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PAGE 12 The city last Friday appealed proposed flood maps put forth by FEMA, saying the federal agency inaccurately labeled thousands of residents as living in flood zones. If the city succeeds in its appeal, those people will not be forced to buy flood insurance. Above, a Howard Beach resident endures 2011’s Hurricane Irene with good cheer.

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DOT rolls out details for 111th St. upgrades City says lane reduction makes bikers, walkers safer with no traffic snarls

by Michael Gannon Editor

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he city’s Department of Transportation on Tuesday trotted out its most extensive presentation yet on a proposal that would narrow 111th Street in Elmhurst to one lane in each direction between 46th and Corona avenues, while increasing safety and accessibility for walkers and bikers in and around Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

The meeting, sponsored by Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D-East Elmhurst), took place in the park at the New York Hall of Science, which is located just south of where the northsouth road already narrows to one lane in each direction at 46th Avenue.

DOT Project Manager Nick Carey said the city would add four crosswalks, widen traffic islands to give pedestrians a safer trip across, rearrange parking spaces and create bike lanes that would connect neighborhoods to the west with the pedestrian bridge over the Grand Central Parkway and into the park.

“This is a Vision Zero priority corridor,” Carey said, citing the large number of accidents involving cars, pedestrians and cyclists in the last six years.

“We want to improve the street, improve safety and improve traffic flow,” he added.

Most of the 80 people in attendance liked the majority of the plan, even with reservations about certain aspects.

Residents gathered Tuesday at the New York Hall of Science over maps of the existing layout of 111th Street and the one that the Department of Transportation believes will be safer and more PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON friendly to pedestrians and cyclists.

Carey said at its widest, 111th is 94 feet across, with two northbound lanes and three southbound. But he said from a traffic standpoint, its appearance is deceptive. “It looks like an arterial road, but it is not.”

He also said the lane reduction would not

cause backups in traffic based on observations that began back in April. At rush hour peak times the road handles 350 vehicles per hour, and that one lane in each direction could handle 700. “The road is underutilized.”

Some existing parking will be moved, but

Carey said the entire project would result in a net gain of 10 more spaces.

While a more thorough traffic study will be done in July, August and September, the latter month could prove the most interesting.

School will be back in session just after the start of the US Open tennis championships, which run at Flushing Meadows from Aug. 31 to Sept. 13. And while surveys have been done during Mets home games at nearby Citi Field, none of those have drawn as much vehicular traffic as can be expected for the Subway Series three-game set against the New York Yankees from Sept. 18 through 20.

Ferreras grew up in the neighborhood. She favors the changes as enhancements to both the safety and aesthetics of Corona.

“I learned how to ride a bike in the park, right under the Unisphere,” she said. “I also had an aunt get hit by a car while crossing the road, breaking her leg in three places.”

Carey said nearly 900 cyclists use the route per day, and that 84 percent of all ages feel the need to use the sidewalk, which is illegal for cyclists over 12. He and Ferreras, as well as a number of residents, believe the changes as proposed will increase safe access to the park for cyclists and pedestrians.

New pedestrian crossings would be added at 47th, 49th 54th and 55th avenues, meaning a walker would have no more than two blocks to continued on page 23

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Trash placed next to bins meant to prevent illegal dumping in nabe

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Prior to new, narrow-mouthed trash cans being placed along Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven two months ago, Alex Blenkinsopp said, illegal trash was often placed inside and next to the old ones.

But despite the new cans, meant to discourage illegal dumping of household garbage, the litter is still popping up.

“Changing the receptacle does not seem to have changed people’s behavior,” said Blenkinsopp, a Community Board 9 member and director of communications for the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association.

Blenkinsopp said he has seen the illegal trash strewn across the sidewalk on certain parts along the avenue — a longstanding issue in the community.

In April, the Sanitation Department unveiled new trash receptacles for the avenue that have a smaller opening at the top, designed to make it harder for people to illegally dispose of their household trash in them.

Blenkinsopp said he would almost rather have the older trash cans back along the commercial avenue.

“My top choice is for the dumping not to occur,” he said. “If we can’t have that, then it is better to have trash in a garbage can

New trash bins along Jamaica Avenue were meant to prevent illegal dumping, but the litterbugs have now decided to place their rubbish next to the bins. Woodhaven residents lamented the PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY problem of the trash on the streets. rather than strewn across the sidewalk.”

But Blenkinsopp added “You have to be awfully naive to assume” the new cans would have fixed the problem.

Responding to inquiries about household trash being placed alongside the containers, DSNY spokeswoman Kathy Dawkins said the agency has issued 36 summonses for

illegal dumping on Jamaica Avenue from 76th to 130th streets.

Those summonses were issued from Jan. 13 to June 18, Dawkins said.

Blenkinsopp, however, said he does not believe the DSNY is going about tackling the illegal dumping issue the right way.

“The Sanitation Department has spent

enough time in the middle of the night ticketing the victims of illegal dumping to lead me to believe that they’re not using their resources as intelligently as possible to combat the root cause of the problem,” he said. “People who dump illegally don’t seem to be afraid of getting tickets and they know the victims will get the tickets.”

Blenkinsopp was referring to the policy under which business owners are fined for household garbage placed in front of their storefronts by third parties, even after their doors are closed.

The WRBA’s Jamaica Avenue office has been issued such summonses as recently as March.

The civic group has been trying to get the policy that allows DSNY agents to fine businesses during the nighttime changed and has also been working with city Comptroller Scott Stringer on the issue.

Dawkins said “the department will continue to monitor the area as manpower permits. Also the litter baskets along this route are serviced at least five times week.”

She added that if a person’s name or “other identifying information” appears on trash illegally dumped in a receptacle, he or she can be issued a summons.

Each summons car ries a $100 f ine, Q Dawkins said.

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HBL-Civic blasts bus lane proposal Community says they don’t want SBS plan in their neighborhood

by Stephen Geffon Chronicle Contributor

Taylor Reiss Gouge presented the DOT and MTA’s plan for a dedicated bus lane along the Woodhaven-Cross Bay Boulevard corridor to the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association on Tuesday. Some members said it would PHOTO BY STEPHEN GEFFON create more traffic in the area.

A Howard Beach resident, who would only identify himself as Scott, drew applause from the audience when he questioned the dedicated bus lane on both sides of Cross Bay Boulevard, which he said would then have only two lanes for cars and cause more traffic along an already-

congested corridor.

“It will be a traffic nightmare,” he said.

A woman named Julie, who also lives in Howard Beach, said to Reiss Gouge, “It’s great that the ‘Bus Only’ lanes would make riding the Q52/53 25 to 35 percent faster, but what

about the cars that are left on the road and the drivers?”

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Department of Transportation and MTA representatives touted their Select Bus Service plan for the Woodhaven-Cross Bay Boulevard corridor to members of the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic on Tuesday, saying it will provide commuters with faster bus service, improved connections and simpler, safer streets — but some members, as well as the police, were not sold on the idea.

DOT Senior Project Manager Taylor Reiss Gouge said the Woodhaven-Cross Bay Boulevard SBS would place a dedicated bus lane for the Q52 and Q53 bus routes along the 14-mile corridor, running from Wo o d s i d e t o t h e R o c k aw ay peninsula.

The plan is now being revised, following community feedback, and the final proposal will be transferred to the city Department of Design and Construction, Reiss Gouge said.

“We are here tonight,” she said, “because we want your feedback now while we are still in the draft

stage so we can make the necessary changes.”

Joann Ariola, president of the civic, told the DOT and MTA representatives, “I don’t see that we have much of an issue here on Cross Bay Boulevard.” She added, “My question is, why are we making much ado about nothing that is happening on this particular stretch of roadway in Howard Beach?”

The plan for Cross Bay Boulevard includes offset bus lanes located next to parking lanes.

Community Board 10 Chairwoman Betty Braton questioned why left turns from Woodhaven Boulevard onto Rockaway Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue are being eliminated under the proposal.

Reiss Gouge said they are being eliminated because of visibility issues near the elevated train tracks by both corridors.

She did say, though, that after review the agency decided a left-turn will be allowed on to Rockaway Boulevard for motorists going southbound on Woodhaven

Advocates discuss mental health issues BP Katz praises Chirlane McCray for being on front line of the issue

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Dr. Mary Bassett, commissioner of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, said on Monday the five boroughs have improved in just about every area of public health except one: mental health.

“The situation with mental health has remained largely unchanged,” Bassett said at Queens Borough Hall.

That’s partially because, she said, the issue is one that has not largely been talked about.

That is until Chirlane McCray became first lady of New York City.

“She has really taken an issue which too many people have neglected and has really shined a light on it,” Bassett said of McCray, who also appeared at Borough Hall.

McCray and Bassett were part of a panel that heard the stories and concerns of mental health advocates, and sometimes patients, to help mold the city’s “mental health roadmap,” a guide to bring better care to those in need of treatment.

For McCray, the mental health issue is a personal one.

Her parents had depression, she said, and her daughter, Chiara de Blasio, is recovering from anxiety, depression and substance abuse.

Her advocacy on the issue, she said, was partially started because she and her husband, Mayor de Blasio, were unsure where to go

First Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray, center, speaks on mental health issues along with Dr. Gary Belkin, executive deputy commissioner of Mental Hygiene, and Borough President PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY Melinda Katz at an event in Queens Borough Hall. after their daughter was diagnosed.

“I had no idea where to turn for help,” she said. “We had no idea where to begin.”

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Many of the patients displaced from closed programs, Salazar added, face mental health issues such as autism that her organization is not properly trained to treat.

Belkin said his department is working to provide training for community-based programs in light of budget cuts.

Eileen Miller, third vice chairwoman of Community Board 11, focused on getting rid of the stigma behind mental health issues.

She suggested an advertising campaign similar to the one the city ran to discourage people from smoking.

“If we could do something similar with the mental health issue maybe this could help reduce the stigma somehow,” Miller said.

She also advocated for early intervention so people could be treated for mental health issues before “they show signs of distress.”

Katz praised McCray not only for successfully advocating for $100 million toward mental health care in the city budget, but also for making sure it’s used properly.

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Will Albany’s bully cut it out now?

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ometimes in the schoolyard, a bully pushes around a weaker kid again and again and again — until the day his target surprises him with a sudden punch to the face. Despite the value of nonviolence, it’s a glorious thing to see. The bully got what’s coming to him, and more often than not, he doesn’t push the other kid around anymore.

That’s just how we hope this week’s revenge of the nerd against his tormenter will play out. We’re speaking, of course, of Mayor de Blasio very bluntly calling out Gov. Cuomo over the way he’s been playing politics with matters highly important to the city.

The only difference is we wouldn’t say de Blasio is entirely blameless in the matter. He should know how the game is played in Albany and not simply believe that the inherent rightness of his positions (some of which are right and some of which are not) are enough to get what he wants.

But the biggest fault in the battle between the two chief executives lies with the governor. As de Blasio said in his caustic comments Tuesday, Cuomo tends to “take a critique and turn it into a cause for revenge.” There’s a “pattern” of this happening, he pointed out, and it’s “undermining our ability to serve the people of this city.”

That’s true in some areas, such as mayoral control of the schools, which was designed to sunset and be periodically revisited. When

Mike Bloomberg was mayor, it would be set in place for years at a time. De Blasio could only get an extension of one year, thanks to Senate Republicans acting with Cuomo’s backing. That creates uncertainty and means de Blasio has to ask for another extension way too soon, when he could be doing more productive work.

In other cases, however, it’s good that the mayor did not get what he wanted from Albany. A tax hike to pay for universal pre-K would have been unwise and was unnecessary. And de Blasio’s wish that there be no more charter schools also had to be denied — they’ve been changing the lives of thousands of children for the better, despite what the mayor’s pals in the teachers union claim. Allowing 25 more here is the least Albany could do.

But Cuomo seems to forget that when he needed the endorsement of the Working Families Party last year, de Blasio got it for him.

Cuomo should show more respect if only for that reason — but also for the good of the city. Fighting in Albany for what he thinks is best for New Yorkers is a key element of the mayor’s job.

Maybe the proverbial punch to his face will force Cuomo to respect de Blasio more now. He certainly deserves it, coming out publicly with his criticism rather than hiding behind unnamed sources, as the governor does. Let’s hope this is the end of the childness and the beginning of more cooperation, however grudging.

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Teachers always pay Dear Editor: The New York City Department of Education’s annual budget is more than double (admittedly in dollars not adjusted to current value) the Marshall Plan’s allocation for the rebuilding of ravaged Europe after World War II. What’s more, its tidy sum of nearly $30 billion is not quite equal to the net worth of former Mayor Bloomberg. But it has apparently been reckoned too meager for the DOE to meet its legal obligation to provide basic supplies to all its students.

For many years, teachers received a yearly stipend that they spent largely at their discretion on items they determined their students needed. This program, called Teachers Choice, was not intended as a substitute, but rather as a supplement to the mandated but shortchanged supplies.

Some principals violated the program’s intent by denying teachers basic supplies that they were due and intimidated them into diverting a portion of their Teachers Choice entitlement to make up for it.

