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City announces plan for restarting school A mix of in-person and online class; Cuomo reiterates that he will decide by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

ayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza announced on Wednesday a plan to reopen schools in September that they said puts health and safety first. Students would only spend some days in the classroom under the plan, which also would allow any family to decide to continue with online learning only. The plan — which the mayor said is dependent upon the city continuing to meet all necessary COVID-19 thresholds — would see students attend class on staggered schedules. “Getting our kids back to school successfully and safely is the single biggest part of restarting our city,” de Blasio said in a prepared statement. “Parents have spoken clearly — they want their children back in school buildings to the greatest extent possible. Our approach for the fall maximizes in person instruction while protecting health and safety of our students and educators.” “As we continue to plan for September, we’re developing plans that prioritize the health and safety of our communities while giving schools the flexibility to maximize in-person instruction, and providing parents with clear and consistent schedules,” Carranza said in his

own statement. “These are tough decisions with no perfect solutions, and we’ll continue to stay in close contact with schools and families to provide updates and guidance as the pandemic evolves and we move closer to the first day of school.” The city said that using guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state Department of Health and city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and data on student enrollment, building size and other factors, schools are calculating their maximum capacity while maintaining social distancing of at least 6 feet and allowing for students and staffers to move around. The Department of Education came up with three different models schools may use, depending on the share of their student body they can accommodate at once. One model would have students attend class on the same two days every week and then on every other Monday. Another would have them attend one or two days a week. A third would have them attend two days out of a six-day cycle. “With all models, students will be learning five days a week,” the city said in a summary of the plan. “Blended learning is designed to create seamless transitions in and out of a remote setting, and all curriculum will be adaptable in

Gov. Cuomo, left, on Wednesday again told Mayor de Blasio that the state will make the decisions about sending children to school in the age of the coronavirus. They are seen during a NBC NEWS SCREENSHOT press event last month on the reopening of New York City businesses. both learning environments. Schools will emphasize academic continuity for students, and provide additional support on the days students are learning remotely.” The city said it will host a series of meetings with families to address their questions and concerns starting July 16. And it emphasized that it will continue closely coordinating with the state between now and September. De Blasio had announced that schools would reopen in September last Thursday. Gov. Cuomo, through a spokeswoman, characterized that declaration as the mayor’s “opinion” and insisted that the state, not the city, will decide when schools reopen. Cuomo had done the same thing in April when de Blasio announced that schools would remain closed for the remainder

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It’s safe to go back in the water! City opens beaches to swimming, and Queens flocks to Rockaway by Michael Shain Chronicle Contributor

After a month of being off limits, the ocean at Rockaway Beach is open for business again. Over the long Fourth of July weekend, city lifeguards climbed into their tall chairs and, for the first time this strange summer, people had the go-ahead to get back in the water. While the beaches along the Rockaway peninsula looked crowded with families and young sun worshipers — as expected on a threeday holiday weekend with temperatures climbing to near 90 degrees — this year was different. “ It ’s n o t a nything like a normal summer,” said Diane Cardwell, an ardent surfer who has been living in Rockaway Park since 2012. “On a weekend like this, you’d see the blankets right up next to each other. There was barely room to walk. “But it hasn’t been like that. It feels more risky.” Mayor de Blasio announced June 24 that the city’s 14 miles of beaches — including the famed Rockaway strand — would be open again for swimming start-

ing July 1, with lifeguards on duty from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Lifeguards had undergone special training, the mayor said, and the number of new cases of COVID-19 had dropped to a point at which the city could no longer keep the ban on swimming at public beaches that it imposed just before Memorial Day. In May, he vowed police would drag swimmers out of the water if they dared go in. “This is something people have been waiting patiently for — maybe not always patiently — but it’s here,” de Blasio said. As someone who is at the beach most days, Cardwell — a for mer New York Ti mes Cit y Hall bureau chief who has written a memoi r, “ Ro c k aw ay : Surf ing Headlong into a New Life” — she has been able to observe what surfers call the “DFDs” — meaning people who are “down for the day.” “If you came out early in the morning, you might see a few hardcore swimmers,” she said, “but for the most part, people were very good about” not going in the water. “This is fantastic,” said Martin, a regular at Beach 92nd Street who lives in Ozone Park. The lifting of restrictions on swimming, he said, has been nearly as important

If you weren’t at the beach over the July 4 holiday, what were you thinking? as the hot weather in getting people to come back to the beach. “My sister lives in Miami and she says they can’t even go on the sand,” he said, gesturing toward the beach. “How great is this?” Parks Department police walking the

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ConEd replacing two large electric cables Utility deploys 35 portable power generators in area as ‘a precaution’ by Michael Shain

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A few days after Father’s Day last month, one of five ConEd feeder cables that supply electricity to much of southwest Queens failed. No one lost power but it was the kind of problem that plagues the aging power grid in New York especially during the peak summer months, a spokesman told the Chronicle this week. The utility said it is still trying to determine why the line failed. A major project to replace it and a second feeder line is now in its second week. In Ozone Park, Lindenwood and both both Old and New Howard Beach, residents woke up last week to find huge emergency-power generators parked in dozens of neighborhoods. For the most part, the 35 mobile generators are “a precaution to maintain reliable service ... while we repair two high-

voltage transmission cables,” a ConEd spokesman said in an email. “We have not used them much, except to address some localized issues,” he wrote. But at least once this week, a generator parked just off Pitkin Avenue and 84th Street in Ozone Park was fired up at 3:30 a.m., according to one resident. The diesel-powered generators — each able to supply power to hundreds of homes — can cause a racket. “It was so annoying,” said Lou Ann Silba, who lives in nearby Tudor Village. “I understand if they need to upgrade the system, but that’s unacceptable to wake people up in the middle of the night like that.” The utility has been doing much of the switchover work at night to minimize disr u pt ion d u r i ng t he d ay, s a id t he spokesman. “We have been texting and phoning customers who will experience short out-

ages overnight ... in order to give them advance notice,” he said. The feeders being replaced distribute power generated by a substation on Williams Avenue in Brownsville to homes over a seven-mile stretch of Brooklyn and Queens. The Brownsville network is notoriously overtaxed. Last July, ConEd had to cut off power to 30,000 homes in southeastern Brooklyn for a night when demand threatened to bring down the entire system. Work on the first feeder cables in Queens was slated to be completed by yesterday, Wednesday, the spokesman said. ConEd did not immediately provide an estimate for finishing work on the Q second line.

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Progressive may have beat the establishment How Khaleel Anderson’s campaign has challenged assumptions in SE Queens by Max Parrott

