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1930-2012 City votes to close the Ozone Park high school, and six others in Queens PAGE 2 John Adams High School will be shuttered at the end of June and reopen in September with some teachers replaced and, likely, a new name.

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City votes to close seven boro schools Students, parents, educators slam decision; UFT says it may sue city

by Anna Gustafson Senior Editor

y the time the city Panel for Educational Policy voted to close 24 city schools, including seven in Queens, around midnight last Thursday, just a handful of the hundreds of teachers, parents and students who had flooded the meeting in its earlier hours remained — but their alternating weeping and jeering could be heard throughout the cavernous auditorium.

Leaning their foreheads against outstretched palms, those who stayed into Friday’s early hours at Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights Campus seemed to personify the mood among those at the schools slated to close at the end of June — defiant one minute, and dejected the next.

“Let us count,” a group yelled each time the PEP voted to close a school. “Are there eight?

Eight puppets, and four heroes.”

The PEP voted 8-4 to shutter the 24 facilities.

Seven of Mayor Bloomberg’s appointees, and the Staten Island borough president’s representative, approved the mayor’s plan to close the schools and then reopen them in September with up to half the teachers replaced, new names and potentially other principals. The borough presidents’ representatives from Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx voted against the closures that numerous educators, legislators and civic leaders argue target schools that educate large numbers of English language learners and minorities. Bloomberg and city

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Individuals from Student Activists United protest the city Panel for Educational Policy’s vote on PHOTO BY ANNA GUSTAFSON Thursday to close 24 schools, including seven in Queens.

Department of Education officials have said the closures are necessary to address low graduation rates and test scores at the institutions.

The United Federation of Teachers said after the vote that it was considering suing the DOE to stop the closures.

The schools that will be impacted in Queens are: August Martin High School in Jamaica, Bryant High School in Long Island City,

Flushing High School, John Adams High School in Ozone Park, Long Island City High School, Newtown High School in Elmhurst and Richmond Hill High School. Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood had also been pegged for closure, but Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott announced last Thursday morning that it had been removed from the list.

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system belongs to the public and that the public should play an integral role in any significant change that may take place within their school community,” said Dmytro Fedkowskyj, the Queens borough president’s appointee to the PEP. “I can honestly say that didn’t happen, since decisions were made to abandon the current and proven educational models overnight, leaving our school communities confused and f ighting for something that rightfully belonged to them.”

For hours, students and others addressed the panel members, urging them not to close their institutions.

“For the past three years, I’ve seen the bureaucracy screwing around with our school,” Davon Pearsall, a junior at Flushing High School, said prior to the PEP’s vote. “Freshman year we had one principal, then we got another principal, and now they want to get rid of that principal? Who’s failing who here?”

While the facilities will each be technically closed at the end of the school year, each will reopen — under a new name and potentially with major staff changes — in September.

Walcott insisted at the PEP meeting that there is no “set quota” for how many educators will be replaced. However, if half the teachers are not replaced, the school would not receive the up to $2 million for which it would otherwise be eligible, according to federal guidelines. continued on page 44

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At an abandoned line, calls for restoration Goldfeder creates petition supporting reactivating old Rockaway Beach rail

by Anna Gustafson Senior Editor

Pointing to an abandoned railway in Ozone Park, its paint long ago chipped and trash strewn around its periphery, South Queens residents said on Monday that the city has left the site alone for too long, forcing Rockaway residents to cope with two-hour commutes to Manhattan and isolating communities within the borough.

Since Gov. Cuomo in January proposed building the country’s largest convention center in South Ozone Park — by the casino at Aqueduct — legislators and some civic leaders have called for the Rockaway Beach rail line, commonly referred to as the White Pot Junction Line, to be restored. On Monday, state Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Ozone Park), community leaders and transportation advocates gathered in Ozone Park to continue to push for trains to once again run on the line — which they have not done since the early 1960s — and said they hoped to collect numerous online signatures at rockaway beachrail.com to support their plan, which Goldfeder plans to present to the Port Authority, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota and Cuomo.

“Transportation options for Southern

Queens and Rockaway residents are severely limited,” Goldfeder said. “Restoration of the abandoned rail line as an efficient transportation alternative to the current subway lines would be welcomed news to the residents of Queens, who currently suffer with commutes of well over an hour to midtown Manhattan. A petition is the perfect way to send a strong message to decision makers that Queens residents are united in the quest for multiple transit options, and I urge everyone to sign on.”

The Long Island Rail Road sold the line, which runs up through Ozone Park to Rego Park, to the city in 1962. A number of plans have surfaced for the line over the years, including a recent plan to turn it into Queens’ version of Manhattan’s High Line, a greenway.

But Goldfeder said faster transportation is needed in the borough’s southern neighborhoods, particularly if the convention center comes to fruition.

“The proposed Genting convention center means more cars in Queens,” said John Rozankowski, a transportation advocate.

“Only by reactivating the Rockaway line can this problem be properly addressed.”

Stefan Friedman, a spokesman for Resorts World New York, which operates the casino and plans to run the convention center, said

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the company supports the idea of additional transportation, though he did not specify whether or not that meant rejuvenating the Rockaway line.

“We want to increase the amount of public transportation to support the New York International Convention and Exhibition Center,” Friedman said in an email. “Genting is continuing to explore how to best increase access to our facility, and we are committed to financing Q part of any eventual improvements.”

Gillibrand targets Kennedy-an geese Two bird strikes prompt bill to make their removal easier around JFK

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and 2011.

Her bill would require the USDA to act within 90 days of a determination by the Federal Aviation Administration that Canada geese pose a threat to flight safety.

It also would require the USDA, along with the Department of the Interior and the FAA, to remove the geese by the end of the subsequent molting period.

Molting is when birds shed their feathers and grow new ones. The geese are unable to fly during this period.

The National Park Service has been reluctant to allow removal of the birds without a final judgement from the USDA on an environmental impact study for the bird mitigation program.

Gillibrand’s bill would require a ruling no later than June 1 and completion of a bird removal program by Aug. 1.

Some Queens-based environmental and aviation safety experts, however, believe the bill would prove redundant or unnecessary.

Ken Paskar of Friends of LaGuardia Airport is against killing the geese.

“The Port Authority has a team of experts on staff that works to mitigate the impact of wildlife on aviation,” Paskar said. “There’s got to be a more humane, safer way to prevent them from having an impact on airspace.”

Paskar also said geese may not be the biggest problem around Kennedy. “What does Sen. Gillibrand intend to do about turkey vultures, European starlings and gulls?” he asked.

Paskar has cited bird strikes as one of his primary reasons for opposing a garbage transfer station under construction in College point, less than 2,200 feet from the end of LaGuardia’s runway 13/31.

He said birds will come to the site to dine on both the garbage and the rats that will be attracted to it, a possibility the city denies exists.

Don Riepe of Broad Channel serves as the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge guardian, and is the director

of the northeast chapter of the Littoral Society. He also has served on Kennedy Airport’s bird hazard task force for 25 years, and said numerous measures have been taken over the years to manage bird impact, ranging from wetland and habitat reduction to an active shooting program.

“We’ve greatly reduced the strike threat,” Riepe said, adding that JFK not only sits along a wildlife preserve, but is within the Atlantic Flyway, a path taken each year by millions of migratory birds.

He said the geese that caused the Miracle on the Hudson landing in January 2009 out of LaGuardia were not native to the environs around the airport.

“Those geese were struck at 2,800 feet,” he said. “They were coming down from Westchester County during a cold snap.”

He believes that ongoing programs have and will continue to reduce the chances of bird strikes.

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plane collisions that forced emergency landings at Kennedy Airport U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D- in Queens on April 19 and at New York) has introduced legislation Westchester Airport on April 24.

She said her bill would eliminate that would she says, reduce the number of bird strikes at New York air- red tape and bureaucratic turf wars ports by speeding up the removal between the U.S. Department of and killing of Canada geese from the Agriculture, which would remove a select number of birds from the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

In a statement issued by her area, and the National Park Seroffice on April 25, Gillibrand said vice, which has authority over the the move was prompted by bird- wildlife refuge.

“We cannot sit back and wait for a catastrophe to occur before cutting though bureaucratic red tape between agencies,” Gillibrand said. “We cannot and should not wait another day to act while public safety is at risk.”

Gillibrand cited Geese are not the only avian threat to planes at increases in bird Kennedy Airport, as demonstrated by these sea gulls. strikes of 28 percent Two recent bird strikes have resulted in a measure in at LaGuardia Airport the U.S. Senate to speed up the culling of geese. and 53 percent at FILE PHOTO JFK between 2009 Associate Editor

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Six years ago, Richmond Hill South Civic Association President Margaret Finnerty learned that a pair of scissors and a flip through the newspaper can change lives.

Since hearing at a Disabled American State Convention about a program to collect coupons that benef it military men and women serving abroad, Finnerty has part-

nered with her civic, and a number of other groups around south and southwestern Queens, to assist the troops.

Finnerty, whose husband is a disabled veteran who served in Vietnam, trekked around much of the borough in recent years, discussing the program that allows soldiers and their families at bases around the world to buy discounted goods. Her effor ts have paid off, and Finner ty

Civic leaders, legislators and members of Boy Scout Troop 105 gathered at the Richmond Hill South Civic Association meeting last week, when RHSCA President Margaret Finnerty, sitting on the far left in the center row, announced residents have collected one million coupons for a PHOTO BY NICK BENEDUCE program benefitting military men and women serving abroad.

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“Words can’t express how happy I am to unite so many groups,” Finnerty said. “Some people are very far away from their families, and by getting these coupons, they know they’re not forgotten.”

Along with her civic, Finnerty worked with the Ozone Park and Howard Beach senior centers, the Ridgewood Older Adult Center, the Ozone Park Civic, the Lindenwood Alliance, the Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary Chapter 118, and the Howard Beach Assembly of God. While they’ve hit the one million mark, Finnerty said their efforts have only just begun — now they’re aiming to collect two million coupons.

To assist, residents can collect manufacturers’ coupons that are no more than three months old and bring them to a meeting of the Richmond Hill South Civic. The group’s next meeting will be held May 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, located at 112-14 107 Ave. Coupons can also be dropped off at the offices of Assemblyman Mike Miller (DRidgewood), state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (DHoward Beach) and Councilman Eric Ulrich Q (R-Ozone Park).

Neir’s Tavern in Woodhaven will sponsor a golf fundraiser for New York Families for Autistic Children on Thursday, May 17 in Forest Park.

The outing will raise money for the Ozone Park-based nonprof it, which works with about 600 families in Queens — and beyond.

Participants should register at 10 a.m. at the golf course, located at 101 Forest Park Dr. in Woodhaven, and the event will begin at 11 a.m.

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The school closures and reforming mayoral control he pending closure, restructuring and reopening of seven high schools in Queens and 24 citywide, as approved last week by the Panel for Educational Policy, is a disturbing development in the troubled history of New York City education under mayoral control.

Do children learn better in smaller classes when they get more individual attention? Absolutely. Do they learn better in smaller schools, such as those the Department of Education has established in place of ones it’s shut down in the past, or in schools that simply get new names and staffs?

The jury’s still out on that, and will be for some time.

Mayoral control was designed to bring accountability through the ballot box for the school system, as well as outside-the-box thinking. The former went out the window when Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council colluded to override the voters’ clearly expressed demand for term limits. The latter has been on full display since then. Not every move the mayor and his various chancellors have made is bad by any means, but they’ve all lacked two key elements: respect for the history of storied institutions and respect for the opinions of the parents whose children are being treated as guinea pigs in a great educational experiment.

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First the history. One of the schools that will be shuttered is Flushing High School. Established in 1875, it’s the city’s oldest public school. As of July 1, it will no longer exist.

Dying a slower death but dying all the same is Jamaica High School, which the PEP voted to shut down in an earlier round of closings. Never mind that it was the first school in New York State to be desegregated, and never mind how much that status means to the largely black community it serves. Bloomberg had other ideas.

The other high schools in Queens the PEP just decided to eliminate — August Martin, Bryant, John Adams, Long Island City, Newtown and Richmond Hill — all have traditions and legacies that should be preserved. We believe each should at least keep its name, because changing those can serve no purpose, and after all, they’re literally carved in stone. The students in these schools should at least be able to retain the legacy of pride that comes with being the John Adams Spartans, for example, or the Flushing Red Devils.

Last week this page called for a special city-state commission to re-examine mayoral control of the schools, with an eye toward democratizing the system. Though we take no credit, on Monday Gov. Cuomo announced a commission to

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Liu’s hypocri$y Dear Editor: In your April 26 issue the headline “Pay up or city will sell your tax lien” (multiple editions) paraphrased a quote by City Comptroller John Liu. What will this newspaper’s headline read about John Liu not paying up for over $500,000 he owes for violating the “no posting law” when his campaign posters were plastered all over the city? And, the monies he owes the New York Campaign Finance Committee for breaking the campaign finance law?

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examine education statewide from the bottom up. We believe one of the panel’s top priorities should be reforming mayoral control. Key elements to consider might include: • Restructuring the PEP so it’s not always a rubber stamp for the mayor. Imagine, for example, if it were headed by a chairman elected citywide, and if the f ive borough appointees were also elected. Yes, elections mean politics, but politics already play a big role what’s going on now.

• Forced commitment to programs. Several of the schools being closed had been put in another reform program just last year. Then the mayor simply changed his mind. The administration should not be allowed to turn everything about a school’s future upside down overnight.

• Serious consideration of opinions voiced at hearings. As it is, what students, teachers and parents say is meaningless.

The administration does what it wants. Instead there should be a period of time between hearings and votes, during which comments are considered, as there is with regular legislation and a million other things governments do.

These are just some ideas. The point is that ideas other than those of the mayor must play a stronger role in deciding the future of the city’s next generation.

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There was of course another Enterprise in the fictional series called “Star Trek.” Everyone recalls that at the beginning of each show, William Shatner, aka Captain James T. Kirk, would say, “Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its fiveyear mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

Now my question to NASA is, where do we go now? We are a pioneering species and need to discover new frontiers as we did in days of old. We need to explore just like Christopher Columbus did 500 years ago; just look what was accomplished. What we did before we can do again. Our nation and our world have this mission, and by fulfilling it we can bring the world together as one and discover our true destiny.

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A toast, to the late Q79 bus Dear Editor: “At the city line, where the street had two names” (I Have Often Walked by Ron Marzlock, April 19) reminded me of the recent demise of our old Q79 Little Neck Parkway bus. This coming June 25 will mark the second anniversary to the day when at 6:23 p.m., right on time, my wife and I boarded the last Q79 bus that departed Little Neck for its final destination on Jericho Turnpike in Floral Park.

Growing up in the neighborhood during the late 1960s and early 1970s, I recall it was known back then as the Q12A and was part of my life and that of many others.

When the MTA introduced MetroCards with free transfers between subway and bus, riding the Q79 became an even better bargain and become a more frequent part of my journey.

If service was suspended or seriously delayed on the Long Island Rail Road’s Port Washington Branch, the Q79 was my little secret lifeline. I would use the Hempstead

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Nanny state garbage Dear Editor: I was recently informed that at the Feb. 16 meeting of the Broadway Flushing Homeowners’ Association, the citywide community affairs officer for the Department of Sanitation, Mr. Ignazio Terranova, reviewed the rules and regulations regarding garbage collection. Citizens may be fined if they place garbage out for pickup before 4 p.m. from October to March and before 5 p.m. from April to September.

Our government, in its ongoing quest to mold and make us model citizens and rid us of evil habits, like using salt, has now decided to eradicate the scourge of premature ejection of refuse. Who are the aggrieved and offended parties? What are the specific provisions of the law or statute as well as applicable fines and when was it passed? Why is our garbage ejection subject to daylight savings time?

It seems to me that these regulations are an attempt to extract money from the citizenry and to boost employment f igures with an army of patrolmen who must now be schooled and trained to nab the premature ejectors among us.

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1. Obama hangs around with terrorists.

