Casino license race has tightened up
City is down to five proposals after others are rejected by committees
by Kristen Guglielmo Editor
The competition for one of three downstate casino licenses to be granted by the state Gaming Commission is slimmer than ever, with only five applicants remaining out of the original eight.
The proposals are being reviewed by community advisory committees, groups tasked with analyzing the application material and hearing input from the public.
If approved by its CAC in a two-thirds vote, an application will be vetted by the Gaming Facility Location Board, which expects to make its decisions by Dec. 1. The application then moves to the Gaming Commission for final approval and licensure by Dec. 31.
The remaining applicants are Bally’s in the Bronx; The Coney, in Coney Island; MGM Empire City in Yonkers; Metropolitan Park, in Flushing Meadows Corona Park; and Resorts World New York City in South Ozone Park.
Three Manhattan applicants — Freedom Plaza, Times Square and Hudson Yards — were all shot down by their respective CACs, effectively killing the proposals. The Coney Island casino plan is expected to be rejected as well, with three members of its CAC having publicly announced their disapproval ahead of a vote that has yet to be scheduled.
Empire City and Resorts World’s CACs have votes scheduled for today, Sept. 25, at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., respectively.
The $5 billion Resorts World bid seeks to expand the existing gaming facility, at 110-00 Rockaway Blvd., into a full-scale casino. The plan includes more than 50 acres of dedicated park space, a concert hall, luxury hotel and workforce apartment housing.
The competition for one of three downstate casino licenses to be awarded this year is thinning, as community advisory committees begin to vote on the proposals.
The $8 billion Metropolitan Park proposal, proposed by New York Mets owner Steve Cohen and Hard Rock International, would turn the 50-acre parking lot adjacent to Citi Field into a hotel, casino and entertainment complex, including a public park, a Queens food hall, a live music venue and other amenities.
The Mayor’s Office last week issued a report analyzing each of the casino proposals and examining their financial, economic and design impacts, as well as making recommendations for all parties involved.
The report showed that, of the remaining proposals, Metropolitan Park would generate the most jobs and have the greatest economic impact. Metropolitan Park would, per the report generate 16,224 direct and 7,711 indirect construction jobs, and 2,559 permanent direct jobs.
Recommendations for the proposal included further investment in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, including upgrades to the Passerelle Bridge and a commitment to eliminate the use of park lawns for overflow parking; transit upgrades beyond the reconstruction of the 7 train station; and other design refinements.
Resorts World, according to the report, would generate 7,942 direct and 3,775 indirect construction jobs, and 1,765 permanent direct jobs.
As an existing video lottery terminal location and one of the highest grossing casinos in the nation, Resorts World provides an opportunity to bring a full-scale casino on the fastest schedule among the rest of the proposals, according to the report.
It noted that, given that much of the development costs have been spent on prior phases, future fiscal impacts to the city are “less than anticipated,” but Resorts World proposes a community fund and other investments in consideration of that.
The report recommended improvements to the A train stations at Aqueduct Race Track and Aqueduct North Conduit Ave., and design enhancements, such as better integrating with surrounding neighborhoods.
Resorts World has pointed to other portions of the Aqueduct Race Track as prime opportunity for more housing. But, the report said, because it does not control those parcels, further expansion should be paired with a clear commitment from the state. Q
Cops face charges in teen’s fatal shooting
NYPD officers killed Win Rozario, 19, in March 2024 at his Ozone Park home
by Kristen Guglielmo Editor
The NYPD on Sept. 18 served the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s misconduct charges on officers Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco for the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Win Rozario at his Ozone Park residence on March 27, 2024.
Rozario was experiencing a mental health emergency and called 911 on himself, according to his family. Footage of the incident was obtained from the body cameras of Alongi and Cianfrocco, of the 102nd Precinct, and released by state Attorney General Letitia James’ office last year. Her office is still investigating the incident.
The officers quickly deployed Tasers when Rozario grabbed a pair of scissors and approached them. The situation escalated quickly, and Rozario’s brother, Ushto, and his mother, Notan Ava Costa, begged the officers not to shoot him. The cops fired their guns five times after less than two minutes at the apartment, killing the teen.
NYPD moving ahead with the charges, Rozario’s family and supporters held a rally outside of police headquarters to call for action, as the statute of limitations on the case was set to expire Sept. 27.
Nearly 40 elected officials in a letter that same day urged Mayor Adams and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to serve charges and fire Alongi and Cianfrocco “without delay or obstruction.”
The CCRB on Sept. 10 ruled that the officers had engaged in serious misconduct, including excessive force and abuse of authority, according to a press release from activist group Desis Rising Up and Moving and the Justice Committee.
On Sept. 18, prior to the news of the
Signatories included Public Advocate Jumaane Williams; Borough President Donovan Richards; City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica); state Sens. Julia Salazar (D-Brooklyn, Ridgewood), Kristen Gonzalez (D-Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens) and John Liu (D-Bayside); Assemblymembers Jessica González-Rojas (D-East Elmhurst), Steven Raga (D-Maspeth) and Claire Valdez (D-Sunnyside); and Councilmembers Selvena Brooks-Powers (D-Laurelton), Tiffany Cabán (D-Astoria), Jennifer Gutiérrez (D-Brooklyn, Queens), Shekar Krishnan (D-Jackson Heights), Nantasha Williams (D-St. Albans) and Julie Won (D-Long Island City).
Alongi and Cianfrocco may accept the combined eight charges brought against them, or bring the case to trial.
Costa, Rozario’s mother, in a statement said she was relieved to hear the NYPD had served the CCRB’s charges, and added, “But
I wish me and my family and so many others didn’t have to fight to make that happen.”
She continued, “The truth is Alongi and Cianfrocco should already have been fired and it’s painful that we still have the whole discipline process ahead of us. I hope this means the NYPD won’t try to play tricks in the months ahead and that Alongi and Cian-
frocco are fired as soon as possible. Without Win this past year and a half, I have felt like I lost a part of myself. I am fighting for Win and all New Yorkers so that all our children get a chance to grow up. Young people struggling with mental health issues should not live in fear of being killed by the NYPD.” Q
Cops arrest teen after viral OZP bus incident Paper shredding in Forest Park on 9/28
by Kristen Guglielmo Editor
A 15-year-old male has been arrested following an incident on and around a Q24 bus near the stop at Atlantic Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard in Ozone Park, within the confines of the NYPD’s 102nd Precinct.
According to police, it was reported to them that on Sept. 12, at approximately 2 p.m., an individual pepper sprayed a 16-year-old male while he was trying to board the bus.
A video of the incident was posted to the Ozone Park Residents Block Association Facebook page by a witness and received thousands of likes, comments and shares. Footage shows a
group of teenagers laughing and jeering, including one teen wearing all black with a black facial covering and holding a machete. The group eventually fled the scene.
“We got on the bus and suddenly a young man entered through the back door of the bus trying to hide from another young man who was chasing him with a machete,” the witness wrote. “He was really trying to hurt him, he was totally enraged. ... The driver tried to protect the young man but in doing so this girl sprayed pepper spray in his eyes and we had to take another bus.”
State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Woodhaven) is once again hosting his biannual paper shredding and household goods donation event at the Forest Park Bandshell on Sept. 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Residents will be able to shred their personal, private documents and donate certain unwanted household goods to the United War Veterans Council.
Residents can bring up to three medium boxes of personal files, including non-commercial business or medical files, for shredding. Accepted goods include clothing, shoes, small working appliances and kitchenware, toys, bikes, jewelry, small furniture, American flags and eyewear.
Police did not mention the driver in relaying the incident to the Chronicle, but a report by PIX 11 said the driver is recovering at home.
Cops said pursuant to an ongoing investigation, a 15-year-old male was arrested on Monday at 1:15 p.m. for assault and criminal possession of a weapon. Q
Other electronics, cardboard, magazines, file folders, pre-shredded paper, commercial business files, x-rays, air conditioners, paint and tires will not be accepted. Those with questions should call Addabbo’s office at (718) 738-1111.
Electronic waste and paint will be accepted at a separate event at the same location, on Oct. 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., also sponsored by Addabbo. Q
The family of 19-year-old Win Rozario, on Sept. 18 outside of One Police Plaza, called for action to be taken against the two NYPD officers who fatally shot their son. Later that day, it was announced the charges had been served. DESIS RISING UP AND MOVING PHOTO AND, INSET, FILE PHOTO
Win Rozario
A video of unruly teenagers causing havoc on a bus in Ozone Park on Sept. 12 went viral and led to the arrest of a 15-year-old male. SCREENSHOT VIA OZPKRBA / FACEBOOK
Hero remembered at the Run for Richie
The annual Run for Richie, a memorial motorcycle parade in honor of the late Richard Allen Pearlman, the youngest first responder lost on 9/11 at age 18, returned Sept. 20 with hundreds of participants riding through the city in support.
Pearlman was a resident of Howard Beach and a member of the Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps, which received proceeds from the parade.
The event, hosted by the NYC Punishers Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club, with support from the NYPD, FDNY and Parks Department, saw motor-
cyclists, escorted by the FDNY and NYPD, meeting at Flushing Meadows Corona Park riding through Manhattan to the World Trade Center, and then to Brooklyn for the Indian Larry Grease Monkey Block Party. Pearlman’s sister, Lisa, was in attendance.
The Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps took to Facebook to share photos from the parade and write, “Thank you to all of the participants, volunteers, FDNY, and NYPD for making the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 Run For Richie Motorcycle Ride a success!” — Kristen Guglielmo
PHOTOS
KIWANIS CLUB OF HOWARD BEACH SERVING THE COMMUNITY FOR 63 YEARS
To the Howard Beach Community,
As the outgoing president of the Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach, I would like to thank you all for your support during the last year and for the 63 years of our existence. Our motto is “Changing the World by Serving Children, One Child and One Community at a Time!”
Our mission is to serve the community of Howard Beach. All funds raised by the club go back to the community. All of our members are volunteers.
Some of our community events include, but are not limited to, The Annual Halloween Parade, the placement of American fl ags and donating to holiday lights along Cross Bay Boulevard; and gift cards to needy families during the holiday season. The Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach has also routinely fundraised and donated to the following organizations:
• St. Mary’s Hospital for Children – pledge of $50,000 within a five-year period
• Tunnel 2 Towers • Wounded Warrior Project • Silver Shield Foundation
• American Softball for Challenged Young Adults • Boys and Girl’s Club
• Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) - formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)
• Food Pantries at St. Helen R.C Church and Our Lady of Grace R.C. Church
• Angels on the Bay Foundation • Little North Pole • Pediatric Lyme Disease Foundation
• Quality Services for the Autism Community (QSAC)
• Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center Foundation
• Sending needy children to Kamp Kiwanis Summer Camp
• Boy Scouts Troops #237 & #139
The Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach provides opportunities for local students to serve their community by participating in the Bui lder’s Club K at St. Helen’s School. The service leadership programs and clubs enable students to become well rounded and improve their academic skills. The Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach awards scholarships to eligible students in Middle School and graduating High School.
