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‘The entire Jewish community is on edge’ Recent anti-Semitism creates a ‘general anxiety’ in neighborhoods

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

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everal Yeshiva Kesser Torah congregants stood outside the synagogue last week when a hail of stones and verbal assault fell upon them.

“F--k you, you Jews. I’m gonna kill all of you and have your blood run in the streets,” the four assailants said the night of May 20, according to police.

The rock thrower ejected the weapons from inside a black sedan that pulled up to the Kew Gardens Hills house of worship for the unprovoked attack. The driver displayed and zapped his Taser in a threatening manner.

No one was hurt physically, though the same cannot be said for the victims’ mental and emotional well-being.

“The entire Jewish community is on edge in a way I, personally, have never seen,” said A s s e mbly me mb e r D a n iel Ro s e nt h a l (D-Fresh Meadows).

The first quarter of the year looked promising for a decrease in anti-Semitic hate in New York City. Reported anti-Jewish hate crimes for the first three months of 2021 dropped 40 percent below what was reported in the same time frame in 2020. But recent spikes in attacks have proved to be a devastating reminder to Jewish New Yorkers that

Mayor de Blasio, left, NYPD Chief of Department Rodney Harrison and other city officials met with Jewish community leaders at City Hall May 21 to discuss recent acts of anti-Semitic vioPHOTO BY ED REED / NYC / FLICKR lence throughout the five boroughs. prejudice still lingers, especially in the midst of the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Rosenthal himself has felt anxious in recent weeks. He took his 6-month-old daughter out for a walk and became hyperaware of his surroundings and the potential threats that lurk in seemingly safe neighborhoods. The assemblymember said it was the

first time the danger crept into the back of his mind.

In response to the rising hate, Gov. Cuomo has directed state police to increase patrols at synagogues, schools and other community facilities in Jewish neighborhoods, including many in New York City. The directive is the second time this year officers have deployed

additional troops into communities to deter rising crime — in March, the NYPD increased outreach in Asian neighborhoods to combat the hate crime spike.

“Anti-Asian and anti-Semitism are cancers in our society that need to be condemned in every sense of the way,” Rosenthal said, agreeing that increased protection and legislation are important first steps, but that hate runs deep. He pointed to the Daily News’ May 24 cartoon depicting mayoral candidate Andrew Yang as a tourist, which many decried as following the racist trope that Asian Americans are not real Americans, but only foreigners. “We have to push back on them.”

Mayor de Blasio echoed Rosenthal’s sentiment that eradicating hate begins with education. He held a roundtable with police and Jewish leaders May 21 to discuss avenues of tolerance. Solidarity and goodwill, he said, are keys to change, but in the meantime the NYPD will be out “full force” to bring consequences to those who perpetrate hateful language and actions.

Though the extra security is appreciated, some Jewish leaders don’t think it’s enough to quell the “general anxiety” their people feel.

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Neighborhood heroes save family from fire 24-year-old from Howard Beach alerts sleeping family, helps rescue

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

After a young Howard Beach resident noticed a fire at a house across the street, his decisive action in alerting the sleeping neighbors allowed them all to escape, minimizing injuries and saving lives.

It was around midnight last Sunday morning when 24-year-old Old Howard Beach resident Joe Behrens got home with his girlfriend after celebrating his birthday and smelled smoke around the corner of 96th Street and 164th Avenue.

Once the two noticed that the fire was across the street, Behrens snapped into rescue

Joe Behrens and his girlfriend, Cassidy Locurto, snapped into action to save his neighbors’ COURTESY PHOTO lives.

mode. His girlfriend, Cassidy Locurto, called 911, while Berhens ran over to the house to try and evacuate its residents “I started kicking the doors, screaming, ‘The house is on fire,’ making as much noise as I could. No one was waking up. No one was responding,” he said.

Behrens then went back to his house to enlist his family members, who climbed into a car to help make noise by beeping.

“The front door handle was so hot, I burned my hand grabbing it,” said Behrens.

After hearing the commotion, a mother on the top floor of the house, Kathryn Rella, popped out of the side window and jumped out onto a shed that led to the second floor, telling Behrens that there was a child basement.

Behrens broke the window to the basement and was able to get the attention of a little girl and tell her to get out. She was able to make it out of the side of the house safely.

Behrens’ mom’s boyfriend, Andrew Besser, caught Rella, who jumped from the second floor. Once she made it down from the shed, the Fire Department arrived.

At that point, there were still several more residents left in the house, a child on the middle floor, a child on the top floor, Rella’s husband, Mike, and his father, a wheelchair-bound senior in the basement. The firefighters were able to rescue the remaining family members, although the child on the second floor did suffer burns on her hands and arms, and had to be transported to an area hospital.

All the family members were treated for

Kathryn Rella’s house in Old Howard Beach sustained massive damage after a fire engulfed their GOFUNDME PHOTO kitchen while she and her family were sleeping. smoke inhalation. Behrens said he heard that the child was in stable condition.

The FDNY got the fire, which had engulfed the kitchen, under control by 1:12 a.m.

Asked how it felt to have saved the lives of his neighbors, Behrens said that he was doing what he would hope anyone would.

“I don’t really feel that I should be commended. It’s just something you would expect somebody to do,” he told the Chronicle.

According to a GoFundMe that several Howard Beach residents set up for the family

the fire caused massive amounts of damage to the house and destroyed most of their belongings.

The toll of the fire extends beyond belongings. The Rellas are still missing three of their six rescue cats. Mike’s father is a victim of stroke and is a homebound individual who requires full-time care. Residents have also begun taking donations for the family on Facebook.

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D32 race hinges on expanding electorate Several Dem candidates detail efforts to change district’s low turnout

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In South Queens’ Council District 32, lopsided turnout between its more conservative southern half and the large portion of new immigrant communities in its north has played a determining role in previous elections.

But along with the arrival of ranked-choice voting and a wide field for the seat’s Democratic nomination, several candidates created a campaign strategy specifically aimed at unlocking the voting potential of the district’s northern population of Indo-Caribbean, Latino, Bangladeshi and Punjabi communities.

They say that canvassing operations focused on voter education and registration are the way for Democrats to win back the district, which is held by Queens’ sole Republican

Council member.

Several Democratic candidates would be the first nonwhite Council members to be elected to the district. Helal Sheikh, a former public school mathematics teacher, is Bangladeshi, Kaled Alamarie is a Yemeni-American city planner and 10th-grade teacher Felicia Singh comes from a Punjabi background on her father’s side and Guyanese on her mother’s.

Mike Scala, an Italian-American attorney who won the Democratic nomination in 2017 and lost against incumbent Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), has also said that he has been “reaching out and speaking to every voter in the district.”

The Democratic primary will test whether the candidates can succeed in their strategy of turning out the more northern parts of the district.

But the fight to expand the base in that part of the district to a competitive level is an uphill battle based on its historically low turnout.

In 2018, the lowest voter turnout of any Assembly district in Queens was in AD 38, which overlaps with the Council District’s north end. The Campaign Finance Board’s autopsy of the 2018 election showed that Ozone Park, Richmond Hill and Woodhaven were all among the top 10 neighborhoods with the lowest turnout within Queens.

Though the northern half went heavily for now-President Biden in the 2020 presidential election, the northern AD 38 segment of the district also lagged behind the southern AD 23 portion of the district in voter turnout.

In the 2017 general election for the Council seat between Scala and

Felicia Singh, Kaled Alamarie, Helal Sheikh and Mike Scala are running in FILE PHOTOS the Democratic primary for Council District 32.

Ulrich, the average turnout in the Assembly district in the southern half of the district was nearly double the three Assembly districts that overlap its northern portion.

“This is the problem. We have low voter turnout because we keep appealing to the same base over and over and over again,” Singh told the Chronicle.

Singh and Alamarie, who opted to speak to the Chronicle about their efforts at expanding the electorate, both said that their canvassing strategies have relied heavily on voter education with a multilingual staff.

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Queens debates future of train line Two competing plans for the defunct Rockaway Beach tracks gain attention

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

The past month has reignited a debate about the future of a defunct rail in Queens.

Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) shed some attention on the efforts to transform the abandoned Rockaway Beach Rail Line running through Central and South Queens when she asked for federal infrastructure to create a new rail line along the tracks.

But for years, The Trust for Public Land, a conservation group, has been lobbying to convert a 3.5-mile path along the abandoned rail into the QueensWay, a park similar to Manhattan’s High Line, stretching from Rego Park to Ozone Park.

Unlike the plan to create a rail line that would require federal support, the fate of the QueensWay project will ultimately rely on the city’s capital budget. While the estimated cost to create a train line ranges from $6.7 billion to reactivate the rail spur for the LIRR to $8.1 billion to create a subway connector, a 2014 study for the Queen-

sWay pegged it at an estimated $120 million, a cost that would come out of the mayor’s capital budget, said Karen Imas, a volunteer advocate for the project.

The QueensWay recently got some new publicity after mayoral hopeful Andrew Yang mentioned it as a key part of his plan to invest in park space. Nine mayoral candidates have endorsed the New Yorkers for Parks Five Point Plan for Parks Equity that mentions building new parks like the QueensWay as a priority, but Yang is the only one to explicitly namedrop the project so far.

Yang’s campaign website said that while he’s aware of the need to improve transportation in South Queens, he doesn’t believe a subway to be feasible and he’s committed to seeing the trail through to fruition. The platform adds that the QueensWay would add to the area’s transportation through offering multimodal transportation, such as safe walking and bike paths that build access to the neighboring bus stops and subway lines.

Imas said that the pandemic has

awakened an appetite for more green space “and needs around parks, the needs for more safe cycling in areas that don’t have a lot of bike paths or safe cycling areas.”

Within the span of Woodhaven, Richmond Hill and Ozone Park that the park would cut through, there are five contiguous ZIP codes that contain no bike lanes or cycling infrastructure whatsoever.

Imas added that though the estimated cost of the project is over $100 million, the construction of the path would take a phased approach, and the request for its first phase would cost somewhere between $20 and $25 million.

