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A recent visit to the Richmond Hill train tracks along Babbage Street showed a surplus of trash in the area under the trestle as well as other hazards including a dilapidated waiting area roof that Community Board 9 member Kevin O’Leary worries could fall down and injure someone.

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Juneteenth declared official city holiday Adams picks up where predecessor de Blasio left off

by Naeisha Rose

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ayor Adams declared on Monday that Juneteenth will be a paid city holiday

this year.

“As the second Black mayor of New York City, I know that I stand on the shoulders of countless heroes and sheroes who put their lives on the line to secure a more perfect union. Now is the time for me to do a small part and recognize one of our nation’s greatest wrongs,” Adams said in a prepared statement.

The announcement brought a tear to Irene Raevsky’s eye when she got praised by one of her Black colleagues after she spent the past three months advocating for the holiday.

“I actually got emotional,” said Raevsky, an attorney and manager for the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings who has been working for the city for the past 11 years. “It’s not something I did for myself. It affected so many people ... I know the work that went into it and it makes me feel really good.”

Raevsky had reached out to Councilwoman Lynn Schulman (D-Forest

Hills) and the Queens Chronicle to advocate for the holiday being enacted after several of her Black colleagues turned to her with questions about whether the holiday would be celebrated in 2022.

“I am glad that Mayor Adams made Juneteenth an official city holiday,” Schulman said to the Chronicle via email. “It is a way for everyone to uniformly celebrate the contributions of Black Americans across the city and nation.”

There was confusion about the holiday after former Mayor de Blasio said that he would make Juneteenth official for 2022, but failed to reach out to any unions, which would be partially responsible for the expense, according to City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica).

The speaker said that the holiday means a lot to her.

“Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in America, has special meaning for me and my community,” Adams said to the Chronicle via email. “It serves as a day to recommit ourselves to racial equality and justice

for all. I look forward to joining our community partners in celebration of Juneteenth and moving forward in the path toward liberation.”

Raevsky, a Forest Hills resident, said that she was happiest for her colleagues being able to celebrate and reflect on the holiday.

“They are ecstatic about it,” said Raevsky. “They are happy about it.”

Tunisia Morrison, the co-chair of Juneteenth in Queens, who has already set plans in motion for a second celebration on her own at Roy Wilkins Park in St. Albans on June 19, which also is Father’s Day this year, is proud of the mayor for officially declaring it a holiday.

“I think that is so amazing,” said Morrison. “I did not expect less from our mayor. I’m happy that all city workers now have the opportunity to observe on that Monday.”

Juneteenth is traditionally celebrated on June 19, but because that is a Sunday this year, federal and state workers, as well as those in other institutions, will have the following Monday off.

“It’s a celebration and a conversation,” said Morrison. “I’m happy

that we cannot only just do that federally and statewide, but now citywide. Hopefully as years come, now that it has been officially declared on all levels, families can come together over a grill in the backyard and really discuss lineage and America and its history and all of the amazingness that Black people fought for in this country.”

Morrison hopes that city agencies will also get an education about the holiday.

Borough President Donovan Richards was also excited about the new status of Juneteenth.

“Black history is Queens history, New York City history and American history, and few dates carry more historical weight in the United States than Juneteenth,” he said via email. “We’re thankful to Mayor Adams for taking this much-needed, long overdue action as part of our clear-eyed push toward true equality across society, but to all our justice leaders across New York City who have led this charge for years, this is your victory.”

The mayor shares Richards’ sentiments on the importance of the

Mayor Adams declared Juneteenth will be a holiday this year.

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holiday.

“Juneteenth is a time for reflection, assessment, and self-improvement. People across the country of all races, nationalities and religions unite on this day to truthfully acknowledge the stain of slavery and celebrate the countless contributions of Black Americans,” Adams said in the announcement. “It’s time for our city to finally do what’s right and officially designate Juneteenth as a city holiday. This decision is long overdue, which is why it will immediately take effect this year.

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One caught, one at large in bias attack Second R. Hill assault may be tied to same suspect and squatter house

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

Two Sikh men were attacked Tuesday morning in Richmond Hill near where a hate crime against a member of the same community occurred last week. One man is in custody and another is still at large.

The incident occurred near the intersection of 95th Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard just after 7 a.m., according to police, a block from the Sikh Cultural Society gurdwara.

Officers found the two men, 76 and 64 years old, with minor injuries to the head and body. A preliminary investigation determined that the victims were approached by two men who struck them both on the head and body with closed fists and a wooden stick. The victims were taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.

The assailants removed religious headwear from the men and stole their money. The incident is being treated as a robbery and a hate crime, according to police.

Hezekiah Coleman, 20 years old, who police say was squatting at 95-54 Lefferts Blvd., was taken into custody and charged with robbery, assault, hate crimes and aggravated harassment, officials said.

Police believe the suspect they have not caught also committed last

week’s assault against Nirmal Singh, 70, said Community Affairs Officer Scott Adelman of the 102nd Precinct at the Community Board 9 meeting on Tuesday night.

The 102nd has a directed post at 95 -54 L ef fer t s Blvd., wh ich appears to be abandoned. It is believed that both suspects were squatters there.

“That car will not leave until the perpetrator is caught,” said Adelman.

Sukhjinder Singh Nijjar is the chairman of external affairs and the elections commission at the Sikh Cultural Society. He says the society is working with the precinct and hate crimes unit in the aftermath of the attacks.

He hopes to see increased police presence and is working to get a car permanently assigned for the temple area. On Wednesday, he and a group of about 15 community members met at the temple at 3 a.m. to patrol.

“It’s an unfortunate event but you can’t deploy the whole police there so for that reason, we are just trying to help out as much as we can,” said Nijjar.

“We’re exploring all these avenues to see if we can have this area covered, not only for our local Sikh community, but also many other multicultural communities in

The man above is wanted in connection with two hate crimes that occurred in Richmond Hill over the last two weeks.

Police believe the suspects are squatters at the abandoned house at 95-54 Lefferts Blvd., where they now have a PHOTOS COURTESY NYPD, LEFT, AND BY DEIRDRE BARDOLF 24/7 patrol. this area,” he said, adding that the society will continue to hold elected officials accountable on delivering on their promises.

The Sikh Coalition, an advocacy group with off ices in New York, issued a statement on Twitter regarding the attack.

“Law enforcement believes both men were targeted for being Sikh, and the attacks are being investigated as anti-Sikh hate crimes,”

the coalition stated. The group is not releasing names or images out of respect for privacy.

“As the first Punjabi American ever elected to New York State Of f ice, I a m here to say i n unequivocal terms that there is zero tolerance for hate crimes against the Sikh American community in New York state,” said Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar (D-Woodhaven).

The lawmaker said she, the mayor and Congress “will give law enforcement the tools they need to fully investigate and prosecute these crimes of bias.”

“A leisurely stroll turned tragic when two members of the Sikh community were targeted for their faith,” Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Ozone Park) tweeted Tuesday.

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CB 9 welcomes new members and chair

Algredo presented with state honor and youngest member introduced

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Community Board 9 welcomed three new members to its board on Tuesday night at its monthly meeting at Villa Russo in Richmond Hill.

One of the board’s new members is Daniel Coffaro Hill, who is the youngest member of the board at 16 years old and one of only three teenagers to be recently appointed to Queens community boards by Borough President Donovan Richards.

Of the borough president’s 94 first-time appointees, 48 percent were under the age of 40, including three appointees in their teens.

“I’m the youngest member of this board and with that I bring a younger perspective and also volunteering with the civilian patrol, the food pantry — we’re out there on the streets, we know firsthand what problems people are facing, so that’s always a good thing to bring to the table,” said Hill, who is a member of the Cityline Ozone

Park Civilian Patrol.

“I promise to be a voice for everyone and always look out for the best interests of our community,” he said.

Carmela Isabela of Woodhaven was also named to the board. She cited her experience working for former Assemblyman Mike Miller and her involvement with the Woodhaven Block Association.

Also new to the board is Bernard Robert, who said he moved to Queens recently and wanted to get involved with the community.

Sherry Algredo, the newly elected chair of the board, was also honored for her new position as its leader.

Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar (D-Woodhaven) attended and among her announcements was the news that the Cityline Ozone Park Civilian Patrol would be receiving $50,000 of state funding for the first time.

She also presented Algredo with a proclama-

tion lauding her service to the community.

“She is a constant fixture in the neighborhood, delivering whatever aid her neighbors need,” Rajkumar read from the proclamation.