Once again, I would like to thank you all for your support. I am leaving as the President and know that the community will be i n good hands with Robert Fanizza as our new President.
With Sincere Gratitude,
STEPHEN A. SIRGIOVANNI
Kiwanis of Howard Beach President (2024-2025)
Past Distinguished Governor of the NY District of Kiwanis
March for Excellence takes pupils to the streets, but provokes controversy Charter schools in NYC rally for equity
by Kristen Guglielmo Editor
More than 15,000 charter school parents and supporters, including many from Queens, gathered at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn for the March for Excellence last Thursday, demanding that all have equal access to schools.
The event was organized by more than 200 of the city’s charters, including Uncommon, Achievement First, KIPP NYC, Dream Charter Schools, Success Academy and the Black Latinx Asian Charter Collaborative.
According to a press release promoting the event, the groups lamented that charters “consistently face bureaucratic obstruction” and are “denied equitable per pupil funding and access to classroom space in public school buildings.”
Charter schools educate more than 150,000 students, and the majority of those pupils are lowincome and historically underserved.
The march saw children taken out of school for the day to flood the streets of Brooklyn along with parent and teacher advocates, with signs reading “excellence is a civil right”
and calling for the state-imposed cap to be lifted. Charters are banned from opening new schools due to a state-imposed limit of 275.
At the march, Eva Moskowitz, the founder and CEO of Success Academy, the largest charter network in New York City, said, “What bothers me about the city, state and country, is that affluent parents get choice. They move to the suburbs. They rent an apartment in an affluent district that has better schools. All we want is what affluent parents get. We want the same choices no matter what ZIP code you live in.”
Asked by an attendee if she’s worried about leading mayoral candidate Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D-Astoria), who has voiced opposition to charters, Moskowitz said, “I’m worried about every elected official.”
She said she’s worried about support for charters “because we can’t even establish that charter schools are public schools” and added, “This is crazy talk.”
Bishop Raymond Rivera, the founder of Family Life Academy Charter Schools, said his clergy network met with Mamdani, and that he
Parents, teachers, students and other education advocates took to Brooklyn last Thursday for the March for Excellence, promoting charter schools and demanding equity.
seemed “open to dialogue.”
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is second in polling in the mayoral election, has praised charter networks, and his campaign website states he wants to expand them.
The rally received some backlash. Last Friday, state Sens. John Liu (D-Bayside), the chair of the Committee on NYC Education, and Shel-
ley Mayer (D-White Plains), the chair of the Committee on Education, called for an investigation into the March for Excellence in a letter sent to State Education Department Commissioner Betty Rosa and SUNY Chancellor John King.
The legislators said multiple reports indicate that charters closed for the day and mandated attendance
at the rally, with staff and families “feeling pressured to participate and fearful of repercussions if not.”
Liu and Mayer said canceling classes and forcing families and students to “engage in a political rally is an egregious misuse of instructional time and state funds.”
They called on the SED and SUNY to determine if there were any violations of state law, and if so, to claw back a portion of state per capita funding from each participating school.
Leaders from Ember Charter Schools, Lamad Academy Charter Schools, the Council of Holistic Christian Churches and Ministries and Zeta Charter Schools sent a letter to the senators in response on Tuesday.
“This was not a partisan display,” they wrote. “It was the most fundamental expression of civic life — families demanding fairness, equity and access to quality education.”
They called the legislators’ letter “defamatory and dismissive” and said siding against parents of charter students, many of whom are Black and brown, “is to side with failure and inequality.” Q
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EDITORIAL AGEP
Double down on Queens casinos
We would not have guessed, back when the yearslong process of granting three downstate casino licenses began, that Queens could possibly end up with two of them. But now a pair of Queens casinos winning their bids looks nearly as likely as a pair of Queens winning a hand of poker.
Three of the contenders, those for Times Square, Freedom Plaza and Hudson Yards in Manhattan, were voted down by their respective community advisory committees. Coney Island never seemed likely; and the Bronx site would entail a big payoff to its former manager, President Trump, something most state officials would not want to see. That leaves Empire City in Yonkers, which seems nearly a shoo-in, Resorts World by Aqueduct in South Ozone Park and the Metropolitan Park plan, next to Citi Field.
The conventional wisdom was always that Empire City and Resorts World were heavy favorites, leaving just one other site truly up in the air. Looking at the situation now, it appears Metropolitan Park, the plan from Mets owner Steve Cohen and Hard Rock International, is the best bet.
The CAC for Resorts World is set to vote today, and the
one for Metropolitan Park will be voting soon. Both should be OK’d. The final step is for the state to choose.
We’re glad the process is finally nearing the finish line. It’s gone on way too long — you might say that’s the price of democracy in the form of public input, but it’s also just bureaucracy. The state approved the plan for three downstate casinos in 2022, and has had to delay its selection.
We recognize that casinos can come with costs — gambling addiction being the worst, and something the state is obligated to help combat — but the example of Resorts World is informative. We have not seen the societal ills that naysayers feared. We’ve seen lots of tax revenue, support for the community and non-gambling entertainment.
There could be hurdles. Beyond its casino, Resorts World promises to build housing but may need new state approval. Metropolitan Park likely would face a lawsuit from environmentalists, because that’s their stock in trade. But these things could be overcome and thousands of jobs could be created: more than 16,000 for construction at Metropolitan Park and 7,900 at Resorts World. That’s huge in these times of economic challenge and expanding AI.
It’s a great day for a casino in Queens. Let’s have two!
Repave faster
Last spring, when we asked the office of a city councilman about streets that needed paving in the area, an aide said the bigger issue is how long it takes between the milling that chops up a street and the resurfacing that follows.
The more we see, the more we tend to agree.
The aide pointed out that when Myrtle Avenue was redone, some parts of it went a month and a half between milling and repaving. That’s ridiculous. It’s dangerous because drivers are moving all over the street to avoid manhole covers that are now raised high enough to seriously damage undercarriages, and the deep dips that also appear. Tires are ruined. There are no lines in the street, so driving is an even greater free-for-all than usual. Pedestrians are at higher risk and the grooves are very hard on cyclists.
When the state repaves a highway, such as the Whitestone Expressway, it seems it mills one day and repaves the next. Can’t the city do that? Maybe the Council should pass a bill forcing the city to pick up the pace if it can’t do it on its own. Safety first.
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School danger zone
As of this writing, there is not a single sign designating a school safety zone (i.e., Slow: Children Crossing, Speed Limit 15 mph, photo enforced, increased fines), as one approaches the campus of PS 99, the Kew Gardens School, and its satellite, The Leah B. Weinberg Early Childhood Learning Center, from any direction, most notably Kew Gardens Road and Lefferts Boulevard.
In haste, and in hope that more than 700 small, vulnerable children return to class to show and tell, it is not too late to have a thoughtful conversation regarding this issue.
In addition, adding insult to injury, on such a narrow, congested, winding and sloping old country road, it is unconscionable to invite lawless and reckless flying cyclists to a newly paved bike route, with conditions that do not allow for recreational use.
This ad hoc “shared lane” thorough chaotic and perilous intersections created by zigzagging side streets such as 82nd Avenue (where articulated buses warn, ominously, “Caution, a bus is turning!”) is, quite frankly, preposterous.
Fast-forward to the school intersection at 83rd Avenue and Kew Gardens Road. Here, as a controversial, still two-way 83rd Avenue (heavily impacted by commercial traffic from Queens Boulevard below) intersects with nearby Lefferts Boulevard, a bottleneck effect is created. It is a perfect storm, as a continuous flow of traf-
fic in all directions challenges the “Bike route: shared lanes.”
Beneath an ironic sign, “Do not cross here,” I am warned by a school monitor as she cautiously crosses a line of elementary school students, to stop filming: “Those are our children!”
Through a sleepless night, I accompany “our children” with their overstuffed and colorful backpacks and summer dreams, crying out for ways, in practice and prayer, to help them reach their destination.
Frank S. Alberti Kew Gardens
The writer is a member of the PS 99 Class of 1954.
Proposition exposition
Dear Editor:
I’m trying to do the homework but I’m in the dark.
The Sept. 11 Queens Chronicle article “Ballot questions OK’d amid call to nix them” motivated me to read the six proposals that will appear on our November 2025 ballot; one is
statewide and five are citywide. The words are clearly there but the meaning, significance and ramifications of many evade my understanding. NYS Ballot Proposal No. 1 talks about preparing for the 2026 Winter Olympics by allowing the terrain in the Adirondacks to be modified for Olympic events. I need a trusted expert to tell me if these environmental modifications are as benign as the proposition makes it seem. I have essentially the same question about the first three NYC ballot proposals, which deal with affordable housing, land use and the creation of an appeals board. According to the NYC Campaign Finance Board, these would “create new fast track public processes fo r affordable housing,” “create Expedited Land Use Review Procedure, a new, simplified review process for certain land use changes,” and “create a new Affordable Housing Appeals Board, made up of the relevant Borough President, the Speaker of the City Council, and the Mayor, that would replace the Mayor’s veto at the end of the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure for projects that would create affordable housing.”
LETTERSTO THE EDITOR
I appreciate the coverage that the article provides, and “new” can be good or better, but I would welcome some forum where these proposals could be explained, discussed, defended and disputed. What are these land-use changes? How happy are the NYC real estate developers with these proposals? That would make me pause.
I don’t want my vote to be either blind faith or uninformed obstinacy. Comments by elected officials are significant but not sufficient. Can someone else shine a light on these?
Debra Michlewitz Bayside
End fake robo calls
Dear Editor:
If you’re like me, you answer your phone only to find out the person you are speaking with is interested in one item only — and that item is your Medicare number.
I have no idea how many times I have received bogus phone calls about this. I have tried in vain to block them with the Do Not Call Registry from the Federal Communications Commission — no help there. I tried blocking them with Verizon — no help there, either.
Something has to be done on the federal government level to end these annoying calls because the people doing the calling do not give up — they keep calling and calling using different phone numbers. I, for one, am tired of these calls and insist something be done.
Kathleen Schatz Rego Park
A mean one, Mr. Grinch
Dear Editor:
In anticipation of cutting toy-buying budgets for Christmas due to higher prices, parents can explain to their children: Our president would not allow Santa Claus to bring in as many toys this year. Of course, this explanation must be accompanied by a sorrowful look on your face.
Glenn Hayes Kew Gardens
Out-of-state plate idea
Dear Editor:
Regarding out-of-state plates used by people living in NYS, the state doesn’t want to do the enforcement because of laziness!
A small change in the speed or traffic cameras would allow a photo capture of license plates so that if one shows up for 90 days in succession, the car must then be registered in NYS. If it isn’t, it could then be towed to a New York car pound, so that the actual owner would have to come in with his license, real registration and proof of address, with mail to that address. The car would then have to be registered in NYS.
The laws are already on the books; they just need to be enforced. Although the city and state are not interested in pursuing this, possibly the insurance companies would be interested, because they are losing thousands, if not millions, of dollars due to this fraud.
