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SCUM STREET City refuses to fix flooding, algae condition PAGE 6

The Department of Transportation said in 2015 that it would fix 76th Street in Ozone Park, the slope of which causes water to pool up at homeowner’s driveways, but now refuses to do so. Neighbor Mafuzur Rahman, a medical expert at SUNY Downstate, observes the conditions last Saturday.

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Little support in Queens for NYPD legislation Bill would force police to be more transparent with surveillance tech

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YPD Commissioner James O’Neill says a controversial City Council bill that would force police to be more transparent when it comes to surveillance technology and tactics “doesn’t really make sense.”

Groups like the New York Civil Liberties Union and The Legal Aid Society have said it will help prevent the NYPD from abusing such technology.

Here in Queens, a number of City Council members — with the glaring exception of one lawmaker — side with O’Neill.

Of the 13 borough councilmembers polled by the Chronicle this week, four said they do not support the legislation, two said they did not yet have a position, one said he generally supported it and the remaining six lawmakers did not provide their opinion to the paper.

The only legislator the Chronicle did not ask this week was Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale), as she discussed her opposition to the bill with O’Neill and the 104th Precinct Community Council just two weeks ago.

“I want to assure you that my name is not on that bill and I do not support the bill,” Crowley said. “I don’t think there’s enough support in the Council for it to pass.”

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NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill, right, has said legislation co-sponsored by Councilman Danny Dromm that would force the department to be more transparent about its surveillance FILE PHOTOS technologies and tactics doesn’t make sense to him. nick (D-Manhattan), the bill — dubbed the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act — would force the NYPD to issue public reports about the surveillance technologies and tactics used by police.

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The legislation has its fair share of opponents, including Mayor de Blasio, who echoed the sentiments of NYPD brass during a radio appearance in June.

“If we start to lay out everything we do to gather information to fight crime and fight terrorism, if we lay that out too publicly and in too much detail, unfortunately, it provides a roadmap for the bad guys,” de Blasio said. “And I am not ever going to be comfortable with that.”

The bill was originally introduced on March 1, weeks before the NYPD agreed to settle with the NYCLU, which had sued the agency over its surveillance of Muslim neighborhoods, mosques and cafes in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

“New Yorkers should have the opportunity to weigh in on what surveillance measures are being taken in their name,” Garodnick said in his announcement of the bill.

The bill has 13 co-sponsors, with the only one from Queens being Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Jackson Heights). A spokesperson for Dromm did not respond to inquiries for comment by press time.

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Library-goers irked at lack of notice Preliminary work being done ahead of renovation at Woodhaven branch

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) has seen several libraries close their doors for renovations, but he usually knows about it ahead of time.

“We typically get advanced notice,” Miller told the Queens Chronicle Tuesday.

“People need to have advanced notice.”

But that wasn’t the case with the Woodhaven branch, located at 85-41 Forest Pkwy., which shut its doors July 10 for six days to prepare for a months-long renovation of the site scheduled for two years from now.

“We received an email Monday afternoon about it,” the assemblyman said.

“We made a call about it and we’re waiting to hear back.”

Miller is apparently not alone in getting short notice of the closure.

“There was poor advertising,” said one Woodhaven resident, who asked not to be named because he has personal connections to the branch. “There was not much notice, not even to the staff. There were r u mor s for week s t hat it wou ld be closing.”

Queens Library spokeswoman Elizabeth DeBourbon said the system received confirmation on July 6 that the branch would be closed to the public starting four days later. It’s expected to reopen on July 17.

“Our staff at Woodhaven told our customers shortly afterward that the library would be closed for a week beginning

The Woodhaven branch of the Queens Library closed Monday for a week, ahead of major renovations planned for the building. Residents say the short-term closure was poorly advertised by the PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY library system.

Monday and posted f lyers saying the library would be closed for the week and reopen Monday, July 17,” DeBourbon said in an emailed statement on Tuesday. “In addition, we updated our website. We did our best to let as many of our customers

know about the closing as soon as we learned about it, and apologize to those who were inconvenienced.”

Starting July 10, workers began “ceiling and wall probes” at the decades-old building ahead of a $6.65 million renovation

project expected to begin summer 2019 and be completed sometime in 2020. It’s not the only branch in the nearby area to be scheduled for an overhaul — the Richmond Hill one at 118-14 Hillside Ave. has been slated for a gut renovation for years, but a starting date for that project has yet to be determined.

Those who spoke to the Chronicle for this story said the Woodhaven branch is a very popular one.

“It’s a very busy library,” Miller said.

According to the library system’s website, more than 25 events were scheduled to take place there during the week.

The site is also one where the city provides free summer lunches to dozens of children.

“That’s a serious issue,” said the Woodhaven resident.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said this was “not the first time” his off ice received shor t notice of a library closure — but said he understands the reasoning for it at times.

“I understand that there are unforeseen circumstances,” Addabbo said. “In the end, we get a brand-new library.”

Both Miller and Addabbo said they have not heard if there are any plans to stagger the closing of the Woodhaven and Richmond Hill sites for the long-term projects — the latter will take 18 months to complete.

“If we can’t do that, I’d advocate for a mobile van,” Addabbo said. “I would love Q it at both.”

106th Pct. to roll out NCOs on July 17

by Anthony O’Reilly

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The days of the beat cop will soon return to the 106th Precinct.

The Neighborhood Coordination Officers program — which places two cops on the same beat every day to connect with everyday citizens and establish better community-police relations — will debut in the command starting July 17, according to a letter from Community Board 10 chairwoman Betty Braton and the panel’s Public Safety Committee Chairman Frank Dardani. In each NCO command, the precinct is split into three to five sectors with two officers assigned to each section. The 106th Precinct will have four sectors.

“This restructuring is aimed at increasing police and community connectivity,” Braton and Dardani said in their open letter to the public.

The NCOs will get to know the people on the street, the storeowners and the issues of the area while handing out their work cell phone numbers to people in the sectors. With this program,

And crime is down in the command residents don’t have to explain an issue to a different officer every time there’s a disturbance.

Capt. Brian Bohannon, commanding officer of the 106th Precinct, has some experience with the program — he dealt with it during his time as the 113th Precinct’s executive officer.

“This means more officers, more patrol cars,” Bohannon told CB 10 in April, when he first announced his command would be a part of the NCO initiative.

Mayor de Blasio and NYPD brass have said commands with NCOs have less crime than those without.

But the 106th Precinct starts out with a good record, NYPD statistics show.

Index crimes are even or down in every category, compared to the same time last year as of July 2.

Murders are even at two, rapes went down from seven to three, robberies from 108 to 105, burglaries from 125 to 113, grand larcenies

from 286 to 222 and grand larceny auto from 64 to 51. Overall, crime is down 11.88 percent — with 601 index crimes reported, compared to 682 in 2016.

In not so good news, according to the statistics, there has been an increase in misdemeanor sex crimes — 19 reported so far this year, compared to 14 in 2016 — and transit crimes — 17 to 9. There has also been one more shooting victim than there was at this time last year, four compared to three.

Braton and Dardani, in their letter, thanked the 106th for “the excellent job they have been doing day in and day out all year long.

“In a perfect world there would be no crime, but we all know we don’t live in a perfect world and there will always be crime,” the two said.

“However, there was less crime in the 106th Precinct in 2016 than there was in 2015. Thus far into 2017, that pattern of less crime continQ ues in our district.”

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City flips its position on fixing 76th Street Flood-prone road is a quality-of-life, health hazard for the homeowners

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

In 2015, the city Depar tment of Transpor tation responded to a 311 complaint of a street condition in Ozone Park.

After inspecting the road — 76th Street between Old South Road and Glenmore Avenue — the agency came to the conclusion that it had to be repaired.

“This street requires a reconstruction project,” the agency said, according to public records. “This location is part of an existing project or may be included in a future project.”

The street has been the source of complaints for years by some of the homeowners there, but for one named Joyce in particular. Because of the slope of the road, water pools up at the end of her driveway and sometimes comes into her garage following most rainfalls. In the winter, it creates an icy condition that once prevented her from getting to work because her tires were stuck.

It’s been like this for several years and while some of the neighbors experience this as well, hers is the worst of them all, she told the Chronicle last Saturday.

“It’s a quality-of-life concern,” said Joyce, who didn’t want her last name published. “I can’t stand at my car to take out my groceries, I’ve had to throw away thousands of dollars of stuff out of my garage.”

Now, despite saying in writing that it would do so, the DOT is refusing to do anything about the road — saying its work has nothing to do with the problem and that Joyce’s sidewalk is the issue.

“After multiple previous inspections, the latest in April of 2017, it was determined that the driveway flag is very low and there are significant sidewalk defects along the property line,” an agency spokesman said. “The slope and condition of the street is in excellent condition.”

The spokesman did not respond to a request for comment asking why the agency said two years ago the road should be fixed.

A Chronicle reporter conducted an informal experiment to test the “excellent condition” of the road by pouring water in the middle of it. It almost immediately started flowing toward Joyce’s house.

It’s not just Joyce who is affected by all this. Her father, a Korean War veteran, has to wait on the corner of the block for Access-A-Ride because he cannot go over the massive puddles in front of the house.

“I don’t want my elderly father waiting on the corner for a half hour,” Joyce said.

Besides the quality-of-life issues, the mini pond also presents health issues.

Ozone Park resident Joyce has been trying to address the issue on her street for years, where the slope of the road causes water to pool up at the end of her driveway. The city said in 2015 it would fix the street, but now says there is nothing wrong with it.

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“The city is concerned about the West Nile Virus,” Joyce said. “Well this is attracting mosquitoes.”

The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is in the process of investigating the standing water by Joyce’s house.

Algae can also be seen forming in the water, something one of Joyce’s neighbors said could be dangerous.

“You don’t need to be a medical expert to know that’s not good,” said Mafuzur Rahman, who is a medical expert at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. “You can see bubbles, that means there’s living organisms in there.”

Rahman’s driveway also floods after rainfalls, though not nearly as much as his next door neighbor’s.

Joyce has also called on the Department of Environmental Protection to assist her.

“Maybe put a drain near here or something,” the homeowner said.

Unlike the DOT, the DEP has been consistent in its

responses — 311 records show the agency has either not been able to find the problem described or, on two occasions, said it “resolved the issue.”

A DEP spokeswoman only said the agency “has responded to all 311 calls regarding this location and we’ve found all our infrastructure to be in proper working order,” and did not respond to an inquiry on if anything further could be done to stop the flooding.

Joyce has been calling for help on the issue for years, and only recently got the DOT and DEP to come down to her street at the same time, thanks to the help of Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) and his staff.

“No resident should have to face continuous flooding in front of their home. Joyce has been dealing with this for years,” Ulrich said in an emailed statement. “It’s simply unacceptable. I encourage the Department of Transportation and the Department of Environmental Protection to work corroboratively so together we can address Q and fix this problem.”

HB Post Office won’t be closing, spox says But the site’s lease is up in December

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

The Cross Bay Post Office won’t be closing FILE PHOTO any time soon.

There are no immediate plans to close the post office at 160-50 Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach, but the lease for the site will expire in a couple of months.

Area leaders are confident there will be postal service on the community’s main corridor come next year.

“I’m conf ident that there will be a place on the boulevard where packages

can be picked up,” said state Sen. Joe A d d a b b o J r. ( D - H o w a r d B e a c h ) .

“We’re OK at this point.”

There was speculation on some social media pages last week that the post office might be shutting its doors. The Chronicle reached out to a USPS spokesman, who said, “There are currently no plans to close the Howard Beach Post Office.”

Joann Ariola, president of the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association,

said the USPS and the landlord are “in negotiations” to extend the lease. In addition to that, there will be “minor” renovations done to the exterior of the building.

“But nothing that will cause it to shut down,” Ariola added.

The community does have another post office, located at 102-12 159 Ave. But that location offers fewer services — it does not take passport photos, whereas the Cross Bay one does — and is tougher to get to for residents of Lindenwood and Q the new side of Howard Beach.

