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‘EXCUSE ME, HER NAME IS KARINA’ Murder trial starts with dramatic confrontation PAGE 2 Cathie and Phil Vetrano testified this week in the opening days of the trial of their daughter’s accused killer. Cathie clashed with a defense lawyer when he misnamed her daughter.

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Howard Beach has role in murder case Will neighborhood connections be part of defense at Vetrano trial?

by Michael Shain Editor

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or the second time in five months, the case that has haunted Howard Beach since the summer of 2016 started to roll out in Queens Criminal Court this week.

The prosecutor, Assistant Dist r ict Attorney Brad Leventhal, chief of the Homicide Bureau, spoke for nearly two hours on the trial’s opening day, outlining in cringing detail how Karina Vetrano, a speech pathologist who’d just turned 30 and lived in Howard Beach her entire life, was strangled and sexually assaulted while jogging through Spring Creek Park, a mile from her home.

Chanel Lewis, 22, who lived in Brooklyn within walking distance of the park and her accused killer, sat at the defense table, staring straight ahead, expressionless and silent, stroking his face as the prosecutor spoke.

He did not look at the jury or even at Leventhal until, more than 45 minutes into his opening argument, when the prosecutor walked over to within a few feet of Lewis and pointed him out as Vetrano’s alleged killer.

Lewis’ trial has been moved out of Judge Michael Aloise’s regular court to a

Lawyers for Chanel Lewis, right, were able to cast doubt on DNA evidence and a confession at his first trial. In the second, which started this week, the defense is going after “pressure to PHOTO BY ELLIS KAPLAN solve the case” from police officials who live in Howard Beach. rarely used, ceremonial courtroom on the first f loor of the Kew Gardens courthouse. The biggest cour troom in the building, it is used only for the most high-profile cases.

Last Monday, for Leventhal’s opening argument, there was hardly an empty

seat.

Friends and family of Phil and Cathie Vetrano, Karina’s parents, filled the first three rows on the prosecutor’s side of the courtroom. Several women wore purple, Karina’s favorite color, to show their support.

The first trial last fall ended in a hung jury and a mistrial, in large part, because Lewis’ Legal Aid lawyers were able to cast doubt on the DNA evidence that tied the defendant to the murder scene and on how voluntary his confession was.

“A small hamlet in the southern part of our county” was how the prosecutor, somewhat poetically, described Howard Beach for the jury of seven men and five women.

At least in the trial’s first days, the character and closeness of life in Howard Beach became a part of the fabric of the case on both sides.

When father Phil Vetrano could not find his daughter on the night of the murder, he called a Howard Beach neighbor, John Cassidy, a three-star NYPD chief, who put out the alarm for a missing girl, Leventhal said.

But, defense lawyer Jenny Cheung asked the jury, because a chief who lived in the neighborhood was involved, did investigators feel “pressure to solve the case?”

“Objection,” Leventhal called out.

“Overruled,” replied the judge. “It’s opening argument.”

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Hotel for Resorts World by late 2020 Casino gets luxury accommodations with major, $400M expansion plan

by Michael Shain Editor

A long-planned hotel at Resorts World Casino in South Ozone Park is about to begin construction, officials said this week.

The 400-room, 10-story hotel represents a major expansion of the only casino in New York City.

“This new play, stay, dine and shop development will create good-paying jobs and generate significant revenue for our surrounding community and New York State,” said Scott Molina, president of Resorts World Casino New York City.

“We are grateful to our local partners for their steadfast support as we prepare for phase two of our facility.”

The $400-million hotel is slated to be completed by the end of next year.

The first two f loors are already near completion and will be ready to open some time this summer, officials said.

The completion of the hotel will effectively double the size of the casino by adding an additional 500,000 square feet of space to the complex.

It will include four high-end restaurants, a fitness center, another gaming room and meeting rooms.

The ability to put up guests overnight— especially high rollers — and to host conventions and conferences on the casino grounds puts Resorts World on an even footing with Atlantic City and other area gambling spots.

Since the casino opened in 2011 right next to Aqueduct Race Track, it has been surprisingly successful, drawing more than 10 million customers a year.

It has become the highest-grossing slot-machine casino in the world, officials say.

On average, more than $1.1 billion a month is wagered through the casino’s 5,000 video machines, according the state Gaming Commission.

However, betting revenues at Resorts World have been slowly trending downward over the last few years.

A rendering of what the the new hotel at Resorts World will look like at night shows a 10-story, faceted, glass front addition to the RENDERING COURTESY PERKINS EASTMAN casino.

The casino’s handle has dropped from a high of $20 billion in 2015-16 to just under $14 billion in 2017-18, the last full year for which statistics are available, according to the Gaming Commission.

Betting in the current fiscal year, which ends next month, are on a par with last year, indicating the decline may be leveling off.

The new hotel will extend from the casino’s main building north, toward Rockaway Boulevard, in front of the existing, four-story parking garage.

It was designed by the international architecture firm Perkins Eastman, which is responsible for components of

such New York projects as Bat ter y Park Cit y and Metrotech, as well as smaller projects in Queens, including a sustainable housing development in Arverne in the Rockaways.

Once the hotel is complete, casino officials say more than 1,000 jobs will be created in the southern part of Queens.

Construction is not expected to affect the operations of the casino.

Officials said they will make an announcement about which restaurants and other facilities will be opened in the Q just-completed ground floors of the new hotel.

Track debris falls fourth time Latest report beneath the A train in S. Richmond Hill

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For the fourth time in four weeks, debris from elevated subway tracks in Queens has reportedly fallen on a car.

Reports say that a metal bolt fell from the A line onto a woman’s car in South Richmond Hill at the Lefferts Boulevard Station on Monday. The incident, near 115th Street and Liberty Avenue, left a dent on her car.

This incident comes after three separate incidents in the past few weeks where debris has fallen from the No. 7 train tracks. No one was injured but there were damages to cars each time, according to reports.

Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) is urging more action from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to make the streets safer from falling objects.

“Immediate action must be taken to protect people under our elevated subways,” Van Bramer tweeted. “It isn’t just the 7 line. It’s all

of the lines. 4 incidents in less than 4 weeks.

MTA needs to start taking this more seriously before someone gets hurt.”

The MTA, in published reports, said Monday’s incident is under investigation.

“We obviously take any report like this seriously and sent a team to investigate,” the agency said. “We didn’t find anything abnormal at the scene — there was no debris on the ground, the track was inspected from both sides and all components were found to be secure. Our systemwide inspection of all elevated track structures continues.”

New York City Transit President Andy Byford ordered citywide inspections of elevated train tracks in response to the first incident on Feb. 21 in Woodside, when a piece of wood fell from the 7 train tracks and smashed through an SUV’s windshield on Roosevelt Avenue.

Officials determined that all of the subway system’s elevated tracks were safe. Just a few

weeks later on March 6, it was reported that a moving vehicle was struck on Roosevelt Avenue near 62nd Street in Woodside.

Officials said a piece of steel apparently broke loose and struck the windshield.

Later that day Van Bramer tweeted, “New Yorkers should not be scared to walk under the 7 train trestle. The MTA is clearly not doing enough to address this crisis. We need emergency netting or scaffolding installed ASAP.” After the second Roosevelt Avenue incident happened, the MTA immediately launched an investigation “with a specific focus on this type of connection plate, of the entire 7 line and the entire system to look for conditions where excessive rust may indicate a potential piece of metal can come loose.”

Last Friday, March 15, when the third incident took place and made a dent on another car, this time near Queensboro Plaza in Long Island City, the councilman had his cell phone

Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, right, with a chunk of metal that struck a car near Queensboro Plaza last week. The MTA is probing four TWITTER PHOTO / NYC COUNCIL such reports. out again.

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100 and counting, her simple secret Hundreds celebrate Ozone Park’s Carrie Darienzo in golden year

by Michael Shain Editor

Caroline Darienzo reached 100 years old last week with such a bold and confident attitude that, when a reporter asked if she had any children, she replied: “No, these are all my kids.”

She swept her arm around the noisy room, which at that moment was filled with more than 200 people who had come to see her at her centennial birthday party.

Like Rocky entering the arena for a championship fight, Darienzo’s entrance, amid the strains of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” into the community room of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ozone Park was greeted with kisses, cheers and applause.

Family from three states and friends from a lifetime in Queens packed the cavernous room that doubles as the church’s Golden Age Club senior center, of which she is the oldest official member. A special Mass was said in her honor earlier in the day.

People who hadn’t seen her much since she was accidentally struck 10 years ago by a driver who was backing up marveled at how mobile she is. Darienzo relies on a walker only occasionally and can walk pretty much unaided wherever she wants to.

Posing with friends at her 100th birthday party, Caroline Darienzo, center, remains vigorous, happy and, best of all, funny. Her secret to long life? “Eat, drink and be merry,” she said. “I have PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN a little wine now and then.”

“Those of you in your 80s and 90s,” said Joe Caruana, director of the Golden Age Club, teasing others in the club. “How does it feel not to be the oldest person in the room?”

Born in Jamaica on March 14, 1919, the eldest of five — two brothers, two sisters — her father was a laborer. “My mother stayed

home with all of us,” Darienzo said.

On the day she was born, 2,000 veterans of World War I, still waiting to be shipped home, met in Paris and created the American Legion.

Caroline — ever yone in the family calls her Carrie, by the way — eventually married a printer from Ozone Park,

Vincent Darienzo.

While he worked with his brother in a print shop on 102nd Avenue and 88th Street, she worked as a seamstress, and, later, a clerical worker for Texaco.

“I’ve lived in Queens all my life,” she said, “until a little while ago.”

A few years ago, she had to give up the apartment in her in-laws’ house where she’d been living and moved to an assisted-living facility.

Does she miss her old home? She shrugged. “Life goes on,” she said.

What’s her secret to unusually long life?

“Eat, drink and be merry,” she replied.

“I have a little wine now and then,” she said, staring unhappily at the glass next to her pasta lunch.

“Water,” she pointed out. “Too bad.”

Marie Francone, her 81-year-old sister and last surviving sibling, sat next to her at the head table accepting birthday cards and flowers on her sister’s behalf.

A DJ played music from the 1940s and ’60s and flashed photos on a big screen of Darienzo receiving proclamations from local officeholders, hugging friends and posing for cell phone shots.

“I’m slap-happy,” she said, adding “Who could ask for something better than this?” pointing to the huge party in her honor. Q

Gas attack! Addabbo won’t back pipeline Senator to fight project in backyard

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Mosque security increased In the hours and days following a terrorist shooting rampage in New Zealand that left 50 Muslims at their weekly prayers dead, NYPD officials deployed special units at mosques around the city as a precaution against copycats— including these members of the department’s Special Response

Group who were stationed outside the Jamaica Muslim Center over the weekend.

Commanders of Patrol Borough Queens South tweeted out several photos of police officers meeting with Muslim religious leaders to reassure them that they were on the alert.

— Michael Shain

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) this week said he is opposing the construction of a large natural-gas pipeline proposed off the Rockaways.

“This pipeline would provide no clear, direct benefit to my constituents, and may actually negatively impact their quality of life,” he said in a prepared statement announcing his decision.

After the damage caused by Superstorm Sandy six years ago, Addabbo said, “I cannot support an initiative that may burden them even further.”

The Williams pipeline, named for the energy company that is proposing it, is intended to bring gas to New York City directly from Pennsylvania, where fracking methods have discovered large reserves. Fracking is not permitted in New York State.

Proponents of the pipeline from New Jersey to Queens say it’s necessary to supply National Grid, the city’s main gas utility, which is having difficulty keeping up

A planned pipeline would come ashore in PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN the Rockaways. with the homeowners and commercial realestate operators phasing out oil heating.

Addabbo is joining opponents of the project who say that construction poses an environmental threat to the peninsula in the short term and, in the long run, represents a retreat from efforts to move away from fossil fuels.

“I know of the need for different sources of energy, but I do not believe fracking gas Q is the answer,” Addabbo said.

