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The number of people dying from the coronavirus in New York State reached a high of 779 Tuesday, but with new hospitalizations and intensive care unit admissions falling rapidly, the worst of the crisis may be here now, with better days to come. However, Gov. Cuomo points out, nothing is certain, and signs on state highways around the city remind drivers to stick to social distancing as the fight against the virus goes on.

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Tough times, tough choices on budget $177B deal could be cut further if tax revenue, federal aid miss marks

by Michael Gannon Editor

W

hen crafting New York State’s 202021 budget, the “three people in a room” had very few options, and pretty much all of them were rotten.

But Gov. Cuomo, state Sen. Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) also had a $6 billion deficit that had ballooned to an estimated $15 billion with the anticipated loss of tax revenue and increased costs connected with the COVID-19 outbreak.

And even the $177 billion spending package approved on April 2 — including a number of items and programs on Democratic legislators’ shopping lists — still seems to have something to displease just about everyone.

It also has provisions for Cuomo’s budget office to slash spending further during the year if tax revenue and federal assistance don’t meet current forecasts.

“This is a moment in history unlike any other, and government needs to function and deliver results for the people of this state now more than ever — and that’s exactly what we did with this budget,” Cuomo said in a statement on his official website. “That the legislature and the Executive got this budget done with all of these policy initiatives is an extraordinary feat, and I praise Speaker Heastie,

Leader Stewart-Cousins and every member of the legislature. It would have been very easy to say, ‘Oh, this is an extraordinary year; let’s just do the bare minimum and go home.’ We did the opposite.”

As for specifically budgetary items, the agreement empowers state Budget Director Robert Mujica to plan for “across the board reductions and implement them as necessary over the course of the year. The budget also puts into place mechanisms to control spending through the year if revenues fall even further, and raise spending if either revenues come in higher than expected or the federal government delivers support that offsets the state’s revenue losses.”

Cuomo said school aid to municipalities will remain nearly flat at $27.9 billion, while Medicaid spending will increase by about 3 percent, or $500 million.

While Cuomo last week had been critical of the $3.8 billion the state is slated to receive in the federal pandemic bailout, state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said in a telephone interview that the money still will make a difference.

“This was going to be a bad budget season even before the coronavirus,” Addabbo said.

“We were already considering big cuts to education and Medicaid, and the federal aid has allowed us to minimize both and not have to

Gov. Cuomo said he and the Legislature made some tough calls commensurate with tough budgetary times for 2020-21. NYS PHOTO / FLICKR make deeper cuts. Given what we were already facing back in January, this could have been a lot worse. This isn’t the budget we wanted, but we had to play the cards we were given.”

Addabbo also said in a subsequent press release that, just like in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and the 2009 recession, items can

be restored to the budget once the state economy corrects its course.

In his constituent newsletter, state Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) called it a budget “that did its absolute best to ensure that all the needs of New Yorkers are met during this time of pandemic, and economic distress; even with a historical and accelerating deficit.”

The feeling was not universal among members of the Queens delegation to Albany.

State Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-East Elmhurst) voted against two of the spending bills offered up, calling the spending plan “an austerity budget that will starve our neighbors and fill our jails.”

The senator supported many of the nonfinance measures included, including a path for the legalization of electric scooters and all classes of electric bikes; paid sick leave provisions for state workers; and other labor and environmental issues. But Ramos, in a statement issued by her office, said the budget should have included select tax increases to raise revenue.

“We failed to help New Yorkers in need, who need government to help them — now more than ever,” Ramos said. “We had a chance to raise taxes on wealthy New Yorkers and help weather this storm.”

Ramos also opposed changes to bail reform continued on page 16

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Support from the heart, via the WHBVFD Volunteers seek grab-and-go snacks, kids’ cards to send first responders

by Max Parrott Chronicle Contributor

Though the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department may not be getting quite as hammered with coronavirus-related calls as the FDNY, it is stepping up to do whatever it can to support its fellow first responders during the pandemic.

The neighborhood fire department serving Hamilton Beach, and Old and New Howard Beach, is putting together an ambitious effort to boost morale that involves asking for donations of “grab-and-go” snacks and thank-you cards from area children to send first responders across the city.

After Department Chief Nicho l a s Spinelli made a Facebook post soliciting donations and cards, he is still trying to get a sense of the scale of the operation before he gives a final deadline for the collection and a drop-off date.

“I’d like it to be known across the city what we’re trying to do, so that way we can provide cards and ‘grab-and-go’ snacks to all the hospital personnel — the nurses, everyone who’s working on COVID teams, precincts and fire-

houses,” said Spinelli.

The chief added that anyone can participate by calling the firehouse at (718) 843-9863 and scheduling a time to drop off materials at a safe distance at the station or coordinate with a member of the WHBVFD to swing by and scoop the donation out of a mailbox.

He emphasized that all the members of the department have been hard at work on the project.

The volunteers will also begin working with PS 207 to organize a mass collection effort from students there and is looking to other area schools to participate as well.

Though Spinelli said the fire department has not seen the same barrage of emergencies as some other parts of Queens, the Howard Beach area has had one of the higher COVID-19 spreads per capita, with 340 confirmed cases among a population of near 30,000, according to The City’s tracker.

“We’re averaging between three to five EMS calls a day. We don’t get every call that the city gets. If we’re getting three to five per day, most are COVID-related. If we’re getting three to five that means they’re getting anywhere from five to 30,” said Spinelli. “They’re getting hammered — we’re talking over 70,000 calls in a 24-hour span over the last couple days.”

The West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department is providing hospital personnel, police and PHOTOS COURTESY WHBVFD other first responders with snacks and thank-you cards from children.

The cards that have come in so far are scrawled with hearts and phrases of affirmation. “I believe in you,” reads one. “You are a superhero,” says another.

Spinelli says the department is looking for snacks along the lines of granola bars, fruit snacks and juice boxes — anything that can be eaten “on the go.” The Howard Beach Stop and Shop is also going to be donating $500 in gift

cards to the effort, and is looking into instituting a donation box for the snacks.

“I’m personally worried for my fellow brothers and sisters on the job,” said Spinelli.

“And if I can do something to raise their spirits or bring awareness to them, that you’re doing the best you can and the residents of the city understand that, maybe it can put a little Q light into their day.”

MTA getting 248K masks to workers Hard-hit agency lost eight people to virus in a week

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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is distributing nearly 250,000 N95 face masks to bus and train operators and other transit employees, the agency announced Sunday.

The MTA has been hit hard by the novel coronavirus, with at least eight employees dying of COVID19 in the span of a week, from bus drivers to a mechanic and a subway station cleaner.

“We continue to do everything we can to protect the health and safety of the 74,000 of hardworking men and women who are keeping New York moving through this difficult time,” MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye said in a press release announcing the mask distribution. “The MTA will be distributing N95 masks to our heroic workforce and masks will be cleaned and reused. Transit workers are among the heroes of this pandemic and this

personal protective equipment will help keep them safe as they perform their essential work. We are also strongly recommending that all essential employees – healthcare workers, first responders and others – who travel with us and use public transportation during this pandemic cover their nose and mouth. Customers should also follow social distancing guidelines to help protect and keep each other healthy.”

The agency said 159,000 masks will go to New York City Transit; 40,429 to the Long Island Rail Road; 36,357 to Metro-North; and 12,429 to Bridges and Tunnels. That comes out to 248,215 all together.

“This is great news for our Bus Operators, Train Operators, Train Conductors and all the other Local 100 members who are keeping the buses and trains moving,” TWU Local 100 President Tony Utano said in the MTA’s release. “They are true blue-collar heroes.”

Gov. Cuomo praised the MTA’s

rank and file in his April 3 news briefing on the virus.

“We have TWU workers, transit workers, who have a very high rate of illness and who, by the way, are doing heroic work, and I want to thank them very much,” Cuomo said. “John Samuelsen, the transit workers union: To run those trains, to run those buses every day — talk about social distancing, you’re a bus driver, right, it’s hard to social distance. You’re a train conductor, pulling into stations all across the city. So these — they’re doing heroic work.”

Foye also had spoken about the masks and other protective equipment in a March 2 interview with Larry Mullins on 1010 WINS radio.

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ends for this purpose on Friday tomorrow. And next week, we’ll distribute an additional 100,000 masks to bus operators, train operators, conductors, and people whether they’re customer facing or whether they’re doing the cleaning work.

We’re going to continue that distribution of gloves in masses.”

Foye, who himself was diagnosed with the virus, told Mullins he feels fine but that “this is not about me.”

“Seven hundred forty-four of my colleagues have tested positive throughout the MTA; some of them are struggling,” he said. “And our thoughts and prayers are with our colleagues at the MTA who are performing unbelievably heroic service in terms of moving first responders and essential employees to and from work, healthcare professionals, utility workers, transit workers, people working in supermarkets and pharmacies, and the MTA family is realQ ly rising to the occasion.”

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Deaths rise, but so does hope for future Key stats such as new hospitalizations see big drops as society battles virus

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The statewide daily death toll from the coronavirus rose to a record 779 Tuesday, Gov. Cuomo reported, but behind that number are other statistics that over the last several days he has said amount to good news on how people in the state are handling the crisis.

The number of deaths has risen sharply, from 562 last Thursday to 630 Friday, 594 Saturday, 599 Sunday, 731 Monday and, finally, Tuesday’s 779.

At the same time, however, the number of people newly admitted to hospitals, the number put into intensive care units and the number being intubated — having a tube from a ventilator installed in their throat so they can breathe — have all been falling.

All of that means the state’s actions to shutter businesses and order people to stay at home most of the time have been working to flatten the curve, Cuomo said — to reduce the rate of growth in new cases of COVID-19, which, unchecked, could overwhelm the healthcare system and lead to far more deaths.

“There is good news in what we’re seeing that what we have done and what we are doing is actually working and it’s making a difference,” Cuomo said at his Wednesday press briefing. “We took dramatic actions in this state. We did the New York PAUSE program to

Gov. Cuomo uses charts tracking the health impacts of the coronavirus at his daily press briefings, including this one that showed admissions to hospital intensive care units statewide falling NYS SCREENSHOT from a peak of 395 on April 3 to 89 on April 6. close down schools, businesses, social distancing and it’s working. It is flattening the curve and we see that again today so far.”

