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Volume 15 Issue No. 33 Aug. 15-21, 2014

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UNITY IN ROCHDALE A garden at the North Eastern Towers has provided an activity to bridge the generation gap.

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News Briefs Albert Baldeo Found Guilty Of Obstruction Of Justice

of 20 years in prison. Judge Crotty will sentence Baldeo on Dec. 16.

Portion Of Springfield

Attorney Albert Baldeo, a former Queens District Leader, was convict- Blvd. Temporarily Closing The western portion of the Springed in federal court on seven counts field Boulevard and 145th Road inof obstruction of justice.

Preet Bharara, the United States tersection will be closed to both east Attorney for the Southern District and westbound traffic from Wednesof New York, announced that the day, Aug. 13 until Monday Aug. 18.

Southbound Springfield boujury found Baldeo, of Richmond Hill, guilty of tampering with witnesses levard motorists will be unable to during the investigation of his alleged make a right turn onto 145th road campaign fraud by the Federal Bu- and northbound motorists will be unable to make a left reau of Investigation. turn at 145th Road.

The case reached its An alternative route conclusion in Manhatfor westbound 145th tan federal court after road motorists is to a one-week trial before proceed on SpringU.S. District Judge field Boulevard/lane Paul Crotty. to 147th Avenue and In the fall of 2010, then head westward.

Baldeo, then serving Eastbound 145th road as a Queens District motorists will be diLeader, took part in rected from the street Albert Baldeo a plot to defraud the to south Conduit AveCity through the funnue at both 183th and neling of multiple illegal campaign 184th Streets.

144th road, 145th Avcontributions to his unsuccessful campaign for City Council. Baldeo enue and 145th road (184th street to and one of his employees supplied Arthur Street) and Arthur Street will money orders or cash to individuals, be accessible to local traffic only. who would then contribute to the campaign under their own names.

Queens Library At Hollis This manipulation affected the Closing Postponed New York City Campaign Finance The scheduled temporary closing Board’s calculations as to whether of Queens Library at Hollis, located Baldeo qualified for matching public at 202-05 Hillside Avenue., has been campaign funds. Baldeo instructed postponed from Aug. 15 to a new several of his straw donors to sign date. The new closing date to install a affidavits that falsely confirmed that new roof will be announced shortly. the contributions were made using their own funds.

Once the FBI started investigating Queens Library Central the matter, Baldeo told several straw Library New Area donors to provide false information The Queens Library New Central to, or not cooperate with, the agents Library Area is ready for customers. looking into his campaign. In one Workers finished the new circulacase, where a straw donor was going tion area which opened at the Cento refuse to lie, Baldeo’s office faxed tral Library in Jamaica on Aug. 12. a threatening letter to the individual The new area is the latest phase in and had a co-conspirator make false a total renovation of the Central Liallegations that the individual was brary which will cost $20.2 million abusing his grandchild. in total. The new Cyber Center, adult “With today’s verdict of guilty, an reading and reference area and the impartial federal jury has found that Teen Space have been completed and Baldeo lied and instructed others to are now serving customers. lie to law enforcement agents invesThe work being done at the library tigating the source of his campaign is done in phases so that the library contributions, and threatened and in- can remain in public service throughtimidated others in order to conceal out most of the work. The renovathe truth,” Bharara said. “These prac- tions include all public service and tices have no place in our politics or administrative areas. It is the first our justice system.” renovation in more than 45 years.

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Presstime

Participatory Budgeting Begins In District 31

BY JORDAN GIBBONS Councilman Donovan Richards’ office held its first participatory budgeting neighborhood assembly Tuesday night to begin the process of spending $1 million on capital project ideas in next year’s budget.

The projects must pertain to capital funding, which is based on infrastructure, and not expense funds, which are programs for people and services. Some examples of appropriate projects are repairing potholes, building a basketball court or replacing windows at a school.

More than 30 residents were in attendance for the meeting in Rosedale and they were asked to sign up for one of the six committees that were broken up into parks, environmental, public safety, education, senior centers and youth projects.

There is no limit to the amount of people in each committee, there can be up to 3 projects proposed by each committee and residents were informed that they can change their mind during the assembly process by moving to a different committee.

Mitch Noel, a community liaison for Richards, worked in the Rockaways last year when they held the district’s first participatory

Franck Joseph explained the details of the process to residents (top) before they signed their names to a specific committee (left).

budgeting. He told the residents that there is going to be a $150,000 cap for each project so more projects can have an opportunity to win.

Projects must also cost more than $30,000.

Each committee will have a facilitator, who supervises each group and contacts the Councilman’s office to report the potential project ideas. Noel said that the members of the committee will select their own facilitator.

“You guys are part of the committee,” he said. “You are going to pick

who’s best.”

The facilitators must be selected by the end of the assembly process, which will go on until October.

Then the participating delegates will hold meetings between November and March to develop proposals. In March, there will be project expos to share the proposals and get community feedback. Sometime between then and the end of April, the community will vote on the projects.

Anyone who lives in the district and is 12 years or older are eligible to vote.

“What this really does is bring the community together,” Jacqueline Boyce, a Community Board 12 member, said. “We’ll all work on this together.”

The next meeting will be held in Springfield Gardens before the end of the month to accommodate the residents who were not able to travel to Rosedale this week.

Richards’ staff asked the attendees to help spread the word in the community to get as many residents to participate in the process as possible.

“Let’s show New York City that we are not just about the talk,” Franck Joseph, community liaison, said. “Let’s walk the walk, let’s have fun and recruit our neighbors.”

For more information, email pbnyc31@gmail.com.

Reach Reporter Jordan Gibbons at (718)357-7400 Ext. 123, jgibbons@ queenspress.com or @jgibbons2

Injunction By Former Library Trustees Rejected

BY JOE MARVILLI The six ousted Queens Library trustees have received a setback in their lawsuit.

The Hon. James Orenstein, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York, recommended against granting a preliminary injunction that would reverse the trustees’ removal from their positions at the library. He will send his recommendation to Federal Judge Margo Brodie for consideration.

The six trustees, Joseph Ficalora, Jacqueline Arrington, William Jefferson, Grace Lawrence, Terri Mangino and George Stamatiades, were removed last month after a bill passed in the State Legislature, allowing the Borough President and Mayor to do so. BP Melinda Katz said she removed the trustees for failing to

properly oversee the finances of the Queens Library. The trustees countered that the move was a power grab by the Borough President.

The trustees’ lawsuit states that the State law violates the Contract Clause of the U.S. Constitution and their removal impeded on their first amendment rights.

Orenstein disagreed, saying that the trustees were removed for their job performance, not for the context of their speech. This decision is a new obstacle in the trustees’ attempt to prevent Katz and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who removed two other members, from appointing replacements.

The suit will now go to Brodie, who took on the case after Brooklyn Federal Judge Roslynn Mauskopf recused herself. She said she is a close friend of former federal judge, Barbara Jones, who is conducting a whis-

tleblower complaint on the behalf of Stamatiades. He is looking into who leaked the initial information about CEO Thomas Galante’s salary, second job and taxpayer-funded smoking deck. It was this information that set this year’s controversies about the Queens Library into motion.

Doug Grover, counsel for the plaintiffs, stated their dissatisfaction in Orenstein’s recommendation, but said they would continue to support the Queens Library.

“The six trustees are distinguished leaders with long records of service to the community. They could not allow the actions by the Borough President to go unchallenged. They brought this action to assert the independence of the Library and the right of every trustee to act without political interference,” he said. “They are understandably disappointed by today’s outcome

but remain true friends of the library and hope for its continued success.”

The remaining trustees on the Queens Library board also released a statement that spelled out their intent to adjust to the new State law’s provisions.

“While we are still reviewing today’s action by the court, the Queens Library Board and its committees will be working throughout the months ahead to implement changes to the Library’s by-laws mandated by State law, improve transparency and adopt best practices of not-for-profit corporate governance,” they said. “The Board’s goal is to achieve the same recognition in matters of integrity and oversight as the Library achieved in matters of innovation and service delivery.”

Reach Reporter Joe Marvilli at (718) 357-7400, Ext. 125, jmarvilli@ queenstribune.com, or @JoeMarvilli.

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New St. John’s Prez Looks to Enhance Student Success

BY JORDAN GIBBONS

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prehensive strategic planning efforts and the development of new academDr. Conrado Gempesaw is start- ic initiatives to enhance retention and ing his first semester in a few weeks graduation rates, increase international enrollment and as president of St. global partnerships John’s University and and establish student he said that while it is learning outcomes asa great university, it sessment practices. can be greater.

Gempesaw earned Gempesaw was a Ph.D. in agricultural hired in April and economics from Pennstepped into his new sylvania State Universirole, as the 17th and ty; a Master of Science first lay president in in agricultural economthe school’s history, ics from West Virginia on July 1.

University and a BachHe began his highelor of Arts in ecoer education career as nomics from Ateneo an adjunct professor de Davao University in at the University of the Phillippines.

Delaware and moved He said that St. up to being a full-time Dr. Conrado Gempesaw John’s has a very speprofessor in his eight cial role in higher eduyears in the classcation and its special room.