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Albany OKs school speed camera bills Cuomo expected to sign plan being hailed as major safety improvement

by Michael Gannon Editor

The state Legislature has approved a massive expansion of the city’s school traffic camera FILE PHOTO program.

Legislators in Albany expect Gov. Cuomo to sign a bill that will reauthorize the use of speed cameras around schools in New York City.

The legislation, which passed the state Senate and Assembly on Tuesday, will establish 750 covered school zones in the city — when signed into law it also will cover Buffalo — and, according to published reports, will cover every public school in the five boroughs.

The city had 140 cameras in use under a law that expired last July 25 when the Republican-led state Senate refused to take a reauthorization vote on a bill that would have increased the total to 290.

The cameras, which had been in place since 2014, were restarted by the City Council just before the start of school last August when Cuomo declared the situation to be an emergency.

November’s elections gave Democrats control over the Senate as well as the Assembly.

“The Assembly and Senate deserve great credit in passing a dramatic expansion of our life-saving speed camera program,” Mayor de Blasio said in a statement issued by his office. “We will stop

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f ive st raight years, bucking national trends,” Trottenberg said in the release.

Joh nson was about as subtle as a sledgehammer.

“School zone speed cameras save lives, period,” he said.

Senators from Queens backed the measure enthusiastically in a statement issued

by Stewart-Cousins’ office following the vote. For Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) a co-sponsor, it was personal.

“As the father of two school-aged girls who must cross the street to get to their bus and school, I know the concerns parents have when it comes to speeding cars,” he said. “Ensuring the safety of children as they go to and leave their schools is one of the most impor tant things we can do as elected officials.”

Sen. Ja mes Sa nder s Jr. ( D -Sout h Ozone Park) said the state has “an obligation to protect our children in every way we can, particularly in school zones.”

Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing) also is a retired teacher.

“Too often, we witness accidents that could have prevented,” she said. “Schools and their surrounding areas should be a safe haven for everyone — educators, pa rents a nd especially st udents. By expanding speed camera utilization, it will offer increased protection for all pedestrians.”

Like its predecessor, the law will have a sunset date, this one in 2022. Should Republicans take back the Senate in the November 2020 elections — the GOP’s chances for taking the Assembly are considered virtually nonexistent — the new camera law could find itself in the same place as the old one in just over two years.

But sources in the Legislature said a sunset provision for such a law is necessary as the results of the cameras are studied, assessed and reassessed.

A sunset provision allows for necessary changes should reports determine that the timing or spacing of lights is wrong or more are needed, or even to allow for the construction of more schools in the comQ ing 24 months.

DA hopeful The Queens High School for the Sciences FILE PHOTO sent out offers this week. and other in-school criteria in order to get the racial makeup of those schools closer to the school system as a whole, which is nearly 70 percent black and Hispanic.

The results from this year’s admissions may strengthen the mayor’s hand.

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The pace of campaigning is picking up as the primary election to replace retiring Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, June 25, gets closer.

One of the front-runners in the crowded field of Democrats, Judge Gregory Lasak, above, is set to make an appearance next Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. at St. Helen Catholic Academy on 157th Avenue and 88th Street in Howard Beach, sponsored by the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association.

Lasak is a former prosecutor under Brown who spent 14 years on the bench before stepping down last year to run.

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Attempts to integrate the city’s elite high schools were dealt a serious setback last week when offers went out to only a handful of black students who’d applied.

In Queens, out of 165 students admitted to the selective Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, only four were black, according to the city’s Department of Education.

At the city’s most selective school, Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, seven blacks students were admitted to a class with 895 spots.

The ratios among the other six elite schools, including Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech, were similar.

Admission to the eight elite schools is, by state law, restricted to how well students perform on the Specialized High School Aptitude Test, or SHSAT. Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza have been advocating for months to scrap the SHSAT and base admissions instead on grades, activities

at nothing to aggressively pursue tools like speed cameras that we know slow dow n d r ivers and save lives arou nd schools across the city. Vision Zero is working and more speed cameras will only deepen that progress on our streets.”

Eva n Wei nb e r g, c om mu n ic at ion s director for state Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D-Brooklyn) who sponsored the Senate bill, told the Ch ron icle that Cuomo already has said he will sign the measure.

The cameras will automatically issue tickets. Their use will be authorized between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. on weekdays.

In a statement issued by the office of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx), Amy Cohen, a founding member of Families for Safe Streets, was fully supportive.

“As we know all too well, speeding is a deadly act and it has to stop,” Cohen said.

“We have an epidemic and speed safety cameras are a huge part of the cure.”

Fo r C o u n c i l m a n D a n n y D r o m m (D-Jackson Heights), a retired schoolteacher, the victory was about far more than politics.

“As an educator who taught 4th graders for 25 years, I am relieved that the New York State Legislature has done right by our children,” Dromm said in an email to the Chronicle.

“The facts are clear: school speed cameras save lives,” D rom m cont i nued.

“Potential traff ic-related injuries and fatalities are a constant source of worry for teachers and parents alike. The threat of harm is significantly reduced by safety measures such as these.”

Dromm thanked Cuomo, Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea StewartCousins (D-Yonkers) for their support. So too did Commissioner Polly Trottenberg of the city’s Department of Transportation and Cou ncil Speaker Corey Joh nson (D-Manhattan) in a statement issued by Heastie’s office.

“We know speed cameras were a central part of the encouraging results we have had in New York City under Vision Zero, where fatalities have declined for

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ake no mistake: The worst thing, by far, about the fatal March 14 collision between a bicycle and a car in Long Island City is that the rider was killed.

The victim was Robert Spencer, by all accounts a fine man, one who loved to ride both his bike and his motorcycle. He served the city by working at the Department of Homeless Services, and his friends and colleagues there said in a note, left on the ghost bike parked in his memory at the crash scene, that he was “a great guy ... always helpful, always friendly, always smiley,” adding, “Rest in peace.”

His loss at age 53 is terribly painful for his friends and family, to whom we send our sincere condolences.

The police report on the crash said Spencer was riding against traffic on Borden Avenue and ran a red light at Second Street when he was struck. Yet some cycling advocates, who mourn Spencer as one of their own and held a memorial for him at which the ghost bike was installed and then took a ride together in his honor, are saying vicious things about the woman who struck him, the Police Department and media outlets who reported on the crash. They should not.

Pointing out that the police report was based on what the driver told responding officers, some members of the

cycling community immediately disputed it. They didn’t believe Spencer was going the wrong way or had run the red light; therefore the driver must have done so. His bike didn’t end up where it did because he was where the driver said he was; she must have been going at high speed to knock it all the way across the intersection. The amount of damage to the hood of her car also indicates speeding.

They based this on photos posted to social media. One armchair analyst even claimed the hood had been shifted a few inches by the impact, which one of the photos shows is simply not true. It was dented and lifted a little away from the headlight on one side, but it remained aligned as it was.

Another commenter claimed the front license plate had been defaced. That associates the driver with wrongdoing.

But the plate is not defaced. It’s peeling — pretty badly — and needs to be replaced, which the Department of Motor Vehicles will do for free. Peeling is not the same as defaced.

Contacted by the Chronicle for the results of the NYPD’s probe into the crash, the police press office said the Collision Investigation Squad found that yes, the driver had the green light when she went through the intersection.

Also regrettable here were some of the words area Coun-

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Urban trees cut down Dear Editor: In March 2019 in Kew Gardens, Queens, The Boro of Trees, loggers for the state Department of Transportation, Kew Gardens Interchange project at Grand Central Parkway and Union Turnpike proceeded to do the unthinkable in the 21st-centur y forest: “Denuding by Design.”

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The phenomenon of large trees and the gains for the built-up environment are an incredible story. We should be inspired by this resource as the environmental workhorse that directly benefits people, and for free. Tree science has determined the larger the tree the more efficient they become doing what they do best and thereby are vital to healthy urban living. © Copyright 2019 by MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. All rights reserved.

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cilman Jimmy Van Bramer offered in a prepared statement lamenting Spencer’s death. “We cannot normalize traffic violence and deaths,” he said in part, adding, “It’s long past time to hold reckless drivers accountable ...” The statement also called for more protected bike lanes, including along Borden Avenue (Second Street already has them).

Van Bramer had no basis to associate “traffic violence” and “reckless driving” with this accident. He was speaking generically, not of this crash in particular, but that’s not the impression one would get from his statement. Again, the driver is discredited for no reason.

As for protected bike lanes on Borden, sure, unless there’s some good reason not to install them there (the area community board opposes them, so it too was slammed after the accident). The ones on Second Street are separated from the lanes by raised concrete. But such protections do not extend across intersections. The best the city can do there is mark the lanes, as it already had at this corner.

And the least advocates could do is not jump to conclusions and always assume drivers are at fault when a tragedy like this happens. The driver has to live forever knowing she killed someone. She doesn’t deserve wrongful blame too.

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The monetary gains for New York City of retaining large trees are staggering. Tree cover affects avoided storm water runoff by rainfall absorption apportioned at 69 million cubic feet annually, for a cost savings of $4.6 million; airborne pollutant removal by capture in leafy canopies is estimated at 1,100 tons annually with a cost savings of $59.9 million; removal of harmful particulate matter from vehicle exhaust is 41 tons annually valued at $59.9 million, and with avoided health consequences due to pollution reduction. Gross carbon sequestration and storage is estimated at 1.2 million tons valued at $153 million annually. That’s not to exclude enhancing quality of life, improving well-being, temperature reduction by evaporative cooling, screening and as habitat.

That state DOT project planners and designers viewed hundreds of trees as disposable is shameful by their indifference. It is also a testament that society’s value for urban trees remains lacking. Yet, on March 21 the world is celebrating International Day of Forests, with

Earth Day and Arbor Day events thereafter.

People shall celebrate trees and forests for the tree deliverables, livelihoods and a call for tree preservation and conservation.

Unfortunately the residents of Kew Gardens and of greater Queens have far less to be celebrating.

Carsten W. Glaeser Flushing The writer is vice president of the Kissena Park Civic Association and a professional independent consulting arborist.

The MTA, the ADA, and money Dear Editor: Here is one way to obtain financial support to pay for accelerating the number of subway stations to reach compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act (“Judge says MTA broke ADA elevator statutes” by Michael Gannon, March 14).

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority

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receives $1.4 billion in annual assistance from various Federal Transit Administration formula funding grant programs. The MTA, based upon the court’s decision, will have to update its long-term Americans With Disability Act Compliance Plan. This is currently in place and approved by the Federal Transit Administration Washington Headquarters Office of Civil Rights. Without an approved plan in place, it is difficult for the FTA to approve any new grant funding. The upcoming MTA $30 to $50 billion 2020-24 Five Year Capital Plan will probably have to program up to a billion more for New York City Transit to dramatically increase the number of additional subway stations reaching full ADA compliance.

Your editorial “MTA can’t do ‘regardless of cost” (March 14) is correct as to who knows what other projects and programs may have to be cancelled in the 2020-24 Five Year Capital Plan to find additional funding for installation of ADA-compliant elevators at more subway stations.

Larry Penner Great Neck, LI The writer is a transportation historian, advocate and writer who previously worked 31 years for the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office.

Fed funds and Trump Dear Editor: I think that the New York and New Jersey politicians have to decide what they want more: the money for the Gateway tunnel or to investigate the Trump Organization.

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Socialists vs. America Dear Editor: The SPCA (Socialist, Progressive Communists of America) are working to undermine our country by attacking law enforcement and the priesthood. With little or no support from their own governing bodies it is often a quick no trial conviction, alive or dead. Lawyers salivate, press smells blood, public fears anyone in uniform. The SPCA has set out to destroy law and religion in the United States as we know it.

The sad part is they are now masquerading as the Democrat Party.

Joseph T. Klonowski Middle Village

Today in Trump is terrible Dear Editor: Just a few quick things to catch up on.

