THE FORUM NEWSGROUP | JULY 18, 2019

VOL. 19 • NUMBER 29 • JULY 18, 2019

WATER YOU THINKING? Homeowner Ignores Hamilton Beach Abode — Until it Starts to Slowly Sink into Hawtree Basin Inlet behind It

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The vacant, single-family home on Russell Street has been unoccupied since Superstorm Sandy tore through Howard Beach. City Department of Buildings on Monday slapped the owner with an aggravated violation “for failure to maintain the home in a code-compliant manner.”

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Bipartisan Senate Bill Aimed at Extending and Reforming National Flood Insurance Program

By Forum Staff New bipartisan legislation recently introduced in the Senate would extend and reform the National Flood Insurance Program, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (DN.Y.), an original cosponsor of the measure, announced Tuesday.

According to Gillibrand, the National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2019 would extend the NFIP for five years and reform the program to make it more sustainable, affordable, and efficient. The legislation would make flood insurance more affordable for policyholders, refocus the program to fund more prevention and mitigation efforts to protect properties from flood risk, reform the beleaguered claims process, and protect against the types of unscrupulous practices that defrauded New Yorkers after Superstorm Sandy.

The new measure would: • Place protections against sudden rate shocks for policy holders and implement regulations for Federal Emergency Management Agency’s new rating methodology.

• Provide vouchers for homeowners and renters if their flood insurance premium causes their housing costs to exceed 30 percent of the Adjusted Gross Income.

• Freeze interest payments on the NFIP

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“With hurricane season already here and sea levels rising on our coasts, we must act quickly to fix the program and give Americans the relief they need,” Sen. Gillibrand said.

debt while reinvesting savings towards mitigation efforts to restore the program to solvency and reduce future borrowing.

• Provide robust funding levels for costeffective investments in mitigation, which have a large return on investment and are the most effective way to reduce flood risk, Gillibrand said.

• Increase the maximum limit for Increased Cost of Compliance coverage and expand ICC coverage eligibility to encour-

age more proactive mitigation before natural disasters.

• Authorize funding for Light Detection and Ranging technology, which would help create more accurate mapping of flood risk across the country, reducing confusion and generating better data.

• Place limits on profits for private insurance companies; Write Your Own compensation policies would be capped at the rate that FEMA pays to service its own policies.

• Create new oversight measures for insurance companies and vendors and provide FEMA with greater authority to terminate contractors that have a track record of abuse.

• Fundamentally reform the claims process to level the playing field for policyholders during appeal or litigation, ban aggressive legal tactics preventing homeowners from filing legitimate claims, hold FEMA to strict deadlines so that homeowners get quick and fair payments, and end FEMA’s reliance on outside legal counsel from expensive for-profit entities.

• Provide for increased training and certification of agents and adjusters to reduce mistakes and improve the customer experience.

“Our National Flood Insurance Program is broken, and New Yorkers who live and work in coastal communities are demanding that Congress solve this problem now. With hurricane season already here and sea levels rising on our coasts, we must act quickly to fix the program and give Americans the relief they need,” Gillibrand added. “I was proud to help write this bipartisan bill to make our National Flood Insurance Program stronger, and I urge all of my colleagues to join me in fighting to pass it.”

Unless Congress acts, the NFIP will expire on Sept. 30.

Opponents Rip Borough-Based Jail System at Rikers Island Hearing

By Michael V. Cusenza Opponents of the de Blasio administration’s vision of the future of the city’s criminal justice system recently gathered at a City Planning Commission public hearing to have their say put on the record.

Dozens of detractors descended on CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice last Wednesday morning to deliver remarks vehemently opposing the City’s proposed Borough-Based Jail System. Led by the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and Department of Correction, the proposal is to implement a borough-based jail system and close the facilities on Rikers Island.

The project would develop four new detention facilities to house individuals who are in the City’s correctional custody with one located in each of these four boroughs: Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan.

In February 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson agreed to a single public review process for the four proposed sites. These locations together will provide off-island space for 5,000 detainees, and will include the three existing DOC facilities in Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, as well as a new site on the grounds of a former City Police Department tow pound in the Bronx.

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Led by the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and Department of Correction, the administration’s proposal is to implement a borough-based jail system and close the facilities on Rikers Island.

The World’s Borough site is the Queens Detention Center at 126-02 82nd Ave. in Kew Gardens. According to the administration, the City would demolish the existing facility and replace it with a modern one.

The new jail would have housing units for detainees, programming and recreational space, and a new above-ground public parking facility. On the ground floor there would be publicly-accessible community space.

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However, critics of the proposal are wary of the new jails and the seemingly breakneck pace that has been implemented to get them up and running. Queens Borough President and district attorney candidate Melinda Katz has been one of the more vocal opponents of the plan. At a public hearing held at Borough Hall last June, Katz officially outlined her recommendation of disapproval.

“A 1,500-person jail anywhere in

Queens is unacceptable,” she said. “The purpose of closing Rikers Island and instead creating community-based jails is to have smaller facilities meant to provide treatment, education, and other needed services for those detained or incarcerated.

Much of the violence and inhumane treatment of those jailed which has led to the efforts to close Rikers Island is due to the massive size and conditions caused by it.”

