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ouncilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) became the early frontrunner in the race to replace Melinda Katz as borough president this week thanks to an earlymorning endorsement by the Queens County Democratic Party’s leadership.

The endorsement, decided by a voice vote of district leaders, jumpstarted what appears to be a bruising campaign between Richards and a muscular progressive movement that is still forming behind two candidates from the western part of the borough.

Councilmen Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) and Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria), who have also announced their intentions to run, criticized how the endorsement was handled.

The meeting was called on less than two days’ notice and held at the party’s headquarters in Forest Hills at 8:30 a.m. Monday, effectively cutting off competing candidates.

Constantinides called it a “closed-door process ... that shut many people out.”

“I’m not the Queens machine candidate ... for BP, and I wouldn’t want to be,” Van Bramer tweeted shortly before the vote.

Richards tried to strike a conciliatory tone after the meeting.

“Over the next few months, we’re going to

Councilman Donovan Richards tweeted out this photo of himself thanking the Queens County Democratic leaders shortly after they voted to endorse him early Monday morning for borough TWITTER PHOTO/ DONOVAN RICHARDS president. Other candidates criticized the vote to endorse him. bring people from all over Queens, no matter who they are, where they come from, or where they live now, to create an office that works for the people,” he said in a statement.

Still, said political consultant George Arzt, the endorsement “gives him momentum and it gives him early support at a crucial time in the

race. It’s a big boost.”

A s s e m bly wo m a n A l ic i a Hy n d m a n (D-Springfield Gardens) dropped out of the race an hour before the vote and threw her support to Richards.

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Former Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley and Anthony Miranda, the retired president of the Latino Officers Association, have also declared their intention to run.

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The clash between establishment Democrats and reformers reflects the intergenerational divide that has also characterized the state of the national party in the midst of an extended campaign to find a presidential nominee.

Katz was set to be sworn in as district attorney on Wednesday, after resigning as borough president.

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Promising year with mixed results

Sweet softball, what to do about Sandy II and deadly boulevard,

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he end of 2019 was about living on promises.

A group of promising young athletes from Howard Beach and Ozone Park showed New York who was the best ladies softball team in the state.

A promise the federal government made to protect the neighborhoods along the shoreline of Jamaica Bay from a repeat of the damage caused by Sandy in 2012 is still unfulfilled.

The city promised to get to the bottom of a disastrous sewage backup that ruined scores of houses in a 40-block area of South Ozone Park. Then the city discovered that it had no one to blame but itself.

And with the promise of a better year ahead, here’s a review of what happened in South Queens during the last half of 2019.

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The Ozone Howard Little League Major Team stormed its way to the New York State Championship with remarkable ease — giving the young ladies’ league its first state title ever.

Suddenly, the longtime dream of sending a team to the World Series in Oregon was alive and kicking in the week after July 4.

At the Eastern regional championships in Bristol, Conn., it looked like the ladies were on their way — 32 runs in their first three games, a huge offensive showing.

But after cruising through their first few games in the regional tournament, the Bulldogs were eliminated with two hard losses in a single day.

The Cinderella run ended when they lost to

Charles Park at the southern tip of Old Howard Beach finally got some care and attention this year, thanks to a novel funding scheme engineered by a local lawmaker.

The ladies from the Ozone Howard Little League team show off the banner they won in July as the best team in the state. The team had been playing together pretty much since they were eight.

FILE PHOTOS Coaches Tiffany Spinelli and Lou Piazza are far left and right. the New Jersey state champs, 5-0, with the bases loaded and the tying run waiting to come to bat.

“Obviously, it was a sad night. But they never gave up,” said Tiffani Spinelli, who has been coaching this team with Lou Piazza since the players were eight years old.

“This has been a dream for me,” said Spinelli, who played in the Ozone Howard Little League when she was growing up and had coached in the league since she was a teenager.

“No team in Ozone Howard, girls or boys, has ever gone this far before,” she said. * What started as a few, low-flying copters a day have turned into a parade of choppers, five or six per hour, swooping over homes heading for the airport in July.

“The planes went away and the copters came to take their place,” said Peter McMahon, a contractor who lives in Old Howard Beach.

“The amount of noise coming from these copters is absurd.”

The source of the heavy new traffic appears to be several new commuter heli- copter services that launched in the last three months, offering to ferry passengers from Manhattan to JFK for just $200.

According to the websites for the new services, the helicopter ride takes only eight minutes, compared to an hour or more via taxi. * As the math of an unprecedented, monthlong electoral recount turned inevitably against her, public defender Tiffany Cabán conceded the Democratic nomination for Queens district attorney to Borough President Melinda Katz.

The margin of victory: 55 votes out of nearly 90,000 cast.

In November in something of an anticlimax, Katz won the Queens DA race with 75 percent of the vote over Joe Murray, the copturned-lawyer who ran on the Republican line.

“We know that together we will end cash bail,” Katz said in her victory speech at Queens County Democratic headquarters in Forest Hills that acknowledged a large popular surge in the borough for criminal justice reform.

“We know that together we will protect workers and make our work sites safe for our workers out there. We know that together we will protect immigrant rights and make sure we don’t have ICE agents in a court of law and in our courtroom because that’s not how you get justice.”

• A mother and her 7-year-old daughter died July 21 in a fast-moving, two-alarm fire that swept through their Richmond Hill home in the midst of a summer heat wave.

The woman’s two teenage sons were injured, one critically, by the fire that may have been caused by a faulty air-conditioner cord, officials said. The house did not have smoke detectors.

Silvia Umana, 51, a pharmacist and single mother from El Salvador, and her daughter, Guadalupe, died in the wood-frame house on 117th Street and Atlantic Avenue before help could arrive.

More than 100 firefighters needed nearly an hour to bring the fire under control and keep it from spreading to other houses on the block, officials said.

August Pedestrian fatalities on Woodhaven Boulevard have happened often enough in the past decade, but they can sometimes escape notice.

However, the hit-and-run death of a 56-year-old Dunkin’ Donuts worker July 25 shortly after 5 a.m. was gruesomely out of the ordinary.

Sivanaintha Perumal, known as Shiva, was struck so hard by a car headed southbound on Woodhaven and 91st Avenue that he was knocked out of his pants.

His body was thrown or dragged more than 100 feet beyond the crosswalk, landing on the bridge over Atlantic Avenue.

“They heard the sound two blocks away,” said Kenichi Wilson, head of Community Board 9, who lives nearby.

A dozen Woodhaven residents later staged an unusual protest at the spot where Perumal, a native of India who had left his family behind to work in America more than decade ago, was killed.

When the traffic lights on the boulevard turned red, the protesters walked onto the crosswalk and silently held their signs up for stopped motorists to see.

“Speed kills people like us,” read one of the protest signs.

The protesters scurried back to safety before the lights changed back to green.

“The cars are flying at that hour,” said Ed Wendell, who organized the protest. “It’s a scary place to be.” * A law prohibiting job discrimination on the basis of religious garb seemed so in keeping with life in multicultural New York, most legislators always figured there had to be one on the books already.

But that turned out not to be the case.

Leaders of religious minorities hailed Gov. Cuomo in August for finally signing into law a bill that penalizes employers who refuse to hire or promote workers based solely on their clothes, beards or head covering.

“Finally, in a state as diverse as ours, people of faith no longer have to choose between their religion and their jobs,” said Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows), surrounded by leaders of several Sikh and Muslim civic groups as well as other lawmakers from Queens. * Complaints about the condition and safety of Charles Park in Howard Beach are nearly as old as the park itself, which was put under the control of the National Park Service in 1972.

As a national park, it has to compete for money with sites like the Statue of Liberty and the federal agency has never seemed to have the resources or attention span to deal with what essentially is a neighborhood park.

In August, Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) figured out a novel way to provide city cleanup money to the federal government by funneling it through a third party, the Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy.

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began f looding around 1 a.m. The foulsmelling effluent spewed out of toilets and shower drains and rose to several feet in some homes. The losses in some houses were total.

The determination that the Department of Environmental Protection was to blame allowed the city to start paying homeowners for the damage caused by the backup, including immediate funds to replace ruined boilers, hot-water heaters, washing machines and dryers.

At a press conference the day after the sewage spewed into the basements of more than 70 houses in the area, officials speculated that kitchen grease poured down drains during Thanksgiving dinner cleanup was to blame.

“That was hurtful,” said Grace Johnson, a resident of Inwood Street in the center of the affected area. “We all knew that wasn’t true.”

September A 33-year-old parolee from Brooklyn, wearing an ankle-bracelet locator that could monitor his whereabouts, was charged with the daylight rape of a Lindenwood mom in her apartment in early September.

Cops identified a suspect within a few hours, officials said, but did not want to tip him off before he was cuffed two days later.

The slow f low of information from police about the attack stirred anxiety and anger in the close-knit neighborhood.

Deputy Inspector Brian Bohannon, commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, and John Ryan, the acting district attorney of Queens, agreed to provide a briefing, unusual for a case at the very beginning of the legal process, at a civic association meeting attended by more than 200 people.

“I’m agreeing with you that all the information you were looking for was not provided to you and I’m sorry for that,” Bohannon told the overflow crowd. * The federal government yanked more than $50 million it had promised to build a storm-resistant berm through Spring Creek Park to protect Howard Beach and Lindenwood from the damage caused by another Hurricane Sandy.

Since 2015, construction of a barrier in Spring Creek Park has been a centerpiece of government plans to prevent a repeat of the 2012 disaster that struck neighborhoods south of the Belt Parkway.

The original design, released last year, called for the construction of a berm 17 feet high and 50 feet wide at the crest. It would run parallel to the water and stretch from the foot of the Joseph P. Addabbo Bridge on

A thoroughly researched and designed plan to build a large earthen wall through Spring Creek Park to protect New Howard Beach and Lindenwood from the next Hurricane Sandy came to a halt FILE PHOTOS when the federal government yanked $50 million from the project.

Crossbay Boulevard to the Belt Parkway south of Lindenwood.

State officials said in November they are not giving up on the project and will find the money elsewhere.

Still, the delay means not one f looddamage prevention project proposed after Sandy seven years ago has been implemented, Roger Gendron, head of the Hamilton Beach Civic Association, pointed out. * Danielle Lam, one of four presenters who travel the country giving out prize money in the Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, had a special interest in last September’s $10,000 winner.

Lam, who grew up in Old Howard Beach, was about to surprise a lucky fellow in Lindenwood with the famous, oversized check.

“I’ve been doing this job for 11 years and never had a winner in Howard Beach before,” she said.

The winner, Kern Simmons, 31, who uses a wheelchair, said he had no idea how he was going to spend the money.

“I wasn’t expecting it,” he shrugged.

October

The luck of a young Lindenwood man, confined to a wheelchair in recent years, took a big turn in September when he discovered he’d won a Publishers Clearinghouse prize.

A 25-minute commuter train ride from Howard Beach to Midtown Manhattan?

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But, a much-delayed MTA report, released in October, on the feasibility of restarting train service on the old Rockaway Beach Branch right-of-way says it’s possible.

However, there’s a catch. The cost to reopen the line as a spur of the Long Island Rail Road is estimated at $6.7 billion or $9

billion to make it a subway line.

Commissioned in 2016 and released nearly two years after it was first promised, the report is a “sketch planning level” engineering assessment of what it would take to rebuild the 3.6-mile LIRR line originally built in the 1880s and closed in 1962 for lack of ridership.

