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All eyes were on Gov. Hochul Tuesday as she spoke on her future plans for the Empire State, covering a wide variety of topics including housing, public safety and mental health. She did not present a plan to help the city more on the migrant crisis, instead saying she would address it next week.

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Gov. Hochul sets her legislative priorities Discusses crime, housing, education, mental health in State of the State talk

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across the state in 2023.

“If government can’t keep New Yorkers ov. Hochul steered away from most safe, nothing else matters. In the last year, third-rail issues Tuesday in her State we’ve reduced gun violence, bringing shootings down by more than a third across the of the State address.

Hochul’s speech addressed a number of state ... But certain types of crime have been crime initiatives including domestic vio- stubbornly high. New Yorkers see it every lence and retail robbery, but did not include day. Graffiti scrawled outside a synagogue. any initiatives on additional bail or discov- Baby formula locked behind plastic panels. A couple’s argument turned violent and punctuery reforms.

Her housing proposals were touted by ated by gunshots.

“And on the subway, people suffering a many as sound as far as they went, but they did not include some of the more controver- mental breakdown, or an overdose. Episodes sial proposals from last year’s failed hous- like these can cause an atmosphere of anxiety in our communities.” ing initiatives that in 2024 could place Hochul will ask lawmakers for $20 million some suburban Democrats in the state to help district attorneys gather evidence and Assembly and Senate in awkward positions seize guns in domestic violence cases, saying during an election year.

The governor also appears ready to hold 84 percent of all domestic violence arrests end in case dismissals. the line on tax increases and push for more The governor said she will launch a new enforcement against illegal marijuana shops.

She also said she would address the ongo- unit within the New York State Police to address organized retail crime, and will ing migrant crisis next week in her annual “work with the Legislature” to strengthen budget address.

“The State of New York is strong. Stronger penalties for assaulting retail workers or “fostoday than when I become governor two years tering” the sale of stolen goods online.

Invoking the double stabbing at Grand go,” Hochul said in a transcript of her speech obtained from her official website. “Healthier. Central Terminal on Christmas, Hochul said she wants to add 200 new inpatient beds in Safer. More affordable.” the state for those most in need; and increase On crime, Hochul touted steep reductions in murders in both New York City and the availability of mental healthcare for

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everyone from students to those involved in the criminal justice system [see separate story in some editions or at qchron.com]. Hochul also wants to expand mental health courts.

She said she will support legislation that would allow municipalities to crack down on illegal marijuana businesses and close them down more quickly. Such enforcement now is largely relegated to the state.

The governor also wants to make more than two dozen offenses ranging from graffiti to gang assault eligible to be prosecuted as hate crimes.

After quoting statistics on record funding for education in the last two years, Hochul said reading instruction should adopt a new, or rather old, approach, to help children live successful lives.

“I say it’s time we get rid of debunked curriculums in schools and get back to basics using phonics and proven techniques that work,” she said.

New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks is already laying the groundwork to implement phonics across the five boroughs.

Hochul’s scaled-back housing initiatives include developing on state-owned land at places such as former correctional facilities, underused portions of SUNY college campuses, and land near commuter rail stations, allowing for up to 15,000 new housing units.

Gov. Hochul on Tuesday laid out her priorities for the coming session on crime, housing, mental health, education and other topics.

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CB 10 says ‘yes, but’ to City of Yes initiative Meeting also spotlights MTA elevator project, area crime and pot-shop bill

by Kristen Guglielmo Associate Editor

Community Board 10 on Thursday voted “yes” on the mayor’s City of Yes economic opportunity plan, one of three parts of the mayor’s proposal to modernize zoning regulations — with some caveats.

Board chairperson Betty Braton said, “The recommendation is in essence, a ‘yes, but’ on the different 18 issues.”

She added, “... We’re indicating support in general for the concept of the item.” However, the group will be submitting requested modifications to some proposals.

“If the conditions aren’t met, our ‘yes’ kind of becomes a ‘no’,” Braton said.

The board voted unanimously to approve the “yes, but” measure.

All 59 of the city’s community boards will vote on whether to recommend the plan to their respective borough presidents before the City Council votes on whether to approve it.

The multifaceted plan includes 18 separate proposals for zoning text amendments designed to promote business creation and prosperity, including eliminating parking requirements for new housing developments, allowing flexibility for residents to operate businesses in their homes and reopening closed storefronts in residential areas.

In other area news, work will begin this

Community Board 10 Chairperson Betty Braton shared that the board’s recommendation is “yes, but” to the City of Yes economic opportunity initiative. YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT / CB 10 month to add two ADA-compliant elevators to the Rockaway Boulevard A train station, MTA representatives told the board. The project also includes other accessible infrastructure, such as boarding areas, sidewalks and stairways.

Brian Liona, the project’s manager, said the design is still being finalized, but that work will be extensive. All items in the project are

estimated to be complete by the third quarter of 2025, he said.

Some attendees expressed concerns that the construction may cause traffic. Liona said the largest work zone will not affect traffic, but construction may take over a few feet of 94th Street.

The construction area where the elevator foundation is being built on the south will eventually be barricaded. As a result, there may not be enough width for a fire truck to make a turn, Liona said, which is the most significant impact seen on the horizon, and would only last “a couple of months.”

If that is the case, Liona said the Department of Transportation may authorize a reroute for the area.

Assembly woma n Jen ifer R ajk u ma r (D-Woodhaven) attended the meeting to discuss her new bill, the Stop Marijuana Overproliferation and Keep Empty Operators of Unlicensed Transactions, or SMOKEOUT, Act, which aims to tackle the issue of illegal smoke shops in New York.

Bill A8428 would empower municipalities to take immediate action against unlicensed smoke shops selling marijuana. Mayor Adams said at a recent town hall that if the bill passes, the smoke shop problem in NYC could be resolved within a month.

The Chronicle reached out to the Mayor’s

Office to ask what enforcement would look like under the bill, but did not receive a response.

“Every day, you have been dealing with the licensing of the of the new legal dispensaries,” Rajkumar said. “You have been dealing with illegal smoke shops — and I have heard you.”

The bill is being carried by state Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) in the senate.

In other board news, the NYPD 106 Precinct’s commanding officer, Capt. Berkley VanTull, told meeting attendees that grand larceny auto is still a prominent issue in the community. He said to never leave vehicles unattended while unlocked, and to be wary of people who purposely try to get into car accidents.

VanTull explained that, for example, if someone is seen at an ATM withdrawing a large amount of cash, the person might be followed and purposely rear-ended as a ploy to get close and steal the money.

He also said package theft and porch pirates is an additional issue, and advised checking package tracking information and adding a signature requirement to deliveries if possible.

VanTull also suggested the use of security cameras, especially those with motion sensors.

“I highly recommend investing in some kind of camera,” he said. “I think they’re a little bit more affordable, and it definitely helps Q us with our investigation.”

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Group again begs Community Board 9 for help with Victory Field light issue

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The public forum at Community Board 9’s meeting Tuesday evening was still engaging despite the switch to a remote setting due to inclement weather.

Pablo Rubio, the executive director of the youth soccer organization Formativas Barcelona BC-NYC, was one of the first to raise his digital hand. Rubio wanted an update in regard to the lighting at Victory Field in Woodhaven.

At the board’s December meeting, Rubio told the board that the city Parks Department asked him to remove the two light towers his group rented to play at night, or risk losing its permits.

A petition calling for temporary and permanent lights to be installed garnered 800 signatures, according to Rubio, and the board had promised to look into the issue.

After Rubio asked for an update, District Manager James McClelland assured him that he is working on the issue.

“We’re waiting for a couple of folks to commit,” McClelland said. “So, just want to make sure if we have the meeting, it’s a pro-

ductive meeting, we have all the stakeholders there.”

In response, Rubio said, “... I just want to emphasize the magnitude of this issue, emphassize the fact that there are hundreds of kids who are not able to exercise and enjoy the park. ... I know it’s been about a month, I believe, since when we first had the meeting and, well, we’re still waiting for for any action.”

Board Chairperson Sherry Algredo told Rubio the delay was due to the holiday season, and reassured him that she and McClelland are in constant contact about the issue.

“James and I discuss it basically every day,” she said. “It is the first thing we speak about as soon as we speak.”

A ninth-grade student, Victor, addressed the board about the lights as well.

“When I want to play, I can’t because it is hard for me to see,” he said. “This isn’t really ideal for me, considering that at this age I’m supposed to be putting in a lot of work into my dream. Practicing this late without lights is very dangerous for many reasons, and other fields are a minimum of 15 minutes to travel and that’s too far for me to travel.”

Community Board 9 remained productive after opting for a Zoom meeting on Tuesday evening ZOOM SCREENSHOT / CB 9 due to inclement weather in the borough.

Algredo said, “We hear you. Like I said, there isn’t a day that passed by during the new year that we haven’t spoken about it.”

The topic came up repeatedly throughout

the meeting, and McClelland assured board members, who asked if anything could be done on their end to help quicken the procontinued on page 14

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Lithium-ion battery responsible for fire Firefighter injured at e-bike store in Little Guyana section of SO Park

by Naeisha Rose Associate Editor

FDNY fire marshals have determined that a lithium-ion battery was the cause of a twoalarm blaze at an electronics store in Little Guyana last Saturday.

“A [digital video recorder] shows smoke coming from the battery - and within 20 seconds - you see a shower of sparks, flames, & explosions,” said the FDNY in an X post.

The agency said it took less than three minutes for a wall of flames to consume the shop, which was closed at the time of the fire.

“An upstairs tenant heard three loud pops and smelled smoke,” said a second post. “He went downstairs to investigate and saw smoke inside the store. Thankfully, there were no injuries.”

The FDNY said it got a call on the fire at King Electronic Hub, an e-bike and appliance store at 119-07 Liberty Ave. between Lefferts Boulevard and 120th Street in South Ozone Park, at 9:43 p.m.

The agency arrived at the two-story building at 9:47 p.m. and was able to get the fire under control by 11:05 p.m.

Citizen App noted that the building is mixed-use.

The NYPD told the Chronicle that the American Red Cross was on the scene to help two people who were displaced.

A lithium-ion battery was the cause of a two-alarm fire at an e-bike and appliance store in South SCREENSHOT / FDNY Ozone Park, where one firefighter was injured.

One firefighter sustained minor injuries putting out the fire, which took 25 emergency units to tackle, including Haz-Mat personnel.

An FDNY spokesman told the Chronicle that once lithium-ion batteries are exposed to

Beep OKs Phase II of Willets Pt. with caveats

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Phase II of the Willets Point Redevelopment Project took another step toward reality Wednesday as Borough President Donovan Richards recommended approving the plan, which includes a 25,000-seat New York City Football Club stadium, 1,400 units of affordable housing, a 250-key hotel and retail and public space. His backing, however, came with conditions, namely, that the apartments be available to those at or below 80 percent of the area median income.