final say on strategic decisions. Mone’t Schultz, a 24-year-old paralegal from the When Tanagra Bledman first met Khaleel Rockaways, was the other co-chair. “I don’t think that we as people believe in Anderson in 2012 he was doing Hurricane Sandy relief. She couldn’t believe the scale the sort of hierarchies that exist in society, and competence of the relief effort the then- so we weren’t going to have that translated teenage activist was undertaking with the into the campaign,” said Schultz. The nonhierarchical organization played Rockaway Youth Task Force. On the night of June 23, 2020, Bledman to the strengths of each member of the team, celebrated another collaboration with she explained. Schultz, who came on board Anderson, now a 24-year-old Assembly can- as a co-chair during quarantine, said that didate in Queens’ 31st district, as one of two she saw her role as helping Anderson craft co-chairs of his campaign. A nderson and tailor his message to different commuclinched a near 10-point lead over District nities in the district. Bledman, who said she was new to Leader Richard David, the secondcampaigning despite serving a stint c place candidate in the five-wayy as a legislative director to Sen. Democratic primary race. If he Ja J mes Sa nders Jr. (D -South wins now and in November, he Ozone Park), had been working will be the youngest sitting memwithin political organizations lonw ber in the Assembly. ger than anyone else involved. She While the final results won’t be relied on her experience to encouravailable until all 2,790 of the disage the team to trust Anderson’s chatrict’s reported absentee ballots are 2020 risma and platform above any granular counted over the coming weeks, Anderson called his election-night lead a collec- strategies. Khaleel Anderson, who ran for Assembly on a progressive platform, will be its youngest member “When a candidate doesn’t really have a if he wins the Democratic primary and November’s general election. tive accomplishment. PHOTO BY MAX PARROTT He, his two campaign co-chairs, his com- field game, certainly the establishment will well there because that’s what my work is,” munications director and around 60 volun- crush them because they have an operation. 31 without a replacement for Michele Titus. “When we didn’t have an assemblymem- said Anderson, a member of Community teers pulled off that convincing lead on a But having an operation in itself is one of progressive platform calling for universal the things I tried to communicate to the ber, a lot of calls came to me for unemploy- Board 14 and Far Rockaway resident. “I was healthcare, a just-cause eviction law and the team is not necessarily going to help you ment, for food, for just information on pleasantly surprised to know that we won need to bring resources to the district, which win. It’s who can touch and motivate the what’s going on, and we were over- Rosedale, Brookville, Springfield Gardens, the Rockaways and we won a small sliver of reaches from Ozone Park to Rosedale and voters better. Right? It’s who speaks to the whelmed,” David said. voters in a way that they believe,” she said. Meanwhile Anderson got a technical South Richmond Hill,” he said. down to much of the eastern Rockaways. Bledman added Bledman said that though those mainland boost f rom t he They came out ahead of David, a candiWorking Families areas tend to have more homeowners and date who had previously made inroads to that she thought it P a r t y , w h i c h higher incomes than other parts of the disthe northern part of the district in a 2017 served Anderson t’s who speaks to the voters endorsed him in trict, she also knew that there was a base of City Council run and had the backing of the not to have the March. Anderson young voters who are not necessarily Queens County Democratic County. The b a ck i n g of t h e in a way that they believe.” said the organiza- reflected in what she deemed to be the more team said they did it without campaign Q ue e n s C ou nt y — Khaleel Anderson campaign Democratic Party tion provided con- conservative views of those communities’ experience. Co-chair Tanagra Bledman sultation work on civic leaders. “There’s always this idea that, ‘Oh, the left or its chair, Rep. The Board of Elections was to have how to set up a can’t win in Southeast Queens. The left is out G r e g M e e k s of control. They got all these crazy ideas.’ I (D-Queens, Nassau), who endorsed David, persuasion system and tools that allowed begun counting the absentee ballots July 8. While Anderson said that he has PTSD am the left,” said Anderson. “Very few black because she thought it helped voters feel him to do mass texts and phone calls. that he was sincere. Though Bledman’s advice stressed the from the results of last year’s district attorcandidates are being run by the left.” David told the Chronicle that his role as holistic message, the team did create a ney race, he conceded that his lead appeared Bledman, a 37-year-old Rosedale activist and staffer for the Westchester Department district leader actually ended up being an neighborhood-based strategy that identified “nearly unsurmountable.” “We have our attorneys ready and we’re of Social Services, played a major role in obstacle to his campaign. When Gov. Cuomo and targeted election districts with strong ready to challenge and defend every last Anderson’s horizontal campaign model — a canceled the special election for the district turnout for past progressive candidates. Q “The Rockaways, we expected to do very vote of ours,” said Bledman. structure which prevented him from having that was slated to happen in April, it left AD Chronicle Contributor

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Day camps left scrambling Day camps in the city, already faced with strict regulations from the state to stem the coronavirus, are now finding themselves in a jam after the city directed them to reopen on short notice, according to a new report. The nonprofits that run city-funded camps were given just days to rehire staff, sign up families and establish safe programs, a story in the Daily News said. “The timeline that DYCD [the Youth and Community Development Department] proposed and the combination of remote and in-person services with the funding limitations is not viable,” the News quoted Debra

Sue Lorenzen of the St. Nicks Alliance, which runs 10 camps in northern Brooklyn, as saying. “It’s not realistic.” The DYCD relaxed its deadline a little in response to the concerns, the News said. For some camps, it’s already too late. One in central Queens recently had sent prospective families a detailed rundown of the state’s requirements vis-a-vis face masks, sports, the size of groups and more, but then canceled camp because too few people wanted to sign up, according to a Q parent who had received the list. — Peter C. Mastrosimone

Cool Streets coming to Qns. With summer kicking into full swing, the city on Tuesday announced it is expanding its Open Streets program to include Cool Streets. In a statement issued by his office, Mayor de Blasio announced the Cool It! NYC initiative, which will come to sections of the city that rank high under its Heat Vulnerability Index, an indicator used to forecast the likelihood that people are at a health risk in extreme heat events. “New Yorkers are in for a long, hot summer, and staying cool is an essential part of physical health, mental health, and public

safety,” de Blasio said. “We’re excited to build on our popular Open Streets program and find creative ways to fight back against COVID-19 by giving New Yorkers the public space they deserve.” The streets will be chosen for an abundance of shade trees. The FDNY and city’s Department of Environmental Protection will place sprinkler caps on fire hydrants. The first two streets in Queens to be selected are 120th Street in Richmond Hill between Atlantic and Liberty avenues; and 39th Avenue in Sunnyside between WoodQ side and Barnett avenues.

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P A schools plan in draft form EDITORIAL

he long-awaited announcement of how school will resume in September came Wednesday, and it’s a doozy. Parents who were wondering what the heck their families’ lives will look like come fall probably will not feel any closer to knowing after hearing about the plan. Like the old Facebook line about your relationship, “It’s complicated.” In some schools, one group of students will go to class the same two days every week and every other Monday. Another group will do the same, on the alternating days. In other schools, there will be three groups of kids, and every third week, one of them will only be in the building on one day. There’s also a third plan. And they all depend on how many children go to a given school, how much capacity it has, so that everyone can remain 6 feet socially distant. But is that truly necessary? Massachusetts plans to reopen schools with desks only 3 feet apart if necessary. And Michigan apparently isn’t planning to require social distancing in the classroom at all. There are certainly no easy answers. And New

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York City plans to allow children to continue learning entirely online, without coming to school at all, if that’s what their families want. So if a parent can stay home, great — except that it’s well-known that distance learning has been extraordinarily difficult for many families. But would telling your employer you can only work two days a week, sometimes three, be any better? Mayor de Blasio says the city will be working over the coming weeks to “figure out more in terms of child care” and “find other ways to help” parents who have to get to work. That doesn’t sound all that encouraging. What “other ways”? Over all this looms Gov. Cuomo, who won’t yet even commit to reopening the schools in September. As usual during the virus crisis, de Blasio made a declaration (“Schools will be opening in September”) and Cuomo termed it the mayor’s “opinion.” Albany and City Hall both say they’re working very hard on this. No doubt they are. But more details and visible evidence of cooperation would go a long way toward easing parents’ minds.

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e don’t understand what those 20 families in Flushing’s Bland Houses who have been without gas since at least Feb. 1 in some cases and March 24 in others are upset about. That’s nothing. According to the New York City Housing Authority’s own database, there are ongoing gas outages in 63 sections of NYCHA buildings or entire buildings right now — and five of them date back to last year. The earliest is from April 24, 2019, and the second-oldest from July 9, 2019. Happy Anniversary, Sack-Wern Houses! Your entire Bronx building has been without gas for cooking for a full year today. Home sweet home. This is pathetic. NYCHA is pathetic. The families in the Bland Houses, the Sack-Wern Houses and every other building in the system deserve much better than the hot plates they’re given to make meals with when something goes wrong with the gas. Not to mention the interruptions to elevator service (10 buildings right now), hot water (four at the moment) and electricity (only two as of today) they’re forced to put up with. At the Bland Houses, the problems are one broken gas cock (that’s a valve) and one leak somewhere between floors. The private sector would have the work done in a day. With NYCHA, it takes months. Why? Remember all the reforms that were coming to public housing under Mayor de Blasio? All the federal oversight on top of those? What a joke. NYCHA, get your act together and fix the damn valve and pipes already.

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Dear Editor: Council Speaker Corey Johnson states that his NYPD-slashing budget is just the beginning, not the end. No, the end will be when everyone who wants to live a secure life leaves New York City for cities and towns that do not look upon the police with scorn, but rather with respect for the difficult job that they do. John Attanas Forest Hills

Dear Editor: Protestors tried to remove the statue of Gen. Andrew Jackson. This was a bad idea! General Jackson’s militia inflicted a crushing military defeat on the British at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. As a president, his treatment of our Indians was brutal! His Indian policy called for an Indian territory in Arkansas. In 1791, a treaty gave Cherokees part of Georgia as a nation with their own laws and customs. Georgia violated this agreement and annexed their land! Cherokees sought relief from our own Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Marshall issued an injunction, which Georgia defied. President Jackson said, “Marshall made his decision — now let him enforce it.” Jackson refused to execute the court ruling. He ordered General Winfield Scott’s troops to force 15,000 Cherokees to walk over 2,000 miles to Arkansas! Ten percent never survived that tragic journey, known now as the Trail of Tears. Donald J. Trump honored this outrageous

Save money: no new jails Dear Editor: Instead of cutting $1 billion from the police despite skyrocketing shootings and gun deaths, the City Council should revisit the mega jail plan and cancel that $10 billion boondoggle. It is simply unaffordable at this point given loss of revenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic and unnecessary as we hardly detain criminals any more since bail reform was passed. Let’s make do with the jail facilities we have and prioritize economic recovery over new luxury jails that the vast majority of New Yorkers oppose. Scott Avidon Kew Gardens

