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State lawmakers eye legal sports gambling

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State lawmakers like the odds of the U.S. Supreme Court striking down a ban on sports betting in most states, and are looking to quickly implement regulations when the ruling is handed down. Should it be legalized, wagers could be placed at racinos like Resorts World in South Ozone Park.

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Legal sports betting may soon come to NY If Supreme Court strikes down ban, wagers could be placed at RWNYC

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illions of dollars were exchanged in wagers on the Super Bowl Sunday — but most of it was illegal. Sports gambling is legal in Nevada and there are sports lotteries, in which people make multiple wagers at once, in Montana, Delaware and Oregon.

Otherwise, sports betting is illegal under the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 — also known as the Bradley Act — which prohibits gambling on games in every other state. But the odds are likely that the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down that ban and allow New Jersey, New York and other states to permit and regulate sports betting.

A hearing was recently held by the state Senate Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee and legislation has been introduced in anticipation of the ruling, expected by June.

“We’re going to assume to an extent that the 1992 Bradley Act will be struck down and if that happens, which it looks like it will, we want to be ready,” state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), the ranking member of the Wagering Committee, said in an interview.

New Jersey officials in November argued in front of the Supreme Court that the ban is an unconstitutional “direct command” from the federal government — according to The New York Times, most justices seemed to

Resorts World Casino New York City in South Ozone Park may soon be home to sports betting, if a federal ban on gaming that applies to most states is struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. A FILE PHOTO ruling is expected by June, according to The New York Times. agree with the plaintiff.

“The citizens of the State of New Jersey are bound to obey a law that the state doesn’t want but that the federal government compels the state to have,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said, according to The Times.

A 2011 New Jersey referendum to permit sports betting was approved by voters, but several major sports leagues sued and it was

deemed a violation of the Bradley Act. State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) has repeatedly introduced legislation to permit it in the Empire State, but that gamble has not paid off. He said on Twitter in December that he’s following the Supreme Court case “very closely.” He did not respond to a request for comment on this story.

Addabbo said wagers would have to be

placed at lounges in casino or racino sites — such as Resorts World Casino New York City in South Ozone Park. A spokesman for the venue said it would welcome the opportunity to bring sports betting to Queens.

“If sports betting was allowed under federal and New York State law, Resorts World Casino New York City would work to quickly implement it as part of our gaming experience,” the spokesman said.

The New York Racing Association in its testimony to the Senate committee requested racetracks like Belmont Park be allowed to have sports betting sites.

“Some of these casinos have only been open for business for a year or two,” said Chris Kay, CEO of NYRA. “By contrast, this year we will celebrate our 150th running of the Belmont Stakes on June 9.”

Just as with wagers placed at Resorts World’s slots, a portion of all bets on sports games would go to the Education Fund and divvied up between school districts across the state.

The state is still negotiating what tax rates would be implemented.

The National Basketball Association has historically been against overturning the ban — it helped push for the Bradley Act — but a league official told the state Senate Wagering Committee its position has “evolved in recent years. continued on page 30

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Meng calls for new anti-theft mailboxes Lawmaker writes to USPS asking it to replace all sidewalk letter drops

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Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) is calling on the United States Postal Service to replace every sidewalk mailbox in Queens with new, anti-theft ones in order to combat mail fishing.

That crime — the act of lowering a sticky substance into a mailbox and pulling out checks, money orders and other items — has proved to be a frustrating one in southern and central Queens over the years, with dozens of area residents being victimized.

But Meng believes installing anti-theft boxes, which feature much smaller slots, could help stamp out such thievery.

She asked the USPS to do just that in a Jan. 29 letter, saying the crime has “tormented” residents in her district for months.

“My constituents have had their identities stolen and funds removed from their bank accounts due to checks and sensitive documents stolen directly from USPS collection boxes,” Meng wrote. “Many of the victims of mail fishing are seniors who are particularly vulnerable to these reprehensible schemes and have limited information about how to protect themselves.”

Such a move is something people in Rego Park and Forest Hills have been calling for over last year. Heidi Chain, the 112th Precinct Community Council presi-

Rep. Grace Meng is calling on the United States Postal Service to replace every sidewalk mailFILE PHOTO box in Queens with new, anti-theft ones to prevent mail fishing. dent, has repeatedly called for the installation of new mailboxes during her group’s meetings.

Cops across the borough, such as Deputy Inspector Robert Ramos of the 112th Precinct, have also been asking residents to bring their mail directly to the post office — in addition to supplying people with special pens with ink that cannot be washed off by criminals, who do that to

rewrite checks.

But Meng said in her letter that they are not “acceptable solutions.”

“Many post offices in my district have limited hours, and residents cannot drop off mail when post offices are closed,” she said. “This also creates a significant barrier for seniors and disabled persons in my district who have issues with mobility.”

But Vance Barbour, the communications

director of the Woodhaven Residents Block Association, said he worries replacing the boxes could “cost a fortune.”

“We believe it’s an issue, but does it make sense to replace every mailbox at a really high cost? ” Barbour said to the Chronicle on Monday. “Meng should also encourage the postal service to collect mail from houses like they do in the rest of the country. You could put it in your box or hand it to the man or woman.

“That may not be feasible,” he then mused, “but if you’re gonna take an action like this, think of the implications.”

However, Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association President Joann Ariola said she is in support of Meng’s pitch.

“It’s an excellent idea,” Ariola said. “It was the mail fishing in Howard Beach that really brought it to the forefront.”

Multiple mail fishing arrests have been made across the borough, but the 112th Precinct saw a double-digit increase in the crime in 2017.

A spokeswoman for the United States Postal Inspection Service said her unit did not know how much replacing each sidewalk mail box would cost. She also declined to reveal the number of letter drops in Queens, citing security concerns.

But she did, however, say the agency is investigating the rise in mail fishing in the borough, adding that anyone who has been victimized should call 1 (877) 876-2455. Q

DOT to propose plan for Lindenwood triangle Agency offers Chronicle no details

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Civic associations, elected officials and residents have been calling for changes to the Lindenwood triangle for years.

“It was one of the first issues we took on when the Lindenwood Alliance was started,” said Joann Ariola, president of the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association. “And when we merged with Howard Beach it became our issue again.”

And those changes may soon arrive, as the Department of Transportation will present a plan to the community in the coming months on what can be done to improve conditions at the intersection.

According to Ariola, it’s the first time any concrete proposal will be presented.

“It’s an excellent feeling,” she said.

The Chronicle asked the DOT what it’s considering for the triangle — located where 88th Street meets 153rd and 155th avenues — but a spokesman offered no

specific information.

“We have been in contact with the stakeholders about this intersection, and we have told them that we are reviewing additional options to improve safety conditions there,” the spokesman said in an e m a i led st at e me nt . “ We h ave a lso informed them that we expect to go back to the community board in the spring.”

The DOT was supposed to present a plan at Community Board 10’s February meeting, Ariola said, but that was pushed back so the agency could go back to the drawing board.

“I think they realized the community wanted something like a traffic circle like what we have at the entrance of the community,” she said.

Many near-misses and crashes have taken place at the triangle, which is located a short distance from PS 232.

The DOT restricted parking on some streets near the intersection to increase visibility, but area leaders said more

The Department of Transportation said it will present a plan to improve safety at the Lindenwood PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY triangle this spring. needed to be done.

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“But it was really Dan Brown from the borough president’s office who was really the one who gave the final push,” Q Ariola said.

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Woodhaven wary of ENY basement plan Mayor wants to spend $5.7 million to legalize many units under pilot program

by Anthony O’Reilly Editor

Woodhaven civic leaders have fought against illegal basement apartments for years, filing many 311 complaints and asking the city for increased enforcement against the units that are prevalent throughout the neighborhood.

But just west of the Brooklyn-Queens border, the city is looking to legalize hundreds of basement apartments in East New York — a plan Woodhaven residents and elected officials tell the Chronicle they’re against.

“I am against the Mayor’s basement apartment plan; I think it’s a dangerous proposition,” Councilman Bob Holden (D-Glendale) said in a statement. “We are already overpopulated, and our schools are some of the most overcrowded in the city. What’s more, it would change the entire character of the neighborhood.”

The pilot program is part of Mayor de Blasio’s budget proposal, released last Thursday, and seeks to increase the number of affordable units across the city.

“We’ve got to keep looking for new ways still to create and preserve affordable housing,” de Blasio said. “One of them is beneath us, meaning basement apartments.”

The city is seeking to start the pilot this month and spend $5.7 million from now to

Woodhaven leaders this week expressed their opposition to a plan that would bring hundreds of “legal” basement apartments to East New York. Illegal basement apartments are one of the top FILE PHOTO issues in the Queens community. fiscal year 2021, including $2.4 million in fiscal year 2019, to bring the basement apartments in the Brooklyn neighborhood, which borders parts of Queens, up to code and make sure they’re in compliance with fire safety requirements — many existing basement apartments don’t meet the fire code.

The plan must be included in the final budget agreed to by the mayor and City

Council, which by law needs to happen by July 1, to be implemented.

The city could bring the model elsewhere and estimates there are 5,000 basement units in the five boroughs that could become legally safe to occupy.

“We have to prove the model first and we’re going to do that in East New York,” de Blasio said.

Vance Barbour, the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association’s communications director, said he’s “not sure” how the city will be able to carry out the program.

“The city doesn’t do a great job of overseeing how property developers do what they do now,” Barbour said. “I’m not sure how they’re going to be able to do something like this where people are going to need an extra amount of attention.”

Sherman Kane, a Woodhaven resident and co-chairman of Community Board 9’s Land Use Committee, said the idea “needs to be thought through more carefully,” especially when it comes to providing more city resources such as policing, sewers, school seats and more.

“There’s no plan to increase infrastructure needs,” Kane said. “It’s already a big problem with illegal conversions mushrooming all over the city.”

Barbour expressed the same concerns.

“The population density is already increasing,” he said. “We’re going to be allowing more people to come in and put a strain on city services.”

He also worried the plan could be brought to Queens, and his neighborhood, once completed in East New York.

“We would be an obvious place to increase Q density,” he said of Woodhaven.

Mayor seeks $88.7 billion for 2018-19 Critics say too much spending, not enough savings for state, fed cuts

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Mayor de Blasio says he is taking possible shortfalls in state and federal aid into account with his $88.67 billion prelimiFILE PHOTO nary budget request for the 2018-19 fiscal year.

From the release of Mayor de Blasio’s preliminary budget for 2018-19 on Feb. 1, critics said it spent too much, controlled spending too little and didn’t take into account the possible loss of up to $1.5 billion in state and federal assistance.

Then on Monday the New York Stock Exchange lost more than 1,500 points before rallying to end the day’s trading down only by 1,175. It recovered much but not all of that in the volatile buying and selling that followed.

Let the budget negotiations begin!

The mayor’s plan calls for spending of $88.67 billion. It represents an increase of nearly $3.5 billion over the $85.2 billion budget adopted last June.

If adopted by the Council unchanged — about as likely as the mayor accepting an invitation to a weekend golf outing at Mar a Lago from President Trump — it would represent an increase of about 26.8 percent over the last budget submitted by former Mayor Mike Bloomberg five years ago.

The mayor said the budget proposal is balanced but did not exactly invoke the generally accepted accounting principles in his Feb. 1 budget message.

“This administration is focused on making New York the fairest big city in America,” he said. “Every decision in this budget was weighed on whether it brought us closer to that goal.”

De Blasio said City Hall harbors no illusions about the threats posed by Washington, DC and Albany.

The budget calls for: • $900 million in savings, including a partial hiring freeze and lower-than-expected debt service to help offset new spending;

• an additional $200 million to upgrade heating systems at the most troubled New York City Housing Authority locations; • an increase of $150 million for homeless shelter costs; • $2.4 million for a pilot program to convert illegal basement apartments in East New York to safe, legally conforming units; and • $12 million to outfit all patrol officers in the NYPD with body cameras by the end of 2018.

The budget also calls for about 4,000 new city employees, which, speaking on “The Brian Lehrer Show” on WNYC Radio on Feb. 2, the mayor called sound public policy.

“So when we invest in more pre-K teachers and 3-K teachers, when we invest in more building inspectors to keep people safe and make sure that buildings are built properly, when we invest in more traffic enforcement agents to reduce congestion — I go down the list — obviously 2,000 more police officers on patrol at the NYPD, which has achieved the lowest crime we’ve had since the 1950s and a much better relationship between the police and the community,” he said.

“These investments were worth making and yeah, they involved ... increased headcount, that’s true,” de Blasio said.

“And why don’t we look at what we’ve gotten for that investment. I think they’re sound investments.”

The document also projects the need to close deficits of nearly $2.2 billion in Fiscal Year 2020, which runs from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020; $1.46 billion in 2020-21; and nearly $1.75 billion in 2021-22.

The mayor will submit his final executive budget to the Council on or before April 26, at which time negotiations with continued on page 21

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P Is the future of Willets Point finally here?

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fter all the fits and starts that have persisted for more than a decade, we finally have a new plan for the renewal of Willets Point on the table. It’s a welcome, err, development in a long saga that has yet to produce results for the people of Queens.

The most important element is the promise of 1,100 units of affordable housing, ones that will be built in the first phase of the project. With very tight income guidelines on who will qualify for the homes, they’re guaranteed to go to people who otherwise might be priced out of Queens. They’re simply isn’t enough housing stock here and that’s taking a toll, both contributing to homelessness and making life harder for those who manage to keep a roof over their heads. In fact, nearly 100 of the units will be reserved for formerly homeless families. Another 220 will be reserved for seniors.

In announcing the plan along with Borough President Melinda Katz and City Councilman Francisco Moya, Mayor de Blasio made a point of saying there will be more units of housing than under the 2013 Willets Point plan, which had to be dropped because a separate but related proposal was blocked by the state’s highest court. He erred

in saying there will be more affordable housing than under “the original development proposal,” however, because the first plan was the one from 2008, which was to have 1,925 lower-priced units out of 5,500 overall. But that was for the whole 23-acre project area; this week’s announcement only applies to the first phase, six acres. We certainly hope more affordable housing will come down the road in phase 2.

There’s reason to believe it will because a task force led

by Katz and Moya will be formed to identify community priorities and make recommendations for the remaining 17 acres. They’re likely to insist on affordable housing, just as the city did here.

