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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — who’s all but guaranteed to take the 14th Congressional District seat after beating incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in Tuesday’s Democratic primary — addresses supporters from atop a bar at her election watch party just after being declared the winner. Now 28, if she defeats Republican Anthony Pappas in November, she’ll become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

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Ocasio-Cortez makes history, stuns Crowley The 28-year-old Bronx progressive takes down the Queens Dem boss

by Christopher Barca Editor

If you log onto the website of Manhattan tequila bar Flats Fix, looking back at you will be a year-old picture of Alexandria OcasioCortez shaking a cocktail with one hand and grabbing a glass with the other.

In that image, the 28-year-old Bronx resident’s mind appears to be elsewhere. And she has said since that it constantly was.

In between shifts behind the bar or waiting tables, Ocasio-Cortez was mapping out a seemingly far-fetched, nearly impossible run for Congress against Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx) — the longtime titan of New York City politics and massively influential boss of the Queens Democratic Party.

One year later, her cocktail-making days officially became a thing of the past. On Tuesday, quite simply, she made history.

In one of the more monumental upsets of an incumbent lawmaker in recent American history, Ocasio-Cortez — the insurgent leader of what ultimately became a powerful grassroots campaign against what she called the corrupt status quo — crushed Crowley by double digits in the 14th Congressional District’s Democratic primary.

Should she prevail in November’s general election — a near certainty — she will become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cries into her mother’s shoulder after pulling off one of the most historic upsets in recent political history — defeating Rep. Joe Crowley, the House Democratic Caucus PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA chairman, by 15 percentage points in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.

The race was called in Ocasio-Cortez’s favor shortly before 10 p.m., sending her approximately 100 supporters gathered at an election party inside a Bronx pool hall

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Standing on the pool hall’s bar top, OcasioCortez triumphantly told her joyous backers that the victory was not hers alone.

Instead, it belonged to anyone and everyone who gave so much as five minutes of their time to the campaign.

“Every person here this evening changed America tonight,” Ocasio-Cortez said to thunderous applause. “You have given this country proof that when you knock on your neighbor’s door; when you come to them with love; when you let them know that you’re there for them, we can make change.”

With 96 percent of the vote counted as of Wednesday afternoon, Ocasio-Cortez led Crowley 57 percent to 42 percent — 15,897 votes for the challenger to 11,761 for the incumbent.

In Queens, where Crowley has been Democratic party chairman for more than a decade, his margin of defeat was even larger.

Ocasio-Cortez picked up 58 percent of the vote to Crowley’s 40 percent in the borough — securing 11,084 votes to his 8,220 — coming away with resounding margins in neighborhoods like Astoria, Woodside, Sunnyside, Jackson Heights and College Point.

Astoria ended up being her best performing area in Queens, as she won 2,474 votes continued on page 14

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Flood assessments offered to residents Flood Help NY gets homeowners prepared for possible future storms

by Anna Sackel Associate Editor

More than five years after Superstorm Sandy left many residents in Queens devastated from flood damage, Flood Help NY is offering free flood risk assessments.

Flood Help NY is an organization that was created through the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery that helps inform homeowners on how to protect themselves and their money in events like Sandy.

William Norten, outreach associate for the Center for NYC Neighborhoods, the company FHNY is a part of, came to the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association meeting on Tuesday to speak to residents about flood insurance.

Flood Help NY was stationed at a civic meeting in Howard Beach.

“There’s a lot going on, maps are changing, it’s a lot, so I’m here to help you figure out how it affects you,” Norten said. “Flood insurance costs are rising because not only is climate change getting worse, but sea levels are rising.”

According to Norten, in the past 100 years the sea level has risen more than a foot, with another foot expected to rise in the next 50 to 60 years. Others put the rise at about 8 inches since 1880.

FHNY is offering residents in areas with a higher chance of f looding a free home evaluation to determine their risk and provide them with a free flood certificate.

The flood certificate allows homes with lesser risk to pay less for insurance.

“It’s estimated that three out of four New Yorkers are overpaying for flood insurance and if you don’t have a flood certificate there’s a good chance that you are, too,” said Norten.

Through FHNY residents can get a free home resiliency assessment, an elevation certificate and a customized home resiliency plan, which otherwise would cost around $1,800.

After the assessment qualified homes would also receive a free backwater valve, which can prevent sewage backblow into homes.

A representative from Flood Help NY at the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association meeting speaks to Howard Beach Kiwanis member Dino Bono about flood insurance. PHOTOS BY ANNA SACKEL Many South Queens residents fear another Sandy and Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic President Joann Ariola says that’s exactly why FHNY exists.

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Vote on airport wages pushed back by PA Port Authority will vote on $19 per hour minimum wage by September

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Andrea Bondy knows that she didn’t become an airplane cabin cleaner to become wealthy.

She said Tuesday that the board of the Port Authority can go a long way to making her and her colleagues more financially secure by voting to approve a measure that would phase in a minimum wage of $19 per hour for about 40,000 contracted workers at the three major airports in the New York City region by 2023.

But the board agenda for Thursday’s meeting includes resolutions to extend the public comment period on wages by 30 days.

“The Port Authority’s staff has recommended a supplemental comment period focused on four newly raised issues to enable the Board to make well-reasoned and wellinformed final determination on all issues with respect to increasing minimum wages at the airports,” according to a statement from the PA on Wednesday. “The proposed Board resolution specifies a final determination no later than the September Board meeting.”

Right now minimum at John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia airports is $15. Across the Hudson River in New Jersey the minimum is $10.10.

Representatives of 32BJ Service Employees International Union, which has been attempting to organize the airport’s contract workers for six years, hosted a conference call on

Airport workers, shown at a rally in 2014, are pressing the Port Authority to mandate a minimum wage of $19 per hour at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty airports. FILE PHOTO Tuesday where workers, union officials and supporters expressed their hopes that PA leadership is on board. The union represents cabin cleaners, wheelchair attendants, custodial and security personnel among others.

“I’m a single mother,” said Bondy, who has been working at JFK for six years. “It’s been rough. I have a daughter. I’m working six days a week with one day off.” She said it is hard to have the proper time with her daughter, and sometimes harder still to afford her child’s love of participating in track and field.

“That $19 would mean a lot to me,” she said.

Rob Hill, vice president and organizing director for 32BJ, said Tuesday he was hopeful that the board will see the benefits of creating better jobs.

Patrick Burns, a senior researcher at the Los Angelesbased Economic Roundtable, said the so-called ripple effects of the raises could be tremendous throughout airport communities and their surrounding regions by 2020, based on a report the group published two weeks ago.

“About 40,000 airport workers at or below $19 per hour would directly benefit from an increased minimum wage,” Burns said. “Eight-five percent of the workers have families.” He said more than half spend at least one-third of their income on housing.

Burns said a $19 minimum would generate up to $465 million in local economic activity by 2023, including money spent at grocery stores, gas stations, movie theaters and other businesses that would benefit from workers having more discretionary income. He said it could create 2,700 nonairport jobs as well.

The report states that the cumulative economic effect would raise more than $43.7 million in federal tax revenue and $33.7 per year in local and state tax revenue.

Hill said New Jersey workers lacked equity as former Gov. Chris Christie stopped the increases. He is more hopeful with Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ), who has been in office Q since January. The union supported Murphy.

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Mobster on trial supported by Ulrich Councilman praises resident prior to being tried for a sexual offense

by Anna Sackel Associate Editor

Howard Beach businessman and Bonanno crime family associate Robert Pisani is on trial this week for an alleged sexual assault that happened on April 28, 2017.

The alleged incident occurred in his Howard Beach deli, which has since been closed, with one of his female employees.

According to court files the alleged victim says that Pisani “grabbed her buttocks without her consent ... pulled the back of her bra strap causing it to snap open ... then grabbed her hand and placed her hand on the defendant’s penis without her consent.”

The trial began last Thursday, June 21, and the victim was scheduled to testify this past Monday.

Pisani is currently facing a maximum of one year in prison for this case.

Pisani had previously pleaded guilty in a Maf ia loansharking case in which he admitted to collecting unlawful debts in furtherance of a racketeering conspiracy.

He pleaded guilty on Nov. 17, 2017 and in the months leading up to his sentencing had reached out to family, friends and community leaders asking for character letters.

Dozens of Pisani’s close family and friends wrote letters to Judge Dora Irizar-

Robert Pisani’s deli in Howard Beach, seen when it was still open, where Pisani allegedly sexually GOOGLE MAPS assaulted one of his female employees. r y, including Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park).

Ulrich, who has known Pisani for a number of years, says he wrote the letter as a request from a constituent.

“I wrote the letter about the federal trial, not the sexual assault trial,” said Ulrich.

“Clearly I did not write the letter last week

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asking for any special treatment for the trial he is currently involved in.”

Last Friday the Daily News posted an article regarding Ulrich’s letter in which he called Pisani a “really good guy.”

Ulrich later took to Facebook to claim the article was fake news and a joke. Ulrich said he felt it made it look like he had done

something wrong.

“I guess to them I’m guilty by association. But that article didn’t do a good job at telling the whole story,” said Ulrich.

When asked why he agreed to write the letter, Ulrich said he has only ever known Pisani as a great help to the community.

“When my daughter was sick in the hospital he anonymously brought food to the nurses. I had to ask who it was, then when I offered to pay for the food he told me to give the money to charity,” said Ulrich. “That’s the guy I wrote the letter for. He still needs to take responsibility for his crimes and I made that clear in my letter.”

As for the sexual assault case, Pisani’s lawyer has said that they will fight the accusations. At press time no verdict has been made.

Ulrich said he wants it to be clear that he stands by everything he said in the letter, but that it was written to the judge for Pisani’s loansharking case, not his sexual assault trial.

“He deserves his day in court just like everyone else and he deserves the assumption of innocence until proven otherwise,” said Ulrich, about Pisani’s ongoing sexual assault trail. “But that letter I wrote had nothing to do with this trial, the two are Q like apples and oranges.”

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Days after the start of mobster Robert Pisani’s sexual assault trial, Forum Newsgroup publisher Patricia Adams pleaded guilty to misprision of felony.

Adams, who was originally indicted for obstruction of justice and witness tampering and faced up to 20 years in prison, now faces a maximum of three, with an advisory to the judge that she receive zero to six months.

Adams was arrested last August after she allegedly tried to prevent a teenage girl from pressing charges after the girl claimed Pisani, a Bonanno crime family associate, had sexually assaulted her at work.

Adams is scheduled for sentancing on Sept. 29.

According to a federal complaint, Adams spoke with the alleged victim’s father to try and convice him to make his daughter not file a complaint against Pisani.

The father recorded the conversation with Adams, who allegedly threatened to “disseminate embarrassing information” about the victim.

Adams apparently owed a gambling debt

After 20 years of being in the same building on 101st Street in Ozone Park, Five Star Electric Corp. may be packing up its stuff and heading out.

A manager for Five Star, Ralph Addonizio, says the reason the company wants to move is because of the garbage in the area.

Addonizio said that the trash on the streets surrounding the business is making the company look bad.

“It’s disgusting and we have people coming in, corporate people, and they drive through this and then we look back,” said Addonizio. “I called 311 and Sanitation but no one’s doing anything and now my boss says he wants to move.”

Garbage is being left all along 100th Street between Atlantic and Liberty avenues.

A couple of weeks ago a number of large concrete blocks were left on the side of the road. Addonizio said normally some of his workers try to clean up some of the garbage that gathers, but they can’t move the concrete.

Publisher of Forum Newsgroup, Pat Adams, pleaded guilty and faces jail time in a case FILE PHOTO connected to mob. to Pisani, who has previously pleaded guilty to loansharking and racketeering, and set up a meeting at Starbucks with the alleged victim’s father shortly after receiving a call from a number associated with Pisani.

“I have a personal, personal liability,” she allegedly stated. “I’ve been trying to get out for two years. But because of certain obligations, I’m forced to stay on. I’m kind of Q under their ... thumb.”

Cement blocks were dumped on 100th Street and left for weeks. PHOTO BY ANNA SACKEL The office of Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) heard the complaint and made a call to the Department of Sanitation to have the problem resolved.

“Our office was previously unaware of this issue. The Department of Sanitation will be addressing the issue this week,” said Ulrich’s Chief of Staff Kevin Tschirhart. “Quality of life is our priority.”

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P Alexandria the Great’s amazing victory over Crowley EDITORIAL

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No one deserves more credit for her surprise victory — and it surprised even her — than Alexandria the Great herself. She fully earned that moment Tuesday night when NY1’s declaration that she had won left her briefly looking stunned, and the one soon to follow when she and her mother hugged tightly and cried into each other’s shoulders. Not to mention her victory speech, delivered from the top of the bar at a tavern in her home borough of the Bronx.

Ocasio-Cortez is now all but certain to win the seat in November; she faces Republican St. John’s University professor Anthony Pappas in a district no member of the GOP could possibly hope to win today. Barring some unforeseen event of Earth-shattering magnitude, she’ll become in Janu-

ary the youngest woman ever to sit in Congress, at age 29.

Crowley, twice her age, is a 10-term incumbent. He’s powerful, serving as both chairman of the House Democratic Caucus and the Democratic Party here in Queens (the district is split between the two boroughs). Yet, like many who serve for a long period time, he apparently got complacent, not running nearly as active a campaign as Ocasio-Cortez did. It showed: She didn’t just beat him, she walloped him, taking 57 percent of the vote to his 43 percent. And she did it even though he raised more than 10 times as much money for the race as she did, nearly $3.4 million to her $300,000.

She even beat him by a greater margin in Queens than she did in the Bronx. A few lessons can be drawn.

Money is not as powerful a predictor of results as many think it is. Witness President Trump’s far lower spending on the 2016 campaign than Hillary Clinton’s, or Mayor Bloomberg’s disbursing of $108 million in his 2009 run, when he squeaked by with just a 4.4 percent margin of victory.