The Teachers Choice stipend was modest yet helpful, but was nonetheless reduced to an even smaller allowance and abolished altogether in 2011. A citywide financial pinch was blamed.

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$965 million for Teachers Choice in the recently finalized budget. That’s an appreciated shot in the arm but hardly jolting. It will be around $125 per eligible educator for the 2015-16 year, $48 dollars above last year. This 62 percent boost sounds impressive, but calculate what it means given a 40-week school year, a class size of at least 30 and a studentto-teacher ratio of more than 150 to 1 in many middle and high schools.

At least the increase is symbolically important. It reflects the present administration’s acknowledgement of the professionalism of educators. That recognition was sorely absent in the prior regime.

But it will not put a dent in the cost of delivering to students all the essential tools for their learning. If those expenses are not covered, who will foot the bill? Teachers, of course! Typical educators will continue to pay out of their own pockets, even if they are only partially reimbursed or not at all. Why? Because as the Geico commercial says, “It’s what they do!”

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nd so ends yet another sordid chapter in the so-often sordid history of Queens politics.

Former state Sen. Malcolm Smith of Jamaica is going to federal prison for seven years, maybe less if he behaves.

Smith had the crazy idea that he might be mayor if he bribed his way onto the Republican ticket. His scheme involved ex-Queens Councilman and now-jailbird Dan Halloran, ex-Queens GOP bigwig Vince Tabone and three other people from elsewhere. All are paying the price for their corruption.

There’s a long list of Queens politicians who’ve gone to prison. Power corrupts. Maybe this time those in office will learn a lesson and stay on the straight and narrow. We’d really like to avoid seeing our city and state embarrassed again in this manner.

Lifelines to children have always been stored not in the closets of bureaucracies but in the hearts of educators.

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Let’s elect judges Dear Editor: Poor Ted Cruz. The Canadian-born senator of Texas, just one of the slew of Republican Presidential candidates, is apoplectic at the very thought that the U.S. Supreme Court majority voted that marriage between two people of the same sex is now legal in all 50 states. He can’t even scurry back to his birthplace to escape the threatening onslaught since Canada has had legalized same-sex marriage since 2005 under its Civil Marriage Act. What to do, what to do?!

In his overwhelming grief he made, however, a statement that struck home and actually one that I have long advocated.

I could not believe I would ever be able to

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Doom is at hand Dear Editor: Three of the four nails have been hammered into the coffin of the United States — abortion, same-sex marriage and legalized marijuana. The fourth will soon be gaveled in — assisted suicide. Five of the Supreme

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Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and the Council members have agreed on the new $78.5 billion 2015-16 municipal budget.

The budget contains no significant additional funding to assist the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in bridging the $14.1 billion shortfall in the proposed new 2015-19 $32 billion capital plan. NYC increased its yearly contribution by only $25 million from $100 million to $125 million. Based on inflation alone, the $100 million annual municipal contribution (which hasn’t increased once over the past 30 years) should really be $325 million in today’s dollars. Both the city and state consistently decreased hard cash contributions to the MTA by billions under past capital plans, going back decades.

This $14.1 billion deficit will result in the MTA having to make some difficult choices in deciding how to prioritize the expenditures of scarce resources. The result will be consideration for deferral of many critical New York City Transit bus and subway capital improvement projects into the next 2020-24 capital program. Riders can look forward to additional service delays and more fare increases beyond the next one, scheduled for 2017.

Based upon the original 1951 master lease and operating agreement, it is the City of New York that actually owns the buses and subways. The MTA is really managing the system under contract to City Hall without adequate financial support.

De Blasio, Mark-Viverito, Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Letitia James and Council members have demonstrated their collective lack of commitment to support public mass transportation. They live the elite lifestyle of the 1 percent versus the 99 percent who struggle day to day to make ends meet. Virtually all of these elected officials have staff to drive them around town along with private parking privileges at City Hall. Few if any use mass transit for commuting to work like millions of their constituents do daily. Few have a MetroCard and use it regularly. Check out the City Hall parking lot and see for yourself.

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Dear Editor: Nearly 240 years ago, our founding fathers declared our national independence from Great Britain. This Fourth of July, let’s declare our independence from the meat industry.

More than 60 percent of U.S. agricultural subsidies pay for meat, dairy and egg production. Fresh fruit and vegetable farmers receive less than 1 percent of the total. It’s time to d e cl a r e ou r independence by stoppi ng these subsidies.

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Currently, the meat industry is getting Congress to gut dietary recommendations by a government-appointed panel of our nation’s top nutritionists. The panel recommended incorporating reduced meat consumption and sustainability of food sources in our dietary guidelines. It’s time to declare our independence by telling the meat industry to butt out of our dietary guidelines.

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agree with anything emanating from the mouth of Cruz, but never say never.

He suggests that judges should be voted into office, as are members of the executive and legislative branches of our country, and he’s right (plus an eight-year term limit).

Formatively and originally, the theory of a lifetime appointment was in order to avoid “retribution” incurred by either of the other two branches, and the sole manner in which a judge could maintain his seat was to merely exhibit “good behavior.” Such nonsense. I stand with Cruz (embarrassingly) that our Supreme Court should represent the people of today’s country, not old tenets with which the judges were originally appointed and which they tend to preserve as when they entered their lifelong throne until they die. Once again it’s the competition between regression, stagnation and progression.

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Some residents said it was unprecedented — the commanding officers from all NYPD precincts in Southern Queens plus brass from One Police Plaza, coming into a community to strengthen existing ties, and trying to establish new ones.

The Community Crime forum brought more than 200 people to the auditorium at Law Enforcement High School in Jamaica.

The schedule had presentations on community outreach, body cameras, new methods of training and even crime prevention tips.

Then the floor was open for more than an hour to Chief Joanne Jaffe, commander of the NYPD’s Community Affairs Bureau; Assistant Chief David Barrere, the commanding officer of Patrol Borough South; and the men who run their precincts.

Commissioner Bill Bratton has been stressing in recent months that he wants to restructure the department, to improve both performance and public relations.

One of the speakers, for example, was Deputy Inspector Gregory Sheehan, commander of the department’s Special Training Section.

Sheehan discussed new training that has begun for things like defusing a situation short of confrontation, or how to better handle an emotionally disturbed person who could or has turned violent.

“Talk-down before takedown,” he said, giving residents and civic leaders insight into the transformation process.

Sheehan said the new programs and training were not initiated because of controversial

police interactions with the community in the last year or so. They were just accelerated.

“This was already being planned,” he said.

Police brass spoke of how the department is now using social media to reach out to the community, while Assistant Commissioner Kevin O’Connor of the Juvenile Justice Division gave parents tips on how to track the same social media for signs that their children might be getting mixed up in gang activity.

He also said much of the problem is not the traditional gangs but neighborhood “crews” who just have gang-inspired beefs with each other.

“It’s ‘I live over here, you live over there,’” he said. Residents also were able to ask their precinct commanders for updates on things ranging from homes with a persistent history of noisy parties all the way up to an increase in shootings.

In response to a handful of questions from Rochdale Village in Jamaica, she promised a similar community forum at the apartment complex in the coming weeks.

Residents interviewed called the evening an unqualified success.

Gurdev Singh Kang, president of the Sikh Cultural Society in Richmond Hill, raised concerns over increasing crime against Sikhs in the borough.

“They answered all my questions,” he said.

Michael Duvalle of Ozone Park said more such forums would benefit everyone.

“I’d like to see one in every precinct,” he said.

Duvalle also thinks there should be one specifically dedicated to the subject of domesQ tic violence.

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City appeals FEMA’s proposed flood maps Agency says it will make changes where they are ‘appropriate’

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

The city last Friday filed an appeal with the Federal Emergency Management Agency over its proposed flood maps, claiming that thousands of people citywide are inaccurately included in a flood zone, which would force them to buy flood insurance.

“Climate change continues to be the challenge of our generation and conveying this risk accurately is paramount,” Daniel Zarrilli, director of the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency, said in a letter to FEMA. According to a study commissioned by the city, changes proposed by FEMA to its flood maps inaccurately placed 170,000 residents and 26,500 buildings in the five boroughs in a flood zone when they did not belong in one.

The city said FEMA used “incorrect modeling of storms” during its study for the maps and “incorrect selection of tides that introduces a high level of statistical error.”

FEMA’s new flood maps are expected to go into effect by late 2016 or early 2017.

A FEMA spokesman said the federal agency will review the appeal and “make adjustments to the map where appropriate.”

A map that shows where the city disagrees with FEMA on flood zones claims that a small part of Bayside should not be in a flood zone and portions of New Howard Beach and Lindenwood were also inaccurately labeled.

The areas in orange show where the city agrees with FEMA on flood zones. Those in purple show IMAGE COURTESY NYC where they disagree.

South Queens officials and residents praised the city’s move to appeal the maps.

“This is a great first step,” said Joann Ariola, president of the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association.

Ariola said parts of New Howard Beach and Lindenwood very rarely experience flooding, compared to the other side of Howard Beach,

and believes they should have not been placed in a flood zone.

“They never had any flooding,” she said, adding the only time that houses there took on water was during Superstorm Sandy and the flooding that hit Lindenwood last May. Ariola claimed there would be a “mass exodus” from New Howard Beach and Linden-

wood if residents there were forced to buy flood insurance policies.

“Those neighborhoods will be zombified and nobody will buy the homes,” she said.

The civic leader added the battle does not end with the city’s appeal and that officials must fight to make sure those who do have to buy flood insurance can afford it.

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) said he was “not surprised at all that the city challenged” the maps.

“FEMA is a broken agency and does not certainly have the best interests of the community at heart,” he said. “Oftentimes they are more concer ned about their budgetar y concerns.”

The assemblyman added that he wants to make sure the city and FEMA are using “the best possible science” to determine which communities are actually at risk of flooding and that nobody is left out.

“I want those people who are potentially at risk to be included and those who are at less risk to not have to worry about it,” he said.

In an email, Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) said, “These new FEMA maps unfairly place many of my constituents in the worst case scenario.

“FEMA needs to go back to the drawing board and revise these maps. Forcing people to pay astronomical flood insurance premiums is Q simply not an option.”

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Valentina fundraiser hits $105K Valentina is still inspiring.

An online fundraiser to benefit the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where the Howard Beach toddler received care before she died two months ago, has hit $105,000.

“Thank you so much to everyone,” Danielle Allen, Valentina’s mother, said in a Facebook post.

The fundraiser seeks to name a space in the hospital to Valentina. You can donate by visiting chop.donordrive.com and searching Team Valentina.

Above, Valentina’s sister and others participate in a dance recital at Steps Ahead Dance Studio in Howard Beach. A page in the program, above left, was dedicated to Valentina.

Deputy Inspector Jeffrey Schiff last Thursday sent a loud message regarding noise complaints in the 106th Precinct.

The commanding officer of the South Queens precinct said 911 and 311 calls regarding noise complaints must be prioritized and that the noise must be “unreasonable” for him and his officers to issue a summons.

“I cannot summons the world,” Schiff said at a meeting of the New Hamilton Beach Civic Association last Thursday.

Noise complaints are one of the top quality-of-life issues in Ozone Park and Howard Beach.

Last year, the precinct conducted a weekend long sting, titled “Operation Silent Night,” to crack down on the number of people playing their music at an unreasonable level.

That operation resulted in 22 summonses from Friday to Saturday.

But, Schiff said last week, there are times when officers are called to a block

for what a neighbor calls loud music that is actually allowable under the law.

“If you cannot hear it from across the street, we’re good,” Schiff told residents.

“If you can hear it down the block, that’s not good. That’s when we summons and that’s when we take care of it.”

Schiff said there will be times that police officers are called to houses, either through 311 or 911, when they will deem it “unnecessary” to issue a summons to the homeowner.

The commanding officer also warned that the noise complaint system should not be abused.

“People who have disputes with other neighbors use that as a tool to hammer the person they don’t like,” he said. “And I don’t like being used in that way. That’s not what this is for.”

Schiff added he expects people to play some music during their time off on the weekends.

“People want to relax and have a barbecue,” he noted. “That’s what life is Q about. It’s not just about work.”

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Boys and girls throughout Queens will continue to have a place to go after school, since the City Council approved $420,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Queens after the group had decried a loss of funding.

“We would like to thank Speaker [Melissa] Mark-Viverito (D-Manhattan, Bronx) and the City Council for all their support in helping us provide our children with needed programs and a safe community,” Boys and Girls Club of Metro Queens Executive Director Carol Simon said in a statement sent out on Tuesday afternoon.

The Richmond Hill-based program rallied at their 110-04 Atlantic Ave. headquarters on June 10 to restore more than $400,000 that, they said, was essential to continue to provide free afterschool services to u nder pr ivileged child ren throughout the borough and in Brooklyn.

Had the funding not been restored, club officials recently

Marcus Gonzalez’s words of advocacy worked, as the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Queens received $420,000 FILE IMAGE to continue to provide free afterschool services to children throughout Queens and in Brooklyn. said, parents would have had to pay $300 to send their children there.

David Kupecky, the associate executive director of the club, said at the time he did not believe that was a cost many of

the parents could sustain.