“She has numerous achievements in public service, including zoning, schools and securing funds for the community. And she is also a loving wife and devoted mother of two and has already given her children a love of public service.”

Algredo, who proudly wore a shirt supporting children with autism, which her son has, called her son and daughter up to say the Pledge of Allegiance with her at the start of the meeting.

Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Ozone Park) also spoke and congratulated Algredo and the Q new board members.

Sherry Algredo, left, new chairperson of Community Board 9, was presented with a proclamation

by Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar at TuesPHOTO BY DEIRDRE BARDOLF day’s meeting.

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Richmond Hill tracks need attention

One resident is tracking the issues and trying to draw help

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

Kevin O’Leary, a resident of Kew Gardens, used to enjoy walking to nearby Richmond Hill and recalls the old Italian restaurant and ice cream parlor that stood across the tracks from the Richmond Hill Library.

Now, he said, he avoids the area, which he finds dangerous and filled with trash and empty storefronts.

“The neighborhood has to feel safe and well-lit and clean and not filled with so much garbage,” he said on a recent walkthrough of the area with the Chronicle, where he was stunned to see a pile of red pills and other paraphernalia.

In the past, O’Leary has served as a kind of watchdog for such areas, shining a literal light on the spot back in 2016 when he advocated to get lighting installed under the train tracks.

Now, he is afraid that a decrepit roof that previously served as an overhang for the formerly passenger train line overhead will crumble and hurt someone down below.

The area and trestles now only serve New York Atlantic Railways’ freight territory.

Aside from the decaying station, O’Leary notes the piles of garbage and apparent encampments underneath the tracks in a fenced-off area that is supposed to be closed to the public.

Recently, he saw a person enter the area who appeared to be living there.

O’Leary has been in touch with the local police precincts and other agencies but says it often “goes around in circles.”

Last week, a city Department of Sanitation worker who was leading operations to dispose of mattresses in the area told O’Leary that DSNY staff “are not allowed to go inside there,” because it is MTA property, adding that they try to grab what they can from the sidewalks.

“It’s a constant,” the worker said.

“There’s nothing we can do with constant dropoffs, unfortunately ... It’s something we try to maintain but we do the best we can at least.”

In an email to the Chronicle, MTA spokesman Sean Butler said, “The MTA is aware of the challenges posed by the area around the Richmond Hill station.

“We are actively working with internal and external stakeholders including local elected officials, community leaders, and law enforcement, and we are committed to find a solution for this area.”

A portion of the area is currently being leased out, starting at Hillside Avenue and continuing northwest to about 117th street.

The MTA is working to evaluate a proposal from the lessor to allow him to lease out additional space continuing to the northwest for vehicle storage.

The agency is engaging with local stakeholders including the Borough President’s Off ice, community boards, City Council members and the NYPD, which patrols the area along with the MTA police, to come up with a solution.

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Kevin O’Leary, a longtime resident of Kew Gardens and a member of Community Board 9, worries that a crumbling shelter on the Richmond Hill train tracks will come down and injure someone. He PHOTOS BY DEIRDRE BARDOLF is also working to get attention on the heavily polluted and neglected areas under the train tracks where people enter and sleep in the restricted areas.

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‘Greywater’ plumbs depths of the bay

Investigation finds poachers catch toxic crabs out of food insecurity

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many of the people who were collecting shellfish and other wildlife.

Enter Daniel Lombroso, a New Yorker video For the previous two summers, the Chronicle journalist who set out to uncover what brought documented a rise in cases of poaching and illegal shellfish gathering around Jamaica Bay, but the poachers out to Jamaica Bay. While Lombroso initially came to the investigation expecta mystery remained at the heart of these ing that large commercial interests were reports: Who was eating the goods? involved, instead what A new investigation his resulting documenby a New Yorker jourtary “Greywater” nalist found that the found was an example answer is more tragic oachers are unknowingly of environmental than nefarious. harming themselves. injustice.

In August 2020, a In conducting stakescience teacher and outs on the wildlife refNational Parks Service volunteer told the Chronicle how on a near-dai- uge, most of the people he found taking crabs ly basis, dozens of people were illegally filling and fish were Chinese immigrants who were buckets with clams from the polluted water suffering from food insecurity and taking the fish back to feed their households. below the Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Bridge.

“The more time we spent there and engaged Last June, Dan Mundy Jr. of the Jamaica Bay with people in their native language, it became Ecowatchers posted an image of glittering clear that it was more of a public health story lights in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge — than it was one of illegal poaching,” Lombroso the flashlights of poachers searching for turtles and crabs in the mudflats south of West Pond in told the Chronicle.

Lombroso staked out the wildlife refuge one the middle of the night.

Both environmental activists suspected that night and did indeed witness 40 to 50 people with headlamps catching fish and crabs in the activity was commercial in nature due to the buckets, but was unable to communicate with amount of fish that was being hauled off. But they had no way of knowing for sure where the them in English.

So he went back with a translator who spoke fish were going, in part due to a language barriMandarin, Korean and several other languages. er that stopped them from communicating with Chronicle Contributor

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Over five nights in the course of several months, Lombroso said he spoke to dozens of people — “not once did someone imply or alleged that they were selling it,” he said.

What he found was that members of New York’s Asian diasporic communities had turned to gathering crabs and fish in the estuary as a way of contending with pandemic-triggered food insecurity.

NYU epidemiologist Stella Yi, whom Lombroso interviewed for the film, links the shellfish collection to holes in the social services in the city’s Asian communities.

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If you remember 1990 in New York, you remember how terrible crime was. That was the year when murders peaked, at 2,245 citywide, four and a half times as many as last year’s 485. And you may remember how after Watkins was stabbed to death while his family was attacked in a vicious mugging on a subway platform by at least half a dozen thugs, the city’s attitude toward crime took a sharp turn.

Enough is enough, people said. We’ve had it. It’s time to seriously go after the criminal element and stop the bloodshed. Key to the effort was Bratton, then chief of the Transit Police, which were separate from the NYPD at the time.

Thanks to anti-crime efforts such as his, as well as those of then-Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr. of Astoria, who got lawmakers and the mayor to agree to hire more police,

crime began to go down. Then came Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the CompStat tracking system and it took a sharp downward turn that lasted until just a couple years ago.

Today crime is rising again. The trend began in 2019 (yes, before the pandemic and when the economy was booming) and has generally continued since then. In Queens, the seven major crimes the NYPD tracks are up 51.9 percent so far this year compared to the first quarter of 2021. The citywide increase is 36.5 percent. We’ve got more robberies, rapes, felony assaults, shootings, car thefts and grand larcenies so far this year than last. At least murder has fallen a bit.

One major problem is the insane bail “reform” law of 2019, which has turned the system into an even greater revolving door than it was before. Gov. Hochul introduced some reforms of the “reform” during budget negotiations and got them through over the objections of our state legislative leaders, but they’re not enough. Yes, judges will be able to take public safety into account and impose bail on those accused of a slew of serious crimes when a gun is used, but not if some other deadly weapon is. And the crimes in question, such as attempted murder and rape, are already bail-eligible. It’s lower-level but still violent acts for which judges

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still cannot set bail or consider how dangerous someone is to the public — something all 49 other states allow.

District attorneys’ offices also will get more funding to help them meet the 2019 “reform” law’s stringent rules on providing evidence to defendants immediately, which have been causing cases to be dropped and prosecutors to quit.

Although broader measures are needed, there’s no doubt that gun crimes have to be the focus of crackdowns both legislatively and on the streets. We hope Mayor Adams’ new antigun units are getting results, though we’re sorry to see they’re not in plainclothes. And we applaud President Biden for issuing an order forcing the manufacturers of key parts for ghost guns to finally start putting serial numbers on them. Those untraceable, homemade firearms are getting more and more common — one allegedly was used to kill 16-year-old Angellyh Yambo in the Bronx last week. Scores of parts for them have been seized in Queens recently. Making them traceable should help both discourage their manufacture and track down the shooters when they are used.

Now let’s see the subway shooting and Yambo’s death galvanize the city to attack crime more aggressively, as in 1990, and to marginalize those who would get in the way.

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such buildings less attractive, virtually keeping investors away totally from purchasing.

Now with inf lation and mortgage rates going up, investors are left with few little choices to buy.

The old multiple used by investors of 10 to 12 times income will go down. The best investment to purchase in the future is a detached commercial property with parking and anchor tenants paying going rents. That multiple will be 15 times the yearly income in the coming days ahead.

It’s guaranteed that going rents, plus tenants paying toward taxes, will be the No. 1 investment for any investor.

With 43 years in the business and as the author of hundreds of local articles, I’ve had my finger on the pulse for decades.

