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THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2019

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Justice system stops to send off DA Richard Brown PAGES 10, 16 AND 17 The funeral procession for Judge Brown, who died last weekend of complications from Parkinson’s disease, began in front of the Queens County Criminal Courthouse, where he’d served longer than any other chief prosecutor.

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O’Neill in Queens for candid conversation NYPD commissioner talks of crime and quality of life in Jamaica Q&A

by Michael Gannon Editor

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YPD Commissioner James O’Neill sat a short distance away Monday evening as a Jamaica woman spoke of two horrible experiences with a single police officer in the 113th Precinct, incidents she said occurred several years apart.

“I was thinking, ‘You’re still a police officer?’” she said of the second incident.

“Has anyone apologized to you?” O’Neill asked.

“No,” she replied.

“Then I will,” the commissioner said.

The woman did not elaborate on what happened either time.

O’Neill and top NYPD brass from 1 Police Plaza gathered at the Queens Central Library for a two-hour, no-holds-barred public safety town hall meeting organized by the office of Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton).

Those in attendance also included Councilmembers Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica) and Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) and Borough President Melinda Katz.

But the vast majority of the evening was spent with O’Neill — sometimes delegating to his assistant chiefs or precinct commanders — taking questions from the audience on topics ranging from marijuana arrests to just

what the NYPD intends to do to address loud music now that the outdoor party season appears to be breaking in the borough.

O’Neill said the forum is an extension of lessons he learned from his first precinct command in the Bronx’s 44th Precinct.

“So far, in 2019 we are down about three murders [from 2018],” he said. “But think back 28, 29 years ago. In 1990 the city had 2,245 murders.”

He doubts anyone could have imagined that numbers could fall below 300 as they have the last two years, numbers he said would have been impossible without a partnership between the NYPD and those it serves.

While the state thus far has not legalized marijuana use in this legislative session, there are few things on which Richards’ and O’Neill’s views are as divergent as existing policy, even with O’Neill saying summonses have now replaced arrests for small amounts.

“Are we going to arrest a 16- or 17-year-old for a small amount of marijuana? I don’t want to do that — but I do have some concerns,” O’Neill said.

First and foremost, he said, is that should legalization take place, there now are no tests to prove that a driver involved in a motor vehicle accident is under the influence of marijuana such as are used to detect alcohol.

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O’Neill, Richards and Miller said that no state with legalized marijuana allows smoking it in public or sales to those below 21.

And Assistant Chief David Barrere, commanding officer of Patrol Borough Queens South, suggested a relaxation of marijuana laws may be more popular in City Hall and the Capitol than among the general public.

“This year, 911 complaints about marijuana

are up 47 percent,” he said.

No community forum in Queens would be complete without complaints about illegally parked 18-wheelers and other commercial trucks. Chief Thomas Chan, commanding officer of the NYPD’s Transportation Bureau, said the department has had 23 heavy-towing operations in Queens since the beginning of continued on page 12

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City pedaling new bike lanes in HB Some parking on 165th Avenue would give way to protected route

by Michael Shain Editor

The city is proposing to put new bike lanes through Howard Beach that will change the traffic and parking patterns along much of 84th Street and 165th Avenue.

The biggest change would be on 165th Avenue along Spring Creek Park, where parking spots would be shifted to create protected bike lanes along the curb.

About 10 parking spots would be eliminated under the plan city Department of Transportation officials presented to several members of Community Board 10 late last month.

On 84th Street, the proposal calls for two painted bike lanes, unprotected, next to traffic lanes for eight blocks bet ween 157th a nd 165th avenues.

“At this point,” said Betty Braton, chairwoman of CB 10, “we have our concerns.”

Braton said she and others would prefer to see the bike lanes routed through Spring Creek Park, where berms are now being constructed to protect the neighborhood from storms.

“It doesn’t make a great deal of sense to

do this on 165th Avenue when they are going to build blacktop roads on top of the berms so emergency vehicles can have access,” she told the Chronicle.

“It seems like a perfectly good place to put a bike lane, and it would be on parkland.”

The changes are part of a larger plan to allow bike riders to travel through Howard Beach and connect with the Jamaica Bay Greenway, 19 miles of bike and jogging paths through Brooklyn and Queens that hug the bay.

A feasibility study to put new barriers along the Joseph P. Addabbo Bridge bike lanes is also underway now as part of the larger plan.

The development of the Greenway has had a lukewarm reception at best from residents of Howard Beach.

The idea of building a bike and walkway along the Belt Parkway, skirting the northern edge of the neighborhood, has worried homeowners who envisioned strangers in their backyards and shrouded spaces where drinking and other mischief could take place.

In the next two weeks, Joann Ariola, president of the Howard Beach Lindenwood Civic Association, said her group plans to

Under a plan proposed late last month by the DOT, redesigning the broad two lanes of 165th Avenue would create a parking-protected bike lane near the Addabbo Bridge. The map, left, IMAGES COURTESY NYC DOT shows the route of the planned bike lanes through Howard Beach. leaflet homes along 165th Avenue to publicize the appearance of DOT officials at their monthly meeting May 28 at St. Helen Catholic Academy.

“Losing parking spaces is not going to go over too well,” she predicted.

The DOT has not yet asked CB 10 take a Q formal vote of approval, Braton said.

Jacqueline Onassis school takes wing Historic Richmond Hill elementary nears completion of new addition

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A $42-million addition to one of the oldest public schools in New York, PS 66 in Richmond Hill, is nearly done.

The expansion will allow the school to increase its student enrollment by 25 percent, the biggest change in more than a century, officials said.

As well as classroom seats for another 124 students, the new addition will provide space for a new principal’s office, an exercise room, a new cafeteria, a medical office and added room for the playground, said a spokesman for the School Construction Authority.

Perhaps most important, the expansion will mean the end of two trailers that have been sitting on the school’s playground for years to handle classroom overflow.

Construction at the historic elementary school, begun in June 2017, will be finished over the summer and the addition ready to open in September, he said.

PS 66 opened in 1898 as the Brooklyn Hill School with a bell tower to alert neighborhood farm kids when class was about to start. Every

After two years of construction, the first new addition in a century to historic PS 66 in PHOTO COURTESY SCA Richmond Hill is nearly complete.

classroom had a chimney for a stove to beat the winter chill.

The school custodian had an apartment in the attic where he and his family lived full time.

Since then, PS 66 had been through several name changes to keep up with changing times.

In 2004, it was named for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, at least in part because of her strong stand for preserving New York’s classic buildings.

Before that, it was called the Oxford School.

It became PS 66 sometime after 1908, when Queens became part of the unified New York City school system.

The building was added to the National Registry of Historic Places and the New York State Registry of Historic Places in 2003.

The design of the new addition had to go through a review and approval process with the State Historical Preservation Office, according to a spokesman for the SCA. “It’s a historical school,” he explained.

The SHPO designation, less stringent than the city landmark law that Onassis helped to get passed, covers only the exterior of the Q building.

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A boardwalk on the wild side In Broad Channel, notorious marina reopens next month as Sunset Cove

by Michael Shain Editor

Sunset Cove is the eco-evocative name officials came up with for the new park that is set to open next month in Broad Channel.

But the spot at the foot of the Cross Bay Bridge is known as Schmitt’s Marina to anyone who has lived in the neighborhood for more than a few years.

It’s difficult to find anyone who was not happy to see the marina closed by the city and state in 2007 — even if most longtimers felt bad for “Big John” Schmitt, who fought in court for more than 20 years to keep a grip on it.

Schmitt, from a third-generation Broad Channel family, inherited the marina from his father in the mid-1980s. He was not exactly — as the ecologists might say — a watchful steward of the land where his business was located.

The former cop pleaded guilty in 2008 to illegally dumping construction debris into Jamaica Bay as landfill. The extra frontage on the water allowed him to expand the marina from one modest dock to nine.

By the time the federal government and the then-state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sued him, Schmitt was keeping as many as 250 boats at the marina.

Schmitt was booted off the land 10 years ago and his two buildings torn down.

Notably, when Big John died in January at age 67, not a single mention of his legal saga was in two Rockaway papers that wrote obituaries for him. All was forgiven, it

seems.

It took nearly a decade and $14 million to clean up the 12-acre site at the foot of West 19th Street and build what may be one of the most unusual parks in the city.

“There’s no place in New York that really allows you to get out over the wetlands,” said Dan Mundy, head of the Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers, which partnered with the Parks Department, the U.S. Department of the Interior and the American Littoral Society to develop the land.

The idea was designed to meet a number of agendas.

First and foremost, it is a restoration of the wetlands in the center of the bay, an area where fish, crabs and other sea life can spawn, birds can feed and nest and the waters of the bay can be cleansed.

The open land is also intended to serve as storm protection for some of t he 90 0 homes i n Broad Channel.

“I think what really makes Sunset Cove a unique project is that we are taking a site that was filled and polluted, and restoring it to its natural f unction,” said Elizabeth Jordan, the Pa rk s Depa r tment’s ecological project manager, who is overseeing the project.

“This is a natural area in Jamaica Bay with an amazing view of New York City, but it has been closed to the public for a decade.”

“The problem,” said Mundy, “was how do you build a wetlands park but allow people to have access?”

The answer is a boardwalk, 8 feet wide, built out over the park

Clearing out decades of illegally dumped debris at a marina seized by the city in 2007 led the way to restoring a piece of the Jamaica Bay wetlands and creating an unusual new park there called Sunset Cove. Shrubs, below, wait PHOTOS BY MICHAEL SHAIN to be replanted on land where up to 250 boats, many dilapidated, were once stored. and ending at a pergola near the water’s edge.

It will be constructed with recycled hardwood rescued from the wreckage of the Rockaway boardwalk after Hurricane Sandy.

“The boardwalk is going to be the jewel of this park,” said Mundy.

It will take another year, however, to finish building the 300-foot boardwalk, he said.

An official opening date has not been set yet, but it should be sometime in late June, officials said.

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GOP insurgents vie for party control After years of truce, Republicans in Queens go at each other again

by Michael Shain Editor

Republicans are outnumbered 6 to 1 by Democrats in Queens County, but that doesn’t mean there are not disputes about who should be running the GOP show.

A fight for control of the minority party after November has broken out into open warfare again — and, at least in part, who’s more loyal to President Trump is at the heart of it.

The latest skirmish came a few weeks ago when an insurgent group calling itself the Republican Patriots mounted a challenge to oust the established leadership of the Queens County GOP in next month’s primar y election.

The revolt was cut short last week after a Queens civil court judge, Leonard Livote, knocked eight Republican Patriots off the ballot for having an insufficient number of valid signatures on their nominating ballots.

The slate of candidates — affiliated with Vickie Paladino, the Whitestone landscapingbusiness owner who became a YouTube sensation two years ago when a video of her railing against a retreating Mayor de Blasio went viral — sought to challenge established Republicans for district leadership in four Assembly districts in eastern and southern Queens.

“At the conclusion of the review,” the judge

A portrait of Donald Trump occupies a spot of honor at the Queens Village Republican Club’s annual Lincoln Dinner at Antun’s. The club is in the forefront of a renewed battle for control of PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN the party in the county where the president was born and raised. wrote, “it was determined that [the Republican Patriots] had obtained only 452 valid signatures, which was beneath the required threshold of 500 signatures.”

An uneasy but palpable truce had been in effect among Republicans here since 2015 when former Rep. Bob Turner was elected county chairman of the party and negotiated a

fragile peace.

Turner, who is no longer party leader, said he is “disappointed” to see Republicans sliding back into their squabbling ways.

“I don’t see an easy solution,” he said this week. “We are up to our necks in egos.”

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longtime party chairman Ed Cox, son-in-law of President Nixon, is facing a stiff challenge from Republicans upset about losing control of the state Senate in last November’s election.

The established Queens County Republicans, led by hospital executive Joann Ariola and the borough’s sole elected Republican off iceholder, Councilman Er ic Ulr ich (R-Ozone Park), have endorsed Nick Langworthy, the party leader of Buffalo.

The insurgents are backing Cox. Some might think it unseemly for party loyalists to battle for power in an organization that 25 years ago had three Republican state legislators and at least as many City Council seats but now has just one.

“It’s a squabble over the remnants,” said Turner. “I’ll give you that.”

The divide, roughly speaking, is between Republicans in the northern part of Queens — Whitestone, College Point and Queens Village — and the south — mainly Ozone Park and Howard Beach.

The northern faction is vocally pro-Trump while the southern group’s support appears more subdued.

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istrict Attorney Richard Brown may have been diminutive in stature, but he stood head and shoulders above many of the officials Queens voters have put into office in modern times. His death last Friday at 86, though not unexpected, is truly a great loss for everyone here — not least his harshest critics.