1. The Mosque killer mentioned Trump in his 74-page document. Here is how he referred to Trump: “As a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose? Sure! As a policymaker and leader? Dear God no.” I think that says it all.

2. Trump’s emergency wall declaration (the one he said wasn’t an emergency) was voted down by the Republican-controlled Senate.

Now what, Repugnantcans? Is it Hillary’s fault? I heard Trump wanted to fly to Benghazi to veto the legislation via FaceTime. Rep. Nancy Pelosi has scheduled a March 26 vote on blocking the veto. To quote Speaker Pelosi, “House Republicans will have to choose between their partisan hypocrisy and their sacred oath to support and defend the Constitution.” The GOP-controlled Senate also voted to end U.S. support for Saudi Arabia in the Civil War in Yemen. Trump will veto this legislation as well. His Saudi pals demand it! As Trump likes to say, “let’s see what happens” 3. Bill Shine is out as Trump’s communications director. He’s the fifth one to go. Shine used to run Fox “news” but now he’ll be relocating to Trump’s re-election campaign headquarters. I’m wondering, just how much is a first-class flight to Moscow?

4. Lawmakers in North Carolina are considering lowering the passing grade in public schools from 59 (that’s right 59 is a passing grade in NC) to 39. Trump won North Carolina in 2016. Just saying …

And just to remind everyone what a scammer Trump is. In 2005 he received $17 million frin insurance money because of reported damage to Mar-a-Lago caused by Hurricane Wilma. Just over two weeks later, Trump hosted 370 guests at Mar-a-Lago for the wedding of his son Donald Jr. Seventeen million dollars in repairs in two weeks?

Anyone thinking of re-electing this man seriously needs to have his or her head and soul examined.

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One of the persons, wearing some kind of a uniform, saluted him.

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Dear Editor: Hate is such an ugly word, which should be used judiciously, not disparagingly. Recently, it was sadly used twice by No. 45 to describe his outrageous views against Democrats. 1) Some people in Congress hate our country. 2) Democrats hate Jewish people. He even had the audacity to say that since he moved our embassy to Jerusalem, I would receive “98 percent of the votes” if he ran for prime minister of Israel.

I wonder if Mr. Trump is aware that Jewish support for the GOP has dropped during his term in office.

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Holden supports pay hike for police Councilman notes state troopers’ salary is about 30 percent higher

by David Russell Associate Editor

Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) remembers the stories his uncle George DeCola, a city cop with the department’s Emergency Service Unit who was like a surrogate father, would tell him about climbing up the Brooklyn Bridge to save people threatening to jump.

Holden recently signed a letter, which has now been signed by more than half of the City Council, calling on Mayor de Blasio to increase pay for police officers.

“The police have been really neglected,” Holden told the Chronicle.

He said the pay has been lagging behind other forces and that state troopers are paid roughly 30 percent more than city cops.

The letter says the pay disparity “cannot be solved through below-inflation raises and cuts to health and pension benefits.”

The Police Benevolent Association has been without a contract since before Mayor de Blasio took office. On Tuesday morning, the police union and a number of Council members rallied outside City Hall for the cause.

Holden said he understands the mayor is trying to save the taxpayers money but the result is that the city is losing cops to other municipalities where they can make more.

Councilman Bob Holden speaks at a 104th Precinct Community Council meeting. Holden signed a letter backing a pay raise for police officers, saying they are underpaid for the work they do. FILE PHOTO Holden said the job takes its toll as the men and women of the force are “seeing the worst of society every single day.” He understands that it’s something they signed up for but the suicides committed by police officers, including one early this year in Middle Village, shows that toll.

“It’s tragic because they’re seeing some horrific things,” Holden said. “They see kids getting killed, they go to accidents, they have domestic violence, they have murders.

They’re seeing the very worst of New Yorkers, New York City. And they take that home. They live with that. And they see it, they see it in their dreams.”

He added, “I don’t know if they’re trained to see all this as human beings so we have to pay them accordingly,” noting that there is always stress on the families of police officers as they take their work home.

Holden said being a police officer is “probably the toughest job” as well as the

most scrutinized. There’s also the chance that when they leave for work in the morning, they won’t be coming home.

“What I get paid, compared to what they get paid, they have a much tougher job than I do,” he said.

Holden was the Chairman of Community Board 5’s Public Safety Committee for more than a decade and got up close and personal with the police.

“Anybody who’s anti-police, they should do a ride along to see,” he said. “And they should also listen to the scanner.”

In the early 1990s, Holden co-founded COP104, a coalition of civic groups within the CB 5 area, sponsoring monthly police and community forums.

According to the letter, drafted by Councilman Chaim Deutsch (D-Brooklyn), the number of officers resigning before retirement reached a six-year high in 2017.

“It is disgraceful that the men and women who protect one of the richest cities in America struggle to be able to feed their families and pay for basic needs,” the letter reads.

What does Holden want to happen as a result of the letter?

“I expect the mayor to sit down and actually offer a decent increase that is comparaQ ble to the job,” he said.

Rally to support the New Zealand victims Ceremony at Borough Hall in wake of tragic shooting that took 50 lives

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Queens’ diverse communities came together as one after last week’s massacre of 50 Muslims worshiping at two mosques in New Zealand. A rally in front of Queens Borough Hall was held this past Sunday, organized by the Interfaith Council for Community Development.

“Empathize with them,” said Imam Arsalan Mohammed, president of the ICCD, said, referring to the victims. “It could’ve been a Christian or a Jewish community.”

“We’re here for a lot of reasons.

We have gotten together to say: We have each other’s backs,” said Queens Borough President Melinda Katz. “It is Queens that stands together. It’s us who say throughout the country, that diversity is the greatest gift we bring to the United States of America.”

Past bias attacks were noted at the event: 11 killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018; a counterprotester killed in Charlottesville, Va. in 2017; six Sikhs killed at a temple in Wisconsin in 2012; an imam and his aide killed in Queens in 2016.

Hate crimes have risen in each of the past three years, according to the FBI. Bibi Hack was nervous about wearing her hijab (hair covering) after the New Zealand massacre.

She was cursed out in Manhattan after 9/11 by a man yelling, “You Muslims don’t belong here.” Hack went to an interfaith service after the 11 Jews were murdered in Pittsburgh. “We must create peace,” said Hack, who is part of the Sisterhood of Salaam/Shalom and a board member of the ICCD. Lisa Abrams “was so moved” when people came to the Forest Hills Jewish Center after the Pittsburgh shooting, she thought, “How could we in turn return that kindness?”

“Lives lost — is what matters,” said Harpeet Toor of the Sikh Cultural Society. “We do stand with the community. It happened to us in 2012. We understand the pain.”

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) chided President Trump for, he said, saying some white nationalist protesters in Charlottesville were good. “When you hear some of the rhetoric coming out of the White House, your heart hurts.” Anti-Sem-

itism, racism and Islamophobia are all on the rise, Meeks said.

His comments were echoed by former City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, who also said, “Trump does not represent us.”

Meeks quoted the Rev. Martin Luther King: “Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.” Meeks ended by saying, “We shall overcome.”

“When you have the rhetoric coming down from DC,” said City Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton), “specifically walls to divide us ... we’re going to send a message that there is no wall that’s going to divide us.”

He added, “This terrorist was inspired by supremacists in America. We have to recognize that we have a problem here. It’s domestic terrorism.”

There are two bills in the City Council addressing the uptick in hate crimes, said Richards. One would require the Mayor’s Office to educate young people. The other would create a mayoral office to combat hate crimes.

Michael, Allison and Lisa Abrams were among those attending last Sunday’s rally at Borough Hall in honor of the 50 Muslims who were murdered in New PHOTO BY DAVID SCHNEIER Zealand.

Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows) asked for tougher gun control across the nation and for people “to come together anytime there is an incident of hate.”

Emmanuel Asse, president of the National Action Network in Nassau and Suffolk counties, came because “we will not allow fear to

destroy our unity.”

Imam Safraz Bacchus of Masjid al Abidin Mosque gave the opening prayer and said young people are asking him, “‘What kind of world are we living in?’ The message is to love and not judge people on their religion, race, and appearance.

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JFK outreach center opens in Jamaica Office a resource for those seeking job, contract opportunities during rebuild

by Michael Gannon Editor

From the time he first announced plans for a $13 billion reconstruction of John F. Kennedy International Airport, Gov. Cuomo has been promising that South and Southeast Queens would be well-served in terms of jobs, construction contracts, vending concessions and other economic benefits.

The Port Authority last Friday made its first down payment with the opening of the JKF Redevelopment Community Information Center. Civic leaders and elected officials led by U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) gathered last Friday at 144-33/35 Jamaica Ave. to cut the ribbon with office staff and PA officials.

“The new Queens outreach office at JFK will engage with local residents and connect them with jobs and opportunities, ensuring the local community is heard and its needs are met every step of the way throughout this historic redevelopment project,” Cuomo said in a statement issued by his office.

Those gathered at the ribbon cutting said the center will back Cuomo’s words with action.

A featured guest was Huntley Lawrence, director of aviation for the PA and a Queens native who graduated from August Martin High School, which has a large aviation pro-

Port Authority Outreach Coordinator Selvena Brooks-Powers, left, Councilman Daneek Miller, U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks, Borough President Melinda Katz and Assemblywoman Alicia Hyndman were among those at the ribbon cutting for a job and business resource center for the PA’s $13 PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON billion redevelopment of John F. Kennedy International Airport. gram. He believes that the center will be a boon by helping individuals apply for jobs that will be available.

There also will be resources for businesses

looking to be registered to bid on PA contracts. With 30 percent of the work slated for minority- and women-owned business enterprises, the center will help interested compa-

nies get certified.

“I look forward to the center serving you to fulfil that vision,” Lawrence said, adding that approximately $1.25 million of the $1.4 million spent refurbishing the center went to area businesses and contractors.

“This indeed is a great day,” Meeks said.

He compared the potential benefits favorably to those the community received in connection with the JFK AirTrain after serious work began in 1997.

He said the lighting, the carpet on which guests were standing and just about everything else in the new offices secured through Queens vendors and contractors are but a sample of what is to come.

Others in attendance included Borough President Melinda Katz, Councilman Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) and Assemblywoman Alicia Hyndman (D-Springfield Gardens).

The center has a staff of five. It is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Aside from jobs and business opportunities specific to JKF’s reconstruction, the center will offer information on job listings for the PA and its partners in the project including JetBlue Airlines, American Airlines, Terminal One Group; and the new TWA Hotel, Q which is opening in the coming weeks.

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Homeless protest @ home Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) led a noisy demonstration this week outside the Brooklyn home of Department of Homeless Ser vices Commissioner Steven Banks demanding his ouster.

Calling Banks “the worst DHS commissioner in New York City history,” Ulrich said his plan to build more shelters for an esti-

mated 60,000 homeless people “has done nothing to address the homeless epidemic.”

It was not the first demonstration staged outside Banks’ home in the Windsor Terrace section, but it is rare that protesters take their grievances directly to the doorstep of a city official.

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Olympia Dukakis coming to MoMI Academy Award-winning ‘Moonstruck’ actress talks to the Chronicle

by David Russell Associate Editor

There’s a scene early in the documentary “Olympia” in which Olympia Dukakis is talking on the phone about a theater script she received.

It is “paying a whopping 542 dollars a week plus pension and health,” she says.

“I f you wond e r why a c t or s f le e t o Hollywood.”

Dukakis made her bones in the theater but it was the 1987 movie “Moonstruck” that catapulted her to fame.

And she’s the subject of a documentary that will be screened at the Museum of the Moving Image on March 31, after which she will appear in conversation with film scholar Foster Hirsch. It is part of the museum’s Always on Sunday: Greek Film Series.

The documentary, directed by Harry Mavromihalis, is not a glorified IMDb entry with Dukakis talking about her acting credits. It is a personal, in-depth look at a subject who at one point refers to herself as having been the “queen of one night stands.”

