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Jessica Canty, a 40-year-old mother of two, was gunned down, allegedly by her husband, Kevin Canty, 43, an ex-cop, with their two young children present early Saturday morning in the family’s house on 104th Street in Ozone Park.

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NY State Pavilion named ‘treasure’ On World’s Fair 50th anniversary, there’s joy in Flushing Meadows

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

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s the smell of sweet Belgian waffles wafted in the spring breeze, 2,500 spectactors gathered at the New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Park on Tuesday morning to hear it declared a “National Treasure” and see for themselves what’s left of the hulking relic.

The event was held to commemorate the opening of the World’s Fair in 1964 and give visitors a chance to see the decaying pavilion that has been chained off for years. People waited on line for hours to don a hard hat and take a quick peek inside the Tent of Tomorrow.

They were joined by elected and Parks Department officials, but the big news came from Paul Goldberger, a board member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, who announced the “National Treasure” designation.

Goldberger said the title “recognizes historically, culturally and architecturally important sites to raise awareness and funding for their preservation.” Only 44 locations in the United States have been awarded the designation since the program began four years ago.

The preservationist called the Philip Johnson-designed pavilion “a remarkable piece of architecture” and “the finest architectural

achievement of the fair.”

The event was organized by Parks and the Pavilion Paint Project, volunteers who since 2009 have repainted the structure with the familiar red and white stripes that decorated it during the fair.

John Piro, who helped organize the group, said he was overwhelmed by the response of the large crowd. “It shows people care about the pavilion and want it preserved,” Piro said.

Earlier this year, Parks held listening sessions to find out what people wanted done with the pavilion. It’s been estimated that it would cost $72 million to fully restore it or $14 million to demolish it.

But Borough President Melinda Katz has come out strongly in favor of saving the structure and said Tuesday that as far as she is concerned, the $14 million can go toward restoring it.

Cong ressma n Joe Crowley (D-Bronx, Queens) said he wants to make the pavilion a national landmark “and we should do all we can to save it.”

Goldberger, noting that for years the future of it had been problematic, added: “For a long time the pavilion’s future was a question mark; in the future it will be an exclamation point.”

The people who came for the opening were a mixed bag, from those who went to the fair continued on page 37

Artie DeGennaro and his wife, Lois, pose for a picture outside the New York State Pavilion on PHOTO BY LIZ RHOADES Tuesday, when it was opened to the public.

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Without Drugs, Shots or Surgery Now, in Howard Beach, NY, one doctor is helping local residents with knee pain live more active, pain-free lives.

Living with knee pain can feel like a crippling experience.

Let’s face it, your knees aren’t as young as you used to be, and playing with the kids or grandkids isn’t any easier either. Maybe your knee pain keeps you from walking short distances or playing golf like you used to.

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Before the FDA would clear the Class IV laser for human use, they wanted to see proof that it worked.

This lead to two landmark studies.

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Ex-police officer Kevin Canty arrested for murder of wife in front of children

by Domenick Rafter Editor

A alleged domestic dispute turned violent in Ozone Park Saturday morning, leading to the shooting death of a 40-year-old woman, whom cops said was gunned down by her husband, in front of their children, leaving an entire neighborhood in shock.

At around 11 a.m. Saturday morning, cops responded to a report of a shooting inside a home at 97-44 104 St. near 101st Avenue.

There, Kevin Canty, 43, a former transit cop, allegedly shot dead his wife, Jessica Canty, in front of their two children. The children, a girl and a boy, then ran from the home in a panic, neighbors say, shouting that their father had shot their mother. Police sources said she suffered multiple gunshot wounds to her torso.

“I heard screaming and thought it was just kids playing at first,” said one of Canty’s neighbors, “Then I heard adults screaming and knew it couldn’t be good. I went outside and the kids were running up the block with my neighbor. They were crying.

They were screaming that their mommy had been shot.”

Ben Roumani, who lives in Richmond Hill and was walking on 101st Avenue at the

Police roped off 104th Street in Ozone Park where Jessica Canty, inset, was shot dead in her home at 97-44 104 St. Saturday morning, allegedly by her husband with her children in the PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER house. time of the incident, said he saw the children banging on the doors of several cars stopped at the red light at 104th Street and 101st Avenue.

“They were screaming ‘Daddy shot mommy, please help,’” he said. “They looked petrified. It all happened so fast. I wasn’t sure it was real.”

One of Canty’s neighbors took the children to a bodega, the Casablanca Deli on 101st Avenue, where they stayed until police arrived.

“I saw them being taken into an ambulance,” said a nearby resident who came to the scene. “They didn’t seem shaken up, I guess they were in shock.”

The children, who a family friend said were 5 and 8 years old, were taken into protective custody and were to be released to family members.

Jessica Canty and her children were in that same deli shortly before the shooting, according to surveillance video and a worker at the bodega. The worker added that the family were regular customers there.

Immediately after the shooting, cops canvassed the block in armor with shields, searching for Canty. They yelled for residents to go inside their homes and take cover, unsure if the gunman was still on the loose in the area.

“Please stay in your homes and take cover,” a cop shouted to curious residents on 104th Street, who poked their heads out of their front doors. “Please, go back to your homes and stay inside.”

An earlier incident several blocks away continued on page 24

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Cops: Ozone Park mom shot dead by husband

Vacant Howard Beach home reoccupied Man staying there says he’s fixing the place, neighbors unconvinced

by Domenick Rafter Editor

message to members of the community last week, Deputy Inspector Jeffrey Schiff, the commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, said cops have arrested an individual at the house, and the FDNY declared the building had a number of fire code violations and was a fire hazard. As a result, Schiff said the FDNY has recommended to the Department of Buildings that the house be completely boarded up.

The DOB visited the building last Tuesday and cops removed the people inside, but did not seal it up. The house was reoccupied the next day.

Peter said he feels he is being “harassed” by the cops and city agencies, as well as residents themselves.

“They say things like ‘your kind isn’t welcome here,’” Peter, who is darker-skinned, said. “People have been saying there are kids in the house, there’s mold. There’s no kids and no mold.”

Schiff said cops were patrolling the area to make sure no one stays in the house and arrested someone

The house at 162-38 90 St. is currently in foreclosure, but occupied by a man who said he was just fixing up the home that has been vacant since at least 2012. Neighbors and the police, however, have been trying to evict PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER him. there Friday night.

Residents who live near the house were unmoved by news that the occupier of the home says he’s only there to fix the place.

“Bottom line is he doesn’t belong there, it’s not his house. If he wants to buy it, fine, but he can’t live there like this,” said one Q neighbor. “We want him out.”

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The unkempt lawn and a sign on the front door are the only signs that anything may be wrong with the house at 162-38 90 St. But what’s inside the home has neighbors very concerned.

Residents who live in the area have complained that squatters are living in the vacant house and are worried about the possible effect on the community’s quality of life.

Police and neighbors are calling him a squatter, but the man who is living in the house, identifying himself only as Peter, rejects that designation.

“I’m not a squatter,” he said.

“I’m cleaning the place up. I suppose whoever owns it will want to rent it one day.”

Peter said he has lived in the home since last year. He described it as “a hot mess” when he got there.

The home was owned by Isaac Khafizov, who was convicted in 2012 of federal mail and wire fraud charges connected to a mort-

gage scheme. He is currently serving a nine-year sentence in a federal prison.

Neighbors, none of whom wanted to be identified, said the house has been vacant since at least 2012. One resident who lives sever al doors away says it was vacant earlier than that. The home is in foreclosure and the entity that holds the deed is based in Florida.

News of squatters possibly living in the house created more concern for the neighborhood, still reeling from a string of home burglaries and car thefts in March.

“I heard about the home invasions and cars being stolen in the area,” Peter explained, noting that he has recently brought friends over to help him fix the house. “I get that people are afraid because of that, but I work 13 hours a day, I don’t have time for any of that.”

He said he works at his construction job in the city during the day and in the evenings and on the weekends he works in the house.

But police weren’t buying it. In a

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Howard Beach homes undervalued Residents say city is low-balling actual price of houses

by Domenick Rafter Editor

At least two homeowners in Howard Beach are appealing to the city to value their homes at what they believe they should be worth.

They say their homes were worth far more before Hurricane Sandy devastated the neighborhood, and were not substantially damaged by the storm and thus should be worth close to what they had been.

Antoinette Simione says her father’s house on 91st St reet was valued at $106,000 when they met with Build it Back a few weeks ago.

“Even the person who took care of us [at Build it Back] said there had to be some kind of mistake,” she said.

Simione asked what could be done and Build it Back suggested getting the house reappraised, which she did. The real estate agent who appraised it said it was likely worth as much as $550,000. In documentation she gave to Build it Back, Simione said it had been worth more than $400,000 before the storm.

The same problem is befalling Vito Chillemi, who lives further south on 91st Street.

“They offer $200,000 for my home,”

he said. “I paid $550,000 before Sandy hit. Right there, it should tell you it’s undervalued.”

Chillemi said his house was severely damaged by Sandy’s storm surge and it cost almost $200,000 to make all the repairs. He submitted bills to Build it Back to be reimbursed, but has not seen any money yet.

“I think that’s kind of ridiculous,” Chillemi said. “They said they would fill in my basement and raise the entire house seven feet. I’d be the highest house on the block.”

Besides that, Build it Back told him he would have to vacate the home while it was being raised — at his own cost — for six weeks.

“Six weeks might be six months, maybe even a year,” Ch illem i said.

“We’re 18 months removed from Sandy and we’re still talking about this.”

The issue of home values post-Sandy is not a new one, but in many cases since the storm, residents have complained that their homes were priced too high, causing them to pay higher property taxes on homes that were damaged in the storm and, in some case, inhabitable.

Last year, the city valued the homes

based on research done before Sandy.

Residents had to appeal their home values directly to the Department of Finance to get them reappraised.

A sou rce with the Depar t ment of Finance said the problem is fixable and the city would look at the homes that are said to be undervalued.

The source suggested the problem is a “side effect” of the city trying to correct last year’s issue of valuing storm-damaged homes at pre-Sandy levels.

However, some have noted that the values of homes have gone down in the neighborhood due to the effects of Sandy.

And the state is mulling legislation aimed at restoring a 6 percent property tax cap that under current law would be eliminated when substantial improvements are made to homes — a problem befalling at least 1,500 Sandy-affected homeowners.

Meanwhile, Chillemi said the city has told him there will be an appeals process that he can take part in and that the city will release some of the reimbursement money he’s been waiting for. But he’s skeptical.

“Is that going to be happen? Probably Q not,” Chillemi said.

Casino shuttles go to Brooklyn In addition to the free coach bus ser vice to and f rom Man hat tan, Resorts World Casino New York City has opened new shuttle bus service to North Brooklyn.

Utilizing the smaller shuttle vehicles, the new service that kicked off last month makes three stops: one at the intersection of Union and Metropolitan avenues; a second at the intersection of Lorimer Street and Broadway, both in Williamsburg; and a third at the intersection of Flushing Avenue and Broadway in Bushwick.

The service operates 10 a.m. to midnight, Sundays through Wednesdays, and 10 a.m. to 2 a.m., Thursdays through Saturdays.

Last year, the casino opened coach bus service from Midtown Manhattan and another route that ser ves the Upper East Side and Upper West Side.

A fleet of private coach bus companies runs shuttle service from the casino to Flushing, Elmhurst, Sunset Park in Brooklyn and Chinatown in Manhattan. Shuttle buses also connect the casino to the Jamaica LIRR Q station.

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he thousands of victims of Hurricane Sandy in South Queens, the Rockaways and other shoreline areas in the region have suffered enough.

More than enough.

Those in Queens first suffered through the brutal storm that struck nearly 18 months ago, seeing their homes flooded, their possessions destroyed, their subway line across Jamaica Bay rendered inoperable and more, including the loss of life.

Then they suffered through the operations of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Red Cross, which, while well-intentioned, were inadequate.

Then those who own homes suffered through the hassle of dealing with insurance companies so they could try to rebuild, along with the financial burden and stress of massive premium hikes the government started imposing on them, until voices of reason put those on hold.

Then those with no better options suffered through the catastrophic failure of former Mayor Bloomberg’s Build it Back program, which was so poorly run that it has aided only a handful of people to date. Mayor de Blasio outlined a set of reforms to the program last week that should get it to live up to its name, but whether they will remains to be seen.

Now comes word that as much as $3.5 billion in federal money that people thought was coming here to fund the rebuilding effort could be diverted to assist other areas of the country that have been hit with natural disasters, such as tornados in Missouri and the mudslide in Washington State.

Those people certainly deserve aid too.

But it should not come out of the pot people believed was allocated to regions struck by Sandy.

The decision apparently is up to the

Department of Housing and Urban Development, which may award the funds through competitions to come up with projects that improve a given region’s ability to withstand future natural disasters. The law funding Sandy relief allows the money to be spent elsewhere. It shouldn’t have.

Now U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer is leading the “fight to ensure that every one of New York’s needs are met before a national competition sends a single Sandy relief dollar elsewhere,” as he said in a prepared statement Monday. We hope every lawmaker in our region is on board.

One element that may prove key is how quickly New York can spend the funds that are available. Let’s all hope that de Blasio’s reform of Build it Back will get the money to the people here who need it, fast, before some Washington, DC bureaucrat sends it somewhere else.

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Abbraccia-must know Dear Editor: I have to laugh at the “I don’t know”’ scenarios provided by the owner and operator of the Abbracciamento restaurant that closed (“Today’s special: demolition,” April 17, multiple editions). He owns the entire block including the restaurant and the spaces the stores are in.

Sales of real estate don’t happen overnight, nor can the prospective buyers file for permits from the city building department for demolition, without knowledge and consent

Probing the library

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he Queens Library has abandoned its initial refusal to provide City Comptroller Scott Stringer with all the documents he wants for an overdue audit. Good. Although technically a private nonprofit group, the library gets 88 percent of its funding from the taxpayers, the vast bulk of that from those in the city.

It has no excuse not to open the books for the comptroller as controversy swirls around its spending and operations.

Maybe all the library does is on the level. That’s what Stringer’s audit, a probe by city and federal criminal investigators and past and future City Council hearings are designed to determine. If not everything is kosher, let the chips fall where they may and then let’s see major reforms.

The word “library” should bring to mind the pursuit of knowledge, not of scandal. We hope that it will again soon.

of the existing owner, given that the sale is not even completed.

John Ngai Rego Park

No IDs for illegals Dear Editor: I read the article “Municipal ID bill introduced in Council” in your April 27 edition.

I find it utterly ridiculous that anyone would consider introducing a bill that would allow illegal aliens to have approved identification cards. Doesn’t anyone understand the word “Illegal”?

