknow he needed a permit and de-fended his sidewalk decor withmore than one argument, includingthe fact that the former owner ofthe business had allowed the holesto be drilled and flags to be in-stalled when American Legion PostNo. 791 asked the merchant to par-ticipate in their “Show Your ColorsAmerica” campaign in June 2001.

That campaign placed Americanflags along the shopping corridors

withdraw the permit as they see fit.Kalb said there is an annual

charge for all revocable consentsand filing fees range from $100 to$750, depending on the type ofproposed structure. Since Coluccihas been ticketed, the total cost ofhis permit would “of course, costmore,” Kalb said.

In most cases a permit applica-tion must be accompanied by aplan drawn by a professional engi-neer or registered architect li-

censed by the state. Upon receiv-ing a complete application for arevocable consent, the Transporta-tion Department immediatelydistributes it to the appropriate cityagencies for their review. If anagency objects to a proposed revo-cable consent structure, the plansmay have to be modified.

After all necessary approvals arereceived, Kalb said, the Trans-portation Department must hold apublic hearing on the terms andconditions of the plan. A notice ofthe hearing is published at the ex-pense of the applicant, in one dailynewspaper and one communitynewspaper. The combined cost ofthese advertisements is usually un-der $250, he added.

If no issues arise at the hearingor during the subsequent 10-daycomment period, a revocable con-sent agreement is drawn up andsent to the city Law Departmentfor review. Upon approval, copiesof the final agreement are sent tothe applicant to be signed and theagreement is then subject to the ap-proval of the mayor.

Colucci and DeCurso said theylaughed when told about the permitprocess. The couple have been op-erating the store for less than fivemonths, and with all the organizingand money it takes to keep movingforward, both see the whole issue asparticularly untimely.

“I am supposed to defend myflags on Sept. 11?” Colucci said.“That is ridiculous. That is sick. Iam a veteran and these flags meansomething right now. We are atwar, and we have men dying inthis war. They can forget that?”Well, I can’t.”

of Bay Ridge and encouragedbusiness owners to allow the localAmerican Legion post to drill ahole in the sidewalk in order todisplay a flag, for a small fee (adonation to the American Legion).

Finance Officer Howard Dunn,of Legion Post 791, even sent athank you letter and certificate ofappreciation to former owner ChrisRazzino, noting his display of theflag, “as an inspiration to all.”

“They never said anything abouta permit,” Razzino said this weekof the legionnaires who asked himto join the campaign. “It’s theAmerican Legion, so I thought theywould know what was needed.”

Dunn did not return calls seek-ing comment.

Razzino even handed over thethank you letter and certificate toColucci, which Colucci showedthe Sanitation enforcement officerwriting his tickets.

“I gave everything to him,”Colucci said, adding that the Sani-tation officer handed it right back.

Razzino said he owns two otherBensonhurst carpet stores — eachwith flagpoles planted in the side-walk.

Inspirational or not — evenwith the jolt in patriotism sinceSept. 11 and the approaching firstanniversary of the terrorist attacks— the Sanitation and Transporta-tion departments are standing bythe summonses.

Transportation Department spokes-man Keith Kalb said that if a resi-dent intends to place a structure on,under or over a city street or sidewalk,they must apply for a revocable con-sent, which generally takes betweenfour and six months for approval.

“Safety is our No. 1 concernand if people are just drilling holes,that is a problem,” Kalb said. “Iknow a flag is a patriotic thing, butif someone gets hurt without aproper permit, we become liable. “

A revocable consent, Kalb said,is the grant of a right to an individ-ual or organization to construct andmaintain certain structures on citystreets and sidewalks. Those struc-tures include flagpoles. “Revoca-ble” refers to the city being able to

Linda DeCorso and Vito Colucci among the flagpoles in front ofColucci’s store at 1864 86th St. The Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango

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Manhattan, where he re-mained for 21 days.

Neither could aid in the res-cue-turned-recovery effort, asource of some measure of re-lief to Simon’s fiance andCuzzonlino’s wife, both mensaid.

“I cannot lift anything,” Cuz-zolino said. “I attend occupa-tional therapy three times aweek. But I was out for eightmonths. I came back on July 1.”

Simon said he has healedphysically, but like so manyother New Yorkers, he suffersfrom flashbacks. He held off,for some time, on comingback to work.

Paramedic Philip Poulladapushed him to get back on hisfeet again, Simon said, remind-ing him that he was neededback at the ambulance dispatchcenter on 39th Street betweenFifth Avenue and Sixth av-enues. And it was paramedicPaul Ferguson who put theMaimonides ambulance corpsback together, said Simon, evenif it meant pulling six straightdays and nights away from hiswife and three children, includ-ing a three-month-old.

Putting the team back to-gether, Ferguson said, beganwith a lot of phone calls to de-termine who was injured, whowas working where, and evenwhich paramedics didn’t makeit out of the towers.

It involved repairing ash-cov-

ously injured patients.Cuzzolino, a Dyker Heights

resident, and Simon, who livesin Manhattan, arrived at GroundZero at 9:20 am with three otherparamedics and parked their am-bulance near the south pedestri-an bridge, which connected 1World Financial Center to Liber-ty Street. It was not a good park-ing spot, Simon remembersthinking. But with their helmetson, the men exited the vehicleand once outside, just stared.

“It was all we could do,”Cuzzolino said. “We wereright there.”

About 15 minutes later, theSouth Tower, right across Lib-erty Street, began to crumbleto the ground.

“It was like you were in amovie, in that shock wave yousee,” said Simon, 36.

“And it was over in 15 sec-onds. I felt blood tricklingdown my head, but I saw thatI could move,” Cuzzolinosaid. “And then I saw my armand it was all over the place.”

It was at that moment, withthe world seemingly crum-bling around them that the twoparamedics lost track of eachother. Simon was taken byambulance to Lutheran Med-ical Center in Sunset Park, fortreatment of his back injuries.He was in the hospital for twodays. Cuzzolino was put on astretcher and taken to Beek-man Downtown Hospital in

ered, dented and out-of-orderambulances. Simon said it waspeople like Ferguson who keptit all together.

“He is part of that other story,of the people that stayed inBrooklyn that day and did theirjobs. People forget about that,”Simon said.

“A lot of people had dualroles, so our department was cutin half,” Ferguson said, notingthat some Maimonides para-medics also work for other am-bulance companies or as emer-gency medical technicians withthe Fire Department.

Andre Fletcher, a part-timeMaimonides paramedic whoalso worked for Rescue 5 onStaten Island, was one of 11Rescue 5 firefighters who diedon Sept. 11. He was the onlyparamedic Maimonides lost.

Simon, Cuzzolino, Fergu-son and Poullada agreed thatany Sept. 11, from here on out,

would be a strange experience.They each share bits andpieces of experiences fromthat day. Every one of them isgrateful. Every one of themthought they might die. Everyone of them still has a hardtime putting into words whathappened that day and whathas happened inside of themsince.

“Everybody walked awaywith something different,something of their own,” Si-mon said. “So now, we needto experience this Sept. 11,each in our own way.”

Simon noted that only threeof his 12 crew members hadrequested this Sept. 11 off, al-though anyone could have tak-en off. Cuzzolino, he said,chose to take the day.

“I will be at home, with myfamily,” Cuzzolino said. “Ithink that is the place for us.That is where I want to be.”

Prayers Associated Press / Tina Fineberg

A Jewish prayer book lays open as memorial candles are lit in a syna-gogue on Sept. 1 to mark the Hebrew calendar’s one year anniversaryof the death of 16 Russian Jews in the Sept. 11 attacks. Several hundredpeople paid tribute to the Russian Jewish victims with a balloon release,street procession and memorial service in Brighton Beach.

By The Associated Press

Americans are divided about whetherSept. 11 should be a national holiday likeVeterans Day or Memorial Day.

Forty-four percent favor a nationalholiday on the date terrorists attacked theWorld Trade Center and the Pentagon

while 51 percent opposed it, according toa CNN-Time poll released Sunday.

The telephone poll of 1,004 adultswas conducted Wednesday and Thurs-day and has a margin of error of plus orminus 3 percentage points.

The poll also found that:

•A third said they feel less safe in pub-lic places, and slightly more said they feelless safe traveling since Sept. 11.

•Almost a third said they are worriedthat a terrorist attack will occur on theanniversary of Sept. 11.

•People were most likely to say an at-

tack in the next 12 months would be car-ried out with a bomb in a car or truck orwith biological or chemical weapons.

•Two-thirds said the nation’s intelli-gence gathering agencies failed in theirresponsibilities to obtain informationabout the attacks.

Closer looksChannel 13-WNET will air a series of 9-11-related programs this week, including “He-roes of Ground Zero” (Sept. 9 at 8 pm), which examines the aftermath of the attacksand the loss of 343 firefighters on two companies, including Ladder 118 and Engine205 of Brooklyn Heights. Pictured above is Ladder 118 on its final run. Also airing is“Lessons of September: One School Remembers 9/11” (Sept. 12 at 10 pm) focusingon Bay Ridge and Park Slope’s Poly Prep, which lost 11 alumni on 9/11. The programis narrated by actor and Park Sloper John Turturro.

Memorial of HopeSeptember 11, 2002

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neighborhood a place of refuge, hope and strength.

On September 11, 2002 our church will be open all

day for those that desire prayer, someone to talk to

or are just looking for a quiet place.

All are welcome!

Park Slope Christian Center • 269 Prospect Park WestBrooklyn, NY 11215 • 718-788-2273

Memorial Service@ 7:30 pm

• A time of Worship

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The BHCA comprises leaders from every house of worship in Downtown Brooklynand Brooklyn Heights. Representatives of all faiths will take part in the service.For more information call: 718-852-2453 (Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church)

Remembering September 11, 2001

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Victims names on fire boxes


Rosemarie O’Keefe will tell you. Her knuck-les still turn white when she drives over theBrooklyn Bridge into Manhattan.

It was the bridge that held O’Keefe in traffic longenough to take a few deep breaths, collect herthoughts and finally decide that she could, in fact, actas Mayor Rudy Giuliani had asked her to in a phonecall just minutes after the North Tower was hit: as thechief organizer of the city’s relief effort.

O’Keefe, a Bay Ridge resident, does not hesitatewhen she gives her account of Sept. 11. She beginstalking about it as if she had rehearsed it in her head amillion times.

In fact, she said, “remembering it like it was yester-day,” does not even begin to describe the feeling.

“I was on the Brooklyn Bridge and the mayor’s chiefof staff called me and said, ‘Where are you?’ I told himI was on my way. He told me a plane had crashed intothe World Trade Center and there would be familiesneeding some assistance,” O’Keefe told The BrooklynPapers this week. “He said, ‘I want you to go there.’

“At that moment we did not know what was reallygoing on. I was driving to work for a regular day, andit was a beautiful, clear, blue day,” she said.

Getting as close as she could to the now smolder-ing North Tower in her car, O’Keefe parked about ablock away from the World Trade Center and beganto walk. Just a few steps from her car, O’Keefe re-called, she was stepping over pocketbooks, coffeecups, shoes.

“Like people had just ran out of their clothes,” shesaid.

She then watched in horror as the South Tower ex-ploded with the impact of the second plane. Now, shebegan to direct thousands of people over the Brook-lyn Bridge. She recalled the irony of her outfit of a

normal day’s heels and a suit, embellished with an of-ficial mayor’s office jacket.

“They saw the jacket,” O’Keefe said. “Theythought we knew what we were doing. But we didn’tknow what we were doing.”

In retrospect, O’Keefe admits she may have knowna bit more than the average person that day.

