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The controversial budget proposed by President Trump last Thursday could have an impact on the Select Bus Service plan for Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards. That’s because the pot of money from which the city Department of Transportation, whose Commissioner Polly Trottenberg is seen here, is looking to secure federal funds could be slashed.

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Prez Trump’s budget could impact SBS Spending plan slashes pot of money DOT wants to get federal funds from

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

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dd Select Bus Service on Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards to the list of things that might be slashed under President Trump’s proposed budget.

The Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Grant Program — the pot of money the Department of Transportation is looking to secure $97 million from — would be almost entirely eliminated under the plan released by the president last Thursday.

The only transportation projects that would still be funded under the spending plan are those that have entered into full funding grant agreements with the FTA. The budget slashes spending in many categories and directs a majority of it to the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs.

As with any other budget proposed by a government chief executive, the spending plan passed by Congress later this year will differ from the one rolled out by Trump.

However, it could still spell trouble for proponents of SBS and other transportation projects.

“The SBS people, in my opinion, are in serious trouble,” said Larry Penner, a retired official at the U.S. Department of Transpor-

move forward on implementing this cityfunded, non-capital, and cost effective plan, we will continue to work with the FTA on its Small Starts grant with the goal of providing more reliable bus service, decreased congestion and safer crossings to Queens residents this fall.”

The agency further stated it’s in the process of negotiating the application for federal funds with the FTA “in good faith.”

And Mayor de Blasio and DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg at a press conference Tuesday said they’ll continue to fight for funding for the project.

Penner said that might not be enough, though. Drawing on his experience with the federal government, the former transportation official predicted Congress would reduce funding for the grant program rather than slash it entirely.

As a result, Congress members and U.S. Could the construction of median bus stops and other changes along Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards be impacted by President Trump’s budget? One former federal transportation official senators would have to prioritize which FILE PHOTO projects they’d like to receive funding as believes they will be, but the city is not ready to go down without a fight. applicants across the country would be tation who oversaw the review and approval other changes, would put dedicated bus lanes competing for less money. of grants valued at more than $2 billion per along much of Woodhaven Boulevard and New York City officials are already lookyear. “Queens long-term could be really have commuters wait on median bus stops. ing for funding to complete the next phase of impacted by cuts to the program.”

“DOT is on track to begin implementing the Second Avenue Subway and the Gateway The DOT, in a statement to the Chronicle, improvements on Woodhaven and Cross tunnel project, which would allow Amtrak to did not express concern that the cuts would Bay Boulevards this spring,” an agency run trains under the Hudson River. continued on page 18 spell doom for the project — which, among spokeswoman said in an email. “As we

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Karina case cracker celebrated by JPCA Lt. John Russo, a Maspeth native, gets the civic’s 2017 Honor Award

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Lt. John Russo, center, was presented with the Juniper Park Civic Association’s 2017 Hero Award last week for helping crack the Karina Vetrano murder case.

Flanking the Maspeth native is Deputy Inspector Mark Wachter, left, and JPCA PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA President Bob Holden.

If it weren’t for Lt. John Russo’s dogged determination to solve the Karina Vetrano murder investigation, her alleged killer might still be on the loose.

Russo, a Howard Beach resident who was raised in Maspeth, was honored at last Thursday’s Juniper Park Civic Association meeting with the group’s 2017 Hero Award, celebrating his exemplary policework.

“We could have named it the John Russo Award,” JPCA President Bob Holden said. “Here’s a guy, a great detective, who did his homework, had a hunch and it paid off.”

Three months before Vetrano was found beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled to death in Spring Creek Park in early August, a Howard Beach resident called 911 to report a suspicious person in the marshy federal green space.

It was Russo who discovered that call two months ago as the investigation was seemingly sputtering, which led police to inter view 20-year-old East New York resident Chanel Lewis on Feb. 2.

Lewis agreed to a DNA test, which matched him to the strands found under Vetrano’s fingernails and on her body.

A self-described “son of Maspeth,” a humbled Russo kept his acceptance speech brief. Instead of speaking about his own work, he used his time at the microphone to encou r age people to st ay as involved and interested in helping the authorities as they were during the Vetrano investigation.

“The police are members of all communities throughout the city,” Russo said. “We appreciate the support we get from everybody and these awards mean a lot.

“And in the Vetrano case, there was a tremendous amount of support from the community. The public payed attention, and we need the public to do that in every case.

There’s other murders and crimes in this city you can help solve.”

Deputy Inspector Mark Wachter, the commanding officer of the 104th Precinct, said Russo’s effort was a perfect example of how dedicated the NYPD is keeping New York City the safest big city in the nation.

“They say we have the greatest detectives in the world and this proves it,” Wachter said. “It’s a testament to the work the Detectives’ Bureau does every day.”

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said the case’s

cracking was the “epitome of see something, say something.”

“If you look in a dictionary for ‘see something, say something,’ Addabbo said, “you may see the picture of Lt. John Russo.”

Going beyond Russo’s work, Addabbo continued his call for New York to become the 10th state to authorize the controversial method of familial DNA testing, in which investigators take a strand from a crime scene and look for a partial match in criminal databases to determine if anyone’s close male relative is in the system.

Opponents of the screening say it violates protections guaranteed by the Constitution against unlawful searches and has a disparate impact on minority communities.

Its supporters, however, say familial DNA testing has been successfully used to catch violent criminals, most notably the “Grim Sleeper” serial killer, who murdered 10 women in Los Angeles before being arrested in 2010 and sentenced to death.

“Familial DNA does result in convictions for people who are guilty of heinous crimes like murder,” Addabbo said. “But it can also be used to get a wrongfully convictQ ed person off.”

Ulrich, staying put, says Blaz is vulnerable Councilman blasts mayor but says he won’t challenge him

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Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) described Mayor de Blasio Monday as “his own worst enemy” and a definite candidate for a one-term mayor — but said he won’t be the person to make that happen.

“I’ve decided this would not be the right move for me to make,” said Ulrich during an interview with NY1 News.

The councilman, who has been flirting with a mayoral run since last February, announced he would seek a third term representing Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, Ozone Park, Howard Beach Broad Channel and Rockaway.

Ulrich, who has represented the 32nd Council District since 2009, is eligible for a third term because he entered office before a 2010 referendum limiting future city office holders to two terms.

His running signifies that his opinion has changed since 2010. At that time, at a rally in front of City Hall, he opposed an

element of the referendum that allowed those officials to seek a third term, saying, “I know some of my colleagues won’t be happy with me, but this is the right thing to do.”

What the councilman and good government groups were decrying at the time essentially means that the measure doesn’t fully go into effect until 2021.

An Ulrich spokesman did not address the councilman’s prior opinions on the term limit extensions when asked, saying only in a text message, “Councilman Ulrich looks forward to serving the constituents of the 32nd Council District in his final term.”

Rumors of the councilman running for mayor started last February shortly after much of his district was left unplowed for days following a blizzard.

During the past 13 months, Ulrich has blasted the mayor on a variety of issues ranging from a lack of progress made by the Build it Back program to allegations

de Blasio engaged i n a pay-to -play scheme. The mayor was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Manhattan district attorney and acting U.S. attorney last Thursday.

During his NY1 interview, Ulrich said he has not yet decided whom he will endorse against de Blasio, though he signified he will most likely support someone during the general election and not the Democratic primary.

“I don’t think the mayor will have a serious Democratic primary,” he said.

He went on to say that de Blasio can be defeated, despite polls saying he has a higher popularity rating than any other prospective candidate.

“If you look at his lackluster performance and his inability to bring people together in this city, I think he can be a one-term mayor,” Ulrich said.

The councilman collected a little more than $57,000 in contributions in the runup to his announcement. Asked why he

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CEC 27 seeks a communication plan Says parents must be aware of events during school emergencies

by Anthony O’Reilly

On that day, a student said on social media he was going to “shoot up” the A month after a shooting hoax at a How- school, but it was determined to not be a ard Beach elementary school sent many real threat.

Nobody at the 98-01 159 Ave. school, parents there into a frenzy, Community Education Council 27 is requesting the whose motto is “Respect for All,” was Department of Education mandate all injured and the student was suspended for schools have a communication plan to dis- an unspecified amount of time.

However, many parents worried for their seminate infor mation in case of an children’s safety because there was no reliemergency.

A resolution calling for the requirement able method of letting them know what was happening. was u na n i mou sly As a result, some a p p r ove d by t h e misinformation was CEC’s members at ’ll tell you, as a father, spread via social its meeting Monday. media and word of It is merely adviyou want to be notified. mouth. sory and the DOE “That was the No. does not have to act In this day and age, 1 complaint I heard on it. with cell phones and from parents,” said The CEC said the state Sen. Joe Addcommunication plan texting, you should abbo Jr. (D-Howard would be tailored for Beach) . “I’ll tell each school, ranging utilize that technology.” you, as a father, you f rom either mass — State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. want to be notified. t ext messages to In this day and age, social media posts.

The DOE’s press office did not respond with cell phones and texting, you should to requests for comments on the agency’s utilize that technology.”

Not doing so, he added, could create existing protocol for spreading information during emergencies or if it would take the panic in a situation that doesn’t warrant it.

“Let’s not create an unwanted hysteria,” panel’s resolution into consideration.

Dr. Harold Paez, the CEC president, said the lawmaker said.

He said he was supportive of the CEC’s the resolution was inspired by the hysteria following a shooting hoax at PS 146 on resolution, but stressed each school must have a different plan, depending on the Feb. 2.

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Community Education Council 27 is looking for the Department of Education to mandate every public school have a plan to disseminate information to parents in the event of an emergency.

FILE PHOTO State Sen. Joe Addabbo, standing, supports their resolution. resources available to it.

Many colleges, Addabbo said, already have systems to notify students via text or phone call if there’s a problem at the school.

“They know if there’s an active shooter situation or something similar,” the senator, a member of the Education Committee, said. “And it’s a shame we have to talk in Q those terms but that’s the reality of it.”

A generous soul donates her locks Emily Algredo, 9, has cut her hair twice for children cancer victims

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Richmond Hill resident Sherry Algredo said if her family were rich, they might become poor because of the generosity of her daughter, Emily.

“She’s just so generous,” Sherry Algredo said of her daughter.

Emily, who is 9, recently had 13 inches of her hair cut and donated it so it could be made into wigs for cancer victims.

“I felt happy that I was going to do good,” Emily Algredo said.

It’s the second time Emily has donated her hair — the first was when she was only six.

She became inspired after seeing a commercial that featured children who were suffering with cancer.

“I really wanted to help the sick kids,” Emily said.

She was also inspired to give to others by her maternal grandfather, who spent more than 25 years with the Red Cross volunteering in Trinidad.

The first time she cut her hair, Emily donated Emily Algredo, before she had 13 it through Wigs for Kids — an organization inches of hair chopped off to benefit that makes hair pieces for young cancer victims. cancer victims.

This time, however, she did it through an area organization called Butterflies BBI — a nonprofit that provides hair extensions and wigs to children with medical conditions.

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Emily Algredo said she’s not afraid to cut her hair short to benefit others. Those at the salon, she said, advised her to take just a little hair off but she wanted to give away as much as possible.

“It grows back,” she said when asked what advice she’d give to people thinking of donating their hair.

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mong all the community issues covered by the Queens Chronicle, one of the most constantly raised, in all corners of the borough, is transportation.

There’s never enough of it. It’s too expensive. Big boulevards have too many lanes. Big boulevards shouldn’t lose any lanes. Subways should run farther east. Subways should be repaired more quickly. Subways should be repaired more slowly, to spread out shutdowns. There should be more bike lanes. There should be no bike lanes. And so on.

Some neighborhoods believe they’re treated unfairly, and they often have a point. On Monday, a few dozen Jamaica residents turned out for an update on the Department of Transportation’s study of Downtown Jamaica. The consensus: dissatisfaction.

A proposal to turn one-way 150th Street into a two-way road between Hillside and Jamaica avenues? Thanks but no thanks, said Michele Keller, the Community Board 12 transportation chairwoman; it’s already congested and there’s a school there. Not much on curbing often-illegal truck traffic? Acid-tongued blogger Joe Moretti was none to pleased to hear that after all the attention he’s drawn to the issue. No mention of the MTA at all? Resident Vanessa Sparks wondered how anything can be done without the transit agency at the table.

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Even Councilman Daneek Miller complained about the city spending money on ferry ramps in other neighborhoods and streetcar planning for communities that don’t even exist yet. He warned the residents they better stay on top of the DOT or else “it’s all going to be bike lanes.”

Meanwhile in Corona, Tuesday night’s CB 4 meeting was largely about bike lanes, and other “modern” features the DOT wants to add to 111th Street. Problem is the plan would reduce the number of vehicular lanes from five to three — much like the agency plans to do for each direction of travel on a lot of Woodhaven Boulevard by widening medians and reserving one lane each way for buses during rush hour.

CB 4 doesn’t seem to like the 111th Street proposal any more than the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association likes the bus lanes. And, just as in Jamaica, many in Corona and Woodhaven see the plans as diktats from Manhattan people who don’t get Queens. But of course there are others pressing for more bike and bus lanes; the borough is divided.

Our take reflects something Miller implied: that the focus should be more on upgrading existing, decades-old transportation infrastructure than on grandiose new plans. And ironically, it may have to be, if President Trump’s budget plans are adopted by Congress largely as is — he proposes slashing funds that would go toward projects like the Woodhaven bus lanes. What infrastructure in his home borough does he think the feds should help pay for? We don’t know. Stay tuned.

Dear Editor: (An open letter to city Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz): I am emailing you my concerns over these bike lanes that were initiated by Mayor de Blasio and that you, as a Council member, agreed with.

I am not in favor of bike lanes on busy thoroughfares in New York City. I believe that bicyclists can get to where they are going riding on side streets, which are safer.