Katz also blasted the administration for lack of communication with Queens residents.

“Before any sites are considered, there has to be meaningful dialogue with all community stakeholders with consensus there has to be agreement about the size and scale of any facility that would meet the goals of maintaining the connection between the incarcerated and their families.”

In other city jail news, Mayor de Blasio on Tuesday announced that for the first time in decades, the number of city jail admissions fell below 40,000—a roughly 50-percent drop since the beginning of his administration.

“For decades, we’ve been told we can only arrest and imprison our way to a safer city. Under my administration, New York City has proven that’s not true,” Hizzoner said. “Instead, we can keep fathers at home and kids in school and get even safer.”

Abandoned Hamilton Beach House Sinks into Hawtree Basin Inlet

By Michael V. Cusenza An unoccupied residence that has teetered precariously on the lip of a Hawtree Basin inlet in Hamilton Beach since Superstorm Sandy inundated the area with water in 2012 partially collapsed into the drink on Monday, according to officials and eyewitnesses.

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Due to the deterioration of the building, DOB issued an immediate emergency declaration allowing a city contractor to demolish the home.

A City Department of Buildings spokeswoman told The Forum that the agency responded to reports of a leaning building at 102-39 Russell St. DOB inspectors found that the vacant, singlefamily home had shifted 2-3 feet toward the waterway behind it.

Any utility services feeding the home were cut. Due to the deteForum Photo According to DOB, the vacant, single-family rioration of the building, DOB home on Monday shifted 2-3 feet toward issued an immediate emergency the waterway behind it. declaration allowing a city con-

tractor to demolish the home.

The spokeswoman indicated that DOB will continue to monitor the edifice until the home is demolished. In addition, the agency issued an aggravated violation to the building owner for failure to maintain the home in a code-compliant manner.

The property owner has pledged to DOB that they will hire a private contractor to perform the work; however, if they

St. Helen’s Church Targeted Again

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According to the NYPD, this man attempted to steal from St. Helen’s Church on Sunday afternoon.

By Michael V. Cusenza Area detectives on Monday reached out to the public via social media for help in identifying and locating a man who attempted to burglarize a Howard Beach church that was plundered by a pair of perps just three months ago, police said.

According to 106th Precinct investigators, security camera footage showed that on Sunday, around 2:40 p.m., the suspect forced open the door to the sacristy at St.

Helen’s Church in Rockwood Park. The man quickly perused the room for valuables before fleeing the house of worship empty handed in an unknown direction.

Anyone with information is asked to call the stationhouse at (718) 845-2261 or the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at (800) 577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, (888) 57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit info by logging onto NYPDCrimestoppers.com or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

All correspondences are strictly confidential.

In April, two brazen burglars broke into the beloved Catholic church and stole hundreds of dollars in cash from donation boxes. According to police reports, a black man and woman, both 30 to 40 years old, forced their way in the front door to the 83rd Street church and pilfered approximately $400 from four containers positioned in the nave of the church near the doors. She was clearly captured on security footage casually rifling through one of the coffers. The thieves fled the scene in a red, four-door sedan, cops noted.

The lifted loot was donated by parishioners and goes to various charities that provide aid to the indigent and other Church initiatives. That case remains unsolved.

do not commence the demolition right away, a City contractor will perform the work and bill the owner.

The City Office of Emergency Management promised to conduct a follow-up probe of the site on Wednesday.

Area residents have been alerting elected officials and authorities about the home and others like it for years. Just last May, residents in Old Howard Beach

recently made several calls to The Forum after a waterfront property located on Bayview Avenue near 163rd Avenue in Ramblersville, abandoned since Superstorm Sandy, began to sink further into Hawtree Creek.

Fears had been mounting that the shed and the deck attached to the property would soon break free and clog the waters of the creek, introducing dangerous conditions in the waterway and prohibiting any watercraft from passing.

As with all properties in similar condition, the homeowners were offered the choice to renovate, rebuild, or surrender the property for market value to the City’s Build it Back initiative. Due to the highly restrictive conditions and the extended time frame involved, the owners of the property chose to participate in the acquisition phase of the program and sold their home to the City.

The house, which was under the jurisdiction of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, has been demolished.

Bulldogs Bring State Title Back Home

The Ozone Howard Bulldogs softball team last weekend secured the title of New York State Champions after travelling up to Fishkill, N.Y., and absolutely mauling its competition.

The gifted girls outscored their opponents 39-0 over the first three games before besting North Shore Little League, 6-1, in the title tilt on Sunday to raise the trophy.

Next up is the Eastern Region Championship this weekend in Bristol, Conn., where the top East Coast teams will battle to earn a spot at the Little League Softball World Series next month in Portland, Ore. The NY champs play their first game against Maryland this coming Saturday at 1 p.m. All games will be televised on ESPN+.

Good luck, girls!

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Man Caught with Gun at JFK: TSA

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Transportation Security Administration officers Tuesday detected this handgun in a West Virginia man’s carry-on bag at JFK Airport.

