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Students urge change in school discipline Say officials in boro and city hand out needlessly harsh punishments

by Anna Gustafson Editor

hen Abeer Ahmed got into a fight as a sophomore at Queens Collegiate High School in Jamaica, he knew there would have to be some kind of punishment.

But Ahmed, a Flushing resident and now a senior at the school, along with numerous other students, educators and legislators, say the response to situations like his in schools across the borough and city is often needlessly harsh.

While the city’s school discipline code says students like Ahmed should first receive a peer mediation session — meaning an attempt to help the student resolve the conflict with a third-party — before potentially being suspended, Ahmed said he was immediately made to leave school.

“Before giving me any kind of peer mediation, they just suspended me for three days,” Ahmed said. “I would’ve liked the mediation.

Give me detention — that’s reasonable. But they made me stay at my house and miss homework and two tests.”

The city Department of Education did not respond to requests for comment, and the school’s principal could not be reached.

More than 100 students, parents and teachers gathered at City Hall last week to protest the Department of Education’s discipline policies and urge the city to use alternatives to

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suspensions that they say promote better behavior — such as the mediation Ahmed suggested.

The protesters also marched to One Police Plaza to “demand that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly stop the over-policing of our schools and put an end to student arrests for school discipline matters,” according to a statement from the Dignity in Schools Campaign, the organization that organized last week’s protest. A number of students from Desis Rising Up and Moving, of which Ahmed is a member, were also involved.

According to Dignity in Schools, there were 73,000 suspensions issued in the city’s public schools during the 2008-09 school year.

More than 16,000 ranged from six days to a school year, with an average length of 25 days, according to the group. Students of color, with disabilities and from low-income communities were the most impacted, with an average of more than 38,000 black students suspended that year, according to Dignity in Schools.

These figures could not be confirmed by the DOE. Along with advocating for fewer suspensions and more positive behavior interventions, protesters last week said the DOE should spend less money on NYPD school safety officers and more on guidance counselors. There are more than 5,000 school safety officers — many of whom students say are needlessly aggressive, and about

More than 100 students, parents and educators gathered outside City Hall last week to protest what they said are harsh and discriminatory discipline practices in schools throughout the borough PHOTO COURTESY DIGNITY IN SCHOOLS CAMPAIGN/DESIS RISING UP AND MOVING and city.

3,000 guidance counselors in city schools.

“If we had 10,000 guidance counselors to work with our students, to prepare our students for college rather than creating a police state when you walk through the door, maybe we would have more success in our schools,” said Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights), a former teacher who spoke at the protest. “We need to fund our schools; we need to find discipline measures that work.”

Montania Chakladar, an Astoria resident and senior at Information Technology High

School in Long Island City, said the safety officers are “rowdy.”

“They were trained by the NYPD, and I don’t think they know how to behave or treat young adults,” she said. “There was a food f ight at my school that I wasn’t involved in, but a school safety officer said I was involved, and no matter what you say, if an SSO says they saw you do it, they won’t listen to you.”

The NYPD also did not respond to a request for comment. continued on page 38

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Sheehan heads to jail after murder acquittal Community to hold vigil on Sunday to support Howard Beach mother

by Anna Gustafson Editor

ith her wrists bound in black handcuffs, Barbara Sheehan, the Howard Beach woman acquitted of murdering her husband, yelled, “I love you,” to her daughter, who dissolved into sobs as police officers whisked her mother away to jail on Wednesday to await sentencing for a felony weapons conviction.

A jury of nine women and three men acquitted Sheehan, 50, of a second-degree murder charge last Thursday after she admitted shooting her ex-cop husband, Raymond Sheehan, 11 times in 2008 in what she has said was self defense. The jury did, however, find the mother of two, who had allegedly been physically and emotionally abused by her husband for nearly two decades, guilty of one count of criminal possession of a weapon, a class C felony that carries a minimum sentence of three and a half years in prison.

Sheehan’s attorney, Michael Dowd, said at Queens Supreme Court in Kew Gardens on Wednesday morning that he planned to appeal the gun possession conviction in the

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Appellate Division of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn later that day.

Dowd also on Wednesday applied for a continuation of the $1 million bail Sheehan posted after being arrested on Feb. 18, 2008, but it was temporarily denied to give prosecutors time to file objections to bail.

If the continuation is granted, it would allow Sheehan to return home before her sentencing scheduled for Nov. 10.

“It’s just very confusing,” Sheehan’s daughter, Jennifer Joyce, 25, said Wednesday of her mother being jailed. “She was defending herself.”

Joyce added she hopes her mother will “be back home tonight,” and said she, her 21year-old brother, Raymond, and other family members and friends have been “doing a lot of praying.”

Dowd said while Wednesday morning “was a very hard moment for the whole family and Barbara herself,” he noted the Howard Beach mother has garnered support from individuals across the country.

“The outpouring of support from the community concerned about domestic violence

has been overwhelming,” Dowd said. “There are people across this city, state and country standing behind Barbara today.”

Last week’s verdict comes after an emotional trial held over the past month. Throughout the past four weeks, Sheehan, her children and her attorney maintained she shot her husband, a former NYPD sergeant, after he allegedly pointed a gun at her and told her he was going to kill her. They also said the death came after he had allegedly abused her for the last 18 years of their 24-year marriage and had punched her in the face, smashed her head into cinder blocks while on vacation in Jamaica, threw boiling marinara sauce on her and threatened to kill her and her children if they ever told anyone what was going on.

Many in the Howard Beach community said they agreed with the jury’s verdict.

“All that abuse, for all those years, he did kind of deserve it,” Jason Volkens, who lives in Sheehan’s neighborhood, said this week.

Michael Walsh, another Howard Beach resident, agreed.

“She did shoot her husband, but there was a reason why she did it,” Walsh said.

Residents will further show their support for Sheehan during a community vigil on Sunday, Oct. 16 at 6:15 p.m. at the Ave Maria Academy and the Parish of Our Lady of Grace.

Despite the swell of support from individuals and groups working with domestic violence victims, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said the verdict “should not be viewed as a victory for the defense or for victims of domestic violence.”

He said six million women in the United States are beaten by husbands or boyfriends annually — and 4,000 of them are killed each year, though a number of national publications on the topic cite statistics of about 1,000 to 1,600 women being killed by their abusers.

“Think of where we would be if only a fraction of abused women took the law into their own hands, as Barbara Sheehan allegedly did, and shot and killed their allegedly abusive spouses,” Brown said.

“The place to address the issue of domestic violence is through our justice and social Q services systems.”

More permanent cops will not be at casino CB 10 members worry about influx of visitors to South Ozone Park

by Anna Gustafson Editor

Community Board 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton said last week that the NYPD will not assign additional permanent officers to the 106th Precinct when the casino at Aqueduct opens later this month, raising the ire of residents who worry about the problems that could stem from the millions of people expected to visit the South Ozone Park establishment annually.

“The men and women serving the 106th Precinct are overtaxed now,” Braton said at the board’s meeting at the Knights of Columbus Hall in South Ozone Park last Thursday. “ … The additional load being placed on them will end up being an untenable situation.”

Braton reported that Assistant Chief James Secreto, commanding officer of Patrol Borough Queens South, recently told her that no new permanent officers were headed their way, though he added that the precinct may receive a police detail — meaning additional officers from other precincts could be sent to the area from time to time.

When Braton sent a letter to Secreto asking him for the size of the detail that will work in the 106th and asking that its members be assigned daily, and not just for special events, Braton said Secreto said the “deployment numbers are undetermined.” According to Braton, Secreto reported that the detail officers would come from somewhere in Patrol Borough Queens South.

“I would pretty much consider that a non-answer,” Braton said. “We’re continuing to push the Police Department to see how they’ll be policing the area.”

Donna Gilmartin, head of the board’s Aqueduct committee, said the police’s lack of information about the officers that will be provided was “offensive.”

Secreto could not be reached for comment, and the NYPD’s public information office did not respond to a request for comment.

Frank Dardani, president of the 106th Precinct Community Council, criticized the idea of a detail, saying it swipes officers from other precincts in Queens that need them.

“It’s like when we lose officers to the beach in the summer,” Dardani said. “There’s no attachment to this community, or this precinct. Any kind of detail should be out of the question.”

Braton stressed that she has no concerns about security provided by Resorts World Casino New York City inside the racino, but said there are worries about the area surrounding the establishment. More than eight million visitors are expected to visit the casino annually.

The board chairwoman also said the 106th Precinct should be lauded for its efforts to prepare for the massive influx of people into the area.

The precinct’s commander, Capt. Thomas Pascale, “and his staff have been doing the type of planning that needs to be done,” Braton said. “But our resources are stretched as far as they can stretch. Our command should not be overloaded and then have the finger pointed at them saying they’re not doing their job.”

Pascale said at the meeting the precinct is “looking forward” to the casino’s opening weekend, which is expected to happen by the end of this month.

“We’re boning up for the opening weekend,” Pascale said.

Braton said the board’s main concern is about the increase in traffic congestion in the area.

“Our community should not be thinking massive amounts of crime will be coming to the neighborhood,” Braton said. “But you’re going to have large amounts of additional people. You’re going to see more traffic accidents.”

Community Board 10 members say they are concerned about the traffic congestion that will come from millions of visitors to PHOTO BY ANNA GUSTAFSON the casino that will open at Aqueduct.

In other meeting news, Emi Wang, a project coordinator at the Citizens Committee for New York City, encouraged residents to apply for grants from her organization.

Volunteer-led neighborhood groups can apply for “Love Your Block” grants of $500 to $1,000 from the CCNYC to help “revitalize” areas, Wang said.

The group will hold an information session about the grants on Thursday, Oct. 20 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in room 213 at Queens Borough Hall, at 120-55 Queens Blvd. in Q Kew Gardens.

A Community Vigil For Our Neighbor: Barbara Sheehan Please join us – bring a candle

Sunday, October 16th at 6:15 pm The Schoolyard and Grounds at the Ave Maria Academy and the Parish of Our Lady of Grace

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Saying ‘Grazie’ to Italian-Americans Columbia Association honors bevy of officials at Russo’s on the Bay

by Anna Gustafson Editor

Italian-Americans have played a major role in making New York City the booming metropolis it is today — and deserve more credit than they often get for that, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said in Howard Beach last week.

Natalia Quintavalle, Italian consul general to New York, honors Richard Pileggi for his work with diplomatic arrivals at JFK International Airport.

“There’s no way the contribution of Italian-Americans has been given its due,” de Blasio said at the Columbia Association of U.S. Customs and Affiliated Federal Agencies’ 15th annual Italian Heritage Day at Russo’s on the Bay last Thursday. “You’ve got to remember how profoundly we’ve shaped this city.”

De Blasio, NASA astronaut Michael Massimino, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, and Natalia Quintavalle, the Italian consul general in New York, were honored by the Columbia Association of U.S. Customs at the event, which was held just days before more than 35,000 people marched in the Columbus Day Parade on Monday.

The association was founded in 1946 to promote Italian culture and foster a better understanding among different ethnic groups in the city.

Hundreds of people attended the Italian Heritage Day that lasted throughout much of the afternoon last Thursday, often giving thunderous applause to the association’s president, Philip Maddalena, and the honorees as they lauded the accomplishments of Italian-Americans.

Massimino, a native of Franklin Square on Long Island, said he took a Sicilian flag given to him by the president of Sicily on his first space flight to honor his Italian heritage.

Columbia Association of U.S. Customs President Philip Maddalena, center, presents awards to Michael Massimino, left, Bill de Blasio, Natalia Quintavalle and Edward Mangano at the 15th PHOTOS BY ANNA GUSTAFSON annual Italian Heritage Day in Howard Beach last week.

“A few months after the flight, I got to return the flag to the president of Sicily, and when he asked me what Sicily looked like from space, I said ‘you know, I think the maps are wrong — it looks like the boot of Italy is kicking Sicily, but from space Sicily is huge and the rest of Italy is kind of small,” Massimino joked, garnering laughter and cheers from the crowd.

The astronaut, who now calls Houston home, also said he brought a replica of Galileo’s telescope from Italy on one of his flights.

“I had lots of role models growing up, but the most meaningful for me were the Italian-Americans,” Massimino said. “It’s

organizations like this that give children a chance to see what’s possible.”

Mangano said he was “incredibly honored” the organization recognized him.

“I will always look at the award and reflect that hard work, determination and trying to do the right thing does pay off,” Mangano said.

Quintavalle, the first woman ever to be appointed as the Italian consul general to New York, also said Italian-Americans’ contributions to the United States should be celebrated.

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EDITORIAL

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Children need their gym time peaking before the United Nations General Assembly recently, Mayor Bloomberg made the astonishing assertion that it is “government’s highest duty” to “make healthy solutions the default social option.”

Granted, this was during a discussion on nutrition and preventing non-communicable disease around the globe. But we would put several other duties above that one — crime prevention, road maintenance and fixing the economy, just to name a few — despite the merit of the mayor’s crusades against problems ranging from smoking to salt.

Even worse, however, is the hypocrisy of his comments. For while the mayor has rightfully been cracking down on smoking and promoting healthy eating, he’s been neglecting one of the most important ways to keep people healthy, starting at a young age: exercise. And he’s been neglecting that “healthy solution” in an area where he wields a stunning amount of control: the city school system.

Most new elementary schools that get built, including those in Queens, don’t have gymnasiums. You remember gym: the polished plank floor, the retractable basketball nets, the gymnastics equipment, the closet full of balls, pucks and hockey sticks. But guess what — many of our children won’t, at least

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not until they get to secondary school.

A new report by Comptroller John Liu details for all citizens what parents already knew: many schools have no gym. So educators make do as they can, having the children run around the cafeteria, for example. But that’s no subsitute.

Even worse, the city is in clear violation of State Education Department rules that mandate how much time children must spend in physical education classes. Those in kindergarten through third grade must get two hours of phys ed a week, but at PS 90 in Richmond Hill, for instance, they’re getting 45 minutes. Liu found that only 6 percent of the schools his office examined even come close to meeting the state’s requirements.