Giuliani appointed O’Keefe as the first womancommissioner of the Community Assistance Unit, abranch of the mayor’s office, in 1996. The positionmade her the official liaison between City Hall andcommunity groups and, under Giuliani, the mayor’spoint person during times of crisis.

Before Sept. 11, O’Keefe had already been through

plane crashes, child abuse cases, the Abner Louimapolice abuse case and the police shooting of AmadouDiallo. She had picked out coffins for distraught fam-ily members, shielded crime victims from the pressand “had the aspirin before you said you needed one,”she said.

“We did all things to help devastated families getthrough devastating things in their lives.”

But neither Giuliani nor O’Keefe could ever haveenvisioned the type of massive relief and communityliaison effort that would be needed following theWorld Trade Center attacks.

O’Keefe laughs when recalling how her “specialunit” was designed to manage the implications of theword “crisis,” as it was understood in New York Citybefore Sept. 11. O’Keefe’s years of community serv-ice in Bay Ridge would come in handy in the comingmonths.

O’Keefe, a former Bay Ridge Community Councildelegate, was an advocate for senior citizen’s housingin Bay Ridge in the late-1980s, was a co-founder ofthe Alliance of Bay Ridge Block Associations, andpresident of her own block association. Before Giu-liani tapped her to head his Community AssistanceUnit, she worked as deputy commissioner of the De-partment of Parks and Recreation, where she devel-oped programs for under-served communities.

Suddenly, on Sept. 11, the biggest city in the world,where O’Keefe had lived and worked all of her life,became an unfamiliar and very dark place, she said.

Without a blueprint or a consultant, O’Keefe wasleft to act on instinct. She quickly set up a disaster re-lief station inside the New York State Armory on Lex-ington Avenue at 28th Street on Sept. 12.

The armory had been housing more than 600 ArmyReserve personnel. She simply walked in and askedthat they find somewhere else to sleep.

“I said, ‘Hello, I guess you know what happened

Rosemarie O’Keefe BP / Greg Mango


Fire alarm boxesthroughout Bay Ridge andBensonhurst may see someextra attention in comingmonths if CommunityBoard 10 member GregAhl and state Sen. VincentGentile have their way.

The two are working to-gether to establish a block-by-block program that wouldmake at least one resident re-sponsible for their nearby box,to keep it graffiti- andgarbage-free, bright red andmost importantly, to makesure its gold name plate, me-morializing one of the morethan 40 Bay Ridge and DykerHeights victims of Sept. 11, ispolished and shining.

Ahl and Gentile also hopetheir plan helps revitalize andsalvage the remaining antiquefire alarm boxes throughoutthe area. But the plan, Gentilesaid, will not be explored untilmuch after Sept. 11, becausecity agencies and the state sena-tor himself will be busy for thenext few weeks with eventsmemorializing those lost in theterrorist attacks.

“We will be exploring it,”Gentile said. “It would have tocome with some kind of FireDepartment approval.

“If they do it for parkbenches why can’t they do itfor fire boxes?” Gentile rea-soned about putting theplaques on the boxes.

According to Engine 201firefighter Mike Burke, theplan should be accepted by lo-cal firehouses who — like hisown — lost men on Sept. 11.Engine 201 is on Fourth Av-enue at 51st Street.

Burke, 30, said he wasscheduled to be on duty Sept.11, but had traded a shift toplay golf at the Silver LakeGolf Course on Staten Island.Around the third hole, Burkegot a phone call telling himabout the first plane crashinginto the North Tower. He re-sponded right away.

Engine 201’s Lt. Paul Mar-tini, Firefighter John Schardt,Firefighter Greg Buck andFirefighter Chris Pickford alllost their lives at the WorldTrade Center site.

“I think it’s a good idea.Those are important,” Burkesaid of the boxes. “They are amode of response for us. Hav-ing a name on them would benice.”

Over the past two months,Ahl has talked with local fire of-ficials regarding the removal ofthe red boxes that once or stilldo cover street-side fire alarms,many of which date back to themid-1800s.

“They are an important pieceof history around here,” Ahlsaid. “By naming them after avictim, it is a way to make surethey are taken care of.”

According to Fire Depart-ment officials, the “call box”was developed in the mid-1800s. In its early design, it senta telegraphed message to thecentral fire station when pulled.The message included a loca-tion code that identified the callbox.

Fire officials said the call

boxes still work, although someoperate in a manner that is asantiquated as their coverings.

“The older fire alarms have awinding mechanism, so whenone pulls the handle they sendout an electric signal to the dis-patcher, who then sends a mes-sage to the nearest fire station,”Chief William VanWart ex-plained in June. He said the callbox system is still a vital com-ponent of the department’s pub-lic safety network.

“They were installed on thepremise that not everyone hasa working phone, and we can’tassume even now that every-one can get to a phone quicklyif there is a fire,” he said.

VanWart said the city hasbeen casually replacing themechanics of the call boxes,although not necessarily theantique covers, with firealarms that not only contact aFire Department dispatcher,but also the police.

The more modern versionof the call box alarm operatesmuch like a phone, connectinga caller directly to a dispatch-er, VanWart said.

According to Dave Rosen-zweig, president of the Uni-form Fire Alarm DispatchersBenevolent Association, thecity removed 4,000 call boxalarms in 1995 in then-MayorRudolph Giuliani’s attempt totake the boxes out altogether.

“But we were successful ina federal lawsuit to save theboxes,” Rosenzweig said inJune. “By that time, 4,000 ofthe 16,833 boxes had been re-moved.”

Rosenzweig said 2,000 ofthe removed alarms were thenreplaced with an alarm thatcontacted the police ratherthan the Fire Department — amove one federal judge ruledas unsafe before the other2,000 could be replaced.

A good portion of the emp-ty call boxes are in Bay Ridge,said Ahl, and they are suscep-tible to trash.

“I’ll be meeting with theAlliance of Bay Ridge BlockAssociations [on Sept. 26],”Ahl said. “I would like to seeeach block association adopttheir closest fire call box and ifit needs to be reactivated or re-paired, they would do so andif anybody graffiti’s it, they’llrepaint it.”

Greg Ahl with a fire call box on 68th Street. BP / Greg Mango

Instant relief for familiesRidge’s O’Keefe sprang to action creating family aid centers

Downtown Manhattan skyline, you can’t be onthe promenade without being reminded of Sept.11,” said Brooklyn Heights Councilman DavidYassky. “It’s natural it came to function as a placefor mourning, reflection and contemplation.”

At nearby Cadman Plaza Park, on Sept. 10,Brooklyn Parents for Peace, Brooklyn HeightsPeace Action, Arab American Family SupportCenter, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens Voices forPeace and Justice and the Kings County GreenParty will sponsor a rally and candlelight vigilfor peace starting at 5 pm.

The Cadman Plaza rally will be followed at 6pm with a march across the Brooklyn Bridge toWashington Square Park in Manhattan.

Brooklyn’s cultural institutions will also behosting events to commemorate and remember9-11.

On Sept. 8, at 4 pm, the Brooklyn Tabernacle,at 17 Smith St., will hold a memorial concert tohonor the New York City Police Department,and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, at 145Brooklyn Ave., will offer free admission fromSept. 7 through Sept. 15.

The first of a pair of special events at theChildren’s Museum will take place on Sept. 7 at2:30 pm.

In conjunction with the MusArt Youth Men-torship Program, the MusArt steel quartet andsteel ensemble will perform a concert celebrat-ing the continuation of life and the empower-ment of youth.

Visitors to the museum on Sept. 11 will be in-vited to visit the museum’s herbal garden to planta flower bulb in honor of the victims of 9-11.

During the week of Sept. 7 through Sept. 12,visitors are also invited to paint a story, poem orwish on the museum’s Compassion Mural be-

tween 1 pm and 4 pm on Sept. 7 and Sept. 8,and between 2:30 pm and 4 pm on Sept. 11 andSept. 12.

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, at 1000 Wash-ington Ave., will also be free to the public be-tween Sept. 10 and Sept. 14.

The garden will set up reflection stations atthe Liberty Oaks Memorial, a row of 20 newlyplanted scarlet oak trees dedicated to the victimsof Sept. 11.

“For the next century, these trees will stand asa living tribute to those who lost their lives onSept. 11, and our ability to rise up and move for-ward in the wake of tragedy,” said Judith Zuk,president of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden attheir dedication in April.

On Sept. 11, the Brooklyn Academy of Mu-sic, at 30 Lafayette Ave., will offer free screen-ings of Woody Allen’s “Manhattan” at 2 pm,4:30 pm, 6:50 pm and 9:10 pm.

“It’s a valentine to the city of New York,”said Karen Brooks Hopkins about BAM’schoice for the film.

At 6 pm, on Sept. 11, at the plaza in front ofthe Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch atGrand Army Plaza, novelists Paula Fox, RickMoody and Francisco Goldman; poets GalwayKinnell, Sharon Olds and Harvey Shapiro; his-torian Ron Chernow; essayist Andre Aciman;and critics Margo Jefferson and Edward Roth-stein — will reflect on Sept. 11 in a programmoderated by WNYC radio’s Leonard Lopate.

The Prospect Park band shell has been namedas an official New York City site for candlelightvigils in Brooklyn. The evening will commenceat 7 pm, at which time the lighting of an eternalflame in Battery Park will be broadcast live, fol-lowed by live performances by the BrooklynPhilharmonic and Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

VIGILS, MARCHES…Continued from page 2

at 7100 Shore Road, will honor23 alumni the school lost withthe unveiling of an eternal flamememorial. The ceremony willbegin at 7 pm, in the school’ssanctuary and then continue infront of the school where theeternal flame will be lit.

Xaverian President Sal Fer-rera said about 160 alumni fromthe boys Catholic school workedat the Trade Center. The 23 whodied, he said, ranged in age froma 1968 graduate to a 1995 grad.The average age of the deceasedalumni was 33. Ferrera said 11worked for Cantor Fitzgerald,four were firemen, one was ahost for the Windows on theWorld restaurant, and the othersworked for various financialcompanies in the two towers.

The 23 alumni are: GregoryBuck, class of ’82, Engine 201;Howard Gelling, ’91, who hadbeen working with the schoolto set up a scholarship to spon-sor minority students; RichardCaggiano,’94, Cantor Fitzger-ald; Liam Colhoun, ’84, Bankof America; Carl Flickinger,’81, Cantor Fitzgerald; JosephHoward, ’68, J.P MorganChase; Vincent Cane, ’82, En-gine 22; Joseph Mascali, ’74,FDNY’s Rescue 5; MichaelMassaroli, ’81, Cantor Fitzger-ald; Charles Mauro, ’81, a chefat Windows on at the World;Robert Murach, ’74, CantorFitzgerald; Mario Madone, ’87,Euro Brokers; Dennis O’Berg,’94, Ladder 105; JamesO’Brien, ’86, Cantor Fitzger-ald; James Quinn, ’95, CantorFitzgerald; Gregory Reda, ’85,Marsh and McLennan; JudeSafi, ’94, Cantor Fitzgerald;Paul Slavio, ’92, Carr Futures;John Sbarbaro, ’74, CantorFitzgerald; Patrick Sullivan,’87, Cantor Fitzgerald; JamesSuozzo, ’72, Cantor Fitzgerald;Robert Tipaldi, ’94, CantorFitzgerald; and Thomas Wise,’75, Marsh & McLennan.

On Sept. 8, a memorialmarch hosted by state Sen. Vin-cent Gentile will proceed downThird Avenue from 86th Streetto Cannonball Plaza at 101stStreet, beginning at 6:30 pm.

Around 7:30 pm, a candle-light service will begin andclergy throughout the commu-nity will be invited to partici-pate. Several relatives of Sept.11 victims will also speak.