2. Obama is not an American. Chief birther Donald Trump told America he sent investigators to Hawaii, and they will reveal a shocking report. Hey, Donald, where is your report?

3. Obama is a Muslim, and as a non-Christian, he is anti-Christ.

Congressman Allen West (R-Fla.) recently said, “81 House Democrats are Communists.”

Sounds like a throwback to the Joe McCarthy (R-Wisc.) era of the 1950s. The latest metaphor came from NRA board member Ted Nugent. In his appalling tirade, he called Obama and top Democrats “criminals,” and said they will “have their heads chopped off in November.”

Why haven’t Mitt Romney or other GOP leaders denounced these two men?

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Your quote from Martenia Miller, director of the MS 158 Beacon program, in which she says it’s “a love program,” and that ONLINE “we’re all about family,” is not Did our report fail to get to “the heart of the mere words. It matter”? You be the reflects her perjudge! Check out this sonal dedication and any other past story, to the community as well as breaking news, that she holds at qchron.com — just dear, like she named the second-best does by setting a weekly newspaper web- personal example to those entering site in New York State. those portals to seek a part-time home away from home.

Ask her in a personal interview how she came to volunteer at that school site, and how she built a relationship as a mother to so many impressionable preteen and teenaged girls, or how she influences young men seeking to play in competitive sports and, indeed, learning morality.

“Marty,” as she prefers to be recognized, is like a knight, providing a Beacon of light for those seeking a local community center second to none throughout the Borough of Queens, in spite of what His Lordship Mayor Bloomberg decrees. He really knows little about our people.

It’s just another example of government not knowing, not providing for the taxpayers’ needs. It’s time for Beacons to shine their light and continue to provide the protection for those coming home to their harbors. It’s time to run His Lordship Mayor Bloomberg out of town.

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Branch Floral Park Station. A quick three-block walk to Jericho Turnpike would reunite me with my good old friend the Q79.

It was always sad that residents of Floral Park practiced the NIMBY (not in my back yard) philosophy and refused to grant permission to extend the Q79 to the Floral Park LIRR Station.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its operating agency, New York City Transit, always seemed to have a policy of only running the same standard 40-foot local buses on all routes. Too bad that neither would budge.

Imagine if the MTA/NYCT, like other transit agencies, had purchased smaller 35-, 30- or 25foot buses. Perhaps the Village of Floral Park would have agreed to accommodate those on its streets.

With a direct connection between both the Floral Park and Little Neck LIRR stations, there might have been a sufficient increase in ridership to justify keeping the Q79. Sadly, we will never know.

Let us toast the Q79 and memories of good times gone by.

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oward Beach youngsters got a glimpse into possible future careers at the Reach for the STARS! First Step Program for 3and 4-year-olds last Thursday and Friday.

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Lt. Michael Cappello, who is also an attorney, and firefighter Michael Miller, who is also a nurse, fielded questions about their careers and gave the children advice on how to stay safe.

The STARS leaders said they were thrilled that parents were able to shed some light on their careers and hope Q the children were inspired.

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Monk parakeets make Howard Beach home Residents delighted to watch birds from South America; Con Ed less so

by Stephen Geffon Chronicle Contributor

Bird watchers in Charles Park have been delighted by sightings of monk parakeets, with their distinctive bright green and blue feathers, perched atop utility poles near 165th Avenue in Old Howard Beach.

The colony of Monk parakeets, also known as Quaker parrots, have recently been making their residences in three nests, called condominiums by some observers.

Cynthia Strauss, of Howard Beach, who walks her brown Labrador, Cocoa, in the park, noted three locations where the parrots make their nests — on 165th Avenue between 97th Street and 98th Street, the corner of 99th Street and 161st Avenue and on 99th Street between 161st Avenue and 160th Avenue.

“It’s amazing that the parrots have flourished in New York City temperatures, having come from Brazil’s tropical climate,” Strauss said.

Fellow Howard Beach resident Stephanie Flexer agreed.

“The parrots seem to be very intelligent to have survived and adapted to New York City winters,” she said.

The parakeets are thought to be descended from a group of birds that escaped from their crates in the cargo area of John F. Kennedy International Airport in the 1960s.

Avian enthusiast Steve Baldwin, who runs

Monk parakeets often set up nests around transformers for warmth, which has caused power failures.

PHOTOS BY BOB COHEN Still, bird watchers say they are thrilled to have them in Howard Beach. brooklynparrots.com, a website devoted to chronicling the wild urban parakeets, attributed their survival to their willingness to eat anything.

“They like plants, tree buds, birdseed, berries and, if it comes to it, they’ll eat grass,” he told the Queens Chronicle.

The Charles Park parakeets are very protective of their nests, according to Ozone Park resident and amateur photographer Bob Cohen.

Cohen said that while he was in the park last week taking photos of the birds and their nests, he heard a big commotion.

It turned out that a large black crow was trying to get squatters’ rights to the nest, and the parakeets were attempting to evict the invader from their abode.

“And these two parrots, they’re screaming their heads off,” Cohen said.

“In short order, two or three parrots fly in from different directions,” Cohen said, adding, “the screaming was clearly calling for the parrots to come home — we got a problem.”

Cohen said that a few minutes later he saw the crow chasing the parakeets, who were accomplishing what they set out to do — get the aggressor away from their nest.

Naturalist Dave Taft, the coordinator for the Jamaica Bay Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area, said the monk parakeets have a large range extending down to Argentina where there is snow, “so these parrots evolve to be very comfortable in colder climates.”

Because of this, Taft said, they have “had an easy time acclimating to New York City.”

Taft said the parakeets are fairly intelligent birds and build their large nests around the transformers on utility poles to provide their nests with heat.

“The parrots have cleverly figured out that you could build your nest around these things and have winter heating,” Taft said.

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Greenhouse at Forest Park springs to life Built in 1905, facility reopens and will grow flowers for city’s parks

by Anna Gustafson Senior Editor

Tucked behind the carousel in Forest Park sits a greenhouse, its panels giving a clear view of rows and rows of thousands of perennials, annuals and tropical plants that are, after five years, making a home at the Woodhaven spot.

The Forest Park greenhouse, built in 1905, reopened on Monday after $3.8 million in renovation work was completed, including replacing the glass panels with thermal ones and installing a computerized system that allows gardeners to control the heating and automatic window shades.

“We’re very fortunate to have this greenhouse, and the opportunity to make the city more beautiful by planting flowers,” city Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe said at Monday’s ceremony marking the reopening.

While it is not definitely known, Benepe said the facility was likely built by Lord and Burnham, a noted greenhouse manufacturer that constructed the New York Botanical Garden at the turn of the 20th century and the United State Botanic Garden in 1933.

The greenhouse will grow about 250,000 plants annually, up from 200,000 before the renovations, which will be shipped to parks around Queens — and much of the rest of the city, including to Flushing Meadows Corona Park for the U.S. Open.

There are a wide range of plants at the

Legislators, civic leaders and students celebrated the reopening of the Forest Park greenhouse on Monday. Among those who attended the event were Community Board 5 District Manager Gary Giordano, second from left, Community Board 9 District Manager Mary Ann Carey, Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski, Borough President Helen Marshall and City Parks PHOTO BY ANNA GUSTAFSON Commissioner Adrian Benepe. site, including begonias, geraniums, sunflowers and numerous others that create explosions of reds, oranges and greens throughout the greenhouse.

The Queens site is the “largest production

greenhouse” in the city, according to Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski.

State Sen. Joe Addabo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) allocated $2.4 million for the greenhouse when he was a city councilman, and

Borough President Helen Marshall secured $1 million. Mayor Bloomberg allocated the rest of the funding.

Now that the greenhouse is up and running again, Lewandowski said they are hoping to land additional funding for educational and other community programs.

“This is a modern, state-of-the-art greenhouse that will be very efficient,” Marshall said. “ … Generations of Queens residents will come to enjoy this beautiful garden.”

Peter DeLucia, a representative for Addabbo, read a statement from the senator, which emphasized the site’s history.

“It has been an educational source of horticultural information for thousands of individuals, including seniors and students,” DeLucia read.

Students from St. John Evangelical Lutheran School in Glendale joined Monday’s festivities, and their principal, Ben Herbrich, said the greenhouse helps to bring science to life for the pupils.

“We have many classes that use the park, and we observe and learn about plants,” Herbrich said. “This will spark a greater interest in plants.”

Alaysha Delisle and Lydia Valbrun, both 8-year-old students at St. John, agreed with their principal.

“It’s fun coming here because the greenhouse helps us learn how plants grow,” Q Delisle said.

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City officials, civic leaders and residents cheered the reopening of the Forest Park greenhouse on Monday, five years after renovations began at the facility built in 1905.

Parks Department officials said the greenhouse is expected to grow about 250,000 plants annually — up from 200,000 f ive years ago. The perennials, annuals and tropical plants will be shipped to parks and other green spaces across the borough, and throughout the city.

Six gardeners and two assistant gardeners tend to the Queens greenhouse, which produces more plants than any other site in the city, Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Q Lewandowski said.

The Parks Department displayed a photo of a long-ago flower show at the greenhouse, which was built in 1905.

Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski, left, speaks about the new greenhouse as Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Community Board 5 District Manager Gary Giordano and Lydon Sleeper, of Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley’s office, look on.

The flowers at the greenhouse will be shipped all over the borough — and city.

The renovated Forest Park greenhouse opened on Monday, and city Parks Department PHOTOS BY ANNA GUSTAFSON officials said it will grow about 250,000 plants annually.

Students and teachers from St. John Evangelical Lutheran School in Glendale attended the opening on Monday morning.

Rows of colorful flowers, including these geraniums, line the inside of the greenhouse.

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by Kevin Ryan Chronicle Contributor

Area residents gathered for a Holocaust remembrance service at the Howard Beach Judea Center on Sunday.

The event, lead by Rabbi Kenneth Sokolowski, served as a solemn reminder of the Nazi’s

systematic killing of approximately six million Jews, and other targeted groups during World War II. In his opening remarks, Howard Beach Judea Center President Barry Rachnowitz warned of the need to remember the Holocaust in the face of

those who deny it.

“The supreme commander for the Allied Forces [General Douglas MacArthur] ordered all possible photos and records to be taken of the bodies in the death camps and German citizens from surrounding villages to be ushered through the

camps, and even bury some of the bodies, because someday, someone will say it never happened,” Rachnowitz said.

He warned of the danger presented by pressure to remove the Holocaust from school curriculums around the world.

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Children gather at the Howard Beach Judea Center on Sunday to remember the approximately six million Jews who PHOTO BY KEVIN RYAN were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

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with nations like Iran denying that it happened, it is imperative to make sure that the world never forgets,” Rachnowitz said.

Sokolowski also stressed the importance of remembering.

“It can happen again, and indeed it is happening,” he said. “It needs to be real for those of you who weren’t there. You need to know the terror — not only to make you sad and angry, but also to keep you vigilant today. At the same time, I want you to be proud. The Nazi monsters only made us stronger.”

Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) was also in attendance and gave the opening prayer. Members of the synagogue, including children, sang and lit candles as part of the tradition to symbolize the memories of millions of people who were Q murdered.

The 102nd Precinct Community Council will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 15 at 8 p.m.

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Titanic was ‘a floating play of life’ Historically minded groups commemorate tragedy at high tea

by Mark Lord Chronicle Contributor

The ladies who lunch came to tea in full regalia this past Sunday as the Richmond Hill Historical Society held a special event at the Center at Maple Grove Cemetery in Kew Gardens to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.

Though no passengers from the doomed liner are known to be among the 80,000 individuals buried at the cemetery, there is a connection that was explained by Carl Ballenas, historian for both the Society and the Friends of Maple Grove, a nonprofit organization which sponsored the event.

“The whole Lang family is buried here,” he said. “Mr. Lang founded a lithograph company, Fuchs and Lang. In 1912, the family filed a suit against the White Star Line over items lost in the cargo hold on the Titanic.”

The Titanic sank at a little after 2 a.m. on April 15, 1912, two and a half hours after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage. More than 1,500 people died in the tragedy.

For Sunday’s event, Ballenas raided his personal memorabilia collection to create a Titanic display in the center’s lobby. Among the artifacts were Titanic insignia from the White Star Line, a replica of the fictional Heart of the Ocean blue diamond necklace from the 1997 film “Titanic,” which attendees were allowed to try on, and a brass button from the same die used for Titanic crew uniforms.

“When this anniversary came, we wanted to make a tie with it. It’s a fascinating piece of history. It will continue to fascinate,” he said.

The society, founded in 1997, is “steeped in Victorian times,” Ballenas said. “It seemed only natural we would have a high Victorian tea.”

The tea, a nearly annual tradition, has become one of the society’s most popular events.

This year, though, “we bumped it up to the Edwardian era,” said Helen Day, vice president of the society, to coincide with the commemoration of the Titanic.

Day, who also serves as secretary of Friends of Maple Grove, said she put in weeks of preparation for this year’s tea.

It took that long, she said, “to put together all the dishes and plates and cups and saucers,” which came from several countries including Japan, England and the United States and represent both the Victorian and Edwardian eras as well as the 20th century.

A staff of four or five bakers helped her prepare the homemade pastries and finger sandwiches which were washed down with freshly-brewed teas.

Ballenas said the public’s fascination with the ship remains strong because “it’s frozen in time. A whole culture sank to the bottom and hasn’t been touched in years. It was the whole world on the ship - the poor, the rich. It was a floating play of life, and we were the audience.”

A fifth- and sixth-grade history teacher at Immaculate Conception School in Jamaica, Ballenas co-authored “Maple Grove Cemetery,” a volume in the Arcadia Publishing

Images of America series.

“People in America are afraid of cemeteries,” he said. “They’re a wonderful source of historical lessons.”

Lest anyone think social activities such as the tea are inappropriate at the site of final resting places, Ballenas said, “Everything we do is in honor, memory and respectful of those who are here” at the cemetery.

Even the entertainment seemed appropriate.

Renowned concert pianist Cecilia Brauer, of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, gave a masterful demonstration of the Armonica, a musical glass instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin that produces an ethereal sound when one rubs one’s fingers across its connected hand-blown glass bowls as they spin.

Brauer is one of approximately 14 active Armonica performers in the world. The instrument, which weighs between 35 and 40 pounds, can be temperamental. “ I get so mad at it sometimes. It’s not like putting the keys down on a piano,” she said.

Architect Ivan Mrakovcic, the founding president of the society, said he “felt the need to promote and preserve the area” after he and his wife moved to Richmond Hill.

“As we moved in, we met a lot of likeminded people, people who love the texture of old houses,” Mrakovcic said. “It’s tough to know where you’re heading unless you know the history of your community.”

Among the 80 guests at this year’s tea, nearly all of them women, was Ann Mancaruso, a Richmond Hill native who has attended every year since the tea’s inception.

“It’s a lovely occasion. You socialize with very nice people. They give out a prize for the nicest hat,” she said.

This time, Mancaruso brought along a friend, Miriam Barto, who lives in Glendale.

“It sounded like fun,” Barto said, while waiting for the event to begin. Pointing to her attire, she added, “I felt like wearing this dress for the first time in 23 years.”

One of the youngest on hand was 11-yearold Ambre Andruszkiewicz, of Ozone Park, who came with her grandmother.

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Richmond Hill Historical Society Vice President Helen Day planned the commemorative tea.

Ivan Mrakovcic is the group’s founding president, and historian Carl Ballenas, right, provided the Titanic memorabilia.

Attendees dressed as elegantly as first-class passengers on the Titanic, celebrating the style of the Edwardian Era while respectfully honoring the memory of the more than 1,500 people lost aboard PHOTOS BY MARK LORD the ship 100 years ago.

World-renowned musician Cecilia Brauer played the “Titanic” movie theme on the glass armonica, which produces a ghostly sound. Ambre Andruszkiewicz of Ozone Park, 11, said she loves the Oscar-winning film and has seen it more times than she can count.

The elegance of the event was reflected in both the high-class place settings and the attire of waiter Kevin McAuley.

