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New Yorkers are nearly ready to head to the polls to cast their votes. But before residents exercise their civic duty, it’s important to understand what’s on the ballot this year, including elections for mayor, comptroller, public advocate, borough president and city council.
A number of judges are also seeking to be elected, and there will be six ballot proposals with suggested changes to Albany and NYC’s governing documents, the state Constitution and the City Charter.
dani (D-Astoria), former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa. But there are a number of others who also will be listed on the ballot.
Though he’s ended his campaign, incumbent Mayor Eric Adams will appear as an independent, Irene Estrada is running as a conservative and Joseph Hernandez and Jim Walden, the latter of whom dropped out of the race, are listed as independents.
Residents may vote early Oct. 25 through Nov. 2, and Election Day is Nov. 4. To find your poll site or view a sample ballot, visit findmypollsite.vote.nyc.
Mayor
The biggest contenders for the role are the Democratic nominee, Assemblymember Zohran Mam-
Mark Levine, the Manhattan borough president, secured the Democratic nomination for city comptroller. He will face off against Peter Kefalas, a Republican, and Ismael Perez, an independent.
Public advocate
Democrat Jumaane Williams is hoping to retain his seat, but faces challengers in Martin Dolan, an independent, and Republican Gonzalo Duran.
Queens borough president
Incumbent Borough President Donovan Richards Jr., a Democrat, will go head to head with Henry Ikezi, a Republican.
City Council District 19
Vickie Paladino (R-Whitestone), a Republican, will try to hold on to her seat against Democratic challenger Benjamin Chou.
City Council District 20
Incumbent Sandra Ung (D-Flushing) faces multiple challengers in Joseph Chou and Steven Wang, running as independent candidates, and Allen Wang, a Conservative.
City Council District 21
A new Council member will be leading the district come January, as Shanel Thomas-Henry, a Democrat, will face off against Giovanni Franco, a Republican. The incumbent, Francisco Moya (D-Corona) is term-limited.
City Council District 22
Tiffany Cabán, a Democrat, will not face a challenger for reelection.
City Council District 23
Bernie Chow, a Conservative, will take on incumbent Linda Lee (D-Oakland Gardens).
City Council District 24
Incumbent Jim Gennaro (D-Fresh Meadows) is uncontested in his reelection bid.
City Council District 25
Incumbent Shekar Krishnan (D-Jackson Heights) will face multiple competitors in Shah Haque and Ricardo Pacheco, both running as independents, and Ramses Frias, the Republican nominee.
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by Kristen Guglielmo Editor
After decades of flooding, faulty septic systems and deteriorating infrastructure, and following more than two years of community engagement, Mayor Adams on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping plan that would overhaul the long-neglected Jewel Streets neighborhood spanning Brooklyn and Queens.
The $146 million initiative, known as the Jewel Streets Neighborhood Plan, promises major investments in stormwater infrastructure, pedestrian and bike safety and the creation of up to 5,000 new homes, with construction and implementation set to begin immediately.
“For too long, the Jewel Streets neighborhood has suffered from chronic flooding, dangerous streets, and a dire housing shortage,” Adams said in a statement. “After two years of community engagement, we are not only unveiling but implementing a landmark neighborhood plan that invests nearly $150 million in this neighborhood to create a safer, more affordable Jewel Streets with new sewers to address flooding, street upgrades to protect pedestrians and bikers, and plans for thousands of new homes.”
The 12-block area, which straddles East New York and Lindenwood and is colloquially referred to as “The Hole” due to its sunken topography, lacks proper stormwater and sanitary sewer infrastructure. In response, the city — through the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Design and Construction — will install a comprehensive new drainage system that eliminates the community’s reliance on outdated septic systems.
to revitalize area known as ‘the Hole’
the infrastructure redesign. In addition to climate resiliency upgrades, the neighborhood will see a major housing push, City Hall said. The plan includes the transformation of a 17-acre city-owned site, between Sapphire and Forbell streets and 151st and 155th avenues, into a mixed-use development with 1,400 new affordable and mixedincome homes.
“We are not only unveiling but implementing a landmark neighborhood plan.”
— Mayor Adams
The plan calls for new sanitary sewers, a stormwater pump station and a bluebelt system — natural drainage features that collect and filter rainwater before ultimately releasing into Spring Creek. The city also plans to reconstruct neighborhood streets with new sidewalks, tree plantings and traffic-calming measures. Publicly accessible ponds and green spaces will be integrated into
The city also intends to pursue a rezoning of the surrounding area that could unlock an additional 3,600 homes. A scoping hearing, the first public step in the environmental review process, is scheduled before the end of 2025, with formal land use review beginning in 2026. By then, a new mayoral administration will be in place.
Officials say the development on city-owned land will also include community facilities, retail space, restored street grids and green infrastructure to further manage stormwater and improve connectivity. Housing will be supplemented by targeted programs to help residents either retrofit their homes for flood resiliency or voluntarily relo-
cate through a buyout to lower-risk areas via the city’s new Resilient Acquisitions program.
The DOT also plans to implement bus priority and traffic safety upgrades along Linden Boulevard, a major corridor in the area. The improvements, scheduled for 2026, include new markings, intersection redesigns and pedestrian and cyclist safety features that the city says also would benefit the roughly 38,000 daily bus riders who use the route.
The neighborhood plan is the product of pressure from area residents, who began formally organizing for improvements in 2022. That February, 60 stakeholders signed a letter to city agencies demanding
long-overdue investments, kickstarting a series of public workshops and meetings between the community and city officials.
Since June 2023, the city has hosted six public workshops, more than 50 biweekly meetings with advocates and officials and 12 meetings with residents focused on area issues, according to City Hall.
Queens officials were absent from the City Hall release and press conference Monday at Dumont Avenue and Amber Street in Lindenwood.
Councilmember Joann Ariola (R-Ozone Park), the area’s representative, told the Chronicle, “The administration touted ‘deep community engagement’ in the planning
for this project, but key community stakeholders have yet to see what this plan actually entails.”
She said she only received a brief run-through, adding that it “didn’t even have all participating agencies on it, and it has yet to be presented to Community Board 10. We all want better infrastructure for the area, but we cannot cut out community voices in the process.”
Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Howard Beach) said, “For years the City has neglected its infrastructure, and while I am glad to see early drafts of planned improvements that I have repeatedly suggested — I’m disappointed in the timing. We have been calling for the Mayor and City Council to take action for years and only now as Mayor Adams tries to improve his poor legacy is something happening.”
She added, “Despite being a transparent move, I welcome the opportunities for improvement and look forward to lending my support from the State level in partnership with our community.”
Chris Barca, a spokesperson for Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, told the Chronicle, “While Borough President Richards’ invitation today must have been misplaced, a sensible plan to address chronic flooding and infrastructure issues in the Jewel Streets community — which he has toured with area stakeholders multiple times to see these challenges first-hand — is something he and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso have repeatedly advocated for across their respective first terms.”
He continued, “Borough President Richards looks forward to reviewing this plan and working with the next administration throughout the land use process in 2026 and beyond.” Q
If you’re on the hunt for a new job, head to Resorts World New York City, at 110-00 Rockaway Blvd. in South Ozone Park, on Nov. 14 for a free employment fair hosted by state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Woodhaven), from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Job seekers are encouraged to dress in professional attire and bring along multiple resumé copies to distribute to potential employers.
Companies, organizations, recruiters and agencies across the tri-state area are invited to participate free of charge. Businesses that are expanding, startups looking to build their teams and
established companies struggling to find the right talent all are encouraged to reach out to Addabbo’s office, at (718) 738-1111 for a complimentary table at the event.
The senator said the fair is a highlight of his calendar and added, “Facilitating employment for individuals is one of the most significant roles I play as an elected official. ... Over the years, many constituents have returned to share their success stories after finding jobs at this event, and there’s truly no greater satisfaction than that.” Q
More than 3,000 people rejoiced last Saturday in Richmond Hill as the Diwali motorcade and parade returned to Liberty Avenue for the first time in five years.
The event, which honors the Hindu festival of lights, was suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic and in recent years had been reduced to a one-block street fair. The motorcade culminated with a show at Phil Rizzuto Park.
At top right, youth get in on the festivities; while at top left, a car joins in on the motorcade; and, at center, two women are dressed up as goddesses on a parade float.
In the middle at left, four children pose on a float. Above, a group of women pay tribute to the goddess Lakshmi during a “puja” ceremony, a prayer service with lighted candles and food offerings. Above right, a dancer takes to the streets; and a girl dressed as Lakshmi lines up in the procession to the stage to open the show.
At near right, a woman shines dressed as a goddess on a parade float; and next to her, a mother fixes up her daughter’s costume ahead of the festivities. — Kristen Guglielmo, with reporting by Michael Shain
by Kristen Guglielmo Editor
Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. on Monday announced an allocation of $1 million for Phase B of select bus service on Woodhaven Boulevard.
The corridor hosts the Q52 and Q53 Select Bus Service. Improvements at the site began in 2017 with 6.85 miles of bus lanes installed on the boulevard, along with alignments; the addition of bus boarding islands and other amenities, such as bus shelters, real-time passenger information, seating and decorative fencing; new safety measures; and refurbished medians.
