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RISING CASES Covid ticks up citywide and in Howard Beach PAGE 4 As coronavirus cases have begun to climb in recent days, Howard Beach had the fourth-highest infection rate in the city as of the latest data from July 11.

Like many areas that are seeing an increase in cases, the neighborhood’s rate of vaccination is behind the city’s average.

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Restaurant Week reflects recovery Eatery owners see program as a chance to get back on their feet

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

More than 500 restaurants throughout the city will be participating in Restaurant Week this year, and 31 are from Queens.

The program, which will span five weeks this year, originally began in 1992 as a celebration of New York City dining, but this year the mission has changed. Following the pandemic, those participating in the program see it as an opportunity to make up for lost time.

“Queens is home to the best cuisine from across the globe, but beyond just satisfying our taste buds these small businesses create jobs and opportunity throughout our borough, especially in immigrant communities,” Tom Grech, president of the Queens Chamber of Commerce, told the Chronicle. “Sadly, restaurants have been devastated by the pandemic. Too many have closed their doors to customers for good and those that have survived are hanging on by a thread.”

The Chamber estimates that of the 6,000 Queens small restaurants that existed before the pandemic, roughly 1,000 have closed their doors for good. The five-week program is a perfect opportunity to lift up the 5,000 that have survived, Grech said.

“Order an extra appetizer and dessert — you’ll be helping local businesses get back on their feet,” he said.

The 31 participating Queens restaurants cover 12 neighborhoods.

The program will run from July 19 through Aug. 22 and offers an abundance of steals and deals to customers in exchange for spending their dollars at area eateries. It is the second Restaurant Week of 2021; the first, which was takeout-only, took place in January during the throes of the pandemic.

Some restaurant owners opted to participate in the 29-year-old program for the first time because it was offering free participation for the first time, while others are driven by the need to boost sales. If it weren’t for the pandemic, Elena Barcenes wouldn’t have signed up.

“It’s been an uphill battle,” Barcenes, the owner of Rincón Salvadoreño in Jamaica, said.

“We have a good reputation, we’re known for homestyle cooking, [but] if we didn’t have those [gover nment] grants we wouldn’t have survived.”

Barcenes closed the Salvadorian restaurant in March 2020 when the pandemic first struck and stayed closed for seven months. She suffered an 80 percent revenue loss.

The flip-flopping regulations made the situation worse when she decided to reopen. Gov. Cuomo allowed capacity to increase last winter before dropping it back down after Covid cases hit a peak. Barcenes described the constant uncertainty as “treacherous.”

Rincón Salvadoreño in Jamaica is participating in all five weeks of NYC’s summer Restaurant Week. RINCÓN SALVADOREÑO PHOTO / FACEBOOK By participating in Restaurant Week, Barcenes is hoping to attract customers from Jamaica and nearby. While she’d love to become more popular throughout the borough, Barcenes is primarily hoping to re-establish a base of regulars.

“We have survived many, many eras,” Bar-

cenes said of the 40-year family-owned restaurant. “Decades of changes. We’re here and we have good food.”

Unlike Rincón Salvadoreño, London Lennie’s in Woodhaven would have participated in Restaurant Week whether there had been a pandemic or not.

Owner Les Barnes had always seen the program as an opportunity to boost sales, and has participated as many as five times, but sees this year’s five-week event as a chance to crawl towards normalcy.

“Queens Restaurant Week is an opportunity to put something out there that you’re not doing on a regular basis,” he said “It’s not just great for new customers, but our regular customers get to try something new and different.”

London Lennie’s took a 65 percent revenue hit over the last 16 months. Barnes pointed out he also spent tens of thousands on outdoor seating equipment, such as tents, heaters, lighting and seating, which he is hoping to see a return on.

To attract customers, London Lennie’s is offering a special three-course dinner menu during Restaurant Week, which Barnes is hopeful will attract a whole slew of customers from Queens and Brooklyn, particularly, who haven’t had a sit-down meal out in a long time. Takeout eateries reigned supreme continued on page 8

Boro board backs hotel permit plan Members also approve fresh food program, health biz zoning reform

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The Queens Borough Board met in-person on Tuesday for the first time since the pandemic, and voted in favor of the city’s plan to add new regulations to hotel development.

The board also supported an initiative to ease restrictions on grocery store development in needed areas and an effort to lift outdated regulations on gyms and massage parlors.

The hotel zoning changes will now make their way through a City Planning Commission and then City Council vote.

The zoning change would require developers to go through a special permit process, which includes approvals by community boards, the borough president’s office, the City Planning Commission and the City Council, giving the Queens boards an advisory voice in the process.

The Department of City Planning presented the change as a means of creating a “consistent framework” that addresses the negative effects of hotel development. It would apply to all zoning districts where hotel construction is now as of right, and would take the place of a variety of special permits the city has adopted in regards to hotels over the last decade as the number of hotel rooms in the city grew by nearly 50,000.

The New York Times reported that that would expand the Fresh program city budget officials have raised conaimed at encouraging more supermarcerns that the new regulations would ket development and increasing access restrict hotel development to the point to fresh foods. where the city would run out of hotel The expansion would bring the procapacity and lose billions in tax gram from just Community Boards 1 revenue. and 12 in Queens to 3, 4 and 14.

At the Borough Board’s meeting on The resolution passed with 11 in the other hand, community board leadfavor, one against and five abstaining. ers did not express concerns over the As the final order of business the financial impact of the new regulations. board tackled a zoning change that The largest topic of inquiry was in would remove red tape from healthregard to how the zoning change would related businesses, ranging from gyms affect the city’s effort to shelter the to spas and massage therapists. homeless in hotels, a program that Currently the city requires a special gained federal subsidy during the The Queens Borough Board met on Tuesday, and voted for permit for health-related business that pandemic.

FILE PHOTO was implemented in the 1970s as a way a new hotel permit process.

Walter Sanchez, of Community of using zoning to crack down on comBoard 5, responded to the DCP’s finding that tion of the occupancy rate. He added that mercial sex that was taking place in gyms — the average annual hotel capacity is around homeless shelters and hotels are exempt from mostly in Times Square, according to DCP. 87 percent, by asking what portion was occu- the proposal.

DCP representative Dylan Sandler argued pied by homeless individuals.

Lisa Deller, of Community Board 2, asked that the city didn’t predict the scale of busi“You’re talking about an industry [where] whether the City Planning Commission nesses that would come to fall under the there’s a need for more rooms because they’re would weigh changes to neighborhood char- regulation.

87 percent occupied, but not included in that acter in assessing new hotel applications.

The change would eliminate the special equation is the number of rooms that the city Plackis said that the focus would be to permit altogether. Massage therapy studios rents per night for the homeless?” asked consider access and egress from a hotel in would be regulated on an individual basis Sanchez. addition to traffic patterns. under the license required by the state.

DCP representative Alexander Plackis said The resolution passed the board with 11 in The board voted to approve the change that he didn’t have the number on hand and favor, two against and four abstentions. with nine in favor, three opposed and five Q couldn’t say whether it was a significant porNext the board voted on a zoning change abstentions.

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Covid cases up again as variants circulate Howard Beach a top site for higher infections, below average vax rate

by Deirdre Bardolf Chronicle Contributor

Covid-19 cases are up in New York City, with the Delta and Alpha coronavirus variants tied as the most widespread, and one Queens neighborhood is in the top four citywide for the highest positive cases.

Howard Beach follows Central and East Harlem, where 27 new people tested positive, and two Staten Island neighborhoods, in the last seven days of available data from the city Health Department.

From July 5 to 11, 13 new people tested positive for Covid in Howard Beach. Only 56 percent of all adults have received their shots there, compared to 70 percent in Queens as a whole. Howard Beach has among the lowest rates in the city for fully inoculated adults, with Breezy Point, Broad Chan nel and the Rockaways t railing behind.

Areas with lower vaccination rates are showing higher rates of positivity around the city.