Transit advocates, however, are not the only ones with designs on the right of way.

A powerful lobby has grown in the past few years advocating that the land be made into a linear park, similar to the High Line in Manhattan.

The final decision will be up to Gov. Cuomo, who so far has avoided saying whether he favors a park or a train line. * There just wasn’t enough room in Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Church Sept. 29 for all the parishioners who wanted to see the final Mass given by the Rev. Paul Pal m iot to before h is retirement.

Latecomers had to perch on the front steps outside the Ozone Park church and listen to the service through the open doors.

The pastor was diagnosed earlier this year with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

“Father Paul” spoke only briefly at the Mass, thanking the congregation for its support, then headed off after nearly 40 years in the priesthood to his new home in Florida.

December Police fanned out around Lindenwood in the first week of December looking for clues to the identity of a vandal who spraypainted racist messages onto fences, tree trunks and sidewalks.

The graffiti was as extensive as it was obscene, defacing long stretches of fencing in front of three houses on 151st Avenue near 81st Street.

“One day I will come back to this and see how successful I am! ” read one message.

The racist overtones of the messages and the fact that the perpetrator or the perpetrators left a chilling threat to “come back” seemed to be most unnerving.

A cleanup effort that included neighbors, civic groups and an auxiliary police officer from the 106th Precinct removed nearly all traces of the vandalism within 36 hours. Q

November It took nearly a month but the city finally said the cause of the disastrous sewer backup that flooded scores of homes in wastepolluted water on Thanksgiving weekend was a 42-inch pipe that collapsed — not a buildup of turkey fat poured down drains.

On the Saturday night after Thanksgiving, residents reported their basements

A waste pipe under the Belt Parkway collapses after nearly 50 years, sending raw sewage into scores of nearby homes.

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Oz. Park’s La Bella Vita for sale again Former catering hall, which closed in 2014; price tag is $3.5 million

Residents can bring Christmas trees to city parks and see them turned into mulch that can be PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN taken home for free.

by Michael Shain

Mulchfest returns for Christmas trees

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The former La Bella Vita catering hall, the once-popular event space in Ozone Park, is back on the real estate market.

Asking price: $3.5 million Ads for the hall began appearing a few weeks ago, touting the proper t y as a “pr ime invest ment [with] t remendous upside.”

The ads talk up the site’s proximity to Resorts World Casino and JFK International Air por t as an impor tant selling point.

The 9,400 -square-foot building has been through several owners in recent years — including a carpet merchant and a caterer called Queens Luxe. But it is most familiar to residents as the former home of Bella Vita, the catering hall where neighborhood weddings, sweet 16 parties and con f i r mat ion lu nches took place for decades.

The owner, Tony Modica, owned and operated La Bella Vita since it opened at 106-09 Rockaway Blvd. in 1985.

Modica was famous locally for a dance he created called the “Pizza Dance” — he started off in the food business as a pizza maker — which involves a person mimicking the moves of someone making a pizza.

Modica popularized the “Pizza Dance” by performing it on a f loat during the Columbus Day Parade in Manhattan.

In January 2014, Modica was forced to declare bankruptcy and close the catering hall without notice.

The loss of La Bella Vita left a hole in the neighborhood, where the ethnic demographics were rapidly changing from Italian and Jewish to South Asian.

Besen Partners, a Manhattan real estate and investment firm, is handling the sale.

Queens has 14 locations for clean up

by David Russell Associate Editor

The Italianate building on Rockaway Boulevard has been through several owners since La GOOGLE MAPS Bella Vita went out of business.

If you’re stuck with a Christmas tree in your house, the city would like you to bring it to a park when you can watch it turned into mulch that can be taken home for free on Jan. 4 and Jan. 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Sites include: • Astoria Park, at 19th Street and Hoyt Avenue in Astoria; • Brookville Park, at Brookville Boulevard

and 143rd Avenue in Rosedale; • Cunningham Park, at 196th Place and Union Turnpike in Fresh Meadows; • Forest Park, at Forest Park Drive and Woodhaven Boulevard in Woodhaven; • Francis Lewis Park, at Third Avenue and Whitestone Expressway in Whitestone; • Hunters Point South Park, at 51st Avenue and Center Boulevard in Long Island City; • Juniper Valley Park, at 80th Street between continued on page 14

The latest owner of the building renovated it “from top to bottom,” according to the prospectus.

The hall can seat up to 550 guests.

The areas around Resorts World and JFK have been seeing large increases in real estate prices in the last year or two.

Brokers attribute the increases to the possibility that New York State will grant Resorts the right to become a full-scale casino in the next two years.

The current license allows only for slot machines and video gaming.

A multibillion dollar renovation of JFK, including new terminals and a rationalized road system, is also expected to increase the number of airline t ravelers going through the airport and up the demand for Q more staff there, the experts say.

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Pedestrian killed on Christmas A 67-year-old Nassau County man was killed on Christmas in what the NYPD is investigating as a hit-and-run incident.

Off icers from the 106th Precinct responded at approximately 9:30 p.m. to a 911 call reporting that a pedestrian had been struck near the intersection of 114th Street and Rockaway Boulevard in South Ozone Park.

Upon arrival they found Ainsley Dalrymple of Clarendon Road in Hempstead, LI, lying unconscious between two parked cars suffering from trauma to his head and body. EMS personnel transport-

ed him to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

The preliminar y f indings of the NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad determined that the unidentified driver of a silver or gray Toyota pickup truck was westbound on Rockaway Boulevard and struck Dalrymple as he was attempting to cross Rockaway from north to south.

Police said the vehicle did not stay on the scene. The investigation is continuing, and anyone with information may call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477). All tips are strictly confidential. Q

Last night of Chanukah The rain did not dampen the Chanukah spirit in Howard Beach, where the eighth and final night of the Jewish holiday still drew a crowd for the lighting of the community menorah on Cross Bay Boulevard.

The honor of lighting the final candle last Sunday went to one of the most distinguished members of the Howard Beach

Judea Chabad congregation, 92-year-old Karl Birenbaum, center holding a lighter, next to Rabbi Avrohom Richter.

In 2014, Birenbaum, a Holocaust survivor, finally celebrated the bar mitzvah he was forced to miss as a 13-year-old hiding from the Nazis in Poland.

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few common themes run through the case of a Brooklyn woman who police say assaulted three Jewish women out of the blue and the far more horrific terrorist attack allegedly committed by a Harlem man on a group of Chanukah celebrants in the northern suburb of Monsey.

The first and most obvious is the anti-Semitism. “Yes, I slapped them. I cursed them out.

I said ‘F-U, Jews,’” Brooklyn suspect Tiffany Harris told cops after the assault, according to the criminal complaint filed against her.

The alleged Monsey monster, Grafton Thomas, did web searches such as “why did Hitler hate the Jews” and “German Jewish temples near me,” according to the authorities.

He allegedly then attacked the Chanukah party, physically wounding five people, including one left in very critical condition, and psychologically wounding many more.

Another commonality is race: The defendants’ African-American lineage demon-

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The city’s sorry sewage slam on us

strates how anti-Semitism is not just a cancer of the neo-Nazi, white supremacist crowd. It has metastasized, ironically spreading to another historically oppressed community.

A third link between the two cases is that some people just need to be kept separate from the rest of society, whether in jail or a mental institution, at least until they can demonstrate that they’ve reformed. Unfortunately, the political winds blow otherwise: A judge was forced to release Harris with no bail under our dangerous new “criminal justice reform” law. She immediately went out and punched someone else in the face, according to police. And Thomas’ mental decline had been evident for a long time, reports said, yet he was free to muddle through life until the alleged urge to attack Jews came to be too much. Perhaps we need to allow more people to be committed.

If you know someone who seems ready to snap, please contact mental health professionals, police or both, before it’s too late.

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hen a wayward child gets caught doing something wrong, or failing to do something he was supposed to do, he might immediately blame someone else, revealing the immaturity and lack of responsibility his parents are hoping he’ll soon outgrow.

And so it is with our city government.

When dozens of homes in South Ozone Park were flooded with toxic sewage just after Thanksgiving, the Department of Environmental Protection’s first inclination was to blame we the people, speculating that a “fatburg” created by residents’ holiday cooking grease had clogged the system.

Why not? For one, clogs caused by grease and other crud do gum up sewer pipes — though they don’t seem to cause the degree of damage people suf-

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Better homeless housing Dear Editor: Re “Lights, camera, six-point Action Plan!”, Dec. 26: Instead of focusing on more homeless shelters, which are nothing more than dormitories, Mayor de Blasio needs to do more to increase available permanent housing.

There are thousands of homeless on the streets and his millions of dollars only create 1,000 permanent homes. Why doesn’t the city rehab some of its own abandoned buildings to create permanent housing? That would seem to be a better use of the funds. It costs millions to put up homeless families in hotel rooms when that money should go to something permanent.

Linda Sperling Forest Hills

Union fails Spectrum strikers Dear Editor: Re. Katherine Donlevy’s Dec. 19 report “Strikers suffer another holiday season”: As a Spectrum/Time Warner Cable customer for the past 30 years, I have a question for the aggrieved strikers quoted in this article.

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ate a compromise agreement after Charter Com mu nications rejected their initial demands? Did high-paid IBEW execs take a cut in their compensation to share the pain with their union “brotherhood”?

Spectrum workers suffer for the sins of their union’s failed leadership. No wonder only 12 percent of all U.S. workers belong to unions and just 6 percent of those are in the private sector. It’s clear that union don’ts far outweigh union dues.

Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

fered just over a month ago. The bigger reason for the DEP reaction is that shifting blame is what this administration does, whether it’s about lead paint in public housing, children killed by their own parents while supposedly under city supervision, racial and ethnic gaps in education, the alleged “pass them no matter what” policy at some schools, the taxing, the spending, and so on.

As SOP resident Grace Johnson said of the city’s sewage blame game, “That was hurtful. We knew that wasn’t true.”

The real culprit was a broken main.

We’ll give the city credit for its response to the crisis, once it saw how bad it was. But where’s the apology? Or rather, apologies: One for not maintaining the sewers and another for deciding, like that little boy, to blame someone else when things went south. Where?

Freed criminals laughing

tise by police, criminologists and the Office of the Queens District Attorney. In it the office expressed serious concern as to the effect the new rule will have on communities and the lawabiding public.

Who is right remains to be seen. But it won’t be long into 2020 when we see the real effect, and it won’t surprise me one bit as to what it will be for both sides. The criminals will be laughing that they violated the law and are released, while the crime victim will suffer twice. First as a victim, then seeing the criminal freely released into society.

Time will tell.

Edward Riecks Howard Beach

Dear Editor: How ironic that in the edition of Dec. 19 a letter from Misael Syldor lauded the passage of the bail elimination law set to take effect on Jan. 1 (“Justice, not crime, for all”), while another local newspaper had a full-page story about the dangers of the new regulation. The latter cited statistics, with opinions and exper-

Dear Editor: The two latest tragic incidents in which worshipers of the Christian and Jewish faiths were killed or injured by deranged people are more proof that there is a growing anti-religious ele-

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ment in our nation that must be stopped now.

When people cannot go to their house of worship to pray in safety and peace, that says something very powerful — it says that even houses of worship are no longer safe places from shooters or knife-wielding maniacs. Our country has reached a serious crisis in this area and it is now time for those idiots in Congress to begin to work feverishly on new legislation that will significantly reduce the ability of those individuals who are intent on killing and injuring innocent people to be able to purchase guns, knives or other dangerous weapons.