Since the safety improvements, according to the city Department of Transportation, pedestrian injuries are down 20 percent, cyclist injuries are down 80 percent, motor vehicle crashes are down 36 percent and total incidents are down 33 percent.
A key tenet of Woodhaven Boulevard Select Bus Service Phase B, the BP’s Office said, is a revamp of the heavily trafficked Ozone Park intersection at Woodhaven Boulevard, Rockaway Boulevard and Liberty Avenue, where Richards spoke Monday, to make for a safer experience for pedestrians, drivers and commuters waiting for a bus.
Upgrades included in Phase B of the project, which spans from Union Turnpike to
107th Avenue, include expanded spaces for bus riders to congregate safely, sidewalk extensions, sidewalk refurbishments and accessible median pedestrian refuges for residents with disabilities, along with upgrades to 16 bus stops, 17 sidewalk extensions, 12 shortened pedestrian crossings and 38 medians or median tips.
Seven additional crossings, three raised crosswalks, more than 75 street trees and more than 10,000 square feet of landscaped
area will be added.
The borough president’s investment is in addition to $40 million already allocated by the city to Phase B. Construction is slated to start in early 2026.
On Monday, Richards, MTA NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow, MTA Acting Head of Buses Frank Farrell, DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez, city Department of Design and Construction First Deputy Commissioner Eric Macfarlane and leadership of
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Community Boards 9 and 10, Sherry Algredo and Betty Braton, met at Corporal Ruoff Square to celebrate the new allocation.
“I’m writing a check because I know this work will bring real improvements to the lives of bus riders and residents of South Queens,” Richards, who scheduled the announcement as part of his “Borough Hall on Your Block: South Queens” initiative, said. “And I’m writing a check because of the success the MTA, DOT and DDC have already had in making SBS a reality. This partnership has truly been a beneficial one, and I’m sure it will continue to pay dividends.”
Crichlow commended the benefits SBS has had to the corridor, saying the Q52 and Q53 move 3 to 4 miles per hour faster than they used to.
“This translates to more time with friends, more time with family,” Crichlow said. “This makes time to spend with people that they love, rather than spending it on the bus, sitting and traveling. Better bus infrastructure leads to better bus service — we already have the proof. The more we do it, the more we’ll see better bus service.”
Rodriguez said, “Woodhaven Boulevard is a great example of what we can accomplish when we use our toolbox to create safe streets with dedicated space for buses.” Q
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Tuesday announced that LaGuardia Airport was selected as the best airport in the United States for the second consecutive year by Forbes Travel Guide in its Verified Air Travel Awards.
Decided by an invitation-only panel of 9,000 luxury travel advisors and hospitality experts, the award recognizes airlines and airports committed to providing the world’s best travel experiences.
“We’re delighted to celebrate LaGuardia’s second consecutive win as best U.S. airport, a testament to the impact of the public-private partnership behind its remarkable transformation,” said Forbes Travel Guide CEO Hermann Elger in a statement. “We applaud LaGuardia Gateway Partners, Delta Air Lines and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for their vision.”
Port Authority airports, including LaGuardia, Newark-Liberty International and JFK International, are undergoing a historic $30 billion transformation with the goal of creating world class and award-winning passenger facilities.
“From the very start, our mission at LaGuardia Airport was to transform what was once the worst airport in the nation into
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an airport that would rival the best in the world that is also capable of handling the passenger volumes of the coming decades,” said Port Authority Executive Director Rick Cotton. “Today’s award from Forbes Travel
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Guide is further proof that with our private partners, Delta Air Lines and LaGuardia Gateway Partners, we have created a new LaGuardia Airport that is something our entire region and country can be proud of.” Q
The offices of Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. and U.S. Rep. Greg Meeks (D-Jamaica), co-chairs of the JFK Redevelopment Community Advisory Council, are hosting a meeting at the Rochdale Village’s grand ballroom on Tuesday, Oct. 28, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet senior leadership from the JFKR program; listen to project and construction updates; and learn about opportunities for the community and minority- and women-owned business enterprises and locally based enterprises, along with workforce participation in the project. To register, go to tinyurl.com/b48ynf8s. For more details call (718) 244-3834 or email jfkredevelopment@panyny.gov.
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by Kristen Guglielmo Editor
Danny’s Chinese Kitchen, a well-established family-owned restaurant chain, has brought its reputable service and cuisine to Howard Beach, at 161-30 Cross Bay Blvd.
The story began in the Rockaways, where Dan Antin first joined the restaurant business as a teenager working in a Chinese place.
“I was never happier than when I was working in that restaurant,” Antin told the Chronicle. After a brief career in accounting, he found himself drawn back to the culinary world, launching the business with his brother David.
Danny’s Chinese Kitchen has locations in Long Island’s Bellmore, Oceanside and Syosset, with a new restaurant to open in Roslyn soon. Howard Beach is its newest site.
“What sets us apart is the quality of our food,” David said. “When you come into our restaurant, you get greeted with a smile. And if you’re sitting at a table waiting for your food, someone brings the bag out to you — they don’t just yell your name. It’s those high-end retail standards that make a difference.”
The restaurant uses high-quality, fresh ingredients for its menu of both classic and unique fare. General Tso’s chicken, beef with broccoli and ribs sit alongside specialties like pastrami or Philly cheese steak egg rolls and “zoodles” (spiralized zucchini noodles), tai-
lored to health-conscious guests. Gluten-free and vegan options are also available, and the restaurant is willing to work with customers to find something to suit their dietary needs.
“It’s nice to be able to call a place that understands the needs and how to make sure the food safe ... because obviously allergies and gluten intolerance and things like that are so prevalent these days,” David said.
Since they grew up nearby, the Howard
Beach site holds special meaning for all three partners: the Antin brothers and Randy Klein. The collaboration is rooted in both long-standing friendship and a shared vision for community-focused dining.
“He’s a neighbor,” David said of Klein. “We had become good friends.”
It was through their growing camaraderie that business discussions naturally unfolded. Inspired by the brothers’ fulfillment working together,
Klein told David, “You look really happy in your new gig and being on your own with your brother. I’d love to do something like that.”
What began as an off-the-cuff remark soon became reality, as Klein joined the team about a year later. The collaboration not only strengthened the restaurant’s leadership team, but also brought Danny’s Chinese Kitchen back to its roots in Howard Beach, with all three partners committed to building a true neighborhood institution.
“It’s about being the local boy who came back home,” Klein said.
Community engagement is central to the new location’s opening. The trio has reconnected with old friends and neighbors, and they plan a ribbon-cutting this Friday at noon.
The team is also eager to set the record straight on their brand.
“By no means was it ever our intention to cause confusion with Danny’s Szechuan Garden,” David said. “We want people to understand that we’re Danny’s Chinese Kitchen and have been for 11 years, with no intention of trying to create confusion. We built our own brand on service and integrity.”
Danny’s Chinese Kitchen is open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 9 p.m. For more information, call (718) 323-0600 or go to dannyschinesekitchen.com. Q
Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa has made it clear that he is not dropping out of the race for mayor, even though his candidacy guarantees the election of Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, the socialist assemblyman from Astoria. That would be a disaster for the city.
The only way to save New York from this fate is for Sliwa’s supporters — no matter how much they believe in the Guardian Angels founder, animal rights activist and bombastic talk radio host — to vote for independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, the ex-governor. We ask them to do so.
Cuomo is not our ideal choice for mayor. He was forced from office over a “me too” scandal that involved unwanted touching of numerous women, including a state trooper, for which he has never taken real responsibility or shown real remorse. Along with that were his horrible Covid miscalculations that surely raised the death toll among the elderly. He passed the buck there, too — while also making a buck, or rather 5 million bucks, on a book deal. He gave us the legalized marijuana debacle, the legalized scooter debacle, the cashless bail debacle and more. His arrogance is boundless and his campaign for mayor is pathetic, near nonexistent.
Despite all those flaws, Cuomo is the only candidate with
a chance of beating Mamdani, as shown in poll after poll. One released Monday, by the AARP and Gotham Polling, shows that if this were a two-person race, Cuomo would trail Mamdani by just 4 points, 44.6 percent to 40.7 percent. That’s the kind of ground that can be made up quickly.
Sliwa, on the other hand, has never broken 20 percent in a poll. He refuses to quit the race, but he cannot win.
It is vital that Mamdani be defeated. He is a democratic socialist, not a true Democrat. His ideas would be disastrous, whether it’s sending social workers instead of cops into highly dangerous situations; holding the police in contempt; freezing rents on some apartments so the market is distorted and landlords can’t pay for upgrades; or removing City Hall support for some gifted and talented programs, specialized high schools and charter schools. All this and more would make the city less appealing and less safe.
Other promises are pure fantasy — Albany is not going to allow any income tax hike and the MTA is not going to make buses free, losing revenue it needs to maintain them.
On top of that, President Trump will be vindictive against the city if Mamdani wins, as he has said repeatedly for months. The city relies on the federal government for bil-
lions in aid for transportation and homeland security, among other things. There is no way to replace those funds.
