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Willets Point a coup for developers Contract has affordable housing clauses, but $99M in city grants

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dollar can still go pretty far these days. You can spend it on a small cup of coffee, a can of soda, a hot dog (outside of Citi Field). Or it could buy you 23 acres of Willets Point.

The Department of City Planning on Monday certified Sterling Equities’ and the Related Companies’ plans for the Phase 1 redevelopment of the Iron Triangle.

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The $3 billion project promises to bring a shopping mall, hotel, remediation and affordable housing to the heart of North Queens. But the land won’t cost much for the duo, which has adopted the name The Queens Development Group for the joint venture. And previous promises for community givebacks in the form of affordable housing are not ironclad in the text of a contract dated Aug. 1, 2012 between the developers and the city’s Economic Development Corporation.

In reality, several conditions laced into the 151-page contract allow the Mets’ development wing and Related to walk away from the project if it amounts to bad business. It also contradicts previously stated reasons for the delayed construction of the affordable housing.

All this, for a dollar: The development group that includes the Mets’ real estate arm recently bought 23 acres of Willets Point for $1, part of a contract that is laced with clauses allowing the FILE PHOTO developer group to walk away from the deal.

Dollars and Sense The 23-acre parcel set the two companies back one buck. But the project also came with a reduced price tag of more than $100 million through tax savings and grants, according to the contract.

When the plan first faced public review in 2008, some members of the community and elected officials were wary of plans allowing a private developer to remake all 62 acres of

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Affordable housing was added as the big-ticket selling point, and a plan was approved in November 2008. The community has been waiting for the affordable housing ever since.

The developer’s contract with the city, however, is laced with clauses that would allow the QDG to back out of affordable housing promises.

Ramping up At the heart of the matter rest additional exit ramps off the Van Wyck Expressway, which were necessary to mitigate the impact on the area’s infrastructure.

The contract requires the 23 acres be cleaned up first. QDG rolled out the plan on Monday touting the benefits of the remediation of the area.

But after the cleanup, only the ramps’ creation blocks the affordable housing.

Those exits off the highway offer a bedeviling conundrum within the contract, just as they do in real life.

For example, should the city not follow through on building the ramps before Dec. 1, 2025, Sterling and Related will not be penalized for ditching the affordable housing component.

If, however, QDG is behind schedule on the affordable housing, it faces a $35 million fine in 2012 dollars, not matching a rise in inflation.

“It’s probably a higher penalty than you’ll find anywhere in the country for a project of this scale,” said an EDC spokesman.

But the most bizarre part remains the development group’s complete control over when the ramps are built, which is explicitly stated in the contract. continued on page 42

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Feds come to aid of Rockaway rail plan Two area congressmen expected to throw support behind train idea

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Supporters of restoring rail service to the long abandoned Rockaway LIRR line may be about to get a major break in their favor.

A source familiar with the plan to bring transit back to the line, which runs from Rego Park to the Rockaways and has been abandoned since 1962, said it will get the backing of the two Congressmen representing southern Queens.

The source says Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) and Greg Meeks (D-Jamaica), whose districts meet at the Ozone Park section of the line, will endorse the proposal and push to allocate federal transportation subsidies to study a plan for bringing rail service back.

The rail idea has been championed by officials in the Rockaways, especially Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park). Supporters of reactivating the line, which connects to the LIRR’s main route into Penn Station at Rego Park, say it would drastically cut commute times for Rockaway residents, which are among the highest in the city. When the LIRR went to Rockaway Park in the 1950s, it took only about 40 minutes to get from the peninsula to Penn Station. Today, a ride on the A train could take more than twice that.

Supporters also argue that the rail line would help spur development in an area that was devastated by Hurricane Sandy.

The plan to reactivate rail service, which has been championed by Goldfeder almost since he came into office in 2010, would run a train, perhaps an extension of a subway line, into the Rockaways and through Ozone Park, Woodhaven, Glendale, Forest Hills and Rego Park. Some versions of the plan feature

The section of the old Rockaway Beach LIRR line in Glendale runs right alongside homes on 81st Road and through the parking lot of the Forest Crescent apartment building.

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the line turning off at Atlantic Avenue toward Brooklyn or at the junction with the Long Island City spur of the LIRR in Glendale.

The last train ran down the line in June 1962 and the route south of Rockaway Boulevard is now occupied by the A train.

The news comes after New York Times opinion writer

Eleanor Randolph penned a column last weekend about the other proposed plan for the line — the Queensway.

That idea, which would turn the three-and-a-half-mile stretch of abandoned rail line into a Queens version of Manhattan’s High Line, would feature bike and walking trails throughout its entire length.

It has its local supporters, most notably outgoing Community Board 9 Chairwoman Andrea Crawford. Gov. Cuomo’s administration provided $400,000 toward a feasibility study for the High Line idea in January. The money was allocated to parks advocacy group The Trust for Public Land, which said it will embark on a “listening tour” of the communities around the rail right of way to see what is desired there.

In her column, Randolph said the Queensway “would bring more green space, open air and recreation to a borough where parks can be as crowded on weekends as Times Square.”

The plan would also seek to develop restaurants and shops along the line.

She said the idea “offers far more promise than a forest that only thickens while people nearby yearn for places to walk, ride, snack and play.”

But both plans have their opponents, including many of those who live closest to the right of way.

Neil Giannelli, a resident of 98th Street in Woodhaven, made his — and his neighbors’ — opposition to the Queensway plan, and rail service, known at the March 12 Community Board 9 meeting, showing off a petition he passed around to his neighbors. Gianelli’s backyard runs right up against the line.

“Out of all the residents who signed this petition on the block, only one person wanted a train,” Giannelli, who founded continued on page 21

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Ozone Park toxic site to be cleaned up TCE found in former LIRR station once used to store aircraft parts

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Entrances to some of the 28 bays under the abandoned Rockaway Beach LIRR line on 100th Street in Ozone Park, PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER which were once used to house aircraft parts. The bays are slated to be cleaned of TCE. A small public school, PS 65, is located a block away.

According to Carey, the company will remediate the TCE at the site in two ways. One way is to vent the TCE from the ground in the air. Though it sounds dangerous, the amount of TCE that will be vented in the air will be too small and controlled to pose any significant risk and officials and civic

leaders have called for Community Air Monitoring Plan to be part of the final project.

“It would only have a minor affect in the air,” Carey said.

The other way End Zone will clear the site is excavating soil from the bays and trucking it off site to be cleaned.

End Zone is expected to give CB 9

its final plan to clear the site of TCE at the board’s April 9 meeting. They were expected to make the presentation on March 12, but a representative from the company said it had just secured final access permits from the city that day.

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A section of Ozone Park near a now-closed industrial site is slated to be cleaned nearly half a decade after discussions into the process to clear out toxic chemicals at the location.

The 12,000-square-foot state Superfund site located between 99th and 100th streets and 101st and 103rd avenues under and around an elevated segment of the old Rockaway Beach LIRR branch was used by aircraft manufacturer Ozone Industries as a place to store parts and supplies for decades after the railroad abandoned the viaduct in 1962. Ozone stored the parts in 28 bays under the railroad where the former Ozone Park LIRR station was once located.

Below the ground at the location, there is a contamination from trichloroethene, or TCE, that likely came from oils or solvents that washed off stored aircraft parts and other metals. TCE has been linked to cancer and disorders of the central nervous system.

Ozone Industries operated out of a

sprawling factory across 100th Street until the late 1990s and the bays were used to store materials until 1998. It’s successor company, End Zone Industries, has been tasked with the cleanup of the site.

Community Board 9 District Manager Mary Ann Carey has been in discussions with End Zone about the site for five years. “This project goes back a long time,” she said.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation took soil and groundwater samples at the site in 2004 and 2005 and gas sampling and testing in seven of the bays in July 2005. They conducted further testing and samplings through 2011.

End Zone was tasked with cleaning the site in 2008 and has been working to get final permits to do the work. The LIRR right of way is city-owned property.

A fence store was formerly located in the bays under the trestle and it is adjacent to two banks, a paving stone supplier, a plumbing company, Five Star Electric Corp’s 101st Street headquarters and some newer homes.

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Traffic issues worry PS 63 community Parent was hit by car on March 12, neighbors say streets are gridlocked

by Stephen Geffon Chronicle Contributor

Ever since her first day on the job three years ago, PS 63 Principal Diane Marino has been complaining about cars double-and triple-parking by the school causing a danger for students and their parents. But her protests had gone nowhere.

Marino said that her request for a traffic light in an intersection near the Ozone Park school has been denied by the city Department of Transportation, who concluded after a study that there were not enough accidents to warrant a traff ic light. The DOT did not immediately return a request for comment on this story.

However, after a parent was hit and injured by a Jeep on 90th Street near the school on March 12, Marino attended a meeting of the 106th Precinct Community Council the next day to personally express her complaints to the precinct’s commanding off icer, Deputy Inspector Thomas Pascale, and the members of the council.

“Every morning, every afternoon, it’s terrible,” said Marino.

Pascale said that he would personally meet with her to discuss what options are available.

Marino said that in the morning in addition to city buses and school buses clogging the streets, traff ic is backed up on Sutter Avenue from the school at 90th Street, west to Bayside Cemetery at 84th Street and east to Cross Bay Boulevard — a length of about 10 blocks.

Some residents of 91st Street have complained that they are unable get off their block during the school’s dismissal time because the double parkers and cars block their driveways.

A number of local off icials expressed their concern about the situation.

“I have personally visited the area and I am concerned by the significant lack of traffic control to deter speeding vehicles,” said Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (DRockaway Park). “School officials, parents and community leaders have been fighting for safer streets for too long and they should not have to wait for a tragic accident to get results. I recently sent a let-

ter to the Department of Transportation urging them to take every action necessary to keep our families and children safe on their commutes to school.”

State Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) suggested another approach - looking into a street that can be closed down for 25 minutes during dismissal time noting that one of the streets closed near the school would have minimal impact on the residents but a huge impact safety-wise for the students.

“PS 63 does fit in the category where one of the side streets can be closed down, but we need the cooperation of the police department and certainly the school’s administration and others, and everybody has to cooperate,” said Addabbo.

Addabbo said he believed that his resolution was feasible.

“It’s only for the school year, it’s only for five days, it’s only for that period of time,” he added. “We shouldn’t have to react to an injury and let alone to a fatality, we should look to prevent these incidents from happening and that’s

Double- and triple-parked cars causing traffic tie-ups outside PS 63 before and after school has many nearby residents and school officials concerned, especially after a parent was struck by a car earlier this month.

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my goal.”

Councilman Eric Ulrich (ROzone Park) did not respond to a request for comment on the story.

Marino’s complaints at the council meeting appear to have brought some results.

On March 14, officers met with

her to discuss her complaints, she said a few days after the meeting.

They told her that there would be an increased police presence at the school in the morning and at dismissal time and promised enforcement action against the double-and Q triple-parkers as needed.

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The world’s greatest city verall, we agree with Mayor Bloomberg that the news the city is growing is good news indeed. New York’s population has been declining for decades, as was its reputation until the early 1990s. Now the various improvements in life here, starting with the dramatic reduction in crime, are paying off at the most basic level: People are voting with their feet, endorsing the Big Apple as the world’s premiere metropolis.

Unlike the mayor, however, we recognize that there is bad news too in the fact that there are more New Yorkers — 8,336,697 of us in 2012, according to the U.S. Census Bureau — than ever before.

It’s great that we have so many young people, because an aging society is not a leading, dynamic society, but it’s not so great that the schools are so overcrowded, especially here in Queens, where the problem is worse than anywhere else in the city. Build more schools.

It’s great that we have so many immigrants, because that’s America, as symbolized by the statue in our harbor, but the influx does result in a culture clash at times, and it’s discouraging that so many people here apparently cannot read, for example, this newspaper. Teach them English.

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It’s great that people are living longer than ever before, but our healthcare system is overwhelmed, as evidenced by everything from future Medicare financial projections to the crowding at hospitals here. Open more medical centers.

Still, the mayor is right to tout the many improvements that have been made in New York, at least some of which he deserves a share of the credit for.

The ongoing drop in violent crime rates over the last 20 years is astonishing. The murder rate is less than one-fifth of what it was at its peak in 1992, with 419 killings last year compared to 2,245 then (sometimes cited as 2,262).

Curbing crime is a municipality’s prime responsibility, and you’d be hard-pressed to find any other statistic that’s been improved by 80 percent. Bloomberg deserves credit for keeping Police Commissioner Ray Kelly on the job.

Longevity is at an all-time high, with people living an average of 80.9 years. Bloomberg deserves credit for his fights against unhealthy food and smoking, though at times his tactics have been heavy-handed.

There are many other social metrics that may be part of the reason more people are coming here. But whatever the cause, we should all be proud to say we are New Yorkers.

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Quinn no shoo-in Dear Editor: Remember past City Council Speakers Gifford Miller and Peter Vallone Sr. both lost their respective Democratic mayoral primaries. Just like Miller and Vallone, Speaker Christine Quinn believes she is qualified to become mayor (“Quinn’s quest for Queens’ support,” by Tess McRae, March 14).

Quinn should avoid the appearance of any conflict of interest by resigning the office of City Council speaker today. She should end the charade and be honest enough to run fulltime for mayor on her own time and dime.

Hardworking municipal civil servants work full-time. They can’t campaign part-time during the day like Quinn. They would have to either take a leave of absence or quit their day job.

While Quinn talks about her concerns over the middle class facing an affordability crisis and attempting to make ends meet, her loyal council members have no problems making ends meet. Never shy around a camera or microphone, Quinn quietly issued checks for 50 percent of each council member’s annual awarded lulus of between $4,000 to $28,000 per year for chairing a committee or subcommittee. These supplement a $112,000 base salary. The base salary plus lulu is three times what an average constituent earns for a job officially classified as part-time. Employees would never see such treats from their respective employers. © Copyright 2013 by MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. All rights reserved. Neither this newspaper nor any part thereof may be reproduced, copied, or transmitted in any form, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilming, recording or by any information retrieval system without the express written permission of the publishers. This copyright is extended to the design and text created for advertisements. Reproduction of said advertisement or any part thereof without the express written permission of MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. is strictly prohibited. This publication will not be responsible for errors in advertising beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. Bylined articles represent the sole opinion of the writer and are not necessarily in accordance with the views of the QUEENS CHRONICLE. This Publication reserves the right to limit or refuse advertising it deems objectionable.

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Pass the antismoking bill nly fools and hopeless addicts smoke cigarettes.

And that includes the so-called social smokers who might light up after a few drinks and not do it again for a week, because guess what — many of them wake up one day and find they’re hooked.

