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Subways, business get May comebacks Trains back to 24 hours May 17; most biz restrictions to be lifted 2 days later

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he president and CEO of the Queens Chamber of Commerce is predicting a powerful breakout within the borough’s business community on the heels of Gov. Cuomo’s ending most restrictions by mid-month.

“It’s very definitely a step in the right direction,” Tom Grech said Tuesday in a phone interview. “Having the subways back 24/7 on May 17, two days before things open up, bides very well for Queens.”

He said business activity, handcuffed since last March, should be tangibly zooming upward by June 1, less than two weeks later The chart “will look like a hockey stick,” he said.

Cuomo on Monday announced that 24-hour subway service will return on May 17, with almost all indoor capacity restrictions on restaurants, theaters and other public accommodations being eased or eliminated on May 19.

Business types include retail, food services, gyms and fitness centers, amusement and family entertainment, hair salons, barber shops and other personal care services, among other settings. The easing up will also apply in houses of worship.

Cuomo said the move was made in consultation with neighboring governors Phil Mur-

Gov. Cuomo is promising a return of around-the-clock subway service for the first time in more PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON than a year, ahead of the reopening of most of the city on May 19. phy and Ned Lamont “to assure uniformity across the tristate area.”

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He also said the opening up of the subways

was deliberately set just before the beginning of the mass reopenings to allow people to take part more easily.

“And immediately with the curfew lift — curfew lift will apply to restaurants, bars, et cetera, especially in Manhattan — workers are going to need to get back and forth,” Cuomo said. “Now you’ll have people working till four o’clock in the morning again, so the MTA will resume their 24 hour service on May 17th to coordinate with the economic and social activity increase.”

The 6-foot social distancing rule, still the official guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will remain in place, Cuomo said, and most restaurants, bars and other businesses otherwise will be allowed to accommodate as many guests as the 6-foot rule allows.

“If the CDC changes their guidelines, then we’ll change our guidelines,” Cuomo said. But Cuomo also said the 6-foot rule need not apply for events where all can show proof of vaccination or negative tests.

The subways first closed between 1 and 5 a.m. last May 6 to allow for deep cleaning of every car in the system every 24 hours.

Cuomo said the cleaning will continue.

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Wilson announces 3rd-party run in D32 New development unfolds after several Dems unite against legal challenges

by Max Parrott

in light of the fact that public dollars in paign had other plans. A surrogate the form of matching funds are at lodged Supreme Court lawsuits on stake.”

Out of a protracted court battle between his behalf against two of his moderIt was after that joint press release three campaigns to get on the Democratic ate contenders, Graziano and Wilson, was sent out though, that Wilson decidprimary ballot in the race for the City and succeeded in removing them ed he was going to run on a third-party Council’s 32nd District, a new feeling both from the ballot. line.

W hile the Board of Elections emerged from a group of ostensibly comHe said that he had continued to removed Graziano, it initially found peting candidates: solidarity. fundraise after his loss in Supreme After Howard Beach Attorney Mike Sca- that Wilson had enough valid signaCourt, at first thinking he would need tures to make the ballot. la’s campaign for City Council took money to pay for the legal defense necBut before any of the an especially litigious approach to essary to appeal the decision in a higho b j e c t i o n s e ve n we n t the primary in comparison with er court to try to get back on the ballot. before the BOE, the Scala his competitors, five Democratic But while he was considering whether suppor ter lodged a candidates and one independent to make that legal gamble, he realized peremptor y lawsuit in have rallied together to voice that running on a third-party line could state Supreme Cou r t their support for the two candiallow him to avoid the whole legal against Wilson and the dates who were knocked off.

BOE on behalf of the cam- Community Board 9 Chairman Kenichi Wilson announced mess and avoid debt at the same time.

On Wednesday, a new develop2 1 02 Asked whether he was concerned paign, which succeeded in that he will run for City Council on a third-party line in ment unfurled in the race that could potentially cost the Democratic nominee knocking him out of the race after the November.

FILE PHOTO about being a spoiler for the Democratic candidate who does end up winning votes in the general election: Community BOE ruling.

Wilson said that “one candidate,” whom the primary in the general election, paving As a result of the legal battles, Wilson Board 9 Chairman Kenichi Wilson, one of the two moderate Democrats who were incurred tens of thousands in expenses, he declined to name, “succeeded in limiting the way for a Republican to win one of the eliminated from the primary ballot, plans which he paid from his city-subsidized the options that voters have come this June. GOP’s only competitive seats in Queens, matching funds. If he can’t make it onto the He abided by the law, yes. But his ethics Wilson said that it would depend on who to run on a third-party line.

Back in March, before any of the legal ballot, either in the primary or the general and his character speak volumes. The law, wins over the summer.

“It’ll probably take votes away from both ballot battles began, five candidates, Felicia election, he’ll personally be on the hook to while written, is not always just.”

Scala’s spokesperson responded in an sides,” he told the Chronicle, adding that he Singh, Raimondo Graziano, Kaled Alamar- the city for anything over the nearly email: “Nobody has done more in this race doesn’t see his campaign, or the role of ie, Shaeleigh Severino and Rubén Cruz, $15,000 that he raised in private donations.

This past weekend, the five candidates to defend ballot access than Mike Scala, councilmember, along partisan lines. came together in a solidarity pact not to “This is why the City Council has the challenge each other’s petition signatures to who originally joined the solidarity pact having taken on some of the country’s most get on the ballot, in the hopes that the wrote statements in a join press release well-known election lawyers. Just as those smallest districting lines. It’s for the comagreement would avoid objections and condemning the “lawsuits and political who qualify should make the ballot, the bal- munity, it’s to speak for them, to bring games” that ended up kicking Graziano and lot has to be protected from abuse and funding in — to fund programs within,” he reduce the risk of in-person campaigning.

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Wills exonerated in Supreme Court Conviction of former councilman, current CD 28 candidate cleared

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Ruben Wills, a former councilman for Southeast Queens Council District 28 who is challenging incumbent Councilwoman Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica), recently celebrated his exoneration in the conviction that expelled him from office.

Wills was forced to leave the Council after he was convicted for misappropriating funds. He served two years for the crime and was released in 2019. In September of 2020, the conviction was overturned after it was ruled that the judge unfairly stopped several witnesses from testifying in Wills’ defense.

On April 22, the criminal conviction against him was completely dismissed.

As a result of the dismissal, there’s no longer the cloud of a possible retrial by the attorney general hanging over Wills’ candidacy.

Wills spent part of the event on April 29 outside Queens County Criminal Court pitching his criminal justice reform platform, which is aimed at facilitating prosecutorial misconduct cases.

For the press event, he invited several exonerees of cases that were investigated by Detective Louis Scarcella, a retired Brooklyn investigator who has been accused of framing people for crimes they were later found not to have committed.

In a proposed bill he wants to name after Scarcella, Wills would remove the statute of limitations entirely to go before the Court of Claims, in order to file a lawsuit over being wrongly convicted Despite being investigated by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office for evidence of misconduct, Scarcella has not been charged with any wrongdoing — a fact pointed out by the Detectives’

Endowment Association union, which has pledged “to do everything in our power to fight Wills’ proposed name for his bill.”

Wills’ guests included Derrick Hamilton, Shabaka Shakur and Eliseo DeLeon, who between them spent over 80 years in prison, before being exonerated for cases investigated by Scarcella and brought by the Brooklyn DA’s Office.

The detectives union has dismissed exonerations of Scarcella’s cases, saying that they “were overturned based on technicalities,” to which Wills pointed out that it was ballistics evidence that turned up contradictions in the case that convicted Hamilton.

“This is brutality. This is a crime that we have to address. This is something that is affecting our communities because men and women are being stolen off of our streets,” Wills told the Q Chronicle.

Former City Councilman Ruben Wills, second from left, who is running for his old seat, celebrates being exonerated from the conviction that forced him out of office. PHOTO COURTESY RUBEN WILLS

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Leaving a seat for those lost to Covid Forest Park memorial pays tribute to Queens residents who passed

by Michael Gannon Editor

John Walter was born, raised and lived in Middle Village.

“We used to say that his biggest adventure was moving from one side of Metropolitan Avenue to the other,” said his son, Brian.

John Walter was 80 when he died last May, one of Queens’ many victims of Covid-19.

And he was among hundreds from the borough who were remembered last Saturday during a day-long tribute and memorial at the bandshell at Forest Park.

The event was organized by more than a dozen Queens residents who are members of the national organization Covid Survivors for Change.

The seven-hour proceding which was livestreamed and carried on Queens Public Television, featured a dedication ceremony and a sunset vigil. In between was a memorial to the more than 3,000 Queens residents lost, a tribute to essential workers and a remembrance of those from around the world who passed away.

That, Brian Walter said, was where the help of the national organization came in.

“We began planning this back in November,” he said. “We had no idea of the heights this was going to reach.”

The most somber and stunning part of the Queens memorial was the set of benches for

Residents of Queens who were taken by Covid-19 were remembered by their families and friends NYS SENATE PHOTO / TWITTER last Saturday at a daylong ceremony at the bandshell at Forest Park. viewers of events in the bandshell, which on Saturday were vacant save for small posters bearing the names and portraits of more than 400 residents who lost their lives to Covid.

“That was kind of the fundamental idea of what we wanted to do,” Walter said. “We wanted to have the empty benches with the portraits of Queens residents as a visual representation of the people who should have been

there on those benches.

“It was important because losing somebody in the time of Covid is a very isolating event, where many of us did not have that connection that often comes with losing someone — the funeral, the wake, the gathering. All that was taken from us. Also, the numbers were exploding so fast that there was never really time to put names with those numbers. They

just kept coming in more and more and more.”