Endorsements from establishment figures don’t matter all that much either. Crowley got plenty of those, while OcasioCortez got the backing of fellow progressive Cynthia Nixon, the actress and activist trying to take down Gov. Cuomo.

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Tolled even in death Dear Editor: (An open letter to Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato) Yesterday, I heard the news from the local [neighborhood coordination officer] of the 106th Precinct of your pursuit to end the toll on the Cross Bay Bridge ... a daunting task! I write these words as a reflection in support of what you are trying to accomplish.

After hearing the news, I got into my car to attend the wake of a parishioner. The wake was located at O’Connor Funeral Home in Rockaway. Traveling just one parish over and within the same borough, I had to pay two tolls, like so many of the residents of South Queens do on a daily basis.

Every day many families shuttle their children back and forth across this bridge to school and sports, small businesses make deliveries and older folk go to doctors and visit friends, all of whom never leave the borough of Queens. Yet, they pay a toll.

Yesterday, a priest and mourners alike paid a toll to offer condolences to a grieving family and in a final act of indignity, the hearse carrying the deceased from the funeral home to the church had to pay a toll, never leaving Queens County! Nowhere else in this great city are residents forced to pay a toll to carry out their daily routine within the county they reside!

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Demographics do matter, a lot. Like much of Queens, the district has been growing more diverse over the years. Caucasians now only make up about 20 percent of its electorate, while Latinos are at 50 percent. It was nearly inevitable that eventually someone like Ocasio-Cortez, who is of Puerto Rican descent, would beat the Irish-American Crowley.

The number of disaffected people in the country is growing, largely due to income inequality, and they’re backing candidates from both major party’s relative fringes. OcasioCortez is a Democratic socialist; on the other side, Trump’s support among Republicans is actually increasing.

Another lesson is that New York State remains uniquely skilled at wasting taxpayer money. Voters here will go to the polls for another primary in September. Federal and state primary days have differed for several years due to a lawsuit that forced the former to be moved to June. Tuesday’s primaries cost about $10 million. The Legislature should move the state primaries to June also. That should also improve turnout, which was about 13 percent Tuesday in the 14th District.

It’s the kind of reform a candidate like Ocasio-Cortez just might support. Meanwhile expect her to win by an even bigger margin in November, when she’ll make history again.

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and there are so many stories like it.

I praise your efforts and pray that the New York State Legislature will hear your plea!

Father Francis A. Colamaria Pastor, Saint Helen Parish Howard Beach

Gang data critics wrong Dear Editor: Re Bre’Anna Grant’s June 21 repor t “Gang database is criticized for bias” (multiple editions): City Council members and community activists who condemn the NYPD’s Criminal Group Database endanger our safety. Cops need this data to track and target people who commit violent crimes or are likely to do so.

The database identifies 17,500 active gang members and 2,700 inactive members who remain close to gangs. Cops use this data for precision policing that takes dangerous thugs off the streets. Bronx police busted 18 street gang members who sold fentanyl-laced heroin

that killed people (Daily News, June 5). Civil liberties lunatics complain that street gang members listed in the database face higher bail fees and stronger charges. That’s how it should be. And those who entered our country illegally should be arrested and deported.

Social justice warriors want robbery victims to read Miranda rights to muggers. They support social injustice.

Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

Bike lanes bring biz Dear Editor: These editorials are not informed by science (“Bike lanes: a bane of businesses,” June 14, and “Cycling, street safety, harassment and the war on cars,” June 21). I am a professor at Columbia who studies transportation issues.

There is strong evidence that bike lanes increase business while also saving lives [see i nju r y prevent ion.bmj.com /content / early/2016/09/09/injuryprev-2016-042057].

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They certainly do displease car owners; however, it is important to remember that cyclists are consumers. While one block can accommodate only 10 cars, many cyclists will use a bike lane, and many more cycles can park on a sidewalk than can cars on a street.

Where businesses can get hurt is in instances where bike lanes are placed on nearby residential streets, thereby diverting bicycle traffic — and potential consumers — away from business districts.

It is important to get facts straight, whether in an editorial or journalistic piece. We have enough inaccuracy in our media.

Peter Muennig Jackson Heights

Lanes in wrong place Dear Editor: As a recreational biker, I support the expansion of bike routes throughout the borough, but not at the cost to quality of life. Along Queens Boulevard there was plenty of space on existing concrete medians for the bike lanes, but the biker community insisted on eliminating hundreds of parking spots for their lanes, and turning exit slip lanes into uncomfortable local-toexpress lane turns.

At public forums designed for neighborhood residents to offer feedback, bike activists from far and wide packed the meetings, claiming to speak for Forest Hills, Douglaston or Sunnyside. Now, these communities are fighting back.

If bike lane advocates wish to proceed in their goal of making our streets safer, they must learn to compromise. Having lived my childhood on Queens Boulevard, I propose opening up bike lanes for overnight parking. Most folks do not use bike lanes at 3 a.m. anyway.

Sergey Kadinsky Fresh Meadows

Keep lane on Northern

Biking on sidewalks has potential crash risks to walkers as well as cyclists. We do not know how pedestrians may move at any given moment or there may be barriers as well as limited visibility. The proposed area on Northern Boulevard is also the entrance to the Cross Island Parkway Trail. People who want to walk, run or bike should not be placed at risk.

Taking down wetlands to increase the sidewalk also poses risks. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency website, wetland benefits include “natural water quality improvement, flood protection, shoreline erosion control.” We recently had flooding with Hurricane Sandy. Furthermore, according to the website, wetlands “help moderate global climate conditions.” Rising temperatures have been associated with deaths.

If we are truly concerned about bicycle safety, we need more protected bike lanes. I always feel safer cycling home from work when I reach the protected bike lane. As stated earlier, protected bike lanes are validated by published research. It is imperative we implement evidence-based plans.

Dr. Ilana Slaff Bayside

Wheely sarcastic Dear Editor: As I drive my car along traffic-clogged Queens Boulevard, I often notice that there are only a few pedestrians on a whole block of sidewalk. Clearly, sidewalks are underutilized and should be eliminated. Many car-centric towns do not have any at all.

I am sure that all drivers would exercise the utmost caution not to kill or maim a pedestrian or bicycle rider when speeding along the new traffic lane, peering out through blacked out windows while they fiddle with an infotainment system and talking on a smartphone.

If bicyclists or pedestrians feel terrified, they should just stay home or call Uber.

Bill Herbert Kew Gardens

Bye bye, Ben’s Best Dear Editor: Although Ben’s Best has been a regular of kosher corned beef sandwiches for me for 30 years, as well as filled with fond memories of dining with friends such as Joe Franklin, WORTV and Radio, I must dispute the argument that the nascent installation of bike lanes on Queens Boulevard is the primary cause of Ben’s alleged 25 percent decline in business revenue.

According to the DOT, only 10 parking spots, not 200, were lost in the immediate environs of Ben’s. Also, Ben’s has been reimbursing continued on next page

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Dear Editor: I am responding to the article on June 21, “Douglaston demo blasts bike lane” (multiple editions). I feel this proposal would in fact be both a dangerous bike lane and a dangerous walking path, and I almost was a bike crash victim myself. One day when commuting home from work I had to abruptly stop my bicycle to avoid a car turning into me by just a few inches. I then fell, and thankfully I only had a few cuts and torn clothes.

This plan calls for expanding the sidewalk, which would be used by both cyclists and pedestrians. According to a research study involving 2,400 individuals by Dr. William E. Moritz, “Adult Bicyclists in the United States — Characteristics and Riding Experience in 1996,” the risk of a dangerous event was 39.8 times higher while mostly sidewalk riding compared with an on-street bike lane.

In another study involving 2,963 cyclists, “Sidewalk Bicycling Safety Issues,” by Lisa Aultman-Hall and Michael F. Adams Jr., the risk of a major injury is tenfold higher when biking on a sidewalk, compared to all bicycle rides combined. According to the city Department of Transportation, since installing bike lanes, crashes with injuries have been down 20 percent on these roads, and pedestrian injuries decreased by 22 percent.

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LETTERS TO THE continued from previous page patron’s parking in the Rego Park Center parking lot and, prior to installation of parking on the service roads contiguous to the main thoroughfare by former Mayor Bloomberg, there was only curbside parking for 50+ years of Ben’s existence without any adverse sales effects at Ben’s. The venue is easily accessible via subway and multiple bus lines.

To paraphrase Al Jolson, “I’d walk a million miles for one of your pastrami sandwiches, my Papa Ben’s?” (Yes, that’s the founding Papa, Benjamin, not the tenor Jan Peerce, on the dining room wall! What a beautiful portrait!)

The major impetus for Ben’s business decline is the demographic change in central Queens from European Ashkenazi Jews, a dominant cultural group, to Russian-speaking Bukharian Jews with their own unique Asian cuisine. In fact, a couple of doors down from Ben’s is a new glatt kosher Bukharian restaurant, as well as others in Rego Park and Forest Hills. In any event, as with myself, one doesn’t have to be Jewish to eat real Jewish rye (Remember Levy’s old TV commercial?), so what other factor may be involved? Even St. Patrick’s Day celebrations at Ben’s were tried! Perhaps, the bottom line is the schmaltz — fat — in Jewish deli cuisine, which is not “kosher” in current dietary changes of a vegetarian nature?

Although I do not think the Queens Boulevard bike lanes are appropriate, the argument thereof for Ben’s demise is moot. But if now we have no kosher Jewish delicatessen in central Queens, could you only imagine Heaven without a Jewish deli? I think we need a conversation about ecumenism now rather than about bike lanes! What Jewish deli can a Roman Catholic eat beyond St. Peter’s gates?

Joseph N. Manago Flushing

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Pay up, bike riders Dear Editor: You’re not going to like what I have to say.

I drive. I pay to have my car insured. I pay for inspection. I pay for a plate. I pay to renew both. I pay taxes for the roadways I drive on. I paid for the bike lanes.

If you’ve got wheels you should pay to use the roads you’re riding on. Your bikes should have a plate. You also should have insurance.

My car has been hit by bikes riding recklessly.

Footmarks, pedal marks, tire marks. I should have the right to charge your insurance carrier to fix it. You take pictures of cars in your lane, then make the driver get tickets. You should be accountable for your recklessness.

I have seen bikers go straight even though a car driver was signaling a turn, then cut the car off. If you got hit you would tell whoever is within earshot the driver deliberately hit you. I also think you bike people should take a test just like I do. Your eyes should be tested, you should know the rules of the road and you should have to follow them, including stopping for lights at intersections. Also you should pay tolls to cross the bridges that have them.

Just like my car, your bike should be

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inspected: your brakes, lights, handlebars, tire pressure and night blinkers — and you should be wearing reflective clothing at night. You think I’m kidding. I’m not. You want to puff your chest and demand bike lanes at the cost of the taxpayer and car insurance and registration. Then put your big boy pants on. What’s good for the goose is good for the millennial.

Stop causing accidents and fix the problem you made. Enough of the “Wha, wha, wha.”

I’m tired of it so much, I’m considering moving out of this nanny state. Pay your dues, help make the roads safe for all of us.

Wheel all be one big happy family.

Louise Price Middle Village

Slighting mass transit Dear Editor: The skepticism about Queens bicycle lanes expressed in the Chronicle’s June 21 editorial (“Cycling, street safety, harassment and the war on cars”) is appropriate as far as it goes, but the editorial’s concern for the happiness of automobile drivers is misguided. (Your “war on cars” is fanciful.) The real problem with the city’s desire to thread Queens with bike lanes is the campaign’s marginalization of mass transit —especially along Queens Boulevard.

The communities adjacent to the boulevard are served by subway lines — the E, F, etc. — and the Q60 bus, which have been wretched for years and are in desperate need of the cash and attention recently promised by the city and state to upgrade their service. But pandering to bicyclists is an easy way for politicians and Department of Transportation apparatchiks to dodge finding mass transit funds and to boast about their environmental credentials.

Bike lanes already snake through my neighborhood, Rego Park, and while I can’t recall seeing bicyclists using them, I can attest that the lanes render the miserably slipshod Q60 (surely the worst bus line in the city) even more slow and inefficient than it was BBN: Before the Bike Nuisance.

What Queens Boulevard needs is a modern state-of-the-art streetcar system running from Jamaica to Manhattan, a system that would relieve congestion on the nearby subways and — we should be so lucky — replace the Q60.

I know this is an unattainable dream, but to coin a cliche, if we can put men on the moon, surely we can figure out a competent method to move people from the Queens Boulevard region to Manhattan.

Howard Schneider Rego Park

Less space = more jams Dear Editor: There is even more to “Cycling, street safety, harassment and the war on cars” (Editorial, June 21).

Consider the connection between reduction in traffic speed and the corresponding loss in street capacity, which was ignored in a recent report released by New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg. In NYC over the past 17

years under Mayors Bloomberg and de Blasio, hundreds of miles of traffic lanes have been eliminated. This was due to the dramatic increase in the introduction of bike lanes and street-calming projects.

Forcing buses to share less street space with cars, taxis, UPS, Fed Ex and other delivery and commercial trucks, along with municipal vehicles, has contributed to a decline in traffic speed for everyone in all five boroughs. It also has resulted in increased conflicts with pedestrians. This is just like cholesterol buildup resulting in hardening of the arteries. All of this contributes to increased gridlock, pollution and adverse impacts to local businesses that count on timely pickup and deliveries along with adequate parking for customers.

Larry Penner Great Neck, LI

teeming detention center in southern Texas.

The mother was then put on a plane back to Guatemala, but her son was sent to a detention center for migrant children. Failing to return the child with his mother was not only a vindictive travesty, but tantamount to kidnapping.

Trump, his administration and too many Republicans, in addition to a lack of humanity have no understanding of law and order.

Trump’s claim, that this outrageousness is the fault of the Democrats, is typically false, consistent with his daily falsehoods. As president, he could with the flick of his wrist have stopped this inhumanity immediately. But more will come, because Trump does not possess a single element of humanity.

