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For example, some see his idea to revamp the Van Wyck worsening traffic if done at the same time as the city’s Select Bus Service proposal. Meanwhile, a think tank is getting a head start on figuring out how people could take a one-seat ride to the airport by offering a familiar proposal, the Rockaway Beach Rail Line.

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City bag bill is back, starting on Feb. 15 Five-cent fee applies to most paper, plastic grocery totes after 4-mo. delay

by Michael Gannon Editor

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ne of the hottest stories last spring was the City Council’s close and contentious vote to charge customers five cents for almost every paper or plastic grocery bag they use while food shopping.

Originally set to be implemented last October, the fee was pushed back to Feb. 15 when the state Legislature threatened to ban such fees. The issue faded into obscurity under things like the presidential election.

That could change once the new session of the state Legislature goes into high gear in the coming weeks.

Three state senators from Queens — all of whom opposed the Council measure — told the Chronicle that Albany could well be reviving the bag bill ban.

“The reason the Council delayed it until February is because the Senate was considering taking up a bill,” Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach). “They may make us do that again. I’m not against recycling or reducing litter. This isn’t the way to do it.”

Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) said while the session still is in its earliest phases, he is hearing that more action could be taken.

Comrie said last spring that the fee, which under statute is kept by the stores, would hit low-income residents the hardest, and that

Most grocery bags will start costing shoppers five cents apiece come Feb. 15 when a bill originally passed last spring goes into effect. Action in the state capital last year led to a four-month FILE PHOTO delay for the start date. And Albany could act again in the next few weeks. many people in his district could feel the effect of even a few dollars per month. But he also is not jumping on a Senate ban bandwagon just yet.

“I want to see what a new bill looks like,” he said in a telephone interview. “The last bill did nothing for people in my district.”

Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) said the fee makes no sense.

“When we began recycling, we didn’t charge people,” he said. “We gave people the bins. And when I put my newspapers out, I put them out in a plastic bag and the Department of Sanitation takes it. Why can’t they

take other plastic bags?”

Sen. Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn,) who sponsored the Senate measure last year, declined to comment. Assemblyman Michael Cusick (D-Staten Island), who sponsored the companion bill, could not be reached. Raul Contreras, a spokesman for Mayor de Blasio, said it still has City Hall’s backing.

“The Council passed a bill that struck the right balance,” he said. “It reduced reliance on single-use bags and incentivized the use of reusable bags while safeguarding consumers with logical exemptions to protect vulnerable New Yorkers. We are going to continue to work with our partners in the City Council and Albany on implementation of this legislation.”

Jordan Christiansen, program coordinator with Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said she is encouraged by similar bills that have been passed or enacted in places like Suffolk County, Long Beach, LI and California, mostly modeled on an existing regulation in Washington, DC that has reduced bag usage by up to 80 percent. She said aside from removing trash from the waste stream, it makes economic sense by saving the cost of disposal.

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Workers hogging parking in Centreville Residents frustrated; Eric Ulrich urges commish to put an end to it

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

While Centreville residents are being forced to park blocks away from their homes, construction workers are leaving their cars in spots with “No Parking” signs with impunity, Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) and a civic leader said on Tuesday.

“The workers leave their cars there all day,” said Howie Kamph, president of the Ozone Park Civic Association. “[The residents], they got to park four, five blocks away.”

The workers are in the community as p a r t of t h e d e c a d e s -i n - t h e - m a k i n g HWQ411B project — which was proposed before Ulrich was born.

In an effort to accommodate the construction — which seeks to place 12 miles of sidewalks, roads and curbs and replace two miles of sewer lines and three miles of water mains within the community — the city placed “No Parking from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.” signs throughout the community.

Despite that, workers have been spotted in those areas.

“However, residents have noticed that construction workers on the project are parking their cars in these “No Parking” areas, and putting their construction vests on the dashboards to avoid getting parking

Construction workers in Centreville have been spotted parking on grassy areas in the community, despite residents saying they’re off limits. On top of that, the workers have been spotted in PHOTO COURTESY HOWIE KAMPH areas marked “No Parking.” tickets,” Ulrich said in a Jan. 10 letter to Department of Design and Construction Commissioner Feniosky Peña-Mora. “The city, on one hand, is telling residents it’s too dangerous to park in these areas, while simultaneously allowing construction workers to park in those same spots.”

Kamph said at least six residents have

complained to him about the problem, some of whom have received tickets while the construction workers go unpenalized.

In addition to that, Kamph said the workers are parking on grassy areas in the community that homeowners were told was off limits for vehicles.

A DDC spokeswoman defended the prac-

tice in an interview Wednesday morning.

“It’s much easier for them to maneuver the construction materials,” said Shavone Williams. “We’re trying to minimize the amount of parking we take up in the residential community.”

The councilman is calling for an end to the no parking regulations or the agency to instruct workers not to park there.

“This is simply unfair to the residents of the community, who have dealt with periodic water shutoffs, limited parking, and possibly losing part of their property,” he said.

The city needs to claim some land from homeowners to expand the area’s sidewalks to make it compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, a move that has angered some residents who say they’re getting too little money in exchange for the land they’re being asked to give up. In some cases, residents are refusing to give up any amount of land.

Williams did not rule out the possibility of a parking rule change some time in the future.

“It’s not to say we won’t have a discussion with the contractor,” she told the Chronicle. “We always want to make sure we’re working with the community and their needs.”

The project is expected to be completed Q in 2018.

Civics praise Cross Bay towing operation Cars were illegally parked on the sidewalk

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After many complaints from residents of the 106th Precinct, officers have taken action by towing cars parked on the sidewalk along Cross Bay Boulevard by a “Cash 4 Cars” location.

“We’re very pleased the precinct responded very well to this,” said Frank Dardani, the command’s community council president. “I’ve gotten a lot of emails and messages on Facebook thanking them for hitting that area.”

The precinct carried out the operation last Wednesday, towing some of the vehicles — some without license plates and others with plates that didn’t match the cars — left on the sidewalk and issuing summonses for others.

A 106th Precinct spokesman said three cars were towed and 19 were issued summonses for a variety of offenses.

The cars, according to Dardani and others, were placed there by “Cash 4 Cars,” a business located at 134-34 Cross Bay Blvd. that sells scrap metal and other parts off old cars.

Joann Ariola, president of the nearby Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association, has not received any specific complaints about Cash 4 Cars but has seen its effects on the neighborhood.

“Blocking sidewalks and entryways to streets should not be tolerated,” Ariola said.

Dardani said the 106th Precinct had discussions with the

owners of the business, who did not address the situation in a satisfactory manner.

“They had a couple of different conversations; we didn’t see a change so they did an operation,” the precinct community council president said. “It’s starting to look a lot better now that they’ve done that.”

This won’t be the end of such initiatives in the area, Dardani added.

Businesses near Cross Bay Boulevard and Sutter Avenue and others on Liberty Avenue between 86th and 88th streets have also been putting vehicles on the sidewalks, he told the Chronicle.

“They’re going to start to get summonses and maybe the same type of towing operation,” Dardani said.

The issue is not limited to South Queens as other parts of the borough have also had difficulties with businesses leaving cars on the sidewalk.

Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) last year introduced a bill that would suspend or revoke the licenses of businesses found in violation of the law more than twice in one year and increase penalties for repeat offenders. That bill is in front of the Committee on Consumer Affairs.

Ariola said Howard Beach once had a business that frustrated its residents in a similar way, until it was addressed Q years ago.

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Van Wyck + SBS = traffic troubles?

Not at all, says DOT, while others worry projects will cause a nightmare

by Anthony O’Reilly

Cuomo said the changes will alleviate bottlenecks along the thoroughfare and save While the Department of Transportation motorists a combined travel time of 7.4 milsees no problem with the governor’s propos- lion hours annually.

Braton said it’s her board’s belief that al to widen the Van Wyck Expressway — as part of his plan to transform John F. Kenne- SBS will increase congestion and that the dy International Airport — some believe it Van Wyck project could add to that.

The Governor’s Office did not give a could conf lict with the agency’s plan for Select Bus Service on Woodhaven and timeline for the Van Wyck work and it’s unknown when the full SBS project is Cross Bay boulevards.

“Maybe, it might be a good idea to hold off expected to kick off.

The DOT is not on it,” Betty Braton, convinced that the chairwoman of Comtwo projects present mu nit y Board 10, here’s not many the possibilit y for said last Thursday. t raff ic t roubles in As Braton pointed north-south corridors the area. out, the Van Wyck “We do not view Expressway and in Queens in that area.” the proposal to Wo o d h a v e n a n d — State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. address key bottleCross Bay bou le necks in road access vards are both major to and from JFK on nor th-south cor r idors. The DOT is planning to redo parts of the Van Wyck and at the Kew Gardens the boulevards as part of SBS — putting a Interchange as being in conf lict with the Woodhaven/Cross Bay Boulevard SBS projdedicated bus lane in some parts.

Meanwhile, the governor last Wednes- ect,” a spokesperson said in an email to the day announced a $2 billion plan to widen Chronicle.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard the Van Wyck in both directions from three lanes to four and the connector Beach) sided with Braton, saying doing ramps at the Kew Gardens Interchange work on both at the same time could theoretically present a problem. from two to three.

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While the Department of Transportation continues to push the SBS proposal for Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards, some believe the governor’s Van Wyck expansion plan could add to the FILE PHOTOS congestion on the corridor.

“There’s not many north-south corridors in Queens in that area,” the senator said in a Tuesday interview.

Addabbo believes that once completed, the SBS project could lead to longer commutes for motorists due to the elimination of a lane for cars between Park Lane South and Rockaway Boulevard/Liberty Avenue for a bus lane, which is expected to be finished

sometime this year.

“That’s my belief and the belief of many in the community,” he said.

Addabbo added he is still pushing for buses to travel along the service lane on Woodhaven and Cross Bay, rather than along the main roadway.

“I think that alleviates some of the probQ lems there,” he said.

Think tank proposes RBL to JFK Airport One of five options released after governor’s overhaul announcement

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Following Gov. Cuomo’s proposal to bring John F. Kennedy International Airport into the 21st Century, the influential think tank Regional Plan Association released five ways commuters could have a one-seat ride to and from the airport — including the ever-controversial Rockaway Beach Rail Line.

“Tens of thousands of Queens families endure the longest commutes in the city and I applaud the RPA for evaluating different transportation possibilities,” said Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) in a statement sent to the Chronicle. “Reactivation of the Rockaway Beach Rail Line, which I fully support, is the most beneficial option.”

As always, the idea of bringing the rail back brought with it objections from those who want to see the abandoned right-of-way turned into parkland.

“The RPA report suggests a number of options for a one-seat ride including the possible reactivation of the Rockaway Beach Branch,” said Travis Terry, Friends of the QueensWay Steering Committee member, in a statement. “It also rightfully points out that one of the cons of this option is the loss of the QueensWay, a potential 47-acre park that many resi-

The Regional Plan Association released five proposals to offer one-seat rides to and from John F. PHOTO COURTESY RPA Kennedy International Airport. dents and organizations citywide have strongly advocated for.”

The RPA report offers few details on how reactivating the line — last used in the 1960s — would be accomplished. It does offer three different ways it could connect Manhattan to the airport, including running trains from Penn Station to the airport and running it along the LIRR mainline.

Larry Penner, a transportation historian and former official at the U.S. Department of Transportation, said the plan — along with the other four — are unlikely ever to come to fruition.

“There is no room to run additional trains into or out of Penn Station during either a.m. or p.m. rush hours,” Penner said.

“No new additional space at Penn Station

will become available until the MTA LIRR East Side Access to Grand Central Terminal is complete. The most recent forecasted date is December 2023. Based upon past history, this could slip to 2024.”

Still, Pheffer Amato believes the rail is desperately needed in her district.

“Not only will reactivation of the line create much-needed job opportunities, ease congestion, connect neighborhoods but will spur economic development in Souther n Queens and the Rockaway Communities — which has been ignored for too long,” she said in her statement.

The MTA is in the process of conducting a feasibility study for bringing back the rail line, which is expected to be completed sometime in June. It’s not the first such study to be conducted of the line.

Although the RPA suggests the line as a one-seat route to JFK, it notes the loss of the QueensWay would be a “con” of the plan.

“We would also note other harms to the community such as the closure of little leagues, reduction of existing park space and having a train run dangerously close to thousands of homes and a number of schools,” Terry said in his statement. “Though the devil is in the details, we very much hope that any plan for a continued on page 15

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P The successful presidency of Barack Obama

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president, just like a governor or mayor, should be judged based on what he inherited from his predecessor and what he will leave to his successor.

By nearly all metrics, Barack Obama’s presidency, which will end at noon on Jan. 20 as his polar opposite takes the job, has been a success. With the nation so divided over the future, as well as the past, it’s worth taking a look at just what Obama achieved during his two terms.