By Forum Staff A West Virginia man set to board a flight to London was arrested Tuesday morning at John F. Kennedy International Airport after Transportation Security Administration officers detected a firearm in his carry-on bag at one of the hub’s checkpoints. The .38-caliber handgun was loaded with seven bullets, including one in the chamber, according to TSA officials.

The TSA officers immediately contacted Port Authority Police after spotting the weapon as the passenger’s bag rolled through the checkpoint X-ray machine. PAPD offi-

cers confiscated the firearm and detained the Bluefield resident for questioning before arresting him on weapons charges.

Authorities noted that Tuesday’s incident marked the fourth gun that TSA officers have detected at JFK so far this year—already doubling the two firearms that were discovered in carry-on bags at the airport all of last year.

According to the TSA, in 2018, 4,239 firearms were discovered in carry-on bags at checkpoints across the country, averaging about 11.6 firearms per day, approximately a 7-percent increase nationally in firearm discoveries from the total of 3,957 detected in 2017. Eighty-six percent of firearms detected at checkpoints last year were loaded, and nearly 34 percent had a bullet in the chamber.

According to the agency, passengers are permitted to travel domestically with firearms in checked baggage if they are properly packaged and declared. However, travelers flying to international destinations should check on the laws of the countries that they are flying to prior to taking the trip. Firearms must be unloaded, packed in a hard-sided case, locked, and packed separately from ammunition. Firearm possession laws vary by country, state, and locality.

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DOC K9 Kain sporting his new protective vest.

By Forum Staff Thanks to a Massachusetts-based nonprofit, all City Department of Correction K9s have received bullet- and stab-resistant vests, DOC officials recently announced.

Vested Interest in K9s, Inc., a 501c(3) charity located in East Taunton, donated the vests to DOC K9s Rugby, Justice, Nikki, Kain, Kaos, Gunner, Zeus, Soca, Ace, Khaleesi, Ajax, Kiara, Cole, Logan, Casper, & Bane. The new gear is sponsored by the Survival Armor incentive program and embroidered with the sentiment, “This gift of protection provided by Vested Interest in K9s, Inc. and Survival Armor,” according to agency officials.

“Thanks to this donation, our K9s and their handlers are safer at work,” said Andre Cox, executive director of Canine Opera-

tions for DOC. “The vests fit well and the animals appear very comfortable wearing them.”

The donation to provide one protective vest for a law-enforcement K9 is $950, DOC noted. Each vest weighs 4-5 pounds, has a value between $1,744 and $2,283, and comes with a five-year warranty.

Vested Interest in K9s was established in 2009 to assist law enforcement agencies with this potentially lifesaving body armor for their four-legged partners. Since its inception, Vested Interest has provided more than 3,400 protective vests in 50 states, through private and corporate donations, at a value of $5.7 million dollars. The program is open to dogs actively employed in the U.S. with law enforcement or related agencies who are certified and at least 20 months of age. New K9 graduates, as well as K9s with expired vests, are eligible to participate.

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Gift Card Schemers Busted: DA

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According to the charges, an employee of Cardcash.com exclusively handled the Nathoo brothers business and allegedly bought the illegal enterprise’s gift cards—with the website earning a profit of up to 20 percent of the value of the gift cards.

By Forum Staff A Queens County grand jury has indicted 13 suspects, including seven borough residents, for allegedly running a complex gift card “washing” scheme that generated roughly $1 million every month for two years, Acting Queens District Attorney John Ryan recently announced.

The main defendants are Christopher Nathoo, 33, of Glen Oaks, and his brother, Bryan Nathoo, 30, of Dix Hills, L.I. The two men, their wives, and nine other individuals are charged in a 192-count indictment with enterprise corruption, grand larceny, conspiracy, and other crimes. As of Wednesday afternoon, Bryan, his wife, Annarissa Nathoo, 32, and two other suspects remained fugitives.

According to the charges, in late 2015, the NYPD’s Grand Larceny Division began investigating a fence—an illegal operation based in Jamaica. This fence allegedly bought gift cards purchased with phony credit cards. Christopher Nathoo was the alleged boss or owner of the operation and Bryan Nathoo was the alleged co-owner.

The two allegedly paid cash for gift cards that had been purchased using fraudulent credit cards. The two are accused of reselling those gift cards to Cardcash.com, an online gift card exchange business.

The illegal enterprise had specific roles for each individual involved: fence manager, swipers, shoppers, fence employees, money launderer and more. Swipers acquired stolen credit card numbers from the dark web and embossed the information onto blank cards. The swipers would then use these bogus credit cards at big stores, such as Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s, Nordstrom, and Target to buy legitimate store gift cards. The swipers would subsequently sell the legitimate gift cards to the fence.

According to the charges, these gift

cards would then go through a “washing” process. Swipers or shoppers would go to department stores and buy merchandise, return the items for either a “cleaned” gift card or store credit—cards that are further removed from the fraudulently-purchased gift card and therefore less likely to be connected to the fraudulently-purchased one and deactivated by the bank.

According to the indictment, the Nathoo brothers allocated some of the shopping duties to their wives. Hama Nathoo, 32, allegedly used the “cleaned” gift cards for personal purchases, including obtaining Home Depot gift cards and buying items to renovate the couple’s home. Annarrisa also allegedly used “cleaned” cards to make online purchases for herself, using the gift cards to remodel the couple’s new Suffolk County home.