He then moved over to take numer- mission is to serve the underprivious administration jobs at Delaware leged.

“Everyday we transform the lives during a six-year period, including the Dean of the Alfred Lerner Col- of students,” Gempesaw said. “We lege of Business and Economics. In have to enhance student success.”

He is undergoing a listening tour 2010, he was hired as the provost and executive vice president for academic to learn more about the best practices and traditions at the university. He affairs at Miami University of Ohio.

At Miami University, he led com- said he wants to make sure to get the

input of students, faculty, alumni and community partners before implementing any changes or strategies.

“St. John’s doesn’t operate in a silo,” he said. “I really look forward to collaborating with our community leaders on this regard.”

He is also in the process of organizing a presidential retreat with the top 50 leaders at the university, including department chairs, deans and vice presidents. He said he wants to have a visionary exercise to figure out what the school’s aspiration goals are for the 150th anniversary in 2020. He also wants to set short-term goals while the university figures out its long-term goals.

“We need to engage in strategic conversation of where we want St. John’s to move in the near future,” he said.

Three things he wants to focus on in the short term are creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, he said.

Gempesaw succeeded the Rev. Joseph Levesque, who took over as interim president last year after the Rev. Donald Harrington stepped down. Harrington served as the school’s 15th president from 1989 to 2013.

The board of trustees is confident

that they made the right decision, even though they broke the 144-year tradition of having a Catholic priest at the helm of the institution.

Peter D’Angelo, chairman of the board, helped lead the presidential search committee and said that Gempesaw will help continue St. John’s transformation into a global educational institution.

“In Dr. Gempesaw, we have found a visionary leader who understands and embraces St. John’s mission as a Catholic and Vincentian university and has the skills necessary to realize our goals for the future,” D’Angelo said in a statement after the hiring.

As far as being the first president who is not a Vincentian priest, Gempesaw said that since the board offered him the position, it has not entered his mind.

“I came from a very big Catholic family and I always impart in my students, it doesn’t matter where you came from, it matters how hard you work and how you overachieve,” he said. “St. John’s is a university of overachievers. There are so many examples of alumni that current students can see as role models.”

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Unity Garden Helps Heal Residents In Rochdale feels so energized that she forgets When Mae Machicote started the about her walking Unity Garden at the North Eastern cane sometimes.

Louis Jones was Towers in Rochdale Village in 2009, her goal was to bring seniors and stu- very anxious to begin dents together to bridge the genera- working in the garden once he heard about tional gap.

Now in its sixth year, the garden it, but there was no has become an activity that has up- more space in the lifted the residents of the assisted liv- garden earlier this spring. Machicote made sure they made some room for ing facility.

Two months before Chung Hui him by adding pots and planters for Fox moved into the residence, she him to work with his home attendant, had surgery to remove a cancerous Reshme Kalicharan.

Jones, 56, needs the assistance tumor. She said she was still in pain when she moved in, and was de- because he has been blind for the pressed until she began working in last 25 years. He lost his eyesight because of complications caused by the garden.

“I started playing in the garden sickle cell anemia. He also had a kidand everyday it would grow, grow, ney transplant so, he said, he really grow and it made me happy,” Fox needed the exercise.

“It gave me a chance to be outsaid. “It’s like kids growing from a little baby. Now, I feel much better.” doors and to develop skills when it It’s been more than a year and half comes to growing,” he said. “It’s an since Fox moved in and she said she activity I can do without my eyesight.

It was an opportunity that I wouldn’t normally have had and I knew it was right up my alley.”

Before he lost his eyesight, Jones said he worked in landscaping, so he was familiar with taking care of plants and shrubbery.

Jones made sure to credit Machicote when all the members of the facility met last week for the work she did to organize and acquire funding for the garden.

“If it wasn’t for Mary Dean said her garden helps keep her going.

Mae, we wouldn’t

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Chung Hui Fox said she feels energized and revived thanks to the garden. have this opportunity,” he said. “We really appreciate her for putting this together and making this possible.”

When Machicote was president of the tenants association she got the support of the Citizens Committee for New York City to provide $1,000 each year to pay for tools, soil and fertilizer.

The nonprofit Changing Tomorrow Today also helped to get student volunteers involved with the garden.

Before they started the garden, the ground was nothing but dirt, cement blocks and broken glass, Machicote said. It started with four plots and has now grown to nine and half where a variety of vegetables are cared for, such as tomatoes, eggplant, squash peppers, string beans, pumpkins and they just got their first strawberry this year.

Machicote said she originally started the garden because she wanted everyone to look at each other with love and to also help teach the youth in the

community that not all food comes in packages or from a freezer.

“We needed to get our young people together with our older people,” she said. “We teach the children that a little seed can become a tree.”

Machicote said that this year, they were unable to get students to come down to help for the summer, but next year she is going to try some different schools and may look into getting younger children than the high school students who have helped in the past.

Former volunteers received a $25 stipend and a community service certificate at the end of the program.

“We try to create an intergenerational connection,” Machicote said.

“In coming together we’re going to find some issues, but let’s not make them mountains; let’s keep them molehills.”

Reach Reporter Jordan Gibbons at (718)357-7400 Ext. 123, jgibbons@ queenspress.com or @jgibbons2

NYCHA Gets New Air Conditioning Units Earlier this month, Friedrich, the San Antonio, Texas-based manufacturer of room air conditioners, announced the donation of 150 air conditioners to the Dept. of Youth and Community Development Cornerstone Programs, which are housed at NYCHA community centers.

The company announced that six organizations in Queens received the units, which are meant to benefit centers that lack cooling or needed replacement units.

“For over 60 years, the people of New York have supported Friedrich Air Conditioning. You can see our units keeping New Yorkers cool across the City,” Wink Chapman, vice

president of sales and marketing for Friedrich Air Conditioning, said. “It is a privilege for us to work with the City on its mission to improve the quality of life for thousands of New Yorkers this summer and throughout the year.”

The organizations in Queens that received the donation include: Action Center for Education and Community Development in Far Rockaway, Hellenic American Neighborhood Action Committee in Astoria, Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement in Astoria, the Police Athletic League in Far Rockaway, the Southern Queens Park Association in Jamaica and the Child Center of NY in Far Rockaway.

“With the doubling of available Summer Enrichment seats and expanded evening hours at Cornerstone programs this summer, this generous donation couldn’t have come at a better time,” DYCD Commissioner Bill Chong said. “Friedrich is a wonderful example of how public-private partnerships can have a dramatic impact on thousands of New Yorkers, and it’s our hope that other community partners are inspired to step up to the plate.”

Workers install new Friedrich air conditioners at a City Dept. of Youth and Community Development Cornerstone Program.

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Public Transportation Wasteland Relying on public transportation to get around in Queens can be a troubling endeavor. Subway lines in Southern Queens ravaged by a storm that occurred almost two years ago are frequently shut down for extended periods. In Eastern Queens, the subway is as common as it would be somewhere upstate. And bus service can be sketchy at best.

To say that Queens is not a priority for the MTA is not news.

The State Assemblymembers who last week held an oversight hearing for consideration in the MTA’s upcoming Capital Plan are not asking for pie-in-thesky improvements or magical solutions. The requests are simply for the same kind of consideration for Queens transportation needs as other Boroughs receive.

Providing increased bus service to Eastern Queens and securing safe and reliable rail options to Southern Queens would do wonders to improve the quality of life of residents in these areas. It would also show that the MTA has a commitment to improving transit options for all New Yorkers, not just those within a main commercial hub.

We only wish that last week’s oversight hearing took place in one of the areas discussed as having transportation issues, with MTA officials forced to take public transportation to get to the meeting on time. Perhaps that would have given these officials a better feel for the problems residents face daily.

Letters No Parades On Northern Boulevard

To The Editor: Northern Boulevard is highway 25A, a main artery connecting the City with Long Island. I do not think it should be closed down to traffic, and rerouting busses etc. because of some foreigners’ parade.

It upsets and delays Queens traffic much too much! 35th or 37th Ave can be used for that. Then, all one sees is foreign flags, not even one American flag and let us not even talk of the garbage they leave on the street afterwards, expecting us to clean up after them. We are letting them take over our country and giving them their way. Enough is enough!

Robert R. Miller, Jackson Heights

Not So Fast

To The Editor: All the GOP pundits are criticizing Obama for not acting quickly in regards to Putin. They claim that when the Soviet Union shot down a Korean airliner in 1983 (carrying 53 Americans) Reagan acted swiftly. They claim he immediately rushed home from his 25-day vacation in Santa Barbara.

The truth however, is that he didn’t

want to leave his ranch. Only after his advisors convinced him, did he leave for Washington. Four days later! Swift and immediate, huh? In fact Reagan’s actual diary quotes him “Friday, Sept 2nd.

The soviets shot down a Korean airliner carrying 269 passengers.

We were due to return to Washington on Labor Day, but realized we couldn’t wait. We left on Friday.

It was heartbreaking - I had really looked forward to those last three days.” That’s right, Reagan was in deep mourning for losing the final 12 percent of his vacation.