James Turano Middle Village

Ideas for Cabán on crime Dear Editor: I note that Councilmember Tiffany Cabán is opposed to Mayor Adams’ anti-gun police unit.

If she is against anti-guns, can we conclude she is pro-crime? If so, I have the following suggestions for her Council district.

It should be made the first pro-crime district in the city. The first thing to do is close the police precincts. Send the cops to Staten Island where they are wanted.

The next thing is to ask the wealthy “trustfund socialists” of Astoria who elected Cabán to open the doors to their homes and let burglars waltz in to steal their Nespresso machines. We should also assist small businesses to get exposure by encouraging shoplifting in their stores.

The police precincts can be converted into

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Dear Editor: I’m writing regarding the growing homecare crisis in New York State and Gov. Hochul’s budget, which has failed homecare workers and the New Yorkers they serve.

The state budget includes $3 per hour raises over two years. This is not what homecare workers, and the people they serve, were asking for and need. Not only is there no enforcement mechanism to ensure these raises actually reach workers, but this small raise could cause many homecare workers to lose public benefits, forcing them to either reduce their hours or seek other employment — worsening the crisis.

Clearly, Gov. Hochul was not listening when her constituents said that a raise of 150 percent above the regional minimum wage is what was needed to address this growing crisis, which has left those who need support without it. Too many homecare workers have already made the difficult choice to leave the clients they care about and change occupations to support themselves and their families.

A true investment in homecare is not only morally right but fiscally beneficial. Providing homecare workers with 150 percent above the minimum wage would: • give homecare workers the living wage they deserve; • provide an incentive for homecare workers to remain in their occupation; • attract new workers to the field; • reduce the number of homecare workers on public assistance; • allow family caregivers to remain in the workforce; and • reduce the burden on our already strained healthcare system by keeping people in their homes instead of in costly institutionalized care, plus reducing healthcare risks to the vulnerable due to a lack of care.

I reject Gov. Hochul’s watered-down attempt to address the homecare crisis and demand that she give homecare workers their fair share.

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Dear Editor: Re Antoni Capozello’s April 7 letter: “Budget foolery”: “Budget banditry” is a more accurate headline. Gov. Hochul is a reverse Robin Hood, taking money from financially strapped taxpayers and giving it to a multi-billionaire to build a football stadium in her hometown.

Under a shady budget deal, New York taxpayers statewide will shell out $600 million to fund a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills. Erie County taxpayers will add $250 million, raising the total tab to $850 million, the largest public subsidy for any U.S. sports stadium. In exchange for this funding, Hochul agreed to roll back the state’s bail reform law, notes the New York Post (April 9). The deal was made behind closed doors, despite Hochul’s promise of total transparency when she took office last year, adds the Post.

The Bills’ owner, Terry Pegula, made over $7 billion from fracking (Post, March 29). He can afford to pay the new stadium’s total $1.4 billion cost. Pegula doesn’t pay state income taxes because he lives in Florida, which has no state income tax. Gov. Hochul’s husband, Bill Hochul, is senior vice president and general counsel for Delaware North, the major food concessionaire at the Bill’s current stadium, reports the Post (“Gov. hubby’s big Bills score,” March 30). This appears to be a conflict of interest.

Some legislators protested this deal. Twenty Democrats from NYC, led by Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, signed a letter to Hochul, calling it “a giveaway of taxpayer dollars” (Post, April 2). Did all Queens Assembly and Senate members oppose the stadium funding measure, or did some approve it? Voters have a right to know. Even though the $850 million “giveaway” is now part of state law, taxpayers can still fight it by filing a lawsuit.

In football jargon, the Buffalo Bills stadium funding deal is unnecessary roughness against taxpayers and deserves a penalty flag.

Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

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drug-injection sites, otherwise known as “shooting galleries,” which Cabán said on Twitter she would like citywide. Rather than wasting time in school teaching students algebra, which they will never use, let’s teach them how to properly inject heroin and other illicit drugs.

Cabán’s associates like to refer to data that during the height of the previous anti-gun program of the nearly 700,000 stops, only 6 percent resulted in arrests and 2 percent in recovery of weapons. If you do the math, that means that almost 42,000 criminals were arrested, and nearly 14,000 weapons were recovered. Impressive actual numbers! Did her associates miss that day in algebra class when data analysis was taught? Were they learning to do something else?

In conclusion, I look forward to Cabán’s district being a model for the city and hope that Cabán’s pal, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, will sponsor bills in Congress to implement my ideas at the national level.

David Soukup Sunnyside

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Crime is up; Sewell vows a turnaround Commissioner cites progress; says ‘reversing years will not take weeks’

by Michael Gannon Senior News Editor

All increases in crime stats are considered bad. Some are worse than others.

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell, speaking on April 6, announced a 36.5 percent increase in major crime, or so-called index crimes, year-to-date for the quarter ending March 31.

But stats compiled through April 3 indicate that increases in Queens are trending even higher with an overall a 51.9 percent hike. The borough’s stats also are significantly higher in several individual categories.

Seechant and top department brass spoke at length about initiatives begun and gains made in the first 100 days of Mayor Adams’ administration and what is on the way.

The press conference is available on facebook at facebook.com / N Y PD / videos/5355343134489717.

Sewell said there are “noteworthy and promising initiatives” now in effect or in the pipeline that will help turn the tide, but also said more must be done. She said, meanwhile, that officers and detectives have not stopped responding to 911 and 311 calls.

“Our commitment is clear,” Sewell said.

“The NYPD will use ever y available resource and opportunity to secure this city.

While there is no doubt we face challenges,

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell and First Deputy Commissioner Edward Caban at the April NYPD SCREEN SHOT / FACEBOOK 6 crime statistics and strategy meeting. and reversing years will not take weeks, the NYPD remains steadfast in its vision, plan and commitment to the residents the businesses and visitors to this city.”

Murders in the city are down from 38 to 32 for the first quarter, while the number in Queens dropped from 19 to 14. Reported rapes are down 4.34 percent in the city but increased from 88 to 90 in Queens.

Queens had higher percentage increases

than the city year to date in robberies (56.2 percent vs. 48.4 percent); felony assaults (20.1 pecent vs. 17.5 percent); grand larcenies (84.8 percent vs. 40.5 percent); auto theft (72.1 percent vs. 59.4 percent); shooting incidents (22.2 percent vs. 16.2 percent) and shooting victims (30.7 percent vs. 14.4 percent).

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Biden’s ghost gun ruling Elected officials looking forward serialization of BBS kits

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A day after U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called on President Biden to address ghost guns in the wake of a Bronx shooting over the weekend, a meeting was held at the Rose Garden in Washington, DC, on April 11 where the president did just that.

Biden announced that after approximately 20,000 suspected ghost guns were reported to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firear ms and Explosives as being recovered in criminal investigations across the country in 2021, a new rule will ban the business of manufacturing unserialized “buy, build, shoot” kits, according to the White House. The kits can be bought online or at a store without a background check and an individual can assemble one into a working firearm within 30 minutes with equipment they have at home.

Biden also announced that former U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor Steve Dettelbach will serve as the new director of the ATF. When calling on Biden on April 10, Schumer cited NYPD data that depicted the city to be on pace for over 500 ghost guns recoveries by 2022.

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz

said the commonsense federal regulation of ghost guns was long overdue and is necessary for everyone’s safety.

In March, the Queens District Attorney’s Office along with other members of law enforcement seized parts that allegedly were meant to build 74 ghost guns from a Maryland man during a sting in Rosedale.

The DA’s Office said it had recovered 129 high-capacity magazines and additional ghost gun components. The suspect, Wenli Bai, 57, was hit with 336 criminal charges.

“These are personally manufactured, fully functional and virtually untraceable firearms that are assembled by purchasing parts on the internet,” Katz said in a prepared statement. “They are also increasingly being recovered at crime scenes all over the country. Our Office has worked tirelessly to rid Queens County of ghost guns and our efforts have resulted in seven takedowns in the past eight months.”

The final rule, Biden says is that the kits now qualify as “firearms” under the Gun Control Act and that commercial manufacturers of the kits must become federally licensed, include serial numbers on the kits’ frame, or receiver, and run background checks prior to a sale, similar to commercially made firearms, according to the White House.

Katz agrees with what Biden outlined in his rule.

“Mandating manufacturer licenses and component serial numbers on ghost guns will help keep us safe and allow for greater accountability when these weapons are used to wreak havoc on our communities,” Katz added. “We commend the efforts of the Biden administration on gun safety.”

