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Published every Saturday — online all the time — by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington St, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2005 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 12 pages • Vol. 28, No. 3 BRZ • Saturday, January 15, 2005 • FREE
Including The Bensonhurst Paper
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GANGEMISSETTLE SUITBy Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers
A senior citizen defrauded by disbarred BayRidge attorney Frank Gangemi lashed out at thelawyer’s father during a civil trial in Brooklynfederal court Wednesday, charging that the for-mer councilman brought on the swindle by nur-turing his son’s gambling addiction.
presented a list of witnesses, which, according to asource, included John Gangemi’s brother Domenickand Ursula’s estranged husband, Andrew Wasserman.
O’Brien said that Ursula and John are free andclear under the settlement. The main thrust of theagreement, he said, is that Frank Gangemi admit-
ment on the settlementby press time.Frank Gangemi pleaded guilty in 2003 to rob-
bing more than 20 clients, including Samara, of mil-lions of dollars. He is serving a 5-to-15-year prisonsentence. Samara is suing all three Gangemis.
ted he had defrauded Samara, paving the way forSamara to collect $1.7 million from the Lawyer’sFund for Client Protection.
Asked why Samara chose to seek recompensefrom the fund rather than pursue the trial further,O’Brien said he was confident Samara would beable to collect from the legal fund, which he paint-ed as more likely than being able to collect fromany of the three defendants, especially Frank, who
Frank Gangemi, John Gangemi, Sr., and Ursula Gangemitogether at their law firm in 1999.
Sign along Seventh Avenue across from Victo-ry Memorial Hospital allows parking for doc-tors, but not nurses. DOT says that will change.
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Victor Sama-ra, 88, testifiedon Jan. 12 thatFrank Gangemistole $2.5 mil-lion from himunder the watch-ful eyes of his fa-ther, John Gan-gemi Sr., and hissister, Ursula Gan-gemi, when theywere all partnersin a family-runBay Ridge lawfirm.
But on Thurs-day, the Gan-gemis decided tosettle out ofcourt after Mer-rill O’Brien, Sam-ara’s attorney,
is incarcerated.“Wonderful
results,” Samarasaid after thesettlement wasreached. “Whena defendant ad-mits every partof your claim,then you knowyou are in theright spot.”
Said O’Brien,“We’re happyabout this. Theyagreed on all theclaims made, andwe proved whatwe needed toprove.”
The Gangemiscould not bereached for com-
See GANGEMIS on page 3
Victory for Victorynurse parking spotsBy Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers
Nurses at Victory MemorialHospital, entangled for monthsin a fight with hospital officialsto gain parking in close prox-imity to the Bay Ridge medicalcenter, have won a small meas-ure of victory themselves — anumber of on-street parkingspaces recently reserved fordoctors is soon to be turnedback over to the general public.
Following a feud that drew theattention of elected officials and fu-eled a petition signed by more than200 hospital employees, about a
dozen “doctors vehicles only”signs along Seventh Avenue willbe removed within the next severalweeks, said a spokesman for thecity Department of Transportation.
“We re-evaluated the site in No-vember and decided this should begiven to the community,” saidDOT spokesman Tom Cocola.“We have nothing against the nurs-es or the doctors, and Victory iscertainly a fine institution. Butparking in and around hospitals is achallenge all across the city.”
Finding spots within walkingdistance of the hospital on 92ndStreet at Seventh Avenue has al-ways been a problem, contendregistered nurses who work at
Victory Memorial. But the park-ing brouhaha elevated to a newlevel in October after the doctor’s-only parking signs were installedon the avenue between 86th and92nd streets.
The exclusive parking, thenurses contend, added to spacesalready reserved for doctors onnearby Parrott Place and in thehospital’s underground garage.
The attention to the doctors hasforced more than 300 nurses,technicians and administrativeemployees at Victory Memorial tofight for parking scraps that, moreoften than not, reveal themselvesonly after block-spanning, half-
Hit-run victim’sfamily offers $10K rewardBy Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers
The family of a lifelongBensonhurst resident whowas fatally struck just blocksfrom her home by anoncoming pickup truck, andthen hit again by a secondvehicle, has announced a$10,000 reward for informa-
tion leading to the arrests ofthe two hit-and-run drivers.
