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Electeds joined hundreds of Guyanese residents who poured into the intersection of Lefferts Boulevard and Liberty Avenue last Saturday to celebrate the co-naming of Little Guyana Avenue.

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Seeing off the class of 2021 in-person Many schools across Queens opting for large, outdoor graduations

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

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reak out the cameras and the yearbooks because after last year’s experiment in virtual high school graduations, the ceremonies and celebrations are coming back in-person to Queens this year.

“I think the students are really appreciative and excited for an inperson ceremony,” said Jesse Pachter, assistant principal at Maspeth High School, adding that the students had overwhelmingly opted for a nonvirtual ceremony after last year.

That’s not to say that everything will be back to prepandemic normal, though. The city and state have imposed strict limits on graduation capacity. According to state rules, schools will also have to require students, staff and guests to either fill out a screening form or prove that they have been vaccinated or tested within several days of the ceremony in order to attend.

That’s also not to say that virtual ceremonies are a thing of the past.

Several schools will hold two events, one longer virtual affair that

will include speeches, and another in-person ceremony that will be more focused on walking across the commencement stage.

Queens Village’s Martin Van Buren High School commencement ceremony will hold a virtual program Thursday June 24 where its valedictorian, its commencement speaker and others will speak. The following day at 9 a.m. it will hold an outdoor ceremony on its field that will be “shorter and sweeter” and broken up into several different sessions to accommodate the city’s regulations.

“We’re hoping things change and it’s one [session], but it might even be three,” said the school’s senior advisor Brian Greenspan.

While Gov. Cuomo announced a set of policies to regulate graduation capacity for indoor and outdoor policies back in April, the city Department of Education has established its own guidance for schools.

The governor’s rules, updated in May, set different levels of capacity based on the venue. For instance, at a large-scale outdoor graduation, a school could potentially host over

After last year’s round of virtual graduations, many schools in Queens are PEXELS.COM planning to go back to in-person ceremonies.

500 people in a venue such as a stadium as long as the number was 33 percent of the venue’s capacity.

Its guidance also says that when graduating students are seated on a field or stage separate from the spectators, students can be excluded from the capacity limits.

The city, on the other hand, has included a flat 500-person limit on outdoor ceremonies and 250-person limit on indoor ceremonies on school property, according to a DOE spokesperson. If schools are using non-DOE spaces, they can exceed the stated capacity as long as the

venue follows state capacity guidelines. The department strongly encourages schools to hold in-person graduations in outdoor settings.

In order to maximize the amount of space for the outdoor ceremonies, many Queens high schools have scheduled ceremonies at spacious open-air venues like St. John’s University lawn.

Maspeth High School will also hold one ceremony for its students on the great lawn at 9 a.m. June 21, where each student will only be able to br i ng t wo g uests, as opposed to the four to six that are usually allowed. John Adams High School in Ozone Park will also hold its graduation ceremony on the Red Storm lawn on June 25.

The High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture, also in Ozone Park, will hold its ceremony rain or shine at St. John’s on June 24.

St. John’s lawn is not the only venue in play. Forest Hills High School will be doing a virtual ceremony first, followed by an in-person outdoor ceremony at Citi Field Q on June 28.

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Stereo wars: Police address noise issues With rise in custom sound systems, some Queens residents demand action

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

In recent years, car enthusiasts have taken stereo customization to new heights, in terms of decibels, that is.

Police precincts across the city have been documenting some of the tricked-out sound systems after they confiscate equipment or entire cars — a deterrent that fed-up Queens residents are asking for more and more as summer approaches.

Massive car sound systems have been one of the biggest quality-of-life issues for many police precincts in Queens.

In southwestern Queens, the 104th Precinct commander, Deputy Inspector Louron Hall, has spoken about his officers’ efforts to crack down on the common complaint. Now in South Queens, residents are asking the 106th Precinct to follow suit by means of seizing property. The same noise issues have popped up in the district of Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) as well in recent years.

Photos and videos captured by Queens police precincts and peeved residents depict hatchback doors that swing up to reveal dozens of speakers and subwoofers built into a car.

“People who build their own cars, they make the cars sound more loud so that they can stand out,” said Muhammad Fazan, a mechanic at Auto Sound & Security in Astoria, who added that audio technology has created cheaper ways to build creative sound systems that are far louder than one would need for in-car listening.

“Now I understand that they’re young and it’s a trend, but it’s not culture,” said PJ Marcel, a Howard Beach resident who’s been capturing videos of some of the cars in his neighborhood and alerting police about the noise violations.

“I don’t want to hear that it’s OK to blast music at 1 a.m. in residential areas.”

Marcel started a petition to get his police precinct, the

The 104th Precinct is saying that it has cracked down on car sound systems that violate the noise law late into the night. NYPD PHOTO 106th, to crack down on the groups of cars that he said regularly gather in the Lindenwood shopping center parking lot.

“WE DEMAND ENFORCEMENT NOW, Fines and confiscation need to be strictly ENFORCED IMMEDIATELY, the realization of this being allowed in residential communities is shocking,” the petition reads.

According to the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, the police cannot seize a car unless a misdemeanor or a felony has occurred. A noise violation summons alone does not meet that threshold, but some precincts have still found other ways to confiscate speakers.

Hall named Officer Henry Sorto the 104th’s Cop for the Month of May after the officer and his partner tracked down a car that had reportedly racked up over 80 noise complaints in one night. The officers followed it over borough lines into the 90th Precinct in Brooklyn, where they took some pictures and seized the face to the radio “to render it inoperable. And then also as evidence,” according to Hall.

“We can seize equipment, right? We can, we can take it because it’s evidence. So we can take it to show the judge like this is what was observed at the time of the violation,” Hall said.

Maria Asaro, a 106th Precinct community partner, said that in Howard Beach the police have used a strategy of staking out spots like the Linden Center where cars are known to congregate and forcing them out.

“As far as a solution, there’s still ongoing conversations.

A deterrent at the very least would mean a police presence in the area,” said Asaro.

Some more conscientious auto clubs have pointed out that more communication between local precincts and clubs could be mutually beneficial. Asaro said that the precinct has reached out to various auto clubs, but didn’t have more specific information.

Hall said that he would be open to initiating communication with car clubs, but he’s noticed that some set up a covert way of organizing meetups to avoid detection.

“It’s a reoccurring problem to the point where at times we have to take enforcement just to try to dissuade this type of Q behavior,” he said.

Ozone Park fire hospitalizes family GoFundMe raises nearly $66K for mother and her three daughters

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Four women were hospitalized in critical but stable condition after a fire broke out in an Ozone Park apartment at 101-10 101 Ave. early in the morning last Thursday, according to the FDNY. The victims were a family — a single mom and her three daughters — who were asleep in the

apartment when the fire broke out, according to Sofia Shah, who put together a GoFundMe for them.

They were exposed to large amounts of smoke and fumes that are now affecting their organs in addition to experiencing severe burns. As of Tuesday, the mother was still in a fragile state and remained on the ventilator. One

of the daughters is off the ventilator and recovering, while the other two remain unresponsive, according to Shah.

Within four minutes of getting the call, FDNY units had made it to the scene around 4:17 a.m. and were able to rescue the four women from the burning apartment on the building’s third floor.

“Heroically they pushed up to the third f loor with heavy fire showing. They found four victims on that floor. People were all in respiratory or cardiac arrest,” said FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro at the scene.

All four of the women were taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.

“As of now we have four people that are clinging to life and we can be thankful to the members

of our department for giving them this chance,” Nigro said.

The FDNY got the fire under control just after 5 a.m.

The Fire Department did not find a working smoke detector or alarm of any kind in the building, according Nigro.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known. Nigro said that investigators are looking at an electrical source.

The eldest daughter just finished school and is helping her mother support the household.

The second daughter is slated to start college soon. Shah described them as “a down to earth, loving and good-hearted family.”

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Flying the ‘Little Guyana’ sign high Richmond Hill celebrates vital immigrant group with co-naming

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

New York City formally recognized the contributions of the Guyanese community in Queens last Saturday with the long-requested co-naming of the intersection of Lefferts Boulevard and Liberty Avenue as Little Guyana Avenue.

The stretch of Liberty Avenue from Woodhaven Boulevard to the Van Wyck Expressway has been k now n as Lit tle Guya na for decades. At the ultimate stop of the elevated A train at the Lefferts Boulevard station, where the new street sign is located, the neighborhood abounds in Indo-Caribbean bakeries, outdoor produce markets and many other Guyanese businesses.

The co-naming was introduced to the Council by Councilmember Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica) after Democratic District Leader Richard David and other commnuity activists advocated for it.

It’s the third of Adams’ efforts this year to honor the area’s South Asian and Indo-Caribbean populations through street renamings.

Adams also introduced legislation to co-name the stretch of 101st Avenue between 111th and 123rd streets “Punjab Way” and that of 97th Avenue between Lefferts Boulevard and 117th Street “Gurdwara Street,” after a Sikh place of worship.

“Richmond Hill means so much to me that I wanted to make an invisible community visible,” said Adams, who celebrated having a Guyanese mother-in-law at the event.

“You will never be invisible.

You will always have a seat at the table as long as I am fighting for you.”

T he eve nt c oi ncid e s w it h Adams’ run for re-election against opponents in District 28, which extends over parts of Jamaica, Rochdale Village, Richmond Hill, a nd Sout h Ozone Pa rk. Her remarks, introduced by emcees David and Annetta Seecharran, executive director of Ch haya CDC, were received w ith enthusiasm.

Despite consistent rain throughout the celebration, Saturday’s event drew hundreds of neighbors as well as a bevy of Guyanese community advocates and Queens electeds. It also brought out the Guyanese foreign secretary, Mayor de Blasio and a Guyanese dancehall artist named Terry Gajraj, whose performance had them all dancing on stage together in the rain.

“I want to say I see you, I respect you, I appreciate you,” said de Blasio. “Guyana has not only done so much for New York City but represents such possibilities — people of different faiths, ethnicities coming together as one.”

Since the 1960s, hundreds of thousa nds of Guya nese have immigrated to New York to make it their home. Prominent Guyanese -A mer ica n New Yorkers include former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and Queens Borough President Helen Marshall.