Mayor Adams praised Biden on Monday for his efforts.

“We need help on many levels,” Adams said. “Just this year alone, the ... Police Department has taken 1,800 guns off the streets ... Yet the guns just keep flowing into our city and flow into cities all across A mer ica. The New York Cit y Police Department has a ghost gun task force unit that focused on this. And they’re partnering with the ATF and the FBI ... We need to dam the river of guns and ghost guns that are flowing into the sea of violence in our city.”

State Attor ney General Tish James applauded Biden.

“Ghost guns are just as dangerous as traditional firearms,” James said in a prepared statement. “With the nomination of Steve Dettelbach to serve as director of the ATF, Americans can feel confident in the federal government’s commitment to gun safety.” Q

separate story in some editions or at qchron. com], the commissioner said a driver of major crime at the moment is “the perception among criminals that there are no consequences for even violent crimes.

“We need a tangeable, balanced system that that puts the victims first. It must be fair, but it must first and foremost safeguard the people it was designed to protect.”

Seechant said the first quarter of 2022 has seen an 89-percent clearance rate for homicides, which would be unprecedented if it keeps up for the full year.

She also said arrests for fatal and nonfatal shootings were up last quarter to 335 from 257 a year ago. Seechant said violent crime in the subways was back down below prepandemic levels. She spoke several days befoe Tuesday’s mass shooting in Brooklyn.

Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael Lipitri said gang-related shootings accounted for 37 percent of all shootings in March and about 40 percent for the year to date.

Parolee arrests are up, he said. Recidivism is up from 2019 levels. Lipitri said the NYPD is seeing the highest numbers of guns being seized during arrests in 25 years; and there are growing numbers of those who are arrested on gun charges who have either a prior gun conviction or an Q open gun-related case.

Bay poaching continued from page 8 harming themselves by eating the carcinogenic creatures to an extent that overshadowed the potential harm to the estuary itself.

“This is one of the most contaminated sites in the country,” said David O. Carpenter, a environmental science professor at SUNY Albany, referring to the stretch of the Hudson River from Hudson Falls to New York Harbor as well as Jamaica Bay. In the film, Carpenter explains how the water contains traces of PCBs, polychlorinated biphenyls, a banned group of chemicals that have been connected with brain damage, cancer, a higher risk of diabetes and other chronic diseases.

The response has so far largely fallen on the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which occasionally polices the Jamaica Bay refuge at night and writes summonses to those collecting large amounts of wildlife. Lombroso witnessed the officers using an app called “LanguageLine” to try and communicate with the violating parties, but much was lost in translation.

Lombroso suggested the problem boils down to education and social services.

The city needs a better way to speak to those communities in their native language and inform them of the health dangers, he said. Beyond that, it needs to better address the food insecurity at its root. Q

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State budget has critics on both sides

Hochul yielded too much or too little, depending on whom one might ask

by Michael Gannon Senior News Editor

Gov. Hochul could be said to be living in what philosophers call “interesting times.”

Last-minute negotiations with the state Legislature yielded her some compromises on bail and Raise the Age reform that did not leave Mayor Adams completely happy and angered Albany’s progressives.

The $220 billion budget — signed a week overdue — also got her public funding for a new football stadium for the Buffalo Bills but added $4 billion in extra spending to her first proposal, one that critics already had said was courting fiscal trouble over the long term.

Then on Tuesday, the FBI arrested nowformer Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, eight months ago her handpicked second-in-command, on federal corruption charges.

On crime, the document expanded criteria under which some suspects, such as repeat offenders or those accused of using firearms, can be arrested rather than just be given desk appearance tickets. It also broadens a judge’s ability to hold a suspect on bail, though it does not allow a judge to consider a suspect’s potential danger to the community, a power Adams has pushed for and one judges have in every other state in the country.

The prog ressives did tend to like increased funding for mental healthcare, community-based violence intervention and new laws making it far easier to crack down on gun traffickers.

“By putting an end to the trafficking of illegal guns, protecting victims of hate crimes and domestic violence, stopping the cycle of repeat offenders, and investing in our mental health infrastructure, we are proving that justice and public safety are not mutually exclusive,” Hochul said in a statement from her office.

Adams last week, in his own statement just before a deal was finalized, gave it mixed reviews. He said there will be funding for much of his “People’s Plan for New York,” but hoped other things will be addressed before the legislative session ends in June.

“This means millions will go directly

Bias attack continued from page 4 the need for increased public safety. “This is yet another incident of crime that has spiraled out of control in this city, and until we can restore law enforcement’s ability to punish criminals effectively we will continue to see attacks like this one and worse.”

She called on Mayor Adams to take “bold measures to make our city safe again.”

“And to my fellow City Council representatives, some of whom feel that we do not need more police officers on our streets — I ask you to wake up. We are los-

Gov. Hochul’s stat budget gave Mayor Adams some of what he wanted, but far from everything he asked for.

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into the pockets of working-class New Yorkers through an enhanced Ear ned Income Tax Credit, there will be historic funding for families to pay for childcare, and tax incentives to create thousands of new childcare seats,” Adams said. “ ...

These investments will make a meaningful difference for the people in our city who need it the most.

“While I commend the Legislature and the governor for making some progress on public safety, it is also evident that a good deal more work will be needed on this issue, as well as on mayoral accountability, housing, and other city priorities in the ongoing legislative session, which is only half over.”

Every member of the Queens delegation to the state Senate voted for the budget.

Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said in a press release that he approved of the new public safety measures.

“When it comes to the safety of New Yorkers, modifying components of bail reform was necessary in order to improve the safety and well-being of our communities,” Addabbo said. “These reforms will protect victims of hate crimes and domestic violence, end the trafficking of illegal guns, appropriately deal with repeat offenders, and improve investments in mental health programs.”

Assemblywoman Jessica GonzálezRojas (D-East Elmhurst) took a decidedly different view in a statement on Twitter. ing our city to violent crime, and it’s getting worse by the day,” Ariola continued.

“We need to take a stand against hate and bigotry, and empower the NYPD and our justice system to arrest and prosecute those responsible to the fullest extent of the law.”

The incident in Richmond Hill occurred just before the shooting in a Brooklyn subway car that injured 29 people, 10 of whom were shot.

“We recognize that this news comes amidst reports of a separate mass shooting and additional violence at a Brooklyn subway station this morning,” the Sikh Coalition said on Twitter. “The entire local community is in our thoughts as that Q other investigation moves forward.”

She voted no.

“I am disappointed in the governor’s politically motivated campaign to roll back criminal justice reforms, criminalize people with mental health issues, and exclude undocumented New Yorkers across programs,” she wrote. “We could have done more to care for our workers, children, and families.”

Assembly ma n Zorha n Ma md a n i (D-Astoria) also voted against the budget, citing on Twitter his disappointment at levels of funding for the City University of New York.

“I vote no bc those f ighting for a #NewDeal4CUNY deserve more & so that’s what we’ll come back for,” he wrote.

The budget allocates $90 million to help the state’s district attorneys comply with stringent discovery regulations passed in 2019, regulations that led to criminal cases being dismissed across the state because there was not the personnel to meet far shor tened deadlines for tur ning over evidence.

The law now also allows prosecutors more time to turn over all evidence to the defense provided DAs have substantially complied in good faith to share important evidence in the state’s possession in a timely manor.

Washington County DA J. Anthony Jordan, president of the District Attorneys Association of the State of New York, praised the changes in a statement.

“Today’s budget continues to recognize that New York State’s current bail statute ignores the risk that certain defendants pose to public safety by expanding the real life factors judges will be able to consider when addressing bail,” he said. Jordan said DAs have been seeking the funding for three years.

“The number of documents and the amount of electronic discovery and body worn camera footage is far greater than before those changes, and the cost of compliance was left to the individual counties.”

Pat Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association, which represents NYPD officers, called the changes “window dress-

ing” in a press release, saying Hochul and legislative leaders’ aim “is to make New Yorkers ‘feel safer,’ not provide real public safety ... If New York’s leaders won’t get serious about public safety, hopefully New York voters will.”

On the financial implications, Andrew Rein, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, said in a press release that the agreement does not appear to balance priorities between relief and recovery now and prot ect i ng agai nst f ut u re econom ic downturns.

Rein also said a gas tax holiday and property tax rebates “are not well-targeted relief programs.”

Andrew Rigie, executive director of the NYC Hospitality Alliance, praised an extension of the state’s “Drinks to Go” regulations adopted as an emergency measure during the pandemic.