Benjamin M. Haber Flushing

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Dear Editor: In the June 14 issue, I wrote that Obama did several actions that were of dubious legality as opposed to Trump who talked of doing questionable actions but did nothing else (“What about Obama?”, Letters).

In the June 21 issue, Robert LaRosa wrote “Let me address each one of Lenny Rodin’s ‘opinions’ with something foreign to Trump’s supporters: ONLINE facts!” (“Fact is, Trump’s terriMiss an editorial or a ble,” Letters). letter cited by a writer?

First, I have Want breaking news stated on more from all over Queens? than one occaFind the latest news, sion that I did past reports from all n o t vot e fo r over the borough and Trump and have more at qchron.com. been critical of him. Mr. LaRosa should be the last person to talk about facts.

Second, Obama either did what I claimed he did or did not. It is not a matter of opinion. Mr. LaRosa conveniently ignored what I wrote because he is not interested in facts he does not like known. Also, Mr. LaRosa wrote about things Trump said but did not do, just as I wrote.

Mr. LaRosa wrote about policies Trump enacted but was in his legal right to do so whether we like it or not. I was offended by his comparison of Trump to Nazis due to his immigration policies.

I agree with conservative columnist John Podhoretz, who wrote, “Hitler wanted all Jews dead. Trump wants non-Americans who are here in violation of US law out of the United States. Dislike that all you wish. I do. I do not think that this is the right policy. But it’s not the systematic elimination of the Other.”

Earlier this month, I went with my mother to the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she was interned and where my grandmother now lies in one of the mass graves located on that site. I suggest Mr. LaRosa visit Bergen-Belsen, view the mounds covering the bodies of thousands of people and contemplate how ridiculous his comments were.

Lenny Rodin Forest Hills

Dear Editor: The New York Daily News reported last week that Mayor de Blasio sent out a missive to the secretary of Health and Human Services demanding to know the details on the numerous migrant children shipped to the city from the Mexican border.

In it he said, “Many of these children are struggling with profound emotional trauma and require immediate medical care.”

He “demanded”!

Seems like he didn’t demand the head of NYCHA, Shola Olatoye, step down when children in NYCHA housing were suffering from lead, mold and other environmental and safety hazards. As a matter of fact, “mayor righteous” defended her by issuing a statement after she resigned saying that he is grateful “for her service.”

We can just hope that these “border children” are not being housed in NYCHA facilities.

So much for demanding, Mr. Mayor.

Bill Viggiano Williston Park, LI

The inhuman Trump Dear Editor: Tearing an infant away from a breastfeeding mother comes as no surprise, given Trump’s inability to function as a rational, intelligent and sensitive chief executive.

Unless the Republican Party recognizes the legislative branch of our government is separate from and equal to the executive and acts to prevent such inhumanity, it will continue.

Another case in point is a mother from Guatemala and her 8-year-old son placed in a

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For decades people have been using the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial bridge as a way to get to and from the Rockaway peninsula with ease.

Until 2010 the bridge, which connected the Rockaways to Broad Channel, was free.

The toll was added to pay off the cost of construction and it currently provides the MTA with $19 million per year.

Area politicians have long fought to remove the toll, which is the only interborough toll in New York, but none have come close to getting any traction, until now.

On June 14 Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Beach) was able to pass a piece of legislation through the Assembly that would eliminate the toll.

“I made a pledge before taking office that I would work to eliminate the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge Toll,” PhefferAmato said in a press release. “Today, I had a thrilling win and a great step forward for our community.”

For the legislation to be enacted it would also have had to pass the Senate, which it did not. However, State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) says he is hopeful for the future of the bill.

“This was a huge success and the thing is, now I have a blueprint for how to get this passed the Senate,” said Addabbo. “It’s a fiscal issue that we can work with through our state budget.”

When asked how she felt about her legislation not passing the Senate, Pheffer Amato was anything but upset.

“I can’t be disappointed because the giant leap that the Assembly took overshadows anything else,” she said. “Now I know I have the support, and from politicans on both sides of the table.”

The reason, according to Addabbo, that it

Assembly woman Stacey Phef fer Amato addressing Tuesday’s Howard Beach-LindenPHOTO BY ANNA SACKEL wood civic meeting. did not pass the Senate was a combination of a time restraint and money.

The MTA makes $21 billion per year, and the money it makes from the Cross Bay toll is 0.1 percent their total yearly revenue.

“Your’re not going to balance the MTA budget on the toll from the Cross Bay Bridge,” said Addabbo. “We have never stepped closer to removing the toll and I think it’s a great thing.”

Back from Albany, Pheffer Amato spoke to some of her consituents at the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association meeting on Tuesday about her efforts in the Assembly.

“I was the first Assembly member ever to do this, but I certainly did it on the shoulder of everyone else before me,” said Pheffer Amato. “This step forward will never step back ... and I think that it’s really a reality because it makes no sense for it to still Q exist.”

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30,000 Queens UFT employees will be eligible for 6 weeks of home time

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In a country where paid maternity leave is anything but expected, the City of New York has a new plan to combat that.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the United Federation of Teachers announced last Wednesday an agreement that allows eligible UFTrepresented employees to take up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave.

“We were at the forefront of paid parental leave policies when we announced the benefit for managers in 2015 and now we build on that legacy,” said de Blasio, “extending it to more than 120,000 more New Yorkers who can plan for their families knowing they’ll have the support of their employer.”

In 2016 NYC mandated paid parental leave for 20,0 0 0 nonu n ion i zed cit y managers.

Previously only women who gave birth could take leave by borrowing and saving up sick days to allow for a maximum of six to eight weeks off, depending on whether the birth was vaginal or a cesarean section.

Under the new agreement, birth mothers can still use that plan, or they can choose to take six weeks of paid parental leave, too.

“No teacher should have to come to school sick because they’re saving their sick days to have a baby,” said de Blasio. “That’s

The New York City government and the United Federation of Teachers made a deal to provide six weeks of paid parental leave for more than 120,000 teachers, guidance counselors, para’s and others covered by the UFT. not fair to our teachers and that’s not fair to our students.”

Both birth and nonbirth parents represented by the UFT are eligible for this new program, including mothers and fathers who are birth parents, adoptive parents and foster parents.

According to the mayor’s press office

more than 30,000 people in Queens will be eligible for the new benefit. This plan covers anyone who is represented by the UFT including teachers, paraprofessionals, social workers, school psychologists and others.

The money to fund the program will not be coming from taxpayers. The city will not pay any new costs for parental leave, instead

the UFT will compensate for 100 percent of the recipients’ salary during their time off.

The UFT said that on average 4,000 of its members use the current system to take maternity leave.

The new option will be available starting Sept. 4, 2018 and is the first of its kind in the city. It will cost the city $51 million annually but that will be offset by contracted savings. De Blasio and others involved in the agreement say they hope that it sets an example for other unions to do the same.

This deal will cost the UFT about $35 million a year but promises it will not reflect harshly on members benefits.

The UFT said in a press release “the new agreement does not require the loss of an expected raise, reduced vacation time, or similar contract concessions.”

UFT President Michael Mulgrew praised the mayor, saying “he knew this was important to our city. No mayor before him was willing to do it, but he got it done.”

“As a parent, I can’t overstate how important it is for new parents to have the opportunity to care for and bond with their newborn,” said Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza. “Today we’ve shown that New York City is dedicated to ensuring our tireless and committed teachers have a strong supQ port system.”

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Ocasio-Cortez stuns the nation, defeating Rep. Joe Crowley continued from page 2 to Crowley’s 1,027. The incumbent, meanwhile, did well in East Elmhurst, where he beat Ocasio-Cortez by about 800 votes.

In the Bronx, the challenger’s home borough, Crowley lost by seven percentage points — a little over 500 votes.

Despite the national media attention around the race, turnout was low, as only 13 percent of the 214,570 registered Democrats in the district voted on Tuesday.

However, Ocasio-Cortez labeled her commanding victory a warning shot across the bow of Democratic lawmakers nationwide who don’t take progressives in their districts seriously.

“What I want to make very clear is that this is not an end. This is a beginning,” she told her supporters. “Because the message we sent the world tonight is that it’s not OK to put donors before your community. The message we sent tonight is that improved and expanded healthcare for every single person in America is what we deserve as a nation.

“What we proved tonight is that sometimes, in the deep darkness of our political environment, that there is still hope for this nation. That is what you have given every person in this country.”

She also implored her backers to immediately support fellow progressives like herself running all across the country in order to “introduce a wave of change.”

“Let’s celebrate tonight and then let’s recommit ourselves to the future of this great nation,” she said. “Thank you all.”

Waiting for Ocasio-Cortez next to the bar was her mother, Blanca. After the challenger’s victory speech, the two emotionally embraced, crying into each other’s shoulders.

In an interview with the Chronicle shortly after, Ocasio-Cortez said she wasn’t sure she would be able to process her stunning win for months. ”My family went through so much. My mother cleaned houses and drove school-

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, standing on a bar top at her election night victory party in the Bronx, implores her joyous supporters to get behind other like-minded Congressional candiPHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA dates, calling for a nationwide movement.

buses. Nine months ago, I was serving customers at a restaurant,” she said. “What this means for her and my family, all the struggles we went through, there’s light at the end of it.”

“This was a long time coming. I just told her I believed in her,” Ocasio-Cortez’s mother told the Chronicle. “I’m extremely proud.

I can’t even find the words to describe exactly how I feel. It’s amazing.”

In early May, Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with the Chronicle that she would consider getting 40 percent of the vote a major victory. But in the days leading up to the primary, the candidate and some of her supporters told the paper that winning outright looked entirely possible, if not likely.

Asked Tuesday if she ever thought she would win by double dights, however, Ocasio-Cortez admitted even she was stunned.

“Honestly, this entire time, when I thought about 9 p.m. today, I couldn’t do it.

It was blacked out,” she said. “I did not, no.

The answer is no. I’m shocked.”

At his election party in Jackson Heights, Crowley conceded the race to Ocasio-Cortez around 10 p.m., promising to support her general election bid against little-known Republican candidate Anthony Pappas — a St. John’s University professor.

“It has been the honor of a lifetime to represent Queens and the Bronx. I am proud of the race we ran and, more importantly, proud of all of the work we’ve done to advance this community,” Crowley said.

“I want to congratulate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

I look forward to supportSome of Ocasio-Cortez’s supporters, like this woman, could be ing her and all Democrats seen openly weeping during the candidate’s victory speech on this November. The Trump administration is a threat Tuesday night.

to everything we stand for here in Queens and the Bronx, and if we don’t win back the House this November, we will lose the nation we love.”

Crowley, who is also a musician, even picked up a guitar and played Bruce Springsteen’s legendary hit “Born to Run” in Ocasio-Cortez’s honor with the band he had at the election party.

Crowley was first elected to Congress in 1999, eventually rising through the ranks to become the House Democratic Caucus leader.

Should he have won on Tuesday — and if Democrats were to win back the House in November — he was seen as a top contender to become chamber speaker.

But Ocasio-Cortez, a first-time candidate, ran a spirited campaign over the last year, declaring that a district complete with multiple, thriving immigrant communities needed a representative who not only looks like them, but has shared their struggles.

She also repeatedly hit Crowley over his ties to Wall Street and corporate donors, while pledging herself to never accept money from political action committees or corporate interests.

Crowley, meanwhile, tried to paint his opponent as too inexperienced, while portraying himself as the candidate to best take on President Trump.

A darling of the progressive left, OcasioCortez campaigned on liberal principals championed by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — she volunteered on his 2016 presidential campaign — such as tuition-free college, Medicare for all and a federal jobs guarantee.

She’s also been outspoken about abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even traveling to Texas last weekend to protest outside a migrant detention center with a number of activist groups.

Her victory is arguably the biggest in the history of both the Democratic Socialists of America and the Sanders-inspired progressive group Our Revolution, two organizations that endorsed Ocasio-Cortez.

In her victory speech, she thanked a number of fellow female progressive and DSAbacked candidates by name — including state Senate hopeful Julia Salazar and Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley, the Massachusetts congressional candidate who campaigned with her in recent weeks — for helping prove that women, especially women of color, are the future of the Democratic party.

One of those women she mentioned was gubernatorial hopeful Cynthia Nixon, who endorsed Ocasio-Cortez on Monday and was on hand to celebrate the victory.

In an interview with the Chronicle, Nixon said Ocasio-Cortez’s win proved that even the most entrenched Democrats, like Crowley and Gov. Cuomo, are beatable.

“She ran a brilliant campaign, but more importantly, she showed that if you give voters someone they can trust — a new, more progressive member of the Democratic Party — they will vote for them,” Nixon said. “My, how much she deserves this. She must be so thrilled.”

“I think she’ll be a great leader for Queens and the Bronx in Congress,” she continued.

In a Wednesday email, St. John’s University political science professor Brian Browne said it is time to “throw out the rule book” when it comes to elections in the city.

“Ocasio-Cortez portrayed a 20-year incumbent and a rising star in the Democratic leadership as being out of touch with a changing district,” Browne said. “This was unexpected and the political shockwaves will be felt for some time. Queens County politics is changing and Alexandra OcasioCortez has made her name known far beyond the borders of the 14th Congressional District.”

A laundry list of lawmakers from U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) to Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) congratulated Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter.

Trump even took to the medium to bash Crowley, celebrating the loss of the “Big Trump Hater.”

“That is a big one that nobody saw happening,” Trump tweeted. “Perhaps he should have been nicer and more respectful to his President!”

Ocasio-Cortez is no fan of Trump, however. Not only did she say on CNN on Wednesday that she supports impeaching the president, she has called a number of his policies “fascist” and “disgusting” over the course of her campaign.

But on Tuesday, neither she nor her supporters spoke much of Trump or the future of his administration.

Instead, it was all about climbing a political mountain that no one thought could be climbed.

Her days of serving drinks behind the bar at Flats Fix are long gone.

Come January, she will almost certainly find herself serving her constituents in Congress instead.

“Every person in this room is going to DC with me,” Ocasio-Cortez told her supporters. “Every person in this room is Q responsible for change.”