The first subject has to be the economy. Obama took office at the height of what was clearly the worst recession since the 1930s. The economy was contracting by 8 percent a quarter. Unemployment had doubled from 5 to 10 percent, with a loss of eight million jobs. Housing prices had dropped by a staggering average of 30 percent and the foreclosure crisis, which in the city devastated Southeast Queens in particular but hit other neighborhoods hard too, was taking its toll. The loss of paper wealth amounted to $15 trillion.

Nor was the downturn limited to the United States. This was a worldwide recession, but America under Obama took the lead in turning things around. One month after he took office in January 2009, Congress passed a $787 billion stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,

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which juiced the economy with about $550 billion in spending and the rest in targeted tax breaks. On March 9, the stock market began to turn around. Job growth took several months to kick in, but once it did it never stopped. We’re still in the country’s longest stretch of job growth ever, 75 months and counting, with 14 million new jobs created.

Unemployment is down to 4.7 percent. The auto industry was saved, housing prices are back to all-time highs and the value of the stock market has tripled, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average on the cusp of reaching 20,000.

Another key success is Obama’s landmark domestic legislative achievement, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Yes, the ObamaCare law does have some problems and needs some modifications, but its goal of guaranteeing health insurance for all Americans, something every other modern nation does for its people, must be maintained.

Since the law was enacted, 20 million Americans who did not have health insurance have received it, meaning they’re getting care they could have been denied otherwise. And healthcare costs are growing at their slowest rate in 50 years.

The good sides of the law have far outweighed the bad.

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Dear Editor: This is an open invitation to our mayor and DOT Commissioners Polly Trottenberg and Nicole Garcia to take a car ride at around 4:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. during the week or at about 5:30 p.m. on a Saturday evening from Manhattan to Queens.

Start at the very beginning of Queens Boulevard, staying on the service road of until you have to make a U-turn at Queens and Woodhaven boulevards and drive again on the service road back to Manhattan.

I am sure that this ride will open your eyes to the disaster that your bike lanes have caused to the flow of traffic on Queens Boulevard.

It is absolutely horrendous. I believe that there was absolutely no thought given to where these bike lanes belong. You randomly put them anywhere and ultimately made the service road one lane.

On the service road, you have cars parked on the right side. You have trucks making deliveries to stores. You have buses making their stops.

You have ambulances and fire, garbage and police vehicles using the service road — which if you get stuck behind, there is nowhere to go. I do not think that you even thought about that.

I know that you think that you have done a wonderful thing for bike riders, but how many will you actually see on your ride?

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our relations with Cuba. Both countries can only benefit from the re-establishment of trade and travel. He and other world leaders took a major step toward mitigating climate change with the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He struck an accord with Iran and other powers that will delay that nation’s acquisition of nuclear weapons.

He also faced many other challenges that remain unresolved. He was not decisive enough on the Syrian civil war, which helped allow the Islamic State terror group to expand there and in Iraq. Fortunately, ISIS has now lost more than half of the territory it had captured, but it is still terrorizing millions and inspiring attacks in the West. Russia and China are also more aggressive than they had been.

At home and abroad, through all these crises, Obama displayed a remarkable dignity and showed respect for others.

But while he wanted to improve the hateful climate in Washington, DC, unfortunately it has only gotten worse.

And he does deserve some of the blame for that.

Still, it’s impossible not to recognize that the situation Obama is handing off to President-elect Donald Trump is far better than the one he inherited from George W. Bush. And that is the true mark of a successful presidency.

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In theory your idea might have been a good idea, but in hindsight I think that you made a big mistake. Bikes do not belong on Queens Boulevard at all. Watch out Rego Park and Forest Hills — they are coming.

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The real Alan Hevesi Dear Editor: On Alan Hevesi lecturing on “The Politics of the Constitution” at the Central Queens Y this week (What’s Happening / Community Calendar, Jan. 5): Just when I thought we’d seen the last of this guy, he tries to make a comeback as a constitutional scholar. (Apparently, he doesn’t know anything about actual U.S. law.)

Just in case you forgot, after being convicted of defrauding the government by having state employees care for his wife and run errands, he later pleaded guilty to corruption charges sur-

rounding a pay-to-play scheme regarding the New York State Pension Fund, and was sentenced to one to four years in 2011. But, naturally as a “public servant” (as opposed to say a stickup man or burglar who would have gotten 10 years), he served less than two years and will continue to receive his $105K a year pension.

The New York Post quotes political consultant Hank Sheinkopf as saying, “Alan Hevesi is the only Ph.D. I know who is a twice-convicted felon with a state pension.”

That revolving door in Albany couldn’t possibly spin any faster.

Jerry Nutter South Ozone Park

Tuition-free flaws Dear Editor: Re your Jan. 5 editorial, “Free tuition plan a good one”: I benefited from four years of tuition-free education at Queens College (BA 1962) and am

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Obama’s touching speech Dear Editor: President Obama’s final speech to the nation was an emotional event for him, and for all of us who were watching it.

He spoke about all of his dreams and aspirations and what he was able to accomplish during his eight years in office. He stressed that more work needs to be done, and that we all must work together to make that happen.

He spoke of how his wife, Michelle, had made many sacrifices, and how he was so very grateful for her love and support. He also spoke about how proud he was of their children, Sasha and Malia, and he thanked his staff members for all of their hard work and dedication.

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Here are events to prove my views are in concert with the 53: 1) Obama displayed strong moral leadership.

2) His presidency was free of scandals, unlike those of Harding, Nixon and Reagan.

3) Obama championed a variety of social causes.

4) He was successful in restoring our economy after the Bush-43 recession. Examples: Unemployment fell from a high of 10.2 percent in 2008 to a low of 4.6 percent in 2016. The Dow Jones was 6,700 points in 2009; now it’s nearing 20,000. When GOP Mitt Romney called for the auto industry to go bankrupt in 2012, Obama’s “stimulus” funds brought this vital industry back to full strength by 2016.

5) Obama ended our failed 50-year “Cold War” with Cuba by using his executive power to restore diplomacy.

I will go out on a limb and say that 10 years from now, a new poll by historians will place Obama in the top third.

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Both of these days are federal holidays, as are Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day and Thanksgiving, just to name a few, but those are free of meter restrictions. As such, should we assume that MLK, and Presidents’ Day are of lesser importance? If these two days are not of the same caliber, to suspend meters, then let’s declassify them, and do business as usual on all levels.

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pleased that current CUNY and SUNY students may also benefit under Gov. Cuomo’s proposed bill. But his plan has two flaws: 1. The upper income threshold of $125,000 is twice the level of New York State’s median family income. It must be lowered to $75,000 to avoid aiding well-off families who can afford to pay the full tuition tab.

2. Public high schools must step up their game to make more students college-ready.

New York City’s graduation rate is rising, but 70 percent of high school graduates can’t do college-level work. What’s the point of offering free college tuition if poorly prepared students can’t take advantage of it?

Cuomo’s plan faces stiff resistance from private colleges who fear lower enrollment if students (or their parents) favor tuition-free schools (New York Post, Jan. 9: “A bad in’tuition’”). The state Assembly, controlled by Democrats, will likely pass this measure, but the GOP-led Senate may not unless seven renegade Democrats in the IDC (“I Don’t Care”) stop acting like DINOs (Democrats in Name Only) and rejoin the party on whose ticket they were elected. It’s time for them to drop turf battles and work for the greater good of their constituents. Let them hear your voice.

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SOP asks for the violence to end now Vigil honors the memory of Rocky Kalisaran and other murder victims

by Victoria Zunitch

“This is not what our community is about,” said Sanders’ constituent liaison Kevin More than 100 friends, neighbors and JeanBaptiste.

He lamented, on Sanders’ behalf, the start strangers attended a vigil in last Friday night’s bitter cold to support the family of 31-year-old of the new year with violence.

“It’s been too prevalent recently,” JeanBapRocky Kalisaran, a Guyanese man who was New York City’s first reported murder victim tiste said, noting that the community had just held a vigil in December for Rajwantie of the year.

“Baba nam ke Valam,” chanted Dr. Dada Ji Baldeo.

Baldeo was stabbed to death on Dec. 5 on of the Hindu mandir Shri Laksmhi Narayan Mandir, at 128-04 Liberty Ave. The Hindi 116th Street and Liberty Avenue by her husband, Prem Ramperprayer means “Love saud, who then is all there is” in lthough the city is reportedly tried to English. decapitate her with Kalisaran, in town seeing a decline in the knife he had used for the funeral of his to stab her. g rand mother, was gun violence and And Eric Assanah, shot on Jan. 2 in front 21, was shot to death of 104-35 124 St., in violence in general, it on Dec. 10 — as he what is believed to really hits home here.” slept beside his girlhave been a robbery friend in their South attempt. His brother, — Richard David, Ozone Park home — Sunny, was also shot Community Board 9 member over money he allega nd t a ken to the edly owed to one of hospital.

Capt. Brian Bohannon, commanding offi- several accused perpetrators.

The crowd held white balloons during brief cer of the 106th Precinct, said last Thursday detectives have identified two suspects in prayers and remarks. Then, numerous candles connection with the murder — it’s believed were lit by attendees, who placed them curbside in front of the house where Rocky and they fled to South Carolina.

The vigil was organized by the office of Sunny were shot.

Several bundles of flowers were then tied state Sen. James Sanders Jr. (D-South Ozone to the lamppost above the candles.

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Candles were placed at the murder site.

Dozens of South Ozone Park activists and residents gather in front of the site where Rocky PHOTOS BY VICTORIA ZUNITCH Kalisaran was shot and killed on Jan. 2.

“It’s very hurtful,” said the Rev. Allan Mangru, pastor of the Prophetic Renewal Ministries.

Mangru said he had known Rocky and Sunny since they were small kids, when he served as pastor to them back in Guyana.

The message Mangru wanted to impart at the vigil was for young people to know that life is short and God should have a presence in their lives.

The Rev. Tony Abrahams, of a group called Munchin777, said he wanted Kalisaran’s family to feel supported in whatever they need.

Richard David, a member of Community Board 9, said that the area is a beautiful community that yet has problems with violence.

He said he doesn’t think any specific community problems tie together the deaths of Kalisaran, Baldeo and Assanah, but he does see national gun policy as a contributing factor to local gun violence.

“Gun violence among young men here is

out of control, and with the election of Trump and what looks like a continuation with the same gun policy, it looks like more of the same,” David said. “Although the city is seeing a decline in gun violence and violence in general, it really hits home here.”

Sympathetic stranger Freeman Foster said he attended the vigil after being asked to attend by a man on the street whom he didn’t know.

Foster stood silently holding a man-sized wooden cross he made himself, which he said he carries around the country as part of his personal Christian mission to spread the concept of repentance.

He said he would have missed the vigil had he left the city earlier, as he had originally intended.

“The Lord said, no, you just stay here until I tell you to leave,” Foster said.

Family members attending the vigil Q declined to speak with the Chronicle.

— Anthony O’Reilly contributed to this story.

Boro Board talks DOT street design manual

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

It’s that time again, time to update the Department of Transportation’s Street Design Manual.

Agency Assistant Commissioner Wendy Feuer and project manager Patrick Smith appeared before the Borough Board on Monday to field questions and comments on the upcoming third edition of the manual, which is expected to go to print late this year.

City law requires the document — a 264page publication, mainly used by DOT

Various changes floated by members employees, that serves as a resource for street design standards, guidelines and policies — be revisited by the agency and revised ever four years.

“It’s a menu or a toolkit of options for what we can do in our streets,” Smith said.

“There’s some element of how the DOT and the city process works, which was added in the last version in an attempt to demistify what the planning process looks like that the city goes through.”

Some information the DOT plans to add to the manual, which can be accessed in PDF form on the agency’s website, includes various programming for city streets, resilient infrastructure in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and how to make roadways more suitable for freight transportation.

DOT Queens Commissioner Nicole Garcia said the manual is the “go-to resource” for her and her staff when asked by residents about improvements on their respective blocks.

Some of the suggestions made by Borough Board members included a more simplified breakdown of which federal guidelines determine stop sign placement and an interactive website that residents can use to more easily find information.

Feurer said the agency was hard at work creating both a frequently asked questions section and a website.

While Smith said the document should be ready within 12 months, it could be pushed back until early 2018, depending on the outcome of various citywide studies being conQ ducted by the agency.

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Qns. pols back State of the State policies Guv from the borough unlikely to be obstructed by its Albany lawmakers

by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

Although Gov. Cuomo will likely face opposition from the GOP-controlled state Senate to some of the progressive proposals outlined in his State of the State speeches, lawmakers in his native borough probably won’t give him much trouble.

“There are some great things in there,” Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows) told the Chronicle, mentioning the governor’s plan to make state colleges free to families that make less than $125,000. “I particularly liked the Excelsior Scholarships.

CUNY and SUNY are great systems.”

Several other Queens state lawmakers, all of whom are Democrats, are pleased with the initiatives announced in the Holliswood native’s addresses.

The policies proposed by Cuomo — who broke tradition to have a series of regional State of the State speeches in different sections of the state; his New York City speech happened in Manhattan on Jan. 9. — would have a big impact on residents of the borough.