He also said it was important to tell the stories of people like his father.

“He was a kind, compassionate man. He had a wonderful sense of humor and a zest for life. If he was here, this is what he would be doing today.”

The bandshell itself also had yellow hearts with the names of more than 700 people from around the country and the world whose lives were cut short by the pandemic.

Among those joining in the ceremonies were state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) and Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar (D-Woodhaven).

“My prayers and condolences go out to all those who we acknowledged today, along with their family, friends and loved ones,” Addabbo said on his Twitter page. Paying their own respects, Borough President Donovan Richards and Lynwood Wichard, administrative vice president of Transit Workers Union Local 100, pointed to a heart with the name of Queens resident Peter Petrassi, the first transit worker to succumb to the illness, in a photo posted on Richards’ page.

Walter said it is far too soon to know if the memorial will grow into an annual event.

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Time ticking on bills for earlier release Activists call on Rajkumar to back parole reform for certain prisoners

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Activists with New York Communities for Change, an economic, social and political justice group, were outside state Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar’s (D-Woodhaven) office Tuesday to advocate for the People’s Campaign for Parole Justice platform.

Pedal Miranda held a rally outside of Assemblywoman Rajkumar’s office to advocate for early parole.

The platform includes the Elder Parole and the Fair & Timely Parole bills, which support reform that would allow the state Board of Parole to provide an evaluation for parole release to incarcerated people 55 and older with the former, and provide meaningful parole review for incarcerated people who are up for parole through the latter.

The bills would have to garner enough support by elected officials in both bodies of the state Legislature and later Gov. Cuomo within 38 days to become law.

“We are here in support of these two bills,” said Pedal Miranda, a gender nonbinary organizer with the Release Aging People in Prison campaign. “The bills would end life without parole sentences and give people a fair shot at release.”

Incarcerated people are getting sick and dying from the coronavirus in prison, and Pedal believes that it is urgent that elderly prisoners get a chance of parole for their own safety.

“Rajkumar is one of a handful of Democrats who hasn’t supported the bill and we really want it to pass this year because of Covid,” said Miranda. “Elder Parole would just make it so that anyone who served 15 years consecutively of their sentence, and who is 55 and older, eligible for a parole board hearing. It doesn’t guarantee release.”

The grassroots organization New York Communities for Change wants to reform the parole sysPHOTOS BY NAEISHA ROSE tem for elderly prisoners.

Mark Shervington, a co-organizer of the rally, agreed on the importance of the bills.

“The racialized context of policing of crimes is also applied at the Parole Board,” said Shervington. “That’s just the back end of the system. Black folks are just harmed worse with parole release decisions.”

The Columbia Justice Lab Report: Racial Inequities in New York Parole Supervision states that race plays a factor in who gets paroled and how.

“Technical parole violations fall most heavily on people of color, their families and communities,” said Vincent Schiraldi, a co-author of the 2020 report, co-director of the Columbia Justice Lab and former New York City probation commissioner. “The alarming racial disparities in our report should serve as a clarion call for state policymakers to act this year to redress this unacceptable situation.”

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Workers begrudgingly go back to city offices Hundreds of municipal employees demand delay to in-person return

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

Monday marked the return of 80,000 municipal workers to their offices.

But hundreds of city employees think the return is coming too soon.

City Workers for Justice held a rally outside City Hall May 1 to express their concern over the plan and to demand it be postponed until September.

“It’s not just important to be safe. It’s important to feel safe. Sometimes feeling unsafe can be just as bad,” Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said Saturday afternoon.

“You can’t have a bunch of people coming into buildings in small spaces and small elevators. That is not going to be a good feeling for just coming off a year of a pandemic.”

Williams reiterated the concern that the reopening plan was happening too quickly and wasn’t fleshed out enough. City Workers for Justice said there was no real purpose in bringing workers back into their offices other than as a symbolic gesture that New York City is returning to normal — inperson gatherings would not be allowed in the offices.

Mayor de Blasio had been planning to send municipal employees back to their offices on May 3 since March. The plan includes staggered schedules so that some

Hundreds of municipal employees rallied in front of City Hall May 1 to demand Mayor de Blasio pause his plan to send workers back to the office May 3, claiming it’s too soon and that the plan CITY WORKERS FOR JUSTICE / INSTAGRAM is not fleshed out enough. employees are in the office while others continue to work remotely. Strict safety measures, such as mask requirements and social distancing, would be in place, but there is no Covid-19 vaccine mandate.

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and we need to start sprinting now as part of this recovery,” de Blasio said last week. “We need to bring New York City back strong for everyone. And clearly, we have the ability to do that by getting our city workforce back.”

The following day, de Blasio told Brian Lehrer as a guest on his WNYC radio show that the city found workers are more produc-

tive in the office rather than in their own homes.

Those workers who rallied May 1 found several flaws in the plan, such as the impact on public transit and around policies that would force workers who test positive for Covid-19 to use personal leave. Most importantly, a return to the office would disrupt childcare plans for parents who had been staying home with their children since the pandemic began over a year ago.

“The entire response to the pandemic has been riddled with mistakes. The political dynamics put profit over people. We can’t continue doing this. We have to learn from all of the lessons this pandemic is leaving us,” said state Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-East Elmhurst), a former city employee, who stood in solidarity with the ralliers.

Despite the opposition and hesitancy, de Blasio remained optimistic that sending workers back was the right choice.

“Look, we need people to do the work that is so important to bring back this city,” the mayor said Monday. “It’s the right time for office workers to come back. People are obligated. It’s as simple as that. If they’re told this is when they have to show up at work, that’s when they have to show up at work, just like anytime would have been Q true before the pandemic.”

Cuomo lifting biz, MTA limits continued from page 2 clean and we have to help the homeless and we can’t go backwards on the quality of service — that must continue,” he said.

He said curfew restrictions on outdoor food and beverage service will end on May 17, while indoor curfews will be lifted May 31. The Legislature already has repealed Cuomo’s executive order requiring that people order food along with alcoholic beverages. Indoor catered events will see their limits rise to 250, and to 500 on May 19 if the venue does testing.

On Wednesday, according to multiple reports, the state announced Citi Field and Yankee Stadium will be allowed separate sections for vaccinated fans, which can seat at 100 percent capacity; and those for unvaccinated fans, who will remain subject to 6-foot social distancing and 33 percent capacity. No testing will be conducted, but vaccinated fans must have the state’s new Excelsior Pass on their phones as proof.

Cuomo had been under increasing pressure in recent days — U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was leading the call this past weekend — to restore 24-hour subway service.

Mayor de Blasio on April 29 said his administration was working on guidelines that could largely reopen the city as of July 1, a date the mayor said would be the perfect time to restart 24/7 subway service.

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night, host Errol Louis asked the mayor if he had known in advance of Cuomo’s announcement, citing their often hostile relationship.

“I don’t tend to be surprised by his particular choices lately. Let’s put it that way,” de Blasio said, according to a transcript provided by his office.

Transit advocates, who also have been pushing for a return to 24-7 subways, voiced their unanimous support.

Late Monday morning, Riders Alliance Executive Director Betsy Plum hailed the decision in an email.

“Riders organized and won back 24/7 subway service,” she said. “After more than a year of punishing overnight commutes that impacted tens of thousands of essential workers, New Yorkers will see a long overdue return to a crucial part of normalcy.”

“For New York City to be a 24 hour city, it needs a 24 hour subway,” said Jaqi Cohen, campaign director for the Straphangers Campaign in an email.

“We applaud the Governor’s decision to end the hygiene theater that left essential workers stranded overnight for the past 12 months, bringing back much needed overnight service,” she said. “With overnight subway service restored, New Yorkers can breathe easy knowing that our City’s Covid Q recovery is on the right track.”

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ver at his job as a Medicare counselor, Barry Klitsberg says, he’s been getting calls from senior citizens who may have an ulterior motive.

“People call up, ostensibly with a problem,” he said in March. “They’re so happy that they get a person picking up instead of a computer. They just want someone to talk to. I’m getting that a lot and I’m sure it’s happening all over the city. Covid has taken a year from people’s lives.”

There’s no doubt that just as they have suffered disproportionately from the coronavirus in medical terms, older people also have borne a particularly hard burden from the isolation caused by the shutdowns meant to keep people safe. A January poll found that 19 percent of people ages 50 to 80 said they were experiencing more sadness and depression during the pandemic, while the same number were having more trouble sleeping and 28 percent were feeling more worried and anxious. The survey, the National Poll of Healthy Aging, was conducted by the University of Michigan with support from the AARP. The best answer to isolation among elderly people who do not have family or friends nearby has always been the senior center. They’ve been shuttered since the pandemic

began, of course, but now is the time to reopen them, just as we’re reopening other places where people gather.

All indications are that with very few exceptions, if you have the vaccine, you don’t have a problem. And senior centers can insist on masks being worn indoors until it becomes clear they’re not needed. But the centers must be allowed to open, and not just for grab-and-go food service, though that’s a start. The service is set to begin May 10, but the city should rapidly move beyond that to as close to a full reopening as it can get.

The Queens Library will reopen select branches for limited browsing and computer use May 10. A week after that, 24-hour subway service will resume. Two days later, all indoor capacity restrictions on restaurants, theaters, gyms, hair salons and other entities will be lifted.

The vaccines are working, Covid’s being driven down and the city is reopening. A pattern is holding, the mirror image of one that took shape last year when it came to closures: Mayor de Blasio floats the idea that something will reopen and Gov. Cuomo says it’s his call, not the mayor’s, and that whatever it is actually will open earlier.