Along with the homes, phase 1 will include retail space and a 450-seat elementary school. Both are obviously key.

That’s if all goes according to plan. The builders, a joint venture between the owners of the Mets and the Related Companies, a major developer, previously have said they cannot finance the Willets Point renewal without putting up a 1.4 million-square-foot mall just outside the Iron Triangle first. The shopping mecca was to go where the Citi Field parking lot is now, but that was blocked in court because the site is technically parkland. It could only be

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Subway’s not a shelter Dear Editor: Re “Subway homeless outreach on the rise,” Feb. 1, multiple editions: I am glad that subway homeless outreach is on the rise, but could someone please tell me why we tolerate subway cars being turned into de facto shelters?

I take the E train to and from work every day, and every day there are subway cars that travel mostly empty because they are occupied by homeless people whose body odor is overly offensive. Simply put, they stink to high heaven, so everyone crowds into other cars. Don’t commuters who pay their fares and taxes to support the subways have rights?

I’m sorry if this is not politically correct, but this is a public nuisance that should be stopped.

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built upon if alienated by the state Legislature, which is why activists sued to stop the mall and won.

So if the consortium, called the Queens Development Group, couldn’t afford to start by building housing, a school and some retail just last year, what’s changed? The powers that be decline to say.

But they do say the QDG will be done remediating the long-toxic site by the end of 2020, and should have the first 500 units of housing ready to go by 2022. We hope so. The homes will be welcome, as will the jobs that will be created to build them. And we can hope that over time, all 5,500 housing units planned 10 years ago will be constructed.

Another good point in the new plan is that the city will retain ownership of the land and only lease it to the QDG. In 2013, the plan was to sell it to the developers for all of $1. Credit goes to de Blasio for making sure that didn’t happen this time around.

History says there’s reason to be skeptical things will turn out as planned at Willets Point. But it doesn’t necessarily have to repeat itself. If the public’s representatives stick to their word and make the developers stick to theirs, progress could finally come to this long-neglected area.

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Dear Editor: Re your report “Flushing polling site restored” (Feb. 1, multiple editions): I’m glad Latimer Gardens voters got their polling site back after it closed 12 years ago.

Can Rep. Grace Meng get the same result for her Kew Gardens Hills constituents? Our regular polling site at PS 164 closed in 2012 and was replaced by one at PS 165, more than half a mile away. This makes it difficult for seniors and others who don’t drive to get there. We’re geographically disenfranchised.

City Councilman Rory Lancman told me last September that he obtained funds for a wheelchair ramp to make PS 164’s gym accessible to the disabled. But it has not been installed so far.

Is there a target date? Area residents told me the real reason for not restoring PS 164’s site was the school principal’s fury over sloppy restroom conditions after the 2012 primary. Can the Chronicle check into this?

Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

Dear Editor: I found it a bit of a coincidence that one week before the Lefferts Boulevard A subway train elevator was placed in service, Albert Baldeo wrote a letter to this paper complaining about the delay in its opening (“MTA elevator delay,” Jan. 18).

Then a week later, a story was published about the opening (“Elevator finally in service at Lefferts,” Jan. 25, South Queens Edition) featuring the same Albert Baldeo in the copy and in the accompanying photo (provided by Baldeo) — as if he had anything to do with it!

To my knowledge, Mr. Baldeo is not in government (nor has he ever been), nor is he employed by the MTA, nor any of their subsidiaries. And it’s not clear in what way he is an activist.

The article described him as an “activist and former Democratic district leader,” but failed to mention the 18 months he got for obstruction of justice in 2015. You may recall that Baldeo was a little too cozy with state Sen. John Sampson, who was busted in 2013, convicted

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of obstruction of justice in 2015 and finally sentenced to five years in prison in 2017.

Eighteen months go by pretty quickly. Are we seeing shades of Alan Hevesi?

Jerry Nutter South Ozone Park

A tragic lesson Dear Editor: The tragic death of an 11-year-old boy and the injury to his friend, both of whom had walked onto a frozen pond in Forest Park, is yet another reminder why nobody should walk on iced-over ponds and lakes.

The ice was not thick enough to support the weight of those two children, due to the fact that we have not had a prolonged cold spell like we did in late December and early January, when ponds and lakes were frozen over solidly and deeply. All lakes and ponds in our region are unsafe to venture out onto, and parents should make sure their children keep off them.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of both of these children, especially for the one boy who did not survive because he was trapped beneath the ice for several minutes before he was pulled from the pond. And our most sincere thanks go to our first responders who worked as quickly as they could to save the drowned boy.

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I’m with the workers Dear Editor: I read the Jan. 25 story “Striking Local 3 still sticking to its guns” by Ryan Brady and feel for the workers who are being ignored by Spectrum. Taking away workers’ health and pension benefits sounds like typical “big business” tactics. My wife and I find Spectrum’s current service not that good with too may shutdowns of our TV. I hope the company settles with the workers soon.

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Trump the Corrupt Dear Editor: The integrity of the Mueller investigation and all other investigations into the Russian tampering with our elections must be defended

at almost any cost. The president needs to understand that he cannot turn our country into a dictatorship and he will not be allowed to be our tinpot dictator.

Please know that you have a liberal army at your back if you go against Trump and his gang of sycophants. He is no longer “new” at this and there are no excuses whatsoever that are acceptable for those in Congress who are enabling and even working for him.

This corruption must be stopped and rooted out from all corners. This truly is worse than what President Nixon did — at least he would not have invited any foreign power in. This must stop and the rule of law must be in play once again. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer must support a full and free investigation and in so doing protect the Constitution and our nation.

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Yes, Hillary Clinton did win the popular vote by three million. That excess came from just four counties in California: Alameda, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Clara. Those are four ultraliberal, far left-wing counties completely out of touch with the rest of the country. Several political sources, ONLINE including some known for being Miss an article or a letter cited by a writer? left wing, have Want breaking news aver red t h at a from all over Queens? large number of Find the latest news, illegal aliens in past reports from all t hose cou nt ies over the borough and voted.

Exclude those more at qchron.com. fou r cou nties from the national total and Mr. Trump won, even when including Mrs. Clinton’s large pluralities in cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Washington and right here in four of five boroughs.

As for the Electoral College, it was created to ensure that votes from small states would count just as much as those from large states.

At the time the Constitution was debated, small states would not ratify unless the electoral procedure was adopted. Otherwise, the large states would dominate.

Our Founding Fathers realized that an issue of concern in one state may not be important in another. The Electoral College ensures that a voter in Alaska, North Dakota or Wyoming has as much influence in the election as one in the larger states. Otherwise, California and New York would decide every election. It ensures fairness throughout the nation. It’s called a democracy.

Although I don’t agree with your politics, Anthony, your knowledge of American history is above average and I’m surprised you weren’t aware of this lesson many Americans don’t understand about the electoral process.

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Glendale boy drowns Queens DA wants to in Forest Park pond use familial testing

by Christopher Barca Editor

A Glendale youngster is dead, having drowned in a Forest Park pond on Tuesday tr ying to save a friend who fell through the ice.

According to authorities and published repor ts, 11-year- old A nthony Perez and a 12-year-old f riend were walking through Forest Park when the older boy ventured 50 feet out onto the f roz e n St r a ck Pond . W he n he fel l through the ice, Perez was able to pull him out before falling into the frigid waters himself.

His friend was able to run home and alert the authorities. But by the time first responders arrived a few minutes later, Perez was already submerged below the surface. According to FDNY Deputy Chief George Healy, three firefighters had to physically punch through the ice and dive into the water to retrieve the unconscious Perez, who had been under water for several minutes.

Attempts to revive him failed and he was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. Two of the firefighters who tried to save the boy were also treated for hypothermia. According to reports, they waded into the chest-deep

by Anthony O’Reilly Editor

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown has asked the State Division of Criminal Justice Services to allow his office to use familial DNA testing in the investigation of three unsolved cases.

It’s not known what Queens cases are being considered for the technique, but the 10 applications made to the state panel are for rapes or homicides.

The panel will now determine whether the cases warrant the technique — which examines a forensic sample found at a crime scene and looks to see if it is a close match to that of anyone in criminal databases, providing investigators with a possible path to the actual perpetrator.

Law enforcement officials must prove all other avenues of finding the perpetrator of a crime have been exhausted before being allowed to use familial testing.

The technique gained steam in New York following the Aug. 2, 2016 murder of Howard Beach jogger Karina Vetrano.

Her family pushed for its approval before her alleged killer was arrested, saying it could have led police to the perpetrator.

Glendale boy Anthony Perez fell through the ice on Strack Pond in Forest Park and FACEBOOK PHOTO drowned on Tuesday. water barefoot and wearing just shorts and short-sleeved shirts.

“There are signs around all the lakes in the city and we implore you, tell your children that the ice is not safe, it’s not going to support your weight and it can have tragic consequences,” Healy said.

“There is no such thing as safe ice.”

T here a re mu lt iple sig n s a rou nd Strack Pond warning passersby walking through the park of the dangers of venQ turing onto the ice.

Queens DA Richard Brown wants to utilize FILE PHOTO familial DNA testing.

Although familial DNA has many suppor ters, civil liber ties groups have warned that it may be unconstitutional and violate privacy protections.

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A new tenant may soon move into the shuttered Staples on Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach.

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The company did not respond to a request for comment by press time.

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The site reopened in 2013, but closed t he follow i ng yea r a nd has si nce Q remained vacant.

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The Department of Education has opened applications for 2018-19 pre-K and 3K For All, the agency announced Monday.

Pre-K For All classes are available citywide and applications will be accepted until March 30. Families will receive an offer letter in May. Applications for 3K For All — pre-kindergarten for 3-year-olds — are open to families in School District 27, which stretches from Richmond Hill to Rockaway.

The district is the only one in Queens to have 3K For All right now — School District 29 in Southeast Queens will offer it in fall 2020 and the initiative will be available everywhere else the following year.

Those who apply for 3K will receive an offer letter in May. Families can apply for pre-K and 3K online at nyc.gov/3K or nyc.gov/prek, over the phone by calling 311 or in person at a Family Welcome Center.

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Cuomo’s budget is called ‘disrespectful’ Outgoing Chancellor Fariña blasts state’s school spending proposal

by Anthony O’Reilly

“It’s a sign of respect to the taxpayers who are funding the schools,” Young told the chancellor.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña had some direct words for Gov. Cuomo’s budget proposal last ranking member of the Education Committee, said in a Wednesday, saying in what is likely her final appear- written statement he is “concerned” about the proposal.

“I obviously believe any educational entity should be ance in Albany that the state’s preliminary spending transparent and accountable in its funding decisions, plan is “disrespectful.”

Fariña, who is retiring by the end of the school year, but I think this may be an over-reach into educational decisions that should be made at a joint budget hearing on edusolely on the local level by those cation blasted the governor’s who are the most familiar with plans to have more state overt is fundamentally the challenges facing our 1.1 sight of the city’s school budget million students attending our to ensure the city Department of not necessary and 1,800-plus schools,” he said.

Education — and other municiThe governor is also planning palities across the state — is it’s also, to some to end a $1,000 per char ter giving schools in poorer disdegree ... disrespectful.” school student payment Albany tricts a fair share of funding. gives the city. City Hall would “To add another bureau of — City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña have to pick up that tab starting people who are going to look at in the 2019-20 school year, if the paperwork that will probably never be reviewed, I would say it is fundamentally not proposal is included in the final budget — which under necessary and it’s also, to some degree ... disrespect- the law must be approved by state lawmakers by April ful,” the chancellor said at the hearing, where members 1.

Cuomo is also seeking to cap the amount of money of the Assembly and state Senate were present.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and the state spends on charters located in private space at Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan (D-Long Island City), $10 million — right now, that cost is at $40 million. chairwoman of the Education Committee, sided with Fariña said the proposed changes could cost the DOE $144 million.

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City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fairña, in what is likely her last appearance in front of state lawmakers before her retirement, called part of Gov. Cuomo’s budget “disrespectful,” and warned another state FILE PHOTO plan may cost the city $144 million.

Cafeterias often unsanitary: study One Ozone Park school had 1,500 flies buzzing around food prep area

by Anthony O’Reilly

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A city health inspector on July 12, 2017 witnessed 1,500 flies at MS 137 in Ozone Park in a kitchen that prepares more than 700 meals for five area schools, an investigation published by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism found. The study, published last Wednesday, said the inspector returned July 17 and found the kitchen was still dirty — it was clean on the third visit, which took place July 19.

But MS 137 isn’t the only school that had dirty or unsanitary conditions in its food prep areas. Nearly 700 — about half of the 1,400 inspected by the Department of Health — had violations that could potentially lead to foodborne illnesses, according to the CUNY study.

At one Brooklyn school, there were live roaches and close to 600 fresh mice droppings when an inspector visited.

There were close to 400 critical violations issued to Queens schools, with some receiving more than one.

The full story and an interactive map that shows every school issued a violation can be found at foodplight.nycitynewsservice.

The findings were compiled following a Freedom of Information request filed by students at the journalism school.

A report by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism found nearly half of the city’s school cafeterias had at least one critical health violation, which could lead to foodborne illnesses. At one Queens school, 1,500 flies were buzzing around the kitchen area one day in July.

“Our students set out to dig into inspection records and uncovered a story that every parent needs to read,” NYCity News Service Director Jere Hester said in a statement on the graduate school’s website.

The report noted the city is providing free lunches to 1.1 million students, but there is a shortage of cafeteria workers and only 15

inspectors to check conditions at every school in the five boroughs.

A spokesman for the Department of Education said in an emailed statement, “All schools must provide students with safe, clean cafeterias and we ensure that they meet all federal and state requirements.

Nothing is more important than the health

and wellbeing of students and staff, and we work closely with the Department of Health to immediately investigate and address any violation. In 2017, approximately 98% of schools passed their inspections.”

Health inspectors may give schools a chance to clean up unsanitary conditions and schedule a re-examination — as in the case of MS 137 — before issuing a failing grade to the cafeteria.

The schools are not issued a letter grade like restaurants.

Instead, a numerical scale is used — with a higher number indicating worse conditions than a lower one.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), the ranking member of the Education Committee, said food safety is a constant concern of public school parents like himself.

He added he’s confident the DOE and other relevant agencies will address the problems outlined in the report.

“I am sure of it,” he said.

