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Anti-Gentrification Efforts Take on New Directions, As Black People Step Forward and Speak Out Activists take a stand for a Judge's legacy, a congregation and its pastor plot a course for the future

Slave Theaters #1 and #2: Monuments to the U.S. Civil Rights Struggle

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magine returning home after an extended workday to find an unknown man seated in your

reclining easy chair holding the flatscreen TV remote control and chatting with another unknown man? Your mind may scream, “Who are these people?” ➔ Continued on page 3

The Changing of a Block on DeKalb Avenue Spring of 2014, Our Time Press told of the changing scenes along DeKalb Avenue, and the story of a single father who was facing the closure of his successful barber shop between Tompkins & and Marcy due to pressures from his landlord.

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hat is called “gentrification” has a number of causes, not only the multi-trillion dollar transfer of wealth amassed during a time of racial hostility. With the holiday shopping season upon us, please consider this: While we decry the fact that New York City spends only .3% with certified Black businesses, that percentage is probably not far off from what most African-Americans themselves will spend with Black businesses this holiday season and throughout the year. This is one of the reasons why we African-Americans can have a trillion dollars in spending power and everybody still be broke.

While to the north, right across DeKalb Avenue, the Hasidim own the stores and the trucks that deliver the products they manufacture, brand and sell. While some of their business practices outside of the group can be problematical, what cannot be questioned is that they support their own people. And by doing so, are able to build communities ➔ Continued on page 4

18 months later, the block has transformed significantly. A playground/basketball court owned by Mt. Pisgah Christian Church has vanished under a new seven-story apartment

Judge John L. Phillips' impact endures. ➔ Continued on page 2

Travel: Travel: Cuba Part 2

Two musicians on a balcony in Havana. Photo Credit: Dana Shaw, Page 12

Doll by Brooklyn Dollworks at Harlem Doll Show, Dec. 5.

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The Changing of a Block on DeKalb Avenue ➔ Continued from page 1 building under development – next to the building that housed Mt. Pisgah’s George H. Murray Academy -- now closed.

It is reported that Level One Holdings leased the 9,000-square-foot property from the church for an undisclosed amount earlier this year.

According to newyorkyimby.com (Yes in My Back Yard), “In March, Bushwickbased developer Level One Holdings filed applications for a seven-story apartment building at 740 Dekalb Avenue between Marcy and Tompkins Avenues, in the heart of Bed-Stuy.”

The development got its building permits in June, YIMBY reported. On the new site, 37 apartments will spread across 25,512 square feet of residential space. Brent. M

Porter, based in Clinton Hill, is the architect of record.

“The building will likely be rentals, with an average unit of just 689 square feet. The first floor will have one unit, and floors two through seven will hold five to seven units each.

“The ground floor also will include storage space for 13 bikes, recreation space, and 19 parking spots—exactly the amount required by zoning. And while retail is allowed on some of the neighboring blocks of Dekalb and Tompkins, zoning doesn’t allow it here. So like many developments in Bed-Stuy, the ground floor won’t engage with the street, offering parking and a lobby instead of commercial space.”

Our Time Press begins this story in a multi-part series, with an interview with Rev. Youngblood.

Is Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church At Risk?

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2015 has been a tumultuous year for Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church. George H. Murray Preparatory Academy, the church’s legacy grade school, closed in June. A wished-for parking lot on the school’s playground was sold to Shlomi Avdoo, principal of Har Nevo LLC (105 Central Avenue), a developer of market-rate housing. And just this past weekend, beloved former administrator of George Murray Prep Academy, Octavia Kinard, and her husband, were burned alive in an early-morning fire.

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Academy sent ripples throughout the Bedford-Stuyvesant community and marked the closing of yet another independent Black private school. The school served grades nursery through 8. “When I came the school had been in existence for quite a while; however, the registration or attendance was down to 23,” said Pastor of Mt. Pisgah Rev. Johnnie Ray Youngblood. “I am going into my 16th year here. I was able to keep the school alive until last June. When the school closed we had less than 100 students.”

Youngblood explained the painful reasons for the school’s closure. “We closed because I owed my teacher’s money. And

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Construction underway on residential development next to former George Murray Prep Academy. parents showed no integrity in terms of paying tuition. We would have still struggled had everybody paid their tuition,” said Youngblood. “But the lack of payment, the lack of saying anything about it and then they wanted to send us on a guilt trip because after a while we said your kid can’t come back to school because we have to pay teachers was a big item in the equation of closing.”

After personally putting his own money into the school, Youngblood said he “just couldn’t do it any longer.” Youngblood was then approached by a gentleman who proposed keeping the school open another year while he formed a board to support the school. “I let him do that. I stayed away from the board,” said Youngblood, “and it

got worse. I was three years behind in paying those teachers. And they still came to work.”

Under former Principal Alfonzo Forrest, graduates of George Murray Prep went on to top-ranked high schools. “That is what gave us such pride in the school,” said Youngblood.

While the school was floundering, congregants of the church were facing a different pressure on Sunday mornings: tickets for double parking. “My people have started getting tickets for double parking,” said Youngblood. “We are landlocked. If my members have to decide whether they are going to get a ticket on Sunday morning for coming to church, they ain’t coming to church.” Part 2 next week

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NEWSMAKERS resident Obama named the 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom awardees, two of whom are African Americans, the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisolm and baseball great Willie Mays.

African-Americans and Africans who made Time Magazine’s Man Of the Year short list include President Barack Obama, Dr. Ben Carson, Viola Davis, Rapers Drake and Nicki Minaj, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch; Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Misty Copeland and Serena Williams.

Jamal Joseph, 62, co founder of the Harlem-based IMPACT Repertory Theatre and New Heritage Theatre Executive artistic director is one of the distinguished recipients of The Purpose Prize National Award, given to people in midlife, who are 60 and older, who tap into their skill sets and experience to improve communities and help make the world a better place.