The Guyanese are the secondlargest foreign-born population immigrant group in Queens, based

Hundreds of Richmond Hill residents streamed into the intersection of Lefferts Boulevard and Liberty Avenue last PHOTOS BY MAX PARROTT Saturday to celebrate the co-naming of “Little Guyana Avenue.” on the 2010 Census. New York City boasts the largest population of Guyanese people outside the country itself.

Guyanese Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud, a former minister of the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic government, pointed out how the event came three days after the country marked its 55th anniversary of independence from Britain.

The symbolic moment comes after years of lobbying from Guyanese advocates to get more recognition and resources from the city.

Last January, David raised the idea

of a community center aimed at serving the Indo-Caribbean community, something that he said has been appearing on the Queens Community Board 9 statement of needs for years.

He also proposed investments, both into marketing and beautification efforts on Liberty Avenue, to help turn the area into a cultural district on par with Manhattan’s Chinatown.

Ashook Ramsaran, president of Indian Diaspora Council International, who gave a speech vaunting the Guyanese “strong roots” in New York City and celebrating the

diaspora’s economic success in Richmond Hill, told the Chronicle that a task such as a cultural district would take time because of the many ethnic groups that call Q the neighborhood home.

Above left, Councilwoman Adrienne Adams addresses her Guyanese constituents. Above right, Mayor de Blasio follows a marching band to the intersection. Top right, artist Terry Gajraj improvises a musical number to celebrate the occasion.

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Fallen detective commemorated in 102nd The NYPD held a plaque dedication ceremony on May 27 for Det. Brian Simonsen, of the 102nd Precinct, who died in the line of duty Feb. 12, 2019.

“You can’t forget someone who did this much and sacrificed so much. His family, his friends will remember deeply, but his second family, his NYPD family, his 102nd Precinct family feel a loss of a comrade in arms, some-

one exemplary in what he did in his work, but also the humanity, the way he brought out something [in] people,” said Mayor de Blasio at the dedication.

Simonsen was shot by friendly fire while responding to a robbery at a T-Mobile store in Richmond Hill. He spent his entire 19-year career in the 102nd Precinct.

Family and members of the NYPD gathered

to celebrate his life, and to dedicate the plaque at 102nd Precinct headquarters in Richmond Hill, where it will stay.

“We talk about what he meant to this community, but, more importantly, what he meant to you, and what he meant to his family, and what he meant to his blue family, and how he lived life, and how we impacted people,” said NYPD Police Commissioner Dermot Shea.

Senior centers in New York City can open for outdoor activities and will be permitted to accept people indoors beginning June 14. Mayor de Blasio, accompanied by his commissioners for the Department for the Aging and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, made the announcement on Tuesday during a press briefing.

“They mean so much to so many members of our families, a positive place, a nurturing place, a place where people get fellowship and great food and activities and healthcare support, physical and mental healthcare support,” de Blasio said. “... Now, what I can tell you is, we’ll be careful. We’ll be safe. We’re going to make sure there’s smart distancing and all the right precautions to keep our senior centers safe, but the time is now.”

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Yemeni leaders report that Israeli-Palestinian comments shook backers

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similar statement of solidarity with Israel.

Abdul Mubarez, president of YAMA, Muslim communities in South Queens, pointed out that there’s a strong Muslim which formerly had expressed support of population that considers Jerusalem a sacred Eric Adams’ mayoral bid, have reined it in place. According to some traditional interover the past month based on his comments pretations of the Koran, it’s the place where the prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven. on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“I don’t think they’re going to vote The political arm of the Yemeni for him,” said Mubarez.

American Merchants Association, According to a New York an organization with wide roots Times map of where candidates in Queens and Brooklyn, which d rew the most f u nd raising, wa s on t r a ck t o is s u e a n Adams dominated the part of endorsement of Adams, decided South Queens stretching up from against it at the last moment.

Howard Beach to Ozone Park.

Kaled Alamarie, a Yemeni“They were really behind Eric American candidate for City Coun2021 Adams because he really lobbied very cil in District 32, who said that he has visited mosques in Ozone Park and other hard in that community. And then suddenly parts of South Queens throughout his cam- with his comment about Middle Eastern paign, said that the tenor of the area’s Mus- issues, they pulled their endorsement and lim community suddenly shifted when are really lobbying ver y hard against Adams took a firm pro-Israel stance amid Adams, even though he really helped out in the days of violence between Hamas and the past to kind of build bridges among various communities,” said Alamarie.

Israel in May. In his campaign, Adams has made a push “Israelis live under the constant threat of terrorism and war and New York City’s to engage with the needs of small business bond with Israel remains unbreakable. I owners, especially in the outer boroughs. stand shoulder to shoulder with the people YAMA represents about 5,000 stores — of Israel at this time of crisis,” tweeted many of them run by Muslim merchants.

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Many in the South Queens Muslim community have retracted support of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams after his comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Adams was most aligned with their interests.

But that suddenly changed, and Mubarez also heard that Adams was dropped from consideration by other advocacy groups like

the Muslim American Society and Emgage as well in the wake of the comments.

Adams has long courted the Muslim community in South Queens. A year and a half ago, he spoke at a protest in Ozone Park organized by Muslim leaders in the wake of a series of violent attacks against Muslim and Bangladeshi members of the community. After the event, when a Chronicle reporter approached the Brooklyn borough president as he dined on halal food with a group of imams at Momo’s Mediterranean Grill off of Liberty Plaza, Adams told the Chronicle that he could not be interviewed at the moment because he was strategizing on his future mayoral campaign.

When it comes down to it, Muslim voter turnout, and that in the Ozone Park area, is low relative to the rest of the city, Alamarie said. As the Chronicle reported, the Muslim center of South Queens in the northern part of the 32nd Council District has some of the lowest turnout in the borough.

“Now they’re mobilized and they’re kind of doing registration citywide to show that, ‘OK it doesn’t matter who you vote for, but we want data to show that we’re voting,’” said Alamarie.

The leader of YAMA’s political committee did not respond to messages about whom the Q group was considering for endorsement.

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s our miracle vaccines continue to crush Covid19 into the dark places from which it came, we’re thrilled to see that among the measures of progress we’re marking up is the return of in-person high school graduations.

After all they’ve been through the last year and a half, that’s the least our graduating seniors deserve. Not only have they been deprived of a proper education — remote learning is barely learning at all for most — they’ve missed out on countless opportunities and rites of passage, whether it’s varsity athletics, afterschool programs, the prom or simple, casual socializing. At least they can get a modicum of that, and a chance to celebrate, with in-person graduations.

Not every high school is necessarily going to have one, as far as we know at press time. But we hope all will make every effort to do so if they haven’t already.

Some plan a mix of virtual and live events, which is fine — many people are still skittish about public gatherings, even if they’re vaccinated, even if the events are held outside. We understand that and are glad that accommodations are being made for those who are not

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yet ready to be with other people. Changes to the way we’ve lived our lives since early 2020 have come fast and furious lately, and not everyone is as confident in the science and the dramatic drop in new cases as we are. That will change over time as Covid continues to be beaten into the dust by the vaccines and we keep moving down the road toward herd immunity. Of course we must remain vigilant for any resurgence, but there’s no sign of that now in the United States at least.

We would like to see the city and state immediately loosen their remaining restrictions on crowd size for outdoor graduations. Don’t forget, the science shows that the risk of catching Covid outdoors is so small it’s practically nonexistent. And the vaccinated have next to nothing to worry about. So there’s no reason for the city to limit outdoor graduation audiences to 500, or for the state to say those over 500 can only fill a venue to 33 percent capacity. If Citi Field can operate with no capacity limit, just distancing requirements for the unvaccinated, so too should any outdoor venue hosting a high school graduation.

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There are examples of where underground rail, trails, green space and communities get along and together are worth the investment.

The BART rapid transit from Millbrae and San Francisco International Airport goes underneath a rail trail, the Centennial Way Trail, in South San Francisco. BART also provides convenient access to the trail. And in Toronto part of one subway line has been placed under littleused rail tracks while a planned extension to a presently under-construction light rail line will go underneath neighborhood open space that had been dedicated to a proposed expressway.

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any longtime residents say the city is heading back to the ’70s as crime and grime increase, and now you can count Queens’ Vietnam veterans among them, though for an additional reason uniquely painful to them.

Sometime early this week a heartless, America-hating vandal graffitied the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Elmhurst Park with phrases including “baby killers” — something those who served in country were called by radicals when they returned to the States 50 or so years ago. They were also called “fallen souls,” though that’s probably a more apt description of the vandal than the 371 Queens residents killed in the war whose names are inscribed in the memorial. The tagger also drew swastikas (poorly) and asserted that God performs oral sex, something that would flabbergast as well as disgust the faithful.

Police are investigating the case as a hate crime. It comes on the heels of “Free Palestine” being spray-painted across a U.S. flag that Vietnam vets put up in Glendale and the graffiti vandalism of dozens of cars in Astoria. A suspect in the latter case has been charged. We hope that he and the other perpetrators soon will pay the highest legal price for thinking their free speech rights extend to such hateful destruction. They do not.

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Brendan Read Woodstock, Ont., Canada

Snail mail for sure Dear Editor: The Post Office wants to raise the first-class stamp to 58 cents. For what? I mailed two checks on May 19 and the snails have not delivered them as of May 29.

For this they get rewarded. Instead of trying to get people back they are driving more people away.

Ray Hackinson Ozone Park

Dems spark anti-Semitism Dear Editor: Re your May 27 editorial “Beware violent anti-Semitism”: As a Jewish resident of Kew Gardens Hills, I’m shocked to read about the attack on Yeshiva Kesser Torah. I can’t recall anything like that ever happening before during the 77 years I’ve lived here.

Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal told the Chronicle he has never seen the Jewish community “on edge” like it now is. Part of the blame for that lies with members of his own political party. While President Biden supports Israel’s right to defend itself, the Democrats’ far-left lunatics act like cheerleaders for Hamas. That includes Congresswoman Alexandria OcasioCortez, who represents a part of Queens, and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish. They

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On one hand Mr. Hayes promotes an independent commission, but on the other hand he already pinpoints the attack to a single, wealthy person, a former president. How controversial can you be?