Yes, unfunded state mandates on education admittedly are a problem. But this nation is suffering from an unprecedented epidemic of obesity, and for the mayor to claim that providing “healthy options” is “government’s highest duty,” while failing to ensure that our children even get enough gym time under mayoral control of the schools is absurd. And yes, academics come first. “Reading is fundamental,” as the old ad campaign says. But when promoting good health is such an important goal, running is fundamental too. The city has to do a much better job on phys ed. Emphasizing gym would be a good start.

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A useless office Dear Editor: There is more to the recent news that Public Advocate Bill de Blasio beat out Comptroller John Liu and former Comptroller Bill Thompson in finally paying $300,000 in fines for papering the city with thousands of illegal posters during his 2009 election campaign. He doesn’t want this as an issue to be used against him when running for mayor in 2013. Watch Liu and Thompson quickly cut their own checks as well.

De Blasio continues to accept excessive campaign contributions from municipal labor unions and follows their agenda lockstep. In the interest of fair and open disclosure, why not just call his position the “Office of Union Advocate”?

Any public opinion poll would tell you that the average citizen believes taxpayers would be better off if the useless Office of Public Advocate was abolished.

New York City has a municipal budget of $65 billion dollars with over 200,000 employees. This is greater than most states and many nations. Mr. de Blasio has never built a business, created jobs, met a payroll, balanced a multibillion dollar budget or managed any significant agencies with large numbers of employees. His ego, just like those of predecessors Mark Green and Betsy Gotbaum, is using this office as a stepping stone to run for mayor. He brings no real qualifications for the second toughest job in America.

Larry Penner Great Neck, LI Editor’s Note: This letter was written before Wednesday’s New York Times story alleging fundraising violations by the John Liu campaign.

No convention center Dear Editor: Jack Friedman, executive director of the Queens Chamber of Commerce, has it all wrong in advocating building a convention center at Willets Point (“Let’s build a convention center here in Queens,” Opinion, Oct. 6, multiple editions). Apart from the fact that Mayor Bloomberg’s Willets Point proposal will destroy hundreds of small

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Allegations about Liu e already knew that City Comptroller John Liu’s campaign broke the law repeatedly by plastering illegal campaign signs and stickers all over the city — and then trying to weasel out of over $500,000 in fines on a technicality.

But now comes far worse news, courtesy of The New York Times: It appears his campaign team has been taking illegal donations, including some from people who deny making them, and some from people who may not even exist.

Liu, of course, denies any wrongdoing and says he will return any illegal contributions. But the Times story documents a disturbing pattern for a man who wants to be the city’s next mayor, raising serious questions of trust. We hope he clears these questions up better than he has the illegal sign problem, for which he still hasn’t paid the fines. He owes the city that much at least.

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businesses; throw to the wind the livelihood of thousands of workers and their dependents; make a mockery of what has always been a proper use of eminent domain — all for the benefit of fat cat real estate moguls and their political friends at considerable taxpayer cost — there is no legitimate basis for a convention center in Queens.

Given the fact taxpayers of this city and state are committed to spending $1.4 billion to enlarge The Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, what ONLINE is the purpose of another 400,000Miss an editorial or square-foot conletter cited by a writer? vention center in Want news from our Queens? other editions covering Mr. Friedman the rest of Queens? Find should read an past reports, news from article that across the borough and appeared in The more at qchron.com.

Metro Section of The New York Times on Jan. 18, 2005, citing a Brookings Institution report finding there exists a glut of convention space throughout this country. Included in the report was the following: “In an environment where every major center around the country is sharply dis-

counting rental rates or giving space away and throwing in incentives, the likelihood of any [center] succeeding, is remarkably thin.”

If I were to describe a convention center in Queens at taxpayer cost as being a foolish idea, I could be accused of being too generous. If, of course, Mr. Friedman and his rich business constituents are so sure a convention center in Queens is such a great idea and a sure money maker, nothing prevents them from using their own money to acquire vacant land and have their own convention center constructed.

One need not speculate whether the Chamber of Commerce would support a convention center if its members were to foot the bill.

Benjamin M. Haber Flushing

The U.S. and Europe Dear Editor: It amazes me that some European countries have embraced Warren Buffett’s message on taxes but that there is mainly criticism and skepticism here at home!

How does one explain this split?

Eugene Forsyth Flushing

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Speak up right away Dear Editor: Every time an animal or child is abused, people come out of the woodwork to tell you their story of the times they heard screaming, crying, blatant abuse. Never once do they say they called 911 or the ASPCA, like they don’t know that calls can remain anonymous anyway. Then they get their names in the newspaper once it’s too late. Does the publicity let them sleep at night?

What’s the point? It won’t bring the kid’s or animal’s life back. Maybe if they called sometime before a killing, the victim would still be alive. To me these people are just as disgusting as the abuser. How can people live with themselves listening to such cruelty?

If you can’t stand up and open your mouth for the rights of others, then shut up. No one wants to hear from you. You’re an accomplice, plain and simple. Shame on you.

Joan Silaco Queens Village

For a diverse FDNY Dear Editor: I want to thank Fire Department Commissioner Salvatore Cassano and the FDNY for allowing my office to participate in the recent two-month recruitment drive, which led to over 75 Southeast Queens’ residents filing for the upcoming firefighter exam.

Representatives of the FDNY’s recruitment unit were placed in my St. Albans district off ice every Monday and Tuesday over those two months to assist residents who wanted to become firefighters enlist online.

Additionally, I want to thank the members of the FDNY’s Vulcan Society, who have been instrumental in helping my office to raise awareness about the need to diversify the Fire Department. It is my hope that future recruitment drives will build on the steps the FDNY took this time, which included a million-dollar ad campaign in ethnic newspapers and radio. As a result of the FDNY having recruiters stationed in my office during this drive, many young Southeast Queens’ men and women had an opportunity to file for the upcoming exam.

Oftentimes, the recruiters were able to engage our youth about the benef its of public service in the FDNY just by being visible at a recruitment table stationed on the sidewalk in front of my Far mers Boulevard office. With the use of social networking and advertisements, word spread in the community and we saw parents bringing in groups of young men to sign up. In fact, many young men were still coming to my office to sign up for the test well after the recruiters left. Without a doubt, we now know that true diversity can be achieved in the FDNY with the right marketing and community outreach, along with a fair exam.

I have been an ardent supporter for diversifying the ranks of the FDNY, also working with the Vulcan Society to introduce legislation that would address the lack of diversity in the department via a credit for applicants educated in the city.

Leroy Comrie City Councilman for the 27th District Deputy Majority Leader St. Albans

Our new playground Dear Editor: I just read with a great deal of sadness about the destruction of the playground in Alley Pond Park in Oakland Gardens by a possible arsonist (“Police seek arsonist in playground fire,” Oct. 6, Northeast Queens edition). I just can’t understand why someone could do such a thing. There are children who have looked forward to going there and parents were happy that the playground was a safe place where their children could go.

But when one playground is destroyed another rises. For as one falls to hate, another rises out of love for the children. In Douglaston a new playground has just been built and is now called, “Peaceful Playground.” It is a place where children can run, play, slide and swing. This project was the result of a collaboration of efforts by Divine Wisdom Catholic Academy and St. Anastasia parish. I am a parishioner at St. Anastasia and also grand knight of St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus Council #5911 and have seen this playground firsthand.

The playground is housed in a park-like setting, includes new equipment and incorporates a child-friendly area, grotto area, benches and a handmade statue of the Blessed Mother and Jesus as a little boy.

Made possible through donations from community merchants, parishioners and Divine Wisdom alumni, the playground was dedicated in mid-September.

Let me further add, that the site is meant to enhance physical and motor skill development of the school’s students as well as promote an anti-bully message. This truly is a beautiful place to behold. Please check it out. It is located on 245th Street and Northern Boulevard in Douglaston.

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Illegal job takers Dear Editor: While you are crying there are no jobs, hundreds of thousands of people in New York are going to work every day and earning a salary.

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City scores historic ID bust 111 in five alleged rings indicted; 86 arrested What began in Ozone Park in 2009 as a relatively routine investigation into an identity theft culminated last week in what authorities are calling the largest single take-down of identity theft operations in U.S. history.

The Queens District Attorney’s Office and the NYPD on Friday announced 111 indictments in the case. DA Richard Brown and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said 86 defendants had been arrested as of Friday morning, with an additional 25 still at large.

All 111 are believed to be members of five operations, all based in Queens.

“This is by far the largest — and certainly among the most sophisticated — identity theft/credit card fraud cases that law enforcement has come across,” Brown said.

The group is believed to be responsible for the theft of $13 million over 16 months.

Search warrants executed last week at 15 locations throughout New York City and Long Island allegedly netted $650,000 in cash, seven handguns, a box truck full of electronic equipment, shoes, watches, computers, card readers and embossers, and raw materials for manufacturing forged credit cards and fake identifications.

Brown said the investigation, called Operation Swiper, began in October 2009 with an investigation by the NYPD’s Identity Theft Squad and his own office’s

Economic Crimes Bureau.

The trail eventually led to Florida, California and Puerto Rico, with suspects having ties to Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Forged credit cards and documents were used by organized groups to purchase merchandise across the country, including at area establishments such as the Queens Center mall in Elmhurst and Roosevelt Field in Garden City, LI. In the announcement of the arrests, authorities said in some cases bank tellers, store employees and restaurant workers took credit card information which was used to forge new credit cards, and official documents such as New York State drivers’ licenses, which then fueled lavish lifestyles.

“Many of the defendants charged today are accused of going on nationwide shopping sprees, staying at five-star hotels, renting luxury cars and private jets and purchasing tens of thousands of dollars worth of high-end electronics and expensive handbags and jewelry with forged credit cards that contained the account information of unsuspecting customers,” he said.

He added that even after the suspects are prosecuted, the victims will still have a difficult time repairing their credit ratings.

“These weren’t holdups at gunpoint, but the impact on the victims was the

same,” Kelly said. “They were robbed.”

Some of the suspects also allegedly have ties to other crimes in the area, such as conspiracy to commit bank robbery in Forest Hills; the theft of more than $95,000 in cargo from Kennedy Airport; and the theft of approximately $850,000 worth of computer equipment from the Citigroup Building in Long Island City.

Surveillance including court-approved wiretaps and electronic eavesdropping intercepted thousands of conversations, some of which required translation from Russian, Mandarin and Arabic, investigators said.

The schemes allegedly began with skimmers who worked in stores, restaurants, bars and banks using machines to swipe customers’ information, and then passing that information on to their bosses, named in the indictments as Imran Khan, Ali Khweiss, Anthony Martin, Sanjay (Rocky) Deowsarran and Amar Singh.

The bosses then would send stolen account numbers to manufacturers who would transfer the information to magnetic strips on blank credit cards. In one case a lawyer is accused of helping clients commit new crimes and avoid prosecution.

Completed cards were sent to shopping crews who allegedly operated throughout the country. Some of those charged are accused of working with more than one of Q the organizations.

DV Walk to aid abused Oct. 16 Domestic violence is a common problem facing women today, with females constituting 85 percent of victims, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Yet oftentimes victims remain silent due to fears of retaliation and not knowing where to get help.

On Sunday, Oct. 16, POWERS Inc., a nonprofit organization devoted to helping victims of abuse, is sponsoring a domestic violence walk to raise awareness about the escalating issue and provide resources to suffering victims. Other sponsors are JESSICA Cares and Equinox Fitness Clubs.

The first annual DV Walk to Restore will take place from 9 a.m. to noon in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Participants are encouraged to register for the event, which costs $10 per person, in advance online at powersinc.org or by calling 1 (866) 9749533. Registration is also available in person on Sunday at 9 a.m. at Ederle Terrace on Meadow Lake, where participants will gather for the one-and-ahalf mile walk.

“We want everyone to come to our walk,” Steven Walerstein, executive director of POWERS Inc., told “Today” anchor David Ushery this past Sunday.

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iGotYa! Phone snaps photo of alleged thief

Residents apply for casino jobs in droves

23-year-old Ozone Pk. man arrested

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A picture is worth a thousand words.

Or, in this case, an arrest.

Brian Chattoo, 23, of Ozone Park, was snagged by the NYPD last Friday after police say the iPhone he allegedly stole from a mom walking on Liberty Avenue

Police say Brian Chattoo was arrested after the phone he allegedly stole snapped a PHOTO COURTESY NYPD photo of him.

snapped his photo once he unwittingly activated an anti-crime app called iGotYa when trying to unlock the device.

Chattoo’s attorney, John Russo, did not respond to requests for comment, though he did tell the Daily News that police had mistakenly identified his client as the thief.

Chattoo has pleaded not guilty to charges of grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

According to police, Chattoo was walking along Liberty Avenue on Monday, Oct. 3 when he allegedly bumped into a 31-year-old woman, reached into her front right pocket and removed her black iPhone.

When the alleged thief tried to unlock the phone, it took a photo of the 23-yearold and emailed it to the owner.

The victim, also an Ozone Park resident, brought the photograph to investigators and identified the person pictured as the man who bumped into her.

Police from the 106th Precinct said they aw, standing in front of his house, the man shown on a wanted poster. When the officers approached him, he entered the residence and refused to come out, police Q said. Eventually, he surrendered.

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More than 35,000 New York residents have applied for the 1,350 permanent positions that Resorts World Casino New York City is creating at the Aqueduct racino in South Ozone Park, according to data released by the company last week.

About 1,000 applicants have been hired to work at the casino that is expected to open by the end of October, 73 percent of whom are from Queens.

“These incredible figures confirm that these jobs are a much needed boost to our community and New York state,” said Michael Speller, president of RWCNYC. “The current challenges to The casino at Aqueduct is expected to open by FILE PHOTO job seekers are very real, and we are the end of October. proud to be able to offer opportunities to company is calling its Times Square thousands of New Yorkers. We will con- Casino.

