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The Yankees are on fire, but for once an old smoke-eater wasn’t concerned that the Bronx is burning. Former Howard Beach resident and retired FDNY firefighter Sal Reale instead was thrilled last Thursday when he visited his old firehouse in Elmhurst and was surprised by a visit from six of his beloved Bronx Bombers, above. The event was part of the Yanks’ HOPE Week initiative orchestrated by the Wish of a Lifetime organization.

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New NYPD regs for low-level marijuana Mayor, commissioner lay out plans for reducing criminal prosecutions

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ess than 24 hours after the state’s Department of Health issued a statement concluding that “the pros [of a regulated program of legalized marijuana] outweigh the cons,” Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O’Neill announced major changes to the city’s own policies.

Beginning Sept. 1, most people found smoking marijuana in public will be issued a criminal summons instead of facing arrest.

The recommendations are a result of the final report produced by the 30-Day Working Group on Marijuana Enforcement convened by O’Neill in May. The report projects a “likely” reduction of about 10,000 arrests per year based on 2017 arrest records and patterns.

“Nobody’s destiny should hinge on a minor non-violent offense,” de Blasio said in a joint statement with O’Neill. “Neighborhood policing has helped to bring officers and community together, but we still have more work to do to right the wrongs in the criminal justice system. This new policy will help reduce unnecessary arrests, while making our City fairer and safer.”

“We know that it is not productive to arrest people who have no prior criminal history,” O’Neill added. “In fact, it hampers our efforts

Mayor de Blasio, center, and NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill, second from right, on Tuesday unveiled new guidelines regulating public marijuana use that will go into effect in September.

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Pot smoking New Yorkers will still be subject to arrest if they are on probation or parole, if they have existing criminal warrants, don’t have identification, have a recent documented history of violence, or their smoking poses an immediate public safety risk — such as while driving a car.

Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton), chairman of the Public Safety Committee, hailed the move as “the first step in rectifying decades of targeted enforcement of low-level marijuana offenses in communities of color.”

“The state DOH’s statement said while its report is being finalized, there is ample reason to support moving to some sort of regulated program for legal marijuana use and distribution.

“Our border states have already legalized marijuana or are in the process of doing so,” according to the DOH. “... The report also concludes that should a regulated program be implemented, special consideration will need to be given to a number of factors including the age of who can purchase marijuana, who can grow and distribute it, the location of dispensaries, and at what rate the product would be taxed. The report raises a number of continued on page 40

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‘A light at the end of the tunnel’ Long-delayed OP Project HWQ411B may wrap this year; some skeptical

by Mark Lord Chronicle Contributor

After nearly four decades, the wait may finally be over.

“I thought I wouldn’t be alive to see this project done,” Ozone Park Civic Association President Howard Kamph said following a meeting of the organization Tuesday night.

“A lot of my neighbors are not here to see it.”

He was referring to Project #HWQ411B, the reconstruction of Albert Road in Ozone Park, which was proposed as far back as Mayor Ed Koch’s time in office — his first term — nearly 40 years ago.

And while Kamph believes there is now “a light at the end of the tunnel,” completion is still at least six months away.

At the meeting, Vladimir Poux, community construction liaison for the Department of Design and Construction, indicated that up to 94 percent of the water mains and 88 percent of the combined sewers have already been installed.

On Monday, restoration will begin on 149th Avenue from Centreville Street to Cross Bay Boulevard, beginning with the curbs, followed by the sidewalks and the streets, he said.

And then came the announcement that many were waiting to hear: “Technically, the project is supposed to end December 2018,” Poux said.

The declaration prompted one concerned

City official Vladimir Poux addressed the Ozone Park Civic Association Tuesday. PHOTO BY MARK LORD area resident, reflecting the skepticism of many of the estimated 50 people in attendance, to say, “Not going to happen.”

The project area, bounded by 135th Avenue and Linden Boulevard to the north, Cross Bay Boulevard to the west, Aqueduct Race Track to the east and North Conduit Avenue to the south, included “many infrastructure upgrades,” such as the replacement of existing sanitary sewers, installation of catch basins and roadway reconstruction, according to a recent DDC newsletter. Additional upgrades will include installation of

water mains, street lighting and traffic signals, and tree pruning, the publication said.

The DDC issued warnings of “increased levels of dust, noise and heavy equipment” during construction hours. It also said vehicular travel lane closures will be required, as well as detours, while emergency vehicle access and pedestrian access to sidewalks and buildings would be maintained at all times.

For years, residents have been frustrated by frequent delays in the project, including those alleged to have been caused by the need for the city to acquire land from homeowners in order to build new sidewalks.

Among the affected was Frances Aufiero, who explained at Tuesday’s meeting that she has been waiting five years to find out what is going on with her property.

“Nobody talks to me,” she said. “Nobody has the decency to even answer one question.”

Salvatore Tufano complained that his house vibrates every time a vehicle goes by, the result of uneven hardware installed in the road and poor quality temporary asphalt that was laid following construction on his block in January of last year.

“We’d like them to smooth out the road,” he said after the meeting, expressing concern that the hazardous driving conditions were a danger to the children attending PS 377, a school that opened in September.

“The last thing we need is for someone to lose control” of a vehicle, he said.

It was actually the construction of the school that “kick-started this project to get started,” Kamph said. “The new school required sewers and water.”

Addressing many of the complaints was a man who identified himself only as a “consultant engineer for the city.”

He assured Aufiero that if the stairs in front of her house needed to be reconstructed as a result of work on the project, they would be ... and at no cost to her.

Afterward, she wondered, “Did I have to wait five years to hear it? God forbid we get a bill after all this. Then what would we do?”

The engineer promised Tufano that when the job is completed, his house will no longer rattle.

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“I know it’s certainly possible,” Tufano Q said. “Is it probable? No.”

Crime still down; cop tracks hit-run driver

by David Russell

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Major crimes are down 23.3 percent in the past 28 days in the 102nd precinct according to Commanding Officer Courtney Nilan.

“The last meeting we had, I said there was an uptick in crime,” Nilan, a captain, said at the community council meeting at the Richmond Hill Library on Tuesday night. “I knew it was going to be an anomaly. I knew it wasn’t going to be something that was going to continue that way.”

Nilan explained the impressive numbers. “A lot of it has to do with precision policing,” she said. “Me and my staff will look at where clusters in the past may have happened or where shootings might have happened in the past or where, if a bunch of robberies are happening in a certain section, we’ll deploy extra personnel or cars in those sections to help combat that.”

For the year, major crimes have

gone down by 11 percent. The only crime which didn’t decrease in the last month was the number of stolen cars, which increased by one.

“Lock your cars, don’t leave your keys in your cars, don’t leave your cars running,” Nilan said, as police frequently have to do.

The number of car thefts tends to increase once the weather gets warmer and more people are outside. There had been isolated car sprees in different areas. Nilan said that they were able to lock up a few recidivists who had been known to commit these crimes in the past, and that they’re still in jail.

Grand larceny scheme crimes have gone down in the precinct.

There had been an uptick of these crimes in April with callers saying they were part of the IRS and that they should be sent money or gift cards. “If any agency is asking you to send gift card information, it’s not a legit agency,” Nilan said.

Nilan had one victim come to

the precinct with a story that he was contacted on Facebook by someone who wasn’t a friend, telling him that he won $75,000 but he would have to wire someone in Nigeria $5,000 and then he would be sent the check. After wiring the money and then seeing the Facebook account of the stranger was no longer there, he went to the precinct still believing he would get his money.

“The only way we’re going to prevent it is if we start telling each other about it because you can’t really prevent that crime,” Nilan said on Tuesday.

There have been no shootings in the precinct in nearly two months, and the two it has seen this year stemmed from fights in clubs. The precinct is making more of an effort to work on joint operations with the State Liquor Authority by having law enforcement in the clubs.

Officer Jimmy Centeno was honored as Cop of the Month. Sev-

eral weeks ago, a woman in a fender bender f led the scene of the accident and lost control of her car, driving into the gate at MS 210.

She got out of the car and gave her 1-year-old to the nearest stranger.

She then took off running despite wearing just one flip-flop.

Trying to identify the woman was difficult with the New Jersey plates not coming back to her, and the detectives on the scene were stumped. Centeno went into the car and found a bill of sale and a phone number, which turned out to be the dealer who sold the car. Centeno got a number the dealer had for the woman, and while doing all this on the street with cell phones, ran the number. A picture of the woman came up, and was brought to Elmhust Hospital, where the man she had hit in the crash was able to identify the picture.

That night, the woman confessed on the Channel 7 News that she committed the crimes and that she

Capt. Courtney Nilan PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL

was going to Jamaica Hospital before she turned herself in, so that she could check on her child, the one she gave to a complete stranger.

She also changed her clothes before and after the interview, and also made sure to record her own interview on TV. Centeno sent personnel to the hospital and the woman was arrested for a number of crimes. Q

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Trump to end family separation practice Two New York representatives paid a visit to NJ ICE center on Sunday

by Derrell J. Bouknight and Christopher Barca Chronicle Contributor and Editor

After days of widespread public outrage over the White House’s practice of separating children from their parents who were caught trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday ending the controversial approach.

Over the last week, images and audio of crying children detained in cage-like structures within abandoned box stores — some White House officials had said the policy was a “deterrent” to illegal immigration — had been labeled “fascist” and “immoral” by leaders on both sides of the political aisle.

Trump had hinted Tuesday he would potentially take action to end the practice, which had led to more than 2,300 kids being separated from their parents. His Wednesday executive order said the new policy of his administration would be to “maintain family unity.”

“We are keeping a very powerful border and it continues to be zero tolerance,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “We have zero tolerance for people that enter our country illegally.”

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Lawmakers try to get inside a New Jersey ICE detention facility.

Reps. Carolyn Maloney, speaking, and Hakeem Jeffries, in blazer and sunglasses, were two of a handful of lawmakers to visit an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facility in New Jersey PHOTOS COURTESY U.S. HOUSE last Sunday. false reasons as to why family separations were still occuring — including that Democrats were to blame, it was Biblically justified, only Congress had the power to address the situation and even that the practice itself did not exist.

Before the order was signed, multiple lawmakers in both chambers of Congress had introduced legislation to halt the approach — which was announced in April by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

As of press time on Wednesday, House Republicans were planning to bring a number of immigration-related bills to the floor for a vote, but they were expected to fail.

But House members also spent last weekend traveling to Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities across the country, including one detention center in Elizabeth, NJ that Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Queens, Brooklyn) and Carolyn Maloney (D-Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan) visited last Sunday.

Just before 8 a.m., Maloney tweeted that ICE was granting the lawmakers access into the New Jersey center after the group dealt with police there for over an hour.

After meeting with five men who left their home countries to escape gang violence, Maloney went on to say that they have yet to receive updates on the status of their families.

“This must stop,” Maloney tweeted.

“We’re calling to end this policy and demand hearings to hold this [administration] accountable for their inhumanity.”

In a statement sent to the Chronicle on Monday, Jeffries reiterated several of his thoughts from the surprise Father’s Day visit. He also elaborated on the policy’s impact on immigrant families and called for its termination.

“Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions made a cold-hearted, callous and calculated decision to rip vulnerable children from the arms of their parents,” he said. “This immoral policy is unacceptable, un-Ameri-

can and unconscionable. Republicans control the House, Senate and the Presidency.

They are staining our democracy and scarring our children for life.”

In a statement released on her Facebook page, Maloney spoke of her experience at the detention center. One of her goals is to discontinue funding for the policy. Next week, she and other lawmakers will hold a shadow hearing in Congress.

“This country has a proud history of being a safe harbor and beacon of light for the world’s oppressed and threatened peoples,” Maloney said in the statement.

“President Trump’s decision to act with cruelty instead of compassion is an affront to our values and what this country should stand for.”

The government says family separation only occurs when immigrants enter the country without authorization and seek to evade the authorities, but not when they present themselves at the border and seek asylum.

Late last week, the White House issued a statement regarding “dangerous immigration policies” it blamed on Democrats while also criticizing “open borders.”

“We must restore integrity and the rule of law at our borders,” Trump said.

The White House also pointed to several instances of crimes committed by illegal immigrants, most notably the 2015 murder of Kate Steinle in San Francisco.

The administration also slammed the House Democrats who last year voted against Kate’s Law, legislation that would have raised the manditory minimum prison sentences for previously deported illegal immigrants with felony convictions who were caught after re-entering the United States.

On Tuesday, Trump met Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

According to The New York Times and other publications, first lady Melania Trump — who was supposedly appalled by the images of the children in cage-like structures — was key in lobbying the president to take action to end the family sepaQ ration practice.

