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VOL. 20 • NUMBER 51 • DECEMBER 17, 2020

CANDLE CAUSE OF HOLIDAY HELL Unattended Open Flame Sparked Six-Alarm Richmond Hill Blaze that Left Dozens Homeless Two Weeks before Christmas Eve: FDNY

See Story on Page 7 The fire took out apartments and businesses along Jamaica Avenue between 109th and 110th streets.

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Gillibrand Calls on Colleagues to Deliver Relief to NY Hospitals as COVID Cases Surge across State

By Forum Staff As surging COVID-19 cases threaten to overwhelm New York’s hospitals, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is urging Congress to deliver increased funding for hospitals and health care providers in the next coronavirus relief package.

Specifically, Gillibrand said she is requesting the inclusion of these policy proposals in any upcoming COVID-19 relief package: Funding for State and Local Governments to Avoid Spending Cuts: Any upcoming coronavirus relief legislation must include substantial funding for a state stabilization fund to provide direct funding to state and local governments, Gillibrand noted. In addition, it should increase the Families First Coronavirus Response Act’s temporary 6.2 percent increase in the Federal medical matching percentages (FMAP) to at least 14 percent. The increase should apply to costs associated with all Medicaid populations (including Affordable Care Act expansion populations), be retroactive to January 1, 2020, and last at least through September 30, 2021. The legislation should also provide flexibility to reform Medicaid programs without cutting any current beneficiaries off the rolls or increasing the ranks of the uninsured.

In addition, the legislation should increase the state disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments to adjust for the in-

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creased FMAP. Without such an adjustment, states electing the enhanced FMAP would need to reduce aggregate hospital DSH payments to stay within their DSH allotments, inadvertently requiring cuts to hospitals.

Convert Medicare Advances to Grants: Relief legislation has enabled hospitals to request six-month Medicare advances (all other providers and suppliers can request a three-month advance) that were subject to certain repayment terms.

Any coronavirus relief legislation should convert the Medicare advances into a grant/loan forgiveness program so that either no repayment or a partial repayment

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would occur, at a minimum we urge you to further delay the repayment of these loans.

Provider Relief Fund Increase and Flexibility for Emergency Expenses Related To COVID-19: Relief legislation should increase funding for the “Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund” from $175 billion to at least $275 billion and ensure that hospitals and health systems receive immediate Federal funding—giving priority to hospitals in areas that have treated or continue to treat a disproportionate number of COVID-19 patients.

Crisis Pay and Bolstering the Health Workforce: Relief legislation should in-

clude “crisis pay” payments that could be used to fund increased wages, bonuses, and/ or benefits for health care workers.

Delay Upcoming Hospital Reimbursement Cuts and Modify Financing Terms: Relief legislation should eliminate the Medicaid Disproportionate Share (DSH) cuts, which are set to go into effect on December 11, 2020 as well as suspend the Medicare sequester cuts for at least the duration of the pandemic. The CARES Act suspended the 2 percent sequester cuts to Medicare providers, including hospitals, physicians, and post-acute care providers, but only through December 31, 2020. Relief legislation should also consider waiving or modifying payment terms to help them preserve cash flow and sustain operations.

By requiring lenders to provide relief from debt covenants on hospital loans to prevent the triggering of financial penalties.

Infrastructure and Telehealth Funding for Hospitals: Relief legislation should increase capital access for hospitals that need infrastructure improvements, particularly those that used capital reserves to treat COVID-19 patient. Any relief package should improve the nation’s tele-health infrastructure by helping to fund provider startup costs such as purchasing videoconferencing equipment and reliable connectivity, and improving rules and regulations particularly around geographic, service type, provider restrictions, and accessibility for people with disabilities.

Council Votes to Create Outdoor Arts Program, Special Flushing Waterfront District

By Michael V. Cusenza The City Council on Thursday voted in favor of a bill that would allow eligible art and cultural institutions or cultural venues to use approved open, public street space for artistic or cultural events, and a zoning map amendment to establish a Special Flushing Waterfront District.

The first bill requires the City to create an “Open Culture” program similar to the concept of the “Open Restaurant” outdoor dining program launched this year. There would be an application fee of $20 for participation in the program, to cover costs and discourage frivolous applications.

