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1930s Subway Train Rides Through B’klyn

A TRAIN OF VINTAGE SUBWAY CARS, MANY OF THEM FROM BROOKLYN’S TRANSIT MUSEUM,leaves the Rockaways, heading for Brooklyn and Manhattan. The black cars are from the1930s; the silver car is from the late 1940s or early ’50s. AP Photo

Church Vandalism ShocksBay Ridge Residents

By Jake PearsonAssociated Press

And Raanan GebererBrooklyn Daily Eagle

When a train of 1930s-and 1940s-era subway carswas put into service on Thurs-day to commemorate the re-opening of the RockawayLine in Queens, curious com-muters were merely seeingwhat they can see six days aweek at the Transit Museum,housed in an unused train sta-tion accessible through astairway at Boerum Place andSchemermerhorn Street, Down-town Brooklyn.

The dark-colored trains,which feature wicker seatsand overhead fans, were a farcry from the sleek, air condi-tioned silver trains people hopaboard each day. They wereamong the original cars or-

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By Mary FrostBrooklyn Daily Eagle

Former New York CitySchool Chancellor Joel Klein,currently the CEO of Amplify,said this week that his compa-ny has sold 21,215 electroniclearning tablets to middleschools in Guilford County,North Carolina.

Wireless/Amplify is a divi-sion of News Corp, the mediaconglomerate headed by Ru-pert Murdoch. According toNPR, Murdoch has describededucation as a market worth

“hundreds of billions of dol-lars.”

Students and teachers in 24middle schools will start usingthe tablets this September. Thedeal is for four years, and thetablets will be largely paid forthrough federal Race to theTop funds, the company said.

According to Amplify, thedevices, which run on An-droid, are an “all-in-one”classroom solution which willallow children to learn at theirown pace and simplify class-

Sells Thousands of Electronic Tablets to Schools There

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Good morning. Todayis the 154th day of theyear. The Brooklyn DailyEagle for June 3, 1899,reported on the death ofJohann Strauss, the“waltz king.” Many ofhis waltzes, such as “TheBlue Danube” and “TalesFrom the Vienna Woods,”are well known to thisday, as is his opera “DieFledermaus.” The articledetailed how Strauss,from Vienna, was trainedto be a bank clerk, butthat he took music lessonsin defiance of his father.The article also talkedabout his visit to the Unit-ed States in 1876.

Well-known peoplewho were born today in-

Joel Klein’s Tablet Company MakesBig Sale in North Carolina

By Paula KatinasBrooklyn Daily Eagle

Parishioners arriving at St.Anselm Roman CatholicChurch for the 6:35 a.m. Masson May 31 were shocked todiscover that vandals had des-ecrated two statues on thegrounds outside the BayRidge building.

Vandals drew the letter“X” in red on the neck of astatue of the Virgin Mary inthe church’s Prayer Gardenand another “X” on the side ofa statue of Jesus Christ on acrucifix, according to stateSen. Marty Golden (R-C-BayRidge-southern Brooklyn)who is a parishioner and is of-

fering a $1,000 reward for thearrest and conviction of thoseresponsible.

“I can tell you that we willnot stand for such acts of reli-gious intolerance in our com-munity, and I stand with myfellow St. Anselm’s parish-ioners in denouncing thiscowardly act,” Golden said.

Police are investigating thevandalism, which took placeat the church located at 35682nd St. It’s not clear exactlywhen the vandals sneakedonto the church grounds tocommit their crime, butparishioners said it probablytook place at some point be-tween late Thursday night and

early Friday morning.“We can’t figure out who

would do this,” said a womanwho answered the phone atthe church’s rectory Fridaymorning. “It was probablysome nut.”

The church has securitycameras stationed outside thebuilding, according to asource, who said policeplanned to study the footageto see if they spot the vandalsin the act.

John Quaglione, a memberof the church’s Pastoral Plan-ning Council, said he and hisfellow parishioners areshocked by the vandalism.

Old Trains Are on View at Brooklyn’s Transit Museum

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Please turn to page 3A CLOSE-UP OF A STATUE OF THE VIRGIN MARY AT ST. ANSELM’S CHURCH, SHOWINGa large “X” drawn on her neck. Eagle photo by Paula Katinas

HON. JO ANNFerdinand andBrooklyn Treat-ment Courtgraduate JohnRodriguez areseen at an eventon Friday tocelebrate Brook-lyn’s TreatmentCourt forNational DrugCourt Month.See story andmore photos,page 8.

Eagle photo by Rob Abruzzese

‘Steinberg Screen’At BAM HarveyThe “Steinberg Screen,”

a 35-by-19-foot, state-of-the-art movie screen donat-ed by Brooklyn philanthro-pists Joseph and DianeSteinberg, will be makingits debut this month at theBAM Harvey Theater. Thescreen will be the largest 5D(both 3-D and 2-D capable)screen in Brooklyn, with 42surround-sound loudspeak-ers permanently mounted tothe side and rear walls ofthe theater.

Among the showings itwill be used for are a his-toric series of early AlfredHitchcock silent films fromthe 1920s; a series of “bigscreen” epics such as“2001—A Space Odyssey,”“Lawrence of Arabia” and“Dr. Zhivago”; severalsneak previews, and first-run summer films begin-ning on July 16.

JOEL KLEIN, EX-SCHOOLSChancellor and CEO ofAmplify. AP Photo

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Review and CommentCuts to U.S. National Parks

Strike at America’s CharacterThis month’s commencement season is a reminder that most gradua-

tion speeches are forgotten almost as soon as they’re delivered. One excep-tion is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1838 address to graduating seniors at Har-vard’s Divinity School, a speech so controversial that Harvard leaders didn’t invite the Sage of Concord back for another 30 years.

Emerson got into hot water for questioning religious orthodoxy, but his Harvard speech is also noteworthy for its celebration of nature as a special source of American identity. His views are worth revisiting today as the feder-al budget sequester threatens national parks, wellsprings of our civic health.

Emerson came of age at a time when America was still largely a fron-tier, its streets devoid of the great cathedrals, libraries, and museums that informed the cultural life of the Old World. But Emerson frequently point-ed to America’s natural landscape as an equally promising resource for the mind and spirit.

Like his friend and fellow New Englander, Henry David Thoreau, Em-erson believed that connecting with nature could be not only a pleasant pastime, but a path to clearer thinking and a healthier soul. In opening his speech to Harvard’s seniors in 1838, Emerson spoke with joy of a coun-try where “the mystery of nature never was displayed more happily.” He thought that connecting with rivers and mountains and the open sky could help improve us mentally, morally, and spiritually.

That’s not a uniquely American idea, of course, but Emerson helped to place it at the center of our national creed. It’s why figures as varied as John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt embraced the cause of national conservation – and why Roosevelt did so much to advance the growth of a system of na-tional parks across the country.