The country is spiraling out of control — every week there are one or more new shootings or stabbings by deranged lunatics, who should be locked up in jail or placed in mental institutions. What is the matter with our judicial system and those justices who sit on the bench?

Happy New Year to all Americans — let us hope that there will be true peace and harmony throughout our great nation in 2020.

John Amato Fresh Meadows

Trump and your mom Dear Editor: Donald Trump is like a man in your neighborhood who has money and dresses well, and who everyone knows is a “bad character.”

Because he has designs on your mom, he tries to buy your loyalty and enhance his image with you with offers of gifts, like money or toys.

However, since you know your mom values her reputation in the community, adheres to the positive and moral values in which you were raised, and would do nothing to denigrate the family she loves, you, out of love and respect for your mom, reject his offers.

You sacrifice short-term benefits, but maintain your values, integrity and character for the long term, which are the traits your mom treasures most and has endeavored to instill in you.

Glenn Hayes Kew Gardens

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Delay Trump’s trial Dear Editor: In a typical Trumpist way, he is insisting the House impeachment be immediately turned

over to the Senate for a trial. He knows if that occurs, he will not testify under oath, nor permit any of his White House aides to testify, and will not produce any records or his tax returns, even those that have already been audited, because Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has already guaranteed a fixed trial and an acquittal. He will then travel the country espousing his purported innocence.

Fortunately for those of the American people who understand the importance of our Constitution, and three equal branches of government, when and if the impeachment is sent to the Senate is a decision that rests with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, not Trump or McConnell. One hopes Pelosi sits tight even if a trial is not held until the Supreme Court rules on the questions of Trump’s refusal to testify, allow his aides to testify under oath or produce any records.

House Speaker, you are dealing with a group of people who believe Trump is above the law.

Reject that absurdity.

Benjamin M. Haber Flushing

Capitalism vs. corporatism Dear Editor: Criticism of capitalism includes economic inequality, materialism, social inequality and economic instability. Only capitalism recognizes individual rights, yet many would have us adopt the collectivist ideal, “the public good comes above individual rights.” Ending income inequality is literally impossible because some people will always make more money than others. There are rich and poor people in both capitalist and socialist countries.

I’d argue that we don’t really have all that much capitalism anymore. A poorly educated citizenry is unaware free-market capitalism is being stifled by “corporatism” and you can’t fix a problem that is misdiagnosed.

Capitalism is freedom for individuals to own capital and capital goods and to manage economic resources however they see fit. Corporations have become, however, the preferred owners of capital goods and are extended privileged rights by central governments. Corporations aren’t people and have been granted significant advantages that individuals do not have. Unlike individuals, they have limited liability, which reduces their risk in acting in undesirable ways.

Corporations have lower taxes than many individuals. And they are often able to negotiate them down with state and local governments.

The common ordinary citizen cannot. Corporations have very close relationships with legislators and regulators and often help craft the legislation that defines the rules of engagement in their industries, generally to their advantage.

To maximize profits, corporations want to keep new competitors out, reducing the number of existing competitors to ensure pricing power over customers. Corporations will use all the tools at their disposal to implement this strategy.

It is critical to normalize the legal rights of individuals and give them equal status with corporations. We need to rescind the tax breaks that provide corporations with a cost advantage and restore corporate accountability that has disappeared through severely limited liability.

Let’s stop blaming our problems on capitalism.

Ed Konecnik Flushing

NOTICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION SESSIONS LaGuardia Airport Access Improvement Project Environmental Impact Statement The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces its intent to hold Public Information Sessions to present the Draft Alternatives Analysis for the Proposed LaGuardia Airport (LGA) Access Improvement Project Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), New York City, Queens County, New York. The FAA is the lead agency on the preparation of the EIS in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.).

The Port Authority, the operator of LGA, proposes to construct an automated people mover system to provide a time-certain transportation option for air passenger and employee access to LGA. The FAA is required to consider a range of reasonable alternatives that could potentially meet the purpose and need of the Proposed Action. A total of 47 project alternatives have been identified for the Proposed Action from various sources including the Port Authority, public and agency scoping comments, past studies, and the FAA. Because of the number of alternatives considered and the complexity of the Draft Alternatives Analysis, the FAA is affording the public an opportunity to ask questions on the Draft Alternatives Analysis prior to release of the Draft EIS, which is currently scheduled for summer 2020.

Two public information sessions for the general public will be held, one from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, January 14, 2020 and the second from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, January 15, 2020. The same information will be provided at each session. The public information sessions will be conducted at the New York LaGuardia Airport Marriott, 102-05 Ditmars Boulevard, East Elmhurst, New York. The public information sessions will be conducted in an open house format with project information displayed and representatives from the FAA and the EIS Team available to answer questions. The FAA cannot accept verbal testimony or formal comments at the information sessions. These sessions will be limited to discussing the FAA’s alternatives screening criteria and analysis.

The FAA has not yet selected a preferred alternative. Any environmental impacts or mitigation associated with a preferred alternative will be addressed in the Draft EIS. The FAA solicited comments during the scoping period and comments on the Draft Alternatives Analysis and the overall project will be solicited during the review of the Draft EIS. Translation services, including an assistive listening device, and sign and oral interpretation can be made available at the information sessions, if requested 10 calendar days before the sessions. The information sessions will be open to all persons on a space-available basis. There will be no admission fee or other charge, including parking, to attend and participate (parking validation will be available). For additional information, please contact: Ms. Maria Bernardez, Ricondo & Associates, Inc., at 312-606-0611, x374 or mgbernardez@ricondo.com. Si desea esta información en español, llame a (312) 606-0611, x374. More information about the project sponsor’s Proposed Action and the public information sessions can be found at: www.LgaAccessEIS.com.

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Dear Editor: John Lennon sang, “I read the news today, oh boy/About a lucky man who made the grade/And though the news was rather sad/ Well, I just had to laugh … Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords” (“A Day in the Life,” Lennon/McCartney).

So, I read the news today about President Trump being impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, and I just had to laugh since this arrogant, authoritarian, pompous, duplicitous “stable genius” (in his own words) has made the grade in American history. Now the Senate under the leadership of Sen. Mitch McConnell, Republican, is expected to merely vote as a partisan bloc, and vindicate this criminal. This news is rather sad for our Constitution.

Joseph N. Manago Briarwood

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Standing up for man’s best friend Animal activists push for bill to restrict the abusive power of puppy mills

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

“They asked me to carry her out of the shelter. They told me she was from a puppy mill and she wasn’t too good on the leash, so they said you’re probably better off carrying her to the car, which I did. I got her home, put her on the floor and she just dragged her hind legs under my kitchen table and didn’t come out for four days.”

K i m Ca r u a n a of Ma spet h described the day she rescued her first dog, a Pekingese named Lita.

Caruana had vaguely known that puppy mills were abusive toward their animals, but witnessing Lita’s pain and suffering woke her up to the extensive trauma and terror.

“I pulled my spare mattress onto my floor and slept with her on my kitchen floor for four nights and on the fourth night in the middle of the night she crawled over to me ... I thought I unknowingly adopted a paralyzed dog, but she just never learned how to walk because she spent her four years of life in a cage.”

Caruana, with Lita’s ashes in a locket around her neck and paw print tattooed above her heart, was inspired to become an adamant animal rights activist and an Our Best Friends Rescue center volunteer with a goal to put an end to the mills that mass produce companion animals.

The Puppy Mill Project defines a puppy mill as a breeding operation that breeds dogs for profit, prioritizing financial gain over the health or well-being of the dogs. The Humane Society estimates there are 10,000 licensed and unlicensed puppy mills in the U.S. which produce and sell over 2 million dogs each year.

“They just see dollar signs,” said Caruana. “They don’t give a s--t about these dogs, their well-being, what’s going to happen to them, what they’re enduring.”

Caruana calls Lita a “puppy mill survivor.” As a result of small living quarters and food portions and nonstop pregnancies, Lita suffered dry eye, had five rotten teeth pulled and eventually died of congestive heart failure. Despite her many health problems and trauma, Lita is one of the lucky ones — she learned how to run and play, and lived another eight years after her rescue, a feat many mill survivors don’t accomplish.

“When dogs are pulled from mills, their lifespan is usually cut in half because of the conditions they endure,” said Caruana.

Caruana’s fellow activist, Phyllis Taiano, has her own nonprofit organization, For Paws Sake, that frequently puts rescue animals in her care until she can find them a safe and caring home.

Taiano connects with all the rescued dogs she has fostered over the years, but a shih tzu named Shannon who stayed with her for seven months holds a special place in her heart.

“She was the ugliest dog I’ve ever rescued in my life, but her personality just outshined,” Taiano, of Middle Village, reminisced as she held the collar Shannon wore when she was rescued. “This is the ID she came with. As you can see, they don’t have names, they were given numbers. They’re not pets.”

Like Lita, Shannon didn’t know how to walk. She didn’t know what grass was or how to eat from a bowl.

Taiano had to throw Shannon’s meals on the floor to entice her to eat.

“The puppy mills are just deceiving the public and they’re pushing very sick dogs into the public’s hands that ultimately fall into the shelter system and are euthanized,” said Taiano, who explained that the public often unknowingly purchases mill pets under the guise of buying from a reputable breeder. Pet stores aren’t legally obligated to dis-

Approximately 200 million dogs are produced and sold each year at 10,000 puppy mills across the US. Animal activists and elected officials are pushing for a bill in both the Senate and Assembly that would put an end to the abusive FILE PHOTO, ABOVE; COURTESY PHOTOS mass production business. close where the animals come from, and Taiano says that more often or not, they come from mills.

Caruana and Taiano, along with other animal rights activist organizations and rescue centers across the state, have been pushing for the passage of a bill designed to put to bed the inhuman treatment of dogs, cats and rabbits at for-profit mills in New York State.

“We want to shut puppy mills down and the only way to do that is to ban the store from selling dogs that come from there,” said Caruana.

The bill, “an act to amend the agriculture and markets law and the general business law, in relation to the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits,” has received support from both the state Senate and Assembly. Known as S4234A in the Senate and as A6298A in the Assembly, the bill

Lita, left, was rescued after four years of continuously breeding puppies. Shannon was rescued wearing a tag reading 32-A-0363 112 rather than a name.

seeks to prohibit the sale of dogs and cats by retail pet shops and to authorize collaboration with entities to provide space to showcase cats or dogs owned by certain entities for the purpose of adoption. In the Assmembly, it has been before the Committee on Agriculture since March, being amended once in June.

Assemblymember Brian Barnwell (D-Maspeth) is one of 26 Assembly sponsors, and has been a supporter of passing such a bill since his early days in office, as well as a lifelong animal lover.

“There are many reports all throughout the USA about largescale mills that have an abundance of animals that they don’t take care of,” said Barnwell. “They sell these animals that have problems to unaware people ... They’re kept in horrible conditions, it’s as simple as that.”

The Senate bill has simultaneously been before the Senate’s Domestic Animals Welfare Committee, but Caruana foresees Chairperson Monica Mar tinez (D-Hauppauge) rejecting it as she has for a similar previous bill. Caruana believes Martinez somehow profits from opposing the bill — “we can see no other reason.”

