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There will be no swimming, surfing or tanning along an 11-block stretch of Rockaway Beach that will be closed off this summer due to erosion.

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DA awaiting NYPD’s word on weed cases After backlash, de Blasio calls for changes in marijuana enforcement

by Anthony O’Reilly

An analysis by The New York Times found that black and Hispanic people are ueens District Attorney Richard eight and five times, respectively, more likely Brown is in no rush to change his to be arrested for smoking pot than white marijuana enforcement policy — people.

“We must and we will end unnecessary even as the city, and possibly the state, arrests and end disparity in enforcement,” de begin to look at changing their rules on pot.

“In my view, the wisest course for all of us Blasio said at the Center for American Progat this point is to allow the Police Commis- ress’ Ideas Conference. “It’s time for those to be a thing of the past s i o n e r ’s Wo r k i n g in New York City and Group to do its job,” all over this country.”

Brown said in a letter am confident that The mayor on Monto a group of elected d ay said he will officials who had asked the resulting report instruct the NYPD to him to end the prosecuwill help shape our issue summonses to tion of those caught of those caught smoking weed in pubdetermination for what most smok i ng i n public, lic. “I am confident rather than arresting that the resulting report is best for our city.” them. will help shape our — Queens District Attorney Further steps will determination of what Richard Brown be taken by the city, de is best for our city.”

Blasio added, as the The district attorney was referring to a group formed by state continues to look into possibly legalizPolice Commissioner James O’Neill last ing recreational marijuana; medicinal mariweek, empaneled after Mayor de Blasio juana is already legal in this state. Gov. announced he would be instructing the Cuomo recently has said he’d be supportive NYPD to change its policy on marijuana of making pot smoking legal, saying neighenforcement in an effort to end the racial dis- boring states have or are planning to do soon.

O’Neill, in a statement, acknowledged parity of those arrested for holding or smokracial disparity in arrests must end but denied ing cannabis.

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despite the racial disparity in arrests, that white and black neighborhoods had similar levels of 911 and 311 calls about pot use.

Unlike Brown, one district attorney is not waiting for the NYPD’s report to change his policy. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced last week his office would stop prosecuting most marijuana possession continued on page 22

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Holden looking to serve new courts But Parks would have to damage good ones to repair broken space

by Anthony O’Reilly Editor

The Parks Department would have to cause “significant damage” to the seven working Forest Park tennis courts to repair another seven in need of repair, the agency told the Queens Chronicle last Friday.

“This is a challenging project, because steep slopes and dense tree root zones surrounding the courts inhibit access for construction equipment required to get t he job done,” a Pa rk s Depa r t ment spokeswoman said in an email. “In order to reach the eastern courts, equipment would need to drive over the western cour ts, likely resulting in signif icant damage.”

But Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) believes there’s another way to repair the deteriorated playing space, which has been off-limits to the public for years and has fallen into a state of disrepair.

“I have friends who are contractors,” the councilman said at last Thursday’s Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association meeting. “I’ll ask them to figure it out and give me an estimate.”

Holden has been trying since he took office earlier this year to get the unplayable courts fixed — and he thought he had secured the necessary funding for the project. The councilman told the civic he allocated about $2 million to repair the easter n courts, but was later told the

Councilman Bob Holden is trying to find a way to fix the bad Forest Park tennis courts, without having heavy equipment driven over the good ones, inset, and damaging them. The Parks FILE PHOTOS Department says there’s no way to do that.

Pa rk s Depa r t ment wou ld need $ 4.5 million.

“Ridiculous,” several WRBA board members said in response.

That money would go to bringing the heavy equipment through the western space, fixing the bad courts and then

restoring the ones that are good now, which were repaved about seven years ago.

“I believe our taxpayer dollars should last a little more than six or seven years,” Holden said. “I’m not accepting it.”

Officials have said the steep slope sep-

arating Park Lane South from the courts is what makes it difficult for the eastern side to be repaved without hurting the western.

In addition to that, the pedestrian path surrounding the space is 8 feet wide and lined with mature trees on one side and a chain link fence on the other, making it difficult for any equipment to get through.

Woodhaven residents almost received help from the U.S. Tennis Association in 2014, when the organization was seeking to refurbish courts somewhere in Queens.

Forest Park almost got the honor, but lost out to Juniper Valley Park.

The USTA told the Chronicle last year the “natural geography” of the park made it difficult to carry out the work.

The group is not opposed to looking at Forest Park again in the future.

Holden also blasted the Parks Department in general, saying it spends too much money on projects. He pointed out that a bathroom in Elmhurst Park on Grand Avenue was built at a cost of $2.3 million.

“We could build a small mansion for that,” the councilman said.

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Molloy High School to honor Karina Vetrano Event will benefit scholarship fund in alumna’s name

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A rchbishop Mol loy H ig h School next month will once again honor alumna Karina Vetrano during an 11-hour walk/run in an effort to raise money for a scholarship fund set up in her name.

The # RunForKarina event will take place June 23 at the Briarwood high school, located at 83-53 Manton St. A memorial Mass will take place at 9:30 a.m. Walkers and runners will begin circling the track at 11 a.m. and continue until 10 p.m. Eleven, the time the event starts and the total number of hours people will circle the track, was Vetrano’s favorite number.

Vetrano was an avid runner who was killed in Spring Creek

Park in Howard Beach on Aug. 2, 2016 during her daily jog.

Her accused killer, Chanel Lewis, faces life in prison without parole if convicted.

This is the second year in a row that Molloy will honor the 2004 graduate.

The same event was held last June, but started at night and concluded the next morning.

Phil Vetrano, Karina’s father and a 1974 Molloy graduate, started the 2017 event by running a lap by himself before dozens of others joined him.

H e of t e n r a n w i t h h i s daughter.

A bench at the school was dedicated to the former student at the end of last year’s event with the inscription, “Forever in

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A kid’s race will take place at 2 and a 5K will start at 3 p.m.

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Part of Rockaway Beach to be closed City cites erosion they were warned about by area civics, politicians

by Anthony O’Reilly Editor

Short of trucking in sand on their own, Rockaway activists did everything in their power to protect their beaches. They protested, wrote to their elected officials and discussed the issue of erosion face-to-face with Mayor de Blasio last December.

But in the end, it was not enough.

“They should be closed for the construction of the beaches, not this,” John Cori, founder of Friends of Rockaway Beach, told the Queens Chronicle.

The city Parks Department announced on Monday that an 11-block section of Rockaway Beach, between Beach 91st and Beach 102nd streets, will be closed indefinitely due to the erosion of the sand there.

“This decision was made in the interest of safety, and that will always remain our top priority,” Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver said in a statement. “The rebirth of Rockaway Beach stands as a symbol of this community’s strength and determination to move forward after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, so having to close even just a small portion of it is very difficult for us.”

The boardwalk along that stretch will still be open, as will the concessions and bathrooms at Beach 97th Street, but there will be no access to the water.

The agency said the erosion of sand — caused by waves and currents washing it away, causing the shoreline to become narrower and dip in elevation — made it so there is no longer enough beach for people to safely swim or soak up some rays. At some points, the waves wash all the way up to the boardwalk.

But the city can’t claim it wasn’t warned about the problem.

“We have been seeing this since 2013,” Cori said.

Multiple groups and elected officials brought the issue of erosion to the city and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, asking both to replenish the sand and add protective measures such as more rock groins and jetties to prevent additional sand from being washed away.

This photo, taken by a drone, shows the difference in sand along parts of Rockaway Beach. An 11-block section of the area will be closed off to beach-goers this summer due to erosion. FILE PHOTO Following Sandy, the Army Corps placed 3.7 million cubic yards of sand at the beach.

Area residents, though, say they’re more at risk now than before the storm because most of that has since been washed away.

Off icials were incensed at the city’s decision.

“We have been demanding sand and resiliency measures for our beaches for YEARS — and this is how the city reacts by closing 12 blocks of the beach?” Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) said in a statement. “That’s not a solution. Residents and beach-goers should be able to take full advantage of our city beaches and community — the City failed us by not taking action earlier, it’s simply unacceptable.”

Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) said, “This is an insult to the thousands of residents who have been tirelessly fighting for sand on our beaches ... It is a disgrace that the Parks Department would rather ignore the problem than work to address the needs of this community.”

Many fear the closure will affect nearby businesses and vendors along that stretch.

“The Army Corps of Engineers knew that this portion of the beach needed attention and should have acted years ago to remedy this sit uation,” state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said in a statement. “Now, the people and businesses of Rockaway that depend on the summer season will suffer because of their lack of action.”

Cori asked de Blasio during a town hall in Rockaway last December to help fortify the beaches. The mayor met with the USACE weeks after that, but no action ever came out of that meeting.

The federal agency is scheduled to release a draft Rockaway and Jamaica Bay Reformulation Project report in August, which will outline ways to protect the peninsula and neighboring coastal areas.

The USACE did not respond to a request for comment on this story.

U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) is requesting a meeting with city and federal leaders to discuss the next steps.

“Since Hurricane Sandy ravaged the Rockaways, I have worked side by side with the Army Corps of Engineers to allocate millions

in funding to study, repair, and safeguard our coast from future storms,” Meeks said in a prepared statement. “While I understand that an unprecedented four Nor’easters impacted New York this spring, the need for sand replenishment should have been identified sooner so that a solution could have been reached.”

Others are preparing to mourn. Rockaway activist Jean Belford is organizing a “funeral” for the beach, which will take place at Beach 108th Street on Friday at 11 a.m. She’s asking people to arrive in all black with black umbrellas and “RIP Rockaway Beach” signs.

“This is going to happen no matter what,” Belford said. “So if it’s going to continue anyway, there should just be a funeral.”

She also noted that the Parks Department’s decision is the latest in a stretch of bad news for the peninsula — part of the A train will be shut down for repair work and another homeless shelter is expected to come to the area.

The USACE recently completed construction on groins and jetties in Long Beach, LI, and Rockaway residents wonder when it will be their turn.

“They’re the answer to keeping the beaches in place,” Cori said.

One person doesn’t seem to think so. Sailing enthusiast and investment manager Bruce Stone said in a letter to the editor this week, “If you fly out of JFK and look down at the entire stretch of the Rockaways, you will note that the build-up of sand on one side of a groin is only half of the sand lost on the other side, as the low pressure causes waves to wraparound and scour out the beach. Therefore, adding a groin is robbing Peter to pay Paul.”

He suggests installing breakwaters parallel to the beach to “mitigate extreme waves hitting straight-on during storms.”

This isn’t the first time erosion has closed part of the beach in Rockaway. In 1973, according to a New York Times piece at the time, 13 blocks of the beach had to be shut down until the sand could be replenished. A city official back then said the beaches “were quickly becoming a ‘natural disaster area,’” Q according to The Times.

Could the SBS stops finally get trash cans?

by Anthony O’Reilly Editor

The Departments of Sanitation and Transportation are looking into the possibility of placing trash bins on the median bus stops at Woodhaven Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue.

Nicholas Circharo, community affairs liaison for the DSNY, said at the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association meeting last Thursday placing the bins there would require removing a portion of the fence separating the median stop from the Woodhaven Boulevard service road. The trucks

DOT, DSNY looking into the possibility would stop on the service road to pick up the refuse from the bins if they’re placed there.

Circharo did not give a timeline for when they might be, but said the DSNY and DOT commissioners will be meeting about it in the near future.

The DOT did not put bins at the median bus stops when it implemented SBS along the corridor last November, causing litter to pile up on the benches and the platform.

“DOT is working with DSNY and reviewing available options to keep the

median bus stops clean along the SBS corridor,” a DOT spokesman said.

Circharo said the garbage would be picked up twice a week by DSNY, and that the agency would partner with nonprofits to add additional pickup days.

“It’s going to have to be more than just two days,” he said.

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Trash has piled up at the SBS median bus FILE PHOTO stops on Woodhaven Boulevard.

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P Bite the bullet ... train, and bus EDITORIAL

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ew NYC Transit President Andy Byford, the Briton who came here after heading transit systems in Australia and Canada, just proffered a $37 billion, 10-year plan to fix the subways and buses.

Cheerio, it’s a good one, mate, eh?

Now what he needs is the funding — $19 billion for the first five years — and that means the political support of officials who’ll be out of office by the time many of the benefits are realized. We’re talking primarily Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio. Cuomo has control of the MTA, which operates the system, and de Blasio has responsibility too, because the city owns the decaying infrastructure the trains run on, and has a bit of say on how the buses move, via the DOT. State and city lawmakers alike, not to mention the public, should pressure

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these two executives to set their squabbles aside, look beyond their short-term interests and back Byford’s proposal. The need is tremendous, as anyone who rides the once-revolutionary but now outdated subways, or the slow-as-snails buses, or the unwieldy and unreliable Access-A-Ride paratransit vans can tell you.