Sliwa has his good points. He loves the city deeply. We share his pro-business and anti-crime beliefs. Despite some missteps over time, his creation and leadership of the Guardian Angels is an admirable cause to which he has dedicated most of his life. We also like his focus on animal protection.
But Sliwa is not qualified to run a city of 8.6 million people with a budget north of $116 billion a year.
Even those who think he is qualified should heed what his boss (maybe former boss), billionaire businessman and Republican honcho John Catsimatidis, told WABC radio host Sid Rosenberg on Monday, “Curtis would make the best mayor of all the candidates ... but Curtis has to realize that he should love New York more than anything else.”
Sliwa demonstrated again on Wednesday that he does not realize his best move to save the city’s future is to be a hero by stepping aside. So his supporters just have to hold their noses and vote for Cuomo. It’s the only way to avoid a disastrous, four-year experiment in socialism and naivete.
Early voting begins Saturday. We appeal to every Sliwa supporter to vote for Cuomo instead. It’s the only way.
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Dear Editor:
Leonard Klie’s letter of Oct. 16, “Feds fail on scams,” complaining of the enormous amount of scam calls, correctly addresses the problem. I now get them under the charity call caller ID.
The only reason these junk calls are being made in such numbers has to be the money behind them. If the companies sponsoring them weren’t making enormous sums, they would stop.
I would hate to fall for one of these scams.
Why the networks can’t prevent them, I don’t fathom, especially since there is a Do Not Call Registry and the so-called people in power know about this pathetic situation.
Ray Hackinson Ozone Park
Dear Editor:
To avoid collisions with people walking, the police in Queens should enforce the law that prohibits electric bicycles and scooters from being driven on sidewalks. Electric bicycles and scooters should be ridden only in the street alongside other motorized vehicles. People who love to ride them can become advocates for bike lanes.
Sidewalks should be reserved exclusively for people to walk along, browse, shop, socialize
and relax. Pedestrians who are struck by electric bicycles or scooters can be seriously injured. Frail seniors and young children are particularly vulnerable.
Theodore Sheskin Flushing
Dear Editor:
Re Cynthia Groopman’s Oct. 16 letter, “Peace, but not in DC”:
As a voter and taxpayer, I share Ms. Groopman’s outrage over the failure of Congress to end the federal government shutdown. But unlike letter writer and state Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (“Harmful GOP shutdown,” Oct. 9), I blame both parties for this pathetic political paralysis. Democrats and Republicans act like spiteful kids in a playground, playing a game of chicken. They don’t suffer the shutdown’s effects because they are still getting paid while thousands of federal workers are not.
Halting the pay for all 535 members of Congress would bring a speedy end to the shutdown. Loss of their salaries would pressure senators and House representatives to reach a compromise. If they don’t, voters should rephrase a line from Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”: “A plague on both your houses.”
Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills
Dear Editor:
I am both amused and enraged by the ability of public officials to mislead the public. Rarely is it done by outright lying. The more subtle, but equally insidious, deceptions involve providing us with only partial information. In a recent article in the Chronicle (“MTA approves fare hikes, toll increases,” Oct. 2), you reported that the MTA is increasing fares on public transportation and tolls on bridges and tunnels. The head of the MTA correctly
stated that this was less than inflation since the last increase in 2023. However, he failed to note the tremendous increase in fares and tolls over the years.
Since 1963, when a subway ride was 15 cents and the toll on the Triborough Bridge was 25 cents, the MTA increases are about triple the rate of inflation. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ inflation calculator, 15 cents in 1963 would be about $1.60 today and 25 cents would be $2.65. By just talking about the last two years, the head of the MTA has made us feel that we are fortunate for the small increase.
Most of us get extremely angry when we hear that medical costs or college costs are rising at double the inflation rate, but we ignore the fact that this agency is collecting huge sums of money with no accountability that I can see. Where does all this money go? Triple the inflation rate? Did employees’ wages triple during this time? That seems unlikely. Did supplies increase that fast? Again unlikely.
The MTA should be forced to live within a budget just like the rest of us instead of raising its rates whenever it feels like it.
Michael Gallagher Forest Hills
Dear Editor:
Let’s do this by the numbers. Over 7 million people nationwide, over 100,000 people citywide, and over 600 people Fresh Meadows- and Bayside-wide gathered on Saturday, Oct. 18, to rally, demonstrate, march, chant, dance, role play and simply express their deep dissent and profound displeasure with the current administration. Add an ample dose of existential fear and anxiety about the fate of democracy.
One sign of many proclaimed “No Kings in Queens except Kings County“ but if you need a list of specific reasons, Linda Imhauser’s Oct. 16 letter, “Trump brings problems,” is definitely a great start. I hope she will share her promised second list. They both belong on everyone’s refrigerator.
Assemblymember Nily Rozic and state Sen. John Liu addressed the crowd as it grew to include Kermit the Frog, Lady Liberty and her daughter, and a huge banner giving us Linus’ letter to the Great Pumpkin asking him to “please do something about your evil cousin.” Many drivers moving through the 73rd Avenue and Francis Lewis Boulevard intersection provided enthusiastic support. Loudest was the overwhelming horn blast and thumbs up from the driver of the cement truck.
The crowd kept returning to the chant of “This is what democracy looks like.” It looked like Queens.
Debra Michlewitz Bayside
Dear Editor:
Recently the Trump Justice Department indicted former FBI Director James Comey, former National Security Advisor John Bolton and New York Attorney General Letitia James on various charges. The indictments are wrong. I write this not because I believe they are innocent. It is wrong because the charges are politically motivated. That is not how our coun-
try should work.
There are many Republicans who consider this political payback for actions taken against President Trump. It is still improper because two wrongs don’t make a right.
James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg both campaigned against Trump and targeted him politically. The penalties in James’ civil case against Trump have been thrown out on appeal. The 34 felony convictions will probably be thrown out on appeal, too, since the charges were based on Trump’s hiding another felony, a crime for which he was never charged, let alone convicted.
The New York Times reported that President Biden wanted to see Trump prosecuted. Eventually a special prosecutor was named by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump.
Democrats were gleeful over these actions against Trump. Now, their hypocrisy is being exposed with their outrage over the fact that Trump is doing the same things they favored doing against him.
Partisans from both sides should be ashamed of themselves for putting party over country.
Lenny Rodin Forest Hills
Dear Editor:
On Oct. 22, 1935, a fifth-grader in Minersville, Pa., refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. That was 90 years ago this week. The youngster’s name was William Gobitis, and he was a Jehovah’s Witness. Recitation of the pledge runs counter to biblical commands against idolatry, according to the Witnesses. This being America, the dispute wound up in court.
In 1940, the Supreme Court backed the Minersville School Board, and the Gobitis family had to pull their children out of school. Following this decision, according to the U.S. Justice Department, there were more than 300 attacks directed at roughly 1,500 Witnesses, often with the tacit approval, if not active participation, of law enforcement. The state of West Virginia went so far as to threaten parents with jail time if their children refused to fall in line.
That law led to another, very different Supreme Court decision in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (1943). The Barnette decision is a landmark in American constitutional law and the right to dissent.
Justice Robert H. Jackson, who would later serve as the chief American prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, wrote for the majority. His opinion remains as relevant today as it was in those dark days of World War II.
“If there is a fixed star in our constitutional constellation,” Jackson wrote, “it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word of mouth their faith therein” — that is, to conform.
Little did Jackson know, that one day there would be an American official both high and petty.
Neil C. Giannelli Woodhaven
Hochul victorious in suit to restore nearly $34M of transit grant
by Naeisha Rose Editor
State Attorney General Tish James and Gov. Hochul released a joint statement last Thursday after a federal judge blocked the Trump’s administration’s attempt to withhold nearly $34 million in critical anti-terrorism funding owed to the MTA.
“This ruling protecting critical counterterrorism funding is a victory for every New Yorker who rides our subways, buses, and commuter rails,” read the joint statement.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency stated the funding was withheld because the transportation authority is in New York City, a sanctuary jurisdiction, according to multiple reports.
On Sept. 30, after DHS cut $33,898,500 from the state’s Transit Security Grant Program allocation, James sued the administration.
Her office said it was unlawful for the government to punish the state for its sanctuary policies protecting the rights of immigrant communities.
The decision by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York restores the funding. It was not clear if the administration would appeal.
A DHS spokesperson did not answer that directly but did say that the Trump Administration is committed to restoring the rule of law.
“Radical sanctuary politicians need to put the safety of the American people first—not criminal illegal aliens,” said the spokesperson via email. “No lawsuit, not this one or any other, is going to stop us from doing that.”
The MTA was happy about the decision.
“We are pleased with the Court’s decision,” said MTA Chief Security Officer Michael Kemper via email. “The success and
safety of the nation’s largest city and transit system is critical, and New Yorkers expect that their hard-earned federal tax dollars are invested back in keeping riders safe.”
According to the MTA, the Long Island Rail Road is the busiest commuter railroad in North America, carrying approximately 250,000 customers each weekday on 947 daily trains, including 126 stations in Long Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens.
Major stations in Queens are located in Jamaica, Forest Hills, Flushing, Long Island City, Bayside, Hunterspoint Avenue and Queens Village, along the Main, Atlantic, Montauk, Port Washington and Hempstead branches and City Terminal Zone.