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decision by placing a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office. He even showed his ignorance of history by taking a photo with Navajo Nation leaders under Jackson. This portrait should be removed along with his photo on our $20 bill. Anthony G. Pilla Forest Hills

Founders inspired the world Dear Editor: If George Washington and Thomas Jefferson’s founding of the United States of America has “provided far more people with far more freedom than any other nation on Earth” (“Washington and Jefferson must stay,” Editorial, June 25), we would do well to remember how their ideas have also spread freedom to those other nations. Nelson Mandela noted that he and his fellow activists against South African apartheid “could not have made an acquaintance through literature with human giants such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson and not been moved to act as they were moved to act … We could not have

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Don’t paint BLM on streets Dear Editor: As a taxpayer in the City of New York, I do not want Mayor de Blasio to use my taxpayer money to give the paint and all the painting apparatus that goes with it to have Black Lives Matter painted on the public streets in NYC. These are all public streets that the taxpayers pay for every year with their money. It is for upkeep of these roads and not for messages to be painted. If you do it for one group of people you have to let every group do it, not just those they deem worthy to do it. If you want to paint BLM messages, paint them on the sidewalks in front of your own homes on private property. To defund the Police Department $1.5 billion and still ask the federal government again to bail out New York City and then use money to paint messages on public streets in every borough is tough to swallow. Kathleen Schatz Rego Park

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BLM and the pro-cop rally Dear Editor: Re “Pro-police, BLM activists face off,” July 2, multiple editions: I was there in the area to work out in the morning and there were no Black Lives Matter/ Antifa chalk writings as they were washed away by rain days before. Then when I returned for

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Dear Editor: I would like to know if anyone remembers Goodwin’s. My first job in 1963 was there. In those days a store might have 50 or so workers, unlike today. It was, I guess, a different time: the beautiful Valencia Theatre, the elegant apartments, the stores, the elevated train — and walking home from the Valencia wasn’t dangerous. There were so many stores. Macy’s was on the same block and had an innovative roof parking system. My father took us there in ’48, and Mays down the block. I even remember a store that had a doggie bar for a quick drink. No one seems to remember the store or what happened to it. I ran the elevator at Goodwin’s. I had many friends there I wish now I had kept up with, especially Kathy — we worked on the third floor. Edna ran the place, there was Doc and Bob … I didn’t expect work to be like it was, and it never has been since. I went back there about 30 years ago. I was horrified by what happened to that beautiful place. If anyone knows Kathy or anyone or what finally happened to the place I would really appreciate you contacting me. It’s nice having this paper to see the old places again (I Have Often Walked, every week, qboro). Thanks. Bill Cosentini Northport, LI Editor’s note: The Queens Chronicle will send reader responses to the writer.

the pro-police march, the BLM loonies must have come to mark up the area with gibberish just to make a scene. In most every park I pass, I have seen their slogans with some “painted” on mailboxes that had to be patched-over: BLM usually coupled with hatred of police. At the event, there were likely 1,000 pro-police supporters with plenty of videos and photos as evidence. BLM agitators had plastered chalk writings around the area with statements from abolishing the police to kill the pigs, as opposed to their hearsay claims that they were the ones threatened when every person on the planet knows the routine with their foul, disturbing accusations, calling people racist, Nazi, etc., unless everyone acquiesces to their point of view. David Pambianchi Middle Village

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Going outside for the first time since March i n h ig h gea r. Of by Mark Lord After three and a half months in self- course, I was wearquarantine, in an effort to protect myself and ing a mask, though my family from the COVID-19 virus, I my plan to wear two finally saw a piece of sky directly overhead was vetoed by people whose opinions I last week. Friends had long been coaxing me to trust. And, though it make the move. Seeing neighbors sunbath- was a warm summer ing on the lawn below offered further day, I put on long enticement. The repetitive chimes from the pants and a longice cream man’s truck made things feel sleeved shirt so as not to come in direct contact with anyone almost normal again. or anything. But I was simply not ready. Few people were out and about in my part As it turned out, leaving the cocoon at that point wasn’t my choice. A chipped tooth of Forest Hills. With one or two exceptions, everyone had on the recommended facial provided all the impetus I needed. Sometime in April, when temperatures coverings. This made me proud and apprebegan to turn milder, I stepped out onto ciative of my fellow New Yorkers. We were in this together. our ter race, the f irst The dental visit went exposure I had had to the reasonably well. On my outside world in about went to see the way home, I was tempted six weeks. I became so dentist, but I’m not to stop in a local pizzeria emotional as the gentle to pick up a pie, which breeze touched my face yet ready to pick I’ve been craving for the that I began to sob. It longest. Enticing as it was a reaction that I up a pizza, much was, I decided against it, could not have fearing it could somehow anticipated. as I’d like to. be contaminated by the I was expecting a similar feeling to overcome me last week but virus. I’ve read that seemingly no one has to an even greater degree. I was already taken ill from food, but that’s not assurance planning how to best conceal my emotions enough for me. It’s difficult to know whom as I passed strangers on my way to the or what to believe nowadays. That’s one of the things I’ve learned as of dentist. Much to my surprise, the feeling of being “released” didn’t bring with it the late. There have been other benefits, too. For one, I’ve become a much better cook. sort of elation that I had looked forward to. As I made my way through my hallway, I was always a steak-in-the-oven type of down the stairwell (I have still not worked guy, but over the past few weeks, I’ve up the courage to take the enclosed and learned to make some slightly more fairly airless elevator), and onto Queens demanding dishes: both chicken and eggBoulevard, I felt strangely unaffected. Per- plant Parmesan, salmon croquettes, sweet haps it was my preoccupation with the potato pudding. Hey, it’s a beginning. And I’ve learned that everyone must deal imminent dental visit that distracted me with situations in his or her own way. from the overall experience. Meanwhile, I’ll be sticking my face and My obsessive compulsive disorder was arms out the kitchen window every morning, trying to soak up some precious vitamin D rays. During the afternoons, as the sun changes its position, you can find me dangling my legs out the bedroom window, much, I’m sure, to the disbelief and possible chagrin of any passersby who happen to look up. If you, perchance, live on an upper floor, please don’t try this at home. When will I venture out again? That remains to be seen. The building’s porter tired of disposing of my garbage, which I placed outside my door twice a week, so right now, I’m gearing up to make my first trip to the compactor room since this mess began. That’s one giant leap for this man. Q Mark Lord is a Queens Chronicle contributing writer, retired teacher, lifelong Part of the complicated corner of Queens lover of Broadway, playwright, community and Yellowstone boulevards in Forest Hills, theater actor and author of “The Theater and I,” who lives in Forest Hills. GOOGLE MAPS IMAGE lonelier than usual.

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Showing love for the police Independence Day is often a time many use to go to the beach, have a barbecue or set off fireworks. One girl in Forest Hills spent July 4 displaying her appreciation for the officers of the 112th Precinct. Ten-year-old Kristina painted rocks with “I love NYPD” on them and handed them

out to the cops. She was inspired to act because she had seen a lot of rocks in the area with messages painted on them. When she saw the police being criticized recently, Kristina, a student at PS 196, wanted to show them that they are appreciated. — David Russell

LETTERS TO THE continued from previous page Brett Kavanaugh made it clear he understood the importance of the precedent set forth in Roe v. Wade and that Roe v. Wade was settled law. In the recent Supreme Court decision dealing with the Louisiana case, five justices overruled the law. Four of the justices in the minority wanted to affirm the law. They included Kavanaugh. So much for his belief in precedent and settled law. His word, in my opinion, is not worth a lead nickel. Benjamin M. Haber Flushing

William Black for VP Dear Editor: Shortly before the nominating convention of 1944, the Democratic National Committee laid down the law to FDR: We have decided that the best running mate for you is going to be a dark horse, this obscure politician from Kansas City, one Harry Truman. This proved to be a superb selection. Will history repeat itself today? The outstanding choice for Joe Biden’s running mate is professor William K. Black, an academic also based in Kansas City. A comparatively youthful 68, professor Black, as a federal prosecutor in the 1980s, singlehandedly masterminded the successful criminal prosecution of hundreds of savings and loan banker-gangsters. He is a native of the

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“heartland/battleground” state of Michigan, and he, like Trump, has emphasized the necessity of combating China’s currency manipulation and predatory trade practices. He has additionally placed as his central priority the reindustrialization of America. Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has described professor Black as “one of the world’s greatest economic thinkers.” Let’s hope that the Democratic National Committee has learned the lessons of history. “Black” is the winning word. Clifton Wellman Elmhurst