Many of them only make around $35,000, he said, and have more than one child.

“For some families this means … providing them a place for their children to learn and grow

while they are at work [and] being able to put food on the table,” Kupecky said in the club’s statement, calling the program “a safe and free place for their children to go after school [and for Q the summer].”

A quick-thinking janitor may have saved a soon-to-be closed Ozone Park Lutheran church from burning down, according to Fire Department officials and published reports.

A fire was started inside the hallway of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church early Monday morning, according to FDNY officials, and was put out before firefighters could arrive at the scene at 85-15 101 Ave. According to published reports, the church had been broken into and the bandits used paper records to fuel the fire.

Fire officials did not confirm that but said they and the Police Department are investigating the incident.

By press time, the arsonists had not been caught by FDNY or NYPD officials.

The century-old Ozone Park church is slated to close soon, as its members recently voted to merge with St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Woodhaven and St. Philip’s Lutheran Church in Brooklyn.

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A South Ozone Park block will be inaccessible for a hours at a time during the week while National Grid continues work on a South Queens gas line project.

According to the utility company, 84th Avenue between 115th and 116th streets will be inaccessible to drivers from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays for the next five to six weeks.

During those hours, on-street parking will also be prohibited.

The street is being closed, National Grid says, so it can “stage, operate and maneuver the construction equipment necessary for the project.”

“We are working closely with the local community to minimize the disruption and we thank them for their patience and cooperation during this complex construction project,” Mike Ruiz, National Grid’s director of community and customer management, said in a press release

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The Queens Gas Reliability Project is a $100 million upgrade that seeks to install more than six miles of new gas lines from Rockaway Boulevard to Kew Gardens.

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She said that the DOT, by narrowing the traffic lanes on Cross Bay Boulevard and making other changes, is “going to make it even worse.”

“You’re making more of a problem,” Maryann said.

Citing car drivers, Maryann told the representatives, “You still have people that you are going to inconvenience.”

An audience member said that if the point of the plan is to move people from one point to another faster, “I think it’s misguided.”

He added, “We’re spending $231 million to theoretically improve the speed of 30,000 bus riders at the expense of almost twice that many motorists.

“I think that it’s a waste of money and the net result is negative,” he said. “I think that you should do more homework on traffic studies before you expect us to buy this.”

Capt. John Ganley, executive officer of the 106th Precinct, said he attended a recent meeting at the Office of the Chief of Transportation at One Police Plaza with representatives of city agencies concerned with the SBS plan. Ganley said he explained in no uncertain terms that a dedicated bus lane 24/7 would not work in the community. He added that a dedicated bus lane would adversely impact the traffic flow.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said of the plan, “We can’t accept this.” He said that while the community is being heard he noted that people outside of the area, in Manhattan, transportation professionals, are being heard a little louder.

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Cockloft bill fails to become law Bill to give tax credits for sealing fire hazards doesn’t pass Assembly

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

When state Sen. Joe Addabbo’s (D-Howard Beach) plan to give tax credits to property owners who seal off cocklofts passed the state Senate on June 18, he grabbed the bill and ran to Assemblyman Joe Lentol (D-Brooklyn), who was sponsoring the legislation in the lower chamber.

“I said ‘Joe, it just passed the Senate we got to get it passed,’” Addabbo told the Queens Chronicle in a telephone interview last Friday.

But the bill sat in the Ways and Means Committee, of which Lentol is a member, as the legislative session in Albany came to an end on June 25.

“It’s frustrating,” Addabbo said of the measure not being passed. “That was one of the bills I really wanted to push. What’s holding it up is beyond me.”

The Chronicle attempted to contact Lentol to ask why his bill did not make it out of committee by the end of session, but his spokesman did not return requests for comment by press time.

If Addabbo’s bill were passed and signed

by Gov. Cuomo, property owners would have received a 30 percent tax credit, up to $500.

That amount, the senator said, was down

A bill to give tax credits to property owners who seal off cocklofts failed to pass the Assembly. A fire, seen above, that started in a cockloft of an Ozone Park apartment resulted in more than 80 FILE PHOTO families being displaced. from what he originally wanted to give people for closing off the fire hazards.

“We watered down the bill to an extent just so that it would pass the Senate,” he said. “My tax credit was higher.”

Addabbo has tried to help give an incentive to seal off cocklofts — the common attics once used to connect rowhouses or

apartments — because fires that have started in one unit can quickly spread through them and cause damage to other people’s properties.

Although not used in new construction, Addabbo said, those that exist in old buildings pose a fire risk, such as in the Sept. 9, 2013 blaze in Middle Village that damaged

seven homes and injured 11 firefighters and inspired the senator to introduce the legislation last year.

The blaze started in one house and spread to the others through a cockloft connecting all of them.

Other fires that spread through cocklofts have caused major damage to homes in Addabbo’s district, such as a December 2014 one in an Ozone Park apartment and one allegedly caused by an evicted tenant that hit a row of Woodhaven homes in March.

Addabbo said the issue is also prevalent in Lentol’s district.

“He saw the cockloft issue before I did,” he said.

The assemblyman had introduced the legislation before Addabbo put it forward in the higher chamber.

This is not the South Queens senator’s first attempt at passing this bill.

Just like this year, it passed the Senate in 2014 near the end of session but was not approved by the Assembly.

The lone dissenting vote in the higher chamber last week was that of state Sen. John DeFrancisco (R-Onondaga County).

Addabbo said he plans on reintroducing the legislation next year when he returns to Albany and continuing to push for its Q passage.

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And even when they try to, Bevilacqua said, many times the foods they’re eating has hidden calories and fat in it.

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Bevilacqua, a personal trainer and general manager at Gold’s Gym in Howard Beach, started “A Plus Meals” with two partners about eight months ago and his business has skyrocketed since then.

When he first got the idea, he said, he was cooking the meals — more than 200 of them — in his home.

“I quickly realized that wasn’t going to work,” he said.

He moved the operation to a commissary kitchen and is now looking for a new space to host h is expa nd i ng business.

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Besides word of mouth, it’s the chef behind the creations: Sammy Vescio.

“I would definitely credit that for our success,” Bevilacqua said.

Vescio has worked in and owned several restaurants in Queens and Florida.

Bevilacqua said the chef has his own secrets to making sure the meals are as healthy and delicious as possible.

“He has his own way of cutting the

chicken so that it stays moist and doesn’t dry out,” Bevilacqua said.

Along with Vescio, Bevilacqua works with fellow personal trainer Alessandro Cavaleri to craft the meals that will help people achieve their fitness goal.

O n t h e c o m p a n y ’s w e b s i t e , aplusmeals.com, you can check out the wide array offered to customers.

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The meals are cooked without oils, butter or preservatives.

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Joseph Borelli back behind bars: LI DA

Manhattan man held for JFK bomb threats

Was wanted for alleged parole violation

Faces 7 years on 11-count complaint

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

A man wanted by the 106th Precinct for allegedly violating his parole back in February was caught by cops again ... this time on Long Island.

The Nassau County District Attorney announced last Thursday that Joseph Borelli, of Brooklyn, was arrested along with two Nassau County men for allegedly b u r g l a r i z i n g s eve r a l c o m m e r c i a l properties.

“The main defendant in this case has been charged with and is still being investigated for his role in a string of commercial burglaries all over Nassau County and possibly even in Suffolk and Queens,” Acting Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas said in a press release.

According to Singas, Borelli and his two associates allegedly took $200,000 worth of merchandise from nine Nassau County properties since January. He was arrested by Nassau County cops on June 19 and charged with nine counts each of third-degree burglary and third-degree

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criminal mischief, according to Singas.

He faces up to seven years in prison for those charges, Singas said.

In February, the 106th Precinct put out an alert that Borelli allegedly violated his parole stemming from a separate burglary charge. According to the alert, Borelli Q lived in Howard Beach at that time.

A 64-year-old Manhattan man has been arrested for allegedly calling in nearly a dozen bomb threats at John F. Kennedy International Airport this month.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Monday that Philip Ngom of West 116 Street was arraigned last Saturday on 11 counts of falsely reporting an incident and making a terroristic threat before Queens Criminal Court Judge Deborah Stevens Modica.

He was held on $750,000 bail and faces up to seven years in prison if convicted on all counts.

Brown, in a joint statement with Chief Security Officer Thomas Belfiore of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said Ngom made explicit threats to kill travelers and law enforcement personnel between June 9 and June 24.

“When a bomb threat is reported, law enforcement must respond promptly and effectively — as they did following every single call the defendant is alleged to have made — in order to protect the public,” Brown said.

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“Fortunately, these bomb threats were a hoax,” Brown added. “However, those responding personnel had no way of knowing that fact at the time.”

Brown said Ngom called 911 on 11 occasions in a span of 16 days, sometimes more than once in a single day.

Brown cited a call that allegedly came in on June 18 in which Ngom allegedly said he planned to deploy three chemical bombs at the airport in a BMW. The criminal complaint against Ngom quotes him as allegedly saying “I am going to kill a lot of people today. It is a pleasure to kill.”

Less than an hour later he allegedly claimed Muslims were on their way to plant a bomb at the airport.

Then Ngom allegedly said on June 21 and 24 that he intended to kill many police officers at the airport.

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A few of the chickens pecking around on the block in front of their owner’s home in Forest Hills, and one of the flightless birds walking along the side yard.

PHOTOS BY CHRISTINE SPAGNUOLO

Hens are ruling the roost in Forest Hills A resident’s pet chickens are a unique and interesting spectacle

by Christine Spagnuolo Chronicle Contributor

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s ... no, you really are seeing birds — chickens to be exact.

Forest Hills resident, David S., who asked that we do not use his full name, cares for a small f lock of eight chickens right in the comfort of his own backyard.

Nearby residents and visitors walking by David’s home will often encounter at least one of the friendly fowl pecking away near the Forest Hills Stadium.

The rare sight in the urban-suburban neighborhood has gotten only positive

reactions and admiration from the surrounding population.

“I’ve had the chickens since they were babies,” David explained. “The youngest are 2 years old, but they have all grown up on my property so they know not to roam too far. They like to walk around on the block, but they never go missing or cause a problem — everyone loves them.”

In case there ever is a problem, he has a sign on his lawn that says: “Hello, everyone.

Do not ring the house bell concerning the chickens please. They are not loose, they are just having fun. For any concerns please

call,” with his phone number posted.

David does not have a rooster — which are banned in New York City — to breed more chickens, but he does collect their eggs and gives them to his neighbors. A coop is set up in his yard, along with a feeding container for the chickens, and the gate is left open during the day for them to walk around in the vicinity of David’s home.

While strolling by with his family, Steve Agostinacchio, a long-time Forest Hills resident, gave his reaction to the small farm animals surrounding him. “It’s definitely unique, but I have no issue with it,” he said.

“Over the past few years, I always see them on this street, but they tend to stay in place.

They never fly the coop.”

Agostinacchio, his wife, two children and even their pet dog watched three chickens pecking the grass at the time. Anyone who walked by either had zero reaction and seemed to be used to seeing the chickens, or gasped and smiled at the surprising spectacle.

Queens has always been known to be a diverse area, and it certainly sticks to that reputation — even chickens can enjoy life Q in the borough.

Richards lands big gig on zoning panel New subcommittee chairman to play a major role in mayor’s housing initiative

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Councilman Donovan Richards will have tremendous influence over construction and development projects large and small in his new post as chairman of the City Council’s FILE PHOTO subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises.

The City Council’s subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises would not at first glance seem to have the cache of assignments like education, public safety or budget.

But with control over the city’s zoning agenda, it can be influential, particularly in the early stages of Mayor de Blasio’s ambitious but controversial plan to build or preserve 200,000 affordable housing units in the next 10 years.

And its new chairman, Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton), has plans of his own.

“There is an affordable housing crisis in the city,” Richards said Tuesday in a telephone interview.

But Richards said the city must not simply hand developers a blank check, particularly in neighborhoods where the mayor is proposing to increase allowable density while waiving some of the normal restrict ions placed on builders, li ke pa rk i ng requirements.

Richards, who wielded great influence in just over one year as Environmental Protection chairman, said he will be influenced by his sensibilities and experiences with gentrification, what he termed sound environmental and economic practices, and things like

the foreclosure crisis that still is hammering portions of his district after more than seven years.

The mayor has proposed, for example, that some neighborhoods located within close proximity to abundant public transportation be rezoned to allow more density per acre, and to build up above current height rest r ict ions where bu ild i ng out is not feasible.

In return for such considerations, developers would be required to set aside portions of their projects for affordable housing.

And it is here that Richards said that he also will not be giving the mayor a blank check.

“Let’s discus ‘affordable housing,’” Richards said. “What does that mean? No one’s ever def ined it. How are you measuring t h at? A f ford able for M a n h at t a n? For Queens?”

With relaxed parking restrictions, Richards acknowledged places such as Jamaica, Flushing and others that already lack sufficient parking, and that even badly needed apartment units could make things worse if not handled carefully.