Since the mayor and yourself want to see these bike lanes on busy thoroughfares, like Queens Boulevard, Junction Boulevard and others, I would like you to enact legislation that would require all bicyclists to wear helmets. As of this writing they do not have to wear helmets, but that is ridiculous. It only makes sense because when a bicyclist is hit by a car, the first thing that hits the pavement is the person’s head.

Also, I am not sure if you are aware of this, but by law children over of the age of 13 must ride their bikes in the street and not on the sidewalk. So you are giving permission for 13-year-olds to ride their bikes in these lanes also. Now we all are aware that teenagers are reckless. They think that nothing is going to happen to them, and this puts car drivers in a very bad spot.

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these bike lanes.

Both these actions would save lives and I hope that common sense would rule the Council members so that these proposals will be enacted.

Drivers also need some consideration, and I have seen my share of bicyclists that do not do what they are supposed to do by law on the socalled Boulevard of Death.

I will wait for your reply.

Kathleen Schatz Rego Park

Leading girls to leadership Dear Editor: On March 6, I testified before the City Council’s Committee on Youth Services, an action encouraged by the Girl Scouts of Greater New York, where I’ve been taught to stand up for issues I think are important. My seven years as a Girl Scout have given me invaluable

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he most striking thing about the resolution Community Education Council 27 approved Monday, asking the Department of Education to mandate that each school have an emergency communication system, wasn’t that it passed unanimously. It was that it was needed at all.

The move came in response to a recent hoax shooting threat made against PS 146 in Howard Beach.

Misinformation was rampant, and a reliable communication system could have allayed parental fears.

Eighteen years after Columbine, when everyone’s walking around with a supercomputer in his or her pocket, how is there no mandatory communication protocol in place already? Let’s just make it so.

leadership development opportunities.

As a result of gaining leadership skills and confidence, I led younger Girl Scouts in my troop, many of them struggling with a lack of confidence and body insecurities, which I also experienced. I developed the courage to speak to young girls about the pervasiveness of these issues, and to take on other endeavors that I previously did not believe I could accomplish.

Unfortunately, for girls who can’t participate in Girl Scouting, these leadership opportunities are not as common. Recently, the Girl Scouts’ State of the Girl: Unfinished Business report found that while all girls believe leadership is important to our society, only 21 percent of girls surveyed had a desire to, and a belief that they can, lead.

That’s why I urged the members of the Committee on Youth Services to look for ways to expand leadership development opportunities for girls in New York City, particularly in public schools and high-need areas such as

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public housing, shelters and detention centers.

My personal leadership development opportunities have helped me gain the skills and confidence that will help me reach my goals and become a leader in my career, my community, and city. I urge the city to help make similar opportunities available to girls across NYC. Janice Wang Girl Scouts of Greater New York Little Neck The writer is an ambassador in Troop 4570 and a senior at Hunter College High School in Manhattan.

Pleased by Preet piece Dear Editor: I have resumed reading the Chronicle after a hiatus following the incident in which you revealed the name of my building after I had trashed it in a letter to the editor. I had not mentioned the building’s name in my letter. A lot of tenants stopped speaking to me for a while because they were humiliated.

That’s the past.

Now, I’d like to thank you for your March 16 editorial regarding Preet Bharara (“The loss of prosecutor Preet Bharara, and what’s next”), which was excellent.

I hope there is a grassroots movement among New Yorkers to encourage him to run for political office. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had Bharara as the mayor of New York City instead of the inept disaster, de Blasio, we have governing us now!

More on this subject would be appreciated by your readers.

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Dear Editor: In the March 9 issue of The Chronicle there is an article about the revised travel ban issued by the president (“Queens officials react to travel ban”).

Several New York State legislators and two congressional representatives, along with several immigrant advocacy and civic groups, have stated their opposition to the ban while questioning its constitutionality.

Has it escaped their notice that the majority of global terrorist organizations have openly identif ied themselves as being Muslim? Who are the refugees that are seeking refuge in Europe and the U.S. fleeing from? They are fleeing from Islamic terrorists! Not Christians or Protestants or Jews.

Who invaded NYC on September 11, 2001 and destroyed the World Trade Center, killing thousands of innocent people?

Part of the president’s responsibilities is to keep all our citizens safe from terrorist or threat of invasion. To date no definitive, speedy method has been found to prevent Muslim terrorists from infiltrating the U.S. borders under the disguise of being a refugee or a tourist.

Therefore, he must use the methods available. Hence the travel bans.

It’s unfor tunate that many honest, good people will be subjected to intense scrutiny because of the acts of renegade Muslims.

Carol Machulski Corona

… Or does he? Or Obama?

Dear Editor: In February 2016 President Obama proposed cutting anti-terrorism funding in the Urban Areas Security Initiative program, which would have reduced funding for counterterrorism programs across the country by nearly $300 million, with New York City slated to lose about $90 million.

With the cuts in President Trump’s budget, New York City would lose nearly $200 million in federal funding for counterterrorism and disaster response programs, according to Sen. Chuck Schumer.

Everyone knows or should know that NYC is the top target to hit in the United States. Why then do our last two presidents not know this?

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Dear Editor: Here is a simple, honest pay-as-you-go way to help fund President Trump’s proposed $1 trillion infrastructure plan for both highways and public transit components.

The national gasoline tax used to support the Highway Trust Fund was last raised to 18.4 cents a gallon in 1993. Taking action to raise this tax by only pennies per gallon years ago would have resulted in an ample robust Highway Trust Fund today.

With gasoline at very reasonable prices, isn’t this a good time to raise both the federal and state gas tax by just pennies per gallon?

This action could significantly increase funding the national Highway Trust Fund and its Mass Transit Account. It would also not add to our out-of-control $20 trillion and growing national debt.

Most Americans — be they city, suburban or rural residents, Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative — benefit from good roads, bridges and public transportation.

With continuing gridlock and partisan bickering in Washington, increasing funding for the Highway Trust Fund and accompanying Mass Transit Account could be a key issue that, on a bipartisan basis, the president and both Democrat and Republican members of Congress can agree on.

Larry Penner Great Neck, LI

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NYPD talks hate crimes in Queens Crime is down 25 percent in the 102nd Precinct, commander says

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qualify as hate crimes.

“They can say the most hateful things.

With hate crimes up 118 percent in New Go back to your country or something else,” York City so far this year, Sgt. Kevin Loner- he told the crowd. “Doesn’t mean it’s a hate gan of the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force crime. They’re allowed to say that.”

Such actions, the sergeant continued, are said Tuesday it was important to know what protected under freedom of speech. is and isn’t under the unit’s jurisdiction.

However, if there were an actual attack “There’s a lot of fear,” Lonergan said at a special presentation at the 102nd Precinct on someone because of his or her race, religion, sexualit y or Community Counother classification, cil’s monthly meetthat would be a hate ing. “We’re here to e’re here to get the crime. get the right informaright information out.

Lonergan encourtion out. What you aged members of the believe and what’s What you believe and community who feel the law are two sepathey may have been a rate things.” what’s the law are two v ic t i m of a h a t e Speaking to a crime to call 911. crowd of about 50 separate things.”

Addressing fears people, he said — Sgt. Kevin Lonergan, of depor tation, he ever yone i n t he NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force st at ed t he N Y PD d iverse preci nct will not ask anyone deserves the “right of predictability,” or being able to walk down for immigration status and in certain cirthe street without being targeted for who cumstances may help victims apply for new visas — for example, if they’re aiding police they are.

“You have the right to walk down any in the investigation of human trafficking.

Before Lonergan gave his speech, 102nd street in the United States of America,” he Precinct Commanding Off icer Deodat said.

But, he added, that doesn’t mean threats Urprasad said crime in the area is down or other actions that might come their way more than 28 percent in the last 28 days, Associate Editor

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Sgt. Kevin Lonergan, of the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force, talks to the 102nd Precinct Community Council about what is and isn’t a hate crime in New York. Hate crimes, he added, are up this PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY year compared to 2016. compared to the same time last year.

Crime was down in every category with the exception of grand larceny auto, which was at the same number, nine, as in 2016.

“I have less people getting robbed, less people having their cars broken into,” he said.

The community council also honored

Police Officer Derek Singh, who last month apprehended three alleged graffiti vandals with multiple prior offenses near the Van Wyck Expressway — while he was on his way to work.

Singh spotted the crime in action and called for backup to arrest the individuals. Q

Live Aqueduct racing Drop-in opening day to be shown on Fox pushed back for now First will be Wood Memorial on April 8

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And they’re on — television, that is.

The New York Racing Association and Fox Sports on March 13 announced an agreement to broadcast three shows live from Aqueduct Race Track — on April 8, 15 and 22 — and another 43 from Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Track. The races will be shown on Fox Sports 2.

The April 8 broadcast from Aqueduct is the Wood Memorial Stakes, one of the main precursors to the Kentucky Derby, from 3 to 5:30 p.m.

The contest was first held at Jamaica Race Course, the site that now holds the Rochdale Village housing development and is named after Eugene Wood — a state politician and horse racing enthusiast who was the president of the former track.

Between 1930 and 2000, 11 winners of the Wood Memorial went on to win the Kentucky Derby and four of them were Triple Crown winners. No Wood Memorial Winner has won the Greatest Two Minutes in Sports since 2000.

The controversial Ozone Park drop-in center on Atlantic Avenue was supposed to open Monday — but March 20 came and went and the site remained vacant.

A spokeswoman for Breaking Ground — the nonprofit that will operate the center for homeless people to get a bite to eat and shower or stay the night — said there is no known date for the site’s opening.

Sources briefed on the matter said the building, at 100-32 Atlantic Ave., does not yet have heat, internet or other utilities.

Dozens of people, including Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa and Public Advocate candidate Anthony Herber t, showed up to the site Sunday to protest what they believed to be the imminent opening of it.

The center has been a point of contention in Ozone Park, Richmond Hill and Woodhaven since news of it first started spreading last August.

Residents believe it’s not a suitable site because it’s less than 200 feet from a high school and registered sex offenders could

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Fox Sports 2 will broadcast eight shows from Belmont Park: on April 29, May 27 and 29 and June 3 and 24.

The agreement is an extension of a deal NYRA and Fox Sports had last year, when seven weeks of coverage at SaratoQ ga were aired.

The homeless drop-in center.

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walk in and request services. Breaking Ground and the Department of Homeless Services have said sex offenders will be sent to other sites. Last week, three residents filed two lawsuits seeking to stop the center’s opening, which are pending in court. Q

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Breslin, son of Qns, dies at 88 Famous columnist told stories of the everyday man

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Before he told the stories of the everyday man across the country, Jimmy Breslin walked the streets of Ozone Park.

The New York Daily News, where the eccentric writer worked for 12 years, said his South Queens accent was “forever intact.”

The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, widely considered one of the best of all time, died Sunday from complications of pneumonia.

He was 88.

“Long before 9/11 showed America how great the average New Yorker was, Breslin was doing it on the pages of New York’s newspapers every day, and he was an amazing combination: brilliant journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, but throughout his entire career, an everyday Joe,” U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in a Sunday statement.

Breslin grew up in Ozone Park and attended Long Island University for only two years — he dropped out. He lived in Forest Hills Gardens, on Deepdene Road, from 1964 until 1982, when he moved to Manhattan.

He started at the Long Island Press

before taking a job with the now-defunct New York Herald Tribune as a columnist in 1963.

The columnist was crass — he was often seen with a drink or a cigar, or both, in his hand. The Daily News reported he often typed so hard he’d break typewriters.

He was suspended from Newsday in 1990 after he hurled racial insults at an Asian female reporter.

He joined The News in 1976 before leaving for Newsday 12 years later, working there until his retirement in 2004, though he still wrote periodically for the Long Island paper after that.

Some of Breslin’s most well-known pieces were about everyday people working behind the scenes of the country’s most historic events. He wrote a profile of the laborer who dug President John F. Kennedy’s grave the day after the slain commander-in-chief’s funeral and years later profiled the surgeon who tried to save him.

Clifton Pollard, the man who dug Kennedy’s resting place, told Breslin it was “an honor” to do the job.

“One of the last to serve John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who was the thirty-fifth President of this country, was a working man who earns $3.01 an hour and said it was an honor

to dig the grave,” the columnist wrote.

In 1980, he interviewed the police officers who rushed murdered Beatle John Lennon to the hospital.

The cops, Tony Palma and Jim Moran, were longtime fans of The Beatles.

“And Jim Moran and Tony Palma, older now, cops in a world with no fun, stood in the emergency room as John Lennon, whose music they knew, whose music was known ever ywhere on ear th, became another person who died after being shot with a gun on the streets of New York,” Breslin wrote to conclude the column.

He also became pen pals with the Son of Sam, who admitted to being a dedicated reader of Breslin’s.

In one of the killer’s letters, reprinted in The News, he told the Ozone Park native to encourage detectives to keep digging into the case and to never forget victim Donna Lauria.

“Mr. Breslin, sir, don’t think that because you haven’t heard from (me) for a while that I went to sleep. No, rather, I am still here,” wrote David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam killer.

Breslin was awarded the Pulitzer for Commentary in 1986 “for columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens.”

Jimmy Breslin, an Ozone Park native, died FILE PHOTO Sunday at 88.

He received the George Polk Award for Metropolitan Reporting the prior year.

Gov. Cuomo Sunday lauded his work.

“He was a great, great character, Jimmy Breslin,” the governor said at an unrelated press conference in the Bronx, according to a transcript provided by his office. “He was a great New York figure. He was, for many years, the epitome of a New Yorker.”

Breslin is survived by his second wife, former Councilwoman Ronnie Eldridge, four children, three stepchildren and 12 grandchildren. His first wife, Rosemary, died of cancer and two of his daughters Q died in the 2000s.

Flushing VFW rips city over violations Vets: City should stop attack on us and make services dept. effective

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They are no longer in the U.S. Armed Forces, but members of VFW Post 3427 in Queensboro Hill are fighting on a new front.

“There is a lawless war being perpetrated against the veterans of New York City,” Operation Desert Storm veteran Marvin Jeffcoat, a Woodside resident, said at a press conference Monday. “And this post being fined out of existence is evidence of that war.”