The senator also came to the defense of MS 137, which is in his district.

“It was in the middle of July, and there is sometimes that proliferation of flies because of the heat and there’s also the fact that school wasn’t in session,” he said. “Not that Q it’s to be condoned.”

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Study finds Crowley’s rail proposal feasible Adding passenger service, keeping freight would cost $2 billion: AECOM

by Christopher Barca

cost is very significant.”

Other ways AECOM said the project could be funded include federal grants, the selling of approximately $480 million in air rights along the line and up to $309 million in tax increment financing.

Editor

The reactivation of commuter light rail service along the Lower Montauk line between Jamaica and Long Island City is feasible but costly, according to a highly anticipated study released by the engineering firm AECOM. The proposal is the brainchild of former Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, who spent her final two years in office garnering support from area community boards and fellow government colleagues for it.

She told the Chronicle on Tuesday that she is “thrilled” by the study’s results, saying it will yield tremendous benefits to those from Richmond Hill to Glendale to Maspeth.

But her successor, Councilman Bob Holden (D-Glendale), called AECOM’s work a “colossal waste of money” that same day.

The 289-page document — commissioned by the Department of Transportation at Crowley’s request last year — touches on the QNS Rail’s feasibility, potential ridership figures and, most importantly, a possible price tag of more than $2 billion.

Feasibility and features Quite simply, passenger and freight service can coexist on the right-of-way, but not before multiple obstacles are cleared.

First, the Federal Railroad Administration requires that commuter trains running on the same track as freight service meet stringent crash safety criteria.

And of the half-dozen train models studied

by AECOM, only heavy-duty “diesel multiple units” — nontraditional diesel locomotives that feature an engine in each car — make sense. Electric trains were considered by the firm. But for such a model to be used, an electrified third rail would have to be installed at a cost of more than $50 million.

“DMUs have the advantage of using diesel but often without the same level of noise pollution as a diesel locomotive,” the study reads, “and they do not require electric infrastructure such as a third rail.”

Second, a number of area bridges along the line would have to be either torn down and rebuilt or significantly renovated.

The most obvious candidate for replacement, according to AECOM, is the Dutch Kills railroad bridge in Long Island City.

The 120-year-old structure used to be able to swing open to allow ships to pass undernearth, but it malfunctioned 30 years ago and has been locked into position ever since That bridge only has one track on it, and two would be needed to allow passenger service to operate. But AECOM said demolishing and replacing the bridge complete with two tracks is a necessary move regardless.

The railroad crossings above Grand and Flushing avenues in Maspeth may also have to be replaced with ones that contain a necessary extra set of tracks.

Where to board Of the 10 former passenger stations along the line, excluding the existing Jamaica and Long Island City termini, AECOM suggests

The Richmond Hill station along the QNS Rail line, as proposed by former Councilwoman ElizaRENDING COURTESY KOHN PEDERSON FOX beth Crowley. that 8 of them are still viable stops.

From west to east, they include: • Greenpoint Avenue, just southwest of First Calvary Cemetery along Newtown Creek in Blissville; • Haberman, at the corner of 49th Street and 56th Road in Maspeth; • Grand Avenue-Flushing Avenue in Maspeth, between the two roads on Rust Street; • Fresh Pond Road, at Metropolitan Avenue on the Middle Village-Ridgewood line; • The Metro Mall in Middle Village; • The Shops at Atlas Park in Glendale; • Woodhaven Boulevard, just north of Union Turnpike in Glendale; and • Richmond Hill, on Lefferts Boulevard between Hillside and Jamaica avenues.

“The stations would be expected to develop and drive growth in the residential, commercial, or industrial sectors,” the study reads. “In most instances, the station may have a transformative impact on an area that did not have direct access to rail service.”

What a ride would look like According to the firm, passenger rail trains would run between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m. seven days a week. Freight hauling would occur between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., as well as intermittently during the midday.

Peak weekday travel times, identified as 6 to 10 a.m. and 4 to 8 p.m., would see commuter trains arrive every six minutes.

Wait times would be 10 minutes between 8 and 9 p.m., 15 minutes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. to 10 p.m., and 20 minutes from 5 to 6 a.m. and on weekends.

Ridership: then and now Passenger service along the line was discontinued in 1998 after years of extremely low ridership.

But the area has seen a modest growth in population, with approximately 180,000 people — including 87,000 members of the work force — now living nearby.

Of those 87,000, 56 percent commute to work via public transportation and 27 percent drive to work. They combine for an average commute time of 40 minutes.

Because of the population boom and a relative lack of public transportation options AECOM estimates that annual ridership in 2025 — the first year service could realistically open — will hover around 5,820,000.

That total is about 800,000 more than that of the Staten Island Railroad — which has 11 more stations.

When it comes to average daily ridership, the Richmond Hill station is expected to be the busiest with 5,200 users. The firm anticipates that around 3,500 people per day would use the 80th Street and Metro Mall stops, while about 2,000 people would get on trains at Jamaica, Fresh Pond and Long Island City.

Getting down to dollars AECOM estimates that the cost of reactivating passenger rail service on the branch, while also maintaining freight operations, would cost upwards of $2.16 billion — less than half the cost of the recently opened threestation Second Avenue Subway line.

Of that total, $914 million would be for renovating and replacing existing infrastructure to handle passenger service while $150 million would go toward buying 15 one- or two-car trains. Should freight service be eliminated entirely, passenger rail reactivation would cost $1.1 billion.

When it comes to the cost of a ride, AECOM said charging a commuter the same price as a Metrocard swipe would make the most sense, as fares comparable to the LIRR or Metro-North could see anticipated ridership tumble as much as 40 percent.

Revenue derived solely from ticket purchases are expected to hover around $15 million per year, while annual operating costs would be around $55 million.

Community Board 5 District Manager Gary Giordano told the Chronicle on Tuesday that while he sides with Crowley on needing to create more transportation options, he thinks the idea is too costly.

“These projections for how many riders there would be, it’s just too expensive — from what I’m reading — to justify it,” Giordano said. “The estimation alone for annual revenue versus annual operating

Crowley and Holden react Crowley told the Chronicle she always thought the plan was feasible, adding that she was happy to hear she was right.

“The people who live along the right-of-way live in a transit desert and spend too much time commuting every day,” she said. “That’s unnecessary. The line is like a highway you’re not allowed to drive on.”

The former lawmaker also said the estimated ridership numbers prove the project would be worth it financially, adding that there are “a lot of other ways” to bring in revenue besides just ticket purchases.

“That is in line with major investments that have happened before,” she said, “and it certainly exceeds the ridership numbers of other similar projects in the country.”

While Crowley said she misses her job as a Council member, a silver lining is that she can dedicate more hours to projects she’s passionate about.

And with her newfound time, she said she is going to advocate fiercely in favor of the plan to anyone who will listen.

“We’re facing such hardship right now.

We’ve never had our fair share,” Crowley said.

“We have an opportunity now to discuss what’s real and what’s fair.

“The L and the E, which are a few miles north and south of the district, both of them are operating beyond capacity,” she added.

“We need more help in this part of the city.”

Holden held the opposite opinion, saying in a statement he thinks the study — which cost $500,000 from the Council Speaker’s Office — proves the project is pointless.

“This study was a colossal waste of money that could have otherwise been used to benefit my district,” Holden said. “Instead, those tax dollars went to fund a study for a project that is both infeasible and undesirable.”

According to AECOM, the future of the light rail is entirely up to the policy makers and city and state agencies. Holden said he doesn’t think there is a future, adding that Crowley’s pushing for the study “shows a complete lack of understanding of the community and its transportation needs.”

“I could say I’d like to derail it, but it’s a train that never really left the station,” he said.

“The light rail plan is a non-starter, and the study was a waste of taxpayer dollars.”

Crowley shot back, saying that’s not at all the feeling she got when shopping her idea across Queens.

“It’s unfortunate that Mr. Holden cannot see the value in this study, but his colleagues in the City Council do, as well as the community boards neighboring the rail, who overwhelmingly endorsed it,” she said. “Thousands of residents across the borough see value in better mass transit, shorter commute times, and less Q traffic clogging our streets.”

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Katz: Queens and business a vital mix Borough president says public and private investment must go together

by Michael Gannon Editor

The business of Borough President Melinda Katz was business during a Tuesday morning talk with the Queens Chamber of Commerce.

Speaking before more than 300 people in Queens Village, Katz said public and private investment within the borough has and will continue to draw people from around the world for the same reason her own parents came in 1953 — opportunity.

“I am raising my sons in my old bedroom,” she said. “I want them to stay in Queens and raise their children in Queens — though I’d want them to buy another house.”

She said the proof is in the composition of the borough’s residents from more than 130 countries with nearly 190 native languages.

“Forty-eight percent of the residents of Queens come from another country,” she said. “They looked at Queens and said, ‘I want to make Queens my home, to raise my children here.’ Half the people in Queens chose to live here.”

And she said those numbers would not be possible unless a great number of the new arrivals believed that the borough offered an opportunity for education, jobs and to start or expand their businesses.

Borough President Melinda Katz said on Tuesday that Queens thrives when government and its business community work and invest together. Katz was addressing more than 300 people at a breakfast in Queens Village hosted by the Queens Chamber of Commerce. PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON She used her own Jamaica Now initiative as an example of how $153 million in current and future government investments in traffic studies, marketing, landscaping and even 20 Wi-Fi kiosks can draw private funding and hardworking entrepreneurs.

She said whereas only a few years ago

people would only talk about how the region could be turned around, there are now construction cranes all along and astride the Jamaica Avenue corridor.

“We’re determined to make Jamaica thrive,” she said.

With schools also playing a part in where

people decide to put down stakes, she said that Queens now has 18,000 school seats either under construction or in the pipeline.

“And it’s still not enough,” she said.

While the borough president is excited about the ongoing construction of a modern LaGuardia airport, she said Queens’ public transportation situation — “Two-thirds of Queens is not covered by subways,” — an air train link to and from the new LaGuardia will be a must.

“We need another ‘train to the plane,’” Katz said, eliciting nods from baby boomers in the room but quizzical stares from younger generations who did not remember the first TV and radio jingle for an old express subway ride to JFK in the 1980s.

Katz also is a proponent of having a LaGuardia link to the proposed BQX streetcar line slated for the East River coastline between Astoria and Brooklyn.

Katz favors the plan, at least in theory.

“Right now, they have no places in Queens,” she said.

She explained that while the Brooklyn end of the route appears to have ample room to accommodate the rail lines, in Queens, there are four possible routes, and in some cases planners are trying to determine just where it might be possible to run rails in Q both directions on the same street.

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Cuomo ‘blue’ it — Gov. caves on highway signs

Gov. Cuomo has been touting highway signs like this one by an entrance ramp to the Triborough/RFK Bridge for years to the annoyance of federal highway officials. Cuomo blinked last week, agreeing to change or remove the signs across the state. PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY Gov. Cuomo is signing off on the large blue signs that the state put up along its highways to promote tourism — under threat of a $14 million cut in federal highway funds.

Published reports state that the Federal Highway Administration has given the state until Sept. 30 to remove the signs or

bring them into compliance with safety regulations. The New York Post last week quoted the Cuomo administration as saying the signs would be replaced or “repurposed” to comply.

The $14 million would represent a 1 percent cut in the state’s next round of anticipated federal highway funding. Q

Silverman takes the gold Steven and Linda Silverman of Bellerose are off to Manhattan to see the off-Broadway musical “This One’s for the Girls,” thanks to Linda’s winning the Queens Chronicle’s 10th annual Holiday Photo Contest.

The couple will be taking along two other

family members; each of the passes they’re holding here is good for two tickets.

Be sure to enter our next competition, the 10th annual Summer in the Borough Photo Contest, and you too may get to see a show compliments of the Queens Chronicle!

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continued from page 6 the council pick up in earnest. A new budget must be approved and in place by July 1.

If City Council Budget Chairman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) feels de Blasio’s increases are questionable, he didn’t say so.

While acknowledging that it is still very early in the budget process, Dromm said he is primarily concerned about the very real possibility of funding cuts out of Albany and Washington, DC. “We have reason to be very concerned because both may be holding up some pro-

grams, and we stand to lose up to about $1.5 billion,” Dromm said.

He did credit the mayor for padding the rainy day line item and some of the healthcare funds, but said the city still must watch the state and federal budgets.

Things should be much more clear by the state budget deadline of March 31.

“The question we have right now is are we facing a rainy day or just a cloudy day,” Dromm said.

Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), however, believes the flaws with the mayor’s offering run far deeper than possi-

ble cuts to federal and state aid.

“De Blasio’s proposed budget has skyrocketed by $4 billion from last year, but does absolutely nothing to address the inequitable and unfair property tax system,” he said in an email to the Chronicle.

“The city continues to spend way too much, and it is a disgrace that hardworking taxpayers are being used as a revenue stream,” he continued. “We need to find better, more cost effective solutions that do not come at the expense of New Yorkers — many of whom are struggling to make ends meet.”

In a statement released on Feb. 1. Carol Kellermann, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, hit the mayor, she said,

for both ignoring the possibility of cuts in aid, and his failure to rein in spending.

She also said a final budget deal must do more to strengthen NYCHA and the chronically troubled NYC Health + Hospitals.

“A positive development is that the cost of new agency needs will be offset by the Citywide Savings Program,” she wrote.

“However, this program relies too much on dwindling debt service savings and State and federal reimbursement and not enough on saving from making government more efficient.

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Queens residents, civic leaders and NYPD precinct commanders who have grown frustrated with drivers who park their large trucks overnight on residential streets could be off the hook — and the trucks on one — by the end of this coming summer.

The NYPD confirmed on Monday that the city is purchasing a heavy duty tow truck that will be used exclusively within the borough of Queens.

The truck, being built by Mack, will have a towing capacity of 35 tons.

“We anticipate that it will be delivered at the end of August, when it will be checked and prepped for service,” the NYPD said in an email to the Chronicle.

The trucks are a result of many factors, including the many highways traversing Queens, and the air freight businesses operating near John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Money for the t r uck — about $350,000 — was secured for fiscal year 2017 from discretionary funds from the office of Borough President Melinda Katz and capital improvement funding arranged by state Sen. Leroy Q Comrie (D-St. Albans).