And she didn’t even want to be the subject of a movie.

“That was a problem,” a laughing Dukakis told the Chronicle on Tuesday. “I was rather reluctant and had to be pulled

through all this but I’m glad I did it.”

She is happy with the final result.

“I expected disaster,” Dukakis said. “I expected total humiliation and it really is damn good.”

She was a talented theater actress, winning the Obie Award for her performance in the 1963 off-Broadway play “Man Equals Man.” But she struggled to find work with those in charge of casting concerned about her ethnicity.

Dukakis and her late husband Louis Zorich, along with several others, founded The Whole Theater Company in New Jersey in the early 1970s.

There was the occasional movie role, with small parts in “Sisters” and “Death Wish” in the early ’70s. But her career changed when she was offered the part of Rose Castor ini in Nor man Jewison’s “Moonstruck.”

Jewison had previously directed “In the Heat of the Night” and “Fiddler on the Roof.”

“I k new it was going to be a good movie,” Dukakis said. “Norman Jewison?

That’s why I did it. But that it would have the impact it had and that I would be noticed that way, I never, never, never suspected or dreamed of it.”

Playing Cher’s mother, she had a classic

response when her daughter admits she loves Ronny Cammareri, played by Nicolas Cage: “Oh, God, that’s too bad.”

The romantic comedy was a hit with audiences and critics, and was nominated for six Academy Awards. Dukakis won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, as well as the Golden Globe in the same category.

Her husband was played by Vincent Gardenia, who had a scene with Dukakis in “Death Wish” 13 years earlier.

“Very unlikely coupling but there it is,” Dukakis said. “He was a very sweet guy.”

Instantly, Dukakis had gained notoriety.

“Some if that’s good,” she said. “It’s good to have that. And some of it’s a pain, it’s d if f icult. But it comes w ith the territory.”

Over the next several years, Dukakis was in “Working Girl” and “Steel Magnolias,” played opposite Jack Lemmon in “Dad” and was nominated for a Golden Globe for playing Dolly Sinatra, Frank’s mother, in a miniseries. She also won acclaim for her role as a transgender person in the miniseries “Tales of the City.”

“Olympia” shows Dukakis has a good sense of humor about herself. While waving to a crowd during a Gay Pride parade, she says “Some people don’t know who the Q f--k I am.”

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Lynch case ends with B misdemeanor plea Defense: Deal would’ve been better if charges didn’t involve PBA boss’ family

by Ryan Brady

prosecutors offered.

“Honestly I took that because they weren’t backing down at all,” he said, adding that he ran The block is not in a school slow-zone.

Nor is the area known for high crime. The out of money to pay his attorney.

The Bayside man was fired from a job at a opposite, in fact.

So, passersby might wonder: Why did the building services company because of time he city attach a camera to the telephone pole at had to spend in jail after being arrested in July.

He intends to never again to cross paths with 202nd Street and 50th Avenue in Bayside?

The device, which has lenses facing east and the Lynches, whom he lives half-a-block from.

“I don’t care about them,” he said. “I don’t west, was installed after two incidents there last July. Neither got violent, though each incident even look their way.”

The District Attorney’s Office had told Garled to two men who live within a few blocks being arrested and charged with second-degree cia that if he did not take the plea deal, he would be charged with jumping bail. The Bayside man menacing and harassment.

It is not standard for officials to install cam- was arrested over being drunk on a plane and, eras in response to crimes, even particularly while vacationing in Peru, was told by his family that he had to be in court. He went back to gruesome cases of homicide or rape.

But most cases don’t involve the family of the U.S. and ultimately didn’t get in any trouble.

Now, Garcia looks forward to being able to Police Benevolent Association President Pat relax with his girlfriend and son. He just wishes Lynch.

Last Thursday, the case against the men he could undo the damage to his reputation.

“The neighbors, they feel like they’re threataccused — Edy Garcia, 30, and Steve Gansham, 33 — was adjudicated. They each pleaded ened by me,” he said.

Having a criminal record now means Garcia guilty to a class B misdemeanor for menacing would not be able to drive a taxi, if he wanted to and got a one-year conditional discharge.

Attorneys for the two men had been trying to do that. He can never receive federal subsidies get the Queens District Attorney’s Office to let should he decide to go back to school.

Like his co-defendant and their attorneys, he their clients plead to disorderly conduct, a violation that, unlike the misdemeanor they pleaded had hoped that a cell phone video Gansham recorded of the first to, is not a crime. incident they were The lawyers say ar rested for would they would’ve gotten show that the charges the deal, too, if the brought against them case was not connectfor it were false. ed to the head of one T he phone wa s of the city’s most originally confiscated influential unions. by the NYPD, but “It would have been Gansham consented to tot ally d if ferent ,” the District Attorney’s Ramon Pagan, counOffice searching it. sel to Garcia, told the W hen Berliner Chronicle. “It would finally saw it, she was have been a disorderly d isappoi nted. T he conduct at worst.” phone was in “selfie Rochelle Berliner, mode” during the inciattorney for Gansham, dent, so it revealed said negotiations with nothing useful for the prosecutors hit a wall.

“It got to the point According to lawyers for two Bayside men, defense. And lowwhere it was either their clients would have been able to get bet- quality surveillance resolve the case or go ter plea deals if their case didn’t involve the images f rom elseto trial. And with influential head of the Police Benevolent where in the area FILE PHOTO didn’t lead to any high-profile complain- Association, Pat Lynch. breakthroughs, either. ants, sometimes it’s During the first incident — the morning of risky,” she said. “I’m not thrilled.”

Gansham, Berliner continued, “needed to get July 1 — Garcia and Gansham were on 203rd Street by 50th Avenue, across from the Lynch on with his life and his job.”

Neither of the men’s conduct actually rose to home. Gansham had parked his Range Rover there. the level of menacing, both lawyers said.

Both told the Chronicle they were arguing “Had it been anybody other than the Lynch family, this would’ve not been a misdemeanor,” about LeBron James.

They both also said they roughhoused with Berliner said. each other a bit, but both said it was not in any The PBA declined to comment for this story.

In an emailed statement, the District Attor- serious way that would demand intervention.

The union head’s son, Pat Lynch Jr., himself ney’s Office defended its decision.

“This matter was fully investigated and fully an NYPD officer, emerged from his house.

What happened next is heavily disputed. discussed with the defense attorneys,” a spokesGarcia and Gansham said he went outside, person said. “An appropriate offer was made and the defense attorneys and their clients crossed the street and pointed a handgun at them and did not at first identify himself as a accepted the offer.”

Garcia wasn’t at first willing to accept what police officer, only pulling out his badge after Editor

A camera was installed at 202nd Street and 50th Avenue in Bayside over two incidents that each led to the same pair of nearby residents being charged. Their attorneys say they could have gotten a more favorable plea deal if the case was not connected to Pat Lynch, the influential FILE PHOTO head of the Police Benevolent Association. the weapon was drawn.

Gansham had his phone out and was recording a video — which, he and his friend said, prompted Lynch to panic and hide the gun behind his back. A young woman — they assumed a girlfriend — then walked out from the officers’ home, took the gun and brought it back inside, the two defendants said.

Pat Lynch Jr. told a different story to police.

He said that he saw the two men arguing and fighting with each other outside that day, walked out of the house and held up his shield and ID, saying, “Police. Stop. Don’t move.”

His gun was in his waistband holster, according to his retelling, but he did not immediately draw it.

According to his narrative, the men then immediately stopped fighting with each other when Lynch Jr. started talking to them. They allegedly then said the following: “Shut the f--k up. F--k you. Who the f--k do you think you are? We don’t care that you’re a cop. We’ll f--k you up. Who the f--k do you think you’re dealing with? We’re Trinitarios.

You don’t know what we do to guys like you in the Bronx.”

Then, in Lynch’s version of the story, they threw up gang signs and approached him. The cop recalled then saying: “Stop. Don’t move.”

They then allegedly threatened his father and continued to approach the officer. And only when they disobeyed his order to stop again did he draw the weapon, according to his narrative.

“Shoot me,” the union head’s son quoted Garcia and Gansham as saying. “You think I give a f--k about your gun? You think you’re the only one with a gun?”

The Trinitarios, a Dominican gang, made many headlines slightly before the July 1 incident over the machete murder of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz, 15, on June 20 in the Bronx. He was in the NYPD’s Explorer program; the department established a scholarship in the teen’s name after his death.

Neither Garcia nor Gansham is Dominican.

Both were highly offended by the accusation

that they are gang members. Neither has gang tattoos or extensive records.

Whatever happened on July 1, the two friends from Bayside were both charged with second-degree harassment and menacing. And they would get hit with the same charges over what happened on July 10 around 5:50 p.m.

Dropping Garcia off from work, Gansham parked by the Lynch house.

The union boss went out and starting filming the car. It drove away. He called the police.

What followed depends on whom one asks.

Gansham said he did not drive back in front of the house again. But Kathleen Lynch, the elder Lynch’s wife, said he drove back around and pointed a gun at the house.

Orders of protection against the two Bayside men were issued after the July 10 incident. They had been proposed after the July 1 one, but a judge rejected them.

Cops would come to Gansham’s house on July 11, making his grandmother and mother stay outside during the raid.

The police were executing a search warrant there for the ostensible gun. It never turned up, but drugs did; Gansham was charged for them.

But valid prescriptions were shown to authorities for nearly all of them, according to Berliner. The charges were dropped.

Jose Garcia, Edy’s uncle, is glad that his nephew and Gansham are not going to prison.

He feared the worst, given the political power of the police union. And while he harbored no animosity towards Lynch before last July, any neighborly love between the two is extremely unlikely in the near future.

“I’m happy that they didn’t get what they want,” he said.

Now, Jose wants to get rid of the camera. He said it’s not that he minds it, per se, it’s just that he doesn’t think it should have ever been installed there in the first place.

He reached out to one of his elected representatives about the matter the other day.

“They said they’re going to look into it,” Q Garcia said.

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Omar criticized; protest comes amid increase in hate crimes against Jews

by Orla McCaffrey Chronicle Contributor

Members of the Queens Jewish community gathered last Sunday to denounce anti-Semitism and call for the removal of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota).

Omar, a freshman lawmaker, tweeted last month that American politicians’ support for Israel is “all about the Benjamins,” a reference to $100 bills, which feature Benjamin Franklin.

Chants of “Omar must go!” filled the air outside the Kew Gardens Hills Library, where more than 300 people listened to faith and community leaders condemn anti-Semitism in all forms.

Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, treasurer of the World Jewish Congress, said Jews need to be respected in the same way as other minority groups.

“Our sages tell us that we assume the goodness of every human being until, and unless, proven otherwise,” he said. “Ilhan Omar has proven otherwise.”

Omar apologized the day after her tweet, and her remarks were denounced as anti-Semitic by leaders of both parties. In early March, the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning intolerance in general. But many at the rally called for further action, including the lawmaker’s resignation from the House or removal from its Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Rabbi Moshe Birnbaum, of the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens, said calling out anti-Semi-

tism is a nonpartisan issue.

“I say to all the Jewish members of Congress who did not speak out: ‘People look at you and they say, ‘If the Jews are not going to stand up for Jewish rights, who will?,’” he said.

Anti-Semitic attacks made up almost twothird of all hate crimes in the city through midFebruary, according to the NYPD. Hate crimes were up 72 percent during the first six weeks of the year, compared to the same period last year.

A Bukharian teenager was assaulted in Forest Hills in December. Police arrested two suspects, but aren’t treating the case as a hate crime. In January, an attack on an Orthodox man in Crown Heights was caught on tape, and is being treated as a hate crime.

City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills) said she had received antiSemitic letters and emails in recent weeks.

“On behalf of my grandfather and all of the other six million Jews who were killed, we have to be there and fight for our justice,” she said.

Livia Rothman, 71, watched the rally from inside the library, sitting at a table with two friends.