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Should there be a new security company patrolling the streets of Lindenwood?

That question dominated much of the discussion at the Lindenwood Alliance’s meeting Monday night.

More than 75 residents packed the meeting room at the Rockwood Park Jewish Center in Howard Beach to discuss the status of their private security company.

Phoenix Security has been patrolling parts of Lindenwood since 2002. The company has two patrol vehicles and monitors the area 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

At the meeting, Joann Ariola, co-president of the Lindenwood Alliance, said that she and co-president Christina Gold met on Oct. 3 with the Council of Presidents of the Lindenwood Condos and Co-ops, Debbie Velez of Phoenix Security, and Pam Goldstein, president of the community Neighborhood Crime Prevention group, which oversees the patrol.

Ariola told the audience that many residents’ concerns were discussed, including the fact that Phoenix does not have a contract to patrol all the condos and co-ops in Lindenwood. She asked Phoenix to put together a proposal and submit it to the alliance at their next meeting.

“We want to have security in this community, and we want accountability for that security,” Ariola said.

Neither Phoenix nor Neighborhood Crime Prevention sent representatives to the meeting. Nor did either answer requests for comment.

A more pressing need for private security to patrol all of the Lindenwood community was noted by Ariola since the Police Department has yet to make a determination of the number of additional police officers, if any at all, who will be assigned to the 106th Precinct to cover the area around the Resorts World New York Casino at Aqueduct in South Ozone Park.

Ariola said that also discussed at the Council of Presidents meeting was the possibility of putting out a request for proposals to security companies that could then be presented to the co-op and condo boards and individual homeowners.

“Why do we need NCP, especially when [Goldstein] doesn’t want to come here and she doesn’t want to have any accountability,” Ariola said, adding “it would have been nice to go with Phoenix because they’re already existing, [but] with their absence here tonight, I don’t know that they’re showing a real interest in us.”

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ometimes, it’s easy to believe in angels. They seemed to fill Russo’s on the Bay on Tuesday, when Angels on the Bay held its annual benefit ball to raise money for chronically ill and disabled children in Queens. Howard Beach’s own national singing sensation Pia Toscano performed during the event that honored a woman many call an angel — Mary Napolitano. Napolitano was a former board member of Angels on the Bay and a longtime Howard Beach resident who died in June after a long battle with cancer.

The event’s guests were entertained by Toscano, a finalist on the most recent season of “American Idol,” and the bands Current Affair and The Projekt, Q all of whom wowed the crowd.

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The singing sensation was happily surprised with a birthday cake shaped like an Ugg boot.

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Parents blast city over lack of gym Agree with Liu’s audit that schools fall short of providing physical ed

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not getting the exercise they need.”

The situation at PS 90 is not an anomaly in the city, according to the findings of the audit Liu released last week. The comptroller, formerly the councilman from Flushing, reported that students in a number of elementary schools, including in Queens, are not receiving physical education as frequently or for the minimum number of minutes required by the state.

Additionally, Liu said, while about 40 percent of students in the city are obese or overweight, the DOE has not filed a physical education plan with the state since 1982.

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Queens parents who have long complained about what they say is the city’s failure to provide adequate gym time and space felt vindicated last week after city Comptroller John Liu released an audit that reported the city Department of Education is not meeting state requirements for physical education in many of its schools.

“The students at PS 90 are getting 45 minutes of gym a week,” said Edith Rivera, president of the Parent Teacher Association at PS 90 in Richmond Hill. “The kids are

“The DOE has failed to give students the legally required amount of physical education and failed to follow its own recommendations for fighting high rates of childhood obesity,” Liu said in a prepared statement.

“The DOE is failing gym.”

DOE spokeswoman Marge Feinberg said the city has made a concerted effort to fight childhood obesity.

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She added, however, that officials know they “have more work to do.”

“The comptroller’s recommendations coincide with our ongoing efforts to improve the quality of physical education instruction in our schools, including work on a district plan, providing better communication with schools about state requirements and building upon our partnerships with outside organizations,” Feinberg wrote.

The comptroller’s office visited 31 elementary schools in the city, including six in Queens, and found that not one of them met state physical education regulations for all grades. About 6 percent of the audited schools came “anywhere near” offering the required amount of gym to their students, according to the audit.

Liu found that PS 21 in Flushing, PS 79 in Whitestone and PS 95 in Jamaica met none of the state’s gym requirements. PS 161 in Jamaica, PS 268 in Jamaica and PS 121 in South Ozone Park met some of the state’s regulations.

Part of the problem in many of the schools is a lack of gym space. Brenda Ward, the principal at PS 273 in Richmond Hill has said her elementary school, built within the past several years, has no gym — nor money for a gym teacher. A number of educators have said that many of the new elementary schools being built in Queens don’t include a gym.

Rivera, at PS 90, said she has been fighting to get the city to build a gym at her son’s school for the past two years. Students at the Richmond Hill institution now use the cafeteria as a gym.

Because of the limited space, they engage in physical education for about 45 minutes a week, which falls short of the state’s requirement that pupils in kindergarten through third grade must participate in daily gym activities for at least two hours a week.

“Gym is good for them,” Rivera said. “It shouldn’t just be focusing on work, work work, study, study, study for them. They exercise to burn their energy so they can focus better on education.”

Jeannette Segal, president of Community Education Council 26, which includes many schools in northern Queens, said it is important for parents to also encourage their children to exercise outside of school.

“It comes down to the parents going out and involving their children in sports when the schools don’t provide gym,” she said.

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The Ozone Park Civic Association will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. at 97-14 135th Drive.

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ish striking employees by building a plant in South Carolina and closing the one in Washington. The NLRB agrees and is seeking to block production in South Carolina.

The Republican-backed bill, whichpassed the House 238-186, would bar the NLRB from ordering a company to close or relocate, or blocking a relocation, even if it has violated a labor law. They believe the NLRB has a prounion agenda.

“The NLRB cited Boeing and now the case will go to court,” Lancman said, claiming that Turner wants to weaken the NLRB to protect the company, not the workers.

On the state level, Lancman, a Hillcrest resident in office for five years, said that redistricting is a thorny issue. “Time is running out for an independent redistricting panel, so expect either a grand compromise with a negotiated resolution or someone will bring a lawsuit,” Lancman said.

The negotiations, he continued, could be done by keeping contiguous areas together, for political reasons or on a population basis. He expects some preliminary district lines to be outlined in mid-November.

However, the number of Assembly districts will remain the same. That is not the case for Congressional seats in New York, which will lose two due to slower population growth than in other states. The state government is mandated to redraw the lines.

“By Turner winning, it completely upset the idea of ending the 9th Congressional District,” Lancman added.

One of his bills he is actively pushing is the Institutional Investor Recovery Act. Lancman explained that it would give power to the state and city comptrollers to go after public and union pension fund fraud.

“Through the Martin Act, the state attorney general can go after financial fraud,” he said. “That’s why Cuomo, Spitzer and Schneiderman as attorneys general are called the ‘sheriffs of Wall Street.’”

Lancman’s act would extend the power to the comptrollers.

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Of all the Assembly districts in Queens, Rory Lancman’s 25th is one of the most diverse, with constituents ranging from Orthodox Jews and Muslims to Indo-Caribbeans and East Asians.

During a sitdown with the Queens Chronicle on Friday, Lancman discussed his district as well as a wide range of other topics affecting his neighborhoods and Queens in general.

The 25th District runs from Flushing through part of Briarwood all the way south to Richmond Hill. “There is no core,” he said. “You have to represent each neighborhood as its own little district.”

He indicated that among their top concerns, the Chinese and Koreans in his area are interested in helping their senior citizens, while the Indo-Caribbeans in Richmond Hill want to develop cultural institutions and are concerned about the public schools.

“Everyone cares about schools and the economy, but crime is not a big issue here,” the assemblyman said.

Already a critic of newly elected Congressman Bob Turner (R-Brooklyn, Queens), Lancman did not hesitate to talk about his own future intentions. “If the district lines stay the way they are, a Democrat has to run and I wouldn’t shy away from it,” he said. “My experience is translatable to serve in Congress. We’ll see what happens.”

Once Congressman Anthony Weiner left office, Lancman’s name was mentioned as a possible candidate to replace him, but the county Democrats picked Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Little Neck), who lost to Turner.

Lancman is now criticizing Turner for backing a bill prompted by a dispute between the government and aircraft manufacturer Boeing that would take away some authority from the National Labor Relations Board. He contends that the Boeing Company in Washington state decided to pun-

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“It would unleash lawyers to get to the bottom of what happened,” Lancman said, referring to pension fund discrepancies.

But he said there has been a lot of resistance from the business community and the bill “is the number one target” for them to try to kill.

On gambling, Lancman favors the expansion of casinos in the state because it will help the economy, including Queens. “Millions of New Yorkers gamble in Atlantic City, Connecticut or Las Vegas,” he said. “There’s no sense to denying it here if they can do it legally two hours away.”

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Comptroller promises to return any money not raised properly

by Liz Rhoades Msanaging Editor

City Comptroller John Liu of Flushing has promised to return any questionable money raised through his fundraising efforts after an in-depth story on his campaign f inance reports was published Wednesday.

In a late-afternoon phone conversation on Wednesday, Liu told the Queens Chronicle that he has always made his rules clear and simple to campaign workers: “complete compliance with the Campaign Finance Board.”

The New York Times, however, researched campaign contributions made to Liu for a lengthy story. Alleged illegalities included business owners providing donations in the names of employees and persons filling out donor cards for multiple donors.

Calls to Ming Kun Lee, president of Dynasty Stainless Steel in Maspeth, were not returned. He was listed in the story as one of nine from the firm who contributed. The discrepancies included that all the donors’ cards were filled out in the same handwriting, some who were listed do not work for the company and some said they never gave at all.

Liu said although the donor cards may be filled out by the same person, “the personal checks and signatures on the cards are different and I have copies of their signed personal checks.”

The story also alleges that Liu’s campaign engaged in bundling, whereby individuals collected contributions from friends, relatives and others, but without Liu disclosing the

bundlers’ names, which is required.

Liu said the names are being added now, and that “some issues raised in the story will be addressed.”

He indicated he was not surprised at the story “since the comptroller is under heavy scrutiny and that’s why we tried to dot all the I’s and cross the T’s” in campaign funding reports.

The comptroller, who announced recently that he had raised $1 million in the first six months of the year, is expected to run for mayor in 2013. He began his political career as the city councilman from Flushing in 2001 and was elected comptroller in 2009.

He told the Chronicle he would conduct an internal investigation and return any illegal contributions. That promise was also made by Chung Seto, Liu’s consultant and campaign manager when he ran for comptroller.

In an email to the Chronicle, Seto said the following: “The campaign has over 2,100 donors who are vetted and documented. We promptly furnished copies of signed personal checks and signed donor forms to the Times for the relatively small number of donors in question, who we will review in further detail.

We do not want nor do we need any contributions that are inappropriate or noncompliant.”

Liu also indicated in the story that some of the donations were made by people new to the American political system who pretended ignorance to reporters because they didn’t want to discuss it.

A large photograph accompanied the

Times story, showing Liu with unnamed Asian Americans at a Manhattan party in September. The Queens Chronicle identified Wellington Chen, executive director of the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corp., who was standing next to him.

Chen, who lives in Douglaston, previously worked in Flushing with the development firm TDC, served on Community Board 7 and is a CUNY trustee. Reached Wednesday by phone, Chen said he has never donated to any political campaign and merely was at a Fukinese association dinner in Chinatown earlier this year, when the photo was taken.

“I have nothing to do with Liu and he usually stays away from me because in the past he thought I would be a political rival, which is not true,” he said.

Referring to the story, Chen said Liu is an aggressive candidate and as such is likely to become a target for investigation. “You can always find holes in anyone’s campaign,” he added.

Tyler Cassell, president of the North Flushing Civic Association, agrees. “There are probably improprieties in other campaigns,” Cassell said. “I’m surprised about it with Liu, but there is trouble in Flushing with the English language when filling out donor cards,” he added, referring to many Asian residents.

Cassell succeeded Liu as president of the civic when he became a councilman. Liu served as president of the group for eight or nine years, Cassell said, “and he was always a

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One political activist from Queens who asked not to be named indicated that in an official investigation of such possible wrongdoing, it would be difficult to draw the line to Liu. “It’s a stretch because the work was probably done by campaign workers,” the person said.

But Queens Republican Party spokesman Robert Hornak had a harsher view. “It doesn’t give you a great deal of comfort that the New York City comptroller can’t keep his campaign books straight,” Hornak said.

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Frank Lapetina outside his store on Linden Boulevard, and checking out some of his PHOTOS BY ANDREW BENJAMIN extensive stock.

by Andrew Benjamin Chronicle Contributor

Frank Lapetina Sr., 52, of Howard Beach is “trying to change East New York one block at a time.” He’s not doing it by running for office or leading protests in the street. Instead, he is hammering nails and fixing buildings. Lapetina is the owner of Affordable Building Materials, a familyrun home improvement supply store on Linden Boulevard, just over the QueensBrooklyn border.

Lapetina first had a mason supply store on Fountain Avenue but he decided to broaden his horizons into the home improvement business. He chose the spot of a defunct gas station, bought the property and started building the store in the summer of this year. The 5,500-square-foot store was finished and ready to open in only three months.

East New York has a sour reputation due to its high crime rates. But having grown up in the area, Lapetina saw an opportunity to turn the community around by helping businesses renovate.

“It used to be, when I first started coming here, there were shootouts every day and nobody even wanted to drive down the boulevard,” he said.

“Now you have a mall that’s built on Fountain Avenue. You have stores and businesses that are expanding. … We’re putting resources into the neighborhood to build it up into something that is viable for the community.”

One of the properties he helped renovate was a car wash on Fountain Avenue. The property was at first an ugly abandoned bank. When it had been f inished and turned into a car wash, it was able to bring business to the depressed area.