The Department of Buildings issued $13,466.72 in Environmental Control Board violations two years ago after an inspector fou nd an energ y-eff icient boiler was installed in the basement without authorization from the agency in addition to a water heater and gas pipes that were illegally installed and a general failure to maintain the building. With limited funds available to the veterans’ post, its members say that the violations put its future in jeopardy.

Now no heat is in the structure.

Aside from the office of Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing), which was represented at Monday’s press conference, Jeffcoat said that no elected officials have helped the VFW, which is represented by Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows), Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows) and state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flush-

VFW Post 3427 Commander Ray Ramos, at mic, says the Flushing location is existentially threatened by punitive Department of Buildings violations. Joined by other vets, he denounced PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY the city’s approach towards the post’s Queensboro Hill headquarters. ing). The First Iraq War vet proposed a solution for more interest from area lawmakers.

“I’m asking every veteran in the City of New York: if you can run for office, run for office,” said Jeffcoat, who lost a challenge to state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) last year. “If you can’t run for office, support those veterans that can run for office.”

The veteran also called for increased

funding to the city Department of Veterans’ Services and for the agency to take a more active role in helping those it was created to serve.

According to the Queensboro Hill post’s commander, Ray Ramos, a lack of communication with the DOB has thwarted curing the violations.

“We’re not saying that things cannot be

corrected, we’re willing to correct the problems,” he said. “But we need someone to come in and sit with us and just have dialogue, to tell us the things that need to be corrected and they would’ve been done.”

Ramos added that funding for the veterans’ post is tight, saying “We’re down to about $800.”

But the DOB denied that the agency is standing in the veterans’ way.

An agency spokesman said that the VFW received a permit to legalize the building in Feburary 2016. And its penalties, he said, are not preventing the members from following through with curing the code violations.

The spokesman also suggested that the veterans’ post look into the Department of Finance’s am nesty programs for f ine forgiveness.

Although Jeffcoat said that the violations that the building was fined for present no threat, the DOB spokesman emphasized that gas system installations are sensitive and can be potentially dangerous. The illegal gas work, he said, could have endangered the building’s occupants.

Another boiler inspection was made last month after the post’s contractor requested it, the spokesman said, but no fines were added though the furnace was found to not Q be code-compliant.

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by Maria A. Thomson Executive Director GWDC

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Honoring one of their own Sherman Kane, a civic activist for years, was honored as the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association’s Resident of the Month at the group’s meeting last Saturday.

Kane, middle, was lauded for his advocacy on a number of issues from ensuring the community has proper greenery to fighting against the legalization of basement apart-

ments across the city.

In honor of his love of all things green, Kane’s plaque was that color and he was gifted a green T-shirt bearing the civic’s name.

He’s joined here by the WRBA’s executive board.

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Remember when we were counting down to Daylight Saving Time?

Well it’s finally arrived and now it’s lighter later. Also, winter has ended and spring is finally here.

The Greater Woodhaven Development Corp. is thinking all things spring and we are ready to welcome our “Spring into Summer” Dinner Dance, which will take place June 9.

So mark your calendars for the social event of the year and get ready to dance.

More information on this to come.

On April 8, the Woodhaven Business Improvement District will sponsor its “Spring Promotion.”

It will take place at the Forest Parkway Plaza, where an Easter Bunny will be taking free pictures with children of all ages.

There will also be live music with Plastic Soul and the plaza will be swinging as it is every year.

Along Jamaica Avenue, there will be clowns painting faces, distributing balloons and free goodies.

These activities are all free of charge courtesy the business owners through the WBID. This past winter, with the snowy weather and cold temperatures, was very hard for stray dogs and cats.

There is a very good program with very dedicated volunteers that traps, neuters and returns feral cats — the Feral Cat Initiative, under the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals.

Call (212) 330-0033 for more information or to volunteer.

This is a very humane program.

Unfortunately, New York City does not have any no-kill shelters for strays.

New trees will be planted on Jamaica Avenue and 92nd Street, 98th Street, 86th Avenue and 89th Avenue.

If you want a tree in front of your home, call our Office at (718) 805-0202.

The Rockaway Beach Branch, which Woodhaven and no one wants, is undergoing a feasibility study for the cost of reactivating this railway.

Also the state has allocated $400,000, for a feasibility study for QueensWay, which is another proposal that is not good for Woodhaven.

And here we are wasting more money on another unwanted project.

I would suggest that the state reallocate these funds to creating a busway on this Rockaway Beach Branch, which would be acceptable to everyone.

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Honoring St. Joseph at Russo’s Columbus Day Foundation donates $5,000 to Futures in Education

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he Howard Beach Columbus Day Foundation once again hit a record of approximately 700 guests on Sunday, March 19 at Russo’s On The Bay at its annual St. Joseph’s Day Celebration.

Mario Faulisi, president of the Howard Beach Columbus Day Foundation, stated as he welcomed people to the event, “I’m very pleased with the turnout and thrilled to keep the tradition alive. I can’t express enough how thankful I am to everyone who attended and for the people who helped promote the event. I want them to k now that thei r hard work does not go unnoticed.”

Faulisi presented the Rev. Jamie J. Gigantiello with a $5,000 check for Futures in Education, a nonprofit that provides financial assistance to Catholic students.

A table was put together where images of St. Joseph were surrounded with special foods like minestrone and pasta with breadcrumbs, symbolizing the sawdust that would have covered the floor of St. Joseph’s carpentry shop.

On the table, one could find many special foods like sfinge di San Giuseppe and fava beans. In Sicilian folklore, the beans are considered lucky because during a drought the beans flourished while the other crops perished.

During the event, people danced and dined on Q traditional Sicilian specialities.

— with reporting by Gina Palermo

Mario Faulisi presents a $5,000 check to the Rev. Jamie J. Gigantiello for Futures in Education, which provides COURTESY PHOTO assistance to Catholic school students.

Mario Faulisi, president of the Howard Beach Columbus Day Foundation, addressPHOTOS BY GINA PALERMO es the crowd at Russo’s On The Bay. People at the event were serenaded by singers and entertained by DJs during the event. When they weren’t dancing, they were enjoying traditional Sicilian foods.

Traditional St. Joseph Day’s treats were spread on a table that also held a statue of the saint.

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A Massachusetts man was indicted last Thursday on multiple hate crime charges after he allegedly attacked a Muslim employee at Kennedy Airport in late January.

According to District Attorney Richard Brown, 57-year-old Robin Rhodes was waiting for a flight around 7 p.m. on Jan. 25 inside Terminal 2’s Delta Sky Lounge when he allegedly walked up to the female victim and began harassing her.

“Are you f--king sleeping? Are you praying?

What are you doing?” Rhodes allegedly asked the woman before punching her office door,

Mass. man facing four-year prison bid kicking her and saying “I am going to kick your f--king ass.”

When the victim ran out of her office, Rhodes allegedly followed her, got down on his knees, imitated a Muslim praying and began shouting about Islam and President Trump.

“F--king Islam, f--king ISIS,” he allegedly told her. “Trump is here now, he will get rid of all of you.

“You can ask Germany, Belgium and France about these kind of people,” he allegedly con-

tinued, referencing terror attacks in those three European nations. “You will see what happens.”

Brown said the victim suffered pain and redness in her right leg, where Rhodes allegedly kicked her.

Rhodes was arrested and charged with third-degree assault as a hate crime, thirddegree menacing as a hate crime and second degree aggravated harassment.

At the time of his arrest, Rhodes allegedly

told officers, “I guess I’m going to jail for disorderly conduct.”

“The defendant is accused of physically and verbally attacking a woman for no apparent reason other than because of her religion,” Brown said in a statement. “Crimes of hate will never be tolerated in Queens County and when they do regrettably occur, those responsible will be brought to justice.”

The Massachussetts man was releasd on $50,000 bond and faces up to four years in prison. He has been ordered to return to court Q on June 12.

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The Rotar y Club of Southwest Queens is headed to Long Island for “Mission: Comedy.”

The Governor’s Comedy Club is hosting the matinee for a day of laughs while giving to a cause that is close to home.

The event will be held on Sunday, March 26 at the club at 90 Division Ave. in Levittown.

Doors open at 2 p.m. but it is suggested to arrive by 3 p.m. for the 3:30 p.m. show time.

Food will be provided and there will also be raffle games.

Tickets must be bought in advance by calling (917) 748-0583, as no tickets will be sold at the door.

There are no reserved tables and seating will be on a first-come, first-serve basis.

All proceeds for the comedy show will go toward benefitting homeless veterans.

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Will Trump make NYC homelessness worse?

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

President Trump’s 2018 federal budget recommendations, released last Thursday, include deep cuts to programs geared toward aiding low-income, urban, elderly and stormravaged citizens, sparking fear and fury across the city about what they would mean for the five boroughs.

The signature aspect of the budget — titled “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again” — is a “vital” $54 billion increase in defense spending to “rebuild” the nation’s military, a promise Trump often made during his campaign.

To offset that rise in funding, four departments — Energy, State, Agriculture and Labor — saw a proposed cut of 21 percent or greater, while 19 agencies face elimination.

The requests Trump has put forth are just that, however, as it is Congress that creates the federal budget, not the president.

But his proposed $6.2 billion slashing of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s budget — a cut of 13 percent — has housing and legal aid services, as well as area lawmakers, up in arms.

toward the rehabilitation of residential buildings and foreclosed properties.

HOMEless?

Also on the HUD chopping block is the HOME Investment Partnership Program, which provides grants to states and cities to build, buy or rehabilitate affordable housing for rent or homeownership, along with rental assistance for low-income people.

According to federal data spanning the last 23 years, the districts represented by Nydia Velazquez (D-Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn, Queens) received a combined $523 million through HOME-IPP. In those areas, including southwestern Queens, a total of 9,017 residential units were put on the market. The district represented by Grace Meng (D-Flushing), the only one entirely within Queens, received $7.8 million since 1992. Federal data shows 217 residential units were completed in that time frame.

Trump’s budget also calls for the elimination of the Section 4 Capacity Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing program. Section 4 has provided Habitat for Humanity with $92 million since 1998, more than one-third of its $254 million in funding during that time frame, the Huffington Post reported last week, citing a statement it received from the organization.

Trump’s budget says the program “is duplicative of efforts funded by philanthropy.”

It is unclear how such a cut would impact Habitat for Humanity’s ongoing 80-home refurbishment project in southeast Queens or its home improvement store in Woodside.

A cyclone of cuts Nearly half of that cut comes from the elimination of the $3 billion Community Development Block Grant program, which helps fund — through grants awarded to states, cities and organizations — a myriad of efforts, including affordable housing developments, natural disaster recovery, support for native American tribes and social programs such as Meals on Wheels.

“The federal government has spent over Home Stability Support $150 billion on this block grant since its Regarding homelessness, Trump’s proinception in 1974, but the program is not welltargeted to the poorest populations and has posed slashing of HUD’s budget has already not demonstrated results,” Trump’s budget had an impact on at least one prospective reads. “The budget devolves community and state program that many lawmakers and orgaeconomic development activities to the state nizations are pushing for.

Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest and local level and redirects federal resources Hills) has spent a year touting Home Stability to other activities.”

South Queens communities like Howard Support, his $450 million program that would Beach, which voted for Trump in November’s replace all existing city and state rental supelection, have been some of the biggest plements with one new statewide one.

Originally anticipating it would be partialCDBG grant recipients in the city in recent years, as HUD has distributed $4.2 billion ly funded by the federal government, Hevesi through the program for Hurricane Sandy said he’s altered his proposal last week to make it entirely funded by the state. recovery efforts.

“We were concerned there would be cuts According to city data, about 35 percent of that would endanger it,” all funding for SandyHevesi said Tuesday. related relief comes from “But we’re still good to CDBG grants. go.”

Similarly, over $7 bilRecipients of HSS will lion in CDBG funding still be families and indiwas given to residents of viduals eligible for public New Orleans and other assistance benefits who L ou isia n a t ow n s t o a re faci ng ev ict ion , rebuild their homes or homelessness or loss of purchase new ones after housing due to domestic hurricanes Katrina and violence or hazardous Rita devastated the state living conditions. But the in 2005. scope of the plan and the Overall, federal data speed in which it may be for 2014, the most recent implemented has year available, shows the city received $203 mil- Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi has had changed.

To make its cost more lion from the program. to alter his new anti-homelessness initenable to the state, Over $66 million went tiative, excluding federal funding.

Hevesi said HSS will be phased in over the course of five years instead of implemented all at once, if passed by the legislature and signed into law by Gov. Cuomo.

“Instead of doing the program at full capacity, we will scale it in over five years,” he said. “So the first year, it will be an investment of $40 million. I still think we’ll get the same bang for the buck.”

Hevesi said it’s looking to him like HSS will be included in the state’s budget, as the state Senate’s Independent Democratic Conference has gotten behind the cause.

But state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) wondered in a Tuesday interview whether the loss of federal funding will make it less likely the Legislature supports HSS. “We’re starting the state budget off with a $3.5 billion deficit. We have to see where we can pick up an extra $450 million,” Addabbo said. “If the homeless crisis is perceived to be a city issue, there may be less of a likelihood that the money will be in the state budget.

“It’s going to be tough, but we’ll see. I’m still very optimistic.”

Both men agreed, however, that Trump’s cuts would be disastrous for Queens.

Hevesi specifically pointed out the president’s “draconian” proposed elimination of the $3.4 billion Home Energy Assistance Program, which provides subsidies to about one million low-income households in the state and 700,000 in the city to help pay for heating bills from November through March.

“They’re obscene and offensive,” Hevesi said. “Now a million New Yorkers may have to be concerned with freezing to death.”

Less for legal aid services Also under the gun in Trump’s budget recommendation is the $375 million Legal Services Corp., which distributes funding to 133 independent nonprofit legal aid programs across the country.