On the other hand, Pheffer Amato said that part of her intention in writing the letter asking for federal funding for the rail was to make sure “the conversation about this railroad stays active.”

“The MTA knows two things about our district: We want the toll removed on the Cross Bay Bridge, and we need better transpor tation options in Souther n Queens and that the RBRL is a solution to that problem,” said

For years a conservation group has been pushing to make the abandoned FRIENDS OF THE QUEENSWAY RENDERING Rockaway Rail line into a park.

Pheffer Amato in a statement.

As a letter to the Chronicle pointed out last week, even if the rail project were to gain traction at the federal level, it would still need matching funds from the MTA or city Department of Transportation to obtain a grant agreement from the Federal Transit Administration

to pay for the $8 billion Rockaway LIRR restoration project.

“If we are at the stage of deciding how much matching funds we have to acquire to match federal funding, then we have done our job advancing the conversation and elevating this issue to the highest levQ els,” Pheffer Amato wrote.

NYC schools to fully reopen this fall Mayor announces that city will not offer a remote option for students

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New York City public schools will reopen fully and not offer a remote option for their roughly one million students next fall, Mayor de Blasio announced Monday morning.

The plan envisions a stark departure from the state of public schools as this academic year comes to a close, with 60 percent of city students having gone the entire year with fully remote learning.

“It’s just amazing to see the forward motion right now, the recovery that’s happened in New York City. But you can’t have a full recovery without full strength schools, everyone back sitting in those classrooms, kids learning again,” de Blasio said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” The mayor pointed out that Covid rates have continued to decline as vaccination rates rise, which will continue to increase for staff and students. Children ages 12 and older are now eligible for the vaccine. As it reopens fully the school system will continue with many of the Covid safety protocols in place that kept the rate of infection under 1 percent citywide since October like ventilation, cleaning and mandatory mask wearing, de Blasio said.

“In New York City public schools, we could have every child 3 feet apart. We could make that work if we had to, but I actually funda-

The mayor announced Monday that New York City public schools will fully reopen in September FILE PHOTO without a remote option. mentally believe by August, the CDC will relax those rules further to recognize the progress that we’ve made in this country,” de Blasio said.

The move marks a change in messaging from March, when the mayor said that he expected to have a remote option available to parents. Asked what changed his mind at his Monday press event, de Blasio said that the

effects of the city’s vaccination efforts have been more immediate than he originally thought.

“Vaccination worked ahead of schedule. It’s had even more impact than we thought it would. CDC has been sending very clear signals about our ability to come back fully in so many senses,” he told reporters.

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return, de Blasio is anticipating the scenario that parents will share the sentiment that schools are safe enough from the virus that they are ready to send back their children. The fact that the majority of parents have continued to keep their children at home through the second chance to opt in this spring reflects how they’ve gotten used to the norm of remote learning and didn’t want to disrupt the habits, he said.

To help convince families that it’s safe to return, de Blasio said school campuses will begin to open their doors over the summer to let families tour and observe the conditions for themselves.

“We’re going to welcome parents to come into the schools starting in June, see how much has been done to keep them safe, get reacclimated,” he said on “Morning Joe.” In response to the announcement, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew released a statement that he generally agreed with the mayor’s push to fully reopen, saying that the union wants “as many students back in school as safely possible.”

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Outlining wetland preservation New report creates 30-year conservation plan

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Keep the wetlands wet and wild.

The Natural Areas Conserva ncy a nd t he cit y Pa rk s Department released a plan last Wed nesday to restore New York wetlands and keep them healthy over the next 30 years.

To do that, the new report, titled “Wetlands Management Framework for New York City,” identifies more than 300 acres of wetland restoration projects in NYC Parks properties — ma ny of t hem sit u ated i n Jamaica Bay and other sections of Queens.

The report points out that of the 5,650 acres of wetlands in New York City today, around half of that total is managed by NYC Parks. That is a small fraction of the city’s historical wetlands from about 400 years ago — 85 percent of which were destroyed by sea-level rise, development and pollution as New York City has grown.

The report describes wet-

A new report on wetland conservation lists Idlewild Park as a top prioriFILE PHOTO ty project. lands as an essential part of the ecosystem, which provide recreation opportunities, enhance resilience to climate change and support hundreds of species of birds, plants and fish. Their

value is immense. Every year more people visit Jamaica Bay than Yellowstone National Park, it points out.

The report’s goals include creating new wetlands, trans-

ferring about 93 acres of publicly owned property to Parks Depa r t ment’s ju r isd ict ion , acquiring another 50 acres currently under private ownership, dedicating funds for capital restoration of 288 acres of marshes a nd i ncreasi ng wetla nd s staffing.

Several of its top priority projects are in Queens. The borough’s highest priority project is in Rosedale’s Idlewild Park, where the report recommends spending $3.6 million for sediment placement, a process that builds on an existing marsh that is drowning due to sea-level rise.

The report’s second-priority projects in Queens all involved removing historical landfills on former salt marshes or ponds to restore the wetlands. It recommend s a $ 9.7 m illion f ill removal project in Alley Pond Park, a $6.1 million project in Brandt Point, a $130,000 project in Broad Channel and a $ 4.8 m illion project i n Q Ramblersville.

Hospital bill passes Senate The state Senate has approved a bill sponsored by Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) to ensure persons with disabilities are allowed to have an essential support person present for the duration of their hospital stay.

“The right to accompany a patient into the hospital was denied for all family members, and tragically, thousands of patients suffered and passed away alone during the COVID-19 pa ndem ic,” Add abbo said i n a statement.

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The New York Cit y Advisor y C o m m i s s io n o n P r o p e r t y Ta x Reform will host virtual hearings on its 10 preliminary recommendations, scheduled for Queens on June 9, the Bronx on June 14 and Manhattan on June 16. All hearings will begin at 6 p.m.

Anyone wishing to testify must register online at least 24 hours in advance at www1.nyc.gov/site/propertytaxreform/index.page.

Cit y le a d e r s fo r ye a r s h ave claimed interest in changing property tax regulations that result in having many residents in low- and middle-income neighborhoods paying higher rates than those in more wellto-do neighborhoods.

Advocates this week for mally requested that the U.S. Department of Justice inter vene with a civil r ights investigation, calling the existing structure discriminatory.

T hose who ca n not at tend but wish to submit testimony can do so by email as PropTaxInfo @ propert y t a x c o m m i s s i o n . n y c . g o v, o r through an online por tal at Q on.nyc.gov/34l1vjT. — Michael Gannon

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The IS 238 site was a temporary colocation that was granted as the academy spent four years working with the Success Academy, one of the largest Mayor’s Off ice to f ind a building, public charter school network’s in New according to Powell.

York City, will have its own middle “Our middle schools go from grade school building in August for its stufive to grade eight,” said Powell. “We dents in Southeast Queens. anticipated the [city’s Department of The school will open its doors to 250 Education] needed more time, but that fifth- and sixth-graders, according to the initially fell through.” academy’s fou nder a nd CEO, Eva As the st udents age into higher Moskowitz. grades, the academy will have a lottery “We’re grateful the mayor has done for new fifth- and sixth-grade students, the right thing by kids and families,” as well as high schoolers. said Moskowitz. “Success Academy “At Success Academy you are guaranfamilies were tenacious in their advocateed a seat from kindergarten through cy, and we appreciate the support of 12th grade,” according to Powell. “We Congressman [Gregory] Meeks and the accept new students from kindergarten Queens delegation in securing this new through grade four, but we don’t accept educational home.” new students after grade four.”

Previously, the school had been slated Parents of fourth-graders in nearby to share a building space with students academies in the network are eligible to at IS 238 in Hollis and the school had apply to the school. initially been called SA Hollis Middle The news about the building comes School, according to Moskowitz.

The school will now go by Success Success Academy’s new building is in South Ozone the same day that Mayor de Blasio PHOTO COURTESY SUCCESS ACADEMY announced that schools would fully Academy Ozone Park Middle School. Park. reopen for in-person sessions in SepThe former Our Lady’s Catholic Academy is located at 109-55 128 St. and mea- year was the first year it opened as a middle tember without remote options or Covidschool, but we were never got to occupy the related accom modations for teachers sures 45,430 square-feet.

“Our on-campus school will return Aug. building because Success Academy has been because test-positivity rates are at 1.13 Q percent.

2,” said SA spokeswoman Ann Powell. “Last remote for all of the school year.”

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P Beware violent anti-Semitism EDITORIAL

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nti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are two different things, but the former can bleed into the latter, and that sure appears to be what’s been going on recently in the city.

Anyone who pays close enough attention to the news knows that a crowd of pro-Palestinian men beat up a Jew from Long Island in Manhattan the other day, and that the first man charged in the case was wearing a T-shirt showing a silhouette of Israel, labeled “Palestine.” So much for the two-state solution, eh?

Meanwhile other attackers threw serious fireworks at pro-Israeli protesters, burning at least one woman.

What got a little less coverage was the fact that the defendant in the beating case proudly said he would do it again. When released by the authorities he was hoisted up on a friend’s shoulders and told he was a hero by his pals as one chanted “Free Palestine.”

That’s the same phrase spray-painted on an American flag hung by Vietnam veterans next to a small garden they maintain in Glendale. Naturally the perpetrator hates the United States as much as Israel. Police have taken that flag for their investigation, and it’s

being replaced by a former Queens resident who read about the case in our exclusive report at qchron.com.

Nor has Queens been immune from the violence.

Congregants from Yeshiva Kesser Torah were standing outside their Kew Gardens Hills synagogue last week when four men rolled up in a car and threw rocks at them, the driver also displaying a Taser in a menacing way. “F--k you, you Jews,” they said, threatening to kill them all and see their “blood run in the streets.”

Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal — a stand-up guy who was one of only two Queens votes against the insane bail reform law that immediately frees people like the Manhattan attacker — outlined that story for us and police detailed it. Rosenthal said the entire Jewish community is on edge in a way he’s never seen before.

His comments were echoed by a woman from Fresh Meadows who called WABC Radio’s “Rita Cosby Show” Monday relating her anxiety when her husband and son just went on a quick run to the grocery store.