It’s a deadly addiction. As has long been said, cigarettes are the only legal product which, when used as directed, will kill you.

It’s a shame that to reduce smoking, smokers have to be turned into pariahs, but society has such a stake in sweeping the habit into the dustbin of history that it’s worth it.

And so we find it easy to support Mayor Bloomberg’s latest initiative against smoking: forcing retailers to keep all cigarettes and other tobacco products out of view.

The goal, of course, is to reduce the chance that youngsters will start smoking. The method is to introduce legislation to the City Council — a vast improvement over the big-soda-ban-by-executive-fiat debacle. We understand the concerns of bodega owners that the bill could hurt business, but in this case, they’re selling poison. Let sales fall. Let’s see the Council pass this one unanimously.

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Fix the Muni-Meters Dear Editor: The city has installed new Muni-Meters, presumably to make parking more convenient for New Yorkers. However, these new meters, which have now replaced 99 percent of the old ones, leave much to be desired. Many do not yield the full time paid for, and patrons often get shortchanged. Some do not get serviced regularly for paper, and cannot cough up the token receipts. Some do not accept coins, while some refuse credit cards, and can cause severe annoyance and inconvenience. A few patrons have lost their credit cards in these meters. Vital personal and financial information can be compromised as a result.

On a windy day, you may get unfairly ticketed because receipts can flip over on your dash-

board, and the overzealous, quota-driven agent may write you a ticket — never mind their refusal to grant the five-minute grace period. It seems the older meters are more appropriate for communities where people do not have bank accounts, much less credit cards.

These inconveniences add to the chagrin of drivers, who are saddled with the unenviable task of hunting for a parking spot, only to be rebuffed by bad meters. The unnecessary expense of parking tickets adds up, especially in these economic times.

The receipts also contribute to a messy landscape, when drivers irresponsibly throw them away on sidewalks adjoining businesses. Business owners, who already have to contend with aggressive violations issued by the Department of Environmental Protection, pay an additional price for the actions of these litterbugs.

The city’s Department of Transportation needs to monitor these cash cows more to ensure consumer satisfaction. After all, the total amount of fines collected from individuals and businesses rose from $479 million in

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not be replaced — and an awful precedent set to take parkland elsewhere. History is not kind to those who forget its lessons, nor to the memory of legislators who permit to be desecrated what should be held dear.

Jon Torodash Kew Gardens The writer is a candidate for City Council in the 29th District.

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What’s really repulsive Dear Editor: In the March 14 issue, Robert LaRosa reached a new low in his attempt to make a case for the Democrats (“Republicans are repulsive...”). In his first paragraph he wrote that Obama was “the one responsible for dragging this country out of the ditch Bush and the GOP put us in.”

I would like to present Mr. LaRosa with some facts I have noted before on this page but no one has been able to address. The Sept. 30, 1999 New York Times stated that “Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mor tgage loans ONLINE among low and m o d e r a t e Miss an ar ticle or income people.” letter cited by a writer?

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“From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us. If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.”

When George W. Bush became president, he did nothing since home ownership was rising. The Democrats with their mantra of “affordable housing” had no problems with what was going on. I suggest Mr. LaRosa go to You Tube and search “2004 Fannie Mae Hearings” to see for himself that I am telling the truth.

Then-Sen. Barack Obama received over $111,000 from the Fannie Mae PAC, which was one of the highest amounts received by anyone in the Congress. Obviously Fannie Mae appreciated the senator’s support. At this point, Fannie Mae has cost taxpayers way over $100 billion.

To solely blame Republicans for the housing collapse is not supported by the facts. If Mr. LaRosa believes I am wrong let him respond. However, he has to be specific and not level charges without backing them up.

Mr. LaRosa finished his letter by writing “the Republican ‘children’ in Congress cry about losing a presidential election, twice, to a black man.” To bring up the race card to imply that Republicans are racists is itself racist, and a despicable thing to write. The only thing that is repulsive is Mr. LaRosa’s letter.

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Dear Editor: By putting a price tag on NYC’s parks ($15 million for an unclear promise of “capital improvements”), Community Board 7 has effectively helped set a precedent that may endanger all parkland in New York City.

The board’s failure to represent the opinion of the residents only compounds the astonishing Parks Department betrayal of its public trust to preserve and protect the parkland by cosponsoring the USTA’s ULURP (Uniform Land Use Review Procedure) application.

Developers, their lawyers, and their lobbyists will all be watching the outcome of this decision closely, slavering over their own potential stake to privatize what belongs to us all, and avail themselves of open green space that is vital to public health and well-being.

The USTA claims it is a responsible community partner, but the evidence does not speak favorably to this. This newspaper featured community activists trying to raise a paltry $2,500 for advocacy efforts in preserving the NY State Pavilion (“Pavilion not ready for its closeup yet,” March 7, multiple editions). Having been in Flushing Meadows for over 30 years, what has the USTA, with its revenues just last year of $275 million, done to preserve its own backyard and help this cause? Quite as little or nothing as it has done to preserve the West Side Tennis Club’s Forest Hills tennis stadium, which sits in disrepair, and faced a potential razing for the sake of condo overdevelopment.

The USTA left Forest Hills when, according to its own website (usta.com/AboutUSTA/National-Tennis-Center/Infor ma tion/14189_History_of_the_USTA_Billie_Jean _King_National_Tennis_Center/) its next president glimpsed Louis Armstrong Stadium from an airplane. What a fitting image this serves for the out-of-touch and emotionally distant apathy current USTA officials show to this day for the community around the park.

At the March 11 public hearing, one official tacitly admitted that the organization has ignored the Flushing Business Improvement District’s overtures for discussion on how to equitably support local business. In 1993, the USTA promised it would seek no more land to build after doubling its footprint. That promise has proved to be worth less than the breath used to utter it. Quite simply, how can the USTA be trusted?

You can expect that, as it did after building out Forest Hills, the USTA will abandon Flushing Meadows Corona Park once its popularity grows beyond what the park can handle. I’m certain the same excuses for economic competitiveness will be cited. By then, the damage will have been long done: mature parkland taken away at no cost and without replacement from a vibrant, working-class community — parkland which will

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Albert Baldeo Ozone Park

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Mayoral hopefuls spoke at a policy forum at one how to use it.”

Democratic candidate and former city the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica on Tuesday night, offering their thoughts on how Comptroller Bill Thompson also discussed his views on the role of the they would improve NYPD with minority housing, crime and youth, mentioning that safety if elected. he has spoken with his The program, the he art of being a own son about proper third mayoral candiprotocol in stop and date forum sponsored police officer is frisk procedures. by the Daily News and being taken away.”

Although Thompson multi-faith coalition advocates for the reform Metro Industrial Areas — Former Comptroller Bill Thopmson of stop and frisk legislaFoundation, highlighttion without completely ed the future of stopeliminating the process, and-frisk, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and security within he said the program is being highly misused.

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Candidates also sounded off on the possibil- Thompson said. “The art of being a police ity of instituting an NYPD Inspector General officer is being taken away because of discretion to stop who they know they should and position.

City Comptroller John Liu was the only not stop a certain amount of people.”

Although most candidates agreed that crime candidate who said he wants to eliminate stop and frisk legislation, citing racial inequality figures have significantly decreased under and a lack of democratic consensus as the poli- Kelly’s administration, many of their views on the police commissioner’s intended future are cy’s primary issues.

“The amount of division that this tactic has polarized.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and created between communities and the police has made it less safe for everybody,” Liu said. Republican candidate John Catsimatidis are “We need to have a balanced police force; one the only mayoral hopefuls who said they that is working closely with the community would keep Kelly as police commissioner if and one that does not face so much immense they were elected.

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Woodhaven residents fret over group home HeartShare says they have been waiting for city permits to start work

by Domenick Rafter

the corner a busy one during the morning and afternoon.

Tricia Fleming, a spokeswoman for The three-story detached house on the corner of Woodhaven Boulevard and 89th HeartShare, acknowledged there have been Avenue is in a weird spot. Just inches from issues at the site, including with trash its north wall is a tall brick apartment build- thrown there by others.

“That’s a problem that we are having,” she ing, the house next door is extremely close to the property line and the intersection is said. “It’s not our garbage. We do have staff one of the busiest — and most dangerous — that go over a couple times a week.”

Joyce Levin, vice president of HeartShare in the neighborhood.

Nobody lives in the house. It hosted a doc- Human Services, said the site has been hard tor’s office until a few years ago and now sits to maintain and the group sends out workers to clean the site vacant. Last June, twice a week.

Community Board 9 Work at the site approved a plan to has been stymied tear down the house hat’s a problem that we while HeartShare and replace it with a goes through the group home run by are having. It’s not our lengthy process to HeartShare Human garbage. We do have acquire permits and Services of New York. bids to find a demoBut some resistaff that go over a lition company. dents living nearby Levin said the house are concerned about couple times a week” will be torn down by the home and say so — Tricia Fleming, spokeswoman, the group and a new, far little has been HeartShare Human Services of New York slightly bigger home, done to the site, will be built at the which they said is in site. shambles.

“The new house will probably look a lot “The place is so shabby looking,” said Eileen Baxter, who found out about the home different,” Levin said.

It will house 10 residents and be staffed at through a letter HeartShare slipped through her front door last summer. Baxter added that all times on rotating shifts.

Levin said the process is in the f inal the sidewalks in front of the home were not shoveled after the Feb. 8 snowstorm, stages and demolition is expected to be done although she acknowledged the sidewalks next month, with construction on a new were shoveled after subsequent snowfalls building beginning in May and to be finished by the end of the year. this winter.

She said there will be a large fence conBaxter is also concerned about the location of the house, noting that it’s at a notori- structed around the site once work starts and that should keep garbage from being ously dangerous intersection.

So much so that state Sen. Joe Addabbo dumped there. She added that construction Jr. (D-Howard Beach) used the intersection and maintenance crews will be on the site as the site for a 2010 press conference call- daily once work begun.

But CB 9 member Alexander Blenkining for more safety measures for crossing major streets — an initiative that helped lead sopp, who lives in Woodhaven, expressed to more countdown clocks at crosswalks some buyer’s remorse over the project. He said he was uneasy about the process in such as this one.

The site is also within a few blocks of two which the home was approved by the board.

“In retrospect, there were bad signs from public schools, PS 60 and PS 306, and is not far from the Forest Park Senior Center, making the beginning,” he said. “First, the vote Associate Editor

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The fence is down in front of the house at 88-38 Woodhaven Blvd. that will soon host a group home for HeartShare Human Services of New York. The site has also been strewn with garbage, PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER which has some residents concerned. came as a surprise to me. The residence was mentioned on one of multiple addenda to the meeting agenda, and even there, a vote was not mentioned — only a public hearing.

Board members received no advance notice that the current building at that location would actually be demolished. At no point did I have any hint about the scale of the project prior to the meeting. There was not sufficient public input on the residence.”

Blenkinsopp said there were numerous facts that came out after CB 9 unanimously approved the site in June that led to him asking if the vote could be reconsidered, but the rules state that is not possible.

“HeartShare had been asked what notice they provided to neighbors, and they led me to believe they had conducted a thorough

canvass of nearby residents to let them know about the group home and to inform them that major construction would occur,” he explained. “After the CB 9 meeting, I took the initiative to ask neighbors of the HeartShare property and learned that they had not, in fact, been notified.”

HeartShare did accepted an invitation to speak at a meeting of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association last summer. Ed Wendell, president of the WRBA, said he appreciated their outreach by coming, but said he has not been satisfied by the level of communication since then, though Levin said she has been in constant email contact.

“I’m hopeful it works out and we can work with them,” Wendell said, noting that Q their mission is an honorable one.

Five charged in theft of 31 vehicles: DA Five men have been arrested on charges connected with the theft of 31 cars that were subsequently sold to a Queens scrap yard.

In a statement issued by his off ice, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said the defendants were paid between $400 and $700 for the vehicles, which ranged from Toyota Camr ys to Ford Econolines. Most of the vehicles were late 1990s models.

Those arrested include Everett Perry, 47, of Ozone Park; Steven Gregory, 50, of Far Rockaway; Willie Thomas, 62, of St.

Alleges 1990s models sold for scrap Albans; Gary Bell, 40, of Jamaica; and Eddie Clark, 66 of Brooklyn.

Brown said the men took advantage of a loophole in New York State law that allows individuals to dispose of vehicles that are eight years old or older without proof of title.

“They simply show their driver’s license at the scrapyard, f ill out a [Department of Motor Vehicles] form stating that they are the delivery agent or the vehicle’s owner and leave with cash in their pocket,” Brown said.

“Meanwhile, the true owners — many of whom use the cars to commute to work — are left to scramble for another means of transportation.”

Brown said the men were “variously charged with fourth-degree grand larceny, fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, third-degree unauthorized use of a vehicle and fourth-degree falsifying business records.”

If convicted each would face up to four years in prison.

Brown’s office stated that the thefts took place between October 2012 and February of this year.

In all cases, he said, members of the group allegedly presented a form from the DMV used when a car is at least eight years old, is worth less than $1,250 to a dismantler or scrap processor and no title is available.

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City, feds agree on Jamaica Bay plan Kayaking, other activites eyed, but some want to see a few fixes first

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

Seventeen months ago, then-U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar stood with Mayor Bloomberg and other off icials in Brooklyn and announced big plans for the future of Gateway National Recreation Area — the federally protected park that includes most of the Jamaica Bay shoreline, as well as portions of the Rockaways, Staten Island and New Jersey.

The park was underutilized, Salazar said, and the Obama administration wanted to see the land become a recreational area, part of the White House’s nationwide plan to invest in urban parkland. Last week, they moved forward with those plans.

The city Parks Department and the National Park Service announced on March 11 that three requests for proposals have been issued for the installation, operation and maintenance of kayak and canoe rental stations, bike rental stations, and mobile food units on both city and federal parkland throughout Jamaica Bay, the Rockaway Peninsula and the adjoining Gateway National Recreation Area.

Specifically, the RFPs seek a concessionaire for a one-year term, with three, singleyear renewal options — exercisable at the Parks Department’s and the concessionaire’s mutual discretion. The RFPs are for opera-

The city Parks Department and National Park Service have issued RFPs for kayaking and other activities in Jamaica Bay beginning this summer, but some in the communities around the bay say FILE PHOTO the focus should be on recovering from Hurricane Sandy first. tions to begin this summer.

“We are hoping to offer opportunities for New Yorkers to bike, eat and paddle, and are looking to receive proposals from companies or individuals with strong backgrounds in delivering these amenities to the public,” said city Parks Commissioner Veronica White.

But a lot has happened since the deal was announced in 2011 and agreed to last summer. Topping the list of issues the bay has faced since then — a direct hit from a 10foot storm surge caused by Hurricane Sandy almost a year to the day after Salazar came to the bay.