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The issue is Columbus Day, a federal holiday, which a number of municipalities and 13 states have turned into Indigenous People’s Day, dismayed at the forceful imposition of European civilization on Native Americans more than 500 years ago. New York City is not one of those municipalities whose elected officials have made the change.

But that didn’t stop the DOE, which decided to do so on its own. Following an immediate backlash, it came up with the absurd “Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous People’s Day” instead. It can’t split the baby here. Also, while Columbus is especially hailed by those of Italian descent, his achievement has long been celebrated by Americans of many ancestries.

We’re tired of the DOE sowing ethnic division. Native American culture should be recognized on its own, separate day. But if it must replace or somehow share Columbus Day, that change should be made by our elected City Council and mayor, not the people behind the city’s school calendar.

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We need to prioritize our future over corporate profits and put an end to our dependence on fossil fuels.

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The Democratic wish list? Infrastructure, healthcare, a living wage, green energy, fair taxes, police reform, childcare, voting rights, affordable housing, social justice, freedom of the press, civil rights, diplomacy, etc. The GOP wish list? Just one thing — matches to set fire to the Democrats’ list.

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Republicans aren’t interested in promoting policies. They’re interested in promoting lies.

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Dear Editor: It is rather perplexing that, in spite of the jelling of the West Indies cricket team, the nations of the Caribbean refuse to use this model for all sports. A West Indies soccer team could win medals in a way that none of the territorial teams do. In athletics a West Indies team could bring home a significant number of medals from various world games, the Olympics and so on. For example in the 2016 Olympics, the English-speaking Caribbean tallied 17 medals. In 2012 that number was 43.

As well, West Indian participation as a single entity in the international sports arena would be much more cost-effective since instead of the large numbers of officials who accompany the various teams, there would be one set of officials at any given time. And each new West Indian team birthed can only be healthy for Caribbeanness.

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mother took care of, whom we all treated as family. The old neighborhood has changed a lot and many have moved or passed on.

On a spring day my mother would be tending to her roses and her vegetable garden that she gave much care and love to, as she did her family. I remember playing with the kids on the block — hopscotch, hide-and-seek, stickball, Chinese jump rope — and riding our bikes on many adventures. There were stores where my mother would send me on errands over on 99th Avenue, which was only two blocks away. There was Yugo’s Deli and Scotty’s variety store and lunch counter — and Schaefer’s Malt shop on 212th Street and Jamaica Avenue, where she would take me after school if I were good.

I remember my mother trying to impress up on me the importance of respect for all those I would meet and to show kindness even if they don’t do so in return. She also did a lot of charity work and collected funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation and for Cancer Care. I once asked her why she did so much. She said it was because the Lord has given us so much and she needed to give something back. I guess it kind of rubbed off on me. Today, I am grand knight of St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus in Douglaston and involved in charity work as well.

Maybe we should be thinking of our mothers 365 days a year and thank them for all they have done for us. Like my father, Frederick R. Bedell Sr., said to me when my mother passed away when I was 14, “Never forget your mother.” I never did for she gave me so much love.

I thank you, Mom, for helping me to be all that I am today. Now to mothers everywhere, which includes my wife, Eva Bedell, “Happy Mother’s Day!” Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Bellerose

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Black, Latino SHSAT offers see decline Schools Chancellor Porter calls on state to end one-exam admissions

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After years of scrutiny over the disproportionately small number of Black and Latino students who gained admission into New York City’s acclaimed specialized high schools, that number dropped even lower for the coming year.

This year, 23,528 eighth-graders took the Specialized High School Admissions Test, with a total of 4,262 receiving an offer to one of the eight schools based on their exam scores. Black and Latino students were only offered 9 percent of spots in specialized high schools for the 2021-22 school year despite making up about 70 percent of the school population. That admission figure is down from 11 percent the year before, and 10.5 percent in 2019, according to education department data released Thursday.

Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter cited the racial disparities as evidence the statemandated single-test entry process for the specialized high schools should be replaced.

“I know from my 21 years as an educator that far more students could thrive in our Specialized High Schools, if only given the chance,” she said in a statement. “Instead, the continued use of the SHSAT will produce the same unacceptable results over and over again, and it’s far past the time for

admissions trends for Black and our students to be fairly repreLatino students. sented in these schools. The During the pandemic, the city State law that requires the City offered a remote option for the to administer the exam must be DREAM Program, a free afterrepealed so we can partner with school program that prepares our communities to find a more students for the test. As comequitable way forward, and do pared to 4,200 participants last right by all of our children.” year, only 3,600 eighth graders Covid may have contributed took part this year. to the lack of racial representaIn 2018, de Blasio and former t ion i n th is yea r’s resu lts.

Schools Chancellor Richard According to the Department of Carranza made an unsuccessful Education, the pandemic drove bid to eliminate the specialized down test takers by about 43,000 high school admissions exam students. and admit students based on a Only 3.6 percent of the offers combination of their state test went to Black students, and 5.4 scores and report card grades. percent went to Latino students.

After his plan did not sucLast school year, those democeed, and sparked intense prographic groups received 4.5 and 6.6 percent of offers, respective- The number of specialized high school offers to Black and Latino stu- tests from exam supporters who ly. About 54 percent of offers dents declined from last year.

FILE PHOTO argued that the city should instead improve the overall went to Asian students and about 28 percent went to white students this dents gained admission to its 760 freshman school system, de Blasio resigned himself class. This year only eight African-Ameri- to keeping the exam. year.

Asian-American parent groups have been The news comes after increased attention can eighth-graders were offered admission some of the loudest critics of calls to elimion the “elite eight” specialized high schools to a class of 749 students for the next year.

The continued lack of diversity comes nate the exam, arguing that such plans that require a top score on the SHSAT for admission. Last March, Stuyvesant High after years of effort from the de Blasio unfairly target Asian students who make up School, the most competitive school in the administration proposing reforms that have large shares of admissions to the specialQ city, made waves when only 10 Black stu- not made significant gains in reversing the ized high schools.

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About 16 percent of independent restaurants here have closed down since the beginning of the pandemic, but Queens leaders are hopeful a new economic initiative will prevent the remaining ones from shutting their doors.

Since Monday, restaurateurs have been able to apply for direct aid from the newly opened Restaurant Revitalization Fund, a $28.6 billion reserve established by the newly enacted American Rescue Plan Act. The money comes in the form of a grant, so struggling businesses don’t have to worry about paying the government back.

“In the darkest times when Queens was the epicenter of the epicenter ... we depended on our business owners and our leaders on the ground to tell us what Congress needed to do,” Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) said April 30 in front of Kew Gardens Hills’ Lake Pavilion to announce the passage of the RRF. “If you walk down any commercial strip here in Queens the one thing you’ll always see is restaurants. From Bell Boulevard to Main Street, Myrtle Avenue to Union Turnpike, Metropolitan Avenue and Queens Boulevard, independent restaurants are everywhere.”

The Queens Chamber of Commerce estimates that of the 6,000 Queens small restaurants that existed before the pandemic, roughly 1,000 have closed their doors for good.

According to a report from state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, the city restaurant industry lost 226,000 jobs because of the pandemic, and sales dropped an average of 71 percent during the three-month period of March, April and May of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019.

Those that are still open are struggling to hang on.

“We are all experiencing the unspeakable difficulties. It’s not only for us, it’s everybody. Each one of you,” said Yoonjoo Lee of the Murray Hill Merchants Association, which represents 70 small stores in the Flushing neighborhood. “We cannot continue to keep open businesses without help. I’ll repeat it and repeat it and repeat it.”

Lee went on to say that she’s finally come to understand the American Dream even in these times of crisis because of Meng’s advocacy to pass federal relief.

Grants under the RRF program are taxfree. Restaurateurs can put the money toward a wider array of expenses than the Paycheck Protection Program allowed, including rent, construction and maintenance. Businesses that have already received a PPP loan are

Rep. Grace Meng, flanked by NYC Hospitality Alliance Executive Director Andrew Rigie, left, and Queens Chamber of Commerce President Tom Grech, spoke about the Restaurant Revitalization PHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY Fund as a beacon of hope for small-owned eateries. also eligible for an RRF grant.

All independent food and drink businesses, such as food trucks, breweries and caterers, are encouraged to apply. Grants are given based on total loss of revenue between 2019 and 2020. Each restaurant can be granted as much as $5 million per location Meng urged Queens restaurateurs to act

fast and register at restaurants.sba.gov before the funds run out.

“In Queens we deserve more. We’ve been disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus and the economy and we want to make sure our restaurants all around the borough are getting their fair share back,” Meng Q said.

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The Howard Beach Lindenwood Civic Association sponsored a Muffins with Mom event at Prima Pasta last Sunday, where it collected donations of baby gifts for pregnant mothers living in shelters in the area.

At top left, the civic’s president, Joann

Ariola, poses with her daughter, Chelsea, center, and grandsons Antonio and Angelo.

Top, center, Madison, left, and Grayce McClain show off their cards.

Top right, John, the manager of Prima Pasta, left, poses with Ariola, Barbara McNamara, Prima Pasta owner Tony Modi-

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Above center, Lori D’toro poses with her son, Gianni.

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Adams: ‘I am the Queens candidate’ Brooklyn borough president lays out his mayoral vision for the city

by Max Parrott

ment W ho Care to speak out aga i n st p ol ic e br ut a l it y a nd am not going to As a battle over Queens votes amps up misconduct.

Though he reportedly drafted a between mayoral hopefuls Eric Adams and spend four years Ray McGuire, Adams has declared himself report that proposed cutting the of my life battling NYPD’s budget over a billion dol“the Queens candidate.”