Cross Bay toll repeal looks doomed again

by Michael Gannon Editor

When the state Assembly last week passed a bill by Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) to eliminate tolls on the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge, Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) proclaimed it as “a big win for South Queens.”

With the 2018 state Legislative session drawing to a close on Wednesday evening, it looked unlikely that the state Senate would pass a measure of its own

that would be needed before it could be sent to Gov. Cuomo to be signed into law.

Unless the Senate comes to a lastminute agreement after the Chronicle’s deadline on Wednesday, Pheffer Amat o’s b i l l a p p e a r s t o h a v e b e e n torpedoed.

Neither Pheffer Amato nor state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), who was backing the companion legislation on the Senate side, could be reached for comment prior to the Chronicle’s deadline on Wednesday evening.

The bridge connects Broad Channel and Rockaway. The toll is $4.25 each way for those who do not have an E-ZPass. A ride with a resident E-ZPass is $1.41 per trip.

In a statement issued last week after her bill won approval in the Assembly, Pheffer Amato said the toll has long outlasted its original purpose of paying for the cost of the bridge’s construction. She also wrote that it was the first bill of its kind to ever pass in either Q chamber.

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P Cycling, street safety, harassment and the war on cars EDITORIAL

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f you’re taking flak, you know you’re over the target.

And so it is with this page and one of the most controversial transportation issues in Queens: the installation of bike lanes for the sake of riders’ safety at the expense of drivers and businesses, especially mom-and-pop shops.

Last week’s main editorial lamented the pending closure of Ben’s Best Delicatessen in Rego Park, which the owner chalked up to a sharp decline in business following the installation of the Queens Boulevard bike lanes where parking spots had been. We don’t deny that other factors likely played a role. But the piece also criticized bike lane advocates for their disregard for the unintended consequences of street redesign, and, apparently, for anyone unable or unwilling to use a bicycle as a primary means of transportation.

And so we took flak from the cycling community, plenty of it. Some of it you see here in the Letters section; some of it just resides in comments on our website. Ben’s Best owner Jay Parker also got slammed. So did Community Board 2 for its 27-8 vote against yet another bike lane plan that would remove scores of parking spaces from a business district.

And now the heat is being directed at City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz, who dropped her support for the Queens

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Boulevard bike lane project after seeing the results in one part of her district. Koslowitz actually had planned a rally against the lanes but canceled it out of quite reasonable concern that the bike crowd would “sabotage” it. She said she and her colleagues are being subjected to “unbelievable” “harassment” from the advocates. The cyclists are also furious with Community Board 6, which just voted 22-12 against the next phase of the project after backing the prior one. Like Koslowitz, the members have now seen the results.

Bike lane zealots think it’s OK to go after those who don’t ride in lockstep with them because they hold the moral high ground. How could you oppose safer streets? Yet in two of three recent cyclist fatalities in Queens that they cite as showing the need for street redesign, protected lanes would not have made a difference. In Sunnyside, a cyclist was killed in an intersection, where no barrier could be placed, by an unlicensed drunk driver. In Douglaston, a man was killed while riding in the left lane of Northern Boulevard.

No bicycle belongs there, ever. Cyclists should always stay to the right absent a bike lane. (Now there is one on that very stretch of roadway, and the community is still protesting it.)

In the third and most recent fatal crash, a man was killed

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Lives over parking Dear Editor: It was odd to see “ideologue,” “zealotry,” and “absolutism,” in an editorial of this paper used to describe those working to make sure that no one, “riding a bicycle is hit by a car, truck or bus and killed[.]” (“Bike lanes: a bane of businesses,” June 14).

Indeed, no pedestrian, cyclist, or car occupant has died since 2014 on the portions of Queens Boulevard improved by the Department of Transportation, but bizarrely, that crucial piece of information was not mentioned in the editorial. Through Vision Zero, our city seeks to end traffic fatalities by 2024, and while DOT’s numbers clearly indicate that the improvements are working, reducing injuries 21 percent for those in cars and 55 percent for pedestrians in the first phase of the project, there are those who dispute that reducing injuries and deaths is the most important consideration when designing our streets.

The editorial leveled no criticism against opponents of safer streets, some of whom have sickeningly adopted the mantra “Not one parking spot lost,” and display the same zeal for saving parking spots as we show for saving lives. Prioritizing life over parking spaces gives us the “unassailable moral high ground,” and fortunately the editorial board agrees that we who do so “have a point,” but until elevation of opponents’ parking convenience above all else © Copyright 2018 by MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. All rights reserved.

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when someone opened the door of a parked car, he hit it, flipped and was run over by a truck. That’s a horrific thing to have happen, no question about it. Maybe cyclists, when they have to ride so close to parked cars, should slow down enough so getting “doored” would not have such an impact.

That’s another issue with adamant bikers — they seem to think that, unlike drivers and pedestrians, they shouldn’t have to slow down or stop. Of course they run red lights. But they also freak if someone stops a car in a painted bike lane, however briefly, to pick up or drop someone off, for example. That, they say, puts them in danger because they have to merge into traffic. What if they instead stopped and looked and entered the car lane only when it was safe to do so?

Actually, some of them do stop — solely so they can photograph the stopped car’s license plate and upload it to a Twitter feed that then spits out a list of tickets issued against that vehicle. Today they just post comments about the driver — and some do have a disgusting ticket history — but eventually they want the government to use this information to take away licenses and registrations. And yet some claim there’s no war on cars. Sure looks like there is. Question is, can there be a peace agreement all sides could live with?

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is seen for the selfishness that it is, more New Yorkers will die on our city’s streets.

It’s unfortunate that Mr. Parker’s business is closing, but his restaurant is yet another deli to close after many hundreds before it.

We who want safer streets do not cheer the loss of his business and the livelihoods of his employees, but we challenge the uncritical acceptance of his narrative that the bike lanes are the sole cause of his business’ demise by those already inclined to criticize the safety redesign. There has been no rush to credit the lanes for the recent opening of a new restaurant, Shashlichnaya, two doors down from Ben’s Best. To opponents of safer streets, bike lanes are only ever a problem and never a solution or opportunity.

I can’t speak for members of Community Board 6 Queens, but I joined my board to make our neighborhoods and our city better,

safer places. While I am likely the youngest member of my board, I can proudly say that members of all ages on my board understand the much greater importance of life and health as compared to parking.

Brian Howald Brooklyn

Bikes not to blame Dear Editor: This editorial would have been much more convincing if it had been based on fact — even just one single real fact — rather than pure speculation. I don’t doubt that Mr. Parker sincerely believes his business is down solely because of a “loss of parking.” That’s what he tells the Chronicle, and the Chronicle, apparently without any further checking, presents that as a fact.

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This is your brain on pot Dear Editor: I wish to commend His Excellency Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio for his episcopal letter, Marijuana Is Very Dangerous, (The Tablet, June 16, p. 4), and to briefly cite some earlier scientific evidence on the cognitive deficits associated with marijuana smoking. Block, et al. reported acute effects of marijuana smoking on cognition, such as a significant impairment in learning, altered associative processes and illogicality of thought (Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior. 1992, 40: 907-917).

Also, Abood and Martin reported impaired memory and deficits in concept formation, attention, learning and signal detection (Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences. 1992. 13: 26).

Cannabinoid receptors are dense in the hippocampus of the brain, which explains the disruption of memory, memory storage and sensory coding. Solowij, et al. showed long-term deleterious effects of cannabis use on selective attention in terms of a dysfunction in the allocation of attentional resources for focus and filtering out irrelevant information (Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Behavior. 1991. 40:683).

Long-term use impairs information processing and may potentiate the attentional deficits of attentional disorders, such as ADHD, in childhood and adolescence.

As both a bishop and social worker, Bishop DiMarzio speaks well of the adverse effects of marijuana on the mental health of youth and adults. Particularly alarming is the strong association between adolescent use with the development of the psychotic disorder of schizophrenia in adulthood. Jaffe reported that marijuana is an independent risk factor for the development of schizophrenia (Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. 1990: p. 551). continued on next page

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Dear Editor: (An open letter to Assemblyman David Weprin) I read in your Spring 2018 Report to the Community that you passed a $168.3 billion budget for which you seem very proud. I am, however, angry and sad that instead of an increase you did not report a $2 billion reduction in the budget.

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Is there no other possible reason business is down? Maybe changing tastes? Maybe longtime customers moving away? Not even a possibility it’s anything but parking? Geez. (In an article in another publication, Parker himself noted that “around the time the deli opened in the 1940s, there were nearly 1,500 kosher delis in New York City. Today there are only about 12 left.”) But Ben’s is going out of business only because of parking. Right.

Mr. Parker’s speculation about the effect of bike lanes seems itself to be based on some quite unconvincing statements. He recently said: “People come in, drive for 30 minutes and can’t find parking, so they go somewhere else.” Really? Really? I’ve had Ben’s pastrami, and it’s good. But do people really drive around Rego Park for a full halfhour, then give up in despair and go home?

Even the MTA can get me to Ben’s in a lot less time than that.

And it seems odd that Ben’s customers can’t, or won’t, go there by any means except driving a car. Nobody walks, nobody arrives by subway or bus, and for sure nobody rides a bicycle there. C’mon, Chronicle. If there’s a problem worth editorializing about, at least check to see if there’s really a problem.

In its editorial, the Ch ronicle even acknowledges that cars kill people and bicyclists don’t. But it calls that argument for bike lanes “absolutism” that is not “democratic.”

Maybe when it comes to killing people, a little absolutism is OK. Tom Newby Sunnyside

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Letters continued from previous page In view of Mayor de Blasio’s public policies on education and mental health, it is absolutely irrational to decriminalize and legalize a toxic substance that is a public health hazard to users as well as nonusers.

If Comptroller Scott Stringer thinks it is sound public policy to legalize a recreational marijuana industry for tax revenue, he should be fired immediately.

Joseph N. Manago Flushing The writer is a molecular cell biologist.

God’s and Caesar’s Dear Editor: Attorney General Jeff Sessions quoted the same Biblical passage to justify current immigration policies that was used to justify slavery by saying that the laws of the gover n ment should be followed because they are ordained by God. Someone should ask the hypocrite, if the quoted passage reflects God’s will, why didn’t the former Confederate States of America comply with the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution, which were the laws of the land?

Glenn Hayes Kew Gardens

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Fact is, Trump’s terrible Dear Editor: Let me address each one of Lenny Ro d i n’s “opi n ion s” ( “ W h at ab out Obama?”, Letters, June 14) with something foreign to Trump supporters: facts!

1. Obama may have had a “verbal war” (called out their lies) with Fox News (Trump’s official “news” channel). But Trump directly threatens freedom of the press, suggesting taking away news networks’ press credentials over “negative” coverage. Threatening that NBC “might” lose its broadcast licenses if critical stories detailing his behavior (insanity) continue.

2. Trump blames immigration laws for removing infants (over 2,000 kids so far) from their parents on Democrats. Yet the law, imposed by Trump, is being strictly enforced by Jeff Sessions with the “backing” of Bible verses. What kind of God takes infants away as punishment for the parents trying to save their lives by escaping deadly conditions in their treacherously impoverished “sh--hole” countries? You know who else removed children from their parents at “detention” centers? Nazis. The fact of the matter is Trump can end this policy with a simple phone call.

3. The Iran Nuclear deal (whether you agree with it or not), with hundreds of pages of meticulous documentation and detailed regulations, signed by France, China, Germany, the European Union, the UK, Russia and the U.S. was not “good enough” for Trump. But a simple handshake with Kim Jong-un (a dictator who endorses state-sponsored murder, torture, starvation, enslavement, rape, executions and forced abortions) and North Korea is to be trusted?

Trump let the world know he would be

able to judge whether Kim Jong-un was being truthful. How? Research? Detailed input from highly informed advisers? No. It’s “I don’t have to prepare very much, it’s about attitude.” Trump said he’ll use “his touch, his feel.” Trump arrived back in the U.S. after his “deal” with Kim with the smug look of an ignorant fool proclaiming historical success for what is actually a colossal waste of taxpayer money, all for an evening in Singapore. Trump referred to Kim as “very honorable.” The same Trump that dishonored John McCain by saying he wasn’t a war hero because he was captured.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a dangerous imbecile in the Oval Office. But I see how some might still believe Trump’s lies and blindly ignore facts. That is, if you’ve been kicked in the head repeatedly by a donkey and your television is stuck on Fox “news.”

4. Trump says he can pardon himself for any crime. His lawyer (for now) Rudy Giuliani actually said Trump could shoot Comey and he could not be prosecuted. If that’s not the description of a dictator, what is?