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Lawmakers move to change primary day Rosh Hashanah falls on the same date, creating religious conflict; and it’s 9/11

by Christopher Barca Editor

Jewish lawmakers are spearheading an effort to change the date of the Sept. 11 primaries for state and city elections, as that date is also the final day of Rosh Hashanah.

On Monday, the state Assembly voted 134-0 to approve a bill that would change primary day to Thursday, Sept. 13, with the state Senate expected to do the same as early as next week.

Assemblyman Robert Carroll (D-Brooklyn) authored the lower chamber’s bill, with Jewish Queens colleagues Daniel Rosenthal (D-Flushing), Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park), Nily Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows) and David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows) signed on as co-sponsors.

In the Senate, two pieces of legislation have been introduced. The first, by state Sen. Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn) is with the Rules Committee.

The second has been put forth by state Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D-Nassau) and is with the Elections Committee.

A government source told the Chronicle this week that the Senate is expected to take up Felder’s bill — as he caucuses with the Republicans, who control the body via a powersharing agreement with the Independent Democratic Conference.

The legislation includes a provision that would mandate the state Board of Elections to send out mailers in early August notifying New Yorkers of the date change.

In a Tuesday interview, Weprin told the Chronicle that he is almost entirely sure the Senate will follow the Assembly’s example and pass its version with no issue.

“Nothing is 100 percent in this business, but I’m 99 percent

The state Legislature is moving toward the passage of legislation that would move this year’s primary elections from Sept.

11 to Sept. 13, due to conflicts with the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah and the 17th anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks.

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sure this bill will pass overwhelmingly in the Senate,” he said. “There’s no urgency here, as the election isn’t until September, but I expect the Senate to pass it sooner rather than later.”

Approximately 200,000 Jewish people live in Queens,

according to a 2011 United Jewish Appeal study.

And in a statement issued Monday, Rozic said having a primary during Rosh Hashanah, which would prevent a sizable portion of that population from voting, is simply a nonstarter.

“Our democracy is strong and successful when all citizens have a voice and a vote,” Rozic said. “The unfortunate scheduling of Primary Day on a Jewish High Holiday forces a large constituency to choose between their religious observance and their constitutional right to vote.”

Also in a Monday statement, Pheffer Amato said primary day falling on the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks is also a good reason to delay the election by 48 hours.

“Sept. 11 is a significant day of remembrance and memorial for many New Yorkers and also coincides with the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah,” she said. “Accommodations for religious obser vances such as this should be a no-brainer.”

Weprin added that the Assembly would have passed a bill moving the primary simply because of the Sept. 11 anniversary regardless of any religious implications.

“Even if it wasn’t Rosh Hashanah, we would have passed a bill,” he said. “The fact that it’s a major Jewish holiday makes it even more important.”

In a Jan. 26 letter to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R-Suffolk), Public Advocate Letitia James pitched a “permanent fix,” as opposed to what the Legislature is moving toward passing. continued on page 30

A St. Albans man was charged with second-degree murder on Friday for the Jan. 28 shooting that killed one person and injured three others in South Ozone Park.

Pharoah Ferguson, 44, of 197th Street also was charged with single counts of second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault and four counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, according to a statement issued by the office of Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

He faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted on the most serious charges.

Sherwood Beverly Jr., 51, and three others were seated in an SUV near the intersection of North Conduit Avenue and 135th Street before 5:45 a.m. when Ferguson and another unidentified person allegedly approached the vehicle and began shooting.

Beverly, who was a passenger in the front seat, was struck in the head and neck and killed. The driver, 50, was hit twice in the neck while another person, also 50, was grazed by a bullet. A fourth person was cut by flying glass.

Brown’s office said detectives from the NYPD’s 106th Precinct arrested FerQ guson in Jamaica on Feb. 1.

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Cops seek home invaders Police are asking for help in identifying two men who broke into a South Richmond Hill home on Feb. 3 at noon and tied up two men, but stole nothing. The men, seen here on surveillance video, broke into a home near 123rd Street and Liberty Avenue.

They tied up the two men, a 29-year-old and 56-year-old, but did not take any of the victims’ possessions with them when they fled.

According to published reports, a 27-yearold woman in the home was scared into labor

— both she and the baby are listed in stable condition.

Both perpetrators are described as black men, one heavy set and one slim.

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Community Board 9 will vote at its meeting Tuesday on a proposal to coname the northeast corner of Jamaica Avenue and Forest Parkway “Maria Thomson Way,” in honor of the late Woodhaven civic leader.

Thomson, the longtime leader of the Greater Woodhaven Development Corp. and Woodhaven Business Improvement District, died Jan. 10 after suffering a massive stroke. She was also a longtime member of CB 9 and had been a part of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association and 102nd Precinct Community Council.

The board’s meeting will start at 7:45 p.m. and will take place at Queens Borough Hall, located at 120-55 Queens Blvd. in Kew Gardens, in room 200.

Thomson became involved with the GWDC and WBID to keep the avenue lively and help mom-and-pop shops stay in business along the corridor. She also organized the annual “Wonderful Woodhaven Street Festival” on Jamaica Avenue, and wrote a twice-monthly column, “Wood haven Developments,” that Q appeared in the Queens Chronicle — Anthony O’Reilly

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Some boro Koreans concerned by Games Bayside man warns of ‘Pyongyang Propaganda’ in poster for Olympics

by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

Many observers have lauded the way that South Korea and North Korea are working together for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. The two countries have formed a single woman’s hockey team, and are marching under a single flag for the peninsula that they share at the games’ opening ceremony.

But Ted Han, a Bayside resident from Seoul who served in the South Korean navy, does not think that his home nation should be so friendly to the totalitarian northern state.

And he’s not the only one.

An advertisement Han paid for at a bus shelter at Northern and Parsons boulevards in Flushing shows a single flag — the South Korea one.

“Pyeongchang is NOT Pyongyang, North Korea,” says the poster. “Don’t be fooled by Pyongyang Propaganda.”

The design also has a Trojan horse that has a North Korean flag on it and says it is owned by the country’s dictator, Kim Jong-un.

Han, whose Korean first name is Tai-Kyuk, told the Chronicle that the horse does not represent the threat of a military assault.

“They do not attack physically,” he said. “However, they try to brainwash.”

Media reports say a news website that specializes in North Korea has found that propaganda fliers from the communist state have appeared in the mountains of the southern country, near its capital.

Han told the Chronicle that he thinks the way that Seoul is acting toward Pyongyang with the Olympics could result in South Korea and the United States being “driven apart.”

America is closely allied with South Korea. Since the Korean War in the 1950s, started by the North invading the South and

ending in stalemate, the U.S. has had an extremely hostile relationship with Pyongyang.

None of the North Korean woman’s ice hockey players, Han pointed out, were qualified to attend the Olympics.

“If they are not qualified, they should not attend the main games,” Han said in an email. “Sports should NOT be Politics!!!!!”

The Bayside resident said that he’s encouraged by Vice President Mike Pence’s plan to be at the Olympics, though.

“He will send a strong message to North Korea,” said Han, who believes that South Korean President Moon Jae-In is a “leftist” not acting in his country’s best interests.

Han’s views on the Winter Olympics are shared by others in this borough’s Korean diaspora.

Woodside resident Ellen Kang, the founder of Korean American Defenders of Freedom, told the Chronicle that she thinks the games should be “boycotted” by the “entire world.”

Kang calls North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a “gangster,” pointing to his regime’s abysmal human rights record and how it handled Otto Warmbier, an American college student who fell into a coma in North Korea after being arrested and sentenced to hard labor for stealing a propaganda poster. He ultimately died after being sent back to the U.S. Along with others from the Korean community, Kang protested Wambier’s treatment in Flushing last year. And though she may be deeply opposed to the North, she isn’t the biggest fan of her former country’s head of state.

“Now the president of South Korea, Moon Jae-In, is a servant of Pyongyang,” the Woodside resident said.

“I don’t want the U.S. to lose the Republic of Korea,” she continued on page 25

A poster at a bus shelter in Flushing, put up there by Bayside resident Ted Han, urges people not to be deceived by propaganda from North Korea. Some Koreans in Queens aren’t exactly thrilled by how the country and its southern counterpart are collaborating for the PHOTO BY TED HAN 2018 Winter Olympics.

LGBT Network opens new center in LI City Social, health and networking services under one roof on Northern Boulevard

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David Kilmnick, CEO of the LGBT Network, speaks of his hopes and the community’s need for the new Queens LGBT Center that had its official ribbon cutting on Feb. 1 in Long Island City. Among the crowd in attendance were Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato, left, Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, Assemblyman Brian Barnwell, state Sen. Mike Gianaris, Public Advocate Letitia PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON James, U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley and Borough President Melinda Katz.

Numerous elected officials and Queens dignitaries were on hand on Feb. 1 as the LGBT Network opened its new Center in Long Island City.

The Northern Boulevard office is designed to offer support, social, legal and medical assistance for members of the LGBT community. And for Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside), the ribbon cutting was very personal.

“I remember missing a lot of school days,” he said. “I didn’t want to go to Bryant High School. I’d go and stay on the roof of my apartment building ... I was afraid if I spoke, people would hear my voice and know I was gay.”

He and others said the center will provide necessary services that often are scarce in the community.

Far Rockaway native David Kilmnick founded the LGBT Network 25 years ago in connection with his master’s thesis and now is the group’s CEO. The organization started with a center in the Hamptons and has over time expanded west across Long Island, adding centers in Bay Shore and Woodbury.

“Our motto is ‘Be yourself. Stay healthy.

Change the world.’ And, boy, does this world need changing,” Kilmnick said.

He said the Queens LGBT Center, located

at 37-18 Northern Blvd., helps with all three goals. It offers services and counseling for youth and teens who are struggling with their sexual identity, and in some cases with their parents. The center also has a jobs board for those seeking employment or a change of jobs.

And it has programs in schools and ones that engage churches.

The group also sponsors health and social programs for seniors; the latter, Kilmnick said, is essential to helping combat loneliness that is a problem with many seniors.

He said when their first grants for the LIC site clear in March, it also will offer screening for HIV/AIDS and STDs. When fully funded the center will have six full- and three part-time staffers, and will be open from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

“All of these services are vital to the LGBT community in Queens,” said Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights), who is openly gay.

Other Queens attendees included Congressman Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx); city Public Advocate Letitia James; Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Far Rockaway); Borough President Melinda Katz; Assemblyman Brian Barnwell (D-Maspeth); and state Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria).

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continued from page 24 added, echoing Han’s fear about the North and South coming together for the Olympics.

It would be best, Kang said, if President Trump were to “drop a bomb” on the North Korean leader at one of his palaces.

Throughout Trump’s first term, he has exchanged harsh words with Kim Jong-un, often making headlines by doing so. The commander-in-chief has referred to the dictator as “Little Rocket Man” and mocked him numerous times.

Given that both the United States and North Korea have nuclear weapons, many have urged the two heads of state to deescalate when it comes to bellicose rhetoric.

“We are all observing very carefully,” Korean American Parents Association of Greater New York Co-president Christine Colligan said of the Olympics and its political situation.

She immigrated from Seoul to the United States in the 1980s. And when it comes to the single Korean Peninsula flag being used in the Olympics, Colligan doesn’t approve.

“I think we should have different flags,” the Whitestone resident said. “That’s my personal opinion.”

Many in Queens’ Korean community may have problems with how the two countries are collaborating for the Olympics.

But Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Flushing),

continued from page 24 O’Donnell (D-Manhattan), who wrote the first bill for marriage equality New York State — it eventually passed in 2011 — and former City Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr. of Astoria, who O’Donnell said was an early ally in the LGBT rights struggle at a time when they could be very few and very difficult to find.

“The first person I went to for support in the Assembly was Mike Gianar is,” O’Donnell said. He then found that the Queens delegation was the first to give the bill full support.

Kilmnick said even today, not everyone is so supportive.

“Last year, hate crimes against LGBT people were up 20 percent [nationally], and 30 percent in New York City,” he told the crowd of more than 100. Speaking afterward, Kilmnick said he does not believe that a significant portion of the increase is due to more people feeling comfortable about reporting such crimes than in he past. He blames a great deal of it on the political climate under the ascendency of President Trump, going all the way back to his days in the campaign.

“I think he has emboldened people to act on his rhetoric and his tweets,” Kilmnick said. He added that his group counsels crime victims to try and follow through, right from filing police reports to sticking with their cases through prosecution when necessary.

Kilmnick said in this day and age, police

and prosecutors generally are professionals interested in doing their jobs and helping people simply because they are crime victims. But he did say domestic abuse is as much if not more of a problem in the LGBT community, because of some remaining impressions of what domestic violence typically looks like.

“If police see two men, they may just think it’s two guys fighting; two women, they may think it’s just a catfight. Officers may not realize that there’s an actual relationship.”

“This center is needed in Queens,” said Pheffer Amato, who has been friends with Kilmnick since they attended high school together in the Rockaways.

Van Bramer also has ties to the assemblywoman, whose mother, Audrey Pheffer, is the Queens county clerk — she performed the ceremony when Van Bramer and his husband were married.

He reflected again on those days of his youth when he went to the roof because he did not have an LGBT center that he could turn to.

“It was a time when I was afraid to be myself; when I could not hope to get married; could not run for the City Council and win,” he said. “I know there is someone at Bryant High School today struggling with their sexuality or sexual identity. ... And today, I don’t give a s--- who Q knows I’m gay.”

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who was born in South Korea and raised in the U.S., is very happy with it.

“I think it sends a tremendous message to the rest of the world, that both countries are trying their best to put the best foot forward in resolving this long conflict diplomatically,” said the assemblyman.

Among the older generation of Koreans in the borough, he pointed out, there’s less approval of how the two countries are working together for the games.

“The older, first generation of Korean Americans still have very negative feelings toward the North Korean country and they don’t want any association with them,” Kim said. The younger generation, he said, is happier about what could be a piecemeal step towards reunification.

Flushing resident Sok Kang, who fought for the South in the Korean War, has a very different view of the situation than Kim. Nonetheless, he agrees that differences in opinion seem to mirror ones in age.

“The youngsters, they don’t know,” said Kang, who attributes the North-and-South collaboration to Moon being politically left-wing. “[Moon’s] following Kim Jong-un,” said Kang, adding that the North Korean leader should be killed.

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giving St. John’s a 77-73 lead with just 30 seconds left and effectively sealing the incredible upset.