The aftermath of the storm has led to a common reaction to the plan among activists and officials who know Jamaica Bay well: Hey, that’s great, but we have bigger problems to attend to first.

“They’re putting the cart before the horse,” said said Don Riepe, the northeast chapter president of the American Littoral Society and a Broad Channel resident, noting by his count, there are still around 200 boats or fragments of boats scattered throughout the bay as a result of Sandy, most notably the one still bobbing in the tide in Charles Park in Howard Beach, where it has sat since midJanuary.

“Kayaking and camping are all great, but considering the amount of debris and destruction, we are trying to clean up the bay.

That should be priority,” Riepe added.

The RFPs were also announced at the March 7 Community Board 10 meeting, when Chairwoman Betty Braton brought up the issue of debris in the bay.

“We will let them know that we want to see some action at Charles Park and other locations that need some attention,” she said.

Though Sandy devastated Charles Park, some Howard Beach residents have been complaining about the situation there since long before the storm.

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Stripes and bright stars Last week, the Queens Chronicle reported that the American flag flying over the memorial for soldiers killed in action at Charles Park in Howard Beach was in terrible condition.

A reader, Robert Morrissey of Howard Beach, had sent us a photo, inset, of the flag torn to shreds. Old Glory was badly damaged in Hurricane Sandy and subsequent storms.

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Mayor: Hide the smokes from kids New bills would put cigarettes out of sight and raise price of alternatives

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Mayor Bloomberg on Monday announced new legislation banning the display of tobacco products in nearly all retailers, new minimum packaging requirements and stiffen cigarette taxenforcement measures. Collectively, the bills are aimed at reducing the city’s youth smoking figures and curbing the sale of smuggled cigarettes.

“The laws would protect New Yorkers, especially younger New Yorkers,” Bloomberg said at a press conference in Jamaica’s Queens Hospital Center.

The administration has been keen to play up the health benefits of Bloomberg’s tenure in office as part of larger efforts to burnish his legacy. Recent studies have found the life expectancy of the average New Yorker has increased by two years since he took office, which the mayor repeatedly referenced during the press conference. He also said smoking among adults has dropped 31 percent since 2002.

Bloomberg said the push to take cigarettes out of sight came after the city experienced a leveling off of earlier reductions in youth smoking. The youth smoking rate has remained at a level 8.5 percent since 2007, according to city Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley.

“Young people are targets of marketing and the availability of cigarettes and this legislation will help prevent another generation from the ill health and shorter life expectancy that comes with smoking,” Bloomberg said, adding “Such displays suggest that smoking is a normal activity. It is not a normal activity.”

The ban on displaying cigarettes, called the “Tobacco Product Display Restriction,” exempts specialty tobacco stores from the no-display requirement. It does not put curbs on cigarette advertising in stores. The law comes a week after a judge struck down

Legislation introduced by Mayor Bloomberg may make a wall of cigarettes and tobacco products a distant memory. PHOTO BY RICK MAIMAN the mayor’s attempt to ban the sale of sodas in containers over 16 ounces at certain food retailers.

Retailers did not meet the proposed law with open arms though, lambasting the regulation as another swipe at their bottom line.

“We need to make a living, and Bloomberg’s trying to stop us from doing that by saying how we can and can’t sell our tobacco,” said Michael Aziz of the Three Star Deli in Jamaica. “If he’s going to eliminate things, he should help people out first.”

Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) was among the mayor’s more vocal critics during that “soda ban” fight, and sees the tobacco product display restriction in much the same light.

“I don’t understand. The product is legal,” he said. “This is my worry about all of these things he’s doing. Slowly but steadily we’re eroding liberty.”

The city’s regulations on tobacco displays and sales have

already been modified several times, Halloran added, including height and placement restrictions.

Councilman Jim Gennaro (D-Fresh Meadows) welcomed the bills, saying all the city’s recent gains in eco-friendly legislation were rendered moot by anyone who smokes.

“If you pick up smoking, you won’t get that benefit,” he said, adding cigarettes could leave you “dead as Julius Caesar.”

Bloomberg has faced pillorying in the press and in City Hall for flagrant nanny state-ism, at the expense of taxpayers.

“People say, ‘You’re doing these things to collect money.’ No, we’re doing this to save lives,” Bloomberg said.

The second law targets smuggled and untaxed cigarettes by increasing the fines levied by the city’s Department of Finance.

Should the bill pass, repeat offenders would face the prospect of being shuttered.

“Forty-six percent of more than 1,900 inspected cigarette retailers were found to be selling unstamped or untaxed product over the past 18 months by the Office of the Sheriff — a staggering number that puts law-abiding businesses at an incredible disadvantage,” said DOF Commissioner David Frankel.

The bill would also: prohibit retailers from redeeming manufacturer’s coupons; set a $10.50 price minimum for a pack of little cigars and require cheap cigars and cigarillos be sold in packages of at least four.

Anti-smoking activists hailed the legislation as further proof the city is headed in the right direction.

“This is a great first step,” said Yvette Buckner-Jackson, borough manager for Queens Smoke Free Partnership. “It’s bold and it’s exciting.”

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An audible gasp was heard in the room when Capt. Hank Sautner, the commanding officer of the 102nd Precinct, announced arrests were up in the precinct at Tuesday’s community council meeting in the basement of the Richmond Hill library.

Arrests rose over 10 percent this year in the 102nd Precinct and felony assaults rose more than 200 percent year to date; 24 total versus only 8 by this point in 2012.

But Sautner warned the reality is not as dire as the statistics make it sound.

“The majority of those are domestic-related,” he said, breaking down the numbers.

Twenty of the 24 felony assaults were domestic incidents, he said, and there was a suspect under arrest in 19 of them.

He noted that certain segments of the population living in the 102nd Precinct would in the past not report domestic incidents, but now they do, and that could be driving the rise.

“I would be more than happy to answer about those increases in crime if we are protecting and saving a child, a husband, a wife,” Sautner said.

Sautner said overall crime was stable in the communities the precinct serves.

He took a series of questions from the

attendees on a number of quality-of-life issues, most notably a situation that has developed in Woodhaven concerning students from nearby JHS 210 at dismissal.

One Woodhaven resident said school kids from the Ozone Park middle school still congregate on residential streets and have done damage to his and his neighbors’ properties.

“They stand in the streets and actually dare cars to hit them,” another resident said.

Sautner said he knew of an assault involving kids from JHS 210 at a Burger King in the Pathmark Shopping Center last Friday.

“Many of those students come from outside our area: Brooklyn, Jamaica and the Rockaways,” Sautner said, adding that they gather near locations where buses and trains are available to take them home, such as Atlantic and Jamaica avenues and Woodhaven Boulevard.

Sautner responded to concerns that he was not assigning enough officers to the area around JHS 210, but plenty at other schools such as Richmond Hill High School “Richmond Hill High School is our largest school,” he said. “But we make sure we have officers at any school where they’re needed.”

Captain Elwood Selover, commanding officer of the Citywide Vandals Task Force,

the NYPD unit that focuses on graffiti and other vandalism, was a special guest speaker at Tuesday’s meeting. He discussed ways his unit is targeting graff iti vandalism across the city and gave tips on how to help target the perpetrators, including keeping an eye open for common tags and taking photos of graffiti and sharing them with police officers at the precinct.

Maria Thomson, president of the Woodhaven Business Improvement District, said her group has taken the initiative to combat graffiti not only on Jamaica Avenue, but elsewhere in Woodhaven when funds permit. She mentioned that while she sometimes recognizes the tags or what they say, she often cannot discern what a piece of graffiti says, and that leaves people like her wondering if a picture would be of any use to police.

“I know of your group and the work you have done,” Selover said. “Keep in mind that even if you can’t identify the tag, I may be able to.”

Ed Wendell, president of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, told Selover vandals had been tagging mailboxes and volunteers cleaned them up last usmmer.

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South of Atlantic Avenue, the line runs between 99th and 100th streets in a mostly industrial and commercial area, but for most of the rest of the line north of Atlantic, it runs through backyards and alongside homes.

Residents in Forest Hills and Rego Park who live along the line’s stretch in those communities have also opposed either reactivating the line or putting in a park. In the small section in Glendale, just south of Union Turnpike, the right of way runs through the parking lot of the Forest Crescent apartment building. Any development on the line would possibly lead to alterations there.

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Residents voiced their concerns about a myriad of issues at a packed 106th Precinct Community Council meeting in Ozone Park on March 13.

Before addressing those, however, Deputy Inspector Thomas Pascale, the precinct’s commanding officer, brought up one of his: people leaving themselves open to crimes of opportunity. As he has before, Pascale reminded residents not to leave valuables in full view inside their cars when they go shopping. He said a man who left some on the front seat of his car in a Cross Bay Boulevard parking lot earlier this month found the windows smashed when he returned and the valuables stolen.

Pascale also urged residents, especially senior citizens, to be alert to the “flat tire” scam, in which one suspect approaches the motorist claiming the target has a flat tire.

When the victim goes to inspect it, the other suspects steal items from inside the vehicle.

They then flee before the victim realizes he or she has been robbed.

Pascale said that in a variation of this scam, a suspect will “accidentally” put mustard or ketchup on the victim’s jacket, offer to clean it up and then clean up a lot more than the jacket stain.

He also urged residents to be alert for

scammers who come to the door claiming to be city Department of Environmental Protection employees, saying there is a problem with the water or the meter, and while one suspect distracts the resident, the other goes through the home stealing valuables.

“It you didn’t call DEP, don’t let them in.

Call 911 and we’ll sort it out,” Pascale said.

“Sorting out” illegality in the area has meant making a lot of arrests lately, as Community Council President Frank Dardani told the crowd.

Arrests in the precinct are up 71 percent so far this year compared to last, Dardani said, with off icers making 53 arrests for major crimes just in the last 25 days.

Dardani also said he and Community Council Vice President Donna Gilmartin had recently met with Assistant Chief James Secreto, commanding officer of patrol for Queens South, to discuss community needs and the desire for more officers in the area.

One community concern on the qualityof-life front is a problematic bar in the vicinity of 107th Street and Rockaway Boulevard in Ozone Park.

“Every night the music blasts,” a resident bemoaned at the community council meeting.

Community Affairs off icer Ken Zorn reported that eight summonses were issued to the bar for noise violations on Jan. 24.

He added that the bar was cited as a disorderly premises on Feb. 26.

Also during the meeting, a resident of Centreville said her home was recently burglarized and two of her cars were stolen within the past five years.

“Is there anyone patrolling the area,” the woman asked, adding, “I never see any cops in the area.”

Addressing her concerns, Pascale said there are police resources in her area that she does not see, including plainclothes officers in unmarked cars, undercover narcotics officers and detectives. He told her that a lot of effort goes into burglary investigations, with reports analyzed, patterns developed and resources allocated to affected areas.

Regarding her specific burglary he said that not only did the patrol officers respond and perform a thorough investigation, including a detailed description of the property stolen, but the evidence collection team also responded to look for fingerprints and DNA evidence. Precinct detectives have also been in contact with her, he noted.

He added that police also canvass businesses licensed to buy secondhand jewelry and pawn shops looking for stolen loot.

The next meeting of the 106th Precinct Community Council will be held at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10 at 103-51 101 St. Q

Missing man The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a missing Ozone Park man.

Brainy Gomez, 44, of 107-18 77 St., was last seen leaving 109 East 16th St. in Manhattan on March 13 at 10 p.m. He is described as being 6 feet tall and 160 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.

Gomez was last wearing beige pants with a blue jacket and white sneakers.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit tips by logging onto nypdcrimestoppers.com, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577. All tips are strictly confidential.

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106 Pct. Cop of the Month Police Officer Russell Graziano of the 106th Precinct was honored last week with the Cop of the Month award at the community council meeting in Ozone Park for his seizure of a loaded firearm and other assorted contraband.

According to Deputy Inspector Thomas Pascale, the precinct’s commanding officer, Graziano and members of his anti-crime team were on patrol on Feb. 16 along Rockaway Boulevard when they spotted five individuals in a car acting suspiciously and pulled them over for investigation.

Graziano then allegedly found brass

knuckles, a gravity knife, heroin, marijuana, crack cocaine, steroids, Xanax and a loaded .45-caliber handgun. The two females and three males inside the vehicle were placed under arrest.

One man in the car had 59 prior arrests, including for car thefts and narcotics, according to Pascale, while the four others had 13 arrests between them.

Joining the Cop of the Month are 106th Precinct Community Council President Frank Dardani, left, Jenna Graziano and Pascale, right.

— Stephen Geffon

102 Pct. Cop of the Month Despite only being on the beat in the 102nd Precinct since November, Police Officer Joshua Farazmand was honored with the Cop of the Month award at Tuesday night’s community council meeting in Richmond Hill for responding to a call of an unconscious man last month and saving his life.

On Wednesday, Feb. 27, Farazmand was out doing routine traffic enforcement duty when he heard a call of an unconscious male outside 84-02 Beverly Road in Kew Gardens.

When he arrived on the scene, he found a man unconscious and unresponsive slumped over the wheel of his car.

While waiting for emergency officials to arrive, Farazmand, who is also an EMT, started CPR and saved the man’s life.

“While [the man] was not a victim of a crime, I’m sure his family is glad he’s here today,” said Capt. Hank Sautner, commanding officer of the 102nd Precinct, seen here with Farazmand.

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The intersection of 83rd Street and 153rd Avenue next to PS 232 in Lindenwood may not seem like a busy corner, but it is. The NYPD knows it; otherwise there wouldn’t be a crossing guard assigned to it.

The intersection, which is on the northwest side of the school, is heavily trafficked both by vehicles and pedestrians — mainly schoolchildren walking to and from the building.

But while the intersection is mapped as a T, with 83rd Street — a one-way residential block — ending at 153rd Avenue, the reality is a little bit different.

On the north side of 153rd Avenue is the parking lot for the Lindenwood Shopping Center and the outlet onto 153rd Avenue is in the interchange. The Department of Transportation has no crosswalks or stop signs along 153rd Avenue, just on 83rd Street, and that makes the corner dangerous enough for a crossing guard to be posted there.

But Dale Cuneo, a parent of a student at PS 232, said the crossing guard, whom she knows personally and declined to name, has taken some days off recently to deal with personal issues related to Hurricane Sandy.

“We don’t have a problem with her, or that she is taking off — we understand,” Cuneo explained. “We just want to know why no replacement was posted there.”

PS 232 has two crossing guards, one at the intersection of 153rd Avenue and 83rd Street and the other at 153rd Avenue and 84th Street, one of the busiest intersections in the neighborhood.