Sagittarian birthday shout outs to Tyra Banks, Tyson Beckford; educator Copper Cunningham; Mos Def; Darryl Downing; Jamie Foxx; Fern Gillespie; Karlen Grant; Kwaku Horsford; developer Robert Horsford; Tom Joyner; Samuel Jackson; Rosalinda McIntosh, Nicki Minaj; Monique; Brad Pitt; Raven-Simone; Robin Roberts; Professor Linda Ridley; Trey Songz; Tina Turner; and Jay Z. RIP: Beloved matriarch Amista Delly, 101, died last week. Amista was born in Haiti, married Luke Delly, was a businesswoman and mother of eight, before she and Luke came to New York about 40 years ago. They maintained close ties to their children and grandchildren in Haiti, encouraging them join them in NY. One

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son, Lucien Delly, is a real estate baron in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Her grandson Laurent Delly is a Harlem-based technology entrepreneur and a business investor.

RIP: George Powell, 86, died on November 13. Born in East Harlem on March 15, 1929, he was one of seven children born to Mary and Charles Powell, West Indian immigrants from St. Kitt’s and Nevis. A child of the Great Depression, he attended City College and married Mary McIntosh. He worked hard, was politically engaged, performed service to the community who enjoyed being a family man most of all. One could have called him Mr. Philip Morris, his employer of 33 years, where he worked in sales, ascending to Region VP. He interfaced with prominent Black and white Americans and reported directly to PM Chairman after he retired.

One of his proudest career moments was the coordination of the PM effort to help Jamaica, which was devastated by Hurricane Gilbert in 1988. A Prince Hall Mason, he was the President of the Bergen County Urban League and of the BC NAACP. He served on numerous boards, including the Handmaids of Mary in Harlem. He was one of the architects of Shirley Chisolm’s 1967 congressional campaign. He is survived by three children Gregory, Catherine and Roslyn, 7 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.

RIP: Renown technologist Hank Williams, 50, died. Tech trailblazer, visionary and founder of platform.org, Williams was busy building a more inclusive digital world, where diversity would be synonymous with Silicon Valley. To that end, he successfully convened meetings at MIT,

then at Morehouse attracting people – people of color, women astronauts, micro chemist, computer scientists - to share his vision and be a part of tech culture. Support was forthcoming from corporations like Credit Suisse, Google for Entrepreneurs, A. Ahmed-Llewellyn Family Foundation, Twitter, Genetech, and CoxMedia Group. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he studied computer scienece and engineering, Williams cut his entrepreneurial teeth in the mid 80s, when he designed and launched a hardware device for the early MacIntosh computers.

He founded , Kloudco and ClickRadio, the internet’s first interactive music service; and co-founded Cybersonic, which provided Internet development and broadcasting services to most of the major music labels. The son of Elaine and the late Judge Henry Williams Sr, he is survived by his wife Mayida Zaal and their daughter, Imani.

A Harlem-based writer, Victoria Horsford can be reached at victoria.horsford@ gmail.com

Slave Theaters #1 and #2: Monuments move down to the second line Civil Rights Struggle ➔ Continued from page 1 “Why and how did they get in my home?”

Importantly, one needs to be assured he has the power to expel these men posthaste.

This scene was very much what Omar Hardy, Vice President of J & J Real Estate Property, Inc. and Christie Williams, a member of The Children of Slaves and Patriots (TCOSP), encountered early morning on November 13, 2015 when they drove past the Slave #1 Theater’s parking lot. The Slave #1 Theater is located at 1215 Fulton Street in Brooklyn. The parking lot is accessed on Halsey Street between 10 Halsey Street and 22 Halsey Street.

“We drove to the parking lot after a spoken word event that TCOSP sponsored.

It is our habit to check on Slave #1 and Slave #2 Theaters frequently due to other parties’ desire to take over our property.”

Mr. Hardy took photographs of two dumpsters, two portable toilets and two men seated in a car—all within the parking lot.

Another shot of the men have them standing behind the fence. Hardy stated the original fence lock had been cut off and replaced with another one. The men identified themselves as security for Fulton Halsey Development Group, LLC. Later that morning, Hardy checked the NYC Buildings Department to find that a construction permit had not been generated for the site. TCOSP, a support

agency to J&J Real Estate Property, Inc., immediately launched an e-mail and street awareness campaign about the incident.

There is much controversy surrounding the Slave #1 and Slave #2 Theaters for several years. These two properties--once owned by John L. Phillips, Jr., a deceased Supreme Court Judge--are riddled with debates over who owns the properties, who legally manages the late John L. Phillips’ estate and the legitimacy of property sales.

From a dig into the Kings County Clerk’s Office Records Room by Clarence, Jr. 2X Hardy, Vice President of TCOSP, the legal documents show that J&J Real Estate Property, Inc. is the deed holder to 1215 Fulton Street (Brooklyn Block 1842 Lot 62). Fulton Halsey Development Group,

Security inside of the Slave Theater Parking lot on Halsey Street.

LLC contended it was the owner of the property; however, the former administrator actually had transferred a fraudulent deed to this LLC. The Public Administrator of Kings County manages John L. Phillips, Jr.’s estate upon the revocation of Rev. Samuel Boykin’s letters of administration

by Judge Diana Johnson on January 21, 2015. Judge Johnson found the previous administrator had conducted a number of

fraudulent property sales and “…fiduciary waste to this estate…”

For Omar Hardy, the Slave #1 and Slave #2 Theaters are more than assets in a portfolio. “They are symbols and monuments to the [U.S.] Civil Rights struggle. This is our fight here. It’s not just the buildings, but being a part of our history.

They are trying to wipe our history away [but] it’s not going to happen.”

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KENNETH P. HOMPSON District Attorney of Kings County Part 2 of Two Parts OTP: Tell us about your background growing up in Brooklyn and your most important influence?

Kings County District Attorney Kenneth Thompson: I never had a brush with the law as I was growing up and I am sitting here as Brooklyn D.A. because of my mother, Clara Thompson. She was a pioneer law enforcement officer when she was left alone to raise three young kids in the projects. My father left her. She could have given up but she chose to fight and became a New York City Police Officer back in 1973, which is extraordinary because although there were female police officers before 1973, they were not allowed to carry guns. The women were restricted to their precincts: they did the paperwork and helped process prisoners. Women had to sue, or threaten to sue, to be able to go on patrol like men.