That shot by Ponds, with a defender draped all over him, will not only go down as a careerdefining shot for him and one of the most memorable in recent program history, it also temporarily washed away the pain of a lost season.

For those few hours on Saturday, the Johnnies were who we all expected them to be this year. A team with enough talent to match their grit, toughness and heart.

“To turn it around against one of the storied programs in college basketball is great,” head coach Chris Mullin said after the game. “It was more important for our players to get that taste back in their mouths.”

Upsetting a top-five team at MSG is great.

Having Duke be that top-five team is even greater. But damn it, the best thing about Saturday, to me, is the college basketball world finally realized what we St. John’s fans have seen for two years: Shamorie Ponds can flat out ball.

Against arguably the best team in America, the Brooklyn product dominated them to the

against the high-powered Blue Devils, a popular preseason pick to win the national title, I don’t think the sell-out crowd at MSG would have been shocked.

But nope, the opposite happened.

Led by — who else? — star sophomore Shamorie Ponds, the Johnnies blitzed Duke out of the locker room with a 12-2 run on offense and stifling defense, extending their lead to as many as 11 points with 8:37 to go in the game.

But Duke guard Trevon Duval, one of the best shooters in the country, exposed the Red Storm’s undeniably poor perimeter defense, as he knocked down jumper after jumper to cut St. John’s lead to just 74-73 with one minute left.

Duke fans travel well, and they represented about 65 percent of the sold-out crowd. If you closed your eyes, you would have thought the game was being played at the North Carolina school’s famed Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The Johnnies didn’t fold though, and neither did their faithful fans in attendance.

The Garden got as loud as I think I’ve ever heard it when Ponds rose up and buried a ridiculous three-pointer as the shot clock expired,

tune of 33 points and seven rebounds, including that crazy clutch triple. That’s after he hung 31 on Xavier on Jan. 30, 33 in a near triple-double against Georgetown on Jan. 20 and a careerhigh 37 against Villanova a week earlier.

So look who’s finally getting some national attention!

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This New England Patriots fan is still trying to wipe Sunday from my mind forever. It never happened, as far as I’m concerned, and that’s all you’re going to hear from me about it.

But even if I wasn’t the most diehard Patriots fan anyone will ever meet, I still might say the game Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Garden was the most thrilling sporting event of the weekend.

In what could be described as the most St. John’s thing that could possibly happen, the 10-13 Red Storm ended their 11-game losing streak by knocking off the fourth-ranked Duke Blue Devils 81-77.

Yeah, that happened.

The Johnnies have fallen well short of expectations this season, to put it lightly. They should have been an NCAA Tournament team. And the 11-game losing skid to start conference play has ended any hope of making a postseason run, barring a miraculous Big East Tournament championship.

But the Red Storm have lost 8 of their 11 Big East games by single digits, and they’ve taken top-10 teams like Xavier and top-ranked Villanova, Wednesday night’s scheduled opponent, to the wire.

And on Saturday, they were able to break through in stunning fashion.

The Johnnies came out of the locker room and proverbially punched Duke right in the mouth, as they buried six of their first eight shots and maintained a lead over the stunned Blue Devils for most of the first half.

But basketball is a game of runs, and Duke made theirs before the break, taking a 39-32 lead into the half.

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Moses Brown named to All-American squad Hollis native, Archbishop Molloy star looks to cap off his career in style

by Christopher Barca

“I think we are about to make a major step forward,” he added. “I get a sense that they’re realizing that it’s time to get to business.” o one has more reasons to smile Brown feels the same way. When asked if than Archbishop Molloy High he thinks this year’s Stanners can avenge their School basketball star Moses 2017 city title game loss, the center said they Brown. But unlike thunderous dunks and will do much more than that. emphatic blocks, smiling is just not in his “We’re going to be good. We’ll be all vast arsenal of moves. right,” he said. “We’re going to win the state “He doesn’t do it,” his father, Malcolm, championship this year.” joked. “I don’t know why.”

It would be quite the storybook ending to High school hoopers across the country one of the best careers in Molloy history, but dream of being as talented as the Hollis reshigh school success means nothing at the next ident, a 7-foot, 2-inch center who seems level. even taller in person.

And playing in the Pac-12 conference next Over the last two seasons, Brown has skyseason represents a huge step up in weight rocketed toward the top of the charts when it class from the CHSAA. Unlike other confercomes to America’s best high schoolers. As of last month, when he announced he would Archbishop Molloy High School head basketball coach Mike McCleary sings the praises of his ences, the guard-dominated league is known be playing his college ball at UCLA, he was star center, senior Moses Brown, at a ceremony last Thursday honoring the teenager for his for its fast-paced play.

But the gigantic center said not only will he ranked by ESPN as the second-best center selection to the prestigious McDonald’s All-American team.

PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA “definitely” fit in better than one would think, and 18th-best player in his class.

And last Thursday, he was feted at his Briarwood school When you put a little determination in there, you get a McDon- he said he couldn’t dream of a better program to refine his game in than UCLA’s.

by McDonald’s, as Brown was named to the fast-food ald’s All-American.”

“I’ve always liked UCLA. I used to read about John In just a few years time, Brown earned a reputation as arguchain’s prestigious, 24-man All-America team — arguably ably the best recruit in a city normally dominated by talented Wooden a lot,” he said of the late legend viewed by many as the highest honor a high school basketball player can earn. the greatest coach in American sports history. “When I went More than 100 of his classmates turned out for the ceremo- guards.

Last season, he led Molloy to the Catholic High School on a visit and saw how nice the campus was, how hard the ny in the cafeteria, with dozens of them angling behind the Athletic Association championship game, where the Stanners team works and how they consider each other as brothers, news cameras to snap a photo of him with their cell phones. that’s what I look for in a team.” lost in a 64-62 upset to rival Cardinal Hayes.

So why doesn’t he smile?

State championshop or not, Brown will be leaving Molloy This year, injuries and inconsistent play have resulted in a The shy, soft-spoken star actually does, more than one would think. But he has to be in a basketball mood, whether roller coaster season for the Stanners, who sat in second place in the spring.

And while he will leave a void on the roster in more ways in the Brooklyn-Queens “AA” division with an 11-8 record as on the court or in conversation. than one, both player and coach firmly believe representaThe brief ceremony in his honor came and went without of last Friday — 3.5 games behind leader Christ the King.

But Brown has put together another remarkable year, as tives from McDonald’s will be right back in the Briarwood so much as a grin. But after just one look at the McDonald’s banner behind him — featuring the likenesses of former he leads the league in scoring with 23 points per game to go school’s cafeteria in one year.

Despite being just a junior, the athletic Anthony is second All-Americans turned NBA stars like Kevin Durant, Kyrie along with 11 rebounds per contest.

That stellar performance led him to last Thursday, as he in the CHSAA in scoring with 22 points per game.

Irving, Blake Griffin and Anthony Davis — he couldn’t The son of former NBA star Greg Anthony is the topbecame the first McDonald’s All-American selection from Molhelp but crack a huge smile.

“I’ve grown up watching these guys play in this game. loy — a school that has produced numerous successful college ranked guard in next year’s class and has garnered scholarship offers from every major college program under the sun, Now I finally get a chance to play in it,” Brown said of the and professional players — since Kenny Anderson in 1989.

Despite all the distractions, specifically his intense col- including UCLA. March 28 contest in Atlanta, which pits 12 players from the “He’s going to be right here,” Brown said, when asked if East against 12 from the West. “It came from a lot of hard lege recruitment and the tremendous media interest in it, the work, dedication and a great supporting staff. I just want to go center said he’s been able to compartmentalize everything his teammate is going to be a 2019 All-American. “Same spot.” as best he can. out there on the court, have a good experience and dominate.”

But last Thursday was Brown’s day. And right in the “This is what comes with it. I prepared myself for it,” Entering his freshman season at Molloy, Brown — standing 6 feet, 8 inches tall at the time — was seen as a good Brown said of being a star recruit. “I just have to continue crowd of students was a grinning Anthony, pretended to freak out over his friend as if he were Michael Jordan. player with upside, but maybe not someone who would doing what I’m doing.”

“Moses Brown!” Anthony shouted with a grin, his camBut all of that nearly didn’t happen, as there was a worry develop into an elite recruit.

But after he quickly in the program that Brown might leave Molloy to attend one era phone held high in the air. “I love you!”

Q All Moses could do was smile back. grew six inches and put of the Northeast’s handful of basketball-focused prep on 100 pounds, Molloy schools that many a recruit have opted for over the years.

After his sophomore season, some, including McCleary, head coach Mike McCleary said Brown, worried he would take that route.

But to the coach’s relief, the teenager promised he who joined the varsity team as a sophomore, would remain loyal to Molloy and his teammates, espeblossomed more than he cially heralded junior guard, likely 2019 All-American and close friend Cole Anthony. could have ever hoped.

“Him staying was a big deal. Everyone was trying to get him, “I k new he wa s goi n g t o b e go o d but he was loyal to us,” McCleary said of Brown. “He knows because he has such that people here love him and we want to take care of him.”

Fast forward to this year, he added, and the Stanners have had high hips. I like to say he has his ass between attitude issues — in addition to being bitten by the injury bug.

However, the coach said he sees signs that his team is his shoulder blades,” McClea r y told t he ready to turn the corner and play their best basketball with Chronicle. “But the the playoffs fast approaching.

“Frankly, it’s difficult. A lot of cameras around. And I two skills he had was he ran well and he think our team was reading their press clippings more than The shy, soft-spoken Brown thanks catches ever y thing. they were playing,” McCleary said. “We have a tendency to get lost in the nonsense instead of getting down to business. his fellow students for attending the He has great hands.

“Those skills, you But there’s talent on this team and when we’re focused, Fellow Molloy star Cole Anthony, left, is a major reason why ceremony inside the Briarwood high have to have them. we’re pretty good.

Brown remained at the school instead of transferring. school’s cafeteria.

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Menzo Tucker nominated for Junior Knicks Coach of the Year Award

by Anthony O’Reilly

“I still haven’t found out yet who nominated me,” Tucker said. “I’m floored ... I thought it was a joke. I Ozone Park resident Menzo Tucker remembers told the person, ‘Come on, stop joking with me.’”

The winner of the contest will be announced Feb. playing in leagues and in the park as a child.

But when it came time to try out for his school’s 14, when the Knicks host the Washington Wizards team, he was overlooked in favor of players the at Madison Square Garden. That coach will be entered into the Junior NBA Coach of the Year concoach had recruited.

The experience, Tucker said, only made him play test, and the top three finalists of that competition will be awarded a $2,500 harder. grant to support their local “I played one of those guys youth basketball organizaso tough ... that the coach ou work with them and tion and an all-expense paid realized, wow I missed this t r ip to the Junior NBA one,” he said. you show them love and Leadership Conference, Tucker has used the experience to motivate himself in understanding and push where the national winner will be announced. helpi ng other you ngsters them ... and it brings out Tucker said winning the looking to play the game. contest would be, “a high“It just made me work the best in them.” light of my life. harder to help kids not miss “It would be unreal,” he it,” he said. “That’s when I — Menzo Tucker said. “A lot of times, you’re fell in love with the sport not looking for any awards itself, just helping people. It in what you do because of the passion you have — was a beautiful thing.”

Tucker’s coaching at Nativity of the Blessed Vir- you just do it.”

His coaching philosophy is that anyone who can gin Mary and the Queens Pythons — an Amateur Athletic Union team in the borough — touched the pick up a basketball can play the game — with a litparent of one of his players so much they nominated tle help.

“You work with them and you show them love him for the Junior Knicks Coach of the Year Award.

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Sports betting in New York? continued from page 2 “We have studied these issues at length,” said Dan Spillane, the NBA’s senior vice president and assistant general counsel of league governance and policy. “Our conclusion is that the time has come for a different approach that gives sports fans a safe and legal way to wager on sporting events while protecting the integrity of the underlying competitions.”

Protecting the “integrity of sports” will be one of Albany’s top priorities, according to Addabbo.

“We want to make sure we don’t have another Pete Rose,” he said, referring to the former Cincinnati Reds star and manager who was banned from baseball because he gambled on games he was involved in.

“We want to make sure we don’t ruin a good thing in the MLB, NBA or any other sport,” Addabbo continued.

The senator added state officials have consulted the leagues, companies and entities in parts of Europe — where sports betting is legal — to discuss those matters.

The American Gaming Association, which is against the ban, recommended New York study how Nevada and the United Kingdom addressed sports integrity.

“We also recommend the creation of a national betting data repository that facilitates robust information sharing among stakeholders,” the AGA said in a statement provided to the Wagering Committee.

The association estimates more than $150 billion in illegal wagers are made in the United States every year.

“This momentum has unified a broad coalition of supporters around the goal of ending the scourge of illegal sports betting,” the AGA said. “This coalition has brought the gaming industry together with a wide range of law enforcement groups, consumer groups, policy groups and states’ attorneys general.”

But the New York Council on Problem Gaming worries legalizing sports betting may negat ively i mpact t he gener al population.

“Legalization of sports betting will be particularly risky for young people who are not already gambling, and who will see the legality and ease of access as an invitation to start,” James Maney, executive director of the NYCPG told the state Senate committee. “With brains that are not fully developed for good judgement and early onset of risky behaviors, including gambling, we know there is a link of increased problems later in life.”

The group asks that funding be set aside for gambling prevention and treatment programs — something Addabbo said is already under consideration.

“We will work toward doing as much as we can in terms of allocating funding to make sure people are taken care of,” the Q senator said.

Ten on Council net perfect NYLCV scores

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The scores were tabulated based on members’ support of and votes on 11 separate bills to come before them last year.

They included measures addressing indoor air quality; changes to traffic lights that would give priority to MTA buses; a citywide urban agriculture program; regulations to phase out the use of no. 4 home heating oil; lead testing centers for children; increased Hurricane Sandy recovery oversight and others.

Scores of 100 were given to Paul Vallone (D-Bayside); Peter Koo (D-Flushing); Environ mental Protection Com mit tee Chairman Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria); Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights); Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside), Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills); Donovan Richa rd s ( D -L au r elt o n) ; Ro r y L a nc m a n (D-Fresh Meadows) and former Councilmembers Elizabeth Crowley and Julissa Ferreras-Copeland.