The reward, raised by thefamily of victim Joann Ce-glecki, 43, was announced lastweek along with a $2,000 in-centive offered by police. Therenewed push for help, saidone of Ceglecki’s five sib-lings, follows a two-weekcharity drive by friends,neighbors and co-workers andan investigation by police intothe Dec. 15 incident, whichhas netted few leads.
“We just don’t want this tohappen to someone else’sfamily,” said Denise Ceglecki,one of Joann Ceglecki’s foursisters. “Our family would justlike to see justice done andhave some closure. Our liveswill never be the same with-out her.”
Ceglecki, a dietician atConey Island Hospital, wasmowed down only blocksfrom the home she had sharedfor more than three decadeswith her stepmother and an-other sister, Kristen, on WestFourth Street at Highlawn Av-enue.
Police say that Cegleckiwas crossing south on WestFourth Street at 1:30 pm whena dark-red pickup truck speed-ing westbound on Kings
Highway knocked her to theground. According to familymembers, emergency medicaltechnicians on the scene saidthat the first vehicle likelykilled her before a black SUVrolled over her a second time.
Both drivers sped off.Ceglecki was pronounced
dead on arrival 45 minutes lat-er at Coney Island Hospital,where the aunt to three niecesand a nephew had worked for10 years.
Since the tragedy, whichrelatives believe happenedwhile Ceglecki was on herway to do last-minute Christ-mas shopping, police have
Joann CegleckiArea cyber cafes are disappearing
Neighbors say they are happy that Ecline, a cyber cafe at 7603 Third Ave., has gone out of business.
By Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers
A Third Avenue cyber cafe that along with other Internet-access businesses in Bay Ridge became a magnet for truan-cy, drug dealing and violence quietly closed down lastmonth following a sharp drop in business.
Ecline, a 2-year-old Internet business at 7603 Third Ave., between76th and 77th streets, closed Dec. 31 following what the building’sowner said was a long history of ignored requests to provide ade-quate security outside what had become a teenage hangout.
While not as notorious as similar businesses in Bay Ridge andSunset Park, Ecline raised the ire of parents and elected officials lastyear after crowds of kids began swelling outside. Some reportedlyskipped classes to be there and others may have been dealing drugs.
“This is a good thing,” said Josephine Beckmann, district manag-
Bay Ridge issues for 2005The Brooklyn Papers
When Josephine Beckmann, districtmanager of Community Board 10, re-turned to work after New Year’s week-end, her first official telephone call of2005 came from a resident still shakenby the Dec. 22 death of an elderlywoman struck by a car while crossing10th Avenue in Dyker Heights.
While Beckmann and others contend that
the number of hit-and-run deaths in BayRidge and Dyker Heights dropped in 2004,thanks in part to a task force formed by po-lice last February to stem the tide of illegaltruck traffic, the call she received that Mon-day may in some regards be a window ontowhat’s in store for the district in 2005.
“Transportation, traffic, parking — it’s al-ways going to be a problem, every year,”said Beckmann. “But the number of truckcomplaints have gone down and the number
of summonses has increased. I hope thatcontinues.”
Besides those mainstays, however, com-munity leaders and civic activists predictthat last year’s other most visible concernswill either find resolve or flourish with newtwists this year.
Topping the list, say elected officials, is aneffort to expand to Dyker Heights and Benson-hurst an initiative already underway to pre-
See 2005 on page 4
See HIT-RUN on page 4
See VICTORY on page 3
See CYBER CAFE on page 3
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Actors Adam Arkin and Ari Graynor star in Broadway’s “Brooklyn Boy,” written by Sheepshead Bay native Donald Margulies. The play is nowin previews and opens on Feb. 3, joining “Brooklyn: The Musical” on the Great White Way. Go Brooklyn interviews Margulies on page 6.
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By Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers
Faced with an onslaught ofre-election challengers, DistrictAttorney Charles Hynes has re-vealed plans for a fundraiserhosted by Mayor MichaelBloomberg and the assemblageof an all-star campaign staff thatincludes handpicked politicoslinked to both the mayor andPresident Bill Clinton.
The one-two punch, say localpolitical consultants, is an indica-tion that Brooklyn’s top prosecu-tor is taking seriously challengesfrom as many as five Democratic
primary opponents this Septem-ber, the most crowded field hehas faced since being elected in1989.
Bloomberg, a Democrat-turn-ed-Republican who faces hisown re-election battle this fall,confirmed his support for Hynes,69, during a press conference onDec. 30 in Queens.