Alexander Glatt Woodhaven
Pitching has changed
Dear Editor:
To all the baseball fans out there, here is something for all of you to consider as the 2025 regular season comes to a conclusion. When the day comes that Clayton Kershaw, Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer retire and are elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, no other starting pitcher will ever be elected afterwards. They will be the last three pitchers who will ever finish their careers with stats worthy of admission.
The game has changed so that between injuries and most starting pitchers’ barely lasting five innings per start, no pitcher in the future will ever have stats good enough for election.
David Conlin Howard Beach
Kirk’s emotional service
Dear Editor:
I was watching the worship memorial service on Fox News for Charlie Kirk and I was moved to tears at the loss of a great young man. This took place in Glendale, Arizona and thousands came to this event and many from various parts of America and the world. Many came to Arizona to pray and to give tribute to a man that had much more to give. Charlie left a wife and two children who will miss him greatly. Charlie believed in free speech and to debate those who disagreed with him. He was also a man of God and should not have been assassinated. As Jesus gave his life for humanity, so Charlie also gave his life to spread the message of love. He also was dedicated to the youth of our country. May Charlie Kirk be blessed by God and to rest in peace in heaven for starting this movement that generated a renewed a sense of spirituality.
God Bless you, Charlie Kirk.
Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Bellerose
Israel willfully targets Hamas
Dear Editor:
A U.N. commission has charged Israel with committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting civilians. Israel rejects the charge and responds that the Israeli army is deliberately targeting Hamas. However, civilian casualties are unavoidable because Hamas, in violation of international humanitarian law, is deeply embedded among and under civilian communities. Since Hamas fighters dress in civilian clothes, their deaths are counted as civilian casualties. While Israel urges civilians to move to safer humanitarian zones, Hamas tries to prevent them from leaving combat areas.
The U.N. commission placed no responsibility on Hamas for civilian suffering in Gaza. All responsibility was placed solely on Israel. The U.N. appears to have granted Hamas immunity from Israeli retaliation for the massacre and abduction of innocent Israeli civilians on Oct. 7. Nevertheless, many Israelis, including army leaders, want their government to accept a ceasefire that will end the war, bring all the hostages home, and leave a weakened Hamas in Gaza.
Theodore Sheskin Flushing
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Orders stronger enforcement until bill to remove the industry passes Adams joins call to ban horse carriages
by Stephanie G. Meditz Editor
Mayor Adams last Wednesday told city officials to brace for a ban on horse-drawn carriages in the city, which animal rights advocates and some lawmakers have long pushed for.
Urging the City Council to pass Ryder’s Law, a bill introduced by Councilman Bob Holden (D-Maspeth) last year to phase out the industry, Adams signed an executive order instructing city agencies to double down on enforcement until the legislation gets passed and start identifying new employment opportunities for workers.
“While horse-drawn carriages have long been an iconic fixture of Central Park, they are increasingly incompatible with the conditions of a modern, heavily-used urban green space,” he said in a statement.
Adams also sent the City Council a letter of necessity for the immediate passage of Ryder’s Law, citing the collapse of carriage horses on city streets in recent years, as well as an incident last month in which a carriage horse ran off while carrying passengers.
Holden’s bill is named for a carriage horse who collapsed in Manhattan in the summer of 2022 and died that October. It would prohibit the issuance of new licenses, ban the carriages’ operation starting next June and require the development of a pro-
gram to facilitate workers’ transition to other fields.
“I welcome Mayor Adams’ support for Ryder’s Law. It is the right step for public safety, humane treatment of animals, and a fair transition for workers,” Holden said in a press release. “I urge my colleagues
Neir’s to celebrate 196 years with block party
by Kristen Guglielmo Editor
Neir’s Tavern is pulling out all the stops for its 196th anniversary with a lively block party on Saturday, Oct. 4, from 12 to 6 p.m., along 88th Avenue between 78th Street — also known as Neir’s Tavern Way — and 77th Street in Woodhaven, promising a day packed with excitement for all ages.
Starting at 12:30 p.m., guests can enjoy free hot dogs, popcorn, cotton candy and bottled water on a first-come, first-served basis. Music lovers will be treated to tunes from a DJ spinning throughout the day. At 4 p.m., the Kingdom Dance Company will hit the stage for a performance, followed by a community dance led by the troupe.
Fans of film won’t want to miss the “GoodFellas” challenge banner, featuring a cutout at the spot where Robert DeNiro once stood while filming the iconic movie at Neir’s.
The Kiwanis Club of Ozone Park-Woodhaven, a sponsor of the event, will offer a slate of kid-friendly fun, including face painting, a steeplechase challenge and a bouncy castle that promises nonstop action. The NYPD will showcase its high-tech
robotic dog, also known as the “Digidog,” through a demonstration.
At 2 p.m., the spotlight turns to the Neir’s Ambassador Awards, honoring guests and dignitaries including Chris Dudin, Jennifer Ierardi, Margie Schmidt, U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-Brooklyn, Queens), Magee Hickey and Liam Castro.
An appearance by Dr. Sandra Lindsay, the first critical care nurse in the U.S. to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, will offer the community a chance to hear her story firsthand.
“This year’s theme is Community Conquers All, and the honorees have exemplified that in their local advocacy, championing small business, and amplifying the value of community through the media — like our Ruschell Boone Legacy Award honoree Magee Hickey of WPIX News,” said Neir’s Tavern owner Loycent Gordon in a statement. “The presence of hundreds of supporters who registered early proves that belief in Neir’s Tavern reaching 200 years has not faded — and that support for small business is stronger than ever. October 4th will demonstrate the true meaning of Community Conquers All.” Q
to bring this bill to committee and pass it swiftly.”
Edita Birnkrant, the Queens-based executive director of animal rights nonprofit New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets, told the Chronicle her group is pleased with the “long overdue” development.
“The mayor taking this action, we’re very happy to see,” Birnkrant said. “But ultimately, we still need to pass the legislation in the City Council, and the mayor doesn’t have the power to do that.” The Central Park Conservancy took a public stance against carriages for the first time last month, she said, and that was “a big reason” why Adams took the steps he did.
She added that New York is behind other cities around the world that have either removed the industry altogether or replaced it with alternatives such as electric carriages, an idea that Adams said he is open to exploring.
A City Council spokesperson said lawmakers appreciate that the issue is “difficult and emotional” for many residents, but it is “opportunistic and not helpful” for Adams to use it for his reelection campaign.
“This bill continues to go through the legislative process, which is deliberative and allows for thorough input from all stakeholders,” the spokesperson said.
John Chiarello, the president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, which represents carriage drivers, said Adams betrayed working class New Yorkers with his call for a ban.
“It’s disappointing to see Adams, who is polling dead last in the mayor’s race, now abandon hardworking people who make their living taking part in an age-old New York tradition,” Chiarello said in a statement. TWU International President John Samuelsen also called the mayor “a straightup Judas Iscariot who has sold his soul to real estate developers” seeking to build skyscrapers where Manhattan’s carriage horse stables are.
The four mayoral candidates have all expressed support for a horse carriage ban.
“Whoever the next mayor is wants horse carriages banned,” Birnkrant said. “What are we waiting for? Are we waiting for a human fatality that very nearly happened just a few weeks ago and many other times?” Q
Construction’s not done yet
While the goal was for construction along the J train at the 85th Street/Forest Parkway stop to be completed by the end of August, work there is still ongoing.
While full platform service has returned, construction crews are in the process of making final repairs to the platforms and mezzanine, an MTA spokesperson told the
Chronicle. The work should be fully completed within the next few weeks, the spokesperson said. A contractor at the site told the Chronicle Monday that they are “aiming to be done” by the start of October.
Above, a new structure was placed in front of the office of state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. just last week. — Kristen Guglielmo
BY KRISTEN
Mayor Adams last week called to ban horse carriages in the city, citing several recent incidents of the animals collapsing on the job.
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Not all’s free fare in mayoral election
Major opponents not adopting bus platform of Mamdani’s campaign
by Michael Gannon Senior News Editor
The mayoral campaign of Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D-Astoria) has gained a lot of attention for his promise to make city buses free.
In a recent sit-down with the Chronicle, State Sen. John Liu (D-Bayside) said he supported the idea when asked about the coming 10-cent fare increase. State Senate Deputy Majority Leader Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria), expressed hope for such a program under a Mamdani mayoral administration speaking last week at the unveiling of new subway elevators in Woodside.
Mamdani himself says on his campaign web site that a recent year-long pilot program with free fares on one bus line in each borough proved it can succeed.
about making buses faster and the subways and streets safer. He has said in published reports, such as in an interview with Fox Business News this past summer, that he believed Mamdani is making a promise on which he will not be able to deliver.
Cuomo on his website says the free bus pilot program showed promise on several points, and merits further examination.
“The fare-free bus lines generated significant ridership increases, with weekday ridership up roughly 30 percent and weekend ridership up 38 percent compared to before the pilot,” the campaign says in a subsection on affordability.
Mamdani’s campaign did not respond to requests from the Chronicle for further information clarifying how a program would work, and the campaigns of Mayor Adams, Curtis Sliwa and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo also did not respond prior to the Chronicle’s deadline.
The biggest increase in ridership came from lower-income New Yorkers earning under $28,000 a year, “indicating that the program provided economic relief to a segment of the population that relies completely on public transit.”
But none of Mamdani’s opponents have embraced his proposal, and Janno Lieber, chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has expressed reservations.
Mamdani’s website offers few details.
“Public transit should be reliable, safe and universally accessible,” the section on free buses states. “But one in five New Yorkers struggle to afford the ever rising fare. Adding insult to injury: our city’s buses are the slowest in the nation, robbing working people of precious time for family, leisure and rest ... Fast and free buses will not only make buses reliable and accessible but will improve safety for riders and operators — creating the world-class service New Yorkers deserve.”
It then offers a link to a column he and Gianaris wrote for The Nation in September 2024 on the pilot program.
Adams’ website speaks in generalities
Another stated benefit of the program was that removing the farebox had the benefit of reducing the number of assaults on city bus drivers.
But the Cuomo campaign also points out that the MTA’s farebox revenue from buses is close to $700 million annually, “so scaling a fare-free bus program would have to be done judiciously.”
Cuomo also believes that the Fair Fares program, which offers 50 percent discounts to low-income residents, could benefit far more people than now take advantage of it.
“Uptake of Fair Fares has grown, but participation remains well below the number of people eligible,” the campaign states.
“As of early 2024, roughly 331,000 New Yorkers were enrolled in Fair Fares, even though about 800,000–950,000 people are eligible under the income threshold. For those who do enroll, the impact on affordability is significant ... Many low-income New Yorkers have very limited disposable income, so this relief is meaningful.”
Sliwa has opposed free buses on economic grounds. His campaign website focuses more on stopping and prosecuting farebeating as an economic and public safe-
JHMC baby shower Sept. 25
Borough President Donovan Richards is hosting a Community Baby Shower at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center today, Sept. 25, from 2 to 4 p.m.
The event, honoring expecting and new parents, is in Building D, located at the 90-28 Van Wyck Expy. To RSVP, people may go to queensbp.nyc.gov/rsvp.
Baby shower gifts.