Cuneo said the lack of a replacement crossing guard has concerned her, especially after a 6-year-old boy in Harlem was killed by a truck late last month walking to school at an intersection that had a crossing guard.

The guard posted there reportedly did not show up for work that morning.

“I’m very worried about the safety of the kids walking to school,” she said. “It’s very dangerous there.”

The crossing guard was not at work last Friday and some parents stepped in, acting as substitutes on 83rd Street.

PS 232 is not the only school where this problem has occurred. Marnie Tannenbaum, parent coordinator at PS 18 in Queens Village, said one of that school’s crossing guards took off last month and she contacted the 105th Precinct, but no substitute was posted.

“No contingency was in order because no replacement was sent,” Tannenbaum said.

The NYPD did not respond to numerous requests for comment, but Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria), chairman of the Public Safety Committee, said he had not heard that there was an official policy not to assign replacement crossing guards when one calls out sick.

“It’s probably because they don’t have any guards left,” Vallone said. “Every crossing guard they have is out where they deemed necessary.”

He said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly testified before the committee last week that the NYPD has the budget to hire more crossing guards, but is having trouble finding them.

“It’s probably the only place where there’s funding but not enough people,” Vallone explained. “It’s difficult to find people who can work those hours.”

Crossing guards work in the morning when children head to school and in the afternoon at dismissal time.

The NYPD is advertising crossing guard positions, and anyone interested can apply at nyc.gov/nypd in the Careers section.

According to the department, crossing guards are needed in the 104th, 106th, 107th, Q 109th, 110th and 112th Precincts.

151 trees coming to CB 9 The office of Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Middle Village) announced last week that the Parks Department will plant 151 new trees in Community Board 9’s area.

The location of the trees will be decided based on community input as to where to plant, according to Kate Mooney, a representative from Crowley’s off ice who announced the plan at CB 9’s meeting on March 12.

CB 9’s jurisdiction includes Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, Ozone Park and Woodhaven, neighborhoods that have lost a number of trees due to bad storms in recent

years, most recently Hurricane Sandy.

There is no timeline as to when the trees will be planted, but Mooney said officials will reach out to CB 9 and civic leaders to identify where they are needed and wanted.

Eric Yun, a spokesman for Crowley, said her office looked into the possibility of planting trees along Jamaica Avenue, but the elevated J train makes that impossible. Instead, he said, the Parks Department will look at planting trees along side Q streets.

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Few surprises as Democrats vie for edge with voters in Astoria sit-down

by Michael Gannon

“And you know I have one.”

Peralta said things like infrastructure, job With six months to go before the scheduled creation and city services can feed off each Democratic primary, the six Democratic can- other helping each other grow.

“We need to make Queens a destination,” he didates for borough president came to Astoria on March 14 to try and distinguish themselves said. “We need to lose our ‘outer borough’ from the rest of the field on schools, small mentality.”

Katz said the proper candidate should be business and just how to handle Willets Point expected to have and effect a and development proposals for vision for everything from Flushing Meadows Corona Park. schools to capital projects.

State Sen. Tony Avella (D-BayAbout the only contentious side), Councilman Leroy Comrie portion of the evening was when (D-St. Albans), former Deputy Avella and Grodenchik both advoBorough President Barry Grocated a borough president and denchik, former Councilwoman staff that are accessible and and Assemblywoman Melinda accountable to the residents.

Katz, state Sen. Jose Peralta (D“That’s not what I’m hearing East Elmhurst) and Councilman from people I’ve been talking to,” Peter Vallone Jr. were all present Avella said. at various times at the forum hostSen. Tony Avella “Maybe you’ve been talking to ed by the Greater Astoria Historithe wrong people,” Grodenchik countered. cal Society.

“And maybe that says a lot about your canAll had nuanced takes on how the borough president can use the office to benefit Queens didacy that you would interrupt me,” Avella residents in terms of city funding and ser- said.

Current Borough President Helen Marvices.

“It you’re not strong, you’re going to get shall, who has been in office for 12 years, is railroaded,” Comrie said. Vallone agreed, say- prevented from running for the office again ing that is what makes him the ideal candi- because of term limits.

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Does CB approval carry more weight?

Questions of most effective approach following USTA votes

by Joseph Orovic Assistant Managing/Online Editor

The United States Tennis Association’s plan to expand within Flushing Meadows Corona park has completed the Community Board segment of the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, with three boards voting yes to the project, while three voted no.

But in the process, boards debated the most effective way to influence the ensuing layers of decision makers and advisory boards, as the USTA proposal navigates the ULURP through Borough Hall on its way to the City Council and ultimately the City Planning Commission.

Which begs the question: Are all community board recommendations created equal in the eyes of the ULURP? While f ive of the six boards included a list of stipulations in their final decision, three of them were attached to a vote approving the project while two were attached to a no vote. Each believed its vote would be most effective in sending a message and influencing negotiations between the city and the USTA to

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“Why would I care that much about the board that voted no?” said CB 7 Chairman Gene Kelty, whose board approved the measure with a dozen stipulations. “That’s like telling a kid he can’t go to the movies because he’s a bad boy and then saying ‘Here’s 25 cents go to the store and buy yourself some candy.’”

The boards also have a “yes to no” option, which mar ries an approving vote to all attached conditions being met. Kelty said the tactic was constricting. “If they

meet seven of the 12 stipulations, I’m supposed say that’s not good enough?” he asked.

The confusion was so thick at CB 8 that during its public hearing regarding the USTA on March 13, longtime member Martha Taylor reverted to asking if “a no vote removes us from the negotiating table.”

Technically speaking, there is no negotiating table. But that didn’t stop USTA National Tennis Center Managing Director Daniel Zausner from asserting “There is no such thing as a ‘no vote with stipulations,’ and a no vote gets thrown out.”

The explanation, though technically incorrect, apparently answered Taylor’s hunch. It was instrumental to the board’s discussions over a “yes to no” provision that would have married CB 8’s approval to the stipulations being met.

“If you vote it down, then your stipulations don’t exist anymore; that’s my take on the thing,” she said after the board voted to approve the project with stipulations 26-8.

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Two spokespersons for the city Department of Transportation did not respond to an email seeking comment on driversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; concerns and clarification as to whether there is any limit on how far people can be forced to walk to find a working Muni-Meter. A previous Chronicle letter writer expressed concern over senior citizens having to walk too far to pay a meter.

Elected officials in Queens are not necessarily hearing complaints about the meters, however. City Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) said he is not aware of any, and a spokesman for Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) said the same. Both are members of the Transportation Committee. The office of the other Queens member, Councilman Peter Koo (D-Flushing), did not answer a query by press time. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Peter C. Mastrosimone

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For the first couple months it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work at all, as indicated by a blinking red light greeting drivers. Then two weeks ago a worker opened it up and got it to accept credit and debit cards. But it still will not take coins, to the chagrin of many drivers.

Making matters worse for them, the next nearest Muni-Meter â&#x20AC;&#x201D; located at the other end of the block where the Chronicle is based, on the east side of Woodhaven Boulevard between 62nd Road and 62nd Drive in Rego Park â&#x20AC;&#x201D; doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take cash either, and hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t since it was put in.

That forces drivers to walk across the 10 lanes of Woodhaven, which was recently named the deadliest street for pedestrians in all of Queens, move their cars to the residential streets that run into it or risk a ticket. They choose all three on a regular basis.

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Mixed martial arts bill moving forward Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, long opposed, may bring it to a vote

by Domenick Rafter Associate Editor

A bill to allow mixed martial arts events to be held in New York may finally be headed for approval after years in limbo.

The full contact sport that includes elements of boxing, judo, jiu-jitsu and other martial arts is banned in New York, but is legal in nearly every other state in the country and has a growing fan base. The sport’s top promotion company, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, regularly holds sold-out events in arenas across the country and the world, including in Britain, Canada and Brazil.

But the law bans the events from taking place in New York. The state Senate has passed legislation approving the sport multiple times with support from senators in both parties, but each time it has died in the Democratic-controlled Assembly.

But now the lower house may actually hold a vote on a proposal that was passed by the Senate earlier this month.

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Far Rockaway) said Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan), long an opponent of MMA, will bring the bill to the floor if it has majority support among Assembly Democrats.

“He said it was up to the caucus,” Goldfeder said, adding that he supports the legalization. “It’s crazy that other states have it and we don’t.”

He said he believes the sport may have majority support in the caucus, but multiple sources say the bill does have and has had for some time. Democrats alone won’t need their votes to pass the bill. MMA is an issue that does not fall along party lines. A number of Republicans in both houses support the idea, while a number of Democrats do not.

But in Queens, where all state legislators are Democrats, most have endorsed it. State Sens. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) and Jose Peralta (D-Jackson Heights) have backed Senate legislation.

Last year, Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas (D-Astoria) also endorsed bringing MMA to New York.

“It’s time we embrace the sport,” she responded on Twitter to a question on her position.

Besides Simotas, Assembly members Ed Braunstein (DBayside), Vivian Cook (D-South Jamaica), Francisco Moya (D-Jackson Heights), Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) and Michele Titus (D-Far Rockaway) also backed

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a longtime opponent of mixed martial arts in New York, may bring a bill legalizing the sport to FILE PHOTO the floor of the Assembly after stalling it for years. legislation to legalize the sport that never got to the Assembly floor last session.

Hevesi is among the sports strongest supporters, penning an op-ed favoring it for the June 9, 2011 Queens Chronicle.

Mixed martial arts is often violent and can turn bloody.

Some fighters have suffered concussions and broken limbs during bouts. The sport’s perceived brutality has often been used by opponents to prevent its legalization and was the primary reason it was banned in New York in 1997.

In a joint statement to legislative leaders last week, the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence as well as the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women asked Albany leaders to oppose the sport.

“No state that aspires to be the ‘progressive capital of the nation,’ as Gov. Cuomo asserted in his recent State of the State speech, should lower itself by embracing an industry dominated by a company that tolerates joking about sexual violence,”

the statement read. “Fighters in the UFC have joked about rape in public and one has appeared in videos that are demeaning to women and make fun of sexual violence.”

Some have also questioned the labor practices of organizations like the UFC. Opposition has also come from the Culinary Union of Las Vegas — where UFC is based — who supporters have alleged were using their labor ties in the unionheavy state to influence legislators to keep a bill favoring MMA from coming to a vote. The UFC has often noted that it provides jobs for union workers during its events.The New York State Catholic Conference has also opposed MMA here, citing the sport’s violent nature.

But at a press conference earlier this month, Gov. Cuomo said the sport could become a revenue boost for the state.

“I think it’s making progress and it’s something we’re looking at for possible revenue,” Cuomo said.

In another press conference last week, Cuomo again said he is considering legalization of MMA, and was especially interested in any economic benefit.

“I want to understand the economics for the state. What does it mean?” he said. “So they could have one match, and one match does what? They have 10 matches, they have 20 matches — what is the actual economic impact for the state?”

The UFC has held events close to New York: in Newark and the Meadowlands in New Jersey and Montreal, Canada. Supporters of legalizing the sport in New York say it already has a fan base here. The popularity of MMA has led sports bars and grills to regularly advertise special deals to watch UFC events, which are broadcast on Pay-Per-View.

The state has a number of venues that could host MMA events, including Madison Square Garden and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and a number of sites in upstate cities including Buffalo and Rochester, which have arenas that could host events. UFC President Dana White has hinted he would be interested in hosting an event at MSG in November, but that could upset supporters from upstate, looking to bring events there. Cuomo even mentioned upstate as an area that could benefit economically from hosting MMA events.

New York State is home to a number of notable UFC fighters including Matt Serra and Chris Weidman, both from Nassau County; Rashad Evans from Niagara Falls and Jon Jones Q from Rochester.

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Populist tone at Comptroller, former Flushing lawmaker’s campaign start Comptroller John Liu announced his candidacy for mayor on Sunday, surprising few after nearly a year of flirting with a run.

The former Flushing councilman formally kicked off his campaign with a populist tone at a rally on the steps of City Hall, an event reportedly so rife with supporters Liu had to hold a second rally in City Hall Park. The event included a stop into Flushing as well.

“In New York these last 12 years, the rich keep getting filthy rich while far too many New Yorkers can’t even think to get ahead, because they’re just trying to get by,” Liu said. “The simple fact is that a guy working on a Wall Street trading desk has a far greater shot of climbing into the 1

percent, than a hardworking single mother has to climb above the poverty line.”

Liu is joining an already crowded field in the Democratic mayoral primary, running against Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan), Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and former Comptroller Bill Thompson, who have all formally declared their candidacy.

The campaign kicked off as two of Liu’s campaign staffers, including his for mer treasurer, are scheduled to stand trial on fraud charges on April 15. The case has become a sticking point for Liu, who consistently has denied any connection to the alleged wrongdoing.

At a recent candidate’s forum, a

combative Liu demanded federal prosecutors “put up or shut up.”

During a recent visit to the Chronicle’s offices, Liu said the trial could only help detach his mayoral run from the fraud charges, which include allegations of straw donors used to circumvent contribution limits.

“I’m looking forward to it,” he said during the sitdown. “I think the more information that comes out, the better it is for me, my campaign and for the public.”

Liu has raised $3,299,794, falling about $13,000 short of the matching funds spending limit, according to his campaign. He has just over $2 million in cash on Q hand for his run.

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Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said he firmly opposes Kelly’s leadership, saying it would be impossible to eliminate hate crime charges and racial profiling with the incumbent police administration.

“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,”

de Blasio said. “I think it’s unbelievable that Ray Kelly is truly going to reform stop and frisk in a way we need – he is someone who has served the city in many ways but he’s also been the architect of the overuse of stop and frisk that has created the division we have today.”

Security within public housing facilities was another hot-button issue discussed throughout the forum, with varying opinions on administrative measures that should be taken to combat crime within NYCHA buildings.

Former Bronx Borough President Adolfo

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Catsimatidis offered an alternative approach to Carrion’s proposal, saying that a ranking system should be implemented to rate police officers on their performance like a “batting average.”

“Let’s put a police officer in every one of those buildings,” Catsimatidis said. “If you can get rid of 20 percent of the city’s crimes with a few thousand officers, let’s just do it and get it done.”

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Joe Lhota was the last Republican candidate to announce a run for mayor but appears to be first in the eyes of many in the GOP. A recent Quinnipiac University poll put him ahead of his opponents for the Republican nomination, and this week the four GOP members of the City Council announced that they are supporting him.

Lhota was deputy mayor for operations under Mayor Rudy Giuliani, his tenure including Sept. 11, 2001, and most recently headed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which he stepped down from to run for mayor.

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Over the past few weeks, the soda debate has been growing. Just a week after a judge blocked Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal to ban soft drinks larger than 16 ounces was rejected, Harvard University released a study that connects sugary drinks to thousands of deaths a year.