A steady hand at the tiller. A legal eagle with experience in courts of all kinds, on both sides of the bench. An innovator. The DA known to many as Judge Brown, whose 28 years in office is unmatched in Queens, was all of these things. He was a prosecutor’s prosecutor. He was a hands-on leader, racing to crime scenes himself, almost always getting there before the assistant district attorneys who would actually go before judges to put the bad guys away, according to Acting District Attorney John Ryan.

He was an early adherent to the broken windows theory of policing — go after smaller offenses and you help prevent bigger ones — which is the prime reason crime has been so radically cut over the last three decades. In his first year in office, Queens saw 351 murders. Last year? Sixty-five. While the credit for this goes to many, primarily the police, cops will tell you they can make all

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the arrests you want, but if prosecutors don’t make their case in the courtroom, it’s all for naught. While making some mistakes like anyone in any field, Brown generally made sure the work of the police was not in vain.

But don’t think he was just a tough-on-crime DA who showed no mercy to defendants who deserved it. He pioneered many of the programs giving those who had committed minor offenses an alternative to jail. He even established a high school in his own offices to give young offenders a better chance to straighten out their lives.

But mainly he stood for law and order. Senior Executive District Attorney James Quinn has been speaking to Queens civic groups to counter the city’s drive to close Rikers Island and replace it with jails elsewhere able to hold far fewer people who deserve to be detained. Quinn would not be doing this without Brown’s OK. We too would rather rebuild and reform Rikers than shut it down.

Most of the candidates hoping to succeed Brown have far different, more lenient, views on criminal justice. We hope whoever wins does not go too far in another direction. Richard Brown leaves a great legacy behind, and we must not squander it if we want to keep people safe. RIP.

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De Blaz for da prez Dear Editor: Mayor de Blasio, I strongly urge you to announce your candidacy for president of the United States. All of America needs to get to know you better.

Your words and speeches pale in comparison to your accomplishments as mayor of New York City: the ever-growing record number of homeless people and families; the disgusting living conditions of so many New York City Housing Authority residents; a Department of Education under your direct control that spends a record amount of money per pupil but has continually failed to provide any semblance of a quality education to tens of thousands of students from low-income families across this city; a corrupt pay-for-play policy you initiated and supported from day one of your administration; increases in taxes, fees and fines to support most of your newly initiated programs and policies that have failed and keep failing to provide any positive results; along with a general decrease in the quality of life, which has prompted so many to relocate to better locales.

Yes, it is time for all to know of your leadership skills and “vision” for the future of America.

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eligious freedom does not include the right to endanger people by spreading around a highly contagious disease, but that’s exactly what’s going on in the city right now. And legislation meant to stop it, stalled in committee in both the state Senate and Assembly, must get moving.

The bills are necessary largely because some members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community are not getting their children immunized against diseases such as the measles.

Experts say there is nothing in the Jewish teachings they adhere to so closely to prompt this, but that instead, some believe in the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism, some distrust the government and are resistant to anything it orders them to do and some simply have such large families and so many obligations that they just don’t get to the doctor.

Regardless of the reason, this is dangerous. New York is seeing an outbreak of measles, with more than 400 cases reported since October, mostly in ultra-Orthodox areas of Brooklyn and the Hudson River Valley. This has to stop.

When children go to school, or the playground, or wherever, they need to have their shots. Lawmakers must pass the bill eliminating a religious exception to required vaccinations.

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No parking, no warning Dear Editor: Apparently, the Department of Transportation decided to add street regulations to a short residential block at 95th Avenue and 102nd Street without prior notice. We already have school regulation signs and now we can no longer park from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. except on Sunday.

It is really mind-blowing how the city makes decisions without taking into consideration how they will affect the residents of a block. It is already difficult to find parking now. They are planning to open a mall across the street, which will double the trouble for residents to find parking. The parking is limited as is, and now come more regulations to benefit a mall and not the actual people who live here and have to deal with it.

I have lived here with my family for my entire life, and it appears the area is getting worse and worse. First they add a homeless shel-

ter, which draws in more loitering in front of stores and homes. Now come the mall and parking regulations. I would understand at the very least if they added the regulations from Monday to Friday, but this sign includes Saturday. Now I will no longer be able to park on my block without having to get up and move the car.

We are never informed of what changes will take place. Mind you, they added the signs at 8 a.m. last Wednesday when everyone was at work and did not expect any changes, which caused multiple cars to receive tickets.

Shameful.

Sabrina Morales Ozone Park

Motor vehicles over bikes Dear Editor: Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer’s idea of converting the south outer roadway of the Queensboro Bridge to a runners/walkers path-

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The late, great DA Brown Dear Editor: District Attorney Richard Brown, a legal giant and an icon in Queens, has passed away.

Here was a dedicated public servant who fought hard for the people of Queens.

DA Brown, as reported, changed the way prosecutors handle cases involving prescription pills, mental health issues, veterans’ affairs and animal cruelty. He served the justice system as a true champion and tried to do the right thing. I myself have served in the last 25 years on seven juries as a juror. I saw how these cases were presented and now feel it was because of DA Brown. He served with true dedication and courage.

DA Richard Brown, you will be truly missed, and my heartfelt prayers go out to your family, friends and all those you affected for good.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks

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Pols lead on energy Dear Editor: Kudos to Sens. Joseph Addabbo Jr. and James Sanders Jr. for their leadership in the state Legislature in moving New York off fossil fuels. The science is clear: We must make a rapid transition to 100 percent renewable energy in order to prevent climate chaos.

Unfortunately, New York is facing an onslaught of pipelines and power plants that transport and burn fracked oil and gas. Gov. Cuomo has a May 16 deadline to stop one of the most dangerous proposals, the Williams pipeline, which would transport fracked gas off the Rockaways. Projects such as these would increase our reliance on dirty fossil fuels while promoting fracking, worsening climate change and endangering our communities and environment.

Thankfully, Sens. Addabbo and Sanders have joined the growing opposition to the Williams pipeline and are sponsoring legislation that would shift New York to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030 while banning new fossil fuel infrastructure. Food & Water Watch salutes these two Queens leaders who are walking the walk in Albany and showing how to make a real Green New Deal for New York.

Eric Weltman Senior Organizer Food & Water Watch Brooklyn

No parole for cop killers Dear Editor: There is absolutely no logical reason for the state Parole Board to ever consider releasing anybody who has been convicted of killing a police officer. These criminals who periodically come up for review before the Parole Board are just that — criminals who have been convicted of committing a horrendous crime. I don’t care if their behavior in prison has been exemplary or not; they sure do not belong back out on the streets. They belong just where they have already been placed — in jail until they rot!

Releasing any convicted cop killer is an affront to every single police officer in our city and state, as well as to the families of those slain officers.

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Dear Editor: Re your May 2 report “Q44, Q46 cuts reversed” (multiple editions): Assemblywoman Nily Rozic deserves praise from her constituents for getting the MTA to restore full service on the Q44 and Q46 bus lines. Now it’s time for Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal to do the same for his district by pressuring the MTA to revive the Q74 bus line, also called the “Vleigh Place Shuttle.” It connected Queens College students and Kew Gardens Hills commuters to the Union Turnpike subway station from the 1970s until 2010, when system-wide cuts ended the service.

Queens College runs a shuttle bus system for students, but it’s not accessible to disabled riders, as noted in complaints in the campus newspaper, Knight Beat.

KGH commuters cope with over-crowded

Q46 buses during rush hours. NYC Transit President Andy Byford plans to overhaul the entire city bus system. Restoring the Q74 is a good way to start. A strong push from Assemblyman Rosenthal would help and also improve his re-election prospects in 2020.

Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

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way is just the latest example of his pandering to a vocal minority.

When I drive across the bridge to Manhattan I use the lower roadway and count the number of bikers and pedestrians using the north outer lane. There are very few. And that’s in the nice weather! In the winter or on a rainy day the roadway is virtually deserted. This has been the case since the lane was converted to bicycle/ pedestrian use nearly 20 years ago. There may be more bike riders in general now but they surely are not on the bridge. Moving a few dozen people an hour over the bridge is not an efficient use of the roadway.

Since Van Bramer is also concerned about traffic congestion (he favors congestion pricing) he should propose returning the north outer roadway to vehicular use and dedicating the north and south lanes to vans and buses.

That would move more people in an hour than bikers in 24 hours.

Instead of focusing on the small minority of our population that bikes, how about Van Bramer using his position to come up with ways of moving the greatest number of people quickly, safely and efficiently over our bridges, tunnels and roads.

Richard Nebenzahl Astoria

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Commissioner visits Queens continued from page 2 2018 in which dozens of vehicles have been towed and hundreds booted.

Capacity, he said, has been a problem, though Chan said the department is looking for spots to locate new tow pounds. But the chief also pointed to the overall picture of traffic safety in the city.

“Last year we had 202 traffic deaths,” Chan said. “Those are the lowest numbers we have had since we began keeping track in 1910. The Model T Ford was introduced in 1908. These are probably the lowest numbers since the 1800s.”

While one might consider complaints about seemingly permanent construction scaffolding around buildings in NYCHA housing complexes to be off topic, O’Neill did not. He told residents that he and the department are all too aware of the safety and security issues they asked about.

He said the structures can give criminals cover for their activities, and, once c r i me s h ave t a ke n pla c e, h i nd e r apprehension.

“NYCHA buildings have a lot of security cameras,” O’Neill said. “Scaffolding can block the cameras, making it more difficult to identify people.”

When quizzed about noisy parties and music, O’Neill said under some circumstances summonses can be issued and equipment can be seized. On the other hand, officers may not improperly enter or

search a premises.

“We keep track of parties on social media,” said Inspector Jerry O’Sullivan, commanding officer of the 113th Precinct in South Jamaica. “If we learn about a big party we’ll sometimes visit the house beforehand, because someone will post a party for classmates on social media. Then it includes other classes. Then other schools, and then other neighborhoods.

Sometimes some rivals can show up ...”

As for race relations and the NYPD, O’Neill and his staff officers said the department has made major strides, and invited the community to meet police halfway. He said members of “community partner” organizations can arrange to attend a shift roll call at their precincts.

“Meet with your [neighborhood coordination officers],” he said. “Invite them to your civic meetings.”

Lastly, a young man asked what the NYPD is doing to reach out to young people of color such as himself who can feel uncomfortable or even threatened “when approached by police officers who do not look like we do?”

O’Neill’s answer was a recruitment pitch.

“I don’t know what your plans are for the future. But this is a great job. You won’t become a millionaire, but you’ll be able to go home at the end of the day, look in the mirror and say ‘I did a great job today.’’’ Q

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Honoring young jail guard The corner of 111th Street and Liberty Avenue in Richmond Hill was co-named over the weekend to honor a 27-year-old corrections officer killed in a senseless road rage attack last September, The family of the officer, Jonathan Narain, with Council members Adrienne Adams, second from right, and Donovan Richards, far

left, braved a steady rain last Thursday for the solemn ceremony.

An MTA bus maintenance worker is charged with riding his motorcycle up to the window of Narain’s car, firing one shot and killing him, then speeding off.

Narain was on his way to work, police said.

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Now, in Howard Beach, NY, one doctor is helping local residents with knee pain live more active, pain-free lives.

Living with knee pain can feel like a crippling experience.

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

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

My name is Dr. Robert F. Gucciardo, D.C., owner of Gucciardo Specific Chiropractic and Natural Health Center.

Since we opened seventeen years ago, I’ve seen hundreds of people with knee problems leave the office pain free.

If you’re suffering from these conditions, a new breakthrough in medical technology may completely eliminate your pain and help restore normal function to your knees.

Do You Have Any of the Following Conditions?

• Arthritis • Knee pain • Cartilage damage • ‘Bone-on-bone’ • Tendonitis • Bursitis • Crunching and popping sounds Finally, You Have an Option Other Than Drugs or Surgery

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

This lead to two landmark studies.

The first study showed that patients who had laser therapy had 53 percent better improvement than those who had a placebo. The second study showed patients who used the laser therapy had less pain and more range of motion days after treatment. If the Class IV Laser can help these patients, it can help you too.

Could This Noninvasive, Natural Treatment Be the Answer to Your Knee Pain?

For 10 days only, I’m running a very special offer where you can find out if you are a candidate for cold laser therapy.

What does this offer include? Everything I normally do in my “Knee Pain Evaluation.” Just call before May 19, 2019 and here’s what you’ll get…

• An in-depth consultation about your problem where I will listen … really listen … to the details of your case.

• A complete neuromuscular examination.

• A full set of specialized X-rays to determine if arthritis is contributing to your pain (if necessary).

