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As the city mulls select bus service for most or all of Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards and whether bus lanes are feasible at bottlenecks along the route, like the LIRR overpass in Glendale, some residents are concerned about the potential effect on traffic and curbside parking.

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Shootings rise; so do lawmakers’ concerns NYPD to study impact of new City Council stop-and-frisk amendments

by Tess McRae Associate Editor

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upporters of the police tactic stop, question and frisk are getting ready to say “I told you so,” now that new statistics show a spike in shooting incidents.

According to the NYPD, shootings jumped 11 percent compared to the same time last year and this past weekend, there were 21 shootings alone, causing some to second-guess Mayor de Blasio’s decision to drop the city’s appeal against amendments added to stop and frisk.

“No question about it, this was the biggest mistake the city has ever made,” Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) said.

Even Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said he would look into whether the Community Safety Act — legislation passed by the City Council which puts an inspector general in the department and allows civilians to file lawsuits against individual police if they feel they were stopped because of their race — could be tied to the spike.

Until now, Bratton was vehemently supportive of de Blasio’s stance on stop and frisk.

The NYPD would not say how it plans to investigate the issue.

Many of the shootings are happening in concentrated areas, specifically the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Harlem and the North Bronx.

Queens has seen far fewer incidents, but supporters of stop and frisk say it doesn’t matter where the shootings are happening.

“I don’t care if it’s happening in Ozone Park or in Pelham Park, there are shootings going on, and as far as I’m concerned, one shooting is one shooting too many,” Ulrich said.

“These acts of violence could have been avoided if we allow the police to use the most effective tool they have.”

Changes to stop and frisk were first introduced by Councilmen Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn) and Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn), after allegations of racial profiling and stop quotas were made against the police.

“The police never engaged in racial profiling,” Ulrich said. “That’s already banned by state law. These officers are exercising their constitutional right to question someone they

deem suspicious. They engage in criminal profiling, not racial.”

Still, a hefty majority of those stopped were black and Latino men, something critics of stop and frisk say cannot be ignored.

“I spoke with a former commanding officer who said he was only doing stops on Roosevelt Avenue, meaning they were probably targeting immigrants,” Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) said.

“The average officer does not want to make all of these stops but they’re being forced to with quotas.”

Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association spokesman Albert O’Leary said quotas were indeed part of stop and frisk in the past.

“There’s something wrong when we’re in a culture where one of our guys needs to make 10 stops by such and such a time,” he said. “But there is also the disincentive of a cop being sued. When one of our guys sees someone with something in their jacket, they’re going to wait until the last minute to stop them because they don’t want to get sued.”

Though the threat of lawsuits is something supporters of stop and frisk say hangs above officers’

The NYPD is looking into amendments recently made to stop, question and PHOTO BY RICK MAIMAN frisk. heads, O’Leary was not aware of any having been filed since the amendment was enacted.

The NYPD would not return requests to comment and the inspector general’s office did not have the information.

Without this data, it is difficult to determine whether cops are in fact reducing stops by the civil suits they potentially face. Regardless, it doesn’t ch a nge t he s pi ke i n shootings. continued on page 17

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Residents wary of plans to put in bus lanes, institute limited routes

by Domenick Rafter Editor

The city Department of Transportation’s plans to build dedicated bus lanes along Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards — and perhaps bring select bus service along the route in the future — was met with some concern and even hard-line opposition last week.

Some residents from Woodhaven and other communities who attended a forum on the plan at PS 306 last Wednesday were not so keen on the proposal.

Concerns about parking, traffic and whether select bus service would lead to a reduction of local buses kept DOT representatives on their feet during the meeting.

“We want to know if we are wasting our time here,” one resident said to Robert Thompson, DOT’s senior project manager for transit development, noting the construction of poles to hold “bus lane” signs is already underway along Woodhaven Boulevard in Rego Park and Middle Village. “Is this going to happen regardless of what we want, or are you going to actually listen to us?”

Thompson did not deny that plans to install bus lanes on the boulevard will move forward, but assured the residents that their ideas were desired.

“We want to hear your thoughts and we do take them into consideration,” he said.

The city’s plan is to build bus lanes along Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards and turn the Q53 and Q52 routes into select bus service lines from the Rockaways to their terminuses at 61st Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside and Queens Center Mall in Elmhurst, respectively.

That means buses will have their own dedicated lanes and priority at traffic lights for all or most of the route, and passen-

Woodhaven residents and DOT officials mull plans to put bus lanes and select bus service along Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards at a meeting at PS 306 last Wednesday.

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gers will have a special fare collection system outside the bus to expedite passenger boarding.

The idea is to speed up service between the Rockaways and northern Queens, entice commuters to use the buses over cars and reduce traffic along the congested route.

Later this summer, the DOT is set to install bus lanes on Woodhaven Boulevard between Metropolitan and Eliot avenues, where the agency says the current street configuration

— eight lanes in either direction with a fairly wide center median — allows for the lanes to be built with little effect on parking or traffic.

Along that section of the route, the number of traffic lanes would be reduced to three in either direction and the right lane would become a bus lane with curbside parking between it and the sidewalk remaining.

But south of Metropolitan Avenue, things get tricky.

The often-congested overpass that spans the LIRR Long Island City branch between Metropolitan Avenue and Union Turnpike carries only six lanes, and southbound, the left lane also serves cars turning left onto Union Turnpike. That turn, which the DOT attempted to eliminate several years ago, often backs up cars during afternoon rush hours causing extensive delays that can stretch back to St. John’s Cemetery.

“As it is now, we can’t afford to take out a lane on that bridge for buses,” one DOT official said.

Between Union Turnpike and Myrtle Avenue, Woodhaven Boulevard has three center lanes and two service lanes separated by a small center median and two side medians, a configuration the official called the “Champs-Élysées,” after the iconic street in Paris which pioneered the design. The boulevard also has that same configuration between Park Lane South and Liberty Avenue in Woodhaven and Ozone Park.

Along those stretches, the addition of bus lanes may mean the reduction of traffic lanes, elimination of curbside parking, or mandate a complete redesign of the boulevard.

The DOT’s forum on Wednesday offered residents a chance to design potential configurations from Glendale through Howard Beach. Breaking up into groups, attendees, who included residents from Woodhaven, Ozone Park and continued on page 36

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Select bus skepticism along Woodhaven Blvd.

Fire erupts along 101st Avenue strip Two apartments and doctor’s office damaged in Saturday evening blaze

by Domenick Rafter Editor

A charred rear of the building the day after the fire. PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER

residents nearby said they saw flames shooting out at the height of the incident. The doctor’s office was flooded with water, but suffered little to no fire damage.

FDNY sources said the fire’s location made it difficult to fight, as firefighters had to climb onto the roof of adjacent buildings to access the location of the flames.

M a r ie Tibba l l, whose son Tommy teaches at TKO Dance Studio next door to the building where the flames broke out, said the office was not badly damaged by the fire.

“We’re OK, we didn’t get any bad damage,” she said.

Tibball said the facility did smell like smoke and a small amount of water leaked in from the apartment above the studio — which suffered minor damage — but there was nothing serious.

“There was some water and some smoke, but no real problems,” she said.

A deli and a Chinese restaurant

FDNY trucks at the scene of the fire at 95-10 101 Ave. near the intersection of 101st Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard Saturday evening.

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ered the back of the charred building. The Red Cross was also on the scene and helped one family who Q was displaced by the fire.

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A fast-moving fire broke out in two apartments on 101st Avenue early last Saturday evening.

The f lames erupted at around 6:10 p.m. in a second-floor apartment at 95-10 101 Ave. in Ozone Park, less than a block east of Woodhaven Boulevard. The fire destroyed one apartment over a

doctor’s office and damaged an adjacent dwelling.

According to the FDNY, the f ire was “an all-hands” blaze and it never went beyond one alar m. There were no injuries a nd t h e f l a m e s we r e ex t i n guished at 9:31 p.m.

The incident caused traffic tieups along Woodhaven Boulevard as cars slowed down to see the situation. 101st Avenue was shut down for at least three hours between Woodhaven Boulevard and 97th Street as firefighters battled the flames.

The evening breeze off the ocean sent the smoke and acrid smell of fire north where it was noticeable to residents in Woodhaven, Forest Hills and Glendale.

“It smelled like an electric fire,” said one Forest Hills resident who was in Forest Park at the time of the fire. “I thought it might have been a car on fire.”

The fire was concentrated to the back of the structure, where

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When is this building going to come down?

Woodhaven structure that collapsed in 2013 to be demolished this month

by Domenick Rafter

blog last week that the project to take down the building is slated to begin July 14 and be finished by October. It obtained that The vacant Woodhaven building that collapsed more than a information from Assemblyman Mike Miller’s (D-Woodhaven) year ago still has not been demolished, but the process should and state Sen. Joe Adddabbo’s (D-Howard Beach) offices.

As part of the schedule, starting July 18 and every week begin this month.

The building at 78-19 Jamaica Ave. collapsed after a heavy until the work is done, the engineer would have to file an rainstorm on April 12, 2013, crushing a vehicle but not caus- update report with the city.

“We hope that this schedule is adhered to by the courts ing any injuries. The structure, which included commercial space on the first floor and apartments above that, was vacant and by the city and this isn’t just another chapter in the long game that’s been going on,” Ed at the time.

Wendell, former president of the The collapse damaged the recentWRBA, wrote in a post on the civic ly renovated headquarters of the blog. “We’ve been Woodhaven-Richmond Hill Volunast I heard, it was going to association’s promised that time has run out and teer Ambulance Corps, forcing the this schedule is a strict one — Woodhaven Senior Center based be down in a month or so.” that we hope for the sake of the Volunthere to be evicted. teer A mbulance Cor ps and our Demolition of the building has —Maria Thomson, executive director, seniors that this is, indeed, the been in limbo for more than a year Woodhaven Business Improvement District case.” as the city attempted to get the In the meantime, the WRHVAC owner, who owned thousands of doland the Woodhaven Senior Center remain out of their buildlars in fines to the city, to rectify the issue himself.

A court finally ruled the building can be demolished by the ing next door. The corps had reoccupied the building a few city earlier this year, but it remains standing as a contractor was months after the collapse, but had to leave again in February when a wall between its headquarters and the collapsed found and permits filed. That was done this week.

Maria Thomson, executive director of the Woodhaven building was compromised after a heavy snowfall.

The Woodhaven Senior Center was relocated to the AmeriBusiness Improvement District, which oversees the commercial strip along Jamaica Avenue, said that as far as she knew can Legion Hall at 89-02 91 St. last May. The WRHVAC relies heavily on the rent paid to it by the senior center and the building was due to be demolished imminently.

“Last I heard, it was going to be down in a month or so,” has been in dire financial straits since the collapse.

Thomson has said she would like to see a senior housing she said.

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Stop and frisk good after all?

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ost parts of Queens have been fairly lucky this year when it comes to gun violence. While the city overall has seen an 11.2 percent rise in shootings so far this year compared to last, going by the latest available police statistics, and some areas have been subject to much worse, Queens has not.

In the southern part of the borough, as defined by the Police Deparment, the number of shooting incidents has gone up only 3.8 percent, from 52 to 54, as of June 22. And in the northern part, they’ve actually fallen 29.4 percent, from 17 to 12. Compare that to the Bronx, where they have jumped 25.4 percent, from 118 to 148. And none of these stats include the mayhem of last weekend, when there were 21 shootings across the city, including a fatal one in Cambria Heights.

Why shootings are on the rise is a good question. It’s certainly too early to definitively attribute the spike to the radical curtailment of the NYPD’s stop, question and frisk practice, which has been the target of so much criticism and legal action. But it sure seems likely. Under the Bloomberg administration, the number of stop and frisks rose for years, especially those targeting

minorities. The percentage of blacks and Latinos who were stopped, about 88 percent, almost rose to the percentage of violent crime suspects who are black or Latino, about 95 percent. That sparked outrage among many, including then-mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio.

Now that de Blasio is mayor, the city has enacted new restrictions on the police that former Mayor Bloomberg resisted, even putting officers at risk of lawsuits targeting them personally, if a person claims he or she was needlessly stopped. This has all been done with the unflinching support of a vast majority of the City Council and civil rights organizations.

And while criminals don’t send out press releases announcing their positions on policy, they most likely support new restrictions on the police, especially ones that make it less likely they’ll be searched for weapons.

The NYPD says it is studying whether the reduction in stop and frisk is linked to the rise in shootings. We’ll await the results, but common sense says that’s likely.

It just may be that City Councilman Eric Ulrich of Ozone Park had a point when he called the new restrictions “the biggest mistake the city has ever made.”

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Don’t nix Sunnyside’s Bix Dear Editor: Recently I read the June 19th issue of “The Queens Chronicle.” I was overjoyed to read a nice article about my neighborhood Sunnyside.

However, I was dismayed that Bix Beiderbecke was not listed as one of the famous people who had lived here. The music of Bix Beiderbecke © Copyright 2014 by MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. All rights reserved.

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Avella the banker? No.

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e dislike seeing a business close in Queens as much as anyone; after all, as a free newspaper, all of our revenue comes from advertising. And we of course support some government involvement in private businesses, such as the Affordable Care Act and increases in the minimum wage.

But there is a line at which the private business of a private business is just that. And we regret to see that state Sen. Tony Avella has just jumped way over that line with a piece of dangerous legislation that would give the state far too much control.

At issue is the recent closure of a Capital One bank branch in Avella’s district. Ever the populist, the senator is proposing a bill that would make it take longer for federally chartered banks such as Capital One to close. They’re already required to give customers 90 days’ notice, but Avella’s proposal would have the state do all kinds of studies reviewing the impact in the name of “community input.”

The bank closed without any input from residents, Avella says. Not true. They gave their input by not using it enough for Capital One to find keeping it open profitable. The 90-day warning is enough. This bill that would essentially give the state control over when a business can close must not become law.

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has influenced, and continues to influence, many famous musicians the world over.

The legendary jazz cornet player, pianist and composer lived his last days in Sunnyside.

He passed away at the young age of 29 on Aug. 6, 1931. He lived in an apartment at 43-30 Bliss St. (now known as 46th Street). A memorial plaque now decorates the building — as does one at the Sunnyside home of actress Judy Holiday, who was born and raised here.

Bix’s life and music have been celebrated for the past 14 years with an annual outdoor concert. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, Aug. 2, from 2 to 7 p.m., under the Sunnyside Arch on 46th Street and Queens Boulevard.

This is a free event, open to the public.

I would like to invite all your readers to come by and enjoy an afternoon and evening of great swing and Dixieland music, remembering Bix where he lived his last days.

Thank you.

Paul J. Maringelli, Founder, Bix Beiderbecke Sunnyside Memorial Committee Sunnyside

A diner for the disabled Dear Editor: I was quite surprised to read the letter from Alexandra Shepard in last week’s Chronicle critical of the Shalimar Diner’s a c c om mo d at ion of whe elch a i r- b ou nd patrons (“No wheelchair access”).

I have patronized the Shalimar for 40 years because I found it always provided professional service at reasonable prices and was most attentive to its customer’s needs.

Three years ago I had an operation that left me unable to walk and I needed a wheelchair to navigate even the shortest stoops and stairs. This inability did not impede me from visiting the diner several times a week simply because the owners and staff always opened their side door on Austin Street, without delay or complaint. This side entrance is on street level, fully accessible to wheelchairs and walkers, and allows direct entrance to the main dining room.

While Ms. Shepard may dislike the use of

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Fund the ferry Dear Editor: Seventy-five billion dollars, Mr. Mayor, and you could not put the funding in the fiscal 2015 budget for the Rockaway-Brooklyn Army Terminal ferry service. Five borough presidents, Community Board 14, some of our representatives in Congress, the state Senate, state Assembly and City Council — and most important, the residents of the Rockaways, Broad Channel, Breezy Point and Brooklyn — are all in support. We think you should rethink this and add the funds needed for the operation of this most needed form of transportation, our only form of water transportation for the entire Peninsula.

Now I know why you never came to the thank-you rally we held for you because you extended our ferry service. Most likely you knew when the train was going back into service and our ferry would sail away for good.