He has spoke about the revamping of JFK Airport; a renewed effort to create a state hate crimes task force after he could not get funding to make one last year; raising the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18; a

Gov. Cuomo, a Holliswood native, is unlikely to have trouble getting Queens’ state lawmakers — all of whom are Democrats — to support the policy proposals outlined in his State of the State PHOTO COURTESY NYS addresses. plan to make automatic and same-day voter registration; changing bail so that it is set according to public risk and the defendant’s financial status and other components.

To state lawmakers in “The World’s Borough,” the proposals are unlikely to be

opposed. But, as rookie Assemblyman Clyde Vanel (D-Queens Village) put it, “the devil’s in the details.”

“I’m always concerned about knowing that we are in a good financial position in the state,” state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard

Beach) said. “I listened to it with a cautious ear and embraced much of what he is saying.”

The senator is glad that Cuomo’s plan for modernizing JFK Airport does not include a runway expansion to accommodate more flights.

“We already have an issue of air traffic airplane traffic over the residents,” he said.

“We’re already looking into the Part 150 study and seeing how we can reduce airplane noise.”

Addabbo is also supportive of the economic boost that the airport initiative will have for his district.

“It means a vast amount of jobs, that’s great,” he said. “I’d like to see a bump in the post-construction jobs.”

Much of the governor’s plans pleased Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Flushing).

“I think the overall macro message of reviving and focusing on the middle class is something that resonates with me,” he said.

But if funding some of the governor’s bigger initiatives results in more taxes, Kim added, small businesses could be harmed.

“With all these grand ideas that he’s laid out in his first few speeches, he hasn’t gone into details about how he is going to finance them,” the assemblyman said. “So it is irresponsible to get people’s hopes up that these continued on page 22

CB 10 backs Hevesi’s home stability support

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Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi’s plan to curb the city’s growing homeless population received one more thumbs up last Thursday, when Community Board 10 unanimously passed a resolution with little discussion on it.

“It has promise,” board Chairwoman Betty Braton said shortly before the vote.

The resolution in support of the plan was proposed by the panel’s Legislation Committee.

Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) proposed Home Stability Support — a statewide program that would supplement rents for families and individuals facing loss of housing and eligible for public assistance — late last year and has been touting it at different community board and civic meetings. He was not at CB 10 last week.

If approved by the Legislature, the plan would replace all existing city and state rental support programs.

It has the support of a number of other community boards and advocacy groups.

The lawmaker has said it would cost considerably less than the price the city pays now to keep a household of three in

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their home — $11,224 per year compared to $38,460.

The plan is being discussed as the city contends with a record-high homelessness population, just a little more than 60,000 at press time. Mayor de Blasio has faced rampant criticism for has handling of the issue, Q which he’s defended.

CB 9 lauds DI Urprasad Community Board 9 recognized Deputy Inspector Deodat Urprasad, commanding officer of the 102nd Precinct, for his hard work in driving crime down in the communities of Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven and Ozone Park.

Urprasad — seen here with CB 9 member Sandra Datnarian, left, board Chairman Raj

Rampershad and District Manager Lisa Gomes — took the reins of the command in February 2015 and since then, crime has been on a downward trend.

The crime reduction, close to 20 percent, was the fourth-best in the city for 2016.

Urprasad credited the dip to the men and women of the 102nd Precinct.

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Cuomo, PA backing LaGuardia AirTrain Port Authority proposal earmarks money in $3.1B airports package

by Michael Gannon Editor

AirTrain service to LaGuardia Airport was specifically listed last week in a $32 billion draft capital proposal published by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The PA, which is controlled by Gov. Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie flagged $3.1 billion in combined upgrades for LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International airports.

The proposal came two days after Gov. Cuomo announced a $10 billion plan to modernize JFK and the highways and interchanges leading to and from it.

The Port Authority on Friday stated that a total of $2.5 billion will be dedicated to building a LaGuardia rail system and supporting Cuomo’s desired upgrades at JFK. There is an additional $600 million slated for redevelopment of Terminals C and D at LaGuardia. The governor said last week that he is seeking $7 billion in private funding at JFK. The Port Authority said a portion of the $2.5 billion would be dedicated to the remaining portion.

Cuomo first announced his commitment to a light-rail system connecting LaGuardia with the No. 7 subway line and the Long Island Rail Road in January 2015. He estimated that such a system could cost about

Gov. Cuomo has for years backed AirTrain service from the subway system to LaGuardia Airport.

And a draft proposal from the Port Authority released last week dedicates money to do just that as part of a $3.1 billion investment in LaGuardia and Kennedy airports. PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON $450 million.

JFK has been served by the AirTrain from the Long Island Rail Road’s Jamaica station

since 2003. The site offers direct connection to subway and bus lines.

A similar hub built near the No. 7 stop at

Mets-Willets Point would be only a short subway ride from the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue hub that serves five subway lines and several bus routes. The only public transportation serving LaGuardia now consists of the M60, Q48, Q70 and Q72 buses.

The Wall Street Journal reported that some of the PA’s LaGuardia money will offset the cost of some projects already underway.

The aim at JFK is to modernize all existing terminals and connect them even if it means relocating some.

Roads within the air por t would be redrawn and parking areas relocated where necessary to improve an existing system that can have even regulars confused.

The governor also plans to launch a design competition for 20 crossings over the Van Wyck Expressway leading to and from the airport in an effort to reduce JFK’s legendary highway bottlenecks.

Jamaica Station upgrades also are in Cuomo’s plan, including efforts to increase JFK AirTrain capacity.

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C M SQ page 15 Y K continued from page 6 one-seat ride takes very strongly into consideration its impacts to those of us living in Queens.”

Neither the MTA nor the Governor’s Office responded to a request for comment by press time.

When he announced his plans to redo JFK, Cuomo said he would like to see a one-seat ride to and from the airport. He has asked the MTA and stakeholders in the airport to explore the feasibility of finding such a way to make that possible.

Penner doesn’t think there’s a way to accomplish that.

“It is a safe bet that there never has been and or will be a real one-seat ride,” he said.

“The only exception is one-stop express shuttle bus services from either Grand Central Terminal, Penn Station or World Trade Center directly to Kennedy Airport.”

The Rockaway Beach Rail Line figures into two of the other RPA proposals, including a plan to extend the Second Avenue subway to Brooklyn — via tunnels under the East River — and connect to the airport using portions of the Atlantic and Rockaway right-of-ways.

Penner doesn’t think that would work out either.

“This would extend Second Avenue subway the full length to Hanover Square in the financial district,” he said. “Thou-

sands of LIRR riders whose destinations include downtown Brooklyn, the Barclay Center and Financial District would have to change from LIRR to new subway at Jamaica. I doubt they would support this concept.”

There’s also the fact that the f irst phase of the Second Avenue Subway took decades and billions of dollars to complete, Penner said, so such an idea would take even longer.

That’s the same reason, he said, the RPA’s idea of connecting a new rail line along Third Avenue through the Atlantic and Rockaway Beach r ights-of-ways would also not work.

“There isn’t enough money and time in the world to build a competing subway on Third Avenue, let alone complete the Sec-

ond Avenue subway in the next 100 years,” Penner said.

The retired t ranspor tation off icial called the idea to con nect the J FK AirTrain to the LIRR main line at Jamaica, creating a one-seat ride from Penn Station and Grand Central to JFK, “dead on arrival as LIRR and AirTrain equipment are not compatible.”

Finally, the RPA in its report proposed building a new tunnel between Manhattan and the airport.

Penner was not impressed.

“This could become a reality decades after completion of the Second and or Third Avenue subway,” he said. “Again, there isn’t enough money and time in the world, Do you really want to wait years Q after 2117?”

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The commanding officer of the precinct where Karina Vetrano was killed has backed a DNA test many believe could help catch her murderer.

Capt. Brian Bohannon told Community Board 10 last Thursday he’s “excited” about the prospect of the state authorizing the test.

Familial DNA testing is a method in which investigators take a sample found at a crime scene and look to see if it matches that of anyone in criminal databases, providing them with a path to the actual perpetrator.

The state Commission on Forensic Science will hold a special joint meeting on Feb. 10 to discuss whether to authorize it.

The test also has the support of state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) and Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

Addabbo last Thursday said he was waiting to see what comments civil rights groups, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, submit to the commission.

The ACLU has historically been against the use of familial DNA testing. The group did not respond to a request for Q comment.

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Alleged serial robber Cops seek subway of Chase banks caught station attacker Instagram photo led authorities to Paul Lubin, who was busted on LI

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

The man who allegedly spent the last few months robbi ng six Chase ba n k branches across the borough is finally in police custody.

FBI agents arrested Paul Lubin, 31, in Rockville Centre, LI last Thursday and charged him with robbing two of the Queens banks in December.

Additional charges in connection with the other four heists are pending.

According to the criminal complaint against him, Lubin allegedly entered a Chase branch on Liberty Avenue in Ozone Park on Dec. 14 and passed a bank deposit slip and a threatening note to the teller.

“I am heavily armed. Do not do anything stupid,” the note read. “Put $5,000 in one envelope. Do not piss me off! Everyone’s safety depends all on you!”

He made off with $1,000, but police came away with the suspect’s fingerprints, which he left on the deposit slip.

On Dec. 27, Lubin entered the Chase branch on 48th Street in Maspeth and handed the teller a similar note.

He escaped with $5,000, but the teller identified Lubin as the robber in an interview with authorities the next day.

He is also suspected of committing similar robberies in Kew Gardens Hills on Sept. 30, Flushing on Nov. 23, Jamaica Estates on Nov. 30 and Middle Village on Dec. 19.

In addition to the positive identification and the fingerprints at his two most recent alleged robberies, Lubin also left a key piece of evidence on his Instagram page.

Shortly after the Dec. 27 heist, he posted a picture to the social media website of him sitting on a bed with a pile of money next to him.

The black-and-white striped shirt he was

Alleged serial Chase bank robber Paul Lubin was nabbed by authorities on Long Island last week. PHOTO COURTESY HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SHERIFF wearing in the Instagram photo, according to the criminal complaint, was the same shirt he allegedly wore in that robbery.

According to authorities, Lubin is also the man who allegedly robbed a Chase bank in Tampa, Fla. on Nov. 16.

In that heist, he allegedly handed the teller a note saying he was heavily armed and that he demanded money.

According to the Tampa Bay Times, Lubin was released f rom a pr ison in Miami-Dade County in October 2014 after serving a two-year sentence for committing a robbery with a deadly weapon. The Florida Department of Corrections lists him as a fugitive, last seen in Miami-Dade County. He was supposed to be on probaQ tion until October 2018.

Weprin hired by large firm Former Councilman Mark Weprin has been hired by Greenberg Taurig, LLP to work in its government, law and policy practice.

The hiring was first reported in Politico New York. According to the website, which quoted a spokesperson for the practice, the former lawmaker will represent civic and corporate organizations in New York State in addition to clients from the real estate industry, his focus.

Weprin, who resigned from his Council job to work as deputy secretary of legislative affairs for Gov. Cuomo, did not

i m med iat ely ret u r n a request for comment.

Borough President Melinda Katz worked at the firm in its government affairs practice before running for the seat she holds now.

Greenberg Taurig did not immediately return repeated requests for comment.

According to the firm’s website, it employs more than 2,000 lawyers in more than three dozen offices spread throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin Q America and the United States.

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Man sought for committing two assaults back of her face and fled The NYPD is asking before EMS came to for the public’s help to help the woman. find Sherlock Arana, 28, Arana is 200 pounds, who is wanted for alleg6 feet tall and has a skin e d ly a ss au lt i ng t wo condition that affects his women. According to face, according to the published reports, both police. He was last seen of t he v ict i ms were we a r i ng blue je a n s , Indian. boots and a blue jacket.

He allegedly According to DNAinapproached an 18-yearfo, the suspect has been old woman and punched her in the face after Sherlock Arana, 28, is wanted by arrested 29 times and m a k i n g a n t i - e t h n i c the police for assaulting two was scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 9 for an remarks toward her on women at subway stations.

Dec. 8 at 9:20 a.m.

PHOTO COURTESY NYPD incident in September in which he walked up to a inside the 88th Street A station in Ozone Park and then f led, family and threatened them at knifepoint.

Anyone with information about the susaccording to the police.

Then, when Arana offered to swipe a pect is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 30-year-old woman in with his Metro- (800) 577-TIPS (8477) or 1 (888) Card in exchange for money at the Hill- 57-PISTA (74782) for Spanish speakers. side Avenue F station in Jamaica Estates The public also can submit tips by logging at around 9:20 a.m. on Jan. 5, she onto nypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting declined. He made another anti-ethnic 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577.

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Queens Blvd. workshop today The Department of Transportation is calling on Rego Park and Forest Hills residents to turn out to a public workshop tonight, Jan. 12, about the upcoming redesign of Queens Boulevard.