5. Lastly, Obamacare. For a Republican to criticize the ACA while continuing to blindly support a president whose budget cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security (as a result removing over 32 million people from receiving adequate healthcare) is the definition of “obtuse.”

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Borders and abortion Dear Editor: (An open letter to Laura Bush) Please know that I have been a supporter of you and your husband, and voted for him. I was very sorry when he left office, especially in knowing his pro-life position.

My heart was broken for eight years during President Obama’s time in office, watching the radical support he expressed for abortion and the expansion of the same, even his demand that taxpayers pay for abortions under Obamacare.

Today, though, I am deeply distressed and angered at your outspoken position against President Trump and his enforcement of the immigration law, a law not passed by his administration but one that has been on the books for years. If there is outrage at enforcement of the law of the land, why doesn’t Congress change it?

You have played into the hands of the liberal media who would like nothing more than to focus the attention on an emotional issue, not a factual one. If parents are really concerned about keeping their families intact, why would they enter the country illegally? We are a nation of immigrants (my grandparents included) who came here through a legal process and became citizens.

I wish you had taken a stand when it was revealed that Planned Parenthood (an organization which has received millions of taxpayer dollars) was selling baby parts. We have become no better than the Nazis. But I guess that isn’t as popular a position as getting on the “anti-Trump” bandwagon.

Sharon Roser Howard Beach

A guide to Tuesday’s federal primary races Reps. Joe Crowley, Carolyn Maloney and Greg Meeks all have challengers

by Christopher Barca Editor

In a deep-blue city like New York, Democratic primaries are the ones that grab the most headlines — the winners in many districts almost always cruise to victory against token or sometimes nonexistent Republican opponents in November’s general election.

On Tuesday, only three sitting members of Congress who represent parts of the borough — Reps. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx), Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn) and Greg Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) — will face challengers.

But two of those races have garnered national attention in recent months.

So before you cast your vote on Tuesday — polls are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. — familiarize yourself with those on the ballot who want to return to Washington, DC and the individuals who want to send them packing.

Rep. Joe Crowley is being challenged by Bronx activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. FILE PHOTOS

corporate donors than his constituents.

She has made many progressive ideals staples of her campaign, including a federal jobs guarantee, Medicare for all, tuition-free college and the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) is the only federal lawmaker to endorse Ocasio-Cortez — he also “dual endorsed” Crowley. Additionally, she has the backing of state attorney general candidate Zephyr Teachout — who formerly 14th Congressional District It’s been 14 years since Crowley last had to ran for governor and Congress — and nationcompete in a Democratic primary. And forc- wide progressive groups such as Our Revoluing his hand this year is 28-year-old Bronx tion and the Democratic Socialists of progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a for- America.

The race for the 14th Congressional District mer volunteer on the 2016 presidential cam— which includes Sunnyside, Woodside, paign of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Corona, Jackson Heights, East ElmThe Queens Democratic Party hurst, College Point, northern Astochairman and 10-term congressman ria and northwest Maspeth, as well figures to be a formidable candias the eastern Bronx — has gotten date at the ballot box, as Crowley personal at times. raised 11 times more money than Last month, the candidates took his activist challenger — $3.36 shots at each other over who was million to just $313,000 — and the first to support a $15 federal secured the support of dozens of 2018 minimum wage. federal, state and city lawmakers.

Over the course of the campaign, 12th Congressional District Crowley has positioned himself as someone No primary challenger in a Queens district who will protect his many immigrant constituents from a Trump administration that has has had more success fundraising than East Village resident Suraj Patel, who has brought “attacked” them “almost on a daily basis.”

A top candidate for speaker of the House in a little over $1 million in his race against should the Democrats retake the chamber in Maloney — a 13-term incumbent who raked November, Crowley has also been outspoken in $1.3 million in contributions.

The son of Indian immigrants who was on protecting the Affordable Care Act and passing gun reform legislation in the wake of raised in southern Mississippi, the 34-year-old Patel is a former Obama administration staffer repeated school shootings.

But Ocasio-Cortez, challenging Crowley who is now an adjunct professor of business from the left, has blasted him as being far too ethics at NYU. He’s called for a change in leadership, tellmoderate and more interested in serving his ing the Chronicle this spring that Maloney “has not produced a substantial piece of legislation in a decade” and has “not led intellectually, boldly or progressively anywhere.”

Some of his main priorities if elected, he said, would be to enact criminal justice reforms, such as changing mandatory prison sentencing rules, defund ICE and introduce a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United — the Supreme Court ruling that Suraj Patel has raised $1 million in his effort allows corporations to donate unlimited continued on page 40 FILE PHOTOS to unseat Rep. Carolyn Maloney.

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NYC ‘Styrofoam’ ban coming in early 2019 Working towards becoming one of the greenest cities in the nation

by Bre’Anna Grant Chronicle Contributor

Mayor de Blasio announced last Wednesday that the city’s ban on Styrofoam-like products will go into effect

by Jan. 1, 2019, following the dismissal of a lawsuit preventing its implementation.

“New York City’s ban on Styrofoam is long overdue, and New Yorkers are ready to start using recyclable alternatives,” de Blasio said. “There’s no reason to continue allowing this environmentally unfriendly substance to flood our streets, landfills, and waterways.”

That means food-service establishments, stores and manufacturers may not possess, sell or offer for use single-service expanded polystyrene foam food-service articles or loose fill packaging, such as “packing peanuts,” in New York City beginning in 2019. Over the next six months, the de Blasio administration will work with businesses across the city to ensure they understand the law and help them transition to new materials to replace foam products.

“It’s a great victory for public health,” said Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Enviroment. “Business owners should be more aware of what they’re serving to customers.”

Esposito gave up the material over 20 years ago when pieces of a cup dissolved into her tea.

“I want to drink from a cup, not the cup,” Esposito said. “Owners are not only responsible for serving healthy food but also healthy containers.”

Although commonly called Styrofoam, items like those cups are actually made of a somewhat different material.

Local Law 142, passed by the City Council in December 2013, required the DSNY commissioner to determine whether EPS singleservice articles can be recycled in an “economically feasible” and “environmentally effective” way. Under the law, if the commissioner found that EPS was not recyclable, foam foodservice items and packaging peanuts would then be banned.

“As we had previously determined, plain and simple, expanded polystyrene cannot be recycled, and we are pleased that the court decision will allow us to remove this problematic material from our waste stream. This necessary step will help us as we continue to move towards our goal of sending zero waste to landfills,” said Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia in a statement. “We will now restart our outreach and education work to ensure all city businesses are aware of the n e w r u le , a n d p r e p a r e d fo r it s u p c o m i n g implementation.”

Nonprofits and small businesses with less than $500,000 in revenue per year may apply for hardship exemptions from the city’s Department of Small Business Services if they can prove that the purchase of alternative products not composed of EPS would create undue financial hardship. SBS will begin accepting applications for hardship waivers in the fall.

“I am fairly certain that there are alternatives people can use,” said Queens Chamber of Commerce Thomas Grech. “The greening of the world is a process.”

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City champ!

Howard Beach native Shane Mugnolo helped lead his high school basebal team, Xaverian HS, to a New York City Catholic High School Championship.

Mugnolo had a perfect season on the mound for the Clippers in 2018 with a 9-0 record and 83 strikeouts to lead all Catholic schools in the area.

Moreover, Mugnolo has not lost a game since being promoted to the varsity team two years ago. He even held a 0.00 earned run average as a junior. Just yesterday, Mugnolo was named secondteam All-City by the CHSA A for his efforts. This local product will be playing next season for SUNY-Cortland.

Hometown hero turns 103 Ulyses Jackson, a resident of Jamaica, is shown surrounded by his family as he marked his 103rd birthday on June 15.

The South Caroline native served with the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II. According to his daughter, Shelley Jackson, her father remembers hand-cranked cars and saw lynchings in the South.

He was an avid golfer and baseball fan, and after moving to Harlem was a regular with his brother at places like the Apollo Theater, the Savoy and the Cotton Club.

State Sen. James Sanders last week sent Jackson a congratulatory birthday letter.

The Senate also passed a resolution honoring him in Albany on Tuesday.

A former NYPD detective assigned to the 106th Precinct in Ozone Park pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a charge of official misconduct.

According to District Attorney Richard Brown, 44-year-old Nassau County resident Thomas Rice made false or misleading statements on 11 official police report forms from January to April 2013.

The cases he was investigating involved vehicle break-ins where property was taken. Brown said Rice closed the investigations without performing his due diligence.

The now-former detective listed nonexistent addresses as places he had interviewed witnesses and included the same names multiple times. The name Harry Sadhadeo was listed six times — twice as a male and four times as female. It is believed these were fictitious witnesses made up to include in the reports.

Last month, according to Brown, Rice was demoted from detective to police officer, suspended and forced to retire.

The Long Island man was sentenced to a conditional discharge and waived his Q right to appeal.

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Sal Reale’s wish of a lifetime comes true Former firefighter comes ‘home’ to find the Yankees waiting for him

by Christopher Barca

A few months ago, shortly after he moved into the new residence, Reale haphazardly here’s no such thing as a quick chat filled out an entry form for Wish of a Lifewith Sal Reale. If the former FDNY time, the Denver-based organization that firefighter and Howard Beach resi- provides financial support for senior citident gets within earshot of you, he’ll tell you zens looking to cross items off their proverbial bucket lists. stories until his voice gives out.

“You can see how well I bulls--t. It’s easy And if you ever run into him down in Seminole, Fla., where the 87-year-old has to put that to paper,” Reale joked, saying he lived for the last four decades, be aware. never thought he would be selected. “So I The story he’s going to tell you about June wrote up a story about the Yankees and the firehouse.”

14, 2018 will be one for the ages.

Come last Tuesday, Reale, his son, Nick, Last Thursday was nearly 61 years to the day when Reale — born and raised in the and his grandson, also named Nick, found Bronx not far from Yankee Stadium — first themselves on a flight to New York — the first time he had been back to the city in joined the FDNY. For the next two decades — “20 years, more than 20 years.

After an emotional trip to the 9/11 two months and a day, let’s not miss that!”

— the vast majority of his days were spent Memorial on Wednesday, the three men within the walls of Engine Co. 287/Ladder arrived at the Elmhurst firehouse shortly after 12 p.m. on Thursday for what the Co. 136 at 86-53 Grand Ave. in Elmhurst.

And by his admission, the firehouse eldest Reale thought would just be a simple where he would laugh with his colleages one tour of his old haunt.

If that’s all Thursminute and rush out day was, Reale said, to a call the next would have gone looks a lot different think this is something he home a happy man. now than it did then.

“I figured I would But in making his that’s going to warm have walked in with first visit to the station his heart forever.” my son and have a since he retired and meet-and-greet with moved down south in — Nick Reale the guys that were on the late 1970s, Reale’s duty,” he said. “I was obser vat ions were much more astute than just modern fire trucks thinking of ordering sandwiches if they were going to let me join them in a meal.” or a new public address system.

But waiting for him at the door was a “The kitchen was in the back, but that was the kitchen up there,” Reale said with a handful of top FDNY officials and every laugh, pointing to the building’s second member of the firehouse, standing at attenfloor. “What the hell did they do to the stair- tion and waiting for roll call.

“Wow,” Reale said when he walked in. “I case? They really renovated the place.”

The former firefighter’s mind is as sharp am home.”

Still emotional from the warm welcome, as a tack, but he walks slowly and with the aid of a cane. Although he’s by no means a he perked up when he saw Jason Zillo, the frail man, he recently had to move from the director of media relations for the New York Seminole home he lived in for 40 years to a Yankees, emerge from a back room in a team shirt. nearby senior living facility.

The ball club Reale loved as much as the And that’s where the story of last ThursFDNY, Zillo said, had been told of his trip day begins in earnest.

by Wish of a Lifetime and wanted to include it in the franchise’s annual week of charitable activities called HOPE Week.

Because that night’s Yankees game was not getting underway until 7 p.m., the exfirefighter was told that some of the players he spends most of his nights watching on TV wanted to meet him in person.

“We’ve got our own little roll call for you,” Zillo said.

One by one, Yankees first baseman Greg Bird, fellow first baseman Tyler Austin and relief pitchers Adam Warren, Chad Green, Chasen Sh reve and Jonathan Holder appeared from a back room and shook Reale’s hand.

For almost all the players, Reale offered his hand and a smile. But for Shreve, who had given up a game-winning home run the night before, the Howard Beach native had the courage to take a friendly pot shot at the Reale, helmet and all, reacclimates himself professional baseball player.