This proves once again that Rockaway is truly the stepchild of New York City Daniel Ruscillo Jr. Co-chairman, Transportation Committee of Community Board 14 Rockaway Park

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The Cruelty of carriages Dear Editor: I am writing to point out that the Queens Chronicle grossly misrepresented the view of most New Yorkers when you published a slanted opinion piece that claims the carriage horse industry in Central Park is somehow “humane.” (“Meet the Central Park carriage drivers,” June 19, multiple editions). Nothing could be further from the truth, as this industry is cruel to both

No pre-K at libraries Dear Editor: I would like to know why libraries will be housing universal prekindergarten when there are financial investigations going on.

The Woodhaven branch already has given out UPK applications. I am outraged that library space is being sacrificed for this program and now the Woodhaven community will lose its downstairs space. The UPK space cannot be used for any library programs even when class is not in session or after the school day is over.

Our children will miss out on all the enriching programs: game days, movie making, toddler time, guitar lessons and so many others the library offers. Adults also will lose their programs: ESL, fitness, music book, Zumba classes, etc.

Woodhaven, we must speak up, not only for our community because this is just the beginning of UPK taking over our libraries.

Mayor de Blasio didn’t like charter schools taking public school space; what makes it okay to take over community library space?!

Library President Tom Galante stated at the reopening of the Woodhaven Library after upstairs renovations that there will be a continued on next page

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Dear Editor: I read with much sadness the news of the passing of Queens Republican Party Chairman Phil Ragusa. I met him on many occasions during a number of political campaigns I was involved with, for former Mayor Bloomberg, former state Sen. Frank Padavan and for Bob Friedrich, president of our Glen Oaks Village Co-op Association, when he ran for City Council and state Assembly.

I found Phil Ragusa most personable, honest and a man of integrity. I also found him to be concerned for the community and its residents, with ideas to make things better for all concerned. He will be truly missed for he was the voice of all we hold most dear.

God bless you, Phil, for all that you stood for, and let me also offer my heartfelt prayers for your family, who are missing you at this sad time of mourning.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Glen Oaks

horses and potentially humans.

While the writer mentioned that draft horses are in fact capable of pulling large loads of cargo for a great distance, the writer failed to mention that these carriage horses are asked to do this in unbearable conditions here in New York. Cars, buses, taxis, trucks, pedestrians, emergency vehicles and many other obstacles face them every day and at every step of their journey. A potential accident awaits the horses and the citizens at any given moment.

Some call this “romantic.” Is seeing a beautiful horse lying on the street dead after a collision with a vehicle romantic? I don’t think so, and I believe any person with half a heart agrees. God forbid that one of these horses should ever collide with a human head-on; the human will most likely lose the battle versus a 1,100-pound creature. Is that romantic?

These carriage horses are surrounded by a city so feisty and chaotic that many, many people I know can’t stand being here, and they can choose to go elsewhere if the city overwhelms them. These horses have no say in what they get to do. Almost every single New Yorker I know agrees that this archaic practice must end, full stop.

Your piece that attempted to put a positive spin on this brutal industry will only serve to energize the opponents of this abuse and end something that should have ended decades ago. Maybe I should be thanking you for your short-sightedness in this biased article.

Michael A. Riley Manhattan The writer is a former resident of Briarwood and Elmhurst.

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Letters continued from previous page phase 2 for downstairs to make that a children/teen space. Well, I guess he meant just 18 children! Maybe he will get a new position to be in charge of the UPK budget.

Other libraries will be taken over if we just bury our heads. The renovation is starting July 11 at the Woodhaven Library.

Please speak up!

Lisanne Ponce Woodhaven

Hits and misses Dear Editor: We missed our copy of last week’s Queens Chronicle here on 90th Street in Howard Beach. No one on our block had the weekly papers delivered last Thursday.

I was finally able to find your editorial, “Library gets what it paid for,” through the internet. I appreciate your comments and am so glad that reform is finally coming to the Queens borough libraries.

I had once sent in a letter about “Galante’s greed,” which was unpublished. In that issue, you ran an editorial along the same lines as my letter. I felt that the library CEO was f launting his position at our expense — installing a smoking roof at taxpayers’ expense while the truncated hours at our branch are a hardship for many working people and for retirees, as well as for schoolchildren who depend on Saturday hours. The automated machines also seem to me an extravagance.

I also wanted to read your report on the recent civic meeting at St. Helen’s. It was well-attended and very informative. I had a chance to talk to some of the speakers. I missed our councilman, Eric Ulrich. I wanted to thank him for his vital help. We are very pleased with all of our conscientious politicians. They come to our meetings and are available to assist us when we need them. Bravo!

B K Brumberg Howard Beach Editor’s note: If the writer has not seen it yet, she also can find our civic report, “Lindenwood flash flood victims lash out at DEP,” at qchron.com.

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Iraq all Bush’s fault Dear Editor: Iraq has once again taken over the headlines and the armchair warriors are valiantly fighting President Obama for not fighting in Iraq and fighting the enemy (whomever they may be) who are fighting each other as they have been historically fighting that fight as long as they have had the energy to fight.

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The Iraq debacle was a war precipitated by the United States based on lies of weapons of mass destruction in their possession and a conspiracy threatening our country. The real reason is far less explosive but equally conspiratorial: The Bush/Cheney impetus.

Bush: “Watch, Dad, I’m going to break your enemy for you,” while Cheney: “Watch, Halliburton, I’m going to break the bank for you.”

In June 2008 President George W. Bush signed the Status of Forces Agreement between Iraq and the United States. It established that U.S. combat forces would withdraw from Iraq cities by June 30, 2009 and all U.S. forces would be completely out of Iraq by Dec. 31, 2011.

Wily guy, that Bush. He always had that little sparkle in his eye, but how did he know that his signing America’s complete withdrawal from Iraq back then would be blamed by some home-brewed heroes on President Obama six years later. Son of a gun. I would “enjoy a beer with him.”

Nicholas Zizelis Bayside

Warming and the GOP Dear Editor: On May 6, the Obama administration unveiled a national climate assessment report, which confirms that climate change is affecting Americans in every region of the country. The assessment is the result of a three-year analytical effort by over 300 climate scientists. They concluded that global warming is causing the sea level to rise and glaciers and the Arctic sea ice to melt. National Geographic reported that Greenland was “Ground Zero” for global warming.

Recently, two senators expressed opposing views. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said, “Humans aren’t to blame for global warming. Preparing for drastic specific climate change is … overreach which will cause massive layoffs and destroy our economy.”

We all know the GOP is alienated from science, but it looks like this champion of denial is playing to the GOP base and conservative corporate America.

The report stated the oceans are becoming more acidic as they absorb carbon dioxide. This fact was expressed in a Senate speech by Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse. He said that the waters of Narragansett Bay have become so acidic that it has done severe damage to the state’s seafood economy. For his public stand, I consider Whitehouse to be a hero for decision makers as they prepare to draft climate-change policies.

Global warming should be viewed as a “natural” security threat to America and be treated as such by … all of us!

Anthony G. Pilla Forest Hills

Correction Because of a missing word, the June 12 editorial “Bridge to nowhere” misstated the cost of repairs done to the 149th Street Bridge. It is $7 million. We regret the error.

Pol: green lights for emergency vehicles Goldfeder asks city to install device that changes signals for ambulances

by Domenick Rafter Editor

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) is asking the city to install technology that allows traffic lights to change to green when emergency vehicles approach to hasten responses to emergencies.

He says the so-called traffic preemption system is key to survival in his district, much of which is a half hour or more away from any hospital with a trauma center.

“This preemption technology will help save lives by reducing delays and increasing response time while keeping roads safe,” Goldfeder said. “Our families in Rockaway are severely lacking when it comes to emergency care and this inexpensive GPS technology can help first responders in an emergency make it to their destination quickly and safely. I strongly urge the Department of Transportation and FDNY to take action and install this new technology immediately to help our families.”

The GPS Traffic Signal Preemption System, already used in Nassau County, calculates the speed, direction, longitude and latitude of an emergency vehicle responding to a 911 call. As the vehicle approaches an intersection, the traffic lights are programmed to change with enough time to help the vehicle get through the intersection. As the vehicle enters the intersection’s radio range, it sends the updated speed and position of the emergency vehicle to a phase selector installed in the controller cabinet, which requests a green light though the normal controller functions.

The system then recognizes the activated turn signal and relays the priority call forward to the next appropriate intersection.

Once the vehicle exits, the controllers return back to the normal flow of traffic.

All the activity can be tracked remotely by traffic management personnel.

Though emergency vehicles can already

legally run through red lights, Goldfeder said the system to allow responders to change the lights would make it safer and quicker.

“The problem is that every time they go through a light, they have to slow down, proceed cautiously,” he said.

With the lights changed, ambulances would no longer have to enter busy intersections against the light, risking accidents — the second leading cause of death of emergency workers.

Goldfeder said the system has led to huge reductions in response time in Nassau County and he would like to see it installed in Queens, especially in the routes leaving the Rockaways.

“I would love for the city to try it out,” he said. “Especially in the Rockaways.”

According to statistics supplied by Goldfeder’s office, the median time to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, the closest Level 1 Trauma Center to the Rockaways, is 48 minutes at rush hour and 26 minutes during non-rush hour compared to 22.5 minutes for other parts of Queens. The next-closest L1TC is New York Hospital Queens, which is 52 minutes and 29 minutes during rush hour and non-r ush hour, respectively.

Additionally, Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn and Elmhurst Hospital are anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour away at rush hour.

“The GPS tracking will greatly enhance our response time getting patients to hospitals. Reducing our travel time to the hospital, can in some instances, save a life,” stated Jonah Cohen, chief of the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Depar tment and Ambulance Corp. “Whenever you can save time getting to an injured person and then getting that person to a hospital — you greatly increase their chances of survival.”

The DOT did not respond to request for Q comment.

Police chase in Lindenwood There were moments of high drama in Lindenwood Tuesday night as a police chase exited the Belt Parkway and into the neighborhood.

According to police sources, the cops were chasing a stolen car from the scene of the crime in Brooklyn, along the Belt Parkway where the drivers exited onto Cross Bay Boulevard, then on foot through Lindenwood after the suspects abandoned the vehicle near 153rd Avenue at the entrance to the neighborhood.

The police were not able to apprehend them.

Police cars from other precincts raced down Cross Bay Boulevard with their lights flashing as NYPD helicopters hovered low overhead. Residents took to social media in search of information.

The Howard Beach/Lindenwood Civic Association posted several updates from the 106th Precinct on the situation. Just before midnight, the civic group said it had been informed by the cops that the suspects had left the neighborhood, but cops were in possession of the car that Q was stolen.

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Hearing scheduled for West Pond fix Feds seek public input on what to do at freshwater lake breached in Sandy

by Domenick Rafter Editor

The National Park Service is asking for the public’s input on what to do about West Pond, the former freshwater lake just west of Cross Bay Boulevard in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that became connected to the bay when Hurricane Sandy opened a breach in October 2012.

A long w ith the Federal Hig hway Administration’s Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division, the NPS is preparing an environmental assessment in support of a proposed project to address damage that resulted from the breach.

The federal agency, which oversees the Gateway National Recreation Area, including the refuge, is asking the public to help define both the natural and cultural values that are key to the pond and the surrounding area.

West Pond was circumnavigated by a trail that was cut off when the breach occurred.

“We know that this is one of the most visible reminders of the damage from Hurricane Sandy in Jamaica Bay,” said Gateway Superintendent Jennifer Nersesian. “An environmental assessment will help us make the smartest choice for the West Pond and what future storms may bring.”

According to several sources, the NPS is planning on either closing the breach and

Kayakers paddle through the passage between West Pond and Jamaica Bay caused by a breach PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER that opened into the freshwater lake during Hurricane Sandy. repairing the trail to the way it was before the storm, leaving the breach — which is several feet deep at its widest — and building a bridge over it, or splitting the pond in two, making the south end where the breach is a lagoon and the north end a freshwater pond.

The E.A. will address any potential

impacts to natural or cultural resources that may result from the proposals, the NPS said.

The agency added that it will gather input from park staff, other agencies and the public to consider the potential effects of the proposed project.

West Pond is a favorite spot for birders, who come to see the shorebirds and other

wildlife that utilized the freshwater of the lake.

“I think they should make it a freshwater pond again somehow and not leave it open,” said Don Riepe, president of the American Littoral Society’s Northeast Chapter and a resident of Broad Channel. “They have to fix the trail though. Whether they do it by bridge or close [the breach], it’s OK, but I know birders want the pond to be freshwater again.”

Another lake, East Pond on the other side of Cross Bay Boulevard, was also breached during the storm. At least two passageways were cut into the bay under the A train subway tracks which run along a narrow strip of land between the pond and the bay. When the MTA restored the tracks, it closed the breaches, allowing East Pond — the larger of the two ponds — to become freshwater again.

A public hearing on West Pond will be held July 17 from 6 to 8 p.m in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center on Cross Bay Boulevard in Broad Channel.

Public comments about the proposed project may be submitted electronically through July 30, at the National Park Service Planning, Environment and Public Comment web site: www.nps.gov/gate/index.htm The public will also be able to offer comment during a 30-day public review followQ ing release of the EA.

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Walking along the wide gravel path that meandered like a vine connecting the ball fields of the Forest Hills Little League, Travis Terry, who lives in Forest Hills, pondered what was once there, and is adamant that it would never return, even if everyone wanted it.

“You can’t put a train back here,” he said.

“It’s not possible.”

It is true that toward the very back of the baseball fields that line up along the old Rockaway Beach LIRR line, the embankment that once carried the tracks of the route into the junction with the Main Line at Rego Park is now reduced to little more than a cliff covered in poison ivy and overgrown trees and weeds. Look up from the very last field and you can see the windows of the lone apartment building on the tiny dead-end spur of Darmouth Street off Alderton Street as if it was right above you.

That there were ever four tracks carrying trains between Manhattan and the Rockaways here seems implausible, and supporters of a plan to turn the old right-of-way into a park similar to Manhattan’s High Line, supporters like Terry, say it is impossible to ever bring rail service back.

“You would have to get rid of all this,” Terry said. “There would be lawsuits, it would

Friends of the QueensWay’s Andrea Crawford, far left, and Travis Terry, far right, at the kickoff to the QueensWay study last August with Andrew Stone and Marc Matsil of The Trust for Public FILE PHOTO Land at the Forest Hills Little League ball fields. be tied up in courts for years. No, bringing back the train is impossible.”

Terry is the president of Friends of the QueensWay, a group dedicated to bringing the so-called QueensWay park to the former LIRR right-of-way between Rego Park and Ozone Park, which includes supporters like former Community Board 9 chairwoman

Andrea Crawford.

Their plans are well-financed, wellorganized and somewhat advanced. It’s backed by The Trust for Public Land, a California-based developer of urban parkland that has on its staff former city Parks Com missioner Ad r ian Benepe. Gov. Cuomo provided nearly half a million dol-

lars in support of a QueensWay study that kicked off last August.

But they are up against hardened opposition, from residents, mainly in Woodhaven, who live along the old rail line and want it left alone, and from supporters of restoring rail service, mainly concentrated in South Queens, who have big backers of their own.

Nevertheless, Friends of the QueensWay believe that theirs is the winning idea, and the ongoing debate only serves to certify that.

“It’s this or nothing,” Crawford said.

“We’ve been down this road with the train before and it’s not going to happen.”

She was alluding to studies done in the 1990s that reject the viability of reactivating rail service on the line, which shut down for good in 1962. Supporters of the rail line, however, say things have changed since and a new study that looks at all the options is currently underway, conducted by Queens College.

Crawford, who lives in Kew Gardens, said despite opposition from residents on 98th Street in Woodhaven, she has found a lot of backers in South Queens.

“It’s a small number of people on one block,” she declared. “There is a lot of support for this down there.”

Ruben Ramales, a member of Friends of the continued on page 32

Sandy money oversight bill

Court upholds Haggerty verdict

Legislation introduced in the City Council this week would give the city Department of Investigation oversight over Sandy aid money.

The bill, introduced by Councilmembers Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) and Mark Treyger (D-Brooklyn), would require the DOI commissioner to investigate instances of waste, fraud and abuse dealing with storm aid. The DOI would also advise the relevant agencies on practices and policies to improve the overall effectiveness of disaster recovery-related programs.

Furthermore, the DOI would be required to establish and administer a telephone hotline for New Yorkers to r e p o r t i n s t a n c e s of f r a u d a n d mismanagement.

Also, the agency would produce and publish a report of all findings for the its mayor, City Council and applicable agencies and make it available to the public on its website.