Presented in partnership with the River Fund, an anti-poverty nonprofit located at 89-11 Lefferts Blvd. in Richmond Hill, the event includes free health
ty benefit under the website’s transit safety section.
“Enforce fare evasion laws aggressively
screenings and education; a car seat demonstration; a booster seat giveaway (while supplies last); a photo booth; raffle prizes; healthy snacks and gifts for attendees.
On its Instagram page, the hospital said it is thrilled to partner with the borough president for the baby shower.
“There will be plenty of activities and goodies for our guests,” posted JHMC. “We hope to see you there!” Q — Naeisha Rose
— fare-beaters are often connected to larger patterns of lawlessness,” the main bullet point says. Q
Car theft dips; cops offer tips
While car theft is down marginally so far this year compared to last, it remains a persistent problem in Queens and citywide.
So far this year, through Sept. 14, grand larceny auto is down 4.3 percent in Queens, with 3,113 cases compared to 3,252 through the same point in 2024, according to NYPD CompStat records.
The drop is 5.7 percent in Queens’ northern precincts, and 2.3 percent in the southern ones. Citywide, the decline is 4.2 percent, with 9,723 incidents, compared to 10,151 so far last year.
Police offer standing tips on how to per-
suade thieves to not try your car. Most are commonsense things you do yourself.
• always turn off the ignition and remove your keys;
• close all windows and lock all doors;
• activate your vehicle alarm system;
• park in high-traffic or well-lit areas when possible;
• utilize a vehicle steering wheel lock;
• install a kill switch (may require professional installation); and
• install a battery disconnect switch (also may require a professional). Q
— Peter C. Mastrosimone
New e-bike speed limit 10/24
Mayor Adams announced Monday that a 15 miles-per-hour speed limit for e-bikes will go into effect in city streets on Oct. 24.
The limit will apply to e-bikes, e-scooters and pedal-assist commercial bicycles. Human-powered vehicles are exempt as they are lighter than electric devices.
“This new 15 miles-per-hour speed limit for e-bikes is about keeping New Yorkers safe while continuing to keep our city moving,” Adams said in a press release. “As more New Yorkers turn to e-bikes and e-scooters to get around our city, New Yorkers have asked us to set
clear, consistent rules to address this issue and protect everyone. Starting Oct. 24, whether you’re riding, walking or driving, we know that everyone will be safe and protected on our streets.”
City Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez said they are using every tool available to upgrade safety.
“With record bike ridership and a historic expansion of our protected bike lane network, we’re making it safer and easier than ever for the record number of New Yorkers choosing cycling by building infrastructure and providing education to meet the moment,” Rodriguez said. Q
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Ruling on Astoria bike lanes due by Oct. 6
by Michael Gannon Senior News Editor
The judge hearing the dispute over bike lanes proposed for 31st Street in Astoria apparently plans to waste no time reaching a decision.
A spokesman for the 31st Street Business Association told the Chronicle Tuesday that State Supreme Court Justice Cheree Buggs is planning to render her decision by or before Oct. 6
Buggs, who sits in Jamaica, heard arguments this past Monday from the city Department of Transportation, which already has put down some paint and other markings for the bike lanes; and the business association, whose members oppose them.
The DOT is planning curbside lanes on both sides of 31st Street between 36th and Newtown avenues. The roadway sits beneath the elevated N/W subway tracks.
Curbside parking would be moved out to spaces between the steel support columns for the tracks. The street’s two vehicular travel lanes would be narrowed.
The DOT asserts that the change are necessary to improve safety conditions on
dangerous, accident-prone stretch of roadway.
Members of the business association counter that the changes would disrupt deliveries for themselves and parking for their customers. They also have argued that there are numerous alternative streets which would be suitable for bike lanes. Their complaint also states that the changes would introduce pedestrians, including senior citizens and children attending nearby schools, to the dangers of crossing bike lanes to cross the streets or get to curbs from buses and other motor vehicles.
The agency has repeatedly said that the designs and engineering for 31st Street have been implemented in numerous cities; and have a proven record of reducing accidents and improving safety for bikers, pedestrians and drivers. The DOT also claims the plan provides ample parking spaces and loading zones for businesses.
The business association also is worried about hindering access by emergency vehicles, a concern shared by the unions that represent the FDNY’s firefighters and fire officers Q
Swingin’ into the groove
youtube.com/@SenatorJosephAddabbo.
Woodhaven, hosted by state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr.
“This concert is about making great music accessible across the generations,” Addabbo said in a statement, and thanked those who assisted with the event, including the entertainers and the Parks Department.
The Hot Toddies Jazz Band, with singer Hannah Gill, provided the evening’s tunes, and instructor Margaret Batiuchok prior to the show taught a dance lesson. Paul Caposcale was the event’s emcee.
Footage of the concert is available on Addabbo’s YoutTube channel, at
He added, “I am pleased to be able to bring the community together for this wonderful evening of free entertainment, which highlights some of the great performers of the swing genre.” — Kristen Guglielmo
Texas man allegedly left multiple anti-Muslim, hate-filled messages Death threats made against Mamdani
by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief
A Texas man who repeatedly left hate-filled voicemails and at least one written message threatening death against state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D-Astoria) with his legislative office has been indicted and extradited to Queens, District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Sept. 18.
Jeremy Fistel, 44, of Plano, allegedly left a series of messages calling for Mamdani to suffer a painful death, along with his family, along with other Muslims, and saying he would welcome such events.
“Hey Zohran, you should go back to f--king Uganda before someone shoots you in the f--king head and gets rid of your whole f--king family, too,” Fistel allegedly said in the first voicemail the DA cited, left at the office on June 11. “You piece of s--t Muslims don’t belong here.”
Others left on June 18, July 8 and July 23 were of similar tone.
June 18: “Go on and start your car. See what happens ... yeah, keep an eye on your house and your family. Watch your f--king back every
f--king second til you get the f--k out of America ... And check your beeper, too, terrorist f--k. Beep beep.”
Israeli agents killed a number of terrorists last year via explosives hidden in pagers.
July 8, in writing: “I hope you get terminal cancer and die a painful death very soon. I’d love to see an IDF bullet go through your skull. Would be even better if you had to watch your wife and kids murdered in front you before they end your pathetic miserable life ... I hope you all die painful sudden deaths. Do us all a favor and kill yourself.”
The initialism IDF stands for Israel Defense Forces.
July 23, back to voicemail:
“F--king terrorist piece of s--t. All you and your Muslim f--k loser friends and relatives and family and wife and kids deserve to die. You deserve to be 6 feet under the f--king ground. I hope somebody does it quickly, somebody shoots you in the f--king face ... I hope you get raped and murdered as well.”
Fistel was arrested Sept. 11, extradited to Queens Sept. 17 and arraigned Sept. 18, on a 22-count
bond, the DA’s Office said, and Fistel is due back in court Nov. 19. He was not listed as being in custody under the city’s inmate lookup system after his arraignment.
“As alleged, the defendant threatened an elected official by leaving a series of increasingly alarming antiMuslim messages with the office of Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani,” Katz said in a prepared statement. “The defendant told the assemblyman to go back to Uganda before someone shoots him in the head, to keep an eye on his house and family, to watch his back every second until he leaves America, and that he and his relatives deserve to die.
indictment charging him with four counts of making a terroristic threat as a hate crime, four counts of making a terroristic threat, seven counts of aggravated harassment in the second degree as a hate crime and seven counts of aggravated harassment in the second degree.
If convicted of the top charges, he faces up to 15 years in prison. Bail was set at $30,000 cash or $125,000
“Let me be very clear — we take threats of violence against any office holder extremely seriously — and there is no room for hate or bigotry in our political discourse. The defendant has now been extradited to Queens to face the serious charges against him. I thank our law enforcement partners at the NYPD, FBI and US Marshals Service for their work on this case.”
Mamdani’s campaign sent the Chronicle a statement on the threats:
BX woman killed in S. Jamaica
Suspect said he was rushing to Dunkin’ Donuts: QDA
by Naeisha Rose Editor
A Dunkin’ Donut run ended in the death of a safety worker at a construction site in South Jamaica last Friday, said law enforcement.
Isabel Alvarez, 44, a flag person, was holding a “stop/slow” sign inside a safety zone within the site when the defendant, Daveanand Budhai, 25, of 115th Street in South Ozone Park, was allegedly driving at a high rate of speed beyond the posted 25 mph limit near exit 1N on the Nassau Expressway leading to the Van Wyck Expressway, and hit her, said Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz’s Office.
“I was in a rush,” Budhai said in a criminal complaint obtained from Katz’s office. “I was in a rush because I wanted to get something to eat from Dunkin’ Donuts.”
An investigation by the NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad said Budhai was operating a 2018 Infiniti Q505, when he allegedly went east on the Nassau expressway.
Katz’ office said the left lane of the expressway was closed and marked with multiple traffic drums and signage as it was an active construction zone. Alvarez, of the Bronx, was wearing her required safety equipment, including a hardhat and fluorescent reflective visibility vest, when Budhai
allegedly drove into the traffic drums and struck her, throwing the victim’s body approximately 168 feet. Police were called about the incident at approximately 7:28 a.m.
EMS rushed to the scene, where Alvarez had landed on her left shoulder on the roadway, and pronounced her dead.
“The defendant was ignoring the laws of the road, speeding and using a construction zone as his personal shortcut when his actions took the life of the worker,” said Katz in a statement.
Budhai allegedly fled more than one mile from the scene, exited the expressway and drove to the intersection of 134th Street and South Conduit Avenue in South Ozone Park. The defendant then called 911 to request an ambulance for the injuries he sustained to his hands as a result of the collision.
He was sent to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
Police observed the defendant’s sedan, which allegedly had significant front-end damage, including a shattered windshield that appeared to be broken open, said Katz’s office. Blood and glass were allegedly inside the vehicle, as well as fluorescent marks on the hood and roof of the vehicle.
Budhai was arrested at approximately 1:23 p.m.
The defendant was charged with man-
slaughter, assault, leaving the scene of a fatality without reporting, reckless driving, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and related charges,” said prosecutors. If convicted, he faces up to 22 years in prison.
Budhai is being held at the Eric M. Taylor Center at Rikers Island, according to the Department of Correction.
He is expected back in court on Sept. 26.
Alvarez was a part of the Laborers Local 731 union, which made a post about her on Instagram on Sept. 20.
“This morning, we tragically lost our 731 sister ...” said the post. Losing a member on the job is the hardest news we can share. Our thoughts and prayers are with Isabel’s family, friends, and all of her brothers and sisters in Local 731 during this heartbreaking time.”
Katz offered condolences to Alvarez’s friends, family and coworkers as they mourn her “senseless” loss.
“My office is committed to aggressively prosecuting those who endanger everyone on our roadways,” said Katz. Q
“We are grateful to District Attorney Katz’s office for treating this matter with the seriousness it deserves. Unfortunately, threats of this nature are all too common — and they reflect a broader climate of hate that has no place in our city.
“We are thankful for the security measures in place for both the Assembly Office and the campaign, and we want to reassure the community that Zohran and the team are safe. We respect the judicial process and will not be commenting further on the details of the case.
