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In a special session last week, New York lawmakers approved gun control legislation that will limit where weapons can be carried and expand requirements to obtain a permit. The package was in response to and, officials say, within the confines of the recent Supreme Court decision that ruled state discretion requiring proper cause for carry permits was unconstitutional.

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New gun laws pass in special session Legislation strengthens restrictions on concealed carry and permits

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he governor has signed into law a package of legislation that strengthens gun laws and bolsters restrictions on concealed carry weapons in response to what many Queens lawmakers are calling a reckless decision from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Legislation S.51001/A.41001 restricts carrying concealed weapons in many sensitive locations and institutes a default of no concealed carry on private property and businesses unless deemed otherwise by the owners.

“Recent Supreme Court rulings have threatened the rights of New Yorkers to make decisions about their own bodies and our right to protect New Yorkers from gun violence, but we refuse to stand idly by, and we must act,” Hochul said in a prepared statement.

The laws establish new requirements, including completion of a firearm training course regulated and standardized by the state, and expands disqualifying criteria for those seeking concealed carry permits.

The state will have oversight over background checks for firearms and regular checks on license holders for criminal convictions and a statewide license and ammunition database will be created.

It also enhances safe storage requirements and extends those to vehicles so guns cannot be

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Additionally, state law previously required that guns be stored safely in a home if someone under 16 resides there, but new legislation will require safe gun ownership in a home if someone under 18 resides there.

The legislation also requires background checks for all ammunition purchases and amends the body armor ban to include hard body armor, which was worn by the suspect in the Buffalo shooting in a supermarket in May. It comes, too, after a slew of deadly shootings including one at a Fourth of July parade in Illinois that killed seven.

“While the Supreme Court may have opened a river leading to the sea of gun violence, this bill will dam other rivers by creating commonsense objective criteria for licensing eligibility, requiring completion of a firearms safety training course, identifying sensitive locations where concealed carry is illegal, and strengthening the existing laws on background checks,” said Mayor Adams in a statement.

In a similar sentiment, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said in a statement, “From Buffalo to here in Queens and beyond, far too many families have been torn apart by gun violence. I’m confident this comprehensive, yet sensible law will help prevent even more upended futures or funerals for our loved ones.”

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Gov. Hochul signed legislation to strengthen gun laws last Friday.

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Sensitive locations where guns are restricted include airports; bars and restaurants that serve alcohol; courthouses; daycare facilities, playgrounds and other locations where children gather; educational institutions; emergency shelters; entertainment venues; federal, state and local government buildings; health and

medical facilities; houses of worship; libraries; polling sites; public demonstrations and rallies; public transportation including subways and buses; and Times Square.

Hochul had to work with the Legislature to attempt to stay within the confines of the NYSRPA v. Bruen decision, which determined state discretion to determine proper cause for carrying permits unconstitutional.

The Court ruled to end the 100-year legal precedent last week.

At least one Queens councilmember does not think the legislation goes far enough.

“Notably missing from Albany’s public safety docket is even the mere mention of giving New York State residents what they critically need and deserve – a ‘dangerousness’ standard for the remand of dangerous defendants who are released and are committing repeat violent crimes while awaiting trial,” said Councilman Jim Gennaro (D-Hillcrest) in a statement.

He said the “glaring deficiency” in the justice system is judges’ inability to remand defendants based on the potential threat they pose and said New York is the only state without such a standard, also citing Adams’ and the NYS Association of Chiefs of Police’s support of it.

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Hunt continues for pup stolen in OP PETA steps in to up reward to $5K for any tips leading to an arrest

by Deirdre Bardolf

Police are continuing to investigate the incident but there are no leads yet, said a A family’s young pit bull was stolen off police source.

PETA asked that the public share the the street in broad daylight by a man on a scooter who pretended to be petting the surveillance video, which is available on the block association’s Facebook page, to dog before grabbing him and riding off.

The community came together to call for help identify the man.

“This dog is in danger after being justice and try to get the dog, named OffWhite, home and now a reward has been snatched away from his distraught guardian,” said PETA Senior Vice President Colbumped up to $5,000 for his safe return.

Carlos Gil, a grandfather and family leen O’Brien in a prepared statement.

“PETA urges anyone with information to member of the dog owner, was outside his house on 88th Street near 95th Avenue in come forward so that Off-White can be Ozone Park on June 25 with Off-White and reunited with his family and the dognapper held accountable and stopped from inflictanother smaller pup.

A man rode up on a scooter and admired ing any more harm.”

The block association the dog on the sidewalk, also had strong words according to sur veilfor the perpetrator. lance video obtained by “We condem n t he the Ozone Park Resihis is unacceptable, actions of this perpetrad e n t s Blo c k tor a nd cowa rd that Association. and we will not just preyed on a senior and Then, the man stole his dog,” it wrote scooped up the dog as stand idly by.” on Facebook, u rging Gil jumped in front of — Sam Esposito, president, p e ople t o sh a re t he the scooter tr ying to Ozone Park Residents video, which had gained stop him, swatting at Block Association over 800 shares as of him with something in We d n e s d a y, a c r o s s his hand. social media platforms.

The pit bull mix is a A press release from the group’s presipopular and expensive dog, potentially dent, Sam Esposito, stated, “This perpetracosting around $1,000.

The family was offering a $2,000 reward tor must be caught. We must send a mesfor the dog’s return and hung up f liers sage to everyone that we will not just sit across the town. Then, the group PETA back while crime is out of control and innocent people are falling victims to these stepped in with an additional $3,000.

The nonprofit People for the Ethical crimes.”

It continued, “This is unacceptable, and Treatment of Animals is offering the money for information leading to the arrest we will not just stand idly by.”

Anyone with information is asked to call and conviction on cruelty charges of the person who stole Off-White, it announced Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477), or, for Spanish, 1 (888) 57-PISTA (74782). in a press release.

“Together with the reward offered by The public can also submit tips by logging Off-White’s family, the total claimable onto nypdcrimestoppers.com, or by texting amount offered to help bring him safely 274637 (CR IMES) and then entering home is now up to $5,000,” the group TIP577, or by going to @nypdtips on TwitQ ter. All tips are strictly confidential. stated.

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Rock out at Rockfest on Sat. Jam out all day at the fourth annual Queens Rockfest at the Forest Park Bandshell this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Eight different rock bands are set to take the stage for the free event. The whole family is welcome and all proceeds will go to the Wounded Warrior Project.

Queens Rockfest was started by musican George Wasek in 2018 and features local bands. The lineup this year includes Aurin, Reality Suite, The Unbroken, Revel9, VisitorZ, Moonshine Runners, Mindfield Playground and Reign of the Hated.

Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar

(D-Woodhaven) is a sponsor of the event.

“Queens is the cultural epicenter of New York,” she said in a statement. “Whether it is the brilliant Rolling Stones covers at Queens Rockfest, or the dazzling paintings by artists in the Woodhaven Art Circle, Queens is a hotbed of the arts. I am proud to once again showcase the talented and emerging artists of Queens, right here in the heart of my district at the Forest Park Bandshell.”

Wasek added in a statement, “As the hometown of Simon and Garfunkel, the Ramones, and Leslie West, Queens is easily Q the rockingest borough.”

A 10-month-old pit bull mix was stolen in Ozone Park by a man who rode up on a scooter and grabbed him. A reward is now being offered. PHOTOS COURTESY OZONE PARK RESIDENTS BLOCK ASSOCIATION

PHOTOS BY GREGG COHEN AND, INSET, YLKA DIAZ

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Keegan retires from 146 Mary Keegan came to PS/MS 146, The Howard Beach School, in 2013, less than a year after Hurricane Sandy, to serve as principal for the first time.

Keegan, 54, who along with her firefighter husband, Tom, has raised three children in the Rockaways, has been with the Department of Education for over 30 years, first as a reading teacher at PS 183 in the Rockaways, before also working in Districts 30 and 32. In the years since, PS/MS 146 has been a New

York State Recognition School for three consecutive years.

So this year’s eighth-grade graduation on June 22 had a special significance for Keegan as her first incoming class of kindergartners also became her last-ever class of graduates.

Keegan, seen here with graduate Kyle Alicea, was emotional at the podium that day. The school community will miss Keegan, as she moves on to the next chapter in her profes— Gregg Cohen sional career.

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Congestion pricing plans ‘back on track’

MTA’s Lieber says FHWA info request fulfilled; toll plan on pace for 2023

by Michael Gannon Senior News Editor

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber said the agency has ended a delay in the federal study of its congestion pricing plans.

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The federal environmental review of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s congestion pricing plan has run into more delays in recent years than the Q54 bus line on a rainy day.

But MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber last week told his board that the plan has cleared a significant hurdle — and remains essential to the agency’s fiscal well being for the foreseeable future.

Lieber, at a June 29 meeting, said the MTA has submitted volumes of information requested by the Federal Highway Administration back in march. The FHWA must approve the state’s proposal to start charging drivers who enter the Manhattan Central Business District — generally considered anything south of 60th Street.

The stated aims are to reduce pollution and traffic congestion in Midtown and Downtown Manhattan while raising $1 billion a year for mass transit.

Critics say it is nothing but an added tax on private and commercial drivers from the outer boroughs and beyond.

“We’ll never be able to achieve our climate or air quality goals or truly be able to prioritize street space for the vehicles that we must have like buses, police, fire and sanitation and paratransit, until we have a system that disincentiv-

izes private, single-occupancy vehicles from clogging up the central business district,” Lieber said.

A recording of the meeting is available on YouTube at bit.ly/3urCzVi. Lieber said the delay may only have set back implementation four to six weeks,.

“Everyone knows that the last few months we’ve been working to get our environmental assessment back on track so that we can move in 2023 to implementation,” he said By comparison, the state regularly accused the Trump administration of dragging its feet on the study.

Lieber and a handful of speakers from the public comment portion at the start of the meeting said the income from congestion pricing is needed to borrow $15 billion for the existing five-year, $55 billion capital expenditure budget.

“Delays to congestion pricing have jeopardized the MTA’s ability to complete the 202024 capital plan and slows $15 billion that the MTA is counting on to upgrade signals, make accessibility improvements and purchase buses, subway and commuter rail cars,” said Racheal Fauss, a senior research analyst with the group Reinvent Albany.

Fauss and Lieber both also pointed to massive losses in fare box revenue since the Covid pandemic began.

“We are an $18 billion business that lost 40

percent of its customers,” Lieber said. He also pointed out that Albany must continue to fund the agency at the necessary levels.

Board member Harold Porr III commented on the need for the MTA to be aggressive in coming up with new streams of revenue.

“I feel like we’re on the Titanic but we know the iceberg is there,” he said. “I think we need to address the issue of that financial iceberg. I think we need to be very creative about what other revenues we can bring to provide this service.”