“I am seeing people that are coming in with Covid and 99 percent of them have not been vaccinated or completed their vaccinations,” said Dr. Teresa Amato, chairperson of emergency medicine at LIJ Forest Hills hospital and director of geriatric emergency medicine for Northwell Health.

Amato is not yet receiving data on which variant is present but said she has requested that information from the Northwell Health

Dr. Teresa Amato of Northwell Health’s LIJ Forest Hills hospital says the Delta variant should convince those on the fence to get their Covid FILE PHOTO vaccinations.

Core Laboratories, which is testing to see which mutations are appearing in specific neighborhoods.

Although cases are creeping up, deaths

and hospitalizations have been down, which can be attributed to vaccination efforts.

Mayor de Blasio last month announced that as of June 23, anyone living in the five borou g h s ca n r eg ist e r for a n at-home appointment.

“Through the end of June, the in-home program vaccinated over 16,000 New Yorkers,” said Patrick Gallahue, press secretary for the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in an email.

“The City is working furiously to help New Yorkers get vaccinated through vaccination hubs, mobile sites, pop-ups, in-home vaccination and more,” Gallahue said. “We have held thousands of community meetings and events in addition to door-to-door outreach to encourage vaccination. We’ve also launched multi-language ad campaigns that reach New Yorkers through a variety of media.”

There is evidence that even if someone catches Covid-19 after being vaccinated, symptoms are less severe, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Queens is second-highest in the city for vaccinations, with 70 percent of adults fully vaccinated.

The Delta variant should be a motivation for those still on the fence about getting vaccinated, said Amato. “It is really contagious so if you’re thinking about getting a vaccine, you should think about getting it as soon as you can so you don’t have to

worry,” she said.

She recently had a patient test positive who regretted not getting her shots sooner.

The patient did not have the time and could not take off from work and ended up sick for two and a half weeks, said Amato. She also has seen unvaccinated families come into the hospital who all had become infected.

“We have to get really inventive and think about different ways of getting the vaccine closer to people,” said Amato.

The city also has scaled back on testing but Amato said that it isn’t sustainable to keep the massive sites running now that more people are vaccinated.

“We can probably do a lot more of the contact tracing,” she said. “It may be targeted testing rather than blindly testing everyone.” The good news, she said, is that if the city does have to ramp up testing again, it knows how to do it successfully.

As for a booster shot, Dr. Amato says she is willing to receive it. “I will do whatever it is the CDC recommends. If they recommend a booster every year, I will sign up for the jab,” she said.

“We’re really going to have to learn as we go,” said Amato, as the possibility of boosters could depend on whether new variants arise. “The vaccine will be effective for the [Delta] variant, but the concern is, if we keep transmitting it, it’s going to Q have new variations.”

Reviving Charles Park for the nabe Community advocate Eddie Earl wants HB to enjoy the green space

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Eddie Earl loves Charles Park and wants the whole neighborhood to love it too.

Equipped with the notion that enthusiasm can be contagious, Earl hosted a park day last Saturday in which he invited residents of Howard Beach and beyond to bring sports equipment, picnics and crafts and simply enjoy the neighborhood’s federal park, which frequently is a source of complaints about trash debris and other forms of neglect.

“Everybody complains about the park but nobody goes there. Nobody utilizes it. So I tried to get different people in the community to come together,” Earl said.

As part of the event, Earl, the founder of a group called Flags Across Howard Beach, put up a 15-foot U.S. flag with the help of t he Ha m i lt on Beach Volu nt eer Fi re Department.

Earl also invited invited Tracey Gallagher, the founder of a group called Queens NY Hope Rocks, which organizes rock-painting

events for kids and then hides the rocks in different parks across the borough to be hunted like buried treasure.

As part of his flag motif, Earl also held a raffle for a wooden carved flag engraved with Howard Beach’s ZIP code that area business Empanadas on the Rise donated.

Thomas Niblock won the artisan flag.

Like Earl’s goal behind the day at the park, Gallagher, a Woodhaven resident, said that she originally started her rock-painting project at the outset of the pandemic with the aim of spreading cheer in South Queens.

“We just started it because we wanted to do something positive in the community — something that brought hope to people when there was none,” she said The group regularly does painting workshops in Charles Park and Forest Park. At first Gallagher started painting rocks and hiding them with her teenage son to provide a Covid-safe activity for neighborhood kids.

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At Charles Park’s recreation day, kids from the neighborhood learned how to paint rocks from Tracey Gallagher, a Woodhaven resident who made a hobby out of creating and hiding rock art PHOTO BY TRACEY GALLAGHER during the pandemic.

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Now, in Howard Beach, NY, one doctor is helping local residents with knee pain live more active, pain-free lives.

Living with knee pain can feel like a crippling experience.

Let’s face it, your knees aren’t as young as you used to be, and playing with the kids or grandkids isn’t any easier either. Maybe your knee pain keeps you from walking short distances or playing golf like you used to.

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New research in a treatment called Class IV Laser Therapy is having a profound effect on patients suffering with knee pain. Unlike the cutting type of laser seen in movies and used in medical procedures, the Class IV therapeutic laser penetrates the surface of the skin with no heating effect or damage.

Laser Therapy has been tested for 40 years, had over 2000 papers published on it, and has been shown to aid in damaged tissue regeneration, decrease inflammation, relieve pain and boost the immune system. This means that there is a good chance cold laser therapy could be your knee pain solution, allowing you to live a more active lifestyle.

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City outlines school recovery plan $635M in funding will go toward literacy, special ed, culturally relevant curriculum

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter detailed a new, $635 million post-pandemic school recovery plan last Thursday that promises significant changes for public school students.

The announcement provided concrete plans for how the officials will spend the infusion of federal stimulus funds earmarked for schools.

A central focus of the plan will be on literacy, with ambitious goals like reducing elementary class sizes and creating screens to test reading levels. The initiative will also contain technology policies, a culturally responsive curriculum, special education resources and college and career counseling.

“The focus now is on doing unprecedented things to close that COVID achievement gap, to get our kids in a strong place for their futures, to catch up for the time we lost and then surpass,” said de Blasio at a press event last Thursday.

The DOE will invest $49 million in literacy initiatives in the next year’s budget, and with that set a goal of all students reading on grade level by the end of second grade. The effort will involve screening and intervention for students in kindergarten through second grade. It will also involve class size reduction in 72 higher need elementary schools by means of hiring around 140 teachers and increasing Universal Literacy reading coaches to around 500 citywide.

Though de Blasio called the literacy campaign the foundation of the recovery in his press conference, the highest level of spending in the new initiative will go to special educa-

tion at $251 million for fiscal advanced computer science. year 2022.

The plan will also spend $10 The Academic Recovery Plan million on college and career will make every resource availreadiness including free afterable to better support students school counseling, financial aid with Individualized Education guidance and 48 new remote AP Programs, plans that detail specollege-prep courses. cialized services, he said. The Michael Mulgrew, president of effort comes after Department of the United Federation of TeachEducation data came out over the ers, said at the press conference winter that showed that close to a that he supports the city’s plan, quarter of all students with disand agreed with the way that it abilities were not receiving their had structured the spending. full program services — a trend In the wake of the announceworsened by the pandemic. ment, the mosaic curriculum The funding plans will involve served to elicit the most divisive creating afterschool and Saturday responses among education programs to provide the services advocates. that IEPs require, adding 800 “This is a huge win for parents preschool special education seats and students across the city by fall 2022, expanding commitbecause we’re finally getting a tees on preschool special educacurriculum centered on the histotion, instruction to help students ry and voices of Black, brown, 21 and older receive a diploma, Mayor de Blasio outlined how his $635 million post-pandemic school and immigrant communities,” exit credential or career advice plan would allocate resources last week. PHOTO COURTESY NYC MAYOR’S OFFICE Queens public school parent and and expanding family member of Make the Road New workshops. rials, creating units, creating lessons, and tak- York Lucia Diaz said in a statement. The The second-largest chunk of funding — ing away that work from teachers of looking group has called for a more culturally respon$202 million — will go to the DOE’s pro- for diverse curriculum, looking for diverse sive curriculum in recent years. posed Universal Mosaic Curriculum, a form texts and saying, we know we need it,” she On the other hand, Parent Leaders for of culturally responsive course of study that said during the press event.