These people are here illegally. They already receive free food, medical, housing and who know what else. They don’t pay taxes, they don’t serve in the military and they continue to make more demands. What gives them the right to demand anything?

What next? Are they going to be allowed to run for political offices?

What is this country coming to when it

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Dear Editor: Interesting: The same people who are outraged over photo ID for voting have no problem with municipal ID cards (with photo) for illegal aliens.

Traitor alert, traitor alert. Citizens, watch your backs.

Larry Trapani Kew Gardens

Great article on the fair Dear Editor: I just read Liz Rhoades’ World’s Fair article and really loved it (“Fifty years ago a fair opened in Qns.,” April 17, multiple editions).

You had such good info, many items I had no idea about. The most informative to me was that there were so many countries that did not participate because of not being given free space at the fair and the fair being slighted by the Bureau of International Expositions.

I’m looking forward to the subsequent articles.

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Asking a commercial pilot friend about the situation, I was told it is all about who can operate more cheaply; one pilot group is pitted against another (in what is termed “whipsawing”) to get concessions and pay cuts. He says someone with eight years of experience barely earns $40,000 annually.

The latest concessionary contract proposal attempts to limit first officers and captains to a four-year and 12-year pay cap, respectively. If that eight-year pilot upgrades to captain, he will already be two-thirds of the way toward hitting the salary cap for captain. Companies are unable to find enough pilots who meet the hiring flight time minimums of 1,500 hours and an Air Transport Pilot rating. The situation is exacerbated by the rising cost of training for a job that pays so little.

Airline companies should know enough to pay their pilots well, especially considering the degree of responsibility pilots undertake.

What will become of the standard of pilot capability if airline companies continue to deny higher salaries? The airlines have to find a way to accommodate higher salaries for these specialized professionals. So many lives depend on their care.

With the industry attracting fewer pilots, there will either be fewer flights, or, more likely, pilots will have to f ly more hours.

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My grandparents came to the United States and studied and contributed to society and never accepted anything for “free.” And, after much time and study, they became American citizens — legally.

I was born in the United States over 80 years ago, served in the military, have worked and paid taxes. And now, my taxes are being used to pay for all the free benefits that these illegal aliens are receiving. Stand in the supermarket checkout line and see how many nonEnglish-speaking people hand the cashier a “blue” benefits/Medicaid card and pay absolutely nothing for their groceries. But I, an American citizen, must pay for all my groceries. No wonder so many people are coming into this country illegally.

How much money is the U.S. government (with my taxes) paying for all these free benefits for illegal aliens? It’s just a shame.

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The legally zoned development of commercial and multifamily dwellings one continued from page 9 block north of Hillside Avenue is a feature talism in New York City, with such exem- that the Jamaica Estates Association has plars as seen in the horse-drawn wagons of worked with city agencies and local resiBoar’s Head (Brunckhorst’s) delicatessen dents to contain. products, of Abraham & Strauss’ deliveries, Our community is undergoing a change, and of the merchant pushcarts. Traffic acci- a dynamic change! While Ms. Collier may dents, air and noise pollution became com- bemoan the change in architecture that is mon only with the introduction of the car, becoming evident in Jamaica Estates, this truck and bus in lieu of horses and trains. change reflects a decision on the part of Further, thanks to the megalomaniacal many young families to build homes in our efforts of Robert Moses to catalyze automo- community and not flee to the suburbs of bile transportation through the building of nearby Great Neck or Sands Point. The this labyrinthine system of rapid influx of young families bridges, tunnels, expressways into our community has also and parkways (such as the ONLINE brought the next generation of monstrosity of the Kew Garresidents who bring an excitMiss an editorial or dens Interchange now under ing dynamism in support of article cited by a writer? renovation in Queens), we their new community. What Want news from our other have further traffic congeswas once a declining shopeditions covering the rest tion, with a concomitant ping area along Union Turnof Queens? Find past increase in air pollution toxic pike is now a vibrant district. r e p or t s , ne w s f r om to human and animal health.

The members of the Jamaiacross the borough and The solution, therefore, to ca Estates Association will more at qchron.com. the present destruction of the continue to work together ecosystem of New York City with our government officials is to slowly ban automobiles, trucks and and our commercial partners in maintaining buses in districts of Manhattan, as well as the values that have underpinned our neighthe other boroughs, and expand the horse- borhood since it was founded decades ago. drawn carriage and wagon industry. The We encourage our new neighbors as well as problem is not the domesticated breeds of our longtime residents to join us as our comhorse which have been successfully utilized munity moves into the future, to support the by humans for over 5,000 years, but rather future of our community. with the motorized vehicle, fossils fuels and Martha Taylor an artificial, ugly metropolis such as even and the Executive Board the poet Dante in his creative genius could of the Jamaica Estates Association not have conceived.

Jamaica Estates “I am Mr. Ed.” Joseph N. Manago Fox likes a lawbreaker Briarwood Dear Editor: For years we have heard the “takers” are Reality in Jamaica Estates welfare cheaters. Fox News reminds its Dear Editor: viewers of these food stamp grabbers. Well, Nostalgia is warm and comforting, but it it looks like they have a new hero, Clive doesn’t replace reality. Maria Collier’s Bundy, the Nevada welfare cowboy. Here’s a March 27 letter (“Estates taxed”) calls for a guy who hates big government, yet steals for return to the Jamaica Estates of 1931, when 20 years federal grazing land for his cattle. our community was a suburb in New York Congress enacted in 1934 the Taylor City. That doesn’t exist anymore, and the Grazing Act, which provided grazing reguriding paths, golf course and walking ver- lation under the jurisdiction of the Interior dant trails are a fond part of our history pre- Department. The Bureau of Land Managedating Ms. Collier. ment charges $1.35 per cow each month for Before zoning was codified in the 1961 the right to graze on federal land. Mr. Resolution, there were rather loose regula- Bundy owes over $1 million in back paytions and covenants governing neighbor- ments. Court action has ordered that he hoods in New York City (nyc.gov/html/dcp/ make those payments to Uncle Sam. html/zone/zonehis.shtml).

Why has “Fox and Friends” given this This Resolution designated the major lawbreaker noteworthy status? They called portion of Jamaica Estates as an R1-2 zone, Obama a lawbreaker. Why the hypocrisy? which is the most restrictive zoning, permitAnthony G. Pilla ting only one-family houses. However, the Forest Hills southern part of Jamaica Estates, the subject of Ms. Collier’s letter, was designated R5, Corrections permitting up to six-story multiple dwellings. Ms. Collier is inaccurate when she In the March 13 article “Two Bayside bemoans “upzoning,” when in fact this area theaters, two very different shows,” the has been designated R5 since 1961. photo used for “Children of Eden” was misA Rezoning Study in 2005 proposed credited, as was one used in the April 3 artidownzoning to a more restrictive code for cle “’The Boy Friend’ croons you songs of this section of Jamaica Estates; however, the love.” Both were taken by Mark Lord. residents of that area chose to remain an R5 In the April 3 article “Council revisits zone and thus they were carved out of the school bus driver contracts,” two digits in a final Jamaica Redevelopment study. This union local’s name were transposed. It is area was never upzoned.

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A war on vandals in Richmond Hill Lifelong resident says graffiti gives a good neighborhood a bad image

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Richmond Hill in the springtime boasts specific telltales of a residential community.

On the sidewalks of the residential streets lined with Victorian homes, children ride their bicycles and tricycles back and forth, stopping just shy of the Jamaica Avenue corner — where mom said never to go. On the front lawns, the sunshine means yard work.

In fact, the only signs that you’re in a city at all are the clanging of the passing J train and the urban blight that neighborhoods in major cities all across the world fight endlessly to defeat — graffiti.

And that’s the target of lifelong Richmond Hill resident John Sakelos.

A college student, Sakelos is tired of driving around the neighborhood and seeing graffiti vandalism everywhere.

“People talk about the ‘broken windows theory,’ where stuff like this escalates into worse crimes,” Sakelos explained. “I don’t want to see that happen here. In the past few years, it’s gotten worse.”

The graffiti is most prominent on the sides of buildings along Jamaica Avenue, especially facing side streets where there are few windows and doors and open access to external walls.

Sakelos has waged a one-man war on

graffiti. He received forms from Councilman Ruben Wills’ (D-South Jamaica) office for business owners to request graffiti removal services and handed them out to some store owners. While many people accepted the forms and thanked him, some didn’t want to be bothered, he said.

One business owner painted over the graff iti, but the vandals str uck again.

Another only had enough money and supplies to paint over half the wall, but Sakelos said it made a difference.

He pointed out a number of graffiti hot spots along Jamaica Avenue, especially at 104th Street at the foot of the staircase leading to the 104th Street subway station, on 107th Street, where he lives, and on garage doors along 88th Avenue, one block south of Jamaica Avenue.

“It’s a shame that people have to look out the window and see this,” Sakelos said.

The 107th Street site, where graffiti mars a makeshift fence in front of a vacant lot, is especially personal to Sakelos.

“I would clean it myself if I could,” he said, noting that he had painted over graffiti on his own at other locations.

The graffiti is especially bad higher up, on multiple-story building exteriors overlooking one-story structures, some of which have not been touched in decades.

Vandals have also notably defaced the old Richmond Hill LIR R station between Jamaica and Hillside avenues, abandoned since 1998, and the wood fencing in front of the landmark facade of the Republican Club on Lefferts Boulevard.

The 102nd Precinct, which serves Richmond Hill, is no stranger to the graffiti problem.

Last week at its monthly community council meeting, Officer Diana Kaouris was given the Cop of the Month award for nabbing a suspected vandal, allegedly in the act near Forest Park. She had arrested at least seven other suspects for graffiti this winter.

Deputy Inspector Hank Sautner said the graffiti issue is hard for cops to tackle.

“It’s a huge problem over here and it’s a very difficult arrest to make live,” he said.

Cops look for patterns, including similar tags, to track down vandals. Sakelos said he had been noticing some of the same tags on different buildings too.

“It’s definitely some of the same people,” he said. “I see some of the same markings.”

Sakelos said he hopes to get a group of residents to gather together to fight the graffiti and perhaps help building owners access antigraffiti paint, which can be expensive.

“I just wish more people would take pride in their neighborhood and try to make it a Q better place,” he said.

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The Ozone Howard Little League will honor veterans Saturday with the dedication of a new memorial at the flagpole at the league’s ball fields in Ozone Park.

The dedication will take place during a ceremony to be held starting at 8:30 a.m. at the fields, located on Centreville Street between 135th Drive and Bristol Avenue in the Cent reville section of Ozone Park. The event will include a breakfast, followed by a ceremony that w ill cu l m i nate w it h t he memor ial’s unveiling.

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Memorial will be unveiled on Saturday The league has invited veterans from each branch of the military to join in the dedication.

“We hope you will join us in paying tribute and honoring your service and in giving our community a place to come and pay their respects to all you have given us,” the league said in a statement to veterans.

The memorial will be unveiled at the foot of the f lagpole next to the fields.

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the dedication will be held Sunday at the same time.

The idea to build a memorial near the little league fields is not new.

Howie Kamph, president of the Ozone Park Civic Association, said he originally wanted to put a memorial to veterans i n a t r ia ngle across f rom the f ields formed by Centreville and 97th streets just before they intersect with 149th and Bristol avenues. The triangle — which residents in the community have wanted

to utilize for something for years — is bare, except with road markings and jersey barriers surrounding it.

However, Kamp said he was told he could not do it there because of the proposed sewer and road inf rast r uct u re project, HQ411B, that has been in the works for decades.

Part of that project includes the widening of Centreville Street that will force some of t he t r ia ngle to be u sed i n construction.

For additional information, call the Ozone Howard Little League at (718) Q 835-8599.

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A Pennsylvania man was arrested on weapons possession charges after an X-ray scanner at John F. Kennedy International Airport allegedly detected a loaded handgun and a set of brass knuckles in a vest he submitted for screening.

Richard Forti, 55, of Annville, Pa., was inside Kennedy Airport’s Terminal 7 at about 7:20 a.m. on April 16.

A press release issued by the office of Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said an alarm went off as the vest passed through.

Off icers allegedly recovered a .32-caliber pistol with five rounds in its magazine, along with the brass knuckles.

Brown’s office quotes Forti as telling Port Authority police officers that he carries both weapons for personal protection.

Published sources have quoted members of Forti’s family as saying he suffers from mental health issues and may have been off his medication at the time.

Brown said Forti has been charged with second- and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. He could Q face up to 25 years if convicted.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. is taking his office on the road throughout the month of May to meet one-on-one with constituents and work to address their respective issues.

The office will be stationed at the Broad Channel Library on May 1, the Ozone Park Library on May 8 and the Woodhaven Library on May 15.

Hours are from 5:30 to 7 p.m. For more information, contact Addabbo’s Howard Q Beach office at (718) 738-1111.

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Survivor story Alicia Rivera, a 21-year-old pancreatic cancer sur vivor from Ozone Park, spoke at the Lustgarten Foundation’s New Yor k Cit y Pancr eatic Canc er Research Walk at Hudson River Park in Manhattan on April 6.

The Nassau County-based Lustgarten Foundation is billed as America’s largest private foundation dedicated to funding pancreatic cancer research.

One hundred percent of every dollar raised by the foundation goes directly to pancreatic cancer research thanks to support from Cablevision, which underwrites all of Lustgarten’s administrative costs, the group says.

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It isn’t just the former Joe Abbracciamento Restaurant that the wrecking ball made reservations with. The handful of small businesses occupying the north side of the building adjacent to the shuttered eatery are facing demolition, as well.

As reported last week by the Chronicle, half of the building owned by John Abbracciamento, located at 62-96 Woodhaven Blvd. in Rego Park, was set to be demolished.

But according to an application approved by the Department of Buildings on April 9, the entire lot, featuring six small businesses, has been green-lighted for demolition to make way for a planned seven-story, 114unit apartment complex.

The owners of at least three of the shops residing within the building said they were not made aware of the demolition applications by Abbracciamento, who is in the process of selling the block, including A Dog’s Best Friend, co-owned by Ilana Shilim and her daughter, Kathy.

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That sentiment was echoed by an employee at Classic Hair Designers next door, who said the salon was informed of the approved demolition by customers who came in and asked about it.

The Shilims are planning on relocating their business down the street because of the Q uncertainty surrounding the building.

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Congrats!

Queens Chronicle Production Manager Terry Nusspickel celebrated 20 years as an employee of the newspaper last week.

At the Chronicle, Nusspickel, who lives in Ozone Park, heads up production of the newspaper and its website, which includes laying out pages, administering the website and selecting content for special sections.

“I wish to congratulate Terry on this big milestone with the Chronicle,” said Queens Chronicle Publisher Mark Weidler. “She continues to be a loyal and dedicated part of the company.”

The Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach will hold its 52nd Annual Dinner Dance this Saturday at 7 p.m. at Roma View. The group will honor three people with awards this year.

The first award will honor Edward Tudisco, the Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach’s immediate past president.

Tudisco, who grew up in Ozone Park, served as president from October 2012 through September 2013 and helped spearhead the organization’s response to Hurricane Sandy, which affected many of the club’s members, by creating the Kiwanis International Disaster Relief. The group, with the help of other Kiwanis clubs, organized fundraising and supply drives for victims of the storm as well as neighborhood houses of worship and schools recover from the storm.

Tudisco, who has been a member of the Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach since 1995, also took part in a 5K run for wounded warriors, and helped fundraise for organizations like the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and focused on neighborhood beautification, including moving forward plans to build a memorial park on Cross Bay Boulevard near the Belt Parkway.

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The Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach will honor its immediate past president, Edward Tudisco, left, as well as County Clerk Audrey Pheffer, who will receive the Clement Vicari Service Award, and developer FILE PHOTOS Frank Sciame, who will receive a special community service award. who represented Howard Beach in Albany for decades, will receive the Clement Vicari Service Award.

Pheffer, who lives in Rockaway, was a New York State assemblywoman from 1987 until 2011, when she was appointed county clerk. During most of her time in the New York Assembly, she represented Howard Beach.

This year, the Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach will also be giving a special Community Service Award to Frank Sciame.

Founder and executive director of the F. J. Sciame Construction Company, Sciame is a well-known and respected developer not only in New York, but across the country.

A graduate of Townsend Harris High School, Sciame has led his group as it worked on the Guggenheim Museum and Central Synagogue restorations; the Morgan Library and Museum; and the South Court addition to the New York Public Library. In 2012, Sciame was elected chairman of the Q New York Building Foundation.

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Just look around for sites still standing at Flushing Meadows

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

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n the surface, there appear to be only a few relics left from the 1964-65 World’s Fair at Flushing Meadows, but look a little deeper and there is quite a bit more — if you know where to search.

The 12-story-high Unisphere and neglected New York State Pavilion are the two most visible reminders of the fair, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this month. Part of that pavilion was the circular Theaterama, which several years ago was transformed as the Queens Theatre.

The Port Authority Heliport, designed for sightseeing tours of the fair with a landing deck on the roof, is now Terrace on the Park. It featured the Top of the Fair restaurant with seating for more than 1,000 and a cocktail lounge for 400 on the floor below that offered international mixed drinks. Today it’s a catering hall.

The Singer Bowl became the Louis Armstrong Stadium, part of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The bowl was an open-air stadium which held 18,000 people and was the scene of U.S. Olympic trials, folk festivals and more. It is scheduled for demolition as part of the tennis center’s renovation plans by 2018.

Several statues designed for the fair remain, including “Forms in Transit,” “The Rocket Thrower,” “Form” and “Freedom of the Human Spirit.” In addition, The Whispering Column of Jerash, an ancient 25-foot stone pillar designed by the Romans for an ancient Jordanian city, remains in the park. It was given to the fair

by King Hussein of Jordan during the event and displayed in front of the Pavilion of Jordan.

Another statue associated with the 1964 fair is of George Washington. It is a copy of a model displayed at the Masonic Pavilion and honored Washington’s association with the Masons. The bronze replica was erected in 1967 in Flushing Meadows, the same day the World’s Fair Corp. officially returned the park back to the city.

An early 1900s carousel was situated in the Lake Amusement area of the fair and moved in 1968 near the Queens Zoo. It was a combination of two Coney Island merry-go-rounds made by the famous carver Marcus Illions.

The fair had a full-service post office on the grounds. New sorting and handling machines allowed the post office to deliver mail twice a day, six days a week to fair exhibitions.

The Astral Fountain is just a concrete circle today.

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Visitors could see the operation and hear a narration via a 9-foot-high ramp. Today it is used for storage and maintenance by the Parks Department and is located across from the miniature golf course.

The geodesic dome that is now an aviary at the Queens Zoo had two earlier incarnations at the fair. It began as an information pavilion and in 1965 was transformed into an exhibit on Winston Churchill, who had recently died.

The reflecting pools leading to the Unisphere are a vestige of the 1939 fair.

There were many fountains, but only two sorry remnants remain from 1964. The Pool of Industry’s Fountain of the Planets and the Astral Fountain are all that’s left. The grandest was the Fountain of the Planets located in the Pool of Industry. Considered the largest fountain in the world, it sent 10,000 tons of water in the air in shifting patterns, sometimes reaching as high as 150 feet. Each night special lighting, fireworks and music helped orchestrate a spectacular show.

Today the fountain is a stagnant piece of water, often strewn with garbage. At one point, former Mayor Bloomberg wanted to turn it into a slalom course for a proposed Summer Olympics and later Major League Soccer wanted to replace it with a soccer stadium.

Neither plan came to fruition.

Other than the New York State Pavilion — where plans are being considered for its reuse — the Fountain of the Planets is the most neglected spot in the park.

Not doing much better is the Astral Fountain, near the New York State Pavilion. The water has been drained and the decorative star-patterned encasement has been long-removed. It’s just a concrete circle.

Located nearby is the Excedera, a round stone bench that commemorates the location of the Vatican Pavilion, which Pope Paul VI visited.

Also near the New York State Pavilion is a granite monument that marks the spot where time capsules from the 1939 and 1964 fairs are buried. During the ’64 fair, the large capsule was suspended in the air above the pavilion. Visitors could sign a book and place their names in the capsule.

It was lowered into the ground the day before the fair closed on Oct. 16, 1965 and included a bikini, a credit card, a Beatles record and birth control pills among hundreds of other objects. Both capsules are supposed to remain underground for 5,000 years.

The undulating Hall of Science and Space Park were built for the fair and remain today. The building has been expanded several times and the original facility is undergoing renovation and expected to reopen in October.

The rockets underwent a major facelift a few years ago and now gleam for the world to see.

Although the Queens Botanical Garden had its beginnings at the 1939 fair, as Gardens on Parade, it had to move across the street off College Point Boulevard to make way for the 1964 extravaganza. Some of the original trees were moved there.

Parks Department officials say that the 1964 fair’s administration building, a prefab structure, was always going to remain and it has near the Queens Museum. President Kennedy went there to see a model of the fair in 1962.

Building the 12-story-high Unisphere was no easy feat. The stainless steel structure weighs 900,000 pounds and was PHOTO COURTESY RON MARZLOCK constructed by U.S. Steel.

John Krawchuk, director of historic preservation capital projects, told the Chronicle that about 5 percent of the fiberglass benches from the fair remain. There are also entrance pilllars at the Grand Central Parkway and College Point Boulevard entrances.

Still questionable is the fate of the underground house. The pavilion cost $1 to enter and featured a home of the future tucked away beneath the ground. After the fair was over all pavilions were expected to be demolished by the sponsor.

But demolition is expensive and the story is the owner may have just destroyed the surface structure and removed the furniture, then buried the house.

Parks officials believe it’s gone, but some individuals still are hoping to investigate through scientific equipment to see if it’s there. The location is between the Hall of Science and Terrace on the Park.

Perhaps the most unique exhibit remaining at the fairgrounds is the New York City Panorama. Visitors rode on simulated helicopters around the city that featured 895,000 buildings in a scale of 1 to 1,200. The copters are gone, but the panorama remains in the New York City Building, now the Queens Museum.

This is also the 75th anniversary of the 1939 World’s Fair. A few relics remain, including the New York City Building, that later served as headquarters for the United Nations General Assembly from 1946 to 1951 and after the second fair became the Queens Museum.

A boathouse from 1939 on Meadow Lake was renovated a few years ago and is used for storage by nonprofit groups There are also two large, imposing flagpoles topped by eagles overlooking the Van Wyck Expressway. And one bench from 1939 remains near the Q gazebo outside the museum.

This is the second in a series of articles about the 1964-65 World’s Fair at Flushing Meadows.

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Mayor unveils Build it Back overhaul plans De Blasio promises to start work on 500 homes by summer’s end

by Domenick Rafter

As we speak, Build it Back construction crews are at work already around affected areas.”

De Blasio’s proposals rely on an additional $1 billion in Mayor de Blasio announced last week his proposal to fix the trouble-plagued Build it Back program, as well as funding from Washington D.C., money that several sourchis own ideas for the city’s recovery from Hurricane es say is not certain to come.

The city has already received $3.2 billion in Sandy aid Sandy.

Strangled by red tape, Sandy victims and officials rep- from the federal government.

But state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said resenting the hardest-hit areas have pushed the new administration since it took office Jan. 1 to overhaul the more aid from the federal government may not be coming.

“What I’m hearing from the federal government is what city’s flagship Sandy-response program, created by former I heard after 9/11. We’ve done enough,” he said.

Mayor Bloomberg last summer, and rife with problems.

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Last month the mayor appointed a new team to oversee the city’s response to Hurricane Sandy and said he would the Department of Housing and Urban Development, reallocate $100 million in federal Housing and Urban Devel- which is overseeing Sandy aid, may be ready to move between $1 and $2 billion in aid to other disasters. opment community block grants toward rebuilding efforts.

Cou ncil man Er ic U l r ich Last Thu rsd ay’s an nou nce(R-Ozone Park) said he was glad ment, which took place in Staten to see de Blasio “take the bull by Island, the borough hardest hit by the horns” and focus on fixing the Sandy, came as the administrae can’t stand idly by as troubled Build it Back program. tion released a 33-page repor t changes are reassuring outlining proposed changes to red tape and bureaucratic and“These welcome news to so many of Build it Back. my constituents whose lives were “We can’t stand idly by as red bottlenecks prevent far disrupted by Hurricane Sandy,” tape and bureaucratic bottlenecks too many New Yorkers Ulrich said. “The day when people prevent far too many New Yorkers can finally move back into their from getting the relief they need,” from getting the relief homes or get reimbursed for damthe mayor said last Thursday, age-related repairs cannot come adding the Build it Back program they need.” soon enough.” has been “overly complex and — Mayor de Blasio Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder confusing for homeowners.”

(D-Rockaway Park) also thanked As of January, not one home the mayor for moving on Build it had seen reconst r uction star t Back. under Build it Back. As of last “Sandy was a devastating event for our community and week, that number had only risen to nine. One of the goals of the de Blasio administration is to increase that number every family should get the resources they need that will allow them to move on and rebuild their lives,” Goldfeder to 500 by the end of this summer.

The mayor also hopes to cut at least 500 reimbursement said. “We should not have to wait weeks, months or years checks to homeowners by the end of the summer. So far to get an answer from Build it Back. I want to thank Mayor de Blasio for his steadfast commitment to our famionly 30 have received reimbursement money.

De Blasio also said he would assign 17 inspectors from lies of southern Queens and Rockaway and for his dedication to cut the bureaucracy and move the Build it Back the Department of Buildings to work with Build it Back.

Many officials and Sandy victims themselves say the process forward.”

Addabbo said admitting there is a problem with the promayor has moved too slowly on overhauling the city’s gram was progress. storm response, putting it too low on his list of priorities.

“The most important step was to acknowledge that the But de Blasio said his administration has been focused Build it Back program was not working for most of my on Sandy recovery since its first day in office.

“Since January 1 of this year, over the last 100-plus constituents throughout Howard Beach, Hamilton Beach, days, Build it Back has presented nearly 4,000 homeowners Broad Channel, Rockaway and Breezy Point and that with award offers,” de Blasio said Thursday. “That is an changes were necessary,” he said.

In the meantime, City Comptroller Scott Stringer eight-fold increase over that which had been done previously.

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Mayor de Blasio announced an overhaul of Build it Back, the city’s problem-plagued Sandy recovery program, and pledged to start work on 500 houses and cut 500 reimbursement checks PHOTO BY PETER C. MASTROSIMONE by the end of the summer. announced that his office would be forming an oversight unit aimed at keeping tabs on how federal aid was spent on recovery and resiliency programs; identifying areas where controls can be strengthened to improve performance and service delivery to protect taxpayers from fraud, waste and abuse; monitoring the budget, milestones and status of Sandy projects; and proposing policy recommendations to help the city enhance its emergency preparedness capacity.

According to the Comptroller’s Office, audit staff at the unit’s onset will take a comprehensive look at the Build it Back program to determine whether the Housing Recovery Office has set goals and timetables for the delivery of services and established procedures to reduce the backlog of applications. The unit will also monitor the speed and quality of services delivered and determine whether adequate control procedures have been implemented to detect fraud.

The audit will focus on the Single Family Program, since the majority of the funding was allocated to those recipients.

Stringer will be holding town halls across Sandy-affected areas in the city to explain the new unit, including one in Breezy Point on April 30 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Bay House, 500 Bayside Drive, and on May 20 in Arverne at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, 348 Beach 71st St. from 6 to 8 p.m. Q

NYLCV: Mayor’s storm response falls short

by Domenick Rafter Editor

The New York League of Conservation Voters is among those underwhelmed by Mayor de Blasio’s plans to restructure the city’s response to Hurricane Sandy.

The mayor announced a series of proposals last Thursday in Staten Island focused on restructuring the troubled Build it Back program and offered other ideas and proposals aimed at helping homeowners and business owners recover from the storm.

The NYLCV is calling on the mayor to

City Hall: Resiliency plans coming soon deliver further on plans to protect the city and its residents from future storms.

“We applaud Mayor de Blasio for continuing the work of the Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency in the new administration, but when it comes to preparing for future extreme weather events, today’s report is too short on detail,” said Marcia Bystryn, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters, in a statement.

“The creation of the Office of Recovery and Resiliency and the appointment of experienced staff are important steps forward, but it is unclear what resources the city will devote to their work. Perhaps the biggest question is whether de Blasio will be as committed to preparing for the future as he is to fixing the problems of the past. We look forward to working with the administration to make sure New York is ready for the next big storm, and for the

long-term consequences of our changing climate too.”

In a statement, City Hall spokeswoman Amy Spitalnick said the mayor will outline resiliency efforts in the near future.

“This report marked a dramatic overhaul of our post-Sandy recovery efforts and outlined our plan to make sure we’re rebuilding a stronger and more resilient NYC,” she said. “As we’ve previously announced, our comprehensive PlaNYC progress report — including detailed updates on each specific initiative — will Q be released this spring.”

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When the Police Department invited the public to post photos of people interacting with officers on the Twitter social media network, it may not have gotten the results it intended.

People sending tweets with the #myNYPD hashtag, which the NYPD created Tuesday, largely posted photos of police using force against members of the public.