Not all residents or officials are in agreement of what the final plan should look like, and just who will be paying how much.

The plan now would offer tax credits for people who live in the zone and make less than $60,000 per year, and exempt emergency vehicles and those making medical trips to Manhattan. Numerous individuals and interest groups have been pushing hard to be included in that list.

State Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans), chairman of the Senate committee that oversees the MTA, told the Chronicle earlier that the idea is to raise money, something that would not happen if all seeking carve-outs or exemptions receive them.

And Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows) remains a vociferous opponent of the Q entire concept.

Dobbs aftermath: Council’s next steps

City legislators introduce medical and legal protections; Diocese weighs in

by Michael Gannon

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Six days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down abortion protections accorded under the landmark Roe v. Wade case, the City Council introduced seven bills aimed at reaffirming and cementing in law protections for patients and providers.

Some would expand resources and care throughout the city, while others go so far as to extend legal and confidentiality provisions for women who will opt to come to New York for the procedures in the wake of the Court’s June 24 ruling in Dobbs v.

Jackson.

In a statement last Thursday, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica) said the city must be a safe haven for women.

“The right to safe and legal abortion is a fundamental human right, and must be protected for all who seek reproductive healthcare, especially in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s dangerous decision,” Adams. “This package of Council legislation will help ensure the necessary protections and expanded resources to meet New Yorkers’ reproductive health needs and those of all who come to our city in need of access to care.”

The Council also introduced six resolutions supporting related bills in the state

The City Council is continuing to refine a set of bills that were introduced on June 30, six days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down abortion the rights provisions of Roe v. Wade. FILE PHOTO Legislature.

The introductions as of the Chronicle’s deadline still were subject to debate, changes and amendments.

Intro. 458, sponsored by Adams, would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to maintain language access services for abortion providers. Intro. 465

by Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán (D-Astoria) would require the DOHMH to compile a report on medical services related to reproductive care.

Intro. 466, sponsored by Cabán, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Councilwoman Shahana Hanif (D-Brooklyn), would prohibit the use of city funds or other

resources to enforce abortion restrictions, primarily regarding out-of-state patients facing potential consequences in their home states.

Intro. 475, with sponsors including Cabán and Williams, is aimed at protecting patients from interference with medical care that is legally available in the city.

Intro. 506 would require the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection to report on pregnancy services centers.

Intro. 507 would require the DOHMH to provide mifepristone, an abortion-inducing drug, and misoprostol, used in advance of surgical abortions, free of charge at its clinics and other health facilities.

Also planning its next steps is the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, which includes all of Queens. In a June 24 letter on the diocese’s website, Bishop Robert Brennan praised the Court’s 6-3 decision.

“However, we surely still have a long way to go to convert hearts,” Brennan wrote. “...

We must exercise tremendous charity in our words and actions. This will contribute to the conversion of hearts and minds to the cause of life.”

He also wrote that while it may prove difficult to pass pro-life legislation in the state, “we can attain some positive change by holding our elected officials accountable.” Q

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here’s been a lot of Queensifying, as we call it — taking statewide and national news and localizing it — here at the Chronicle lately, with good reason.

It’s a given that events in Albany, in Washington and worldwide have repercussions here, some more than others, some igniting far more passion than others. So it has been with events such as the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the national right to abortion established in 1973 by the Roe v. Wade decision; and in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, which declared unconstitutional a 111-year-old law restricting the right to carry a gun.

These are shockwave events, which do more than drive elected officials in Queens and citywide to flood our email inboxes with statements decrying the decisions, though they certainly did that. After the abortion ruling, protesters immediately staged a rally in Sunnyside; another was held several days later at Queens Borough Hall. Speakers at both vowed New York would not restrict a woman’s right to end her pregnancy. We were there for both protests, and also reported on new legislation regarding abortion, including a comment from a hard-to-find dissenting voice on the issue.

When it came to the gun ruling, new legislation was even more important to the people of Queens, because it’s a New York law that was struck down. Albany acted with lightning speed — for Albany — to pass a slew of new gun-control bills designed to make up for the invalidated law, regulations that we report on in this week’s editions.

These are the kinds of issues you can read about anywhere, obviously, but not with the Queens focus that you get in the Chronicle. When Russia invaded Ukraine, we spoke to ethnic Ukrainians here for their take and covered relief efforts. When the United States left Afghanistan, chaotically, we interviewed two Queens veterans of the war there.

When gas prices skyrocketed, we were at the pump to report the impact on our neighbors. When a state judge rejected the city law allowing noncitizens to vote, we covered both those who cheered and those who jeered in The World’s Borough.

The list goes on, and many of these issues, and others besides, also are covered, with opinions included, in this space and in the Letters to the Editor columns below and to the right of it (or under another tab at qchron.com).

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mistreated me at PS 164 in Kew Gardens Hills when I voted in the June 28 primary.

Poll workers insisted that I cast an affidavit ballot instead of a regular one because I earlier received an absentee ballot in the mail that I did not request or fill out and return. I had to show them my driver’s license, fill out a form with my license ID number, my Social Security number’s last four digits, my address and birth date. But if I had cast a regular ballot, I would not have to provide any proof of identity. How crazy is that? The New York Post reported voters’ complaints at other sites (“Many snafus at NYC polls,” June 29).

We can probably expect more screw-ups in August’s primary and November’s general elections unless Board of Elections hacks are replaced by professionals hired for their qualifications, not political connections. Under the current system, GOP and Democrat party bosses in each county control the hiring of poll workers in their area. That is a prescription for disaster, which happened when over 100,000

Brooklyn voters received invalid absentee ballots with the wrong names and addresses. The only sure-fire way to prevent similar mishaps is to replace the BOE with a thoroughly professional organization. But that requires approval from the state Assembly, Senate and governor.

Unless they all endorse this change, voters will continue to endure frustrations from what I call the Board of Rejections.

Richard Reif Kew Gardens Hills

Amend the 2nd Amendment Dear Editor: On June 23, the Supreme Court ruled that Americans have a broad right to arm themselves in public, nullifying New York state’s 100-year-old law that placed strict limits on carrying guns outside the home. This decision follows the mass shootings last May in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, and came shortly before another at a Fourth of July parade in Highland

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Crypto is bad for our climate Dear Editor: Why should Queens residents care about the cryptocurrency mining that’s done upstate?

Because, when it’s powered with formerly mothballed old gas plants, it’s spewing greenhouse gases into the air that are preventing us from meeting our state climate goals, as well as putting pressure on our all-too-fragile grid.

Not all crypto is created with high-power, need proof-of-work methods. We can have a cryptocurrency market in New York without having to harvest mathematical equations in gas plants in the Finger Lakes.

Now that Gov. Hochul has come out on top in the recent primary, she should burnish her climate credentials by signing the two-year Crypto-Mining Moratorium that was passed by both houses of the Legislature. This would allow the Department of Environmental Conservation to examine the effects of prospective plants without, as crypto interests would try to spin it, causing the closure of existing ones, so long as they are operating with proper air permits.

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Dear Editor: I am taking time off from reading the recent Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade to comment on Glenn Hayes’ June 30 letter, “We’re a theocracy.”

Mr. Hayes mentioned Samuel L. Jackson referring to Justice Thomas as “Uncle Clarence” comparing Thomas to the fictional Uncle Tom. Mr. Hayes then compares Thomas to Tomas de Torquemada of Spanish Inquisition fame. Mr. Hayes makes no mention of the white conservative judges. It is interesting to note that liberals (even Black liberals like Jackson) in particular love to make personal attacks on Black conservatives like Thomas. They feel that there is something wrong with any Black who does not think like them.

Mr. Hayes made the claim that the Dobbs decision was based solely on the judges’ religious beliefs. If Mr. Hayes had spent the time to read the decision he would have found that the court spelled out the legal reasoning for overturning Roe. I have yet to see a letter writer actually address what was written.

The judges did not ban abortions. They let the states decide for themselves. Should life be protected at inception, viability or upon birth?

That is a moral question for which there is no definitive answer. Society should answer that question through elected officials, not nine judges. That is what’s known as democracy.

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Left helped Trump win Dear Editor: After Hillary Clinton won the Democratic nomination for President in 2016, thousands of disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters vowed not to support Hillary, she was too “corporate.”

She was not liberal enough for them. They formed “ABC” groups, i.e., “Anybody But Clinton.” They either voted for Bernie as a write-in candidate, voted for Jill Stein on the Green Party ticket or sat home on Election Day. These ultra-liberals, in part, brought about the election of Donald Trump. In the state of Michigan, Stein received 51,000 votes. Trump’s margin of victory over Hillary was 10,700 votes. In Wisconsin, Jill Stein got 31,000 votes. Trump beat Hillary by 22,700 votes. Similar outcomes took place in other swing states.

Are these ideologically “pure” progressives sick? Did they not see a difference between Trump and Hillary? On every issue that was important to these people (climate change, healthcare, education, voting rights, gay rights, women’s rights), wasn’t Hillary 1,000 times better than Trump? And regarding the Supreme Court, would Hillary have nominated far right radicals like Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and ConeyBarrett? If Hillary was president, Roe v. Wade would be the law of the land today.

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Park, Ill. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority that the Second Amendment protects “an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home.”

Thomas wrote that states may continue to ban guns in “sensitive” public places, such as schools, government buildings, and courthouses (including the Supreme Court building).

In a March 27, 2018, op-ed in The New York Times, following a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens argued that to enact constructive gun control legislation, Congress should repeal the Second Amendment. However, Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic majority leader in the Senate, responded that repeal was not politically feasible because it would have to be approved by Congress.

A more promising approach might be to try to amend rather than repeal the Second Amendment. The objective would be to prohibit people from carrying guns in public. The Second Amendment states that “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” A simple way to amend this statement would be to insert the phrase “inside their own homes for selfdefense” after the word “arms.”

The amended Second Amendment, with the added phrase underlined, would now state that “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms inside their own homes for self-defense shall not be infringed.”

Theodore Sheskin Flushing

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by Jessica Ramos In 2019, there was a shooting at the 90th colleagues on the federal level and at Street-Elmhurst Avenue station that encapthe Attorney Genersulates the particularly terrible genre of gun violence that plagues my neighbors in the al’s Office are taking 13th Senate District. A group of young, to stamp down on illegal guns from immigrant men in their late teens and early 20s broke out in a fight that escalated to every side. There is a deadly violence on a crowded commuter nagging voice, howtrain filled with working-class people. To ever, that wonders if these bills are add insult to injury, the then-president used enough to address the conditions that drive a the incident in his State of the Union to viliperson to think that the risk of the consefy my neighbors and push his anti-immiquences they would face by being arrested grant agenda, claiming that “countless for carrying a weapon of war in our streets Americans are murdered by criminal illegal are less than the risk they actually face. How aliens.” can we make people feel safe enough to not The shooting on the 7 train was not an isolated incident. The mother hit by a stray need to take their own security and protecbullet outside the Woodside Houses, the tion into their own hands?

