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Queens group went to DC inauguration 100 joined Jamaica NAACP Branch to celebrate historic Obama oath

by Michael Gannon Editor

n his acceptance speech in November, President Obama asked the country for its support in his second term.

And members of the Queens community, with the assistance of the Jamaica Branch of the NAACP, were happy to oblige him on Monday.

About 100 residents, some with long ties to the civil rights organization and others not, left the NAACP’s St. Albans off ice before 3 a.m. on Inauguration Day for the long, but rewarding trip to witness history.

The day marked the nation’s 57th presidential inauguration.

Maylean Brown Thompson of Jamaica said she knew before 2008 that an AfricanAmerican someday would be elected president, but did not know if it would happen in her lifetime. She was just as enthused Monday as when then-U.S. Sen. Obama broke down the barrier in 2008.

Leroy Gadsden, president of the Jamaica branch, said the trip was arranged largely with the help of the staff of Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-Jamaica).

The weather was warmer than forecast, but most of the Queens contingent opted to avoid the chilly 40-degree temperatures and the mayhem of hundreds of thousands of

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President Obama was not lacking for support from Southeast Queens when he took his oath of PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON office in a public ceremony on Monday. people on the National Mall.

With other groups, Meeks arranged for more than 200 of his constituents in all to watch the ceremony live with heat and refreshments a few blocks away in the Wright Patman Room on the first floor of the Rayburn House Office Building.

The space normally functions as the Financial Services Committee meeting room.

Joan and Major Myers of Queens said they took the trip out of more than just a sense of pride and history.

“I want to support his policies,” Joan

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Joan Myers said this was even more special than 2008.

“Because this time, I’m here,” she said.

Gadsden, who is in his fifth year as branch president, said he too was every bit as proud and excited as he was four years ago.

He praised Obama’s handling of things like the drawdowns of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. But he also is at a loss for what he sees as the utter contempt reserved for the president

by factions of the Republican Party.

“When he was elected there were people who said they would not work with him,” Gadsden said, still incredulous after four years.

“How do you do that?” he asked. “How do you say you will not work with the president? How can a congressman call the president a liar on the floor of the House? I sometimes wonder what other countries think of us when those things happen.”

Regardless, he and others were overwhelmingly upbeat. And several were pleased that since the traditional Jan. 20 swearing in took place on a Sunday, the public ceremony on Jan. 21 coincided with the national celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King’s birthday.

And two sights during the predawn bus ride down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway offered promising omens of the festive day and patriotic events to come.

The Freedom Tower, undergoing its finishing touches in Manhattan on the site of the old World Trade Center, is tall enough and was well-lighted enough to be seen for miles.

The Statue of Liberty, for more than a century a symbol of the hopes and promise of America, was arrayed with light in New York Harbor.

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A train to reopen during the summer MTA moving forward on extensive repairs to line over Jamaica Bay

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

The MTA says it is planning on reopening the A train connection between Rockaway and Howard Beach by the end of the summer.

Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge washed away part of the tracks over Jamaica Bay and in Broad Channel on Oct. 29, forcing service to be suspended between Howard Beach-JFK Airport and the Rockaways. That segment of the A line is one of only two parts of the subway system — along with the South Ferry station in Lower Manhattan — still unrestored after the storm, which flooded nearly every subway tunnel under the East River and for a few days caused the complete shutdown of the entire system.

MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said the timeline for reopening the storm-ravaged line has not changed and service is likely to be restored “sometime in the summer,” but did not specifically identify a date.

During the storm, a tidal surge covered a 70foot-wide strip of land between Jamaica Bay and East Pond — a freshwater pond in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge — covering the tracks in Broad Channel with over four feet of water.

Much of the track needs to be repaired and new signals need to be installed along the line.

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Fencing was destroyed; track washout occurred throughout, and at two locations the strip of land was breached, connecting East Pond with Jamaica Bay. The largest of the breaches was 270 feet wide. More than 3,000 cubic yards of concrete was used to fill in the breaches.

Cleaning up debris on the tracks took a

number of weeks alone.

The receding tide left over 40 boats, docks, logs, oil tanks, foam and thousands of tons of other debris trapped on the tracks in Broad Channel. One oil tank washed up on the Brooklyn-bound track at the Broad Channel train station. The MTA said it even found a

Rockers jam for Sandy relief Howard Beach guitarist, Joan Jett vet, organizes benefit

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Thirty years ago, Ricky Byrd was strumming his guitar while rock icon Joan Jett belted out the words “I Love Rock and Roll” only feet away.

Today, Byrd is married with a daughter and, like all his neighbors in Howard Beach, is dealing with the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Now, he’s using his rock connections to help his community.

Sandy’s storm surge flooded Byrd’s entire basement, destroying his recording studio and decades of memorabilia and photos. But fortunately for him, he saved most of his guitars and amps. He said he didn’t expect the situation he saw.

“We just watched in disbelief like everyone else did,” Byrd said. “I’m truly grateful we made it out alive.”

A Bronx native who grew up in Flushing and attended Flushing High School, Byrd played with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts from 1981 to 1991. He also played with Roger Daltry and Ian Hunter.

Watching his neighborhood struggle to come back after Sandy, he decided to put together a benefit concert for three local organizations — The Graybeards, a Rockawaybased nonprofit; West Hamilton Beach Volun-

teer Fire Department; and The Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department. Byrd is on the board of directors for Rockers In Recovery, a group dedicated to addiction recovery through music, events and festivals taking place within a clean and sober environment. He made calls to friends in the industry and the owner of The Cutting Room, a Manhattan concert venue.

“Everyone asked ‘Where and when?’”

Byrd said.

This event will feature the Rockers In Recovery All-Star Band, which features Byrd, Liberty DeVitto, who played with Billy Joel, Richie Supa (Aerosmith), Kasim Sulton (Utopia), Christine Ohlman (SNL band), and Mark Stein (Vanilla Fudge).

They’ll be performing with a slew of special guests, including Gary U.S. Bonds, Ian Hunter (Mott The Hoople, Mick Ronson), Michael Des Barres (recording artist/actor), LaLa Brooks (The Crystals), Billy J. Kramer, Gene Cornish (The Rascals), Simon Kirke (Free, Bad Company), Handsome Dick Manitoba (Manitoba, The Dictators, Little Stevens Underground Garage), Joe Hurley, Ross The Boss (The Dictators), Peppy Castro (Blues Magoos), Mark Bosch (Ian Hunter Rant Band, Garland Jeffries), Arno Hecht and Larry Etkin (Uptown Horns), Adam Roth (Billy J. Kramer) and Marge Raymond

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(singer/songwriter/actress). Additionally, the night will open with a performance from Queens’ own doo-wop kings The Capris. The evening will be hosted by A&E Private Sessions’ Lynn Hoffman and Q104 DJ Ken Dashow.

The concert begins at 8 p.m. on Friday Jan. 25. The Cutting Room is located at 44 E. 32 St. Tickets are $50. VIP meet-and-greet packages are also available for $150. To purchase tickets to the concert, go to http://ticketfly.com/event/195052-rockers-in-recoveryQ relief-new-york/.

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Police are looking for a man who robbed a Howard Beach bank that has been hit before.

According to the NYPD, a man entered the Howard Beach branch of Capital One bank at 155-14 Cross Bay Blvd. at 11:54 a.m. last Thursday. The suspect passed a note to a teller demanding money and the teller complied. He then fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of money. No one was injured in the robbery.

Police say the suspect is a white male, 25 to 30 years old, 5 feet, 7 inches tall with a slim build. The money had a dye pack attached to it, which exploded after he exited the premises.

The same bank was the scene of a heist almost exactly three years ago on Dec. 30, 2009 when a man drove away with $620 in a stolen car.

A nyo n e w i t h i n f o r m a t i o n i s asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477). The public c a n a l s o s u b m i t t i p s by l og g i n g onto nypdcrimestoppers.com, or by t ex t i n g 2 7 4 6 3 7 ( C R I M E S ) , t h e n entering TIP577. All tips are strictQ ly conf idential.

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The Broad Channel subway station along the A subway line was hit by a four-foot storm surge COURTESY PHOTO which left behind debris including an oil tank and a personal watercraft, above.

Coca-Cola bottle from 1902. Along some parts of the line, the tracks were completely ripped apart.

Holes of three feet or more were created beneath the railroad track where all the ballast stone was displaced. Other areas were completely buried. The two fence lines protecting the rail line from the public were bent over, filled with debris and destroyed.

The collapsed fence on the east side of the tracks damaged the signal system when it landed on the equipment. Signal cables were torn from the messenger wires and strewn on the tracks. Several areas of damaged cable were noted. The entire signal system was under four feet of salt water, requiring replacement and rehabilitation.

In the meantime, the MTA has run a shuttle service, called the H train, between Beach 90th Street and Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue and special bus shuttles to Howard Beach. There is currently no service between Beach 116th Street in Rockaway Park and Beach 90th Street.

A similar situation occurred on the Port Jervis Line of Metro North in Rockland and Orange counties when floods washed out part of the tracks after Hurricane Irene. There, the tracks took three months to repair, but the MTA says the damage to the A line is far Q more extensive.

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Man killed in Conduit wreck A Far Rockaway man is dead after a serious car wreck on Conduit Boulevard late Saturday night.

At around 10:10 p.m. on Saturday, police from the 106th Precinct responded to a 911 call of a car accident on the eastbound side of Conduit Boulevard in Lindenwood near the intersection with Linden Boulevard. Police say when they ar rived, they found a white Toyota Camry had struck a tree at the location.

EMS extracted the driver of the vehicle, 61-year-old Winston Joseph of Far Rockaway, and took him to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. He was pronounced dead on arrival.

According to police, Joseph was traveling eastbound on the Conduit from Brooklyn when he apparently lost control of the vehicle and struck the tree. The crash occurred just on the Queens side of the border with Brooklyn. There were no other vehicles involved in the accident and no other injuries were reported. Police say they do not suspect any criminality in the incident.

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Nelson out as CEO of Addabbo centers Robert Fliegel to serve as acting chief

by AnnMarie Costella

remains optimistic.

“I don’t know what’s next for me,” he The board of directors of the Joseph P. said. “I’m looking for opportunities to Addabbo Family Health Center stay active and ways to continue to give.”

Robert Fliegel, Addabannounced Tuesday that Peter bo’s chief financial officer, Nelson will no longer be servwill serve as acting CEO ing as chief executive officer. until a permanent replaceHe was employed by the nonment is found. Fliegel profit for 14 years. would not comment on Nelson, 71, a native of Nelson’s departure, instead Alabama now living in Elizareferring inquiries to the beth, NJ, said he greatly board of directors, who enjoyed his time at Addabbo could not be reached by and took pride in building the press time. group into something he was The Addabbo Family proud of.

Health Center cut the ribLast year the clinics had a Peter Nelson $3.9 million surplus and were FILE PHOTO bon on its seventh location at 105-24 Rockaway Blvd. ranked in the top 5 percent in terms of quality in New York State, Nel- in Ozone Park on Oct. 26, but it has yet to open. son said.

Fliegel said the group is still waiting on “The board and I had a falling out,” Nelson told the Chronicle on Tuesday. a certificate of occupancy from the city and that there were delays due to a defi“We didn’t see eye to eye.”

He did not elaborate on the specific ciency with the sprinkler system and other cause of the rift. As for the future, Nelson issues which he said he could not recall. Q Assistant Editor

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The West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department will celebrate its 85th anniversary with a benef it dinner on Thursday, Jan. 31 at Russo’s On The Bay, 162-45 Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach.

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by Hurricane Sandy, will salute its Honorary fire commissioners, D. Majorie Centrone, Anthony Gurino and Frank Russo Jr. “These three individuals have and continue to assist the West Hamilton Beach volunteers, even during the most trying of times, in particular during the Hurricane Sandy crisis,” the department said in its letter advertising the dinner dance.

The fire department will also honor local officials — state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), former Assemblywoman and Queens County Clerk Audrey Pheffer, former state Sen. Serphin Maltese and former Councilman Al Stabile.

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Earth calling the arts community e were excited to see that Maspeth High School will be putting on a student performance of “Romeo and Juliet” next week, and hope that more than just the MHS community turns out for the show.

It should be a good one — director Eric Young, the school’s theater teacher and an experienced actor, managed to snag a professional combat choreographer for the fight scenes and has set the goal of giving the audience “a professional show.”

But beyond that, we’re just glad to see that someone’s still putting on the classics. We find that too often, members of the Queens arts community, both performance and static, are doing work that’s so avant garde many residents cannot relate to or even understand it. And we think there’s a high price to pay for the disconnect.

Our reviewers are seeing some plays that essentially have no plots — purposely — and seem designed to be difficult or impossible to follow. Public art projects reminiscent of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “The Gates,” which managed to bring the feeling of scaffolding to Central Park, are getting more common. And let’s not even go into the woman whose show a few years ago in Western Queens included urinating into a vessel on stage and then pouring it over the audience.

We understand art has few boundaries and that people want to do what hasn’t been done before. Just like aging rockers whose fans want

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to hear their biggest hits, when they’d rather play their latest.

But there must be some balance, and we wish more professional and community theater groups in Queens would do shows like “Romeo and Juliet” more often. That play has lasted 500 years for good reason: it encapsulates virtually the whole of human experience.

How many recent works could rightfully make that claim?

Before you, the avant garde artist producing The Latest Thing in some studio in Western Queens, scoffs at all this, think of the practical element. The arts community largely depends on government support.

There’s a movement afoot, called One Percent for Culture, that seeks to have the city quadruple its funding for the arts, to 1 percent of the regular budget. Public spending is driven, to a sizeable degree, by what the public supports. If you want the average Joe in largely bluecollar, gruff, working-class Queens to support spending more taxpayer dollars on the arts, you should cater to him more than you are now.

One who understands what we’re saying is none other than Tom Finkelpearl, executive director of the Queens Museum of Art, who is always careful to offer both the traditional and conceptual to visitors.

“I do think it’s important to give something to people that’s clear and beautiful that they can understand,” Finkelpearl said Wednesday.

“One of my criticisms of the art world is that it’s elitist and really doesn’t listen to the public.” Don’t believe us? Believe Tom.

