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NOT so FAST Katz urges CB 9 to postpone district manager vote

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Borough President Melinda Katz let the hammer fall by urging Community Board 9, whose district manager search committee is seen here, to postpone its vote for a new DM, citing concerning reports about the process that have been published in the Chronicle in recent weeks.

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U.S. Reps cry foul on GOP’s DHS budget Crowley, Israel say pull immigration attachment before Friday deadline

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ashington, DC politics took center stage in Queens on Tuesday.

Four Democrats from Congress, in a press conference at LaGuardia Airport’s Marine Air Terminal called on House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R- Ken.) to allow votes to approve the budget for the Department of Homeland Security, which: • expires on Friday; and • contains at the moment a measure that si mu lt a neou sly rolls back P resident Obama’s recent initiatives on immigration.

And the Democrats’ actions, and others, appear to have worked, with McConnell apparently offering to separate the two measures to allow a “clean” vote on funding DHS f ree of at t ach ment s, r ider s or amendments.

The initial measure passed the GOP-controlled House of Representatives easily along partisan lines, but Senate Republicans have not been able to get enough Democrats on board to break a filibuster.

At LaGu a rd ia , Reps. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx), Steve Israel (D-Suffolk, Na s s a u , Q u e e n s) , H a ke e m Jef f r ie s (D-Brooklyn, Queens) and Kathleen Rice (D-Nassau) accused Republicans of holding DHS funding hostage.

Congressman Steve Israel, at podium, called for Congressional Republicans to quickly fund the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday at a LaGuardia Airport press conference with ConPHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON gress members Kathleen Rice, left, Joe Crowley and Hakeem Jeffries.

All called for a vote on a clean DHS bill.

“Republicans are f lirting with literal disaster by letting a faction of their caucus hold the security of the American people hostage,” Israel said. “The terrorists are laughing at us.”

All four spoke of the increasing danger of terrorism abroad and in the United States.

Israel said allowing DHS to run out of money would lead to about 30,000 furloughs of nonessential personnel.

“If you’re getting a check from FEMA for Hurricane Sandy damage, that will be delayed,” he said. “Every aspect of DHS will be impacted. ... Essential employees, like TSA agents at this airport, will come to

work — they just won’t get paid.”

Crowley said it comes down to Republicans who disagree with the president on immigration, going after the government agency that oversees it.

“You don’t like the president’s immigration policy? Fine, let’s talk about it,” Crowley said. “With terrorists plotting against us, with what is happening in Europe, don’t shut down the people we call on to protect us. We are still a target.”

Jeffries called the binding of the two items reckless and irresponsible.

“Terrorists only have to be right once,” he said. “We have to be right every time.”

Crowley said Democrats have gone to Boehner to offer cover for Republicans who might be concerned about compromising on a clean DHS vote, while still getting the essential funding through.

“We told him that he doesn’t need to deliver every Republican; just 40. We can deliver the Democrats and this will pass.”

Crowley, in a post-conference interview, acknowledged that the immigration measures in play are the ones that were put on hold by a recent injunction in federal court.

He also said that is immaterial.

“They weren’t thrown out,” he said. “And the federal government will appeal.” “[The injunction] isn’t the last word on continued on page 21

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Boro prez says reports of ‘potential issues’ with process are ‘concerning’

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz is urging Community Board 9 to delay its vote for a new district manager until new board members are appointed, citing “concerning” reports that have been published by Queens media outlets.

“April 1st starts a new session of CB 9 and given there are 28 Board members whose current terms expire on March 31st, it makes more sense that the process be postponed so that newly appointed Board members can participate in this important discussion,” Katz said in a letter sent to CB 9 Chairman Ralph Gonzalez.

The Feb. 23 letter, obtained by the Chronicle on Tuesday, cites “potential issues with one of the candidates and the selection process” that have been reported by the Queens Chronicle and other media outlets.

Last week, the Chronicle reported that CB 9 board member Sam Espositio was concerned that the board’s District Manager Search Committee would replace one of the three candidates for the position with someone who had previously been eliminated for consideration.

Although she didn’t cite that specific story, Katz said the issues that have been brought to

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz has asked Community Board 9 Chairman Ralph Gonzalez to delay the vote for a new district manager, citing concerns about the process that have been FILE PHOTOS reported by the Chronicle and other media outlets in recent weeks. her attention “have been raised by the media in recent days.”

Katz said the vote, scheduled for a special March 3 meeting at Borough Hall, should be postponed until a new slate of board members can be appointed or reappointed.

Twenty-eight of the board’s 50 seats are up for reappointment at the end of March.

“Therefore I believe that it is in the best interests of the Board and the residents who will be served by the new district manager to postpone the selection until after April,” she said in her letter. “Fairness and good governance dictate such a result.”

Gonzalez did not return phone calls seeking comments on Katz’s letter or her request to

postpone the vote.

When asked about the letter, borough president spokeswoman Sharon Lee said, “Significant concerns have been brought to our attention about the Community Board 9 District Manager search and selection process.

“Given the concerns and issues raised about the process thus far, Borough President Katz has advised Community Board 9 that it would be best to resume the search and selection process after April 1 once the new Board is in place,” Lee added in an email.

If CB 9 goes forward with its scheduled vote for a new manager, members will pick between Lisa Gomes, the acting district manager for CB 9; Scott McClelland, a former political aide; and Scott Wolff, director of constituent services for Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz (D-Flushing).

Those three were picked from a slate of 11 candidates during a search committee meeting in January.

The board has been seeking a new district manager since its previous one, Mary Ann Carey, retired after 30 years following turmoil between her and some board members.

Katz, in her letter, admitted that the long time between district managers created a “challenging” situation for the search committee. Q

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Woodhaven drug bust leads to arrest of two Daycare above where raid occurred has license suspended, state says

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

A Ridgewood man who allegedly was at the scene during the arrest was also arraigned on Friday. Selestino Rodriguez, 23, has been charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, second-degree criminally using drug paraphernalia, fourth-degree criminal possession of marijuana and endangering the welfare of a child.

Both face up to two and a half years in prison if found guilty of t h e ch a r ge s. A Q u e e n s DA spokesman said in an email that despite the fact that only Gomez was charged with selling drugs, both suspects face the same sentence because, “The top count in both cases is fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, which is a Class D felony and is punishable by up to two and a half years in prison.”

The ar raignment follows an early Thursday morning bust in the cellar below My Precious Moments daycare.

G o m e z ’s m o t h e r , B e r c a Gomez, runs the facility, and he

My Precious Moments daycare has had its license suspended by the state.

The suspension follows a drug raid in the cellar apartment below the center.

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lives below it, Brown and police said. Police said they conducted the raid at about 5:15 a.m.

Police said they found seven ounces of MDMA, commonly

referred to as “molly”; four ounces of marijuana and $2,438 in cash from the basement.

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A Wo o d h a v e n m a n w a s arraigned last Thursday night on drug possession, drug sale and ch ild end a nger ment cha rges, along with another defendant, after police found out he was selling drugs out of his cellar apartment below a daycare center, the NYPD and Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

“These arrests should serve as a warning to other drug dealers that the law enforcement community will continue to aggressively track down those individuals who traffic in drugs and seek to put them in prison,” Brown said in a release announcing the arraignment.

The daycare center — My Precious Moments, located at 85-09 88 Ave. — might also be in trouble, according to a state official.

The official, who has direct k nowledge of the mat ter but wished not to be identified, said the daycare center’s license was suspended following an investiga-

t ion “d i rectly related to last week’s incident.” The investigation was conducted separately from the one that led law enforcement officials to the site of the cellar apartment where the drugs were allegedly being sold out of.

The official declined to comment further on the investigation.

W hen a Ch ronicle repor ter called the daycare center for comment on the drug raid, a worker there referred all questions to the city Department of Health, which in turn referred all questions to the state.

The man charged with selling the drugs out of the cellar apartment is Michael Gomez, 24. He has been charged with f if thdegree criminal possession of a controlled substance, fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, second-degree criminally using drug paraphernalia, fourthdegree criminal possession of marijuana, fourth-degree criminal sale of marijuana and endangering the welfare of a child, according to Brown.

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get health insurance.”

Linda Carmine, the director for the Students at John Adams High School in school-based health center program at NSOzone Park will soon find it easier to get LIJ, said John Adams will be the fourth city public school to have a clinic sponsored by free healthcare.

The school is planning on opening a the health system and will also be its health clinic in the basement of the building, “biggest.”

“All the other schools we deal with are located at 101-01 Rockaway Blvd., which will be sponsored by the Cohen Children’s closer to 1,500 students,” Carmine said.

“John Adams has Med ical Cent er about 2,300.” and the Nor th She said st uShore-Long Island e have a lot of immigrants dents will have Jewish health system. that are undocumented. So access to nu rse practioners, psy“It’s going to be they don’t have health chiatrists, psycholfor all learners at gists, social our building, insurance or don’t know how oworkers, pregnanwhether they have cy testing, STD insurance or not,” to get health insurance.” testing, vaccines the school’s parent — Manakshi Panindranauth, and much more. coordinator, John Adams High School’s parent coordinator N e i t h e r C a rManakshi Paninmine nor Panindranauth, said.

Panindranauth, who has been working at dranauth knew when the clinic would be the school for about two months, said she opening.

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School spending, reform and the UFT

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ov. Cuomo has proposed a mostly solid mix of reforms for the public school system, as well as a significant funding boost. But opponents of reform, led by the United Federation of Teachers, aren’t satisfied.

That’s only to be expected. The UFT is never satisfied.

The city spends more than $20,000 per student per year on education, as does the state, on average, though the figure varies among different school districts. It’s the highest per capita allocation for education in the country, and most of it goes toward personnel costs, which only makes sense.

But it’s not enough for the teachers union and its allies. No figure would ever be enough. And while the spending is far above average, the results are just plain average.

The governor proposes to hike education spending by $1.1 billion in the next fiscal year. But advocates want the state to simply give the city more than $2 billion, to satisfy the settlement in a 2006 lawsuit that actually found children here are denied their constitutional right to a “sound basic education” because not enough money is spent on schools.

But the state was beginning to comply with the order, but then the economy went south in 2008 and spending had to be reduced. Would they prefer the state go bankrupt, or

impose tax hikes no family or business could afford to pay?

And would another $2,000 spent for each of the city’s 1.1 million students really make that great a difference, especially when most of it will go toward staff salaries?

State Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan, chairwoman of the Education Committee, held a town hall meeting last week so that parents and teachers could lament the supposed lack of funding for the schools. The event fit in well with the UFT’s campaign to put pressure on Cuomo.

“Let’s get that 2 billion this year,” Nolan said, referring to the lawsuit money. That was the point she wanted to make before the public and the press. But in Albany, she votes yes on all those budgets she says don’t include enough funding.

If she truly believes spending on schools “has not really kept pace with the needs of children,” as she said, why doesn’t she take a stand on the Assembly floor and vote no?

In order to agree to more spending, Cuomo wants tougher teacher evaluations, more charter schools and reform of the tenure system (which just happens to be the target of a lawsuit that claims retaining bad teachers denies children their right to guess what — a sound basic education). The union claims he wants to “destroy” the schools. Absurd.

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Charter schools are proving a great success and more are definitely warranted. They are of course anathema to the UFT because the whole point is they get to operate without the same onerous union rules. And their students are outperforming their peers in traditional schools. The union is now making the ridiculous claim that Wall Street wants to take over education because a number of wealthy people are helping fund charters. Right — just like Andrew Carnegie funded libraries. That’s a good thing, not a takeover.

Better teacher evaluations are certainly warranted because there’s no way 98 percent of educators are either effective or highly effective, as the most recent ratings claimed. But Cuomo does err in wanting to base 50 percent of a teacher’s grade on student test results. One area where the UFT is correct is that over-reliance on standardized test scores in English and math means a less well-rounded education. If you thought a teacher would teach to the test when 20 percent of his or her evaluation depends on the results, imagine the incentive to do so if it were 50 percent.

As the battles over school spending and reform continue, don’t believe everything the UFT is claiming about Cuomo or charter schools. Only some of it is true.

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search meeting,” Feb. 19, multiple editions).

The community board seems befuddled.

This infighting bolsters Ms. Beth Barrett’s concerns about the selection process and its transparency. Their not responding to her questions at the earlier meeting should have been a blaring alert for us all.

What a story! One concerned citizen and a dedicated local newspaper might have shaken the community board from its business-as-usual foundation. This is an example of how democracy is supposed to work.

Glenn Hayes Kew Gardens

Charge killer drivers Dear Editor: On Oct. 6, 2013, our 3-year-old daughter, Allison, died while crossing the street, with the right of way, hand in hand with her grandmother. She was run over by both the front and back wheels, which crushed her skull. We know this because it was caught on video.

Since that tragic day we’ve been facing opposition from many directions; from the police and district attorney’s office who never mentioned that the driver violated our daughter’s right of way, to finding out the DMV threw out the two minor traffic tickets that the driver received for failure to yield and failure to use due care, and finally to learn the driver’s license was revoked for a mere 30 days.

Through heart-wrenching testimony and showing the crash video of our daughter’s sudden and violent death, we successfully helped in passing the Right of Way Law, section 19-190 of the city Administrative Code, which makes it a misdemeanor to hurt or kill someone with the right of way.

However, we recently learned that City Councilmember Daneek Miller proposed an amendment to the Right of Way Law — to exempt bus drivers after one injured a 15-year-old girl who may lose one of her legs. What’s shocking is that the focus is not on how bus drivers can be more careful on

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Silver: not guilty Dear Editor: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who points a finger to himself, saying, “I am a fearless opponent of corruption,” alleges that Assemblyman Sheldon Silver received millions of dollars in kickbacks disguised as legal referral fees. It is clear from press reports that the fees he received were, in fact, referral fees, not monies “disguised as” fees. Mr. Bharara’s entire prosecution appears to be based on the faulty legal assumption that if an attorney receives money from a law firm, he has committed a crime unless he obtains said money via the use of billable hours.