Richards, Crowley, Van Bramer and Constantinides have had perfect scores since 2015.

Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) had the lowest 2017 score in the delegation with 54. In between, Councilman Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) registered an 80, while Barry Grodenchik (D-Oakland Gardens) came in at 62.

The full eight-page scorecard, which includes all members of the Council and details about NYLCV-backed bills, is available online at nylcv.org/wp-content/ uploads /2018 / 02 /2018- Cou ncil-Scorecard-2.5.18.pdf.

NYLCV President Marcia Bystryn, in a statement issued Tuesday, gave much credit to former Council Speaker Melissa MarkViverito for what she said has been two

very good years for the environment in the City Council.

“Of the twelve bills on the 2016 scorecard, ten are now law,” Bystryn said. “The legislation on this scorecard is on track to enjoy a similar level of success.”

She also believes the new speaker, Councilman Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan), will prove a good choice.

“Over the years he has been an effective advocate in the f ight against climate change and in protecting the health of our most vulnerable,” Bystryn said. “In particular, we appreciate his efforts as the lead sponsor on legislation to require the Department of Mental Health and Hygiene to conduct an annual community air quality survey, an important tool in identifying the sources of air pollution — such as building emissions or truck traffic — part i c u l a r l y i n e nv i r o n m e n t a l j u s t i c e communities.”

She said Johnson has earned scorecard ratings of 100 on his City Council Scorecard in each year of his first term, and that the NYLCV endorsed him for re-election last November.

Other details included in the report are that Grodenchik rose from a rating of 40 a year ago, while Lancman’s perfect score came after receiving a grade of 80 in 2016.

Councilman Daneek Miller last year rose to a score of 80, up from 60 in 2016.

No grade was given to Ruben Wills, who was automatically expelled from the Council last July following his conviction on corruption charges in federal court. Wills’ name, in fact, has been replaced with the word “Vacant.”

Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica) was elected in November to fill the seat in the 28th Council District.

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“I call upon you to pass legislation to automatically permit the Board of Elections to set an election within 14 days of any scheduled date that conflicts with a major religious holiday,” James said.

“The election date should be established to maximize voter participation.”

That way, according to the public advocate, the state Legislature wouldn’t have to pass bills every time an election coincides with a holy day.

Weprin said he couldn’t agree more with James.

“I do like her approach and I’m actually going to be introducing that bill because we should be sensitive, especially in New York City and Queens, to our diverse ethnic and religious groups,” he said, citing other holidays like Diwali, Lunar New Year and Eid-al-Fitr. “Hopefully we’ll get some discussion on it in the near future.”

In a Tuesday inter view with the Chronicle, Rosenthal called the public advocate’s idea “interesting,” but said there have been no issues with the legislative process thus far that would require a new approach.

“Everyhing is moving along smoothly,” Q he said. “There shouldn’t be bumps.”

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618-6170, ww 8) (71 +1 The book, produced by Emons Publishers, includes i 11432, Mon – Fr Jamaica, NY cher | Hours ica Avenue, P ons / Ar i Center for everything from sightseeing favorites such as the Archie Bunker House and LaGuardia Landing Lights park, along with spots such as Lhasa Fast Food — top-tier Tibetan cuisine located in the back of a cell phone store — and the site in Kew Gardens where Kitty Genovese was murdered.

One of the newer sites in the book is the Knockdown Center. Since its opening in 2013, the Knockdown Center has served as a cutting-edge creative space for events such as concerts and art exhibitions. While members of the surrounding community initially opposed its opening, it’s now become a highly regarded fixture in Maspeth. The space has featured various artists, including such guests as rapper Cardi B and multidisciplinary artist and LGBT icon Juliana Huxtable. It also holds foodbased events, such as Maspeth’s Annual Beer Festival.

A notable feature of the center is its industrial-style bar, The Ready Room, whose decor DiStefano notes pays homage to the building’s past as the Manhattan Door factory. The Knockdown Center’s calendar of events can be found on its website, while The Ready Room is open for business during events Thursday through Sunday.

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“Waging Peace: 100 Years of Action,” a showcase of stories by those who have fought injustice, with historical artifacts, a print of the Rev. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and interactive media, organized by the American Friends Service Committee. Thru Sat., March 17, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 997-4747, gtmuseum.org.

The Campbell Brothers, performing in the AfricanAmerican rock-gospel genre called sacred steel.

Fri., Feb. 9, 8 p.m. (7 p.m. interactive workshop on sacred steel music), Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $16; $10 students; free teens 13-19.

Info/RSVP: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

An Afternoon of Romantic Opera and Song, with Metropolitan Opera tenor Clay Hilley, soprano Melissa Citro and Musica Reginae pianist Barbara Podgurski and guest artists performing works by Puccini, Verdi, Wagner and more. Sat., Feb. 10, 2 p.m., The Church-in-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills. $20; $10 students. Info: (718) 8942178, musicareginae.org.

“The Sculpture of Gonzalo Fonseca,” with roughly 80 works, most in stone, with some drawings and sketches, by the major figure in developing modern Latin American art. Thru Sun., March 11 (public discussion of his work “Tebaida” Sun., Feb. 11, 3:30-4:30 p.m.), Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City. $10; $5 seniors, students; NYC HS students, kids under 12 free. Info: (718) 204-7088, noguchi.org.

“Exposure,” with works by more than 20 photographers in a multitude of styles. Thru Fri., Feb. 16, LIC Arts Open Gallery, The Factory LIC, 30-30 47 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 392-0722, tessa@licartsopen.org.

“Never Built New York,” with images and models of infrastructure projects that did not come to pass, including apartments enveloping a bridge and a dome over much of Manhattan. Through Sun., Feb. 18, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $8 suggested; $4 seniors; free students, children. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

“Patty Chang: The Wandering Lake, 2009-2017,” a multimedia meditation on mourning, caregiving, geopolitics and landscape, partly inspired by Sven Hedin’s 1938 book “Wandering Lake,” about a migrating body of water in China. Thru Sun., Feb. 18, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $8 suggested; $4 seniors; free students, children.

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

The Campbell Brothers will bring the “growling, wailing, shouting, singing and swinging voice of the steel guitar,” along with all the rest of the sacred steel music style, born of black churches, to Flushing Town Hall Friday. See Music.

COURTESY PHOTO “Cathy Wilkes,” with roughly 50 works by the artist in various media, connecting the banalities of daily life to larger archetypes of birth, marriage, child-rearing and death. Thru Sun., March 11, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. $10; $5 students, seniors; free under 16. Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org.

“Carolee Schneeman: Kinetic Painting,” with various works by the pioneering avant-garde artist tracing her development from the 1950s to the 2000s. Thru Sun., March 11, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. $10; $5 students, seniors; free under 16. Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org.

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“Science Inspires Art: Ocean,” with works depicting the seas, many with an ecological focus.

Thru Sun., Feb. 25, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, college students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

The Game: The Game, a dating simulation video game that flips the script on the world of pickup artists, pitting players against several seduction coaches, with situations based on artist Angela Washko’s research into the PUA community. Thru Sun., March 25, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. Free with museum admission: $15; $11 seniors, students; $7 kids 3-17. Info: (718) 7776888, movingimage.us.

“World Amigurumi Exhibition vol. 4: Dolls for Daily Life!,” taking the Japanese art of crocheting dolls, stuffed animals and other creatures in a new direction, with items that can be used as everyday objects, by artists from all over the world.

Thru Sat., March 31, Resobox, 41-26 27 St., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 784-3680, resobox.com.

Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside. $40; $45 at door; $37 students, seniors; $42 at door. Info: (718) 7293880, thaliatheatre.org.

“Dutchman,” Amiri Baraka’s political allegory focused on a black man and white woman who meet on the subway. Thu.-Sat., Feb. 8-10, 7 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 11, 2 p.m., The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $20 advance; $25 at door.

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

“Gypsy,” the musical based on the memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, focusing on her mother, Rose, known as the ultimate show biz mother. Thu., Feb. 15-Sat., March 3, each day but Mon. and Tue., varying times, The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $18. Info: (718) 3920722, secrettheatre.com.

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“Henry Box Brown — A Musical Journey,” about a slave who escaped by shipping himself in a crate to abolitionists, with gospel, bluegrass, spirituals and more, by the Children’s Theater Co. Sat., Feb. 10, 2 p.m., Jamaica Performing Arts Center, 153-10 Jamaica Ave. $10; $5 kids. Info: (718) 658-7400, jcal.org.

COURTESY PHOTO “Queens of the Night” (“Reinas de la Noche”), an LGBTQ musical cabaret story about resilience, love and inclusion. Each Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; each Sun., 4 p.m., thru Feb. 25, Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17

Take Root, with performances of works by De Funes Dance & MElder Movement Art, part of a monthly series. Fri.-Sat., Feb. 9-10, 8 p.m. $15 advance; $20 cash at door; $22 credit card. Fertile Ground, featuring multiple dance troupes and a post-performance discussion with wine, moderated by Valerie Green. Feb. 11, 7 p.m. $13 advance; $13 cash at door; $15 credit card. Both at Green Space, 37-24 24 St., Long Island City.

Info: (718) 956-3037, greenspacestudio.org.

AUDITIONS Belle’s Players, the Kew Gardens Community Center theater group, seeks new members. Each Tue., 1-3 p.m., 80-02 Kew Gardens Road. Info: (718) 268-5960.

Swinging with the Sweethearts, with America’s Sweethearts performing World War II-era, Andrews Sisters-style songs and Swing Dance Astoria teaching the moves to dance to them. Mon., Feb. 12, 7:15-8 p.m. (dance lessons); 8:30-10 p.m. (show), QED, 27-16 23 Road, Astoria. $10 show; $17 show and class. Info: (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com.

Achinoam Nini, the international singer-songwriter and Israeli icon known as Noa; the first Jewish singer to perform at the Vatican. Sun., Feb. 11, 3 p.m., Free Synagogue of Flushing, 136-23 Sanford Ave. $36-$125. Info: (718) 961-0030, freesynagogueflushing.org.

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FILM “Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to China,” the 2014 documentary about three successful black siblings searching for their long-lost Chinese grandfather in a true tale of familial love and devotion.

Fri., Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m., Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161-04 Jamaica Ave. Free (donations welcome). Info: (718) 658-7400, jcal.org.

“The Joy Luck Club,” the 1993 saga about the relationships between four Chinese women in San Francisco and their Chinese-American daughters.

Sun., Feb. 11, 2 p.m., Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, 34-41 137 St., Flushing. Free. Info/RSVP (req’d): (718) 961-8585, latimernow.org.

“The Central Park Five,” the 2012 documentary about the 1989 rape and assault of a woman in the park and the men wrongly convicted of the crime, presented by The Afrikan Poetry Theatre.

Sat., Feb. 10, 3 and 6:30 p.m. (6:30 screening with live appearance by Yusef Salaam, one of the five), Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $10; $7 seniors, students; includes museum admission. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us. continued on page 36

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Chocolate and Valentine’s Day go together like peanut butter and jelly.

Your first instinct might be to rush down to the store and buy one of those prepackaged heart-shaped boxes for your sweetheart. Those are good, but if you really want to impress your special someone, try one or more of these three chocolatey recipes.

Chocolate-Raspberry Cake Ingredients: • 12 oz. bag of frozen raspberries • 18.25 oz. box of chocolate cake mix • 1-1/2 cups of semisweet chocolate chips • 1/2 cup vegetable oil • 3 large, lightly beaten eggs • 1/2 cup of powdered sugar • 1 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder • 2 sticks of unsalted butter • 1/2 cup of cream cheese • 1/3 cup of sour cream, at room temperature • fresh raspberries for garnish Instructions: • Blend raspberries until smooth. Remove 1/4 of a cup of the puree and set aside.

• Put the chocolate chips in a small bowl and mix with a tablespoon of the cake mix.

This will prevent the chips from falling to the bottom of the cake.

• In a large bowl, combine the remaining cake mix, one cup of the raspberry puree, vegetable oil, eggs and 1/4 cup of water.

Mix by hand or with an electric mixer until smooth, then fold in your chocolate chips.

• Divide the batter between two greased cake pans and put into a preheated, 325 degree oven. Cook for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a toothpick placed into the center of the cakes comes out clean.

• Allow to cool completely.

• Meanwhile, combine the powdered sugar, cocoa powder, butter, cream cheese and sour cream into a stand mixer or bowl.

Beat until light and fluffy.

• In a small bowl, combine 3/4 cup of the frosting with the reserved 1/4 cup of raspberry puree.

• Place the cake on a stand, flat side up, and spread the raspberry puree-chocolate frosting mixture over it, leaving a 1/2-inch border at the end. Place the other cake on top. Frost the cake and decorate with fresh raspberries or chocolate curls.

Easy Vegan Brownies Ingredients: • 1 tbsp. of ground flaxseed • 15 oz. can of rinsed black beans • 1 large ripe avocado • 1 tbsp. of vanilla extract • 1/2 cup of brown sugar • 2/3 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder • 1 tsp. of coconut oil • 1/4 tsp. of baking soda • 1/4 tsp. of baking powder • 1/3 cup of dairy-free chocolate chips Instructions: • Mix your ground flaxseed with two and a half tablespoons of water until smooth and let it sit for five minutes to thicken. This is your egg substitute.

• Add the flax egg, black beans, avocado, vanilla and brown sugar to a blender and process until smooth. Add the rest of the ingredients, sans chocolate chips, and blend again until smooth and very thick. If it’s too thick and the blender can’t process, add a tablespoon or two of almond milk, or other dairy-free milk.

• Fold in your chocolate chips. At this stage, you can also add nuts if desired. Pour into a greased baking pan and use a spatula

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Mind before matter in ceramics exhibition

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Their smooth, sometimes rippling contours are evocative, and their keen edges made all the more daunting by their surprising mass. With the roughness of cleft stone, or the delicate smoothness of porcelain, sculptures are unlike other media in the art world. Whereas other art forms must work to create the mere illusion of heft and physicality, these traits are inherent to sculpture.

In ceramic work particularly, there is often no separation between the artist and the work; gestures become form with immediacy. Shaped by hand, these works bear the impression of the mind.

“Molding / Mark-Making: Ceramic Artists and Their Drawings” is an exhibition at Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs in Long Island City that examines the process of ceramic work and particularly how it intersects with illustration. A number of artists in the exhibit have included sketches and other concept work that connect with their sculptures on display. Embedded within these abstracts are whispers of the piece to come.