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In the f iscal cliff legislation, Congress passed the “doc fix.” Congress had previously voted to decrease payments to Medicare providers. However, since enough doctors threatened to stop treating Medicare patients if the cuts went through, Congress kept postponing the cuts (26.5 percent). This is what the “doc fix” is, and it has vast bipartisan support.

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Guns as protectors Dear Editor: Those who rail against gun enthusiasts might well redirect their ill-informed venom against those who follow the precepts of Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin — the so-called liberal-progressives. Both dictators confiscated firearms with the excuse that they were ensuring the public safety.

Connecticut has stringent laws on guns, yet when that state wished to strengthen them to include citizens with mental illness, like the Newtown mass murderer, it was the ACLU that fought against it and won.

Here in New York City, stop and frisk has been monumentally successful in removing guns off the street, yet it has been the ACLU, a compliant judge and craven politicians who want an end to the practice. Whom are they protecting, us or the criminals?

Gov. Cuomo’s demented screams during his State of the State Address brought us a gun law that makes illegal all pistols carried by the

Bikini bar bill dult entertainment is as old as humanity and not going away anytime soon. Queens has its share and then some of strip clubs, bikini bars and other racy joints. We’re not complaining as long as they comply with the law.

But we do think residents should know exactly what they’re getting when such places apply to move in and get liquor licenses. So does Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas (D-Astoria), who’s sponsoring a bill that would require liquor license applicants to disclose on their forms what kind of clothes servers will be wearing. Not jeans vs. slacks — more like outerwear vs. bikinis or G-strings.

Sounds reasonable. Tell your state reps to pass the bikini bar bill.

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police if their magazines have more than seven rounds. A gunman will be carrying 13 or more rounds in his gun. Whom is Cuomo protecting, the cops or the crooks ?

Anti-gun advocates should also realize that the Aurora, Col. shooter went to the only movie theater in the area that was declared a gun-free zone. Does anyone really doubt that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun?

The Second Amendment to the Constitution was never more forcefully used to prevent tyranny than in the Battle of Athens, Tenn. in 1946.

Look it up on the internet and learn from history.

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Dear Editor: As a resident of Queens and a parent of a son who lives in Ridgewood, I was shocked and saddened by the senseless killing on Dec. 20 of Ishak Ghali, a 26-year-old storekeeper shot in a deli on the corner of Onderdonk and Gates avenues, just two blocks from where my son lives. And now, almost one month later, on Jan. 17, my son while walking to the L train at 7 a.m. on his way to work in Manhattan, was robbed at gunpoint by two robbers in that same area. We’re thankful he was not injured.

More and more we hear of these senseless crimes. I am beginning to feel that armed criminals are taking over our streets. When will the madness stop? Why shouldn’t hardworking people feel safe in their own neighborhood anymore? I applaud President Obama for introducing the proposed “Smart Gun Laws” but will that really reduce gun violence and gun trafficking? Criminals always seem to find a way to get their hands on illegal guns. I don’t know what the solution is. Maybe introducing more beat cops back into our neighborhoods would help.

Citizens need to feel safe in their neighborhoods and not always have to look over their shoulders to see who is behind them. If my son was armed, would that have deterred the armed gunmen, or would the worst-case scenario have happened and one or the other been injured or killed? “An eye for an eye.” Is that what this country has become? Let’s try to find a workable solution to gun violence, put an end to all this insanity and, I hope, bring peace of mind back to all law-abiding citizens of this great country.

Terry Nusspickel Ozone Park The writer is the Queens Chronicle editorial production manager.

Forbid the filibuster Dear Editor: Our Senate is probably the only legislative body in the world that allows filibustering as an obstructionist tactic to be employed by a minority for the purpose of preventing a vote, and thus defeating legislation favored by a majority.

This is one reason why only 9 percent polled approved of the 112th Congress.

Senate Cloture Rule 22 requires 60 votes to end unlimited debate. When the healthcare bill was debated on Dec. 24, 2009, 40 Republicans, led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (RKen.), attempted to lure one Democrat to make 41 to kill the bill by filibuster. But the GOP attempt failed, allowing the bill, by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to pass 60-39.

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Republicans are ridiculous Dear Editor: Republicans are still claiming Obama has yet to appoint women and minorities to top cabinet positions. I would consider being appointed to the Supreme Court an important position. After all, you can change the course of the United States. And whom did Obama appoint? Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. If those names sound female it’s only because they are women.

Secretary of State? Hillary Clinton, yup another human with a uterus. Attorney General?

Eric Holder, African American.

Obama chooses people on merit and intelligence — unlike Bush, who chose Condoleeza Rice, the woman who ignored “Bin Laden determined to attack.” And Alberto Gonzales, who resigned in disgrace after dismissing Democrat-leaning attorneys in order to appoint

An island unto ourselves Dear Editor: We who live in Broad Channel cannot apply for any storm-related “giveaways” in the Rockaways, even though we have the same ZIP code, 11693, as Rockaway Beach. And there were a lot of things we could have used, as we were hit just as bad as the Rockaways.

ZIP codes on the peninsula run from 11691 in Far Rockaway to 11697 in Breezy Point. No one’s using 11698.

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Queens boro prez makes her final State of the Borough Address

by Michael Gannon Editor

Helen Marshall’s 12th and final State of the Borough speech on Tuesday was part year in review, part hopes for the future, and part looking back at her last dozen years at Borough Hall.

She started by comparing the devastation of Hurricane Sandy and the ongoing recovery effort with another experience when she first took office a dozen years ago.

“When I became borough president in 2002 the 9/11 attacks had shaken our city and our nation,” Marshall said in a speech given at Queens College. “It too was a time of recovery. But we’ve come far since then.”

She said while the holidays were muted by Sandy, followed only a few weeks later by the shootings in Newtown, Conn., that 2013 can be a year of hope, in part due to gun laws coming out of Albany in the wake of the massacre, coupled with another record year for the NYPD. Marshall said her office has invested $616 million in capital projects serving culture, recreation and the arts, and that careful planning and rezoning have both protected residential areas and spurred economic development in places such as Long Island City and Jamaica.

She said Willets Point West, a massive entertainment and retail project slated near Citi Field, is but another sign of things to come.

Borough President Helen Marshall dedicated her final State of the Borough speech on Tuesday to Dylan Smith, a Rockaway resident who died weeks after rescuing seven neighbors during Hurricane PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON Sandy. He was 23.

She also boasted of the success of the racino at Aqueduct Race Track, which she said provided 3,000 jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for he state.

Marshall expressed confidence that her office’s financial support of local schools, libraries and Queens-based CUNY initiatives have set the future tone for education.

The three-term borough president dedicated her speech to Dylan Smith, a 23-year-old Rockaway resident who along with neighbor Mike McDonnell was credited with rescuing seven people from the flood and fires from Hurricane Sandy.

Smith died in a surfing accident in Puerto Rico only a few weeks later. McDonnell was

present at the speech, as were Smith’s parents, Linda and Tim Smith.

McDonnell referred to his young neighbor as “a guardian angel in a wetsuit” in describing how he strung together a makeshift safety line out of extension chords, wire, rope and other items, while Smith, an experienced surfer and trained lifeguard, carried it over rising floodwaters to secure it and aid in the rescues.

Marshall announced that her office was making a $10,000 donation in Smith’s memory to the Swim Strong Foundation, which promotes healthy lifestyles for children in the Rockaways.

Marshall was introduced by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan).

Prior to the borough president’s speech, Quinn praised her former mentor and colleague, whom she first met when Quinn was working as a staffer for former Councilman Tom Duane.

She especially cited Marshall’s commitment to children and their education.

Marshall closed by thanking her husband, Donald, her children Aggie and Donnie and her entire family for their support during her public career.

“Now, let us all use this year of hope to resolve that through sheer determination and good old Queens grit that we will build a better and safer future for our families and Q communities,” she said.

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Ambulance strikes house An ambulance responding to an emergency call collided with a car in South Ozone Park on Sunday and ended up crashing into a home.

The accident happened at 11:30 a.m. at the intersection of 109th Avenue and 110th Street, one block north of Rockaway Boulevard and Aqueduct Racetrack.

Police say the ambulance was responded to a call of an unconscious person nearby when it collided with the car at the intersection. The ambulance crashed through a fence, glided across a small lawn and hit the south of the house on the northeast corner of the intersection.

Two EMS workers in the ambulance were taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center with minor injuries. The driver of the vehicle was taken to the same hospital and was listed in serious but stable condition. No one inside the home was hurt and the structure was not seriously damaged in the accident.

The intersection is not a busy one and is located in the heart of a residential area.

Police are still investigating the Q cause of the accident.

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Ozone Park school gets high-tech grant $5K will go toward in-class materials

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

An Ozone Park high school received a donation from AT&T that will go toward funding high-tech education opportunities toward minority students.

The High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture was one of 10 schools nationwide — and the only one in the entire Northeast — to receive the $5,000 grant sponsored by AT&T and The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. The grant is awarded to schools that excel in learning opportunities for minority students in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Known collectively as STEM, the subjects are ones in which American students must excel to compete on the modern global stage, many academics agree.

“There is an increasing demand among employers for workers with high tech skills and AT&T is committed to helping to foster these skills in students such as those attending Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture School,”

said Marissa Shorenstein, president of AT&T New York. “By supporting STEM education programs, we can ensure that as many students as possible have access to the skills they need to succeed in college and in the global economy.”

The money, which comes from the Telecom grants $350 million education fund, called AT&T Aspire, will go toward classroom materials and equipment that will help students learn high-tech skills.

Each school received $5,000. AT&T Aspire has provided NACME with $150,000 in funding. Another $100,000 remains to be given out.

Students at the recipent schools will also be eligible for a range of resources available through NACME, including scholarships and financial aid for college courses.

The High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture, located at 94-06 104 St. in Ozone Park, opened in 2006. The school had 944 students as of September, of which 75 percent are of Hispanic, black or AsianQ American descent.

Man dies in Rich. Hill fire A man was killed and a firefighter was injured in a fire in Richmond Hill on Sunday, according to the FDNY. The cause of the blaze has not yet been determined.

The one-alarm fire started at 12:55 a.m. at 103-43 120 Ave. near Liberty Avenue and was brought under control at 1:28 a.m, according to the FDNY. Some 12 units and 65 f iref ighters responded to the scene.

An unidentif ied man was found dead in a detached garage behind the abandoned building after the fire was put out, according to a report in the New York Post, which also cited a police source as saying that homeless people are known to stay at the location. The FDNY could not conf irm those details. The medical examiner will determine what caused the victim’s death.

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Feds investigating school bus strike Bus co. owners lodge a complaint with NLRB to halt week-long driver walkout

by Michael Gannon Editor

Washington may soon intervene in the school bus strike that has left parents of about 150,000 New York City school children scrambling for alternative transportation since last week.

The National Labor Relations Board has stepped into the dispute that is pitting the Bloomberg administration against more than 7,000 school bus drivers.

An NLRB complaint was filed on Jan. 17 by private bus companies with city contracts.

The strike affects approximately 11 percent of children served by school buses in New York City.

A school bus strike in 1979 lasted 14 weeks.

The mayor and the Department of Education are seeking to bid out about 1,000 bus routes that are covered by contracts set to expire.

The city says bidding is aimed at cost savings that could bring the cost per pupil more into line with other large cities.

The drivers, as well as bus aides, are seeking to include an employee protection provision into any new contract proposal, which would guarantee that current drivers keep their jobs no matter which companies win the bids.

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Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, center left, marched in solidarity with striking school bus drivers last week. The National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday agreed to review whether the strike is a PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON legal one.

Appellate Division and Court of Appeals make inclusion of such provisons illegal.

Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, which represents the drivers, claims that the provision could be added if Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott chose to do so

“We have just begun our investigation, and we don’t expect it to be concluded before the end of the week,” Tony Wagner, a spokesman for the NLRB, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.

The strikers got some support Thursday morning when Councilwoman Elizabeth

Crowley (D-Middle Village) joined their picket line in Ridgewood.

The drivers are not public employees, but work for the bus companies.

Michael Trizulino, a shop steward for the union and a driver for the last 36 years, said last Thursday morning that to his knowledge there had been no movement toward a settlement.

“The spirits on the line here are good,” he said. “We’re in this for the long haul. This is about our salaries and pensions. This is our occupation, our job. We are professional, trained bus drivers.”

He said Bloomberg “needs to start acting like a mayor and less like an employer trying to save some money.”

Crowley too said the mayor needs to be more preoccupied with safety than with cost savings.

“The city’s first priority must be keeping our schoolchildren safe, and that begins and ends with experienced bus drivers and matrons who bring our students to and from school,” she said.

Albert Serrano, who has been driving 18 years, said there is a reason he and the other drivers have lasted so long.

“We undergo background checks, not like some people they might get to replace us,” he said. “We are fingerprinted. We’re tested regularly for alcohol and drugs. We’re trained in CPR. The safety of the children is our first Q responsibility.”

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Sandy’s young survivors let stars shine PS 207 kids take part in project that goes to disaster zones worldwide

by Domenick Rafter

Deciding to pay it forward, Samuels reached out to the town of Greensburg, Kan., ust ten weeks ago, the inside of PS 207’s a rural town in the Great Plains wiped off the front hallway was cold, dark and map by an F5 tornado in 2007. There, Stars enveloped in an acrid smell. The floors of Hope was born when 220 schoolchildren and walls were lined with plastic and work- painted wooden stars.

From the plains of Kansas, Stars of Hope ers in hard hats and dirty jeans.

But on Jan. 2, the students came back and has since made its way around the country the school — badly damaged in Hurricane — and the world — to communities hit hard to natural and man-made disasters including Sandy — slowly began to return to normal.

But the ghost of Sandy still lingers in the Galveston, Texas after Hurricane Ike in 2008, hallways and classrooms of PS 207. Nearly the tornado-ravaged cities of Joplin, Mo., and every student lives in a house that suffered Tuscaloosa, Ala. and Minot, ND, which was flood damage when the storm surge inundated devastated by a flood in 2010. Samuels even took the project to Japan the neighborhood on Oct. after the 2011 earth29. Many had to leave quake and tsunami there. their homes. A select few One star that was made are still not back. in tsunami-struck Japan Last week, the surand another from a warvivors of the hurricane torn part of Israel now at PS 207 took part in a hang on a telephone pole program that has conin Howard Beach. nected disaster victims After Hur ricane across the country — Sandy, Samuels and and even some far away others brought stars parts of the world — for that were painted in over a decade.