Accelerated Curriculum and Education NYC, will address a diverse range of histories, lanAs part of $122 million in digital literacy an organization that has come together in guages and experiences. Porter said that it spending, officials said the DOE will distrib- resistance to the city’s attempts to change its would involve an infusion of about 9 million ute an additional 175,000 devices to guarantee specialized education programs and admisnew books for students as well as new training that every K-12 student who still needs one sions, criticized the DOE for overspending on and support materials for teachers. gets it. It will also expand its Computer Sci- the mosaic curriculum by choosing to design “So, this isn’t just about purchasing books. ence for All program to 400,000 students by its own curriculum and not providing enough Q It’s about purchasing books, developing mate- 2024 and train over 5,000 educators in concrete details.

Howard Beach Scouts earn eagle status After working through the pandemic, Troop 139’s members get highest rank

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The eagles have landed in Howard Beach.

Boy Scout Troop 139, of Howard Beach, held an Eagle Scout Ceremony in Lindenwood Gardens last Saturday.

Troop Leader Joseph Guzzo served as master of ceremonies honoring four Eagle Scouts. Michael Campisi, Matthew Temkin, Robert Klub Jr. and Ethan Quiles earned the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America during a global pandemic.

Campisi’s Eagle Scout project was restoration work at Charles Park that included weeding and planting bushes in one area and scraping, sealing and painting two buildings.

Temkin designed and built six sturdy wood benches for the residents and guests at the Catholic Charities Howard Beach Senior Center.

Klub Jr. created a catchbasin over 100 feet long which will help to prevent the repeated flooding occurring at a dog park

in Forest Park.

Quiles renovated the memorial at Charles Park by weeding around it, painting and repairing it and beautifying the surrounding bushes.

The ceremony began with the Scouts lighting candles symbolic of the three parts of the Scout Oath and the 12 points of the Scout Law. Then each inductee presented a pin to their parents and mentor. Scoutmaster Joseph Campisi presented the Scouts with their Eagle Scout Certificates.

During their speeches, each Scout shared personal exper iences of h is ti me i n scouting.

The newly minted Eagle Scouts were joined by family, friends, fellow scouts and leaders including Juan Quiles, Jason Schneider, John Gugliemucci and Chris Flood.

Guests included state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park), Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park),

Officer Terryann Ferguson poses with Eagle Scouts Matthew Temkin, Michael Campisi, Ethan Quiles and Robert Klub Jr. who were celebrated for earning the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of PHOTO COURTESY LORI TEMKIN America at a ceremony last Saturday.

Howard Beach Lindenwood Civic President Joann Ariola, former Troop 139 Leader Tom Mercatante and NYPD Officer Terryann Ferguson.

The guests expressed their appreciation to the Eagle Scouts for all they do for the community and presented each with a CerQ tificate of Recognition.

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Petition seeks to reopen Lewis case Over 40K people call on DA Katz to look for prosecutorial misconduct

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

More than 40,000 people have signed an online petition calling on the Queens District Attorney’s Office to review the conviction of Chanel Lewis, who was convicted of the 2016 murder of jogger Karina Vetrano in Howard Beach.

The online petition was turned over Tuesday to DA Melinda Katz’s office by a group of criminal justice advocates.

The murder of the 30-year-old Howard Beach resident stunned the neighborhood and gained national attention after her body was found sexually assaulted and strangled in Spring Creek Park on Aug. 2, 2016.

Lewis was convicted of Vetrano’s murder in 2019 after his first trial ended in a hung jury. He is now serving a life sentence in prison.

When Katz ran for the DA position in the wake of Lewis’ conviction in the summer of 2019, she was one of several candidates who said that they would review the Lewis case if elected.

The Legal Aid Society filed a notice of appeal that summer to send the case to appellate court. The Second Department of the state Appellate Division granted its motion to continue representing Lewis.

The criminal justice reform advocates

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Restaurant Week continued from page 2 during the pandemic, he said, while est abl ish ment s such a s h is were hindered.

“We’ve been here for 62 years. Queens is changing and we want Queens and Brooklyn people to come out to us and see us,” Barnes said.

Johnson Chen, owner of MoCA Asian Bistro in Forest Hills, is viewing the program as an opportunity to celebrate the eatery’s survival.

“The city reopening is a homecoming,” Chen said.

Despite losing 30 percent of revenue during the past year and closing for three months, Chen took time during the pandemic to prepare for MoCA’s eventual reopening.

MoCA’s participation in Restaurant Week is also a representation of the Asian community, Chen said. MoCA’s survival and re-emergence as a strong establishment pays tribute to the community’s resiliency, despite its being treated as a scapegoat for the pandemic.

The remodeling is still ongoing, and customers can expect to see small changes over the course of the next few months, but Chen is excited to welcome them inside. The private party rooms, which have always been a selling point for the Asian restaurant, are ready for use and Q begging to be filled.

calling on the DA’s office to revisit the Lewis verdict have cited an instance of prosecutorial misconduct in a case led by Brad Leventhal, the former homicide bureau chief in the DA’s Office, as a chief reason to reopen the case.

In March this year, the court overturned the convictions of three men charged in a 1996 double murder after Katz’s newly formed Conviction Integrity Unit concluded that trial prosecutors withheld evidence that significantly affected the outcome of the case.

Leventhal, the lead prosecutor on the case, resigned from his position shortly after the conviction was overturned. Leventhal was also in charge of the Lewis case.

Though Southeast Queens legislators called for a review of Leventhal’s other cases afterward, Gothamist reported that Katz had refused to do so because her office found no intentional misconduct took place.

The online petition also raises concerns over the alleged use of racial profiling in Lewis’ initial arrest, a purported violation of penal law involving mid-trial disclosure of significant scientific evidence and claims of coerced confession by the defense.

Prosecutors say Lewis confessed and that his DNA was found on Vetrano’s body.

After the jury reached the guilty verdict in 2019, one of the jurors came forward to make

Criminal justice advocates have circulated a petition calling on the Queens district attorney to reopen the conviction of Chanel Lewis in the murder and sexual assault of Howard Beach resiFILE PHOTOS, LEFT, BY ELLIS KAPLAN dent Karina Vetrano. misconduct allegations about how the decision was reached. State Supreme Court Justice Michael Aloise denied a motion to dismiss the verdict due to the allegations and convicted Lewis.

The Chronicle reached out to the District Attorney’s Office about the petition, but a spokesperson declined to comment.

The father of the victim, Phil Vetrano,

Forest Park to hold summer concerts

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

T he George Seuffer t Bandshell at Forest Park will host a summer concert series on Thursday nights through August.

The concert series, sponsored by the Forest Park Trust and Maspeth Federal Savings, got off to a rocky start when inclement weather canceled an Elvis t r ibute show planned for July 8, but the rest of the programming Through July and August, Forest Park will see a series of will feature rock, pop and concerts played in the George Seuffert Bandshell on L a t i n m u s i c s p a n n i n g Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.

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On Aug. 5 Fleetwood Macked will On July 15 Plaza Theatrical Productions will present “Forever Plaid,” an play a Fleetwood Mac tribute show.

On Aug. 12 Gloria’s Miami Nights upbeat musical featuring nostalgic hits Latin Experience will play Latin hits by of the 1950s.

On July 22 R ick Lar r imore and Gloria Estefan, Marc Anthony, Ricky Atlantic Crossing will play a tribute to Martin and Selena.

On Aug. 19 Captain Jack will play a Rod Stewart.