“I asked him about his lousy pitching with the inside of a fire truck.

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Former FDNY firefighter and Howard Beach resident Sal Reale paid a visit to his old firehouse, Engine Co. 287/Ladder Co. 136 in Elmhurst, last Thursday. Little did he know, six New York YanPHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA kees were also there to surprise him. yesterday!” Reale said when asked what he whispered to Shreve. “Look, you can’t win them all. But I want them to win them all.”

A few photos ops followed — one of Reale being presented with an FDNY batting helmet signed by each Yankee player and one of a $10,000 check being given by the Yankees to Wish of a Lifetime.

Once the formalities of the ceremony had concluded, Reale rushed right back to Shreve, where he and Green resumed jokingly ribbing the lefty reliever for his poor pitching in the previous game.

“We were talking mostly Yankees stuff and Yankees stories,” Shreve told the Chronicle with a chuckle. “It was great talking to him and seeing the firehouse.”

For the next few hours, the Bronx Bombers f loated around the firehouse, taking tours, snapping selfies inside a fire truck and talking with the men stationed there.

Shreve, Green, Warren and Holder even donned full firefighter uniforms and joked about “bringing the heat” on the mound.

Reale did much the same, as each firefighter angled to get five minutes of his time to show him something new in the building.

But in between trying on a fireman’s helmet and chatting about the length of the ladders each truck has, Reale would grab the attention of the closest Yankee to talk baseball — something his son, also a firefighter, said was his first true love.

“Oh man, I can’t answer that. That’s a bombshell,” Nick Reale joked when asked whether his dad loves the Yankees or the FDNY more. “The Yankees have been a part of our lives ever since I can remember.

We always had the game on and he was always swearing at the manager.”

In interviews with the Chronicle, both Bird and Austin said meeting a “true New York hero” like Reale was likely greater of an honor for them than it was for the firefighter.

“For Sal to get to come back here and

experience this, it’s great for him and it’s great for us,” Bird said. “He’s a New Yorker.

Some people think they’re rude but I think they’re honest.”

“These guys are heroes, man. They save people’s lives every day. To bring some joy to Sal and these guys brings joy to me. It’s an honor,” Austin said. “Sal, he’s crazy, man. He’s a good dude. He’s a true Yankees fan. To hang out with him for a bit was pretty special.”

Reale’s day with the Yankees didn’t end at the firehouse, however. Prior to that night’s game, he was brought onto the field to meet the likes of superstar Aaron Judge — his favorite player — and others before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch.

Not many sports fans get to interact with their favorite teams on the level Reale did last week. So it stands to reason that when he gets home to Seminole, it’s all his friends in the senior living facility will hear about for a long time to come.

“I think this is something that’s going to warm his heart forever,” Nick Reale said.

Q “He’ll talk about this nonstop.”

Reale ribs pitcher Chasen Shreve, right, for giving up a home run the night before.

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Yankees surprise former FDNY firefighter Howard Beach native Sal Reale was in Elmhurst to visit his old firehouse

Reale, a Howard Beach native, receives an FDNY batting helmet signed by Yankees players Greg Bird, Chad Green, Chasen Shreve, Adam Warren and Tyler Austin.

Former Engine Co. 287 member and diehard Yankees fan Sal Reale, center with helmet, received the surprise of a lifetime at his old stomping ground last week. PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA

oward Beach native Sal Reale has been rooting for his beloved Yankees since the days of Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, his two all-time favorite players.

But after last Thursday, the former firefighter has a new crop of Yankees to call his favorites.

While on a visit to his old firehouse — Engine Co. 287/Ladder Co. 136 in Elmhurst — Yankees first basemen Greg Bird and Tyler Austin, along with pitchers Chad Green, Adam Warren, Chasen Shreve and Jonathan Holder, showed up and surprised Reale as part of the ballclub’s ongoing HOPE Week initiative.

The 87-year-old shared some laughs and old stories with the players, even trying on some firefighters’ gear and jumping into a Q fire truck for old time’s sake.

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Yankees players present a $10,000 check to Wish of a Lifetime, the group that helps senior citizens like Reale make their “bucket list” dreams come true.

Austin traded in his traditional pinstripes for a firefighter’s uniform for the afternoon.

Reale tells Green, Shreve and Holder old stories about his days watching Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle play ball.

During a tour of a fire truck, Shreve checks out a giant rescue saw. Luckily, it was turned off.

It was all smiles last Thursday as firefighter Nick Boncimino, right, took pride in showing Yankees pitchers Shreve, Warren, Holder and Green the gadgets inside a fire truck.

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NYPD surveillance tool focuses on people of color and the young

by Bre’Anna Grant Chronicle Contributor

The NYPD is under fire from advocates and community supporters who say its gang database is being used to keep track of so-called “active” gang members unfairly and even people who aren’t. Some say the list is a substitution for the recently curtailed stop-and-frisk practice.

NYPD officials were called to testify in front of the City Council on June 13 to discuss the database and to answer questions about why the surveillance tool is focused almost exclusively on nonwhite New Yorkers.

New details about who the NYPD includes in the vast database were revealed in response to a public records request by CUNY School of Law professor Babe Howell, who shared the information with The Intercept. Howell said that as of February 2018, there were 42,334 people in the database — a 70 percent increase since de Blasio took office in January 2014. At last Wednesday’s hearing, however, Chief of Detectives Dermont Shea announced that the Criminal Group Database has approximately 17,500 individuals, just over half the number it had in 2014.

Ninety-nine percent of those added over that four-year period were not white. The NYPD also maintains a database of “inactive” gang members that includes 2,706 people.

At the hearing, police officials defended how they compile the list, saying there are many reasons why people are added to the database — including hanging out with gangs, according to NY1.

And in an opinion piece published by the Daily News, Shea explained how the Criminal Group Database is a necessary tool to combat criminal organizations.

“When violence erupts between two groups,

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At PS 316Q, Queens Explorers Magnet School for Global Conservation and Service Learning in Ozone Park, three students were chosen as finalists for P.S. Art 2018 at The Met. They are kindergarten student Manha Chowdhury, top, firstgrade student Larissa Romero Delgado, left, and second-grade student Gael Madera.

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and retaliatory shootings are likely, it’s important to know who might retaliate and who is likely to be targeted, so we can defuse the situation and stop the killing,” he wrote.

But many members of the Council disagree.

“Being in the gang database can have serious consequences and disadvantages,” said Councilmember Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows). “If someone gets arrested, a court can use it to set a higher bail or give them more serious charges.”

The NYPD defines a gang as “a group of persons with a formal or informal structure that includes designated leaders and members, that engage in or are suspected to engage in unlawful conduct.”

Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) worries the database has been shrouded in secrecy. “There are close to 18,000 people on this database and there’s not transparency or a process to know if you’re in the database,” he told City & State after the hearing.

Gang databases in hundreds of municipalities nationwide like Seattle, Los Angeles and Washington, DC are being used for racial profiling across the country, according to the Daily Dot. Immigration and Customs Enforcement also uses the databases as a tool for deportations. According to the National Immigration Law Center, “Gang databases are illustrative of how inaccurate and misleading information can migrate from one federal or state database to another and can be used for immigration enforcement, with devastating effects.”

In Chicago, four men along with community organizations and activists, filed a class-action lawsuit against the city alleging that its Police Department’s massive gang database contains inaccurate, out-of-date and racially skewed information on thousands of people. At least one of the plaintiffs contended he has been repeatedly stopped and harassed by officers. Q

Assembly woma n St acey Phef fer Amato (D-South Queens) announced last Thursday that she will be hosting an event sponsored by the MTA later this summer.

Two MetroCard vans will be at separate locations in Howard Beach and Far Rockaway on Aug. 31. Residents can use these vans to purchase standard, senior or other reduced-fare MetroCards.

The reason for this event, according to Pheffer Amato, is to allow access to these cards without having to go to a train station.

“It’s great to have options to get a MetroCard without having to climb a f light of stairs to a train station,” said Pheffer Amato. “Especially for seniors and disabled folks.”

The two vans will be at 82-35 153 Ave., Howard Beach from 10 a.m. to noon and at 2-43 Beach 20 St., Far Rockaway from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

“More and more people are taking advantage of mass transit,” said Pheffer Amato. “This is just one great step in a long push to bring real mass transit access to everyone in South Queens.” Q

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Weprin legislation, Senate companion, aimed at catching concealed weapons

by Michael Gannon Editor

The state Legislature has passed bills that are expected to bring sophisticated body scanners back to jails and prisons in New York City and throughout the state.

Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows) is among those being hailed by Mayor de Blasio and the city’s Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association for shepherding the measure through.

Weprin’s bill, along with companion legislation from Sen. Kemp Hannon (R-Garden City), is intended to combat a rash of slashing and stabbing assaults involving ceramic blades and X-Acto knives, which are undetectable with regular metal detectors.

The bill also includes safeguards against the overuse of body scanning equipment including requirements for the operation of body scanner equipment relating to training of operators, limitations on exposure, registration and inspection requirements for body scanning equipment.

“In light of the endemic violence at Rikers Island and the increasing use of ceramic blades as weapons among the inmate population, it is important to safeguard staff and inmates from the immediate and widespread threat of slashing,” Weprin said in a statement issued by his office on Thursday.

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Security checkpoints at Rikers Island are about to get far more thorough, with powerful body scanners on the way to find small metal and ceramic blades and weapons that are not caught by FILE PHOTO conventional metal detectors. between protecting inmates from the horrific physical and psychological effects that come with being a victim of a slashing while awaiting trial, while ensuring the secure use of body scanning equipment.”

Eilas Husamudeen, president of COBA, told the Chronicle in an interview that he expects

the equipment to go up soon after Gov. Cuomo signs the legislation into law.

He said scanners were removed a few years ago from lces such as Rikers Island because of medical concerns related to overexposure to the machines.

“It’s a good bill,” Husamudeen said. “Every

person who works behind bars or finds themselves behind bars — officers, civilians, inmates — will benefit from this.”

He said in the four years since scanners were removed, more than 700 inmates in the city have been cut, slashed or stabbed.

Husamudeen said there were 860 attacks on correction officers in 2017, including 11 in which an officer was stabbed, slashed or cut.

He and de Blasio thanked Weprin, Hannon and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) for getting the bill through.

“It’s passed unanimously in the Senate for the last two years,” Husamuden said. “It really is a bipartisan bill. And it’s not just New York City — Suffolk County, Nassau, Westchester, Dutchess — everybody gets ’em.”

De Blasio also offered kudos to Senate majority and minority leaders John Flanagan (R-Smithtown) and Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) for making it happen.

“We’ve been saying for years that we need more advanced body scanners to keep small blades and weapons out of our jails,” de Blasio said. “The passage of legislation authorizing our use of these scanners means we’ll have another crucial tool to help keep staff and inmates safe, make it far more difficult to bring weapons into our facilities, and bring down the number of slashings and stabbings even farther Q than this year’s 15 percent decline.”

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New tax panel flawed, Glen Oaks leader says Bob Friedrich: ‘There’s no co-op or condo representation’ on commission

by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

The way the city’s property tax system treats co-ops and condos has for years been a hot topic in Queens.

Unlike one-, two- and three-family homes, co-ops with more than 10 units and condos don’t have a cap limiting increases in their tax assessments. Like rental buildings, they are classified as Class 2 properties by the Department of Finance.

Owing to Bloomberg administration policy, many co-op and condo owners saw huge assessment increases in 2012: Glen Oaks Village saw one of 20.5 percent, for example, and a co-op by Alley Pond Park saw one of 47 percent.

“In the old days, when a co-op did a budget, its property taxes were maybe about 25 percent of its budget. Today in many co-ops it’s a third to 50 percent,” activist Bob Friedrich told the Chronicle.

Aside from being the president of the Glen Oaks Village co-operative, Friedrich is the co-president of Presidents Co-op and Condo Council, which represents around 30,000 residential units.

Critics say the city’s tax system is unfair for a variety of reasons aside from how coops and condos are assessed. The de Blasio administration has been fighting a lawsuit brought by activist and real estate industry

How the city taxes co-ops like those in Glen Oaks and other Queens neighborhoods has been highly controversial in recent years. And according to Glen Oaks Village President Bob Friedrich, a new city commission tasked with looking at the five boroughs’ tax system should include repPHOTO BY RYAN BRADY resentation from the co-op community. groups, which charges that the system is discriminatory.

Friedrich was optimistic when he learned Mayor de Blasio intended to form a commission to examine the existing policies: one that

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Among the visitors were police officers, firefighters, bankers, doctors, lawyers, graphic artists, insurance agents, nurses, flight attendants, emergency service workers, Assemblyman Mike Miller and more.