My mother was part of the first class of women, in October of 1973, to go on the streets as a police officer. One of the first, Black or white, to patrol the streets of New York. And she did it for 21 years. And she put something in me then that to this day I feel strongly about, and that is about equal justice and fairness for all. And so my belief is, the community should be safe, and we should have a justice system that

does not take wealth into account, does not take race into account, does not take where you were born into account -- whether you are a civilian or police officer. We’re not there yet.

As D.A., all of the work I do is directly tied to the decision of my mother, Clara Thompson, over 40 years ago, to become a New York City Police Officer.

To this day, I don’t know how she could -- with three kids living in the projects -think she could become a New York City Police Officer. But she did. She put her life on the line. She told me there were some days on patrol that she was afraid; she still went out every day.

Back then there were no facilities for women to change at the stationhouse.

My mother had to put on her uniform in the house and let everyone in the projects know she’s a cop. And she did that for me and my brother and sister.

OTP: Your mother was a role model for parents, especially mothers, in her day.

Do you have any advice for caregivers raising children in today’s world?

Thompson: Do not let the streets raise the kids. Parents and caregivers should be involved in their children’s lives, and know where they are and what they are doing. I see young men walking around with their pants hanging down, and I want to stop them

and say, “There is greatness within you.”

If they don’t have folks telling them that, if they can’t see beyond their street corner , then they may (turn to) carrying guns and settling disputes violently. If they don’t know about Madam C. J. Walker, if they don’t know their history, then they may not be able to go on. We parents have an obligation to teach them. A lot of these folks who come to the criminal justice system are young black men. … They need parents who are not going to give up on them. When I see them, it’s almost too late because they are already in the system, and once you get a felony conviction, your future may be pretty much set.

My mother faced challenges but she never stopped praying for her children.

She never stopped fighting to give us a better life.

I grew up in the city. All the pitfalls that are out there for young colored boys, I avoided them all. To get this far. And it was because of God was guiding my steps.

OTP: We’re covering domestic violence beyond this Domestic Violence Month.

Thompson: Great! I have a Domestic Violence Bureau which is outstanding. I have about thirty prosecutors dealing with domestic violence in Brooklyn. We work closely with the Family Justice Center in this building, the first in the city. They provide wraparound services dealing with

domestic violence. People can come in and meet with a prosecutor, social worker they can get help with custody issues, they can get an order of protection, it is all there for them, they just have to come in. Even if they don’t have a case, if they’re a victim of domestic violence they should still come to the Family Justice Center. Everything is confidential. They can meet with so many different people without any cost.

Domestic violence is a crime that crosses all racial and economic backgrounds.

OTP: Your work ethic?

Thompson: Being blessed and my work ethic keeps me here often until 10pm almost every night. I bring the approach I had in private practice. I built a law firm that’s still going without me now. And I had to work extremely hard for that.

enslavers. This template of “low regard and exploitation” is deeply woven into the American fabric and has brought us to a point of .3% of the city budget. And now moving that needle is a gargantuan task, only complicated by the newly-minted American espousal of ethnic and gender fairness which prevents favoring one group over another. That Asians and women receive 94% of the M/WBE payouts is no

reason to favor Hispanics and AfricanAmericans. When the truth of the matter is that it was the land stolen from the indigenous people and the labor stolen from the Africans that were used to build the foundation of this country. To be last in line for a program, whose intent should be to correct that original sin, is galling.

We know Black people should help themselves, but too many in authority are afraid to be seen favoring the race. Before the Civil Rights Movement, AfricanAmericans would not get contracts as a matter of course. And now post-Civil

Rights, special treatment wouldn’t be what America is calling “fair” and would violate the principles of equality that Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke about, and therefore in his memory, no contract for you.

So today, African-Americans and Hispanics are last in line for the 4% that is not given to what are euphemistically called non-MBE vendors; i.e., the white men and the W/MBE women who receive 96.9% of the city’s business.

The way the city spends its money deserves a “Black Lives Matter” movement of its own.

View From Here ➔ Continued from page 1 with thriving businesses like AfricanAmericans used to do during segregation and Jim Crow. When we had to support our own, Black businesses flourished.

A shining example was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called “Black Wall Street” by the Black community. As Josie Pickens writes in EBONY: “Tulsa, like many cities and towns throughout the U.S., was hostilely segregated, with African-Americans settling into the northern region of the city.

As we often saw before integration, Blacks in the area created entrepreneurial opportunities for themselves, which housed an impressive business center that included banks, hotels, cafes, clothiers, movie theaters and contemporary homes. Greenwood residents enjoyed many luxuries that their white neighbors did not, including indoor plumbing and a remarkable school system that superiorly educated Black children.”

This was before June 1, 1921 when the whites of Tulsa conducted a massacre that ended with over 300 African-Americans dead, leaving 9,000 once comfortably middle-class residents, homeless and the town burned to the ground.

Today, with full integration, enforced if need be, Blacks in Brooklyn number 896,165, placing Blacks alone in the eleventh slot on the list of U.S. cities by population, and we do not have a bank, movie theater or hotel to our name.

We don’t have a bank that speaks our language because our languages and the cultures that went with them were destroyed during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and the language and position in the new culture were determined by the

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PLR § 503 provided that Steven Pagones had the right to choose to litigate his claim in the venue where he resided; that is, Dutchess County.

This would allow Pagones to be tried by a “jury of his peers�. Pagones mistakenly believed that “my peers� resided in New York City. He was wrong by a long shot.

This is natural law. A zebra should feel uncomfortable in a lion›s den. Certainly, a zebra would not be an integrationist. This is why philosophy is important in a criminal justice system which is governed by the U.S. Constitution. It is xenophobic, ergophobic and misogynous, among other things.

Harlem Assertion of Rights was not attracting black lawyers. I came along and put my foot down. By 1976, there was only one white lawyer left on the staff.

Surprisingly, these new black lawyers were uncomfortable with a virtually all-black staff. I was the culprit, they reasoned. The only remedy was to fire me. The Harlem Lawyers Association was in accord.

Gentrification was elated.

History would repeat itself at the National Conference of Black Lawyers.

I only hired blacks and Latinos. This was not discrimination. I had a rational basis for the hiring of these suspects. The black lawyers saw it differently, however. They hired a psychologist because a sane person knows that a white man›s sugar is sweeter.