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ayor de Blasio deserves our thanks for insisting from the beginning of the Covid crisis that kids get back into school as much as possible as soon as possible. The process has been full of fits and starts ever since, thanks to everything from poor management to the teachers union’s intransigence, but de Blasio has done his best. And this week he made the announcement we’ve been waiting for: School will be open in September. Real school. No online nonsense. No options.

It’s welcome news because virtual learning is a literal disaster. No class can function online as it can in person. The vast majority of students have suffered academically no matter how hard they’ve tried to adjust, and they’ve all endured setbacks in social development as it’s just not normal for them to be cut off from their friends. In the suburbs, kids have been back in class for more than a month. It’s time for city students to join them.

Of course, they’ll be forced to wear masks, despite being such poor transmitters of the virus. They should take them off at their desks and only put them on when moving around the school, as when changing classes. But whatever the rules, it’s time to cut the cord on remote learning and return to the real deal. One more thing: Get snow days back on the calendar, too.

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Today, the Howard Beach community, which I am privileged to represent, consistently faces flooding during both minor and major storms.

That is why I fought to get a provision included in the Water Resources Development Act of 2020 that requires the secretary of the Army to expedite the completion of a feasibility study for a “project for ecosystem restoration and hurricane and storm damage risk reduction, Spring Creek South (Howard Beach), Queens, New York.” The study will recommend a comprehensive, integrated solution to provide the com-

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however, be a dedication by the American Legion Post #103 at St. Anastasia Parish, where there is a monument dedicated to the military services and there is also an American flag on the corner of Alameda and Northern Boulevard in Douglaston. There will be a wreath laying at the Veterans Memorial on-site. This will be on Monday, May 31, starting at 11:30 a.m.

This Memorial Day we can still say a prayer for those serving our country today, the brave men and women in the military. We should also offer prayers for those in our communities like doctors, nurses, EMS, firefighters, and those in our police departments serving and protecting us in our communities. We can also offer a moment of silence for all those who gave the ultimate sacrifice and gave their lives to keep us free. Let’s not forget the true meaning of Memorial Day and fly the American flag if you can.

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Probe Jan. 6 attack Dear Editor: The latest polls show that most Americans regardless of party affiliation would welcome an independent commission to investigate the historic Jan. 6 assault on our democracy and Capitol. In a democracy, it seems the will of the people should outweigh partisan concerns or the risk of upsetting one wealthy individual, though a former president.

Former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis stated, “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” It is time for all Americans to stand up for democracy or lose it.

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Must keep Roe v. Wade Dear Editor: If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it is a duck. The Texas law that restricts abortion unless it is performed within a six-week period of the pregnancy, notwithstanding many women are unaware in a six-week period they are pregnant, does not limit the right to an abortion, but for all practical purposes prohibits it and overrules Roe v. Wade.

Stare decisis is a well-recognized legal doctrine that obligates courts to follow historical cases when making a decision in a similar case. It ensures cases with similar scenarios and facts are approached in the same way. Simply put, it binds courts to follow legal precedents set by previous decisions. Stare decisis does not apply if there is evidence of significant changes in the circumstances that existed when the original case had been decided. In the case of Roe v.

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Dear Editor: Over the course of my life, racism has struck me as illogical, ridiculous and a pure manifestation of idiocy. If it were not so painful, destructive, injurious, evil and enraging, it might be laughable.

During “Jim Crow,“ whites enacted laws to require blacks to drink from separate water fountains. Similarly, blacks were barred from eating at the same lunch counters where whites ate. Yet blacks worked in the homes of whites, preparing their food, caring for, and in some cases nursing, their children. How idiotic is that?

To this day, whites have lived by the custom and tradition, if not the law, that an individual is black if that individual has even a minor fraction of black lineage. Yet whites proclaim themselves to be the “superior” race. How idiotic is that?

And then there is Christian church worship. Historically, blacks were required to form their own black congregations even

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Throw the book at Cuomo Dear Editor: Re your May 20 editorial “Cuomo’s book deal yet another disgrace”: As a retired employee of a major book publisher (McGraw-Hill, 1968-2003), I’m shocked by the $5 million advance that Crown Publishing gave to Gov. Cuomo for “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic.” What moron approved this sum for a novice author with no literary experience? His book should have been published as a work of fiction.

You asked for a law that could prevent Cuomo from cashing in. Such a law already exists: New York State’s “Son of Sam” law that prohibits criminals from profiting off writing about their crimes. Cuomo has not yet been charged or convicted of a crime, but if this happens, I hope the sentencing judge throws the book at him — but not a book that comes with a $5 million advance.

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Queens communities mark Memorial Day Parades are not yet back, but the borough continues annual tradition

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bers of the Remsen family who were killed in the Revolutionary War now rest.

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While the customary Memorial Day parades will once again be sidelined this year, residents of Queens still will honor those who have fallen in service to the country.

College Point The College Point Memorial Day Parade Committee will host a car parade beginning at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 30.

The lineup will begin at 1:30 p.m. on 28th Avenue between College Point Boulevard and Ulmer Street, near the Police Academy.

The caravan then will proceed to Hermon A. MacNeil Park on Poppenhusen Avenue.

Bayside The Bayside Hills Civic Association will host its annual ceremony at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 29 at Bell Boulevard Mall and 53rd Avenue.

Queens Village American Legion Post 301 and the Queens Village Civic Association will have a wreath -aying ceremony at 11 a.m. on Monday, May 31 at Veteran Plaza at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Springfield Boulevard.

Elmhurst The office of Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz will livestream a memorial ceremony and wreath laying from the Queens Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Elmhurst Park beginning at 11 a.m. today, May 27.

Honorees will include LTC. (Ret.) Blossom Ferguson, a veteran of Operation Desert Storm; Vietnam veteran Paul Feddern; and Mariam Sanni-Adigun of the Marine Corps Reserve who served in Operation Enduring Freedom.

The ceremony will be livestreamed at queensda.org/livestream.

Rosedale The Rosedale Civic Association will host a memorial service at 12:30 p.m. on Monday, May 31, at the Veterans and Vietnam Veterans memorial monuments, which are located at separate sites at the intersection of Francis Lewis Boulevard and Sunrise Highway.

Memorial Triangle at 72nd Place and Grand Avenue; Maspeth Memorial Square at 69th Street and Grand Avenue near Maspeth Federal Savings; and Mount Olivet Cemetery at 6540 Grand Ave.

VVA Chapter 32 Members of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 32 will visit three monuments to their fallen brethren on Sunday, May 30.

The first will be at 9:30 a.m. at Nine Heroes Plaza located at Broadway, 41st Avenue and 76th Street in Elmhurst.

That will be followed at 10:15 a.m. at 57th Street and Woodside Avenue in Woodside near St. Sebastian’s Church. The final stop will be at the memorial on 108th Street in Corona near the Long Island Expressway.

Chapter 32 also will be participating in District Attorney Katz’s ceremony in Elmhurst on May 27.

Forest Hills American Legion Continental Post #1424 will have its annual memorial ceremony at noon on Sunday, May 30 at Remsen Cemetery on Trotting Course Lane, where mem-

Whitestone Whitestone will host a ceremony at 11 a.m. on Monday, May 31 at Veterans Field at Harvey Park, located at 15th Drive and Q 149th Street.

Laurelton The 32nd annual Laurelton Memorial Day Service will take place at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, May 31, at Veterans Memorial Triangle, located at 225th Street and North Conduit Avenue.

Ceremonies like the Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade — considered the largest of its kind in the country — may have to wait until next year, but Queens residents will be out in numFILE PHOTO bers on Memorial Day weekend to honor those in the service who have been lost. view them via Zoom is available online on t h e p a r a d e ’s o f f i c i a l w e b s i t e a t lndmemorialday.org.

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NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force and QDA Hate Crimes Bureau ready

by Naeisha Rose Associate Editor

To address the rise in hate crimes, Borough President Donovan Richards held an interactive hate crimes forum with District Attorney Melinda Katz, the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force, the NYC Commission on Human Rights and the NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes on May 25.

“Today marks one year since the murder of George Floyd,” said Richards. “As a Black man, I know all too well that race is an everpresent reality.”

There has been an uptick on attacks on mosques, synagogues, Hindu and Sikh temples and Catholic churches, according to Richards.

There have been 191 reported hate crimes across the five boroughs in 2021, according to NYPD statistics. That is a 70.5 percent increase compared to the same point in 2020.

“I’m committed working hand-in-hand with our diverse communities to build one Queens,” said Richards. “We all have a role in fighting hate.”

Carmelyn Malalis, chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights, said this past year was challenging enough because of Covid, but for some, racial attacks made it more difficult.

“There were many challenges, many loss-

es and many uncertainties,” said Malalis.

“Many of our communities have been having to deal with the additional burden of experiencing different forms of bias and racism, discrimination, different things that can constitute hate crimes or constitute harassment from the commission of hate crimes.”

There has been a sevenfold increase in antiAsian discrimination, according to Malalis.

An Asian man was shoved onto the subway tracks at the Queensbridge station on 21st Street on May 24, noted the Borough President’s Office.

Josette Gripo, a board member and founder of Rockaway Women for Progress, polled guests during the meeting to learn about why they think racism exists.

In 45 seconds, 40 percent of the people tuning in said they believe fear of the other was the cause of racism, bias and discrimination.

When guests were asked if they have been a victim of or witness to discrimination, racial harassment or a hate crime, within the same time frame 80 percent said they had been discriminated against in some form or witnessed discrimination.

Michael Brovner, the chief of the Hate Crimes Unit in the Queens District Attorney’s Office, explained what a hate crime is.

“It’s unlike a regular crime,” said Brovner.

“The victim is targeted because of something

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inherent or essential about them.”

If someone is a victim of a robbery, he or she can avoid the place the attack took place but if you are a victim of a hate crime, you can’t change who you are essentially, said Brovner.

For a crime to be considered hate-related, there has to be intentionality to committing an act in whole or in part based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, gen-

der identity, religion, age, disability or sexual orientation of the victim.