“That car wash brightened up the neighborhood,” Lapetina said, adding that now, “people are doing business here instead of just passing by. The businesses

along here are doing better now than they did years ago.”

The owner of the store next to Affordable Building Materials, Shop Smart Supermarket, was impressed enough to request Lapetina’s expertise to expand his business too. The plan is to increase the square footage to about 8,000 or 9,000.

Lapetina is going to help him find a contractor.

As for regular homeowners who might need to touch up their homes, Lapetina promises that unlike bigger stores that are in the same business as his, his customers will get the attention and help they need.

“If you go into a supermarket type of environment for building materials, you get the supermarket effect. You walk around with a shopping cart and, if you don’t know what you want, there’s nobody to ask,” he said.

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roughly 540,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually, equivalent to removing 120,000 cars from local roads, according to the collaborative’s website.

An earlier proposal for offshore wind farms in August 2007 off the coast of Jones Beach on Long Island was terminated due to concerns from local groups protesting the close vicinity of the windmills to the shore, coupled with rising technological costs at the time. But the agencies in the collaborative say this one would bring another benefit of greater concern today.

“The project is expected to boost the job market,” said Clendenin. “It is worthwhile and will create quite a few jobs.”

In fact, the collaborative estimates 2,300 to 4,700 job openings once the plan is enacted and the wind farm is set to be built.

As for the danger to birds, another concern with wind turbines, Hendrick said he does not see a problem, as the facility would be far enough off the coast that fly zones for migrating birds would not be disrupted. One major avian flyway goes right through Jamaica Bay. “They tend to hug the shoreline,” Hendrick said.

If the lease is approved, the project could start as early as 2017, , Hendrick said, adding, “With everyone using cell phones and other forms of technology these days, Q we’re going to need more energy.”

The Long Island-New York City Offshore Wind Collaborative has filed an offshore land lease application with the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, taking a big step in bringing wind energy to New York City and Long Island.

The New York Power Authority, Long Island Power Authority and Con Edison have all come together to propose an offshore windmill farm in the Atlantic Ocean 15 miles off the Rockaway Peninsula.

With help from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is backing the initiative, the project has f inally moved on to the approval process.

“We are massive supporters of this project,” said Dan Hendrick, communications director of the New York League of Conservative Voters. “This is great news for the region.”

Michael Clendenin of Con Edison said “It’s something people have been talking about for a while.”

It is hoped that the offshore windmill farm, though costly, can provide efficient energy for the entire region without further depleting the Earth’s ozone layer.

If the application passes and the project gets running, having a reliable source of energy could even obviate the need to bring in energy from upstate New York.

“New York has fantastic wind resources,” Hendrick said. “It is in the top 10 for wind resources in the country.”

The collaboration is taking advantage of the vast amounts of wind energy, but it comes with a steep price.

The expected cost of a 3 5 0 - m e g aw a t t p r o j e c t , which would power roughly 112,000 homes, is $415 million, while an upgrade to 700 megawatts would cost an additional $406 million.

The offshore wind project, designed for 350 MW, with the possibility of expanding to 700 MW, would become the largest offshore wind farm in the country.

Not all are certain the project would be beneficial, however.

Recently elected Rep. Bob Turner (R-Queens and Brooklyn) said the “efficacy of wind farms might need more study.”

Turner said he wants to see further research on the wind farms off the coast of Europe before the United States puts a great deal of money into funding one here.

Studies have shown that the implementation of the Offshore wind turbines like these could be coming to the PHOTO COURTESY WIKIPEDIA wind farm would displace Atlantic Ocean off the Rockaways.

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Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) this week introduced a resolution calling for city public schools to incorporate the history of the gay rights movement into their curriculum with a press conference Tuesday on the steps of City Hall.

Dromm said the curriculum should begin in kindergarten “as part of a natural discussion” that is not about sex, but rather that demonstrates people of different sexual orientations exist, have accomplished great things and deserve the same rights and respect as everyone else.

The openly gay lawmaker also believes lessons should include the social, political and artistic contributions of notable lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals such as Bayard Rustin, Harvey Milk, Stephen Sondheim, Walt Whitman, Truman Capote, James Baldwin and Gertrude Stein. Dromm added that excluding them is “dishonest and inaccurate.”

“A biography of the life of Harvey Milk should be on the bookshelves of every school,” Dromm said. “We need to teach kids the truth. The LGBT community has contributed to the history of this nation.”

Milk was the first openly gay person elected to public office. He was later assassinated.

When Dromm came out of the closet in 1973 at the age of 17, he said, it was very difficult. “Back then it was still considered a mental disorder,” he recalled. Dromm credited the support of his mother for helping him cope with the sensitive situation; his father had died some time earlier.

October is LGBT Month and Dromm announced his plan on National Coming Out Day. It is supported by fellow openly gay City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) and others.

“Through education, we can create a greater understanding of our diverse city, and make our schools a safer place for all young people including LGBT youth, many of whom endure

endless bullying,” Van Bramer said in a prepared statement.

Some 84.6 percent of LGBT students were verbally harassed at school because of their sexual orientation, according to the 2009 National School Climate Survey conducted by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, cited by Dromm. The survey also said that 40.1 percent of students were physically abused at school over the last year because of their sexual orientation and 27.2 percent because of which sex one comes across as, Dromm noted.

“Discrimination hurts,” he said, “and we have to get rid of it wherever we find it.”

The lawmaker said the changing of school history lessons would not cost the Department of Education additional money, because the agency is constantly buying new textbooks that are always being revised as events happen and changes occur.

Dromm, a former public school teacher for 25 years, said history lessons are often taught according to themes, and he believes LGBT history could be explained along with the black civil rights movement and women’s suffrage. It would provide both positive role models for LGBT youth and help prevent the perpetuation of homosexual stereotypes, Dromm said.

A spokeswoman for the DOE said schools’ curriculum already includes discussions of many of the works by Sondheim, Capote, Whitman and Baldwin. She also noted that two city schools are named after gay pioneers — Rustin and Milk.

In addition, she said, the DOE has a Respect for All program that aims to help students embrace the differences in each other.

Annette Bradley, a former early childhood education teacher at York College for 16 years, supports Dromm’s proposal, calling it a “healthy” way to integrate the curriculum.

“I think children would benefit from that,” Bradley, who is African-American, said Tuesday. “How long can we keep gay people locked away? It’s akin to the civil rights movement — if we keep at them at the back of the bus, they’re invisible. There are so many horror stories about gay people being attacked.”

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City Councilman Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) said he supports Dromm’s plan if it is done in a way that educators can agree upon, adding “It is better to learn about different things that exist in the world rather than to be surprised by them.” Q

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position. The controversial plan to extract natural gas involves using a lot of water, sand and chemicals to release it from dense rock. Opponents say the process could contaminate water.

The process would be used upstate and Lancman wants to know if it will harm the New York City watershed. “Do the state guidelines sufficiently protect the watershed?” he asked. “There should be no compromise on that.”

He’s also outspoken on the city school system, saying it’s better than it was under the former school district governance, but is totally under the mayor’s

control now and not always for the best.

“Overcrowding is a serious conc e r n ,” h e s a i d . “ T h e c i t y h a s n ’t made it a priority.”

He also is wary of the themed, smaller high schools that are replacing larger, failing schools. “It’s the fad of the moment,” Lancman said. “Why can’t the principal and teachers at a failing school do a good job?

“Kids need to get educated,” he added. “What they are doing smacks of rear ranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.”

The result is many of these new schools are underused, Lancman indicated, and the more popular schools, like Francis Lewis, are extremely overQ crowded.

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Instead he has gone around the world advocating for peace and has written a book about his inspiring mission entitled “I Shall Not Hate: a Gaza Doctor’s Journey” which he will talk about at Forest Hills Jewish Center on Sunday, Nov. 13.

In a conversation with Mark Rosenblum, director of the Queens College Jewish Studies program, the Noble Peace prize nominee will discuss the experience of seeing three of his daughters, aged 13, 15, and 20, and a 17-yearold niece killed when Israeli shells bombarded his home in Gaza in January 2009, during a three-week conflict sparked by militants’ rockDr. Izzeldin Abuelaish will speak at Forest Hills et fire into Israel.

Shortly after the bombing he brought the Jewish Center next month about becoming a devastating loss to the homes of Israeli citi- messenger of peace after seeing his three zens by appearing on national television. daughters killed in the 2009 conflict in Gaza.

PHOTO COURTESY CENTRAL QUEENS Y Months later, he began a call for peace in the intractable conflict, encouraging people in the Middle East to talk to each other to help ease provides scholarships for girls to study at unitensions between Israel and the Palestinians. versities throughout the Middle East.

“Dr. Abuelaish is reaching out to bridge the The event will commence at 7 p.m. at the gap, one human being to others, as he has center, located at 106-06 Queens Blvd. Tickets been doing all his life,” said can be purchased in advance Peggy Kurtz, the head libraronline, by phone, or through ian at Hevesi Jewish Hertithe mail for $10, or at the man who saw his door for $12. Light refreshage Library of the Central Queens Y, which is sponsorments will also be served. three daughters ing Abuelaish’s speech. The Kurtz said the Central Central Queens Y is a nonQueens Y feels strongly die in war. prof it community center about the importance of this offering recreational, educaevent and Abuelaish’s viewtional, cultural and social events to enhance point that all people, despite their religious or the quality of life for residents of Central political beliefs, should be treated equally.

Queens.

“His message has been that the real enemy Abuelaish will discuss his life growing up is ignorance, a dehumanization of others and in a refugee camp in Gaza and being in the an inability to understand them,” she said. “He midst of the lines that divide Israelis and believes the future must be about tolerance, Palestinians, as a physician treating patients of dignity, respect and an embracing of our uniboth descents and as a humanitarian who sees versal humanity and interconnectedness.” improved health and education for women as She added, “He’s not saying that he has all the way forward for the Middle East. To the answers. But he’s saying that we need to promote this goal, he created a foundation stop demonizing each other, to see each other Q in 2010 called Daughters for Peace, which as human beings.”

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RICHMOND HILL HS SPOTLIGHT Students participate in Virtual Enterprise program

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paign called “Advertising Futures” for the sixth year in a row. This year, students DaShon Hines, Christina Jagdeo, Sangeeta Bhoj, Cristy Bonilla and Jasmine Edwards worked with the international advertising firm Y & R to create an ad that would promote the concept that teenagers be more active physically.

The Advertising Futures Competition, a part of Advertising Week, is the largest and most prestigious annual gathering of advertising and media industry leaders in North America. Advertising Futures is a program that connects the Ad Council and major Madison Avenue advertising agencies and VE students to create an advertising campaign. The winning team Ad is featured in the New York Times and posted on a billboard on 42nd Street.

The students, who are seniors at Richmond Hill High School, have been part of the Virtual Enterprise/Travel and Tourism program since tenth grade and as part of the program, the students have worked in paid summer internships in hotels and businesses around New York, become Microsoft Certif ied and taken college classes in business.

“Participating in this ad campaign and working with a creative team from Y & R has been an amazing and rewarding learning experience,” said Sangeeta Bhoj, who worked in a summer internship at Long Island City Partnership where she worked assisting administrators there with database management. “I never realized how much went into creating ads and how many people were involved in the creative process.”

RHHS students Jasmine Edwards, Cristy Bonilla, DaShon HInes, and Sangeeta Bhoj pose with their teacher, Mr. Frank McCormack, and PHOTOS COURTESY RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL their advertisement.

A close-up of the students advertisment.

DaShon Hines, another senior, said that not only was the process of creating a professional advertisement a remarkable experience, but also that presenting the ad at the competition was a great learning experience. “I have never done a group presentation in front of hundreds of people before and not only was working with the creative team from Y & R inspirational, but also rehearsing and tweaking our presentation helped me learn about public speaking and all that goes into it.”

Previous to this experience, DaShon was planning on pursuing a career in public health, but after this, he has decided to pursue advertising. “I lear ned that I am much more creative than I thought I was and I also love conceptualizing how to sell an idea or product to others. This was by far the best experience I have had in Richmond Hill High School, and I have had many great experiences.” He added that among those great experiences were getting multiple computer certif ications and working at a summer internship at Flushing Town Hall where he worked planning events.

“I am so appreciative that this program exists,” said DaShon, “as it really altered my life plans. This was really a great, great experience.”

For Christina Jagdeo, this was also a phenomenal experience. “I never knew how advertisements were made or all the steps needed to create print ads. Creating

this ad required lots of dedication, hard work and persistence. We started working on the ad the middle of September and had not even three weeks to come up with a concept, slogan and visuals…as well as create a meaningful presentation. Our presentation was five minutes which sounds like a very short time, but we had to be specific about selling our ad to the judges and it is hard to do that in five minutes with five people.

We did g reat, though, and although we didn’t win, we were told that we placed very high.”

“I really have to say that my experiences at Richmond Hill High School have been amazing. I learned so much in the Travel and Tourism Academy, I am now a certif ied expert in Microsoft Office and have four certifications. Also in the Virtual Enterprise program, I am the Vice President of Editorial and Design. I was at one point a very shy person and now lead others.”

Mr. Frank McCormack, who teaches the two Virtual Enter prise classes at Richmond Hill High School, said, “The Advertising Futures Competition is one of the highlights of our Academy of Travel and Hospitality and Virtual Enterprise program. It allows students to apply real business world experience in a high school setting and makes them prepared not only for college but also for the business world at large. Our students Q are indeed ‘career ready.’”

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QUEENS CUISINE Alba Ristorante & Pizzeria 137-65 Queens Blvd., Briarwood (718) 291-1620 Alba has it all! Fine Italian cuisine, excellent service and entertainment. Enjoy delicious dinner specials such as grilled salmon, eggplant rollatini and chicken Francese along with salad and pasta, coffee and cake starting at $19.95.