Pro-life is pro-mask Dear Editor: Trump claims to be the greatest pro-life president ever. Yet, his cavalier attitude and abysmal performance concerning the COVID-19 pandemic contradicts that pro-life claim. Despite medical and scientific evidence that wearing a mask and social distancing mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the president refuses to wear any type of protective face covering and continues to hold crowded rallies. His vainglorious refusal to adhere to pandemic medical protocols exposes not only his deficiency as a leader but also his pro-life hypocrisy. Glenn Hayes Kew Gardens

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Many blamed new rules for crime spike, while others bemoan rollback by David Russell Associate Editor

When crime increased early in the year, Mayor de Blasio and the NYPD pointed to state-passed bail reform that was implemented at the start of 2020. In April, Gov. Cuomo and state lawmakers scaled back the reforms, with the changes taking place last Thursday. The reaction has been mixed. Marvin Mayfield, statewide organizer at the Center for Community Alternatives, called the rollback “shameful” in a statement last Wednesday. “This is nothing short of devastating for Black and brown communities who have been the target of mass criminalization and state violence,” he said in a prepared statement. The jail population in the state was nearly cut in half: 20,280 in May 2019, compared to 11,259 in May 2020, a 44.5 percent drop, according to statistics from the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services. “It is shameful to reverse these gains, in the midst of a pandemic no less and during a national uprising in defense of Black lives,” Mayfield said. Some categories for which judges can again set bail include vehicular assault in the first degree, promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child, sex trafficking of a child, aggravated assault upon a person

Bail laws were reformed — again — after concerns that rising crime was related to the changes, an opinion voiced by Mayor de Blasio and the NYPD. But some criminal justice activists decried FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHAIN the changes, noting that the prison population has been decreasing. less than 11 years old and any crime that is alleged to have caused the death of another person. Any felony committed by a persistent felony offender also qualifies. “The one thing that was important for us to address was the recidivism,” state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) told the Chronicle Monday. Stories about repeat offenders were constant, including one man who, in February,

was arrested for the sixth time of the year and the 139th overall. “Bail reform, it’s lit,” Charles Barry told reporters as he was transported to Central Booking. “It’s the Democrats. The Democrats know me and the Republicans fear me. You can’t touch me. I can’t be stopped.” Addabbo said the bail reform rollbacks didn’t receive much attention in April because that was the height of the coronavi-

rus crisis but now they are going into effect as crime is on the rise around the city. “It’s an odd time to evaluate,” Addabbo said, noting that there are still residents staying at home due to the pandemic. Assemblyman Joe Giglio (R-Gowanda) told NY1 that what he heard most from law enforcement after the initial changes was the need to restore judicial discretion. “No one wants lower level criminals in jail because they cost too much anyways,” he said. “You’re not a menace to society. But these went way too far. They made drug offenses practically legal.” Jason Conwall, a spokesman for Cuomo, said the governor has achieved historic reforms to the criminal justice system as he draws criticism for the rollbacks. “New York is the least incarcerative and safest large state in the nation and the governor closed more prisons than any governor in state history, overseeing an unprecedented 37 percent decline in the incarcerated population,” he said in an email. Conwall added that Cuomo issued an executive order requiring localities to reinvent police departments or risk losing funding. Addabbo said he hopes issues people had with the bail reform were taken care of. “But if not, it’s back to the drawing Q board,” he said.

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$1.6M given for synagogue security Meng announces funding for houses of worship, educational institutions by David Russell Associate Editor

Re p. G r ace Meng ( D -Flu sh i ng) announced last Thursday that $1.6 million in federal funding was awarded to 16 borough synagogues and educational institutions for security purposes. The institutions awarded $100,000 were: • Reform Temple of Forest Hills at 71-11 112 St.; • Young Israel of Hillcrest at 169-07 Jewel Ave. in Flushing; • Rabbinical Seminary of America at 76-01 147 St. in Kew Gardens Hills; • Young Israel of Queens Valley at 14155 77 Ave. in Kew Gardens Hills; • Torah Center of Hillcrest at 171-05 Jewel Ave. in Fresh Meadows; • Forest Hills Jewish Center at 106-06 Queens Blvd.; • Jewish Center of Forest Hills West at 63-25 Dry Harbor Road in Middle Village; • Shaarey Bnos Chayil Institute at 75-09 Main St. in Kew Gardens Hills; • Congregation Ohr Menachem in Forest Hills; • Utopia Jewish Center at 64-41 Utopia Pkwy. in Fresh Meadows; • Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills at

70-11 150 St.; • Touro College at 71-02 113 St. in Forest Hills; • United Talmudical Seminary at 74-10 88 St. in Glendale; • Jewish Institute of Queens at 60-05 Woodhaven Blvd. in Elmhurst; • Bais Yaakov Academy for Girls at 12450 Metropolitan Ave. in Kew Gardens; and • Yeshiva of Central Queens at 147-37 70 Road in Kew Gardens Hills. The funds are allocated through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program, an initiative that provides houses of worship and nonprofits with funding to protect their properties against threats and attacks. “Following the increase in hate crimes and anti-Semitic incidents, it is vital that Jewish facilities have the resources they need to protect themselves, and these critical funds will be a huge help in guarding against attacks here in Queens,” Meng said in a statement. The $100,000 is the maximum grant amount. The grants are administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency a nd cover secu r it y en ha ncements including barriers, gates, safety gear, sur-

Forest Hills Jewish Center is one of 16 synagogues and educational institutions in the borough that received $100,000 in federal funding to bolster security, Rep. Grace Meng announced last FILE PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL Friday. veillance equipment and other measures. Meng also announced grants for a pair of non-Jewish facilities: • Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament

Catholic Academy at 34-24 203 St. in Bayside was awarded $57,000; and • Church on the Hill at 167-07 35 Ave. in Q Flushing was awarded $61,004.

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Though Queens has been the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis, some of its neighborhoods were among those getting the fewest loans to aid small businesses that they were eligible for, a new report finds. The study, conducted by apartment search assistance firm RentHop, analyzed Paycheck Protection Program loan data by ZIP code and compared it with U.S. Census information to assess which neighborhoods received the most and least loans relative to the number of qualified businesses. It found that only 38.3 percent of qualified businesses in the 11355 ZIP code in Flushing got loans, the lowest share in the city. In the 11368 ZIP code in Corona, one of the neighborhoods hardest hit by the virus, the figure was 48.2 percent, the fourth-lowest share citywide. The top ZIP code in the city was 11222 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where 78.2 percent of eligible businesses received PPP loa n s, wh ich were designed to help firms continue to pay their personnel during the crisis. The study analyzes multiple other aspects of the loans, such as job retention, Q and can be found at bit.ly/31U3wnf. — Peter C. Mastrosimone

Swastika carved on car hood Pols disgusted; precinct commander said owner isn’t Jewish by David Russell Associate Editor

Capt. Joseph Cappelmann, commanding officer of the 112th Precinct, said the motivation behind a swastika carving on a car is FILE PHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL not yet known.

A car’s tires were punctured by an unknown object and the hood of the vehicle was defaced with the carving of a swastika over the weekend. Capt. Joseph Cappelmann, commanding officer of the 112th Precinct, which consists of Forest Hills and Rego Park, noted the owner of the vehicle at 102nd Street and 64th Road isn’t Jewish. “I’m not sure what the motivation was behind it,” he told the Chronicle Tuesday, “if it was just a personal issue with the parking situation or if it was meant to cause alarm in the neighborhood, which is obviously a possibility.” C a p p el m a n n s a i d t h e i n c i d e n t occurred sometime between 5 p.m. last Saturday and 10 a.m. last Sunday. “It’s a little difficult because there’s a large window of time,” he said. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is handling the investigation. This comes weeks after stickers promoting Patriot Front, a white nationalist group, were posted around 108th Street, with the group’s website on them. “There’s nothing to indicate that it’s related,” Cappelmann said.

Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing), state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing), Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest H i l l s) a n d C ou n c i lwo m a n K a r e n Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills) released a statement on the act. “We are disgusted to learn about this reprehensible crime,” they said Tuesday. “While the owner of the vandalized vehicle may not have been Jewish, we cannot ignore the par ticular malice behind this incident — which occurred in an area that is home to one of the largest Jewish populations in New York City.” The commanding off icer said the anti-Semitic graffiti was the first seen by the precinct in 2020. In early 2019, the playground at PS 139 in Rego Park was covered by dozens of swastikas. Three juveniles were later arrested. Of the 345 hate crimes recorded in the five boroughs last year, 234 were motivated by anti-Semitism. Cappelmann had advice for any residents concer ned about anti-Jewish sentiment. “You just need to be vigilant and if you Q see something suspicious, call 911.”