(If you have films please bring them for evaluation).

• A thorough analysis of your exam and X-ray findings so we can start mapping out your plan to being pain free.

• You’ll see everything firsthand and find out if this amazing treatment will be your pain solution, as it has been for so many other patients.

Until May 19th, you can get everything I’ve listed here for only $37. The normal price for this type of evaluation including X-rays is $250, so you’re saving a considerable amount by taking me up on this offer.

Remember what it was like before you had knee problems – when you were pain free and could enjoy everything life had to offer. It can be that way again.

Don’t neglect your problem any longer – don’t wait until it’s too late.

A new treatment is helping patients with knee pain live a happier, more active lifestyle.

Here’s what to do now: Due to the expected demand for this special offer, I urge you to call our office at once. The phone number is 718-845-2323.

Call today and we can get started with your consultation, exam and X-rays (if necessary) as soon as there’s an opening in the schedule. Our office is called Gucciardo Specific Chiropractic and Natural Health Center and you can find us at 162-07 91st Street in Howard Beach. Tell the receptionist you’d like to come in for the Knee Evaluation before May 19th.

Sincerely, Dr. Robert F. Gucciardo, D.C. P.S. Now you might be wondering…

“Is this safe? Are there any side effects or dangers to this?”

The FDA cleared the first Class IV Laser in 2002.

This was after their study found 76 percent improvement in patients with severe pain. Their only warning – don’t shine it in your eyes.

Of course at our office, the laser is never anywhere near your eyes and we’ll give you a comfortable pair of goggles for safety.

Don’t wait and let your knee problems get worse, disabling you for life. Take me up on my offer and call today (718) 845-2323. For more information go to www.drgucciardo.com and click on the laser therapy tab.

Federal and Medicare restrictions apply. Dr. Robert F. Gucciardo Upper, Cervical Chiropractor, Master Clinician in Nutrition Response Testing 162-07 91st Street, Howard Beach, NY 11414 • (718) 845-2323

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

Laser Therapy has been tested for 40 years, had over 2000 papers published on it, and has been shown to aid in damaged tissue regeneration, decrease inflammation, relieve pain and boost the immune system. This means that there is a good chance cold laser therapy could be your knee pain solution, allowing you to live a more active lifestyle.

Professional athletes like The New York Yankees and team members of the New England Patriots rely upon cold laser therapy to treat their sports-related injuries. These guys use the cold laser for one reason only…

It Promotes Rapid Healing of the Injured Tissues.

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Kosciuszko Bridge will open in Sept.

Four years ahead of schedule; will have nine car lanes, one for bikes

by David Russell Associate Editor

Gov. Cuomo remembers when his father worked on Court Street as an attorney and the traveling issues he faced.

“I remember him timing every trip to miss the traffic at the Kosciuszko Bridge,” he said on Monday. “I remember him in the morning getting ready to get out fast so that he could avoid the traffic at the Kosciuszko Bridge. Evenings, he would talk to my mother about when he would leave. It was always about timing around the traffic at the Kosciuszko Bridge, which was horrendous.”

Cuomo announced that the second span of the new bridge will open in September,

four years ahead of schedule and on budget.

Part of an $873 million design-build construction project, it’s the first new bridge in the city since the Verrazzano-Narrows opened in 1964.

There will be nine lanes of vehicular traffic and one lane for pedestrians and bike riders.

The bridge will feature five Queensbound travel lanes and four Brooklyn-bound t ravel lanes of the Brook ly n- Queens Expressway, plus a 20-foot-wide bikeway/ walkway on the Brooklyn-bound span. It is 35 feet lower than the old one in order to help large trucks navigate it.

According to Cuomo, the old span was

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Cherish your moms! And note these GWDC events

by Lisa Komninos

The next big event is the May 20 Mets game at Citi Field. The GWDC secured 200 This Sunday, May 12, is Mother’s Day free tickets for the community of Woodhavand I want to wish all the moms out there a en. We have just a few left (fewer than 10 Very Happy Mother’s Day. My mom is no available as of this writing); most of what longer with me, but it seems like just yester- we received were swooped up fast. If you day that I was enjoying having a conversa- were one of the lucky recipients of these tion with her and her memory stays with me tickets, great. If not, you can still call our always. Cherish your moms while you can; office at (718) 805-0202 for a chance to there may be a time that you can’t and wish attend the game.

The next event is the GWDC’s Annual you could. I often hear people say that their mom is the best, but I can say, without a Memorial Day Observance at the corner of doubt, that can’t possibly be true as I had the Forest Parkway and Jamaica Avenue in honor of the veterbest mom ever. ans of past and In connection wars. This with Mother’s Day, meeting with a rep of the present small-town obserthe Wood haven vance will take Business ImproveU.S. Census Bureau and place on Thursday, ment District will May 23, at 7:30 be holding a speour Annual Memorial Day p.m. At this event cial event this FriObservance are coming up. we will place our day, May 10, at 1 newly decorated p.m. at the Woodhaven-Richmond Hill Senior Citizens Cen- memorial wreath by the World War II Monter, located at 89-02 91 St. in Woodhaven. ument, which remains there throughout the There will be live music along with refresh- year. We will have guest speakers along ments and a few surprises. So if you are a with patriotic music. In addition to that we senior citizen and a member of that senior will be distributing free 12-by-18-inch center, come on out and enjoy a day devoted American flags, the perfect size to hang outside your home. We hope to see you there! to all the mothers out there.

Looking ahead to next month, on June 20 There are a few other happenings this month. The Greater Woodhaven Develop- our organization will be having a “Price is ment Corp. will be holding a special meet- Right”-themed fundraiser, and although you ing on May 15 at 7 p.m. at Woodhaven can’t win a BMW or a trip to Hawaii that Manor, located at 96-01 Jamaica Ave. The evening, there will be great prizes and lots guest speaker for the evening will be a rep- of fun. More details to come on this event resentative from the U.S. Census Bureau, in the June article.

Once again the Greater Woodhaven who will discuss the 2020 Census along with great job opportunities that are avail- Development Corp. and I would like to say Q Happy Mother’s Day to all! able. Light refreshments will be served.

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designed to handle about 10,000 vehicles but was handling 200,000.

“The old expression [is] ‘know what you know and k now what you don’t know.’ Government does not know how to build,” Cuomo said. “It’s not what government does. Let private contractors do it. And it’s worked out much better for us. This bridge is four years ahead of schedule from what the original time estimate was if government were to build the job.”

T he r e w i l l a lso b e green spaces with park Gov. Cuomo surveys the construction of the second span of the areas on both ends of the Kosciuszko Bridge on Monday. There will be nine lanes of vehicubridge, allowing people lar traffic and a lane for pedestrians and bike riders. The bridge access to the waterfront. will be the first new one in the city since 1964. NYS PHOTO / FLICKR The project has supported more than 11,000 jobs in construction and doing it at the Javits Center. We can still do great things when we put our mind to it, and related fields.

Cuomo said the bridge reminds him of we can still do it right and do it well and we can still make it beautiful.”

New York’s “can do spirit.”

The bridge over Newtown Creek con“When you think about this bridge being the first bridge since the Verrazzano, 1964, nects Maspeth to Greenpoint. The one it that means an entire generation has grown replaced opened in 1939 and closed in 2017.

Originally called the Meeker Avenue up without seeing really new, dramatic, big projects, massive progress for New York,” Bridge, it was renamed in 1940 after he said. “But New Yorkers still can do it, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish military leadwe’re doing it here, we’re doing it at er who fought alongside the Americans durQ LaGuardia Airport, at JFK Airport. We’re ing the Revolutionary War.

GOP infighting continued from page 8 Ariola of the county party organization.

“They are fringe members.”

She characterized the Republican Patriots as a “rogue group” of “failed candidates” and called their challenge “sour grapes.”

“When you are the district leaders, your main focus is fielding candidates for the ballot,” she said.

“You should not attempt to become the district leader if you are not aware of what is required to be placed on the ballot.”

Only one race for a party leadership post

remains on the ballot, and that is in Flushing, the heart of the Patriots territory.

In the 25th Assembly District, Howard Neiman, a psychologist from Fresh Meadows and Queens Village Republican Club member, and Evangeline Balaskas, a real estate broker also from Fresh Meadows, are challenging two incumbents.

The current state committee leaders are Meilin Tan, a Flushing real-estate professional who ran unsuccessfully for the state Assembly in 2002, and Robert Mongelli, also of Flushing.

Calls to a spokesman for the Republican Patriots and to Paladino’s son, Thomas, who has been her press contact in the past, Q were not returned by press time.

HB Kiwanis Club to award scholarships The Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach will be awarding scholarships to students living in the 11414 ZIP code. Its scholarship fund will benefit high school seniors who will be continuing their education in an accredited college or university in the fall of 2019.

The four $1,000 scholarships available are: • The Paul Anthony Bono Scholarship, to be awarded to a student who will major in any field of study; • The Stanley Merzon Scholarship, for which preference is given to a student who plans to

major in journalism or mass media; • The Founder’s Scholarship, also to be awarded to a student who will major in any field of study; and • The August Sirgiovanni Scholarship, for which preference is given to a student who plans to major in the sciences or mathematics.

Anyone interested should contact Dino Bono by calling (646) 401-2805 or emailing hbkiwanisdino@outlook.com. Details are posted on howardbeachkiwanis.org. ApplicaQ tions must be postmarked by May 31.

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Tributes paid to longtime Queens DA Brown, dead at 86, held the position since 1991; was weeks from retiring

by David Russell Associate Editor

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n May 31, 1991, Judge Richard Brown went to the Flagship Diner for a late-night meal after long hours in his chambers.

As the clock struck midnight, Angela Brunjes, his legal executive secretary, realized that he was now the Queens district attorney.

“Judge, you’re the DA. I’m going to jump on the table and tell everybody,” Brunjes said before assuring him that she was only kidding.

That was the beginning of a nearly 28-year run in the office that ended Friday night with Brown’s death at the age of 86, after a battle with Parkinson’s disease.

“He worked very hard because he loved the job, he loved the people of Queens and he loved doing what he could to improve the lives of everybody that lived in Queens,” James Quinn, senior executive assistant district attorney at the Queens DA’s Office, said at a Monday forum for the candidates looking to succeed Brown.

In January, Brown said that he would not seek re-election. In March, he announced that he would step down on June 1.

Hundreds of people, including Mayor de Blasio and former Mayors Mike Bloomberg and David Dinkins, came to pay respects on Tuesday morning at the Reform Temple of Forest Hills.

“When we celebrate our progress as a city, he is one of the architects of that progress,” de Blasio said. “When we think how much we have changed for the better, he was one of those change-makers. We celebrate that there’s more justice and fairness; he was one of the authors of that justice and fairness. He changed our city deeply by his presence, by his example, by his leadership, and all of that will be sorely missed.”

He added, “It is not an overstatement to say that Judge Brown commanded universal respect. I can say, in my 20 years of public service in this city, it was a given, to me. I saw any time he entered the room, any time anyone even mentioned his name, it was done with a certain reverence.”

De Blasio often touts New York as the safest large city in the country but that wasn’t the case when Brown became DA in 1991. There were 351 murders in Queens during his first year. Quinn said Brown went to nearly every single murder scene.

“He wanted to let the Police Department know that we were behind them,” Quinn said. “He wanted people to know that he was concerned about what was going on in the country. And he was an extremely active guy.”

In 2018, there were 65 murders in the borough.

“That is a testament to the DAs tenacity, it’s a testament to the people that he appointed and it’s a testament to the work that he did,” Quinn said.

Quinn credits Brown’s work ethic for his success.

Acting Queens District Attorney John Ryan, left, with Richard Brown in a 2016 photo. Brown served as Queens district attorney from June 1, 1991 until his death last Friday night at the age of 86. Brown announced in March that he planned to step down on June 1 because of ongoing FILE PHOTO health issues.

“To understand the DA, you have to forge relationships with agencies that hadn’t understand how hard he worked,” he said. spoken to the Queens DA’s Office in years.

“He would be in the office at 7 o’clock every “This collaborative approach and the recmorning. He would not go home until 8 ognition that a prosecutor’s job cannot be o’clock at night back in his heyday, which done alone was way ahead of its time,” he was up until about six months ago, actually. said.

He would go to community meetings at Tucker added, “Judge Brown used to say night. He’d be in the office reading law that we went from standing on opposite opinions, reading law decisions from the sides of the street from the NYPD at crime Appellate Division and the Cou r t of scenes to squad commanders wanting to see Appeals. He’d be reviewing wiretaps.” him, asking, ‘Why isn’t Judge Brown here Acting DA John Ryan said of all Brown’s already?’” phrases, the one that meant the most was Ryan also noted Brown’s ability to brisk“raising the level of professionalism.” ly appear at a crime scene.