That means getting priorities straight. Cuomo has had a couple big bridges built, and they were necessary, but now’s the time to focus on the less glamorous work of transportation maintenance, repairs and upgrades. De Blasio should show at least as much enthusiasm for the systems that serve millions as he does for alternative means of transportation.

As the Streetsblog group recently said on Twitter, “It’s wild that the mayor of one of the world’s great transit cities

thinks ferries and streetcars are going to solve our problems.” Ferries are great but can’t get you from Jamaica to Forest Hills. And the mayor’s Brooklyn-Queens hipster trolley plan is a nonstarter.

Byford’s plan is the real deal. He wants to modernize those ancient subway signal systems, buy hundreds of new cars and thousands of new buses, upgrade stations and more.

The plan would cause pain, with subway lines at times shut down offpeak to get the work done quicker, for example. But adults know it’s best to pull the Band-Aid off rapidly.

Political energy and public dollars need to go where they’re needed most, and right now in New York, the transit system is at the top of the list. Let’s make it world-class again using Byford’s world of global experience.

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aul Friedman has an ax to grind with the city.

Though he’d much rather use a chainsaw.

Like many in Queens, Friedman is dealing with property damage from a city tree, whose roots have been cracking his driveway for years. But he’s in bureaucratic limbo: The tree is eligible for removal but his case is low priority, and the Parks Department flat-out says it’s unlikely to get to him. He’d cut it down himself, but that’s illegal.

Friedman and state Sen. Tony Avella reiterated this dopey situation at a press conference last Thursday [see separate story in some editions or at qchron.com].

We here at the Chronicle have a solution!

It took some real thinking outside the box, but here it is.

How about changing the law so that when a tree is on the removal list but will never actually be cut down, the homeowner is allowed to do the job? And if he or she chooses to hire someone for it, the city could just pay the bill.

Trees are vital to our lives and should not be killed for light and transient causes. But some must come down. And a free citizenry shouldn’t be told only the government can do something it will never get around to actually doing.

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south of Cancun, Mexico.

The actual solution is to remove all the groins, thereby allowing the natural deposition of fresh sand up and down the beaches as currents switch back and forth, and instead install breakwaters parallel to the beach to mitigate extreme waves hitting straight on during storms. Not a dime should be spent on more groins.

Bruce Stone San Francisco The writer is a former resident of Manhattan and a noted champion sailor.

Too many people and cars Dear Editor: According to the story, “We failed Giovanni and five other children” (May 10, multiple editions), over 100 people met to pay tribute to the latest child killed in a hit-and-run accident on Northern Boulevard — there have been five

others. Proposals to make the street safer were offered including expanded use of speed safety cameras and a bill to increase penalties for those guilty of hit-and-run accidents.

In the article on the next page (Mid and Western Queens editions), which was about how difficult it is to cross Northern Boulevard, Assemblyman Michael Den Dekker said, “Pedestrians and traffic in New York City have reached astronomical proportions.” We have all seen it. The roads are often choked with traffic.

There are too many cars.

In the same issue of the Queens Chronicle is the story about the major development on Queens Boulevard. Somebody wants to build an apartment complex, which would feature two huge towers with 561 apartments and retail space. But, before this can happen, the area would have to be rezoned.

As Assemblyman Den Dekker said, “pedestrians and traffic in New York City have reached astronomical proportions.” So why

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Too much liberty on Liberty Dear Editor: On Liberty Avenue near Lefferts Boulevard, people don’t obey laws and do what they want because there is no discouragement. They park in crosswalks making people walk into traffic to cross streets. They block bus stops and put bags of household garbage in corner receptacles. I have seen mattresses, furniture, electronics and even a full-size gas barbecue grill.

Cars block driveways and double-park leaving the vehicle unattended while they run into a store. I’ve seen emergency vehicles not able to go down a block because an unattended vehicle is blocking the way. Stores are placing displays and racks by the curb when they are only allowed a display 3 feet from the store. They are also blasting music from large speakers in front of the store.

The worst offense is the thundering bass and music coming from cars driving down the avenue or parked waiting for the return of passengers. This is a distraction to drivers and even pedestrians. You can’t hear emergency vehicles or pay attention to where you are walking if your attention is being diverted. This loud music and bass occurs every day and is worse on weekends, from early morning until late evening. Just on one avenue block last Sunday, loud music was coming from one store, two parked cars and two cars waiting at a light. This is repeated many times during the day. This is ridiculous and hell for homeowners and apartment dwellers near Liberty who have to put up with this daily. Tickets/fines should be given for these offenses and given repeatedly or they won’t stop.

Joanne Zuewski South Richmond Hill

Trump vs. the rule of law Dear Editor: This past Sunday the president ordered an investigation into the Department of Justice’s use of an informant to investigate his campaign. While seemingly innocuous, this is a very dangerous assault on the rule of law in our country. It is an unprecedented step to make this wholly unfounded and political demand that those investigating the president for crimes against the United States be investigated themselves.

Even more dangerous, this is a time-tested tactic of authoritarian leaders seeking to consolidate power. The playbook is to attack the rule of law under the guise of ferreting out “corruption.� It amounts to a president using his office and the machinery of our government to undermine the rule of law. The long list of impeachable official misconduct continues unabated.

That this misconduct now occurs without bipartisan rebuke and calls for removal speaks to how far off the rails the state of our politics has come. It is not in the least bit normal. We must not lose sight of this reality. For that is what authoritarian leaders desire. We must hold our members of Congress to account. As of this writing, not a single one has spoken out about this latest assault on the Republic.

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The benefits of bike lanes Dear Editor: When my family moved to Queens nearly 100 years ago, Hoffman Boulevard hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet been widened into the expanse of asphalt and concrete now known as Queens Boulevard. In one of his articles about growing up in Forest Hills, my grandfather, a New York Times columnist, reminisced about witnessing the construction: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Workers had begun to tunnel under Queens Boulevard to carry the Independent line, now one of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s busiest, and some older kids dared to ride their bikes in the unfinished underground hole.â&#x20AC;?

The demand for space to bike on Queens Boulevard is older than the modern street itself and the recent installation of protected bike

lanes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a key feature of the safety redesign â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has been especially transformative for me.

Before the lanes extended through Rego Park, I was afraid to ride on Queens Boulevard, and by extension, to most parts of the city.

Now, biking is my default form of transportation. It has saved me hundreds of dollars, freed me from the mercy of # CuomosMTA, improved my health and enabled trips at all times in all weather, even through the winter.

I love being on the surface, no longer forced underground. I watch the city skyline rise before me as I crest the hills riding west, and I coast effortlessly down towards Yellowstone to the east.

But there the bike lane ends. After Yellowstone, I continue on Queens Boulevard, pedaling uphill, sandwiched between speeding traffic and parked (and double-parked) cars, in danger of getting doored, sideswiped or rear-ended.

The conditions through Forest Hills are unsafe, but riding on Queens Boulevard is necessary, for me and for many others who live or work here. Each cyclist is one fewer car clogging up Queens Boulevard for those who truly need to drive, but we need the bike lanes extended so that people from all walks of life can safely access the benefits of riding.

The Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ride on Queens Boulevard in March underscored this pent-up demand.

While the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Queens Bike Familyâ&#x20AC;? organized the ride to highlight the gender disparity in cycling in New York City, it also showcased how much more inviting the boulevard has become for cyclists. Participantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ages ranged from 10 to 75, many of them riding on Queens Boulevard for the first time, learning as I did only months ago just how quickly a dangerous boulevard can transform.

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should anyone build these huge towers so there can be just that many more people crammed into the neighborhood and just that many more cars to be speeding around to kill people? And why would anyone allow rezoning so this could happen?

Maybe we do need more speed safety cameras and larger penalties for those guilty of hitand-run accidents, but another proposal is not to allow a huge apartment complex to put the community under the stress of so many more people and cars added to it.

Susan Reuter Glendale

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Cops on the hunt for graffiti vandals 102nd Precinct looking for ‘Deel’; Cross Bay storefront site tagged

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for someone who tagged a recently renovated storefront site in Howard Beach.

The Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Cops in the 102nd and 106th precincts are on the hunt for graffiti vandals tagging sev- Association said on Facebook that glass panes on Cross Bay Boulevard between eral sites in South Queens.

Lt. Christopher Estrella told the Wood- 156th and 157th avenues were tagged. The haven Residents’ Block Association last owners of the site quickly cleaned the Thursday that he is looking for a serial street graffiti.

“Our [Neighborhood Coordination Offiartist who keeps spraying “Deel” throughout cers] have already been the command. alerted,” the civic said “We have a pretty on its Facebook page. go o d id e a of w h o e take graffiti very “They will canvas the ‘D e e l’ m i g h t b e ,” store ow ners video Est rella told the seriously in this cameras in an attempt residents. to identify the The lieutenant said community, as does per pet rator/s ... We the tag does not appear the 106th Pct.” take graffiti very serito be gang-related. ously in this communi“Deel” has been a — Howard Beach-Lindenwood ty, as does the 106th top priority for EstrelCivic Association Pct. Thank you 106 Pct. la, who handles all NCO’s and our woncases of graffiti in the derful Auxiliary’s for 102nd — which patrols Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven addressing this issue.”

New York City advises anyone who sees and the northern section of Ozone Park.

“I haven’t heard about that one because graffiti vandalism in progress to call 911, or I’ve been dealing with ‘Deel,’” he said in dial 311 to report a site that’s been tagged. response to a resident’s question about There is also a program for commercial building owners to have any spray paint or another graffiti artist.

The tagger had not been arrested by press other material removed from their property at no cost. time Wednesday afternoon.

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A Howard Beach storefront site was tagged with graffiti on Monday. Nearby, officers from the 102nd Precinct told Woodhaven residents they, too, are looking for a street “artist” vandalizing FACEBOOK PHOTO several properties. no, a community affairs cop with the 102, told the WRBA there are other ways the public can help with graffiti cleanup. The command, they said, accepts donations of paint.

Severino said they will accept all colors because they have to paint over multiple sites.

“If we have all white paint, but we have an orange building, it doesn’t do us any good,” Severino said.

The precinct also asks for any volunteers interested in helping out with cleanup operations to reach out. The community affairs Q unit can be reached at (718) 805-3215.

A lot of trash talk at Woodhaven civic Residents call on agency to punish those littering, not innocent people

by Anthony O’Reilly

other people in front of their property — some businesses have been issued thousands of dollars in violations.

Asked why the DSNY is able to write those tickets to A Sanitation Department official told the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association last Thursday that the those people, despite not seeing them do it, Circharo was agency would “love” to use camera footage in its unable to give a definite answer.

“I didn’t write the law,” he said. “I don’t know why enforcement of littering laws, but can’t because of the certain things need certain evidence.” law.

One resident, who lives near St. Thomas the Apostle “It does help our enforcement because usually its ritualized,” said Nicholas Circharo, community affairs liai- RC Church, said she keeps getting tickets despite bringing the issue to the DSNY and her son for the DSNY. “They do it elected officials. every morning. We would love to “I can sweep and three hours use the footage.” didn’t write the law. later I get a ticket because there’s Right now, Sanitation enforcethat much garbage,” she said. ment agents must catch a litterer I don’t know why Because she lives near the in the act to write him or her a certain things need church, the resident often sees litsummons and are not allowed to ter left behind following Mass, use video evidence against an certain evidence.” funerals, weddings and more. illegal dumper.

Additionally, she said, the trash C o u n c i l m a n B o b Hold e n — Nicholas Circharo, community affairs piles up in the sewer gate near her (D-Middle Village) said earlier in liaison for the Sanitation Department home. the meeting that he’d be interestThe state years ago banned the ed in writing a bill that would allow the agency to use surveillance equipment to keep curbside pickup of electronics.

Staten Island has had a pilot pickup program for years streets clean.

Litter laws are a top issue for the WRBA, and it’s dis- and Mayor de Blasio last April announced that it would cussed at almost every one of the civic’s meetings. become permanent there and expand to other boroughs Circharo was asked to appear at the May one to answer a over the next three years.

Circharo said it would come to Queens West, which few questions from WRBA President Steve Forte and includes Woodhaven, in the fall. other residents.

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Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) will not run alongside presumptive Republican gubernatorial candidate Marc Molinaro, after the Dutchess County executive chose Julie Killian to be his running mate.