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Guns are back, and the borough’s got ’em Mayor, NYPD differ on causes as shooting incidents, victims skyrocket by Michael Gannon Editor

July 3: A man sitting in his car on 164th Street in Hillcrest is approached by two armed men, robbed of cash and a cell phone and pistol-whipped. July 4: A man is standing in front of a home on 168th Place in Jamaica Estates when a man on a bicycle rides past and fires one shot, striking the victim in one arm. July 5: Multiple shots are fired into an unoccupied vehicle in front of a home on 110th Avenue in Jamaica. July 5: A witness to a car accident with injuries at 146th Street and 107th Avenue in Jamaica records the license plate of a vehicle leaving the scene; the car returns and the witness is th reatened with a firearm. July 6: A 14-year-old boy is standing near the intersection of 166th and Marsden st reets in St. Albans when two men approach on foot and open fire, striking him in the neck and abdomen, and leaving him in critical condition. And all during or shortly after a holiday weekend in New York City in which 64 people were shot in more than 40 shooting incidents. At least 10 have died. The Daily News quoted Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz at the scene of the boy’s shooting on Monday. “Shootings have gone up all over the city, and Queens is no exception. We’re not going to prosecute our way out of this. We’re going to have to reach out to the community and all its leaders.” Katz made similar comments in a television interview The City Council last week voted to transfer more than $1.5 billion out of the NYPD’s operational and capital budgets for the fiscal year that began on July 1. It also voted to delay a class of more than 1,000 cadets at the Police Academy. The NYPD and Commissioner Dermot Shea parsed no words Monday when releasing official crime stats through the month of June. “The sharp increase in shootings and violence in New York puts innocent people

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The NYPD is seeking this man for questioning in the nonfatal shooting of a 28-year-old man in Jamaica Estates on July 4. A second shooting two days later critically wounded a 14-year-old boy PHOTO COURTESY NYPD in St. Albans. at risk and tears at the fabric of life in our city,” Shea said. “The challenges are great for an NYPD facing the strain of deep budget cuts, changes to the criminal justice system that are impacting the courts and the continuing international health pandemic. But through it all, I have seen our hardworking men and women display an unwavering commitment to the kind of fair and effective policing that defines our agency and that New Yorkers expect and deserve.” Murder in the city is up 23.1 percent (181 vs. 147) for the first six months of 2020 when compared to the f irst six months of 2019. Through June 30, there has been a 46 percent spike in citywide shooting incidents (528 vs. 362). Between June 1 and June 30, there was a 130 percent increase over last year in the number of shooting incidents across the city — 205 vs. 89 in June 2019 — as the

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number of shootings rose in every borough. The number of people murdered citywide in June increased to 39 vs. 30 (up 30 percent). Shooting incidents in the city rose from 205 to 270. Police said the number of parolees involved in shooting incidents or murders is at a 15-year high, and that from January through the end of June, more than 2,000 people arrested in a crime with a gun recovered had cases against them that remain open in the courts. Mayor de Blasio, at a press conference on Monday with NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan, placed the blame for the increases on forces largely beyond the city’s control. “This is something we have to double down on to address,” de Blasio said in a transcript provided by his office. “And it’s not because of one thing, let’s be really clear. There’s not one cause for something

like this, there’s a lot of different pieces. And, again, the fact that the court system is not working, the economy’s not working, people have been pent up for months and months, so many issues underlying this challenge.” Monahan, taking a question moments later, was far more direct. “When we look at it, as the Mayor said, there’s a lot of different things going on,” Monahan said. “It’s a combination of things — bail reform, COVID releases from prison, court shut down, ... Rikers at a half of where they were last year with a population.” The mayor then immediately went back to the court system. “I think, from my point of view, the most central issue of what’s happening over this last weekend is the fact that the court system is not functioning, that when our police effectuate an arrest, they don’t have the same follow-through they’re used to seeing from the court system,” he said. “ ... We’ve got to get the court system up and running. We’ve got to get the DAs doing their work so that we can address folks who are violent in communities and are causing harm to their neighbors.” Lucien Chalfen, director of Communications for the New York State Unified Court System, directly contradicted de Blasio in an email to the Chronicle. “The Mayor’s blaming the Courts for the recent spike in violence in New York City is absurd, patently false and ridiculous,” he wrote. “The Courts have operated continuously throughout the pandemic, arraigning defendants, holding 100s of hearings, and conferencing 1,000s of cases. “He should be looking in the mirror, not Q gazing out a window.”

Correction Due to an editing error, the July 2 story “Pro-police, BLM activists face off” misstated the number of people who took part in a rally supporting the NYPD. Several hundred did, while about 60 entered Juniper Valley Park at Q the end of the event. We regret the error.

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Lancman calls for Shea’s termination NYPD head blames violent holiday weekend on bail reform laws by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

The holiday weekend was marked with at least 44 shootings with 63 victims and 11 deaths throughout the city, which NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea blamed on bail reform and Councilmember Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) blamed on Shea’s failure. The July 3, 4 and 5 violence followed a 130 percent jump in shootings in June 2020 compared to the same time in June 2019. “We’re in a perfect storm of sorts with COVID, with the Rikers population, but, you know — look at the Rikers population of the last year. Ask a sane person, it’s about half. And where is that other half right now? We’ve transplanted general population to the streets of New York City. And it’s extremely frustrating,” Shea said as a guest on NY1’s Mornings on One show July 6. Lancman, who supported cash bail reform, took to Twitter June 6 to counter Shea’s statement and call for his resignation — Lancman said the commissioner blamed the violence weekend on legislation that prohibits officers from using chokeholds or from jailing suspects without bail, which he views as a “not just a stunning admission of failure, but a complete surrender.” Later that same day, Lancman returned to the social media platform to publish his letter

addressed to Mayor de Blasio calling for Shea’s termination — “If he won’t resign, you need to fire him and appoint a Commissioner and senior police leadership committed to, and capable of, obeying civilian authority and enforcing the law.” The feud between the NYPD commissioner and City Council justice system chairman began in February when Lancman, along with Public Safety Chairperson Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton), penned a letter to Shea accusing him of pushing a false narrative that bail reform laws were to blame for a 17 percent crime spike in the month of January. The two councilmembers referred to CompStat figures and compared the number of individuals released without bail in January with the spike in crime — there were 1,222 more index crimes in January 2020 than in January 2019, but the legislators point out that only 84 of the 230 January 2020 arrests involving individuals released without bail were charged with index crimes. The state implemented some rollback on bail reform that went into effect on July 1 —judges can now set bail in cases of vehicular assault in the first degree, promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child, sex trafficking of a child, aggravated assault upon a person less than 11 years old and any crime that is alleged to have caused the death of another person.

Councilmember Rory Lancman, left, issued a July 6 letter to Mayor de Blasio calling for the termination of NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, right, for blaming a rise in shootings over the July FILE PHOTOS 4 weekend on bail reform legislation. During his July 6 daily press briefing, de Blasio acknowledged that the increase in shootings was “not because of one thing, let’s be really clear. There’s not one cause for something like this. There’s a lot of different pieces. Again, the fact that the court system is not working, the economy’s not working, people have been pent up for months and months. So many issues underlying this challenge.” Lancman said the disconnect between de

Blasio and Shea is indicative of a larger issue between the mayor and NYPD. “Think about this, the elected mayor and ‘The NYPD’ having two different positions and explanations on a critically important issue, and tell me that this mayor hasn’t lost control of his police department,” Lancman wrote in another July 6 tweet. Neither Shea nor de Blasio issued a response Q to Lancman’s letter.