There are three pieces of legislation that more than 10 people injured by a spray of were left behind last sesbullets in Corona in 2021 sion that are critical to — these tragedies do not creating that holistic fit with the narrative of ental healthcare sense of safety: the New the lone mass shooter that York Health Act, Good usually raises national funding, housing Cause Eviction and my calls for action, but they bill, Treatment Not Jail. insecurity and are equally senseless and Systemic defunding of devastating. incarceration all mental health infrastrucIt is painful to reflect ture, extreme housing on incidents of violence, must be tackled insecurity and a cycle of that quite literally hit so incarceration that only close to home. I was born in a holistic exacerbates mental health and raised in the district approach to and substance-use issues, that I now represent in instead of intervening in Albany, the child of two public safety. them, have the natural formerly undocumented consequences of people immigrants. I am now making desperate decisions. raising two sons in this community, and it We need to back the important work we would be dishonest to say that concerns did by passing widely popular and commonaround public safety are unfounded. In this session alone, my colleagues in the Senate sense gun legislation with practical and Majority and I added eight new laws direct- equally popular bills that address safety from another, more holistic angle. People ed at tackling gun violence in our state. We addressed the U.S. Supreme Court’s danger- feel safe when they are housed and able to anticipate the cost of their rent. Families feel ous and irresponsible ruling in Bruen v.

New York by designating sensitive areas safer when they are able to seek preventative healthcare without fear of crippling medical where concealed weapons are not permitted; we strengthened extreme risk protection debt. Vulnerable communities feel more orders; and we passed legislation to make secure when their families are not destabilized by being jailed for the symptoms of guns and ammunition easier to track and their illnesses, rather than treated in approinvestigate, to name a few. priate mental health facilities.

This is all critical work, and I am encourUltimately, I’m proud of the work my colleagues and I did to curb gun violence this session, but I stop short of saying the job is done. The damage inflicted on Queens — by the pandemic, by the housing crisis, by austerity — will take more than one legislative session to recover from. The good news is that we have the tools at our disposal. We just need to tap into the same courage we used to stand up to the gun lobby to sustain Q our fight.

Jessica Ramos is New York State Senator Residents mourn Gudelia Vallinas, who was for the 13th District, in northwestern killed outside the Woodside Houses last Queens.

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Union and city reach deal in light of shortage; first responders OK’d

by Sophie Krichevsky Associate Editor

As the city faces a monumental shortage of lifeguards, Mayor Adams announced Wednesday morning that the city had reached an agreement with District Council 37, the union representing city lifeguards, increasing wages and adding a class of lifeguards who will specifically oversee mini pools.

“Every New Yorker deserves to safely enjoy our city’s public pools and beaches this summer and my team has taken extraordinary measures to make that happen,” Adams said in a statement.

The deal stipulates that lifeguards employed by the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation will be paid $19.46 per hour. Previously, first-year employees had been paid $16 per hour; $19.46 was the going rate for third-year employees.

Guards who work each week through the summer will get a $1,000 bonus.

Those lifeguards on duty at mini pools will be trained over three days and receive shallow water certification, which District Council 37 spokesperson Thea Setterbo described as “shorter and less stringent.” The union is not, however, concerned by the shortened process.

“It’s the first time we’ve done this training, but we’re confident we can fully and safely staff the mini pools that serve as cooling centers for the community,” she said via email. “It will also allow us to move existing certified lifeguards to beaches and larger pools.”

The shortage is not specific to New York City, which, as of Wednesday afternoon, had 786 of the department’s goal of 1,400; pools and beaches across the state and the country are short-staffed, too. Gov. Hochul recently raised wages for life-

Mayor Adams announced Wednesday that wages for city lifeguards would be increased for the summer. PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN guards at state facilities; those upstate went from $14.95 to $20 per hour, and downstate, from $18.15 to $22 per hour.

And while Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Ozone Park), whose district includes Rockaway Beach and who has been concerned about the shortage since the spring, applauded the deal, she emphasized a key difference between the two wage increases: The city’s is only for this summer.

“This pay raise is a great step forward, and will allow the Parks Department to better retain good, qualified lifeguards for

future seasons if it’s made permanent,” Ariola said in a statement. “With this raise, we’ll see a real sense of pay equity with other agencies and neighboring municipalities.”

Setterbo said that the union “would have liked to see” the wage increase continue beyond this summer.

“The recruitment and retention problem for lifeguards is not going away after this summer— it’s a national issue that will continue as long as wages remain low,” she said.

Councilmember Shekar Krishnan (D-Jackson Heights), who chairs the Council’s Committee on Parks and Recreation, was pleased with the deal, but noted that this is just one piece of the puzzle. “It is a step in the right direction,” he said in a statement. “Much work remains to ensure we have enough lifeguard staffing for our pools and beaches and to make sure we don’t end up in this situation again.”

Adams also said that his office is working with city agencies to establish “a public safety presence to keep swimmers off closed sections of beach,” and with the NYPD, FDNY and the Department of Emergency Management to “deploy complementary measures.”

Relatedly, Adams lifted a 30-year-old rule last Friday that prohibited first responders from working as lifeguards parttime; since it previously had not been enforced, it has been cited as a significant contributor to the city’s shortage. But the union is skeptical.

“We don’t believe that’s the solution. It will increase the headcount by a very small number and cost the City twice as much when they pay those employees time and a half under the FLSA,” Setterbo said, referring to the Fair Labor Standards Act. “Raising the wage is the most effective recruitment and Q retention tactic for addressing the lifeguard shortage.”

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Mayoral control is law but tweaked

Bill delays expansion of the PEP and leaves out class size mandate

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

Gov. Hochul signed mayoral control into law in quite literally the 11th hour last Thu rsd ay as it was set to expire at midnight.

It grants the expected two-year extension of public schools control to Mayor Adams but includes a tweak: The legislation pushes off the expansion of the Panel for Educational Policy, which serves as the governing body of the Department of Education, until January 2023.

The PEP is set to be expanded from 15 members to 23, a change that would have come into effect in August and one that some say would dilute Adams’ ability to legitimately control the schools, not to mention the added layers of bureaucracy and potential to drag the notoriously long monthly meetings later into the night and early mornings.

“The time frame was really, really tight,” said Yiatin Chu, a Whitestone resident and co-founder of the group Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum and Education.

“One of the reasons we were so outraged was how they were trying to ram it through.

Within 72 hours it was signed by the Assembly and the Senate. There was literally no time for us to look at it, to try to

engage with our local electeds or anyone, really,” she said.

“I think with such a drastic change of structure, to delay is the right thing ... It is time for all the groups to have their voices heard,” said Chu, whose group has been rallying about the issues since the package of bills came out around Memorial Day. The mayoral control bill was coupled with one to reduce class sizes, an issue that has divided many and is strongly supported by the teachers union.

“It’s not that we don’t want a smaller class size, it’s just, what is going to be the cost to get to those smaller class sizes?” said Chu, who fears it could lead to reductions in specialized and accelerated programs.

She noted that the class size aspect does not seem to be as urgent as the mayoral control bill as it has not been called to the governor’s desk yet.

Some parents felt the two shouldn’t be grouped together since they are unrelated.

“They are two separate bills, but they kind of position it as one to seize on the urgency, and I think the fact that it is now divorced for sure because of this hurts a momentum,” said Chu of the smaller class size proponents.

Jean Hahn, a Rego Park mother and head

Mayor Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks, at right, at an unrelated announcement, PHOTO BY MICHAEL APPLETON / NYC MAYOR’S OFFICE have been fighting for mayoral control of schools. of the group Queens Parents United, also way we approach learning in New York agrees with smaller class sizes in theory but City,” he continued.

Many do not agree that politics were kept thinks other matters should be addressed by out of the decision, as the mayor stated, the DOE. “We do want class sizes to matter, they however.

The group Parents for Responsive Equishould matter ... but at the same time, we’ve got significant learning loss to deal with. table and Safe Schools tweeted directly at And I really think that that needs to be Gov. Hochul, “We see you playing politics with our children’s education, and we will addressed first,” she said.

Hahn continued, “I think the sound of not forget.”

Adams reportedly had been lobbying for it, on a superficial level, sounds great. But mayoral control of I think it needs to be schools, which more thought out. seemed to be in jeopW hy were they ew York City’s parents ardy for some time, being delivered as a up until the last minpackage? One has are sick of our chilute passage of the nothing to do with dren’s education being bill. the other one.”

C hu , t o o, won She, too, supports used as a political dered if Adams’ late the mayoral control endorsement of the extension and potenbargaining chip.” governor in last Tuest i a l P E P — State Sen. Jessica Ramos d a y ’s p r i m a r y, restructuring. although not needed “I’m good with her signing off on mayoral control because I am given her landslide victory, played a part.

State Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-Jackson somebody that elected the mayor for that reason … to have that authority to turn the Heights) has rallied in support of the bill to schools around and not have it stripped reduce class sizes.

“New York City’s parents are sick of our away from him by bloating the PEP.” In a statement last Friday, Adams cele- children’s education being used as a politibrated the signing into law of what he and cal bargaining chip,” Ramos said in a preSchools Chancellor David Banks refer to as pared statement on Friday.

“We passed the class size legislation with “mayoral accountability.”

“Mayoral accountability is vitally impor- a considerable bipartisan margin, and this tant to New York City families, students, week thirty-eight elected officials from teachers, and the entire school community,” Congress, the state, and the city, as well as over 7700 petition signatories have urged his statement read.

He thanked Hochul for allowing him and the Governor to sign the bill as soon as posBanks to “keep the politics out” and said sible. There was no such groundswell for that students and their families in the school the renewal of Mayoral control. Signing it system deserve one that is free of bureau- into law would be such an easy win for the Governor. The last-minute, late-night negocracy, especially after the last two years.

“We will continue to partner with the tiations have become a pattern in this community to provide historic investments administration’s first term, and it is hurting Q in our education department and change the our children,” she said.

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SMGH serves up CYO title The eighth-grade girls volleyball from Saint Mary Gate of Heaven in Ozone Park just finished off their season by winning the Intermediate Division CYO Championship, beating Blessed Trinity on July 2, two sets to none, 25-16, 25-18 in a match played at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Academy in Belle Harbor.

Coached by Lindsey Clemente, rear left, and Rudy Conter, right, the team went 22-2 this season and won four playoff games to take the title.