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Nurse of the Year from Ridgewood; Kew Gardens doc is best student

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

One is a graduating medical student and the other is a decorated nurse with years of experience, but both Queens health professionals are also award winners.

A native of Ridgewood, Karen Pekle was named Oncology Nurse of the Year on June 26 by Hotel Keys for Hope, a free lodging program for cancer patients and their families run jointly by hotel chain Extended Stay America and the American Cancer Society.

The Weill Cornell Medical Center oncology nurse practitioner who specializes in multiple myeloma was selected out of hundreds of nominees and was given her award during a ceremony in Charleston, SC. She was nominated by Olivia Chin — a former patient of Pekle’s — who was told by doctors that she had a little over a year to live after being diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2009.

Chin, who lives more than four hours north of the city, told the New York Post that Pekle offered to let her live in her Manhattan home while undergoing treatments instead of making the extremely long commute every day.

“Karen is the most caring nurse. She is professional and courteous and she always tries her best to make sure everything is

Kew Gardens’ Dr. Payal Aggarwal, left, and Ridgewood native Karen Pekle, an oncology nurse practitioner, were both honored with awards in late June for their respective successes in the PHOTOS COURTESY TOURO COLLEGE AND, RIGHT, EXTENDED STAY AMERICA field of medicine. taken care of,” Chin said in her nomination of Pekle. “I will never forget her act of kindness. You cannot pay people to do things like this. It has to come from the heart.”

“It is my priority to deliver comprehensive and compassionate care to all our patients,” Pekle’s biography reads on Weill Cornell’s

website. “I also believe that as clinicians, our role extends beyond only treating the medical aspects of multiple myeloma. We must also address the emotional issues our patients face as they cope with their cancer diagnosis.”

One of Pekle’s newest colleagues in the medical field is Kew Gardens resident

Dr. Payal Aggarwal, who graduated from Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in Manhattan late last month with the school’s highest honor, Student Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine of the Year.

Aggarwal earned the award for supplementing her studies with numerous volunteer efforts for a number of medical and social groups, including the American Cancer Society and Habitat for Humanity.

According to Touro College, she also participated in service missions across South America and Southeast Asia, volunteered at Camp Happy Days, a South Carolina camp for children battling cancer, and spent a year delving deep into cancer research at New York University.

“My parents taught me a lot about hard work in America,” Aggarwal said in her commencement speech. “Besides having a strong work ethic, they also taught my brother and me about integrity and service.

“Every summer we would go to temples to distribute food, clothing and blankets to people who couldn’t afford them,” she continued.

“These were my first experiences with service and my parents always taught me that if you are in a position to help others, you should.”

Aggarwal began her residency at the Q Brooklyn Hospital Center last weekend.

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P A bill to benefit the bad guys EDITORIAL

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hey may think they’re saving the city from being taken into “1984,” but really what they’re trying to do would help take us back into 1984.

No, the Police Department has not quite become some all-seeing, all-knowing oppressor of the people like Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel of a deeply dystopian future. But those supporting the POST Act, a City Council bill whose name refers to the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology, would hamstring the NYPD, contributing to the risk of a return to the bad old days of skyrocketing crime rates.

The measure would force the police to reveal far too much about their techniques and capabilities. Why should we tell criminals exactly how ShotSpotter technology, which uses acoustic triangulation to determine where a gunshot was fired, works, and how well it works? Same thing with Stingray, which locates cell phones. Both of these things enable the good guys to catch the bad guys, and to discourage yet more bad guys from committing crimes. There’s enough information about how they work out there already. And the same goes for much else the bill

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would reveal to the good, the bad and the ugly alike.

Luckily, the chances of that happening don’t look all that great. Only 13 of the Council’s 51 members have signed on to it, more than four months after it was introduced. Among them is only one Queens lawmaker, Councilman Danny Dromm. And it’s opposed by Mayor de Blasio, which speaks volumes.

The NYPD already works under enough oversight, between its Internal Affairs Bureau, outside inspector general and federally appointed monitor; the city’s five district attorneys and two acting U.S. attorneys; and the Handschu agreement, which tightly regulates police surveillance vis-a-vis political activity.

Could the NYPD release more information without giving too much away? Maybe. But this bill goes too far. It “would provide an effective blueprint for those looking to do harm,” as Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller told the Council. Doing that would be “insane,” he said.

The public should support the police almost all the time. One way to do that: Tell your Council member to vote no on the dangerous, misguided POST Act.

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Dear Editor: It was 7:07 a.m. on Friday, July 7.

I was on the M shuttle bus at Fresh Pond Road. But, I didn’t get very far. There was a Sanitation truck ahead for the next several blocks. While Sanitation workers did their jobs, bus passengers worried about getting to their jobs.

Did anyone at the MTA think to contact Sanitation about the times of its routes??

I am fortunate to be able to get on the bus at the start of its route. Others are not so lucky.

There was one morning when the bus could not even accommodate all the commuters at Forest Avenue. (Keep in mind that this is only the second stop.) Before leaving some commuters behind, the driver told them,” There’s another bus right behind this one.”

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hoever’s been cutting Charter Communications fiber optics cables carrying TV, phone and internet service to Queens customers is one sick, selfish, dirty little rat.

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, one or more vandals severed service to about 35,000 Central Queens users of Charter’s Spectrum services, residents and businesses alike. Money was lost as stores were unable to conduct credit card transactions. Calls expected from friends and loved ones were not made. Text messages and social media posts went unanswered. Research for summer college classes could not be done. Entertainment and reading for pleasure were nixed. The outage lasted all day for many people.

It was all a repeat of vandalism that had taken place just two weeks earlier, when 60,000 customers — including this newspaper at its former offices in Rego Park — were knocked off the grid.

Obviously the culprit is someone who bears a grudge against Charter — and who knows what he’s doing technologically. The most likely suspect is of course someone from the union that’s striking against the company. And of course the union denies it, but the leadership can’t know everything all its members are up to.

Whoever it is, we can’t wait ’til he or she is being processed and fingerprinted for this crime against the innocent people of Queens.

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the Chicago area, I was appalled by Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s comparison of his town to the Big Apple.

Chicago’s trains may run on time, but if Al Capone were still alive, he’d be afraid of returning to his hometown because he’s not bulletproof. Chicago had more gun murders last year than New York and Los Angeles combined. It’s well on its way to top that record in 2017, with some 300 homicides in the first six months of this year.

I was a graduate journalism student at Northwestern University in nearby Evanston from 1962 to ’64, and often visited Chicago.

For a few months in 1963, I was a Chicago City News Bureau reporter on a paid internship, covering the police. While riding on patrol with the cops, I saw the city’s best and worst areas.

But not even the worst ones could approach the norm in nearly all of Chicago today. The city is a free-fire zone for street gangs and drug deal-

ers. The mayor has done little to stop it. He promised immigrants they will be “safe” in his sanctuary city. But safe from what? They may not be deported, but they stand a good chance of getting shot.

Emanuel and I share one honor — we’re both Northwestern alums. I got a master’s degree in journalism in 1964, and he got his master’s in speech and communications in 1985. But his conduct as mayor reflects poorly on his alma mater. If Northwestern ever opens a hall of shame, he would be an ideal candidate.

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Dear Editor: The Queens Chronicle’s July 6 edition contains an article by Ryan Brady entitled “Illegal conversions bill on Cuomo’s desk.” The bill described in the article would require landlords to provide new tenants with a valid certificate of occupancy before renting. I agree with Ed Wendell, the Woodhaven civic activist, who doubts this will curb illegal conversions.

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There are so many who profit from illegal conversions, while existing communities are steadily and inexorably destroyed. Why not require realtors to respect existing zoning laws? Why not require banks to certify zoning requirements before issuing a mortgage or a loan to property owners planning a purchase or a renovation? Taking the profit out of illegal conversions will address this problem very effectively.

The proposed bill on Cuomo’s desk is mere political theater and will have no effect, because it targets prospective tenants, not the landlords who are violating the law.

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Cannot tell a lie: Queens did it Dear Editor: Re “A tree massacre’s legacy,” Opinion, July 6, multiple editions: There is an old saying: “Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough!”

In the case of the destruction of a grove of flowering ornamental cherry trees that graced the grounds of Queens Borough Hall for over 75 tears, more aptly described by Carsten Glaesar, the vice president of Kissena Park Civic Association, as a massacre, the above saying should be altered to say: Hack politicians, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough!

The massacre of those cherry trees, without the public having any say in the matter, was a clear example of political malfeasance of the first order. It was done at a taxpayer cost of $23 million to construct an unnecessary so-called cultural center as part of Queens Borough Hall, to be named, you guessed it: The Helen Marshall Cultural Center.

To spend that kind of money to satisfy the ego of a politician, one with an unremarkable history of accomplishments while in office, can best be described as “chutzpah.” If for the sake of discussion, Marshall deserved some sort of honor, a plaque in the cherry grove calling it The Helen Marshall Grove would have saved the taxpayers $23 million and preserved the cherry trees. It is interesting to note this so-

called Center makes reference to the place as a forum where government and the people can get together to discuss public matters — something that was clearly missing when the cheery trees were massacred.

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mittee. He fell into the “sanctions trap” instead of offering more creative ideas for resolving the tension in the Korean Peninsula.

Twice he was asked for ideas on resolving the tension, and he continued to work on the sanctions and economic/political pressure. We should expect more from a graduate of Howard University, and also the broader thought that the 5th District offers. I expected that he would have presented creative ideas for nonconditional negotiations; cited the history of negotiations in the past; and explained the psychology of the Korean fears of external threat.

The congressman would have been versed in the N-S Korean trade and openings that the Koreans have had; and especially as the cochairperson of a “Dialogue Caucus” the congressman should not have fallen into the sanctions trap and entertain the idea of military intervention and regime change.

Being the senior member on the “threats” subcommittee, after 17 years in Congress I’d expect more creativity than harping on regime change and military intervention because these threats and blockades have never worked. They are precisely why North Korea seeks weapons as a credible to counter such threats. If this is an example of the “New Democrat Coalition,” then what separates him from the NeoCons?

I think that Congressman Meeks should demand another interview on NPR and explore the alternatives to sanctions, war, and aggression — the path of negotiation, reconciliation, with the goal of facilitating the integration of North and South Korean as the path to peace in that region.

Kris Merschrod Ithaca The writer is a former resident of Woodhaven, where his family lived for decades.

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Subway delays more than annoying: report Stringer survey finds financial, job and family issues with late trains

by Michael Gannon Editor

Everyone knows that the subways have been an increasing source of misery in the city.

Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office set out to quantify the “why.”

“The Human Cost of Subway Delays: A Survey of New York City Riders,” a 17-page report, was released Sunday. It took the opinions of 1,227 riders, including 1,154 New York City residents who were questioned during morning rush hours at 143 different subway stations.

Stringer, in a statement issued with the report, acknowledged that the system has aged infrastructure — some 70 years old or more — and ridership volumes that never would have been dreamt of in the 1930s.

“What we show here is that behind every delay, there’s a human cost, and behind every service disruption, there are lives affected,” the comptroller said.

The combination of failing infrastructure and record ridership appears to have accelerated the problem.

The report, using data from NYC Transit, found that in all of 2012, a total of 356,607 trains experienced delays, defined as arriving five minutes or more behind schedule.

“By 2016, delays had jumped to 823,582

Riders on the Queens Boulevard line at Forest Hills ponder the next move of their commute.

Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office has released a report which finds that increasing subway delays are causing far more problems than just personal inconvenience. PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON (up 152 percent) and, based on January through April data, are on a pace to reach 900,000 in 2017,” the report concluded.

The study said there is a direct impact on job and financial security, with people reporting that in the last three months:

• 74 percent had been late for a work meeting; • 22 percent were late for a job interview; •18 percent were reprimanded by their supervisors; • 13 percent lost wages; and

• 2 percent claim to have been fired from their jobs.

Outside of work, 65 percent reported being late for picking up or dropping off a child, or missing a child’s function.