Texas, Georgia and It star ted with a foundation called New One of the stars featuring a hopeful Kansas to the Rockaways and posted them York Says Thank You, message about Queens. around the neighborestablished by Manhattan resident Jeff Parness after the 9/11 hood to help brighten the spirits of the attacks. Parness lost a friend in the World storm’s survivors. One star caught the eye Trade Center and his son decided to donate of Janine Pizzariella, a kindergarten teacher his toys to victims of wildfires in Southern at PS 207. She looked up the project on its California in 2003, and that was the begin- Facebook page and decided to reach out and see if they could come to Howard ning of the foundation.

In December 2006, a tornado struck the Beach.

“I really wanted to do it as soon as we small town of Groesbeck, Texas. Patrick Samuels, assistant chief of the town’s fire came back to the school,” Pizzariella said.

Because of the damage to PS 207, its studepartment, saw his family’s home and neighbors’ houses destroyed. Worse yet, the dents attended classes in other schools until town was not eligible for FEMA money Jan. 2. Samuels said they were considering because it was not declared a disaster area. coming to town and having the students paint On the sixth anniversary of 9/11, New York stars in their host schools, but Pizzariella Says Thank You came to Groesbeck to help said she wanted to wait until the children were back in the school building. build new homes for the tornado victims.

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Students and teachers gather in PS 207’s gymnasium last Friday to paint their stars.

Students at PS 207 took part in the Stars of Hope program, which allows people who have survived natural or other types of disasters to paint stars with optimistic and inspirational messages.

PHOTOS BY DOMENICK RAFTER The program started in a tornado-ravaged Kansas town in 2007.

“It’s sort of a homecoming for us,” she said.

Despite living in a rural Texas town, Samuels knew of Howard Beach. As part of Stars of Hope and New York Says Thank You, Samuels had met New York City Firefighter Jimmy Sands — a Howard Beach resident — who had taken part in projects in Texas, Kansas and other areas Stars of Hope has traveled to. The two connected with Pizzariella and agreed to bring the project to the school last Friday.

Class by class, students f iled into the school’s gymnasium. The younger children had their teachers write out the words they wanted to paint on the stars. Older kids colored their stars in bright shades of green, yellow and blue and added messages of hope.

One star paid homage to one of the city’s hardest hit neighborhoods with a brightly colored message reading “Breezy Point Shines.”

Volunteers — including survivors of past natural disasters — carried the wooden stars, cut out in Georgia from wood donated by The Home Depot. Georgia’s postal abbreviation was on the back of the stars, a message of support from that part of the country, Samuels said.

Among the volunteers helping at PS 207 was Matt Deighton, a survivor of the 2007 Greensburg, Kan. tornado. Deighton, whose hearing was damaged by the twister, said he enjoys taking part in the project, which he admitted to be dismissive of when it first came to his town.

“I didn’t understand the impact at first,” he said. “But now I really see the effect.”

Deighton scurried around the gym, filling cups with paint and talking to the children about their stars. He said the most striking thing was when he saw the bulletin board at the main entrance to the school. Posted there are cutouts of ruby red slippers colored by students. “The Wizard of Oz”-themed “No place like home” display, representing the students’ excitement to return to their school, struck the Kansas native.

“Look at that,” he said pointing to the board. “I’m from Kansas!”

Hundreds of stars were painted at the school and Samuels said they will be taken to other areas hit by future disasters.

The next stop for Samuels was Newtown, Conn., the town still reeling from last month’s mass shooting at an elementary school that killed 20 children and sieven adults. He brought up a number of painted stars to put up in the town last weekend. Some of the stars painted at PS 207, including one bearing the name of the school, were taken there.

PS 207 was not the only stop Stars of Hope will be making in New York. The organization hosted a community paint in Breezy Point last week, and Samuels said he is in negotiations to bring the stars to a school in Q Gerristen Beach, Brooklyn.

Hundreds of stars were painted by the students and some were taken to Newtown, Conn., the town where 27 people were shot and killed in a massacre last month.

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A race to fit a rising student population Space, not money, is the issue in building new borough schools

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

It might be a sign that Queens remains a place where people want to raise their children, the ever-rising need for more space in city schools as families continue to grow and plant roots throughout the borough.

School overcrowding is a problem borough-wide, but especially in western Queens, where many working-class immigrant families have made their homes.

Last week, the School Construction Authority outlined the November 2012 amendment to its 2009-2014 capital projects plan at a parent advisory meeting at Borough Hall in Kew Gardens, providing an update on schools and improvements under construction and where the need for more seats remains.

The problem of overcrowding remains, the SCA confirmed, and schools are not being built fast enough to handle it.

District 24, which covers neighborhoods from Ridgewood to Corona, is in the most dire need of more seats. The five-year plan funded 5,191 additional seats in the district, with locations for all but 284 of them identified or already under construction. Eight new schools are being built in the district — four in Corona, two in Ridgewood and two in Maspeth.

The largest one, PS 315, under construction at 96-18 43 Ave. in Corona, will hold 1,110 stu-

Slated to open this year, PS 287 on Northern Blvd. in Corona will hold more than 400 students, but will only make a dent in District 24’s overcrowding problem.

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The capital program in District 24 also includes the addition being built at PS 87 in Middle Village.

District 30, which includes Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside, Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst, was given funding in the capital program for 3,717 seats. All but 504 of those seats have been attached to a project.

Where the need remains, funding for building schools and extensions is not the issue, but rather finding locations, according to SCA’s director of external affairs, Mary Laes.

“We’re still searching for sites,” Laes said.

“They’re pretty hard to come by.”

District 27, which covers southern Queens, has one school under construction — PS 316 in Ozone Park, rising at the former site of St. Stanislaus on 101st Avenue. That school, which will have 444 seats, will be completed in 2014. The SCA said it was searching for a location for another school, one that would serve 416 students, in Howard Beach as part of its capital projects for the district.

In District 28, which includes Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, Jamaica and South Jamaica, one school is under construction and another is being enlarged to serve 1,183 students.

PS/IS 314 at 88-08 164 St. in Jamaica will serve 833 students and open in September 2015. An addition to PS 50 will open in 2016 and serve 350 more students.

District 29, covering Southeast Queens, has one school under construction — PS 892 at 199-10 112 Ave. in St. Albans and two extensions at PS 35 and PS 176. The three projects will cover the entire 1,103 needed seats outlined in the capital program.

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Tight credit slows housing recovery Queens in flux as post-Sandy sales in South fall during slowest season

by Joseph Orovic Assistant Managing/Online Editor

The borough’s real estate market continued its stuttering approach to a recovery in the fourth quarter of 2012, as tight credit continued to fuel rising prices and shrinking inventory, according to a quarterly report by Prudential Douglas Elliman. But the post-Sandy reality of South Queens is another matter.

The average sales price rose 9.4 percent from the same quarter a year before, to $432,503. (Figures are measured against yearon quarters due to the real estate market’s seasonal nature). The median sales price also rose 13.7 percent to $390,000. But the number of sales fell 4.4 percent, continuing the market’s low turnover rate.

“Sellers can’t be buyers,” said Miller Samuel’s Jonathan Miller, who wrote the report. “They can’t trade up or qualify for a mortgage. They don’t have the option, so they just sit.”

Tight credit combined with low equity is a national problem, Miller said, one that is not being helped by low mortgage rates.

But the problems of the borough’s broader market are small fries in comparison to the situation in South Queens, where Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath is still on display. While

prices increased slightly in the area, the number of sales in the area dropped 18.6 percent from the same quarter in 2011. The problem is more pronounced in Rockaway, where sales plummeted 60.8 percent.

The holiday and winter months are already rather slow for the market, according to Howard Beach real estate agent Jerry Fink.

Hurricane Sandy has only made it worse.

“It’s like they put ether on the place,” he said, adding the superstorm halted what appeared to be a slight turnaround in the market. “I actually saw a price war. I felt the market was really starting to turn our way.”

Now, the market in South Queens faces uncertainty as homeowners recover and repair, then decide what to do with their houses. What used to be 90-100 listings for Fink has dropped to 62.

But Fink is not putting all the blame on Sandy’s sizeable shoulders.

“It’s really hard to make that judgement.

This is the slowest time of the year. Are you going to blame this on the storm or the time of year?”

Miller suggests the true effects of the storm won’t be felt or measurable for some time, despite the drop in sales numbers.

“It’s hard to describe it as cause and effect,”

While prices slowly recover, inventory continues to be tight. he said. “I don’t attribute all of this to Sandy.

Sales overall dropped in many places.”

Indeed, the figures across the borough are a mixed bag. While sales increased in the central part of Queens by 13.4 percent, they remained in relative stasis in the west and northeast, while dropping in the northwest area. Ditto prices.

Miller calls it a “pre-covery,” a cleansing period following the late-2008 collapse, after the mortgage bubble burst and banks put a noose around lending funds despite low rates.

“There’s still a big legacy issue about decisions that were made and we’re still grappling with the leftover issues such as foreclosures,” he said.

The borough saw a 163.9 percent increase in foreclosures in 2012 from the year before, according to RealtyTrac, totaling 4,853. Miller

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“It’s not that they’re re-emerging, they’re hibernating,” he said.

Fink, however, faces a wholly different task.

As the doldrums of winter pass, he’s not sure what to expect come the usually busy spring season. But he has a test.

Two homes have been listed post-Sandy.

One, on 99th Street, was heavily damaged during the storm. The other had minimal damage and was redone. The outcome of both houses may predict how spring goes. But Fink is optimistic regardless.

“Nobody seems like they want to run,” he said. “And they seem to have a good attitude about it. That gives me a good attiQ tude about it.”

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“Everyone should get flood insurance,” she said. “Floods are So your home did not get flooded during Hurricane not covered by homeowner’s insurance. It is a separate policy Sandy? You’re told you are not in a flood zone? Well, maybe and it is underwritten by FEMA.” Marino’s own home was damaged by Sandy’s storm you should think about flood insurance anyway.

Before Sandy, many Howard Beach residents who inquired surge in October. She said FEMA, which identifies flood about flood insurance and were not required to get it were told risk zones, will redraw its maps to make all of Howard they wouldn’t need it. Except for Hamilton Beach and certain Beach a flood zone. Previously, the section of “New” spots near the water, Howard Beach was not considered a major Howard Beach, east of Cross Bay Boulevard, was not considered an area with a high risk for flood zone. flooding.

Sandy proved otherwise. The entire Marino said regulations from FEMA are neighborhood experienced some level of veryone should get changing: If you received money from the flooding, stemming from complete flood insurance. agency after Sandy, you are likely going to destruction of some homes in Hamilton to get flood insurance.

Beach to minor basement and garage Floods are not cov- have“FEMA is now requiring everyone that flooding in Lindenwood. has ever gotten paid by them to get flood Flood insurance comes from the federered by homeowninsurance,” she explained. “Homeowners al government as part of the National should check with FEMA to see if it’s Flood Insurance Program created in 1968 er’s insurance.” required if they received money from after few private insurance companies — Laura Marino, them.” sold insurance to cover floods. The induslicensed insurance broker Most homeowners in Howard Beach try saw selling flood insurance an unacwho had mortgages were forced to get ceptable risk because floods happened in so few areas, there wasn’t a wide enough population in order flood insurance as part of their contracts with the lenders, but many people who live in the areas hit by Sandy’s storm surge to absorb the cost of a catastrophic flood.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency strongly and have paid off their homes or rent did not have a policy. A advises that every homeowner get flood insurance and some number of residents complained at a town hall meeting in November that they were told they did not need flood insurlenders require it for customers with mortgages.

Laura Marino, a licensed broker who runs the Marino ance when they inquired about it after homes in Hamilton Insurance Agency in Richmond Hill, said those who live in Beach experienced flooding in 2011.

“Right now, the rates are dirt cheap,” Marino said. “Right Howard Beach and the Rockaways must have flood insurance and agreed that everyone, even those not in a flood zone, now, it’s the best time to buy.”

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Evaluation deal fails as deadline passes State gives city, UFT new time frame, but Cuomo says $250K in aid is lost

by Domenick Rafter

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“By now, I’m sure you’re all Months upon months of talks aware that United Federation of over teacher evaluations broke Teachers President Michael Muldown Jan. 17 only hours before grew unilaterally walked away Gov. Cuomo’s deadline to submit a from our negotiations concerning a deal or lose $250 million in state new teacher evaluation system,” Bloomberg said Thursday aftereducation funding.

In an email to members, United noon. “This is deeply regrettable, Federation of Teachers President because after many days of aroundMichael Mulgrew said the union the-clock negotiations, we had had told Cuomo that negotiations resolved nearly all the outstanding with the city have ceased and that issues raised by the state teacher they do not expect to meet the evaluation law.”

Bloomberg confirmed that the deadline of midnight, Jan 17.

That led to an afternoon of fin- sunset provision was one of two ger pointing between the UFT and issues the city and UFT disagreed on.

He added that the union wanted the city in which both sides said there was a deal in place but the a sunset expiration date of 2015, other walked away from it at the which Bloomberg disagreed with.

“That condilast minute. tion would “It is particessentially renularly painful he city is not going der the entire to make this agreement announcement to get the funding. meaningless. because last That’s because night our negoIt’s a tragedy.” the process of tiators had — Gov. Andrew Cuomo removing an reached agreeineffective ment — but Mayor Bloomberg blew the deal up teacher requires two years’ — that’s in the early hours today, and correct two years’, time to get an despite the involvement of state ineffective teacher out of the classofficials we could not put it back room — and if the agreement suntogether,” Mulgrew said in the sets in two years, the whole thing would be a joke,” he said. email to members.

But most of the teacher evaluaHe slammed the mayor, saying that it was he who killed the tion plans submitted by other school districts statewide eclipse accord.

“The current administration only after just one year. Bloomberg wants to play politics with our chil- called those deals “a sham.”

The mayor also said the city dren,” Mulgrew said.