Killian is the ex-deputy mayor of Rye — a small city in Westchester County — and former state Senate candidate, who in April lost to state Sen. Shelley Mayer (D-Westchester) in a special election to replace the county’s executive, George Latimer. She was picked by Molinaro three days before the state GOP’s Nominating Convention.

Ulrich was on the short list of candidates for lieutenant governor, along with former Nassau County State Sen. Jack Martins, Assemblywoman and 2017 mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island, Brooklyn) and former U.S. Rep. Nan Hayworth of Westchester County. “[Molinaro] and [Killian] will restore the public trust and put our great state back on track,” the councilman said on social media on Sunday.

Joann Ariola, chairwoman of the Queens County Republican Party, said she was “upset” Ulrich was not picked but will wholeheartedly support the ticket.

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Councilman Eric Ulrich will not be running for FILE PHOTO lieutenant governor.

“I trust Marc Molinaro has made a prudent choice and we will be supporting them 100 percent and see them to victory in November,” Ariola said.

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A Lindenwood resident is asking for speed humps on 84th Street near PS 232 after a single-car crash took place near the school on May 14.

“He was going at a high rate of speed,” Arnulfo Castillo said of the crash.

The vehicle flipped over onto the sidewalk and into a fence on the northeast corner of 84th Street and 153rd Avenue, across the street from PS 232.

Nobody was seriously injured or killed in the crash.

Castillo says it’s just one example of why the street needs speed humps. Under a plan by the resident, they would be placed between 155th and 153rd avenues, and 153rd and 151st.

Joann Ariola, president of the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association, said the resident should contact Community Board 10, which would help him start a petition for humps on the street.

Ariola is also a member of CB 10.

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Find the Memorial Day parade closest to you Walks all over Queens this weekend to honor our fallen servicemembers

by Christopher Barca Editor

It’s that time of year again. The long weekend when America comes together to honor the military men and women who gave their lives serving our nation.

Here in Queens, where unabashed patriotism is a hallmark of many neighborhoods, more than a half-dozen Memorial Day parades and other ceremonies are scheduled for this coming weekend.

So this weekend, grab your kids, your lawn chairs and your American flags and head down to one of these events if you want to pay your respects to those who have died on battlefields from Bunker Hill to Baghdad.

Little Neck-Douglaston Dubbed the largest such event in the country, the Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade — set for Monday — will be a special one this year, as the gathering will commemorate the 65th anniversary of the informal end of the Korean War. The day’s events begin with a 10 a.m. interfaith service at the Oakland Little Neck Jewish Center, followed by an 11:15 a.m. wreath-laying ceremony at the monument in the schoolyard of the Divine Wisdom Catholic Academy.

The parade itself will kick off at 2 p.m. from the corner of Jayson Avenue and Northern Boulevard. The procession down Northern Boulevard will end at the Divine Wisdom Catholic Academy, where a 4 p.m. concert and closing ceremony will be held.

This year’s grand marshal is Brig. Gen. William H. Seely III, a Bronze Star recipient who commanded the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion in Afghanistan and Iraq before serving as the Director of Marine Corps Intelligence until last year.

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Maspeth The citizens of the neighborhood live by the motto, “Maspeth is America,” and that’s evident in the popularity of the Memorial Day parade held there each May.

This year’s event will begin Sunday at 1 p.m., kicking off from the corner of 72nd Street and Grand Avenue.

The procession will continue down Grand Avenue until it reaches Maspeth Memorial Park at 69th Street, where a 2 p.m. memorial service will be held.

According to the United Veterans and Fraternal Organizations of Maspeth, the contingent of marchers will include eight bands, 60 Marines, a color guard, more than 1,000 civilians, floats, antique cars and military vehicles.

This year’s grand marshals are Kathleen Nealon and Frank Caruso.

The former is a Maspeth native and sales executive who sings the national anthem at Maspeth Federal Savings’ annual Sept. 11 ceremony. The latter is a Good Conduct Medal recipient who served four years in the Air Force — with his final year spent overseas with the 1877 Communication Squadrom in Vietnam during the conflict there.

Glendale/Ridgewood Glendale and Ridgewood combine to host an annual Memorial Day parade, with this year’s ceremony slated for 11 a.m. Monday.

That’s when — after an opening ceremony — the 80th annual parade will kick off from the corner of Myrtle and Cypress avenues and proceed down Myrtle to Cooper Avenue, where a closing ceremony will be held. Leading the procession will be grand marshal Raymond Whitman, a Korean War-era Army veteran.

Forest Hills Metropolitan Avenue will once again serve as the site of the Forest Hills parade, set for Sunday at 12 p.m. — an 11 a.m. opening ceremony in front of the neighborhood’s American Legion post at 107-15 Metropolitan Ave. will precede it.

The procession will conclude with a wreath-laying ceremony at Remsen Cemetery on Trotting Course Lane — the final resting place for members of the Remsen family who fought and died in the Revolutionary War.

Left! Right! Left, right, left! Groups of future military members like the Francis Lewis High School Patriot Battalion, seen here last year in Maspeth, will be marching in Memorial Day FILE PHOTOS parades all across Queens this coming holiday weekend.

The neighborhood’s Memorial Day festivities will actually begin a day early this year, as Our Lady of Mercy in Forest Hills will host a Mass for deceased military members on Saturday at 5 p.m.

The parade’s two grand marshals are Michael Arcati and Carla Jantos MacMullin, both residents of Forest Hills.

Arcati served as a staff judge advocate in Iraq and Djibouti while MacMullin is the first-ever head of the Kew-Forest School.

College Point The northern Queens neighborhood’s annual procession will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of 28th Avenue and College Point Boulevard and end at the corner of 5th Avenue and 119th Street.

Walking the route will be veterans, members of the FDNY and NYPD, marching bands, drill teams and more.

Serving as grand marshal is William Thumm, who served with the Army’s 9th Transport Company Airborne unit during the Vietnam War. Laurelton Residents of Southeast Queens will have two chances to see a parade on Monday, as Laurelton’s event will kick off at 9 a.m. sharp from the intersection of Francis Lewis and Merrick boulevards and end at the Laurelton Veterans Memorial Triangle.

Expect the sounds of bagpipes to fill the streets of Queens from Laurelton to College Point and Howard Beach to Douglaston this weekend.

Rosedale Two hours after Laurelton’s parade, the Rosedale procession will begun at the corner of 243rd Street and Mayda Road, with a performance from the Northeastern Conference Pathfinders Drum Corp kicking off the festivities.

The parade will come to a close at the Veterans and Vietnam Memorial Squares at Sunrise Highway and Francis Lewis Boulevard, followed by a reception and barbecue at the Laurelton-Rosedale American Legion Hall Post 483.

The grand marshals are Sgt. Lawrence Gallmon, an Air Force veteran, and former Community Board 13 chairman Bryan Block.

Howard Beach Residents of South Queens will have a chance to thank their neighborhood veterans on Monday starting at 11 a.m., when the Howard Beach parade kicks off at Coleman Square.

That’s where the procession will also end, with marchers making stops at war memorials throughout Old Howard Beach before lapping back to the square.

A pre-parade commemorative Mass will be held at 9:30 a.m. at Our Lady of Grace.

Woodhaven While Woodhaven doesn’t mark Memorial Day with a parade, residents do turn out to an annual ceremony. This year’s event will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Garden of Remembrance, located in front of American Legion Post 118 at 89-02 91 St. T he fa m i ly of Lt . H a r r y Jo s e ph Schmitt will be there to visit a marker at the post bearing the late Woodhaven veteran’s name.

Schmitt, an Air Force pilot, was killed 60 years ago this July when he crashed during a routine flight off the New Jersey coast.

Woodside Hosted by St. Sebastian Catholic War Veterans Post 870, Woodside’s Memorial Day parade, set for 11 a.m. Monday, will begin at the corner of Woodside Avenue and 57th Street.

Sunnyside Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2813 will host a Memorial Day ceremony at 10 a.m. on Monday at John Vincent Daniels Square — named for the neighborhood resident killed in action during World War I — locatQ ed at Roosevelt Avenue and 51st Street.

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Howard Beach Judea in need of UPK students Director says parents from other nabes were assigned there by DOE

by Anthony O’Reilly Editor

Lisa Pearlman-Mason, director of the Howard Beach Judea Center’s Universal Pre-K program, has been in this mess before — but it doesn’t mean she’s any less angry.

Pearlman-Mason was recently assigned 18 UPK students for the fall. The only problem? None are from Howard Beach.

“I got one from 103rd Avenue in Ozone Park, I got one that’s technically in Brooklyn,” she said. “I had one family that didn’t speak any English, they spoke Chinese ... I had to be on an interpreter line with them.”

Those families did not apply to send their students to UPK at the Judea Center, but were told by the DOE that’s where they would be going.

So when it came time for them to register at the school, the families either argued with the Howard Beach director or declined to accept the invitation to sign up.

“I had one who said ‘Fine, I guess my kid is just going to stay home then,’” PearlmanMason said. “They don’t want to send them here. It’s too far for them.”

Right now, the school has four empty seats for the 2018-19 school year — though that number might climb as the director has not heard back from other families who were assigned there by the DOE.

The Howard Beach Judea Center’s Universal Pre-K program has at least four open seats for the PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY 2018-19 school year and is desperately trying to fill them.

She’s asking anyone looking to enroll his or her child in a UPK class to call her.

Students wishing to attend the school don’t have to be Jewish, even though classes are held at the synagogue. Those who are interested, or know anyone who may be, in sending their children to UPK at the Judea Center

should contact Pearlman-Mason at (718) 8431111. The facility is located at 162-05 90 St. Parents have until June 6 to register their child at a UPK program. If they don’t pick one by that date, their child will not be enrolled in any school. When applying for UPK, parents can pick up to 12 locations

and are able to select a top three. According to the DOE’s website, there will be seven sites in the 11414 ZIP code offering UPK in the 2018-19 school year.

School District 27 will also be offering 3-K For All, prekindergarten for 3-yearolds, next school year, including at the Judea Center. Pearlman-Mason told the Chronicle she has been told how many students will be enrolled at her 3-K classes.

The South Queens school district, which stretches from Richmond Hill to Far Rockaway, is the only one in Queens to have 3K For All right now — it will be available citywide in 2021. The UPK initiative was a campaign cornerstone for Mayor de Blasio in 2013, who lobbied state legislators to raise taxes on high earners to fund it in 2013. It was ultimately approved by the state Legislature in 2014.

There’s also a financial incentive for Pearlman-Mason to fill the seats. For each child the Judea Center enrolls, it receives a little under $10,000 from the DOE. Pearlman-Mason said the synagogue itself will not suffer if the school fails to fill every seat, but the program might.

“I have to pay for everything here,” she said.

In 2015, the Howard Beach program had one empty seat and as a result had to cut one Q staff member.

Sanders to sue pair in bribe accusation

by Michael Gannon State Sen. James Sanders Jr. (D-South Ozone Park) last Sunday announced his intention to file a defamation suit against two people who accused him of soliciting a bribe back in 2016. Sanders was joined at a press conference outside City Hall by his lawyer, Richard St. Paul.

In 2016, Marion Moses and Malissa Rivera, of the Rockaway-based Culinary Kids, Culinary Arts Initiatives, accused Sanders of offering their group $1.7 million in funding in return for a kickback of $250,000, filing a complaint with the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

“These are heinous, scurrilous accusations,” Sanders said in a statement sent to the Chronicle. “I spent my life as a reformer. The only thing I have in this world is my good name and you are not just going to take it from me without a fight. These charges against me are so ridiculous that I have no choice but to seek vindication in a court of law.”

Sanders contends the accusations were politically motivated. They came shortly

after he had announced his intention to challenge U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) for the Democratic nomination in the 5th Congressional District.

“We want these folk to get up in front of a judge and prove what they have said or reveal who put them up to it,” Sanders said.

“This is a great day and I want to thank the people of my district for having faith in me.”

Sanders has asserted from the beginning that he could never have gotten any grant money approved since the group did not have its 501(C)3 designation from the federal government. He also said any such money would have passed not through his office but through the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation.

The Chronicle was unable to contact Moses or Rivera, and a voice message left at a number identified online as that of the Culinary Kids organization was not returned. Sanders’ attorney did not respond to a request for a copy of the complaint.

The statement from Sanders’ office also did not specify if the complaint would be Q filed in state or federal court.

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O’Kane to the Hall of Fame Navy sailor. Past president of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 32. Community Board 5 member.