“That is a question that will be asked when a project comes before my committee,” he said. “You have to strike a balance. continued on page 23

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DDC a no-show at Hamilton Beach civic meeting on James Court work

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

The Department of Design and Construction last Thursday canceled its appearance at the New Hamilton Beach Civic Association meeting hours before it was supposed to update residents on a capital project on James Court.

“I’m not a happy camper at this point,” civic President Roger Gendron said. “I am as frustrated as you.”

Gendron said he only found out the DDC was not going to show up at 3:30 p.m., three and a half hours before the meeting was to start.

According to the civic president, the DDC project manager for the work on the street — which seeks to alleviate flooding problems by installing bulkheads, raising the pavement and removing the curb to make the sidewalk level with the roadway — retired last week and the agency had nobody who could update the group on its plans for the road.

Department of Transportation representatives were present at the meeting but did not have any infor mation on any possible changes made to the project.

“I couldn’t tell you,” DOT Borough Planner Craig Chin said to residents.

Some residents, like Gendron, were livid at the DDC’s absence on Thursday.

James Court resident Rich Lynch expresses his frustration at the Department of Design and Construction failing to show up to last Thursday’s New Hamilton Beach Civic Association meeting PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY to update residents on a capital project taking place on the road.

“This is why nobody has faith in anything the city does,” James Court resident Rich Lynch said.

Another resident said the DOT should “take it upon itself” to know what the DDC is planning for the street.

The project was first proposed when state

Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) was a councilman. He, too, expressed anger at the DDC not showing up to the meeting.

“They had to have known that the gentlemen who was retiring was retiring,” Addabbo said in an interview last Friday.

The senator admitted that sometimes cap-

ital projects, such as the one on James Court, take some time to get going — but added that something needs to be done as soon as possible.

“Sometimes, larger, more complex projects take years of funding,” he said. “But, every moment and every month, the project gets more expensive. We don’t want the city to come back to us and say we need more money. We want the project to get going.”

During his time as South Queens’ city representative, Addabbo allocated funding for the project, which has been continued by his successor, Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park).

Gendron said the DDC has agreed to come to the civic’s Aug. 20 meeting, though he said a meeting in July is possible if the agency agrees to come then.

The Aug. 20 meeting, Gendron added, will also serve as an opportunity for residents to get an update on the capital project to repave 104th Street, which has been in shambles for more than a decade.

Gendron said he showed the conditions to Nicole Garcia, Queens commissioner for the DOT, earlier in June and that she seemed receptive to the community’s concerns.

In other transportation news, Chin said the agency is still looking into placing lights on the boardwalk connecting Hamilton Beach to Q the JFK Airport A train station.

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State law tough on clothing bin owners Braunstein legislation strengthens disclosures by the fake charities

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

A state bill aimed at eliminating clothing collection bins from fake charities and introduced by Assemblyman Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside) has been passed by both houses of the Legislature.

The measure, which prohibits placing bins on public property, goes a step further than city law by forcing the owners to disclose whether they are operated by a nonprofit group or a for-profit business.

In addition, the owner must reveal whether a bin is operated by a for-profit business partnering with a nonprofit group, a practice known as rent-a-charity.

The owners are subject to fines of up $500 for violations and must meet maintenance requirements.

“The bill spells out specifics on graffiti removal, proper locks and fresh paint,” Braunstein said Monday by phone. “We hope to see a lot less of these bins around the state.”

He believes that fake charities are hoodwinking well-meaning residents who want to donate their clothing to a worthwhile charity.

“These bins are frequently placed on sidewalks and other public places, damaging the quality of life of our neighborhoods,”

Braunstein said.

The assemblyman called the bins “eyesores” because, he said, they are not properly maintained and sometimes serve as trash receptacles and magnets for graffiti.

The neglected containers often overflow with clothing and make a mess when it rains. In the winter, some homeless people sleep in them.

A year ago, Braunstein held a press conference at the site of an illegal clothing bin outside the gates of the historic Lawrence Cemetery in Bayside. Calls to Our Neighborhood Recycling, the bin’s owner, were not returned to the assemblyman or the Chronicle. It is a for-profit company, according to Braunstein’s spokesman, David Fischer.

The pink bin has since been removed from the site.

“This legislation will help to weed out the bad actors so that people can be certain that they are donating to charities or to legitimate textile recycling businesses,” Braunstein said.

He pointed to the Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles Association, a coalition of companies whose goal is to remove textiles from landfills.

Jack ie K ing, executive director of SMART, said her group supports the legis-

lation that addresses “bad actors” in recycling and regulates the maintenance and disclosure requirements.

“At the same time, the bill will further SMART’s goal of reducing the amount of clothing and textiles that end up in state landfills by providing convenient locations to recycle clothing and textiles,” King said.

Last December, the city enacted a law that authorizes the Department of Sanitation to immediately seize illegal clothing bins, rather than wait a month.

In the past, some of the bin owners waited until the last minute and then moved them to another illegal location. The city then had to start the 30-day waiting period all over again.

Under the city law, a $250 fine is issued for the first offense for placing a bin on city property and $500 for subsequent offenses within 18 months.

For bins placed on private property, it also requires that their owners and the landowner be responsible for maintaining them in clean condition and for reporting the amount collected on a yearly basis to the DSNY. Residents are urged to call 311 if they see a clothing bin on a city street. Those placed without permission on private property, such as gas stations and other businesses, must also be reported by the owners.

An illegal clothing bin outside the historic Lawrence Cemetery in Bayside last year. It has FILE PHOTO since been removed.

Chrissy Voskerichian, president of the 109th Precinct Community Council in Flushing, applauded Braunstein’s effort, adding that the containers “block sidewalks, attract litter, graffiti and dumping and also diminish the quality of life in our Q community.”

Greek crisis could be ‘Astoria’s gain’ Queens’ community supports, thinks on investments, focuses on families

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As the world looked toward Greece this week, witnessing it missing a debt payment to the International Monetary Fund and seeing citizens struggle as banks closed, many Greek Americans in Astoria sought to reframe the polarizing crisis to focus on supporting their countrymen.

“Our only goal as a Greek-American community is to support Greece, not any political side or not to get involved in the ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ vote that they’re having,” said Athanasios Aronis, the fourth vice president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies, on 29th Street in northern Astoria.

Aronis, who came here when he was 11 and visits Greece every summer, added that the struggles — such as a grandmother who reportedly jumped in front of a train — there have been “heartbreaking” to witness.

He said that in Greece, family is everything and many aim to send a message of hope back home.

The federation, in place since the 1930s, organized a gathering set for Wednesday evening in Athens Square to show solidarity for Greece’s citizens.

“This is where we’re trying to tell them that whatever they do, make sure they don’t forget the person that is 80 years old and is waiting two and a half hours in the Athenian

Greek and American flags fly at the St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox church in Astoria, a neighborhood PHOTO BY CRISTINA SCHREIL where discussions on the debt crisis brew among Greek Americans. heat — and it’s very hot out there — to wait to get 60 euros from the ATM.” Aronis added he sees people, “more than ever,” moving to Astoria.

“Truth be told, Astoria is gaining from the problems of Greece,” he said, adding there’s an influx of people who are willing to work and start low.

Vasilios Petratos, an economics professor at CUNY College of Staten Island, noted the high unemployment rate there, particularly among young people, may have an effect here.

“From what I gather, there is a trickle, maybe at the beginning, but it may get stronger,” Petratos said. “Young people are

looking for ways out.”

He knows some people who have recently moved to the neighborhood, a migration countries such as Australia and other American cities such as Chicago and Boston also have experienced.

“Uncertainty is the key word,” he added.

“This level of uncertainty is quite high and they’re trying to deal with it.”

Petratos also said that, as one of many Greek Americans who have friends and family members back home, trying to assist from afar is complicated.

“You listen to them and you try to help if you can,” he said. “Help will have to be continuous and consistent to make a difference.”

Nick Panagiotopoulos, president of Pharos Travel, near Athens Square on 30th Street, said he’s still booking trips to Greece, but the No. 1 question he’s heard over the last few days is, “Can I get my money?”

Panagiotopoulos, an Astoria resident since 2001, said his siblings and mother are in Athens.

“They’re concerned,” he said.

He added that among Astoria residents, there’s a lot of worry about accounts and property over there. He estimated that most of the Greek Americans he knows here have investments back home, including him.

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continued from page 2 go in any direction to get to one. He also said initial changes would be done with temporary assets, such as paint and bollards, while the DOT revaluates and tweaks things as necessary before any more permanent infrastructure changes or construction take place.

Carey and Ferreras reiterated that they do not think the lane reduction will lead to traffic tie-ups, particularly northbound.

“There it narrows to one lane in each direction at 46th Street anyway,” she said.

During the meeting, residents broke up into groups to mark up maps, one of the existing

layout of the street and one with the proposed changes.

Most liked what they saw, though they offered suggestions from speed cameras to median fencing like that installed on Queens Boulevard to further discourage mid-street pedestrian crossings.

Corona resident Roseann Geiger is concerned about the US Open.

“Sometimes, cars come onto the side streets and you can have gridlock,” she said.

“You can’t get an ambulance in. People can’t get back home from work. It hasn’t happened often, but with two lanes instead of five it will

happen more often.”

Michael Gallardo, recreation director at the nearby Rego Park Nursing Home, said the elimination of parking spaces in front of the home to accommodate the bike path would pose problems for workers, volunteers, ambulettes and delivery drivers.

“Bike paths are a great idea,” he said.

“Eliminating that parking is a bad idea.”

Supporters and opponents had some legislative backing. Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) said he often has had trouble getting across the road as a pedestrian. Carey said things like widening the islands in the middle of the road would allow walkers a refuge rather than forcing them to walk across the entire

94-foot-wide road at once.

Dromm had local opposition of his own when the DOT was proposing traffic overhauls in Jackson Heights, but said meetings such as the one Tuesday night went a long way to the plan being embraced by local residents.

A representative of Assemblyman Francisco Moya (D-Corona), on the other hand, read into the record his request that the DOT revisit three proposals he has made to reduce traffic and bike lanes.

“As a longtime supporter of traffic safety and bike lanes, I would like to see improvements made to 111th Street,” he wrote. “I just want to make sure the changes are both Q responsible and community-sensitive.”

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Sometimes that means nobody gets everything they want. You try to come closest to a win-win-win situation as often as possible.”

Richards said he is fully aware t h at develop er s wa nt a nd ne ed enough market-value units to make their investment pay off.

“But I’m going to treat each project as I would as if it were coming into my district — how green will the project be? How many local jobs? What is the affordable to market-value balance?”

In recent years, several major projects in the city have fallen apart or been delayed when the city has made requests on things like job wage guarantees and other items, demands sometimes made after developers felt an agreement had been reached.

In some cases, the most famous of which was the Kingsbridge Armory project in the Bronx, the developer, promising 1,100 jobs, pulled out. It took more than three years for another project to be approved for the site — this one with only 200 jobs and none of the jobs or labor guarantees that had been refused by the first developer.

Richards said that negotiating the best deal for his district — and now for the city — is his job. He also feels the market has changed in the city’s favor in recent years.

“New York City and places like Jamaica are hot right now — everyone wants a piece of them,” Richards said.

“I’m confident that if one developer pulls out of a project, there will be another one willing to take his place.”

Richards said large portions of his district, such as Rosedale and Laurelton, lack the public transportation to be targeted by the de Blasio plan.

But they are just as vulnerable to gentrification.

“If a developer wants to come into Jamaica, I don’t want the current residents forced out,” he said. “I just wa nt the people who bu ilt that neighborhood to be able to stay Q there.”

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WOODHAVEN EVELOPMENTS Celebrating America on Fourth of July

by Maria A. Thomson Executive Director GWDC

Last week the Woodhaven Business Improvement District stated its opposition to the proposed Select Bus Service Plan for Woodhaven Boulevard and its “No left turn onto Jamaica Avenue” component.

This is because it would mean no vehicular traffic access to Jamaica Avenue and our WBID stores and businesses. This week, the Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation is taking the same position, against this “No left turn” onto Jamaica Avenue.

This one part of this proposal would affect Jamaica Avenue adversely, as well as redirect this traffic off of the corridor and onto residential streets.

I will keep you posted on this very important project.

Regarding the collapsed building at 78-19 Jamaica Ave: Last year at this time we thought that this building was going to be demolished. In this way, this eyesore would then be cleared property on which we could hopefully build senior citizen housing and also retain the Woodhaven /Richmond Hill Ambulance Corps and the Woodhaven Senior Citizen Center on the ground f loor of the same building.

As you can see, that is not the case.

This building is still a graffiti-vandalized, dark and scaffolded eyesore.

As I have always said from the beginning: Tear it down.

We’ll be watching to see what happens.

Free Events at Forest Park: On July 9 at 7:30 p.m., the cast of Beatlemania Recall will appear at the park.

On July 16 at 7:30 p.m. “Blondes Have More Fun” featuring the Rick Larrimore Musical tribute capturing four decades of Rod Stewart hits.

Take advantage of this enjoyable entertainment in our beautiful local park.

Good news! The 102nd Precinct will be receiving 12 new police officers from the cu r rent g raduating class at the Police Academy.

We welcome them to our area.