PAUSE is the acronym for Policy that Assures Uniform Safety for Everyone, the order keeping most people at home most of the time to prevent the spread of the virus. Cuomo on Monday extended the order by two weeks to April 29 and doubled the maximum fine for violating the rules to $1,000.

“The local governments are charged with

enforcement,” he said. “I want them to enforce.

And I want to be, frankly, more aggressive on the enforcement because all the anecdotal evidence is people are violating it at a higher rate.

There has been a laxness on social distancing, especially over this past weekend, that is just wholly unacceptable. People are dying.”

Addressing the record number of deaths he reported Wednesday, Cuomo said in part, “When you look at the numbers on the death toll, it has been going steadily up. It reached

Doc from Howard Beach talks about virus battle

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Dr. Jason Shatkin, a pulmonology critical care specialist at Valley Hospital in New Jersey and Howard Beach native, got very personal during a CNN interview last week on his experiences fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

When CNN anchor Kate Bolduan asked him about his experiences as a parent on the frontlines of the public health crisis, Shatkin’s thoughts jumped to his 4-year-old son.

“My greatest fear is I’m going to be nothing more than a fleeting memory to him. That he’ll never remember who I am, because who remembers anything at 4 years old?” said Shatkin.

His candor reflects the mental health toll of the risk that medical professionals across the country are facing daily. Shatkin lived in Lindenwood until he was 21, and since becoming a doctor, has been working in Valley Hospital in Paramus, NJ, for nearly two decades.

Now, as a father of nine, with a wife who also works in the medical field, Shatkin said that nothing could have prepared him for the risks of the pandemic.

“We’ve never seen anything like this,” he told the Chronicle in an interview.

Shatkin said his experiences in New Jersey mirror the reports he’s seeing of the overrun

hospital system in Queens.

“I don’t recognize the hospital that I’ve been attending to for the last 17 years,” Shatkin said.

Plastic bags full of discarded N95 masks hang from the windows. Patients, some of whom Shatkin has known for years, are dying at his hospital daily. Though Valley Hospital’s ventilator supply is not quite as bare as some of what New York City’s hospitals are reporting, Shatkin has noticed that when patients do go on ventilators, they do dramatically worse initially — a uniquely threatening trait of the novel coronavirus.

In his role as a critical care doctor, Shatkin has begun to take on a caseload of about 100 patients per day. While that number is astronomical, Shatkin said that the level of courage it takes to do his responsibilities is “nothing compared to the nurses.”

“They’re cleaning their diapers, they’re changing their urine. They’re suctioning the patients. They are right in their faces,” he said.

Unlike other kinds of first responders, hospital staff were not prepared for the fatal risks of the coronavirus, Shatkin said.

“We’re not adrenaline junkies,” he said. “We didn’t go into medicine so that we could expose ourselves to life-threatening illnesses. We went into medicine so that we can take care of lifethreatening illnesses. And yes, we understand

new height yesterday. The number of deaths, as a matter of fact, the number of deaths will continue to rise as those hospitalized for a longer period of time pass away. The longer you are on a ventilator, the less likely you will come off the ventilator.

“Dr. Fauci spoke to me about this and he was 100 percent right,” he continued, referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

“The quote unquote lagging indicator between hospitalizations and deaths. The hospitalizations can start to drop, but the deaths actually increase because the people who have been in the hospital for 11 days, 14 days, 17 days pass away. That’s what we’re seeing.”

He noted that the death toll “is still incredibly difficult to deal with.”

Cuomo recently has been citing more positive statistics that, unlike the daily death toll, are more leading indicators for how the virus is being handled.

In recent days he has displayed charts showing that: The rate of new hospital admissions has dropped rapidly, falling from a peak of 1,427 Thursday to 1,095 Friday, 574 Saturday and 358 Sunday. New intensive care admissions fell from 395 Friday to 250 Saturday, 128 Sunday and 89 Monday. And new daily intubations fell from 351 Friday to 316 Saturday, 132 Q Sunday and 69 Monday.

Meng demands for frontlines

Howard Beach native Dr. Jason Shatkin was interviewed by Kate Bolduan of CNN last CNN SCREENSHOT week. that there is a potential for exposure, but that there would be adequate and sufficient personal protective equipment to protect us.”

While Shatkin has always kept a journal for times of emotional turmoil in his life, it has become especially important to chronicle his experiences lately.

His first entry as the coronavirus swept the hospital: “I go to sleep at night. I dream of anything, anything at all. But it’s when I wake up that the nightmare begins.”

While Shatkin has seen the rate of hospital admissions start to slow, perhaps signaling a flattening of the curve, he’s afraid the death toll will not start to ebb for the immediate future.

“It’s an attack on our way of life,” he said.

“And it gets us when we’re at our best — when we’re visiting people, when we’re hugging our loved ones, when we’re taking care of the sick — we are at our best. And we are being Q attacked for it.”

Twice in one day, Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) led the New York congressional delegation in letters calling for transparency in equipment distribution and support for healthcare workers fighting on the frontlines of the pandemic.

The first April 7 letter, addressed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, demanded greater transparency in how it distributes supplies and equipment, and to create a centralized system to procure items such as personal protective equipment and ventilators for hospitals.

A second letter released later in the day urged President Trump to fully invoke the Defense Production Act to ensure that frontline healthcare workers across the country have the medical technology and protection that they need to save lives during the pandemic. The delegation also demanded increased Department of Defense personnel and materials — such as creating field hospitals or distributing emergency PPE — to state and local governments, and to provide unrationed COVID-19 test kits with rapid results to healthcare workers to help keep Q them safe and on the frontlines.

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Nothing’s worse than feeling great mentally, but physically feeling held back from life because your knees hurt and the pain just won’t go away!

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New research in a treatment called Class IV Laser Therapy is having a profound effect on patients suffering with knee pain. Unlike the cutting type of laser seen in movies and used in medical procedures, the Class IV therapeutic laser penetrates the surface of the skin with no heating effect or damage.

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P Resolute at the turn of the tide EDITORIAL

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e’re doing it, Queens. We’re beating the horrible coronavirus. Now we just have to stay the course, be sure not to waver in our resolve, continue to bear the tremendous difficulties that have reshaped our lives so greatly, so swiftly — and we will win. This is no time to go wobbly. Our lives depend on not doing that.

We’re losing a tremendous number of those lives every day. On Tuesday we lost 779 statewide, the highest daily number yet, bringing the total to 6,268 since the COVID19 pandemic began. But, as counterintuitive as it seems, other developments occurring simultaneously give us reason to hope that we are indeed at or very near the apex of the crisis, that sometime soon we will have turned the tide.

As Gov. Cuomo points out in his must-see, fact-filled daily virus briefings, the deaths are a lagging indicator of where we are in the battle against the virus. Many are people who have been in the hospital for a week or two, connected to a ventilator, who just couldn’t be saved. Each loss is horrible, but we always knew the death rate would rise.

What’s not rising over the last several days is the number of people being admitted to the hospital due to the virus. It went from 1,427 last Thursday to 358 Sunday. The

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number given intensive care fell from 395 last Friday to 89 Monday. New intubations dropped from 351 Friday to 69 Monday. If those numbers continue to fall, or even just level off where they are, victory is within our grasp.

But the only way to keep going in the right direction, the only way to ensure we can achieve a new normalcy (too much has been changed forever to say we can ever “go back to normal”), is to keep doing what we’ve been doing.

Cuomo on Monday extended his stay-at-home order another two weeks, until the end of April. It must be adhered to.

Still no eating out, no getting a haircut, no going to the gym, no visiting the grandparents. It’s terrible, it’s taking a tremendous toll on our economy and our psyche, but it’s the only way. To relax our vigilance too soon in the face of this unseen enemy would be to lose our battle against it.

Our position today may be like that of the World War II Allies when, after the first British victory against the Nazis, Winston Churchill said, “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” The Allies did not waver. They did not let their guard down. They did not celebrate prematurely. They fought ever harder. They won. We can do that too.

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The arrivals of both Navy ships to New York made us feel better, gave us more hope that we would overcome all our problems and become even stronger. Of course, this time we face a situation that is much more dangerous than it was on 9/11 — our new enemy is invisible and silent.

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f course the state website people need to apply for unemployment benefits keeps crashing. It’s getting at least six times the amount of traffic it ever had before, probably more. Like so much else surrounding the coronavirus crisis, the system just wasn’t ready for what was to come. Nearly half a million people in New York State tried to apply for jobless benefits in March.

Now, however, the state is working to fix the problem, partnering with Google to update the site. The Labor Department has increased the number of servers it uses for it from four to 50, to better handle the unprecedented traffic. And it’s hired 1,000 new workers.

But there’s another element that also needs to be addressed immediately: the requirement that people speak with a live person at the end of the application procedure before they can get approved. Reports say some people are calling 50 times a day for days on end trying to get through without success. The phone requirement should be waived during the virus crisis. Officials say benefits will be retroactive, but people need the money now. They can’t afford to be put on hold for any longer.

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vices for essential items. I would like to thank the brave men and women who do need to go out to the workplace to help provide the rest of the world with food, medication and delivery of essential supplies for our basic needs. Thank you to medical professionals for going out into the battlefield, risking their lives to save others.

Thank you to the mail carriers, the maintenance workers in apartment buildings, the delivery trucks and people working in supermarkets and drug stores. Thank you to police officers and firefighters for keeping us safe. Thank you also to performers who have posted videos of scenes from Broadway to satisfy humanity’s need for culture.

We are all in the same boat, and we hope we’ll come out of this stronger, knowing what truly matters in life. My prayers go out to all individuals and their families who have this horrible virus. Let’s continue to self-isolate and

let’s hope this will be over sooner than predicted and medical science will learn from this and be able to prevent it in future years.

Debbie Vogel Rego Park

A day in the (virus) life Dear Editor: It was Saturday morning at 9:20 in the Glen Oaks Village shopping area where I do my shopping. My first stop was Walgreens drug store. When I got there, the guard in front would not let me in ’til someone walked out. He told me he could not allow more than 10 people in at a time. I finally got in and bought what I needed. My next stop, which was near the end of the block, was Key Food.

I found the same situation there: One walks in and one walks out. In this time of COVID-19

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safety is the key to protect us all.