All of this came to mind a few weeks ago as I stayed overnight in Rocky Springs, a Mississippi campground operated by the National Park Service along the Natchez Trace Parkway – a scene 444-mile drive through Tennes-see, Alabama, and Mississippi. Visiting with some Canadian campers who had traveled from Quebec to experience the Trace’s fabled history and beau-ty, I was reminded that these vistas, as much as any flag or document, help express who Americans are as a people.

That reality underscores what’s at stake in ongoing federal budget bat-tles that threaten to compromise care of National Park Service properties.

As Theresa Pierno of the National Parks Conservation Association re-cently noted: “The sequester has already cut more than $130 million from the National Park Service budget, forcing places like Yellowstone, Acadia and the Cape Cod National Seashore to delay seasonal openings, close vis-itor centers, picnic areas and campgrounds, along with eliminating ranger positions” that help protect endangered species.

Such budget policies don’t value the natural bequeath that Ralph Wal-do Emerson regarded as so central to our democratic experiment.

Economic necessity sometimes requires citizens to make difficult deci-sions about federal budget priorities, and in such a climate of austerity, even good programs might have to make do with less. But the sequester, which has placed fiscal stewardship on autopilot, doesn’t seem like the best vehi-cle for debating what national missions most urgently require our attention.

Such a discussion – when and if it happens – should acknowledge that Amer-ica’s wild places aren’t just a decoration, but the core of our national character.

“Nature,” Emerson told his fellow Americans more than century and a half ago, “is loved by what is best in us.” His words remain a call to action as urgent as any commencement speech we’re likely to hear this year, or any other.

—Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor

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By Ryan Lenora BrownChristian Science MonitorThe blocky sonar image of

the Pacific Ocean floor isn’tmuch to look at, just a mosaicof yellow and black pixelsstreaked with white.

But this fuzzy image couldhold the key to solving one ofthe most enduring mysteriesof modern history: What hap-pened to Amelia Earhart?

According to a nonprofitorganization called The Inter-national Group for HistoricAircraft Recovery (TIGHAR),which has been hunting forthe aviator's downed plane forat least two decades, theimage shows an “anomaly” onthe sea floor near the tinySouth Pacific island of Niku-maroro. And there’s reason to

believe, the group says, thatthat anomaly could be thewreckage of Earhart’s iconicLockheed Electra, which lostcontact with the US CoastGuard on a slightly overcastJuly morning in 1937, never tobe heard from again.

“It’s exciting. It’s frustrat-ing. It’s maddening,” the or-ganization wrote of the image,which it found while combingthrough data collected on atrip to Nikumaroro last sum-mer — the group’s ninth sinceit began its hunt for the Elec-tra in 1989.

“Listen, we’re realistic:This could be coral, this couldbe a sunken fishing boat, but itlooks promising,” says RicGillespie, TIGHAR’s execu-tive director. “It’s a great

clue.”Now Mr. Gillespie is ask-

ing supporters for $3 millionto chart a new expedition tothe island to take peek at the“anomaly” up close.

While that’s not exactlysmall change, he has easily

raised similar sums in the past.All in all, he says, his grouphas spent about $6 million onEarhart searches in the past 25years, the majority of it raisedfrom individual donors whowant to be a part of solvingaviation’s greatest whodunit.

room administration and les-son planning.

“This is one of the largest1-to-1 deployments, if not thesingle largest, to date in K-12education,” Klein said in astatement.

The Wi-Fi enabled tabletscome preloaded with teachingsoftware, third-party refer-ence materials such as the En-cyclopaedia Britannica andKhan Academy videos, andresources aligned to the Com-mon Core State Standards.

Many parents and someeducators feel that classroomcomputers are the wave of thefuture. With scant research toshow that technology im-proves learning, however,some education advocatesfear the push to introduce thetablets into the classroom is acover for larger class sizes andfewer teachers.

These fears may play outin Guilford County, facing theloss of 200 classroom assis-tants in September because ofbudget cuts.

While students in the dis-trict have been steadily im-proving academically over thepast few years, GuilfordCounty Schools Superinten-dent Mo Green told the NewsRecord he feared studentswould not continue to im-prove if the cuts were put inplace.

District officials also havecut bus service and central of-fice staff, plan to increaseclass size, and have scaled

back spending on educatortraining. GCS officials saidthey have scrapped plans for acamp to boost reading skillsfor up to 1,500 second-gradersthis summer.

Some parent worry thetablets will intrude on theirchildren’s privacy, as increas-ing amounts of informationabout students are logged intodatabases accessible to ven-dors interested in movingproduct.

New York City parentswere outraged last monthwhen they learned that thecity had handed their chil-dren’s personal informationover to inBloom Inc., a Gates-funded corporation, whichplans to share the informationwith for-profit vendors to helpthem market “learning prod-ucts.”

Reportedly, information isbeing collected from as farback as 1996 and is beingstored on an Amazon cloudbuilt by Wireless/Amplify.

While schools across thecountry are jumping on thetechnology bandwagon, hun-dreds of high-tech employeesof companies like Google,Apple, Yahoo and HP in Sili-con Valley are choosing tosend their children to the pri-vate Waldorf School of thePeninsula, where kids getplenty of face time with teach-ers in small classrooms andcomputers are not allowed.

“The idea that an app onan iPad can better teach mykids to read or do arithmetic,that’s ridiculous,” Google em-ployee and father Alan Eagle,told The New York Times.

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dered for the new IND sub-way system, now part of MTANew York City Transit, whenthe IND opened during the1930s. The train rode throughBrooklyn’s Fulton Street Aand C line after leavingQueens, and went to the laststop of the “A” train in Man-hattan.

The Transit Museum hasoriginal IND cars from the1930s, plus a spacious, moremodern IND model from thelate 1940s, on permanent dis-play. The museum also hassome of the original woodenBrooklyn elevated “gate”cars, meaning cars whose out-door gates had to be openedby a motorman, as well as theall-steel BMT “standards” ofthe 1920s that were familiar togenerations of Brooklynitesuntil they were finally retiredin the late 1960s.

Straphangers who justhappened to be in the rightplace at the right time snappedpictures on their iPhones andgawked at the old-timey adsfor Clark bars and Levy’s RyeBread adorning the walls ofthe train running on the A line.

One ad hawked Golden-berg’s Peanut Chews. Anotherpromoted a special Coney Is-land fireworks show on “Sat-urday Nite.”

“This old train brings backa lot of memories,” said KenPerl, a Brooklyn native whogot on the train in Queens anddecided to take it all the wayto its last stop in upper Man-

hattan. “When I rode this trainin the 1950s, I was 4 or 5.”

“To see these old seats, Ijust can’t believe it,” he said.