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RICHMOND HILL HS SPOTLIGHT RHHS students visit Paris and London

his year over the spring break, 15 Richmond Hill High School students visited Paris and London for ten days in a trip organized by RHHS Social Studies teacher, Ms. Elena Karabelas.

Javier Roman, a senior at RHHS who went on the trip, said that it was an “amazing experience and I’m so glad that I was able to participate. My favorite part was when I climbed up the Eiffel Tower. It was an amazing view.”

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Nora Mendez, a senior at RHHS, said this European trip exceeded all her expectations.

“First, I really want to thank Ms. Karabelas for organizing this and taking on all this responsibility. And she already has more trips planned next year — one to Italy and one to Costa Rica. I am so grateful to her for giving me this once in a lifetime opportunity.”

“I also want to thank the other chaperone, Ms. Restifo,” Mendez continued. “They made our trip so memorable.”

RHHS students pose in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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Mendez said that it was a life changing experience. “First, seeing pictures and seeing the real city make such a difference because you feel like you are part of history and you understand the world so much better. It was also an experience that transformed how I see history and the world.”

“When I went to Hampton Cour t,” Mendez said, “I actually felt shivers thinking of Anne Boleyn and how she was killed. I am so glad that I went to Richmond Hill HS.

The school has given me so many opportunities and has helped me change the way I see the world. It really is an amazing school and I am so glad I went there.”

Javier Roman echoed Nora Mendez’s sentiments and added, “Going to Richmond Hill HS has been a fantastic experience and I am so lucky to have gotten all these opportunities. Even though I am graduating, I am still planning on going on the RHHS trip to Italy next year.”

RHHS students pose in front of Hampton Court Palace in London.

RHHS arts department recognized citywide The Richmond Hill High SchoolArt Department is pleased to announce several students have won awards from several events recently.

First event: Congratulations to art teacher Leslie Marti-Munoz and her students Gina Bergollo, Nemesis Gallegos, Nicketa Kippins, Stafanie Ramdihal, and Ashley Rodriguez.

Congratulations to art teacher Kim Sheridan and her students Gurleen Hothi and Alyssa Maharaj. Congratulations to art teacher Rachel Vine and her students Ashley Rodriguez, Tiffany Soto, and Dustin Valleta. Each student’s artwork was selected for Arts Connection’s Student Art Program exhibition, “Goals and Dreams,” which will be shown at Centerview Partners in midtown Manhattan. There are 129 student artists, 40 schools and 55 art teachers represented in this exhibition.

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Second event: Congratulations to art teacher Leslie Marti-Munoz and her student Alfredo Ramos. Also congratulations to art teacher Rachel Vine and her student Carl Bosquet. Both students were chosen in this highly selective exhibit through Arts Connection’s Student Art Program. A total of 20 students from all NYC schools were selected in this exhibit also based on the popular theme called “Goals and Dreams,” this time at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, which will open on May 22. Two of the students are from RHHS. Each student and teacher will be awarded a $100 gift certificate for art materials. Each student’s work is professionally framed and shown on display for one year in this office.

Third Event: Congratulations to art teacher Rachel Vine and her students Carl Bosquet and Cesar Becerril for being awarded semi-finalists in the P.S. Art 2012 Contest. This is a highly competitive annual exhibition. The artwork image will be posted on the NYC Department of Education P.S. Art 2012 website this summer with student and teacher noted. The student and teacher names will also be listed in the P.S. Art 2012 Catalog.

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Overcoming the tyranny of opioids Drug addicts statewide seek help at Phoenix House, Long Island City

by Janne Louise Andersen Chronicle Contributor

Her handshake is firm, as is her gaze.

“Hi, I’m Tiffeny,” she says in a calm voice. The 22-year-old could be any typical girl in her age range. But she is not. Three months ago, Tiffeny gave birth to a baby girl so underdeveloped and addicted by opioids that the doctors had to detox her and perform brain surgery. This is all because Tiffeny has been an opioid addict since she was 16.

As part of our in-depth coverage of the prescription drug abuse epidemic, the Queens Chronicle visited Phoenix House in Long Island City. It’s a 240-person in-patient treatment facility for substance abusers who come from all over the state — most residents are mandated by the drug or criminal courts and are there with addictions to crack, cocaine, marijuana and the synthetic marijuana, K2.

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For more on this SEE story in video and graphics visit MORE ONLINE qchron.com It wasn’t until last year that the director of Phoenix House, Denise Buckley, started noticing more people coming in with opioid addiction. “Most of them were on OxyContins or other kinds of oxycodone painkillers.

Some started on opioids and later went to heroin when availability became an issue for them,” Buckley said.

There are currently seven residents, six women and one man, who came as addicts of opioid narcotics. One of them is Tiffeny.

For her it all began with one Percocet pill, which a colleague gave her when she cut her hand while working at a pizzeria. The high she felt from the opioid made her so energized and happy that she spent the next six years chasing it; swallowing and smoking the opioids or snorting them to the extent that she today has a hole in her right nose bone.

“I was using and abusing every single opioid you can think of: Percocets, Oxycontins, Opana, hydrocodone, Vicodins,” she said.

From that point on, every day was about ensuring the minimum amount of those little pills — an amount that grew and grew and required increasingly more drastic methods to satisfy. And she had the best partner in crime: her mother. Together they did things she said that she would have never imagined doing before her addiction.

“I would steal from stores, from people, my family. Me and my mom stole a woman’s checkbook and wrote out checks for a whole year from $100 to $20,000.”

Nineteen years old at the time, she landed herself a five-year felony probation sentenceand restitution of $20,000.

Tiffeny’s mother ended up seeking treatment before Tiffeny and is now a year-and-ahalf sober. But Tiffeny only felt abandoned and kept abusing and eventually overdosed.

The near death experience, however, wasn’t enough to make her seek treatment, not even

Tiffeny, 22, and mother of a three-month-old baby girl, is a resident at Phoenix House in Long Island City and about to be transferred to a mother-and-child program closer to her family in PHOTOS BY JANNE LOUISE ANDERSEN Germantown in upstate New York. when she discovered she was pregnant. tor-prescribed opioid medication after having It wasn’t until Tiffeny herself became a undergone several surgeries. “I went from mother to a baby the size of her palm that one Percocet to seven at the time,” she said. she gained strength to confront her addiction. That amounted to 30 pills a day that she “She has been fighting for her life the last obtained from four different doctors. three months, and I am fighting for mine, so She said her doctor initially warned her we are fighting together,” she said about her about the addictiveness but that she didn’t realdaughter who now weighs nine pounds. In ize she was hooked. the room she is sharing with three other “You are chasing your first high, but you women, Tiffeny has hung the greeting cards are never gonna get that back. The Percocets on her daughter’s birth on her closet, next to started becoming a downer for me the more I a tiny baby cap and a picture of her took.” boyfriend.

But she still needed them, and Ebony had She is currently waiting to enter into a her own supplier, a local pharmacist who mother and child program in upstate New knew her and would fill her prescriptions.

“He really didn’t agree but he used to be York closer to her family in Germantown.

“It’s sad how much drug use I see. So addicted so he understood what I was going many young kids nowadays want to experi- through,” she said and described her withment with a lot of pills, and once you get that drawal symptoms.

“I would have the sweats, be dizzy, my pill, it’s so difficult to stop,” Tiffeny said.

One of her best friends died from an over- body would cramp up and I could barely dose on heroin, the cheaper and next best talk. I needed it just to go to the bathroom,” she said. When she felt this way, Ebony knew alternative to the prescription opioid drugs. that the only thing that would So far Phoenix House has make her functional again mainly housed opioid would be more pills. So she addicts from outside the would stumble on the bus, inner city. “Most of them even in knee-high snow, and were from Long Island, Statnot leave the pharmacy en Island, Putnam and before going to the bathroom Westchester County,” Buckto swallow the pills and feel ley said. But the director is them work in her body. convinced that they will only She realizes that without be seeing more people from her personal hook-up, she the city as the black markets could have been forced to go for illicit drug sales expand. down the criminal road that Ebony, 34, from Jamaica, Tiffeny and her mother went Queens came to Phoenix House six months ago. Ebony, 34, from Jamaica to ensure their daily supplies.

It wasn’t until Ebony was Ebony’s addiction began Queens, is in treatment at out driving and suddenly when she started taking doc- Phoenix House.

found herself in a ditch, having dosed off behind the wheel, that she was ready to get help.

“Thank God I was by myself,” she said.

Her 10-year-old son was at school.

Her sister, who was noticing Ebony’s decline, went online and found Phoenix House. Here, Ebony was detoxed and went through various therapeutic workshops such as relapse prevention, Seeking Safety and anger management.

“At Phoenix House they taught me how to take my medicine the correct way but also helped me with other issues I had,” she said.

Even though she is not proud of what she has done, Ebony feels the experience was necessary for her to come out on the other side as a stronger person able to deal with problems she was abusing drugs to escape.

“This is the longest time I have ever been away from my son,” she said in a soft voice.

He is currently living with her aunt. “But I don’t mind making the sacrifice, so I can be in his life for the rest of mine.”

Ebony, who worked for 13 years as a bus driver, just passed the GED test and wants to become an x-ray technician.

“I wouldn’t change anything about my life because now I might be able to help somebody else,” she said.

Tiffeny also tries to keep a positive mindset on the whole experience.

“I put a lot of guilt on shame myself, but I put myself in here, so I have to get myself out of here,” she said. She is currently pursuing the nursing education she cut off when she began abusing drugs, and she want to counsel drug addicts.

“I hope my story can prevent someone else from doing drugs,” she says and looked Q to the little baby cap on her closet.

Drug take back at St. John’s On Saturday, faculty and pharmacy students at St. John’s College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions collected 23 pounds of unused medication from Queens residents as part of the National Drug Take Back day.

That’s a record for the Jamaica campus.

Associate Clinical Professor Emily Ambizas said an unusual drop-off was a big box full of medication dating back to 1964.

“It shows just how much people hold on to their medications,” Ambizas said.

At the collection site on St. John’s Staten Island Campus, mainly elderly people turned up. Assistant Clinical Professor Sheila Brocavich had hoped to see more parents turning in more opioids. “Next time we need to work a little more to reach the high school stuQ dents and their parents,” she said.

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Flushing terrorist to get a life sentence ‘We love death more than you love your life,’ he said in a final attempt to kill

Adis Medunjanin will be going to prison for life.

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Another terrorist from Flushing has been convicted and will be spending the rest of his life in federal prison.

Adis Medunjanin, 34, who joined al Qaeda and plotted to commit a suicide terrorist attack, was found guilty of multiple federal terrorism offenses after a four-week trial, the government announced Tuesday.

The defendant and his accomplices came within days of executing a plot to conduct coordinated suicide bombings in the New York City subway system in September 2009, as directed by senior al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan, the prosecution said. When the

plot was foiled, the defendant attempted to commit a terrorist attack by crashing his car on the Whitestone Expressway in an effort to kill himself and others.

Medunjanin was convicted of conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiring to commit murder of U.S. military personnel abroad, providing and conspiring to provide material support to al Qaeda, receiving military training from al Qaeda, conspiring and attempting to commit an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries, and using firearms and destructive devices in relation to the offenses.

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Gleeson in September, Medunjanin faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison. To date, seven defendants, including Medunjanin and his co-plotters, Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay, have been convicted in connection with the al Qaeda New York City bombing plot and related charges.

The government’s evidence in this and related cases established that in 2008, Medunjanin, Zazi and Ahmedzay traveled to the Mideast, met with al Qaeda leaders and received al Qaeda training on how to use various types of high-powered weapons, including the AK-47, PK machine gun, and rocketpropelled grenade launcher.

They were encouraged to return to the United States to conduct “martyrdom” operations against well-known targets and maximize the number of casualties. Possible target locations in Manhattan included the subway system, Grand Central Station, the New York Stock Exchange, Times Square, and movie theaters.

On Jan. 7, 2010, law enforcement agents executed a search warrant at Medunjanin’s residence. Shortly thereafter, he left his apartment and attempted to turn his car into a weapon of terror by crashing it into another car at high speed on the Whitestone Expressway.

Moments before impact, Medunjanin called 911, identified himself, and left his message of martyrdom, shouting an al Qaeda slogan: “We Q love death more than you love your life.”

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City: Carousel will run soon While the city is still mum on who will be operating the Forest Park carousel in Woodhaven, Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski said the merry-go-round should be up and running by this summer.

Lewandowski said the city and the operator are f inishing up “paperwork,” after which the name will be released.

The Parks Department had said it would release the operator’s name in March.

At the end of December, the department issued its fourth request for proposals for the renovation, operation and maintenance of the Forest Park carousel.

Since the 1903 mer ry-go-round stopped spinning several years ago, many residents and civic groups have been f ighting for its retur n. The Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association recently made T-shirts with “Save the carousel” emblazoned on them.

The structure holds some of the last surviving creations of master wood-car ver Daniel Carl Muller, including 49 sculpted horses, a lion, Q and a tiger.

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Drivers not heeding new speed humps Causing cars to bounce in the air

by Stephen Geffon Chronicle Contributor

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Fighting cancer Howard Beach Relay for Life co-chairs Melissa Schuler Fochetta, left, and Phyllis Inserillo, right, organized the fourth annual “Kids Kare 2” event last Sunday.

Above, the co-chairs are joined by Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, second from left, and state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. The event, held at the parking lot at 84th

Street and 151st Avenue, raised money for cancer research. There were numerous games, face painting, sand art, prizes and much more.

The Relay for Life will take place on Saturday, June 9 through Sunday, June 10.

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Attention motorists — slow down.

Speed humps were recently installed in Howard Beach on 156th Avenue between 88th and 89th streets, near where the westbound avenue narrows from two lanes to one.

An observation by a Queens Chronicle reporter at the location shortly after the speed humps were installed in April showed that most motorists were not slowing down to the required 20 miles per hour as they crossed over the humps.

Because the cars continued to fly down the street, the vehicles often bounced in the air after crossing the hump and came down on the fenders.

Community Board 10 approved the speed humps at its meeting last June after holding a public hearing.

CB 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton said that residents of the area had asked for the speed humps.

A number of area residents had complained about drivers speeding around the

neighborhood, prompting the Department of Transportation to look into the speed humps.

Braton told the members that the city had requested the board ensure that there was community agreement on the installation of the speed humps. She also said no member of the Howard Beach Civic Association objected.

A FDNY spokesman said the agency has worked with the DOT to provide signage and mark speed humps so vehicles know how to cross them.

Robert Sinclair of AAA in New York said the group supports speed humps as long as they are on residential streets.

A speed hump is a raised portion of the street surface, is slightly longer than the average car and spans the width of the street. To cross one safely, a car must slow to 15 to 20 mph.

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Our hometown heroes for 50 years

by Joseph Levy Chronicle Contributor

The eighth season changed it all. After averaging 105 losses in each of their first seven years, the New York Mets jumped from the bottom to the top of the baseball world in 1969, proving that every underdog has his day.

Although there were some hints of the magic to come in the prior two years — namely the pitching of Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman and the batting of Cleon Jones and Jerry Grote — the team’s 1969 explosion and World Series win in five games seemed to come out of nowhere.

The Mets by the years: 1967 Record: 61-101, 10th in the National League.

A return to the cellar is mitigated by the arrival of “The Franchise,” Tom Seaver, who rewrites all Mets pitching records, going 16-13 with a 2.76 ERA, 18 complete games and 170 strikeouts, to become the first player from a last-place team to win Rookie of the Year. Seaver also becomes the first Met to pitch in the All-Star game, saving the National League’s 14-inning win with one scoreless frame.

Tommy Davis, acquired from the Dodgers for Ron Hunt, bats .302 before going to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for Tommie Agee. With 11 games to go, Wes Westrum resigns as manager and is replaced by “interim” manager Salty Parker; Gil Hodges is named permanent manager in the off season.

A New York Mets anniversary special Part III: 1967-1969 1968 Record: 73-89, ninth in the National League.