Bloomberg, at an afternoon opposed a union request to double press conference, admitted that the number of arbitration hearings there was a deal, but insisted it was for teachers who file grievances.

“That would make it, again, the UFT, not the city, that walked harder to weed out ineffective away from it.

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After negotiations on a teacher evaluation deal collapsed just before Gov. Cuomo’s Jan. 17 deadline, state Education Commissioner John King, left, is telling the city it could still get some state aid if Mayor Bloomberg and Dennis Walcott, FILE PHOTOS center, and UFT President Michael Mulgrew, right, come up with a plan on evaluations by Feb. 15. ings taking precious time away from their duties as school leaders,” Bloomberg said.

But in a letter to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, state Education Commissioner John King seemed to imply that Bloomberg shouldered most of the blame for the failed negotiations with the UFT, and said the city was not prepared to implement an evaluation system should it have been agreed to.

Speaking to the press Friday afternoon, King said the state’s impression was that the deal agreed upon included a sunset provision.

“The deal I understood they would submit [Wednesday] morning was for a 2012-2013 and 20132014 plan,” he said.

If true, that would give credibility to the UFT’s claim that both sides had agreed on a plan with a sunset provision until the mayor

balked Thursday.

The city can still qualify for as much as $200,000 in grants if it and the unions agree on a teacher evaluation deal by Feb. 15, according to King. Both the DOE and the UFT have agreed to go back to the negotiating table.

But any hope for the $250,000 in state funding appears to be lost.

Cuomo blamed both sides for the failure. In an interview on WOR’s “The John Gambling Show,” Friday morning, the governor said he was repeatedly asked by the city to extend the deadline for a deal, but he refused.

“A deadline is a deadline,” he said. “The city’s not going to get the funding. It’s a tragedy.”

State Sen. Michael Gianaris (DAstoria) said he wasn’t sure if there was any way to recoup the lost $250 million without a deal or if there was anything the Legislature can do.

“It’s really up to the governor,” he said. “It’s a shame because the city will lose out on a lot of money.”

Three other school districts — Harrison in Westchester County, Pine Plains in Dutchess County and Fallsburg in Sullivan County — had also not submitted teacher evaluation plans by the deadline.

Hamburg, a suburb of Buffalo, submitted a deal, but UFT members there voted it down.

Under a state law passed in 2010, a teacher evaluation plan must be in place to qualify for state aid. That plan must include 20 percent of the scores based on students’ growth on state tests, another 20 based on measures instituted by the school district and the remaining 60 percent acquired from classroom observations. The law allows for the option of including parent or stuQ dent surveys.

Obama inauguration continued from page 2 capital meant for walking 10 to 12 blocks to make the three-block trip from the buses to the Rayburn Building.

Waiting near the Queens contingent in line to go through security was actor Richard Schiff, who won an Emmy portraying presidential advisor Toby Ziegler on the former NBC White House drama “The West Wing.”

Once inside, Meeks’ office treated the crowd to snacks and sandwiches, and the venue offered comfortable chairs — “which your tax dollars paid for,” Gadsden said — and widescreen televised coverage from Sen. Charles Schumer’s (D-New York) opening remarks to the now-controversial national anthem performance by Beyonce.

Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, this year allowing himself to read from a card, administered the oath of office.

And the Wright Patman Room erupted in applause followed by a standing ovation upon Q the president’s recitation “... so help me God.”

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Funds shrink as library use among immigrants rises

by Joseph Orovic Assistant Managing/Online Editor

Stereotypical library patrons range from fidgety schoolchildren to bookworms to seniors looking for a leisurely jaunt mixed with peace and quiet. But a new report shows the city’s libraries are being heavily used by a surprising constituency: immigrants seeking to bone up on the essential skills needed to survive in a knowledge-based economy.

The report by the Center for an Urban Future, titled “Branches of Opportunity,” showed the city’s three public library systems had a 40 percent increase in attendance at programs held within branches, as well as a 59 percent increase in circulation.

Queens residents are a particularly bookish bunch, according to report, with the borough having the highest circulation in the city.

“New York’s public libraries are the most under-appreciated part of the city’s human capital system,” said Jonathan Bowles, executive director of the Center for an Urban Future, in a release. “No other institution reaches as many people in as many ways, from immigrants and seniors to teenagers and those who are the wrong side of the digital divide. They have become the second chance human capital institution.”

The report comes at a time when funding for libraries is a contentious issue, with monies being cut 8 percent over the last decade and leading to some of the lowest hours of operation, averaging 43 a week. The budgetary scalpel is out, and politicos like Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (DSunnyside) have been trying to keep the Queens Library from experiencing deep cuts.

The councilman has suggested creating a baseline for

library funding to ensure the fight for money does not become an annual event.

“We have to have the will to say this will be in the budget and not go below that, because these services are too important,” he said.

According to the report, the Queens Library enjoys a significantly greater largesse than its smaller siblings in Manhattan and Brooklyn (the Queens Library is one of the largest systems in the world). From 2003 to 2012, it has received $68.79 per capita in funding, ahead of the New York Public Library’s $62.41 and $40.50 in Brooklyn.

“Queens Library enriches the lives of 45,000 people every day,” said President and CEO Thomas Galante. “In a world in which information is power, we provide people with the tools and assistance they need to succeed, and access to the technology that makes it all possible.

The value of the services Queens Library provides is incalculable.”

But the budgetary ax for 2013 is unforgiving, with over $100 million in proposed cuts slated, according to Van Bramer, with much the same anticipated for 2014.

“If we keep up at this rate of cuts being proposed, we’ll never be able to fund libraries adequately, and the solution is simple — to baseline library funding, making sure that it doesn’t fall below what we all think is an adequate level of funding,” he said, adding cuts for consulting work could make room for library spending.

The Flushing Library is far and away the city’s busiest.

Saddled in a largely Chinese and Korean community, its circulation ranks top in the city, but also top five in the nation. Five of the city’s 10 largest libraries by circulation continued on page 26

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MLS promotes small biz support 1,000 shop owners sign petition backing stadium in Flushing Meadows

by Josey Bartlett Editor

Major League Soccer representatives touted small business support for their proposal to bring a stadium to Flushing Meadows Park on Friday at Sabor Latino restaurant in Elmhurst.

Outside the MLS press conference, a handful of protesters from

MLS representative Brett Lashbrook, center, promoted small business support of a soccer stadium plan in Flushing Meadows Park along with Queens Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jack Friedman, left, and state Sen. Jose Peralta.

Make the Road New York and the Fairness Coalition of Queens, two organizations that do not want green space taken from the park, held signs saying “We want a stadium, but not in the park” and “Our park is not for sale” in English and Spanish.

“We don’t have concerns about soccer, but we do have concerns about it being in the park,” said Hilary Klein from MTRNY. There were also individuals waving signs saying “Let’s bring pro soccer to Queens.” Those people would not speak directly to the press, but pointed to an MLS spokesman.

The pro-stadium signs are being displayed by businesses in the neighborhoods surrounding the park including Sabor Latino and two salons, Sapna Gandhi and Unisex Salon, all three located on 40th Road in Jackson Heights.

According to MLS, 1,000 small business owners have signed a letter of support for the 25,000-seat stadium at what is currently the Pool of Industry. The signatures are “primarily” from Queens businesses, “primarily in Flushing and Corona,” according to Brett Lashbrook of MLS. “We have seen at stadiums nation-

ally that soccer fans take part in the fabric of the community,” Lashbrook said. “They shop, eat and drink there.”

MLS says the project will bring 160 full-time jobs and $60 million in annual economic activity. Opponents question those numbers.

“As business people you know a good deal,” state Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) said, adding he plans to continue to hold MLS’s “feet to the fire” about promises the organization has made including replacing parkland and revamping soccer fields in the park. “[In] places like Harrison, New Jersey, everything they have said they’ve done,” Queens Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jack Friedman said, referring to a town where MLS recently opened a soccer stadium.

Michael Battinos, owner of Battinos, a men’s clothing store on Junction Boulevard for 30 years, said the press conference was the first time he heard about the plan.

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Library use among immigrants rises continued from page 23 are in our borough, with the Flushing Library leading the pack with over 3 million. Six of the 10 branches are in highimmig rant neighborhoods, including Elmhurst and Fresh Meadows.

The repor t also lauds the Queens Library’s “huge repertoire of immigrant programs and resources,” which “stands out and may well be unequaled anywhere in the world.” The system’s focus on immigrants is so key, it even has its own demographer who coordinates resources for even small immigrant groups in the borough. As a policy, the library accumulates a collection for any language that has over 3,000 speakers

in Queens. The numbers pile up in a county with over 190 languages, and explain why uncommon Nepali books line some shelves.

Despite growing demand from immigrant groups, lackluster funding means some programs at libraries fall short, especially in educational fields such as English as a Second Language, GED prep and other services. The results can even be felt in the busy Flushing Library, where the demand for ESOL classes is so high, long waiting lists mean only 20 percent of applicants actually get a spot.

The money to fulfill the potential of the libraries must be found, and soon, according to Van Bramer.

“I think that would allow us to fully fund

what is an essential and critical service that no democracy, that no civilized society would ever turn its back on and go without — and Q that is the neighborhood public library.”

Mardi Gras School Sisters of North Dame Educational Center will hold a Mardi Gras Celebration on Wednesday, Feb. 6 from 6 to 10 p.m. at Roman View Catering, 160-05 Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach.

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Community Board 3, representing Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst and Corona,will begin reviewing the United States Tennis Association’s planned expansion in Flushing Meadows Park.

The USTA’s proposal includes a new 15,000-seat stadium, a renovated grandstand and two parking garages. The tennis institution already has 46 acres of parkland. Its proposal would add 0.68 acre, which it would need to replace with green space.

The USTA recently submitted its proposal to CB 3, which serves as an advisory board for the neighborhoods, Chairwoman Marta Lebreton said at a board meeting on Jan. 16. “The community board is just one step,” Lebreton explained. “We will be setting up committee meetings. We will continue with our process.”

Past proposals from the organization were not approved by the board.

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The race for the 31st District City Council seat vacated by James Sanders Jr. is pretty crowded, with nine candidates on the ballot for the Feb. 19 special election. Sanders resigned from his council post after winning a bid for state Senate.

Those competing in the race are Donovan Richards, Sanders’ former chief of staff; Marie Adam-Ovide, the district manager of Community Board 8; Jacques Leandre, a lawyer and founder of the Rosedale Jets Football Association; Earnest Flowers, who runs a communications and marketing f irm; Mike Duncan, a community activist; Selvena Brooks, a public relations specialist; Pesach Osina, community liaison for Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Far Rockaway); Saywalah Kesselly, executive director at the African Center for Community Empowerment in Jamaica; and former City Councilman Allan Jennings.

In order to get on the ballot, all candidates had to submit 1,350 signatures by the Jan. 15 deadline. The winner will serve out the rest of Sanders’ term, Q which ends on Dec. 31.

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Much fanfare at Sanders inauguration Former councilman, now state senator, represents the 10th District

by AnnMarie Costella Assistant Editor

he sound of African drums filled the air as Empress Idama performed a traditional dance. It was an energetic number to start off the inaugural festivities for state Sen. James Sanders Jr. (D-Jamaica) last Thursday at York College in Jamaica.

But Idama’s group, which featured her son, Fatari Huntley, and Sanders’ brother Raphael, wasn’t the only entertainment. There was much prayer and singing as well as various speeches, all honoring the lawmaker, who calls himself the people’s senator.

Sanders was surrounded by family members including his dad, James Sanders Sr., when he took the oath administered by Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) in front of a crowd of about 200 people in the Academic Core Building at York.

There were plenty of dignitaries in attendance including former City Councilman Archie Spigner, Assemblywoman Michelle Titus (D-Jamaica), state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D-Hollis), City Councilman Ruben Wills (D-Jamaica) and state Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria).

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“James Sanders has been an outstanding member of the City Council, and I predict that he will be a great New York state senator,” Spigner said. “The people of the 10th Senatorial District will be well served. He is a hard worker. He is aggressive. He’s intelligent and he’s a people person. He’s a nice guy. I wish him success and I anticipate that we will have other occasions to celebrate his accomplishments.”

Sanders, a former three-term city councilman, triumphed over incumbent Shirley Huntley to claim his new Senate seat. He took over 57 percent of the vote to her 40 percent in the primary he forced last September. Sanders’ old seat will remain vacant until a special election is held on Feb. 19 to select a replacement, who will serve out the rest of the term, which ends on Dec. 31.

“If you believe you hired me to be mild and quiet, you voted wrong,” Sanders said, adding, “We are going to focus on economic development. We are going to push ways of making sure that everybody has a chance, and there is one America — not simply for the rich, but for working people, middle-class people and the Q working poor.”

Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins swears in state Sen. James PHOTOS BY ANNMARIE COSTELLA Sanders Jr. as he is surrounded by family and friends.

Sanders was all smiles at the inauguration.

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Assemblywoman Michelle Titus, left, and Imam Sanders’ brother, Raphael, left, plays the drums Charles Bilal were among those in attendance. with Fatari Huntley.

The chorus from PS 254, the Rosa Parks School, sang “Something Inside So Strong” at the ceremony.

A large crowd gathered at York College in Jamaica to watch the inauguration festivities.

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A different model for Catholic schools Becoming an academy allows parishoner expertise into education

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

For many outside observers, seeing a school change its name is usually a sign of trouble or an abandonment of tradition and history. Schools share their names with the churches they are affiliated with and often carry the name of a saint or a Christian feast or event that is important to parishioners.

But as many Catholic elementary schools in the borough open their doors under a new name or the title “Academy,” the Diocese of Brooklyn wants you to know the traditions and SECTION focuses of Catholic education will not change, and the church hopes they will improve.

A number of schools have become academies, which is often done when parish schools merge. That was the case when St. Stanislaus School in Ozone Park closed and merged with nearby Nativity. The two schools became Divine Mercy Catholic Academy, located in the former Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary school building. The old St. Stanislaus school was sold by the diocese and is being developed as a public school.

Tom Chadzutko, superintendent of schools at the Diocese of Brooklyn, said the “acade-

my” model goes back a long time and is a way to bring in expertise among parishioners.