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Fate of Columbus debated in Astoria by Max Parrott Chronicle Contributor

The surge of online petitions and marches to remove Columbus monuments across New York City has come to Astoria Boulevard. Over a hundred people, including state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria), marched from Astoria Park to the neighborhood’s Columbus monument on June 17 to demand that it be removed as a way of reckoning with his legacy of murdering and enslaving indigenous people in the Americas. Now the call to take the monument down has gained the support of Councilman Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria), and some civic leaders, under the condition that it be replaced with another Italian-American figure. For the past month, police have barricaded the statue in Columbus Square. Passersby have noticed the near-constant presence of a police cruiser hovering next to the memorial. The history of the city’s Columbus monuments carries with it a complicated relationship with the Italian community, many of whom embraced the explorer and colonizer as a hero in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in order to combat anti-Italian and anti-Catholic xenophobia. The Federation of Italian-American Organizations of Queens runs the annual Astoria Columbus parade that winds up at the statue where electeds and others give laudatory speeches about the significance of Columbus Day. In previous years the celebration brought out Assembly woman A ravella

The Christopher Columbus statue on Astoria PHOTO BY WALTER KARLING Boulevard in Astoria. Simotas (D-Astoria), Gianaris and Constantinides — all of whom are now in favor of taking it down. Jerry Iannece, vice president of the FIAOQ and chairman of the Columbus Day Parade, said he is categorically against the removal of the statue. “To come out and just say we want to rip the statue down — it’s just the wrong approach. It’s offensive. It’s disrespectful to the Italian community,” Iannece said. “History is history, period, warts and all. If you

start with Columbus where do you end?” Iannece added that the history of the statue itself, which was provided by the Works Progress Administration in 1941 and hidden to stop it from being used for scrap metal during World War II, made it too valuable to remove. The group that organized the march in June, the Queens Liberation Project, formerly known as Justice for George Queens, wants the statue taken down as a way of contending with early America’s violence against native people and showing solidarity “between black, indigenous peoples and between all oppressed peoples.” Trasonia Abbott, an organizer for the group, speaking personally, said that she sees no problem with replacing Columbus with another Italian-American figure “who wasn’t genocidal.” She referred specifically to Columbus’ interactions with the Taíno population in Cuba and Haiti. On his second expedition, Columbus began requiring a tribute of gold from the population. If they did not deliver, the Spaniards would cut off their hands and leave them to bleed to death, according to historical accounts. “Hopefully Italian-Americans see that the guy is not representing them the best way,” said Abbott. Richard Khuzami, head of the Old Astoria Neighborhood Association, agreed that the statue should be replaced with another symbol of Italian-American pride. “It could be someone like [ Nikolai] Tesla, who lived in New York, a famous Italian-American scientist,” said Khuzami. “It could be someone like [Leonardo] Da

Vinci or Michaelangelo.” Meanwhile online commenters have suggested Astoria natives like actor Christopher Walken or singer Tony Bennett. While Queens Liberation Project’s online petition only gained 84 supporters, the march itself brought out greater numbers of people and attracted the attention of electeds. “There are more than two centuries of figures — from governors and vice presidential candidates to baseball stars and musicians — who better represent Italian-American values of hard work, community service, and family,” said Constantinides in a statement. Constantinides went on to demand that the city must expedite the recommendations of the Monuments Commission, a group that Mayor de Blasio formed in 2017 to address calls to take down memorials connected to racist or imperialist views. Since then, de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo both have resisted the call to replace Columbus statues in the city. In 2018, the Monuments Commission recommended against replacing the statue in Manhattan’s Columbus Circle. Instead, it emphasized “additive measures” like signs with historical context, and the commission of a new monument recognizing indigenous peoples, at a different location by 2022. Constantinides criticized the mayor’s failure to show that he’s making an effort to follow through on this promise. “We have seen little action in the last two years to honor both the Lenape and other indigQ enous groups,” he said.

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Small businesses hope to flourish in Phase 3 Flushing seeks to recover negative stereotypes from the pandemic by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

New York City entered Phase 3 of business reopening Monday, which allows for personal care services such as nail salons and tattoo parlors and outdoor recreational activities to resume operations, but, unlike other areas throughout the state, does not allow for indoor dining. “New York City is a crowded, dense urban area and — until recently — was the global epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis,” Gov. Cuomo said in a July 5 statement. “Out of an abundance of caution and after seeing other states’ experiences with indoor dining, we will wait to reopen it as the city moves to Phase Three.” Nail, tanning and waxing salons, massage, tattoo and piercing parlors and spas have opened as part of Phase 3, but must limit their employee and customer capacity to 50 percent of the maximum occupancy. Additionally, customers and employees are required to wear masks and keep a 6-foot distance when possible, and hygienic and disinfectant practices must be ramped up. Beaches opened for swimming July 1, but Phase 3 allowed for soccer fields, outdoor basketball, tennis, volleyball, bocce and handball courts and dog runs to reopen to the public on July 6. Competitive team practices, meets and

New York City entered Phase 3 July 6, which Flushing Chamber of Commerce Executive Director John Choe said is especially important for the small businesses of the Asian neighborhood, FILE PHOTO which have faced discrimination during the pandemic. tournaments remain prohibited. Small businesses across the city have long awaited reopening to make up for the losses over the past few months, but John Choe, executive director of the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce, said that small businesses in the heavily Asian neighborhood are suffering a “double whammy.”

“The businesses have suffered greatly during the pandemic, even before when Flushing was being scapegoated and being profiled as a center of infection when in fact Flushing has had some of the lowest rates and deaths in the city,” said Choe. “We’re recovering from a general decline in business, but also as a stereotype as a vector of the disease ... we had

The New York Times and the New York Post print photographs of Flushing when the stories were about people being infected in Manhattan. We have to redouble our efforts to promote Flushing as a safe and diverse community where people can enjoy culture from around the world.” To entice shoppers to return to area establishments, the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce has been working with small businesses to increase their marketing capacity through social media and video creation. The chamber has also been assisting with loan and grant applications, but Choe said that pushing local leaders to implement rent and mortgage moratoriums as well as other relief measures is necessary for small businesses to make a successful comeback. “We need to be actively engaged and put the pressure on our elected officials,” said Choe. Cuomo did not announce when indoor dining would resume, but noted a few days earlier that it would remain postponed “until the facts change and it is prudent to open.” Although restaurants are limited to outdoor services in addition to takeout and delivery, Mayor de Blasio combined the Open Streets and Open Restaurants programs in 10 to 20 corridors across the city to allow for more outdoor seating on closed-off streets until Labor continued on page 22

Bland Houses without gas for three months Elected officials demand action on residents’ behalf from NYCHA by Katherine Donlevy

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Residents of a building in Flushing’s Bland Houses complex have been without cooking gas for over three months and elected officials are demanding action on their behalf. “Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in March, [New York City Housing Authority], [city Department of Buildings], and Con Edison have left these tenants without gas supply,” Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing), state Sen. John Liu (D-Bayside), Assemblymember Ron Kim (D-Flushing) and City Councilmember Peter Koo wrote in a July 2 letter addressed to the three agencies. “The residents of the Bland Houses are struggling and remain in desperate need of receiving working gas during this COVID-19 public health emergency.” A gas line at the 133-40 Roosevelt Ave. building has been out of service since March. A spokesperson from NYCHA confirmed that two gas service interruptions are affecting two of the buildings at the Bland Houses for a total of 20 apartments. One of the outages is due to a broken gas cock and the other is due to a gas leak between floors. Both service interruptions affect cooking gas only and are unrelated to heat or hot water service. Those affected were provided with hot plates to cook their meals, but residents said

those were in poor condition and took hours to properly prepare their food. The elected officials argued that even if the hot plates worked adequately, that is not an acceptable long-term solution. “For over three months, our constituents, many of whom are essential workers, have said that they have had to choose between standing over their NYCHA-issued hot plates for hours to prepare rice or meat and managing to get some rest before beginning their commutes to our city’s hospitals to help those most in need,” wrote the representatives. “NYCHA, NYCDOB, and Con Edison have been ineffective in promptly addressing the needs of the residents of Bland Houses serviced by gas line A. This has only exacerbated the urgency and frustration of the pandemic.” Kim was the first of the elected officials to sound alarm bells — he penned a letter to NYCHA CEO and Chairperson Greg Russ and General Manager and COO Vito Mustaciuolo on June 20 claiming the residents have been without gas since January, rather than March. “The lack of functional stoves means they have been forced into more expensive food options for six months; during half of this time there has been a nation wide health crisis, when even many of these options were not available or greatly restricted,” the assemblymember wrote. “The lack of hot, nutritious

Elected officials penned a letter demanding action from NYCHA following reports that multiple apartments at the Bland Houses in Flushing have been without cooking gas since FILE PHOTO March. meals is more devastating for seniors and lowincome families, whose economic security has also been undermined by the COVID-19 pan-

demic. Their health and wellbeing have been greatly and negatively impacted by this situation ... six months without any improvements to this state of affairs is completely unacceptable.” Kim visited the facilities himself, and later requested that NYCHA reduce the residents’ rent, as well as provide them with compensation. Meng said she also visited the affected apartments to get a clear comprehension of the longstanding issue, and that the letter came after multiple attempts from the elected officials to pressure the agency to speed up repairs. “Early last month, I heard from local residents that they have had no gas service ... We sent this letter to follow-up on these many calls and emails. In recent visits to the Bland Houses, I personally visited tenants in their homes,” Meng told the Chronicle July 6. “The lack of working gas for all these months is absolutely unacceptable. These apartments lacked gas service during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak in New York, and the outage now continues into the summer months as we continue to combat the virus. We are told that parts to fix the gas line must still arrive, and that permits for the repairs still need to be issued. But to residents of the continued on page 22

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Petition demands officials move ‘sex offenders’ for safety concerns by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