Rothman, a Hungarian immigrant, said both of her parents survived the Holocaust. “[My mother] went to Auschwitz with nine people from her family and she was the only one to leave,” she said.

Rothman said she’s seen an increase in hatred toward a number of groups, including

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Leaders at KGH rally blast anti-Semitism

An Israeli flag blows in the wind over the crowd at a Kew Gardens Hills rally last Sunday against PHOTO BY ORLA MCCAFFREY anti-Semitism.

Jews. “I’m glad my parents aren’t here to see it,” she said.

Near the back of the crowd, Julie Wittert stood with her baby strapped to her chest, holding up a sign that read “Bye-Bye Bystanders!

End Apathy! No Place for Hate!”

“I feel like we have to be here because if we let the little things go, they’ll only get bigger,”

she said. “Hopefully, we’ll be able to have our voice heard.”

Wittert said she wasn’t sure if Omar should be removed from Congress or the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

“It’s hard to say because I want to give her the benefit of the doubt,” she said. “But it’s been Q a few times now.”

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Man shot on platform at 75th Ave. station

by David Russell Associate Editor

A 21-year-old man was shot on the subway platform at 75th Avenue in Forest Hills last Friday, following an altercation with two men, police said.

According to reports, the man was on a Jamaica-bound F train when an argument spilled onto the platform and one of the suspects pulled out a gun.

The victim was shot in the right leg and the two suspects, described as African Americans, fled.

The man was transpor ted to NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst in stable condition.

On Wednesday, Capt. Jonathan Cermeli, commanding officer of the 112th Precinct told the Chronicle, “We do have two people of interest but we have nobody in custody at this point. It’s an ongoing investigation.”

Police said they were called to the scene around 11:50 a.m.

Train service at the station resumed around approximately 4 p.m.

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U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) needed zero time to ref lect last Friday when asked about his priorities as the brand-new chairman of the Queens County Democratic Committee.

“Promoting party unity — and getting Melinda Katz elected as district attorney.”

Meeks made the comments at the ribbon cutting for the new JFK Redevelopment Community Information Center [see separate story in some editions or online at qhron.com] four days after being picked to

succeed longtime chairman Joe Crowley.

Just which one would be tougher than the other is subject to debate. Borough President Katz is in a seven-way primary race to replace DA Richard Brown, who will step down in June after previously announcing he would not seek re-election this year due to health concerns.

Katz has been endorsed by the party in a contest that includes Tiffany Caban, Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows), Greg Lasak, Betty Lugo, Mina Malik and Jose Nieves.

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“Democrats have a big tent and are open to different ideas,” Meeks said. “I’ll sit down with the progressives, the moderate Democrats, the conservative Democrats.

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Six months into the investigation, it was Russo who sent detectives to f i nd L ew is a nd obt a i n a DNA sample.

Unlike the first trial, Vetrano’s mother, Cathie, was called to testify this week.

Lewis’ chief defense attor ney, Robert Moeller, objected to the prosecution calling her, saying that she could add nothing factual to the case and was intended only to make an emotional appeal to the jury But Judge Aloise allowed her to take the stand. She was slated to testify only brief ly, about what happened on the night her daughter went out jogging and never came back.

“I just remember I was screaming in the street” after learning her body had been found, Cathie testified.

“I saw my husband coming down the block and we just grabbed each other crying,” she said.

The grieving mother, who now wears a tattoo of Karina on her arm, created the most memorable moment of the trial so far during Moeller’s cross examination.

After he twice mistakenly called her d aug hter “K at r i na ,” Cat h ie interrupted the defense lawyer.

“Excuse me,” she snapped. “Her name is Karina.”

Phil Vetrano took the stand right after his wife to explain that he cradled Karina’s body after finding her in the high weeds of the park, but that he did not otherwise disturb the m u r d e r s c e n e , a s t h e d efe n s e contended.

The trial is expected to last three Q to four weeks, officials said.

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Cyclist ran red light, police probe finds Victim’s family, bike activists dispute cause of fatal crash in Hunters Pt.

by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

Police are standing behind their initial report that a Long Island City man killed just blocks from his home last Thursday morning in a collision with a car had run a red light.

Robert Spencer, 53, was riding on Borden Avenue in the Hunters Point neighborhood a little before 8 a.m. when he was struck by a 2014 Chevrolet Cruze at Second Street.

Police responded to the scene around 7:50 a.m. and Emergency Medical Services transported the victim to Mount Sinai Queens hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The d r iver, a 51-year-old woman, remained at the scene and was not charged.

The Daily News reported that police said Spencer went through a red light when he was hit, while the LIC Post said the police report on the accident said the cyclist had run the light and was going against the flow of traffic.

Several cycling advocates disputed the findings on social media, pointing out that the report is based on what the driver told police.

“Pretty gross ‘journalism’ here from LIC Post,” one said on Twitter. “Blaming the victim without proof, beyond the driver’s

Mourners installed a ghost bike at the Long Island City intersection where cyclist Robert SpenPHOTO BY STEVE FISHER cer was hit by a car and killed last Thursday. and police’s claims. And completely disregarding the dented and twisted hood of the car which undercuts their theory.”

That poster and others disputed the idea that Spencer was going against traffic and said the driver must have been speeding

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Paratransit taxicab programs expanding The Met ropolitan Transpor tation Authority on Sunday announced the expansion of two programs that will give users of its paratransit system more access to yellow and green taxis.

The agency is expanding the use of taxis and other for-hire vehicles under its regular Access-a-Ride program under an initiative it is referring to as enhanced broker service.

It also is extending E-Hail on Demand, a pilot program for 1,200 riders to hail electronically, through the end of 2019. It had been scheduled to stop at the end of April.

The cost to riders will remain at $2.75 per trip.

In a statement released by the agency, MTA President Pat Foye said the moves w ill allow for bet ter ser v ice a nd increased flexibility for riders.

“Making taxis and FHVs a growing part of our paratransit service is a win all around,” Foye said. “This service is good for our paratransit customers, good for the MTA, and good for the cit y’s economy.”

NYC Transit President Andy Byford

said increasing access for the disabled is one of four pillars of his $40 billion proposal to modernize the city’s public transportation systems.

“While forging ahead with making the subway more accessible and enhancing our fully wheelchair-accessible bus fleet, we’re also modernizing and improving the Access-a-Ride service that more than 150,000 New Yorkers depend upon,” Byford said.

Sharifa Abu-Hamda, president of Civics League for Disability Rights, said bringing more accessible taxis into the program has improved service thus far.

“More use of taxis is what riders want and this is going in that direction,” AbuHamda said. “Plus, it is bringing new benefits, such as door-to-door service, which will help more users take advantage of taxi options.

Jose Hernandez, president of United Spinal-NYC Chapter, said the moves will mean better service at less cost.

“It’s understandable that it may take a few years to do a wholesale shift to taxi, but this is a step toward that and we supQ port it,” Hernandez said.

for his bicycle to have ended up on the other side of the street.

But on Monday, answering inquiries from the Queens Chronicle, the police press office said the NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad had determined the following: “The operator of the vehicles [sic] was traveling southbound on 2nd Street, in the right of two travel lanes, approached the intersection at Borden Avenue. The vehicle entered the intersection with the green traffic signal. The bicyclist was traveling westbound on Borden Avenue, approaching 2nd Street, and apparently disobeyes [sic] a steady red traffic signal. The bicyclist continues into the intersection and was struck by the southbound vehicle.”

Asked if police have video to support their conclusion, a department spokeswoman said she could not answer that, but that the probe took multiple angles to reach its conclusion.

Spencer worked for the Department of Homeless Services and lived at 5-19 50 Ave., just a few houses away from the 108th Precinct.

Second Street on either side of the intersection where he was killed has a protected bike lane separated from vehicular traffic by raised concrete, while Borden Avenue has the triangular markings called sharrows that indicate the lanes are shared by cars and bicycles.

The city Department of Transportation said it plans a street reconstruction project in the area, including traffic-calming measures on Borden Avenue, and intends to review ongoing building projects to make sure they allow for safe paths of travel.

“With regards to this recent tragedy, DOT will look into potential safet y enhancements at Borden Ave and 2nd Street, as we do following any fatality,” the agency said in a statement.

City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer

(D-Sunnyside) said in a statement that “traffic violence” cannot be normalized.

“This morning, a cyclist was killed in LIC,” Van Bramer said. “Another awful tragedy. Another life lost. Another family shattered. We cannot normalize traffic violence and deaths. They cannot be a forgone conclusion. Cyclists deserve safety on our city’s roads like everyone else. It’s long past time to hold reckless drivers accountable and to invest in sustainable transportation infrastructure like protected bike lanes to better ensure the safety of all New Yorkers and to prevent any more needless loss of life.”

He was referring to the “reckless driving cult u re at-large and the lack of accountability” and did not mean that the driver who hit Spencer was being reckless.

In response to an inquiry from Streetsblog, a media outlet that “connects people to information about how to reduce dependence on cars and improve conditions for walking, biking, and transit,” Van Bramer said he supports installing a protected bike lane on Borden.

“In response to constituent concerns, I wrote a letter to the DOT on March 4, raising issues about this location and informing the DOT that I believe the residents’ requests for traffic calming measures, including a protected bike lane on Borden, are reasonable and should be pursued,” he said, in a quote his office confirmed.

The Twitter account @LICwalkers, dedicated to “documenting what pedestrians have to put up with in Long Island City,” entered the license plate of the car that hit Spencer into the @HowsMyDrivingNY account, which lists any tickets issued to a given vehicle with a given plate over the last several years. HowsMyDrivingNY, which is a bot, or robot, account, said the vehicle with the Chevrolet Cruze’s plate had been issued three tickets since 2015, one each for being in a no-standing zone, obstructing traffic or an intersection and blocking a fire hydrant.

A vigil and memorial ride honoring Spencer and calling for safer streets were held Saturday, beginning at noon at the crash location. Among those in attendance were members of Spencer’s family.

“Yesterday was about Robert, the sixth cyclist killed by a driver in NYC this year,” memorial attendee Laura A. Shepard, the Queens Committee chairperson for Transportation Alternatives, said Sunday on Twitter. “His family and friends told me that they called him ‘Tee.’ @JoseRaymond38 wrote, “Tee is family, a brother from the very beginning, a man with such a Kind heart and beautiful Soul.”

A note left on the ghost bike by Spencer’s friends and colleagues at the DHS said he was “a great guy who loved to ride his bicycle and motorcycle. Always helpful, always friendly, always smiley. Rest in peace.”

The Chronicle had sent someone out to cover the memorial, but the reporter got in a minor car accident on the way and could Q not make the event.

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SE Queens getting a flood of flood relief A conversation in Gracie Mansion reverses decades of city neglect

by Michael Gannon Editor

Cou nci l m a n Donova n R ich a rd s (D-Laurelton) remembers the first time he spoke with the city’s then-brand new mayor, Bill de Blasio, about flooding in Southeast Queens.

“I’ll never forget!” Richards said in a recent interview. “It was at Gracie Mansion, a reception for the Council. We were there to enjoy ourselves. He said ‘Hello, Councilman.’ I said hello.

“Then I said ‘I need money for flood control.’”

And the mayor, according to Richards, has delivered. W hat the cou ncilman hoped would be an investment of $1 billion over 10 years now is closer to $2 billion not quite halfway through de Blasio’s original commitment for new water mains, sewer lines, stor m drains and storm sewers.

“Now, anywhere I drive I can see work being done. And not just in my district but Daneek’s and Adrienne’s,” he said, referring to fellow Council mnembers Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) and Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica).

While saying there are still many needs to be addressed at the city and state levels, Richards’ comments backed up a Feb.

Construction workers on Francis Lewis Boulevard continue project QED-976 — installation of a trunk water main and a sewer line up Francis Lewis and along 90th Avenue in Queens Village.

The $48 million project is scheduled to be completed in summer 2020. PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON 25 presentation at Community Board 13 given by Maria Centeno, executive director of the office of Community Outreach

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and Notification for the city’s Department of Design and Construction.