On July 29 Satisfaction will play an Billy Joel tribute show.

All concerts start at 7:30 p.m. and are inter national Rolling Stones tribute Q free. show.

declined to comment to the Chronicle, but posted on a Howard Beach Facebook group that he would be starting his own petition against revisiting the case and would enlist support from the neighborhood.

“We need to tell [Katz] enough is enough.

We need to make as much noise as they do or we will find ourselves living in a nation wide Q slum,” Vetrano wrote.

Charles Park continued from page 4 al different styles of painting and teaches children how to create the art objects.

On the back of each rock, Gallagher writes to the finder that it can be kept or rehidden.

“We have little ones that will never give them up,” said Gallagher, adding that one family she knows with two little girls has about 70 rocks. “They go Q all over looking for them.”

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P De Blasio’s school plans and reality on the ground

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ill Mayor de Blasio’s new Academic Recovery Plan, funded with $635 million in federal Covid relief aid that is not slated to be repeated in future years, do much to improve education? We’ll see.

Certainly the mayor has tons of new numbers to throw around that make the plan sound impressive, maybe even allowing the city to do the “unprecedented things” de Blasio claims it will do to get kids caught up after their educations were stymied so terribly by the virus crisis.

The city will spend $49 million in literacy initiatives with the goal of getting all students to read at their expected level by second grade. About 140 teachers are to be hired and the number of “universal literacy reading coaches” is to rise to 500. Better hope the plans include a focus on phonics and that the kids live in homes where reading is valued and books are present. Those are the real answers.

A total of $251 million is to go toward special education services, with the promise of finally providing all that’s required by law for students with individualized education programs. After all these years, that’ll finally be done? And another 800 preschool special education seats will be made available by the fall of 2022? We’ll believe it when we see it.

There’s a lot more like this in the program, predicted numbers that are easy to throw out in a press release and a lot harder to live up to, just like de Blasio’s promises on prior educational initiatives such as his failed Renewal Schools plan — as well as traffic safety, housing the homeless, fixing NYCHA buildings and so much more.

We wonder if there’s anything in the Academic Recovery Plan that might address the fraudulent grade inflation we have no doubt is widespread in city schools. It took two years for the Department of Education to get around to removing Maspeth High School Principal Khurshid AbdulMutakabbir after whistleblowers aided by City Councilman Bob Holden came forward to reveal the cheating he allowed and apparently encouraged there. There should be zero tolerance for cheating. It’s unfair to those schools and students who play by the rules and it teaches horrible life lessons to those who get grades and diplomas they don’t deserve. We back Holden’s call for a federal probe into the matter.

Meanwhile, there are schools where kids achieve the results that were faked at Maspeth the old-fashioned way: through hard work. Some of them are charter schools, which parents desperately want more of. Yet the state refuses to lift

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I heard that dismaying term from Sen. Chuck Schumer and other elected officials whom I joined on July 9 at the edge of Astoria’s electric generation mega-campus. We were there to call the public’s attention to NRG’s plan to build a new gas-fired power plant on the site.

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Gas-fired power generation rains down toxic pollutants on our neighborhoods, with the result that Astoria’s children account for 50 percent of all asthma-related hospitalizations in New York City.

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Thanks to other elected officials — like Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, state Sens. Jessica Ramos and Michael Gianaris and Gov. Cuomo — we have strong advocates in Albany for good climate policy. We are counting on them and Sen. Schumer to pass legislation to build the clean power infrastructure we urgently need. © Copyright 2021 by MARK I PUBLICATIONS, INC. All rights reserved.

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the nonsensical cap it has set on charters, in appeasement to the teachers unions, leaving more children stuck in failing public schools that either don’t get results no matter how much money de Blasio throws at them or maybe fake it under leaders like Abdul-Mutakabbir. The city spends about $28,000 per student each school year, the most of any large school district in the country, and still can’t get the same results in traditional schools that charters achieve routinely with far less money. Albany should erase its artificial cap.

Don’t forget that charters mostly benefit low-income students of color. In Southeast Queens’ District 29, activists and parents are looking to sue the city over how bad the schools are. If they had more charters as an option, fewer kids would suffer and the city might be forced to perform better.

Meanwhile all students, in districts good and bad, in schools honest and dishonest, will still be forced to wear masks in the fall. All the medical evidence out there says there’s no reason for that. The city should follow the science, adhere to the guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and drop the mask mandate. Our students have enough to cope with as it is, and a lame-duck mayor’s latest pricey plans probably won’t be the answer they need.

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Meanwhile, the public comment period on the proposed NRG plant is now open, and Queens residents should raise their voices.

Email your opposition by Aug. 29 to comment. nrgastoriagas@dec.ny.gov As Sen. Schumer put it in a nutshell: NRG — wrong energy.

Lauren Hayden Astoria

No gas-fired power II Dear Editor: Residents of Queens — and beyond — need to keep up pressure against the new gas-fired power plant that NRG wants to build in Astoria.

It would be an immediate hazard to air quality in a neighborhood already home to so much fossil fuel burning that the health of residents is deeply compromised.

There are alternatives: Wind and solar power are coming online quickly, and battery

storage at utility scale is improving so substantially, that a future powered by clean energy is within our grasp.

And we must grasp it — now. Only look at triple-digit temperatures in the normally temperate Pacific Northwest, and the Western megadrought that is causing farmers to triage crops and sell water, and wildfires in Hawaii, to know that climate change is here. We cannot afford to wait, or to allow even one new plant to be built.

In fact, all new fossil-fuel plants should be banned outright by New York law, in keeping with the mandates of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, passed in 2019.

But Assembly leader Carl Heastie and Senate leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins bowed to pressure and allowed this past session’s Clean Futures Act to wither in committee in Albany.

That act would have banned new or repowered gas plants across the board. Now, we must depend on Gov. Cuomo and his environmental

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Weak press, bad governor Dear Editor: Does anyone do their job anymore?

With the fourth estate, American press, whose job it is to report the truth and ask the hard questions to get the answers for the American public, we have a definite dereliction of duty and loss of purpose daily!

Instead, you have reporters asking President Biden softball questions, only from reporters picked by his staff, who receive a wave of the hand while he’s walking away or making some wise remark and, most recently, mysteriously whispering his response.

Is this the actions of a leader of our country with our national security at stake who can’t even deal with the press, let alone national leaders?

And then, locally, we have Gov. Cuomo supposedly being investigated for his outrageous handling of Covid-19-infected patients being placed in nursing homes, causing an astounding 15,000 deaths; as well as allegations of sexual harassment by a host of women; and earning a whopping $5.1 million dollars on a book deal where there is suspicion that his staff was involved in the work. This is all being done at such a snail’s pace that his term will be over before conclusions are reached!

No wonder the governor, being the arrogant person he is, has the chutzpah to hold a fundraiser in anticipation of a fourth run for governor.

We, as citizens, surely deserve better than this and we get that opportunity every time we come to vote. That is when we do our job and vote in good conscience the best person for the job. God Bless America and guide us in making the wise choice!

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While we might actually read the first few ads, the rest go right into the trash. They tell us what candidates may or may not do once elected, but give us little actual information about their backgrounds and accomplishments. People who are really interested have already investigated and made their decisions. I can’t convey how truly annoying all of this is.

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Dear Editor: NYC retirees’ healthcare benefits have been bargained away by the de Blasio administration, DC 37 and the United Federation of Teachers.

We have been forced into a mediocre Medicare Advantage plan that does not allow for the selection of a favorite doctor. At a time when the public wants Medicare for All, the city has chosen a privatized system to mete out inferior service and care to seniors.

This was a sneaky back-door deal to pay back monies for salary increases to active employees. Medicare Advantage is an advantage only for profit-making health insurance companies that most people despise. Blue-collar workers and people of color stand to lose their decent Medicare benefits because they will not be able to pay for a Part B supplement.