And 73 percent of all respondents gave the subway system a grade of C or lower. In Queens, 41 percent of those surveyed gave it a D or an F. The J/Z line, which serves South Queens, had the highest decline in on-time performance from 2012, with the F, which runs f r o m Ja m a ic a i nt o M a n h a t t a n , t h e fifth-worst.

Representatives of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority could not be reached for comment. But Gene Russianoff, staff attorney and chief spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign, a riders advocacy group, said Stringer’s report is far more than just a repackaged repetition of well-known complaints.

He said the methodology and the high number of respondents lend the report considerable weight at a time when numerous officials and agencies are issuing subway reports.

“It’s a sad commentary,” Russianoff said.

“But 1,200 people give it credibility. It could be the most comprehensive report in the last Q year.”

MTA faces off with angry Queens pols Agency reps take heat from boro lawmakers over snarled subways

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A representative from Gov. Cuomo’s office told the Borough Board on Tuesday that complaints about No. 7 train service were on the decline this week.

They spoke too soon.

Thousands of Queens straphangers endured a brutal commute to work on Wednesday, as a No. 7 train with brake problems at Grand Central forced a shutdown of Manhattan-bound service during the height of the morning rush.

At the 74th Street stop in Jackson Heights, one train sat in the station for five minutes before the conductor ordered everyone off, directing frustrated riders to trudge downstairs either to the E, F, M and R trains or the long lines for buses on Roosevelt Avenue below.

“You can’t make this stuff up,” Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) posted on Twitter about the shutdown. “7 train riders deserve better.”

One elderly woman waiting for a Glendale-bound Q47 told a Chronicle reporter that it took her two hours to get from Queens to Penn Station in Manhattan earlier this week.

She called Wednesday’s delay “ridiculous,” a comment that was echoed by multiple elected officials and community

board chairpersons on Tuesday, who took turns slamming the MTA over its worsening subway service in Queens and beyond.

Of the three topics discussed, the shutdown of E and F train service between Forest Hills and Jamaica ever y weekend through early August proved to be one of the biggest bones of contention, especially between the MTA and Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills).

When questioned about a perceived lack of advance notice, MTA Director of Government and Community Relations Robert Marino said the agency sent two emails and made one phone call to Koslowitz’s office.

In her response, the lawmaker was adament that no such message had gotten through to her.

“You must notify us when these things are going to happen,” Koslowitz said, raising her voice. “I did not know anything about it.”

With the two lines shut down each weekend through Sunday, Aug. 6, the MTA is working to modernize the tracks, preparing them for the future installation of Communications-Based Train Control, which will allow more trains to run on the line at a more efficient pace.

Last weekend was the first to experience the closure, and while the MTA admitted there were “hiccups” in terms of long waits

MTA official Robert Marino, at the microphone, defends his agency’s efforts to modernize tracks and improve service in Queens before the Borough Board on Tuesday. Lawmakers took turns PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA slamming the agency over issues with the 7, E and F lines. for shuttle bus service, things should go smoother as the project progresses.

But Borough President Melinda Katz, who was admittedly surprised by the relative lack of advance warning, slammed the agency for not necessarily thinking about the impacts the shutdown could have above

ground in Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, Briarwood and Jamaica.

“No service, not even on the local track?

At all?” Katz asked. “That’s going to be devastating to businesses everywhere.”

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Vision Zero paying record dividends Half-year traffic fatalities at record low; pedestrian killed hours later

by Michael Gannon Editor

It was and should have been a moment the city was celebrating last Friday — the number of traffic fatalities in New York City for the first six months of 2017 down from even last year’s record low rate.

But just over five hours after Mayor de Blasio was touting the ongoing success of his administration’s Vision Zero campaign, an elderly pedestrian was killed crossing the street in Queens Village.

It was just after 9 a.m. on Friday when the mayor announced that the city had recorded 93 t raf f ic-related fat alit ies between Jan. 1 and June 30, the first time the total had been below 100 since the city began keeping records.

“No loss of life on our streets is acceptable, but under Vision Zero, we have seen continued and consistent progress, with traffic fatalities on the decline for three-and-a-half years, strongly countering national trends,” de Blasio said in a statement issued by his office.

The city saw 229 traffic fatalities in 2016, down from 234 the year before.

Pedestrian fatalities rose from 14 to 18.

By contrast, de Blasio said, the National Safety Council said the country as a whole has seen an increase of 14 percent from 2014 to 2016.

NYPD officers investigate the scene of a fatal truck-vs.-pedestrian accident last Friday in Jamaica Avenue in Queens Village. The accident cast a shadow on a report early Friday in which the city announced record-low traffic deaths for the first six months of the year. PHOTO COURTESY NYPD The mayor credited his Department of Transportation and the NYPD among other agencies for their contributions. He also credited implementation of a citywide 25 mph

default speed limit and the massive street and intersection redesign initiative that has been a major component of Vision Zero.

De Blasio on Friday said Queens led the

‘Summer of Hell’ hits the A train Service on the line will be disrupted for repairs

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Although service in Queens will be untouched directly, some A train riders may be affected PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY by work on the line.

Who are we kidding, it’s always hell on the A train — but it’s about to get even worse for some commuters.

On weekday nights this week and next, the MTA will be implementing the Fastrack maintenance program — which shuts down segments of a line to allow “critical maintenance jobs,” such as cleaning or replacing handrails and tunnel lighting — on the A line. Fastrack begins at 10 p.m. and ends at 5 a.m. The affected days are July 10 to 14 and July 17 to 21.

While no stops in Queens will be directly affected during the work, borough commuters coming home from upper Manhattan or those who might be going there late at night or early in the morning could be.

During the repairs, the 59th StreetColumbus Circle station will be the last stop on the line — there will be no trains between 59th Street and 207th Street in Inwood. Commuters will have to take free shuttle buses or the No. 1 train between Midtown and Washington Heights/Inwood.

There will also be some changes this and next weekend — July 15, 16, 22 and 23 — when, again, Queens will be untouched but those coming in and out of Manhattan late at night or early in the morning will see some changes.

The repairs will be a part of the MTA’s “Fix & Fortify Sandy Recover Work,” which was implemented on the Queens part of the line shortly after the storm.

For this weekend, A trains will run via the F line in both directions between West 4th Street in Manhattan and Jay StreetMetroTech in Brooklyn from 11:45 p.m. on Friday to 5 a.m. Monday.

Riders are urged to get to Spring, Canal and Chamber streets via the E and Fulton Street via the J. Next weekend, the A train will skip 50th, 23rd and Spring streets in both directions from 11:45 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday.

The quality of the A line, and most others, has been in the spotlight lately — two cars on a southbound train in Harlem derailed as it approached 125th Street on June 27 due to an “improperly secured rail,” according to the MTA. More than 30 people suffered nonlife threatening injuries, though one commuter has already filed a lawsuit against the MTA over the incident. The 125th Street stop is one where work will be done during the Fastrack program.

More rail repairs will take place at Penn Station during the eight week “Summer of Hell,” so-called because commuters will see a 20 percent drop in service at the transit Q hub due to much-needed track work.

six-month decline, with 23 fatalities in 2017 compared to 32 last year. Overall pedestrian fatalities since January stood at 47 as of June 30, compared to 63 in 2016.

“Nowhere else in America has seen our year-over-year declines in traffic fatalities,” DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said in the joint statement. “Under the Mayor’s leadership, we achieved the safest-ever fiscal year with the redesign of more streets than ever before.”

Trottenberg said the third stage of the Queens Boulevard redesign geared toward safety is ready to go.

Friday’s fatality in Queens Village took place at 2:37 p.m., according to the NYPD. Inspector Jeffrey Schiff, commanding officer of the 105th Precinct, said in an email that an elderly woman was struck by a tow truck.

The NYPD’s preliminary investigation has determined that the operator of the truck was making a left turn from southbound 217th Street to the eastbound lanes of Jamaica Avenue.

The victim, whose name was not immediately released, was in cardiac arrest as she was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center by EMS personnel. She was pronounced dead on arrival.

Q The police investigation is continuing.

Police kick off Vision Zero campaign Precincts in Patrol Borough Queens South have started a two-week long campaign to enforce Vision Zero along the Van Wyck Expressway.

Community affairs officers with the 102nd, 103rd, 106th, 107th and 113th precincts started a pedestrian and driver safety education initiative — visiting senior centers, religious institutions and other sites to discuss the topic. An “aggressive flier campaign” will take place at the same time, according to a notice provided by a 106th Precinct community affairs officer.

There will also be signs posted at “strategic points throughout the precincts to advise drivers of their speed and traffic safety concerns in relation to the New York City limit of 25 MPH.” And beginning Monday, July 17, a “full enforcement initiative will take place in an effort to reduce pedestrian facilities and injuries along the Van Wyck Expressway corridors” within the confines of the five commands.

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gency track repairs at Penn Station that began Monday — resulted in approximately 1,500 more customers than normal getting off at the Hunterspoint Avenue LIRR station in Long Island City.

Most of those riders ended up getting on the No. 7 train at the same location, something Van Bramer said was remarkably unfair to his constituents who use that station on a daily basis “I think that’s awful,” he said, “and it’s a real burden on everyone in Queens — particular western Queens and Long Island City — trying to get to work on that train.”

A representative for Gov. Cuomo countered by saying there were relatively few reports of overcrowding or train traffic in western Queens on Monday or Tuesday.

And after a brief debate about summer ridership levels and the space available for LIRR customers on the No. 7 train, Van Bramer said the state must not be keeping a close enough ear to the ground.

“Well I get complaints too, and with all due respect, I’m hearing from my constituents a different story,” he said.

“Trust me, the No. 7 train is a disaster.

“Everyone who rides it knows it,” he continued, “and it’s a really serious problem that you are adding capacity to the train in Long Island City, point blank end Q of story.”

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continued from page 10 by the Chronicle after the meeting if she agreed with Katz’s assessment. “Those businesses hurt on the weekends to begin w it h, especially dow n by t he courthouse.”

Following up later in the gathering, Katz said she hoped the MTA will consider running trains east of Forest Hills this Saturday to accommodate people attending the My Morning Jacket concert at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium.

“I can’t imagine what it would be like if the subways weren’t working,” she said of that night’s John Mellencamp gig at the venue.

When the conversation jumped back to the No. 7 train, it was Van Bramer who delivered the rapid-fire critiques.

After Marino said the years-long installation of Communications-Based Train Control along the line — the cause of most weekend shutdowns, including the four scheduled for the fall — should be completed by the end of the year, the lawmaker couldn’t help but chuckle.

“Do you believe that’s going to happen? ” Van Bramer said with a smirk.

“All right. All right.”

The line’s capacity was also called into question after Long Island Rail Road Director of Government Affairs Hector Garcia said the start of the “Summer of Hell” — the two-month series of emer-

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Beautifying Forest Park The Friends of Forest Park spent their weekend beautifying the park last Saturday.

A group of volunteers, with the help of the city Parks Department, repainted the Montauk Railroad Bridge from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.

It’s the second year the group has brought a park bridge back to life — in sum-

mer 2016, members painted the Forest Park Drive Bridge near Victory Field.

The Parks Department power washed the structure the day before the repainting.

The Friends of Forest Park has other volunteer events scheduled for the summer.

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No K-Bridge demo date set just yet ‘Warriors’ were to descend on the span Tuesday to defend its glory

by Christopher Barca Associate Editor

Tuesday came and went, and the old Kosciuszko Bridge is still standing.

For now, at least.

A rumored July 11 demolition and dismantling date for the closed span over Newtown Creek connecting Maspeth and Brooklyn turned out to be false.

The state Department of Transportation’s July 2017 construction advisory states the lowering of the bridge’s main span onto a barge for removal will occur this month, but the office of Assemblyman Joe Lentol (D-Brooklyn), who represents the Brooklyn side of Newtown Creek, told the Chronicle on Monday that no date has been set for that work yet.

The Queens Chamber of Commerce confirmed Lentol’s statement in a post on its Facebook page. The state Department of Transportation did not respond to inquiries for comment by press time.

The removal of the original, nearly 80-year-old bridge comes two months after a new span opened to traffic for the first time after years of construction.