If you go to the Cotton Club in Harlem on any Monday night an overwhelming majority of the audience are Europeans.

They came to Harlem to appreciate black culture. On Monday nights, you can count the number of black patrons on one hand. No one would go to Chinatown seeking to eat Swedish cuisine. Our culture is number one everywhere except in the black community.

I received the shock of my life at the 1999 National Convention of the National Bar Association in Philadelphia, PA. Black lawyers from New York said that I was a scoundrel and they would withdraw from the NBA if it chose to support my reinstatement to the practice of law.

According to those lawyers, I was a ÂŤcrookÂť who fleeced my clients and gave them shoddy, legal representation. The late attorney Cora Walker said that she presided over my disciplinary complaints. Other black lawyers gave her an ÂŤAmenÂť. The resolution remains unsigned.

Obviously, Walker was reading the wrong files and attributed them to me instead of C.Vernon Mason. Actually, no disciplinary complaint had been filed against me by any client in any judicial department.

A complaint from a client, and not from a public official, bestows jurisdiction on a disciplinary committee.

The black media has mostly lined up against me. No black newspapers would ever call me ÂŤMr. Civil Rights in the CourtroomÂť. The late William Kunstler sponsored a tribute to me at New York Law

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On this date, November 28, 1987, Tawana Brawley was found in a trash bag in Wappingers Falls, NY semiconscious, her hair cropped and her body smeared with feces and racial epithets were written on her body. The white emergency medical technicians found that Tawana was near death on November 28, 1987.

New York State Attorney General (Robert) Abrams said that she did all of this to herself. Abrams refused to allow the grand jury to hear from fact witnesses. Instead, only expert witnesses were allowed to testify. These witnesses only give opinions.

Expert witnesses are paid witnesses.

A nearly all-white jury in Dutchess County found that something had happened to Tawana Brawley and that Pagones was one of her attackers. On the other hand, most blacks in the United States agreed with Robert Abrams, without proof, that Tawana had perpetrated a “hoax�. Abrams, and not the grand jury, wrote the grand jury report in violation of CPLR §190.85.

I have always said that a black defendant would be better off being tried by members of the Ku Klux Klan than by a jury of his peers. The reason is simple as stated by Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.: Any man who won’t stand for something will fall for anything. This is the danger of an all-black jury and a white prosecutor.

It is important to note that this crime against humanity in the gang rape of Tawana Brawley happened around a holiday. This was intentional. Like in Chicago, which was also with government complicity, the revelation happened near a holiday. Blacks in Chicago are clueless. They are knocking on the wrong door, talking to the wrong people and asking the wrong questions.

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Giving Back on Thanksgiving

Community activist Kazembe Batts, Joshua Walker and Amsterdam News Editor Nyaba Arende pause from giving out clothes at a clothing drive that Mr. Walker had initiated, and before Ms. Arende returned to work feeding the needy at the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration complex.

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“We invite everyone to visit our ‘Community of Creativity’. There is no admission fee and the exquisite dolls and doll accessories are worth the trip,” said Ellen Ferebee, president and founder of the Morrisania Doll Society, based in Harlem. “Visitors are always awed by the outstanding level of craftsmanship evidenced by the doll artists. There will be handcrafted dolls to fit every budget.”

Hundreds of amazing black dolls by acclaimed artists will be available at the Harlem Holiday Doll Show

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Shirley Nigro will feature her eclectic line of miniature to life-size cloth, sculpture and even origami dolls.

Joyce Stroman brings her one-of-akind dolls with clay-sculptured faces and cloth bodies. There’s Rita’s Art Dolls from historic periods and the Angel Doll Company with whimsical silicon-sculpted Angel Doll Babies and Angel Doll Kids by artist Vanessa Lee. Hamilo will feature Daddy’s Babies line of clowns, angels and fairies. Custom-made Doll Houses by Kellan will be available. Sona Dolls has Venus body fashion dolls. Holiday ornaments by Baskets From Fern with handcrafted Kente Folk wreaths and

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prepare a family meal. Involve your child with the prep work – from meal planning based on the five MyPlate food groups all the way through clean-up. Spend some quality time with your child while teaching her about healthy eating. Depending on your child’s skill level, try these fun and child-friendly tasks: · Creating the menu based on MyPlate · Searching for recipes · Writing the shopping list · Cleaning fruits and vegetables · Measuring and adding ingredients

mopping, and vacuuming can also get your child’s heart pumping. Make it upbeat by cleaning the house to your child’s favorite music playlist. Be sure to count these activities toward your child’s goal of at least 60 minutes each day!

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Sugar-sweetened drinks are the top source of added sugar in children’s diets.

Encourage your child to drink water instead of sugary drinks when she’s thirsty. Ask your child to guess how many teaspoons of sugar are in her favorite drinks. To build math skills, read the nutrition facts panel and help your child calculate how many teaspoons of sugar are in one serving of her favorite beverage, using the 4 grams of sugar = 1 teaspoon conversion.

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Playoff Bound playoff lives. The Jets are in the hunt for a playoff berth with the Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans in front of them for the two Wild Card spots. The Giants at 5-6 are in a tie for first place. Yes that’s right, I was not joking. That just tells you how abysmal the NFC East is.

For the first time this season, the Giants went scoreless the first half of their game against the Washington Redskins. The team dug themselves into a 20-point hole by the fourth quarter. Although the team was able to cut it down to six points with about five minutes to go in the fourth. Wide receiver Odell Beckham put up monster numbers against Washington with nine catches for 142 yards and a touchdown eclipsing 1000 yards for the season and his 13th career 100-yard receiving game.

However, quarterback Eli Manning’s three interceptions loomed large as

the G-Men fell short and into a tie for first place. With that said, we are once again hearing rumors that Coach Tom Coughlin is on the hot seat this week if the team lose to the Jets.

According to Jets defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson, after the teams’ embarrassing loss to the Houston Texans, Coach Todd Bowles “went off” on the team in the locker room. Whatever was said, appeared to be heard loud and clear as the team bounced back nicely and collected a much-needed 38-20 win over the Miami Dolphins.

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Legal Notices NEW BUSINESS FORMATIONS BODINE BOLING, LLC Notice of formation of Bodine Boling, LLC, a Limited Liability Company (LLC). Certificate of registration filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/10/2015. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose all lawful activities.