Go smoke-free Dear Editor: Congratulations on a quarter century of smoke-free flights in the USA. For years leading up to the passage of the federal law prohibiting smoking on all f lights of six hours or less, the tobacco industry implemented their doom and gloom forecast that smokers would not fly anymore and that the airline industry would suffer financially. They were proven wrong.

When many cities and states passed comprehensive smoke-free laws protecting the nonsmoking public in restaurants, bars and indoor public places, the tobacco industry implemented their doom and gloom forecast that no smoker would go out to eat, drink or shop at indoor public stores. They were proven wrong.

Now, as more and more smoke-free apartment buildings are choosing to become smoke-free premises, the tobacco industry is pushing their propaganda that smoke-free apartments will not be rented or sold. Once again they are being proven wrong. For instance, when the newly constr ucted Macedonia Plaza apartment building with 142 affordable smoke-free apartments in Downtown Flushing became available via a lottery application system, over 40,000 applications were received.

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Dear Editor: The latest directive from the school chancellor’s office stating that there will be new procedures put in place for unruly student behavior is so archaic and totally illogical.

If a student is constantly disrupting the class, there is no way that the teacher can effectively maintain a disciplined atmosphere that is conducive to the learning process. Any disruptive student should be suspended after every reasonable method has been used and exhausted by the teacher. Principals and assistant principals need to be able to have the authority to also suspend unruly students.

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For Mr. Bharara’s information, the “billable hours” swindle did not exist in the 18th century, when the U.S. Constitution was created, did not exist in the 19th century, nor for most of the 20th century, being a very recent invention coming into prominence only in the 1980s. The fact that Silver was not physically present in the law office does not mean a crime was committed; there is no statute mandating that referral or endorsement fees require the physical presence of an attorney.

As for the state funds he steered to a medical researcher, the doctor performed legitimate research utilizing those funds in a productive manner. The doctor used the funds entirely for research, and did not kick back any of the grant to Mr. Silver.

The courts have thrown out many of Bharara’s “insider trading” convictions as based on an erroneous theory, and similarly, one hopes the judges will throw out Bharara’s case against Silver as based on a similarly delusional legal theory.

Prof. Peter Schweizer, a legal scholar at the Hoover Institute of Stanford University, has suggested that the Eric Holder-Preet Bharara entity has some skeletons in its own closet. What could they be? I suggest that Gov. Cuomo arrange for a committee of the state Legislature to set up its own anti-corruption commission, and hire Prof. Schweizer to be the director. Then, finally, The People will know the truth.

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No one is disputing that bus drivers have a difficult job navigating the streets of New York, but for the sake of the victims and their families, don’t families deserve the acknowledgement that any driver who splatters blood on the streets will be held accountable when the person who died or injured was following the rules?

Is anybody willing to tell Debbie and Harold Kahn that the MTA bus driver who decided to call his union representative right after killing Seth, their only child, would have been protected by this exemption? How do you explain to the brother and parents of Ella Bandes, who had to remove her from life support four days after she was stuck, that the bus driver is above the law?

Don’t let Miller take your rights away while you’re crossing the street. Say yes to saving lives and say no to Intro 663, which gives bus drivers a pass after they kill or injure a loved one.

Hsi-Pei and Amy Liao Fresh Meadows Editor’s note: A longer version of this letter appears on Hsi-Pei Liao’s Facebook page.

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Was Jonathan Gruber correct? He said the stupidity of the American public was what passed Obamacare. What he didn’t say was that corruption reigns and the crap, himself included, has risen to the top.

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Dear Editor: Re you r editor ial on having sex offenders housed with women and children (“The sex offender next door,” Feb. 12): Our “leaders” have become perfect Pipeline payoffs examples of the expression “dumbed Dear Editor: down.”

It appears that my adversary, Janice Sealing the records of parolees was responsible for the placement of sex Wijnen of Rego Park, has been taught offenders who had served 10 years in by Professors Sean Hannity and Bill prison for abducting a 7-year-old child O’Reilly at the “spin ’n’ twist” Fox in a shelter for women and children. In academy. Her opinions come directly psychiatry, when staff behaved that from their lectures. Let me illustrate.

On the issue of global warming, Ms. stupidly we said that the patients were Wijnen embraced the GOP-Fox line running the asylum.

We once protected innocents from that this is a … hoax. In my Oct. 9, predators by incarcerating them. Now 2014 Chronicle letter, “Save the planwe protect predators from the innocent. et,” I presented proof that they are There are now 35 known sex offenders wrong. President Anote Tong of the housed in shelters with mothers and Island Republic of Kiribati in the Western Pacific said his counc h i ld r e n . W h e r e’s t h e try is becoming a “drownmayor?

ONLINE ing nation.” One island has Council Speaker Melisalready submerged due to s a M a r k-V i ve r i t o h a s Miss an editorial or artirising sea levels. called for summonses and cle cited by a writer?

In two other Chronicle desk tickets for turnstile Want news from our other letters, “GOP loves oil” ju mper s. Send i ng laweditions covering the rest and “Oil boys and Indibreakers to Rikers Island, of Queens? Find past ans,” I discussed different she says, has “long-term, r e p or t s , ne w s f r om aspects of the Keystone d i r e c on s e que nc e s not across the borough and XL Pipeline which Janice only for them, but for our more at qchron.com. glossed over. Here are five city.” Jail time might prequestions to challenge her vent them from becoming views. tomorrow’s research sci1) Do you know why the Canadian entists and doctors. Nobody asked what happens if they don’t answer their sum- oil firm Enbridge failed to build its mons or pay their desk tickets. No mat- 731-mile nor ther n gateway pipeline ter. It’s not the criminals this adminis- from Alberta to the Pacific port of Kitimat in British Columbia — so that tration is after, it’s the police.

Weill Cornell Medical College tested their tar-sands oil could be sold to the subway and found bubonic plague China?

2) Why did our Sioux Nation invoke and anthrax in multiple stations. A health official said anthrax and bubon- its 1868 treaty to prevent Keystone ic plague don’t occur naturally in North from crossing Sioux reservations?

3) Are you aware 332 members of America. He got that right. What he couldn’t figure out was how they got Congress who voted “yes” for the Keyhere. Is it possible that the 20 million stone bill received 10 to 13 times more illegal aliens who crossed our borders campaign contributions from the oil and were never examined brought them a nd ga s i ndu st r y t ha n t hose who opposed it? According to maplight.org, in with them? Just asking.

Higher up the ladder, Mitt Romney House reps in favor received $45,371 tried to impress Detroit autoworkers while those who opposed received with how much they have in common. $3,599. Senators voting “yes” were Told them his wife drives two Cadil- awarded $236,544 while those who lacs. Jeb Bush said illegal aliens came voted “no” got $22,882. The GOP senato this country out of love. Oh! That tor Ms. Wijnen praised, John Hoeven was why thousands of children rode the (R-ND), who sponsored the Keystone rails f rom Gu atemala to the U.S. legislation, got the whole enchilada: escorted by grown men nobody knew $275,999!

4) Money does buy votes. Now that Obama has vetoed the bill, will the oil boys up the ante and get f ive more Writing Letters “yes” senators and 20 more “yes” Letters should be no longer than 400 House reps to override Obama’s veto? word s. T he y ma y be e maile d to 5) How many full-time jobs will this letters@ qchron.com. Please include phony GOP Keystone “Jobs” Act creyour phone number, which will not be ate? Trans-Canada said only 35! The published. Those received anonymously boys at “spin ’n’ twist” Fox Noise said are discarded. Full names are not necesthousands. Time will tell. sary for posting comments on stories at Anthony G. Pilla qchron.com.

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State politician drops by to discuss speaker race, education funding

by Domenick Rafter Chronicle Contributor

Crime topped the agenda at last Saturday’s Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association meeting, which came on the heels of a murder that broke the city’s record 12-day stretch without one and a drug bust.

“Unfortunately, we had a homicide in the community this month,” WRBA President Martin Colberg said regarding the murder of Eric Roman, 28, on Feb. 13 in front of his 89th Street home. “It’s a sad thing to happen in any community, but to happen here so close to home is especially tragic.”

Roman died the day after he was shot twice in the head.

His was the first murder in New York City in 12 days, the longest stretch without one since the NYPD started keeping such records.

Although representatives from the 102nd Precinct were not at the meeting, Colberg said he is regularly kept up to date with Woodhaven’s crime and policing issues.

“We did invite them to the meeting, we always do, but sometimes we understand they are short-staffed and can’t send a representative,” he said. “But the precinct regularly keeps us updated and we appreciate that.”

Although crime was the no. 1 concern at the meeting, everyday quality-of-life issues were not far behind, with residents complaining of cars blocking driveways and sidewalks that haven’t been shoveled after recent snowstorms.

In one instance, the sidewalk in front of a vacant store on Jamaica Avenue had not been shoveled in days, Colberg said.

“I know the site,” he said. “There’s only a little path and that was made by foot traffic, not by shoveling.”

He said he would take up the issue with the Woodhaven Business Improvement District.

As for illegally parked cars, one resident who rents a garage said she has had a repeated issue of a car blocking it.

She said she has left notes on the car asking for it to be moved, to no avail.

Vance Barbour, a member of the WRBA Board of Directors, noted that often action will only be taken if the owner of the garage being blocked makes the complaint and not someone renting it.

“I’ve had this problem before,” Barbour said. “I would tell your landlord. Let he or she make the complaint.”

Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) attended and spoke about the upcoming state budget negotiations, and noted that he wanted to see more education funding brought to the city.

Miller said he was critical of a plan by Gov. Cuomo to increase education funding by $1.1 billion, but only if certain reforms are carried out, including tougher teacher evaluations, more charter schools and changes in tenure rules.

“If you have $1.1 billion in the fund, give it to our students,” Miller said. “Don’t hold our children hostage.”

Responding to a question about the election of Assemblyman Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) as speaker, Miller, who noted that he supported the failed bid of Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan (D-Sunnyside), said ultimately the body decided Heastie was the best choice.

“If she had 10 votes at the most, that was a lot,” Miller Q said.

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Goldfeder wants lights by underpass Poorly illuminated Rockaway Blvd. site is ‘dangerous’ to pedestrians

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

One area politician is seeking to lead his constituents out of the Dark Ages.

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) is calling on the Department of Transportation to install lights at a Rockaway Boulevard underpass, saying that the lack of illumination at the site has created a dangerous situation for pedestrians who walk by it.

“This dark and dangerous underpass poses a threat to the children and families in the community and is a welcome sign for criminal behavior,” Goldfeder said in a release. “Our families deserve to feel safe walking in their own neighborhoods and I’m urging the Department of Transportation to immediately install lights to help give every resident the peace of mind they deserve.”

Goldfeder says the underpass at Rockaway Boulevard between 99th and 100th streets has no working lights, leaving pedestrians completely in the dark. The closest street lamps are located at 98th and 100th streets.

But according to Goldfeder and those who work and live near the underpass, those lights are not enough to illuminate people’s paths.

Lois Bruno — the parent coordinator for

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder is seeking to end the dark days for the Rockaway Boulevard underpass located between 99th and 100th streets. The politician says the lack of lights is unsafe for PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER pedestrians who walk through it.

MS 137, which is located just a block away from the underpass — said the problem is exasperated during the colder months of the year.

“In the dead of winter, when it gets dark early, it’s more of an issue,” Bruno said.

“The streetlight doesn’t illuminate the walk or the crosswalk. It’s very dark there.”

Bruno, who has been working at the school for eight years, said the underpass has been a topic of concern for school officials and parents for quite some time.

“I think the school has reached out to some of the politicians,” she said. “I’ve heard some people expressing their opinions about it.”

The lack of lights creates problems for drivers in the area in addition to pedestrians, Bruno said.

“When you come out driving from the back of the school, it’s dark,” she said. “If someone is walking there, it’s very difficult seeing them. It can be a little scary.”

She said she has not heard of anything “drastic” happening at the underpass.

Ozone Park resident Shaki Kar said he has heard of crime occurring in the area.

“I know people who have gotten robbed there in the past,” Kar said. “I feel very unsafe.”

Kar said he utilizes the underpass everyday when walking home.

Goldfeder is also urging the DOT to work with the MTA to improve the conditions at the underpass, which is marred by litter and graffiti. The A train runs above it.

“When problems like this underpass arise, it’s important to address them as soon as possible and maintain the quality of life we enjoy,” he said.

A DOT spokesman said in response to Goldfeder’s concerns, “DOT received the letter and is inspecting the lighting and reported vandalism at the location to assess and determine next steps. We will also be in touch with our partners at DSNY about conQ cerns related to litter.”

Process set for CB 9’s DM interviews Evangelista warns members not to text questions to other candidates

by Anthony O’Reilly

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Following a nearly hour-long executive session, Community Board 9’s district manager search committee last Thursday established a process in which the three candidates for the district manager position will be interviewed during the full board’s special March 3 meeting.

Dr. Vincent Evangelista, chairman of the committee, said the three candidates would each be interviewed for 30 minutes.

Evangelista said Lisa Gomes, CB 9’s acting district manager, would go first; followed by James McClelland, a former political aide; and finally Scott Wolff, director of constituent services for Assemblyma n M ichael Si ma now it z (D-Flushing).

Evangelista also said that all CB 9 members would have the opportunity to submit one question for all three candidates. The committee will then pick the top five submitted questions for use during the interview process.

The interviews for all three can-

didates, to take place at Borough Hall at 7:45 p.m., will be conducted during an executive session — closed to all members of the public including the press. The meeting will be reopened to the public when the board is ready to take a vote on the new district manager.

Evangelista also said board members should not be communicating with the other candidates during each interview.

“We have to trust that they’re not going to be texting or emailing or somehow communicating with other candidates about what the questions are,” Evangelista said.

His warning follows rumors that board member Sam Esposito was texting Gomes the questions she would be facing during a January committee meeting.