The 6 p.m. meeting will be held at PS 139 at 93-06 63 Drive in Rego Park.

The workshop will allow the community to ask questions of and make recommendations to the agency related to the revamping of Queens Boulevard between Eliot Avenue in Rego Park and Yellowstone Boulevard in Forest Hills.

With the three-phase project, the

DOT aims to improve seven miles of the roadway — known by many as the “boulevard of death” because of the numerous fatalities seen along it — for cyclists, pedestrians and drivers alike.

Starting in Sunnyside and Woodside and continuing into Elmhurst, the agency has added bike lanes, widened pedestrian areas and installed other trafficcalming measures over the last 18 months.

The DOT is also offering a 13-question online community survey about Queens Boulevard, which can be fou nd at Q nycdotfeedbackportals.nyc.

The xx to play FoHi Stadium The Forest Hills Tennis Stadium’s summer concert series will get an early start this year.

British indie electronic band The xx will hit the popular music venue on Friday, May 19 at 6:30 p.m., about a month before Icelandic rock group Sigur Ros hits the stage on Saturday, June 17.

Tickets go on sale on Friday at 10 a.m. at axs.com and range from $45 to $75.

The Forest Hills show is the fourth-tolast concert of The xx’s North American tour — which begins in April at the Coachella festival in California — in sup-

port of their third album, “I See You,” which will be released on Friday.

Aside from The xx and Sigur Ros, iconic rock band Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers has scheduled 6:30 p.m. shows at the venue for Wednesday, July 26 and Thursday, July 27.

After years of abandonment, the stadium was converted into a concert venue full-time in 2014, attracting global music stars in the years since.

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Forgave, befriended teen who put him in a wheelchair 30 years ago

by Michael Gannon Editor

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ributes to Steven McDonald have not stopped since it was announced Tuesday that the hero cop and inspiration to countless people died four days after suffering a heart attack.

McDonald was a 29-year-old newlywed with his wife, Patti Ann, expecting their first baby in 1986 when he was shot three times by a 15-year-old Shavod Jones in Central Park.

While not expected to live, he eventually became an inspiration to police officers, the disabled, and world leaders.

He publicly forgave Jones, and corresponded with him before his release from custody. Jones would die in an accident a few days after his release in 1995.

McDonald remained with the NYPD, being promoted to detective, the rank his son Conor now has.

Around Queens and elsewhere, McDonald would visit schools, church and civic groups preaching forgiveness, nonviolence, peace and spiritual strength.

He regularly attended the annual memorial service held in the 103rd Precinct for slain Officer Edward Byrne in even the worst February weather. He also came to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in 2015 as doctors struggled in vain to save Officer

Brain Moore of the 105th Precinct.

Off icers from the 103rd Precinct on Tuesday night wore black bands across their badges at the monthly meeting of the precinct’s community council.

“He was really special, an inspiration to the department,” said Inspector John Cappelmann, commanding officer of the 103rd, asking for a moment of silence in McDonald’s memory.

Tributes poured in from across the city.

Mayor de Blasio called the late detective a symbol of courage and grace.

“The story of Det. Steven McDonald needs to be understood across the United States, especially as we work to heal the wounds of the past,” the mayor said in a statement.

“There is no greater example of honor and service to others.”

“Like so many cops, Steven joined the NYPD to make a difference in people’s lives,” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said.

“And he accomplished that every day.”

Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, called McDonald the most courageous man he has ever known.

“Despite the tremendous pain in his life, both physical and emotional, his concern for his fellow police officers and for the people of New York City never wavered,” Lynch said.

“Since that fateful day in 1986, Steven dedi-

cated his life to fighting hate and encouraging forgiveness through his actions. He was a powerful force for all that is good and is an inspiration to all of us. His was a life well lived ... He was a true American hero.”

U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx) called McDonald an inspiration to all. “[H]is selflessness and forgiveness to the person who shot him over 30 years ago was a lesson in humility that will forever be associated with the name Steven McDonald,” Crowley said. “Through insurmountable odds, Steven persevered to continue serving New Yorkers in new ways. He helped bring communities together both here and abroad, by reminding us all to appeal to our better selves. His loss will be felt by the countless lives he touched.”

Queens Dist r ict At tor ney R ichard Brown said he was proud to call the detective his friend.

“Steven was an inspiring human being and a man of deep and abiding faith who, when confronted by adversity early in his police career, responded with courage, grace and dignity.”

Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) said New York will never forget the McDonalds’ courage and sacrifice.

“May his family now embrace the love of an entire city that Detective McDonald Q defended with his life,” he wrote.

NYPD Det. Steven McDonald, at a memorial service for Officer Edward Byrne, died Tuesday PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON following heart attack.

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Once inside, he stole $4K in clothing

Have you seen this man? Cops say he got into Marshalls by driving his car into the PHOTOS COURTESY NYPD store.

Spark! Challenge Career Day Students enrolled in Richmond Hill High School’s Health Sciences Academy traveled to Northwell Health (formerly North Shore-LIJ Health System) to participate in an on site Career Day as part of the third Annual Spark! Challenge. This Career Day introduced the students to a variety of careers within healthcare. Northwell Health staff introduced the students to various clinical and nonclinical careers at the facility.

After a brief orientation the students were dressed in scrubs and headed for multiple operating rooms. There they witnessed both neurological and open heart surgeries. The staff explained the role of each person to the students. “We watched Dr. Graver repair a heart valve. It was mind-blowing. The sight of a real heart has a great impact on our lives and our future,” said students Kevin Melara, Bibi Azeez and Christina Dhela.

Established in 2014, the Spark! Challenge exposes students to a diverse set of opportunities in the healthcare industry. Students experience a typical day in the life of a healthcare hospital professional. Throughout the experience, the students encountered invaluable opportunities to learn the wide scope of careers in healthcare. At the completion of the program, the students make a career advertisement and a two minute career presentation at the Spark! Challenge Awards Celebration on April 6, 2017, as pictured above from last year.

“Winning last year’s second Annual Spark! Challenge was very rewarding but I think that any time students get to actually experience healthcare careers it helps them make decisions about their futures,” said anatomy and physiology teacher Dr. Craig Sanders, the teacher leader for the team. “Also, students need to hear from people in the field. I appreciated the fact that Northwell Health’s staff told students the same thing we tell them on a daily basis and hopefully it will make an impact,” said Dr. Sanders.

A bank robber donned PJs before making off with more than $4,000 on Jan. 6.

The woman, seen here, entered New York Community Bank, located at 80-35 Jamaica Ave. in Woodhaven, at 5:35 p.m. and passed a note to the bank teller demanding money.

The teller complied, emptying $4,298 into a white plastic bag and handing it to the suspect, who fled in an unknown direction.

The individual is described as a 23-yearold woman standing at 5 feet and 5 inches, weighing 120 pounds and having brown eyes. She is also described as having facial hair.

Cops only provided a blurry photo of her face.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477), or, for Spanish, 1 (888) 57-PISTA (74782).

The public can also submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers.com, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577.

All tips are strictly confidential.

“Hackathon” competition for animals Last November, over the course of five hours, dozens of high school students from 16 schools, including ten from Richmond Hill High School, designed Public Service Announcements to help animals in need using the educational programming language, Scratch.

The bi-annual event was conducted by Computer Science for All at the Downtown Community Television Center in Manhattan. By the end of event, four teams won electronics starter kits for best design, most educational, most innovative and most skilled code. At CS4ALL hackathons, students from all over New York City are challenged work together to reimagine their communities and how technology gets used. Hackathons are ideal for honing new or familiar programming languages as students work in fresh and exciting environments, learning how to rapidly prototype ideas and create working demos, as well as develop and present their ideas to judges and other students.

“Seeing our RHHS students collaborate with other NYC students while attempting to solve social issues was very rewarding” said Mr. Canzoneri, a software engineering teacher at RHHS and chaperone for the event.

CS4ALL is a public-private partnership where all NYC public school students will receive meaningful, high quality computer science education at each school level: elementary, middle, and high school by 2025. Through CS4ALL, RHHS students learn to think with the computer, instead of using computers to simply convey their thinking. Students learn computational thinking, problem solving, creativity and critical thinking; and to collaborate and build relationships with peers; to communicate and create with technologies; and to better understand technologies we interact with daily. These skills will be integral to student success in higher education, the 21st century job market and beyond.

Bringing computer science and technology to Richmond Hill was the brainchild of Principal Neil Ganesh.

“Education is evolving due to the impact of the internet. We cannot teach our students in the same manner in which we were taught. Change is necessary and being selected to provide software engineering program curriculum by CS4All allows us to provide that change.” said Mr. Ganesh.

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Cops are on the hunt for a man who rammed his car into the Marshalls in Ozone Park and stole more than $4,000 in clothing once inside.

The man was seen on surveillance cameras entering the department store, located at 92-10 Rockaway Blvd., on Dec. 26 just after 4:45 a.m.

Once inside, according to police, he removed a number of clothing items valued at $4,400.

He then fled in an unknown direction, cops said.

The perpetrator is described as a white or Hispanic man, approximately 5-foot, 10 inches tall and weighing between 160 to 180 pounds.

He was seen wearing all black at the time of the crime.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477), or, for Spanish, 1 (888) 57-PISTA (74782).

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Campus Magnet HS honors ‘The Coach’ Gym where Chuck Granby molded young men renamed in his honor

by Michael Gannon Editor

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n 45 years as a high school basketball coach, Chuck Granby was universally praised not only for his legendary winning tradition, but for the time and care he invested inf luencing teenage boys and young adults for life after basketball and school.

Last Thursday, the Campus Magnet High School community made sure “The Coach” will always be around to inspire future generations of students.

The school, which was Andrew Jackson High School when Granby joined as a teacher and coach in 1971, named in his honor the gym where he won so many games and shaped hundreds of lives.

Those who filled the gym included current and former players, elected officials, leaders from the school and Public School Athletic League, and a family contingent led by his daughter, Robyn Granby-Poole, who unveiled a plaque that will be placed above the gym’s entrance in the near future.

All were given a green ribbon adorned with an instantly recognizable photo of Granby in his element — hands together on the sideline in the gym in his omnipresent green sweatsuit with white trim.

Granby’s 722 victories were the secondmost in New York City history when he retired in 2015. But perhaps his finest epitaph upon his death last March came from long-time rival and friend Ron Naclerio of Cardozo High School.

“I’m sure there has to be 50 to 100 kids that would be dead or in jail now if it weren’t for Coach Granby,” he told the Chronicle last year.

Ronald St. John, the former longtime head coach at York College, served as master of ceremonies on T hu r s d ay. T hou g h they never coached with or against each other, the two hoops he av y weig ht s st i l l worked together. “ W h e n yo u’r e coaching young men, you need to lead them in the direction where you want them to go,” St. John said. “Chuck Granby taught me a great deal about that.”

The tribute included performances by the school’s d a nce team and cheerleaders. Just before the plaque’s unveiling, some former cheerleaders sang a few lines from old Andrew Jackson HS fight songs.

Cou ncil ma n Da neek Miller (D -St. Albans) and Assemblyman Clyde Vanel (D-Queens Village) both spoke briefly.

“It was not just basketball,” Miller said.

“If you entered this building, you benefitted from his presence.”

But the most prominent politician was

Robyn Granby-Poole and her husband Reggie display the plaque that soon will be on display at the newly named Chuck Granby Gym at Campus Magnet High School. Chuck Granby became a PHOTOS BY MICHAEL GANNON city legend during his 45 years as the school’s basketball coach.

Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr., (D-Brooklyn), who played for Granby.

The 6 foot, 11 inch-tall Cornegy — “The Tree,” according to current Campus Magnet coach and former player Alvis Brown — recalled their first meeting.

“I was walking in that hallway,” Cornegy said, pointing to the gym’s main entrance.

“I was heading to band practice when he stuck his head out the gym door. He asked, ‘Where are you going, young man?’ I said ‘To band practice.’ He s a i d , ‘ N o , yo u’r e not.’”

That, the councilma n said , was the f irst of many days spent in the gym with Granby not so much teaching him basketball, but using it to teach him and generations of young men about life.

Seve r a l se cond s i nt o a mome nt of silence for Granby, audio was played of him talking frankly about basketball and life. Ever the teacher, he was a strong proponent of his boys taking their studies seriously.

The most famous, and most repeated, was his famed “Ugly Speech.”

“Without a college degree, your life will be ugly,” Granby stated on the recording.

“Your job will be ugly. Your house will be ugly. Your car will be ugly. Your wife will be ugly.”

Current New York Knick Kyle O’Quinn eventually made it to the NBA. Cornegy both earned a college degree and played basketball abroad.

“He told us all the time that we all have a better chance of becoming brain surgeons than playing in the NBA,” he said. “He wanted it to be about more than basketball.

He has had police officers come out of his program, businessmen, fathers — the great coaches are invested in you as a total person.”

Robyn Granby-Poole, with her husband, Reggie, was near tears several times as Brown, Cornegy and others shared stories and warm embraces.

