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Sukhpal with a a statue of Gandhi in front of the Mandir
depicted ve individuals pushing down the Mahatma Gandhi statue, striking it sev eral times with a sledgehammer and spray painting the statue and running towards Liberty Avenue and then some entering a Mercedes Benz C-Class vehicle bearing the license plate # KUG9664 and some enter ing a black Toyota Camry.
Continuing, said DA Katz, a er investi gation by the NYPD it was determined that the registered owner of the Mercedes Benz vehicle observed on video surveillance is defendant Singh.
By Forum StaQueens District A orney Melinda Katz announced Monday that Sukhpal Singh, 27, was arrested and charged with crimi nal mischief as a hate crime for allegedly smashing a statue in front of the Tulsi Man dir Temple last month. e incident took place around 3:00 AM on Tuesday, August 16, District2022.
A orney Katz said, “As alleged, the defendant, along with several unap prehended others, commi ed a disgraceful act of violence against a Mahatma Gandhi
statue that has become a universal symbol of peace, unity and inclusivity. Hate and bias-motivated a acks have no place in our communities and my O ce will hold such perpetrators accountable. e defendant has been apprehended and is charged ap propriately.”Singh,of Little Neck Road, Queens, was arrested on Saturday and charged with one count of criminal mischief in the second degree as a hate crime, criminal mischief in the second degree and aggra vated harassment in the first degree. Sun day, the defendant was arraigned on the
charges before Queens Criminal Court Judge Odessa Kennedy, who ordered the defendant to return to court on October 17, 2022. Singh faces up to fifteen years in prison if Accordingconvicted.tothe complaint, on August 16, 2022, at 9:00 a.m., a priest at the Tulsi Mandir Temple located at 103-26 111th Street observed a statue depicting Mahat ma Gandhi was broken into multiple pieces along with the words “Ku a Dog” spray painted on the Furthermore,pieces.ocers observed video surveillance from August 16, 2022, which
“I commend our police department in apprehending and charging one of the criminals in his role with the destruction of the Tulsi Mandir Temple’s Gandhi stat ue. Attacks like this directed at a specific culture or religion cannot be tolerated and in my opinion are crimes against the en tire community. I also thank the Queens DA’s office for treating this as a hate crime. Hopefully we can educate more people on the harm that these hate crimes cause and let criminals know that there are conse quences for their actions. We will contin ue to stand together on the side of peace and love, the foundation for most every religion, to drive out hate,” State Sen. Joe Addabbo, Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said in a statement.
Mayor Eric Adams on Friday an nounced a $35 million investment for de sign and construction of the Metropolitan Hub in Queens—phase one of a new multiphase, long-discussed greenway and park project called QueensWay.
According to Adams, this phase of the project will transform a vacant, city-owned corridor in Forest Hills into a ve-acre park with 0.7 miles of greenway, providing residents with new open space, improved access to recreational amenities, outdoor education opportunities for students, and a safe transportation corridor connecting people to schools, businesses, and 10 bus lines. e New York City Economic De velopment Corporation (NYCEDC) will manage the construction of the Met Hub in collaboration with the New York City De partment of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks). e funding includes $2.5 million from the New York City Council.
e QueensWay project involves con verting the long-abandoned Rockaway Beach Rail Line of the Long Island Rail Road—a 3.5-mile, 47-acre swath of the borough, from Rego Park to Ozone Park— into a $120 million public park, similar to the Highline in Chelsea, boasting trails and amenities.However,
for the past several years, the debate over what to do with the span
of abandoned rail track has come down to QueensWay vs. QueensRail: park land vs. public transportation in the World’s Bor ough.Proponents of the QueensRail are de voted to the reactivation of the Rockaway Beach Rail Line either as part of the Long Island Rail Road or, more likely, the City subway system. The defunct spur was put into service in the late 19th Century under the control of the LIRR and con nected Rockaway and southern Queens
with Rego Park, provided area residents with expedient access to other parts of the city, and 40-minute commutes to Midtown Manhattan from the Rockaway Peninsula.OnFriday, Adams admi ed he’s a fan of QueensWay.“NewYork is a ve-borough city, and every borough deserves high-quality park space. at’s exactly what we are deliver ing with this $35 million investment in one of our vital neighborhoods in Queens,”
Adams said. “QueensWay phase one will convert abandoned railroad tracks that have been used as a dumping ground into a linear park that will make this community safer, healthier, greener, and more prosper ous. e community has been asking for this for decades, and I am proud to stand with them to show how we ‘Get Stu Done’ for New OnceYorkers.”complete, the QueensWay will include a 47-acre park and seven miles of greenway from a converted unused railroad line. e project will cover the Queens neighborhoods of Rego Park, Forest Hills, Glendale, Forest Park, Woodhaven, and Ozone Park. e proposal was conceived by the Trust for Public Land and Friends of the QueensWay. e project concept is the result of an extensive community outreach that included public and stakeholder work shops, information tables at local commu nity events and festivals, and more than 20 public
“Wetours.allsaw how the High Line over night became one of the ho est destina tions in the entire city, for New Yorkers and tourists alike, who ock to all the surrounding businesses,” said Assembly woman Jenifer Rajkumar (D-Woodhaven).