Esposito has den ied those allegations.

The three candidates up for consideration were picked from a slate of five applicants last month.

Joann Ariola, director of intergovernmental affairs at Medsys Health Network and president of the Howard Beach-Lindenwood

Community Board 9’s district manager search committee set procedure for how the three candidates for the vacant position will be interviewed. The interviews will take place during a special board meeting on March 3 at Borough Hall.

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Civic Association, and Ber yl Nyack, assistant district manager for Community Board 3 in Brooklyn, were also considered for the position but were eliminated from the process.

The board has been looking for a new district manager since Mary Ann Carey retired from the position after 30 years, following months of turmoil between her and

some board members.

Prior to last week’s committee meeting, the Chronicle reported about Esposito’s concern that some committee members would try to sneak one of the eliminated candidates back in for consideration at last week’s meeting.

Esposito voiced those concerns in an email sent to the full board obtained by the Chronicle.

Among his concerns was that Nyack and Ariola had not been told by the committee where they stand in the selection process. Nyack in a phone interview said that as of Thursday she had not been notified

by CB 9 as to where her standing was in the selection process.

The committee did not put either back in for consideration at last Q week’s meeting.

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Sikhs thank DA for indictment of driver Community looks to reduce cases of hate crime throughout the city

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Following the indictment of a truck driver who allegedly ran over a Sikh man in Ozone Park last year, members of the Sikh community are thanking Queens District Attorney Richard Brown for his commitment to the case.

“It’s very important that we feel that the district attorney’s office has been proactive in this case,” Prabhjot Singh said. “I think that there is a commitment from the district attorney’s office to delivering justice.”

Prabhjot Singh is a Sikh man who himself was the victim of a hate crime. He was attacked by a group of men in Manhattan in 2013 and his jaw was broken during the attack.

He said that after Sandeep Singh was run over and dragged through Ozone Park last year, he spoke briefly with the victim’s wife.

“He’s a very resilient man,” Prabhjot Singh said of Sandeep Singh. “He suffered much more than I did.”

Sandeep Singh was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center after the incident and had surgery done to stop internal bleeding.

Joseph Caleca, the man suspected of running over Singh last year, was indicted on Wednesday on charges of hate crime

Members of the Sikh community thanked Queens District Attorney Richard Brown for his commitment to the case of Sandeep Singh, insert, who was run over last year by a truck driver in an alleged hate FILE PHOTOS crime. The driver was indicted by a grand jury last week on several charges. and attempted murder, Brown said in a statement.

Caleca’s lawyer, Murray Richmond, said he is pleading not guilty to all of the charges.

“He’s not guilty of the charges brought against him,” Richmond said in a phone interview.

Caleca is due back in court on April 22 and faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison if convicted of all the charges, Brown said.

A spokesman for the Sikh Coalition, a national advocacy group for members of the religion, said Singh and his family do not want to comment on the case.

Simran Jeet Singh, a senior religion fellow at the Sikh Coalition, also praised Brown for his commitment to the case.

“There is a sense of relief and gratitude knowing that we live in a city that takes seriously the health of this community,” Simran Jeet Singh said. “It’s a step in the right direction for us.”

Simran Jeet Singh, however, said that hate crimes against Sikhs across the country are still on the rise.

“Hate violence is really increasing at an alarming rate,” Simran Jeet Singh said.

He said that while some Sik hs are attacked because of a misconception that they belong to the Islamic faith, many are the victims of violence because of “general xenophobia.”

Caleca allegedly called Sandeep Singh “Osama” and later said “go back to your country” before running him over, according to Brown.

Simran Jeet Singh also said that while educating people on the difference between Sikhs and Muslims is important, it’s more vital to teach people that violence against both are unacceptable.

“It’s very important that as a community we teach people that it’s not okay to attack someone for what they believe in,” Simran Q Jeet Singh said.

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U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) last Thursday introduced a new bill that would allow the Federal Emergency Management Agency to forgive the overpayment of emergency aid to victims of natural disasters, if the funds were given due to a clerical error — similar to one Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) introduced in November.

“Requiring our New York’s Superstorm Sandy victims to repay thousands of dollars in aid, two and a half years after the storm, is a devastating request for many of these individuals and families, because they have already put this money to good use. This legislation will make sure that these victims can keep this much-needed money,” Schumer said in a written statement announcing the proposed legislation. “Much of this disaster aid has been used in legitimate ways to help victims finally get back on their feet after the storm. FEMA should waive all debt among Superstorm Sandy victims and repay those who have already provided recoupment payments, except where there is clear evidence of fraud.”

The senators’ bill would allow FEMA to waive all overpayments that were issued to victims of natural disaster that occurred from Jan. 1, 2012 to the date of the bill’s possible enactment.

The bill is similar to the measure Meeks introduced in November, which would also allow for the waiving of overpayments sent out due to clerical errors.

Schumer and Gillibrand’s bill differs in that it would also require FEMA to “refund disaster victims for recoupment payments made in all cases that would have been waived had this act been in effect when any such payment was made,” according to a statement from the two senators.

“T he victims who received FEM A repayments used those dollars to rebuild their homes and businesses, and for FEMA to come back more than two years later to ask for that money back is unfair,” Gillibrand said. “The funding helped begin the process of rebuilding, and with that work

still underway, we must protect the individuals and families who responsibly used these resources to get back on their feet.”

A FEMA spokeswoman declined to comment directly on the legislation, but said in a statement that “FEMA is committed to being a responsible steward of taxpayer dollars and ensuring that eligible applicants receive the disaster assistance they need.”

“Federal Law requires FEMA and other federal agencies to recover improper pay-

Some homeowners received too much money, FEMA officials have said, due to clerical errors.

Affected residents have received recoupment letters from the agency, asking for as little as $1,000 to as much as $20,000, or an average of $6,586.17.

The bill has also received the support of U.S. Sens. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Cory Booker (D-NJ), David Vitter (R-La) and Q Bill Cassidy (R-La).

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“We are delighted to be working for the first time with Queens Neighbors United in holding a major forum on the New York Police Department and the impact of NYPD tactics on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and communities of color in Queens,” said Pauline Park, president of the Pride House board and its acting executive director, who will moderate the panel.

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ments,” the spokeswoman added. “As of February 5, 2015, 3,644 registrants, two percent of the total number of survivors that obtained assistance, received Notice of Debt letters from FEMA. The total amount of debt identified by FEMA is nearly $24 million which represents about two percent of funds received by Hurricane Sandy survivors.”

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The official announced at her State of the District address last Wednesday at the Langston Hughes Library in Corona that she plans to support legislation to make the idea a reality and will call on the state, the MTA and workers unions to pave the way for commuters to refill cards and view balances online.

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New IDC report finds three of them are near Queens pre-K programs

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An investigation by the Independent Democratic Conference has found that registered sex offenders are legally allowed to live near u n iversal prek i nderga r ten prog ra ms, because they are not recognized as schools by the state. “Right now a dozen predators live near stand-alone programs in compliance with state law — including one man who had sexual contact with a four-year old girl,� state Sen. Jeff Klein (D-Bronx, Westchester) said in a press release. “It’s our duty to protect all children from pedophiles in the spirit of the law and we must immediately close this loophole.�

Registered sex offenders who are under parole or probation are prohibited by the state from living near a school or a facility that cares for children. But the state does not consider the UPK programs, a cornerstone of Mayor de Blasio’s 2013 campaign, to be schools.

Klein’s citywide investigation found five sex offenders living near public schools with a UPK program and 12 who live near a stand-alone program.

In Queens, one sex offender was found to be living near Wave Preparatory Elementary School in Far Rockaway, which has a UPK

According to an investigation by the Independent Democratic Conference, a registered sex offender lives near JC Daywatch Daycare in Ridgewood, which hosts a universal prekindergarten PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY program. program. The investigation also found two sex offenders living near stand-alone UPK programs — one near JC Daywatch Daycare in Ridgewood and one near St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Queens Village.

Klein spearheaded an investigation into sex offenders living near pre-K programs after finding out about one who had moved near a school in Brooklyn. Klein had attempted to close the loophole last year.

A bill to have stand-alone UPK programs be considered schools introduced by Klein passed the Senate but failed to pass the Assembly. The senator is seeking to reintroduce the legislation in the Senate this week.

Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda (D-Bronx) is sponsoring the companion bill. “Allowing convicted sex offenders to live near our pre-schools and kindergartens flies in the face of the intent of the law,� state Sen.

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“However, I am concerned with the way in which Speaker Boehner has handled the situation by politicizing what has always been a bipartisan issue.”

Maloney said, “I am very disappointed by the way Speaker Boehner handled the invitation. However, I will attend this address out of respect for the absolutely essential relationship between the U.S. and Israel.”

Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) — the only member whose district lies entirely within Queens — did not criticize the GOP in her response, saying simply, “The relationship between the US and Israel is too important for it to become a political football.”

Reps. Steve Israel (D-Suffolk, Nassau, Queens) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn, Queens) confirmed their attendance without comment.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Israel depends on bipartisan U.S. support for its foreign policy, while Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) slammed Boehner’s “injection of partisan politics” into U.S.-Israeli relations as “deplorable” but said she “will not boycott the leader of our greatest ally in the Middle East.”

The lawmakers were also asked their opinions on how the administration is handling the talks with Iran. Not all answered that question.

Gillibrand said she is not willing to approve new sanctions against Iran yet but also will not give the administration unlimited time to reach a deal. Schumer has cosponsored a bill that would impose new sanctions if no deal is reached by June 30.

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Despite misgivings about how the invitation to speak was proferred, nearly all federal lawmakers representing Queens say they will attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 address before a joint session of Congress.

Only one of the seven representatives and two senators, Democrats all, will boycott the speech, while the spokesman for another declined to answer when the lawmakers were queried by the Queens Chronicle this week.

Controversy ensued after Netanyahu was invited to speak by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) without the prior knowledge of President Obama, which many Democrats say is a breach of protocol and amounts to interference in Israeli politics because the prime minister will stand for re-election just two weeks later.

They also say it could have a negative impact on the administration’s negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, which the Mideast nation says is for peaceful purposes but many, including Netanyahu, believe is meant to produce weapons that would imperil Israel and drive an arms race in the region.

Netanyahu intends to address the situation with Iran in his speech. Supporters say his message is one Americans must hear.

The administration ratcheted up the rhetoric over the speech Tuesday, when National Security Adviser Susan Rice said in an interview on PBS that the event is injecting partisanship into U.S.-Israeli relations, saying, “It’s destructive to the fabric of the relationship.”

On Wednesday Secretary of State John Kerry said Netanyahu’s judgment on the nuclear talks “just may not be correct.”

But despite the political misgivings many of them have, all members of the Queens delegation to Capitol Hill will attend the speech, except for Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau), and possibly Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan), whose press office did not respond when asked if she would attend.

“It is a breach of decorum for Republicans to break established norms and the bipartisan spirit of cooperation that we have had toward Israel, and I am disappointed in my colleagues for engaging our allies in domestic partisan ploys,” Meeks said in a Feb. 11 press release.

“However, my decision not to attend the speech is in no way a reflection of my support for Israel which remains strong.”

Among the House members attending, Reps. Joe Crowley (D-Bronx, Queens) and Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) issued statements that also criticized Boehner.

“Israel is one of our most important allies and yes, I will attend Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address,” Crowley said in an email.

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Bomb threat at Kew Gdns. tower Suspect previously did prison time for 2008 hoax

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It’s going to take a lot more than this to terrify tough Queens residents.

A 49-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday morning after walking into the office building at 80-02 Kew Gardens Road in Kew Gardens and claiming he had a bomb.

According to police and District Attorney Richard Brown spokesman Kevin Ryan, Scott Sansonkin allegedly entered the lobby of the build i ng around 11 a.m. and said the bomb in his bag was set to explode in two hours.

He was arrested without incident and t he bu i ld i ng wa s eva cu at e d a s a precaution.

According to the New York Post, Sansonkin walked into the lobby and said “This is a bomb, everybody is going to die in two hours.”

Ryan said Sansonkin, whose last known address is on Woodhaven Boulevard on the border of Forest Hills and Glendale, was charged with falsely reporting an incident, second-degree placing a false bomb or hazardous substance, and second-degree harassment.

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a psychiatric evaluation.

Police said the device was not a real bomb, but the “very crude, inoperable” device was made to look legitimate.

The district attorney, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and The IMA Group all maintain office space in the Kew Gardens tower, and a Duane Reade pharmacy and other businesses are located on the bottom floor.

When contacted by the Chronicle on Wednesday, a Duane Reade employee said the incident and subsequent evacuation was “crazy,” but declined to answer additional questions because employees weren’t allowed to speak to the media.

According to Ryan, Sansonkin has a history of threatening to blow up the large, black-glass building that fronts Queens Boulevard.

In November 2008, he was arrested for threatening the FBI office inside the building with a fake bomb.

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Taylor Swift donates to city DOE Music superstar Taylor Swift wrote her name on the “Blank Space” of a check and donated $50,000 to the city Department of Education.

Swift, who months ago moved out of the woods and to Manhattan, had promised to donate the proceeds of her single “Welcome to New York” to city public schools.

Last week, she made good on her promise.

The pop sensation had been criticized after being named an ambassador for the city’s tourism industry, with many people saying she doesn’t deserve the title because she wasn’t born in the five boroughs.

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State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) last week announced two multimilliondollar initiatives by the state Department of Transportation to repave the Clearview Expressway.

After receiving several complaints from constituents about dangerous, pothole-ridden conditions on the Clearview Expressway, Avella reached out to the state DOT asking what could be done to improve the surface of the roadway.

The agency informed Avella of two separate projects, together totaling more than $26 million, aimed at resurfacing the highway, including some exit and entrance ramps.