UNITED BROTHERZ PUBLISHING, LLC Notice of formation of United Brotherz Publishing, LLC, a Limited Liability Company (LLC). Certificate of registration filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/07/2015.

NY office location: Kings County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC at Corporation Service Company, 80 State Street, Albany NY 12207.

Purpose all lawful activities.

PUFFEE CHEEKS, LLC Notice of formation of PUFFEE CHEEKS, LLC, a Limited Liability Company (LLC). Certificate of registration filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/16/2015.

NY office location: Kings County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC at US Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, New York 11228. Purpose all lawful activities.

T-ROOTS, LLC Notice of formation of T-ROOTS, LLC, a Limited Liability Company (LLC).

Certificate of registration filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/29/2015. NY office location: Kings County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC at 1775 East 18th Street, Suite 3O, Brooklyn, New York 11229.

Purpose all lawful activities.

GGL MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GGL Management Services, LLC (PURSUANT TO SECTION 203 OF THE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LAW) NOTICE OF FORMATION OF: GGL Management Services, LLC, office in Kings County; Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 10/27/2015. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: the company, c/o Stephen Gersten, 615 Alonzo Road, Far Rockaway, NY 11691.

Purpose: to operate and engage in any lawful acts and or activities for

which limited liability companies may be organized under the LLCL. EVERETT NYC LLC Notice of Formation of EVERETT NYC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/11/15. Office location: Kings County. Address for Process: United Corp. of Agents 7014 13th Street, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Purpose: Legal HEATHER WARAKSA LLC Notice of Formation of HEATHER WARAKSA LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/15/15.

Office location: Kings County.

Princ. office of LLC: 180 Huron Street No. 3 Brooklyn, NY 11222 SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Legal GRANT ATTORNEYS AT LAW PLLC NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Grant Attorneys at Law PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/9/2015. Office Location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the PLLC served upon him/ her is: 545 Washington Avenue, #501, Brooklyn, NY 11238. The principal business address of the PLLC is: 545 Washington Avenue, #501, Brooklyn, NY 11238.

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Legal Notices NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: KINGS COUNTY FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION; Plaintiff(s) vs. ROSITA TORO; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein on or about September 29, 2015, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at in Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11201. On January 7, 2016 at 2:30 pm. Premises known as 176 NICHOLS AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11208 Block: 4121 Lot: 58 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. As more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale. Approximate

amount of judgment $519,666.58 plus interest and costs. INDEX NO. 10276/10 Michael F. King, Esq., REFEREE Summons SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS Index No.: 51984/2014 DAVID A. LAVINE Date Summons filed: May 1, 2014 Plaintiff designates Kings County as the place of trial.

David A. Lavine Plaintiff, -againstGERALDINE A. CHANCE LAVINE Defendant.

The basis of venue is: Plaintiff’s residence Plaintiff resides at: 2079 East 52nd Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11234 ACTION FOR A DIVORCE To the above named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the state, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated: April , 2014.

Dewette C. Aughtry, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff, 68 Jay Street, Suite 201, Brooklyn, New York 11201 Tel.: (718) 625-1212 NOTICE: PLEASE READ THE ATTACHED NOTICE OF AUTOMATIC ORDERS The Plaintiff in a matrimonial action shall serve upon the Defendant, simultaneous with the service of the summons, a copy of Notice of Automatic Orders. The Automatic Orders shall be binding upon the Plaintiff immediately upon filing of the summons, or summons and complaint, and upon the Defendant immediately upon service of the Automatic Orders with the summons.

NOTICE CONCERNING CONTINUATION OF HEALTH CARE COVERAGE (DRL §255(1)) PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that once a judgment of divorce is signed in this action, both you and your spouse may or may not continue to be eligible for coverage under each other’s health insurance plan, depending on the terms of the plan. NOTICE OF AUTOMATIC ORDERS DRL §236 Pursuant to Domestic Relations Law §236 Part B, Section 2, as added by Chapter 72 of the Laws of 2009, both you and your spouse (the parties) are bound by the following AUTOMATIC ORDERS, which shall remain in full force and effect during the pendency of the action unless terminated, modified or amended by further order of the court or upon written agreement between the parties: (1) Neither party shall sell, transfer, encumber, conceal, assign, remove or in any way dispose of, without the consent of the other party in writing, or by order of the court, any property (including, but not limited to, real estate, personal property, cash

accounts, stocks, mutual funds, bank accounts, cars and boats) individually or jointly held by the parties, except in the usual course of business, for customary and usual household expenses or for reasonable attorney’s fees in connection with this action.

(2) Neither party shall transfer, encumber, assign, remove, withdraw or in any way dispose of any tax deferred funds, stocks or other assets held in any individual retirement accounts, 401K accounts, profit sharing plans, Keogh accounts, or any other pension or retirement account, and the parties shall further refrain from applying for or requesting the payment of retirement benefits or annuity payments of any kind, without the consent of the other party in writing, or upon further order of the court.

(3) Neither party shall incur unreasonable debts hereafter, including but not limited to further borrowing against any credit line secured by the family residence, further encumbering any assets, or unreasonably using credit cards or cash advances against credit cards, except in the usual course of business or for customary or usual household expenses, or for reasonable attorney’s fees in connection with this action.

(4) Neither party shall cause the other party or the children of the marriage to be removed from any existing medical, hospital and dental insurance coverage, and each party shall maintain the existing medical, hospital and dental insurance coverage in full force and effect.

(5) Neither party shall change the beneficiaries of any existing life insurance policies, and each party shall maintain the existing life insurance, automobile insurance, homeowners and renters insurance policies in full force and effect.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF Kings, US Bank National Association, Not in its Individual Capacity, But Solely as Trustee for the RMAC Trust, Series 20131T, Plaintiff, vs. Kelvin Perez, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on April 14, 2015, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on January 07, 2016 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 983 Halsey Street, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 3401 and Lot 57.