Brown, who succeeded his teacher and mentor, also was choked up when it came his time to speak, perhaps thinking about how history was repeating itself.

“Thirty-one years ago, your father put a ball in my hands and said, ‘Lead my team,’” he said.

Reggie Poole said he never played for Granby, but played against him enough when he at tended Joh n Ad ams High School. Cornegy said that was a source of misery for many a player in PSAL history, particularly in the 13-year stretch when Granby did not lose a home game. He said the Bulldogs usually had great help from the Sixth Man. “It could be really unpleasant — no visiting team wanted to play here, mostly because of the crowd,” Cornegy said, waving his hand around the full gym.

“This place was full every night,” he said. “When you wanted to inbound the ball you had to ask fans to move. It was like

‘Friday Night Lights.’ There was no better place in all of Queens to play — if you played for us.”

Still, the councilman did not need to think when asked about a Coach Granby drill that he is grateful he will never have to go through again.

“Suicides,” he said of the time-honored drill in which players run from the end line to each successive line on the court and back. “Twenty-two times in each set. I don’t know why. It just seemed to be a magic number.”

Cornegy said even in times when he and The Coach were nominally out of touch, Granby still always seemed to be able to keep tabs.

“He always seemed to have some intelligence, some way knowing how things had been going in my life.” And the councilman was honored to have Granby present when he was inaugurated in January 2014.

“I have six children,” he said. “He met my daughter and said, ‘She’s beautiful.’ I had to explain his Ugly Life story to her. I told him she’s going to college, that she’s a 4.0 student, a member of the National Honor Societ y. I thin k he was more impressed with that than any other achievement I’ve had.”

Robyn Granby-Poole beamed with pride before the ceremony discussing how the plaque to be unveiled would soon hang above the gymnasium door.

She admitted afterward that there was still a sense of mixed emotions for her and her family. “ We’r e s t i l l m o u r n i n g ,” s h e acknowledged.

But she was all smiles when she concluded the speakers’ portion of the ceremony to get to the plaque unveiling at about 5:50 p.m., given the scheduled 6 p.m. starting time of Campus Magnet’s game against Martin Van Buren.

“I have to move it along,” she said. “The Q Coach was always about game time.”

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Meng to FAA: Explain TNNIS noise at night Flight path is extremely unpopular with quiet skies advocates in Qns.

by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

When planes f lying the vexatious and narrow TNNIS flight path from LaGuardia Airport roar over Flushing and Bayside, they’re hard to ignore.

The supposedly daytime route’s acute noise has been a major nuisance to quiet skies advocates ever since the Federal Aviation Administration made it permanent in 2012 to make room for flights from JFK Airport.

According to a New York Air Terminal Approach Radar Control review from 2012, TNNIS flights between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. are not planned unless required by weather. The report says that, given that LaGuardia departures usually end at 10 p.m. and don’t resume until 6:30 a.m., the flight path’s usage at night was estimated to be miniscule.

But that might not be the case.

“Increasingly, however, my constituents have voiced concerns about flights during these hours,” Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) wrote in a a letter to FAA Regional Administrator Carmine Gallo on Dec. 21. The congresswoman requested the number of TNNIS flights between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. between 2012 and 2016, the number of flights estimated by New York TRACON to take place during the time frame, and the number of flights in it that did not happen because of safety.

The FAA did not immediately return a request for comment.

“It is critical that the FAA adhere to its original plan of not using the TNNIS procedure from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m,” the congresswoman said in a prepared statement. “The concerns expressed about flights during these hours must be

Rep. Grace Meng has asked the Federal Aviation Administration a few pointed questions about flights from LaGuardia Airport using the TNNIS route at night after constituents expressed conFILE PHOTO cern about it. addressed by the FAA, and I eagerly await their answers to my questions.”

Flushing resident Susan Carroll, who represents Borough

President Melinda Katz on the New York Community Aviation Roundtable, was pleased with Meng’s letter.

“I thank Rep. Meng for asking these very important and pointed questions, which I have been asking for years,” Carroll said in an emailed statement to the Chronicle. “The FAA evaded further environmental review of TNNIS by agreeing to use it only in certain conditions. They have continually violated that agreement and it is about time they are held accountable for it.”

Although state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) has not heard any complaints from his constituents about TNNIS being used at night, he supports Meng’s letter.

“It’s such an obnoxious, low climb,” he said.

The state senator, who is a longshot candidate in the nascent Democratic primary race for mayor, hopes that the acrimonious airport roundtable and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Part 150 noise studies will result in the borough’s quiet skies advocates being able to show the FAA the magnitude of the burden residents face.

“Once these studies are done, it’s gonna show a huge impact on the residential neighborhoods around the airports and beyond,” he said. “Hopefully, the end game is to reduce the impact that the TNNIS climb and the other routes that LaGuardia and JFK are using.”

“We get general airplane noise complaints pretty much consistently,” Assemblyman Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside), a member of the airport roundtable, said. “We’ve been asking them to roll back the TNNIS climb since 2012.

The office of state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing) sometimes hears from Queens activists that the TNNIS Q route is used too much, according to a spokesperson.

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Hashing out the budget details will happen more in the coming months in Albany.

“When we get to the dollars and cents and when he sends us things in writing and we have a proposed governors budget, we’ll negotiate,” Assemblyman Michael Den Dekker (D-Jackson Heights), an avid backer of the free tuition proposal, said. “And hopefully, come to an agreement on the policies and how we’re gonna pay for them.”

Weprin, who was recently appointed chairman of the Committee on Correction, is sanguine about Cuomo’s announced criminal justice reform policies.

“I’m particularly excited about some of the governor’s proposals in the correction area: reforming the parole system, raising the age from 16 to 18 for being reared as an adult, the Hate Crimes Task Force,” he said.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown expressed an openness to Cuomo’s proposals.

“I share with the Governor his desire to create a fair system where the rights of the accused are properly balanced with concerns for public safety and look forward to the opportunity to review all of the Governor’s legislative proposals in detail,” he said.

In November, Bellerose resident Fariha Nizam was harassed on a Manhattanbound bus and ordered to remove her hijab; around the same time, St. Francis Prep students harassed minorities on another bus.

An Islamophobic rant was also filmed in Astoria after the election and graffiti calling for gay people to die was also seen in the neighborhood last month.

When they get to the Republican-controlled upper chamber, the policies outlined in the State of the State addresses will likely face opposition. But they are not doomed, according to Weprin.

“Well, you know look, if the governor makes it a priority, he can be very persuasive,” the assemblyman said. “He was able to persuade Republicans in the Senate to pass marriage equality when most of them were against it.”

Cuomo will at least have a supporter in state Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria), the deputy Democratic Conference leader.

“The proposals set forth by the Governor mirror initiatives long supported by Senate Democrats, including my bills relating to automatically registering more than 2 million new voters and reforming the flawed bail system,” he said in a prepared statement. “While I will work hard to see these policies enacted, it is undeniable that a Democratic Senate majority would be able to pass these measures Q much more easily.”

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A New Year special delivery Little Ariana Mahomed snoozes through her first-ever photo op at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway on Jan. 1.

Ariana, the daughter of Zafraz, front left, and Jayasharree Mahomed, was the first baby born at St. John’s in the new year, arriving at 5:17 p.m. on Jan. 1.

She was 18 inches and tipped the scales at 5 pounds, 13 ounces.

Helping the parents celebrate in the back row were Nurse Manager Mathes Ester

Veve, left, hospital CEO Gerard Walsh, RN Delivery Care Manager Denise Potts, and Dr. Don Morrish, Chief of Ob/GYN. Walsh presented the Mahomeds an overwhelming array of baby clothes, equipment and toys specifically for a baby girl. All items were donated by the St. John’s Auxiliary Committee, whose members look forward to the annual day of celebration.

St. John’s, with 257 beds, is celebrating its 110th anniversary this year.

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CEC seats are up for grabs this year

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Here’s how you can run for a spot

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

T he Depa r t ment of Education has announced key dates for the biennial election for seats on community and citywide education councils.

Parents of public school children interested in running for a spot on the councils — which offer guidance on educational policy and cast official votes on matters such as school zoning lines — should apply starting at NYCParentLeaders.org starting Feb. 9 and ending March 5, the DOE announced in a release Tuesday.

To run for a community education council seat, you must have a child enrolled in a public elementary or middle school within the district he or she is zoned in.

Anyone wishing to run for a citywide education council seat must have a child enrolled in a public high school.

There are also citywide council seats for special education programs.

There are 32 community education councils in the five boroughs and four citywide panels.

Each term, which starts on July 1, is two years.

There will be a series of forums educating candidates on the roles and responsibilities of CEC members, the first one being Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. at the Tweed Courthouse, 52 Chambers St. in Manhattan.

Although almost anyone with a child in school can run for a seat, very few get to vote on the candidates.

Ballots are cast by off icers of each school’s parent or parent-teacher association on April 23 and May 9.

T h e r e s u lt s a r e p o s t e d at N YC ParentLeaders.org on May 15.

Education officials and politicians are hoping for as many parents as possible to sign up for a chance to serve. In 2015, 1,290 parents signed up compared to 729 and 511 in 2013 and 2011, respectively.

SIGNING UP IS QUICK AND EASY! IMMIGRATION STATUS Parents have the opportunity to run for a seat FILE PHOTO on community education councils.

“Community and Citywide Education Councils offer parents an opportunity to make a long-lasting impact in the education of their children and thousands of other children in their community,” Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said in a statement. “I encourage every parent to consider applying for a Council seat regardless of the language they speak or where they live, and to help other families get involved, gain invaluable knowledge, and strengthen family and community ties along the way.”

“As a mom of two young boys, I can attest firsthand to the impact that parental involvement has on our education system.

Queens parents are some of the most active, vocal and effective in the city, and the difference is clear,” Queens Borough President Melinda Katz said in a statement issued by the DOE. “The nexus of collaboration between families, educators and the surrounding community is the key to the sucQ cess of our schools.”

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GallopNYC obtains FoHi riding center Organization offers therapeutic sessions to those with disabilities

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

When one thinks of Forest Hills, the Austin Street shopping district and the mighty Queens Boulevard come to mind.

But G a l lopN YC is hoping the neighborhood will also soon be known as a place where one can connect in a multitude of ways with one of nature’s most majestic creatures: horses.

“We’re super excited,” GallopN YC Executive Director Alicia Kershaw said i n a Wed nesd ay inter view. “It’s really been a 10-year plan to get our own site.”

The stable of horses at 88-03 70 Road has long been owned by Lynne Holzhauser and her family, who have operated Lynne’s Riding Center for decades.

But last week, Holzhauser sold the barn and Jumping on the back of a horse and learning how to ride by trotting stable and donated her through Forest Park is just one of a number of things GallopNYC, horses and equipment to the new owner of the former Lynne’s Riding Center in Forest Hills, GallopNYC, a Brooklyn- is offering to area residents.

PHOTO COURTESY GALLOPNYC based organization offering therapeutic horsemanship programs to at Forest Hills, will predominately work children and adults with disabilities and with people with disabilities and special special needs. needs, a variety of public programming will For the last five years, the group had still be available. been renting horses by the hour from the The venue will continue to host educariding center to use for its programming. tional discussions about the horses, while But with the purchase, Kershaw said, Gal- riding lessons will also be available. lopNYC will be better able to serve its hunForest Park will also play host to various dreds of customers. programs, according to Kershaw and Wil“The difference is going to be the site’s son, but exactly how the group will utilize main focus, which is therapeutic riding,” the space hasn’t been fleshed out yet. she said. “We have about 900 people on our Wilson noted that anyone interested in waiting list and the intent is to run the ther- horses who lives in the area is more than apeutic riding program all day, every day.” welcome to volunteer at the stable, as the While no longer operating the business organization has just a handful of staffers aspect of the enterprise, Holzhauser will on-site. still be deeply involved with giving riding “We really want volunteers from the lessons and caring for the horses, according community to come help with the horses to Kershaw and GallopNYC Director of and be a part of what we do,” he said.

Operations James Wilson.

“We’re really going to try to be a good Holzhauser was unavailable to be inter- neighbor.” viewed by press time.

Anyone interested in riding is welcome “I’m a little jealous because she gets to to visit the Forest Hills site, but Wilson said do all the fun stuff without having to worry the best way to inquire about an appointabout paying the bills,” Wilson said with a ment is to call or email the group. laugh in a Wednesday interview. “We’ve GallopNYC recently took over Sunrise been working with Lynne for five years and Stables in Lindenwood, and Kershaw said it’s been a really great partnership.” the group hopes to open riding centers in Q While the stable, now named GallopNYC every borough in the near future.

SPOTLIGHT ON ELDER LAW

Social Security and Medicare Benefits at a Glance

by Linda F. Marshak, Esq. Brady & Marshak, LLP Social Security is a retirement plan for which most American workers are eligible. The Social Security System taxes employee’s wages throughout working years and credits are earned towards retirement benefits. If you were born in 1929 or later, the requirement is to have 10 years of work which is equal to 40 quarters of employment. That is the minimum number of quarters required to collect social security retirement benefits on your own earnings. You are able to start and stop working and still accrue the 40 quarter requirement across the span of your entire working career.