“The popular policy’s return to the Empire State will serve as an important lifeline to countless restaurants in all corners of the state and allow New Yorkers to once again have wine delivered to their front door or to pick up a margarita with their takeout food from their favorite restaurants,” Rigie said.

Food is the key, as Hochul said “substantial” food such as sandwiches, soup or other fare must be sold along with alcohol.

The deal also will permit three casino licenses for the New York City region. It also keeps in place a cap on charter schools.

“It’s disappointing that Albany chose to lift the cap on casinos, but not charter schools,” said Eva Moskowitz, founder of Success Academy Charter Schools.

“At a time when so many poor children of color are burdened with massive learning loss and families are fleeing the city in search of better schools, this is an astonishQ ing omission.”

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New Jamaica women’s shelter A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held in Queens Village on Wednesday for a women’s shelter.

The Jamaica Women’s Employment Shelter has 136 beds and is for women who are experiencing homelessness, according to Volunteers of AmericaGreater New York, a nonprofit. VOA operates the facility and it serves individuals and families by offering resources to help women gain the confidence and skills necessary to reintegrate with a community. The purpose of the shelter is to prepare residents for independent liv-

ing and secure stable employment.

“The new shelter comes at a time when housing insecurity and homelessness are rising in New York City and safe, secure, compassionate care for those experiencing homelessness is needed more than ever,” VOA said in a statement.

As of Febr uar y 2022, there were 48,482 people who were homeless throughout New York City, according to the Coalition for the Homeless. Of that number, 15,045 were children.

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Control of schools left out of budget

Hochul vows to extend it before it expires; Liu says ‘no need to rush’ Associate Editor

Mayor Adams is left still lobbying for some items that were omitted from the state budget, including mayoral control of public schools, which he has been advocating for all along.

“We will review the budget fully and continue to advocate on behalf of nearly one million students who are still suffering from the disruption of the pandemic, the thousands of New Yorkers who lack access to affordable and stable housing, and the countless everyday New Yorkers who want and deserve to live in a safer city,” he said in a prepared statement last Friday regarding items on his agenda that did not make it into the state’s $220 billion new budget.

Adams commended the state Legislature and the governor for progress on public safety but said there is still “a good deal more work” to be done on issues including mayoral control, housing and other city priorities.

Mayoral control of schools is set to expire at the end of June. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg was granted control of the school system in 2002, replacing local school boards and allowing the mayor to appoint the chancellor and a majority of members who serve on the Panel for Education Policy.

The last extension of mayoral control was granted to former Mayor Bill de Blasio and

although Gov. Hochul recommended a fouryear extension in her budget proposal, it was dropped from the final version.

On Wednesday, she vowed to have the fouryear extension done by the end of the legislative session, “no doubt about it,” she told PIX 11.

“Historically, it does not get done in the budget,” she said. “But I put that as a placeholder to put out, state my priorities.”

“I wanted to show my confidence in the mayor, who will be working to make sure that the children that I also represent — I represent the school children and families here as well as governor — so I have the same interest in making sure they get the highest-quality education possible,” she said.

In the meantime, state Sen. John Liu (D-Bayside) said he and his colleagues are discussing it further and that another hearing on the matter could be on the table.

He sounded less confident than the governor that it would pass within the session. He noted that she also had said it would be in the budget and it was not.

“This is a big issue and it needs to be deliberated fully,” he told the Chronicle. “We continue to receive feedback from stakeholders across the city.”

Liu said there is “no need to rush this issue.”

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Liu said that the Department of Education has plenty of other “fish to fry” and issues to clarify that could provide stability and certainty for families.

On Sunday Adams told WABC7 that the school system is “another feeder of crime if we don’t get it right.”

Adams and Banks pushed for mayoral accountability, as they have called it, including at Bayside High School in March, but some are not in favor of the full four-years extension.

That was evident at a public hearing with state legislators in March where parents, educators and officials offered alternatives to the current system.

Liu, chair of the Senate’s Committee on Education, argued that it did not belong in the Mayor Adams advocated for mayoral control of schools outside of Bayside High School in budget because of its nonfiscal nature.

Liu has said that valid questions remain on March. SCREENSHOT VIA YOUTUBE / NYC MAYOR’S OFFICE whether the policy should be “continued, changed or abandoned.” In March, he told the Banks have said it is more important now than Chronicle that it “probably does not make ever to move on mayoral control. sense to have a four-year extension.”

“This is now time to deal with policies as This week, he refrained from sharing we deal with everything for mayoral control, where over a million children have a level of which version of schools control he is in favor of, citing the range of possibilities. uncertainty right now,” Adams said on Sun“Now that the budget is complete, we can day on NY1.

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by Tom Grech

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The Champlain Hudson Power Express line, in blue, would run from Canada to Astoria.

Another, in orange, would come in from IMAGE COURTESY NYS / FILE Delaware County.

would land in Astoria and bring enough renewable, reliable and fixedprice power all-yearround for over one million New York homes and singlehandedly reduce by 25 percent fossil fuel generation — no small feat and something that no other project will be able to achieve in the near future. It will remove the carbon emissions equivalent of over 500,000 cars from New York’s roads every year and create 1,400 well-paying union jobs and 3,200 secondary jobs throughout the state during its four years of construction, many of which will be right here in Queens.

The project was selected through a highly competitive solicitation process, contracted by New York State’s Energy Agency, is currently under review by the New York State Public Service Commission and will come to a vote as early as today, April 14. I urge the Commissioners to approve CHPE without delay.

It would also add tremendously to the work we are doing at the Queens Chamber of Commerce as part of our recently announced Queens is Green initiative, a partnership between our 1,400 members and the leaders in the energy industry aimed at keeping energy costs low for our businesses while striving to make Queens County the greenest county in the state.

Queens is ready for an influx of clean energy that CHPE would bring starting in 2025, and the Public Service Commission should be, too. It’s time to do the right thing on behalf of Queens residents. Our workers and families deserve to breathe Q easy for a change.

Tom Grech is President and CEO of the Queens Chamber of Commerce.

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The cost was especially high here in Queens, which was the epicenter of New York City’s battle and where many small businesses ultimately had to shut their doors for good.

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Return of one of the ‘GoodFellas’ to Neir’s

Woodhaven BID leads Jamaica Avenue cleanup

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

A special homecoming will take place at the historic Neir’s Tavern in Woodhaven this weekend.

Actor Frank Sivero from the 1990 film “GoodFellas” will be returning to the bar for the first time since iconic scenes from the movie were shot there.

The event will be this Saturday, April 16, from noon to 6 p.m. It will take place inside and outside of the bar.

Neir’s Tavern and Lefty’s Cigars are offering a package for $99 if a ticket is purchased in advance. It includes the restaurant’s famous GoodFella burger, a ticket good for one beer, glass of wine or cocktail, a premium hand-rolled cigar from Lefty’s branded with either “Neir’s Tavern” or “Frank,” and a meet-and-greet providing the chance to hang out with Frank Sivero, aka Frankie Carbone.

Guests can take a picture with him or receive an autographed photo.

Due to occupancy limits, it is recommended that tickets be purchased in advance as soon as possible.

Visit the website neirstavern.com to

Frank Sivero played Frankie Carbone in the YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT film “GoodFellas.” buy a ticket. If any are left on the day of the event, they will be $119 at the door.

Neir’s Tavern is over 190 years old and is one of the few old drinking establishments that have been in almost continuous operation in the city and in the same location.

It gained fame as the bar in which some of the classic Martin Scorsese film “GoodFellas,” starring Ray Liotta, Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci and Lorraine BracQ co, was filmed.

New nursing program at SJU to begin in fall

by Deirdre Bardolf

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The Woodhaven Business Improvement District promotes shopping along Jamaica Avenue and last weekend spruced up the area to make that shopping experience more pleasant.

Volunteers helped clean Jamaica Avenue from 92nd Street to Forest Parkway. They powerwashed, painted over graffiti, picked up trash and cleaned up the sidewalks.

The BID provided supplies and face

masks and collaborated on the project with the city Department of Sanitation, the NYPD’s 102nd Precinct, the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, Community Board 9 and business owners along Jamaica Avenue including M&M Housewares Hardware, Fine Fare Supermarket, Pan Ugo Bakery, Sal’s Pizzeria and J&J Farms.

The BID’s next event will be a community celebration of Earth Day on April 22.

St. John’s University has been approved by the state Education Department to offer a bachelor of science degree in nursing program.

Applications are being accepted and preparations are underway for the first cohort of students to begin in August.

“After much planning — and with great excitement — we launch the new nursing program at St. John’s,” the Rev. Brian J. Shanley, president of the university, said in a prepared statement on Monday.