Approximate amount of judgment is $810,050.14 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 36198/07. Kent D. Arthur, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Elliott, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Ste. 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff S U P P L E M E N TA L SUMMONS Index No. 504855/2015 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT

VOL. 20 NO. 49 – COUNTY OF KINGS CHRISTIANA TRUST, A DIVISION OF WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS SHAP NR TRUSTEE, Plaintiff, -vs- THE HEIRS AT LARGE OF ALMA CARROLL, DECEASED, and all persons who are husbands, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest of all of whom and whose names and places are unknown to Plaintiff; ELLIOT SKIP ROSEBORO AND LOYCE DUKE, AS POSSIBLE HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF ALMA CARROLL, DECEASED; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants. Mortgaged Premises: 23 PULASKI STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11206 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. Your failure to appear or answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable.

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 to 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 is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending 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. That this action being amended to include ELLIOT SKIP ROSEBORO AND LOYCE

VOL. 20 NO. 49 DUKE, AS POSSIBLE HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF ALMA CARROLL. KINGS County is designated as the place of trial.

The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises. Dated: JULY 7, 2015 Mark K. Broyles, Esq. FEIN SUCH & CRANE, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff Office and P.O. Address 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone No. (585) 232-7400 Block: 1770 Lot: 86 NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION The object of the above action is to foreclose a reverse mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of KINGS, State of New York as more particularly described in the Complaint herein. TO THE DEFENDANT, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the HON. KAREN B. ROTHENBERG, a justice of the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated OCTOBER 22, 2015 and filed along with the supporting papers in the KINGS County Clerk’s Office.

This is an action to foreclose a Mortgage.

The premises is described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, known as premises No. 23 Pulaski Street, and bounded and described as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at point on the northerly side of Pulaski Street, distant two hundred and ninety-three (293) feet nine (9) inches easterly from the northeasterly corner of Nostrand Avenue and Pulaski Street; RUNNING THENCE northerly and parallel with Nostrand Avenue and part of the way through a party wall one hundred (100) feet; THENCE running easterly and parallel with Pulaski Street, eighteen (18) feet nine (9) inches; THENCE running southerly and parallel with Nostrand Avenue and part of the way through a party wall one hundred (100) feet to the northerly side of Pulaski Street; THENCE running westerly along the northerly side of Pulaski Street, eighteen (18) feet nine (9) inches to the point or place of BEGINNING. Premises known as 23 PULASKI STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11206 FILE No. 2014/3827/A PROBATE SUPPLEMENTAL CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT – KINGS COUNTY CITATION the People of The State of New York, By the Grace of God Free and Independent. TO: The spouse, if any, and any and all unknown distributees, heirs at law, and next of kin of Lester Weeks aka Larry Weeks aka Lester Fulton Weeks, to their executors, administrators, legatees, devises, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry be ascertained. A petition having been filed by Alfred Pittella, who is domiciled at 86051 Springfield Blvd., Queens Village, New York 11427. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Kings County, at 2 Johnson Street, Room 319, Brooklyn, New York, on January 7, 2016 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Lester Weeks aka Larry Weeks aka Lester Fulton Weeks lately domiciled at 456 Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225. United States admitting to probate a will dated July 17, 2007 a copy of which is on file in this court as the Will of Lester Weeks aka Larry Weeks aka Lester Fulton Weeks decreased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that letters Testamentary issue to Alfred Pittella. Dated, Attested and Sealed, November 19, 2015 Hon. Diana A Johnson, Surrogate and Doreen A. Quinn, Chief Clerk, Ira M. Kopito, Attorney, Address: 32

OUR TIME PRESS December 3 – 9, 2015 | Court Street, #1805 Brooklyn, New York, as shown in Schedules C-1 and J of the NY 11201 number 718-834-9200. This Account; (f) The claims of the New York citation is served upon you as required by State Department of Taxation and Finance law. You are not obliged to appear. If you and the New York City Human Resources fail to appear, it will be assumed that you do Administration, if any, should not be fixed not object to the relief requested. You have and determined; (g) The Petitioner should a right to have an attorney appear for you. not be permitted to distribute so much of CITATION File No. 2003 – the net estate to the decedent’s distributees, 4759/B PA. No. 142652 SURROGATE’S as now known or hereafter determined, as COURT, KINGS COUNTY THE PEOPLE their interests may appear, and to deposit OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the any amount not so distributed with the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Commissioner of Finance of the City of New Amado Pena, Nicudemio Azor Pena, York to be held for the benefit of decedent’s Angela Pena Figaro, Edito Miguel, unknown distributees or for the benefit of Juanita Miguel, Maria Altagracia, Figaro any distributees of the decedent who are de Fernandez, Angela Miguel, Osvaldo under disability for whom no guardian of Miguel, Simon C. Miguel Hector M. the property has been appointed; (h) The Miguel, Ubencio C. Miguel, Manuel J. Petitioner should not be permitted to hold Miguel, Fidencio C. Miguel, Marco de any share of the net estate that is payable to Pena, Sonya de Pena, Belkis Dishmey Almira Williams Pena, the former fiduciary Francisco, Barbara Nivar, Luisa A. Jose, of the estate, until such time as she renders Janny L. Jose, Juan A. Jose, Matilde an account as directed by the Court in its Ramon, Martina de Pena, Abraham de Decision and Order, dated May 28, 2013, Pena, Cruzita de Pena, Marta Jazmin which revoked her letters of administration, de Pena, Almira Williams Pena, Anna and be further permitted to reduce her share Williams, Maira Acosta, Maximo Rafael of the estate, if any, for any surcharge that Williams Colon, Manuel Enrique Williams may be imposed against her by the court with Colon, Johan Carlo Williams Colon, New respect to any such accounting; (i) Process York State Department of Taxation and be issued to all necessary parties who have Finance f/b/o Leroy Williams, Internal not appeared to show cause why the relief Revenue Service f/b/o Leroy Williams, requested