“We cannot and will not be intimidated by racism, Islamophobia, and hate. Zohran remains steadfast in his conviction that New York must be a city where every single person — regardless of faith, background, or identity — is safe, protected, and at home.”
Fistel’s attorney told reporters that his client never had intent to actually harm Mamdani and that his words are protected under the First Amendment. Mamdani is the Democratic nominee for mayor in the Nov. 4 election, and the frontrunner by a wide margin. Q
Donate blood and save lives
“Donate Today, Save Lives Tomorrow” is the motto of the New York Blood Center, which is seeking donors as the state continues to face a blood shortage. All types are sought, but O-negative is especially useful. To help via a blood donation or a financial gift, visit nybc.org.
There are four places in and around Eastern and Southeast Queens listed now where people may donate:
• Holy Child Jesus Church, gym; 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 28, at 11102 86 Ave. in Richmond Hill; blood drive coordinator Helen Aviles;
• NYPD Transit District 20, Briarwood subway station mezzanine; 1 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 1, at Queens Boulevard and Main Street; blood drive coordinator Lt. Baury Reyes;
• American Airlines, first floor arrivals area; 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 14, at JFK Airport Terminal 8; blood drive coordinator Alex Perez; and
• St. Nicholas Tolentine, Tolentine Hall, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 19, at 150-75 Goethals Ave. in Jamaica Hills; blood drive coordinator Nilda Vargas Q — Naeisha Rose
Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, seen here campaigning in Astoria before his June primary win.
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NYPD says Cardozo teen allegedly sent ‘shoot the school up’ post Student arrested after online threat
by Michael Gannon Senior News Editor
A 16-year-old student from Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Bayside is facing multiple charges after allegedly bringing a loaded gun to school last Thursday and posting that he was going to “shoot the school up” on a social media account.
Police, acting on information from the FBI, allegedly recovered a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic handgun from the student’s backpack. He was arrested at the school. His name is being withheld because he is a juvenile.
Jessica Tisch addressed the incident in a joint press conference last Thursday afternoon shortly after the arrest.
“While this is a horrific sign of the times, we are heartbroken that this threat ever existed in one of our high schools,” Adams said. “We are also grateful because this is the perfect example of the system working properly.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, in a statement from her office last Friday, said the Springfield Gardens student has been arraigned on a complaint charging him with two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon; single counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, making a terroristic threat, criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds and criminal possession of a firearm; and two counts of fourthdegree criminal possession of a weapon.
backpack.
After a student made that post we were able to respond and a tip was called in to our partners at the FBI, who in turn notified the NYPD.”
Tisch said a photo was posted in Instagram at 10:17 a.m., and that the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center notified the NYPD at 11:33 a.m. The post’s geo tag allegedly gave Cardozo as the location.
“Units from the 111th Precinct first responded to the school at 11:45, where they met with the dean,” Tisch said. “With support from our intelligence division, NYPD school safety agents and school personnel, our youth officers quickly identified the student who owned the Instagram account in question.
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“As alleged, a 16-year-old student brought a loaded gun into his high school and threatened to do harm,” Katz said. “Thanks to the quick action of our law enforcement partners at the NYPD and the FBI, a tragedy was averted. Gun violence has stolen too many young lives in our communities, and we are extremely grateful that this incident did not result in anyone being hurt or worse.”
“To the parents at Cardozo High School, hug your kids tonight.”
— Mayor Eric Adams
Katz’s office said the student is to return to court on Sept. 26. If convicted and granted youthful offender status, he faces up to 1 1/3 to four years in prison.
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“The student was quickly removed from his classroom without incident and brought to an empty conference room. In that conference room, the officers then dialed the phone number associated with the Instagram account, at which point one of the subject’s phones rang, further verifying the account belonged to the student in question.”
The commissioner said one of the student’s parents was contacted and consented to a search of his belongings. In his backpack, officers allegedly recovered a black 9 mm Taurus GX4, loaded with 13 rounds in the magazine.
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The commissioner said officers also found three phones. Only one was in a school-provided cell phone pouch. The student was arrested at 12:36 p.m. and taken to the 111th Precinct.
Tisch said the student had no criminal history.
“As a mother of two young school-age boys, I am shaken,” she said. “But as your police commissioner, I am resolute in ensuring that the NYPD does everything in our power to keep our children safe.
“I have a message for all parents today. While this incident is terrifying, it is an example of the law enforcement apparatus at the federal and local levels doing everything right. It is literally the system, our protocols, our training, and our processes working just as they should.”
Cardozo Principal Meagan Colby, according to a post on the school’s website, was
scheduled to host two Zoom meetings with Cardozo parents on Friday.
“We potentially saved the lives of a lot of students and staff today, and I don’t want to imagine a world where we would be making a different announcement right now,” Adams said. “To the parents at Cardozo High School, hug your kids tonight. To the students and staff at Cardozo, take care of yourselves and talk to someone if you need to speak about this incident. Don’t bottle it up inside.
“I also want to mention another life saved today, a 16-year-old child who had the gun,” the mayor added. “Because if that 16-yearold had carried out this act he either would have ended up dead or in jail for many years. This was a failure of a society that allowed a 16-year-old to get so close to shooting up a school and potentially killing classmates and teachers.” Q
13-year-old boy shot in Cambria Heights
by Naeisha Rose Editor
Helicopters were flying over Cambria Heights Monday morning after a teenager was shot, according to Citizen App, a crowdsourcing safety alert application.
Police told the Chronicle the victim was shot in the head.
“We have a male shot, 13 years old, critical,” said the police spokeswoman.
The teen was injured outside a Dunkin’ Donuts, located at 208-15 Linden Blvd., at around 8:21 a.m., she said.
The victim was sent to Cohen’s Chil-
NYPD says suspect is still on the loose
dren’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park.
“The perpetrator fled on foot on Linden Boulevard,” the spokeswoman added.
She also said the perpetrator was wearing all black.
Citizen App said the suspect was a Black man with an afro who was wearing a white hoodie with lettering on the front and he was carrying a black backpack and wearing white sneakers.
“The investigation remains ongoing,”
she said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477), or, for Spanish, 1 (888) 57-PISTA (74782).
The public can also submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers.com, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577, or by going to the @nypdtips account on X. All tips are strictly confidential.
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Proposed Maspeth pot shop rejected
by Stephanie G. Meditz Editor
A proposed cannabis dispensary at 71-10 Grand Ave. in Maspeth has been disapproved for violating state guidelines, as per the Office of Cannabis Management.
City Councilman Bob Holden (D-Maspeth), one of several area leaders to oppose the location for its proximity to PS 58, said last Thursday that the OCM told his office the site does not comply with the state’s new guidance, referring to regulations on pot shops’ distance from schools. State law used to require at least 500 feet between a dispensary and a school’s doors, but the agency in July ruled that marijuana shops cannot be within 500 feet of a school’s property line.
“This proposed site is too close to two schools and in the wrong location for a dispensary,” Holden said in a press release last week. “While legal dispensaries are allowed, they must follow the rules — including staying away from schools — and I thank OCM, my partners in government, and Community Board 5 for working with my office to get this application rejected.”
Holden and other local leaders in April wrote a letter urging the state Cannabis
A proposed marijuana shop at 71-10 Grand Ave. in Maspeth, above, was deemed noncompliant with state law.
Control Board to reject the application, citing 446 feet between entrances for PS 58 and the would-be dispensary.
“Protecting our children from unnecessary exposure to cannabis retail is a shared priority,” the letter states.
CB 5 District Manager Gary Giordano said he had sent his own letter of opposition, too, citing concerns about the site’s distance from a bus stop often used by IS 73 students. The board last week voted 28-15 against approving the application. Q
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NL East runners-up
by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor
The Philadelphia Phillies’ clinching of the National League East last Monday was a sports story that received surprisingly little coverage here. Granted, the focus of Mets fans and the media has been on the National League wildcard race. Yes, the Phillies are an excellent team, but the fact they were able to win the division title a full two weeks before the end of the season is an indictment of the 2025 Mets season.
Obviously, the most important thing for any team is to get into the playoffs. Yes, the Mets finished second to the Phillies in the NL East in 2024 but then proceeded to oust them in the National League Division Series.
Nevertheless, the path for postseason success, or even getting there, is more fraught when you are not a division champion. The Mets would have been eliminated by the Milwaukee Brewers in the first round last year if not for Pete Alonso’s dramatic ninth-inning home run heroics.
Going into the final week of the 2025 regular season, the Mets held narrow leads over the Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants and Arizona Diamondbacks in a baseball version of musical chairs for the third and last NL wildcard berth.
Wildcard races, like politics, make strange bedfellows. The Mets and their fans were forced to root for the Phillies this past weekend because they were playing a three-game series
with the Diamondbacks.
It has not been a good year for Mets President of Baseball Operations David Stearns who admitted last week his July deadline trades have been busts. Of the three relievers he acquired, only Tyler Rogers has lived up to expectations. Gregory Soto and Ryan Helsley have been busts. Centerfielder Cedric Mullins, a longtime star with the Orioles, has struggled in Flushing.
While Stearns was throwing snake eyes at the trade deadline craps table, his counterpart 100 miles south of Queens, Phillies President Dave Dombrowski, was rolling sevens and elevens. Dombrowski was able to acquire one of the best closers in the game, Jhoan Duran, and centerfielder Harrison Bader from the Twins without having to surrender the Phillies best minor league prospects. He also was able to coax veteran reliever David Robertson out of retirement, and recently signed playoff-tested starter Walker Buehler after the Red Sox released him. All have been key reasons why the Phillies wrapped up the NL East crown as early as they did.
Dombrowski has always been affable and approachable. He avoids cliches and is never arrogant. That leads to good relationships with other team executives, players, and their agents. It is not just baseball acumen, of which he has plenty, that creates sustained success.
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Advocates target Council’s power to kill development
Voters to decide to create a new, fast-tracked process for some housing projects
by Greg David THE CITY
This article was originally published on Sept. 24, 5:00 a.m. by THE CITY
When someone approaches Brooklyn developer Kirk Goodrich about participating in a new project that will go through the city’s land use review procedure, the first thing he does is check which City Council member represents the area.
If he doesn’t think that member will be supportive, he won’t get involved because under the doctrine of member deference, every Council member can effectively decide where a project is approved, pared back substantially or even is killed in their district — each year costing the city thousands of potential new homes.
“And I am not the only one,” he says.
Now, the commission to revise the city charter empaneled by Mayor Eric Adams is giving voters in November a chance to weaken member deference by boosting the role of borough presidents and allowing certain smaller projects to sidestep Council approval. The Council has launched an effort to convince voters to reject the changes, but they are up against a tough climate, with polls showing that voters ranking the city’s housing crisis among their top concerns.
And even if passed, it’s not entirely clear that the reforms will increase supply enough to make a dent in a lack of housing that has pushed the city’s rental apartment vacancy rate below 2 percent. While supporters of the changes think they will be significant, in some ways the larger point is just
doing something at all.