“Now Woodhaven, Ozone Park, Glendale, Richmond Hill, Li le Guyana, Rego Park, and Forest Hills will have their own linear park that will produce the same economic renaissance.”
Photo Courtesy of Google e ont of the Tulsi Mandir Temple Photo Courtesy of Cityline Ozone Park Civilian Patrol Further evidence of vandalism near the temple. Photo Courtesy of Trust for Public Land and Friends of the QueensWay Conceptual rendering of the QueensWay Metropolitan Hub.As Mayor Eric Adams received his own CO VID-19 bivalent booster shot on Tuesday, he and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan announced the launch of a citywide cam paign to promote COVID-19 boosters this fall. In the next week, print, television, radio, and digital ads will go live across New York City promoting booster shots. With the recent rollout of bivalent booster shots by the U.S. Food and Drug Admin istration, the new campaign will encourage all eli gible New Yorkers to get their booster shot for an added layer of protection for themselves and those around them. In addition to promotion of COV ID-19 booster shots, the campaign being launched in the next week will promote other annual vacci nations.Mayor Adams and DOHMH Commissioner Vasan also, Tuesday, announced more flexibility for New York City’s businesses by encouraging private businesses to put in place their own vac cine policies after making the private sector vac cine mandate optional. And as New York City’s students head back to school, the city created more flexibility for parents and encouraged fami lies to ensure their children have their primary and, if eligible, booster shots after making vac cines optional for students who participate in extracurricular activities, including, among other activities, New York City’s Public School Athletic League (PSAL).
“We are launching a new campaign in the next week that encourages all eligible New Yorkers to get their booster shot for an added layer of protection
for themselves and those around them,” Adams added. “And with so many tools now more easily accessible to keep New Yorkers safe from COV ID-19, the additional exibility we are announcing for private employers, students, and parents puts the choice back into each of their hands. We urge all New Yorkers to make a plan to get vaccinated if they are eligible, and we are grateful to the mil lions of New Yorkers who have already stepped up to keep themselves and their community safe.”
Several o cials and groups praised Adams’s
move.“A er a constructive meeting with our caucus two weeks ago, we are very pleased Mayor Adams has decided to remove COVID vaccine mandates that have been hurting our businesses, hamper ing our city’s economic recovery and preventing our children from fully participating in sports and a er-school activities,” City Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Ozone Park) and the Common Sense Caucus wrote in a statement. “ is is a signi cant step toward correcting the errors and inequitable policies of the previous administration. We will continue engaging with the mayor and his admin istration to also end the public employee COVID vaccine mandate and bring back City workers who were placed on leave or red due to their vacci nation status, especially now that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have declared that this pandemic is over.”
e Police Benevolent Association echoed the sentiment.“isannouncement is more proof that the vac cine mandate for New York City police o cers is arbitrary, capricious and fundamentally irrational,” said PBA President Patrick Lynch.
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e City is encouraging private businesses to put in place their own vaccine policies a er making the private sector vaccine mandate optional.
Following the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Ida devastating Queens, and local oods occurring again last week, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) on Tuesday led a le er to Mayor Eric Adams, urging him to consider implementing a voluntary buyout program for homes in the borough that are at risk of severe ooding during storms. e correspondence, signed by several other Queens elected o cials, encourages the mayor to use the $187 million in federal Ida relief money that New York City received
from the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Funding (CDBGDR). e money was included in the Disas ter Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, a bill that Meng helped pass in Congress last year. e City is presently nalizing a plan for using the funds which can go toward pur chasing local homes.