Maybe Mr. Hayes also has an answer for the assaults on federal buildings and killings of innocent people all over the country last year.

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Dear Editor: Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) stated, “Democrats are pulling us apart.”

Let me show you how the Party of No is really pulling the U.S. apart. Here is proof of former Senate GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s nasty leadership.

1. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent McConnell over 200 House bills — he sat on them!

2. When President Obama nominated his candidate to fill the open seat on the Supreme Court, the senator refused to act upon it for 18 months, thus allowing Trump to submit his candidate. This action had never occurred in Senate history. 3. McConnell’s latest insult called for a 100 percent stop to President Biden’s socialistic agenda!

I’ll let MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell have the last word ... Our Congress is the most polarized Congress in our history!

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Memorial Day, Veterans Day Dear Editor: Memorial Day was observed this past week, in honoring ceremonies similar to those of Veterans Day, in November. It is frequently asked why there are two days of recognition for essentially the same purpose. A fair enough query, from those who are not familiar with their origins.

Veterans Day evolved from Armistice Day, which brought an end to World War I, at the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month.

While America’s involvement was brief, by comparison to that of the European alliance, it was significant. Twenty-three years later, America quickly became a world power, upon facing war from both Japan and Germany simultaneously.

Peace was not achieved by World War II’s adjudication, or in the marathon of wars that followed. After World War II it became clear Armistice Day could no longer stand alone, in its appreciation of those who served valiantly.

In 1954 Congress passed and President Dwight Eisenhower signed a bill to incorporate all U.S. wars, both before and in the future, into one Veterans Day. One aspect of Armistice Day was kept intact. Except for a brief period years later, it would not become a floating holiday, to accommodate a three-day weekend. Veterans insisted on the date of Nov. 11.

Memorial Day has also evolved, from its former inception of Decoration Day, established in 1868. It became traditional to visit the gravesites of fallen heroes from the fields of battle. Its day of observance was May 30, but when it was made a national holiday by Congress in 1971, it was moved to the final Monday of the month.

The fine line difference in the two days is simply defined, while remaining parallel. They fall approximately six months apart, and can be separately identified by two words. Veterans Day we celebrate! Memorial Day we commemorate!

Robert W. Rice Woodhaven

if instituted and enforced.

For three weeks in the fall, a friend was in a nursing home for rehab. He experienced insufficient and often unresponsive staffing, overcrowding and little actual rehabilitation.

Dementia patients were in rooms with rehab patients, people were crying out in pain or pleading for help, but were left unattended, and the doctor was rarely seen. My friend had to persist to get what he needed, and he often had to advocate for patients unable to fend for themselves.

In March, The New York Times had an article entitled “Maggots, Rape and Yet Five Stars: How U.S. Ratings of Nursing Homes Mislead the Public.” It revealed that much of the information used to determine Medicare ratings is self-reported and inaccurate, and the homes usually know in advance when they will be inspected.

I also read an article on the internet that mentioned reviews on Yelp. Yelp revealed that every nursing home in the area had similar tales of neglect and woe despite top ratings. It is unlikely that “a minimum staffing level that provides at least 3.5 hours of care per patient per day,” as proposed in the bill, will actually happen without staff increases, more oversight and unannounced inspections.

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use anti-Semitic code words like “Zionist colonialism” and “apartheid occupation force” to attack the Middle East’s only democracy. Israel’s first (and only) woman prime minister, Golda Meir, told reporters more than 50 years ago that “peace will come to the Middle East only when Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.” That’s still true. Hamas is willing to sacrifice Arab kids’ lives to destroy the Jewish state. Its hatred has spread from Gaza to the streets of Kew Gardens Hills, where voices of reason must prevail.

Anyone who tries to bring hate here should remember the rallying cry of Holocaust survivors: “Never Again.”

Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

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There seems to be no relief from the bur- poor plastic waste den of plastic. Human consumption spans management. The anywhere from 39,000 to 52,000 microplas- carcinogenic expotic particles a year, and with added estimates s u r e e n s u e s t h e of how much microplastic might be inhaled, impairment of the nervous system and endocrine system, and that number is more than 74,000.

The inhalation of microplastics is proving leads to reproductive and developmental to be the silent killer of our generation. issues and cancer. Microplastics that enter Research confirms that microplastics enter- the human body through direct ingestion or ing the human body account for a multitude inhalation may cause inflammation, genoof diseases and disruptions to bodily sys- toxicity, oxidative stress, apoptosis and tems, such as cancer, autoimmune condi- necrosis, among other health effects.

As a member of our plastic-crazed socitions and neurodegenerative diseases, to cite ety, I have unknowingly consumed roughly a few.

Despite the persistent health crisis, the 5 grams of plastic each week in the course global plastic industry is booming, with a of daily life, or about the weight of a credit projected growth from the current value of card, according to Australian researchers. $344 billion to $412 billion in 2024. There is Roughly a half pound of plastic per year. We are evidently amongst a a complete disregard for public health crisis, and at social and cor porate 16, I am at a high risk of accountability, and thus perplastic-induced illness. sistent efforts must be exeesearch says The fossil fuel industry is cuted in resolving the we eat a credit directly responsible for 99 extremity of the plastic criof plastic produced, sis for the sake of our genercard’s worth of percent and over 170 chemicals are ation’s survival.

Companies force the use plastic a week. used in the process. In order to decrease plastic waste, of plastic plates, cups, utenthe fossil fuel industry sils and packaging, consequently leading to excess plastic waste; and needs to be heavily reformed with more it is this everyday plastic use that causes us transparency about plastic production and to hardly stop and reflect on our waste. A chemicals Moreover, research is imperative plastic straw tossed away will take a century to evaluate the effect of thousands of toxins, to decompose, and thus a neglected straw is microplastics and fibers within consumer representative of the idea of plastic: simple goods. Legal framework should also be adopted in order to ensure that frontline to use, but detrimental to public health.

The plastic bottle we quench our thirst communities are protected and that reform from releases toxins such as BHA from and research are increased.

When it comes down to it, holding the heated plastic. The packaging on a box of sliced fruit carries a risk of an inhalation of industry and legislators accountable is the microplastic particles and hundreds of toxic only path towards change, and as youth, we substances. The nourishing food we con- need to educate and involve ourselves in sume for energy is littered with plastic con- efforts to revolutionize the industry. Lastly, taminates. The accumulation within our social media is a useful tool and by repostsoil, air and aquatic food chains lends ing, liking and sharing information, you are educating hundreds and potentially thousands of people on the effects of the plastic crisis and who consumers must be holding accountable. If there continues to be an abhorrent neglect, there leaves little hope for the health of the future of Q our generation.

Victoria Lu is a junior at Forest Hills High School, where she is involved in debate and law-related activities and serves as field repre“One word: plastics,” the famous advice from Mr. sentative for the Our Climate group McGuire to Benjamin in “The Graduate,” could be and event coordinator for the amended with “will be the death of us.” EMBASSY PICTURES school’s Green Team.

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Activists oppose bill by Miller, Adams that would alter new balloting method

by Naeisha Rose Associate Editor

A bill to repeal sections of Ranked Choice Voting, introduced by Councilman Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) and three others on May 27, has drawn the ire of some City Council candidates to such a degree that they held a rally the following day in LeFrak City.

Leading the May 28 rally were candidates Evie Hantzopoulos (District 22); Carolyn Tran (District 25); Ingrid Gomez and George Onuorah (District 21); and Julie Won and Brent O’Leary (District 26).

“The bill to repeal Ranked Choice Voting is not just anti-democratic, it’s the definition of voter suppression,” Gomez, who is looking to unseat Francisco Moya (D-Corona), said in a prepared statment. “RCV was passed by an overwhelming majority of NYC voters, and I will not let the shadowy politicians who sponsored this bill to subvert the will of the people.”

Miller, the lead sponsor of the bill, disagrees and believes there are genuine concerns regarding RCV. “We introduced legislation today as a security measure against the disappointing implementation of ranked choice voting,” said Miller.

“Should Ranked Choice Voting go sideways in the primary election, Introduction 2326 would give a much larger percentage of voters an opportunity to make a truly informed decision,

compared to the 10% of registered voters who voted in favor of overhauling our election system in the 2019 referendum.”

Intro. 2326 would repeal section 1057-g of the New York City charter relating to Ranked Choice Voting and other technical amendments by permitting a runoff between the candidates with the most votes for the “next succeeding Tuesday” from the date of the election if no single candidate receives 40 percent or more.

Under RCV, being used for the first time citywide in the June 22 primaries, voters select up to five candidates in order of preference, with second choices coming into play until one gets more than 50 percent of the vote. “Democracy dies in darkness, and that is why we are here with multiple candidates from our districts to support Ranked-Choice Voting and to shine a light on this undemocratic, voter suppression bill,” said O’Leary, who is looking to replace Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside).

Councilwoman Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica) agrees with Miller on the lack of education surrounding RCV. “If this new system of voting results in the disenfranchisement of voters, particularly in communities of color, we must be willing to review and adjust ranked choice voting as necessary,” said Adams. “This is why I am cosponsoring Introduction 2326, which will provide voters the opportunity to make a more

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Rally held for Ranked Choice Voting system

Ingrid Gomez, at mic, and supporters of Ranked Choice Voting held a rally to protect the new multi-choice voter initiative after Councilman Daneek Miller introduced an amendment to the bill PHOTO COURTESY INGRID GOMEZ to safeguard upcoming elections from possible confusion. informed decision come November.”

Laurie Cumbo (D-Brooklyn) and Kalman Yeger (D-Brooklyn) were the two other cosponsors of the bill.

Tran finds the repeal to be a form of electorate disenfranchisement and believes that more should be done to help voters learn about RCV. “Let us organize to educate our communities

on RCV in language accessible ways, develop outreach plans with community leaders & organizations and partner with local & ethnic media,” said Tran, who is running to succeed Councilman Daniel Drom m (D-Jackson Heights). “We’re not going back to the status quo. Let’s empower the electorate and respect Q their choices.”

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Pulling out all the stops with vax buses City, health providers and more bring the shots to the people

by Deirdre Bardolf Chronicle Contributor

Tom Ninos was turned away for a Covid-19 vaccine at a CVS on Memorial Day and was on the way to get coffee when he noticed two huge mobile vaccine buses covered with bright graphics on the corner of Broadway and 31st Street in Astoria.