With Hodges at the helm, the Mets boast the best young pitching staff in baseball. Seaver (16-12, 2.20 ERA, 205 strikeouts) is joined by rookie sensation Jerry Koosman (19-12, 2.08 ERA, seven shutouts) as the Mets go fourth in the league in ERA (2.72) and second in strikeouts (1,014) and shutouts (25).

Cleon Jones bats .297 and Jerry Grote hits .282; Grote is the starting catcher in the AllStar game, which also sees both Seaver and Koosman pitch.

The Mets win their first home opener, 3-0 over the Giants, and they post a winning road record, 41-40, for the first time in club history. Near the end of the season, Hodges suffers a mild heart attack, but is given the OK to return in 1969.

“Remember me?” a Mets slugger asked on the 1969 World Series program. Everyone remembered the Amazin’s after the five games to come.

1969: the Miracle Mets Record: 100-62, World Champions.

The Mets stun the baseball world by winning it all in 1969. An 11-game winning streak in June puts them over .500 for the first time, and after spending almost the entire summer in second place, they win 38 of their last 49, including streaks of 10 and nine in a row, to overtake the Chicago Cubs and finish atop the National League Eastern Division.

Seaver goes 25-7 with a 2.21 ERA, 208 strikeouts and f ive shutouts to win the Cy Young Award, while Koosman overcomes early-season arm trouble to go 17-9, with a 2.28 ERA and six shutouts — together giving the Mets one of the greatest righty-lefty duos ever. Rookie Gary Gentry goes 13-12 with three shutouts. Ron Taylor and Tug McGraw save 13 and 12, respectively.

Cleon Jones bats .340 with 92 runs scored, while Tommie Agee recovers from a poor ’68 season to lead the club with 26 home runs, 76 RBIs and 97 runs scored.

Memorable wins include a 4-3 win over Chicago on July 8, in which the Mets score three runs in the bottom of the ninth; Tom Seaver’s near perfect 4-0 win over Chicago the next night; a 14-inning, 1-0 win over San Francisco on Aug. 19, with the winning run coming on Agee’s walk-off home run; the 3-2 win over Montreal Sept. 10 that put them in first; a 4-3 win over St. Louis Sept. 15, in which Swoboda’s pair of two-run homers offset Steve Carlton’s 19 strikeouts; and the clinching 6-0 win over St. Louis at home on Sept. 24.

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With city funding for senior citizen programs still up in the air, Congressman Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx) said Monday that proposed funding cuts that came out of the House Ways and Means Committee last week will be dead on arrival once they leave the House of Representatives.

Speaking Monday at the Elmhurst Jackson Heights Senior Center on Broadway, Crowley said the federal Social Services Block Grant program currently provides more than $63 million to the city for senior centers, domestic violence and adult protective services.

The committee’s GOP majority passed measures on that would, among other cuts, eliminate the grants.

“They won’t pass in the Senate, and President Obama would not sign them if they did,” Crowley said before more than 100 people at the senior center.

He accused the GOP of using social spending to balance the budget by

proposing radical cuts to services. He acknowledged that spending cuts must be on the table, but not those.

“I understand that we need to fix the budget and address the deficit,” Crowley said. “But I don’t consider this discretionary spending. You can’t balance the budget on the back of the most vulnerable among us while protecting tax cuts for the rich.”

Commissioner Lillian Barrios-Paoli, of the city’s Department for the Aging, said the cuts proposed in Congress would have immediate and dire impact.

“If you lose one-third of your funding, one third of the senior centers would close,” she said. “There’s no way around that.”

She and Crowley said such centers are the only places where many seniors get exercise and health programs, assistance with myriad paperwork and in the case of the Elmhurst Jackson Heights Senior center, their only hot meal of the day.

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Workforce graying as elders stay on the job

by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

More older Americans nationwide are choosing to remain part of the workforce than they were a decade ago, according to data by the National Bureau of Labor Statistics. Whether the reason is financial necessity or personal satisfaction, one thing is certain, workers are going gray.

In March 2002, there were 59,651 civilian workers over the age of 55, according to NBLS data, compared to 79,520 for the same time this year — that’s a 33.3 percent increase.

Some 33,737 people over the age of 65 were working in 2002 compared to 41, 379 this year — an increase of 22.7 percent. There were 15,738 elders over the age of 75 on the job in March 2002 compared to 18,094 for the same time this year, a jump of almost 15 percent, according to NBLS data.

The average American expects to retire at 67, according to Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance survey, conducted from April 9 to 12. That’s up from 63 a decade ago and age 60 in the mid-1990s.

Only 26 percent of those surveyed said they planned to retire before the age of 65. Some 27 percent anticipate retiring at 65 and 39 percent after age 65 — that’s up from 21 percent in 2002 and 12 percent in 1995.

Here in the city’s most diverse borough there is no shortage of seniors who love their jobs and plan to work well into their golden years.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown has spent more than five decades in public service acting as a judge and counsel to both a governor and mayor, as well as being the longest-serving DA in Queens County history.

“If you do something you really love, it does not feel like work,” Brown said in an email statement. “I continue to find my job personally fulfilling and challenging. I am in the office by 7 a.m. each morning and am often the last to leave the building.”

Brown said he believes many seniors continue to work because it gives them a sense of purpose, self-worth and personal satisfaction, even if their work consists of volunteer activities.

Asked what advice he would give other seniors interested in staying on the job, Brown said, “It is important to remember that each of us accumulates a wealth of information and experiences over the course of our lives and we should continue to share that knowledge with others.”

And Brown isn’t the only elected official to feel that way.

At Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky’s (D-Flushing) re-election kickoff on Friday, the lawmaker was asked if she had considered retirement. She responded by saying, “I love this job. I’m proud of the work I have done, but there’s much more to do, and I can’t imagine retirement.”

Stavisky, 73, was elected on Nov. 2, 1999 with over 92 percent of the vote, and has been re-elected seven times. In 2010 she won with 87 percent.

Another female lawmaker planning to continue her decades of public service is City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills), 70. She said it doesn’t surprise her that more people over 65 are working.

“In my case, I have been in the

workforce for a very long time, to a point where I cannot even imagine my life where I simply stay home in leisure, Koslowitz said in an email. “I find keeping busy and staying constantly active very fulfilling.”

The lawmaker has spent nearly 30 years in public service, having first served in the City Council from 19912001, before being term-limited out. She was re-elected in 2009 and spends much of her time advocating on behalf of seniors, women and families to aid them improve their quality of life “It helps when you have a job that you absolutely love,” Koslowitz said. “While there are some stressful days, at the end of the day, nothing is more satisfying to me than helping people.”

The Rev. Edward McKay, 72, of St. Albans works part-time as a real estate broker and notary public and is also a minister with Lighthouse Deliverance Church of Christ. He says staying employed keeps his mind sharp and he often encourages other seniors to do the same.

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More seniors say they enjoy their work and have no desire to retire. community,” McKay advised. “Don’t be a couch potato.”

McKay said the extra money he earns always comes in handy as the cost of living continues to increase, but he chooses to work more so because it gives him the opportunity to keep up with the times.

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New and old recordings from ’70s faves

by Lloyd Carrol Chronicle Contributor

If you’re looking for a flashback to the good old days to be your summer soundtrack, a trio of releases could turn those lazy, hazy days into “That ’70s Show.� Keep on truckin’ and have a nice day.

Pablo Cruise “It’s Good to Be Live� (RRR) One of the most popular bands for Top 40 radio programmers in the 1970s was Northern California-based Pablo Cruise.

No one in this combo was actually named Pablo Cruise; it was just a name made up out of the blue.

Another idiosyncracy about Pablo Cruise is that the band members were never photographed on their album covers. They generally plastered the band’s palm tree and setting sun logo on the cover with an artist’s drawing of an attractive young girl thrown in for good measure (as is the case here.) One advantage of this anonymity is that it made it easy for the band to replace members (although lead singer/keyboardist Cory Lerios, guitarist David Jenkins and drummer Steve Price have been constants). Another benefit is that the guys don’t have to worry about looking like they did in their hit-making days.

Huey Lewis, who grew up in Marin County, was a huge Pablo Cruise fan and has penned the liner notes for this concert album that was recorded in 2010. Pablo Cruise’s trademark was its upbeat catchy call-and-response tunes in which Cory Lerios sang the lead and the band responded harmoniously with the chorus. Listening to Pablo Cruise hits again here such as “Don’t Want to Live Without It,�

“Whatcha Gonna Do,� “Love Will Find a Way,� “Worlds Away� and “Place in The Sun� makes it clear that Lewis’s kind words about them are not just flattery. Pablo Cruise was the template for the sound developed by Huey Lewis & The News.

The passing of the years has not had much of an effect on the musicianship or Lerios’ vocals. The band even shows that it can deviate from its expected sound and successfully experiment. “Atlanta June� is a jazzy cut that sounds as if it belongs on a Steely Dan album.

Melissa Manchester “The Very Best Of� (Arista/Legacy) Bronx native Melissa Manchester never achieved the superstar status of her close friends Barry Manilow and Bette Midler (she served for a while as a member of Midler’s flashy concert vocal backup group, the Harlettes), but she has had a very durable career.

While she is best known for her fine voice, what is often forgotten about Manchester is that she is a terrific composer. She co-wrote her first two hits, “Midnight Blue,� a ballad about the anguish of facing a failing relationship, and “Just Too Many People,� a very peppy tune whose melody hides the rather down lyrics about the inordinate number of people who are unhappy with their lives.

I have always admired Manchester’s ability to vary the tempo even if I haven’t always been crazy about her material. “You Should Hear How She Talks About You� was such an upbeat tune that it got play in dance clubs. On the other hand, the turgid self-pity 1978 hit, “Don’t Cry Out Loud,� as well as 1979’s mawkish “Through the Eyes

of Love� are painfully slow songs that have not improved one iota with the passage of time.

The standout track on this collection is Manchester’s 1990 cover of “Walk on By,� a tune associated with Dionne Warwick and the late Isaac Hayes that was co-written by Forest Hills High alum Burt Bacharach. Manchester’s vocals combined with superb orchestration and talented backup singers make this one my favorite version of this oft-recorded classic.

Kool & The Gang “ICON� (Mercury/UME) Few things make us wistfully recollect our youth as when a heritage radio station changes its format. It happened 30 years ago this month when WABC switched from Top 40 to talk, then again in 2005 when WCBS-FM temporarily dropped its oldies format (it brought it back with some alterations in 2008), and this past week, KISS-FM (98.3) ended its run of playing smooth soul music as ESPN made the station owners an offer that they couldn’t refuse to change it into a sports talk station.

Kool & The Gang, whose members hailed from Jersey City, were a staple of the KISS-FM playlist in its glory days. Ronald “Kool� Bell and his troupe could do it all from gritty gunk (“Hollywood Swinging� and “Jungle Boogie�) to silky Top 40 hits that were fronted by singer J.T. Taylor such as “Fresh,� “Ladies Night,� “Joanna,� “Get Down on It,� “Take My Heart (You Can Have It)� and that bar mitzvah/wedding reception staple, “Celebration.�

This is yet another group that deserves enshrinement into the P Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but has been grossly overlooked.

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This Mother’s Day, you can show Mom how to save an estimated $4,000 a year on her Medicare prescription drug costs. Here’s how.

If your mother is covered by Medicare and has limited income and resources, she may be eligible for Extra Help — available through Social Security — to pay part of her monthly premiums, annual deductibles, and prescription co-payments. The Extra Help is estimated to be worth about $4,000 per year.

To figure out whether your mother is eligible, Social Security needs to know her income and the value of her savings, investments and real estate (other than the home she lives in). To qualify for the extra help, she must be receiving Medicare and have: • Income limited to $16,335 for an individual or $22,065 for a married couple living together. Even if her annual income is higher, she still may be able to get some help with monthly premiums, annual deductibles, and prescription co-payments. Some examples where income may be higher include if she and, if married, her husband:

— Support other family members who live with them; — Have earnings from work.

• Resources limited to $13,070 for an individual or $26,120 for a married couple living together. Resources include such things as bank accounts, stocks, and bonds. We do not count her house or car as resources.

Social Security has an easy-to-use online application that you can help complete for your mom.

You can find it at socialsecurity.gov/prescriptionhelp. To apply by phone or have an application mailed to you, call Social Security at 1 (800) 772-1213 and ask for the Application for Help with Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Costs (SSA-1020). Or go to the nearest Social Security office.

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Mom will be grateful when you give her a useful gift this year: help her save an estimated $4,000 a year on Medicare prescription drugs. It won’t cost you anything more than a little bit of quality time with her — something you and Mom both want anyway. These rules apply to dad as well, so plan ahead for your Father’s P Day gift too.

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On Monday all 500 coveted job applications for Local Union 46, the metallic lathers and reinforcing ironworkers union, were out the door. About 600 men and a dozen women slept on the union's premises on 61st Street and 32nd Avenue in Woodside, some since April 24, for a chance at an apprenticeship position with decent pay and benefits.

“I'm a veteran trying to get a job just like the next man,” James Pinchback III of Brooklyn said. Pinchback’s cousin and aunt work for the union.

Though 500 applications were handed out only 50 apprentice positions are available.

Candidates take an aptitude test administered by the Department of Labor. Each person will be placed in a first, second or third tier.

Applicants also take a manual dexterity and drug test, and do an interview in which they must demonstrate their willingness to work, according to Bill Hohlfeld, coordinator of the Local 46 labor management cooperative trust.

“It’s a physically grueling job,” Hohlfeld said.

“This is a career worthy of a wait. You have to bust your hump, but it’s worth it,” said Andrew Vilbig of upstate Rockland County, who slept at the union since Thursday.

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Apprentices start at $18 an hour. These workers learn from the men and women who know the trade, while on the job, as well as take one night class a week.

At the end of a three-year period, apprentices will make about $49 an hour, according to Hohlfeld.

These union workers who reinforce concrete with metal and plaster with metal lath do not receive paid vacations, sick leave or holiday pay. Also, sometimes there are two-week gaps between jobs, Hohlfeld said. Therefore the average New York City building tradesmen makes about $70,000 a year.

“It’s a young man’s job,” said Hohlfeld.

“You work real hard for $70,000.”

After six months, apprentices receive medical benefits and a perk similar to a 401(k).

These ironworkers also earn a pension based on the number of years they worked.

One neighbor, who wished to stay anonymous, said the mass has left a lot a trash on the street and “they were drinking in public; it wasn’t orange juice,” he said.

“It can get a little rowdy, but that’s what happens,” said Joe Dichristina, an ironworker from Rockland County who slept at Local 46 since Wednesday. “But people were respectful. It would be stupid to mess this opportunity up.”

The union constantly monitored the mass, as well as fed and provided the group with bathrooms, said Hohlfeld.

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“Spaying or neutering your pets at an early age — before six-months for a male and before a female’s first heat – can help your pet live a longer, healthier life,” Alliance President and Board Chairwoman Jane Hoffman said in a prepared statement. “It is also cost-effective. Remember, caring for a litter of puppies or kittens is expensive, as are the vet bills.”

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Ice Jewelry: where the owners can relate to their clients

Parents fight to save after-school progams Childcare advocates say mayor’s proposal would be devastating tudents and educators at the after-school programs at PS 65 and IS 171 in Brooklyn, which include children from Queens, are fighting Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal to cut funding for them, and similar sites across the city.

Children and families from Cypress Hills Child Care Corporation and Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation are protesting the city’s plans, which could not be implemented before the City Council approves them, to cut 47,000 after-school and childcare slots.

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

In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, Recently, a woman and her boyfriend went watches and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also into an unassuming gold buying and cash loan offers instant cash loans for jewelry and eBay shop on Queens Boulevard. She had a $35 selling services. offer on her ring from another area shop, but Their cash loans program is straightforward and was looking to get a better deal. In what may simple. “It’s a perfect solution for someone who be viewed as poor business acumen, she told has a bill due and a check on the way,” Goldberg her new prospective buyer what her previous said. “But we make sure they have a game plan to offer was. Still, after examining her piece, he buy their jewelry back before the end of the term. offered her $1,600. He did so, as he says, Sometimes these are people’s heirlooms we’re “...because that’s what it was worth.” talking about and we respect that.”