HARD-HIT RIDGE…Continued from page 2 of Sept. 11 and remember the

lives lost, Golden said lastmonth.

Golden’s office and localmerchants will distribute red,white and blue remembranceribbons. Red, Golden said,will symbolize individualswho have lost members oftheir immediate family, bluewill symbolize individualswho lost members of their ex-tended family, and white willsymbolize individuals wholost friends, co-workers andacquaintances.

A large mailbox set-up onthe pier will allow people toshare their thoughts concern-ing Sept. 11. Thoughts collect-ed will then be sent to Presi-dent George Bush.

Gentile will also collect oldflags at the event, which hewill present to local veterangroups for proper retirement.

On Sept. 9, Gentile will hosta ribbon-cutting for a perma-nent Brooklyn Reading Room,which will house photos, peri-odicals and other items relatedto Sept. 11, 2001. The readingroom, donated by AMICO,will be located at the AMICOSenior Center on Third Avenueat 59th Street, Gentile said.

On Sept. 11, CouncilmanGolden will host a memorialevent at 7 pm at the 69thStreet Pier in Bay Ridge.

The setting — across theharbor from Lower Manhattan— will offer attendees thechance to reflect on the events

See O’KEEFE on page 8


The Brooklyn Papers’ essential guide to the Borough of Kings (718) 834-9350 • September 9, 2002 ‘Amazing’ kidsOn Sept. 11 at 7 pm, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will

commemorate the anniversary of the World Trade Center at-tacks by lighting an eternal flame at the Sphere memorial inBattery Park, and the event will be broadcast live to a loca-tion in each of the five boroughs. Brooklynites are invited towatch the broadcast live at the Prospect Park band shell.

The event will continue with live performances at theband shell by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, theBrooklyn Youth Chorus (pictured) and other artists.

City Cultural Affairs Commissioner Kate Levin said atTuesday’s opening of the new Brooklyn Youth Chorus Acad-emy on Pacific Street, that she has been hearing about theBrooklyn Youth Chorus for 10 years and the chorus was cho-sen to perform at the important event in part because “theirnew CD’s recording of ‘Amazing Grace’ brought tears to theeyes of the battle-hardened staff” who are programming theconcerts in the five boroughs.

Bring a candle and a chair or blanket. Enter the park atProspect Park West and Ninth Street. The concert will con-clude at 9 pm. The event is free.

By Kevin Filipskifor The Brooklyn Papers

A fter Sept. 11, music became a great balm for the psycho-logical wounds of many Brooklynites, so it comes as nosurprise that the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks

will also be an occasion for the healing power of music.St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Carroll Gardens will be the

site of a commemorative concert at 4 pm on Sept. 11. Afterits title, “Musical Triptych,” the concert will be divided intothree thematic sections, each telling a story through musicabout that fateful day.

“The triptych was my idea,” said St. Paul’s organist and choir-master Thomas Lee Bailey. “I saw I was thinking in three parts.First, honoring the heroes. And I knew we wanted to do requiemthings to put it in that context; they had died and [represent thatwith] traditional forms. And the third part represents hope and thefuture. We have to have hope, or we couldn’t go on.

“I thought about those European altar pieces in three parts thattell a story. I thought it would be like a musical tone poem.”

The first part, “Heroes,” opens with “Glorious Hero,” a se-lection from Handel’s oratorio “Samson” followed by CesarFranck’s organ work “Piece Heroique,” played by Bailey.

“Requiem Aeternam” (“Eternal Rest”) excerpts the “Pie Jesu”(“Blessed Jesus”) sections from three Requiem Masses —Gabriel Faure’s, with soprano Anna Fike; Maurice Durufle’s,with mezzo-soprano Desiree Baxter; and Andrew Lloyd Web-ber’s, with sopranos Jennifer Morris and Turia Stark. It also in-cludes Franz Schubert’s lied “Litanei” (sung by baritone JohnSimmons) and Johann Jakob Froberger’s “Le Tombeau de Mon-sieur Blancheroche,” played by cembalist Anthony Barone.

The final section, “Hope,” begins with Handel’s stirring“The Trumpet Shall Sound” from his “Messiah,” sung bySimmons; a selection from Bach’s Cantata 31 (“The HeavensLaugh, The Earth Rejoices”), sung by Jennifer Morris; andconcludes with the spiritual “He’s Got the Whole World inHis Hands,” sung by soprano Andrea Morris.

Bailey said that all of the instrumentalists and singers aredonating their services for this program.

“I find many people with talents in my field who are lookingfor a way to show how much they care,” said Bailey. “Many ofus feel we want to do it right. Future generations will look on theway we honor these people and what happened last year and it’simportant to show respect and honor those who died — all theheroes — the many kinds of heroes that include just ordinarypeople too. I was looking for a way to reflect on that, and look tothe future and hope, and what our faith and religions give us. Itencompasses all of those areas.”

The church has a St. Francis altar with a book of remem-brance in which members of the congregation recorded theirthoughts in the days after Sept. 11, said Bailey. Visitors are in-vited to visit the book and write their own thoughts during theday and following the concert.

At BargemusicAlso on Sept. 11, Bargemusic founder Olga Bloom will per-

form on the famed musical barge at the foot of Old Fulton Street,along with several other musicians, at 9 am in a program of “mu-sic for all who wish to come.” A retired violinist, Bloom foundedBargemusic in 1977, and has a personal connection to the eventsof last year, not least of which is that they have forever altered thebarge’s Manhattan skyline backdrop.

“I’m sad to say I saw the whole [attack],” Bloom said in aninterview last October. “I’m filled with sadness to this day,and I think the sadness will remain for the rest of my life.”

Bloom told GO Brooklyn that she believes “beauty willhelp restore wounds.” She said that when the event happenedshe was practicing on the barge as she does every morning,and that it seemed “only proper to continue doing what wehave been doing all along.”

“This is my retreat I think,” said Bloom. “Playing and listen-ing to chamber music — probably a lot of people feel this — is asafe haven. The concert will be spontaneous but profound.”

“Musical Triptych” will be performed at St. Paul’s EpiscopalChurch, 199 Carroll St. at Clinton Street in Carroll Gardens at4 pm on Sept. 11. For more information, call (718) 625-4126.

The Bargemusic concert will be performed at Bargemusic,at the Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn Heights, at 9 am onSept. 11. For more information, call (718) 624-2083.

Both concerts are free.Additional reporting by Lisa J. Curtis.

In remembrance: Organist and choirmaster of St. Paul’sEpiscopal Church, Thomas Lee Bailey, will lead a memorialconcert in Carroll Gardens on Sept. 11. BP / Greg Mango

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MUSIC: Bargemusic hosts a tributeto Sept. 11. Music for all whowish to come. 9 am. Fulton FerryLanding. (718) 624-4061. Free.

DAY OF PRAYER: St. Francis XavierChurch offers a day of continu-ous, silent prayer in commemo-ration of the World Trade Center.9:30 am to 9 pm. Sixth Avenueat Carroll Street. (718) 638-1880.

YOGA: Eastern Athletic cancelsregular classes for the day, andoffers a program of yoga, medi-tation and healing exercises.9:30 am to 9 pm. Locations inBrooklyn Heights, Metrotech andProspect Park. (718) 625-0500.Free.

REMEMBRANCE SERVICE: Brook-lyn Heights Clergy Association of-fers a community interfaith serv-ice. Noon. Service ends with asilent march to the promenade.Plymouth Church, 75 Hicks St.(718) 852-2453.

MASS: St. Philip’s Episcopal Churchwill hold a Sept. 11 mass.Eleventh Avenue between 80thand 81st streets. Noon. (718)745-2505.

ORGAN CONCERT: 9-11 memorialconcert at St. Ann’s Church. 1pm. Montague and Henrystreets. (718) 875-6960.

MEMORIAL SERVICE: St. Joseph’sCollege offers a service for thevictims of 9-11. 1 pm. Mall infront of Dillon Center, 245 Clin-ton Ave. (718) 399-2602.

MEMORIAL CONCERT: St. Paul’sEpiscopal Church presents a con-cert titled “Musical Triptych” onthe anniversary of 9-11. Musicalstory focuses on three themes:heroes, eternal rest and hope. 4pm. 199 Carroll St. (718) 625-4126. Free.

BAMCINEMATEK: To celebrate thespirit of NYC, BAM presentsWoody Allen’s film, “Manhattan.”2, 4:30, 6:50 and 9:10 pm. 30Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4111.Free.

WRITERS AND POETS: BrooklynPublic Library, Central Library,hosts a meeting of Writers andPoets, hosted by WNYC radiohost Leonard Lopate. Group re-flects on 9-11. 6 pm. Grand ArmyPlaza. (718) 802-3832.

COUNSELING: To help the com-munity cope with the first an-niversary of Sept. 11, The Neigh-borhood Counseling Centeroffers group counseling. 6 to 7pm for teens, 7 to 8 pm foradults. 7701 13th Ave. (718) 232-1351. Free.

CANDLELIGHT VIGIL: Arab-Ameri-can Family Support Center offersa walk to the Brooklyn Heightspromenade from Atlantic Avenueat Court Street. 6 pm. (718) 802-3832.

PRAYER SERVICE: South BrooklynCatholics host a night of remem-brance and reflection commemo-rating the one-year anniversary of9-11. 7:30 pm. Sacred Hearts andSt. Stephen Church, corner ofSummit and Hicks streets. (718)596-7750.

VIGIL: Prospect Park band shell isofficial Brooklyn site of a citywidevigil. Performances by the Brook-lyn Philharmonic and BrooklynYouth Chorus. Bring a candle andblanket or chair. 7 pm. Enter parkat Prospect Park West and NinthStreet. (718) 802-3832.

COMMEMORATIVE SERVICE: atTemple Beth Ahavath Sholom.7:30 pm. 2166 Benson Ave. (718)372-0933.

JEWISH PRAYER: CongregationB’nai Avraham will hold its regu-lar morning service on the Brook-lyn Heights promenade at thePierrepont entrance at 7:45 am.Volunteers will offer spiritualguidance and distribute shabbatand holiday candles. Shofar blow-ing and minute of silence at 8:46am. Communal reading of Tehil-lim (Psalms) followed by secondshofar blowing at 9:02 am. (718)596-4840. Free.

BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART:New exhibit: “Photographs ofGround Zero.” Photos taken byGary Miller at the site of the WorldTrade Center on Sept. 11 and 12,2001. In addition, the museummarks the first anniversary of Sept.11 by waiving admissions for theday. Throughout the month of Sep-tember, visitors are invited to sharefeelings about last year’s attacks bymaking entries in notebooks. 10am to 5 pm. 200 Eastern Parkway.(718) 638-5000. Free.

9-11 Commemorations

Leonard Lopate

Olga Bloom The Brooklyn Papers / File

By Lisa J. CurtisThe Brooklyn Papers

While Brooklynites have heard aboutthe heroes lost in the World TradeCenter attack on Sept. 11, and

about the heroic firemen, police officersand emergency services personnel thatgave their time and energy in the recoveryefforts, rarely have the stories of NewYork’s transit workers been told.

Producer-director Winston Mitchell ishoping to bring attention to both the Her-culean rescue efforts and rebuilding ef-forts of Transit employees with his newdocumentary, “Above & Below: NYCTransit Responds to 9/11.”

The one-hour documentary, which pre-miered at the Brooklyn Museum of Arton Wednesday, includes footage that hasnever been seen before, explainedMitchell, including collapsed subwaysand interviews with bus drivers and trainconductors.