“Through the decades, many plans have been imagined at Willets Point and only one has been approved,” Richards writes in his recommendation. “I am proud to see the former ‘Valley of Ashes’ transform into better housing, schooling and open space, but I must see material and serious commitments to the surrounding communities of Corona, Flushing and East Elmhurst.”

And there are many commitments Richards is looking for, per a press release from his office. The borough president is recommending that minority- and women-owned businesses, along with area residents, make

up 30 percent of contracts and hires. On top of that, Richards asked that the applicants, the Queens Development Group, work to find a place for street vendors to operate; that follows Mayor Adams’ returning 14 vending slots to Corona Plaza, which Richards said would be a condition of his approval.

In addition to strengthening community partnerships with NYCFC and the Queens Development Group through area organizations, Richards called for discounted tickets to NYCFC matches for local residents; it is not clear what is meant by “local.”

The borough president is seeking several infrastructure improvements to the area, as well. On top of asking the applicant team to work with the city to create a sewage and stormwater management plan and update area bus and subway systems, he also calls for a feasibility study that would consider extending ferry services to Willets Point.

Now that the plan has been OK’d by Community Board 7 and Richards as part of the Uniform Land Use Review Process, developers await the green light from the City Planning Commission and City Q Council.

heat, a Haz-Mat team will assist with putting out the fire and assessing the batteries.

In 2023, the FDNY responded to more than 200 such fires, which killed 18 people citywide.

In a demonstration on the FDNY’s YouTube page, agency representatives explained how lithium-ion batteries release toxic gases after an explosion.

“Those gases are a combination of flammable gases and toxic by inhalation gases,” says an FDNY member during the demonstration.

Toxic fumes can result in immediate death from asphyxia or cause mild to severe respiratory distress from acute upper airways inflammation, delayed pulmonary edema, repiratory muscle dysfunction or a combination of illnesses, according to the National Institute of Health.

“One of the things that we are seeing is that the amount of carbon monoxide that is being produced by the devices are much more than a room-and-contents fire,” the FDNY member said. “The smoke is causing some of the fatalities, remote from the fire.”

A second FDNY member at the demonstration said his fear is that the batteries don’t always ignite right away; they can release toxic gas first and when it gets to a spark it can combust.

“That is when we get an explosion instead of just a fire,” said the second FDNY speaker.

In the 45-second clip of the blaze at the e-bike shop, one can see purple, orange, yellow and red sparks as the room fills with smoke Q before the shelves burst into flames.

Hochul’s State of the State continued from page 2 ing the state far short of what Hochul said it needs.

The governor also supports a New York City plan to add 500,000 units. Hochul wants a new tax incentive for builders to construct market-level and below-market housing along the lines of the 421-a regulation that expired in 2022.

Her speech also called for legalizing basement apartments in the city where people already live; and “eliminating an outdated restriction on residential density that prevents the city from building more.”

And, in remarks perhaps aimed at the Legislat u re, Hochul did indirectly acknowledge projected future budget deficits, including about $4.3 billion for the fiscal year that begins on April 1.

“As we uphold these commitments, we won’t spend money we don’t have,” she said. “Every state relied upon pandemic funds from Washington that have dried up, and it’s on us, as responsible adults, to make the hard yet necessary decisions to use taxpayer dollars creatively and responsibly.”

Mayor Adams, in a statement from his office, praised the speech. “[Gov. Hochul] laid out a clear vision that will make New York City a stronger, safer, and more affordable city,” Adams said. “Her proposals on housing, public safety, mental health, education, our econ-

omy and more will help us deliver on our commitments to working-class New Yorkers.’

Adams was particularly pleased with the phonics demand.

“We’re also proud that Gover nor Hochul is bringing the reading revolution we started in New York City public schools to schools across New York state.

We’re thrilled to have her support in giving our teachers the training they need to teach the science of reading to young New Yorkers.

Andrew Rein, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, was a bit more reserved in a statement on the group’s website.

“Governor Hochul rightly highlighted the importance of ensuring New York is attractive and affordable to businesses and residents and the need to protect New Yorkers from more tax increases,” he said. “But New York’s looming fiscal instability poses a major threat to its competitiveness, ability to serve its people, and affordability.”

Rein said, for example, that the use of temporary resources to support ongoing spending, masks a structural budget gap of $17 billion. He was encouraged to hear Hochul’s commitment to not “spend money we don’t have” and to address the structural budget gap in next week’s budQ get proposal.

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UFT adds to courts’ congestion on tolls

City teachers’ union, SI BP Fossella sue to stop MTA’s ‘tolling schemes’

by Michael Gannon Senior News Editor

Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers and a Staten Island resident, and Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella are among nine plaintiffs who on Thursday filed a lawsuit to stop or delay the implementation of congestion pricing in Midtown and Downtown Manhattan this coming spring.

Seven other plaintiffs are UFT members living in Staten Island, New Jersey or Rockland County.

They join New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Fort Lee, NJ, Mayor Mark Sokolich, who filed separate suits in July and November of 2023, respectively.

In the 42-page suit complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the union president and the borough president say the measure to add new tolls to enter much of Manhattan was too hastily approved by federal authorities without proper environmental studies; and will have seriously adverse impacts on the health and pocketbooks of those they represent.

They are requesting that the environmental assessment approved by the federal government be supplanted by a new federal environmental impact study.

“Thousands of teachers and other UFT

Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella, at podium, with state Sen. Jessica ScarcellaSI BP PHOTO / X Spanton, left, and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew. members, along with many other workers, live in places with little or no access to mass transit,” Mulgrew said in a press release that accompanied a copy of the lawsuit. “They are facing dramatically rising commuting costs, and all for a traffic reduction plan whose potential effects on air quality and other issues were never seriously examined.”

Fossella, in the same statement, called con-

gestion pricing “a three-strike loser” for Staten Island residents.

“According to the MTA’s own study, it would be both a financial and environmental burden; not to mention it will result in more traffic for our borough. It is just plain wrong to once again ask Staten Islanders to assume such a burden when they will see little to no benefit. It happened with the Fresh Kills land-

fill. It is happening with the migrant crisis.

“We know that our traffic will get worse, our air quality will get worse, and residents who must commute by car will pay an added tax to travel within their own city. We are suing because at some point, we have to say ‘enough is enough.’”

Defendants include the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and the departments of Transportation for New York State and New York City.

The existing congestion pricing plan would charge vehicles tolls beginning at $15 based on their size when they enter Manhattan at or below 60th Street.

The stated aims are to raise $1 billion a year for the MTA’s capital budget; and to reduce traffic and pollution in Manhattan’s Central Business District.

“To achieve this massive influx of cash, New York and New Jersey residents would be expected to foot the bill monetarily as well as by sacrificing quality of life,” the suit claims on page 5.

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P Teachers fight congestion pricing EDITORIAL

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The disaster-in-waiting known as congestion pricing already faces two lawsuits, but they’re out of New Jersey.

Now, in a move that must be shocking New York politicians to their core, the United Federation of Teachers has filed suit to block the plan to saddle drivers going into much of Manhattan with massive, bank-breaking new tolls.

Third time’s the charm? We hope so. The last thing the city needs when it’s still recovering economically from the Covid crisis is to charge commuters another $15 to go into the city at or below 60th Street. That’s also the last thing families still adjusting to the rapid inflation of the last couple of years need. Now that inflation has finally slowed at places such as the grocery store, you can expect congestion pricing to feed it some more, as the cost for delivery trucks to enter the zone would start at $24, or $36 for bigger ones.

All this we’re told, will finally get the MTA on a solid enough financial footing to fix and modernize the transit system. And it’ll help us forestall worsening climate change by reducing pollution. Fact is, the MTA will never be satiated. And this plan would actually increase pollution in some

areas — poor ones — according to its own authors!

So the UFT has plenty of reasons to sue to block or at least delay the plan, not just the fact that union President Michael Mulgrew lives on Staten Island. Thousands of teachers live in places with little or no mass transit, and will be forced to pay — for a plan whose impacts on air quality and more “were not seriously examined,” Mulgrew said.

The suit is significant not just because it’s the third one to be filed in federal court against this “Let’s harm the economy and families while not achieving our goals!” scheme.

The UFT is a major political force in New York State. Our leaders can’t be dismissive of the union the way they can be of NJ Gov. Phil Murphy and Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, the lead plaintiffs in the first and second suits, respectively.

The donations are too important. The beliefs are, too — who’s more dedicated to fighting climate change through regulation and taxation than a teacher? No one. Yet now the UFT is partners in a lawsuit with Republican SI Borough President Vito Fossella. Strange bedfellows indeed. Green teachers must be shaking from the cognitive dissonance.

Liberal lawmakers too. We feel for them. But not as much as we do for those this plan would harm. May the UFT prevail!

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Make Big Oil pay Dear Editor: I think it’s safe to say that in 2023, every New Yorker experienced firsthand the worsening effects of climate change. Between heat waves, wildfire smoke, flash flooding, and damaging coastal storms, New York saw it all, and communities across the state have been rushing to upgrade our roads, beaches, infrastructure and services to protect us from these rapid and dangerous changes.

But who will pay for these costly upgrades?

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hile Gov. Hochul did ignore the elephant in the room at her State of the State address Tuesday, we were glad to see she tackled some of the other massive issues plaguing New York.

The governor set out markers on a number of issues that reinforce her position as a moderate Democrat, something we vitally need to balance the Legislature.

She talked about the progress made against crime and the need to still revise the bail laws to help do even more. She said “we will add” 1,000 in-patient psychiatric beds to treat those with mental issues.

Those measures can make the streets safer — and the trains; Hochul cited the Christmas day stabbing of two teenage girls in Grand Central Terminal.

She also said she will not agree to any tax increases. That’s vital, as New York is already a high-tax state, and is losing population in part for that reason.

She even endorsed phonics, the only valid way to teach reading, which is fundamental to reducing crime long term. Now Hochul just needs to stick to her guns against the Legislature’s loony caucus.

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All of the costs are falling on taxpayers while big oil companies keep making record profits. Between January 2021 and July 2023, Big Oil companies made $750 billion in profits.

Big polluters need to be held accountable for the mess they’ve made, not NY residents.

Thankfully, there is a solution that is supported by many organizations, including the Surfrider Foundation. The Climate Change Superfund Act (S.2129-A/A.3351-A), a statelevel bill, would hold the world’s biggest oil and gas companies accountable and responsible for a portion of the climate-related damages that they’ve created.

The funds would allow New York to invest in life-saving infrastructure improvements: upgraded stormwater drainage and sewage treatment systems, strengthened power grids for severe weather, systems to protect people from extreme heat and more resilient coastal communities. The Climate Change Superfund Act will also result in a major increase in green

jobs in many sectors, including construction, engineering and healthcare.