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

People have this conception of gold buying Elias opened his Rego Park shop with stores as these slimy places with slimy Goldberg less than a year ago, and already people, and they’re typically right. But we they’re seeing a lot of repeat customers and want to be different. I don’t think it’s cool to referrals. This is a sign to them that they’re see someone buy a ring for $200 and put it in doing something right — the pawn business their counter for $800. We don’t do that.” typically deals in one-time transactions but Ice Jewelry Buying Services is located at Elias is determined to break that mold, 98-30 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park. Hours of building a reputation on trust. operation are Monday-Friday from 11am to “Everyone around here is buying gold these 7:00pm and Saturday 10am to 5pm; Sunday days; you can go into the barber shop down private appoinments are available. Call for the road and sell your jewelry. The problem Q more information (718) 830-0030. with all these places is they treat everything

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Vote is 45-5; Bloomberg vows to veto — or sue

by Maria Fitzsimons Chronicle Contributor

The City Council voted in favor of the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, referred to as the living wage bill, on Monday — a move that many Queens business leaders oppose, citing potential for lost jobs and fewer economic-development projects.

The bill requires employers who receive $1 million in public subsidies or low-cost financing from the city Economic Development Corp. to pay workers at least $10 an hour when benefits are offered, or $11.50 to compensate when they are not.

Mayor Bloomberg has vowed to veto the measure, and, if the council overrides him, to go to court to block it.

After negotiations between council members, union off icials and real estate developers, the council approved the bill 45-5.

During a rally held Monday outside City Hall, the bill’s approval drew praise from supporters such as labor leaders, community leaders, some business owners and elected officials — before the mood changed.

Council Speaker Christine Quinn (DManhattan) stormed off, becoming irate when bill supporter Carlos Pacheco, 62, a retiree, shouted,“Pharoah Bloomberg.”

Quinn refused to be involved in namecalling, stating that by living in a democracy,

people are entitled to have different opinions. She swiftly thanked those in attendance for their support, cutting off her own press conference to go back inside the hall.

Pacheco was referencing the mayor’s vow to veto the bill, which he announced last week. The mayor believes private employers should decide wages, not the government, according to the needs of the labor market.

Members of the City Council already have more than the two-thirds of votes needed to override the mayor’s vow to veto.

However, Bloomberg plans on taking it one step further: he’ll sue.

Under Article 78 of the New York Civil Practice Law and Rules, an agency decision can be appealed to the courts. Generally, such a suit must be filed within four months from when the decision has been made.

Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria), who voted against the bill, along with the council’s four-member Republican delegation, agrees with the mayor’s stance.

“Companies will either not take the benefit and not come to New York, which will cost jobs, or ask for a bigger benefit to pay the higher wages, which will cost taxpayers,” Vallone said in a prepared statement.

Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone), who’s a candidate for Congress in the 6th District, agrees. He issued a statement through his spokesman, Steven Stites, that

linked the measure to the philosophy of Democrats in Washington, DC. “Ask the American people what President Obama and the Democrats know about creating jobs and they will tell you: next to nothing,” Halloran said.

The law, which would only affect future development projects provided with aid from the city, would exempt employees working in small businesses, manufacturing, nonprofits and affordable housing.

Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows), in contrast, blasted Halloran, in his own statement on the bill. Lancman is one of several Democrats vying for the party’s nomination to run against Halloran for the congressional seat.

“The living-wage bill also stops the race to the bottom, where companies compete with each other to pay their workers less and less in wages and benefits,” Lancman said.

City Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) is disappointed with the mayor’s intended course of action for the bill.

“It’s unfortunate. I believe people should be paid fair wages, not poverty wages,” Dromm said, adding that he favors the measure as a member of the council’s Progressive Caucus.

“He’s out of touch with the common perQ son,” he said of the mayor.

Stavisky bill to save $600K The State Senate has adopted a measure sponsored by Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing) that the senator said will bring the state into the 21st Century while saving nearly $600,000 per year.

The bill would allow state employees who receive direct deposit to get electronic rather than paper pay stubs.

“By allowing enrollees in the state’s direct deposit program to opt out of paper delivery of their pay stubs, we can save money for taxpayers,” Stavisky said. “This is just one of many common-sense reforms the Senate and Assembly need to take up.

It’s not about more government or less government — it’s about smarter government.” A companion bill has been sponsored by Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh (D-Manhattan).

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Stavisky said that with more than 75 percent of state employees enrolled in direct deposit, the money saved has the potential to be signif icant, totaling Q nearly $600,000 annually.

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Meng knew firm’s ties to adult ads Women’s Center honoree hires Multi-Media for campaign printing

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When she called on Congress to pass an extension of the Violence Against Women Act last Thursday, Ann Jawin of the Center for the Women of New York singled out “one English language newspaper” for running ads that promote adult services.

“Those ads say ‘Lovely Latinas’ and ‘Hot Asian Girls,’” Jawin said. “But they promote prostitution. And when you have more customers, you need to get more girls.”

Speaking just prior to Jawin on the steps of Borough Hall was Assemblywoman and Democratic Congressional candidate Grace Meng (D-Flushing), who was honored by the center two days later along with Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Middle Village), one of Meng’s opponents in the June 26 Democratic primary for the 6th Congressional District.

Meng on Thursday criticized Congressional Republicans for playing politics as she too called for passage of the VAWA extension, which provides funding for services to women who are victims of crimes ranging from domestic abuse to sex trafficking.

But Meng’s campaign also has hired

political consulting and printing firm Multi-Media, which has some of the same management as the Queens Tribune, the paper that runs the advertisements Jawin attacked as promoting adult services.

The April 26 edition of the Tribune featured 37 such ads, including 23 promoting the use of Asian women.

Meng said she was aware of the ads when her campaign hired Multi-Media, which is run by Michael Nussbaum, who also serves as executive vice president and associate publisher of the Tribune, and operates out of the Tribune’s offices.

“Multi-Media has not been paid by my campaign for consulting,” Meng said. “They do our printing. I’ve spoken to Michael about the ads, and I will be glad to talk to him again.”

Meng also pointed out that her first position in public service was as a volunteer for an organization that provides services to women suffering from domestic abuse, particularly those who do not speak English.

The Borough Hall press conference, which included a number of other women’s advocates, came one day after the City Council held hearings on such ads on Backpage.com, an

online classified ad site affiliated with Village Voice Media. The Tribune was not included in the hearings.

Congress passed the VAWA extension.

Jawin said she did not know if Meng knew about the ads before hiring Multi-Media.

“I honored both Grace and Elizabeth Crowley before they were even running,” Jawin said. “They have excellent track records as advocates for women’s issues. So does Rory Lancman ... I don’t know the other candidates.”

Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows), a fellow Assembly member who is considered the most serious threat to Meng’s nomination in the June 26 primary, held a press conference of his own on Monday, during which he also decried GOP attempts to water down the new VAWA bill. He could not be reached for comment on Meng’s association with Multi-Media.

Congressman Joe Crowley (DQueens, Bronx), chairman of the Queens County Democratic Party, said that he was unaware of the controversy.

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PEP vote on school closures continued from page 2 “Money drives policy, and this policy was developed based on the opportunity to obtain federal funding,” Fedkowskyj said.

City officials said every student at the schools now will have a seat at their respective institution next year.

Each of the schools slated for closure has been in a federal improvement program since the beginning of the school year to help it with such issues as low graduation rates and test scores, and each federal program was expected to last three years.

City Department of Education officials chose not to close the schools last year and instead implement other plans, like partnering them with educational nonprofits, after the state placed the schools on its “persistently low-achieving” list. Because of regulations under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the city has to implement one of four federal programs at the schools on the PLA list, which run the gamut from partnering the schools with nonprofits to axing half the staff.

After implementing two programs, known as “restart” and “transformation” at the institutions, Bloomberg announced in January, less than six months after they began, that he aimed to axe these initiatives for the more aggressive “turnaround” model — which includes replacing up to half the teachers.

“The timing of this sudden and unwarranted switch to the turnaround model has generated unnecessary panic and confusion,” Fed-

kowskyj said. “Schools have been improving over the last two years, some more than others, and they played by the rules, but now it’s not good enough. The switch in models has created a negative cloud over all of these schools and, as a result, many parents may select other schools, which will only further flood our already overcrowded high schools.”

The PEP’s vote left students, parents and teachers reeling, and many said they felt as though the public hearings held at each of the schools over the past month, which thousands of people attended, and the public comment before the vote, were a farce and that the city had already made up its mind when Bloomberg first announced the plan. The city is mandated by state law to hold the hearings.

“I’m disgusted,” said Sally Shabana, a Spanish teacher at Richmond Hill High School. “For the first time, I’m embarrassed to be a New Yorker, with a mayor who’s racist and anti-immigrant.”

Shabana, like many others who spoke, noted that many of the schools slated to close include large numbers of minorities and English language learners.

“Our graduation rate is not 60 percent, as you say — that is our four-year graduation rate,” said Georgia Lignou, a history teacher at Bryant High School. “A lot of our students are [English as a Second Language] students who need an extra year to graduate.”

Daniel Rhodes, the head of John Adams’ school leadership team, said he was initially

wary of the Ozone Park school, which was founded in 1930, but has grown to love it.

“When my daughter first went there, I hated it,” Rhodes said at the PEP meeting.

“But I watched that school grow — the graduation rates went up. We have stretched, reached and made it, but you’ve pulled the rug out from under us.”

Just before panel members voted on the school closures, they voted on Fedkowskyj’s resolution to abandon the turnaround model.

The resolution failed by the same vote, 8-4.

Fedkowskyj, a vocal critic of the closures, argued the schools should be able to continue the federal programs that began this year.

Additionally, he said the turnaround model could prove to be expensive if half of the teachers at each of the schools are replaced.

The replaced educators are not fired, but are placed into what is known as the “absent teacher reserve,” and continue to receive an annual salary.

The principal and representatives from the teachers’ union and city DOE will sit on a panel that will decide which of a school’s educators will be rehired. Every teacher at the closing schools will have to reapply for his or her job.

“We are not sticking to a hard 50 percent,” Walcott said. “We can go above 50 percent.

“Dollars would be nice, but that’s not the ultimate goal,” Walcott continued.

Patrick Sullivan, the Manhattan borough president’s appointee and a consistent critic of the mayor’s educational policies, echoed Fedkowskyj’s concerns.

“This is an extreme measure, and it’s not

clear we’ll get federal funding,” Sullivan said. “We would lose up to 50 percent of teachers, and what evidence do we have that this is the right policy?”

Deputy Schools Chancellor Marc Sternberg said they have implemented the turnaround model at about 10 schools during the past decade.

“These are strategies that we know work,” Sternberg said. “This is a process to tap talented educators. This is an opportunity to introduce new programming.”

Legislators from all corners of the borough have slammed the closures, a number have said they support the union’s possible plan to sue the city.

“Obviously, I’m terribly disappointed by the PEP’s vote, though not surprised, and disappointed in the process that the DOE had and the fact that they disregarded thousands of people who spoke up and rallied,” said Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside), who graduated from Bryant. “It was a very bad day for the Department of Education and its legacy. I have talked to the UFT, and I’ve told them I’d love to be a party in any lawsuit and join in any and all efforts to undo this terrible decision.”

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) noted that John Adams and Richmond Hill high schools have “very long histories” in their communities and said there were “valid, credible arguments made to have them removed from the turnaround list.

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“Heat Wave” director and choreographer Chet Walker, second from left, rehearses with cast members including Jackson Heights resident David Elder, far right, onstage at Queens Theatre.

Queens Theatre premieres ‘Heat Wave,’ a remix of numbers from the father of theatrical jazz dance

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ack Cole’s name may not be as familiar to the general public as those of Bob Fosse and Jerome Robbins, two of many choreographers influenced by him, but among the cognoscenti, Cole’s work is greatly admired, establishing his legacy as one of the great dance innovators of the past century.

With one week to go before the show’s first public performance, Chet Walker, the director and choreographer of the musical, “Heat Wave-The Jack Cole Project,” coming to Queens Theatre for a three-week run, is bringing a long rehearsal to a close. by Mark Lord

“This is the most precious time of my life,” he tells his cast, a troupe of 15 mostly long-limbed dancers and singers.

The silence as he speaks seems to indicate that everyone in the room is aware of how important they are to Walker and how much this show means to him.

An original tribute to the late choreographer, who died in 1974 at age 62, begins previews tonight at the indoor theater in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Walker conceived and has nurtured the show for several years, which people have whispered has the possibility of a transfer to Broadway, though no one involved in it wants to discuss the possibility.

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Queens Best Toastmakers Club meets the first, third and fifth Saturdays of the month from 10 a.m. to noon at the Elmhurst Hospital Center, Conference Room, 79-01 Broadway.

In conjunction with Queens College’s Year of Turkey, the Queens College Art Center is presenting a group show in which 27 contemporary artists look at the evil eye May 29-June 29. Gallery hours are Mondays through Thursdays, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Fridays, 9 a.m.-4:40 p.m. Closed weekends and holidays. Free and open to the public at Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, college entrance at 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing.

AARP Chapter 2889 meets on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at noon at the Elks Lodge, 82-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. New members are welcome. Topic: May 16, music by John Larosa.

Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria, will present “Street Digital,” an exhibition of JODI’s recent works in installation, software and video, now through May 20. Museum admission: $12 for adults; $9 for persons over 65 and for students with ID; $6 for children ages 3-18. Open Tuesday-Thursday, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. SaturdaySunday, 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Monday.

Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing, will exhibit the photography of documentary photographer Audrey Gottlieb now through May 19. “Vignettes from the Queens Project” is a photo collection that celebrates the diversity of the Queens community.

AUDITIONS The AARP Queens Chorus performs at Queens nursing homes and rehab/senior centers. If interested in joining call (718) 523-1330 for audition dates.

The Forest Hills Symphony Orchestra has openings in oboe, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and bass sections.

Auditions will be held during the regular rehearsals of the orchestra on Wednesday from 7:30-10 p.m. at the Forest Hills Jewish Center, 106-06 Queens Blvd. Interested players should contact the conductor, Franklin Verbsky at (718) 374-1627 or (516) 785-2532.

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Face Off Unlimited presents “Improvius Maximus” at The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City.

Some of the best improv teams from all corners of the land gather to compete. Saturday performance: May 5 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 20 at 7 p.m. Tickets $10 at door or online at secrettheatre.com, or call box office at (718) 392-0722.

The Andrean Players present “The Music Man” on Friday, May 4 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, May 5 at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, May 6 at 2 p.m. at St. Andrew Avellino Church Andrean Hall, entrance on the corner of Northern Boulevard and 157 Street, Flushing. Tickets are: Adults $18, seniors and children $15. Call Sally at (917) 753-8410.

APAC Performing Arts Center presents the musical “The Secret Garden,” May 3-19 on Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m. and Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m. at Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 30-44 Crescent St., Astoria. Tickets are $18, $12 seniors/students. Visit apacny.org or call (866) 811-4111.

In honor of Mother’s Day, “I Remember Mama,” a Broadway play which was later adapted for a movie, a TV series, and eventually a musical, will be the subject of Tom Newby’s next lecture at a meeting of Horizons, a club for those 55 and over on Thursday, May 10 at 12:30 p.m. at the Reform Temple of Forest Hills, 71-11 112 St. Attendees are invited to bring lunch. A charge of $3 will include coffee and cake.

The exhibit by Reineke Hollander, “Dead Fetishes Waiting for a Ceremony,” a mixed-media installation, will be on display PHOTO COURTESY QUEENS COLLEGE at the Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, Queens College, through June.

“Poets in the Playhouse” will be performed free on Friday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Little Theater at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., King Hall, Room 115 in Flushing. It’s sponsored by the Poetry Society of America.

Jack Cole invented jazz and musical theatre dance as we know it. See “Heat Wave: The Jack Cole Project,” a musical tribute running now through May 20 at Queens Theatre in the Park in Flushing Meadows Park. Tickets: $42 weekdays, $49 weekends. Performance schedule: Wednesdays-Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m., with matinees on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m.