Mitchell is the producer of MTA NYCTransit’s television newsmagazine “Tran-sit Transit” which profiles transit workersand features excursions New Yorkers cantake on public transportation. Mitchellwas in the wrong place at the right time todocument the transit workers’ many roles,beginning on Sept. 11, when the firstplane flew right over his car and into theWorld Trade Center as he was driving byGreenwich Street and Park Place. Thedocumentary includes the live WABC-TVnewsreel of Mitchell’s voice, conveyingaudible terror, as he reported that an air-plane had hit the World Trade Center.“People are running up the streets. Every-body is panicking,” yelled Mitchell.

The one-hour documentary capturesemotional reunions between passengers,such as Theresa Betancourt, who wereblinded and choking on debris, and thebus drivers, such as Anthony Gallo, whopulled them to safety. “When they startedbanging on my windows [to get in],” saidGallo, “they gave me a purpose. Now Iknew I wasn’t dead.”

One bus driver recounted how his scaredpassengers urged him to leave the sceneand the other victims not yet on the bus,saying, “We’re going to die!” But he stoodfirm, not leaving until he pulled as manypassengers as possible, some who had“passed out,” to safety. Train conductorshonked their horns as they came throughthe stations so passengers could follow thesound through the smoke and board.

“There were a lot of people on the plat-form. I made an announcement that it wasan emergency and everyone stayed on thetrain — only one tried to get off. Therewas no way we could leave them there,”said one train conductor.

There were 50 bus stops and seventrain stations in the World Trade Centerarea, and the MTA reports that there wereno serious injuries among MTA workersand not one train or bus was lost. Threehundred buses provided support for thefirefighters, city Emergency Managementpersonnel and police. The MTA also esti-mates 4,000 of its employees were look-

ing for victims and working to restoreservice, beginning on Sept. 11.

Mitchell told GO Brooklyn that theMTA “got a half-million people out of theDowntown area. We had less than an hourto get the people out.”

He says the MTA’s twice-yearly disas-ter drills — although they never couldhave predicted the scope of this disaster— helped the employees go into reflexmode. “The years of planning paid off,”

he said.Governor George Pataki is also in the

documentary lauding the transit workers’attitude of “we’re doing our job.”

“They showed an extraordinary com-mitment to other people,” he said. “Theyset the tone for the days and weeks tocome.”

“Above & Below” also has footage ofthe remarkably fast cleanup and rebuild-ing efforts at Ground Zero, with the

workers laying track and rebuilding thesubway box of the 1/9 line below Cham-bers street from both ends, meeting in themiddle ahead of schedule.

While many passengers are familiarwith train conductors, token booth clerksand bus drivers, the MTA also employs awide array of specialists — such as iron-workers and heavy machine operators —who put their lives on the line “standingshoulder to shoulder” with emergencyworkers to cut through steel beams andallow medical personnel to get to andsave the lives of victims on Sept. 11, in-cluding a firefighter trapped in his truck.

Many of the men and women inter-viewed on camera were unable to stopthemselves from crying when they re-called their experiences.

“The video made us relive things youthought you forgot about,” MTA Chair-man Peter Kalikow said after the screen-ing. “That day was the proudest momentof my life, although I lost three closefriends. The spirits of all our people aswell as the police made me proud to be aNew Yorker and an American, and part ofthis organization.”

The documentary is narrated by actor,director and writer Ossie Davis, who vol-unteered his talent and time, saidMitchell, reading the script in the “80-de-gree heat of the pit [at Ground Zero]. Hewas a real professional. He didn’t evencomplain.” The score, photographs andtelevision footage used in the documen-tary were also donated, he said.

Mitchell has captured for the historybooks the transit workers’ stories thatmight have otherwise been lost, but hecertainly wasn’t looking for the job.

“‘Transit Transit’ used to be a happy-go-lucky show,” said Mitchell. “But all ofthat changed in September. Hopefully thiswill be the last time we’ll have to do avideo like this.”

Filmmaker castslens on heroic 9-11efforts of NYCTransit workers

“Above & Below: NYC Transit Re-sponds to 9/11” airs on channel 25, WNYE-TV, Sept. 11, 13, 18 and 20 at 9 pm and onBCAT (Cablevision Ch. 67 and Time WarnerCh. 34) every Thursday at 6 pm. For moreinformation, call (718) 694-3418.

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The tug of emotions waswritten all over the face ofTara Stackpole as she sat

in the ceremonial courtroomof Borough Hall at a pressconference for the 22nd annu-al Great Irish Fair. The widowof hero 9-11 firefighter Capt.Timothy Stackpole was onhand to see her daughter Kait-lyn, 15, draped in a stripedsash embroidered with goldletters pronouncing her thefair’s “Colleen Queen.”

Tara, sitting next to heryoungest son, Terence, 7,watched her daughter andsilently wept. Bravely smilingwhile dabbing away the tears,she was almost certainlyweeping for the proud mo-ment in Kaitlyn’s life that shecould not share with her hus-band.

Borough President MartyMarkowitz addressed Kaitlynfrom the podium saying,“Captain Stackpole’s dedica-tion and bravery will never beforgotten, and I know your fa-ther would be extremely proudof all you have accom-plished.”

In a year of heroes, Stack-pole’s story is one that standsout from the pack. The Mid-wood resident was first recog-nized for his heroism after sur-viving an East New Yorkinferno in 1998 that killed twofirefighters.

He and four other firefight-ers had raced into the build-ing, mistakenly believing thatan elderly woman was trappedwithin. The floor gave way,killing two of his fellow fire-fighters. Stackpole was leftcritically injured.

Stackpole underwent aheroic recovery and, accord-ing to Mayor Rudolph Giu-liani, who called Stackpole“one of the most exceptionalhuman beings I’ve ever met,”the firefighter joked from hishospital bed that because ofthe injury he’d have to retireafter 40 years on the job in-stead of 50. This despite thefact that Stackpole’s severe in-juries would have qualifiedhim to retire with a full pen-sion.

Stackpole underwent monthsof rehabilitation, dozens ofsurgeries and painful skingrafts and made it back to ac-tive duty, promoted to captainat Division 11 in DowntownBrooklyn just days before hedied. When he was honored atthe 2001 Great Irish Fair,Stackpole said, “I alwayswanted to come back.”

On Sept. 11, Stackpoleformed a company that rushedinto the South Tower shortlybefore it collapsed.

As Brooklyn approachesthe anniversary of Sept. 11,events like the Great Irish Fairreinforce the importance ofremembering and paying trib-ute to those we have lost, and

of not losing sight of our fu-ture or our grasp on hope.

The Fair, organized by theAncient Order of Hibernians,benefits the century-oldCatholic Charities, which of-fers services to the most vul-nerable citizens ofBrooklyn andQueens.

This year’s fairis dedicated to “allthe victims of 9-11with sincere appre-ciation to RudyGiuliani.” In addi-tion to remember-ing Capt. Stack-pole, the fair willremember Fire De-partment chaplainFather MichaelJudge. “They weretwo men of incred-ible faith put intoaction every day and especial-ly on Sept. 11,” said FatherKevin Sweeney, coordinatorof the Irish Apostolate for theDiocese of Brooklyn.

Chief Brehon of this year’sfair is New York Police De-partment Deputy Chief

Michael Collins who will pre-side over the fair with KaitlynStackpole, who attends Bish-op Kearney High School.Collins is no stranger to Bre-hon duties, having beenGrand Marshall of the BayRidge Saint Patrick’s Day Pa-rade in 1997 and Marshall ofthis year’s 27th Annual IrishAmerican Parade in ParkSlope.

Like her father, Kaitlyn isalready making a difference inMarine Park; she is an activemember of Good Shepherd

parish and served as presidentof Good Shepherd’s StudentCouncil.

Acknowledging Tara andKaitlyn Stackpole, DailyNews columnist MichaelDaly, upon accepting the IrishBard award, said, “Irish men

are measured by the size oftheir hearts, but Irish women’shearts are just a little bit big-ger.”

This year’s Irishman of theYear Award is Father PatrickWest, pastor of Our Lady ofSolace in Coney Island.

Fair chairman Al O’Haganpromises that this year’s fair,although a tribute to those lost“will not be an Irish wake …but I guess that wouldn’t besuch a bad thing.” This year’sfair will certainly have anIrish wake’s mixture of gaietyand sadness, again featuringentertainment, food and shop-ping in addition to Catholicmasses.

Look for Irish restaurants— such as Downtown Brook-lyn restaurant Eamonn Do-ran’s — as well arts andcrafts, vendors, step dancers,war pipe bands and rides andgames for children. There willbe seven stages of continuouslive entertainment on bothdays with Sunday featuringthe Emerald Society pipebands from the Police, Fire,Transit, Sanitation and Cor-rections departments, as wellas “out-of-town” pipers TheClann Erin.

On Sept. 7 at 11 am, a massled by Bishop Thomas Dailywill be held in memory of thevictims of 9-11 in the tent lo-cated in the northeast cornerof the park.

Irish VIPs: Irish Bard Award winner Michael Daly, of theDaily News, with the 2002 Colleen Queen Kaitlyn Stack-pole at the Great Irish Fair’s kick-off at Borough Hall onAug. 22. Stackpole is the daughter of slain FDNY Capt.Timothy Stackpole (at left). The Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango

The Great Irish Fair takes place Sept.7 and Sept. 8 from 10 am to 7 pm atDreier-Offerman Meadows in Gravesend.Masses will be held in the tent located inthe northeast corner of the park on Sept.7 at 11 am in memory of the victims of 9-11, and on Sept. 8 at 9 am and 11 am.

Dreier-Offerman Park is located offShore Parkway between Cropsey Avenueand Bay 44th Street. Admission is $10,free for children age 12 and younger. Formore information about the CatholicCharities of Brooklyn & Queens all (718)337-6800 or visit the Web site atwww.ccbq.org.

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A Fair to remember2002 Great Irish Fair honors 9-11 heroeswith a weekend of reflection and revelry

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FRI, SEPT 6Jewish New Year

begins at sundownARTS ON THE COMMONS:

Lunchtime concert series atMetrotech Center. Today:Gerald Hayes Quartet. Noon to2 pm. Commons at Metrotech.(718) 488-8200. Free.

RECEPTION: Momenta Art pres-ents “POP Patriotism.” 6 to 8pm. 72 Berry St. (718) 218-8058. Free.

MONTAUK CLUB: presents itsmonthly Brooklyn Authors’series and community openhouse. Julie Reiss speaks onthe subject “The Spaces ofInstallation Art.” 7 pm. Lightrefreshments. 25 Eighth Ave.(718) 638-0800. Free.

BARGEMUSIC: Chamber musicprogram of Piano Trio in E-flatMajor. $35. 7:30 pm. FultonFerry Landing. (718) 624-2083.

BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART:Opening of new exhibit:“Exposed: The Victorian Nude,”an exhibit to chart the moral andesthetic controversies about thenude body in English visual cul-ture during the reign of QueenVictoria. $6. 10 am to 5 pm. 200Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000.

ROOFTOP FILMS: “Image Nation,films from the AfricanDiaspora.” $6. 9 pm. 265McKibbin St. (877) 786-1912.

MODA CAFE: DJ Joshua Gabrialspins electro pop, nu-wave andrandom hits. 9 pm. No cover.294 Fifth Ave. (718) 832-8897.

ACOUSTIC MUSIC: Stephen Clairperforms. $5. 11 pm. Rising Cafe,186 Fifth Ave. (718) 622-5072.

HEIGHTS PLAYERS: “Anatomy of AMurder.” 8 pm. See Sat.

BROOKLYN LYCEUM: Shakes-peare’s “Richard II.” 8 pm. SeeSat.

AUDITION: Brooklyn Youth ChorusAcademy holds try-outs foryoung singers for the 2002-2003year. Call for an appointment.179 Pacific St. (718) 243-9447.