The presentation, along with supplemental documents provided by the agency, outlined 10 completed projects, 11 under constr uction and 22 at various points in the design phase in Community Districts 12 and 13.

A total of approximately 55 projects are being planned within an area bounded by the Van Wyck Expressway to the west, John F. Kennedy International Airport to the south, the Nassau County border in the east, and as far north in some places as the Grand Central Parkway.

But it was a long time coming in Southeast Queens.

Much of the area sits above a high water table, with naturally occur ring groundwater close to the surface. Dating back to the 1950s and possibly earlier, housing developments sprang up in places like Rosedale, St. Albans, Addisleigh Park and sections of Jamaica, Laurelton and other neighborhoods. Many houses and housing developments were built before moder n environmental regulations existed, much less were put in place.

Speaking at a community forum in 2014 officials with the city’s Department of E nv i r o n m e n t a l P r o t e c t io n s a id unskilled or unscr upulous developers and builders might do things like cover over brooks and streams to build on top of them, but leaving the water running not far below the surface.

Then in 1996 the city purchased the old Jamaica Water Supply Co., which some estimates say pumped 60 million gallons of water per day from the ground.

In 1997 the city stopped pumping the water out. The water table in some sections

of Southeast Queens has risen more than 35 feet in the interim, and the city has repeatedly declined to restart the pumps.

When she was chairwoman of Community Board 12 in 2015, Adams said residential flooding from even the smallest of storms could be attributable to “decades of wilful neglect by responsible city agencies with respect to flooding in Southeast Queens ...”

Yvonne Reddick, district manager of CB 12, told the Chronicle that she has seen the difference when told of Richards’ conversion with de Blasio in 2014.

“I think the mayor has been keeping his promise,” she said.

Richards said there is still a need for ongoing consultation with the DDC, DEP, Department of Transportation and the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

“There are still some places with issues, like parts of Rosedale,” Richards said. “York College [in Jamaica] is pumping a million gallons of water out of its basements every day. And we need to keep talking to the DEC about things we may not be able to do ourselves, like pumping out the groundwater.”

Miller, speaking with the Chronicle last Friday at the ribbon cutting for the JFK Redevelopment Community Information Center [see separate stor y in some editions or online at qchorn.com] said the progress has been noticeable.

But he also said the city and the state’s DEC have more to do.

“There have been three reactions in my district,” Miller said. “The first is relief after a street is done when it rains and peoples’ basements don’t f lood anymore.”

The second, he said, is the temporary inconvenience caused by the ripped up streets, though he said he and Richards co-authored a law that sets up an online portal for construction schedules.

Barbara Brow n, president of the Easter n Q ueens Associat ion, a n umbrella organization for numerous civic groups, acknowledged that some residents and civic leaders have talked to her about the disruption caused when streets must be dug up — sometimes multiple times before new final paving is put in place.

“But people would rather have that than not,” Brown told the Chronicle three weeks ago, given the decades some have waited for flood control measures.

Miller said his constit uents’ third reaction was underscored at the JFK ribboncutting last week.

“You heard them today talking about all the [minority and women-owned] and community businesses that have worked on this center,” he said. “But the sewers are about a $1.7 billion project and of about $900 million that’s been spent so far, we haven’t seen that. We’re making Q outside companies rich.”

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ARTS, CULTURE C & LIVING

Movie Magic Movie buff paradise comes to the Museum of the Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios with the ninth annual Queens World Film Festival.

From today, Thursday, through the 31st, the festival, organized by Don and Katha Cato, will present more than 200 films.

During the opening event, QWFF will award the Spirit of Queens honor to David Schwar t z, the recently

retired longtime film curator at the museum.

A highlight of the festival will occur Tuesday as filmmakers Nancy Kelly and Kenji Yamamoto will be honored and their early 1990s film “Thousand Pieces of Gold” will be shown. The movie was digitally restored.

Kelly had been a filmmaker and read the novel about a Chinese woman coming to America during the gold rush and becoming a slave.

“I thought I knew the American West because I had been a cowgirl

when I was a young woman ... but I didn’t know anything about Chinese people in the west so I just wanted to tell that story because I figured if I didn’t know anything, no one knew,” she said during a kickoff event for the media on Monday.

The film stars Rosalind Chao and eventual Oscar winner Chris Cooper.

The print of the film was deteriorating before being rescued by IndieCollect.

Sandy Schulberg, the president of the company, spoke about teaming

up with the museum to “bring back movies we feel are incredibly important that have been lost from view because either they exist in a film format that no one can see anymore or an antiquated video format that obviously no one can see anymore.”

Political films were popular among those who spoke at the event.

One movie showing will be the digitally restored “The New Klan,” a 1978 documentary about Klansman and politician David Duke. continued on page 27

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ment, presented by The Secret Theatre and LIC Artists. Fri.-Sun., March 22-24 and 29-31; Wed., March 27, 7:30 p.m., The Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46 Ave., Long Island City. $23.50 advance ($22 with promo code earlybird through Fri., March 8); $25 at door. Info: (718) 392-0722, licartists.org.

“Florilegium,” with more than 45 paintings, illustrations, sculptures and more of plants and flowers, exploring the textures of life in nature and art. Fri., March 22 (opening reception 6-9 p.m.)-Thu., April 25, weekends or by appointment, with workshops at various dates and times, Eleventh Street Arts, 46-06 11 St., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 392-5164, eleventhstreetarts.com.

“Shrek: The Musical,” about the beloved ogre with abandonment issues, his friend Donkey and their quest in a fairy-tale world, by The Gingerbread Players. Sat., March 30, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.; Sun., March 31, Sat., April 6 and Sun., April 7, 2:30 p.m.; Fri., April 5, 7:30 p.m., St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 85 Greenway S., Forest Hills. $15; $12 each for groups of six or more. Info: (718) 268-7772, gingerbreadplayers.org.

“Drawing Bridges to Wellness,” the 3rd annual Creative Arts Therapy Exhibition presented by the Psychiatry Department of Jamaica and Flushing hospital medical centers. Through Mon., March 25, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $8 suggested; $4 seniors; free students, children. Info: Gabriella Zlocki, (718) 592-9700, ext. 138, queensmuseum.org.

“Gluteus Maximus,” with works by Omari Douglin that contemplate the female posterior with outlines of its shape in caulk lines that provide a thematic take on figuration and double as stick figures at play. Through Sat., March 30, Mrs., 60-40 56 Drive, Maspeth. Free. Info: (347) 841-6149, mrsgallery.com.

“Distance,” with works on paper by dozens of alumni of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture related to physical or metaphysical distance, including Nat Meade’s “Cry Drops.” Through Sun., Apr. 7, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 937-6317, dorsky.org. “ B r i ng i ng Steel to Life,” with large-scale figurative sculptures, table-top works and drawings by Jack Howard-Potter. Thu., March 28 (opening reception 5-8 p.m.)-Fri., April 26, LIC Arts Open Gallery at The Factory LIC, 30-30 47 Ave., Long Island City.

Free. Info: (718) 392-0722, licartsopen.org.

FILM You can expect a big crowd to see the big guns at the New York Arm Wrestling Championships this Sunday at the Cheap Shots sports bar in Kew Gardens Hills. See Special Events.

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the crowd dances. Sat., March 23, 7 p.m. (dance lessons), 8 p.m. (concert), Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $16; $10 students; free teens. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

Con Brio Ensemble chamber music, with works by Handel, Brahms, Schubert and more performed on violin, clarinet and piano, with soprano Osceola Davis.

Sun., March 24, 2-4 p.m., Voelker Orth Museum, 14919 38 Ave., Flushing. $12; $10 students. Info: (718) 359-6227, vomuseum.org, conbrioensemble.org.

“Rock and Roll Royalty!”, with Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, the sons of Ricky Nelson, and Bobby Brooks Wilson, the son of Jackie Wilson, performing their fathers’ respective hits like “Hello Mary Lou” and “Lonely Teardrops.” Sun., March 24, 3 p.m., The OLBS Theater, 34-45 202 St., Bayside. $35-48. Info: (718) 631-6311, visitqpac.org.

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“Women in Art 2019,” with works by 30 artists; “Dream Again,” running concurrently with and serving as the backdrop for a production of “The Tempest”; “Inside/Outside,” with works reflecting the experiences of mental illness by dozens of artists; and “Rebirth,” a mini solo exhibit by Luzia Castaneda, with a related four-part workshop.

All through Sun., April 7 (except “Dream Again,” through Sun., March 31). The Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (347) 8480030, licartists.org.

MUSIC Global Mashup 2: Western Swing Meets Balkan Brass, with bands The BrainCloud and Romashka each performing separately and then together as

España. Each Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; each Sun., 4 p.m., through March 31, Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside. $45 advance; $48 at door; $42 advance, $40 at door seniors and students; $40 advance Fri. only; $37 students, seniors.

Info: (718) 729-3880, thaliatheatre.org.

THEATRE New Shanghai Circus, with a troupe of elite gymnasts, cyclists, jugglers and acrobats defying gravity and melding Chinese traditions with 21st-century technology. Sat., March 23, 3 p.m., Colden Auditorium, Queens College, 153-49 Reeves Ave., Flushing. $20-$35. Info: (718) 793-0923, kupferbergcenter.org.

“The Magic Flute,” Mozart’s beloved fantasy opera about a prince on a quest to rescue a woman held captive, by Queens College Opera. Thu.-Sat., March 21-23, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., March 24, 3 p.m., LeFrak Concert Hall at Queens College, 153-49 Reeves Ave., Flushing. $20; $5 students. Info: (718) 7938080, kupferbergcenter.org.

“Spring Awakening,” a look at the teen psyche, morality and sexual politics, set in 1890s Germany.

Thu.-Sun., March 21-24, 8 p.m.; Sun., March 24, 2 p.m., The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $22. Info: (718) 392-0722, secrettheatre.com.

We The People II, with Jamaica-based Vissi Dance Theater performing to classic jazz, hip-hop and house music in a show with social and historical themes. Sat., March 23, 7 p.m., Jamaica Performing Arts Center, 153-10 Jamaica Ave. $25. Info: (917) 821-7156, vissidance.com. PHOTO BY TEDDY WILSON “Las Bacantes Flamencas,” a flamenco music and dance adaptation of Euripides’ “The Bacchae,” an ancient Greek play about the rational and instinctive sides of human nature, by Danza

“Un-Tamed,” with works by five black female playwrights examining the national conversation about black womanhood and personalizing the issues surrounding it in the “Me Too” era. Fri.-Sat., March 22-23, 8 p.m.; Black Spectrum Theatre, Roy Wilkins Park, 177 St. and Baisley Blvd., Jamaica. $25. Info: (718) 723-1800, blackspectrum.com.

“The Tempest,” Shakespeare’s tale of magic, illusion, love and power set on an exiled wizard’s island, in an immersive show with audience move-

Queens World Film Festival, the 9th annual, with 200 independent films of all kinds, from shorts to feature-length, from Queens and around the world.

Thu., March 21-Sun., March 31, various times, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria, and Kaufman Astoria Studios Zukor Theatre, 34-12 36 St. $15 per film or block of films; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; $180 full festival pass. Info: (718) 4292579, queensworldfilmfestival.com.

“The Best Years of Our Lives,” the star-studded 1946 winner of seven Academy Awards about three servicemen, including one who lost both his hands in combat, adjusting to civilian life after World War II; followed by a talk on prosthetics and non-normative bodies. Sun., March 24, 2 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes museum admission.

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

“Alice’s World,” the 1975 documentary about Alice Austen, one of America’s earliest female photographers, with filmmaker Stuart Hersh in person and light refreshments; for Women’s History Month. Thu., March 28, 6 p.m., Pomonok Library, 158-21 Jewel Ave., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 591-4343.