I finally got into Key Food to purchase what I needed, and when I was ready to check out the line was long. We were all kept 6 feet apart.

There was a young woman in front of me who saw an elderly woman with just a few items.

She told the woman to take her place and took her basket to the end of the line. This in my view was a true act of kindness. I am 70 years old, but I’m not to old too take a lesson from a younger person and did the same with a man in back of me, whom I told to go in front of me.

We all face the dangers of the coronavirus and need to take the time to show acts of kindness to others. To all, please be safe and show acts of kindness even if it means going out of our way.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks Village

TV’s Archie vs. Alex Dear Editor: In the decade after “All in the Family’s” Norman “Lear would become shocked at how popular [Archie] Bunker, who was written to be disliked by audiences, became” (“A blast from the past while you’re stuck at home,” qboro, March 26), another sitcom would likewise become identified with a conservative breakout character rather than the liberal views of its creator.

When “Family Ties” became less focused on Steven and Elyse Keaton’s efforts to retain showrunner Gary David Goldberg’s flowerchild idealism after they grew up than on their son Alex, a businessman not yet a man, it mirrored the generation gap between Bunker and the son-in-law he called “Meathead.” Yet Alex P. Keaton’s Reagan-era conservatism was notably free of Archie Bunker’s bigotries and reactionary social views, instead taking an interest in economic liberty from his “favorite economist” Milton Friedman, who argued that “the great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.”

Joel Schlosberg Bayside

Dear Editor: Stratagem is a trick, scheme or device used in deceiving an enemy. The tactic used in trying to destroy all previous moral, ethical, paterfamilias standards is the TV Trojan horse.

First, “All in the Family.” Now it’s the old song “Anything Goes.”

A wise priest, after seeing “All in the Family,” said, “TV is gone.” Will we go with it?

Joseph T. Klonowski Middle Village

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Time for feel-good flicks Dear Editor: (An open letter to all TV networks) Good morning, all. I would like to make a request to all of your media outlets. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, many, many people of all ages are frightened, apprehensive and very anxious. I think it would be an excellent idea to air the following movies over the next several weekends: 1) “The Wizard of Oz” (1939); 2) “The Sound of Music” (1965); 3) “Miracle on 34th Street” (the 1947 version); 4) “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946); 5) “Born Free” (1966); 6) “The Bells of Saint Mary’s” (1945); 7) “Meet Me in St. Louis” (1944); 8) “Lassie Come Home” (1943); 9) “Mary Poppins” (1964); “Grease” (1978); 10) “The Greatest Story Ever Told” (1961); 11) “Easter Parade” (1948); 12) “Scrooge” (1970); 13) “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952); 14) “Boys Town” (1938); “Showboat” (the 1951 version); and “1776” (1972).

I sincerely hope that all of you will consider having your networks broadcast these wonderful films, which are so much a part of American film culture. In these very trying and extremely uncertain times, what we need now more than ever is to bring laughter, smiles and joy to America.

May God bless all of you, your colleagues and your families during these most difficult of times. All of you are doing an excellent job of keeping us, your viewers well informed about this pandemic. Our nation will come through this, and we will be all the better for having gone through this. Stay safe, be strong and keep the faith. Take care of yourselves, especially when you are out in the field reporting.

One thing is for very certain — never again will anyone take anything in life for granted.

John Amato Fresh Meadows

Trump unmasked Dear Editor: One would think there comes a time when President Donald Trump’s incompetence has reached its limits. That is not the case. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging all Americans to wear a facemask when they leave their homes to prevent the spread of coronavirus. A mask helps the wearer prevent inhaling virus from someone else and in addition prevents the wearer from infecting someone else. People with common sense do wear masks, but Trump, who is constantly in close contact with many other people, has said he will not wear a mask. Chalk up another example of incompetence. There is, however, more.

Trump fired Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community’s watchdog, notwithstanding the way Atkinson legally handled a whistleblower’s complaint involving Trump’s pressure campaign against the Ukrainian president, which triggered his impeachment. It should be noted Atkinson was given his position by Trump. This is another example of Trump’s requirement that to hold a position in his administration, one must plant his or her lips on Trump’s backside and under no circumstances remove them. America deserves better.

Benjamin M. Haber Flushing

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Open road, open throttle Stats say drivers are speeding more post-COVID-19

by Michael Gannon Editor

Are New York City drivers speeding up more these days, even as COVID-19 precautions mean far fewer drivers on the streets?

Sam Schwartz thinks so.

Schwartz, a former chief engineer and deputy commissioner at the city’s Department of Transportation, has a practiced eye for such matters. He long has gone by the nickname “Gridlock Sam” — he is credited with coining the word gridlock — as a columnist and now a consultant.

In an email on Monday, Schwartz showed data saying that city speed cameras caught more speeding drivers in school zones the week after the city’s COVID-19 emergency declaration than the week before the proclamation — a lot more He said a review of data found that from Monday, March 2, to Friday, March 6, when the city was fully open, 56,492 violations were captured by speed cameras in school zones. From Monday, March 16, to Friday, March 20, the first week schools and many businesses closed, 66,907 violations were recorded — an increase of 18 percent — while the traffic volume was estimated to be down between 35 and 50 percent. “[W]ith less traffic, drivers are getting to their destinations faster than ever — so why

speed?” Schwartz asked. “I’m no psychologist but maybe all the pent-up frustration, anger and anxiety is manifesting itself when people get behind the wheel? Whatever it is — STOP IT! Slow down; don’t add more patients to our already overloaded hospitals.”

City DOT representatives did not respond to questions prior to the Chronicle’s deadline, but Robert Sinclair Jr., manager of media relations for AAA Northeast, said the city appears to be well aware of the matter.

“Last week the DOT reached out to us and asked us to remind our members that speed cameras are still in operation,” Sinclair said in a telephone interview.

The numbers also have not been lost on advocates for traffic safety. Hsi-Pei Liao, a founding member of Families for Safe Streets, released a statement through Transportation Alternatives calling for Mayor de Blasio to call for a ban on nonessential driving during the crisis. Liao’s daughter, Allison, 3, was killed in 2013 while crossing the street with her grandmother in Flushing.

“Traffic crashes are preventable,” Liao said. “But when our streets are nearly empty like they have been for the last few weeks, some drivers take the opportunity to speed.

This is the last thing we need. Speeding is the leading cause of crashes, and our healthcare system cannot handle any additional strain

Large numbers of drivers are finding out that school zone speed cameras are still in operaFILE PHOTO tion, even if schools are not. right now.”

He said that the COVID-129 outbreak does not mean other emergencies stop happening, and said along with “flattening the curve,” a ban on nonessential driving could “lower the baseline” of cases emergency personnel Q would need to deal with.

E-bikes, scooters now legal

Courts virtual for time being New York State’s court system now is holding “virtual court” proceedings for essential and emergency matters throughout the state.

“Our shift to a virtual court system has made it possible for participants in essential and emergency proceedings to appear remotely via Skype, dramatically reducing the number of people in our courthouses to protect public health and safety,” Chief Judge Janet DiFiore in a video message released last Friday.

As of that day, all essential and emergency court matters are being heard virtually, with all interactions taking place by video or telephone.

All nonessential court functions had al ready been suspended by administrative order, with an amendment to the order permitting judges, criminal defendants, civil litigants, attorneys and some court staff to appear by video conference for essential and emergency court proceedings. The court system is working with attorneys and other partners to expand it to other categories.

Information on virtual court in Q u e e n s i s ava i l a ble o n l i n e a t Q nycourts.com.

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But vehicles get DWI carve-out in legislation

by Michael Gannon When he vetoed a bill that would have paved the way to legalizing electric scooters and all classes of electric bikes, back in January, Gov. Cuomo said the measure was lacking important safety provisions.

A new version, folded like so many others in amid the financial details of the state budget for 2020-21, did pass last week.

Its primary backers, state Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-East Elmhurst) and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows), said last week that the safety provisions now are accounted for.

But both, in a joint press release dated April 1, said it also contains their original provision that impaired or drunk scooter operators will not be subjected to DWI laws unless and until there is a collision.

No other motor vehicle in the state, including golf carts and riding mowers, enjoys such a carve-out.

Safety provisions that now are in place include the requirement of helmets for operators ages 16 to 18, as well as those operating class 3 electric bikes, which can hit speeds of up to 25 miles per hour. Fixed safety equipment is required on the vehicles.

The more powerful, higher-speed vehicles are very popular among food delivery

Scooters and e-bikes are now legal in the state, but DWI enforcement won’t occur unless there’s an accident. FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON drivers, allowing them to make more deliveries with a far less physical toll than other means of transportation.

Many of those employed in the profession are minorities and especially immigrants.

Representatives of the two legislators, in emails to the Chronicle, said the carve-out for operating under the influence is intended to protect operators from police profiling.

“The bill completely prohibits people from using e-bikes or e-scooters while drinking or under the influence of drugs,”

wrote Zameena Mejia, spokeswoman for Ramos. “DWI tests can only occur if a person riding an e-bike or e-scooter is involved in a crash as an effort to prevent law enforcement from profiling people who use these methods of transportation, who most often tend to be immigrants, low-income delivery workers and people without reliable access to public transit.”

Meagan Molina, responding for Rozic, struck a similar chord.

“The DWI language applies to both electric bicycles and scooters and is written as such so that people are prohibited from using either of these devices while drinking or under the influence,” Molina wrote. “The reason for enforcing DWI penalties in the event of a collision is because it gives law enforcement cause for conducting a DWI test, therefore reducing profiling. Our goal in legalizing these devices was to end the criminalization of low-income, immigrant delivery workers and to provide an affordable mode of transportation for people living in transit deser ts so limiting law enforcement’s ability to profile was an essential factor in developing the language.”

Molina did not reply to a follow-up email requesting what consideration was taken during deliberations for anyone who might Q be injured by an impaired rider.

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The NYPD is asking that people help stop the spread of the COVID-19 vir us by obtaining needed motor vehicle accident reports online rather than visiting the precinct in which the accident occurred.

The reports are available on the NYPD website at collisionreport.nypdonline.org. Those taken after Sept.

30, 2016 are posted on the site.

By entering all applicable motorist and vehicle information on the provided online form, drivers will be able to obtain the reports without leaving their homes.