It’s time for Gov. Hochul to address the climate crisis costs, hold Big Oil accountable and add the Climate Change Superfund Act (S.2129A/A.3351A) in her 2024 executive budget.

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Farm boss out; paper tops Dear Editor: I thought your three-page exposé on the Queens Farm (“QCFM deteriorating under Walden Weprin, staff say,” Nov. 2) was phenomenal! I owe a debt of gratitude for your relentless, nonstop reporting of the story.

I’m sure the co-workers and ex-workers whom your reporter interviewed are much

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Education, not reparations Dear Editor: Gov. Hochul has signed a bill to form a committee to look into reparations for black people regarding slavery.

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Failed murder is murder Dear Editor: So Carlos Pilliza was stabbed by four men after he wished them a Happy New Year. I’m surprised. The suspects look like upstanding citizens — standing up against the wall in a police lineup, maybe.

Stabbing someone is not just a response, as if to say, leave me alone. You are trying to kill someone. So these four should be charged with murder. Not attempted murder. You should not catch a break because you failed at trying to kill someone.

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Beauty amid our troubles Dear Editor: I had a most profound spiritual experience at Our Lady of the Snows in Floral Park on Sunday Jan. 7, with a Christmas Celtic Epiphany Concert. The church was packed with parishioners for this concert.

The event was opened up with a blessing by the Rev. Kevin McBrien. The first Christmas carol, which we all sang, was “The First Noel.” There were many Irish Christmas carols performed.

The concert was so important because of all the hate and the war in the Middle East, which is most troubling to most of us. It was truly a spiritual event.

A great deal of this event was due to Our Lady of the Snows Music Director Lisa Kelly.

The concert was performed as follows: an adult choir, children’s choir, bell choir and Filipino choir. The musicians were: Heather Arzberger on flute and oboe, Thomas Martin on violin, Nelson Rocha on percussion and James Stahi on cello.

With all the troubles and hate in the world and in our various neighborhoods this was a most welcome event.

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Lost in translation Dear Editor: We are told there is a revival of a dangerous rhetoric of fascism, thanks to the voice of The Donald. However, Trump claims he never read “Mein Kampf” (“My Struggle”), the bible of the Third Reich!

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Dear Editor: In response to the Jan. 5 article ”Richard can’t replace CEC member he appointed” (qchron.com) I have a simple, logical question: Why can’t Queens Borough President Richards’ simply remove this Community Education Council member who refuses to leave after verbally resigning?

Richards has the power to remove a CEC member whom he appointed, but for some unknown reason he is choosing not to do that in this instance, even though he says in his letter to Chancellor Banks, “While all are entitled to their personal opinions regarding this horrible conflict, after reviewing these statements, I concluded that several of them fundamentally were incompatible with her duties as an appointed public servant, including an explicit defense of ONLINE Hamas and a justification for Miss an article or a students targetletter cited by a writer? ing a Jewish Want breaking news teacher at Hillfrom all over Queens? crest High Find the latest news, School on past reports from all November 20, over the borough and 2023.” more at qchron.com.

Since the CEC member has not submitted a written resignation and has reneged on her verbal resignation, Richards is seeking Banks’ assistance in removing her.

Why? Why isn’t Richards doing it himself?

This is a question on everyone’s mind that perhaps President Richards would like to address at the next CEC 28 meeting. I think the Jewish families of District 28 deserve an explanation because as it currently stands, this CEC member is still a sitting member of the CEC attending its monthly meetings, and we still don’t have a Jewish representation on CEC 28.

CEC 28 does very important work affecting all of the public school families of the district, such as recently passing an anti-Semitism resolution (on which this CEC member abstained). Having this distraction only detracts from this important work and must be dealt with as soon as possible.

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But it’s your paper’s reporting that, I continue to say, is the best in all the five boroughs. I’m so happy to have your paper well represented in my hometown.

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CEC 28 approves two anti-hate resolutions Group condemns anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim and anti-Sikh biases

by Kristen Guglielmo Associate Editor

More than 100 people tuned in on Zoom Thursday evening to watch as Community Education Council 28 voted at its monthly meeting to stand against hatred and for human dignity.

Two resolutions were on the agenda, titled “Resolution to Condemn Antisemitism in District 28” and “Resolution on Dealing with Hatred, Conflict, and Violence by Honoring, Protecting and Respecting Human Dignity.”

The anti-Semitism resolution was up first, presented by President Vijah Ramjattan.

The resolution states that CEC 28 “unequivocally condemns antisemitism whenever and wherever it occurs and stands with all families of District 28 against antiJewish hate.” The text also condemns the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel, as well as the raucous Nov. 20 protest at Hillcrest High School and the use of anti-Semitic symbols and offensive language by students of the school. It also says the CEC supports city schools Chancellor David Banks and the Department of Education “in their efforts to eliminate hateful rhetoric from public schools and to provide resources and materials to NYC schools after collaborating with expert partners.”

The resolution calls upon the DOE to “sup-

port courageous and curious converards who came under fire for hateful sations in safe, inclusive and welcomrhetoric in pro-Palestinan and antiing spaces” in schools about the white social media posts late last ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, where year, was among the abstentions. students can “express their feelings, Alicea remains on the panel even concerns and fears.” though Richards’ office told the Ramjattan welcomed suggestions DOE in December the seat had from members of the council in become vacant as a result of her regards to the resolution, which had actions; Alicea herself told the gone through multiple drafts. Some Chronicle she was being stripped of members claimed they hadn’t yet her appointment; and the DOE later seen the version presented at the confirmed the seat’s vacancy. Richmeeting. ards has since reached out to Banks Second Vice President Nurun about the situation.

Swapna suggested adding a line sayThe second resolution’s text states ing, “We’re all American and we that the CEC has seen “a documented should all protect one another so we increase in antisemitism, anti-Muscan co-exist and create a better future lim and anti-Sikh hate crimes stoking for all of our children.” Member Julie fear and anguish” and says they hope Suh said, “This is the first time I’m for the safety and wellbeing of all reading that version,” and declined to CEC 28 approved two anti-hate resolutions at the group’s people. The group resolves to “come comment on it.

ZOOM SCREENSHOT together to honor each other’s dignity monthly meeting last week.

Nathifa Lewis, the group’s secreand to better appreciate each other’s tary, said at the meeting she had concerns tion and students. humanity — it is one of the greatest callings with the resolution, in part the way it specifiThough some members suggested tabling we have as human beings.” The measure also cally addresses the Hillcrest protest. the resolution so there would be ample time calls upon the DOE to “teach tolerance, “I am personally satisfied with the way to read and go over it, the measure went to a understanding, empathy and respect human that administration has responded to that,” vote. It passed with seven votes to approve dignity.” It passed unanimously. she said, adding that she attended the meet- and four abstentions.

Both resolutions can be viewed at ing held after the incident, and observed the Adriana Alicea, a CEC 28 appointee of cecd28.org by clicking on the “About CEC28” Q dialogue between Banks, staff, administra- Queens Borough President Donovan Rich- button.

QBP can’t replace CEC member he appointed Richards pens letter to schools chief to resolve issue regarding Adriana Alicea

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regarding the Israel-Hamas war.

“While all are entitled to their personal Adriana Alicea, a Community Education opinions regarding this horrible conflict, after Council 28 member appointed by Queens reviewing these statements, I concluded that Borough President Donovan Richards who several of them fundamentally were incomcame under fire for posts on her social media, patible with her duties as an appointed public is still serving on the panel despite both Rich- servant, including an explicit defense of ards and the Department of Education saying Hamas and a justification for students targeting a Jewish teacher at Hillcrest High School her seat had been vacated.

The borough president expressed concerns on November 20, 2023,” Richards told Banks.

According to the letter, on Dec. 5, Richabout the handling of her status on the CEC in a Jan. 3 letter to schools Chancellor David Banks. ards’ general counsel spoke with Alicea, informing her of “I am writing the borough presiconcer ning an dent’s request for individual whom I y office’s position has been her resignation. h a d p r ev iou sly R icha rd s w rote appointed to ... that this seat became that Alicea “indiCommunity Educated that she cation Council 28, vacant on December 5.” acceded to this Adriana Alicea, — Queens Borough President Donovan Richards request.” and the lack of “ B u t l a t e r ,” cla r it y i n you r agency’s position regarding her current status Richards wrote, “Ms. Alicea contacted memas a member of the CEC,” Richards wrote at bers of the Family and Community Engagethe start of the letter, which was sent via email ment team to either dispute or attempt to withdraw that resignation, instead characterizing to the chancellor.

In the letter, obtained by the Chronicle, what occurred as a removal. My office’s posiRichards wrote that he sought Alicea’s resig- tion has been and continues to be that this seat nation after reviewing her social media posts. became vacant on December 5.”

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appointment. She could not be reached for comment after that.

Of Alicea’s attendance at the following calendar meeting, Richards wrote, “On December 7, 2023, Ms. Alicea attended the CEC 28 meeting, and amidst the confusion that body’s president stated that absent a written communication from my office clarifying her status he would continue to recognize Ms. Alicea as a member. The controversy dominated that meeting at the expense of important business.”

To address the matter, Richards said his general counsel then met with senior members of the FACE team on Dec. 8, according to the email.

FACE advised Richards to send written communication to the CEC 28 president, clearly stating the borough president’s position and to appoint a new member to fill the vacant seat.

“On December 13, we submitted to FACE the name of my preferred new nominee and on December 15 I sent a letter to the CEC 28 president, copying FACE, clarifying my position that the seat was now vacant and that I would be appointing a new member shortly,” Richards wrote.

“On the evening of December 15, FACE notified my office that my preferred candidate had cleared their vetting, and then I formalized that appointment on December 19 by

Borough President appointee Adriana Alicea remains a member of CEC 28 after controversial posts on her personal X account, despite the Queens Borough President’s Office and Department of Education previously stating X PHOTO / FILE the seat is vacant. notifying the nominee as well as FACE.” However, according to the letter, on Dec. 21, a representative from the DOE’s intergovcontinued on page 16

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Banks talks future, new plans with D 26

Schools chief tackles enrollment caps, budget cuts and bullying at town hall

by Kristen Guglielmo Associate Editor

According to schools Chancellor David Banks, the city Department of Education does not intend to cap programs for successful schools with high demand — including those within District 26.

The issue of enrollment caps and class size reduction was brought up to Banks’ at a town hall Monday evening hosted by Community Education Council 26 at MS 74 in Bayside.

Class sizes must be capped over time under a new state law, leaving some parents concerned about access to top schools.