Robert LaRosa, Whitestone

RIP Robin Williams

To The Editor: The tragic death of Robin Williams is indeed a great loss to the entertainment world. During his long career, he made many films, including “Dead Poet’s Society” and “Mrs. Doubtfire.” He had the ability to make so many of us laugh.

He will always be remembered as one of America’s funniest comedians and actors. The thoughts and prayers of all of America are with his family, friends, and colleagues in the entertainment industry. RIP! John Amato, Fresh Meadows

Bratton: No Constitutional Right To Resist Arrest A Personal Perspective

By MARCIA MOXAM COMRIE In all the protests we’ve seen in the wake of the Eric Garner “chokehold death,” there is one thing we had not heard anyone say until Police Commissioner Bratton said it earlier this week: resisting arrest is not a constitutional right.

That Bratton would say something favorable to the interest of the officer whose chokehold led to Garner’s death is no surprise. But when you examine his words, you realize that as much as you hate to admit it, he’s going by what the law says.

“What we’ve seen in the past few months is a number of individuals failing to understand that you must submit to arrest. You cannot resist,” Bratton said to radio host Brian Lehrer in an interview. “The place to argue your case is in the court, not in the street.”

It sounds simple enough, but no one wants to submit to a process that could impact their freedom, cost a fortune and scar their future – especially for a petty incident they may or may not even know is a crime. However, the commissioner is right about this point at least: the place to fight this is in court, costly and time-consuming though it may be.

Bratton added that had Mr. Garner not resisted arrest, “he would be alive today.”

Well, he would also be alive today if they had given him aid after endangering his life with a chokehold and keeping him in a prone position. He begged for help and instead of giving it, they stood or sat there, indifferent to his plight, and watched the life slip from his body.

Bratton added that community leaders and elected officials could do their constituencies a huge favor by educating them to the fact

that resisting arrest can and will result in more serious consequences than the potential arrest, as we’ve now seen in the Garner case. And let’s get this straight: what happened to Eric Garner last month is in no way acceptable regardless of his refusal to be handcuffed.

Neither his alleged crime nor his lack of cooperation warranted a death sentence on the street that day.

It is one thing to put someone in a chokehold, which is in fact, illegal. It is quite another to sit there and watch them die from lack of oxygen. They preferred to keep Garner held down in a prone position that made it impossible for him to breathe. And he in fact clearly communicated his desperation. It went unheeded.

Bratton and the Mayor are not going to throw an officer under the bus, but we, as a city, ought to hold the arresting officer and his partners on the scene accountable for his illegal actions. He was ar-

resting someone for a petty crime and yet he committed a crime in his arrest process, and to date he has not been arrested.

I have already told my son many times over, that if an officer ever approaches him to be respectful (“Yes officer; no officer”) and cooperative while furtively studying the officer’s badge if he or she is being disrespectful then come home and tell us.

It’s better to be innocent and alive than innocent and dead or beaten to a pulp. We are tired of being harassed and tired of feeling singled out, but let’s also try to work within the confines of the system to keep ourselves safe where possible.

It’s not fair, but life isn’t fair. Let’s at least try to stay alive. It has to be a most traumatizing event, but with the right strategy, tragedy might be avoided. And to our young men I say, please be careful out there.

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Miller: Reality TV Needs Better Conduct

BY JORDAN GIBBONS While reality television continues to dominate network broadcasts, its writers and producers continue to work without reasonable labor standards, according to a survey by the Writers Guild of America, East.

The survey that was released in November 2013 prompted a hearing in front of the City Council’s Civil Service & Labor Committee in June.

Councilman I. Daneek Miller chaired the hearing and wrote an Op-Ed for The Hollywood Reporter last week to address the industry’s need for a Code of Conduct.

“Writers-producers are nearly always hired as freelancers, creating inherent economic insecurity (especially between projects),” Miller said.

“While engaged on a gig, they report regularly being required to work 12, 14, 16 or more hours per day with no overtime. Eight-hour days are rare, as are weekends and other paid time off.”

Out of the 315 nonfiction TV writers and producers who responded to the survey, 84 percent said they work more than 40 hours a week, almost every week. More than 50 percent of respondents said that they have had

to work 80 hours or more in a week, 85 percent said they never receive overtime pay and 60 percent work more than eight hours a day, every day.

About half of the writers and producers said their timecards never accurately reflected the hours they worked and only 11 percent said their timecards always showed the hours they worked.

The survey revealed that writers and producers on average are losing $30,000 yearly to stolen overtime and improper Councilman I. Daneek Miller classification. Across the industry, it totals $40 million in lost Many shows have significant prowages every year. duction operations based in New “I’ve known people to work up- York and they are mix of local, inwards of 100 hours in a given week dependently owned operations and while shooting and then had to im- outposts of foreign media conglommediately start writing the script erates, according to Miller. upon return, with no down time, in Recently, a series of multimillionorder to have the script ready in time dollar acquisitions and mergers have for the editor,” Producer David Van shown how much money is made in Taylor said. “There’s no compensa- the industry. British media giant ITV tion for that additional work and it’s purchased one New York-based proespecially hard when you have a fam- duction company, Leftfield Enterily.” tainment, for $360 million.

“These findings demystify the perception that everyone involved in reality TV is reaping the benefits of the genre’s popularity,” Lowell Peterson, executive director of the WGAE, said. “While reality TV is no doubt lucrative for networks and production companies, the men and women doing the actual work are finding they can barely cling to the middle class.”

Miller said that the companies need to agree to provide, at a minimum, reasonable production budgets and schedules, adequate staffing levels, guarantees that employees will not be required to work excessive hours and all wage and hour laws will be honored, paid time off, basic benefits with employer-sponsored health care and a commitment to honor the right of employees to form a union.

“Reality TV production is an important, valued and growing industry in New York City and we welcome them,” Miller said. “But with that success comes responsibility. Reality TV jobs must be good jobs ensuring that workers’ dignity and basic rights are respected.”

Reach Reporter Jordan Gibbons at (718)357-7400 Ext. 123, jgibbons@ queenspress.com or @jgibbons2

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Rozic, Goldfeder Hold Hearing For Better Transit Two Queens assemblymembers held a public oversight hearing to address the mass transit needs in their respective districts.

Assemblymembers Nily Rozic (D-Hillcrest) and Phil Goldfeder (D-Ozone Park), along with James Brennan (D-Brooklyn), headed an Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions oversight hearing on the MTA’s 2015-2019 Capital Program. Rozic and Goldfeder used the hearing to call for improved transit options in their neighborhoods.

Rozic stressed that bus transportation was essential for her district, as it is not served by any subway lines.

She asked MTA chairman Thomas Prendergast for an update on the northeast Queens bus restoration study she secured funding for in this year’s State budget. As part of the study, the MTA will look at the effects of the 2010 service cuts, which removed 38 bus routes entirely and shortened 76 others.

The study, which will wrap up in April 2015, will determine transit needs beyond the restoration of the cut lines in northeast Queens.

“We have a lot of important needs in terms of local buses and express bus service. That’s restoring lines, but also creating new ones and adding additional service during highpeak hours,” Rozic said. “It’s also important to note that the de Blasio

administration has made a promise to do 20 Select Bus Service lines across the City.

I think it’s essential that one of them be in eastern Queens to help not just commuters to the City but also people traveling within Queens or to the Brooklyn or the Bronx.”

When it came to new bus service, the Assemblywoman stressed two key parts of her district in need of additional resources. She said the Main Street corridor needed a line to take people from Flushing to Jamaica. She added that Douglaston is a two-fare zone, meaning that residents need to take a bus to a train or two Assemblywoman Nily Rozic called for additional local and express buses in her district, buses to get anywhere in the including the Main Street corridor from Flushing to Jamaica.

City.

“So much of the time is usually spent on the 2nd Avenue subway The assemblyman also asked for tal Needs Assessment Report.

In response, Prendergast outlined and East Side Access and not taking improved A train service and ferry away from those important projects, service. He said that an investment some key points of the MTA’s Capiit really is our transit-starved neigh- into public transit is an essential part tal Plan, including the replacement borhoods that need a lot more atten- of the Rockaways’ continued recov- of 86 miles of subway track, the introduction of contactless fare techtion,” Rozic said. “It’s really essential ery from Superstorm Sandy. that those communities be serviced “In the immediate aftermath of San- nology, general maintenance and first.” dy, we experienced firsthand the detri- the addition of new routes for Select Goldfeder’s focus was on restoring mental impact that the lack of public Bus Service. While the chairman’s and increasing transit options between transit has on our families--in order to prepared remarks did not specifisouth Queens and the Rockaways. He plan for our future growth, we must in- cally mention resources for eastern asked Prendergast to extend the resi- vest in vital transit infrastructure now,” Queens, a MTA spokesman said the agency is going to provide answers to dency rebate for the Cross Bay Bridge he said. toll to include neighboring commuGoldfeder also took time to praise the legislators in the near future.

Reach Reporter Joe Marvilli at nities like Ozone Park or Howard the MTA for including the restoraBeach, or for the toll to be eliminated tion of the Rockaway Beach Rail (718) 357-7400, Ext. 125, jmarvilli@ for Queens residents.