T h e N Y PD, i n a s t a t e m e nt , reminds people that it can take up to seven days after an accident for the Q report to become available.

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Fidelis ad mortem: NYPD and COVID-19 Department members falling to the novel coronavirus in tragic wave

Members of the NYPD lost to the coronavirus include Police Administrative Aide Giacomina BarrBrown, top left, Auxiliary Police Officer Lynford Chambers, School Safety Agent Sabrina Jefferson, School Safety Agent Luis Albino, Senior Police Administrative Aide Gwendolyn King, School Safety Agent Linosee Mosley, retired Sgt. Anthony Caggiano, School Safety Agent Roniece Watson, above left, Auxiliary Police Sgt. Angel Leon, Traffic Enforcement Agent Karisma Dargan, Auxiliary Police Lt. Pierre Moise, Custodial Assistant Dennis Dickson, who was the department’s first COVID-19 fatality, Police Communications Technician Ava Walker, City Custodial Assistant Deidre Edwards, right, Auxiliary Police Officer Ramon Roman and Det. Cedric Dixon, who was the first uniformed member of the NYPD to die from the coronavirus. Not pictured is Yon Chang, a retired sergeant who died Monday at 56 from the NYPD PHOTOS / TWITTER virus. Chang joined the force in 1994.

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The NYPD is facing an onslaught of coronavir us-related deaths, impacting officers, school safety agents, custodians and aides alike.

City custodial assistant of the facilit y mai ntena nce sect ion Deidre Edwards died Monday. She served with the NYPD for nearly 15 years. Her death is the latest as the department has seen more than a dozen members die.

Yon Chang, 56, a retired sergeant, also died Monday. He joined the NYPD in 1994, was promoted to sergeant in 2006 and retired in 2014. Chang worked at the 17th Precinct in Manhattan.

The death of Sgt. Anthony Caggiano, who spent 35 years on the force before retiring in January, was announced by the department on Tuesday. Caggiano had been in the community outreach division.

“He was truly a wonderful person and I extend my deepest and heartfelt #condolences,” tweeted Chief Nilda Hofmann, chief of the Community Affairs Bureau, noting that his sister, Jerrellan Sarro, is a senior police administrative aide.

Auxiliary Police Officer Ramon Roman, a 10-year member of the force, died April 5. He was assigned to the 72nd Precinct in Brooklyn.

Auxiliary Police Sgt. Angel Leon, assigned to the 43rd Precinct

in the Bronx, died April 4 after serving the NYPD for 39 years.

School Safety Agent Linosee Mosley, who served 26 years on the force, died April 3.

Mosley was in the 111th Precinct. Before that, he had been assigned to Cardozo High School and worked basketball games.

“He didn’t make it a job,” Cardozo basketball coach Ron Naclerio told the Chronicle. “He made it like a family. He was great. Everybody loved him.”

One time, a player unhappy with being taken out of a game by the coach told Naclerio he was going to the bathroom but went into the hallway and took his shirt off, ready to quit the team.

“About five minutes later, I see Mosley opening up the door near the bench with his arm around him,” Naclerio said, adding that the officer “always found a way to reach the immature.”

Auxiliar y Police Lt. Pier re Moise, who was on the force since 1994, died April 3. He was assigned to the 71st Precinct in Brooklyn.

School Safety Agent Luis Albino died April 3. He served 20 years and was in the Bronx.

The 43rd Precinct tweeted that Albino was a “43pct resident and he worked closely with the 43pct at the Monroe High School Campus.

It was a pleasure to know him and

work side by side keeping students safe. May he Rest in Peace.”

Auxiliary Police Officer Lynford Chambers, 65, died April 2.

Chambers was in the 113th Precinct in Jamaica and had been volunteering since 2017.

“Chambers was always happy,” said Police Officer John Marcantonio, the auxiliary coordinator for the precinct. “He was always coming in to volunteer at the last minute if I needed him. He was fantastic and it’s quite a shock still ... I would’ve neve r t hou g ht a ny t h i ng ba d would’ve ever happened to him.”

Chambers was also the pastor at A l l Nat ion s New Test a me nt Church in Brooklyn.

Traff ic Enforcement Agent Karisma Dargan, 33, died April 1.

Dargan, who became a member of the NYPD three years ago, worked in Brooklyn.

Police Communications Technician Ava Walker, 66, died March 31.

She had been in the communications section for the past 20 years.

Senior Police Administrative Aide Gwendolyn King, 58, who worked in Police Service Area 3 in Brooklyn, died on March 30 after 25 years with the NYPD. School Safety Agent Roniece Watson died March 30. Watson was a 17-year veteran of the force.

“Our condolences are with her family, her friends and each other

as we will miss this beautiful person,” NYPD School Safety tweeted.

There was an outpouring of love on Watson’s Facebook page, with one friend posting, “I can’t believe that she’s gone. My heart is heavy right now and the tears won’t stop falling. May she RIP.” School Safety Agent Sabrina Jefferson, 63, worked in the Patrol Borough Queens South School Safety Unit in the 113th Precinct and died March 29. Jefferson had served 26 years in the department.

“NYPD School Safety Agent Sabrina Jefferson was a true rock and champion for the youth of South Jamaica,” the Child Center of NY posted on Facebook after her death. “She will be deeply missed in the community.”

Det. Cedric Dixon, 48, was the first noncivilian member of the NYPD to succumb to the coronavirus when he died on March 28.

Dixon served 23 years on the force and worked in the 32nd Precinct Detective Squad in Harlem.

“Detective Cedric Dixon will always be in our hearts and prayers, and the DEA will be forever here for his loved ones,” the Detectives’ Endowment Association tweeted Monday. “A hero on the front lines of a pandemic always ready to help his fellow cops and New Yorkers, Cedric will never be forgotten.”

Police Administrative Aide Gia-

comina Barr-Brown died March 26. She was assigned to the 49th Precinct’s Roll Call Office in the Bronx.

“Her infectious smile and dedication will truly be missed by her 49 Pct. Family,” the precinct tweeted the day after her death.

Dennis Dickson, a custodial assistant who had been with the depar t ment si nce 2006, died March 26, the first NYPD death related to the virus.

“When Hurricane Sandy struck, he worked 17 days straight and since the coronavirus has struck New York City he’s been keeping the NYPD safe so our officers can keep you safe,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said in a video after Dickson’s death.

At the beginning of the week, nearly one-fifth of the department’s uniformed officers were out sick.

“I spoke to Commissioner Shea this morning we went over the situation with absentees but we also went over the return rate which has gotten very strong,” Mayor de Blasio said at a press conference Monday in Brooklyn.

He added that “the vast majority of patrol officers in the NYPD are younger and very healthy people ... so, t he ext e nt t hey’ve b e e n exposed to the virus they’re comQ ing back rapidly.”

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Medical expert talks COVID-19 mitigation Director of Public Health at St. John’s weighs in on coronavirus

by David Russell Associate Editor

Queens is leading the city with the most coronavirus cases, a curious statistic considering it is not the most crowded borough.

“Are people living next to each other, on top of each other?” Harlem Gunness, the director of Public Health at St. John’s University, asked in a talk with the Chronicle Monday. “Are multiple families living together where the disease can easily spread?”

Part of the problem is mixed messages.

The World Health Organization recommends people not wear face masks unless they are sick with the coronavirus or caring for someone who is sick. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommends wearing masks.

“When you’re dealing with a novel virus, they are constantly, constantly changing the information,” Gunness said. “And with that, the public health officials have to change their information and then relay that to the public.”

He said some people may be confused and less likely to adapt to the recommendations because of all the rapid changes to them.

Gunness said there are many factors to consider, such as the heavily impacted neighborhoods, including Elmhurst, being “known to have a lower socio-economic status, or lower income, than other communities such as Flushing or Astoria or Forest Hills, where we don’t

have high cases of the virus.”

He pointed to wearing gloves and masks, if people have enough food to socially distance and if they have enough medication, noting many with underlying medical conditions have died from the coronavirus.

“When you have chronic conditions already existing in these low-income communities at high rates and we don’t know what their behaviors are, whether they need to go to the laundromat ... where are they congregating, where are they going?” Gunness said.

He was previously a senior officer with the U.S. Public Health Service stationed at the CDC, division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Quarantine Border Health Services branch. He managed the operations of the Ebola entry screening program at the CDC’s quarantine station at JFK Airport about five years ago.

He said the fact there were only four confirmed cases of Ebola in the country could have led to people not taking the coronavirus as seriously.

But he believes mass campaigning about COVID-19 should have been done once it began to spread.

“We didn’t know the degree to which it would be affecting us,” Gunness said, adding that warnings “came a little bit later in the game once the disease already started to spread,” and that it could’ve been mitigated.

Harlem Gunness, director of public health at St. John’s University, talks about battling the COURTESY PHOTO novel coronavirus.

He said there should have been better collaboration in addition to assessment.

“To have the governor beg for resources like ventilators or masks and gloves and proper [personal protective equipment] for healthcare workers who are on the first line responding, it really speaks to the lack of preparedness and the lack of communication,” Gunness said.

The state and federal level response needs to work as a better par t nership, according to Gunness.

DOE moves away from Zoom Virtual classrooms fall victim to call hijacking

by Katherine Donlevy

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After multiple “Zoom-bombing” incidents occurred within the three weeks schools have switched to online learning, the Department of Education has decided to sack the video-teleconferencing platform.

“The safety and security of our staff and students is at the forefront of every decision we make around remote learning, and for that reason, we have asked schools to transition away from using Zoom as soon as possible,” DOE Deputy Press Secretary Danielle Filson told the Chronicle.

The FBI’s Boston field office released a March 30 statement on Zoom, saying it received multiple reports of “conferences being disrupted by pornographic and/or hate images and threatening language,” an issue reported across the country. Security concerns over the software, especially callhighjacking, led city education officials to announce their April 3 decision to officially move away from the software that offered its services to educators free of charge during the pandemic.

“Does anybody really think that we want students’ personal information out there for anybody to see? For anybody to access?

That’s absolutely unacceptable,” Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said at an

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said that the Department of Education’s April 3 decision to move away from Zoom was to avoid NYC PHOTO / FLICKR frequent call highjacking.