The girls, who have been together since third

grade, also won the championship the last time it was contested in 2020. They are: Alyssa Saputo, left, Devin DeFillippo, Vivian Natividad, Mia Birardi, Isabella Russo, Ava Conter, Madison Rao, Vanessa Guzzo, Kimmy Piazza, Sophia Cusentino and Reagan Clemente.

Besides overcoming obstacles on the court, the team hadn’t been able to practice in the Gate of Heaven gym for over three months due to a roof leak that damaged the playing court, which makes winning that much more heavenly.

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Staying power: Covid back on rise

Cases steady at higher rates; Queens medical professional not alarmed

by Sean Okula

cy medicine at Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Forest Hills hospital, says that this type Queens is taking the brunt of Covid-19’s lat- of cycle could become the virus’ future: repeated variants, all less potent but still very contaest blow to New York City.

Over the past two months, the city has seen gious. The latest BA.5 variant has not overincreased positivity rates, more positive tests whelmed the LIJ Forest Hills emergency room, per 100,000 people and more overall cases of even as raw case numbers have risen.

“As compared to previous variants, all of the the virus compared to the late winter and early spring, according to data from the city Depart- Omicron variants appear to be less severe,” ment of Health. The numbers have plateaued at Bruce said. “They can still be dangerous to peoa higher point than they had in late February ple who are unvaccinated or who have comproand early March, indicating that New York mised immune systems, but we haven’t seen a might be in the midst of another variant-fueled mass spike of cases in the hospital and most people who come into the emergency room for wave.

In Queens, the seven-day rolling average of care have mild cases.

“The most successful viruses are very contacases had increased from 256 per day in late March to 1,023 per day on July 2, tops among gious, but not very severe,” she said.

She said if a virus kills its host, it does not the five boroughs, per the Department of Health stand a chance of moving data. The number has on to another host, therestayed above 800 for two fore limiting its viral months. he most successful potential. For that reason, Three Queens neighborrecent variants of Covid-19 hoods top the leaderboard viruses are very have become more skilled for New York City ZIP contagious, but in circumventing immunity codes with the highest posas opposed to maximizing itivity rate: Douglastonnot very severe.” potency, leading to higher Little Neck (24.74 percent), case numbers but fewer Ozone Park (24.01 percent) — Dr. Rachel Bruce, LIJ Forest Hills deaths. and Long Island Cit y “Could there someday be a variant that is (23.65 percent), per the Department of Health.

Still, mortality rates are significantly lower more deadly? There could,” she said. “These than they were at the height of the pandemic. sorts of mutations are accidental.

“But we at the hospital are not alarmed. We The seven-day rolling average number of deaths citywide has not climbed above 13 since early feel very well equipped to handle any spikes March, although it has increased slightly since and we have a lot more tools at our disposal the start of the latest case surge in late April, the now,” she added.

One of those tools is new medication. Last Department of Health data says. The number spiked as high as 128 deaths per day in Thursday, Mayor Adams announced the launch of the city’s “Test to Treat” program. Those mid-January.

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Dr. Rachel Bruce says most ER patients now have PHOTO COURTESTY NORTHWELL HEALTH mild cases. tions throughout the city will have the chance to meet with an on-site clinician, receive a prescription for the drug Paxlovid and take home their dosage from a pharmacy located on the testing site.

“Health services, including for Covid-19, should be omnipresent and capable of meeting people where they are,” city Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan said at the program launch on Thursday. “We’ve learned during the pandemic how important it is to bring care to people, in an equitable way, prioritizing vulnerable groups and neighborhoods that have been hardest hit by Covid-19.”

The city said decisions for Test to Treat locations will be made to best serve communities

most impacted by the virus. The plan is to expand the program to 30 mobile sites before the end of July, including one at Rex Pharmacy in South Ozone Park.

While strides have been made in stopping the spread of the virus when it enters the body, one mystery still boggling the medical community is long Covid. Long-term effects of the virus have appeared in patients up to two years after their initial infection.

“When we talk about ‘Covid is getting less severe’ and ‘life is getting a little bit more back to normal,’ [long Covid] is the piece we still don’t know enough about,” Bruce said.

“Does Omicron cause long Covid? Does it cause it as frequently as the other variants? We really just don’t know yet,” she added.

Clinics around the city studying long Covid, like the Mount Sinai Health System and NYU Langone Health, aim to answer those questions.

Medical professionals on the ground, like Bruce, still emphasize the importance of vaccination. The group seeing the sharpest spike in positive cases per 100,000 people is the unvaccinated. The city Health Department reports 764.93 unvaccinated people per 100,000 tested positive for the week ending June 11, compared to 1,130.86 for the week ending June 18 (the most recent for which data was available). Just 245.36 vaccinated and boosted people per 100,000 tested positive for the week ending June 18, while 152.58 vaccinated but not boosted people per 100,000 tested positive over the same week.

“I was very excited to get my 3-year-old vaccinated last week,” Bruce said.

“It’s just giving your body additional tools so if you do encounter Covid, you’re more likely to be able to fight it off before you get sick, or have Q a very mild case,” she added.

Medal of Freedom for Queens nurse

Biden to honor Covid hero Sandra Lindsay at White House

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Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse at Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Glen Oaks who was the first person in the country to get the Covid-19 vaccine, will receive the Medal of Freedom from President Biden today, July 7.

It is the highest civilian honor that is bestowed by the United States government.

Lindsay joins a distinguished list of 16 others including two-time Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington; the late U.S. Senator, Republican presidential candidate and Vietnam War hero John McCain; Olympic and world champion gymnast Simone Biles; and the late Apple, Inc. founder Steve Jobs.

“These 17 Americans demonstrate the power of possibilities and embody the soul of the nation — hard work, perseverance and faith,” the White House said on its website.

“They have overcome significant obstacles

to achieve impressive accomplishments in the arts and sciences, dedicated their lives to advocating for the most vulnerable among us and acted with bravery to drive change in their communities — and across the world — while blazing trails for generations to come.”

Lindsay, who worked in the trenches for months as Covid devastated entire neighborhoods in Queens, got her shot on Dec. 14, 2020. The Jamaican immigrant also was honored by Biden in July 2021 with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service’s Outstanding Americans by Choice award.

Other recipients include: • Sister Simone Campbell, a Catholic nun with the Sisters of Social Service; • Julieta Garcia, former president of the University of Texas at Brownsville and the first Hispanic woman to serve as a college president; • former U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was shot in the head in 2011

by a gunman who killed six people and wounded 12 others; Giffords founded an organization working to end gun violence; • Fred Gray, one of the first Black members of the Alabama Legislature since Reconstruction and a lawyer who represented Rosa Parks and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.; • the Rev. Alexander Karloutsos, former vicar general of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America; • Khizr Khanis, a Gold Star military father who has served on Biden’s U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom; • Diane Nash, a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; • Megan Rapinoe, an Olympic gold medalist and World Cup champion in women’s soccer and a prominent advocate for gender pay equality and LGBTQIA+ rights; • former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), a champion of campaign finance reform and marriage equality;

Northwell Long Island Jewish nurse Sandra Lindsay, center, receives the nation’s first Covid vaccine in 2020 from Michelle Chester as Northwell CEO and President Michael Dowling looks on. PHOTO COURTESY NORTHWELL HEALTH / FILE • the late Richard Trumka, former president of the AFL-CIO and United Mine Workers; • retired Air Force Brigadier General Wilma Vaught; and • Raul Yzaguirre, a civil rights activist and former U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic under President Barack Obama. Q

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The free summer concert series in Juniper Valley Park in Middle Village has two more performances, beginning tonight, July 7, at 7 p.m. when the tribute band Rubix Kube takes to the stage with its “The Eighties Strike Back” show, a combination rock concert and Broadway musical featuring the music and costumes of Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince and others.

The rain date is July 11 at 7 p.m..

On July 14, also at 7 p.m., “Satisfaction /The International Rolling Stones Show” performers pay tribute to Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the rest.

The rain date is on July 18 at 7 p.m.

The concert will take place near 80th Street in Middle Village. Audience members may bring lawn chairs.

Concert and weather updates are available by calling Councilman Bob Holden’s dist r ict off ice at (718) 366-3900.

Sponsors of the concer t series include Holden (D-Maspeth); the Queensborough Performing Arts Center on the campus of Queensborough Community College in Glen Oaks; and the New York City Department of Q Parks and Recreation.

by Deirdre Bardolf Associate Editor

As Pride Month came to an end, Mayor Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks recommitted to the Department of Education’s investment in LGBTQ+ communities and curriculums through its Hidden Voices project.

“For our public schools, Pride Month is every month. We celebrate all students and honor the diverse identities that make up the unique fabric of our school communities and city,” said Banks in a statement last Thursday.

“As educators, it is essential that we help all our students feel confident in who they are, and we are thrilled to be able to use these critical funds from City Council to continue to grow our Hidden Voices curriculum to reflect the diversity of our city,” he continued.

The goal of the Hidden Voices series is to reflect the diversity of the city and to ensure that young people feel welcome in their classrooms and communities, a press release from the DOE stated.

The Hidden Voices project is a collaboration between the city DOE Social Studies Department, aligning with the Passport to Social Studies curriculum, and the Museum of the City of New York. It was

initiated to help students learn about and honor the people often “hidden” from the traditional historical record, who have shaped history.

Back in May, a pilot program for Asian American Pacific Islanders-focused curriculum, also part of Hidden Voices, was announced. At the time, Adams also spoke of to expanding the project to include other groups.

The latest investment will continue into the 2023 fiscal year budget and ensure its expansion and accessibility citywide. Also as part of it, educators will receive additional training opportunities and resources to integrate these stories into their lessons.

Since the curriculum was published digitally in March 2021, the DOE has added to the library of available lessons 16,000 hard copies; digitally published lesson plans, posters, professional guides and comic books; and produced videos highlighting the lives of LGBTQ+ leaders and advocates.

The DOE plans to release two additional comic books this fall featuring Larry Kramer and Bayard Rustin in one and Audre Lorde and Pauli Murray the other.

All Hidden Voices resources can be found at WeTeachNYC.org.

“I am so proud to see the ongoing work

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in our public schools to bring LGBTQ+ history into focus for our young people, to build an awareness and appreciation within our curriculum of the true diversity of our city and country,” said retired teacher and former Jackson Heights Councilmember Danny Dromm in a statement.

He said the initiative was built on a foundation that he began building as a councilmember and is more important now than ever as “extremist rhetoric and policies” are endangering the health and welfare of LGBTQ+ students and teachers.

Several nonprofits applauded the move, including The Trevor Project, which focuses on suicide prevention among LGBTQ youth.

“The Trevor Project’s research has found that LGBTQ youth who learned about LGBTQ issues or people in classes at school had 23 percent lower odds of reporting a suicide attempt in the past year,” said Preston Mitchum, director of advocacy and government affairs at the nonprofit.