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GOP makes new offer on school speeding De Blasio, Democrats doubt that stop sign, signal bill will pass or would work

by Michael Gannon Editor

Just over 48 hours after bills to extend or expand school zone speed cameras died in the state Senate, the body’s Republican majority introduced a measure to extend their use for six months while requiring traffic lights or stop signs “at every school intersection.”

According to a press release issued Saturday morning, S9213 would use the money collected from school zone fines to install lights and signs at 1,000 schools.

New York City currently has 140 speed cameras set up in school zones. Their legal authorization ends July 25.

The Democrat-controlled Assembly passed and Senate Democrats sought to expand that to 290 cameras, or, failing that, to at least continue the status quo.

They lacked the 32 votes necessary to pass the legislation in the Senate, however, with Sen. Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn) caucusing with the GOP. The new Republican bill is sponsored by Sen. Andrew Lanza (R-Staten Island) and co-sponsored by Felder and Sen. Martin Golden (R-Brooklyn).

“Nothing will slow a driver down more than a stop sign or a red light which makes this legislation a lifesaver,” Lanza said in Saturday’s announcement. “It is time for New York City officials to end their opposition to my legislation and stop choosing money over the safety of our children.”

The Senate GOP pointed out that the city has earned over $83.4 million from speed camera violations since 2014.

T he r ele a s e c ont i nu e d t h at u nd e r t he p r op o s e d #Stop4Students campaign, rigorous enforcement would not be abandoned. Violations issued to motorists responsible for speeding would result in twice the fine for speeding in a school zone, and points that could result in suspension or revocation of a license could be issued.

“Over the years, many legislators have tried to solve this problem, but their solutions are limited to a small number of schools, protecting a fraction of students,” Golden said. “This new initiative will actually slow cars down and protect all New York City school children.”

Published reports say Felder — never a fan of the cameras to begin with — sought to tie speed cameras to a measure funding police officers in front of schools.

Neither Mayor de Blasio nor state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) was much impressed with the new bill.

“This is a scam deal that will do nothing to continue the progress we’ve made in reducing traffic deaths,” de Blasio spokesman Raul Contreras said in an email to the Chronicle on Monday. “For the sake of our kids, the legislature must reject this and the Senate must get back to Albany and do its job before it goes on summer vacation.”

Speed cameras protecting roads near several schools will shut down on July 25 absent a deal in Albany to extend their use.

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Gov. Cuomo has said he will not call anyone back to Albany for a special session without assurances that some sort of camera legislation will pass.

Addabbo, speaking to the Chronicle on Monday, called the newest bill a distraction.

“It seems to be an attempt to address everything but the cameras, which are already there,” Addabbo said. “If you don’t want to expand it, just extend what is already there.”

Addabbo pointed out the session is over; the bill does not reference a companion in the Assembly; and the Assembly’s overwhelming Democratic majority would be unlikely to support something similar even if it existed.

He also suggested that the call for stop signs and lights in place of cameras comes with difficulties beyond Albany’s control.

“It would be jurisdictionally problematic,” Addabbo said.

“Sen. Lanza and Sen. Golden served with me on the Council. They know that when it comes to stop signs and traffic lights, the city’s [Department of Transportation] uses federal criteria.”

Scott Reif, spokesman for the Senate Republicans, said in an email last Thursday there had been no effort on the part of the mayor to move the matter until the very end of the session, which ended after midnight last Thursday morning.

“If the Mayor is focused on assigning blame, he should start with his good friend Speaker [Carl] Heastie [D-Bronx], who for weeks folded his arms and refused to discuss any of the key issues before the Legislature, including New York City speed cameras. [Wednesday] night, his supposed allies in the Senate Democrat conference voted down our efforts to reduce speeding in every New York City school zone to better protect kids from dangerous drivers. You want to talk about a failure of leadership?”

Reif also wrote in his email that de Blasio and his surrogates made no effort to reach out to Sen. Majority Leader John Flanagan (D-Suffolk) to discuss City Hall’s priorities in the session.

“We haven’t heard from him in months. Until today,” Reif wrote.

City Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) called the stalemate “just another sign of Albany’s dysfunction.”

Dromm, who taught at PS 199 in Sunnyside for 25 years, said it is a personal matter for him, vividly recalling one horrible day when he was on bus duty.

“I heard the car’s tires squeak,” he said. “We ran over and I saw a student lying in the street. He wasn’t badly hurt, but you don’t know what it feels like when a child is lying there and you’re trying to help him.” He also recalled an incident when a third-grader in a different school was killed on his bicycle just before Christmas.

“His presents for his teachers were just laying there in the middle of Northern Boulevard ...”

Dromm believes if the Senate did not want to expand the program, it easily could have kept what was already in place.

The city contends that the cameras are carrying out their intended purpose — to reduce speeding, injuries and fatalities.

Based on information going back to 2013, the year before Vision Zero took effect, city statistics show that between 2014 and 2016, 81 percent of plates which received one speed camera violation did not get a second.

In school zones with speed cameras, speeding has declined by 63 percent. The number of pedestrians struck in school zones with cameras dropped 17 percent. Fatal crashes in these zones have dropped 55 percent and severe injury and fatal crashes have dropped 21 percent.

The city also contends that DOT engineers regularly, routinely and thoroughly analyze areas that need stop signs and red lights, and that the city does not need state legislation to Q carry out that work.

Boro leaders rip SCOTUS decision in union case

by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

The Supreme Court dealt a major defeat to public sector u nions Wed nesday, declaring it unconstitutional for them to collect “fair share” fees from nonmembers. Queens leaders were quick to denounce the 5-4 decision.

“Denying a fair share to public sector unions will constrain their ability to collectively bargain for pay, healthcare, and pensions, but this decision will never eliminate our collective efforts to preserve and enhance fundamental work-

place and living standards,” Councilman Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) said in a prepared statement. The lawmaker is a former president of the Rosedale-based Amalgated Transportation Union Local 1056, which represents bus drivers and maintainers.

The decision in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municpal Employees Council 31 dictates that public employees cannot be compelled to give money to the unions that represent them.

“The Janus case decision is a blow to unions and the labor movement,” state

Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) said in a prepared statement.

“This will harm their ability to fight for workers’ r ights,” Rep. G race Meng (D-Flushing) tweeted.

Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio were also among the myriad politicians to condemn the Supreme Court’s decision.

Leaders of public sector unions, unsurprisingly, also blasted the ruling.

“The Janus decision ref lects years of scheming by forces desperate to destroy workers’ rights and to undermine public education,” United Federation of Teach-

ers President Michael Mulgrew said in his own statement. “These people think that their money, power and privilege give them the right to rig the system in their favor.”

In other Supreme Court news, Justice Anthony Kennedy, who sided with the majority in the Janus case, announced Wednesday that he’d retire at the end of July. According to published reports, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he plans on having a confirmation hearing in the fall for President Trump’s Q nominee to succeed Kennedy.”

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A new piece of legislation co-created by state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), along with Assemblyman Brian Barnwell (D-Maspeth), has passed both the Senate and Assembly, according to a press release on Wednesday.

The bill, which now goes to Gov. Cuomo for approval, calls for a commission to study of New York City’s coastline.

After the amount of damage parts of the city faced following Superstorm Sandy, the study will look to determine if building a seawall, or seagate, would protect the coastline from future exreme weather events.

“Those of us who lived through Hurricane Sandy know full well the devastation that can be caused by rapidly rising sea levels and stor m su rge,” said Addabbo.

“Almost six years later, and despite a great deal of progress, some of our residents are still working to recover from a storm that claimed human lives, destroyed properties and transportation systems, demolished local businesses, and otherwise presented extraordinary challenges we had never faced before in our communities.”

If the bill is approved by Cuomo, a commission team within the NYS Department

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of Environmental Conservation will conduct an assessment of the feasibility of a seawall.

The commission would look at the seawall that was built in Galveston, Texas about a century ago as an example. If approved, the study should be complete by Q Dec. 31, 2020.

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Guv signs bill for AirTrain to LGA Rail access to and from Manhattan is goal; route along GCP at issue

by Bre’Anna Grant Chronicle Contributor

Gov. Cuomo signed legislation Monday to advance the process to build a new AirTrain connection to LaGuardia Airport. The new law will allow multiple potential alignments to be considered during an upcoming environmental review of the proposed AirTrain LGA project, planned between the airport and the Long Island Rail Road Station and the 7 subway train at Mets-Willets Point in Flushing.

In a statement, the governor said the action marks another critical step toward making a mass-transit link between Midtown Manhattan and LaGuardia a reality, which will help reduce vehicular congestion and delays for passengers traveling to and from the airport. AirTrain LGA seeks to establish a reliable, convenient means of travel, with less-than 30-minute trips between the airport and New York Penn Station or Grand Central Terminal. It will also provide rail access from all of Long Island via the LIRR as well as the MTA’s 7 subway line.

“The new LaGuardia Airport will provide an improved customer experience with better access to airlines and public transportation for all passengers — essential to the airport’s transformation,” Cuomo said. “AirTrain LGA will set an example of comprehensive transit infrastructure for the rest of the nation, and will pay dividends for decades by connecting

The route of the planned LaGuardia AirTrain could go along the Grand Central Parkway, left, or PHOTO BY STEVE MALECKI the Flushing Promenade, right. Some oppose the project. riders to transit hubs across the Metropolitan area, boosting passenger growth across all airlines, and providing a more efficient means of travel for generations to come.”

LaGuardia is the only major East Coast airport without a rail link.

“For too long, LaGuardia Airport has had the dubious distinction of being the only major East Coast airport without a rail link, and that is unacceptable,” said Port Authority Executive

Director Rick Cotton. “Simply put, a 21st century airport must meet global standards, and that requires rail mass transit access. The AirTrain will complement the ongoing $8 billion redevelopment of LGA into a world-class airport worthy of New York.”

For some, however, the signing is not a milestone, but a problem. Moments after Cuomo signed the bill, the East Elmhurst Alliance and the Dit mars Blvd. Block Association

denounced the signing and pledged to fight the AirTrain project.

Frank Taylor has been an East Elmhurst resident since 1956.

“I cannot see any upside to an AirTrain in our community. Simply stated, I believe this project will negatively impact our quality of life for a service that is not needed,” said Taylor, president of the Ditmars Blvd. Block Association. “I also call to question the large taxpayer investment with no economic upside for our community or the State. Our Association stands firmly against this project.”

State Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) said, “As Governor Cuomo signed legislation paving the way for the construction of an airlink to LaGuardia Airport, it is critical that we continue listening to the community to determine the best location for the project. With the upcoming environmental review pending, we must ensure the route chosen is the most beneficial for the community.”

Hiram Monserrate, former councilman, East Elmhurst resident and a member of the East Elmhurst Corona Alliance, is also pledging to fight back.

“Our community is tired of the constant disregard by our local government. We have been targeted again. We have endured many years of massive expansion and construction at continued on page 25

Queens pols paid a visit to the border Meng and Suozzi went to federal immigration facilities last weekend

by Ryan Brady

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Amidst a heated national discussion about immigration policy, two Congress members who represent Queens took trips to federal facilities by the border. Reps. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) and Tom Suozzi (D-Suffolk, Nassau, Queens) went to Texas on separate trips.

Last Saturday, Meng and a group of other Congress members — she was the group’s only one from New York — visited two facilities by the border: the Port Isabel ICE Detention Center in Los Fresnos, Texas and the Border Patrol Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas.

“We’ve seen images online with the kids and the tinfoil-like blankets and its exactly what we saw in real life,” the congresswoman said in a Chronicle interview. “And it was just really devastating. As a mom of two young boys it was really eerie for me to see hundreds of kids just sitting there, still, sleeping in the middle of the day, not moving at all.”

Even infants, she said, were locked in cages.

Although President Trump last week issued an executive order ending the policy of separating unauthorized immigrant parents from their children, the families already subjected to it won’t be immediately reunited. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security now plans to have the kids and parents reunited when the latter’s deportation proceedings end.

Meng and other Democratic House members are supporting a bill introduced by Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pennsylvania) that would, if passed, require the federal government to bring the families back together within 60 days.

And a federal judge in California on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration must reunite families separated at the

border within 30 days. The deadline given by the judge for kids under 5 years old is 14 days.

At the Border Patrol Central Processing Center, the congresswoman met with detained mothers whom the government separated from their kids.

“About 30 moms were there and within minutes they all started crying and bawling,” explained the congresswoman, who also discussed her experience in a pair of videos on Twitter. “Most of them had not talked to their kids for weeks and didn’t know where their kids were. A few of them had talked to their kids but they did not know which state they were in or who was actually caring for them.”

While Trump’s executive order was supposed to stop the crisis, the congresswoman said, its implementation hasn’t been totally smooth.

“When I went down there, I saw there is no guidance on the actual agents on the ground on how to carry out this executive order,” she said.

On the same day Meng was at the border, Suozzi went to El Paso, Texas with a bipartisan delegation that included seven other House members. He visited the detention facility in Tornillo, Texas which was constructed to house immigrant kids separated from their families, and posted on Facebook about his trip.

Mayor de Blasio and others in the United States Conference of Mayors had tried to enter the same facility last week but weren’t let in.

Along with Nassau County Executive Lauren Curran, the congressman on Monday visited MercyFirst in Syosset, LI, a nonprofit that is providing shelter to 10 migrant kids who’ve been separated from their families.

Rep. Grace Meng stands outside of the Border Patrol Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas during her visit to the borPHOTO COURTESY U.S. HOUSE der last weekend.

“When it comes to the separated children that I saw in Texas and in Syosset, I will do everything I can to help expedite the reunification of these children with their moms and dads,” the congressman said in a prepared statement. “I also want to see that the departments responsible for doing this, the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Department of Homeland Security, are working together and have a plan.

What happened to these children and their families was Q wrong. Now, we need to come together to fix this.”

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Nearly four out of every 10 students in the city are Jewish or Muslim, according to Weprin, who has been advocating for a citywide program similar to this one through legislation he has presented in Albany.