With all of these statistics and studies, it can be difficult to determine if soda is the public hazard city officials have made it out to be or if there are other factors to consider.

“I think first we need to go back and talk about what soda is,” Dr. Mary Grace Webb, assistant director for Clinical Nutrition for New York Hospital Queens, said. “Basically it’s just carbonated water, which has no sugar or calories. But when you add the combination of corn syrup and preservatives, it becomes unhealthy.”

There are approximately 10 teaspoons of sugar in a can of Coke and with one teaspoon equaling 15 calories, one can of Coke has 150 calories from sugar alone.

One can of soda is not going to do much harm but what concerns nutritionists, health officials and Bloomberg is the quantity of sugary drinks that are consumed in a given day.

Recent data released by Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs and Health Commissioner Thomas Farley shows that socioeconomic background may also be a contributing factor.

“This new data is the latest evidence that

sugary drinks are helping to drive the obesity epidemic, which falls hardest on low-income communities,” Bloomberg said in a statement.

“Obesity is killing more than 5,000 New Yorkers each year and demands bold steps to fight this crisis.”

For example, Bedford-Stuyvesant-Crown Heights in Brooklyn had the highest obesity rate at 33 percent and 47 percent of adult residents in that area report drinking one or more sugary drinks a day.

Those numbers are considerably high when compared to the Upper West Side, where the obesity rate is only 12 percent and 14 percent of adults drink one or more sugary drinks a day.

In Queens, the Rockaways had the highest obesity percentages at 39.5 percent. Flushing had the lowest obesity rate in the borough and the sixth lowest in the city at 22.3 percent.

“Selling foods that are cheap tend to be high in sugar and high in fat,” Webb said. “Unfortunately fast foods and soda fit that bill. There are many ways to eat healthy though, without worrying about it affecting your budget.”

Webb suggests drinking water or even diet soda. Dr. Richard Pinsker an endocrinologist and program director of internal medicine residency at Jamaica Hospical Medical Center, concurred.

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That’s why the American Stroke Association’s Together to End Stroke initiative, which is nationally sponsored by global medical products company Covidien, is helping Americans recognize the stroke warning signs in an easy way. Just remember F.A.S.T. and the symptoms that come on suddenly: F - Face drooping A - Arm weakness S - Speech difficulty T - Time to call 9-1-1.

When you recognize a stroke and act fast by calling 9-1-1, you have a greater chance of

getting to an appropriate hospital quickly and improving the outcome.

“Stroke can happen to anyone at any time and it is largely preventable, treatable and beatable,” Hawkins said. “The American Stroke Association can help to empower you to prevent stroke. When you learn to prevent stroke, you improve the outlook for your future and live a healthier lifestyle.”

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Even with the mounting evidence that sugar-sweetened beverages are hazardous, the American Beverage Association openly criticized the study in a statement.

“It does not show that consuming sugar-sweetened beverages causes chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease or cancer — the real causes of death among the studied subjects,” the statement read. “The researchers make a huge leap when they take beverage intake calculations from around the globe that allege that those beverages are the cause of deaths which the authors themselves acknowledge are due to chronic disease.”

Still, doctors like Webb say that it is ultimately the choices we make throughout the day that can lead to or prevent obesity; soda or otherwise.

“I think the biggest issue is the way people are eating day to day,” she said.

“Many people skip meals, which makes them more inclined to be ravenous and want to eat something extra. We need to teach people to plan some healthy regular meals and plan healthy snacks in between.”

Nutritionists say that humans eat first with their eyes. Meaning, when we see a bottle of soda or a plate of cookies in front of us, we are more likely to consume it, even if we aren’t actually hungry.

“One interesting angle is that our bodies are nearly 80 percent water and we get thirsty before we get hungry,” Webb said.

“We feel hungry when in fact we are actually really thirsty.”

What’s more, women’s bodies are more likely to collect fat easier than men. Biologically speaking, women need fewer calories than men due to average size and level of activity. And while men have more muscle tissue, women have more fat tissue for birthing purposes. Metabolically speaking, however, women and men break down food and drink the same.

Webb said the best way to see results is to educate yourself.

“There are many misconceptions regarding dieting,” she said. “For example, having an active lifestyle is more important than what you eat but going to a gym for three hours on a Saturday isn’t going to get you results either. You need to work on it every day, that way you’re burning energy.”

Webb also said stress management is a key factor in dieting and hunger.

“I cannot say it enough: stress management,” she said. “It’s easy to soothe difficult emotions with food and drink, but a bag of chips will not make your feelings go away.”

Even though Bloomberg’s proposal was denied, experts like Webb and Pinsker have said that evidence-based policies could curb soda consumption and save lives.

“Maybe, instead of seeing soda as a drink, people should think of it as a treat, like they would for a dessert,” Webb said. “At the end of the day, you have a Q cup of soda.”

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Start seeing diabetes in a brand-new light Paula Deen encourages you to take a walk in her footsteps

American cooking star Paula Deen shares her strategies for diabetes management and encourages people with type 2 diabetes to commit to making small changes, like exercising, to PHOTO COURTESY BRANDPOINT improve their health.

Over the past year, Paula Deen and her sons, Bobby and Jamie, have partnered with Novo Nordisk on Diabetes in a New Light, a national initiative to help adults find simple ways to manage everyday challenges associated with type 2 diabetes. Through Diabetes in a New Light, they have developed delicious diabetes-friendly recipes and visited cities across the country to meet with those with type 2 diabetes. Below, Paula offers an inside look into the changes she’s been making and how her dedication to diabetes management has yielded big results.

What have you been doing to improve your health in the past year?

Since announcing I have type 2 diabetes last year, I’ve been making small changes to improve my health, and I’ve seen big results.

Now, by sharing the changes I’ve made to manage my disease, I want to encourage those of you with type 2 diabetes to walk in my footsteps and make one small change to better control your disease. This change could be eating healthier, getting more exercise, working to lower your blood sugar or talking to your doctor about your medication.

What are some things you have learned over the past year?

I’ve learned that small changes can go a

long way and have a big impact on diabetes management. I’ve been eating healthier and have recreated some of my favorite recipes to make them diabetes-friendly.

I also exercise more and stay on top of my blood sugar levels. I try to keep stress to a minimum and have found it’s helpful to surround myself with positivity. I make sure I do what I love — my newest favorite hobbies are watercolors, shelling or planting in my garden.

How have you been altering your daily diet?

I’ve been changing the design of my plate.

I’ve learned that what’s on my plate and portion size are real important. I’m careful about how many carbs I eat and I make sure to double up on my veggies at every meal.

What is the best piece of advice you can give to someone who is trying to manage his or her type 2 diabetes?

Make exercise part of your daily routine. I walk about a mile a day on the treadmill and around my neighborhood. I used to hate exercise but now my sneakers have never seen so much action. This makes me feel healthy and gives me the boost that I need.

How do you work with your doctor?

It’s been real helpful to work closely with my doctor to understand my blood sugar levels and make sure that I’m on the right medication.

I also make sure to take my medication as prescribed. This helps me stay on track with my regimen and ensure my diabetes is under control.

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Healthy ways to speed up your metabolism Dieters are often aware of metabolism and its effect on an individual’s weight. Metabolism is a process that serves a host of important functions, including converting food and drink into energy and using energy to construct certain components of cells.

For the perpetual dieter, metabolism can be a natural-born enemy, a process that simply isn’t fast enough for dieters to lose weight. Even more frustrating, a person’s metabolism can hinge on genetics and gender. People may inherit a speedy or slow metabolism. Gender plays a large role considering men have a tendency to burn more calories than women, even while resting. Those who inherited a speedy metabolism are often the people who can seemingly eat whatever they choose without gaining a pound.

But gaining a faster metabolism isn’t just for men or those who inherited a speedier metabolism at birth. In fact, there are several healthy ways to speed up metabolism.

• Pack on some muscle. People with more muscle tend to have a higher resting metabolic rate. That’s because muscle burns more calories than fat. According to the American Council on Exercise, each pound of fat burns just two calories per day, while various estimates suggest each pound of muscle burns between 35 to 50 calories per day. Those figures might seem insignificant, but they add up over time and someone with significant muscle can burn considerably more calories than someone without. Employ resistance training to build muscle, as such training activates muscles all over the body, increasing your daily metabolic rate as a result.

• Emphasize intensity. Daily exercise is great, but highintensity daily exercise will prove more effective at speeding up your metabolism. Low- or moderate-intensity workouts don’t pack the same punch as high-intensity workouts, which

which should not be all you eat but produce a longer increase in restcan be used as a periodic replacement ing metabolic rate. Sign up for a for other foods that may slow down Zumba or spin class at your gym, your metabolism. both of which are the kind of high• Stay hydrated. Your metabolism intensity cardiovascular workout will likely slow down if you allow that can speed up your metabolism. yourself to get dehydrated. When the • Embrace grazing. Grazing body does not have enough water, sevis a dietary philosophy in which eral of its functions, including its abiliindividuals eat five to six smaller ty to burn calories, slow down. Musmeals every three to four hours cles are roughly 70 percent water, so if instead of three large meals each day. Eating this way helps keep they are not fully hydrated, they cannot your metabolism going, and the generate energy, affecting your metabresult is you will burn more caloolism. In addition, the body is not as ries throughout the day than you effective at using fat as fuel when it is would if you ate a more traditiondehydrated, further slowing your al diet. Of course, what you eat metabolism. Staying hydrated is as when grazing is important, too. easy as drinking enough water Choose low-fat, high-nutrient throughout the day. How much water foods, and snack on fruits and an individual needs to stay hydrated is vegetables instead of more popuopen to debate among medical profeslar snacks like potato chips. sionals, but one study found that adults Grazing on unhealthy foods who drink eight or more glasses of won’t lead to weight loss and may Lifting weights and staying hydrated are two ways water per day burned more calories to speed up your metabolism. even cause weight gain. than those who drank four glasses of • Eat more protein. Protein water per day. can serve many purposes for people trying to lose weight.

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by Jen Font de Bon and Kenny Peña As certified trainers, spinning instructors and nutrition nuts from Suncycle Studios in Forest Hills, our goal is to help people reach theirs. We promote physical, mental and emotional health, aiding others in f inding and maintaining a balanced lifestyle.

To take care of the ones you love you have to f irst take care of yourself. Exercise is essential to a wellrounded lifestyle. No matter your current fitness level, you can start a workout routine and become fitter and healthier.

• Try simple movements for a fitter you. Park further away from your destination to walk a few extra minutes, bike ride to do errands, take the stairs. Little extra movements throughout the day have big positive effects on your health.

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If you’re feeling sluggish tell yourself you’re just going to exercise for 10 minutes. Once you get started you’ll probably go longer and if not, you’ve accomplished what you set out to … something’s always better than nothing.

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Exercise is time to do something positive for the body.

No matter what physical activities you’re engaging in, clear your mind and focus on the movement of your action for the duration of the workout. You’ll finish feeling refreshed and calm.

• Keep the habit. Schedule your workouts. If something is booked in your agenda ahead of time, you’re more likely to stick to it.

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People who exercise in group situations are more likely to stick to their fitness routine. Organize a jogging club or take indoor cycling classes for extra motivation and support.

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From dry eye to age-related eye diseases, 3. Vitamin C: Fruits and vegetables, research shows that nutrition plays a critical including oranges, grapefruit, strawberries, role in maintaining the health of our eyes. papaya, green peppers and tomatoes, can help Caring for eyes includes looking carefully at minimize the risk of cataracts and AMD. what you eat.

4. Vitamin E: Vegetable oils, such as safThirty million (or one out of four) Ameri- flower or corn oil, almonds, pecans, sweet cans age 40 and older suffer from some level of potatoes and sunflower seeds are powerful vision loss. Yet only 30 percent of Americans antioxidants that can slow the progression of indicate they incorporate specific foods or sup- AMD and cataract formation.

5. Zinc: A deficiency of zinc can result in plements into their diet to help improve eye health and vision, according to the American poor night vision and lead to cataracts; thereOptometric Association’s American Eye-Q sur- fore, consuming red meat, poultry, liver, vey, which assesses public knowledge and shellf ish, milk, baked beans and whole understanding of a wide range of issues related grains on a daily basis is important. to the eyes and visual health.

It’s also important to remember that all Six nutrients — antioxifoods are not created equal dants lutein and zeaxanthin; in their nutritional value. essential fatty acids; vitaThe Eye-Q survey also mins C and E; and the minshowed that nearly half of arch is Save eral zinc — have been all Americans (49 percent) Your Vision month still believe carrots are the identified as helping to protect eyesight and promote best food for eye health. eye health. Since the body While carrots do contain doesn’t make these nutrients naturally, it’s nutritional value by supplying beta-carotene, important to incorporate them into a daily diet which is essential for night vision, spinach and, in some cases, supplement with vitamins. and other dark, leafy greens are the healthConsuming a variety of the following iest foods for eyes because they naturally foods can help protect your eyes for the contain large amounts of lutein and zeaxfuture: anthin.

1. Lutein and zeaxanthin: To help reduce The AOA encourages consumers to make your risk of developing age-related macular small dietary changes in order to experience degeneration (AMD), eat one cup of colorful a big impact with vision. Another good way fruits and vegetables such as broccoli, to monitor eye health and maintain good spinach, kale, corn, green beans, peas, vision is by scheduling yearly, comprehenoranges and tangerines four times a week. sive eye exams with an eye doctor.

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In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, watches and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also offers instant cash loans for jewelry and eBay selling services.

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

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

STORE HOURS “For this, I like to think we’re doing the community a service,” For anyone who has ever MON.-FRI. 11am - 7pm Elias said. “We’re in the business dealt with the hassle of selling SAT. 10am 5pm of helping people who are in a and shipping an item on eBay SUN. by Appointment tough spot. They can come to — all the forms involved in our store and know that we can setting up a user and paypal educate them on what they have and we’ll give account, the 10-15 percent fee that Ice Jewelry them what their items are worth. When that Buying charges to do all the work is really a woman told me her previous offer, it made me bargain deal. wonder how many times this happens — how “At the end of the day, I just want people to many people who really need that money get feel comfortable doing business with us. People taken advantage of?” have this conception of gold buying stores as Elias opened his Rego Park shop with Goldberg these slimy places with slimy people, and they’re less than a year ago, and already they’re seeing typically right. But we want to be different. I don’t a lot of repeat customers and referrals. This is think it’s cool to see someone buy a ring for a sign to them that they’re doing something right $200 and put it in their counter for $800. We — the pawn business typically deals in one-time don’t do that.” transactions but Elias is determined to break that Ice Jewelry Buying Service is located at mold, building a reputation on trust.