“The academies are run by a two-tier government structure,” Chadzutko explained.

“There is the parish leadership and a board of directors. The idea is to engage the lay leadership in the running of the school.”

Under the model, there is a parish council made up of lay people with various skills and areas of expertise that they can bring to the running of the schools. For example, a parishioner with professional experience in marketing or public relations may sit on the council and run the school’s marketing and public relations campaigns. Another council member with professional experience in f inance or banking would assist in the finances of the school.

Maria Cuomo, principal of Notre Dame Catholic Academy, located at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Parish in Ridgewood, said the academy model has worked well for her school.

“It’s been extremely helpful,” she said.

Across the borough, St. Clare School in Rosedale announced in November that it will be transitioning into an academy next year.

“We’re very excited,” said Principal Mary

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Ave Maria Catholic Academy is located in the former Our Lady of Grace School in Howard Beach, one of a number of schools in the Diocese of Brooklyn that have changed to an academy in recent PHOTO BY PETER C. MASTROSIMONE years.

Basile. “It’ll be more of a collaborative.

Parishioners in the community will build the school’s status” “We’ve been working on it for a while,” Basile explained. “The members of the Board of Directors will have their own expertise in different areas, used to find alternative ways

to fund the school and different programs.”

Other schools that have made the move include Howard Beach’s Our Lady of Grace and St. Anastasia’s School in Little Neck, which transitioned into Ave Maria Catholic Academy and Divine Wisdom Catholic AcadQ emy, respectively.

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Catholic Schools Week starts Jan. 27

by Domenick Rafter RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS

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Beginning Sunday, Catholic schools all over the country will take a week out of their school year to celebrate Catholic schools and the role they play in educating young Americans of all faiths.

The annual celebration organized by the National Catholic Education Association, promotes Catholic education nationwide, but locally every diocese and school has its own way of celebrating it.

“It’s an opportunity for us to say what we are proud of about Catholic schools,” said Tom Chadzutko, superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Brooklyn. “It’s also a good marketing opportunity.”

The theme of this year’s Catholic Schools Week is “Catholic Schools: Raise the Standards.”

During the week, the bishop of Brooklyn and other diocesan officials will visit three schools in the diocese and events, including open houses, will be held.

At St. Clare School, located at 137-25 Brookville Blvd. in Rosedale, students will have regular classes in the morning, then a wide array of fun activities during the course of the day, including a student basketball game, dancethons and a pajama day.

“The students are always very excited about Catholic Schools Week events,” said Principal Mary Basile.

St. Clare, which will soon turn into an academy, is holding its open house on Sunday, Jan. 27 from 1:30 to 3 p.m. and Friday, Feb. 1 from 9 to 10 a.m. Parents and prospective students can come and tour the school and see what is offered.

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Other schools will also be hosting open houses for interested families. Most of the open houses will take place on the first day of Catholic Schools Week, with some weekday dates scheduled.

St, Mel School in Flushing will host an open house on Sunday, Jan. 27 from 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Monday, Jan. 28 from 8:30-10 a.m. Visitors can see the school — which has served Flushing and Whitestone for over 50 years — and its facilities as well as its Mommy and Me program, Toddler Time and all of its grades from pre-K through eighth. St Mel is located at 154-24 26 Ave. in Flushing.

Most Precious Blood Parish in Astoria will host an open house at its school, located at 32-52 37 St., on Sunday, Jan. 27 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The school will also hold a Student Appreciation Day on Monday, Jan. 28, which will feature fun activities for kids.

St. Helen Parish in Howard Beach, which served as an important relief center in the weeks after Hurricane Sandy, will host its open house on Sunday, Jan. 27 from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and then again on Tuesday, Jan. 29 from 3-5 p.m. and Thursday, Jan. 31 from 7-9 p.m.

St. Helen School will also hold their science fair during Catholic Schools Week. Students will present their science projects as the school’s science fair on all three days: 10:30 to 11 a.m. on Jan. 27; 3 to 3:45 p.m. on Jan. 29 and from 7 to 7:45 p.m. on Jan. 31.

St. Gregory the Great in Bellerose will hold its open house on Sunday, Jan 27 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., right after the 9:15 a.m. Mass.

An open house will also take place at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in Forest Hills, at Ascan Avenue and Austin Street,

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Showing pride in Catholic education

This year’s Catholic Schools Week theme, set by the National Catholic Education Association, is “Raise the Standards.”

Schools will hold various activities and some open houses to ILLUSTRATION COURTESY NCEA promote Catholic education. on Sunday, Jan. 27 from 2:30 to 4 p.m.

St. Mary Gate of Heaven School, located at 104-06 101 Ave. in Ozone Park will celebrate with Crazy Hat Day, which is a popular event for many schools during Catholic Schools Week. Students come to school wearing a variety of crazyQ looking hats.

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Over 150 years of education excellence A message regarding college readiness from St. Francis Prep At St. Francis Prep, we pride ourselves SECTION on our strong academic program. Students who come here know they will receive outstanding preparation for college; they know they will be challenged to achieve the best they can.

A major component of our academic program is our strong core curriculum. Every student at St. Francis Prep takes a rigorous sequence of college preparatory courses. In addition, students have the opportunity to take advanced and specialty courses in every academic area.

These include honors classes, Advanced Placement and college credit courses, and upper-level electives in art, business, computer science, music, and religion. This aspect is the greatest strength of the curriculum at St. Francis Prep: our strong traditional academic core combined with the opportunity to pursue areas of special interest at a sophisticated level. We are proud to offer our students the rare freedom and wide array of possibilities, with RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS

the caring input of parents and Prep teachers, to select a course schedule that is personalized, rewarding, and beneficial to their individuality and future success.

We do not track students at St. Francis Prep. Students may be enrolled in one or several honors classes. After freshman year, selection for honors classes is based solely on achievement in classes taken here. Such a system rewards your hard work and allows for a great deal of flexibility.

The hard work has already paid off for one student, Aishvarya Arora, who was named a 2013 Intel Semif inalist. Aishvarya was the only semifinalist in the entire borough of Queens to be selected from among the more than 1,700 nationwide entrants. The entire school community is very proud of her.

We are proud to say that students from St. Francis Prep have been named Intel semifinalists for 10 consecutive years and in 12 of the past 15 years (including 2013). St. Francis Prep is the only Catholic high school in the nation that can make this claim. This is a f ine

reflection on our students, our dedicated faculty and staff, and our outstanding academic programs.

The ideals of a Franciscan education are based on the Four Golden Links: our aim is to help students achieve the best they can in their intellectual, spiritual, physical, and social development. Our curricular and extracurricular programs are designed to offer students many opportunities to challenge themselves, explore their strengths, and nurture their talents. We field junior varsity and varsity teams in just about every major sport. We also have an extensive intramural program.

We sponsor about 100 clubs and activities, ranging from Model U.N. and breakdance club to literary and cultural clubs. We like to say there is something for everyone here. Our goal is for students to graduate from St. Francis Prep as well-rounded individuals ready for college and continued lifelong learning.

If you choose to attend St. Francis Prep, you will become part of a rich tradition that extends back over 150 years. That tradition includes, of course, academic excellence. It

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Blast mayor’s plan to nix their parking; proposal would take effect on Feb. 1

by AnnMarie Costella

traveling to numerous meetings, but does not compensate for gas or tolls. He said the least Queens community board leaders are the city can do is help with parking.

“As part of our overall 20 percent citywide angry over the mayor’s proposal to take away their parking placards, a perk they say is reduction of parking placards that began in essential, especially when they need to attend 2008, placards for community boards will be available for the district events around the city as manager, who is an employpart of their job, which is a ee of the city,” Evelyn Erskvolunteer position. think this is ine, a spokeswoman for the “It’s the most idiotic the most idiotic mayor’s off ice said in an thing the mayor has ever email. done,” said Jerry Iannece, thing the mayor Iannece said if the perk is chairman of CB 11. “It’s axed, he just won’t attend foolish. It’s shortsighted and has ever done.” meetings in Manhattan and they should rescind the poliother areas where parking is cy immediately.”

— Jerry Iannece, chairman, scarce and expensive. He The move would take Community Board 11 was so outraged by the effect on Feb. 1 and apply to all 59 community board chairpersons city- mayor’s proposal that he sent a letter to the wide, removing their ability to park for free heads of each community board in Queens asking them to speak out against the placard for three hours in places other people can’t.

“I think it’s wrong, but it’s systemic of this yanking.

CB 7 Chairman Gene Kelty echoed Ianmayor,” Iannece said. “He doesn’t believe in community boards, so the more inconvenient nece’s sentiments. He said he takes great care to make sure his placard is only used when on he can make it for us, the more he likes it.”

Iannece noted that being the chairperson official city business and added that not havof a community board is a labor of love and ing one would make getting around to meetoften an added expense. The job requires ings more difficult and more expensive.

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CB 7 Chairman Gene Kelty, left, CB 12 Chairwoman Adrienne Adams and CB 11 Chairman Jerry FILE PHOTOS Iannece all oppose the mayor’s placard removal plan.

“It’s a nice courtesy,” Kelty said of the placards. “I think it’s inappropriate for them not to give it to us.”

Kelty, who has been a CB 7 member for 28 years, spending nearly two decades as chairman, regularly goes to civic meetings, district cabinet meetings and public hearings. He said if he has to pay for parking or to ride the bus, he may be less inclined to attend.

Adrienne Adams, the newly elected chairwoman of CB 12, presided over her f irst meeting on Jan. 16 and doesn’t even have a

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placard yet, though she said she applied for one, and she was vocal in her opposition to Bloomberg’s plan.

“The timing couldn’t be worse, as far as the economy is concerned, to start taking things away,” Adams said. “We are volunteers and we have a responsibility to travel. So for the mayor to discontinue the parking placards is extremely inconsiderate and I am confused as to why he would do that.

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New Yorkers want to have their lowcrime cake and eat it too.

That’s one conclusion to be drawn from the latest Quinnipiac University Poll that focused on the city, which found that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is enjoying his highest job approval rating ever, even as one of his signature tactics — stop, question and frisk — is getting bad press and facing a hostile judge who’s reining in its use.

Voters approve of Kelly’s job performance by a margin of 75-18, the survey found. And they approve of the work New York’s Finest are doing by a similar 70-23 percent. That’s the NYPD’s highest approval rating since February 2002, just a few months after the 9/11 atrocities.

“Perhaps because of the Newtown massacre or because of the recent announcement that murder in the Big Apple is at an all-time low, or both, New York City voters like their top cop and all their cops even more,” Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in releasing the poll results last week.

The city saw fewer than 420 homicides in 2012, the lowest number since it began keeping reliable statistics. (Some in the tinfoil hat crowd dispute the figure, claiming the police hide homicides — how??

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And that if we had Chicago’s murder rate, the number last year would have been four times higher than it was.

Kelly would tell you that one of the key reasons the homicide rate is so low is the stop, question and frisk tactic — as he did when he sat down with the Queens Chronicle editorial board last year. But although three out of four Quinnipiac Poll respondents like the job the commissioner’s doing, they split nearly evenly on what’s commonly just called stop and frisk, with 50 percent disapproving compared to 46 percent approving.

It’s no surprise that there’s a sizeable ethnic gap when it comes to stop and frisk. White voters approve of it 56-39, the survey said. Hispanics disapprove it 54-42, while blacks — many of whom say they are unfairly targeted by the tactic — give it a thumbs down 68-27.

And yet even the black community gives Kelly a positive rating, approving of his work 56-37, compared to 67-23 among Hispanics and 81-14 among whites.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is highly popular, according to a new survey. FILE PHOTO The main point of stop and frisk is gun control, getting them off the streets by confiscating them or convincing crooks they shouldn’t carry them in the f irst place because they could be searched.

And when it comes to the types of laws most people think of when one says “gun control,” New Yorkers are strongly supportive. By a margin of 80-17, they favor a nationwide ban on assault weapons. And 78 percent back stricter state gun control laws — which the governor and Legislature just delivered — compared to 4 percent who want them loosened up and 16 percent who would keep the status quo.

The poll didn’t only look at law and order issues. It also asked respondents to rate Mayor Bloomberg, who’s just entered the final year of his three terms.

The mayor, so fond of grading the schools he was granted control of, was given letter grades just like they get, with most voters saying he’s done well.

A plurality of 38 percent gave the mayor a B. He got an A from 21 percent, while 20 percent gave him a C, 9 percent gave him a D and 11 percent gave him an F. (Is it possible that 11 percent of residents smoke, drink big sodas, eat fatty foods and have been ticketed for putting their feet up on empty subway trains?

Naah, that can’t be it.)

The race for mayor The day before Quinnipiac released that poll, it put out another one that found that Democratic City Council Speaker Christine Quinn remains the front runner in the race to succeed Bloomberg. Her most likely Republican opponent will be former deputy mayor and MTA chairman Q Joe Lhota.

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Aims to force racy clubs to say how their wait staff will dress on the job

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

There is yet another bar in Astoria where your cocktail waitresses are in itsy-bitsy bikinis, and local leaders are not happy about it.

Queen of Hearts recently opened its doors at 26-12 Hoyt Ave. South, only a few blocks from the busy Astoria Boulevard31st Street intersection. From the outside, Queen of Hearts looks like any typical bar or nightclub in the neighborhood, but inside, opponents of its existence say, it’s a racy, sleazy after-hours joint f illed with alcohol, dancing and waitressed stripped down to their underwear.

The bar’s owners were not required to include that information on their liquor license applications, leaving members of Community Board 1 in the dark about what they planned to offer. In fact, when the establishment, owned by an entity called 26-12 Hoyt Avenue South Inc., applied for a renewal of its liquor license in September 2012 it did so under its old name — Wild Rose.

Left with little they could do about establishments with scantily clad severs opening for business, Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas (D-Astoria) is proposing legislation to change liquor license applications to force owners of bars like Queen of Hearts to better explain what would be going on inside and thus keep

Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas, third from right, joined by other community leaders, announced legislation to prevent bikini bars like Queen of Hearts on Hoyt Avenue South from opening without PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER full disclosure as to what the establishments will offer. the community abreast about what is moving into their neighborhood.