Retirees gave their working lives to public service in order to have decent affordable care when they retired.

The city has targeted lower-income retirees in this move to Medicare Disadvantage and has dealt a race- and class-driven blow to those whose pensions are far below $50,000 a year.

They will suffer far more than the white privileged workers who can afford a $2,000 or more Part B supplement to pick up the 20 percent coverage that Medicare does not fund.

Retirees have been blatantly lied to by Mayor de Blasio, Henry Garrido of DC 37 and Michael Mulgrew of the UFT. They insist that retirees can choose their favorite physicians under Medicare Disadvantage. This is patently untrue. The patient must stay in network or pay through the nose. Health insurance companies care little about patients’ health and care solely about their profits as corporate executives. That

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Biking often impractical Dear Editor: Forest Hills is a densely populated neighborhood with many businesses and parking can be difficult. Now, with the proposed removal of hundreds of parking spots for a protected bike lane, it can only get worse. I frequently go to Austin Street for dining and doctor visits and sometimes even the parking garages are full.

Recently I was parked on Queens Boulevard for two hours waiting at the doctor on a beautiful day and counted only four bicyclists and 12 delivery motorized scooters — and most were going in the wrong direction.

I have biked along Queens Boulevard many times over the years and yes, protected bike lanes are safer, but they are a luxury at the expense of the businesses and the people they employ. Bike advocates say the bikes will bring people to the businesses but it isn’t happening.

Biking is great if you are fit and the weather is good but if you are handicapped or a senior going to the doctor or taking the family to a restaurant, a car is more practical. If people can’t park they will go elsewhere.

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agencies to deny permits for each proposed plant individually. We trust that they will do so, and stop the NRG plant.

Ron Chiu Whitestone

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Holden: Grade fraud not just in Maspeth Councilman says call in the feds

by Michael Gannon

the story,” Holden said. “They came to my office because they had nowhere else to Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Vil- turn. It has taken far too long, because neilage) isn’t surprised that the city’s Department ther the administration nor the DOE was in of Education is moving to fire the principal at any hurry to investigate.”

Holden said he personally brought the matMaspeth High School — only that it has ter to the attention of the administration as taken this long.

And now he wants federal investigators well as then-Chancellor Richard Carranza brought in to examine a problem he says goes “directly and there was no action taken.

“Grade fraud is a systemic problem way beyond Maspeth.

The DOE has filed internal charges against throughout the city school system and we need state and federal agencies Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir, who to investigate, including the U.S. has been principal since the Attorney, New York State and school opened in 2011, following U.S. Department of Education investigations that allege the and the FBI. Our educators and school awarded students improper our students deserve better.” credits as well as testing misconMayor de Blasio’s office did duct wherein staff allegedly not respond to an email sent Friassisted students on Regents d ay a f t e r n o o n r e q u e s t i n g exams. comment.

“Following DOE’s investigaAllegations of cheating were tion into Principal Abdul-MutakKhurshid first reported by the New York abbir’s unacceptable behavior, Abdul-Mutakabbir Post in 2019. Maspeth High DOE served him with disciplinMHS PHOTO claimed a graduation rate of 99 ary charges and removed him percent while the rest of the city from payroll while we seek to terminate his employment pursuant to state law,” averaged 76 percent.

The DOE said that following the alleged said DOE spokesperson Katie O’Hanlon in an email to the Chronicle last Thursday. “Our substantiation of several allegations by the schools must have the highest standards of Office of Special Investigations, Abdulacademic integrity, and we are working Mutakabbir was served with disciplinary quickly to bring in new, qualified leadership charges.

He has been removed from his position to Maspeth High School.”

Holden, in an email from his office last while the DOE looks to fire him. A hearing Friday afternoon, was somewhat less than officer will weigh the DOE’s case, and will determine what discipline is warranted should impressed.

“It’s good to finally see the principal Abdul-Mutakabbir be found guilty of any of removed, two years after I helped the Mas- the charges.

Abdul-Mutakabbir declined comment for peth High School whistleblowers stand up to the corruption and intimidation and break the time being when reached by the Editor

The city’s Department of Education is seeking to fire the principal at Maspeth High School over alleged improprieties involving class credit and improper assistance to students taking state GOOGLE MAPS IMAGE Regents exams.

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The OSI investigation allegedly included more than 90 interviews with students and staff, as well as interviews with parents and a review of applicable documents.

The substantiated allegations claimed by the OSI include: • that “incomplete” grades were improperly changed to passing grades; • that students were improperly awarded one English-language arts credit and one economics credit for a humanities course that did not meet requirements for the credits; • that students were improperly awarded one credit per semester for a Spanish course that did not exist, and that the students were

improperly discharged with advanced Regents Diplomas, without earning six Language Other Than English credits in a single language; • the awarding of student credit for writing courses that did not meet requirements; and • testing misconduct where staff members assisted students on Regents exams.

Even before the investigations were concluded, the DOE employed a number of strategies to ensure the academic integrity at Maspeth High School, including test monitors to observe all aspects of the administration of Regents exams.

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Eastbound Jackie Exit 6 closures start this week Drivers will have to get off earlier or wind up in the Interchange jam

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Drivers who usually take the eastbound Jackie Robinson Parkway and get off at Exit 6 in Forest Park for Metropolitan Avenue or Queens Boulevard will have to take a detour in the wee hours of the morning, and all day on weekends, for nearly two weeks.

The eastbound exit ramp will be shut down for roadwork from midnight to 5 a.m.

Mondays through Thursdays, and midnight Fridays to 5 a.m. the following Mondays, the st at e De pa r t ment of Tr a n spor t at ion announced July 12. The closures were to begin “on or about” July 14 and run through approximately July 26. They may be rescheduled due to inclement weather.

The DOT said drivers should get off at the prior exit, Exit 5, for Myrtle Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard, and follow the detour signs. Mobile electronic signs before Exit 5 will warn that Exit 6 is closed, agency spokes-

woman Diane Park told the Chronicle. The next available exit, 7, for the northbound Van Wyck Expressway, is the last one before the parkway ends at Exits 8E and 8W with the options to go either east or west on the Grand Central Parkway. That area is part of the Kew Gardens Interchange, where a major reconstruction project has been ongoing for years.

The Exit 6 shutdowns are needed “to facilitate work” on the state DOT’s pavement preservation project in Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island, the agency said. Pavement preservation is broadly defined as proactive work such as resealing and microsurfacing that extends the useful life of roadways.

“A common mantra of pavement preservation is keeping good roads good,” the Federal Highway Administration says. “Constructing quality pavement preservation treatments when the pavement condition is still satisfactory can impede deterioration, extend service life, and improve functionality in a cost-

effective manner while also enhancing safety and contributing to customer satisfaction.”

Parts of the Exit 6 ramp that have deteriorated will get new pavement, Park said. Concrete that is in poor shape will be saw cut, removed to its full depth and replaced.

The ramp appears to be about 1,000 feet long, according to Google Maps.

The DOT encourages drivers to keep up with road conditions and projects through its traffic and travel information source, 511NY. People may call 511, visit 511ny.org or download the 511NY app. The latter has a feature called Drive mode, which gives drivers audible alerts about incidents and construction along a chosen route.

The agency also advises following it on social media. Its handles are @nysdot and @nysdot_nyc on Twitter, and its Facebook page is Facebook.com/nysdot.

The DOT urges motorists to slow down and drive responsibly in work zones,

If this is your exit, you’ll need to take a detour at certain times for a while. GOOGLE MAPS IMAGE reminding them that fines for speeding are doubled in those areas and that two or more convictions can result in a driver’s license Q suspension.

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Astoria falafel shop besieged by trolls Palestinian-run eatery in the center of Middle Eastern political battle

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

A beloved falafel restaurant in Astoria has been getting sha-warmed by Saudi loyalist trolls in response to its owner’s criticism of the crown prince.