“In Queens, lives were turned upside down by the unprecedented flooding that the remnants of Hurricane Ida caused last year, and constituents continue to pick up the pieces from the damage they sus tained,” said Meng. “And many who were
impacted by Ida were also affected by last week’s flooding, forcing them to endure additional setbacks. In order to address this issue in our borough, we must use ev ery tool that is at our disposal, and imple menting a voluntary buyout program, in conjunction with my call to upgrade our sewers and catch basins with money from the federal infrastructure bill, would go a long way toward helping to combat the problem, and improve the safety and wellbeing of our communities. We must act to help save lives and prevent future prop erty damage.”
According to the CDBG-DR, funds may be used for designing and implementing a buyout program in which the city could purchase properties in a target area with the intent to demolish the structures to create park amenities, open space, or ood stor age/over ow areas.
e le er is signed by Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, Jr.; Queens State Sens John Liu, Toby Stavisky and Le roy Comrie; Queens Assemblymembers Andrew Hevesi and Catalina Cruz; and Queens Councilmembers Linda Lee, Bob Holden, and Sandra Ung.
File Photo ousands of borough basements were ooded during Hurricane Ida. File Photo In 2019, the collapse of an old pipe caused an extensive ood of raw sewage that damaged dozens of South Queens homes.• Monitors (CRT and at screen);
• Handheld devices (smart phones, tablets, MP3 players, e-readers, etc.);
• Network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.);
• Peripherals (keyboards, mice, ca bles, cords, chargers, etc.);
• Components (hard drives, CDROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, etc.);•
Printers under 50 pounds, scan ners, fax-machines, etc.;
• TVs, VCRs, DVRs, DVD & Bluray •Players;Digital Converter Boxes, Cable/ Satellite Receivers;
• Audio-visual equipment (cam eras, microphones, etc.);
• Video-game consoles and acces sories;• Cell phones, pagers, PDAs.
Items that will NOT be accepted:
By Forum Stais fall, State Sen. Joe Addabbo, Jr. (D-Howard Beach) along with Assembly woman Jenifer Rajkumar (D-Woodhaven) and Councilman Bob Holden (D-Mas peth) will be teaming up with the Rich mond Hill-South Ozone Park Lions Club to bring an electronics recycling event to Forest Park next month.
On Sunday, Oct. 9, members from Lower East Side Ecology Center will be on hand at the Forest Park Bandshell Parking Lot in Woodhaven from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to collect unwanted electronic waste.
“Recycling your old or unwanted elec tronics may be confusing for some residents as the laws surrounding what can and cannot be le out on the curb seem to change every so o en,” Addabbo said. “ at is why we love holding these bi-annual e-waste recycling events where residents can come and know that their electronics are being disposed of properly and not si ing in our land lls and polluting the ground at a convenient location right in their own community.”
Electronics that will be accepted during the •event:Computers (laptops & desktops, servers, mainframes);
• Ba eries of any kind;
• Stereo equipment;
• Landline phones/answering ma chines;•
Extension cords;
• Smoke detectors;
• Any hazardous materials or paint;
• Household appliances.
“Recycling electronics is common sense. If we throw old electronics in the trash, they can leak dangerous toxins. If we recycle them, they can be worth $7.5 billion,” Rajkumar said. “We owe every one a world that is clean, sustainable, and free of waste, including the 7 million tons of electronic waste we produce each year. at is why I am delighted to team up again with Senator Addabbo and our community partners to bring this popular event to the people of South Queens.”
“I’m proud to co-sponsor these ewaste recycling events with my colleagues in government and the Lower East Side Ecology Center, because they offer a con venient, safe and environmentally friendly way for constituents to dispose of unwant ed electronics,” Holden added. “They're very popular and it's also fun to see some of the older items being discarded.”
People always come into the phar macy asking questions about giving animals over the counter (OTC) people meds.No one wants to see their beloved pet suffer, but we need know that giving them NSAIDs or acetaminophen (Ty lenol and oth¬er brands, which are not NSAIDs) out of our medicine cabinets may not be safe for dogs or cats, and dos es varySomewidely.OTC
human pain relievers can be toxic–even deadly–in pets. Never give your animal something you take unless speaking with your vet rst.
Similarly, pet owners shouldn't as sume that a medicine good for one animal is nec¬essarily safe for another.
Rule number 1--Communicate with yourBeforevet. giving your animal an NSAID:
--Make sure you know what the medica¬tion is being prescribed for, how much to give and how long to give it.
--Discuss possible side e ects and symp¬toms, especially those that require an imme¬diate call to the vet.