The cars were put into reg-ular passenger service Thurs-day from Beach 116th Streetin Queens to 168th Street inupper Manhattan after makingthe inaugural run in the Rock-aways, where subway servicebetween Howard Beach andBroad Channel had beenclosed since the late-Octoberstorm. Sandy washed out1,500 feet of tracks, destroyedpower and communicationswires and flooded the BroadChannel and Rockaway Park-Beach 116th Street stations.The MTA has spent more than$75 million to restore subwayservice to the Rockaways.

For Perl, the trip uptownevoked memories of a bettertime in New York, a timewhen there actually wereweekly firework displays onConey Island and a time whena train ride cost only a nickel— which it did, in 1939.

If you’re sorry you missedthe display of old train cars,fear not. During the summer-time, the Transit Museumsponsors nostalgia rides, fea-turing the same 1930s INDcars, to Coney Island, as wellas rides to the Bronx featuringWorld War I-era IRT cars.(The IRT was the ancestor oftoday’s numbered trains).

The defunct Court Streetstation, which houses the mu-seum, was in operation untilthe late 1940s as the last stopof a shuttle from the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station, whichis still in use.

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“We’ve never had anythinglike this happen at St. Anselmbefore. There’s no place for it,whether you’re talking abouta Catholic church, a syna-gogue or a mosque. We’re notgoing to tolerate it,”Quaglione said.

Quaglione, who plans toadd another $250 to Golden’sreward to bring that total up to$1,250 (he is Golden's deputychief of staff), said he and hisfamily are feeling the crimepersonally. “I was married inthis church and I had my babychristened here. I’m on theschool board here. This wholething is shocking to me,” hesaid.

The desecration of the Vir-gin Mary statue is particularlyironic, according toQuaglione, who said the stat-ue is located in the PrayerGarden, “a place for quiet re-flection.”

Assemblywoman NicoleMalliotakis (R-C-Bay Ridge-Staten Island) said she too was

upset by the vandalism.“Sadly, the desecration andvandalism of religious proper-ty is occurring far too oftenacross our city and it is heart-breaking and unacceptable.

“One of our most cher-ished rights as Americans isthe freedom of religion, whichwhy we have such a strong,vibrant and diverse communi-ty,” Malliotakis said.

The church’s pastor, theRev. Msgr. John Maloney,was unavailable for comment.

Friday’s incident wasn’tthe first time a Bay Ridge reli-gious institution was hit byvandalism in recent years.Vandals sneaked onto thegrounds of Visitation Acade-my, a Catholic school for girlsat 8902 Ridge Blvd., onMarch 21, 2012 and desecrat-ed statues.

In that incident, vandalsknocked over two statues thatdepicted children kneeling inprayer before a statue of Maryand decapitated a third statueof a lamb.

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COMMUNITY-SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE FARMERS DAN MCMANUS, LEFT, AND TESS PARKER WASH KOHLRABI AT COMMON HANDSFarm on Thursday, May 30, in Claverack, N.Y. Produce is sold at the farm and in Brooklyn. AP Photo

THE INTERIOR OF A RESTORED 1930S ERA SUBWAY CAR IS SHOWN.The MTA borrowed several such cars from the New York TransitMuseum to commemorate the opening of a stretch of subway tracksbadly damaged during Superstorm Sandy in Rockaway. Luckystraphangers who happened to be in the right place at the right timegot a nostalgic ride in an eight-car city subway train. AP Photo

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Justice Landicino To Preside at Columbian Lawyers Dinner The Kings County Columbian

Lawyers Association will hold its annual dinner June 13 at the El Ca-ribe on Strickland Avenue.

Presiding over this major event is Supreme Court Justice Carl Landi-cino. He will salute outgoing Presi-dent Codispoti on his excellent year of service and welcome new Presi-dent Robert J. Musso.

This will be the first time in re-cent memory that this very signifi-cant evening will not be presided over by the late Justice Anthony Cu-trona. But those who knew and ad-mired Justice Cutrona are well aware that he created a tradition at this or-ganization which will undoubtedly last as long as the very fond memo-ries of those who worked with him.

Justice Landicino is an excellent choice to be in charge June 14. Like Justice Cutrona, he knows how to preside over a courtroom and will use those skills to see that each and every honoree is respectfully recog-nized that night.

Justice Cutrona, ever the states-man, made sure that all in attendance appreciated the importance of order, keeping the spotlight on the organi-zation’s leaders and special guests. In short, there were no annoying “loud” tables when he started, or finished, the evening’s program.

The balance of the new roster to be installed that night consists of First Vice President Bartholemew Russo, Second Vice President Rose Ann Branda, Third Vice President Dean Delinites, Treasurer Mark Lon-go, Corresponding Secretary Linda Locascio, Recording Secretary Hon. Frank Seddio and Historian George J. Siracuse.

Big Steve Cohn Party Set for Polonaise Terrace

Some of Brooklyn’s best parties are those sponsored by Steve Cohn through his Seneca Club of Brook-lyn, which is holding its 114th An-niversary Dinner on June 6 at the Polonaise Terrace on Greenpoint Avenue.

Billed as “A Salute to Elected Of-ficials and Community Stars,” this gala always succeeds in drawing leading state and city office-holders while paying due accord to commu-nity volunteers.

Among those singled out will be Brooklyn Bar President Andy Fall-ek, District Attorney Joe Hynes, Bor-ough President Marty Markowitz, Sen. Eric Adams, Democratic County

Leader Hon. Frank Seddio and As-semblyman Joe Lentol.

Bay Ridge Lawyers Fete To Honor President Russo

The Bay Ridge Lawyers Associ-ation, one of the most prominent local legal groups in the city, will honor President Pasqualino “Pat” Russo at the upcoming 59th Annual Dinner Dance set for June 13 at the Dyker Beach Golf Course on 86th Street in Brooklyn.

A former attorney with the State’s Inspector General and Chief Administrative Judge at the City’s Taxi & Limousine Commission, President Russo is now with the firm of Windels Marx Lane & Mit-tendorf, LLP.

Officers waiting in succession include Vice President Joann Mona-co, Secretary Lisa Becker, Treasurer Grace Borrino and Corresponding Secretary Stephen Spinelli. Imme-

diate past president is Helen Z. Gal-lette.

Dittenhoefer Inn Term Coming to Productive End

The Kings County Nathan Sobel American Inn completed its CLE-year with one of its most interest-ing sessions in recent times. The main feature was a presentation on the pitfalls and perils that await tri-al attorneys who ignore seemingly innocuous “90 Day Notices.”