The program would be established by March 1, 2021 and remain in effect until Oct. 31, with the possibility of extension, but would expire by March 31, 2022. The program would be developed by the Mayor’s Office of Citywide Event Coordination and Management, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, the Department of Buildings, the Police Department, the Fire Department, and any other agency designated by the mayor. DOT would be required to share a list of spaces eligible for the program

by Feb. 1, 2021.

This bill would go into effect immediately.

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“We need to use our City’s space in new and creative ways to make sure the cultural community can perform and create,” Councilman Van Bramer said.

“Arts and culture are the lifeblood of our City. With the new Open Culture program, artists and art groups can start staging performances – and charge for them – starting March 1. There will be dancing, singing and comedy on the streets bringing joy and jobs to thousands. We need to use our City’s space in new and creative ways to make sure the cultural community can perform and create.

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This new law will be a dynamic and transformative program for our cultural community and will create a dynamic open space use – a true win-win,” said City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside), the “Open Culture” bill’s sponsor.

The council also approved an application seeking a zoning text amendment to establish the Special Flushing Waterfront

District, including the rezoning of existing C4-2 and M3-1 districts to an M1-2/R7-1 district; as well as a zoning text amendment to create Special District rules regarding use, bulk, and parking, and related modifications to the underlying district regulations, including the establishment of a Mandatory Inclusionary Housing area, utilizing Options 1 and 2. The proposal is intended to facilitate the development of approximately 1.6 million square feet of residential space, including 1,725 dwelling units, 1.4 million square feet of commercial space, and 22,000 square feet of community facility space. The district would include a new private road network; and new waterfront regulations, in order to create 2.8 acres of publicly-accessible open space, a new public plaza, and a 40-foot-wide shore public walkway along the Flushing Creek waterfront.

This project will provide an economic lifeline in the form of union employment and tens of millions of dollars in additional tax revenues to the City, council leaders noted.

“I hope that this project will allow our community to benefit from and enjoy responsible growth and success like other neighborhoods already do,” U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) said.

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By Michael V. Cusenza On Monday morning, Sandra Lindsay, an Intensive Care Unit nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Glen Oaks received the first COVID-19 vaccine injection in the country.

The vaccine was developed by Pfizer, a New York-based company, and authorized by the Food and Drug Administration and New York’s Clinical Advisory Task Force late last week.

“We trust science here in New York.

The federal government approved the vaccine. We then had a separate panel that also approved the vaccine and we’ve been following the science all along. I hope this gives you, and the healthcare workers who are battling this every day, a sense of security and safety and a little more confidence in doing your job once the second vaccine has been administered. In New York we prioritized healthcare workers at the top of the list to receive the vaccine, because we know that you are out there every day putting your lives in danger for the rest of us, so we want to make sure we’re doing everything we can to keep you safe. And the point about New Yorkers and Americans having to do their part and take the vaccine, because the vaccine only works if the American people take it,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

“Governor Cuomo, I’m feeling well. I would like to thank all the frontline workers, all my colleagues, who’ve been doing a yeoman’s job throughout this pandemic all over the world,” Lindsay said. “I am hopeful. I feel I hope today, relieved. I feel like

healing is coming and this marks the beginning of the end of a very painful time in our history. I want to instill public confidence that the vaccine is safe. We’re in a pandemic and so we all need to do your part to put an end to the pandemic, and to not give up so soon. There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we still need to continue to wear our masks, to social distance. I believe in science. As a nurse, my practice is guided by science and so I trust that. What I don’t trust is that, if I contract COVID, I don’t know how it would impact or those who I come in contact with, so I encourage everyone to take the vaccine.”

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards added, “More than 95,000 Queens residents have contracted COVID-19 over the past nine months, including more than 6,000 of our friends, neighbors and loved ones whom we’ve lost to this unforgiving virus. Today’s arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine will not lessen our collective pain, but today’s historic feat of science and medicine is the day we permanently altered the course of this pandemic — saving countless lives in the process. It is not lost on Queens — the epicenter of the epicenter of this pandemic, where communities of color were hit with starting severity — that a Black female healthcare hero administered New York State’s first dose of the vaccine to another Black female healthcare hero. As vaccines become more widely available, a just recovery from COVID-19 and the inequalities in our society it exposed means routing these life-saving inoculations toward our historically underserved and hardest hit communities.”

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DA Katz Files Joint Motion with Defense Attorneys to Reverse Two 1996 Convictions

By Forum Staff Citing decades-old evidence of improper discrimination based on race, sex, religion, and ethnicity in jury selection, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Thursday that she has filed a joint motion with defense counsel at the law firm Covington & Burling, LLP, to vacate the convictions of Santiago Valdez and Paul Morant, who were convicted in 1996 and remain incarcerated.