Shortly after a March McGuire endorse- la r s last su m mer, he’s si nce with people over ment by U.S. Rep. Greg Meeks (D-Queens), expressed skepticism over the the chairman of the Queens Democratic def u nd movement. W h i le he SHSAT.” Party and congressman for the predomi- described some of the marches for — Brooklyn Borough President nantly Black, highly engaged Southeast racial justice prompted by George Eric Adams Queens electorate, Adams began rolling out Floyd’s killing as legitimate, he also raised alarms over dangerous his own Queens strategy.

Last Thursday, Adams, the Brooklyn outside agitators and “anarchists On education, his proposals borough president and a frontrunner in the coming here, just wanting to see pose a compromise between two race, stopped in the Queens Chronicle our city burn.” sides of the debate around the A pillar of his plan to get gun office for an interview during which he said racial equity of screened public violence under control involves he is a “son of Queens.” school admissions. Later in the day reinstating the NYPD’s anti“Nobody knows the borough of the inter view took place, the crime unit, a plainclothes Queens the way I know the borDepa r t ment of Educat ion team targeted at violent ough of Queens. I’m the Queens announced that the percentage of crime that the departcandidate and Queens will have offers to the city’s vaunted specialment disbanded last a Queens mayor,” he said, offerized high schools had gone to even summer after the unit ing up his time after moving to more dispropor tionately small provoked civilian com- During an interview with the Chronicle Borough President Eric groups of Black and Latino stuSouth Jamaica at age 7, and plaints and was involved Adams laid out why his mayoral vision for public safety, small dents the last year. In contrast to remaining in the borough in a disproportionate num- business, education and development. PHOTO BY PETER C. MASTROSIMONE desires of the system’s fiercest critth rough his early 20s, as his 2021 ber of fatal police shootings.

Queens credentials. ics, Adams said that he would not Adams argues that the unit plays an inte- ated a plan around a digital platform called do away with the Specialized High School As part of his bid to secure the largely center-left Black vote in Southeast Queens gral role in combating gun violence. He “MyCity” involving a special city ID that Admissions Test governing entry. as well as a section of the borough’s conser- said the city must “get them back into would share information between govern“I am not going to spend four years of vative white Democrats, he’s honed in on action and turn them into an anti-gun unit ment agencies. my life battling with people over SHSAT. At the same time, his vision for an eco- Keep the exams, keep those eight exams the city’s spike in gun violence and said with the right officers assigned — zeroing New York’s worldwide reputation has in on gang violence, which is driving the nomic comeback revolves around office and open five more schools, one in each violence in our city, and zeroing in on the work. He said the next mayor needs to borough, and allow a cross section of how become tarnished by criminal activity. encourage businesses to bring their employ- you determine who’s going to [be] admitted “The prerequisite to prosperity is public flow of guns in our community.”

Beyond targeting residents concerned ees back to work in central business to the school,” he said. safety. We can’t see this uptick in violence.

When you have a tourist shot at Grand Cen- with public safety, at times during the inter- districts.

Likewise, in the case of the exam deterHis housing plans also involve targeting mining admission into the city’s gifted and tral Station, that is going to send shock view, Adams spoke directly to the needs of dense parts of Manhattan. Adams assured talented programs, which Mayor de Blasio waves throughout the entire international small business owners.

“If you are a baker, I want you just to residents of the “Staten Islands, the Bay- has promised to revamp over the next year, t r avel i ng c o m mu n it y,” he t old t h e bake,” he said. “My chamber of commerce sides, the St. Albans” that he would not Adams said that he was against entirely Chronicle.

Adams was a police officer for 22 years can do the backroom work for you, and this seek to add density to their neighborhoods scrapping the exam but believes the admisbefore entering politics. When he was 15 would allow you to just focus on stabilizing in order to “keep the character of those sions process should take into account more years old, he and his brother were arrested your businesses and get them back up and communities.” holistic criteria. He also called to expand the “I believe we have our rezoning wrong. number of G&T programs across the city. for criminal trespassing and beaten by operating.”

When it comes to entrepreneurs, his We have rezoned and upzoned in poorer NYPD officers in custody until a black cop “We had districts in Bedford-Stuyvesant, intervened. Adams has said that the inci- pitch involves consolidating city data to communities, displaced long-term tenants,” where they had no gifted and talented prodent ended up prompting him to enter law address government inefficiency and better he said before suggesting upzonings in grams. You have mothers that had to take enforcement, where as a cop, he co-founded connect people to city services. Though not Soho or along 42nd Street and 14th street their children to Manhattan, to the Bronx.

Q a group called 100 Blacks in Law Enforce- limited to business owners, Adams has cre- corridors of Manhattan.

That’s just unfair,” he said.

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Adams, McGuire split Queens Dems

by Naeisha Rose Associate Editor

The fight for the top seat in the Big Apple is heating up as Queens heavyweights, Democratic Party Chairman and U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) and Borough President Donovan Richards, split their endorsement in the World’s Borough.

Richards backed Eric Adams, the Brooklyn-born and Queens-raised former police officer, on Monday, less than three weeks after Meeks’ endorsement of Wall Street exec Ray McGuire at Queens Borough Hall.

Richards cited the coronavirus pandemic for his support of the current Brooklyn bor-

Richards, Meeks diverge on mayor ough president, as reported by the New York Post.

“Our City is facing a crisis on every front.

A social justice crisis, an economic crisis, a public health crisis, and the list goes on,” said Richards to the Post, and it needs a “steady hand.”

Adams wants to maximize resources and use regulatory powers to fix structural economic issues, according to his website.

Attracting start-ups, new investment, sustaining small businesses and developing a

next-level citywide job training and placement program are just a few examples the Brooklynite wants to uplift the city.

“Together with BP Richards, we’ll continue to build the most diverse coalition of support to deliver real change for NYC,” tweeted the Adams’ campaign. “Queens is my home, so I understand the lives of [New Yorkers] there struggling to get by. I’ll make sure this city works for them, too.”

Meeks, however, believes McGuire, the Harvard grad from Dayton, Ohio, will do a

better job of getting the city on track.

“Our city has lost over 600,000 jobs,” said Me ek s. “ T he u ne m ploy me nt r at e is 13-percent.”

Meeks proclaimed McGuire as “the change agent that we need now!”

“Everywhere I go in the city, especially in Queens, I hear that New Yorkers want a new approach in City Hall,” said McGuire after his endorsement. “They want someone with big ideas and a seriousness of purpose.

They want a change; they want a leader who will fight for change. I don’t pretend to have all the answers, but what I do know is that I Q can unify.”

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Flushing ranks No. 2 in anti-Asian attacks Hundreds stood in solidarity against increasing AAPI bias and violence

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

A 15-year-old boy minding his own business in Forest Hills became another victim of anti-Asian violence last Saturday.

Police said he was alone near 99th Street and 62nd Drive when three teenagers approached him and began calling him slurs. The harassment turned violent after the 14-, 15- and 18-year-old perpetrators began whaling on the boy, who sustained minor injuries and was sent to NewYorkPresbyterian Queens.

The incident is just one of the 42 reported attacks against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in New York City this year.

Crimes targeting the AAPI community made up about 44 percent of all hate attacks in the city as of May 5, according to rolling NYPD hate crime data.

To condemn the increasing prejudice, leaders across the city marched in Flushing May 2, the second day of Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and one day after the young man was attacked by his own peers. The “We Belong Here: Queens Rises Against Hate” rally drew hundreds of Queens residents, as well as elected officials from across the city and throughout the state to march a 1.5-mile lap through the streets, beginning and ending outside Flushing

Elected leaders, including U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, center, and City Councilmember Peter Koo, marched in Borough President Donovan Richard’s We Belong Here rally against Asian hate last NYC COUNCIL PHOTO / TWITTER Sunday in Flushing.

Town Hall.

“There is no magic vaccine that will suddenly bring this pandemic of prejudice against our Asian-American community to an end. Instead, it is on every one of us to be that vaccine and to stand up as one, united community to end hate in all its hideous forms,” Borough President Donovan Rich-

ards, who organized the rally, said. “Here in The World’s Borough, an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. This is why we march: to show those who would spew bigotry that they will never succeed, and that Queens will never be a place of hate.”

The 109th Precinct, which encompasses Flushing and other neighborhoods with sub-

stantial AAPI populations, has reported the second-most hate attacks since the start of 2021 compared to other precincts throughout the city with six of its seven incidents targeting Asian Americans. Only the 14th Precinct, which covers South Midtown, reported more with all seven of its hate crimes AAPI-charged.

The numbers are expected to be much higher, however, and are underreported. A bill by Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) that would make it easier for victims to report attacks and encourage them to speak up, recently passed the U.S. Senate and is expected to come before the House sometime in this next few weeks. City Councilmember Peter Koo (D-Flushing) introduced a resolution April 29 that calls on Congress and President Biden to pass the act as incidents continue to mount.

“T he relentless at t ack s on Asia ns throughout the country need to be acknowledged and fought by every state in the union,” he said in a statement. “This requires federal action to make sweeping changes in the way we deal with hate crimes, especially in areas where there may not be large Asian populations, and law enforcement may not have the linguistic or cultural competence to address hate crimes Q and bias incidents as they occur.”

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One way we as elected officials, both create a national locally and nationally, can strengthen the comprehensive paid American workforce and begin to rebuild family and medical leave program, much our economy is to better protect and care like we have here in New York.