KIDS/FAMILIES “Under a Magical Moon: A Reimagining of Peter Pan,” the story of the boy who would never grow up as told by his friend Wendy, by tutti frutti productions and York Theatre Royal; preceded by interactive workshop with the actors and director. Sun., March 24, 1 p.m. (workshop); 2:15 p.m. (performance), Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. Workshop: $8; $5 kids; performance: $14; $8 kids; free teens (discount for anyone bringing a Peter Pan book). Info: (718) 4637700, flushingtownhall.org.

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and a thrilling one at that, the performance expects its audience Part theater, part dance perfor- to remain standing for its twomance and part three-ring circus, hour running time, following the The Secret Theatre’s production action from one location to of William Shakespeare’s “The another in the cavernous playing Tempest” is, as the ads proclaim, area. By the middle of act one of unlike any version of the play you last Friday’s opening night, the have seen before. It’s probably less hardy onlookers were in obviunlike any version of any play you ous discomfort, as, in increasing numbers, they seated themselves have seen before!

For the most part, that should on the floor.

And upon entering the space be taken in a positive light, though there are a couple of one is practically overcome by a drawbacks that need to be not altogether unpleasant odor, stemming from the abundant use addressed at the outset.

A totally immersive experience, of ambient fog that, at times, threatened to envelop all concerned.

Having got ten that out of the way, When: Fri.-Sun., March 22-24; it is safe to say that Wed.-Sun., March 27-31, 7:30 p.m. this is a production Where: The Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46 Ave., well worth the time Long Island City and effort. It is a Tickets: $23.50 advance; $25 at door. power fully ac ted (718) 392-0722, licartists.org rendition of one of The Bard’s later qboro contributor

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plays, a tale of treachery, forgiveness, survival, romance and more than a sprinkling of witchcraft.

Director Owen Thompson has pulled out all the stops in an effort to provide a memorable experience and he succeeds in spades. Action is everywhere and one is filled with wonder from start to finish.

A trio of spirits wordlessly greets the spectators at The Plaxall Gallery, where various art exhibits are on display for viewing pleasure prior to the performance.

Inside the space where the tale is to unfold, one is immediately overwhelmed by sights, sounds and smells. Projections and various effects set the opening scene: a ship being tossed about on rocky waters, caught in the middle of a severe lightning storm and, apparently, destined to go under.

The location then shifts to a nearly deserted island where we are introduced to the sorcerer continued on page 29

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Joy Donze as Miranda, Zachary C. Clark as a chained Caliban and PHOTO BY REIKO YANAGI Richard Mazda as Prospero in “The Tempest.”

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C M SQ page 26 Y K SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Index No. 716541/2017 Date of Filing: 3/14/2019 Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon County in which premises are situated. Tax Lien Foreclosure Block: 11064; Lot: 74 a/k/a 116-28 194 Street NYCTL 1998-2 TRUST and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON as Collateral Agent and Custodian, NYCTL 2015-A TRUST and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON as Collateral Agent and Custodian, NYCTL 2016-A TRUST and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON as Collateral Agent and Custodian, Plaintiffs, - Against - GERARD DALY, MARGARET I. DALY, if living, and if he/she be dead, his/her representative heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendants who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the amended complaint herein, DAWN LYNETTE WILLIAMS, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, “John Doe No. 1” through “John Doe No. 100” inclusive, the names of the last 100 defendants being unknown to plaintiff, it being intended to designate fee owners, tenants or occupants of the tax lien premises and/or persons or parties having or claiming an interest in or a lien upon the subject property, if the aforesaid individual defendants are living, and if any or all of said individual defendants be dead, their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, committees, devisees, legatees, and the assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest of them, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by, through, or against the said defendants named as a class, of any right, title, or interest in or lien upon the premises described in the complaint herein, Defendants. To the above named Defendants: You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff’s Attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Notice of Nature of Action and Relief Sought. The Object of the above entitled action is to foreclose the following Tax Liens: 1) A Tax Lien in the original Tax Lien Principal Balance of $3,541.30 as described in a Tax Lien Certificate dated August 16, 2012 and recorded in the Office of the City Register for the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, on August 28, 2012 in City Register File Number (“CRFN”) 2012000341199, which was assigned by Tax Lien Certificate Assignment dated May 31, 2015 and recorded in the Office of the City Register for the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, on June 18, 2015 in CRFN 2015000207875 (the “2012 Tax Lien”). 2) A Tax Lien in the original Tax Lien Principal Balance of $9,074.46 as described in a Tax Lien Certificate dated August 15, 2013 and recorded in the Office of the City Register for the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, on September 12, 2013 in City Register File Number (“CRFN”) 2013000371680, which was assigned by Tax Lien Certificate Assignment dated May 31, 2015 and recorded in the Office of the City Register for the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, on June 17, 2015 in CRFN 2015000207551 (the “2013 Tax Lien”). 3) A Tax Lien in the original Tax Lien Principal Balance of $21,851.56 as described in a Tax Lien Certificate dated August 13, 2014 and recorded in the Office of the City Register for the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, on August 20, 2014 in City Register File Number (“CRFN”) 2014000278035, which was assigned by Tax Lien Certificate Assignment dated April 30, 2016 and recorded in the Office of the City Register for the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, on May 11, 2016 in CRFN 2016000162669 (the “2014 Tax Lien”). 4) A Tax Lien in the original Tax Lien Principal Balance of $29,986.44 as described in a Tax Lien Certificate dated August 12, 2015 and recorded in the Office of the City Register for the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, on August 25, 2015 in City Register File Number (“CRFN”) 2015000295054 (the “2015 Tax Lien”). 5) A Tax Lien in the original Tax Lien Principal Balance of $3,812.22 as described in a Tax Lien Certificate dated August 10, 2016 and recorded in the Office of the City Register for the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, on August 24, 2016 in City Register File Number (“CRFN”) 2016000292387 (the “2016 Tax Lien”). upon premises described as follows: ADDRESS: 116-28 194 Street BLOCK: 11064 LOT: 74 COUNTY: Queens The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Tax Liens described above. Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the county where the Property being foreclosed upon is located. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the Plaintiff who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you may lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and complaint and protect your property. Sending a payment to the Plaintiff will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: New York, New York, March 12, 2019 THE LAW OFFICE OF THOMAS P. MALONE, PLLC By: Thomas P. Malone, Esq., Attorneys for Plaintiffs, 60 East 42nd Street, Suite 553, New York, New York 10165, Ph: (212) 867-0500. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Court dated February 28, 2019 and filed along with the supporting papers in the Queens County Clerk’s Office.

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Mark York, left, Stephanie Sands, Angus McLean, Lisa Curran, Thom Harmon and Miriam P. Denu in “Noises Off,” which also features Paul Mastrella, Gary Ducoing and PHOTO BY MARK LORD Danielle Fleming.

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When was the last time you attended a community theater production at which the set received a round of applause?

It doesn’t happen often, but it did at the opening night performance of Maggie’s Little Theater’s production of Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off!” last Friday. And it didn’t happen only once!

The remarkably detailed two-tiered set, featuring no fewer than eight doors over both levels (a tip to what’s in store), serves as the living room and backstage area of a play within the actual play. It is the handiwork of art director Alan Perkins, master carpenter Michael Tierney and a crew of about a dozen painters and additional carpenters, all of whom deserve kudos for pulling off what must have been a monumental task.

And every inch of it is put to good and often hilarious use by director Erik Neilssen, who pulled out all the comic stops, and his intrepid cast of nine, most of whom play dual roles as actors and their respective characters in the sex farce they’re performing, “Nothing On.” As is the case with most plays of this sort,, we find, in addition to the multiple entranceways, a young woman in her underwear, older men whose trousers keep dropping and plenty of on- and offstage shenanigans.

There is also one of the most spectacular pratfalls you’re likely to see anywhere, courtesy of Thom Harmon, who plays Garry, a TV actor hired as the romp’s leading man.

Lisa Curran brings a great deal of stage savvy to her role as Brooke, a young, inexperienced actress, who has a difficult time

paying attention to others onstage and off and seems to constantly be popping a contact lens.

Angus McLean has fun as the dim-witted Freddy, whose recurring nose bleeds earn laughs aplenty. Stephanie Sands is the cheerful Belinda, who often finds herself keeping the peace amidst the madness.

Paul Mastrella is properly temperamental and sarcastic as Lloyd, the harried director.

Mark York is the half-deaf Selsdon, an actor with a drinking problem. Gary Ducoing is a clearly overworked stage manager and Danielle Fleming has many an emotional moment as his assistant.

But it is Miriam P. Denu who threatens to steal the show (and the one within it) as Dotty, an acclaimed actress playing a slowwitted housekeeper. Her repeated entanglements with a telephone, a newspaper and a sardine or two (don’t ask!) are most entertaining, indeed.

Praise, too, goes to technical director Ed Voyer, costume designer Amy Ellis and stage manager Jess Ronzo, who must have a heck of a time maintaining some semblance of Q order backstage at Maggie’s.

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“We thought we finished him off,” Shatz said. “When you see the end of the film, he just loses it. He’s disgraced. It shows some of the bizarre things he does.”

There is also the 2018 documentary feature “Capturing the Flag,” which explores a tightknit group of friends traveling to Cumberland County, NC, for the 2016 election.

Filmmaker Anne De Mare describes it as a “buddy movie set on the battlefield of voter suppression.”

It’s about three friends who went from New York to North Carolina to do voter protection at the polls and were joined by a fourth volunteer once there.

Laverne Berry, a lawyer who was one of the friends featured, said she’s been stopped in the street a few times by people telling her they’ve taken their family to vote.

When: Through Sunday, March 31 “Habaneros” is the story of an Where: Museum of the Moving Image, independent woman looking for 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria; Kaufman romance in a misogynistic world.

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“It’s actually a real-life situation,”

The movie, from Leslie Shatz and Eleanor Bingham, follows Duke as he pursues political office. Shatz, who would later receive an Academy Award nomination for his sound work on “The Mummy,” said the one comment he received from the Klan was that he used special lenses to make them look bad.

The film includes footage from a televised debate between Duke and the Rev. Jesse Jackson during which the latter says Duke can’t adjust to the changes in society.

Shatz didn’t think Duke would eventually become as well-known as he has.

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Mirajkar said. “We face it every day.”

He said the character might be deprived of rights and gender equality but still has her principles.

“You still want to carry on your life but then, how do you do that in that environment?” he asks.

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When Winthers opened a Queens confectionary shop

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Bernhard Oskar Winthers was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany on Sept.

29, 1889. He immigrated to America from Hamburg in October 1905 on a vessel named Pennsylvania and settled in Brooklyn. His wife, Augusta, bore him three children — Clara, Albert and Charles. He took the oath of American citizenship in April 1922.

After toiling in German delicatessens, Winthers moved to Queens and opened up a confectionary store on Steinway Street in Astoria. Armed with only an eighthgrade education, he became a self-made, successful entrepreneur. In 1941, with the dedicated help of his wife and children, he opened up another Winther’s branch at 63-20 Woodhaven Blvd. on the Middle Village-Rego Park border, adding ice cream to his confectionary line of goods.

It was a smashing success and rivaled and competed with Jahn’s of Richmond Hill for the teenage and young adult crowds.

During World War II he opened up additional stores in Woodhaven and South

Winther’s Ice Cream and Confectionary Shop, 63-20 Woodhaven Blvd., Rego Park, shortly after it opened in 1941.

Richmond Hill. Upon the death of Augusta in 1948, Winthers’ original Steinway Street store closed and other branches followed. After Bernhard’s death in 1952, his children tried to keep the business going but never enjoyed the heyday of the 1940s. Albert passed in 1963 and Charles followed in 1984. All Winthers are buried in Maple Grove Cemetery in Kew Gardens. Today this valuable corner property is the home of Pollos a la Brasa Mario, a chicken place serving up tasty meals to a Q new generation.