“To appreciate where we are today as a “He didn’t just go to the scene,” he said. city and an office, you have to remember “He almost always got to the scene before where we were when he became DA,” Ryan the homicide ADA and that in turn motivatsaid. “Neither were in very good shape at ed the homicide ADAs to get there and get that point but the miraculous improvements the information first.” that have been made in both the city and the Ryan remembered one time when an office are not unrelated.”

ADA called Brown from a crime scene to Robert Tucker, a longtime friend of say that he got there first.

Brown’s who spoke on Tuesday, met Brown Brown’s response: “No you didn’t. I’m in the parking garage at 1 Police Plaza in back at the office already having coffee.”

May 1991. His sumTu c k e r j o k e d mer internship had about Brown’s repufallen through and as a “press t is not an overstatement tation Brown offered him a hou nd ,” r e ca l l i ng spot, the beginning of how he could go to a to say that Judge Brown a “long bromance.” crime scene, receive commanded universal B r ow n d id n’t i n for m at ion f rom k now what to do cops and neighbors, respect.” w i t h Tu c k e r a n d t al k to repor ters, Tucker didn’t know then get in his car — Mayor de Blasio what to do in the and ask if there was office but once they figured out they were enough hairspray in the office. police and fire buffs the rest was history.

“Of course he was planning ahead for the “We spent the entire summer riding press conference later in the day,” Tucker around Queens County, responding to every said. crime scene and fire imaginable,” Tucker And there was seeing his name in print said. “At some point, Judge Brown realized before the days of smartphones. that all this rushing around was actually “Before the internet, he’d make me drive productive. It was improving relationships to The New York Times building in Manbetween the Queens DA’s Office and the hattan to get tomorrow’s edition hot off the NYPD.” press at 10 p.m. the night before,” Tucker Tucker said that early in the his adminis- said. tration, Brown began a significant effort to He said last September, Brown called him

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and told him to watch the funeral service for John McCain.

“It’s a great blueprint for what I want,” Brown said.

And he displayed a sense of humor to those who knew him. As Tucker recalled one bit of self-deprecating humor, the short of stature DA said “When I started as district attorney I was 6-feet-2.”

Brown graduated from the New York University School of Law in June 1956 and was admitted to the bar by the Appellate Division, Second Department four months later.

He served as a counsel to Democratic leaders of the state Legislature for most of the 1960s. Brown was a lobbyist for the city in Albany until 1973.

On his first day sitting as a judge in Manhattan Criminal Court, a defendant opened fire in the courtroom. He went to the floor behind the bench, earning him the nickname “Duck Down Brown” from court officers.

After serving as a judge of the Criminal Court for nearly two years, Brown was appointed as supervising judge of the Brooklyn Criminal Court. In 1976, he was designated an acting justice of the state Supreme Court.

In 1977, he was elected a justice of the Supreme Court in Queens County. At the end of 1978, he went back to Albany to serve as counsel to Gov. Hugh Carey.

Brown returned to the Supreme Court in 1981 and the following year was designated as an associate judge of the Appellate Division, Second Department by Carey.

In 1991, Brown took the office of DA in an interim role after being selected by Gov. Mario Cuomo.

As Brunjes remembers the call, Cuomo said, “Hey, Richard. How would you like to be the district attorney of Queens County?”

Brown was one of 14 candidates interviewed by the governor’s staff to replace John Santucci.

Perhaps the most famous case in his 28 years on the job was the Wendy’s massacre, a mass murder that took place at the fastfood restaurant in Flushing in 2000.

John Taylor, a former Wendy’s employee, and Craig Godineaux bound and gagged seven of the employees in the freezer, gagged them, put bags over their heads and shot each of them in the head, killing five of the seven. The two men stole $2,400.

Godineaux pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. Taylor was convicted on 20 counts of murder and was sentenced to death though the death penalty portion was later vacated. Taylor is serving life without parole.

Brown is survived by his wife, Rhoda; his daughters, Lynn Brown Foodman and Karen Brown; his son, Todd; a sister, Carolyn Straker; and two granddaughters, Leah, who is entering her last year at West Point, and Alana, who will begin her first at West Point in September.

“I’m just very fortunate and very happy to have known him and to have worked with Q him and I will miss him,” Brunjes said.

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City says goodbye to DA Richard Brown

Former Judge Greg Lasak, above, worked for Brown before going on the bench.

He and Borough President Melinda Katz are among those running to replace him.

PHOTOS BY MICHAEL SHAIN

The staff of the DA’s Office stood on steps of the Queens County Criminal Courthouse in Kew Gardens to send off the funeral procession and Brown’s family.

More than a thousand people stood in silence as the casket of Queens DA Richard Brown, draped in the borough’s official flag, was carried from the Reform Temple of Forest Hills. Last rites for the energetic man who served as chief prosecutor for a generation drew an A-list group of city political figures stretching back more than 30 years — mayors, police commissioners, lawmakers and judges, past and present.

Forest Hills Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz and Mayor de Blasio arriving.

Top cops William Bratton, above left, and James O’Neill. Brown’s granddaughters, Alana, a West Point cadet, right, and Leah.

Former Rep. Joe Crowley, Rep. Grace Meng and former Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

More than 25 Queens County judges, dressed in their robes, above, gathered as a group outside the synagogue to await the arrival of the hearse and the Brown family. With so many dignitaries in attendance, security at the funeral was stringent. Two Emergency Service Unit officers, left, were stationed on the roof of the synagogue throughout the hour-long funeral service.

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State Attorney General Letitia James gets into a waiting van after the service.

Former Mayor David Dinkins, now 91, was a choice interview for TV stations.

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Anniversary of fatal Haunted Castle fire Franklin K. Lane students were among those who perished in ’84

by David Russell

Jackson Township building inspector determined that since it was Franklin K. Lane High School sat made of trailers without a permaon the border of Queens and Brook- nent foundation it didn’t need a perlyn but it was a class trip turned trag- mit and wouldn’t be subject to strict edy in New Jersey 35 years ago that building codes.

Great Adventure was busy as made headlines.

Four seniors — Jose Carrion Jr., usual on Friday night, May 11, 1984.

At one point, Carrion Jr., RodriEric Rodriguez, Lenny Ruiz and Samuel Valentin Jr. — and one guez, Ruiz, Valentin Jr. and Harrison recent graduate, Christopher Harri- entered the Haunted Castle with four son, were among eight teenagers other patrons: Joseph Beyrouty Jr. killed when a fire spread in the and Nicola Caiazza of Paterson, NJ; Haunted Castle at Great Adventure and Suzette Elliott and Tina Genovese from Victory Christian School on May 11, 1984.

“It was big, big, big news every- in Williamstown, NJ. Elliott and Genovese had won a where in the tri-state area,” said Peter Smith, who spent years study- trip to the park by collecting the ing the tragic day and even made a most Campbell’s soup can labels at their school and they met the two documentary about the events.

Smith, who frequently visited boys from Paterson while at the park.

According to court testimony Great Adventure, was in the Haunted Castle six days before the trage- from 14-year-old Joey Iraca, a boy dy when he was put in some danger had accidentally set the fire by touching a lighter to the wall mat in himself.

“Someone had lit a smoke bomb the Haunted Castle.

As the nine teenagers hid in a corwhen I was in there and the place filled with smoke,” he said. “It was ner waiting to jump out and scare the very confusing and it was hard to group behind them, they heard someone screaming, “Fire!” followed by get out.”

It took him some time to get out smoke. Smith said that Elliott later because of a crowd at the turnstile told him the group thought it was trying to leave the attraction. Smith theatrical smoke and part of the show told himself he wouldn’t go back to until a ball of black solid smoke came down the hallway and overthe Haunted Castle.

Safety at the attraction, which came them at once.

A few of the teenagers went to the opened in 1979 and consisted of 17 interconnected aluminum trailers floor to avoid the smoke but some of with eight to a side mirroring each the boys who remained standing other and a common control room in became disoriented and trampled the the center, shouldn’t have been a new others.

Seven of them were stuck at the issue, according to Smith.

He said a safety expert was end of the hallway with only Elliott and Beyrouty brought in by not get ting t h e p a r k ’s tangled up. A ow ner s to t was just a feeling of park employlook around e e a r r ive d and make loss and sorrow and and car ried recom menElliott to dations. confusion.” safety. Bey“The first — Rozella Clyde, former law studies routy died a thing on his program coordinator at Franklin K. Lane few feet away list was the from the danger of the Haunted Castle,” he said. “And he other seven, who had their faces told them that it was imperative for pressed against an air-conditioning life safety to put in a sprinkler sys- vent that they had tried to pull up.

They were found in front of a tem and an alarm system and a bunch of exit doors. And these chained locked door — which wasn’t were the minimums required for an exit but actually a closet door.

“But they were confused and life safety.”

But, although a large sign written that’s why they went to that area in flowers with the slogan “We Care thinking that was an exit door,” About You” was near the amusement Smith said.

It took 15 volunteer fire squads to park’s main ticket booth, management didn’t install sprinklers. And a extinguish the f lames. The park Jackson Township fire inspector remained open and the Dutch rock would later testify that he had never band Golden Earring played as scheduled. inspected the Haunted Castle.

According to reports, the fire Smith said when the Haunted Castle was being constructed, the began at 6:35 p.m. and was brought Associate Editor

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The Haunted Castle at Great Adventure in New Jersey. Eight teenagers were killed in a fire there on May 11, 1984, including four seniors at Franklin K. Lane High School, and a fifth who had recently graduated from the school.

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under control 70 minutes later.

Park officials didn’t announce the deaths until 10:45 p.m. Firefighters had been going through the rubble trying to distinguish the bodies from the mannequins in the haunted house.

When the buses left at midnight, there were 33 students unaccounted for and it was thought — or perhaps hoped — that they were all in cars with friends. Parents who had heard the news were waiting at Franklin K. Lane but each would leave with a child.

O n Sat u rd ay mor n i ng, t he s c h o o l’s p r i n c i p a l , M o r t o n Damesek, began calling each of the 33 homes. Some of the students had not returned home.

“That’s when my worst fears became reality,” Damesek told The New York Times that week.

Days later, hundreds of students from the school walked to St. Thomas the Apostle for a memorial service. Classmates wrote poetry and music. Others designed a mural to cover an outdoor handball court to be dedicated to the boys who died in the fire.

Six Flags Great Adventure and Six Flags were later charged with aggravated manslaughter. Two park executives, the general manager at the time of the fire and his predecessor were charged with manslaughter.

The companies were eventually found not guilty, while the park executives avoided trial and entered a program allowing them to perform

community service.

Seven of the victims’ families filed civil suits and settled out of court. The eighth went to trial and was awarded a six-figure settlement.

For the students at Franklin K. Lane, there were still classes and Regents exams as the school year had yet to be completed.

Alan Singer, then a social studies teacher at the school who had Ruiz as a student, remembers students crying hysterically in the hallway during the next several weeks, though he added that they settled down once they went into classrooms.

He compared it to the reaction at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where 17 students and staff members were killed in a 2018 shooting.

“There’s been all sorts of support services put in place” since the shooting, Singer said. “When these events happened, you did not have that in the same way.

“After the first week you’d have isolated incidents of kids having meltdowns but other than that school went back to being school. And I think for most kids, they want school to go back to being school.”

There was one other difference: “Parkland happened in the school, so kids’ sense of safety was destroyed,” Singer said. “But at Lane, it happened at Great Adventure so the school building itself was seen as a safe place. And I think that was an important difference.”

Rozella Clyde, a former law stud-

ies program coordinator at the school whose last name was Kirchgaessner at the time, said it took a long time for the healing process to take place.

“It was just a feeling of loss and sorrow and confusion — kids who had gone to have a really good time and were having a good time ... having to go through all that fear,” she said.

Clyde said she remembered people being angry at Great Adventure and that she felt bad not only for the families of the deceased but also her colleague who had organized and coordinated the trip.

There were four memorial trees planted on the grounds of the school.

“It was a total sense of loss in the entire educational community,” she said.

Franklin K. Lane, which closed in 2012 and was replaced by five different schools on the site — The Academy of Innovative Technology, The Brooklyn Lab School, Cypress Hill Prep Academy, The Urban Assembly School for Collaborative Healthcare and Multicultural High School — was one of the largest schools in the city with more than 4,000 active students, according to Clyde. As she describes it, if someone were to walk around the building eight times it would be the equivalent of walking one mile.

“There was still a sense of community in that building and these kids were part of a community and their lives were valued,” Clyde Q said.