As I have stated before, this week we observe July 4; Independence Day. More than ever, please fly the American f lag proudly above all others from your homes or apartments.

This July 4th we have so much to celebrate, in that we live here in America, the best and most generous country in the world.

We also live in New York City, the best city in the world.

Happy Birthday, America.

May God bless our armed forces that preserve our freedom, and our disabled veterans who have sacrificed so much for our freedom and the NYPD that keeps us safe Q and may God bless our America.

Ten-year-old dies at soccer camp Laura Palma lived in Richmond Hill

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

Laura Palma, 10, an honor student who liked to give back to the community, died Monday on the first day of soccer camp at Queens College.

The Richmond Hill girl collapsed and went into cardiac arrest while playing at the Queens College Summer Camp in Flushing.

According to the college, trained camp staff immediately administered CPR with the use of a defibrillator until EMS arrived at 3:22 p.m.

Laura had not regained consciousness by the time she was transported to New York Hospital Queens, where she was pronounced dead at 4:11 p.m.

Grief counseling services are being made available to summer camp students and members of the staff.

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Laura was described in published reports as an excellent student who had just graduated from PS 161. Her family said she was devoted to her older brother who has cerebral palsy and donated her hair to Locks of Love for cancer patients.

She also tended neighborhood stray cats.

According to reports, Laura had no history of health problems and had gotten a clean bill of health before starting camp.

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Queens ‘jubilant’ over SCOTUS ruling Leaders, residents react to vote declaring same-sex unions a right

by Cristina Schreil Associate Editor

City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside), the only openly gay member of the City Council who is also married, was about to head into a press conference Friday morning when he learned the Supreme Court had ruled that states cannot ban marriages between gay and lesbian couples.

He held back tears.

“It is a big deal for all of us, for every person in this country,” Van Bramer said of the 5-4 decision. “This is an amazing moment for our nation, for our families ...

Some of us never thought [this] would ever happen in our lifetime and it’s so amazing to know that not only here, in New York City, but in every city, in Alabama, Tennessee, Wyoming and Wisconsin, that the gay and lesbian people are 100 percent fully equal in this county and that our relationships and our marriages are fully equal and fully deserving of every protection.”

Michael Mallon, president of the Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens, said in a phone interview he was feeling “jubilant and ecstatic” over the news.

“The f ive members of the Supreme Court of the United States have got this one right,” Mallon said, calling the ruling a “big step in the right direction.”

Mallon said many in the community knew however the ruling turned out would have an impact on the LGBT pride festivities set for that weekend.

“Our concern was that Pride 2015 was either going to be jubilant or a disappointment,” he said. “This day will go down in history.”

He noted that there still need to be rights put in place for members of the transgender community and that there are many homeless LGBT youth. He added that it’s disappointing that four out of five ruled against “equality and justice.”

“I look forward to a day where a decision on basic human rights doesn’t pass by a slim majority,” Mallon said.

Officials, including openly gay Queens City Councilmen Jimmy Van Bramer, top left, and Danny Dromm, top right, reacted emotionally to the Supreme Court’s ruling. Above, Jackson Heights PHOTOS BY CRISTINA SCHREIL residents and couple Murdoch Matthew and Gary Gilbert speak.

Cit y C o u n c i l m a n D a n ny D r o m m (D-Jackson Heights), who is also openly gay, said in a prepared statement that the milestone should inspire people to address ot he r L GBT i s s u e s , s u ch a s yout h homelessness.

“Ma r r iage is f i n a l ly equ a l,” sa id

Dromm. “No longer will there be gay marriage or heterosexual marriage — just marriage. As someone who has been in the gay rights movement for over 40 years, it is difficult to express my sentiments. I never thought I would live to see this day.”

Friday morning, many other officials

sounded off in prepared statements.

“Thanks to today’s ruling, same-sex couples across the country will no-longer be treated as second-class citizens when it comes to issues regarding the family,” said Queens Borough President Melinda Katz.

“This is a great day for those who believe in the dignity of all people.”

City Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) said many can be proud of the democracy shown by the ruling.

“The Supreme Court’s ruling today on marriage equality reassures the founding principles of this great nation,” said Richards. “When two people love each other, they will no longer have to worry about expressing that love to each other, and what better way to express it than through marriage.”

“I am ver y happy that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of same-sex marriage in all 50 states,” said Assemblyman Mike Den Dekker (D-Jackson Heights), who has been a longtime advocate for LGBT rights. “All Americans deserve the right to marry who they love, and receive the benefits that come with that right.”

Ga r y Gilber t, a long t i me Jack son Heights resident and the community liason for Den Dekker, said in a phone interview that it’s still disappointing it was a 5-4 decision, compared to Canada’s Supreme Court’s 2004 decision finding LGBT marriage could be legalized.

“Legally married same-sex couples will no longer have to wonder how to file state and federal income tax if their states do not recognize their marriages,” he said in an email.

City Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), who had been against legalizing same-sex unions but has since changed his position, joined the conversation on Twitter, addressing some dissent in his party.

“I’m truly disappointed that all of the major GOP candidates for POTUS are on the wrong side of history on the issue of marriage equality,” he wrote on Sunday, using shorthand for President of the United Q States.

Samaritan Village is primarily state funded

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

The City Council is continuing its yearly tradition of allocating approximately $45,000 to Samaritan Village, the controversial Briarwood-based human services agency, in the fiscal year 2016 budget, but it’s just a drop in the bucket compared to the funds it receives from the state.

According to public records, New York State has 18 in-progress contracts with Samaritan Village, which operates the highly controversial 216-family Boulevard Family Residence at the former Pan American Hotel in Elmhurst and the Briarwood

City Council provides only $45,000 Family Residence, in addition to the proposed homeless facility at 78-16 Cooper Ave. in Glendale.

The richest contract is for $113 million over five years, from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2019, for the human services agency’s chemical dependency services program.

Other contracts range between $50,000 over two years for facility maintenance to $80 million over five years for a drug and alcohol treatment program.

The total worth of all 18 contracts

between the state and Samaritan Village is slightly more than $235 million.

Of the $45,000 allocated by the City Council, $36,050 is annually given by Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) to the agency for the operation of the Woodside Senior Center.

According to a spokesperson for Van Bramer, the $36,050 goes to events such as Mother’s Day celebrations at the facility, a s wel l a s yoga cla sses a nd ot her activities.

Samaritan Village has drawn the scorn of Elmhurst and Glendale residents over the last year, as the stealthy conversion of the Pan American Hotel into a shelter and subsequent health and safety issues such as vermin and insect infestations have infuriated the facility’s neighbors.

A lawsuit has also been filed to prevent the city from signing a contract with Samaritan Village for the proposed conversion of a Glendale factory into a shelter, citing environ mental and safety concerns.

Samaritan Village did not respond to an Q inquiry for comment by press time.

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Legislature takes on senior issues in Albany Four bills on abuse and scams pass both houses; six stuck in Assembly

by Mark Lord Chronicle Conributor

Days before the New York State 2015 legislative session came to a close on June 25, the Senate passed a package of 10 bills aimed at protecting senior citizens.

While taking on predatory financial schemers and physical and emotional abuse, among other issues, the bills were also seen as a positive step to increase public awareness on the increasing needs of seniors.

“We always feel seniors are one of our most vulnerable populations,” said state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach). “We have a growing number of seniors. I know I have a large number of seniors in my district. They are a large target for scams. They live on a fixed income.”

Of the bills in the package, Addabbo said, “I believe I supported each and every one of them.

It’s a step in the right direction.”

Four of the bills also passed the Assembly and must next be reviewed by the governor.

Those include measures that would improve the quality of life for seniors, offering protection from physical, emotional and financial abuse; clarify the authority of adult guardians of senior citizens; extend the Long-Term Care Ombudsman

Program, which creates an advocate for seniors living in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes, assisted living facilities and adult homes, which is set to expire on Dec. 31; and increase awareness of the financial exploitation and neglect of seniors via a public relations campaign.

The six other bills that were passed by the Senate were sent to the Assembly where, according to state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing), they were not reported out of their respective committees. That suggests that, at least for the time being, they have been shelved.

One of those bills would have authorized banks to refuse to carry out monetary transactions if exploitation of the elderly is suspected.

Another sought to protect seniors from individuals who endanger their welfare by expanding the definition of “caregiver” to include volunteer caregivers, appointed guardians and those who hold power of attorney.

Two of the measures were designed to ensure prosecution of individuals who abuse or exploit seniors. That is a particularly relevant issue in New York, one of five states that account for more than one-third of all elder abuse cases nationwide.

The remaining two bills would have helped to better identify incidents of elder abuse through

the collection of data on the mistreatment of older people from state and city agencies and would have offered further clarification on the authority of adult guardians of seniors.

According to Stavisky, eight of the 10 bills passed unanimously in the Senate.

Among her constituents are 46,000 individuals aged 65 or older, comprising a total of 15 percent of the district’s population. “As the population ages, there is more and more elder abuse,” Stavisky said, adding that many cases are never reported.

According to statistics, the senator said that only one in 25 cases is reported. Stavisky was optimistic that one of the bills that passed both houses, called in the Senate S5328A, would help to alleviate the problem via public awareness.

“Hopefully, the governor will sign the four bills since the votes were overwhelming,” she said, admitting Gov. Cuomo’s office will need time to study the myriad bills that were passed just prior to the session closing.

Addabbo conceded that “we can do so much more. We barely scratched the surface.”

Among the issues he said still need to be addressed is “how to relieve the financial burden of living in the city.”

During the break, Addabbo said, he and other lawmakers plan to prepare legislation for the next session, suggesting that seniors will be a focus.

He cited a possible senior tax credit for the rising cost of water and sewage charges, one that would offer a “separate senior exemption.”

The exemption, he said, is “something that will be spoken about more and more.”

Retired schoolteacher Debbie Bendana, 65, of Queens Village, wants to see a focus on con artists, saying that while “many seniors are more savvy today to most of these scams ... many are not and are too trusting and fall victim to these schemes.” She would like to see a “crackdown on these phone call scams — the discount electric bills for seniors, free trips to the Bahamas.”

Bendana also sees a need for “more advocates for and checkups on nursing homes,” where, she said, “the abuse and neglect is deplorable.”

Speaking of the bills that did get passed, Miriam Burns, a member of the Queens Interagency Council on Aging board, said, “These are all very positive things,” but added, “There has not been enough done to be sure people are not abused by family or caregivers. I would like to see more attention and money focused on victims of P Alzheimer’s and their caregivers.”

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The Songwriters Hall of Fame ( SHOF ) doesn’t get the attention that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame does from the media but being honored by it frequently means more to entertainers. For example, Van Morrison, who propitiously was in town anyway to perform the next night at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, was honored with the SHOF’s highest honor, the Johnny Mercer Award. Morrison refused to attend the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies when he was inducted in 1993.

Ozone Park native Cyndi Lauper was part of the Songwriters Hall Class of 2015. To be fair, many of her biggest hits, including “Girls Just Want To Have Fun,” “All Through The Night,” and “True Colors,” were written by others although, “She Bop” and “Time After Time” were her own compositions. She has further burnished her songwriting bona fides by composing the music for the hit Broadway show “Kinky Boots.”

Lauper joked that many of her parents’ friends in Ozone Park were still asking her what she was doing for a living long after she made it big on the Billboard charts. To be fair to them, although she is 62 years old she still looks incredibly unchanged from the cover photo on her 1983 multi-platinum album, “She’s So Unusual.” She still has that Betty Boop voice judging by the way she sang “Hat Full of Stars” on the stage of the Marriott Marquis Grand Ballroom, the longtime venue for the Songwriters Hall of Fame event.

Canadian ingenue Carly Rae Jepsen of “Call Me Maybe” fame made the induction speech for Cyndi and sang an excellent rendition of “Time After Time.” I asked Jepsen earlier in the evening about her memories of singing at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Arthur Ashe Kids Day in 2013. “It was a lot of fun but my bass player couldn’t find an electric outlet that worked and had to fake playing during the show!”

A key advantage that the Songwriters Hall of Fame has over its Rock & Roll cousin in Cleveland is that it honors all genres of music.

Chicago blues musician and songwriter Willie Dixon was posthumously honored as Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora performed a medley of his most covered tunes,“I Just Want to Make Love to You” and “Hoochie Coochie Man.” No disrespect to Sambora, but a better choice would have been to have the still very active Johnny Rivers perform his hit from literally 50 years ago, “Seventh Son,” that was also written by Dixon.

Country music was front and center at the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The biggest surprise of this year’s Songwriters Hall of Fame

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show was David Letterman’s replacement, Stephen Colbert, coming on stage and singing a very credible version of Toby Keith’s “As Good As I Once Was,” and then delivering a tribute speech to Keith, country music’s premier baritone singer who also writes most of his own material.

Jennifer Nettles, Sugarland’s very attractive lead vocalist, delivered the best performance of the night, as she powerfully sang “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” the big 1982 George Jones comeback record that was written by one of the evening’s honorees, Bobby Braddock.