Michael O’Kane has had many titles in his life, and now he can call himself a member of the state Veterans Hall of Fame.

The Glendale resident was inducted by state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) in recognition of his service not only overseas during the Vietnam War, where he saw combat, but also in Queens as the

head of the borough’s VVA chapter.

O’Kane joined the military in 1966 at just 18 years old and spent time on both the USS Implicit and the USS Widgeon in the Pacific. After attaining the rank of Petty Officer Third Class, he left the Navy in 1970. O’Kane earned numerous honors during his time in the military, including the Vietnam Service Medal.

“Mike has exemplified what it means to serve,” Addabbo said.

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‘Pave, Baby, Pave’: DOT hits mile 5,000 City streets are being resurfaced at an unprecedented pace: de Blasio

by Bre’Anna Grant Chronicle Contributor

Mayor Bill de Blasio last Friday announced that thanks to a 10-year investment of $1.6 billion in street repaving, New York City had paved its 5,000th lane-mile since 2014. That’s over 25 percent of the 19,000 total lane-miles citywide, long enough for a road to Las Vegas and back, he said.

The increased repaving has driven down potholes by 44 percent, the mayor added while visiting a Department of Transportation yard on Staten Island, where 42 percent of roadways have been resurfaced in the last four years.

“Smoother streets have meant fewer potholes. We paved it forward with a big investment in repaving, and the men and women of the DOT have delivered,” de Blasio said in an emailed headlined “Pave Baby Pave.” “We will keep up this pace, and bring on new equipment, new asphalt and new ways to avoid the frustration of newly paved streets getting dug up.”

DOT officials said major streets in every borough will be repaved in the last six weeks of the current fiscal year which ends on June 30, including: • Northern and Vernon boulevards in Queens; • Third and Fifth avenues in Manhattan;

Potholes like these at Vernon Boulevard and 50th Avenue in Long Island City are being targeted PHOTO BY STEVE MALECKI in a push by the city Department of Transportation.

• Castle Hill and Lafayette avenues in the Bronx; • Rochester and Troy avenues in Brooklyn; and • Arden Avenue and Todt Hill Road on

Staten Island.

“The repaving of Northern Blvd. and Vernon Blvd. in my district are necessary infrastructure improvements for everyone who takes these important roads,” said Council

Member Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) in an email to the Chronicle. “No one should have to worry about losing a tire on their car or bike because of a pothole, and I’m pleased with the announcement of work.”

The mayor also announced several investments and innovations coming to the DOT’s paving efforts including reining in street cuts for utility work, new paving equipment, rubberized and red asphalt and high-performance asphalt overlay.

“Thanks to de Blasio’s investment in paving over the last four years, we have reached this significant milestone while at the same time seeing potholes and pothole complaints decline dramatically – by more than fifty percent,” said Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg. “As our paving crews now transition from potholes to road repaving, we ask that drivers give them the necessary space and maintain a safe speed as we try to pave as many streets during these warm weather months.”

In 2015, the mayor announced a $1.6 billion commitment to resurface roads all over the city over 10 years. The DOT repaved 1,324 lane miles in fiscal year 2017 and so far in fiscal year 2018, crews have resurfaced over 1,000 lane-miles. It is the highest threeyear output of paved lane-miles in the DOT’s Q recorded history, according to City Hall.

Byford: ‘Investment on a massive scale’ NYC Transit president wants $19B, five-year blitz to fix subways, buses

by Michael Gannon

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New York City Transit President Andy Byford told the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that creating a modern, fully functioning transit system will take five years and $19 billion — for openers.

Byford, in a 75-page report, said he harbors no illusions that the process will be inexpensive or painless.

“As I said when my appointment was announced, what is needed isn’t mere tinkering, a few tweaks here and there,” Byford wrote in the report, released Wednesday.

“What must happen is sustained investment on a massive scale if we are to deliver New Yorkers the service they deserve and the transit system that this city and state need.”

In the first five years, Byford wants to modernize the signal systems on five new lines; purchase 650 new subway cars; make 50 more subway stations handicapped-accessible; buy 2,800 new buses and institute a new fare-paying system.

The assessment offered on page 14 of the report is blunt: “It will be hard for customers. Your bus stop might change. Your station might close for a period of time.

The line you normally might take might not be available on nights and weekends. But the inconvenience now will be much less than the damage done to our communities by a long, slow decline in transit. It will be costly. But it will become much, much more

expensive if we wait and fail to address the underlying issues affecting our system.”

State Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria) in an email on Wednesday said the plan “properly identifies and offers substantive solutions for the significant infrastructure problems facing the subway system.

“The plan does not, however, answer the question of where the money to finance this ambitious proposal will be found,” Gianaris wrote.

That is where the plan likely will stand or fall.

Published reports state that MTA Chairman Joe Lhota was balking at the price tag on Wednesday, which over 10 years would be $37 billion.

It will also require both Gov. Cuomo, who runs the MTA, and Mayor de Blasio to work cooperatively not only with NYC Transit but with each other.

De Blasio and Gianaris have supported another “millionaire’s tax” to create a sustained revenue stream for the MTA, while others prefer congestion pricing — effectively tolling every vehicle that enters Manhattan or crosses below 60th Street.

De Blasio was scheduled to discuss Byford’s report in a press conference Wednesday afternoon. Politico reported that the mayor does not intend to contribute to such a plan, quoting de Blasio as saying the millionaire’s tax is the way to go.

Then there is the fact that the MTA does not have the best record for completing major projects on time, such as the years-overdue signal modernization program for the No. 7 line, or under budget.

Multiple reports quote Cuomo representatives as Q saying that the governor will study the plan.

The president of New York City Transit says repairs to the subway system will not get easier — or cheaper — if the MTA, state and city do not engage in an ambiPHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON tious plan to bring the system up to modern standards.

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NYC Transit is adding Queens service in ’18 Seven bus routes boost runs in July; A, E, F subways adding trains in Nov.

by Michael Gannon Editor

NYC Transit President Andy Byford on Monday announced that the agency will be providing additional trips on several train and bus lines as part of regular, ongoing efforts to accommodate changes in ridership and demand.

The subway additions, on the A, D, E and F lines, will begin in November, with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority saying it will add service on weekdays mostly during the hours immediately following or preceding rush hours.

The bus additions, on weekends in Queens, will go into effect in July. NYC Transit, in its statement, said the changes will result in shor ter wait times and reduced crowding on the lines at certain times.

“We’re thrilled to add some additional service for subway and bus riders, and much bigger improvements are on the horizon,” NYC Transit President Byford said in the agency’s press release. “We reg u la rly t wea k schedu les based on changes in demand and operating conditions, and the comprehensive plan I’m announcing this week will outline the pat h towa rd s even more sig n if ica nt improvements to service that will be felt

Riders of the A, E and F subway lines will be getting more trains just before and just after rush hours come this November. Weekend bus service also is slated to be added on seven NYC TranFILE PHOTO sit lines that serve Queens. by all of our customers.”

The following subway service will be added in November: • three additional southbound A trains on weekdays between approximately 8

p.m. and 11:30 p.m.; •one additional northbound D train on weekdays between approximately 3:30 p.m. and 4 p.m.; • three additional northbound D trains

on weekdays between approximately 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.; • three additional southbound E trains on weekdays bet ween approximately 10:30 a.m. and noon; • one additional northbound F train on weekdays between approximately 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.; • two additional southbound F trains on weekdays between approximately 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.; • one additional southbound F train on weekdays between approximately 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.; and • two additional southbound F trains on weekdays between approximately 8 p.m. and 10: p.m.

All the additional trains will make round trips, leading to additional opposite-direction trips as well.

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Assemblywoman Stacy Pheffer Amato, lower left, came by and joined the festivities. She encouraged the students to read and be a part of her summer reading program. She also danced with the kids. Principal Davies not only joined in all of the activities but she also helped raise money by getting PIED in the FACE! Everyone at 207 had the best day of school spirit for the common cause of working together to achieve a goal.

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CB 13 bids farewell to Inspector Schiff 105th Precinct commander moves to NYPD Counterterrorism Division

by Michael Gannon

CB 13 member Bess De Betham said afterwa rd. “T he respect we have always Inspector Jeffrey Schiff, the popular received, the transparency ...”

Former CB 13 Chairman Bryan Block commanding officer of the NYPD’s 105th Precinct, informed a stunned meeting of was, to paraphrase him, ticked off.

“I know I’m in church ...” Block said.

Community Board 13 on Monday that he is “Can’t we ask the commismoving on to a new assignment sioner to extend him a few at 1 Police Plaza in Manhattan. years?”

Schiff, who arrived from the The inspector has come 106th Precinct in March 2016, is under criticism from some the new executive officer in the elected officials, including N Y PD’s C o u n t e r t e r r o r i s m Councilmen Daneek Miller Division.

(D-St. Albans) and Donovan Deputy Inspector Neteis GilRichards (D-Laurelton), based bert, the former executive officer la rgely on t he preci nct’s at the 105th, has returned to the record of marijuana arrests station house on 225th Street in and summonses [see related Queens Village as the new stories in some editions or commander.

Deputy Inspector online at qchron.com].

“The 105th is a jewel,” Schiff Neteis Gilbert They, Councilman Ror y told the crowd, meeting at St. FILE PHOTO Lancman (D -Fresh MeadPeter’s Lutheran Chu rch i n ows) and others have been Springfield Gardens. “I love precinct work. This will be the first time in my critical of the NYPD — and the 105th Pre22 years that I won’t be out here with you, cinct — for marijuana arrests and sumhands on, making a difference. That’s the monses that they say are used overwhelmingly against people of color, and have reason I became a cop. ... I’ll miss that.”

Community and civic leaders long have produced numbers at Council hearings that praised Schiff for his openness with the they say belie the NYPD’s contention that enforcement is based largely on communicommunity.

“I didn’t want to cry, so I didn’t speak,” ty complaints.

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NYPD Inspector Jeffrey Schiff received congratulations from Community Board 13 members Seymour Finklestein, left, Bess DeBetham, right, and dozens of others after announcing that he has PHOTOS BY MICHAEL GANNON been transferred from his command at the 105th Precinct.

Schiff did meet with Richards, who was present for most of Monday’s meeting, privately before the councilman had to leave.

The only community complaints on Monday night were that Schiff was moving on.

He received a standing ovation and had to stop every few feet on his way out to accept thanks from those wishing him well.

Schiff did admit to a certain amount of pride in his now-former command, and in the partnership he said is essential for successful police work.

“For three years crime [in the 105th] has gone down while complaints against officers have also gone down,” he said. “And we Q didn’t do that on our own.”

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Southeast Queens officials call on DA to change weed policy continued from page 2 cases and expects the number of cases it handles to drop from 5,000 to 200 per year, a 96 percent decrease.

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office has declined to prosecute most low-level possession cases since 2014.

Following Vance’s announcement, a coalition of Southeast Queens elected officials from the city, state and federal governments asked Brown to follow suit.

“We implore you to consider the damage suffered by the men and women of color in Queens who have been unfairly prosecuted under a conspicuously biased approach to policing and embrace a policy overhaul similar to the ones currently underway in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and ultimately citywide, without delay,” the politicians said. “As more insightful data becomes available, attitudes towards marijuana become more tolerant.”

Councilman Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) — chairman of the Black, Latino/a and Asian Caucus — says the racial disparity in marijuana arrests is one of the top issues in his district.

“When you see young people, time and time again, complain to our offices that they’re being stopped in their cars and the suggestion they’re smoking marijuana ... it’s an ever yday occur rence in Southeast Q ueens,” M iller told the Chronicle.

Councilman Daneek Miller is calling on the Queens DA to change his marijuana enforceFILE PHOTO ment policy.

The politicians in their letter noted that the 105th Precinct, which patrols mostly black neighborhoods, has led the city in marijuana summonses for years.

In 2017, the command wrote 2,199. Additionally, the officials say, 416 arrests for smoking pot took place in Jamaica and Hollis in 2016 — both communities are 82 percent black and Hispanic.

“We’ve been talking about this for a number of years but each year over the past three ... those numbers get higher,” Miller said.

The councilman in recent weeks had clashed with Jeffrey Schiff, the former commanding officer of the 105th Precinct who was transferred from the command on Monday, over their differing views on broken windows policing.

Schiff is a supporter of the crime-fighting method, while Miller is against it.

Brown, in his response to the politicians, said 75 percent of the 2,094 people arrested for smoking marijuana in Queens were issued desk appearance tickets and not held in custody for arraignment. Of those, 21 percent failed to show up on their court dates and warrants were issued for their arrest.