The agency earmarked $6.25 million to repave the entire 9-mile-long Clearview Expressway in both directions, from the Throgs Neck Bridge to Hillside Avenue. A separate initiative, with a projected cost of around $20 million, is aimed at repaving various exit and entrance ramps, including the 73rd Avenue exit.

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Federal and city officials on Tuesday announced that the Department of Environmental Protection will be reimbursed $116 million after it funded the city’s Rapid Repair Programs, which provided quick repairs to Sandy-ravaged houses after the storm.

“The Rapid Repairs Program helped many Sandy-impacted residents throughout New York City get back on their feet in the wake of the storm by allowing homeowners to stay in their homes while more permanent repairs took place,” U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in a release announcing the funding.

Just a few weeks after Superstorm Sandy, then-Mayor Bloomberg created the Rapid Repairs Program to implement quick, temporary repairs — including replacing furnaces and water heaters — to homes that had been severely damaged in the Oct. 29, 2012 storm.

The city’s Build it Back program, which seeks to implement permanent repairs to storm-affected homes, was created a few months after the Rapid Repairs program.

The city program was funded by the DEP, which paid for personnel, equipment and contractors used to carry out the work.

The reimbursement is being paid out through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Public Assistance Program, according to the release from Schumer.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) also praised the news of the reimbursement, saying it will “make sure New York City taxpayers aren’t stuck with the bill.”

“I will keep fighting for federal investments that help our communities fully recover,” she added.

Mayor de Blasio thanked both senators for advocating for the funds.

“The Rapid Repairs Program was the first part of the City’s multifaceted response to Sandy,” de Blasio said in the release. “We are grateful to Senator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand for their continued advocacy for Sandy-impacted New Yorkers. The addition of these federal funds will ensure that more money can be kept in the pockets of those New Yorkers Q and used for much needed relief.”

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scene and transported the victim to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he subsequently was pronounced dead.

The preliminary investigation, conducted by the NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad, determined that the man was crossing the parkway from south to north when he was struck by a black Acura sedan, which was traveling in the lefthand lane at the time.

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excuse for our friends on the other side to oppose it.”

Depending on what sources and pundits one consults, McConnell’s offer was either capitulating to Democrats or an attempt to lure them into an ambush by forcing them to vote on a measure they could not possibly win with the current makeup of the Senate.

But neither Crowley nor Gillibrand’s spokeswoman seemed eager to call for up-or-down vote in both houses on a clean immigration bill.

Both declined to say that they would accept one with no riders or amendments.

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continued from page 2 the subject,” concurred a spokeswoman for U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).

Gillibrand’s spokeswoman, along with the four House members, called for an up-or-down vote on a clean DHS bill.

A statement on his official web page said McConnell, late Monday, before splitting the bills, offered legislation he believed every Democrat could support.

“This targeted measure would address the President’s most recent overreach from November,” McConnell said. “The bill isn’t tied to DHS funding. There’s no

DR. MARVIN FELLER ANNOUNCES HIS RETIREMENT Dear Patients, Effective March 31, 2015, I will be retiring from medical practice.

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The NYPD was investigating an accident that killed a 63-year-old man on the Belt Parkway early last Friday morning.

Police at the 113th Precinct said officers responded to a 911 call at 5:01 a.m. involving a pedestrian who had been struck in a westbound lane just west of the Van Wyck Expressway at Exit 19.

Upon arrival, officers found the man, who had not been identified as of Monday afternoon pending notification of his family, lying in the roadway suffering from severe leg trauma.

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A Common Cause of Pelvic Pain: What You Need to Know If you feel an urgent or frequent need to urinate, along with pain or discomfort coming from the bladder, you may have interstitial cystitis, also known as bladder pain syndrome or IC/BPS. Robert Moldwin, MD, FACS, and Sonia Bahlani, MD, urologists at the Arthur Smith Institute for Urology, part of North Shore-LIJ Health System, discuss what you need to know about this condition.

How can IC/BPS affect me?

In mild cases, you may only have to deal with the discomfort and urinary frequency. However, moderate to severe symptoms can include the constant need to have bathroom access, limited ability to travel and lack of sleep due to the pain and constant need to urinate. Pain with sexual activity is common and often adds another dimension of misery.

Who gets IC/BPS? Anyone in any age group can get IC/BPS, but it’s usually found in people in their late 20s through their 70s.

Heredity may also play a role: if your parent or sibling has IC/BPS, you are about 17 times more likely to also get the condition.

What causes this condition?

The etiology of IC/BPS is unclear but appears to be multifactorial. The various causes of IC/BPS may include changes in the surface lining of the bladder, nerve abnormalities of the bladder wall and autoimmune problems. The symptoms may also be related to diseases affecting other parts of the body, because 40 percent of patients have other disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, migraine headaches and even depression.

If you or a loved one have any of these symptoms, make an appointment today by calling (516) 734-8500. For more information visit NorthShoreLIJ.com/icbps.

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Because every IC/BPS patient can have a different range of symptoms, our pelvic pain experts at the Smith Institute for Urology will develop a unique plan for you. Therapy generally progresses from the most conservative forms of care (dietary changes and physical therapy) to more “aggressive” management (oral medications, medications placed directly into the bladder and even surgery). Using a variety of approaches significantly improves quality of life in the vast majority of our patients.

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Are there different types of IC/BPS? Yes. About 5 to 10 percent of IC/BPS patients have inflammation (called “Hunner’s lesions”) that can be seen on the bladder surface. In most patients, the bladder wall looks perfectly normal. Further testing will make sure you don’t have signs of infection or any other obvious bladder disease.

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Schwartz says new toll plan good for Queens Notes costs would drop at 5 of 6 boro crossings; opponents still unimpressed

by Michael Gannon Editor

Traffic is increasing, state and federal funding for mass transit is uncertain at best and the five-year capital program for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has a current deficit of $15 billion.

Sam Schwartz believes that he and a coalition called Move NY have the answer.

Schwartz, a former chief engineer and first deputy commissioner of transportation for the city, recently released a variant on proposals he has made before, with the crux once again being the implementation of tolls at bridges leading to and from the most congested parts of Manhattan below 60th Street, or its Central Business District.

New tolls on the Queensboro, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges would be set at the same rate as the Queens Midtown and Hugh L. Carey-Brooklyn Battery tunnels, right now $8 or $5.54 with an E-ZPass.

But tolls would drop by $2.50 per trip on the Throgs Neck, Whitestone and RFK-Triborough bridges.

The Cross Bay and Gil Hodges bridges would go down $1 each way for cash and $1.08 for E-ZPass.

Express bus service also would be reduced by $1 per trip.

“Five of six toll crossings in Queens would see reductions in tolls,” Schwartz said. “Another Queens-centric aspect is that people living in the outer part of the bor-

ough rely on their cars a great deal.

Something that is a little bit different in this plan is that one-quarter of the money collected would go to roads and bridges — about $375 million a year. And as you know, we really need it.”

Schwartz, aka Gridlock Sam, in the Daily News and formerly a columnist for the Chronicle, also said there might be enough money to restore some or all of the bus service that the MTA has not yet replaced after cutting it during the budget crunch of 2010.

He added that Queens residents of places like Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside and other neighborhoods near the Queensboro Bridge and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway would benefit from a reduction in traffic as drivers no longer would “bridge-shop” through their streets just to get to the one crossing in the area that is free.

Schwartz also estimates that 30,000 jobs — many in the highpaying construction trades — would be created. He also said there would be no toll booths, with fees being collected either through E-ZPass or license plate-reading technology.

Nothing could happen without legislative approval in Albany, and Schwartz said he and his backers, including AAA and professional truck drivers, are already looking for sponsors of enabling legislation.

That once again could be the plan’s sticking point.

“This just isn’t something my

Backers of a plan to add tolls to East River crossings like the Queensborough Bridge while lowering them elsewhere say it would add $1.5 billion a year for transit, bridge and highway upgrades. Critics call it a rehash of Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON old congestion pricing plan. people are crying for,” state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said in a conversation with the Chronicle. “Nobody is calling me asking if they can have more tolls. I don’t care if you call it Move New York, Fair Pricing or whatever you want to call it, they’re trying to change stripes on a zebra. It’s Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing all over again.”

In an email from his office, state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) said he has reintroduced a bill to ban new tolls on the East River.

He said while the plan is wellintentioned, “in the end it is little more than a sham.

“While I understand the need

to identify additional revenue to fund the MTA capital budget and necessary infrastructure projects, the latest version of congestion pricing still falls short of being a workable plan,” Avella said.

Avella said the proposal relies heavily on the Legislature creating a “lock box” to make sure the money raised goes to t ranspor t ation improvements and nothing else; and the reduction of existing tolls.

“Just as in the case of the lock box, there is no guarantee that the reduced tolls on the other bridges would remain as such.”

Addabbo also said he does not entirely trust the provision that would limit commercial truck and

delivery drivers who must cross multiple bridges a day to one roundtrip toll per calendar day, provided they use E-ZPasses.

“Look at the plan — one of its provisions is to raise money,” he said, adding that businesses will pass on any increased costs to their customers.

Schwartz said first that the lock box could be largely achieved by bonding for the capital projects, which would lock the government into very specific covenants to come up with the cash to pay bondholders.

He also said state legislators are the ver y people who could craft the guarantees Addabbo and Q Avella talked about.

Queens officials mourn Onorato The former Queens state senator passed away Saturday at age 86

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George Onorato, former state senator of District 12, encompassing areas such as Astoria, Long Island City and Sunnyside, died on Saturday. He was 86.

Before being elected, Onorato, a graduate of Long Island City High School — which was within the district he would ultimately represent — was the secretary and treasurer of Bricklayers Local #41 union for 15 years. He was first elected to represent the 12th District in 1983, succeeding Sen. Anthony Gazzara.

Over the course of his 27-year-long career as state senator, Onorato served as chairman of the Committee on Labor and advocated for working families, senior citizens and young people in working to pass several laws, such as one that called for improved monitoring of toxic substances in workplaces, another that led to better enforced family court orders and

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one that paired sign language interpreters with hearing-impaired crime victims.

In 2009, Onorato did meet some opposition

from members and allies of the LGBTQ community toward the end of his career for stating he would vote against any measure to legalize same-sex unions; the following November, demonstrators held a candlelight vigil in hopes of changing his mind.

In January 2010, Onorato announced his decision to not seek re-election the following November at 82 years of age, supporting thenAssemblyman and now state Senator for the district Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria).

“This is a bittersweet decision,” Onorato said five years ago. “I have greatly enjoyed representing the people of my Senate district, and I have appreciated the confidence and trust they have placed in me over the years.”

Gianaris said Monday in a statement that he will miss his predecessor.

“George Onorato will always be part of the fabric of western Queens,” Gianaris said. “He dedicated his long and happy life to serving

others and making the communities he represented better places to live.”

Other Queens elected officials issued statements Monday paying respects.

“He served Western Queens for many years and was a decent and kind man,” City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) said.

State Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas (D-Astoria) said Onorato was an inspiration.

“This community has lost a beloved leader and friend,” she said.

City Councilman Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria) added he was “deeply saddened” to hear of Onorato’s passing. “He served our community with distinction and will be remembered by many of us,” he said.

Onorato is survived by three children and six grandchildren. He will be laid to rest at St. Michael’s Cemetery at 72-02 Astoria Blvd. in Q East Elmhurst.

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A three-step energy audit could save you $$ If you are winterizing your home to protect against the headache of frozen pipes and potential water damage, conducting a quick, three-step energy audit now can help prevent nasty surprises when the heating bill arrives.

It’s human instinct to increase the heat during the coldest winter days, however, this comes with increased heating costs that can stretch the household budget.

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Having a home energy auditor complete a “blower door” test will allow you to better understand how air f lows through your home. This comprehensive test measures how much air is moving through any cracks around doors, windows and other potential problem areas. A wellsealed home should have no leaks. The energy auditor will also use equipment such as a “smoke pencil” and infrared camera to further assess the home’s overall performance and identify problem areas that need to be addressed.

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Make the most of your home appraisal When homeowners think about renovating their properties, many first need to secure some funding to finance such projects. Some may tap into the equity of their homes by refinancing an existing mortgage, while others may apply for home equity loans. Taking the latter approach may require certain steps, including an assessment of how much the home and property is worth.

Home appraisals compare your home to neighboring properties to determine your home’s current market value.

Homeowners can facilitate the process by having certain information readily available for the appraiser. W hen prepa r i ng for appraisers, homeowners should consider and collect the following information: • If your home was built on the largest lot in the community.

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• Proof that you have used sustainable resources or if you participated in any energy-savings programs.

Naturally, any expansion projects, such as adding another bedroom or extending the footprint of the home, should be mentioned.

A real estate appraiser is a certified, licensed professional who will do his or her best to determine the value of your home. The appraisal provides banks with information that can tell loan officers if the house is worth the loan amount.

Expect to pay a fee for the appraisal, which is generally included in your closing costs.

The appraiser gathers information for the appraisal report from a number of sources, but the process often begins with a physical inspection of the property, both inside and out. He or she also will compare your home against a few others in the neighborhood, which are known as comparables, or comps. Appraisals will be based on recent prices of comparable properties as well as other factors.

Apart from the improvements done to the home, there are other ways to get a higher appraisal amount. The appraiser may consider the overall maintenance of the home and property. It is wise to consider curb appeal and ensure the home is clean and maintained when the appraiser arrives. Minor repairs or common m a i nt e n a nc e c a n i m p r e s s t he appraiser. Removing clutter and cleaning up the home’s interior can make the home appear larger, possibly increasing its value as a result.

It may be worth it to invest some more money into the property before having an appraisal done. A study sponsored by the National Association of Realtors says wood floors, landscaping and an enclosed garage can lead to a more favorable appraisal.

An appraiser will spend roughly 30 minutes in a home.

Try to give that person space to do his or her job. Following the appraiser around during an inspection can raise a red flag that something is wrong with the house that you don’t want to be seen. Turn lights on throughout the house, make sure the heating or cooling system is functioning at full capacity and keep pets locked away. Move items that can impede access to basements or attics.