Activist groups such as the New York Civil Liberties Union and Occupy Wall Street used the hashtag, which is a keyword letting Twitter users find all posts that contain it, to criticize the department and tout their organizations.

“NYC! Having fun with the #mynypd tweets? Remember to send us ur #mynypd stories using our ‘Stop & Frisk Watch’ app: nyclu. org/app,” the civil liberties group said in one of many tweets it posted.

Media outlets quickly said the initiative had backfired. “Predictably, NYPD’s #mynypd hashtag outreach goes very, very wrong,” Salon.com said in a post echoing many others.

The Police Department stood by its hashtag.

“The NYPD is creating new ways to communicate effectively with the community,” Deputy Chief Kim Royster said in an email to the media. “Twitter provides an open forum for an uncensored exchange and this is an open Q dialogue good for our city.”

InBloom student data plan fails, shuts down The nonprofit service inBloom, which had planned to collect and store information on public school students in a partnership with the state, has shut down after New York lawmakers barred its use in recent budget legislation, multiple media reports say.

Many parents and legislators had voiced concern that inBloom could turn over student data such as grades and discipline records to outside groups including businesses.

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Ex-cons get jobs boost Bed, Bath & Beyond, which has three stores in Queens, has agreed to no longer automatically refuse all job applicants previously convicted of felonies, in order to comply with state law, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Tuesday.

The AG had launched an investigation of the retail chain after discovering it had a policy against the hiring of any former felon, regardless of how old a conviction was or evidence of rehabilitation. State law prohibits such a blanket ban on hiring those with criminal records.

As a result of the settlement, Schneiderman said Bed, Bath & Beyond will pay $40,000 to applicants who were denied employment, and $15,000 each to three groups that help former criminals find work, plus another $40,000 Q whose recipients were not specified.

Cleanser labels sought Rep. Steve Israel (D-Suffolk, Nassau, Queens) recently reintroduced a bill he wrote in 2011 that would require household cleaning products to list their ingredients. Many contain known carcinogens and allergens, according to a study Israel cited. The bill is before the House Energy and Commerce Committee and there is no companion measure in the Senate yet, Israel spokeswoman Samantha Slater said Tuesday. Q

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Flames rip through Jackson Heights Hundreds witness Plaza College and local offices go up in smoke

by Tess McRae Associate Editor

A five-alarm fire broke out in the Jackson Heights building that hold s Pla za College, sever al stores and offices on Monday at 5:45 p.m.

The sun was just starting to set as gray smoke billowed out of the third- and fourth-f loor windows, swallowing the surrounding area for hours.

I n s id e , t h e r o o m s i n t h e Brunson Building, located at 37th Avenue and 75th Street, were charred to a crisp.

According to the FDNY, three people were injured, including one fireman.

One individual was transported to New York Hospital Queens in Flushing for severe smoke inhalation. The fireman suffered minor burns and a minor was brought to

the hospital as a precaution — the child has severe asthma.

W h ile there were no lives taken, the fire ate through several businesses, including Plaza College, which was set to expand into a second building in the coming months.

“This is a devastating fire for ou r com mu nit y,” Cou ncilman Dan ny Drom m (D -Jackson Heights) said. “We lost our biggest immigrant service provider, Queens Community House, our LGBT senior center, Plaza College and about 50 small businesses on the ground floor and in the building itself. I have spoken to the business owners, many who I know personally, and the effect on their establishments is truly horrible. Thankfully, there were no fatalities. We will rebuild and come back as a better and stronger Jackson Heights.”

The stubborn fire took hours to put out and fire officials had as many as three hoses shooting water into the structure at a time.

They also cut off the building’s gas supply.

Top, Firefighters attempt to stifle the flames and smoke on 37th Avenue and 75th Street in Jackson Heights. Left, a cloud of smoke engulfs the surrounding PHOTOS BY TESS MCRAE apartment buildings on Monday evening.

The cause of the fire remains unknown but with there being so many offices in the building, there was a lot of combustible

material.

Fire off icials said the wind a lso playe d a m ajor role i n Q spreading the blaze.

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Ozone Park man allegedly confessed An Ozone Park man has been charged with selling untaxed cigarettes directly across the street from the office of District Attorney Richard Brown.

Jose Urena, 45, was allegedly spotted delivering cartons of cigarettes to the corner newsstand across the street from the DA’s Kew Gardens office. Some of the cigarette packs in the bag allegedly bore counterfeit New York tax stamps.

According to the criminal charges, Detective-Investigator John Warner was returning from court to his office at 80-02 Kew Gardens Road at approximately 10:15 a.m. on April 17, when he allegedly observed Urena delivering a bag appearing to contain cigarettes to a corner newsstand at 80th Avenue and Queens Boulevard. An inspection of the bag and two additional bags in the vehicle that Urena ar rived in allegedly revealed that the bags contained 41 cartons — 410 packs — of cigarettes. It is additionally alleged that 350 of the packs bore purported Virginia tax stamps on them and not the joint State of New

York /City of New York tax stamps required to be present on cigarettes possessed for sale in New York. The remaining 60 packs allegedly bore counterfeit joint New York state and city tax stamps.

At the time of his arrest, $5,532 in cash was allegedly recovered from Urena on his person and from his car, and he allegedly confessed the scheme to the investigators.

At his home later in the day, investigators allegedly recovered 123,830 counterfeit joint state and city tax stamps with various tax numbers displayed that were affixed on 774 rectangular wax sheets, as well as records that indicated the delivery of various cigarette brands to individuals, a money counter, $3,546 in cash, a heater/iron and a small bag of cocaine.

Urena, who faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted, was arraigned on criminal complaints charging him with first-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, criminal possession of forgery devices, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and violating the New Q York State tax law.

Cops also nab man who broke into vehicle

by Domenick Rafter Editor

After a spike during the winter, car thefts have plummeted in parts of the 106th Precinct. And just last week, cops nabbed a man trying to break into a car.

According to the precinct, only three cars in Ozone Park, near the Tudor Village area, have been broken into this month, compared to 10 last month.

Police credit a program called Spot it, Secure it, instituted by Deputy Inspector Jeffrey Schiff, the commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, for the drop.

As part of the program, police take photos of valuables left inside cars and give the photos, with a warning about how that’s unwise, to the owner of the vehicle. Schiff said on Twitter over the weekend that he wants to expand the program to other neighborhoods in the precinct.

The drop comes as cops say they arrested a man who was seen breaking into a car in Howard Beach last week.

Willis Fairbanks, 46, was arrested on April 16 while trying to break into an unsecured car, police say. He pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of a vehicle on

Willis Fairbanks pleaded guilty to breaking into PHOTO COURTESY NYPD a car on April 16.

April 17 and is now serving 10 days in jail.

The precinct says officers will be on the lookout for him if he returns to the neighborhood upon his release, but NYPD sources say he is not a suspect in any other car Q thefts or break-ins.

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Raises total 8.25%; TWU rank and file, transit board are expected to approve

by Michael Gannon Editor

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has reached a tentative agreement that is expected to end a two-year contract impasse with the union representing about 34,000 mass transit workers.

Under the five-year deal announced last week by Gov. Cuomo, members of Transpor t Workers Union Local 100 would receive raises of 1, 1, 2, 2 and 2 percent per year, retroactive to Jan. 16, 2012, when the TWU’s last contract expired.

The TWU represents almost all the workers who operate, maintain and repair the city’s subways and mass transit buses; subway booth clerks; and maintenance workers for tracks, elevators and escalators.

The TWU said the contract will mean a cumulative 8.25 percent increase, or a raise of about $6,000 for the average worker, over the life of the contract.

Union spokesman Jim Gannon told the Chronicle that ballots will be sent out to workers either this coming week or the week after, and that the collection and counting process should be complete in about one month.

It also must be approved by the full board of the MTA. A statement from Local 100’s executive b o a r d o n t h e u n i o n’s w e b s i t e —

The union representing city bus and subway employees has reached a tentative agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on a five-year contract. The agreement, which will result in a cumulative 8.25 percent raise, is retroactive to January 2012. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL GANNON twulocal100.org, — “strongly recommends” approval by the rank and file.

In a joint statement issued by Cuomo’s office, he, MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast and TWU President John Samuelsen praised the agreement.

Cuomo called the deal fair to transit

workers and fiscally responsible for the MTA, as it will not result in a fare increase.

“The transit system is the lifeblood of New York City, and the MTA employees are the ones who make the system work,” Cuomo said.

He cited as one example the workers’ performance during and in the aftermath of

Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when “they got the system up and running in record time.”

Samuelsen said the contract offers “historic” gains in paid maternity and paternity leave, as well as important improvements in benefits such as healthcare, dental coverage and eye care coverage.

“The MTA is a vital part of this city, and I am pleased to present a contract to the membership that recognizes their hard work, dedication and service,” he said.

Over more than a year the MTA had said its budget projections in outgoing years were based on zero percent wage increases for the more than 60 unions that represent its employees. Samuelsen, who all along had called zero increases unacceptable, only last week had petitioned Cuomo to get involved to break the stalemate.

Prendergast praised the governor’s input.

“Once again over the course of Gov. Cuomo’s three years in office, he has provided timely support to the MTA, this time helping to finalize a fair and responsible contract, just as he has given us consistent increases in [our] operating budget,” Prendergast said. “The MTA’s f inances are always our foremost concern, and this contract is a responsible one that acknowledges and reflects the MTA’s budget and projectQ ed budgets.”

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Domestic violence an epidemic: cops Saturday’s shooting latest tragedy stemming from hard-to-fight issue

by Domenick Rafter Editor

Saturday’s shooting death of Jessica Canty in her Ozone Park home, allegedly at the hands of her husband, has put the spotlight back on a problem the NYPD has said is plaguing neighborhoods in South Queens and across the borough — domestic violence.

In the 102nd and 106th precincts, many recent killings recently have stemmed from domestic incidents. Last November, an Ozone Park man, Adalberto Sanchez, allegedly killed his wife and attempted to kill himself. In August 2013, a Woodhaven woman, Maria Espinoza, allegedly hit her boyfriend, Matthew Soria, with a vehicle on purpose during a fight, dragging him for blocks along Jamaica Avenue and killing him. Lee Burrison, 55, of Richmond Hill was murdered by his longtime girlfriend, Shirley Forbes, in April 2013. Most notable in South Queens recently was the 2008 case of Barbara Sheehan, who shot her husband dead in their Howard Beach home after years of abuse.

Domestic incidents have led to death across the borough. In January, Deisy Mejia, 21, and her daughters Yoselin, 1, and Daniela, 2, were allegedly stabbed to death by their abusive husband and father, Miguel Mejia-Ramos. That same month, Carlos Amarillo, 44, was arrested for allegedly murdering his girlfriend and her daughter in their East Elmhurst home with a hammer. Last June, a St. Albans cop murdered his wife and then killed himself.

According to the NYPD, the definition of domestic violence includes incidents between all couples, spousal or not, as well as longterm roommates, which is an expansion of the policy that once only covered married couples. In the 102nd and 106th precincts, the problem has become an epidemic, cops say.

In February, Deputy Inspector Jeffrey

Schiff, commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, said 53 percent of felonies in the command at that point were domestic violencerelated, a similar trend existed in the 102nd.

That same month, the precincts teamed up to hold a seminar aimed at educating the public on how officers respond to domestic violence incidents and how to report them.

One of the issues has been the stigma of domestic violence in many communities, especially immigrant communities, and women who don’t speak English. In the case of Mejia, friends said she was afraid to go to authorities due to her status as an undocumented immigrant.

Deputy Inspector Hank Sautner, commanding officer of the 102nd Precinct, said in early 2013 that while domestic violence seems to be prevalent across all ethnic groups, some immigrant communities refuse to report incidents because of the stigma. He said the rise in numbers could be in part due to a change in that attitude, and that’s just what cops want to happen.

“They realize that crimes of violence are totally unacceptable and they are reporting it more,” he said at a precinct community council meeting in March 2013.

Paloma Rojas, a resident of Ozone Park, rejects a hands-off attitude. She said that while the issue of domestic violence is seen as a private one, it’s something that can affect an entire community.

“The reaction of neighbors, friends and family is always ‘It’s none of my business,’ but it is our business,” Rojas said as she walked past the scene of Saturday’s shooting on 104th Street. “When you have incidents between husbands and wives, children see it, they are affected by it, they bring it to school, to church, to playdates with our kids. And when it gets really bad, stuff like this happens and it’s a blemish on the neighborhood. We Q can’t ignore it.”

Ex-cop accused of killing wife continued from page 5 where a man was found shot to death in the street led to some concern that a shooter was loose in the neighborhood.

A police helicopter circled low over the scene as cops shut down busy 104th Street — the main southbound thoroughfare between Jamaica Avenue and Rockaway Boulevard — for nearly 12 hours.

At around noon, an hour or so after the shooting occurred, several cop cars raced away from the scene, down 104th Street toward Liberty Avenue.

They were responding to a report that a man was trying to break into a car at Centreville Street and Pitkin Avenue in the Centreville section of Ozone Park, a mile from the scene of the Canty shooting — an area already on high alert over recent car thefts. Police later identified the man as Canty, and they arrested him.

A police source said he had told neighbors he thought the car was his and was trying to get inside when the key didn’t work. He was also said to have been disorientated at the time of his arrest.

Canty is facing second-degree murder charges, as well as a charge of criminal possession of a weapon.

The shooting shocked residents of the normally quiet neighborhood, where the last murder occurred in 2011. The crime scene attracted curious onlookers for most of the rest of the day. Churchgoers heading for Easter Vigil services at St. Mary Gate of Heaven, just a few hundred yards from the home where the shooting took place, stopped at the corner of 104th Street and 101st Avenue to take a peek at the scene.

At least two neighbors say they never k new of a ny problems i n Ca nt y’s household.

“They seemed just like normal people,” said one neighbor who lives several houses down from the family. “The mother would come outside and sit with the kids on the stoop in the summer. I never really saw the father.”

Canty had been a transit cop until an injury forced him to retire, according to several police sources. He was lauded in July 2012 for helping save a man who suffered a heart attack at the Union Square subway station.

A friend of the couple, who did not want

Kevin Canty, after being honored for assisting a man having a heart attack in the subway in PHOTO COURTESY NYPD 2012. to be identified, said they had previously lived in Brooklyn and that there had been some trouble in the relationship recently.

“They were a good couple, a fun couple,” the friend said. “Things had gone sour recently I had heard, but I had no idea this would ever happen. If I did, you’d better believe I would have done something.”

Another neighbor, who identified himself only as David, said he had often seen Canty walking around the neighborhood.

“Sometimes he would say hello, but often he looked busy or tired or troubled.

I just wouldn’t bother,” he said. “I never thought this was possible.”