“The depth of our affordable housing crisis in New York is such that we need every tool in the toolbox and need to be tackling this problem for decades to come,” said Annemarie Gray, executive director of the pro-housing group Open New York. The organization has created a PAC called Yes on Affordable Housing that is expected to spend $3 million to support the proposals.
The first set of charter amendments turn ULURP — uniform land use review procedure — into what the city’s planners are calling ELURP, with the E standing for “expedited.”
Many publicly financed allaffordable projects would go to the Board of Standards and Appeals for approvals, rather than the City Planning Commission or the Council. Proposals that seek an increase of up to 30 percent in existing development rights would be reviewed by the City Planning Commission and not need the Council’s okay.
And affordable housing projects in the 12 Council districts that have built the least affordable housing would also be approved by the planning commission and not the Council.
That proposal would align with the housing fairness agenda Speaker Adrienne Adams pushed through the Council in 2023.
“This gives teeth to the fair housing framework the speaker proposed,” said Howard Slatkin, a longtime official in the city’s planning department and now executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council. “Since that legislative package has been adopted there hasn’t been any implementation.”
But Mandela Jones, a spokesperson for the speaker, said the fair housing law is on track since it calls for city agencies to submit a fair housing plan to the mayor by Oct. 1 with an implementation plan to follow a year later.
None of these measures are likely to help the most ambitious real estate projects that require a rezoning to proceed. But the final proposal, which creates a board of appeals composed of the mayor, speaker and borough president, could sharply reduce the power of individual Council members, particularly if their district is in a borough with a pro-development president.
When the city’s current charter created a much stronger City Council, Mayor Ed Koch and others warned that member deference could cripple the land use process. But at first, powerful Council speaker Peter Vallone consistently overrode member objections to zoning changes he thought were in the city’s interests.
Member deference only became important when term limits took effect in the mid 1990s, leading to a churn in leadership and making the Council speaker more dependent on the support of members. Current speaker Adrianne Adams has tried to push back against member deference but with limited success.
The Charter Commission report notes that proposals that were withdrawn, rejected or modified in 2023 and early 2024 cost the city 3,547 apartments — almost 1,000 of which would have been at belowmarket rents.
on the grounds that they were misleadingly worded, a move the board rejected. Since then, the Council has created a website saying the reforms would take away voters’ power.
Councilmember Sandy Nurse, speaking for the Council, said the fast-track proposals are likely to result in the wrong kind of housing for districts like hers. When a city agency teams up with a nonprofit they frequently want small units with income requirements that won’t help families or the people who live in her North Brooklyn district.
The appeals board could eliminate one of the most important roles the Council plays in land use decisions when it forces the city to provide infrastructure and other investments to win approval for additional housing.
But the cost is probably far greater. A study released in 2022 by the Citizens Budget Commission found that of the 171 projects that initiated discussions with the Department of City Planning between 2014 and 2017, only 65% actually started the ULURP process and 60% got through the Council.
“Relatively few projects actually come forward,” said CBC land use expert Sean Campion. “And that doesn’t get to how many developers didn’t even make it to the start of the process.”
Three current borough presidents — Manhattan’s Mark Levine, Queens’ Donovan Richards and Brooklyn’s Antonio Reynoso have supported most development and have come out strongly for the reforms.
But that might not always be the case, notes Ken Fisher, a prominent land use attorney and a former City Council person.
“And there might be a political price that borough presidents might not be willing to pay,” he added.
Housing advocates say that some Council members have told them that they would be happy to not have the power of member deference, which makes them wide-open political targets. Reynoso, speaking last year at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, notes that in low-turnout primary elections as few as 2,500 anti-development votes could defeat an incumbent Council member.
The City Council attempted to get the Board of Elections to exclude the reforms from the ballot
“You can’t put 4,000 more people on a block that is surrounded by potholes,” she told THE CITY.
But Fisher notes that last year voters approved four of five proposals put forward by a previous Eric Adams charter commission that was regarded as overly politicized and had no support from civic organizations.
This time, in addition to three of five borough presidents, civic organizations like the Citizens Budget Commission and Citizens Union have endorsed the changes.
Pro-housing activists are ramping up their campaigns to get the proposals approved and are sure the impact will be substantial — beginning with curbs on member deference.
“Limiting member deference is a powerful idea that orients the process a better balancing between local and citywide perspectives,” said Slatkin.
Added Rachel Fee of the New York Housing Conference, “The proposals on the ballot could make a big difference for affordable housing.”
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Councilmember Sandy Nurse (D-Brooklyn) chairs a City Hall hearing on the Department of Probation, July 28, 2025. PHOTO BY BEN FRACTENBERG / THE CITY
Council Speaker Adrienne Adams holds a mayoral campaign event outside City Hall, May 13, 2025. PHOTO BY ALEX KRALES / THE CITY
September 25, 2025
by Mark Lord
“She Loves Me,” a delightful candy box of a musical now being offered by Maggie’s Little Theater in Middle Village for four remaining performances through Oct. 5, is one of those shows that, for whatever reason, didn’t receive the kind of love it deserved when it first appeared on Broadway back in 1963.
Today, the show, with a score by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, creators of “Fiddler on the Roof,” and a book by Joe Masteroff, who also wrote “Cabaret,” is rightly celebrated as one of the true beauties of musical theater.
And this production does full justice to the piece. Particularly ingratiating are the opening moments, with music, angelic voices and evocative lighting merging to create a most sublime atmosphere, a feeling that permeates the entire show.
Under the direction of Anthony Logan Cole, the performance takes place both on stage and in the center aisle of the auditorium, which has been reimagined as a cabaret, inspired, no doubt, by one of the primary scenes in the show. The concept establishes an immediate rapport between the entertainers and their audience.
Set in Budapest, Hungary, the story focuses on Georg (Aaron Greenberg) and Amalia (Ayannah Ward), constantly-bickering employees of a
parfumerie who become romantic pen pals, each unaware of the other’s identity.
Greenberg and Ward both have pleasant singing voices, handling their many vocal assignments with aplomb. They also share a couple of memorable dramatic scenes, one in a café, the other in Amalia’s bedroom, where he visits her after she has taken ill.
Alie Campbell, as another employee, Ilona, who has had her share of romantic entanglements, does fine with her big number, “A Trip to the Library,” in which she recounts meeting the newest man in her life.
Chris Napolitano displays a powerful voice, athletic dance moves and more than a touch of swagger as the womanizer Steven Kodaly. Stephen
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Jurist in the news grew up in Fresh Meadows
by Ron Marzlock
Alan D. Gershuny married Marjorie Yamawaki in 1974. They were blessed with a son, Jeffrey, on Dec. 8, 1975 and set up home at 161-55 Jewel Ave. in Fresh Meadows. Marjorie’s father Tomio, who was Japanese, suffered during WWII being confined to Heart Mountain in Wyoming during a dark chapter in America history. Alan, a gifted speaker became assistant director of communications for the NYC Health & Hospital Corp.
Alan became Congressman Ackerman’s congressional staffer and campaign manager. Jeffrey later became a protege of Ackerman, as he became a volunteer in his campaigns.
Jeffrey got his J.D. from Hofstra and unselfishly gave almost 20 years to the US Army Reserve in the JAG (Judge Advocate General) program. Mayor DiBlasio appointed him to the Supreme Court after working as an interim judge in civil court. On Aug. 5,
2025 in the passion of a trial he whipped out his gun in court just to prove a point and was demoted for it. He was news again recently after releasing the famous non-violent “Burberry Bandit” after hitting five banks passing hold up notes. Gershuny’s compassion may be a result of injustice his grandfather once endured at the hands of the government.
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‘Daughter of the Struggle’ at Black Spectrum Oct. 4
by Naeisha Rose editor
“Daughter of the Struggle,” a one-woman show written and performed by Ayanna Gregory, daughter of actor, comedian and human rights activist Dick Gregory, is back by popular demand at the Black Spectrum Theatre in St. Albans.
Gregory, a dramatist, educator, singer and activist in her own right, is set to perform at BST, located in Roy Wilkins Park at 177th Street and Baisley Boulevard, on Saturday, Oct. 4, starting at 2 p.m.
Tickets are on sale for $35 at blackspectrum.com and folks who have a subscription to BST will receive a 20 percent discount. To learn more about the BST or the one-woman show, call (718) 723-1800.
Carl Clay, BST’s founder and executive producer, told the Chronicle via text that he met the comedian in the 1980s and had several conversations with him about everything from entertainment to historical events.
Gregory, who died in 2017, was “a humanitarian, husband, father, comedian and civil rights icon,” said Clay. “He was one of my heroes. His daughter’s show is a testament to his life ...”
The powerful performance by Gregory
first stop on her “Walking in My Father’s Footsteps” tour.
This “is so fitting because my father performed at Black Spectrum many times,” said Gregory.
Her father presented his comedy routine
“Where do we go from here?” at BST back in 2010.
“I couldn’t be prouder of my father’s work in activism,” said Gregory. “I don’t know that I fully understood it as a little girl, but the older I got, the more I understood his impact on the planet.
illustrates her father’s life from her perspective as a child who grew up during the Civil Rights Movement, a time of racial terror, fire hoses, death threats and injustice, according to a synopsis on her website, ayannagregory.com.
“Ayanna Gregory’s show — this onewoman show is a history jewel that con-
nects every recent generation of African Americans from the Greatest Generation, Baby Boomers, Millennials, Gen X, Z and beyond into one big beautiful expression of resistance and struggle for economic and social Justice,” Clay added.
Gregory said via text that she can’t wait to perform the piece at BST, which is the
“Our family sacrificed a lot because my parents literally put their lives and their livelihood on the line for humanity. But the sacrifice was absolutely worth it. And their work as freedom fighters informs everything that I do as a creative artist that uses art as my form of activism.”
Gregory thanked Clay for helping her keep her father’s legacy alive.
“This will be an unforgettable show!” she said. Q
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Velez is an enthusiastic Arpad, the shop’s delivery boy with higher aspirations. Rich Feldman as salesman Sipos offers solid support, along with his personal “Perspective” on life.
It should be pointed out that the current incarnation, with 10 total cast members, is a somewhat scaled-down version of what has always been a fairly intimate show. For the most part, this does not
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prove problematic, though on occasion credibility is challenged by having an actor play a role in one scene, only to reappear seconds later as a different character.
Case in point is Daniel Burke, who plays both no-nonsense shop owner Mr. Maraczek and, armed with a newly-grown mustache, the headwaiter of the café. Despite his jarring reappearance, he does a fine job as both.
Also taking on multiple personalities are the three members of the ensemble, Brooke Lynn McGowan, Audra Harris, and Dolores Voyer, all of whom have impressive singing abilities.
Musical director Ray Naccari provides excellent keyboard support. Even without the full musical accompaniment at the final dress rehearsal, the performance being reviewed, the melodies proved as lovely as ever.
As choreographer, Nina Deacon had few opportunities to create major dances, but the staging of the musical numbers proved efficient.