While such “failure to prose-cute” notices can be dealt with by an alert staff, Kings Inn lawyers were treated to an actual 3216 scenario presented by attorneys who had ac-tually gone through a nerve-wrack-ing 3216 experience. Good news: it

took years but they “won.”Among those who took part in

a very serious discussion about the vexing 3216 debate was Kings Chief Administrative Justice for Civil Mat-ters Hon. Lawrence Knipel.

The superb offering served as a tribute to President Marc Ditten-hoefer at his last meeting as Inn chief executive. This top trial lawyer has earned kudos for the entertain-ing and thorough manner in which he conducts various meetings. He can make even the most esoteric is-sue into a provocative moment.

Appropriately, he was the Inn leader who received a framed Inn of Court Charter from Presiding Appellate Division Justice Randall Eng. The treasured document was thoughtfully installed next to a painting of Surrogate Sobel.

Sharing the moment were three of the Inn’s founders -- Justice Mar-sha Steinhardt, Hon. Gerard Rosen-

berg (ret) and former Justice Edward Rappaport.

President Dittenhoefer will be honored at the Inn’s Annual June Gala set to take place June 24 at the Battery Gardens in Battery Park. Inn members attend at no charge, but guest need to pay a fee. Further in-formation should be obtained from Lucinda Di Salvo, secretary to Jus-

tice Spodek, at (347) 401-9312.The new Inn slate will consist

of President Justice Ellen Spodek, President-elect Dave Chidekel, Counselor Justice Arthur Schack, Treasusrer Acting Supreme Court Justice Miriam Cyrulnik and Secre-tary Jon Besunder.

Reflecting English Inns of Court tradition, the Kings chapter has been governed by a Board of Masters that includes: Hon. Gloria Aronin, Jon Be-sunder, Appellate Division Justice Cheryl Chambers, Larry DiGiovanna, Steve Finkelstein, Steven Goolnick, Appellate Division Justice Sylvia Hinds-Radix, Justice Barry Kamins, Federal Judge William Kuntz, Justice Carl Landicino, Victoria Lombardi, Mark Longo, Judge Joanne Quinones and Paul Weitz.

Catsimatidis, Lhota Handle Awkward Moment In Ridge

Certainly there’s no love lost between mayoral candidates John Catsimatidis and Joseph Lhota. So it was clear that a meaningful en-counter was in the offing when the Republican and Conservative candi-dates and their teams met up with each other along Third Avenue, which was the scene of the 147th Annual Memorial Day Parade.

The Catsimatidis entourage was led by Kings Republican Chair Craig Eaton. As their team moved sharp-ly south on Third Avenue at 75th Street. They unavoidably came face to face with candidate Lhota and some of his major supporters in-cluding State Conservative Chair Mike Long, Sate Conservative Chair Gerry Kassar, District Leader Fran Vella Marrone and GOP-Conserva-tive Council Candidate John Qua-glione, a top member of the staff of Republican-Conservative State Senator Marty Golden. (Quaglione will likely be the GOP-Conserva-tive standard bearer challenging in-cumbent Democratic Councilman

Vinnie Gentile in November.)There was hesitation and visi-

ble uncertainty when the Catsima-tidis cohort moved within 15 feet of the Lhota line. Words were uttered. Nervous smiles. Finally there were respectful nods of recognition be-tween the two candidates—which enabled them all to move on and eased the moment.

Kings GOP Still Troubled By Split Among LeadersSen. Golden wasn’t there at that

point. He was delayed at home car-rying out family responsibilities connected with the minor illness of his wife, Colleen Golden.

Some observers suggested the absence of the powerful sena-tor at that particular point might have been sort of a blessing for all concerned. The reason: Gold-en had split very publically with GOP Leader Eaton (they’re Bay Ridge neighbors) over their choic-es for mayor.

Their break-up made statewide headlines with some shocking, un-necessary and unfounded charges sullying the overall political envi-ronment.

At the city level, the disturb-ing dispute between their respec-tive GOP and Conservative camps may have been beneficial for little known Catsimatidis and Lhota. As a result, each has gained better recog-nition numbers within the elector-ate. Yet, in the long run, this divisive feud may diminish GOP chances at the November polls.

n keeping with the season — butreaching just a little bit back intoU.S. history — the Nathan Sobel

Kings County American Inn of Courtwill present a provocative session onNov. 27 entitled “Pumpkins, Panicand Perjury: The Trials of AlgerHiss.”

Veteran barristers will recall thatHiss was a target of many Red-bait-ing campaigns that rocked the nationin the 1950s and 1960s. They willalso remember that Richard M.Nixon won his first congressionalrace by painting opponent HelenGahagan Douglas as a “tool ofCommunist Russia” and other names(ComSymp, Fellow Traveler) thattoday would seem ridiculous.

Nixon and Sen. Joe McCarthyfinally had their way with Hiss andothers through the House Un-American Activities Committee,which scared this country into enter-ing the Vietnam War and much more.Democratic Presidents John F.Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnsonafter him, were every bit as warlikeagainst “Communist domination,”picking up where McCarthy left off.(Historic note: Nixon, Ike’s vicepresident, never did win the endorse-ment of President Dwight D.Eisenhower who, appropriately,never trusted him and famouslywarned the U.S. to avoid at all costsa land war in Asia!)

Irregardless, as we like to say inBrooklyn, the Inn Panel, led by Hon.Gloria Cohen Aronin, past presi-dent Rosario Marquis D’Apice andVictoria Wickman (one of the Inn’smost gifted thespians), will use thePumpkin Papers incident to highlighttheir presentation which offers twoCLE credits in “Ethics and TrialPractice.”

Inn Administrator MarieLattanzi advises that there will be awholesome repast provided for mem-bers starting at 5:30 p.m. that day atBBA headquarters, 123 Remsen St.The executive director is JeffFeldman.

The Inn is lead this year by presi-dent Marc Dittenhoefer, the triallawyer with a slate that includesPresident-elect Justice EllenSpodek, Counselor David Chidekel.Treasurer Justice Arthur M. Schackand Judge Miriam Cyrulnik, secre-tary. The immediate past president isRosario Marquis D’Apice.

The Inn is governed by a commit-tee of Inn Masters: Hon. GloriaCohen Aronin, Appellate DivisionJustice Cheryl Chambers, JusticeSylvia Hinds-Radix, former chiefadministrative judge for CivilMatters (now on her way to theAppellate Division); Justice BarryKamins, chief A.J. for criminal mat-ters; Justice Carl Landicino, U.S.District Judge William Kuntz II,Judge Joanne Quinones, and barris-ters Paul Weitz, Mark Longo,Victoria Wickman, Steve Goolnick,Steven Finkelstein, LawrenceDiGiovanna and Jon Besunder.

The Kings Inn chapter was found-ed by four justices: Justice MarshaSteinhardt, Hon. GerardRosenberg, Ret., Hon. Abraham

Gerges, Ret. and former JusticeEdward Rappaport, now knownfondly as president emeritus.