Captain Tim Hollywood, a veteran of the Hate Crimes Task Force, works with seasoned detectives from various investigative units to investigate hate crimes, follow trends and prepare for attacks.

“We talk to everybody and bring them on board for our investigations,” said Hollywood.

The task force works with the FBI, state Police, Department of Justice, Attorney General’s Office, Mayor’s Office, City Council and more to investigate hate crimes.

The task force does not ask for a victim’s immigrant status and has officers who speak over 100 languages, according to Hollywood.

The force also uses the AT&T language translator to help solve crimes.

“A lot of times what happening in Washington, DC, will impact who the victims are in New York City,” said Brovner. “We are on top of it, and whatever group is targeted our group is going to make sure we are handling it aggressively.”

Hollywood said the task force also monitors worldwide events like the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians, which has led to a rise on attacks on mosques and anti-Semitism.

“If you see events happening overseas, our Counter Terrorism Bureau will put the approQ priate resources where they need to be.”

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Glendale veterans’ display vandalized ‘Free Palestine’ painted on U.S. flag; former Queens man sends new one

by Michael Gannon Editor

Ed Britton may live in Ocala, Fla., but he likes to keep tabs on his old neighborhood.

And he was looking at the Chronicle’s website Monday when he saw that a vandal had desecrated an American flag put up in Glendale by Members of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 32 in preparation for Memorial Day. “I like to keep in touch,” Britton told the Chronicle on Tuesday. “I’m a Flushing guy. I lived there 32 years.

“And I’m a Vietnam era veteran.”

Volunteers from VVA Chapter 32 spent last Saturday sprucing up the area of a garden on 88th Street, placing American flags and flags commemorating prisoners of war along a fence while cleaning up litter and trash.

Then, early Monday morning, someone spray-painted “Free Palestine” on a large American flag there.

“Police have been notified; making report as Vandalism as a hate crime,” Chapter 32 said in an email. The email stated there is a video of a man painting the flag at about 4:30 a.m. while walking a dog.

“We heard about it this morning,” said Paul Feddern of Chapter 32, who was down at the site Monday afternoon along with

A patriotic display in Glendale was vandalized early Monday morning when someone painted PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON “Free Palestine” on an American flag.

Michael O’Kane, also of Chapter 32.

The fence runs along the northern side of the freight railroad tracks just north of 76th Avenue. The cleanup and adorning of the fence with flags were a prelude to Memorial Day ceremonies at various sites in mid- and central Queens this coming weekend.

Everything looked Monday as it did when the group of volunteers left on Saturday —

the smaller flags along the fence at regular intervals and Old Glory fully unfurled between banners honoring two sets of American heroes — one welcoming veterans home and the other paying tribute to frontline and essential workers who carried the nation through the Covid-19 pandemic.

Bags of trash sat in a row, waiting to be picked up.

Driver pleads guilty to manslaughter The 2019 Woodhaven Blvd. hit-and-run killed worker

by Max Parrott

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After a hit-and-run on Woodhaven Boulevard two summers ago killed a pedestrian and prompted backlash against driver behavior on the roadway, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced last Friday that the driver has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

David Garcia, 28, of Ozone Park, made the plea before Queens Supreme Court Justice Karen Gopee. Garcia killed Dunkin’ Donuts employee Sivananaintha Perumal as he was crossing the street when Garcia blew through a red light going over 90 mph, according to the DA. “The destination for this defendant — who selfishly chose to disobey the rules of the road with fatal, tragic consequences — is now prison. He was driving at speeds of more than 90 mph in a 30 mph zone, drove through a red light, struck the victim and then fled the scene. The victim — a husband and father of three — was simply crossing Woodhaven Boulevard on his way to work,” said Katz in a statement.

Gopee set the defendant’s sentencing date for Aug. 3, at which time he will face 3 1/3 to 10 years in prison.

The defendant was driving a 2019 black

Sivananaintha Perumal, an Ozone Park Dunkin’ Donuts worker, was killed in a 2019 hit-and-run on Woodhaven Boulevard that led to a street safety demonstration. FILE PHOTO BMW southbound on Woodhaven Boulevard just before 5 a.m. on July 25, 2019, hitting speeds as high as 92 mph when he drove through the intersection at 91st Avenue as the light turned red, according to the charges.

Perumal, 56, who was known as Shiva,

was walking across the boulevard on his way to his morning shift at Dunkin’ Donuts. The impact killed him, and Garcia drove away from the scene.

In the wake of Perumal’s death, the son of a co-worker of his raised nearly $8,000 to pay for a funeral and to send his body back to India.

The defendant was apprehended two weeks later, and the incident magnified ongoing concern over street safety.

In the wake of the killing, Ed Wendell, executive director of the Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society, organized a demonstration on the Woodhaven Boulevard median, where residents waved flags telling cars to slow down.

“Everyone that goes out there as a pedestrian is always taking that chance and has to be extra alert that you have people on the road like this that will drive nearly 100 mph, hit somebody and not even stop,” Wendell said this week.

He added that though the boulevard continues to be a dangerous place for pedestrians, he did see progress in the fact that the city recently reduced the speed limit on it from Queens to Rockaway boulevards from Q 30 to 25 mph.

But the American flag had been vandalized with red paint.

“I don’t know why they did that,” Feddern said. “We don’t have an Israeli flag up here.

We don’t have a Palestinian flag.”

O’Kane said to him it makes no difference if the vandal was a true believer in the Palestinian cause or just a mindless person pulling what he or she might consider a prank.

“It’s disgusting,” he said.

Both said the veterans intended to replace the flag once police have taken all necessary photographs and reports.

Then Britton stepped in.

“I read they had defaced the flag,” said Britton, who served in the U.S. Army. “That just hit home with me ... The f lag was defaced. That doesn’t sit well with me. I’m a proud American.”

Going back online, he ordered a replacement on Amazon.

“One made in the United States,” he said.

He also sent Feddern an email expressing his support and letting him know to expect a package soon.

Feddern on Tuesday said police had removed the original flag from the fence as evidence in their investigation.

He also sent Britton an email thanking him for his concern and help.

“I wasn’t expecting that,” Britton said. Q

Anti-Semitism continued from page 2 isn’t the same old, same old,” said Rabbi Moshe Saks of the Chabad of Eastern Queens in Fresh Meadows.

“Before it was isolated incidents ... In the two weeks since the [Israeli-Palestinian] conflict, it’s been stepped up by people. This seems to be a group thing as opposed to a lone person.”

Saks said that there have been no incidents involving his own congregants, but he knows his community feels scared. He’s heard of some people removing their skullcaps in public to appear less Jewish and avoid potential attacks.

In the face of the “all-inclusive hate,” the rabbi has advised his community to stay aware of their surroundings and not to walk alone, advice he said sounds logical though it is unfortunate to have to give.

Ben and Ethyl Haber of Kew Gardens Hills said they’ve never feared that their religious beliefs would jeopardize their safety. The couple are starkly aware of prejudice, including in their own neighborhood, but have refused to allow it to alter their lives.

“It’s a very Orthodox neighborhood, so you can expect something like that, but that doesn’t make it justified,” Ben said. “Life is a two-way street ... We Q can’t do this to each other.”

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Adams trolled for opposing Open Streets, advocating for parking

by Naeisha Rose Associate Editor

Residents of Rochdale Village held a community forum last week to discuss the allocation of $9 million in funds from Councilwoman Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica), in addition to governmental concerns and quality-of-life issues.

Donyshia Boston-Hill, a marketer, was the host of the May 19 meeting, which was moderated by Rochdale Village Board member Jean Hall, community advocate Shawn Chandler and Khedda Hayden-Ryan a property manager.

“There’s been a lot of chatter around that $9 million,” said Adams.

“You’ll know when I was elected, my priority was to get our money back.

We didn’t have any money in District 28. We didn’t have any funding, or any voice. We pretty much had to build from what we didn’t have.”

In 2016, former District 28 Councilman Ruben Wills (D-Jamaica) did not show up for a single City Council forum — missing 69 meetings in a row, citing medical reasons, as reported by the Daily News.

“My intention was to get the

money back that I saw in other districts,” said Adams, who is running for re-election against Wills and two other opponents. “I saw other districts being funded, parks being renovated and that was happening in other places and it was not happening for us.”

The fiscal 2021 funding for Rochdale Village breaks down to $6 million to renovating South Rochdale Village Playground from the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation; $2.88 million from its Housing Preservation & Development agency toward fixing the area’s crumbling facade; $75,000 from Social Services and the Department of Aging for senior programs and $45,000 for youth prog ra m m i ng f rom the Department of Youth & Community Development.

“I believe our shareholders need to know simple things about the Council, so can you briefly explain what the City Council does?” asked Hayden-Ryan to clarify how the funds were determined.

Members of the City Council are similar to federal legislators, but they are accountable to their constituents

Councilwoman Adrienne Adams hosted a Zoom forum explaining the allocation of $9 million in funds for Rochdale Village to its shareholders.

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in their district and the city, and are separate from the Mayor’s Office, which they work with and keep in check, explained Adams. While a Council member can help determine where funds can go, ultimately any funding that comes from the city’s

budget gets channeled via its various agencies for specific programs.

Adams does not get to determine who is on the local communities boards 9, 10 and 12, she said — that is up to Borough President Donovan Richards.

“We do work together on suggestions on who is on the community board,” said Adams. “He revamped the whole thing. I don’t get paper [applications] because the whole thing is digitized.”

Richards’ putting applications online led to a high of upwards of more than 60 applicants for each community board, according to Adams. “Community Board 12 is at capacity.”

There were less than a handful of new openings in CB 12 because of reappointments.

“Board members are prohibited for serving more than two consecutive two-year terms,” said Adams.

Legislation that would affect the area includes Intro. 822, which would regulate the timing of sales for cooperative apartments; Intro. 2047, which would prohibit housing discrimination on the basis of a criminal record ; and Intro. 1746, which would require someone with a certificate of fitness from the Fire Department to manage gas-fired low-pressure boilers.