“It’s also especially important to learn about the intersectionality of race, sexual orientation and gender identity, as we know LGBTQ youth of color report higher rates of attempting suicide than their Q white peers.”

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Ethnicity plays role in redistricting process

Advocates seek unified communities; some speak against such ‘separation’

by Mark Lord Chronicle Contributor

It’s time to draw the lines!

The New York City Districting Commission 2022-23 has a little more than two months to submit its plan to lawmakers for redrawing the city’s 51 City Council districts, following a series of public hearings, including one in the borough on June 27.

Dozens of concerned citizens, along with community leaders and elected officials, turned out for the event, open to both in-person and virtual participation, and held at York College in Jamaica, all sharing at least one goal: to maintain the best interests of their respective communities.

Councilmember Selvena Brooks-Powers (D-Laurelton) said it is “crucial that we engage the public in this process. The shape of our districts plays a part in who we choose to represent us, which in turn affects how government addresses every issue we face.”

In addressing the commission, BrooksPowers continued, it is “important we get these lines right. It is especially important that we protect the voting power of marginalized communities.” She urged the members “not to break up these strong minority communities.”

Election turnout was also on the mind of

when the city was divided where people of color were not given equal opportunity or access to different services. It looks as though if we allow that to continue that’s exactly what’s going to happen.”

Community activist Rene Hill said, “We can’t move districts around just because you want your race to be all in one area.”

Urban planner Paul Graziano, who had previously presented a proposal for the borough on behalf of the Queens Civic Congress, an umbrella organization that represents dozens of civic and homeowner organizations, said he finds it “disconcerting when I hear discussion that solely focuses on one of the six or seven indices that make up the redistricting process in the city.”

He indicated that “unless you wholesale Rosedale Civic Association Vice President Alfred Osbourne addresses the New York City Districting Commission at York College, buttressing civic President Marcia O’Brien’s argument that the area’s change those districts — completely rewrite the entire map — there is no way to satisfy SCREENSHOTS VIA YOUTUBE / NYC DISTRICTING COMMISSION existing Council lines should not be disrupted. some of the requests being made.”

The goal should be to “do the least damMarcia O’Brien, president and board chair- Asian hate arise.” person of the Rosedale Civic Association.

John Park, executive director of the Flush- age to our longstanding districts of interest,” “We do not want our district to be disrupt- ing-based MinKwon Center for Community taking into account not just demographics ed,” she said. “We are strong in our voting. Action, indicated that Asian Pacific Ameri- but hard boundaries, civic associations, zonWe need to ensure that changes are non-dis- cans are “embedded” in their communities. ing and other characteristics, Graziano said.

Richmond Hill resident Carina Nieves criminatory.” She feared that “redistricting “There is a lot at stake,” he said. “We’ve seen will disproportionately impact our district. our communities hobbled and hurt because admitted she had “no clue” as to what the Many voters will disengage from the voting they weren’t necessarily held together or Queens Civic Congress’s proposal is. “All I know,” she said, “is that my community has process.” compact. We know it can be done.” not been represented O’Brien’s concerns were echoed by the Speaking in support by my Council mema ssociat ion’s v ice president , A lf red of APA communities It’s like we don’t Osbourne, who said, “We want to keep our in Elmhurst, Jackson e can’t move districts bers. even matter.” community intact.”

Heights and WoodThe commission is Suggesting that the neighborhood was side, Farzana Linda, around just because scheduled to vote on being well-served by its elected officials, he a c t i ve i n C h h ay a said, “Where you have a change in leader- Community Developyou want your race to the proposed maps on July 15. Following five ship you have a change in priorities.” ment Cor p., a task be all in one area.” more public hearings Several speakers addressed the recent force that advocates scheduled for August, upswing in attacks against members of the for economically sta— Rene Hill the commission will Asian community, including community b l e c o m m u n i t i e s , take a second vote on organizer Jackie Mariano, a Filipino-Ameri- expressed a desire to can immigration attorney, who said, “The keep each community as whole as possible. the maps on Sept. 15, with its plan to be subAPA [Asian Pacific American] community There is a need, she said, for “culturally sen- mitted to the City Council the following day.

Concerned residents may submit public should continue to be kept whole in Elm- sitive and linguistically competent social testimony by email to publictestimony@ hurst in one single council district. To divide services.” our district would fracture the community Issues of race reared their head through- redistricting.nyc.gov or by mail to 253 networks that have been built locally and out the proceedings. Fitzroy Searles, a mem- Broadway, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10007.

For further information, visit nyc.gov/disinternationally over decades to help Asian- ber of Community Board 12 in Southeast Americans live a life of dignity and respect Queens, said the “separation of districts tricting. Video of the hearing is posted at bit.

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John Park, executive director of the Min-Kwon Center for Community Action, said Asian Pacific American communities have been hurt when not kept together.

One dead in Sat. shooting Police are looking for the perpetrator in a shooting that left one dead and three injured in Rich mond Hill over the weekend.

Twenty-four-year-old Justin Baerga was killed when a gunman opened fire in an autobody shop on Saturday night, police say. The shooting took place at 129-09 89 Ave. around 9:40 p.m. WABC reports it happened at a party.

Three others sustained gunshot wounds, including a 25-year-old unidentified male, who was taken to nearby Jamaica Hospital Medical Center with a gunshot wound to

the right leg. Police say he is in stable condition.

A 17-year-old woman was grazed in the torso and an 18-year-old woman was grazed in the head, but both refused medical attention at the scene.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1 (888) 57-PISTA (74782); or submit tips via nypdcrime s t o p p e r s .c o m , by t ex t i n g 274 637 (CRIMES) and entering TIP577, or @nypdtips on Twitter. Tips are confidential. Q — Sean Okula

J/Z subway alternatives The Met ropolitan Transpor tation Authority has begun replacing nearly 2.4 miles of track along the J/Z lines between 121st Street and the terminus at Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer. Work is expected to continue through September. No J or Z trains will operate between the two stations, and the MTA has announced the following alternatives.

J trains will make all stops between 121st Street and Myrtle Avenue. E trains still serve the Jamaica Center-Parsons/ Archer, Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue-JFK and Jamaica-Van Wyck stations.

Free J99 shuttle buses will run between 121st Street and Jamaica/Van Wyck, with free transfers to the subway with MetroCards and OMNY. MetroCards will be cross-honored at Long Island Rail Road stations at Atlantic Terminal, Nostrand Avenue, East New York, Jamaica, Hollis, Queens Village, St. Albans, Locust Manor, Laurelton and Rosedale. The JFK AirTrain can be reached via the A train to Howard Beach or the E to Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue-JFK. More details are available Q online at bit.ly/3yoOIf7.

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12 staircases, new turnstiles and longer platforms for No. 7 station

by Michael Gannon Senior News Editor

The platforms at the No. 7 subway station at Flushing Main Street, routinely crowded under normal circumstances, are going to be more so in the next 16 months as a dozen staircases will be added or renovated.

But the MTA says the construction, begun last week, will lead to less congestion and speedier walks through the station and on the bustling sidewalks above along Roosevelt Avenue and Main Street.

“Flushing-Main St. Station is one of the top ten busiest stations in our entire subway system, and it is time its infrastructure supported that reality,” said MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber in a press release from the agency. “Soon our passengers will be able to travel through this station more easily and comfortably.”

Work is expected to be substantially complete by the end of October 2023.

The station is the eastern terminus for the 7 line. Four new staircases will be built between the street level and the mezzanine, while four more will be installed between the mezzanine and the platforms.

The new street-to-mezzanine stairs will be located on the north and south corners of Main Street and to the west of Main Street along both the north and south sides of Roos-

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Four existing street staircases will be rehabilitated for ADA compliance and four existing platform stairs will be reoriented. The mezzanine will be expanded and two new turnstile areas will be constructed. The existing camera system will be upgraded and signage within the station will be improved.

Including the expense of relocating exist-

ing utilities, the total estimated cost of the project is $61 million. Councilwoman Sandra Ung (D-Flushing), in a newsletter to her constituents, was optimistic.

“This is a big project for Flushing, and my office will keep you updated on the work hours and progress, but if you are a regular user of the Main Street station, be advised there could be some disruptions to your daily

commute for the foreseeable future,” Ung said. “But in the end, hopefully we will have smooth-f lowing entrances to the busy station.”

“T hese i mprovements will g reatly enhance the customer experience traveling in one of New York’s most vibrant neighborhoods,” said MTA Construction & Development President Jamie Torres-Springer.

“These eight new staircases will alleviate overcrowding on the platform and street level and ensure passengers can better move through the station.”

Most of the work will take place during off-peak periods. Work will be done primarily between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The contractor is permitted to work during off-peak hours in the evening between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m., and during the day on weekends.

The MTA is working with city agencies and local stakeholders to mitigate impacts on the community. Signs reminding pedestrians that businesses remain open will be posted.

Members of the public wishing to express concerns and raise issues will be able to call a 24/7 construction hotline, (844) 508-2636 for the duration of the project.

The Q48 and Q50 bus stop will be temporarily relocated to the intersection of Main Street and 39th Avenue in front of the GNC Q until approximately March 2023.

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Older adults experiencing a behavioral health issue such as anxiety or depression may be embarrassed and think they simply need to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” but helping them seek help can empower them to live their best lives, according to experts.

“Everyone is different, but there are tools for better health, including therapy, medication and selfcare,” said Dr. Lindsay EvansMitchell, medical director for behavioral health for Cigna Medicare Advantage.

Behavioral health disorders affect one in five adults over 55.

Older men have the highest suicide rate of any age group or gender.

Among men who are 75 and older, the suicide rate is 40.2 per 100,000 – almost triple the overall rate.

The most common behavioral health disorder in older adults is Caring for pets generates positive emotions and can reduce dementia, and its incidence is anxiety. Dogs also encourage people to exercise outdoors. growing as the baby boomer generPHOTO BY MONKEYBUSINESSIMAGES VIA STATEPOINT MEDIA ation ages. Experts project that more than 9 million Americans 65 years or older fits such as improvements in brain health, better will have dementia by 2030. Anxiety disorders cognitive function and reduced risk of anxiety and and mood disorders are also common among mood disorders. People who exercise also tend to sleep better. Having trouble getting started? older people.

Dealing with a behavioral health issue? These Some Medicare Advantage plans include a fitness benefit, which can pay for a gym membership or self-care tips can help: 1. Find a provider. “Cognitive disorders, provide at-home fitness tools.