The national program will ensure workfor our workers by creating strong safety nets for them. The middle class makes up ers receive partial wage replacement to a large portion of the American work- take time to bond with a new child, care force, and it is imperative that we have a for a seriously ill loved one, deal with a strong foundation that allows more Amer- loved one’s military deployment, find safeicans the sense of safety they get knowing ty from sexual assault, stalking, or domestic violence, heal from that if they have a baby their own serious illness, who is ill, or need to or take time to deal with care for a family memresident Biden’s the death of a loved one. ber, they will be finanplan will provide It will guarantee 12 cially stable. of paid parental, Here in New York, I economic security weeks family and personal illworked towards ensurleave by year ing that our workers to families across ness/safe 10 of the program, and have the time off they need with New York the United States. also ensure workers get three days of bereavePaid Family Leave. This initiative, which became state law in 2016, ment leave per year starting in year one.

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Slain officer promoted posthumously by Shea Alleged drunk driver faces 15 years for killing cop

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

NYPD Officer Anastasios Tsakos was killed on the job by an alleged drunk driver last week, leaving behind his wife and two young children. In the midst of their reeling, they won’t have to worry about paying their mortgage bills, thanks to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

“Officer Tsakos was one of our city’s heroes who went to work to keep us and our city safe and he did not make it home to his wife and children. A family went to bed and woke up to the unimaginable news that they would never see their husband and father again,” CEO Frank Siller said in a statement after revealing the foundation would pay off the East Northport, LI home’s mortgage.

Tsakos’ April 27 death sent shock waves through the department. The 43-year-old cop had been directing 2 a.m. traffic from the scene of an earlier fatal car crash on the Long Island Expressway’s Clearview Expressway exit when Jessica Beauvais — who had a suspended license — came speeding along, police said.

She swerved to avoid other cars and collided with Tsakos, who was standing next to his marked vehicle, but had turned to run for his

life as her vehicle approached.

Tsakos was hit head on and thrown into the air. Beauvais attempted to flee the scene, but was surrounded by police about a mile away, the police said. She tried to escape again by putting the car in reverse but rammed into the police vehicle behind her twice before coming to a final stop and being apprehended.

Beauvais, whose blood alcohol content was recorded as nearly twice the legal limit, faces 13 charges, including vehicular manslaughter, drunk driving, colliding with an emergency vehicle and leaving the scene of a fatal accident, and up to 15 years in prison. Her indictment will be unsealed on May 12.

Hours before the crash, Beauvais posted a two-hour podcast episode on Facebook where she said cops deserved to die as she drank from tiny red plastic cups.

The mortgage gift is not the only gesture made to the Tsakos family in the wake of the tragedy. A motorcade of NYPD motorcycles and squad cars escorted the fallen officer’s body from the city Medical Examiner’s Office to his family on Long Island April 29, and the East

Officer Anastasios Tsakos was laid to rest in Suffolk County May 4. He was escorted by the PHOTO BY MICHAEL APPLETON / NYC / FLICKR NYPD and his two young children, bottom left and right.

Farmingdale Volunteer Fire Company and Melville Volunteer Fire Department erected a flag arch on the Pinelawn Road overpass of the LIE. NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea posthumously promoted Officer Tsakos to detective first grade. He visited Highway Unit 3 to offer condolences to Tsakos’ co-workers.

Tsakos was laid to rest in Suffolk County May 4. Immediately following the funeral, Mayor de Blasio announced his support for the Crash Victims Rights and Safety Act. The state legislative package would lower the blood alco-

hol concentration limit for driving while intoxicated from .08 percent to .05 percent, allow the city to operate speed safety cameras 24/7, require instruction in pedestrian and bicyclist safety as part of drivers’ pre-licensing courses and more.

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When are city senior centers reopening?

DFTA says it is working with health officials; Council seeks a timeline

by Michael Gannon

senior centers.

“This gradual approach allows senior It was announced Monday with no more centers, which have not had congregate fanfare than two sentences on the Twitter meal service in the past year, to successfulpage of the city’s Department for the Aging. ly on-board staff and build operations.

“Senior Centers can begin offering grab- Some centers will be ready to provide and-go meals as a low-risk, outdoor activity grab-n-go meals as early as next week.”

DFTA said the agency absolutely will as early as 5/10. This will serve as an impor tant f irst step in our phased-in take the opportunity to have mobile vaccination teams on-site at places that open up approach to re-opening senior centers.”

But just when the centers can start open- to give out their senior meals.

“While there are ing their doors and sen iors who have restoring any normal level of s e r v ic e s t’s disappointing that the b e e n v a c c i n a t e d , many have not. The remains unclear. de Blasio administration City and the Health Sen ior centers Department consider have been closed has not given us eve r yone’s safet y si nc e la s t M a r ch when it comes to because of the a timeline ... ” f u l ly r e - op e n i ng.

Covid-19 pandemic.

— City Council Speaker Corey Johnson The Health DepartAmong the most susment’s guidance, at ceptible to Covid, even many able-bodied seniors found them- this time, is that indoor programming will selves confined to their homes for safety remain closed,” DFTA said.

“We know that older New Yorkers miss reasons.

Many of them depended on the centers for the full, indoor activities that centers proa daily meal, activities and socialization. vided, but their health and safety comes Barry Klitsberg, president of the Queens first. We will continue working with the Interagency Council on Aging, said reopen- Health Department and senior center providers on the planning of fully re-opening ing the centers — albeit safely — is vital.

“My educated guess would be we might centers once it is safe for older New see something by July 1, when Mayor de Yorkers.”

C o u n c i l m a n P a u l Va l l o n e Blasio said he would like to reopen the city,” Klitsberg said [see separate stories in (D-Bayside),serves on the Committee on Aging. He said in an email to the Chronicle some editions or at qchron.com].

“The centers are behind some essential that the city needs to pick up the pace.

“As the State and City reopen and our services like nutrition programs, but there’s ways to work around that,” Klitzberg con- senior population has had ample time and tinued. “The biggest problem seniors are resources devoted to vaccination, we support the responsible reopening of senior facing now is isolation.”

He said centers could be used as loca- centers throughout the city,” Vallone said. tions for seniors who have not yet been vac- “Every center has different needs, but they are more than capable of working within a cinated against Covid to get their shots.

In an email to the Chronicle, DFTA said safe capacity that allows for adequate sanireopening senior centers is a work in tary measures and comfort for our seniors.

It’s time that we take advantage of the progress.

“The City’s Health Depar tment has progress that has been made during this approved the resumption of grab-n-go pandemic and allow our seniors to socialmeals at senior centers as the first low-risk, ize in a safe and friendly way.”

Vallone’s committee chairwoman, Counoutdoor activity. This is great news as it provides the pathway to fully reopening cilwoman Margaret Chin (D-Manhattan), Editor

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Blvd., • East Elmhurst at 95-06 Astoria Blvd., • Elmhurst at 86-07 Broadway, • Hillcrest at 187-05 Union Tpke., • Long Island City at 37-44 21 St., • Pe n i n su la at 92-25 Ro ck away Beach Blvd., • Queensboro Hill 60-05 Main St., • Richmond Hill at 118-14 Hillside Ave., • Ridgewood at 20-12 Madison St. and • Rochdale Village at 169-09 137 Ave. For more information, visit the Queens Q Public Library at queenslibrary.org.

Everyone agrees that restoring grab-and-go food service at senior centers is an important step.

But officials now are pressing de Blasio administration on timelines for reopening the facilities NYC SCREENSHOT / TWITTER to all prior services. and Cou ncil Speaker Corey Joh nson ( D -Ma n h at t a n) were somewh at less diplomatic.

“It’s disappointing the de Blasio Administration has not given us a timeline for the full reopening of our senior centers,” Johnson said in an email to the Chronicle on Tuesday. “Many New Yorkers rely on these centers for essential services, and are anxious for them to fully reopen. This is an important part of our reopening, and we need answers.”

While Chin on Monday acknowledged on Twitter that the senior meal program is a critical one, she said it is not a substitute for the centers reopening.

“It’s absolutely unfair to keep our sen ior s f rom t he prog r a m m i ng a nd resources they need,” Chin tweeted. “@

Parole rally continued from page 6 line Ozone Park Civilian Patrol, was at the rally along with local law enforcement to help with crowd control. She didn’t intend to listen to what the activists had to say, but was open to hearing them out.

“I think what they are saying is true,” said Ramirez. “There are a lot of seniors in prison who are incarcerated under false pretenses. There should be a lot of investigations, even if they did commit some petty crime. I’m not saying they all have to be out, but is it worth incarcerating them all for the amount of money we are

NYCMayor needs to unveil a timeline for reopening senior centers as soon as possible.”

The Chronicle reached out to a number of senior centers in Queens and organizations that run them, though most either could not be reached or did not respond to messages.

Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens operates the Howard Beach Senior Center, among others. A spokesperson said in an email that Catholic Charities is working with DFTA on reopening as soon as it can do so.

The centers’ members engaged in virtual activities and receive mail and regular wellness calls. Staffers also are scheduling vaccinations, doctor appointments, benefit re-certifications and meal arrangements. Q spending on them?”

To keep an adult on probation costs the city $3,000 per person or $5,000 per youth, but to keep an individual incarcerated costs $300,000, according to United Probation Officers Association President Dalvanie Powell.

“I support everyone’s First Amendment right to peacefully assemble,” said Rajkumar. “As a civil rights lawyer and a woman of color, I care deeply about parole justice, and will be looking closely at the language of the legislation they advocated for in these last five weeks of the legislative session.”