“This proposed legislation would not prevent irresponsible large breeders from operating and instead would ban the sale of cats, dogs and rabbits at retail locations,” Martinez said in opposition. “If this legislation were to pass, individuals would only be able to adopt animals from a rescue or shelter or purchase an animal from an at-home breeder. To

set the record straight, I have never stated that I do not support the intent of the proposed legislation and in fact, have worked together with the sponsors to come up with solutions to address liability and implementation concerns.”

Five other state senators have verbally opposed the bill, threatening to kill it. According to Caruana, Sen. John Brooks (D-Massapequa) believes the shops will go under on their own in the near future, a prediction she and Taiano doubt.

“This legislation is important because there have been too many reports of animals bred cruelly and inventoried for profit, while on the other hand, we have so many adoptable animals in shelters that are in need of a loving home,” said state Sen. John Liu (D-Flushing), who is a supporter and one of 14 Senate cosigners of the bill.

Although it is the Senate and Assembly’s decision on whether to pass the bill, Councilmember Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) has taken an interest in the issue and is looking to propose a sense of the Council resolution. Through such a resolution, the members would express the view that passing the bill would have a positive impact on the city, and the entire state. Any resolution from the Council would be just a figurative motion meant to urge the state to enact the legislation.

“Puppy mills are a scam, stay away from them,” said Holden. “‘Adopt, don’t shop’ is always the best way to get a family member Q that you will cherish forever.”

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Catching up with David Russell ... the other one David Russell was a star at Bellport High School in the late 1970s when Lou Carnesecca came to recruit him.

Russell wanted to stay close to home so his mother wouldn’t have to travel around the country to see him play. Unlike other coaches, Carnesecca didn’t promise him a spot in the starting lineup, which stuck with Russell. Russell noted that not many people could make his mother feel comfortable.

“He really made her comfortable so I knew I was making the right decision,” Russell told the Chronicle last Friday.

He made his impact known right away.

“This Russell is awesome,” Oral Roberts head coach Ken Hayes told Sports Illustrated after the Redmen won in Russell’s first college game. “I don’t know where he came from on dunks. They may have to invent a new foul: in air too long.”

At 6 feet, 6 inches, Russell had terrific leaping ability. Russell was named Big East Rookie of the Year, averaging 10.8 points and 5.5 rebounds per game, with St. John’s spending more than a month ranked in the

top 10. He remembers a loss to eventualchampion Louisville and Darrell Griffith, aka Dr. Dunkenstein.

“I thought I jumped,” Russell said. “This dude jumped out of the sky. I’m like, ‘Oh my God.” In his sophomore season, he was named an honorable mention All-American by the Associated Press. Russell worked with Hall of Famer Willis Reed, as the Knicks legend was a volunteer coach for a year at St. John’s. “For him to have a bum knee, he still moved around pretty good,” Russell said.

Russell didn’t consider himself a big man but with his leap the Redmen played him in the middle and Reed taught him how to defend and stay in front of his man. It was welcome advice as opponents started to game plan to stop Russell.

Chris Mullin entered St. John’s and Patrick Ewing entered Georgetown, giving the conference two marquee figures.

The first time they met, Madison Square Garden was packed with fans still trying to

David Russell was the first Big East Rookie of the Year and helped St. John’s win the 1983 Big East title. PHOTO COURTESY ST. JOHN’S ATHLETICS get in outside. Georgetown took a 41-9 lead and won by 30.

“He was so intimidating,” Russell said of Ewing. “When I jumped up against him I thought, ‘This is going to be a long night against this guy.’”

In Russell’s senior year of 1982-83, the school produced one of its best teams. The team was as high as No. 3 in the rankings and won the Big East title over Boston College. Russell recalled a comeback win in the conference semifinal against Villanova one of his most memorable games.

Two boys saved on Christmas Kids fall in Strack Pond week after ice warnings issued

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Two boys fell into Strack Memorial Pond in Forest Park on Christmas but were saved.

At around 3 p.m., officers arrived and saw the two boys, ages 10 and 12, just out of the water being assisted by FDNY and EMS. Both were transported to Jamaica Hospital in stable condition, according to police.

A third child pulled the two from the icy water, using a nearby wooden rescue ladder, according to reports. Strack Pond has several of those on its shores, along with warning signs noting “Danger: Thin Ice.” “One of them threw a Parks Department ladder out on the ice,” a witness told the New York Post. “They had gotten themselves out before cops got here.”

The pond is the same one where Anthony Perez, an 11-year-old, drowned in February 2018 attempting to save a friend. Perez was able to pull his 12-year-old friend out of the ice before falling in himself.

Nearly a week before the Christmas incident, city Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver warned against venturing out on ice.

“With the sudden and extreme drop in temperatures, our waterbodies have begun to freeze, and this is when they can be most dangerous,” Silver said in a statement. “No

Two boys were saved after falling in Forest Park’s Strack Pond on Christmas. Nearly a week earlier, Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver issued a warning, saying, “No matter how fun the ice may PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN look, anyone walking on the ice is taking a big risk with their life.” matter how fun the ice may look, anyone walking on the ice is taking a big risk with their life.”

Some of the agency’s ice safety tips include never going on water bodies that appear frozen; caregivers making sure chil-

dren aren’t unattended near iced-over waterbodies; lying down immediately to distribute your weight if on ice and you hear it crackling; and calling 911 immediately if you see someone falling through ice and not attempting to make a rescue by yourself. Q

St. John’s advanced to the Sweet Sixteen before being upset by Georgia. The loss still lingers. Russell said he had lunch with Carnesecca in December and the coach was saying how the Redmen should have made the Final Four.

Russell scored 1,753 points in his four seasons at St. John’s, third-most in school history at the time. He’s now ninth.

He was drafted by the Denver Nuggets.

Head coach Doug Moe had a message for him on the first day of practice: “I’m definitely making you throw up.” Star scorer Alex English told Russell the coach liked him, which was why he was so tough. Russell’s reply: “This dude hates my guts.”

The Nuggets waived Russell and he went to Europe to play for 16 seasons. There were training camp workouts with the Knicks and Bulls but he never played in the NBA. “They play too many games with you,” he said. “They take you for that ride, you think you’re going to sign, and then the next morning you get the call and they’re sending someone to the office and you know you’re getting waived.”

Russell became a social worker with a therapeutic program but became tired of dealing with parents and the court system after 10 years of it.

Russell, who lives in Inwood, LI, has been a mechanic with the Long Island Rail Road for the last 21 years. He works at the Hillside Facility in Queens.

“Every college player’s dream is to play in the NBA but there’s a life after that,” Q Russell said. “Trust me.”

Mulchfest continued from page 8 Juniper Boulevard North and South in Middle Village; and • Travers Park, at 78th Street and 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights.

There are other locations to bring trees through Jan. 11, though there won’t be mulch: • Captain Mario Fajardo Playground, at Kissena Boulevard and Booth Memorial Avenue in Flushing; • Queensbridge Park, at Vernon Boulevard and Queensbridge Park Greenway in Long Island City; • Rockaway Beach, at 94th Street and Shorefront Parkway; • Roy Wilkins Park, at the park entrance at Merrick and Foch boulevards in St. Albans; • Windmill Community Garden, at 39-22 29 St. in Long Island City; and • Windmueller Park at Lawrence Virgilio Playground, at 34th Drive and 54th Street in Woodside.

People bringing trees are reminded to remove all lights, ornaments and netting before bringing one to a Mulchfest site.

Bags will be provided for residents hoping to bring some mulch home.

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The start of a new year — especially when it kicks off a new decade — is usually a time of optimism, when a lot of people make personal resolutions, anticipate making the world a better place and plan for a happier future.

That’s not entirely the case this time around, if a small sampling of the borough’s senior citizens is a valid indication, with many doubting that their hopes will come to fruition in 2020.

Of utmost concern to many is the country’s political climate.

President Trump’s impeachment in the House of Representatives got East Elmhurst’s Melanie Lee thinking that she’d “like to see him removed — and quickly. We have a situation where the powerful in this country speak against certain ethnic groups, where a certain minority is used as a scapegoat to rally people.”

Lee alluded to the “separation of families,” and how “some of the kids have gotten sick and died and women have miscarried babies.”

The situation, she said, is reminiscent of some of the atrocities that took place in concentration camps in the 1940s.

Lee is dismayed that “so many people are supporting [Trump] stubbornly. They’re not

Judith Berman of Forest Hills, center, with her parents, Andrew and Ruth Spitz of Kew Gardens Hills. At right, Pamela Grey and Gene Friedman. The senior citizens are mostly not optimistic about COURTESY PHOTO, ABOVE; PHOTOS BY MARK LORD the state of politics and policy as the year 2020 arrives. looking at his behavior. I’m not sure if he will be impeached.”

Also among her wishes is “a better economy where people receive better wages and have a little extra for some fun.”

Indeed, she said, “Greed has become a

value in certain circles.” While feeling “overwhelmed,” she does not plan to give up. “We have to keep hope alive and be part of the solution,” she concluded.

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Openly sobbing, he added, “I was taken to a concentration camp. My only sin was I was Jewish.”

But he remains optimistic about the future, hoping that “the 21st century will bring mankind to its senses.” And he’s beginning to see signs that it’s happening, pointing to presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind. “It was unacceptable years ago for an openly gay man to run for president,” Spitz said.

“Now we accept it. There is definitely a change in the world.”

His daughter, Judith Berman of Forest Hills, continued on page 17

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continued from page 16 said she is alarmed and disheartened to see an increase in violence against Jews and seniors. I hope we can live in peace and safety.”

Not as optimistic as her father, Berman expects it will be “an uphill battle. There’s more disharmony and disparity, a lot of political and social distress.

“We’re trying to fight to make the world a better place,” she said. “Things are unraveling and imploding. We need leadership to bring people together.”

She would like to see people “really trying to respect each other and value life. We should try to help one another, not just look for what we can get.”

She looks forward to a world which will “not have ultra-rich and people dying in the streets,” suggesting that “by helping others we help ourselves.”

Similar thoughts were expressed by Debbie Vogel, a resident of Rego Park, who would like to see people learn from the past and forgive others.

She hopes the country “becomes a safer place and that children don’t have to fear there will be a shooting at their school. It’s far too easy for an unstable person to get a gun.”

It is unfortunate, she says, that “there’s too much greed and hate. I’d love it if the people in power would end the homeless problem, finding affordable housing and jobs for people in need.”

Pamela Grey of Forest Hills would like to see “a more civil tone in politics” and an end to what she considers the current administration’s penchant for “putting forth policies through negative tweets.”

Like Lee, she also ponders Trump’s future, saying, “I think he will not be removed from office by the Senate,” adding, “I believe the nation will come to its senses and defeat him in 2020.”

Rego Park resident Gene Friedman would like to see “peace on earth and love and harmony.” He would like to see “all parties get together and work to accomplish what they’re supposed to.”

One of the few individuals who spoke out in support of Trump, he said the ongoing efforts to remove him from office are because of “simple jealousy. Being a billionaire is not a crime. Jealousy is a sin. There are a lot of sinners.”

All his life, he said, he was a Democrat, but “now I can’t stand them [because of] the way they behave.”

But, he concluded, “I believe things are going to get bet ter,” suggesting that “nobody’s going to do it for us. All of us P together can do it.”