April 5 press conference. “Zoom — and we’ve been working with Zoom — is unwilling and unable to meet the security needs of our students. We will not put our students’ information out in cyberspace for anybody to access — that is unacceptable.”

Two days before the DOE announced its decision, Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan

released an April 1 statement promising to address the privacy and security concerns, such as enacting a feature freeze to focus on the issues, conducting a review with thirdparty experts, preparing a transparency report of data, records or content and more.

“However, we recognize that we have fallen short of the community’s — and our own — privacy and security expectations.

For that, I am deeply sorry,” said Yuan.

Carranza said the move away from the platform will be gradual. Filson said that the DOE is supporting its teachers with “trainings and professional development to get them onto secure tools like Google and Microsoft Teams.” The alternative programs provide similar capabilities as Zoom, such as video calling, pre-recorded meetings, the ability to share a desktop computer, create discussion threads and more, but with higher security. Students and staff will be able to access the platforms using their DOE credentials that were created before remote learning took effect.

“We’re going to make sure that our students’ information is not out there for everybody to access,” said Carranza. “This is not an issue in New York City. This is an issue across the country. We are going to make sure that our students’ information is safe Q during this time period and going on.”

“If you don’t control it in the affected areas, it’s going to spread,” he said.

There are still several states that have not issued stay-at-home orders. Gunness compared that to having a urination section in a swimming pool.

“That doesn’t work because it’s porous,” he said. “The borders of states are porous, meaning that if I isolate in New York and I socially distance myself, then I go to another state that doesn’t do it and they can move around and drive around and enter New York State and go here and there, then it will be hard to contain the virus that way.”

There have also been questions about what medicine would work for the disease, with some people taking an anti-malaria drug or one that has been used to fight HIV. Gunness said often with a new disease, a number of people have to determine what works and what doesn’t. “You can’t say anecdotally it may work for one individual,” he said, noting that the HIV drug might work in one or two isolated cases, but when a lot of people are impacted and they see a treatment that works, “then you have to run the experiment or the study to determine how effective that treatment is and does it work for everyone, and does it work for people with underlying conditions, and which underlying medical Q conditions could it work better with?”

Regents exams are canceled With schools continuing to be closed due to the coronavirus crisis, the State Education Department announced on Monday that all June Regents exams have been canceled for this school year.

The announcement came in a memorandum sent from SED interim Commissioner Shannon Tahoe to school superintendents, principals and other leaders.

“This situation has evolved rapidly such that schools have now closed statewide, and there is much uncertainty as to when regular in-school attendance and instruction will be able to resume throughout the State and/or whether students will be adequately prepared to take these assessments,” Tahoe said. “It is most important that during the time of closure, educators be able to continue to focus their efforts toward local school and community needs and not have to be concerned about preparing students for State assessments.”

The memo said no decision had been made yet on August Regents exams, but that any summer-school student making up a failed course that would normally culminate in one, and who earns credit for the class, will not have Q to take the test.

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Helping business continue, prepare Queens Chamber links U.S. House members with small biz community

by Michael Gannon Editor

The business community in Queens, like those elsewhere in the city and across the country, is trying to stay afloat.

And while the Queens Chamber of Commerce has been acting as a conduit of information for small businesses on rapidly changing laws, regulations and potential funding sources out of Washington, DC, the group on Tuesday decided to cut out the middleman.

The chamber hosted a multiplatform virtual meeting and conference call that included five members of Congress who represent Queens: Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn, Queens), Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn), Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau), Grace Meng (D-Flushing) and Tom Suozzi (D-Suffolk, Nassau, Queens).

Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan), who is recuperating from the coronavirus, did not partici- Eateries that can offer takeout or delivery have been trying to tough out COVID-19. Business and pate. Nor did Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cor- congressional leaders are trying to stop the bleeding elsewhere.

PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON tez (Bronx, Queens).

Members of Congress updated business “Also, Queens businesses have been “I spoke with [Velazquez] earlier today,” Meeks said of the chairwoman of the House owners on details of the new Coronavirus incredible allies,” she said, referring to Small Business Committee. “She’s feeling a Aid, Relief and Economic Security — or those who have begun to manufacture or CARES — Act, which contains loan and provide things like protective equipment for little better.”

Tom Grech, president and CEO of the grant packages aimed at keeping people emergency workers and hospitals. chamber, began with a brief talk about the employed and getting businesses access to on-the-ground view in the borough. He said fast cash.

Several spoke of what they would like the the group’s aims are to help businesses keep going; to secure the funds for them to next phase of the federal financial response reopen following the statewide COVID-19 to include. Suozzi said the Payroll Proteccontinued from page 2 “pause”; and to help them hit the ground tion Program can be used just to keep workin the budget that increase the number of running as quickly as possible after the ers employed; and that loans of up to crimes that are subject to bail consider$10,000 can be used for any other expenses. startup. ation and give judges more discretion; and “They can’t be used for the same thing,” “We want people to be aware of what measures allowing the Metropolitan he said. resources are availTransportation Authority to ban someone Suoz z i hopes able to small busiconvicted of unlawful sexual conduct or t he nex t rou nd nesses during the assault on MTA property from mass tranueens businesses have includes the infaCOV I D -19 outsit for up to three years. mous “huge infrabreak,” Grech said been incredible allies.”

Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas structure program” before introducing (D-Astoria) said she voted against the that both sides of the House mem— U.S. Rep. Grace Meng budget “because its revenue provisions are the aisle in Washbers one by one. irresponsible and some of its policy proington are regular“We want to make posals are reprehensible.” sure people are aware of what is going in ly claiming they want; and the elimination of Simotas also said the budget lacked the new federal cap on deductions for state Queens and the metro area in general.” what she said were sensible reforms to One such effort, he said, is a list of restau- and local taxes — SALT — which right now generate revenue. rants and eatries that still are offering deliv- is $10,000.

“We had a host of different proposals to Meeks said banks generally are respondery service in nine regions of Queens for choose from, including a billionaire’s ing to the call, though some major lenders those wanting to dine out while staying in. wealth tax, an ultra-millionaire’s income “Check them at queensbest.org,” Grech have been slow to join. tax, a pied-a-tierre tax on luxury homes, a “We want to make sure they are themsaid. “If your restaurant is delivering and tax on stock buy backs or mezzanine debt you want to be listed, or if you’re changing selves consistent with the law,” Jeffries [which contains a claim on assets], but the your hours, even if you’re not a member of would add a few minutes later. Jeffries did Budget did not contain any,” she said in a the chamber, contact us at info@queen- say that the Federal Reserve has agreed to statement from her office. schamber.org. Or send to my email at buy up a portion of the loans so that banks Simotas, like Ramos, said the proposed tgrech@queenschamber.org and we’ll put do not have untenable amounts of outstandMedicaid budget comes at exactly the ing paper on their books. you on the list.” wrong time with the COVID-19 outbreak Grech, however, said many banks are He said the chamber has been working not yet considered to have even crested in with everyone from members of Congress to members of the chamber, and he expects the state. business improvement districts, the Greater most if not all in Queens to be on board by Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing) Jamaica Development Corp. and the Long the end of this week. said it was the most difficult budget she Meng said just prior to the phone call she Island City Partnership. has dealt with in her two decades in the “Everyone [in Queens] is working and learned that the U.S. Senate might take up Senate “and possibly in New York State rowing together, all on the same page,” additional help for small businesses as early as today, April 9.

Grech said.

While Grech said the Queens Chamber now operates in “13 or 14 languages,” Meng said it has been difficult to get the mainstream news to large swathes of the Asian community in and around Flushing, where she also said Asian-owned businesses have been suffering from unofficial boycotts since before COVID-19 even gained its first strong foothold in the country.

“Some restaurants that have been around in Flushing since I was a kid have shut down and are probably gone for good,” Meng said.

She added that there also have been more than 100 known attacks against Asians since the crisis began.

Grech also relayed questions that he was getting in real time from business people.

In response to one question, Meeks said many sole proprietors, gig workers and others not traditionally covered under federal small business regulations are eligible to apply for some of the grants and loans, or could qualify for amped-up unemployment insurance.

Maloney said phase four could begin coming into focus on or around April 20, though she said the health community is forecasting the end of the crisis for some time in May. “We want businesses ready to be up and Q running on day one,” Grech said.

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history,” in a press release.

Stavisky said the immediate need was to bolster the healthcare system and small businesses, and that compromise was necessary.

“I am confident this state budget is a responsible first step toward that recovery,” she said.

Andrew Rein, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, gave the measure a mixed review in his own press release.

“Lawmakers commendably refrained from enacting anticompetitive tax increases, reduced State’s spending on school aid, started to address the underlying structural problem in Medicaid, and benefited from enhanced federal aid,” Rein wrote. “However, State lawmakers established a new midyear modification process that allowed them to defer hard choices that this unprecedented economic disruption may require. While having such a process may be helpful given economic and future federal aid uncertainties, as designed it lacks sufficient transparency and accountability; this should be rectified in practice.”

And while Rein said the budget’s reliance on short-term borrowing is reasonable given the extension of the state’s income tax filing until July, the provision allowing Albany to convert that to long-term bonds would amount to borrowing to pay ordinary operating expenses “something which should Q only be done as a last resort.”

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Steep increases in early March fall after coronavirus measures put in

by Michael Gannon Editor

The NYPD on April 2 reported steep drops in major crimes throughout the city for the month of March, including some exponential decreases in all boroughs, and numerous categories since the citywide coronavirus emergency was declared on March 12.

And CompStat numbers released on Tuesday showed trends continuing downward as social distancing and public occupancy regulations for things such as supermarkets and religious ceremonies continued to tighten.

During March, major, or index, crimes fell 4.2 percent from 2019. But the dropoff between March 12 and 31 also included public housing and the transit system.

“The shift from the time the city declared a state of emergency is clear: From March 1 through March 11, overall index crime increased by 27.8 percent (2,934 v. 2,296) when compared to the same period a year ago,” the NYPD said in a statement on its website. “From March 12 through March 31, overall index crime decreased by 19.9 percent (3,740 v. 4,670) when compared to the same period in 2019.”