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No PB for District 30 Holden doesn’t want to pit groups against each other

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ects,” Holden said.

He said that principals identify the needs Associate Editor of schools and then Holden visits them and Over the last few weeks, results of participuts them on the priority list. Often the patory budgeting have been announced, school funding goes toward upgrading techacross much of Queens, but once again Disnology but it also can go for drainage probtrict 30 did not engage in the process. lems or emergency work.

Was there any thought to bringing particiIn addition to the price tags on projects, patory budgeting back to the district?

Holden was also concerned about what the “Not at all,” said Councilman Bob Holden voting could do to residents, saying that it (D-Middle Village). He added, “I’m a can pit them against each other. hands-on councilman. I don’t need to have a “I don’t want to turn it into that,” he said. group tell me what the community needs. I “I don’t want to turn it into one community know it. We’re in tune with the community.” against another or one group against anothWhether to take part in participatory buder. The one that pulls out the most people geting, in which residents vote on how to and the most votes wins. And it’s not necesspend $1 million in capital funding, is up to sarily what should be done with the money.” each member of the City Council. With $5 He added, “I think it turns off more peomillion in the budget for capital projects, Holden didn’t want to set aside $1 million Councilman Bob Holden FILE PHOTO ple than it brings in. I just think people, when they don’t get what they want, they for a vote.

“The fact that these capital projects cost more and more, especially invest weeks and weeks in this and then [if] they don’t win or they don’t get what they want, it may sour.”

Parks projects, you really can’t do that much,” he said.

However, Holden didn’t rule out bringing participatory budgeting He said he’s concerned that school upgrades and some other projects of high importance could suffer in the participatory budgeting back.

“I’m not saying that it can’t happen in the future ... if I had a lot voting process, which was used in the district by his predecessor, Elizabeth Crowley, allowing residents of Middle Village, Maspeth, more capital, yes, I might consider it, but we don’t,” he said.

Holden said he hasn’t thought about how much more money would Glendale and parts of Ridgewood, Woodside and Woodhaven to need to be in the budget for him to bring it back. brainstorm projects and vote on them.

“I need somebody to change my mind,” he said. “So far they “The schools take up a lot of it already and then I also get a prioriQ ty list from three community boards in my district of capital proj- haven’t.”

Gary Nusspickel has died at 63 Howard Beach resident Gar y Nusspickel died on Tuesday, May 7, after a long battle with heart disease.

Nusspickel, 63, was mar ried to Queens Chronicle Editorial Production Manager Terry Nusspickel for more than 40 years.

He is survived by his wife; his son, Thomas; daughter-in-law, Jasmin; their children, Matthew and Dylan; his daughter, Melissa Sasko, and his son-in-law, Peter Sasko.

Nusspickel was a custodial engineer for the city Board of Education and Andrew Building Corp.

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A prayer service will be held at 6:30 p.m.

For more information, visit the funeral home’s website, JamesRomanelliStephen. com.

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themselves or the public, “We should be looking at that very seriously.”

As some in the crowd asked what they Greg Lasak drew the biggest cheers during Monday night’s Queens district attorney would think of the bill if it excluded violent Democratic primary debate at the Israel Cen- offenders f rom the legislation, Cabán explained that not all violent offenses include ter of Conservative Judaism in Hillcrest.

The former judge criticized plans of Coun- violent behavior and should be taken on a cilman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) to case-by-case basis.

“If you went into an apartment building and “decriminalize half of the penal code,” as stole an Amazon package from inside the lobby Lasak put it.

“That’s why we cannot elect a politician to of that building, that’s a burglary in the second be a district attorney,” he said to applause. degree,” she said. “That’s a violent offense that “They don’t have the experience. They don’t you could serve a life sentence for.”

Other hot issues were working with the have the knowledge. They can outtalk me but NYPD and police accountability. we need experience.”

The biggest issue raised was eens votes “We have a very serious problem u in this city of a lack of accountabiliwhere the candidates stood on a bill Q ty for police wrongdoing,” Lancthat would allow the state Parole man said, adding that he was proud Board to consider granting parole to have the endorsement of Gwen to inmates over the age of 55 who Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, have served at least 15 years in which was met with groans from the prison. The bill would not mandate 201 9 audience. the release of those individuals.

“If you can’t uphold those two thoughts “We have to ask ourselves how much money are we going to spend incarcerating in your head at the same time — that you can people long past the point, because of their work closely with the police to make us safe age, where they pose any kind of threat or and hold them accountable when they engage danger to another person,” Lancman said. He in wrongdoing — then I don’t think you believes too many people are incarcerated at understand the responsibility of the district “extraordinary expense” to taxpayers, money attorney,” Lancman said.

Malik said that it’s “extremely important” that could be used for education, housing and to have a partnership with the police and that seniors.

“I’m comfortable giving a parole board the she believes she had the relationship with the option after someone has served a lengthy department, having been a prosecutor for prison sentence and they’re over 55 years old,” most of her career.

She added, “Anyone who has the endorsehe said.

Lasak said the bill “doesn’t make any ments of all the law enforcement unions are sense” and later added, “You must never for- beholden to the Police Department and to the get the victims’ families ... they lived and died law enforcement unions.”

Lasak responded, “I’m beholden to nobody. by that case and they thought at the time of the sentence life without parole would mean Yes, I’m getting law enforcement unions. So far, I’ve got them all. And I’m sure that other life without parole.”

Six of the seven candidates were present; candidates, I know, would love to have that.”

He said that he has had a personal relationBorough President Melinda Katz was at a previously scheduled event with the police com- ship with every chief of detectives in the city dating back more than 30 years. missioner in Jamaica.

For anyone concerned he would look the Betty Lugo said the decision should be left to politicians to decide and that she would other way on police misconduct, Lasak said in involve the community to review the person’s 1985 there were officers in the 106th Precinct credentials, such as a sex offender attempting harming prisoners with a stun gun. Lasak led the investigation, leading to the indictment of to get back in the neighborhood.

Mina Malik said the issue should be ana- three police officers, a sergeant and a lieutenlyzed further while judging it from a public ant, while the captain of the precinct, the borough commander and the chief of patrol for safety versus economic cost point of view.

“If you have an elderly person who is incar- the city were forced to retire.

Lugo spoke of the importance of working cerated, is it worth it to keep them incarcerated if they’re not a threat to public safety?” she with police, saying, “If you don’t have a good relationship with them, they’re not going to asked.

Jose Nieves voiced his support for the legis- protect your community. And they put their lation, saying he believes “that everybody lives on the line every single day for us, to should have a fair and just chance to be heard protect our safety. We need a better relationby a parole board after a certain amount of ship with the police. We need more respect.”

Nieves has worked hand-in-hand with law years. Fifteen years is a long time.”

Nieves did clarify that the bill doesn’t mean enforcement and said, “If you don’t have that working relationship with the NYPD and a person would be automatically released.

“It’s an opportunity to give that individual other law enforcement officials within your the application to make and then the parole jurisdiction then you’re already behind the boards can consider other factors in addition eight ball and you’re not going to be effective.” to what that person is saying,” he said.

Cabán said “without a doubt” the DA’s Tiffany Cabán believes if a parole board deems that someone is no longer a threat to Office needs to have a good working relationAssociate Editor

Tiffany Cabán, left, Councilman Rory Lancman, Greg Lasak, Betty Lugo, Mina Malik and Jose PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL Nieves at Monday night’s district attorney forum in Hillcrest. ship with law enforcement. She added that as a matter of public safety, “Whether it’s a person that is wearing a badge or not wearing a

badge, there also has to be mechanisms in place to hold officers who don’t fulfill their Q duties accountable.”

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They wrote the book on Riis The story of Jacob Riis, the turn-of-thelast-century social reformer, does not get old.

Just ask these students from Immaculate Conception Academy in Jamaica Estates, who recently collaborated on a book, “Jacob’s Gift,” about Riis for the Richmond Hill Historical Society.

Councilman Eric Ulrich, center, gave each a citation recognizing their work. With him were the RHHS’s Debbie Sandke, left, Helen Day and Carl Ballenas.

Riis’ 1890 book, “How the Other Half Lives,” reported on the appalling conditions of tenement life in New York City.

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Livery industry offers mental health assistance to members in trouble

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Hard financial times in the livery car industry are believed to have caused or contributed to the suicides of nine drivers in about one year.

But two advocacy groups have joined forces to offer mental health counseling and other services.

The Independent Drivers Guild, which represents more than 65,000 drivers, and the Black Car Fund, a nonprofit that provides safety and health programs for drivers, on Tuesday formally kicked off a program of individual, group and family counseling as well as crisis intervention programs that have been up and running for a few months.

They were joined at the Long Island City garage of Vital Transportation by city Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (D-Manhattan), chairman of the Council’s Transportation Committee and a former livery driver himself.

Brendan Sexton, executive director of the IDG, said there is a need to reach out to drivers and eliminate the stigma attached to seeking mental healthcare when it is needed.

“Too many drivers across our city are in crisis — with nine suicides that we know of in a little over a year,” Sexton said. “We are

Livery driver Ashraf Azim said the long hours and often low pay are only some of the factors that can place the city’s livery drivers under tremendous strain. Advocacy groups have set up mental PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON health and crisis intervention programs for the drivers. launching this program to provide drivers with much needed support and to save lives.

At its core, this crisis is largely driven by the economic insecurity of the for-hire vehicle industry. .... We aim to erase the stigma of mental health care, create a community of support and stop the suicides.”

Williams said he would like to see the day when people needing mental health care will seek it out as easily as someone might for stomach pain or an injured leg.

“Asking for help is not a sign of weakness,” Williams said. “It is a sign of strength.”

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“We work 12, 14, 15 hours a day, seven days a week,” Azim said. “We meet a lot of people, and see a lot of things that cause high anxiety. We are put in dangerous situations.”

Deborah Ho, a social worker and counselor with the IDG, said the hours and very nature of the job also can lead to feelings of or actual isolation.

The counseling right now is available in five languages. Rodriguez has as much if not more expertise than just about anyone at City Hall.

“I can speak as an immigrant and a driver,” he said. “I worked for about a year in college, mostly in the Bronx and Washington Heights.”

He added that on top of everything else, many drivers also are learning or trying to master English.

Rodriguez sponsored and passed regulations that allowed for a universal livery license in the city, allowing qualified drivers to earn a living in yellow or green cabs, black cars or any other recognized operation. He favors any remedy that can be made available to the drivers.

“They move our city,” he said. “Not just the eight million residents, but the 65 million Q tourists.”

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The Queens County Bar Association held its annual installation of officers and awards dinner at Terrace On The Park last Thursday.

Above, Executive Assistant District Attorney James Quinn, left, accepts on behalf of the late Queens District Attorney Richard Brown an award presented by former QCBA president Richard Gutierrez. Brown died on the night after the

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In the top center, guest speaker Kenneth Standard, left, former president of the New York State Bar Association, received the QCBA’s “Golden Jubilarian” award from the dinner emcee, retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Queens County, Sidney Strauss.

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Driver’s licenses for all is fair, smart and safe

Meng Ba Li, second from right, spoke on behalf of immigrant food delivery drivers at a rally in Corona to build support for legalizing e-bikes and scooters. Speakers at the rally included state Sen. Jessica Ramos, left, and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic, who have legalization bills pending in PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON Albany, and Marco Conner of Transportation Alternatives.

Revving up support for e-bikes in Albany Food delivery drivers rally in Corona behind bills to allow, regulate them

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The sponsors of bills in Albany that would pave the way for legalized electric scooters had a lot of backup Friday morning as dozens of food delivery riders held a rally at Corona Plaza.

State Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-East Elmhurst) and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows) said they are working to drum up support in their chambers for bills that would give legal definitions to various classes of vehicles that as of now do not exist; and allow municipalities to craft their own regulations for their operation.

“This is how many in the immigrant community work and make a living,” Ramos said. She and Rozic said the issue is, in large part, one of economic justice.

Speaking through interpreters, three delivery workers said electric scooters and so-called pedal-assist bikes allow them to serve more customers more quickly and make more in wages and tips.

But, unlike battery-powered pedal-assist bikes, they are illegal in New York City, and if caught drivers can receive a $500 fine and have their vehicles confiscated by police.

Meng Ba Li, 58, said he can make about $130 a day, but that he is reliant on tips. The electric scooters allow him to make more deliveries while saving him a great deal of

physical wear and tear. But not long ago, he was stopped by police and hit with four tickets, and saw his bike confiscated.

“With fines of $2,000, I worked a month for free,” he said.