The $554 million span is the first cablestayed bridge in New York and the first new bridge built in the city in 50 years, since the Verrazano Bridge, which connects Staten

The new Kosciuszko Bridge shines bright one night in May, while the span it’s replacing, the original Kosciuszko Bridge, sits in its shadow, waiting to be removed. That was rumored to happen FILE PHOTO this week, but nothing has been scheduled as of yet.

Island and Brooklyn.

Traffic flows in both directions on the span, but it will carry just Brooklyn-bound traffic once a second bridge, carrying Queens-bound traffic, is built where the closed one sits.

But with the demolition not happening on July 11 as planned, that gives more time to a

group of “warriors” from across the city to plan their defense of the bridge.

Nearly 1,000 people said on Facebook they were going to a Tuesday event called “Defend the Kosciuszko Bridge from Demo with Wolves and Swords,” a fantastical event aimed at defending their beloved span.

After reports broke about the demolition’s

delay, a temporary victory was declared on the Facebook page, with the scheduled rally being pushed back to July 22.

A two-paragraph description of the event accompanies a photo of flames, wolves; and sword-wielding warriors, where organizers jokingly say they and their animal brethren will defend the bridge from their “sworn enemies” at all costs.

“All you faithful supporters of the true Kosciuszko Bridge know that the time of fire is upon us, and we must bring pain to our enemies and their allies,” the description reads. “Together, between the strength of wolf and iron, we shall bring defeat to our enemies, and the true Kosciuszko Bridge shall stand for another day, and the imposter false bridge shall fall into the seas of Newtown for all eternity.”

Organizer Brian Hersey, 41, told various media outlets he isn’t calling on actual warriors with real swords to fight the state DOT, but is simply encouraging people to dress up and have fun supporting the old bridge.

The ferver surrounding such a call to arms in defense of the span may be no surprise.

After all, the bridge was named for Polish military commander and American Revolutionary War hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who earned his fame by building fortifications Q and defenses.

Obey the law, school parents tell city DOE De Blasio has failed to address overcrowding, advocacy group says

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Three Queens school parents joined concerned residents from the four other boroughs, advocacy group Class Size Matters, the Alliance for Quality Education and Public Advocate Letitia James in a petition filed with the state Education Department alleging the city Department of Education has not taken measures mandated by law to reduce overcrowding in schools.

“The mayor, when he was running the first time, promised to do something about the overcrowding,” said Deborah Alexander, co-president of Community Education Council 30 in western Queens and one of the plaintiffs. “We haven’t seen it. In fact, we’ve seen the opposite.”

The petition, sent to state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia last Thursday, alleges the city was required by the 2007 Contract for Excellence Law — approved by the state Legislature after the Court of Appeals ruled “overcrowded classes in District schools contributed to inadequate student performance,” in its ruling on the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit — to ensure K-3 classrooms had no more than 20 students, grades 4-8 no more than 23 and high school core classes no more than 25 by the end of the 2011-12 school year. Since 2007,

according to the petition, the average city class size in all grade levels have increased — in the 2007-08 school year, for example, the average class size in grades K-3 was 20.9 students and in 2014-15 was 24.6 pupils.

For high schools, it was 26.1 and jumped to 26.6 in 2014-15.

According to DOE statistics, the average grade level across the board saw a 0.2 decrease from 2015-16 to 2016-17.

The petitioners are requesting Elia order the DOE to begin reducing class sizes as outlined the 2007 plan within five years.

Jonathan Burman, a spokesman for the SED, only said the agency has received the petition.

Will Mantel, a spokesman for the city DOE, defended the city’s work in reducing class sizes.

“Class sizes decreased this school year and we’ve made particular progress in reducing class size in grades K-3,” Mantel said in an emailed statement. “We’ve invested in efforts to reduce class sizes, including dedicating $4.5 billion to create more than 44,000 seats in overcrowded areas across the city. We are reviewing the petition.”

Leonie Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters and a leading advocate of the issue, said any claim that the city is trying to reduce class size is “bulls--t.”

“It’s bulls--t, for them to say they intend to reduce class sizes because they don’t,” Haimson added. “The point is that class sizes may be very slightly decreasing, but at a rate where it would take over 20 years to get to the levels in the original city class size reduction plan.”

According to a presentation on the group’s website, Queens had the secondlargest average class size behind Staten Island. In the World’s Borough, the average K-3 class was 25.2 students, 27.7 for 4-8 and 28.1 for high school.

Alexander, whose district is one of the most overcrowded, has seen students in her childrens’ school be forced to put their coats and backpacks on the back of their chairs — because the cubby holes were used to store supplies.

“The rooms are just so small,” she said.

The other two Queens parents involved in the petition, Joann Schneider, whose son goes to PS 113 in Glendale, and Litza Stark, whose son is in a special needs class at PS 85 in Astoria, could not be reached for comment but issued statements on Class Size Matters’ website detailing how overcrowding has affected their childrens’ education.

Haimson and Alexander said de Blasio made campaign promises to reduce class sizes and are disappointed that he has not

Deborah Alexander is just one plaintiff alleging the city is not following a state law manFILE PHOTO dating it reduce class sizes. followed through on them.

“We’ve been waiting years for the city to comply with what we think is the law and their ethical obligation to reduce class sizes,” the advocate said. “And at this point I think it’s about time that they did that.”

The petitioners are represented by the Q Education Law Center.

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A driver on the lam since 1990 for severely injuring a woman at 73rd Avenue and Francis Lewis Boulevard in Fresh Meadows while intoxicated will finally go to prison.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown announced last Friday that Jaipaul Maharaj, 63, had been arrested last Thursday. He was busted while meeting with a probation officer in Sullivan County for a 2015 conviction charged to “Abdool Persaud,” an alias that he used.

A bench warrant for his arrest had been active since December 1990, when he

Driver had 1990 sentencing in absentia missed a judge sentencing him to four to 12 years in prison in absentia. The defendant had pleaded guilty to first-degree assault, the top count of his indictment.

An intoxicated Maharaj brutally injured Grace Schachnu when he drove his van through a red light on Dec. 3, 1989 and hit the passenger’s side of a car, the charges said. The victim suffered hemorrhaging of the brain, fractured ribs, a collapsed lung and a fractured cervical. She died in 1994.

“It took 26 years but the victim’s family finally has achieved justice in knowing that the individual responsible for causing serious physical injury to their loved one is now being held accountable for his actions,” Brown said in a prepared statement.

According to the District Attorney’s Office, Maharaj has used the name Ronald Davidson along with Persaud. And, Brown said, the defendant was living in New Jersey when he was arrested despite his

address listing him as a Sullivan County resident.

After his ar rest, the defendant was returned to court and a Queens County judge executed his war rant. He was remanded to the state Department of Corrections to start his sentence, Brown’s office said.

“If not for a casual inquiry made by a family member of the victim fortuitously making its way to the Queens District Attorney’s Office, the defendant might very well have escaped punishment for his Q crime,” the district attorney added.

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The price of a lifetime National Park Service Senior Pass — which provides holders with access to 2,000 federal sites and parks — will increase from $10 to $80 starting Aug. 28, the federal agency said Monday.

Congress late last year passed legislation mandating the price of a Senior Pass, which has been $10 since 1994, be the same as the Interagency Annual Pass — a yearly permit for those wishing to visit federal parks operated by different agencies.

The increase in price will be used to support “critical investments in maintenance projects at national parks and federal recreation lands nationwide,” the NPS said.

For those who may not wish to buy a lifetime pass, a $20 annual pass is also available. While there is no charge for amenities in the Gateway National Recreation Area, the only federal park in Queens, a Senior Pass can be used to get a 50 percent discount on parking at sites such as Jacob Riis Park.

Those wishing to purchase a Senior Pass before the price jumps can do so by visiting any national park or recreation area. It can also be purchased online at USGS.gov — a $10 processing fee will Q be added.

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ICE: Jamaican native outstayed welcome Detention follows charges of almost hitting a marked MTA cop vehicle

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

A Jamaican national who was supposed to leave the country in December 2010 was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Queens last month, following a prior arrest for allegedly almost striking an MTA Police car while driving with a suspended license at the edge of Jamaica and St. Albans.

Najee Antonio Clarke was detained June 16 outside the Queens County Criminal Court in Kew Gardens, following an appearance regarding a May 6 arrest by the MTA Police, the federal agency said in a July 5 statement.

According to Clarke’s indictment, provided to the Chronicle, the Jamaican national was driving a 2002 BMW at a “high rate of speed” when he almost struck Officer Joseph Nicosia’s car, causing the cop to swerve. Clarke allegedly continued to drive away from Nicosia, despite the police vehicle’s sirens being on, at about 70 miles per hour and blew three red lights along Liberty Avenue where the road meets Dunkirk Street, 180th Street and 172nd Street.

The defendant also allegedly failed to signal his turns and had a rear license plate that did not belong to the vehicle — Clarke later claimed the plate came from “one of my friends,” the indictment states.

Clarke was allegedly driving on a suspended

A Jamaican national who overstayed his welcome in the United States, and almost struck an MTA Police car in Queens, has been apprehended by immigration agents and is now scheduled FILE PHOTO for deportation. license due to several offenses. The Jamaican man came to the United States via John F. Kennedy International Airport on June 17, 2010 and was supposed to return to Jamaica that Dec. 16 — but never did, according to ICE. In the statement announcing the arrest, Thomas Decker, field officer director for Enforcement and Removal Operations in New York, blasted the city’s policy of not

honoring requests by ICE to detain criminals — such as Clarke.

“The city’s failure to honor detainers poses an increased risk to the officers and the community,” Decker said. “ICE shares New York law enforcement’s ultimate objective to protect public safety and we welcome significant modifications to the current NYC policy, which is needlessly granting criminals the opportunity

to reoffend against the city’s residents.”

ICE issued a detainer for Clarke on May 7, following his arrest, but that request was not honored by the city, according to the agency.

Mayor de Blasio had taken measures to reduce the city’s cooperation with ICE detainers even before President Trump was elected. In 2014, he authorized two laws limiting cooperation with federal enforcement, except in instances where there are public safety concerns. Then earlier this year, after the president was inaugurated, he mandated schools would not allow immigration agents into schools unless they had a court order.

Before President Trump was elected, ICE claims it arrested 240,000 undocumented immigrants in fiscal year 2016 — which ran from Oct. 1, 2015-Sept. 30, 2016 — 65,332 in the United States, with the rest captured while trying to enter the country.

The agency claims a “vast majority” of those arrested in the country were convicted criminals, though it did not give a percentage.

This is not the first time ICE has made arrests in Queens this year. About 10 unauthorized expats from around the world were detained here in February — many of them convicted of sexually abusing minors.

Trump has made it a priority to deport foreign criminals still calling the United States Q their home.

‘Never heard of’ Wills nonprofit

Pols, civics rip Two prosecution witnesses contradict paperwork noise policy

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Councilman Ruben Wills’ defense may have been damaged by a pair of witnesses on TuesFILE PHOTO day, including his goddaughter.

The goddaughter of Councilman Ruben Wills (D-Jamaica) testified on Tuesday that she did campaign work for the embattled politician while being paid by a nonprofit group he ran.

The Daily News and New York Post have reported that Michelle Davis, called as a prosecution witness during Wills’ ongoing cor r uption trial, said she had never heard of New York 4 Life, which allegedly paid her more than $400 during Wills’ unsuccessf ul campaign for the Council in 2009, and again in 2010, when he wound up winning his seat.

Davis, questioned by Assistant Attorney General Travis Hill, said she was never employed by the charity, for which Wills received $33,000 in state grant money.

Under cross-examination and on the courthouse steps afterward, defense attorney Kevin O’Donnell portrayed Davis as having a poor memory.

But Wills may have been more damaged by the testimony of Sean Garrick, who testified, according to a New York Times article on Wednesday, that he was listed as New York 4 Life’s executive director without his knowledge.

Garrick said he never received a letter from the state in 2011 requesting to know

how the $33,000 was spent. He also testified that he had never attended any meeti ng s or a ny ot he r f u nc t ion for t he nonprofit.