“Every grade K to 5 school within the district is overutilized. Therefore, capping enrollment in every school will not provide an option to enroll in a school within the district,” a member of the council said to Banks. “And secondly, at the high school level, certain students choose high schools for various reasons such as school reputation, programming options, proximity to their homes and so on.”

“We have worked very, very closely with a working group, which shared a number of their recommendations,” Banks said. “We are not duty-bound to accept any of the recommendations.” He said the DOE will do what it can to reduce class size without harming highdemand schools.

Later, when CEC 26 President Albert Suhu told Banks the council uncovered a flawed methodology in determining seat need, and lamented that students would have to travel far to other schools with limited public transportation in the area, Banks told him they would set up a meeting to discuss further.

Concerning budget cuts to education and special programs, Emma Vadehra, the chief operating officer and deputy chancellor for operations and finance, confirmed no budget cuts were made to schools in November.

Vadehra said special programs that families

rely upon were created with dollars that are disappearing at the end of this year, and that the DOE is looking into how to advocate for additional dollars to continue those programs.

Banks added, “The ultimate budget that we will settle on, it will be the result of a negotiation between the mayor and the City Council.”

He urged the public to let their elected officials know their thoughts.

Later, he said, “These are all phenomenal programs, that we do not have enough money to pay for all of it going forward. That’s just real talk, folks. So I’m going to work very closely with the mayor, I’m going to listen very closely to all of our elected officials who will let us know what the priorities really are. But there will be some pain. We need to recognize that.”

On a question regarding specialized high schools in Queens, Banks said the DOE “very clearly” recognizes the need for more specialized seats in the borough.

First Deputy Chancellor Daniel Weisberg added that the DOE is responding to the demand for more specialized high schools, while making sure other high schools are offering high-quality education.

When a question was posed in regard to middle school students having a difficult time transitioning into high school, District 26’s new acting superintendent, Anthony Inzerillo, said the issue was something he and the District Leadership Team looked into at a recent meeting.

“It’s amazing that our District 26 middle school students in eighth grade, they go to over 80 different high schools across New York City,” he said. “But the overwhelming majority of students attend nine or 10 high schools that are right here in Queens.”

He said he knows leaders at those schools, adding that they are “ready and willing to roll up their sleeves and partner with us.”

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Community Board 9 meeting continued from page 4 cess, that he was in contact with Parks and the office of Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Ozone Park).

In other board happenings, Capt. Pratima Maldonado, the executive officer in the NYPD 102nd Precinct, spoke on crime.

Maldonado suggested the use of Apple AirTags or other tracking devices to combat the uptick in car theft.

“I have my AirTags on my car, on my

car keys. ... I have it everywhere,” she said.

On unlicensed smoke shops, Maldonado said, “We have about a total of 30 smoke shops. Five have been nuisanceabated already. We do have 13 additional in the process of being nuisance-abated.”

At t h e me e t i ng’s e nd , A lg r e d o announced that member Sylvia Hack will be celebrated on March 28, when the board will issue a resolution recognizing her for 50 years of service to Community Q Board 9.

Schools Chancellor David Banks on Monday attended a town hall hosted by Community Education Council 26 at MS 74 in Bayside.

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He suggested inviting current ninth-grade students to speak with the District Leadership Team to give feedback on how their transition to high school went, and what they wished they knew before the process began.

On bullying, Banks said he will soon make a significant speech outlining steps for the entire school system and detail what is expect-

ed from students, teachers and staff.

He added, “... When folks are mistreating others, it is unacceptable. But you can’t ultimately punish or discipline your way to respect. You educate your way to helping people understand how we should treat one another.”

A question was posed on the conflict in the Middle East affecting schools, which came to a head in November at Banks’ alma mater, Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, when students took to the halls in a raucous protest after a Jewish teacher posted a pro-Israel photo on her personal Facebook page.

Banks said he has met with Jewish and Muslim leaders from around the city. He said both groups want to feel physically and emotionally safe.

“This conflict in the Middle East has been going on for a long time,” he said. “We’re not going to solve it in New York City public schools. But there are conflicts that are happening all around the world that ultimately also impact our kids and our adults in our schools as well.

“So we need to meet all of it, and help to produce young people who are critical thinkers who are emotionally intelligent and who see the humaneness and the oneness in everybody.

We do that, then we’re producing a successful Q\ school system.”

UFT congestion pricing suit continued from page 8 many cannot afford ... Many, including those who do not (and cannot) use public transit, would see no benefit from the purported goal of bolstering the MTA’s Capital Plan.”

“The failure to properly account for or adequately mitigate these impacts of Congestion Pricing is unsurprising, given the hurried process that led to its premature approval,” it adds on page 8.

John McCarthy, chief of Policy & External Relations for the MTA, defended the environmental assessment in an email on Thursday.

“The environmental review process for congestion pricing involved four years of consultation with government agencies, public outreach meetings, and engagement with tens of thousands of public comments, with hundreds of pages of painstaking detail released that considered impacts on traffic, air quality, and environmental justice across the metropolitan area,” McCarthy said.

“And if we really want to combat everworsening clogged streets we must adequately fund a public transit system that will bring safer and less congested streets, cleaner air, and better transit for the vast majority of students and teachers who take mass transit to school,” he added.

Danny Pearlstein, policy and communications director for the Riders Alliance,

concurred with McCarthy in an email.

“Every school day, hundreds of thousands of children, parents, faculty members and Department of Education staff depend on subways and buses, “ Pearlstein said. “Congestion pricing will raise billions of dollars in new revenue for essential reliability and accessibility upgrades to the public transit network that makes public education work in New York City.

“Staten Islanders will benefit from congestion pricing in faster express bus speeds in the Central Business District; less traffic over the bridge, through Brooklyn, and into Manhattan; and mitigation spending to improve air quality in the borough’s environmental justice communities, money that won’t materialize without congestion pricing.”

Fossella and the suits from New Jersey state that any auto traffic and pollution that is cleared from Manhattan will simply be relocated to Staten Island, New Jersey, the Bronx and elsewhere.

Included in the relief the UFT suit seeks are a permanent injunction vacating the environmental assessment and other studies; and a finding that the lack of more stringent studies violates the National Environmental Protection Act. As an alternative, it requests a full environmental review; a declaration that congestion pricing violates the plaintiffs’ conQ stitutional rights; and legal fees.

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Jack Eichenbaum, boro historian, dies Beloved tour guide and Flushing native left his mark on Queens

by Sophie Krichevsky

“There are a lot of historians and tour guides in this world, but none like Jack,” he told the Queens Borough Historian Jack Eichen- Chronicle via email. “First of all, his knowledge baum, 80, died on Dec. 30 after suffering a was mind-boggling. Second, his love of Queens added a special spice to his tours and everystroke two days earlier.

While known for his walking tours of vari- thing else he did. I am much richer for having ous parts of the World’s Borough and beyond, known him, and I’ll miss him a lot.”

Eichenbaum taught at both Queens College Eichenbaum had a lengthy career in historical urban geography, one that began well before and Hunter College, among others, over the being appointed historian in 2010 by then-Bor- course of his career. And while he gained a ough President Helen Marshall (the Chronicle massive amount of knowledge through his forwrote in a 2019 profile of Eichenbaum that the mal education and studies of multiculturalism and religion in cities, he picked up a lot of role was one he was “destined to fill”).

Among his most popular tours was one details about particular places during his time going into communities along the No. 7 train in the Property Division of the city’s Departand another highlighting religious institutions ment of Finance, according to his website, geognyc.com. in Flushing.

But one would not have known that from Borough President Donovan Richards was among those sorry to hear of Eichenbaum’s taking a tour with him, which he began doing death. “As the borough’s top historian, a key as a professor before opening them to the public in 1982. advisor to borough presi“He had grown up in dents past and a lifelong the area ... the way he told resident of Queens, Jack orough historian was the story as he was going Eichenbaum was devoted along with the tour, you to The World’s Borough in a role Eichenbaum could tell he had a deep, so many ways,” he said in personal connection to was “destined to a statement. “His immense what he was t al k i ng knowledge of the rich hisfill,” the Chronicle about,” said Jason Antos, tory of Queens and his executive director of the dedication to educating our wrote in 2019.

Queens Historical Society, communities were who knew Eichenbaum for unmatched, and he will be remembered fondly by so many across the years. “You could just get a sense in the way he described it, in the way he carried himself, that borough.”

Born in Flushing and raised in Bayside, the he wasn’t just going through the motions or PS 31, JHS 74 and Bayside High School alum- reading from a cue card — a lot of it was off the nus left the city in 1963 to pursue a degree in top of his head.”

Eichenbaum was that way about many parts urban geography, working, traveling and learning over the course of 13 years in Michigan, of the city, even ones not typically highlighted California, Washington, Mexico, Switzerland on tours, say both Antos and fellow Queens and Israel. During that time, he earned his tour guide Yue Wang, who was a member of the Ph.D. in Urban Geography from the University Guides Association of New York City with of Michigan. When he returned to Flushing, he Eichenbaum. Antos pointed to one tour of Kistold the Chronicle in 2019, he found the perfect sena Park soon after Eichenbaum was appointapartment on Bowne Street, one with a deep ed to his position that attracted quite the crowd. history of its own. And, fittingly, it was also “That’s a tour that you don’t see very often,” he right across the street from the Queens Histori- said.

Yet that was typical for Eichenbaum. In addical Society, where he was a board member for tion to the staples in his tour catalog, he was several years.

Rob MacKay, the QHS board president, constantly looking to explore different areas and their histories by creating new tours; on called Eichenbaum’s death “a major loss.”

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Relatedly, he lectured on Jewish life in Queens, incorporating his own experience. On another tour, he walked Bowne Street — an area he knew intimately — through the lens of antidevelopment activist Jane Jacobs, described by some as “the anti-Robert Moses.”

“He knew a lot of details about a lot of things

QBP’s letter continued from page 12 ernmental team informed Richards’ office that Alicea’s refusal to provide a written resignation would hinder the appointment of a new member.

“My concern is that the conflicting messages from your agency to my office regarding this matter has hindered our shared ability to move forward in the best interests of the students and families of District 28 and generated unneeded confusion and controversy,” Richards wrote. “I look forward to working with you to resolve this matter.”

The Borough President’s Office on Friday told the Chronicle that it had not yet received a written response to the letter.

Asked about the issue that same day, the DOE press office said via email, “We are in receipt of the Borough President’s correspondence and we look forward to continuing our important partnership with the BP’s office and finding a solution that is consistent with all applicable laws and regulations, particularly as this relates to the important role our community education councils play on behalf of NYC Public Schools.”

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— many people, many buildings, many streets around Queens,” Wang said. “Jack was like my teacher.”

Antos looks at Eichenbaum similarly; he was one of the first to introduce Antos to the QHS, and advocated for him to become more involved with it. That was meaningful, especially since Eichenbaum, he said, was a private person, and did not always share his thoughts.