The $1,000-a-head fundraiser,to be held at the billionaire may-or’s Upper East Side townhouse,is slated for Jan. 31, two weeksafter a Jan. 15 deadline for candi-dates to file with the city Cam-paign Finance Board.
“I think District Attorney
Hynes has been a good district at-torney,” said Bloomberg. “WhatI have liked about him is he hasbeen very innovative in fightingdomestic violence and trying newprograms and I’ve got good rela-tions with all five of the districtattorneys. But in this case, eitherhe or his staff reached out and Iwould like to encourage him tocontinue being innovative.”
Asked about the alliance thisweek, Hynes said through aspokesman, “I’m honored thatMayor Bloomberg has decided tohost a fundraiser at his home toassist me with my re-election ef-forts next year.”
Six other Democrats are saidto be mulling a campaign to un-seat Hynes: state Sen. JohnSampson; attorney Sandra Roper;Paul Wooten, an election attorneyfor the Kings County DemocraticCommittee; Councilman DavidYassky, who represents Down-town Brooklyn and BrooklynHeights; Arnold Kriss, an attor-ney, and Mark Peters, a formerprosecutor under state AttorneyGeneral Eliot Spitzer.
Roper, 47, challenged Hynesin 2000, garnering 37 percent ofthe vote despite being kept fromcampaigning until the final weekbefore the primary due to chal-lenges of her nominating peti-tions by Hynes, which kept her incourt.
In 2003, Roper was indictedon charges she stole $9,000 froman elderly client. Hynes referredthe case to a special prosecutorand in November, a jury failed toreach a verdict. She is expected tobe retried next month.
Roper will officially announceher candidacy on Wednesday, onthe steps of Borough Hall.
She has accused Hynes of apattern of politically motivatedprosecutions, a charge the prose-cutor has denied.
The fundraiser in January willnot be the first time Bloombergand Hynes will have demonstrat-ed nonpartisan friendliness.Bloomberg, himself newly swornin, administered the oath to
Hynes at the 2002 swearing infor his fourth term as district at-torney.
“I particularly want to thankMayor Bloomberg for giving methe honor of administering theoath to begin my fourth term asDistrict Attorney of Kings Coun-ty,” Hynes said. “In short orderthis mayor has established a clearcommitment to collegial govern-ment and the determination togive this city what it desperatelyneeds — an orderly restoration ofits economy.
“Given the mayor’s extraordi-nary success in business, doesanyone doubt his ability to deliv-er?”
Bloomberg’s Hynes connec-tion includes the political consult-ing firm Penn, Schoen &Berland, which conducted pollsfor the mayor in the past and wastapped recently to act as consult-ants to Hynes. The firm also con-ducted polls in May for LeslieCrocker Snyder, a former statesupreme court justice who is ex-pected to run against ManhattanDistrict Attorney Robert Morgen-thau.
(The firm also conducted apoll for Bloomberg as to whethervoters would support a referen-dum scrapping partisan primariesin New York.)
But Penn, Schoen & Berlandmay have made its biggest splashduring Clinton’s 1996 re-electionbid, when the president’s tele-vised messages at press confer-ences were often coordinatedwith pithy phrases such as“Building America’s Bridge”draped in the background. JoshKing, a media expert for the firm,came up with the concept, whichpolitical consultants say likelyhelped Clinton win a secondterm.
Consultants in Brooklyn saythat the bipartisan alliance couldgo either way for both candi-dates, thanks to what has becomea time-tested tradition of racebaiting in municipal politics.Mostly, however, both wouldgain from the bond, they said.
To the editor:It’s very upsetting to read
that the builder of the condoson Fort Hamilton Parkwayand 97th Street could get up toONLY six months in jail forthe death of the young manfrom Ecuador, Angel Segovia.Is this the value of a man’s lifein our system of justice?
The owners, the builder andthe contractor committed mur-der by knowingly ignoring therules for safety. There is a rea-son for rules — to guardmen’s lives. Being in the busi-ness of construction, theywere well aware of theserules. By not following therules for safety they intention-ally put their employees indanger for their lives andtherefore I consider it murder— worth more than a paltrysix months.
In addition, the city inspec-tors were grossly negligent —their job is to protect the people— those who work on the joband those who will eventuallylive in the building. Wherewere they?