Upon reversal of their convictions, Katz is requesting the defendants be remanded to pretrial detention and re-prosecuted.

The motion is based on documents found in the Queens DA’s Office’s files indicating that a single ADA improperly excluded certain minorities and women from jury service, in violation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Batson v. Kentucky.

When selecting jurors in criminal trials, both the prosecution and defense are afforded a limited number of “peremptory strikes,” which allow an attorney discretion to remove potential jurors from the jury pool. However, the rights of the potential jurors and a criminal defendant under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution are violated where the use of peremptory strikes is motivated by race, sex, religion, or ethnicity.

According to Katz, earlier this year, the

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Queens DA’s Office’s Conviction Integrity Unit was made aware of a set of notes utilized by a single former ADA when exercising peremptory strikes which contained discriminatory guidance, including: a preference for white jurors; advice to exclude black jurors from certain neighborhoods; advice to exclude Jews, Hispanics, and Italians from jury service; and advice to exclude mothers and grandmothers.

Photocopied versions of these notes were found, in response to a Freedom of In-

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formation request, in the case files of both defendants. Other notations in the files of the two defendants showed that the ADA was actively referring to the discriminatory notes when exercising peremptory strikes.

Accordingly, Katz indicated that she “has made the difficult decision” to consent to reversing, and to return to a trial posture, the following convictions: • People v. Santiago Valdez: Valdez was convicted of two counts of Murder in the Second

Degree and one count of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree.

On Nov. 18, 1996, he was sentenced to two consecutive indeterminate prison terms of twenty years to life on the murder convictions, and a concurrent indeterminate term of two and one-third to seven years on the weapon-possession conviction. These convictions related to the murder of Danny Velez and Arley Zapata, who were patrons of a nightclub. The trial evidence showed defendant fired a handgun into the closed door of a nightclub, resulting in the deaths of Velez and Zapata.

• People v. Paul Morant: Morant was convicted of Attempted Murder in the First Degree, Attempted Aggravated Assault upon a Police Officer, Assault in the Second Degree, Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree.

On July 24, 1996, Morant was sentenced, as a persistent violent felony offender, to concurrent indeterminate prison terms of from 25 years to life on each count for which he was convicted. These convictions related to an altercation in which the trial evidence showed Morant struggled with NYPD Officer Keith Schweers during a stop, pulled a gun and shot Schweers twice in the chest. Schweers was saved by his bullet-proof vest.

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“[W]e take seriously our responsibility to maintain security at our borders and prosecute those who seek unlawful commercial advantage and financial profit through the exploitation of other human beings,� said Acting Brooklyn U.S. Attorney DuCharme.

By Forum Staff A six-count indictment was unsealed on Thursday in Central Islip federal court charging two men with smuggling Vietnamese aliens into the country to work for illegally low wages at hair and nail salons in Queens, Bronx, and on Long Island, federal prosecutors announced.

Dat Tat Ho, 33, of the Bronx, and Manh Ngoc Nguyen, 44, of Hicksville, L.I., have been charged with conspiring to defraud U.S. government agencies and alien smuggling for financial gain, and related crimes. Both defendants have been ordered detained pending trial.

According to court filings, the defendants owned or managed numerous nail and hair salons in Queens, the Bronx and on Long Island. Between January 2017 and September 2020, the defendants and others arranged for Vietnamese foreign nationals to enter the

country via illegal border crossings at the U.S. border with Mexico, as well as at other ports of entry. After the foreign nationals crossed the border, the defendants facilitated their travel to New York to work in their salons at illegally low wages and overstay their transit visas. The defendants also caused foreign nationals to make false statements to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and submit fraudulent asylum applications to USCIS. The foreign nationals were housed in residences that the defendants owned or controlled.

If convicted, Nguyen and Ho face a minimum of five years’ imprisonment and up to 15 years’ imprisonment. “As this case demonstrates, we take seriously our responsibility to maintain security at our borders and prosecute those who seek unlawful commercial advantage and financial profit through the exploitation of other human beings,� said Acting Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Seth DuCharme.

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Civic’s Caravan of Christmas Cheer Collects Toys, Raises Funds for Less Fortunate

By Michael V. Cusenza Another year, another successful holiday toy and fundraising drive for the Howard Beach Lindenwood Civic.