SAT, SEPT 7Jewish New Year

OUTDOORS AND TOURSIRISH FAIR: 22nd annual Great

Irish Fair. Music, dance, Irishfood, arts and crafts, vendors,bag pipe music and more. 10am to 7 pm. Dreier OffermanPark, Belt Parkway near Bay44th Street. (718) 763-1538.

BIRD CLUB: Brooklyn club hosts aprogram on Long Island birdconservation. 7 pm. ProspectPark Audubon Center, ProspectPark. (718) 875-1151. Free.

PERFORMANCESBARGEMUSIC: Chamber music

program of Piano Trio in GMajor. $35. 7:30 pm. FultonFerry Landing. (718) 624-2083.

HEIGHTS PLAYERS: presentscourtroom drama “Anatomy ofa Murder.” $10, $8 studentsand seniors. 8 pm. 26 WillowPlace. (718) 237-2752.

BROOKLYN LYCEUM: Shakes-peare’s “Richard II.” $15. 8 pm.227 Fourth Ave. (718) 398-4816.

GALLERY PLAYERS: presents themusical “The Most HappyFella.” $15, $12 children andseniors. 8 pm. 199 14th St.(718) 595-0547.

CHILDRENPUPPETWORKS: Fall presentation

of “The Sleeping Beauty.” $6,$7 adults. 12:30 and 2:30 pm.338 Sixth Ave. (718) 965-3391.

BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSE-UM: presents Youth and Music,a program in remembrance ofSept. 11. $4. 2:30 pm. Also,“Greenhouse,” a workshopabout plants’ healing proper-ties. Noon to 1:30 pm. Also, artworkshop from 1 to 4 pm. 145Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400.

OTHERLABOR MARCH: Support for immi-

grants’ and workers’ rights.Assemble with union banners.10:30 am. Ninth street and FifthAvenue. March to MetropolitanDetention Center, 29th Street andThird Avenue. (718) 482-3157.

SUN, SEPT 8Jewish New Year

OUTDOORS AND TOURSGREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: Take

a walk through the park-likegrounds of this Victorian city ofthe dead. John Cashman leadstour. $6. 1 pm. Meet inside mainentrance, Fifth Avenue and 25thStreet. (718) 469-5277.

IRISH FAIR: 22nd annual Great IrishFair. 10 am to 7 pm. See Sat.

PERFORMANCESGARDEN CONCERT: Brooklyn

Botanic Garden hosts an out-door concert of chambermusic. $3. 2 pm. 1000 Wash-ington Ave. (718) 623-7220.

JAZZ VESPERS: “Praising God ina New Key.” Featured percus-sionist is Natalie Cushman. 4pm. St. Luke’s EvangelicalLutheran Church, 259 Washing-ton Ave. (718) 622-5612. Free.

RECITAL: Music and Art Ministryat St. Jacobi Lutheran Churchpresents Rebecca Pechefsky.She performs on harpsichord. 4pm. 5406 Fourth Ave. (718)439-8978. Free.

MEMORIAL CONCERT: NYPD ishonored in this Sept. 11 con-cert. 4 pm. Brooklyn Taberna-cle, 17 Smith St. (718) 802-3832.

BARGEMUSIC: Chamber musicprogram of Piano Trio in GMajor. $35. 4 pm. Fulton FerryLanding. (718) 624-2083.

BROOKLYN LYCEUM: Shakespeare’s“Richard II.” 3 pm. See Sat.

GALLERY PLAYERS: “The MostHappy Fella.” 3 pm. See Sat.

HEIGHTS PLAYERS: “Anatomy ofa Murder.” 2 pm. See Sat.

CHILDRENPUPPETWORKS: presents “The

Sleeping Beauty.” 12:30 and2:30 pm. See Sat.

BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSE-UM: presents “Greenhouse,” aworkshop about plants. Noon to1:30 pm. Also, art workshop from1 to 4 pm. See Sat

OTHERTOUCH WORKSHOP: Learn Oha-

shiatsu. 12:30 to 2:30 pm. 211Smith St. (917) 783-1628. Free.

BAMCINEMATEK: New Festival, aforum of international lesbianand gay film and video. Call fortoday’s screening times. SeeSat., Sept. 9. (718) 636-4111.

GLASS CLASS: Urban Glass orien-tation for its glass blowingtechnique class. 5 to 7 pm. 647Fulton St. (718) 625-3685. Free.

FIVE MYLES: Opening reception for“Pulpit,” an exploration of ideasof construction and decoration,including the use of images thathave been regarded as obsolete.6 to 8 pm. 558 St. Johns Place.(718) 783-4438. Free.

MEMORIAL MARCH: SenatorVincent Gentile hosts a Sept.11 Memorial March. 6:30 pm.86th Street and Third Avenue.Candle light vigil at 8 pm. JohnPaul Jones Park, 101st Streetand Fort Hamilton Parkway.(718) 491-2350.

PANEL DISCUSSION: Familymembers of victims of Sept. 11meet with victims of terrorismand war from Afghanistan, Iraq,Israel and the Palestinian territo-ries, the Philippines and Japanfor a panel discussion called“No More Victims.” 7 pm. ParkSlope United MethodistChurch, Sixth Avenue at EighthStreet. (718) 768-3093. Free.

MON, SEPT 9FAMILIES FIRST: Opening day for

2002 to 2003 season. $275membership. Weekday hours 9am to 1 pm. Also, LaLechegroup meeting. 10 am. 250Baltic St. (718) 237-1862.

AUDITIONS: Brooklyn Philhar-monia Chorus needs sopranos,altos, tenors and basses. Call toschedule an audition. The FirstPresbyterian Church, 124 HenrySt. (718) 499-3446.

BAMCINEMATEK: AmericanCinema of Fritz Lang. Tonight,“House by the River” (1949).$9. 4:30, 6:50 and 9:10 pm. 30Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4111.

MEETING: Amnesty International.6:30 pm. Brooklyn HeightsLibrary, 280 Cadman PlazaWest. (718) 596-2228. Free.

TRY OUTS: OLAA and NCT hostan audition for “A Celebrationof Song.” 7:30 pm. 74th Street,between Third and Fourthavenues. (718) 482-3173.

HOLIDAY SURVIVAL GUIDE: Con-gregation B’nai Avraham offersa talk to teach meaning about10 days of Teshuvah and YomKippur. 8 to 9 pm. 117 RemsenSt. (718) 802-1827. Free.

GALAPAGOS: Benefit concert forthe 2003 Improvised andOtherwise Festival. Music,dance and videos. $15. 8 pm.Also, Monday evening bur-lesque. 9:30 pm. No cover. 70North Sixth St. (718) 782-5188.

STRESS REDUCTION: Spoke theHub Re-Creation Center pres-ents Mina Hamilton, stress-reduction teacher and author.She teaches a weekly class inmeditation and stress manage-ment. 8:05 to 9:20 pm. 748Union St. Call for registrationinformation. (718) 857-5158.

JAZZ WORKSHOP: CircumferenceJazz begins instruction for fallsemester. Call for program. 351Flatbush Ave. (718) 723-6221.

TUES, SEPT 10INTERFAITH CLERGY BREAK-

FAST: with Brooklyn BoroughPresident Marty Markowitz.8:30 pm. 209 Joralemon St.Call. (718) 802-3832.

HEALTH TALK: Health Plus offersa talk about diabetes. 9:30 am.Lutheran Medical Center, 15055th St. (718) 491-7483. Free.

BAMCINEMATEK: The AmericanCinema of Fritz Lang. Tonight,“While the City Sleeps” (1956).$9. 4:30, 6:50 and 9:10 pm. 30Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4111.

RECEPTION: St. Joseph’s Collegehosts an exhibit “Forces ofNature,” watercolors by SeemaGoldstein. 5:30 to 8 pm. 245Clinton St. (718) 783-0374. Free.

LOCAL PRODUCE: Spoke theHub Dance presents entertain-ment. Call for performanceinformation. 5:30 pm. Gardenof Union, Union Street,between Fourth and Fifthavenues. (718) 857-5158. Free.

SEMINAR: Brooklyn Arts Counciloffers a talk “Creativity andPracticality.” 6 to 7:30 pm.Brooklyn College, LevensonHall. Seminar is followed by aBAC Regrant ApplicationSeminar from 7:30 to 9 pm.(718) 625-0080. Free.

ENTREPRENEUR TRAINING:Brooklyn Economic Develop-ment Corporation offers a train-ing program. $165 for 14weeks. 6:30 to 9:30 pm. 175Remsen St. (718) 522-4600.

MEDITATION WORKSHOP: Learnsahaja yoga. 7 to 8 pm. 522ACourt St. (718) 833-5751. Free.

SCOTTISH DANCE: Learn basicsteps and dances. Singles orcouples welcome. 7 pm.Homecrest Church, East 15thStreet and Avenue T. (718) 376-8303. Free.

CONCERT: Forecast Music hostsits opening concert of the sea-son. $5. 7:30 pm. Alliance ofResident Theaters, 138 SouthOxford St. (718) 389-0761.

HALYCON CAFE: presents “OurHouse Is Your House,” with DJAnthony Martinez. Tribal andtech-house music. No cover. 9pm to 1 am. 227 Smith St. (718)260-WAXY.

AUDITIONS: Brooklyn PhilharmoniaChorus needs sopranos, altos,tenors and basses. See Mon.

WEDS, SEPT 11MUSIC: Bargemusic hosts a tribute

to Sept. 11. Music for all whowish to come. 9 am. Fulton FerryLanding. (718) 624-4061. Free.

DAY OF PRAYER: St. FrancisXavier Church offers a day ofcontinuous, silent prayer incommemoration of the WorldTrade Center. 9:30 am to 9 pm.Sixth Avenue and CarrollStreet. (718) 638-1880.

YOGA: Eastern Athletic cancelsregular classes for the day, andoffers a program of yoga, med-itation and healing exercises.9:30 am to 9 pm. Locations inBrooklyn Heights, Metrotechand Prospect Park. (718) 625-0500. Free.

MEETING: of Bay Ridge Council onAging. 9:30 am. St. NicholasHome, 437 Ovington Ave. (718)921-5949.

MUSIC CLASS: Newborns,preschoolers and adults areinvited to a music and move-ment class. 10 am. MotherCabrini Park, President Streetat Van Brunt Street. (718) 625-7734. Free.

SENIOR EVENT: JASA EastFlatbush Senior Center offers atalk “How Older Adults CanCope With Personal Trauma.”11 am. 650 Remsen Ave. (718)345-0222. Free.

REMEMBRANCE SERVICE:Brooklyn Heights ClergyAssociation interfaith service.Noon. Service ends with asilent march to the Promenade.Plymouth Church, 75 Hicks St.(718) 852-2453.

MASS: St. Philip’s EpiscopalChurch will hold a Sept. 11mass. Eleventh Avenuebetween 80th and 81st streets.Noon. (718) 745-2505.

LECTURE SERIES: St. Francis Col-lege talk, “Terrorism: DangerDeepens...The Real Meaning ofJihad.” 12:20 to 1:40 pm. 180Remsen St. (718) 489-5272.Free.

ORGAN CONCERT: 9/11 memori-al concert at St. Ann’s Church.1 pm. Montague and Henrystreets. (718) 875-6960. Free.

MEMORIAL SERVICE: St.Joseph’s College offers a serv-ice for the victims of 9/11. 1pm. Mall in front of DillonCenter, 245 Clinton Ave. (718)399-2602.

BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSE-UM: “Greenhouse,” a work-shop about plants’ healingproperties. Noon to 1:30 pm.Plant a bulk in memoriam. Also,art workshop from 2:30 to 4pm. $4. 145 Brooklyn Ave.(718) 735-4400.