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New rules, but masks still prevailing Queens residents largely playing it safe for now

by Justin Davila

areas around Austin Street and Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills On May 13, the Center for Dis- and the Queens Center mall in Elmease Control and Prevention updat- hurst checked to see what people ed its guidelines on mask wearing, thought of the new guidelines, and now advising that if you have been if they would start following them fully vaccinated, you no longer and stop wearing their masks indoors. have to wear a mask indoors.

People want to ensure that if they There are exceptions to the new guidelines, however, with masks do in fact drop their masks, they still being required for anyone who will be safe in doing so.

Mahalia Williams-Superville, a is visiting a hospital or travelling on public transportation, regardless of c i t y n u r s e f r o m B r o o k l y n , expressed concerns vaccination status. over the safety of not Even with those ’m going wea r i ng a mask limitations, the new indoors. She believes guidelines are a huge to have a the new guidelines step towards returnwere motivated by a ing closer to how life mask in my desire to get the econwas in pre- Covid pocket.” omy back up and days, when a person r un ning — “They could enjoy the sim— David Colicchio need to get the econople pleasure of tradof Forest Hills my going, kids have ing a smile with a got to go back to s t r a n ge r a s t h e y school” — but that for her, safety is shopped for clothing or groceries.

As restrictions are continually the top priority, especially since she being lifted and guidelines are get- works at a city hospital.

“I’m a nurse so for me personalting less strict, people across Central Queens are finding themselves ly, it’s about safety, maybe once balancing their desire to return to more people have been vaccinated, normal and shed their masks, with I’ll feel more comfortable.”

Williams-Superville went on to their concern for their own safety.

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vaccinated, the new guidelines have had no bearing on whether she will wear her mask indoors. What she is waiting for before she can feel safe is herd immunity.

“I’m waiting for it to get to 70 percent herd immunity,” she said.

Newcomers to the borough, David Colicchio and Jane Anthony, just moved to Forest Hills from Westchester. They said even though they are fully vaccinated and trust that the vaccine works, they will continue to wear their masks indoors.

“I trust the vaccine, but I think for me at least, it’s more of a mental thing, of slowly getting used to things, and things going back to normal,” Anthony said.

“I’m still going to wear a mask; anywhere that asks, I’m going to have a mask in my pocket,” added Colicchio.

Not quite new to the borough, two long-term residents of Forest Hills, the Spiros, husband and wife, also are fully vaccinated. But they are going to continue to wear their masks indoors.

He expressed his doubts about the new guidelines, and fears that they could be taken advantage of by anti-vaxxers looking to shed their masks.

“That’s my hesitation with the CDC guideline,” he said. “The problem is that it says, ‘if you’re vaccinated,’ but there are anti-vaxxers who say, ‘Who’s gonna know?’”

His wife echoed the notion of uncertainty, saying that when she and her husband are among family members, they don’t wear masks.

When they go to places surrounded by people whom they can’t be sure of, they will use them.

“We carry our masks with us and when we go inside any public place, we use it,” she said. “When we are inside with family members who have been vaccinated, no.”

David Colicchio and Jane Anthony of Forest Hills do trust their Covid vaccines, but will be hanging onto their masks for a while. PHOTOS BY JUSTIN DAVILA Her husband also expressed how he thought the indoor mask mandate in stores should be kept in place, not only for the safety of shoppers, but for that of the staff.

Jonathon Ramos from Rego Park, who said he was not vaccinated, believes that many vaccinated people are cherry-picking what CDC guidelines to follow. But he doesn’t think that’s a fair way of looking at things.

“What is the point of getting the vaccine if you don’t think it is going to work?” he asked. “If you have been trusting the CDC for months and believe that the vaccine is safe like they say, then why not trust them now when they say to take off your mask?”

Over on the eastern side of Queens, Mary McKenna from Glen Oaks said even though she is fully vaccinated, she plans to continue wearing her mask indoors, because she knows that the CDC has made mistakes before regarding mask wearing.

“For now, I’m going to keep wearing my mask indoors, to be safe — it’s just too soon to tell,” she said. “At first, they said masks didn’t work. They could be wrong

again.”

In Floral Park, Sunny Singh, owner of Singas Famous Pizza, said the new guidelines will not affect how he runs his business. He still has no dining in, and anybody who steps foot in the shop must still wear a mask.

Singh thinks the new guidelines could be taken advantage of by people who haven’t been vaccinated but don’t want to wear a mask, rhetorically posing the question “how do I know who is vaccinated?”

Alvaro Merizalde, manager of Floral Park Wine and Liquor, said he has been adhering to the CDC guidelines all along; so now if the CDC says it is OK for vaccinated individuals to go without masks indoors, he has no problem with that.

“I’m running a business so I don’t want people to be uncomfortable, but now that they say it is OK, I’m OK with it.”

Merizalde added that while he is OK with people following the new guidelines in his shop, to ensure that all of his customers still feel safe, he is asking to see people’s vaccination cards.

“Most of the time they show it,” Q he said.

Alvaro Nerizalde, top, at Floral Park Wine and Liquor, trusts the new guidelines for wearing masks in his store, while at left, Sunny Singh, in his pizzeria’s kitchen, with Jose Luis at the counter, still requires the face coverings. Nurse Mahalia Williams-Superville, on the right in the next photo, is still going to wear her mask, as will the Spiroses of Forest Hills and Mary McKenna of Glen Oaks.

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Kiwanis Club of HB holds flagraiser

by Katherine Donlevy

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Associate Editor

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Last May, adult film star Ron Jeremy caused a social media uproar over the condemnation of his favorite childhood tree in Bayside. He begged his followers to stand with him and ask the city Parks Department to free the 68-year-old Norway maple from its death sentence.

One year later, the tree is still standing where he grew up at 61-24 Bell Blvd., but Jeremy is the one in need of rescuing. He’s been behind Los Angeles bars since October in lieu of $6.6 million bail. He was charged with 35 criminal counts of rape, assault and more and is expected to stand trial in August. If convicted, he could face up to 330 years in prison, according to the L.A. District Attorney’s Office.

The tree wasn’t saved by Jeremy’s activism, however. A Parks spokesperson said its foresters are waiting for Con Edison to detangle the tree’s branches from the high voltage power lines.

“This tree has not been removed yet due to its close proximity to electrical conductors. Once Con Edison provides clearance, we will remove it,” the spokes-

Despite the fact that the Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach didn’t have any of its usual fundraisers over the past year due to the pandemic, the club is still hanging American flags along the length of Cross Bay Boulevard running through Howard Beach.

“It went over so well last year and this year it’s a little bit different because it’s 9/11 20th anniversary, so we just wanted to go a little bit more. We came up with the idea of doing a memorial flag,” said Kiwanis member Charles Butera.

The club is giving people the opportunity to put up a flag in memory of a loved one. As it continues the process of hanging flags along all the wooden telephone poles on the business corridor, it will place a personalized dedication plaque beneath each one.

Though the club does have many flags dedicated to veterans, victims of Covid or first responders, they are open to anyone who donates $85 or over and fills out an application.

Butera said that immediately after the

Last year, adult film star Ron Jeremy called for the Parks Department to cease plans to cut down his childhood tree. Today it still stands, but plans to take it down haven’t PHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY, RIGHT; changed.

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person said.

A Con Edison representative told the Chronicle it had received a work order from Parks, and will coordinate with the agency in the coming weeks “to ensure the tree is removed safely and without impact to our electric system or our cusQ tomers.”

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The Howard Beach Kiwanis Club has been putting up flags with memorial plaques COURTESY PHOTO around the neighborhood Kiwanians started the effort, “it caught on like wildfire.” The club has plans to put up around 75 memorial flags by this weekend. It is still taking applications for the f lags, but will have to assess how much space is left before it can promise any more.

Those interested in applying for the memorial plaques can contact the club at (646) 859-3496, (917) 805-3115 or (917) Q 209-3366.

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Queens honors CoJo at Pride Month start Dromm hails outgoing speaker as a beacon for new LGBTQ support

by Michael Gannon Editor

The borough got an early start on Pride Month — held every June — in a ceremony honoring outgoing City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) at the Queens Center mall in Elmhurst on Monday night.

Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) was host, and the first of a few speakers to note the confluence of Pride Month and the city’s emergence from Covid-19 restrictions on public gatherings.

“This is a wonderful event we are going to have tonight,” Dromm said. “Covid shut us down last year. We couldn’t have this gathering.”

Dromm remembered leaving his district office in March 2020 after a somber warning from Johnson.

“He told me, ‘Go home. Send your staff home. People are worried and people are going to die,’” Dromm said. “Unfortunately, that’s what happened last year so we were not able to gather together in person. We were not allowed to gather in person. We were not allowed to have our Gay Pride Parade.”

Dromm said some sort of live event may come late this summer. He also thanked Macerich, owner of the mall, for hosting Monday’s festivities.

“I want to say that invisibility is our biggest

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, left, and Councilman Danny Dromm make a presentation to NYC COUNCIL / TWITTER Soraya Ciego, deputy director of the LaGuardia & Wagner Archives. enemy,” Dromm said. “And by Macerich having us here we are very visible ... It’s so important.”

Speakers on hand to honor Johnson included Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills), Borough President Donovan Richards and District Attorney Melinda Katz. Also attending was former Councilman and state Sen. Tom Duane of Manhattan, who was the first openly gay and HIV-positive member of

the Senate, and whom Johnson would call a mentor and role model.

Musician J. Hoard afterward provided the entertainment. Dromm also thanked Flushing Town Hall and the LaGuardia & Wagner Archives for their support of the event.

“Almost 30 years go, when we got started in the Borough of Queens, several elected officials did not recognize us,” Dromm said while intro-

ducing Koslowitz as one of his earliest allies.

“Some did not want to be seen with us.”

“It has been a year,” Katz said. “And I think it is apropos that in Gay Pride Month we’re all becoming connected again. We’re all showing up again, making sure we’re out and about in Queens County.”

While introducing Johnson, Dromm remembered the story of the Massachusetts boy he read about before ever meeting him.