Multiple speakers said the deliverymen often own their own vehicles. Eduardo Perez said his employer mandated that he use an e-bike as a condition of the job.

He recently received $940 in tickets and had his $1,700 bike seized. Adding insult to injury, he was approached by a man impersonating a police officer as he left the bank with the cash to pay the tickets.

“He said he had to pat me down. He took my money.” Perez said he still is awaiting a hearing date to get his bike back, with no assistance from the business owner.

Tiffany Chang, advocacy and policy manager for the Asian American Federation, headquartered in Manhattan, said restaurants and customers enjoy the benefits of e-bikes while the riders who want to increase their incomes face all the risks.

“We go home and we order from Seamless,” Ramos said. “We all do it.”

“How many of you would do this job on the hottest summer days, in the winter and during storms?” Chang asked.

Marco Conner, interim executive director of Transportation Alternatives, was blunt in his call for the bills to be supported at the

status.

by Bitta Mostofi Undocumented For many years in Albany, legislators and advocates have debated an issue crit- worke r s a r e t he ical to New York State residents: Should backbone of many undocumented immigrants be allowed to industries in New Yo r k , a n d t h e y obtain driver’s licenses?

In our city alone, nearly 500,000 should be paid fairimmigrant New Yorkers are undocu- ly and without fear mented. Our research (www1.nyc.gov/ of retaliation, just a sset s /i m m ig r a nt s /dow n load s /pd f / like every worker moia _ an nual_ repor t%202019_f inal. in our state. Drivpdf# page =11) suggests that one out er’s licenses for all would put us another of six immigrants living in Queens is step closer to making New York City the undocumented. This is first and foremost fairest big city in the country.

And on this metric, 12 states (nilc. an issue of safety. Everyone who drives should have to pass a test and have a org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/driverslicense — and forcing people into the license-access-table.pdf), the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico are all ahead shadows makes everyone less safe.

Not only that, but ensuring that more of us. We must follow the lead of compeople on our streets have the proper munities as different as California and Utah, and stop dislicensing and insurcriminating against ance makes us New safer. Studies sugndocumented people undocumented Yorkers who need to gest that i n combe able to drive. munities that have are the backbone of W hile we conequalized access car many industries here. t i nue to advocat e accidents (pnas.org/ for a comprehensive content/114/16/4111, rwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/ fix to our broken immigration system lpi/drivers-license_repor t-legal.pdf ) in Congress, we should not wait to right and the cost of insurance (onlinelibrary. what is wrong here in our own state. wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/soej.12022) That is what we did by passing the NYS DREAM Act, and we should do the same both decrease.

Opponents of driver’s licenses for all on driver’s licenses. As Mayor de Blasio argue it is wrong to extend “privileges” has succinctly said, “driver’s licenses for to people f louting federal laws. They all — it’s fair, it’s smart, it’s safe.”

Lawmakers in Albany are vigorously suggest that undocumented immigrants should get legal status the “right” way, debating driver’s license legislation this session. If this issue is important to you, and then they can get driver’s licenses.

But here’s why such notions are mis- make your voice heard by contacting guided. The responsibility of all city your representatives in the NYS Assemgovernment offices — including my own bly, (assembly.state.ny.us/mem/search) — is to promote the well-being of all and Senate (nysenate.gov/find-my-senaQ of New York City’s residents. This is tor) today.

Bitta Mostofi is Commissioner of the why our policies and programs serve all New Yorkers, regardless of immigration Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.

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“It’s time for Gov. Cuomo to put his money where his mouth is when it comes to fighting for immigrants’ rights,” he said.

A s s e m b l y wo m a n Yu h - L i n e N i o u (D-Manhattan) added that the riders often make below minimum wage. She said 33 states allow the vehicles.

“We’re falling behind,” Rozic said, adding that legalizing the bikes also would be a plus in terms of reduced vehicular traffic and pollution from emissions.

Ramos said she isn’t aware of any formal or organized opposition to their bills. That, she said, is part of why she believes they should be legalized.

She said the city’s existing policy seems to have been formed based on community complaints about the riders, largely, Ramos

believes, in Manhattan.

“I don’t think there have been a lot in Queens,” she said. “I’m told the city is basing its policy on anecdotes and complaints about safety. But there’s no data.”

And she said giving the city the right to create reasonable regulations is exactly what is needed to allay fears that things would get out of control.

One reason the scooters and throttleassist bikes are in a sort of legal limbo is that to date the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles has declined to register them, as they do not have vehicle identification numbers, as every car, truck and motorcycle in the country has.

Ramos said the bills have been crafted to take that into account, including definitions Q that are now considered lacking.

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is issuing this notice to advise the public that scoping meetings will be held to seek public comment on the scope of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to assess the potential impacts of the proposed LaGuardia Airport Access Improvement Project and its enabling projects and connected actions (the proposed action). As the project sponsor, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Port Authority) proposes to construct an elevated automated people mover (APM) that would provide direct access between LaGuardia Airport (LGA) and two existing transit stations at Mets-Willets Point. Currently, LGA is accessible only by road and passengers and employees face increasing and unreliable travel times and traffic congestion on off-Airport roadways. The project will provide air passengers and employees with a time-certain option for access to LGA and permit the Port Authority to provide adequate employee parking for the geographically constrained Airport. Two (2) public scoping meetings and one (1) governmental agency scoping meeting will be held to identify public and agency concerns related to the proposed action. The FAA is the lead agency on the preparation of the EIS. The EIS will be prepared in accordance with the procedures described in FAA Order 1050.1F, Environmental Impacts: Policies and Procedures, and FAA Order 5050.4B, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Implementing Instructions for Airport Actions. Additionally, pursuant to Executive Order 13807, Establishing Discipline and Accountability in the Environmental and Permitting Process for Infrastructure, this EIS will be used by all federal approving and permitting agencies. Accordingly, it will comply with any requirements of those cooperating and participating agencies. The FAA and cooperating and participating agencies intend to use the preparation of this EIS to comply with the concurrent statutory review process under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), as amended, and its implementing regulations, Protection of Historic Properties (36 CFR Part 800); Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act; the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act; and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. This Notice of Scoping Meetings also serves to satisfy the public notice and comment requirements of Section 106 of the NHPA; Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation (DOT) Act; DOT Order 5610.2(a), Environmental Justice in Minority and Low-Income Populations; Executive Order 11990, Protection of Wetlands; DOT Order 5660.1A, Preservation of the Nation’s Wetlands; Executive Order 11988, Floodplain Management; and DOT Order 5650.2, Floodplain Management and Protection.

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NOTICE OF SCOPING MEETINGS LaGuardia Airport Access Improvement Project Environmental Impact Statement

The Port Authority, the operator of LGA, proposes the following project components of the proposed action: • construction of an above ground fixed guideway automated people mover (APM) system approximately 2.3 miles in length that extends from the LGA Central Hall Building to the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Mets-Willets Point Station and the New York City Transit (NYCT) 7 Line Mets-Willets Point Station; • construction of two on-Airport APM stations; construction of one off-Airport APM station at Mets-Willets Point that provides connections to the Mets-Willets Point LIRR and NYCT 7 Line stations; • construction of passenger walkway systems to connect the APM stations to the passenger terminals, parking garages, and ground transportation facilities; • construction of a multi-level APM operations, maintenance, and storage facility (OMSF) that includes 500 Airport employee parking spaces and replacement parking for Citi Field parking spaces that would be affected by the proposed action; • construction of three traction power substations: one located at the on-Airport East Station, another at the Mets-Willets Point APM Station, and the third at the OMSF to provide power to the APM guideway; • construction of a 27kV main substation located adjacent to the OMSF structure on MTA property; and • construction of utilities infrastructure, both new and modified, as needed, to support the proposed action.

The proposed action also includes various enabling projects to allow construction and connected actions, including: utility relocation and demolition of certain existing facilities; reconstruction and/or relocation of the Passerelle Bridge; modifications to the MTA LIRR Mets-Willets Point Station, including service changes to the LIRR Port Washington Line; and the relocation of several Flushing Bay Marina facilities, including a boat lift, Marina office, and boat storage. More information about the project sponsor’s proposed action and the scoping meetings can be found at: www.LgaAccessEIS.com.

AGENCY SCOPING: A governmental agency scoping meeting for all federal, state, and local regulatory agencies that have jurisdiction by law or have special expertise with respect to any potential environmental impacts associated with the proposed action will be held on Wednesday, June 5, 2019. This meeting will take place at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, at the Port Authority’s offices, 4 World Trade Center, 150 Greenwich Street, New York, New York. A notification letter will be sent in advance of the meeting.

Sign and oral interpretation can be made available at the meetings, as well as an assistive listening device, if requested 10 calendar days before the meeting. For additional information, please contact: Ms. Maria Bernardez, Ricondo & Associates, Inc., at 312-606-0611, x374 or mgbernardez@ricondo.com. Si desea esta información en español, llame a (312) 606-0611, x374.

SCOPING COMMENTS: Written comments should be submitted by e-mail to comments@lgaaccesseis.com, or sent to the FAA, at the following address: Mr. Andrew Brooks Environmental Program Manager-Airports Division Federal Aviation Administration Eastern Regional Office, AEA-610 1 Aviation Plaza Jamaica, New York 11434 Comments must be received by FAA no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday, June 17, 2019.

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PUBLIC SCOPING: Two public scoping meetings for the general public will be held. The public scoping meetings will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, June 5, 2019 and from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, June 6, 2019. The public scoping meetings will be conducted at the New York LaGuardia Airport Marriott, 102-05 Ditmars Boulevard, East Elmhurst, New York. The public scoping meetings will be open house format with project information displayed and representatives from the FAA and the Port Authority available to answer questions. Written and oral comments with respect to any potential environmental impacts associated with the proposed action, or comments representing the concerns, issues, and alternatives they believe should be addressed in the EIS will be accepted at each of the meetings. The public meetings will be open and free (including parking) to all persons on a space-available basis.

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Day care center closing in on permit Lawyer presents at Borough Hall; Holden writes supportive letter

by David Russell Associate Editor

A plan for a day care center in Glendale was taken to Borough Hall last Thursday morning as a developer requests a special permit from the Board of Standards and Appeals.

Children of America is looking to operate the center at 79-40 Cooper Ave., and land use attorney Nora Martins noted that Artistic Stitch Complex, Triumph Gymnastics, Party Sellers Entertainment and Elite Dance Academy are all nearby.

“It’s a neighborhood that has a lot of children,” she said. “This day care facility would fit in well with all those other child-friendly uses.”

CS Cooper LLC is applying for a special permit from the Board of Standards and Appeals to allow the development of the day care in an M1-1 zoning district, which allows for commercial, manufacturing and certain community facilities as of right.

Martins said finding a site of sufficient size to meet the needs for a day care facility as of right in a residential district turned up empty and the spot on Cooper Avenue was “perfect” other than the M1-1 zoning.

The facility, with 15 classrooms, would hold approximately 167 children, consisting of two infant groups, two toddler groups, seven preschool groups, a pre-K group and one school-age group.

Land use attorney Nora Martins, speaking, presents at Borough Hall to Deputy Borough President Sharon Lee, right, Director of Planning and Development Irving Poy and Housing Director PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL Lisa Atkins.

The pre-K group would be part of the city’s Universal Pre-K program and would have about 20 school-age students. The older kids make up the smallest demographic. If approved, the plan is for the center to be operating for the 2020-21 school year.

Community Board 5 voted in favor of the move 39-0 on April 10, after initial reservations about potential parking issues.

There would be 32 accessory parking

spaces behind the day care facility. There would also be 14 spaces in another lot for the self-storage building at the address, but the two would be separate and each would have its own curb cut.

“We want to make sure that those uses are separate to avoid any conflict between children arriving at the day care facility [and the storage facility],” Martins said.

The one- and two-story building would

have 15,212 total square feet of floor area with 11,226 square feet for the day care center in the two-story portion and 3,986 square feet of commercial floor area in the one-story portion.

There would be a fenced-in playground on the rooftop of the one-story portion. There is not yet a tenant for the commercial space, though Martins said CB 5 previously showed interest in a health-related facility such as Urgent Care. She added that the commercial space could even be split so that two businesses could come in.

The day care center would operate from 6 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. with 32 instructors and five other staff members.

Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) wrote to the BSA, saying the proposed day care and commercial space are “a welcome addition to the Glendale community and to the Cooper Avenue streetscape.”

“I do not believe that the proposed daycare and commercial uses at the site will create significant traffic issues,” he wrote.

Holden added the on-site parking should result in “minimal if any negative effect” on traffic and that many families in the area need “safe, reliable childcare.”