“Service is a core value of our University, and the nursing program aims to provide a stellar education within the context of our Catholic and Vincentian mission,” he continued. “The foremost goal of our program is to train skilled professionals and compassionate nurse leaders ready to serve others in societies in need of healing.”

St. John’s will break ground next month, on International Nurse’s Day, at the Queens Campus for a new 70,000-squarefoot building, which is set to open in the fall of 2024, according to a press release. It

will be the permanent home of the nursing program.

The new medical and educational Health Sciences Center at the Queens campus will support and house existing and forthcoming health sciences programs in one facility. The new building will provide state-of-the-art technology, simulation labs and flexible room layouts to allow for a multitude of teaching and learning styles.

St. John’s will provide students with hands-on clinical rotations within a network of partner healthcare systems, which include New York City Health + Hospitals, NewYork-Presbyterian Queens and Catholic Health. With an innovative curriculum, support for brand-new facilities and established community partnerships, the new nursing program at St. John’s aims to strengthen the local academic health system.

Nursing education is not new to St. John’s. In 1937, a Department of Nursing formed at the university and the department became a separate School of Nursing Education in 1942, helping to train nurses during World War II before being disconQ tinued.

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State Assemblyman Brian Barnwell (D-Maspeth) on Tuesday announced on social media that he will not seek a fourth term in Albany.

“It is with sadness that I announce that I will not be seeking re-election to the NYS Assembly,” Barnwell posted. “It has been a true honor to serve, and I will never forget that I owe everything to the kindness of the People who allowed me to serve as their representative.”

The Chronicle was unable to reach Barnwell for additional comment prior to its publication deadline on Wednesday.

Barnwell, an attorney who once worked for former Councilman Costa Constantinides, surprised many back in 2016 when he challenged long-time 30th AD incumbent Marge Markey.

He then went on to trounce Markey in the Democratic primary, winning 61 percent of the vote. He then received nearly 68 percent of the vote against Republican Tony Nunziato. He defeated Republican Eric Butkiewicz in 2018, and was unopQ posed in 2020.

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Gennaro advocates for green jobs Councilman, unions call for PSE to OK Power Express, Clean Path NY

by Sophie Krichevsky Associate Editor

Councilman Jim Gennaro (D-Hillcrest) held a press conference Monday morning at IBEW Local 3 headquarters to advocate for the Public Service Commission to approve the Champlain Hudson Power Express and Clean Path New York; decisions on both are expected today.

“We stand here today to strongly urge the New York PSE to advance these projects under the clean energy standards tier four renewable energy credit program,” Gennaro, who chairs the City Council’s Environmental Protection Committee, said. “By transmitting power from renewable sources upstate to New York City, Clean Path New York ... will support new, renewable energy production, reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and present all new investment in green economy, and that means green, new jobs.”

The Clean Path project aims to bring solar and wind-powered electricity from Delaware County, which the city would receive via the Rainey power substation near the Roosevelt Island Bridge.

The Champlain Hudson Power Express would transport hydroelectric power from Quebec through cables that would run under Lake Champlain and the Hudson River, all the way to Astoria’s Con Edison complex on 20th Avenue.

Councilman Jim Gennaro, center left, with union, business and environmental leaders at MonPHOTO BY SOPHIE KRICHEVSKY day’s press conference.

The need for green jobs was continuously emphasized by union leaders at Monday’s press conference. Chris Erikson, for one, who is the business director of IBEW Local 3, said the proposals could provide stable, green jobs. “[A] $20 solar installer job is not a middleclass job,” he said. Monday. “We need to give [marginalized people] opportunities to come in and do solar work, keep the cost of solar installations down, but then allow those working people to move into our apprenticeship programs, become full-time electricians, make a middleclass living and be part of that.”

Allen Wright, who is the political director of

IUOE Local 14-14B, made similar arguments.

But the issue is also a personal one for him: He has a 5-year-old daughter. “It is my responsibility to advocate for projects such as this when I have an opportunity to help ensure that she has a plan of action,” he said.

The proposals were strongly supported by Tom Grech, president and CEO of the Queens Chamber of Commerce. “We launched, back in late February, a ‘Queens is green’ initiative. Not ‘Queens wants to be green,’ ‘Queens hopes to be green,’ — ‘Queens is green,’” he said. “Our goal is to make Queens County the greenest county of the 62 in New York State and be the

greenest place on Earth. At the end of the day, this product seems to be a no brainer, for all intents and purposes.”

Citizens Campaign for the Environment Executive Director Adrienne Esposito spoke specifically about the importance of the Champlain Hudson Power Express.

“We have a very, very lofty goal, which is to make the transition from dirty fossil fuels to renewable, clean energy. And we have to do that by making good choices,” she said. “All largescale energy infrastructure has some impact on the environment. But we have a moral and an ethical obligation to choose the energy infrastructure with the least impact to our environment, that is this project: connecting existing hydropower to New York City.”

Not all environmentalists have shared Esposito’s thinking, however. Riverkeeper, a clean water advocacy group, has been vocal in its opposition to the cable, citing concerns that it would be harmful to the Hudson’s ecosystem and the species that inhabit it.

Asked about the pushback, Gennaro was clear in his opposition to Riverkeeper’s view.

“Their reaction is a little bit out of scale — you can tell them I said that,” he said. “Most of the groups do not share that concern. They realize that as this rolls out, everything that needs to be done in order to protect the enviQ ronment is going to be done.”

More reform or more crackdowns on crime?

Mayor Adams and The Fortune Society have opposing views on the best policy

by Naeisha Rose

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Before he took office, Mayor Adams, the former Brooklyn borough president, had made it his mission to stop the rise in crime throughout the city.

On Jan. 24, he released a “Blueprint to End Gun Violence” that proposed rolling back criminal justice reforms that state Democrats fought for over the last few years, which many in law enforcement contend are responsible for the blight of violence.

The crime wave that started toward the end of former Mayor de Blasio’s tenure, continued well on into Adams’ first month as mayor.

“In my three weeks as your mayor, I have been with an officer who was shot in the head as he slept in his own car,” Adams said earlier this year. “I have met with the mother of a 19-year-old girl who was killed as she worked the night shift in East Harlem. I have been at the bedside of a police officer who was shot by a 16-year-old as they struggled for a gun.”

Adams’ blueprint included restoring an anti-gun police unit, a tougher stance on prosecuting youths for gun possession and permitting judges to grant less bail based on the perceived “dangerousness” of a suspect.

Adams anti-crime agenda runs antithetical to calls from some of the Democratic Party to defund the police, eliminate cash bail for low-

level criminal offenses and to “Raise the Age” of criminal responsibility to 18, which allowed 16 to 17-year-olds who commit nonviolent crimes to receive rehabilitative services instead of being charged as an adult.

The mayor said that the anti-gun unit will be relegated to targeted areas where guns are most prevalent, that cash bail changes need to be amended because repeat offenders are committing the same crimes without consequence and that there needs to be harsher punishments for teens involved in crime due to older criminal offenders using “Raise the Age” as a loophole to pressure youths into committing crimes for them.

“We must also look at ‘Raise the Age’ legislation, which is being used as a loophole for gang members to demand young people under 18 take the fall for guns that are not theirs,” said Adams. “My Administration is not seeking to punish young people – but when it comes to guns, we must make sure there are consequences.”

Throughout his first 100 days as mayor, Adams had lobbied Gov. Hochul about the rolling back the criminal justice reforms and she has adopted some of his measures in the $220 billion state budget.

The Fortune Society, a criminal justice advocacy group that was founded in 1967, believes that the reforms, which were hard

fought, should not be modified or eliminated when there is no hard proof that there is a correlation between the changes and the uptick in crime.

“Rolling back critical reforms made to our bail laws, which were enacted to ensure that justice did not depend on ability to pay, simply will not make us safer,” The Long Island Citybased Fortune Society said in a statement. “To the contrary, pre-trial detention for any amount of time has been proven to increase someone’s likelihood of continued criminal legal system involvement.”

The Fortune Society believes that the measures found in the state budget will criminalize poverty and sweep countless people charged with nonviolent offenses and low-level misdemeanors back into jail.

“Rolling back bail reform will also exacerbate existing racial disparities in our criminal legal system,” said the organization. “The long-term impact on Black and Brown communities will continue to carry generational consequences.”

Minority detainees are overrepresented compared to the rest of the share of the total U.S. population by nearly seven in 10, according to prisonpolicy.org.

The Fortune Society says that ensuring people have access to stable housing, mental health and behavioral health service, as well

as employment and educational connectionsare a better deterrent for crime or recidivism.