MEMORIAL CONCERT: St. Paul’sEpiscopal Church concert enti-tled “Musical Triptych” on theanniversary of 9/11. Musical

story focuses on three themes:heroes, eternal rest and hope.4 pm. 199 Carroll St. (718) 625-4126. Free.

BAMCINEMATEK: To celebratethe spirit of NYC, BAM pres-ents Woody Allen’s film,“Manhattan.” 4:30, 6:50 and9:10 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave.(718) 636-4111. Free.

COUNSELING: To help the com-munity cope with the firstanniversary of September 11,The Neighborhood CounselingCenter offers group counseling.6 to 7 pm for teens, 7 to 8 pmfor adults. 7701 13th Ave. (718)232-1351. Free.

WRITERS AND POETS: BrooklynPublic Library, Central branch,hosts a meeting of Writers andPoets, hosted by WNYC radiohost Leonard Lopate. Groupreflects on 9/11. 6 pm. GrandArmy Plaza. (718) 802-3832.

JAZZ: The Arlee Leonard Quartetperforms. 7 to 11 pm. Nocover. Pumpkins, 1448Nostrand Ave. (718) 284-9086.

CANDLELIGHT VIGIL: Arab-American Family SupportCenter walks to Promenadefrom Atlantic and Court Street.6 pm. (718) 802-3832.

AUDITION: Grace Choral Societyholds try-outs. 7:30 pm. GraceChurch, 254 Hicks St. (718)707-1411.

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VIGIL: Prospect Park Band shell isthe official Brooklyn site of aNew York City-wide vigil.Performances by the BrooklynPhilharmonic and Brooklyn YouthChorus. Bring a candle and blan-ket or chair. 7 pm. Enter park atProspect Park West and NinthStreet. (718) 802-3832.

PRAYER SERVICE: South BrooklynCatholics host a night ofremembrance and reflectioncommemorating the one yearanniversary of 9/11. 7:30 pm.Sacred Hearts and St. StephenChurch, corner of Summit andHicks streets. (718) 596-7750.

PRAYER: Congregation B’naiAvraham will hold its regularmorning service on theBrooklyn Heights Promenade atthe Pierrepont entrance at 7:45am. Volunteers will offer spiritu-al guidance and distribute shab-bat and holiday candles. Shofarblowing and minute of silenceat 8:46 am. Communal readingof Tehillim (Psalms) followed bysecond shofar blowing at 9:02am. (718) 596-4840. Free.

HALCYON CAFE: Peace BisquitPower Hour with beats of house,hip-hop, rock, electro and clas-sics. 9 pm to 1 am. 227 Smith St.(718) 260-WAXY. Free.

BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART:New exhibit: “Photographs of

Ground Zero.” Photos taken byGary Miller at the site of theWorld Trade Center on Sept. 11and 12, 2001. In addition, themuseum marks the first anniver-sary of Sept. 11th by waivingadmissions for the day. Through-out the month of September, vis-itors are invited to share feelingsabout last year’s attacks by mak-ing entries in notebooks avail-able in the Grand Lobby. 10 amto 5 pm. 200 Eastern Parkway.(718) 638-5000. Free.

THURS, SEPT 12MEDICARE TALK: Learn about

changes and get answers toquestions . 10 am to noon. NYMethodist Hospital, 506 SixthSt. (212) 476-2289. Free.

BAMCINEMATEK: presents thefilms of Jacques Becker. Today:“Dernier Atout (The Last Ace inthe Deck)” (1942). $9. 2, 4:30,6:50 and 9:10 pm. 30 LafayetteAve. (718) 636-4111.

RECEPTION: Meru Art presentsdrawings, prints and sculpturesby Sheila Goloborotko. 6 to 9pm. 203 Columbia St. (718)852-7400. Free.

BARGEMUSIC: Chamber musicincludes Beethoven’s Serenadefor Violin, Viola and Cello, Op.8. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton FerryLanding. (718) 624-2083.

BARNES AND NOBLE: Clara Hem-

phill discusses her book “NYC’sBest Public Elementary Schools.”7:30 pm. 267 Seventh Ave. (718)832-9066. Free.

WORDSMITH: Halcyon Cafe pres-ents a reading on the topic oftravel. 7:30 pm. 227 Smith St.(718) 260-WAXY. Free.

GALAPAGOS: Ecstatic music forsavage souls. $10. 8 pm. Nocover. 70 North Sixth St. (718)782-5188.

IMPACT THEATER: “The SolidGold Cadillac.” $15. 8 pm. 190Underhill Ave. (718) 390-7163.

BROOKLYN LYCEUM: Shakes-peare’s “Richard II.” 8 pm. SeeSat.

BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSE-UM: workshop on plants’ heal-ing properties. 2:30 to 4:30 pm.Also, art workshop from 2:30 to4 pm. See Weds.

FRI, SEPT 13ARTS ON THE COMMONS:

Lunchtime concert series atMetrotech Center. Today: RolandAlexander Quintet. Noon to 2pm. Commons at Metrotech.(718) 488-8200. Free.

RECEPTION: Kentler InternationalDrawing Space presents newdrawings by Janell O’Rourke. 6to 9 pm. 353 Van Brunt St.(718) 875-2098. Free.

BROOKLYN AQUARIUM: pres-ents a talk on successful reefgardening. Also, auction featur-ing corals. $5 donation. 7:30pm. NY Aquarium, West EighthStreet and Surf Avenue. (718)837-4455.

BARGEMUSIC: Chamber musicprogram includes Beethoven’sSerenade for Violin, Viola andCello, Op. 8. $35. 7:30 pm.Fulton Ferry Landing. (718)624-2083.

ONE YEAR LATER: Park SlopeFood Co-op offers a talk “TheWorld Trade Center Disaster,One Year Later.” 7:30 pm. 782Union St. (718) 622-0560. Free.

ROOFTOP FILMS: presents“Rooftop Shots.” $6. 9 pm. 265McKibbin St. (877) 786-1912.

GALAPAGOS: Crown Magazinehosts a night of music. $7. 9:30pm. No cover. 70 North SixthSt. (718) 782-5188.

DINNER THEATER: Bread andWine Productions presents“The Last Supper,” dinner the-ater for 12 people in the play-wright’s kitchen. Suggestedoffering for dinner and show is$25 to $40 per person. 7 pm.Reservations necessary. 41016th St. (718) 499-7758.

HEIGHTS PLAYERS: “Anatomy ofa Murder.” 8 pm. See Sat.

GALLERY PLAYERS: “The MostHappy Fella.” 8 pm. See Sat.

BROOKLYN LYCEUM:Shakespeare’s “Richard II.” 8pm. See Sat.


News photographers are aspecial breed. .

While most people runaway from the scene of a disas-ter, they’re running towards it.

A photographer who riskslife and limb — and managesto come away not only withimages that convey informa-tion but also the beauty andhumanity that binds us all to-gether — is an artist.

G.N. Miller has been snap-ping for the New York Postsince 1994. On Sept. 11, he haddropped his daughter off atschool, gone home and then“saw what I saw on television.”

“Before the second plane hit,I got on the FDR,” said Miller.“But when I first looked at theexplosion, I stood inawe. I didn’t knowwhat to do. I wasthinking about mydaughter, GennaNoel. But I’m a re-tired detective fromthe police depart-ment and startedgetting into my of-fensive mode. I didwhat I had to do as ajournalist.”

The black-and-white photo-graphs that Miller took onSept. 11 and Sept. 12, caughtthe eye of many editors. Theyhave been published in theNew Yorker and on the cover

of the new book “How DidThis Happen? Terrorism andthe New War” edited by JamesHoge and Gideon Rose.

Brooklyn Museum of Artphotography curator BarbaraHead Millstein was so im-pressed by Miller’s photo-graphs that she purchased 15for the museum’s collectionand has hung seven of them fora special exhibit commemorat-ing the anniversary of Sept. 11.

Miller, who was a BrooklynSouth narcotics detective, saidhe took more than 300 photo-graphs on Sept. 11 and Sept.12 at Ground Zero, but “somedidn’t come out because of theelements and dust.”

Millstein said that his photo-graphs, shot with a digital cam-era, are the best she has seen,in part because of that grit and

dust. “In the hands of a greatartist with a good eye,” thedigital photos are as museum-worthy as prints made fromfilm, said Millstein.

Miller must have known he

had something special as hewasted no time bringing themto the museum.

“He arrived on our doorstepalmost immediately,” saidMillstein. “He was pretty tired.I thought they were the mostpowerful of the photographers’works I was shown.”

Millstein said Miller’s work“caught what that day was allabout for us. America suffereda terrible invasion, a rape.”

She said she was offeredcolor photographs by otherphotographers, which empha-sized the big blue sky on thatmorning.

“They don’t come as close

to the coldness and shock thatblack-and-white conveys,” saidMillstein. “Color makes it intoa movie.” Millstein said hiswork’s power lies in the gritti-ness a good street photogra-pher can capture.

“My photographs are notgraphic,” said Miller. “Mostpeople tell me they look likeartwork. There’s nothingwrong with showing graphicelements and total disaster, butthese photographs don’t showthat in the explicit sense but ina subtle, artistic way.”

Among Miller’s photo-graphs is a portrait of one fire-fighter, shot from behind, col-

lapsed on his knees in the rub-ble. Another shot shows agroup of firefighters, seeing thewreckage for the first time, withtears streaming down theirfaces. Another shows the enor-mity of the disaster, the shardsof buildings dwarfing the com-paratively small men. Anotherwork captures these scrawledwords in the dusty wreckage:“America the Beautiful.”

(Visitors to the museum areinvited to write their thoughtsabout Sept. 11 in books on atable across from the photogra-phy display.)

Miller’s photos documentthe living people who werestruggling to make sense of thedestruction and murder and tomake a difference.

“A lot of people got downthere,” he recalled. “Journalistswho risked their lives to helpand to take photographs. I wasnot the only one who got downthere. But I took photos thatwere pleasing to my eye with-out looking at the disaster —like a body here and bodythere. That was being docu-mented [by others].

“When I was walkingaround, I felt I was on hallowedground,” said Miller. “As an ex-police officer I asked myself,‘Am I doing something wrong?’But I had to document for futuregenerations, so they could seewhat I saw.”

Miller, 44, was born inBrooklyn and grew up in theGowanus Houses, but creditshis time out of the borough,visiting Florida and South Car-olina, with scenery that includ-ed “wheat and tobacco fieldsand animals,” as his inspirationto create art.

“That photographer is total-ly fearless,” said Millstein. “Hewent where angels fear totread.”

First on the sceneNews photographer’s shots capture Ground Zero

Photographs of Ground Zero by G.N.Miller are on display in the rear lobby ofthe Brooklyn Museum of Art (200 EasternParkway, (718) 638-5000] now throughOct. 14, 2002.

On Sept. 11, the BMA will waive admis-sion. Throughout the month of September,visitors are invited to share their feelingsabout Sept. 11 by making entries in note-books available by the rear entrance.

A R T

The agony: G.N. Miller’s photographs (above and left), takenat Ground Zero on Sept. 11 and Sept. 12, 2001, will be ondisplay at the Brooklyn Museum of Art through Oct. 14.

Friends in needWindsor Terrace artist

Nan Carey is one of 75artists participating inDOGNY, the AmericanKennel Club’s public art

program that is plac-ing up to 300 life-

size dog statues on thestreets and public spaces ofNew York City through No-vember in honor of thesearch-and-rescue dogswho came to the nation’sattention working atGround Zero.