“Whether it’s holding Build it Back more accountable, or making sure the city properly investigates cases of fraud and abuse, I am introducing this bill to ensure that every penny is spent wisely and honestly,” Ulrich said in a Q statement.

The state Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court on Monday upheld the conviction of for mer Queens Republican boss John Haggerty, who was convicted in October 2011 of stealing $750,000 from the 2009 reelection campaign of then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Haggerty was found guilty of seconddegree grand larceny and second-degree money laundering after using most of the money to purchase his childhood home in Forest Hills. Haggerty had appealed his conviction to the court, arguing a lower cour t judge had improperly allowed testimony from an official from the trust that had provided Bloomberg’s campaign with the $1.2 million, which was meant for the Independence Party to help with security for ballots on Election Day. In its unanimous decision, the Court of Appeals determined that the official’s testimony did not impact the lower court jury’s decision.

Haggerty was sentenced to 1 1/3 to 4 years in state prison, which he began serving last March after a midlevel appellate court refused to overturn the Q verdict.

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Cross Bay Blvd. car accident An accident created late rush-hour chaos along Cross Bay Boulevard in Ozone Park Tuesday night.

At least two cars were involved in the crash at Sutter Avenue at around 8 p.m.

At least one car was likely totaled by the accident.

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bound side of the boulevard, but FDNY vehicles responding to the incident blocked the left lane of the southbound side, just as rush-hour traffic was subsiding.

The accident backed up traffic as far north as Atlantic Avenue and as far south as the Belt Parkway for at least an hour.

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Council approves municipal ID cards Citywide program to begin in 2015; may come with some major benefits

by Tess McRae Associate Editor

The City Council approved municipal identification legislation last Thursday. It will be the largest program of its kind in the United States.

The bill’s goal is to expand access to city services for all residents, but most notably the estimated 500,000 undocumented immigrants here.

“When someone gets stopped for a minor infraction or part of protocol, we want to be able to give someone the opportunity to provide identification,” Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights), author of the bill, said.

For undocumented individuals, getting stopped can mean being brought to the precinct since they cannot provide officers with a proper ID. The municipal card program would reduce the number of nonthreatening immigrants taken into custody.

Anyone who can provide proof of identity and city residence can obtain the card.

Acceptable proof of residence includes a cable bill, driver’s license or apartment lease.

Proof of identity includes a photo ID from another country, passport or foreign driver’s license.

Similar plans have been put in place in other cities, including New Haven, Conn.

The municipal ID card program was passed by the Council 43 to 3, with two abstentions.

Supporters of the bill say the initiative will serve all New Yorkers, not just illegal aliens, but FILE PHOTO critics argue the program could act as a database for immigrant information. and Los Angeles.

While most of the focus has been placed on illegal immigrants, councilmembers, including Dromm, emphasize the cards are for all residents of New York, a city where a majority of people do not have a driver’s license.

The city is looking to attach a number of perks to encourage people to join the program. These benefits could include using

the card in place of a MetroCard or for CitiBike, as well as discounts at various cultural institutions.

In addition, the cards may benefit other groups as well, including homeless New Yorkers, sex workers and transgender residents.

Unlike a driver’s license, the card would allow residents to self-identify by gender.

As it stands now, city law forbids transgender residents from changing the sex on

their birth certificate without proof of transitional surgery.

Still, there are a few councilmembers who worry the program will ultimately create a “database” of undocumented residents.

Councilman Alan Maisel (D-Brooklyn) said the program could backfire but ultimately voted in favor of the bill.

Dromm said the concerns raised could not be further from the truth.

“People who say that are wrong because every New Yorker can get it,” he said. “We want it to be for the average New York resident, which is why we’re looking to attach some perks and discounts, maybe even make it act as a library card. We want to make sure people know this is for everyone, not just immigrants.”

The city allocated $8.4 million in the fiscal year 2015 budget to implement the program, which is set to roll out in January.

After the card’s inaugural year, it is expected to cost $5.6 million annually.

Moving forward, Dromm said the Council will work with the NYPD to ensure all safety concerns are addressed. Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-Manhattan) added lawmakers are in talks with several large banks to discuss the possibility of attaching a debit system to the card and with consulates to hammer out proof of identity Q issues.

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continued from page 2 “While gun incidents are up throughout the city, they say the murders are down but I have to say, it does not feel that way to me,” Councilman Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) said. “There have still been shootings and deaths in my district but we are working together to change that.”

Miller said his office helped sponsor a gun buyback, during which 40 were taken off the street.

He maintains a combination of education, communication between officers and residents and police tactics is the best way to

lower crime in the city.

“I’m certainly not for sticking our heads in the sand,” Miller said. “I do think we should be looking at stop and frisk as a possible cause but there are other things.”

Ulrich, however, disagrees.

“I’m so tired of people thinking that we can educate people out of using guns,” he said. “We need to worry about criminology and less about sociology and allow cops to do their jobs.”

Miller responded, with respect, that he and Ulrich are coming at the issue from very different places.

“I vehemently disagree that there is one simple solution and that stop and frisk is that solution,” the former union leader said. “I will say that I have sat down with the police unions and even they don’t have a simple solution to this problem. Stop and frisk was a way to get bosses promoted but looking at it from a union perspective, the people they represent get all the heat which is creating more tension.

“When you don’t get the outcry from young people in your district, it’s hard to understand. [Ulrich] does not see what I see in my district. Our circumstances dictate who we are and if you don’t see the social and psychological impact of it in your community, then it’s not a big deal.”

Bishop Mitchell Taylor, founder of Urban Upbound, which caters to residents of the Queensbridge Houses, said he thinks it’s way too early to determine which side is right.

Taylor said he is not against stop and frisk and did not necessarily feel the tactic is race driven. Instead, he thinks cultural sensitivity is key.

“New York in general, in spite of the increase in shootings, is still registering as the safest city in the country,” he said. “Now that you see the spike in some of the other boroughs, is this a precursor to crime going up or an anomaly? I’m not sure if we can qualitatively or quantitatively give an answer until we have at least a year of data. If you answer Q now, you’re speculating.”

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E x - C i t y C o u n c i l m a n To m Ognibene, a Republican, is circulating petitions to run for the state Senate against incumbent Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), a source tells the Queens Chronicle.

Ognibene, a Middle Village attorney, served as a city councilman representing Middle Village, Maspeth, Ridgewood and Glendale from 1992 through 2001. He attempted to take back his Council seat in 2009, but lost to Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Middle Village). He later ran for lieutenant governor as the running mate of Carl Paladino, but in a fluke lost t he G OP pr i m a r y t o G reg Edwards, county executive of Chautauqua County in Western New York, the preferred running mate of unsuccessful GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio.

Addabbo was first elected in 2008, defeating incumbent Serphin Maltese.

He was twice re-elected by double digits, facing Anthony Como, who held Ognibene’s Council seat for a short time, in 2010, and Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) in a newly drawn Q more Republican district in 2012.

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Rockaway vows to fight for ferry funds City budget does not include money for service to go on past October

by Domenick Rafter Editor

Rockaway officials and residents are furious that the $75 billion budget approved by the Cit y Cou nci l la st we ek do es not include funding for permanent ferry service connecting the area to Manhattan, setting off a battle between City Hall and the distant peninsula over the popular, but pricey, service that began after Hurricane Sandy.

“Although the Rockaway ferry service was not included in the final city budget, our community will not give up the fight,” said Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder ( D - Ro ck aw ay Pa r k) . “ I a m severely disappointed in Mayor de Blasio and the Econom ic Development Cor poration for ig nor ing the t ransit needs of southern Queens and Rockaway families. Like every other borough in the city, we deserve an affordable, efficient and reliable means of transpor tation. The ferry has been a lifeline for our families and small businesses after the devastation caused by

Sa ndy a nd it must remai n permanent.”

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. ( D - How a r d B e a ch) s a id h e believes the fight for a permanent ferry is not over, but was nevertheless disappointed.

“I believe in a budget of $75 billion, the city can f ind the fractional money needed to keep the ferry af loat permanently,” Addabbo said.

Borough President Melinda Katz noted that Rockaway resid e nt s a l r e a d y h ave l i m it e d access to t ranspor tation, and must pay a toll to get off the peninsula. She further noted that Brooklyn and Manhattan have multiple ferry stops and more transportation options than the Rockaways, which has only the A train — a ride that takes more than an hour to Manhattan — and three express bus routes that could take even longer.

“I never argue to limit anyone’s access to ferry service, but I believe Queens needs equity,” she said.

Last month Katz sent de Bla-

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sio a letter in suppor t of the Rockaway service, signed by all five borough presidents.

The ferry, operated by Seastreak, is due to continue through October through money allocated by Mayor de Blasio in his executive budget, but beyond that no extension of service is funded.

For now.

The service began as a temporary arrangement after Sandy to replace the A train, which was shut down for seven months after the storm due to the destruction of the tracks over Jamaica Bay. It was extended multiple times and residents and off icials on the peninsula said the service has become popular for commuters seeking an alternative route to Manhattan.

It connects Beach 108th Street with Wall Street, with a stop in Sunset Park, Brooklyn that was added after the MTA shut down the R train’s Montague Street Tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn that was damaged in Sandy.

Kate Blumm, a spokeswoman for the EDC, said the service, which currently costs $3.50 for a one-way ride, is fully funded through October and the city would continue to look for dedicated funding.

“As part of the Mayor’s Executive Budget, the City added f u nding for a fou r th ser vice extension to allow operation th roug h October, suppor t i ng both Rockaway commuters and Brooklyn residents during the R train outage,” Blumm said in an email. “We will conti nue to examine ridership and seek a sustainable funding stream that can support the $25 to $30 subsidy per trip — the highest by far

Borough President Melinda Katz, at podium, with Councilman Eric Ulrich, left, Councilman Donovan Richards, Rockaway civic leader Danny Ruscillo and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer at a City Hall rally in support PHOTO COURTESY QUEENS BOROUGH PRESIDENT of the Rockaway ferry last month. of any public transportation in the city.”

But Rockaway residents and advocates for the ferry say the cost is worth it.

“New York City is surrounded by water and we need to expand ser vice th roughout our city,” said Phil McManus, a Rockaway resident and transportation advocate. “We need the ferry to provide emergency transportation during a crisis.

Joe Hartigan, also a Rockaway resident and transportation advocate, says the ferry is a boon not only for the Rockaways, but a l s o fo r t h e r e s t of S o u t h Q u e e n s , i n cl u d i n g H ow a r d Beach.

He noted that it could be a viable connection to other parts of the cit y, including St aten Island, where a new outlet mall and the world’s largest Fer ris wheel are to be constructed.

“It would cost less to drive to

Rockaway, park and take the fer r y to Staten Island than it would to cross the [Verrazzano] Bridge,” noted Har tigan, who has supported expanding ferry ser vice elsewhere in the borough, including to College Point, Bayside and JFK Airport.

In the meantime, Rockaway residents are seeking to organize to show Cit y Hall ju st how important the ferry is.

“We need a free bus connector from Far Rockaway and Breezy Point and to encourage car pooling to the ferry,” McManus said.

“The Q22, Q35 and Q53 should all be rerouted to connect to the ferry schedule.”

He also called on local businesses to promote themselves and the fer r y to communities outside the Rockaways.

“We have till October,” he said. “You never know maybe we can get another extension or make it permanent later on.” Q

Rockaway Beach work zone to reopen for 4th

by Domenick Rafter Editor

Nearly all of Rockaway Beach is be reopened for swimming this weekend as the Army Corps of Engineers is completing its beach replenishment project on the shoreline’s busiest section. According to the Parks Department, the entire beach from Beach 60th Street in Arverne to Beach 149th Street in Neponsit will be open for swimming by Friday.

There is still one more phase of the project, which will be done in the fall. That is on the section of the beach where the piping plovers,

Swimming allowed nearly everywhere a federally-protected shorebird, are nesting.

“The Army Corps has indeed completed the area west of Beach 60th Street and is expected to resume pumping, east of Beach 60, after the conclusion of plovers’ nesting season,” said Parks spokesman Zachary Feder in an email. “However, aside from a few isolated days when the Army Corps was moving equipment, we have had about 2.5 miles available for swimming every day since Memorial Day weekend. The Army Corps demobilized

earlier this week, and we’re returning to normal operations.”

Most of the beach in Belle Harbor and Neponsit — west of Beach 116th Street — had been opening for swimming since Memorial Day as the project focused on the beach to the east. The work, which repaired erosion caused by Hurricane Sandy and made the beachfront larger and more resilient, was slated to be done by the end of June, but the Army Corps said last August it was aiming to

be done by Memorial Day. Mechanical problems and bad winter weather caused delays, and some Rockaway residents were angry that significant portions of the beach had been closed to swimming, including typically busy stretches around Beach 96th Street.

A section of the beach between Beach 38th and 58th streets remains closed due to the nesting plovers, but that is typically the case in the summer. Information on swimming and how to best access Rockaway Beach is available at nyc.gov/parks, where daily Q updates are posted.

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Library Board nixes payout plan for CEO Members are divided as new law hindering them is signed by Cuomo

by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

A hastily called meeting of the Queens Library Board was hastily canceled last Thursday under pressure from some of the elected officials seeking to reform the embattled institution, led by Borough President Melinda Katz.

A faction of the divided board was plotting to work out a new deal with President and CEO Tom Galante in advance of tighter restrictions on their governing capabilities that were about to be signed into law by Gov. Cuomo. It is the same faction that recently voted, by a narrow majority, to continue defying City Comptroller Scott Stringer’s demands for all the library’s financial records for an audit he is conducting.

The members on that side called the planned special meeting to amend Galante’s contract just two days before it was to be held. Once Katz learned of it, she blasted it in a statement to the media and asked the chairman, Gabriel Taussig, to hold off.

At 1:37 p.m. Thursday, library spokeswoman Joanne King announced that the meeting had been canceled. At 2:42, state Sens. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria) and Tony Avella (D-Bayside) separately announced that the governor had signed the bill.

According to Katz, who has led the effort to reform library practices since the financial scandal there came to light in late January, the members who called the meeting wanted to renegotiate Galante’s salary in such a way that he would be paid nearly $800,000 over the next 18 months though he no longer would technically be head of the institution. Galante now earns $392,000 a year under a contract that had been automatically renewed every single day to continue for another five years.

It was Galante’s salary, along with other benefits, his sixfigure part-time side job with a Long Island school district and $27,000 renovation to his office that first sparked the controversy. The library is a private nonprofit group under contract with the city, but it gets about 85 percent of its funding from the taxpayer.

According to the borough president, the Library Board members who called the meeting were looking to push through the $800,000 “golden parachute” for Galante before the reform bill was signed by the governor and took effect, because under its provisions such an action would be much more legally difficult, or even impossible, to take.

Meanwhile the library is locked in a court battle with Stringer, whose audit was sparked by the controversy, and is also under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and city Department of Investigation probing its finances.

Katz blasted the board members behind the meeting plan in a prepared statement calling their plot “shameful,” which was issued before the session was canceled.

“I am getting tired of calling the behavior of this Board ‘an outrage,’” Katz said. “The Board, tonight, is putting forth a resolution that renegotiates Tom Galante’s contract. This comes amidst 3 different investigations and several grand jury subpoenas.

“This ‘amendment’ to Tom’s contract gives him almost $800K in taxpayer money to remain in the Library for the next 18 months and is being shamefully rammed through the Board on two days’ notice. The short notice and speed of the meeting is purposeful. Two pieces of legislation making the success of this proposal more difficult will become law in the next few weeks and it is the Board’s intent to beat the clock.”

The legislation in fact was signed into law within the next few hours.

Katz confirmed to the Queens Chronicle on Tuesday that she is looking to remove the board members who voted against giving Stringer all the records he seeks. That faction cites a 1997 court-approved agreement with a former comptroller as their legal justification for not providing all the documents.

Along with her June 26 statement, Katz included one from seven of the board’s members in the other faction, who both voted to give up the records and oppose any contract renegotiation. Their statement says in full: “Mr. Galante and the Queens Public Library are still under investigation by the U.S. Attorney; the Library is currently involved in a lawsuit with the NYC Comptroller over access to to the library’s financial accounts; and legislation effecting the governance of the Library, passed nearly unanimously by both houses of the New York State Legislature, is awaiting the signature of the the governor.