King of Falafel & Shawarma, a restaurant with a brick-and-mortar site at 30-15 Broadway and food trucks in Manhattan and Astoria, got over 37,000 scathing onestar reviews within a span of 30 hours earlier this week, according to its owner, Freddy Zeideia.

Zeideia said the reviews came from trolls who targeted KOFS after @Columbuos, a pro-Saudi social media account, shared a video of the restaurant’s social-distancing sidewalk decal with pictures of Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the ruler of the United Arab Emirates, and an invitation to step on their faces.

The KOFS patron who originally filmed the video made an inflammatory attack on the people of Saudi Arabia in Arabic after entering the restaurant, according to a translation of the video that a Saudi Arabian Twitter user posted online.

The pro-Saudi influencer shared a link to the restaurant’s Google page and encouraged his followers to give it a one-star rating.

King of Falafel & Shawarma in Astoria faced a deluge of one-star ratings from online critics after a video of its political social distancing decal, left, went viral and provoked backlash from a pro-Saudi social media account. PHOTO COURTESY FREDDY ZEIDEIA, LEFT; GOOGLE MAPS IMAGE

Zeideia, who is originally from the Israeloccupied Palestinian West Bank, has not shied away from openly displaying his political beliefs. In response to the Israel-Hamas violence in May, he displayed a Palestinian flag in the front window.

Earlier in the summer, he installed a similar f loor decal with Andrew Yang’s face

after the mayoral hopeful pledged solidarity with Israel in the conflict.

The floor piece that upset the influencer was aimed at criticizing the Saudi Arabianled war in Yemen and the UAE’s military intervention in Libya’s civil war. Zeideia said that the trolls were also aggrieved that he had posted a Pride f lag honoring the

LGBTQ awareness month of June.

Contacted by the Chronicle last Friday morning, Zeideia was remarkably unflustered by the attacks on his business.

“I’m not gonna stress myself. I know my Astoria. I know my people out here and they know who we are. We’ve been serving them for the last 20 years,” he said.

Google has picked up on the sudden influx of reviews and temporarily suspended anyone from making reviews of the restaurant, and it appears that Yelp has done the same as it investigates the recent reviews. As of Tuesday, the reviews did not seem to appear on its Google page.

The remaining problem, Zeideia said, was the inundation of international phone calls.

“They said they’re going to chop me to pieces the way they did to Jamal Khashoggi,” Zeideia said.

Other callers threatened to burn down the store. All are nonsense, Zeideia said.

While he didn’t seem to believe that the threats to his life, or to his business for that matter, were credible, he did admit that it was a pain to have his phone line constantly tied up.

“It’s going to take a couple of weeks before things have slowed down. I’m going to let them bark on their own for a while,” Q Zeideia said.

HS students look forward to tutoring Scholar Studio back in August with virtual SHSAT and AP prep classes

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Scholar Studio, a free virtual tutoring program started by high school students, will return for its second year in August with middle-school math, history and computer science classes and Specialized High School Admissions Test prep.

“The summer was rolling around [last year] and a lot of our classmates and students from other places were going to attend prep classes, but with parents losing jobs and the pandemic going, it was not affordable or safe to go outside, so we thought we would expand what we do in our old middle school to the entire country,” said Xiaoshen Ma, a rising senior at Stuyvesant High School from Forest Hills.

Ma, Alyssa Choi, also of Stuyvesant from Forest Hills, and Emma Bell of Jamaica, who attends Townsend Harris High School in Kew Gardens Hills and is also a rising senior, were students of JHS 190, Russell Sage, in Forest Hills and would tutor their classmates while they were in sixth- to eighth-grade.

“We all went to Russell Sage,” said Alyssa.

“I want to shout out Mr. William Collins ,our math team coach, who gave us free prep classes and tutoring. I also want to shout out Mr. David Lee, who was our math teacher who helped us prepare for the SHSAT. This

program was also a way for us to give back to the community. We had a lot of resources because our teachers really cared for us, so we wanted to do the same thing for other middle school students who were struggling due to the pandemic.”

The high school students initially considered charging for their services via online money transfer applications like PayPal or Venmo, but took into consideration that some people might not have a bank account or access to money apps, according to Xiaoshen.

“We really wanted to make this purely for bettering others,” said Xiaoshen. “We didn’t need a location and we didn’t need much materials.”

The pandemic exposed so many inequalities in the school system, that the students have decided they will keep it free going forward after they had over 100 people sign up in 2020 for their Algebra 1, Living Environment, U.S. History and Regents prep courses, according to Alyssa. On average they tutored for 90 hours.

“These Scholar Studio courses are not just focusing on the middle school experience,” said Emma. “We are looking to branch out and help people in their transition to high school life. That is why the computer science course was added, it is essential for high school. The U.S. History course is a basic for

Alyssa Choi, left, Emma Bell and Xiaoshen Ma of Scholar Studio, a free virtual tutoring program.

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high school, plus there is a U.S. History [advanced placement] exam, which will help with college.”

Once Alyssa, Xiaoshen and Emma go to college, they hope to add more introductory AP classes for their tutoring program.

“I know a few of us have already taken and passed our APs,” said Emma. “It really helps to have early preparations for these things.

We don’t want our students to be surprised.”

Xiaoshen would like to teach Mandarin courses in the future and Emma would like to teach Spanish and French.

“While doing the program, I have felt the

pleasure and joy of seeing students do well,” said Emma. “I see their test scores improve or they email me and tell me that they got into a specialized high school or that they are going to my high school next year.”

Xiaoshen, Alyssa and Emma hope to have a Scholar Studio club in every single high school in the future, but the 17-year-olds are not quite sure what to expect with turning 18 next year.

“I’m excited and nervous,” said Choi of the milestone.

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The city is reopening centers at which residents can sign up for IDNYC cards, the multipurpose document that serves as official government identification and also allows its 1.4 million holders access to cultural and financial services, as well as other benefits.

“It has unlocked incredible opportunities they would not have had without having an ID card,” Mayor de Blasio said in a transcript of his daily press conference on Tuesday. “Simple, powerful things like being able to get a bank account or sign a lease or visit your child’s school because

folks have an ID. And this is true for all New Yorkers.”

Benefits include functioning as a universal city library card and reduced admission to cultural events and locations.

Appointments for card sign-ups at the Queens Borough President’s Office at 120-55 Queens Blvd. in Kew Gardens are available online. The office is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The office is closed for lunch between 1 and 2 p.m.

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BQ-axed? Mayor de Blasio still believes City Hall now admits it will be up to another mayor — if it happens

by Michael Gannon Editor

Give Mayor de Blasio credit for optimism on the subject of the Brooklyn Queens Connector streetcar idea.

The plan isn’t moving forward. The Friends of the BQX website on Friday had no accessible information on a blank home page. But it also has not been canceled and still has influential supporters in residential and business communities.

“Covid-19 halted momentum on many important priorities, and the BQX is one of them,” said Mitchell Schwartz, director of rapid response and deputy press secretary for the mayor, in an email to the Chronicle last Thursday. “The work we’ve done to date will leave the City well poised to carry the ball forward on this project and deliver fast, reliable transit options to Brooklyn and Queens as soon as financial circumstances allow.”

If work picked up tomorrow and construction costs remained the same as in 2018 — they won’t, by all accounts — it would be unlikely to carry any passengers until at least 2029, or at least five years and heaven knows how much more money than originally planned more than five years ago.

Eric Adams or Curtis Sliwa, if either serves two terms as mayor, likely would be term-limited out of office before that happened. Adams

Next destination: unknown. He has no money, not even a hint of a restart timeline and no guarantee that the next mayor or even next two will support the Brooklyn Queens Connector streetcar proposal. But Mayor de Blasio’s office says he is not giving up on the plan that gradually has FILE IMAGES COURTESY NYC EDC been cut in length by nearly one-third since it was first proposed. has only said he would at least consider keeping the project active.