“We shouldn’t be required to investigate every business that applies for a liquor license,” Simotas said. “The State Liquor Authority should be obtaining this information — basic information — about whether or not they intend to have adult entertainment in

their establishments.”

Lucille Hartmann, district manager of CB 1, said the board was unaware nearly nude dancers would be in the bar, as the liquor license only stated that it was serving liquor, beer and wine. Just a few months ago, the community denied a license to another establishment after

residents uncovered evidence that it was planning to have dancers in bikinis.

Under Simotas’ proposed Community Full Disclosure Act, SLA applications would include a section on whether an applicant intends to have bikini-clad dancers or other types of adult entertainment. SLA licenses currently do ask applicants to indicate if there will be live music, dancing by patrons or topless entertainment, but not dancers who wear G-strings or other types of sexy clothing.

“I fail to see the distinction between whether a woman is going to dance topless or with two inches of clothing,” Simotas said. “It makes no difference to me and I think it may make no difference to the community who is supposed to oppose or support these applications.”

Cur rently, bars have to apply for a cabaret license only if patrons will be dancing, but those licenses can often be difficult to get. CB 1 recently denied a cabaret license to another bikini bar, called Mermaids. Hartmann said the board knows the owner of the bar and his family were seeking the cabaret license just to “cover all bases,” but had not intended on having patrons dance with waitresses.

Simotas’ legislation has bipartisan support in both houses according to a list of cosponosors, but there is no timeline for it to Q get a hearing or a vote.

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District 25, centered in Flushing, had a need for 982 seats. The extension to PS 29, which added 232 seats, opened in September, while a 350seat extension to PS 163 will open in 2016. The SCA is still searching for a site for a 400-seat school in the area.

There are no schools under construction in District 26, which includes Bayside, Fresh Meadows and Bellerose, but there is a need for 416 more seats.

Laes said the SCA typically finds schools to add extensions to if there is a need for 400 seats or fewer The SCA built a new playground for PS 22 in Flushing, above, in a district.

PHOTO COURTESY NYC using earmarked Resolution A funds.

“It just isn’t enough to taken with Reso A funds: new libraries at warrant a new school,” she said.

But in District 26, the SCA is looking for PS 174 in Rego Park and Forest Hills High a new site for a school to serve the 416-seat School, funded via Councilwoman Karen need. The problem is, it hasn’t been able to Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills); a new playfind one. With vacant space running scarce ground at Flushing’s PS 22, and new fencin the borough, schools are often built on the ing around PS 175 in Rego Park. Included sites of vacant industrial buildings or former in Reso A grants are over $128 million for Catholic schools, as is the case with new more than 1,000 technology upgrades schools being built in Ridgewood and Ozone products.

“Most schools want Reso A grants in Park. But in Northeast Queens, the space technology,” she explained. problem is at its worst.

Not included in the amendment to the Besides new schools, the SCA outlined a number of improvements it is capital plan is work being done at schools making across the borough. Nearly 400 damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Laes said capital improvement projects are being 12 schools in the borough — 11 in South done across Queens, the most in District Queens and one in Long Island City — 27. They include renovations to the play- suffered damage, mainly from Sandy’s ground at PS 811 in Little Neck, new floodwaters. The cost of f ixing those windows and exterior masonry work at schools will be largely subsidized by PS 41 in Bayside, the replacement of the FEMA money, likely part of the $50.7 boiler at Rego Park’s PS 157 and a flood billion approved by the House of Repreelimination project at PS 177 in Fresh sentatives last week and on track to become law.

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Tony-nominated performers such as Keith David, left, and Andre De Shields, right, will honor black icons like Louis Armstrong, center, on Feb. 17 at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center.

HERITAGE ON DISPLAY

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host of big-name African-American stars will perform excerpts of shows originally acted and sung by the icons that inspired them at Queensborough College on Feb. 17.

Those icons — saxophonist Louis Jordan, nicknamed “King of the Jukebox,” popular ragtime musician and writer of the first Broadway musical Eubie Blake, jazz legend Duke Ellington, Corona’s very own saxophonist Louis Armstrong, jazz singer Cab Calloway, pianist Fats Waller, original member of Sinatra’s Rat Pack Sammy Davis Jr. and the crooning soft baritone singer Nat King Cole — comprise part of the group known as the “Black Stars of the Great White Way.” They’re African Americans who not only became famous in the performing arts — both on and off Broadway — but also pushed for civil rights with their music.

Ellington, whose father was a butler at the White House, grew up playing his music at the Capitol and later went on to become a musical ambassador for the U.S., Chapman Roberts, director of the show, said. The United States would send him and other musicians like Armstrong to the Middle East to smooth over relations — setting the spectacular musicians up in four- star hotels.

“Ellington would say, ‘I can stay in four-star hotels in the Middle East, but I can’t stay in one in my own country,’” Roberts said.

Other musicians illuminated racial struggles in their music and traveled internationally fighting for equality of skin color and for human rights in general, Roberts said. That will be touched on in the Feb. 17 show and will be further explored in a production at Carnegie Hall in November.

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p.m. Cost is $5 per person in advance and $8 at the door. Free babysitting for children 3-11 years old.

Reservations required. Call (718) 268-5011 ext. 500 or email dberman@cqy.org for more information or visit the website at cqy.org/nyfc.

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There will be a free evening of art, wine and cocktails at Court Square Wine and Spirits, 24-20 Jackson Ave., Long Island City, on Thursday, Jan. 31. Spirits will be hosting an art opening of three NYCbased artists that night. For more information call Maegan Kovatch at (718) 707-9911 or email maegan@courtsquarewine.com.

Qualified instructors from Flotilla 12-01 of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will be teaching the About Boating Safety class at Fort Totten in Bayside on Sundays, Jan. 27 and Feb. 17 at 8:30 a.m. This class is for recreational boaters and includes the proper use of safety equipment, maintenance, rules of navigation and the legal requirements for operating boats and personal watercraft. Certification is required for boating in NJ waters and operating a PWC in the Tri-State waters. The fee is $65; learning materials included. Pre-registration is a must for driving a motor vehicle on the base at Fort Totten. For more information call Mike Kaff at (917) 952-7014 or Ralph Traub at (347) 336-5866 or email 1201@verizon.net. To register online and for more information visit uscgaux1201.org.

GEAR, located at 61-08 Myrtle Ave. near Fresh Pond Road in Glendale, will be hosting an emerging artists show and reception on Friday, Feb. 8 from 6 to 9 p.m. and on Saturday, Feb. 9 from 1 to 6 p.m.

Admission is free and refreshments will be served.

Email pattig213@aol.com for more information.

Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, celebrates its 75th anniversary and its Art Center celebrates its 25th anniversary with a gallery exhibit entitled “25/75: The Silver and Diamond Jubilees/ Then and Now,” on display from Feb. 7-March 22.

This exhibition assembles recent work by 25 artists, one from each season since the Art Center’s 1988 inauguration and selected by its three curators.

Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St. in Flushing, hosts a new art exhibition “Repetition in Design,” a series of oil paintings by Queens artist Gennadyi Gurman, from through April 15. For more information call (718) 886-3800.

Nancy Dwyer, Painting and Sculpture, 1982-2012 will be on view through April 7 at the Fisher Landau Center for Art, 38-27 30 St., Long Island City. Hours are Thursday-Monday, noon -5 p.m. Call (718) 9370727 for more information or visit flcart.org.

Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City, announces “Donut Muffin,” an exhibition that explores dialogues in New York-based contemporary painting and sculpture, on view through March 10. Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday, 11 a.m. to 6 pm. and by appointment. Contact David Dorsky at (718) 937-6317 or visit dosrsky.org.

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The Queens College Choral Society seeks new members for its Spring 2013 concert season, which will feature the performance of J.S. Bach’s B Minor Mass on Saturday, May 18. Auditions for new members will take place from 6-7:15 p.m. in the Music Building Room 246, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., on Wednesdays: Jan. 30 and Feb. 6. Rehearsals will be held on Wednesdays from 7:30-9:45 p.m. in room 270. Auditions consist of basic singing skills. No preparation is necessary. For further information visit qcchoralsociety.org. To schedule an audition contact James John, Music Director, at (718) 997-3818 or jmsjhn@aol.com FSF Community Theater Group presents open auditions for “Let’s Hear It for Queens,” an original musical about the history and people of the borough of Queens, on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Free Synagogue of Flushing, 41-60 Kissena Blvd. Performances are on May 4, 5, 11 and

“STICK IT - There’s a Pill for That,” by Janet Lage, is one of the paintings on display at the Queens College Art Center’s PHOTO COURTESY QUEENS COLLEGE ART CENTER 75th anniversary celebration from Feb. 7 - March. 22.

12. Seeking actors, dancers, singers and vocal impressionists. Email lordflibbit@aol.com for further information.

THEATRE The Secret Theatre, 44-07 23 St., Long Island City, will show “Urinetown: The Musical” on Thursday Saturday, now through Jan. 26 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $18. Call (718) 392-0722.

Emmy-nominated actor Rob Schneider brings his zany comedy to the Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside, on Sunday, Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $40 for all seats. You must be 21 or older to attend.

DANCE Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside, premieres “Afro Tango” on Friday, Jan. 25.

The show runs through March 17 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. Tickets are $35; students and seniors $32; Fridays only $30.

For information and tickets call (718) 729-3880 or visit thaliatheatre.org.

FILM Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria, will present a “Best of 2012” program of films selected by chief curator David Schwartz and assistant film curator Rachael Rakes, through Feb. 22. The cost is $12. Times vary. Visit movingimage.us or call (718) 777-6888 for hours and more information.

Paul Williams, legendary songwriter, singer, actor and subject of the documentary “Paul Williams: Still Alive” will be honored with a weekend retrospective at Museum of Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria, from Jan. 25-27. Prices and times vary. Visit movingimage.us or call (718) 777-6800.

MUSIC A “Salute to Israel” concert will be held on Sunday, Feb., 10 at 7 p.m. at LeFrak Concert Hall at Queens College on Reeves Avenue and 150th Street. For tickets call (718) 776-3500. Tickets cost between $50 and $75.

Afro-Amerindian Journey presented in partnership with Terraza 7 Cafe will be on Saturday, Jan. 26 at 6 p.m. at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd.

Cost is $25/$15 members and students with ID.

LECTURE Agnes Veto will give a lecture on the Hungarian Jewish community on Monday, Jan. 28 at 1:30 p.m. at the Central Queens Y, 67-09 108 St. in Forest Hills.

A voluntary donation of $6 for admission is suggested. More information is available at (718) 268-5011 ext. 151 or pkurtz@cqy.org.

MEETINGS A schizophrenics anonymous self-help support group will be held on Sundays from 10 to 11 a.m. at L.I. Consultation Center, 97-29 64 Rd., Rego Park. Call (718) 896-3400 for more information. The group is free.

Free public speaking/effective communication meetings are held on the first, third and fourth Saturdays of the month at 10 a.m. Learn to be comfortable speaking before an audience. Meetings are held at the Elmhurst Hospital Center, Conference room A-1-15, 79-01 Broadway. Contact club vice president membership at (646) 748-8290.

CLASSES Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills, hosts Commitment to Fitness New Year Celebration for adults on Sunday, Jan. 27 from noon - 3

Learn Talmud with Rabbi Manes Kogan at Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Turnpike, on Wednesdays from 10-11:30 a.m. Tractate Ta’anit will be studied from the Babylonian Talmud. The new cycle has just begun.

If you have any questions contact Rabbi Kogan at (718) 380-4145 or rabbikogan@hillcrestjc.org.

The Central Queens Y at 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills, is offering yoga for the active senior adult. Registration is now ongoing for the winter series of 11 classes. Cost is $52 senior CQY members/ $94 senior general public/ $132 under 65 CQY members/ $163 under 65 general public. For more information call Robin Budnetz at (718) 268-5011 ext.

504 or email rbudnetz@cqy.org.

There will be a drum workshop on Monday, Jan. 28 at 4 pm. at the Douglaston/Little Neck Library, 24901 Northern Blvd. Call the library (718) 225-8414 for more information.

Queens Library Enrich Your Life presents magic tricks workshops for teens on Wednesdays: Jan. 30 at 4:30 p.m. at Bellerose Library, 250-06 Hillside Ave., (718) 831-8644; and Feb. 6 at 3:30 p.m. at Briarwood Library, 85-12 Main St., (718) 658-1680.

Admission is free. Call your library for more information or visit queenslibrary.org.

The Latin American Cultural Center of Queens is offering free art classes for children ages 8 to 16 on Tuesday and Thursdays from 4 to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon at NYC Parks & Recreation-ARROW Community Center, 35-30 35 St., Astoria. For more information call (718) 261-7664 or email laccq@aol.com Adult education classes will be held at the Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd. Rabbi Waidenbaum will be teaching several adult education classes. No charge. Call for more information, (718) 459-1000.

Mindfulness Meditation one-hour class with Rabbi Michael Weisser at Free Synagogue of Flushing, 4160 Kissena Blvd., on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. Free. For more information, call (718) 961-0030 or email info@freesynagogue.org.

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Art is dynamic, fluid, ever changing — perhaps more so now than ever before. It’s not just about painting, sculpture and architecture, and hasn’t been for a long time. There are the performing arts, of course, but also art happenings and similar events — which often raise the question, “What is art?”

It’s not a question with an easy answer, even for those well-versed in the art world.

One of those people is Tom Finkelpearl, executive director of the Queens Museum of Art. Finkelpearl has worked at a number of art centers, has a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a master’s in fine arts from Hunter College, and used to be a sculptor.

And his second book on public art projects, “What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation,” has just been published.

He wrote it as a textbook for both undergraduate and graduate art classes, just like his first book, and in it he explores the growing and hard-to-define world of “cooperative art.”

Cooperative art can be anything from works by patients at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Eastern Queens to Immigrant Movement International, a Corona-based

project by Tania Bruguera that combines services to new arrivals with the goal of changing how they are perceived by others.

It’s projects such as the one at Creedmoor and another, earlier work by Bruguera that Finkerpearl’s book discusses, mostly through interviews with the artists, some conducted by the author and some not. They’re bookended by his introduction, in which he traces the roots of cooperative art back to the New Left social movements of the 1960s, and his conclusion, in which he argues that the term for the genre should be “social cooperation,” and discusses what should and should not be recognized as such.