FILM The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Queens, 147-54 Ash Ave., Flushing, presents the first episode, “The Difference Between Us,” of a three-part series, “Race - The Power of an Illusion,” on Saturday, May 5 at 7 p.m. Watch the film then explore these questions: If race is a biological myth, where did the idea come from? Suggested donation of $5.

MUSIC The Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in Flushing will present a double bill of two Bruce Saylor operas: “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” and “The Image Maker “on Friday, May 4 through Sunday, May 6 at the Goldstein Theatre, located at the intersection of Kissena Boulevard and the Horace Harding Expressway (L.I.E.) on the Queens College campus.

Show times are Friday, May 4 and Saturday, May 5 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 6 at 2:30 P.M. Tickets are $22/$20 (QCID, Seniors). Call (718) 793-8080.

Beautiful and memorable American songs featuring Cantor Guy Bonne and special musical guests will be featured on Saturday, May 12 at 8 p.m. at Temple Tikvah, 33-15 Hillside Ave., New Hyde Park. Tickets are $20 or special VIP package, $50.

RSVP to themnus2@optonline.net or mail checks to Doris Silberman, 92 Nottingham Rd., New Hyde Park, NY, 11040.

Musica Reginae Productions presents the Lexington Piano Trio with Eveline Kuhn on Saturday, May 5 at 7:30 p.m. at The Church-in-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills. Tickets are $20 adults, $15 seniors, $10 students, kids under 12 are free when accompanied by an adult. For tickets, call (718) 894-2178 or order online at musicareginae.org.

FLEA MARKETS The Richmond Hill flea market held at the old RKO theatre, 117-09 Hillside Ave., is open every Sunday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visit Richmondhillfleamarket.com or call (347) 709-7661 for more information and directions.

Bay Terrace Country Club will hold its spring flea market on Saturday, May 5 (rain date — Sunday, May 6) from noon to 4 p.m. at 217-14 24 Ave., Bayside.

Free admission and parking, DJ, animal balloons, refreshments and more.

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center will sponsor the Kew Gardens Spring flea market from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the LIRR North Parking Lot, 82-60 Austin St., on Saturday, May 5.

Jewelry sale, new and used, on Saturday, May 5 from 2-6 p.m. and Sunday, May 6 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. in the school cafeteria, Holy Child Jesus Church, 11111 86 Ave., Richmond Hill.

Ozone Park AARP Chapter 4163 meets the last Tuesday of the month at noon at Christ Lutheran Community Center, 85-15 101 Ave., Ozone Park.

New members are welcome.

You Gotta Believe, a community-based older child adoption agency, is looking for families who would be willing to provide love and nurturing to a child in the foster care system. Join the agency on Sundays at 4 p.m. at Little Flower Children’s Services, 89-12 162 St., Jamaica. The next session will be on April 15. (No meeting on April 8).

FOR KIDS Flushing Meadows Soap Box Derby has begun registering participants for this year’s Soap Box derby event.

Registration can be obtained online at aasbd.org or GNB Auto Repair, 85-05 Astoria Blvd., Jackson Heights on Fridays between 6 and 8 p.m. Applicants must be between the ages of 8 and 17 years. A copy of a birth certificate must accompany the application or another document affirming proof of age. Kits may be obtained from the All-American or through sponsorship from the Flushing Meadow Organization.

CLASSES The YWCA of Queens, 42-07 Parsons Blvd., Flushing, has expanded its GED preparation program to include free adult classes. Tracks vary in length from 10 to 20 weeks depending upon entrance test results. Contact the YW and sign up for the next placement examination. Call Stacy McKelvey at (718) 353-4553 for more information or to reserve your placement exam seat.

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A defensive driving course for insurance and point reduction will be given at St. Mel’s Church of Flushing, 26-15 154 St., on Saturday, May 12 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For information and registration call (631) 360-9720. The cost is $45.

The Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills, will host a discussion on “The Death Penalty and the Constitution” on Monday, May 7 at 1:30 p.m., with James Coll, a detective in the New York City Police Department. Cost is $6.

Urte Shaedle will discuss how to grow garden-fresh herbs in containers on Wednesday, May 9 at 2 p.m.

Cost is $8 and $5 for members at Volker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing.

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Queens College, as part of its yearlong tribute to Turkey featuring several college hosted talks and art exhibits, is presenting a group show titled “Amulets, Nazars & Evil Eyes” in which 27 contemporary artists look at the evil eye.

Some cultures believe that a certain gaze, or an “evil eye,” can cause injury or bad luck for the person who gets the stare down. Through time cultures have created remedies and charms to ward off these curses.

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Turkey has a particularly rich tradition of talismans — including the blue and white beads known as nazars — designed to ward off this hex.

“Everyone is superstitious,” said the show's curator Tara Mathison. “Everyone has a thing that explains the unexplainable.”

“The show gives the community of Queens, as well as the students, a fun way to approach and to deal with superstition through art,”she said.

Each of the artists — who are from the United States, Egypt, Russia, Great Britain and many other countries — interpreted the theme differently. The artists’ works run the gamut, said Mathison, from photos of wobbly eye key chains to fishing nets from Ghana to prayer shawls molded into sculpture to works by a Turkish artist who created paintings of her relative's evil eye jewelry.

For examples, artist Anujan Ezhikode revisits beliefs and remedies that extend from the ceremonial rituals of his Indian youth to his Brooklyn life today. And New York painter Roya Farassat draws on the oppression of women in her native Iran and on the power of the gaze.

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The artwork in “Amulets, Nazars & Evil Eyes” takes a contemporary looks at ancient PHOTO BY TARA MATHISON superstition.

The artists were picked from about 100 applicants.

The show has a personal meaning for Mathison, an artist who has curated at Queens College for five years. The college may decide to cut funding for the gallery located in the college’s library, she said.

The exhibit is Mathison’s sort of humorous way in combating what may be the

gallery’s last show — instead of protection against a gaze, the exhibit serves as protection against cuts to the arts.

“Superstition is how to deal with little uncertainties in life,” said Mathison. “You can let superstition control you or you can let a humor ascend it in the ritual of life.”

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The plot takes place in a lonely manor “We had some great options,” he said. house in 1906 England. A man, yearning “Actors love the show and the score. They for his beautiful, late wife, feels neglected can sink their teeth into it. And no one and isolated and blames her death on his does it.” crippled son. Then a spoiled, rich child, folIn fact, the show, which features a Tony lowing the choleraAward-winning book related deaths of her

by Marsha Norman, own parents, is sent who also wrote the to live with them, lyrics, and music by When: Thurs.-Fri. at 8 p.m. and changes their Lucy Simon, was Sat. at 8 p.m., May 3-19 lives forever. originally staged on Where: Good Shepherd Despite the show’s Broadway in 1991, United Methodist Church dark overtones, and has not had a 30-44 Crescent St. in Astoria full revival in New APAC’s artistic direcTickets: $18, $12 students and seniors tor and the producYork since.

(866) 811-4111, apacny.org tion’s director, Tom Perhaps the show’s Wojtunik, said the many challenges are production will appeal responsible for its scarcito children over 10 as well as adults. ty, though Wojtunik said “it was precisely “Kids can connect to the two children” those challenges that were enticing to me. I in the show, he said, “and the way it’s love that the story rests on the little girl. I staged. Adults will respond to grief and love the darkness.” how we process it.”

The show’s opening prologue has been He explained that Frances Hodgson especially difficult to stage, he said. “It is Burnett wrote the much-loved novel written beautifully in directness and simupon which the show is based in 1911, plicity. Everyone around the little girl dies and intended it for an adult readership, and they become ghosts that haunt her,” but said it is often “looked at as a kids’ he said. “It’s incredible.” story.” continued on page 00 52

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continued from from page page 00 45 continued One of Walker’s goals in doing the show is to bring Cole’s work to the fore by recreating his dances for a younger generation.

“This is a homage,” he points out.

“He is the father of jazz,” said Walker.

“Everything on Broadway is connected to Cole.”

Among Cole’s theatrical credits are such successes as “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” and “Man of La Mancha.” And he created musical numbers for films like “There’s No Business Like Show Business, “Les Girls” and “Kismet.”

For the new production, Walker has taken 32 of Cole’s numbers and thrust them, most

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for the first time anywhere, onto the stage.

While unable to recreate each number exactly as presented on screen, “I try not to add too much,” he said.

Later, Walker mentioned that that night would have been Cole’s 101st birthday, he said, “This is an historical moment.”

Walker compares putting together a show like “Heat Wave”—the name of a song Cole choreographed for Marilyn Monroe—to preparing a soup, with its many distinct flavors. “You gather all the different personalities and everyone comes with their own spice,” he said.

One of the featured performers is David Elder, a resident of Jackson Heights for the past 22 years who has eight Broadway shows to his credit.

He said during a rehearsal break that he got involved in this production “happenstance-ly,” through a friend, the show’s costume designer, who thought he would make “a great fit.”

Elder auditioned two months ago, and now finds himself in the spotlight bringing to life anew numbers made famous on film by Danny Kaye (“Rhythm of a New Romance” from “On the Riviera”) and Gene Kelly (the title song from “Les Girls.”)

“I knew who Cole was,” he said.

“Certain choreographers would reference him. As a dancer, you try to be aware of the greats.

“Cole was more of a rebel. He was unorthodox. He took the basics and put his spin on it. He expected an incredible amount from his dancers.”

Elder, whose credits include “Guys and Dolls,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “42nd Street,” sees the importance in keeping Cole’s work alive.

“As we keep moving forward, I see less and less of the old-school style and approach. I feel a departure from dance that furthers the plot,” he said. “I don’t The think there are enough dance shows.”

And he finds working on a brand new piece such as his current undertaking “exciting. It’s a new idea. I think it’s doing a real service, making sure we don’t forget.”

Ray Cullom, who became the theater’s artistic director last year, sees the show as being in step with the company’s new mission, to develop and nurture an increased number of new works.

Queens Theatre and Walkerdance are coproducing the show, one of the most elaborate in the theater’s history.

cast of “Heat Wave” rehearses.

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According to Cullom, the show’s budget is around $250,000. “The lion’s share,” he said, is “to pay the creative people. And the costumes,” which he said are all being made in-house and number around 200.

As the show approaches opening night, scheduled for May 9 as part of the theater’s annual gala fundraiser, Walker said, “We joke and we have fun, but when we have to get serious ...”

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Celebrate spring at the Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Parkway in Floral Park on Sunday, May 6 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Watch sheep shearing and spinning demos, learn about the Community Compost Project, enjoy in-depth tours led by farmers and pick up vegetable seedlings and flowers at a spring plant sale.

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

Call to reserve at (718) 762-6212.’

Toddler Olympics 2012 for children ages 2 to 6 will be held at Bayside High School, 32-24 Corporal Kennedy Street, Bayside, on Friday, May 6 from noon to 3 p.m., 11 a.m. for registration. Fee: $10 for parent and child team, $2 for spectators.

The Flushing Camera Club meets at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Flushing Hospital, enter at 45th Avenue and Burling Street on the first, third and fifth Wednesday of the month. For information, visit flushingcameraclub.org.

Italian Charities of America at 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, offers Italian classes for adults and children.

Adult classes are on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 7-9 p.m. Children’s classes are on Saturdays from 10 a.m.-noon. The course is for 14 weeks. Price: adult — $80, children — $75 for first child, $50 for second and third child. Call (718) 478-3100.

Dance with instructions at the Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, every Monday and Friday, 7:15 to 8 p.m., followed by a dance social. Music by Sal Escott. Admission $10.

Senior Yoga is coming to Bayside Jewish Center, 203-05 32 Ave., conducted by Flo Meyers. There will be a series of 10 weekly sessions at $5 per session.

Bring your own mat or beach towel.

Ongoing drawing class every Wednesday 1-4 p.m. at the National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy, Douglaston. Instructor, Marc Jasloff. Call (516) 2237659. Fee: $25 per class.

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

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SPECIAL EVENTS The Queens Alliance Baseball League and the Queens Kiwanis Baseball League have combined to provide recreational baseball, as well as tournaments in the RBI, Pony, Federation and Greater N.Y. Sandlot. Any teams or players looking to play baseball in a local competitive league can call (718) 3667717 or (718) 821-4487 for more information.

The Kiwanis Middle Village street festival is on Sunday, May 6 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free rides, lots

A celebration of Cinco de Mayo and Asian Pacific Heritage month will be held on Saturday, May 5 at the Poppenhusen Institute, 114-04 14 Road, College Point. Times are: 11 a.m. — Pinata or Chinese Knotting Workshops; 12:30 p.m. — Sampling of Ethnic Foods; and 1 p.m. — Aztek, Chinese and Filipino dancers.

The third annual Green for Queens Environmental Festival will be held on Sunday, May 6 at the Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills, from 1 to 4 p.m. The fair will feature workshops and exhibits for adults and earth-friendly, hands-on activities and entertainment for children.

Dive into spring at the Astoria Park Pool Music and Arts Festival on Saturday, May 5 from 2 to 6 p.m. at 19th Street and 23rd Drive. It will include live music, including Queens rock bands Dr. Jin and Iskandar, Shakespearean sonnets and soliloquies from the Hip to Hip Theatre Company, and performances from members of the Astoria Performing Arts Center. Face painting, storytelling, inflatable rides, arts and crafts, and more for the kids. This event is free.

Metropolitan Avenue Festival sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Glendale Queens will be held on Sunday, May 6 on Metropolitan Avenue between 73 Place and 79 Street, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free rides for children, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Food vendors, craft vendors, games, rides, North Shore Animal League mobile pet adoption, FDNY Smoke House fire safety exhibition, general vendors, fun for the whole family.

Louis Armstrong House Museum, 34-56 107 St., Corona, is throwing a garden party on Saturday, May 5 and Sunday, May 6 from noon-6 p.m. It is a free event, family friendly and will be held rain or shine.

It will feature ongoing historic house tours which are free during event hours and outside in the garden guests will enjoy live jazz, sample red beans ’n rice (Louis’s favorite recipe) and swing dancing.

Maifest on Cinco de Mayo will be held in the Voelker Orth Museum’s Garden, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing on Saturday, May 5 from 5:30-8:30 p.m.

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Secret Garden continued from page 00 48 The segment, which runs nonstop for 20 minutes, is a combination of song and spoken dialogue and completely underscored.

“We have to nail the tone in the opening,” Wojtunik said.

He calls the music “stunning,” saying,”in my mind, it’s so lush and romantic. I can’t think of another score like it. It is such a thrill to hear it sung live in front of me.”

In the production, the score is played by five musicians. In all, Wojtunik estimates that more than 60 individuals are involved, including the actors and off-stage personnel.

Heading the cast is 12-year-old Hannah Lewis as the young girl who finds the titular garden, releasing the magic and adventures locked inside.

“I love working with children,” Wojtunik said. “Every musical at APAC has had children. They’re naturally truthful.”

Other leading roles are played by Broadway veteran Jennifer Evans, Benjamin McHugh and Jaimie Kelton.

Wojtunik, 33, an Astoria resident for the past 10 years, originally came to New York to become an actor, but soon discovered “I was not good as an actor but I was very good as a director.”

In 2008, he took over the reins at APAC, which was founded in 2001. In the future,

he would like to produce more new works at the center, which as of now presents one musical and one straight play a year.

He also hopes the center will eventually have its own building, allowing for an expanded season.

APAC also hosts several free community programs, including a children’s summer theater camp (for youngsters 8-13) and Senior Stars (for performers 60 and over).

All participants must be residents of Queens. Information on auditions is availQ able on the center’s website.

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Jose Reyes’ much ballyhooed return to Citi Field as the Miami Marlins’ new shortstop was a dud all the way around. Reyes went a paltry 1 for 12 with no stolen bases as the Mets swept his new team in three straight.