Bring your dancing shoes every Thursday and Saturday nights for dinner and dancing to the sounds of Francesco Sclafani (Thursday) and Walter Curella (Saturday). Have a birthday party at Alba’s and get a free cake and your picture in the paper. Open seven days a week. Catering available. All major credit cards accepted.

Connolly’s Corner 71-17 Grand Ave., Maspeth (718) 565-7383 Always the neighborhood favorite, Connollly’s serves up the “Best Ribs in Queens,” traditional Irish brunch, fabulously sinful desserts and so much more!

Connolly’s is the place you’ll visit often for a great meal or to catch your favorite games on their HD TV’s while enjoying a cold one or two. Plus their beautiful party room, extensive catering menu and super-attentive staff make this one of the best and most exciting places to host a party in all of Queens!

Visit their website www.connollyscorner.com for some exciting special events, too!

Gyro Grill 63-02 Woodhaven Blvd., Rego Park (718) 779-0900 A happy marriage of health and taste! Savor the Mediterranean flavors of their delicious roasted vegetables, best chicken in Queens grilled to perfection, luscious and gooey

Dining & restaurant guide Baklava, authentic sensational Souvlaki, marvelous multilayered Moussaka and so much more! All this is prepared by their talented Greek chef in just minutes. What else is there to desire? Dine in or take out. Ask about their fabulous catering services, too, or visit their website at www.gyrogrillny.com.

Da Gianni’s Restaurant 21-50 44th Drive, Long Island City (718) 707-0442 A first class Manhattan-style Italian restaurant without the traffic and the high prices. Available for birthday parties, weddings, communions and baby showers.

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Flagship Diner 138-30 Queens Blvd., Briarwood (718) 523-6020 The Flagship Diner continues to welcome their customers as part of the family. The friendly atmosphere and quality food make this the perfect place — 24 hours a day.

Look for the daily specials such as steak night or the shrimp fest. The prices can’t be beat.

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Ben’s Best Kosher Delicatessen 96-40 Queens Blvd., Rego Park (718) 897-1700 or 1 (800) Bens Best At Ben’s Best, the best is all they’ve got. Celebrating 66 years, this one of a kind gourmet Kosher deli and restaurant continues to offer quality food, tradition and service. Highly rated by the Zagat survey.

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Fontana Famous Pizza and Gyro 200-02 Northern Blvd., Bayside (718) 631-0147 Featuring a friendly atmosphere, Fontana Famous Pizza and Gyro is located on the corner of Francis Lewis and Northern boulevards in Bayside and is Queens’ oldest and most popular authentic Greek cuisine restaurant, celebrating its 29th anniversary. The menu features many healthy choice selections including grilled chicken, Greek salads, spinach pie, chicken kabob, Fontana’s famous pizza, Greek soup and much more. Open seven days a week, 11 a.m. to midnight.

Independence Café 94-16 Jamaica Ave., Woodhaven (718) 805-2505 Independence Café is a lovely and cozy café featuring “Grab and Go” meals for commuters as well as hearty “stick to your ribs” homemade breakfasts and lunches.

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Edison Place

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71-28 Cooper Ave., Glendale (718) 821-8401

4-85 47th Rd., Long Island City (718) 606-9786

43-18 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria (718) 204-8766

Easy ambience, remarkably delicious New American cuisine and luscious desserts makes this restaurant everyone’s new favorite!

Edison Place has the feel of an upscale Manhattan tavern but with a great, cozy family feel. You’ll fit right in while enjoying one of their fabulous array of domestic and imported craft beers and spirits. Plus their fun and exciting weekly events will have you coming back every week. This could definitely be your new place to be and be seen!

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Food Cellar and Co. Market has a huge variety of quality, all-natural, organic and gourmet products, including groceries, meats, seafood, dairy, frozen foods, pet foods and more.

Delicious hot and cold foods are prepared daily — breakfast lunch and dinner and a special carving station from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Try the “best pizza in town,” made with Masa Madre (mother dough) an authentic Italian recipe and cooked in a 650 degree brick oven — taste the difference.

Choose from mouth-watering cakes and tarts from the in-house bakery. Shop for all your grocery needs or enjoy the comfort of the Food Cellar and Co. eating area. It’s a food experience.

Open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.

Il Triangolo Restaurant 96-01 Corona Ave., Corona (718) 271-1250 Il Triangolo is family-owned and a family run restaurant a got its name because it is located at the triangle corner where Corona Avenue meets Junction Boulevard in a 1916 historical building. This moderately-priced, charming restaurant is a little piece of Italy right here in Queens.

Il Triangolo offers its customers homemade bread, fettuccini, ravioli, gnocchi and all their desserts. Tomato sauce made fresh daily using only imported products.

Open Tuesday through Thursday and Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Closed Mondays Most major credit cards accepted.

If it’s pizza you want or fine Italian cuisine, try Porto Bello pizzeria restaurant. Porto Bello has something for everyone including a variety of gluten-free and whole wheat pasta dishes and pizza, an extensive wine list and a children’s menu.

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Battle over diversity in the FDNY gets heated Judge to monitor hiring for 10 years; two sides trade barbs over decision

by AnnMarie Costella

lawsuit will submit the names and resumes of individuals they think would be the best The federal judge who ruled that two choice for the monitor position, and then the FDNY entrance exams were biased against judge will select an applicant from that pool. minorities and criticized the lack of diversity After that process is completed, Garaufis will in the department last week imposed further issue a final order, which will lay out the sperestrictions on how new recruits can be hired cific duties of the monitor. There will be a for at least the next decade. comment period to hear the opinions of the U.S. District Judge parties involved in the Nicholas Garaufis has case and a fairness decided that a courthearing wherein the appointed auditor will public can offer its e don’t care if the examine the recruitinput. A salary for the department is all ment, testing and hiring position has not yet of entry-level firefightbeen determined. black or all Asian or ers for at least 10 years.

Paul Washington, That individual will former president of the all women or all also monitor changes Vulcan Society, the white. We just want Garaufis will impose group of black f ireon the post-exam who along with them to be qualified.” fighters screening process, the Justice Department which are designed to launched the lawsuit — FDNY Deputy Chief Paul Mannix both eliminate any that resulted in findings sort of favoritism or of discrimination, nepotism and make sure that the FDNY is hailed Garaufis’ latest decision. following federal law. Mayor Bloomberg “We’re very happy about it,” Washington, and the city’s attorneys were not pleased said. “It’s a logical solution to the evidence with the decision. that was presented. The Fire Department has a “We strongly disagree with the judge’s 150-year history that has never been close to opinion and conclusions, and are reviewing diverse. We are happy to see that with this the draft remedial order,” Corporation Coun- move diversity and the hiring of black firesel Michael Cardozo said in an email state- fighters is about to begin.” ment. “We will respond on Oct. 17, as directed FDNY Deputy Chief Paul Mannix disby the court, and will appeal as soon as the agrees. Mannix, speaking for Merit Matters, a law allows.” group that opposes race-based hiring and not On Oct. 19, everyone who is a party to the the FDNY, said the department has spent $20 Assistant Editor

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million on minority recruitment efforts that patting itself on the back for any little thing date back to 1980 and that it has done every- that they can find and people seem to fall for thing possible to integrate the force and has no it,” Washington said. “The number of blacks reason to apologize. recruited has increased tremendously, but so “I think Judge Garaufis has chosen to has the number of whites and everyone else.” ignore the evidence that does not agree with The department is 89 percent Caucasian, 6 his worldview,” Mannix said. percent Hispanic and 3 percent black, accordLeroy Gadsden, the president of the ing to Frank Dwyer, a spokesman for the Jamaica branch of the NAACP, FDNY. Some 31,014, or 51 agreed with Washington, adding, percent of the 61,439 people “firefighting is the most segrewho registered to take the next gated profession in the most exam are Caucasian. diverse city in the world.”

City Councilman Dan HalHe stated that the lack of loran (R-Whitestone), whose minorities within the FDNY brother is a firefighter, called can be attributed to skewed the new recruitment numbers entrance exams and the history “utterly meaningless,” because and traditions of the department, the important thing is how which excludes blacks. many will pass the exam.

In order to increase minority Halloran said Thursday that interest, the department recently he thinks the judge’s decision beefed up its recruitment efforts, to appoint an auditor is “illogisending officials to places like cal” and “premature” at best, Judge Nicholas Garaufis Harlem and southeast Queens to especially since the city just COURTESY U.S. COURTS help applicants sign up for the recruited nearly three times the next entrance exam, which with minority applicants it has in be given in January and February. the past and just created a new test from Some 14,122 blacks have applied, accord- scratch under the supervision of former U.S. ing to the department, compared to 5,628 in Attorney Mary Jo White, the special master 2007, and 14,110 Hispanics, compared to Garaufis himself appointed.

5,590 for that same year. More than three “He’s searching for a problem for which he times as many women applied this year as did wants to create a solution,” Halloran said. “It’s in 2007 — 4,261 compared to 1,401, accord- bad jurisprudence.” ing to the FDNY. But not everyone is Similarly, Mannix fears that there will be impressed by the increased numbers. added pressure to keep the minority numbers continued on page 35 “It’s an example of the Fire Department OPEN 24 HOURS

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high and, if the exam results donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yield results that suit Garaufis, he will simply toss the test as he has done before, and the process will begin all over again.

And since the FDNY is barred from hiring new recruits, it puts strain on current firefighters, Mannix said, forcing them to work longer hours, which might lead to resentment when new workers are finally able to join the ranks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care if the department is all black or all Asian or all women or all white. We just want them to be qualif ied,â&#x20AC;? Mannix said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are not racist, but we are against diversity for

The Church of the Nazarene in Richmond Hill is sponsoring a free coat drive and coat giveaway for community residents on Saturday, Oct. 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the church, located at the corner of 95th Avenue and 108th Street.

If you are donating a coat, it should be clean and in good condition. If you are in need of a coat, the coats will be distributed on a first come, first served basis.

Q For more information, contact the church at (718) 849-5734.

Fall festival in Ozone Park Councilman Eric Ulrich and the city Parks Department are sponsoring a fall festival from noon to 3 p.m. in Ozone Park on Saturday, Oct. 15.

The event will take place between 81st and 82nd streets.

There will be face painting, a pumpkin patch, fall crafts and a bounce house.

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The first session will be held from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., and the second session will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Only two adults and the prospective student from each family may attend.

After a psychiatric exam by a courtappointed physician, the Astoria bodybuilder who allegedly threw his dog out a window to its death, Milan Rysa, was deemed f it to stand trial on Oct. 7, according to the Queens District Attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office. He is scheduled to appear in court again on Oct. 24 for a pre-trial conference.

Rysa made bail after his Sept. 12 arrest, but remained imprisoned, as is the procedure when such an evaluation is requested, according to Kevin Ryan, a spokesman for DAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office.

The defendant is being held at the Vernon C. Bain Center, a correctional facility

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In another effort to diversify the ranks, Comrie introduced a bill that would give five additional exam points to applicants with a New York City high school diploma or GED, replacing the old residency credit.

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in the Bronx, because he has an outstanding warrant, according to Sean Jones, a spokesman for the DOC, through he said he did not have further information on the reason for the warrant.

Rysa, 30, allegedly tossed his 50-pound shar-pei, Brooklyn, out of his apartment window on Steinway Street at around 8:30 p.m. on the night of the 12th. He is charged with animal cruelty for allegedly killing the animal and second-degree reckless endangerment because the canine nearly struck two women before hitting the pavement. He could face two years in prison if convicted. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; AnnMarie Costella

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FHVAC celebrates 40 years of service Life-saving technology advances, but volunteers’ calling remains the same

by Michael Gannon

hour shifts per month at the Metropolitan Avenue headquarters.

In 1971, John Lindsay was mayor, gas was Among their members are EMTs and 36 cents a gallon and the New York Mets were paramedics from the FDNY. Some voluncelebrating their 10th year of existence. teers are paid professionals who work with And a small group of people in Forest Hills private, commercial or hospital-based was seeking to make their part of Queens a lit- ambulance systems. tle safer to live in.

And others just like helping out.

Since then, the For“Most people come est Hills Volunteer to us for the right reaAmbulance Corps has ueens Chronicle publisher sons,” Wolfe said. answered countless Some, he said, do not Mark Weidler, as well as calls for assistance for even live in Forest Hills those facing accidents, attorney Bryce Friedman, or Rego Park, which trips to the hospital or they took into their covwill be honored at the natural disasters. erage area in 1997, and “I had been an auxilbased on the FHVAC anniversary event. joined iary police officer in group’s reputation. the 112th Precinct Others, such as Bob when I was asked about it,” said Alan Wolfe, Castioni, remained active members even after who joined in 1993 and has served as presi- moving out of the area. dent for three years.

He joined in February 1974, and is the “It interested me, because I’ve always liked longest serving member who rides on calls. helping people,” he said. “I came in and got “I was in high school and a neighbor of one started.” of the founding members,” he said. “I had Each potential new member trains at his or always been active in the community whether her own pace. Wolfe said members must first it be the church, scouting or other things. I train as dispatchers to get a feel for the group’s thought it would be an opportunity to give routine, and for what will be expected of them back and learn some useful skills.” by the time they go out on calls.

Sometimes the call is from an elderly All calls draw a response from at least one patient needing transportation, others for help state-certified emergency medical technician. from the police at the scene of an accident or All members must put in at least two four- injury.

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This green Chevrolet wagon pictured above served as the first ambulance used by the Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps. It had little room and nothing like the amount and sophistication of equipment that rolls in a modern ‘bus,’ but it started a legacy of service to the community that PHOTO COURTESY FHVAC soon will enter its fifth decade.

Or, as in the past year, it can be for a tornado, a hurricane or a blizzard.

Each call in some way brings them to help with someone else’s problems.

“The toughest part is probably dealing with someone who has just lost a loved one,” Castioni said.

Wolfe said training, camaraderie and sometimes even dark humor amongst themselves are essential in keeping an even keel.