Carey’s black Labradorretriever (pictured), paintedon the standard blank Ger-man Shepherd statue, is arendering of Elvis, a NYPDsearch-and-rescue dog.

Following the exhibition,the sculptures will be auc-tioned off Dec. 16 atSotheby’s in Manhattanwith proceeds going tosupport America’s Searchand Rescue Dog organiza-tions through the AmericanKennel Club CompanionAnimal Recovery Corpora-tion Canine Support and

Relief Fund.“The events of Sept. 11

brought to the public’s at-tention the valuable workthat search-and-rescueteams perform on a regularbasis,” said the creator ofDOGNY, Dennis Sprung. “Itis our hope that theDOGNY project will serveas a tribute to the tirelessefforts of these canineteams and raise fundsneeded to help them con-tinue their efforts.”

Look for DOGNY sculp-tures in these locations:Hoyt and Schermerhornstreets and 9 MetrotechCenter.

For more information,call The American KennelClub at (866) DOGNY-911or visit the Web site atwww.DOGNY.org.


today, and I am just as confusedand delirious as the rest of youbut the governor and the mayorsent me here and I have tomake a family center here. Soyou have to go sleep some-where else. But before you gocould you mop your floors, anddo you have any tablecloths,any food I can give these peo-ple?’” O’Keefe recalled, laugh-ing.

“They mopped for me, theyset up furniture for me, and setup the most wonderful home,”she said. “We opened up thenext morning and thousands ofpeople came. Thousands andthousands.”

O’Keefe said she slept on aship docked in the river, andoversaw the completion of16,000 missing person reportsover the five days that the ar-mory operated as a relief center.

Then, on Sept. 14, 15 and16, O’Keefe was ordered byGiuliani to oversee the transfor-

mation of Pier 94, off 12th Av-enue and 59th Street, into alarger, more complete familyrelief center. The 130,000square feet of barren pier wasturned into what many calledan oasis, complete with red,velvety carpet, living rooms,massage rooms and pet therapyrooms.

O’Keefe said the pier wasconverted into a place wherefamilies who had lost lovedones, homes, jobs and peace ofmind could come to seek assis-tance. They were met by morethan 60 city, state and privateaid agencies that worked tomeet the temporary and long-term needs, such as food, rent,mortgage payments, utility billsand funeral expenses.

“It became the largest disas-ter center in history and wasviewed and toured by everycountry,” O’Keefe said.

She took family members ofthe deceased to Ground Zero tohelp them understand why their

The Cyclone Most Likely to MakeYou Tell Your Grandkids You SawHis First Pro Season

Scott Kazmir. What more can be saidabout the Mets’ No.1 draft pick? In his 18 in-nings for the Cyclones, the $2.1-million manstruck out 34 while walking only seven. Heended his Cyclone career with a stunning0.50 ERA. Most likely, he’ll start next seasonin Double-A ball and we won’t see him againuntil he’s pitching at Shea.

I t was not supposed to end with a whimper, but a big bang. The BrooklynCyclones are not supposed to lose 11 of their last 14 games — includingnine in a row! — when a playoff bid is on the line. The Brooklyn Cy-

clones are not supposed to hit a whopping .133 during those games, not sup-posed to only score 14 runs while giving up 49. They’re not supposed to go17-19 at home.

No, they’re not supposed to do any of those things. The Brooklyn Cyclonesare supposed to sweep a late-in-the-season three-game series against the Stat-en Island Yankees instead of getting swept. They’re supposed to win the 12-game season series against the hated Stankies, rather than dropping eight andwinning only four.

The Brooklyn Cyclones are supposed to make the playoffs and win the NewYork Penn-League championship every year. Didn’t everyone get that memo?

Clearly, last year’s championship team — which was 30-8 at home — hasspoiled a lot of Cyclones faithful, who became convinced that the team wouldjust always win. So when the team collapsed down the stretch, there wereeven some boos heard at Keyspan Park.

But those frustrated catcalls sometimes obscure the fact that the typical Cy-clones “fan” is not the diehard who goes to 30 games a year, but the casualBrooklynite who goes to Keyspan Park three or four times a season to seebaseball “like it oughta be” — up close, personal and indescribably magical.

In fact, in a random poll of 10 fans at Tuesday night’s game, only one knewthat the Cyclones were out of playoff contention. The other nine were just ex-cited to be at the game. So what if the team didn’t win, a season with the MetsClass A farm team is as fun as a ride on the roller-coaster that lent its name tothe squad. Baseball in Brooklyn is still an unqualified success.

A nd now, following a time-honored Brooklyn Papers tradition, it’s timeto give out the second annual Clonies. Sure, Hollywood has the Oscar,TV has the Emmy and Broadway has the Tony, but there is no more

coveted award in the sports world than The Clonie. And the winners are:

Best Recovery from a PieRight in the Kisser

And the winner is … John Toner. Pic-ture this: The Cyclones — still in thethick of the playoff drive — have justwon a big game, thanks to a home run byToner.

Just as the hero is being introduced fora post-game interview on Fox Sports Net,a mystery man comes up from behindhim and hits him with a shaving creampie in the face. But Toner kept his cool,wiping the shaving cream out of hismouth and eyes to finish the interview, atrue hero to all the fans watching at home.

The mystery man was none other than prankster Brandon Kentner.

with Gersh Kuntzman

Ridin’the CyclonesRidin’the Cyclones

The envelopeplease…

John Toner. BP / Gary Thomas

Most Compelling Argumentfor More Male Nudity

Elvin Andujar. Listen, sportswrit-ers aren’t supposed to look, butevery once in a while, a playercomes along whose physique soclosely resembles a piece of Greeksculpture that it would be wrongNOT to notice. Andujar — a walk-ing side of beef — brings to mindDick Enberg’s famous line, “I hadthe distinct pleasure and privilege tohave seen Johnny Unitas naked and,oh my, what a physique on that

The Brett Kay Memorial Award forBest Moment of the Year

Miguel Pinango. Sure, other players had betteryears, but there was no greater moment this sea-son than Miguel Pinango’s near no-hitter. For 82/3 innings, Pinango did not allow the LowellSpinners a hit. And then, with only one pitch re-maining on his masterpiece, a guy named EricWest knocked a single to right. On the next pitch,Pinango got the last out of the game. OK, somaybe it wasn’t a no-hitter, but it was still a gut-sy performance that remains the only completegame in Cyclones history. Miguel Pinango Cyclones

The Luz Portobanco Award for Most Obnoxious CycloneAlhaji “Tom Hanks” Turay. When it comes to this spoiled bonus baby,

more ink has been spilled than tears (as it should be). But the Turay storybears repeating: A second-round draftpick by the Mets in 2001, Turay was theCyclones’ best hitter — but an immaturekid on and off the field. Turay earned thefans’ ire for signing fake names — likeactor Tom Hanks — on baseballs, beg-ging off pre-game talk by saying, “I don’tspeak English” and rushing from theclubhouse to his BMW X5 after gameswithout so much as acknowledging thefans. He also pissed off reporters by re-fusing to grant interviews and not givinga reason. But Turay got in the biggesttrouble by angering his teammates andthe Cyclones front office by not working

hard enough and, in the last straw, attacking a water cooler after a game in Ab-erdeen. So even though he has the talent to make it to the big leagues, theteam suspended him and sent him home to suburban Seattle — in the midstof a playoff drive. If he does rejoin the Mets organization, it won’t be inBrooklyn. Good riddance.

Alhaji Turay BP / File photo

Scott Kazmir BP / File photo

The Blake McGinley Memorial Award for Possible FutureMajor Leaguers

Every year, fans of minor-league baseball predict which of their favorite play-ers will make it to the majors. And every year, none of them do. The odds are just

not in these guys’ favor, no matter how talented. But thisyear, a couple of Cyclones seem to have a genuine shotat greatness. How can you not love Kevin Deaton (7-1,88 Ks and only 15 walks in 76 2/3 innings)? Deatonwas masterful all year. And he has a great attitude.Among position players, Blake Whealy (.289, plus ateam-leading 10 HRs and 34 RBIs) emerged as a gen-uine prospect, but his future will depend on next seasonat the Mets’ full-season Class A affiliate in Columbia,South Carolina.Kevin Deaton

The Vladimir HernandezMemorial Clonie for BestSmile

Ender Chavez. The underappreci-ated speedster, a natural leadoff manif ever there was one, was not onlythe Cyclones’ most likeable player,but his smile was infectious. He did-n’t even lose his grin when he startedlosing important at-bats to returningCyclones like Frank Corr, Toner, JayCaligiuri and Joe Jiannetti.

Gersh Kuntzman is also a columnist for Newsweek online and The NewYork Post. His Web site is at www.gersh.tv.

man.” Well, if Enberg said it about Unitas, I’ll say it about Andujar. One look at this slugger convinced me that he has all the tools to make it to

the big leagues.

Relishing his chance for victoryUPsDOWNs

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By Gersh Kuntzmanfor The Brooklyn Papers

It came down to the final race of theseason. Would Relish — the ADD-afflicted hot dog who had lost all 37races againstrivals Mustardand Ketchup— finally winthe celebratedHot Dog Raceconducted afterthe top of thefifth inning?

Allegationsof Relish’sattention deficitdisorder werefirst aired mid-way through the season, when a pat-tern emerged. It seemed that the fast-from-the-gate frank would always getdistracted in the middle of a race, shak-ing hands with fans, visiting left fieldersor, during the Cyclones’ “Christmas inJuly” promotion, Santa Claus.

The Cyclones front office, whichrefuses to answer questions aboutRelish or his alleged use of psy-chotropic drugs and has consistentlyblocked every attempt to interviewthe defeated dog, knew that some-thing had to be done.

Hitting coach Donovan Mitchell wasdispatched to put the tumescenttubesteak through a “Rocky”-like work-out that included running, weight-liftingand something that looked like anattempted jumping-jack.

The effort seemed to be paying offon Tuesday night. In what would behis second-to-last race, Relish took anearly lead and kept himself focusedon the race. But he tired and wascaught by Ketchup at the wire.

City Council Speaker Gifford

Miller, who was attending the game,was appalled by the Relish collapse.“Clearly we need to look into this sit-uation,” the speaker — and futuremayor — told The Brooklyn Papers.

Miller was also appalled at thequality of the judging of that night’s“Frozen T-Shirt” contest, but did notbelieve that the travesty rose to thelevel of council involvement.

But at Wednesday night’s seasonfinale, it did.

As his two rivals sprinted home, theoutfield video screen showed Relishfast asleep, dreaming of victory.When Mustard crossed the finish linefirst, the batty beef was still sawingwood. The crowd of 8,000 chanted“Relish! Relish! Relish!” to no avail.

Later, though, a revived Relishbounded onto the field and showedoff his speed in an ultimately losingbattle against a six-year-old fan.

After the race, Relish refused toanswer this reporter’s questions.

“He told me he was very appreciativeof the love the fans showed him,” saidHowie Wolpoff, a Cyclones spokes-man. “It was very tearful. Then again, itmay have been condensation from thesteam, but I think it was a tear.”

But Ed Shakespeare, whose hotlyanticipated book, “When BaseballReturned to Brooklyn,” comes outthis fall, believes that Relish wascoming on strong in the end.

“As a famous football coach fromSheepshead Bay once said, he ‘didn’tlose the season series — he just ranout of time.’”

HoJo to go?For now, they’re just rumors, but

the buzz in the stands is that HowardJohnson will not return as Cyclonesmanager and that former Met Tim

Teufel (rhymes with muffle) will getthe top job.

Teufel — a sure-handed infielderwho played with the Mets from 1986to 1991 — remains in the Mets organ-ization as a roving infield coach.