Wills, who is running for re-election in November with the support of the Queens County Democratic Party, already has a handful of primar y challengers either announced or considering getting into the race.

He is accused of taking a portion of the grant money, as well as some campaign money from city matching funds, for personal use.

Some of the alleged purchases include clothing, jewelry and a pricey Louis Vuitton designer handbag.

The grant was obtained through the office of former state Sen. Shirley Huntley, for whom Wills once worked as chief of staff. Huntley herself served just under a year in prison after pleading guilty to an unrelated corruption charge in 2013.

O’Don nell, according to published reports, has portrayed Wills as a victim of sloppy bookkeeping and arcane campaign finance laws.

Wills could face up to seven years in prison if he is convicted.

The Times reported that O’Donnell was expected to begin the defense’s case at Q some point on Wednesday.

State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) and Queens civic associations sent a letter to Mayor de Blasio on Monday urging him to change the NYPD’s new policy of not only entering residences that noise complaints have been made about if they have permission.

“Everyone is entitled to a celebration and a good time this summer but when it gets rowdy to the point that police have to be called, it clearly needs to be shut down,” the lawmaker said in a prepared statement. “Allowing bothersome and loud neighbors to simply shoo away the police compromises the relationship between communities and police.”

The letter also came f rom the Queens Colony, Bellerose Commonwealth, Northwest Bayside and Creedmoor civic associations, along with the Bay Terrace Community Alliance.

“This policy should be revoked immediately,” the letter said.

N Y PD C o m m i s s i o n e r J a m e s O’Neill has said that the directive is not a new policy and that the department has always followed it to stay Q within the law.

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The Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach last Thursday presented four $1,000 scholarships, established in honor of past members, to area students entering college in September.

The Founders Scholarship, which honors all the club’s original members and is presented to students majoring in any field, was awarded to Jessica Canner, left.

Victoria DeBlasi was awarded the August Sirgiovanni Scholarship, provided to students planning to major in the fields of science or math and named after the former owner of Augie’s Television Repair on Rock-

away Boulevard and a past president of the Howard Beach Kiwanis Club.

Michael Marullo was presented the Stanley Merzon Scholarship, named after the Chronicle’s co-founder and given to students majoring in journalism, mass media or a similar subject.

The three, seen here holding their certificates, are surrounded by their families and members of the Kiwanis Club.

Joseph Murgida was awarded the Paul Anthony Bono Scholarship, named after club Secretary Dino Bono’s late son. Murgida could not attend the ceremony.

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The TV and internet service provider tweeted someone damaged a fiber optic cable.

According to Charter Communications spokesman John Bonomo, the outage affected 35,000 customers in Queens on Tuesday.

It was an issue in Kew Gardens, Rego Park and Forest Hills.

While many got their service back by Tuesday evening, the issue wasn’t fully resolved until Wednesday morning, more than 24 hours after the damage occurred.

“Central Queens customers, remaining impact to service caused by yesterday’s outage has been fully addressed,” @Ask_Spectrum tweeted at 6:40 a.m. that day. “Thank you for your patience.”

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Boro Board abstains on self-storage plan Keep IBZs open for industrial use: DCP

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The third time was not the charm for the Department of City Planning, as the Borough Board voted Tuesday to abstain from either supporting or denying the agency’s proposal to require self-storage companies to get special permits before moving into industrial business zones.

The motion, supported by Borough President Melinda Katz, came at the end of DCP’s third presentation to the group in five months.

A nd wh ile the Borough Boa rd’s stance is one of no opinion, included in the group’s official decision sent to the city will be the decisions of the Queens community boards who have voted on the proposal.

As of this week, only community boards 5 and 13 had taken votes. The former unanimously moved to support the plan while the latter was overwhelmingly against it.

“We’ve had a lot of discussion about this,” Katz said, “and City Planning

knows I have several issues with it.”

According to City Planning, about a quarter of the city’s 240 self-storage facilities — each of which produce about five jobs — are located in IBZs. In Queens, 25 of the 63 existing sites can be found in the business zones, mostly in the western portion of the borough.

Should the plan become law, self-storage entities looking to open within an IBZ will have to go through a two-year application process, including a uniform land use review procedure, to get a special permit, which costs $2,000.

Depending on the size of the lot, DCP City Planner Breyonne Golding said the permit could could be more expensive, but she did not have exact price figures when asked by the Chronicle after the meeting.

On average, only two or three new self-storage entities are constructed in IBZs across the city each year.

Golding said one or two of those are Q built in Queens.

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continued from page 2 that she originally planned to co-sponsor the bill, saying “I like Dan Garodnick and I usually like to support him.”

“But when I really read the bill, I said I didn’t want to be on it,” Koslowitz said. “I have questions. To me, there’s a security issue here.”

In a Monday interview, Councilman Barry Grodenchik (D-Oakland Gardens) said the bill would just make it harder for the NYPD to effectively combat terrorism and other major crimes.

After all, he said, O’Neill is already one of the more open and forthcoming NYPD commissioners he’s seen.

“I don’t think it would be helpful for the NYPD to have to share this information,” Grodenchik said. “I know the legislation is well intended and I have respect for the prime sponsors, but I don’t think it’s a good idea.”

Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) said in a Monday statement he opposes the bill for the same reason.

“This bill is an insult to the brave men and women who risk their lives to protect New Yorkers,” Ulrich said. “Not only would it only infringe on the NYPD’s ability to do its job — it would assist criminals and terrorists, putting Americans in harm’s way.”

A spokesperson for Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) said the lawmaker also opposed the legislation, but did not

offer a further explanation.

Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) broke with some of his colleagues in a Monday statement, saying he is generally in favor of Garodnick’s bill.

“I support the POST Act’s goal of greater transparency of the surveillance tools being deployed in New York City, some of which are extraordinarily intrusive, so the public can make informed decisions about where the line should be drawn between privacy and security,” Lancman said. “The NYPD has reasonable concerns about tipping its hand to would-be criminals and terrorists, and should come forward with suggested changes to the bill so the right balance can be struck.”

Spokespeople for both Councilmembers Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria) and Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) said their bosses had not yet staked out positions on the bill.

Representatives for Councilmembers Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) and Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) acknowledged the Chronicle’s request for comment but statements on the legislation were not provided by press time.

Spokespeople for Councilmembers Peter Koo (D-Flushing), Julissa Ferreras-Copeland (D-East Elmhurst), Antonio Reynoso (D-Brooklyn, Ridgewood) and Ruben Wills (D-South Jamaica) did not respond to Q requests for comment.

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Neighborhood m idd le class millenials, wealthy Forest Hills Gardens homeow ne r s a nd ju st ab out everyone in between view the area arou nd Austin Street and 71st Avenue as a mecca for bar hopping, trendy dining and shopping.

But i n r e c e nt ye a r s , another group has looked at the area with eyes wide open: bankers.

The one-block stretch of 71s t Av e n u e b e t w e e n Queens Boulevard and Austin Street contains seven financial institutions, ranging from giants like Bank of America and Citi to smaller organizations like Flushing Bank and Queens County Savings Bank.

A new Popular Community Bank branch will open on Austin The spread of those insti- Street in Forest Hills next month.

PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA tutions has now begun to f low down Austin Street, with Hanover is changing to be like that. Forest Hills and Bank being the latest to open on the strip Austin Street are still very viable and vibrant, but they are having growing in March.

But it will soon lose its title as the new- pains.”

“There are too many banks,” Koslowitz est one on the block, as Puerto Rico-based Popular Community Bank announced it said in a Tuesday interview. “We could use will move into the space vacated by wom- some more clothing stores, especially en’s boutique Prima Donna last year, simi- women’s clothing stores.”

Both women pointed to the exorbitant lar to how Hanover took over the site of a cost of rent along Austin Street — which former clothing store.

“We are focused on expanding our ser- has risen along with the neighborhood’s v ices, i nclud i ng open i ng add it ional popularity among young people — as branches throughout the city,” Senior Vice arguably the biggest factor, as many of the President Greg Demas said in a statement. small businesses along the strip cannot “This 1,500-square-foot space located at afford to continue operating there.

Fi n a ncia l i n st it ut ion s w it h la rge 71-24 Austin St. allows us to bring our customer and community engagement to the amounts of capital can, Koslowitz said, Forest Hills market, that is hands on atten- and they’re itching to get a hold of prime tion, involvement with community organi- real estate.

“You can’t even imagine the changes,” zations and delivering a robust product offering that meets the needs of all types the lawmaker said. “If I wanted to buy a dress, I could go from store to store to of customers.”

Opening in August, the branch will be store back then, but no more.”

But not all is lost, according to Brown. full-service, complete with ATMs and In recent months, the eastern end of staffed with tellers and loan specialists.

When asked about the branch’s pres- Austin Street near Ascan Avenue has ence, neit her Cou ncilwoma n K a ren become populated with a number of new Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills) nor Forest Hills Asian restaurants, along with a barbershop, Chamber of Commerce President Leslie both of which have “lines of young people Brown said they had any issue with out the door” on some days.

The business leader said their success Popular.

But both did hope it would be the last will hopefully encourage other indepenbank to move in for a while, as the neigh- dent entities to give Austin Street a chance and keep the banks at bay. borhood is already flooded with them.

“They’re creating a niche for themselves “They used to call Continental Avenue ‘Bankers’ Row,’” Brown told the Chronicle because they’re different,” she said. “I Q on Monday. “With that said, Austin Street think there’s enough room to coexist.”

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Moya, Monserrate spar over Willets Pt. Hopefuls release plans for area; QDG currently not acquiring acres from city

by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

Although the Queens Development Group has acquired around two acres of Willets Point land for Phase 1 of the area’s redevelopment, it’s unclear when it will get more.

“The City currently owns a majority of properties in the Phase 1 area and has sold the balance (~2 acres) to the Queens Development Group,” a July 7 letter from the city Economic Development Corp. to Community Board 7 says. “At this point, as the City explores its options, additional parcels of land are not being acquired in the Phase 1 area.”

T h rou g h a s p oke s m a n , t he QD G acknowledged the Chronicle’s request for comment but did not provide one before deadline.

The New York State Court of Appeals recently decided that the Willets West mega-mall project was illegal because it would be built on the Citi Field parking lot, which is technically parkland. And because the developers have argued that the megamall must be built before the Willets Point redevelopment can come to fruition, the Iron Triangle’s future is full of questions.

The blighted industrial area is represented by Councilwoman Julissa FerrerasCopeland (D-East Elmhurst), who is retiring from office and will have a successor next year. Assemblyman Francisco Moya (D-Jackson Heights) and disgraced ex-politician Hiram Monserrate are two candidates in the Democratic primary race to replace her. Willets Point has become a major issue in their contest; both candidates have announced grand designs for the Iron Triangle.

A third hopeful, transportation activist Cristina Furlong, had not announced a plan for the site by press time.

Monserrate and Moya sparred over their plans, with the former saying the assemblyman “has not delivered one tangible result for our community” and the latter shooting back that he would hold his record up against his the convict ex-lawmaker’s “violent, corrupt legacy any day of the week.”

Assemblyman Francisco Moya, left, and disgraced ex-lawmaker Hiram Monserrate, who are vying in the Democratic primary race for the seat that Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras-Copeland FILE PHOTO, PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY will vacate, have released plans for redeveloping Willets Point.

A spokesman for the assemblyman’s campaign pointed to legislation that he got passed in the Assembly earlier this year: Carlos’ Law, a bill Moya introduced after a Queens construction worker died at an unsafe job site in Manhattan. The law would significantly increase penalties for creating unsafe work conditions.

Monserrate used to represent the area in the Council and worked on the original 2008 redevelopment plan with the Bloomberg administration, which has changed since he left office. Fewer affordable housing units are included; there is now an option for the QDG to opt out of building them if it pays a $35 million fine. The 1.4 million-square-foot mall was also not part of the first renewal plan.

The convict ex-councilman and state senator has proposed an updated plan, to be constructed by union labor completely. A day care center for kindergarten and pre-Kage children, a senior center and a community center are called for in Monserrate’s plan, as are a high school, an elementary school and a middle school.