“I just came to get some Starbucks and saw the bus, so I figured it was a good opportunity,” said Ninos, 31, who is originally from Astoria and is moving back after three years in Canada. “The vaccine rollout there has not been great,” said Ninos, who got his first shot in April in Canada.

“The second appointment they put me in for wasn’t until September which would render the first one useless.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends getting the second shot within three to four weeks, and not beyond six weeks.

The mobile vaccine buses are part of a push by the city to boost vaccination rates after numbers have dropped to the lowest in months. On Sunday, only 6,512 shots were administered, compared to 72,661 a month ago.

The buses were launched in early April and aim to reach neighborhoods hit hardest by the pandemic.

They are operated by Promobile and assisted by NYC Health + Hospitals and the Test and Trace Corps. City employees and community organizations are contributing with outreach including canvassing and posting fliers.

And this Memorial Day weekend provided a new type of incentive: Those who got their first Covid-19 vaccine this past weekend can be fully vaccinated for Fourth of July celebrations if they follow the exact timeline. That includes the 21-day period between the first and second shot plus the two weeks it takes to build immunity, according to the CDC. Moderna shots would have been needed by the 23rd and Pfizer

shots by the 30th. The buses offered Pfizer shots to anyone ages 12 and older, free of charge, with only an ID required. That will make Fourth of July “picnics and barbecues far less sad,” the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said in a press release.

“Most people who wanted to get the vaccine have gotten it. The lowhanging fruit has been picked,” said Dr. Bruce Farber, chief of infectious diseases at Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital.

“The late come-alongs are a much more difficult and slow group to chip away at.”

Two mobile vaccine buses were on Broadway in Astoria on Monday, set to stay through Wednesday. The first bus is In addition to vaccine hesitancy, where doses were given and the second bus was for post-shot observation. Tom Ninos, below, got his second shot geographic locations are a factor. The there after being told he’d have to wait for months in Canada, where he’s temporarily living. PHOTOS BY DEIRDRE BARDOLF City’s Task Force for Racial Inclusion and Equity identified “priority popu- second at 68 percent and Flushing, pop-up sites across areas of Queens I would say many people fall in the lations” and neighborhoods that were Murray Hill and Queensboro Hill throughout the entire summer,” said category of wanting to wait. Some are waiting for the FDA to give the hit hardest by the virus as well as had 65 percent. Also among the top CEO Johonniuss Chemweno.

On Friday, the company adminis- approval, not just for emergency use those that face historical socioeco- 10 most-vaccinated ZIP codes were nomic disparities. Black and Hispan- Flushing, Bellerose, Hollis Hills, tered almost 100 shots to patients at but the actual authorization.”

Amato says she tries to educate ic people have lower rates of vaccina- Douglaston-Little Neck and Bayside Sunnyside Community Services. tions, according to data from the North. At the bottom of the list were “The pop-up sites are having a level people about the vaccine and explain Edgemere and Far Rockaway with of success in being able to set up how it works. “The gist of it is, it’s Health Department.

“It’s now becoming apparent that only 24 percent fully vaxxed, fol- locations same day and then move on exposing you to just the spike protein to a new location to make sure there’s mRNA,” she said. Covid-19 mRNA for many people, people who work lowed by Arverne and Laurelton.

So a vaccine bus parked on Shore equitable access to vaccines across vaccines give instructions for the seven days a week, people that have trouble getting out of their home, get- Front Parkway in Rockaway Beach the entire State of New York,” said cells to make a harmless “spike protein,” according to the CDC. Then, this weekend was Chemweno. ting to these large “Our ability to partner with com- the mRNA and spike proteins disina welcome sight sites and getting to residents look- munity centers such as Sunnyside tegrate and if you are exposed, the an appointment just came to get ing for a vaccine Community Services allows partici- body triggers an immune response, has been a barrier site available for pants to come to a place they know Amato said. to actually getsome Starbucks “What I try to explain to people is walk-ins. Despite and trust in terms of getting the right ting the vaccine,” and saw the bus.” the rainy weather, information,” he said. He hopes that that Covid will do this to you or the said Dr. Teresa dozens of people model for education and outreach can vaccine will do it to you in a very Amato, chairper— Vaccine recipient Tom Ninos were able to get eventually provide access to care for controlled way, which only does a son of emergency first and second other healthcare needs like diabetes small part of the virus, which won’t medicine at LIJ make you sick.”

Forest Hills and director of geriatric doses, and the buses will be returning and high cholesterol.

Amato said she is discouraged by Getting trusted information is emergency medicine for Northwell in the coming weeks.

Eric Wakschal, 59, of Far Rocka- what pushed Omar Ortega, 40, to get encounters with patients who test Health. “We’re changing how we’re looking at this and starting to make way, tried once to get a walk-in vac- his first shot on the NYC Mobile positive for Covid yet still refuse the programs for going into homes for cine at a CVS but was told to make Vaccine Clinic bus in Astoria on vaccine, but she is hopeful for “some homebound folks.” Sixty-five percent an appointment online and come Monday. He felt insecure about get- form of herd immunity that will stop of city seniors are fully vaccinated, back. Then, he saw the bus while bik- ting the vaccine, he said, and had huge outbreaks.” As of Monday, 43 many questions. He wondered which percent of New York City residents and 72 percent have gotten at least ing and called his wife immediately.

“I’ve been thinking about doing it vaccine he would be getting, if he were fully vaccinated, and 51 percent one dose. But vaccinations for seniors in Queens lag behind Manhattan and for a while; I just happened to be hes- would have to pay and what informa- had had at least one dose. Queens itant,” Wakschal said. “This was very tion he would need to provide. “Lati- ranks second for the most partially Staten Island numbers.

Data from the city shows convenient. I told my wife to come no people are really insecure because and fully vaccinated residents, a geographic divide in vac- down here and get it too, so maybe we need to get more information,” behind Manhattan. Over a million said Ortega, who is an immigrant Queens residents are fully vaxxed, cination rates for Queens, she’ll come next weekend.” according to the Health Department.

Besides the mobile buses, other from Mexico. too. Residents of Southeast“I think this summer is going to “I didn’t make any plans to get it, ern Queens have much pop-up sites can be found across the lower rates of vaccination boroughs. This past week, VIP Star- but it was easy. The people need to look a lot different than last summer,” compa red to nor ther n Network, a private company that pro- see, it’s easy. I am very happy, satis- Amato said.

Ninos, the Astorian temporarily in areas, with Breezy Point in vides Covid health services for film fied,” said Ortega. “It’s there, why Canada, had an answer as to his sumthe southwest also among studios and sporting events, set up not?”

Amato’s priority is remaining non- mer plans as soon as he stepped off the most inoculated. As of one-day-only pop-up events in last weekend, Long Island Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island judgmental when having conversa- the bus. “Hopefully vacation! I’m City was at the top of the and the Bronx, looking to serve low- tions about such hesitancy, she said. hoping to go to Europe now that list with almost 70 percent income areas that lack access to “Hesitancy is different for everybody, they’re allowing vaccinated people whether it’s fear or concern about the in. I’ll be able to enjoy the summer of its residents fully vacci- vaccines.

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Memorial to 371 Queens residents is desecrated by hate messages

by Michael Gannon Editor

A vandal or vandals have spray-painted swastikas and hate graffiti throughout the Queens Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Elmhurst Park.

Doug Williams, president of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 32 in Queens, was at the site Wednesday afternoon as police from the NYPD’s 110th Precinct investigated the crime.

“I was informed by another member of Chapter 32 that the memorial had been defaced, and sure enough, it is,” Williams said in a telephone interview. “Things like swastikas, ‘fallen souls’ and ‘baby killers.’”

The monument off icially opened in December 2019, but had been the dream of the late VVA Chapter 32 President Pat Toro since 2008. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, first as a City Council member and then as borough president, secured nearly $3 million for its creation. It sits in a park on the site of the old Elmhurst gas tanks.

The monument is inscribed with the names of 371 Queens residents who would never come home from Southeast Asia.

Katz was as heartbroken as she was incensed on Wednesday.

“This is a kick in the teeth to all those who put in such a tremendous amount of work,

Sources said police are investigating the defacement of the Queens Vietnam Veterans Memorial PHOTO BY MARK WEIDLER as a hate crime. time, blood and sweat for over 10 years,” Katz told the Chronicle after visiting the site.

“All the work done by Chapter 32, by the veterans who were not welcomed home all those years ago to create something remarkable. To deface that was an insult to everyone we intended to pay tribute to.”

Katz said it is the only Vietnam memorial in the borough that has a Queenswide focus; and that pays tribute to those who came home only to die sometimes years later from their wounds and whatever else they might have been exposed to.

Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Vil-

lage) said he was alerted by Parks Department officials.

“It was discovered this afternoon because a Parks worker came by to check on the park,” Holden said. He learned from police that graffiti on one of the rocks, a swastika with the number 110, has been found elsewhere in the 110th Precinct recently.

“We’ve got anti-cop, anti-God and antisoldier graffiti,” he said.

Holden added that police are investigating vandalism to an old statue at St. Adalbert’s Church in Elmhurst last week, as well as hate graffiti on an overpass at 57th Street that Holden and his staff noticed last week when they attended a memorial event at the park sponsored by Katz last week.

Katz said her spirits were somewhat lifted while at the memorial, as parks workers were going ahead on full steam to remove the graffiti once investigators had what they needed.

In an email, state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) called it a disgusting crime.

“On the heels of Memorial Day, a time when we reflect on the sacrifices made by the men and women in the armed forces that gave their lives protecting the freedoms that we enjoy each day, we should be honoring these fallen soldiers, not wiping away hateful words and symbols from their memorial Q site,” Addabbo said.

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Crowley: more cops, fewer cars on the road Candidate pushes for stronger infrastructure in second BP bid

by Katherine Donlevy

“It’s important to have women run in leadership positions and for elected office larger It is completely coincidental that Eliza- than City Council,” Crowley continued.

She ran for the position in last year’s spebeth Crowley is making another run to be Queens borough president in 2021, the same cial election primary, where she finished in year her organization is tirelessly working to second place. Now-Borough President Donoput a substantial amount of women into pub- van Richards beat her out with 35.8 percent of the vote, while Crowley garnered 28.8 lic office.