The LSC gives about $2.7 million to Legal Services NYC’s Queens location in Jamaica, according to Associate Director Doreen Odom, a sum that makes up 20 percent of the borough office’s budget.

“We do foreclosure prevention, immigrant work, fair housing, education and helping people apply for benefits they may not know they’re eligible for,” Odom said in a Tuesday interview. “Generally, we service low-income residents from across the borough.”

Approximately 13,000 Queens residents went to the borough’s Legal Services NYC office for help last year, she said, noting that a majority of them were facing some sort of housing issue, like eviction or discrimination.

And if the organization were to suddenly lose 20 percent of its funding, Director of Housing Annie Ascher said, the group would be forced to cut a large chunk of its staff.

Legal service groups like Ascher’s already turn away two out of three people who come looking for help, she said, whether it’s because of a lack of staff or other issues.

That crunch could be exacerbated even more with a large slash in funding, leading to more people falling into homelessness.

“Our biggest priority is to preserve affordable housing and prevent evictions,” Ascher said. “I don’t have specific numbers on me,

Lawmakers and legal service providers in Queens worry President Trump’s budget recommendations could exacerbate the city’s FILE PHOTOS homelessness crisis. but of course, any reduction in representation will yield more homelessness.”

As of March 19, there were 59,489 people in the homeless shelter system across the five boroughs, according to city data.

“If we can keep someone in their home for six more months,” Ascher said, “that’s six months they’re not in a shelter and can keep looking for a solution.”

Legal Aid Society Queens Attorney-inCharge Sateesh Nori was slightly more optimistic about the president’s proposed cuts, saying he was confident in groups like his continuing to adequately help people facing housing issues thanks to last month’s announcement by Mayor de Blasio of a $93 million investment in tenant legal services.

“It’s ironic that while the federal budget will get cut,” Nori said, “our local budget will be higher than ever.”

‘Disastrous’ for NYCHA? Should Trump’s budget proposals come to pass, the New York City Housing Authority — which features 22 Queens developments that a combined 38,147 people call home — is expected to take a big hit.

According to an agency spokeswoman, NYCHA is staring down the barrel of up to $150 million in cuts to its $3.2 billion operating budget under Trump’s plan, a slash that would be “disastrous.”

“It’s hard to understate how much of an impact this would have,” the spokeswoman said. “We’re going to viciously fight all cuts.

The future of public housing is in jeopardy.”

She said the organization has already seen about $35 million in cuts under Trump, thanks to a change in the federal operating subsidy proration rate, but future slashes would make facilities maintenence harder.

Should the operating budget see a decrease in federal funding, the spokeswoman noted there could be layoffs, while the ability to make repairs on aging infrastructure would be hampered.

“The government has been slowly disinvesting in NYCHA for a bit,” she said. “We had a partner in the last administration but Q cuts this drastic are new. They’re deep.”

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Boro Assembly members, senators join forces in an effort to make it so

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Queens state legislators are joining forces to bring more funding to borough hospitals and medical centers — an effort that has worked for other parts of the city in recent years.

“There’s no question of what the needs are,” said state Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans). “There’s no question attention needs to be given to medical services in Queens ... We want to get a commitment from the governor to make sure there’s money coming to Queens hospitals.”

According to people interviewed for this story, Queens Assembly members and senators have been meeting with the Governor’s Office and the Department of Health for weeks to push for more money to be allocated to hospitals and medical service centers.

No specific dollar amount is connected to the push, but the legislators are hoping to match the success lawmakers in Brooklyn and the Bronx have had. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been allocated to cash-strapped hospitals in both boroughs.

“We brought up, where’s Queens?” Comrie said. “There are Queens hospitals that are undervetted and underserved.”

The budget must be approved by both houses of the Legislature by April 1.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard

Beach) said he’s “kind of optimistic” about seeing results for Queens hospitals.

“I’ve not heard this kind of discussion in years,” Addabbo said. “But we have a lot of work to do in the next two weeks, that’s how fragile these discussions are.”

Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) said St. John’s Episcopal Hospital reached out to her shortly after she won the election last November to discuss funding issues, among other matters.

“It’s the only hospital on the peninsula so we have to make sure we maintain the services being provided,” she said. “The money stays and it continues to move forward.”

The freshman legislator stressed the importance of the lawmakers sticking together in the fight.

“There’s more power in numbers,” she added. “It shows we’re all supporting each other.”

Financial struggles are not just a concern for Queens hospitals, but those on Long Island near the city limits as well. Comrie said 30 percent of patients at Winthrop University Hospital are from Queens. Northwell Health System, formerly North Shore-LIJ, also treats a number of Queens residents at its facilities outside the borough.

Terry Lynam, senior vice president at Northwell, said the system operates at a 1 per-

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center could receive additional funding if a push by Queens FILE PHOTO legislators is successful. cent profit margin and is considered one of the more successful ones in the state.

But state funding, Lynam said, is taking a back seat to the concern the Long Island-based system has with the American Health Care Act, specifically with an amendment proposed

by Reps. Chris Collins (R-Erie County) and

John Faso (R-Hudson Valley).

The Collins-Faso amendment would shift $2.3 billion in Medicaid costs carried by New York counties to the state, with the exception of the five boroughs. The amendment, if passed, would take effect in 2020 and the state would have to adjust its budget to come up with the funding needed to cover the costs.

Gov. Cuomo Tuesday decried the proposals, saying the two Congress members sold out “New Yorkers statewide and in their districts.”

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R-Nassau) have both expressed skepticism toward the amendment.

Lynam, too, lamented possible impacts to Northwell.

“Those kinds of reductions will result in diminished services and increased taxes,” he said.

While Queens hospitals wouldn’t be as directly impacted, legislators say President Trump’s actions are on their minds.

“It’s a constant conversation we’re having,” said Pheffer Amato. “There’s always discussions amongst the members about how that might trickle down to us.”

Addabbo said any future federal cuts made may cause the Legislature to return to Albany for a special session to fine tune the Q state budget.

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continued from page 2 Other projects that could potentially seek funding are putting trains back on the Rockaway Beach Rail Line and a light rail line proposed by Councilwoman Liz Crowley (D-Glendale) that would run from Jamaica to Long Island City.

Furthermore, Penner added, funding will first go to projects that are further up the “conga line” of applicants. The most recent federal documents state the scope and cost of the SBS project are being assessed, though the DOT did not respond to an email requesting an update. If it’s still at that phase, Penner said, that puts it toward the back.

Nick Sifuentes, deputy director of the Riders Alliance, said he’s not seen such drastic proposed cuts in his years of advocacy across several sectors.

“Not even during the [George W.] Bush administration when we saw millions of dollars go to Defense,” Sifuentes said.

While Trump’s budget is on everyone’s minds, the transportation advocate said his group is much more focused on the state and city budgets — the former must be approved by April 1 and the latter by the end of June.

However, such cuts could affect initiatives such as the Fair Fare fight, which would provide reduced-fare MetroCards for low-income residents.

“The federal budget might cause us to have to look in other places to make up that revenue,” Sifuentes said.

He did add he hopes Congress fights the “draconian cuts.”

Penner said you can “bet the ranch” the New York City delegation in the House of Representatives will fight to keep the grant program alive.

Most of those members have issued statements blasting Trump’s budget as a whole, but did not specifically address the effect it would have on the FTA. The Chronicle reached out to some opponents of SBS on Woodhaven and Cross Bay, and while they’re still against it, they weren’t thrilled with Trump’s plan either.

“It’s never a positive matter when we talk about cuts to our city and our state,” said state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard

Experts say political career possible

by Michael Gannon

Michael Krasner, a political science professor at Queens College, said Bharara may Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has answer the siren’s song of politics.

“He has the teaching gig, and I’ve heard laid to rest any speculation about his plans about a possible TV gig,” Browne said. for the future — for the moment, anyway.

Bharara, fired by President Trump on “He’s young, has pretty good name recognition, and there’s something to March 11 after he refused to be said for a law-and-order resign along with more than 40 background.” of his fellow Obama adminisKrasner in the past has cited tration holdovers across the former governor and two-time country, will join the New GOP presidential nominee York University School of Law Thomas Dewey and former on April 1.

Mayor Rudy Giuliani as highOn his personal Twitter profile New York prosecutors account, Bharara said Tueswho then succeeded in politics. day he is “proud to join NYU “Bharara certainly has a School of Law” and “This is Preet Bharara one way I plan to keep workFILE PHOTO good profile,” Krasner said last week, and is “someone I think ing hard on important issues I would be a very viable candidate.” care about.”

Both he and Browne said even if BharaOr, perhaps, as the crusading corruption-busting former prosecutor is fond of ra has made up his mind to someday run for office, he almost certainly would wait, saying: Stay tuned.

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He did, however, continue to bash the project by saying the most recent blizzard shows why it’s not a good idea to put bus riders on a median, which is one element of the plan.

“Do you think they’re going to have them clean in time for people to catch a bus? No,” he said. “The safety of a pedestrian, whether it be a senior or a child, the safety of that pedestrian is paramount.”

The senator has advocated for running a bus lane along the service road of Woodhaven and Cross Bay, rather than on the main road along the median.

“Everyone would feel safer on the corner,” he said.

Another fierce opponent of SBS, the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, said while it’s still opposed to SBS the Trump cuts are not beneficial to New York.

“As much as we do not agree with the SBS plan for along the WoodhavenCrossbay Blvd. corridor as it now stands, we do not think cutting federal funding for public transportation funding for New York State, and ultimately New York City is a good idea,” the group said in a statement sent to the Queens Chronicle.

“Especially since the Trump Administration has been touting infrastr ucture spending.”

The Queens Public Transit Committee, however, was happy to see the spending reduction in the president’s plan.

“The Queens Public Transit Committee is against the proposed Select Bus Service plan — it removes local bus stops and eliminates lanes of traffic and left turns from our most congested corridor — and we do not want it to be funded,” the group said in a statement.

When asked how the members view the plan as it pertains to a project they’re in favor of, putting trains on the Rockaway Beach Rail Line, the group said, “We await the results of the MTA study and remain confident QueensRail will be recognized as a project worth funding.”

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Federal and state probes closed with criticism but no charges filed

by Michael Gannon Editor

Mayor de Blasio is damaged goods heading into the 2017 campaign despite federal and state prosecutors closing corruption investigations, according to veteran observers of New York City politics.

But Michael Krasner, a political science professor at Queens College for more than four decades, and Brian Browne, assistant vice president for government relations and a political science professor at St. John’s University, also believe the mayor still is a prohibitive favorite for reelection in November.

“In political terms, this pretty much sets de Blasio up as a strong favorite for re-election,” Krasner told the Chronicle on Monday. “Even though he obviously has vulnerabilities, it’s hard to see how someone else is going to command the strength to knock him off, especially with the labor endorsements he has received and others that are likely to come.”

“He’s taken a few punches on this over the last year or so, but he wasn’t knocked out or knocked down,” Browne said. “He still will have a few bruises. But right now, I’d think as of now he is in a very good position.”

He added that it might have been a matter of wrapping up loose ends at the office with now-former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s recent dismissal by President Trump.

Browne also believes potential front-line Democratic challengers like Comptroller Scott Stringer now are very likely to sit tight, with anyone else being hampered by a lack of money and time. Krasner said any second-tier potential challengers in a Democratic primary would likely only split any opposition vote within the party.

Mayor de Blasio has a reason to smile, with federal and state prosecutors last week closing investigations of his administraFILE PHOTO tion and campaign.

“For all those reasons, he has the inside track,” Krasner said.

On March 16, both Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced that they had wrapped up their investigations of City Hall.

Under Kim’s predecessor, Bharara, the federal govern-

ment was probing “pay-to-play” politics on the part of the mayor’s campaign and administration.

Vance’s office was examining allegations of de Blasio’s illegally funneling campaign money to upstate Democratic candidates in the 2014 state Senate elections.

Kim issued what he acknowledged is “a rare public statement” on the matter last Thursday morning.

“This office, along with the FBI, has been investigating fundraising by and on behalf of Mayor Bill de Blasio for his 2013 election campaign, the Campaign for One New York, and the 2014 State Senate effort,” Kim’s statement reads.

“We have conducted a thorough investigation into several circumstances in which Mayor de Blasio and others acting on his behalf solicited donations from individuals who sought official favors from the city, after which the Mayor made or directed inquiries to relevant city agencies on behalf of those donors.

“In considering whether to charge individuals with serious public corruption crimes, we take into account, among other things, the high burden of proof, the clarity of existing law, any recent changes in the law, and the particular difficulty in proving criminal intent in corruption schemes where there is no evidence of personal profit.

After careful deliberation, given the totality of the circumstances here and absent additional evidence, we do not intend to bring federal criminal charges against the Mayor or those acting on his behalf relating to the fundraising efforts in question.”

Kim said a statement in this case is appropriate “in order not to unduly influence the upcoming campaign and continued on page 21

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How will the NYS budget affect Qns.?

Assembly and Senate pass one-house proposals; borough pols talk priorities

by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

It’s budget season in Albany.

Negotiations must be finalized by April 1. And whatever policies and programs are finalized at the end of negotiations, the final spending plan will be of import to Queens residents.

Perhaps the most ambitious policy proposed by Gov. Cuomo — whose proposed $152 billion budget does not exceed the 2 percent spending increase limit selfimposed by Albany — for inclusion in the fiscal year 2018 budget is the Excelsior Scholarship prog r a m, a n i n it iat ive to ma ke CUNY and SUNY tuition free for families earning up to $125,000 annually.

Queens is known for its educational institutions; the borough has four city colleges. While the governor’s plan would not pay for other expenses incurred by students for college, it is likely that the Excelsior prog ram would expand the pool of those who could get degrees.

Progressives lauded the plan when the governor revealed it. But the state Assembly says that it doesn’t go far enough: The lower chamber proposes raising the income cap for eligibilit y to $150,000 in the program’s fourth year, citing increasing education costs. The body, whose budget proposal totals $153.8 billion, also requested an increase in the Tuition Assistance Program.