“It’s hard to talk about this kind of art,” Finkelpearl said in an interview on Wednesday. “We’re still figuring out how to talk about it.

“Let’s say there’s a project with a homeless person finding housing. It might be a project that fails as an art project but succeeds as a social project. Something could be a great art project or lousy social project or vice versa.

The sweet spot is when it has some kind of interesting, complex artistic aspect and at the same time has an interesting social dynamic or social result.”

Humans have an almost unique ability to work together, Finkelpearl says — exemplified by cities like New York — and, “That’s what these artists are experimenting with, this human characteristic of cooperation.”

The author is quick to say that he appreciates traditional art as much as the more avant garde kind explored in the book.

“What We Made,” published by Duke University Press, was not written in Finkelpearl’s capacity as head of the QMA, though of course his position there helped

Tom Finkelpearl, head of inform the the Queens Museum of Art, book, which has just had his second will be avail- book published.

PHOTO BY DIYA VIJ / QMA able at the museum soon. A book launch event and discussion with the author and some of the featured artists will be held at Parsons The New School for Design, at 66 W. 12 St. in Manhattan, at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 20. Another is set for Feb. 3 at the National Gallery of Art in Q Washington, DC.

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True classic as a West Side (of Queens) story professional combat choreographer, no detail is being overlooked.

The centuries-old feud between the “We want the audience to see a profesMontagues and Capulets will come to the sional show,” Young said. stage at Maspeth High School next week.

The director, who trained in the theater “Romeo and Juliet,” like most Shake- and acted professionally for several years speare, can be a challenging play for even before getting his master’s degree as an seasoned pros. But Eric Young, the director instructor, started the program “from the and MHS’s theater teacher, believes that nei- ground up,” last year with “Macbeth.” ther his cast, nor its audience, should have to Even contemporary themes and language settle for anything can be challenging less than the best for students who on opening night. might not have “We did ‘Macexposure to live When: Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, at 7 p.m. beth’ last year, and theater, he said — Where: Maspeth HS, 54-40 70 St. set it in the 1930s,” both those on Tickets: $7 adults; $5 students.

Young said during a stage and those in mhstheater.org, (718) 803-7100 rehearsal last Thursthe audience. day. “We will do “We live only some contemporary miles from Broadway, things, but one of the aims of this school is but a lot of students have only seen televito instruct students in the classics.” sion and movies,” he said.

About 30 students are participating, The actors said the archaic English of including cast and crew. Most of the sets are Shakespeare’s time doth require a small being constructed on-site, and some are adjustment. But Cody Chiarotti, who plays being painted by MHS art students.

Romeo, said it is a necessary one.

And from minute tinkering to the posi“You can’t just memorize lines,” Chiarotti tioning of actors on stage to bringing in a said. “You have to know what you’re saying.”

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At left, Jeffrey Parra’s Benvolio and Bryan Victorio’s Tybalt calmly work out their differences on the streets of Renaissance Verona during a recent rehearsal, while Cody Chiarotti and PHOTOS BY MICHAEL GANNON Andrea Papp appear in costume as the title characters.

And, as sometimes happens on Broadway, Young was forced to make a casting change on extremely short notice when the student playing the Nurse would be unable to continue. Last Thursday’s rehearsal also

served as an opportunity to block scenes with Jessica Alejandro in the role.

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85th Anniversary Dinner Dance on Thursday, January 31, 2013 at Russo’s On The Bay

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As our way of saying thank you to those who have supported us in the past, we are pleased to honor all of our Honorary Fire Commissioners: Serving Howard Beach, West Hamilton Beach, Rockwood Park, Spring Creek – Since 1928 –

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A tribute to Black Broadway icons continued from page 39 00 “It’s Black History Month, and part of the performance is to be sure that that legacy isn’t lost,” Roberts said. “These were the most popular musicians of their time, and I want to be absolutely sure the influence they had on the world isn’t lost.”

Roberts, who arranged the vocals for “Your Arm’s Too Short to Box with God,” “Blues in the Night” and “Five Guys Named Moe,” lives and breathes jazz and Broadway.

On Monday morning he picked up the phone from his apartment in Manhattan Plaza, a large federally

subsidized residential complex on 43rd Street and Ninth Avenue where 70 percent of the tenants work in the performing arts. People like Alicia Keys and Tennessee Williams have called the brick buildings home.

“Oh, hello,” he said. “ I was just handed a play bill of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ Morgan Freeman plays the head waiter.”

“This is crazy,” Roberts said. He was referring to Freeman’s first show in 1968, before he became the Hollywood staple he is now.

Freeman will not be performing, but other Tony-nominated performers will: East Elmhurst native Keith ‘Salute to the Black Stars David, Ted Levy, of the Great White Way’ Andre De Shields, Larry Marshall When: Saturday, Feb. 17, 3 p.m. and Norm Lewis.

Where: Queensborough Performing Arts Center Additional 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside appearances will Tickets: $35, (718) 631-631, qcc.cuny.edu be made by trumpeter Longineu

Parsons, who will honor Armstrong, tapper Omar Edwards of “Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk” and “Showtime at the Apollo,” Queens-based pianist Frank Owens, bassist Clyde Bullard, South African drummer Sipho Kunene, guitarist Keith Robinson, the York College Big Band, The Robert Mann Dance Centre and 14-year-old piano prodigy Julius Rodriguez.

Other Queens venues will be celebrating Black History Month as well.

The Louis Armstrong House Museum at 34-56 107 St. in Corona will feature for the month 40-minute guided tours that explore Armstrong’s life using private photographs, manuscripts and audiotapes. Visitors will learn how Armstrong impacted the civil rights movement both as an artist and an advocate. Call (718) 4788297 for more information.

The Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center at

Chapman Roberts, left, and Tony award nominee and Broadway’s “Porgy,” Norm Lewis, unveil Norms’ caricature at Sardi’s, a show biz restaurant near Times Square. Lewis will perform numbers from from PHOTO BY LISA PACINO “Porgy and Bess” and “Les Mis” on Feb. 17.

100-01 Northern Blvd., also in Corona, will host the 28th Annual Langston Hughes Celebration on Saturday, Feb. 9 from 11 a.m to 5:30 p.m. The event pays tribute to poet and author Langston Hughes with film screenings, lectures and musical performances.

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boro CLASSES Every Wednesday from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. join Rabbi Waidenbaum at the Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd., to learn and discuss the weekly Torah portion. On Mondays the Rabbi will teach a class, “Jewish Choices — Jewish Voices,” from 5 to 6:15 p.m. There is no charge for any class and all are welcome. Call (718) 459-1000 for more information.

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

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SPECIAL EVENTS A book launch event for “The Man in 3B,” a novel

by Carl Weber, will be held at Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica, on Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 6 p.m.

Boy Scout troop 96 presents its annual pancake breakfast on Sunday, Jan. 27 from 8-11 a.m. and noon - 1:30 p.m. at The Community House, 15 Borage Place, Forest Hills. Cost is $8 and children under 5 eat free.

Ice Jewelry Buying Service is located on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park.

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

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

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

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

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A festive Tu B’Shevat Shabbat Seder will take place at the Reform Temple of Forest Hills, 71-11 112 St., on Friday, Jan. 25 at 7:30 p.m. Registration is required for this event. To register call the Temple at (718) 261-2900 or email mail@rtfh.org.

Cafe Marlene hosts open mic night on Sunday Nights at Cafe Marlene, 41-11 49 St., Sunnyside, from 6-9 p.m. Call (718) 205-7330 for more information.

Bayside Historical Society will host its annual art show through Jan. 27. Come to “The Castle” at 208 Totten Ave, Fort Totten in Bayside. Admission is $8 per person, free to BHS members.

Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, hosts a dance on Saturday night, Jan. 26 at 8 p.m. Call (718) 478-3100 for information.

The Samuel Field Y has two weekday programs for preschool children ages 3-5 with developmental disabilities and their families. On Mondays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. there is Monday Magic: Learn and Play at the Bay Terrace Center: 212-00 23 Ave., Bayside. On Wednesdays from 3-4:30 there is Gym and Creative Exploration at the Little Neck Site, 5820 Little Neck Pkwy. Contact Amanda at (718) 225-6750 ext. 262 or email asmith@sfy.org for more information.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES The Ridgewood Older Adult Center, 59-14 70 Ave., Ridgewood, welcomes seniors age 60 and older, Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. A food pantry is available Tuesdays-Thursdays from 13 p.m. Other activities include daily hot lunch, mini-trips, daily exercise classes, monthly birthday parties and theme parties. The MetroCard van is at the Center on the fourth Thursday of every month.

There will be a bus trip to Yonkers on Monday, Feb. 11. The next AARP defensive driving class is on Monday, Feb. 11. Movies are held every Monday or

Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. Art classes are held every Monday at 12:30 p.m. A winter wonderland party will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 29 with music and dancing with Bud Gramer. Call Karen at (718) 4562000 for more information.

The Brooks Senior Center, 143-22 109 Ave., Jamaica, welcomes all seniors age 60+. Come and enjoy a healthy lunch from noon to 1 p.m., activities such as Wii sports, bowling, bingo, lap top classes, exercise, ceramics, cards and board games, blood pressure checks, trips, monthly nutrition presentations and monthly birthday celebrations and theme parties. Suggested contribution is $1.25. For more information call (718) 291-3935.

Selfhelp Innovative Senior Center (Benjamin Rosenthal-Prince Street Senior Center), 45-25 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, has a special Saturday program, open every other Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. for all seniors, especially South Asians, starting Jan. 12, offering basic computer classes, basic English, health education, Indian movies, Indian yoga, games, Kinect bowling, tai chi, Yuan Ji dancing, breathing yoga, Ping-Pong, karaoke, field trips, case assistance and have a vegetarian Indian-style lunch.

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The Selfhelp Clearview Senior Center, 208-11 26 Ave., Bayside, hosts “In the News,” Mondays at 10 a.m.; Qi Gong, Mondays at 10:45 a.m.; duplicate bridge/mahjong/canasta, Mondays at 12:30; Wii time, Mondays and Thursdays at 12:45; dance aerobics, Tuesdays at 9 a.m.; aerobics, 11 a.m. Tuesdays; ballroom dancing, Tuesdays at 12:45 p.m.; yoga, Wednesdays at 9 a.m.; drawing and painting, Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; jewlery making, Wednesdays at 1 p.m.; bingo, Wednesdays at 12:45 p.m.; stay well exercises, Thursdays at 9:30 a.m.; reminiscing group, Thursdays at 11 a.m.; dance fitness, Fridays at 10:45 a.m. and trivia with Arthur, Fridays at 11 a.m. There will be a class on current events at 12:45 on Friday, Jan. 25 and a class on Hystory with Hy at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 31. Also available are shopping trips, computer classes, nutritious lunch and more. Call (718) 224-7888 for further information.

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King Crossword Puzzle

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appeared in “Macbeth” last year.

And of course, experienced or not, everyone’s a high schooler. At one point during a recent rehearsal, Young needed to rein in some extracurricular activity and conversation.

“We have a show opening in two weeks,” he called out from the auditorium

“I’m going to be nothing but nervous,” she said.

Loyola predicted that anyone’s firstnight jitters will pass quickly.

“When you come out afterward and take your curtain call, and the people are cheering, there’s nothing like it,” he Q said.

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Kudos to the Sports Business Journal for a great headline, “Dope Pedaler,” the morning after Lance Armstrong finally fessed up to using performance enhancing drugs to Oprah Winfrey.

The obvious question is “Why did Armstrong decide to admit his guilt now?” My guess is that Lance and his advisors were concerned about United States Anti-Doping Agency CEO’s Travis Tygart’s very credible interview with CBS News anchor Scott Pelley on “60 Minutes Sports,” which aired on Showtime a week before the Winfrey sit-down.

While Armstrong has rightfully been vilified by the public, he’s been a one-man economic stimulus package for a few televison networks.

For years, Versus (now the NBC Sports Network), had to settle for the sports programming scraps that ESPN and the broadcast networks had no interest in. Versus’s marquee event was the Super Bowl of bicycle races, the Tour de France. Of course most Americans couldn’t care less about it until Armstrong came along.

Armstrong’s fall from grace has been a godsend to Discovery Networks CEO David Zaslav, who made the decision to invest over $100 million to start the Oprah Winfrey Network, which badly struggled in its first two years. OWN started showing some ratings upticks this year but the Armstrong interview

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Armstrong has had to share the sports scandal tabloid backpages with Notre Dame linebacker Manti T’eo, who has become a subject of ridicule because his well-documented tale of having a dying girlfriend turns out to be false.

Manti and Notre Dame officials claim he was the victim of a hoax, while others say he had nefarious reasons for cooking up a bizarre story, such as trying to garner sympathy votes for the Heisman Trophy (he was runner-up to Texas A&M QB Johnny Manziel) or perhaps hiding his sexual preference. Professional sports is not known for its tolerance of homosexuality.

T’eo is getting unwavering support from the Samoan community his home state of Hawaii according to Kim Kaimana, a sales executive who was representing the Polynesian Cultural Center, located on Oahu’s famed North Shore, at the recent New York Times Travel Show held at the Javits Center. “Just because you are a star football player at a big university does not mean that you are sophisticated when it comes to social situations such as dating or even using a basic term such as “girlfriend,” she told me.

Even if one is to accept Kaimana’s hypothesis, there is little doubt that Manti’s stock will drop precipitously in the upcoming National Football League Draft. Naivete is not considered an asset to NFL scouts and executives. Q

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A certain address on Jackson Avenue in Long Island City became the focus of a political scandal in 1938.

The year before, the City Council’s predecessor, the Board of Aldermen, had been scrapped due to massive political fraud and favoritism. The new position of city councilman was to be decided by popular vote every two years and paid $5,000 a year salary (the term was increased to four years in 1945 keeping in step with the mayoralty).

Queens was to have five city councilmen — one from each state Senate district. Hugh Quinn, a Democrat from the good old days of the James A. Phillips-James A. BurkeFrank X. Smith Irish-American Democratic political machine, would become one of them — through political chicanery.