“I saw how helping women helped fami- percent.

Her new campaign shares a plethora of vallies and really uplifts communities. When I got to the [City] Council, it was surprising to ues that last year’s held, but many have been me to see so few women,” the Democratic revised after she saw the impact of the pandemic. Public safety, which has always candidate told the Chronicle in a May been a top priority for Crowley, has 27 interview. now become her No. 1 concern.

The group, 21 in ’21, was creat“First, you can have police ed in 2017 as Crowley was leavwhere they belong: responding to ing her seven-year tenure as the incidents,” she said. “Being a District 30 City Council member. presence, patrolling our streets At the time, only 11 women were and subways. It’s sheer numbers.” city representatives, a total that Although a borough president made up about one-fifth of the gov2021 doesn’t deploy the police, Crowley said erning body. Crowley, along with Melissa Mark-Viverito, found that the perspective she’d use her leverage as Queens’ boss to of women is a necessity and crafted 21 in ’21 work with City Council members and the next to propel women into leadership roles and mayor to put more cops out in order to prevent crime. make up at least 40 percent of the chamber.

Crowley is the only Democratic candidate When she formed the group, Crowley didn’t expect to be running in a race herself, who is against partially defunding the police but said the concept of powerful women in — Richards and City Councilmember Jimmy powerful places extends to her borough presi- Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) voted to deduct $1 billion from the NYPD’s budget from the dent bid.

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‘A’ students receive $1,000 Two outstanding seniors from the York Early College Academy in Jamaica each received $1,000 in scholarship funds for college.

Lorraine Benn, right, and Alicia Majid both graduated May 27 with an A average from the academy and have been active in their community and in the school’s student body, respectively.

Each of the young women have big plans for how to use their scholarship for their future.

“I’m very excited to begin the next chapter of my life and beyond blessed and thankful to have the support and means to further my education,” said Benn. “In the future, I aspire to continue to be an agent of change within my community, through the field of medicine.”

Benn will attend the Sophie Biomedical program at the City College of New York.

“Despite the fact that 2020 was a difficult year for many, it was a wake-up call for me as a person of color,” said Majid, who is Guyanese-American. “A degree in public administration will prepare me for a rewarding career in government or public service.”

Majid will attend the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Providing the scholarship is the Zara Charitable Foundation, which was founded by the family business Zara Realty. “These inspiring young women represent the very best of our city, our community, and our nation,” said Tony Subraj, co-managing partner of the real estate firm.

good paying union jobs, she said. Crowley sponsored a 2018 Department of Transportation study to evaluate the project’s feasibility, which found it would serve 21,000 riders a week, or 5.8 million annually, and raise an estimated $15 million in fare revenue each year.

Crowley also would have a revived Rockaway Beach Branch Rail line connect to the QNS. When it comes to cyclist safety, Crowley said she’d like to find ways to make bike lanes safer. She pointed to her financial support for the Brooklyn Queens Greenway during her time in the City Council, and her preference of keeping bike lanes within park territory rather than in the street alongside dangerous traffic.

“We need to get more [people] out of their Former City Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley cars,” Crowley said. “In the pandemic we’ve is making another run for Queens borough seen an increase in car ridership in the city, so we need to do incentives for folks to want to PHOTO BY PETER C. MASTROSIMONE president. take the bus, public transit, which would be city’s 2020 budget, but Crowley hopes that safer for bikers, and for bikers to feel safer.”

For spaces where bike lanes cannot be more officers will be hired in the near future.

Reform can be achieved with further initia- moved into green oases, Crowley proposed tives, by diversifying members and creating creating new ones.

“I think green barriers are better, espestronger community relationships, she said.

“We can make our Police Department a cially since there’s many communities that better department, I think, by extending the have too few trees and less of green space,” academy training. Right now it’s six months. she said, adding that “attractive hedges” They don’t offer a significant amount of could be used as barriers. Other alternatives social sciences, which are good for de-escala- would be an increase in bollards between car tion, so I would propose to do that,” Crowley lanes and bike lanes.

“I don’t like the Jersey barrier look. I said, noting that better training — and more cops — are necessary to prevent tragedies, think [if] we’re going to put funds into and like the May 5 Times Square shooting, from our heads together to make a barrier it should be one that’s aesthetically pleasing happening again.

Infrastructure is another key element of and safe,” she said.

As a mother of two sons who went to pubCrowley’s campaign, particularly public lic schools, Crowley transportation. She is is a substantial supan adamant supporter porter of adequately of transforming the t’s important to have funding and expandbus system into a ing schools. free-of-charge transit women run in leadership “We have a mayor option for city resipositions and for elected that wants to end dents, which would Gifted & Talented get more people on office larger than programs and I the buses and out of believe in expanding their cars.

City Council.”

Gifted & Talented The idea is com— Elizabeth Crowley, programs,” she said. pletely achievable, borough president candidate “That’s how you get the candidate said, closer to achieving a because of how much the city already subsidizes transit. If good school in your neighborhood.”

Similarly, Crowley supports the Specialized implemented, the no-fare model wouldn’t High School Admissions Test, though she cost the city any extra money.

“Buses we’re paying for. We’re paying for would raise the number of specialized schools nearly 100 percent of them,” Crowley said, in the borough to grow the number of students adding that the cost of not incentivizing pub- attending those schools, but who wouldn’t lic transit is much higher pollution-wise: need to travel out of Queens each day.

In the face of the diversity disparity con“What is the cost of the environment with the troversy about which students are accepted congestion of cars?”

Crowley also has big plans for train expan- into those schools and programs, Crowley sion in Queens, much of which is referred to said the issue stems from the opportunities by many as a “transit desert.” One of her available within each school district, which ideas is to run a passenger light-rail service need to be corrected.

“We’re doing something wrong ... We’re on an existing freight line that extends from Long Island City to Jamaica into a passenger not preparing them,” Crowley said. “We need light rail service. The QNS line would not to prepare students from every school district Q only better connect Queens, but would create to do well on that test.”

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Donors can schedule a donation next week at: • the 107th Precinct, at 71-01 Parsons Blvd. in Pomonok, on June 9 from 12 to 6 p.m. and • the 115th Precinct, at 92-15 Northern Blvd. in Jackson Heights, on June 9 and 10 from 12 to 6 p.m.

The blood center is asking donors to self-screen before coming in to donate.

Those with fever or other symptoms of Covid-19, including cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing; who had close contact with someone diagnosed with or suspected of having Covid-19 in the last 14 days; or who have been diagnosed with or suspected of having it (until 28 days after the illness has resolved) are asked not to donate. The blood center does not test for the coronavirus.

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Statues head to retirement home Grove for concrete animals at FMCP to open in fall

by Katherine Donlevy

ways that will allow parkgoers to easily access the area from three separate points.

Now the Queens Zoo creatures aren’t In addition to creating a quiet, reflecthe only animals you can visit at Flushtive space, the project aims to demoning Meadows Corona Park — a grove strate the agency’s enthusiasm for repurdedicated to retired statues will open this posing assets rather than disposing of fall. them. The project will only use existing City Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silassets, staff resources, equipment and ver announced plans May 27 for the mater ials, accord i ng to the Pa rk s NYC Parks Home for Retired Playground Department.

Animals, a “contemplative space” where The department said that most of the parkgoers can visit the concrete animals, concrete animals throughout city green who had once served as decorative play spaces were added in the 1980s and ’90s. structures at parks throughout New York, Then-Commissioner Henry Stern tasked and relish in nostalgia. designers with incorporating animal art “After decades of service to New York into every new playground project. As City, and with perfect attendance records time went on, many structures suffered across the board, it’s time for these Parsignificant wear from overuse and from kies to hang up their hats and enjoy a life the elements and some were removed to of leisure,” Silver said in a statement. make room for new features and accessi“Instead of moving down south to Florida, they will get their place in the sun in A camel is one of five concrete animals entering ble play space.

The Home for Retired Playground Flushing.” retirement at the new Flushing Meadows Corona The first residents will be two dol- Park grove this fall.

NYC PARKS PHOTO Animals was inspired by the Las Vegas Neon Boneyard, which relocates former phins, one aardvark, a camel and a frog, all of whom had been living the last several but will not allow any climbing because neon signs after they’ve been removed from the Strip, and the Ben and Jerry’s Flavor years in storage. The statues will remain in “they’ve had enough.”

The site is a grassy area located near the Graveyard in Vermont, which pays homage their aged state and will not be retouched or repainted. Parks encourages parkgoers to Fountain of the Fair’s reflecting pool. Once to the discontinued ice cream flavors.

The project is under community design offer the statues “congratulations and well- transformed into the grove, the space will wishes” and to take photographs with them, include new plantings, benches and path- review, but is on track to debut in the fall. Q Associate Editor

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Hero honored for averting train murder Madathil halted train before it hit man who was pushed on tracks

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

The last year has been littered with horrific stories of anti-Asian attacks throughout the country, ranging from verbal confrontations to violent assaults and even murder. Rarely have there been stories of someone stepping in to save a victim from becoming another tragic statistic.

“We’re here to put up Tobin as an example of someone who really did the right thing — saved a life, is our hero — and is an example of how people should never just be bystanders as others are hurting and suffering, but to be upstanders and to do the right thing. Tobin’s actions are a bright spot in this very dark tunnel of which we have seen an onsluaght of hate crimes,” said state Sen. John Liu (D-Bayside).

Liu bestowed a state Heroism Award upon Tobin Madathil, an MTA train operator, May 28 for saving the life of an Asian-American man who was shoved onto subway tracks four days earlier.

That Monday morning, an Asian man was waiting for the F train at the 21st StreetQueensbridge station in Long Island City when he was pushed onto the tracks by an unknown assailant, police said. Madathil saw something out of the corner of his eye and quickly put the train into emergency mode, stopping it prematurely and preventing the vic-

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MTA Train Operator Tobin Madathil, left, was joined by his family as he was presented with a Heroism Award by state Sen. John Liu for his quick actions May 24 that saved the life of an Asian PHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY man who was pushed onto the subway tracks. tim from being struck and killed.