The shoppers allegedly were paid $10 an hour or $100 for a day’s work. The fence would pay the swipers a percentage for each gift card—the cleaner the card the more valuable the exchange.

According to the indictment, an employee of Cardcash.com exclusively handled the Nathoo brothers business and allegedly bought the illegal enterprise’s gift cards—with the website earning a profit of up to 20 percent of the value of the gift cards. At times, this employee also met with the Nathoo brothers to deliver checks from Cardcash.com. The brothers allegedly laundered the proceeds of their business through shell companies—that existed in name only—with the assistance of the manager of Uniondale Check Cashing in the Bronx. The establishment would collect a 2-percent take for each transaction, with the manager pocketing 1 percent for himself.

For the years 2016 and 2017, the operation generated approximately $1 million in profits every single month from this gift card “washing” scheme.

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EDITORIAL Home, Sweet Home Say what you want about Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but the guy obviously hasn’t forgotten about the village that helped raise him.

As he has said in the past, Cuomo is “a Queens boy, through and through.” And seemingly proud of it. From his boyhood home in Holliswood to Archbishop Molloy High School on Manton Street in Briarwood to the unforgettable accent that always seems to sneak in to remarks a handful times at every event, you can tell that Cuomo is Queens.

You can also see the governor’s affection for The World’s Borough at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Once derided as a world-class dump, JFK is on its way to better days—and we have Cuomo to thank, in part, for that.

On Tuesday, Cuomo announced that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is issuing a Request for Information for the design and development of JFK Central, an approximately 14-acre, mixed-use space at the epicenter of the completely redeveloped airport. Potential uses at JFK Central include, but are not limited to: retail and dining, including pop-ups and food trucks; office space; and recreational and cultural offerings and events for airport passengers and employees.

The RFI is the latest step in Cuomo’s $13 billion vision plan for the future of JFK, un-

veiled in October 2018. The investment, 90 percent of which is private funding, calls for a unified and interconnected airport featuring two new international terminals with stateof-the-art passenger amenities, convenient ground transportation options, and vastly simplified roadways that will enable the airport to accommodate an expected increase of at least 15 million passengers per year.

Built on top of the brand-new Ground

Transportation Center, JFK Central would be a highly visible public space located in the middle of JFK Airport, accessible from the new Terminal 1 and Terminal 4 in the southern half of the Central Terminal Area, and serving all airport passengers and employees.

Cuomo’s JFK Vision Plan—initially unveiled in January 2017 and based on the recommendations from the Governor's Airport Advisory Panel—calls for an overhaul of the

airport’s hodgepodge of eight disparate terminal sites into one unified JFK Airport by: demolishing old terminals; utilizing vacant space; modernizing on-airport infrastructure; and creating a multi-tiered cargo modernization program, while incorporating the latest in passenger amenities and technological innovations.

The Vision Plan also calls for increasing the number and size of gates, improving parking availability, an array of airside taxiway improvements to allow for bigger planes and reduced gate congestion, upgrading the AirTrain JFK system to handle increased passenger capacity, and enhanced roadways on and off the airport. This includes better access to JFK from regional roadways. The State Department of Transportation has targeted $1.5 billion in highway improvements designed to ease bottlenecks, particularly at the Kew Gardens Interchange with the Van Wyck Expressway and on the notoriously congested Van Wyck as well. The goal is to help reduce travel times for vehicles between midtown Manhattan and the airport, Cuomo has said.

“I am a New York City boy, if you can’t tell by the accent,” the governor said on Monday.

“I am born and bred Queens—I have New York City in my veins, and anything New York City needs, I’m there.”

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MTA Lauds Preliminary Recommendations for Historic Reorganization

By Michael V. Cusenza The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Friday released a preliminary report of its transformation plan as part of widespread reforms passed in the State Budget in April. The recommendations for this historic reorganization were made following an extensive evaluation process conducted by the consulting firm AlixPartners.

According to the MTA, the transformation plan contains the following key recommendations: • In the new organization, the agencies should focus exclusively on service delivery, safety, day-today operations and maintenance, rather than general support functions. The agencies will have reporting lines to a Chief Operating Officer. All other services will be merged and coordinated centrally with a goal of driving a higher level of services at lower costs. This would result in consolidation of more than 40 functional groups within the existing MTA Agencies to six departments in the new MTA organization. Furthermore, the transformation plan calls for changes to the fundamental ways the MTA does business in order to achieve more effective and efficient performance.

• To address slow, costly, and bureaucratic processes and to create accountability, all Capitalrelated functions across the MTA should be merged into a central group. This new capital group will be accountable for planning, development, and delivery of the Capital Program. This group would identify optimal project delivery (groupings, timing, delivery), increase competition in a historically constrained supplier market, and complete important capital projects that improve service and customer experience quicker.

• To address inconsistent engineering methods across agencies and eliminate the duplication of processes and standards and ensure quality and sustainability of infrastructure, a new central Engineering group reporting to a Chief Engineering Officer will establish clear engineering and maintenance standards to be executed consistently across all agencies. This will provide consistent standards and specifications and eliminate unnecessary complexity and duplication.