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Some 37 million residential water heaters gave up the ghost and were replaced over the past five years, according to estimates by the U.S. Department of Energy. While some things get better with age, water heaters aren’t among them.

In fact, the average life expectancy for a new water heater is 10 to 15 years, with the occasional stoic dinosaur making it two decades or more.

If your home’s water heater is approaching or has surpassed the decade mark, you may be looking at replacing it in 2015.

Whether you’re proactive about it or you wait until the appliance fails completely, there are several things you should know about water heater technology, energy efficiency, cost savings and environmental impact.

• Being proactive pays in more ways than one. Replacing an aging water heater is an investment, and you may be tempted to put it off until absolutely necessary. Replacing an old water heater before it stops working, however, has many advantages. When a water heater fails, it can leak and cause damage to your home and belongings, especially if your heater is housed in a finished basement, closet or attic. If you wait until you’re completely without hot water to begin shopping for a new water heater, you may find yourself too hurried to comparison shop.

• Learn the different types of water heaters and compare costs. Two basic types of water heaters are available for residential use: conventional storage heaters that keep water hot in a storage tank, and tankless water heaters that directly heat water as you need it. A residential, electricpowered storage water heater usually costs as little as a few hundred dollars. Gas heaters generally cost more — some

models are upward of $1,000 — but cheaper natural gas prices can offset the added cost in the long run. Tankless heaters are comparably priced, but often are more expensive to install until recently. More on that later.

• A more energy-efficient water heater can save you money in the long term. Heating water accounts for nearly 18 percent of the average home’s overall energy use — the second largest energy expense — and costs a household $200 to $600 per year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. A newer, Energy Star-rated water heater will consume less energy to heat water and reduce the amount you spend on utility bills. Energy-efficient options include solar-powered, high-efficiency Energy Star gas or electric storage heaters and tankless heaters.

• Tankless water heaters are more “doable” than ever before. Because they heat water only when you need it, rather than keeping it hot in a tank, tankless water heaters are more energy efficient. Still, many homeowners have shied away from switching to a tankless heater because of installation costs. Existing water and gas lines used for storage heaters don’t line up neatly and easily with most tankless water heaters, increasing labor costs. Tankless water heater manufacturer Noritz has introduced the Noritz EZTR40 Residential Tankless Water Heater that solves the problem. Designed to replace a conventional 40-gallon water heater, the EZTR40 can use the vent, water connection and gas line already in place without moving anything to achieve a connection. The reduced labor means it costs less for homeowners to have the tankless water heater installed.

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Rozic and Stavisky introduce a measure for technology programs

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State Sen. Toby Stavisky, left, and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic look over a computer program with student Vaughn Garrick at Queensborough Community College. The two legislators cosponsored a PHOTO COURTESY NYS ASSEMBLY bill that would help fund community college technology programs. said Stavisky in a prepared statement.

“Businesses all over New York are clamoring for highly trained graduates with associates degrees to become technicians and it is our responsibility to give students the best training to fill those positions.”

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Two area elected officials have introduced a bill in Albany that if passed would help fund technology programs and job training at community colleges.

Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows) and state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing) announced the legislation Monday during a press conference at Queensborough Community College in Bayside.

The bill calls for the state to set aside money so that community colleges throughout New York could each apply for up to $100,000 to be used for educational, occupational and training services.

New York State’s Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation would play a role in awarding the grants.

The senator and assemblywoman are optimistic that the bill, which would create the Community College High-Technology Investment Program, will pass during this legislative session.

They said they hope the bill will bring attention to the need to invest in educational and job-training programs that support workforce development in Queens and throughout the state.

“Assemblywoman Rozic and I believe that investing in our students is the best way to ensure long-term prosperity in our state,”

facilities and equipment. Having access to those resources would help provide students with the knowledge to succeed in high-technology sectors that foster economic growth.

“For students to take advantage of employment opportunities that require an advanced skillset, it is important that they are learning in an environment that will best prepare them for the careers they want to build,” Rozic said in a prepared statement.

“Funding these programs is an investment that would boost workforce development and generate new businesses in Queens,” she added.

A Rozic spokeswoman said she does not know how much money the bill would set aside.

With them to suppor t the bill were Assemblymembers David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows) and Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside) and QCC President Diane Call.

“This relatively small investment in our community colleges will pay for itself many times over in increased economic activity and new tax revenue,” Braunstein said.

Weprin indicated that QCC was the perfect place to announce the proposed legislation because: “throughout its rich history, has been at the forefront of cultivating and developing leadership programs meant for st udents seek i ng occupation-specif ic Q employment in their respective fields.”

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Hevesi hopes to hammer away at homelessness Newly appointed Social Services chairman hitting the ground running

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

The last two weeks have been some of the busiest in the life of Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills), as he begins his tenure as the newly appointed chairman of the Social Service Committee.

But in a phone interview with the Chronicle last Friday, he said the tall task of trying to stem the city’s growing homelessness rate is work he gladly welcomes.

“It’s a lot of responsibility,” Hevesi said, “and there’s a chance to potentially do good, to really help people that need it.”

In a wide-ranging discussion over how to tackle the city’s record high of approximately 60,000 homeless individuals, Hevesi said New York is embroiled in its “worst homeless crisis since the Great Depression,” but the de Blasio administration deser ves a decent grade despite a 10 percent growth in homelessness in 2014.

“I’ll give them a B-,” he said.

“They’re doing a very good job under very difficult circumstances

... The de Blasio administration, to their credit, is trying to reverse policies enacted under the last administration.”

Hevesi said his committee, which includes Assemblyman Jeff Aubrey (D-Corona), is studying a multitude of ideas to reduce the homelessness rate, but an increase in rent subsidies would be a huge first step toward keeping families on the edge of homelessness out of the shelter system.

According to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, the 2014 fair market rent level for a one-bedroom apartment in Queens was $1,215, while the level for two- and three-bedroom u n its were $1,440 a nd $1,852, respectively.

“First, we need a big push for family eviction prevention subsidies,” he said. “We need to raise housing and rent subsidies to the fair market rent level established by the federal government. I think that’s absolutely attainable.”

In discussing his support of the city’s right to shelter policy, which ma nd ates the Depa r t ment of

Homeless Services house individuals who arrive at the agency’s intake center and qualify for housing, Hevesi urged that such a policy extend to runaway youth, who he says often end up involuntarily involved in sex-trafficking rings or other illegal activities on the street.

“I like the right to shelter law.

As a matter of fact, I want the city to expand that to runaway homeless youth,” he said. “That population is not served at all. It’s really disgraceful what they have to go through. If you catch these kids now, they won’t be going into the criminal justice system.”

Runaway homeless youth are permitted to remain in emergency shelters for up to 30 days before being transferred into the shelter system, but legislation introduced

by Hevesi on Feb. 13 seeks to allow stays of up to 90 days.

“Extending the allowed length of stay,” the bill reads, “from 60 days to 90 days for homeless and runaway youth will undoubtedly assist this particularly vulnerable population.”

Hevesi also called out DHS for placing shelters in communities such as Elmhurst without proper notification, saying the agency’s new policy of giving neighborhoods at least one week’s notice is one he was not comfortable with at all.

“You need way more notice and you need more community input,” he said. “Certainly it should be more than a week.”

In terms of the department’s budget of $953 million, Hevesi said it was something he hopes will decrease in years to come, with the state taking on more of a financial burden through rent and housing subsidies.

“The city needs assistance and the state needs to step up and address the situation,” he said.

“Statewide policies should allow DHS’s budget to decrease over time because people will be staying in supportive housing and enjoying rent subsidies.”

Hevesi cautioned that while a multi-pronged, long-term plan to combat homelessness can and will be successf ul, the de Blasio

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administration will have a hard time slowing the rising number of homeless individuals entering the shelter system in the near future.

“I have suggestions on how we can pull out of this, but the truth is they were slammed,” he said. “The 10 percent growth rate is not over.

The shelter census numbers are Q growing as we speak.”

Hit-and-run case sparks outrage Officials, advocates: Make fatalities while driving unlicensed a felony

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A Corona man was arrested and charged for allegedly striking a woman with his car at the intersection of 76th Street and Woodside Avenue and fleeing the scene in his vehicle, police announced Monday.

The fatal incident, in which Valentine Gonzalez, 27, of Corona allegedly struck a pedest r ia n i n h is wh ite M it subish i, occurred on Sunday a little before 8:38 p.m. Emergency Medical Services, who responded to the scene with police, pronounced the victim dead.

Gonzalez was stopped by police one block away on the corner of 73rd Street and 41st Avenue and was taken into custody.

Tuesday morning, elected officials and community leaders came together across the street from the intersection where the victim, Kunnin Ubonwan, was hit and killed, hoping to shed light on similar accidents around the borough.

In December of 2013, Noshat Nahian, a third-grader on his way to school, was run over by an unlicensed driver of a tractor trailer on Northern Boulevard and 61st Street in Woodside. And, in January 2014, 68-year-old Angela Hurtado was struck by an SUV-driver with a suspended license.

The officials also spoke of 3-year-old Allison Liao, who, in October 2013, was

Officials and Queens advocates for safer streets, inset, met across the street from where 26-year-old Kunnin Ubonwan was run over and killed by an unlicensed driver over the weekend.

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mowed down by an SUV driver making a left turn in Flushing as Liao crossed Main Street at Cherry Avenue. The tickets the driver received were for failure to exercise due care and failure to yield to a pedestrian and his license was revoked for 30 days.

Cristina Furlong, from the group Make Queens Safer, said unlicensed driving is major problem in Queens.

“Queens North Borough Patrol wrote over 545 tickets in January alone for unlicensed driving,” Furlong said. “That breaks down to 84 tickets here in 110th Precinct, 41 tickets bordering the 108th Precinct and 245 tickets in January alone in the 115th Precinct for unlicensed drivers.”

State sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria) originally introduced the bills S2539 and

S2484 to the state Senate in January 2014.

“Unfortunately the law in New York has not caught up with the facts in these situations,” Gianaris said.

Valentino, the driver who hit Ubonwan on Sunday before fleeing the scene, faces greater charges because he drove away.

“It’s time that we say ‘Give us the keys to your car, give us the registration, give us a license plate,’ because that person who commits these kinds of crimes does not belong behind the wheel,” state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing) said.

A s s e m b l y wo m a n M a r g e M a r k e y (D-Maspeth) is sponsoring an accompanying bill in the Assembly.

“Current laws are not tough enough if reckless drivers like Valentine Gonzalez are still able to drive on our streets,” said Assemblyman Francisco Moya (D-Jackson Heights), a supporter of the bills.

Marco Connor, from the group Transportation Alternatives, said unlicensed drivers are twice as likely to cause a fatality.

“There is a lack of understanding of the level of accountability that goes along with operating a lethal vehicle,” Connor said.

Gianaris urged that unauthorized drivers whose accidents result in deaths Q should go to jail.

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The MTA is hoping proposed alterations to the Q58 and B26 bus routes will help make the intersection of Palmetto Street and Myrtle and Wyckoff avenues in Ridgewood that much safer for pedestrians.

In a joint meeting of Community Board 5’s Transportation and Public Transit committees on Tuesday, MTA representative Luke DePalma said the agency wants to remove the two buses from traveling westbound along Wyckoff Avenue on the Queens border and instead place their routes on Ridgewood Place one block south in Brooklyn.

“We have Brooklyn’s support on this and we really want to solve this component of this dangerous intersection,” DePalma said.

“We want to implement this as soon as possible so we’re looking for spring implementation on this.”

The transit hub containing multiple bus routes and subway lines has been a hotbed for traffic collisions in recent years, with three pedestrians being fatally struck by buses at the intersection since 2013.

The MTA’s proposed rerouting plan calls

for the Ridgewood-bound Q58 traveling southbound on Putnam Avenue to travel one block past Wyckoff Avenue, where it presently makes a right turn, and instead make a right on Ridgewood Place.

The bus would then continue for three blocks before turning right onto Palmetto Street, where it would travel two blocks north to the intersection of Myrtle and Wyckoff avenues where the route ends.

The plan also calls for the Ridgewoodbound B26 moving westbound on Wyckoff Avenue to turn left on Putnam Avenue and continue on the same proposed route as the Q58 toward its terminus at the same intersection.

The B26’s Downtown Brooklyn-bound route, which includes eastbound travel on Wyckoff Avenue, would not be impacted.

T he me a s u r e wa s u n a n i mou sly approved, with Transportation Commitee Co-Chairman John Maier saying it was a plan he expected area residents to like.

“I don’t think you would find any Ridgewood people really complaining about this,” Maier said. “That segment of Wyckoff between Palmetto and Putnam is not a pleasant place to be with all the traffic.” Q

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CB5 committees hear Ice Jewelry: where the owners can relate to their clients bus rerouting pitch

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

Free Parking Available or by Train M or R to 63rd Drive Station they treat everything like it’s a one-shot deal and we don’t do that,” Elias said.

In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, watches Recently, a woman and her boyfriend went into and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also offers instant cash an unassuming gold buying and cash loan shop on loans for jewelry and eBay selling services.

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

The plight of the worker who’s hard-up for cash For those who are less Internet-savvy or just don’t in today’s economy is something that Arthur Elias have the time, Ice Jewelry Buying offers a convenient and Edward Goldberg can relate to firsthand, eBay sales service. If what a customer has isn’t an having been laid off from their jobs in jewelry item that Ice Jewelry Buying would purchase, like manufacturing. They understand that people get a handbag or antique furniture, they can help find into situations where they just need a little cash fast a buyer on their eBay store. Elias consults with the to make the bills and Ice Jewelry Buying Service customer to find a target price and hopes to help out in the most STORE HOURS let the Internet auctioneers handle honest way they can.

“For this, I like to think we’re MON.-FRI. 11 am - 7 pm the rest.