should not be granted; and that Attorney General of the State of New York, an order be granted directing the service New York State Department of Taxation of process pursuant to the provisions of and Finance, New York City Human SCPA Article 3 upon such persons named in Resources Administration, ADOLPHO Paragraph (6) whose names or whereabouts WILLIAMS, if living but if dead, to his are unknown and cannot be ascertained or heirs at law, next-of-kin and distributees who may be persons on whom service by whose names and places of residence personal delivery cannot be made; (J) The are unknown and if he died subsequent Petitioner, upon fully complying with the to the decedent herein, to his executors, Decree to be made in this proceeding, be administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees released and discharged of and from any and and successors in interest whose names and all liability, responsibility and accountability places of residence are unknown and The with respect to the Petitioner’s acts and spouse, if any, and any and all unknown proceedings as Administrator d.b.n. as set distributees and creditors of QUINTINA forth and embraced in said account and the PENA, deceased, whose whereabouts are Court grant such other and further relief as unknown and if any of the aforesaid persons it deems just and proper. Dated, Attested be dead, to their heirs-at-law, next-of-kin and Sealed, November 12th, 2015 HON. and distributees whose names and places of Margarita Lopez Torres, Surrogate, Doreen residence are unknown and if the persons A. Quinn, Chief Clerk, Joseph J. Borges, died subsequent to the decedent herein, to Esq. Cullen and Dykman LLP 44 Wall their executors, administrators, legatees, Street, New York, NY 10005-2407 (212) devisees, assignees and successors in interest 701-4175. NOTE: This citation is served whose names and places of residence are upon you as required by law. You are not unknown and to all other heirs-at-law, required to appear. If you fail to appear it next-of-kin and distributees of QUINTINA will be assumed that you do not object to PENA, the decedent herein, whose names the relief requested. You have a right to and/or places of residence are unknown and have an attorney appear for you, and you or cannot after due diligence be ascertained, A your attorney may request a copy of the full petition having been duly filed by the Public account from the petitioner or petitioner’s Administrator of Kings County, who has attorney. offices at 360 Adams Street, Room 144A,

Brooklyn, New York 11201, United States.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW File No.2014-0515/B CITATION CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, SURROGATE’S COURT, KINGS Kings County, at 2 Johnson Street, Room COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE 319, Brooklyn, New York, on December OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free 22, 2015, at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon and Independent TO: NEW YORK STATE of that day, why: (a) The account of DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND proceedings of the Public Administrator of FINANCE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF Kings County as Administrator d.b.n. of the THE STATE OF NEW YORK DEBBRAH estate of QUINTINA PENA, a summary HARRISON WILLIE L. HARRISON of which has been served herewith, should MELVIN HARRISON EVERLYN not be judicially settled; (b) The Public LIVINGSTON MARY L. GREEN FAYE Administrator of Kings County should not JENNINGS LUTISHA SCOTT-STATON be paid his commissions pursuant to SCPA SHANIECE HARRISON JIMMIE LEE §2307(1) in the amount of $12,418.08, and HARRISON DONELLE HARRISON pursuant to SCPA §2307(6) in the amount of EUGENE JONES BARBARA ANN $42.50, as set forth in Schedules C-1 and I of SAXON CULLEN AND DYKMAN LLP the Account; (c) The Public Administrator CHARLES HARRISON, JR., if living, and of Kings County should not be paid his if dead, to such person’s heirs at law, next administrative expenses pursuant to SCPA of kin and distributees whose names and §1106(3) in the amount of $2,854.51, as set places of residence are unknown and if he forth in Schedules C-1 and J of the Account; died subsequent to the decedent herein, his (d) The Court should not fix, determine executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, and approve the legal fees of Cullen and assignees and successors in interest whose Dykman LLP, counsel to Petitioner, in names and places of residence are unknown the amount of $17,127.11 as shown in and to all other heirs at law, next of kin and Schedules C-1 and J of the Account; (e) distributees of CHARLES HARRISON, the The Court should not fix, determine and decedent herein, whose names and places approve the disbursements of Cullen and of residence are unknown and cannot after Dykman LLP in the amount of $31.00 diligent inquiry be ascertained the unknown

11 spouse, if any, and any and all unknown distributees, heirs-at-law and next-of-kin of CHARLES HARRISON, deceased, if living, and if any of the aforementioned persons be dead, their respective husbands or wives, if any, executors, administrators, heirsat-law, next-of-kin, distributees, legatees and successors-in-interest generally, all of whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent effort be ascertained A petition having been duly filed

by Public Administrator of Kings County, with offices at 360 Adams Street, Room 144A, Brooklyn, New York 11201, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Kings County, at 2 Johnson Street, Room 319, Brooklyn, New York, on December 22, 2015, at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why the account of the Public Administrator of Kings County, a summary of which has been served herewith, as Administrator of the estate of Charles Harrison, should not be judicially settled. [X] Further relief sought (if any): that the above persons be cited to show cause why such settlement should not be granted; why the Surrogate should not fix, determine and approve the petitioner’s statutory commissions pursuant to SCPA 2307 in the amount of $7,401.22, as shown in Schedule C-1, the petitioner’s administration expenses pursuant to SCPA 1106(3) in the amount of $1,600.30, as shown in Schedule C-1, and the compensation of the petitioner’s counsel in the amount of $9,601.83, as shown in Schedule C-1, together with such additional amounts as determined by the Surrogate, based on additions to the estate from the closing date of the Account to the date of the Decree; why such compensation of the petitioner’s counsel should not be equitably allocated between Steven R. Finkelstein, Esq., and Cullen & Dykman LLP; why the claims of New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, in an unknown amount, as shown in Schedule D, Contingent and possible claims, and Schedule C-1, should not be fixed and determined or, if not so fixed and determined, deemed rejected; why a hearing should not be held to determine the decedent’s distributees, at which time proof pursuant to SCPA 2225 may be presented; why the petitioner should not be permitted to distribute so much of the net estate, less an appropriate reserve for the preparation of fiduciary income tax returns and the payment of taxes, if any, shown thereon to be due, to the decedent’s distributees, as now known or hereafter determined, as their interests may appear, and to deposit any amount not so distributed with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York for the benefit of any distributees of the decedent who are under disability and for whom or for whose estate no fiduciary has been appointed, or who are unknown or whose whereabouts are unknown; why the petitioner, upon fully complying with the Decree to be made in this proceeding, should not be released and discharged of and from any liability, responsibility or accountability with respect to the petitioner’s acts and proceedings, whether embraced in or reasonably to be inferred from the Account; and why such other and further relief as this Court deems just and proper should not be granted. Dated, Attested and Sealed, October 28, 2015 HON. MARGARITA LOPEZ TORRES Surrogate, Doreen A. Quinn Chief Clerk, Steven R. Finkelstein, Esq., 90 Broad Street, Suite 1700, New York, New York 10004-2286 (212) 363-2500. NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you, and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.