“In times of crisis, the men and women of the NYPD rise up and give their all for those they serve,” said NYPD Commissioner Der-

The NYPD says major crimes dropped precipitously after the city declared a state of emergency PHOTO COURTESY NYPD on March 12 over the coronavirus outbreak. mot Shea. “This is our proud history — whether on Sept. 11 and its aftermath, during Hurricane Sandy or through debilitating city blackouts — and this is how we are again responding in the face of this unprecedented public health emergency.”

Updated numbers complete through Sunday, March 5, show Queens to have a yearto-date increase in total major crimes so far in 2020, with a tally of 5,001 as opposed to

4,328 a year ago.

Murders in the borough are down from 19 to 11, and rapes fell from 93 to 74.

Robberies rose from 521 to 679; felony assaults from 914 to 1,021; burglaries from 1,896 to 2,044; and car thefts skyrocketing from 294 to 494.

But in week-to-date statistics, the borough appears to be seeing some of the COVID19-related declines reported throughout the

city as a whole.

For the week ending April 5, Queens had no murders after having one in the same time period in 2019. There was one murder in the week ending this past March 29.

Rapes in Queens for the week ending April 5 went from 6 in 2019 to zero, which also was down from three for the week ending March 29.

Robberies for the last week were down from 35 in 2019 to 31, but the number represented an uptick from the 28 reported through March 29.

The April 5 total of 57 felony assaults was down from the 84 from the same week in 2019, but a sharp jump over the 41 reported in the week ending on March 29.

Burglaries last week dropped from 43 reported in 2019 to 41, and also fell from the 46 reported through March 29.

Grand larcenies in Queens for the week ending April 5 went from 138 last year to 72, a number that also improved upon the 75 in the week ending March 29.

But the 43 auto thefts last week were more than the combined total for the same week in 2019 (22) and the week ending this past March 29 (20).

Index crimes in Queens totaled 243 for the week ending April 5, down from 329 a year Q ago but up from 214 the previous week.

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A 45-year-old driver was killed last Thursday at approximately 5:30 a.m. in a three-vehicle crash, police said.

Khairul Chowdhury of Jamaica was traveling westbound on Jamaica Avenue in a 2008 silver Lexus sedan, at the intersection of the Van Wyck Expressway service road in Richmond Hill, and struck a 2017 black Toyota Camry being driven southbound on the service road by a 35-year-old man.

Upon striking the vehicle, the Lexus ES 350 continued westbound in the eastbound lanes and struck another vehicle, a 2010 Honda Odyssey minivan driven by a 55-year-old woman.

After hitting the other vehicle, it continued into a store at 135-08 Jamaica Ave., a check cashing business, where it came to a rest.

Police responded and found Chowdhury unconscious in the driver’s seat.

EMS responded to the location and transported him to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

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EMS also removed the operators of the other two vehicles to the hospital in stable condition.

Police could not say whether Chowdhury or the Toyota driver had the light, and the investigation remains ongoing.

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“7-Eleven is a place that’s usually open 24 hours a day so I don’t know what they could Capt. Joseph Cappelmann, commanding do when they close unexpectedly,” Cappelofficer of the 112th Precinct, is fighting an mann said. “Really, they just need to have uptick in commercial burglaries, with many alarms and cameras. That will help us with the investigation but as far as preventing it, businesses closed due to the coronavirus.

“Everything seems to be primarily on the what we’re doing is loading the midnights up first platoon on the midnight tour,” he told the with personnel and having them in zones where we’re historiChronicle Tuesday. cally taking commerSupermarkets, gas cial burglaries.” stations and 7-Eleven The com mander are among the targets. said the burglars don’t The 7-Eleven at 101seem highly skilled, 04 Metropolitan Ave. though he acknowlin Forest Hills was hit edged a more sophistilast Saturday morncated occurrence was ing. After it closed for a rooftop job done at the night, neighborVitelio’s Marketplace hood coordination on Yellowstone Bouofficers were going levard on March 30, arou nd inspecting during which approxiclosed businesses and mately $10,000 was saw the door was brotaken. The departken. Video showed ment’s Major Case someone kicking the Squad is handling the door and taking cigarettes among other Capt. Joseph Cappelmann, commander of the investigation.

Cappelmann said property.

PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL 112th Precinct. the precinct is also “My people were actually in the right place at the right time seeing tires and rims taken off of cars. And doing exactly what I asked them to do,” Cap- there have been more vehicles being stolen.

“A lot of those have to do with people leavpelmann said. “They just missed that burglary.

They were there within minutes of the ing their cars unattended with keys in the ignition,” he said. Over the past month, the rates of occurrence.”

Another man took cigarettes from Gas Sale other crimes have been flat.

Through March 29, burglaries were up at 68-27 Woodhaven Blvd. in Rego Park early on April 3. Cappelmann has an idea on why the 137.5 percent, at 19 from 8 through the same stretch in 2019. perpetrators are taking cigarettes.

He also said morale in the precinct has been “High mark-up on them. I think probably they’re reselling them to probably bodegas and pretty good considering everything.

“The cops are going through a lot right now stuff like that,” he said, noting that can make but they’re holding up and they’re out there quick money.

He said alarms are not being tripped during still doing their job and working hard,” CapQ pelmann said. the break-ins.

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When and Where to Seek Care NYU Langone experts want you to know how to stay healthy and when to seek medical care given the outbreak of COVID-19 in New York.

Lenin Fierro from Forest Hills died from the coronavirus on March 31. Fierro, who worked for the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, leaves behind his wife, Brenda, and their two daughters, Destiny and Faith. A Gofundme page has been started for the family. GOFUNDME PHOTO

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Lenin Fierro, 42, of Forest Hills became the first Department of Citywide Administrative Services employee to die from COVID-19 on March 31.

“The main thing with Lenny was that he had an infectious sense of humor. He was really kind to everybody,” said Michal Tracz, his friend of more than 25 years who started a Gofundme page for Fierro’s family.

Tracz, who is now a physician, and Fierro met working at McDonald’s on Steinway Street in Astoria. Both of their future wives also worked there.

“We just started being friends and the next thing you know we fell in love,” Brenda Fierro said, adding, “Who would’ve thought our love story would start at McDonald’s?”

Brenda, who is half-Ecuadorian, came to find out that Lenin was from Ecuador. Her father was from Ambato, which turned out to be the city where Lenin was born. And his stepfather had been friends with her father.

They were married in 1998 and had two daughters, Destiny and Faith.

Fierro, who spent 10 years in the U.S. Navy, joined DCAS in 2014 and was the director of fleet safety and Vision Zero initiatives for DCAS Fleet Management. He helped build and implement Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero traffic safety initiative. He also built the CRASH tracking system, the city’s first vehicle crash analytics system.

“He was able to work really hard at tasks at hand and it served him at McDonald’s, it served him in the U.S. Navy, it served him at what he did for the city,” Tracz said, noting that he was able to combine intelligence

in work and being able to translate to others as a connector, such as taking what the mayor said and giving the message to the actual drivers.

De Blasio spoke about Fierro during a coronavirus press conference last Thursday, saying his story was “A total New York story. An American success story.”

Fierro was sick around March 20 and went to the hospital a few days later with shortness of breath. Chest X-rays looked fine and he was sent home with his coronavirus test results several days from being known.

He went home but a few days later went back to the hospital with shortness of breath. When Brenda went the next day to bring him his phone charger, she was told he was in the ICU. “I just started crying,” she said. “What’s wrong with my husband?”

His body was cremated Wednesday with the ashes being kept at home.

“He was the life of the party,” Brenda said. “He was the life of everything. Everywhere he went, he brought that light.”

Now she’s raising Destiny and Faith alone and she lost her job at a hotel because of the pandemic. “They were daddy’s girls,” she said. “Both of them. They lost their hero, their everything. I lost my everything.”

Through Wednesday afternoon, $5,535 has been raised toward the fundraiser’s $10,000 goal, with 75 people donating.

People interested in donating can visit gofundme.com /f/our-dear-lenny-f ier ro / donate/sign-in.

“There are times I still wish this was a bad dream and I wake up and it’s not true,” Q Brenda said.

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‘The hospital definitely changed’ Northwell chaplain makes sure COVID-19 patients aren’t alone

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

“T he hospit al def i n itely changed. It’s a crisis — we try to be as focused as possible on the crisis so we can face it with success, which means having as many people as healthy as possible after this, but everything is disrupted ...

When you walk the hallway you notice the change.”

This April marks the Rev. Radu Titonea’s 10th year as hospital chaplain of Northwell Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Medical Center. Rather than celebrating with a party or a cake, Titonea will mark the anniversary by visiting countless COVID-19 patients as one of the hospital’s 24/7 on-call frontline personnel.

“If a family member or a patient wants me there I will be there, even though I have to be cautious ... Right now I’m trying to be available,” said Titonea.

Donning the same personal protective equipment as his medical professional colleagues, Titonea has expanded his responsibilities as chaplain to inspire confidence and bring comfort where he can to the intensive care unit patients.

“Before the outbreak, I always tried to focus on three avenues,” he continued. “First is the patients, second is the families of the patient and third is the staff. Right now my focus is mostly the patients because we don’t have families present.”

Because the virus is highly contagious, family members are restricted from visiting their loved ones during their hospital stays.

Titonea attempts to provide the COVID-19 patients with company and comfor t in place of their absent loved ones. The chaplain

said he prioritizes the most critical patients, especially as they near their final moments.

“It’s a very sad thing. You’re thinking about them being alone, without their loved ones, and it’s definitely a sad thing. You can’t be a substitute [for their families], but you try to be there for them in that ver y moment and make su re they’re not alone.”

Due to the high volume of COVID-19 patients, Titonea must prioritize his visits to the most critically ill, explaining that many are intubated and sedated during their final breaths, made possible with the help of the hospital’s ventilators. “I speak a little loud for them to hear me. We hope they hear me and know they’re not alone.”

“Then, you have to go to the next duty that you have. There’s only a certain amount of time,” he continued. “I wish I could visit the other ones, but I know they’ll get bet t er a nd go back to t hei r families.”

Titonea’s job requires him to be available for patients’ spiritual needs, but he is mainly concerned with bringing comfort to patients of ever y background. Despite being a Catholic priest, Titonea is willing to visit ever y patient regardless of varying, or lack of, faith. — “The patient has no religion? I’ll do it no problem. We try to serve everybody in the hospital; not only Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, but everybody who is here.” — In times outside the pandemic, community imams and rabbis would normally visit patients of their respective religions, but in order to d e c r e a s e ex p o s u r e t hey a r e restricted from entering the hospital. Instead, Titonea is equipped

Ka Wai Chan, a Northwell Labs medical technician, administers a patient’s COVID-19 test.