The Fresh Meadows community is not happy with their new guests — a petition calling for the approximate 100 jail and prison inmates recently released from the Department of Corrections temporarily staying at the Wyndham Garden Hotel. “You’ve worked hard to make your American dream of home ownership come true. You’ve made sacrifices, paid your taxes and played by the rules. Now without so much as a word, the NYC elected officials you helped to put into office have decided to use hotels in your community as halfway houses for ex-convicts and sex offenders,” the bio reads. As of July 8, “SAY NO to using the Wyndham, Fresh Meadows to House 100 For mer In mates and Sex Offenders! ” reached 8,322 of its 10,000 signature goal. Residents using the hotel facilities include those who have been released from Rikers Island or have returned from state correctional facilities, but all identified themselves as not having stable housing where they could safely isolate from the COVID crisis. The Mayor’s Office, in partnership with the Exodus Transitional Services program, placed the tenants in the 61-27 186 St. facility over two months ago without alerting area elected officials, but have since conducted walk-through

tours and meetings with community leaders and plan to schedule future update meetings. “Fresh Meadows is a good residential community — we are all friendly to each other and keep the community safe,” Katherine Meng said on why she signed the petition, adding that a neighbor asked her to sign it after allegedly seeing a man outside the hotel showing his naked lower body. “These people should not be settled in a residential community. The city should put them in a place just for them away from kids, a place far from residential!” Many of the comments beneath the petition identify the residents as “sex offenders” and to the hotel as a “halfway house,” though there is no information on what crimes the former inmates had been convicted of, and the Mayor’s Office confirmed that all had completed time served. Others shared concerns for the proximity of the hotel to schools such as Francis Lewis High School and PS46. The Flushing Heights Civic Association shared a link to the petition following reports that the former inmates have committed muggings and other crimes, though President Bill Anello said the 107th Precinct, located two miles from the hotel, could not confirm that the former inmates were linked to the incidents.

The Fresh Meadows community is not happy that the city is using the Wyndhman Garden Hotel to house former Department of Corrections inmates for over two months. PHOTO BY KATHERINE DONLEVY

“They’re not happy,” Anello said of the community. “I’ve spoken to [different community groups] and none of them are happy and are waiting to see what happens. Nobody wants them here.” Anello acknowledged that the former inmates are entitled to transitional housing,

but questioned why the city chose to place them in Fresh Meadows, especially in such a quiet manner. “It’s the way this city government has been working for a few years — they do whatever they want,” Anello said. “There’s no concern for the people who live there. They don’t let people know what’s going on.” State Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing), Assembly woman Nily Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows) and Rep. Grace Meng (D-Flushing), the latter two of whom were addressed in the petition, released a joint statement supporting transitional services for rehabilitated citizens, but questioned the choice to house them in Fresh Meadows. “We realize the critical role that transitional housing serves for individuals working toward a safe and successful re-entry, and that the unexpected nature of COVID-19 prompted quick action to address the needs of vulnerable populations across the city — but the City’s failure to notify our offices and engage with the community has left us in the dark causing misinformation and confusion,” the officials said. “It also raises further questions and concerns about how the Wyndham Hotel was selected, the length of stay for those who are currently housed, and future uses of this hotel and others in the Q vicinity.”

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Onto Phase 3 continued from page 18 Day. Only two in Queens have been named so far and they’re both in the Bayside Village Business Improvement District — along Bell Boulevard from 39th Avenue to 41st Avenue and 41st Avenue from Bell Boulevard to 214th Place. “We’re still waiting to hear if any Open Streets would be implemented in Flushing,” said Choe. “The unfortunate part of the pandemic is that it’s still ongoing, and the indoor dining has been postponed, so that means that one way to support area businesses is to still do takeout and delivery ... That’s the only way they’ve been able to survive.” New York City reported 274 COVD-19 cases on July 7, accounting for 46.4 percent of the state’s 590 daily total. “We are closely monitoring the gauges on the reopening valve to see if the infection or hospitalization rate is going up, and we will tighten or loosen the valve as necessary depending on the data. If we see spikes in data or lack of compliance, we will slow down the reopening valve and adjust as necessary,” Cuomo said Monday. “The numbers show we are right where we want to be, but what’s happening around the country is a cold reminder that we need to continue being cautious and smart and disciplined — no one wants to go back to the hell that we went Q through.”

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the Sutphin Boulevard BID and Pauline Swift from Our World Media dropped in. Above, Phil Orenstein and James Trent of the Queens Village Republican Club had voter registration. At top right, Chronicle Account Executive Ree Brinn joins Salwa Elmeawad and Lenny Mancuso of the Kiwanis Club of Bayside who made a donation to Kelsey Brow of King Manor. Kalyiah Smith-Greene, 4, checks out a museum display with Brow, Brinn, Valerie Samuel and Rigo Pena.

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Not every great dip is something you put on the snack table. continued from page 4 beachgoers to sit with family members only, maintain social distancing and refrain from any group sports. Occasionally, when sections of the beach got too crowded, the green-shirted police directed people to other sections where lifeguards were stationed.

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Mea nwh ile, de Bla sio h a s also reversed his decision to shut down the city pools for the summer in order to keep people from congregating. In late July, the city will open 15 of the city’s 53 public pools in neighborhoods farthest from the beach, he said Q last week.

Without gas continued from page 18 Bland Houses, these are nothing but bureaucratic obstacles and red tape, and they continue to suffer.” Meng added that many of the suffering tenants are frontline workers, seniors and families with children, who “must no longer be forced to live without working gas, and be told to rely on hot plates or other inadequate solutions in place of a basic necessity.” When asked for a response to the elected officials’ letter, a spokesperson from the Department of Buildings said that all plumbing repairs at the Bland Hou ses wou ld b e p e r for med by NYCHA. The NYCHA spokesperson said the agency has shut off the gas service to make necessary repairs and is in the construction stage, which will be followed by inspections. There is no estimated restoration date at this time. “While we understand gas service interruptions are inconvenient, we also want to ensure our residents’ health and safety as we work to restore service as quickly as possible,” the spokesperson said. “We ask that all residents continue to use the MyNychaApp or call the Customer Contact Center at 718-7077771 to create a work order ticket for any maintenance needs, including serQ vice interruptions.”

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Whitewashed white men? by Max Parrott

The project is part of a thoughtful program the park curators developed to facilitate conversation about the role of monuments in society, and to give a voice to marginalized narratives of diasporic, Indigenous and queer communities. The two images that Faustine contributed portray the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, and the Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt in front of the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. On the bill-

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When protesters marched against the Astoria Columbus statue last month, the neighborhood became a battleground against historical monument s of white men with racist and imperialist views. But the Columbus statue is only one front of the political movement. Another lies in nearby Socrates Sculpture Park, where the movement is not focused on taking down monuments, but in presenting artistic commentary on them. Last week the Long Island City park installed a billboard above its entrance by Nona Faustine, a photographer who has spent her career grappling with the role of race in many of America’s most iconic monuments.

Artist takes critical look at Lincoln and Roosevelt amid statue strife

board, named “In Praise of Famous Men No More,” a hazy band of color runs through Fautine’s photos of the classical monuments, adding a layer of symbolic meaning to the statues. Faustine told the Chronicle that she is interested in exploring the “whitewashing of histor y, the hidden histor y within these monuments, and things that we don’t talk about, l i ke t h e Af r i c a n -A m e r i c a n s o l d i e r s who participated in a Civil War, but yet they’re not represented at the Lincoln Memorial.” The Lincoln statue, which is located on the National Mall, was carved from white marble by Daniel Chester French. The dark line running through Faustine’s photo ser ves as a reminder of the black Americans who are an integral part of Lincoln’s legacy. “I ’m n o t s ay i ng t h a t p e o p l e s h o u l d tear down Lincoln’s memorial,” said Faustine.