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BY JOE MARVILLI

Meng’s Protect Cemeteries Act Signed Into Law This week was a momentous one for U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing), as her Protect Cemeteries Act became the first bill she introduced to be signed into law.

President Barack Obama signed into law Meng’s legislation that made the desecration of cemeteries a violation of religious freedom. The act amended the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to include the vandalism of cemeteries as a breach on the right to freedom of religion, both at home and around the world.

Meng said the law will fight antiSemitism and religiously motivated vandalism of cemeteries. It will also prevent developers from building over cemeteries. The Congresswoman said several Jewish constituents in her district spoke to her about the need for such a bill.

The law also empowers the Commission for the Preservation of

a much-needed boost America’s Heritage towards promoting presAbroad, a panel created ervation, tolerance and in the 1980s that works respect for cemeteries to identify and preserve across the globe. I cancemeteries, memorials not be happier that this and buildings in foreign critical piece of legislacountries that are assotion is now the law of ciated with the cultural the land.” heritage of Americans.

She also thanked Sen. According to Meng, the Ben Cardin (D-Md.), commission did a lot who sponsored the bill of work in the former in the U.S. Senate.

Soviet Union, where The Protect CemeterJewish communities U.S. Rep. Grace Meng was honored by The Vaad Harabonim of were devastated by the Queens and CenterLight Health System for her work in protecting ies Act was introduced Holocaust and their sacred cemeteries with her bill that made the desecration of burial by Meng this past Febmemorials were left un- grounds a violation of religious freedom. Borough President Me- ruary. It was approved attended for decades. linda Katz presented the award at the Margaret Tietz Nursing and by the House Foreign Affairs Committee in The Congresswom- Rehabilitation Center in Jamaica.

April, passed the House an thanked the President for supporting her bill with his ety will not tolerate the desecration of Representatives in May and got of cemeteries, whether motivated by through the Senate in July. Obama signature.

“I applaud President Obama for anti-Semitism, hate or greedy and signed it into law on Aug. 8.

Reach Reporter Joe Marvilli at signing this important bipartisan leg- uncaring developers. It will be a new islation into law,” Meng said. “This and critical tool to combat the des- (718) 357-7400, Ext. 125, jmarvilli@ new law makes it clear that our soci- ecration of cemeteries and provide queenstribune.com, or @JoeMarvilli.

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BY JOE MARVILLI

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Public Meeting About Ozone Park Pedestrian Plaza On Aug. 21 at 5:30 p.m., Community Board 9 will hold a public meeting to discuss the Ozone Park Pedestrian Plaza, with the goal of finding common ground between those who are for and against the plaza.

Last year, Community Board 9, the Bangladesh American Community Development and Youth Services Corporation applied for the plaza to be put in place. However, conflicts have risen in the past few months over the plaza, leading to CB 9 bringing both sides of the argument together.

“The idea is to let the people sort it out. They will discuss the pros and the cons and then the DOT will be able to assess and satisfy them,” Ralph Gonzalez, chair of CB 9, said.

According to Misba Abdin, President of BACDYS, those who oppose the plaza are local businesses.

However, he said that the many people in the community support the plaza. Abdin continued by saying that many locals in the community usually come out and sit in the Plaza after they come home from work in the evening.

“This is very unbelievable because there’s no other community space in this area,” he said.

Abdin is not the only one who feels this way. Iqbal Ali said that he has lived in Ozone Park for over 25 years.

“I grew up there for over 25 years I would know what it is like to have something like that,” Ali said. “It unites the people, gives them a community.”

He added that the local businesses who are complaining are mostly complaining about parking, which he feels can be fixed by just reducing the plaza.

Ali said that the plaza has been used to hold events.

“More events are being held over

there, we have no place else to go.

Every school program is filled with extra classes. This is another way for them to get together,” he said.

Although BACDYS is in support of the Plaza, they still understand the complaints that many people have against it. Chief operating officer of BACDYS, Dharma Diaz, said, “It’s a new project. It takes some getting used to and [I] think coming togeth-

er will be constructive. We’ve taken community space, we’ve been creative to the space and I understand everyone’s opinion.”

The meeting for the plaza will take place at Queens Borough Hall, located at 120-55 Queens Blvd., room 213.

The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m.

For more information about the meeting, call CB 9 at (718) 286-2686.

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Police Blotter 105th Precinct

Collision Investigation

At approximately 11:03 p.m. on Aug. 5, police responded to a 911 call of a pedestrian struck on the Belt Parkway in the vicinity of 150th Street.

Upon arrival, officers observed Frank Korowitz, 62, unconscious and unresponsive with trauma to the body. EMS also responded to the location and pronounced the victim dead at the scene.

Further investigation by the NYPD’s Highway Patrol Collision Investigation Squad determined that the male pedestrian, attempting to cross the Belt Parkway in the eastbound lane, was struck by a gray 2009 Nissan Maxima vehicle traveling eastbound, operated by Karlmarx Waite, 44. Waite remained at the location and was subsequently struck from behind by a grey 2002 Isuzu Rodeo, operated by a 40-year-old male. Both

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operators sustained minor injuries.

Pursuant to an ongoing investigation, Waite was arrested and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of vehicle 3rd degree and a motor vehicle license violation: no license.

109th Precinct

Attempted Robbery

The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance in locating an individual wanted in connection to an attempted robbery.

At approximately 2:10 p.m. on Aug. 6, a 65-year-old female was on the corner of 130th Street and 109th Avenue when she was pushed from behind by the suspect as he was attempting to grab her purse, causing her to fall to the ground and hit her head on the sidewalk. The suspect fled before removing any property.

The victim sustained swelling and bruising to her head and was removed to an area hospital for treatment.

The suspect is described as a male, approximately 5 feet, 5 inches with brown eyes and short black hair. He was last seen wearing white sneakers and blue jeans.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-tips, visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or text tips to 274637(CRIMES), then enter TIP577.

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Robbery

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-tips, visit www. nypdcrimestoppers.com or text tips to 274637(CRIMES), then enter TIP577. All calls are confidential.

114th Precinct

The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance in locating and identifying Grand Larceny The NYPD is seeking the public’s asthree male suspects wanted in consistance identifying an nection to a robbery. individual wanted for At approximately 4:10 a.m. a grand larceny which on Aug. 3, a 60-year-old male, took place between a livery cab driver, picked up June 12 and June 23 the three suspects at a taxi inside of the Amalgamstand located at 86-29 102nd ated Bank, located at St., and drove them to the opposite of 107-70 101st St. 619 Main St. The susUpon arrival, the suspects pect used a fake ID and held the victim and struck him This individual is forged withdrawal slips several times in the head and wanted in connection to remove $2,000 from face with a black firearm while with a grand larceny the victim’s account. demanding money. The sus- within the confines of Anyone with inpects then removed the victim’s the 114th Precinct. formation is asked iPhone 4S, Verizon 4G tablet to call the NYPD’s computer and his wallet, which con- Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-tips, tained $250 in cash and a debit card. visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com The victim suffered lacerations to the or text tips to 274637(CRIMES), left eye and swelling to the right side of then enter TIP577. All calls are his face as a result of the attack. confidential.

Borough Beat

Age Requirement Lowered For CB Members

BY JOE MARVILLI This week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a piece of legislation that dropped the minimum age of appointment to a New York City Community Board from 18 years old to 16 years old.

Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (DHillcrest) and State Sen. Andrew Lanza (R-Staten Island) sponsored the new, bipartisan measure, which is effective immediately. Although the application process to join one of the City’s 59 community boards will remain the same, 16- and 17-year-olds now have equal footing as those who are 18 or older.

“This new law will empower our youth and give them the chance to offer their perspective on a variety of issues in their communities,” Rozic said. “By lowering the age of eligibility, we are opening up the potential to transform community boards, reach out to our young people in a positive way and involve them in the democratic process as soon as possible.”

Lanza concurred that these younger members of the City popu-

lation would add a new perspective to community boards and the issues they tackle throughout the year.

“Community boards play an important role in improving the quality of life for all New Yorkers and they are intended to represent a diverse range of perspectives on the issues that come before them,” he said.

“This new law will permit our youth to apply for community board membership and give them the opportunity to add their unique and fresh perspective which would undoubtedly benefit communities on Staten Island and across the City.”

It has been a long road for the bill, which was first introduced in 2008.

It gained traction this year, when the City Council passed Resolution 0115 in support of the legislation.

The bill was more controversial among Queens’ community boards.

Some felt that 16- and 17-year-olds should be focused on school and are too young to commit themselves to the work of a community board. Other boards supported the bill for the different point-of-view it would provide.

“Having served on my local Com-

Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (center), standing with two young civic leaders, announced the passage of her bill that lowers the community board age limit to 16 years old. munity Board, I know firsthand that this opportunity will not only benefit the futures of those appointed, but it will also begin a new dialogue between all members about how our

communities can be better served,” Rozic added.

Reach Reporter Joe Marvilli at (718) 357-7400, Ext. 125, jmarvilli@ queenstribune.com, or @JoeMarvilli.