Both Weprin and Meng say they hope to see the program expand and flourish in the near future.

“This pilot program is the right step for ward in creating a more inclusive approach to school lunches in our city.

Students should feel welcomed at their schools, and including different dietary options is a critical element to ensuring that no one goes hungry,” said Meng in a press release. “I’m proud to applaud this new program, and look forward to this initiative benefiting students throughout Q our city.”

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A new pilot program for halal and kosher lunches to be provided in schools was just given $1 million to begin in the next school year.

Cong resswoma n G race Meng (D-Flushing) hailed the program in a June 21 announcement.

“I have long called for halal and kosher meals to be made available in New York City schools and I’ve made similar calls on the federal level as well,” said Meng.

“This pilot program is great news and I’m pleased that Jewish and Muslim students will f inally have lu nch options that adhere to their dietary restrictions.”

Last September Mayor de Blasio and the Department of Education announced that lunches would be free to all students in public schools in all of New York City.

But many religious leaders slammed de Blasio following the announcement saying that Jewish and Muslim students were being left out.

Twenty-one religious leaders f rom around the city sent a letter to the mayor after last year’s announcement saying that “thousands of children in our community and the Muslim community are left out of this initiative due to religious dietary restrictions.”

Since then many politicians, including Meng and Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows), have called for the free school lunches to be more inclusive.

Weprin, who previously proposed a bill for kosher, halal and more vegetarian options for students, says this new program is a step in the right direction.

“No one should have to choose between a hot nutritious lunch and their religious beliefs,” said Weprin. “I’m excited about the pilot program but I hope to see it expand and become permanent.”

Weprin says that providing these meals for students shouldn’t be a question, it should be a given.

“You get this food in state prisons.

Inmates have these options but our school children don’t,” said Weprin. “It seems certain we should provide these for our kids.”

The pilot program will kick off in September and four schools will be selected, two public schools and two private schools.

The schools have not yet been selected.

Early this year Meng sent a letter to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) outlining the importance of providing more inclusive lunches in schools.

“The NYC school system is the largest and most diverse school system in the country,” Meng said in the letter. “We must do all we can to ensure that our school lunch program is as inclusive to

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The city should find a way to make Paul Simon’s farewell show at Flushing Meadows Corona Park free, Borough President Melinda FILE PHOTO Katz says.

The borough president’s remarks about Simon’s show comes after statements given during her first term about proposals by forprofit concert organizers to stage festivals in Flushing Meadows.

In a November 2015 statement, Katz highlighted the concerns about the concerts taking up space that could otherwise be used by Queens residents who wanted to play sports or take part in other activities at the park.

In a statement to the Chronicle responding to Katz’s stance on the concert, a Parks Department spokesperson said the agency shares the borough president’s “excitement for Paul’s return to Queens.”

That doesn’t necessarily mean the de Blasio administration’s going to find a way to make the farewell show gratis, though.

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Should the city make Paul Simon’s upcoming farewell concert in Flushing Meadows Corona Park free?

Yes, according to Borough President Melinda Katz. She said as much last Wednesday.

“Queens adores the fact that Paul Simon has chosen to come home for the final concert of his Farewell Tour. As a lifelong fan, I am absolutely thrilled,” Katz said in a prepared statement. “The news, however, is bittersweet. The City of New York could have — and should have — turned this long-anticipated homecoming of Paul Simon into a free concert for all in the park, not limited to those who can afford to pay concert ticket prices at the expense of the surrounding community.”

Simon, renowned internationally for his partnership with Art Garfunkel and his solo work, is a Kew Gardens Hills native who graduated from Forest Hills High School and Queens College. One borough neighborhood is referenced in his song “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” when Simon sings, “Goodbye to Rosie, the queen of Corona,” and the duo’s “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)” references the Queensboro span, though by its Manhattan name.

Fittingly, the Sept. 22 concert is called “Homeward Bound: The Farewell Performance.” All of Simon’s personal net proceeds from the show will go to charity.

“There are still several days before tickets go on sale,” Katz said in her statement. “In fairness to all New Yorkers, the City should figure out a way to make this historic performance free and accessible to everyone.”

Simon fans can buy tickets on Friday, June 29. According to the website for the concert, the stage for the show will be slightly south of the Unisphere.

Concert organizers did not immediately return a request for comment.

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ONE FLUSHING 231 NEWLY CONSTRUCTED UNITS AT 133-45 41st AVENUE, FLUSHING, QUEENS Amenities: 24-hour attended lobby, on-site resident manager, bicycle storage*, resident lounge, roof top garden, fitness center* and laundry facility*. *Additional fees apply Transit: 7 Train; LIRR; Buses N20, N20G, Q20A, Q20B, Q44, Q25, Q34, Q65, Q12, Q13, Q16, Q28, Q17, Q27, Q58, Q48, Q19, Q50, Q15, Q15A, Q26 No application fee • No broker’s fee • Smoke-free building • More information: www.one-flushing.com This building is being constructed through the Mix and Match Program of the New York City Housing Development Corporation and the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

Individuals or households who meet the income and household size requirements listed in the table below may apply. Qualified applicants will be required to meet additional selection criteria.

Applicants who live in New York City receive a general preference for apartments.

Who Should Apply?

Units are set aside for applicants with: • Mobility disabilities (13 units) • Vision or hearing disabilities (5 units) x Seniors aged 62 or older (66 units) Preference for a percentage of units goes to: • Residents of Queens Community Board 7 (25%) • Residents of Queens Community Board 3 (12.5%) • Residents of Queens Community Board 4 (12.5%) • Municipal employees (5%)

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1 person $ 20,675 - $ 2 people $ 20,675 - $ 1 person $ 22,149 - $ 1 bedroom $589 3 ൺ 2 people $ 22,149 - $ **40% and 50% AMI units are designated for applicants whose households include at

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$ 31,543 - $ 43,860

2 people

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2 people

$ 40,423 - $ 50,100

3 people

$ 40,423 - $ 56,340

4 people

$ 40,423 - $ 62,580

3 people

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Studio

Annual Household Income3 Minimum – Maximum4 29,240 1 person $ 26,126 - $ 36,550 ൺ $707 37 33,400 2 people $ 26,126 - $ 41,750 ൺ 29,240 1 person $ 27,978 - $ 36,550 $759 19 ൺ 33,400 2 people $ 27,978 - $ 41,750 least one person aged 62 or older by the application (deadline date).

Annual Household Income3 Minimum – Maximum4

Units Monthly AvailRent1 able

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5

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22

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18

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Annual House-hold Income3 Minimum – Maximum4 $ 37,852 - $ 73,100

2 people

$ 37,852 - $ 83,500

1 person

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2 people

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2 people

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3 people

$ 56,538 - $ 93,900

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$ 56,538 - $ 104,300

3 people

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4 people

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5 people

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6 people

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2 people

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4 people

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Apply online or through mail. To apply online, please go to nyc.gov/housingconnect. To request an application send a self-addressed envelope to: One Flushing Owner LLC, PO Box #705, Knickerbocker Station, New York, NY 10002. Only send one application per development. Do not submit duplicate applications. Do not apply online and also send in a paper application. Applicants who submit more than one application may be disqualified.

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Applications must be postmarked or submitted online no later than August 28, 2018. Late applications will not be considered.

What Happens After You Submit an Application?

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Stand up and fight back: Van Bramer Community marches against family separation at U.S-Mexico border

by Bre’Anna Grant Chronicle Contributor

“We shall overcome. We shall overcome. We shall overcome, some day.”

The words were sung on June 20 as immigrant activists gathered at LaGuardia Airport after news spread on social media that children who had been separated from their parents at the United States-Mexico border might be arriving on flights to New York.

Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) organized the march and stayed for hours to show his support.

On Monday night, Van Bramer hosted a rally in his district to let the immigrant and refugee communities know that they are welcome in Queens.

“We have a humanitarian crisis on our hands and this country needs to stop criminalizing immigrants,” Van Bramer said. “We are a borough of immigrants and even though the president was born and raised in Queens, he doesn’t speak for us.”

Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced plans to prosecute all migrants illegally crossing the border.

The Homeland Security Department will refer “100 percent of illegal southwest border crossings” to the Justice Department for prosecution under a federal statute that prohibits illegal entry, he said.

Residents of Sunnyside, led by Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, with his husband, Dan Hendrick, and staffer Matthew Wallace, far right, marched down Roosevelt Avenue on Monday in protest of PHOTO BY BRE’ANNA GRANT President Trump’s policies on separating families at the border.

“If you cross the border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you,” Sessions said at a press conference Monday afternoon near the border in San Diego. “It’s that simple.”

The policy — which advocates say in practice mainly targets women and youths seeking asylum from the violence-ridden countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador — is intended to punish the adults by criminally prosecuting them for entering the country, thereby deterring others from making the jour-

ney north, they claim.

The practice meant placing children in federal housing as their parents were incarcerated until their court date.

More than 200 people gathered in front of St. Sebastian’s Church in Sunnyside to march against family separation.

“I feel very saddened to see children separated from their families,” Richard Alicea said.

“This is not what we’re about and we’re better than that.” He attended the march with his wife,

daughter and granddaughter.

“I can’t imagine being separated from my granddaughter,” Alicea said.

The march went down Roosevelt Avenue and finished in front of Lance Corporal Thomas P. Noonan Playground.

“We can take this moment and show people that being an immigrant is not something to be ashamed of,” said Nathalie Escudero.

Malabika Das, a Girl Scout leader of Troop 4283 based in Sunnyside, came to the United States in 1996 in search of work. She became a citizen in October 2017.

“I came from Canada, looking for work after graduate school and luckily because I had a degree, I was able to find a job fast,” Das said.

“My husband was here and my two children were here. But I was living in fear. I couldn’t take it anymore.” Das’ parents immigrated from South India and are Bengali.

“When Trump was elected, I made the conscious decision to apply to be a citizen,” said Das. “I know people who won’t walk their children to school because they’re fearful. I was afraid to put my face in pictures. I’m proud to be a citizen now.”

As part of the executive order that Trump signed last week after insisting one couldn’t be issued, the administration wants to allow children to stay in detention centers beyond the 20 continued on page 25

Travel ban decision sparks city protests Supreme Court ruled the president was in his right to issue restrictions

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Late Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s controversial ban on travel from seven nations by a 5-4 decision.

This means access to the United States for nationals from Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen will be restricted.

Protests over the decision broke out across the country with some demonstrators even rallying outside the Supreme Court itself. Protestors in Manhattan gathered in Foley Square and chanted “shame.”

In Queens and across the city, leaders were quick to blast the ruling — all five conservative justices ruled to uphold the ban while the bench’s four liberals dissented.

“This ban is institutionalized Islamophobia, promoted under the guise of national security,” Mayor de Blasio said in a statement. “Banning people from our country on the basis of religion is an affront to our founding ideals. With this decision, the highest court in the land has sent a message of exclusion and division across the globe.

“As our president tries to build walls, New York City will continue to welcome people from all over the world to our shores, from all faith traditions.”

During the 2017 fiscal year, the federal government issued about 87,000 “nonimmigrant” visas from the seven nations affected by the travel ban, CNN reported.

Those include people ranging from tourists to students to those doing business in the United States.

Gov. Cuomo said he believes New York’s diversity is its greatest strength, someth i ng the Tr u mp ad m i n ist ration doesn’t truly understand.

“The Trump travel ban is a gross violation of our American values, and the Supreme Court’s ruling along partisan lines does nothing to change that,” Cuomo said.

“This shameful and bigoted policy is nothing but a thinly veiled attempt to govern by hate and division and continue the federal government’s assault on immigrants.”

The Supreme Court first ruled in December that the president’s third attempt at a travel ban could go into effect while the nine justices deliberated the merits of multiple legal challenges against it.

Cou ncil ma n Da neek Miller (D -St. Albans) — the City Council’s only Muslim member — called the Supreme Court’s decision “shameful.”

“Regardless of any so-called constitutional rigor employed by this White House in drafting its third iteration of the ‘Muslim

The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the travel ban President Trump put in place last year FILE PHOTO was legal. Queens leaders were quick to blast the decision.

Ban,” Miller said, “today’s shameful ruling by the Court’s conservative majority, particularly the opinion of Justice Clarence Thomas, validates government sanctioned Islamophobia and sets a terrible precedent by which the federal government can arbitrarily restrict individuals of a particular faith or nationality under the guise of national security.

“This is a dreadful moment in the history of our country, particularly at a time when criminal acts of prejudice against its more than th ree million Muslims has reached a level not seen in more than 15 years,” he added, “and one that should prompt every voter of conscience to register their disapproval at the ballot box this Q fall and again in 2020.”

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Student Profile: Rosemary Chicaiza Senior Rosemery Chicaiza has been voted the Best Female Athlete in Richmond Hill High School as one of the superlatives in the graduating class of 2018. The Brooklyn resident is captain of the softball team, is on the girls basketball team and played volleyball. College Adviser Ms. David who is also adviser of the girls basketball team, called Chicaiza, “A born leader, dedicated and floor general of the team.” Her greatest accomplishment was throwing a school record 15 strikeouts in one game.

Academically, she taken college level Advanced Placement English and Spanish, has been honored for increasing her science grade from 85 to 100 and has a four-year average of 90. She wants a career in sports management or sports psychology, will be attending Daytona State College in Florida, where she hopes to win a scholarship as a pitcher in softball.

Anime Club unplugs for fundraiser The Anime Club at Richmond Hill High School, which is dedicated to cartoons, is shown selling refreshments as a Mother’s Day fundraiser. The club meets in the school library and is advised by Librarian Ms. Eleanor Marchant. It conducted the event as a fundraiser and social event.

SCHOOL SPOTLIGHT Physics class in the halls

In Ms. Jane Han’s physics class — the students moved out of the classroom into the hall so the characteristics of wave properties can be fully demonstrated. Using a slinky coiled spring, they demonstrate characteristics which are common in sound waves, water waves and any other kind of waves. The class had several questions about the experiment.