--Tell your veterinarian if the pet has a history of gastrointestinal problems, such
as stomach ulcers, or surgery on the stom ach or
--Tellintestines.yourveterinarian if your pet is on any other medications or supplements.
If your pet is on medication, make sure you ask your vet these questions:
-Why is my pet on this medication and how long do I need to give it?
-How do I give the medication to my pet? Should it be given with food?
-How o en should the medication be giv¬en and how much should I give each time? If it is a liquid, should I shake it rst?
-How do I store the medication?
-What should I do if my pet vomits or spits out the medication?
-If I forget to give the medication, should I give it as soon as I remember?
-What if I accidently give too much?
-Should I nish all of the medication?
-Could this medication interact with oth¬ers?-What reactions should I watch for?
-When do we comeback?
- Will you be calling me to check on my pet’s progress, or should I call you?
If you follow these simple rules, you and you best friend should enjoy a long healthy life together.
For your family’s prescription needs, please call CROSS BAY CHEMIST at 718-659-9500 or 718-880-1644 157-02 Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach: Mon-Fri 9am-9pm. Sat-Sun 9am-7pm. or 96-05 101st Ave. in Ozone Park: Mon-Sat 9am-7pm. Sunday: Closed.
Assemblywoman Stacey Phe er Am ato (D-Howard Beach) recently met with 101st Precinct o cials and local leader ship to discuss heightened security for the Jewish community in regards to the upcoming high holidays.
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the two most holy and sacred days in the Jewish faith, have always warranted a conspicuous police presence—and this year will be no different, Pheffer Amato noted.Over the past few years, anti-Semitic a acks have spiked. According to the An ti-Defamation League, there was a 34-per cent increase in a acks in 2021, compared to the previous year.
It was also reported that this is the high est level of tracking and reports in more than 40 years. Recently in Far Rockaway, a Jew ish man was a acked and had anti-Semitic words shouted at him, to which the NYPD responded swi ly and e ectively. “ is was a deplorable act of hate that will not be ig nored. I am thankful for the NYPD and their immediate action, and also to the Queens District A orney who will be prosecuting this man for a hate crime,” Phe er Amato said. “Let me say it loudly so everyone hears it: Hate and intolerance is not accepted in this community and those that act this way will be held accountable to the highest level.”
Presented by Frank Pantina, R.Ph File Photo On Oct. 9, members om Lower East Side Ecology Center will be on hand at the Forest Park Bandshell Parking Lot in Woodhaven om 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to collect unwanted electronic waste. File Photo e e-waste recycling event has long been one of Senate District 15’s most popular events. Photo Courtesy of Assemblywoman Phe er Amatocome a stronger community and over the last two years we ba led through the COV ID-19 pandemic. Now, I believe we are on a positive path towards economic growth and strength with the opening of new businesses and housing developments, however we still struggle with unemployment and transpor tation among other issues on the peninsula.
e Comptroller’s Economic Snapshot pro vides valuable information on how far we have come and what is still le to be done,” said State Senator James Sanders Jr.
"I am proud to have worked in partnership with Comptroller DiNapoli and his o ce to furnish an economic and demographic snap shot of the Rockaways. From data on health care and housing to infrastructure and food insecurity, this report will serve as a helpful tool for informing legislation, programs, and resources to improve quality of life for our Rockaway community. Whether rebuilding a er Superstorm Sandy or recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, this report shines a bright light on both the adversity and resil ience of the Rockaway peninsula. As a law maker, I look forward to referencing Comp troller DiNapoli's report as our community works collaboratively to close socioeconomic gaps and promote the economic health of the Rockaway community," said Assembly Mem ber Khaleel M. Anderson
By Forum StaCommunities in the Rockaways were some of the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, more than two years af ter the pandemic rst struck, an economic report released earlier this month by New York State Comptroller omas P. DiNapoli nds positive signs of business and employ ment growth that o er reason to believe the Rockaways is on the road to recovery.