“No news is good news [with him],” Antos said. “So when he was the first to give me the thumbs up, I was like, ‘Alright.’”

Antos and Wang said Eichenbaum’s death was unexpected. Aside from taking a fall during a tour — one Wang himself was on, as well — in October 2022, he was not sick, they said.

While recovering from his fall, Eichenbaum frequently walked over to the QHS, using a cane or a walker.

Antos said that while details for a memorial service have not yet been set, Eichenbaum’s family plans to have one in February, to coincide with what would have been his 81st birthday. (That’s on Feb. 22 — Wang said Eichenbaum joked every year that it was the same date of the factory strike that sparked Russia’s February Revolution in 1917.) The QHS plans to host its own event in the spring.

“It’s a big loss for myself and the Queens Historical Society and the whole historical famQ ily,” Antos said.

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The billboards, visible to eastbound traffic, have identical photos of Navy SEALs in action. On one poster, men’s faces were obscured by letters of the word “GAZA.”

Across the top of the second was scrawled “Die for empire, die for nothing.”

The site has held billboards featuring the U.S. military for years.

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Adams renews push for forced psych hospitalizations Advisor recently visited a CB seeking elusive support to change mental health laws

by Gabriel Poblete THE CITY

This article was originally published on Nov. 21 at 5:00 a.m. EDT

by THE CITY As Albany lawmakers begin the 2024 legislative session, Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is again pitching changes to state law that would expand the definition of who could be involuntarily hospitalized for psychiatric illness.

Currently, only those who pose a threat of serious harm to themselves or others can be held without their consent. In pending legislation, involuntary hospitalization could apply to some people who can’t care for themselves.

Adams’ top advisor on mental health last week appeared before a committee of Manhattan Community Board 5, which covers an area of Manhattan that has long struggled with chronic street homelessness, asking members to write a let ter in suppor t of the bill, dubbed “The Supportive Interventions Act.” The bill was introduced in the final days of the 2023 session by Assemblymember Edward Braunstein (D-Queens) with the support of City Hall. The bill still has no Police officers talk with a homeless person who was swiping in subway commuters at Penn Station, Dec. 9, 2022. major advocacy groups behind it.

PHOTO BY HIRAM ALEJANDRO DURÁN / THE CITY “We’re in the process now of Stettin responded that not want- streets, even if they’re not being building a coalition, an army of and Braunstein sponsored a simisupport of folks who care enough lar bill, aiming to broaden the ing help could be a function of violent.

Adams’ 2022 plan came on the about the mentally ill that they scope of the mental hygiene law. mental illness itself: “I think what want to see things change and get But the bill failed to get out of I take issue with is the notion that heels of several high-profile deaths a person wanting the treatment in and attacks involving mentally ill better and see this as a component committee. some way ma kes them more individuals in subways. The mayof that,” Brian Stettin, senior advior’s approach has been criticized deserving of it.”

Wrong Focus? sor to Adams on matters of severe The Adams administration has by advocacy groups, including the The board members weren’t mental health, told CB 5 members virtually at a hybrid meeting on immediately sold on the idea. called on state legislators for over NYCLU, for forcing people into Among the members present at the a year to change the ment al treatment rather than providing Jan. 2.

The board represents much of conference was Mary Brosnahan, hygiene law so that involuntary more resources such as supportive central Midtown, including Times who previously served as the long- hospitalization would be justified housing.

The Adams administration’s Square and Penn Station, where time president of the Coalition for in circu mstances that extend Adams has suggested removing the Homeless. She asked Stettin beyond the current standard of efforts have yet to translate into strong political backing in Albany. why the city serious harm to oneself or others. people in In November, Adams held a The Braunstein bill backed by was looking emotional to change the City Hall would allow involuntary press conference to tout his plan c r isis a s a Queens lawmaker’s bill standards of hospitalizations on the grounds of on its anniversary, saying it had solut ion t o t h e m e nt a l “substantial inability of the person yielded results and called for state t h e a r e a’s would allow involuntary hygiene law, to meet his or her basic need for legislators to take up Braunstein’s crime and treatment for people r at her t h a n food, clothing, shelter or medical bill this session. homelessness “He will address this series of on care.” issues. with substantial inability focusing The bill would also expand the flaws and gaps in our New York the many At the people who pool of medical experts who can State mental hygiene law that are meeting, to meet basic needs. would like to determine whether a person should making it more difficult to help Stettin hintreceive hos- be hospitalized, and it would those who don’t know they need ed that state expand the definition of serious help,” Adams said of the bill. “And Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton pital treatment but can’t access it.

“What’s clear is that we have harm to self or others to include it will further clarify the role city (D-Brooklyn/Staten Island) was potentially going to introduce the hundreds and hundreds of people psychiatric harm, as opposed to services in providing assistance bill in the Senate, but they were who already meet the current stan- the current standard of physical with those who cannot take care of themselves.” dealing with a procedural snag. dard and can’t get the help they harm.

Stettin argued during the Jan. 2 Adams has argued that these The senator’s office confirmed to need,” she said. “They’re begging THE CITY that she would, indeed, to be admitted, but there’s no changes are critical for his own Midtown board meeting that, while capacity. Why aren’t you focused policy to remove severely mentally the state mental hygiene law sponsor the bill. ill people from the subway and already allows for involuntary hosLast year, Scarcella-Spanton on that?”

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pitalizations under circumstances that go beyond being suicidal or a medical emergency with a imminent threat of death, the statute must be made more explicit. He claimed nearly all other states in the country have language allowing involuntary hospitalization similar to what Adams is calling for.

“What it means to be a danger to oneself or others is really left under the eye of the beholder under New York law in a really unfortunate way and puts us in a very small minority of states,” Stettin said.

‘A Means to an End’ Braunstein told THE CITY in December that efforts to get buyin from his office and the administration would pick up this month.

“The mayor’s office usually has a whole legislative agenda, and I’m hoping that they’ll include this as part of that agenda and push for the legislation,” he said.

While the mayor has emphasized the need for more flexibility for involuntary hospitalizations, others have pointed at the need for more support. A New York Times investigation of nearly a hundred attacks involving mentally ill people in the city found that most did not get adequate psychiatric services and that the relevant state and local agencies failed to properly communicate with each other.

At CB5 in Manhattan, members ultimately agreed that it would be best to decide whether to submit a letter of support or a resolution at a later time, with several members wanting to talk to other advocacy groups to hear the other perspectives before lending their support.

In a conversation with THE CITY after he appeared before the board, Stettin said he thinks people have the wrong idea about what the involuntary hospitalization changes are going to do.

“I think there is a notion out there really, unfortunately, that the idea of bringing people to the hospital is to simply get them off the street and warehouse them in a hospital — a return to the bad old days of the 1950s, where there were no investments in community care,” he said.

“That’s not what we want to go back to at all. Hospitalization is not the end in itself. It is a means Q to an end,” he added.

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One Queens civic leader says suit is a publicity stunt, some are supportive

by Naeisha Rose Associate Editor

To recoup some of the costs incurred over the last 20 months providing emergency shelter to asylu m seekers, Mayor Ad a ms announced last Thursday that his administration filed a lawsuit seeking $708 million against 17 charter bus and transportation companies from the Lone Star State.

In a press release, Adams said that Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas has facilitated the transport of more than 33,600 migrants to the city since the spring of 2022 without having the transit companies pay for the cost of continued care in violation of New York’s Social Services Law. Opinions about the lawsuit in Queens are mixed.

Bob Friedrich, president of the Glen Oaks Village co-op, told the Chronicle via email that the problem will not be resolved unless the border is secure and that the people Adams needs to call out are Gov. Hochul, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn).

“According to Homeland Security, the year prior to this administration there were approx.

400,000 illegal border crossings,” Friedrich said. “The following year it rose to 1.5 million and this year will be 2 million. The city cannot sustain the expenditures that the migrant crisis

is creating.

“We are very concerned about a significant rise in our property taxes to fund the growing deficit, billions of which are caused by the migrant crisis. A significant property tax increase will impact our ability to provide an affordable co-op to our working class families ...”

Friedrich called the lawsuit a publicity stunt.

Aracelia Cook, president of the 149th Street South Ozone Park Civic Association, said the bus operators are doing their job and are simply doing what the owners of the bus companies are telling them to do. “[President] Biden has to come up with a solution and can’t blame Republicans and Republicans can’t blame him,” Cook said.

“They need to come together and do the right thing.”

Cook, who held a toy and clothing drive with St. Paul’s Baptist Church, RiseBoro Community Partners and community-based organizations, which later distributed the items to those in need, including asylum seekers, said she was mostly concerned about migrants being dropped off in New York City as temperatures continue to drop.

“These are people coming from tropical areas,” she said. “We need to pull up our boot straps and do the right thing by every person.”

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“The Mayor is facing many challenges as he governs New York City,” Bryan Block, chairman of Community Board 13, said via email.

“His consideration to sue bus companies is one avenue he is pursuing to maintain the quality of life for our local communities.”

Joyce Denny, president of the United Neighbors Civic Association in Jamaica, said that America is a country of laws.

“We are all migrants and I have nothing against them,” said Denny, who was born in Guyana and is of Jamaican and Trinidadian descent. “With what is happening ... we are taking on the burden and if we can recover some money, we should ... For me, he has taken the brunt of this for something that came into law long before he came around.”

The Community Board 6 chairperson said her district is not presently housing or processing migrants and declined to comment on the matter. CB 9’s chairperson was not available for comment.

A source from the Mayor’s Office told the Chronicle that the $708 million figure is based on the number of asylum seekers Abbott said he has sent to the Big Apple and how much it costs per migrant per day for social services.

The action comes on the heels of bus company operators from Texas circumventing the mayor’s executive order that required they give his administration a 32-hour notice when they were coming into the city with migrants and that the passengers disembark at a designated spot between 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays.

Failure to follow Adams’ order will result in a Class B misdemeanor, fines, a lawsuit and vehicles being impounded, he said.

“He told the [bus operators] to give him 24 hours or whatever and they should have respected that,” Denny said. “Most of the time these [drop-offs] are happening and he has no control.”

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OPINION

NYC: still the safest big city in America

by Eric Adams

Since day one, our administration has been clear about our vision for the five boroughs — creating a city that is safer, more economically viable and more livable for the 8.3 million hardworking New Yorkers who call the greatest city in the world home. I always say that “public safety is the prerequisite to prosperity.” That’s why, since coming into office 24 months ago, we’ve been dedicated to making sure New Yorkers are safer and feel safer.

Two years later, the results are in.

Crime has gone down across the city and jobs have gone up. We have recovered all of the nearly one million private-sector jobs we lost during the pandemic, and New York remains the economic engine of this nation.