Public parkland would be protected by

the plan, which was released on June 21, and the polluted land in Willets Point environmentally remediated. Its residential units would be 100 percent affordable per the Willets Point ZIP code’s median income of $45,000. Monserrate has been a critic of the QDG; his plan calls for a new request for proposals; the city would also have to work with housing providers that are not-for-profit.

“Ou r com mu nit y needs per manent affordable housing now, not a soccer stadium, not another parking lot, and not another mall or a casino,” Monserrate said in a prepared statement, referring to proposals for Willets Point and Flushing Meadows that never saw the light of day.

As with his opponent’s proposal, Moya is calling for absolutely affordable housing, although his plan does not specify that affordability be indexed to the Willets Point ZIP code. A Moya campaign spokesman told the Chronicle his plan is subject to change and a specific way for determining affordability may be hashed out as policy elements are “strengthened.” The assemblyman’s proposal, released on July 11, also

includes that 33 percent of the housing be reserved for people with an income of $25,000 or less.

Moya’s proposal, according to his campaign, has been informed by conversations with community leaders and the Pratt Center for Community Development’s research and advocacy on redeveloping Willets Point.

While Monserrate calls for 50 percent of construction contracts to go to minorityand women-owned businesses, Moya says that 65 percent of contracts — for construction or another purpose — go to them.

And along with environmental remediation, the assemblyman is calling for a funding stream dedicated to improving Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Additionally, Moya would like to see a “World’s Borough Market” in Willets Point that uses revitalized markets in the Lower East Side and East Harlem as models.

He has also proposed an advisory council of neighborhood stakeholders to give the community a say in the redevelopment.

According to his campaign, Moya would work with the state Legislature to secure alienation of parkland if his redevelopment plan would legally require it.

Monserrate ripped the assemblyman’s plan shortly after it was released.

“In the seven years he’s been a public official, Francisco Moya has not delivered one tangible result to our community,” the disgraced ex-state senator said in a statement. He added that the assemblyman “is disingenuous when he speaks about affordable housing, an issue he has never championed.”

The assemblyman shot back in a statement that Monserrate’s critique is baseless.

“I’ve passed land mark legislation, fought for affordable housing and tenant protections and stood up to the Trump wing of the Republican Party at every turn,” he said. “My record stands for itself and I’m ready to hold it up against Hiram Monserrate’s violent, corrupt legacy any Q day of the week.”

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There isn’t much a lawmaker can do when it comes to an as-of-right building development on private land.

But Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan (D-Long Island City) is hoping a zoning change in Ridgewood near the Bushwick border can prevent the construction of large, residential towers in the future.

In a July 5 letter to City Planning Commission Chairwoman Marisa Lago, Nolan asked the agency to “revisit the zoning regulations” for the southwest Queens community and create an updat-

Call sparked by residential tower plan ed plan that “truly reflects the needs of the community,” something that hasn’t been done in almost 20 years.

The issue at hand is the construction of the 17-story Ridgewood Tower, a 129unit mixed-use development planned for St . Nichola s Ave nu e ne a r My r t le Avenue.

In addition to the residential units, the 179,304 square-foot building, when constructed, will contain 88,598 square feet of retail space, 3,265 square feet of com-

munity space and 350 below-grade parking spaces according to the plans.

The lot is zoned C4-3, a common designation in places like Downtown Flushing, where there has also been a sharp increase in similar towers.

Groups like the Ridgewood Tenants Union have fought against the plan, saying the structure does not match the character of the surrounding neighborhood and will only exacerbate the prici ng out of long t i me R idgewood

r e s i dents, many of whom are low- or middle-income. “ T h e p a c e of d evelo p m e nt h a s changed dramatically in the near twodecade period since,” Nolan said, referring to the most recent zoning update 17 years ago. “A 17-story tower would be profoundly larger than any other structure in the surrounding area.

“This type of development has the potential to set a precedent which would allow for the possibility of additional high-rise developments,” she continued, “which would forever alter this neighQ borhood’s identity.”

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Gripping documentaries.

Highly anticipated world premieres.

Shorts from across the globe.

Stories about everyday life in Queens.

It took a long time to whittle down the list of applicants to just 150, but Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema founder Jayson Simba believes he’s got an all-star lineup of films on his hands.

“It was tough. We had some really, really great stuff,” Simba told the Chronicle on Tuesday. “I think we have some great films here.

There’s something for everyone.”

Released last Thursday after weeks of deliberation, the festival’s lineup contains more than 150 films, ranging from feature length movies to international shorts that run less than five minutes.

Hosting a majority of the screenings is the Kew Gardens Cinemas, the 10-day-long festival’s home base, at 81-05 Lefferts Blvd., while a trio of special films will be shown for free at the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

The event starts Aug. 4 with a free, public kickoff party at Austin Ale House’s Trackside Cafe, complete with a plaque dedication ceremony in honor of late Hollywood star and Kew Gardens native Rodney Dangerfield.

Film screenings begin the next day, with a handful of pieces all having to do with Queens leading up to the festival’s opening feature

Inaugural event runs Aug. 4 to 13 film, director Zachary Raines’ comedy “Accidents,” shown for the first time anywhere in the world.

On Aug. 6, the Queens Museum will host a special presentation of the notable documentary “The Witness,” which tackles the myth that 38 Kew Gardens residents witnessed Kitty Genovese’s 1964 murder but failed to intervene or alert authorities.

A free discussion with director James Solomon will follow.

On Aug. 12, Maple Grove Cemetery will host a trio of free, one-hour professional panel discussions on the challenges women face in the independent film industry, movie distribution and how to make great pieces with small budgets.

The festival’s closing film, the New York premiere of the Italian drama “Second Spring,” will be screened Aug. 12, with an awards gala at Terrace on the Park serving as the official end of the event the next night.

Between the showings of “Accidents” and “Second Spring,” both of which will be preceded by red carpet walks, dozens of films can be viewed each day of the festival at the Kew Gardens Cinemas.

“For obvious reasons, the opening and closing night films are fantastic,” Simba said. “But I can’t really pick a favorite. We have so many wonderful films.”

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The festival is broken into 32 two-hour blocks. Aside from the feature films, which fill up a block on their own, each program contains up to a half-dozen pieces.

Prices range from $16 for the afternoon blocks of multiple films to $25 for the evening showings of the features.

To purchase tickets or reserve a spot at the free kickoff party, panel discussions or Queens Museu m screenings, log onto kewgardensfestivalofcinema.com.

Simba, who began planning the event over a year ago, said he received more than 400 submissions from all over the world.

And while about 250 films did not make the cut, there’s still an international flare to the festival.

Over 25 countries will be represented, as some of the documentary filmmakers hail from the Netherlands, Israel and Canada, while the narrative and documentary shorts category features directors from Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Iceland, Brazil, Romania, Poland, Spain, Azerbaijan, Australia and South Korea.

But Queens will still be strongly represented at the festival, as films about a borough man with Asberger’s syndrome and life in the Pomonok Houses will be shown.

“That wasn’t our goal, honestly. It was just to play the best of independent films,” Simba

The Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema will feature more than 150 films from across America and the world.

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To qualify for the leadership development program, eighth-grade applicants must be residents of the New York City or western Michigan, where Jeter was raised, with a GPA of 3.0 or higher.

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They must also meet every two weeks Far Rockaway resident Shawn Salick graduatwith other Jeter’s Leaders participants in the ing from Derek Jeter’s youth development city to work on projects aimed at promoting group.

PHOTO COURTESY MARINO PUBLIC RELATIONS healthy lifestyles, serving their community, year’s graduating class are tremendous role peer mentoring and academic achievement.

Chinkeehee is one of just 13 students models to other young people,” Derek Jeter from the New York City area to be inducted said in a statement, “and I know they will into the Jeters Leaders Class of 2021, while continue to carry the Turn 2 legacy in college and well into the future.”

Salick is one of nine area 2017 graduates.

Jeter has taken on a much larger, more The program is the signature aspect of the future Baseball Hall of Famer’s Turn 2 hands-on role with his foundation since his Foundation — the name playing off Jeter’s retirement from Major League Baseball uniform number and the colloquial term for after the 2014 season.

The legendary ballplayer made a pair of turning a double play — which aims to “turn away” children from drugs and alco- appearances in Queens over the last year, hol and encourage them to “turn to” produc- surprising hundreds of kids at Turn 2’s annual baseball clinic in Flushing last September tive lifestyles.

“These young people are some of the most and handing out presents at the foundation’s remarkable students across the five bor- holiday party in Rego Park in December.

It was at that event where Salick told oughs,” said Sharlee Jeter, who runs the prothe Chronicle being a part gram, “and we are thrilled of Jeter’s Leaders had to welcome them to the been a life - cha ngi ng Jeter’s Leaders program.” experience.

Ever y si ngle Jeter’s “When I reflect on the Leaders participant over work that this program the last 12 years has gone does, I get a warm feeling,” on to college with a scholSalick said. “For example, arship in hand, courtesy of t h is past su m mer, we the foundation. The one packed food for 10,000 available to Salick and his hungry people. It was realfellow graduates — includly inspiring. ing incoming St. John’s “Everything we teach is Un iversit y f resh ma n based on what he was George Huot — is worth taught when he was grow$5,000. ing up,” he added of Jeter.

The induction and grad“It’s a huge part of our uation ceremonies both lives, mentoring and teachoccurred at The Picnic House in Brooklyn.

Derek Jeter at a Turn 2 Founda- ing other kids how they Q “The Leaders in this tion event in Flushing. FILE PHOTO should act.”

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Popular physics NYSCI slingshots

‘Angry Birds’ into Queens

by Anthony O’Reilly

family can enjoy themselves and learn together,” Tom Zaller, CEO and president of Imagine Exhibitions, said in a 2013 press release. “The Angry Birds brand provides an excellent opportunity for Imagine to bring to market a blockbuster exhibition that will educate and entertain visitors around the world.”

In the Corona museum’s “Bamboo Forest,” there’s a look at the wingspan of some of the birds in the game, as well as the eggs they lay.

Video screens also show the real-life versions of the different feathered friends seen in “Angry Birds.”

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The smartphone game “Angry Birds” has been downloaded more than three billion times — and now, the international sensation is flying off the screens and into the New York Hall of Science for the summer.

“It’s the quintessential example of what we look for in an exhibit,” said Dan Wempa, vice president of External Affairs for NYSCI. “There’s this sort of medium where you have this conversation of physics happening alongside this global pop-culture phenomenon. It’s the perfect combo.”

The “Angry Birds Universe” offers visitors of all ages a unique look at the birds and science involved in the app — in which players fling birds at pigs in the hope of knocking them all down and retrieving stolen eggs.

The popular game has been adapted into other themed versions — such as Star Wars and a car-racing one — a movie and a TV show. The game has been called the most popular free smartphone game of all time, and has made its creators hundreds of millions of dollars.

The exhibit, which has been brought to different cities for four years, was developed by Imagine Exhibitions, game creator Rovio Entertainment and Jack Rouse Associates.

“The experience uniquely helps foster the science, technology, engineering, art and math initiative by creating a dynamic environment where the whole

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MUSIC

THEATRE

Prest4Time & Comedian, with the Jamaica-based band playing smooth jazz, R&B, classic soul and more; plus comedy; part of Jazz on the Lawn series.

Thu., July 13, 7 p.m., Black Spectrum Theatre lawn, Roy Wilkins Park, 177 St. and Baisley Blvd., Jamaica.

Free. Info: (718) 723-1800, blackspectrum.com.

“Enter Laughing,” a farce based loosely on the early life of legendary performer Carl Reiner, by the First String Players. Thu.-Sat., July 13-15, 8 p.m.; Sun., July 16, 2 p.m., Our Lady of Mercy, 70-01 Kessel St. (entrance on Juno St.), Forest Hills. $10. Info: (718) 268-6143, firststringplayers@gmail.com.

St. Albans Jazz & R&B Festival, with Leon and the People, Alyson Williams, Lala and Freddie Dugard and the Bartlett Comtemporaries, hosted by Kool Bubba Ice. Sat., July 15, 4:30-10 p.m., St. Albans Park, Merrick Blvd. between 115 and Sayres aves.