New York City’s iconic Rockaway Pen insula is an 11-mile-long barrier in South western Queens. e communities along the peninsula are Far Rockaway, Bayswater, Edgemere, Arverne, Hammels, Seaside, Rockaway Park, Belle Harbor, Neponsit, Rockaway Beach and Breezy Point.
e Rockaways saw steady business growth since 2000, with the number of busi nesses increasing by nearly 60% (459 rms) to reach a peak of 1,281 rms in 2021. is was substantially greater than the borough of Queens (43.8%) and citywide (28.5%) business growth. Almost 82% of the busi nesses on the peninsula were microbusi nesses, de ned as having fewer than 10 em ployees. As of 2021, retail trade accounted for the largest number of rms, followed by health care, leisure and hospitality and pro fessional and business services.
e Rockaways also experienced strong employment growth following a decline in 2013 caused by Superstorm Sandy, with the number of workers employed on the peninsula growing by almost 40% by 2019, just prior to the start of the pandemic. As with businesses, this expansion in jobs outpaced borough and citywide employment growth. With the onset of the pandemic in 2020, employment on the peninsula declined, although by a slower per centage than in Queens or citywide. Job losses were reversed by 2021, however, with employ
ment growing in all sectors except transporta tion and Populationwarehousing.onthe peninsula increased by 8% between 2010 and 2020. is was slightly higher than population growth in Queens (7.8%) and citywide (7.7%), and was accom panied by a shi in composition, as the share of residents who identi ed as either Hispanic or Asian increased signi cantly.
Despite the Rockaways’ improving eco nomic trajectory, the COVID-19 pandemic underscored and exacerbated longstanding inequities in the area, where rates of unem ployment, food insecurity and poverty vary widely between communities.
e 54.5% share of Rockaways residents aged 16 and over that were employed in the 2016-2020 period was higher than the share of those who were working in the 2006-2010 period, but still lower than the borough and citywide shares. However, employment growth rates over the decade varied drasti cally from community-to-community, rang ing from 73.6% in Arverne to less than 2% in Edgemere and Rockaway Park, signaling un even economic growth across the peninsula.
e Rockaways also had the highest share of households living below the federal poverty threshold (18.3%) among the 14 Census-de ned neighborhoods in Queens in 2016-2020. Household poverty rates were lowest in Belle Harbor (1.3%) and highest in Far Rockaway (22%) and Edge mereHousing(28.6%).a
ordability was a pressing is sue for Rockaways residents during this pe riod, as 51% of renters were considered rent burdened, with at least 30% of their income going towards rent, and 25% were consid ered severely rent burdened, with at least 50% of their income put towards rent. No tably, the rent burden level for the area was not as acute as it was for Queens (53%) or
citywide (28%).
Food insecurity has also been an issue for Rockaways residents, particularly in Edgeme re and Hammels, where more than one-half and one-quarter of households, respectively, relied on the Supplemental Nutritional Assis tance Program between 2016 and 2020.
Compounding economic challenges that existed prior to the pandemic, Rockaways residents were particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, which prompted the city’s Taskforce on Racial Inclusion & Equity (TRIE) to designate an area comprised of four out of ve ZIP code areas in the Rocka ways as one of the city’s 33 hardest hit areas by the pandemic. is area also had some of the lowest vaccination rates across the city. As of July 11, 2022, one of these four ZIP code areas, 11691, which includes Far Rockaway, Edgemere, Bayswater and Hammels, had the highest number of COVID-19 deaths and cumulative death rates across the peninsula, as well as the second-highest death rate in Queens and the h-highest death rate of all 177 ZIP code areas in the city.
In addition to being severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Rockaways, a barrier susceptible to storm surges and climate risks, was ravaged by Su perstorm Sandy in 2012, and experienced extensive damage to essential infrastructure and private property. e TRIE designation and impacts of these public health and storm emergencies re ect the vulnerability of the area. e U.S. Census Bureau’s Commu nity Resilience Estimates 2019 data showed that more than one-half of Arverne and Far Rockaway residents were at medium risk of experiencing disaster in an emergency event with more than two- hs of Edgemere resi dents categorized as high risk.
“Over the decade since Hurricane Sandy we have healed and come together to be
“I am a lifelong Rockaway resident and have seen the strides we have made, espe cially in the past few years as indicated in the report by the NYS Comptroller’s O ce. I thank Comptroller DiNapoli for present ing this vital information as it shows that our business and employment numbers have increased, our median household in comes have grown to new heights, and our post Hurricane Sandy resiliency e orts have been e ective. While this community still faces many challenges, I am commi ed to bringing new resources from the State and rolling up my sleeves to ght for what we need in the Rockaway community,” said As semblywoman Stacey Phe er Amato.
Additional Economic Snapshot Findings
• From 2010-2020, the Rockaways’ Asian population increased nearly 40% (by 1,004 residents) while the Hispanic popu lation increased by nearly 19% percent (by 4,483 residents).