Age 62 is the earliest age for eligibility for Social Security retirement benefits. At this age, however, benefits will be the lowest. For each year thereafter, benefits will increase up to 8 percent per year until age 70. Another factor that will have a positive monetary effect on a Social Security award is the continuance of work after full retirement age.

Additionally, if one spouse of a married couple dies, the surviving widowed spouse may be eligible to collect on the deceased spouse’s wages and earned credits. An example of how this rule most commonly affects senior citizens is as follows: Husband works his entire adult life and wife remains at home or works part time. When husband dies, wife can collect on spouse’s greater Social Security record rather than on her lesser Social Security lifetime contributions.

A divorced spouse is eligible for a former spouse’s earnings if the marriage was at least 10 years in duration, is age 62 or older and not remarried. These benefits will not affect the benefits a present spouse will receive.

Lastly, Social Security retirement benefits may be available to certain family members if work requirements are met: 1. children up to the age of 18 or age 19 if they are students and they have lost a parent;

2. disabled children, even over age 18; 3. surviving spouses age 62 or older; 4. surviving spouses younger than age 62 who care for a disabled child or a child younger than age 16 who is not disabled.

To learn more about Social Security benefits or to apply online visit socialsecurity.gov or call 1 (800) 325-0778. A Social Security’s decision with regard to your benefits may be appealed.

Some things to keep in mind with regard to Social Security benefits: 1. Benefits may be taxable.

2. Receipt of some federal and other government or civil service employment may reduce your benefits under the Social Security program.

3. A U.S. citizen may retire outside the United States and receive Social Security retirement benefits by mail except for a small number of countries throughout the world.

MEDICARE BENEFITS Best defined as a federal health insurance program, Medicare is provided to United States citizens at age 65 years and to those qualified for Social Security benefits after two years.

There are four parts to the Medicare Program, as follows: 1. Part A pays for hospitalization.

2. Part B pays for doctor’s care.

3. Part C (Medicare Advantage Plan) combines parts A and B through one provider; and 4. Part D pays for prescriptions.

In most instances it will be necessary to carry supplemental health insurance as the above described parts of Medicare will NOT provide 100 percent benefits for your medical expenses.

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The $554 million project is ahead of schedule, CB 5 chairman says

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

Community Board 5 Chairman and infrastructure expert Vincert Arcuri Jr. believes the ceremonial first walk over the new Kosciuszko Bridge connecting Maspeth and Brooklyn might happen sooner than many had originally hoped.

“Pretty soon, we will be doing that,” Arcuri said in a Tuesday interview. “So keep an eye out.”

According to state Department of Transportation spokeswoman Diane Park, motorists are just a few months away from being able to drive across the bridge, which spans Newtown Creek, for the first time.

“The main span will be completed and all traffic in both directions will be shifted onto it in early spring,” Park said in a Wednesday email.

The $554 million first phase of the project, which got underway in December 2014, involved the construction of the new northeast-bound span over the creek, followed by the demolition of the original 125-foot-tall, 78-year-old Kosciuszko Bridge.

Park told the Chronicle last year that the demolition process should take about 10 months to complete.

The second phase involves the construction of a new southwest-bound span. Arcuri said

that aspect of the project should be going out to bid “pretty soon,” much earlier than anticipated.

“Everything’s going really well,” Arcuri said of the bridge construction project in a Tuesday interview. “The project was ahead of schedule and I believe still is.

“The state DOT is excellent,” he added.

“They are some of the best people you could work with.”

Once the first span is complete, both Brooklyn- and Queens-bound traffic, an average of 160,000 vehicles per day, will be transferred onto it, with three lanes going in each direction.

And once that Brooklyn-bound bridge is completed in 2020, the Queens-bound structure will feature five travel lanes.

“It’s a state-of-the-art bridge,” Arcuri said.

“It should be fantastic.”

Some of the work that has commenced this month includes the temporary closure of 56th Road between Laurel Hill Boulevard and 43rd Street to allow for the installation of underground utilities.

The pedestrian bridge over the eastbound Long Island Expressway service road ramp between 43rd Street and Laurel Hill Boulevard is also being closed, as the structure will be removed and replaced with a new one.

Part of the Kosciuszko Bridge plan involves

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Kosciuszko Bridge coming along quick

The shifting of traffic from the aging Kosciuszko Bridge connecting Maspeth and Brooklyn onto the new, state-of-the-art span under construction should happen in early spring, according to PHOTO COURTESY NYS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION the state Department of Transportation. the creation of park space on both sides of the span, according to Arcuri.

“Let’s see what we get on the Queens side.

We’re entitled to something, so to speak,” he said. “It may just end up being a storage facility for the Parks Department, but we’ll see.”

The bridge is named for famed Polish military commander and American Revolutionary War hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who made a name for himself by building fortifications and defenses, such as Fort Clinton in Q West Point, NY.

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Catholic schools: Some frequently asked questions ST. FRANCIS PREPARATORY SCHOOL

What is the difference between a school and an academy?

A Catholic school is governed by the parish, so the pastor is directly in charge.

An academy is governed by a two-tiered board that is comprised of a board of directors and a board of members. The board of directors is composed of lay people who work with the principal, and the board of members is composed of clergy and safeguards the Catholic identity of the academy.

In some cases the “board of members” oversees multiple academies.

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Catholic school and academy communities within the Diocese of Brooklyn educate nearly 45,000 students in Brooklyn and Queens, from early childhood through high school.

Below are some frequently asked questions:

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For additional information about the scholarship programs and how to apply, visit FuturesInEducation.org.

Please note that Catholic high school students are not eligible for these programs. For tuition assistance for Catholic high schools, visit Student Sponsor Partners as some of the Brooklyn and Queens high schools participate in their program. Parents are encouragee to contact the high school directly because some high schools offer financial assistance on a local school level. Additionally, some high schools may be partnered with other organizations.

Can you provide the New York State test results of a particular school/academy?

Although The Office of the Superintendent does publish the aggregated test results for Catholic schools/academies within Brooklyn and Queens, the decision to publish test scores of individual schools is a local decision.

If you would like to know the overall test scores for a particular school/ academy, you must call to ask if they can provide you with the information.

How can I find out what the schools /academies near me have to offer?

The best way to find out specific offerings of the schools /academies near you i s t o a sk t h e m .

My child attends CathAlthough many provide olic school, but I do not descriptions on their webhave his/her New York sites, a phone call or a State test results. How do visit is typically the best I obtain this information? way to get the most updated Because only the individuand accurate information. al school/academy is provided The Diocese of Brooklyn webwith its student test results, COURTESY FACEBOOK site http://dioceseof brooklyn.org/ only the principal at that schools/about-catholic-schools/ provides gen- school/academy has access to state test eral information regarding schools/academies results. The schools/academies send student within the diocese. results home once they are released by the Visiting a school/academy is the best way state. If you have not received this informato get a sense of it. It gives you the opportu- tion, call the school/academy to obtain the nity to speak with the staff and to move results. through the environment to see if it feels My child attends Catholic school, but I right for your children and your family. In addition to experiencing the school/academy, do not have his/her Terra Nova test results.

How do I obtain them? you can learn about it.

Parents of each student in grades 3-8 will Can my child attend a Catholic school/ receive a Home Report from their school/ academy. If you have not received the inforacademy even though we are not Catholic?

Yes, Catholic schools/academies welcome mation, please call the school/academy to children of all faiths, and you will find that obtain the results. some are very diverse. All can benefit from My child attends Catholic school, but I the education provided in Catholic schools/ do not have his/her TACHS test results. academies.

How do I obtain this information?

If your child took the TACHS test in What types of scholarship opportuniNovember, you should receive a copy in the ties are available for Catholic school?

Futures In Education offers tuition assis- mail by the end of January. If you do not tance to students registered at a Catholic ele- receive it, call Riverside Publishing at (866) mentary school in Queens or Brooklyn 618-2247. (grades K-8) through the following three What test scores do my children need to scholarship programs: be admitted into Catholic high school?

• Diocese of Brooklyn, Each high school has its own admissions • Bishop’s and requirements. To find out more, you should • Be an Angel to a Student.

The goal is to ensure no child is denied a contact the high schools and attend open housCatholic school education due to financial es for schools that your child may want to constraints. Parent’s are encouraged to speak apply to. with the school’s administration about pay— Information courtesy ment options available.

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New programs at The Mary Louis Academy include Pre-Med

The Mary Louis Academy is proud to announce the establishment of several new and exciting initiatives designed to provide young women with increased opportunities to achieve academic success, develop leadership skills, set career goals and form strategies to achieve those goals. Successful completion of a program, all of which begin September 2017, will be recognized at graduation with a special designation certificate.

PRE-MED/HEALTH PROGRAM Available to highly motivated students interested in pursuing study and career in medicine, dentistry, nursing, veterinary science, pharmacy, physical therapy and other health professions. Advanced study in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Anatomy and Physiology and Math will be required. An additional requirement will be a course in Greek and Latin for Medical Terminology. Students will be required to take part in a summer internship offered by such hospitals as NY Hospital Weill Cornel Medical Center, Lenox Hill Hospital or Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. (Students may also make arrangements with other hospitals in other locations.) Scientific lectures and field trips will be required as is membership in the New York State Science Honor Society.

DUAL-LANGUAGE/INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM In addition to a 3 or 4-year study of a Language Other Than English (French, Italian, Latin, Spanish) students will take one or two years of a third language. (Modern Greek may be available as a third language.) Students will also study both current and historical events pertaining to the area of language study and produce an independent project on a selected topic.

STEM An intensive study of the STEM areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math will include honors levels of Geometry, Chemistry, Algebra II and Physics. Senior electives include Computer Science, Robotics, Pre-Engineering, Greek and Latin for Scientific Study and Independent Science Research. Students will take part in local and national STEM competitions, attend science-based field trips and forums and serve as a STEM tutor.

ART Students who demonstrate talent and interest in Art may pursue a separate Art major program. Courses include Studio Art, Drawing, Painting, Graphic Arts and AP Studio Art. An internship in a museum such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art or a specific art gallery is also required.

MUSIC Students interested in the special designation program in music may choose a Music or Vocal program. A concentration in Music will take Music in Our Lives, History of Music Styles and Theory and AP Music Theory and register for the orchestra. Students who wish to follow a concentration in Vocal Performance must register for Vocal Techniques in Freshman Year, register for the Glee Club or Orchestra. Private lessons in Music will be available.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND WELLNESS The Physical Education program is designed to provide students with a strong foundation in personal health, fitness and lifetime activities. The special designation program will include certified training in CPR and as a referee.

For information about The Mary Louis Academy, call 718-297-2120 or visit www.tmla.org.

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For more information, contact the Admissions office at 718-836-7100 x117 A Catholic, co-educational, college preparatory school in the tradition of the Xaverian Brothers since 1957, Xaverian offers: O A cutting edge, one-to-one learning environment with iPads for every student O Project and problem-based learning through hands-on classroom experiences within the Michael T. Strianese ‘74 STEM Program, Xaverian’s highly acclaimed Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math curriculum in conjunction with Project Lead the Way O College counseling and Internship Program O College credit opportunities available through

VISIT US Spend a day on our campus as a “Clipper for a Day” and experience what life is like as a Clipper numerous AP, St. John’s University, and Syracuse University courses O College placements at prestigious schools such as Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, Macaulay Honors at CUNY, New York University, Princeton University, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, US Military Academy at West Point, and US Naval Academy, with the class of 2016 earning $36,880,924 in scholarships!

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Choosing a Catholic high school Catholic high schools offer four years of rigorous college preparatory programs coupled with individualized attention and support to ensure that students reach their full potential.

According to the Diocese of Brooklyn’s website, 100 percent of Catholic high school seniors graduate, compared to the approximate 60 percent of New York City public school students and 98 percent of Catholic graduates go on to college, mostly four-year colleges.

Catholic students have been accepted to the most competitive colleges in the country and have received approximately $350 million in scholarships. Catholic high schools believe in educating the whole person. They also offer dozens of outstanding cultural activities and competitive athletic teams, successful art and music programs, afterschool clubs and international travel, as well as challenging classes that include Honors, Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and coursework at local colleges and universities.

In Catholic high schools, young people learn to question, to establish confidence in their own good choices in life and to experience the sense of accomplishment that stems from individual achievement and responsibility.

Catholic high schools: • Build character • Foster community service • Encourage involvement

The Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn supports high schools in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn. Though the schools have a Catholic Christian mission, they are open to students of all faiths.