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Farmer’s Market Corn Roast

Block Party

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The Greater Jamaica Development Corporation held its annual Corn Roast on 160th Street last weekend. GJDC staff working the event included Miriam Haas, Dagmar Kostkova, Ruel Everaldo Anderson, Franco Gonzalez, Angela Rampersad, Mohamed Keita, Victor Torres, Ali Schuettinger, Jackson Wong, Julia Butterfield, and Pono Wong.

Assemblyman William Scarborough stopped by the 229th Street Block Association (between 130th and 131st Ave) Annual Block Party, which featured pony rides for the kids. (L - R) Members Erma Norris, Peggy Hickman, Heddy Copeland, Scarborough, Judy Rivera, Rose RiveraMcCutchen with 5-year-old daughter Anayah and Firefighter JoAnn Jacobs, of the Fire Safety Education Unit, who gave out fire safety coloring books for the children.

Happy Returns

The Williams family – Anthony, Dierdre, daughter Jasmin and son Jason enjoy some corn.

Workers finished unwrapping the fabulous new circulation area which opened at the Central Library in Jamaica today. It is the latest phase in a total renovation of the Central Library which will cost $20.2 million in total. The new Cyber Center, adult reading and reference area and the Teen Space have already been completed and are serving customers.

The work is being done in phases so the library can remain in public service throughout most of the work. The renovations include all public service and administrative areas. It is the first renovation in more than 45 years.

Chris Modeste compliments his toasted treat with an excellent choice of beverage: the Market’s free lemonade.

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A&E

New e-Book imagines Life and times Of Mr. Met

By Jackie StrawBridge

through over the years as a Mets fan,” Katz said.

He has an enormous baseball for Mr. Met’s trials and mishaps a head and an even bigger heart for throughout the imagined autobithe Mets. ography include getting In the new comedy eknocked out by foul balls book, “The Unauthorized from shoddy batters and Autobiography of Mr. watching Shea Stadium Met,” Alan Katz imagines crumble into disrepair. a history for the team’s inOne of Katz’s favorite trepid icon. According to moments is an episode in Katz’s story, Mr. Met is which Mr. Met tries to give not just an actor in a suit the middle finger, but real– he is a real person born izes that “as a four-fingered with a giant head and carmascot, I’m missing the toon hands, who is hired alan katz, author most expressive digit of all.” by the Mets and follows of “the Unauthor“These days, people them through six rocky ized autobiography who love the Mets need to of Mr. Met.” decades of baseball. have a good sense of huThe e-book was released mor, because things since in July, and is available for Kindle.

2007 have not gone so well,” Katz Katz, who calls himself “the big- added. “I hope the Mets are going to gest Mets fan in the world,” said that laugh along and I also hope they’re the book sprang from his dual passion going to win a lot of games.” for humor and his hometown team.

For Katz, writing and Mets fan“I just wanted to offer up a way to ship have been intertwined ever since rally around the team and have some he was a child. fun with some of the things I lived “I still have all my Mets memorabil-

Live Jazz at Flushing House Live Jazz will be heard throughout The festival, which runs from the evening on Sept. 12, as a group 7-11 p.m., features music by other of musicians bring their love and con- iconic jazz artists including the Micern for the elderly to new heights on chael Feinberg Quartet and Isamu the rooftop of Flushing House.

McGreagor Trio. The $100 cover “Jazz Up In The Sky” takes place charge – or $150 for couples – inup on the roof at Flushing House, an cludes a gourmet dinner, wine and Independent Living retirement com- beer, all served on the Flushing munity in Flushing. This live jazz ex- House rooftop, with a dance floor travaganza is a special that boasts spectacular fundraising event, to views of New York’s benefit the 300 older panoramic skyline. adults who call FlushThe jazz festival ing House home. will also feature a rafHeadlining the fle and silent auction, evening’s performwith prizes donated ers is world-famous by major benefactors and Grammy Award of Flushing House, winning jazz hero all to benefit the nonHernan Romero. profit Flushing House The Hernan Romero endowment fund.

Group has featured Attendance is by ressome of the world’s ervation only. Space is great guitarists, inlimited to the first 200 Jazz guitarist cluding Al Di Meola, persons who RSVP. Hernan romero Paco De Lucia and To send in your tax-deJohn McLaughlin. ductible payment, call This group infuses the exotic tra- Robert Salant at (347) 532-3025 or ditions of flamenco-gypsy, Middle email rsalant@uam.org. Make checks Eastern and Mediterranean folk payable to “Flushing House,” write music, with sounds of classical, “Jazz Up In The Sky” on the memo jazz and Latin rhythms. Composer line, and mail it to Robert Salant, c/o and guitarist Hernan Romero’s mu- Flushing House, 38-20 Bowne Street, sic is famous for its sensuous, pas- Flushing, NY 11354. sionate, romantic and inescapably For more information, visit infectious sounds.

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ia,” Katz said. “I used to collect autographs and I have a signed poem [former third baseman Ed Charles] wrote and sent me. It was truly one of my only exposures to poetry as a child.”

Katz is himself not only an accomplished humor writer, with several Emmy nominations as part of “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” and “Raw Toonage” writing teams, but also a children’s author who has penned a handful of illustrated books and poetry collections.

The target audience for this latest e-book is high schoolers and up, although Katz said he hopes the book will resonate with “anyone who is a Mets fan, anyone who likes to laugh, anyone who likes baseball, anyone who likes to spend $2.99.”

“The Unauthorized Autobiography of Mr. Met” is available for Kindle at www.amazon.com.

Reach Reporter Jackie Strawbridge at (718) 357-7400, Ext. 128, jstrawbridge@ queenstribune.com or @JNStrawbridge.

arthur ashe kids’ day kicks Off U.S. Open and Nickelodeon host Jeff Sutphen will also be involved with the proAugust is the last full month of ceedings.

“The selection of musical acts summer and there is no better way to say goodbye to the season than with takes place over the course of the entire year,” USTA spokesman Dom Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day. The United States Tennis Asso- Pisanelli said. “We look for a diverse ciation recently announced its talent mix that we anticipate being the hottest acts of summer, line-up and scheduled similar to having activities for Arthur booked acts ranging Ashe Kids’ Day, the from Rihanna to Joofficial kick-off event nas Brothers to Arifor the U.S. Open. Its ana Grande over the 19th rendition will years.” take place on Aug. Attendees can also 23, from 9:30 a.m. to be participants in Ar4 p.m. In addition to thur Ashe Kids’ Day fun tennis challenges with several differfor kids and adults, ent activities. There the festival features interactive games and young people will have plenty of will be two youth a live music perfor- fun, athletic activities to do at courts for young kids just starting out. For mance from several arthur ashe kids’ day. children who like a up-and-coming stars.

The festival will take place challenge, there is the Hess Express throughout the grounds of the USTA Obstacle Course, Hess Target Time, Billie Jean King National Tennis where kids test their skill hitting Center, with a live tennis and music targets, the IBM Speedzone, to test show occurring inside Arthur Ashe the power behind a serve, and Xerox Stadium from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Exhi- Beat the Pro, a playing points chalbition matches between tennis stars lenge against some of the top tourNovak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal ing and teaching tennis pros in the will offer a preview of the U.S. Open. world.

“We hope that kids and parents, The musicians will have children and especially from the Queens comadults alike dancing in their seats.

The most well-known of the mu- munity, come out and learn about sicians is Hunter Hayes, a four-time Arthur Ashe and his legacy and see Grammy nominee with three chart- how easy it is to play tennis almost topping hits and a number one debut anywhere,” Pisanelli said.

There will be many more peralbum in his short career. Out of these tracks, the one people are like- formers and activities for Arthur ly familiar with is the multi-Platinum Ashe Kids’ Day, enough to satisfy any attendee. Tickets cost between smash, “Wanted.”

Other performers at the show in- $54 and $13. For more information, clude pop rap duo MKTO, the R&B visit youthtennis.com or www.artrio of sisters McClain, British pop thurashekidsday.com.

Reach Reporter Joe Marvilli at rock band The Vamps, pop singer Madison Beer and DJ Salerno. (718) 357-7400, Ext. 125, jmarvilli@ Health and fitness expert Shaun T queenstribune.com, or @JoeMarvilli.

By JOe MarViLLi

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QUEENS TODAY

FRIDAY 8/15 PERFORMING POETRY WORKSHOP

3rd Space, a project of Queens Council on the Arts, presents a poetry workshop with performance poet and musician Ngoma Hill. Running from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., the workshop will focus on delivery and stage presence through the use of drama techniques. Admission is $30. Each participating poet should bring one memorized piece to the workshop.

For more information, call (347) 505-3010.

GEORGIE PORGIE

The magical Georgie Porgie will appear at the Forest Park Carousel. The magician is scheduled to perform at 2 p.m. The show is free but there is a small fee to ride the carousel. The merry-go-round is located in Forest Park, just off of Woodhaven Boulevard.