“If enacted, the Assembly’s one-house budget would ensure that recent graduates will not be saddled with the burden of crushing student loan debt that takes decades to pay back and prevents them from buying their first home a nd afford i ng other month ly expenses,” Assembly ma n Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside) said in a prepared statement. He is a member of the lower chamber’s Committee on Ways and Means, which plays a crucial role in the budget process along with the state Senate’s Com mit tee on Finance.

Queens is represented on both bodies.

The lower chamber’s spending proposal also designates $26.3 billion for school aid, a $1.8 million increase from last year’s budget.

“We added a lot of money for education,” Assembly man David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows) told the Chronicle. He is also on the Ways and Means Com mittee.

“Certainly, our constituents like to see more money for public schools

and programs.”

A major concern among borough lawmakers was Cuomo’s proposal to repurpose $17 million in federal Title XX funding from senior centers to child care. The Assembly and Senate both reject the plan.

“Restoring this funding would prevent 65 senior centers in New York City from closing,” Braunstein said.

Although the executive branch has said that using the funds for child care would not necessarily harm senior centers, citing an add itional $ 40 0 m illion that Cuomo plans to give the city in the budget, the proposed repurposing has caused much consternation.

In ter ms of Albany budget issues affecting his constituents, state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) — a member of the upper chamber’s Finance Committee — said that the Title XX proposal would have the biggest impact.

“It’s directly going to affect them,” the Independent Democratic Conference member said. “I’m pretty confident we’re going to restore that money.”

The Democratically controlled Assembly also rejected the proposal to cut MTA funds by $65 million, opting to provide the same amount of f unding in capital appropriations to make the transportation agency more efficient.

Funding requested in the onehouse proposal to help out dry cleaners and nail salons are sure to impact borough business owners.

The $3 million allocation assisting the businesses was u rged by Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Flushing), who represents many of the businesses in his district.

“It will help almost 10,000 family-owned small businesses dealing with unreachable mandates and exorbitant fines,” Kim said in a prepared statement.

“Raising the age” — making 18-year-olds the youngest demographic that can be prosecuted as adults — is another major progressive priority of Albany Democrats.

New York and North Carolina are the only states without the policy.

Weprin, who was appointed the chairman of the Committee on Correction in January, is optimistic about the reform’s inclusion in the state budget.

“In the past, the Senate Republicans have strongly opposed it but I sense that the same resistance is not there,” he said. Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R-Nassau) has indicated that his confer-

Gov. Cuomo will negotiate state budget priorities with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, left, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, right. Along with Independent Democratic Conference chief state Sen. Jeff Klein, they are NYS PHOTO VIA FLICKR known as the “four men in a room.” ence is not totally opposed to raising the age.

The specter of the federal government’s budget impact on New York State hangs over the Albany process. But consensus on how funds will be cut in response to cuts from Washington has not been reached.

A special session to determine Albany’s fiscal response in such a situation would be convened “if the federal budget is adopted with the numbers that the president initially came up with,” state Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) said.

He is also a member of the Finance Committee.

Cuomo wants unilateral authority to withdraw budget funds if access to federal money is lost.

But not everyone in Albany is thrilled with the proposal.

“With all due respect, it’s not a dictatorship,” state Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said.

“I think in the Legislature, we’d always like to have approval,” Avella said.

One potential cost shift could be major. A measure supported by U.S. Reps. John Faso (R-Kinderhook) and Chris Collins (R-Schenectady) would transfer the cost of Medicaid from counties to the state for all New York counties excluding New York City. It is now shared between the counties and Albany.

P red ict ably, t he exe cut ive br a nch is f u r iou s about t he proposal.

“Let Mr. Collins help New York State and his district by having the

federal government pay — that is why he is in Washington,” Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a prepared statement. “He could easily help pay by reducing the $150 billion tax cut to the richest 1 percent of Americans or buying one less tank f rom Tr u mp’s record defense budget.”

Given that many Queens residents own cars, a Cuomo budget proposal to raise the fee for a Department of Motor Vehicles certificate of title from $50 to $75 could have an impact; duplicates of the form would increase to $40 from $20. This change has been esimated by the Independent Democratic Conference and Senate Republicans to generate around an additional $80 million annually.

The governor also wants tax hikes for certain online sales, e-cigarettes, cigars and certain prepaid cell phones.

Flanagan and his caucus rejected the proposed increases in their one-house resolution.

Their budget’s exact f igure could not be given to the Chronicle before deadline, but a Senate spokesman said that it amounts to around $300 million less than the executive budget proposal. The GOP-controlled chamber’s plan calls for $8 billion for improving the quality of water in the state.

T he Re publ ica n s a re a lso opposed to a lynchpin of the governor’s ambitions.

Almost $4 billion in revenue is generated by the “millionaire’s tax” for earners making $200,000 a year or more, at graduated rates, which gives the state $3.7 billion

in revenue. It is set to expire. Senate Republicans have no interest in renewing the tax, which the governor wants to continue. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) not only wants to keep the tax from expiring, but has said that he would like to see individuals making more than $5 million pay more to the state for funds that would be used for education.

“The more people earn, the more taxes they should be paying,” state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing), another Finance Committee member, said. “That’s what we call progressive taxation.”

Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills), whose Home Stability Support plan to fight homelessness was included in the lower chamber and Independent Democratic Conference spending proposal, thinks that the tax will survive, though it might be modified.

“I think it’ll continue in some form,” he said. “I’m not exactly sure what form it will take.”

Albany’s final budget negotiations are made by “four men in a room”: Cuomo, Heastie, Flanagan and the Independent Democratic Conference chief, state Sen. Jeff Klein (D-Bronx), who supports the tax. According to Weprin, an understanding on the policy could be reached by all parties. “ T he r e’s a lways a m id d le ground too, to have it apply at a higher limit,” the assemblyman said. “Which would be less revenue. But certainly, that is a possibility of the compromise from Senate Republicans’ point of Q view.”

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— a storm can blow in as quickly as one blows out.”

Krasner does not think the mayor has escaped unscathed.

“I think there is no question,” he said.

“Whatever shine he had from his first campaign, and from the kind of uplifting family picture he painted that did him a lot of good in the first race, I think that is pretty much tarnished. ... I think the way he approached fundraising may not have been what people normally would consider to be on the up and up. ... For some, he’ll come off as just another politician.”

Conspicuously missing in K im’s announcement was any mention of Gov. Cuomo, a frequent de Blasio sparring partner whose own inner circle has been the target of a federal probe for a year or more.

Eight people with ties to the governor or some of his signature development projects were indicted by a federal grand jury last fall.

Browne declined to speculate on the governor’s situation, and Krasner said one can read nothing into that case from the de Blasio matter. He said while the investigation does at least in theory make Cuomo vulnerable, there are not yet indications that anybody is willing to stand up against the governor.

“I’m not sure what to make of that,” he Q said.“

John Gotti faces new robbery charges Gambino, Bonanno families join again

by Isabella Bruni Chronicle Contributor

John Gotti, grandson of the late Gambino mob boss of the same name nicknamed the “Dapper Don,” is yet again in the hot seat, this time for conspiring with a Bonanno family capo.

Following the charges for Vincent Asaro, who is charged with arson for allegedly setting fire to a Howard Beach car in April 2012, an indictment named Gotti as a defendant.

Asaro, who is 82 years old, is known for being acquitted last year of racketeering charges surrounding the infamous 1978 theft of $6 million from Lufthansa at John F. Kennedy Airport, also a major element of the plot of the movie “Goodfellas.”

Prosecutors believe Asaro recruited Gotti for the Howard Beach arson and that Gotti led police on a high-speed chase in a Jaguar sedan following the crime, carried out because the victim had cut Asaro off earlier while on the road, according to CBS. Gotti has also been charged with allegedly being involved in the May robbery of

the Maspeth Federal Savings and Loan Association branch in Rego Park.

Last month the 23-year-old pleaded guilty for his role in a Queens drug ring in which he was sentenced to eight years in prison for selling oxycodone for $21 to $30 a pill in Howard Beach.

Undercover officers purchased $46,080 worth of oxycodone from Gotti during 11 undercover buys.

Gotti was arrested Aug. 4 in his home following a long-term investigation into the drug operation.

Gotti and Asaro, both of Howard Beach, were expected to be arraigned on the new charges on Wednesday.

Five other suspects believed to be connected to the Bonanno organized crime family were also arrested on various charges, according to CBS. The defendants “are charged with committing an assortment of violent crimes — arson to exact punishment for a perceived slight and robberies to unjustly enrich themselves,” U.S. Attorney Bridget Rohde said in Q a statement announcing the arrests.

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Vance’s office did not release a statement last week. But in a letter to the state Board of Elections, the district attorney said while the actions did not rise to the level of prosecution they “appear contrary to the intent and spirit of the laws that impose candidate contribution limits.”

Mayor de Blasio’s off ice issued a statement.

“We have been confident from the moment these reviews began that the actions of the mayor and our administration have always been within the law,” the statement said. “The United States Attorney and Manhattan District Attorney have now put to rest any suggestion otherwise. We thank these prosecutors’ offices for conducting what were clearly diligent and exhaustive reviews — and for making public the conclusions of these probes. New Yorkers deserve honest, progressive government. With this mayor, they will always get it.”

Neither Vance’s nor Kim’s office commented on the simultaneous timing of their findings.

Browne believes de Blasio and his supporters should not take the findings to mean the mayor is invincible to potential scandal.

“Nothing is bulletproof in politics,” Browne said. “Politics is like the weather

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Marshall called the sky’s ‘brightest star’ Over 100 pay tribute to the late BP at Sunday’s Borough Hall memorial

by Suzanne Ciechalski Chronicle Contributor

There’s one Helen Marshall quote that’s been bouncing around in the mind of Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) like a coin in a washing machine for years.

“When you live in Queens,” Marshall would say, “you never have to go anywhere, because the whole world comes to you.”

And last Sunday afternoon, as Maloney and over 100 others spilled into the atrium at Borough Hall named for Marshall, it seemed as though the whole, small world that is Queens came together to memorialize the former borough president, who died March 3 at the age of 87.

Marshall’s daughter, Agnes, said she couldn’t begin to express what it meant to her to see so many people come together in celebration of her mother, her life’s work and the legacy she left behind.

“All these people have been impacted by my mother,” Marshall said, “and there’s not one person in this room that she didn’t love, and care about and who didn’t love and care about and support her.”

Those words rang true, as Borough President Melinda Katz — Marshall’s successor — had everyone who felt that their lives had been touched by Marshall, stand up.

One by one, her family rose, followed by community board members, cultural groups and politicians until there were barely any seats filled.

“Everybody talks about everything that my mother did,” Marshall’s daughter said. “And as phenomenal as my mother was, there’s no way she could have accomplished anything without the people in this room.”

One person who used her time at the

Borough President Melinda Katz holds up a photo of her predecessor, Helen Marshall, at a Sunday memorial service for the latter, who died earlier this month in California at the age of 87.

Marshall served as BP from 2002 through 2013. PHOTO COURTESY QUEENS BOROUGH PRESIDENT’S OFFICE microphone to emotionally reminisce about Queens’ first-ever African-American BP was Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills), Marshall’s deputy borough president from 2002 to 2009.

“This was Helen’s dream,” Koslowitz said. “She wanted to build this atrium and she worked very hard in doing so. Unfortunately, she’s not here with us today to see this wonderful place.”

Koslowitz was far from the only city politician there, as Councilmembers Melissa MarkViverito (D-Manhattan, Bronx) and Barry Grodenchik (D-Oakland Gardens), as well as

former mayor David Dinkins and former Councilman Archie Spigner, also made appearances.

Joining Maloney from the federal government was Rep. Greg Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) and Charles Rangel, the longtime former Manhattan congressman who retired last year.

“New York lost one of its great icons,” Maloney said.

Shanel Thomas and Lucius Benson, of the Elmcor Youth and Adult Activities nonprofit that Marshall helped found, spoke of her lasting impact on the community in East

Elmhurst.

“As a youngster, I didn’t really know politics so much … and I wasn’t sure what an assemblywoman was or a Council member,” Thomas said. “But to me, Helen Marshall was the mayor of East Elmhurst.”

Dr. Madhulika Khandelwal of the Queens General Assembly, which Marshall also created, spoke about the former BP’s desire to bring people together.

“May the younger generations … continue this dream of Helen Marshall,” she said.

The Greater Springf ield Community Choir, the NYPD Color Guard, firefighter Regina Wilson and Visa Bellamy of Dena’s School of Arts were among those who performed at the service.

Marshall’s grandsons closed out the event, speaking not only of the impact that their grandmother had on Queens, but also on them.

As her grandson, Chasen, spoke of the effect his grandmother had on him, the room erupted in laughter when he said, “When I was in college my first year, I ran for class president, and I won!”

His brother, Chandler, called Marshall “the brightest star in the sky.”

And he commemorated his grandmother in a way that drew together some of her most memorable qualities and works: “Just know that she was simply the kindest, most unrelentingly positive person and an exceptional role model to anyone who knew her, who had all her goals achieved, and her life is memorialized forever right here in this atrium, in my heart and in the minds of thousands of people who visit the libraries around Queens, and the people who visit Corona and Q East Elmhurst.”

Herbert to JPCA: Tish needs to go Candidate for public advocate makes his case to civic

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Taking Mayor de Blasio and other Democratic lawmakers to task over the city’s homeless shelter policies already helped one aspiring lawmaker win an election.

Community activist Tony Herbert is hoping to make that two.

The Brooklyn resident introduced himself to the Juniper Park Civic Association last Thursday, letting the approximately 100 meeting attendees know he’s champing at the bit to defeat Public Advocate Letitia James in September’s Democratic primary.

“She needs to understand she works for the people,” Herbert said to a round of cheers, “not for Mayor de Blasio.”

A father of four, Herbert touted his government experience — he was a special assistant to both former Councilwoman Priscilla Wooten and Rep. Edolphus Towns

— and his history in fighting homeless shelters as reasons why he’s a great candidate.