For anyone who has ever dealt doing the community a service,” SAT. 10 am - 6 pm SUN. by Appointment with the hassle of selling and Elias said. “We’re in the business of helping people who are in a tough icejewelrybuyingservice.com shipping an item on eBay — all the forms involved in setting up a user spot. They can come to our store and paypal account, the 10-15 percent fee that Ice and know that we can educate them on what they Jewelry Buying charges to do all the work is really a have and we’ll give them what their items are worth. bargain deal.

When that woman told me her previous offer, it made “At the end of the day, I just want people to feel me wonder how many times this happens — how comfortable doing business with us. People have many people who really need that money get taken this conception of gold buying stores as these slimy advantage of?” places with slimy people, and they’re typically right.

Elias opened his Rego Park shop with Goldberg But we want to be different. I don’t think it’s cool to in 2009, and already they’re seeing a lot of repeat see someone buy a ring for $200 and put it in their customers and referrals. This is a sign to them that counter for $800. We don’t do that.” they’re doing something right — the pawn business Ice Jewelr y Buying Ser vice is located at typically deals in one-time transactions but Elias is 98-30 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park. Hours of operation determined to break that mold, building a reputation are Monday-Friday from 11 am to 7:00 pm and on trust.

Saturday 10 am to 6 pm; Sunday – private “Everyone around here is buying gold these days; appoinments are available. Call for more information you can go into the barber shop down the road and Q (718) 830-0030. sell your jewelry. The problem with all these places is

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Daycare bust continued from page 5 the alleged sale of drugs at the site prior to conducting the raid.

Brown said an undercover cop bought marijuana from Gomez outside the daycare center on Feb. 3. Another cop allegedly bought MDMA and marijuana from Gomez, again outside the daycare, on Feb. 17.

During both alleged sales, children were entering and exiting the daycare center, Brown said.

Berca Gomez had told other media outlets that she was unaware of the

alleged sales.

According to the Depar t ment of Buildings, the cellar where Gomez lives is an illegal conversion and the department ordered it be vacated in 2012.

Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association President Martin Colberg brief ly mentioned the bust at the civic’s meeting last Saturday.

“What we know is the drug bust was in the basement apartment of the location and that there is a daycare upstairs,” Colberg said. “The police tell us that the daycare owners said they didn’t know Q what was going on.”

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Assembly Dems mum on Silver indictment Feds allege extortion, bribes and kickbacks in three-count complaint

by Michael Gannon Editor

Shelly who?!?

In mid-January, Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) was arguably the most powerful politician in New York State, the 21-year speaker of the state Assembly; a man many legislators bragged about being close to, and whom all feared to cross.

What a difference four weeks — and a three-count, 25-page federal corruption indictment — can make.

In a survey of members of the Queens delegation to theAssembly, most lawmakers did not respond to a request for comment on the charges that could have the 70-year-old Silver facing more than two decades in federal prison, charges that include extortion.

Most who were reached declined to comment either on the phone or through spokespeople.

And every one of them has voted at least twice to return Silver as speaker.

Those who did comment said they were far too busy conducting the people’s business to be bogged down by the scandal, not even mentioning Silver by name.

Assemblywoman Marge Markey (D-Maspeth) boasts on her official website that she is “part of the senior leadership in the Assembly” in bold capital letters.

But in a statement to her constituents, also sent to the Queens Chronicle, she made only one reference to new leadership.

“After a brief period of uncertainty, my colleagues and I in the Assembly have selected a new speaker,” she wrote. “...

Events of the past weeks have put a sharp focus on several ‘bad apples’ among elected officials, but I believe it is wrong to vilify, by extension, all greatest majority[sic] of honest, hard-working legislators who are committed to doing their very best for the people of New York State.”

A federal grand jury last week, as expected, handed up an indictment against former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon FILE PHOTO Silver.

Yet when she was running for re-election in 2012, Markey said Silver was the key to the deal that turned the site of the old Elmhurst gas tanks into Grand Avenue Park.

She said she and Congressman Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx) arrived very late to a meeting with KeySpan Energy officials to negotiate for the site’s acquisition.

“When we got there Shelly came out and said, ‘You can have the land for a dollar,’” Markey told the Chronicle in 2012.

Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows) also

responded without mentioning Silver by name.

“While I have been staying informed on the unfolding indictment details, I remain sharply focused on the work ahead in improving bus service, providing tax relief for homeowners and expanding workforce development initiatives that create opportunities for Queens families,” Rozic said in an email.

Silver, forced to step down as speaker, remains in the Assembly as a common member. None of his other colleagues from Queens would comment at all Professor Michael Krasner, who has taught political science at Queens College for more than four decades, specializes in New York government and politics. He said if the charges against Silver eventually prove to be true, it didn’t need to be that way.

“It’s sad to think that corruption could reach the point where it extends to this level,” Krasner said. “He was at the peak of New York politics ... It would be nice to think that if someone has risen to that level of power and influence, that would be enough.”

Krasner believes some members of Silver’s inner circle might have feelings of trepidation at this point.

As for Gov. Cuomo’s performance, Krasner believes it was a mistake to have shut down his own Moreland Commission investigation right at the time it appeared to be getting close to Silver; the move prompted U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who is prosecuting Silver, to open his own investigation.

The professor credited Cuomo for largely trying to stay out of the way once the accusations against Silver became public.

The three-count federal complaint alleges that Silver “engaged in a secret and corrupt scheme to deprive the citizens of the State of his honest services as a legislator and as Speaker of the Assembly by using the power and influence of continued on page 36

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You’re an officer who has been called to an apartment complex where two men are having a physical altercation. As you approach the individuals, you notice they are intoxicated and you attempt to deescalate the situation by talking to them. Then, one picks up a bottle and smashes it across the head of the other, knocking him out.

What do you do?

At a special National Action Network Queens Chapter event on Monday, civilians were able to strap on a police duty belt and experience the split-second decisions police officers have to make almost daily.

The Fire Arm Tactical Simulator is like an incredibly realistic video game where “players” are put into various scenarios to see how well they’d perform as real officers on the force.

“The typical altercation involving a gun takes about four seconds on average,” Det. Joe Augusto, an

off icer with the Firearms and Training Unit and instructor at the Police Academy, said. “That’s an incredibly dangerous, high-adrenaline experience happening in a matter of seconds. It isn’t like the

“We can judge and say whatever we want, but we don’t know what these officers go through every day.”

— The Rev. Phil Craig

movies where you see shoot-outs lasting hours or minutes. You don’t have time to think, so our hope with the new recruits is, they’ll automatically use the skills they were trained in.”

NYPD recruits use the FATS as part of their basic training. The officer-hopefuls train all day and receive critiques from instructors until they can adequately enter, analyze and de-escalate every situation thrown at them.

Usually, recruits step into the FATS having already sat through lectures, classes and demonstrations, but NAN participants had to go into it cold.

“We can judge and say whatever we want, but we don’t know what these officers go through every day,” said the Rev. Phil Craig, pastor of the G reater Springfield Community Church, where the event was held, and president of the NAN Queens Chapter. “It’s a time you can have fun and a time to interact with the officers. As you know, there’s been a whole lot of heat between citizens and officers, but I can assure you, these officers down here have lives just like we do.”

Recent i ncidents i nvolvi ng police officers fatally shooting

Det. Pat De Canio, right, of the NYPD’s Firearms and Training Unit, helps a volunteer through a Fire Arm Tactical Simulator that is used at the Police Academy to train rookies on de-escalate confrontations and the use of PHOTO BY TESS MCRAE lethal or nonlethal force. civilians have infuriated many activist groups, and led to a lot of tension within the city. That

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The sold-out crowd roared with every bucket, reminiscent of the 2010-2011 season when the Johnnies last made the tournament, and the players fed off the energy.

With the seconds winding down, Lavin removed the popular Harrison, one of the best players in school history, from the floor. He emotionally waved goodbye to the crowd, but was put back into the game immediately in order to let him finish the game with his fellow seniors. “I put him back in so he can share the huddle and some time together as a group,�

Lavin said, “because all five of them have been through so much.�

The Johnnies had to sweat out the win over Xavier, as the Musketeers were able to erase its 28-20 halftime deficit to just two points in the game’s final moments. A Xavier defender was able to steal the ball from D’Angelo Harrison with 12 seconds left, but Myles Davis missed a buzzer-beater and the Red Storm escaped with the win. “We make things dramatic for no reason,� Harrison said after the game.

You may remember the Red Storm’s 11-1 start to the season, which earned them a No. 15 ranking in the AP Top 25 in December.

But after losing its first three games and six of its first eight contests in Big East play, the Johnnies seem to have recaptured some of their early season momentum.

ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi, in his Monday mock bracket released prior to the win over Xavier, had St. John’s as 10-seed if the tournament started today, but in order for St. John’s to truly secure an NCAA Tournament berth by the end of the regular season, I think they need to win two of its final three games.

That won’t be easy, as the docket contains Saturday’s home finale against Georgetown and subsequent road contests with Marquette and conference leader Villanova.

Despite the tear the Red Storm have been on lately, I have a very tough time definitely saying St. John’s will win any of those games. If you want my official prediction, I say the Johnnies sandwich a win at Marquette between a tight loss to Georgetown, who seem to be the Red Storm’s Kryptonite, and a defeat at the hands of Villanova.

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hese last two weeks of the Red Storm’s regular season are going to be like a game of blackjack.

All the chips are on the table and St. John’s has a hand of 15 and the dealer has 20. The margin of error is so small and the stakes are huge.

In a basketball sense, the stakes are high for both the players, the head coach and the program.

The four seniors who see regular playing time — D’Angelo Harrison, Sir’Dominic Pointer, Phil Greene IV and Jamal Branch — are desperately clawing towards their one and only NCAA Tournament appearance before they graduate in May. The head coach, Steve Lavin, who has one year left on his contract, is on the bubble himself. If he leads his team to the tournament, an extension to keep him in Queens would be probable.

If not, St. John’s may very well be accepting resumes from far and wide. Even Lavin himself acknowledged the speculation his job may be in danger this last week.

With so much on the line, the Johnnies needed to sweep its two home games this past week to better its tournament hopes.

And sweep they did in dramatic fashion.

On Saturday, the Red Storm seniors said goodbye to Carnesecca Arena in dominating fashion, throttling a free-falling Seton Hall squad 85-72 in the final regular season game at the Queens school’s campus home this year.

The Johnnies followed it up with a wild, back and forth 58-57 victory over Xavier at Madison Square Garden, in which the Musketeers missed a game-winning shot in the final seconds.

St. John’s has won five of its last six tilts and now sit at 19-8 with an 8-7 mark in conference play.

The Red Storm wanted to end their Carnesecca careers in style over the weekend, and boy did they ever.

Pointer scored a game-high 22 points while Greene poured in 20 of his own, including a dagger three that put the game away with roughly five minutes left.

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CTK hoops star named CHSAA MVP Christ the King boys basketball star Rawle Alkins may not have enough room in his trophy case by the time he graduates. The junior baller was named the Catholic High School Athletic Association’s Most Valuable Player last Saturday in recognition of his stellar season in which he averaged 20 points-per-game.

The Royals, the reigning CHSAA city champion and state Federation Tournament champion, went 20-4 this season thanks to Alkins’ efforts and seem poised to contend for even more championship banners this year.

The guard recorded the first tripledouble in school history earlier this season and has since recorded such a stat line twice more, including in a Feb. 15 game against Stepinac when he scored a season-high 37 points.

Alkins is quickly becoming one of the more sought after college recruits in the area, with elite schools such as Kentucky and Kansas going after the junior hard.

“This year has been the best,” Alkins tweeted after learning the news.

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continued from page 34 the NYPD Explorer program and adults jumped at the chance to play a “real cop.”

Not surprisingly, almost all the volunteers — this reporter included — failed miserably at resolving the situations presented. Most participants spent too much time trying to reason with individuals who showed no sign of being reasonable or got caught up in the hostility of the perpetrators.

“I thought about using my taser, but that’s a big guy,” one participant, dealing with a turnstile jumper, joked. “I mean, I could take him, but he’s huge, I don’t think a taser would do anything to him.”

Almost everyone approached the situation in a cool, level-headed manner.

Many called the aggressors “sir” and remained as polite as possible.

“There comes a point when the perp is no longer ‘sir,’” said Det. Pat De Canio, an officer with the Firearms and Training Unit, who led par ticipants through the exercises. “If he’s trying to fight you, he’s not a ‘sir’ anymore. At first, you want to ask, then you want to tell them, but sometimes you have to make them.”

While the room was filled with laughter and the mood remained light for the most part, the pur pose of the event, according to the officers, was really to

continued from page 34 his official position to obtain for himself millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks ...”

The indictment charges that Silver “did commit extortion” by obtaining “hundreds of thousands of dollars” from a pair of real estate developers who were required to retain a specific real estate law firm; and “patient referrals worth millions of dollars” from a doctor to a law firm that employed Silver.

The government alleges that Silver subsequently steered state money from a pot he controlled to the doctor’s research interests. It also charges that once that pot of money was used up, Silver gave him no more because he would have had to disclose too much information to get it released.

The complaint also charges the former speaker with honest services mail fraud and wire fraud.

But it did not contain a pair of conspiracy allegations that were listed in the complaint released in January.

Silver’s defense attorneys, Joel Cohen and Steven Molo, issued a statement last week.

“Our client is not guilty,” the statement said. “We can now begin the fight for his total vindication. We will do our fighting where it should be done: in Q court.”

address the elephant in the room.

“The media likes to por t ray the NYPD as heartless people who shoot their guns all the time,” Augusto said.

“This past year, there were only 80 incidents of a gun discharging; that includes accidental discharge and when an officer is forced to put down a dog. That’s the lowest we’ve seen in a while.”