“Given the serious and extensive matters involving Mr. Galante that are still pending, the undersigned Trustees believe it in the best interests of the Queens Public Library and the people of Queens that any and all contract negotiations

with him be suspended until all issues are settled.”

It was signed by Trustees Michael Rodriguez, Haeda Mihaltses, Ed Sadowsky, Matthew Gorton, Maria Cocolino, Julissa Gutierrez and Judy Bergtraum.

The Library Board comprises 19 regular members and five ex-officio members. The mayor and borough president take turns appointing the regular members. Having taken office in January, Katz has only appointed one member so far; and Mayor de Blasio, whose term also began in January, has not yet named any.

The bill by Gianaris, and Assemblyman Jeff Aubry (D-Corona), reduces the members’ terms from five years to three; allows the borough president and mayor to remove a member she or he appointed at any time; subjects the library to the Freedom of Information Law, allowing citizens access to most of its documents; and imposes restrictions on the hiring and outside employment of some library workers.

King, the library spokeswoman, also issued a statement Thursday from Taussig, the board chairman, in response to an article published that morning in the Daily News by Juan Gonzalez. It was Gonzalez who broke the library finance story on Jan. 27, leading to the state reform bill, the audit and the criminal investigation In his piece, Gonzalez said the haste with which the meeting was called appears to show that the trustees behind it want to get the deal done before Katz removes them from the board.

Taussig’s statement claims Gonzalez’s report was not accurate.

“The Daily News story is an inaccurate report of a proposal being presented to the Board of Trustees for its consideration,” Taussig said. “A confidential draft of a proposed agreement was provided to the members of the Board as the first step in an effort to begin a conversation on the conditions of a possible transition of leadership at the Library. It is disturbing that there appear to be members of the board who believe that it is acceptable for them to attempt to achieve their goals by disclosing information they know to be confidential and thus breaching one of their fundamental fiduciary responsibilities as Trustees.”

Even under FOIL, contracts still being negotiated are withheld from the public.

There are no more meetings of the Library Board schedQ uled, Katz said.

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Matos-Rodriguez, 52, to lead CUNY’s Flushing campus in the fall

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

CUNY didn’t have to look far to find a new president for Queens College. Felix Matos-Rodriguez, president of Hostos Community College, a CUNY school in the Bronx, was named late Monday to take the reins at the Flushing school.

Matos-Rodriguez, 52, succeeds James Muyskens, who resigned in December to return to teaching. He was president for 11 years, and an interim leader, Evangelos Gizis, has been in pace since he left.

The new president will begin his duties in the fall. He served as head of Hostos College, a two-year school, for five years. Hostos is pri-

marily geared to Hispanic students and has an enrollment of 6,500.

Queens College has a wide-ranging student body and an enrollment of nearly 20,000.

“He brings to Queens College an impressive blend of scholarly accomplishment, public service, a strong commitment to student success and a deep belief in the university’s educational mission,” CUNY Chancellor James Milliken said in an announcement.

A native of Puerto Rico, MatosRodriguez is a graduate of Yale University and received his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He has taught at Yale and Northeastern universities, Boston College and the Univer-

sid ad I nteramer icana-Recinto Metro in Puerto Rico.

“I look forward to joining the vibrant community of students, faculty, staff and alumni that have made Queens College a beacon of excellence, opportunity and innovation through the years,” the new president said i n a prepared statement.

“I pledge to put all the experience and learning of my scholarly, administrative and pubic service career at the service of an institution that has and will continue to serve Queens, New York City and the nation with the highest standards of excellence and dedication,” he added.

While serving as president of

Hostos, Matos-Rodriguez was on leave as a professor at Hunter College. From 2005-08 he was head adviser on health and social welfare to the governor of Puerto Rico.

The president is considered an authority on the status of women in Puerto Rico and is the author of several books and papers on the subject.

Matos-Rodriguez served as a program officer at the Social Science Research Council in New York City.

He is a board member of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, the Bronx Chamber of Commerce, the New York Association of Community College PresiQ dents and Phipps Houses.

New Queens College President Felix COURTESY PHOTO Matos-Rodriguez.

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City allocates over $5.8 million for repairs in newly passed budget

by Christopher Barca Reporter

The capital budget passed by the City Council last Thursday includes $5.806 million in funding to allow for upgrades to the aging New York State Pavilion, one of the icons of the 1964-65 World’s Fair at Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Borough President Melinda Katz, a staunch advocate of restoring the rusting Tent of Tomorrow and Observation Towers, said in a telephone interview Wednesday that acquiring the funding isn’t just a step towards saving the pavilion.

She believes that goal has already been accomplished.

“We’ve saved the pavilion,” Katz said.

“Now it’s just a matter of how fast we can clean it up and make it even more presentable than it is to the rest of the world.”

According to a statement from Katz issued last week, the $5.806 million will be used to upgrade the pavilion’s electrical system, rebuild the staircases inside the Observation Towers and repair the concrete platforms supporting the observation decks at the top of each of the three towers, once the work on the stairs is complete.

About $4.2 million is provided by Mayor de Blasio, while $628,000 comes from the City Council and the remaining $979,000 comes from Katz’s office.

The city’s capital budget, passed by the City Council last Thursday morning, includes $5.806 FILE PHOTO million for repairs for the aging New York State Pavilion, as seen here in 2013.

The funding is a far-cry from the estimated $72 million it would cost to completely restore and reuse the pavilion, according to studies presented by Parks Department representatives at a meeting of the Borough

Board last November.

Additionally, the cost of restoring just the Obser vation Towers was estimated at around $20 million, while the Tent of Tomorrow may cost upwards of $31 million.

Demolishing the entire pavilion was estimated at $14.6 million.

The pavilion cost $12 million to build in preparation for the 1964-65 World’s Fair.

In April, the National Trust for Historic Preservation designated the pavilion as a “National Treasure,” recognizing the structure as historically, culturally and architecturally significant.

Peg Breen, the organization’s president, said in a statement that this year, the 50th anniversary of the World’s Fair, is the perfect time to act on restoring the pavilion.

“We agree with the borough president that the restored pavilion will be a wonderful representation of the vitality of the borough,” she said, “and provide a space for all kinds of events that will draw, not just people from Queens, but people from all around the city and visitors from around the world.”

After touring the pavilion in early February, Katz officially declared her intent to save the structures and created a task force aimed at gathering ideas for reuse.

In addition to area elected officials, People for the Pavilion, a preservation group founded last year by activists Salmaan Khan and Matthew Silva, is also on the task force.

In a statement issued Saturday, the group said it was “thrilled” to learn of the funding and Silva, on Monday, called it “awesome” Q on social media.

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COMMUNITY RECOGNITION BANQUET It is not often that parents and community-based organizations are celebrated for their contributions to the success of students in the school community but on Thursday, June 19, 2014, Middle School 226, The Virgil I. Grissom School, South Ozone Park, did just that by hosting an Award Recognition Banquet to thank these individuals for the support they provided during the school year.

“It takes all constituents to truly make a difference in a child’s life. At Virgil I. Grissom, we pride ourselves on reaching for the stars. We instill in our students the value of hard work and dedication. We hold students to high expectations because we know that they all have the potential to move mountains,” said Rushell White, the school’s principal.

Joining those being recognized were Alvin Ailey Arts in the Community Liaison Iymaani Aytes, CITE Director Carl Sanfilippo, COO The Door Restaurant Chris and Joan Roberts, Councilmember Ruben Wills, CSA Representative Dorothy Morris, Deputy Network Leader Brenda Perez of CFN 210, David Lerner and Associates Michael Frank, Deputy Director of Facilities Mark DeVincenzo, Detective Solomon Chinnery, Distinguished Guests of the MS 226 School Community, Educational Alchemy LLC Quincy Koffel, GrowNYC Representative Thaddeus Copeland, MS 226 PTA President and Executive Board Members, Noel Pointer Liaison Ben Harney, Commanding Officer Wilbur Jones, OYIN, VP/COO/Director of Programming and Education, Mr. and Mrs. Dessisso, Parents of MS 226 Students Earning Perfect Attendance and Honor Roll for the Year, Rush Philanthropic Artist David Camacho, School Safety Supervisor Morgan, World Renowned Photographer Jeffrey Gamble, Youth Officer Paese of the 106th Precinct and NYPD Deputy Inspector Jeffrey Schiff. Event planner, Lady Tee, sponsored the night’s decorations and several students officiated the celebratory program.

Several parents expressed their gratitude for the work being done in the school and the efforts of the administrators and teachers. “I am so glad that I chose this school for my children,” one parent said.

The school, located at 121-10 Rockaway Blvd in South Ozone Park, serves over 1,200 students in grades 6 through 8. It boasts over fifteen clubs and teams which provide extracurricular activities offering a safe haven for students after school. Dubbed one of New York City’s most persistently dangerous schools four years ago, the school has been working with community based organizations such as the RUSH Philanthropic Foundation and the Alvin Ailey Arts in the Community Program to provide positive academic and social experiences for its students.

This school year, MS 226 moved from a developing to a proficient rating on its Quality Review, a two- or three-day school visit by experienced educators to evaluate how well a school is organized to support student achievement.

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MS 226 SCHOOL S POTLIGHT Poet, author Renée McRae facilitated a workshop series with Classes 601, 701 and 704 at MS 226, the culmination of which resulted in students becoming published poets. The program, “Step/Write Into Your Greatness,” is a 10-session poetry-writing series which focuses on self-esteem, selfconfidence, communication skills and career-path choices. A mainstay of the program encourages critical thinking skills as students examine and discuss leadership quotes at the beginning of each session.

S tuden t s ex pr e s s e d t heir f e eling s through heartfelt and funny limericks, odes, ballads and metaphors, which reflected much about their ambitions, fears, beliefs and habits. “It’s like a mini self-development course but through poetic expression” says Ms. Renée, founder and president of Poetic Motivations, LLC. In speaking of the program, 704 Teacher Ms. Hunter said, “Each week my students eagerly anticipated their motivational poetry sessions and were able to encourage and motivate themselves as well as their peers through the forum of literary expression.”

The book signing which was coordinated by the school librarian, Ms. Small, was held on June 19th. Excited students met one last time with Ms. Renée, and each student received a copy of their published book, “To Touch a Star.” The new authors recited their favorite poems in front of a proud audience of peers, parents, teachers and Principal Ms. Rushell White, and the event culminated with the students signing each other’s books.

Ms. Bleiweiss, who also contributed a poem in the book, commented, “Ms. Renée was great. She really connected with the students and they really enjoyed the class.”

Quentin Price, of Ms. Carballo’s Class 601, says it all… “I didn’t have any clue what I was going to do with my life. It’s Ms. Renee’s determination and passion that have opened my eyes to realize that I want to help people feel good about themselves emotionally and mentally. Her program has really changed my life forever, and I will n e v e r f o r g e t t hi s o n c e - in - a - li f e t im e experience.”

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Residents rip city over Pan Am shelter Department of Homeless Services accused of lying at rowdy meeting

by Christopher Barca

While the meeting was more civil than the dueling protests The screaming and sign-wav- between the anti-shelter contining regarding the Pan American gent and two dozen shelter resiHotel’s transformation last month dents inches from the building’s into a homeless shelter wasn’t just entrance, calm discussion was limited to the sidewalks along sometimes hard to come by.

Samaritan Village Executive Goldsmith Street in Elmhurst on Vice P resident Doug Apple Monday night.

Inside the Elks Lodge, the kicked off the talk by acknowlroars of the angry crowd outside edging the shelter opened without were drowned out by residents notice and describing ways the and elected officials ripping the community can keep abreast of city for housing even more home- activities going on there.

“I recognize what happened less families in their community.

At a public meeting hosted by here, that we did move in without Community Board 4, officials notice. We understand the confrom the Department of Homeless cerns that raises and we’re here to Ser vices and shelter operator address that,” Apple said, sparkSamaritan Village were joined by ing shouts and shrieks from the s t a t e S e n . To b y S t a v i s k y approx i mately 10 0 aud ience ( D -Flu sh i ng) , A ssembly m a n members. “We will have a comFr a ncisco Moya ( D -Jack son munity advisory board, a board Heights) and Councilman Danny that will meet regularly with Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) to issues the community may have discuss last month’s stealthy con- about the program. We will have a version of the Pan Am without hotline that people can call 24/7 if there’s any issues or concerns providing advance notice. they see.

“We will be accessible and available to you,” Apple continued. “That is our commitment.”

DHS First Deputy Commissioner Lor raine Stephens told the approximately 100 audience members, a vast major it y of whom expressed anti-shelter sentiments, that the decision to use the Pan American hotel as a shelter was made June 6, the day 36 homeless families first moved in.

“On June 6, we had 100 people at the intake center at 8 a.m. that needed shelSamaritan Village Executive Vice President ter. At that time, we only Doug Apple, left, discusses the Pan Am had a capacity of 30 beds in shelter. With him is CB 4 Chairman Louis our system,” Stephens said.

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Audience members hold up anti-Pan American shelter signs while an angry resident grills Doug Apple of Samaritan Village and Lisa Black and Lorraine PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA Stephens of DHS. to our attention and we moved expeditiously to see if it was able to be used as a shelter.”

Stephens’ reasoning didn’t fly with those in at tendance, as numerous residents held up signs and hammered Apple, Stephens and Lisa Black, a DHS assistant commissioner, on the lack of community notification.

Community Education Council District 24 member Bill Kregler even accused the city of blatantly lying to Elmhurst residents.

“The big story is you were misled, you were lied to by public officials. Let them give you all the details, let them try to make you feel bad for not being soft and kind. The big picture here is people lied,” Kregler said. “We need to subpoena records and take

sworn testimony, and after all that’s done, we need to have some pink slips handed out.”

A handful of other angry residents spoke of their sightings of shelter residents allegedly lurking throughout the area at dusk.

Others said they’ve seen homeless couples eating at the Georgia Diner down the street from the Pan American building, with audience members screaming out, “I can’t even afford to go there!”

On the contrary, Astoria resident Odette Lupis was the only one who spoke positively of the shelter and its residents.

She discussed how her own medical issues have led her to worry about herself soon becoming homeless and referenced how disasters such as Hurricane Sandy

and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks left numerous successful citizens without homes.

“Not everybody who happens to become homeless is like that,” Lupis said. “Some of them look like you. Instead of protesting, start thinking about how you can help.”

Before she could finish her sentence, she was loudly booed and jeered by many audience members, with one man screaming “How much did they pay you to say that? ” and another woman calling her statement “disgraceful.”

St avisk y also exper ienced some of the same jeering when she expressed her wish to see increased police patrols in the area around the homeless shelter, despite some residents worrying over a possible increase in crime.

She also commended Samaritan Village’s proposed community advisory board and hotline.

Moya received the biggest applause of any elected official when he affirmed his belief the shelter should be closed.

“We have a government agency like DHS that doesn’t take into consideration the input of a high immigrant community because they think its OK for us to accept whatever gets done,” Moya said.

“We’re going to fight to make sure that doesn’t happen.

“We have to stand united and work together,” he continued. “If this means we have to chain ourselves in front of that place, let’s do it!”

Moya also expressed his sympathy for the plight of those in the shelter, but when one woman yelled “Kick them all out” during his speech, Moya answered by saying “I love your spunk. We Q need more of that.”

Freedom on the menu for ‘Cannibal Cop’ of Queens

by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

The so-called Cannibal Cop, former NYPD officer Gilberto Valle of Forest Hills, was let out of jail Tuesday after his conviction for plotting to kidnap, torture, kill and eat young women was overturned.

Valle, 30, had been locked up since his October 2012 arrest in the alleged plot he admitted discussing with people online but insisted was just a fantasy he never intended to carry out.

He faced life in prison.

Though a federal jury convicted him in March 2013 of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and another charge related to his use of a law enforcement computer to get information on apparent targets, the judge on the case determined that he most likely was not serious about doing it.

“The evidentiary record is such that it is more likely than not the case that all of Valle’s Internet communications about the kidnapping are fantasy role-play,” Judge Paul Gardephe wrote in his ruling, news reports said. “No real-world, nonInternet based steps were ever taken to kidnap anyone.”

Valle had, however, met one woman for lunch after telling an online contact that he planned to do that ahead of kidnapping her, afterward telling the person that she looked delicious.

He also had compiled a list of things he would need to carry out the crime, including chloroform and rope.

Valle was released on $100,000 bond and ordered to stay at his mother’s home in Middle Village, media reports said.