Archbishop Molloy HS 83-53 Manton St., Briarwood (718) 441-2100 Website: molloyhs.org

Msgr. McClancy Memorial HS 71-06 31 Ave., East Elmhurst (718) 898-3800 Website: msgrmcclancy.org

Cathedral HS 350 East 56 St., NYC (718) 688-1545 Website: cathedralhs.org

St. Agnes Academic HS 13-20 124 St., College Point (718) 353-6276 Open House: Thursday, Jan. 19, 5-7 p.m.

Website: stagneshs.org

Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary 56-25 92 St., Elmhurst (718) 592-6800 Website: cathedralprep.org

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• Develop real-world skills • Shape leaders and reinforce values • Reward achievement • Allow for spiritual growth • Embrace differences • Raise standards • Empower each student • Celebrate school spirit For more information, contact the Catholic Q high school of your choice.

— information courtesy Diocese of Brooklyn website

Holy Cross HS 26-20 Francis Lewis Blvd., Flushing (718) 886-7250 Website: holycrosshs.org

St. John’s Preparatory HS 21-21 Crescent St., Astoria (718) 721-7200 Information Night: Tuesday, Jan. 17 6-8 p.m.

Website: stjohnsprepschool.org

The Mary Louis Academy 176-21 Wexford Terrace, Jamaica Estates Open House: Thursday, Jan. 19, 4-7:30 p.m.

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Fresh Meadows, NY 11365 Open House: Thursday, Jan. 19, 7-9 p.m.

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Woodhaven is so fortunate that we have the men and women of the Sanitation Department, many of whom live among us in this neighborhood and within New York City working on our behalf.

They are our unsung heroes.

Now, back to another of our Greater Woodhaven Development Corp./Woodhaven Business Improvement District’s 2017 Wish List” Install an elevator to the elevated Woodhaven Boulevard station for use by the disabled, elderly and other residents who can not use the stairs.

Purchase two signs to be placed on Dexter Court and at 100th Street on Jamaica Avenue.

These two-sided signs will state when you enter Woodhaven and when you leave.

This will differentiate our area of Jamaica Avenue.

It has always been our aim to make our part of Jamaica Avenue stand out as clean, free of graffiti vandalism and with a variety of vibrant stores and businesses on our “Everything Avenue.”

Sometimes, we tend to take our Woodhaven’s Jamaica Avenue for granted, that this is just like any other commercial strip.

This is not so. Our Woodhaven’s “Taking Care of BIDness” Avenue is special and our appearance and activities are special.

So Woodhaven be proud.

Installation of a unisex restroom at the Forest Park Carousel, with bars installed for the disabled. There are no facilities there at this time.

This restroom is important for the many families with children that visit this historic carousel.

Enclose the carousel with temperature control. This way, the carousel can operate year round. This will increase revenue for the concessionaire (if they want to add a dinner menu) and for the Department of Parks and Recreation.

Clean the bathroom facilities at Victory Field more frequently and have a parks employee available at this location.

Install surveillance security cameras installed at strategic locations on Jamaica Avenue for our residents’ and shoppers’ safety.

The Department of Finance has mailed out the new 2017 senior citizen rent increase exemption forms and disabled rent increase exemption forms to those who are enrolled.

Please complete and return these forms.

If you want a form sent to you for either or both of these programs, please call 311 or visit nyc.gov/contractscrie or nyc.gov/contractdrie.

May God bless our armed forces, may God bless our disabled veterans, may God bless our NYPD and police officers everywhere, may God bless our leaders and may God bless Q our America.

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Japanese invade LIC with thousands of

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numbers of male and female artists, Ikezawa said, and was noted by both men and women visiting the gallery.

One was Scott Block of Forest Hills, who works nearby in web development. He’s a frequent Resobox cus tomer who s topped in on a recent Thursday.

“In Japan, they have that part of the culture, ‘kawaii,’ a word for items that are cute,” he said.

Block said he recently read that Japanese knit and crocheted crafts are experiencing a surge in America.

The exhibit is quite suitable for children of all ages. The creatures crowd the walls and funiture and hang from the ceiling, some low enough to force you to look them in the eye.

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There’s something to be said for being cute and happy.

Little faces now on display in Long Island City will take you straight to heart of globally popular modern Japanese hipsterism in the form of handmade knit and crocheted Japanese-style stuffed animals and nonreality-based characters, known as “Amigurumi,” which are on display now through the end of March at Resobox.

How could you resist a little “Acorn Friend”, especially when made by an artist named “Cutie Pie Amigurumi,” also known as Kirstin Heppner of Canada?

Their uber-imaginative cuteness is a way to grab one’s attention in a happy, quirky way, a defining

feature of Japanese youth pop culture, according to Resobox founder Takashi Ikezawa.

He runs the gallery-cafe and classes in the name of promoting Japanese culture.

“Art is one of the most powerful ways, especially in New York, to disseminate the culture,” Ikezawa said.

The approximately 3,000 to 4,000 pieces in the “World Amigurumi Exhibition vol. 3: Mixed Materials Made Mini Monsters!” were made by artists from all over the world.

“Big Toast Rattle with Egg,” which could easily have been named “Happy Toast,” was made by an artist named 0peach from Spain. Amigurumi artists usually take an “artist name,” Ikezawa said. Most didn’t include their real names on their products.

The childlike cuteness attracts about equal

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MUSIC

St., Corona. Free with admission: $15; $12 students, seniors, kids. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

Nat Adderley Jr. Trio, jazz led by the pianist and music arranger for the late Luther Vandross, part of a monthly music series. Thu., Jan. 12, 8 p.m., Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161-04 Jamaica Ave. $10 suggested donation. Info: (718) 658-7400, jcal.org.

“Nasty Women,” with works that serve to demonstrate solidarity among artists who self-identify as “nasty women” in the face of recent and ongoing threats to women’s rights in the wake of Presidentelect Donald Trump’s election. Thu.-Sun., Jan. 12-15, Knockdown Center, 52-19 Flushing Ave., Maspeth.

Free. Info: (347) 915-5615.

Chamber Music Master Series with Nicholas Cords, with works by Dvorak, Sibelius, Bartok and more, by Forte New York Chamber Music Series, devoted to bringing classical music to new audiences hoping it can influence lives. Sun., Jan. 15, 5 p.m., NY Presbyterian Church, 43-23 37 Ave., Long Island City. Free; parking too. Info: (347) 560-9433, fortenycms.com.

“Martin Scorsese,” on the iconic New Yorker and director’s intertwined career and life, with production material, childhood artifacts, behind-thescenes images, film retrospective and more. Thru Sun., Apr. 23; Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $7 kids 3-17. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

Gustavo Casenave Quartet featuring John Patitucci, the pianist and composer’s eclectic group performing his original chamber jazz, tango and classical works, with the jazz bassist and more. Sat., Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $29; $16 students. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

DANCE Dance Theatre of Harlem MLK Jr. event, with an eclectic repertoire ranging from classics to contemporary and works using ballet to celebrate AfricanAmerican culture, commemorating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Sun., Jan. 15, 4 p.m., Colden Auditorium, Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. $35. Info: (718) 793-0923, kupferbergcenter.org.

Fertile Ground, a new works showcase for both emerging and established artists, with six groups performing, post-performance discussion with wine and cheese. Sun., Jan. 22, 7 p.m., Green Space, 37-24 24 St., Long Island City. $14. Info/ tickets: (718) 956-3037, greenspacestudio.org.

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KIDS/TEENS The Dance Theatre of Harlem will put on a special Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration performance this Sunday at Queens College’s Colden Auditorium. See Dance.

RACHEL NEVILLE limited copies available for purchase. Sat., Jan. 14, 1 p.m., Greater Astoria Historical Society, 35-20 Broadway, Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 2780700, astorialic.org.

Sun., Jan. 15; closing reception and artist talk, Sun., Jan. 15, 3-5 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 13735 Northern Blvd. $5. Info/RSVP: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

Visual Effects Master Rob Legato, on his work in films such as “Apollo 13,” “Titanic,” “Avatar” and more, with clips, in a “master class” suitable for families, film buffs, aspiring professionals. Part of Martin Scorsese Retrospective. Sun., Jan. 15, 1 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $7 kids 3-17.

Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

“Q100: photographing the city bus to Riker’s Island,” highlighting the loved ones of people detained in the city jail. Thru Sun., Jan. 15; Qns Collective, 36-27 36 St., Long Island City. Free. Info: queenscouncilarts.org.

“The King of Greenpoint,” Queens book launch and talk by Geoffrey Cobb, on colorful boxer, longshoreman and politician Peter J. McGuinness, with Greenpoint history too. Thu., Jan. 19, New York Irish Center, 10-40 Jackson Ave., Long Island City.

Free; book available for purchase. Info: (718) 4820909, newyorkirishcenter.org.

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The Civil Rights Movement Is Not Over, by Mississippi Freedom Summer veteran and Queens College alum Mark Levy, above with wife Betty and students in 1964, reflecting on his time teaching and working to desegregate the South. Mon., Jan. 16, 1:30 p.m., Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills. $8 suggested donation. Info: (718) 268-5011, cqy.org.

PHOTO BY DONNA GARDE Sunnyside Yard and Hell Gate Bridge, by author of new book of the same name, David Morrison, a retired LIRR branch line manager, with signing,

“Disarming Geometries,” works using geometric abstraction to address social and political issues and to grapple with the uncertainties of contemporary life. Sun., Jan. 15 (opening reception 2-5 p.m.)-Sun., March 26, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City. Free.

Info: (718) 937-6317, dorsky.org.

Chinese calligraphy, by artists from Ninegrid Culture Innovation, to celebrate Lunar New Year. Thru Mon., Feb. 6, with calligraphy demonstration Sat., Jan. 28, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Resorts World Casino, 110-00 Rockaway Blvd., South Ozone Park. Free. Info: rwnewyork.com.

“Journey to Infinity,” paintings representing the emotions felt by Peruvian-American artist Renzo Ortega as an immigrant artist in NYC; thru

“GingerBread Lane,” the 2013-15 world record holder for largest gingerbread village, with edible, homemade houses by chef Jon Lovitch. Thru Sun., Jan. 15; New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission; workshops $10 per kit.

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

“Neither Here Nor There,” paintings, photographs, sculpture and more by eight French artists living in the U.S., sharing a sense of figurative isolation. Thru Jan. 20, Fri., 3-6 p.m., Sun., 1-6 p.m. or by app’t, Radiator Gallery, 10-61 Jackson Ave., LIC. Free. Info: (347) 677-3418, radiatorarts.com.

“Found and Funky,” mixedmedia works made of found objects and paying homage to the jazz term for an art piece achieving its highest form. Thru Sat., April 8, Materials for the Arts, 33-00 Northern Blvd., 3rd floor, Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 729-2007, mfta.org.

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“Nikon Small World 2016,” with winning images from the photomicrography competition, such as a zebra fish embryo’s developing face, a butterfly proboscis, a polished slab of agate and dozens more.

Thru Feb. 26, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111

Make It: Digital Paper Cutting, teaching kids 6 and up how to use a desktop robotic cutting machine to make holiday cards, flowers, snowflakes and more.

Sat.-Sun., Jan. 14-15, 21-22, 1:30-3 p.m.; 3:30-5 p.m., New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. $5 adult/child pair. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

Winter Family Programs, with indoor garden activities, nature walk and more, especially for kids 4-10 but all welcome. Sat., Jan. 14, 21, 28 and Feb. 4, 11 a.m.-12 p.m., Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. $10 per class. Info: (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org.

Karaoke at the Movies: “Tarzan,” the 1999 animated Disney film about a man reared by gorillas, based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs book, screened with words so the audience can sing and dance along. Dressing as Disney characters encouraged. Sat., Jan. 14, 6:30 p.m., Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside. Tickets: $5. Info: (718) 631-6311, visitqpac.org.

WALT DISNEY PICTURES Eco Club: Ice Extremes!, teaching kids 8-12 about frozen water and the “extremophile” organisms like lichen and moss that can survive it, with participants taking home their own DIY moss gardens. Sun., Jan. 15, 12:30-2:30 p.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. $25. Info/preregistration (req’d): (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com.

THEATRE “Two Trains Running,” August Wilson’s play about changing attitudes on race in 1969 Pittsburgh, by the Black Spectrum Theatre, with brunch. Mon., Jan. 16, 11 a.m., Greater Allen AME Cathedral of New York, 110-31 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica. $30 suggested donation; $15 kids under 12. Info: (718) 206-4600. continued on page 36

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Photographing big wonders of the small world qboro contributor

Seeing is believing, but why should we limit ourselves to what our own eyes can see? This seems to be the drive behind photomicrography, a practice that combines microscope technology with modern photo techniques to capture images of subjects on an infinitesimal scale.

The 20 winners of Nikon’s Small World 2016 photomicrography competition are now on view at the New York Hall of Science in Corona, yielding art from items and organisms more commonly seen in laboratories than galleries. And yet, it truly is a category of art unto itself — often striking in color, surprising in form and in some cases

Nikon Small World 2016 Winners When: Through Feb. 26 Where: New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona Entry: $15; $12 students, seniors (718) 699-0005, nysci.org

painstakingly composed.