Bay Ridge Lawyers SetPopular Holiday Party, Dec. 19

The Bay Ridge LawyersAssociation, headed this year byPresident Pasqualino Russo, willpresent their always well-attendedholiday party on Dec. 19 at the ele-gant Dyker Beach Golf CourseReception Hall.

Leading the way as usual thisyear is past BRLA President RayFerrier, who has served honorablyas the association’s judiciary chair.“It’s going to be a great night!” saidthe veteran trial lawyer, who added,“This is an opportunity for membersof the bench and bar to get togetherin the holiday spirit.”

The most active and successfulneighborhood bar association in thecity, the BRLA was the first legalorganization in Brooklyn to institutea Continuing Legal Education pro-gram, established through the effortsof John Bonina, Jr. and ThomasTafuri.

The association is to hear fromJustice Jeffrey Sunshine Nov. 28 aspart of its continuing CLE endeavoron the timely topic: “No FaultDivorce. Temporary MaintenanceGuidelines and Matrimonial Update2012.”

Other officers are Vice PresidentJoann Monaco, Secretary Lisa M.Becker, Treasurer Grace M.Borrino, Corr. Secretary (and pub-licity co-chair) Stephen Spinelli.The immediate past president isHelen Z. Gallette.

Far Right Now in FearOf ‘Liberal’ Supreme Court?

Maybe it’s because Fox Newsbelieved its own slanted coverage aswell as the misleading data producedby GOP-biased pollsters (forinstance, Gallup, which had MittRomney beating President Obamaby four to five ‘points’). Or, perhapsit’s been so flummoxed ever sinceelection night that people out thereon the far right have yet to meaning-fully react to the future of the U.S.Supreme Court if the president getsto select one or more members of thathighest bench.

Except for an occasional outburstfrom Bill O’Reilly or RushLimbaugh, the Murdoch conglomer-ate has yet to foretell — ominouslyas its wont — what will happen to theU.S. Supreme Court now that thisDemocratic chief executive has fourmore years to name new justices whocould move the top court from centerright to center or even center left.

Most of Fox airtime thus far hasgone to a continuously enraged Sen.John McCain, whose soaring hostil-ity against U.N. Ambassador SusanRice — over her reading of unclassi-fied yet misleading material on theBenghazi murders — is sad to see.

Even with Fox on their side 24/7,the far right may ultimately be con-fronted with a Supreme Court more

Ginsbergian than Robertsonian!It’s conceivable that President

Obama could be the first to replace orname a majority of Supreme Courtjustices since the untroubled eight-year term of Republican PresidentDwight Eisenhower (who also omi-nously warned us of the growth mili-tary-industrial complex that nowrules much of Washington.)

While Justice Ginsberg is 79 andin ill health and Justice Breyer is 74,court observers note that JusticeScalia, the strict Constitutional con-structionist, is 76, and so is the right-leaning but “swing” Justice Kennedy.It’s become a grim waiting game.

President Obama has alreadynamed two liberals — JusticesKagan and Sotomayor — and theactuarial tables seem to indicate thathe could do the same should eitherScalia or Kennedy leave the bench.

Citizens United Is NowA Billionaire’s Club

While an identifiable bloc ofwoman voters sided with PresidentObama to prevent the possible over-ruling of Roe v. Wade, election-savvy Democrats and moderateRepublicans know that the only wayto stop the pouring of billions of dol-lars into political campaigns is to doaway with the infamous CitizensUnited (read Billionaires United)case.

Some expected a chastisedRepublican Congress to becomemore malleable and cooperative withDemocrats, especially on the ‘fiscalcliff’ issue. But they are working outtheir grief by using our U.N. ambas-sador as a punching bag.

This brutal behavior may be ini-tially therapeutic but ultimately itwill hurt them even more withwomen and minorities.

Dem. Felder ‘Joins’ GOPIn The Albany Senate

Democrats may rule — sort of —in Washington, but here in New York,it seems Republicans can win evenwhen they apparently lose. Case inpoint is the decision by formerDemocratic Councilman SimchaFelder to go over to the Republicancaucus in Albany.

A few years back, a couple ofsleazy Democratic senators “soldout” to the Republicans in a GOPSenate takeover, but ended up havingtrouble with the law. But SimchaFelder is anything but a sleaze —he’s bright, determined, a politicalsavant, a protege and a longtime allyof powerful Assemblyman DovHikind.

This all comes as no surprise.Felder supported the national GOP

ticket and urged his thousands ofdedicated Senate backers to vote forhim on the Conservative line all theway up to and including MittRomney and Paul Ryan. Democratsweren’t happy with his switch. But,rest assured, State ConservativeChair Mike Long and KingsConservative Chair Gerry Kassar,both Brooklynites, appreciate hisboost to their elective ballot line.

Working with a hard corps of ded-icated right-thinking workers such aslocal leader Fran Vella Marrone,Chairs Long and Kassar have main-tained a strong conservative politicalwing of the state party by patientlyreaching out to like-minded voters.Simcha Felder knows this, has dealtwith all of them as neighbors and fel-low community organizers over theyears and believes he was doing theright thing for his senatorial districtby going over to the AlbanyRepublicans.

Another guy who has to bepleased with Felder’s decision is R-C. Sen. Marty Golden who easilywon re-election over Democrat NickGounardes. Golden is one of themost influential Republicans inAlbany. He’s been quiet on theFelder switch, and though he’s nottalking about strategy there’s a goodchance his party will lure enoughDemocrats to their side to win con-trol of the upper chamber.

In closing, a query for politicalbuffs: how many votes did Felderand the Romney-Ryan team win onthe Conservative lines in his senato-rial district? How many Democraticvotes did Felder receive? Maybe ourastute online colleague Gatemouth inRoom 8 can tell us.

Pro Bono Reader LikedComments by Barrister Hill

Pro Bono Note: Last week attor-ney Arthur Hill contributed to ProBono a true welcoming letter to re-elected President Barack Obama.Shortly after that edition of theBrooklyn Eagle hit the streets hereceived the following missive froma Heights resident:

“Dear Mr. Hill:“I would just like to send you this

note commending you on your articlein the November 19th issue of theBrooklyn Daily Eagle.

‘“You stated in the article that`President Obama’s re-electionmeans that a majority of Americansbelieve that government can play ameaningful role in helping people.’

“You then gave an example ofthis by referring to the federal gov-ernment’s response to HurricaneSandy. As you mentioned, theRepublicans have said in the past that

such a role was in the province of thestates and not the federal govern-ment.