Madathil and other witnesses jumped onto the tracks to help the 35-year-old victim back onto the platform. He was taken by Emergency Medical Services to Mount Sinai Queens hospital, where he was treated for a cut on his

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forehead, a significantly less traumatic injury than he would have sustained if it weren’t for Madathil’s speedy intervention.

“I couldn’t have done this without God’s grace,” Madathil said, adding that he prays before leaving the ter minal each day.

“Through this experience I found that a life could be cut too short. We need to appreciate every second of the day because you never know what will be the last.”

Though Madathil was the only recipient of the Heroism Award, he assured all present that the rescue was a team effort and that the willingness of witnesses to bring the victim to safety was remarkable.

“This is nothing short of a miracle,” Madathil said.

The police are still searching for the assailant, and the assault is being investigated as a hate crime. According to the NYPD, he “said something unintelligible to [the victim] and shoved him onto the southbound train tracks” before escaping to the street in an unknown direction.

State Sen. Kevin Thomas (D-Nassau) stopped by the ceremony to present Madathil with a proclamation honoring the hero for his actions. Thomas, the first Indian American in New York history to serve in the state Senate, pointed out the significance of Madathil, an Asian American, saving another from potential murder.

“During this time when there’s a lot of hatred towards our community, someone from our own community doing something good is just something that — God put you there at the Q right time,” Thomas said.

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Stuart Nachmias of Con Edison, far left, farm Executive Director Jennifer Walden Weprin, City Councilmembers Barry Grodenchik and James Gennaro and Richard David of Con Edison celebrated the new Con Edison Reading Room May 26. NYC COUNCIL PHOTO, TOP; QUEENS FARM PHOTO

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

The long-awaited Con Edison Reading Room at the Queens County Farm Museum was officially opened last week.

The quaint building — standing at a little over 12 by 16 feet — is stuffed with over 250 books and magazines for both children and adults, as well as an assortment of farm-related toys, such as minitractors and horse barns.

The reading content relates to cooking, gardening, health and wellness, animals, farming, science and local history, all of

which reflect the mission of the farm.

The little cottage was historically a summer kitchen, and then a place to store the farm’s tomatoes. The transformation into an educational facility was primarily sponsored by Con Edison, as well as the Queens Public Library and Penguin Random House.

Stuart Nachmias, a Con Edison representative and Queens Farm board member, cut the ribbon with area officials the afternoon of May 26.

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NASA internship for MVB student Jamaica scholar gets accepted into summer climate change program

by Naeisha Rose Associate Editor

Rynola Fraser, 16, a Jamaican immigrant and an honor student at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens Village, will take part in a six-week virtual internship for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Climate Change Research Initiative in July.

“I was placed in this science research class with my professor, Ms. Wang, and I was progressing throughout the class,” said Rynola.

Rynola’s work ethic in the class led her Science, Technology, Engineering & Math teacher to encourage the Jamaica resident to apply for the NASA internship.

“This is the first year that I had her and you would think being virtual I wouldn’t have gotten to know her so well,” said Carol Wang-Mondaca.

Rynola had spoken about working to achieve more toward helping the world after seeing Vice President Kamala Harris, the daughter of a Jamaican immigrant, inaugurated. That stuck with Wang-Mondaca.

“I was thinking this girl is going to make an impact, but she needs an opportunity to make an impact on society,” she said. “I conv i nced her to apply for t he NASA internship.”

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Rynola Fraser, 16, was accepted into the prestigious NASA internship program and has big PHOTO BY NAEISHA ROSE hopes for a career either in criminal justice or climate science. ing back to the world is what Wang-Mondaca believes helped her student secure a spot in the prestigious program.

Matthew Pierce, the education specialist for the Office of STEM Engagement at NASA, interviewed Rynola.

Rynola applied for the program in late January 2021, spoke with Pierce for more than

an hour and learned she had been accepted in March 2021.

“In the case of Rynola, she will be studying the impact of climate change in the Hudson Estuary,” said Pierce, who couldn’t give away the criteria for the exclusive internship at the federal agency. “She will get to work closely with a teacher and a mentor on a port-

folio and develop some deliverable items.

Those include developing a publishable research paper, a comprehensive PowerPoint and scientific poster.”

Rynola will have the opportunity to present her work regionally, nationally and internationaly at different symposiums, according to Pierce.

“At first, I didn’t think it was the right fit for me because I wanted to do law. I believe that there are a lot of innocent people sent to jail and I want to prevent that,” said Rynola, who is contemplating a career in criminal justice. However, she admitted she has a love for science too. “I love chemistry and doing research work.”

Before migrating to the U.S. in 2019, Rynola started an environmental club at her high school in Jamaica, West Indies.

“Most of my track record there was starting initiatives about climate change,” said Rynola. “I wanted people to know how e v e r yd a y a c t i v i t i e s i m p a c t e d t h e environment.”

Rynola, a junior, is also considering a career in climate science and hopes to attend Columbia University or New York University next year.

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Wreaths were laid at three locales in the Woodside area on Memorial Day: In chronological order they were at the Vietnam War memorial at the corner of 57th Street and Woodside Avenue; the Catholic War Veterans headquarters at 61st Street just north of Roosevelt Avenue; and at the memorial at Woodside Memorial Park at the intersection of Woodside and Roosevelt avenues.

Clockwise from top right: A bird’s-eye view of the line of march on 61st Street west of the Woodside post office; state Assemblyman Brian Barnwell addressed the gathering while standing next to Bob Carr, 1st vice-commander of Catholic War Veterans Post 870; Jorge Lopez bugled

“Taps”; Matt Butler of the Sanitation Depar tment’s Fife and Drums piped “Amazing Grace”; Boy Scout Troop 390 of Woodside handed out complimentary American flags; veterans salute; Hadi Akbar, 6, patriotically acknowledges the solemnity of the day; one of the honor guard’s three volleys; the Rev. Patrick West, the pastor of St. Sebastian’s Church, gave the invocation at the Vietnam War memorial; Bernie McMellis, a former post commander, was eulogized.

McMellis passed away just this past Sunday, the day preceding the memorials.

Above, wreaths are placed before a monument bearing the names of some of Queens’ fallen sons.

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Playtime: It’s not just for kids, say experts While most of us associate playtime with childhood, adults are increasingly acknowledging the importance of play and leisure time for themselves.

A new survey commissioned by The Genius of Play and conducted by OnePoll finds that 89 percent of adults have learned to appreciate the importance of play and leisure time over the past year. What’s more, 84 percent say taking time to play helps them be more productive at work.

“You’re never too young or too old to play,” says Anna Yudina, senior director of marketing initiatives at The Toy Association, which spearheads The Genius of Play. “In fact, research links play with a number of wellness benefits in adults, such as reducing stress, boosting life satisfaction, and empowering people to be creative, flexible thinkers.”

To incorporate play into your life, consider these tips from The Genius of Play: • Take on a hobby: Seventy percent of adults picked up a new hobby or leisure activity over the past year — and with good reason. Hobbies can be a source of positive emotions, get you outdoors, encourage physical activity and social interactions, and spark creativity. From roller skating to dancing to crafting to playing an instru-

ment, consider taking on a new, playful hobby or revisiting one you enjoyed during childhood.

• Plan a game night: While play often occurs spur-of-the-moment, life is hectic and schedules are jam-packed. Consider scheduling time for fun to ensure it happens. For example, make one evening each week a totally screenfree, stress-free experience. Order pizza (or your household’s cuisine of choice) and break out games and puzzles. You might even consider planning themed trivia nights delving into your favorite subjects.

• Hop in the car: Whether you choose a destination that allows you to simply relax, or you take on a more active adventure, a trip can broaden your horizons and rejuvenate you when you’re feeling down or just trapped in the daily routine. Consider taking a just-for-fun trip on your own, with a friend or partner, or pack up the car and bring the kids.

• Bring out your inner child: Parents, grandparents and other adults with a kid in their life can spend more time playing with the little ones. Not only is play the perfect way to bond, research highlights a number of associated health benefits. Those who play with children

burn 20 percent more calories per week, and researchers link playfulness to creativity, spontaneity and positive attitudes. Intergenerational play can help adults maintain cognitive skills as they age and even extend their life. A study published in the journal “Evolution and Human Behavior” found that grandparents who help out with grandchildren live longer.

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Are you eligible for a spouse’s benefits?

by Nilsa Henriquez Social Security helps you secure today and tomorrow with financial benefits, information and tools that support you throughout life’s journey. If you don’t have enough Social Security credits to qualify for benefits on your own record, you may be able to receive benefits on your spouse’s record.

To qualify for spouse’s benefits, you must be one of the following:

• 62 years of age or older or • any age and have in your care a child who is younger than age 16 or who is disabled and entitled to receive benefits on your spouse’s record.

Your full spouse’s benefit could be up to one-half the amount your spouse is entitled to receive at their full retirement age. If you choose to receive your spouse’s benefits before you reach full retirement age, you will get a permanently reduced benefit.

If you wait until you reach full retirement age to receive benefits, you’ll receive your full spouse’s benefit amount, which is up to half the amount your spouse can receive. You’ll also get your full spouse’s benefit if you are under full retirement age, but care for a child and one of the following applies: • the child is younger than age 16 or • the child has a disability and is entitled to receive benefits on your spouse’s record.

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Want to apply for either your or your spouse’s benefits? Are you at least 61 years and nine months old? If you answered yes to both, visit ssa.gov/benefits/retirement to get started today.

Are you divorced from a marriage that lasted at least 10 years? You may be able to get benefits on your former spouse’s record. You can find out more by visiting ssa.gov/planners/retire/divspouse.html for more informaP tion.

Nilsa Henriquez is a Social Security Public Affairs Specialist located in Queens.

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It’s graduation season, and that means checking the box on another milestone achieved for students across the country.

This year, Plaza College is celebrating its 104th Commencement, and with it, over 200 graduates adding a college degree to their resume and venturing off into their new careers.

The 2021 Commencement Ceremony will take place at Queens Theatre in the Park on August 1st. It’s the celebration that students, families, and educators alike look forward to each year, and the College is excited to be able to offer an in-person ceremony to its graduates this year. Congratulations Class of 2021!