When we came into office in January 2022, the city was emerging from the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, and, in just one week, an 11-month-old baby was shot in the head, police officers were shot night after night, and NYPD Dets. Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora were both murdered. The memory of that week will remain with me always.

But, as of Dec. 31, 2023, it’s official: Overall crime was down in 2023. Both murders and shootings were down double digits once again for the year, with murders down 12 percent, and shooting incidents down 25 percent — the highest decrease in shooting incidents in our city since 1995.

These decreases build off of reductions that had already begun under our administration in 2022. And I want to be clear: these aren’t just numbers — these are lives saved, families kept together, and neighborhoods and communities spared from tragedy and trauma.

Shootings were down in all five boroughs — all across our city — in 2023 as compared to 2022. This means our model

of precision policing and our 360-degree approach to tackling cr ime have been working. Our administration continues to support ou r off icers and find upstream solutions to uplift the most vulnerable in all our communities.

Additionally, transit crime declined in 2023, and we have made almost 2,000 arrests related to auto theft — the highest number in 20 years. And in the last two years, we removed more than 13,500 illegal guns from our streets.

We know that traffic violence is also violence, and so we cracked down on illegal scooters and mopeds, seizing more than 12,500 illegal mopeds and scooters in 2023 — this was a 74 percent increase over 2022, and the highest number of mopeds and scooters confiscated in New York City history.

All these measures taken together, along with our continuing fight against illegal and “ghost” guns, have laid the foundation for our economic recovery. And, in just two years, more than 285,000 jobs have been created under our administration.

Thanks to the hard work of NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban, the brave men and women of the NYPD, Deputy Mayor Phil Banks and his public safety team, and the other commissioners and agencies that have worked hand-in-hand on our public safety efforts, New York City remains the safest big city in this country.

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Adams bus charter lawsuit continued from page 21 “New York City has and will always do our part to manage this humanitarian crisis, but we cannot bear the costs of reckless political ploys from the state of Texas alone,” Adams said. “... Governor Abbott’s continued use of migrants as political pawns is not only chaotic and inhumane but makes clear he puts politics over people. Today’s lawsuit should serve as a warning to all those who break the law in this way.”

The Chronicle’s source said that the Mayor’s Office will consider legal options against other bus operators from other states that intend to circumvent Adam’s executive order like those from Texas for acting in bad faith.

Hochul said she supports the mayor’s lawsuit.

“If they are getting paid to break the law by transporting people in need of public assistance into our state, they should be on the hook for the cost of sheltering those individuals — not just passing that expense along to hard-working New Yorkers,” Hochul said in a statement.

As a response to the bus operators dumping migrants in the Garden State, Mayor Sam Joshi of Edison, NJ, said he instructed law enforcement and emergency management to charter a bus back to the southern Texas-Mexico border. On Jan. 2, Fox 5 reported one of two busloads of migrants was stopped in the city and the bus driver

turned around after an interaction with police.

When asked why Adams’ hasn’t taken a similar measure, the Chronicle’s source said that the Big Apple’s Right to Shelter decree, which is approximately 50 years old, would legally prevent that.

In a press conference last Tuesday, Adams said the city is in court arguing that the decree should not be operative in the migrant crisis. “ ... We don’t believe right to shelter should apply to a humanitarian crisis,” Adams continued. “That’s what we believe, and we’re in court right now, clearly articulating that the forefathers and forewomen, mothers of that law did not think that one day we were going to talk about 160 something thousand people showing up at our door.”

The Adams’ administration filed an application in state Supreme Court to modify the decree, issued in the court case Callahan v. Carey, last October. “... As we have said before, the Callahan decree — entered over 40 years ago, when the shelter population was a fraction of its current size — was never intended to apply to the extraordinary circumstances our city faces today ... To be very clear, the city is not seeking to terminate Callahan; we are simply asking for the city’s obligations to be aligned with those of the rest of the state during states of emergency,” the mayor Q said.

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Community Board 5 was scheduled to vote on recommendations Wednesday night for seven potential dispensaries and one microbusiness. The meeting took place after the Chronicle’s deadline.

District Manger Gary Giordano on Wednesday told the Chronicle that Board 5’s Liquor License and Cannabis Committee voted to register objections to

applications for 70-24 Myrtle Ave., 88-50 Myrtle Ave. and 64-29 Myrtle ave., all in Glendale.

No objections were expected for 83-34 Woodhaven Blvd., in Glendale, 56-34 Myrtle Ave. in Ridgewood, 60-42 Myrtle Ave., in Ridgewood and 465 Onderdonk Ave., in Ridgewood. A proposed microbusiness at 58-45 47th St. in Maspeth also was not expected to have objections.

Giordano said an anticipated ninth application for a Flushing Avenue address Q in Maspeth was never filed.

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Hynes said if MoMI has played a given movie recently, they won’t be added to the Curators Choice series even if it was popular with visitors the first time around. continued on page 25

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Back in the day, every good video rental store had a Staff Recommendations shelf, loaded with employee favorites, from blockbusters and classics to under-theradar “in case you missed it” offerings.

The annual Curator’s Choice 2023 series at the Museum of the Moving Image, running through Jan. 28 in Astoria, ratchets that idea up several notches with movies and also some television. MoMI’s Curator of Film Eric Hynes and Associate Curator Edo Choi crafted the series with contributions from Michael Koresky and Sonia Epstein.

It opened on Dec. 26 with the critically acclaimed box office blockbuster “Oppenheimer.”

Hynes on Tuesday told the Chronicle that it is not completely a “best-of” for 2023, though a number of heavyweights made the list this year with titles such as “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Jan. 13), “Ferrari”

(Jan. 21) and “Poor Things” (Jan. 28).

“It winds up being an opportunity to be subjective,” Hynes said.

“We’re not creating a list. We’re programming films.

You can look at my top 10 lists for the year in various publications and they don’t necessarily align with this. Those films aren’t necessarily the same thing as programming a series.

“The same way you would for employee picks, you’re going to try and find films you want to persuade the audience to maybe check out that they haven’t seen, alongside all those obvious classics “It’s a nice opportunity to be subjective, to play something nice that folks want to see and we haven’t played it yet, along with a movie that maybe has been overlooked.”

The film “A Thousand and One” by director and Queens native A.V. Rockwell, will show at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 21.

It tells the story of a woman played by Teyana Taylor who fights to get her 6-year-old child back from foster care after she is released from Rikers Island.

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Abraham Eichenbaum was born Dec. 10, 1903 in Russia. He sailed for New York on the Majestic and landed here in August 1923.

He married Gertrude Blum in May 1936. He was successful in the wholesale fruit business and they settled into a second-story apartment at 42-27 215 St. in Bayside.

Their only child, Jacob, was born Feb. 2, 1943. Known by his friends as Jack, he had a curious mind and brilliance that saw him graduate from Bayside High School in the class of 1959, at age 16. He received a Ph.D in urban geography from the University of Michigan in 1963. He taught at Hunter and Queens colleges and worked in the property division of the city Department of Finance.

Following the death of his father in July 1978, he moved to 36-20 Bowne St., Apt. 6C, in Flushing, where he could overlook the Bowne House and Queens Historical Society daily, living there for the next 44 years.

Upon retirement he became an expert walking tour guide, leading treks all over Queens. The crown jewel in his life came in 2010 when Borough President Helen Mar-

The childhood home of Queens Borough Historian Jack Eichenbaum at 42-27 215 St. in Bayside, as it looked in the 1940s when he INSET PHOTO BY MARK LORD / FILE grew up there. shall appointed him the borough historian.

His encyclopedic information would dazzle anyone who met him. Sadly, he suffered a stroke and died Dec. 30, 2023, at age 80. He Q will be sorely missed by everyone.

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As the nation prepares to honor the life and work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, which would have been his 95th birthday, Queens residents looking for ways to pay tribute to the civil rights hero on the national day of service can find plenty of opportunities here in the Chronicle.

Commonpoint Queens is one of several organizations holding service events on the holiday; it’s the group’s eighth year doing so.

“It’s incredibly inspiring and encouraging to see so many of our community members generously give us their time and energy, coming together to do good for their neighbors,” Danielle Ellman, CEO of Commonpoint Queens, said in a statement.

The group is offering service opportunities at its five locations, all taking place from 12 to 2 p.m.

In partnership with the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York, the Little Neck branch (aka the Sam Fields Center) will assemble soup kits. Volunteers can put

Volunteers all over Queens will give back to their communities on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with other events also celebrating his legacy.

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together oatmeal packages, plant bulbs or donate blood at the group’s Forest Hills site. In Bay Terrace, they will make care packages for chemotherapy patients, fleece scarves at the Alley Pond Park Tennis Center and self-care packages in Jamaica. Volunteers at all five sites will assemble first-aid kits and make no-sew sock puppets.

Required registration is available at commonpointqueens.org/mlk.

There also are service opportunities at several Queens parks, with cleanups at Idlewild Park, Forest Park and Highland Park from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. where volunteers can help rake leaves, cut vines and even engage in discussion about King. Advance regis-

tration is at nycgovparks.org/ event s /mlk- day- of-ser vice is required.

Other groups are offering commemorative programming in the coming days. That includes the Queens Public Library, where branches throughout the system have scheduled a variety of events related to King.

The Langston Hughes Library in Elmhurst will host two screenings for the holiday: one of Sidney Poitier’s “Brother John” this evening, Jan. 11, and another showing a variety of King’s speeches next Thursday, Jan. 18. Both the Flushing and Glen Oaks branches will host MLK-themed storytimes Friday at 4 p.m.

The QPL will host a virtual discussion on activism from the 19th century to the present on Tuesday, Jan. 16 at 6 p.m. Panelists include Andrew Jackson, QPL board member and professor of Black studies at York College, Weeksville Heritage Center President and CEO Raymond Codrington and Christopher Paul Harris, author of “To Build a Black Future.” Access that

event via queenslibrary.org.

The Black Spectrum Theatre Co. will pay tribute to King with five performances of “The Mountaintop,” a play depicting the civil rights hero’s last day on Earth. Live at the company’s home in Roy Wilkins Park, shows will begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Monday, with a Saturday matinee beginning at 2 p.m. and a Sunday one at 4 p.m. Tickets are $35, and can be found at blackspectrum. com. Prior to Monday’s performance, Black Spectrum will unveil an 8-foot bronze statue of King in the theater lobby.

Queens College will host its annual commemoration to King on Sunday, Jan. 14, at the school’s Lefrak Concert Hall starting at 3 p.m. In addition to the premiere of the newest episode of the QC x MLK legacy connection docuseries, those in attendance will hear a keynote speech from Jennifer Jones Austin, executive director and CEO of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies.

Guests are asked to RSVP at Q qc.cuny.edu/mlk-day.