The group will celebrate its 40th anniversary on Nov. 5 with a dinner at Elite Place on Garfield Avenue in Woodside. Honorees at the gala will be attorney Bryce Friedman and

Queens Chronicle Publisher Mark Weidler, who serve on the board of advisors.

Wolfe said the one piece of equipment he never could have imagined in his first days is the user-friendly automatic heart defibrillator that is used to shock a stopped or irregularly beating heart back to a normal beat.

As for old equipment, Castioni still recalls fondly the group’s first ambulance, an old converted Chevy wagon, which he admits is a far cry from a modern rig.

“But with a compassionate and caring crew, it would give you all you need to work with,” Q he said.

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When it comes to natural gas pipelines, there’s no such thing as too safe.

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Pipeline safety is something we take very seriously at National Grid. Even though most lines are buried underground, that doesn’t mean you can ignore them.

You can keep your family and your community safe by helping to prevent gas leaks.

Always contact your one call center for New York City at 1-800-272-4480 or 811 before you dig. Remember, some gas lines are marked, but others are not.

More importantly, you should know the signs of a gas leak. We’ve added a spoiled egg smell that makes natural gas easier to identify. You can also look for bubbles in standing water, a white cloudy mist or blowing dust, which indicates that an underground gas line may have ruptured; or, listen for a hissing, roaring or whistling sound.

Four sought in phone theft picked it up before all fled. She was unhurt.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800)-577-TIPS (8477). The public also can submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers.com by texting 274637 (CRIMES), and entering TIP577. All tips are strictly confidential.

If you smell, see or hear any of those indications, leave the area immediately, then call National Grid at 1-718-643-4050. Don’t make the mistake of thinking someone else will make the call. Be smart and be safe. Call before you dig and know the signs of a gas leak. A little prevention could make all the difference.

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During Thursday’s event, Quintavalle awarded Richard Pileggi, the former deputy chief of passenger operations at JFK International Airport, with an honorary title that is akin to knighthood in Italy. Pileggi, whose father was born in Calabria and whose mother’s family is from Bari, had been in charge of diplomatic arrivals at the airport.

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Moved to tears by the honor from his family’s home country, Pileggi said he was “proud and humbled.”

“I accept this prestigious title in honor of my grandparents, parents and aunts and uncles,” he said.

During Thursday’s festivities, many attendees stressed the importance of exposing younger Italian-Americans to their culture, including bringing them to Italy.

“When I was 15 years old, and I went to my grandfather’s hometown an hour south of Naples, it changed my life,” de Blasio said. “ … I recently took my children to that same town, where my grandfather was born. It is so important to bring the next generation there and Q expose them to their roots.”

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Queens residents will be getting a three-pronged treat this month — the opportunity to meet one of the stars of America’s Next Top Model, shop at the area fashion boutique where she will be appearing and, perhaps most importantly, register to vote.

Bianca Golden will be at Le Bourgeosie Boutique meeting with fans, signing autographs, answering questions and taking pictures. Her modeling photos have appeared in magazines such as Essence, Cosmopolitan, Vibe, Source and Style Bermuda.

Members of the NAACP will be on hand to register all eligible individuals to vote and residents will get a f irsthand peek at the boutique, which promises “uniqueness, exclusiveness and creativeness in clothing designs.”

Golden has been signed by both Major Models and Ford Models and is well-known in the fashion world, especially in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. The stunning beauty has appeared as a correspondent on the E! Channel and the “Tyra Banks Show” and has been featured in numerous television commercials.

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like it’s a one-shot deal and we don’t do that,” Elias said.

In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, Recently, a woman and her boyfriend went into an unassuming gold buying and cash loan watches and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also shop on Queens Boulevard. She had a $35 offers instant cash loans for jewelry and eBay offer on her ring from another area shop, but selling services.

Their cash loans program is straightforward and was looking to get a better deal. In what may be viewed as poor business acumen, she told simple. “It’s a perfect solution for someone who her new prospective buyer what her previous has a bill due and a check on the way,” Goldberg offer was. Still, after examining her piece, he said. “But we make sure they have a game plan to offered her $1,600. He did so, as he says, buy their jewelry back before the end of the term.

Sometimes these are people’s heirlooms we’re “...because that’s what it was worth.”

The plight of the worker who’s hard-up for talking about and we respect that.”

For those who are less Internet-savvy or cash in today’s economy is something that Arthur Elias and Edward Goldberg can relate to just don’t have the time, Ice Jewelry Buying first-hand, having been laid off from their jobs offers a convenient eBay sales service. If what in jewelry manufacturing. They understand a customer has isn’t an item that Ice Jewelry that people get into situations where they just Buying would purchase, like a handbag or need a little cash fast to make the bills and Ice antique furniture, they can help find a buyer Jewelry Buying Service hopes to help out in on their eBay store. Elias consults with the customer to find a target the most honest way they can. price and let the internet STORE HOURS “For this, I like to think we’re handle the rest. doing the community a service,” MON.-FRI. 11am - 7pm auctioneers For anyone who has Elias said. “We’re in the business SAT. 10am - 5pm ever dealt with the hassle of helping people who are in a SUN. by Appointment of selling and shipping tough spot. They can come to an item on eBay — all the our store and know that we can educate them on what they have and we’ll give forms involved in setting up a user and paypal them what their items are worth. When that account, the 10-15 percent fee that Ice woman told me her previous offer, it made me Jewelry Buying charges to do all the work is wonder how many times this happens — how really a bargain deal.

“At the end of the day, I just want people many people who really need that money get to feel comfortable doing business with us. taken advantage of?”

Elias opened his Rego Park shop with People have this conception of gold buying Goldberg less than a year ago, and already stores as these slimy places with slimy they’re seeing a lot of repeat customers and people, and they’re typically right. But we referrals. This is a sign to them that they’re want to be different. I don’t think it’s cool to doing something right — the pawn business see someone buy a ring for $200 and put it in typically deals in one-time transactions but their counter for $800. We don’t do that.”

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Over the past year, Dignity in Schools advocates have met with senior DOE administrators and testif ied at public forums to urge the city to focus on using alternatives to suspensions that focus on communication, such as between students who have fought each other.

While Dignity in Schools officials said they were encouraged that the DOE has recognized alternatives to suspensions, they noted there is no formal requirement that principals and other school staff throughout the city always use these approaches.

“If the discipline code was changed, what would happen is when students are

having problems, if their mom yells at them and they’re having a bad day, they know they can go to school and have someone to talk to,” Chakladar said. “They can start fresh when they get to class, and they’ll behave in class. Right now there aren’t really people for us to talk to. Our guidance counselors don’t really have time for us.”

Ahmed also said a different approach to discipline could mean students faring better in school.

“It happens every day, students getting suspended for minor situations,” Ahmed said. “My friend brought a lighter into school by accident, and he got suspended.

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Empowering women like nobody's business are ‘Chix 6’ stars Nicolette Hart, left, as Seven, Danielle Lee Greaves, as Mama-Mazing, Lourds Lane, who wrote the show, as Rise, Molly Tynes, as Lola Touche, and Celina Carvajal, as Blaze.

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mpowering women just by took on a whole new Liz Rhoades meaning in the rock musical “Chix 6,” now playing at Queens Theatre in the Park through Oct. 30.

Told through the eyes of cartoonist Katie White, who is loaded with talent but lacks self-esteem, Chix 6 refers to the artist’s female superheroes. They eventually empower Katie to take back her life, love herself and end a bad relationship.

The cast is excellent. Most have appeared on Broadway and have the voices

and stage presence needed to pull off this dynamic show.

Carrie Manolakos plays Katie with sweetness and naivete and her incredible voice is both powerful and haunting.

The superhero creations she conjures up are fun, over-the-top characters who provide better advice than either Dear Abby or Sigmund Freud.

Blaze is an Amazon of a woman with blonde spiky hair and huge platform boots. Celina Carvajal pulls it off with just the right combination of toughness and compassion.

Seven is the office worker empowered by “cyber eyeglasses” that allow her to see the truth in what people say. We caught the understudy, Kelly Carey, who was terrific— both bossy and bright.

Mama-Mazing, played by Danielle Lee Greaves, stole the show as a sassy and fast-talking character, with numbers that ranged from hip-hop to a torch song.

Greaves had the audience eating out of her hand whenever she appeared.

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W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G Humanity Service Incorp., a nonprofit that helps the needy, has a free clinic of mental and medical health services from 6-8 p.m. every Friday. There is also a food pantry that is open during this time.

These services are located at 92-17 101 Ave., Ozone Park. For more information, call (718) 845-1901.

EXHIBITS “The Allure of Red,” a selection of photographs taken by Greta Jaklitsch, will be on exhibit at the Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing, from now through Nov. 12. Gallery hours are Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, 1-4 p.m.

MEETINGS

“Duality,” an exhibit of stoneware and bronze, continues at Queensborough Community College’s art gallery in Bayside through Feb. 3. Hours are Tuesday and Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Wednesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-7p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, noon-5 p.m.

The NYC Chapter of the Foundation Fighting Blindness, Queens Networking Group, will meet on Saturday, Oct. 15 from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Forest Hills Public Library, 108-19 71 Ave. Anyone with vision loss due to degenerative retinal disease (e.g., RP, macular degeneration, stargardts, ushers) and/or those who love them is welcome to share experiences and information, learn coping skills, learn about research and clinical trials. For information, contact S. Rogers (718) 263-7638 or email srogers46@nyc.rr.com.

The Maria Rose International Doll Museum, 187-11 Linden Blvd., St. Albans, exhibits are open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 12:30-4:30 p.m. Cost is $5 for adults, $2.50 for children.

AUDITIONS The Queens Symphonic Band now has openings for all woodwind and brass musicians, rehearsing Wednesdays from 7:30-9:30, at Queensborough Community College in Bayside. Call (646) 662-9373 or email phlzy@aol.com.

Senior Theatre Acting Repertory holds acting rehearsals on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. at Hollis Public Library, 202-05 Hillside Ave. and on Fridays at 10:30 a.m. at Queens Village Library, 94-11 217th St. For information, call the director’s assistant at (718) 776-0529.

THEATRE Queens Theatre in the Park in Flushing Meadows Park opens its season with “CHIX 6,” a new rock musical written by indie rock sensation and Queens native Lourds Lane. Tickets for this five-week engagement are on sale now at queenstheatre.org, by phone at (718) 760-0064 and in person at the box office. “CHIX 6” is continuing to play through Sunday, Oct. 30. Performances are Tuesday - Saturday at 8 p.m. , Wednesday and Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. (There is no matinee on Wednesday, Sept 28.) Tickets are $42 for weekday performances and $49 for weekend performances.

The next scheduled performances of the Cill Cais Players, one-act comedies — “Uncle Pat” and “The Pot of Broth,” include: Oct. 22 at 8 p.m. at St. Gregory the Great (Gregorian Hall), Cross Island Parkway service road and 87 Avenue, Bellerose; Nov. 6 at 4 p.m. at New York Irish Center, 10-40 Jackson Ave., Long Island City; Nov. 27 at 3 p.m. at Our Lady of Blessed Sacrament, 35 Avenue and 203 Street, Bayside. Tickets range from $20-$25.

DANCE Jose Porcel’s Compania Flamenca will perform flamenco with live musicians, vocalists and dancers on Sunday, Oct. 23 at 3 p.m., at Queensborough Performing Arts Center at Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside. Tickets range from $35-$45. For tickets, call the box office at (718) 631-6311.

AARP Chapter 2889 will meet on Wednesday, Oct. 19 at noon at the Elks Lodge, 82-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. New members are welcome. Premier design demonstration by Andy McCaffery.

Jose Porcel’s Compania Flamenca will perform flamenco on Sunday, Oct. 23 at Queensborough PHOTO COURTESY CAL PERFORMANCES Community College.

FILM The Sacred Heart Justice and Peace Committee presents “Waste Land,” a film with artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart Church, 215-35 38 Ave., Bayside.

MUSIC Latin jazz featuring Aurora Flores, Zon Del Barrio and Eddy Zervigon on Saturday, Oct. 15 at 8 p.m. at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. Tickets are $25.

To buy tickets: (718) 463-7700 or flushingtownhall.org.

Experience the music and dance of the Colombian coasts with a dash of salsa featuring the Mestizo Dance Company and Harold Gutierrez and his band at Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside. Now-Oct. 30. Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m. and Sundays, 4 p.m. Tickets $30. Students and seniors $27. Fridays only $25. Call (718) 729-3880.

FLEA MARKETS Saint Barnabas Church, at 159-19 98 St. in Old Howard Beach, will hold its annual fall rummage sale on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 17-18, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The doors will also be open Monday from 7-9 p.m.

St. Josaphat’s R.C. Church of Bayside, will hold a flea market plus ethnic Polish bake sale on Sunday, Oct. 16, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Parish Hall, 35 Avenue and 210 Street, Bayside.

LECTURES Food historian Peter Rose explores the foodways brought to America by the Dutch more than three

centuries ago and the way these foodways were adapted to new circumstances on Saturday, Oct. 15 at 5 p.m. at King Manor, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. Free; Call (718) 206-0545 x13 or email programs@kingmanor.org to reserve a seat.

A lecture on “The Making of the Movie Gettysburg” by historian and re-enactor Patrick Falci takes you behind the scenes of the making of the 1993 film “Gettysburg,” on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. sponsored by the Bayside Historical Society in Fort Totten in Bayside. Admission is $5, free to BHS members.

Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Turnpike, Flushing, presents Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a lecture on Sunday, Oct. 16 at 10 a.m.

A film and lecture will be presented at the Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria on Sunday, Oct. 16 at 3 p.m. Author John Bengston, who researched the locations where silent films were photographed, will discuss “Slapstick on the Streets of New York.” That will be folowed by a showing of “Speedy,” a silent film featuring Harold Lloyd. Tickets are free with museum admission of $12 and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis on the day of the event.