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2019

MID QUEENS: PART II

Community fights bus lane, shelter

CB 5 opposes both, while homeless discussions become heated

by David Russell Associate Editor

The second half of 2019 saw the Department of Transportation’s plan for a bus lane for Fresh Pond Road not well-received by many and Community Board 5 voted against it. The lane was implemented against the wishes of the advisory board. In late August came the announcement that the on-again, off-again situation with a proposed homeless shelter at 78-16 Cooper Ave. in Glendale was on again. The outraged community voiced its unhappiness at a town hall, a rally outside the site and at a public hearing, which was so raucous Mayor de Blasio addressed it the next morning. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was unveiled in Elmhurst Park in late December. It was the idea of former Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 32 President Pat Toro.

July The month of July saw more than 90,000 votes recounted for the district attorney Democratic primary with Borough President Melinda Katz looking to pull off a win against public defender Tiffany Cabán, who

was leading on election night. The votes were counted at Rentar Plaza in Middle Village.

Advocates called on the MTA to add a bus stop at the Ridgewood Reservoir, calling the location “impossible to reach by public transit.”

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The community mourned Monsignor McClancy Memorial High School alum Luis Alvarez. The 9/11 first responder, who testified before Congress several weeks earlier while sitting next to comedian Jon Stewart, died at the end of June at age 53 from illness related to being at the site of the attacks.

Community Board 5 voted 28-6 to reject a DOT plan for a bus lane on the southbound side of Fresh Pond Road from Bleecker Street

Community Board 5 Chairman Vincent Arcuri Jr. oversaw a raucous public hearing about the plan to build a homeless shelter at 78-16 Cooper Ave. FILE PHOTO in Glendale.

Councilman Bob Holden was critical of the Department of Transportation’s plan to implement a bus lane on Fresh Pond Road, believing that the agency should have instead taken recommendations from FILE PHOTO Community Board 5 on traffic-calming measures. to Putnam Avenue. The board later voted in favor of the DOT analyzing alternatives, including retiming traffic lights and consolidating bus stops. CB 5’s Transportation Committee voted in support of the project.

Later in the month, Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village), Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan (D-Long Island City) and area stakeholders held a press conference calling on the DOT to consider alternative measures before the “nuclear option,” as Holden called it, of installing the bus lane.

The lawmakers recommended creating turning lanes, consolidating bus stops, making the bus depot more accessible and adjusting traffic signal timing.

Holden and Juniper Park Civic Associat ion P r e sid e nt Tony Nu n z iat o, who replaced Holden in that post, disagreed about PS 9, a District 75 school located in the industrial section of Maspeth. Holden wanted the school to move, whereas Nunziato wanted planned upgrades for the school to continue. Nunziato said Holden “never noticed there was a school there until he became a councilman.” Holden said Nunziato was “totally wrong.”

August With all the votes tallied, Katz squeaked out a victory in the Democratic primary, winning by 55 votes. She had trailed by more than 1,000 at the end of Primary Night.

The Republicans found a candidate to go against Katz in November’s general election.

Former cop turned lawyer Joe Murray was tabbed to run.

The area once known as “Lake Edsall” was improved with the Department of Transportation and Department of Environmental Protection announcing the completion of work to alleviate ponding on the Glendale

avenue. “I do want to apologize to the homeowners because now you don’t have lakefront property anymore,” Holden joked.

The working homeless population housed at the Holiday Inn Express in Maspeth was removed, Holden announced, citing a conversation with Department of Homeless Services Steven Banks.

Holden and DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg exchanged letters with different views on the Fresh Pond Road bus lane.

Holden called the agency’s efforts to reach out to the community “window dressing” in a Facebook post.

Late in the month, Holden announced the DHS intended to move ahead with a homeless shelter for 200 single men at 78-16 Cooper Ave. after years of going back and forth.

The lawmaker said he was “disgusted with the way City Hall does business when it comes to housing the homeless.”

The city Parks Department was caught on video dumping a truckload of slime and garbage in Forest Park. Passersby noticed tank trucks spewing liquid waste on the ground in a little-used section of the park. “This was not hazardous waste,” a department spokeswoman told CBS. Later, nearly all traces of the mess had been cleaned up and a paved section of the ground hosed down.

The Brooklyn-bound, second span of the Kosciuszko Bridge opened and was accomplished four years ahead of schedule and on budget. The two-span Kosciuszko was the first major bridge crossing built in the city since the Ver razzano-Nar rows Bridge opened in 1964.

September A four-year, $101 million sewer project for Maspeth was slated to begin. “They owe us a good one,” Holden said. Maria Centeno,

executive director of the city’s Department of Design and Construction, said “This is not typical work,” during an informational session at IS 73. “This is really intense.”

Lawmakers and hospital staff celebrated NYC Health + Hospitals Elmhurst’s new Ambulatory Surgery Center with a groundbreaking at the site.

Jose Polanco, a 59-year-old construction worker, fell to his death in Elmhurst after a truck hit the cherry picker he was working in.

Polanco fell nearly 20 feet to the ground.

Maspeth High School became involved in controversy when former teachers told the New York Post an unwritten “no-fail policy” was the reason for the impressive grades the school received, as well as the prestigious National Blue Ribbon. Holden initially wrote to the special commissioner of investigation for the city schools but later went to the Post and acting District Attorney John Ryan with the allegations. Holden didn’t like the idea of the SCI investigating the school, saying “That’s the fox watching the hen house to me.”

A town hall meeting at PS/IS 119 about the proposed Cooper Avenue homeless shelter was so crowded that residents had to line the walls, sit in auxiliary bleachers and even watch from the stage behind the speakers as politicians criticized the plan. Holden blamed “the poverty pimps. The people that make money, so-called not-for-profits, off of homeless shelters, which is big business in the City of New York.”

Queens Supreme Court Justice Joseph Esposito threw out a lawsuit from the Fresh Pond Road Coalition, ruling that the city’s installation of a bus lane on Fresh Pond Road was neither arbitrary nor capricious. Esposito had toured the site days before his ruling.

Parents at Maspeth High School supported the school in the wake of widespread cheating allegations during a meeting of the Parent Teacher Association. One mother, whose son is a junior, said, “I’ve never seen a school so well run,” to applause from other parents.

October A public hearing about the shelter was raucous and included one speaker saying, “I hope somebody’s gonna burn the place down.” The meeting, which saw residents screaming over speakers as well as representatives from the city and service-provider Westhab, was so wild that Mayor de Blasio tweeted about it the next morning. “This kind of vitriol and demonization of our neighbors is dangerous and we won’t stand for it,” he said. “There are people in need of safe and humane shelter in our city. We’re going to take care of them whether hateful voices like it or not.”

CB 5 voted unanimously to reject the planned homeless shelter during its monthly meeting. Some speakers were critical of the recent public hearing, with one person saying the language was reminiscent of Jim Crow. continued on page 30

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World’s Fair artifacts draw newcomers and the nostalgic

All these years later, they still come — to discover, to relive, to wax nostalgic.

The Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, site of two World’s Fairs, has on display more than 900 artifacts representing both, part of an overall collection of more than 10,000 pieces.

And, on a recent Sunday afternoon, a slow but steady stream of visitors passed through the exhibit, pointing to a familiar keepsake, taking selfies

in front of a display case and leaving, no doubt, with at least a slight sense of what visitors to the fairs might have experienced.

The events were designed, in part, to promote future innovations and international unity. Each had its own theme: “The World of Tomorrow” for the first, held in 1939-40, and “Peace Through Understanding” for the second, in 1964-65.

The earlier one is perhaps best remembered today for its architectural symbols, the Trylon and Perisphere, which seemingly appear on every sou-

venir of the period. It was for the second fair air that a 140-foot-high steel globe, now an iconic totem, was built. built The Unisphere proudly nisphere stands pro d just a few yards the museum. ds from th The current display, tucked unobtrusively in one corner of the museum, was inaugurated in 2013, providing visitors an opportunity to view items formerly off-limits to the public, mementos that inspire reflection on the utopian visions imagined during the original events.

Among the visitors last weekend was a high school English teacher from

Florida, Arleen Dowd, Dowd a diehard World’s FFair aficionado. A selfdescribed “junker,” Dowd visit s d antique shops in search of more fair memorabilia to add to her 50-piece collection. She was “thrilled to see these things and know that they’re treasured.”

She shares her enthusiasm with her students, working the Trylon and Perisphere into her literature lessons. “You can give kids a symbol and they will personalize it,” she said.

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Info: (718) 392-0722, secrettheatre.com.

“A Piece of Yourself: Gift Giving in Self-Taught Art,” with one-of-a-kind works from the 18th to 21st centuries presented as gifts with an immediate and personal nature. Through Fri., Jan. 10, American Folk Art Museum’s Self-Taught Genius Gallery, 47-29 32 Place, Long Island City. Free. Info: (212) 595-9533, folkartmuseum.org.

“A Charlie Brown Christmas,” a family-friendly musical based on the beloved 1965 animated special about the holiday’s true spirit, featuring “Christmas Time is Here.” Thu.-Sat. Jan. 2-4, 7 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 4, 3 p.m., The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $22; $25 at door; kids under 17 $12.50; $15 at door. Info: (718) 392-0722, secrettheatre.com.

“Weather the Weather,” with works by two dozen artists examining the “expression of the true force of nature,” via the SciArt Initiative. Through Fri., Jan. 10, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students.

Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

AUDITIONS Douglaston Community Theatre for the comedy “Social Security,” with men and women ages 40s90s sought. Tue., Jan. 14 and Thu., Jan. 16, 7:30 p.m., Zion Episcopal Church, Church Street off Douglaston Pkwy., 243-01 Northern Blvd. Info: Gary, (347) 4896216, dougcommtheatre@optonline.net.

“Outs & Ins,” with works by Sarah Palmer exploring human and environmental vulnerability with recontextualized nudes, portraits, catalog images and more. Through Sat., Jan. 11, Mrs., 60-40 56 Drive, Maspeth. Free. Info: (347) 8416149, mrsgallery.com.

“GingerBread Lane 2019,” the new edition of the world’s largest gingerbread village, with every single element edible, created by Queens chef Jon Lovitch; with make-your-own workshops on select days.

Through Sun., Jan. 12, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $20; $15 seniors, kids, students with ID (workshops extra).

Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

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Artist Co-op 2019, with paintings, sculptures, mixed media works and more by 12 emerging and mid-career Queens and NYC artists. Through Sat., Jan. 25, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 16104 Jamaica Ave. Free (donations welcome). Info: (718) 658-7400, jcal.org.

“Connected Worlds,” an interactive digital experience revealing the connections between environments and how one’s actions have widespread impact on them.

On permanent display, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $20; $15 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

FILE PHOTO “The Search for Life Beyond Earth,” an interactive experience likening extreme environments on Earth to those on other celestial bodies such as Mars, Europa and Titan, as well as places outside the Solar System, and addressing the requirements for life. On permanent exhibit, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $20; $15 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

“Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 19912011,” with more than 300 works in various media

Jackknife Comedy, the monthly show “hosted by two dummies from Iowa,” Gideon Hambright, left, and Patrick Hastie, features a lineup of eight comics this Saturday at The Creek and The Cave in Long Island City. See Comedy.

PHOTO COURTESY JACKKNIFE COMEDY by 80 artists, many based in Iraq or its diasporas, on the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the sanctions that followed and the 2003 Iraq War. Through Sun., March 1, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City.

Free with admission: $10; $5 students; free kids under 17. Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org.