“What a Wonderful World,” a tune most associated with Louis Armstrong who lived the latter half of his life in Corona, was written by the former longtime Forest Hills resident, Bob Thiele, and one of Elvis Presley’s favorite songwriters, George David Weiss, was designated as this year’s “Towering Song,” by the Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, Armstrong’s fellow New Orleans native, Mac Rebannack, better known to all as Dr. John, sang this tune in a rather unrecognizable manner that elicited groans from the audience. “What a Wonderful World” also got a second life when Forest Hills native Joey Ramone recorded it shortly before his untimely passing.

Astoria’s own Tony Bennett praised Lady Gaga (real name: Stephanie Germanotta) in his speech that named her the SHOF’s “Contemporary Icon” songwriter. The two worked together on a very successful standards album last year.

The Songwriters Hall of Fame is currently located as a wing in the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. Given the historic importance of the music publishing business here in New York as exemplified by the Brill Building, it’s a P shame that it’s not located here.

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Social Security: what you think you know might be all wrong Americans may have faith in the Social Security system, but many still don’t really understand how it works. That’s a key take-away from a recent survey of Americans’ knowledge of Social Security retirement benefits. While 63 percent of respondents said they do believe Social Security benefits will be available to them when they retire, many were confused about who qualifies for benefits, how much they’ll be eligible to receive and when they can start drawing benefits without penalty.

The survey, by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, included a true/false quiz about Social Security facts. Just 28 percent of those surveyed scored a passing grade and only one person out of the 1,500 polled was able to answer all survey questions correctly. The survey results illustrated a significant lack of knowledge about Social Security, including: • Although 75 percent of those surveyed thought being an American citizen is a requirement to receive Social Security retirement benefits, this is not the case. Noncitizens lawfully living in the U.S., and who have permission to work here, can obtain a Social Security number, pay into the Social Security system and draw benefits.

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• Fifty-five percent of those surveyed incorrectly believed they could continue working during retirement while collecting full Social Security benefits, regardless of their age. If you work during retirement, but have not yet reached your full retirement age, your Social Security benefits may be reduced if you earn too much. Once you reach full retirement age, those withheld benefits will be repaid over your lifetime.

“Perhaps the greatest Social Security deficit in this country is the lack of education around the retirement benefits of the program,” says Michael Fanning, executive vice president, U.S. Insurance Group, MassMutual. “With millions of Americans nearing retirement each year, many may be at risk of underutilizing a critical component of their retirement income stream.”

Still, some good news emerged from the survey.

Americans seem aware that Social Security should

be only one component of their overall retirement savings plan. Just 39 percent said they expected to rely more on Social Security than their personal savings or income during retirement, and just 15 percent expected to rely solely on Social Security.

Here are some Social Security facts to help improve your knowledge: • No single filing strategy works for everyone filing for Social Security benefits; there are just too many variables. For example, a married couple may have hundreds of options for filing for Social Security retirement benefits.

• Americans are living longer. It’s no longer sufficient to plan for just 10 years of retirement. You may well need savings and income to carry you for three decades or longer.

• While Social Security can be an important component of your retirement plan, you need to have other income as well. Under- or over-valuing your Social Security retirement benefits could keep you from getting a true picture of your retirement savings plans. A qualified financial professional can better help you understand how Social Security fits into your personal situation.

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A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced former state Sen. Malcolm Smith of Jamaica to seven years in prison for trying to bribe his way onto the 2013 Republican ballot for mayor.

Co-defendant Vincent Tabone, a Bayside resident who is the former Queens County Republican Party vice chairman, got 3 1/2 years for receiving bribes and witness tampering.

“Bribes and kickbacks should never play a role in the selection of candidates for Public Office,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Wednesday in a statement issued by his office. “By attempting to buy and sell a spot on New York City’s mayoral ballot, Malcolm Smith and Vincent Tabone corrupted one of the most fundamental tenets of the democratic process — that candidates cannot bribe their way onto the ballot.”

“Today’s sentences make clear that the cost of violating the public trust in this way will be measured in years in a federal prison,” Bharara added.

His prosecutors convicted four of the six people originally arrested in an early morning sweep in April 2013, including former Republican City Councilman Dan Halloran of Whitestone. Two others pleaded guilty to reduced charges.

Halloran, the middleman between Smith and city Republicans, who was convicted last July, plans to appeal a 10-year sentence he began serving this month.

Noramie Jasmin, the former mayor of the upstate Village of Spring Valley, has been sentenced to three years following her

recent conviction.

Her former deputy mayor, Joseph Desmaret, pleaded guilty to lesser charges. So too did former Bronx Republican Chairman Joseph Savino.

Smith was found guilty of charges that included bribery, wire fraud and extortion.

Tabone, his co-defendant, was sentenced on charges of bribery, wire fraud and obstruction of justice.

The gover n ment proved that Smith engaged in two overlapping schemes.

First, he authorized the payment of $110,000 in bribes to be paid to city GOP leaders including Tabone, so that Smith could obtain a Wilson-Pakula certificate, which was legally required for him to change parties.

He also agreed to secure $500,000 in state transportation funding for a project in Spring Valley in return for bribe money that was to have been paid to Republican officials.

Their undoing turned out to be a wealthy real estate developer who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent. Another associate in the scheme was working with the government as a cooperating witness.

Tabone ran into additional trouble shortly before his first trial — which ended in a mistrial — began.

He was charged with witness tampering after he allegedly appeared at the home of Phil Ragusa, the dying Queens GOP chairman about an hour before the FBI intended to interview him.

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Greece crisis continued from page 22 the Eurozone.

“If they stay in the euro, it’s worth it,” he said. “If they go back to [the] drachma, 50, 60 percent will go down.”

And, while many in Greece are in dire straits, he observed a silver lining to this week’s escalation of a situation that’s been bubbling up for years.

“Some of them, they like the situation,” Panagiotopoulos said of Greek citizens and their government’s acceptance or denial of a deal. “For the last three years, it’s the same thing, it’s getting worse and worse every day ... that’s why some of them are saying it might be for the very good.”

One woman, who moved to Astoria in 1996 from Athens, said she’s been in close touch with her parents there since banks have shut down. Her 75-year-old father was one of many who had to wait in line at ATMs and withdraw the maximum amount from several accounts to prepare for whatever happens next.

“Imagine if they tell you you don’t have access to your own money,” she said.

The woman, who declined to be named, also said Astoria is experiencing an influx caused by the crisis over the past few months.

“Everywhere I go, there’s newcomQ ers,” she said.

Energy exec now leads Chamber of Commerce

by Peter C. Mastrosimone

conversion, combined heat and power installation, energy procurement, and energy conserEditor-in-Chief The new executive director of the Queens vation measures.”

Grech lives in Malverne, LI with his wife Chamber of Commerce is an Astoria native who most recently worked as an executive for a and their two children. He holds a bachelor’s Nassau County-based company that converts degree in accounting and a master’s in international business. buildings from oil to natu“I am grateful for the ral gas heating and offers opportunity to serve the ot her ser v ices gea red borough of Queens and the toward energy efficiency. businesses that make up its Thomas Grech had been communities” he said in a chairman of the chamber’s prepared statement. “As the Energy Committee and most diverse borough in the organ ized the g roup’s world, each community has Future of Energy Summit, its specific needs, and I am held in February at Queens looking forward to working College. The event brought with the leaders in those together industry leaders com mu n ities, and ou r and area businesses to dismembers, to help ensure cuss energy efficiency in the borough’s economy the commercial sector.

Before being tapped to Thomas Grech, left, and Albert Pennisi continues to grow.”

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Take your best shots of children playing, workers working, lovely landscapes, birds on the bay — whatever you think best says “summertime in Queens.”

Check out these photos taken by last year’s two winners, Jennifer Morrison and Nancy Morelli, and see if you can do as well.

Our main requirement is that the photos be taken in the borough this summer. We also ask that you give us all the details you can, especially the location, the names of any people in the photo, whenever possible, and when it was taken (but don’t use time stamps!). Some entrants give us a whole backstory, and that’s never a problem.

And please tell us where you live and whether you’re an amateur or professional photographer.

The winner or winners will receive tickets to a family-friendly performance in or around the city, such as an off-Broadway show or the circus.

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An annual free career fair hosted by state Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) is slated to take place on Thursday, July 9 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the lower-level food court, in the JC Penney wing of the Queens Center mall, located at 90-15 Queens Blvd.

The fair, in which more than 30 businesses will participate, is open to people ages 18 and older.

The Depar t ment of Homeland Security, the New York State Department of Labor, t he F DN Y, t he NYPD, Rego Cinemas, Starbucks, the United States Post Office, USTA Tennis Center and Disney will be among those looking for employees.

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The organization Woodside on the Move is a co-organizer.

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Ice Jewelry: where the owners can relate to their clients

A screen shot from “New York Vet,” featuring Dr. John Charos, left, in the Bayside Central Veterinary PHOTOS COURTESY MEGUMI SMIROS Associates office, by Megumi Smiros, below.

Flushing resident recognized for film Ice Jewelry Buying Service is located on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park.

Free Parking Available or by Train M or R to 63rd Drive Station they treat everything like it’s a one-shot deal and we don’t do that,” Elias said.

Chronicle Contributor In addition to buying gold, silver, diamonds, watches Recently, a woman and her boyfriend went into and coins, Ice Jewelry Buying also offers instant cash an unassuming gold buying and cash loan shop on loans for jewelry and eBay selling services.

Queens Boulevard. She had a $35 offer on her ring Their cash loans program is straightforward and from another area shop, but was looking to get a simple. “It’s a perfect solution for someone who better deal. In what may be viewed as poor business has a bill due and a check on the way,” Goldberg acumen, she told her new prospective buyer what said. “But we make sure they have a game plan to her previous offer was. Still, after examining her buy their jewelry back before the end of the term. piece, he offered her $1,600. He did so, as he says, Sometimes these are people’s heirlooms we’re “...because that’s what it was worth.” talking about and we respect that.”

The plight of the worker who’s hard-up for cash For those who are less Internet-savvy or just don’t in today’s economy is something that Arthur Elias have the time, Ice Jewelry Buying offers a convenient and Edward Goldberg can relate to firsthand, eBay sales service. If what a customer has isn’t an having been laid off from their jobs in jewelry item that Ice Jewelry Buying would purchase, like manufacturing. They understand that people get a handbag or antique furniture, they can help find into situations where they just need a little cash fast a buyer on their eBay store. Elias consults with the to make the bills and Ice Jewelry Buying Service customer to find a target price and hopes to help out in the most STORE HOURS let the Internet auctioneers handle honest way they can.

“For this, I like to think we’re MON.-FRI. 11 am - 7 pm the rest.

For anyone who has ever dealt doing the community a service,” SAT. 10 am - 6 pm SUN. by Appointment with the hassle of selling and Elias said. “We’re in the business of helping people who are in a tough icejewelrybuyingservice.com shipping an item on eBay — all the forms involved in setting up a user spot. They can come to our store and paypal account, the 10-15 percent fee that Ice and know that we can educate them on what they Jewelry Buying charges to do all the work is really a have and we’ll give them what their items are worth. bargain deal.

When that woman told me her previous offer, it made “At the end of the day, I just want people to feel me wonder how many times this happens — how comfortable doing business with us. People have many people who really need that money get taken this conception of gold buying stores as these slimy advantage of?” places with slimy people, and they’re typically right.

Elias opened his Rego Park shop with Goldberg But we want to be different. I don’t think it’s cool to in 2009, and already they’re seeing a lot of repeat see someone buy a ring for $200 and put it in their customers and referrals. This is a sign to them that counter for $800. We don’t do that.” they’re doing something right — the pawn business Ice Jewelr y Buying Ser vice is located at typically deals in one-time transactions but Elias is 98-30 Queens Blvd. in Rego Park. Hours of operation determined to break that mold, building a reputation are Monday-Friday from 11 am to 7:00 pm and on trust.

Saturday 10 am to 6 pm; Sunday – private “Everyone around here is buying gold these days; appoinments are available. Call for more information you can go into the barber shop down the road and Q (718) 830-0030. sell your jewelry. The problem with all these places is

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Megumi Smiros has been recognized for her short documentary “New York Vet.” Her film was chosen by the Metropolitan Film Festival of New York as the “Best Short Documentary” where it premiered on June 20.

Smiros is originally from Japan, but has been a resident of Flushing since 1998. She graduated in May from Hofstra University with a master’s of fine arts in documentary studies and production. The documentary started off as a school project, but took quite the surprising turn for the film graduate.

“For my advanced class, we had to make a 15-minute film about a topic of our choice,” Smiros said in a phone interview. “I was watching television and saw something on animal emergencies, which inspired me to focus my film on that subject.”

Smiros did her research and discovered that a veterinarian who works at the Bayside location of Central Veterinary Associates has done a lot of work with animals in trouble.

Dr. John Charos, president and CEO of Central Veterinary Associates, became the focus of the short film. Smiros went to the clinic to get in touch with the doctor, and when he called her back he told her he was interested in being the star of her project.

The documentary follows the veterinarian throughout his daily life and his past experience working with rescue dogs during and after 9/11, filmed at the Central Veterinary Associates office in Bayside. As well as caring for pets, which he has been doing since 1988, Charos dedicates his time to local law enforcements working to prevent animal abuse.