GORDON AU

SATURDAY 8/16

CHOBAN ELEKTRIK

Choban Elektrik is a Brooklyn-based electric dance band whose repertoire draws from the folk music of Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and the Romany people. In this multilingual program at Ridgewood Library, the band incorporates the psychedelic sounds of the 1960s and 70s with its vintage keyboards and creates a high-energy dance party with its powerful rhythm section. Traditional line dancing will be demonstrated and encouraged amongst the audience.

For more information on Choban Elektrik, call (718) 821-4770.

The Louis Armstrong House Museum will present its final summer concert with Gordon Au & the Grand Street Stompers, starting at 2 p.m. Satchmo’s garden will swell with the sweet sounds of Louis Armstrong favorites, New Orleans classics and the Stompers’ exciting originals, covers of famous classical themes and their own joyous adaptation of pop music. Tickets cost $18 in advance and include red beans and rice, sweet tea and a complimentary museum pass. Tickets can be purchased at LouisArmstrongHouse.org.

SUNDAY 8/17

BIRD NESTING

THE EBONY HILLBILLIES

The Ebony Hillbillies, NYC’s only AfricanAmerican string band, will play at the Queens Botanical Garden for its Music in the Garden series.

This inventive ensemble pays homage to the traditional and includes a mix of tasty originals. Pack a picnic snack to enjoy on the Oak Allee and enjoy this exhilarating band. The concert runs from 6:15 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. and is free with garden admission. Call (718) 8863800 for more information.

Queens Botanical Garden is located at 43-50 Main St.

Explore the science behind nest making and transform recycled materials into a nest of your own at the New York Hall of Science’s Little Makers program. There is an $8 materials fee per family, in addition to general admission. The workshop runs from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more information, visit nysci.org/little-makers or call (718) 699-0005.

SUNDAYS IN TRAVERS PARK

Enjoy traditional Colombian rhythms in Travers Park with the Jackson Heights Beautification Group. At 3:30 p.m., Los Colombian Roots will bring the music of the northern Colombian coast to

SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK TUESDAY 8/19

DRAKE VS. LIL WAYNE Rappers Drake and Lil Wayne will bring their co-headlining tour to the Forest Hills Stadium.

Starting at 7 p.m., the concert features the biggest hits from two of the biggest names in hip hop. Listen to Drake rap and sing selections from his smash albums, “Take Care” and “Nothing Was the Same.” Lil Wayne’s set will include songs from hit records like “Tha Carter III,” “I Am Not A Human Being” and “Tha Carter IV.” Fans can also expect the two artists to collaborate throughout the show.

Tickets costs between $69 and $400. To buy tickets, visit www.livenation.com/events/372871aug-19-2014-drake-vs-lil-wayne.

Queens. Free admission.

For more information, visit www.jhbg.org.

MONDAY 8/18

METS GAME

The Central Queens Y in Forest Hills is organizing a trip to the Mets game.

Enjoy a nice summer day and cheer on your beloved Mets. Transportation is available between CQY and Citi Field. The game starts at noon. For information, call the Central Queens Y at (718) 268-5011, ext. 160.

TUESDAY 8/19

‘MY FAIR LADY’

The Kew Gardens Community Center will present the classic 1964 musical, “My Fair Lady.” The film stars Audrey Hepburn as a poor Cockney flower seller who learns “proper” English from an arrogant professor played by Rex Harrison. The free screening will start at 1 p.m. The community center is located at 80-02 Kew Gardens Road, Suite 202.

‘POMPEII’

The Douglaston Library will present a free screening of the 2014 film, “Pompeii,” starting at 2 p.m. In this PG-13 movie, a slave-turned-gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, betrothed to a corrupt Roman senator, as

Mount Vesuvius erupts and the city of Pompeii crumbles around them. To learn more, call (718) 225-8414.

bookstore for baked goods, special discounts and happy hour. For information, call (718) 278-2665.

WEDNESDAY 8/20

HONEY HARVEST FESTIVAL

Head to the Voelker Orth Museum for its honey harvest festival, running from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. See how the museum’s beekeeper harvests honey. Learn why bees dance. Make some bee-inspired art. Enjoy a honey-tasting table and some house punch made with garden grapes. Admission costs $6 for adults, $5 for members and $3 for children. Toddlers and infants get free entry. For more information, call (718) 359-6227.

ROBERT MWAMBA

Zambian-born guitarist Robert Mwamba and friends illustrate different jazz styles, from bebop to cool jazz, hard bop, modern and more, at the Glen Oaks Library from 2 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. The concert is free. For information, call (718) 831-8636.

THURSDAY 8/21

BOOKSHOP BIRTHDAY

Next Thursday marks the Astoria Bookshop’s first birthday, and they want to celebrate with you. Come by your neighborhood

MONUMENT QUILT DISPLAY

The Queens Museum will take part in the display of the Monument Quilt, a crowd-sourced collection of thousands of stories of survivors of rape and abuse, alongside messages of love and support from allies in the movement to upset rape culture. The section of the quilt that is coming to Queens includes squares made in a workshop with women from Immigrant Movement International as well as workshops at a sister organization, La Casa Mandarina, an itinerant and independent agency devoted to building a culture of peace by empowering people. The event runs from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Call (718) 592-9700 for information.

PASSPORT THURSDAYS

Head out to Flushing Meadows Corona Park near the Unisphere for this free, weekly presentation of live music, dance and film, hosted by the Queens Museum. For this week, celebrate the sights and sounds of Korea, with a performance by the Song Hee Lee Dance Company and a screening of the film, “Approved for Adoption.”

The event runs from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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Profile

‘From Gutter To Glory’ Story Of Karlene Richardson In her new book, “From Gutter to Glory,” Karlene Richardson, Ph. D., describes the situation of her life upon coming to the United States.

Karlene Richardson grew up in Jamaica. When she was 8 years old, her mother came to the United States. Longing to join her, she went to the U.S. embassy in Jamaica to request for a visa to live with her mother, and she was granted one at 15 years old.

In the U.S., she spent time with the daughters of her mom’s friends.

She said one of the daughters set her up and she was raped in September 1986. A month later, she found out that she was pregnant and was thrown out of her home by her mother.

“She did not ask me, ‘who, what, when, where, how:’ She just told me I had to get out,” Richardson said.

Her mother later called her back to help care for her little brother.

When her daughter was eight months old, her mom asked her once again to leave because it was difficult to juggle school, her daughter and her brother.

After leaving her mother again, Richardson and her daughter lived on the train and were later able to find a cousin who owned a house that was partially abandoned in Brooklyn.

Richardson said bottle of Pineapple she had to resort to soda it looked like, begging to feed her but when I drank it daughter. was Pine Sol.” “I didn’t have It was at this point any green card to that Richardson realwork and I would ized what her life had stand on the corbecome and knew she ner of Monroe and had to change. She Nostrand to ask called her mom and for coins…didn’t asked her if she could know welfare, shelcome back home, but ters because [I] her mom said no. was new,” Rich- Karlene Richardson and her son, Richardson said ardson recounted. Jordan. that after this, she “That’s how I fed started waitressing. my daughter and managed to buy her As a waitress, she met and married diapers.” a man who was emotionally abusive To feed herself, Richardson said and manipulated the process for her she went down to the basement of to get her green card. In 2000, she the building to see if the contractors went to the U.S. Immigration office fixing the building had left food for and showed them the police reports her to eat. and was able to get her green card, as “One day I was so hungry. I knew well as divorce him. [the contractors] were in the baseWhile married to the man, she ment. After they left I went into the said that she met a friend who introbasement to see if they had left some- duced her to a church called All Nathing. They did not leave anything, tions Apostolic, where she became the only thing that was left was the a Christian in 1994. She said that garbage, and that became my dinner,” becoming a Christian gave her the Richardson said. “They had curry goat strength that she needed. one day…spicy and even though I’m Richardson then decided to pursue Jamaican, I hate spice and I looked higher education. She received her asfor something to drink and I found a sociate degree in 2003 from Nassau

Community College, her bachelor’s degree in 2006 and master’s degree in 2007 from St. Joseph’s College of Maine, and a Ph. D. in 2013 from University of Phoenix online. She became a professor in 2007 and in 2009, became a subject specialist for a health information technology program, rising to program coordinator in 2011. She remarried in 2005.

Her daughter, Taisha Owens, said, “She shows me that I should still fight for what I want. Her experience was unfortunate, everything happened for a reason. It made her who she is today.”

Richardson’s advice to anyone going through difficulties is to never give up.

“Keep pressing on. It may take more than a day to get back your strength, but never give up,” she said.

“Find support, you have to find support… I find support in God. No one knew what I was going through but Him. It’s so important to find support. Join groups.”

For more information about Richardson, visit www.drkalenerichardson.com. To learn more about her story, purchase her book, “From Gutter to Glory” online at Barnes and Noble, Amazon and more.

— Esther Shittu

People Local students were named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2014 semester at the University at Albany.

They include: Addisleigh Park: Maria Bryan.

Jamaica: Osa Adewemimo, Janay Campbell, Tenaya McDaniel, Nikya Medford, Amber Shamburger.