Quinn didn’t live in Queens. But he rented out an empty store at 24-29 Jackson Ave. to claim as his “residence” from which he could register and vote and be eligible to run for City Council. He won the election.

The Republicans cried foul and disputed the election, but despite the obvious fraud,

The building at 24-29 Jackson Ave., the sham “residence” of City Councilman Hugh Quinn, in a photo taken as evidence for the Republican Party in 1938. the results were upheld.

Quinn was re-elected again and again, and when the four-year terms took effect, he saw his salary increase to $7,000 a year.

Then in 1949 he switched over to District 6 in Manhattan, continuing to serve on the Council until Dec. 31, 1957. In later years his one-time “residence” became a Western Union office, Borg Mechanical Co. and a consulting engineer’s office.

Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan) lives in the district she represents, is originally from Glen Cove, LI and, as far as I know, is not Q related to Hugh Quinn.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: ROCK ANGEL PUBLICATIONS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/06/2012.

Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to UNITED STATES CORPORATION AGENTS, INC., 7014 13TH AVENUE, SUITE 202, BROOKLYN, NY 11228. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: STARTING NOW LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/20/2012. Office location is Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 3420 79th Street, #6D, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 657659 West 179th Street, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/27/12.

Off. loc.: Queens County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 31-10 37th Ave., Ste. 500, Long Island City, NY 11101.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: JCIAMPA COMPANY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/03/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 136-26 37th Avenue, Flushing, New York 11354.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

117-13 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/21/12.

Office in Queens County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company.

Name: ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/27/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 420 West 144th Street, New York, NY 10031-5201. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

62 27 136TH ST LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/20/12. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 62 27 136th St., Flushing, NY 11367. General Purposes.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 1/15/13, bearing Index Number 991/12, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 8917 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York, in Record Room 357, grants me the right to assume the name of Nathan Lu. My present name is Dickson Lu. My present address is 67-16 52nd Road, Maspeth, NY 11378. My place of birth is New York City, the State of New York.

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21-24 21ST ROAD LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 8/1/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Rosalie Mollica, 1117 30th Rd., Astoria, NY 11102. General Purposes.

HELLOPMG, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/19/2012. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 93-20A Roosevelt Ave., Suite 3D-I, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

LC UNITED 816 LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/10/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Cathy Chen, 80-18 217 St., Queens Village, NY 11427. General Purposes.

JONG SHIOU LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/4/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 43-62 Smart St., Flushing, NY 113552153. General Purposes.

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You are required to make a written answer to the Petition alleging to Terminate Parental Rights within forty (40) days after the date of this notice; and upon your failure to make a defense to the Petitions within the 40-day period specified herein or to attend the hearing on the said Petition, the Petitioner will apply to the Court for terminating your parental rights to the above-referenced juvenile.

Any counsel appointed previously to represent you and not released by the Court shall continue to represent you.

If you are indigent and not already represented by appointed counsel, you are entitled to appointed counsel and provisional counsel has been appointed upon your request subject to the Courts review at the first hearing after this service.

The hearing on the Petition alleging to Terminate Parental Rights is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on, Monday, February 18, 2013 in Courtroom 4-J of the Hall of Justice in Winston-Salem, North Carolina or as soon thereafter as the Court can hear the said case This the 10th day of January, 2013 Theresa A. Boucher, Attorney for the Forsyth County Department of Social Services, P.O. Box 999, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27101 (336) 703-3900

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: BHASIN MANAGEMENT L.L.C. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/21/12.

Office location: Queens County.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF ARTAIUS MANAGEMENT, LLC. Application for Authority filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/04/2012. LLC formed in DELAWARE on 11/30/2012. Office location: QUEENS County, at 211-63 46th Avenue, Bayside, NY 11361.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: CT Corporation System, 111 Eighth Avenue, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10011, which is the address of the LLC’s registered agent in the State of New York. The address of the office required to be maintained in the jurisdiction of the LLC’s formation is The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, DE 19801. CERTIFICATE OF FORMATION filed with the Secretary of State of the State of DELAWARE at 401 Federal Street, Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901.

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SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF OBJECT OF ACTION SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS ACTION TO FORECLOSE A MORTGAGE INDEX NO. 17400/11 THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON AS TRUSTEE FOR RBSGC MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-RP1, Plaintiff, vs.

RUTH NIEH, STEPHEN PEREIRA, HOUSTON FUNDING CORPORATION ASSIGNEE IN INTEREST TO HOUSEHOLD RETAIL SERVICES, NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU, NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, NORTH STAR CAPITAL ACQUISITION LLC A/P/O CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), SLOMIN’S INC., “JANE DOE” #1, “JOHN DOE” #1, Defendant(s). MORTGAGED PREMISES: 102-44 86TH AVENUE, Richmond Hill, NY 11418 BLOCK 9186 LOT 15 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or if the Complaint is not served with this Summons to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Queens The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises.

Dated this 31st day of December, 2012, Gross, Polowy & Orlans, Attorney(s) for Plaintiff(s), 25 Northpointe Parkway, Suite 25, Amherst, NY 14228 TO: STEPHEN PEREIRA Defendant(s) In this Action. The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. AUGUSTUS C. AGATE of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the 10th day of December, 2012 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Queens County Clerk, in the City of Jamaica. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by RUTH NIEH dated the 30th day of August, 1999, to secure the sum of $231,085.00, and recorded at Liber 5384 if Mortgages at Page 2176 in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, on the 27th day of September, 1999; which mortgage was duly assigned by assignment dated the 30th day of September, 2009 in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York at Instrument No. 2009000399562. The property in question is described as follows: 102-44 86TH AVENUE, Richmond Hill, NY 11418 SEE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the Southerly side of 86th Avenue formerly Brandon Avenue or Amber Street, distant 428 feet and 10 1/4 inches (429.3 feet survey) Easterly from the corner formed by the intersection of the Southerly side of 86th Street with the Easterly side of 102nd Street, formerly Freedom Avenue or Union Place as said streets are laid down on a certain map entitled “Map of 382 lots situated in the 4th Ward Borough of Queens, City of New York” (compiled May 1, 1905 by Gred G. Dennington, City Surveyor from maps of the Brooklyn Hills, Improvement Co. Plots No.1 and No.3 surveyed by E.W. Conklin and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens on March 12, 1899 and January 19, 1891 respectively) and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens June 24, 1905 as Map No. 440; RUNNING THENCE Southerly parallel with 102nd Street, 100 feet (100.12 feet - survey); THENCE Easterly parallel with 86th Avenue 31 feet 4 1/4 inches (31.37 feet - survey) to the Easterly boundary line of the premises laid down on the map hereinabove mentioned; THENCE Northerly along said Easterly boundary line 100.04 feet (100.12 feet - survey) to the Southerly side of 86th Avenue; THENCE Westerly along the Southerly side of 86th Avenue, 28 feet 10 1/4 inches (29 feet survey) more or less to the point or place of BEGINNING. 102-44 86TH AVENUE, RICHMOND HILL, NY 11418 BLOCK 9186 LOT 15 DATED: December 31, 2012.

HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The state encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANK-NYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the department’s website at WWW.BANKING.STATE.NY.US. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. § 1303 NOTICE NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: December 31, 2012, Gross Polowy Orlans, LLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff(s) 25 Northpointe Parkway, Suite 25, Amherst, NY 14228. The law firm of Gross Polowy Orlans, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 283174

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SQ page 52 NOTICE OF ACTION BEFORE THE BOARD OF MASSAGE THERAPY IN RE: The license to practice massage therapy of Dianping Li, L.M.T., 61-17 Palmetto Street, 2nd Floor, Ridgewood, New York 11385.

CASE NO.: 2012-07060 LICENSE NO.: MA 66612 The Department of Health has filed an Administrative Complaint against you, a copy of which may be obtained by contacting Cecilie Sykes, Assistant General Counsel, Prosecution Services Unit, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C65, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3265, (850) 245-4640 If no contact has been made by you concerning the above by March 7, 2013, the matter of the Administrative Complaint will be presented at an ensuing meeting of the Board of Massage Therapy in an informal proceeding.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, persons needing a special accommodation to participate in this proceeding should contact the individual or agency sending this notice not later than seven days prior to the proceeding at the address given on the notice. Telephone:(850) 245-4640, 1-800-955-877(TDD) or 1-800-955-8770 (V), via Florida Relay Service.

AAGJ2 REALTY, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/13/2012. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 421 Willis Avenue, Williston Park, NY 11596. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Latest date upon which LLC is to dissolve: 12-31-2062.

LIMAH FUNDING LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/30/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 3601 43rd Ave., Long Island City, NY 11001. General Purposes.

Notice of Formation of 9618 QUEENS BOULEVARD, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/03/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 570 Sierra Vista Ave., San Marino, CA 91108.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION, GHOTRA MANAGEMENT LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/10/2012.

Office location: QUEENS COUNTY. SSNY designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copies of any process served against the LLC to c/o: THE LLC, 11804 95TH AVE, RICHMOND HILL, NY 11419. Purpose: any lawful purpose or activity.

31ST DRIVE LLC 1, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/14/2012. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Philip Loria, 37-20 Broadway, 2nd FL, Astoria, NY 11103. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

20-56 49th Street LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/2/12. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 147-32 28th Ave., Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: General.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: SUREWAY MAINTENANCE LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/12/2012. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Dhani Dhaniram, 10520 130th Street, South Richmond Hill, NY 11419. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: 333 Lenox Associates LLC (“LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on December 17, 2012.

NY office location: Queens County.

The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to 333 Lenox Associates LLC, 140-16 45th Avenue, Flushing, NY 11355.

Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

Red Menace Game Studios LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/27/12. Office in Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 42 19 Saull St., Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: General.

ARIS DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL, PLLC, a domestic PLLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/24/12. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the PLLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Simon Ryoo, 88-09 101 Avenue, Ozone Park, NY 11416. Purpose: Medicine.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: MINIPAT, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/07/12. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 111-16 101 Avenue, Richmond Hill, New York 11419.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS In the matter of a Custody/Visitation Proceeding File#: 121212 Docket#: V-05243-12 Petitioner, Yvonne Medina against Respondent, Javier Gomez

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IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK: To: Javier Gomez (Address Unknown) A petition under Article 6 of the Family Court Act having been filed with this Court requesting the following relief: Custody; YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear before this court on Date/Time: February 8, 2013 at 12:30 PM Purpose: Return of Process Part: 44 Floor/Room: Floor 2/Room 240 Presiding: Margaret M. Mulrooney Esq., Referee Location: Queens County, 151-20 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica, NY 11432 to answer the petition and to be dealt with in accordance with Article 6 of the Family Court Act. On your failure to appear as herein directed, a warrant may be issued for your arrest.

Dated: October 25, 2012 Vaundra L. Strachan, Clerk of Court TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of Margaret M. Mulrooney Esq., Referee of the Family Court, Queens County, dated and filed with the petition and other papers in the Office of the Clerk of the Family Court, Queens County.

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Holiday Photo Contest!

The absence of snow — although it’s plenty cold now — cut down submissions to the Queens Chronicle’s Fifth Annual Holiday Photo Contest when compared to last year, but there were still a lot of goodies to choose from.

Queens residents really loved their Santa costumes, including a Polish biker club in Middle Village.

This year’s winner in the professional category was Steve Fisher, top right, who submitted his version of a “Twas a Night Before Christmas.” In the amateur category Barb Rueckher took the cake with her photo, below, of Santa Paul Belardo and his two trusty reindeer, Cheyanne and Dakota.

The winners will enjoy passes to either Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, an off-Broadway show called “Katie Roche” or some other family-friendly event to be held in or around the city this spring.

Just a few more months ’til our sum- Check out even SEE mer photo more photo con- MORE c o n t e s t test entries at PHOTOS kicks off! Q qchron.com.

C M SQ page 54 Y K Semipro photographer Steve Fisher won in the professional category with this photo of Polish Santa Bikers in Middle Village, and his accompanying poem. ’Twas ten days before Christmas, when all through the streets, Shoppers were shopping, all looking for treats, When out on the sidewalk there arose such a clatter, I parked my car to see what was the matter.

The stores in a row looked to be normal, As did the small cluster of neighborhood people, When, on what should my wondering eyes pause, But a group of bikes, and not one but four Santa Claus.

With drivers young and older, so jolly and quick, I knew in a moment they must all be St Nick.

More rapid than eagles their hogs came, And they whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!

“Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!

On, Comet! On, Cupid! on Donner and Blitzen!

To the top of the curb! to the end of the block!

Now dash away! Dash away! It’s already ten o’clock!”

Two sprang onto their bikes, to their friends a thumbs up, And away they flew like a lively young pup.

But I heard them exclaim, ’ere they drove ’round the corner, “Merry Christmas to all, and to all Happy Chanukah!”

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Steve Fisher also submitted this shot of the biker Santas making their way down 73rd Place.

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Liza Colon-Derr y took a charming picture of daughter Lin opening her much-awaited karaoke machine at their home in Springfield Gardens.

Barb Rueckher of Glendale won The Chronicle’s Fifth Annual Winter Photo Contest in the amateur category with her picture of “Santa Paul” Belardo with Cheyanne and Dakota spreading Joy on Austin Street in Forest Hills.

What could be better than a beautiful Christmas tree during the holiday season? How about the illusion that there are two, as brought about by the mirror in this shot Deborah Caponigro took of the tree her sister spends three days putting up each year.

Deborah Caponigro’s kitty Shannon takes an adorable cat nap with her lookalike pillow, which is aptly wearing a Santa hat.

Caponigro, of Astoria, rescued Shannon, and her sister, in June 2010 from her mother’s backyard.

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Italian class is in session Howard Beach Columbus Foundation kicked off the 4th year of Italian classes this month at St. Helen’s School in Howard Beach.

The first class was on Jan. 5 and the lesson led by Cav. Josephine Maietta was about Befana, the Italian fable about a witch who travels Italy looking for the child Jesus and gives cookies and candy to children.

The students called two radio stations; 88.7 FM Radio Hofstra University, which has Italian-language programming, and Italianlanguage radio station ICN. A second class was held Jan. 12 at St. Helen’s.

Above, Cav. Maietta, center with phone, calls ICN with her students, who introduced themselves to the announcers.

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