While 2020 has been a collection of 12 months like no other in recent memory, Saturday’s Caravan of Christmas Cheer also saw amazing levels of local volunteerism and donating.

“What can we say Howard Beach!!!! As always your support was more than anyone could ever hope for! The amount of toys that was donated was incredible! Thank you to the

ENTIRE community,” the HBL Civic’s Executive Board wrote on Facebook. “A HUGE thank you to to NYPD 106th Precinct, the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department, Chief Nick Spinelli, Beach Channel Volunteer Fire Department, Senator Joe Addabbo, Assemblywoman Stacey Pfeffer Amato, Michael Hennessy, Joseph Risitano IV, Melissa Madonna Vee for the elves and all of the residents who donated toys for the 106th Precinct Toy Drive and money for the OLG Food Pantry and to all who joined in the caravan! Lastly THANK YOU to Santa and Mrs. Claus! We love you all! Happy Holidays!”

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Caravan of Christmas Cheer elves drop off toys at the 106th Precinct stationhouse.

The caravan prepares to ride through Howard Beach.

According to the civic, “The winner for best car for our Caravan of Christmas Cheer goes to Kim Marie! Not only did the family decorate the car nicely but they were full of cheer themselves! Congratulations!!!!!”

Civic President Joann Ariola and member Cathy Harrison are all smiles under those masks!

On Tuesday, The civic visited the Our Lady of Grace Ministry of Care and Service group to bring a donation check in the amount of $465 from the Caravan of Christmas Cheer, along with some toys for them to give out to the families they service. “These ladies work tirelessly throughout the year to make sure the food pantry is well stocked and they have everything they need to provide to those in need. The community thanks you for your efforts,” the civic said.

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Massive Blaze Leaves Dozens of Richmond Hill Residents Homeless

By Michael V. Cusenza A fast-moving fire swept through several buildings in Richmond Hill early Thursday morning, leaving more than four-dozen residents homeless just two weeks before Christmas Eve. The six-alarm blaze, which saw more than 200 Bravest battle it, destroyed homes and commercial property along Jamaica Avenue between 109th and 110th streets.

“These businesses are going to be displaced. The entire row right now is inhabitable,” FDNY Battalion Chief Jim Carney said.

Indeed, several City Department of Buildings vacate orders were plastered on storefront glass and plywood erected in place of fire-ravaged doors along the now eerily quiet stretch of the Richmond Hill thoroughfare.

According to City Fire Department fire marshals, the cause of the inferno “was an unattended candle. Smoke alarm not present.”

Throughout the holiday season, the FDNY officials have detailed about the dangers of open flames and defective alarms.

“NEVER leave burning candles unattended. Always extinguish candles before leaving a room or going to sleep, and place them at least four-feet away from all combustibles. Prevent fires by using flameless alternatives instead”; “Working alarms are the most critical component of your escape plan; have both a smoke and CO alarm, or a combination smoke/CO alarm, where you sleep and on every level of your home,

including basements,” the department has posted several times across its social media platforms.

For information on how to help the fire victims see our story on page 10.

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Increase Security Funding for Nonprofits: Pols

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“No community should have to live in fear due to who they are or how they worship,” Sen. Gillibrand said.

By Forum Staff A group of U.S. senators, led by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), recently sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee requesting that the Nonprofit Security Grant Program be adequately funded to meet the needs of at-risk organizations this fiscal year.

According to the elected officials, the funding allocated by this program will support non-profit organizations most at-risk of terror attacks through the acquisition and installation of physical target hardening measures, related preparedness and prevention planning, training, and exercises, and contracted security personnel so that religious and community based organizations have the critical resources and tools they need to protect lives and property.

According to a recent FBI report on hate crime statistics in 2019, 60.2 percent were victims of crimes motivated by offenders’ anti-Jewish bias.

“The rise in anti-Semitic and hatefueled crimes across New York is unconscionable. No community should have to live in fear due to who they are or how they worship,” Gillibrand said. “The Nonprofit Security Grant Program is an initiative committed to keeping nonprofits deemed at risk of terrorist attacks safer through critical investments in their physical security.

I will always fight to expand NSGP grants so that New Yorkers, and Americans across the country, can gather communally or worship freely and safely, against the threat of violence.”