98-30 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park. Hours of “Everyone around here is buying gold these operation are Monday-Friday from 11 am to 7:00 days; you can go into the barber shop down the pm and Saturday 10 am to 5 pm; Sunday– private road and sell your jewelry. The problem with all appoinments are available. Call for more these places is they treat everything like it’s a Q information (718) 830-0030. one-shot deal and we don’t do that,” Elias said.

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The verbiage surrounding the ramps was disconcerting for opponents of the project.

“People can have that housing being built sometime next year,” said Jerry Antonacci, owner of Crown Container in the Iron Triangle and member of opposition group Willets Point United. “They can start building their ramps then building their housing. Why can’t they do this?

I can’t understand. Why are you holding this housing hostage at such a late date?”

The provision stands in direct contradiction to assertions made by the Queens Development Group attorney Jesse Masyr, who said the developer had to wait on the city to complete the ramps.

“If [the city] builds exits off the Van Wyck three years earlier, we will construct housing three years earlier,” he told a Queens Housing Coaltion meeting in January. QDG could not explain the discrepancy in statements as of writing.

“There’s really no guarantee that they’re going to build any of the affordable housing part,” said the coalition’s coordinator Ivan Contreras upon hearing about the contractual clause.

An EDC spokesman said the city was committed to building the ramps itself.

Both the city and developer have stated that sizeable fines attached to the affordable housing will deter Sterling and Related from flippantly walking away.

QDG said it will have essentially created the land’s value; walking away would surrender the value of that work to most likely another developer. Good business dictates it sees the project through, QDG concluded.

Good business indeed The city’s EDC has promised the developer $99.9 million in city grants and

up to $20 million in inflation-adjusted savings on construction work, according to the contract.

Antonacci took a jab at the city financial aid offered to the developer, in light of the insistence the city build ramps.

“This is city taxpayer money they’re giving away to developers who can afford to pay for it themselves,” he said.

The minimal cost of the 23 acres has also been justified by the sizable cost and effort of the remediation. Well, up to a point.

The deal also sets a $40 million cap on cleanup costs, one-tenth the estimated cost bandied about by then-Deputy Mayor Robert Lieber during City Council hearings in 2008. Should the work cross that threshold, the city and developer have reserved the right to walk away from the rest of the project.

The developer said the $40 million threshold represents a sort of point of no return, when so much has been invested that to walk away without having built anything would be illogical.

What’s next?

The plan’s certification sets the project down the usual chain of participants in the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure: Community Board 7, the borough president, possibly the City Council and the City Planning Commission.

The project calls for the creation of a 1.4-million-square-foot mall, a hotel, community facilities, open space and affordable housing, constituting the largest single private investment in the borough’s history, according to Masyr.

But since most of the project already navigated ULURP five years ago, only zoning approvals for parking east of Citi Field and interim recreation uses at the site will technically be open to discussion.

Until then, Masyr has pressed hard the benefits of the remediation.

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On March 1, Alfred Osbourne’s quarterly permit to park in the municipal lot at the Rosedale Long Island Rail Road station went from $90 to $110.

“They initially raised it to $200, but we complained and they cut it back to $110,” he said.

The Department of Transportation was just getting warmed up.

On March 5 the DOT asked the City Council for massive rate hikes in all municipal parking lots beginning on July 1, some of which would be triple-digit increases.

“They want to raise my permit 233 percent,” Osbourne said. The new fee would be nearly $400. Enter Councilman Donovan Richards (DSpringfield Gardens), who has been in office a week but already has begun fighting City Hall.

“It’s outrageous,” Richards said on Friday outside the lot, located just north of the intersection of Francis Lewis Boulevard and the Sunrise Highway.

“Rosedale may not have been one of the places that got media attention after Hurricane Sandy, but it was heavily damaged,” he said.

“People are still suffering, still trying to fix their homes; they rely on this lot, and now the DOT wants to increase their cost by 233 percent.”

At Monday’s meeting of Community Board 13 he called the proposal “beyond ridiculous.”

Osbourne’s home was damaged in the storm. And he is not alone in feeling the pinch of rate hikes, according to Claretta Cox and Sam Elliott of the 148th Drive and Community Block Association.

“We’ve been getting a lot of complaints,” Cox said at the press conference.

A DOT official standing in at the March 5 Council meeting for Commissioner Janette

Sadik-Kahn said the agency needs the revenue. Published reports quoted DOT officials as saying the costs still would leave city lots less expensive than their private competition.

A state ment issued by the DOT on Monday said there are 12 permit holders for the Rosedale lot; that the fee has not been increaed in years; and that the hike would increase the cost from from $1.125 per day to $1.40.

Richards and state Sen. James Sanders Jr. (D-Jamaica) said they want to work with the DOT to find alternate sources of revenue for itself and the city as a whole.

“We have a lot of corporate welfare in this city,” Richards said. “Madison Square Garden is subsidized. It has a $15 million tax exemption. Some of the operations out at Kennedy Airport are subsidized. Large developers are subsidized.”

Madison Square Garden’s city property tax exemption was codified in state law in 1982 at a time when the owners were threatening to move the New York Knicks and New York Rangers, who call the arena home.

Sanders said he would gladly sponsor a bill to remove the exemption if asked by the City Council. But MSG has been successfully fending off attempts to revoke the tax break since at least 2007.

Sanders also said money could be found by “cutting the fat at the MTA,” but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is a state entity whose funding as a matter of law cannot be intermingled with that of the New York City DOT. Sanders then said if the MTA made cuts and decided to give the money to the DOT he would welcome it, but did not say why a state authority might show such generosity toward a city Q agency.

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Reservoir: one dam delay after another Parks Dept. continues elimination of 1858 Ridgewood water basins

by Michael Gannon Editor

The Ridgewood Reservoir has not served as a drinking water asset for New York City since 1989, and has not been in full service since the Eisenhower administration in 1959.

And the city Parks and Recreation Department, which now controls the three basins and the land surrounding them in Highland Park, has told representatives of Community Board 5 that structural changes are coming that will make it a reservoir in name and memory only.

“Parks will be decommissioning the reservoir,” CB 5 District Manager Gary Giordano said at the board’s monthly meting on March 13 at Christ the King Regional High School in Middle Village.

Part of that process, he said, will be to breach portions of the walls separating basins 1 and 2 and basins 2 and 3 with 4foot-high,14-foot-long gates.

Another gate, this one 11 feet high and 10 feet wide, will be constructed between the third basin and Vermont Place to the west.

CB 5 Chairman Vincent Arcuri said there will be some delays before that can happen.

“When they were built 120 or 150 years ago, those walls were considered to be dams,” Arcuri said. “So now the rules say

An aerial view of the Ridgewood Reservoir in Highland Park, where the city is in the process of formally decertifying the facility as a water retention asset. The land around the three basins is being PHOTO COURTESY NYC PARKS prepared for recreational use in the future. they have to decommission those as dams.

One problem is that in this day and age, nobody knows how to do that simply.”

Arcuri also said board members have a problem with the proposed design of the gate on Vermont Place.

“We’re concerned that the homeless and other people might be able to get past that gate and try and stay in the park,” Arcuri said.

Parks and Recreation officials could not be reached for comment on CB 5’s concerns or a timeline for further construction.

Following the update, one board member asked Arcuri and Giordano if the gates would prevent floodwaters from running out of the old basins and onto Vermont Place during or after a significant storm.

Arcuri has been told by parks officials that they would not.

“But they also said that would only be an issue in the event of a flood of Biblical proportions, at which point flooding on Vermont Place wouldn’t be our biggest problem,” Arcuri said.

Parks and Recreation has been refurbishing and repaving the walking path around the reservoir for more than a year. Workers have been adding modern electric lights with period design lampposts, and have been both replacing old stone staircases and augmenting the new ones with handicapped-accessible ramps.

Still undecided is whether or not the city will convert at least some of the reservoir area to ballfields, as favored on the Brooklyn side of the border, or keep it for passive recreation and educational use, which is Q preferred in Queens.

A weekend of hit and runs on parkway Two hit and runs in two days leave one victim dead and another in critical care

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Two separate hit and runs on the Grand Central Parkway during St. Patrick’s Day weekend left one driver dead and a pedestrian in critical condition.

Roberto Depena of Kew Gardens Hills was arrested on Sunday, March 17 for allegedly fleeing the scene of an accident.

According to the NYPD, at approximately 3:20 a.m., officers responded to a 911 call regarding a vehicle crash in the vicinity of the Grand Central Parkway and 180th Street.

Upon further investigation, it was revealed that a yellow taxicab was traveling westbound on the parkway when it was

struck by a 2001 Honda sedan, forcing it to strike the median.

The Honda fled the scene and the operator of the taxicab was pronounced dead at the scene.

The victim has been identified as 38-year-old Bronx resident Ansumana Dukuly. Depena,19, was later apprehended within the confines of the 107 Precinct and taken into custody.

He has been hit with a number of charges including seconddegree vehicular manslaughter, fleeing the scene of an accident, criminally negligent homicide, driving while intoxicated, a speed violation and an additional charge for consuming alcohol underage.

The other incident occurred on March 16 at approximately 2 a.m. Police responded to a 911 call regarding a pedestrian

Borough president continued from page 25 taxes.” He then said the city is hurting small businesses with its massive increases in inspections and fines in recent years.

Comrie said a friendly small business atmosphere also is in the city’s long-term interest.

“This city is overly dependent on Wall Street,” he said. “And Wall Street is going to change in the next 10 years, because now you can sit at home in Bora Bora and trade stocks.”

Peralta said Queens can help existing businesses and draw more by marketing

itself better.

Grodenchik said mayoral control of schools has not worked.

“In a city of 8.3 million people, in a school system with 1.2 million people in it, one person cannot be solely responsible for making decisions,” he said.

Katz used her recent scramble to enroll her 4-year-old in preschool near the deadline to say that the Department of Education must rethink its priorities.

“I got a letter from the DOE saying my child did not have one of his shots,” she said.

“I didn’t get a letter reminding me that I

being struck by a vehicle on the eastbound Grand Central Parkway service road in the vicinity of Union Turnpike.

Upon arrival, police observed a 29-year-old male unconscious and unresponsive with body trauma. The victim was transported to New York Hospital Queens by EMS and is listed in critical condition. The driver is still at large and the investigation is ongoing.

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needed to register him for preschool.”

In regard to the endangered Gifted and Talented program at nearby PS 122, the candidates acknowledged that the city is cutting a program that it should be emulating.

“I think parents are going to start pushing back,” Peralta said.

On the topic of Willets Point, Avella said he is the only candidate who has come out against all three major proposals for the area — a new soccer stadium, The United States Tennis Association’s proposed expansion of the Billie Jean King Tennis Center and a massive retail and entertainment complex proposed by the owners of the New York Mets.

The project also is supposed to include

affordable housing in the region and upgrades to nearby highway access infrastructure.

But the housing for the moment is only required at the tail end of any project, which would be more than 10 years from now.

Vallone, who said Willets Point will and must be redeveloped, took particular issue with the stadium proposed for Flushing Meadows Corona park.

“Major League Soccer conducted a scam of a public hearing with a packed house,” he said.

He added that the city must seek a commitment from the USTA to give back to the city, specifically the park, in return for any Q approval.

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The City Council Transportation Committee approved a nonbinding resolution on Tuesday calling on the state to allow the installation of up to 40 cameras at high-risk intersections citywide to regulate speeding for five years, and the full Council passed it Wednesday.

Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside), the bill’s primary sponsor, met with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan), transportation safety advocate groups and several other Council members at City Hall on Monday night to announce their support for the proposed legislation.

The bill has passed the Assembly and is awaiting approval from the state Senate.

“I think that we’ve seen a number of fatalities in my district and one is too many,” Van Bramer said. “Each one is a reminder that we have to do something about this problem of speeding and reckless driving.”

According to the city Department of Transportation, which released statistics on traffic accidents at Monday’s press conference, speeding was the greatest single factor in traffic deaths in 2012, contributing to 81 fatal traffic crashes — about 30 percent of all traffic fatalities — while fatal hitand-run fatalities increased 31 percent since 2010 to 47 last year.

The department also released a map of 100 public schools across the city where 75 percent of vehicles were found speeding within a few blocks of the building.

DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan spoke at Monday’s conference, citing the

dangers of unregulated speeding in areas close to schools.

“One thousand New Yorkers are alive today who would not be if we simply sustained the city’s fatality rate just one decade ago,” Sadik-Khan said. “The streets around our city’s schools are the real speed traps, and we can’t play it safe when it comes to doing everything we can to protect New Yorkers on our streets — and especially seniors and school kids.”

Although many area officials support the legislation, some say the bill would be “ineffective” and is just “revenue-driven.”

“I don’t know whether these cameras are actually going to change people’s behaviors or if it is just going to take money out of people’s pockets,” said Assemblyman Bill Scarborough (D-Jamaica). “If you don’t have any other ways to change people’s behavior, I’m not sure how successful it’s going to be.”

Robert Sinclair, media relations manager for the New York branch of the American Automobile Association, said the bill is overly flawed because it does not directly target the issue of speeding.

“Installing speed cameras does nothing to remove a drunk, reckless driver from the road,” Sinclair said. “The concept that is laid down in the legislation is a bad one because it is overly broad and would allow the city to put cameras everywhere.”

If passed, the legislation would charge speeding drivers $25 and a penalty of $50 for speeding between 10 and 30 miles above the speed limit. Those driving over 30 miles above the speed limit would be Q charged $100.

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now by the Howard Beach Senior Center, which has temporarily been relocated to the gym. The loss of their gym has also forced the team to play all their games on the road, earning them the nickname the “Road Warriors.”

Celebrating above are Assistant Coach Lenny Fernandes, left, Nicholas DelGeorge, Michael Roccaforte, Joey LaSorsa, Jonathan Fernandes, Andrew McGrory, Michael Horton, Alex D’Amelio, Nicholas Wood, Christopher Tufano, Michael Nespolini and Coach Matt Horton. Not pictured are Nicholas Biordi, Albert Campos, Jonathan Durso, Raymond Stehle.

continued from page 14 said it and the city would move forward with plans to open the RFPs despite the storm and that the agency has been able to also focus on post-Sandy cleanup.

“The timeline for the RFP that NYC and the NPS just put out for kayaking, biking and food was not affected by Hurricane Sandy,” she said in an email.

According to an NPS press release, most public facilities were either undamaged in the storm or have already been repaired and reopened. The campgrounds at Floyd Bennett Field reopened March 1.

Riis Park and Fort Tilden’s athletic fields will be open this summer, though the beach at Fort Tilden will remain closed due to safety concerns.