5. Head outside. Being outside has numersuch as dementia and mood disorders, often look the same,” Dr. Evans-Mitchell said. “Only a ous benefits, including vitamin D absorption trained professional can make an accurate diag- needed for cognitive health. Additionally, nosis.” For help finding a provider, reach out to research has shown that chemicals released your primary care physician or health plan, such from trees can stimulate brain functions. Don’t as Medicare or Medicare Advantage. Also con- forget the sunscreen though, as skin cancer is sider virtual therapy. It’s easy to schedule and most common in people older than 65.

6. Buddy up. Papa, available through some offers the convenience of seeing a therapist Cigna Medicare Advantage plans, connects without leaving home.

2. Nurture yourself. Good nutrition feeds the older adults and their families with “Papa Pals” body and mind. If you have questions about for companionship and support. “Papa Pals” can nutrition for older adults, consult your physician provide transportation, help with everyday tasks or a registered dietitian. Additionally, drink water — or simply be a friend, doing activities like throughout the day. “Dehydration can worsen watching movies or playing games.

7. Parent a pet. Caring for pets generates cognitive issues,” Dr. Evans-Mitchell said. positive emotions and can reduce anxiety. Just 3. Sleep well. Like all adults, older people need seven to nine hours of sleep nightly. Dr. petting a dog has been shown to lower levels of Evans-Mitchell noted that older people’s tenden- the stress hormone cortisol, and pets provide a cy to go to bed early, wake up early and nap bond that can elevate two feel-good brain throughout the day can disrupt healthy sleep chemicals: oxytocin and dopamine. Dogs also cycles and limit rapid-eye-movement (REM) encourage people to exercise outdoors.

“Behavioral health issues can be complex sleep, potentially contributing to behavioral and confusing to navigate, but taking positive health issues.

4. Exercise. Even moderate exercise can actions can be empowering,” Dr. Evans-Mitchell improve mental and physical health. The Physical said. “It’s never too late to make a new start.” P — StatePoint Media Activity Guidelines for Americans describes bene-

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Social Security is here when you’re ready for retirement

by Nilsa Henriquez

When you think you’re ready to retire, we’re here to help you make an informed decision about when to apply for benefits. You should decide based on your individual and family circumstances.

Would it be better for you to start getting benefits early with a smaller monthly amount over a longer period? Or perhaps wait for a larger monthly payment over less time? The answer is personal and depends on several factors, such as

your current and anticipated cash needs, health and your family history on longevity. Most importantly, you should study your future financial needs and obligations, and estimate your future Social Security benefit.

The best and easiest way to estimate your future Social Security benefits is with a personal “my Social Security” account. You can create your free account at ssa.gov/myaccount. Use your account to see how much you might receive each month based on the age at which you want to start receiving benefits.

We encourage you to weigh all the factors carefully before deciding when to begin receiving Social Security benefits.

This decision affects the monthly benefit amount you will receive for the rest of your life and may affect benefits for your survivors.

Social Security’s Online Retirement Resources Whether you’re ready to learn about, apply for, or manage your retirement

benefits, our online resources make it easy for you to find the information you need. How easy?

You can do it from your comNilsa Henriquez puter, tablet and even smartphone!

On our website, you can: • get our publications; • estimate your benefits with one of our many calculators; • find your full retirement age; • learn about benefits for a spouse and family members; • apply for benefits; and • manage your benefits once you start receiving them.

You and your loved ones can discover all these resources at ssa.gov/retireP ment.

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

The price of prescription drugs has, like everything else, inched up.

In some cases, the cost has made a massive, sudden jump, and it comes as a shock when you check out at the pharmacy. But there are ways around this horrible surprise.

You can save a lot of money ($80 on a 90-day prescription) by doing two things: changing pharmacies, and start using GoodRx. Here’s how: Go to the GoodRx website (goodrx.com) and put in your ZIP code so that all the local pharmacies show up. Enter the name of the drug you take, as well as the dose and number of pills. See what each pharmacy charges using GoodRx. They will vary widely.

You may get a shock. It may take just a few minutes to call a new pharmacy and ask them to have the prescription transferred.

Then print out the GoodRx coupon showing the pharmacy name, the drug and dose, the price and so on. Take that to the pharmacy and voila! Eighty dollars saved.

Here are a few other ideas if GoodRx isn’t going to work for you: • Ask your doctor if a generic would be just as good, or if another drug would work just as well.

• Find out if you qualify for the Extra Help program to pay for your drugs by calling Social Security at 1-800-772-1213, or read the information at www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10508.pdf.

• See if you qualify for the Pharmaceutical Assistance Program. (www.medicare.gov/plan-compare/#/pharmaceutical-assistance-program) • Get a different Medicare drug plan more in line with the drugs you take (www.medicare.gov/plan-compare).

One note: You can’t use GoodRx along with a deductible from Medicare or Medicaid, but you can use it instead of those. Beware whether you’ll reach your annual deductible if you don’t use a Medicare drug plan or if you’re in the doughnut hole (cover gap) already.

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Keyspan Gas East Corporation d/b/a National Grid (“KEDLI”) filed tariff revisions in response to a New York State Public Service Commission (“PSC”) order establishing Phase 1 of the Gas Bill Relief Program. Phase 1 of the Gas Bill Relief Program provides customers with active accounts who are currently enrolled in the Energy Affordability Program (“EAP”) or who enroll in the EAP on or before December 31, 2022, or who received benefits from New York State Emergency Rental Assistance Program or the Home Energy Assistance Program – Regular Arrears Supplement program, a one-time bill credit for any arrears balance on their bill as of and prior to a bill date of May 1, 2022. The PSC Order also establishes the Arrears Management Program (“AMP”) Surcharge to recover costs of these bill credits.

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In addition, the PSC has approved an alternative recovery mechanism to recover deferrals of unbilled fees that resulted from laws enacted during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The PSC Order also establishes the Late Payment Charge and Other Waived Fees (“LPCO”) Surcharge to recover associated lost revenues.

Notice is hereby given that starting on July 1, 2022, the LPCO Surcharge and on August 1, 2022, the AMP Surcharge will commence on customer bills and will be included in the Delivery Rate Adjustment line. The LPCO and AMP surcharge is located on the KEDLI website. For Residential customers: https://www. nationalgridus.com/Long-Island-NY-Home/Bills-Meters-and-Ra tes/?regionkey=nylongisland&customertype=home and Business customers https://www.nationalgridus.com/Long-Island-NYBusiness/Bills-Meters-and-Rates/?regionkey=nylongisland&custo mertype=business.

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OPINION

Myths about congestion pricing, a mid-class tax

has been in effect for

by Allan Rosen Those favoring congestion pricing were some time, it was disappointed to learn of its latest postpone- found that congesment and have been spreading myths to gain tion merely moved support. The Republican gubernatorial can- from the central city to just outside the didate opposes it.

Myth No. 1 — Increased traffic conges- congestion zone.

Myth No. 3 — tion is the fault of those who choose to drive.

In many cases public transportation isn’t The funds from cona real choice, often taking two or three times gestion pricing will what is required by car. Much of the makers a noticeable increased congestion is caused by reductions difference in improved mass transit.

Funds are limited to the MTA’s capital in traffic lanes and green time, increased turn restrictions and the reduction of thou- program and funding roadwork. This means sands of legal parking spaces. Necessary they will not be used to maintain or lower roadwork often performed middays instead the transit fare or to increase service and of at night closing highway lanes can add 30 reliability. The MTA has no intention to prominutes to a commute; 25 mph speed limits vide new service in transit deserts or on major arterials such as Woodhaven Bou- increase service to give drivers an alternalevard, which has also slowed buses from a tive not to stand in crowded rush hour trains, maximum speed of 35 mph to 25 mph, are since no new funds are being provided for this purpose. While some good will result also responsible for increased congestion. from the capital projects, Myth No. 2 — Congesmost will be spent on more tion pricing will reduce air bus and bike lanes, reconpol lut ion a nd t r af f ic t won’t do what structed intersections and congestion.

Estimates are that consupporters claim. other projects which will further increase traffic gestion within the congestion zone will decrease by 10 percent. No congestion. In order for a bus lane to speed mention is made of the areas outside the bus service, service needs to operate at fivezone that will see increased congestion and minute intervals or better. Those lanes air pollution particularly the BQE and sur- already exist. If service is every 10 minutes rounding streets and approaches to the GW or less frequent, bus lanes do more harm Bridge and to a lesser extent, the Verrazza- than good increasing traffic congestion. Yet no. Who only passing through Manhattan the city pretends that bus lanes are a using the Lincoln or Holland tunnels will panacea.

Congestion pricing is another tax burden want to pay a fee of $20-plus, which is sure to rise every two years just as tolls do? No the middle class cannot afford, and for one. They will use the alternate routes sug- many, it will be the reason they will leave the city, leaving the ultra-rich, who will pay gested, creating traffic nightmares.

Q I recently returned from Florida and the price, and the very poor to remain.

Allan Rosen is a retired former director experienced no traffic congestion at all until reaching the GW, where I waited 30 minutes of MTA New York City Transit Bus Planon a Saturday afternoon, certainly not peak ning with three decades’ experience in travel time. After congestion pricing the transportation and a master’s degree in wait will be an hour. In London, where it urban planning.

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All blood types needed in Qns. The New York Blood Center continues to call for Queens donors of all blood t y p e s d u r i n g t h e o n goi n g blo o d emergency.

Donation appointments can be made online at nybc.org for a number of blood drives scheduled in the area. They include: • Resorts World Casino from 1 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 7, at 110-00 Rockaway Blvd. in South Ozone Park; • United Sherpa Association from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 10, at 41-01 75 St. in Elmhurst;

• The Gurung Society & Overseas Nepali Unit Forum from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 23, at the temple at 75-15 Woodside Ave. in Elmhurst; • Queens Place mall from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 23, in the former Outback Steakhouse at 88-01 Queens Blvd. in Elmhurst; • St. Leo Catholic Academy auditorium, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 24, at 104-19 49 Ave. in Corona; and • Sunnyside Jewish Center, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 31, at 40-20 47 Q Ave. in Sunnyside.

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The 102nd Precinct held a Community and Family Field Day last Thursday in Forest Park led by community affairs and domestic violence officers who offered resources.

Different NYPD units came together to provide a game truck, bouncy house and more for the whole family.

At top, Community Affairs Officer Scott Adelman, left, Commanding Officer Capt.

Jeremy Kivlin and Neighborhood Coordination Officers Justin Davis and Michael Bohan hand out information about the upcoming police officer exams.

At right, Adelman joins Community Board 9 District Manager James McClelland, Councilman Bob Holden, who sponsored the event, and CB 9 President Sherry Algredo and Vice President Sandra Datnarain.

— Deirdre Bardolf

by Michael Gannon

Black/African American, Hispanic or Native American.