He has to stay off computers, undergo mental health treatment and not go near the women he had talked about attacking, they said.

“I want to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone who has been hurt, shocked or offended by my infantile actions,” Valle said outside the courthouse, the reports said.

He also thanked his family, his attorneys and the staff and inmates at the Manhattan jail where he had been held, according to the reports, also declaring that he loves his cellmates and will never forget them.

Valle’s ideas were brought to the attention of law enforcement by his then-wife, who found files about herself and other women on his computer. She left him and the NYPD fired him. He had worked in Manhattan.

His mother was thrilled at his release and said she would make him his favorite meal, Spanish meat pies called pastellas.

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Racially charged protests get testy Pan Am homeless shelter residents duel with those opposed to the plan

by Christopher Barca Reporter

Are they mothers and fathers searching for a bed for their children to sleep in at night or dangerous derelicts who will bring chaos and disorder to Elmhurst?

On Tuesday night, the answer differed depending on which side of Goldsmith Street you were standing on.

Over 900 rambunctious anti-Pan American homeless shelter protesters and around two dozen of the shelter’s occupants took part in evening-long dueling rallies across the street from each other on Monday outside of the Elks Lodge at 82-20 Queens Blvd.

Inside the building, officials from the Department of Homeless Services and Samaritan Village felt the wrath of angry residents and elected officials at a 7 p.m. meeting to discuss the hotel’s conversion, which was done without any community notice from DHS or Samaritan Village, which operates it, on June 6.

“They’re across the street laughing.

Everyone is over there holding signs and they’re laughing,” Pan Am resident Lale West, 33, said. “They might only be out here for an hour but this is our lives we’re talking about.”

A sizable gathering of a few hundred people, the vast majority of whom were of Asian descent, had already assembled outside the Goldsmith Street entrance of the Elks Lodge by 6:30 p.m., around the time state Senate candidate S.J. Jung addressed the roaring, sign-waving crowd.

Inside, Jung, who is challenging state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing) in a Democratic primary in September, criticized DHS’s alleged lack of fair shelter distribution throughout the city.

“The location of the Pan Am hotel is nowhere near the suitable criteria for a homeless shelter. We already have other shelters in the area, so why is our community being disproportionately asked to bear the

Around 25 Pan American homeless shelter residents, both adults and children, held a counter demonstration across Goldsmith Street from a PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA 900-person group protesting the former Elmhurst hotel’s conversion into a shelter last month.

burden?” Jung said. “The city should not dump homeless shelters on immigrant communities, communities of color or lowincome families. They should distribute centers in a fair manner.”

Two hours later, the rallies, both actively involving numerous young children, began chanting back and forth at one another as the night fell.

Nearly 25 shelter occupants gathered across the building’s Goldsmith Street entrance, which had been closed to vehicular traffic by police earlier in the evening, and began screaming back at the much larger crowd, in the midst of chanting “Get a job” and “Shame on you” among other phrases.

There were also reports of antishelter protesters using racial slurs to descr ibe some of Pan A m’s residents.

“You’re teaching your kids hate at a young age and then you wonder what’s wrong with society,” West, accompanied by her young son, Govin, and toddler daughter, Faith, said. “This is why I want my son here, because I want him to see this type of ignorance.”

Around 9 p.m., many of the shelter’s residents, including 20-year-old Brittane Steinhauer who lives in the Pan Am building with her mother and infant daughter, left the area together, but not before demanding fair treatment from those opposed to Men, women and children demonstrate against the the plan.

“It’s not like these people are Pan American’s conversion into a homeless shelter.

PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA bums living in a subway station.

These are mothers who need places for their children to sleep at night,” Steinhauer said.

“This isn’t fair at all. They are saying these things because we’re mostly black or Latino.”

Fellow shelter occupant Melissa Glaum, 25, criticized the opposing protesters for being misinformed.

“They’re telling me to get a job. Well, I have a job,” Glaum said. “What they’re doing is so ignorant.”

This is the second protest regarding the Pan Am shelter in as many weeks, as nearly 1,000 people picketed outside the former hotel on June 17.

The civil unrest stems from the former hotel’s stealthy conversion into a homeless shelter a mere two weeks after Lisa Black, an assistant DHS commissioner, said at a public hearing regarding another proposed 125-family shelter in Glendale that such a transformation would never happen.

One woman named Cecilia even walked around Tuesday’s protest banging a pot with a spoon with a sign reading “Lisa Black, stop lying to us.”

Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) attended Tuesday’s meeting and he applauded the Elmhurst community for coming out in droves to support the cause, but called the negative chanting “horrible” and “incendiary.”

“The very first thing I asked for at the first protest was respect for the families that are currently housed in there,” Dromm said. “They’re not to blame for the way DHS and Samaritan Village have handled this situation.”

A number of shelter residents also let

loose their fair share of divisive comments, with a select few telling those in the larger crowd to “go back to your country and leave us alone.”

At the height of the protests, 110th Precinct Deputy Inspector Ron Leyson, the commanding officer, said two sergeants and 18 police officers had been assigned to keep the peace.

A police helicopter also was seen hovering overhead around 9 p.m.

According to Leyson, there were no violent or criminal incidents at the protests.

Unlike the June 17 protest, a partial closure of Queens Boulevard was not required.

Inside the Elks Lodge, the mood was not as frenetic, but those opposing the shelter made their opinions heard loud and clear.

Samaritan Village Executive Vice President Doug Apple and Black, the DHS Assistant Commissioner of Government and Human Relations, along with state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing), state Assembly m a n Fr a ncisco Moya ( D -Jack son Heights) and Dromm listened to dozens of residents criticize the city for not allowing a public discourse before a decision to move homeless families into the neighborhood.

“We will not be bulldozed and stand idly by on the sidelines,” one resident said.

“Does anyone care to look at the larger picture?”

According to Steinhauer, who also vehemently denied some protesters’ claims that shelter residents actively loitered in the area, the larger picture is clear to her.

“If this was an Asian shelter, they wouldn’t say anything,” she said. “They’re Q racist.”

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The Queens Interagency Council on Aging, or QICA, a senior advocacy group founded in 1971, held its annual town hall meeting at Queens Borough Hall on June 18, spreading news of improved benefits for those who qualify and eliciting concerns that participants would like to see covered in next year’s programs, beginning in the fall.

Many of the estimated 100 seniors in attendance seemed most excited to learn of the new income requirement for the Senior Citizen Rent Increase Exemption, or SCRIE. Those who are eligible see their rents frozen, avoiding most increases. Beginning July 1 of this year, the income limit was scheduled to increase from $29,000 to $50,000 per household.

To qualify, the rent must be more than one-third of the household income and the tenant of record must be 62 or older. The apartment must be rent-controlled, rent-stabilized or hotel-stabilized. There are other requirements, as well, which may be read at nyc.gov/scrie. Requests for copies of the guidelines may also be made by calling 311.

Miriam Burns, QICA legislative co-chairwoman, called SCRIE “one of the best benefits we have.” The changes, she said, “are going to make a big difference. Many people are eligible who don’t know it.

People struggled who didn’t need to struggle.”

Also of interest were the increased income levels connected to the Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage program, which provides seniors with co-payment assistance for Medicare Part D-covered prescription drugs after any Part D deductible is met.

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housing, as well as the following topics, among others: • pop-up senior citizen centers, which suddenly appear out of nowhere and are said to frequently entice people into signing up for services they may not require; • naturally occurring retirement communities; • noise and other quality-of-life complaints; • SNAP, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ProMembers of the Queens Interagency Council on Aging audience are “deputized” to spread the word about a rent-freeze program for older people. At right, gram, formerly called the food stamp program; • age discrimination in the job market; Borough President Melinda Katz speaks, flanked by QICA President Maria • HIV programs for seniors; PHOTOS BY MARK LORD Cuadrado and Vice President Joan Serrano Laufer.

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In his opening remarks, QICA’s executive director, Bruce Cunning- some levity to the proceedings. Using the moment to tout her camham, said, “We’ve been referred to as a grassroots organization. Your paign to save the New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, she asked, “How many people here went to the 1964 World’s task is to engage us in issues you face daily.” And engage they did.

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Chapin Home for the Aging celebrates 14 centennial residents On Friday, June 27, Chapin Home for the Aging in Jamaica inducted into their “Century Club” 14 residents: Thirteen are 100 plus and one almost there at 99. These residents, families and friends were treated to an afternoon of celebration receiving proclamations hand-delivered by NY state Sen. Tony Avella who gave a spirited speech on what the celebrants have meant to our city and state.

Avella made his way around the crowded room making sure to greet each celebrant with a handshake and kind word. Also sharing words of support and celebration were Assemblyman David Weprin who also arranged for certification for each of the centennial celebrants and Councilman Rory Lancman. Although unable to attend, City Councilman Paul Vallone made sure to send certificates from his office.

The event was organized by the Chapin Home’s recreation director Kathy Rollo Ferrara with the enthusiastic help of many other employees and volunteers. As MC, Rollo Ferrara shared “this idea was inspired by resident Mary Nuccio who turned 100 this past week. Her ‘very much alive life’ has been an inspiration to all of us. She is an example of how to keep on living no matter what circumstance might come your way.”

The audience was treated to an opening prayer by George Stack, Chapin Home’s resident council president, a greeting from assistant administrator Jennifer McManaman and an original poem written by a staff member, which was read by Rabbi Laurie Gold.

Completing the event were volunteer actors from the St. Gregory’s Theatre Group located in Bellerose who treated everyone to Broadway songs from yesteryear.

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Going back to visit their old high school is something many students do. The objective is to see their favorite teachers, administrators and friends to see what changes been implemented since their departure.

Unfortunately, the new graduates of Jamaica High School will not be able to do this.

On Thursday, June 26, at Antun’s catering hall in Queens Village, students of Jamaica High School started to appear one by one dressed in red and blue graduation gowns. The expressions on their faces as well as the teachers’ showed excitement as well as sadness. The graduating Class of 2014 of Jamaica High School will be the final one.

T h e a m b ie n c e of t h e e ve n t w a s bittersweet.

Jamaica High School is one of many of the city schools that are being phased out.

The end result will be the co-location of numerous schools that will be housed in the Jamaica High School building. This came after a long and hard battle to keep the school open by officials including then-City Councilman Leroy Comrie, now in the Borough President’s Office, and school administrators. Some teachers noted that it was very difficult to watch their classroom sizes get smaller and smaller; it is even harder to believe that this will be the last graduation class.

“It’s very bittersweet; for anyone that’s ever been at Jamaica, it’s hurtful,” said Susan Sutera, a physical education teacher.

Sutera was one of the teachers who were put on Absent Teacher Reserve during the phasing out process of Jamaica High School.

Some ATR teachers are ones who are assigned to a different school while the school they are assigned to is phasing out.

Besides being a physical education teacher, Sutera coached the girls tennis, volleyball and basketball teams. She recalls her favorite memory at Jamaica was the Cardboard Boat Race, in which students built boats out of duct tape and cardboard and paddled across the pool.

Despite the talk of Jamaica being an academically poor school, it accomplished some great things before closing its doors.

Jamaica was well-known for its robotics team and its award-winning women’s track team. The school also graduated a notable alumni pool of City Council members, judges, artists, performers, doctors, higher education administrators and more.

“This is a big disappointment as an alumnus,” Comrie said. “Jamaica has a solid history and should have been maintained.”

He added that the occasion for these graduates should not be overlooked and he is optimistic about them and their future endeavors.

“I’m happy that they’ve gotten the necessary tools to graduate. I’ll be happy to hear about them in the future,” Comrie said.

The momentous occasion was even sweeter for some students whose first language is not English. According to Principal Erich Kendall, the school consists of a large English as a second language population.

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Port Authority steps in for Vaughn College students Agency has partnership with aviation school to find industry’s next leaders

by Domenick Rafter Editor

From the highest point on Vaughn College of Aeronautics’ East Elmhurst campus, students can get a clear view of their future.

The school’s “control tower” — an observation deck several stories high designed like an airport control tower looks down on busy Runway 4 at LaGuardia Airport. From here, the entire length of the runway can be seen, as can planes taking off and landing. Inside the observation deck are speakers which play a live feed of air traffic control at LaGuardia’s tower, less than a quarter mile away.

“Teachers sometimes take us up here to listen and get an idea of what it’s like in a real control tower,” said Vaughn student James Converso, 20, a licensed pilot from the Bronx.

That connection between the college campus on 23rd Avenue and the Por t Authority of New York and New Jerseyoperated airport across the street is not where their partnership ends.

The PANYNJ has a strong relationship with Vaughn, which attracts students not only from the New York area, but as far away as China, and helps them obtain internships and jobs.

“The future of our airport operations depend on the expertise of our next generation of aviation managers and leaders,” said

Yichuan Luo, an airport management major at Vaughn College of Aeronautics, sits in the air traffic control simulator at the East Elmhurst school. The native of Shanghai, China, has applied for an internship with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which has a close partnership PHOTO BY ALAN HICKS / PORT AUTHORITY with the college.

Port Authority spokeswoman Erica Dumas.

“Which is one of the many reasons why the Port Authority works closely with this institution and it’s students.”

Yichuan Luo is one of those students who

came from far away to attend Vaughn, which has roughly 1,700 students. The native of Shanghai, China, who went to high school in California, came to Vaughn after an exhaustive search nationwide.

City soda ban fizzles out Court of Appeals dumps failed rule down drain

by Tess McRae

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The New York Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision that the Bloomberg administration exceeded its authority by passing a ban on large sugary beverages in 2012 last Thursday.

The Portion Cap Rule spearheaded by former Mayor Bloomberg and supported by current Mayor de Blasio states that certain food establishments may not sell, offer or provide a sugary drink in a cup or container that can contain more than 16 fluid ounces.

“We hold that the New York City Board of Health, in adopting the ‘Sugary Drinks Portion Cap Rule,’ exceeded the scope of its regulatory authority,” Justice Eugene Pigott wrote in the final decision. “By choosing among competing policy goals, without any legislative delegation or guidance, the Board engaged in law-making and thus infringed upon the legislative jurisdiction of the City Council of New York.”

Health Commissioner Mary Basset said she would continue to fight against sugary drinks that she said propel obesity but the ruling is likely the final nail in the coffin for the controversial policy that had many convenience store, bodega and delicatessen owners and employees up in arms.

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Among the objections was that the Portion Cap Rule would only affect certain stores.

Most notably, 7-Eleven, which falls under different regulations than many bodegas, would not be forced to eliminate the large soda serving size.

De Blasio expressed his disappointment in the cou r t’s decision in a w r it ten statement.

“We are extremely disappointed by today’s Court decision that prevents the city from implementing a sugary drink portion cap policy,” he wrote. “The nega-

tive effects of sugary drink over-consumption on New Yorkers’ health, particularly among low-income communities, are irrefutable.

“We cannot turn our backs on the high rates of obesity and diabetes that adversely impact the lives of so many of ou r residents.

“While we are still examining the Court’s decision, it is our responsibility to address the causes of this epidemic, and the City is actively reviewing all of its options to protect the health and well-being of our communities.”

The ruling was passed 4-2 and dissenting judges said it would interfere with the Board of Health’s ability to deal with public health threats.

“While my colleagues in the majority may be troubled by this state of affairs, it is not their proper role to change it,” Justice Susan Read wrote. “The elected state Legislature granted the Board the powers that it exercises.

“If the electorate of the City of New York desires to divest the Board of authority to act independently of the Council in matters of public health, the appropriate and democratic response is amendment of Q the City Charter.”

“I knew I wanted to go to a big city,” he said.

Luo, an airport management major, has applied for an inter nship at the Por t Authority.

Students also connect to the agency outside of internships and work.

Vaughn’s Corporate Programs feature live, traditional classes telecast from the classrooms, offering face-to-face instruction from Port Authority employees.

Students also have access to experts in the field right on campus.

Phil Rodgers, a former air traffic controller at Islip MacArthur Airport in Suffolk County, instructs students at a mock ATC control tower and radar site on campus.

Using the software, students can guide planes into and out of a fake airport, called “Academy Airport,” and learn the language air traffic controllers use and gain experience before putting on the headsets at a real control tower or ATC site.

“The students spent a lot of time here getting comfortable and gaining experience with the lingo used and the different weather conditions,” Rodgers said.