What was really surprising about Jose’s first visit to Citi Field since leaving the Amazin’s was that it was far more a media event than a fan attraction. An announced crowd of barely more than 20,000 came out for his first game back on a fairly pleasant April evening.

Bud Harrelson was the shortstop on the 1969 Miracle Mets squad that won the World Series. Bud has just written a new book, “Turning Two” (Thomas Dunne Books) in which he rehashes the glory days but also poignantly writes about how the Mets hit rock bottom in the late 1970s, following the franchise-destroying trade of Tom Seaver to the Cincinnati Reds. Harrelson will be signing copies of his book this Saturday at Citi Field when the Mets take on the Diamondbacks.

Bud was present at last Sunday’s Jewish Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in Commack for Mets longtime radio voice (as well as Cardozo High and Queens College alum) Howie Rose, and the late Arthur Richman, who worked in public relations for both the Mets and Yankees during his 60-year

career in Major League Baseball.

Since Howie obviously couldn’t be in two places at the same time, former Mets general manager Jim Duquette, now a baseball analyst for Sirius XM, pinch hit for him in the radio booth as the Mets visited the Colorado Rockies. Duquette, as affable and knowledgeable a man you will ever meet in baseball, made numerous cogent observations and meshed well with play-by-play man Josh Lewin. It would be nice if WFAN and SNY can find more ways to work Jim into Mets broadcasts.

One thing the Yankees have that the Mets don’t is their own line of colognes and perfumes. You’ve probably seen the ads for NY Yankees Fragrances. Last Thursday, the Cloudbreak Group, the manufacturer of NY Yankees Fragrances, announced that Yankees star Curtis Granderson will be a “brand ambassador.”

I asked Granderson if he worried that he might get into a clubhouse spray war with Derek Jeter who has his own line of colognes.

“It’s funny; Derek has never given us a bottle!” he said with a wide smile. I followed up by asking him if he was prepared for the inevitable razzing he’ll get from teammates for being a fragrance spokesman. “Nah, we’ve all got stuff on each other,” he laughed.

Cloudbreak CEO Tom Butkiewicz says there are no plans for a Mets perfume. So Q much for Eau du Flushing Bay!

The building of PS 164, the Queens Valley School

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Kew Gardens Hills was primarily developed by the Wolosoff Brothers, starting in 1937. After the breakup of the Arrowbrook and Queens Valley golf courses, a floodgate of development occurred all at once.

The problem was the community had everything but a school. With much pressure placed on politicians for one, a school was approved by the planning board in 1946. A site had to be found and developed as much of Borough President James Burke, with pickax, parthe best land was already bought for ticipates in the groundbreaking ceremony for PS home development. A sand pit that 164 on Sept. 19, 1947. had been overlooked by the developers was found at 77th Avenue and 137th many months ahead.

Finally in 1949 PS 164 was opened to a Street and purchased by the city.

On Sept. 19, 1947 State Sen. Seymour budding Baby Boom generation. Among the Halpern, Deputy Mayor John J. Bennett, big names who attended it were popular Queens Borough President James A. Burke musicians Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, and Dr. William Jansen, superintendent of and Fran Drescher of “The Nanny.”

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• Window

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• Masonry

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• • • • •

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Weber Home Improvement

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Brick & Cement Work Licensed & Bonded

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J.P. MUSSO ROOFING & SIDING

CLEANCO

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• • • •

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Specializing in Designing, Tree Pruning, Clean-Ups & Sprinklers.

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A Division of Moveco, Inc.

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Contact Brian (owner)

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Since 1970

• Stoop Railings • Window Guards • P.V.C. Fences • Gates

FULLY INSURED

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CALL

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Sale On Concrete Work

OLD CORONA CONSTRUCTION CORP.

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GARAGE DOORS Complete Framing Available • Garages Extended HUGE CLEARANCE SALE • Steel • Entrance Doors • Wood • Gate Operators • Raised Panels • Parking Systems

Let Our Professional Contracting Team Build or Repair Your Dream House Today!

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Sales & Service For All Major Brands Wholesale & Retail BROKEN SPRINGS, DOORS, CABLES Authorized Distributors & Installers For:

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PARTS • REPAIRS • REMOTE CONTROLS FREE SHOP AT HOME SERVICE

CASSEL & & FREYMUTH, FREYMUTH, INC. INC. CASSEL

Professional Installers Of: • Bricks • Blocks • Pavers • Concrete • Stone Veneer • Stucco • Kitchens • Bathrooms • And More!

• Kitchens & Bathrooms • Dormers & Extensions • Brickwork • Paving Stones • All Types of Concrete • Custom-Built Homes • Residential & Commercial • New Construction • We Do It All!

Insulated Garage Doors 19

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Free Shop at Custom-Made Plastic or Vinyl Home Service Slip Covers at Discounted Prices FREE Installation & Valance 21 Call 718-444-0116

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Center Post Removed • Openings Widened

VERTICAL VIEW DECORATORS

Call Us Today For A Free Estimate

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COSMOS FENCE INC.

SERVING QUEENS

ON ALL TYPES OF FURNITURE.

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Family Owned & Operated for 30 Years

INSURED

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Licensed & Insured

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Fabrication & Installation of Duct Work for Air Conditioning/Heating/Ventilation FREE ESTIMATES

All Hardwood Firewood • • • •

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3 Rm. Min. WE ALSO DO • Sheetrock • Skim Coating • Wallpapering & Removal • Plastering

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BG TREE EXPERTS

GRB Construction

FULLY INSURED

INTERIOR - EXTERIOR

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CONSTRUCTION LLC

• Cement Work • Belgium Block • Sidewalks • Repairs • Driveway Seal Coating • Paving • Brick & Block Work • Resurfacing We Accept Major Credit Cards

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SPRING SPECIAL Give Us A Call To Spruce Up Your Property For Spring.

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• Kitchen & Bathroom Renovations • Boilers • Water Heaters • Drain Cleaning • Piping • Flooring • Tile • Painting • Roofing • Siding • Windows

SERVICE

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• • • •

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• Window & Door Replacement

AFFORDABLE PRICES FREE ESTIMATES

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Cell: 646-262-0153

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Reasonable Rates

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READERS QUEENSWIDE

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For 5 Weeks

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325 $475 $625 For 5 Weeks

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CHRONICLE

P.O. Box 74-7769, Rego Park, NY 11374-7769 Or Call: (718) 205-8000 Name ________________________________________ ____ Address __________________________________________ __________________________Phone __________________ Signature __________________________________________________________________________________ Deadline: Friday, 3 p.m. • Payment Must Accompany Order Call for prices and discounts for larger ads & longer advertising periods $25 CHARGE FOR RETURNED CHECKS

*in most cases

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• Refinishing • Staining • Bleaching • Pickling

$

100

per sq. ft.

INSURED FREE ESTIMATES

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• • • • •

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: HL 78, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/01/12. 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, 136-40 39th Avenue, Suite 402, Flushing, New York 11354.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Index No.: 17525/07 Supreme Court: County of Queens In the Matter of the Application of MARIE VALERIO, Guardian of the Person and Property of LOUIS BRUNO the Person alleged to be incompetent, to sell certain real property belonging to said alleged incompetent person.

Pursuant to an Order of this Court dated April 26, 2012, by Hon. Lee. A. Mayersohn, a Justice of this Court, an application to sell premises at 90-04 Shore Parkway, Howard Beach, New York 11414, a plot 47.95’ by 100’, will be made on the 5th day of June 2012 at 9:30 AM at lAS Part 22 in Room 44A of the Supreme Court at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York 11435. Said property is presently under contract, subject to the approval of the Court the price of $459,000.00. Contact John F. Ragano, Esq. of Ragano & Ragano, Esqs., the attorneys for the Guardian at 95-09 101th Avenue, Ozone Park, New York 11416, (718) 843-7584.

RAGANO & RAGANO, ESQS. Attorneys for the Guardian, 9509 101th AVENUE OZONE PARK, NY 11416 (718) 843-7584

Notice of Formation of Chee Ming Choo LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/13/12.

Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Chee Ming Choo, 64-46 Utopia Parkway, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of ImaginAerial LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/22/12.

Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 189 2nd Ave., Apt. 3S, NY, NY 10003.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

AMERICAN UNITED COMPANY LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/21/2012. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 8658 Pinto St., Hollis, NY 11423. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company.

Name: NYC REGIONAL CENTER FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/19/212. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 131-08 40 RD., 4F, Flushing, NY 11355. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: DTN DANCE GROUP LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/07/12. 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, 212-14 39th Avenue, Bayside, New York 11361.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: FERAZZOLI CREATIVE DESIGNS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/13/12. 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, c/o Joseph & Terracciano, LLP, 2 Roosevelt Avenue, Suite 200, Syosset, New York 11791.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 132-13 LIBERTY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/06/12. 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, 132-13 Liberty Avenue, Richmond Hill, New York 11419.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: SCRIMP LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/01/2012. Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 22-21 48 Street, Astoria, NY 11105. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: DONNA. G. L.L.C. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/03/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, Dominick Gentile, 159-07 78th Street, Howard Beach, NY 11414. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

AVERY 133-12 LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/28/12. Office Location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 64-65 210th St., Oakland Gardens, NY 11364. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act.

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SBG REALTY LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 2/17/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Susan Batz, 85-15 Main St., Apt. 8P, Briarwood, NY 11435. General Purposes.

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Application for Authority (LLC) Airline Tech Reps, LLC. Filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/6/12. LLC formed in TX on 1/14/99. 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 CT Corp. System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act/activity.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company.

Name: 1NATION1VOICE INTERNATIONAL LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/23/2012.

Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to SHEREEN CALONGE, 61-18 PARSONS BLVD., FRESH MEADOWS, NY 11365. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: SCOTTY FASHION LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/15/2012.

Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 155 Beach 95th St., Rockaway Beach, NY 11693. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company.

Name: AMERICAN INTERIOR FINISHES LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/14/2011.

Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 94-25 57TH AVE., STE. 7E, ELMHURST, NY 11373. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: T.D.T.A LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/18/2011. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the Tamita McKenzie, 19859 Pompeii Ave., Holliswood, NY 11423. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 1/11/12, bearing Index Number NC-00124511/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me the right to assume the name of Amara Atique. My present name is Ammara Attique aka Amara Atique.

My present address is 147-51 72nd Rd., Apt. 2G, Flushing, NY 11367.

My place of birth is Parkistan. My date of birth is February 2, 1991.

Notice is hereby given that a license, serial number 1262662 for beer, wine and liquor, has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a bar/restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 180-13 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica, NY 11432, County of Queens, for onpremises consumption: FUEGO BAR & LOUNGE INC.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: SOUP N MORE, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/30/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 68-38 YELLOWSTONE BLVD., FOREST HILLS, NY 11375. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

INDEX No.: 6781/12 NO MOTION FEE, FILED ON COMMENCEMENT At a lAS Part 17 of the Supreme Court, State of New York, held in and for the County of Queens, at the Courthouse located at Jamaica, New York, on the 2nd day of April, 2012.

PRESENT: HON. ORIN R. KITZES, JUSTICE IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF WAHID HOOSEIN, HOLDER OF FIFTY PERCENT OF ALL OUTSTANDING SHARES OF MINGLE #1 INC., Petitioner, -againstRAYMAN HOOSEIN, Respondent, FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF MINGLE #1 INC. PURSUANT TO BCL §1104 Upon reading and filing the annexed Petition, duly verified on the 29th day of March, 2012, the Affidavit of Wahid Hoosein sworn to on March 29, 2012, and the Affirmation of Bruce A. Feldman, Esq. dated March 28, 2012, from which it appears that Mingle #1, Inc., is a domestic corporation, located in the County of Queens, State of New York, and that the Petitioner is the owner and holder of 50% of the voting shares of said corporation, and that the shares of the corporation are equally divided into no more than two (2) independent ownerships or interests and it further appearing from the said Petition, there is a controversy among, by and between the two (2) equal shareholders of said corporation who are the sole principals thereof and it further appearing from said Petition that the corporation is deadlocked in that (i) the parties are so divided respecting the management of the corporation, that the votes required for action by the Board cannot be obtained, (ii) the internal dissension between the two (2) shareholders has so divided them that it would be beneficial to the interests of the shareholders and to the corporation that the corporation be dissolved and its business and affairs liquidated, and it further appearing that this proceeding is brought pursuant to N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 1104; Let Mingle # 1, Inc., Rayman Hoosein, a 50% shareholder in MINGLE #1 INC., the New York State Tax Commission by the Attorney General and all interested persons, Show Cause at an lAS Part 17 the Court at Room 116 thereof, to be held at the Courthouse located at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York 11435 or 25-10 Court Square, Long Island City, NY 11101 on the 9th day of May, 2012 at 9:30 A.M., in the forenoon of that day, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard for an Order: (a) why the corporation should not be dissolved in accordance with N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law Article 11, particularly N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law §1104(a)(1), (2) and (3); (b) why an accounting of all receipts and deposits for MINGLE #1, INC. and payments to Respondent for the period commencing January 2005 to August 15, 2011 should not be granted; (c) why damages for Respondent’s breach of fiduciary duty should not be granted; and (d) why such other and further relief as this Court may deem just and proper under the circumstances should not be granted, together with costs and disbursements of this proceeding to petitioner, as well as reasonable counsel’s fees, and it is further, ORDERED, that pending the hearing of this matter the Respondent, Rayman Hoosein, is enjoined and restrained from destroying any ledgers, journals, deposit slips, copies of checks, corporate books, records, stocks, minutes, agreements of MINGLE #1 INC.; and it is further ORDERED, that a copy of this order shall be published in Queens Chronicle once in each of the three (3) weeks before the time appointed for the hearing thereon; and it is further ORDERED that copy of this order and the documents on which it is based shall be served upon the corporation MINGLE #1 INC., each person named in the petition, who is not a Petitioner, the New York State Tax Commission, the Attorney General of the State of New York and all interested persons, in the manner prescribed in New York Business Corporations Law Section §1106, no later than April 20, 2012.

ENTER, J.S.C

HOMES & HOMES LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/14/2012. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Maria Fermin, 211-03 28 Ave, Bayside, NY 11360. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

11-01 43rd Avenue Realty LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/16/1999. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 11-01 43rd Ave., L.I.C., NY 11101.

Duration Date: 6/30/2050.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: BODAY MENTAL HEALTH DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT GROUP, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/16/2012.

Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Daniel Yaw Boadu, 147-26 230th Place, Springfield Gardens, NY 11413. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OFFICE OF RIGHT OF WAY NOTICE OF APPROPRIATION OF PROPERTY IN THE BED OR BEDS OF A STREAM, LAKE, STREET, ROAD, HIGHWAY, OR RIGHT OF WAY PROJECT: KOSCIUSZKO BRIDGE PROJECT COUNTY: QUEENS MAP NO. 113 PARCEL NO. 158 TAKE NOTICE THAT PURSUANT TO EMINENT DOMAIN PROCEDURE LAW NOTICE is hereby given that there were filed in the office of the Department of Transportation on the 2ND day of APRIL, 2012, description and original tracing of a map, together with a certificate as to the accuracy thereof, of property which the Commissioner of Transportation deemed necessary to be acquired immediately for purposes connected with the project identified above that; there was filed in the office of the QUEENS County Clerk on the 24TH day of APRIL, 2012, a copy of such description and map, whereupon the appropriation by the State of the property described in such description and map became complete and the title to such property vested in the People of the State of New York.

Description and map of property which the Commissioner of Transportation deems necessary to be acquired by appropriation in the name of the People of the State of New York for purposes connected with the highway system of the State of New York pursuant to Section 30 of the Highway Law and the Eminent Domain Procedure Law. There is excepted from this appropriation all the right, title and interest, if any, of the United States of America, in or to said property.