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Italy and the Middle Ages, with a focus on Boccaccio’s “Decameron,” a text of “enormous cultural import” set in Florence during the Black Death and key in development of the modern novel, by Italian teacher and Columbia University Ph.D. candidate Christina McGrath. Tue., March 26, 7-9 p.m., Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. Free. Info: (718) 478-3100.

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS Defensive driving course, for better skills, insurance and point reduction; and to cut down on accidents. Sat., March 30, 9 a.m.3:30 p.m., St. Mel’s Church of Flushing, 26-15 154 St. $45. Info/registration: (631) 360-9720.

Writing From the Heart: an eight-week workshop in creative writing, for those who want to start or improve their writing in a supportive atmosphere, with author and longtime Queens College instructor Maxine Fisher; and participants attending any or all remaining classes. Each Sat., through March 30, 12 p.m., Maspeth Library, 69-70 Grand Ave. Free. Info: (718) 639-5228, queenslibrary.org.

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SOCIAL EVENTS Saturday night dance, with a live DJ playing classics, oldies, top 40, Italian and Latin music, food and more. Sat., March 23 (and every other Saturday all year), 8 p.m.-12 a.m., Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. $12. Info: (718) 478-3100.

MARKETS Flea market, with one-of-a-kind vintage and retro items, knickknacks, artwork, antiques, Judaica and more; vendor tables available. Sun., March 24, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Astoria Center of Israel, 27-35 Crescent St. Info: (718) 278-2680.

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SENIOR ACTIVITIES Lecture: fall prevention and safety in the home, by nurse practitioner Eileen Miller, at AARP Chapter 3334 meeting; new members welcome. Mon., March 25, 1-4 p.m., Msgr.

Finnerty Parish Center, 195 St. and 45 Ave., Flushing. $2. Info: (718) 357-3365.

Knitting and crocheting class, to learn a new skill or share an idea for a craft project, by Jamaica Senior Program for Older Adults. Each Thu., 10:30-11:30 a.m., T. Jackson Adult Center, 92-47 165 St. Info: (718) 657-6500, jspoa.org.

Ridgewood Older Adult Center, 59-14 70 Ave., Regular weekly hour-long classes: jewelry making, Mon. at 10:30 a.m.; Richard Simmons exercise, Mon. and Thurs. at 10:30; Eldercise, Tues. at 10:30 a.m.; massage therapy, Wed. at 10:30 a.m.; manicures, Thurs. at 12:30 p.m.; yoga, Fri. at 10:30 a.m. Movies every Mon., Tues. and Fri. at 1:15 p.m. MetroCard van, 4th Thurs. of month. Monthly buses to Yonkers.

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Bereavement groups for assistance dealing with loss and the process towards healing, with others experiencing similar situations.

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Before long, the mischievous spirit Ariel (who, in this instance, should have been named Aerial) appears high above the crowd, on long, flowing silks upon which her portrayer, Noelia Antweiler, performs some impressive moves.

We also meet Prospero’s brutish parthuman, part-monster servant Caliban, played with great intensity by Zachary C. Clark.

Comic relief is provided by a jester, Trincolo (an entertaining Josh Miccio), and a drunken butler, Stephano (the resonantvoiced Keith Otani Howard). Kevin Thiel (as the naive and pure Ferdinand) is well paired with Donze, with whom he shares a couple of flirtatious scenes.

Choreographed by Shoko Tamai, seven lovely dancers — Sammy Goold, Darby Fulcher, Steph Seiden, Koyu Ugiya, Kelly Vaghenas, Emily May Morrison and Samantha Randolph — are appropriately spirited.

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New York Giants general manager Dave Gettleman clearly isn’t afraid of ruffling the feathers of his fan base.

Two weeks ago, he let All-Pro safety Landon Collins leave as a free agent without getting any compensation. Collins quickly signed with the NFC East rival Washington Redskins.

Last Wednesday, Gettleman pulled the trigger on a trade that sent marquee wide-receiver Odell Beckham Jr. to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for the Browns’ first- and third-round picks in the 2019 NFL Draft and safety Jabrill Peppers, who will ostensibly replace Landon Collins.

Many Giants fans were livid. Beckham is a once-in-a-generation wide receiver who, in dramatic situations, made acrobatic catches that would make the Flying Wallendas proud.

But OBJ also had a knack for picking up dumb and costly penalties.

Following a Giants’ loss to the Philadelphia Eagles last season, he publicly questioned Giants head coach Pat Shurmur for drawing up a game plan that did not call for QB Eli Manning to throw to him more often.

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Beckham’s performance was putrid.

In spite of everything, the Giants gave him a five-year, $95-million extension at the beginning of last season because Giants owner John Mara demanded it.

After last season, Mara may have had buyer’s remorse. Gettleman, who had been battling cancer (which he says is now in remission, happily), no longer wanted to deal with Beckham’s antics.

Almost as soon as Beckham’s name came off his locker, Gettleman signed veteran wide receiver Golden Tate, a free agent. Tate isn’t as flashy as OBJ but he’s very reliable and not a prima donna.

Gettleman’s New York Jets counterpart, Mike Maccagnan, had promised that he too woiuld make a splash in the free agency market and he kept his word, signing running back Le’Veon Bel. Bell missed the entire 2018 season when he could not come to terms with his former team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, on a contract.

Bell is one of the best running backs in the NFL and he gives second-year QB Sam Darnold a potent offensive weapon.

The Jets haven’t really had an elite running back since Curtis Martin. Bell’s unplanned sabbatical from the NFL should mean that he’ll be Q coming into training camp in great shape.

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HOWARD BEACH

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HOWARD BEACH ROCKWOOD PARK

Nestled across from Duckpond Drive Park this is a lovely (move-in condition) mint large expanded Cape. 4 BRs/2 full bths on 80x92 lot. Large extended den with sliding glass doors to a beautiful park-like yard with pool. 1st floor, 2 BRs, 1 bath, 2nd floor 2 BRs, 1 bth, attic for storage.

Asking $519,999K

HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK

Mint AAA Hi-Ranch. 3 BRs/2 full bths. 3 zone radiant heat, porcelain tiles in 1st floor, gas Heat Glo fireplace, quartz countertop, top floor all GE Cafe series kitchen, SS appl., granite counter. All new kitchen and bath, 2 separate electric 220 boxes, tankless water heater, sec. cameras, hi hats throughout, ductless AC, Pella sliding doors, no sand damage Asking $899K

Rare, totally unique, mint 2 fam. on the water, 41x110. Featuring 3 floors, walk in mint 1 bed apt. with granite kit, custom island, SS appl., wine fridge.

Gorgeous bedroom, tiled throughout. Middle floor boasts a huge custom kitchen, granite counter, new cabinets, SS appl., double wall oven and much more.

Spacious living room, bedroom and sliders to huge terrace for beautiful sunsets. Master suite and mint 1/2 bath on top level. Dock to 4 boat slips.

Asking $1.1million

BROOKLYN/OZONE PARK BORDER

HOWARD BEACH / LINDENWOOD Co-ops & Condos For Sale

Legal 2 fam., SD, 4 BRs, 2 full baths, 1st floor, living room, kit, 2 bedrooms, full bath, 2nd fl., living room, kit., 2 bed, full bath, with full fin. basement, 8' ceiling. Pvt. dr. for 2 cars in front. Asking $729K

HOWARD BEACH

HOWARD BEACH HOWARD BEACH ROCKWOOD PARK HAMILTON BEACH

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HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK

Beautiful custom Colonial. Large open concept with 23 ft. ceilings, 2 custom fireplaces, tinted UV windows. Beautiful kitchen with high-end SS appl., granite counter, FDR, den with Fplc, patio off den, custom staircase to 2nd flr. with 3 BRs, 2 full bths, balcony off MB, total 4 BRs, 3 1/2 bths, 42x100.

HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK

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Lovely Cape on 50x100, featuring 4 BRs, 2 full baths, basement, 2 driveways, garage & large yard.

Reduced $775K

Mint High Ranch, 4 BRs, 2 full baths.

Stucco exterior, granite countertop, pavers front and back, triple driveway, new fencing.

Reduced Asking $935K

OZONE PARK 1 family SD, 2 BRs, 1 full bath.

Charming Low Ranch with full basement, indoor porch, living room, formal dining room, Eat-In Kitchen.

Asking $437K

List Your HOME HERE HOWARDApartments BEACH /For LINDENWOOD Rent • HOWARD BEACH. 3 BRs/1 bath, 2nd floor ....... $2,100 mo.

• LINDENWOOD. 3 BR duplex, 1 1/2 baths, new kit, updated bath, new carpeting. ........................... $2,100 mo.

• LINDENWOOD. Mint, 2 BR duplex. .................... $2,100 mo.

• LINDENWOOD. Mint, 3 BR duplex, 1 1/2 baths. $2,300 mo.

• LINDENWOOD. 2nd floor, newly renovated, 3 BRs, 2 bths. ................................................................ $2,500 mo.

Commercial Space For Rent • HOWARD BEACH Crossbay Blvd. (2nd floor) 850 sq. ft., all new office space. .................................... $2,750 mo.

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DUPLEX CONDO One-of-a-kind Janet Ann duplex condo, 2 BRs, 1 1/2 baths, renovated throughout, granite, S/S appliances, washer and dryer, terrace.

Asking $375K

• Hi-Rise Co-op. 1 BR/1 bath, washer/dryer on each floor. ......................................................................Reduced $159K • 1 Bed Co-op. MINT. ....................................... Asking $189K • Hi-Rise Co-op. Large unit in totally redone building. 3 BRs, 2 baths, living room w/L-shaped dining room. .........................................................................Asking $262K • Hi-Rise Mint AAA. 2 BRs/2 full baths, plus terrace, mint granite & SS appl. kitchen. 2 new baths. .......Asking $299K

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96-10 101st Ave., Ozone Park, NY 11416

Tel: 718-848-4700 Fax: 718-848-4865 kwrliberty@gmail.com

JOHN DIBS Broker⁄owner

GLENDALE 2 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $889,000

HOWARD BEACH

Contact Milady Fernandez for more information 917-686-4595

1 Family Home for Sale

PRICE: $739,000 Contact John Dibs for more information 718-848-4700

HOWARD BEACH

OZONE PARK

Condo for Sale PRICE: $359,888

Mixed Use Property for Sale

Contact Carolyn DeFalco for more information 917-208-9176

BUSHWICK

WOODHAVEN

BRIARWOOD

2 Family Home for Sale

1 Family Home for Sale

1 Family Home for Sale

PRICE: $1,450,000

PRICE: $555,000

PRICE: $789,000

Contact Angel Garcia for more information 718-406-1687

Contact Indira or Beeshan Persaud for more information 917-509-2874

Contact Pedro Duarte for more information 646-552-4422

PRICE: $899,000 Contact Michael DeFreitas for more information 347-526-8049

BUSHWICK 3 Family Home for Sale

PRICE: $1,399,000 Contact Teodoro Navarrete for more information 917-513-6621

FAR ROCKAWAY 2 Family Home for Sale

PRICE: $549,000

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PRICE: $499,000 Contact Giovanni Belen for more information 516-647-8372

RICHMOND HILL 1 Family Home for Sale

PRICE: $599,000 Contact Taramattie Persaud for more information 917-200-8907

BROOKLYN

ROSEDALE

Co-op for Sale

1 Family Home for Sale

PRICE: $209,900 Contact Anthony Fernandez for more information 718-848-4700

PRICE: $479,000 Contact Paul Deo for more information 347-581-9863

S. OZONE PARK

S. OZONE PARK

1 Family Home for Sale

1 Family Home for Sale

PRICE: $625,000

PRICE: $379,000

Contact Natasia Pagoulatos for more information 917-335-1143

Contact Devon Singh for more information 646-597-2172

KEW GARDENS Co-op for Sale

PRICE: $365,000 Contact Valerie Shalomoff for more information 646-533-8142

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ELMHURST Commercial Property for Sale

Contact Nissim Levy for more information 917-254-5420