The 2018 annual blood drive collected approximately 40 pints of blood with students still waiting to give blood when this story was obtained.

Senior Leila Espinal, right, is the captain of the RHHS girls swim team. Espinal, who has donated blood three times over the years, aims to be a forensic pathologist and will attend John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the fall.

Sandra Lazo, the senior class president and captain of the girls varsity volleyball team, coordinated the event and even sat in the front of the auditorium in front of the stage as students came to donate blood.

Photos and stories by Bob Harris

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ROBOTICS AND STEM ARE FOR GIRLS AT RHHS The Richmond Hill High School HyperDrive Robotics team just participated in its second “FIRST Robotics Competition” and finished in seventh place. The robot had to lift boxes onto a shelf and climb up a step. It is notable that 31 percent of the RHHS team members were girls. This shows the diversity at Richmond Hill and the involvement of girls in STEM activities there. Information technology specialist and adviser to the Robotics team Tony Kistoo commented, “Building a robot encourages problem solving and collaboration between students; skills that will give our students an edge in college and in a career.

I’m so proud of their hard work and of the outcome.” Team members Jasmeen Kaur, left, Manasvi Salauja, Jamleen Kaur, Mashratoon Munir, and Raj Bala Chaudhary show off their robot.

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Crowley out, Maloney escapes, Meeks routs A wide range of outcomes in the borough’s federal primary races

by Christopher Barca Editor

One rout, one relatively narrow escape and one unmistakably giant upset.

The borough truly did see it all in Tuesday’s federal Democratic primary races, with the by far the most notable outcome being the defeat of the Queens Democratic Party chairman, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx), at the hands of 28-year-old insurgent Bronx progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Meanwhile, in the western sliver of Queens, another longtime lawmaker, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn) battled back a strong challenge from her well-financed, first-time challenger, Suraj Patel.

In Southeast Queens, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens, Nassau) didn’t even break a sweat as he pounded both of his primary opponents.

As the dust settles in the 5th, 12th and 14th Congressional Districts, here’s a look at Tuesday’s results.

Down goes Joe Before Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement on Wednesday afternoon, the biggest story in the country was Ocasio-Cortez’s upset victory over Crowley — a man who was first

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elected to Congress when she was just 10.

Her margin of victory was commanding, as the challenger garnered 57 percent of the vote to the incumbent’s 42 percent.

Until Tuesday, Crowley was viewed as a top candidate to become speaker of the House of Representatives if the Democrats were to take back control of the chamber in November.

For a more detailed report on the 14th Congressional District, see the Chronicle’s separate story on page 2 in all additions or at qchron.com.

Surviving Suraj Some political pundits believed the 72-year-old Maloney could be in a bit of trouble against Patel, a 34-year-old NYU professor and former Obama administration staffer who raked in more than $1 million in campaign donations this year.

But when all the ballots were tabulated, Maloney came away with 58 percent of the vote, besting her progressive challenger by 17 percentage points.

In the Queens portion of her district — which includes Long Island City and parts of Astoria and western Maspeth — the race was much closer.

The longtime lawmaker garnered 2,919 votes here, compared to Patel’s 2,856 — a difference of just one percentage point.

Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Gregory Meeks won their respective Democratic primary races on Tuesday, the former by 17 percentage points and the latter by more than 70. Their collegue, Rep. FILE PHOTOS Joe Crowley, wasn’t so lucky.

Meeks by a mile As expected, Meeks easily breezed past his two relatively little-known challengers on his way to a convincing Democratic primary victory.

In a three-way race with Community Board 13 member Mizan Choudhury of Bel-

lerose and Elmont, LI resident Carl Achille, Meeks earned 80 percent of the approximately 12,000 votes cast.

The rest of the Queens Congressional delegation ran unopposed, as did U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and her RepubliQ can opponent, Chele Farley.

Fatal stabbing in Queens Village

This is what winning $83 million in City projects looks like.

The NYPD is investigating the fatal stabbing of a Queens Village man on the evening of Friday, June 22.

According to police, officers from the 105th Precinct were summoned by a 911 call at 9:41 p.m. reporting an assault taking place at 220-12 104 Ave. Upon their arrival police found George Bartoli, 70, lying in his driveway with multiple stab wounds to his neck.

EMS personnel transported Bartoli to Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

The Daily News reported that Bartoli

rents a room in the single-family house at the address. The paper also reported that police found a knife on 220th Street, approximately 50 yards from the house.

The NYPD said there have been no arrests but a police source said the crime appears to be domestic in nature.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477). The public also can submit tips by logging onto ny pdcrimestoppers.com or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577. All Q tips are strictly confidential.

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Yet another residential development is on its way to the quaint, western end of Kew Gardens.

According to city records, permits have been filed to construct a seven-story, 19-unit building at 116-17 Grosvenor Lane — the location of an existing twostory home. A demolition permit was filed for that residence in December.

Floors two through six will each have three apartments, Department of Buildings records show, while the top and bottom floors will have just two dwellings.

There will be no subterranean parking

Sunnyside immigration rally continued from page 22 days that has been accepted policy to date, according to CNN. “What’s happening at the border is shocking, horrible and not what we stand for. I’m watching what it’s doing to my children and I’m out here for the children being persecuted for this ridiculousness,” said Ty Sullivan, at Monday night’s march. “If they’re going to do this, do it without separating families.”

Marches have been happening across the country, protesting Trump’s decision. On June 30 at 10 a.m., they are being held in Manhattan and Queens at:

garage for vehicles, but there will be 10 spaces for bicycle parking in the development’s basement.

The Grosvenor Lane proposal is the latest in a line of development plans slated for Kew Gardens.

Less than a quarter-mile away, an eight-story, 20-unit building proposed for 117-03 Curzon Road sparked the ire of area civic leaders in February.

Less than 500 feet from the Grosvenor Lane site is 83-05 116 St., where permits were filed last December to build an Q eight-story, 92-unit structure.

• Lower Manhattan at Foley Square between Centre and Lafayette streets; • Jackson Heights at the U.S. Post Office, 37th Ave. at 79th Street; and • Rockaway Beach on the Boardwalk at Beach 95 St. “Being in New York City, we’re privileged — because of social media, we’re not talking to each other and being present,” Das said. “We’re not introducing ourselves to our community and being apart of it. We need to talk about immigration and encourage more of the immigrant community, because there’s Q a negative stigma.”

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continued from page 18 LaGuardia Airport. We have congestion from the nearby stadiums and a disproportionate amount of homeless shelters,” Monserrate said. “We have off-the-charts environmental pollution, noise pollution and more. The State cannot point to any indicator that demonstrates anything has gotten better from any of it. This AirTrain is another bureaucratic boondoggle that doesn’t benefit taxpayers or the local community.”

One possible route for the train is across the water near or along the Flushing Promenade.

“I’m in favor of a greater connection, but the waterfront is already used by residents. There’s a water community,” said Water Alliance President and CEO Roland Lewis. “I’ve taken the governor’s word that he and Port Authority will explore all the possibilities, but if they cut off access for residents, we will fight for it.”

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates LaGuardia Airport, is working cooperatively with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to build a new station complex at Mets-Willets Point, with easy transfer options between the LIRR or 7-line and the new AirTrain, which will run approximately every four minutes.

The total estimated travel time between Midtown Manhattan and the airport of less than 30 minutes is composed of an approximate 16-minute journey on the LIRR between Moynihan/Penn Station or Grand Central and Willets Point, followed by an approximate six-minute journey from the Willets Point Station to LaGuardia.

“Today marks an important milestone in our efforts to rebuild and modernize infrastructure across New York. The AirTrain will finally make LaGuardia rail-accessible, better connecting travelers with the airport and helping to relieve congestion,” said Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. “New Yorkers deserve a first-rate airport they can be proud of, and I thank Governor Cuomo for his commitment to transforming LaGuardia into a 21st century facility.” Q

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Two car wash volunteers at the NYFAC car wash, above, and at right, Joey Bonfiglio, who won second place in the 1950s and earlier car show category, with NYFAC secretary Anita Sessa.

NYFAC hosts 12th annual car wash and show New York Families for Autistic Children and the NYFAC Foundation gathered on 153rd Avenue in Howard Beach June 24 to host their 12th Annual Car Wash and Car Show.

N Y FAC employees a nd volu nteers washed cars in the parking lot of Queens County Community Bank while across the street, people gathered in the Lindenwood Shopping Center parking lot to display their vehicles in the car show.

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community supported NYFAC in a number of ways: by getting their cars washed, attending the car show or volunteering to judge the rides that would be awarded trophies at the end of the event. Andrea, a Zumba instructor from Limitless Fitness on Cross Bay Boulevard, hosted NYFAC’s first “Zumba Dance Party in the Streets.”

Throughout the day, the volunteers working the car wash had the opportunity to wash vehicles that participated in the car show, as well as an auxiliary police van and a West

Hamilton Beach volunteer ambulance.

The volunteer ambulance members and the auxiliary police also assisted by washing various cars that came through.

La Villa Pizzeria, located right there in the Lindenwood Shopping Center, assisted the volunteers by donating 20 pies to benefit everyone who participated in the event.

At the conclusion of the car show, the trophies were given out to the participants in three categories: 1950s and earlier, 1960s to 1970s, and 1980s and newer.

The winners were: 1950s and earlier First place: Jim Kreboth; second place: Joey Bonfiglio.

1960s to 1970s First place: Peter Toscano; second place: Lou Buglione; and third place: Guido Passarella.

1980s and newer First place: Louis Trinchese; second place: Vinnie Kapostins; and third place: Q Lucas Stock.

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by Bre’Anna Grant Summer has arrived, which means spending time with friends and family, latenight concerts, all-day food festivals, staying up late and sleeping in. For some, summer is also a chance to show off that summer body at the beach. And it’s not too late to get in shape!

If running seems too boring or joining a new exercise class at your gym is nerve-racking, you might try something new like rock climbing at The Cliffs at LIC in Long Island City. A lot of people have.

“Our expectations were blown away when we opened,” said manager Bill Baer. “It got very busy and didn’t slow until this year. But now it’s manageable.”

The Cliffs at LIC opened its 20,000-square-foot facility back in 2015.

It was a natural move for the owner, Mike Wolfert.

“As an outdoor enthusiast, reaching the summit seemed like the next logical extension of hiking to see the mountains,” Wolfert said. “Then, as I experienced the thrill and challenge of climbing, the beauty of the views, the ability to push one’s physical limitations — at that moment I realized that I wanted to dedicate my life to climbing. I quit my job, moved out of my apartment and lived out of a tent, or on the road, climbing mountains full time.”

When it came time to open his business, location was a big consideration.

“Long Island City is perfect,” Wolfert said. “It’s a major transportation hub with warehouse-sized buildings suitable for a rock-climbing facility.”

At The Cliffs at LIC, all climbers are welcome. If you’re nervous about trying rock climbing for the first time, there is a $49 introductory class that gives you instructions on tying knots, harness procedures and safety precautions. You will need to pass a belay test to show you know the ropes (the price includes a day-pass, which is $30, and gear rental so you’ll be able to jump right in).

Bouldering, belaying and sport lead the types of climbing focused on. “It’s not a carnival ride, but it’s a mixture of fun, lighthearted fitness,” said Baer.

“Right now is a great time to get into climbing.”

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W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G EXHIBITS

FILM

“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.

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.

“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.

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

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

DANCE Ninja Ballet, fusing traditional martial arts and traditional ballet in a show exploring the concept of “ma,” a Japanese word for negative space, or the space between time. Thu.-Sun., June 28-July 1, 7:30 p.m.; and Sat., June 30, 2:30 p.m., The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $30 advance; $35 same-day at door. Info: (718) 392-0722, secrettheatre.com.

Colombian group SADEP will perform circus arts, theater and music at Flushing Town Hall July 1, when attendees will also enjoy making flower displays in that nation’s style. See Special Events.

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“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.

Broadway in the Boros, with cast members and musicians from “Once on the Island” and “Beautiful” performing. Fri., June 29, 12 p.m., entrance to Kaufman Astoria Studios backlot, 35 Ave. and 36 St. Free. Info: on.nyc.gov/2yQ0xiX.

Jackson Heights Orchestra, a concert including audience participation and improv with composer Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin. Sun., July 1, 4 p.m., Rory Staunton Field, Northern Blvd. and 78 St. (if rain, Methodist Church at 35 Ave. and 82 St.). Free. Info: bit.ly/2KmdJ3e.

“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.

A Night at the Opera, with the Queens Symphony Orchestra and singers Maria Natale and Matthew White, performing works by Puccini, Verdi, Mozart and more. Thu., June 28, 7:30 p.m., Russo’s On The Bay, 162-45 Crossbay Blvd., Howard Beach. Free (reservations recommended). Info: (718) 570-0909, bit.ly/2KtMznY.

THEATRE

“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.

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Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital, with three young singers performing arias and duets from a variety of operas. Fri., June 29, 7 p.m., Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 956-1819, socratessculpturepark.org.

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.

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 30, 11 a.m.-12 p.m., Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica. Free. Info: (718) 990-0778, gatherpeople4music@gmail.com.

Hot Jazz/Cool Garden: Terrell Stafford, with the acclaimed trumpeter combining love of melody and unique lyricism, with refreshments; first in a summer series. Wed., July 4, 2 p.m., Louis Armstrong House Museum, 34-56 107 St., Corona. $20 (includes museum tour pass good for six months). Info: (718) 478-8274, louisarmstronghouse.org. COURTESY PHOTO

Two Women, One Passion, with pianist Teresita Gomez 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.

“Dare to Be Black: The Jack Johnson Story,” a reading of a play on the first African-American heavyweight boxing world champion, by Tommie J. Moore. Thu., June 28, 7 p.m., Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Free (reservations encouraged). Info: (718) 760-0064, queenstheatre.org.

Queensboro Dance Festival, with several companies performing and activities right off the boardwalk. Sat., June 30, 6 p.m., stage at Beach 17 St. and Seagirt Blvd., Rockaway. Free. Info: queensborodancefestival.com.