That the following is a description of such property, to wit: All that piece or parcel of property hereinafter designated as Parcel No. 158, situate in the County of Queens, State of New York, and described as follows: Parcel No. 158 Beginning at a point (P.O.B.), as shown on the accompanying map, and being 40.244 meters (132.03 feet) distant right as measured at right angles from the project baseline, hereinafter designated Baseline, at Station 11+903.251; 1. Thence running westerly, N74º12’32”W, a distance of 6.205 meters (20.36 feet) to a point, said point being 34.113 meters (111.92 feet) distant right as measured at right angles from the Baseline at Station 11+902.294; 2. Thence running northeasterly, N26º28’02”E, a distance of 18.612 meters (61.06 feet) to a point, said point being 34.698 meters (113.84 feet) distant right as measured at right angles from the Baseline at Station 11+920.897; 3. Thence running easterly, S74º12’32”E, a distance of 14.164 meters (46.47 feet) to a point, said point being 48.692 meters (159.75 feet) distant right as measured at right angles from the Baseline at Station 11+923.082; 4. Thence running southerly, S15º47’28”W, a distance of 9.145 meters (30.00 feet) to a point, said point being 50.103 meters (164.38 feet) distant right as measured at right angles from the Baseline at Station 11+914.045; 5. Thence running westerly, N74º12’32”W, a distance of 11.406 meters (37.42 feet) to a point, said point being 38.833 meters (127.40 feet) distant right as measured at right angles from the Baseline at Station 11+912.286; 6. Thence running southerly, S15º47’28”W, a distance of 9.144 meters (30.00 feet) to the point of BEGINNING. Containing 186.3± square meters (2,005± square feet) or 0.0186± hectares (0.0460± acres).

The above mentioned survey baseline is a portion of the 2002 survey baseline (NAD 83/96) for the Kosciuszko Bridge Project as shown on a map and plan on file in the Office of the State Department of Transportation and described as follows: BEGINNING at Station 10+000; thence N34º02’25.1”E, a distance of 126.225 meters (414.12 feet) to Station 10+126.225; thence N59º21’10.6”E, a distance of 135.614 meters (444.93 feet) to Station 10+261.839; thence N55º07’32.4”E, a distance of 143.736 meters (471.57 feet) to Station 10+405.575; thence N71º11’26.1”E, a distance of 111.137 meters (364.62 feet) to Station 10+516.712; thence N66º00’27.9”E, a distance of 123.498 meters (405.18 feet) to Station 10+640.211; thence N75º13’15.9”E, a distance of 158.152 meters (518.87 feet) to Station 10+798.363; thence N65º09’02.3”E, a distance of 139.153 meters (456.54 feet) to Station 10+937.516; thence N25º18’37.7”W, a distance of 136.381 meters (447.44 feet) to Station 11+073.897; thence N14º32’03.9”W, a distance of 140.898 meters (462.26 feet) to Station 11+214.795; thence N48º49’39.9”E, a distance of 201.062 meters (659.65 feet) to Station 11+415.857; thence N76º39’1 7.5”E, a distance of 100.036 meters (328.20 feet) to Station 11+515.893; thence S79º55’15.1”E, a distance of 108.092 meters (354.63 feet) to Station 11+623.985; thence N42º53’07.0”E, a distance of 189.402 meters (621.40 feet) to Station 11 +813.387; thence N24º39’57.0”E, a distance of 198.402 meters (650.92 feet) to Station 12+011.789; thence N23º27’01.6”E, a distance of 156.445 meters (513.27 feet) to Station 12+168,234; thence N34º47’31.5”E, a distance of 157.648 meters (517.22 feet) to Station 12+325.882; thence N27º38’14.0”W, a distance of 79.947 meters (262.29 feet) to Station 12+405.829; thence N67º32’38.6”W, a distance of 114.424 meters (375.41 feet) to Station 12+520.253; thence N48º04’04.9”W, a distance of 143.637 meters (471.25 feet) to Station 12+663.890.

All bearings and distances are referenced to the New York State Plane Coordinate System, NAD 1983-96, Long Island Zone.

All bearings referred to True North at the 74º–00’–00” Meridian of West Longitude.

Map of property which the Commissioner of Transportation deems necessary to be acquired by appropriation in the name of the People of the State of New York in fee, without right of access to and from abutting property, for purposes connected with the highway system of the State of New York pursuant to Section 30 of the Highway Law and the Eminent Domain Procedure Law. Commissioner of Transportation By: /S/James Cellery Office of Right of Way DATED: April 26, 2012

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NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OFFICE OF RIGHT OF WAY NOTICE OF APPROPRIATION OF PROPERTY IN THE BED OR BEDS OF A STREAM, LAKE, STREET, ROAD, HIGHWAY, OR RIGHT OF WAY PROJECT: KOSCIUSZKO BRIDGE PROJECT COUNTY: QUEENS MAP NO. 111 PARCEL NO. 156 TAKE NOTICE THAT PURSUANT TO EMINENT DOMAIN PROCEDURE LAW NOTICE is hereby given that there were filed in the office of the Department of Transportation on the 2ND day of APRIL, 2012, description and original tracing of a map, together with a certificate as to the accuracy thereof, of property which the Commissioner of Transportation deemed necessary to be acquired immediately for purposes connected with the project identified above that; there was filed in the office of the QUEENS County Clerk on the 24TH day of APRIL 2012, a copy of such description and map, whereupon the appropriation by the State of the property described in such description and map became complete and the title to such property vested in the People of the State of New York.

Description and map of property which the Commissioner of Transportation deems necessary to be acquired by appropriation in the name of the People of the State of New York for purposes connected with the highway system of the State of New York pursuant to Section 30 of the Highway Law and the Eminent Domain Procedure Law. There is excepted from this appropriation all the right, title and interest, if any, of the United States of America, in or to said property.

That the following is a description of such property, to wit: PERMANENT EASEMENT FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES A permanent easement to be exercised in, on and over the property above delineated for the purpose of constructing, reconstructing and maintaining thereon a State Highway, together with such bridges and other facilities in connection therewith as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Transportation in and to all that piece or parcel of property designated as Parcel No. 156, and described as follows: Parcel No. 156 Beginning at a point (P.0.B.), as shown on the accompanying map, and being 42.520 meters (139.50 feet) distant right as measured at right angles from the project baseline, hereinafter designated Baseline at Station 11+976.116; 1. Thence running northwesterly, N74º12’32”W, a distance of 6.268 meters (20.56 feet) to a point, said point being 36.327 meters (119.18 feet) distant right as measured at right angles from the Baseline at Station 11+975.149; 2. Thence running northeasterly, N26º38’27”E, a distance of 18.621 meters (61.09 feet) to a point, said point being 36.969 meters (121.29 feet) distant right as measured at right angles from the Baseline at Station 11+993.759; 3. Thence running southeasterly, S74º12’32”E, a distance of 16.170 meters (53.05 feet) to a point, said point being 52.945 meters (173.70 feet) distant right as measured at right angles from the Baseline at Station 11+996.254; 4. Thence running southwesterly, S19º49’49”W, a distance of 9.167 meters (30.08 feet) to the point, said point being 53.718 meters (176.24 feet) distant right as measured at right angles from the Baseline at Station 11+987.119; 5. Thence running northwesterly, N74º12’32”W, a distance of 12.762 meters (41.87 feet) to the point, said point being 41.109 meters (134.87 feet) distant right as measured at right angles from the Baseline at Station 11+985.151; 6. Thence running southwesterly, S15º47’28”W, a distance of 9.144 meters (30.00 feet) to the point of BEGINNING. Containing 202.2± square meters (2,176± square feet) or 0.0202± hectares (0.0500± acres).

RESERVING, however, to the owner of any right, title or interest in and to the property above delineated, and such owner’s successors or assigns, the right of access and the right of using said property and such use shall not be further limited or restricted under this easement beyond that which is necessary to effectuate its purposes for, and established by, the construction or reconstruction and as so constructed or reconstructed, the maintenance, of the herein identified project.

The above mentioned survey baseline is a portion of the 2002 survey baseline (NAD 83/96) for the Kosciuszko Bridge Project as shown on a map and plan on file in the Office of the State Department of Transportation and described as follows: BEGINNING at Station 10+000; thence N34º02’25.1”E, a distance of 126.225 meters (414.12 feet) to Station 10+126.225; thence N59º21’1O.6”E, a distance of 135.614 meters (444.93 feet) to Station 10+261.839; thence N55º07’32.4”E, a distance of 143.736 meters (471.57 feet) to Station 10+405.575; thence N71º11’26.1”E, a distance of 111.137 meters (364.62 feet) to Station 10+516.712; thence N66º00’27.9”E, a distance of 123.498 meters (405.18 feet) to Station 10+640.211; thence N75º13’15.9”E, a distance of 158.152 meters (518.87 feet) to Station 10+798.363; thence N65º09’02.3”E, a distance of 139.153 meters (456.54 feet) to Station 10+937.516; thence N25º18’37.7”W, a distance of 136.381 meters (447.44 feet) to Station 11+073.897; thence N14º32’03.9”W, a distance of 140.898 meters (462.26 feet) to Station 11+214.795; thence N48º49’39.9”E, a distance of 201.062 meters (659.65 feet) to Station 11+415.857; thence N76º39’17.5”E, a distance of 100.036 meters (328.20 feet) to Station 11+515.893; thence S79º55’15.1”E, a distance of 108.092 meters (354.63 feet) to Station 11+623.985; thence N42º53’07.0”E, a distance of 189.402 meters (621.40 feet) to Station 11+813.387; thence N24º39’57.0”E, a distance of 198.402 meters (650.92 feet) to Station 12+011.789; thence N23º27’01.6”E, a distance of 156.445 meters (513.27 feet) to Station 12+168.234; thence N34º47’31.5”E, a distance of 157.648 meters (517.22 feet) to Station 12+325.882; thence N27º38’14.0”W, a distance of 79.947 meters (262.29 feet) to Station 12+405.829; thence N67º32’38.6”W, a distance of 114.424 meters (375.41 feet) to Station 12+520.253; thence N48º04’04.9”W, a distance of 143.637 meters (471.25 feet) to Station 12+663.890.

All bearings and distances are referenced to the New York State Plane Coordinate System, NAD 1983-96, Long Island Zone.

All bearings referred to True North at the 74º-OO’-OO” Meridian of West Longitude.

Map of property in and to which an easement as hereinabove defined is deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Transportation to be acquired by appropriation in the name of the People of the State of New York for purposes connected with the highway system of the State of New York pursuant to Section 30 of the Highway Law and the Eminent Domain Procedure Law. Commissioner of Transportation By: /S/James Cellery, Office of Right of Way DATED: April 26, 2012

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Bill to crack down on animal fight spectators Advocates support stricter penalties, calling the ‘sport’ cruel and disgusting

by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

Dogfighting and cockfighting are illegal in New York State and so is going to such events.

Now, punishment for spectators at these venues may increase on the federal level, much to the satisfaction of animal rights advocates.

Under the Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act of 2011 introduced by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), any person who attends an animal fighting event would be subject to a fine of up to $100,000 and imprisonment of up to one year for each violation.

In addition, anyone who takes a minor to such a venture would be fined up to $250,000 and could get up to three years for each violation. The bill was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry on Dec. 6.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) supports the bill, according to her spokesman, Glen Caplin.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) did not respond to an email request for comment by press time.

A companion bill in the House was introduced by Tom Marino (R-Penn.) on July 11. It has 189 cosponsors including Congressmen Gary Ackerman (D-Queens, Nassau) and Gregory Meeks (D-Jamaica). The bill was referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security on Aug. 25.

Organizing dogfighting and cockfighting is a felony in New York State, and attending a match is punishable by up to three months in

prison and a $500 fine, or one year in prison and a $1,000 fine for a second offense.

“Animal fighting is an extremely cruel, but lucrative, underground business,” Bill Ketzer, an ASPCA spokesman, said in a prepared statement. “It is often associated with a host of other dangerous and illegal activity, including drugs, weapons and gambling, all of which pose serious threats to public safety.”

Lori Carpino of Heavenly Angels Animal Rescue in East Elmhurst is one area activist who supports the legislation, stating that if there is no one spending money to watch these “sports,” they will likely decline.

Carpino knows the horrible effects of dogfighting firsthand. About three years ago Heavenly Angels received a badly injured pit bull believed to be used in dog fighting.

“He was pretty beaten up,” Carpino said.

“His tail was broken, his ears were injured and he had bites all over. He was so emaciated, he only weighed about 20 pounds.”

Carpino helped rehabilitate the still friendly pooch, named him Bogey and adopted him out into a loving home.

“Now he weighs 75 pounds,” Carpino said.

“He’s beautiful. He looks nothing like the dog that came to us a few years ago.”

Bobbi Giordano, owner of Bobbi and the Strays, a no-kill animal rescue group, with an adoption center in Glendale and a shelter on Long Island, also expressed support for the bill.

This pit bull sustained numerous injuries allegedly from dogfighting, but was rescued PHOTO COURTESY LORI CARPINO and adopted.

“People who go to these things are just as bad,” Giordano said. “They enjoy watching violence. It’s horrible.”

Sonia Saakias of the Strays said the group has helped several dogfight victims, including a 3-year-old pit bull named Chance.

“He had scars all over his face and he was all black and blue and bloody,” she said. “But he had the sweetest demeanor. He would come up to you and wag his tail and lick your face.”

Saakias also recalled another pit bull named Penny who had been used as a bait dog during

these events and was brought to Bobbi and the Strays after Animal Care and Control found her hanging upside down in an apartment.

“She was scared of everything,” Saakias recalled. “A paper bag would fly by and she would cower.” Both Chance and Penny have since been adopted.

During a dogfight, two specially trained, bred and conditioned canines, usually pit bulls, are placed in a pit where they attack each for an average of one to two hours, according to the Humane Society of the United States. The dogs often die of blood loss, shock, dehydration, exhaustion or infection.

“People who do this and go to these dogfights need to be punished,” Saakias said. “It’s really disgusting.”

In a cockfight, two roosters battle to the death. The birds typically have razor blades strapped to their legs, which can cause injuries such as punctured lungs, broken bones and pierced eyes, according to the HSUS. There have been two animal fighting cases in Queens in recent years, according to PetAbuse.com. More than 30 birds allegedly used in cockfighting were seized from a shed in Richmond Hill on June 11, 2008. Three dogs were injured and one was found dead from alleged dogfighting in St. Albans on Oct. 25 2007. A spokesman for the ASPCA said it has not handled any such cases in the city in two Q years.

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continued from page 12 Their nests often wreak havoc on the electrical equipment by enveloping the transformers, blocking ventilation.

The result can cause the devices to shortcircuit, and often catch fire, sometimes leading to power failures.

It is also expensive to replace the 24,000-volt feeder transformer, costing Con Edison about $20,000 each time.

But the utility company thought it had come up with a solution to chase the parakeets away — a plastic battery-powered owl that swivels its head and makes a hooting noise. However, the owl, nicknamed “Hootie,” proved to be a shortlived success.

After a few months, Hootie’s batteries ran out and the birds immediately pegged him as a fake and built their nest next to him.

The addition of an orange cape to “Super Hootie” also did not have a lasting effect.

And so the search for a solution goes on.

Con Edison’s removal of a nest is not a problem for the parakeets, according to spokesman Chris Olert.

“Even if we take a nest down, they’re wily enough to build somewhere else,” said Olert.

“They’re being relocated,” Olert added.

Although the birds may have their detractors, they have powerful supporters

as well.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) is sponsoring legislation in the state Senate that would make Monk parakeets protected birds so their nest sites could not be disturbed without a permit.

“We feel this legislation is needed to protect them,” said Addabbo.

“We need advocates to speak out for these animals because they can’t do it themselves,” he continued.

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal (DManhattan) is sponsoring the bill in the Assembly.

The bill’s text notes that the Quaker parrots, which have resided in the New York area for some 40 years, are not harmful to the environment, have not been a threat to any native species, and have not proven to cause damage to any public utilities.

The City Council is considering a nonbinding resolution calling on the state Legislature to designate the Monk parakeet as a protected species. Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Middle Village) is one sponsor.

“It is our responsibility to prevent potentially endangered species from disappearing altogether,” Crowley said. “In order to protect this beautiful bird, we must make sure that their habitats are maintained in a humane way and are proQ tected from development.”

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