“When Corey was 16 years old he came out of the closet,” Dromm said. “He was in high school, and he wanted to attend the prom with his boyfriend. Because of that, he made the front cover of The New York Times.”

But Dromm also was struck by an interview the young Johnson had with newscaster Anderson Cooper, who would not come out publicly until 2012.

“Just imagine the courage it took for Corey to come out at that age,” he said.

He then listed some of the legislation and funding that the Council has been able to allocate to assist the LGBTQ community, a great deal of which, Dromm said, did not exist until Johnson became speaker nearly four years ago.

Johnson, often called CoJo, who is term-limited, is running for comptroller.

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ers who survived some of the greatest devastation of Hurricane Sandy, he quickly found that the issue rarely made the top three on voters’ minds.

“Public safety now is the number one issue,” Alamarie said, explaining that it means something different to the more explicitly “pro-police” neighborhoods in the south who often talk about the rise in shootings rather than the Latino communities in the north who are more concerned about quality-of-life crimes like package theft.

Alamarie also said that he’s been going to mosques in the district to speak about the importance of the upcoming election.

Sheikh, who lost the 2017 primary to Scala, said that his canvassing effort has both relied on phone banks as well as canvassing.

“This is a very motivating factor for my community to have representation as we have a growing population from East Asia,” Sheikh said in a statement, clarifying that by East Asia, he meant the group of countries surrounding India that is more commonly referred to as South Asian by organizers and Q academics.

continued from page 4 language access is a huge part of her strategy to attract new voters. She has canvassed with palm cards translated into Bangla, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Polish and Punjabi, and said increasing language access is not just a campaign strategy, but a mission she would pursue if she were to get into office.

“A lot of the door knocking I do in partnership with a volunteer who speaks fluent Spanish,” she said.

Alamarie also said that of his 30-person staff, he has about 10 languages that are spoken inside his campaign ranging from Chinese to Bangla and Arabic.

Alamarie said one thing that has surprised him is the extent to which, across the whole district, public safety is a priority, both in the north and south sections.

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Catholic churches back at full capacity

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Brooklyn Diocese keeps guidelines

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn caught nobody off guard last Friday DiMarzio’s directive came in the afterwhen Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio granted math of the U.S. Centers for Disease Conpermission for all churches in Brooklyn and trol and Prevention and New York State Queens to restart services at full capacity. relaxing many restrictions due to lower Monsignor Joseph Calise, pastor of The rates of infection, and higher numbers of Parish of Transfiguration and St. Stanislaus people being vaccinated against Covid-19.

Kostka in Maspeth, said they were ready.

Churches have been closed and then “I’m excited,” Calise told the Chronicle tightly restricted in their capacity since in a telephone interview. “We were ready. March 2020.

We’ve been keeping the church“It is a good day,” DiMarzio es clean. After all the Masses s a id i n a st at e me nt . “O u r we’ve been wiping things down churches are at full capacity with Lysol.” once again, though we continue He said there are a few things to keep restrictions in place the churches still are not doing knowing there are people yet to such as sharing the chalice durbe vaccinated. We are not giving ing Holy Communion and not up our guard and as a communifilling the fonts by the doors ty, it is very important that we with holy water just yet. continue to provide the safest “ We ’ r e c o m m o n - s e n s e environment possible for all to Msgr. Joseph Calise worship.” ready,” he said.

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Rochdale Village virtual forum continued from page 15 ings over 40 feet tall to have sprinklers in residential property and Intro. 1802, which would require the Fire Department to post evacuation procedures for fires on its website, in homeless shelters and in areas with multiple dwellings, are additional bills that will affect Rochdale Village. The latter was inspired by Earl Roberts, a resident from the enclave.

“Many shareholders want to know when the money is coming?” said Chandler to a representative of HPD. “They’ve heard about HPD...Is it a loan? A grant? What is the difference?”

The money from HPD is a 30-year zerointerest forgiveness loan, according to the HPD representative. The agency only gives loans that are no higher than 3 percent.

“After the constr uction completion there is a lien placed against the property,” said the HPD rep. “As long as you comply to the provisions in the documents, continue to maintain your property and adhere to Article IV rules and regulations, which you are for med u nder, you will not default.”

Article IV seeks to encourage people in low-rent accommodations to invest their savings by forming a housing company (corporation) and to protect these investments against loss and ensure a fair return, according to New York State.

A loan will be forgiven as long as the

rules attached to it are followed.

An elevator for the Locust Manor Long Island Rail Road station and expanding the Freedom Ticket to Manhattan are agendas Adams hopes to tackle for her district.

“We have to break through,” said Adams.

“We have a lot of old boys’ networks that have been here longer than you and I have been on this Earth.”

A lack of LinkNYC kiosks, which provide free Wi-Fi, and cameras on the Merrick Boulevard buses were points of contention.

“Certain areas get favoritism ... like Manhattan,” said Adams about LinkNYC. A Department of Transportation representative stated that there are 94,000 bus riders daily on the Merrick corridor.

“I was one of the eight dissenting votes for Open Streets,” said Adams. “It is the Manhattan-centric slant of a lot of the legislation that comes through the Council. We are not monolithic. In protecting my constituents and the lack of parking I was trolled for this over Twitter.”

Open Streets turns roadways into pedestrian plazas. During the summer, the city had 67 miles of Open Streets, as reported by The New York Times. By September, 10,000 parking spaces were lost.

Legalizing regulated basement apartments was one of the last agendas by Adams, who believes they will provide an affordable living space alternative for colQ lege students.

from others who are not members of the same household.

• Masks are still mandatory in church for those who are not vaccinated. However, everyone is encouraged to wear masks while in church.

• Hymnals and missalettes may once again be used.

• Lectors can read from the main pulpit.

• Extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion may resume their ministry with proper hand hygiene before and after assisting in the distribution of Holy Communion.

• Collection baskets may resume as normal.

• The Offertory procession with the gifts of bread and wine can resume.

• Choirs with vaccinated members can operate as normal; unvaccinated choir members must continue to maintain social distancing.

• Altar servers may resume their ministry with proper hygiene protocols.

• Hand hygiene is still required and disinfectant use should be encouraged. Additionally, it is wise to provide disinfectant at church entrances.

• Holy Communion is still to be given under the form of bread only, and, as Calise said, there are no shared Communion cups.

Receiving in the hand is still the recommended practice.

The diocese said it is relying on the honesty of the faithful as to their vaccination status. The dispensation from attending Holy Mass, which has been in effect since the start of the pandemic, will be lifted the weekend of June 5-6, on the Feast Day of Corpus Christi. Although the dispensation will be lifted, those who are feeling ill and those caring for the sick continue to be dispensed from the obligation to attend Mass.

Back in November, the diocese went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court as it fought restrictions on church capacity in red and orange zones, which capped attendance at 10 people in the worst cases, even in houses of worship that could hold hundreds or more than 1,000.

The diocese argued before the U.S. Second Circuit Court that the limits were an

Pride Month continued from page 18 well as to seek elective office.

“This is the first real event like this I’ve attended in the last 15 months or so,” Johnson said, adding that one of the things he has tried to do as both a public official and a person is to be honest.

“So when I came out at 16 years old in a small town 30 miles north of Boston, six months after Matthew Shepard had been murdered in Wyoming, I didn’t think I was doing anything groundbreaking,” he said. “I just wanted to be honest.

“And when I moved to New York City at

Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn reopened at full capacity this past FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON weekend. infringement on the practice of religion, arguing that houses of worship were being held to stricter standards than essential businesses.

They sought and received a temporary injunction from the U.S. Supreme Court the day before last Thanksgiving in a 5-4 vote.

The state contended unsuccessfully that the Supreme Court did not have to act on the matter of Diocese of Brooklyn v.

Cuomo, as Albany already had removed the churches cited in the lawsuit from the red and orange zones shorty before arguments were to be heard.

That seemed to only strengthen the majority’s resolve to hear the matter and render an opinion.

Parishes are encouraged to continue livestreaming of Mass. DeSales Media will continue to broadcast the Holy Mass on the diocesan cable channel, NET-TV, which can be seen on FIOS by Verizon on channel 548, Spectrum on Channel 30, Optimum on channel 30 or the channel’s website at Q netny.tv.

19 years old and found out I was HIV-positive at 22 and told the world about it — Tom Duane had done so — I just wanted to be honest. When I decided to talk openly about my sobriety, and this July 13 I celebrate 12 years being sober — ” he said, being interrupted by applause, “I didn’t do it to get a nice round of applause. I did it just to be honest, and to try and help other people who may be suffering.”

Johnson said pride means people living as their unadulterated selves.

“Whether LGBT, whether new immigrant, whether from Bangladesh or Ecuador or any other country that Queens has welcomed, we want you to be proud of Q who you are.”

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After canceling its season last year, the Queens Night Market will finally return for its sixth season to Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

The season will kick off on June 19 and commence every Saturday from 4 p.m. to midnight until Oct. 30. The market can be found outside the New York Hall of Science.

The Queens Night Market celebrates the borough’s rich cultural diversity and heritage through food, art, merchandise and cultural performances.

Participants can expect to indulge in delicacies such as Colombian arepas, Tibetan momos, Hawaiian musubi, Taiwanese popcor n chicken, Malaysian “ramly” burgers and more. Different performances will be showcased each night, including African dance troupes, karate demonstrations, jazz bands, beatboxers, Bollywood bands and others.

The market anticipates starting off with fewer vendors both to ensure social distancing while queueing and to mitigate the impact of attendance restrictions on vendor sales. Interested vendors are still encouraged to apply — they should do so

at bit.ly/QNM-Vendor-2021, or they can direct questions to vendor @ queensnightmarket.com, while performers can apply by emailing performer@queensnightmarket.com.

Additionally, founder John Wang expects to start its season operating at a reduced capacity in accordance with Gov. Cuomo’s most recent advisory for openair markets. Because the reduced capacity will adversely affect the vendors’ ability to profit, the season will require a ticketed entry in order to waive vendor participation fees for as long as attendance restrictions are required.

Tickets are $5 and should be purchased in advance. Children under 12 are free. If any tickets remain unsold for any night, they will be sold for $8 at the door. When capacity restrictions are completely lifted, the Queens Night Market will be free and open to the public again.