Every year, Congress must specifically allocate funding for the NSGP. The program helps nonprofits, deemed by the Department of Homeland Security to be at risk of attack, plan for and ready them-

selves against potential attacks. In addition to hardening facilities, this program has improved efforts to keep at-risk nonprofit organizations safe by promoting emergency preparedness coordination and collaboration activities between public and private community representatives, as well as with state and local government agencies.

“FEMA’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program is vitally important to ensure nonprofits, particularly faith-based organizations, have the resources necessary to invest in physical security enhancements, training, and contract security personnel to protect against potential attacks. At a time when we have seen a rise in violence against communities of faith, we have a responsibility to ensure this program is appropriately funded to protect at-risk organizations and communities. I am proud to join my bipartisan colleagues to support this crucial program,” said Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH).

Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, added, “Jewish communities worldwide have witnessed firsthand the rise of antiSemitism and hate motivated violent attacks. In our schools, synagogues and community centers we have been targeted by hate and extremists and those looking to mimic their disgusting and deplorable tactics. We know that eradicating anti-Semitism means addressing violent hate and extremism wherever it exits in partnership with our elected officials and law enforcement. For these reasons we thank Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, along with Senators Rob Portman, Gary Peters, James Lankford and Jackie Rosen, for their leadership on urging increased funding this year to meet the growing security needs of nonprofit faithand community-based organizations.”

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PROTECTING OUR ELDERS Monitoring Senior Meds We’ve spoken to you in the past about mistakes made by chain pharmacies in having dispensed the wrong medication to a child.

And now we’d like to discuss with you something of equal importance about another “at risk” population--especially when talking about medications––our senior citizens.

Whether you’re a full-time caregiver to your parents, a volunteer in a senior service program or you just help out an aging aunt or uncle from time to time, part of that responsibility is likely helping them get their medications.

Our elders use more prescriptions than any other age group in the country. In fact although they comprise roughly 13% of the population, they use at least 34% of all prescription medication.

Because most older adults live with at least one chronic condition and generally have more than one prescribing physician, there are often complications in keeping track of the multiple meds and the interactions between them.

One of the most valuable services your local pharmacy can offer you is a strong effort to educate older adults and their caregivers about every medication the patient takes.

Additionally, as your family pharmacist, we can help to close gaps in the process of managing prescriptions. Opening the lines of communications between adults with hectic

schedules, who also care for their parents on a regular basis, is a valuable asset that cannot be overstated. We are available to discuss your elders entire medication protocol and can advise on the safest, most expeditious way of guaranteeing that they are protected when it comes to their medication.

One practice, which can offer a safeguard, is reducing risks by filling your prescriptions at the same pharmacy. Studies show that using one source for all medications significantly reduces life-threatening mistakes.

Studies show longer life expectancy among adults over 65 is on the rise and in the next 12 years that population is expected to number around is 71 million elders by 2030. Those same studies name pharmacists as integral figures in helping to insure the health and safety of the fastest growing segment of the population—those 85 and older!

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TSA Team at LaGuardia Airport Earns Homeland Security Award for Pandemic Heroism

By Forum Staff The Transportation Security Administration team at LaGuardia Airport was recently honored with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Award for Pandemic Heroism.

According to the TSA, the award was bestowed to the TSA security professionals of “Team LaGuardia” for its display of uncommon bravery and dedication during the pandemic. Despite its proximity to the nation’s pandemic epicenter, TSA personnel continued to report to the airport daily, overcoming obstacles such as the subways closing due to the pandemic, and rioting and civil disorder, which broke out in May. During the pandemic, the TSA group opened a state-of-the-art 17-lane security checkpoint in the newly constructed Terminal B in June, assisted neighboring airports with critical staffing and supplies and found time to assist with food and essential item distribution for the city’s homeless population.

“During the pandemic, Team LaGuardia truly exemplified the meaning of selfless public service and symbolized the true essence of TSA and DHS,” said Robert Duff y, TSA’s Federal Security Director for LaGuardia. “Despite the dangerous com-

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“During the pandemic, Team LaGuardia truly exemplified the meaning of selfless public service and symbolized the true essence of TSA and DHS,” said Robert Duff y, TSA’s Federal Security Director for LaGuardia.

muting conditions on the city’s mass transit system and a local healthcare system paralyzed by the virus, Team LaGuardia helped guarantee that New York City’s top domestic airport, located at the nation’s pandemic epicenter, remained open.”