Jazz Jam, the monthly event led by saxophonist Carol Sudhalter, with all musicians and vocalists welcome to join in. Wed., Jan. 8, 7-10 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. Free to play or sing; $10 to listen; free students. Info: (718) 4637700, flushingtownhall.org.

“The Art of the Brick,” the world’s largest display of Lego art, with more than 100 original sculptures and others derived from known works, by Nathan Sawaya, plus interactive brick building challenges, games and a free play area. Through Sun., Jan. 26, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. $7 plus admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

FILM

Jason Green, with the guitar virtuoso playing in genres such as bluegrass, blues, jazz, Latin, swing and more. Sat., Jan. 4, 2 p.m., Resorts World Casino Bar360, 110-00 Rockaway Blvd., South Ozone Park.

Free. Info: 1 (888) 888-8801, rwnewyork.com.

Beethoven’s 250th birthday with Longleash, with the new music trio performing piano works by the master composer and contemporary responses; part of the Five Boroughs Music Festival. Fri., Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $25; $15 seniors; $10 students; free teens. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

Jackknife Comedy, a standup show with multiple comics performing. Sat., Jan. 4 (and each first Sat. of the month), 8 p.m., The Creek and The Cave, 10-93 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. $5. Info: (718) 7068783, creeklic.com.

TOURS/HIKES Onderdonk House Candlelight Tours, with the historic home decorated for the holidays, mulled cider, treats and an area musician performing. Sat., Jan. 4, 6-9 p.m., 1820 Flushing Ave., Ridgewood. $10 adults. Info: (718) 456-1776, onderdonkhouse.org.

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MUSIC The Con Brio Ensemble Twilight Concert, with violinist Alexander Meshibovsky, soprano Osceola Davis, clarinetist Gary Dranch and pianist Diana Mittler-Battipaglia performing works by Spohr, Beethoven, Debussy and more. Sun., Jan. 5, 4:306:30 p.m., The Church-in-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills. $12; $10 seniors, students. Info: (718) 459-1277, conbrioensemble.org.

COMEDY

“Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé,” the 2019 documentary directed by the pop culture star, on her “instantly legendary” performance at the 2018 Coachella music festival, with editor Alexander Hammer in person. Fri., Jan. 3, 7 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes museum admission. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

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This is America: Three Short Films, with “Easter Snap,” “Ghosts of Sugar Land” and “America,” all 2019 independent digital projection films about certain aspects of society. Sun., Jan. 5, 6:30 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes museum admission. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

THEATRE “The 8th,” a drama about an Irish family in mourning and arguing about how their father

Puppetry Workshops: Shadow Journeys, with Chinese Theatre Works artists teaching the ancient medium of shadow puppetry and students performing a short production. Wed.Thu., Jan. 8-9; Wed., Jan. 15, 6 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $15 each session; $10 students; free teens; $30 all 3 sessions; $20 students; free teens. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

COURTESY PHOTO Open Studio: Painting with Stencils, a monthly drop-in program with kids 2-11 and their families making art, this time with paint. Sun., Jan. 5 (and each first Sun. of the month), 11 a.m.-1 p.m., The Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City.

Free with admission: $10; $5 seniors, students; NYC HS students, kids under 12 free. Info: (718) 2047088, noguchi.org. continued on page 25

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by Andrew Benjamin qboro contributor

Queens has been even brighter than usual this holiday season.

Citi Field is home for the inaugural Hello Panda Festival, which began on Dec. 6 and runs through Jan. 26. It promotes itself as the “largest lantern festival in North America.”

In addition to large, colorful lantern displays, the festival has modern art exhibits, interactive games, cultural arts and handicrafts, a holiday market, live stage performances, music performances and international cuisine.

Lantern festivals originated in China and are celebrated annually there. The lanterns

Hello Panda Festival When: Through Sun., Jan. 26, 5-10 p.m.

Where: Citi Field, 41 Seaver Way, Flushing Meadows Corona Park Entry: $22-$90, parking $25.

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are supposed to bring good fortune to people as well as symbolize putting the past behind and welcoming a new future. Festivals have been held in Atlanta, San Francisco, Phoenix and many other cities and countries around the world.

“The growing popularity of lantern festivals is due to the role of social media in today’s world,” said Winston Wang, general manager of Chinese Performing Arts of America, which is producing the festival.

“Our Hello Panda Festival has been designed to stir the senses and inspire imaginations.”

Many of the lanterns are designed as animals such as pandas, seahorses and peacocks. The festival also embraced Christmas with a lantern display of Santa on a train and Christmas tree lanterns.

The exhibition has six heated tents for visitors who are not fans of the cold. For the environmentally conscious, all the lights are LED-based.

“Hello Panda Festival is joyful in winter,” Wang said. “It’s a one-stop shop here. We will make it a new holiday tradition.”

The festival features six different

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Hello Panda Festival lights up Citi Field

The Hello Panda Festival introduces Citi Field visitors to ancient Chinese art and culturCOURTESY PHOTO al traditions. theme parks: Dream World, Holiday Wonderland, Discovery Zone, Interactive Music Zone, Sports World and Community Interactive Zone.

Chongren Fan, deputy general manager of CPAA North America, said the lantern festival looks to “seamlessly blend tradition, continued on page 25

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Want a laugh in Queens? Go west, young man

by Michael Gannon Editor

If you have the holiday blues — or even if you don’t — there are folks in western Queens who will do about anything to make you start the new year with a laugh.

QED at 27-16 23 Ave. in Astoria and The Creek and The Cave at 10-93 Jackson Ave. in Long Island City offer just about full calendars of eclectic comedy shows and performances for varying tastes.

“In 2006, I developed a tagline and marketing campaign for a comedy club: ‘Life’s Tough. Laugh More,’” said Kambri Crews, owner of QED, in an email to the Chronicle.

“Little did I know that it would be more true today than ever before.”

Upcoming events at QED include “Nerd is the New Black” at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 4, followed at 9:30 p.m. by “The Dirty Show,” which is rated R according to the club’s website.

The cafe also has more than a dozen open mic nights at which paying guests looking to test their comic stylings can take the stage, including “Rage Blooms Within Me” on Jan. 5 for those looking to channel their inner Lewis Black.

Wednesday, Jan. 8 will feature an Open Riff Night when one can purchase tickets to watch and riff on some of the worst movies that Hollywood or anyone else ever committed to celluloid with actor and comedy writer Frank Conniff, best known as TV’s Frank on “Mystery Science Theater 3000.”

Saturday, Jan. 11 features “QED Presents — All-Star Comedy Lineup” featuring national headliners and up-and-coming acts beginning at 9:30 p.m.

The Creek and The Cave regularly has Creek Cave Live with its top performers.

Jackknife Comedy, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 4, features the observations of “Two Dummies from Iowa,” preceded at 4 p.m. by “Bonus Round,” an open mic competition hosted by Adam Suzan which proudly offers absolutely no prizes whatsoever!

Other open mic performances include the “Church of Jokes” at 6 p.m. on Jan. 5 and “Saved by the Light” at 6 p.m. on Jan. 6.

“After Party Open Mic” at 11 p.m. on Jan. 3 and “Keep Clapping” at 4 p.m. on Jan. 5 offer standups a chance to work on material, flesh out their routines and get feedback.

Ever see improv comics work their way through a fantasy board game? Wiliams-

burg and Wyveri are set for 7 p.m. Jan. 5.

And just which Wahlberg brother is the worst? The answer to this and other questions just might be settled by the intellectual, ethical jury of “Kangaroo Court,” which convenes at 10 p.m. on Jan. 8.

Information on The Creek and The Cave’s

slate of events is available online at creeklic. com. Further information is available by phone at (917) 806-6692.

QED also has a number of classes, workshops and other offerings. Details can be found online at qedastoria.com. QED can be Q reached by phone at (347) 451-3837.

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Performers at The Creek and The Cave, above, and QED make western Queens a destiPHOTO COURTESY THE CREEK AND THE CAVE nation location for those looking for a good laugh.

Frederick Safka, the 22-year-old son of Ukrainian immigrants, married Pauline (though everyone called her Polly) Altomare, 20, the daughter of an Italian fabricpattern cutter, in 1946.

A year later, on Feb. 3, a baby girl they named Melanie — named for Frederick’s mother, Melainia — was born. The new family moved into a beautiful English Tudor building at 48-17 39 Place in Sunnyside, on a dead-end block where it would be safe for kids to play.

Polly, a singer, eagerly entered her 4-year-old daughter in a talent-contest radio show called “Live Like a Million- The childhood home of folk rock singer Melaaire” in 1951. A few years later, they left nie at 48-17 39 Place in Sunnyside, as it looks today. for the suburbs of Red Bank, NJ. With her mothers’ encouragement, Her hit song “Lay Down (Candle in the Melanie sang and wrote music. In 1968, the young girl married record producer Peter Rain)” about performing at Woodstock gave Schekeryk. Together, they made a momen- her worldwide recognition. More hits followed. tous, show business decision.

Melanie’s original home in Sunnyside She dropped her maiden and married names from the marquee and became known looks as beautiful today as it did when she Q was a little girl. simply as “ Melanie.”

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

The 2019 Mets bullpen was a FEMA disaster area thanks to Edwin Diaz’s blown saves and Jeurys Familia’s setup failures. While there’s no guarantee that former Yankee Dellin Betances, who signed a $10 million, one-year contract (there is a player option for a second year) with the Mets on Christmas Eve, will be the pitcher he was before injuries caused him to miss practically all of last season, you can’t blame Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen for rolling the dice on him.

Earlier last month the Mets re-signed veteran reliever Brad Brach, who pitched well for them in 2019, to a one-year contract with a player option for 2021. “I hope to pitch for either the Mets or the Phillies next season since I’m from Freehold” (which is also Bruce Springsteen’s hometown and is located almost exactly between New York and Philadelphia). “I want to make sure that my family and friends get lots of chances to see me pitch before the end of my career,” he told me last September.

Yes, you can criticize the Mets for eschewing big-ticket free agents such as new Yankees pitching ace Gerrit Cole but you can’t fault them for not matching the five-year, $118 million contract that the Philadelphia Phillies lavished upon former Mets starter Zack Wheeler who became a free agent at the end of the 2019 season.

Wheeler is good but he’s not that good. I never heard a fan say “I have to get to Citi Field tonight because Zack Wheeler is pitching.”

In a bid to bolster his team’s starting pitching, Van Wagenen is investing in the talents of a pair of a reclamation projects, Michael Wacha and Rick Porcello. Wacha was always a smart starting pitcher with the St. Louis Cardinals while Porcello has enjoyed a good career until 2019 when he turned in a miserable season with the Boston Red Sox. His timing couldn’t have been worse because it was in his walk year.

Van Wagenen had no choice but to sign them because the Mets minor league system is so barren when it comes to pitching. The organization finally gave up on perennial minor league prospect Chris Flexen, who would always get shelled by hitters when he was called up from the minors. Flexen was released last month and he signed to play in a South Korean professional baseball league.

Developing starting pitching has long been the lifeblood of the organization. While no one expects a Tom Seaver, Dwight Gooden or Jacob deGrom to resurface, our Flushing heroes have to do better than what they’ve been producing the last few years. Keep an eye on southpaw David Peterson, the 2017 first-round draft Q choice, who will start 2020 in Triple-A. See the extended version of Sports Beat every week at qchron.com.