If this young man were myson, I would be SCREAM-ING bloody murder. Thisman’s family is in anothercountry — who will screamfor him?
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Capano choiceof Young Repub To the editor:
In the Dec. 25 article head-lined “Sources: Capano to quitBoro Hall post,” the chairmanof the Kings County Conserv-ative Party, Jerry Kassar, indi-cated he will “likely” endorse
LETTERS
Hynes hires heavy hitters
Death bossgot off easy
Pat Russo should Russo de-cide to run for City Council —primarily because of his“showing” in 2003.
As president of the BrooklynYoung Republican Club, Istrongly urge the ConservativeParty to give due considerationto life-long Republican andlong-time senior advisor to Bor-ough President Marty Marko-witz, my friend Bob Capano.
However, whatever the Con-servative Party decides, the Re-publican Party must be guidedby who we believe is the bestperson for the job and whogives us the best chance to win.We must choose our own candi-dates — not those dictated byany other party. Bob Capano’srecord with Democrat MartyMarkowitz clearly demonstratesthat he can appeal to peopleacross party lines in a generalelection. As a little league coachwith the 68th Precinct Commu-nity Council and professor ofPolitical Science, he also has thecommunity and education re-cord to represent us well.
Pat Russo is a nice guy, buthe ran on three lines — Repub-lican, Conservative and Inde-pendence — in 2003 and stilllost by a wide margin. It’stime for a candidate who canand will win. I am confidentthe Brooklyn Republican Partywill take the lead in selectingthis candidate. Hopefully theConservative Party will join inthis winning effort as well.
— Luke Vander Linden,President, Brooklyn Young
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The hearing-impaired StatenIsland man claimed that over aperiod of three years FrankGangemi, a graduate of NYUand Columbia University, gam-bled away money he was sup-posed to be spending on real es-tate deals for him. The threeGangemis represented them-selves in the case.
“It was you,” Samara shoutedat John Gangemi while beingcross-examined by the formerBrooklyn councilman-at-large onWednesday. “You took him to thegoddamn casinos and I blameyou. I blame you for all of this.”
O’Brien said in his openingstatement Monday that Johnand Ursula Gangemi wereequally responsible becausemoney was being swindled un-der their noses while Frank wasin charge of accounts at theirlaw firm, Gangemi & Gangemi.He contends that whether JohnSr. or Ursula knew what washappening is beside the point.
Frank Gangemi used to shareoffices with the two at 9201Fourth Ave., and in 2001 theyopened a new office at 86thStreet and Bay Seventh Street.
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hour searches, often in thedead of morning.
But beside that, many em-ployees cite their own safety.
“We could be mugged, ap-proached by a stranger, what-ever,” said Judy Gallo, a regis-tered nurse from Staten Islandwho has worked at VictoryMemorial for 35 years. “Nowthat winter is here it’s going tobe slippery. But they don’tcare about any of it.”
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er of Community Board 10 andpresident of the United Neigh-bors Association, a group thatwas founded in 2002 to stemthe tide of such businesses.
“This will certainly alleviatethe quality of life around thearea,” Beckmann added.
Most hurt by the cafe, how-ever, may have been the ownerof the property, who said that onmore than one occasionteenagers broke the front doorleading to tenants’ apartments,sold drugs from inside and wereeven caught smoking marijuanain the vestibule of the building.
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tation of the law,” said BayRidge Councilman VincentGentile. “I think it would be aserious misstep for the healthand wellness of students at theseschools and even a major mis-step for his political career to in-stitute a lawsuit.”
Peggy Casey, a Bay Ridgemother of three young children,said that before 2002, St.Anselm’s had a nurse on a dailybasis who went out of her wayto call parents to learn how shecould help their children.
These days, however, Caseysaid it is more likely that the
nurse is bouncing from schoolto school. Several months ago,she said, John, her 11-year-oldboy, suffered asthma attacks onThursday, Friday and again onMonday.
The nurse was absent allthree days.
“If you think about it, with-out the nurse, he has to explainit to the teacher, the teacher hasto send him to the principal’soffice and somebody has to callme or a doctor,” said Casey.
“How much of that timecould be cut out if there was anurse there?”
By Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers
In the midst of a politicallycharged fight to increase cityfunding to pay for at least onefull-time nurse at each privateand public elementary school,parents at St. Anselm’s arecharging that threadbare staff-ing at the Bay Ridge Catholicschool is jeopardizing theirchildren’s safety.