Although the museum functions primarily as a popular science destination aimed at engaging younger audiences in studies of the natural world, this is far from NYSCI’s first foray into the intersection of art and science; every year it hosts a gallery of artwork called “Science Inspires Art” in conjunction with Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. The most recent version of this show, focusing on food, will remain open through Feb. 26.

This is the 42nd iteration of Nikon’s contest, held annually since 1975. The top 20 winning photos will travel among several dozen museums and science centers across the United States, as well as Vancouver, Canada. All forms of light microscopy are permitted, and the entrants are judged on originality, informational content, technical proficiency and visual impact.

For visitors to the Hall of Science, the “visual impact” will be immediately apparent. Walter Piorkowski’s 13th-place “Poison Fangs of a Centipede (Lithobius erythrocephalus),” amplifies the arthropod’s tiny mandibles into grotesque and horrific harbingers of death. It perhaps is the most readily recognizable of the photos in the gallery

Insects, air bubbles, fossils and more — as you’ve likely never seen them before — are PHOTO BY NEIL CHIRAGDIN on display at the New York Hall of Science. for what it is, but the unexpected resolution and size of the portrait is nonetheless unnerving.

Other photos require a bit of background to take their full effect. Francis Sneyers’ 11th-place “Scales of a butterfly’s wing underside (Vanessa atalanta)” is unrecognizable as the wing of a butterfly unless you know what you’re looking for. The scales are richly colored in red-orange and tightly

packed in layers, though delicately fringed at their edges — one might assume this to be an oriole instead, at first glance. Who knew that butterflies had scales?

In another piece, rippling azure blues and fluorescent green tints appear to gleam atop the water’s surface. This seems like an aerial view, a strange, alien ocean with strange folds dividing the currents. Pia Scanlon’s continued on page 37

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Newtown Literary: Queens teens have the write stuff

by Michael Gannon editor

Teenagers who are poets at heart, or who just love the art form, have an open invitation to the Ridgewood branch of the Queens Library on Jan. 21.

That’s when the Newtown Literary Alliance is sponsoring “Transforming the Mundane into Magic: Using Metaphor in Poetry and Prose.”

It is open to teens ages 13 to 17, and will be taught by journalist Alex Radison, who also is an editor with the alliance.

“This is the first time we’re offering a teen class,” said Tim Fredrick, the group’s executive editor. “We just want people to

‘Metaphor in Poetry and Prose’ When: Sat., Jan. 21, 2-3:30 p.m.

Where: Ridgewood Library, 20-12 Madison St. Entry: Free. (718) 821-4770 newtownliterary.org

come together. There’s no experience necessary. We just want to have people come and try writing poetry ... and nobody’s going to be graded or forced to show their work.”

The 90-minute session will include reading from and discussion of the works of William Carlos Williams, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, Sueyeun Juliette Lee and others.

The alliance was formed in 2012 by people with an interest in discovering, cultivating and promoting literary arts within the borough. They publish an annual journal with submitted works.

“There’s a lot of great writing in Queens,” Fredrick said.

After modest beginnings with a budget of a few hundred dollars, the group grew in popularity, even being featured in the Daily News and on NY1. With space for meetings being costly in the city, they and the Queens Library linked up for mutual benefit.

“We just had an adult program at the Jackson Heights Library that was standingroom-only,” he said.

The group eventually obtained nonprofit status and now is able to apply for previ-

The Newtown Literary Alliance is looking for teens who are poets or are interested in learning about the art and craft of creating poetry. ously unavailable grants. Recent financial support has come from discretionary funds from City Councilmembers Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) and Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale). Other events growing in success are the annual “Queens Writes” weekends and Book Trivia Night every fall.

The poetry session, as with all Newtown Literary classes, is free to anyone who is

interested in attending.

Future teen programs on various topics and styles of literature will be on March 11 and April 29 in Jackson Heights; with presentations for those 8 to 12 on March 25 in Jackson Heights and April 22 in Ridgewood.

Adult programs are scheduled for Feb. 4 at the Maspeth Library and March 4 at Q Ridgewood.

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Those who are captivated can take a small piece home starting at about $5, ranging up to to one of the largest pieces, “Giant Squid (can be cooked)” by “Popopo-hompo” of Japan, at the show’s top price of $500. But no, it actually can’t be cooked.

LaGuardia Community College student Kelsie Cooper bought one of the “Princess” amigurumi made by “EarnCrochet” of Thailand. Cooper visited with her boyfriend, gaming journalist Samit Sarkar, who said the couple owns a collection of a wide variety of figurines. Their new doll bears a passing resemblance to the character Belle of the Disney movie “Beauty and the Beast.”

‘World Amigurumi Exhibition vol. 3’ When: Through March 31 Where: Resobox, 41-26 27 St., Long Island City Entry: Free. (718) 784-3680, resobox.com

Entrance to Resobox is free, but you can also buy lunch, a snack or drinks.

The music and aesthetic are comfortably spare and the atmosphere is a slightly formal casual.

Ikezawa chose the pieces from 20,000 online submissions. “The most important factor: how well the pieces are related to the theme I set out,” he said.

The theme is using mixed materials instead of just the traditional yarn, showing what amigurumi could become in the future.

“Woody Ami Bear” by Artist Lumiéna of Japan has wooden legs and arms that seem to be reaching out for a hug.

Other artists used cotton balls, a slice of a tree branch, a cotton balls, sequins, leather, plastic bottle caps and even a compass.

Resobox will show and sell 100 to 150 of the amigurumi at the Vogue Knitting Live show at the New York Marriott Marquis on Jan. 13, 14 and 15. The galler y’s spring exhibition is still being planned. Applications for “World Amigurumi Exhibition vol. 4” will be available in Q early summer.

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boro continued from page 32 Untitled, by Daniel Fish, “thinking about confined spaces” such as between two people or between viewer and screen, co-presented with Performance Space 122. Thru Sat., Jan. 21, 2 p.m., The Chocolate Factory Theater, 5-49 49 Ave., Long Island City. $20. Info: (718) 482-7069, chocolatefactorytheater.org.

Act One: One Act Festival, with multiple performances and audience voting on the best ones.

Thru Sat., Jan. 28, various times, The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $15 advance; $18 at door; $55 any four shows. Info/tickets: (718) 392-0722, secrettheatre.com.

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First Look 2017, a festival for innovative new cinema, with works from more than 20 countries, most New York premieres. Thru Mon., Jan. 16, varying times, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. Varying prices; pass to all films $45. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

“Inside the White House,” the 1995 documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman about the inner workings of the executive mansion, “just in case you weren’t invited to the inauguration of the new President Trump.” Sat., Jan. 21, 1 p.m., Greater Astoria Historical Society, 35-20 Broadway, Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 278-0700, astorialic.org.

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Creative Writing: Would You Rather?, focusing on how to create character conflict, with discussion and writing exercises, led by award-winning essayist, playwright and university instructor Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons. Bring pen, paper. Sun., Jan. 22, 5-6:30 p.m., Astoria Bookshop, 31-29 31 St. $10 suggested donation. Info: (718) 278-2665, astoriabookshop.com.

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Stargazing Wonders — Astronomy Night, led by a seasoned professor, with Q-and-A, info packet and viewing session, for adults and kids 9 and older. Attendees may bring telescope or binoculars. Sat., Jan. 14, 7-9 p.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston (rain date Sat., Jan. 21). $15.

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SPECIAL EVENTS Michel Lauziere: Science of Sound, an interactive musical show with the performer using basic scientific principles to play bizarre, original instru-

ments and explaining what sound is and how it travels. Sat., Jan. 14, 1 p.m. workshop ($7; $4 kids); 2:30 p.m. show ($13; $8 kids; free teens 13-19 with school ID), Flushing Town Hall, 13735 Northern Blvd. Info/RSVP: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

Italian Charities of America dances, with food, drink and more. Sat., Jan. 14, 28, 8 p.m.12 a.m., 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. $10.

Info: (718) 478-3100.

A Day of Readings on Peace, with participants reading texts about peace from many cultures and languages, to honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day, at artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Peace Table. Sun., Jan. 15, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Free. Info: (718) 5929700, queensmuseum.org.

Bingo, with cash prizes, special games, progressive jackpot bonus and more, for those 18 and over. Tue., Jan. 17, 6 p.m. doors open; 7 p.m. early bird game; 7:15 p.m. regular games start, Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd. $4 for 12 games. Info: (718) 459-1000.

Dog and cat spay/neuter clinic, by ASPCA mobile unit. Fri., Jan. 20, starting 7 a.m., outside Petland Discounts, 55-52 Myrtle Ave., Ridgewood; Fri., Jan. 27, starting 7 a.m., outside store at 147-17 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. $125; $5 with proof of public assistance. Info: Amy Eisenberg, (631) 273-6363, aeisenberg@ petlanddiscounts.com.

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Wed., Jan. 18, 7:15-9 p.m., Flushing Hospital Medical Center auditorium, 5th floor, 146-01 45 Ave. Free. Parking in Burling St. lot. Info: (718) 358-1103, flushingcameraclub.org.

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18th-place work practically begs the viewer to dive in — you might never guess on your own that you’re looking at the wing cover, abdominal segments and hind leg of a broad-shouldered leaf beetle.

Still other images challenge the viewers due to the gallery’s unfortunate lack of insight into the photos’ background stories.

Dr. Oscar Ruiz is the recipient of the firstplace award for his photo of a “Four-dayold zebrafish embryo,” but the photo and its brief caption don’t elucidate for viewers the full scope of the image’s brilliance. The photo is one of a series of images the scientist has taken in a time lapse he is using to build a “map” of the facial development of the zebrafish — which cells move where at what point in development.

Ruiz, whose primary focus is patients with facial deformities such as cleft palates, praised photomicrography technology as a boon for researchers. “Using a live-imaging approach means we can better understand and pinpoint exactly how and why these developmental abnormalities occur,” he said, hopeful that one day the knowledge gained through this work will yield a treatment.

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Furious George & Carmelo Where gas has been sold for almost a century

by Lloyd Carroll

Chronicle Contributor

Former NBA head coach George Karl has gotten a lot of negative press for knocking a lot of his former players in his new and cleverly titled autobiography, “Furious George.”

I spent last Wednesday at the Queens Civil Court central jury waiting room. As anyone who has ever been called for jury duty knows, the best way to pass the time is to bring a book with you, and I figured that this was as good a time as any to find out what the brouhaha was all about.

The only place where I thought that he might have crossed a line without having any empirical proof was when he stated that both Carmelo Anthony and Kenyon Martin had issues because they grew up without fathers, while he was fortunate enough to grow up in a nuclear family just outside of Pittsburgh.

He also calls out many players for being immature, wanting the spotlight and not playing defense because they feel that it doesn’t help them get fatter contracts.

In fairness to Karl, he writes only about his time coaching Anthony in Denver and has gone on record saying that he has matured since he was traded to New York.

Knicks fans know that Anthony will never win any awards for defensive prowess, but he has put more effort into playing both ends of

the court since coming to New York from Denver.

Aside from basketball, Anthony has proven to be entrepreneur. He created and eventually sold a beverage company, Power Coco.

He has now shifted his sights to funding electronic and digital startup ventures with Melo 7 Tech Partners.

On a personal note, I have always found him to be extremely gracious and he always says hello to me by name, which is very unusual for any professional athlete based on my experience let alone an NBA superstar.

For the most part, “Furious George” is a fun read, as Karl talks about his various battles with management and the reasons behind his many dismissals. He also spends time warning readers not to make the gastronomical mistakes that he made, which he feels made him more susceptible to heart disease and a key reason that he contracted cancer.

ESPN ended speculation about the future of one of its signature personalities, Chris Berman, by announcing that he would remain there in a reduced emeritus role. Frankly I am surprised that Fox Sports did not make a serious play for Berman.

Perhaps they did and he simply did not Q want to relocate to Los Angeles.

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CENTURY 21 AMIABLE II

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Today, brands and businesses come and go frequently in Queens’ competitive business climate.

But since the Coolidge administration, a gas station has operated at the same spot on Myrtle Avenue in Glendale.

In the 1920s, Edward Herrmann opened a Shell Koltun’s gas station, 90-05 Myrtle Ave., Glendale, July 1949.

Gas Station on a huge The Annual Record of Assessed Valua101-by-125-foot corner property at the northeast side of Woodhaven Boulevard tion listed Mr. Herrmann as the owner of the property until 1962 when the site was and Myrtle Avenue.

After the crash of 1929, he sold the busi- acquired by The Shell Oil Company.

Today, this valuable piece of real estate ness, but not the property, to Russian immigrant Jacob Koltun (1894-1976). He is listed to be owned by The Metro NY decided to name the station Herman’s Dealer Stations LLC. Interestingly, the two 100-year properSuper Service Station.

“Jake” Koltun and his wife Florence ties abutting the station on the left and right lived in Richmond Hill. As a World War I are still there today and look almost the veteran, he was an officer in Jewish War same.

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