After the Queens Bus Network Redesign, there are a total of 124 routes, including 94 local and 30 express.
There are 11 subway lines with 81 stops across 42 track miles total (27 miles above, 15 underground) in Queens.
“A court has once again affirmed that this administration cannot punish New York by arbitrarily wiping out critical security resources and defunding law enforcement that keeps riders safe,” continued James and Hochul’s statement. “We will always fight to ensure that New York gets the resources we need to support our law enforcement and keep people safe.” Q
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will hold a series of public meetings as it kicks off its environmental assessment of the Interborough Express, the planned light rail system linking Queens and Brooklyn.
As per the State Environmental Quality Review Act, the process will produce a draft Environmental Impact Statement outlining the project’s effects. The analysis will run concurrently with the IBX’s preliminary design and engineering phase, which started in August.
“The IBX will dramatically improve
Cross Bay Boulevard was awash in Halloween spirit last Saturday as the Howard Beach Lindenwood Civic’s annual Haunt ’n’ Treat event returned, drawing costumed children and families for an afternoon of festive fun. Young attendees, dressed as everything from superheroes to beloved cartoon characters, made their way down the boulevard, stopping at a series of themed tables hosted by area organizations and businesses. At each stop, kids collected treats and enjoyed a safe, family-friendly Halloween celebration
in the heart of the community.
The event was supported by a wide range of sponsors, including the Queens Public Library, Councilmember Joann Ariola, state Sen. Roxanne Persaud and several area businesses, including Esquire Realty, which drew crowds with a haunted house, above.
The civic took to Facebook after the festivities to share photos and thank its sponsors, and wrote, “Such a fun morning, seeing all of the children dressed up for our annual Haunt N’ Treat!” — Kristen Guglielmo
the commutes of over 160,000 daily riders and we are moving full-speed ahead to keep this transformational project on track,” Gov. Hochul said in a press release issued last Wednesday.
The MTA’s in-person meetings will be held at Brooklyn College Oct. 29 and Christ the King High School in Middle Village Nov. 6, both from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Virtual meetings will take place Nov. 12, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. One may register to attend at mta. info/project/interborough-express. Q — Stephanie G. Meditz
“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:
• Floral Park Bellerose School, gym; 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 1, at 2 Larch Ave. in Floral Park, LI; blood drive coordinator Lauren Quezada;
• Martin Van Buren High School, auditorium; 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 230-17 Hillside Ave. in Queens Village;
• St. John’s University, Student Organization lounge room 128; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 13, at 8000 Utopia Pkwy. in Jamaica Estates; blood drive coordinator Paul Lazauskas; and
• United Sikhs, main room; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 23, at 95-30 118 St. in South Richmond Hill; bood drive coordinator Inderjeet Singh. Q — Naeisha Rose
Queens officials blast ex-rep’s time of just 3 months of 7-year sentence
by Michael Gannon Senior News Editor
Disgraced former Congressman George Santos walked out of a New Jersey federal prison a free man last Friday hours after President Trump commuted his seven-year sentence with less than three months served.
Queens Democrats were not happy.
Santos, 37, a Republican, represented northeast Queens and a portion of Nassau County for 11 months before being expelled from the House of Representatives on Dec. 1, 2023.
He pleaded guilty in August 2024 to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
In his grant of clemency, which is just over a page in length, Trump reduced the sentence to time served “with no further fines, restitution, probation, supervised release, or other conditions.”
The court at sentencing had ordered Santos to repay more than $378,000 in restitution.
“Yesterday, I was given something I never thought I’d have again: a true second chance at life. A chance to grow, to change, and to walk a better path,” Santos wrote in a post on X last Saturday.
He said he spoke with Trump personally, and he hopes his critics will come to recognize that he has turned himself around.
Former Republican Congressman George Santos was released from federal prison last Friday less than three months into a seven-year sentence.
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tos painted himself as the victim of an overzealous prosecutor, and said he would make any legally mandated repayments.
“I can do my best to do whatever the law requires of me, so I don’t know what that is. I’ve been out of prison for two days,” he said. “If it is required by law, yes. If not, then no. I will do what the law requires me to do.”
Santos claimed the lion’s share of the money involved went to legitimate campaign expenses and that the amount was inflated by the Department of Justice.
Santos, in his plea, admitted to committing a number of crimes, including filing falsified campaign finance documents, embezzling funds from campaign donors, charging credit cards without permission, lying to the U.S. House of Representatives and obtaining unemployment benefits using fraud.
from his office. “This is yet another example of Trump’s corruption and blatant disregard for accountability and rule of law. Santos defrauded donors, lied to voters, and disgraced the office he held. Yet Trump chose to reward him not because of justice, but because of politics. Trump continues to use his authority to protect himself and his allies, not the American people. This is not leadership. It’s an abuse of power. But then again, what can we expect from someone convicted of 34 felonies.”
Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-Queens, Brooklyn) was equally unimpressed.
“George Santos lied to voters, defrauded donors, disgraced his office, and yet Donald Trump thinks he deserves a break,” Velázquez said. “By commuting Santos’s sentence, Trump once again shows he couldn’t care less for the law, ethics, or our democracy. When corruption is rewarded and accountability ignored, the rule of law is on the line, and the American people pay the price.”
While setting personal vengeance aside, Santos’s statement did not mention the people he pleaded guilty to defrauding.
In an interview with CNN on Sunday, San-
“I also want to make one thing clear: I hold no anger toward anyone, not even my critics,” he wrote. “I move forward with humility, with gratitude, and with peace in my heart. Life is too short to waste on bitterness or vengeance.”
U.S. Rep Tom Suozzi (D-Nassau, Queens) won a special election in February 2024 to reclaim the House seat he had previously held from January 2017 to January 2023. He chose not to seek reelection to Washington in 2022 in order to pursue a campaign for governor.
Some of Santos’ former colleagues from Queens slammed Trump’s decision.
“It’s no surprise but still deeply troubling that Donald Trump used his executive authority to grant clemency to George Santos,” said Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Jamaica) in an email
Tony Nunziato, chairman of the Queens Republican Party, took a more nuanced view, believing that Santos’ sentence was more harsh than those of people committing similarly offenses in the past, and that the president likely weighed that in his decision.
“I don’t like anyone who lies or cheats,” Nunziato said. “But I don’t think the punishment fit the crime.” Q
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by Michael Gannon Senior News Editor
“This is what Democracy looks like!”
The phrase was chanted repeatedly and carried on numerous posters and banners last Saturday afternoon in Fresh Meadows as hundreds of area residents attended a No Kings protest.
The gathering, on the southeast corner of 73rd Avenue and Francis Lewis Boulevard, was one of many across the country Saturday to protest the policies of the Trump administration.
The most common topics were immigration enforcement, the environment and the government shutdown, though many more were on visual or audible display.
A few people also mentioned Trump’s decision the day before to grant clemency to former Republican Congressman George Santos, who was released less than three months into a seven-year federal prison sentence.
close. Organizers had a small setup just inside the park, and scores of people eventually gathered within the green space itself once the sidewalks became fully occupied from the curb line to the low wooden fence.
State Sen. John Liu (D-Bayside) and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows) both stopped by to lend their support.
Chants in opposition to White House policies and Trump in general were commonplace. There also were a number of folk songs accompanied by musicians.
The protesters on the southern side of 73rd Avenue eventually extended eastward about halfway between the adjacent T1 and T3 ballfields. The gathering pushed south along Francis Lewis to just about the far edge of Field 14.
“They’ll tell you we hate America,” a protester said to someone crossing the street to speak with the pro-Trump group. “We hate what Donald Trump is doing to America.”
None of the counterprotesters spoke to the Chronicle with exception of one who launched into a profanity-laced response.
The only apparent near-confrontation occurred when a No Kings protester carrying a flag that could not be quoted in a family newspaper approached the proTrump group, and was stopped in the crosswalk by an NYPD sergeant.
“Other side of the street,” he was told. Q
“And it worked,” said Richard Montalban.
“I haven’t marched like this since 1973,” Debra D’Agostino of Bayside said. “That was for women’s rights — and to protest the war.”
“He’s going to destroy the country,” the man said.
The rally began as youth sports in Cunningham Park on both sides of 73rd Avenue were drawing to a
“Donald Trump’s administration is putting the country in jeopardy,” D’Agostino said. Another protester who declined to give his name was more succinct.
A small but vocal gathering of counterprotesters set up on the northeast corner of Francis Lewis and 73rd. Though usually no more than about five or six at any one time during the noon-to-2 p.m. demonstration, they had American flags and Trump banners.
Due to a production error, the Oct. 16 photo spread “Columbus unites Italy, Spain and Astoria” was missing a photo of NYPD Deputy Inspector Seth Lynch, commanding officer of the 114th Precinct. It may be seen at qchron.com/gallery/ events. We regret the error. Q
by Greg David THE CITY
This article was originally published on Oct. 21 at 5:00 a.m. by THE CITY
Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s promise of a four-year rent freeze for the city’s nearly 1 million regulated apartments is designed to make New York affordable for the people who live in them.