“I try to read four papers everyday [Post, Daily News, Newsday andThe Times]. I have read a tremendousamount of material about the hurri-cane these past few weeks, and to myknowledge, you were the first [or if Iam wrong, one of the first] to makethis connection between the federal

government’s role and the hurricane.“To his great credit, Governor

Christie has been willing to eat a lit-tle bit of humble pie and has reachedout to Obama, despite his fellowRepublicans distaste of federal gov-ernment intervention. But to safe-guard his health, the governor shouldstop eating all other types of (edible)pie.

“Thanks again for a great article.Sincerely, Martin Feuerman,Brooklyn Heights

The full text of the Feuermanmessage can be viewed by goingonline to brooklyneagle.com and, ifyou’re lucky, clicking the right com-mands!

Helping Candidate ThompsonBuild an Election TreasuryBy the way, Barrister Hill isn’t

just talking or writing politics — he’staking an active role in next year’smayoralty race supporting formerComptroller William Thompson,Jr. The Court Street attorney is team-ing up with partner Jim Ross and for-mer Appellate Division PresidingJustice William C. Thompson, Sr. tohold a fund-raiser on Thursday, Dec.13, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Lulu & MeGastrobar at 253 Fifth Ave. inManhattan.

The senior Thompson — knownto his intimates as “Willy” — hasearned his living legend status withhis prowess on the bench and hisuncanny ability to get people to bendto his will when he’s espousing agood causes, for instance, JALBCA—Judges and Lawyers Breast CancerAlert.

Judge “Willy” has been a primemover with JALBCA which hasraised hundreds of thousands of dol-lars sponsoring free screenings forwomen in need. (This year, KingsJustice Ellen Spodek is serving asJALBCA co-president).

As to the former comptroller he’llneed lots of money at the Arthur Hill-led soiree on Dec. 13. His opponents— Comptroller John Liu and CouncilSpeaker Christine Quinn — are get-ting plenty of media exposure throughtheir official appearances.

Polls seem to give Ms. Quinn theedge in the 2013 Democratic pri-mary, but most observers see thisedge as a function largely of day-to-day visibility as opposed to her elec-tability.

Others serving on the Lulu & MeCommittee are Warren Diamond,Marc Aronson, Joseph Owen,William Ross and Joseph Porcelli.Those interested in attending shouldcall Denise Felipe at (718)-855 2324or e-mail rossandhill.@aol.com.

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle November 26, 2012 • 5

Kings Inn Panel To Peruse ‘Pumpkin Papers’ Potential for Perjury

Simcha FelderState Sen. Marty Golden

Hon. Marsha SteinhardtHon. Carl Landicino Hon. Ellen Spodek

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Arthur Hill, Esq.

The late Justice Anthony Cutrona Justice Carl Landicino Justice Ellen Spodek Administrative Judge for Criminal Matters Barry Kamins

Justice Gerard Rosenberg (ret.)

Justice Arthur Schack

Hon. Randall Eng (left) is presented with certificate naming him an honorary member of the Nathan R. Sobel Kings County American Inn of Court by Inn President Marc Dittenhoefer. Photos by Rob Abruzzese.

Monday, June 3, 2013 • Brooklyn Daily Eagle • 5

MONKEY’S NEW HOME: Canadian singer Justin Bieber’s former pet, the capu-chin monkey named Mally, stretches out its tongue in its quarantine room at the new home in an animal park near Hodenhagen, northern Germany, Friday. Mally was seized by German customs on March 28 when the 19-year-old Canadian pop star failed to produce the required vaccination and import papers after landing in Munich for a European tour.

Our Worldin Pictures

FRENCH OPEN: Switzerland’s Roger Federer returns against Julien Benneteau of France in their third round match at the French Open tennis tournament, at Ro-land Garros stadium in Paris. Federer won in three sets 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.

AP Photos

SLOWDOWN IN INDIA: Indian laborers put up a barricade for construction in New Delhi, India. India’s economy expanded at its slowest pace in a decade last fiscal year, adding to pressure on the government to speed up economic reforms. Government figures released Friday showed that growth for the 12 months end-ed March 31 slowed to 5 percent, far below the 8 percent rate the country has av-eraged in the past 10 years.

RAN OUT OF FUEL: The tail section of a small plane sticks out from the side of an apartment building after crashing into the complex early Friday in Herndon, Va. Capt. Willie Bailey with Fairfax County Fire and Rescue in Virginia says the plane ran out of fuel early Friday and crashed, injuring several people.

SLUMP ON WALL STREET: Traders gather at the post that handles Hertz on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stock futures slumped on the final trading day of May, with new data showing that consumers pulled back from their breakneck spending pace in April.

SUCCESS: Workmen sweep in front of a new mural honoring The Roots in Philadelphia. As a teen growing up in Philadel-phia, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter got busted for graffiti and was ordered by a judge to clean up such vandalism by paint-ing murals. Now, Trotter and his Grammy-winning band The Roots were scheduled to attend the unveiling of a city-sanc-tioned mural in their honor. AP Photos

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June 3 FROM THE ORIGINAL EAGLE AND OTHER SOURCES

On This Day in HistoryBrooklyn’s Only Daily Record of Historical Events in the Borough

Brooklyn Daily Eagle June 3, 2013 • 0

Eagle Artifact Recalls Brooklyn’s PastAll the old subscribers

know that the BrooklynDaily Eagle (1841-1955) wasmuch more than a newspaper.When Alfred C. Harnsworth,publisher of the Daily Mail inLondon, visited the Eagle of-fices in 1905, he had this tosay:

“I never conceived a news-paper that should be at once afriend of the people; thatshould be a center of intellec-tual activity, an informationbureau and a governmentweather bureau; that shouldbe used as a means of in-structing hundreds of youngpeople in newspaper making;that should take the pains toamuse and entertain childrenof its city through a depart-ment especially devoted tothem; in short a paper thathad so many and original de-partments apart from themaking of the newspaper it-self.”

The Eagle was not onlythe bearer of news both localand international, but alsoBrooklyn’s greatest cheer-leader and its steadfastarchivist. The Eagle spon-sored all sorts of local com-memorative activities andcontinuously reached into theborough’s past to help shapeits identity as one separateand superior to the metropolisacross the river.

Our reporter Harold Egelnstumbled upon an artifact ofthe old Eagle’s unceasingdedication to all thingsBrooklyn while at the FifthAvenue Festival in Bay Ridgethis past weekend.

For sale at one of thebooths was a small book onthe borough’s history pub-lished by the newspaperaround 1946, when Frank D.Schroth was the publisher.

From the first page of the64-page publication, the tonetakes the typically superla-tive view of Brooklyn.

A caption for the imageon the cover reads “GrandArmy Plaza, showing themost beautiful arch in theworld from the entrance tothe most beautiful park in theworld.”

It was one of six bookletspublished that year by theEagle telling the borough’shistory, 310 years after itwas first settled by Euro-peans.