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Travel: Cuba, Part Two of Two

Travel field reporters Nadia Fattah (third from right, with hat) visited Cuba last spring with a group of friends, colleagues and a family member. It was her second trip and she says it won’t be her last. In the story, below award-winning writer Joe Shaw recounts his impression of a trip to Cuba he took with journalists from around New York State, organized by the New York Press Association. He told us, his week in Cuba offered a “tiny glimpse of the ‘real Cuba’ “and, for better or worse, the storms that may be coming its way.

BRACING FOR THE STORM A visit to Cuba reveals a country ready for change

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By Joseph Shaw

urricanes, our tour guide Mercedes was explaining, are certainly a concern for the island nation of Cuba—but, in fact, named storms are often welcomed. Despite the potential damage, they bring much-needed precipitation to the dry Caribbean island, helping to irrigate the farm fields so crucial to the country’s economy.

A tiny fact, but one that seemed more and more compelling as a metaphor for what we found on a visit in early November as part of a journalistic mission to Cuba. Organized through the New York Press Association, the adventure sent community journalists from throughout the state to experience Cuba at a time when a storm of change is brewing just 90 miles away.

The Press attended, as did members of The Sag Harbor Express and some two dozen other publishers, editors and photographers from daily and weekly newspapers in New York State.

The NYPA trip had been sanctioned by federal officials who clearly want to nudge along the thawing of relations between the two countries.

The trip was bookended by the October 28 vote by the United Nations to condemn the U.S. embargo of Cuba—a vote of 191-2, with only the United States and Israel voting no. On our return, the headlines reported that a plan to close the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, long a source of friction between the two nations, was expected to move forward swiftly.Change is rolling forward with great momentum, and seems to be gathering speed: Even in Cuba, most everyone spoke openly about the pending normalization of relations between the two countries, longtime enemies.

At least the governments have been—one thing I discovered is that the Cuban people, seemingly without exception, harbor no ill will whatsoever toward American visitors for the impact of the half-century-long embargo. They were, uniformly, thrilled to see us, eager to talk

with us and ready to welcome more of us. Some of it was clearly self-preservation: the money that would accompany American tourism, along with an end to the trade embargo, has the potential to change lives. But there was a sincere fellowship as well: Cubans, we were told over and over again, have friends and family in America, and so the connection is a personal one already, despite the many attempts to block it.I hesitated to write about the trip because what can I really offer? I spent a week in Cuba, mostly on a peninsula loaded with international resort hotels, and a town, Varadero, that is largely driven by tourism. Two days were spent in the beautiful city of Havana, wandering its streets as tourists do in any other major city. We interacted with many Cubans, who were unfailingly friendly and willing to talk.But it’s fair to say that a week as a sanctioned visitor offers only a tiny glimpse at what people kept calling “the real Cuba”. That’s partly by design: One striking discovery is just how much the government of Cuba has effectively changed the way people think, so that oppression can fade to the background where it lurks as an existential threat. You don’t have to threaten people, after all, when the very thought of crossing certain boundaries has been slowly eroded by 50 years of censorship.

Take, for example, the conversation we had with a 25-year-old Cuban journalist. She reminded me very much of a Press reporter: young, eager, talented, smart. Her full-time job at a government-owned newspaper—a gig that is part of her mandatory service required of all Cuban citizens—pays her the equivalent of $30 a month, a figure I repeatedly heard as an average salary for all kinds of workers, including doctors, nurses, professionals of all stripes. She also freelances for an independent magazine published by a man in Miami, Florida and distributed throughout Cuba; she makes as much writing two articles for the magazine as she does in a month at the newspaper.

One of the vintage 1950's cars that are common on Cuba's streets. Photo: Dana Shaw

She was candid, to a point. But it quickly became clear that “journalist” in Cuba is a very different job. Did she fear being jailed for her writing, as other journalists have been in a country that the Committee to Protect Journalists calls “the most restricted climate for press freedom in the Americas”? No, she replied, not really. She would be more worried about losing her job; she mentioned that a colleague suggested she begin using an assumed name for her independent work.

Does she rock the boat in her magazine work? A blank look was the reply. It wouldn’t really occur to her to be critical of the government—an effective demonstration of how censorship becomes self-censorship over time. We mused that taking on the government was a perk to the job in America, the fun part. “But do you really think it brings about any change?”

VOL. 20 NO. 49 she asked with a touch of incredulity. When we replied that we certainly believe our work has an impact, you could see a tiny flame flicker in her eyes. It was a new concept to her.

It’s crucial that those tiny flames are fanned.

Cuba is one of the most literate, educated countries on the planet, the result of a socialist system that has emphasized education, but the people have been isolated for so long. The Internet remains a fleeting glimpse of the world for most. Cubans are smart, but they are largely uninformed. It’s up to young journalists, like the one we met, to change that, in a climate where the free press has been brutally silenced for decades.

The bigger lesson was economic. Cuba hums with construction: swanky new hotels in the tourist areas, condos in other places, infrastructure elsewhere. Canadian and European tourists are crucial, but they won’t hold a candle to the invasion of American tourists if the embargo is lifted. Cuba wants to be ready—but it very clearly is not. Cruise ships and airliners will dump visitors in like locusts. They will bring money, but they will demand services at a rate no country can provide.Will the new money reach “the real Cuba”, where even doctors compete for coveted spots waiting tables at the resorts to support their $30-a-month stipend? The need is immense, as most working Cubans live in near poverty, and only the black market is available to anyone with entrepreneurial skills. Perhaps, if the changes continue, “the real Cuba” will reap the rewards, more freedom will be demanded and capitalism will win another round.

But it was clear from our visit that the future is far from certain. On our last night, a storm was well offshore, throwing brilliant cloud-tocloud lightning and darkening the horizon. It was coming in fast, bringing plenty of refreshing rain to help things grow. But who knows what else it would bring.

Joseph Shaw, a resident of Hampton Bays, is executive editor of the Press News Group in Southampton.joeshaw@pressnewsgroup.com