“Homeless shelters do not belong in our communities if you’re going to put violent p e ople i n t h e m ,” h e s a id . “ It’s a no-brainer.”

Herbert also specifically pointed out Assemblyman Brian Barnwell (D-Maspeth), a critic of Mayor de Blasio’s shelter placement policies, as someone he hopes to emulate.

It was Barnwell who took advantage of community anger over the city’s plan to convert the Maspeth Holiday Inn Express into a shelter last August, pledging to stand up to the mayor should he defeat thenAssemblywoman Marge Markey.

Barnwell defeated Markey, who was criticized by many for not fighting hard against the shelter plan, in a landslide

during last September’s primary before winning the general election in November.

“I want to be like Brian,” Herbert said.

“That’s an effective leader who gets things done.”

He also accused the mayor of playing racial politics when it came to the Maspeth hotel proposal.

“De Blasio used this as a tactic to get the black vote,” Herbert claimed. “He said, ‘I’m going to give the impression to the Latinos and the blacks that I’m doing them a favor. I went to a white, affluent community and they fought me back.’ That was intentional.”

When it comes to the role of the public advocate, Herbert said he plans to be a thorn in the mayor’s side instead of a pawn.

“It’s about adhering to the needs of the public and not going along to get along for political favor,” he said. “I’m not one of

Tony Herbert, a candidate for public advocate, addresses the Juniper Park Civic Association last Thursday. PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA those individuals who kowtows to this mayor or any of his minions.”

Herbert’s speech was only about five minutes long, but he ear ned raucous applause and a vote of confidence from JPCA President Bob Holden.

“You’ve got our vote,” Holden said.

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Many kids, in particular those who realize the impact that their choice of college can have on the rest of their lives, are overwhelmed when colleges begin sending information about their programs and campus life. Such information, especially when it is unsolicited, may begin to arrive at the dawn of high school students’ sophomore year, long before many teenagers have begun to think about where to pursue their educations after high school. But as daunting a task as choosing a college may seem, teenagers should enjoy the process, as the choice of where to go to college is unlike any other decision many students will make for the rest of their lives.

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Explain how much you can contribute toward tuition and fees, and explain the differences between loans and grants. Some kids may expect their parents to foot the entire bill for their education, but such situations are increasingly rare thanks to the rising cost of a college education. Make sure kids know the financial obligations they will be taking on should they take out loans to pay for their education.

• Ask kids to list fields of study they may want to pursue. While incoming college freshman do not necessarily need to choose a major upon enrolling, kids who know their interests and what they may want

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QICA lauds advocates, remembers Cuadrado First-time award named for agency president who passed last August

by Mark Lord

EPIC, the state’s Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage plan.

Margaret Denson, community advocate Filled with congratulatory remarks tinged with wistful remembrances of supporters no and City Council liaison, was honored with longer around, the 46th anniversary celebra- the Leon Von Holden Advocacy Award, tion of the Queens Interagency Council on named for another former QICA board Aging was a sold-out event, as an overflow- member.

And, for the first time, the organization ing crowd poured into the large reception room at the Queens Community House in bestowed the Maria Cuadrado, Ph. D. Community Leadership Award, paying homage to Kew Gardens last Thursday evening.

Three individuals were honored by the orga- the late QICA president who passed away in nization for their outstanding commitment to August. That honor went to Donna Corrado, senior citizens. QICA seeks to empower older commissioner of the city’s Department for the adults via information and training on benefits Aging.

Also remembered during the ceremony and services available to them.

Borough President Melinda Katz received was Helen Marshall, the late borough presithe Rose Kryzak Legislative Award, an honor dent, who died earlier this month. Among in remembrance of the former QICA board those recalling her work on behalf of seniors member credited with spearheading the suc- was Councilman Barry Grodenchik (D-Oakcessful statewide lobbying effort to enact land Gardens), who put in a brief appearance at the beginning of the evening, reassuring the audience that “we’re going to stay on top of the mayor” as he drafts his upcoming budget proposal.

Also saluting Marshall was Miriam Burns, QICA’s community advocate, who remembered her as “a char ming, war m woman” who was “instrumental to seniors, children, anybody in need.”

Bruce Cunningham, QICA’s executive director, spoke of his long t i me a ssociat ion w it h Cuadrado, who took on the volunteer role as QICA president following her retirement.

In printed greetings in the Bruce Cunningham, left, Councilman Daneek Miller, Borough President Melinda Katz, Department of Aging Com- organization’s annual journal, missioner Donna Corrado, Barry Klitsberg and honoree Cunningham praised Cuadrado, whose calling, he said, was Margaret Denson.

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Manny Caughman, center, and his fellow veterans lead the Pledge of Allegiance at the Queens PHOTOS BY MARK LORD Interagency Council’s 46th anniversary gala. “biblical in nature, helping those less fortunate and most vulnerable. She was my dear friend and my heart still aches for her.”

Cunningham asked the audience to stand and give a round of applause for Cuadrado.

He said that “her legacy will now live on as the righteous leader she truly was,” through the award that bears her name. On hand to present the award were Cuadrado’s brother Juan Jose and sister Carmen.

Barry Klitsberg, who succeeded Cuadrado, indicated in his opening remarks that “advocacy is more important than ever; we face challenges that we have never seen, that will not benefit seniors.”

It was a theme that reared its head periodically throughout the ceremony.

In accepting her award, Katz paid tribute to her fellow honorees.

“It has been an honor to work with so many of you,” she said. “It takes a special type of agency to service our constituents.

QICA is there for anyone who needs it.” She promised to cherish the plaque which she will hang proudly at Borough Hall.

Corrado was “very humbled” to accept an award in Cuadrado’s name. She also said “seniors will be impacted” by proposed budgetary cuts. “We’re advocates,” she reminded everyone. “We know why we’re here.”

Denson, director of Planning, Events & Community Relations for Councilman Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans), is known for her tremendous zeal, but last Thursday evening she was so overwhelmed by her supporters in the audience that she could say little more than “I’m happy,” as she accepted Q her award.

Maple Grove Park, once a parking lot DA staff utilized park ‘temporarily’; no known restoration date set

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Part of Maple Grove Park was temporarily transformed into a parking lot to accommodate the staff of District Attorney Richard Brown and State Department of Transportation vehicles. That was, until the Parks Department intervened.

DA spokesman Kevin Ryan told the Chronicle that it was only a temporary measure meant to assist the heavy construction vehicles using the area from getting stuck in the soft earth or, when it rains, the mud.

“Once the construction project is completed, the park will be restored to its original condition,” Ryan said.

Parking has been an issue for DA staff, but also for those who live and work in the area, according to Ryan.

He explained that, in searching for a solution to alleviate some of the area’s congestion,

and believing that there were appropriate and saw for myself that the area in question approvals, arrangements were made so the is covered with loose gravel over dirt,” he said.

DA’s office could utiThere is no set date lize some of the space for when the park that had been taken might be restored, but over by the construcnce the construction Pa rk s Depa r t ment tion company. project is completed, spokeswoman “I should also Lalor said, point out that some the park will be restored Meghan “The DA’s office was press repor ts have made it sound as if to its original condition.” set up for temporary parking at this locathe temporary park— Kevin Ryan, spokesman for the tion by a State DOT ing solution is somedistrict attorney contracting company. t h i ng new,” Rya n Once this was brought said. “In fact, vehicles to their and our attention, it was addressed. have been parking on the site since 2012.”

Ryan wanted to make it clear that there is The DA’s office has vacated and we have no section of Maple Grove Park, located secured the space.

“We are coordinating with their office. south of the courthouse on Queens BouleParks is completing a restoration plan that vard, that has been paved over.

“In fact I walked over to the park today their office will execute: It will include

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removing the gravel, aerating the soil, topsoil and laying new seed,” Lalor added. “While weather dependent, we expect that this will be done in the coming months.”

The state DOT, which owns the right of way to use the talked about lot, would not comment on the matter when contacted by the Chronicle on Wednesday.

Spokeswoman Diane Park told DNAinfo, however, that the DOT has had the right of way for the past six years between Queens Boulevard, Hoover Avenue and the Van Wyck Expressway by the park while the Kew Ga rden s I nt erch a nge P roject is st ill underway.

That work aims to widen the highway and rebuild the bridges and ramps between Union Turnpike and Hillside Avenue.

Carl Ballenas, president of the Friends of Maple Grove Cemetery, said, “We hope [the Q park] will be restored as a city park.”

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The body’s the canvas at Resorts World ink festival

Looking to finally get inked this year?

The United Ink No Limits International Tattoo Expo returns to Resorts World Casino next Friday with the arrival of more than 200 of the world’s most sought-after artists.

According to Jackie Rubino, the event’s co-founder, the tattoo convention is a way to meet an artist you would otherwise not get access to.

“Artists are hand-picked at other conventions,” said Rubino, who usually scouts one to three conventions a month in pursuit of new talent.

Over 10,000 people are expected to attend

over the course of the weekend, with headliners such as Zhang Po, Sarah Miller, Marina Avtonomova and others among the international artist lineup.

There’s a whole group of people who like “collecting” tats because each one is “a one-of-akind work of art like a Monet, Van Gogh or a da Vinci,” Miller said.

This year, in addition to tattoos and piercings, guests can enjoy live body painting, art exhibits, a burlesque performer, tarot card readers, a beard contest and musical acts within a casino milieu.

“If you like ‘Vikings’ on the History Channel, Harley Davidson Motors or tattoos, there’s going be something for you to do,” said Miller, a former

contestant on Spike TV’s “Ink Master” seasons two and seven, who joined United Ink shortly after the show’s production.

“People sometimes become friends instantly,” she added, explaining that she maintains a closeknit friendship with the event’s other artists and the promoters, Rubino and her husband, Lou. Zhang is another famed tattoo artist who’ll be at the event. Formerly a fine-art instructor in China, he now lives on Long Island and globetrots to meet with his international clientele.

“Sometimes life just happens, and being an art teacher doesn’t always make good money in China,” Zhang said, who comes from Tianyin.

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EXHIBITS “Temporary Walls,” an installation and performance work considering interior space as a stage and combining sculpture, drawing and dance. Performance Sat., March 25, 3 p.m., SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City. $5 suggested; $3 students. Info: (718) 361-1750, sculpture-center.org.

TOURS

“Disarming Geometries,” works using geometric abstraction to address social and political issues and to grapple with the uncertainties of contemporary life. Thru Sun., March 26, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info/ RSVP for tour: (718) 937-6317, dorsky.org.

Hike to Hell Gate 17, a photo walk commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Hell Gate Bridge, led by lensman Tarif Anzum and historians Dave Frieder and Richard Melnick. Meeting Sat., March 25, 11:30 a.m., Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 2780700, astorialic.org.

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Congolese Plantation Workers Art League (Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise), with sculptures mostly made of cacao by workers in the African nation, many self-representations, highlighting their low wages. Thru Mon., March 27, SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City. $5 suggested; $3 students; free for LIC residents.

Info: (718) 361-1750, sculpture-center.org.

“World Amigurumi Exhibition vol. 3: Mixed Materials Made Mini Monsters!,” taking the Japanese art of crocheting stuffed animals and other creatures and objects in a new direction with unique shapes and materials, with artists from all over the world. Thru March 31, Resobox, 41-26 27 St., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 784-3680, resobox.com.

“Dark Forest,” large-scale paintings of woodlands and immersive installation, by Todd Bradford Richmond. Thru Sat., April 1, by appointment, Topaz Arts, 55-03 39 Ave., Woodside. Free. Info: (718) 505-0440, topazarts.org.

“Resistance and Memory in Belgium, 1940-1945: Multiple Narratives,” with wartime and recent photos and testimonies of those who resisted the Nazi occupation, by professor Anne Griffin of The Cooper Union. Thru Fri., May 26, Queens College Art Center, Rosenthal Library, 6th floor, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 997-4803, kupferbergcenter.org.

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“Piece with Gaps for Each Other,” performance art “like a tower of champagne flutes. But messier.”

Wed.-Sat., March 29-April 1, 8 p.m., The Chocolate Factory Theater, 5-49 49 Ave., Long Island City. $20.

Info: (718) 482-7069, chocolatefactorytheater.org.

“Selected Photographs from St. John’s University Library’s Special Collections,” with works

by Manuel Àlvarez Bravo, Elliott Erwitt, Ralph Gibson and Garry Winogrand, curated by graduate students. Thru Wed., May 3, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. (discussion with student curators Tue., April 4, 1:50-3:15 p.m.), Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Gallery, SJU, 8000 Utopia Pkwy., Jamaica. Free. Info: (718) 990-7476, bit. ly/1E5lLUh, stjohnsartgallery@gmail.com.

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“Science Fiction, Science Future,” on how science-fiction ideas might become science fact tomorrow, with hands-on exhibits incorporating robots,

Onderdonk House candlelight tours, examining the city’s oldest Dutch Colonial stone house, with live music, mulled cider and treats. Sat., March 25, 5-8 p.m., 1820 Flushing Ave., Ridgewood. $5; kids free. Info: (718) 456-1776, onderdonkhouse.org.

The Company Men will bring their unique take on pop songs of the last 60 years to Queens on April 2, weaving more than 50 hits together in a 90-minute show. See Music.

COURTESY PHOTO holograms, augmented reality. Thru Sun., April 30, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona.

Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, college students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

“Martin Scorsese,” on the iconic New Yorker and director’s intertwined career and life, with production material, childhood artifacts, behind-thescenes images, film retrospective and more. Thru Sun., Apr. 23; Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $7 kids 3-17. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

MUSIC Queens Symphony Orchestra, performing Broadway show tunes. Wed., March 29, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, 101-41 91 St., Ozone Park. Free. Info/RSVP (recommended): (718) 5700909, bit.ly/2ntggx8.

The Company Men: A Night of Hits, with the vocal group uniquely interweaving today’s Top 40 tracks with classic pop songs by everyone from The Four Tops to Michael Jackson, Billy Joel and more.