The event is pledging at least 20 percent of any net ticket proceeds to causes that promote racial equity and to Covid relief and recovery efforts.

Ticket s ca n be pu rch a sed at Q queensnightmarket.ticketleap.com.

Free outdoor movies at three parks The Tribeca Film Festival is coming to Queens!

For its 20th annual extravaganza, the famous film festival is presenting free screenings throughout city green spaces this June, including at three Queens parks: Flushing Meadows Corona Park • “In the Heights”; June 9 at 7 p.m.; • “2020 Animated Shorts Curated by Whoopi G”; June 18 at 6 p.m.; and • “The Sixth Sense”; June 18 at 8 p.m.

Rockaway Beach 30th St. Playground • “Belly”; June 10 at 5:30 p.m.; • “Raising Victor Vargas”; June 10 at 8 p.m.; • “Johnny Mnemonic”; June 11 at 5:30 p.m.; • “Kiss the Ground”; June 11 at 8 p.m.; • “Moana”; June 12 at 2:30 p.m.; • “Stateless”; June 12 at 5:30 p.m.; • “The Host”; June 12 at 8 p.m.; • “Perfume de Gardenias”; June 13 at 4 p.m.; and

• “Landfall”; June 13 at 6:30 p.m.

Astoria Park • “Selma”; June 19 at 2:30 p.m.; • “Just Another Girl on the IRT”; June 19 at 5:30 p.m.; • “Daughters of the Dust”; June 19 at 8 p.m.; • “James and the Giant Peach”; June 20 at 3 p.m.; and • “Love and Basketball”; June 20 at 5 p.m.

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Queens Night Market Tribeca Film Festival is back for summer screens in Queens

Reminiscent of summertime block parties, the in-person screenings of new premieres, family-friendly films, Black classic retrospectives and more are designed for people to safely gather picnic-style and experience great movies with family and friends. The festival is working in concert with the state Department of Health to ensure all public gatherings are in full compliance with following required Covid-19 protocols.

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NYC youth poet finalist for Nationals Queens Village resident makes it to Kennedy Center poetry finals

by Naeisha Rose

“I’m happy for Alex, she’s not only a brilliant poet but also a friend I love very Queens Village resident Serena Yang much. I think she’s going to step into her was one of four finalists for the 2021 position with so much grace and intelligence,” said Yang. “They have become all National Youth Poet Laureate position.

“This year’s finalists offered beautiful good friends. We think of ourselves as a poems around painful and ugly issues, collective now.”

Despite not winning the prestigious title, police brutality, hate crimes, suicide, but Ya n g p l a n s o n they also provide using her platform profoundly joyful as a finalist to shed verses on survivdon’t want to talk about light on her activist a l,” s a id N Y PL who hates us, or why we work, which goes Program Founder hand-in-hand with Michael Cirelli. must be afraid.

I want to her poetry.

A m a nd a G o r“This has given m a n , t h e 2 017 ask you: who do you love?” me the ability to inaugural winner, — Serena Yang, NYC Youth Poet Laureate con nect to other delivered this people,” said Yang. year’s presidential “Not just my peers, but elders in the cominauguration poem “The Hill We Climb.”

“I was not expecting to become the New munity and little kids.”

In 2020, she learned she was the NYC York City Youth Poet Laureate,” said Yang, 19, who also holds the title for the Northeast Youth Poet Laureate and earlier in 2018 she region of the US. “It was completely out of participated in her first youth poetry slam as a fellow for Urban Word NYC, a literary left field.”

The event streamed at the Kennedy Cen- arts and civic engagement organization.

“I went straight into the deep end,” said ter in Washington, DC, on March 20th, and although Yang didn’t win the position, the Yang about the poetry slam. “Without poet has made lifelong friendships with Faye Urban Word, or without those experiences Harrison (Midwest), Alora Young (South) in spoken word, I would not be a poet today.

The environment completely changed my and the winner, Alexandra Huynh (West).

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Urban Word NYC Interi m Execut ive Di rector Shanelle Gabriel is proud of Yang.

“Serena is an incredible poet and has been a part of the Urban Word community for several years,” said Gabriel. “We’ve come to know her through participating in workshops and fellowships, and she is always looking for new ways to grow as a writer and dedicated community member.”

Yang is a member of the National Asian Pacif ic A m e r i c a n W o m e n ’s For u m , a c om mu n it ybased nonprofit.

“They do organizing around immigrant justice, reproductive justice and economic justice,” said Yang. “Currently, we are trying to get the HEAL Act passed.”

The Healthy Environ- Serena Yang of Queens Village is the Northeast Youth Poet LauPHOTO BY NAEISHA ROSE ment for All Act, which reate. was reintroduced to ConThe mural is of an Asian youth and gress two weeks ago, would eliminate wait times that immigrants have to access Asian elder, according to Yang.

“It says, ‘In the future our Asian commuhe a lt hc a r e i n s u r a nc e, a c c ord i ng t o nity will be safe,’” said Yang. “It’s a NAPAWF. Yang is an immigrant from Singapore, response to the physical instances of antiwhose parents were originally from Shang- Asian violence.”

Even though the anti-Asian attacks and hai and Hubei, China, and understands the n e e d t o h e l p f e l l o w i m m i g r a n t quarantining during Covid-19 were not the most ideal circumstances to write under, communities.

The poet is also a part of the WOW Proj- Yang’s piece, “Rage (Woman),” was one of ect, a grassroots arts and cultural organiza- the poems that she read to the NYPL. She tion working to prevent the gentrification of wrote it after six Asian women were murdered in Atlanta on March 24.

Chinatown.

“I hold your hand and feel your rage pass “It is a resistance through art program,” said Yang, who is helping artist Jesse X. through me,” read Yang to the Queens Snow on the project. “I was painting a Chronicle. “Sister. I don’t want to talk about mural in Chinatown and I might be doing a who hates us, or why we must be afraid. I Q want to ask you: who do you love?” poem for the opening of the mural.”

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Food, fun, family and freedom mark a special holiday weekend

by Michael Gannon

DiStefano and Jonathan Forgash, e xe c u t i ve d i r e c t o r o f Q u e e n s Together, said they plan to spend at least part of the weekend in the five boroughs in the company of expert pitmasters.

Forgash and Queens Together are advocates for the borough’s restaurant industry, and he takes a back seat to no one in his appreciation of good barbecue.

He recently had an experience similar to DiStefano’s with family and friends in Ridgewood.

“It wa s a wonder f ul night ,” Forgash said. “Everybody was vac-

cinated and ever yone was being respectful of space. Everybody was so darned happy.

“I think people are going to have a sense of reopening and renewal and that it will be a beautiful weekend. I’m sure there will be social distancing and I’m sure it will not be some sort of spring break kind of event. But I think for friends and family, this is going to be very a big deal. This may be their first time at a joyful event in a while.”

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A long wit h t he pa rades a nd r e m e m b r a n c e s , M e m o r i a l D ay weekend a lso ha s tradit iona lly brought people together for the unofficial start of summer.

This year, as the nation is emerging from a pandemic, something as common as a simple barbecue may not be quite so simple.

Joe DiStefano, a restaurant consultant and author from Forest Hills, saw some

signs of the season last weekend after taking in a fine Italian meal in Corona.

“The mercury hit the 90s. Today is more temperate but people have been cooped up. They want to get outside,” DiStefano told the Chronicle in an interview on Monday. “I was in Flushing Meadows Corona Park yesterday and people were already out there grilling.

“If this is any indication ... the beginning of summer is always a big deal. I think there’s going to be a lot of potential for that kind of thing.”

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Luther Powell was born in Kingston in t he Br it ish We s t Indies in 1898 and came to America in 1920. He mar r ied M a u d McKoy i n December 1929. They settled in the Bronx.

First born was a daughter, Marilyn, born in 1931. Then they had a son they named Colin Luther The Colin Powell home at 183-68 Elmira Ave. in St. Albans, as it Powell, in 1937.

GOOGLE MAPS IMAGE Luther, a shipping appears today. clerk, was granted citizenship in 1936, and Maud got it in 1944. married in Birmingham, Ala., on Aug. 25, Their address was 980 Fox St. In 1959, 1962. They celebrated weeks later at his parLuther bought a postwar 40-by-100 brick ents’ new home. Powell served in Vietnam home at 183-68 Elmira Ave. in St. Albans and became a four-star general, chairman of from a Morris Weiner. The cost was $17,500. the joint chiefs of staff and secretary of state.

His father died in 1978 and his mother in Colin became a geology major at CCNY and joined ROTC. While in the Army he met 1984. Their house was sold. Today the city Q Alma Johnson in December 1961 and they values it at $475,000.

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Carolyn Salas’ exhibit “Buried Alive in the Blues,” the artist’s first solo exhibition at Mrs. gallery in Maspeth, is named for the song Janis Joplin was set to record the day she died. As a tribute to Janis, the band recorded the track as an instrumental, her missing voice all the more present for its absence.

Salas chose the song as the exhibition’s title as it resonantly parallels the staggering losses and emotional anguish of the past year.

Converging the industrial with the ethereal, “Buried Alive in the Blues” holds space for grief, quietly, reverently honoring its impact.

The pieces are all painted white to convey mourning.

The shimmering white, cut-aluminum sculptures seem sunlit, even soul-lit, from within, glowing as if infused with the spirits of the gone. The effect is otherworldly, even afterworldly, what many might hope heaven to be. They create a portal effect that seems to connect what is to what once was. The sculptures’ intricate and fluid contours allude powerfully to grief and loss, appearing to float even while grounded.

Salas cuts her maquettes from foam core, then scales them up into metal planar forms.

Referencing the sad, stressful atmosphere in which Salas created “Buried in the Blues,”

she calls it “a memorial to depression.”