But, that’s not all Plaza College has to celebrate this spring. To its School of Allied Health, the College is introducing its fi rst Associate of Science degree. The A.S. in Allied Health Science is a liberal arts-based degree program designed to successfully prepare students for further education in the healthcare field (calling you, future nurses!). Since most advanced healthcarerelated degrees start with the same thing – a strong foundational knowledge of the

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Multiple power generation companies in western Queens are vying for state approval to move to cleaner energy sources. Clint Plummer, CEO of Rise Light & Power, told the Chronicle last week that his company’s plan for the existing Ravenswood Generating Station in Long Island City has an advantage that others don’t.

The proposal, now before the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, is called the Catskill Renewable Program, in which the company would contract with wind and solar energy providers upstate.

“We will literally be tearing out old fossil fuel peaking units and in their place be constructing the new, clean energy infrastructure that will deliver renewable power from upstate New York,” he said in a telephone interview last Friday. “And we’ll reduce New York City’s dependence on fossil fuel.”

Plummer said the plan is to secure contracts with upstate wind and solar energy providers to lay a 1,200-watt transmission line underground and underwater to connect the Ravenswood site to the Capital region where it would tie into the bulk transmission infrastructure that distributes power throughout the Empire State.

“If you look at the north end of our site, you’ll see 1960s and 1970s fossil fuel units,” Plummer said. “Most have been decommissioned.” The rest will be shut down by 2023.

Rise expects NYSERDA to give a ruling on the application in the third or fourth quarter of this year. If approved, the company forecasts taking until about the end of 2023 to get the remainder of approvals that will be required by the state.

Construction then could begin on transmission lines and the new Ravenswood infrastructure could be completed for operation in either late 2026 or early 2027.

“We have a high degree of confidence that we will get that approval, because our project

is cost-effective,” Plummer said. “It’s designed to deliver environmental justice in that we’ll be delivering 15 percent of New York City’s energy supply with clean energy made in New York State. And through that, we’re delivering a great deal of economic development and job creation.”

A press release from the company on May 12 estimated $2 billion in economic development and up to 5,000 new clean energy jobs.

Plummer said the company right now is working to demonstrate that there would be customers for the electricity — typical customers would be Con Edison, commercial and industrial users and others who turn to the electricity market.

“That one’s critical because in the absence of having a customer a project of this magnitude can’t go forward,” he said, adding that Rise has been engaging in the engineering and other studies for over a year.

“We’re making a very significant investment right now in finishing marine route surveys that are necessary,” Plummer said. “We literally have boats on the water as we’re speaking, surveying on a foot-by-foot, every link in the chain basis, the entire route from the Ravenswood Station to the Capital district.”

In the May 12 release, Queens Chamber of Commerce CEO and President Tom Grech called the proposal “a bold opportunity for economic development, jobs, innovation and inclusive growth around the borough, as well as cleaner and healthier communities.”

Elizabeth Lusskin, president of the Long Island City Partnership, said it would help turn the neighborhood into a center for renewable energy.

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The South Queens Women’s March may have been knocked down by Covid-19, but it was not knocked out as the nonprofit wentt on to successfully launch its inaugural “Madee in Queens” art exhibit May 15 at King Manor orr Museum in Jamaica.

Inspired by the recent global and national naall women’s w wo om movements, Aminta Kilawan-Narine, the he ffounder fo ou un nd and director of SQWM, created her own wn intersectional in nte terrss women’s group that would march h in n Queens Q Qu uee ee and tackle gender-based causes.

“I was tired of seeing community members hosting “I sti t ng ng vvigils vi giillss to honor the lives of women who were lost g sstt to to gender-based ge g en violence,” said Kilawan-Narine. “So “So o I had ha ad this idea to organize a Women’s March in South Queens that looked and felt like us.”

The diverse volunteer group started with six women, according to Kilawan-Narine. It now has 50.

T “We started planning all of the logistical things,” said Kilawan-Narine. “We got the permit iissued, is ssss we developed posters that we were going to use and then the pandemic hit.”

Undeterred by the coronavirus, SQWM resolved to pivot its focus from a march to its mission to help the community of South Queens and to celebrate women of color. to “We ended up not being just connectors, but providers of resources,” said Kilawan-Narine.

SQWM mobilized to provide pandemic relief through period poverty campaigns providing feminine hygiene products to those in need and pop-up pantries for the food insecure, according to the founder.

“We are not a charity, what we do is solidarity work,” said Kilawan-Narine.

The community work that SQWM did was at King Manor Museum.

“What we have seen is that ar t spaces, museums and leadership are typically centered around the voices of white males, so we wanted to flip that on its head by creating and curating our own artwork,” said Kilawan-Narine.

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Jane Matilda Bolin was a trailblazer for Black women.

Bolin was born in Poughkeepsie, NY, on April 11, 1908 to Matilda and Gaius Bolin, the latter a lawyer, judge and president of the Duchess County Bar Association.

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Some spent the last year in sweatpants and watching TV to escape the tough reality of the pandemic. But some artists used the pain and isolation to create intense and beautiful bodies of work.

The CrossCurrent Contemporary Dance Virtual Festival at Flushing Town Hall celebrates six Asian-American choreographers, each of whom has a unique and vibrant story to tell through movement. The various pieces relay different messages and evoke different emotions, but a theme they all have in common is responding to the pandemic.

“What’s most exciting about this program is that the artists are really talented and are responding to what’s going on in the world and in their lives. It’s a very, very great experience,”said Ya Yun Teng, the Chinese projects director for FTH. “Through the artists’ stories, there’s a lot of, ‘OK, I learned about something new’ ... It’s easy to resonate with the stories.”

The June 11 festival, now in its seventh season, is produced by Nai-Ni Chen, a renowned choreographer and leader of one of the most successful Asian-American touring dance companies.

Each of the six choreographers has roots

The seventh annual CrossCurrents Contemporary Dance Festival will be streamed virPHOTO BY SYLVIA CHIANG / FTH tually this year via Flushing Town Hall’s YouTube channel. in different Asian heritages, evident through their dances, but the festival celebrates the diversity of being an Asian American, as well as the experience of being one.

Some performances, such as “Wanderer,” by Peter Cheng, and “Tigress,” by Julia Foti, question identity and dissonance between Asian and American cultures. Furthermore, “Unnotices,” by Fiona Tsang, explores the lack of representation of Asian

Americans in American history. The topic is timely as violence against Asian Americans rises throughout the country, especially in the wake of Asian American Pacific Islander Month, but will not be the reigning theme throughout the evening.

“We think it’s a topic that’s very important to be presented, but it’s not the only experience of Asian Americans,” Teng said.

“V/Nish,” by Maya Lam, tells the story

of the relationship between ephemerality and permanence in a world that values the physical and tangible over experience and feelings. After a stressful year, the performance offers a fleeting moment when audience members can forget the outside world and enjoy the show.

Similarly, “Lost in Translation,” by Chieh Hsiung, builds off the post-pandemic world and how individuals attempt to create relationships again, but continue to enjoy their loneliness. The overall message is that, “We are in this together, we will be alright.”

Finally, “Incomplete Journey,” by Seyong Kim, is a duet set to the music of Violin Concerto II by Philip Glass. Both were composed with the intention of allowing the obser ver to ma ke his or her own interpretation.

The contemporary dance festival will be followed by an artist discussion with Chen and several distinguished Asian-American dance artists: Peiju Chien-Pott, Miki Orihara and Maura Nguyen Donohue.

The free festival will be streamed live on Flushing Town Hall’s YouTube page, though audience members can RSVP to receive the stream link and reminder.

For more information on the CrossCurren Contemporary Dance Virtual Festival, visit flushingtownhall.org/2021-crosscurrent. Q

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Nonprofit celebrates South Queens through art

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The virtual gallery led to King Manor offering to host the exhibit.

Some of the artists in the exhibit include Seema Shakti (Astoria), Amy Simon (Hollis), Kim David (Woodhaven), Giancarlo Vargas (Ozone Park) and Juliet James (Jamaica).

“My artwork focuses on the divine feminine,” said Shakti, 32, a nonprofit educator of Pakistani and Guyanese descent. “It has certain elements that relates to my cultural background.”

The artwork by Simon, 34, is about Black femininity and mental health.

“I’m big on Blackness and Black women,” said Simon, whose parents are from Dominica. “I’m inspired by the different aspects of Black culture. I have one piece of a woman with green-colored Black-textured hair.”

Simon owns the Allure Art Studio at 19705 Jamaica Ave. “I’m a first-generation American,” said David, who is of Guyanese descent. “I created this brand called Tamarind Bred and through it I created art that really celebrates and captures unique nuances of the IndoCaribbean culture.”

David, 29, works in marketing.

Vargas is the son of immigrants from the

Artwork by Juliet James at King Manor Museum. On the cover: Clockwise from top left, works by Giancarlo Vargas, Amy Simon, Kim David and Seema Shakti. PHOTOS BY NAEISHA ROSE Dominican Republic and Cuba.

“I try to portray the plight of first-, second- and third-generation immigrants,” said Vargas, 38. “My work is about the struggles of assimilation and maintaining your roots.”

Vargas is a technical supervisor at Resorts World Casino.

“I did a self-love collection,” said James of her self-portraits. “They are body outlines that focus on color.”

James was a set designer for “The Drew Barrymore Show” and also worked on the limited series “Scenes From a Marriage,” Q which premiered on HBO in April.

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continued from page 27 “We have a partnership with King Manor.

We are a new organization and we don’t have a lot of space to do our programming.”

SQWM board member Fatima Shabbir curated the artwork for the exhibit.

“The idea came about in December 2020,” said Shabbir. “It grew into a virtual gallery in January 2021 because of Covid.

We couldn’t exhibit the pieces. So we showcased it on our website.”