Not all of the pieces are exact analogues to the sculptures, and in some cases they bear only a passing resemblance to the eventual product. Nevertheless, they seem to capture the works’ spirit. The variance in expression can reveal new insights about how artists hold projects in their minds.

The independent curators Margaret Mathews-Berenson and Allison Peller organized the exhibition with a view toward ceramics shows that have been held in major institutions worldwide over the past dozen years — a trend they believe reflects a renewed interest in the art form. But for their own show, they are primarily focused on the strengths of the genre’s process, the ways that process is enmeshed with drawing and illustration before the clay is ever brought out of its container, and the historical context of the pottery and more abstract earthenware on display.

In working with clay, the artists of “Molding / Mark-Making” are literally shaping their artwork to their will, but this doesn’t mean that they had total control over every aspect of their work. As Julia Kunin explains in the curators’ program

notes, “With clay, you have to let go, you have to expect failure.” Identically formed pieces might come out differently due to variations in their positions in the kiln, temperature or their glazing. For Annabeth Rosen, this unpredictability is a tool. In “Werr,” Rosen has fired and refired layer after layer of glazed clay, resulting in a dense mass of lobes and striations so naturally composed that it occupies an uncanny space between geode and brain.

For Rosen’s part, the illustration accompanying “Werr,” titled “Bulge,” shares some of the ceramic’s glaze colors and a vague likeness in shape, but the piece was very obviously adapted in real time. Kunin’s two “Untitled Figure” sketches, on the other hand, do bear a strong resemblance to the sculpture work she has provided for the show. “Vasarely’s Sphere” is an amalgamation of geometric patterns (and the female form), shades of which are present in her sketches. While neither is a perfect match, it’s clear to viewers that the artist’s concept was taking shape on the page. For some, like Rosen, sketch work is a byproduct of pragmatism, as she explained in the program notes that she’s able to render concepts much faster and in greater numbers on paper than in clay. Similarly, Peter Gourfain sketches individuals on the subway who inspire the models of faces in his “Black Lives Matter” series of sculptures.

Nicole Cherubini’s “Baby Blue” offers a playful take on the impact of drawing on ceramic work that would seem tongue-in-cheek if it had been made especially for the exhibition. A frame containing a drawing is actually embedded into a massive earthen pot, and the image itself appears to show fragments of various pottery shards. Staged at the When: Through Sun., March 25 (artist-curator very entrance of the discussions Feb. 11 and 25 and March 18) exhibit, beside Betty Where: Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Woodman’s “French 11-03 45th Ave., LIC Window,” the work sets Entry: Free. (718) 937-6317, dorsky.org the show’s tone deftly from the start. In Wood-

‘Molding / Mark-Making: Ceramic Artists and Their Drawings’

Julia Kunin’s “Vasarely’s Sphere,” above right, shares some elements with her “Chambered Rainbow,” left, “Untitled Figure on Black” and “Untitled Figure on Green.” Peter Gourfain’s “Black Lives Matter #10,” far left, utilizes sketches he made on the subway. Valerie Hegarty’s “Clipper ship shell” resembles a conch that opens up into a picture frame. Joanne Greenbaum’s “Untitled” (2014), below, contains textures as delicate as violet petals with a PHOTOS BY NEIL CHIRAGDIN feathered edge, yet tangles into a hefty heap of ribbons. man’s piece, abstract shapes of earthenware are painted with glaze in the form of a vase, further blurring the role of illustration in ceramic technique.

The vast majority of the artists in the show are women, and in such a personalized medium, it’s unsurprising how strongly many of the pieces bear trait s of their creators.

N ow h e r e i s t h i s m o r e delightfully demonstrated in the exhibition than in Kathy Butterly’s work. Supple and fleshy, bulging and blushpink, it’s easy to understand that “Like Butter” was created while the artist was trying to become pregnant. Says Butterly in the program notes, “I just followed the forms and followed my intuition, and this is what came out. It is a pure little piece, a little in-yourface, rude and naughty, sweet and funny.”

And while some artists approach the medium introspectively, it offers those who seek it a means for exploration. In the case of the work on display in this exhibit, artists used ceramics to explore historic methods of creating earthenware art, but also in pursuit of new ideas. Peter Shire’s retrofuturistic teapots and cups bear the hallmarks of a 1980s space-age film, but he borrows his color palette from the Milan-based Memphis Group — itself a hallmark of 1980s design. Kunin’s

work also references several time periods.

On one hand, the geometries of her sculptures and drawings resemble Aztec calendar carvings, and on the other, her iridescent glaze suggests a futuristic alloy. The surprising truth is that her signature glazes are the result of Kunin’s extensive research, which led her to a ceramics factory in Hungary, working with glazes over a century old.

Satisfying her own curiosities for decay and environmental exploitation, Valerie Hegarty pushes the medium to explore current issues in creative ways that make use of what the curators call “clay’s transmutable nature.” Inspired by photographs of watermelons exploding out of their own skin, having been injected with too much growth hormone, Hegarty has sculpted “Bowl of Peaches with Holes.” A rendering of a still life in ceramic form, the piece is a vibrant composition of fruit in a bowl — except riddled with black and brown pockmarks, which spill out of the fruit themselves and have begun eating away at the table, the negative space and even the “picture frame” itself.

“Molding / Mark-Making” — some of whose artists will join the curators for public discussions on Feb. 11 and 25 and March 18 — is a thrilling exhibit for its relatively modest size. Though it balances a number of themes, it never struggles to maintain its focus, and continually engages the visitor Q with new ideas.

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DiStefano draws attention to the shop’s relaxed atmosphere, as well as an area devoted to Queens-based artists such as Sick Walt and Better Head. According to the space’s owner, Javi Velazquez, the shop also holds concerts. “If you’re a musician, do you want to play in a restaurant where you’re not really engaging the crowd because everybody’s trying to eat?” Velazquez says to DiStefano. “No. Here you have a captive audience because people that come here are driven by music.”

Whether you consider yourself wellversed or a novice to appreciating the arts, the Jamaica Performing Arts Center is

Book talk and signing When: Fri., Feb. 16, 7-8 p.m.

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among the first places in Queens to check out. It is housed in a former church that dates back to the 1800s; the then-abandoned building was repurposed in 2008 to create what is now a 400-seat theater with a mission to celebrate “creative expression by promoting the works of visual and performing artists” and provide “accessible education programs that encourage participation in the arts,” according to its official website.

DiStefano describes the building’s architecture as a draw for visitors, including “three magnificent stained-glass windows that bathe the front area in light” and “a coiled DNA light sculpture hanging from the ceiling” in front of it. The center — which is featuring Black History Month events throughout February — also holds a Thursday Night Jazz series until June.

There’s jogging, kickboxing and even crossfit for those always looking for the next best workout, but Locals Surf School on Rockaway Beach is offering a different kind of athletic experience, one much more connected to the beauty of the outdoors. The school, which is open all year long, offers group and private surfing lessons as well as a surf camp for kids. Founders Mike Kololyan

a n d M i ke Re i nha rd t opened the school in 2011. “You go anywhere, you want to learn from HiFi Records & Cafe in Astoria is one of the spots described the locals,” Kololyan tells in “111 Places in Queens that You Must Not Miss.” On the DiStefano. Its website cover: The Jamaica Performing Arts Center, left, the Park at invites all to catch a wave, Athens Square, boards at Locals Surf School, the Zombie and says another main Gnome Bench and the Ganesh Temple. PHOTOS BY CLAY WILLIAMS goal of the school is to Temple in Flushing and its famed Temple “foster the growth of the NYC surf culture.”

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SPECIAL EVENTS Lunar New Year Night at the Museum, with roving dance party Bubble_T., DJs, live performances, installations, food vendors and more.

Fri., Feb. 9, 8 p.m.-12 a.m., MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. $15. Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org.

Sunrise Kingdom #3: Black & Latinx Artist Showcase, with works by more than 20 up-andcoming artists, performances, film, dance and more, to benefit victims of the recent fatal Bronx fire. Sat., Feb. 10, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $5 suggested. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

LECTURES/TALKS World War I: Free reading & discussion program, six sessions on readings from books about the conflict, led by Jo-Anne Raskin. Each Sat., Feb. 10-March 17, 10-11:30 a.m., Maple Grove Cemetery Victorian Administration Building, 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens.

Free. Info/registration (req’d): (347) 878-6614, friendsofmaplegrove.org.

TOURS/HIKES Birding by Ear, an intro to the calls of backyard birds, with presentation and guided walk.

In two parts: Sat.-Sun., Feb. 10-11, 10-11:30 a.m., Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Center, 17510 Cross Bay Blvd., Broad Channel. Free. Info: (718) 318-4340, nps.gov/gate/planyourvisit.

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Little Makers: Rainbow Science, with kids 18 months and up making unique rainbows with flashlights, prisms and polarized film, part of weekly creative series. Sun., Feb. 11, 10:30 a.m.12:30 p.m., New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. $6 per child plus admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, college students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

New indoor co-ed soccer league, for kids 10-14, playing each Saturday thru March 10, 7:30-9:30 p.m. under a dome. Bay Terrace Sports Complex, 212-00 23 Ave. $180 including insurance. Info: Melissa, (718) 423-6111, malgranati@cqy.org.

Storytime!, every Thu., 11-11:30 a.m., Astoria Bookshop, 31-29 31 St. Free. Info: (718) 2782665, astoriabookshop.com.

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS Live Drawing with Models, a chance for those 20 and over to practice with a series of quick and long poses, in a relaxing, nonjudgmental environment. Each second Mon. of the month: Feb. 12, March 12, April 9, May 14, June 11; 6-9 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $16; $10 students. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

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Info: Christian Wagner, (516) 349-4641.

Gotta Dance!, with dance professional Carmen LaRosa leading participants through dances from popular musicals like “West Side Story” and “Grease,” for fun and exercise. Sat., Feb. 10, 11 a.m. (arrive a little before then)-1 p.m., Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside. $5. Info: (718) 631-6311, visitqpac.org.

The Art of DJ’ing 101, with DJ PlayPlay (Jess Dilday) teaching techniques to keep the dance floor going and talking about the history behind DJ technology and artistry. Thu., Feb. 15, 7-9 p.m., Flux Factory, 39-31 29 St., Long Island City.

Free. Info/RSVP: (347) 669-1406, fluxfactory.org.

MARKETS Pre-Valentine’s Day Market, with handmade, baked and vintage goods; beer and Czech and Slovak food available. Sun., Feb. 11, 12-6 p.m., Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden, 29-19 24 Ave., Astoria.

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Valentine’s Day Market, with handmade jewelry, candles, body scrubs, clothes, plants and more, plus brunch and music. Sun., Feb. 11, 12 p.m.-7 p.m. (brunch 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m.; music 1-6 p.m.), Riis Park Beach Bazaar, 167-02 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Rockaway. Info: bit.ly/2rQG6i6.

SOCIAL EVENTS Saturday night dance, with a live DJ playing classics, oldies, Italian and Spanish music, food and more. Sat., Feb. 10 and 24, 8 p.m.-12 a.m., Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. $12. Info: (718) 478-3100.

SUPPORT GROUPS Anxious, nervous, depressed? Recovery International can help. Meetings every Thu., 2:30 p.m., Fri., 3:30 p.m. Forest Hills Library, 108-19 71 Ave. Info: recoveryinternational.org.

Contemplating suicide? The Samaritans provide 24-hour confidential emotional support for those feeling suicidal or depressed. Call: (212) 673-3000; samaritansnyc.org.

PTSD for veterans and service members: Reach out to a anonymous support group in your area. Info: 1 (800) 273-TALK. Bereavement groups for assistance dealing with loss and the process towards healing, with others experiencing similar situations. Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 02-05-18, bearing Index Number NC-00117117/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) FRANKIE (Last) CARLUCCI. My present name is (First) FRANCESCO (Last) BARRETTA. My present address is 2015 HAZEN STREET, East Elmhurst, NY 11370. My place of birth is QUEENS, NY. My date of birth is November 17, 1991.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 01-23-18, bearing Index Number NC-000966-17/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) TARYN (Last) CARUSO. My present name is (First) TARYN (Last) ZMUDA. My present address is 41 KEW GARDENS ROAD, 2A, Kew Gardens, NY 11415. My place of birth is PHILADELPHIA, PA. My date of birth is July 03, 1985.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 01-16-18, bearing Index Number NC-000907-17/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) VANESSA (Last) VANEGAS. My present name is (First) FRANCIS (Middle) VANESSA (Last) VANEGAS AKA VANESSA VANEGAS AKA FRANCIS V. VANEGAS. My present address is 40-94 DENMAN STREET, #4F, Elmhurst, NY 11373. My place of birth is QUEENS, NY. My date of birth is November 05, 1981.

NESH HOLDINGS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/01/2018. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Vasilios Miliopulos, 277 Broadway, Ste 510, NY, NY 10007. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of formation of SKINCARE GENIES, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on DECEMBER 14, 2017. Office in Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to VIENNA PANG, 67-66 108TH ST., APT B34, FOREST HILLS, NY 11375.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 01-18-18, bearing Index Number NC-000929-17/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) CHRIS (Middle) SNAYDER (Last) SAETEROS HUARTACHO. My present name is (First) CHRIS (Middle) SNAYDER (Last) SAETEROS (infant).

My present address is 3429 110th STREET, 2 FL, Corona, NY 11368.

My place of birth is QUEENS, NY. My date of birth is February 05, 2017.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 07-28-16, bearing Index Number NC-000320-16/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) ROBIN (Middle) KATHERINE (Last) CHESHIRE. My present name is (First) MEGAN (Middle) TENG (Last) ENG AKA MEGAN ENG. My present address is 4619 Bowne Street, Flushing, NY 11355-2204. My place of birth is MALAYSIA. My date of birth is February 22, 1994.

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Notice of formation of EONS RESTAURANT HOLDING LLC Articles of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/06/2017. Office located in Queens County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against LLC to: EONS RESTAURANT HOLDING LLC, 254-55 Horace Harding Exp., Little Neck, NY 11362. Any lawful activity or purpose.

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Notice of Formation of JAMAICA CHIROPRACTIC & PHYSICAL THERAPY, PLLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/29/18. Office location: Queens County. Princ. office of PLLC: 144-31 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica, NY 11435. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the PLLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Practice the professions of chiropractic medicine and physical therapy.