Only 2.4 percent of the arrests ended with a conviction for a crime — 69 percent concluded with an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal, which means the charges were tossed if the defendant did not get into further legal trouble.

“Thus, over 97% of the public smoking cases did not result in a criminal conviction,” Brown said.

Still, Miller says the Queens district attorney needs to take action now and not wait for the NYPD commission report.

“I think they should take the lead,” he said.

But for Miller, changing the policy for those caught smoking weed in the future is not enough.

He’s also asking for those who have been

punished by the criminal justice system to be made whole again “Whether it’s through by way of expunging records or some form of compensation in terms of police-community relations or resources so that we don’t see this again.”

The lawmaker also wants to examine “what policies allowed for the disproportionate amount of summonses and arrests to exist,” so that the city does not find itself in a similar situation down the road.

Others in Queens were skeptical of loosening marijuana enforcement rules, or possibly ever making it legal to smoke in public. Kevin Forrestal, president of the Queens Civic Congress, said he would rather wait to see how other states balance recreational pot and quality-of-life concerns.

“Let’s see how they deal with things like impaired driving,” he said. “We have an opportunity to sit back and say, ‘Let’s see what happens elsewhere.’ We should hold off at least another year.”

Speaking for himself, and not the civic congress, Forrestal said he’s “generally in favor of restricting smoking in most public places.”

Joann Ariola, chairwoman of the Queens County Republican Party, said she is wholeheartedly against the mayor’s plans.

“The bottom line is, as of right now, the sale, purchase and consumption of marijuana is illegal,” Ariola said. “This is the mayor Q pandering to a single demographic.”

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NYS bill could help family shelter clients Stavisky says her legislation would ‘force’ city to install kitchen facilities

by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

Elmhurst leaders have a message for the city as it opens up new shelters for homeless families: Don’t pull another Pan Am when it comes to kitchen facilities.

The Boulevard Family Residence for homeless families and children at the former Pan American Hotel has been open since June 2014. The city administrative code requires that all of its dwelling units have kitchen facilities; area activists have long criticized the de Blasio administration for not having them at the shelter.

Officials say they can override the rule if the facility is used as an “emergency shelter.”

The first 18 kitchen installations at the shelter will be done by the end of the month, according to Samaritan Daytop Village, the residence’s operator. The rest of the units are expected to have them by autumn of next year.

But now, state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing) is aiming for Albany to pass a bill targeting the no-kitchen problem at shelters with families.

The legislation would require the sites’ dwelling units to have kitchen facilities within 60 days of the city registering a contract for the shelter with 10 or more families. If the deadline isn’t met, the shelter would be prohibited from taking in new homeless people.

Stavisky announced the bill at a press conference last Thursday with the Elmhurst United advocacy group.

“That way, the city will be forced to put in the cooking facilities,” the senator said.

Her legislation comes as the de Blasio administration is progressing with its plan

State Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky joined the Elmhurst United activist group outside of the Boulevard Family Residence to announce new legislation seeking to make sure that new homeless shelters PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY for families don’t lack kitchen facilities required by city code. for 90 new homeless shelters, an initiative announced last year.

Some of the new facilities, Stavisky said, “are going to be in hotels.”

According to the senator, it’s “unfair” to the homeless when the city puts them in hotels without cooking facilities, due to how the residents are “forced to” rely on fast-food restaurants and takeout food.

Elmhurst United member Howard Moskowitz also spoke at the press conference, praising Stavisky for her bill.

In an interview with the Chronicle after

the event, he spoke about the importance of the issue the legislation seeks to address.

“They’re going to build 90 shelters and some of them will be family shelters,” Moskowitz said.

For families, he explained, it’s much better to live somewhere with a kitchen. “Mom can go out and go to the grocery store, and cook some food,” Moskowitz said.

Stavisky’s bill is now in the Senate Social Services Committee.

Assembly ma n Da n iel Rosenthal (D-Flushing) is carrying the legislation in

his chamber. Within the lawmaker’s district is the Comfort Inn on 82nd Avenue in Kew Gardens, where the city is housing single men right now. Homeless families will move into the hotel in June, and the city says it will be completely phased out as a shelter in February.

In an interview with the Chronicle last Friday, Rosenthal criticized the practice of housing undomiciled families in units without kitchen facilities.

“They’re really forced to eat at fast-food restaurants and really eat food that is essentially poisonous,” he said. “There’s no way to be healthy or have a healthy lifestyle without proper appliances or a kitchen.”

When the city first started using the former Pan American Hotel as a shelter in 2014, it gave the community little to no notice. Elmhurst United was among those who protested the site’s conversion into a shelter.

According to Samaritan Daytop Village, renovation work at the Queens Boulevard facility for a new educational and recreational space is expected to finish on June 1.

Adults staying at the shelter will be able to use the space during the morning to look for housing and employment with Samaritan staff helping them, according to the group.

Assistance with resume-writing will also be provided.

“During the hours of 2:00-7:00 p.m., the space will be utilized as a recreation area for teenage clients providing a positive social atmosphere and activities led by Samaritan Daytop Village’s onsite recreation specialist,” a spokeswoman for the nonprofit said in an emailed statement. “The space will be equipped with computers, education materiQ als, and recreational equipment.”

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The office of Assemblywoman Vivian Cook (D-Jamaica) once again is declining to comment on a continuing investigation into a parcel of land in Jamaica purchased in 2006 by a nonprofit that she founded.

The property, sitting on the northwest corner of the intersection of Rockaway Boulevard and 145th Street in Jamaica, was bought with funds provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey by the Rockaway Boulevard Development Corp., which was founded by Cook.

The New York Post first reported back in 2010 that the land was sitting vacant after it was purchased for $560,500, or roughly twice its estimated market value.

While the property was purchased with the stated intention of developing it as part of an effort to revitalize the commercial

section of Rockaway Boulevard in Jamaica, a visit by the Chronicle last week showed the land still is being used to park construction equipment, the same use as when the Chronicle last attempted to contact Cook for comment in January 2015.

The PA confirmed last week that the office of its inspector general is still conducting an investigation in connection with the land, but declined to give further details.

The Office of Interim New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood declined to either confirm or deny a report in the New York Post on May 5 which said its investigators, too, are probing the nonprofit, though that is not an uncommon p r a c t i c e a m o n g s t a t e a n d fe d e r a l prosecutors.

Published reports state that the money was pledged to the corporation as part of an

Construction vehicles sit on land that was purchased a dozen years go for economic development. The Port Authority is investigating what happened with its money. PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON agreement with the PA to fund community projects while it constructed the JFK AirTrain between the airport and the Long Island Rail Road’s Jamaica Station.

The Post has repor ted that the PA stopped funding the RBLC in 2010; and that the city last year realized $27,666 from Q the property in a tax lien sale.

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DOE boss: Kids not ‘sum total’ of a test Carranza says top HS entry process should change; talks other issues

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City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza doesn’t think children are “the sum total of a single test.”

Hours after saying during a City Council hearing that more factors than a single exam alone should dictate whether kids get into the city’s eight specialized high schools, Carranza also brief ly discussed the issue at a town hall at PS 107 in Flushing on Tuesday night.

“What I do think is that we should be casting the widest net possible, having multiple ways of identifying student talent, students’ aptitude, student interest,” he said at the event, which Community Education Council 25 hosted.

The goal in doing that, the chancellor added, is to “provide opportunities City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza speaks at for students to access all of the educa- PS 107 in eastern Flushing at a town hall hosted by tional opportunities in the New York Community Education Council 25. PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY City public school system portfolio.”

Known as the Specialized High School just in those specialized schools, but in a Admissions test, the exam has for decades number of middle schools and other types been used to determine who gets into the of schools that have admissions criteria.” “elite eight” institutions. (A ninth school, Carranza brought up how at some city focused on the performing arts, uses audi- schools, the student-with-disability populations for determining admissions.) tion is below 2 percent while the same numThe racial makeup of the schools’ stu- ber at other ones exceeds 30 percent. dent bodies — Asians and whites far out“You can’t tell me that students with disnumber blacks and Latinos — is one of the abilities are in a magnet type situation most controversial city education policy choosing to go to certain schools and not issues. choosing to other certain schools,” he said.

Critics of using the test as the sole arbiter When discussing another issue — school of admissions to the schools charge that the funding — the chancellor also wasn’t mincprocess should be changed to ensure more ing words. diversity. Defenders of the system argue that “As a public entity, we are dependent the test is a merit-based one that doesn’t upon the allocation that we receive from the give any ethnic groups an unfair advantage. federal government, which is close to zero, A state law passed in 1971 mandates that from the state government, which is not fulthe schools use the SHSAT as the only filling its responsibilities; and the City of admissions criterion. Mayor de Blasio has New York, which has actually stepped up in criticized the policy but insists the decades- a very real way to fill the gap,” he said. old law limits the city’s power to reform the He praised the de Blasio administration process. In April, he said he’ll “certainly go and the City Council for earlier this year back and look again and talk to our lawyers committing to dedicating an additional again because I think this is a matter of $125 million for helping bring schools closinjustice that has to be addressed.” er to the total level of funding dictated Entrance into the specialized schools was under the Fair Student Funding Formula, far from the only issue addressed by Car- the city’s method of calculating how much ranza at the town hall. The discussion ran schools need per pupil. the gamut.

According to Carranza, legislators who In response to one question at the event, represent the city in Albany have been symCarranza also said the city is “systematical- pathetic to the funding issue. But some of ly d i s e n f r a n ch i si n g ” s t u d e nt s w it h their colleagues haven’t. disabilities.

“I think we all need to get into someHe pointed to a number of factors he said body’s Buick, or a van or a bus and make work against disabled kids: “the inaccessi- regular trips to Albany,” he said. “And ble nature of our buildings to students with show up, roll in deep and make sure the fact disabilities ... how we’ve set up some of the that our legislators understand — make the continued on page 28 admission and selection criterion, and not

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Gas prices go up, driving goes down Rise in oil costs could alter summer travel plans and commutes to work

by Bre’Anna Grant

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Not everyone realizes where their money is Grab your MetroCard, headphones and a going when paying for gas. Here is a per-gallon good book — gas prices are going up again. breakdown from AAA of where it goes: • federal tax: 18.4 cents For some, the increase means switching to • state petroleum business tax: 17.8 cents public transit for their commute, heading to • state motor fuel excise tax: 8 cents local beaches instead of the Jersey Shore or • state petroleum testing fee: 0.05 cents combining picking up groceries, the kids and • state spill tax: 0.3 cents dry cleaning with the ride home from work.

• state sales tax: 8 cents Gas prices have been on the rise lately; the • city sales tax in MTA region national average for regular gas is $2.93.

(4.375 percent) 16.9 cents That’s up 12 cents in the past two weeks, Total taxes: 69.45 cents according to AAA. New York City is higher • refiner: 23 cents than the national average at $3.18 a gallon, • delivery: 2 cents while one Mobil gas station on 11th Avenue • gas station: 22 cents and 51 St in Manhattan has hit $5, according • oil company: $2.88 to Fox 5.

“We haven’t heard anything from our mem“Prices tend to increase as gas stations switch to more expensive summer blend of bers yet, but no one likes when the prices go gasoline,” said AAA Northeast Manager of up,” said Kevin Beyer, spokesman for the Long Media Relations Robert Sinclair Jr. “The gas in Island Gasoline Retailers Association. “People lose money when it the summer is different goes up.” from the winter due to The LIGRA covers refinery, detergents about 500 to 600 membeing added and chemt’s unjustified how bers in Queens, Nassau icals and heavy metal they’re trying to rip us and Suffolk counties. being removed.”

The rise in gas pricWith Memorial Day off because summer is es has put a damper on Weekend at hand, gas travel plans this sumprices are expected to around the corner.” mer as more Americontinue rising over cans are planning staythe weekend, accord— driver Luis Ferraro cations instead of hiting to ABC7NY. ting the road, GasBud“It’s u nju st if ied how they’re trying to rip us off because sum- dy’s 2018 Summer Travel survey reports.

According to the annual survey, only 58 mer is around the corner,” Luis Ferraro told the Chronicle while filling up his gas at Gas percent say they will take a road trip, a 24 Sale on Woodhaven Boulevard in Rego Park. percent decrease from last year, while 39 per“They make us believe that gasoline is run- cent cite high gas prices for impacting their ning scarce and because of that, we’re going to summer travel decisions, compared to 19 percent in 2017. have to justify another war.”