• During the analysis period, the average commute time (49.7 minutes) for residents was the longest of all the city’s 55 Census-de ned neighborhoods.
• In the Rockaways, school enroll ment increased slowly but steadily in the years prior to the pandemic, then fell by 2.8% in 2020-21 and 3.5% the following year; enrollment in charter schools has con tinued to rise despite the pandemic.
• Post-Hurricane Sandy investments and construction activities are still on-going on the peninsula, with regular community engagement around planning in an e ort to improve the area’s resilience.
• Major crimes (seven major violent and property crimes) in the Rockaways de clined in both years since the start of the pan demic in 2020, in contrast to citywide gures. is trend continued for violent crimes as of July 2022.
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Post-Hurricane Sandy investments and construction activities are still on-going on the peninsula, with regular community engagement around planning in an e ort to improve the area’s resilience.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Tuesday that Travis Blake, 29, has been indicted by a Queens County grand jury and ar raigned in Supreme Court on murder charges and other crimes for the June 2022 murders of his girlfriend, her adult son and niece inside her Jamaica home.
The defendant fled to Maine and was returned to New York on Friday.
District Attorney Katz said, “As al leged, this defendant carried out a hor rific triple murder and then fled the state, leaving a devastated family and a mourn ing community in his wake. Such brutal disregard for human life will not go unan swered. Despite being on the run immedi ately following the murder, the defendant is now in custody and faces justice in our courts.”Blake, was arraigned Tuesday before Queens Supreme Court Justice Ushir Pandit-Durant on a six-count in dictment charging him with murder in the first degree, three-counts of murder in the second degree, and two-counts of crimi nal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree. Pandit-Durant ordered the defen dant to return to court on Oct. 18, 2022. If convicted, Blake faces up to life in prison.
According to the indictment, on June 24, 2022, at approximately 3:05 a.m., po lice responded to a 911 call at the defen dant’s residence on 155th Street in Jamai ca and discovered the three victims inside the home, 55-year-old Karlene Barnett, her 36-year-old son, Dervon Brightly, and her 22-year-old niece, Vashawnna Mal colm. All of them had been deceased for approximately two days.
According to the charges, video sur
veillance footage showing the entry points of the defendant’s 155th Street residence on June 22 depicted the defendant in the backyard at approximately 2:50 p.m. ap parently bleeding from a hand injury and using a hammer to drive a nail into a beam of wood. The defendant then entered the house where victim Brightly had previ ously entered approximately thirty min utes earlier. Several hours later, at approxi mately 7:30 p.m., victim Barnett entered
the residence and never exited again. Ac cording to the charges, on June 24 a wit ness who also lives at the residence, no ticed an odor from the bedroom of victim Malcolm and discovered her body after opening the door. The witness called 911 and police responded to the residence.
Once on the scene, according to the in dictment, detectives discovered Malcolm deceased in her second-floor bedroom, undressed from the waist down, and bound with duct tape with several appar ent puncture wounds to her chest. Police gained entry to a locked basement door and followed a trail of blood to a bedroom where Barnett was discovered with ap parent head trauma injuries and several puncture wounds to her body. Police also discovered Mr. Malcolm in the basement who had head trauma injuries and punc ture wounds on his body.
Police also recovered several bloodstained items including a hammer, screw driver and a beam of wood with a nail embedded in it. Items including a bloodstained bucket, blood-stained bottles of household cleaner and a mop were also re covered. Police recovered the cell phone, passport and valuables of the defendant at the Policehouse.apprehended the defendant on June 30 in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Photo Courtesy of Google e three victims were discovered in this 155th Street home in Jamaica.
e Metropolitan Transportation Au thority on Sunday announced that nor mal J and Z service was restored a 5 a.m. Monday, Sept. 19, between the 121 St and Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer stations in Queens following completion of approxi mately 2.4 miles of track replacement. is work on the J and Z lines replaced 12,500 feet of track and third rail, about double the length of track replaced for the E track
reconstruction work in 2020, also in South east Queens. e 40-year-old-track was re placed with a successfully proven updated design to increase durability and improve quality of service.