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Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Supreme Court Of The State Of New York County Of Queens Action to Foreclose a Mortgage Index #: 5617-14 Nationstar Mortgage LLC, Plaintiff vs. Jorge Almodovar And All The Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Distributees, Devisees, Grantees, Trustees, Lienors, Creditors, Assignees And Successors In Interest Of Any Of The Aforesaid Defendants, Next Of Kin, Distributees, Devisees, Grantees, Trustees, Lienors, Creditors, Assignees And Successors In Interest Of Any Of The Aforesaid Classes Of Person, If They Or Any Of Them Be Dead, And Their Respective Husbands, Wives Or Widows, If Any, And All Of Whom And Whose Names And Places Of Residence Are Unknown To Plaintiff, Except As Herein Stated, New York City Environmental Control Board, New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau, People Of The State Of New York, United States Of America, Acting Through The IRS, John Doe (being fictitious, the names unknown to Plaintiff intended to be tenants, occupants, persons or corporations having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the property described in the complaint or their heirs at law, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors.), Defendant(s) Mortgaged Premises: 102-28 188 Street Hollis, NY 11423 BL #: 10366-24 To the Above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Queens.

The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. TO JORGE ALMODOVAR Defendant In this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Diccia T. PinedaKirwan of the Supreme Court Of The State Of New York, dated the Second day of January, 2018 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, in the City of Jamaica. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, dated November 21, 2003, executed by Jorge Almodovar to secure the sum of $224,000.00.

The Mortgage was recorded at CRFN 2004000152208 in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County on March 12, 2004. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed April 1, 2009 and recorded on July 27, 2009, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County at CRFN 2009000229847. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed September 11, 2013 and recorded on November 18, 2013, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County at CRFN 2013000474235. The property in question is described as follows: 102-28 188 STREET, HOLLIS, NY 11423. 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: January 9, 2018 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100, Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 51290-1

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INDEX NO. 705661/2017 Order To Show Cause. Filed April 28, 2017 County Clerk Queens County. In the Matter of the Application of Fran Stemmler and Lorraine Parente, holders of 33.33% of All Outstanding Shares Entitled to Vote in the Election of Directors of Axel Spring and Brake, Inc., Axel Spring and Welding Corp., and Parente Associates, Inc., Petitioner, against.

For the Dissolution of Axel Spring and Brake, Inc., Axel Spring and Welding Corp., and Parente Associates, Inc., Domestic Business Corporations duly formed pursuant to the laws of the State of New York, Vito Parente, Margaret Parente, Gracene Gardella and NEW YORK STATE TAX COMMISSION. Respondents.

Upon reading and filing the annexed verified petition of FRAN STEMMLER, affidavit of LORRAINE PARENTE and affirmation of DANIEL TANON, ESQ. all sworn to this 26th day of April, 2017, and all the pleadings had herein and all of the exhibits annexed hereto, LET the Respondents, show cause at an lAS Part 33 Room 122 to be held at the Queens County Supreme Court located at 88-11 Sutphin Blvd. Jamaica, New York 11435 on the 20th day of June, 2017, at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, WHY an order should not be made and entered: • Directing the corporations, Axel Spring and Brake, Inc., Axel Spring and Welding Corp., and Parente Associates, Inc., be dissolved pursuant to BCL §1104-a; and • a preliminary injunction should not be granted herein restraining and enjoining the individual Respondents from seizing and/or wasting and/or disposing of and/or transferring and/or dissipating and/or encumbering the assets of and/or entering into leases and/or hiring and/or firing employees of Axel Spring and Brake, Inc., Axel Spring and Welding Corp., and Parente Associates, Inc., under the control of the individual Respondents, and • that all petitioners and all respondents shall be restrained and enjoined from withdrawing funds from any bank accounts of the respondent corporations pending the further order of this court and • that any and all checking accounts and bank accounts held in the name of the respondent corporations shall require two (2) signatures on any check and/or withdrawal, one signature from one of the individual petitioners and one signature from one of the individual respondents, and • for such other and further relief as to this Court may seem just and proper; and it is further ORDERED, that pending the hearing determination of this motion, the individual Respondents & Petitioners, their agents, servants, and/or employees herein, be and hereby are enjoined and restrained from seizing and/or wasting and/or disposing of and/or transferring and/or dissipating and/or transferring and/ or dissipating and/or encumbering the assets of and/or entering into leases and/or hiring and/or firing employees of Axel Spring and Brake, Inc., Axel Spring and Welding Corp., and Parente Associates, Inc., under the control of the individual Respondents, ORDERED that neither Respondents & Petitioners not remove, hypothecate ant equipment, tools, inventory or corporate assets pending the determination of the within motion. ORDERED, that any and all checking accounts and bank accounts held in the name of the respondent corporations shall require two (2) signatures on any check and/or withdrawal, one signature from one of the individual petitioners and one signature from one of the individual respondents, and for such other and further relief as to this Court may seem just and proper; and it is further ORDERED, that a copy of this order to show cause, verified petition and papers upon which it was based shall be served upon Axel Spring and Brake, Inc., Axel Spring and Welding. Corp., and Parente Associates, Inc., Vito Parente, Margaret Parente, Gracene Gardella and the New York State Tax Commission, in the manner, and within the time, prescribed in BCL § 1106 which shall be deemed good and sufficient service.

Pursuant to NYCRR § 202.7(f), counsel for the Petitioner has given 24 hour notice to the respondents of petitioner’s intent to bring this Order to Show Cause.” ENTER, Hon. Leonard Livote, A.J.S.C. Service of a copy of this application and all papers its based to be made by overnight mail on all named parties by May 5, 2017. Filed April 28, 2017. County Clerk Queens County.

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by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Albert Voigt, born in Germany in 1863, immigrated to America in 1892 and landed in Brooklyn, New York. He quickly married and went on to have a son and three daughters. He became an inventor and manufacturer of hardware, soon opening his own factory. His wealth enabled him to buy a lone three-story home on a roughly 105-by100 foot property on Park Lane South.

When the building boom in Queens started upon the opening of the Queensborough Bridge, there were duplications of street names. The Borough of Queens engineer, Charles Underhill Powell, in 1911 devised a numbering system similar to the one in Philadelphia. Street numbers would run west to east, from First to 271st. Avenues would run from Third Avenue in Whitestone in the north to as high as 165th in Howard Beach to the south. The plan was officially adopted in 1915.

Albert Voigt’s house at 85-04 Park Lane South has the famous distinction of being the very first one renumbered under the new plan. A handsome plaque saying so

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From atop Forest Park, looking down at 85-04 Park Lane South in Woodhaven, which stands all alone in the foreground with empty lots all around it. Circa 1915. has boldly stood out front since the 1930s.

Most of western Queens complied with the numbering system. However, some farther east, in areas of Kew Gardens, Forest Hills and Douglaston, fiercely clung to some of their old names and resisted numbering their streets.

After Voigt’s death, the house changed hands many times, being owned at different points by the Wagner, Bellafiore and Riggio families. Public records show today the proud owner of this historic house is Q Stanislaw Skumial.

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

The end of the NFL season means that the front offices of all teams will brainstorm to find ways to markedly improve themselves in the next season. A lot of sportswriters are imploring the Jets to sign longtime Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins, who is slated to become a free agent in March. A notable exception is Daily News NFL columnist and Fresh Meadows native Gary Myers who doesn’t view him as an elite signal caller.

I frequently disagree with Myers but he is absolutely right on the money this time.

What has Cousins done for the Redskins?

His statistics may be nice, but they haven’t won a playoff game in the last seven years.

Jets fans who are drooling for Cousins should wonder why the Redskins pulled the trigger on a trade with the Kansas City Chiefs to acquire their starting quarterback from last season, Alex Smith. While I understand Jets fans’ frustration and the reality that neither of the two quarterbacks on their roster, Bryce Petty and Christian Hackenberg, are quality NFL starters, history has shown the household names of the NFL such as Tom Brady, Eli Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Russell Wilson and Matt Ryan were drafted and developed by their current teams.

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San Diego Chargers but was traded to the New Orleans Saints in 2006, when the Chargers drafted their current quarterback, Philip Rivers, has flourished in the Crescent City but, he is a rare exception that proves the rule.

I’ve been critical of the New York Islanders communications department because they have not been very welcoming to media. That may be because the team’s general manager, Garth Snow, who helps set the corporate culture, is averse to dealing with the media. NHL sources tell me that the Islanders’ former majority owner, Charles Wang, who was very fond of Snow in spite of the Islanders’ failure to make the playoffs most seasons, added a very lucrative golden parachute to Snow’s contract just before he sold majority interest in the team to financier and Bayside High alum Jon Ledecky.

The Isles’ community affairs department is first rate, however. Islanders players regularly visit schools and hospitals. A couple of weeks ago the team held a Mental Health Awareness night before a home game. Last Saturday night the Islanders hosted a “Pride Night,” in which they saluted the LGBTQ community. Yes, this is common in other pro sports, but hockey tends to be far more conservative. For years, the only NHL player who was vocal about LGBTQ Q rights was the inimitable Sean Avery.

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LYNBROOK Contemporary Det, 7 rms, 4 bedrms, 4 bths, Jacuzzi, fin bsmt, gar & pvt drive, 72x117

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• Middle Village • Ultra Modern 3 Bedroom Semi-Det Brick Tudor Home w/ (2) Spaces & A Private Garage. EIK w/ center island, stainless steel appli. & granite countertops w/ entrance to back patio. LR, formal dining room, mstr bdrm w/ (2) add’l bdrm full bath & custom closets & ceramic floors throughout. Fully alarmed, cable & internet ready, near PS. 87 & Atlas Park Mall.

Freshly painted. Also available for rent.

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• Lindenwood • Spacious 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath, 1st Floor Garden Co-op. Pack your bags and move right in!!!

Large L-Shaped One Bedroom Cooperative In Prime Lindenwood Section. Ideally located near shopping center, public transportation, express bus to midtown, airport and major highways. Low flip tax! Monthly maintenance (includes heat, hot water, cooking gas and real estate taxes).

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OZONE PARK Move-In Condition Colonial.

Open porch, living room & dining room, EIK, 3 beds, 2 full baths.

Full finished basement, finished attic with heat and AC. Private driveway. Walk to train and shopping.

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HOWARD BEACH 3.5 Rm. Hi Rise Co-op, 1 huge bedrm, lg liv rm, 1 bth,

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1 Fam, Det Hi-Ranch, 8 rms, 3 bedrms, formal dining rm, 45x100, gar, pvt drive, and granite countertops, mint cond.

New heat & central air.

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• Rockaway Beach • Impeccable professionally designed Condo with private terrace. Invites comfort and exquisite elegance. Generous living space and stylish finishes. Remote window treatments. Perfect for relaxing and entertaining. Magnificent views of ocean and NYC skyline. ©2018 M1P • CAMI CAMI-073347 073347

• Lindenwood • Spacious One Bedroom.

Lots of closets, all utilities inluded in maintenance!

• Lindenwood • Large 3 bedroom, 2 bath Condo with terrace.

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Custom all brick & stone corner Hi-Ranch on 47x100 lot, 4 BRs, 2 baths. Huge EIK, full bath w/ sauna, in-ground heated salt water pool, 2 car private dvwy.

Custom large Colonial, huge MBR w/luxury bathroom, premium floors, radiant heat and CAC unit on each floor, gourmet kitchen w/high-end appliances, 3 more BRs, 3 baths, study 41x107.

HOWARD BEACH ROCKWOOD PARK

Mint, immaculate 40x100 Hi-Ranch 4 BRs, 3 full baths. Newly renovated walk-in, with granite & S/S kitchen, granite floors throughout IGP. Must see!

Asking $879K

Large Hi-Ranch, on 52x100, 3 BRs, 3 updated full baths, LR w/cathedral ceilings, hardwood floors, dvwy, garage.

Asking $899K

BROAD CHANNEL

HOWARD BEACH

Newly renovated 2 family, 5 BRs, EIK, 2 BR apt. over 3 BR apt., oversized lot 24x100. 2 separate boilers.

Asking $469K

Mint Hi Ranch all redone, 3 bedrooms, living room, FDR, EIK, new full bath, upstairs, 1 BR, new kit, new full bath, dining room, living room, sliding door to newly concreted backyard, new aboveground pool.

Asking $758K

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• Mint Garden – 2BR with FDR, 1 bath, newly carpeted, new windows, low maint. ... Asking $245K • 1st fl., 2BR, FDR, updated throughout, close to shopping, .............. Asking $245K • Completely renovated 3BR, garden Co-op, courtyard setting, Hi-hats, W/D, S/S appliances .............. Asking $299K

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• Co-op Clearview Gardens, 2BR, garden w/attic, updated kitchen and bath, w/d .............Asking $299K RENTALS

OZONE PARK • 101 Ave., store for rent, doctor's office. .... Asking $3,100/MO

HOWARD BEACH Greentree condo, 3 BR's, 2 full baths, updated kitchen & baths, S/S appliances, laundry room, terrace, parking.

Asking $395K

"WATERFRONT" Corner 1 family, 3 BRs, 1 1/2 baths, 20x80 lot w/2 car garage. Large dock, fits 5 boats, 30x22 deck over water. New siding w/architectural roof.

Asking $399K

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Mint condo (Bayberry) triplex style.

1st level, kitchen, living room, dining room. 2nd level, 2 BRs with double closets, 1 bath plus large walk-in closet. 3rd level, master bedroom with master bath w/ Jacuzzi tub, 2 closets and terrace.

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A Lovely Large One Bedroom Co-op With a Kitchen, full bathroom, living room, dining room area and a terrace!

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Newly Renovated 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath Colonial, large living room, new kitchen with granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors throughout, laundry room and huge backyard! Just a few steps to Charles Park!!!

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A Beautiful Two Bedroom, Two Bathroom Condo With Tile Throughout. A brand-new kitchen with stainless appliances. Lots of closet space! MUST SEE!

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All Brick 3 Bedroom Tudor, 2 full bathrooms, plus 10ft. extension, garage and out building, wood floors, mint condition, full basement.

Huge Hi-Ranch Corner Property on a 47x100 lot with 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, garage, lots of parking and a huge backyard. Needs TLC.

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