Free. Info: (718) 723-1800, blackspectrum.com.

“Much Ado About Nothing,” the Shakespeare comedy about the courtship of two very different couples, in a fresh take by the Mod Theatre Co. Wed.-Sat., July 19-22, 8 p.m., The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23 St., Long Island City. $18. Info: (718) 3920722, secrettheatre.com, modtheatre.org.

White Wedding band, in a tribute to 1980s pop rock, part of summer concert series. Tue., July 18, 7 p.m., Juniper Valley Park, Juniper Blvd. N. and 80 St., Middle Village. Free. Bring lawn chair. Info: (718) 651-5865, junipercivic.com.

DANCE

Alex Cummings Ensemble, playing straight-ahead jazz, part of weekly Live at the Gantries concert series. Tue., July 18, 7 p.m., Gantry Plaza State Park, 4-09 47 Road, Long Island City. Free. Info: Info: (718) 544-2996, kupferbergcenter.org.

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NYC Ska Orchestra, an 18-piece big band playing ska, reggae and jazz. Sun., July 16, 4-5:30 p.m., Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing.

Free with admission: $6; $4 seniors, students; $2 kids over 3. Info: (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org.

The Legendary Ladies of Skyy / Felix Hernandez Rhythm Revue, with the three soulful Dunning sisters performing favorites from their more than 12 albums; joined by the all-star DJ who created NPR’s BluesStage series. Sat., July 15, 4-7 p.m., Queensbridge Park, off Vernon Blvd. north of Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, Long Island City. Free. Part of Summerstage Concert Series.

Info: (212) 360-1399, cityparksfoundation.org.

With threats of war coming out of North Korea and the United States moving new missile defense systems into South Korea, this might be just the right time to see “Liberation Day,” a documentary about the first foreign rock group ever to perform in the north, showing next week in Socrates Sculpture Park. See Film.

PHOTO COURTESY VFS FILMS Tue., Sat., Sun., 2:30-4:30 p.m. or by appointment, thru Tue., July 18. Queens Historical Society, 143-35 37 Ave., Flushing. $5; $3 seniors, students; under 12 free. Info: (718) 939-0647, queenshistoricalsociety.org, bit.ly/2nBaJ8M. Secret Garden Art Festival, with works by NYC celebrity, museum-held and upcoming artists including Peter Tunney, Pablo Caviedes, Eduardo Terranova, Sivan Dayan, Toni Erm, Adriana Varella and more; plus entertainment, lectures, public art and jam sessions. Sat.-Sun., July 15-16, 2-10 p.m., sTudio 7 Gallery, Fort Tilden, Rockaway. Free. Info: (646) 629-2653, secretgardenart.info.

“The Lavender Line: Coming Out in Queens,” a multimedia exhibit on the LGBTQ rights movement in Queens, largely drawn from the collection of City Councilman Danny Dromm. Thru Sun., July 30, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Suggested $8; $4 seniors; free students, children.

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

“Charlotte Prodger: Subtotal,” with sound, video, works on paper and more linking disparate topics and sites; “Teresa Burga: Mano Mal Dibujada,” with drawings and sculptures by the Peruvian feminist artist; and “Sam Anderson: The Park,” with sculptures and videos that capture particular characters in mid-gesture, all as part of a larger network.

Thru Mon., July 31, SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City. $5 suggested; $3 students. Info: (718) 361-1750, sculpture-center.org.

“Innovative Concepts to Origami,” with abstract and creative works of Hiromitsu Kuroo in the traditional Japanese art, some quite large. Thru Mon., July 31, Resobox, 41-26 27 St., Long Island City. Free.

Info: (718) 784-3680, resobox.com.

“Taking it to the Streets,” photos of 1950s New York, by Flushing photographer Frank Oscar Larson.

Thru Sun., Aug. 6, Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. Suggested $5; free students. Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

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EXHIBITS “Almost Home,” with works in various media on moving from one place to another and the senses of displacement, nostalgia and more that relocation evokes. Thru Sun., July 16, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 11-03 45 Ave., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 937-6317, dorsky.org.

“Toys & Games from the Attic and Beyond,” with more than 150 items including Queens-born Mr. Machine, Hess trucks, Lionel trains, Beanie Babies and more, with panels on their histories.

“Marinella Senatore: Piazza Universale/Social Stages,” multimedia works by the Italian artist that refer to public spaces where different communities meet and an ideal space where the future can be envisioned collaboratively. Thru Sun., July 30, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Suggested $8; $4 seniors; free students, children.

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

“Angry Birds Universe,” with attendees using slingshots to propel balls with the images of characters from the video game series, learning about its creation and about real birds, and more. Thru Sun., Aug. 27, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 6990005, nysci.org.

“Lorna Simpson: ‘Hypothetical?,’” a sound installation including text, photographs and mouthpieces from wind instruments, inspired in part by the constraints of spoken language. Thru Mon., Aug. 7, Fisher Landau Center for Art, 38-27 30 St., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 937-0727, flcart.org.

“Summer through Greta’s Lens,” nature photography from single flowers to misty landscapes, all on 35-mm film and unaltered, by Greta Jaklitsch. Thru Tue., Aug. 29, Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing. Suggested $2. Info: (718) 359-6227, vomuseum.org.

Queensboro Dance Festival, with 14 troupes from 12 neighborhoods in Queens, performing over two days. Wed.-Thu., July 19-20, 7 p.m., Hunters Point South Park, 51 Ave. and Center Blvd., Long Island City. Free. VIP Happy Hour, with free drinks and hor d’oeuvres, giveaways, VIP access to performance and more, 5 p.m., Crabhouse, 2-03 Borden Ave., LIC. $20 each day; $25 at door. Rain dates: July 26-27.

Info: (929) 282-0620, queensborodancefestival.com.

FILM

“Rear Window,” the 1954 Hitchcock murder mystery thriller starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, about a laid up photographer observing his neighbors and thinking he may have stumbled upon a killing. Fri., July 14, sundown, Rufus King Park, between Jamaica and 89 Aves. and 150 and 153 Sts., Jamaica.

Part of weekly series of Hitchcock films each Fri. thru Aug. 11 (except Aug. 4). Free. Info: (718) 657-2605.

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See It Big! Spielberg Summer, with several of the director’s films, including “Lincoln,” “Munich” and “Minority Report.” Thru Sun., July 16, varying days and times, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave., Astoria. $15 each film; $11 seniors, students; $7 kids 3-17. Info: (718) 777-6888, movingimage.us.

“Liberation Day,” the 2016 documentary about what the Slovenian cult band Laibach had to go through to become the first rock group ever to perform in North Korea, even as government propaganda announces a “countdown to war” with the South. Wed., July 19, 7 p.m. (prescreening performance), Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City. Free.

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Socrates solo show won’t get your G.O.A.T.

by Neil Chiragdin

objects. Toes of old sneakers, wires from any number of electronics and wigs of truly epic Recipe for a G.O.A.T. Sunday: Start with proportions are all fair game.

The “G.O.A.T.s” are perhaps the star one lawn ornament goat. Cast and reproduce in fiberglass and top with rebar. Drizzle attractions of Nari Ward’s solo exhibition at over your favorite spray paints. Serve with Socrates, the first one for any artist in the any of preferred toppings — fancy wigs, park’s 30-year history. Scattered throughout sneakers, chargers and A/V cords are all the grounds — near the “Apollo/Poll” sculpgood choices. Enjoy on a sunny summer day! ture, hiding amongst the trees near a In Socrates Sculpture Park, perched upon favored fishing spot, or even precariously the East River near the border of Long Island perched upon the river wall — they invite City and Astoria, a flock of goats has taken visitors to move throughout the park’s differhold. On green pastures by murky waters, ent areas. Being low to the ground and posthey are watching, their gazes wistful but sessed of their guileless kid smiles, they unfocused. They cluster in small groups or appear to be exceptionally popular among remain solitary. From their backs sprouts the youngest of Queens’ art critics.

The name for the works, “G.O.A.T.,” is a rebar, sometimes naked, but often covered in intricately bound layers of household reference to the acronym and title regularly bestowed upon or claimed by athletes and musicians — the Greatest of All Time. Here, Ward turns a pun by mass-producing the literal, physical When: Through Mon., Sept. 4 manifestation of the term, and dressWhere: Socrates Sculpture Park, ing them in mundane objects. This is 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City typical of Ward’s style: Irreverent and Entry: Free. (718) 956-1819, tongue-in-cheek, he often makes use socratessculpturepark.org of found objects and challenges social constructs. qboro contributor

Elsewhere in the park, visitors beeline toward “Scapegoat.” A 40-foot-long structure, it resembles a hobbyhorse, but is instead topped by a 12-foot-tall goat’s head — and is impossible to ignore. The center mass of the sculpture is bound in fire hose, and tapers down to a small, old wheel with a rusty axle. This piece is also emblematic of Ward’s style, resembling a toppled tower,

and makes mockery of colossal monuments to masculinity. The goat’s bust itself is finished with such detail it recalls historical figures’ likenesses, and the handlebars driven through the head double down on the element of childishness.

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Summer jazz: an enduring Queens tradition

by Michael Gannon Editor

A list of jazz greats who called the Jamaica region home would be as thick as an old Queens White Pages, with Lena Horne, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Milt Hinton and James Brown just at the top of the roster.

So when it was planning its summer performance schedule, the Black Spectrum Theatre assembled acts that can meet both the large demand and high expectations of audiences here.

The 15th annual St. Albans Jazz and R&B festival is scheduled for 4:30 to 10 p.m. at St. Albans Park on Merrick Boulevard.

Scheduled acts include Leon and the Peoples, a reggae-soul group; rhythm and blues singer Alyson Williams; and Lala and the Freddie Dugard Hit Squad, featuring a combination of jazz, funk and soul.

It also will feature a performance by the Bartlett Contemporaries, a group founded in 1964 at the old Andrew Jackson High School — now Campus Magnet School — in Cambria Heights.

The host is Kool Bubba Ice. Admission is free, and lawn chairs and picnic blankets are encouraged.

Other sponsors include Councilman Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans), the city’s departments of Cultural Affairs and Parks and Recreation; and Jazz Knights.

The free Jazz on the Lawn Series, which kicked off in Far Rockaway on July 11 with the multigenre Latin band Los Ciegos Del Barrio, continues tonight, July 13, outside at the Black Spectrum Theatre with the band Prest4Time, plus a comedy show.

All shows in the series are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.

The Black Spectrum Theatre is in Roy Wilkins Park at 177th Street near Baisley Boulevard.

The Under the Street Light Doo Wop Singers will perform on Tuesday, July 18, at Brookville Park, located at South Conduit Avenue and 149th Street between 232nd and 235th streets.

The series moves back to the Black Spectrum Theatre on Thursday, July 20, with the Motown, funk and R&B sounds of L.A. Blacksmith.

On Tuesday, Aug. 8, it’s back to Brookville Park for the Everton Bailey Gospel Experience, along with a comedy show.

The series closes out on Thursday,

Award-winning saxophonist Craig Crawford and the Craig Crawford Players will be FILE PHOTO at Springfield Park on Aug. 10.

Aug. 10, with the jazz offerings of the Craig Crawford Players and Mike Flyte & the Atomic Band. That’s at Springfield Park, located at Springfield Boulevard and 145th Road in Springfield Gardens.

As with the St. Albans Jazz Festival, lawn chairs and picnic blankets are welcome for the outdoor events.

Additional sponsors of the Jazz on the Lawn Series include Miller, his colleague Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton), Apple Bank and the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs.

All events at the Black Spectrum Theatre will have food vendors.

The rain date for all July events is July 25 at the Black Spectrum Theatre. All events in August are being held rain or Q shine.

Jamaica jazz concerts When: Sat. July 15 through Thu., Aug. 10, various dates Where: Various locations in Southeast Queens Entry: Free. (718) 723-1800, blackspectrum.com

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But the real fun lies in the next room over, where the science and technology behind the game comes to life.