Yun added that the abandoned Charles Park boat has not yet been moved because the NPS is looking for the owner first, and has not yet found him or her.

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) said he approves of the plan to bring kayaking and other activities to the bay, noting the potential economic benefit to the communities that need it after Sandy.

“The expansion of uses at Jamaica Bay over the past five or 10 years has helped to improve our local economy and bring attention to the bay. The tremendous economic benefit is often overlooked,” he said. “We’re in the middle of a recovery, but we have to start thinking of the future.

Over the last two years, we’ve seen a renaissance in Rockaway; we need to make sure we don’t slow our momentum.”

Goldfeder added that bringing kayakers and other people looking for recreation would not only help the community economically, but may also bring people who could see the recovery first hand and pitch in or donate to relief funds.

Rockaway Beach, which suffered a catastrophic blow from the storm, will also be open in the summer.

The Parks Department said it would build “boardwalk islands” along Rockaway Beach where the boardwalk was destroyed in Sandy. The islands will be built around concession buildings that survived the storm. The department has said the beach would be ready and open by Memorial Day. There was an informational meeting at Floyd Bennett Field on Wednesday morning. Hard copies of the RFPs can be obtained, at no cost, through April 8 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., excluding weekends and holidays, at the Revenue Division of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, which is located at 830 Fifth Avenue, Room 407. The RFPs are also available for download through April 8 on the Parks Department website, nyc.gov/parks. All proposals submitted in response to the RFPs must be submitted no later than Q Monday, April 8 at 3 p.m.

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Children received balloon friends made by “Nick the Balloonatic” and enjoyed crafts and tattoos.

Ridiculously Spoiled will be hosting opening events next week. On Wednesday, March 27

from 5 to 7 p.m., there will be an XBox party for boys ages 7 and up. On Thursday, March 28 there will a “Little Me” dress up party in the afternoon for 3- to 6-year-olds and later that evening a Spa-tacular party for girls ages 6 and up.

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Record-breaking coach dead at 82 Archbishop Molloy High School mourns death of the legendary Jack Curran

by Tess McRae Reporter

Jack Curran, the legendary head coach of the men’s baseball and basketball teams at Archbishop Molloy High School in Briarwood, died Wednesday night at his home in Rye, NY. The 82-year-old was raised in the Kingsbridge area of the Bronx and graduated from All Hallows High School in 1948. He went on to St. John’s University, where he was captain and starting pitcher of the baseball team his senior year.

After playing minor league baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies, Curran was hired to be Molloy’s head baseball and basketball coach in 1958.

Over the years, Curran has won 74 percent of his games, a record total of 2,680 baseball and basketball games.

In all, Curran won 21 Queens Divisional Basketball Championships, 14 BrooklynQueens Basketball Championships, 24 Queens Divisional baseball titles and made 24 trips to the Catholic High School Athletic Association Baseball championships.

Curran also received the CHSAA Coach of the Year award a record-breaking 25 times for baseball and 22 times for basketball.

“We’re all deeply saddened,” Molloy Athletic Director Mike McCleary said, choking up a bit. “We’re going to miss him more than you could ever imagine.”

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McCleary had been filling in for Curran over the final three weeks of the basketball season after Curran broke his right kneecap in a fall. He was also undergoing regular dialysis treatments and was recovering from cancer.

“Coach Curran has built a legacy that transcends any traditional notion of coaching high school athletics,” Molloy President Richard Karsten said in a statement. “To him it was always about the kids. They were the

reason for his success. His passing will not only be felt by today’s students, faculty and staff, but generations going back over 50 years” “Jack Curran was larger than the school where he coached and guided students for over a half-century,” Molloy alum and state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said. “He made an everlasting impression, not merely on the athletes of Molloy, but on every student, past and present, who has walked through its doors. Jack’s dedication, commitment and drive not only made him the winning-est coach in New York State and legendary at Molloy, but also a life example of successful perseverance and determination.”

Curran has produced a number of National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball players in the 55 seasons he has spent at Malloy.

Kenny Anderson who, after graduating Molloy, went on to play for the New Jersey Nets, spent Thursday morning tweeting memories and old pictures of his late high school coach.

“I lost my favorite coach, mentor and just great soul, Jack Curran you will be missed, I will have you in my thoughts every day I live. Thank U,” one of the posts read.

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Page 51 QUEENS CHRONICLE, Thursday, March 21, 2013 Ridgewood's Andrea Bergart in front of the United Transit Mix truck she transformed last year.

She will be painting another vehicle next month.

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by Josey Bartlett

It’s not your typical cement truck.

Last year Ridgewoood artist Andrea Bergart was biking by United Transit Mix in Brooklyn when the graffiti-covered facade caught her eye. Her boyfriend held her bike while she went inside to speak to the owner, Danny Mastronardi.

“Can I paint one of your trucks?” she asked him. She figured by the art outside his business that he must not be adverse to such a proposal. He said yes and Bergart got to work.

She was inspired by the documentary “Style Wars,” a film about graffiti-covered trains, and the “Razzle

Dazzle” camouflage used by the British and U.S. navies on their ships during the world wars to confuse enemies, and had been brainstorming about art as a moving image.

Another inspiration was the time she spent living in Ghana’s biggest bead-trading community where, as part of a Fulbright scholarship, she studied the history behind beads and where intricate patterns stem from. “[The truck] reminds me of a giant bead,” she said.

She assembled a team and worked from 7 a.m. until about 6 p.m. painting the truck.

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Human Growth Foundation, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to help children and adults with disorders of growth and growth hormone, will host its first annual 4.8K Step Up and Walk on Sunday, April 21 from 7 a.m. to noon at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 113-01 Roosevelt Ave, Flushing. Individual and team registration is now open online at hgfound.org/stepupandwalk_event_registration.html

HOLIDAY

The JCC-Chabad of LIC holds a seder on Monday, March 25 at 10-31 Jackson Ave. Also, Passover necessities will be delivered to homebound seniors and financially challenged residents in West Queens.

Visit JewishLIC.com or contact (718) 609-0066.

An Easter egg hunt will be held on Saturday, March 23 at 11 a.m. at Ozone Howard Little League baseball fields, 97-14 135 Dr., Ozone Park.

Use Centerville and 149th avenues entrance. For more information call (646) 298-7575.

Afternoon Composting: Weekly Food Waste DropOff at the Broadway Library, 40-20 Broadway in Long Island City on Saturdays at 1 p.m. Call (718) 721-2462.

On Saturday, March 23 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing, hosts MARCH for the Earth. Open the spring season with a day of volunteering followed by a march to the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Unisphere.

Advanced registration is required. Email Regina Forlenza at rforlenza@queensbotanical.org.

On Saturday, March 30 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., weather permitting, Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing, hosts an egg hunt. $5 per child.

Elegant Passover seders with Rabbi Algaze will be held on Monday, March 25 and Tuesday, March 26 at Havurat Yisrael Home, 68-60 Austin St., Forest Hills. $60 one seder, $110 both seders, children under 3 are free, ages 3-12 are $25. Call (718) 2615500 or email hyoffice18@yahoo.com.

The First Presbyterian Church of Newton, corner of Queens Boulevard and 54th Avenue, Elmhurst, is giving a concert of sacred choral music on Maundy Thursday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m. Free.

Community Passover seders will be held at the Rockwood Park Jewish Center, 156-45 84 St., Howard Beach, on Monday, March 25. Haggadah reading starts at 7:30 p.m. Call (718) 316-3055 for information.

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Floral Park Historical Society will show the film “The Braddock Boys” on Sunday, April 7 at 2 p.m. at Floral Park PHOTO COURTESY FLORAL PARK HISTORICAL SOCIETY Centenial Hall.

MUSIC On Saturday, March 23 at 8 p.m. see “The Hit Men,” a cover band, at Queensborough Performing Arts Center, Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside. $35 all seats. Call (718) 631-6311 or go to visitQPAC.org

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U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliarys, hosts a boating safety class at Fort Totten in Bayside on Sunday, March 24 at 8:30 a.m. The fee is $65. Pre-registration is a must. For more information call (917) 952-7014 or (347) 336-5866 or email 12-01@verizon.net. To register online visit uscgaux1201.org.

Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, hosts dance with instructions every Monday and Friday from 7:15 to 8 p.m. and a social dance from 8 to 11 p.m. Call (718) 4783100. $10.

A barnyard Easter egg hunt will be held at the Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Floral Park, on Saturday, March 30 from noon to 4 p.m. $5 per person.

St. Josaphat’s R.C. Church of Bayside, 35th Avenue and 210th Street, will host an Easter craft and plant sale plus an ethnic Polish bake sale on Saturday, March 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, March 24 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call (718) 224-3052 for more information.

The congregation of Emanuel United Church of Christ at Woodhaven Boulevard and 91st Avenue, Woodhaven, hosts Palm Sunday service on March 24 at 10:45 a.m.; Maundy Thursday Communion service on March 28 at 7:30 p.m.; Good Friday service on March 29 at 1 p.m.; and Easter Sunday service on March 31 at 10:45 a.m.

There will be a spring fling fair at Mary’s Nativity, St. Ann Parish Center, 46-02 Parsons Blvd., Flushing, on Saturday, March 23 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. with an egg hunt at 1 p.m. Call (718) 353-5961.

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The Glendale Chamber of Commerce will be hosting Fun with the Easter Bunny on Saturday, March 23 from 2-4 p.m. at 69th Street and Myrtle Avenue in Glendale. Parents should bring their children and their cameras for photos with the Easter Bunny.

There will be a gift from the bunny, face painting, a coloring table and fun for everyone. Free.

Flushing Camera Club meets at 7:30 p.m. in Flushing Hospital, 146-01 45 Ave.; enter at 45th Avenue and Burling Street, 5th floor, on the first, third and fifth Wednesdays of the month. For more information call (718) 749-0643 or visit flushingcameraclub.org.

Family board game day at Bay Terrace Library, 1836 Bell Blvd., on Friday, March 29 at 3:30 p.m. Call (718) 423-7004 for more information. Free.

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Watercolor classes at the National Art League, 4421 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston. All techniques, beginners to advanced. Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $25 per session. Call (718) 969-1128.

Floral Park Historical Society will show “The Braddock Boys” on Sunday, April 7 at 2 p.m. at Floral Park Centennial Hall at Tulip and Carnation avenues. Free. For more information contact (516) 775-6849 or visit floralparkhistorical.org and thebraddockboys.weebly.com

Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria, hosts a screening series, “The Life of Film, Celebrating a Decade of Reverse Shot,” from April 4-7. Tickets $20. Call (718) 777-6888.

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The JCC-Chabad of Long Island City/Astoria, 10-31 Jackson Blvd., hosts Torah Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m.; Taam Shabbat, Mommy and me, on Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.; Carlbach Shabbat service and LeChaim on Fridays at 6 p.m.; Shabbat morning service and kiddush on Saturdays at 9:30 a.m..Call or visit (718) 6090066 or jewishlic.com for more information.

The Central Queens YM & YWHA 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills, announces the return of PERC, a club for retirees. Come meet and speak with others about what concerns you Tuesday mornings from 10-11:30 a.m. Free for members of the CQY. Nonmembers free for first session, then $2 per session. Call the Adult and Senior Department at (718) 268-5011 ext.

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Join the Queens County Chapter of the International Association of Administrative Professionals on Saturday, April 6 at noon at Marbella Restaurant, 220-33 Northern Blvd., Bayside, for a luncheon and fashion show. $40. Call Irene at (516) 437-7038 (evening).

A Yom Hashoah/Holocaust Memorial Day program will be held on Sunday, April 7 at 10:30 a.m. at Briarwood Jewish Center, 139-06 86 Ave. Free. Call (917) 747-2922.

On Sunday, April 7 there will be a Holocaust Memorial service at 5 p.m. at Rockwood Park Jewish Center, 156-45 84 St., Howard Beach. For information call (718) 641-5822.

Professor Mary Fulbrook will discuss a book on a family friend who turned out to be a Nazi functionary at the Central Queens Y, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills, on Thursday, March 28 at 1:30 p.m. More information at (718) 268-5011 ext. 151 or pkurtz@cqy.org.

A blood drive will be held on Wednesday, March 27 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Christ the King HS gym, 68-02 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village. For more information, call Alice Wenz at (718) 3667400 ext. 244.

The Samuel Field Y has two weekday programs for preschool children ages 3-5 with developmental disabilities and their families. On Mondays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. there is Monday Magic: Learn and Play at the Bay Terrace Center, 212-00 23 Ave., Bayside.

On Wednesdays from 3-4:30 there is Gym and Creative Exploration at the Little Neck Site, 58-20 Little Neck Pkwy. Contact Amanda at (718) 225-6750 ext.

262 or email asmith@sfy.org for more information.

SUPPORT GROUPS The Lupus Alliance of Long Island and Queens meets once a month on Tuesdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Flushing. To attend and for more information, Alliance members can register by calling Paula Goldstein at (516) 802-3142. Anyone with Lupus and family members are invited to attend Education Days on Saturdays, March 23 and June 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration is required in advance. A fee of $10 per person for members and $15 for nonmembers includes a light breakfast, handouts and lunch. Call (516)826-2058 for more information.

Emotions Anonymous, an emotional support group, will be held on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. at Victoria Congregational Church, 148th Street and 87th Avenue, Briarwood. Call (718) 938-8869 or (917) 312-7150.

Nar-Anon is a self-help support group for anyone affected by a loved one’s use/abuse of drugs. The group meets every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the basement lounge at The-Church-In-The-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills. For information, call 1(800) 984-0066, or go to nar-anon.org.

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New theater group wrestles into Queens Mona, played by Christina Elise footsteps, and Mona, an actress who made it big in Hollywood but is Perry, with her long blond hair and struggling to stay popular. skintight army green pants, has a The girls meet on the rooftop of very Jennifer Lawrence in “The their mother’s home, which is surHunger Games” look. She aptly rounded by mountains of trash. The moved around the stage and swung twins immediately engage in a fivebetween an actress who loves to minute-long “slug fest” throwing stick her butt out and swear and a fists and f-bombs freely. sister who loves to smack her twin They discuss their mother, whom around. they not-so lovingly call Junky Venus, played by Amy Newhall, Drunk, as well as a monster that also does a good job of fake fighting guards the trash heap, keeping the and swearing. Newhall delivers a duo stranded on the roof. few believable emotional dialogues The mysterious creature may have as well. been a manifestation of the twins’ The only other actor — beside anger and fear from being raised by Christopher Schultz, who stays under a mother incapable of mothering or the stage the entire play and makes it could have been a drug- and the giant ant-like legs of the monster booze-fueled hallucination, because come alive — was Detective Cortes, although they can’t get down from Christina Elise Perry as Mona, top, and played by Becky London. London the roof they manage to have Amy Newhall as Venus battle it out. stomped around the roof and tried enough cheap vodka, heroin, cocaine to make the twins stop fighting for COURTESY PHOTO and marijuana to say they were totalthe second half of show, which gave ly bombed. However, except for taking a break from some much-needed relief from the bizarre sister drama. beating the daylights out of each other, the actresses didOverall it was hard to know if the play had a deeper n’t seem all that cracked out despite how the whole meaning or if it should be taken at face value like watchpremise of a monster and each girl’s trying to kill her “sis- ing a WWF spectacle. Either way there are worse ways to Q ter self” on a roof is pretty insane on it’s own. spend a night.