“I have an understanding of why the Recent reasons for the increase include the rise in the economy, increased demand and prices are going up, but I want a better understanding,” said Patricia Ambrose, whose more people buying cars, Sinclair said.

“Lots of vehicles are being sold especially commute to St. John’s University is 50 minutes. pickup trucks and SUVs. Most families have “I used to work in Manhattan and the only way two cars — an economy and a big car,” he said. to get to work was through public transportaOther reasons oil prices rise and drive up tion. I wouldn’t use it now because it’s quicker the cost of gasoline have historically included to drive, but I would combine my errands with tension in the Middle East and reductions in my commute if I needed to.”

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In March, AAA conducted a survey and found the vast majority of consumers would change their driving habits or lifestyle habits to offset higher gas prices. Twenty-five percent say they would start making changes at $2.75, while 40 percent say $3.00 is their tipping point.

Changes consumers said they would make include combining errands on trips (79 percent), driving less (73 percent), reducing shopping or dining out (61 percent), delaying major purchases (50 percent) and driving more fuelefficent vehicles (46 percent).

“We have electric cars, but people still need to fill up their cars,” Gabriel Antonio told the Chronicle while filling up his gas at Gas Sale.

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Chancellor Richard Carranza

continued from page 20 ter minal and Spring Creek mall in Brooklyn; • Sat u rd ay Q29 f requency w i l l increase in the afternoon period. The Q29 runs between Myrtle Avenue in Glendale and 82nd Street in Jackson Heights; • Sat u rd ay Q 47 f requency w ill increase throughout the entire day. The bus operates between The Shops at Atlas Park in Glendale and The Marine Air Terminal in Jackson Heights; • Saturday Q49 service will increase in the morning, afternoon and evening periods. The route runs between 102nd Street in East Elmhurt and Roosevelt Avenue-74th Street in Jackson Heights; •Sat u rd ay Q101 f re que ncy w i l l increase in the midday and afternoon periods between east Midtown Manhattan and 19th Avenue in Astoria; and • Sunday Q65 frequency will increase throughout the day. The route r uns between the Long Island Rail Road transit hub at Jamaica Station and 110th Street in College Point.

On the other hand, Saturday Q29 service will be decreased in the morning period to reflect its light ridership during that time.

C ou nci l m a n D onova n R ich a rd s (D-Laurelton) has never been shy in his efforts to bring more and better trans-

continued from page 25 entire Legislature understand that fully funding the fair student funding formula is critically important to meeting the needs of our students in an urban environment, which is the City of New York and all of its five boroughs.”

The new city schools chancellor — who started in April — also discussed overcrowding, an issue that is acute at schools in District 25 and other ones in northeast Queens.

He said he asked the School Construction Authority to make a report about “what our projections are for additional seats,” and says overcrowding is something the DOE’s working on “We’re looking at our portfolio of buildings and where do we have seats and where does it make sense to add additional seats,” Carranza explained.

CEC 25 President Joseph DiBenedetto pointed out that the high costs of cit y real est ate is a challenge for addressing the issue. The chancellor highlighted another one.

“We have a histor ic por tfolio of buildings. Some of them are really old,” he said. “There are certain things that we can and cannot do with historic buildings in terms of knocking down walls and building classrooms and converting things.”

And while the chancellor made clear

portation options to the 31st District, which sections of Southeast Queens and the Rockaways.

“Any addition in A train service is always good news,” Richards said in an email. “How it improves the travel times for my constituents in the Rockaways who rely on the A train to access jobs, higher education and medical needs in other parts of the city remains to be unclear. Transportation continues to be a problem for the Rockaways with the MTA planning to shut down direct service to the Eastern end of the Rockaway Peninsula this summer and the city canceling the ferry shuttle service on the weekends, I look forward to hearing more details on this plan such as the amount of A trains heading into the Rockaways versus Lefferts Blvd. and whether or not these A trains will be express or local.”

Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village, on the other hand, would like to see more emphasis on express bus service.

“While some of this will certainly impact my district, what we really need to see is the establishment of additional express bus routes — particularly in Maspeth,” Holden said in an email. “Additionally, I would like to see the extension of hours of operation for express bus service Q throughout the area.”

that it’s not one of the first methods t h at t he cit y wa nt s t o pu r s u e i n addressing the problem, he said that there must at least be conversations about creating changing zoning so that more kids go to underutilized schools.

Were those discussions to happen, Car ran za clar if ied, there would be plent y of com mu n it y engage me nt about any proposal.

Highlighted by last Friday’s tragic shooting in Texas, school security has been a widely discussed policy issue in recent months. In response to a question about it, the chancellor said the DOE works with the NYPD “on an almost weekly basis analyzing data” like suspension rates and incidents of violence around schools.

“And with that information, we make decisions as to do we need to have additional security measures or not,” he added. Which Carranza said means that in come cases the city would decide it best to take metal detectors out of one school, but in other situations it would find it necessary to install them.

Overall, he said, it’s best when a school environment is one in which students “feel a collective responsibility for their safety and the safety of their peers” and can anonymously report concerns about potential safety issues and be confident that they will be acted upon. Q

Takai Forde, Licensed Master Social Worker in the state of New York, will give the second seminar on Saturday, June 09, 2018. She will discuss JASA LEAP (LEGAL/ SOCIAL WORK ELDER ABUSE PROGRAM), an elderly abuse prevention and intervention project consisting of attorney and social worker teams.

She has received her Master’s degree in Social Work from New York University. Takai has made it her mission to serve and educate older adults in her professional career.

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811 is more than just a number It’s the number you call before you dig to have underground infrastructure identified – keeping you and your community safe. Once the site is marked, dig carefully around those areas.

The expanded and newly reopened EMS Museum at the FDNY training academy in Fort Totten features interesting artifacts and in-depth information about the history of municipal emergency PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY medical responders in the city.

EMS Museum gets expanded, reopened

by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

This weekend, we honor the brave men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

Thank you to the families of the fallen and to all who serve.

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The Fire Department’s EMS Museum at Fort Totten is back and bigger than ever, with a new look.

And for the first time, the public will get a chance to check it out, but only today and tomorrow. That’s because this is EMS week.

It is also expected to be open the same week in years to come, but otherwise it is closed to the public. Visiting hours today and tomorrow are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission to the museum, which is about 30 percent bigger than it was before, is free.

FDN Y Com missioner Daniel Nigro joined officials at the Bayside park, which is home to the department training academy, to cut the ribbon on the new museum at a rededication ceremony last Friday.

The center opened in 1992 but had to close down for a time starting in 2013 because of renovations at the academy building. Outside of EMS week, it is available only to trainees and officials at the academy.

“It’s really great for the pride of our EMTs, our paramedics, to see how the EMS system in our city has evolved from the horse-and-carriage days to what it is today, in which they answer perhaps 4,200 to 4,300 calls each and every day,” Nigro told reporters after the ribbon cutting.

The new museum is situated in a large room on the academy building’s first floor.

It features historical artifacts like old airway kits, uniforms and drug boxes.

There are also photos and passages on the

wall going all the way back to 1869, the year when the city started using horse-drawn ambulance carriages. Between that year and 1899, the workers were part of the Department of Public Charities and Corrections.

Another part of the museum features information and photographs from 1929 to 1969, the period that EMS was within an agency called the Department of Hospitals.

The medical technicians’ response to the Sept. 11 attacks is also documented in the exhibit.

The museum was the brainchild of EMS Division Chief James Martin, a former graphic designer who worked with FDNY Capt. Jack Quigley to create the facility. The former designed it; the latter handled the building process.

The two officials, who also worked on the museum’s expansion, were both on hand at Friday’s ceremony.

“It’s kind of a parallel timeline where we show the development of the municipal ambulance service from the very beginning, but we also highlight some advances in medicine that impacted the delivery of prehospital care,” Martin told members the media.

Historically, he added, the introduction of paramedics is “probably the biggest change” for city emergency medical services in the museum’s timeline. “Now, we are bringing the emergency room to the patient,” he said.

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Summer camp safety tips Kids typically cannot wait to get to summer camp and be outside and make the most of a beautiful day. But in their haste to enjoy the great outdoors, children can easily overlook safety precautions that protect them from potential hazards. Though it’s easy to get excited about a sunny day, it’s important to take safety seriously. No matter your activity, always bring adequate sunscreen to protect your skin from the sun and water to stay hydrated throughout the day.

In addition to packing sunscreen and water, outdoor enthusiasts can employ various additional safety methods depending on which activity they choose to enjoy.

Cycling: Cyclists must always be on the alert for those with whom they are sharing the road. While many motorists respect cyclists, there are some who see cyclists as a nuisance and such motorists may drive recklessly around cyclists in an attempt to scare them off the road. Cyclists are oftentimes at the mercy of motorists, so it pays to stay as attentive as possible. Never listen to a music player while riding a bike. Such a distraction could prove deadly if it takes your attention away from the road.

Alertness is important when cycling, as are the following precautionary measures: Always wear a helmet and reflective clothing for motorists to see you easily; obey the traffic laws; always ride with traffic; and inspect your bicycle and address any mechanical issues before each ride.

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Hiking: When the weather permits, few activities combine the benefits of physical activity with the aesthetic appeal of nature as well as hiking does. Hikers should never hike on poorly developed trails or trails that are too difficult for them to handle, and they should have at least a basic understanding of the symptoms of altitude sickness.

Always share your route with friends or family members before embarking on a hiking trip. This protects you if you should get lost or injured and you need a rescue team to find you. Hikers should also pack the following supplies before hitting the trails: • compass; • flashlight and extra batteries; • whistle and signal mirror; • map of the park that includes the trails you plan to hike; • waterproof matches; • first aid kit; and • blanket.

Inline skating and skateboarding.

Inline skating and skateboarding are popular activities for adults and children alike.

But even though you may associate such activities with your childhood, that does not mean the risk of injury is insignificant. In fact, even seasoned skateboarders and veteran inline skaters have suffered broken bones or head injuries while skateboarding or skating. Proper attire is essential for skaters and skateboarders hoping to prevent injury, so be sure to wear the following gear the next time you hit the half-pipe or go skating by the boardwalk: • helmet; • knee pads; • wrist guards; and • elbow pads.

Water sports : Water ref lects sunlight, so it’s imperative that anyone planning to spend ample time on or around the water take steps to protect his or her skin. Wear appropriate clothing and apply sunscreen with a minimum sun protection factor of 15.

If you plan on entering the water, always enter feet first and do your best to avoid swimming alone. When you employ the buddy system while swimming, you are ensuring there is someone there to help you should you begin to struggle or to alert lifeguards or other safety personnel should something go awry.

If you plan to fish on a boat, let your camp

When attending summer camp, children should be supervised and steps should be taken to reduce their risk of injury. counsellor know where you plan to fish so they can share this information with authorities if your boat has problems or you don’t return on time. While on the boat, always wear a flotation device and make sure the boat motor is not running as you board and dismount.

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der ful!

Library events celebrate the great

Louis Armstrong Had it not ac hieve d legenda r y s t at us, the Louis Armstrong standard “What a Wonder ful World” would not have inspired the ongoing 5 0 t h a nniver s a r y celebrat ion of performances, concerts, lectures and exhibits that come the end of June, will have been held in all 62 Queens Library locations.

It is easy to forget — and seems almost sacrilegious to remember — that it is a hit song that almost wasn’t.

Today’s massive endeavor, which kicked off back in Apr il, incorporates the combined efforts of the library system, The Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College and the

Louis Armstrong House and Museum in Corona, which the school runs.

Jeff Rosenstock, assistant vice president for external relations at Queens College, said it all began months ago with a chance conversation at the school.

T h e c i t y, h e s a i d , h a d g r a n t m o n e y available for all five boroughs, with the aim of promoting boroughwide projects. An employee of the Kupferberg Center had once worked at the Armstrong Museum.

“She said ‘I have this idea ...’”

“We all have mutual goals — increa sing accessib ilit y to t he a r t s t hroug h qua lit y programs,” Rosenstock told the Chronicle in a recent interview. “None of this could be done

by one of us alone. ... This is a Queens story, because Louis Armstrong was a Queens guy.”

The Armstrong Museum is on 107th Street in Corona, in the home where he and his wife, Lucille, lived from 1943 until his death in 1971.

Ricky Riccardi, direc tor of research and collections at the museum, said Armstrong, a native of New Orleans, saw Queens as the world’s borough decades before the term became fashionable. He already has lectured during the library series and intends to see at least one of the live performances.