• To address many existing differing communication types

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“This transformation will allow us to finally give our customers the system they deserve, and prepares us to execute on what is likely to be the biggest capital plan in MTA history,” said MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye.

(i.e., service updates, timetables, customer feedback, etc.) from several different agencies, MTA should centralize communications to clearly and consistently

partment focused on attracting, developing, and retaining the talent required to improve MTA performance and service delivery.

This new entity will be tasked with

transportation systems to deliver safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation services. The COO will shape operations with a regional, multimodal view of ser-

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Just as it released the transformation plan the MTA touted the “enormous success of the Subway Action Plan.”

manage the message, medium and content.

• To eliminate silos and enable multimodal network design optimization, the MTA should centralize operating standards and service design. Currently each MTA agency has its own internal operations standards and service design capabilities, which would be better managed under one integrated function serving all agencies.

• The MTA should create a centralized human resources de-

clearly articulating a new talent strategy. This will help to resolve issues of duplication and improve analytics, data consistency, and data integrity.

According to the MTA, to drive the transformation, the agency will require a selection of new leadership roles and capabilities: • A Chief Operating Officer should lead the team of agency leaders including subway, commuter rail, bus, and bridge/tunnel

vice design and delivery.

• A Chief Transformation Officer is responsible for leading the execution of ongoing and new initiatives across the $18 billion enterprise. These efforts will include reorganization, development of strong center-led business functions, streamlining business processes, quality assurance and establishing internal controls. According to the MTA, the CTO will play a crucial role in quality assurance and should

focus on building and embedding cross-functional capabilities that ensure intended results from vendors and suppliers, including on-time performance and accountability. Waste, fraud, abuse and possible legal violations remain the jurisdiction of the MTA Inspector General. However, the two offices could work collaboratively. This Chief Transformation Officer will report directly to the MTA Board and work closely with the MTA Chief Executive Officer and COO. • While MTA officials have indicated that they believe the agency has made progress in increasing accessibility to subways, buses, Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North in recent years, much more remains to be done to make the transit system accessible to all customers. To accelerate the creation of a fully accessible transit system, AlixPartners recommended that the MTA should hire the first-ever network-wide MTA Accessibility Officer reporting to the Chief Executive Officer.

“Make no mistake about it, this transformation will allow us to finally give our customers the system they deserve, and prepares us to execute on what is likely to be the biggest capital plan in MTA history,” said MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye.

The release of the AlixPartners analysis arrived a day after the MTA touted the “enormous success of the Subway Action Plan.”

On Thursday, the agency noted that subway on-time performance was 81.5 percent, marking the first time it had crossed the 80-percent threshold in six years.

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NY Pols Declare Victory in Census Question Debate

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“We hope that this action will at long last allow us to put this national nightmare behind us, and give us the opportunity to fully focus on education and outreach so that we can ensure that all people are counted,” NY Attorney General James said.

By Michael V. Cusenza Empire State elected officials have declared victory after President Donald Trump decided to abandon efforts to include a question inquiring about citizenship status on the 2020 Census.

“The President saw the writing on the wall. Despite digging in, he knew that he was facing an uphill battle, and ultimately retreated from his ill-sought crusade to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census,” said U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing).

“While we’re extremely pleased over this victory, we must not forget the chaos, contradictions, misinformation—and of course the lies—that came out of the administration during this fight. President Trump sought to weaponize and politicize the census. Administration officials such as Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who lied straight to my face about the question’s origins, must still be held accountable for not telling the truth to Congress.

We must also watch closely over how the President and the Commerce Department will continue to seek to acquire citizenship information through other means. We will not tolerate the intimidation of immigrant communities.”

The U.S. Supreme Court recently determined that the explanation that Ross had provided for including such a question on the census was insufficient to support the agency’s decision.

“I disagree with the Court’s ruling, because I believe that the department’s decision was fully supported by the rationale presented on the record before the Supreme Court,” Trump wrote in an executive order issued Thursday. “The Court’s ruling, however, has now made it impossible, as a practical matter, to include a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census

questionnaire. After examining every possible alternative, the attorney general and the secretary of Commerce have informed me that the logistics and timing for carrying out the census, combined with delays from continuing litigation, leave no practical mechanism for including the question on the 2020 decennial census.”

On Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo sought to clarify the record. “[Trump] did not decide to withdraw. When a boxer is in the ring and gets knocked down and knocked out and does not respond to the bell and cannot get to their feet at the count of ten we don’t say he withdrew from the fight. Right?” Cuomo said. “We say he lost the fight. The President did not decide to withdraw. The President lost his politically motivated quest to pursue his anti-immigration stance in the census and it’s good news for New Yorkers.

Still, the President won’t let it go.

“Nevertheless, we shall ensure that accurate citizenship data is compiled in connection with the census by other means,” Trump wrote Thursday. “To achieve that goal, I have determined that it is imperative that all executive departments and agencies provide the [Commerce] Department the maximum assistance permissible, consistent with law, in determining the number of citizens and non-citizens in the country, including by providing any access that the department may request to administrative records that may be useful in accomplishing that objective.”

State Attorney General Tish James remained focused on the future.