Sun., April 2, 3 p.m., Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside. Tickets: $39$42. Info: (718) 631-6311, visitqpac.org.

Freestyle concert, with Latin stars of the genre TKA and Lisette Melendez. Fri., April 7, 7:30 p.m., St. Pancras School auditorium, 68-20 Myrtle Ave., Glendale. $55 (includes three drinks); 21 and over only. No tickets sold at door. Info: (718) 821-6721; (917) 929-5607.

THEATRE “Seussical,” the musical based on the stories and characters of Dr. Seuss, including The Cat in the Hat and Horton the Elephant, by the Gin-

gerbread Players. Sat., March 25, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.; Sun., March 26, Sat.-Sun., April 1-2, 2:30 p.m.; Fri., March 31, 7:30 p.m., St. Luke’s Church, 85 Greenway S., Forest Hills. $15; $12 each in groups of six or more. Info: (718) 268-7772, gingerbreadplayers.org.

“Something’s Afoot,” a murder mystery musical that spoofs Agatha Christie, by Maggie’s Little Theater. Fri.-Sat., March 24-25, 8 p.m.; Sun., March 26, 2:30 p.m., St. Margaret Parish Hall, 66-05 79 Place, Middle Village. $20: $15 seniors; $12 kids.

Info: (917) 579-5389, maggieslittletheater.org.

“Wine, Women and Song,” an original revue of works from the Great American Songbook, by Theatre By The Bay. Sat., March 25, 8:30 p.m.; Sun., March 26, 3 p.m., Bay Terrace Garden Jewish Center, 1300 209 St., Bayside. $22; $20 seniors, kids under 13. Info: (718) 428-6363.

“Twelfth Night,” S h a ke s p e a r e ’s romantic comedy about magic, mayhem and mistaken identities, by the Titan Theatre Co. Fri.Sat., March 24, 25, 31, April 1, 7, 8, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., March 26, April 2, 9, 4 p.m., Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $18. Info: (718) 760-0064, queenstheatre.org.

COURTESY PHOTO “Junie B. Jones: The Musical,” a family show based on the book series about an outspoken, lovable young girl with her “top-secret personal beeswax journal,” by Plaza Theatrical Productions.

Sat., March 25, 3 p.m., Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside. $12.

(516) 599-6870, plazatheatrical.com.

From Freedom to Bohemia, starting at the F train stop on Roosevelt Island, heading to Four Freedoms Park, then into Queens, going along the shoreline and ending at Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden; led

by Boro Historian Jack Eichenbaum. Sun., March 26, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $20. Info/registration (req’d): (718) 961-8406, geognyc.com, jaconet@aol.com.

FILM “Night Bird Song: The Incandescent Life of Thomas Chapin,” the 2016 documentary about the jazz virtuoso from Jackson Heights who mastered alto sax and flute and died of leukemia at age 40 in 1998, followed by Q-and-A with filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo. Sat., April 1, 7 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. Free. Info/RSVP: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

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“Starz” and “On the Lig,” two new Irish comedy dramas about the daily struggles of actors on each side of the pond, followed by Q-and-A with artists involved with the films. Thu., March 30, 7:30 p.m. (doors open 7), New York Irish Center, 10-40 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. $15 advance; $20 at door. Info: (718) 482-0909, newyorkirishcenter.org.

LECTURES The Strangers We Became: Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq’s Last Jews, by Cynthia Kaplan Shamash, making real the struggles of political refugees. Mon., March 27, 1 p.m., Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills. $8 suggested.

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‘Wine, Women & Song’ When: Sat., March 25, 8:30 p.m.; Sun., March 26, 3 p.m.

Where: Bay Terrace Garden Jewish Center, 13-00 209 St., Bayside Tickets: $22. (718) 428-6363, theatrebythebayny.com

The cast of “Wine, Women & Song” PHOTO BY MARK LORD strikes a pose. other performers, some as soloists, some as members of small groups. It also takes the audience through some awkward moments.

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An earful of music is emanating from the stage of Theatre By The Bay in Bayside these days, thanks to the current attraction, “Wine, Women & Song,” an original revue that has two performances remaining, on March 25 and 26.

The show, which runs a brief 70 minutes plus intermission, was conceived by Alan Baboff and Ovi Vargas, and pays tribute to the Great American Songbook, primarily based in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s; it includes both standards and lesser-known entities.

The songs, by the likes of Duke Ellington, Rodgers and Hart, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin and the Gershwin broth-

ers, have been arranged into categories, most of which have to do with relationships as seen from the female perspective. Among these are “Falling in Love/Love/Obsession,” “Conflict/Can’t Live Without-Can’t Live With ...,” and “Longing/Loneliness.”

Under director-choreographer Vargas, the troupe’s departing artistic director, the show is a rather uneven undertaking, with the second half being far stronger than the first.

Similarly, the cast of nine, eight of whom are in fact women, includes some vocalists who are more polished than others, though all the players give it their all.

The audience is seated cabaret-style at small tables scattered around the auditorium and, upon arrival, offered sparkling cider, filling in for the titular beverage of choice.

The show gets off to a stylish start, as Cathy Chimenti (looking smashing, as do most of the women, in their dressy black attire) displays her way with a song in “Sophisticated Lady.” She will also be seen and heard to good effect in two other solo spots, “Down With Love” and “I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues.”

Act one, ballad-heavy and lacking any interesting staging, introduces each of the

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Murder sure is fun!

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From the jaunty opening number that promises a marvelous weekend in the country to the final moments that reveal one unexpected twist and turn after another, the Maggie’s Little Theater production of “Something’s Afoot,� running one more weekend in Middle Village, is a delight.

The show had an inexplicably short run on Broadway some 40 years ago, and it presents itself on the rarest of occasions on the community theater circuit. So, in its current go-round, it should not be missed.

The program offers the usual listing of songs as well as the cast of characters and

‘Something’s Afoot’ When: Fri.-Sat., March 24-25, 8 p.m.; Sun., March 26, 2:30 p.m.

Where: St. Margaret Parish Hall, 66-05 79 Place, Middle Village Entry: $20; $15 seniors; $12 kids (917) 579-5389, maggieslittletheater.org

the actors who portray them. It also identifies the stock figures each character represents, among them the saucy maid, the butler, the ingenue, the grande-dame and, most revealingly, the amateur detective, all of which points in the direction we are headed.

Yes, this is a musical spoof of murder mysteries, an unusual combination to be sure, but one which is at once playful, suspenseful and above all entertaining.

Under the taut direction of Whitney Stone and the guiding baton of music director Sarah Glassman, the show isn’t five minutes old when its story claims its first victim.

The plot gets thicker and thicker as one by one the guests at the well-turned-out estate that fills the stage (kudos to Alan Perkins for the meticulously-detailed two-tiered set design) get knocked off, each in a fiendishly concocted way.

A particular highlight is the extended predeath scene involving Col. Gillweather, an old army man, played for every last laugh by veteran character actor Mark York, in perhaps his best role to date.

But the entire cast is game and everyone on stage — as well as off — seems to be having a jolly good time.

Maggie’s Little Theatre turns out a delightful, must-see rendition of “Something’s PHOTO BY MARK LORD Afoot,� a musical spoof of Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries.

Amelia Johnston, with a squeaky voice reminiscent of Megan Mullally’s on “Will and Grace,� is the often put-upon servant; Kaitlyn Abdul and Ryan Hiers sing and dance delightfully as the requisite young, immediately smitten romantic couple; Shana Aborn is the ever-snoopy Miss Tweed, a parody of Agatha Christie’s famed detective Miss Marple; and Jim Gillespie makes an alltoo-brief appearance as the doomed butler (Spoiler alert: He didn’t do it!)

Rounding out the ensemble cast are Jason Kell, Rich Feldman, Navin Das and

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Stone, doubling as choreographer, put the cast through their simple dance steps, which they perform with aplomb. Miriam P. Denu supervised the wittily attractive costumes. The visual and sound effects all add to the ambience.

At times, most noticeably during the opening number and dialogue, the band overpowers the on-stage performers. But that is the single quibble in an otherwise delightful production. See it. You’ll have a Q fun time!

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He added that his personal evolution, including a break up with an ex-girlfriend, helped to inadvertently usher him toward the tattoo industry.

“I was kind of an early tattoo artist in China,” said Zhang.

Zhang, who’s been professionally tattooing for 13 years, owns four tattoo parlors in China, which are mainly operated by his students. He’s been working at Tattoo Lou’s of Selden, LI, owned by the Rubinos, since coming to the United States in 2012.

“I used their ink for 13 years; I’m living proof of their product,” said Zhang, who said he’s fully booked in China until 2020 as a result of his photorealistic artwork.

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“I learned English at Lou’s tattoo shop,” he said half-jokingly; he has no formal education in the language.

“Next week we’re going to Taiwan for a convention, me and Lou,” Zhang continued.

“Taiwanese artists will then come back for our show in New York right after.”

“People fight for the booth,” he added.

“Artists are from everywhere.”

At last year’s event, Zhang and Miller collaborated on a portrait of the elven queen Galadriel from “The Lord of the Rings.”

“Collaborations are not easy because you must be sure that the artist is balanced with you in background and style, and the technique must also be very similar to your own,” he said.

Their styles must have matched well, as the collaboration earned them a coveted Tattoo of the Day award.

The artists’ contests in multiple categories constitute the main competitive element of the expo, but not the only one. It also will feature a Miss United Ink contest, barber competitions — with haircuts available to attendees — and a battle for the best beard.

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A world of ink, and much more, coming to Queens

Award-winning tattoo artists Zhang Po and Sarah Miller, with one of his recent trophies in hand and two of hers at right, will be among the more than 200 ink stars at the No Limits expo. On the cover: Various works by Po and Miller. COURTESY PHOTOS VIA INSTAGRAM options and the art form’s permanent nature, there’s something unmistakably poetic about ink enthusiasts traveling to Queens from Long Island, Manhattan and beyond to meet with, and possibly book, Q their favorite artists.

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Sat., March 25, 9-11 a.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. $25. Info/pre-registration (req’d): (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com.

POSITIVE PARENTING SKILLS WORKSHOP

SPECIAL EVENTS 1950s Tea Social, with tea, sandwiches, desserts, historical beauty products exhibit, short lecture and concert; ’50s attire encouraged with prize for best costume. Sat., March 25, 3:30 p.m., The Center at Maple Grove Cemetery, 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens. $25. Info/RSVP (by Sat., March 18): (347) 878-6614, friendsofmaplegrove.org.

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS Defensive driving, for better skills, insurance and point reduction, by the National Safety Council. Sat., March 25, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Holy Family Church, 175-20 74 Ave., Flushing. $45.

Info/registration: (631) 360-9720.

English and civics, offered by the Flushing Jewish Community Council. English/civics: Each Thu. thru June, 6-8 p.m., Temple Beth Sholom, 171-39 Northern Blvd. Intermediate English: Each Mon. thru June, 1-3 p.m., Korean Community Services Center, 42-15 166 St. Both free. Info: (718) 4630434, flushingjcc.net.

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Recently the parents at PS 97Q, The Forest Park School, had an opportunity to attend a Positive Parenting Workshop hosted by the Child Abuse Prevention Program. Prevention Specialist Laura Isherwood and Program Coordinator Leslie Schmerler from The New York Foundling shared positive strategies parents can use rather than resorting to “spanking” their children. We know sometimes parents reach their breaking point; and rather than break, parents and children had a chance to learn positive ways to address the issues with their children. Laura and Leslie shared the “4 R’s”: Punishment should be revealed in advance, they should be respectful of each other, requests should be reasonable, and punishment should be related to the reason for the punishment. The parents were very appreciative of this sensitive, but much-needed workshop.

ATTENTION PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS SCHOOLS: If you would like to be featured on a School Spotlight page, call Lisa LiCausi, Education Coordinator, at (718) 205-8000, Ext. 110.

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Flushing Camera Club, featuring pictures from Russia and “Nature: a Gift from the Creator” program by award-winning lensman John Brokos.

Wed., March 29, 7:15-9 p.m., Flushing Hospital Medical Center auditorium, 5th floor, 146-01 45 Ave.; free parking in Burling St. lot. Free. Info: (718) 358-1103, flushingcameraclub.org.

“Hooks & Needles” Crochet & Knit Club, with participants bringing projects, hooks, needles and yarn, or working on charity projects. Every Thu., 6:30-9 p.m., Big 6 Shopping Center, 60-10 Queens Blvd., Woodside (entrance inside shopping center, up one flight, down hall to left of 99-cent store). Info: Lorraine, (917) 817-4037.

MARKETS Vinyl Revolution Record Show, with thousands of rare and collectible records, door prizes, record supplies, concert tickets, DJ Laura Rebel Angel, Czech and Slovak food and more. Sun., March 26, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden, 29-19 24 Ave., Astoria. $3; early admission 10-11 a.m. $5. Info: vinylrevolutionrecordshow.com.

Richmond Hill, 117-09 Hillside Ave., every Sun., 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Largest flea market in Queens. Info: (347) 709-7661, richmondhillfleamarket.com.

SOCIAL EVENTS Israeli folk dancing, with instruction for beginners, in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. Each Mon., 7:30 p.m. (beginners’ instruction); 8:3010 p.m. (intermediate dances), Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Tpke, Fresh Meadows. $10. Info: (718) 380-4145, hillcrestjc.org.

SUPPORT GROUPS Alzheimer’s caregivers, for those taking care of loved ones with the disease. Fri., March 24, 11 a.m., Jamaica Service Program for Older Adults Friendship Center, 92-33 170 St. Call-in support Fri., March 31, 9:30 a.m. Info: Lucille DeMarinis, (718) 657-6639, jspoa.org.

Gam-Anon is a 12-step program for families of someone with a gambling problem. Call hot line (212) 606-8177.

Bereavement groups for assistance dealing with loss and the process towards healing, with others experiencing similar situations. Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills. Registration req’d. Info: (718) 268-5011, ext. 160, olderadults@cgy.org.