The Rev. Radu Titonea, Northwell Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Medical Center’s hospital chaplain, is one of the few allowed to visit COVID-19 patients in an effort to bring them spiritual comfort and to remind them that they are PHOTOS COURTESY NORTHWELL HEALTH ABOVE, LEFT; PHOTOS BY KATHERINE DONLEVY, RIGHT not alone in their fight against the virus. with an iPad so he can arrange as others do across the state. The said. “Everyone comes together — Skype calls with patients and their Northwell Health system spent everyone’s worried about themover $5 million on lab equipment selves to not get sick, but they still religious leaders at their request.

Titonea’s focus on patients as and supplies such as masks, come to work and they come very his main responsibility has not gloves, goggles, gowns and more well together. They understand changed, but he has increased his shor tly before the pa ndem ic their role in helping and saving attention toward comforting the began, and has continued ordering lives.”

“Stress does not end with the more in anticihospital staff, pation that the crisis. We need to be strong and who are “absoneed continues together and support each other ou try to be there lutely stressed.” to rise. Tito- little by little,” he continued.

Ac c o r d i n g t o for them in that nea, who said “Queens, especially, always has the chaplain, the the hospital is this feeling of coming together combined extra very moment and being careful even though we come from so long hours, not to “overuse many different cultures ... With the large number of make sure they’re and abuse the blessing of God and support of one patients and fear not alone.” e q u i p m e n t ,” another we can get through this.” of catching the After witnessing a myriad of finds comfort virus them— the Rev. Radu Titonea knowing there victims succumb to the virus and selves has is security in seeing the number of admitted caused frontline patients rise every day, Titonea’s workers to feel “overwhelmed,” a their own protection.

Despite their own distress and main piece of advice to his comfeeling he shares with the workers.

“The psychological stress is fears, Titonea applauded the doc- munity members is: “Respect what much more than the physical stress tors, nurses and various other your authorities are saying ... keep because you’re thinking about frontline workers on their determi- social distancing ... stay inside. We can be instrumental to support and everyone — your fellow staff to be nation to care for the patients.

Q “The staff is extraordinary,” he help.” safe so they can continue to do their work, and the patients and yourself, of course,” he said.

As of April 7, LIJ Forest Hills’ ICU was at 80 percent capacity and 16 percent of its COVID-19 patients were on ventilators.

Although the raw numbers that make up the percentages are not available to the public, the hospital was proud to announce that it had discharged 55 COVID-19 patients on April 6.

Luckily, LIJ Forest Hills has sufficient ventilators to accommodate its respiratory disease-stricken patients should they need assistance breathing. Also fortunately, its frontline workers don’t yet share the same concer ns over Precaution signs outside LIJ Forest Hills warn of the hospital’s new guidedepleting personal protective gear lines amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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by David Russell Many movies have been filmed in Queens over the years and with most people being home, now is a great time to catch up on viewing some of the classics.

“Goodfellas” The 1990 crime drama is the best Queens movie of them all. Martin Scorsese’s es epic tells the story of Henry Hill’s journey from mobster to informant.

Ray Liotta plays Hill, while Robert De Niro, Paul Sorvino, Lorraine Bracco and an Oscar-winning Joe Pesci provide great supporting work. Scorsese mixes violence ce and humor along with an eclectic soundtrack, resulting in a wildly popular, oftennquoted thrill ride that takes a look at the Lufthansa heist, the $5 million robbery at JFK Airport.

The borough gets plenty of screen time, including Jackson Hole Diner in Astoria ria and Neir’s Tavern in Woodhaven.

In addition to play on cable television, the movie is available to rent or buy from om Google Play, YouTube, Amazon and iTunes.

“Going in Style” The most underrated movie on this list, the 1979 comedy-drama sees George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg as three retirees living together in Astoria.

They’re bored and don’t have much money. So, they decide to kill two birds with one stone and rob a bank.

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“Coming to America” “What better place to find a Queen than the city of Queens?”

So asks Eddie Murphy as he plays the prince of Zamunda. When a marriage is arranged for him, he goes to Queens with his best friend, played by Arsenio Hall, all, to look for a new start.

They find work at McDowell’s, a fast-food chain. A Wendy’s in Elmhurst was used for the restaurant.

The 1988 comedy is available on Prime Video, the iTunes Store and YouTube, among other options.

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NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE (SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION) AS TRUSTEE FOR MORGAN STANLEY MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-7 IS FORECLOSING AGAINST THE OWNER OF THIS PREMISES. IF YOU LIVE HERE, THIS LAWSUIT MAY RESULT IN YOUR EVICTION. YOU MAY WISH TO CONTACT A LAWYER TO DISCUSS ANY RIGHTS AND POSSIBLE DEFENSES YOU MAY HAVE. NOTICE OF OBJECT OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above-entitled action is to foreclose a mortgage to secure $285,000.00 plus interest, recorded in the Office of the County Clerk/City Register of the County of Queens on March 28, 2006 as Instrument Number 2006000171941 covering the premises described as follows: 132-15 109th Avenue, South Ozone Park, New York 11420. The relief sought in the within action is final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the mortgage described above. The Plaintiff makes no personal claim against any Defendants in this action. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Honorable Rudolph E. Greco, Jr., J.S.C. dated February 28, 2020 and filed March 11, 2020. Help for Homeowners in Foreclosure, New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Summons and Complaint, You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the summons and complaint carefully.

You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. Sources of Information and Assistance. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process.. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services at (800) 342-3736 or visit the Department’s website at http://www.dfs.ny.gov. Rights and Obligations, YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AT THIS TIME. You have the right to stay in your home during the foreclosure process. You are not required to leave your home unless and until your property is sold at auction pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale. Regardless of whether you choose to remain in your home, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROPERTY and pay property taxes in accordance with state and local law. Foreclosure Rescue Scams. Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed.

State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services.

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The rise and rapid fall of Queens BP Donald Manes

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Edward Manes married Belle Cohen in November 1922. A daughter named Edith Hope Manes was born in February 1925.

Belle gave birth again on Jan. 18, 1934 to identical twin boys they named Donald and Morton. Edward owned a wholesale dairy business on Stone Avenue in the heart of Brownsville in Brooklyn.

Donald fell in love, and married Marlene Warshofsky in 1955 at age 21. A fast-rising star, he was an assistant district attorney at age 27, member of the City Council at 31 and borough president of Queens at 37. He purchased an English Tudor 2,300-square-foot home on a 75-by-110-foot lot at 80-65 Chevy Chase St. in Jamaica Estates.

Shortly after re-election to a fifth term as Queens borough president in 1985 he was trapped in a scandal involving bribes and kickbacks. The pressure mounted until he resigned from office. Claire Shulman, his deputy, took command of Borough Hall.

On March 13, 1986, while talking to his psychiatrist, Dr. Elliot Wineburg, on the phone Manes plunged a 14-inch EKCO flint

The home of former Queens Borough President Donald Manes at 80-65 Chevy Chase St. in Jamaica Estates, 1980s.

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knife into his chest, ending his life at age 52.

The beautiful home was sold by Marlene shortly after his death. It was last sold again in 2017 for the sum of $1,470,000, records show, and has been given a refaced exterior Q with a totally new look today.

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by Katherine Donlevy associate editor

Flushing Town Hall, like other cultural organizations, has temporarily closed its doors amid the COVID-19 pandemic. While some events have been rescheduled or canceled altogether, the global arts center has created free virtual programming to continue bringing world music and performing arts to its audience.

“In times of crisis, the arts remind us of our shared humanity,” Executive and Artistic Director Ellen Kodadek said in a prepared statement. “Though we may find ourselves more physically isolated than usual, none of us are alone.”

“Flushing Town Hall At Home!” includes daily activities for families offered by the center’s teaching artists. “Global Arts for

Calendar Special Notice The Queens Chronicle will not be publishing What’s Happening — our Community Calendar for the time being. We look forward to resuming publication as soon as possible.

Global Kids at Home,” an arts education series, is available weekdays, when participants can enjoy short videos of music and dance from various cultures, such as China, Colombia and India. An at-home activity follows each lesson, and families are encouraged to post short videos of themselves trying the dances and activities in their own homes.

“It’s how to engage everyone, bring everyone together. That’s our main purpose,” Chinese dance Teaching Artist Ling Tang told the Chronicle. Tang said the prerecorded programming includes not onlydance tutorials, but further research materials for viewers to explore beyond the class.

“We developed DIY tutorials because some content uses specialized props,” said Tang, referring to the portion of her class that focuses on chopstick dancing. “If kids don’t have access to chopsticks at home, because that’s cultural-specific, we have DIY instructions on how to make their own ... they follow my instructions with homefound materials — you can roll up two magazines together.”

Tang said that lessons are packaged with links to further educational materials and

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Can’t visit Flushing Town Hall? No worries.

Flushing Town Hall launched three virtual series, one of which streams previous perFILE PHOTO formances by bands such as the Asia Chamber Music Society, above. culture histories. The series is available at flushingtownhall.org/fth-at-home-gagk.

Flushing Town Hall is hosting a “Facebook Watch Party Live!” every Tuesday and Friday at 7 p.m. where visitors can tune in and stream prior live performances right on their screen. The family-friendly shows range from world music to Latin, jazz and more, and can be found at facebook.com/ flushingtownhall.

A performance by The Brubeck Brothers will be streamed on April 10 as part of the

center’s “Celebrate JAM Month with jazz music” week, followed by “Discover World Music,” “Dance to South American Music” and “Clap to Asian Beat.”

Additionally, the arts center has launched a “Zoom Community Hangout” every Thursday at 1 p.m. to establish close connections in a time when separation is not only encouraged, but mandated. Participants can take part with or without video, and instructions on how to join the hangout can be found at Q flushingtownhall.org/fth-at-home.

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10 essential Queens movies you should see: Part 1 continued from page 23 Burns, who was in the midst of his 1970s comeback after not appearing in a movie onscreen since 1939, plays the mastermind of the unlikely heist as his two friends go from skeptical to interested in doing something more exciting than sitting in the park and feeding pigeons.