Turkish-born Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 Nobel Prize winner for literature, will discuss his work in a conversation with the Queens College English Professor Gloria Fisk at the college on Monday, Oct. 17 at 5 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Campbell Dome.

HEALTH Wellness Awareness Day will be held at Sacred Heart Church, 215-35 38 Ave., Bayside on Saturday, Oct. 15 from 10 a.m.-2p.m.

Queens County Bird Club presents: Saw-whet Owls in Your Backyard, a presentation by Trudy Battaly and Drew Panko on their studies of the saw-whet owls in southeastern New York, from Pelham Bay to suburban Valhalla and the woodlands of Bear Mountain on Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. at Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston.

North Flushing AARP Chapter 4158 meets on Tuesdays, Nov. 8 and Dec. 13 at noon at Church on the Hill, 167-07 35 Ave., Flushing. New members welcome.

You Gotta Believe, a community based older child adoption agency is looking for families (regardless of age, marital status, gender or income) who would be willing to provide love and nurturing to a child in the foster care system. Join the agency every Sunday at 4 p.m. at Little Flower Children’s Services, 89-12 162 St., Jamaica.

CLASSES An astronomy class with Mark Freilich will be held on Saturday, Oct. 15 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston.

Cost is $10 members, $12 non-members, $7 children (ages 7-12). Pre-register by calling (718) 229-4000.

Theater Workshop for Children and Teens lessons will begin Oct. 16 every Sunday from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. until May at the Greek Cultural Center, 26-80 30 St., Astoria. Participants must be 8-18 years old and the fee is $60 a month.

The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 12-01 will give an eight hour “About Boating Safety” class from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 23 in their classroom at Fort Totten in Bayside. Safe boating certificate and membership in Boat US for all students who pass the written exam. Preregistration required. Cost is $75. Directions, registration and information from Flotilla 12-01 in Bayside: 12-01@verizon.net.

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No one could say ‘I didn’t know’ The German people and the Holocaust

by Mark Lord Chronicle Contributor

The Holocaust remains one of the most momentous events in the history of mankind, and Beari Productions’ upcoming rendering of “Judgment At Nuremberg,” a courtroom drama that, in effect, places all of Germany on trial, seems to have touched a particularly strong chord in everyone involved.

While it’s natural for actors to develop an affinity for their characters, Abby Mann’s adaptation of his own Academy Award-winning screenplay seems to have

‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ When: 8 p.m., Oct. 14 and 15; 3 p.m., Oct. 16; 8 p.m., Oct. 22 and 29; 3 p.m., Oct. 23 and 30.

Where: Trinity Lutheran Church, 63-70 Dry Harbor Rd., Middle Village (Oct. 14-16) All Saints Church, 214-35 40 Ave., Bayside (Oct. 22-30) Tickets: $16; $14 for seniors (718) 736-1263.

had an unusually emotional effect on the cast and its director, Debbie Bendana, “It’s such a beautifully written play,” Bendana said at a recent rehearsal. “The play’s theme is timeless and its message still pertinent. The minute we let prejudice make decisions for us, we’re lost.”

Actor Rich Weyhausen has wanted to be involved in a production of the play for years, but found that other local theater groups considered it “overly heavy or too controversial.” Bendana was “courageous” to put it on, he said.

Speaking of his own German-born father, Weyhausen recalled, “To his dying day, he said he was going to fight the Reich. His German friends abandoned him.

He told me not to go to Germany. He told me, ‘Keep the story going; don’t ever let it die.’ I’m keeping it going for him.”

The play, according to Weyhausen, “spells out the conflict between the motivation of people in Germany at the time and how they deluded themselves into thinking they didn’t know anything.

“My father always said, ‘Don’t let anyone say they didn’t know,’” said Weyhausen (who also is a proofreader for this newspaper).

Though they’re all smiles for the camera, the cast of “Judgment at Nuremberg” is deadly serious about the play’s examination of the Holocaust.

PHOTO BY MARK LORD In an almost eerie coincidence, Weyhausen speaks nearly identical words as Ernst Janning, the most prominent of four defendants. “He deluded himself,” his portrayer explained. Janning admits his guilt, saying that if people didn’t know what was going on under the Nazi regime, “they did not want to know.”

“I feel relieved to have a chance to do the play and spread the message,” said Weyhausen, who portrays Janning.

Bonnie Sassower, who plays Frau Bertholt, described her as “the wife of a

German soldier who was executed with the Nazi war criminals and questions why when he was only doing his duty.

“As a Jew, I don’t think religion took a part in this character,” Sassower said. “I’m just believing in her as a human being. The Nazi aspect was repulsive to her, as it was to a lot of people. I was drawn to her because of her strong ethical character.”

At 27, Erik Neilssen is one of the youngest members of the company, but “I knew the history,” he said. “This period has continued on page 44 00

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Eyeing change, from culture to architecture

by AnnMarie Costella

different colors to symbolize particular architectural units built atop one another, “Shift and Flow,” a new exhibit at the much as the city is constantly moving Dorsky Gallery in Long Island City, is a col- skyward. lection of pieces in various media that “He basically took these unified eleexamines the ongoing and rapid evolutions ments and grouped them in clusters,” of our architectural and urban surround- Kozul said. “He is talking about layering ings and how the changes can be used as and buildings on top of each other. ... I metaphors for change in our society, poli- think it really works well with the other tics and economy. pieces in the show “In a way it prebecause they are sents a feeling of about layers of hisnot being connected tory, what’s built on with our surround- When: Through Nov. 27, Thurs.-Mon., top of each other 11a.m. to 6 p.m. ings in general,” and how the whole said curator Zeljka Where: Dorsky Gallery thing works.”

Himbele Kozul. “I Another interesting 11-03 45 Ave., LIC really wanted to Tickets: Free installation is “Found present a variety of in LIC, 2011” by (718) 937-7469, dorsky.org. artists from different Jason Middlebrook. It generations. Some is an upward spray of of them are well-known. Some of them construction materials tied together in a sort are less known.” of industrial bouquet that includes objects “Overlay” by New York-based artist such as brooms, mops and construction site Steve Millar is one of the most striking debris, gathered by the artist in one day exhibits in the gallery and one that Kozul within a few blocks of the gallery. said people are immediately drawn to.

“His work is from the street,” Kozul said.

Millar installed it himself in the studio “There is the whole sense of recycling and over the course of five days, using com- ecology. It’s really beautiful and uplifting.” mon materials such as plywood and Some of the 12 artists featured in the formica. The artist used geometric blocks, exhibit use architecture to examine probincluding some made of cement, in lems they face in their respective countries.

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“Overlay” by Steve Millar uses geometric blocks in different colors and materials to PHOTO BY ANNMARIE COSTELLA symbolize particular architectural units.

For example, “Deconstructing Utopia,” a series of 16 photographs by Manuel Pina, a Cuban artist, depicts housing projects built in Havana in the 1960s by groups of ordinary citizens known as microbrigada.

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a short, pleated, plaid skirt and pigtails, who gets her revenge on a childhood bully. Lane is the creative genius who wrote the book, words and music for “Chix 6” and says she hopes to bring it to Broadway in six months. Her hot electric violin literally lights up the stage.

Lola Touche is performed by Molly Tynes, who alternately speaks with an English and French accent, because Katie can’t make up her mind which to go with. Not only can she sing and dance, but she also shows her talents as an aerialist, performing on a silk sheet high in the air.

Ellenore Scott, a beautiful dancer, portrays Lightning Girl, who does not speak but battles throughout the show with Mi Roar (CJ Tyson), the dark enemy. The two are lyrical together.

Carrie Manolakos, left, as cartoonist Katie White, gets advice from her superhero character PHOTO BY CAROL ROSEGG Seven, played by Nicolette Hart in “Chix 6.”

‘Chix 6’ When: Tues.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Wed. and Sat., 2 p.m.; Sun., 3 p.m.

Where: Queens Theatre in the Park Flushing Meadows Park Tickets: From $42 to $49 (718) 760-0064 queenstheatre.org

Finally, there’s Jay Champ, the jerk of a boyfriend who betrays Katie numerous times, played just right by Brian Gallagher.

The costumes are flamboyant and loud, as are the wigs and makeup — just what you’d expect of comic book heroines.

Lane’s music runs the gamut from a circus number to a thrilling “My Life,”

performed by Manolakos.

The production is never dull, filled with eye-popping visual effects. The scenery is sparse but adequate. The first act, however, was a bit long, with the entire show running two hours and 45 minutes.

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great drama, not that different from today and the times we’re in. It is so easy to lose your true values to the things that sound easy. This is a good time to watch this play and reflect. It forces audiences to examine their own lives.”

Perhaps no one has connected to the story more personally than Greg Johnson, who plays Captain Byers, a role created for the stage version.

“In college, I saw myself as an angry black man,” he said. “My dean made me research the characters in this play. It gave me an identity. I was no longer just an emotion. I was a figure.

“Anyone who has been on the other side of the fence, who has felt they haven’t been given their full share, they will empathize with my character,” he said.

Fellow actor Nick DeCesare has read a number of books about occupied Germany and came to realize “the psychology was very interesting.

Everyone denied just to be with the right crowd. This is a play about conscience. The audience acts as the jury.

I think they will be intrigued. It’s a history lesson, is what it is.”

Sassower said she hopes audiences “will find justice and hope for the future” in the play and that “we can learn from these atrocities how hate can destroy. We continued continuedon onpage page00 46

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must educate ourselves and our children and our children’s children to have an open mind and judge people fairly. That would be my wish.”

As for Bendana, she is not quite sure how the public will receive the play. “Many people don’t believe the Holocaust ever existed. We always need to be reminded of the good as well as the evil we are capable of doing. There’s no reason this couldn’t happen again,” she said.

“I still have not recovered from 9/ll,” she added. “With the 10th anniversary of 9/11, old wounds opened again. We shouldn’t blame the many for the actions of a few. The important thing is we don’t Q act on our prejudice.”

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boro CLASSES The Greek Cultural Center, 26-80 30 St., Astoria, offers classes in Greek folk dance for adults and teens every Saturday from 10:30 a.m.-noon. The fee is $20 monthly or $150 for the whole year. Bouzouki lessons are also available every Saturday from 12:30-2 p.m. Registration is open to beginners as well as advanced players of all ages. Students are recommended to bring their own instruments to class. The fee is $40 to enroll and $60 monthly. For more information call (718) 726-7329.

Tango class, no partner necessary, at 7-8 p.m. and tango magic dance 8 p.m. on Wednesdays through April at Buenos Aires Tango Steakhouse, 111-08 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills. Cost is $15 a class. For information call (347) 642-4705.

The Jackson Heights Art Club offers classes in all mediums, adults and children, days and evenings at St. Mark’s Church, 33-50 82 St. Prices vary. Call (718) 426-9871.

Learn two languages at the Bayside Jewish Center, 203-05 32 Ave. Rabbi Moses Kirsh will teach conversational Hebrew, 2:30-3:30 p.m. and Torah stories in Yiddish from 3:30-4:30 p.m. on Wednesdays. It’s free.

A one-hour auto clinic for women is held the third Saturday of every month at 3:30 p.m. at Great Bear Auto Repair Shop, 164-16 Sanford Ave., Flushing.

Call to reserve at (718) 762-6212.

TOURS A tour of Whats New in Long Island City will be held on Saturday, Oct. 22 from 11 a.m.- 1 p.m. led by Jack Eichenbaum. They will walk from Queensboro Plaza to the East River waterfront. Meet at the lowest level of the Queensboro Plaza station (fare booth), No. 7 Trains. Fee $15.

Spirits Alive, a self-guided walking tour at Maple Grove Cemetery, Kew Gardens, will be held Saturday, Oct. 15 from 3-6 p.m. The annual event features a cast of over 23 volunteer actors dressed in period costumes, all of whom will portray some of Maple Grove’s most illustrious figures. Visitors will receive easy-to-follow maps and programs. The ticket cost is $5 for adults, but Friends of Maple Grove Cemetery members and children under 12 are free.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES New York Metropolitan Country Music Association will hold a dance and Halloween costume contest on Saturday, Oct. 15 with the San Antones at the Glendale Memorial Building, 72-02 Myrtle Ave., starting at 7:30 p.m. Band starts at 8 p.m. Cost is $12.

SPECIAL EVENTS The AIDS Center of Queens County will sponsor its first Join the Fight 5K Run/Walk at Cunningham Park in Fresh Meadows on Sunday, Oct 23. Race/Walk registration time 8-9:30 a.m. Registration fee: $25. Starts at 10 a.m. For more information and to register contact Paulette Zimmerman at: ACQC, 161-21 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica, NY 11432 or call (718) 896-2500.

The Community Church of Douglaston and the Douglaston Little Neck Historical Society will hold

I HAVE OFTEN WALKED an open house to inaugurate the newly restored and refurbished ca. 1850 cottage, which will now serve as the church parsonage, on Saturday, Oct. 15 from 2-5 p.m. at 39-50 Douglaston Parkway.

Open-hearth cooking demonstration with an historian Diane Fish on Saturday, Oct. 15 from noon-4:30 at the King Manor, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica.

Watch as food is prepared outside on an open fire.

Learn about the types of food that people ate hundreds of years ago. Sample food as it’s being prepared right in front of you. Churn butter, make cornhusk dolls and enjoy other special fall activities.

Unity Church of Flushing, 42-11 155 St., presents its annual talent show on Sunday, Oct. 23 from 3-7 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased by calling (718) 507-5188. The cost is $20 and includes a full-course dinner and a raffle.

On Sunday, Oct. 30 from 3-7 p.m. the American Legion Post 104 will hold an Oktoberfest dinner with a German buffet, wine, beer and soda at 72-02 Myrtle Ave., Glendale. Cost is $35. Call (718) 8219726 for tickets or information.