But, real estate experts warn, it will make the city more expensive for the New Yorkers occupying the 1.1 million market rate units, who are the people who have borne the biggest burden of skyrocketing rents over the past four years. While overall those people have more income to pay higher rents, they too are being priced out of the market.
“Freezing rent for stabilized units means that market-rate units will face higher annual increases, driven by a tight supply and landlords shifting higher costs such as soaring prices for insurance and taxes to open-market units,” said Jonathan Miller, CEO of Miller Samuel, a real estate consulting firm.
Insurance outlays increased by 19 percent in this year’s annual landlord operating cost price index compiled by the Rent Guidelines Board, which determines rent hikes.
The impact will be especially clear in the buildings that include both regulated and market-rate apartments, where tenants in rentregulated apartments will likely be saddled with paying for all the cost increases in the building.
In the last four years, according to the September Elliman Report overseen by Miller, the median rent for new leases in Manhattan has jumped 36 percent to $4,450.
In Brooklyn, it surged 37 percent, to $3,925.
The increases in rents for newly leased units are twice the rate of inflation, which totaled 18 percent during those years.
But the average rent in a building that contains regulated apartments has risen far more slowly, with the rent laws protecting longtime tenants and incentivizing them to remain in place. In the most recent four-year period tracked by the Rent Guidelines Board, ending in 2023, it rose only 7.5 percent, to $1,559. The board has since allowed a 2.75 percent increase on one-year leases last year and another 3 percent that went into effect Oct. 1 — but only on the regulated apartments.
Most new renters don’t have a shot at leasing a regulated apartment in the more desirable parts of the city, where landlords removed large numbers of units from rent regulation through serial rent increases until a 2019 state law barred the practice. In Manhattan, more than half of apartments in buildings with rent stabilized apartments are now unregulated, with tenants paying market rent, according to Rent Guidelines Board research.
The continued surge in market rents is a problem even for some of the most highly paid New York jobs. Tech workers, whose average wage is $135,000 — 50 percent higher than the citywide average — can afford only one in three market-rate apartments, according to a 2024 study by the trade group Tech:NYC and the real estate firm StreetEasy.
Entry-level tech workers, making an average of $75,000, can afford only 2 percent of studio and one-bedroom apartments, the study showed.
“The affordability concerns have only gotten worse in the tech community,” said Julie Samuels, CEO of the organization. “It is expensive up and down and the pay scale of tech companies and even people with high paying jobs have trouble finding apartments.”
The problem is threefold
• The city simply doesn’t have enough housing units to meet demand.
• The rise in home prices and mortgage rates have trapped many New Yorkers in rentals, reducing what’s available on the rental market.
• Sharply higher costs for items like insurance, property taxes and maintenance push landlords with buildings with both regulated and market rate rents to raise market rate rents to compensate for small-
the lower increases allowed on their regulated units. (By law, the board is supposed to vote to set rents based on the analysis, precluding a preordained “rent freeze.”)
Average rents in what the Board calls core Manhattan, where the vast majority of buildings have both kinds of apartments, rose 17 percent between 2019 and 2022, the latest data available. Citywide, the increase was only 7 percent. In The Bronx, the increase was also 7 percent.
Or consider Mamdani’s own building in Astoria, where he lives in a rent regulated apartment while earning a $142,000 salary as a state Assembly member and has additional income from his wife’s work as an artist.
er increases in the regulated units.
The city’s vacancy rate is at a historic low of 1.4 percent as a result of an economic expansion that added 900,000 jobs between 2011 and 2023 and built only 350,000 new homes.
Market-rate rents declined during the pandemic as people fled the city, estimated at 350,000 by the U.S. Census. Since then the population has increased by at least 100,000, which corresponds with the escalation in rents for unregulated units.
The situation has been worsened in the last several years by first extremely low interest rates and then a fast rise as the Federal Reserve Board moved to fight inflation, Miller said.
In the pandemic, mortgage rates fell below 4 percent, which sent prices soaring for co-ops, condos and especially single family homes both in the city and in the nearby suburbs, making moving out of a rental difficult. Then when mortgage rates rose above 7 percent, buying became even more unaffordable. Sellers, who often have low cost mortgages, are able to hold out until they get the price they want.
“A key driver is why rents have gone up is because there are a lot of people camping out in the rental market who are waiting for mortgage rates to fall,” said Miller.
The data tracked by the Rent Guidelines Board, whose staff reports on rents and costs for landlords guide the board’s decisions on annual increases, shows how landlords with both regulated and market-rate units push up rents to offset
According to a tax challenge filed by the landlord, the building’s 30 market-rate units generate $761,544 in annual rent and the 22 rent-regulated units $452,628. If the landlord were to seek to recover cost increases in order to maintain profits, all of that increased rent would have to come from market-rate tenants.
“As mayor, Zohran Mamdani will use every tool to keep rents down — that means freezing the rents of more than 2 million New Yorkers, fully enforcing good cause evictions, protecting tenants against price gouging, and cracking down on bad landlords,” said campaign spokesperson Dora Pekec. “For too long, city leaders, bought by real estate interests, have looked the other way as rents rise and working families drown. Zohran Mamdani knows relief won’t come from maintaining the status quo, it demands bold changes.”
But long term, Mamdani and real estate industry representatives say the solution is just more housing.
At last Thursday’s mayoral candidate debate, Mamdani said he would help keep down market-rate rents by building 200,000 new units of housing.
Agreed Basha Gerhards, executive vice president of policy at the Real Estate Board of New York: “To address the rapid growth of rent requires the construction of a significantly larger number of housing units because the affordability crisis is based on a supply crisis.” Q
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City Council District 26
Republican John Healy will attempt to dethrone incumbent Julie Won (D-Sunnyside).
City Council District 27
Nantasha Williams (D-St. Albans), the incumbent, will not face a competitor for her seat.
City Council District 28
Ty Hankerson, a Democrat, does not face a challenger to replace the term-limited incumbent, Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica). Hankerson won the primary against four other candidates with 58.8 percent of the vote.
City Council District 29
Incumbent Lynn Schulman (D-Forest Hills) will battle to retain her seat against Jonathan Rinaldi, a Republican.
City Council District 30
As incumbent Bob Holden (D-Maspeth) is term-limited, two of his employees seek to replace him: Alicia Vaichunas, a Republican, and Democrat Phil Wong.
City Council District 31
Incumbent Selvena Brooks-Powers (D-Laurelton) does not face a challenger for reelection.
City Council District 32
Incumbent Joann Ariola (R-Ozone Park) does not face a challenger for her seat.
City Council District 34
While the 34th District mostly covers Brooklyn, it contains a part of Ridgewood. Democrat Jennifer Gutiérrez is uncontested in her reelection bid.
State Supreme Court, 11th District
Five positions on the 11th Judicial District are open. Vying for the spots are Democrats Sandra Perez, Ira Greenberg, Gary Miret, Frances Wang and Soma Syed, and Republicans Gary Muraca and Richard Felix.
New York City Civil Court, Queens County
The Democratic candidates are Sheridan Chu, Indria Khan and Oma Philips, and the Republicans are Thomas Barra, William Shanahan and Susan Silverman.
Civil Court, 1st Municipal District
Juliette-Noor Haji, a Democrat, is uncontested for the judgeship. She won the primary with 69.3 percent.
Civil Court, 2nd Municipal District
Eve Cho Guillergan, a Democrat, Thomas Wright-Ferndandez, also a Democrat, and Republican Stephen Dachtera will face off at the polls. Voters may pick two candidates.
Civil Court, 4th Municipal District
Mary-Ann Maloney, a Republican, and Democrats Gail Adams and Fania Jean, are competing for two judgeship positions.
Civil Court, 5th Municipal District
Jennifer Tubridy, listed as both a Democrat and a Republican, is uncontested.
Proposals
In addition to choosing candidates, voters can weigh in on six proposals, whose printed summaries are as follows. On the ballot itself, each one also has a synopsis of what a yes or no vote means.
Proposal No. 1: Amendment to Allow Olympic Sports Complex In Essex County on State Forest Preserve Land
Allows skiing and related trail facilities on state forest preserve land. The site is 1,039 acres. Requires State to add 2,500 acres of new forest land in Adirondack Park.
Proposal No. 2: Fast Track Affordable Housing to Build More Affordable Housing Across the City
Fast track publicly financed affordable housing. Fast track applications delivering affordable housing in the community districts that produce the least affordable housing, significantly reducing review time. Maintain Community Board review.
Proposal No. 3: Simplify Review of Modest Housing and Infrastructure Projects
Simplify review of modest amounts of additional housing and minor infrastructure projects, significantly reducing review time. Maintain Community Board review, with final decision by the City Planning Commission.
Proposal No. 4: Establish an Affordable Housing Appeals Board with Council, Borough, and Citywide Representation
Establish an Affordable Housing Appeals Board with the Council Speaker, local Borough President, and Mayor to review Council actions that reject or change applications creating affordable housing.
Proposal No. 5: Create a Digital City Map to Modernize City Operations
Consolidate borough map office and address assignment functions, and create one digital City Map at Department of City Planning. Today, the City Map consists of paper maps across five offices.