LECTURES/TALKS Author Talk: Rosalind Kilkenny McLymont, with the author of “The Guyana Contract” and editor-in-chief of The Network Journal, a magazine for African-American professionals and entrepreneurs. Sat., June 30, 2-3 p.m., Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica. Free. Info: (718) 990-0778, queenslibrary.org.

SPECIAL EVENTS Flower Festival Intl. Presents: SADEP, with the Colombian group performing circus arts theater and music, and attendees of all ages making flower displays, assisted by artists from the nation. Sun., July 1, 12-5 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. Free (RSVP req’d). Info/RSVP: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

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“Tango & Flamenco fusion,” a world premiere production blending the “two most important Hispanic manifestations in music, song and dance from Spain and Latin America.” Fri.-Sat., June 29-30, 8 p.m.; Sun., July 1, 4 p.m. 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.

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 Gingerbread 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.

Black Belt Demonstration and Ceremony, a jujitsu and tai chi demonstration performed as part of a right-of-passage ceremony, by the Elmhurst-based Laughing River school. Sun., July 1, 2-4 p.m., Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Free with admission: $8 suggested; $4 seniors; free students, children. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

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‘Drowning in Plastic’ When: Through mid-August Where: Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center, 175-10 Cross Bay Blvd., Broad Channel Entry: Free. (718) 318-4340, nps.gov

“Angry Bird, Mill Basin, Brooklyn,” by PHOTOS BY VICTORIA ZUNITCH Zoë Del Toro. will remain on display in the gallery of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s Visitors Center now through mid-August. It’s Del Toro’s first nonschool art exhibit. As a bonus, some of her black-and-white film photography and full-color digital concert photographs are also on display.

Del Toro’s godmother, Denise Levine, who showed her nature-themed paintings in the same gallery last year, had asked curator Charles Markis about how her goddaughter might merit a show.

“And I said, she had to tell a story with an appropriate theme” that ties into the nation-

Artist Zoë Del Toro, second from right, celebrates the opening of her environmentally conscious photography show with her grandmother Tina Epstein, left, her mother, Sue Epstein, Gallery Curator Charles Makris, and her godmother, the artist Denise Levine. al parks, Markis said.

Del Toro’s mom, Sue Epstein, said her daughter had always been musical as a child, playing the piano and later teaching herself the flute. While taking a visual arts elective at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, Del Toro said, she became interested in

photography when a teacher pointed out her talent for taking pictures from a variety of angles and perspectives.

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“Just one word: plastics!” This cliché about ensuring yourself a bright future by entering a growing field just as its tide is beginning to rise has a modern retort.

J u s t t wo wo r d s : e n v i r o n m e n t a l devastation!

Plastic, the frighteningly ubiquitous nonbiodegradable, is a growing threat to wildlife and water. This is illustrated through the photography of Zoë Del Toro, a recent graduate of Kingsborough Community College who is slated to enter Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts in the fall.

“Drowning in Plastic: Why Recycling is Not Enough” was unveiled June 16 at a reception attended by about 80 people, and

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QCP clients share summer visions at Resorts World

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Several weeks before another summer season introduced itself to New Yorkers, Erika Hochgreb had already started painting a picture of what hers may look like.

She started with a canvas and strokes of ocean blue to capture the rippling waves of the water, followed by red and white for the sailboats cruising towards the sandy edges of the shore. Peaks of evergreen mountains looked the skyscrapers in the background directly in the eye.

But when Hochgreb received a letter saying she would have her work featured in Resorts World Casino NYC’s art exhibit, she was amazed and excited.

“I was in shock when they picked me to do it,” Hochgreb said. “I couldn’t believe it.”

Hochgreb is one of the many participants who have their artwork on display for a twomonth exhibit in the casino’s Red Wall Art Gallery. The exhibit, which opened to the public on June 1 and will remain open until July 31, holds more than 30 paintings and drawings created by residents of Queens Centers for Progress, an organization dedicated to helping adults and children with developmental disabilities.

When the casino presented QCP staff members with the idea of having their clients’ artwork highlighted, the theme of summer came to mind. “Summer in the City” was the name Activities Director Tara DeLaine and her staff created. From there, it was up to the residents to produce their work.

Greg Paek, a QCP member whose artwork was also chosen for display, said he had fun creating his painting, a blend of bright summer colors hanging in the middle row of the gallery’s walls.

As soon as the theme was announced, he thought of fruit.

“I did the pineapple,” Paek said. “I like the summer and doing this art.”

Founded in 1950, QCP dedicates itself to providing skill development, independence and integration into community life for its residents. In providing services to more than 2,000 people and their families, QCP

operates six immediate care facilities, three individual residential alternatives and a children’s center for both nondisabled preschoolers and children with disabilities.

As one of the largest nonprofit agencies in Queens, QCP has since expanded and has three sites in the borough, including the adult and children’s centers in Jamaica.

“We are thrilled to be working with Queens Centers for Progress on our next Red Wall Gallery exhibit celebrating summer in NYC,” Michelle Stoddart, the casino’s director of PR and community development, said just before the display opened to the public. “As an entertainment and cultural hub, Resorts World Casino New York City is committed to showcasing the talents of aspiring artists in our community.”

The gallery, which can be viewed by more than 10,000 visitors on a daily basis, takes up two floors of the casino and has been displaying the work of Queens artists for the past five years.

“From our very first exhibit in 2012, we saw strangers come together to view and comment on the works on display,” said Dragana Bozic, a spokesperson for the casino. “We also saw artists being able to show off their work to loved ones and to view their work in a professional and public setting. Resorts World Casino New York enjoys giving both our guests, staff and artists a resource in Queens to enjoy diverse of ferings in an entertaining space.”

A special grant from Elk’s Club Lodge No. 878 provided additional materials for the exhibit, including the frames that encase the artwork on the walls.

“Most of the money we receive comes from the state and federal government,” DeLaine said. “We need funds to support the programs that we do. So when the Elks Club offered us the grant, we were happy to take it.”

While visiting the casino two years ago, DeLaine came across the art gallery and dreamed of one day seeing the work of QCP

Fredlyn Mompoint, left, and Nancy Jones, of Queens Centers for Progress, QCP artist Ayesha Najmi and her mother, Rashida Najmi, celebrate the opening of the organization’s PHOTOS COURTESY QCP “Summer in the City” exhibit at Resorts World’s Red Wall Gallery. residents aligning its walls. When the opportunity came, she immediately began the process of coming up with ideas for what they could do.

The final result was one that brought her dreams to fruition.

“It really means a lot to the whole organization and the artists to showcase their talent,” DeLaine said. “On their recreation time, a lot of the residents love to go to the resort, especially Erika and Greg.”

Her initial thoughts when she saw the paintings?

“It blew me away.”

Aside from collaborating with the casino in the future to have more artwork displayed, DeLaine said that QCP wants to expand its outreach.

One of its goals is to find a public space in the area where members can create their own pieces and have them installed for projects, which DeLaine believes would benefit both the members of QCP and those who

view the creations.

“It would be fun, and people could see it,” she said.

For DeLaine, it’s people like Hochgreb who inspire her to find new ways to have their work illustrated for the front lines of society to admire.

Hochgreb, a native of Brazil who only spoke Portuguese when she came to America in 1972, said that she learned English through years of schooling and education.

Art was always one of her loves.

Then she finally got the chance to put her talents on display. Now thousands of onlookers have the chance to walk by and smile at the portrait that helped ring in the summer season, along with the works of her fellow QCP clients.

And even as the puffy clouds on her masterpiece meticulously settle over the city, her love for art will always shine bright.

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Enjoying the works they and their fellow QCP clients created are artist Mario Polese, center at left, with his family; artist Steve Gailing, second from left in center, with QCP board member Pat Coulaz, left, his mother, Josephine Gailing, and board member Margaret McPherson; and at right, artist Matilda Cintron. Above is one painting with a bit of advice for a day at the beach.

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continued from page 27 The Cliffs has received a lot of positive feedback since opening. On the company’s Facebook’s page, Olympia Eva Cykiert says the atmosphere is encouraging and invigorating.

“I started climbing here about a month ago,” Cykiert posted on Feb. 5. “Love this place — finally feel like I found my soul sport.”

Cykiert took the introductory class in order to become comfor table with belaying.

“Nana did a wonderful job. She took her time explaining the rock climbing process and addressed the group’s questions and concerns with care,” she said of her

Rock climbing in LIC When: Mon.-Fri., 6 a.m.-12 a.m.; Sat.-Sun., 9 a.m.-10 p.m.

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instructor. “She was also funny!”

The Cliffs also has climbing centers in Dumbo and Valhalla, NY. New locations will be coming soon to Harlem and Philadelphia, the company’s first gym outside of New York.

For Ehtesh Choudhury, The Cliffs has everything.

“Has great bouldering routes that you can top out of and an intimidating lead belay cave I can’t wait to try out,” Choudhury said on Facebook in June 2015.

“There are also classes in yoga, climbers core and acroyoga ... what’s not to like?”

Avid climbers might look into the membership ($105/month) to gain access to unlimited use of the climbing facilities at all locations, 10 percent off gear and free group fitness classes.

“It’s a lifestyle,” Baer said. “People get more out of it than they realize. I’ve been climbing for over six years now and it’s a great community.”

Megan Burnham is a proud member of The Cliffs family.

“The staff, climbers and route setters all make a great community of people,” Burnham said on Facebook in December

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2016. “I always have a blast working out with people and love getting advice on routes from other people who climb here.

Highly recommend!”

According to the company’s blog, 2017 was a year of expansion in climbing: for the sport, the industry and the community.

In addition to its ongoing ClimbUp program, a partnership with 15 nonprofit and Title I schools to provide free climbing to 250 students, The Cliffs at LIC partnered with the Discover Outdoors Foundation and formed a mentorship program for Q inner-city girls.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS, Index No. 849/2018 GRIZZELLE MONTANEZ, Plaintiff, -against- AURELIO ROMIRO DIAZ, Defendant. Date Summons Filed: February 1, 2018, Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is Plaintiff’s residence. SUMMONS WITH NOTICE Plaintiff resides at 8333 Austin Street, Apt 5N, Kew Gardens, NY 11415. ACTION TO ANNUL A MARRIAGE To the above named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the notice set forth below. Dated: January 24, 2018. James E. Iniguez, Esq., James E. Iniguez, & Associates, PLLC., Attorneys for Plaintif, 355 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, New York 10017, 212-406-4991. NOTICE: The nature of this action is to annul the marriage between the parties, on the grounds: DRL Section 140 subd. (e) -the consent of the Plaintiff to the marriage was obtained by fraud. The relief sought is a judgment of absolute annulment in favor of the Plaintiff annulling the marriage between the parties in this action. The nature of any ancillary or additional relief demanded is: That the Family Court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the Supreme Court with respect to any future issues of maintenance. That the parties do not require payment of counsel and experts’ fees and expenses.

That both parties may resume the use of any prior surname. That the Court grant such other and further relief as the Court may deem fit and proper. The parties have divided up the marital property, and no claim will be made by either party under equitable distribution. (Form UD-1-1/25/16) NOTICE OF ENTRY OF AUTOMATIC ORDERS (D.R.L. 236) Rev. 1/13 FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THESE ORDERS MAY BE DEEMED A CONTEMPT OF COURT. PURSUANT TO the Uniform Rules of the Trial Courts, and DOMESTIC RELATIONS LAW Section 236, Part B, Section 2, both you and your spouse (the parties) are bound by the following AUTOMATIC ORDERS, which have been entered against you and your spouse in your annulment action pursuant to 22 NYCRR Section 202.16( a), and which shall remain in full force and effect during the pendency of the action, unless terminated, modified or amended by further order of the court or upon written agreement between the parties: (1) ORDERED: Neither party shall sell, transfer, encumber, conceal, assign, remove or in any way dispose of, without the consent of the other party in writing, or by order of the court, any property (including, but not limited to, real estate, personal property, cash accounts, stocks, mutual funds, bank accounts, cars and boats) individually or jointly held by the parties, except in the usual course of business, for customary and usual household expenses or for reasonable attorney’s fee in connection with this action. (2) ORDERED: Neither party shall transfer, encumber, assign, remove, withdraw or in any way dispose of any tax deferred funds, stocks or other assets held in any individual retirement accounts, 401k accounts, profit sharing plans, Keogh accounts, or any other pension or retirement account, and the parties shall further refrain from applying for or requesting the payment of retirement benefits or annuity payments of any kind, without the consent of the other party in writing, or upon further order of the court; except that any party who is already in pay status may continue to receive such payments thereunder. (3) ORDERED: Neither party shall incur unreasonable debts hereafter, including, but not limited to, further borrowing against any credit line secured by the family residence, further encumbrancing any assets, or unreasonably using credit cards or cash advances against credit cards, except in the usual course of business or for customary or usual housing expenses, or for reasonable attorney’s fees in connection with this action. (4) ORDERED: Neither party shall cause the other party or the children of the marriage to be removed from any existing medical, hospital and dental insurance coverage, and each party shall maintain the existing medical, hospital and dental insurance coverage in full force and effect. (5) ORDERED: Neither party shall change the beneficiaries of any existing life insurance policies, and each party shall maintain the existing life insurance, automobile insurance, homeowners and renters insurance policies in full force and effect. IMPORTANT NOTE: After service of Summons with Notice or Summons and Complaint for annulment, if you or your spouse wishes to modify or dissolve the automatic orders, you must ask the court for approval to do so, or enter into a written modification agreement with your spouse duly signed and acknowledged before a notary public. NOTICE CONCERNING CONTINUATION OF HEALTH CARE COVERAGE (Required by Section 255(1) of the Domestic Relations Law) PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that once a judgment of divorce or annulment is signed in this action, both you and your spouse may or may not continue to be eligible for coverage under each other’s health insurance plan, depending on the terms of the plan. NOTICE OF GUIDELINE MAINTENANCE If your annulment was commenced on or after January 25, 2016, this Notice is required to be given to you by the Supreme Court of the county where your annulment was filed to comply with the Maintenance Guidelines Law ([S. 5678/A. 7645], Chapter 269, Laws of 2015) because you may not have counsel in this action to advise you. It does not mean that your spouse (the person you are married to) is seeking or offering an award of “Maintenance” in this action. “Maintenance” means the amount to be paid to the other spouse for support after the annulment is final.