At the outset of the pandemic, the TSA team at LaGuardia formed a special task force to centralize workforce messaging, distribute personal protective equipment and cleaning supplies, and coordinated workspace cleansing and disinfecting and

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During the first few months of the pandemic, the TSA team opened the new 17-lane security checkpoint and associated in-line checked baggage screening system.

employee health status tracking and reporting, according to TSA officials.

During the first few months of the pandemic, the TSA team opened the new 17lane security checkpoint and associated in-line checked baggage screening system featuring a sophisticated luggage conveyor belt of approximately 17,000 feet (the equivalent of 18 city blocks) with 55 robotic mobile inspection stations. The new equipment required the personnel to complete 12,000 hours of specialized security equip-

ment training within 90 days. The team also orchestrated the delivery and installation of 180,000 pounds of office furniture; relocated personnel to office space in the new terminal and oversaw the decommissioning of the older screening equipment.

“Throughout every phase of the pandemic and opening of the new checkpoint, our team performed its security mission without a single security incident or notable passenger wait time at any checkpoint,” Duff y added.

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Legal Notices MERRILL CONSULTING SERVICES LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/29/2020. Office: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: The LLC, 112-02 Northern Blvd, Ste-PHD, Corona, NY 11368. Purpose: any lawful act.

BRICK CITY PRODUCTIONS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/17/2020. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Antonio Causi, 9716 Albert Road #2, Ozone Park, NY 11417. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of SALON 1884, LLCArts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/18/20. Office location: Queens County.

Princ. office of LLC: 458 Seneca Ave., Apt. 2R, Ridgewood, NY 11385. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. Purpose: Fashion and design.

Filed on Time, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/23/20. Office in Queens Co. SSNY Agent of LLC upon whom the process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to Nikolett Peto at 4261 24th Street, Floor 4, Long Island City, NY 11101. Purpose: Accounting and tax service .

EVOLUTION HOME REPAIRS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/28/20.

Office in Queens Co. SSNY Agent of LLC upon whom the process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to: PANAGIOTA XIFAS, 160-24 21st Ave, 2nd flr. Whitestone, NY 11357. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

RNR CONSULTING LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/12/2020. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: R. YAKUBOV 8804 136TH STREET, FIRST FLOOR, RICHMOND HILL, NY 11418. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

SMBI LLC. Articles of Org._ filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/09/2020. Office in Queens Co. SSNY Desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 104-28 Merrick Blvd, Jamaica, NY 11433. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of 32 26 99 STREET, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/17/20. Office in Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 48-17 64 ST WOODSIDE, NY, 11377. Purpose: Any lawful purpose ALANYE LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/09/2020. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: BY ALANYE LLC, 80-08 135TH STREET, APT 702, JAMAICA, NY 11435. Purpose: Any lawful activity

TRIPLE PRIME V LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/25/2020. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: BUSINESS FILINGS INCORPORATED, 187 WOLF ROAD, SUITE 101, ALBANY,NY 12205. Purpose: Any lawful activity

OPM OPPORTUNITIES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/12/2020. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 82-17 153 Ave., Ste. 204, Queens, NY 11414, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

BCKV HOLDINGS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/06/2020. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: BCKV HOLDINGS LLC, 88-48 HOLLIS COURT BLVD, QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11427. Purpose: Any lawful activity

GRACEVIEW LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 09/25/2020. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: GRACEVIEW LLC, 6617 BEACH CHANNEL DRIVE, AVERNE, NEW YORK 11692. Purpose: Any lawful activity

DELOREAN DECADES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/18/2020. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: GREGORY MYERS, 26808 UNION TURNPIKE, 2ND FLOOR, GLEN OAKS, NY 11004. Purpose: Any lawful activity

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SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Kalb & Rosenfeld P.C., 283 Commack Road, Suite 210, Commack, NY 11725. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 34-20 31 Street, Astoria, NY 11106. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

BLUE ZAFIRO SERVICES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 08/26/2020. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: BLUE ZAFIRO SERVICES, LLC 8209 LEFFERTS BLVD, KEW GARDENS, NY 11415. Purpose: Any lawful activity SARA’S DIGITAL STUDIO LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/30/2020. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: SARA’S DIGITAL STUDIO LLC, 228-35 114 TERR, CAMBRIA HEIGHTS, NY 11411. Purpose: Any lawful activity SERENITY MARKETING, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/15/2020. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Serenity Marketing, LLC, 137-47 71 Avenue, Flushing, NY 11367. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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