Pick your own pumpkin at the Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy, Floral Park, Saturdays and Sundays, now-Oct. 30 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Enjoy getting lost in a three-acre interactive corn maze, at the Queens County Farm Museum, every Saturday and Sunday, now-Oct. 30, 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. There will be one more special “Maze by Moonlight” evenings held on Saturday, Oct. 15 The maze will be open until 9 p.m. Admission: adults $9 per person, children ages 4-11 - $5 per person.

P.O.W.E.R.S. announces the DV Walk to Restore 2011 on Sunday, Oct. 16 from 9 a.m.-noon in Flushing Meadows Park. This event is designed to raise awareness of domestic violence. Participants will gather at Ederle Terrace on Meadow Lake for a 1 1/2 mile walk beginning at 9 a.m. To register go to powersinc.org or call (866) 974-9533 or email dvwalktorestore2011@powersinc.org.

SUPPORT GROUPS The Center for the Women of New York announces that it is now accepting registration for a new session of their Women’s Support Group. It meets at Queensborough Hall, 120-55 Queens Blvd., Room 325, Kew Gardens, every Thursday from 6-7:30 p.m. For information and an interview appointment, call (718) 793-0672.

Rizzuto, the Yankee Scooter, from Glendale

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Yankee legend Phil Rizzuto (1917-2007) really knew what it felt like to be unwanted. (After last week, some cur rent Yanks can probably relate.)

Originally from Bushwick, Rizzuto and his family moved in 1925 to an apartment on 61st Street in Glendale Five years later, his father, Phil Sr., a trolley car motorman, bought a home at 78-01 64 St. The future star shortstop Future Yankee great Phil Rizzuto in the basement of his was 12 years old at the time. home at 78-01 64 Street in Glendale playing pool with his Because of his small size he brother Alfred, left, and a friend, in January 1941. The movie endured the innate cruelty of star photos on the walls are from the Sunday Daily News. bully children who called nickname “the Scooter” and helping the him midget, shrimp and little dago.

Phil went to Richmond Hill High Yanks win a string of titles during one of School, which did not have a baseball their most dominant eras.

Painful rejection came again on Aug. field. The team played non-league games at Victory Field and their league games at 25, 1956, however, when he was abruptly released from the team, not in a favor of an Dexter Park in Woodhaven.

Al Kunitz (1905-1991) a former catcher upcoming star but for veteran Enos and graduate of Columbia University, was Slaughter. A stunned Rizzuto went to the the gym teacher and coach of the Rich- Dodgers, but they said he would have to go mond Hill baseball team who recognized to a farm team until a spot opened up on the talent Phil had. He taught him to bunt the major league roster.

The Yankees hired Rizzuto as a baseball — and said that a professional ballplayer has to replace his profanity with clean announcer the next year. He had no experiwords. That’s how Rizzuto’s famous catch ence and was met with overt distain from regular veteran announcers Mel Allen and phrase “Holy Cow!” was born.

A dedicated Brooklyn Dodgers fan, Riz- Red Barber who was called “the jock in the zuto tried out for Casey Stengel, then the booth.” But again, Rizzuto endured, calling Dodgers manager, in 1936 and was dis- the action for the next 40 years.

During that time, more rejection came, missed because of his 5-foot-6-inch, 150pound size. A tryout for the New York as he was perennially passed over for the Giants got the same rejection. It was scout Hall of Fame, until finally admitted in Paul Krichell of the Yankees who saw his 1994.

Rizzuto’s oldest sister, Mary continued potential, and Rizzuto went to the Bronx.

He dropped out of high school to play, to live in the 64th Street Glendale home though in 1948, in the midst of his career, with her husband until her death in 1993.

The Scooter himself passed away in RHHS gave him a diploma in honor of his life achievements. Because of his size, he 2007 and was cremated. A plaque was hit by pitches so much that he became remembers him in PS 68 in Glendale, one of the early batting helmet pioneers in where he played ball as a boy and his Q the league. But he played hard, earning the dream was born.

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Wall Street FPGA, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/4/11.

NY Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to the LLC, 4020 195th Street, Flushing, NY 11358. General Purposes.

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House contents priced to go!

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Raymond’s Plumbing & Heating, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/18/11. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 77-45 164th St., Flushing, NY 11366. Purpose: General.

Notice of Formation of Ziti One LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/2/11. Office location: Queens County.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC: Alfred S. Lane, 11227 84th Ave, Richmond Hill, NY 11418.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

RICHARD DECASTRO & SONS ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING, LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), filed with the Sec of State of NY on 8/24/11.

NY Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to the LLC, 4301 162nd St., Flushing, NY 11358. General Purposes.

JEN YOUNG LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 09/13/11. Office Location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 14731 41st Ave., Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: Moty Consulting, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/07/2011.

Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: VALPRECHT, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/29/2011. Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 87-25 57th Road, Apt. 2, Elmhurst, NY 11373. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

S&S Exterminating LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/22/11. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 63-09 108th St., Ste. 3D, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose: General.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Tyrol Express Painting LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/17/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Name: CQ BUSINESS & ACCOUNTING SERVICES, LLC. Art. of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 4/26/2011.

Off. Loc.: Queens Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to THE LLC, 6945 108th Street, 9F, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1257286 for beer, wine, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a sports bar under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 49-18 30th Ave., Queens, NY 11377 for on- premises consumption.

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Coney & V LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/6/11. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 102-10 Metropolitan Ave., Ste. 200, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose: General.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: DYEVO LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/22/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Johnny Chang, 5 Michaels Lane, Glen Head, NY 11545. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

MODAREVISE LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/20/2011. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Jonathan M. Stein ESQ., PLLC, 11 Grace Ave., Ste. 410, Great Neck, NY 11021.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: J&J CUSTODIAL SERVICES LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/24/2011.

Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: c/o United States Corporation Agents Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Avid Solutions, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/1/2010. Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 115-24 227th Street, Cambria Heights, NY 11411. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: DEL RO THERAPUTIC SERVICES LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/06/2010. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to NINA DEL ROSARIO, 65-60 79th Street, Middle Village, NY 11379. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 8/12/11, bearing Index Number NC-000699-11/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York, in Record Room 357, grants me the right to assume the name of Farzana Afrose. My present name is Farzana Afrose Hossein aka Farzana A. Hossein. My present address is 19815 Hillside Ave., Hollis, NY 11423.

My place of birth is Bangladesh.

My date of birth is October 5, 1977.

247 S Conduit Ave LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/28/11. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 247-22 S Conduit Ave, Rosedale, NY 11422. Purpose: General.

Notice of Formation of CFF PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. of Org. were filed with SSNY on 8/24/11. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: c/o The LLC, 44-11 55th Ave., Maspeth, NY 11365.

Purpose: all lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Foxhole Films, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/18/2011. Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Annette Cerbone, 24104 83rd Avenue, Bellrose, NY 11426. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: GVN MANAGEMENT LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/01/11.

Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 56 Old Brook Road, Dix Hills, New York 11746.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

STEPHAN SKORECKY LLC. Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 07/28/2011.

Office in Queens County.

SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 112-20 72nd Drive, Suite A17, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 7/20/2011, bearing Index Number NC-000609-11/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York, in Record Room 357, grants me the right to assume the name of Julie Hochi Lau. My present name is Julie Ho Chi Lok aka Julie Hochi Lok aka Le Ke Zhi aka Lok Ho Chi. My present address is 47-37 194th Street, #2, Flushing, NY 11358. My place of birth is China.

My date of birth is January 7, 1975.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: GERARD CORSINI LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/03/07. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 79-12 37th Avenue, Jackson Heights, New York 11372.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: FLDM, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 6/3/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to C/O Milevoj, 316 Knollwood Avenue, Little Neck, NY 11363-1022. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

4 Mori Restaurant Group LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/29/11.

Office in Queens County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 6338 61st St., Ridgewood, NY 11385. Purpose: General.

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FEMA gives flood facts on applying for Irene aid

Queens Center in association with Borough President Helen Marshall Presents

Deadline to register for help is Oct. 31

by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

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Thursday, October 20th I 10am - 7pm Food Court I Lower Level I JCPenney Wing The job fair will seek qualified applicants to fill seasonal retail positions at Queens Center during the holidays.

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Hurricane Irene tore through the borough last month uprooting trees, knocking out power lines and flooding homes. In an effort to help those still dealing with the aftereffects of the storm, representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Small Business Administration gave a presentation on how to apply for financial aid at a meeting in St. Albans on Tuesday.

The first step is to call FEMA’s toll-free number and tell the representative your ZIP code, which will be used to confirm whether it is in a storm-affected area. Then a brief description of the damage is required. It takes about 30 to 45 minutes to complete the phone interview process.

“Don’t get frustrated,” Dave Stuflick, a FEMA intergovernmental affairs specialist from Utah, said at the meeting. “This is a process. This is not perfect. This is the government for heaven’s sake. We don’t do things perfectly, so it takes a little time.”

Information needed includes the address of the damaged home or apartment; the names of the people living in the household; a description of the disaster damages; insurance information; Social Security number; and a telephone number and address where you can be reached. The deadline to apply for Hurricane Irene damage-related funds is Oct. 31.

The money provided by FEMA, a maximum of $30,200, is a grant, which does not have to be repaid and is not tax-deductible.

The agency will not distribute funds until applicants can document how much money, if any, their insurance company will pay for the damages.

Individuals do not have to wait for FEMA to approve their claim. However, before starting to make repairs, Stuflick said it is important to take plenty of photos of the damage as well as the clean-up process and save all repair expense-related receipts.

“Our job at FEMA is not to keep you from getting money, it’s just to make sure that those who get the money, deserve the money,” Stuflick explained. “A lot of people will try to wiggle in. They haven’t lived here in 10 years, and they are trying to claim damages on a home someone they know used to live in.”

After registering by phone, applicants will receive a packet in the mail, which will include an application with more detailed questions than the agency previously asked and will contain a booklet titled “Help After Disaster,” which provides answers to frequently asked questions as well as describes the types of programs the agency offers.

An inspector from FEMA will call the applicant to make an appointment to view the person’s home. “They will have a contractor’s ID badge with a picture and a name,” Stuflick said. “The person you talked to on the phone should be the same person that shows up at your door. If they don’t match, call the police. If they want money, call the police.”

Once the staffer inspects your house, he or she will submit a report and 10 days later, FEMA will send a letter to the property owner or renter letting the person know if he or she has been approved or denied funds. If

FEMA Intergovernmental Affairs Specialist Dave Stuflick, top, talks about how to apply for federal disaster aid at a meeting in St. Albans PHOTOS BY ANNMARIE COSTELLA on Tuesday. an applicant believes the money provided will not sufficiently pay for the repairs to the home, Stuflick recommends calling FEMA again to update your claim.

Also, only use the FEMA money to make repairs and keep all receipts, because the agency can audit persons up to five years after it has paid a claim. “That won’t be pleasant,” Stuflick said. “You may not even remember what you did [with the money].”

Disaster victims can also receive financial assistance from the SBA, which provides long-term, low-interest rate loans to individual property owners and renters.

“Our mission is to put you back into the position you were in prior to the occurrence of the event,” Michael Peacock, an SBA public affairs specialist told the crowd.

An individual homeowner can borrow up to $200,000 to repair or replace a damaged primary residence, plus up to an additional $40,000 to repair or replace lost personal property, including a car. Renters are only eligible for the latter. Businesses, large or small, can borrow up to $2 million to replace or repair property, machinery, inventory and more.

For more information contact FEMA at (800) 621-3362 or the SBA at (800) Q 659-2955.

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A bitter end in the Bronx

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

If you measure success by post-season appearances, the Yankees’ record is phenomenal, their having only once missed playing October baseball in the last 16 years. Since 1995 the Yankees have won five World Series and two more American League pennants — not too shabby. Then again, when you have a roughly $200 million payroll, anytime that you don’t get a tickertape parade down Broadway is a bitter disappointment, a fact that team president Randy Levine reiterated last week.

It was somewhat ironic that two of the most maligned Yankees this year, A.J. Burnett and Jorge Posada, came through big-time against the Tigers in the American League Division Series, while nearly every other Bronx Bomber came up small. A.J. proved to be the Yankees best pitcher while Posada, who certainly played his last game in a Yankees uniform after 17 years, went out in style, batting .429 in the five-game series.

The Yanks’ payroll may even rise next year.

Ace pitcher C.C. Sabathia’s contract has an opt-out clause. The good news for the Yanks is that he wants to stay here, and the recession has made even wealthy clubs rethink their free-spending ways. The bad news is that the availability of top-of-the-line starting pitching is very small, which will drive up his price.

The Giants appeared to be an NFL Cinderella story until they turned into a pumpkin against the mediocre Seattle Seahawks at Met Life Stadium last Sunday, losing by a score of

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36-25. The Seahawks outplayed the Giants but continually sabotaged themselves by turning over the football whenever it looked as if they were about to score a touchdown. When I asked Giants head coach about Seattle’s propensity to blow up in the red zone, he forlornly responded, “So did we.” Coughlin was understandably upset by what’s become a prototypical Eli Manning game — three touchdowns but also three costly interceptions.

Meanwhile the Jets’ three road losses have made many wonder whether they were lucky to get as far as they did in 2009 and 2010.

Last week’s “Saturday Night Live” was one of the better episodes in a while. Jason Sudeikis did a spot-on impression of Hank Williams Jr. Williams, of course, lost his longrunning gig opening ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” with his catchy “Are You Ready for Some Football?” theme after bizarrely comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler.

Keeping with the sports theme, SNL weekend anchor Seth Meyers had fun displaying ESPN the Magazine’s “Body Issue.” Mets shortstop Jose Reyes is on the cover, obviously proud of his physique as he’s shown swinging a bat in the nude. I wonder if Mets execs will put that photo on the cover of the 2012 yearbook if Reyes re-signs with the team!

It was very considerate of the Islanders to move their season opener last Saturday from 7 to 8 p.m. so that their Jewish patrons could finish observing Yom Kippur, which ended at 7:11 that night. Alas, the Isles lost to the FloriQ da Panthers by a score of 2-0.

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