Proposal No. 6: Move Local Elections to Presidential Election Years to Increase Voter Participation
Move the City’s primary and general election dates so that City elections are held in the same year as Federal Presidential elections, when permitted by state law. Q
by Michael Gannon Senior News Editor
With the 15th annual Queens World Film Festival celebrating its unofficial kickoff at Borough Hall on Oct. 15, it was perhaps fitting that the press event, scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon, was accompanied by a little bit of drama and comedy.
“We got there and were told there was going to be a mandatory fire drill at 10 a.m.,” Katha Cato, executive director and co-founder of the festival, told the Chronicle with a chuckle. “You always hear that filmmaking is so glorious.”
And when all was clear, Cato said, everyone came back into the atrium of the Helen Marshall Cultural Center, pulled together and made the day work as if it had been scripted.
“It was phenomenal,” Cato said. “We had over 50 of the filmmaking teams from the New York area there with their posters, their actors and the subjects of their documentaries. It was beautiful. We were packed — about 130 people.”
The festival, a juried competition, this year will feature more than 120 films from 17 countries, including 22 from Queens, from Nov. 5 to 16 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria and Kaufman Astoria Studios.
The theme this year is “Connections:
All are welcome to an artist showcase on Oct. 26 at the Forest Hills Jewish Center, at 106-06 Queens Blvd., hosted by state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Woodhaven), from noon to 3 p.m.
The event will show off the creativity of artists of various types, including singers, painters, woodcarvers, photographers, comedians and more. All participants reside in Addabbo’s district.
The event, which is free to attend, is not a competition, but a way for artists to share their talents with the community. The artist solicitation period has closed, and artists have been accepted in advance. There are no prizes to be given and no sales of any kind.
Made, Missed, and Yearned For.”
Cato said guests were greeted by a trans activist and performer, who spoke to them with pride about being able to make films and, in some cases, having the courage required to do so.
“Then I read the First Amendment,” Cato said, “so that everybody would remember that is why we truly get together, and we get to listen to voices other than our own, and how important it is for the health of everyone.”
Other speakers included Sandra Schulberg, a festival board member and executive director of IndieCollect, a nonprofit that rescues and preserves significant American independent films; and Warrington Hudlin, this year’s Spirit of Queens honoree, who among other achievements is the founding president of the Black Filmmaker Foundation.
Information on each film, schedules, locations and ticket sales can be found at queensworldfilmfestival.org. Q
“Queens has some of the most diverse, talented and creative people in the world,” Addabbo said in a statement. “Last year’s artist showcase was a real eye-opener for many attendees who got to experience these treasures for the first time, and I’m sure now in our second year we will uncover more hidden gems.”
Those with questions or seeking more information may contact AnnMarie Costella at costella@ nysenate.gov. Q
by Stephanie G. Meditz
With spooky season upon us once again, the shivers down your spine are not just from the new chill in the air.
Houses are all decked out in pumpkins, lights and decor evoking horror icons. It’s getting dark a bit earlier, and Halloween movies are almost always on TV.
In Queens, there’s something for everyone to get into the spirit of the season, whether you’re eager to show off your costume or just here for the candy.
City Councilman Bob Holden (D-Maspeth) will hold his annual Halloween parade and Trunk or Treat event Oct. 25 at Juniper Valley Park. The parade starts at 11:30 a.m. by the playground on 74th Street, followed by Trunk or Treat on 80th Street between Juniper Boulevard North and South. Kids can enjoy bounce houses, games, snacks and more until 2:30 p.m. Info is at district30@council.nyc.gov or (718) 366-3900.
Kew Gardens kids also can trick or treat from car to car, for a good cause. The Friends of Maple Grove Cemetery’s annual Trunk or Treat in support of River Fund is from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 25. Admission is free with the donation of non-perishables for local food pantries. Guests should enter via Lefferts Boulevard and Kew Gardens Road.
A prize will be awarded to the best decorated vehicle. To learn more or register a car, one may call (347) 878-6613 or email info@friendsofmaplegrove.org.
Whether you’re looking to do the monster mash or kick back with a seasonal cocktail, the Queens Botanical Garden has you covered. Youngsters can show off their costumes, partake in arts and crafts and enjoy live performances from 12 to 4 p.m. Oct. 26. Adults can enjoy a cash bar, and explore local businesses at a vendor fair.
Entry is free for QBG members and children under 3. Tickets for adults are $10, and $8 for kids. Info is at queensbotanical.org/halloween.
Families also can celebrate Halloweekend at the Queens County Farm Museum Oct. 25 and 26. With spooky ghost stories, a corn maze, Halloween hayrides, apple cider
by Ron Marzlock
Chronicle Contributor
Zachrias “Alex” Insdorf was born Sept. 18, 1919 in Wojnicz, Poland. He and his wife, Netti, who was born on Nov. 10, 1924, suffered the horror, pain and trauma of the Holocaust.
Stateless, they lived in France, where their daughter, Annette, was born on July 27, 1950. On Feb. 16, 1954 they landed in NYC on the ship Liberte. They temporarily lived in the Bronx and then made a home at 68-12 Yellowstone Blvd. in Forest Hills.
What Annette’s parents endured may have encouraged her to excel in life. At Forest Hills High School she was chosen in the senior yearbook as the “most versatile.” She was the executive secretary of SING, a student-led musical and theater group that wrote, directed and performed.
The childhood home of film historian Annette Insdorf was at 68-12 Yellowstone Blvd. in Forest Hills, seen as it looked when she grew up there in the 1950s and ’60s. INSETPHOTOBYKEVINPAYRAVIVIAWIKIPEDIA
After graduating from Queens College, Insdorf received her Ph.D. at Yale in 1975. She became a foremost American film historian and author, speaking five languages. She often was seen at the Cannes Film Festival
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Insdorf lost her beloved mother in 2022, a few months shy of her 98th birthday. A Columbia University professor, she still exhibits zeal for her field of expertise. Q
by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor
It was a coincidence, but both the Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies had their respective chief executive and field manager hold press conferences last Thursday to give their takes on why their perennial playoff teams failed yet again to be the last team standing.
The Yankees’ Brian Cashman and the Phillies’ Dave Dombrowski are two of the best b aseball general managers in history. They always put together powerhouse teams. Nonetheless, big-market sports fans demand nothing less than the big trophy and a parade every year.
Both praised their players, although the latter did take a shot at his superstar, Bryce Harper, saying he had a good year, but not an elite one. Both said they would like to re-sign their pending free agents but admitted that today’s baseball economics make that an impossibility.
The Philadelphia sports media tend to be harsher than their New York counterparts. It could be because New York has more than one team in each of the four major sports whereas Philadelphia is the largest American city that only has one entrant in each of the “big four.”
N ew York also has far more entertainment options.
After getting yet another “Why hasn’t your team won a World Series?” query from reporters, an understandably exasperated Dombrows-
ki replied, “It’s hard to win!”
When you think of Major League Baseball’s grueling 162-game schedule to determine who gets to the postseason, and then add threerounds of win-or-go-home playoffs on top of that, Dombrowski’s succinct answer makes a lot of sense, even if diehard fans don’t want to acknowledge it.
While it wasn’t the bloodletting the Mets recently had, the Yankees fired bullpen coach Mike Harkey and first base coach Travis Chapman. Whenever coaches are dismissed without a managerial change, it is impossible to know whether the moves are based on performance, politics or as a public relations sop for failing to win the Yanks’ 28th world championship.
The Phillies failed to win a playoff round for the second straight year, but they were an integral part of the season debut of ABC’s “Abbott Elementary.” The plot involved teachers at the fictional Philadelphia public school making an outing to Citizens Bank Park.
The taping took place during an actual game between the Phillies and the Atlanta Braves. As luck would have it, that was the night Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber hit four home runs ,with snippets of each one being inserted into the show. Schwarber made a cameo appearance at the end of the show. Q See the extended version of Sports Beat every week at qchron.com.
by Mark Lord qboro contributor
Beginning today, Oct. 23, Black Spectrum Theatre presents the world premiere of “Watch the Throne,” a play by Felix Omozusi that, according to the theater’s founder, Carl Clay, is set in “a nondescript African country” and deals with its government and the workings of its kingdom.
As leading actor David Roberts explained it in a Facebook post, “The story occurs against the backdrop of an African family, with definite symbolic overtones, regarding who will lead and who will capture the throne.”
The playwright himself explained in a phone interview that the play, which he originally wrote in 2012, is based on his experiences as a child and young adult in Nigeria and has since been revised several times to “reflect current issues” in that country.
“A lot of things are happening now,” he said, adding that the play depicts younger characters who are stepping into new leadership roles. Governmental oppression has many citizens feeling “fed up with the status quo,” he said.
It’s a “very realistic” play, he added, one which he hopes will “shed light on the insecurities in Nigeria” and “bridge the gap” between that country and America.
Performing now through Nov. 2 in “Watch the Throne” at Black Spectrum Theatre are David Roberts, top left, Kenya Wilson, Aaron Allen, Dimitri
Omozusi, right.
“We all have similar issues,” he said.