(In 1636, William Bennetand Jacques Bentyn pur-chased a tract of land inGowanus). Though it was in-tended for the enjoyment ofadult readers, the bookletwas more importantly pub-lished as a service to theyouth of the borough, the in-

troduction informs us. And“sufficient copies” wereprinted for distribution in the“public, parochial and pri-vate high schools of Brook-lyn.”

Published before theNavy Yard was closed, be-fore the Dodgers left and, ofcourse, before the Eaglefolded, those institutionswere not yet a part of Brook-lyn’s past, and the book fo-cuses on “the community ofhomes, churches andschools” that made up theborough and that were “sec-ond to none.”

It is full of interesting in-formation, such as a detailedaccount of the skirmish at theOld Stone House in the Battleof Brooklyn during the Revo-lutionary War, as well as ananalysis of the scene depictedin Francis Guy’s painting,“Snow Scene,” which showsthe Fulton Ferry area circa1815.

It also retraces the RoyalMail Route, which ran be-

tween New York and Vir-ginia, and which Brooklynbecame a part of in 1741 — adevelopment that “gave im-petus to the growth of Brook-lyn.” It ran from Fulton toFlatbush out to Kings High-way in Flatlands and thenwest to what is now FortHamilton. “Passengers andmail were brought from NewYork to Brooklyn by ferryand loaded on a stage coachdrawn by eight horses…withan escort of redcoats to pro-tect them from Indians andhighwaymen.”

It also informs us thatBrooklyn’s first church wasthe First Dutch ReformedChurch, established in 1666,which lay in the middle ofFulton Street betweenLawrence and Bridge streets.Nearby was established thefirst school on Bridge Streetnear Fulton, about the sitewhere the Macy’s departmentstore is now.

Another interesting factgiven in the book was that

Brooklyn sent 327,000 of itssons into service duringWorld War II. Also, the sur-render of Japan was signedon the deck of the USS Mis-souri, which was built at theBrooklyn Navy Yard.

The book also covers theBrooklyn Academy ofMusic, Brooklyn Bridge,Plymouth Church, ProspectPark, the Brooklyn HistoricalSociety, the Montauk Club,Brooklyn Museum, andPacker Collegiate Institute.Which makes one think thatit’s amazing how many insti-tutions and structures haveendured. And that perhapsthe Eagle’s many years ofunflappable Brooklyn prideand promotion had a part init.

— By Phoebe Neidl

This booklet on Brooklyn history was one of six publishedby the Eagle around 1946. Pictured below are some of theimages that were included in the book.

Pictured here is the foot of Montague Street in BrooklynHeights during the 1890s when it was a busy ferry station.

The first church in Brooklyn was The First Dutch Re-formed Church, shown here, on Fulton Street betweenLawrence and Bridge streets.

Chuck Barris, TV pro-ducer (“Dating Game,”“Newlywed Game,”“Gong Show”), born inPhiladelphia PA, in1929.

Anderson Cooper,TV journalist, born inNew York, NY in1967.

Hale S. Irwin, golfer,born in Joplin, MO, in1945.

Rafael Nadal, professional tennis player (four-time champion at the French Open),born in Majorca, Spain in 1986.

Scott Valentine, actor (“Family Ties”) born in Saratoga Springs, NY, in 1958.

Deniece Williams, singer (“Free,” “It’s Gonna Take a Miracle”), born in Gary, IN,in 1950.

Birthdays — June 3

This image depicts The Apprentices’ Library on Henry and Cranberry streets. This is wherethe Brooklyn Institute, which was a forerunner to the Brooklyn Museum, got its start.

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Chris Johnson

Deniece Williamslast.fm

Anderson CooperWikipedia /Tulane PR

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Recchia Gets NYPD to Install Security Cameras on 86th StreetBy Paula KatinasBrooklyn Daily Eagle

Message to a thief: Before you go to pick that person’s pocket on 86th Street, be aware that Big Brother will be watching you.

The New York Police De-partment is installing 11 new ARGUS security cameras along the 86th Street shop-ping area in Bensonhurst and in other sections of southern Brooklyn, thanks to $400,000 in funding obtained by Coun-cilman Domenic Recchia Jr.

Recchia (D-Coney Is-land-Gravesend-Bensonhurst) said the 11 new cameras will supplement the existing sev-en ARGUS cameras that are al-ready up and operating in his council district. The word AR-GUS is from Greek mythol-ogy. He is depicted as a gi-ant with 100 eyes who could watch over a wide area.

The first nine new camer-as will be installed at the fol-lowing locations: 86th Street and 25th Avenue; 86th Street and 23rd Avenue; 86th Street and Bay Parkway; 86th Street and 20th Avenue; McDonald Avenue and Kings Highway; Mermaid Avenue and West 24th Street; Stillwell Avenue and Benson Avenue; Avenue W and West 11th Street; and Neptune Avenue and West 8th Street.

“It gives an added secu-rity to the community,” Rec-chia told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on May 30. The NYPD on the locations, using as its criteria places deemed to be at risk for crime. “This is a highly populated shopping area. A lot can happen here,” Recchia said as he spoke to a reporter on the corner of 86th Street and 23rd Avenue Thursday morning.

The NYPD’s anti-terror-ism task force was also con-sulted on the locations, Rec-chia said. “I didn’t pick the spots,” said Recchia, chair-man of the council’s Finance Committee. “My job as Fi-nance Committee chair is to get the money to do this. Af-ter that, I leave it up to the experts. The NYPD knows more than I do about fight-ing crime,” he said.

Recchia said he hopes res-idents will feel safer know-ing the cameras are there. “These cameras will pro-vide much-needed surveil-lance capabilities to areas of my district in need of height-ened security,” he said.

But residents shouldn’t look for the cameras right away. The installations in Rec-chia’s district will take place over a three-year period.

The 11 cameras going up in Recchia’s district are part

of a massive security effort involving a roll-out of 640 cameras throughout the city,

Councilman Vincent Gentile (D-Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights) announced that the NYPD has approved two loca-tions for the camera installa-tions in his district; Fifth Ave-nue and 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue and 76th Street in Bay Ridge.

Gentile, a member of the council’s Committee on Pub-lic Safety, allocated funding

in last year’s City budget for the surveillance cameras.

“These state-of-the-art cameras will significantly en-hance the crime-fighting ef-forts on our streets,” Gentile said. “There is no disputing that surveillance cameras are extremely important in this day and age and have com-pletely revolutionized the way crimes are solved, so this site approval by the NYPD is a big step towards making our streets safer,” he said.

Councilman Domenic Recchia Jr. stands at the corner of 86th Street and 23rd Avenue, one of 11 sites in his district getting new surveillance cameras. Eagle photo by Paula Katinas

By Paula KatinasBrooklyn Daily Eagle

Job seekers take note. There could be a couple of openings in state Sen. Mar-ty Golden’s office, depending on the results of the election this November.