The officers showed a bar graph that compared the number of times a civilian was shot and killed by an officer in various cities from 2001 to 2013. Phoenix, with seven out of every 1,000 officers having killed someone, was by far the highest. Miami was second, followed closely by San Diego, Los Angeles and Chicago. At the bottom of the list was the NYPD, in which .333 out of every 1,000 officers have killed a civilian.

“So you see the idea that New York police officers are shooting people all the time is just not tr ue,” Raymond Caroni, commanding officer of the Firearms Training Unit, said. “We continually have the lowest number of fatal shootings out of ever y major city in the country.”

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Like an ocular dose of vitamin D, flower exhibit flourishes in winter

by Cristina Schreil

RARE BLOOMS Resplendent renditions of flora such as sunflowers to peonies to roses to crimson asters to quince blossoms to tulips to birds of paradise seemingly sprout from the walls, pulling viewers into stunning little worlds.

While the pieces are not reality-recording photographs or even glossier, hyper-photorealistic paintings, the works are clearly drawn from life.

“These kinds of paintings, they’re so charming,” Patrick Byrnes, gallery manager and painter, said. “They’re easy, I think, to interface with.”

The pieces were painted in the back studio space over a period of one to four days, based on flowers brought in from a nearby Queens florist. Byrnes said the painters had to work quickly with the delicate freshly cut blooms before they wilted.

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Flowers, anyone?

In a pocket of 11th Street in Long Island City, among a network of forward-thinking institutions reinforcing the neighborhood’s modern art reputation, one studio reaches back to the 19th century, acting as a temple to mastering the classical discipline.

Grand Central Atelier — once known as Water Street Atelier and located on 44th Street in Manhattan — moved to Queens last year. Behind its unassuming entrance, instructors aim to create a structured workspace for artists aspiring to creating drawings, sculpture and paintings from life.

And, as it happens, the studio’s gallery, Eleventh Street Arts, which displays selected works from portraits to still lifes to landscapes, also offers a burst of color with a temporary exhibit of flower paintings.

Until March 20, the first day of spring, a radiant collection of more than 20 flower paintings created by apprentices, graduates and instructors graces the walls.

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boro EXHIBITS

Free art classes: Latin American Cultural Center of Queens at ARROW Community Center, ages 8-16, 35-30 35 St., Astoria, every Tue. & Thurs., 4:30-6 p.m. and Sat., 10-11:30 a.m. Info: (718) 261-7664, laccq@aol.com.

“In Search of Arcadia,” an exhibit of Taiwanese abstract artist Jessica Pi-Hua Hsu, whose art is inspired by music, dance, meditation, nature and classical culture. Tue.-Sun., 11 a.m.-7 p.m. thru March 22. Hwang Gallery, 39-10 Main St., Suite 303, Flushing. Info: (212) 225-8400, hwanggallery.com.

COMMUNITY

“Counterfeiting for Cash,” a group exhibition examining notions of authorship and authenticity. Weekends, 12-6 p.m., weekdays by appointment only thru March 21. Opening reception: Fri., Feb. 27, 7 p.m., “Painting, Painthing and Paintthing, (the verbs),” with new drawings and paintings transforming personal anecdotes into abstract concepts by artist Wieteke Heldens. Flux Factory, 39-31 29 St., Long Island City. Free. Info: (347) 669-1406, fluxfactory.org.

“Polit-Sheer-Form!” China-based art collective tackles the question of “we” in a “me” world. Galleries 1 and 2 thru March 8 at the Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Corona. Info: (718) 592-9700, info@ queensmuseum.org.

Abstract artist William Mastrogiulio, Austin Ale House. Mastrogiulio’s paintings, on display until March 22, explore harmony and dissonance. 82-70 Austin St., Kew Gardens. Free. Info: Vikki Jensen, (908) 578-5005, vikkidroid@gmail.com.

“Literary Devices,” a collection of literary-inspired sculpture, paintings and more by more than 30 artists. “Four Walls Slide and Film Club Candy Sampler,” featuring work from more than 20 artists and live music, Sat., Feb. 28, 2 p.m. Fisher Landau Center for Art, 38-27 30 St., Long Island City, thru March 15. Free. Info: (718) 937-0727, flcart.org.

“Art in the Garden—Paul Lin: Botanical Therapeutic Art.” Paul Lin transforms natural materials such as petals, feathers, twigs and leaves into stunning landscapes and portraits. Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing, until April 12. Info: (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org.

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W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G

“Isamu Noguchi, Patent Holder,” featuring inventions and designs created in the years leading up to the 1939 World’s Fair. Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Pkwy., Jamaica, thru March 19. Info: stjohns.edu/about/events/isamu-noguchi-patentholder-designing-world-tomorrow.

THEATRE East River Ensemble, captivating Chinese music and acrobatic dance, Sat., Feb. 28, interactive workshop, 1 p.m., performance 2:15 p.m. $4-$13.

(718) 463-7700, ext. 222, flushingtownhall.org.

Live Read: “Reservoir Dogs,” part of Q.E.D. Astoria’s monthly script-reading series. Tues., March 3, 8-10 p.m., 27-16 23 Ave. $5. Info: (347) 774-0292, brandoncol@gmail.com, qedastoria.com.

Red Cross disaster preparedness presentation, by The Red Cross. Attendees will receive a comprehensive overview on how to prepare for natural and man-made disasters and how to respond to and recover from them. Thurs., Feb. 26, 8 p.m., American Martyrs Church, 79-43 Bell Boulevard, Bayside.

“The Legend,” by artist Wieteke Heldens, will be on display as part of an exhibit at PHOTO COURTESY FLUX FACTORY Flux Factory.

“The Sound of Music” by Theatre By The Bay, the community theatre group of Bay Terrace Garden Jewish Center, 13-00 209 St., Bayside, Sat., March 7, 14, 21 at 8:30 p.m. and Sun., March 8, 15, 22 at 3 p.m. Tickets: $22 adults, $20 seniors and children under 12. Info: (718) 428-6363, theatrebythebayny.com.

area, is holding auditions, Mon., March 16, 23, 30, 1-3 p.m., The Selfhelp Austin Street Senior Center, 106-06 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills. Info: Tenia (718) 592-0178, David (718) 275-0244.

MUSIC

Celebration at the office of City Councilman Danny Dromm: Free arts & crafts workshop for kids and traditional drumming and lion dancing. Sat., Feb. 28, starts 11 a.m., St. James Episcopal Church, 84-07 Broadway, Elmhurst. Info: danieldromm.com.

“Perceptions of Beauty,” showcasing music combining clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano by the RAM Players, Wed., March 4, Fri., March 6., 8 p.m., Little Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. (718) 392-0722.

FILM “Birlesen Gönüller” (“Two Hearts As One”): Newlyweds Niyaz and Cennet are forced to separate when war rears a violent and chaotic head.

Turkish film screening, Thurs., Feb. 26, 7-8:40 p.m., Kaufman Astoria Movie Theater, 35-30 38 St., Astoria. $15. Info: Anne, (718) 482-8263, info@tccqueens.org.

Classic movie series. Queens Central Library, 88-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica, “To Sir, with Love,” Thurs., Feb. 26, 2 p.m. Info: queenslibrary.org.

The Month of Sci-Fi: Science fiction-themed radio, film and parody includes “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” Fri.-Sun., Feb. 27, 8 p.m., Feb. 28 and March 1, 2 p.m. Chain Theatre, 21-28 45 Road, Long Island City. $10-15. Info: variationstheatregroup.com.

AUDITIONS The Melodians, a group of seniors who entertain at senior homes, rehabs, hospitals and veterans’ associations in the Forest Hills and Rego Park

LUNAR NEW YEAR EVENTS

Chinese and Korean music, dance, arts and food, with paper-cutting portraits, opera and a tea-making performance. Sat., Feb. 28, 10 a.m. Flushing Library, 41-17 Main St. Info: queenslibrary.org.

KIDS/TEENS Kids Story and Craft afternoon, every Monday, 3:30 p.m., thru March 30. Toddler Time, weekly story time for toddlers with picture books, songs, laughter and learning. Repeats every week on Wed. and Fri. noon, thru Wed., March 25, Auburndale Library, 25-55 Francis Lewis Blvd., Flushing. Info: Marguerita Rowland-Chao, (718) 352-2027, Marguerita.Rowland-Chao@queenslibrary.org.

Queensborough President’s Advisory Council’s Town Hall, part of the council’s activity programming uniting government representatives and those within the disabled and seniors healthcare community. Event focus on the state’s budget. Fri., Feb. 27, 10 a.m.-noon, Queens Boro Hall, 120-55 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens. Info: Charlie Hope, (718) 380-3000, ext. 201, chope@queenscp.org.

Shabbat Across America, part of a nationwide program wherein people gather in synagogues to celebrate Shabbat. Fri., March 13, 7 p.m., Havurat Yisrael, 68-60 Austin St., Forest Hills. $10 for newcomers. Info: (718) 261-5500 or email hyoffice18@yahoo.com by March 11.

Benefit for Benjamin: The benefit is to help the family of Benjamin, who has leukemia, with expenses. Sat., Feb. 28, 3-7 p.m., inside the shopping center, 60-10 Queens Blvd., Woodside. Info: Victoria Panos, benefitforbenjamin@yahoo.com.

Empire Casino trip: St. Josaphat’s Leisure Club, Wed., March 11, bus leaves parking lot 9:30 a.m. $25. Info: Joy (917) 921-7631.

Free immigration services. First and third Wed. of each month, City Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley’s district office, 71-19 80 St., Glendale.

Make appt. for help with naturalization and deferred action for childhood arrivals. All services are confidential and open to the public. Info: (718) 366-3900.

CLASSES

Preschool children’s programs: Monday Magic Learn & Play, every Mon., 3-4:30 p.m., Bay Terrace Center, 212-00 23 Ave., Bayside. Gym and Creative Exploration, every Wed., 3-4:30 p.m. Little Neck Site: 58-20 Little Neck Pkwy. $5 per family. Info: Amanda, (718) 423-6111 x242, ASmith@sfy.org.

Cooking Vegan with Evelyn, a class explaining nutritional value of ingredients. Mon., March 2, 1:30-2:30 p.m., Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills. Advance registration requested. Members, free, nonmembers, $3. Info: (718) 268-5011, olderadults@cqy.org.

Friday Night Teen program sponsored by the Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens. Every Fri., 6-7 p.m. for middle school students and 7-9 p.m. for high school students, Maurice A. Fitzgerald P.S. 199, 39-20 48 Ave., Sunnyside. $10 registration req’d. Info: (718) 728-0946, vbgcq.org.

Turkish cooking class, Thurs., March 5, 6:308:30 p.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, $20 pp, preregistration required. Contact: (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com.

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Noguchi exhibit provides a beautiful culture clash

by Christopher Barca

One of famed Japanese-American landscape artist Isamu Noguchi’s most Turn your head to the left and you’re notable qualities was his seamless ability on a famous Ford assembly line in early to switch between the two vastly differ20th-century Detroit. ent cultures, and some of his wide-rangLook to your right and you’re standing ing work can be viewed inside the Jamaiprecariously on top of a half-built New ca college’s Sun Yat Sen Hall for free until York City skyscraper.

March 19.

Look behind you A piece as quinta nd you c a n s e e essentially American Founding Father Benas his proposed jamin Franklin flying chrome and nickelWhen: Through March 19, a kite with a key tied plated bronze montimes vary to the string during a ument to Franklin’s thunderstorm. elec tricit y experiWhere: Sun Yat Sen Hall, Stare straight ment sits mere feet St. John’s University, ahead and you can from his Atsumi-san 8000 Utopia Parkway almost feel the dust wa shboard figure, stinging your face as and the culture yo u s e e a n o o s e clash is something dangling from a that has always faswooden contraption in the Wild West. cinated gallery director Parvez Mohsin.

But peek your head around the divide “He lived between two cultures which inside the Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery on are vastly different, but aren’t we all like the campus of St. John’s University, and that in this country?” Mohsin said. “You you’re transported to a quiet sunken gar- can actually see in his work he was very den in rural Japan, lit only by Gifu much American but also Japanese.” lanterns.

The tour through the gallery, “Patent Associate Editor

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Isamu Noguchi’s Japanese and American heritage are on full display at the Geoffrey Yeh PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA Art Gallery on the campus of St. John’s University.

Holder: Designing the World of Tomorrow,” developed to celebrate the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the 1939-40 and 1964-65 World’s Fairs held in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, begins with a video detailing Noguchi’s upbringing in Japan as the son of a Japanese man and

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Musicians unite at Astoria’s Olde Prague Tavern to jam, hoping to generate a greater love PHOTO COURTESY MICHAEL WEINSTEIN for bluegrass. players) who wish to dabble in bluegrass, with each strummer earning an occasional shot at center stage to let his or her strings vibrate out.

Since McKeon took over in 2011, the Bluegrass Jams have gained momentum and he aspires to see a following in Astoria.

“I hope to see this become more of a destination. Maybe Olde Prague could become

a bluegrass haven for Queens,” he said.

“The music that happens there is magical.

It’s great to see 15 people take the stage with no rehearsal or sense of what is going to be played next and just knock it out of the park. I really hope to see live music take over the bars again. Everyone has a TV at home to watch football. Not many of us Q have a 15-piece live band.”

Queens Zoo celebrates Year of the Sheep 2015 Join us for a Chinese cultural celebration dedicated to animals and good fortune!

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Meet our sheep and enjoy traditional performances by a local theater group, Chinese Theatre Works.

Other special activities include calligraphy workshop and special crafts.

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This Chinese Theater Works production was paid in part with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Studio teaching classical techniques blossoms continued from page page 00 37 continued from of voices, styles, flavors and interpretations.

One piece depicting dried flowers, “Winter’s bouquet,” by Katie Whipple, employs a silvery palette and unusually thick texture, Byrnes pointed out. Tiny, complex details abound in Whipple’s interpretation of a bouquet of dried flowers — the only dried ones featured in the exhibit. In another, “Roses in a mason jar,” by Rodrigo Mateo, a thinly painted, muted background suggests a simpler approach, but the roses pop toward viewers, appearing to have velvety petals people can reach out and touch.