A cast of about a dozen, under the direction of Lawrence Floyd, bring the characters, based on real-life people, to life. Roberts plays King Hamza, with Kenya Wilson appearing as his queen, Nafisa. Omozusi, an actor in addition to being a playwright, also puts in an appearance in the production.
“It’s a wonderful character piece,” Clay said, further describing it as a “social drama with touches of a thriller.”
While the play shares its title with a pro-
gressive rap album released by Kanye West and Jay-Z in 2011, Omozusi said his intention was not to copy it but indicated that the play’s message “is connected to the title.”
As used, the word “watch,” he explained, means to “pay attention, be alert.” Lest anyone think he might have gotten the idea for the title from “Game of Thrones,” he made it clear that he wrote the piece before that popular TV series hit the airwaves.
The play, Omozusi said, is recommended for families, but he pointed out that it does
contain “a bit of violence.” He suggested it is suitable for anyone 12 years of age and older. Critics, he said in a Facebook post, are already calling it a masterpiece. He hopes the play will be educational. “I want people to learn about their cultures,” he said. He would like people to leave the theater “with a curious mind to do more research. We have to be brave and bold.”
Performances take place at Black Spectrum, located at 177-01 Baisley Blvd. in St. Albans, from Oct. 23 through Nov. 2. Performances are at 7 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays; at 2 p.m. on Saturdays; and 4 p.m. on Sundays. Tickets are $35. For more information, call (718) 723-1800 or visit blackspectrum.net.
Roberts points out that the play’s themes cross cultural frontiers, too.
“Most, if not all cultures, are engaged in the ‘head of household philosophy,’ within family and community politics,” his social media post says. “This is the basic foundation for government and political structure. The play demonstrates the direct connection of “cultural and social rules,” which cross all societal boundaries.” Q
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The Jackson Heights Beautification Group’s annual children’s parade, the largest in the city, is from 4 to 7 p.m. on Halloween. As they march down 37th Avenue, from 89th to 76th Street, kids will receive goodie bags prepared by volunteers. Those interest-
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You’re bound to see plenty of people
dressed up this weekend and next, and dog lovers might delight in seeing a pooch or two. But Socrates Sculpture Park will be rife with costumed canines at its Halloween Harvest Festival from 12 to 5 p.m. Oct. 25.
The Long Island City park will offer a costume contest for dogs, along with a resource fair, pumpkin decorating and more. It’s free,
and info is at socratessculpturepark.org.
If you’d like to lean into the season’s chill, look no further than outdoor open spaces. The city Department of Transportation’s Trick-or-Streets program is bringing music, games, photo ops and more to pedestrian plazas in Queens and beyond. The full list of sites is at tinyurl.com/4mspajns. Q
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To: Peter Vattiato, Claudia Pringles, Michael William Vattiato, if living and if dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown and if they died subsequent to the decedent herein, to their executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence. Being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, distributees or otherwise in the Estate of Catherine Vattiato, deceased, who at the time of death was a resident of 60-77 71st Street, Maspeth, NY 11378, in the County of Queens, State of New York. SEND GREETING: Upon the petition of LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, Public Administrator of Queens County, who maintains her office at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens County, New York 11435, as Administrator of the Estate of Catherine Vattiato, deceased, you and each of you are hereby cited to show cause before the Surrogate at the Surrogate’s Court of the County of Queens, to be held at the Queens General Courthouse, 6th Floor, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, City and State of New York, on the 20th day of November, 2025 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon, why the Account of Proceedings of the Public Administrator of Queens County, as Administrator of the Estate of said deceased, a copy of which is attached, should not be judicially settled, and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow a reasonable amount of compensation to GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., for legal services rendered to petitioner herein in the amount of $8,885.41 and that the Court fix the fair and reasonable additional fee for any services to be rendered by GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., hereafter in connection with proceedings on kinship, claims etc., prior to entry of a final Decree on this accounting in the amount of 6% of assets or income collected after the date of the within accounting; and why the Surrogate should not fix and allow an amount equal to one percent on said Schedules of the total assets on Schedules A, A1, and A2 plus any additional monies received subsequent to the date of this account, as the fair and reasonable amount payable to the Office of the Public Administrator for the expenses of said office pursuant to S.C.P.A. §1106(3); and why the Last Will and Testament dated December 1, 2015, copy attached, should not be admitted to Probate; and why the Letters of Administration issued to the Public Administrator should not be revoked; and why Letters of Administration CTA should not be issued to the Public Administrator; and why the net residuary estate should not be paid pursuant to the Last Will and Testament as follows; 100 % to Claudia Pringles as Successor Trustee of the Peter Vattiato SNT dated December 1, 2015 Dated, Attested and Sealed 15th day of September, 2025 HON. CASSANDRA A. JOHNSON Surrogate, Queens County Janet Edwards Tucker Chief Clerk GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ. (718) 459-9000 1981 Marcus Avenue, Suite 200 Lake Success, New York 11042 NOTICE: THIS CITATION IS SERVED UPON YOU AS REQUIRED BY LAW. YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO APPEAR; HOWEVER, IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR IT WILL BE ASSUMED YOU DO NOT OBJECT TO THE RELIEF REQUESTED. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO HAVE AN ATTORNEY APPEAR FOR YOU, AND YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MAY REQUEST A COPY OF THE FULL ACCOUNT FROM THE PETITIONER OR PETITIONER’S ATTORNEY Accounting Citation
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Notice of Formation of 23-39 98TH STREET LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/16/2025. 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.
24-32 27TH STREET LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/30/25. 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, 24-32 27th Street, Astoria, NY 11102. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of 94-50 MERRICK BLVD. LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/11/2025. 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: 94-50 MERRICK BLVD. LLC, 94-02 150TH ST., JAMAICA, NY 11435. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
Notice of Formation of ARAL SIMTECH LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/07/2025. 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: AGA ARCEDO, 40-15 81ST ST, APT B12, ELMHURST, NY 11373. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
CORRA REALTY GROUP, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/09/2025. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 3907 Prince St. 6B, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.
NOTICE OF SALE
SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS, WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEE OF QUERCUS MORTGAGE INVESTMENT TRUST, PLAINTIFF, vs. RONALD SHAW, ET AL., Defendant (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on October 10, 2024, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the second floor in Courtroom 25 Queens County Supreme Courthouse located at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435 on November 21, 2025, at 10:00 AM, premises known as 192-11 116TH ROAD, SAINT ALBANS, NY 11412. 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: 11061, Lot: 46. Approximate amount of judgment is $489,246.08 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 721276/2022. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Mortgagee’s attorney, or the Referee. All parties shall comply with the Eleventh Judicial District’s COVID-19 Policies concerning Public Auctions of foreclosed properties. These policies, along with the Queens County Foreclosure Auction Rules, can be found on the Queens Supreme CourtCivil Term Website (https:// www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/COURTS/11jd/supreme/ civilterm/partrules/Foreclosure_Auction_Rules.pdf)
DOMINIC CHIARIELLO, Esq., Referee Roach & Lin, P.C., 6851 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 185, Syosset, New York 11791, Attorneys for Plaintiff
Notice of Formation of ECO AIRE, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/03/2025. 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: YVONNE WHITTER, 104-09 209 STREET, QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11429. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT, LLC, -against- JACQUELYN GRANT A/K/A JACQUELYN G. JOHNSON, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF VESTA COUCH, 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 5, 2025, wherein MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT, LLC is the Plaintiff and JACQUELYN GRANT A/K/A JACQUELYN G. JOHNSON, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF VESTA COUCH;, 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 11/07/2025 at 10:00AM, premises known as 19130 113TH AVENUE, SAINT ALBANS, New York 11412; and the following tax map identification, -10987-19. 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, Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No.: 701783/2022. Lois Marie Vitti, 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.
1818 43RD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/14/25. 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, 15-31 146th Place, Whitestone, NY 11357. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE ASSETS TRUST 2007-5, MORTGAGEBACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-5, -against- BEULAH FIGEROUX F/K/A BEULAH BLAKE 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 October 1, 2024, wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE ASSETS TRUST 2007-5, MORTGAGE-BACKED PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-5 is the Plaintiff and BEULAH FIGEROUX F/K/A BEULAH BLAKE, 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 11/21/2025 at 10:00AM, premises known as 14306 FERNDALE AVENUE, JAMAICA, New York 11435; and the following tax map identification, -11935-3. ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ETRECTED, 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.: 714058/2020.
Michael A. Cervini, 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 DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR HARBORVIEW MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-5, -against- STACIE C. GRANT A/K/A STACIE N. C. GRANT, 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 July 10, 2024, wherein DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR HARBORVIEW MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-5 is the Plaintiff and STACIE C. GRANT A/K/A STACIE N. C. GRANT, 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 11/21/2025 at 10:00AM, premises known as 115-112 225TH STREET, CAMBRIA HEIGHTS, New York 11411; and the following tax map identification, -11306-57. ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE FOURTH WARD OF THE BOROUGH AND COUNTY OF QUEENS, CITY AND STATE OF NEW YORK, Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No.: 722456/2022. Scott H. Siller, 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.