Air Force Airman Malik T. Shaw graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

Army Pvt. Luis D. Benavides has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. Community Education Council 29Q has announced the officers for

the 2014-15 school year. They are: Cheryl Rochelle, president; Feline Lazarus, first vice president; Nicole Hammond, second vice president; and Alicia Hyndman, treasurer.

The recording secretary position is vacant. A vote will take place to fill the position will take place during the Aug. 21 meeting.

Air Force Airman Aryani M. Veras graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San AntonioLackland, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eightweek program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

U.S. Air National Guard Airman 1st Class MD S. Rana graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

Devanee Septh of Jamaica was named to the Dean’s List for the

spring 2014 semester at Le Moyne College in Syracuse.

Swearing In

The Richmond Hill-South Ozone Park Lions Club recently inaugurated the club’s incoming executive committee. Heading the Club for the third consecutive year is President Lion Romeo Hitlall, First Vice President Lion Stanley Raj, Second Vice President Lion Carolina Soto, Secretary Lion Naidoo Veerapen, Treasurer Lion Indarjeet Paul, Assistant Secretary/Treasurer Lion Mary Diakite, and Assistant Membership Chair & Lion Tamer Lion Diana Allie.

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Parade Raises Awareness Of Social Issues Christ Church International is holding its International Day Parade on Aug. 16.

The International Day Parade stems from the Book of Revelations in the Bible. In an email, Pastor Sheila Kelly wrote, “The Bible says in the Book of Revelations that there is a day coming when multitudes of God’s people will stand together with great power and a great voice, made from all nations. As we see that day has begun let’s come together and demonstrate our power to the mayor, police department, elected officials and our neighbors, conveying it’s time for change.”

According to Pastor Kelly, the church began its International Day 15 years ago, because of the different nationalities in the church. She said that it was first like a picnic and a

family fun day, which expanded year after year as the church grew. But this year, the church decided to do something more.

“We wanted to do something more unconventional,” she said.

This year, Christ Church International is inviting different churches not only to come out and march, but also to come out for a purpose. Pastor Kelly said that the church added three initiatives to the parade: gun violence, law and policy for immigration, and “Ban the Box.” “Ban the Box” is an initiative that asks employers to remove the question concerning past convictions from the job application and to postpone the background check inquiry until later in the hiring process. This gives applicants with past convictions a chance to prove themselves,

before having to explain their past.

“Churches from near and far will be marching to bring awareness to gun violence in our communities, the right for a second chance initiative ‘Ban the Box,’ and for fairness of immigration policies,” Pastor Kelly said.

For the initiatives, Christ Church International invited elected officials to come and speak. The church invited officials such as Councilmen Donovan Richards, I. Daneek Miller, former Councilman Leroy Comrie and more. Moreover, during the parade, different activities will occur that relates to the initiatives.

“For gun violence, we would be giving out stats on gun violence; for “Ban the Box,” we would have people sign a petition; for immigration, we would have someone to answer questions,” Pastor Kelly said.

Other than the three initiatives, the parade will include singing, dancing, face painting, games and prizes, gifts and a bouncy house. Also, international food will be served after the parade.

All are invited to wear T-shirts, colors, bring flags and banners to the line-up that will begin at 9 a.m. at Baisley Pond Park (across from August Martin High School). The International Day Parade will begin at 10 a.m. followed by the International Day Parade program at 11 a.m. outside of Christ Church International, located at 122-20 Merrill St., Jamaica.

For more information call Pastor Kelly at (347) 878-5290 or Sister Ahkea Lyles at (917) 440-7064. To RSVP for the event, email uttermostministries@gmail.com.

— Esther Shittu

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Student Leaders Program

Internship Program Builds Leadership Skills

BY JORDAN GIBBONS This summer, three high school students from the Borough were chosen to participate in Bank of America’s national program, Student Leaders.

Edward Li, Cindy Pietrakowski and Yulin Yang were among 200 outstanding juniors and seniors who were recognized for demonstrating a commitment to community engagement and volunteerism. The students were each placed in a paid eight-week internship and traveled to Washington D.C. for a national Student Leadership Summit.

At the Summit, they were able to network with other students from around the country. They also worked with the American Red Cross to pack 2,000 “Totes of Hope” for homeless veterans, which is a program where personal care items, such as socks, toothbrushes and deodorant are donated, packaged and distributed to veterans.

“The Summit was one of the most inspiring moments of my life,” Pietrakowski said.

Pietrakowski has been interning at the Vanderbilt YMCA in Manhattan and after trying out all the departments, she was allowed to settle into one that she liked the best, which was camp administration.

As a rising senior at Maspeth High

Cindy Pietrakowski, Yulin Yang and Edward Li (from left to right) are three of the five Student Leaders chosen from the City for Bank of America’s summer internship program.

School, she is looking into majoring in communications at Syracuse University, University of Connecticut or Binghamton University.

“The YMCA is so unique. It has so many components and they let us explore everything,” she said. “The camp administration has showed me what goes on behind the scenes.

It was a really good fit to put me there.”

Yang, a rising senior at Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, is also interning at the Vanderbilt Y, where she is helping to plan its Longevity Luncheon for people who have been members for more than 25 years.

“Some people have been there for 60 years,” Yang said. “It really

brings the community together.”

Yang is still debating what she wants to pursue in college, but she said it is between biomedical engineering and investment banking. She is also deciding between Stanford University and Dartmouth College.

She said her upcoming AP Physics class will help her decide her major.

“If I really enjoy it, I may go towards biomedical engineering,” Yang said.

She has been working on a research project for a voice recognition system to differentiate and diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and primary progressive aphasia, a degenerative brain syndrome that affects speech and language.

Li, a recent graduate of Stuyve-

sant High School and a Little Neck resident, is attending Brown University in the fall. His internship is with the Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City, where he also got an opportunity to cycle through all the departments.

Li is working on creating a marketing campaign to expand the nonprofit’s online presence.

“We’re writing a proposal to Google for a grant for Google Ads,” he said.

They are asking for $10,000 a month for advertising.

Li is also looking to take a different path than the one he was on at Stuyvesant.

“In high school, I was a STEM student, but I don’t want to do research,” he said. “I transitioned to social services; entrepreneurship, journalism or politics.”

This year is the 10th anniversary of the Student Leader program.

Students are selected through an application process each year and are awarded an internship based on their leadership and a demonstrated commitment to service within their schools and communities.

The application is available online at www.bankofamerica.com late this fall.

Reach Reporter Jordan Gibbons at (718) 357-7400 Ext. 123, jgibbons@ queenspress.com or @jgibbons2

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What’s Up Aug 15 ‘Red Tails’

more information or to RSvP, call (866) 539-0999.

Join Councilman I. Daneek Miller and the Parks Dept. at Wayanda Park to watch a screening of the movie “Red Tails.” Along with the movie, there will be a visit from Tuskegee Airmen. Free ices and popcorn will also be provided. The screening will be at 7 p.m.

All are encouraged to bring their chair and blanket. The park is located at 217-40 Hollis Ave., Jamaica, between Robard Lane and 217th Street.

For more information, call (718) 776-3700.

Living in High Release The 2014 JCAL Summer dance Intensive presents a summer dance intensive culmination demonstration. The demonstration will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The demonstration will be at Jamaica Performing Arts Center, located at 153-10 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica.

For more information, call (718) 658-7400.

Aug 16 Relaxing Massage Enjoy a 15-minute chair massage from Neighborhood Care and Tender Touch for All. All caregivers, seniors, veterans, people with disabilities and chronic conditions are welcomed. The massage chair will be opened from noon to 3 p.m. The massage will be given at EmblemHealth Neighborhood Care Center, located at 206-20 Linden Blvd., Cambria Heights. For

Aug 18 NAN Meeting The National Action Network is planning a major demonstration from Brooklyn to Staten Island over the verrazano Bridge. All are invited to the emergency meeting to receive the proper information so that there can be a successful demonstration to send a message to the city that police brutality, excessive force and homicide from those who have sworn to protect and respect the residents whom they have been hired to serve will not be tolerated. Guest speakers and the chapter President will discuss the particulars in regard to the Aug. 23 demonstration. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at Greater Springfield Community Church, located at 177-06 129th Ave., Jamaica. For more information, call (718) 949-9500 or email queenschapternan@gmail.com.

Pre-K For All All are invited to join Pre-K For All during its office hours. This is a chance for caretakers to meet with an enrollment specialist and learn how to enroll their children into Pre-K as well as learn about the different options that are available for families.

The open house is from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at 172-17 Linden Blvd., St. Albans. For more information, call Candace E. Prince-Modeste at (718) 776-3700 or email cmodeste2council.nyc.gov.

Aug 19 Cell Phone Literacy EmblemHealth Neighborhood Care will have a hands-on demonstration about cell phones. Learn about cell technology basics, text language, sending messages and photos and other helpful features of your cellphone. The session will be from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at EmblemHealth Neighborhood Care Center, located at 206-20 Linden Blvd., Cambria Heights. For more information, call (866) 539-0999.

Jazzmobile at Cambria Park Councilman I. Daneek Miller and the Parks Dept. present Jazzmobile at Cabell/Cambria Heights Park, with musical performances by Winard Harper and Jeli Posse. All are encouraged to bring a chair and blanket. The park is located on Francis Lewis Boulevard at 120th Avenue.