You are hereby given notice that under the Maintenance Guidelines Law (Chapter 269, Laws of 2015), there is an obligation to award the guideline amount of maintenance on income up to $178,000 to be paid by the party with the higher income (the maintenance payor) to the party with the lower income (the maintenance payee) according to a formula, unless the parties agree otherwise or waive this right. Depending on the incomes of the parties, the obligation might fall on either the Plaintiff or Defendant in the action. There are two formulas to determine the amount of the obligation. If you and your spouse have no children, the higher formula will apply. If there are children of the marriage, the lower formula will apply, but only if the maintenance payor is paying child support to the other spouse who has the children as the custodial parent. Otherwise the higher formula will apply. Lower Formula 1. Multiply Maintenance Payor’s Income by 20%. 2. Multiply Maintenance Payee’s Income by 25%. Subtract Line 2 from Line 1 = Result 1. Subtract Maintenance Payee’s Income from 40% of Combined Income* = Result 2. Enter the lower of Result 2 or Result 1, but if less than or equal to zero, enter zero. THIS IS THE CALCULATED GUIDELINE AMOUNT OF MAINTENANCE WITH THE LOWER FORMULA. Higher Formula 1. Multiply Maintenance Payor’s Income by 30%. 2.

Multiply Maintenance Payee’s Income by 20%. Subtract Line 2 from Line 1 = Result 1. Subtract Maintenance Payee’s Income from 40% of Combined Income* = Result 2. Enter the lower of Result 2 or Result 1, but if less than or equal to zero, enter zero. THIS IS THE CALCULATED GUIDELINE AMOUNT OF MAINTENANCE WITH THE HIGHER FORMULA. * Combined Income equals Maintenance Payor’s Income up to $178,000 plus Maintenance Payee’s Income. Note: The Court will determine how long maintenance will be paid in accordance with the statute. (Eff. 1/31/16)

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boro continued from page 28 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) 5422628, licboathouse.org.

KIDS/TEENS Bug Day, with activities involving bees, grasshoppers, worms and more, organized with the American Museum of Natural History. Sat., June 30, 12-4 p.m. (certain activities at certain times), New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.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.

CLUBS “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.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES 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.

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.

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.

SUPPORT GROUPS PTSD for veterans and service members: Reach out to a anonymous support group in your area. Info: 1 (800) 273-TALK. Contemplating suicide? The Samaritans provide 24-hour confidential emotional support for those feeling suicidal or depressed. Call: (212) 673-3000; samaritansnyc.org.

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.

Anxious, nervous, depressed? Recovery International can help. Meetings every Thu., 2:30 p.m., Fri., 3:30 p.m. Forest Hills Library, 108-19 71 Ave. Info: recoveryinternational.org.

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.

Registration req’d. Info: (718) 268-5011, ext.

160, olderadults@cgy.org.

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.

Al-anon, self-help group for anyone affected by another’s drinking: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 82 St. and 34 Ave., parish house, 1st floor, Jackson Heights, every Tue. Contact: jacksonheightsalanonon@gmail.com.

Resurrection Ascension Pastoral Center basement, 85-18 61 Road, Rego Park, every Sun. 12 p.m.

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.

Alcoholics Anonymous, daily meetings around Queens for those with a drinking problem. Info: (718) 520-5021, queensaa.org.

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Lastly, the AJ’s staff understands how you feel when you aren’t feeling well and they always see to it that you never have to wait long for a prescription. AJ’s prides itself on its quick response in fi lling prescriptions. Your doctor can call in an order for a prescription and it will be ready when you pull up to the pharmacy to pick it up where someone will deliver it to you curbside! Or it can be delivered in a short time to your home free of charge! They treat all their customers like family – with plenty of tender loving care. Plus they offer senior and union discounts every day. To order a prescription, call (718) 894-9000. AJ’s is located at 74-05 Metropolitan Avenue in Middle Village.

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Del Toro’s combined photography and graphic art piece, “Three to Go, Coney Island, Brooklyn,” shows a soda can with a plastic bag and cup and urges people to “Pledge to Take 3 From the Sea,” part of an initiative promoted by take3.org. The group says there will be more oceanic plastic than fish, by weight, in the year 2050 if nothing is done and asks people to remove three pieces of trash every time they leave the beach.

If you do, be aware that much of what people put out for recycling ends up in foreign landfills.

Which may help explain why the snacks at Del Toro’s exhibit were served with biodeQ gradable cups, cutlery and plates.

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continued from page 29 sources. Each presents a jarring juxtaposition of natural beauty with human-discarded trash.

“Angry Bird” shows the face of a white gull standing behind a Wendy’s food bag.

It’s probably mad about the human with the camera, but maybe should be mad at the life-threatening consequences of any plastic it might ingest along with leftover fries.

The gallery label explains that birds are attracted to plastic that smells like food.

Nearby, Del Toro has mounted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s photo “Our Oceans Our Future,” revealing a stomach packed with plastic in a dissected bird that died from the inability to absorb nutrients.

Del Toro said her series began on a few neighborhood walks when she noticed garbage and active littering.

“Right in front of me, I saw people littering,” she said.

She pointed to “Set in Stone, Marine Park, Brooklyn,” a photo of two large cubed rocks with anti-littering messages.

“It says, ‘Keep our park clean,’ and there’s trash right on top of it,” she said.

“I just want people to be aware,” of what littering and plastics do to the environment, Del Toro said, and what they can do to help.

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AJ’s has been tremendously successful thanks to their commitment to excellence and their many loyal, satisfied customers. Pharmacist Joe knows this and would like to thank all his customers for AJ’s success. AJ’s now has four locations: Middle Village, Rego Park, Ridgewood and Canarsie, Brooklyn. Each pharmacy’s staff is comprised of experienced, multilingual, compassionate neighborhood residents who understand the needs of the communities they serve and they have consistently been ready and eager to satisfy those needs every day! In addition to offering quality, name brand vitamins, health and beauty aids, cosmetics and stationery items, AJ’s also offers fax services, photocopies, free blood pressure checks and lots of TLC to their numerous and loyal customers.

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AJ’s Village Chemist celebrated their eighth anniversary in Middle Village last week with many good wishes from their neighborhood patrons and friends. The pharmacy opened eight years ago with much fanfare and high expectations from area residents who, at that time, had seen two longtime pharmacies go out of business. AJ’s pharmacist Joe promised to give his patients and customers the best possible care and concern for their health and welfare and he and his staff have more than fulfi lled that promise!

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CAFE MOXY LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/11/2018. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 3520 9th St., Long Island City, NY 11106. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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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Legal Notices NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME 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

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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.

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Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Action to Foreclose a Mortgage INDEX #: 701689/2018 WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, vs JAMES C. WILLIAMS, IF LIVING, AND IF HE/SHE BE DEAD, ANY AND ALL PERSONS UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, CLAIMING, OR WHO MAY CLAIM TO HAVE AN INTEREST IN, OR GENERAL OR SPECIFIC LIEN UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THIS ACTION; SUCH UNKNOWN PERSONS BEING HEREIN GENERALLY DESCRIBED AND INTENDED TO BE INCLUDED IN WIFE, WIDOW, HUSBAND, WIDOWER, HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DESCENDANTS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, LIENORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF SUCH DECEASED, ANY AND ALL PERSONS DERIVING INTEREST IN OR LIEN UPON, OR TITLE TO SAID REAL PROPERTY BY, THROUGH OR UNDER THEM, OR EITHER OF THEM, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE WIVES, WIDOWS, HUSBANDS, WIDOWERS, HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DESCENDANTS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, LIENORS, AND ASSIGNS, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES, EXCEPT AS STATED, ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, GAYE LIVINGSTON, IF LIVING, AND IF HE/ SHE BE DEAD, ANY AND ALL PERSONS UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, CLAIMING, OR WHO MAY CLAIM TO HAVE AN INTEREST IN, OR GENERAL OR SPECIFIC LIEN UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THIS ACTION; SUCH UNKNOWN PERSONS BEING HEREIN GENERALLY DESCRIBED AND INTENDED TO BE INCLUDED IN WIFE, WIDOW, HUSBAND, WIDOWER, HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DESCENDANTS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, LIENORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF SUCH DECEASED, ANY AND ALL PERSONS DERIVING INTEREST IN OR LIEN UPON, OR TITLE TO SAID REAL PROPERTY BY, THROUGH OR UNDER THEM, OR EITHER OF THEM, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE WIVES, WIDOWS, HUSBANDS, WIDOWERS, HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DESCENDANTS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, COMMITTEES, LIENORS, AND ASSIGNS, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES, EXCEPT AS STATED, ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, LVNV FUNDING LLC, NEWBURYPORT CAPITAL LLC, QUEENS SUPREME COURT, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, CITIBANK (SOUTH DAKOTA) N.A., LR CREDIT 22, LLC, MIDLAND FUNDING LLC, EMPIRE PORTFOLIOS INC, FIA CARD SERVICES N.A., BRAVO CHECK CASHING CORP, MAIN STREET ACQUISITION CORP, COMMISSIONER OF SOC. SERVICES OF NYC, NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU, NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU, CITY REGISTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, QUEENS COUNTY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ACTING THROUGH THE IRS, JOHN DOE (Those unknown tenants, occupants, persons or corporations or their heirs, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors claiming an interest in the mortgaged premises.), Defendant(s) MORTGAGED PREMISES: 110-25 217TH STREET QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11429 AKA NO NUMBER 217TH STREET, QUEENS VILLAGE, NY BL #: 11146 - 21, 24. To the Above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Queens. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. TO James C. Williams and Gaye Livingston, Defendants in this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Allan B. Weiss of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the Thirty-First day of May, 2018 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens, in the City of Jamaica. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by James C. Williams and Gaye Livingston dated the February 1, 2013, to secure the sum of $353,479.00 and recorded at CRFN 2013000068101 in the Office of the Queens County Clerk, on February 15, 2013. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed April 10, 2014 and recorded on April 22, 2014, in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, Queens County at CRFN 2014000136150. The property in question is described as follows: 110-25 217TH STREET, QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11429 AKA NO NUMBER 217TH STREET, QUEENS VILLAGE, NY. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: June 4, 2018 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s), 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100, Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt.

Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose. 54985-2

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by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

James H. Clark was born in the old Village of Newtown, today called Elmhurst, in 1885. Without an education, he toiled as a truck driver for farmers.

His wife, Bessie, was a daughter of Polish immigrants. With the salary he made he could only afford a humble dwelling at 95-06 63 Drive in what now is Rego Park, across the street from farmer Joseph Haverkamp Jr. at 94-05 63 Drive, for whom he drove a farm truck.

The Haverkamps were a well-known farming family with many acres off Farmers Boulevard in southern Queens as well as Rego Park.

After the opening of the IND subway station at 63rd Drive and Queens Boulevard on Dec. 31, 1936, James and Bessie’s lottery ticket arrived.

The city had zoned 63rd Drive for commercial properties. The Clarks sold their house for commercial development, cashing in big time. They bought another house at 51-51 Codwise Place in Elmhurst.

Their old lot is now occupied by a set of

The James H. Clark house, 95-06 63 Drive, Rego Park, May 1935. row stores just off Queens Boulevard.

After seeing the real estate boom, Clark became a real estate salesman in his later years. He and Bessie had no children and lived out their lives at the Codwise Place house.

His friend, Haverkamp, held on until 1947 when he too sold his house to be demolished for commercial property. He moved out to Floral Park and enjoyed the Q good life until his death in 1954.

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

Nothing can erase the horrors of what occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, but sports did help us resume trying to live our lives the best that we could at the time. Back in 2004 HBO Sports produced a terrific documentary, “Nine Innings From Ground Zero,” which showed how the Yankees’ post season run in the fall of 2001, which ended with them coming out on the short end of a seven-game World Series with the Arizona Diamondbacks, helped speed the healing process for New York.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum, located at the site of the old World Trade Center, has just opened a special exhibit that should run for about a year, titled “Comeback Season: Sports After 9/11,” which expands on the documentary. There is even a Yankees World Series section that shows a tape of President George W. Bush throwing a perfect strike to the cheers of everyone in attendance that night.

What I remember about that HBO Sports documentary was that the Mets and Shea Stadium got very little play in it. The 9/11 Memorial and Museum made sure that the Mets were front and center.

As soon as you walk into the exhibit there is a photo of Shea Stadium in the days following the attack being used as a staging area for sending food, water and supplies to responders. The

jersey that Mike Piazza wore when he hit that big eighth inning home run on September 21, 2001 against the Braves is here, as is a tape of the late Bob Murphy’s call of it on WFAN. Former Mets closer and native New Yorker John Franco, along with ex-Giants running back Tiki Barber, and former Rangers goaltender Mike Richter made speeches at the exhibit dedication last Thursday. Each choked up a bit recalling their memories of that fateful day.

Franco spoke about how his teammates were determined to wear FDNY, NYPD and Port Authority police caps the rest of the season as a way of honoring the first responders. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig initially objected and threatened to fine the Mets. Selig smartly backed down after talking with Mets CEO Fred Wilpon and team union rep Todd Zeile.

The Mets were in Pittsburgh during 9/11 and the team had to bus back from Pittsburgh. I asked John about his memories of that unexpected bus ride back to Queens.

“There was nothing out of the ordinary until we got to the George Washington Bridge and saw the smoke coming from the World Trade Center site,” said Franco. “Guys from the left side of the bus all came over to the right to watch it. Everyone was eerily quiet the rest of Q the ride to Shea.”

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