With this nal segment of a multi-phase project complete, the total amount of track replaced in this area of Queens is 18,800 feet, about 3.6 miles, the length of about 64 football elds. e rst part, completed in December 2020, involved the reconstruc tion of the E track between Jamaica-Van
Wyck and Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer and replaced 6,300 feet of track in 10 weeks. is track replacement project, which began earlier this year on July 1, required a full temporary suspension of service to accommodate the work due to the replace ment of direct xation track. Unlike con ventional tracks, which are most common in the subway and easier to replace in short er time periods during low ridership such as overnight hours, direct xation track requires the concrete roadbed to be en
tirely reconstructed. is project replaced 12,500 feet of direct xation track, with the exception of 3,000 feet, which was replaced in kind.For information on upcoming service changes and trip planning, customers are encouraged to check Planned Service Changes on the MTA website or sign up for the MTA Weekender, a new newsle er intended to inform customers about major weekend service changes throughout the transit system.
By Forum Staff
Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday in Corona announced that Metropolitan Transportation Authority New York City Transit has received a $2 million award, through the Urban Area Security Initia tive federal grant program, which will provide funding for the installation of cameras across the entire fleet of subway cars, enhancing security coverage, and, most importantly, increasing passenger confidence in mass transit safety. The Ur ban Area Security Initiative is a program under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Preparedness Grants. The fund ing will enable the purchase of 5,400 cameras to be installed on 2,700 New York City Transit subway cars, two per car. Additionally, the program will fund approximately 3,800 cameras expanding coverage in approximately 130 subway stations.efunding will further strengthen NYC Transit's existing security network of more than 10,000 cameras across all 472 subway stations. e new funding covers the cost of camera installation on 6,355 cars, allowing the MTA to fully out t every subway car with cameras -- supplementing an existing camera pilot program that in cludes 200 cameras in 100 subway cars. Ad ditionally, funding from the Subway Action Plan totaling $3.5 million will enable the purchase of 7,310 cameras on 3,655 cars,
two per car. e total funding to complete the installations equals $5.5 million. When installation begins an additional 200 train cars per month will have cameras installed until the entire subway car eet is cameraequipped, which is anticipated to occur sometime in 2025. In addition, when new R211 subway cars are delivered starting in early 2023 they will already be cameraequipped.
"I am proud that we will be installing cameras on all Subway cars - expanding our security capabilities, deterring crime, and providing our law enforcement with support. As we continue welcoming riders back to the transit system, we will continue doing everything in our power to keep rid ers
Allsafe."Metro-North trains are equipped with cameras, and more than 90 percent of
Long Island Rail Road trains are equipped with security cameras. Last year, camera in stallation across every subway station was accelerated and completed ahead of sched ule. Two thousand cameras were installed in 2021 alone.
" e NYPD will never cede an inch in its ongoing work to ensure the safety and security of the millions of riders who, each day, depend on us throughout the nation's largest subway system. is is our most basic promise as we remain dedicated to preventing crime, terrorism, and disor der,” City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. “ e NYPD already uses ex isting MTA cameras, with great success, to solve crimes. Now, with ridership increas ing and overall serious crime in the transit system back below pre-pandemic levels - a consequence of the NYPD's increased, concentrated deployment in stations and on trains - the installation of additional MTA cameras covering the entire eet of subway cars will further our investigatory capabilities and enhance our ability to pro vide e ective, e cient public safety both below and above ground."
New York City Transit President Rich ard Davey added, "It's been proven time and time again that cameras in the transit system help ght crime throughout the whole city, not just on the subway. Expand ing the camera network will serve to de ter those who are intent on commi ing a crime from entering the transit system."
Photo Courtesy of Google e 121st Street J and Z station in Richmond Hill. Photo Courtesy of Google e Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer hub. Photo Courtesy of Kevin Coughlin/O ce of the Governor A federal grant will provide funding for the installation of cameras across the entire eet of city subway cars.
Pa erson pleaded guilty to bribery, admit ting that she accepted more than $34,000 in bribe payments in exchange for smug gling contraband into Rikers Island. Burrell and Pa erson are employed by the City Department of Corrections (DOC).
By Forum StaOn Tuesday, in Brooklyn federal court, former City Correction O cer Krystle Burrell pleaded guilty to bribery, admi ing that she accepted nearly $10,000 in bribe payments in exchange for smuggling con traband into Rikers Island.
On Aug. 16, former City CO Katrina
According to court documents and facts presented at the guilty plea proceedings, Pa erson accepted at least $34,090 in bribes from co-conspirators on behalf of co-defendantMichaelRoss in exchange for Pa erson smuggling contraband into the Robert N. Davoren Center on Rikers Island for Ross. Ross, who was incarcerated on unrelated o enses, arranged for the bribes to be sent to Pa erson. DOC personnel subsequently located narcotics and cell phones in Ross’s cell. Law enforcement also recovered Pat terson’s text messages, including messages where a co-conspirator told Pa erson that some of the contraband would be “4 black joints in 1 paper,” and Pa erson responded, “it be er be wrapped so many times I don’t want to smell it.”