Natawidjaja is a musician A Rego Park college stuwho sings in Cornell’s chorus dent has been named a Specand plays multiple instrutrum Scholar, and will receive ments. She also enjoys reada $20,000 scholarship funded ing, cooking and hiking. One

by Charter Communications. of the things she hopes to take Priscilla Natawidjaja, who away from her experience is a will begin her junior year at knowledge of financial literaCornell in the fall, is majoring cy. She wants to work in the in industrial and labor relafinance industry or in finantions with a minor in business. She is one of 20 recipiPriscilla Natawidjaha cial technology.

“I’m always striving to ents who will work with a PHOTO COURTESY CHARTER learn and develop personally, professional mentor and have an opportunity for an internship at one of professionally and intellectually,” she told Charter’s corporate campuses in Stamford, the Chronicle in an email. “Graduate Conn., Charlotte, NC, St. Louis or Denver. school would be a great vehicle for that. I “Being a Spectrum Scholar means may pursue an MBA or JD in the future, being curious and interested in the tele- albeit only after I’ve spent a few years in communications industry,” she said in a t h e wo r k fo r c e f i r s t a n d g a i n e d press release announcing the scholarship experience.”

Music will remain a mainstay in her winners. “Spectrum Scholars will help me achieve my career and future goals not life.

“While I don’t necessarily see music only through helping me fund my schooland my career being combined at present, ing, but also through career mentorship.”

Applicants must show financial need music will without a doubt remain an and identify as Asian/Pacific Islander, important part of my life outside work.” Q Senior News Editor

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Org. for formerly jailed hosts event

by Sean Okula Associate Editor

A recent change in state law now requires voters requesting absentee ballots to use those PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN / FILE ballots and prevents them from heading to the polls.

Voter gets absentee ballot he didn’t ask for A recent policy change on mail-in vote poses dilemma at polling place

by Sophie Krichevsky Associate Editor

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US Open jobs for you to net With the kickoff of the US Open just over six weeks away, the United States Tennis Association is looking to fill numerous part-time positions ahead of this year’s tournament. As part of that effort, Councilmember Sandra Ung (D-Flushing) will host a hiring event on July 20 in Bowne Park from 2 to 5 p.m.

During that time, the USTA will conduct interviews with applicants who have applied online in advance, which can be done at careers-usopen.icims.com. To ensure an interview at the event, District 20 residents should indicate on their application that

they live in the district and would like to have their interview at Bowne Park. Walkins are also welcome.

Referring to the tournament, Ung said in a statement, “This is a major event that takes place in Flushing’s backyard every year, and local residents should take advantage of and benefit from the opportunities it provides.”

While the event is specific to Ung’s district, applications are open to anyone. Jobs in traffic control, player services, credentials, the box office, IT, courts and grounds Q and other departments are available.

Photo contest!

The Queens Chronicle’s 14th annual Summer in the Borough Photo Contest is, like the last two, a bit different from before.

We still want you to take your best shots of children playing, workers working, lovely landscapes, birds on the bay — whatever you think best says “summertime in Queens.” If you need some inspiration, check out 2020’s winning photo, above, by Malgorzata Bartyzel of Woodhaven, and another fine entry from the year before, taken by Carmen Garcia in Briarwood.

With the pandemic ebbing, we hope the free passes to a family-friendly performance in or around the city, such as an off-Broadway show, which we give to all our winners, will be available again soon. If you’re willing to wait, like our last couple of winners, please do enter! We’ll get the passes to the winners as soon as they’re available. As to the rules, our main requirement is that the photos be taken in the borough this summer. We also ask that you give us all the details you can, especially the location, the names of any people in the photo, when possible, and when it was taken (but don’t use time stamps!).

Some entrants give us a whole backstory, and that’s great. Limit your submissions to five.

Please tell us where in Queens you live and whether you’re an amateur or professional photographer. Send your high-resolution digital photos to peterm@qchron.com, or mail prints to Queens Chronicle Photo Contest, 71-19 80 St., suite 8-201, Glendale, NY 11385.

The deadline is Wednesday, Sept. 21, the last full day of summer. Good luck!

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The first time he voted at PS 164, Kew Gardens Hills resident Richard Reif cast his ballot for soon-to-be-President John F. Kennedy. And with the exception of his time away at graduate school, in the Air Force and a seven-year period when the polling site was closed (which he successfully advocated to end), he has voted there ever since.

So when he received an absentee ballot he did not request, and therefore, could not vote in the June 28 primary in person, Reif was taken aback.

“I was surprised when I got my latest absentee ballot, because I never asked for it,” he told the Chronicle.

In years past, Reif would have been able to cast his ballot at his polling site without an issue, as previously, state law allowed for those requesting absentee ballots to vote in-person anyway. But as of June 1,

that law changed.

Reif’s case presents a dilemma: What happens to those who receive absentee ballots they did not request?

Reif, who has not asked for an absentee ballot since 2019, said he was able to cast an affidavit ballot, but as for whether it had been counted, he said he had “no idea.”

Nor did he know about the change in policy. “I didn’t request it, so I guess I didn’t break it,” he said.

It is not clear whether others ran into this problem during the June 28 primary.

Neither Emilia Decaudin nor Richard David, district leaders in Districts 37A and 31B, respectively, had heard any reports of that nature.

The city’s Board of Elections did not immediately respond to requests for comment ahead of press time.

Reif does not have high hopes for the Aug. 23 primary. “I think it will happen Q again,” he said.

Baisley Pond Park will play host to the second annual Suitcase Sunday event on July 17.

The event, organized by the Witness to Mass Incarceration organization and sponsored by City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica), aims to ease the transition of formerly incarcerated people back into everyday life by providing them with a suitcase full of essentials, including a phone, laptop and gift cards to department stores, per the organization’s website.

The event also highlights various formerly incarcerated-owned businesses.

More than 50 such businesses and services will be represented.

“Suitcase Sunday is an innovative event that helps people who have been formerly incarcerated build safe, healthy, and economically empowered lives,” Adams said in a statement. “It is critical to support New Yorkers who face many b a r r ie r s , e s p e c i a l ly wo m e n a n d LGBTQ + i nd iv idu als, upon t hei r re-entry.”

Evie Litwok, founder and executive director of Witness to Mass Incarceration and a formerly incarcerated person herself, says the event is a chance for the general public to see that members of the formerly incarcerated community are doing their best to earn an honest living, just like the rest of the community.

“I don’t think people or politicians expected to see that we were a happy group of people, hugging and kissing each other and getting to know each other,” she said. “I think they thought we were going to be negative and bitter, but it’s quite the opposite.”

Litwok also wants the event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., to be a reminder of the difficulties faced by members of the community. She says many formerly incarcerated people are forced to start their own businesses because they have such a hard time getting hired.

“If you want to help us reduce recidivism, and if you want to support us, the best thing you could do is get a haircut from us, use our caterers, use our dressQ makers,” she said.

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cept of a launch window, the precise time period during which a spacecraft must be launched to achieve a desired mission. The center spins and players have to hit the ball at

challenges like the loop-de-loop, which serves as an example of zero gravity.

Ten-year-old Dante came from Brooklyn with his neighbors to play on a recent Friday afternoon.

“It ’s kind “It’s

Follow the science at NYSCI’s reopened Rocket Park Mini Golf exactly the right time me rough. to get it through.

At the next ext hole, hole a fan favorite, favorite a rocket blasts off once the ball is hit in the hole.

There are traditional mini golf

off challenging, so that’s what I like,” he said.

Rebecca Dimino enjoyed that

same afternoon with her two boys.

“Oh, they love it. Mini golf?

They’re as happy as can be,” she said.

Dimino, who now lives in Floral Park and works in Jackson Heights, worked at NYSCI when she was younger. She marveled at how much the th museum has evolved over the years and made it a point tto stop in while traveling ffrom the city.

“He especially loves science, ence,” Dimino said of one of her sons. “So the fact that there is sons “ science and golf and the whole museum, he just loves it.” continued on page 25

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Mini golf is also rocket science at the New York Hall of Science’s newly renovated Rocket Park Mini Golf course, which features nine thrilling and unique holes packed with fun and surprises.

“We’re super excited to be able to open our Rocket Park and especially our newly refurbished, completely restored Rocket Park Mini Golf exhibition. It’s nine holes of mini golf, each of which engages kids in a different aspect of space science and space flight,” Margaret Honey, CEO of NYSCI, told the Chronicle.

The course shows how the same laws of motion and gravity ity that guide the path of a spaceship hip control the motion of golf balls.

Golfers explore science concepts such as propulsion, gravity, escape velocity, gravitational assist and more.

The first hole explores the con-

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C M SQ page 24 Y K The Brooklyn Union Gas Company d/b/a National Grid NY PURPOSE: THE FILING OF NEW TARIFF AMMENDMENTS TO P.S.C. NO. 12 GAS TO COMPLY WITH THE COMMISSION’S ORDERS DATED JUNE 16, 2022, IN P.S.C. CASES 14-M-0565, et al., AND DATED JUNE 17, 2022, IN P.S.C. CASE 19-G-0309, et al.

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Notice is hereby given that The Brooklyn Union Gas Company d/b/a National Grid NY has filed new tariff amendments with the Public Service Commission to comply with the Commission’s Orders dated June 16, 2022, to become effective August 1, 2022, and June 17, 2022, to become effective July 1, 2022.

The Brooklyn Union Gas Company d/b/a National Grid NY (“KEDNY”) filed tariff revisions in response to a New York State Public Service Commission (“PSC”) order establishing Phase 1 of the Gas Bill Relief Program. Phase 1 of the Gas Bill Relief Program provides customers with active accounts who are currently enrolled in the Energy Affordability Program (“EAP”) or who enroll in the EAP on or before December 31, 2022, or who received benefits from New York State Emergency Rental Assistance Program or the Home Energy Assistance Program – Regular Arrears Supplement program, a one-time bill credit for any arrears balance on their bill as of and prior to a bill date of May 1, 2022. The PSC Order also establishes the Arrears Management Program (“AMP”) Surcharge to recover costs of these bill credits.

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In addition, the PSC has approved an alternative recovery mechanism to recover deferrals of unbilled fees that resulted from laws enacted during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The PSC Order also establishes the Late Payment Charge and Other Waived Fees (“LPCO”) Surcharge to recover associated lost revenues.

Notice is hereby given that starting on July 1, 2022, the LPCO Surcharge and on August 1, 2022, the AMP Surcharge will commence on customer bills and will be included in the Delivery Rate Adjustment line. The LPCO and AMP surcharge is located on the KEDNY website. For Residential customers: https://www.nationalgridus. com/NY-Home/Bills-Meters-and-Rates/Gas-Rate-Statements and Business customers https://www.nationalgridus.com/Long-IslandNY-Business/Bills-Meters-and-Rates/Gas-Rate-Statements?regio nkey=nylongisland&customertype=business.