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Thanks to the support of Councilman Eric Ulrich, students in class 4-307 had the opportunity to participate in an amazing program this year: Cultural After School Adventures — Ballet Hispanico.

Working with the amazing staff of Ballet Hispanico, students learned many dance steps of Spanish culture and how exciting it was for their peers to see them put on a fantastic performance!

The administration of PS 97Q is forever grateful for opportunities such as these as they bring the level of confidence to the students, allowing them to know they can do anything they put their minds to.

Performing in front of their peers allows them to show their talents and what they have learned, also encouraging other students to do the same.

The staff and students at PS 97Q support many charities throughout the school year and are very proud to do so. The community wears red for heart disease, pink for breast cancer, blue for diabetes, orange for the animals and jeans for our troops!

The students are learning to think of others and are very aware of the many charities in need of support.

Last year, Blaize Arroyo, a second grader at that time, asked his teacher, Mrs. Delmar, if people could wear purple in support of Epilepsy. Blaize is very aware of the disease as he has it himself. The school community was happy to set aside a day to wear purple and make a donation to epilepsy in honor of Blaize. A tradition was started.

Continuing with the tradition this year, on June 5, the school community wore purple and collected $1 from all who wanted to donate to epilepsy in support of Blaize! Ms. Beigay and Blaize’s current class, 3-308, wore purple proudly to support their classmate. Mrs. Murphy and Class 4-409 supported Blaize as a class, as did Nurse Ryan and Ms. Stuart, right.

The school is still counting the dollars, but the donation for epilepsy this year will be at least $150 in Blaize’s name. His message is “I am fighting Epilepsy, what is your superpower?”

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would have “stakeholders” on it.

“I personally spoke to the mayor at a town hall in Bayside,” the co-op activist said. “He absolutely acknowledged that stakeholders would be on the panel.”

After at least 10 public hearings, the advisory body will make recommendations about how to make the tax system fairer for New Yorkers.

Last week, Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) and de Blasio revealed who the seven voting members they appointed to the panel are.

The board is chaired by former Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been and CUNY Interim Chief Operating Officer Marc Shaw.

Friedrich said that though the advisory commissioners are experts in certain areas, he’s extremely disappointed about the panel not including a stakeholder from the co-op and condo community.

“There’s no co-op or condo representation on that panel,” he said.

The activist also mentioned how some on the board have donated to de Blasio’s campaigns before.

The de Blasio administration defended the tax commission’s makeup in a statement to the Chronicle.

“We’re confident that the commission members we jointly appointed with the City Council have the qualifications and diverse experience that allows them to comprehensively review the City’s property continued on page 40

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by Michael Gannon Editor

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will begin removing led paint that for years has been peeling and chipping off overhead structures for the elevated No. 7 subway line beginning next month.

NYC Transit President Andy Byford made the announcement Tuesday morning just outside the subway and bus hub at Roosevelt Avenue and 74th Street along with U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx) and Cit y Cou ncilman Dan ny Drom m (D-Jackson Heights).

Byford said the first phase will begin at the 82nd Street station and work east toward Citi Field and Willets Point. It will cost $43 million and is scheduled to take two years.

Phase two will head toward Woodside and Sunnyside, though Byford said it has not yet been decided if it will begin before or after phase one is complete.

“It’s a big job,” Byford said. “There are years of paint, dust and dirt.” He said that the line’s elevation also is a complicating factor, adding that the contract calls for stripping the structures down to the base metal and applying three new coats of paint.

The old paint will be contained during the removal process and properly disposed of, Byford said. He and Crowley also said

that during the paint removal process workers will be examining the 103-year-old infrastructure for concrete or steel that needs to be repaired or replaced.

The congressman said the work will address decades of neglect. He referred to his recent discovery of photographs in which cows are visible in nearby fields as the elevated line was being constructed, the rails paradoxically being a major reason that cows have been replaced by a sprawling metropolis.

“Unfortunately, the 7 train hasn’t been able to keep pace,” he said.

The No. 7 runs between Main Street in Flushing and the West Side of Manhattan at 34th Street. In April 2017, District Council 9 Union of Painters and Allied Trades released a study that found that paint chips falling from the structures in some cases contained lead concentrations 48 times higher than what is considered safe.

Lead paint has been banned from residential use in the United States since 1978, but still is present in older structures. Kept covered or painted over, it is not considered a threat. Paint that is flaking on walls, radiators or ceilings can break off into chips that young children can put in their mouths, in more serious instances causing learning disabilities.

Critics of the MTA’s past maintenance of t he No. 7 i n f r a st r uct u re also h ave expressed repeated concern that f laking lead paint has contaminated nearby parkland, though the MTA told the Chronicle last year that the parks are inspected quarterly by the city’s departments of Environm e n t a l P r o t e c t io n a n d P a r k s a n d Recreation.

Dromm would rather err on the side of caution. He said large pieces of dried paint have hit or nearly hit workers going to or from his nearby district office.

“This district has some of the highest lead poisoning numbers in the city,” he said. “Can we say this is the cause, I’m not sure. But we want to play it safe.”

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Judge stays Flushing man’s removal order Xiuqing You, Flushing resident and dad, scores major legal victory

by Ryan Brady

You doesn’t have a criminal history.

And his case has generated an outpouring Flushing man Xiuqing You spent recent of public sympathy for him, his wife Yu weeks languishing in U.S. Immigrations and Mei Chen and their two kids, who are 4 Customs Enforcement custody at a facility and 6 years old, as well as outrage at the Trump administration. in New Jersey, separated from his family.

U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforceBut on Wednesday afternoon, a federal judge stayed his deportation order and ment agents arrested him on May 23, at a ordered he be immediately released from meeting he and Poon thought would just be a green card interview. government custody.

You came to the United States in JanuThe Legal Aid Society, which had been representing the 39-year-old Chinese ary 2000 lacking a valid entry document, national with his attorney Yee Ling Poon, according to ICE. A judge ordered his deportation in announced that an emergency stay motion temporarily granting his deportation had December of that year; he filed an appeal been won. The decision is pending resolu- of the decision and it was dismissed by the Board of Immigration Appeal within tion of You’s petition for habeas corpus.

“Today’s ruling is a sharp rebuke of weeks.

According to published reports, You ICE’s cruel and fanatical crusade to circumvent due process with the goal of tear- filed an asylum claim in 2002, saying his ing families apart,” Gregory Copeland, Catholic faith could make him vulnerable supervising attorney in The Legal Aid to persecution back in China. The claim Society’s immigration law unit, said in a was denied; a judge issued an order of prepared statement. “Mr. You has lived removal later in the same year.

And in May 2008, ICE said, You filed a without incident in this country for years, establishing a family and building a suc- motion to reopen his case, but it was denied that September. cessful small business.”

You and his wife, who is an American citizen, run a nail salon in Connecticut.

Po o n t o l d t h e Chronicle that his pl ig ht h a s b e e n extremely difficult on his family. “They are in pret t y bad shape,” she said in a Tuesday interview.

T h e C h r o n i cl e could not get a comment from the attorney since news broke Wed nesd ay after noon, though she said Tuesd ay that another motion m ay b e f i le d t o An emotional drawing by Flushing man Xiuqing You’s daughter, Mia. Her reopen You’s asylum case. father is in the federal government’s custody at a New Jersey facility.

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Flushing father Xiuqing You, seen here with his wife and kids, scored a major win in his deportation case on Wednesday afternoon, with a judge staying his deportation order and ordering his immediate release from Trump administration custody. PHOTOS COURTESY LAW OFFICE OF YEE LING POON In Queens and elsewhere in the city, many criticized the federal government over the case and calling You’s plight unjust.

The controversy over his case takes places as the Trump administration comes under fire for separating children from their unauthorized immigrant families as their legal cases are heard. Similarly, there has been an outpouring of public support for Pablo Villavicencio, an Ecuadorian immigrant who faces deportation and was detained after deliver ing food to an A r my base in Brooklyn.

On Monday, You’s wife joined a variety of groups — including the Asian American Federation, the MinKwon Center for Community Action and the New York Immigration Coalition — at a protest in Manhattan’s Foley Square. They called on the Trump administration to release You, and criticized its immigration policy.

“There is no question what is happening to this family is cruel and inhumane,” MinKwon Center for Community Action Executive Director John Park said in an email.

Aside from the protesters, elected officials like U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) have spoken out about the situation.

Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) met with You’s wife at her district office in Flushing on Tuesday; the pair discussed how the immigrant’s plight has impacted his family.

The congresswoman, Gillibrand, and others including Reps. Nydia Velazquez (D-Brooklyn, Queens) and Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) sent a letter about You’s case to ICE’s New York field office on Monday. The correspondence said his removal “would be cruel.”

Going forward, Meng said Monday, she’ll be “closely following” the man’s Q case.

Boro rabbi cuffed over ‘extortion’ attempt A Queens rabbi and a Nassau County man were arrested over an attempted $7 million extortion scheme on Monday, federal prosecutors said.

Flushing resident Igal Haimoff, 67, and Lawrence, LI, resident Mark Weissman, 45, each face up to five years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.

Early last year, Weissman allegedly told an unnamed victim that if he didn’t fork over $6 million, someone the feds called “Person A” would provide incriminating information about him to law enforcement.

Lawrence, LI man is also charged Haimoff, federal off icials charge, agreed to use his charity to receive the extorted money.

The rabbi and Weissman allegedly wrote a fraudulent donation letter to the victim, according to the feds. The correspondence was sent on the letterhead of Haimoff’s charity.

“Thank you so much for your pledge of $6,000,000 towards our building campaign,” the letter said. “Your generous

donation will enable us to complete the construction of our Yeshiva building which is so vital for the continued growth of our Queens community.” Information for a bank account that the $6 million could be sent to was also provided.

The FBI was by then involved in the case; an undercover agent read the letter.

According to the U.S. Attor ney’s Office, Haimoff later allegedly indicated t h at Pe r son A’s ext or t ion de m a nd

increased to $7 million.

After the victim agreed, the rabbi asked that he be given a letter explaining why the “donation” would have to be bigger.

Haimoff and the undercover agent allegedly sent emails to each other, with the latter saying he’s going to give $7 million after learning about “additional structural work” required for the Yeshiva building’s construction. The rabbi allegedly thanked the agent in a response message.

Both of the defendants were released on $250,000 bond Monday, according to prosQ ecutors.

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• The benefit of brain games. A sharp mind is every bit as important as a healthy body, and exercising your brain can be a lot of fun. Spend time learning new things on the internet, enroll in a class for that craft you’ve always wanted to master, go out with friends or sit down and play a board game.

All of these activities can greatly improve your mental health. For example, a Mayo Clinic study found playing games decreased a person’s risk of mild cognitive impairment by 22 percent making this enjoyable activity healthy as well.

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With aging comes new challenges and the need to be more vigilant in maintaining your overall well-being. By incorporating some of the tips above from the experts at Mayo Clinic, you’ll make sure the best years of your life are still to come. You can learn more about improving your health at any age through the advice offered in Mayo Clinic on Healthy Aging, or visit mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle for more Q healthy lifestyle ideas.

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Stress affects people from all walks of life and the causes of stress are as varied as the people it afflicts.

In its 2017 Stress in America survey, the American Psychological Association found that the three most common sources of stress were the future of the nation (63 percent), money (62 percent) and work (61 percent). According to the National Institute of Mental Health, routine stress that becomes chronic can result in a host of negative side effects. Such stress can suppress the immune system, disrupt digestion and have an adverse effect on sleep.

But men and women who feel stressed at the end of each day need not resign themselves to sleepless nights and/or weakened immune systems. A proactive approach to alleviating stress during the day can help men and women reduce their stress levels and avoid the negative side effects associated with chronic stress.

• Walk away. The APA notes that taking a break from a stressor is one of a h a nd f u l of he a lt hy t e ch n iq u e s t h at research has indicated is a successful way to reduce stress, both in the short- and long-term. If a project at work is proving especially stressful, step away for a short per iod of time to do something else, whether it’s to go for a brief walk or converse with a co-worker about something

Stress is a part of daily life for many people but there are simple and quick ways to reduce it during the day. unrelated to the project. Avoiding the stress entirely, especially if it’s a work project or a bill that must be paid, is not the answer. But a short break from the stressor and thinking about it can provide a new perspective and time to calm down.

• Meditate. When stressed out, men and

women should not discount the potential benefits of meditation. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University examined more than 19,000 meditation studies, ultimately concluding that mindful meditation can ease stresses like anxiety, depression and pain. The APA notes that such meditation

has been found to reap immediate benefits, potentially helping people who can find time to meditate during the day to prevent their stress from accumulating throughout a hectic workday.