Two of the senator’s key staff members are running for city council seats as Repub-licans. Anthony Testaverde, who serves as Golden’s liai-son to military veterans, has announced his intention to run for the council seat in the 46th District. He joins Gold-en’s deputy chief of staff, John Quaglione, as a coun-cil candidate. Quaglione is al-ready well into his campaign for the council seat in the 43rd District (Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights-Bensonhurst), where he is taking on incumbent Democrat Vincent Gentile.

Testaverde has set up a Facebook page and has start-ed making the rounds on the campaign trail.

Testaverde, the GOP dis-trict leader in the 41st Assem-bly District, gave an interview to Brooklyn GOP Radio, an in-ternet station, promising to hit the ground running in his campaign. “My team is ready to hit the streets. This is the start of something good,” he told the interviewers

The 46th Coun-cil District, current-ly represented by Democratic Coun-cilman Lew Fidler, who is term-limited, includes the com-munities of Gerrit-sen Beach, Marine Park, Mill Basin, Kensington, Flat-lands and Canarsie.

Meanwhile, Golden (R-C-Bay Ridge-southern Brooklyn) official-ly endorsed Quagli-one for City Council on May 28. Speak-ing at a Subway Se-ries-themed fund-raiser at The Bench, a sports bar on Third Avenue in Bay Ridge, Golden lauded his right hand man as some-one who would work hard for the community if elected.

“I have known John for more than 15 years, and I can think of no one better to lead our community as a city councilman,” Golden told Quaglione’s supporters. “John has spent well over a decade in daily service to our community, working tire-lessly to improve the lives of countless residents, and that is why I am endorsing him and want him to be my next

city councilman. I need John in the City Council to work with me for the good of our neighborhood,” Golden said.

Calling Golden “a friend and a mentor,” John Quagli-one, whose tenure in Gold-en’s office dates back to the days when Golden was a city councilman, said “I am hum-bled to have his support, and I look forward to the day when I can call him a col-league, and we can contin-ue to work together to main-tain a high level of quality of life that our neighbors expect and deserve.”

Two of Golden’s Staff Members Running for Council Seats

John quaglione isn’t the only member of state Sen. Marty Golden’s staff run-ning for public office. Colleague Anthony Testaverde announced he is running for an open council seat in Marine Park.

Eagle photo by Paula Katinas

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By Rob AbruzzeseBrooklyn Daily Eagle

The National Association of Drug CourtProfessionals has been touring the country tocelebrate National Drug Court Month. Its finalstop was at Brooklyn's Drug Treatment Courton Friday.

The trip, which is called All Rise America!,is meant to highlight recovery stories from drugcourt graduates nationwide. Brooklyn'sTreatment Court was chosen as its final stopbecause it is seen as a pioneer among drugcourts in helping to change the lives of people

who otherwise would havegotten caught up in the crim-inal justice system.

“The Brooklyn TreatmentCourt was established in1996,” Chris Deutsch,NADCP’s director of com-munications, said. “It wasn’tthe first drug court in thecounty, but it was certainly apioneer, and we wanted toend this trip here to recog-nize that.”

There are currently morethan 2,700 drug court programsin the country. The first one wasimplemented in Florida in 1989.Drug courts seek to rehabilitatepeople arrested on drug chargeswho otherwise might be in andout of prison for most of theirlives.

When the Brooklyn TreatmentCourt was created, there wereonly about 80 such courts in theentire country. The Brooklyncourt has now graduated more

than 3,000 people.The event on Friday was hosted by Hon. Jo

Ann Ferdinand, who presides over Brooklyn’sdrug court. She introduced the Alumni Paradeof Success, a group of graduates from theBrooklyn Treatment Court who gave briefspeeches about how the drug court affectedthem.

“The Brooklyn Treatment Court is the bestthing that happened in my life because it savedmy life,” said graduate John Rodriguez.“[Judge Ferdinand] saved my life.”

Judge Ferdinand credited John Feinblatt,founding director for the Center for CourtInnovation, for being instrumental to bringinga drug court to Brooklyn back in 1996. “Hehad the vision and turned it into reality,” shesaid.

“The easy thing to do would have been tobe skeptical, but the smarter thing was to putaside preconceived notions to start asking theright questions,” Feinblatt said about thefounding of the court.

Hon. Barry Kamins introduced Brooklyn’sDistrict Attorney, Charles Hynes, and creditedhim with being a pioneer of the program. Hesaid that because of Hynes, the program quick-ly caught on throughout all of New York.

“I used to be a criminal defense attorney,and I would find it offensive when a young DAthought they were making their career off ofone of my clients,” Hynes explained.

Hon. Michael Brennan, a Vietnam veteran,compared the drug-court issue to the way vet-erans used to be treated after coming backhome. He explained that just as veterans usedto be blamed for the war, the victims of drugabuse shouldn’t be blamed for their problems.Instead, society should continue to try to getthem help through Drug court programs.

To conclude the event, Hynes made amotion that the 12 most recent BrooklynTreatment Court graduates have their felonyviolations expunged. Judge Ferdinand grantedthe motion, dismissed the charges and orderedtheir records sealed.

Judge Ferdinand was presented with theNational Association of Drug CourtProfessionals’ ceremonial gavel. Judge JudyHarris Kluger, chief of policy and planning inthe NYS Court System, was also presentedwith the All Rise Leadership Award as well.

B’klyn Is Final Stop on the Drug Court Road Trip

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From Associated PressMELBOURNE, Fla.— Authorities

say a man who was frustrated with hisailing 70-year-old mother bludgeonedher with a hammer, dismembered herbody and dumped the remains in adrainage ditch.

Investigators arrested 45-year-oldFrancis Riccio on Thursday in Brooklyn,N.Y. Police say Riccio moved his familynorth after Maureen Riccio died in lateMarch. He's being held without bond inNew York on charges of first-degreemurder and abuse of a dead body.

Brevard County Sheriff's Maj. TodGoodyear told Florida Today MaureenRiccio lived with her son, his girlfriendand their three children. He says the chil-dren appeared to be unaware of whathappened to their grandmother.

The body was found May 14 by anelectrical engineer who had stopped onthe side of a road.

Brooklyn Man AccusedOf Killing, Dismembering

Ailing Mom in Florida

Chris Deutsch, director of communications for NADCP; Hon. Judy Harris Kluger;Joseph Madonia, project director for the Brooklyn Treatment Court; and Hon. Jo AnnFerdinand. Eagle photos by Rob Abruzzese.

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes is seen withHon. Barry Kamins at an event to celebrate Brooklyn'sTreatment Court for National Drug Court Month.

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