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Discovering the World’s Fairs — or reliving them continued from page 19 her personal pieces, a small compact, wondering if another of its kind would be on display. Seeing none, she began to consider donating it to the museum at a future date, along with some other prized possessions.

Accompanying Dowd was Astoria-born Robert Mirabella, who now lives in Las Vegas and remembers going to the ’64 fair with his parents.

“The thing that stands out for me were the Belgian waffles; they were delicious,” he said. He also remembers the fair being “huge, very crowded.” Some of the encased items brought back memories, including a miniature replica of the U.S. Royal Tires dis-

World’s Fair collection When: On permanent display Where: Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park Entry: $8 suggested; $4 seniors; free students, kids.

Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org

play, designed as a working Ferris wheel. “I had forgotten,” Mirabella said.

Many of Sunday’s visitors were learning about the fairs. Among them were East Elmhurst resident Yomiara Calderon and her two young children, along with relatives on vacation from their home in Spain.

And 3-year-old Andrew from Rockaway seemed fixated on some of the antiques on display, particularly drawn to an upright typewriter and train car.

But nostalgia was the order of the day, with a couple from Whitestone falling under its spell. They remembered attending the fair as young daters.

“We went together,” Mickey Seeley said.

“One or two times we paid, and we fre-

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Enthusiasts of all ages check out a panorama of the 1964-65 World’s Fair at the Queens Museum. Among those enjoying the memorabilia on display are Arleen Dowd of Florida, left, and Andrew, 3, of Rockaway. On the cover: Leslie and Mickey Seeley recall their trips PHOTOS BY MARK LORD to the fair as teens — who did not pay for entry on quite every visit. quently snuck in.”

Watching a newsreel of the fair, hoping to spot herself, Leslie Seeley could repeatedly be heard saying, “It was a good time.”

She lamented the feeling that “the care-

free times are gone for the kids today. You could be by yourself; your parents didn’t have to worry about someone harming you.

You look at all the World’s Fair stuff and you Q think, ‘Gee, I wish it were back then.’“

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Citation File No. 2019-4501 SURROGATE’S COURT, QUEENS COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: The heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of Evelyn Perinciolo, deceased, If living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names and addresses are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence; Public Administrator of Queens County. A petition having been duly filed by Carol Bush who is/are domiciled at 901 Seafarer Circle, Apt. 503, Jupiter, FL. 33477. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, at Jamaica, New York, on January 23, 2020, at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Evelyn Perinciolo lately domiciled at 70-18 165th Street, Flushing, New York 11365, United States, admitting to probate a Will dated December 16, 2008 (and Codicil(s), if any, dated a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Evelyn Perinciolo deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that: Letters Testamentary issue to Carol Bush. Dated, Attested and Sealed, November 29, 2019.

Hon. Peter J. Kelly, Surrogate, Peter J. Kelly, chief Clerk Donna Furey, Law Office of Donna Furey (347) 448-2549, 44-14 Broadway, Astoria, New York 11103 Email: dfurey@fureylaw.net NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested.

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Action to Foreclose a Mortgage Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Supreme Court Of The State Of New York County Of Queens INDEX #: 718322/2018 MTGLQ Investors, LP Plaintiff, vs Diane Hendrix As Heir To The Estate Of Roosevelt Dickerson, Unknown Heirs As Heir To The Estate Of Roosevelt Dickerson If Living, And If He/She Be Dead, Any And All Persons Unknown To Plaintiff, Claiming, Or Who May Claim To Have An Interest In, Or General Or Specific Lien Upon The Real Property Described In This Action; Such Unknown Persons Being Herein Generally Described And Intended To Be Included In Wife, Widow, Husband, Widower, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assignees Of Such Deceased, Any And All Persons Deriving Interest In Or Lien Upon, Or Title To Said Real Property By, Through Or Under Them, Or Either Of Them, And Their Respective Wives, Widows, Husbands, Widowers, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assigns, All Of Whom And Whose Names, Except As Stated, Are Unknown To Plaintiff, People Of The State Of New York, United States Of America Acting Through The IRS, New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau, LT8900 Capital Corp., John Doe (Those unknown tenants, occupants, persons or corporations or their heirs, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors claiming an interest in the mortgaged premises.)

Defendant(s). Mortgaged Premises: 133-26 231st Street, Springfield Gardens, NY 11413 BL #: 12970 – 42 To the Above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Queens. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. TO Unknown Heirs Defendant In this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. David Elliot of the Supreme Court Of The State Of New York, dated the Twentieth day of December, 2019 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, in the City of Jamaica. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below dated April 23, 2007, executed by Michael A. Speller and Roosevelt Dickerson (who died on August 21, 2010, a resident of the county of Queens, State of New York) to secure the sum of $295,000.00. The Mortgage was recorded at CRFN 2007000519347 in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County on October 15, 2007. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed May 16, 2011 and recorded on June 2, 2011, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County at CRFN 2011000196122.

The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed May 13, 2015 and recorded on March 1, 2018, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County at CRFN 2018000072689. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed September 6, 2018 and recorded on September 12, 2018, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County at CRFN 2018000304914. The property in question is described as follows: 133-26 231ST STREET, SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, NY 11413 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: December 20, 2019 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s), 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100, Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 67347

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS INDEX NO. 713463/2017 Plaintiff designates QUEENS as the place of trial situs of the real property Mortgaged Premises: 10406 212TH STREET, QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11429, District: Section: Block: 10922 Lot: 15 NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff, vs. T.T. MINOR CHILD AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF RALPH H. THOMPSON, JR, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF RALPH H. THOMPSON, JR any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; NRG RESIDENTIAL SOLAR SOLUTIONS LLC; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $480,000.00 and interest, recorded on July 16, 2013, at Liber 2013000280231 Page, of the Public Records of QUEENS County, New York, covering premises known as 10406 212TH STREET QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11429. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

QUEENS County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF, (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: November 6, 2019, RAS BORISKIN, LLC, Attorney for Plaintiff, MATTHEW ROTHSTEIN, ESQ., 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, NY 11590, 516-280-7675

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LECTURES/TALKS Al Ronzoni Jr. — Coming to America, with the great-grandson of the founder of the Ronzoni pasta company on his family’s journey from Italy to America and success, followed by celebration of the La Bella Italia organization’s first anniversary. Sun., Jan. 12, 1-5 p.m., Christ the King High School CNL Center (door #10), 68-02 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village. $25.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Three Stories / A Performance Reading by David Houston, with the actor and writer presenting three tales by the Nobel laureate: “Gimpel the Fool,” “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” and “Alone.” Mon., Jan. 6, 1-2:15 p.m., North Hills Library, 57-04 Marathon Pkwy., Little Neck. Free. Info: (718) 225-3550, queenslibrary.org.

Poetry Slam with Mark Weiss, with the author of six books of poetry including “The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry” giving a recital after an open mic session; part of the First Tuesdays Neighborhood Reading Series. Tue., Jan. 7, 7-9 p.m., Espresso 77, 35-57 77 St., Jackson Heights. $5. Info: Richard Jeffrey Newman, (718) 757-6934, firsttuesdays.net.

COURTESY PHOTO Kids Spelling Bee, with children competing in age groups for grades 3-4, 5-6 and 7-8 (must be in those grades in the 2020 school year), winners to participate in a Queens Library systemwide competition. Mon., Jan. 6, 3-4 p.m., Cambria Heights Library, 218-13 Linden Blvd. (718) 528-3535, queenslibrary.org.

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Korean for Beginners, with students learning to read and speak some of the language in a recurring program for teens and adults at two locations. First classes Wed., Jan. 8, 6:30-8 p.m., Flushing Library, 41-17 Main St.; or Wed., Jan. 15, 4-5:30 p.m., McGoldrick Library, 155-06 Roosevelt Ave., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 6611200 (Flushing); (718) 461-1616 (McGoldrick), queenslibrary.org.

Family & Friends CPR training, with members of the Glen Oaks Volunteer Ambulance Corps teaching the lifesaving skills of handsonly CPR, for those 14 and up. Fri., Jan. 10, 6-8 p.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 224-75 76 Ave., Oakland Gardens (new address). $5.

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SPECIAL EVENTS “Latin/Caribbean Silent Disco,” Quiet Events returns for a night of Caribbean and Latin dancing, where you can choose among three DJs and adjust the volume on your headphones, with an instructor teaching salsa dance moves. Sat.Sun., Jan. 11-12, 10 p.m.-3:00 a.m., Katch Astoria, 28-19 31 St., Long Island City, various prices.

Info: 1-(800) 833-9281, quietevents.com.

Hello Panda Festival, a cultural extravaganza with more than 120 lantern exhibits, 60 food vendors, live performances, art, crafts, games, heated tents and more. Daily through Sun., Jan. 26, 5-10 p.m., Citi Field parking lot, 41 Seaver Way, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $25-$28; $22-$25 kids, seniors, military; free kids under 4; $ 80-$90 family; $90 season pass. Info: (718) 886-8158, hellopandafest.com.

CLUBS Scrabble Club, with participants bringing their own Scrabble sets to play the popular word game. Each Fri., 10:15 a.m.-12 p.m., Glen Oaks Library, 256-04 Union Tpke. Free. Info: (718) 831-8636, queenslibrary.org.

King Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1 Big fish story?

5 Chart 8 Chow -12 Reverberate 13 Commotion 14 Loosen 15 Sense 16 Result of canonization 18 Liberty 20 Supermarket section 21 Fellow 22 Former M&Ms color 23 O. Henry’s specialty 26 Realm 30 Distant 31 Compete 32 Rage 33 Hollywood hope 36 140-character message 38 Conger, e.g.

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by Burr 6 First 21-Across 7 Luau dish 8 Cutting the volume 9 Tackles’ teammates 10 ”American --” 11 Alaskan city

Hello Panda Festival continued from page 21 innovation and creativity.”

Visitors can also come to the extravaganza on an empty stomach and indulge in the various food vendors. Chinese, Mexican,

Knit & Crochet Club, with participants meeting up to share techniques and patterns and bringing their own supplies. Each Fri., 10:30 a.m., Howard Beach Library, 92-06 156 Ave. Free. Info: (718) 641-7086, queenslibrary.org.

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36 Pitch 37 Mechanic’s tool 39 Layered ice cream treat 40 Crazes 41 On 42 Genealogy display 43 Match in the ring 44 ”Over hill, over - ...”

45 Ellipse 46 Fix 48 ”CSI” evidence

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Italian and Thai are among the many cultural foods you can have.

Some of the reviews on Tripadvisor were as glowing as the displays.

“My husband and I took our 12 and 14 year old granddaughters to the Citi Field Panda Festival last night and we couldn’t have had a more wonderful experience,” wrote one woman. “From the time we approached the parking lot (and yes, parking is $25) we were able to see the magnificent colored lights and structures.”

“The lighting display is absolutely fabulous,” wrote another. “The entire display are lantern lighting and feature different Q animal I.e. lion, giraffe and dinosaurs.”

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Singles Social & Dance, with the music of DJ Andrew Forman and refreshments. Sun., Jan. 5, 2-6 p.m., Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd. $10. Info: (718) 459-1000, rpjc.org.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES Howard Beach Senior Center, with exercise classes every weekday except Thu., varying times; dances with a DJ and hot lunch every Tue., 12-3 p.m.; art classes every Thu., 9:30-11:30 a.m., 12:30-2:30 p.m.; intro to sign language every Fri., 10-11:30 a.m.; karaoke every Wed., 1-3 p.m.; monthly book club; and more, 155-55 Crossbay Blvd. Info: (718) 738-8100.