Parents say that since 2002,when Mayor Michael Bloom-berg yanked more than 100
nurses from nonpublic schools,the availability of medical assis-tance at St. Anselm’s and otherparochial schools has been whit-tled to two days a week. As a re-sult, they say, children as youngas 5 are faced with playingRussian roulette with their ownhealth impediments.
“I know what it looks likewhen my kid’s going intoshock,” said Chris Proscia, thefather of two sons attending St.Anselm’s, one of whom isdeathly allergic to peanuts,among other foods. “But if they
can’t find the nurse becauseshe’s out to lunch or at anotherschool, then my son is going todie. Within five minutes, my sonis dead.”
Besides his worries for hisoldest boy, 13-year-old Stephen,Proscia said that Gregory, 10,who also attends the school, hasasthma, a respiratory ailmentthat can trigger an attack severaltimes a day. Between the two,said Proscia, the lack of care atthe school has forced his wife, atrained nurse, to visit each daywhile Stephen eats lunch.
More often than not, however,parents in Bay Ridge are workingand cannot be on hand each timethat a health problem arises.
“It’s a no-win situation,” saidProscia, “because the mayor hasmade it perfectly clear that eventhough the city has the money topay the nurses, he’d ratherspend it somewhere else. Lookat the $30 million he spent onstreet signs.”
A retired policeman, Pros-cia’s frustrations echo thosevoiced by others with childrenat parochial schools across Bay
Ridge. Fearing that untrainedofficials won’t know how toremedy the array of conditionsendured by their children, be itan asthma attack or an allergy,some parents are even choosingto stay home during schoolhours in case of an emergency.
Proscia’s cause for alarm,while on heightened alert sincethe budget cuts of 2002, hasbeen reinvigorated followingnew hope and then despair in-volving school nurses. Despiterestoring funding for 113 nursesin September, Bloomberg ve-
toed unanimously approvedCity Council legislation the fol-lowing month that required atleast one nurse for every ele-mentary school with more than200 students, largely because ofits $12.5 million price tag.
With the support of the Ro-man Catholic Archdiocese ofNew York, a nurses union andscads of parents, the councilquickly overrode the mayor’sveto.
“In the interim it’s a questionof whether the mayor brings alawsuit to block the implemen-
In the process, he said, two ten-ants living above the businessleft.
Speaking to The Bay RidgePaper by telephone, the ownerof the building, who gave onlyhis first name as “Jimmy,” saidthat he was notified in Novem-ber by the brothers who operat-ed Ecline that they would beleaving. Besides breaking theirlease, he said, they asked that henot put up a ‘For Rent’ sign un-til after they closed down be-
cause they didn’t want to alertpeople who had paid for amembership, which allowedthem to surf the Web for dis-counted prices.
The brothers, who he said arenamed “Sam and Jay,” couldnot be reached for comment bypress time.
“They were doing incrediblebusiness, paying the rent a weekbefore hand, and then, bam,nothing, no business,” saidJames. “These guys put their
business in the ground all bythemselves.”
The closing, which followsthe closing last summer of theMatrix LAN Party cyber cafe,on Fort Hamilton Parkway at70th Street, brings to two thenumber of cyber cafes still oper-ating in Bay Ridge and comeson the heels of legislation seek-ing to control the once perva-sive Internet start-ups in south-western Brooklyn.
The Cyber Sniper Cafe, on
Fort Hamilton Parkway at 62ndStreet, and High Speed Tech, at249 69th St., are still in busi-ness along with a handful inSunset Park, Dyker Heights andBorough Park.
John Quaglione, a spokes-man for state Sen. Marty Gold-en, said legislation that hadbeen passed in the Senate butvoted down in the Assembly,would be re-introduced in Feb-ruary.
If passed, he said, the lawwould require $250 operatingcertificates of all businesseswhere two or more computersare wired for Internet use whilealso requiring owners to main-tain the vital information of itscustomers for a five-year peri-od.
First Amendment expertscontend, however, that the thor-ough record keeping, and inten-tion to freeze out minors duringschool hours, flies in the face offree speech.
Even without city or statelaws in place, however, com-munity leaders and police saidthat the exodus of the Internet-access joints, and an increasedfocus on police surveillancenear areas where kids tend tohang out, has resulted in a re-duction in crimes.