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Entrepreneurs Joseph, far left, and Mickey King of Antun’s of Queens Village stand with Loycent Gordon of Neir’s Tavern at their event hall. Timothy Kennedy of US Mortgage Corp., above left, with Valerie White-Samuels, Nikki Taylor of PaNash Eurosol, Todd Miranda, Peter Laddomada of BJ’s and Mercedes Crossfield of Helium Image Inc. gathered at Antun’s to exchange business ideas and PHOTOS COURTESY REE BRINN to help lift each other up during the pandemic.

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Mickey King, the co-owner of Antun’s, was glad to host the event.

“It just seems like a good idea that local business owners should get together and talk in a time that it has been literally the most difficult to own a business,” said King. “The only good thing to come out of the pandemic is that I was able to share, not only our frustrations but other ideas on how to get through this and work together.”

Connecting with other entrepreneurs helped him to feel less alone at such a difficult time, and he felt a sense of community at the networking event.

With business shut down until recently for event spaces like Antun’s, it was nice to have the forum for his father, Joseph King, the former owner, to drop by.

“It was good,” said King. “I think it was great for him and us. It was great to talk to people again. That’s so much a part of our life.”

Catering and event spaces like King’s will be opening up to 500 people by June 15. Now they can only serve up to 150.

“The best part about this is the exchange of ideas from different industries,” said Mancuso. “Everyone was enthusiastic to have a new voice listen to their concerns. We are looking Q in anticipation for upcoming events.”

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“I had to pivot,” said Castillo, a 25-year veteran entrepreneur. “To make it through, I teamed up with a printing company and we made birthday signs and graduation signs.

Then we started doing balloons and decorations. That kept us afloat.”

During the summer, Castillo conducted Zoom weddings and now with the city reopening, he is back at doing 100-person weddings.

“For the Zoom weddings, I had an in-ear microphone and I worked with a team,” said Castillo. “They would tell me to look in the camera this way.”

Unfortunately, as Castillo restructured his business to adjust to pandemic conditions, he lost several of his full-time employees. However, with business picking up now, the entrepreneur has hired stay-at-home moms and veterans. Currently, he is working on hiring a fourth veteran.

“How can I restart if my full-time people left?” asked Castillo, when his business was facing a downturn. “So I said, ‘I need someone that has life experience and has a great work ethic.’ The veterans are just incredible and made a good fit.”

Moms also have great organizational experience, added Castillo, who has taken two under his wing.

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Antun’s of Queens Village, an event space, hosted small business owners last week for a Restaurant & Hospitality Referral Program organized by the Queens Chronicle’s very own Ree Brinn and the National Small Business Chamber of Commerce.

“We are making sure these business thrive, and if we don’t work together it’s not going to happen,” said Brinn, a sales executive. “It’s not about competition anymore, it’s about uniting as one.”

The purpose of the event was to help address the challenges that small business owners face from the pandemic, according to Leonard Mancuso, president of the Queens Chapter of the National Small Business Chamber of Commerce.

“We are not able to do business as usual,” said Mancuso. “I want to see if we are in a position to help by creating these events to boost their revenue.”

The U.S. Mortgage Corporation was one of the businesses at the event.

“We are reaching out to businesses to be a part of their new-hire benefits packages,” said Tim Kennedy of U.S. Mortgage. “We are offering all employees a $1,595 closing cost discount.”

That will help business owners and their employees seeking new homes to save on buying because as a direct lender, U.S. Mortgage does not come with any of the fees found typically with banks.

“When the loan closes we will donate up to $300 to a charity of their choice,” said Kennedy about the company’sAffinity Program.

U.S. Mortgage has New York programs that offer down-payment assistance, remodeling help, FHA loans, renovation loans and conventional loans, according to Kennedy, a mortgage lender.

Clifton Stanley Diaz, chairman of the selfcontained community of Rochdale Village, Inc., was also at the referral initiative.

“When you have these programs people have someone they can tap for information and resources,” said Diaz. “For instance, at Rochdale we have a newspaper that is confined to Rochdale, but what was good was that we went outside.”

By expanding their horizons via the hospitality forum, representatives of Rochdale Village were able to reach more people outside their usual purview.

Albin Castillo, the founder and master of ceremonies of Cazz NY Events, shared his journey working through the pandemic with other small business owners.

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committee that must be made up of at least 50 percent of frontline nurses and other hospital staff who provide patient care. The law A year after New York City had to enlist also requires that the standards, once estabtens of thousands of volunteer nurses to help lished, must be made publicly available. fight the pandemic in understaffed hospital The Department of Health will be able to wards, the state Legislature approved legislaenforce the staffing agreetion aimed at improving staffing standards for ments by levying civil penhospitals and nursing homes. alties against hospitals that Nurses and nurse unions celebrated the fail to create standards or passage of the staffing measures that they abide by them, effectively have sought for years at the legislative level, making the negotiated saying that the strain that Covid wrought on staffing ratios state law. the city’s medical system was a result of preThe other bill requires all existing problems. nursing homes to meet a “The experience of the pandemic certainly minimum staffing level that focused a lot of conditions of hospitals and provides at least 3.5 hours of care per patient nursing homes and the importance of frontline per day. staff, and I think that helped shape this converSeveral of the bills’ Queens co-sponsors, sation,” said Helen Schaub, the 1199SEIU like Assemblymembers Khaleel Anderson union’s policy and legislative director.

The staffing legislation consists of two bills Nurses and unions celebrated the passage of two (D-Far Rockaway) and Jessica González— one that requires all hospitals to create bills that will establish state-enforced levels of Rojas (D-East Elmhurst) whose districts have PHOTO BY CEDRIC FAUNTLEROY / PEXELS suffered long-term understaffing or deficits at committees that will set an annual staffing staffing. the peak of the pandemic, lauded the passtandard, and another that sets a standard global pandemic,” said Assembly Speaker Carl sage of the legislation on social media. minimum staffing level for all nursing homes.

“COVID-19 has exposed and exacerbated “Nurses have always been healthcare heroes, Heastie (D-Bronx).

The hospital-specific bill requires each hospi- issues in the health care system — we must at our loved ones’ bedsides. And for the last year, they have also served on the frontline of a tal in the state to establish a clinical staffing learn from this experience, take action to Associate Editor

improve patient care statewide + provide more support for healthcare essential workers,” tweeted Anderson.

A City Limits investigation in 2019 found that Peninsula Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Far Rockaway was one of the city’s many chronically understaffed nursing homes.

“What we’ve seen happen in the nursing homes is so sad, and we’re still going through this right now. Staffing has always been an issue,” said Rudy Sukna, a registered nurse at the Hebrew Home for the Aging in the Bronx, at a rally for the bills on Tuesday morning.

Sukna added that he works on a floor that has about 50 patients, where he is the only nurse with about three to four aides to take care of them all.

“We have this opportunity to really have full representation of a whole care team to sit across the table from our management and really discuss how we can give all of our patients the best care that we possibly can,” said Nina Geiss, a nurse at the Garnet Medical Center in Q upstate New York, at the rally.

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Qualities that help nurses thrive Nursing is a challenging and rewarding field.

Nurses are in high demand, and the Covid-19 pandemic has only highlighted just how vital these talented medical professionals are.

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing says nursing is the United States’ largest healthcare profession, employing more than 3.8 million registered nurses. In 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that registered nurse jobs are projected to grow by 15 percent between 2016 and 2026. Many people interested in nursing careers may wonder if they have what it takes to be a nurse. Certain qualities can help nurses thrive in this challenging field.

• Trustworthiness: For nearly two decades the American public has ranked nursing as its most trusted, admired and ethical profession, as indicated in Gallup polls. Nurses hold high ethical

standards and 84 percent of respondents ranked nurses’ honesty as “very high” or “high.”

• Empathy: Being able to feel what another person is experiencing from the patient’s point of view is a skill nurses must hone. This may require nurses to put themselves in their patients’ shoes and adapt care to make patients feel more comfortable and secure.

• Emotional stability: Nurses often have to shelve their emotions so they can offer their patients the most effective care. Each day can bring powerful emotions. Nurses are not robots, but they have to perfect the balance of being empathetic while remaining strong in challenging situations. According to Daymar College, research has shown that nurses who are emotionally stable are more capable of solving problems and keeping their patients safe.

• Effective communication: Great nurses are good communicators who can absorb information from their patients and communicate healthcare initiatives back succinctly. Nurses also must be able to effectively share information and care plans between doctors and other staff.

• Professionalism: Nurses often confront stressful situations while on the job. In such instances, nurses must be able to maintain their

professionalism so they can calmly confront any obstacles they may encounter. That professionalism in the face of adversity can inspire others to remain calm, helping to ensure patients in need get the care they require and deserve.

• Time management: Many nurses work long shifts, and during those shifts, they are given a host of responsibilities. As a result, nurses must be skilled at the art of time management.

• Adaptability: No two nursing shifts are ever the same. As a result, nurses must always be ready to adapt to new and unique situations. That flexibility can help nurses to effectively confront and manage challenging scenarios, oftentimes while patients’ lives may be on the line.

• Problem-solving: Professional nurses see problems and find solutions. They know when certain situations may be challenging and seek the input of others to come to a satisfactory outcome.

• Team player: Nurses need to work seem-

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lessly with healthcare teams, patients, families, and all individuals involved in a health plan. This may require nurses to don many different hats while remaining flexible and being willing to adapt to changing situations on the fly.

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A timeline of National Nurses Week National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6 and ends on May 12, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. These permanent dates enhance planning and position National Nurses Week as an established recognition event. As of 1998, May 8 was designated as National Student Nurses Day, to be celebrated annually. And as of 2003, National School Nurse Day is celebrated on the Wednesday within National Nurses Week each year.

The nursing profession has been supported and promoted by the American Nurses Association since 1896.