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“More often than not, I would say there are more good dramas than good comedies,” he said. “A good comedy that is actually creative, is genuinely funny, that has good timing, it’s hard to replace that.”

As for the festival, Hynes said a broad approach is beneficial. This year, aside from some of the better-known names, there are documentaries, an animated film and more than a dozen international films, with directors scheduled to appear in person at a number of showings.

A presentation on Jan. 7 even saw episode 3 of season 4 of the television series “Succession,” the episode titled “Connor’s Wedding.” Director Mark Mylod was in attendance.

Hynes said that there are many moving parts to manage in setting up the series, requiring planning to start in the fall. And he said the timing also was done deliberately to align with the period just before the start of the major awards season, when directors and filmmakers are more likely available to schedule a visit.

The schedule of the remaining movies

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“Ideally, you’re sort of able to wear a different couple of glasses so that you can still enjoy the pleasure of it while you’re analyzing it.”

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C M SQ page 28 Y K SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS INDEX NO. 706683/2023 Plaintiff designates QUEENS as the place of trial situs of the real To Advertise Call 718-205-8000 To Advertise Call 718-205-8000 property Mortgaged Premises: 90-02 215TH STREET, QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11428 Block: 10648, Lot: 27 U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT Howard Beach, Sun 1/14, 12-2pm, NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME NOTICE OF SALE SOLELY AS COLLATERAL TRUST TRUSTEE OF FIRSTKEY MASTER EQUAL HOUSING. Federal, New COURT QUEENS COUNTY IN FORECLOSURE STATE FUNDING 2021-A COLLATERAL TRUST Plaintiff, vs. JEAN PAUL York State and local laws prohibit 98-12 162 Ave. Charming Colonial Home. All updated, 3 BR, 1 1/2 WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND OF NEW YORK SUPREME PAREJA, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF IVAN discrimination because of race, bath. Wrap-around deck, 4 car SOCIETY, FSB, DOING BUSINESS COURT: COUNTY OF QUEENS BORSIC; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE color, sex, religion, age, national dvwy, EIK, XL LR, split CAC, Low origin, marital status, familial staAS CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL OF IVAN BORSIC, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, tus or disability in connection with Taxes. Asking $829K, Connexion IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or the sale or rental of residential real Real Estate, 718-845-1136 BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FOR NOMURA HOME EQUITY estate. Queens Chronicle does not Howard Beach/Rockwood Park. specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such BCAT 2015-13BTT, Plaintiff LOAN, INC., ASSET-BACKED knowingly accept advertising in Sat 1/13, 1:30-3pm, 164-22 91 St. violation of these laws. When you Brick/Frame Hi-Ranch on 40x100, against RASEL PETTER, et CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006- unknown persons being herein generally described and intended al Defendant(s) Attorney for HE1, Plaintiff, v. CHRISTOPHER to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, suspect housing discrimination 3 BRs, 2 Baths, Original Hi-Ranch Plaintiff(s) Knuckles, Komosinski DUNN A/K/A CHRISTOPHER R. widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, call the Open Housing Center (the Converted to Colonial With Mint Housing Agency for the five executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, Fair Kitchen, Granite & S.S. Appliances, & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, DUNN, ET AL. Defendants. boroughs of New York) at 212committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT 941-6101, or the New York City Sliding Door to Yard. Natural Gas Pursuant to a Judgment of In pursuance of a Judgment all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real Commission of Human Rights Baseboard Heating, Hot Water.

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The Queens Chronicle reserves Estate, 718-845-1136 October 31, 2019, I will sell at entered in the Office of the respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next the right to alter wording in ads public auction to the highest County Clerk of Queens of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, to conform with Federal Fair Howard Beach/Rockwood Park, Thur 1/11, 7pm-8pm & Sun 1/14, bidder at steps of Queens County on March 10, 2023, I, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and Housing regulations.

2:30-4pm, 160-39 90 St. HiCounty Supreme Court, 88-11 Jeffrey Kim, Esq. the Referee whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; BANK OF Ranch, 3 BRs, 1 1/2 baths. Turn Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY named in said Judgment, this into your Dream Home!

AMERICA, N.A.; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; 11435 on January 26, 2024 will sell in one parcel at Asking $819K, Connexion Real NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY at 10:00 AM. Premises known public auction on January Rego Park.Non-Smoker. Ideal, Estate, 718-845-1136 TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT as 99-23 215th Street, Queens 26, 2024 at the Courthouse OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; “JOHN large studio. New kitchen appliVillage, NY 11429. Block 11089 Steps of the Queens County ances, new bathroom, large walkLot 7. All that certain plot, piece Supreme Court, 88-11 DOE” AS “JOHN DOE #1”; “JANE DOE” AS “JOHN DOE #2”, “JOHN in closet. Walking to transportaor parcel of land, situate, lying Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, DOE #3” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last ten names being tion & shopping. Reasonable rent, Ozone Park, small, modern 3-desk and being in the Fourth Ward NY 11435, at 12:30 PM fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended utilities included. Available office. Busy area. $1,050/mo. Call 718-551-4836 of the Borough and County of the premises described as being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having 01/08/24. References, income, Queens, City and State of New follows: 134-57 232nd Street, or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the credit report checked. Call owner, Classified Ad Deadline is 12 Noon on Tuesday for Thursday’s paper.

York. Approximate Amount of Laurelton, NY 11413 SBL No.: complaint, Defendants. To the above named Defendants YOU ARE 718-897-9735. No Brokers Judgment is $512,495.47 Block 13160 Lot 6 ALL that HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled plus interest, fees, and costs. certain plot, piece or parcel THE QUEENS CHRONICLE action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney Premises will be sold subject of land, with the buildings and within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive IN PRINT and ONLINE to provisions of filed Judgment improvements thereon erected, of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the Gets Read. Gets Remembered. Gets Results!

Index No 710013/2018. Cash situate, lying and being in same is complete where service is made in any manner other will not be accepted at the sale. the Borough and County of To advertise, call today QUEENS The foreclosure sale will be Queens. The premises are sold than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of 718-205-8000 America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or conducted in accordance with subject to the provisions of qchron.com Queens’ Largest Weekly Community Newspaper Group appear within sixty (60) days of service.

Your failure to appear or to the filed judgment, Index No. 11th Judicial District’s Covid-19 Policies and foreclosure auction 712819/2018 in the amount answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief rules. The Referee shall enforce of $603,538.04 plus interest demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against any rules in place regarding and costs. The aforementioned Notice of Formation of Notice of Formation of facial coverings and social auction will be conducted in you. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE FIVE POINTS BUILDERS LLC CHRISTINA CASPER NUTRITION LLC accordance with the Court distancing. Referee will only OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage accept a certified bank check System’s COVID-19 mitigation to secure the sum of $356,000.00 and interest, recorded on Articles of Organization were fi led Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New made payable to the referee. protocols and as such all July 06, 2005, in CRFN 2005000379613, of the Public Records of with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/10/2024. Offi ce Janet L. Brown, Esq., Referee persons must comply with QUEENS County, New York, covering premises known as 90-02 York (SSNY) on 11/18/2023. Offi ce location: Queens County. SSNY has social distancing, wearing location: Queens County. SSNY has File # 2296-001049 masks and screening practices 215TH STREET, QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11428. The relief sought been designated as agent of the LLC been designated as agent of the in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of LLC upon whom process against in effect at the time of this upon whom process against it may it may be served. SSNY shall mail the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by THE QUEENS foreclosure sale. Woods Oviatt be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of a copy of process to: JOSEPH the Mortgage described above.

QUEENS County is designated Gilman LLP, Attorneys for CHRONICLE process to: THE LIMITED LIABILITY MONTEBELLO, 8605 BEACH as the place of trial because the real property affected by this Plaintiff, 500 Bausch & Lomb COMPANY, 6960 108TH ST., CHANNEL DRIVE, UNIT #2, FAR is home Place, Rochester, NY 14604 action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF APT 15, FOREST HILLS, NY 11375.

ROCKAWAY, NY 11693. Purpose: Tel.: 855-227-5072 100112-4 LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and to the topics For any lawful purpose.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

78757 complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for that matter the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding Notice of Formation of Notice of Formation of Notice of Formation of to you most. against you and filing the answer with the court, a default ESSENTIAL FIRST AID LLC Articles JUST A TOUCH OF BALLOONS LLC Caminos Unidos LLP Articles of Organization were fi led with the judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak of Organization were fi led with the Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for Secretary of State of New York Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/26/2023.

Offi ce loYork (SSNY) on 01/01/2024. Offi ce further information on how to answer the summons and protect (SSNY) on 10/12/2023. Offi ce location: Queens County. SSNY has location: Queens County. SSNY your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company cation: Queens County. SSNY has has been designated as agent will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY been designated as agent of the been designated as agent of the LLC of the LLP upon whom process upon whom process against it may SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE LLC upon whom process against against it may be served. SSNY it may be served.

SSNY shall mail be served. SSNY shall mail a copy PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER QUEENS shall mail a copy of process to: a copy of process to: THE LIMITED of process to: ANDREA OBRIEN, WITH THE COURT. Dated: December 8th, 2023 ROBERTSON, UNITED STATE CORPORATION LIABLITLTY COMPANY, 6930 62ND 116-28 217TH STREET, CAMBRIA ANSCHUTZ, SCHNEID, CRANE & PARTNERS, PLLC, Attorney for Queens’ Largest Weekly Community Newspaper Group AGENTS, INC, 7014 13TH AVENUE, HEIGHTS, NY 11411. Purpose: For Plaintiff, Orit Avraham, Esq., 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, ST APT 4F, RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385.

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C M SQ page 29 Y K Notice of Formation of KBLAKE LLC Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/07/2023. Offi ce location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: THE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, 13520 241ST ST, ROSEDALE, NY 11422.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MBP GENERAL CONSTRUCTION LLC Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/21/2023.

Offi ce location: Queens County.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: WALTER R QUINTUNA, 1863 MENAHAN ST, UNIT 3R, RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MURAFA PLLC Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/28/2023. Offi ce location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 413 WOODWARD AVENUE, 3L, RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Niyati LLC fi led 12/12/23.

Cty: Queens. SSNY desig. for process & shall mail to: c/o Paypal Patel, 265-04 E Williston Ave., Floral Park, NY 11001. Purp: any lawful.

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Notice of formation of Safety Blanket Homecare Agency Limited Liability Company. Articles of Organization fi led with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 8/28/23. Offi ce located in Queens County. SSNY has been designated for service of process.

SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC at 13844C Queens Blvd., Unit 213, Briarwood, NY 11435. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

SKYLINE TOWER 603 LLC Art. of Org. fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/13/2023. Off. loc: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: SKYLINE TOWER 603 LLC, 3 COURT SQUARE, UNIT 603, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of PARADIES LAGARDERE @ JFK T5 2023, LLC Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/18/23. Offi ce location: Queens County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: 2849 Paces Ferry Rd., Ste. 400, Atlanta, GA 30339. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS INDEX NO. 722148/2022 Plaintiff designates QUEENS as the place of trial situs of the real property Mortgaged Premises: 49-06 ENFIELD PLACE , BAYSIDE, NY 11364 Block: 7490, Lot: 58 THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-OA6 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-OA6 Plaintiff, vs. HYE SUN CHANG, if living, and if she/ he 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 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; RCS RECOVERY SERVICES, LLC; BNB BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, A NATIONAL BANKING ASSOCIATION; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; WILLIAM WOO, “JOHN DOE #2” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last eleven names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. Your failure to appear or to answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $623,000.00 and interest, recorded on January 11, 2006, in CRFN 2006000018332, of the Public Records of QUEENS County, New York., covering premises known as 49-06 ENFIELD PLACE, BAYSIDE, NY 11364. 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 Notice of Formation of against you and filing the answer with the court, a default SOZA LLC Articles of Organiza- judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak tion were fi led with the Secreto an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for tary of State of New York (SSNY) further information on how to answer the summons and protect on 07/27/2023. Offi ce location: your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company Queens County. SSNY has been will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY designated as agent of the LLC SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE upon whom process against PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER it may be served. SSNY shall mail WITH THE COURT. Dated: December 12th, 2023, ROBERTSON, a copy of process to: SOZA LLC, ANSCHUTZ, SCHNEID, CRANE & PARTNERS, PLLC, Attorney for 139-26 228TH STREET, LAURELPlaintiff, Matthew Rothstein, Esq., 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite TON, NY 11413. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS, INDEX NO. 708584/2015 Plaintiff designates QUEENS as the place of trial situs of the real property THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE FOR JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF POPULAR ABS INC. MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2005-5, Plaintiff, vs. DINDYAL SINGH if living, and if she/he 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 be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, 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, 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 SABITA RAMNARINE if living, and if she/he 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 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; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; “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.

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 145-34 123RD AVENUE JAMAICA, NY 11436 District: Section: Block: 12049 Lot: 16. 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 $433,500.00 and interest, recorded on October 11, 2005, at Instrument number 2005000563884, of the Public Records of QUEENS County, New York, covering premises known as 145-34 123RD AVENUE, JAMAICA, NY 11436. 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: December 19th, 2023, RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff DANIEL GREENBAUM, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675

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Traditional first lap ceremony returns to Juniper Valley Park work offered

by Michael Gannon Senior News Editor

The annual March for Life in Middle Village, scheduled for June 22 at Juniper Valley Park, will, as always, be a celebration in the fight against cancer.

On Saturday, Jan. 6, it started off like it always does — with a lap around the track at Brennan Field on a chilly, windy afternoon in Juniper Valley Park.

This year, nine members of the group actually did a bonus second lap.

“Every year on the first Saturday in January,” said Marsha Fromowitz.

“My sister lives near Mahopac,” said one walker. They’re doing their lap today too.”

In June they will celebrate cancer survivors amongst themselves, their family and friends. They will celebrate the lives of those who have been taken by the disease in its many forms.

And they will raise money and awareness for the American Cancer Society.

“It doesn’t matter what kind of cancer you have,” said Jeff Orloff. “I had thyroid cancer.”

Teams and their captains meet once a month. Groups of family and friends can form teams, as do many businesses in Middle Village. Participants sign up sponsors to raise money for cancer research.

Members of the Relay for Life Team of Middle Village took their traditional first lap of the new year last Saturday at Brennan Field in Juniper Valley Park. PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON Linda Rarich said teams set up camp on the infield with their food, chairs, blankets and tents.

“We’ll get 600 or 700 people here,” Fromowitz said. Earlier in the week, when the weather forecast was threatening, Fromowitz told the Chronicle that the first lap ceremony comes off every year, regardless.

“Rain, snow or shine,” she said. “But we’re not supposed to get any snow until the evening.”

The same goes for the relay in June, minus any threat of snow.

Anyone interested in forming or joining a team or sponsoring a walker is invited to check out the group’s website at Q bit.ly/4b4V59Z.

The Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee for Asbestos, Lead, and Hazardous Waste Laborers, Local Union 78, will conduct a recruitment for 20 skilled construction craft laborer apprentices from Jan. 16 through 29.

Applications may be picked up at the JATC, at 11-17 43 Ave. in Long Island City, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, during the recruitment period, excluding legal holidays. Only 200 will be distributed, and the recruitment will end early if they run out. The applications must be returned by 4 p.m.

Feb. 12.

Applicants must meet a slew of requirements, including the ability to lift and carry 94 pounds of material for 30 feet.

For more information, one may call Local Union 78 at (212) 227-4803.

Meanwhile the High Rise Concrete Carpenters of New York City started a recruitment Jan. 10 for 15 carpenter apprentices. The effort runs through Nov. 13. Applicants may call (212) 7272224, ext. 111, for further information.

More about the recruitments, and others, is at dol.ny.gov/apprenticeship/overQ view.

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brought up how a court was going to release the infamous “Jeffrey Epstein list.” He then said Chronicle Contributor Aaron Rodgers will undoubtedly get a bust ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel one day in the Pro Football of Fame located in would not be happy. Rodgers was not pleased Canton, Ohio, based on his career with the Green that Kimmel tore him apart in his monologue two Bay Packers. Rodgers is a bust, however, when years ago about his immunization claims.

Kimmel threatened Rodgers with a lawsuit. he opines on subjects other than football.

Rodgers has long been a Covid-19 vaccines My guess is that will never happen. Rodgers and skeptic even though he does not have a science Kimmel are public figures, which raises the bar degree. In fairness, there are some in the medical for winning any legal actions. Rodgers never community who share his beliefs. What angered explicitly said Kimmel would be on the list; only everyone two years ago, however, was Rodgers that he would be unhappy. That could easily claiming he was “immunized” against Covid-19, mean he would not like hearing the names of indicating he did get vaccinated. He eventually those who share his political leanings on it, such as former President Bill Clinton. conceded he was misleading people.

McAfee found himself in a difficult spot. He He poked fun at Kansas City Chiefs tight end and Taylor Swift boyfriend Travis Kelce by refer- and Kimmel work for the Walt Disney Co. He ring to him as “Mr. Pfizer” for his television knew ESPN CEO James Pitaro and Disney chief commercials urging people to get vaccinated Bob Iger would be livid, which they were.

McAfee apologized to Kimmel the next day. against Covid-19 and influenza.

Fast forward to last Tuesday when Rodgers Rodgers’ status as a weekly guest was unclear.

Jets players voted Rodgers their most inspiramade his weekly appearance on Pat McAfee’s ESPN show. McAfee’s production company tional player two days later, though he missed allegedly pays Rodgers $1 million for these almost all of the 2023 season. He’s been a good spots. McAfee is paid around $17 million annu- mentor. He properly called out the equipment ally by ESPN. Having Rodgers had been a good staff for not packing the right cleats for players in investment because his remarks, mostly NFL- the Dec. 28 loss to the Browns in Cleveland.

Rodgers’ new year’s resolution should be to related, generate buzz, especially in New York Q limit his public remarks to football. since Rodgers is now a member of the Jets.

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Thurs., Jan. 11th Eve. 7:00-8:00pm Sun., Jan. 14th 2:30-4:00pm 160-39 90th Street

Asking $819K

$829K

FAIRFIELD ARMS 1 BR, 1 Full Bath Co-op – Needs TLC

HAMILTON BEACH

HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK

LAND FOR SALE! 69x154

Reduced $167K Asking $140K

HOWARD BEACH Unique Doll House, Mint Condition Raised Ranch, 2 BRs, 1½ Baths, New Porcelain Tiled Floors, Tankless Water Heater System, Vaulted Ceiling in Kitchen with Skylight, Has Elevation Certifi cate.

Discover the charm of city living in this beautiful 1 BR Co-op! Features a brand-new kitchen & bath, proximity to a bustling shopping center, & low maint.

Offers a lifestyle of convenience & sophistication. Revel in the joy of cooking in your contemporary kitchen, equipped w/brand-new appliances & stylish fi nishes. Simplify your life without compromising on quality & style.

Sunday, January 14th 11am - 1pm 70-26 Queens Blvd.

Looking for a Condo?

Asking $499K Own this 1 Family Home Instead!

Brookfi eld Style High Ranch on Oversized Lot 45.42x100, Move-in Condition, Top Floor Features 3 BR & 2 Full Baths, Large EIK, Cathedral Ceilings, S.S. Refrigerator, Master BR Has Full Bath, Walk-in Features 1 Large BR/Offi ce, New Kitchen w/Granite Cuntertops, Sub Zero Fridge, Sliding Doors to Beautiful Park Like Yard W/Large Salt Water Pool & Pavers.

Asking $1,100,000

HOWARD BEACH (old side) 2 Houses Both Legal 2 Families Great for Investment!!!

Each with: 2 BR, 1½ Bath - 2 BR, 1½ Bath Walk-in 1 BR, 1 Bath, Garage & Driveway

$1,088,000 each

CONR-082770

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Colonial

• Lindenwood •

New to the market! Home being used as a 2 family, however the CO allows for professional offi ce or commercial plus 2 apartments. Private driveway, conveniently located across from a major shopping mall.

Excellent condition, great investment!

Investors delight! Building For Sale: 6 separate units for generating income!

Ground level offers 4 total storefronts & 2nd fl offers 2 - 1 BR units. All renovated units in excellent condition. Great corner location near transportation to Manhattan. Great vehicle & foot traffi c offering massive exposure. Don’t let this opportunity pass you by!

OPEN HOUSE

Sun., Jan. 14th 12:00-2:00pm 98-12 162nd Avenue

HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK HOWARD BEACH/ LINDENWOOD Brick/Frame Hi-Ranch on 40x100, 3 BRs, 2 Baths, OPEN HOUSE

Reduced $849K CENTREVILLE/OZONE PARK

• Ozone Park •

• Broad Channel ••

Large LR, EIK, hardwood fl oors, tiled fl oor, quartz countertops, offi ce or BR on 1st floor. Jacuzzi bath tub, new outside fencing, large screen house, deck & balcony off BR. Solar panels purchased by current owner & are included in sale of house. Walk to park, schools & express bus to Manhattan.

HOWARD BEACH OPEN HOUSE

English / Habla Espanol & Italiano Spoken Here

Original Hi-Ranch Converted Sat., Jan. 13th 1:30-3:00pm 164-22 91 Street to Colonial With Mint Kitchen, Granite & S.S. Appliances, Sliding Door to Yard. Natural Gas Baseboard Heating Hot Water.

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