Besides Vaughn, the Port Authority also works with several other schools in the New York area, including York College, to help students gain professional experience and get jobs within the agency or in the industry. Q

QueensWay continued from page 14 QueensWay, who lives in Woodhaven said he believes the park idea has a lot of support in his neck of the wood.

“The more we talk about it, the more people are interested in it,” he said. “They have concerns, but there’s not the level of opposition down there that has been portrayed.”

Crawford said the plan for the QueensWay is not new. It was explored first about seven years ago when Crawford was involved with several others, but that group fizzled out.

The plan emerged again with the creation of the Friends of the QueensWay and Terry, who had recently moved to Forest Hills, also got involved. Terry said he found out about the idea after looking for places for his daughter to play.

Crawford said the idea gained steam because of people like Terry who wanted more parkland.

“Many of these neighborhoods don’t have parkland and don’t have safe connections to a park like Forest Park,” she said. “This would fill in that void.”

Terry said he was not concerned about opposition or the rival plan to reactivate the train.

“We think this is the best use for this,” Terry said. “As people learn more about it and get involved, I think they will think it Q too.”

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Residents say they just want more detailed environmental evaluations

by Michael Gannon Editor

Residents of Southeast Queens are expecting to hear this week how the Port Authority will respond to their appeal of plans to move runway operations closer to residential neighborhoods.

Attorney Clyde Vanel, who filed the appeal in federal court in New York City on behalf of the Eastern Queens Alliance back in March, sought to dispel the thought that residents are just anti-airport.

“The Port Authority wants to have a 728-foot extension that will bring operations much closer to the community,” Vanel said. “There will be an impact on the community. There will be noise.

Many people in our community suffer from respiratory problems, and there are air quality issues. We want a full environmental study. They haven’t done that.”

The change, which is mandated by Congress and the Federal Aviation Administration, will, among other things, add a safety zone at the northernmost end of runway 4L-22R. It also will allow JFK to service larger, highercapacity passenger and cargo jets.

While it will not change JFK’s present footprint, Vanel said some aircraft might be coming up to 1,000 feet lower on approach than they do now when coming in from the north.

Federal law bars the airport from expanding out into Jamaica Bay, which is part of the Gateway National Wildlife Refuge.

The PA conducted what is known as an environmental assessment study when preparing plans for the extension.

Vanel said residents want what the federal government refers to as an environmental impact study, or EIS, before the project is allowed to proceed.

“This area has many schools and places of worship,” he said. “People living to the north are going to have an even worse noise problem.”

Gov Cuomo earlier this year ordered the PA to carry out tests that are the equivalent of something called a federal Part 150 environmental study around both JFK and LaGuardia airports.

The PA also has instituted airport community roundtable committees for both.

The PA in the case of the JFK runway believes its lower-level study was sufficient, leaving residents only with

the option of going to federal court.

“Keep in mind, I’m an aviation guy,” said Vanel, president of the New York Metro Chapter of Black Pilots of America.

“We’re not saying close down the airport,” he said. “Many people here worked or still do work at the airport or airport-related businesses. And maybe 15 or 20 percent of the people here were able to own their homes here because of those jobs. What we’re saying is that they have to be good neighbors.”

Residents in the past year also have taken issue with the PA and FAA targeting between 350 and 700 trees in nearby Idlewild Park for topping or removal, though both agencies say the runway expansion project has nothing to do with the tree issue. The taller trees have been marked when they are considered by the FAA to be a hazard to aviation based on their height and location.

Both agencies have been working with the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation in an effort to minimize tree removal, and to ultimately replace those that are culled with other trees that do not naturally grow to heights that would make them subject to removal in the Q future.

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Memories linger over fair bombing Two Bomb Squad members killed 74 years ago in Flushing Meadows

by Liz Rhoades Managing Editor

The Fourth of July has special meaning for Easter Lynch Miles, but it has nothing to do with Independence Day. That’s the day 74 years ago that her father was killed in a bomb explosion at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows.

Miles was 10 at the time and in the hospital undergoing treatment for osteomyelitis, a chronic and painful bone infection.

Her mother did n’t tell her about her father’s death until she returned home a month later.

Miles’ father, Det. Joseph Lynch, 33, and his partner, Det. Ferdinand Socha, 35, were members of the NYPD Bomb Squad who were killed on July 4, 1940 in a case that is still open.

According to police reports, authorities were tipped off that a suspicious package had been left inside the British Pavilion. It was removed by officers and placed under a tree in a vacant area behind the Polish Pavilion.

That location no longer exists as it is part of the Van Wyck Expressway.

Lynch and Socha were called in. Still in street clothes, the two men decided the ticking satchel needed to be more closely examined.

Lynch made a small hole in the bag and peeked inside. His last words before the bomb went off were, “It’s the business,” which meant the bomb was real.

The device detonated, killing both men and leaving a 30-foot-wide crater in the ground. Most fairgoers, celebrating the July 4 holiday, did not know about the explosion or thought it was f ireworks, Miles speculates.

The police carried out a major manhunt, believing the attack was perpetrated by Nazi or IRA sympathizers. But no one was ever arrested.

“It could have been done by the British, who wanted the United States to enter the war, or it could have been by the Nazis to keep us out,” Miles said. “Remember, it was very crowded at the fair that day and there could have been many casualties if the bomb hadn’t been removed from the building.”

She found out later that Babe Ruth attended her father’s wake, held at the family’s home in the Bronx. “It was held there because there were four younger children that my mother couldn’t leave behind if it had been at a funeral home,” Miles said.

The closed casket was covered with a blanket of roses from the British government and an estimated 5,000 mourners paid their respects over five days.

QUICK Gas fracking ruling makes its practice upstate less likely

Municipalities have the right to ban hydraulic fracturing within their borders even if Albany decides to allow the technique for natural gas extraction, the state Court of Appeals determined in a 5-2 decision June 30.

The ruling addressed two cases the court decided together, each brought by an energy company against an upstate town that banned the practice commonly known as hydrofracking, or just fracking. The Office of the Manhattan Borough President had filed a friend of the court brief on the side of the town in one case.

The court’s majority ruled that municipalities may ban fracking using zoning codes under the concept of home rule, saying those powers are not superseded by any state law on oil and gas extraction. The minority contended that outright bans on fracking go beyond the towns’ powers and into regulation of the industry itself, which it said is the purview of the Department of Environmental Conservation.

The state has been studying whether to allow fracking for years. Proponents say it is a valuable tool in energy production while opponents say it poses too much risk to the environDet. Joseph Lynch died at 33 from a bombing ment, specifically, in New York, to the purity FILE PHOTO of the city’s drinking water, which flows from at the World’s Fair. upstate watersheds through several aqueducts.

When Miles returned from the hospital City officials oppose fracking for that reason. Q to learn her father had died, she said she grew up overnight. “As the oldest, I had to take my father’s place and I didn’t mind.

My mother was the real hero, raising all those children, and the youngest was only 22 months,” she said.

Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing) last week The spry 84-year-old who now lives in introduced a bill that would make permanent Orange, Conn., said she still has memories an expired tax cut for property owners who of her father as a kind, wonderful man, make improvements benefiting businesses such “very, very good looking,” who always as stores and restaurants in their buildings. spent time with his children.

Called the Tax Equality for Entrepreneurs Ironically, he joined the NYPD to have Act, the measure would allow property owners a secure job during the Depression. He to either write off eligible improvements or was a graduate of Fordham University’s depreciate them over 15 years. It was originally pharmacy program and an assistant profes- enacted in 2010 as a temporary measure in a sor there before joining the force. small-business assistance bill and was renewed “He thought the pharmacy department twice since then, but expired last Jan. 1. at the school was going to close, so he joined the Police Department,” she said.

“He was looking for security and oddly he gave it to my mother through his pension.”

T he other of f icer, Socha , lived i n continued from page 31 Brooklyn, was married but had no children. A plaque commemorating the bombing and the two deaths was erected in 1965 outside the Queens Museum.

Due to the deaths, the NYPD started taking more precautions for members of the Bomb Squad, especially with equipment and gear. “And the police never forget their own,” Miles said. “Every year they leave a bouquet of roses atop the plaque at Flushing Meadows.”

Miles eventually married and has one JHS Valedictorian Adriana Vega son and four grandchildren. She hopes to PHOTO BY KAYCIA SAILSMAN visit the plaque next year on the 75th anniQ versary of her father’s death.

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“These important deductions are critical to keeping our economy on its delicate road to recovery,” Meng told the Queens Chronicle in an email. “If passed, these tax incentives would reduce costs for local small businesses, and in turn stimulate economic growth, create jobs and make communities better.”

The measure has been sent to committee.

Still in her first term, Meng has authored four bills that have passed the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, but none has been taken up by the Democratic-led Senate. Q

Film traces sex slaves’ trip here from Mexico A new documentary examines human trafficking and the sex trade by detailing the perils faced by girls and women brought to Queens and forced into prostitution.

“Pimp City: A Journey to the Center of the Sex Slave Trade” was produced by TV and online network Fusion. It tells the story of girls as young as 12 who are brought here from one town in Mexico, Tenancingo, where, it says, the dominant trades are pimping and prostitution.

One woman interviewed in the film, named Miranda, tells how she was taken from Tenancingo and forced to sell her body in Queens.

“Miranda’s story is, unfortunately, brutally common,” the documentary’s producer, Alice Brennan, told National Public Radio. “She was 14, sitting in a park in a small town in Mexico and a man who identified himself as ‘Rodolfo’ introduced himself to her and eventually kidnapped her. Through his family network, he forced her into prostitution, and trafficked her to Queens, where she was forced into a life of being a sex slave. As you just heard in that clip, she’d see up to 60 men a day — $35 each in 15 minute increments. It’s just — it’s incredible.”

Q The film is posted online at fusion.net.

Mets bigs in FoHi, Flushing Mets legend Keith Hernandez and mascot Mr. Met will meet people at the Citibank in Forest Hills, at 107-01 71 Ave., at noon July 11, as part of an ongoing tour. The other Queens stop will be at 12:15 p.m. July 19 at Flushing’s Citibank at 38-17 Main St., but it could be either Hernandez or Ron Darling appearing there. Q — compiled by Peter C. Mastrosimone “They are a wonderful bunch,” said Kendall. “Because they’re so small we got to know them much better.”

Adriana Vega, 18, was the school’s last valedictorian. Her emotion-filled speech had herself, peers and guests filled with tears. She is saddened over the school’s closure but enjoyed her last year at Jamaica.

Vega’s fondest memories of her Jamaica High School career were making the playoffs with her volleyball team and making the championship round with her basketball team.

She will be attending Hunter College in the fall with an anticipated major in Q either chemistry or biology.

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In recent years, some of baseball’s best pitchers are the biggest players on the field.

Future Hall of Famer Randy Johnson, a former New York Yankees hurler, stood 6 feet, 10 inches tall, making him one of the tallest players in baseball history.

Injured Mets ace Matt Harvey stands 6 feet, 4 inches himself and weighs 215 pounds.

High School for Construction, Trades, Engineering and Architecture star Aaron Ammirati stands just 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighs only 140 pounds, but the 17-year-old Lindenwood native is in the midst of proving his worth as one of the best high school pitchers in Queens.

After a successful junior season in which he went 6-0 and pitched to a stellar 1.00 Lindenwood star pitcher Aaron Ammirati will earned run average, Ammirati will travel to represent New York in two all star games in Chicago next week as a member of the city’s Chicago.

PHOTOS COURTESY AARON AMMIRATI Public School Athletic League all-star team, where they will take on their high school people get to have. It’s a blessing.�

Ammirati’s father, Michael, a former scout counterparts from the Windy City in a twofor the Mets and Mariners, said his son’s game series.

Ammirati said he could barely contain his dominance over opposing hitters despite his size gives him just as much pleasure as it excitement when he learned of his selection. “The PSAL baseball commissioner told does Aaron. “He’s been playing me in the middle of the travel baseball since he season that if I kept it was 7 years old. He was up, I’d be on the team,� always the smallest kid Ammirati, one of just on the field,� the elder three Queens players Ammirati said. “What I chosen for the squad, always get a kick out of said. “On the last day of as a dad is seeing other school, I was sitting in coaches pull their hair U.S. history when I ranout, wondering how this domly got a text from little kid is beating [PSAL official] Dwayne them.�

Burnett. I read the mesIn addition to the sage that said I was on Chicago trip, Ammirati the team and I got very will also par take in excited. I ran around the showcases to display his class, I was so happy.�

Ammirati delivers a pitch. skills for college coachOn July 11, the first es, as well as play in game of the series will be played at U.S. Cellular Field, the home of summer league games in North Carolina and Virginia against collegiate players. the Chicago White Sox. Ammirati hopes his busy summer will On July 12, the series moves to the University of Illinois-Chicago, where the two help him and his team go deep into the city teams will battle under the lights at the newly playoffs in his senior campaign.

In May, CTEA was knocked out in the constructed Curtis Granderson Stadium, named for the current Mets and former Yan- first round of the city playoffs by underdog kees outfielder, a UIC alumni, who funded New Dorp High School of Staten Island and highly touted pitcher Justin Pedone, who conthe ballpark’s construction.

Ammirati’s fastball velocity may only sit sistently tops 90 miles per hour with his around 83 miles per hour, a far cry from fastball.

Going into next season, his last as a high White Sox star pitcher Chris Sale’s high-90s heater, but the Queens hurler is thrilled to schooler, Ammirati’s mindset is simple. It’s simply be throwing from the same rubber as championship or bust. “We should have made it to the city chamthe All-Star. “It’s going to be insane knowing I’ll be on pionship last year,� he said. “For my last the same pitching mound that Chris Sale game to be at Yankee Stadium, winning a Q pitches on,� he said. “It’s an honor very few city title, that would be insane.�

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Florist fire Firefighters were called to Florist Hills at 68-19 Woodhaven Blvd. just before midnight on Sunday to battle a fire on the flower shop’s roof.

A photo of the blaze was posted to the 112th Precinct Community Council’s Facebook page around 1 a.m., about the time the fire was extinguished.

No injuries were reported.

The exterior portion of the store was open for business Monday afternoon, but the building’s windows were boarded up and a green tarp covered the roof.

Employees could be seen Monday removing plants from the building and putting them in a large truck.

continued from page 5 the Rockaways, members of community boards 5, 9 and 10 and transit advocates, used photos of certain locations on the boulevard to desig n new lane configurations.

Kenichi Wilson, chairman of Community Board 9’s Transportation Committee, lives on Woodhaven Boulevard in Ozone Park. He said he would only support a proposal that doesn’t affect curbside parking.

Wilson suggested wider center medians with a bus stop there. Though the DOT has not done that in New York, Eric Beeton, a DOT planner, noted it has been done successfully in other cities.

“It’s something we would look into if that’s what people want,” he said.

Wilson was adamant that bus lanes should not interfere with parking “If we were going to do it, this is the only way I would support it,” Wilson told a DOT official.

It wouldn’t be the first time parking issues sunk SBS. An attempt to institute the service along Merrick Boulevard in Southeast Queens was defeated by local civic leaders several years ago because the DOT’s design would have replaced parking lanes with bus lanes, taking away curbside parking.

At the June 5 meeting of CB 10, concerns over the elimination of parking for several blocks north and south of Liberty Avenue

on Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards bus service there started last year.

Neither the DOT nor the MTA would garnered the board’s opposition.

“It will have a real negative effect on confirm or deny the Nostrand Avenue allebusinesses in the area,” CB 10’s first vice gations, but noted that Jamaica Avenue is one of the busiest bus stops on the corridor chairman, John Calcagnile, warned.

The DOT noted that the bus lanes would where there is a connection to the J and Z only be in effect during rush hours, but that trains. Woodhaven residents also suggested stops at Atlantic Avenue and Forest didn’t win over much support.

Last week, some expressed concern that Park Drive at the Forest Park Co-Ops, select bus service would just pass through both of which are currently served by Woodhaven and only serve the Rockaways express buses to Manhattan.

SBS had been instituted in every borand northern Queens, as the Q53 had for years. Until 2006, the bus ran nonstop ough except Queens until this year, when between Broad Channel and Rego Park, the M60, which connects Harlem to LaGuardia Airport, became an SBS line. Q skipping the neighborhoods in between.

Phil McManus, a resident of Rockaway who formed the Queens Public Transit Committee, a group advocating better transportation options throughout Queens, most notably the controversial proposal to reactivate the Rockaway Beach rail line, said he is not completely behind the select bus service.