The performance is from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. For more information, call Ms. Denson at (718)776-3700.

Aug 20 Employment Discrimination The Jamaica Branch NAACP is conducting a free employment discrimination workshop in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. The workshop will cover discriminatory subjects in the workplace such as disparate impact and disparate treatment, promotion and advancement, sexual harassment, pregnancy, LGBT, disability, religion and retaliation. Other topics

include compliancy agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the New York State Division of Human Right. The workshop will start at 6 p.m. at the SUNY Queens Education Opportunity Center, located at 158-29 Archer Ave., Jamaica. For more information, call (718) 723-3653.

Birding by Canoe The Eastern Queens Alliance, Inc. invites all to join the U.S. National Park Service for a birding by canoe adventure through the waterways of Idlewild Park Preserve. For more information or to register, call (718) 338-3799. The event will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Idlewild Park is located at 230-11 Rockaway Blvd, Jamaica.

FuTuRE EvENTs: Annual sickle Cell 5K The Queens Sickle Cell Advocacy Network, Inc. invites all to attend the QSCAN Annual Sickle Cell 5K Run/ Walk-A-Thon on Sunday Sept.

7. Registration starts at 8 AM and the Walk begins at 10 a.m. at 160th Street between Liberty and Archer Avenues (near the last stop of the 'E' train, Jamaica Center and York College) and ends at Roy Wilkins Park. Registration will be $25 on the day of the event.

Early Registration is available for $20 online at www.eventbrite.com/e/ qscan-annual-sickle-cell-5k-runwalka-thon-2014-tickets-11386311765. For information and Team Leader Packets, call (718) 712-0873 or email sicklecellwalk@verizon.net.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NE W YORK COUNT Y OF QUEENS Index No. 22641/2013 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Plaintiff designates Queens Count y as the place of trial. Venue is based uponthe County in which the Mortgage premises is situated. RECEIVED 7/18/2014 COUNTY CLERK QUEENS COUNTY Capital One, N.A. –against- Charis Sachtouris, if living and if any be dead, any and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, m0ligagees, lienor, heirs, devisees, distributes, or successors in interest of such of the above as may be dead, and their spouses, heirs, devisees, distributes and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residences are unknown to Plaintiff, Fleet National Bank, New York City Environmental Control Board, New York

City Parking Violations Bureau New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau United State of America-Internal Revenue Service, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons if not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgement will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $100,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of QUEENS on June 30, 1992 in Book 3346, Page 906, which was consolidated with the mortgage recorded on October 15, 1996, in Book 4443, at Page 1523 in the amount of $38,750.00 by a Consolidation, Extension and Modification Agreement dated August 20, 1996, recorded October 15, 1996 in Book 4443 at Page 1535, which created a single lien in the amount of $138,750.00, covering premises known as 149-35 12th Avenue, Whitestone, NY 11357. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured

by the Mortgage described above. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the Mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case if pending for further information on how to answer the Summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your Mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated:

WILLIAMSVILLE, New York JUNE 26, 2014 By: Stephen J. Wallace Esq. Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, New York 11706 (631) 969-3100 Our File No.: 01-033536-FOO TO: Charis Sachtouris 149-35 12th Avenue, Whitestone, NY 11357 and/or 116 East 83rd Street, New York, NY 10028 United State of AmericaInternal Revenue Service New York State Department of Taxation and Finance ________________________ NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR DEUTSCHE ALT-A SECURITIES INC., MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-AR3, Plaintiff, against ANDRE BAKSH, et al., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and

Sale duly dated 4/24/2014 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County Courthouse in Courthouse #25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York on 09/12/2014 at 10:00AM, premises known as 197-17 100TH AVENUE, Hollis, NY 11423 All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Hollis, in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 10844 LOT: 19. Approximate amount of judgment $650,805.60 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 15598/09. Joseph F. Defelice, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC, Attorney for Plaintiff, P.O. Box 540, Getzville, NY 14068 Dated: August 4, 2014 1106450

Battle Rap Between Beeps Last week, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams sent out a press release to spread awareness about Brooklyn’s inaugural International Day of Friendship.

The title of the release, invoked the lyrics of Brooklyn rap legend Christopher Wallace, aka The Notorious B.I.G., “BP Adams Spreads Love, The Brooklyn Way.” We here at QConf would

love to see our own BP, Melinda Katz, join the party with her own rap-inspired press release.

Perhaps she could honor Hollis native James Todd Smith aka LL Cool J in her next press release about the ousting of the Queens Library Trustees.

Here Melinda, we’ll write the headline for you, “BP Katz Says I’m Gonna Knock You Out, Mama Said Knock You Out!”

Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite You thought people hogging the subway pole are bad.

Last week, N line straphangers had to share their train with some very irritating passengers: bed bugs.

The tiny travelers infested a handful of trains that were subsequently fumigated, but riders throughout the City weren’t exactly itching to get back on any N train.

According to published reports, bedbugs were also spotted in employee lockers and the home of a conductor.

The bed bugs have since spread

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Unicycle Lane

Seen earlier this week in Woodside, Sunnyside resident Daniel Marsala was riding down the bike lane on 39th Avenue not on a bike, but a unicycle. Marsala told a QConf photographer that he frequently attends unicycle gatherings in Manhattan, and hopes to organize one in Queens. Photo by Walter Karling.

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We here at QConf are scratching our heads as to where these bed bugs came from, and where they're headed. Maybe they just found out about all the great bites to be had along the N in Astoria.

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Visit Weiner's Kitchen

A former Congressman is firing up the grill on the Queens peninsula.

Former U.S. Rep, Anthony Weiner has opened a non-profit company, called the Rockaway Restoration Kitchen.

According to the idealist. org job listing of the company, it is described as “A social entrepreneurship that operates a healthy, sustainable restaurant in a hard luck community to provide training, on-the-job apprenticeship and placement in the culinary and food service sector for unemployed New Yorkers.”

Basically, it aims to serve delicious food and train the unemployed with kitchen skills that they can use for a job in that industry. They will help in job placement for people in that program as well, according to the listing.

The new venture is looking for an executive director, which has an Aug. 31 deadline to apply for the position.

You may remember Weiner for the sexting scandal that forced him to resign from the U.S. Rep. seat he had, which included representing stormravaged Rockaway, along with his failed bid for Mayor last year.

He appears to be out of the political game and is now picking up the spatula to help open up a new kitchen to satisfy the taste buds of the residents living on the peninsula.

If you go to a concert by The Dreamstalks, you will enjoy their simple, sing-along songs that seem made for children. While the band may sound age-appropriate, the topics certainly are not.

This comedy duo puts the audience in an elementary school assembly, but sings about realistic career goals, dating in New York City and walking in on your parents “wrestling.”

The Dreamstalks, made up of Karen Bray and Zach Miko, are an Astoria-based group that fell into musical comedy by accident, when an attempt at starting a band led to one of their first funny songs.

“We have been friends for several years and one day decided to start a band. During our first rehearsal, we unintentionally wrote a comedic song about the frustrations of dating in New York City,” they said. “Immediately, we knew we had something and decided to make the fast switch to becoming comedic musicians.”

The two of them settled on the adult “children’s songs” bit after their experiences in working day jobs with kids.

Miko worked at Field Station Dinosaur, a children's theme park, and Bray was a nanny.

“We took our experiences with these jobs and developed our characters.

We hadn't seen anything like it before, inappropriate children's musicians,” they said.

Often times, the Dreamstalks’ tunes start innocently enough, sounding like a number you may hear on “Sesame Street” or at a children’s camp. For example, “The Table Manners Song” talks about being a kid and going out to a restaurant with

your family. The dinner begins nicely enough, but then things take a dramatic and sidesplittingly funny turn.

“For no reason at all, you start screaming while seeing how much ketchup fits into a glass of milk/and kid, you just don’t seem to know/that you’re a terrible patron/and the waitress hates you,” the duo sings with smiles on their faces.

The two said they were influenced stylistically by The Mountain Goats and comically by Tenacious D and Charlie Day’s work on the sitcom, “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia,” where his character wrote a hilariously bad musical.

The Dreamstalks recently held a fundraiser at Rockwood Music Hall along with a few friends, to help fund their debut album.

The duo said they have 10 songs ready to go, as well as a bonus track. The record will also include their betweensong banter.

Once the album is done, the group has some ambitious goals for the next few months.

“We are hoping to tour, enter into every major festival we can, hopefully get some TV appearances, stage a full length show, buy a horse, who knows! The world is our oyster!,” they said. “Meanwhile we continue doing the act that we love and playing with the people we love, for the audience we love.”

To learn more about The Dreamstalks and for all the latest news from the duo, visit www.thedreamstalks. com and www.facebook.com/ thedreamstalks. If you want to help fund their debut, donate to their Kickstarter at www. kickstarter.com/projects/ thedreamstalks/the-dreamstalks-debut-album.

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Aug. 15-21, 2014 PRESS of Southeast Queens Page 19

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