A resident who works near the home said she had often seen the victim walking with her kids, who attended PS 62 according to the family’s neighbors.

“She seemed like any normal parent, but always in a rush,” the resident said. “I can’t believe it. You see people, often the same people, walk around the neighborhood every day and it never occurs to you that something like this could happen to Q one of them.”

Cops look for killer of biker found shot

by Domenick Rafter Editor

The NYPD is investigating the death of a Briarwood man found shot twice in the head on a R ich mond Hill st reet Sat u rday morning.

Branden Santiago, 20, of 84th Drive was found in the crosswalk at the intersection of 103rd Avenue and 108th Street at around 5 a.m. Police say he had been riding a motorbike and was found just feet from where the bike had stopped.

A truck driver saw Santiago lying at the scene and thought he had been hit by a car.

Branden Santiago found in crosswalk When his helmet was removed, Sanitago was found to have two gunshots to his head.

He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

A resident who lives in an apartment building at the corner said he was awake at the time and thought he had heard the bike, but no gunshots.

“I’ve already spoken to the police about what I heard,” he said. “But I didn’t hear any gunshots.”

An NYPD source said police are investigating the possibility that Santiago had been shot somewhere else and had traveled to the neighborhood on the motorbike with the g u nshot wou nds seek ing help or attempting to make it to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, about a mile away, or home to Briarwood. His helmet may have prevented the wounds from being immediately fatal.

Alva Mohanson, a resident who lives one

block from the scene said she was surprised to hear of the incident. Mohanson said the spot is only four blocks from where a cab driver was found shot dead in his car 20 years ago.

“You never hear about shootings here, that was the last one I remember,” she said.

“There are fights outside bars on Liberty Avenue, but that’s about it.”

Santiago was found just six blocks away from where another shooting occurred — that of a woman allegedly gunned down by her husband in their home — only a few Q hours later.

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Get in on the ground floor Blooming buds and green grass are usually the first signs of spring, blanketing an otherwise dull field with color and pizzazz. Draw from this to create scenic floors that breathe new life into your home.

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Councilman seeks term limits; cultural geographic, diversity among appointees

by Michael Gannon Editor

A resolution wending its way though the City Council could send a seismic wave th rough community boards throughout the borough.

Cou ncilman Ben Kallos (D-Manhattan) wants borough presidents and Council members who make appointments to limit them to five consecutive terms; set ter m limits for board and committee chairmanships; and use things like meeting attendance and committee participation to end the practice of automatic reappointment.

His proposal also seeks to ban the appoint ment of executive board members of political parties or people ser ving on the staffs of elected officials.

“At this point, I’d like reform to be voluntar y,” Kallos said. “[Comptroller] Scott Stringer set up a similar system when he was borough president in Manhattan.

I’d like to see it spread to the other boroughs.

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“Of cou r se my appoi ntees would have 10-year cycles and I’m ter m-limited to eight,” he said. “So I may not be around to see this through.”

At a meeting of Community Board 12 on April 16, Chairwoman Adrienne Adams said reform has been coming for a while.

Ever since being selected last year, and particularly since Borough President Melinda Katz took office in January, Adams has war ned her members that things like attendance and participation have come increasingly under scrutiny.

Katz could not be reached for com ment, but said repeatedly du r ing her campaig n that no application for reappoint ment would be rubber-stamped automatically. And Adams said Borough Hall has more than 300 applications.

“I’ve been telling you that there are people who want your seats,” Adams said. “It’s probably a good thing.”

Vincent Arcuri, the longtime chairman of Community Board 5, isn’t so sure.

He started by saying that he would be barred by his service on the executive board of the Queens County Conservative party. But he said it goes far deeper.

“My land use chair man has been doing a great job,” Arcuri said. “... My environmental committee chairman does an excellent job — it’s his thing. Why would I want to replace them? It seems to me that you would be throwing out a lot of institutional memory.”

Kallos acknowledged that any agreement that finally comes to a vote would have to include some sort of provision to stagger when term limits take effect to

Borough President Melinda Katz, left, and Community Board 12 Chairwoman Adrienne Adams, shown in February, both have spoken about reform to the process of community board appointments. Both may now get their wish PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON with a pending City Council resolution. prevent Arcuri’s concern from happening.

He also said it is not yet certain just when someone’s term-limit time clock should go into effect if they already have been on a board for 10 consecutive years or longer.

Resolution 164 has 10 co-sponsors, including Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights), Peter Koo ( D -Flu sh i ng) a nd A nt on io Reynoso (Brooklyn, Queens).

Dromm, who will be facing term limits of his own should he win another election in 2017, believes the idea is worth pursuing.

“I think if not for term limits, I might not have been elected,” Dromm said in a telephone conversation this week. “I’ve supported and opposed them at one point or another, but I think they

help diversity. I think people in the LGBT community have been underser ved, but now [politicians] have to reach out more to com mu n it ies t h at h ave been ignored in the past.”

Kallos admits that diversity is a major factor in his proposal, citing his own Upper East Side district.

“People of color have traditionally been underrepresented there,” he said.

Adams last week also cautioned her board —overwhelmingly African American — that they too eventually would have to adjust to changing demographics in Southeast Queens. “ I f you lo ok a rou nd t h is room, we do not look like our community,” she said.

K a l los a lso sa id d ive r sit y needs to be assu red on each board in terms of race and geographic location within a district.

He said balance must include public housing, economic status, education and other factors.

Gene Kelty, chairman of CB 7, knows of the proposal but has not read it in full. He recently lost four board members, including a lawyer and an engineer, along with the expertise they brought with them.

He said the demographic balance and diversity Kallos seeks is not only desirable on a board but also necessary. But he said the Council itself has made that harder in recent years by preventing board chair men from viewing applications before people are appointed.

“We used to be able to see them,” Kelty said. “I would want to know the geography. I might want a person of a certain occupation with certain expertise. I might want a custodian who has knowledge of certain building issues; someone in the healthcare or hospital field; a homeowner or a co-op or apartment resident.”

He said Council members will sometimes check with CB 7 to ascertain what type of applicant would be helpful.

Kelty also is not enamored with the idea of placing teenagers on the board.

“I’m glad our youth want to get involved,” he said. “Years ago we had a city-paid position of a youth coordinator whose job it was to do that kind of outreach.

But some of our meetings go to 11 p.m. Do we want a board member havi ng to leave because there’s school the next Q morning?”

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The Queens Library is now complying with City Comptroller Scott Stringer’s request for various financial documents that he had gone to court to seek, library spokeswoman Joanne King said Tuesday.

Another source familiar with the dispute confirmed the documents were being provided to the comptroller for his audit, which was sparked by revelations about library spending practices under President and CEO Tom Galante. The library chief has been criticized over his pay, office upgrades, outside job and

Capital spending Council hearing set more since the end of January.

King said Stringer didn’t need to go to court for the documents, though the library initially had not been willing to provide all that he sought.

“For the last 10 weeks, Queens Library staff have been actively working with the NYC Comptroller’s audit staff, following the same City audit guidelines used for decades,” King said in an email. “The Library is providing access to the Comptroller to all City funds as required. The Library is providing access

to the Comptroller to the workers compensation fund and the book sales fund. Unfortunately, the Comptroller’s Office rushed into court when the library would have welcomed a meeting for the opportunity of an amicable solution.”

City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside), who chairs the primary committee charged with library oversight, had backed Stringer during the dispute, his spokesman, Jason Banrey said.

“The councilman is extremely supportive

of the comptroller’s efforts to get the library to open up the books for a full review of their financial records,” Banrey said in a Tuesday phone interview.

Van Bramer, who is also the majority leader, and Libraries Subcommittee Chairman Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria), have set a hearing on the capital spending of all three of the city’s library systems for 1 p.m. April 28, Banrey added.

Van Bramer also said in a statement that he is committed to restoring six-day library service and boosting arts funding in the next city Q budget, now under discussion.

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Roll credits: Forest Hills theater closes PM Pediatrics care center to replace the United Artists Brandon Cinemas

by Christopher Barca Reporter

Instead of catching the summer’s biggest Hollywood blockbuster at the United Artists Brandon Cinemas, residents who catch a bad cold will be frequenting the location from now on.

After a 51-year run as one of the area’s more popular movie theaters, UA Brandon Cinemas, a Regal Entertainment Group theater at 70-20 Austin St. in Forest Hills, closed its doors for good on Sunday.

The landlord, Heskel Elias, of The Heskel Group, terminated the venue’s lease to make way for a PM Pediatrics urgent medical care location, slated to open in September.

Elias purchased the theater in 1975, and despite the venue’s lengthy run, he said the medical facility would be a better option for the site financially.

“Obviously the Brandon has been more of an artsy type of theater,” Elias said. “Looking at all the financials, my conclusion was to turn that space into a medical care facility.”

Nearly 40 years after “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” became the first film shown after Elias’ purchase, the final flick to roll Sunday was the 7:40 p.m. showing of “Disco Singh,” a Bollywood musical.

Regal Entertainment Group Vice President of Marketing Russ Nunley expects a boost in business at the United Artists Midway The-

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The marquee at the United Artists Brandon Cinemas sits empty on Monday with a packed U-Haul truck parked outside. The theater closed on Sunday after 51 years in business and will make way PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA for a medical care center opening in September. ater just two blocks away at 108-22 Queens Blvd.

“Our business at the Midway remains very strong,” Nunley said. “We thank our patrons and are happy to say that we will still proudly serve them at the Midway and be a part of this great neighborhood.”

However, some area leaders aren’t looking

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at the closing of the theater with such a positive spin.

Community Board 6 Chairman Joe Hennessy says he is upset over the Austin Street entity closing up shop.

“It’s just another business closing on Austin Street,” Hennessy said. “It’s disappointing when a business like that closes in the

community.”

Like Hen nessy, com munity activist Michael Perlman laments the loss of another area business, calling it “shameful.”

He believes a medical center, the third such facility in the immediate area, is exactly the wrong kind of business the area should be teeming with.

“Austin Street needs quality small businesses consisting of shops and restaurants, not ‘medical center row,’” Perlman said. “It’s a matter of what will we lose next?”

Little time is being wasted in getting the theater out of the new building.

On Monday, a packed U-Haul truck was parked outside the building, with workers cramming a few final small objects into the back of the vehicle.

On Tuesday, the truck was again parked outside, picking up any remaining items.

Elias expects about 20 permanent jobs will be created with the opening of PM Pediatrics and the renovation of the site to cost “a couple million” dollars, with rooftop parking to be provided as well. He sees the addition of the care center to be a positive for the neighborhood, not a negative as Perlman and Hennessy suggest.

“It’s going to be something fantastic,” Elias said. “You have to reposition yourself and make better use of the property. This will be more profitable for us. To me, it’s exciting.” Q

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Owners complained they were being ticketed for minor infractions.

Now that Mayor de Blasio and the City Council have passed legislation such as the paid sick leave bill and new letter-grading regulations, some business owners are unsure how the new rules will affect them.

For state Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst), there is an added layer of confusion as many business owners in his district do not speak English well or at all.

“I haven’t received too many complaints about paid sick leave but there are people who are not aware of what has changed, what has remained the same,” he said.

“From time to time I still hear certain complaints and I think it’s important for local business owners to get educated.”

On Monday, Peralta invited business owners to a town hall at the Langston Hughes Library in Corona to hear from representatives of the depar tments of Health and Mental Hygiene and Small Business Services and other city agencies in order to better inform shopkeepers of their rights and what to expect from new legislation.

“People are still confused,” Peralta said.

“People have been getting fines left and right until just recently for ridiculous things.”

Translators were provided for attendees so as not to shut out the dozens of restaura-

teurs who do not speak or understand English.

About 30 or so business owners showed up to listen to the agencies present information that, in the past, left them baffled and sometimes resulted in major fines and low grades for their restaurants.

Rochelle Marnes, a representative from the Department of Health, delivered a presentation on the new letter-grading system.

“We have been making changes to better the grading process,” she said. “We still believe the system is an effective tool but we anticipate a 25 percent reduction in fines this year.”

The agency oversees 24,000 restaurants citywide and the letter-grading system implemented several years ago was first introduced to inform the public on the quality of the food they ingested.

“Since the system was introduced, we saw a major reduction in food-related illnesses,” Marnes said.

Many of the business owners sat quietly and attentively, listening to each speaker and nodding their heads in agreement with certain points made.

“We were in a major recession and, unfortunately, the recovery hasn’t been as robust as we would have hoped,” Peralta said to the business owners. “Under the Bloomberg administration, small businesses in the outer boroughs were treated like ATMs. De Blasio has hit the reset button on this. Small businesses are the heart and soul of the community, the heart and soul of the city, the heart and soul of the state and the heart and soul of the country. You need the Q government to be on your side.”

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Ice Jewelry: where the owners can relate to their clients

The cite of the crash that took the lives of Darius Fletcher, Jada Monique Butts, Crystal Gravely and Jaleel Furtado on April 4. Driver Andrew Gramm, who survived the accident, is being PHOTO BY RIYAD HASAN investigated by the Queens district attorney’s office.

Ice Jewelry Buying Service is located on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park.

WE PROVIDE CASH LOANS FOR AUTOS AND MOTORCYCLES! they treat everything like it’s a one-shot deal and we don’t do that,” Elias said.

In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, watches Recently, a woman and her boyfriend went into and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also offers instant cash an unassuming gold buying and cash loan shop on loans for jewelry and eBay selling services.

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

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

“For this, I like to think we’re MON.-FRI. 11am - 7pm For anyone who has ever doing the community a service,” SAT. 10am - 6pm SUN. by Appointment dealt with the hassle of selling Elias said. “We’re in the business of helping people who are in a tough icejewelrybuyingservice.com and shipping an item on eBay — all the forms involved in setting spot. They can come to our store up a user and paypal account, the 10-15 percent fee and know that we can educate them on what they that Ice Jewelry Buying charges to do all the work is have and we’ll give them what their items are worth. really a bargain deal.

When that woman told me her previous offer, it made “At the end of the day, I just want people to feel me wonder how many times this happens — how comfortable doing business with us. People have many people who really need that money get taken this conception of gold buying stores as these slimy advantage of?” places with slimy people, and they’re typically right.

Elias opened his Rego Park shop with Goldberg But we want to be different. I don’t think it’s cool to in 2009, and already they’re seeing a lot of repeat see someone buy a ring for $200 and put it in their customers and referrals. This is a sign to them that counter for $800. We don’t do that.” they’re doing something right — the pawn business Ice Jewelr y Buying Ser vice is located at typically deals in one-time transactions but Elias is 98-30 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park. Hours of operation determined to break that mold, building a reputation are Monday-Friday from 11 am to 7:00 pm and on trust.