• Find time to exercise. The APA notes that research continues to suppor t the notion that exercise is as beneficial to the mind as it is to the body. Exercising several days per week is especially beneficial to mind and body, but even 20-minute exercise sessions, including a walk around the grounds of an office complex or a quick swim during a lunch break, in the midst of stressful days can help people combat stress for several hours afterward.

• Delegate more during the day. Work is the third-leading source of stress among Americans. Men and women who feel overworked may benef it by delegating more tasks during their days or simply stepping back and taking on less work.

The potential effects on your career of taking on less work will likely pale in comparison to the toll chronic stress, which can contribute to heart disease and stroke, takes on your body.

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ARTS, ARTS AR TS CULTURE CULT C LT LTU T URE U R E & LIVING L I NG LIVI LIV

The stage is set This Queens community theater season

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by Mark Lord

Performances at Our Lady of Mercy Parish Hall (70-01 Kessel St., entrance on Juno St., Forest Hills) are on July 12, 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. and July 15 at 2 p.m.

Tickets: $10 More: FirstStringPlayers@gmail.com or (718) 268-6143.

“The Little Mermaid,” the popular musical based on Hans Christian Andersen’s story, featuring such tunes as “Under the Sea” and “Part of Your World,” comes via Broadway Blockbusters, with Andrew Koslosky at the helm.

Lisa Bondi is Ariel, a daughter of King Triton (Koslosky), who wishes to pursue the human Prince Eric (Richard Masin) in the world above, bargaining with the evil Ursula (Monica Maddock) to trade her tail for legs. But the bargain is not what it seems. continued on page 33

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A comedy of manners, a murder mystery, and an assortment of musicals both classic and contemporary are among the attractions headed for Queens community theater stages during the upcoming summer weeks.

Kicking things off is Maggie’s Little Theater’s production of “Man of La Mancha,” a musical play about Don Quixote as well as Miguel de Cervantes, the creator of the indomitable knight. The show’s centerpiece is its time-tested anthem, “The Impossible Dream.”

The cast, under the direction of Bill Logan, is headed by Mark Dunn in the dual lead roles, Joe Paciullo as his faithful sidekick, Sancho, Jenna Kantor as Aldonza, Rich Feldman as The Duke,

David Friedman as The Padre and James Gillespie as The Governor.

Musical direction is by Paul Johnson. Jonathan Mora provides the choreography.

Performances at St. Margaret Parish Hall (66-05 79 Place, Middle Village) are on June 30 and July 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. and July 1, 7 and 8 at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets: $20 ; $17 seniors, children. More: maggieslittletheater.org or (917) 579-5389.

Next up is “The Dining Room,” A.R. Gurney’s reflection on the culture of America’s upper-middle class, as depicted through a single dining room, with the action, a mosaic of interrelated scenes, set in different time periods.

Chris Martens directs The First String Players’ production, which features a cast of 12 actors portraying a wide array of characters.

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EXHIBITS

Bob Singleton. Sun., June 24, 12 p.m., meeting at the “Flatiron Building,” at Astoria Blvd., 21 St. and 27 Ave. $20. Info/RSVP: (718) 278-0700, astorialic. org, kevinjudewalsh@gmail.com.

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

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

LECTURES/TALKS Crossing Hemispheres: Using Both Sides of our Brains to Address Climate Change, with artist Ellen Driscoll and marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on what both types of people can learn from each other about the issue; in conjunction with “Wake” (see Exhibits). Sat., June 23, 2-3:30 p.m., Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 937-6317, dorsky.org.

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

“Holding Space: The Museum Collects,” with more than 40 works of folk art from the 18th to 21st centuries, including paintings, drawings, sculpture and more. Thru Thu., July 5, American Folk Art Museum’s Self-Taught Genius Gallery, 47-29 32 Place, Long Island City. Free. Info: (212) 595-9533, folkartmuseum.org.

“El Dorado/The New 49ers,” with 100 outdoor sculptures of infants (“guaguas”), 49 of them painted gold in tribute to the 49 percent of NYC households that speak a language other than English. Thru Sun., Oct. 14, Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, 34-41 137 St., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 961-8585, latimernow.org.

“Miya Ando: Clouds,” with two site-specific glass sculptures inspired by a Zen phrase. Thru Sun., Aug. 19, Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City. $10; $5 seniors, students; NYC HS students, kids under 12 free. Info: (718) 204-7088, noguchi.org.

If it’s summer, it’s free kayaking and canoeing on the East River, either in Hallets Cove or Anable Basin, courtesy of the LIC Community Boathouse. See Special Events.

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MUSIC Queens Jazz Orchestra 10th anniversary celebration, honoring jazz master Jimmy Heath. Fri., June 29, 8 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $42; $20 students; free teens 13-19. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

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“Mel Chin: All Over the Place,” with more than 70 works in various media by the conceptual artist whose art defies classification. Thru Sun., Aug. 12, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $8 suggested; $4 seniors; free students, children.

Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

“Conspiracy of Goodness: How French Protestants Saved Thousands of Jews During World War II,” about an isolated community, Le Chambon, that saved 3,500 Jews from Nazi Germany and Vichy France. Thru June. Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives, Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside. Free. Info: (718) 281-5770, qcc.cuny.edu/khrca.

“Concrete Jungle,” with mixed-media and sculptural works

by Annalisa Iadicicco addressing her changing neighborhood of Long Island City.

Opening reception, Thu., June 21, 7-10 p.m., with Jackson Heights guitarist performing, Materials for the Arts, 33-00 Northern Blvd., LIC. Free. Info: materialsforthearts.org/calendar.

COURTESY PHOTO

bread Players. Sat., June 30, 7:30 p.m., St. Luke’s Church, 85 Greenway S., Forest Hills. $10 to read; $5 to watch. Info/signup to read: (718) 268-7772, gingerbreadplayers.org.

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

FILM Two Women, One Passion, with pianist Teresita Gomez, left, and soprano Delcy Yanet Estrada performing symphonic music from Colombia. Sat., June 30, 8 p.m. (related pre-show book signing 6 p.m.), Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $16; $10 students; free teens 13-19. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

COURTESY PHOTOS Rhythm’s Gonna Get You!, with dancing, singing and exercise to various types of music from big band to Motown, rock and more. Sat., June 23 and 30, 11 a.m.-12 p.m., Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica. Free. Info: (718) 990-0778, gatherpeople4music@gmail.com.

Putin’s Russia: A 21st-Century Film Mosaic, a series of more than 30 movies in many genres, fiction and documentaries, about life in Russia since Vladimir Putin took power at the end of 1999. Thru Sun., July 15, various times, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15 each; $11 seniors, students; $9 kids 3-17; includes museum admission.

Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

TOURS/HIKES

The Moth Story Slam: Endings, with participants reading 5-minute stories about “final scenes,” such as the last day of school or the dramatic breakup.

Wed., June 27, 7:30 p.m. (7 p.m. doors open to sign up for chance to tell a story), Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. $10. Info: (718) 4637700, flushingtownhall.org, themoth.org.

Banned books reading and discussion series, with participants meeting all summer to discuss censored books from the 1800s to today, starting with “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” the 1852 antislavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that helped set off the Civil War. Starting Tue., June 26, 7 p.m., Greater Astoria Historical Society, 35-20 Broadway, Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 278-0700, astorialic.org.

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SPECIAL EVENTS Kayaking and canoeing, for those of all skill levels and ages (minors must have parent/guardian present), in Hallets Cove or Anable Basin, by LIC Community Boathouse. Almost every Sun. thru Sept. 2, varying times (mostly 1 p.m.), Socrates Sculpture Park Beach, just north of 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City or LICCB launch in Anable Basin. Free.

Info: (631) 542-2628, licboathouse.org.

THEATRE

Photo Walk with Professional Women Photographers, a stroll around the Queens Botanical Garden with tips on photography, for all ages, skill levels and camera types, including phones. Sat., June 23, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., QBG, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. Free with admission: $6; $4 seniors; $4 students, $2 children over 3. Info: (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org.

Summer Celebration, a family event with historic games, crafts, bubbles, ice-cream making and more.

Sat., June 23, 12-4 p.m., King Manor Museum, 15003 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. Free. Info: (718) 2060545, kingmanor.org.

Shakespeare-aoke! The Ultimate Shakespearience, with participants reading excerpts from the Bard’s plays and poems, plus “refreshments with an Elizabethan flavor”; hosted by the Ginger-

Forgotten NY: Astoria Park, with talk about its history, the RFK-Triborough and Hells Gate bridges, the General Slocum disaster and more, led by Greater Astoria Historical Society Executive Director

Storytime!, every Thu., 11-11:30 a.m., Astoria Bookshop, 31-29 31 St. Free. Info: (718) 278-2665, astoriabookshop.com. continued on page 34

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In an effort to highlight the history of Queens and attractions within Flushing Meadows, the Community Advisory Board for Flushing Meadows Corona Park is hosting a Photo Walk Contest June 30 that will feature prizes and chances to learn the history of the area.

Board Chairman John Wang said the walk will begin at noon at the Unisphere and go for two and a half miles. People of all ages are encouraged to participate, especially those who are active on social media.

“Our goal is to get people out and walking,” Wang said. “We want to get social media-savvy people into the park.”

#FMCoronaPark18 Photo Walk When: Sat., June 30, 12-2 p.m.

Where: starting at the Unisphere, Flushing Meadows Corona Park Entry: Free. queenscapes.nyc

Throughout the walk, prizes will be awarded to participants who correctly answer trivia questions about Queens and its history. The accompanying Instagram photo contest is also open to everyone. According to the event’s website, new and old photos will be accepted with the ha sht ag #FMCoronaPark18.

The four categories are best standalone shot of a landmark within the park, best portrait of a landmark backdrop, best action shot or candid of a person in the park and best shot of a hidden gem within the park.

While it is recommended that mobile photos be uploaded the day of the event, any camera can be used to capture shots.

The deadline to submit photos is July 7, with winners being announced two days later. “Winning photos will have a special pop-up exhibition at the Queens Museum on July 21st and 22nd,” Wang said in an email detailing the event. “There will also be prizes available during the walk and during the pop-up exhibit.”

Chipotle, Applebee’s and the New York Hall of Science are a few of the participating groups offering prizes and sponsorships.

Wang said this is the first time the Com-

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Take your camera to Flushing Meadows June 30, and be ready for Queens trivia too. munity Advisor y Board — commonly referred to as CAB — is organizing the event.

As detailed on its website, part of CAB’s mission is to celebrate the park’s history and support initiatives aimed toward healthy lifestyles. Established in 2015, CAB advocates

for the restoration of and resources for the 897-acre park, the largest in Queens.

“Our priority is to get people out to areas they’ve never been to,” Wang said. “Especially to nice areas to enjoy outside of the Q center of Queens.”

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You’re the star, in a work by Shakespeare

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Heartbroken by the tragic fate of young Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague? Horrified by the ruthless ambition of Lady Macbeth? Fascinated by the contemplation of Hamlet? Enamored of the love sonnets?

If you just can’t get enough of William Shakespeare’s cunning linguistic mastery, the genius that has him almost universally considered the greatest writer the English language has ever known, The Gingerbread Players have just the thing for you. Set for the evening of June 30, it’s the second edition of “Shakespeareaoke! The Ultimate Shakespearience.”

To be held at The Gingerbread Players’ home of St. Luke’s Church in Forest Hills, Shakespeare-aoke is an open mic night (but with no mic, as the Globe Theatre around 1600 had none) that lets you be the Bard. Participants, who must register ahead of time, can read lines from any of Shakespeare’s plays or poetry.

“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” — “Romeo and Juliet” It’s no surprise The Gingerbread Players would be the ones to come up with Shakespeare-aoke, as the troupe takes second seat to none in Queens when it comes to appreciating, and performing, high theater. This is the second time the event will be held.

“Yes, we do have a commitment to the classics (and yes, that does spring from the personal ta ste of the company founders),” Shakespeare-aoke coordinator and Gingerbread Players committee member Louise Guinther said in an email.

“We love Shakespeare, Chekhov, Shaw, Molière, Wilde, and we take great joy in sharing these works, and in having the chance to delve into them fully ourselves — a completely different experience from reading them on the page or watching others bring them to life.”

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” — “Macbeth” The community theater group also makes a point of performing the classics true to their original form, “as a sort of counterpoint to the updates, riffs and regie productions that seem to dominate” when they’re done on Broadway.