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What Richard Mazda, director of the LIC Arts Open, likes so much about the event is how a patron can go around to different studios and see a photographer behind one door, a painter behind another and an installation ar tist behind yet another.

“It really is like a huge lucky dip,” he said, drawing an analogy to the game in which prizes are covered up and mixed together in a container for contestants to dip their hand into. “You’re just constantly finding new and exciting surprises as you go round.”

He added, “It’s so fascinating to go around everybody’s different studios and

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get a little peek into how they work and what they think and what their art is about.”

Mazda said one of the most popular pieces of feedback he receives each year is how people love the sense of community the event brings out.

“It actually mitigates against the natural tendency of an artist to shut themselves away in the studio and be kind of isolated while they’re making art,” he said.

Mazda added that the nature of what the artists do means they’re usually not working alongside other people.

He considers the open studios the “jewel in the crown” of the event, now in its ninth year. There will be open studios across the area.

One exhibition, “Plastique,” is in its fourth year and features pieces by artists that were created using thermoforming, a process involving heating sheets of plastic until they’re pliable enough to shape.

Different mediums of art on display include ceramic, digital, drawing, installation, mixed media, painting, pastels, photography, sculptures and video.

Mazda said there is a significant, large

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Mazda also believes the event is good for the area as a whole.

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Classical gets edgy Queens New Music Festival brings the unexpected

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Just because it’s contemporary doesn’t mean it can’t be classical.

And with the Queens New Music Festival entering its eighth year, it appears the public — and the artists — agree.

More than 40 singers and musicians will perform works by more than 50 composers in 12 shows over six days at The Secret Theatre in Long Island City. The event is being produced by Random Access Music, a collective of performers and composers.

“New music can be classical,” said Gilbert Galindo, a composer and the artistic director for RAM. “People who attend can hear classical music written in the 21st century. They can also hear some instrumental jazz or pop.

It’s not a typical festival of rock bands.”

He also said attendees have the chance to hear arrangements they may not have heard before.

“Maybe pairing a flute with a tuba — some things you might not consider going together.”

The festival will feature the works of composers such as Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, David Lang, Olivier Messiaen, Ned Rorem, Joan Tower, Julia Wolfe and Isang Yun. And if you have never associated the late Frank Zappa with classical music, he too is included on the set list this year.

“We’re more on the edgier classical side,”Galindo said.

Other composers include Rusty Banks, Korine Fujiwara, Alexandra Gardiner, Jose Luis Greco, Nicole Lizée, Jessica Meyer, Lois Vierk, Randall Woolf and Rain Worthington.

RAM composers who will be featured include Galindo, Seth Boustead, David Fetherolf and Frances White.

Gone are the days when festival organizers needed to worry about attracting top-flight artists. Galindo said many now seek them out.

Of course, that also means there is very little time after the event’s conclusion to begin planning for next year.

“We started early, calling for proposals for classical contemporary music,” Galindo said.

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“Queens of the Night” (“Reinas de la Noche”), an LGBTQ musical cabaret story about resilience, love and inclusion. Each Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; each Sun., 4 p.m., through May 19, Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside. $45 advance; $48 at door; $42 advance students, seniors; $45 at door; $40 all Fri. only. Info: (718) 729-3880, thaliatheatre.org.

“Nancy Spero: Paper Mirror,” with works by the feminist artist spanning more than 50 years, in multiple media; and “Zheng Guogu: Visionary Transformation,” with 12 works that refashion the traditional Buddhist meditation paintings called thangkas. Both through Sun., June 23, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. $10; $5 students, seniors; kids under 17 free. Info: (718) 784-2084, momaps1.org.

“Catch Me If You Can,” a comic mystery about a disappearing newlywed, not to be confused with the later film and musical of the same name, by Douglaston Community Theatre. Fri.-Sat., May 10-11, 8 p.m.; Sat., May 11, 2 p.m., Zion Episcopal Church, Church Street off Douglaston Pkwy., 243-01 Northern Blvd. $19; $17 seniors, students. Info: (718) 482-3332, DougCommThtr@gmail.com.

Open studio, with art, food and drinks. Fri., May 17, 7-10 p.m., One eyed studios, 1639 Centre St., Ridgewood. Free. Info: (347) 740-8409, oneyedstudios.com.

“Timberline,” with works by Nicholas Arbatsky that appear to float above the printed surface, just out of range of the viewer’s focus. Sat., May 11 (opening reception 3-6 p.m.)-Sat., June 29, Topaz Arts, 55-03 39 Ave., Woodside. Free. Info: (718) 505-0440, topazarts.org.

“HS2AS Alumni Exhibition,” with works by 14 graduates of the High School to Art School program.

Through Sun., May 12, The Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (347) 505-3018, queenscouncilarts.org.

Lisa Gindi Art at The Supper Room, with original works form Gindi’s “Glitz Collection,” inspired by her love of fashion, cars and New York City, available for sale. Mon., May 13, 8 p.m., The Supper Room, 38-17 Bell Blvd., Bayside. Free. Info/RSVP: (718) 873-2999, lisagindiart.com.

“Solitude” — Photographs by Agron Jashari, with cityscapes, landscapes and more by the Brooklynbased lensman. Through the end of May, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, 175-10 Cross Bay Blvd., Broad Channel. Free. Info: (718) 318-4340, nps.gov/gate/planyourvisit.

Where can you have a bite from more than 35 restaurants for just $30? At the Bell Blvd Food & Music Fest, set for Sunday the 19th. There’ll be live music too, along with games, dancing and more. As Saturday Night Live’s Stefon might say, this festival has everything.

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MUSIC Nerissa Campbell, with music called “a fine blend of styles dipped in a smoky beer batter of late night living,” part of the Thursday Night Jazz series. Thu., May 9, 8 p.m., Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 16104 Jamaica Ave. $10. Info: (718) 658-7400, jcal.org.

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“Scenes of Queens,” with oil paintings by Madeline Lovallo of local landscapes, available for sale.

Through Fri., May 31, Austin Ale House, 82-70 Austin St., Kew Gardens. Free. Info: (718) 849-3939, madelinesstudio.pixels.com.

“Hand & I,” with embroidered works by 19 artists that address climate, race, gender, immigration, and the U.S. prison system, in “a cri de coeur for social justice.” Through Sun., July 14, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City.

Free. Info: (718) 937-6317, dorsky.org.

“Tree of Life,” with nearly 40 works by 9 artists meant to convey peace and harmony, all for sale, with a portion of he proceeds to benefit the Pittsburgh synagogue of the same name where 11 were killed and 7 wounded in an Oct. 2018 shooting. Through Thu., Aug. 1, Red Pipe Cafe, 71-60 Austin St., Forest Hills. Free. Info: (718) 224-8359, bit.ly/2GAm0Nk. “100th Anniversary of the First Transatlantic Flight,” with photos, maps and more celebrating the journey of U.S. Navy seaplane NC-4 from Rockaway to England. Through Sun., June

Daniel Fishkin: Part I, with the composer, sound artist and instrument builder presenting music that may or may not include solar sound, pre-synthesizer electronic music and more, with post-concert reception. Sat., May 11, 8 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. Free with RSVP. Info: (718) 4637700, flushingtownhall.org.

COURTESY PHOTO Chamber Music America, with Mickey Bass and his New York Powerhouse Ensemble and the Beijing Guitar Duo performing as part of the seventh annual National Chamber Music Month. Fri., May 17, 8 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $12; $10 students; free teens. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

Queens Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Concert: Wrestling with Destiny, with Verdi’s Overture to “La Forza del Destino,” Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S. 124 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Sun., May 12, 3 p.m., LeFrak Concert Hall at Queens College, 153-49 Reeves Ave., Flushing. Free. Info/RSVP (required): (718) 544-2996, kupferbergcenter.org, queenssymphony.org.

A Tribute to Scott Joplin, with Dalton’s Uptown Ramblers, featuring Dalton Ridenhour on piano, Jon-Erik Kellso on trumpet, Evan Arntzen on clarinet, Joe McDonough on trombone and Bob Sacchi on tuba, playing a style of jazz that evolved out of ragtime; plus BBQ. Sat., May 18, 2 p.m. (preconcert talk 1:30 p.m.), St. Michael’s Cemetery, 72-02 Astoria Blvd., East Elmhurst. Free. Info: (718) 278-3240, stmichaelscemetery.com.

Oratorio Society of Queens Spring Concert, with Vivaldi’s “Spring” and “Gloria” and Mozart’s “Requiem.” Sun., May 19, 4 p.m., Our Lady Queen of Martyrs RC Church, 110-06 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills. $40; $35 seniors, students; $10 kids. Info: (718) 279-3006, queensoratorio.org.

“Relic, or, I Was Bubbie’s Favorite by Joel Feinman (as told to Lojo Simon),” a comedy about an out-of-work actor finding a relic in his grandmother’s attic that gives him fame and fortune.

Fri., May 10-Sun., May 19, various times, Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $20; $18 seniors. Info: (718) 760-0064, queenstheatre.org.

DANCE Valerie Green/Dance Entropy and Zawirowania Dance Theatre, performing two works in a collaboration between the LIC choreographer and the Polish troupe. Sat., May 11, 8 p.m., Green Space, 37-24 24 St., Long Island City. $20 advance; $25 at door. Info: (718) 956-3037, greenspacestudio.org.

Take Root, with Edgar Cortes Dance Theater and Dance Visions NY. Fri.-Sat., May 17-18, 8 p.m. $17; $20 cash at door; $22 credit card; free for teens as part of Teen Arts Week. Fertile Ground, featuring multiple dance troupes and post-performance discussion with wine, moderated by Valerie Green. Sun., May 19, 7 p.m. $15; free teens.

Both part of monthly series at Green Space, 37-24 24 St., Long Island City. Info: (718) 956-3037, greenspacestudio.org.

FILM

THEATRE “Caroline, or Change,” a musical about the uneasy friendship between a young Jewish boy and his family’s black maid in 1963 Louisiana, by the Astoria Performing Arts Center. Each Thu.Fri., 8 p.m.; each Sat., 2 and 8 p.m. through May 25 (post-show discussions after Sat., May 11 and 18 matinees), Variety Boys & Girls Club of Queens, 21-12 30 Road, entrance on 21 St. $25; $20 students, seniors. Info: (718) 706-5750, apacny.org.

New York Greek Film Expo, with the last four movies screening, including “Refuge II: The Ice Path,” above. Thu., May 9 and Sat., May 11 (each film at a different time), Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes museum admission. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

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The dark humor found in killing a president

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An intense, generally satisfying rendering of the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical “Assassins” is the current attraction at The Secret Theatre in Long Island City, where it runs through May 12.

A powerful cast and imaginative staging make for an intriguing take on this story of a group of disaffected men and women who, in pursuit of their personal dreams and happiness, either assassinated a president of the United States or, at the very least, made an attempt to do so.

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‘Assassins’ When: Thu.-Sat., May 9-11, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., May 12, 5 p.m.

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casting. On occasion, the practice might make for an intere s t i n g dynamic. But enough is enough!

McLean Peterson is a talented and attractive actress, with a fine set of pipes and strong dramatic skills. But in no way is she right for the role of Lee Harvey Oswald, a well-recognized historical figure, the man remembered for ending the life of President John F. Kennedy on that November day in Dallas.

Traditionally, the performer playing Oswald doubles as the show’s narrator, identified as The Balladeer, who provides, in song, background on the other characters.

In this capacity, Peterson is fine. But once she is transformed into Oswald, all credibility is out the window.

Outstanding among the other players is Evan Teich, intense and in fine voice as John Wilkes Booth, revered by his fellow assas-

Killers and would-be killers hold their guns high in “Assassins.” At left, Grant Snuffer, right, PHOTO BY CARRINGTON SPIRES as the Proprietor and Jonmichael Tarleton as Charles J. Guiteau. sins for his role in American history.

Jaime Hall is memorable as the lesserknown Samuel Byck, an outspoken critic of President Nixon who, long before 9/11, planned to hijack an airplane and crash it into the White House. He delivers a lengthy tirade that is, at once, off-the-wall, touching,

and even surprisingly comical.

A beautifully played scene between Hannah Howzdy as a loopy Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme and Leeanna Rubin as unhinged Sara Jane Moore is another highlight, as the two women reminisce about their mutual continued on page 00 37

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Jef. Lawrence, left, as Daniel Corban, Frank Freeman as Father Kelleher, Frank DiSpigno as Inspector Levine and Terri Matassov as Elizabeth in “Catch Me If You Can.” PHOTO BY MARK LORD

Take my wife, please! creepiness), arrives, bringing with him a woman who identifies herself as Elizabeth, Things are seldom what they seem in though Corban insists this is not his wife.