“What we’re doing is we’repaying special attention to theareas where kids congregate,”said Deputy Inspector WilliamAubry, commanding officer ofthe 68th Precinct. “Our inten-tion is not to close the cybercafes, but to keep these kidssafe.”
While a handful of fights andreports of drug dealing sparkedcomplaints from parents as ear-ly as 2001, when a number ofthe businesses first began pop-ping up in Bay Ridge, DykerHeights and Sunset Park, area-wide outrage ignited only aftera fatal stabbing outside of theY&Z Internet Cafe, on 58thStreet at Seventh Avenue.
The murder, in September2002, stemmed from an alterca-tion inside the establishment.
By the time it spilled ontothe street, police said, threeteenagers had been stabbed, in-cluding Tony Lee, 18, who diedshortly after the attack.
Two men from Flushing,Queens, were later arrested,thanks in part to surveillancefootage captured by cameras in-side the cyber cafe, which isstill open.
check to himself from the vic-tim’s account.
Samara, who received someof the money owed to him froma victim’s compensation fund,was seeking $1.7 million, whichhe said Frank Gangemi askedhim for under the guise of “taxobligations” and other fees tiedto property Samara was buyingin Staten Island and New Jersey.Gangemi contended, however,that a separate attorney, JackSwift, was retained to handleSamara’s real estate dealings.
Samara, who O’Brien said
John Sr. found himself answer-ing Samara’s questions.
“Why did you give my son amillion-seven?” asked John Sr.
“I don’t know,” said Samara.“Why did you give my son a
million seven?” he asked again.“I don’t know. Why’d you
buy that brown suit?” quippedSamara.
“No. No … I like this, I likethis suit,” John Sr. answeredback before asking the questionagain.
“No reason,” Samara an-swered before saying he decid-ed to file the lawsuit, “when Ifound out that I had this out-standing IRS situation.”
Following a dizzying back-and-forth, in which Samara ac-knowledged his own financialtroubles, Judge Richard Levyinterrupted both men.
“Sometime you and Mr.Gangemi can have a long talkon the telephone,” said Levy.“Right now, you’re in court.”
The mood was more somberwhen Frank Gangemi cross-ex-amined Samara.
The two hadn’t spoken sinceGangemi was convicted, andthey treated each other with kidgloves.
As to those crimes, FrankGangemi told jurors that he wasremorseful and would work torepay everyone he had hurt.
“I was going to kill myself,”he said of his gambling troublesand subsequent criminal con-viction.
“But today I’m a differentguy.”
When faced with Samara, heacted calm, even a little nostalgic.
“How do I look?” Frankasked while Samara was underoath.
“How do you look?” saidSamara. “You look good, likeyou lost 50 pounds.”
“They really don’t carewhere the nurses park,” shesaid. “They’re only concernedwith the doctors.”
Angela Canade, the hospi-tal’s spokeswoman, did not re-turn calls for comment bypress time.
Councilman Vincent Gentile,who helped bring the issue be-fore Department of Transporta-tion officials, said that, eitherway, the reversal will at least re-store the old status quo.
“At the top you had John Sr.… and at the bottom you hadFrank, the least experienced inthe family,” said O’Brien.
Among the 17 counts ofgrand larceny to which hepleaded guilty in February2003, Gangemi admitted hecashed in a 90-year-old man’slife insurance policies, sellinghis Miami Beach apartment andmortgage and writing a $65,000
made a habit of sealing dealswith handshakes and no con-tracts, said he could not recallever working with Swift. He ex-plained that the gaps in his mem-ory, which traced a line throughthe trial, were a result of brainsurgery he had last year.
“I lost my memory ofnames,” he said.
Characterizing him as a du-plicitous cheat, John Sr. told ju-rors that neither he nor Ursulahad met Samara until a recentdeposition.
He also highlighted a ca-reer’s worth of business mis-takes he said Samara made thatincluded partners who are nowin prison, and others who stillowe him money.
“I’m not privy to what he didwith Frank at that time, and Inever knew him from a hole inthe wall,” John Sr. told jurors inhis opening arguments. “But Ican tell you, I never needed hismoney, never needed his mon-ey. My family grew up withouthis money and without hisschemes.”