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There’s a new theater group in Long Island City.

Last August Variations Theatre Group took over the old U.S. Chain factory on 45th Road, which in the past served as a photo development facility and a plant for industrial syringes, then turned it into the Chain Theatre in November.

The spacious venue has a gallery that currently hosts Terri Moore’s paintings, a collection of simple yet elegant white circles painted on dark navy blue backgrounds. In the performance room the black stage sits in the middle surrounded by rows of chairs, a design which caters to the theater’s current show’s many epic fight scenes.

The company hosts weekend theater camps and will bring burlesque to the space in April. Last Saturday Variations Theatre Group produced “Venus & Mona,” running through the end of the month.

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Ali Silva performs a reading at the LIC Bar, accompanied by Concetta Abbate on violin and Charlie Rauh on guitar, while Pete MacNamara looks on. PHOTO COURTESY ERIC HATHAWAY

A ghostly ‘gift of gab’ found in LIC for an eerie atmosphere.

Nine poems and stories were read during In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, LIC Bar has the performance but it was the third tale, put a Celtic twist on its monthly Fireside “The True Story of Killman Castle,” that was Ghost Stories series. by far the scariest.

The most recent event was held in the The “true accounts” comprising “KillCarriage House, a small venue with a comfy man” tell the tale of a haunted castle that atmosphere that feels more like a ski lodge holds a rather disturbing creature referred to in Vermont than a back room in Long Island as “It.” The music combined with Silva’s City. A fireplace of average size sits stage- voice creates an uneasiness in the room, one right and is embedded in a stone panel for that only comes from a good scary tale. added effect.

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Though having live music play could, in “We use this phrase, ‘the theater of the some instances, seem distracting, Silva’s mind,’ a lot,” Silva said. “The idea is to shut voice stands strong, and together they make continued on page 00 58

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She slapped magnets on the rotating vessel, an idea she thought up after seeing magnetic advertisements on the sides of livery cabs, while the team painted the vehicle with splashes of bright green, yellow and pink. They then peeled off the spots and painted the negative black.

“I loved putting a feminine Lisa Frank pattern on a very masculine object,” Bergart said, referring to the popular rainbow-colored-animal school supply brand of the ’90s.

Next month she plans on tackling another cement tank.

The Q ue e ns C o u n c i l o n th e A rts awarded Bergart a grant to make her idea a reality and ever since she has been busily experimenting with patterns.

“I want to create some sort of optical effect,” she said. “Not too much, but something fun.”

Taking inspiration from nail stick-ons and fabrics, Bergart draws patterns and rolls the paper like a paper towel tube. By rotating the pattern she is hoping to discover some sort of animation.

“It’s sort of a game,” she said. “I want to create a corkscrew or an undulating in and out of the pattern as the [cement tank] turns.”

She plans to experiment with colors fading in and out, as well as making the piece of construction machinery a little more “masculine,” she said with a laugh, adding that nevertheless she does love pink, and the hue will probably make an appearance on her next work.

As part of the grant Bergart will be documenting the production of her truck art as well as how the vehicle looks in its surroundings. She will ride with the driver on jobs as well as trail behind to capture the perspective of residents in the neighborhoods as the machinery passes through. Many of her friends see her leopard-print vehicle roaming the streets of Brooklyn and will send her pictures like an Eye Spy game.

Bergart also intends to have her masterpiece parked in front of the Queens Museum of Art for some time, as a comQ plement to a typical art experience.

Andrea Bergart — bead historian and painter — experiments with patterns on a toy cement truck at her studio in Ridgewood.

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Meetings are held seven days a week.

Al-anon meets every Sunday at noon at Resurrection Ascension Pastoral Center basement, 85-18 61 Rd., Rego Park.

Problem with cocaine or other mind-altering substances? For local Cocaine Anonymous meetings call: 1-(212) COCAINE. Co-Dependents Anonymous (women only) meetings are held every Friday from 10 to 11:45 a.m. at Resurrection Ascension Pastoral Center, Fr. Freely Hall, 85-18 61 Rd., Rego Park.

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The Peter Cardella Senior Citizen Center, 68-52 Fresh Pond Rd., Ridgewood, hosts dancing to live music, bingo, blood pressure screening, chair yoga, monthly theme parties, oil painting, movies and much more. Lunch served daily at noon. Requested donation is $1.50. Meals on wheels is delivered for homebound seniors. Call (718) 497-2908.

The Selfhelp Latimer Gardens Senior Center, 34-30 137 St., Flushing, offers ballroom dancing, Mondays, Wednesdays through Fridays at 10:30 a.m. to noon; tai chi, Tuesdays at 10 a.m. to noon; English as a second language, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 10 a.m. to noon; Ping Pong, exercise and mahjong, Mondays though Fridays; Special workshop on Wednesday, March 27 about Preventing strokes. (718) 961-3660.

The Selfhelp Clearview Senior Center, 208-11 26 Ave., Bayside, hosts: In the News, Mondays at 10 a.m.; Qi Gong, Mondays at 10:45 a.m.; Wii time, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12:45 p.m.; Music with Dee, Mondays at 1 p.m.; dance aerobics, Tuesdays at 9 a.m.; health education, Tuesdays at 10 a.m.; aerobics, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m.; ballroom dancing, Tuesdays at 12:45 p.m.; drawing/painting, Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; yoga, Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; bingo, Wednesdays at 12:45 p.m.; jewelry making, Wednesdays at 1 p.m.; tai chi, Wednesdays at 2 p.m.; stay well exercises, Thursdays at 9:30 a.m.; reminiscing group, Thursdays at 10:45 a.m.; Scrabble, Thursdays at 12:45 p.m.; dance fitness, Fridays at 10:45

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The Ridgewood Older Adult Center, 59-14 70 Ave., will hold a march for meals fundraiser on Wednesday, March 27 from 3-5 p.m. Tickets are $8 in advance, $9 at the door. The center has a food pantry Tuesdays-Thursdays from 1-3 p.m. The MetroCard van is at the Center on the fourth Thursday of every month. Movies are held every Monday or Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. Art classes are held every Monday at 12:30 p.m. Call Karen at (718) 456-2000 for more information.

The Rockaway Boulevard Senior Center, 123-10 143 St., South Ozone Park, offers service programs Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Lunch is at noon with a suggested donation of $1.50. Exercise programs include: tai chi stretch, dance groups, choral group, ceramics, camera class, computer classes, trips, birthday parties and more. For more information, call (718) 657-6752.

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

Activities at the Clearview Senior Center, 208-11 26th Ave., Bayside, are held Monday-Friday. For more information, call (718) 224-7888.

The Pomonok Senior Center, 67-09 Kissena Blvd., is offering free Chinese language classes every Thursday at 1 p.m.; its very first Dear Abby Group every Thursday at 11 a.m.; free ESL classes for Chinese speakers, every Tuesday and Thursday from 9-10:30 a.m.; and the Knitting and Crochet club every Thursday at 1 p.m. for beg inners and experts. For more information, please contact the Pomonok Senior Center at (718) 591-3377, Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Aside from the half-hour prior to the audience taking their seats, there is almost no rehearsing but the spontaneity keeps the performance grounded.

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The idea for the Fireside Ghost Stories series came about when Silva and Gustavio Rodriguez met at a mutual friend’s birthday party.

The first performance was in 2011, just before Halloween, in front of a small audience.

“At first it was just me sitting with a candle,” Silva said. “Gus would be in the back with an iPod and play music and sound effects as I went along. This whole thing has really just grown from where we were.”

Having the “gift of gab” was a wellrespected talent in Ireland during the Celtic era. Bards and seanachies spent their lives committing hundreds of stories to memory and sharing the tales with

those around them.

Silva’s performance, though not memorized, honors the works of W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde’s mother Lady Wilde, William Allingham and others by celebrating the Irish storytelling tradition.

The performance was about an hour and a half long, with a 10-minute intermission for people to refill their glasses at the bar.

Special guest Pete MacNamara, performed a chilling rendition of Ray Bradbury’s story “Banshee” to conclude the evening.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: SPEAKYOURMINDNY, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/24/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 158-23 Riverside Drive, Beechhurst, New York 11357.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: Law Office of Leonidas Fampritsis, PLLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/05/2013. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 35-01 30th Ave., Suite 404, NY 11103. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: LAW & JOHN, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/17/2012. Office location is Queens County.

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To Advertise Call 718-205-8000 LEGAL NOTICE AMBROSINO EQUITIES LLC Notice of formation of a domestic Limited Liability Company (“LLC”).

Articles of Organization filed with the Sec. of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 2/22/13. Office location: Queens Co. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 57-52 49th Place, Maspeth, New York 11378. The LLC does not have a specific date of dissolution. Purpose: all purposes permitted by the LLC.

Notice of Formation of Forum 343 East 74, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/25/13. Office location: Queens County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 144-21 Jewel Ave., Flushing, NY 11367.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Dos Estrellas LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/1/13. Office location: Queens. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Waleed Zaiter, 22-06 38th St., #1A, Astoria, NY 11105.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company.

Name: MATTEIRU LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/24/2013. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Kevin Cheng, 10740 Queens Boulevard, Apartment 11A, Forest Hills, NY 11375. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 163-165 BEACH 96TH STREET, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/13/13. Office location: Queens County. Princ. office of LLC: 24-30 85th St., Jackson Heights, NY 11370. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Steven Danza, 884-04 Astoria Blvd., Jackson Heights, NY 11370.

As amended by Cert. of Change filed with SSNY on 02/22/13, the process addr. is: 84-04 Astoria Blvd., Jackson Heights, NY 11370.

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Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: TRI-US PEST CONTROL SERVICES LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/24/2013.

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SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 6713 60th Ln., Ridgewood, NY 11385. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

TKF 168 REALTY LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 1/28/13. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 153-19 78th Ave., Flushing, NY 11367. General Purposes.

Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1268178 for Beer and Wine has been applied for by El Tucan Inc. to sell Beer and Wine at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 4324 91st Pl., Elmhurst, NY 11373 for on-premises consumption.

BORPIT REALTY TWO, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/21/12.

Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC C/O Petr Paskhover 64-33 99th St., Apt. 4M, Rego Park, NY 11374. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of limited liability company. Name: CPRP LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/05/2013. Office location is Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 2410 98th Street, East Elmhurst, NY 11369. The general purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Queens Chronicle does not knowingly accept advertising in violation of these laws. When you suspect housing discrimination call the Open Housing Center (the Fair Housing Agency for the five boroughs of New York) at 212-941-6101, or the New York City Commission of Human Rights Hotline at 212306-7500.

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Kleen-Heet of Flushing, the oil guys

Don’t blame David Wright

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

In the early days of the 20th century, the homes being built in Queens were fitted to be heated with coal. Homeowners were inconvenienced with the mess of burned coal, and tons of the spent ashes were deposited in what is now Flushing Meadows Corona Park. That ceased in 1934 when the city acquired the property for the World’s Fair of 1939-40.

But coal was already being displaced, as by the early 1920s a whole new option had opened up to homeowners: cheap heating oil. Everyone wanted an oil burner.

Among those who cashed in on the changeover was Frank P. Bangert. Born in Brooklyn in 1882, Bangert remembered helping clean coal ashes out of his parents’ basement as a young boy.

In 1922, Bangert, who lived at 43-11 163 St. in Flushing with his wife, Dorothy, opened up his heating company around the corner at 43-38 162 St. (old street address was 121 S. 22 St.). It was called Kleen-Heet.

Bangert could install a variety of oilbased heating systems. Customers no longer

The opening of Kleen-Heet in Flushing in July 1922. The first line of the sign atop the truck at the left reads “Don’t use coal — don’t use coal.” faced the work of removing spent ashes from their basements — and the city no longer had to dump them in Flushing Meadows.

Bangert had a lucrative business for a number of years. But by the late 1930s, most of the coal conversions to oil in Queens were done, and business dropped off as all new homes were being built with oil burners already installed. Bangert’s services were no longer needed.

Like just about everything else, oil is no longer as cheap as it was. Customers being crushed by high heating bills are now seeking a new alternative to oil, just as they had Q done with coal.

You would have thought David Wright personally affronted some of the New York sportswriters for incurring a rib cage injury while he was playing for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic. The gist of the grousing was that Wright should have made his employer, the New York Mets, his primary concern, instead of chasing the glory that comes with being part of an American all-star team in an international competition that is the baby of Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig.

Of course these same media types were relishing how Wright was called Captain America by his USA teammates when he appeared to be completely healthy. Talk about pathetic frontrunning.

It would be hard to blame Wright if he was more interested in Team USA’s success than in the prospects of the 2013 Mets. He realized that the stage he was getting to play on in March would be the biggest one he would see all year, with the exception of the All-Star Game. Even the most optimistic Mets fan must concede that it will be extremely difficult for this team to win more games in 2013 than it loses.

Barring a complete disaster of a season, Wright should be representing the Mets at the 2013 All-Star Game, slated for mid-July at Citi

Field. Tickets are already on sale for the MLB FanFest, which will be held at the Javits Center, as well as for Taco Bell All-Star Sunday at Citi Field, which will feature the Futures Game, spotlighting the best minor leaguers, as well as a celebrity softball game.

The outpouring of tributes for Jack Curran, who served as head coach of Archbishop Molloy’s baseball and basketball teams from 1958 until his death last week, reminded us of how a great teacher can shape lives for the better.

Among those who played for Coach Curran were former NBA stars Kenny Anderson, Kenny Smith, Kevin Joyce and Brian Winters as well as current Mets outfielder Mike Baxter.

The annual Queens Half Marathon will take place this Sunday at Flushing Meadows Park.

Many of the runners will be raising funds for various charities, including the man who will be starting at the back of the pack, Devang Patel of North Bergen, NJ, who will be wearing a white leisure suit reminiscent of that worn by John Travolta in “Saturday Night Fever.” Patel will get $1 from the event’s sponsor, US Road Sports & Entertainment Group, for every runner he passes, money that will go to “Restore The Shore,” a nonprofit whose mission is to help the Jersey Shore recover from Superstorm Sandy.

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