“Catch Me If You Can,” the comical mystery Terri Matassov brings an artificiality to the (or should that be the mysterious comedy?) role, which might be exactly what is called running at Douglaston Community Theatre for. The mystery begins.

Handling the case is Inspector Levine through May 11. And that’s exactly how it (Frank DiSpigno), a distracted, seemingly should be in plays of this sort.

Though they share a title, this work has inept person who suggests on every possible nothing else in common with the famous occasion that he wishes such an attractive motion picture that stars Leonardo DiCaprio. woman would insist she was his wife.

It was written by Jack Weinstock and Willie DiSpigno is a cross between television’s Gilbert, based on a French play by Robert Detective Columbo and a Borscht Belt Thomas, and made its Broadway debut in comic, wholly appropriate seeing the Catskill 1965. It ran only three months at the time, Mountains setting.

Adding to the confusion are appearances but it has continued to attract audiences in community theaters ever since. This produc- by Sidney, a sandwich shop owner (a scenetion was directed by Bernard Bosio with an stealing Gary Tifeld, a late replacement in the cast), and Corban’s boss, Everett Parker eye on keeping the audience off balance.

As the play begins, an anxiety-filled new- (Marty Edelstein) and his other half (Renee lywed named Daniel Corban (an under- Cohn).

Edelstein and Cohn, in cameo roles, both standably hyper Jef. Lawrence) anxiously awaits the return of his missing bride, Eliza- came off as under-rehearsed on last Friday’s beth. Before long, a man of the cloth, Father opening night, which also found several of Kelleher (Frank Freeman, an effective com- the other actors searching for lines, an issue bination of q quiet tranquility q y and unnerving g likelyy to be abated over time.

Ian McDonald’s detailed set of a summer lodge is a throwback to a time long gone. Tifeld’s sound When: Fri.-Sat., May 10-11, 8 p.m.; effects are, well, effective!

Sat., May 11, 2 p.m.

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Classical tastes in contemporary times continued from page 00 31 RAM also curated works and performances from within its own ranks.

Winning proposals this year include the Carpe Diem String Quartet, violinist Kinga Augustyn, the AEON Ensemble, Nelson Ojeda performing the music of Jose Luis Greco, Iktus Duo, pianist Ju-Ping Song and NakedEye Ensemble.

Pianist Kathleen Supové, appearing at 8 p.m. on May 18, will be the headline performer.

She will present “At Home in My Skin,” described as a journey toward “finding a home in the world and within one’s self.”

Among other performances, an 8 p.m. concert on Mayy 17 will pay p y tribute to Joan

Tower, whose “Made in America” won three Grammy Awards in 2008 in classical and orchestral categories.

The performance also will feature the works of Nicolai Jacobsen and Niloufar Nourbakhsh, winners of RAM’s 2019 Call for Scores.

Galindo called the festival the largest of its kind outside of Manhattan. And When: Tues., May 14-Sun., May 19, he said it benefits from a large crossover various times crowd with the LIC Arts Open, which Where: The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., features painters, sculptors, collagists Long Island City and artists working in other mediums opening their studios, lofts and other Tickets: $20; $15 students, free under 13; spaces throughout LIC between May 15 two free shows for all; combos and 19. available. ram-nyc.org/events.

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NakedEye Ensemble, above, and Iktus Duo, left, are among the performers at this year’s Queens New Music Festival. On the cover: Clockwise from top right are pianist Kathleen Supové, Ju-Ping Song, Jose Luis Greco, Kinga Augustyn and the Carpe Diem COURTESY PHOTOS String Quartet. titled “Spirituals & Art Songs” at the opening of the LIC Arts Open at 5:30 p.m. on May 15. Another free performance will feature Iktus Duo at 7:30 p.m. on May 18.

The Queens New Music Festival will conclude beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday,

May 19, with a performance of music by Ned Rorem and Olivier Messiaen’s “Quatur Pour le Fin du Temps,” featuring RAM players, including clarinetist Thomas Piercy, violinist Laura Jean Goldberg, cellist Kate DillQ ingham and pianist Marija Ilic.

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‘It’s getting late early’

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

When the Mets got swept by the Brewers in Milwaukee last weekend, their season record dropped to 16-18, which put them below the .500 mark for the first time in 2019.

You couldn’t blame Mets fans for thinking of a quote long attributed to the late Yogi Berra — “It’s deja vu all over again” — after the Milwaukee losses. In the past two years, when the team fell below .500, they never rose above it.

Ironically the Mets’ latest malaise is occurring when the pitching, both starting and relief, which had been atrocious for most of April, was actually performing quite well. The culprits now are poor hitting and shoddy fielding.

The offense, except for Jeff McNeil and Pete Alonso, has resembled the 2015 days when the heart of the Mets lineup was Eric Campbell and John Mayberry Jr., with both hitting sub-.200.

The defense has been victimized primarily by shortstop Amed Rosario, who has become an error machine. Then on Sunday the normally reliable Keon Broxton misjudged a line drive smacked by Milwaukee’s Orlando Arcia, and it proved pivotal in the 3-2 loss.

Adding to the Flushing faithful’s concerns is that starting pitchers Jason Vargas and Steven Matz are reporting ailments. Vargas was pulled after four innings Sunday because of hamstring pain while Matz complained of forearm pain.

We’re going to quickly find out whether the 2019 Mets are a resilient group or that the theme for this season will be once again the parody tag line from those cheesy Life Alert TV commercials, “We’ve fallen and we can’t get up!”

The Mets sent first baseman Dominic Smith down to their Syracuse minor league team.

Smith had played well but through no fault of his own was riding the bench because of Alonso’s fine play, which netted him the National League Rookie of the Month for April.

The conventional wisdom is that Mets General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen parked Smith there until he can work on a trade. That may be a big mistake. Given that Brandon Nimmo has struggled to hit .200 this year, it would behoove Van Wagenen to tell Syracuse to play Smith in both left field and first base.

Smith told me last week that he quit his Dominican Republic winter league team when his manager wouldn’t let him play outfield, which would have increased his versatility.

One bright spot for the Mets was Noah Syndergaard’s 1-0 complete game victory against the Cincinnati Reds last Thursday, in which Thor also provided the offense by smacking a home run. It was arguably the most memorable day for a Mets pitcher at Citi Field since Johan Q Santana’s June 1, 2012 no-hitter.

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Jacob Walter Schwab was born in Brooklyn on May 3, 1892. Armed with only two years of high school educat ion, he became the treasurer of Un it ed Merch a nt s a nd Manufacturers in 1922. In 1937 he opened a pilot clothing store in Waterbury, Conn. and named it The Robert Hall Clothes store at 138-02 Northern Blvd. at “Robert Hall.” His concept Union St. in Flushing, summer 1950. was low overhead in a large warehouse-like facility, a forerun- things later went south. In July 1977 the ner of today’s “big box” stores. He satu- company filed for bankruptcy protecrated the media and radio with repeti- tion after losing over $100 million over tive music jingles. It clicked. By 1946 three years. All 367 Robert Hall stores he was listed as one of the highest-paid were sold in summer 1977 for $35 milexecutives in America, making over lion. Jacob Schwab passed away in Manhattan at age 90 in 1982. $440,000 a year.

Parent company United Merchants By 1949 there were 75 Robert Hall stores coast to coast. In Queens there and Manufacturers is still alive and well were shops in Jamaica, Flushing, Sun- today. The former Robert Hall at Northnyside and Astoria. Schwab’s son, Mar- ern Boulevard and Union Street is now Q tin, took over as president in 1968. But the home of The Bank of Hope.

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Free. Info: (718) 894-2178, musicareginae.org.

Spring Bird Walk for Beginners, with kids 8 and up accompanied by an adult birding in marshland, bringing binoculars if they have them. Sat., May 11, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. Free. Info/pre-registration (required): (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com.

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St. Margaret’s Boy Scout Troop 119, of Middle Village, seeks adult leadership as well as boys 10 and older to be Scouts. Meets every Tue., 7:15-9 p.m., St. Margaret’s Parish Hall, 66-05 79 Place.

Info: (718) 894-4099, (718) 440-7629.

LECTURES/TALKS Martha Reeves, with the Motown singer and actress best known for her hits with the Vandellas such as “Dancing in the Street,” “Heat Wave and “Nowhere to Run,” on her career as a performer.

Fri., May 10, 8 p.m., Black Spectrum Theatre, Roy Wilkins Park, 177 St. and Baisley Blvd., Jamaica. $25. Info: (718) 723-1800, blackspectrum.com.

The Women who Saved the Birds, about the fight against hats adorned with feathers or entire birds over a century ago, by author Tessa Boase, with her book “Mrs. Pankhurst’s Purple Feather” available for sale. Wed., May 15, 8 p.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. Free. Info: (718) 229-4000, qcbirdclub.org.

Lewy body dementia, with information on “the disease you’ve never heard of,” which causes a progressive decline in mental abilities, by Norma Loeb of NYU Winthrop Hospital, at open meeting of National Council of Jewish Women/Lakeview Section. Tue., May 21, 12 p.m., Temple Tikvah, 3315 Hillside Ave., New Hyde Park, LI. Free. Info: (718) 343-6222.

SPECIAL EVENTS Letter Carriers’ Food Drive, the annual collection of nonperishable items for donation to area food banks, with participants leaving them in bags near home mailboxes. Sat., May 11. Info: (718) 849-4050, nalcbr562@aol.com.

LIC Springs!, a community block party with activities, art, food, fitness, music and more. Sat., May 11, 12-5 p.m., Vernon Blvd. between 46th

and 50th Aves., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 786-5300, longislandcityqueens.com.

Bell Blvd Food & Music Fest, with more than 35 restaurants offering cuisine of all kinds, live music of many genres, dancing, skee ball, mini golf, other games and more. Sun., May 19, 2-6 p.m., Bell Blvd. between 38 and 43 Aves., Bayside. $30 (for food; all else free); $12 kids; $40 day of; $15 kids. Info: (718) 423-2434, baysidevillagebid.com.

Residential shredding event, with participants able to bring up to three bags or boxes of paper; and info on AARP Chapter 2819 and applications to join available. Tue., May 14, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. (or until truck is full), Bowne Park, 156 St. and 32 Ave., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 639-0699.

Sheep Shearing Festival, with the farm animals getting their fleece cut, wool spinning demos, crafts, music, hayrides, beer garden and more.

Sat., May 11, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy., Floral Park. $5; $8 at door. Info: (718) 347-3276, queensfarm.org.

TOURS/HIKES Bird Walk with NYC Audubon, an exploration of avian life at the Queens Botanical Garden and how resources like food, shelter and water are provided there. Sat., May 18, Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. Free with admission: $6; $4 seniors; $4 students; $2 kids over 3. Info/registration (required): (718) 8863800, queensbotanical.org.

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS Writing From the Heart: a workshop in creative writing, for those who want to start or improve their writing in a supportive atmosphere, with author and longtime Queens College instructor Maxine Fisher; and participants attending any or all classes. Each Sat. through June 29, 12 p.m., Maspeth Library, 69-70 Grand Ave. Free.

Info: (718) 639-5228, queenslibrary.org.

MARKETS Italian Charities of America flea market, with new, used, vintage and unique items, refreshments and food; vendor tables available at $25.

Sat., May 11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. Info: (718) 478-3100.

St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church Flea Market, outdoors, with 160 vendors. Every Sat.-Sun. until Nov., 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Union Tpke. and Parsons Blvd.-150 St., Jamaica. Info: (718) 969-3226.

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

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The design team, Steven Bolt (set), Ashley James (costumes) and Annie Garrett-Larsen (lights), honed their contributions into a unified whole.

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by Fromme to be the Messiah. Rubin puts her expressive face to good use on multiple occasions throughout the show.

Jonmichael Tarleton is a manic Charles J. Guiteau, whose request to become ambassador to France was denied, inspiring him to kill President James Garfield. He has a grand time in his one big number, sung on his way to the gallows.

“I am going to the Lordy,” he proclaims, as the work of choreographer Christophe Noffke demonstrates that ingenuity often carries the day. It is brilliantly staged and executed.

Aaron Gooden cuts an imposing figure in a sympathetic portrayal of Leon Czolgosz, a down-on-his-luck factory worker.

Robert Farruggia puts his fine tenor voice to good use as Giuseppe Zangara, who suffered from lifelong stomach pain and who was sent to the electric chair following his attempt on the life of FDR. Tim Realbuto has his moment to shine as John Hinckley Jr., singing of his love for actress Jodie Foster.

Savannah Lloyd has a memorable cameo as anarchist Emma Goldman. Grant Snuffer is appropriately sinister as The Proprietor, who beckons potential customers to “kill a president.”

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