Ed Voyer designed a simple but evocative backdrop, while his sound design proved outstanding, with every line and
In their respective roles as Amalia and Georg, Ayannah Ward, left, and Aaron Greenberg both gush about their “dear friend,” not realizing they are talking about each other. On the cover: Kodaly and Ilona, portrayed by Chris Napolitano and Alie Campbell, have an unusual relationship.
lyric clearly audible. Alan Perkins’ artistic touches were evident and deserving of appreciation, while Cole’s lighting scheme provided the exact atmosphere demanded of each scene. Dolores Voyer was responsible for the attractive array of costumes.
The remaining performances at St. Mar-
garet Parish Hall, located at 66-11 79 Place in Middle Village, are on Sept. 27 at 8 p.m. and Sept. 28, Oct. 4 and 5 at 3 p.m.
Tickets are $25, and $22 for seniors and children 15 and under. For more information, one may visit maggieslittletheater.org or call (347) 286-8508. Q
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NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR INDYMAC INDX MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-AR25, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-AR25, -against- BIBI GOPAUL ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens on February 11, 2020, wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR INDYMAC INDX MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-AR25, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-AR25 is the Plaintiff and BIBI GOPAUL ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the QUEENS COUNTY COURTHOUSE 88-11 SUTPHIN BLVD., COURTROOM #25, JAMAICA, NY 11435, on 10/24/2025 at 10:00AM, premises known as 9339 205TH STREET, HOLLIS, New York 11423; and the following tax map identification, -10480-29. ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITUTATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH AND COUNTY OF QUEENS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No.: 722933/2021. Everett Hopkins, Esq. - Referee. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES.
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR PARK PLACE SECURITIES, INC. ASSET-BACKED PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2005-WHQ3, - againstDAVID LINN, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens on March 4, 2024, wherein WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR PARK PLACE SECURITIES, INC. ASSET-BACKED PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2005-WHQ3 is the Plaintiff and DAVID LINN, ET AL., are the Defendants. I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the QUEENS COUNTY SUPREME COURT, 88-11 SUTPHIN BOULEVARD, COURTROOM 25, JAMAICA, NY 11435, on October 10, 2025 at 10:00AM, the premises known as 144-04 70TH ROAD, FLUSHING, NY 11367; tax map identification 6657-7; and description: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH OF QUEENS, COUNTY OF QUEENS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK . . . Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No.: 713419/2020.
Scott H. Siller, Esq., as Referee. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC, 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing.
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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR GSAA HOME EQUITY TRUST 2006-2, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, -against- AKILI PARRIS ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens on June 9, 2025, wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR GSAA HOME EQUITY TRUST 2006-2, ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES is the Plaintiff and AKILI PARRIS ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the QUEENS COUNTY COURTHOUSE 88-11 SUTPHIN BLVD., COURTROOM #25, JAMAICA, NY 11435, on 10/24/2025 at 10:00AM, premises known as 14202 174TH STREET, JAMAICA, New York 11434; and the following tax map identification, -12591-248. ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDING AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH AND COUNTY OF QUEENS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK, Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No.: 703182/2020. Amy J Barrett, Esq. - Referee. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/ CLERK DIRECTIVES.
Notice of Formation of 22-24 99TH STREET LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/02/2025. 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, 106-20 31ST AVENUE, EAST ELMHURST, NY 11369. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT QUEENS COUNTY U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR VELOCITY COMMERCIAL CAPITAL LOAN TRUST 2018-2, Plaintiff against BRENDA LANCLOS, et al Defendant(s) Attorney for Plaintiff(s) McMichael Taylor Gray, LLC, 28 Corporate Drive, Suite 104, Halfmoon, NY 12065. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered October 18, 2024, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at the Queens County Supreme Court, Courtroom #25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435 on October 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM. Premises known as 117-26 204th Street, St. Albans, NY 11412. Block 12633 Lot 18. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Fourth Ward of the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $502,457.75 plus interest, fees, and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 715570/2020. The foreclosure sale will be conducted in accordance with 11th Judicial District’s Covid-19 Policies and foreclosure auction rules. The Referee shall enforce any rules in place regarding facial coverings and social distancing. Referee will only accept a certified bank check made payable to the referee. Kristen Jean Dubowski, Esq., Referee File # 21-001540-01
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Notice of Qualification of 8646 FORT HAMILTON PKWY SPE LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/18/25. Office location: Queens County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/26/25. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 122070543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 3, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
8TH AVE BK CENTER LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/14/2025. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Jia Shu Xu, 112-15 Northern Blvd, #2, Corona, NY 11368. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.
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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS ATLANTICA, LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST SIMIN AKAVAN A/K/A SIMINE AKAVAN, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF PETER SENTOUKARIS AKA PETER SENTOUKARAS; ET AL., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered June 9, 2025, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County Supreme Courthouse, on the second floor in Courtroom 25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York on October 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM, premises known as 221-53 Horace Harding Expressway, Oakland Gardens, NY 11364. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, Block: 7527 Lot: 53. Approximate amount of judgment $1,807,066.76 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #711758/2020. Jerry A Merola, Esq., Referee Fein, Such & Crane, LLP 28 East Main Street Rochester, NY 14614 LHFJC006 86891
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U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR RCAF ACQUISITION TRUST, Plaintiff against WUILLER BUSTAMANTE, et al Defendant(s) Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Knuckles & Manfro, LLP, 120 White Plains Road, Suite 215, Tarrytown, NY 10591. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered July 9, 2025, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at the Queens County Supreme Court, Courtroom #25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435 on October 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM. Premises known as 91-03 95th St, Woodhaven, NY 11421. Block 8992 Lot 196. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $426,708.15 plus interest, fees, and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 720054/2019. Cash will not be accepted at the sale. The foreclosure sale will be conducted in accordance with 11th Judicial District’s Covid-19 Policies and foreclosure auction rules. The Referee shall enforce any rules in place regarding facial coverings and social distancing. Referee will only accept a certified bank check made payable to the referee.
Richard M. Gutierrez, Esq., Referee File # 3000-001512
SOLUM ENGINEERING PLLC
Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/21/25. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 4516 163rd St., Flushing, NY 11358, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: To practice Engineering.
Notice of Formation of FLOORING NYC LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/09/2025. 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: FLOORING NYC LLC, 15729 88ST, HOWARD BEACH, NY 11414. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of Jobe Park Edge LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State (SSNY) on 9/8/25. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Jobe Development Corp., 115-15 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11434. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Notice of Formation of KK MANAGEMNET NY LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/10/2025. 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: KK MANAGEMENT NY LLC, 40-51 61ST STREET, WOODSIDE, NY 11377. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
NAME: MR 2 REALTY, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/18/2025, 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 the process to the LLC, 44-06 31st Avenue, Astoria, NY, 11103. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
WS6547 79TH ST LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/05/25. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 8303 Doran Avenue, Glendale, NY 11385. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT, LLC, -against- SHERRIE FOOTMAN AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM CHATSON, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens on June 27, 2025, wherein MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT, LLC is the Plaintiff and SHERRIE FOOTMAN AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM CHATSON, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the QUEENS COUNTY COURTHOUSE 88-11 SUTPHIN BLVD., COURTROOM #25, JAMAICA, NY 11435, on 10/24/2025 at 10:00AM, premises known as 15029 YATES ROAD , JAMAICA, New York 11433; and the following tax map identification, -10131-50. ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH AND COUNTY OF QUEENS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No.: 718726/2018. Fearonce G. LaLande, Esq. - Referee. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/ CLERK DIRECTIVES.
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SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS, NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, Plaintiff, vs. MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS A NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE BANK, FSB, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on August 16, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County Supreme Courthouse, on the second floor in Courtroom 25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435 on October 24, 2025 at 10:00 a.m., premises known as 10607 177th Street, Jamaica, NY 11433. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, Block 10334 and Lot 6. Approximate amount of judgment is $1,274,777.57 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #701502/2021. Lawrence M. Litwack, Esq., Referee Vallely Mitola Ryan PLLC, 6851 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 165, Syosset, New York 11791, Attorneys for Plaintiff
Notice of Formation of NIKI NIXX GLOBAL LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/29/2025. 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: NORTHWEST REGISTERED AGENT LLC, 418 BROADWAY, STE N, ALBANY, NY 12207. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
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The New York City Board of Standards and Appeals has scheduled a hybrid public hearing on the following application on September 29th or September 30th, 2025: BSA Cal. No. 2025-12-BZ Premises: 220-26 Jamaica Avenue, Queens - Block 10789, Lot 271 Variance (§72-21) to permit the development of a 12-story residential building and community facility containing approximately 310 units of permanently affordable housing non-profit housing contrary to underlying density and bulk requirements. C1-2/R3-2 zoning district. Applicant: Akerman LLP An agenda listing the specific session (including the final date and time) with call-in details will be posted as an announcement on the front page of the Board’s website (www.nyc.gov/bsa) the Friday before. The hybrid public hearing will be livestreamed on the Board’s website and on YouTube. Interested persons or associations may watch online and call in to present testimony during the public hearing. Please see the Board’s Virtual Hearing Guides located at https://www1.nyc.gov/site/bsa/public-hearings/public-hearings. page The public hearing will be conducted as a “hybrid” public hearing, during which the Commissioners will meet in person at the Board’s office in Manhattan and also appear virtually on live-streamed YouTube and on an interactive Zoom Webinar. Applicants and the public may attend in person or participate remotely by calling into the Zoom Webinar and watching the YouTube livestream. The in-person portion of the hearing will take place at 22 Reade Street, 1st Floor, Spector Hall, New York, NY 10007. Anyone wishing to attend the hearing in person must present identification and go through a security checkpoint upon arrival into the building. Details for the hearing will be posted on the Board’s website the Friday before the hearing. Persons who request that a language interpreter or a sign language interpreter or any other form of reasonable accommodation for a disability be provided at any of the scheduled hearings must notify Toni Matias, Deputy Director of the Board of Standards and Appeals, at 212-386-0085 or tmatias@bsa.nyc.gov at least 10 days before the hearing date. You may submit a written statement by using the “Public Comment form” on the Board’s website located at https:// www1.nyc.gov/site/bsa/contact-bsa/public-comments.page For any communication, please include or refer to BSA Calendar No. 2025-12-BZ and the property address: 220-26 Jamaica Avenue, Queens - Block 10789, Lot 271. To coordinate review of the application materials, inquire about continued hearing dates and/ or assistance, please contact the Board office at (212) 386-0009.