Samara, who owns propertyin Bay Ridge as well as StatenIsland and New Jersey, earnedhis wealth, he said, 35 yearsago while selling a line ofladies flannel-lined nylon jack-ets in the Philippines that waslater purchased by the familythat owns Foster’s beer. Heworked as a garment executiveuntil retiring in 1991, but evennow continues to buy and sellproperty, despite his age and theuse of two canes.
It was only after Samara wason the stand that he and JohnSr. had a chance to exchangewords.
The occasion, however, mor-phed into something akin to ashouting argument, which be-came so muddled at times that
serve historic buildings in BayRidge. But equally important,they say, will be efforts to re-build a notoriously rickety por-tion of the sea wall along ShoreParkway, alleviate overcrowd-ing at area schools, and, ofcourse, reclaim lost parking.
“The drive to preserve a lotof the housing is in place, butDyker Heights and Benson-hurst have to be next,” saidCouncilman Vincent Gentile.“That’s going to be a bench-mark in the future and sowe’re looking at 2005 as theyear that changed zoning.”
While it may sound like hy-perbole, Gentile may be right.Swung into motion five yearsago by members of Commu-nity Board 10, the painstakingplan to rezone 249 blocks ofBay Ridge finally came tofruition in 2004 and could beapproved by Mayor MichaelBloomberg this summer.
If passed, the proposal todesignate three times the currentnumber of blocks for detachedhousing while reducing by halfthe number of so-called Fed-ders-style homes would be thelargest zoning change in Brook-lyn’s history. Combined withcommitments from the Depart-ment of City Planning to expe-dite reviews in Bensonhurst andDyker Heights, the effort could,indeed, establish 2005 as theyear that changed zoning, abanner that some say could ex-tend to the rest of New York.
While the effort to preserveneighborhood character con-tinues apace, the push tostrengthen the sea wall thatsupports a bike path alongShore Parkway may be equal-ly urgent. Although the wallabutting the Bay Ridge Chan-nel and the Narrows has beencrumbling for years, repairshave not been made.
The cost to repair the seawall, estimated at between$12 million and $15 million in2001, when the crumblingwas first noticed, has likelycrept to as much as $18 mil-lion, said state Sen. MartyGolden.
“We have to find the moneyor close it down, because it’scaving in,” said Golden. “Even-tually, if we don’t get that ad-dressed quickly, we’re going tosee an injury and maybe evendeath on the Belt Parkway.”
For parents in Bay Ridge,the New Year’s wish may befor more wiggle room in localclassrooms. But while city andstate elected officials say thatrelieving students of the bur-dens of overcrowded class-rooms is a priority, progressthis year may only take shapeas forward-moving legislation.New schools, such as a highschool planned for SunsetPark, likely won’t be complet-ed for several years.
The problem is most severeat Fort Hamilton High School,which over the years has bal-looned to 4,728 students, about1,690 more than the building onShore Road at 83rd Street wasdesigned to accommodate. Newhopes for relief came last yearwhen the city announced itscommitment to renovate abuilding near Fourth Avenue at35th Street, which could ac-commodate many of the stu-dents who currently commuteto Fort Hamilton. Still, thatbuilding isn’t expected to beopen to students until 2008.
“That will be the major rea-son why [Republican] MikeBloomberg will be a one-termmayor,” predicted Gentile, aDemocrat. “The school reor-ganization will blow up to be-come an absolute chaotic mess.He’s done nothing but hurt theschools that I represent in the43rd district.”
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Freak incidents evacuateTelecomm High … twiceBy Jotham SederstromThe Brooklyn Papers
A pair of small fires sparkedinside of the High School of Tele-communication Arts and Sciencesthis week forced the evacuation ofthe school’s 1,200 students on con-secutive days.
Firefighters responded to the school at350 67th St. on Jan. 6 and Jan. 7. The firstschool-clearing incident involved a buffermachine used to wax floors; the secondstemmed from the explosion of a televi-sion in an empty classroom.
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In the Jan. 6 incident, around noon, abuffer machine inexplicably blew up asa janitor was using it to wax the cafete-ria floor.
Although the machine did not cause afire, enough smoke filled the room thatofficials felt obligated to call the Fire De-partment, an action that, by law, forces anevacuation.
“It was a smoke and spark condition,which obviously is serious but not too se-rious,” said Keith Kalb, a spokesman forthe Department of Education. “It wasevacuated as a precautionary measure. It
was very short, very quick and put undercontrol immediately.”