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

Contemplating suicide? The Samaritans provide 24-hour confidential emotional support for those feeling suicidal or depressed. Call: (212) 6733000; samaritansnyc.org.

Have a loved one with memory loss? Selfhelp Community Services Inc., 208-11 26 Ave., Bayside. Stimulating program – One, two, three or four days a week; half-days are also available. Call Ellen Sarokin or Cathy O’Sullivan: (718) 631-1886.

Women’s Support Group, Center for the Women of New York, Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, Rm. 325. Thu. (weekly) 6:30-8 p.m. Registration req’d. Free. Contact: CWNY (718) 793-0672, centerwny@yahoo.com. PTSD for veterans and service members: Reach out to a anonymous support group in your area. Info: 1 (800) 273-TALK.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES 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.

Howard Beach Senior Center, with exercise classes every weekday except Thu., varying times; dances with a DJ and hot lunch every Tue., 12-3 p.m.; art classes every Thu., 9:30-11:30 a.m., 12:30-2:30 p.m.; intro to sign language every Fri., 10-11:30 a.m.; karaoke every Fri., 1-3 p.m.; monthly book club; and more, 155-55 Crossbay Blvd. Info: (718) 738-8100.

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But all could be forgiven once the show resumed following intermission. It was as if the show itself and each of the performers had been given a shot of that cider.

Angie Herna, fully emerged from her headwear, offered a knockout rendition of “Still Crazy ’Bout You,” a contemporary song with lyrics by Baboff, the evening’s musical director and pianist, set to music

by Fred Lederman, the drummer in the pit, that seemed right at home with the musical’s style. Bassist Mike Pitocchi completed the show’s crackerjack combo.

Karen Kessler displayed a strong voice on her solo, the little-known “You Don’t Know What Love Is.” Anna Maria Charalambous, Rebecca Stein Cushman and Fern Nash offered a satisfying rendition of “The Falling in Love With You Part,” a song with which this viewer had previously been unfamiliar.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 03/07/17, bearing Index Number NC-000111-17/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) ANGEL (Middle) RAY (Last) NAZARIO. My present name is (First) ANGER (Middle) RAY (Last) NAZARIO AKA ANGEL RAY NAZARIO AKA ANGEL R. NAZARIO AKA ANGEL NAZARIO. My present address is 79-00 Queens Boulevard, Elmhurst, NY 113733747. My place of birth is MANHATTAN. My date of birth is December 15, 1991.

Notice of formation of Prosperitas Group, LLC, a limited liability company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 11/09/2016. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 03/08/17, bearing Index Number NC-001119-16/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) ARIANA (Middle) JASMINE (Last) ALFREDO. My present name is (First) ARIANA (Middle) JASMINE (Last) LEON (infant). My present address is 144-30 168th Street, Jamaica, NY 11434-4815. My place of birth is BROOKLYN, NY. My date of birth is July 03, 2013.

RIZZA & CO., LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/18/16. Off. Loc.: Queens Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served.

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Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the Civil Court of the State of New York, County of Queens, on the 8th day of March, 2017 bearing index No. NC 1003/16, a copy of which may be examined in the Office of the Clerk of Civil Court, Queens County, at 89-17 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11435 grants petitioner the right, effective on the day of compliance, to assume the name of SAQUI CHEYENNE. Petitioner’s present address is 130-07 142nd Street, South Ozone Park, NY 11436; the date of birth is April 16, 1977; the place of birth is Jamaica, New York; petitioner’s present name is NICOLE ZARINA LEE a/k/a NICOLE A. LEE a/k/a NICOLE LEE.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: QUEENS COUNTY. NYCTL 1998-2 TRUST AND THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS COLLATERAL AGENT AND CUSTODIAN FOR NYCTL 1998-2 TRUST, Pltf. vs. JULIO BARROS, et al, Defts. Index #705391-2015. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale dated Dec. 1, 2016, I will sell at public auction in Courtroom #25 of the Queens County Supreme Court, 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY on Friday, April 7, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., prem. k/a Block 9555, Lot 1. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. MICHAEL MONGELLI, Referee. LEVY & LEVY, Attys. for Pltf., 12 Tulip Drive, Great Neck, NY. #90743

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PROBATE SUPPLEMENTAL CITATION File #2017-3/A SURROGATE’S COURT-SARATOGA COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, March 10, 2017 By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: JOHN DOE and any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs-at-law, and next-of-kin of said Edith P. Rosen, deceased, and if any of the said above distributees named specifically or as a class be dead, their legal representatives, their husbands, or wives, if any, distributees and successors in interest whose names and/or places of residence and post office addresses are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained; DARYL CUTLER, ESQ., Guardian ad Litem on behalf of unknown distributees; NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL A petition having been duly filed by Larry Rosen, who is domiciled at 52 Holmes Dale, Albany, NY 12203-2023. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Saratoga County, 30 McMaster Street, Building 3, Ballston Spa, NY, on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Edith P. Rosen, lately domiciled at Malta, New York, County of Saratoga, admitting to probate a Will dated September 25, 2013, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Edith P. Rosen, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that [ X ] Letters Testamentary issue to: Larry Rosen Dated, Attested and Sealed, March 9, 2017 (Seal) Hon. Richard A. Kupferman Surogate.

Catharine A. Ruggles, Chief Clerk Attorney for Petitioner: David Brickman, Esq. Telephone #(518) 464-6464 Address of Attorney: 1664 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12203 [Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.]

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS, M &T BANK S / B / M MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY, Plaintiff, vs.

JOUNG SUK SHIN A/K/A JOUNG S. SHIN, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on April 18, 2016, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County Courthouse, Courtroom 25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY on April 14, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., premises known as 83-84 Dana Court, Middle Village, NY, 11379. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Queens, County of Queens, City and State of New York, Block 3000 and Lot 14. Approximate amount of judgment is $253,291.71 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 6246/2012. Donald L. Clarke Sr., Esq., Referee, Schiller, Knapp, Lefkowitz & Hertzel, LLP, 1412 Sweet Home Road, Suite 12, Amherst, New York 14228, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

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Queens College ladies bow out in Elite Eight Historic hoops year comes to a close

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

The season-long magic carpet ride the Queens College women’s basketball team enjoyed has finally come to an end.

The Knights were eliminated in the NCAA Division II Tournament’s Elite Eight on Tuesday night, losing a heartbreaker to Harding University 73-69 with a Final Four berth on the line.

In what was her final game at Queens College, superstar senior Madison Rowland nearly went for a triple-double, scoring 19 points, recording 10 steals and grabbing seven rebounds in the losing effort.

She concludes her record-setting Queens career with 2,375 points, 1,071 rebounds, 507 steals, 403 assists and 114 blocks — graduating as the only player in NCAA history to officially record career totals of 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, 400 steals, 400 assists and 100 blocks.

Rowland’s career was nearly extended by one more game, however, as the Knights mounted a furious comeback in the game’s final minutes despite trailing

for the vast majority of the contest.

Queens College opened the fourth quarter on a 13-1 run to tie the game at 58, with the Knights and Harding then trading buckets over the last few minutes.

Rowland’s squad had a chance to tie or take the lead in the final minute, but the Knights turned the ball over, and a pair of ensuing Harding free throws put the game away.

Queens College ends the season with 27 wins, a program record, to just five losses, a mark that earned Elizabeth Naumovski Coach of the Year honors in the East Coast Conference.

The Knights were the only area players to qualify for the NCAA Tournament, as both the St. John’s men’s and women’s basketball teams failed to qualify for the Division I bracket.

The Red Storm women, however, qualified for the 32-team National Invitation Tournament — a psuedo-consolation bracket for schools that don’t qualify for the NCAA Tournament — winning their Q first two games.

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Corona native Eric Harold rips Community Board 4 on Tuesday for tabling a vote on the controPHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA versial plan to redesign 111th Street.

Frustration flares as CB4 tables 111th St. With dozens watching, members clash over crosswalks, ‘cowardice’

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

It’s been three years since the Department of Transportation first approached Community Board 4 about alterations to 111th Street in Corona.

And as of Tuesday night, a frustrated agency and the more than 50 safety and cycling activists are still waiting on the board to officially take a position on it.

CB 4 voted 24-12 during its Tuesday meeting to table the street redesign proposal after DOT representatives presented a slightly altered version of the plan.

Some of those 12 board members who wanted the advisory council to finally take a stand were quite vocal about it, with Sandra Munoz calling the tabling “cowardice.”

“This has been going back and forth for years, but we have to start somewhere,” Munoz said. “What are we waiting for? This may not address every little minute issue, but it addresses some of it.”

The cause for the plan’s tabling was some members’ hesitation over a lack of crosswalks, traffic lights and stop signs, things the DOT said it could not immediatley install for a number of reasons.

Regarding crosswalks, agency representatives said such paths can’t be installed on roadways wider than one lane in each direction without also installing a traffic light.

DOT Queens Borough Commissioner Nicole Garcia tried to soothe the board by saying crosswalks, which were in the original plan, could be studied at a later date.

The most recent iteration of the proposal calls for one northbound lane and two southbound ones, as well as protected bike lanes on the east side of 111th Street, bordering Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

The medians in the middle of the street at 14 intersections will also be widened, while

25 parking spaces will be gained along the thoroughfare, according to the DOT. That seemed to be good enough for the sign-waving cyclists and activists in attendance, who chanted “vote” repeatedly, but Transportation Committee Chairman Jim Lisa, a longtime outspoken critic of the plan, said fewer lanes would grind traffic on the street to a halt.

“We’re going to have nothing but traffic problems,” Lisa said. “This will destroy the ability to get in and out of Corona.”

During the public forum, held after the vote, Corona native Eric Harold was one of a handful of people who chastised the board over how it’s handled the measure.

“I agree, there should be crosswalks and lights. But DOT did a lot of good work and all that work was ignored tonight,” Harold said before presenting a petition with over 2,000 signatures. “I’m really disappointed about that. I grew up here in Corona and I expected better from this neighborhood.”

Cristina Furlong, a co-founder of activist group Make Queens Safer, added the community “knows you are playing politics with people’s lives.”

“This board does not intend to ever vote on 111th Street because you see it as a political football,” Furlong said. “You don’t mind taking people’s lives in your own hand to play that political football game, and that is a terrible tragedy and shame.”

In a statement issued Wednesday, a frustrated Councilwoman Julissa FerrerasCopeland (D-East Elmhurst) urged the city to move ahead with the plan.

“For three years, the experts at the DOT have done extensive studies and outreach,” Ferreras-Copeland said. “We cannot wait any longer. I urge Mayor de Blasio to move forward with the Vision Zero plan for 111th Q Street immediately.”

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Giants hiring ex-Jets

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

During World War II in 1944, the GrossMorton Building Development Company, already famous for building in Laurelton and Fresh Meadows, bought 175 acres of land north of Union Turnpike in Glen Oaks.

When the war ended, they decided returning soldiers would need housing, and the Garden Apartments would be the answer.

Ground was broken on the Glen Oaks Village in April 1947, with 576 apartments being built on 25 acres of land. In the spring of 1948, the organization added another 2,352 residences on 100 acres, bringing the total to 2,928 units.

The Gross-Morton company also built a long row of stores for entrepreneurs to start businesses that would service the newly developed community.

Located at 255-01 Union Tpke. was Barry’s candy and stationery store, right next door to Sleep-Rite, which sold juvenile furniture, and Consumers Meat Market.

In later years, Barry’s changed its name to Barry’s Glen Oaks Stationery, while Sleep-Rite became Turnpike Photo and

Barry’s Candy/ Stationery Store, 255-01 Union Tpke., Glen Oaks, Feb. 12, 1954.

Consumers Meat became the Glen Oaks Fish Market.

Sadly, in the fall of 1991, after decades of years serving the community, Barry’s closed in favor of a new tenant, Genovese Drugs.

Other tenants were quickly forced out too, as Glen Oaks Village sold the rental store properties to 255 Mall LLC and corporate stores took over.

AT&T, Sleepy’s, McDonalds, Dunkin’ Donuts and a Chase branch eventually opened there, changing the quaint old-fashQ ioned feeling of the area.

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

The Giants and Jets have shared stadiums for well over 30 years. And lately, they seem to be sharing players, albeit with the Giants absorbing former Jets and not vice versa.

Last March the Giants signed defensive tackle Damon “Snacks” Harrison who had started all 16 games for the Jets in 2015 and had played well for them. The Jets were hamstrung by the NFL’s stringent salary cap and had to reluctantly part ways with him.

Last week the Giants signed former Jets wide receiver Brandon Marshall to replace Victor Cruz, who was let go for the same cap reasons. If Marshall’s history is any indicator, the Giants should expect a big first season from him. The issue is that his production drops markedly in the second year and after.

The tabloids reported last weekend that the Giants were going to sign Eugene Cyril Smith III, better known to NFL fans as Geno Smith, to a contract to back up Eli Manning.

The move took many by surprise because Smith kept telling the press that he wanted to compete for a starting NFL quarterback job.

Eli Manning never misses a game. Backing up Manning is the equivalent of those old Maytag TV commercials with Jesse White playing the bored and lonely repairman.

It’s perplexing as well as to why the Giants

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The Giants did have to shell out lots of green to sign their All-Pro defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul to a four-year, $62 million contract with $40 million of that amount guaranteed.

It’s to Pierre-Paul’s immense credit that he has been able to maintain his high skill level in spite of losing his right index finger in a selfinflicted fireworks mishap on July 4, 2015.

Longtime Forest Hills Gardens resident Jimmy Breslin, who died on Sunday, was a legendary journalist who made his readers feel that they were having a conversation with him thanks to his earthy prose. Although best known for writing on crime and politics, he wrote a book about the worst baseball team ever, the 1962 Mets, called “Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?” Breslin, Chicago columnist Mike Royko and Philadelphia sports writer Bill Conlin all inspired me when I was Q growing up. RIP, Jimmy.

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