Each of the ANA’s state and territorial nurses associations promotes the nursing profession at the state and regional levels. Each conducts celebrations on these dates to recognize the contributions that nurses and nursing make to the community.

The ANA supports and encourages National Nurses Week recognition programs through the state and district nurses associations, other specialty nursing organizations, educational facilities, and independent healthcare companies and institutions.

A Brief History of National Nurses Week 1953 • Dorothy Sutherland of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare sent a proposal to President Eisenhower to proclaim a “Nurse Day” in October of the following year.

The proclamation was never made.

1954 • National Nurse Week was observed from October 11 to 16. The year of the observance marked the 100th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s mission to Crimea. Representative Frances P. Bolton sponsored the bill for a nurse week. Apparently, a bill for a National Nurse Week was introduced in the 1955 Congress, but no action was taken. Congress discontinued its practice of joint resolutions for national weeks of various kinds.

1972 • Again a resolution was presented by the House of Representatives for the President to proclaim “National Registered Nurse Day.” It did not occur.

1974 • In January of that year, the International Council of Nurses proclaimed that May 12 would be “International Nurse Day.” Since 1965, the

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ICN has celebrated “International Nurse Day.” 1974 • In February of that year, a week was designated by the White

House as National Nurse Week, and President Nixon issued a proclamation.

1978 • New Jersey Governor Brendon Byrne declared May 6 as “Nurses Day.” Edward Scanlan, of Red Bank, NJ, took up the cause to perpetuate the recognition of nurses in his state. Mr. Scanlan had this date listed in Chase’s Calendar of Annual Events. He promoted the celebration on his own.

1981 • The ANA, along with various nursing organizations, rallied to support a resolution initiated by nurses in New Mexico, through their C ongressman, Manuel Lujan, to have May 6, 1982, established as “National Recognition Day for Nurses.”

1982 • In February, the ANA board of directors formally acknowledged May 6, 1982 as “National Nurses Day.” The action affirmed a joint resolution of the United States Congress designating May 6 as “National Recognition Day for Nurses.”

1982 • President Ronald Reagan

signed a proclamation on March 25, proclaiming “National Recognition Day for Nurses” to be May 6, 1982.

1990 • The ANA board of directors expanded the recognition of nurses to a week-long celebration, declaring May 6 to 12, 1991, as National Nurses Week.

1993 • The ANA board of directors designated May 6 - 12 as permanent dates to observe National Nurses Week in 1994 and in all subsequent years.

1996 • The ANA initiated “National R N Recognition Day” on May 6, 1996, to honor the nation’s indispensable registered nurses for their tireless commitment 365 days a year. The ANA encourages its state and territorial nurses associations and other organizations to acknowledge May 6, 1996 as “National RN Recognition Day.” 1997 • The ANA board of directors, at the request of the National Student Nurses Association, designated May 8 Q as National Student Nurses Day. — American Nurses Association

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At Regal Heights Rehabilitation Center all the nurses are dedicated to caring for every patient. Regal Heights Rehabilitation Center has reached its level of excellence with the help of its entire staff. A few key stars that stand out are head Registered Nurses and Nurse Case Managers: Ana Gadja, Michele McFarlane, Roselie Joy Lafuente, Tenzin Norbu, Jamico Jacinto, Jennifer Cunanan, Sally Trinidad, Alma Jacinto, Comfort Annor, Kathleen Olsen, Norele Silvero, and Rowena Gaspar.

This important tribute is dedicated with great affection for all those women and men who chose a career in nursing. Making such a decision requires

dedication, responsibility and above all a great ability to provide service.

The love and kindness with which these nurses take care of those in poor health are important for their recovery and well-being. The medications that some patients may receive in their treatments are essential; however, a very important part of the process is the great affection nurses give them.

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A children’s center, a butcher shop, a design firm and a tech-design agency were the big winners of Queens Economic Development Corp.’s annual StartUP! Business Competition last Thursday. Thanks to support from Resorts World Casino New York City and Srivastava Technology Fund, each entity will receive $10,000 to grow their business.

Thuy Petersen’s House of Playful Soul, left, took top honors in the Community category. The Forest Hills learning and development center provides parents with flexible play, class, party and event options for children between the ages of six months and four years.

She Designs Creative Agency, which is led by Sharae Gibbs of St. Albans, center left, triumphed in the Tech category. The all-female company offers UI and UX online cours-

es, mentorship and coaching to women of color and nonbinary people.

Terrart NYC, which is owned by Fresh Meadows residents Charly Uzcátegui and Tim Chu, center right, emerged victorious in the Sustainability category. They devise beautiful, natural floral arrangements inside terrariums for commercial, office and residential spaces. Their collection features recycled containers such as liquor bottles, light bulbs and jars.

Jamaica resident Abou Sow, right, and Prince Abou’s Butchery won in the Food category. The online retailer specializes in local Halal meats sourced from small, family-run farms just a few hours from New York City. Sow slaughters, butchers and delivers meat to customers within a week of ordering to ensure that the products are fresh.

Now in its 15th year, StartUP! is a four-month instruction course and competition, run by the Queens Economic Development Corp., for borough-based startup founders and small business entrepreneurs in the early stages of development.

After attending workshops, contestants submit their applications to a panel of judges consisting of entrepreneurship and commerce experts. Finalists enter a final round in which a second panel picks the winners in the four categories.

“I’m inspired by the winners’ entrepreneurial spirit,” stated Genting New York State President Robert DeSalvio. “Their innovation and ingenuity are why startups are the lifeblood of any economy, and on behalf of Resorts World Casino New York City, I want to congratulate the winners on this amazing achievement.”

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by Michael Gannon most of them local. And the greater idea was that we had a terrific lawn in front of the Jamaica Performing Arts Center.

“It’s time to get back to life in some way. Safely, obviously, but to try to get back to life through music, through being outside. It’s spring. It’s a kind of celebration. People are hungry for something cool to do and see where they go to get their minds off what we’ve all gone through and collectively been through.”

Jacobs said JCAL received generous funding from its friends on the City Council for the festival. Sponsors also include Flushing Bank and Con Edison.

The lineup begins at noon on Saturday, May 15, with singer Samara Joy, winner of the 2019 Sarah Vaughn International jazz Vocal Competition. She will be followed by Harlem native and saxophonist Godwin Louis at 2 p.m.; Grammynominated singer Becca Stevens at 4 p.m.; and saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenón at 6 p.m.

Outdoor jazz fest set to rock Jamaica

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hen the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning decided the time was right to welcome fans back for live jazz performances, the group decided to go big.

Ravi Coltrane, saxophonist, band leader and son of jazz legend John Coltrane, will headline the two-day Downtown Jamaica Jazz Festival, which is scheduled for noon to 7:30 p.m. the weekend of May 15 and 16. Coltrane’s show, beginning at 6 p.m. on Sunday, will close out the festival, which will take place on the lawn at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center at 153-10 Jamaica Ave. Admission is free but RSVPs, which can be made online at jcal.org, are recommended as only 100 people will be permitted on the grounds at a time.

“This is a continuation of a festival we last had in 2019,” said Leonard Jacobs, interim executive director at JCAL, in a telephone interview with the Chronicle. “Here’s the really important thing — it’s a mixture of veteran jazz musicians and emerging jazz musicians,

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knows have lost a job. Because dancers are predominantly freelancers, that meant a big part of their liveliLike most performance artists who hoods was suddenly gone. have been cordoned off from their “They’ve lost their teaching gigs passions and livelihoods for the past because the public schools have year, dancers in Queens have had a closed or the dance studio that they really trying experience during the work at has closed,” she said. pandemic.

The festival will present 23 That’s where the role of dancer Queens-based dance companies, communities has come in during this ranging in style from traditional to period, according to Karesia Batan, contemporary, including Dervish, executive director of the Queensboro tap, Indian, modern, Mexican, Greek, Dance Festival, an annual summer Filipino, hula, hip-hop and more, tour of performances and classes with most of the performances across Queens. showcasing brand-new dance works.

Batan started the festival as a way The May 15 launch will be broadto provide a venue for the many cast primarily via Instagram, and will diverse dance communities in the borough to connect. When the pan- NK&D, an Astoria-based movement company that per- include the sneak peek content and demic hit, it was important for her to formed at last year’s festival, is in the lineup again this activities released throughout the PHOTO COURTESY QUEENSBORO DANCE FESTIVAL day from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., as well figure out a way to keep up that con- year. as several of the companies going nection even if it was through a virmuch been in response to what the dancers live on the hour starting at noon. tual medium.

At the kickoff, viewers will be able to Now, after switching exclusively to Insta- have been going through and how they’ve gram Live performances last year, the been feeling, because of the pandemic and meet all of this season’s dance companies dance festival will emerge for its eighth sea- really, it seems to be a resonating message online, while getting a preview of what the tour has in store for audiences this summer. son this spring and summer with a hybrid of resilience,” said Batan.

Batan said that the programming has Batan said that those interested should foltour of livestreamed and in-person proprovided an outlet for many of the dancers low the dance company on social media in gramming, lasting from May 15 to Oct. 3.

“A lot of the common themes that we’re to express the adversity that they have order to find out about showcases as seeing across all of the dances has very faced. Just about all the dancers Batan they’re incrementally announced.

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

“It’s definitely been a challenge when dance is so magical when you get to experience it in person, when there is a direct performer and audience connection, and when dancers can be together on stage,” Batan said, but explained that in designing the programming, health concerns had to come first.

Ultimately the vision that she laid out for the festival’s virtual programming involves a simulated experience as though the audience is sitting there with the dancers and watching the show.