“We hope that this action will at long last allow us to put this national nightmare behind us, and give us the opportunity to fully focus on education and outreach so that we can ensure that all people are counted,” James said.

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Mario Gagliardo was born and raised in Middle Village. He is a second generation Italian-American whose family came from Sicily. He attended high school at St. Francis Prep and pharmacy school at the University of Connecticut.

Mario loves to spend his free time traveling throughout the world. His passion for travel and his constant striving to learn was fueled when he had the chance to live and study in China during pharmacy school.

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Mario studied Chinese medicine in Beijing, which had enabled him to utilize the comparison between western medicine with Chinese medicine, and enrich his ability to facilitate the treatments and services offered at Crossbay Chemist.

Mario is an avid sports fan who plays golf, hockey, baseball and soccer. During the winter he skis with family and friends.

Growing up, Mario had an expressed desire to give back to the community and make a difference in people’s lives. His 9 years of working as a pharmacist have provided ample

opportunity to fulfill that dream and bring it to new levels in his position at our Ozone Park location.

“For me, being a pharmacist is about giving back and making sure that people get the care they deserve,” says Gagliardo. “I love being a pharmacist because of all the people I have touched in this profession and also because of what they have given to me.”

In his role as the Supervising Pharmacist, Mario not only verifies and dispenses medications but also provides advice about getting and staying healthy for patients and their families.

One of his favorite things about working in an independent pharmacist is the ability to develop one on one relationships with each patient and sharing a personal connection with them.

It is that type of care we strive everyday to provide. One that is not available in a chain store environment, “If you would like to experience this type of patient care,” says Mario, “all you need to do is visit Crossbay Chemist Ozone Park and provide your name, date of birth, medication and former pharmacy phone number and I’ll take care of the rest.”

Feel free to stop by Crossbay Chemist in Ozone Park and meet Mario Gagliardo and experience the difference!

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Ozone Howard Set to Take State Title

After recently winning the City Championship in districts, the 10U softball team from Ozone Howard is headed to the State finals.

They went 3-0 to earn the City trophy: powering past Manhattan, 10-6; surging over Staten Island, 6-2; and topping S.I. once again in the championship game by a score of 5-3.

Congrats are in order to coaches Peter DeStefano, Christine DeStefano, and Mario Zurita; and players Sydney Ambrosino, Vivian Natividad, Nicolette Battaglia, Ava Noto, Taylor Dalo, Zara Noto, Rosalie DeStefano, Josephine Polisi, Sabina Franzese, Madi Sassone, Michaela Manekas, and Caitlyn Zurita.

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Members of Jamaica-Based Set of Bloods Gang Terrorized Queens and Long Island: Feds

By Forum Staff Seventeen members of a Jamaicabased set of the Bloods street gang have been indicted on charges related to their participation in a robbery crew that used guns and violence to steal property over a nine-month period in 2017 in Queens and on Long Island, federal prosecutors announced Monday.

The superseding indictment was unsealed Monday morning. The 16 newly charged suspects were arrested the same day, and all but three have been arraigned.

The remaining defendants, who are incarcerated in State and federal facilities, will be arraigned on a later date, officials noted.

According to charging documents, the Makk Balla Brims set of the Bloods is comprised primarily of members who live in and around the South Jamaica Houses and the nearby American Towers. As alleged in the indictment and other court filings, between May 2017 and December 2017, the suspects, ranging in age from 21 to 38, participated in 11 robberies or attempted robberies, brandishing or using guns during most of the crimes.

They targeted individuals they believed would be in possession of large amounts of cash, electronics, jewelry or narcotics. Upon receiving a tip about a promising victim, the Makk Balla Brims would assemble a crew to

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In one of 11 orchestrated attacks, the crew allegedly robbed this 170th Street barber shop at gunpoint.

carry out the robbery, and the participants adopted various roles for the crime, including lookout, getaway driver, and gunman.

“Members of this gang allegedly attacked innocent people in their own homes, believing they could act without consequences,” said FBI New York Assistant Director-in-Charge Bill Sweeney, Jr. According to the indictment, in at least two robberies, the crew looked for homes

where Indian flags were flying because they believed the residents stored gold and cash.

In one incident, Avery Mitchell, 24, also known as “Slay,” allegedly posed as a deliveryman wearing a United Parcel Service jacket to enter a house, where he and other co-conspirators then restrained two young girls at gunpoint. Mitchell and company fled with electronics and jewelry. And on Nov. 19, 2017, Mitchell, Antonio Davis, 38,

a.k.a. “Big Blood,” Nahjuan Perry, 24, a.k.a.

“Nas,” and other co-conspirators allegedly robbed a second residence where Indian flags were flying. Mitchell again donned a UPS jacket as a ruse to gain entry, and shot one resident before fleeing empty-handed.

In another attack, four MBB members and other co-conspirators allegedly robbed the Jevo Barber Shop on 170th Street in Jamaica at gunpoint. Armed with a TEC9 semiautomatic pistol, the suspects entered the establishment and removed gold chains, cell phones, and cash from the victims, as well as cash from the business.