And, Guinther emphasized, the players do it “at a reasonable price.”

“To be, or not to be: that is the question.” — “Hamlet” What if someone wants to read at Shakespeare-aoke but would feel intimi-

Now’s your chance to read the balcony scene from “Romeo and Juliet” — both parts, thanks to the Gingerbread Players of St. Luke’s Church. SIR FRANK DICKSEE VIA WIKIPEDIA dated in front of an audience? Fear not, Guinther said: “This is probably the least intimidating possible place to test your Shakespearean wings with an audience.

The people who attended the last time were utterly non-judgmental — they come for the fun of it, and for the love of the Bard, not to try to outdo anyone else.”

“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” — Sonnet 18 There’s no known nunnery to get thee to next week, but there is a church where they’d be glad to hear you read your favorite lines from works by the Bard. Q

‘Shakespeare-aoke!’

When: Sat., June 30, 7:30 p.m.

Where: St. Luke’s Church, 85 Greenway S., Forest Hills Entry: $10 to read; $5 to watch.

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continued from page 29 Patrick White is musical director; Ma sin and Alyssa Pitaluga are the choreographers.

Performances at The Theater at the Immaculate Conception Center (7250 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston) are on July 20, 21, 26, 27 and 28 at 8 p.m.; July 21 and 28 at 2 p.m.; and July 22 at 3 p.m.

Tickets: $40 VIP; $25 general admission. Brunch/dinner available at certain performances for an additional $30.

More: thejosephinefoundation.org or (347) 556-3325.

Another music-filled hit, “Legally Blonde,” is on its way, courtesy of The J.C. Players. In this adaptation of the film of the same name, Elle appears to have it all. Her life is turned upside down when her boyfriend dumps her. With the support of her friends, she sets out to prove herself to the world.

Sara Svezia takes on the demanding role of Elle, with support from Thom Harmon, Donna Falzon, Mark York and a large ensemble cast. Barbara Auriemma directs, Frank Auriemma is musical director and Christine Hinz and Jessica

Helton co-choreograph.

Performances are split between two locations: Aug. 3 and 4 at 8 p.m. and Aug. 5 at 3 p.m. at Glendale-Maspeth United Methodist Church (66-14 Central Ave., Glendale); and Aug. 11 at 8 p.m. and Aug. 12 at 3 p.m. at Community United Methodist Church (75-27 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village).

Tickets: $20 ; $15 seniors, children.

More: jcplayers.com or (631) 843-2773.

Opening a two-performance run the next evening is The Gingerbread Players’ production of one of Agatha Christie’s less-frequently performed works, “Go Back for Murder,” directed by Jean Tessier. Set 15 years after her mother was convicted of killing her father, the play follows a young woman as she seeks the truth of her past. The cast of 14 includes Mike Miller, Debbie Smith, Amina Cunningham and Suzanne Schick.

Performances at St. Luke’s Church (85 Greenway South, Forest Hills) are on Aug. 4 at 7:30 p.m. and Aug. 5 at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets: $15; $12 each in groups of six or more. More: gingerbreadplayers.org, (718) 268-7772.

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Shows for every taste hit the stage this summer

Amina Cunningham, left, Mike Miller and Debbie Smith prepare for “Go Back for Murder,” an Agatha Christie play the Gingerbread Players will put on in August. On the cover: Mark Dunn, center, Jenna Kantor and Joe Paciullo (Sancho) will perform in “The PHOTOS BY MARK LORD Man of La Mancha” by Maggie’s Little Theater.

The season closes with a double bang, as two big musicals, representing old- and new-style Broadway, open on Aug. 9.

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boro continued from page 30 “The Wizard of Oz,” a stage version of the 1939 musical fantasy about a farm girl’s adventures, based on a children’s book by L. Frank Baum, by Plaza Theatrical. Thu., June 21, 6 p.m., Sobelsohn Playground, Park Lane South and Abington Road, Forest Park, Richmond Hill. Free.

Info: nycgovparks.org.

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS Beginner’s Spanish, so you too can say, “Yo hablo el Español.” Each Tue., Fri., 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Kew Gardens Community Center, 80-02 Kew Gardens Road. Free. Info: (718) 268-5960.

SOCIAL EVENTS Saturday night dance, with a live DJ playing classics, oldies, Italian and Spanish music, food and more. Sat., June 30, and every other Saturday all year, 8 p.m.-12 a.m., Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. $12.

Info: (718) 478-3100.

Israeli folk dancing, with instruction for beginners, in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. Each Mon., 7:30 p.m. (beginners’ instruction); 8:3010 p.m. (intermediate dances), Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Tpke, Fresh Meadows. $10.

Info: (718) 380-4145, hillcrestjc.org.

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St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church outdoor flea market, with 160 vendors. Each Sat.-Sun., 9 a.m.-3 p.m., thru end of November, Union Tpke. and Parsons Blvd., Jamaica. Info: (718) 969-3226.

Medicare specialist consultations, by appointment, every other Wed., 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Catholic Charities Bayside Senior Center, 221-15 Horace Harding Expwy. Info: (718) 225-1144.

SNAP of Eastern Queens Innovative Senior Center for adults 60+. 80-45 Winchester Blvd., Queens Village. Classes — Exercise every Mon.: advanced, 11 a.m.; beginners, 1 p.m.

Every Tue.: magic and ABC computer class, 10 a.m. Every Wed.: armchair yoga, 9 a.m.; Zumba gold, 10 a.m. Every Thu.: creative writing, 11 a.m.; painting, 1 p.m. Every Fri.: fall prevention, 10 a.m.; women’s discussion group, 11 a.m.

Info: (718) 454-2100.

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

Howard Beach Senior Center, with exercise classes every weekday except Thu., varying times; dances with a DJ and hot lunch every Tue., 12-3 p.m.; art classes every Thu., 9:3011:30 a.m., 12:30-2:30 p.m.; intro to sign language every Fri., 10-11:30 a.m.; karaoke every Wed., 1-3 p.m.; monthly book club; and more, 155-55 Crossbay Blvd. Info: (718) 738-8100.

Woodhaven/Richmond Hill Senior Center, with arts and crafts, knitting, Wii bowling, education and more. Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., lunch at 12 p.m. Strength/stretching exercise class every Mon., 1 p.m.; yoga class every Thu., 10 a.m.; Zumba every Fri. 89-02 91 St., Woodhaven. Info: (718) 847-9200.

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

The Gold Senior Center at Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Tpke., Flushing, every Wed., 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Cultural and recreational programs, socialization. $3 suggested contribution. Contact: Gloria Davidson (201) 264-9515

CLUBS

SUPPORT GROUPS

“Hooks & Needles” Crochet & Knit Club, with participants bringing projects, hooks, needles and yarn, or working on charity projects.

Every Thu., 6:30-9 p.m., Big 6 Shopping Center, 60-10 Queens Blvd., Woodside (entrance inside shopping center, up one flight, down hall to left of 99-cent store). Info: Lorraine, (917) 817-4037.

Caring for a loved one with dementia? Sunnyside Community Services, 43-31 39 St., Sunnyside. English speaking caregivers suppport group, every Tue., Spanish speaking caregivers suppport group, 2nd & 4th Wed. of every month. Contact: Shyvonne Noboa (718) 784-6173, ext. 440.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES Della Monica-Steinway Senior Center. Serving adults 60 and over. 23-56 Broadway, Astoria.

Exercise classes daily, 10 a.m. Social dancing every Mon. and Thu., 1 p.m. Daily lunch served 11:45 a.m. Info: (718) 626-1500.

Knitting and crocheting class, to learn a new skill or share an idea for a craft project, by Jamaica Senior Program for Older Adults. Each Thu., 10:30-11:30 a.m., T. Jackson Adult Center, 92-47 165 St. Info: (718) 657-6500, jspoa.org.

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Bereavement groups for assistance dealing with loss and the process towards healing, with others experiencing similar situations. Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills.

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diva Deloris, witnesses a murder and is placed in protective custody in, of all places, a convent. Her unique dance moves and singing style inspire the choir but blow her cover, leading to a conclusion that speaks to the universal power of friendship.

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by Paul Johnson.

Casting was not yet under way at press time.

Performances at Church of the Holy Child Jesus Msgr. Murray Auditorium (111-02 86 Ave., Richmond Hill) are on Aug. 9 at 7 p.m., 10 and 11 at 8 p.m. and 12 at 3 p.m.

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 05-07-18, bearing Index Number NC-000379-18/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) MICHELLE (Middle) DEBBIE (Last) HERNANDEZ. My present name is (First) DEBBIE (Middle) MITCHELL (Last) MARROQUIM AKA DEBBIE MICHELLE MARROQUIM. The city and state of my present address are Richmond Hill, NY. My place of birth is QUEENS, NY. The month and year of my birth are March 1999.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 06-14-18, bearing Index Number NC-000519-18/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) NAURIN (Middle) NABILA (Last) KHONDOKER. My present name is (First) KHONDOKER (Middle) NABILA (Last) NAURIN AKA KHONDOKER N. NAURIN AKA KHONDOKER NAURIN. The city and state of my present address are Jamaica, NY. My place of birth is BANGLADESH. The month and year of my birth are January 1994.

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Notice of Formation of COHEN FASHION OPTICAL STORE NO. 311, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/14/18. Office location: Queens County. Princ. office of LLC: 163-34 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica, NY 11432. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Susan Goldberg, c/o Cohen Fashion Optical, 100 Quentin Roosevelt Blvd., Ste. 400, Garden City, NY 11530.

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AVIEL 26 REALTY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/27/18. 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 Saman Arasheben, 14423 68th Avenue, Flushing, NY 11367. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

SHERIFF’S SALE BY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE SUPREME COURT - NASSAU COUNTY, in favor of SEAN E. WARD, judgment creditor, and against MOHAMMAD KABIR AND NURUNNAHAR A. SHIMUL, judgment debtors, to me directed and delivered, I WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION, by Dennis Alestra DCA# 0840217, auctioneer, as the law directs, FOR CASH ONLY, on the 8th day of August, 2018, at 1:00 o’clock in the afternoon, at: Queens County Sheriff’s Office, 30-10 Starr Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101 in the County of Queens, all the right, title and interest which MOHAMMAD KABIR AND NURUNNAHAR A. SHIMUL, the judgment debtor(s), had on the 6th day of March, 2017, or at any time thereafter, of, in and to the following properties: 104-23 102ND STREET, OZONE PARK, NEW YORK, 11417, BLOCK #9523 LOT# 58. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the easterly side of 102nd Street distant 218.93 feet southerly from the comer formed by the intersection of the easterly side of 102nd Street with the southerly side of Liberty Avenue; RUNNING THENCE easterly at right angles to the easterly side of 102nd Street and part of the distance through a partywall 58.06 feet; THENCE southeasterly 49.98 feet to a point on a line parallel with and distant 100.10 feet easterly from the easterly side of 102nd Street, the intersection of said line with the course herein forming an interior angle of 122 degrees 44 minutes 07; THENCE southerly parallel with the easterly side of 102nd with the easterly side of 102nd Street, 4 feet; THENCE westerly at right angles to the easterly side of 102nd Street 100.10 feet to the easterly side of 102nd Street; THENCE northerly along the easterly side of 102nd Street 31.02 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. JOSEPH FUCITO, Sheriff of the City of New York; DEPUTY VANESSA CORDERO, CASE# 18020437.

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Notice of Formation of CHAHAL CONSULTING GROUP, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/22/2018. 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: CHAHAL CONSULTING GROUP 24516 81st Ave., Bellerose, NY 11426.

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ERGA2151 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/18/18. 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, 6-10 158th Street, Whitestone, NY 11357. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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COURT COUNTY OF QUEENS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR RASC 2006EMX6, Plaintiff AGAINST LEON HEPBURN, JAMINE HEPBURN, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated April 23, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County Courthouse in Courtroom #25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, on July 20, 2018 at 10:00 AM, premises known as 10932 142nd STREET, JAMAICA, NY 11435. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, BLOCK 11927, LOT 39. Approximate amount of judgment $589,469.04 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 705697/2016. Helen P. Eichler, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC, Attorney for Plaintiff, 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100, Williamsville, NY 14221 54956

F61 LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/09/18.

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PA BLO R A FA EL ORDONE Z, P L A I N T I F F. E VO N N I C O L E SANTANA, DEFENDANT. NOTICE TO: EVON NICOLE SANTANA, The plaintiff has named you as a Defendant in the complaint which Is being brought in the above named court, seeking a dissolution of marriage and other relief. The court finds that all reasonable efforts to notify you have failed, your whereabouts are unknown and that notice of this action be given to you by this publication.