T h o u g h h e t r a v e l e d t h e w o r l d o v e r, R i c c a rd i s a i d t h e j a z z l ege n d l ove d t h e simple plea sures of life on 107th Street . continued on page 35

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EXHIBITS “Dense bodies bend solid ground,” with works by four artists in multiple media examining human, earthly and political bodies, thru evidence of their edges, seen as flexible and porous. Thru Fri., June 29, Radiator Gallery, 10-61 Jackson Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (347) 677-3418, radiatorarts.com.

Roosevelt Island, with a focus on its history as Blackwell’s Island, led by “Damnation Island” author Stacy Horn. See Special Events.

“Queens Selects,” with works in various media chosen by Queens College faculty and students from the Godwin-Ternbach Museum collection, dating from 1000 to 1500. Thru Thu., May 31, Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing.

Free. Info: (718) 997-4747, gtmuseum.org.

“Dutch Masters,” with works by multiple artists in various media exploring marijuana at a time of increasing recreational legalization and the backlash to that. Thru Sat., June 2, Mrs., 60-40 56 Drive, Maspeth. Free. Info: (347) 841-6149, mrsgallery.com.

Liquid Light Lab, a “mind-blowing psychedelic light show” with works in various media by Astoria artist Steve Pavlovsky, whose art has accompanied Grateful Dead side projects, psych rock band The 13th Floor Elevators and more; with items available for sale. Thru June, QED, 27-16 23 Road, Astoria. Free. Info: (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com.

“Wilder LIC,” with works in various media that highlight wild nature to encourage new ideas about ecological and cultural diversity, plus performances, artist talks and other special events, by the Flux Factory. Thru Sun., June 17 (closing reception 6 p.m.), Windmill Community Garden, 39-22 29 St., Long Island City. Free. Info: (347) 669-1406, fluxfactory.org.

“Wake,” with works by six artists in various media, examining water: its power to sustain and destroy life, what’s left in its wake and the changing environment. Thru Sun., July 15, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 937-6317, dorsky.org.

DANCE

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The New World of the Number 7 Train Tour, with six walks and connecting rides along North Queens’ transit corridor and into Manhattan, with lunch in Flushing, led by with Boro Historian Jack Eichenbaum; different than the original tour.

Sat., June 2, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. $49. Info/registration (req’d): (718) 961-8406, jaconet@aol.com, geognyc.com.

Take Root, with performances by Grant Jacoby & Dancers and Liz Charky, above. Fri.-Sat., June 1-2, 8 p.m. $15 advance; $20 cash at door; $22 credit card. Fertile Ground, featuring multiple dance troupes and post-performance discussion with wine, moderated by Valerie Green. Sun., June 3, 7 p.m. $13 advance; $13 cash at door; $15 credit card. Both part of monthly series at Green Space, 37-24 24 St., Long Island City. Info: (718) 956-3037, greenspacestudio.org.

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Birding: Hawk Watch, with Urban Park Rangers guiding both beginner and experienced birders, who may bring field guides and binoculars or borrow a pair. Sat., May 26, 10-11:30 a.m., Astoria Park parking lot, 19 St. and Hoyt Ave. Free. Info: (718) 352-1769, nycgovparks.org.

It’s Memorial Day Weekend, and that means city beaches including Rockaway are now open for swimming. See Special Events.

PHOTO COURTESY NYC PARKS Anthem, a work choreographed by Milka Djordjevich that questions contemporary dance’s predilections toward neutrality, authenticity and the desexualization of the female form. Thu.-Sat., May 24-26, 8 p.m., The Chocolate Factory Theater, 5-49 49 Ave., Long Island City. $20. Info: (718) 4827069, chocolatefactorytheater.org.

MUSIC Schola Sine Nomine Vocal Ensemble, with classical choral pieces by Palestrina, Schubert and more performed by the Ozone Park-based group, including a soloist’s “Ave Maria.” Sat., May 26, 7 p.m., Maple Grove Cemetery Celebration Hall, 127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens. Free if RSVP; $5 walkins. Info: (347) 878-6614, friendsofmaplegrove.org.

forming Arts Center. Thu.-Fri., 8 p.m.; Sat., 2 and 8 p.m., thru May 26, Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 30-44 Crescent St. $18 advance; $12 seniors, students; $2 more at the door. Info: (718) 706-5750, apacny.org.

AUDITIONS St. Gregory Theatre Group for “Sister Act,” to be performed in August; requirements at facebook. com/sgtgproductions. Thu., May 24, by app’t only, St. Gregory the Great Church Oak Room, 242-20 88 Ave. (entrance on 88 Road), Bellerose. Info: (718) 989-2451, sgtgproductions@gmail.com.

FILM

Global Mashup #4: Balkans meets El Barrio, with music of each style played by separate bands, the Raya Brass Band and Spanglish Fly, and then a jam of both, with open dance floor. Fri., June 1, 8 p.m. (dance lessons 7 p.m.), Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $16; $10 students; free teens 13-19 with ID. Info/RSVP: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

“Tango & Flamenco fusion,” a world premiere production blending the “two most important Hispanic manifestations in music, song and dance from Spain and Latin America.” Every Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; every Sun., 4 p.m., thru July 1, Thalia Spanish Theatre, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside. $40 advance; $45 at door; $37 students and seniors; $40 at door. Info: (718) 729-3880, thaliatheatre.org.

“Personal Problems,” the 1980 drama about the struggles of a working-class black couple in NYC, made for public television but almost never seen for 38 years. Fri., May 25, 7:30 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., May 26-27, 1 p.m., 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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“Follies,” the James Goldman-Stephen Sondheim musical about showgirls in an old revue, especially two in unhappy marriages, reuniting at an old theater set for demolition, by the Astoria Per-

Weedy Nomad: A Walking Tour of LIC’s Forgotten Landscapes, with observations of plants in vacant lots, sidewalk cracks and more. See Classes/Workshops.

Bird Walks with NYC Audubon, spotting and ID’ing feathered friends and learning about what they need to survive. Sun., May 27 (also Sat., June 9), 9:30-10:30 a.m., Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. Free with admission: $6; $4 seniors; $4 students, $2 children over 3. Info: (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org.

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS Defensive driving course, for better skills, insurance and point reduction; and to cut down on accidents. Sat., June 9, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., St. Mel’s Church of Flushing, 26-15 154 St. $45. Info/registration: (631) 360-9720.

Sculpting Holograms, with attendees creating a sculpture and capturing it as a hologram in 3-D with laser light, led by Martina Mrongovius of the Holocenter/Center for the Holographic Arts. Sat., May 26, 12-3 p.m., Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 956-1819, socratessculpturepark.org.

Weedy Nomad: A Performative Field Study, with artists Thomas Choinacky and Christopher Kennedy leading an interactive ecological field study of the Windmill Community Garden with a focus on “unwanted plants and organisms.”

Sat., May 26, 2-3 p.m. A Walking Tour of LIC’s Forgotten Landscapes, with observations of overlooked green spaces, vacant lots, tree pits, highway medians and more. Sun., May 27, 2-3 p.m. Both at 39-22 29 St., Long Island City. $5-$10 suggested. Info: (347) 669-1406, fluxfactory.org, nycgovparks.org.

Stargazing Wonders — Astronomy Night, led by seasoned professor Mark Freilich, with Q-and-A, info packet and viewing session, for adults and kids 9 and up with an adult. Attendees may bring telescope or binoculars. Sat., May 26, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston (rain date May 26). $16. Info/pre-registration (req’d): (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com. continued on page 36

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an opportunity to have The beauty of a festival highlighting short t h e i r wo r k plays is that it can offer, in the space of an produced.

W h i l e evening (or afternoon), a buffet for the intellect, a smorgasbord for the soul ... a there is no unifying taste of theater of limitless variety.

So, it seems, will be the case with the theme to the upcoming Woodside Players of Queens festival, the Summer Play Festival 2018, scheduled for one thing all June 2 in Astoria and June 16, with a slightly the entries have in common, according to different program, at a still-to-be-deter- Culver, is that they’re all “good short plays,” mined location. Best of all, the performanc- which will be presented as staged readings.

Some, Culver said, will be memorized; othes are free.

Festival coordinator Johnny Culver, an ers will be performed with scripts in hand.

Each represented playwright is responsiAstoria resident, says one goal of the event is to give writers — particularly young ones — ble for selecting a director and cast.

Rehearsals are conducted independently, with the final results unveiled on the days of the performances.

Among those heeding the call was Lane Northcutt, 24, a young man When: Sat., June 2, 2 p.m. with an already impressive resume, Where: Astoria Library, 14-01 Astoria Blvd. much of it involving musical theater. (also Sat., June 16, 12 p.m., For the festival, he is going in a totallocation to be announced) ly different direction, with his play Entry: Free. (631) 898-4205 “Secretary,” which he describes as “a satirical comedy” inspired by qboro contributor

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An intense Ludovic Coutaud and Debbie Smith rehearse his play, which will see the two of PHOTOS BY MARK LORD them on stage. Lane Northcutt, top left, will direct a play he wrote. those 1950s training videos for secretaries, with sexual harassment providing the underlying theme.

Despite a running time of only 10 minutes, the play “is its own piece,” Northcutt said, offering a “full story arc, with a beginning, middle and end.”

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Don’t eat and drink — eat your drinks this summer

by Anthony O’Reilly Editor

It’s a fact that certain foods taste better when paired with certain drinks, and vice versa. A good steak goes well with a cabernet sauvignon, champagne with oysters and beer with any salty treats — think pretzels.

Perhaps the only thing better than these pairings are when chefs put alcohol into the food.

From the classic penne alla vodka to beer bread, it’s been done all over the world for centuries.

But you don’t have to be an expert chef to get your favorite spirits into your next meal this summer. Here, we have a few simple recipes that won’t get you quite drunk, but will get the party started at your next party.

Beer can chicken

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The hardest thing about this recipe is choosing which beer you want to pair with your chicken.

Anything will work in this recipe, just make sure to use an aluminum can and stay away from glass. If you want to make this for those under 21, you can use juices or any other liquid — even a pineapple will suffice. This will work on a barbecue or in an oven.

Ingredients: • One whole chicken, innards removed.

• Salt and pepper • Olive oil • Aluminum beer can Instructions: • Pat the chicken dry with a paper towel. Drizzle some olive oil all over and season well with salt and pepper.

• Open the beer can and

empty anywhere from a quarter to half the liquid into a cup.

• Place the chicken over the can and place in your barbecue or oven. Regardless of what you’re cooking the chicken in, make sure the temperature is around 325 to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

• Cook for around one hour and 45 minutes.

• Take off the heat and allow to cool for a few minutes before carving into your poultry. Enjoy.

Red wine marinated steak As mentioned before, steak goes great with wine — so putting one in the other just makes sense. A note on the wine: Make sure to use something full-bodied, nothing too fruity.

Ingredients: • One cup of red wine • 3/4 cup of olive oil • The juice of half a lemon • One tsp. of salt • One tsp. of pepper • Five minced garlic cloves • Two tbsps. of diced onions • Three sprigs of rosemary • Two to three 8-ounce steaks Instructions: • Whisk together all the ingredients, except the steaks, and pour into a plastic bag. Place your steaks inside and mix everything together.

• Refrigerate for four to six hours, or overnight, making sure to turn the bag over every few hours.

• Cook the steak to your liking, either in the oven or the barbecue.

• Allow to rest for a minimum of 10 minutes before carving.

• Enjoy.

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Beer bread This one is about efficiency, in addition to cooking with alcohol.

Beer has yeast in it, so it will help the bread rise. Just like the beer can chicken, you can use any beer in this recipe, but lagers work best. This recipe comes from Gerald Norman at GeniusKitchen.com.

Ingredients: • Three cups of flour • Three tsps. of baking powder • One tsp. of salt • 1/4 cup of sugar • One 12-ounce can of beer • 1/4 to 1/2 cup of melted butter Instructions: • Sift the flour into a big bowl and add the beer. Mix until combined and no dry bits of flour remain.

• Pour into a greased loaf pan and pour the melted butter over.

• Bake for an hour, remove from the pan and cool for at least 15 minutes before cutting in and using for sandwiches, or just spreading with more butter.

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Cheesecake with brandy syrup In the movie “Waitress,” Jenna Hunterson creates a New York-style cheesecake brushed with brandy — in the movie, it’s called “Baby screaming its head off in the middle of the night and ruining my life pie.” Now YouTube chef Andrew Rea on his show “Binging with Babish” tried this out but noted the brandy didn’t really come out. So, we will take his advice and use a brandy syrup.