The Fortune Society does appreciate measures in the budget that reduce barriers to obtaining government-issued identification and eliminating fees for parole supervision, but believes the spurious connections to bail reform and the increase in crime is not based in fact.

“Bail reform did not make us less safe as numerous recent studies confirmed,” The Fortune Society told the Queens Chronicle via email. “Furthermore, the rollbacks to these laws will have an outsized impact on poor people of color and will bring us back to a system that provides different measures of justice depending on ability to pay.”

The mayor does have initiatives that does not rely on rolling back criminal justice reforms in his blueprint, such as expanding the Summer Youth Employment and Youth Engagement Program for Summer to keep kids off the street while working or being mentored and the Fair Futures initiatives for people 26 under, which provides life coaches to help people stick to a criminal-free path.

Adams has also lobbied Albany to pass the Community Hiring legislation to require businesses in New York to hire people in struggling communities so residents have access to Q good jobs and apprenticeships.

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by Mark Lord From bubbles you can blo blow ow with little plastic wands to bubub b bble baths you can take to relax axx your weary bones, those magii-cal, mystical orbs seem to hold d a fascination for young and old d alike.

But few if any have turned d their interest in those delicate creeations into a full-time career to thee extent that theater actor, director, cto o or, magician and clown Enrico Pezzoli oli has h has. s s.

And his latest spectacle, “B-UnderUn nde derrwater Bubble Show,” now on a crosscrosss-country tour, is making a stop at the th he Kupferberg Center for the Arts’ Coldd en Auditorium at Queens College in Flushing for one performance only on

April 24.

Subtitled “The Unexpected Journey of Mr. B in the Colourful Underwater

World Wo W of Bubblelandia,” the show is said saaaid to be set in a place in which “millions lio of bubbles of all shapes and colors o will swallow you and transport you” y into a “parallel universe of joy and freedom.”

The performance blends drama, mime, dance, puppetry, juggling, m sand sa art and magic. In short, it has something for everyone. And, ssom according aacc cco to Pezzoli, audiences tend tto range ran in age from 5 to 80. “We ra see seeee th the he full family,” he said. “It’s very nice!” niice e!”

In I a recent telephone interview, he explained that he had been inspired by exp performances

by Cirque du Soleil, the per Canadian-ba sed circus-st yle entertainment.

“We knew from the beginning,

before it became the multimillion-dollar enterprise that it is today, that we liked their style, the colors, and the courage they had in changing the rules,” Pezzoli said.

How he chose bubbles as his show’s focus is a tale unto itself.

Born in Italy, Pezzoli married a woman named Dace Pecoli, a native of Latvia, where the couple settled in 1997.

Pezzoli found it difficult to find employment there, particularly as an actor, because of the language barrier.

“We had to find some silent work,” he said. “We started with magic. We wanted something interactive and entertaining. We were looking for something different.” continued on page 24

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King Crossword Puzzle Brian Hyland, ’60’s pop star, is still out on the road

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John Hyland married Gladys Kelly in April 1929. During the Great Depression John had a good job as a bookkeeper for the Trommer Brewing Co., which was once a leading beer company in New York City.

He purchased a house at 78-14 87 Road in Woodhaven. The Hylands raised four boys and one girl there.

The youngest boy, Brian, born on Nov. 12, 1943, played guitar and clarinet and sang in the choir at Saint Thomas the Apostle Church.

In August 1960, at age 16, he skyrocketed to fame with the song “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.”

In the pre-Beatles era of the early 1960s he was the darling of “bubble gum teen puppy love” music. On various labels from 1960 to 1977 he released 11 record albums.

He also tried to branch out into country

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The childhood home of 1960s pop singer Brian Hyland at 78-14 87 Road in Woodhaven, as it appeared in the 1940s when he grew up there. TOP PHOTO VIA WIKIPEDIA / BILLBOARD music. Today at age 78, he is touring internationally with his son and shows no sign of Q slowing down.

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As inflation skyrockets and people search for new ways to save money without reducing their enjoyment of life, one possibility is Culture Pass. Available to anyone with a library card, it opens up a world of free, though ephemeral, access to some of the top cultural institutions both in Queens and throughout the city.

Some of the major locations here that participate in the program are the Queens Museum, Flushing Town Hall and MoMA PS1. Citywide, Culture Pass can get you into places including the American Museum of Natural History, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Historic Richmond Town.

Culture Pass enables you to reserve general admission to, say, one of the museums for the day — sometimes for up to four people — or for a particular performance at a venue.

Flushing Town Hall, for example, is offering free passes to a family-friendly May 14 flamenco performance by dance company A Palo Seco.

“Flushing Town Hall participates in Culture Pass because the pass provides the opportunity for NY residents of all income levels to experience arts,” FTH Executive Director Eileen Kodadek said via email. “Exposure to arts is so important, and we think there is tremendous value in the culture pass to bring arts and culture experiences to residents who would otherwise not have the opportunity.”

Kodadek, also the artistic director, went on to note other FTH performances for which Culture Pass can be used, such as the Crazy Talented Asians & Friends comedy show and the Mini-Global Mashup live music series.

A May 14 flamenco show by A Palo Seco, led by Rebeca Tomás, above, at Flushing Town Hall is one performance PHOTO BY LEE WEXLER for which Culture Pass may be used.

The Queens Historical Society is also glad to accept Culture Pass, which may be used for general admission to its Kingsland Homestead headquarters on any Tuesday.

“The Culture Pass program is an excellent program because it gives people the opportunity to experience important cultural and historic sites throughout the city for free,” QHS Executive Director Jason Antos said over email.

“Queens Historical Society is proud to be a partner and we look forward to visitors at Kingsland Homestead, one of the last surviving colonial-era homes in Queens!”

Culture Pass is popular and getting more so, according to its program manager, Brendan Crain, who works for the Brooklyn Public Library but coordinates the program for all three of the city’s library systems.

Since the program launched in July 2018, it has had 152,400 reservations, despite being on hold for six months due to Covid, Crain said via the Queens Library’s press office. Monthly reservations are starting to approach prepandemic levels, he added, with more than 3,800 made in March, the most in a month since February 2020.

“We do have numbers that show people are using the service to broaden their horizons!” Crain said in an email.

“In a survey of Culture Pass users in Nov 2019, a whopping 75% of people who had used Culture Pass at least once in the previous year reported having used a pass to visit a site that they had never been to before. 78% of survey respondents said Culture Pass allowed them to visit more museums and theaters than they would have been able to otherwise.”

He noted that it is set up to encourage people to visit new places; they can only book a given site once a year.

To learn more about the program, go to culturepass.nyc.

That site will give you all the FAQs, a list of participating institutions and a link to log in and make reservations. You can visit each with either a mobile or printed pass. Those who need to print one out may do so at any Queens Library location, and nothing about Culture Pass costs anything.

In Queens, aside from the Queens Museum, Queens Historical Society, FTH and MoMA PS1, the participating sites are King Manor Museum, the Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, the Noguchi Q Museum and the Queens Botanical Garden.

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What began 20 years ago has since been expanded into a full-length spectacle, one that features audience participation and includes laser technologies, snow cannons, soap bubble tornadoes, theatrical fog and optical illusions. Original music was composed for the show by Latvian composer Valdis Zilvers.

His creation has earned Pezzoli much acclaim, including an invitation to appear on the main stage in a segment of the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

As with most performers, Pezzoli and his troupe (the current show features six performers, all from Latvia) were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

They had made just five of 45 scheduled stops on what was to be their fifth tour around the United States when it all came to an abrupt halt.

He and his wife used the time off to open a theater in Latvia in November of 2020. No sooner had it opened than it had to shut down because of the virus. “It was a disaster,” Pezzoli said. The theater remained closed until about one month ago.

The “B-Underwater Bubble Show” combines dance, magic and more. On the cover: The bubble-tastic performance comes to Queens April 24. PHOTOS COURTESY KUPFERBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS Now, he said, is the ideal time for family entertainment to make a comeback. “People need to go to a performance and relax,” he said. And American audiences are always among the best, he added.