“I’m not against more and faster buses,” he said. “But there’s a real possibility that it will affect local service.”

He, and several other residents, asked the DOT if select bus service would stop in Woodhaven and if it would lead to reduced service on the local routes along the corridor, such as the Q11 and Q21 buses. Opponents of select bus service argue that reduction in other service is what happened along Select bus service is eyed for Woodhaven and Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn when select Cross Bay boulevards. PHOTO BY DOMENICK RAFTER

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Queens spots to take in the fireworks show Maspeth Plaza, located at the intersections of 69th Street and Borden and Grand avenues, is one such lookout.

The area is not an official spot to see the fireworks, but from the plaza, there is a view of Lower Manhattan and on July 4, after the sun sets, the sky will be lit with sparkling lights.

Howard Beach residents can walk onto the Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Bridge and take in the show from afar.

With a little imagination, any spot with a view of Lower Manhattan can become your front-row seat to a spectacular show.

If your heart isn’t entirely set on the Macy’s fireworks, there will be a smaller show at Citi Field, located at 123-01 Roosevelt Ave. in Corona, after the Mets play the Rangers.

The best part is, you don’t have to buy a ticket to the game to admire the light show.

Sitting in the parking lots of the stadium or the nearby Home Depot, located at 131-35 Avery Ave., should provide a great view of the event.

There are a couple of parties being held in Long Island City where attendees are guaranteed to see the show without worrying about tall buildings blocking their view.

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fter a stint on the Hudson River, the Macy’s Fireworks Spectacular is back on the East Side for this year’s Independence Day. Unfortunately a majority of the sparkling explosives will be shot off near the Brooklyn Bridge.

This will prevent most Queens residents from taking in the fireworks, even if they live on the waterfront.

However, with a little creativity, Queens residents still have a few options for taking in the spectacle on their home turf.

For those looking for a free show, there are a few spots in Queens that are sure to make for a great viewing spot.

Astoria Park hosted its own fireworks event on Monday for residents.

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W H AT ’ S H A P P E N I N G

EXHIBITS

Fair at inaugural brew fest. Info/register: (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org/Brewfest.

“Between the Lines,” a group exhibition by Zaun Lee, TJ Volonis and Scott Fitzgerald, connected by a shared interest of line, plane and pre-determined structure; thru July 12, Crossing Art, 136-17 39 Ave., Flushing. Info: (212) 359-4333, crossingart.com.

Wayfinding: 100 NYC Public Sculptures by Bundith Phunsombatlert, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, located on the lawn between the Unisphere and the Queens Museum, on view thru November.

36th annual Thunderbird American Indian MidSummer Pow-Wow, Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy., Floral Park, Fri.-Sun., July 25-27. Fri.- gates open 6 p.m.; performance 7-10 p.m. Sat.- gates open 10 a.m.; performances: 12-5 & 7-10 p.m. Sun.- gates open 10 a.m.; performance 12-5 p.m. $10 adults, $5 children; $15 adults all-weekend pass, $7 children. Free parking.

Contact: (718) 347-3276, queensfarm.org.

THEATER

COMMUNITY

Queens Secret Improv Club, Queens’ only allimprov comedy theater, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. Indie teams: Wed. & Thurs. 7, 8 & 9 p.m., $5.

House teams: Fri., 7:30, 8:30 & 9:30 p.m., $7 for the whole night. Info: secrettheatre.com.

Free dental implant seminar, Steinway Family Dental Center, 32-50 Steinway St., Astoria, Sun., July 27, 11 a.m-2 p.m. Call to reserve, space is limited, (718) 728-3314.

“The Magic of the Baroque,” Music at Mary’s Nativity Church, 46-02 Parsons Blvd., Flushing, Sun., July 20, 4 p.m. $10 in advance, $15 at door. Revelations Quintet with soprano Candace Lynn Matthews. Contact: Paul Joseph, (516) 766-8116, pjclassical@yahoo.com.

“Latin Fire,” Queens Symphony Orchestra, 16th annual Great Summer Lawn Concert at St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Pkwy., Jamaica, Wed., July 30, 7 p.m. Free admission & parking. Info: (718) 990-1941.

DANCE Young Dancemakers Company, 17 teens from NYC public high schools choreograph and dance to their own works, Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., Sun., July 27, at 1 p.m. Free, reservations recommended. Contact: (718) 329.7300, ext. 3358, aliceteirstein@gmail.com.

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LECTURE Grant Wade Jonathan, Tuscarora Raised Bead Art Tradition, Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing, Sun., July 27, 2 p.m., exhibit thru Aug. 30. Info: (718) 359-6227, vomuseum.org.

CLASSES Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston; Yoga in the Elements, Sat., July 12, 9:15-10:15 a.m. $12 pp; Scientifically Speaking: Environmental Archeology, Sat., July 12, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $24 pp.

Pre-registration required for both. Info/register: (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com.

Free English & civics class, Flushing Jewish Community Council, McGoldrick Queens Library,

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MUSIC Young Dancemakers Company, composed of 17 teens from New York City public schools, perform at Flushing Town Hall on Sunday, July 27.

155-06 Roosevelt Ave., Mon., July 7, 4-7 p.m.

Register: (718) 463-0434.

New York State Safe Boating Class, qualified U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary instructors, Flotilla 12-01, Fort Totten, Bayside, Sun., July 27, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 8-hour course, $65 pp. Registration required for entry & parking at Fort Totten. Info: Ralph Traub (347) 336-5866, Flotilla (347) 6694460, uscgaux1201.org/unit_classes.html.

Italian for Beginners, every Tues., 7-9 p.m., 10-week course. $60 pp. Dance with Instruction, every Mon. and Fri., 7:15-8:15 p.m. $10. Italian Charities of America, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst, Contact: (718) 478-3100.

Watercolor classes, National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston, Wed., 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. All techniques, beginner to advanced with demonstration. Call: (718) 969-1128.

DJ classes, Mainline, 218-12 Hillside Ave., Queens Village, 1st & 2nd week of every month. Once a week, four sessions, classes in beat mixing and MC techniques. Call: (718) 479-4848.

KIDS/TEENS HSBC Children’s Garden Summer Session, Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing, July 7-Aug. 21, (7 weeks); 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Offering hands-on discovery for children ages 5-12, Summer I: Mon. & Wed. or Summer II: Tue. & Thurs., $810 QBG members/$900 nonmembers.

July only (Summer I or II): $477 QBG mem-

bers/$530 nonmembers. Aug. only (Summer I or II): $360 QBG members/$400 nonmembers. Info/ register: (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org/ programs/childrensgarden/sessions.

Tumbling with Autism Program, Team Up with Play4Autism at Triumph Gymnastics Center, 79-41 Cooper Ave., Glendale, Sun., 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Child’s first Sunday free; after: $20 for 1 hour, $30 for 2 hours per child, $40 for 2 hours/2 children.

Child must be a registered member of Play4Autism (play4autism.org). Info: Greg Vasicek, Play4Autism, (646) 836-4535.

LP FAM’s youth basketball program, Queens Transition Center, 142-10 Linden Blvd., South Ozone Park, every Sat., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Boys/girls, ages 8-16. Contact: Mike Glasgow (917) 442-0479.

Farmer’s Market Fridays, Queens Botanical Garden, Dahlia Avenue off Main Street, Flushing, thru Nov. 21, every week, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Info: (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org.

Greenmarkets — Socrates Sculpture Park: Vernon Blvd. & Broadway, Long Island City, every Sat., through Nov. 22, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Info: grownyc.org/socratesgreenmarket. Astoria: 14 St., between 31st Ave. & 31st Road, every Wed., July 9-Nov. 26, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Info: grownyc.org/astoriagreenmarket.

30+ Singles Social, Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd., Sun., July 13 & Aug. 10, 2-6 p.m. $10. Contact: (718) 897-6255.

Wednesday Night Singles Group, SFY Adult Center, 58-20 Little Neck Pkwy., Little Neck, second and fourth Wed. of each month, 7-9 p.m. Fee: $7 Adult Center members, $9 nonmembers.

Doggie boot camp, Crocheron Park, Bayside, every Sat. thru Oct., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. dogschoolny.com.

FLEA MARKETS

Boy Scout Troop #119, St. Margaret’s Parish Hall, 79 Place off Juniper Valley Rd., Middle Village, meets every Tues., 7:15-9 p.m. New members welcome.

St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church, 150-75 Goethals Ave., Jamaica, outdoors every Sat. & Sun. until Nov., 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Richmond Hill, 117-09 Hillside Ave., every Sun., 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Largest flea market in Queens.

Harlem Magic Masters Basketball Show, York College Gymnasium, 160-02 Liberty Ave., Jamaica, Mon.-Thurs., July 14-17, shows at 9:45 & 11:30 a.m. $8. Tickets: (212) 643-2640, (800) 597-1140, harlemmagicmasters.com.

St. Benedict the Moor Church, Merrick Blvd. at 110th Ave., Jamaica, every Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Vendors welcome. Contact: (718) 332-0026.

Taste the World: Botanical Brew Fest, Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing, Sat., July 19, 12-3 p.m. & 4-7 p.m. Ticket req’d; $45 in advance, $50 at door (21+ only). Celebrate the 50th & 75th anniversaries of New York’s World’s

MEETINGS North Shore Chapter of Hearing Loss Association of America, LIJ Hearing & Speech Center, 270-05 76 Ave., New Hyde Park, every third Wed. of month, 6:30 p.m.

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Say ‘Ohm’ to free yoga classes in Queens

by Tess McRae

at the East River and Manhattan skyline.

Afterward, visitors can sample local produce at the park’s Greenmarket.

Classes: Saturdays, thru Sept. 27 at 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

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Yoga is growing in popularity but classes can be expensive.

Fortunately, groups including the Queens Library and Parks Department provide plenty of options for you to get your downward dog on this summer for free.

Contrary to popular belief, there are many types of yoga, though many studios teach Vinyasa, or flow yoga, to beginners.

Each type provides a different experience and focuses on a specific element of achieving balance within oneself.

For example, Vinyasa yoga focuses on synchronizing breath and movement through a variety of traditional motions.

Unlike many group-exercise courses, yoga is not intended to be competitive. In fact, many studios do not put up mirrors.

This is to promote inward reflection and remove any judgment one may have toward classmates or oneself.

In order to provide the opportunity for everyone to experience yoga, the Parks Department, through its Shape Up NYC campaign, offers dozens of options all over the city for beginners and yogis alike.

Hunter’s Point South Park at Center Boulevard and 51st Avenue in Long Island City is also on the water and provides basic-level yoga classes that cover total body flexibility and core strengthening. It is recommended for teens, adults and seniors.

Classes: Saturdays from July 12 to Aug. 23, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City offers a beautiful view of the East River and PHOTO BY TESS MCRAE Manhattan skyline to go along with their weekly yoga classes.

Outdoor Yoga Doing yoga outdoors can be a peaceful and relaxing experience that works the muscles while slowing the mind, allowing one to connect with nature.

At Socrates Sculpture Park, located at 32-01 Vernon Blvd. in Long Island City, participants practice Hatha yoga, which integrates body postures, breathing techniques and meditation, while looking out

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Brookville Park, located at Brookville Boulevard and Southern Parkway in Rosedale, offers a teen-only course in the evening.

Classes: Tuesdays from 6 to 7 p.m., thru Aug. 26. Meet at Brookville Boulevard and 143rd Avenue.

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Take a look at Willets Point in a new way

by Tess McRae

now and the way the public views it.

Even those who disagree with the redeThere has been a lot in the news regard- velopment may speak of the Iron Triangle as ing Willets Point and the redevelopment they would speak of Iraq or any other area slated to begin there. ridden with instability or tension.

Many are for it and many are against it, All of the photographs are shot in black but few have taken the time to really look at and white then incorporated in a collage-like Willets Point, as it is piece with vivid color now, and see art. and chaotic angles.

“Rather than seeing Most interestingly, the salvage yard wastenone of the individuals lands as monuments to who work in the auto When: Tues.-Fri., 11 a.m.-6 p.m., competing industry, the body shops of WIllets Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m., street’s potholes as craPoint are ever shown. through Aug. 2 ter scars from fictional They are not the subWhere: John Molloy Gallery, land mine explosions, ject of the series.

49 E. 78 St., # 2B, and the oil pools that Instead, Pang almost Manhattan deviously seep their treats the area like an Tickets: Free, way into every available archeological site, johnmolloygallery.com nook and crevice, as where the rusting decrepit characterizametal gates and peeltions of a neighborhood ing paint tell the tale. stuck in redevelopment limbo,” Louis DouWhile the ongoing battle over the land is las writes of artist Joseph Pang’s exhibit, not heavily portrayed in the exhibit, there “Willets Point Series,” “the artist instead are traces of it in many pieces, such as introduces to us a new potential candidate “Homeostasis.” for creative contemplation, an object of subThe piece is made with oil, acrylic, lime beauty, whose living ruins are not Tyvek, paper and pencil on canvas. another euphemism for blight, but for aesThough putting the debate at the center thetic reverie and expedition.” of the work would take away from the WilIt is refreshing to see Willets Point shown lets Point Pang created, not addressing it at without judgment. So many stories about all would leave a viewer feeling somewhat the small area, just outside of Flushing, make unsatisfied. it seem as though it is a third-world country. “‘The Willets Point Series’ itself is a There is a disconnect that has been schizophrenic visual cocktail of history, poliwedged between the neighborhood as it is tics and, of course, beauty,” Doulas wrote. Q qboro editor

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Take in the fireworks from your own backyard continuedfrom frompage page00 37 continued Unfortunately, they come with a price tag.

For the first time, LIC Landing by Coffeed is hosting a party on the waterfront at Hunters Point South Park on Center Boulevard.

Fireworks at Astoria Park wowed the PHOTO BY STEVE MALECKI crowd on Monday.

Tickets are $100 a person but allow you to eat and drink all you want.

The cafe will serve barbecue by pitmaster John Zervoulakos, who will grill up beef brisket, Berkshire pulled pork, baby back ribs, burgers, hot dogs and fries.

Craf t beers and wines will also be available.

Ice and Vice will serve gourmet ice cream and desserts and coffee will be made by Coffeed.

A DJ and dance floor will also be in place.

The event is free for children 10 and under and will go from 6 to 10 p.m.

Attendees can take the East River Ferry to the Long Island City stop or the No. 7 train to the Vernon-Jackson station.

To make reservations or learn more about the event, visit licland.com The Z Hotel, also located in Long Island City, will be putting on a slightly fancier event in its rooftop bar and party space.

For $166 — $65 for children — you can feast on grilled hot dogs, burgers, chicken or ribs for a main course.

Attendees can choose from grilled or roasted corn or tomato salad.

Ice cream, fruit salad and sliced

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While LIC Landing and Z Hotel are offering fancy viewing parties, the Macy’s Fireworks PHOTO COURTESY LIC LANDING Spectacular can be viewed for free around the borough. watermelon will also be served.

The price also includes two alcoholic drinks per person and all soft drinks, juices and water are included as well.

Food service will be available from 4 to 8 p.m.

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HELP NEEDED !

COOK Part-Time, Friday through Monday Must have experience in high volume dietary restrictive cooking.

Must have valid Food Protection Course Certificate and a degree from an accredited Culinary Program.

Part-Time for Weekend Day Shifts

AARP meetings: Open to the general public. Chapter 1405, Flushing, Bowne Street Community Church, 143-11 Roosevelt Ave., 1st and 3rd Mon. each month, 1 p.m. Chapter 2889, Maspeth, American Legion Hall, 66-28 Grand Ave., meets 1st and 3rd Wed. each month, 12 p.m. Contact: (718) 672-9890.

Caregiver support groups, Queens Community House, 108-25 62 Drive, Forest Hills. & Kew Gardens Community Center, 80-02 Kew Gardens Road. Do you provide help to a family member, friend or neighbor? Could you use some help yourself? Free support services. Contact: Anne Attanas, LMSW, (718) 268-5960, ext. 226.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES

Women’s Support Group, Center for the Women of New York, Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, Room 325. Thurs. (weekly) 6:30-8 p.m. Registration required. Free. Contact: CWNY (718) 793-0672, centerwny@yahoo.com.

Selfhelp Innovative Senior Center (Benjamin Rosenthal-Prince Street Senior Center), 45-25 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, Email & the Internet, computer class for seniors 60+.