There, guests are able to race handheld vehicles — just as if they were playing “Angry Birds: Go!” — create their own ‘Angry Birds’ masterpiece and lift pulleys with birds of different weights.

There is also a music booth, scene creation stations and a climbing wall.

“It’s not just a game exhibit,” said Wempa, whose favorite parts of it included the masterpiece area. “You’re expressing a true, gross motor thing.”

All of this is used to teach children science, technology, engineering, arts and

‘Angry Birds Universe’ When: Through Aug. 27 Where: New York Hall of Science, 47-07 111 St., Corona Entry: Free with admission $16; $13 seniors, kids, students (718) 699-0005, nysci.org

mathematics — otherwise known as STEAM — concepts, which are highly stressed in most public schools.

Imagine Exhibitions states the game is a perfect way to educate people on these subjects. “[STEAM] topics are taught in a playful, engaging environment,” Imagine states on its website. “’Be the bird’ in this globally recognized, fully immersive blockbuster exhibition.”

As exciting as all of that might be, it doesn’t match up to the interactive lifesized slingshot pen that allows visitors to shoot down blocks and pigs — just like in the game.

“The slingshot is definitely one of the big calling card elements,” Wempa said.

Players will have to pull their bird back just right and get the trajectory down to a T if they wish to defeat the evil piggies here — be forewarned, it’s a lot harder than it is in the game.

During an advanced preview of the exhibit in late June, adults and children were laughing and excitedly moving around the different parts of the space.

“One of the things we know about our

Ryan McGuire takes his best shot at taking down the evil piggies at the New York Hall of Science’s “Angry Birds Universe” exhibit. On the cover: Some of your favorites who PHOTOS BY ANTHONY O’REILLY do that all the time. audience is that families who come to our museum want to experience things together,” Wempa said. “We want to do things with our kids. We want to be part of the action.

He believes “Angry Birds Universe” has

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Surviving the noisy LIRR on Atlantic Avenue

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

George Grix was born in Germany in September 1867.

He immigrated to New York City in 1880 and became a naturalized citizen eight years later. He married an American woman, Louisa, in 1890 and they quickly had two sons, Henry and Adolph.

He worked as a grocer and moved to Richmond Hill in 1910, which had a large German-American population. He purchased a corner building at Grix Real Estate and Insurance, at 109-01 Atlantic Ave. in 109-01 Atlantic Ave. and con- Richmond Hill, summer 1934. tinued his grocery business, but as Richmond Hill started booming, he 20, 1939, at the time the LIRR was putting suddenly made a career move to real estate the tracks underground on Atlantic Avenue.

His wife, Louisa, continued to live there in 1920.

His office abutted the noisy, dangerous until her death in July 1955.

Today, cars zoom by all day where tracks Long Island Rail Road.

His younger son, Adoph, worked as a once sat. The corner of Atlantic and 109th brakeman for the LIRR. The business grew Street is now a haven for automotive repair and Grix soon started selling insurance, too. shops specializing in tires, auto alarms, Q Unfortunately, he passed away on April tinting windows and upholstery repair.

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ummer is in full swing and with it comes a plethora of ethnic feasts, carnivals and festivals. One of the largest and best of these celebrations is the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This is one street festival that is not to be missed! It has been a family favorite for generations of Americans since 1903 and is always well attended by visitors who come from all over the world just to see the Giglio (tower) lift!

It was originally begun by Italian immigrants from Nola, Italy in 1903 as a tribute to San Paolino who was the Bishop of Nola, Italy from 409-431 AD. In 1958, the feast was combined with the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. This popular combined feast that honors the Italian Madonna Della Carmine and St. Paulinus is steeped in Southern Italian tradition.

It will be held now through Sunday, July 16th and features daily live music and entertainment, many unique vendors, authentic ethnic food, lots of family fun and many attractions for young and old alike.

If you visit the feast on Saturday, July 15th at 4 p.m., you can witness the traditional lifting of the Giglio – a huge, colorful and

ornately decorated tower – that is proudly carried through the streets by a bevy of extremely strong and devoted men who had to vie for the very prestigious honor of being a lifter. Then, on Sunday, July 16th at 1:30, you can attend a Mass to honor Our Lady of Mount Carmel and join in a traditional procession through the streets at 1:30 p.m. Our Lady of Mount Carmel is located at 275 North 8th Street, Brooklyn and is just off Metropolitan and Meeker avenues.

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SPECIAL EVENTS City of Water Day, with arts and crafts, education, hiking and more, all celebrating NYC’s waterways, bays and ocean, at three locations in Queens. Sat., July 15, varying times, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Center, 175-10 Cross Bay Blvd., Broad Channel; Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City; the Falchi Building, 31-00 47 Ave., LIC. Free. Info: (212) 935-9831, waterfrontalliance.org.

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bring telescope or binoculars. Sat., July 15, 8-10 p.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. Rain date July 22. $16. Info/pre-registration (req’d): (718) 2294000, alleypond.com.

KIDS/TEENS Rocket Park Recess: Propel, with kids and families getting a little wet as they make and propel their own mini boats, do some parkour movement and watch a catapult fling watermelons into the air. Fri., July 14, 12-4 p.m. (catapult launch 1 p.m.), Rocket Park, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

APEC Adventure Time: Slimy, Slippery Snails, with tots 18-36 months and one parent enjoying an up-close encounter with the garden creatures, meeting other animals, making an art project and more. Sat., July 15, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston. $18. Info/pre-registration (req’d): (718) 229-4000, alleypond.com.

The Quarantine War, about the destruction of New York Marine Hospital on Staten Island in 1858, when rioting residents burned it to the ground and Gov. John King declared martial law in response, by historian Andy McCarthy of the New York Public Library. Sun., July 16, 2-3 p.m., King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica. Free. Info: (718) 206-0545, kingmanor.org.

Make It: Book Binding, with kids 6 and over learning how to make their own notebooks and exploring different bookbinding techniques using common household materials. Sat.-Sun., July 15-16, 22-23, 1:30-2:30 p.m., 3-4 p.m., 4:30-5:30 p.m., New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, college students with ID. Info: (718) 6990005, nysci.org.

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Creative Movement Dance Workshop, with performer Dina Denis and her Dance Into Light company teaching easy-to-learn modern moves for all ages. Wed., July 19, 1-3:30 p.m., Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing. $5; $8 family. Info: (718) 359-6227, vomuseum.org.

Meditation sessions, for spirituality and relaxation. Thu., July 13, Fresh Meadows Library, 19320 Horace Harding Expy.; Thu., July 20, 27, Hollis Library, 202-05 Hillside Ave.; Mon., July 17, Auburndale Library, 25-55 Francis Lewis Blvd., Flushing; Mon., July 24, 31, St. Albans Library, 191-05 Linden Blvd.; all 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

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SOCIAL EVENTS Italian Charities of America dances, with food, drink and more. Sat., July 15 and 29, also twice monthly thru end of the year; 8 p.m.-12 a.m., 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst. $10. Info: (718) 478-3100.

Israeli folk dancing, with instruction for beginners, in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. Each Mon., 7:30 p.m. (beginners’ instruction); 8:3010 p.m. (intermediate dances), Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Tpke, Fresh Meadows. $10. Info: (718) 380-4145, hillcrestjc.org.

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continued from page 29 frame holds a massive bell in oxidized copper; only the bell’s body is made to resemble the gonads of a billy goat. It’s large enough to be crouched under and into — and that’s when viewers discover the best joke of the piece. Rather than a normal clapper to strike the bell’s lip, the sculpture contains three small goat bells, which visitors can ring to make a fine tinkle, as opposed to a thunderous boom. Once again, Ward pokes fun at the grandeur and seriousness of masculine icons.

“Apollo/Poll” can be seen from all around the park, and is especially charming at sunset, glowing neon red and framed against the Manhattan skyline. Bearing a resemblance to the font of the signage at the

Apollo Theater in Harlem, the letters “A” and “O” blink on and off, while the others remain lit. “Poll” may be a reference to that theater’s famous “Amateur Night,” when the audience picks winners and losers. The exhibition notes call it a “reflect[ion] on the enterprise and art of self-promotion, originality, and the meaning of consensus.”

Ward is a regular name in art world news lately. The Jamaica-born artist recently received the highest honor of the Vilcek Prize, given to immigrant artists, and he has a concurrent exhibition running at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Queens residents should not pass up the opportunity to see his work in his adopted hometown. Q

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BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT To: The unknown heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees, legatees, devisees, heirs at law and assignees of Ilija Spariosu, deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names, are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence. A petition having been duly filed by LOIS M. ROSENBLATT, Public Administrator of Queens County, as Administrator of the Estate of Ion Stefan, with offices at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, 6th Floor, in Jamaica, New York, on the 10th day of August, 2017 at 9:30 A.M., why a decree should not be made in the estate of ION STEFAN cancelling and discharging the mortgage on the property at 1819 Cornelia Street, Ridgewood, New York, between Ion Stefan, mortgagor, and Ilija Spariosu, mortgagee, dated November 12, 1985, and recorded on May 19, 1986 under Reel 2091, Page 1052; directing the City Register of the City of New York to accept a certified copy of the Decree to be entered and recorded against the subject property; and granting such other and further relief as to the Court deems just and proper. Dated, Attested and Sealed, June 29, 2017, HON. PETER J. KELLY, Surrogate, Queens County; Lee J. Coulman, Acting Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court; GERARD J. SWEENEY, ESQ., Counsel to the Public Administrator of Queens County, 1981 Marcus Avenue, Ste 200, Lake Success, New York 11042, (718) 459-9000. This Citation is served upon you as required by law.

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MindSight LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/23/2016.

Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: MindSight LLC, 3560 74th Street 703, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

PRISMFUSE LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/10/2017. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Gabriel Hitt, 72-11 Austin Street, MB# 328, Forest Hills, NY 11375. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

WINCY REALTY, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/23/2017. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 4026 College Point Blvd #11F, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

THE ROCKAWAY PROJECT LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/12/17. Office in Queens Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 110 William ST Ste 1410 New York, NY 10038. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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The four-day All-Star break couldn’t have come soon enough for our Flushing heroes. Yes, the Mets have had, even by their standards, an incredible amount of injuries to frontline players this year. However, as former Jets and Giants head coach Bill Parcells once famously stated, “You are what your record says that you are!” Unfortunately the Mets’ record is a very disappointing 39-47.

I was listening on the radio to yet another desultory performance by the Mets this past Sunday as they lost 6-0 to the Cardinals in St. Louis. The Mets radio team of Josh Lewin and Wayne Randazzo — Howie Rose got an early jump on the All-Star hiatus by taking the weekend off — understandably tried to spin things by saying that a lot of the injured Mets are very close to coming off of the disabled list, promoting some second-half optimism.

The reality is that while it will be nice to see some household names back in uniform again at Citi Field, the odds are that the ship has sailed as far as the 2017 season is concerned.

There is no guarantee that returning players will be able to shake off the rust and be able to perform at the level that is expected of them.

Yoenis Cespedes recently returned to action after missing a lengthy period of time recovering from yet another quadriceps injury. He hit a

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pathetic .130 — 6 hits in 46 at-bats — with no extra-base hits in his first 11 games back.

There is also no assurance that the returning players will stay healthy for the rest of the season. I’ve lost track how many times Matt Harvey has been on the disabled list over the last year-and-a-half. And the times that he has pitched, he has generally been a shell of his once-dominant self when Mets fans wore “Dark Knight” paraphernalia and declared any day that he was due to start “Harvey Day.” Lewin and Randazzo also pointed out that the Mets will kick off a ten-game homestand starting Friday. The Mets have not exactly been world beaters at home, but knowing that the July 31 trade deadline is looming may light a fire under at least a few of the players who want to stay in New York.

While it’s unreasonable to expect the Mets to reel off a long winning streak, there is one area where they can only improve. For a team whose strength was supposed to be its defense, the gloves in the field have been relatively pourous this season. Let’s also not forget the mental errors in the field and on the base paths that don’t show up in the box score.

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