“It is an incredible honor to be the subject of this film,” Charos said. “‘New York Vet’ is an excellent representation of all the good work we veterinarians do on

behalf of the animals.”

After showing her project to her class, Smiros received praises from her professor, Phil Katzman, who then suggested that she submit her documentary to several film expos.

“I was happy that Professor Katzman really liked my project, but I did not have the money to enter the film into festivals,” Smiros explained. However, her hopeful professor did not want money to get in the way of her success. “The filmmaker club at Hofstra and my professor gave me the money for the festival admissions. It was played at the Metropolitan Film Festival, which I also won an award from, and it will also play at the Long Island International Film Expo, which is a huge deal.

I’m waiting to hear back from others, but this is great so far.”

“New York Vet” can be viewed at the Long Island International Film Expo on July 13 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $10, or $8 for senior citizens, plus fees. The Expo will take place at Bellmore Movies, located at 222 Pettit Ave. in Q Bellmore, LI.

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Queens LGBT allies toast new equality Advocates cut cake, in honor of 5-4 SCOTUS ruling in Jackson Heights

by Cristina Schreil Associate Editor

A day after the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed that same-sex marriage is a right, officials and community members here united to celebrate the 5-4 decision, which many hailed as a landmark leap for human rights.

And, there was cake. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know when I was 13 years old, homosexuality was on the list of mental disorders,â&#x20AC;? said City Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights), who hosted the event outside of the Jackson Heights Post Office. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a long struggle to remove ourselves from that type of hatred, discrimination and prejudice to get to a point where the Supreme Court of the United States of America has validated us and, most i mpor t a ntly, has valid ated ou r relationships.â&#x20AC;?

The ceremony included anecdotes from members of the LGBT community and a symbolic wedding cake-cutting that mirrored an act that took place four years ago when same-sex marriage was legalized in New York State.

After, Dromm said that while there has been progress, there is more to be done. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still many countries around the world where LGBT people are being killed if they came out in those countries,â&#x20AC;? said

As she did nearly four years ago when New York State legalized gay unions, Jackson Heights resident Celeste Balducci, right, constructed a wedding cake last Saturday to celebrate same-sex PHOTO BY CRISTINA SCHREIL couplesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; right to wed.

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He also readdressed the need for incorporating LGBT history in school curricula, insisting that future students of any sexual orientation will know what people endured so â&#x20AC;&#x153;history does not repeat itself.â&#x20AC;?

Brendan Fay, co-founder of the St. Patâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for All Parade who stood with his partner, Tom, said he was among those who helped couples travel to Canada to get married in the years when it was legal there but not here. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a long road,â&#x20AC;? Fay said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After yesterdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision, there is no more crossing borders.â&#x20AC;?

Gary Gilbert, a community liaison for Assemblyman Mike Den Dekker (D-Jackson Heights), stood with partner-of-32-years Murdoch Matthew. The couple did travel to Canada to wed 10 years ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even though I love Montreal, I love Canada, we should be able to get married in our own cities,â&#x20AC;? Gilbert said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That Berlin Wall has finally come down.â&#x20AC;?

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ARTS, CULTURE & LIVING

and as many commuters now travel under the river via trains, hardly coming into direct contact with the water itself.

The Long Island City Community Boathouse, a nonprofit that has brought free paddling to thousands of adults and children, spearheads a series of adventures using the river as a main route.

The boathouse, seemingly wedged within the bowels of a building also shared by the Rockaway Brewing Company and the RecycleA-Bicycle nonprofit’s Queens location on Fifth Street in Long Island City, is the starting point for trips up to Hallets Cove in Astoria, over to Stuyvesant Cove in Lower Manhattan and even down to parts of Brooklyn. On a recent excursion, a group paddled down to Red Hook and

In adventures launching from LIC, boathouse reconnects Queens to the river

by Cristina Schreil

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When was the last time you fathomed the East River, that big waterway separating Queens and Manhattan?

In capturing his crossing of the channel, long before its shores looked anywhere near to the sites of new development that they do now, poet Walt Whitman confronted the estuary: “Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!”

Whitman painted the river, which he crossed on a ferry, as a rapid and bustling artery. New Yorkers, united in their dependence on the commuter boat to travel, came together because of it.

Today, one community boathouse aims to reconnect residents, visitors and other community members to this liquid border between boroughs, especially as the waterfronts see booming development

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W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G

EXHIBITS

Arts in the Park, a summer series for children to see performances. Every Tues., 10 a.m. Thru July 28. Rufus King Park, Jamaica Ave. between 150 and 153 streets, Jamaica. Free. Info: Tyra Emerson (718) 926-7630, go2ccj.org.

“Leading the Way: Six Outstanding Women of Queens,” spotlighting the borough’s female icons. Thru May 2016. Queens Historical Society, 143-35 37 Ave., Flushing. $5, $3 seniors/students, members free. Info: (718) 939-0647, ext.

17, queenshistoricalsociety.org.

Play4Autism Martial Arts program by New Beginning Tae Kwon Doe, 64-64 Dry Harbor Road, Middle Village. Program every Sat., 12-1 p.m. $25.

Info: (718) 894-7777, play4autism.org.

“Images of Iceland,” a photo journey by Claudia Schellenberg. Thru July 13. Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center, 100-01 Northern Blvd., Corona. Free. (718) 651-1100, queenslibrary.org.

Games galore: Children and teens age 8 and up play console and board games. 3:30-5 p.m., every Fri., Queensboro Hill Library, 60-05 Main St., Flushing. Info: (718) 359-8332.

“Art in the Garden: Nature & Science in Dialogue,” with collages by Emily Barnett. Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. Thru July 19. Free with Garden admission. Info: (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org.

Magali Reus, Michael E. Smith and Erika Verzutti, three solo shows. Thru Aug. 3. SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City. Free.

Info: (718) 361-1750, sculpture-center.org.

CLASSES Yoga in the Elements, Sat., July 11 & 25, 9:1510:15 a.m. Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston, $16, pre-registration required. Contact: (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com.

A photograph from an “Images of Iceland” exhibition at Langston Hughes Community Library.

PHOTO COURTESY CLAUDIA SCHELLENBERG

THEATRE Queens Secret Improv Club, Queens’ only allimprov comedy theater, Indie teams: Wed. & Thurs.

7, 8 & 9 p.m., $5. House teams: Fri., 7:30, 8:30 & 9:30 p.m., $7 for entire night. Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. Info: secrettheatre.com.

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Hot Jazz/Cool Garden Summer 2015 to celebrate Louis Armstrong’s birthday, in Louis’ garden, 34-56 107 St., Corona. The Ladybugs: Sat., July 4; Jon-Erik Kellso & Friends, Sat., July 18; Cynthia Sayer & Her Sparks Fly Quartet, Sat., Aug. 15. Each concert begins 2 p.m. $18, $45 for the series.

(718) 478-8274, LouisArmstrongHouse.org.

Pianist Tania Stavreva performs works by Chopin, Ginastera and more. Sun., July 12, 3 p.m. St. Luke’s Church, 85 Greenway South, Forest Hills. Suggested donation: $12 adults, $10 seniors/students. Info: (718) 268-7772, gingerbreadplayers.org.

Bassist Florent Ghys, a concert presented by Bang on a Can. Sun., July 12, 3-4 p.m. The Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City. $5-$10.

Info: Aled Roberts (646) 536-7864, noguchi.org.

LECTURE How to Secure Your Business from Today’s Cyberattacks! Payment technology seminar.

Wed., July 8, 2:30 p.m. Queens Chamber of Commerce, 75-20 Astoria Blvd., Suite 140, Jackson Heights. Free. Register: (718) 898-8500, queenschamber.org.

FILM “King Kong” (1933), Sat., July 11, 1 p.m. Greater Astoria Historical Society, 35-20 Broadway, Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 278-0700, astorialic.org.

SPECIAL EVENTS Community Day, with free admission and special activities. Sun., July 5, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City. Info: (718) 204-7088, noguchi.org.

Atlantic City bus trip, St. Josaphat’s Leisure Club to Caesars Casino, Thurs., July 9, bus leaves church parking lot 8:30 a.m. 35 Ave. and 210 St., Bayside. $30, give back $20. RSVP to Joy (917) 921-7631.

Queens Museum Children’s Book Celebration, Sat., Jul 11, 12-4 p.m. Celebrate summer reading for kids of all ages at the Queens Museum!

Enjoy readings and art making presented by local award-winning children’s book authors. Flushing Meadows Corona Park, New York City Building.

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

DC Comics Spectacular! Sat., July 11, 3-5 p.m. Barnes and Noble, 70-00 Austin St., Forest Hills. Info: John Dessereau (718) 268-1479, crm2713@bn.com.

COMMUNITY Yoga and tai chi, thru Sep. 27, Saturdays, 9:3010:30 a.m.; 11 a.m.-noon. Sundays, 10-11 a.m.

Free. Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City. Info: socratessculpturepark.org.

Tuesday Night Bingo, every Tuesday in July, Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd., early game, 7 p.m., doors open at 6 p.m., regular games at 7:15 p.m., $4 includes 12 games. Cash prizes, everyone 18 & over. Info: (718) 459-1000.

Free English classes for Spanish speakers, every Sat., South Asian Center, 72-26 Roosevelt Ave., Jackson Heights. All levels available.

Register: (646) 727-7821.

Free immigration services. First and third Wed. of each month, City Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley’s district office, 71-19 80 St., Glendale.

Make appt. for help with naturalization and deferred action for childhood arrivals. All services are confidential and open to the public. Info: (718) 366-3900.

Free lung cancer screenings, Forest Hills Hospital, Weds., 10 a.m.-1 p.m., 102-01 66 Road. Scan takes about five minutes and uses low-dose radiation.

App’t req’d. Info: (855) 375-5864.

KIDS/TEENS Preschool children’s programs: Monday Magic Learn & Play, every Mon., 3-4:30 p.m., Bay Terrace Center, 212-00 23 Ave., Bayside. Gym and Creative Exploration, every Wed., 3-4:30 p.m. Little Neck Site: 58-20 Little Neck Pkwy. $5 per family. Info: Amanda, (718) 423-6111 x242, ASmith@sfy.org.

Friday night teen program by the Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens. Every Fri., 6-7 p.m. for middle school students and 7-9 p.m. for high school students, Maurice A. Fitzgerald PS 199, 39-20 48 Ave., Sunnyside. $10 registration req’d.

Info: (718) 728-0946, vbgcq.org.

Defensive driving course, for insurance and point reduction, sponsored by the National Safety Council. Holy Family Church, 175-20 74 Ave., Flushing, Sat., July 18, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $45 pp.

Info/Reg.: (631) 360-9720.

Free summer yoga in Astoria Park every Wed., 7 p.m., thru August 26. (Enter at the parking lot and proceed toward the river. The group meets in the grassy area to the right of the path.). Info (718) 5452550, cityviewpharmacy.com.

Free art classes: Latin American Cultural Center of Queens at ARROW Community Center, ages 8-16, 35-30 35 St., Astoria, every Tues. & Thurs., 4:30-6 p.m. and Sat., 10-11:30 a.m. Info: (718) 261-7664, laccq@aol.com.

Watercolor classes, National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston, Wed., 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. All techniques, beginner to advanced.

Call: (718) 969-1128.

FLEA MARKETS Our Lady of the Snows, Sat., July 11, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

258-15 80 Ave., Floral Park.

Grace Episcopal Church, Sat., July 11, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 14-15 Clintonville St., Whitestone. (718) 7676305, gracechurchwhitestone.org.

St. Raphael’s Church, Sun., July 12, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 35-20 Greenpoint Ave., Long Island City.

St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church, outdoors, Union Tpke. at Parsons Blvd.-150 St., Jamaica, every Sat. & Sun. until Nov., 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

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Grabbing hold of Jamaica’s history at King Manor

by Victoria Zunitch

um, they and other children were full of questions about how life worked in 18thNew York City schoolchildren studying and 19th-century homes. They also learned the history of slavery in America quickly that children back then attended school for learn that the institution did not exist in a few months a year, if at all.

New York by the time of the Civil War. King was not only an original drafter, and But at the King Manor Museum in signer, of the U.S. Constitution, but was Jamaica, the home of Founding Father also the first U.S. senator from New York.

Rufus King and his He was also an abolidescendants, they tionist who refused can learn that slavto use slave labor on ery did exist here his land in Jamaica, long after the Revothe same land that is lutionary War. And now known as the When: Sat., July 18, noon-3 p.m. t h a t e ve n t h e n , 11-acre King Park Where: King Manor Museum, those who spoke and surrounds the 153rd Street and out against it had to museum.

Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica be brave to do so.

He was known for Entry: Free; (718) 206-0545, ext. 13, Queens resident being a loud and kingmanor.org Diana Torres visited proud abolitionist. the museum’s sumSome who shared mer solstice event King’s feelings about on a drizzly June 20 with her children. slavery wanted him to be quieter about it, She said at the beginning, the kids were said Kathy Forrestal, the museum’s director enjoying the activities without knowing the of education. history of the park.