To respond to this complaint or be informed of further proceedings, you or your attorney must file an “Appearance” with the above named court. You are hereby notified that Automatic Court Orders are effective and are a part of the complaint on file with the above named court.

The foregoing notice is published pursuant to the ORDER OF NOTICE issued by the court on JUNE 13, 2018. This Notice shall appear once a week for two successive weeks commencing on or before JULY 12, 2018. Attest: /s / John Corelli, STATE MARSHAL COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD, Stamford, Connecticut, JUNE 15, 2018.

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The Queens Metropolitan High School varsity baseball team capped off a perfect 20-0 season with a victory in the PSAL “A” division city championship game last Sunday.

Playing through a steady drizzle at MCU Park in Coney Island, the top-seeded Knights — led by fifth-year head coach Ian Freed, rear left — defeated Samuel Gompers 3-2 en route to capturing the Forest Hills school’s first-ever city

baseball title.

The Knights put the first two runs up in the bottom of the second inning, when second baseman Christopher Martin drew a bases loaded walk to score Joseph Maglione.

Another run would came across that inning as pitcher Mike Sadowski scored on Ryan Daza’s groundout. QMHS would add another run in the third on Sadowski’s double, which brought home

Jacob Berman.

Sadowski would make those three runs stand up as he hurled a complete game.

Gompers managed to get a run back in the fourth inning and threatened again in the final frame when Gompers loaded the bases with two outs. Sadowski buckled down, however, as his seventh strikeout of the game ended the contest and sealed the championship for QMHS.

continued from page 20 tax system,” a City Hall spokesperson said. “As the commission moves forward, there will be opportunities for all stakeholders to get involved and we look forward to hearing from them.”

Friedrich said he’s also disappointed with the Council speaker.

“Corey Johnson also had a say in it,” Friedrich said. “So as far as I’m concerned, it’s a complete failure of the political system.”

T h e C o u n c i l s p e a ke r’s of f ic e acknowledged a request for comment but d id not provide one pr ior to deadline.

Bay Terrace activist Warren Schreiber is the other co-president of the Presidents Co-op and Condo Council.

He’s not in love with the new panel either.

“I think that the speaker’s sincere and well-intentioned and he wants to get this done,” said Schreiber. But the commission “could” feature co-op or condo board members or presidents, he said, or shareholders experienced with the issues created by the huge tax increases.

Along with his role at the council with Friedrich, Schreiber is the president of Bay Terrace Cooperative Section 1.

“I would say the same thing as far as other property owners go, too,” he Q added.

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continued from page 2 thoughtful questions and we look forward to delivering it for Governor Cuomo’s review.”

Borough President Melinda Katz, in a statement issued by her office, said it is a matter of justice reform.

“The unfairness in the city’s existing marijuana enforcement policy has been difficult to deny and has propagated unequal treatment within policing for far too long,” Katz said. “Mayor de Blasio’s new citywide policy unveiled today will help reduce unnecessary ar rests and enhance public trust.”

Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows), chairman of the Committee on the Justice System, was somewhat less impressed in a statement of his own.

“The Mayor’s new marijuana enforcement policy is a marginal improvement, but a real missed opportunity to fundamentally change how the City polices marijuana possession and smoking,” Lancman said.

“No one should be arrested for smoking marijuana, period,” he added.

Lancman said the new policy does not attempt to reduce criminal summonses at all, still allows arrests in circumstances that cannot be justified by public safety, will likely make marijuana policing even more discriminatory toward people of color, continues to expose noncitizens to deportation and takes no steps to eliminate the collateral consequences that are in the city’s control.

continued from page 10 amounts of money to campaigns.

In her re-election bid, the 72-year-old Maloney has spoken of her support for gun reform legislation and efforts to beat back the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, as well as congressional Republicans’ attempted appeals of the Affordable Care Act. In a debate last week, Maloney also criticized Patel for labor violations at hotels owned by his family’s company, as well as his alleged attempt at claiming a homestead tax exemption for residents of Indiana — where he lived with his family when he was younger — despite residing in Manhattan for the last decade.

Like Crowley, Maloney — who represents Astoria, Long Island City and far western Maspeth, along with northwest Brooklyn and much of Manhattan’s East Side — has the backing of a number of labor unions such as 32BJ SEIU.

“The legalization train in New York has left the station,” he said. “The Mayor should get on it.”

Lancman reiterated his call on the city’s five district attorneys to decline to pursue low-level marijuana cases, as that is within their prosecutorial discretion.

Queens District Attor ney Richard Brown, however, said de Blasio and O’Neill are striking the right balance.

“The Police Commissioner has chosen a wise middle ground,” he said Tuesday in a statement. “On the one hand, no state that has legalized recreational or medical marijuana has legalized the public smoking of it — an activity that can pose public health and safety hazards. On the other hand, many have been concerned about the level of enforcement and the impact on those charged. By choosing this sensible path, by which only the presence of limited aggravating factors will justify an arrest, the Police Department will continue to have the ability to control the activity without the majority of those committing the offenses being arrested and put through the system.”

Brown believes Summons Court will be more than adequate to handle the majority of cases, as under current conditions only a small handful of marijuana arrests result in a criminal conviction.

“While the means to the end may be different, the end remains substantially the Q same,” he said.

5th Congressional District Southeast Queens’ Democratic primary race has received little fanfare, but for Meeks — a 20-year veteran of Congress — to secure a spot in the general election, he’ll have to fend off two challengers.

The f irst is Com munity Board 13 member and Bellerose

Mizan Choudhury, left, and Carl Achille are running against Rep. Greg Meeks in TuesCOURTESY PHOTOS day’s primary.

resident Mizan Choudhury. If elected, he has expressed hopes of bringing a “technology park” complete with Fortune 500 companies to the district, while also advocating for a cleaner environment.

The second challenger is Elmont, LI resident Carl Achille, a former NYPD cop and Army veteran. Should he be chosen to lead the district — which includes the vast majority of south and southeastern Queens, the Rockaways and southwestern Nassau County — Achille said he will focus on veterans, as well as the opioid and homelessness crises.

Meeks has cited Jamaica’s economic growth and the postSandy rebuilding of the Rockaways — as well as fighting President Trump’s conservative agenda —as reasons he should Q Rep. Greg Meeks be re-elected.

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The former Sanford Hall mental institution in Flushing

How much can Jake take?

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Born in 1777, attorney Nathan Sanford of Flushing was a major figure in New York politics, serving as a U.S. attorney, state assemblyman, state senator and eventually a U.S. senator.

The Democrat-Republican lived in one of the finest homes in Flushing, which he erected in 1836 on a huge tract of land that extended from what was then Parsons Avenue on the east and Jamaica Avenue — later renamed Kissena Boulevard — on the west.

The thrice-married father of seven passed away in October 1838, a few weeks shy of his 61st birthday, with the MacDonald family acquiring the home.

Dr. James MacDonald took the property and turned it into a mental institution for the wealthy, while Gen. Allan MacDonald handled the security and was the keeper of the grounds.

Drs. Barstow, Brown and Buel all took turns over the decades running the facility.

They took in a maximum of 36

The Sanford Hall mental institution for the wealthy in Flushing. patients, with the rooms going for $25 to $50 a week.

Sanford Hall was in the news often, as people who had been committed by their families against their will were escaping and running away.

By 1910, the institution disappeared from directories as the large tract of land was sold.

What really went on in there is still sometimes speculated upon by historiQ ans today.

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

Jacob deGrom has been the best pitcher in the National League for the first half of the 2018 season. Opposing teams have been lucky to score a run off him and yet for all of his domination on the mound he has rarely gotten a win because the Mets’ offense, which is anemic to begin with, turns absolutely comatose when he is pitching. Mets third baseman Todd Frazier went over and apologized to him when the Mets once again wasted one of his gems last week losing 2-0 to the Braves in Atlanta.

To his immense credit, deGrom has not lashed out at his teammates the way Phillies ace Jake Arrieta did when the Phils were swept recently by the Giants in San Francisco. By this point deGrom has to be thinking that it’s not enough to pitch like Cy Young; in order to win games he is going to have to hit like Babe Ruth.

Gio Gonzalez, the terrific Washington Nationals starting pitcher who was in town last week as his team was taking on the Yankees, is a big deGrom fan. “He always gives his team a chance to win the game which is the highest priority for a starter.”

Gonzalez admitted that wins are the chief stat that stand out when a player retires, particularly when it comes to Hall of Fame balloting by the members of Baseball Writers of America.

The Mets were able to salvage a split with

the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix over the weekend as they defied everyone’s expectations by scoring four runs in the ninth inning on Sunday to win the game 5-3.

While that certainly boosted the morale of Mets players and their fans, it was yet another dreary offensive performance until that fateful ninth inning when both Brandon Nimmo and Asdrubal Cabrera slugged homers.

Not to be Debbie Downer here but the Mets are not the 1927 Yankees or even the 2018 Yankees. Mets general manager Sandy Alderson built a team that is overly dependent on the long ball. Winning teams, particularly those with strong starting pitching staffs, know how to manufacture runs by getting runners on base as opposed to waiting for the big blast.

HOPE Week (Helping Others Persevere & Excel) is the brainchild of Yankees media relations director Jason Zillo and it has become the gold standard in Major League Baseball community relations.

Now in its tenth year, most of the HOPE projects are aimed at young people, so it was refreshing to learn that the Yankees helped a retired fireman and ardent Bronx Bombers fan, 87-year-old Sal Reale, return to his old Elmhurst firehouse and meet current FDNY fireQ fighters and a number of current Yankees.

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94-11 157 Ave., Howard Beach, NY 11414 $798,888 1 Family (5 Levels + Grg)

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• Lindenwood • Large L-Shaped Two Bedroom Two Bath Cooperative With Terrace; In prime Lindenwood section. Laundry room on every floor. Intercom & buzzer vestibule entrance; park benches thru-out grounds. Low flip tax only $5.00 a share /345 shares. Monthly maintenance is $1090.40. Includes heat, hot water, cooking gas, security, and real estate taxes. Ideally located near shopping center; public transportation; express bus to mid-town; airport and major highways.

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Custom large Colonial, huge MBR w/luxury bathroom, premium floors, radiant heat and CAC unit on each floor, gourmet kitchen w/high-end appliances, 3 more BRs, 3 baths, study 41x107.

Asking $979K

Colonial, all updated, 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bths, home 26x100, wooden floors on first floor with radiant heat, huge EIK/DR combo with stainless steel appl., granite countertop.

New windows, new bath, 5-year-old roof, built-in microwave.

Asking $459K

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Large Brookfield (26x52) on 40x100 lot, 5 BRs, 3 full baths. Walk-in featuring 2 BRs, LR, DA, Kit and full bath. Brick and siding. New roof.

Asking $ 859K

"Totally Redone Colonial" 2018 mint large chef's kitchen. SS appl., 2 full baths, 3 bedrooms upstairs with walk-in closet, master bedroom has large full bath with Jacuzzi & separate shower, 1st floor has living room, dining room & bedroom or den. All new hardwood floors with radiant heat on 1st & second floors. New electric, windows & door Asking $898K

Large Colonial with gourmet kit / SS appl., 4 BRs, 2 full bths.

Bleached floors, radiant heat, skylights, hi-hats, Jacuzzi with separate shower, new pavers, new brk. & stucco, security cameras & intercom system.

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• Hard to find Hi-rise, 3BR, 2 full baths Co-op, totally redone building. .......... Reduced $265K • Garden 1st floor, lg mint, 3 BR,converted to 2 with FDR, granite countertops, new wood cabinets, S/S appl., center island bet kit. & DR, HW fls throughout, new bath, crown molding, lg custom closets. ..... Asking 289K IN CONTRACT • 1 bed Co-op. Totally updated, new kitchen. .......... Reduced $139K • 2BR/2 bath Co-op.

Hardwood floors, S/S appliances. Updated bath. .............. Asking $249K • Hi-rise – 2BR / 2 bath, Co-op w/17' terrace, .............. Asking $259K • Hi-Rise 2BR/2 bath Co-op w/terrace. Needs TLC. .............. Asking $272K • Greentree condo. 3rd fl. vaulted ceiling, kitchen w/ skylight, 3BR, 2 baths, 2 terraces, park & garage. .............. Asking $379K

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2 family in the heart of Ridgewood, newly remodeled first floor, new windows new front door, new hot water heater, 2 blocks from Fresh Pond Rd. Asking $1.2 mil

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Colonial. Being sold "As Is." Renovated after Sandy, 3 BRs, 1 bath.

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