When de Blasio first proposed the BQX in April 2016, it was going to run 16 miles from Astoria to Sunset Park in Brooklyn; would cost $2.5 billion but pay for itself without state or federal aid; and would break ground in 2019 with the first passengers in 2024.

By August 2018 the city’s Economic Development Corp. admitted the route would be only 11 miles long, but the cost would be more like $2.73 billion, it would not break ground until 2024 and it would not be taking passengers until 2029.

The EDC in that same report was then saying unless there was federal assistance, the city

would be more than $1.3 billion short — in 2018 dollars.

In between the city ran up studies totalling more than $7 million, missed at least four selfimposed deadlines for feasibility studies and had the leak of an embarrassing memo laying out seven pages of potential problems in meeting deadlines and funding requirements.

Then beginning in March 2020 Covid cratered the city’s economy.

On March 18 of this year, in a presentation on the safety of 21st Street in Astoria, the city Department of Transportation said the project had been “halted in March 2020 prior to [environmental impact study] scoping.”

While economic activity has picked up and the city is flush with federal stimulus cash for now, it also is facing projections of multibilliondollar deficits for the next three years.

And money, particularly from the federal government, is where the plan breaks down, according to Larry Penner, a transportation historian and advocate who worked as a federal transit official in grant approval for 31 years.

“Neither the city nor the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has ever asked that this be included in the Federal Transportation Administration’s New Starts program,” Penner said.

“That’s a competitive federal program. The BQX is competing for that money with other continued on page 32

For the third year in a row, $10,000 has been granted to two Queens artists to install their original sculptures at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. This year, both will be made of high-tech components.

The Alliance for FMCP announced July 7 that Sherwin Banfield, top, and Haksul Lee have been awarded $5,000 each to bring their art to life. Both installations will be on view for a full year beginning this fall.

Banfield’s “Going Back to The Meadows: A Tribute to Queens Hip Hop Legend LL Cool J and Performance at FMCP” will be installed at David Dinkins Circle, which lies near the boardwalk ramp entrance to the park from the No. 7 train entrance at Mets Willets Point.

The 8-foot-high cast bronze portrait bust will sit atop a polished stainless-steel radio. Solarpowered speakers will play music inspired by LL Cool J’s last New York City performance, which took place at the Meadows Music and Art Festival in 2017.

In a release from the Alliance for FMCP, Banfield described the tribute as “a sculptural sonic performance artwork that evokes the feeling of Flushing Meadows Corona Park as an event space, channeled through the sonic frequency and artistry of Queens hip-hop legend LL Cool J.” The second installation, Lee’s “The Giving Tree,” will be located on the lawn bounded by Herbert Hoover Promenade, United Nations Avenue North and Avenue of the Americas.

Lee’s structure will be made of recycled materials collected locally. The top will function as a wind turbine to generate the electricity for a streetlight effect and power a charging station built into the tree’s trunk.

The artist describes it as taking the form of a tree, “to bring awareness of the environmental concerns in the Queens community.”

The grants are funded by the city Parks Department’s Art in the Parks program. The agency began collaborating with the Alliance for FMCP in 2019.

“The Art in the Parks: Alliance for Flushing Meadows Corona Park Grant supports the creation of site-specific artworks by Queens-based artists for designated locations within Flushing Meadows Corona Park that would benefit from more cultural programming,” Alliance Executive Director Janice Melnick said in a statement.

“The grant is intended to help transform these selected sites into art destinations through a series of rotating exhibitions, with supporting events and programs.”

The art grant was not the only one awarded to the alliance last week: The group was also chosen for an NYC Green Relief and Recovery Fund allocation from the City Parks Foundation.

It is one of 64 park groups to split $2 million set aside for the basic maintenance and operations within heavily used parks and other open spaces during a busy summer and fall with the city’s reopening.

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Centers get into the swing of things, slowly

by Deirdre Bardolf Chronicle Contributor

Last week was Cathy Frank’s first time back to her senior center, the Ridgewood Older Adult Center and Services, in over 15 months.

Although senior centers were opened for indoor and congregate activities on June 14, Frank was hesitant to go back because of the pandemic.

“I wanted to see how the center was going to be run before I came in,” she said. She said she felt “all right” about it, though, and that it was good to be back and see her friends. She even got a special shout-out over the mic from John Santoro, another member of the center who was calling bingo after lunch that day.

John and his wife, Janet Santoro, were eager to get back to the center on June 14. They attend five days a week and John Santoro said it is his favorite center out of all those that he’s visited over the years. “Great people, good atmosphere — I have nothing to complain about,” he said.

He and his wife attend mainly for bingo, which Seniors including Bonnie Sholl, right, line up for a hot lunch outside the Queens Community he often leads, but sometimes she’ll join in the House Rego Park Senior Center, after an outdoor Zumba class there.

PHOTOS BY DEIRDRE BARDOLF exercise classes, like the “sit and be fit” classes “The social workers are going to, we think, Mayer Waxman is the managing director of that are resuming again following new guidelines from the Department for the Aging, which senior centers at Selfhelp Community Services, become busier and busier throughout the year which manages five city-funded centers, all in as people want to renew benefits applications or funds about 250 centers across the city.

“Senior centers are a center of activity for a Queens. He said there is a balance between they need assistance with other benefits and community,” said DFTA Commissioner Lor- encouraging seniors to come back to the centers entitlement,” said Foley.

“We’ve seen an increase in case management raine Cortés-Vázquez. “They have evolved from and continuing to offer virtual programs and needs,” Cortés-Vázquez said. “The pandemic just meal programs to social and educational services.

“We don’t want to encourage people not to has made people realize the full portfolio of hubs.”

“The pandemic illustrated for us the value come to the centers if it’s safe,” said Waxman. benefits they are entitled to.”

It has also increased the need for support for that they have in terms of socialization and how “We don’t want to keep them isolated.” He has noticed “two extremes” caregivers, like people who are caring for an they are a preventive meabetween those who want to older family member or are a senior caregiver sure from depression and “get back to everything” themselves. other health concerns,” said rom meal programs “Caregivers have been under incredible and those who are not yet Cortés-Vázquez. to community hubs. comfortable. Some have stress during this pandemic,” she said.

But it has not been so There is also an increased need for transporbeen pushing the centers to easy to get the senior centers back open for in-person activities. Besides open for months while others are saying they’re tation options as people are hesitant to use pubprotecting the attendees, it’s also important to “not doing enough to keep us safe,” he said. But lic mass transit systems, said Cortés-Vázquez.

Her agency is looking at the need for more “tarconsider the staff, said the commissioner. most fall somewhere in the middle.

“We’re as strict, if not stricter, than DFTA, geted transportation services” and recently “You’ve got to onboard staff and make sure that the staff feels safe, secure and able to come which is certainly as strict or stricter than the launched a pilot program called DFTA My Ride back,” she said. “Some people are having [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]. to provide transportation to eligible older adults.

Barry Klitsberg is the president of the It’s our mission to make sure they stay safe,” he challenges.”

Queens Interagency Council on Aging and he It is “not just turn on the lights and open the said.

Waxman and Katie Foley, managing director and the commissioner agree that funding for lock,” due to working with staff and employing safety guidance, she said. Centers must encour- of external affairs and communications at Self- older adult services is lacking.

“We hope to see the senior centers fully open age mask wearing and 6 feet of physical dis- help, have noticed an increased need for the and that funding is increased,” said Klitsberg, social workers on-site at senior centers. tancing, and conduct routine disinfection.

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including city, state and federal dollars. He also said that, in addition to affordable housing for seniors, isolation is a big problem. “This is something that has to really be recognized by civic leaders,” said Klitsberg.

Many seniors take it upon themselves to check in with the friends they have met at the centers and make sure they are doing well.

“We each have our phone numbers and if they don’t see you, they call you up saying ‘You OK?’ We’re pretty concerned about each other,” said Howard Zissel, a member of the Ridgewood Older Adults Center.