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Block: 13113 Lot: 26 To The Above Named Defendant(s): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. If you fail to appear or to answer within the aforementioned time frame, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECTIVE of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a Mortgage to secure $176,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Queens County Clerk’s Office on March 5, 2002, in Reel 6243, Page 2481, covering the premises known as 135-02 221st Street, Springfield Gardens, New York 11413. The relief sought herein is a final judgment directing sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the mortgage described above. Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is located.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: QUEENS COUNTY. MARGARET E. MEYERS, ET. AL. v. ANGELIQUE MAMALAKIS, AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF EFSTRATIOS MAMALAKIS, ET AL. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered March 12, 2020, bearing Index No. 709650/2016, I will sell at public auction on Friday, April 29, 2022 at 12:30 pm on the front steps of the Queens County Supreme Court, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, 11435 the premises known as 29-12 172nd Street, Flushing, New York 11358 (Block: 4934, Lot: 11).

Premises is being sold subject to fi led Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale and Terms of Sale. Judgment amount $531,184.38 plus interest and costs. The foreclosure sale will be conducted in accordance with the 11th Judicial District’s Covid-19 Policies.

All parties attending must wear a mask and practice social distancing. LAMONT BAILEY, Esq., Referee. Harry Zubli, Esq., attorney for plaintiff (516) 487-5777.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, D/B/A Christiana Trust as Owner Trustee of the Residential Credit Opportunities Trust V, Plaintiff AGAINST Sandra Franklin, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered November 12, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the Courthouse steps of the Queens Supreme Court, located at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York on May 11, 2022 at 10:20AM, premises known as 140-58 160th Street, Jamaica, NY 11434. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 12315, LOT: 57. Approximate amount of judgment $685,091.22 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of fi led Judgment Index #700150/2021. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the QUEENS County COVID-19 Protocols located on the Offi ce of Court Administration (OCA) website (https://ww2. nycourts.gov/Admin/oca. shtml) and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. Deposit must be in the form of a certifi ed or bank check only, no cash will be accepted at sale. David Rosen, Esq., Referee Frenkel Lambert Weiss Weisman & Gordon, LLP, 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, NY 11706 01-034567-F00 71152

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Mr. Cooper, Plaintiff, -against- Glennes Eggleston, as Heir to the Estate of Carolyn E Heyes Eggleston a/k/a Carolyn E Hayes Eggleston, Chekesha Eggleston, as Heir to the Estate of Carolyn E Heyes Eggleston a/k/a Carolyn E Hayes Eggleston, Faraji Eggleston, as Heir to the Estate of Carolyn E Heyes Eggleston a/k/a Carolyn E Hayes Eggleston Carolyn E Heyes Eggleston a/k/a Carolyn E Hayes Eggleston’s unknown heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in the real property described in the complaint herein, GE Capital Consumer Card Co., New York City Environmental Control Board, New York City Parking Violations Bureau, New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, United States of America, John Doe (Refused Name), John Doe (Refused Name), John Doe (Refused Name), John Doe (Refused Name) and John Doe (Refused Name), Defendants. Index No.: 720758/2021 Filed: 4/4/2022 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): 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 attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; or within sixty (60) days if it is the United States of America. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $87,500.00 and interest, recorded in the offi ce of the clerk of the County of Queens on July 15, 2003 in CRFN 2003000232353, covering premises known as 104-20 207th Street, Queens Village, NY 11429. The relief sought in the within action is a fi nal judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. 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 fi led this foreclosure proceeding against you and fi ling 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: Bay Shore, New York, April 4, 2022. Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, LLP /s/ BY: Linda P. Manfredi Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, New York 11706. (631) 969-3100 Our File No.: 01-092745-F00

Public Announcement Business Certificate I hereby certify that I am conducting or transacting business under the name or designation of EYIMOFE EMMANUEL at 118-11 Sutphin Blvd., Unit 98072. City or Town of Jamaica, County of Queens, State of New York.

My full name is Eyimofe Emmanuel. I further certify that I am the successor in interest to MIMI LOVE TRUST the person or persons heretofore using such name or names to carry on or conduct or transact business. Type of business Property Trust. I Witness Whereof, I have signed this certificate on 25th day of January 2022.

Notice of Formation of Beehive MidHudson 2, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/29/22. Office location: Queens County. Princ. bus. addr.: 37-88 Review Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, 3 World Trade Ctr., 175 Greenwich St., NY, NY 10007, Attn: Merrill B. Stone, Esq. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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CLAIREMONT RESIDENCE LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/16/2022. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 5030 65th Pl, Woodside, NY 11377.

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Offi ce Location: Queens County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 41-28 Haight St #1A, Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of MAXIMUS CUSTOM CLOTHING LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/18/2022. 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: MAGDY BOHNAN, 6060 6OTH LANE, APT 1, MASPETH, NY 11378. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MII SASSY LLC Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/02/2021. Offi ce 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: MII SASSY LLC, 1372 DICKENS STREET, FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11691-2304.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS One West Bank, N.A. f/k/a One West Bank, FSB, Plaintiff, vs. Unknown Heirs of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Druella Mays as Heir and Distributee of Estate of Juanita Bolden; Mae Ola Booze as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Anna Ford as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Bentel Bolden as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Venture Bolden as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Percy Hatcherson as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Arthur Bolden, Jr. as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Ivan Bolden as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Avis Monica Riley as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Juan Bolden as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Jalanya Bolden as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Marlya Rader as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Nathan Jackson as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Lee Andrew Jackson Ill as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Dianne McLean as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Juanetta Loyce as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Michael Jackson as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Janet Hubbard as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Sharon Fuller as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Danielle L. Bolden as Executrix and Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Melvin W. Bolden, Jr., Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Melvin W. Bolden, III as Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Melvin W. Bolden, Jr., Heir and Distributee of the Estate of Juanita Bolden; Criminal Court of the City of New York (Queens); People of the State of New York; Dependable Credit Corp.; LVNV Funding LLC; Queens Supreme Court; Rita Kirschbaum; New York City Environmental Control Board; New York City Parking Violations Bureau; New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau, CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU, INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE-UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE-TAX COMPLIANCE DIVISIONC.O-ATC Defendants. Filed: 03/06/2014 Index No.: 701513/2014 SUMMONS AND NOTICE Mortgaged Premises: 24-49 92nd Street, Flushing NY 11369 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is for the foreclosure of: Mortgage bearing the date of May 2, 2007, executed by Juanita Bolden to Financial Freedom Senior Funding Corporation, a subsidiary of IndyMac Bank, F.S.B. to secure the sum of up to $653,000.00, and interest, and recorded in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York on May 31, 2007 with CRFN 2007000282223. That said Note and Mortgage were duly assigned to the Plaintiff in the within action. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the Mortgaged Premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the County in which the Mortgaged Premises is situated. Block: 1103 Lot: 45 DATED: March 17, 2022 New York, New York. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the Mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. 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. WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 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Most Mets fans were not happy when they learned the only way they could watch their team play the Washington Nationals last Friday night was on the streaming service Apple TV Plus.

There was plenty of interest about this game because it marked the Mets debut of pitcher Max Scherzer who was facing his old team, the team he helped to win a World Series in 2019. It turns out their apprehension was justified.

Friday marked the debut of Apple’s streaming deal with Major League Baseball, which was finalized a few days before the start of the season. As expected, there were problems. For some older viewers who only use a computer for basic tasks, streaming is a foreign concept. Even some who subscribe to Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu had trouble logging in, even though Apple wasn’t charging for the game. And there were moments when the picture froze or went black.

The biggest problem, however, was the broadcast team of Melanie Newman, Chris Young, Hannah Keyser and field reporter Brooke Fletcher. While I applaud Apple for trying something different by fielding a broadcast team that was 75 percent female, none of them have a lot of experience.

Newman has done solid work for the MLB Network, and has been praised for her play-byplay work for the Baltimore Orioles. However,

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she did not have an auspicious debut for Apple as she was too easily distracted. A good example was when she and her broadcast partners spent an inordinate amount of time shilling for Apple products, and then for Nike’s latest clothing line.

Even more egregious was when they started to namedrop restaurant chains. They admitted they were hoping to get free dining privileges at them.

And they weren’t kidding, either.

Young was always a terrific gentleman when he was an outfielder for the Mets and the Yankees. His job was to provide insights from a player’s vantage. Instead, we got such obvious statements as “Francisco Lindor is trying to peek at the catcher to see if he should steal second,” and “This game could get out of hand in a hurry!” when the Mets put runners on against rookie pitcher Josiah Gray. He also defended Nats hurler Steve Cishek when he beaned Lindor in the noggin with a fastball. “He wasn’t trying to hit him,” Young said, ignoring that three Mets were hit the previous night.

In fairness, they were dealt a tough hand because of a delay to start the game due to lighting malfunctions at Nationals Park, and later, a rain delay. Anything can happen in a baseball game. Apple should have hired a veteran such as Gary Thorne to anchor the broadcast, even if he Q is older than the desired demographic.

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