The natural variations of Salas’ hand during her creation process keenly enhance the work’s structural authenticity in “Standing Figure” (2021). Punctuating the second-tosecond internal strife of navigating uncertainty and fear, it fuses aluminum architecture and human architecture, showing a woman with intermittently sheared fingertips joined to a windowsill-like platform, Her expression seems to reflect deep weariness and exhaustion as an outstretched arm rises from the bottom of the structure, grasping for something she seems too depleted to give, even to herself.

Echoing figures in Greek sculpture and architecture, a freestanding latticework-like screen, “Untitled (Wall Screen)” (2021), integrates geometric shapes with human limbs. At the screen’s base, a woman’s leg extends gracefully from an amphora jug torso. Upraised hands balance half-moon semicircles from which tapered arches rise.

Figures of women, called caryatids, often were built into ancient Greek stone buildings in place of pillars as architectural support.

The combination mirrors the fragmented and jumbled memories the grieving can experience when remembering those they lost.

Nearly blending into the white wall behind the work, the cutouts in “Untitled”

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All in white, sculptures reflect a world in mourning

“Offerings” is one of Carolyn Salas’ works on display at Mrs. in Maspeth, in an exhibit PHOTO BY JORDANA LANDRES whose pieces are all painted white to signify mourning. speak to the physical missing pieces that are part of someone being gone, also symbolizing the transition from the world of the living to the afterlife.

Exploring resilience, “Kneeling Figure” (2021) assumes a posture that may at first glance seem submissive or supplicating, but on closer inspection it exudes the energy of determination, preparing to vault over and overcome challenges. The body, lowered, heel upraised, is crouching and coiled, ready

to spring. “Offerings” (2020) depicts a giving encounter between two parties. Seeming to reference social distancing, one seated figure takes a bowl from a standing figure’s outstretched hand, passing it through a narrow channel.

Salas’ “Buried Alive in the Blues” infuses a beautiful and soothing layer of tranquility into the devastation of grief, recognizing that in the lives of the bereaved, absence is someQ times the most powerful presence.

More than just BBQs — reopening and renewal

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Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Like Forgash, Wang believes the feeling of newfound freedom will not be limited to Memorial Day weekend.

“It’s going to be a celebration in itself,” Wang said. “I can definitely see people seeing the joy in it when they’re walking around without masks, hanging out with friends.

“I don’t think it’s going to be just Memorial Day. I think it’s going to be any designated outing or traditional time ... I do think it’s going to be something special.”

Forgash suspects that even the simplest things could have a magnified effect in the near future.

Take, for example, shish kebab, which he procures, when possible, from a butcher shop in Astoria.

“I’m an omnivore — I appreciate all foods in all their glorious grilled forms,” Forgash said. “This place supplies a lot of the food carts in the city. I buy a box of 50 that are premade and preseasoned, already on the sticks. You show up at a party and you’re a hero, and you didn’t do anything but bring some shish kebab.”

Joe DiStefano, left, Jonathan Forgash and John Wang say Memorial Day barbecues could well represent far more this coming weekend than food, family and the unofficial beginning of summer. On the cover: Friends coming together to celebrate the simFILE PHOTOS ple things — again.

Wang did add that once the market is up and running, his own weekends won’t lend themselves to hosting a lot of events.

“I’m at the market from 6 a.m. Saturday until 6 a.m. Sunday,” he said.

Forgash is looking forward to it all this coming weekend.

“So if the weather holds, this is going to be one of the first great weekends we’ve had in about a year and a half,” he said. “I don’t think people are going to go crazy. But I think people are going to really, really enjoy being out and about Q again.”

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Sugarplum’s Creative Designs LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/11/2021. Office: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Sharon Crawford, 154-12 137th Ave, Jamaica, NY 11434. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of Untap Black, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/19/2021. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: ALMITA PHILLIPS, 160-49 122ND AVE, JAMAICA, NY 11434. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Wick Em Entertainment, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/24/2021. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: ANTHONY PIERRELOUIS, 175-21 88TH AVENUE #6D, JAMAICA, NY 11432. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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AMENDED CITATION RE ADOPTION

Supreme Court, County of Queens; Edwin Gomez, as Successor Guardian for Argenida Gomez, An Incapacitated Person (702101/2021); Pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Lee A. Mayersohn, an application to sell the premises known as 91-11 81st Street, Queens, New York for $690,000.00 will be made on the 23rd day of June, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. at a virtual Microsoft Teams hearing at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY. Any objectant or interested purchaser should contact the clerk by email, at qscpart22@nycourts.gov, prior to the return date to receive an invite to the Microsoft Teams virtual appearance/auction and may contact Roberto Cervoni Law LLC at (516)680-6014 regarding the Petition.

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REAZ AHMED KAWSAR (aka JUSTIN RUDRO AZIM) By order of this Court, you are hereby cited and required to appear personally concerning the adoption of LOBIB SHADMAN JOY, minor(s), before the Judge of this Court in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, at the Courtroom of Department 414, 201 Centre Plaza Drive, Monterey Park, CA 91754 on 7-2-2021, at 11:00 A.M., of that day, then and there to show cause, if any, why said adoption should not be granted according to the petition on file herein. Appearances must be made remotely using WebEx: WebEx Personal Room URL: https : //lacvirtualcourts.webex. com/meet/chc-dept-414 Call-in

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WebEx Access Code: 962 078 140 Dated: 4-27-2021 SHERRI R. CARTER, Executive Officer/Clerk of Court Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles By: IRMA SANDOVAL, Deputy NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED You are served as an individual citee The time when a citation is deemed served on a party may vary depending on the method of service. For example, see Code of Civil Procedure Sections 413.10 through 415.40. CN976794 L&Q71271 May 6,13,20,27, 2021 NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 03-18-2021, bearing Index Number NC-000712-20/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) DEVIN (Middle) CHRISTOPHER (Last) DAVIDSON. My present name is (First) DEVIN (Middle) CHRISTOPHER (Last) DAVIDSONALSOP AKA DEVIN CHRISTOPHER DAVIDSON. The city and state of my present address are ROSEDALE, NY. My place of birth is LOS ANGELES, CA. The month and year of my birth are August 2002.

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The third week of May is traditionally when the television industry introduces its fall programming to advertisers in the hopes of locking up ad sales with presentations known as “Upfronts.” Sportscaster Jim Nantz spoofed himself at this year’s ViacomCBS presentation when he told the audience, “The Upfront — a tradition like no other!” which was a wink at his famous description of the Masters Tournament.

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Apple TV Plus’ “Ted Lasso,” which stars Jason Sudeikis as the clueless coach of a British soccer team, has inspired FX to greenlight “Welcome to Wrexham,” a documentary series starring Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.

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“A SYMPHONY IN THE GARDENS” 97 Continental Avenue is an elegantly built Center Hall Colonial Home located in Forest Hills Gardens, one of NYC’s most sought-after neighborhoods. It sits fi rmly on almost half an acre of land. Its design’s integrity and charm have been meticulously looked for, freezing time & honoring the home’s historical value. You are welcomed by a beautiful foyer that boasts neoclassical features and an iconic stairwell that stands as the home’s backbone & centerpiece. This nine-bedroom, seven-bathroom residence enjoys six fi replaces, a Butler’s pantry, grandliving room, formal dining room, a mahogany-lined library, wine cellar, an enclosed sunroom, two levels of living area, & a comparable size lower level.

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All new mint AAA Ranch, 3 BR, 2½ baths, granite countertops, S.S. appliances, new baths, full fin. bsmnt

Garden Co-op on 2nd floor, 2 BR, Formal Dining Room, 1 Bath, Washer/Dryer Allowed

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$2,750/mo Includes: parking spot & washer/dryer

Cross Bay Blvd., 2nd Floor, 350 sq. ft., Plus Heat & Electric, All New Tiles & New Bathroom

$1,400/mo

HOWARD BEACH/ROCKWOOD PARK Unique home, 5 BRs, 4 baths, huge master, whole 3rd flr., cathedral ceilings, radiant heat, granite countertops, S.S. appliances, wood burning fireplace, I/G pool and pavers.

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Mint AAA Colonial, 3 BRs, 2½ Baths, 43x100 lot, All New Construction, Large Master BR with Ensuite & Walk in Closet, ConveHALF BLOCK TO BEAUTIFUL BEACH! nient Laundry Room on Top Flr, 1st Flr Has Beautiful Townhouse - Ground Floor, 2 BRs, 1 Bath, Kitchen, New Cabinets, S.S. Appliances & Granite All Updated Includes Washer Dryer.

Countertops, Living Room, Formal Dining Room & Den. Must See! Asking $829K Asking $355K

GOULDSBORO N. POCONO Colonial 4 Bedrooms, 3 Full Baths, updated on 1 Acre of Land.

Asking $300K

OZONE PARK/ CENTREVILLE

Mint 1 family Colonial, great location, new eatin-kit, cherry cabinets, Quartz counter, S.S. Appliances, 3/4 BRs, 2 full baths, fin. bsmnt, pvt entrance, 1 car det gar, pvt dvwy,

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Large 2 Family on oversized lot (84’x121’) !

CTto Ideal for contractor R A or7+, Ttrucks park multiple N O det. garage, with 2 Ccar IN in (22’x50’), full house bsmnt. House sold as is.

Needs updating, 6 BR, 3 full baths, Great Price.

Asking $798K

Garden Co-op Move-in Condition, 2 BRs, 1 Bath with Formal Dining Room Co-op, On First Floor.

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Legal 6 family, Six 2 Bedroom Apts.

Asking $2.9 Mil

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Hi-Ranch, 3/4 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, 40x100 Lot, Attached 1 Car Garage.

• Rockwood Park • Beautifully renovated High Ranch on a 40x100 lot. This lovely home features high ceilings, skylights, four bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, central air, alarm system, and laundry room, with washer/ dryer. A backyard patio with gas BBQ, perfect for entertaining, & a long private driveway that can hold 3-4 cars, Complete move in condition. Conveniently located to all Howard Beach has to offer.

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• Lindenwood • Bright sunlit 1 bedroom Garden Co-op.

Full bath, living room, dining room, eff kitchen. Hardwood floors, crown moldings, updated kitchen and bathroom, storage room, option for garage parking, close to shopping and transportation. $35/share fl ip tax.

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