Saturday 10 am to 6 pm; Sunday – private “Everyone around here is buying gold these days; appoinments are available. Call for more information you can go into the barber shop down the road and Q (718) 830-0030. sell your jewelry. The problem with all these places is

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Though the waters have stilled, tension remains at a boil after four young adults drowned when their car plunged into Luyster Creek, also known as Steinway Creek, in Astoria.

Velma Elliot, victim Darius Fletcher’s mother, plans to meet this month with prosecutors from the Queens District Attorney’s Office.

The lawyers are investigating driver Andrew Gramm — who made it out of the car alive — to determine if the 19-year-old should be criminally charged for the crash on April 4.

A representative from the district attorney’s office said no charges have been brought against Gramm but an investigation is continuing.

According to police, Gramm was driving the group home after celebrating victim Crystal Gravely’s birthday at Buffalo Wild Wings.

She would have turned 20 last week.

As they drove along 19th Avenue, traveling west, there came a point when Gramm allegedly lost control and the car careened into the water.

The teenager made his way to shore and called 911, according to police.

Friends and family began visiting the site where the four young adults died to pay their respects. Candles, flowers and even a basketball were placed at the end of the road.

According to the Daily News, Gramm, who was not drinking that night, was driving too fast for the wet conditions when his Honda skidded sideways on the dead-end street and dove into Steinway Creek.

State Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) released a statement almost immediately after the crash, requesting the Department of Transportation review the area.

“DOT must make our streets safer by reviewing all roads leading to waterways as there may be similar dangers in other neighborhoods throughout our city,” Gianaris said in the statement. “This accident was avoidable and something must be done to keep people safe as they drive, walk or cycle on our roadways.”

Though there was a sign reading “End” and a chainlink fence on the street, there is no guardrail where the street ends. The city did plant a concrete barrier the day after the crash.

A notice of claim to sue has yet to be filed but reportedly, lawyers are waiting for Elliot to be approved as the administrator for her son’s estate by the Surrogate Court.

She told the Daily News that she was not actively trying to get Gramm into trouble but said if the DA determines he is criminally liable, she wanted the court system to handle it.

It is unclear if the DOT has begun surveying the area to determine if the fence was enough of a barrier and if the city had done everything it could to make the dead Q end as clear and safe as possible.

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The annual Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, will be commemorated across Queens on Sunday.

The film, “The Devil’s Arithmetic,” will be shown at 10:30 a.m. in the sanctuary of the Briarwood Jewish Center at 139-06 86 Ave. The program will also include songs, prayers and a candlelighting ceremony in memory of the six million Jews who died.

Rockwood Park Jewish Center, 15645 84 St., Howard Beach, will hold a Holocaust memorial service at 5:30 p.m.

Susan Rostan, author of “Digging: Lifting the Memorable from Within the Unthinkable,” will speak and sign her book at a joint remembrance program at 7:30 p.m. at Young Israel of New Hyde Park at 265-15 77 Ave. The annual Holocaust memorial service at the Howard Beach Judea Center, 162-05 90 St., will be held at 7:30 p.m.

Yom Hashoah is a way for people to remember the atrocities of World War II and to hear testimony from those who survived it. With fewer and fewer survivors still alive, the focus is on the world never forgetting what Q took place.

NY State Pavilion a big hit continued from page 2 and wanted to renew the positive feelings it invoked to restoration supporters and the curious who wondered what the hype was all about.

Christopher Dean traveled from Boston.

He grew up in New Haven, Ct. and remembers the transportation exhibits from the fair, including the Avis antique car ride.

Artie DeGennaro and his wife, Lois, of Oceanside, LI, both grew up in Queens. He remembers singing with his school at the pavilion during Brooklyn-Queens Day. “I had a camera and I saw bandleader Guy Lombardo standing with Robert Moses and Mayor Robert Wagner, and I asked to take their picture, which they agreed to,” DeGennaro said. “I have lots of good memories.”

DeGennaro, who was raised in Bayside, said he and his family went to the fair almost every weekend it was open for two years. “That was our vacation,” he said.

Sueann Hoahng grew up in Chinatown and still lives in Manhattan. She came to the fair with the Henry Street Settlement House at the age of 6. “Everyone was well dressed and well behaved,” Hoahng said. “The Fountain of the Planets was amazing and I remember the Belgian waffles.”

Valerie Barbarite grew up in Maspeth and went to the fair with her drum and bugle corps, performing at the pavilion.

“We marched in formation and played our

instruments,” Barbarite said.

Barbarite now lives in Sea Cliff, LI, and is happy that saving the pavilion now looks more likely.

David Steinberg hails from Bayside and said he has a vague memory of going up the elevator to one of the pavilion’s three observation towers. “I want the pavilion preserved,” Steinberg said. “It’s criminal that it was allowed to decay so long.”

A food truck serving Belgian waffles, which became popular during the 1964-65 fair, was a hit with visitors on Tuesday, though the price has escalated from 99 cents then to almost $10 now.

Most of the pavilion, which includes the observation towers, the Tent of Tomorrow and the Theaterama, now home to the Queens Theatre, has been deteriorating since the fair ended. For a time the tent was used as a roller skating rink and a concert venue for Led Zeppelin and other acts.

But in the 1970s, the Plexiglas panels above it began falling and Parks said theyposed a safety risk, so it removed the remaining panels and closed the site.

Weather and time have eroded the Texaco terrazzo floor map of the state, and rust and decay can be seen everywhere.

To conserve what’s left of the f loor, Parks covered it, and only gravel is visible.

But parts of the f loor were on display Tuesday to help visitors imagine what it Q looked like 50 years ago.

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Remembering the 1964 fair I f you at t e nd e d t h e 196 4 - 65 World’s Fair at Flushing Meadows and are old enough to remember it, the Queens Chronicle wants to hear from you.

As part of its series on the 50th anniversary of the fair, the Chronicle is seeking reminiscences f rom Queens residents who were there.

What were your favorite memories of the fair? What astounded you? Did you go often? Do you still have any souvenirs from it?

We will also accept photographs of you and your family at the fair for possible publication. The deadline for your comments and photographs is May 8. Email to Lizr@qchron.com or by mail to Liz R hoades, Queens Chronicle, PO Box 74-7769, Rego Park, NY 11374.

Please put your name and address lightly on the back of photos so they can be returned. Include a separate caption of who is in the picture.

The story will run later in May. We hope to hear from many Queens residents about their reminiscences and what the World’s Fair meant to Q you.

— Liz Rhoades

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Day camp — a great learning experience

by Marla Coleman

alternatives and opportunities to instill capabilities, the hallmarks of thriving, is the greatest gift you can give a young child.

Does it really matter if my child doesn’t go to day camp, especially since she will go to overnight camp in a few years? She is only four years old — why does she need day camp?

Children learn life skills that become habits of the heart.

A mother wrote that the family was on a ski trip. The son got to the top of a steep hill and started to panic. The mom said, “What would you do if you were at camp?” and he proceeded to engage himself in positive self-talk that was part of the camp culture: “It may take time, it may be hard; but stick with it, and you’ll be fine!” He skied down with a huge sense of accomplishment and perseverance.

It’s tough to be a kid these days.

It’s tough to be a parent. In a society where the nature of the family, the work place and the community have changed dramatically, we can no longer assume that the natural process of growing up will provide children the experiences and the resources they need to become successful, contributing adults. In sharp contrast to the traditions of growing up in the 50s and 60s, today we live in a time when humans receive more of their information secondhand than first.

We are in a climate where it is harder to know what we need to survive, so drawing on experiences that give children healthy

Camp provides one of the very few links with a world larger than the consumer culture we inhabit — and day camp is one important choice in a quiver of options. The camp experience helps children and youth develop an appreciation of their place and their responsibility in a much larger universe. A preschooler — or even an older child who might be reluctant to go to overnight camp — can join a community that is created especially for

her to practice growing up. Why wait until age 10 when the benefits of feeling connected and being able to contribute and navigate at an earlier age can be reaped?

Under the supervision of inspiring guides and passionate coaches, children can feel successful and make new friends while having the time of their lives; they can experience belonging and contribution; they can have a sense of consistency and predictability in times of turbulence and change.

Day camp can begin as early as age three, and is geared to children who get to experience camp and still return home each evening.

They have the best of both worlds — the camp community which is built exclusively for kids and their own home which provides the security they need at a tender age.

One parent said, “While my children and I are constantly bombarded by the news which is focused on what is wrong with the world, camp is a living example of what is right.”

Day camp is a terrific first experience. Reminiscent of less complicated days, when people connected with nature, thrived on intergenerational relationships,

Learning a new sport at Camp Echo, part of Coleman Country Day Camp PHOTO COURTESY ACA PHOTO GALLERY in Merrick, LI. and made new discoveries, everything is designed and scaled to ensure that children feel included, cared about and capable. Beginning camp at an early age provides important advantages.

Camp is the best demonstration of moral and spiritual order — democracy is the core purpose.

Children lear n life skills and behaviors that become habits of

the heart. While many then move on to overnight camp, others will be content to continue the day camp experience: after all, there is a camp for everyone — and that Q might well be day camp.

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Summer vacation often starts with high expectations.

Children are excited about the prospect of fun days outdoors playing with friends, while parents anxiously await relaxing months without the responsibilities of school and extracurricular clubs. But once summer vacation arrives and the first few days have passed, parents often find that the litany of cheers and giggles transform into a chorus of “I’m bored.”

Many parents pore over ideas that will keep their children busy throughout the summer. Many activities that come to mind tend to be expensive, so if cutting costs is a priority, parents might need to think outside the box to come up with entertaining ideas that won’t break the bank.

• Camp. Summer camp is a popular way for kids to spend their summers, but many camps are expensive. The American Camp Association has found that overnight camps can cost anywhere from $350 to $800 a week. Day camp fees may be $100 to $300 per week. Parents who send their children to camp for an entire season might pay anywhere from $3,000 to $9,000 for the seven- to nine-week program.

Parents looking for an alternative to costly camps should consider local programs that offer summer activities.

Libraries, schools and childcare centers may have programs that run the length of summer and are considerably less expensive than more formal camps. A YMCA or even a swim club may also put together activities. Parents whose children attend afterschool sporting classes, such as karate or soccer, may find that the organizations offer a camp or summer program.

• Day trips. If a parent has time off for the summer, then day trips may be a possibility. Schedule a few day trips to different locations that the kids are excited to see. Newspa-

pers routinely print “Go See It” or “Just Go” listings that highlight local events. The family can gather around the table and decide which outings would be interesting and then mark them on the calendar. Some parents purchase season passes to amusement parks and take the kids several times over the summer. In either case, bring snacks and lunch from home when possible to keep costs in check.

• Kid swap. Chances are many of your neighbors are also facing the same difficulties as they try to find ways for kids to spend their summer afternoons. Parents can get together and set up a schedule for entertaining the kids. For example, one parent is responsible for the whole lot one day, while the next day another parent takes a turn. This gives parents the opportunity to take a break from parental responsibilities and enjoy some quiet time. And for the children, time spent in a pool, watching movies, playing video games, or riding bikes is often more enjoyable with friends in tow.

• Fun projects. Children often want to feel useful, and may enjoy the responsibility of some easy tasks in and around the house — so long as the tasks are fun. Washing the car with a hose and a bucket of sudsy water is a fun way to cool off during the hot summer days and get a chore done. While parents should not expect a perfect job, they can rest assured that the kids will have at least an hour of fun in the sun and water.

Set aside a patch of the yard that children can turn into their own personal gardens. Encourage digging in this area and provide seeds or seedling plants as well as kid-sized gardening tools. Each day the kids can check on the progress of their gardens.

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When school lets out for the summer, many parents are left searching for ways to keep children entertained in the ensuing months. learning activities for children. They can be held in the morning or afternoon and will teach interesting skills that can be put to use again at home.

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After a few years of traditional summer camp — bunking in cabins, swimming in lakes — many teens thin k they have become too old, or too sophisticated, to continue attending.

Others have never tried sleepaway camp at all, thinking it is “just not for them,” and have outgrown their local day camps.

Working families then face the dilemma of finding fun, safe, and productive ways for their older teens to f ill those long summer days. The good news is that each year, there are more and more prog rams tailored especially to the needs a nd interests of teenagers, and the options that are currently available far exceed what one typically thinks of when considering “summer camp.”

Some traditional camps do offer more advanced programs for older campers. These prog r a m s m ig ht i nclude mor e There is no longer any reason for teens to feel they are too extreme sports and adventures, as old for summer camp. In today’s camp environment, they well as wilderness activities like can still enjoy the fun, freedom and independence of rock climbing, white-water raft- summers past. ing, or mountain biking. Many teens relish the opportunity to develop their teen is the academic program. Whether a orienteering and “survival” skills and wil- student requires remedial assistance in a derness challenges can teach the impor- par ticular subject, or help developing study and test-taking skills in general, tance of both teamwork and self-reliance.

The older child can also choose to spend there are programs that teach these skills the summer scuba diving, sailing, or even while improving the student’s self-esteem skiing and snowboarding! Senior campers and motivation.

All of the teen programs can provide may participate in leadership or counselorin-training programs, or train towards life- the kinds of experiences and skills that guard certification. All of these programs can be used to build resumes and college or scholarship applicahelp teens develop the tions. Because of their interpersonal skills and importance to a teen’s self-conf idence that future, as well as their will contribute to their expen se, t hese pro later successes. grams should be choFor the young adult sen with perhaps even who has already develmore care than a oped a strong interest younger child’s sumin a particular sport or m e r c a m p. P a r e n t s other activity, specialty should not rely simply camps offer intensive, on the glossy adverprofessional-level instruction, as well as the opportunity to tisements or pervasive internet presence socialize with others who share the same some marketers use to appeal primarily to interest. Specialty camps are offered in teens. Nor should they feel overwhelmed virtually every sport, from golf and ten- by the vast array of programs available nis to lacrosse and ice hockey, and in a and the prospect of discerning reputable, broad range of performing arts, including well-run, long-standing programs from filmmaking, acting, dance, singing and those that are not.

There is no longer any reason for teenmusical theatre. These programs are typically staffed by professionals, who can agers to think that their best summer often provide career guidance and men- adventures are behind them, and that torship beyond the camp experience. Due there is nothing better for them to do than to the intense focus of specialty pro- play video games or hang out at the local grams, they are often of shorter duration mall until school starts again. Now, they than traditional camps, leaving teens’ can still enjoy the fun, freedom and indesummer schedules flexible for their other pendence of summers past, while building the life skills that can en hance their activities.

Q Another option available to the older futures.

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ARTS, CULTURE C ULTURE & LIVING IVING

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Send in

the clowns

by Tess McRae

The Secret Theatre features an unusual performance that uses photos from 1930s Paris as inspiration.