As the festival tours throughout locations across a total of 13 Queens neighborhoods, audiences can enjoy a full summer of over 20 outdoor dance performances and classes for all ages, free to the public and also available as a livestream on the Queensboro Dance Festival’s Instagram, Facebook and YouTube channel.

A handful of performances will allow a limited in-person audience following Covid safety guidelines. In addition, there will also be Instagram Live sessions every week featuring each of the 23 dance companies live from their home neighborhoods.

Audiences can find out more and discover the tour schedule by following @queensborodancefestival on Instagram, or checking queensborodancefestival.com. Q

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ed masks and social distancing.

But he also said JPAC’s location, in the hear t of Downtown Jamaica, should accommodate all interested in dropping by over the weekend.

“We know the lawn is big enough,” Jacobs said. “If we have 100 people, we can have social distancing. They’re safe and welcome to enjoy the music. Anyone can RSVP because even at 100 people, they are going to come and go over the course of the day. People have got things to do. They’ll go shopping, or go get something to eat. They’re going to come and go.”

JCAL hopes to have decent crowds for all the performances.

While the festival will serve as JCAL’s formal return, the organization was determined to combat Covid as quickly as it could for the benefit of its patrons and fans.

“Once we could open up our offices again we started running our facilities,” Jacobs said. “We’ve been live-streaming jazz performances once a month since last October, with no live audience until recently. We’ve been showing things on

Miguel Zenón, left, and Melissa Aldana are among the scheduled performers at this year’s Downtown Jamaica Jazz Festival. On the cover: Ravi Coltrane will serve as the PHOTOS COURTESY JCAL festival’s headliner. our Youtube channel for 50 to 100 people and then to a few hundred thereafter.”

The selection of artists, he said, was the result of a collaboration of JCAL’s interim Artistic Director Courtney Ffrench and Rio Sakari, artistic director of the Jazz Gallery.

Jacobs said his group is raring to go at the prospect of a large, live audience again.

“We really want the community to feel welcome and safe and excited,” Jacobs said. “We want them to feel like they’re a Q part of that rebirth.”

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continued from page 31 Sunday’s bill features Joel Ross, a 2017 recipient of a residency commission from The Jazz Gallery in Manhattan, at noon; saxophonist Melissa Aldana at 2 p.m.; singer Sachal Vasandani at 4 p.m.; and the Grammy-nominated Coltrane bringing the festival home beginning at 6 p.m.

Jacobs said there will be an outdoor stage and all required Covid-19 precautions will remain in order, such as mandat-

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Superior Court of California, County

of 75, DOB 02/03/1945. On

of Los Angeles In the Matter of the Adoption Petition of MD NURAL

January 29, 2021, a Funeral

MOSTAFA Adopting Parent TO:

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REAZ AHMED KAWSAR (aka JUSTIN

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RUDRO AZIM) By order of this Court, you are hereby cited and required to

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minor(s), before the Judge of this Court in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, at the Courtroom of Department 414, 201 Centre Plaza Drive, Monterey Park, CA 91754 on 7-2-2021, at 11:00 A.M., of that day, then and there to show cause, if any, why said adoption should not be granted according to the petition on file herein. Appearances must be made remotely using WebEx: WebEx Personal Room URL: https : //lacvirtualcourts.webex. com/meet/chc-dept-414 Call-in

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PROBATE CITATION File No. 2017-4579A SURROGATE’S COURT - QUEENS COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK By the Grace of God Free and Independent, TO: ALBERT A. LAMBERT JR., BARRINGTON BROCK, CLIFTON ANDERSON and RAYMOND BROCK if living, and if dead, to his/her heirs at law, next of kin, distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown and if he/she died subsequent to the decedent herein, to his/her executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose name and places of residence are unknown and to all other heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of GILBERT CONSTANTINE BROCK the decedent herein, whose names and places of residences are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence, Valerie Chin, Natalie Brock, Barry Seidel, G.A.L. A petition having been duly filed by MERLENE MCKELLOR and FRANCES MONROE, who is domiciled at 32-17 102nd Street, East Elmhurst, New York 11359 and 1914 Sassafras Drive, Wesley Chapel, Florida 33543.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York on 10th day of June, 2021 at 9:30 A.M. of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of GILBERT CONSTANTINE BROCK lately domiciled at 32-17 102nd Street, East Elmhurst, New York 11359 admitting to probate a Will dated June 24, 2005, (a Codicil dated ––––) (a Codicil dated ––––), a copy of which is attached, as the Will of GILBERT CONSTANTINE BROCK deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that [x] Letters Testamentary issue to: MERLENE MCKELLOR and FRANCES MONROE [x] Letters of Trusteeship issue to: [x] Letters of Administration C.T.A. issue to: NOTICE: THIS CITATION IS SERVED UPON YOU AS REQUIRED BY LAW. AS A RESULT OF THE MEASURES ADOPTED BY THE COURT TO COMBAT THE SPREAD OF COVID-19, PHYSICAL PRESENCE AT THE COURTHOUSE ON THE RETURN DATE IS NOT POSSIBLE. THEREFORE, IF YOU WISH TO CONTEST THE RELIEF REQUESTED, YOU, OR AN ATTORNEY ON YOUR BEHALF, MUST CONTACT THE COURT PRIOR TO THIS DATE IN THE MANNER SET FORTH IN THE ATTACHED NOTICE. IF YOU DO NOT CONTACT THE COURT AS SET FORTH IN THE NOTICE IT WILL BE FOUND YOU CONSENT TO THE RELIEF REQUESTED. Date April 12, 2021 Hon. Peter J. Kelly, Surrogate, James Lim Becker, Chief Clerk LARRY H. WEISS, ESQ., Attorney for Petitioner, 516 794-1800, Telephone Number 1900 Hempstead Turnpike, Suite 200, East Meadow, New York 11554, Address of Attorney

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New NHL TV deals These are heady times for National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman, who spent a chunk of his formative years in Forest Hills and graduated from Russell Sage Junior High School.

It wasn’t long ago that the NHL was not a very desirable commodity for television sports executives and its broadcast rights were priced far below those of Major League Baseball, the National Football League and the National Basketball Association. NBC has had exclusive rights for NHL telecasts for 15 years, for which it forks over about $200 million annually.

Bettman, while appreciative of NBC’s work, must have been stewing for years at how his sport was undervalued as the television and streaming landscape has changed dramatically since 2005 when he signed the deal. In April he announced a deal with ESPN to more than double the fees NBC was paying. There was some controversy with the ESPN pact as it allowed Disney, ESPN’s parent corporation, to place select games for exclusive viewing on its streaming services, which come at an additional cost for consumers.

It should be said both Hulu and Disney Plus offer lots of entertainment content.

Last week, Bettman announced the NHL had found a second TV partner in Turner Sports, which will pay around $200 million annually to televise NHL games. In short, the NHL is follow-

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The NHL’s new deals will have ramifications in the cable TV world. Bettman admitted he’s not sure what will become of the NHL Network. In addition, Comcast, the parent corporation of NBC, announced this year it will fold the NBC Sports Network on Dec. 31.

Turner Sports has quietly become a major player in sports programming. It has secondary deals with MLB and the NBA, and is a partner with CBS in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. It now adds hockey to its portfolio.

Major League Soccer commissioner and Bayside High School alum Don Garber must be concerned that ESPN’s NHL deal will come at his sport’s expense. MLS has worked hard at elevating its profile over the last 20 years with its ESPN deal. For a while it seemed MLS would have a chance to surpass the NHL as America’s fourth sport. That now appears unlikely.

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Ideally located near a shopping center, public transportation, express bus to Midtown, airport & major highways. Monthly maintenance $733.32; plus utility $70.00 (fluctuates by usage). Includes all utilities: heat, hot water, cooking gas, & electric. Flip tax is $25 per share. 275 shares.

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Built in 2010, sitting on an 80x100 lot. 2 story grand entrance w/crystal chandelier. Formal L.R., formal D.R., 1/2 bath, fam room, gourmet chefs kit which includes commercial Thermador stove, 2 wall ovens, dishwasher, refrigerator, built in microwave, wine cooler, granite island, plus eating area w/fi replace. Sliders which lead to pvt country club backyard for entertaining. Gated inground salt water heated pool, brick pizza oven, BBQ kitchen with refrigerator. Patio with plenty of seating areas. 2nd fl r features 4 BRs, 2 full baths, plus a master BR suite with pvt bath, sitting area & walk-in closet.

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Large 2 Family on oversized lot (84’x121’) Ideal for contractor or to park multiple trucks 7+, with 2 car det. garage, house in (22’x50’), full bsmnt. House sold as is. Needs updating, 6 BR, 3 full baths, Great Price Asking $798K

• Lindenwood • 2 bedroom 2 bath Co-op selling “as is”.

Needs TLC but is priced accordingly for a great opportunity to create your own space. Intercom & buzzer vestibule entrance. Ideally located near shopping center, public transportation, express bus to Midtown, airport & major highways. 540 shares, $20 fl ip tax. Monthly Maint.: $856.90; Security $30.00; electric: $31.98; appliances; $27.00; assessment $73.55 until June/2022 total: $1,019.43 includes heat, hot water, cooking gas, real estate taxes & electric (fluctuates by usage)

Mint 1 family Colonial, great location, new eat-in-kit, cherry cabinets, Quartz counter, S.S. Appliances, 3/4 BRs, 2 full baths, fin. bsmnt, pvt entrance, 1 car det gar, pvt dvwy, paid for solar panels, fenced yard, alarm system & security cameras outside, new roof on home & gar, close to express bus & A train.

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