Ingredients: • Six graham crackers • Two ounces of brown sugar • Two and a half ounces of allpurpose flour • Salt • Seven tbsps. of melted butter • Two and half pounds of fullfat cream cheese • 11 ounces of sugar, divided • One teaspoon of salt • 1/3 cup of sour cream • juice of ½ a lemon • One teaspoon of vanilla extract • Two egg yolks • Six whole eggs

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• Two cups of water • One cup of white sugar • 1/2 tsp. of lemon zest • 1/4 cup of brandy • Toasted pecans Instructions: • Blend the crackers and brown sugar until combined, then add the flour and salt and mix. Add the butter and pulse until it has the consistency of wet sand.

• Butter down a spring form pan and add the cracker mixture and tamp down until it’s even and flat.

• Par-bake at 325 degrees Faranheit for 12 to 15 minutes.

• Meanwhile, add the cream cheese along with 5 1/2 ounces of the white sugar and a teaspoon of salt into a stand mixer.

Mix for a minute, scrape the sides of the bowl down and add the rest of the sugar and mix for another 60 seconds.

• Scrape again and add the sour cream, lemon juice and vanilla extract. Mix again.

• Add the egg yolks, scrape down the sides of the bowl and mix. Then add two eggs at a time, mix for 60 seconds and scrape before adding the next eggs.

• Rea suggests passing the cream cheese mixtures through a

fine mesh sieve into another bowl to make sure its extra smooth.

• Butter down the sides of your cake pan and add the mixture. Pop any bubbles that rise to the surface to prevent any cracks.

• Bake at 200 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 minutes, remove from the oven and pop any bubbles that may have appeared. Bake for up to 2 hours and 45 minutes, or until its internal temperature reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit. Then blast the oven to 500 degrees and bake for an additional six to 12 minutes.

• After running a pairing knife around the outside of the cake, remove it and let cool for three hours. After cool, wrap the cake in plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for four hours.

• While you’re waiting for the cake to cool, combine the water, sugar and lemon zest in a saucepan and bring to a boil for five minutes. Strain into a sealable container, removing the zest, and allow to cool.

• Unwrap the cake. Mix brandy into the syrup mixture and glaze over the cake. Top with pecans, as done in “Waitress.”

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Those included his backyard garden and the neighborhood children playing in the street or walking by to say hello to Uncle Satchmo and Aunt Lucille. He said when Armstrong first was shown the “Wonderful World” lyrics in 1967, he was smitten.

“He said, ‘That ’s Corona ; that ’s Queens.’”

But it was not the hit that it would eventually become. Armstrong’s recording of Bob Thiel’s song over 1967 and ’68 was No. 1 on the charts in the United Kingdom and Austria, and No. 2 in Denmark — and peaked at 116 in the United States on the Billboard chart.

Riccardi said Larry Newton, then president of ABC-Paramount Records, personally tried to bury the song after discovering

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that it was being recorded without his prior knowledge, and because he disapproved of the peppy, upbeat Armstrong singing a tender ballad.

“Newton didn’t promote the record at all,” he said. “I found a review from Billboard Magazine that said, ‘This could be a sleeper hit.’ Then I went through every edition, and there was not one single ad promoting the record.”

It became a posthumous hit after getting prominent play in the 1988 Robin Williams movie “Good Morning, Vietnam,” this time cracking the Billboard Top 40 at No. 32.

“And it just didn’t quit,” Riccardi said.

Rosenstock said features of the library celebration will include displays of Armstrong’s many handmade collages, concerts and even some pop-up performances with Queens artists showing up unannounced at some branches. The idea, he said, is to reach all kinds of audiences.

“The library directors [at the chosen branches] know those are coming ... but they don’t know when,” Riccardi said of the pop-up shows.

One way to find the upcoming events

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David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Eternity Band has a series of performances on its schedule. On the cover: Satchmo in his study at his home — now a museum — on 107th PHOTO COURTESY QUEENS TOURISM COUNCIL AND, COVER, PHOTO BY JACK BRADLEY Street in Corona. that are announced is to go to queenslibrary.org and do a search using the keyword ”Armstrong.”

Julia del Palacio of the Kupferberg Center also will be among the performers. She said all corners of the wonderful world will lend their own touch to the events, in keeping with the celebration of the song.

“We have Queens groups from around

the world,” she said. “Mexican groups, ensembles from China and South Asia, all to show the diversity of Queens.”

Rosenstock quoted another Queens guy, Astoria native Tony Bennett, on Armstrong’s significance.

“He said, ‘Every country contributes something to the world. We gave the world Q Louis Armstrong.’”

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SPECIAL EVENTS World Environment Day, with various events honoring the United Nations’ official day to encourage environmental protection.

Sat., June 2. World Wildlife with Animal Embassy, for adults and kids 5 and up, 10-11 a.m., $14; Outragehiss Pets, for kids 7 and up, 1-2 p.m., $14; Guided Walk, for all ages, 3-4 p.m., free; and Concert for the Environment by folk rock band Gathering Time, for those 10 and up, 7:30 p.m., $15. Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston.

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NASA Book Talk and Walking Tour: “Damnation Island,” with author Stacy Horn on her book subtitled “Poor, Sick, Mad & Criminal in 19thCentury New York,” about Blackwell’s Island, now Roosevelt Island, when it housed an asylum, prisons and public hospitals; followed by a bus ride and walk around it. Sat., May 26, 1-3 p.m., Astoria Bookshop, 31-29 31 St. Free. Info: (718) 278-2665, astoriabookshop.com.

Public beach opening day, for all nine operated by NYC Parks, including Rockaway, with swimming, sunbathing, surfing, the boardwalk, concessions, playgrounds and more. Sat., May 26, 10 a.m. (for swimming), Beach 9 St. to Beach 149 St. (aside from Beach 91 to Beach 102 Sts.).

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Cross Island YMCA Cruise for a Cause, aboard the Skyline Princess, with family-friendly entertainment, live music, kids’ activities, lunch and more, to help pay for children to attend summer camp at the Y. Sat., June 2, 12-4:30 p.m., 1 World’s Fair Marina, Flushing. $65; $35 kids under 13. Info: (718) 551-9314, jkrauter@ymcanyc.org, ymcanyc.org/cruise.

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Most Wednesdays, 4-5:30 p.m., Bellerose Library, 250-06 Hillside Ave. Free, no registration required. Info: (718) 831-8644, queenslibrary.org/bellerose.

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Saturday night dances, with a live DJ playing classics, oldies, Italian and Spanish music, food and more. Sat., June 2, and every other Saturday all year, 8 p.m.-12 a.m., Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. $12.

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Queens AARP Chorus, which sings at nursing homes and AARP events, seeks retired people to join. Meets each Fri., 11 a.m. (new people asked to come 10 a.m.), Clearview Selfhelp Center, 208-11 26 Ave., Bayside. Info: joroosume@ verizon.net.

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continued from page 33 piece, which had its first read-through last week. Three of Northcutt’s thespian friends make up the cast.

An even smaller company of actors will bring to life Ludovic Coutaud’s “Look at Me,” which the playwright describes as “an emotional rollercoaster” between a young man and his mother. Coutaud is directing his own work and also plays the son, opposite longtime Gingerbread Player Debbie Smith.

For Coutaud, who hails from France and lives, at least for the time being, in Astoria, the play provides an opportunity to employ an unusual approach to performing.

“It is a clown-based show,” he said, quickly pointing out that he’s not referring to a circus clown or a birthday party clown.

Rather, the style of the show is very physical, “vibrant, colorful, and lively,” he said.

“Each character is alive head to toe.”

In performance, he hopes to “avoid anything realistic,” opting to “go for the abstract.”

The approach, he recognizes, “sounds crazy, [but] it helps.”

Smith admits she’s finding plenty of challenges. For starters, her character “wants to be a loving mother, but she’s not the best mother in the world.” And Coutaud has staged the piece so that both actors face the

audience directly throughout.

“There is really no blocking,” she said, no movement around the stage. “I’m not used to that. I’m going to want to move. It’s so different from anything else.”

Even rehearsals have been unorthodox, said Smith, who lives on the border of Woodhaven and Glendale.

“We rehearsed in a Mexican restaurant last week,” but, surprisingly, “no one was paying attention to us.”

Ludovic, who runs his own theatrical company, Lunatic Clown and Cie, says the presentation style might make audiences feel uncomfortable.

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The annual upfront week, where television networks show off their slate of fall programs, took place last week, and sports played a big part. Fox has owned the rights to televise Sunday afternoon NFL games since 1994, and they have added to that portfolio by investing $3.3 billion for exclusive rights to televise Thursday night games for the next five years.

Fox’s game plan is to have Joe Buck and Troy Aikman broadcast the Sunday games while Howie Long, Jimmy Johnson, Terry Bradshaw, Michael Strahan and Curt Menefee handle the Thursday chores from New York.

My guess is that’s being done to accommodate Strahan’s duties on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Eli Manning was onstage with his old teammate Strahan at the Fox upfront presentation, held at the Beacon Theater. Manning got off a good quip that was not on the teleprompter.

He asked Strahan to consider coming out of retirement to play for the Giants. “I am 46 years old!” replied Strahan.

“Yeah, but Tom Brady is something like 52,” Manning countered, which got big laughs. Brady is 41.

Fox will also be broadcasting the 2018 World Cup from Russia this summer. Alexi

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Pepsi-Cola was invented by pharmacist Caleb Bradham. The recipe was invented in 1893 and got the name we know it by in 1898. The firm was incorporated in 1902 in North Carolina and the name trademarked in 1903. But Bradham went bankrupt in 1923 and sold the company. It went bankrupt again in 1931, was purchased by Charles Guth and almost went bankrupt again. Guth offered to sell it to Coca-Cola, which turned him down.

In 1935 he moved the bottling operations to Long Island City on the East River. The building was completed in 1936, and in 1938 was graced with a huge 147-foot sign made by Artcraft Strauss, the company that has dominated Times Square with some of the most iconic movie signs of the 20th century. The company immediately turned a profit and was on its way.

In 1996 Local 812 Soft Drink Workers Union announced the Canada Dry Bottling Co. in College Point was going to close and Pepsi workers would move there. The handwriting was on the wall for the future of the

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LIC plant on its valuable 19.5-acre site.

Production of 20 million cases or 250 million cans and bottles a year ceased in 1999 and total operations of the plant ended on Dec. 28, 2001.

The owners kept a portion of the land for the sign to be preserved as pop art to be enjoyed by everyone for future generations.

Bradham died in 1934, never having seen the iconic sign that remains part of popular Q culture history.

Lalas will be the lead analyst.

Lalas conceded that the absence of Team USA, which did not qualify for the tournament, may hurt ratings somewhat but believes the overall interest is so strong that the decline, if any, will be negligible.

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Its Sunday afternoon baseball package will resume right after the All-Star Game break.

ESPN revealed at its upfront presentation that Alex Rodriguez will be hosting an interview show this fall.

The network will also be airing 63 short basketball documentaries.

The CW will be launching a new show, “All American,” on Wednesday nights this fall, which looks at the life of a star player who transfers from a high school in South Central LA to one in Beverly Hills.

Thin k “90210” meets “Friday Night Lights.”

CBS Sports has quietly launched a very good website, cbssportshq.com, that provides scores, live reports, video content and even a Q lot of fun trivia.

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Co-ops & Condos For Sale • 1 bed Co-op. Totally updated, new kitchen. ...........Reduced $139K • 2BR/2 bath Co-op.

Hardwood floors, S/S appliances. Updated bath. .............. Asking $249K • Hard to find Hi-rise, 3BR, 2 full baths Co-op, totally redone building. .............. Asking $269K • Hi-Rise 2BR/2 bath Co-op w/terrace. Needs TLC. .............. Asking $272K • Greentree condo. 3rd floor, vaulted ceiling, kitchen w/ skylight, 3BR, 2 baths, 2 terraces, park & garage. Asking $379K IN CONTRACT • Garden 1BR, ............. . Asking $189K IN CONTRACT • Hi-rise – 2BR / 2 bath, Co-op w/17' terrace, .............. Asking $259K CLOSED • 3BR, 1 bath, garden. .............. Asking $189K

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Greentree Condo. 3rd floor, vaulted ceiling, kitchen w/skylight. 3 BRs, 2 baths, 2 terraces.

Parking & garage.

Asking $379K

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Exclusive listing. Lovely corner Colonial, 4 BRs, 2 full baths, 40x100, MB w/balcony, family room w/woodburning fireplace.

Asking $839K

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