“Going in Style” can be bought or rented on YouTube and is available on DVD.

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“Good Time” A recent entry, the 2017 crime film sees Robert Pattinson as Connie Nikas, a man on the run with his developmentally disabled brother after they rob a bank. What follows is a wild, extended chase as Nikas tries to help his brother and avoid the cops.

Popular Community Bank in Elmhurst is where the initial crime takes place; Pattinson tries to get money from American Liberty Bail Bonds in Kew Gardens; other filming locations include New World Mall in Flushing and White Castle in Elmhurst.

“Good Time” is available on Netflix and for purchase on Google Play, YouTube, Vudu and Prime Video.

“The Wolf of Wall Street” If “Goodfellas” leaves you wanting more Scorsese, there’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,” about Bayside’s Jordan Belfort and his stock-market scheming.

Leonardo DiCaprio plays Belfort as the movie sees his rise from young broker to wildly successful trader to disgraced criminal. In one scene, filmed at the old Shalimar Diner in Rego Park, Belfort talks his neighbor, played by Jonah Hill, into joining

George Burns, left, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg play three retirees in Astoria who plan on robbing a bank in “Going in Style.” On the cover: Scenes from our five selections for this week. YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT / MOVIECLIPS CLASSIC TRAILERS / WARNER BROS., ABOVE; COVER SCREENSHOTS FROM WARNER BROS. (”GOODFELLAS”); PARAMOUNT (“COMING TO AMERICA”); PARAMOUNT (“THE WOLF OF WALL STREET”); A24 (“GOOD TIME”); AND WARNER BROS. (“GOING IN STYLE”)

him in the business.

Don’t be scared off by the movie’s three-hour run time. The rapid pacing, action and dialogue don’t give the audience much time to be bored.

“The Wolf of Wall Street” is on Hulu

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Stay healthy and stay safe.

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Part two of this series will run next week, as Michael Gannon takes a look at five more essential Queens films.

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The COVID-19 crisis has taken a toll on every segment of our economy and sports is a very visible example. The lack of live games has understandably frustrated fans and has wrecked the weekend programming of the major broadcast networks, and is crippling ESPN. WFAN has been the sports radio leader in the New York market for 33 years and has always been a leader in the Arbitron ratings, which measure radio listenership. While it may actually wind up having even more listeners than ever because people are home, its revenue will decrease because it isn’t airing Yankees games, and this virus-induced recession has greatly impacted advertising dollars.

Executives from both CBS Radio, WFAN’s former owner, and Entercom, its current one, have long bragged about how WFAN was the highest-billing station in the country. Judging by the news, the good times are certainly over for now. A sign troubling times had arrived at the FAN was the decision to furlough weekend air staff and make every weekday personality add a weekend shift to his or her regular duties. Richard Neer has gotten some graveyard airtime back but popular weekend voices such as Chris Moore, Chris McMonigle, Jody McDonald, Ed Randall and Lori Rubinson are still shelved.

Last week, Entercom announced that any

employee who did not have a contract would have his or her salary slashed by 20 percent and made clear that even those who had contracts would be wise to comply.

That edict undoubtedly nudged John Minko, who has been doing the station’s sports update newscasts since its inception in 1987, to accept a corporate buyout. Most pensions are based on average career salary so a pay cut would permanently reduce his monthly check. Minko isn’t retiring, as he’ll still be the radio play-by-play voice for St. John’s University men’s basketball.

Entercom execs asked Mike Francesa to increase his presence at the FAN. In addition to his weekday 6 p.m. 30-minute program, he is now hosting a Sunday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. show.

Francesa made news last week when he used his bully pulpit to criticize President Trump’s response to the health crisis as far as New York was concerned. It was newsworthy because he has always been a visible and loud supporter of the president. Needless to say, the clip of Francesa’s rant quickly caught fire on social media.

Instead of being thrilled with this priceless publicity, Entercom had Francesa announce that anyone posting unauthorized content would be subject to legal action. I guess Entercom doesn’t want to risk incurring Trump’s wrath in case it’s eligible for federal bailout funds.

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C M SQ page 30 Y K SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS INDEX NO. 711377/2019 Plaintiff designates QUEENS as the place of trial situs of the real property SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 3312 111TH STREET, CORONA, NY 11368, Block: 1725 Lot: 16 U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET INVESTMENT LOAN TRUST MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2003-BC11, Plaintiff -against- GWENDOLYN WILLIAMS; SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE(S) OF THE WILLIAMS FAMILY TRUST if living, and if she/he/they be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the Subject Property described in the Complaint, Defendants. To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $260,000.00 and interest, recorded on November 18, 2003, at Instrument number CRFN 2003000460276, of the Public Records of QUEENS County, New York, covering premises known as 3312 111TH STREET CORONA, NY 11368. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. QUEENS County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: January 2, 2020 RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff BY:GLENN W. CAULFIELD, ESQ., 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, NY 11590, 516-280-7675

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No.: 24950/2011 Borough: Queens Block: 11014 Lot: 45, Action to Foreclose Mortgage on Property Situated in QUEENS County, CIT Bank, N.A. f/k/a OneWest Bank N.A. f/k/a OneWest Bank, FSB, Plaintiffs -against- Robyn Turner as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Bennye Everett Turner; Denise Turner a/k/a Ruby Denise Turner as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Bennye Everett Turner; New York State Department of Taxation and Finance; United States of America (Eastern District); Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; New York City Environmental Control Board; New York City Parking Violations Bureau; New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau; RAB Performance Recoveries LLC; Unknown Heirs and Distributees of the Estate of Bennye Everett Turner; and “JOHN DOE 1 to JOHN DOE 25”, said names being fictitious, the persons or parties intended being the persons, parties, corporations or entities, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the mortgaged premises described in the complaint, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of the Summons exclusive of the day of service or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. In case of your failure to appear, or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in this Complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: New York, New York, March 13, 2020, BRONSTER, LLP, Attorneys for Plaintiff, By: Adam P. Briskin, Esq., 156 West 56th Street, Suite 1801, New York, NY 10019, 212-558-9300 119-16

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14-16 BURMA MEMBER LLC. Arts of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/23/20.

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Queens County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to Elite Video and Sound LLC, 30-70 44th St., Apt. 2L, Astoria, NY 11103.

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Notice of Formation of APAC entities LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/23/2019.

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Notice of Formation of Dr Kafui Kouakou Consulting LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/31/2019. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: DR. KAFUI KOUAKOU, 18444 GRAND CENTRAL PKWY, JAMAICA, NY 11432.

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LORAIUS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed

w/ SSNY on 2/5/20. Office: Queens Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: c/o Grace Kim, 2185 Lemoine Ave., Unit 1P, Fort Lee, NJ 07024. Purpose: any lawful. with the SSNY on 02/13/20.

Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 196-60 45th Avenue, Basement Apartment, Flushing, NY 11358.

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MoMI screening films Vallone, Grodenchik online during closing positive for COVID

by David Russell Associate Editor

Like any cultural institution the Museum of the Moving Image is closed with on-site screenings and programs suspended due to the coronavirus but the museum is presenting new online releases of international films for movie lovers who are stuck inside.

“Vitalina Varela” is about a woman who travels to Lisbon to reunite with her husband after two decades of separation, only to arrive days after his funeral.

Alone in a new land, she begins to establish a new life.

The film, in Portugese with English subtitles, is available though April 14 by visiting grasshopperfilm.vhx.tv/products/ momi-presents-vitalina-varela.

“Corpus Christi” is the story of a 20-year-old being released from prison for a violent crime and sent to a village to work as a manual laborer. He found Christ during his incarceration but no seminary will accept him with his criminal record. But when a lie allows him to be mistaken for the town’s new priest, he sets about leading his new flock.

The movie, in Polish with English subtitles, is available through April 15 at f i l m m ove m e n t p l u s .c o m / p r o d u c t s / museum-of-the-moving-image-presentscorpus-christi.

“The Whistlers” is a neo-noir thriller about a police inspector who embraks on a high-stakes heist with a femme fatale.

The film, in Romanian, English and Spanish with English subtitles, is available though April 17 at magnoliapictures. com/momi-thewhistlers.

“The Hottest August” canvasses the five boroughs during August 2017, a month heavy with tension over the new president and heightened anxiety over topics from rising rents to marching white nationalists and news reports of wildfires and hurricanes along the coast.

Viewers can visit grasshopperfilm. vhx.tv/products/momi-presents-the-hottest-august through April 17.

Tickets for all films are $12, with a portion of sales going to the museum.

MoMIs online publications, Reverse Shot and Sloan Science & Film, continue to post new articles each week at reverQ shot.org and scienceandfilm.org.

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

City Councilmembers Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) and Bar r y Grodenchik (D-Oakland Gardens) took to Twitter to announce that they have tested positive for COVID-19, joining District Attorney Melinda Katz as the few Queens government officials to catch the coronavirus at the center of the pandemic.

“My family and I remain at home and have been self-quarantining, resting and healing together,” Vallone tweeted on April 1. “I feel blessed to have had manageable symptoms & I am on the road to recovery.”

For more than 20 years, Vallone has suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease that affects the lungs, and recently noticed that his symptoms had worsened. Although he described them as mild, his symptoms led him to test for the virus, which came back positive.

Despite his own illness, he remained positive for those fighting the pandemic.

“My prayer is for the health of our families, our first responders, our healthcare workers & all those on the front lines every

day working to get our city through this pandemic,” he said. “Together, we will weather these uncertain times & come through stronger.”

Grodenchik announced his positive diagnosis a day later, stating that he has been self-isolating at home with his family since March 14. “I’m starting to feel much better and will continue to remain in isolation until I’m fully recovered,” he tweeted.

Katz announced March 29 that she tested positive for the virus after being exposed to it earlier in the month. A day later, Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens) announced that she likely contracted COVID-19, though she was not recommended for testing, and is self-quarantining.

Both City Council members announced that their offices will remain open remotely via phone and email, as all staff have been advised to work from home as under Gov. Cuomo’s stay-at-home mandate.

“I have been and will continue to be in regular communication with my staff, who are working hard to serve the residents of Eastern Queens. Please stay Q safe,” tweeted Grodenchik.

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