‘Secret Paris Project’ analyzes queer history through silent avant-garde vignettes The set is about as basic as it gets. The floor is painted with gray stripes and the matching gray lights and makeshift chandelier made of pipes and old-fashioned bulbs create a somber yet antique feel almost immediately.

Parisian belter Edith Piaf’s records play gently in the background and the subtle fog that hangs in the air makes the stage almost dreamlike.

The performance is made up of a series of silent vignettes starring Parisian-influenced clowns. Some are funny, others disturbing; and a few are difficult to explain.

Because “The Secret Paris Project” is practically silent — aside from the magnificent percussion created with found sounds and children’s instruments played by Abby Fisher — the actors must rely on their physicality to maintain the audience’s interest.

Each woman has her strengths — Lauren Durdach can pull her face every which way, Johana Barral’s movement across the stage is superb and Corrie Blissit has an extraordinarily comedic presence — but they all blend together in such a way that there is no single standout.

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“The Secret Paris Project” is an unusual experience. Even the show’s description cannot adequately explain the world to which the audience is pulled.

“A queer clown show devised with an ensemble of eight women at the Secret Theatre,” is how the palm card reads.

The performance abstractly analyzes queer history and uses photographs taken by Hungarian artist Brassai.

He frequently photographed lesbian couples and other dwellers of the Parisian underground clubs in the 1930s.

Until the 1970s, many of his pictures were banned from public showing.

But even knowing that, “The Secret Paris Project” seems to be more than a soapbox for Clare Hammoor, the show’s creator, to step upon.

It is a beautiful and analytical excavation of an oft-neglected part of history.

Stepping into the black-box theater, it becomes clear to spectators that these clowns are unlike any other.

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Boy Scout Troop #119, St. Margaret’s Parish Hall, 79 Place off Juniper Valley Rd., Middle Village, meets every Tuesday, 7:15-9 p.m. New members welcome.

Gabino Abraham Castelan Solo Show, in collaboration with Mano a Mano, Space Art Gallery, 29-09 39 Ave., Long Island City, now thru Apr. 25.

Drama workshop, Poppenhusen Institute, 11404 14th Rd., College Point, Saturdays, thru June 28, 10-11:30 a.m., ages 8-12 with instructor Lisa LaGrande. Free, pre-registration required. Contact: (718) 358-0067.

“Knarr,” a group exhibition featuring drawing, painting, sculpture and photography, Queens College Art Center, Benjamin Rosenthal Library, level six, Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., closed weekends, thru May 8.

SPECIAL EVENTS Cherry blossom walk on Roosevelt Island, Saturday Apr. 26 at 11 a.m., meet at the Visitor Center Kiosk at the tram Plaza. $10 donation requested to the Roosevelt Island Historical Society. Contact: (212) 688-4836, rooseveltislandhistory@gmail.com.

Artworks by Abdias Nascimento, Queens College’s Godwin-Ternbach Museum, 405 Klapper Hall, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, works by Brazilian artist, author, playwright and senator, Monday, Apr. 28 thru June 21. Opening reception: Wednesday, Apr. 30, 5:30-8 p.m., includes a roundtable on “Abdias Nascimento and Candomblé, Santería and Afro-Latino Politics in Brazil and Cuba.” Free reception and exhibition.

St. John’s Health & Wellness Expo, presented by HealthFirst, in front of Carnesecca Arena, St. John‘s University, 8000 Utopia Pkwy., Jamaica, Saturday, Apr. 26, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Educational activites, free health screenings, workshops and fitness challenges.

Celebrity chefs Elsie Ramos and Jeffrey K. Vaden host cooking demos & recipe tastings.

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“Illuminating Calmness,” RESOBOX Gallery, 41-26 27 St., Long Island City, Thursday-Friday Apr. 24-25, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Recreating a traditional Japanese atmosphere with cutting-edge OLED lighting.

Contact: (718) 784-3680.

THEATER Queens Secret Improv Club, Queens’ only allimprov comedy theater, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. Indie teams: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 7, 8 & 9 p.m., $5. House teams: Fridays, 7:30, 8:30 & 9:30 p.m., $7 for the whole night. Info: secrettheatre.com.

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“Serenade for Spring,” Community Singers of Queens, Church on the Hill, 167 St. & 35 Ave., Flushing, Saturday, May 3, 8 p.m. $10. Info: (718) 658-1021.

Queens Music Fest, hosted by the Queens Symphonic Band, Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside, Sunday, May 4, 12-4 p.m. Latin, big band and jazz groups to perform. $10 at door; $8 seniors/students.

DANCE “Pleading Against Prophecy,” a Millennial Ballet, In-Sight Dance Company, Jamaica Performing Arts Center, 153-10, Jamaica Ave., Friday, Apr. 25, 8 p.m. $10 advance, $15 at door; special discount until Apr. 15, buy one, get one free with discount code: QueensChronicle. Info: insightdance.org.

Fertile Ground New Works Showcase, Green Space Studio, 37-24 24 St., Suite #301, Long Island City, Sunday, Apr. 27, 7 p.m. New works showcase for emerging and established artists. $10. Contact: (718) 956-3037, greenspacestudio.org/tickets.

Works by Brazilian artist Abdias Nascimento are on display at Queens College’s Godwin-Ternbach Museum, April 28 through June 21.

LECTURE “Conflicts and the Future of Israel” at the 2014 Telsey Symposium and Reception, with Alon Pinkas, former consul general of Israel in New York, Reform Temple of Forest Hills, 71-11 112 St., Sunday, Apr. 27, 3 p.m. $18 pp, advance registration for cocktail reception and program. Contact: (718) 261-2900, mail@rtfh.org.

CLASSES Watercolor classes, National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston, Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. All techniques, beginner to advanced with demonstration. Call: (718) 969-1128.

Child abuse identification mandated reporter training, LaGuardia Community College, 31-10 Thomson Ave., Room M-143, Long Island City, Saturday, May 3, 1-3:30 p.m. Learn to identify symptoms of child abuse and neglect and the required procedures for reporting abuse. $80. Register: (718) 482-5097, laguardia.edu/acereg, using course code: A20CRD010A. Defensive driving course, St. Mel’s Church, 2615 154 St., Flushing, Saturday, May 10, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $45 pp. Info/register: (631) 360-9720.

DJ classes, Mainline, 218-12 Hillside Ave., Queens Village, 1st & 2nd week of every month starting in April. Once a week, four sessions, classes in beat mixing and MC techniques. Call: (718) 479-4848.

Regents review classes, Maspeth Town Hall, 53-37 72 St. Register now for classes in June in: integrated algebra, geometry, global history & geography, living environment/biology, chemistry, Earth science, physics, U.S. history & government, algebra 1, algebra 2/trig. Contact: (718) 335-6049, between 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

KIDS/TEENS LP FAM’s youth basketball program, Queens Transition Center, 142-10 Linden Blvd., South Ozone Park, every Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Boys/girls, ages 8-16. Contact: Mike Glasgow (917) 442-0479.

After-School Environmental Science Enrichment Program, Eastern Queens Alliance, Idlewild Park Preserve Environmental Science Learning Center, 149-20 Springfield Lane, Rosedale. Tenweek series of hands-on science workshops focusing on wetland and estuaries meets Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 3:30-5 p.m., thru June 14.

Ages 8-12, $8 per session, $21 per week. Contact: (347) 824-2301, info@easternqueensalliance. org or eqa-ippc.com/science-in-the-park.html.

35th Annual Antique Auto Show, Queens County Farm, 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy., Floral Park, Sunday, Apr. 27, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $5 adults, $2 kids 12-under.

Contact: (718) 347-FARM, queensfarm.org.

Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing, 4th Annual Arbor Festival, Sunday, Apr. 27, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Included with Garden admission ($4 adults, $2 children 3-12 and students, free for QBG members). Mother’s day fun & plant sale, Sunday, May 11, 12-4 p.m. Children’s activity table free with Garden admission. Contact: (718) 886-3800, dhector@queensbotanical.org.

Gus Schumacher: Farming in Flushing, Queens Historical Society, Kingsland Homestead, 143-35 37 Ave., Flushing, Sunday, May 4, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Contact: Karyn Mooney, (718) 939-0647, kmooney@ queenshistoricalsociety.org.

Turkish cooking class, Turkish Cultural Center, 43-49 45 St., Sunnyside, Wednesday, May 14, 7-9:30 p.m. Call: (718) 482-8263.

Canonization celebration of John XXIII and John Paul II, St. Josaphat Parish, 35th Ave. & 210 St., Bayside, Sunday, Apr. 27, 5 p.m. Also, a painting of Our Lady of Czestochowa will be dedicated in the church.

COMMUNITY Blood drive, Queen of Angels Church & Elmhurst Hospital, Parish Center, 43-18 Skillman Ave., Sunnyside, Sunday, Apr. 27, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Info/appt.: (718) 937-3244.

Doggie boot camp, Crocheron Park, Bayside, every Saturday thru October, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. dogschoolny.com.

Theater, music, art or entertainment item to What’s Happening, email: artslistingqchron@gmail.com

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Tap into Queens Beer Week for drinks and fun

by Tess McRae qboro editor

For a few years, Brooklyn claimed ownership over home-brewery startups. Dozens of companies, usually founded by young professionals, began sprouting up.

Now, Queens has stepped into the gauntlet with its own group of local breweries.

For the first time ever, the borough is celebrating these young businesses at Queens Beer Week, a 10-day event in which bars will exclusively offer brews made in the city’s largest borough.

Crescent and Vine, a bar located at 25-03 Ditmars Blvd. in Astoria, was jampacked on Friday, the first day of the festival.

Transmitter, a brewery owned by Rob Kolb and Anthony Accardi, showcased a handful of their beers.

“We’re doing pretty tight-ranged beers called farmhouse ales,“ Accardi said. “We tend to think of ourselves as ‘yeast forward’ in terms of what drives the beer taste.”

The pair met in 2005 when they were amateur bicycle racers and began experimenting with brewing using old homebrew

Queens Beer Week When: Where:

various times, through April 27 Venues vary

Website: queensbeerweek.com

Barrier Brewing Company’s Queen of Tarts, center, and Transmitter’s Q1 were featured PHOTO BY TESS MCRAE at Crescent and Vine in Astoria on Friday. equipment from the 1990s.

They officially launched Transmitter Brewing last summer and are working to have their beers on tap in bars around the city.

Prospective patrons can order individually bottled beer directly from Kolb and Accardi.

One of their brews, Q1, is a tasty Belgian white that delivers a smooth flavor

without as many hops. Their “yeast forward” mentality is apparent in Q1 but the flavor does not overpower the hops.

Also featured was Jamaica Me Coconuts from Barrier Brewing Company that run out of Oceanside on Long Island.

The dark beer has a bold taste with a hint of coconut. It was a crowd favorite at Vine and Crescent.

Barrier’s other draft, Queen of Tarts, is also a fun beer. The 6.8-percent pale ale is brewed with 200 fresh limes especially for Queens Beer Week.

Throughout the festival, beer lovers and newbies can sample drinks from local business owners while experiencing the various bars, pubs and restaurants Queens has to offer. continued on on page page 47 00 continued

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Titan brings ‘King Lear’ to Queens Theatre

by Mark Lord

In a further effort to make the play, perhaps Shakespeare’s most challenging, as accessible to today’s audiencThe word “titan” conjures visions of enormous strength es as possible, Banovez has trimmed it down from its usual and size. So it seems appropriate that the five-year-old running time of nearly four hours.

Titan Theatre Company is gradually building itself up into Assuming the demanding title role for the first time in his one of the borough’s predominant performance groups. career, Broadway veteran Terry Layman said, “It’s exhilaratIts latest production, William Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” an ing. I’m so glad I’m doing it when I’m young enough to have intimate family drama about an aging king as well as an the stamina. It’s so rich and challenging.” explosive political commentary, will And he’s especially pleased to be open at what is often referred to as the working with Titan. “It’s a startup borough’s premier performance space, company. There is no obligation for Queens Theatre. spectacle. The play is distilled down to When: April 25-26, May 1-3, “It puts us right in the middle of human level. The constraints of the May 7-10 at 7:30 p.m., the borough,” the group’s artistic budget produce incredible creativity.”

May 5 at 7 p.m., director Lenny Banovez said, prior to The company, which specializes in May 11 at 4 p.m. a recent rehearsal for the play, which Shakespeare but is not averse to tackWhere: Queens Theatre he is also directing. ling other works of interest, was Flushing Meadows And Queens Theatre’s managing formed by Banovez along with Kevin Corona Park director Taryn Sacramone is happy to Beebee, who is producing “Lear,” and Tickets: $18 have the group. “The feeling is defiLaura Frye, who appears as one of the titantheatrecompany.com nitely mutual,” she said. “To have that king’s daughters. energy in our studio theater is exciting.

The company has a core group of I’m proud that they approached us.” actors, most card-carrying union Located in the middle of Flushing Meadows Corona Park, members, who return with regularity. One of them, Michael the indoor theater, one of the few remaining reminders of Selkirk, is back for his fourth go-round with Titan, this time the 1964 World’s Fair, has been renovated several times taking on the role of Gloucester, an old man blind to the over the years and today boasts no fewer than three per- events going on around him. formance areas.

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Terry Layman as Lear, center, with Brad Makaro, left, R. Scott Williams, right, and Brendan Marshall-Rashid.

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Tours of some of the breweries are also available.

Some of the week’s highlights include “Pints and Stand-Up” at the Laughing Devil Comedy Club, located at 47-38 Vernon Blvd. in Long Island City.

While local beers will not be featured, the venue will offer $6 pints of Sam Adams Revel IPA and $4 cans of 21st Amendment while attendees listen to sets from Crystian Ramirez, Adrienne Iapalucci, Jon Fisch and other stand-up comedians.

For beer lovers looking to learn how to home brew, a home-brewing and beer-tasting tutorial at Astoria Beer and Brew, located at 21-76 21st St., will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday.

Tickets are $25 for tasting and demonstrations.

Also on Saturday, Alewife Queens, located at 5-14 51 St. in Long Island City, is hosting the New York Beer and Bacon Festival from 12 to 3 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m.

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Astoria, the “original spot for beer in Queens,” according to the website.

The beer garden will be premiering its new house beer crafted exclusively for the venue by the up-and-coming Single Cut Beersmiths of Astoria.

The closing ceremonies begin at 12 and end at 5 p.m.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: GEORGETOWN APARTMENTS JAMAICA NY LLC. Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/8/13. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the registered agent at 9020 169th St., Jamaica, NY 11432.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/19/14. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 136-19 Franklin Ave, Ste 6A Flushing, NY 11355.