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A 21-year-old CPA named Saul Alpern married Sara Presser, two years his senior, in August 1935 in Brooklyn. They were blessed with a baby girl Joan in 1937. On May 18, 1941 another daughter, Ruth, was born. They lived in Brooklyn at 240 Sullivan Place in Crown Heights. After World War II, Alpern’s CPA business at 570 Seventh Ave. in Manhattan was booming. In 1950 they moved to a large 50-by-100 English Tudor home in the Queens “suburb” of Laurelton at 137-25 224 St. Ruth got married young at age 18, in 1959 to Bernie Madoff, whom she met at Far Rockaway High School where they both went. In 1960, her husband started a penny stock investment company. She worked as his bookkeeper. She gave birth to two sons, Mark in 1964 and Andrew in 1966. Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities became the largest Ponzi scheme in history. He said he got the idea from observing how Social Security worked. With the arrest and conviction of her husband, Ruth did no jail time, claiming she knew nothing. Today she

The childhood home of Ruth Madoff, wife of Bernie Madoff, at 137-25 224 St. in Laurelton, as it appeared c. 1950 when she lived there. INSET SCREENSHOT / OPENREGISTRY / YOUTUBE lives in a condo complex in Old Greenwich, Conn. with little in the way of assets. Longevity is on her side. Her dad passed away at 95 and her mom at 94. The Laurelton childhood home is appraised at $538,000 while the Sullivan Place home they left to go to Queens is worth $1,400,000. Once again location, location, location. Q

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This year’s Live at the Gantries concert series is moving from the Long Island City waterfront to online as an eclectic mix will still deliver performances for fans to enjoy. One group is The Salt Cracker Crazies, a jug band, who can be seen July 21. “I don’t think a lot of people have actually seen a jug band before,” said band founder Joe Jung. The group started as a joke. Jung, the artistic director of Project: Theater, 10 years ago adapted a series of monologues based off a collection of short stories from comedian Michael Ian Black, including “A Few Words About My Jug Band.” After the show, someone told Jung he wanted to audition for the band. Jung tried to explain they weren’t a real group but the man kept pushing and an unlikely ensemble was formed. “We all dived deep into music

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history and jug band tunes,” Jung said. There is a core group of six members, including Jung’s wife. “To see and hear homemade instruments and instruments that are sometimes associated with bluegrass or a kind of Appalachian music being played in more blues and jazz style, it’s something that takes people off guard and makes people tap their feet,” he said. On July 14, Kalunga, The Duo Sessions will bring an eclectic and exciting blend of Afro-Latin music and crossover chamber music. The show will be followed by a master class on Bata percussion. Brooklyn Raga Massive’s Tradition to Innovation Program will showcase a wide range of sounds inspired by jazz and traditional Indian Classical and raga music on July 28. Aaron Shragge, who plays the trumpet and the shakuhachi, a Japanese flute, noted the inclusivity of the collective and how it combines classical music but also has more adventurous material such as jazz and original work. “There’s a real spirit of innovation and that’s what’s part of this concert,” he said. Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Fernandito Ferrer will offer his personal take on Nueva cancion — a social movement and genre of music characterized by folkinspired styles — on Aug. 4.

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The Salt Cracker Crazies, a jug band, will perform July 21 as part of the Live at the PHOTO COURTESY JOE JUNG Gantries summer concert series, now online. The Chivalrous Crickets will perform on Aug. 11, using a sound based on a mix of Appalachian, Old Time, traditional English and Celtic music. Mexican songstress Claudia Valentina will perform classic boleros, rancheras, son jarocho, cumbias and indigenous pieces on Aug. 18. The season will close Aug. 25 with

Grammy-winner Dan Zanes and HaitianAmerican jazz vocalist Claudia Zanes, featuring Dan’s hits as well as songs from their new songbook, “Dan Zanes’ House Party!: A Family Roots Music Treasury.” The concerts will stream at 7 p.m. at Facebook.com/KupferbergCenterArts folQ lowed by a live Q&A and discussion.

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Obama was still in office in 2016. She added that she was inspired by writers such as James Baldwin and Christina Sharp to explore the erasure of black history from works of art. The political movement to remove statues of slave holders, Confederate figures or colonists that was triggered by the George Floyd protests may spring from the same issues that Faustine is addressing, but she distinguished her work from the current wave. “All the activism that you see right now going on, the visual artists, particularly African-American or black artists, have been doing this work for decades, talking about inequality or lack of representation in, not only the visual arts, but in America,” said Faustine. Though she didn’t tie her art directly to the recent nationwide protests, the second image of Faustine’s presidential installation is very timely. It closely coincided with the recent announcement that the Roosevelt piece in front of the Natural History Museum will be removed. The statue depicts Roosevelt on horseback, flanked by an indigenous man and an African man.

Nona Faustine’s “In Praise of Famous Men No More,” featuring Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, perches above the entrance to Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City. PHOTOS BY CHRIS ZIRBES, ABOVE, AND, COVER, SCOTT LYNCH; BOTH COURTESY NONA FAUSTINE / SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK

In Faustine’s photographic rendering, which she collaborated with Two Palms press to screen print, a vivid red smear intersects the Roosevelt statue. Faustine

said that she was inspired by Andy Warhol’s silkscreens to experiment in that medium. The billboard will stay up at the sculpture Q garden until March 14, 2021.

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continued from page 23 “I’m not here to say what to tear down. I’m just saying look at these statues, and look at the legacy of these men. Are they truthful? Whose statues should be put on pedestals, whose should not?” In fact, Faustine started her exploration of the American monuments before the first wave of post-Charlottesville Confederate statue demolition in 2017. She first had the idea when visiting DC when Barack

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A boon for Craig Carton? by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

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Thousands of masks for FTH Flushing Town Hall has received a donation of 5,000 protective face masks from longtime supporter and friend of the Hall, Pauline Huang, second from left, who worked with the Taiwanese Chambers of Commerce of North America and the Taiwanese Chambers of Commerce of New York to source the masks from abroad. TCCNY Board members Jeffrey Hsu, left, Timothy Chung, third from left, and George

Hu, third from right, along with President of TCCNY Joey Chiang, fourth from left, joined Deputy Director at Flushing Town Hall Sami Abu Shumays, Jack Huang and Emily Lin to celebrate the donation on July 7. Flushing Town Hall remains temporarily closed amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, but will reopen again once it is permitted and safe to do so, which at this time is undetermined.

One of the more shocking radio stories in recent years was the 2017 arrest and conviction of WFAN morning air personality Craig Carton for being an integral part of a ticket-selling Ponzi scheme. He was the on-air wise guy half of “Boomer & Carton,” with former NFL QB Norman “Boomer” Esiason playing his straight-man. “Boomer & Carton” was an immediate hit when it debuted in 2007 and it stayed that way until Carton resigned a decade later days after his arrest. He was replaced by Gregg “Gio” Gianotti, who smartly didn’t try to replicate Carton’s class clown shtick. The morning show’s ratings remain high and it’s one of the few bright spots at the FAN these days. In June 2019, Carton began serving a 42-month sentence in a minimum security federal prison in Lewisburg, Penn., but was released last week. (He was also ordered to pay $4.8 million in restitution.) With his old radio home floundering it was understandable there was immediate speculation about Carton making a return. WFAN Vice President Chris Oliviero promoted that notion by saying he’d be very amenable to his return. As part of its 33rd anniversary celebration WFAN played an hour of “Boomer & Carton” highlights last Sunday night.

I have no problem with any radio outlet giving Carton a second chance since he is a talented broadcaster. He shouldn’t be put in the uncomfortable position of having gambling commercials on his show since he has blamed his gambling addiction for getting him into financial trouble. Major League Eating did a fine job reconfiguring the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest for these socially distant times. The contest was brought indoors at Nathan’s Coney Island flagship restaurant and limited it to five each on the men’s and women’s sides. Joey Chestnut, who’s the Michael Jordan of frankfurter consumption, won his 13th yellow mustard belt and set a record in the process by devouring 75 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Miki Sudo captured her seventh straight women’s title by putting away 48.5 wieners. The contest marked the first live sports event to be held in New York City since the pandemic began. “The Last Dance,” ESPN’s documentary about Jordan’s last championship season with the Chicago Bulls, won the 2020 Critics Choice Real TV Award for best in sports. The show was hosted by the star of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” NeNe Leakes, and can be Q viewed on YouTube. See the extended version of Sports Beat every week at qchron.com.

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Mint Garden 3½ RMs, 2nd Flr ............................ $219K Hi-Rise 2 BRs, 2 baths........................................ $232K Hi-Rise Mint 2 BRs, 2 baths, terrace .................................................................. $305K Mint Garden 3 BRs, 1 full bath, dogs allowed under 35 lbs., washer dryer & dishwasher........................................................ $319K Deluxe Mint Garden 3 BR converted to 2, granite & S.S. Appliances, wine fridge, hi-hats, claw ft. tub, parking spot available immediately ......... Asking $359K

CONDO FOR SALE Duplex Condo 2 BRs, upstairs and a half bath, main level new kitchen with granite counter-tops, stainless steel appliances, outside front entrance no stairs, large storage space, W/D, wood floors, custom ornate hand railing. $355K

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Mint AAA Corner High-Ranch, 4 BRs, 2 new full baths. Large foyer, living room with fireplace. New gas furnace and hot water heater. Sliding doors to paved yard with heated in-ground pool. 45x100 lot, 2nd fl., living room, dining area, EIK, 3 BRs, new bath, PVC fencing, Andersen windows, 3yr. old roof. Shed with electric.

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