Call: John (718) 559-4329.

Performs various patient care activities and related nonprofessional services necessary for the personal needs and comforts of the resident. Must have a valid New York State Driver’s License.

For either position, you must be able to read, write, speak and understand English, and it must be your first and primary language.

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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.

CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT

Please fax resume to 516-352-8656 or E-mail it to platthome@platthome.org

MEETINGS

Bereavement Group for Seniors, 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.

For those who have recently lost a loved one.

Contact: Marion (718) 454-2100.

Ridgewood Older Adult Center, 59-14 70 Ave., Regular weekly hour-long classes: jewelry making, Mon. at 10:30 a.m.; Richard Simmons exercise, Mon. and Thurs. at 10:30; Eldercise, Tues. at 10:30 a.m.; massage therapy, Wed. at 10:30 a.m.; manicures, Thurs. at 12:30 p.m.; yoga, Fri. at 10:30 a.m. Movies every Mon., Tues. and Fri. at 1:15 p.m. MetroCard van, 4th Thurs. of month. Monthly buses to Yonkers.

Contact: Karen (718) 456-2000.

Pomonok Senior Center, 67-09 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, free SNAP screenings for all seniors 60+. Eligibility check and application help. Info: (718) 591-3377, Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Middle Village Adult Center, 69-10 75 St., offers: computer classes, all levels, beginners to advanced, including: 21st century technology and the latest gadgets; and Microsoft Excel (separate class); fitness classes in Zumba, aerobics, line dancing, yoga, tai chi, lower-body toning, sit and be fit; recreational activities (daily bingo, singing, watercolor painting, bus trips, meals and more). Contact: Hindy at (718) 894-3441.

Rockaway Boulevard Senior Center, 12310 143 St., South Ozone Park, offers service programs Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Lunch is at noon with a suggested donation of $1.50. Programs include: tai chi stretch, dance groups, choral group, ceramics, camera class, computer classes, trips, birthday parties and more.

Contact: (718) 657-6752.

Jamaica Service Program for Older Adults, 92-47 165 St., Jamaica, details its safety program about rent, Medicaid and food stamps.

Call (718) 657-6500 for appointment. Free.

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Job placement assistance, ANIBIC, 61-35 220 St., Bayside, a nonprofit organization serving children and young disabled adults in the community with job & apartment placement.

Bereavement groups for loss of a spouse, facilitated by a licensed social worker. Central Queens YM & YWHA, 67-09 108 St., Forest Hills. Call Pamela Leff: (718) 268-5011, ext. 621.

Narcotics Anonymous Drug problem?

Call Helpline at (718) 962-6244 or visit westernqueensna.com. Meeting 7 days a week.

Overeaters Anonymous, Long Island Consultation Center, 97-29 64 Road, Rego Park, Sun., 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Contact: (718) 9370163. Other location: Rego Park Library, Thurs. at 11:15 a.m., 91-41 63 Drive. For help with weight loss and/or other issues.

Al-anon self-help group for anyone affected by another’s drinking. Jackson Heights, meets every Tues., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 82nd St. & 34th Ave., Parish House, 1st floor. Contact: (718) 457-1511. Other location: Rego Park, every Sun. at noon at Resurrection Ascension Pastoral Center basement, 85-18 61 Road.

The Lupus Alliance of Long Island and Queens meets Tue., once a month, 7:30-9 p.m., Flushing.

Register/information: (516) 802-3142. Members $10, nonmembers $15, includes a light breakfast, handouts and lunch. Contact: (516) 826-2058.

Co-Dependents Anonymous (women only) meetings every Fri. from 10 to 11:45 a.m. at Resurrection Ascension Pastoral Center, Father Freely Hall, 85-18 61 Rd., Rego Park.

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

LISTING INFORMATION Community Calendar items must be sent two weeks before the date of the event.

Listings should be typed, from a nonprofit organization, either free or moderately priced, and be open to the public. Keep the information to one paragraph. Because of the large number of requests for the free calendar listings, we cannot include every event submitted. Email: artslistingsqchron@gmail.com or send to: Queens Chronicle, Community Calendar, P.O. Box 74-7769, Rego Park, NY 11374 or via fax to (718) 205-0150.

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Indoor Yoga For those prefer their yoga classes indoors, the Detective Keith Williams Field House, located at 106-16 173 St. in Jamaica, is offering a class to people of all ages.

Though it is open to everyone, it is specially designed for those who may be wishing to explore yoga for the first time. More advanced cueing is offered to more advanced students.

Cla sses : Wednesdays from 11: 30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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Queens’ par k s is ava ila ble on t he department’s site at nycgovpark.org/ programs.

The Queens Libr ar y ’s Woodside Branch, located at 54-22 Skillman Ave., is offering yoga classes in a cool, airconditioned space for all experience levels.

Classes: Wednesdays at 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., thru Dec. 17.

Information on yoga at the Queens Library is available at queenslibrary.org.

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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. the rest.

“For this, I like to think we’re MON.-FRI. 11am - 7pm For anyone who has ever dealt doing the community a service,” SAT. 10am - 6pm 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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SQ page 48 Index No. 1989/11. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS. RECEIVED JUNE 20, 2014 COUNTY CLERK QUEENS COUNTY. SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS. Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the Mortgage premises is situated. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Plaintiff - against - Segundo Manuel Chimbay a/k/a Segundo Chimbay, Felicia M. Chimbay, if living and if she be dead, any and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienor, heirs, devisees, distributees, or successors in interest of such of the above as may be dead, and their spouses, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residences are unknown to Plaintiff, Maria J. Chimbay, Luis Antonio Vizhany a/k/a Luis Antonio Vizhnay a/k/a Luis Vizhnay, New York City Environmental Control Board, New York City Parking Violations Bureau, New York City Transit Adjudication Bureau, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., United States of America-Internal Revenue Service, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Louis Paillacho, Maria Paillacho, Pablo Napan and Maria Ramirez. Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT. THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $533,850.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York on November 13, 2007, at CRFN 2007000565274, covering premises known as 32-19 86th Street, East Elmhurst a/k/a Queens, NY 11369. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. NOTICE - YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the Mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the Summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your Mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Williamsville, New York. September 9, 2013. //signed// By: Stephen J. Wallace, Esq., Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, LLP, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, New York 11706, (631) 9693100. Our File No.:01-048574

352 E. 134TH STREET PARTNERS, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 3/27/14. Office location: Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 7416A Grand Ave., Elmhurst, NY 11373. General Purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: AGAVI JUICE LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/26/2014. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to Andy Ngucaj, 75-24 197th Street, 1st floor, Fresh Meadows, NY 11366.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS INDEX # 598/14 FILED: 1/14/14 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE. Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgage premise is situated. BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff(s), against, EDITH ANDERSON, THOMAS ANDERSON, if living, and if they be dead, their respective heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendants who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, NYC COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES, CITY OF NEW YORK ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12”, the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendant(s). TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. AND FILING THE ANSWER WITHIN THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not serviced with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may appear within (60) days of service thereof and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: THE OJBECT of the above-captioned action is to foreclose on a mortgage which was recorded on the office of the Clerk of the County of Queens where the property is located on June 17, 2008 recorded Document 2008000243014 in the office of the City Register of the City of New York. Said mortgage was then assigned to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., by assignment of mortgage which was dated November 9, 2011 and the assignment of which was recorded on December 5, 2011 at the Clerk’s office where the property is located covering premises known as 99-52 211th PL., QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11429 (Section: N/A Block: 10879 Lot: 31). The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt described above to the above named Defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Augustus C. Agate, an Acting Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated June 17, 2014 and filed along with the supporting papers in the office of the Clerk of the County of Queens. This is an action to foreclose on a mortgage. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Queens and State of New York. SECTION: N/A BLOCK: 10879 LOT: 31 said premises known as 99-52 211th PL., QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11429. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. By reason of the default in the payment of the monthly installment of principal and interest, among other things, as hereinafter set forth, Plaintiff, the holder and owner of the aforementioned note and mortgage, or their agents have elected and hereby accelerate the mortgage and declare the entire mortgage indebtedness immediately due and payable. The following amounts are now due and owing on said mortgage, no part of any of which has been paid although duly demanded. Entire principal Balance in the amount of $350,840.18 with interest from March 1, 2011. UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBT OR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME, ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the summons and complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid, there are government agencies, and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with our lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by New York State Banking Department at 1-877-Bank-NYS or visit the Department’s website at www. banking.state.ny.us FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME - If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving the copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you may lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF MORTGAGE COMPANY AND FILING AN ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Leopold & Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110, Armonk, NY 10504. Our file #13-05985.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK – COUNTY OF QUEENS INDEX# 700358/2013 FILED: 4/03/2014, SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgage premise is situated. FLUSHING SAVINGS BANK, Plaintiff, against CUVAS ELLIS, GLADSTONE ELLIS, if he be living and if she be dead, if, the respective heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or inheritance, any right, title or interest in or to the real property described in the complaint, NYC ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OF THE CWHEQ REVOLVING HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2007-E and “JOHN DOE” and “JANE DOE, “the last two names being fictitious and said parties intended being tenants, or occupants, if any, having or claiming an interest in, or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant(s). TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not serviced with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may appear within (60) days of service thereof and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of the above-captioned action is to foreclose on a mortgage that was recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens on December 7, 1993, in Mortgage Liber 3730 at Page 1547. Said mortgage was then assigned to Plaintiff by an Assignment of Mortgage which was recorded in the Queens County Clerk’s Office on November 17, 2010 in CRFN 2010000386796. Plaintiff is the holder and the owner of the aforesaid NOTE and MORTGAGE, covering premises known as 138 37 224 Street, Laurelton, NY 11413-2732. (Block 13138 Lot 17). The relief sought within this action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt described above. To the above named Defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Sidney F. Strauss, J.S.C., a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, filed along with the supporting papers in the office of the Clerk of the County of QUEENS on 3/20/2014.

This is an action to foreclose on a mortgage. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens and City and State of New York (Block 13138 Lot 17). Said premises known as 138 37 224 Street, Laurelton, NY 11413-2732. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. By reason of the default in the payment of the monthly installment of principal and interest, among other things, as hereinafter set forth, Plaintiff, the holder and owner of the aforementioned note and mortgage, or their agents have elected and hereby accelerate the mortgage and declare the entire mortgage indebtedness immediately due and payable. The following amounts are now due and owing on said mortgage, no part of any of which has been paid although duly demanded: By virtue thereof, plaintiff has heretofore elected and by these presents hereby elects to accelerate the entire unpaid principal balance of $83,837.50 to be immediately due and payable under the mortgage herein foreclosed, with accrued interest at 8% per annum from June 1, 2011. Plaintiff is also entitled to reasonable attorneys’ fees in the amount of $1,300.00, plus costs and disbursements, for which demand is hereby made UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/ CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully.

SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the summons and complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid, there are government agencies, and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained

by New York State Banking Department at 1-877-Bank-NYS or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state.ny.us FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving the copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you may lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING AN ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Kozeny, McCubbin & Katz, LLP., Attorneys for the Plaintiff, 395 N. Service Road, Suite 401, Melville, NY 11747 Our File 20159

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 6/4/14, bearing Index Number NC-000347-14/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) RUHANI (Middle) KAUR (Last) BABBAR. My present name is (First) AMRITA (Last) BABBAR (infant). My present address is 91-41 116th St., Richmond Hill, NY 11418. My place of birth is Queens, NY. My date of birth is August 15, 2013.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: BEAUTY POP LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/19/14. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Andrew Vagenas, 161-19 29th Avenue, Suite 2, Flushing, New York 11358-1049.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: BLACK KNIGHT MANAGEMENT, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/16/14.

Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, c/o Warren Molino, 61-31 170th Street, Flushing, New York 11365.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

CONZA & MCNAMARA, LLC, a domestic PLLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 4/15/14. Office location: Queens County.

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AT&T Mobility, LLC proposes ten (10) new wireless communications facilities to be located in Queens County, New York. The facility names and addresses are as follows: NYCENY0290 – 97-02 150th Street, in Jamaica, NYCENY0295 – 13734 Rockaway Bvd, in Ozone Park, NYCENY0297 – 216-19 90th Ave, in Queens Village, NYCENY0300 – 11501 107th Ave, in South Richmond Hill, NYCENY0304 – 82-40 Austin Street, in Kew Gardens, NYCENY0306 – 166-33 89th Street, in Jamaica, NYCENY0549 – 210-40 Grand Central Parkway, in Jamaica, NYCENY1000 – 84-50 169th Street, in Jamaica, NYCENY1001 – 68-05 Fresh Meadows Lane, in Fresh Meadows, and NYCENY2839 – 86-25 Van Wyck Expressway, in Jamaica. Each will entail the collocation of antennas on an existing structure along with the installation of ancillary equipment.

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Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State 3/26/14. County of office location: Queens County. Principal business location: 34-12 56th Street, Woodside, NY 11377. Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: AMF Associates Real Estate LLC, Attn: Michael Accardi, 34-10 56th St., Woodside, NY 11377. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

A row of lovely all-brick attached homes was erected on 69th Street between Northern Boulevard and 34th Avenue in 1931, with second-story apartments to produce income for the homeowners.

They were almost lost when the Brooklyn Queens Expressway came through the area, as planner Robert Moses & Co. seriously considered taking them under eminent domain and knocking them down. But The “Chia Pet home” of Clarence Dickson at 33-45 69 after some community wran- St. in Woodside, Aug. 5, 1940. gling the block was spared.

The homes at the southern end of the with weak mortar wasn’t a concern. The block, near 34th Avenue, were rather dis- home wound up looking like a “Chia Pet” tinctive, as they were covered in ivy. The — one of the terra cotta figures of rams, one at the end, at 33-45 69 St., was owned turtles, pigs, kittens, frogs and such that

by Clarence Dickson, who believed cover- buyers get to cover in salvia sprouts.

The next owner of Dickson’s house, ing his house in ivy would keep it cool and dry in the summer. Since the home was John H. Flynn, removed his masterpiece, fairly new, the invasion of roots which and today the home and its neighbors look causes considerable damage to old homes pristine, void of any foliage on the walls. Q

Until a few days before the 2014 NBA Draft neither the Knicks nor the Nets had a pick. The Knicks were able to obtain two second-round picks from the Dallas Mavericks as part of the deal in which they sent center Tyson Chandler and point guard Raymond Felton to Big D. They used them to select forwards Cleanthony Early from Wichita State and Thanasis Antetokounmpo from Greece. Both selections were warmly received by Knicks fans who attended the Draft at the Barclays Center.

Since his last name is a spellcheck killer, expect nearly every writer to refer to Antetokounmpo simply by his first name. His brother, Giannis, was the Milwaukee Bucks’ 2013 firstround draft choice, and he is known by that moniker the way that LeBron and Pele are referred to without surnames.

Giannis accompanied Thanasis to his introductory press conference moments after the selection. When I mentioned that Astoria is home to the largest Greek community in the United States, both brothers quickly smiled and acknowledged that they were aware of that fact.

“Right now my focus is on making the Knicks roster so I won’t get familiar with it until after I make the team,” Thanasis said.

As expected, JaKarr Sampson, who left the St. John’s Red Storm after his sophomore sea-

son last spring, was not drafted by an NBA team last Thursday. Whoever advised Sampson to leave for NBA glory probably told his friends to invest in Enron stock in the late ’90s.

St. John’s touted how the Philadelphia 76ers invited Sampson to play on their NBA Summer League team. That is the equivalent of when Major League Baseball clubs extend nonroster invitations to attend spring training to a number of players they deem longshot insurance policies. Sampson will play either in the NBA Development League or overseas come the fall.

MLB has been very much concerned in recent years about the decline of African Americans playing our nation’s pastime, and it may have further cause for worry. Clemson forward KJ McDaniels, who was selected by the 76ers, comes from Mobile, Ala., the hometown of such baseball Hall of Famers as Hank Aaron, Satchel Paige, Billy Williams and Willie McCovey, as well as former Mets stars Cleon Jones and the late Tommie Agee.

“I never played baseball nor did any of my friends,” McDaniels replied when I asked him about Mobile’s storied baseball history. He knew nothing about any of his hometown’s famous ballplayers, though he did say he had heard of Aaron, who has a stadium and a street Q named after him there.

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