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS INDEX NO. 718591/2021 Plaintiff designates QUEENS as the place of trial situs of the real property
Mortgaged Premises: 191-31 115TH DRIVE, SAINT ALBANS, NY 11412 Block: 11033, Lot: 54 WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1 Plaintiff, vs. DONNA FOWLER, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF RUBY FOWLER; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF RUBY FOWLER, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; JANE DOE AS JOHN DOE #1; JOHN DOE AS JOHN DOE #2; JOHN DOE AS JOHN DOE #3; JOHN DOE AS JOHN DOE #4, “JOHN DOE #5” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last eight names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. Your failure to appear or to answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $712,500.00 and interest, recorded on January 30, 2018, in CRFN 2018000035393, of the Public Records of QUEENS County, New York., covering premises known as 191-31 115TH DRIVE, SAINT ALBANS, NY 11412. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. QUEENS County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: August 21st, 2025 ROBERTSON, ANSCHUTZ, SCHNEID, CRANE & PARTNERS, PLLC Attorney for Plaintiff Matthew Rothstein, Esq. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675
At IAS Part 31 of the Supreme Court held in and for the County of Queens, at the Courthouse located at the Courthouse located at 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435. Index: 702395/2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE HON: Sampson J. S. C SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS THOMAS THOMOPOULOS, Plaintiff, -against- QUADRI-PLANETARY ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., GFP REAL ESTATE LLC, WHITEST AR CONSULTING & CONTRACTING, INC., WHITESTAR GENERAL CONTRACTORS CORP., and WHITESTAR CONSTRUCTION CORP. Defendants. WHITESTAR CONSULTING & CONTRACTING, INC., Third Party Plaintiff, -against- LEMODE PLUMBING & HEATING CORP. Third Party Defendants. Upon a reading and filing of the annexed affirmation of Costas M. Eliades, Esq., affirmed on August 26, 2024, and upon all pleadings and proceedings heretofore had herein, LET, Plaintiff THOMAS THOMOPOULOS SHOW CAUSE at an IAS Part 31 of this Court to be held in and for the County of Queens, at the Courthouse located at 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435 on the 22nd day of October 2025 at 2:00pm of that day or as soon thereafter as can be heard, WHY an Order should not be entered: 1. An Order pursuant to CPLR § 308(5), allowing Plaintiff to effect service of this Order to Show Cause upon THOMAS THOMOPOULOS via his last known address, or by such other means of delivery as the Court deems appropriate; 2. In the alternative, an Order Pursuant to CPLR § 315, granting Plaintiff leave to serve the Defendant THOMAS THOMOPOULOS via publication and/ or email transmission; 3. Pursuant to CPLR § 321(b)(2) and 22 NYCRR § 1200.15, permitting THE LAW OFFICES OF COSTAS M. ELIADES, P.C. to withdraw as counsel for Plaintiff THOMAS THOMOPOULOS in this action; 4. Granting THE LAW OFFICES OF COSTAS M. ELIADES, P.C., a lien for disbursements and legal fees; 5. Staying this action, for a reasonable period of time for the Plaintiff to retain new counsel in order to adequately represent his interests in this action; 6. For any such further relief which this Court deems just and proper; and it is further, ORDERED that service of the within Order to Show Cause and the papers upon which it is based shall be made by Publiction upon the plaintiff pursuant to CPLR316regular mail and/ or by E-mail on: two newspapers, at least one in the English language, designated in the order as most likely to give notice to the person to be served, for a specified time, at least once in each of four successive weeks, and by certified mail return receipt requested at Plaintiff’s last known address, and upon the remaining Parties via certified mail and NYSCEF. Thomas Thomopoluos FDRS, LAW OFFICE OF KEITH J. CONWAY Attorneys for Defendants, QUADRIPLANETARY ASSOCIATES, L.L.C and GFP REAL ESTATE LLC, FDRS, KENNEDYS CMK LLP. Attorneys Defendant/Third-Party Plaintiff WHITESTAR CONSULTING & CONTRACTING, INC. FDRS, FABIANI COHEN & HALL, LLP Attorneys for Third-Party Defendant, LEMODE PLUMBING & HEATING CORP FDRS, all on or before 10/15/2025 be deemed good and sufficient service. Filed RW 8/29/2025 County Clerk Queens County Enter: FDRS, J.S.C.
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO NATIONAL CITY BANK, Plaintiff AGAINST ROGER LEE; ET AL., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered October 10, 2024, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County Supreme Courthouse, on the second floor in Courtroom 25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York on October 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM, premises known as 15720 27th Avenue, Flushing, NY 11354. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, Block: 4868 Lot: 14. Approximate amount of judgment $84,578.26 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #702009/2023. For sale information, please visit Auction.com at www.Auction. com or call (800) 280-2832. Gregory LaSpina, Esq., Referee Fein, Such & Crane, LLP 28 East Main Street Rochester, NY 14614 PNNYC015 86981
Notice of Formation of Reem New York LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/10/2025. 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: 44-70 21ST STREET, #3119, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.
Notice of Formation of THAT TAKES THE CAKE LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/30/2025. 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: ZENBUSINESS INC, 41 STATE STREET, SUITE 112, ALBANY, NY 12207. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of Sarvis Psychotherapy Mental Health Counseling PLLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/06/2025. 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, 160 1ST STREET, BOX 165, MINEOLA, NY 11501. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Supreme Court Of The State Of New York County Of Queens Action To Foreclose A Mortgage Index #: 719761/2019 Nationstar Mortgage LLC D/B/A Mr. Cooper Plaintiff, vs GERALDYNE RENE AKA GERALDYNE DAUTRUCHE, EVELYNE JEAN-LOUIS AKA EVELYNE JEAN LOUIS, MARINA JASMIN FELIX, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ACTING THROUGH THE IRS, OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC Successor By Merger To Delta Funding Corporation, City Register Of The City Of New York, Queens County, Sonia E. Felix As Heir To The Estate Of Julio Felix, “John Doe”, Unknown Heirs Of Julio Felix Aka Julio Felix Guenard If Living, And If He/She Be Dead, Any And All Persons Unknown To Plaintiff, Claiming, Or Who May Claim To Have An Interest In, Or General Or Specific Lien Upon The Real Property Described In This Action; Such Unknown Persons Being Herein Generally Described And Intended To Be Included In Wife, Widow, Husband, Widower, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assignees Of Such Deceased, Any And All Persons Deriving Interest In Or Lien Upon, Or Title To Said Real Property By, Through Or Under Them, Or Either Of Them, And Their Respective Wives, Widows, Husbands, Widowers, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assigns, All Of Whom And Whose Names, Except As Stated, Are Unknown To Plaintiff Defendant(s). Mortgaged Premises: 194-09 109TH AVENUE Queens, NY 11412 AKA 194-09 109TH Avenue, ST. Albans, NY 11412 To the Above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Queens. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. TO Unknown Heirs of Julio Felix AKA Julio Felix Guenard Defendant In this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Alan Schiff of the Supreme Court Of The State Of New York, dated the Fourth day of September, 2025 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, in the City of Jamaica. The object of this action is to foreclosure a mortgage upon the premises described below dated June 15, 2002, executed by Geraldyne Rene AKA Geraldyne Dautruche and Evelyne Jean-Louis AKA Evelyne Jean Louis to secure the sum of $268,800.00. The Mortgage was recorded at Book 6490, Page 204 in the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County on July 23, 2002. The consolidated mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed September 20, 2006 and recorded on November 20, 2006, in the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County at CRFN 2006000643314. Plaintiff is also holder of a mortgage dated October 6, 2006 executed by Geraldyne Rene AKA Geraldyne Dautruche by the attorney in fact and Evelyne Jean-Louis AKA Evelyne Jean Louis to secure the sum of $190,419.82 and recorded at CRFN 2006000643315 in the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County on November 20, 2006. Said mortgage was consolidated with the mortgage referred to at Book 6490, Page 204 by a Consolidation, Extension and Modification Agreement executed by Geraldyne Rene AKA Geraldyne Dautruche by the attorney in fact and Evelyne Jean-Louis AKA Evelyne Jean Louis dated October 6, 2006 and recorded November 20, 2006 at CRFN 2006000643316 in the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County to form a single lien in the amount of $442,500.00. The consolidated mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed May 22, 2014 and recorded on June 3, 2014, in the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County at CRFN 2014000189988. The mortgage was subsequently modified on October 22, 2014. The consolidated mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed December 12, 2016 and recorded on January 4, 2017, in the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County at CRFN 2017000003391. The property in question is described as follows: 194-09 109TH AVENUE, QUEENS, NY 11412 AKA 194-09 109TH AVENUE, ST. ALBANS, NY 11412 HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The state encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services at 1-800-342-3736 or the Foreclosure Relief Hotline 1-800-269-0990 or visit the department’s website at WWW.DFS.NY.GOV. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AT THIS TIME. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO STAY IN YOUR HOME DURING THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME UNLESS AND UNTIL YOUR PROPERTY IS SOLD AT AUCTION PURSUANT TO A JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE AND SALE. REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU CHOOSE TO REMAIN IN YOUR HOME, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROPERTY AND PAY PROPERTY TAXES IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE AND LOCAL LAW. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. § 1303 NOTICE NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this Foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: September 9, 2025 Gross Polowy LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 87322
SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Supreme Court of New York, Queens County. U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE RMAC TRUST, SERIES 2016-CTT, Plaintiff, -against- 127-07 SUTTER AVE, LLC; CHARLES CURTIS, AS PURPORTED ADMINISTRATOR AND HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF OLGA CURTIS; YVETTE CURTIS, SANDRA VANWHERVIN, CAROL VANWHERVIN, PHYLLIS VANWHERVIN, WAYNE VANWHERVIN, STEPHEN VANWHERVIN AND ROY ANTHONY VANWHERVIN, AS HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF OLGA CURTIS; UNKNOWN HEIRS-AT- LAW, NEXT-OFKIN, DISTRIBUTEES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, TRUSTEES, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST, AND GENERALLY ALL PERSONS OR PARTIES HAVING OR CLAIMING, UNDER, BY OR THROUGH THE DECEDENTS DALTON VANWHERVIN A/KIA DALTON VANWHERVIN, JR., AND ROBERT VANWHERVIN, BY PURCHASE,INHERITANCE, LIEN OR OTHERWISE, ANY RIGHT TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO THE PREMISES DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN; DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ACTING BY AND THROUGH THE COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK; HILLSIDE MANOR RECC; CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK (QUEENS); NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (EASTERN DISTRICT); “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #10” inclusive, the names of the ten last name Defendants being fictitious, real names unknown to the Plaintiff, the parties intended being persons or corporations having an interest in, or tenants or persons in possession of, portions of the m01tgaged premises described in the Complaint,, Defendants Index No. 709202/2024. Mortgaged Premises: 115-71 229th Street, Cambria Heights, NY 11411 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above captioned action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above-entitled action is to foreclose a mortgage bearing date July 23, 2004, given by Olga Curtis (deceased) to BNY Mortgage Company, LLC to secure the sum of $290,319.00 and recorded in CRFN2005000241992 in the office of the County Clerk/City Register of Queens County on April 26, 2005 and which mortgage was ultimately assigned to the Plaintiff herein as evidenced by written instrument dated July 12, 2017 and recorded with the Queens County Clerk/City Register on April 26, 2005 and which mortgage was ultimately assigned to the Plaintiff herein as evidenced by written instrument dated July 12, 2017 and recorded with the Queens County Clerk/City Register on August 14, 2017 in CRFN2017000300891 covering the premises described as follows 115-71 229TH STREET, CAMBRIAHEIGHTS,NY11411 The relief sought in the within action includes a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the mortgage. Plaintiff makes no personal claims against any defendants herein. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. FRIEDMAN VARTOLO, LLP 1325 Franklin Avenue, Suite 160 Garden City, NY 11530, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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