Purpose: any lawful act.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: Kevin Painting & Home Improvement LLC Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) 1/10/14. Office: Queens Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 101-38 113th St., S. Richmond Hill, NY 11419.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: MARMINA TAXI LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/26/14. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 1720 Linden St., #1R, Ridgewood, NY 11385.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: NYC POMMES FRITES LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/15/14. 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 c/o UNITED STATES CORPORATION AGENTS, INC. 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

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NOTICE OF FORM ATION OF L IMI T ED L I A BIL I T Y COMPANY. NAME: S. H MARKETING Articles of GROUP, LLC. Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/04/2014. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: the LLC, 15-24 College Point Blvd., College Point, NY 11356.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GOLFCITY, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/22/13. Office in Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 7-18 150 St Whitestone, NY 11357.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Jung & Yoo, CPA PLLC Arts of Org filed with NY Sec of State (SSNY) on 3/19/14.

Office: Queens County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 213-41 38th Ave, Bayside, NY 11361. Purposes: Public Accountancy.

Notice of formation of Kinetic and Innovative Rehabilitation, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy.

Of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/26/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 2389 23rd Street, Apt. 2R, Astoria, NY 11105. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MD & EET Management LLC. Art. of Org. filed Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/06/2014. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY Designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: The LLC, 168-38 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

ONE BUTTON LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 1/10/14. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Todd V. Lamb, Esq., 424 W. 49th St., Ste. 4B, NY, NY 10019. General Purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: SSAM BBQ LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/19/14. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: the LLC, 4545 Center Blvd., Apt. 2608, Long Island City, NY 11109.

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Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless is proposing to collocate antennas on an existing building, with an overall height of 55 feet, located at 43-21 56th Street, in Queens, Queens County, New York. Public comments regarding the potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30-days from the date of this publication to: Andrew Maziarski - IVI Telecom Services, Inc., 55 West Red Oak Lane, White Plains, New York 10604, CulturalResources@ ivi-intl.com, or (914) 740-1930.

Notice of Formation of 15049 27TH AVENUE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/01/14. Office location: Queens County. Princ. office of LLC: 38-40 Regatta Pl., Douglaston, NY 11363. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Real estate.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 2522, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 09/18/03. The latest date of dissolution is 12/31/2090.

Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 24-65 38th Street, #2A, Francis Lewis Blvd., Astoria, New York 11103.

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Notice of Formation of 3301 Atlantic Partners LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/21/14. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 102-10 Metropolitan Ave Ste 200, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose: General.

Notice of Formation of Big National LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/14/14.

Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Llubica Janjic, 69-55 Juno St., Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose: For any lawful activity.

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SSNY shall mail process to: 34-30 Collins Place, Flushing, NY 11354.

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Notice of Formation of A & W 7608 Realty, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/19/14. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 7608 Jamaica Ave, Woodhaven, NY 11421. Purpose: General.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: Clare Gaskins, Ph.D., LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/26/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 85-31 120th Street, Apt. 1E, Kew Gardens, NY 11415.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: AMERICAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/18/2013. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: the LLC, 61-11 159th Street, 1st Floor, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365.

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Notice of formation of CLIFFSIDE PRODUCTIONS, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 1/28/2014. Office located in Queens County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against Joseph J. Gawalis, III, 30-78 37th St., Apt #2R, Astoria, NY 11103.

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SUMMONS.ORIGINAL FILED WITH THE CLERK ON 01/28/2014. INDEX NO.: 700621/2014. MORTGAGED PREMISES: 75-34 FURMANVILLE AVENUE, MIDDLE VILLAGE, NY 11379. (Block: 3036, Lot: 63). SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. COUNTY OF QUEENS. ASTORIA FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff v. GEORGE NELSON, if living, and if he/she be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or generally or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; PEGGY NELSON, if living, and if he/she be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or generally or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; ANGELA FISCHER A/K/A ANGELA COCCARO; ALBERT FISCHER; BENEFICIAL NEW YORK, INC.; CAPITAL ONE BANK; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; NYC DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE-PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; JOHN DOE (Unknown Tenants/Occupants of the subject property being set for to represent any and all occupants of the subject property being foreclosed herein, and any parties, entities of any kind, if any, having or claiming an interest or lien upon the mortgaged property) Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above captioned action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the 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 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 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. QUEENS COUNTY is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises foreclosed herein. Dated: 1/28/2014. BY: /s/____ Margaret J. Cascino, Esq., Stern & Eisenberg, PC, 485A US Highway Route 1 South, Suite 110, Woodbridge Corporate Center, Iselin, New Jersey 08830, (732) 582-6344, Counsel for Plaintiff. To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Honorable Augustus C. Agate, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated January 28, 2014 and filed along with the supporting papers in the Queens County Clerk’s Office.

This is an action to foreclose a mortgage. The premises is described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the southerly side of Furmanville Avenue, distant 258.89 feet westerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the westerly side of 77th Street and the southerly side of Furmanville Avenue, as said Furmanville Avenue and 77th Street are shown on the Final City Plan; RUNNING THENCE westerly along the southerly side of Furmanville Avenue, 24 feet; THENCE southerly at right angles of Furmanville Avenue, 100 feet; THENCE easterly parallel with Furmanville Avenue, 24 feet; THENCE northerly at right angles to Furmanville Avenue, 100 feet to the southerly side of Furmanville Avenue, at the point or place of BEGINNING. Premises known as 75-34 Furmanville Avenue, Middle Village, NY 11379. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE. NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT. YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-226-5697 or visit the Department’s website at www.dfs.ny.gov. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS. Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed.

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

INDEX NO.: 703002/2013 Filed Date: 3/31/2014, SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE. MORTGAGED PREMISES: 168-31 104 AVENUE, JAMAICA, NY 11433. BL #: 10222-35. Plaintiff designates QUEENS County as the place of trial; venue is based upon the county in which the mortgaged premises is situate. STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF QUEENS. LOANCARE, A DIVISION OF FNF SERVICING, INC. Plaintiff, -againstPHILLIP WILLIAMS, if living, and if dead, the respective heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignors, 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 of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and their respective husbands, wives or widows, if any, and each and every person not specifically named who may be entitled to or claim to have any right, title or interest in the property described in the verified complaint; all of whom and whose names and places of residence unknown, and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained by the Plaintiff, BERNADETTE HENRY, NYC PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU, CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, NYC ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, NYC TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, OMAR WILLIAMS, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). 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: 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 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. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT. THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $ 348,570.00 (said loan was modified to $ 288,164.01 by loan modification agreement dated August 1, 2012.) and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of QUEENS on June 22, 2009, at CRFN NUMBER 2009000188584, covering premises known as 168-31 104 AVENUE, JAMAICA, NY 11433 – BL #: 10222 – 35. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. The Plaintiff also seeks a deficiency judgment against the Defendant and for any debt secured by said Mortgage which is not satisfied by the proceeds of the sale of said premises. TO the Defendant PHILLIP WILLIAMS, the foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Sidney F. Strauss of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and dated March 10, 2014. Dated: New Rochelle, N.Y. March 25, 2014, McCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, P.C. /s/____________________.

By: Jonathan Pollack Esq., Attorneys for Plaintiff, 145 Huguenot Street, Ste. 210, New Rochelle, NY 10801, p. 914-636-8900, f. 914-636-8901.

HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE: NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT: YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure.

In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services at 1-877-226-5697 or visit the Department’s website at www.dfs.ny.gov. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS: Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services.

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BEAT

I HAVE OFTEN WALKED

Mets no longer like Ike

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

It seemed to take forever but Mets general manager Sandy Alderson finally traded first baseman Ike Davis to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

I asked Alderson at a hastily arranged press conference at Citi Field following the trade whether he was able to get maximum value for Ike considering that the Pirates knew (a) the Mets had wanted to send him packing since the end of the 2013 season and (b) they had to clear a space for the return of centerfielder Chris Young from the disabled list.

“We got the players that we have targeted,” Sandy said, referring to minor league relief pitcher Zack Thornton and the mysterious player to be named later. Reports quickly surfaced that the player in question was centerfielder Austin Meadows, who was a first-round pick in the 2013 amateur draft.

Insightful New York Post columnist Kevin Kernan quickly asked Alderson, who tried to avoid direct baseball comparisons, “Why Duda over Davis?” The reality is that Ike is a far better fielder while Lucas may have a slightly better eye at the plate, though both strike out a ton.

I followed up Kevin’s query by asking if Ike’s more lucrative contract played a part in the decision. “That wasn’t a primary factor,” Alderson said. “We preferred the fact that we have more control over Lucas Duda.” Translat-

Lily-Tulip, Queens’ maker of paper cups

ed that means Duda needs more major league time to qualify for free agency. And yes, Ike earns a lot more than Lucas does, as the Mets accounting department well knows.

As the press conference was winding down, I asked Alderson if he was concerned about the public perception that the Mets, who when the 2014 season got underway were in the lowest third for team payroll, had found a way to reduce it yet again. This is clearly a sensitive subject for Mets executives as he winced when he heard my question. “We’ll probably take on a few million in payroll soon,” he then promised without being more specific.

Davis met with the New York media just before he left Citi Field to catch a US Airways flight to Pittsburgh and took the high road, considering that he knew where he had stood with Mets management for the last eight months. He concurred with Alderson that it didn’t make sense to have three first basemen on the roster (right-handed hitting Josh Satin is the other), and added that he very much enjoyed his time in New York.

It’s to Ike’s credit that he was always a friendly, welcoming presence in the clubhouse for the media, whether he was performing well or struggling at the plate, which unfortunately was the case for most of the last two seasons. Q See the extended version of Sports Beat every week at qchron.com.

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Located on Flushing Bay and the East River in the north of Queens, College Point was formerly an industrial area that became a quiet residential neighborhood rich with one- and two-family homes.

One manufacturer there was the LilyTulip Cup Corp., the result of a 1929 merger between the Tulip Cup Co. and the Lily brand. First operating in Manhattan, a few years after the merger Lily-Tulip moved its paper-cup manufacturing operations to a 38-acre plot at 15th Avenue and 117th Street, on Flushing Bay. The company’s founder and president, Henry Nias (1880-1955), lived in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park with his wife, Sadie, and two German live-in maids. He had named his firm Tulip because his parents were born in Holland, which is famous for that flower.

Upon his death, the Henry Nias Foundation was created to preserve his fortune.

During the terrible hurricane of 1938, record high tides from the bay topped the bulkhead and swept through Lily-Tulip’s machine shops and packing plant with the

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force of a tidal wave, almost destroying the business. Ten-foot-high piles of wet paper had to be cleared out.

But the firm survived, and through 1965 employed thousands of Queens residents.

Then it announced it was moving to Holmdel, NJ, and many loyal employees moved with it. Three years later, facing competition from the Dixie and Solo paper cup companies, Lily-Tulip was gobbled up by the conglomerate Libbey-Owens-Illinois Corp.

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Mint AAA, new construction 2009. All Brick Colonial. 4 BRs, 3.5 Baths.All new LR with fireplace. 9’ ceilings 1st & 2nd floors. Full finished basement & separate entrance. Pvt dvwy & detached 1-car gar.

IG sprinklers, PVC fencing & wrought iron gates. Pavers in backyard. $839K

HOWARD BEACH ROCKWOOD PARK All New Hi Ranch, Granite Countertops HOWARD BEACH Stainless Steel App, Deck ROCKWOOD PARK Charming 3 BR Colonial on great Overlooking corner lot 100x40. 3 BR, 1.5 Yard, Stone Baths. Large sideyard. 7 blocks Gas Fireplace. to Crossbay Blvd. Short walk to In Ground Pool Bus. In-ground sprinklers.

With Pavers In Yard & Pvc Fence.

Asking $669K Must See! $749K

HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK Mint Hi-Ranch, 3/4 BRs, New Kit, 2 New Full Baths, Crown Molding, HOWARD BEACH New Roof, ROCKWOOD PARK Skylights, Mint grey brick stucco pavers. High Ranch.

Pvt Dvwy, New with 4 BRs & 2 1/2 baths. Granite floors (2nd fl.). Stainless steel & Lucite inside rail Cond, Simply entrance. New boiler & hot water heater.

Custom front door. Asking $799K Mint! $719K HOWARD BEACH ROCKWOOD PARK D

HOWARD BEACH LINDENWOOD CO-OPS • Extra Large L-Shaped Studio, Updated, 2 to choose from! .....$72K • Spacious 1 BR Co-op w/updated kit. & bath................Only $105K • Mint XL 1 BR, EIK ............. $115K • Mint 1 BR Garden, New Kit & Bath, 1st Fl, Low maint, Dogs Allowed...........REDUCED! $128K • All updated. 1BR. Garden (1st fl.)

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HOWARD BEACH OLD HOWARD BEACH Colonial, 4 BRs, 2.5 Baths, All Attached ROCKWOOD PARK Large 2 Family on great block, updated, EXCLUSIVE (Douglaston garage.

6 BRs, 2 Full Baths, Full Cape with 4 BRs & 2 Full Baths, Det 1 Manor Location), Steps to Memorial Car Gar, IGP, Full Fin Bsmnt w/Wet Bar, Basement, Private Driveway.

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Dogs OK. ........................... $129K Mint colonial, C 3/4 BRs, 2.5 • Hi-Rise 2 BR 2 Baths w/Terrace CT Baths, Master RA T N .........................................$149K BR w/bed sized CO closet, was 4 IN • Mint (all new) 2 BR, 1 Bath with REDUCED All upHOWARD BEACH BRs, dated, 5 y/o kit, terrace.

Granite & stainless appl HOWARD BEACH ROCKWOOD PARK New roof, New stove & New flr.

OLD SIDE ..........................................$189K Large Empire Style Hi-Ranch, Fireplace, Skylights, Granite Beautiful 5 BR Home, 3 Full Baths, 27x55 on 41x100 lot, 4/5 BRs, 3 counter, New concrete, IGP, Pavers • Mint 2 BR/2 Bath w/Terrace.

Full Fin Bsmnt w/Sep Ent, Deck off Full Baths, New Boiler, Hot water in back, Pvt dr for 2 cars, 1 car All new baths....................$230K 1st Fl, New Appl, 2 Car Gar. $659K heater, New CAC. Asking $639K garage. $679K

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COLLISION SPECIALISTS We Only Use ORIGINAL MANUFACTURED PARTS

Where perfection is not an accident...

And at Sonny’s Collision Specialists that’s what we offer our customers - PERFECTION! We know how stressful it can be when you are without your vehicle.

At Sonny’s you will never be dissatisfied - in fact we’re so sure, that we offer you a rental vehicle

at our expense if you’re not completely satisfied with our work when we return your vehicle.

OUR LIFETIME GUARANTEE IS UNLIMITED.

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