“The birds of paradise,” by Sam Hung, is rendered crisply and smoothly as it captures summery sunlight hitting the tropical bulbs in one radiant moment. Tiny rubber ducks are scattered around the bouquet and look so real within the painting’s world.

In “Flower study,” by Emilie Lee, some roses appear to slump with fatigue. Presenting the blossoms in the state in which most people see flowers evokes the feeling that Lee painted a slice of everyday life.

The exhibit quickly invites a deep affection for the pieces and for the discipline of capturing life.

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“Garden Roses with Pewter Pot,” by Brendan Johnston, is one of several paintings exhibiting flowers at a gallery in Long Island City. On the cover: More flowers by various artists.

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But in an age when snapping photos is the go-to way of preserving memories, the studio’s return to a painting-from-life approach also comes against some artists’ and art critics’ views that the discipline is retroactive or

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The gallery’s regular exhibit showcases landsc apes, s t ill lifes, por tra it s and sculptures.

“This is so much more than a photo — it’s Sam’s way of processing information in front of him,” Byrnes said of one still life in the main exhibit space.

He pointed out the glints of light on bottles and the brightness of a strip of paper in the scene, reinforcing how the paintings unveil how each artist scrutinizes the world.

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Noguchi exhibit continued continued from from page page 39 00 radio, sketches of the set he designed for a Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear, a sculpture to honor skyscraper-building laborers, a model for a memorial to Buddha, a photograph of his Chassis Fountain built for the 193940 World’s Fair and examples of Akari Gifu lanterns showcase his unique global artistry, according to Mohsin.

“He was a real world citizen and a world traveler,” Mohsin said. “He was one of t he f ir s t t r ue a r t is t s t hat embraced the whole world as his working place.”

A few of the finished products are accompanied by Noguchi’s original designs hanging on the wall, something Mohsin said is meant to give the attendee a front row seat into the mind of a “true American genius.”

“We’ve laid it out in a way where students and visitors can see how he would start from a brainstorming process and what would become the model he would present to the client,” he said.

The man who designed and constructed stone gardens in both Jerusalem and New York settled in Long Island City for the latter portion of his life, with the Noguchi Museum opening in 1985

across the street from his apartment.

And Mohsin said it was only fitting to showcase Noguchi’s diverse art at one of the most diverse schools in arguably the most diverse 109-square-mile chunks of land in the world.

“We wanted to bring this to farther reaches of Queens and bring Isamu Noguchi to the Jamaica community,” he said. “Queens is one of the most diverse places in the world. That’s why we bring Q exhibitions of this kind.”

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SQ page 48 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, COUNTY OF HORRY, Civil Action Numbers: 2014-CP-26-08037, Westwind Homeowner’s Association of Myrtle Beach, Inc., Plaintiff, vs. Mortiz Chanuna and Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, Defendants

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, COUNTY OF HORRY, Civil Action Numbers: 2014-CP-26-07922, Westwind Homeowner’s Association of Myrtle Beach, Inc., Plaintiff, vs. Marcus Hanouna, Defendant

SUMMONS TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE-NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscribers at their office at 1271 Glenns Bay Road (physical address only), P.O. Box 14737 (mailing address), Surfside Beach, South Carolina 29587, and to file your answer in the office of the Clerk of Court for Horry County, all within thirty (30) days after the service hereof; exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for judgment by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint and a judgment will be rendered against you. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that the Plaintiff in this Action will move for an Order of Reference or that the Court may issue a general order of reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53, of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending in this court upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendants for Foreclosure of an Assessment Lien recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Horry County at Lien Book 226 at Page 182. The premises covered and affected by the Assessment Lien were at the time of the making thereof, and at the time of the filing of this Notice, described as follows: All and singular, that certain Unit known as Unit 1406 of “Westwind Horizontal Property Regime”, as shown on the Plat prepared by Terry M. Watson, R.L.S., dated July 26, 1985, and filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Horry County, South Carolina, in Condominium Plat Book B at Page 460, reference to which is made as forming a part and parcel of this description. Subject, however, to all of the provisions of the Master Deed, dated February 17, 1984, and filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Horry County, South Carolina, in Deed Book 875 at Pages 220-263, and any and all supplements thereto. Together with all appurtenances thereto according to said Master Deed, and the Grantee assumes obligations under said Master Deed including, but not limited to, the payment of the assessment for the maintenance and operation of the unit and common elements, and subject to the provisions of the By-Laws of the Westwind Homeowner’s Association of Myrtle Beach, Inc. and to all other reservations and restrictions of record, easements and rights of way of record, including those as set out in the aforesaid map. This being the identical property conveyed unto Moritz Chanuna from Marcus Hanouna by deed dated April 18, 2005 and recorded April 22, 2005 in Deed Book 2898 at Page 512, records for Horry County, South Carolina. TMS #: 181-13-25-110 PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1301 Pridgen Rd., Unit 1406, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577, MOORE, JOHNSON & SARANITI LAW FIRM, P.A., Elizabeth J. Saraniti (SC Bar #: 16150), Attorneys for the Plaintiff, P.O. Box 14737, Surfside Beach, SC 29587, (843) 650-9757 (843) 650-9747 fax

SUMMONS TO: THE DEFENDANT ABOVE-NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscribers at their office at 1271 Glenns Bay Road (physical address only), P.O. Box 14737 (mailing address), Surfside Beach, South Carolina 29587, and to file your answer in the office of the Clerk of Court for Horry County, all within thirty (30) days after the service hereof; exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for judgment by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint and a judgment will be rendered against you. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that the Plaintiff in this Action will move for an Order of Reference or that the Court may issue a general order of reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53, of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending in this court upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendant for Foreclosure of an Assessment Lien recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Horry County at Lien Book 226 at Page 209. The premises covered and affected by the Assessment Lien were at the time of the making thereof, and at the time of the filing of this Notice, described as follows: ALL AND SINGULAR, that certain Unit known as Unit #901 of “WESTWIND HORIZONTAL PROPERTY REGIME”, as shown on the Plat prepared by Terry M. Watson, R.L.S., dated July 26, 1985, and filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Horry County, South Carolina, in Condominium Plat Book B at Page 460, reference to which is made as forming a part and parcel of this description. SUBJECT, however, to all of the provisions of the Master Deed, dated February 17, 1984, and filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Horry County, South Carolina, in Deed Book 875 at Pages 220-263, and any and all supplements thereto. TOGETHER with all appurtenances thereto according to said Master Deed, and the Grantee assumes obligations under said Master Deed including, but not limited to, the payment of assessments for the maintenance and operation of the Unit and common elements, AND SUBJECT to the provisions of the By-Laws of the WESTWIND HOMEOWNER’S ASSOCIATION OF MYRTLE BEACH, INC., and to all other reservations and restrictions of record, easements and rights of way of record, including those as set out in the aforesaid plat. This being the identical property conveyed unto Marcus Hanouna from Norma P. Hauser by deed dated December 19, 2000 and recorded December 20, 2000 in Deed Book 2328 at Page 619, records for Horry County, South Carolina. TMS #: 181-13-25-065, PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1301 Pridgen Rd., Unit 901, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577, MOORE, JOHNSON & SARANITI LAW FIRM, P.A., Elizabeth J. Saraniti (SC Bar #: 16150), Attorneys for the Plaintiff, P.O. Box 14737, Surfside Beach, SC 29587, (843) 650-9757 (843) 650-9747 fax

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: IDA DESIGN LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/02/2015. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to IDA DESIGN LLC, 29-09 137TH STREET, 1G, FLUSHING, NY 11354. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

LIVING CITY PROPERTY GROUP LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/2/2015. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1554 146th St., Whitestone, NY 11357, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

MARIC 1867 LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/4/14.

Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 19-53 46th St. Astoria, NY 11105. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

MINTO JONES 32ND AVENUE LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 1/1/15. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Earlyn Jones, 6659 Knottwood Ct., Baltimore, MD 21214. General Purposes.

Notice of Formation of Kayam Cab LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/20/15. Office location: Queens County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: Aharon Kayam, 67-48 198th Street, Flushing, NY 11365.

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LUCKY ARNOLD LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 1/14/15. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to De Sena & De Sena, 9611 101st Ave., Ozone Park, NY 114162521. General Purposes.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 2/10/2015, bearing Index Number NC-001227-14/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) MICHAEL (Last) DU. My present name is (First) MINGCAN (Last) DU (infant). My present address is 134-38 Maple Avenue, Apt. 3G, Flushing, NY 11355-4516.

My place of birth is CHINA. My date of birth is October 23, 2001.

Notice of Qual. of Cadre Astoria 21-81 38th LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/6/15. Office loc: Queens County. LLC org. in DE 1/5/15. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to 666 Fifth Ave., 15th Fl., NY, NY 10103. Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served is NRAI, 111 Eighth Ave., NY, NY 10011. DE office addr.: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp: any lawful activities.

STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWABS, INC., ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-4, Plaintiff, vs. any unknown heirs to the Estate of JAMES FEARON, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, creditors, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest, as well as the respective heirs at law, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest of the aforesaid classes of persons, if they or any of them be dead, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff; Defendants.

Filed: 2/4/15 Index No.: 18457/11 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Mortgaged Premises: 194-17 116th Road Saint Albans, (City of New York) NY, 11412 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is for the foreclosure of: Mortgage bearing the date of April 7, 2007, executed by James Fearon to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. to secure the sum of $441,000.00, and interest, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Queens County on April 30, 2007 in CRFN: 2007000223202.

That Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. duly assigned said Note and Mortgage to THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-4 by Assignment dated July 1, 2011 and recorded on September 13, 2011 in the Office of the Clerk of Queens County in CRFN 2011000324558.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the Mortgaged Premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the County in which the Mortgaged Premises is situated.

Block: 11065 Lot: 58 DATED: January 29, 2015 Rochester, New York 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.

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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. DAVIDSON FINK LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 28 East Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, New York 14614 Tel: (585) 760-8218 WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. SCHEDULE A: LEGAL DESCRIPTION ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Queens, City and State of New York known and designated as Lot 26 and 27 in Block 19 on map entitled, “Map of property at Hollis 4th ward, Borough of Queens, New York City surveyed and drawn November 1907,

by Thompkins and Lenter, surveyor and Engineer and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens on May 29, 1912 as Map # 892 (New Map# 1775) more particularly bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the northerly side of 116th Road, Distant 160 feet easterly from the corner formed by the intersection of the northerly side of 116th Road and the easterly side of 194th Street; Running Thence northerly parallel with 194th Street 100 feet; Thence easterly parallel with 116th Road 40 feet; Thence southerly again parallel with 194th Street 100 feet to the northerly side of 116th Road; Thence westerly along the northerly side of 116th Road 40 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING.

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Times Square Stores come and go

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Jamaica is one of the oldest developed areas in Queens. It was known as a hub of commerce and business at a time while most other areas were still sleepy farmland.

Hillside Avenue had a string of battery and tire shops accented with gas stations and auto dealerships early on in the 20th century.

In 1929 George J. Seedman opened his auto supply shop, Times Square Stores, at 148-02 Hillside Ave. in Jamaica. The catchphrase on his sign was “Where Buying Is A Pleasure.”

In just 10 years he had nine other locations in Queens selling just auto supplies.

TSS headquarters were located at 765 Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn, near Seedman’s home.

By 1940 his success had earned him, his wife, Ellen, and their son, Richard, a summer home in Lawrence, LI, complete with live-in cook and nurse.

After World War II Seedman decided to turn his business into a discount department store, one where he would lease out space in his locations to vendors. TSS became known as a “poor man’s” Alexander’s or E.J. Korvette. He did well, mainly through his nine

Times Square Stores at 148-02 Hillside Ave. in Jamaica, April 1931. stores in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

Seedman’s last ambitious project was his store in the Metro Mall in Middle Village in the 1980s. He decided to remove the vendors from his stores and have TSS run the departments itself to save money, but it didn’t work.

The famous business filed for bankruptcy and closed its doors on Dec. 31, 1989, with 2,875 people losing their jobs. Some of its locations became Caldors, which themselves went out of business a decade later.

Seedman passed away in September 1996, just three months shy of his 100th birthday, Q in Palm Beach, Fla.

Money on Mayweather

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

The world can rejoice now that Floyd Mayweather has agreed to fight Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on May 2. Since Pacquiao already has some losses on his record, it’s crucial to the boxing and payper-view industries that Mayweather stay undefeated at all costs for now at least.

My guess is that Pacquiao will outbox Mayweather but the judges will award the fight to Floyd in a split decision. The inevitable outrage from the public and the media, which the promoters and fighters will be counting on, will spur a rematch that will even do better business. Manny will win that bout, which of course will set the stage for the rubber match — which will generate more dollars than the gross national product of most third-world countries.

The problem that boxing will now face is whether fans will want to pony up any payper-view money for pedestrian bouts with such headliners as Vladimir Klitschko, Bryant Jennings, Sergio Martinez, Miguel Cotto, Adrien Broner and Danny Garcia, who are now the biggest names in the sport.

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The Knicks made no secret that the rest of this season is lost when they agreed to buy out Amar’e Stoudemire’s contract and then announced that Carmelo Anthony would be undergoing knee surgery and wouldn’t be expected back until training camp in October.

Stoudemire’s contract was due to expire at the end of this season, and the Knicks were gracious in allowing Amar’e to leave so that he could sign on with a playoffbound team. Stoudemire was subsequently signed by the Dallas Mavericks, where he is reunited with center Tyson Chandler.

It’s a shame that Knicks fans never got to see the dominating player that Stoudemire was when he starred on the Phoenix Suns. He certainly gave it his all as a Knicks player, and that is why you never heard him get booed in spite of his hefty contract, which never matched his limited production due to the myriad of injuries Q that he endured.

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