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Notice of Formation of Uzafe Productions, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/15/2020. 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: JOHN UZOEFUNE, 6260 108TH STREET, SUITE 4A, FOREST HILLS, NY 11375. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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CARE AND PROTECTION, TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION, DOCKET NUMBER: 20CP0252FV, Trial Court of Massachusetts, Juvenile Court Department, COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, Bristol County Juvenile Court, 289 Rock Street, Fall River, MA 02720 TO: Unknown/ unnamed father, Bartholomew Soronio A petition has been presented to this court by DCF (Fall River), seeking, as to the following child, Aimee Nunez, that said child be found in need of care and protection and committed to the Department of Children and Families. The court may dispense the rights of the person(s) named herein to receive notice of or to consent to any legal proceeding affecting the adoption, custody, or guardianship or any other disposition of the child named herein, if it finds that the child is in need of care and protection and that the best interests of the child would be served by said disposition. You are hereby ORDERED to appear in this court, at the court address set forth above, on the following date and time 08/18/2021 at 9:00 AM Hearing on Merits (CR/CV) You may bring an attorney with you. If you have a right to an attorney and if the court determines that you are indigent, the court will appoint an attorney to represent you.

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222-01 LINDEN BOULEVARD LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/27/21.

Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 13 Gay Drive, Great Neck, NY 11024.

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Notice of Formation of CJ SQUARE HOLDINGS 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: JING J CAI, 77-11 167TH STREET, FRESH MEADOWS, NY 11366-1330.

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Notice of Formation of 2321 Blvd 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: RORY MCFARLANE, 129-25 154TH STREET, JAMAICA, NY 11434.

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536 50TH VOREA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/07/21. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 11-48 46th Road, Long Island City, NY 11101. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of Grape Law Firm PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on March 23, 2021. Office located in Queens County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC, 5742 156th St. Flushing, NY 11355. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LUMP SUM ENTERPRISE LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/12/2021. 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: LUMP SUM ENTERPRISE LLC, 4154 75TH STREET APT #5C, ELMHURST, NY 11373. Purpose: Bushwick, 6 Stanhope St, #3R. NO FEE. 1 MO FREE. 1 BR/1 bath.

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Notice of Formation of HWF, SS. Small pets OK. New M.INDS.: MERCHANT SERVICES LLC construction bldg. Avail Now. Call Articles of Organization were filed Stellina Napolitano, 646-372-7145 with the Secretary of State of New Capri Jet Realty York (SSNY) on 02/22/2021. Office Howard Beach/Lindenwood, 6 rms, location: Queens County. SSNY has 1 1/2 baths. No pets/smoking. New carpet. Credit ck. Proof of income. been designated as agent of the LLC $2,300/mo. 718-323-4552 upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy Williamsburg, 149 Leonard St, #1.

Studio. $1,800. Avail Now. NO of process to: COPIOUS INTEREST BROKER FEE. Heat & hot water LLC, 184-02 JAMAICA AVENUE, incl. Renovated apt, new kit, new UNIT 80, HOLLIS, NY 11423. bath. Call Stellina Napolitano 646-372-7145. Capri Jet Realty Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Beyond Sisters LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/04/2021. 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: BEYOND SISTERS LLC, 1425 POINT BREEZE PL, FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11691. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HE XING CUISINE LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/12/2021. 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: HE XING CUISINE LLC, 8326 BROADWAY, ELMHURST, NY 11373. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Martha Serves 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: CAROL CARRION, 84-50 AUSTIN STREET, APT. 5K, KEW GARDENS, NY 11415. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BOLDE HEARTS LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/05/2021. 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: LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC., 1967 WEHRLE DRIVE, SUITE 1 #086, BUFFALO, NY 14221. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of INSPIRED OPHTHALMOLOGY, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/13/21.

Office location: Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Elizabeth T. Viriya, 136-20 38th Ave., Ste. 5A, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: to practice the profession of Ophthalmology.

Notice of Formation of National Medical Examiners LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/11/21. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Jenna Schmidt, 949 Fish Hill Road, Coventry, RI 02816.

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PETS OK! Huge 2 BR, 1 new bath, PRE-WAR 9’ ceilings, wood/marble flrs. Co-op, 2 elev, in-unit washer/ dryer, L-shaped over lobby. 3 schools block away. Trains, buses, street parking. $435,000. Email: 8300news@mail.com or text: 718-704-4770 Classified Ad Deadline is 12 Noon on Tuesday for Thursday’s paper.

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Comm. Space For Rent Howard Beach, Cross Bay Blvd, commercial space for rent, 350 sq.ft., 2nd fl. plus heat & electric, all new tiles & new bathroom. $1,400/mo. Connexion RE, 718-845-1136

Legal Notices Notice of Formation of NxtUpCards LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/09/2021. 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: EDWARD GARCIA, 7162 71ST PL APT 3, GLENDALE, NY 11385. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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119-19 JAMAICA AVE., LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/17/10. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Yossi Assayag, 86-25 Lefferts Boulevard, Richmond Hill, NY 11418. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

with the SSNY on 05/27/21.

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No Noah this year?

Mets fans have become all too accustomed to seeing their beloved franchise get decimated by injuries, but 2021 has been a doozy even by pessimistic Flushing standards. Pitchers who undergo surgery especially seem to have trouble returning in a timely manner to Citi Field.

That certainly seems to be the case with Noah Syndergaard, who underwent Tommy John surgery in late March 2020. The conventional wisdom was he would be back in the Mets starting rotation sometime this month, and worst-case scenario, just after the All-Star break.

Syndergaard has been rehabilitating his right arm at the Mets’ Port St. Lucie, Fla., base. Last Tuesday he pitched one inning for their minor league team there and had to be removed because of elbow discomfort. The next day, medical imaging revealed his right elbow was inflamed, although happily, there was no ligament damage. Syndergaard will not be allowed to throw for another six weeks, which means under the most ideal of circumstances he won’t be returning to Flushing until early August. That timetable seems overly optimistic.

Syndergaard has not exactly been the most durable of pitchers. It’s fair to wonder if the “Thor” moniker, which the media and fans bestowed on him, has gone to his head. He has been a passionate devotee of weightlifting,

which he sees as an asset for throwing with high velocity. Many have speculated his obsessions with developing muscle tissue and throwing heat are the reasons he is a frequent habitue on what used to be called the disabled list.

Syndergaard is 29 and scheduled to be a free agent after next season. While he has had dominating performances, he was basically a .500 pitcher with a pedestrian earned run average over 4.00 in 2019, his last complete season. My advice to Mets owner Steve Cohen is not to rush a decision on a long-term contract.

Three cheers to the New York Knicks for announcing they would only sell tickets to patrons who are fully vaccinated against Covid19 if they were to make it past the Atlanta Hawks in the playoffs. Every pro sports team should adopt this philosophy, since vaccines are so available now that states and municipalities are offering incentives to attract holdouts.

A surprising number of athletes remain hesitant about getting the vaccine. I have yet to hear a concrete reason for their resistance aside from a mumbling about “personal choice.” Perhaps some players see not getting vaccinated as a way of keeping reporters out of their sacred locker room. Their agents should warn them, in no uncertain terms, team owners may be reluctant to employ them when their contracts expire. Q See the extended version of Sports Beat every week at qchron.com.

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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.

• Lindenwood • Spacious 2 bedroom, 2 bath with large living room with access to a large balcony, dining room with galley kitchen. Private hallway to full bath, master bedroom, second bedroom and second bath. Base Maint: $772.41, 3 AC’s: $45.00, Bulk Cable: $59.10, Dishwasher: $6.00, Fridge: $9.00, Security Cameras: $8.00, Energy Surcharge: $72.25, Capital Improvement Assessment: $47.91, Covid Assessment:(Until October 2021) $50.00= $1,069.67. 20% down payment, 578 shares, $20/ share fl ip tax. Parking: $30.00(waitlist).

Spacious 3 bedroom, 2 bath, nicely renovated kitchen, laminate floors thru-out, plenty of closets, master bedroom with bath, warm and inviting living room. Close to shopping, transportation, restaurants, park and playground.

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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• Forest Hills • Lovely, airy, high-vaulted ceilings which highlight incredible natural light from large windows on both sides of this roof-top co-op in Forest Hills Gardens. Unique architectural style. Nice open layout.

Kitchen has a butler’s pantry with plenty of storage. A must see!

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Make this Large mint top floor Co-op in Lindenwood your new home! Gorgeous light from southeast/ southwest exposures. Kit features granite countertops, stainless steel kit appliances and tile floor. 2 BRs/2 baths. FIVE closets (2 of them walk-in’s)! Hardwood floors throughout. Spacious L-shaped living/dining room with vertical blinds. Wi-Fi ready, secure elevator building with lobby and intercom, laundry on lobby level Maintenance includes gas, electric, heat, hot water, & parking can be added at $25.00 per month.

Well maintained building. Base Maint: $766.03, Electric:$38.00, Assessment: $23.39=$827.42.

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.

HOWARD BEACH OPEN HOUSE Sat., June 5th 1 & 3pm 156-26 95th Street

Mint AAA Colonial, 3 BRs, 2½ Baths, 43x100 lot, All New Construction, Large Master BR with Ensuite & Walk in Closet, Convenient Laundry Room on Top Flr, 1st All new mint AAA Ranch, 3 BR, 2½ baths, granite Flr Has Beautiful Kitchen, New Cabinets, countertops, S.S. appliances, new baths, full fin. bsmnt S.S. Appliances & Granite Countertops, Living Room, Formal Dining Room & Den. Asking $838K Must See! Asking $829K

ARVERNE CONDO FOR SALE

3 BR, 2 baths, all updated, 2nd floor,

$2,750/mo

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Call Janice 718-490-8023 Sat., 6/5 4-5pm 155-04 84th Street, Unit 4

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Townhouse - Ground Floor, 2 BRs, 1 Bath, All Updated Includes Washer Dryer.

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

Asking $355K

Asking $269K

HALF BLOCK TO BEAUTIFUL BEACH!

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

Asking $300K

GREENPOINT BROOKLYN

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

Asking $289K Legal 6 family, Six 2 Bedroom Apts.

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OZONE PARK/ CENTREVILLE

Mint 1 family Colonial, great location, new eatT! in-kit, cherry cabinets, AC TR S.S. Quartz counter, N O 3/4 BRs, Appliances, NC 2I full baths, fin. bsmnt, pvt entrance, 1 car det gar, pvt dvwy,

Asking $698,888

ROSEDALE

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

CTto Ideal for contractor R A or7+, T park multiple trucks ONdet. 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

Asking $2.9 Mil

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

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Call Janice 718-490-8023 Sat., 6/5 1-3pm 84-29 153rd Ave., Apt 3K

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