PROBATE CITATION File
No.·2018-504/C SURROGATE’S COURT - QUEENS COUNTY CITATION. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE: OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent. To: WALTER JOHNSON JR., Tyrell JOHNSON., DONNELL JOHNSON, SHAQUILLE JOHNSON, JOAN JACKSON; if living and if dead, to his/her heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown and If he/she died subsequent to the decedent herein, to his/her executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose name and places of residence are unknown and to all other heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of WATER JOHNSON, aka WALTER CECIEL JOHNSON aka WALTER CECIL JOHNSON, the decedent herein, whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence, A petition having been duly-filed by Shantl Westen Johnson who is domiciled at 116-40 196th Street, St. Albans, Queens, New York 11412. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, at·88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, on the 4th day of December, 2025 at 9:30 A.M. of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Walter Johnson aka Walter Cecil Johnson aka Walter Ceciel Johnson , lately domiciled at 116-40 196th Street, St. Albans, Queens, New York 11412, a will dated April 10, 2009 copy of which is attached, as the Will of Walter C. Johnson deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that [x] Letters of Administration issue to: Shanti Weston Johnson (State any further-relief requested) Deny probate of will and grant letters of administration. HON. CASSANDRA A. JOHNSON
Surrogate OCT. 02, 2025.
JANET EDWARDS TUCKER
Chief Clerk. Jason C. Bost, Esq. (718 361-0299 Attorney for Petitioner. 45 Exchange Boulevard, Suite 802, Rochester. New York, 14614 (Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear with you.)
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, -against- MARISOL ALVELO, 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 July 3, 2025, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION is the Plaintiff and MARISOL ALVELO, 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 11/21/2025 at 10:00AM, premises known as 13105 135TH ST, SOUTH OZONE PARK, New York 11420; and the following tax map identification, 51-11780-119. 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 Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No.: 701260/2020. Gregory J. Newman, 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 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.
SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Trustee for Structured Adjustable Rate Mortgage Loan Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 20051, Plaintiff AGAINST Sabrina Edery, as Administratrix of the Estate of Ann Lewitinn; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered October 22, 2024, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Queens County Supreme Courthouse, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435, on the second floor in Courtroom 25 on November 14, 2025, at 10:00AM, premises known as 431 Beach 45th Street, Far Rockaway, NY 11691. 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, Block 15968 Lot 96. Approximate amount of judgment $480,940.23 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 703588/2015. Michael A. Cervini, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792Dated: September 24, 2025
K NAIL STUDIO LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/19/25. 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, 12816 23rd Ave, College Point, NY 11356. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
KAM 14 LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/29/25. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 8425 85th Ave., Woodhaven, NY 11421. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, -againstCHITROWTIE GHANESS 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 August 6, 2024, wherein NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC is the Plaintiff and CHITROWTIE GHANESS 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 10/31/2025 at 10:00AM, premises known as 90-23 184TH STREET, HOLLIS, New York 11423; and the following tax map identification, -9905-58. 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.: 700221/2021. Lamont Ramsey Bailey, 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 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.
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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee of CSMC 2019-RPL11 Trust, Plaintiff -against- Melanie N. Silvia as Heir to the Estate of Nancy M. Silvia, Cheryl M. Smith as Heir to the Estate of Nancy M. Silvia, Tremayne D. Silvia as Heir to the Estate of Nancy M. Silvia, Angela M. Matthews a/k/a Angela Monique Matthews as Heir to the Estate of Richard T. Matthews a/k/a Richard Matthews, Latoya S. Clay a/k/a Latoya S. Matthews as Heir to the Estate of Richard T. Matthews a/k/a Richard Matthews, Terrance Windham as Heir to the Estate of Richard T. Matthews a/k/a Richard Matthews, Jamaica East Homeowners Association, Inc., City of New York acting by and through its Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York Social Services District, New York City Environmental Control Board, New York City Parking Violations Bureau, New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau, North Star Capital Acquisitions LLC, Successor Trustee of the Nancy M. Silvia Irrevocable Living Trust, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, United States of America - Internal Revenue Service, Nancy M. Silvia’s unknown heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in the real property described in the complaint herein, Richard T. Matthews a/k/a Richard Matthews’ unknown heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in the real property described in the complaint herein and “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #10”, the last ten names being fictitious and unknown to the plaintiff, the person or parties intended being the persons or parties, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the mortgaged premises described in the Complaint, Defendants. Index #: 725897/2024 Filed: 12/02/2024 SUMMONS Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): 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 Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; or within sixty (60) days if it is the United States of America. 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 captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $118,100.00, and interest, recorded in the office of the Clerk of the County of Queens on May 14, 1996 in Reel 4339, at Page 2045, covering premises known as 106-41 160th Street a/k/a 10641 160th Street, Jamaica, NY 11433. 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. 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 fi led this foreclosure proceeding against you and fi ling 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: Bay Shore, New York November 27, 2024 FRENKEL, LAMBERT, WEISS, WEISMAN & GORDON, LLP BY: Deana Cheli Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, New York 11706 (631) 969-3100 Our File No.: 01-096105-F01
Notice of Formation of ROSMUC INVESTIGATIONS LLC
Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/08/2025.
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, 6731 52ND AVE, MASPETH, NY 11373. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
Notice of formation of S KIM CPA PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/2/2025. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. 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: is The PLLC 3809 Union Street, Suite 3 Flushing, NY, 11354. Purpose/ character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose.
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS, Index No.: 704432/2021, Filed: 1/24/2024, SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS, Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff, -against- Scott Gordon, Esq. as Limited Administrator for the estate of Everol A. Ellington and Everol A. Ellington and Everol A. Ellington’s unknown heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in the real property described in the complaint herein, Scott Gordon, Esq. as Limited Administrator for the Estate of Roxanne G. Lambert and Roxanne G. Lambert’s unknown heirs-atlaw, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in the real property described in the complaint herein, Sherene W illiamson aka Sherise Williamson as Heir to the Estate of Everol A. Ellington if living, and if they be dead, their respective heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendants who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the Complaint herein, K.E. Minor Heir of the Estate of Everol A. Ellington and as Heir to the Estate of Roxanne G. Lambert, Raven Shaw as Heir to ‘the Estate of Roxanne G. Lambert, Roy Shaw as Heir to the Estate of Roxanne G. Lambert, New York City Environmental Control Board, New York City Parking Violations Bureau, New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau, United States of AmericaInternal Revenue Service, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Tarranicki Clyburn, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): 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 Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; or within sixty (60) days if it is the United States of America. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Claudia Lanzetta, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Queens County, entered Sept. 17, 2025 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Queens County Clerk’s Office. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $333,805.00 and interest, recorded in the office of the clerk of the County of Queens on July 11, 2011 in CRFN 2011000241812 covering premises known as 112-44 Dillon Street, Jamaica, NY 11433 a/k/a Block 12178, Lot 144. 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. 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 REPSOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Bay Shore, New York, August 25, 2022, Logs Legal Group LLP,Attorneys for Plaintiff,175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, NY 14624 (585) 247-9000 Fax: (585)247-7380 Our File No. 23-094418, #102555, TO: Scott Gordon, Esq. As Limited Administrator of the Estate of Everol A. Ellington, Scott Gordon, Esq. As Limited Administrator of the Estate of Roxanne G. Lambert, United States of America-Internal Revenue Service, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, K.E. Minor Heir of the Estate of Everol A. Ellington and as Heir to the Estate of Roxanne G. Lambert c/o Donnette Ellington, 1007 N. Ocean Breeze Lake Worth, Florida 33460, Raven Shaw as Heir to the Estate of Roxanne G. Lambert,1606 E. 56th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234, Roy Shaw as Heir to the Estate of Roxanne G. Lambert, 1606 E. 56th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234
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.
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 VCS CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/17/2024. 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: CONCEPCION NAVARRO, 2536 22ND STREET, APT 1B, ASTORIA, NY 11102. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
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 SALE SUPREME
COURT QUEENS COUNTY U.S.
BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE ON BEHALF OF GCAT 2021-NQM7 TRUST, Plaintiff against NINA RIENZI, 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 April 4, 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 November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM. Premises known as 34-11 29th Street, Long Island City, NY 11106. Sec 4 Block 585 Lot 24. 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 $1,294,298.19 plus interest, fees, and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 700029/2023. 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. Martha Taylor, Esq., Referee File # 3000-001443
NOTICE OF SALE
SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff AGAINST Douglas Carr, as Executor of the Estate of Gloria Patrick a/k/a Gloria A. Patrick a/k/a Gloria A. Ballom a/k/a Gloria Patrick Ballom a/k/a Gloria A. PatrickBallom; et al., Defendant(s)
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered August 25, 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 November 21, 2025, at 10:00AM, premises known as 18833 Keesville Avenue a/k/a 188-33 Keesville Avenue, Saint Albans a/k/a Jamaica, NY 11412. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Fourth Ward of the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, Block 10427 Lot 34. Approximate amount of judgment $413,024.00 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 710701/2019. Heidi J. Henle, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: September 15, 2025 For sale information, please visit www. Auction.com or call (800) 2802831 87190
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 Formation of LITTLE ROSE FLORALS, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/02/2025. 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: JULIE MAK MOTAYNE, 141-10 82ND DRIVE, #234, BRIARWOOD, NY 11435. 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.
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.