The Cyclones front office wasn’ttalking about the possible Teufel shuf-fle, but there was plenty of chatteraround the batting cage.

“You heard it from me: BobbyOjeda will be the next Cyclones man-ager,” said hitting coach DonovanMitchell, denying the Teufel rumor.

“You heard it from me: Believe halfof what you hear and none of what yousee,” countered Ojeda. “Bobby Ojedawill not be the next Cyclone manager.Bobby Ojeda is going fishing and thenBobby Ojeda will make some plans.”

Whatever happens, infielder CoreyRagsdale said future Cyclones wouldbenefit from Teufel’s instruction. “Idon’t know anything about him com-ing in as manager, but he’s a guy whoknows how to get the most out ofplayers. He doesn’t mess around withyou. He’d be a great manager.”

For his part, Teufel only said thathe’d love to manage someday andCyclones general manager SteveCohen reminded reporters that minor

league managers have to move up theranks just like their players if theywant a shot at the big leagues.

Borscht Belt BlakeMaybe there’s something in the

Brookyn water, but Blake Whealyseems to have picked up a bit of thatold Borscht Belt sense of humor.

The other day, Whealy was talkingexcitedly about how the team wasspending the last week of the seasonat the New York Marriot Brooklyn,Downtown, after being kicked out ofthe dorms at Polytechnic University.

“It’s a really nice hotel,” Whealytold a reporter. When the reporter toldWhealy that the Marriott is consid-ered the best hotel in Brooklyn, theinfielder didn’t miss a beat:

“Isn’t it the ONLY hotel inBrooklyn?”

Bad-a-bing.

Record numbersThe Cyclones set a couple of

records during the last week of theseason, one not so nice.

The team’s nine-game losing streak— mercifully ended with a win onTuesday night — is the longest in theclub’s two-year history.

But during the same agonizing home-stand, the team’s season attendancepassed the 300,000 mark, making theCyclones the first short-season team todraw such crowds. The team is averag-ing more than 8,300 fans per night.

How good is that? Well, think of itthis way: On Tuesday, Sept. 3, theminor-league Cyclones drew 8,252fans. On the same night, the majorleague Montreal Expos drew 3,879.

And to think that former BoroughPresident Howard Golden thoughtminor-league baseball was a bad ideafor Brooklyn.

Relish Cyclones

Staten Island 1Cyclones 0Fri., Aug 29, at Brooklyn (10 innings)

The Cyclones bats remained silent —when they needed them most — as theywere shut out by their cross-Narrows rivalsthe Staten Island Yankees. The win gave thefirst-place Yanks a three-game sweep of thelast series between the two teams this year. Cardinals 8Cyclones 1Fri., Aug 30, at New Jersey (Game 1)

The Cyclones managed just two hits,and starter Kevin Deaton was hit hard forthe first time in more than a month. ChaseLambin and Ender Chavez had Brooklyn’sonly hits, and Deaton surrendered six runsin five innings, as the Cardinals won thefirst game 8-1.Cardinals 4Cyclones 0Fri., Aug. 30, at New Jersey (Game 2)

The Cyclones’ bats stayed cold, and hadjust three hits. Lambin hit safely again, asdid Elvin Andujar and Bret Harper. StarterTanner Osberg pitched just one inning, andgave up two runs. New Jersey added twomore runs in their last at-bat, to make thefinal score 4-0.

The loss brought Brooklyn’s losingstreak to six games. It also officially elimi-nated the Cyclones from playoff con-tention, dropping them seven games out ofthe Wild Card spot with five games to go.Cardinals 2Cyclones 1Sat., Aug. 31, at New Jersey

The Cyclones’ losing streak reached 7games on Saturday, as they dropped a 2-1game to the New Jersey Cardinals, leavingBrooklyn (37-35) tied with New Jersey forthird place in the McNamara Division.

The Cyclones’ hitters continued to strug-gle, as they scored just one run on four hits.Brooklyn has now scored a total of threeruns over their last six games. AaronBaldiris had two hits for the Cyclones onSaturday, while Brett Harper and DerranWatts picked up the team’s other safeties.They did not score until the top of the ninthinning, but the comeback fell a run short.

Omar Anez pitched well in his start, butsurrendered 2 runs in the sixth inning thatproved to be the difference, as he took histhird loss of the season.

Newcomer Ryan Danly made his Cy-clones debut in relief, and pitched 2.1 hit-less innings.Cardinals 2Cyclones 1Sun., Sept. 1, at Brooklyn

The Cyclones’ (37-36) skid hit eightgames on Sunday, as they lost again to theNew Jersey Cardinals (38-35) by a score of7-0, and dropped into fourth place in theMcNamara Division.

Jason Scobie got off to a tough start onhis 23rd birthday, giving up six runs in thetop of the first, before being lifted with twoouts.

That proved to be the whole story of thegame, as the Cyclones continued their of-fensive woes, and were shut out onceagain. They have now scored just threeruns in their last seven games.Crosscutters 5Cyclones 2Mon., Sept. 2, at Brooklyn

The Cyclones lost again on Mondaynight, bringing their losing streak to ninegames. Brooklyn (37-37) took the lead ear-ly, but the Williamsport Crosscutters (47-27) took the lead right back, and eventuallygot the win, 5-2.

When Brooklyn put together two dou-bles by Blake Whealy and Aaron Baldirisin the fourth inning, it gave the team a 1-0lead — the first lead they’ve had in 72 in-nings. In the top of the next inning, though,Williamsport came right back, and scoredtwo runs off of Brooklyn starter Miguel

Clones collapse in home stretch

WHO’S A BUM!The Papers’ Pick for Cyclones Player of the YEAR

For lack of a better analogy, it’s been along, short-season.

Coming off last year’s championship run,who would have thought that this year’sCyclones would barely contend for a play-off spot. Alas, that was the case.

This, of course, makes things a lottougher on us here at WAB. A .500 seasonleaves us with few-and-far-between high-lights to help us choose our “Player of theYear.”

Sure, we could simply hand the award to

the player who’s earned the most of the cov-eted “Who’s a Bum” awards over thecourse of the season, but that would requireus to look back through The Papers over thelast 12 weeks, anddo some math — whichis something we avoid like the plague.

Instead, we’re simply going to fall backon our rock since mid-season. The guy whoracked up seven wins in a row including hisfirst, on July 24 over the hated Staten IslandYankees. Kevin Deaton, you’re our Who’sa Bum player of the year.

Kevin Deaton, who tallied seven wins in a row during the course of the season, is our Cyclones player of the year.

O’KEEFE…Continued from page 4

Pinango. They added two more runs in thesixth and a fifth run in the eighth.

Brooklyn got a run back in the bottom ofthe eighth, though, when shortstop CoreyRagsdale blasted his second home run ofthe season, and his first at Keyspan Park.

In another bright spot for the Cyclones,their attendance of 8,004 put them over the300,000 mark for the first time in the club’sbrief history. Cyclones 6Crosscutters 4Tue., Sept. 3, at Brooklyn

For almost three hours, it looked asthough the Cyclone bats would remain qui-et and the team would drop its 10th straight.

Although the Clones got three runs onthree hits in the first inning, Crosscuttersstarter Roberto Novoa retired 22 Clones ina row from the second through the eighthinnings. Just as masterful was Cyclonestarter Scott Kazmir.

The Mets’ No.1 draft choice struck outsix Crosscutters in his three innings ofwork. With Kazmir gone, the Crosscuttersscored single runs in the fourth and fifthand then added two in the sixth (thanks totwo Cyclone errors).

But with Novoa gone, Jimmy Andersonlaced a two-out, bottom-of-the-ninth singleto tie the game at 4 and send it into extra in-

nings. In the 11th, Elvin Andujar crushed atwo-out, walk-off homer into deep leftfield, the first walk-off homer in Keyspanhistory. Rounding third, Brett Harper wassmiling like a little kid.

“We haven’t won in a while,” Harper ex-plained later.

The Cyclones finally broke their losingstreak, and did it in style. Elvin Andujarcrushed a two-run walk-off home run in thebottom of the 11th inning to win the game,and give the Cyclones their first victory in10 games.

Kazmir ran into trouble for the first time,and even so, he pitched three scoreless,one-hit innings with six strikeouts. He didallow three walks, though, and left after thethird inning due to a high pitch count.

The Cyclones took an early lead withthree runs in the first inning, thanks to aleadoff double by Chase Lambin, an infieldsingle by Aaron Baldiris, an RBI single byBrett Harper, and an RBI groundout byJimmy Anderson.

But the Crosscutters chipped away, andcame back to take a 4-3 lead. Chaz Lytleand Michael Cockrell both had RBIs forWilliamsport, and Travis Chapman drovein two. Robert Paulk entered the game inthe ninth, with the Cyclones down by a run,but he pitched three scoreless innings to gethis third win of the year.

In the bottom of the ninth, Jimmy Ander-son came through with another RBI, and sentthe game to extra innings. With two outs inthe 11th, Brett Harper singled to bring Andu-jar to the plate, setting up the first ever walk-off home run at KeySpan Park.Crosscutters 13Cyclones 10Wed., Sept. 4, at Brooklyn (10 innings)

The Cyclones appeared to be cruising, up9-0 with their ace pitcher, Kevin Deaton (7-1)on the hill, but after a masterful five innings,Deaton tired, giving up two singles and threeconsecutive walks before being relieved.

The Crosscutters ended up scoring nineruns — including a three-run homer byBrooklyn-born Anthony Bocchino — to tiethe game.

After the Crosscutters pushed across arun in the ninth, the Clones came back tolife. Brett Harper, who led off with a singleand later scored on new catcher DaniroReynoso’s single. But the playoff-boundCrosscutters scored three in the top of the10th to win it.

The Cyclones had built their early leadon a wild pitch in the first, two runs in thethird, and a six-run fourth inning completewith a Chase Lambin three-run dinger and,later, an Andujar two-run shot.

The Cyclones finished the season at 38-38.

loved one might not ever befound or even identified. Sheorganized a Ground Zero me-morial service that brought9,200 people together for onehour. And around Christmas-time, O’Keefe transformed Pier94 once more, into a Christmasmall, complete with boutiquesfilled with products that couldbe bought with papersnowflakes carried by thosewho had lost family membersto the Sept. 11 attacks — twosnowflakes for a Tonka truck,one for a make-up kit.

O’Keefe remembers the tal-ly of victims, of those who hadlost loved ones, of missing per-son reports filed, and of teddybears handed out like theywere the digits that make upher Social Security number.She said 240,984 people visit-ed the Pier 94 family relief cen-ter over its four months of op-eration.

It closed in January and onJan. 9, O’Keefe retired from herposition.

She remembers that metalslab of a pier as an oasis thatembodied dignity, love, kind-ness and the best in human na-

ture, and although many of herformer staff members do havethem, O’Keefe said she doesnot have nightmares.

That time in her life, shesaid, has not scarred her. O’-Keefe is proud of what she hasdone, she said, and feels goodabout how the recovery effortwas handled. She’s also proudthat a man like Rudy Giuliani,who so many across the cityand across the nation came tosee as a pillar of strength, sawher in that same light.

O’Keefe’s husband, Bill,sees his wife, post-9-11, as thesame person he has alwaysknown to be dedicated to mak-ing things better in the commu-nity. The Bay Ridge Communi-ty Council recognized her reliefwork with their Civic Award inJune.

And at 9 am, on Sept. 11,O’Keefe will read the names ofvictims at the memorial cere-mony with Mayor MichaelBloomberg at Ground Zero. Af-terward, she will meet with herformer Community AssistantUnit team, to catch up, remem-ber and most importantly, shesaid, “Just embrace.”

“to build may have to be the slow and laborious task of

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