“This case is a perfect example of how we don’t stop simply by making a few arrests,” Sweeney said. “We will continue to investigate and track down all those involved in their criminal activity and stop them from literally terrorizing a community in their lust for violence.”

City Police Commissioner Jim O’Neill added that “targeting and dismantling criminal groups, and preventing violence that is often associated with their illegal activities, continues to be among the highest priorities for the NYPD and our law enforcement partners.”

If convicted, each defendant faces a mandatory minimum sentence of at least seven years’ imprisonment and a maximum of life behind bars.

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The mayor also touted past initiatives taken by his administration to prevent and address youth homelessness, including Marsha’s House in the Bronx, the first-ever DHS shelter for LGBTQ young people in New York City.

By Forum Staff The City will adopt new investments to help youth experiencing homelessness transition off the streets into shelter and from shelter into permanent housing, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday.

According to the administration, through collaboration across multiple agencies, including the Department of Youth and Community Development, the Department for the Aging, and the Department of Social Services, youth experiencing homelessness will have access to an array of new resources, including a new mobile service that will help youth experiencing homelessness find and access relevant support. Hizzoner said he will also establish a senior advisor for Youth Homelessness responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and expansion of the interagency initiatives.

The new resources include: • The Department for the Aging for the first time will connect youth experiencing homelessness to housing opportunities through their Home Sharing program (program already operating, effective immediately); • A new mobile service that will help homeless youth more easily find and access support. The design of the service will be informed by youth with lived experiences of homelessness in the five boroughs, developed through a human-centered design process led by the Mayor’s Office of Economic Opportunity, with $200,000 allocated for research, scoping, and design to begin this fall; • A new cohort of pregnant or parenting youth participating in the outcome-driven Parent Empowerment Program through the Department of Youth and Community Development, which provides access to childcare to young parents while they pursue their high school equivalency diploma and earn workforce credentials.

According to de Blasio, his administra-

tion is: • Piloting the provision of DSS prevention resources within a DYCD 24-hour drop-in center in Queens • Working with DYCD to connect certain eligible young people transitioning out of DYCD shelters and entering Department of Homeless Services shelters with CityFHEPS rental assistance • Bidding out a two-year contract through the Department of Social Services-Human Resources Administration to support the NYC Youth Action Board, which will integrate people with lived experience within the NYC Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Ensuring that DYCD providers are trained by DSS-HRA in applying to NYC Supportive Housing units; • Partnering with members of the NYC Youth Action Board, DYCD and homeless service providers so that HRA can update the assessment for Supportive Housing applications to include specific eligible experiences of young people; and • Relaunching the Youth Experiencing Homelessness page on Generation NYC, co-designed by Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity with members of the NYC Youth Action Board, DYCD, and homeless service providers so that there is an online resource guide specific to youth experiencing homelessness (no cost, to launch this summer, the mayor noted).

On Friday, de Blasio also touted past initiatives taken by his administration to prevent and address youth homelessness, including the NYC Unity Project, a $9.5 million investment to prevent and address homelessness for LGBTQ youth across the five boroughs; 500 new beds for homeless youth and expansion of youth drop-in centers; Marsha’s House in the Bronx, the firstever DHS shelter for LGBTQ young people in New York City; and the commitment to allocate 1,700 supportive housing units for youth through the Supportive Housing NYC 15/15 Initiative.

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Legal Notices RIKARIKA STUDIO LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 6/4/2019. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: RikaRika Studio LLC, 90-11 35th Avenue, APT. 3N, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

25-40 23rd STREET LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/20/19. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 25-16 38th Street, Apt. B, Astoria, NY 11103. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

RAISIN LABS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 6/10/2019. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Amandeep Singh, 115-12 124 Street, South Ozone Park, NY 11420.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

EVERLASTING ARTS, LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 5/22/19. Off. Loc: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served shall mail process to: 86 Greenway Terrace, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

156-28 79TH ST, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/07/2019. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 153-15 79th Street, Howard Beach, NY 11414 Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

STAL CONSULTING LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/27/2019. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Stal Consulting LLC 110-15 71ST RD. APT 2H, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

150-42 35th Avenue LLC. Filed w/ SSNY on 5/2/19. Office: Queens Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 150-42 35th Ave, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: any lawful 168 ASTORIA REALTY LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/03/19. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 15043 6th Avenue Whitestone, NY 11357. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

POSEIDON PROPERTIES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 06/18/2019.

Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Nicholaos Georgopoulos, 32-82 33rd. Street, Astoria, NY 11106. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

84-27, LLC. Articles of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/04/19. Off. loc.: Queens Co. SSNY des. as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 254-02 39th Avenue, Little Neck, NY 11363. Purpose: General.

156-26 79TH ST, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/07/2019. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 153-15 79th Street, Howard Beach, NY 11414 Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

KDCSH REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/20/19. Office:Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 2269 24th Street,Astoria, NY 11105. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

PROGRESSIVE CREDIT REPAIR SERVICES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/24/19. Office:Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the progressive Credit Repair Services LLC, 21825 132nd Avenue, Springfield Gardens NY 11413. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the Registered Agent: Chang Hua Qin 3240 213th ST Bayside, NY 11361. Purpose: Any lawful activity. d. SSNY shall mail process to: 22-50 33 STREET LLC, 24-20 24th Ave, Astoria, NY 11102. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

MADELINE JUNE AND COMPANY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 3/22/2018.

Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC. 1967 WEHRLE DRIVE, SUITE 1-086, BUFFALO, NY 14221. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

GREENCITY CONTRACTING, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 5/03/2019.

Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Daniel O’ Sullivan, 86-04 88th Avenue, Woodhaven, NY 11421. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Any Lawful Purpose.

Murray Park Owners, LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 11/30/18. Office located in Queens. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC 35-06 Leavitt St. CF-A, Flushing NY 11354. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”). Name: WFHA Newkirk LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on June 14, 2019. N.Y. office location: Queens County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to WFHA Newkirk LLC, c/o Workforce Housing Group, 5-14 51st Avenue, Long Island City, New York 11101. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

QUEENS LUXURY HOMES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/31/17.

Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC, 91-16 Suthin Blvd., Ste. 2018, Jamaica, NY 11435. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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J FIXEDIT! LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/29/19. Office:Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the J FIXEDIT !

LLC, 11952 FARMERS BLVD., ST. ALBANS, NY 11412 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

PASSION & PRIORITIES, LLC Articles of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/12/19. Off. loc.: Queens Co. SSNY des. as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the TIFFANY EASON, 15330 89th AVE., APT.637, JAMAICA, NY 11432.

Purpose: General.

OMANG SERVICES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/18/2019. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 10-02 44th Dr., Long Island City, NY 11101.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

WOLF PHONE REPAIRS LLC Articles of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/09/19. Off. loc.: Queens Co. SSNY des. as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the NATAN WOLF, 144-37 76th AVE, FLUSHING, NY 11367. Purpose: General.

Notice of Formation of Respect Auto Queens II LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/01/19. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Telos Legal Corp, 99 Washington Ave., Ste. 805A, Albany, NY 12210. Purpose: any lawful activities.

BLOSSOM BY GIGI LLC Articles of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/01/19. Off. loc.: Queens Co. SSNY des. as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the BLOSSOM BY GIGI LLC, 11570 209TH STREET, CAMBRIA HEIGHTS, NY 11411. Purpose: General.

Notice of Formation of CASSEY’S COOKIES AND COBBLERS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/16/13.

Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: THE LLC, 257-48 144 TH AVENUE, ROSEDALE, NY 11422. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County, on the 20th day of June, 2019, bearing Index No. 000315-19/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York, 11435, grants me the right to assume the name of (first) MOUSSA (middle) M (last) IDE. My present name is MOUSSA IDE MAINASSARA aka MOUSSA M. IDE aka MOUSSA MAINASSARA IDE aka MOUSSA IDE. My city and state of my present address is Richmond Hill, NY. The month and year of my birth are September 1954. The place of my birth is Niger.

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County, on the 5th day of DECEMBER, 2018, bearing Index No. NC000822-18/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York, 11435, grants me the right to assume the name of (first) SHARANPREET (middle) KAUR (last) RATHOUR. My present name is SHURAN KAUR RATHOUR (infant).

My city and state of my present address are South Ozone Park, NY. The month and year of my birth are August 2000.

The place of my birth is Queens, NY.

GITALI & DAUGHTERS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/26/19. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 14826 86th Avenue, Briarwood, NY 11435. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Lampros Communications LLC Articles of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/21/19. Off. loc.: Queens Co. SSNY designated as an agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 25335 61st Avenue, Little Neck, NY 11362. Purpose: General.

Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County, on the 30th day of APRIL 2019, bearing Index No. NC-001208-18/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York, 11435, grants me the right to assume the name of (first) JULES (middle) VICTOR MARIE AUGUSTE (last)PIARD. My present name is AUGUSTE PIARD aka AUGUST PIARD. The city and state of my present address are Richmond Hill, NY. The month and year of my birth are May 1931. The place of my birth is HAITI.

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Tuttorosso Canned Tomatoes Assorted 28 oz Can (Excludes: San Marzano)

4/ 5 $

With Club Card.

Limit 2 offers.

Must Buy 2.

FRESH, SWEET Fresh Blueberries Dry Pint Container

3/ 5 $

GlenRock Deli Ham Sliced to Order

Perdue

USDA CHOICE

Boneless Chicken Breasts:

Boneless Sirloin Steaks

Value Pack

2

$ 49

Per LB

$5.00 OFF W/ADDITIONAL $75.00 PURCHASE

4

$ 99

LB Per LB

COMBO SALE! Magnifico Genoa Salami and BelGioioso Provolone Sliced to Order

5

$ 99

Per LB 1/2 LB of Each

SWEET DELICIOUS Welch's Seedless Grapes

**Customer is responsible for tax and deposit

GOOD ONLY FROM JULY 19 thru JULY 25 ONE OFFER PER HOUSEHOLD NO OFFERS HONORED WITHOUT

3

$ 99

Per LB

PRESENTING THIS COUPON COUPON EXPIRES JULY 25 ACTUAL PRODUCT MAY NOT APPEAR AS SEEN IN INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS.

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$ 99

(Includes: Seeded Red Globe, Black Seedless, or California...

GREEN OR RED)

Per LB