Copies of the proposed revisions are available for public inspection and can be obtained on the Company’s website at https://www.nationalgridus.com.

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I HAVE OFTEN WALKED

Frank Kameny, pioneer in the gay rights movement

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Emil Kameny, an immigrant from Poland, married Rachel Beck in April 1922 in Brooklyn. Emil was a successful electrical engineer who designed automobile ignition systems. That enabled the young couple to buy a new home at 103-17 115 St. in South Richmond Hill. A son, Franklin Edward Kameny, was born on May 21, 1925. A daughter named Edna, born July 1, 1928, completed their family. Franklin, with an appetite for physics, displayed brilliance early on, graduating Richmond Hill High School in June 1941 after he turned 16.

Moving on to Queens College, he saw his education interrupted by World War II, but completed his degree there in 1948. He continued his education at Harvard with a master’s degree and Ph.D. He landed a job in the U.S. Army Map Department as an astronomer. He was fired in 1957 by the Civil Service Commission due to his homosexuality.

Kameny fought in the U.S. courts, in what was the first case based on sexual orientation. He lost.

The Supreme Court twice refused to hear

The childhood home of pioneer ing gay activist Frank K ameny a t 103-17 115 St. in South Richmond Hill, as it looked during his childhood in the 1930s.

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his case. He never again held a job.

He devoted the rest of his life to activism.

In 1973, he spearheaded the fight to have homosexuality removed as a mental illness from the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual. Despite poor health, he continued to speak to groups up until his death at age 86 on Oct. 11, 2011. Kameny is considered one of the most significant gay activists in the movement. His childhood Q home is now valued at about $973,700.

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by Michael Shain qboro contributor

Jam sessions are the pot luck dinners of jazz.

The host invites everyone to come and what happens next depends on what they bring.

The Flushing Town Hall’s monthly jam sessions have hosted hundreds of eager jazz musicians over the years — some young, some not so much.

Next Saturday, July 16, the 10 best of those jamming musicians are coming back to perform at the FTH Jazz Jam All-Star Concert. It’s only the second time the jazz capital of Queens has produced an allstar show. Details and tickets are found at flushingtownhall.org.

The lineup is pretty much what you’d expect from an open-to-all event in Queens — from high school students to retirees playing Latin, swing, bebop and post-bop jazz.

The two youngest all-stars stand out, not only for their ages but for their precocious talent — Mimi Block, a singer and violinist from Astoria who just turned 20,

a nd E zra Kessler, a 15-year-old drummer from Jackson Heights who started playing at Jazz jammers Mimi Block, left, Ezra Kessler and Carol Sudhalter are ready to the jam sessions when he play next Saturday.

PHOTOS COURTESY FTH AND, RIGHT, BY GUS PHILIPPAS was 11.

“I swear he was 10,” said Carol comfort zone.” Kessler said. “My is Rob Block, a pianist. That’s how she got started.”

Sudhalter, the tireless saxophonist nervousness calmed down.”

Since she was 18, her parents Since then, he has started at who has led the jam session’s fourLaGuardia High School of Music & have been posting videos of her man house band since 2016.

“I remember thinking how good Art — the famous “Fame” high live performances on YouTube, school — and started a rock band, where an online following is starthe was for 10.”

“I was pretty nervous when I The Mischief Boys, with some ing to form.

Last March, she won the Barry started,” said Kessler in a phone classmates.

His jazz heroes are a who’s who Harris Performance Achievement interview. “I knew I was not the of giants: Jazz Messengers found- Award, a scholarship sponsored by best one there.”

Schoolwork has gotten in the er Max Roach (“His drum solos are Lady Got Chops, the New York way, he said, but he has tried to amazing,” Kessler said), Philly Joe nonprofit that promotes women in show up every month to play at Jones, house drummer for the Blue jazz.

“Mimi has been developing in Note, Riverside and Prestige record the FTH jam sessions. startlingly ways month to month,” “I’m close with the musicians [in labels, and Thelonious Monk.

Of Block, Sudhalter said, “Mimi said Sudhalter. the house band] now and they “She’s Carmen McRae this encourage me to go outside my was an extreme talent. Her father

month and Billie Holiday next. She does the kind of things most people take a year to do.”

Remarkably, Mimi is autistic and, as a result, uncommonly shy in most social situations.

Her YouTube videos, however, show a young woman with a Dutch-boy hairstyle who seems anything but shy. Her swooping vocal style belies both her age and her developmental condition.

“Jazz wasn’t my first love in music,” Block said in an interview via email. “My first loves were classical music and pop music. It wasn’t until I listened to Duke Ellington when I was 10 years old that I became a jazz musician.”

While she plays jazz violin as well as sings, she says her heroes are pianists — the late Barry Harris and Ellington — as well as Ella Fitzgerald.

She performs mostly with her father’s ensemble, but hopes to have her own band someday.

“I’m currently writing my own music first,” Block said. “I would start having a band to perform Q later.”

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Jazz Jam All-Stars set to rock Flushing Town Hall

May the fores be with you at NYSCI mini golf

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“I think for this age group, it’s very appropriate,” she added.

The mini golf course is recommended for kids ages 6 and up.

Mariella D., her friend and her dad also came from Brooklyn for the day.

“It brings people together,” she said.

The 14-year-old had been there before but loved new features like the sound effects. Her friend appreciated the creativity and colorful artwork throughout the course.

The exhibition, which first opened in 2009 and was designed by Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership, uses bright colors and graphics reminiscent of the 1960s Space Age. Many of the pieces, which had rusted over time and were in need of some “tender love and care,” were recently refurbished by Adirondack Studios.

The museum was closed for 15 months during the pandemic and opened back up but then Hurricane Ida struck and flooding badly damaged it. A sinkhole opened up on the golf course, said Honey.

“We were able to move pretty rapidly on a lot of the restoration work because of funding we had on hand that Assemblymember [Jeffrion] Aubry (D-Corona) had

helped us obtain,” she said.

Honey added t hat t h e e nt i r e museum will be open come fall (just the Nor th Wing and mezzanine are currently) and, she hopes, the whole science playground by next summer.

She is excited for mini golf to be offered on Saturd ay s w h e n t h e nearby Queens Night Market is operating.

Rocket Park Mini Golf is perfect for kids 6 and up. On the cover: “You can come Mariella D. poses in a model Friendship 7. PHOTOS BY DEIRDRE BARDOLF to the Queens Night Market and eat great food and then Thursdays from 2 to 5 p.m.

An all-inclusive ticket includes mini golf you can come over to the museum and and is $24 for adults and $22 for kids. Mini play a round of mini golf,” she said.

The museum is open to the public on Fri- golf can be added onto general admission days from 2 to 5 p.m. and Saturdays and tickets, which are $16 for adults and $13 for kids for an added $6 and $5, respectively.

Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Q Members-only hours are Wednesdays and For more information, visit nysci.org.

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continued from page 23 Victoria D. of Fresh Meadows watched her three boys explore a hole with spinning spaceships and a secret tunnel that carries the golf ball.

She appreciates having the outdoor activity and museum close to home and not having to schlep to Manhattan or Long Island for such activities, she said.

“They’ve been asking me all week, ‘Can we come, can we come, can we come?’”

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Legal Notices Notice of Formation of 1678 E & B Rod Realty LLC. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/26/22.

Offi ce location: Queens County.

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Notice of Formation of BLUE MILL LLC Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/12/2022. Offi ce 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 LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, 6056 67TH AVE., FL.1, RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385.

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2318 21 STREET LLC. Arts. of Org. fi led with the SSNY on 05/17/22. Offi ce: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, P.O. Box 3348, Astoria, NY 11103. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of COSMIC GARDENING, LLC Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/17/2022. Offi ce 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: KENDAL MAZZETTA, 6413 PALMETTO ST, RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385 Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: 47-11 58 WOODSIDE LLC. Articles of Organization fi led with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/2/2021. NY offi ce location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The post offi ce address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is Namgyal Dorjee Bhutia, 34-39 72nd Street, Jackson Heights, NY, 11372.

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Notice of Formation of DKTS GLOBAL ENDEAVORS LLC Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/15/2022. Offi ce 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: TIFFANY SINGH, 11530 114TH PLACE, QUEENS, NY 11420. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE–SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF QUEENS – NATIONSTAR HECM ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-1, WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY, BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE, Plaintiff, -against- ELSIE EASTMOND; STEMONT COLL INC.; ANY AND ALL KNOWN OR UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, AND ALL OTHER PARTIES CLAIMING AN INTEREST BY, THROUGH, UNDER OR AGAINST THE ESTATE OF ROSALIND GRAHAM, DECEASED; ELSIE EASTMOND, AS HEIR, DEVISEE, DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ROSALIND GRAHAM, DECEASED; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; JUDITH GRAHAM CROOKS, AS HEIR, DEVISEE, DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ROSALIND GRAHAM, DECEASED; C POWER ENERGY GROUP, INC., Defendants - Index No. 719861/2018 Plaintiff Designates Queens County as the Place of Trial. The Basis of Venue is that the subject action is situated in Queens County. To the above named Defendants–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 Plaintiff’s Attorney(s) 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); 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.

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Notice of Formation of EMCAN LLC Articles of Organization were fi led with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/10/2022.

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6/9/22. Offi ce in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 75-48 195th St., Fresh

Notice of Formation of HENLEY11, LLC, a domestic LLC. Arts. of Org. fi led with the SSNY on 5/17/2022. Offi ce location: QUEENS County.

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This Saturday the Mets will rectify a long overdue omission when they retire the No. 17 uniform worn by the best first baseman in their history, Keith Hernandez. At a press screening for “He’s Keith Hernandez,” the documentary commissioned by the Mets’ cable television home, SNY, Hernandez said having a team retire your number is the greatest honor an athlete can receive.

“He’s Keith Hernandez” is a thorough look at the man who was the heart and soul of those terrific 1980s Mets teams. It begins with footage of a young Keith playing Little League in his hometown of San Bruno, Calif., 17 miles south of San Francisco. Keith’s older brother Gary, whom Mets fans have long heard Keith speak about over the years during broadcasts but have rarely seen, gets a lot of screen time here discussing his brother. Keith takes pains to thank his brother for letting him play ball with him and his older friends when he was growing up, as well as saying how Gary was never envious of his success.

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Hernandez always cited his strained relationship with Cardinals manager Whitey Herzog as the impetus for his exile from St. Louis. Documentary producer Joe Kraus got 90-year-old Herzog to speak on camera. Herzog claims that it was Cardinals owner Gussie Busch who wanted Hernandez gone, but he does not cite why he would want a star player, on a team that won the World Series less than a year earlier, banished.

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