Just after 11 am the next day, a secondexplosion, this one causing a small fire ina second-floor classroom, above theschool’s auditorium, drew another evacu-ation. Kalb said fire officials are still in-vestigating the TV malfunction, but saidthat the incident occurred in an unoccu-pied room. Acustodian nearby was treat-ed for smoke inhalation, he said.
Following news of both explosionslate last week, students and alumni, whowere largely left in the dark, shared theirthoughts on what had happened on an In-ternet message board. While most voiced
frustrations of not knowing how seriousthe incidents actually were, others sug-gested that the explosions were related,and even plotted by terrorists.
“They still haven’t released any newson this fire,” wrote one concerned scribe.“What’s taking them so long? Possiblytrying to cover up something? Hmm, it’spossible. I am frightened to go to schoolon Monday because of the fear thatsomeone may be setting these fires.”
Barbara Yarshevitz, the school’s parentcoordinator, said that she hadn’t heard ofstudents being particularly alarmed. Sheadded that she hasn’t received phone callsfrom concerned parents.
bers say, however, that thoseefforts have not panned out.
“What we really want, andwhat the family really wants,is some closure to this,” saidBetty Bonanno, who livednext door to Ceglecki formore than 30 years. “We un-
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Bonanno said Ceglecki, agraduate of Lincoln HighSchool, was known through-out the neighborhood for herkindness and cheery smile.Whenever she was on her wayto the grocery store she made a
habit of ringing her neighbors’doorbells to see if there wasanything they needed.
A graduate of Kingsbor-ough Community College, Ce-glecki attended dietary andhealth courses that helped toboost her career at the hospital.Russell Guarneri, a brother-in-law, said that following his sis-ter-in-law’s death, co-workerscalled to pay their respects.
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one else was walking aroundthe halls, she was like an an-gel, just helping, just doingwhatever anyone needed fromher,” said Guarneri.
Ceglecki is survived by foursisters, one brother, her motherand her stepmother.
Anyone with informationon the Ceglecki killing isasked to call the police depart-ment’s Crimestoppers hotlineat (800) 577-TIPS.
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Donald Margulies may have a PulitzerPrize under his belt, a teaching job atYale University, a family and a home inConnecticut, but the 50-year-old Jewishplaywright insists he will always be aBrooklyn boy at heart.
“I firmly believe that our childhoods areinescapable,” the Sheepshead Bay nativeand Brooklyn public school graduate toldGO Brooklyn. “Wherever we’re from, it’ssomething that lives with us always, no mat-ter how far we go from that birthplace. Theolder I get, the more that I believe that istrue. It’s undeniable. It presents itself in allkinds of ways in our everyday lives. Youjust feel little bursts of the past and that issomething that has always interested me asa writer — how the past and the present arevery often concurrent.
“There’s always a doppelganger, a childversion of me, commenting on the action ofmy life,” he added. “I don’t think that it’ssomething that ever goes away.”
Best-known for his acclaimed stage dra-mas “Dinner with Friends” and “Sight Un-seen,” Margulies says his latest work, aptlytitled “Brooklyn Boy,”is one of his most per-sonal to date, empha-sizing that like all ofhis plays, it drawsloosely on experi-ences he has had orpeople has met, butwarning that its pro-tagonist should not beseen as a portrait ofhimself as an artist.
“I think an analyti-cal point of view isprobably the best wayto [describe how myplays are written],”explains Margulies. “Ithink any writer whowrites autobiographi-cally is not truly writ-ing down everythingthat happens to him orher. What a writerdoes, is take life expe-rience and turn it intosomething else. Al-though my protago-nists in certain worksmay be contempo-raries of mine and Iwould have known them if they actually ex-isted, they are not representative of me.”
Directed by Daniel Sullivan and starringAdam Arkin, Polly Draper, Ari Graynor,Arye Gross, Kevin Isola, Mimi Lieber andAllan Miller, “Brooklyn Boy” is about awriter (Arkin) who finally hits the big time
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part of a natural progression of my work,”says Margulies. “It seems to encapsulate somany themes that have interested methroughout my body of work and it seemsthat those themes just never go away. I thinkthat’s probably true of any writer whosework you look at over a period of time. You
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The themes inMargulies latest work seem to be resonat-ing with a larger audience than Brooklynitesalone.
“It’s been very interesting and gratifyingto see this play succeed in front of OrangeCounty, Calif., audiences,” says the man
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