“Even then, people were afraid that if “But they’re going to find out today,” you caused controversy, the country would she said. fall apart,” Forrestal said.

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Jaden Torres, right, and Nyah played with old-fashioned hoops, just as children might PHOTO BY VICTORIA ZUNITCH have done in Rufus King’s time. museum’s executive director.

Mrozinski noted that King Park has been drawing an increasing number of visitors in recent years as free Wi-Fi has become available and as the city is renovating pathways and making other improvements. Yet she said she notices that most park visitors continued on page 43 00 continued

his opinions so strongly.

New York abolished slavery in steps, over many years, with all freed in 1827.

“Our family and community programs serve our interested neighbors who may walk by this house every day and play in the park but not know this is a place they can visit,” said Mary Anne Mrozinski, the

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In Jackson Heights, a balance meets the bold

by Cristina Schreil

about to throw in a Lady Gaga arrangement.

As the orchestra, populated with practiced Amid a lineup of familiar patriotic tunes, a musicians ranging in age from 18 to 87, is still peculiar melody stemming from a far loftier a community group, Glunt said it’s hard to altitude than Jackson Heights began to play. choose the right arrangements, as she often With a line of woodwinds and horns sup- doesn’t know how many players will take plying a warm backbone of harmony, the part until the day of a concert. string section of the Jackson Heights OrchesBut for this Sunday’s festivities, the third tra, sounding much annual Independence mightier than one Day weekend performight expect given mance, traditionally its petite size during a taking place in Travrecent rehearsal, ers Park, the lineup inquired, “How do will have an “indeWhen: Sun., July 5, 4 p.m. you solve a problem p e n d e n t t h r e a d” Where: Travers Park, 34th Avenue and like Maria?” throughout, including 77th Street, Jackson Heights The melody swept “Stars and Stripes Tickets: Free up into a crescendo, Forever” and “Liberenveloping listeners ty Bell.” with the same dra“People have an matic zeal the famous soundtrack is known expectation of listening to patriotic music,” for.

Glunt said. With a glint in her eye, she added, The auditory side-journey away from “We’ll see how it goes, that’s all.”

American turf shouldn’t surprise those familThe tribute is part of a summer-long musiiar with the three-year-old orchestra’s pen- cal series sponsored by the Jackson Heights chant for diverse programs.

Beautification Group, which helped launch Patricia Glunt, the orchestra’s founder and the orchestra in 2012 — the year “the stars director, said it’s her style to combine a broad aligned,” as Glunt describes it. range of tastes and genres, adding she was Perhaps as a nod to her music education qboro editor

Jackson Heights Orchestra concert

Conductor Steven Rosenhaus leads the orchestra in rehearsal. background, Glunt, who has also played violin since she was 5, aims to expose audiences to a range of sounds spanning many periods. For the fifth anniversary, Glunt already plans to showcase living female composers. It’s about pushing wider, she said.

The orchestra was a decades-long dream for Glunt; she has long kept boxes containing every aspect of how to launch one. Since

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then, she’s been grappling over whether to court Manhattan audiences or focus on family concerts for Queens residents. Either way, the orchestra’s sound is sure to delight.

She usually conducts but Sunday, audiences will get to see composer, conductor and educator Steven Rosenhaus lead the group.

If it rains, the concert will be held at St. Mark’s Church, at 34th Avenue and 81st Q Street in Jackson Heights.

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In the boathouse’s headquarters, kayakers grab a life vest and sign a waiver.

Upon launching, people are coached on how to enter a kayak and paddle correctly. For those who are squeamish about the prospect of venturing too far from the comfort of Western Queens, the boathouse hos t s ea s y paddling events within Anable Basin, a rectangular inlet down the street.

On a recent Friday evening, a group of around 30 set out for a trip up toward the Queensboro Bridge and then down to the North Brooklyn Boathouse.

At first, the quest seems treacherous.

Ferries, par ty boat s and crew teams launching from unknown places seem to present a network of danger. The East River Ferr y appears to zip down and across the river having the force to cleave a kayak in two.

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A flock of Canada geese ignore the group, as if everyone is in a crowded subway car.

Gruber’s voice booms a steady stream of directions out toward his fleet, which is composed of beginners and experienced paddlers alike. He choreographs proper crossings, where the whole group moves from one side to another in a straight line and constantly communicates via walkie talkies to a leader in the front and a sweep in the back.

When this reporter admitted it had taken her years to kayak on the East River, Gruber wasn’t surprised.

“There are lifelong New Yorkers who have never been to the Statue of Liberty,” Q he said.

Paddle from Anable Basin to Hallets Cove

The Long Island City Community Boathouse is just one of several similar boating organizations across the city that sponsor and organize trips around the five boroughs throughout the summer, including this one down the East River, left, and under the Queensboro Bridge, left.

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MEETINGS Medicare enrollment/Rx drug plan advice, open enrollment, advocacy and low-income helpwith trained expert, Bayside Senior Center, 221-15 Horace Harding Expwy., Wed., 9:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. Call for app’t: Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

(718) 225-1144.

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Paint Your Own Comic Books: A comic bookmaking workshop by the Queens Council on the Arts. No experience needed. Supplies provided.

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SUPPORT GROUPS Overeaters Anonymous meets weekly for weight loss and other issues. Info: oa.org. Long Island Consultation Center, 97-29 64 Road, Rego Park, Sun., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Call: (718) 937-0163. Rego Park Library, 91-41 63 Drive, Thurs., 12:15-1:40 p.m. Call: (718) 459-5140.

Holy Child Jesus Outreach Center, 112-06 86 Ave., Richmond Hill, Tues., 7:30-9 p.m. Call: (718) 564-7027.

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Bereavement groups for loss of a spouse, facilitated by a licensed social worker. Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills. Call: Lisa Elhanyi, (718) 268-5011, ext.

621. Services Now for Adult Persons, Inc., SNAP, 80-45 Winchester Blvd., Bldg. 4, CBU 29, Queens Village, eight-session group, Mon., 2:15 p.m. Contact: Marion (718) 454-2100.

Have a loved one with memory loss? Selfhelp Community Services Inc., 208-11 26 Ave., Bayside. Stimulating program – One, two, three or four days a week; half-days are also available. Call Ellen Sarokin or Cathy O’Sullivan: (718) 631-1886.

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

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 Tues. Contact: (718) 457-1511. Resurrection Ascension Pastoral Center basement, 85-18 61 Road, Rego Park, every Sun. 12 p.m.

Gam-Anon is a 12-step program for families of someone with a gambling problem. Call hot line (212) 606-8177.

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ACROSS 1 Taj Mahal city 5 Brat’s stocking stuffer 9 Hollywood trickery (Abbr.)

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continued from from page page 00 39 don’t take those extra steps into the museum and may not even realize it’s open to the public.

To draw in more Queens families and students of all ages, King Manor is sponsoring monthly events on the museum’s grounds. It also has printed family guides in English, Spanish, Bengali, Urdu and Hindi.

The Summer Solstice Festival on June 20 drew a large clutch of enthusiastic families.

The activities were designed to either replicate or evoke the kinds of activities that might have happened on the farm in the days when King or his direct descendants lived at the farm.

High school volunteers Angie Parra Paul and Joaniel, who declined to give his last name, helped children use rock salt to operate an old-fashioned ice cream maker.

Ten-year-olds Jaden Torres and Nyah played with wooden hoops and other toys that were used in King’s day.

At a crafting table, tour guide Ana Gilea, intern Bushra Rahman and volunteer Dhervi Kapoor helped children create craft items such as wind socks, which are not quite 18th-century artifacts, but are in keeping with the spirit of crafting by hand.

“We come to the park all the time. We live in the neighborhood,” said Tori Goddard.

Goddard learned of the activity through a newspaper listing. She hasn’t yet taken her son Caleb, age 5, into the museum, but she said he enjoyed churning the ice cream.

The museum also provides programs for school groups and free tours to the public.

There are more “Hands-on History” events in store: “America the Beautiful,” on July 18; “Hoops, Sticks & Whirligigs!” on August 22; and “Founding Fathers” on Q Sept. 12.

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continued from page 36 and pay our taxes but not to have equal rights, this day means everything to us because we are now equal in all aspects.”

Many speakers commented on how LGBT individuals will no longer be seen as second-class citizens.

Michael Mallon, the president of the Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens, said he remembered thinking as an eighth-grader that he had a “miserable life” ahead of him.

“I remember thinking, ‘You know, there’s no way I could be an openly gay

person with a happy life,’” Mallon said.

Longtime resident and Community Board 3 member Pat Glunt said she reacted to the news with tears of joy.

“I remember writing a letter to my mother 40 years ago saying I’m never going to get married,” Glunt said. “Finally in the greatest country in the world now, we have a voice. We don’t have to hide.”

She said that although same-sex marriage has been legal here, she believes the decision will have a big impact around the country, where more can come out.

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“Pomonok Dreams,” a one-hour documentar y about life in the Flushing housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, has become a reality for the two men who produced it.

“It was a labor of love and we hope it serves as a springboard for public housing because there’s nothing built for the working class now,” said Terry Katz, who produced the film with Alan Stark.

Both men grew up at Pomonok, Al Stark, left, and Terry Katz relive their youth at the a public housing project with 35 Pomonok Houses in a documentary.

COURTESY PHOTO buildings on 51 acres. Originally, Katz wanted to do a film on a Pomonok leg- new windows and making other upgrades, but end, Jack the ice cream man. When Stark “it would need $200 million to restore it to the heard about it, he contacted Katz on Face- way it was in the 1950s, I’ve been told.” book to do a larger project.

He believes Pomonok succeeded so well “I knew Al as a kid, but he was three in the early days due to the first-generation years older and didn’t want to hang out with Americans who lived there after the war. the younger kids,” Katz said.

“They brought a lot of values,” he said.

The project took four years to complete “People watched out for you.” with interviews from current and past tenants, Some of the more famous ex-tenants movie clips and photos. include former Congressman Gary AckerBoth men have other jobs. Stark, who man, former Assemblyman Barry Grodennow lives in Electchester, not far from chik and TV weather man Irv Gikofsky, Pomonok, is director of the MS 216 Beacon known as Mr. G. Program in Fresh Meadows. Katz, of Fresh The documentary was shown to about Meadows, worked as a film and TV produc- 500 people on Sunday at Queens College, er and now teaches at St. John’s University many of them former residents and a few and the Fashion Institute of Technology. current tenants.

“We wanted to document a great child“It was awesome, like being at a wedding, hood and why it was,” Katz said. “Pomonok very exciting,” Katz said, adding that there was like a little village. We were safe and it are no immediate plans for another showing, could be that way again.” though the producers have entered the docuProblems began in the 1960s when bud- mentary in several film festivals. get cuts caused maintenance work at Pomo“We’d love PBS to pick it up,” he added. nok to suffer, the producer said. “The city Katz said a website about the documentaused to polish the brass doorknobs, but ry will go online at Pomonokdreams.com things are getting better.” next week. The producers can be reached at Q Katz noted that the complex is installing terry@terrykatz.com.

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Unfortunately for the Knicks, they had the fourth pick in a draft that appeared to have only three almost-certain high-impact players: University of Kentucky forward/center KarlAnthony Towns, Duke center Jahlil Okafor and Ohio State guard D’Angelo Russell.

This was Knicks President Phil Jackson’s first draft, and he was understandably under a lot of scrutiny. Jackson knew he was behind the proverbial eight-ball even before Thursday’s proceedings because he had no luck in last month’s draft lottery, which determined the order of teams picking players.

The pingpong balls worked against the Knicks, who in the old days would have had the second pick based on their putrid 17-65 record last season. Jackson decided to roll the dice by selecting Porzingis, a 19-year-old who had played professionally in Seville, Spain and had reminded many of a young Dirk Nowitzki.

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The big concern for fans is whether the railthin Porzingis is ready to be a major contributor to the Knicks. The media quickly had a field day because apparently team superstar Carmelo Anthony has his doubts about Porzingis’ ability to improve the Knicks immediately. Melo may be right, but given the current state of the Knicks it would be absurd to expect the team to be a serious contender for an NBA title next season.

Jackson can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that a longtime habitue of Madison Square Garden’s Celebrity Row, actor Steve Schirripa, who played Bobby Bacala on HBO’s “The Sopranos” and recently launched his own line of pasta sauces, “Uncle Steve’s,” is impressed with Porzingis’ height and talent. It’s always a smart idea to please a cast member of “The Sopranos”!

Although he probably knows little about baseball, having grown up in Latvia, Kristaps gamely threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Citi Field last Friday night and disQ played good form.

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Twin Pack

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Boneless

CHICKEN BREAST $

199

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Family Pack

lb.

Boar’s Head

Boar’s Head

Boar’s Head

Boar’s Head

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EVERROAST CHICKEN BREAST

GENOA SALAMI

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SWISS CHEESE

$

99

6

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Boar’s Head

1 lb.

SAUERKRAUT

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99

ea.

lb.

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Choice Bone-In Porterhouse For

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5

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Coney Island Foot Long Giant

HOT DOGS Pork & Beef or Beef

$

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