Burrell accepted bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband into the Anna M. Kross Center on the island for co-de fendant Terrae Hinds, facilitating Hinds’ contraband smuggling business and per mi ing Hinds and others to violate DOC
regulations. Hinds, who was incarcerated on unrelated o enses, arranged for approx imately $9,780 in bribe payments to be sent to Burrell. In exchange, Burrell smuggled at least two unauthorized cell phones to Hinds, and also facilitated Hinds’ sale of narcotics and other contraband items at the Anna M. Kross Center.
When sentenced, Burrell faces up to 10 years’ imprisonment and Pat terson faces up to five years’ impris onment. Ross, who is a Bloods gang member, has also pleaded guilty to a bribery offense and is awaiting sen tencing. Charges against Hinds remain pending.
A superseding indictment was unsealed Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn charg ing 26 defendants, including nine members and associates of the violent NYC-based street gang known as the “Bully Gang” with various o enses, including racketeering, murder, drug tra cking, money launder ing, and rearms o enses. e superseding indictment includes new charges against the following members and associates of the Bully Gang for three murders and one a empted murder in Brooklyn and Queens commi ed in2018 and 2020:
• Derrick Ayers, also known as “Dee” is charged with the March 3, 2018 murder of Jonathan Jackson in Brooklyn.
• Franklin Gillespie, also known as “Spazz” and “Frankie Gino,” is charged with the April 11, 2020 murder of Paul Hoilett in Brooklyn.
• Gillespie and Anthony Kennedy, also known as “Biggie,” are charged with the April202015, murder of Mike Hawley in Queens.•Demetrius Johnson, also known as “Q,” is charged with the July 18, 2020 at tempted murder of a victim in Brooklyn.
The superseding indictment also charged four new defendants, Tiri Brown, also known as “Tyhoe,” Courtney Foster, also known as “Biga,” Avery Goodluck,
also known as “Ave,” and Johnson, with narcotics trafficking charges for their role in a scheme to traffic narcotics between New York and Maine.
Ayers, Gillespie, and Kennedy were pre viously in custody on the underlying indict ment. Defendants Brown, Foster, Goodluck, and Johnson were arrested Tuesday.
and enrich themselves and their members. Their members engaged acts of violence including murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, and arson. The supersed ing indictment adds charges stemming from the gang’s years-long use of vio lence and brutality to target its enemies. As alleged, on August 21, 2017, Bermon
the culmination of an exchange of gunfire that followed a “gender reveal” party in Brooklyn. As alleged, during a foot chase along Kings Highway, Ayers repeatedly fired on Jackson at close range. The mur ders of Hoilett and Hawley occurred just days apart in April.
2020. As alleged, Gillespie targeted Hoilett, approaching him from behind and firing at the back of Hoilett’s head at point-blank range. Four days later, Gil lespie and Kennedy allegedly lured Haw ley to a meeting place in Far Rockaway where he was shot and killed.
As alleged, the Enterprise and its coconspirators also operated a years-long, sophisticated drug trafficking network responsible for trafficking large quantities of dangerous drugs like crack, heroin and fentanyl through New York to Maine, and elsewhere. The enterprise’s drug proceeds were collected on a regular basis and laun dered through financial transactions and the purchase of high-value assets, includ ing jewelry and cars.
As set forth in the superseding indict ment and other court filings, members and associates of the Bully Gang used force and violence to promote its power, terrorize communities in multiple states
Clarke, a leader in one of the charged nar cotics conspiracies, set fire to a house in Blaine, Maine with at least two occupants inside. The March 3, 2018 murder of Jona than Jackson alleged in the indictment was
During the investigation, law enforce ment seized more than $380,000 in cash, more than 15 firearms, 6 kilograms of cocaine, 600 grams of fentanyl, multiple luxury watches, and four vehicles with concealed “trap” compartments installed.
To date, 53 defendants have been charged as part of the prosecution, with 27 pleading guilty. File Photo Brooklyn U.S. A orney Breon Peace File Photo e two former City COs have pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband into Rikers Island. File Photo “When correction o cers betray their oath to serve and protect, the public is put at risk and the entire law enforcement community is tarnished,” said City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell. “We have zero tolerance for such misconduct.”
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