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Native American Pottery and Archaeology: Queens 400 Years Ago, with students connecting clay and potter y techniques with history in both English and Spanish, and making their own works to take home.

Sat., Jan. 11, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Corona Library, 38-23 104 St. Free. Info: (718) 4262844, (718) 939-0647, queenslibrar y.org, queenshistoricalsociety.org.

Live Drawing with Models, for those 18 and over, with a nude model, music and nonjudgmental environment. Mon., Jan. 13, 6-9 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $16; $10 students; free teens. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

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LEGAL NOTICE BY PUBLICATION is hereby given to Ahmad Bostani a/k/a Arman Rezayar Bostani a/k/a Ahmad Reza Bostani a/k/a Ahmadreza Bostani (collectively referred to as “Bostani”), of an action commenced in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Queens, entitled Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company v. Islam, et al., Index No. 702988/2015, the object of which is, among other things, to recover damages against defendant Bostani in an amount of no less than $430,000.00 and expenses in an amount of no less than $7,288.01, plus interest from the date of April 14, 2014, costs, disbursements and expenses, for his role in the improper transfer of a certain piece of real property and for failure to repay a loan in a principal amount of $472,000.00 borrowed by Bostani in connection with said transfer of real property.

Pursuant to its obligations under a policy of title insurance, plaintiff Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company (“Commonwealth”) paid the above sum and incurred the above expenses to quiet title to the property. Legal Notice by Publication is further given that on January 20, 2017, the Court granted default judgment against defendant Mohammed Islam (“Islam”) as to liability only, and that on October 25, 2017, the Court granted default judgment against defendant Bostani as to liability only, and that on February 27, 2018, the Court held an Inquest on the issue of damages. Legal Notice

by Publication is further given that upon the Affirmation of Adam B. Kaplan, Esq., dated October 10, 2019, Affidavit of Anthony R. Medina, Esq., dated October 9, 2019, and upon all of the pleadings and proceedings, Plaintiff will move the Court before the Hon. Pam B. Jackman Brown, J.S.C., at the New York Supreme Court, Queens County, Courtroom 44A, located at 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York 11435, on Monday, February 3, 2020 at 9:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for entry of an Order awarding damages to Plaintiff in the amount of $437,288.01, or in the alternative, scheduling this case for a second Inquest as to damages. Pursuant to CPLR 2214(b), answering papers must be served upon the undersigned at least seven days before the return date of this motion. If Judgment is entered against you for the relief that Commonwealth demands, the Sheriff may seize your money, wages, property or other assets to pay all or part of the Judgment.

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STATE OF NEW YORK, SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF SCHENECTADY, SUMMONS WITH NOTICE Index No.: MAT2019-191, Filed 05/28/2019, 9:02:54 AM, County Clerk Cara M. Ackerley, Schenectady County, NY, Inst Num: 201923143, Naromattie Ganpat, Plaintiff, -against- Rajesh Sukhram, Defendant. ACTION TO ANNUL A MARRIAGE AND/OR ACTION FOR DIVORCE, To the Above Named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED TO RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS and to the requests for relief made by the Plaintiff by serving a written Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney, at the address stated below.

If this Summons with Notice was served upon you within the State of New York by personal delivery, you must respond WITHIN 20 DAYS after service, exclusive of the day of service. If this Summons with Notice was not personally delivered to you within the State of New York you must respond WITHIN 30 DAYS after service is complete in accordance with the requirements of the Civil Practice Law and Rules.

NOTICE: The objective of this action is to obtain a Judgment annulling the marriage between the parties upon the ground of fraud in the inducement and/or to obtain a Judgment of Divorce upon the ground that the relationship between Plaintiff and Defendant has broken down irretrievably for a period of at least six months, pursuant to Domestic Relations Law Section § 170(7). THE RELIEF SOUGHT BY THE PLAINTIFF IN THIS ACTION IS AN ANNULMENT OF THE MARRIAGE AND/OR A JUDGMENT DIVORCING THE PARTIES AND DISSOLVING THE MARITAL RELATIONSHIP, WHICH HAS HERETOFORE EXISTED. PLAINTIFF ALSO REQUESTS THAT SUCH JUDGMENT GRANT THE FOLLOWING ITEMS OF ADDITIONAL AND ANCILLARY RELIEF: Granting either party the right to resume the use of any prior surname or maiden name; and Awarding Plaintiff such other and further relief as to the court may seem just and proper, together with the costs and disbursements of this action. There are no known assets subject to equitable distribution.

Pursuant to Domestic Relations Law § 255, effective October 9, 2009, notice is hereby given that once the judgment of divorce is signed, a party hereto may or may not be eligible to be covered under the other party’s health insurance plan, depending on the terms of the plan.

IN THE EVENT THAT YOU FAIL TO APPEAR OR ANSWER, JUDGMENT WILL BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU, by default, for the relief demanded in this Summons with Notice. The relief sought is an annulment of the marriage and/or a judgment of absolute divorce in favor of the Plaintiff dissolving the marriage between the parties in thls action. AND any other relief the court deems fit and proper. Dated Schenectady, New York, May 16, 2019, [signed] Wayne P. Smith, Attorney for Plaintiff, 157 Barrett Street, Schenectady, New York 12305, (518) 393-1371.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT QUEENS COUNTY WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, DOING BUSINESS AS CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR BCAT 2015-13BTT, Plaintiff against RASEL PETTER, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered October 31, 2019, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at the Queens County Supreme Court, Courtroom #25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435 on January 10, 2020 at 10:30 AM. Premises known as 99-23 215th Street, Queens Village, NY 11429. Block 11089 Lot 7. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Fourth Ward of the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $512,495.47 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 710013/2018.

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Notice of Formation of 33RD STREET LIC, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/27/2019. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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KRISTINA LUCIA TEDDY BEARS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/30/2019. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 3515 80 Street, Unit 41, Jackson Heights, NY 11372.

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Notice of Formation of AI HOME WORKS, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/04/2019.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Index No. 709804/2019 Date Filed: 12/4/2019 Bank of America, N.A., Plaintiff, -againstGeraldine Bennett a/k/a Geraldine A. Bennett, if she be living or if she be dead, her spouses, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; City of New York Environmental Control Board; City of New York Parking Violations Bureau; City of New York Transit Adjudication Bureau; State of New York; and “JOHN DOE”, said name being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, and any parties, corporations or entities, if any, having or claiming an interest or lien upon the mortgaged premises, Defendants. PROPERTY ADDRESS: 211-24 93rd Avenue, Queens Village, NY 11428 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Robert J. McDonald, a Justice of the Supreme Court, entered Dec. 3, 2019 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Queens County Clerk’s Office.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $300,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Queens County Office of the City Register on April 23, 2008, in CRFN 2008000163506 covering premises known as 211-24 93rd Avenue, Queens Village, NY 11428 a/k/a Block 10554, Lot 70. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above, Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: November 4, 2019, Frank M. Cassara, Esq., Senior Associate Attorney, SHAPIRO, DICARO & BARAK, LLC, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard, Rochester, New York 14624, (585) 247-9000 Fax: (585) 247-7380 our File No. 19-080591 #98104

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Mid-Queens in ’19 continued from page 18 Former Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley touted a plan to revive the Long Island Rail Road’s Lower Montauk branch, running 8.5 miles between Long Island City and Jamaica. Crowley, chairwoman of the board for the nonprofit advocacy group Friends of the QNS, believes the stretch of train tracks that hasn’t been used in more than 20 years is the answer to the question of commuting in certain transit deserts.

November Katz won the general election for district attorney, easily defeating Murray. The borough president garnered 75 percent of the vote against the Republican candidate.

The Glendale-Middle Village Coalition and other community members gathered at 78-16 Cooper Ave. to demonstrate their opposition to the proposed shelter. Rally leader Mike Papa said it was about defending the community, families and way of life “against corrupt politicians like Bill de Blasio and his profit-seeking real estate holders. It’s getting ridiculous. It seems like every year we have to defend against these guys just to keep our children safe.”

Middle Village resident Curtis Seymour added, “All of these mounting problems and all the city wants to do with them is shove them down your throats with no remedy, no relief, no solutions, except to destroy neigh-

borhoods. You know, deep in your heart and soul, this mayor has it in for Glendale, Middle Village and Maspeth ... This is a war for the soul of our city. Enough is enough.”

Bing Nuan Chen, an 83-year-old man, was killed when he was hit by a school bus while walking with his wife in Middle Village. He was hit at the intersection of 67th Drive and 73rd Place.

An armored personnel carrier operated by the Department of Homeland Security appeared on Forest Avenue near Norman Street. Some residents were concerned that an immigration raid was taking place but a City Hall spokeswoman told NY1 that it was a federal criminal investigation into a firearms suspect, with about 50 guns, including a machine gun, gun parts and ammunition seized.

Active shooter training was held at Christ the King High School but no photos or recordings were allowed. It was a rare session for the general public as NYPD teams often concentrate on offering training to religious and large institutions such as banks, colleges and stadium staffs.

Capt. Victoria Perry, commanding officer of the 104th Precinct, commented on concerns about safety around the proposed shelter site, saying the precinct was receiving seven new officers and that it can always reach out to the commanding officer of Patrol Borough Queens North to request

more officers. “I want the children to be safe,” she said. “I want the corridors [around the shelter] to be safe. I want the people in the shelter to be safe. I want people to feel they can come and go here safely whenever they want.”

Six candidates for borough president each explained why he or she should be elected during a forum at Russell Sage Junior High School. They included retired NYPD Sgt. Anthony Miranda, Councilman Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria), Assemblywoman Alicia Hyndman (D-Springfield Gardens), former Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) and Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside). Crowley said she didn’t believe Katz was “bold enough in her vision for Queens in terms of building our transportation infrastructure.”

December Assistant Chief Galen Frierson took over command of Queens Borough Patrol North as Assistant Chief Martin Morales was promoted to chief of personnel. PBQN consists of eight precincts, including the 104th.

A street in Middle Village was co-named Lorraine Sciulli Way for the longtime vice president of the Juniper Park Civic Association, who died in 2017. Sciulli was also a member of Community Board 5 for more than 20 years and served as editor of the Juniper Berry.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Elmhurst Park opened after more than a decade in the works. The idea came from former

Former Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 32 President Michael O’Kane speaks at the FILE PHOTO unveiling of the memorial.

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 32 President Pat Toro in 2008. The memorial contains the names of 371 of the borough’s service members who died during the war.

Granite walls include an etching of bamboo, a history of the war with key events and dates, the names of the fallen and a section paying tribute to soldiers who died at home due to effects of the war. “Please come by and visit this memorial,” said John Rowan, national president of the Vietnam Veterans of America. “Please come by and Q remember the men on that wall.”

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Garden Co-op, freshly painted, updated kitchen and bath, 3 BRs, 1 bath. Hi-hats in living room and master bedroom, new closet doors. Washer dryer combo in apt. Move-in condition. Asking $299K Total down payment required 25%

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Legal 2 fams, 4 BRs, 4 baths. Large brick on 25x100 lot.

5 over 5, full bsmt. with sep. ent. 9' ceilings. Driveway and det. garage, needs TLC. Asking $1,228,000

CONR-077100

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