During the pandemic, staff at Self help’s Benjamin Rosenthal-Prince Street Innovative Senior Center in Flushing even dropped off a birthday cake for one of their “centennial” members who had turned 102 years old, said Jane Qiu, the center’s director.

The community that is formed at the centers but extends beyond them is evident at the Queens Community House Rego Park Senior Center, too. During the pandemic, the center provided wellness checks over the phone, said Irina Sarkisova, its program director. The center offers a daily “grab and go” lunch, and Stephen Sherman of Glendale often picks up his lunch and another for a friend he met at the center who is not well enough to come herself now.

Then, the two eat lunch together at her apartment, said Sherman.

Maria Padilla teaches Zumba at the Rego Park center. She has a group of about 20 women who show up every weekday morning for her outdoor class, no matter the weather. They also have a group chat over text, in which Padilla will share pictures she took of them and also send holiday wishes.

Bonnie Sholl of Rego Park took Padilla’s class. “It was lovely,” she said. “It was lowimpact and I’m going to make it part of my schedule this summer. I’m really anticipating utilizing the facilities that work for me.”

The Rego Park Center operates out of the Lost Battalion Hall Recreation Center and will open back up for indoor services in September once a summer camp program there ends. In the meantime, it does serve members for case management appointments.

Sholl is looking forward to more options that will come when the center opens fully. “Next, I’m going to get computer lessons,” she said. Q

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The NYPD and FDNY have extensive outreach and online resources to keep senior citizens safe, whether from scam artists or fires.

Basic personal safety The NYPD offers a 20-page Crime Prevention book for seniors that can be viewed and downloaded on the department’s website at on.nyc.gov/3dXuZcU. The personal safety tips are geared toward people who are traveling or out and about.

Among the suggestions are: • While out walking, try to do so in groups and in well-lit areas. Try to stay on main streets with other pedestrians around you.

• If someone tries to snatch your pocketbook, let go of it. It can be replaced.

• Affix ref lective tape to walkers and motorized scooters. Doing so will increase your visibility to drivers as you use crosswalks.

• If someone bumps into you while shopping or walking in a crowd, be aware that this action might be related to a pickpocket.

• If someone is driving you home, ask the driver to wait until you are safely inside.

• Have your keys in your hand as you approach your home. This will allow you to unlock the door quickly.

The NYPD also recommends having identification, a doctor’s contact information and a list of foods and medications that you are allergic to at all times.

Property and home safety increasingly are the target of scams.

Police say if uninvited contractors come to your door to discuss repairs on your home, do not let them in. Genuine utility workers have photo IDs, and those from Con Edison, National Grid-Keyspan and the city’s Depart-

New York’s Bravest rescue a woman from an apartment building fire in Manhattan. But the FDNY FDNY PHOTO / TWITTER and NYPD would much rather talk about safety via prevention. ment of Environmental Protection can be vetted by calling the agency.

Call 911 if at all suspicious.

Also popular are phone scams in which a caller may say a utility bill is past due and service will be shut off; or that the caller is from the Internal Revenue Service seeking payment of delinquent taxes, even threatening arrest.

But those agencies to not ask for payments over the phone and do not require people to purchase gift cards to pay the debt.

If you get a call demanding money because a relative has been arrested or hospitalized?

“Hang up! It’s a scam,” according to the NYPD. Security surveys are provided free of charge by appointment by every NYPD precinct. Crime prevention officers will alert homeowners and renters to security vulnerabilities associated with their homes, and suggest corrective actions. Officers evaluate locks, doors, lighting, windows, landscaping

Fire safety “Seniors aged 65 and older are more than twice as likely to die in a fire,” according to the FDNY’s Official Guide to Fire and Life Safety. “Older adults are also at a higher risk of injury from fire.”

The 12-page guide, available on the department’s website at on.nyc.gov/3wtAqqe, states that the top three causes of fire deaths among the senior population are smoking, heating equipment and cooking.

Tips for the FDNY on senior safety include: • Make sure you have working smoke and carbon monoxide alarms.

• Completely put out your cigarette butts if you smoke.

• Be alert when cooking.

• Place space heaters at least 3 feet away from anything that burns.

• Keep eyeglasses, hearing aids and walkers close by your bedside.

• Don’t smoke in bed or while lying down, especially when drowsy or taking medication.

• Don’t leave burning candles either unattended or burning overnight.

• Don’t use an oven, stove top, dryer or grill to heat your home.

• Don’t use water to extinguish a kitchen fire.

• Don’t wear loose-fitting clothing, such as a nightgown or robe, when cooking.

• Don’t use damaged or frayed cords, especially for warming equipment such as blankets.

• Don’t use extension cords, regardless of gauge, with large appliances. Air conditioners should be plugged directly into a wall outlet. Q

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Even if one might have trouble driving at night, you don’t necessarily have to give up all drivFILE PHOTO ing and hand in your license.

According to the state Department of Motor Vehicles, there is no set age at which a person must give up a driver’s license.

“What is important is your ability to drive safely,” the agency cautions on its website at dmv.ny.gov/older-driver/alternatives-driving.

Two of the most important abilities for safe driving are: • to see hazards clearly; and • to react quickly to changes in highway and traffic conditions.

“These abilities may or may not decline as a person gets older,” according to the DMV. Older drivers should be alert to warning signs, such as a number of minor accidents or near misses; having trouble concentrating or reading common road signs; becoming lost or confused on familiar roads; noticing an increase in other drivers honking their horns; and hearing concern from family, friends or police.

Sometimes medical assistance or instructional courses of special interest to drivers 55 and older can address specific issues.

Instructional courses are offered by the A AR P, A A A and the National Safety Council.

Older drivers who want to reduce risks but still do not want to lose their independe nce ca n t a ke some pre caut ion a r y measures.

They include restricting driving to daylight hours when possible, and avoiding dawn, dusk and nighttime hours when it is more difficult to see; avoiding rush hours and other times when peak traffic can be expected; sticking when possible to familiar roads; taking shorter trips; using roads with lower speed limits; and avoiding eating, drinking or using a cell phone when behind the wheel.

If a driver decides to surrender his or her license, there need be no worries about having identification. All one needs to do is to

apply for a New York State Enhanced Nondriver Photo ID card, which is accepted for most transactions for which a photo ID is required, such as opening a bank account or cashing a check.

Applying for one requires the same documentation and proofs of identity and date of birth as a license application. It also has the same personal information and security features.

The DMV website also has links to and information from the New York State Office for the Aging website for travel options for those who no longer drive.

“Your travel needs continue,” the site states. “The need remains for you to go to medical appointments and to shop. You may also wish to continue your personal and social activities.”

Queens residents can check on buses, trains, ferries and even bike sharing services on the a city website at nyc.gov/html/dot/ Q html/ferrybus/ferrybus.shtml.

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Be careful when hiring a financial planner

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Financial planning is a complex issue, but, according to the experts, handling it in a timely fashion and taking it one step at a time can help prevent a potentially confusing process from becoming overwhelming.

And while managing your personal finances is ultimately your responsibility, you don’t have to deal with it alone — there is plenty of help available.

Raymond Bergen, a certified financial planner in Forest Hills, offered a lot of tips during a recent telephone interview but, perhaps most importantly, he suggested that unless you’re knowledgeable about handling your own finances, “go to someone who’s qualified.”

Therein lies one of the most difficult aspects of financial planning: how to find the right person to work with you. Selecting a financial planner can be as important as choosing a doctor or lawyer.

Bergen recommends consulting the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards website, cfp.net, which indicates that “CFP certification is the standard of excellence in financial planning.”

The site recommends that you “partner with an experienced, knowledgeable CFP professional who’s committed to putting your best interests first.”

It offers suggestions on the types of ques-

tions you might ask a potential planner: What are your qualifications? What services do you offer? Will you have a fiduciary duty to me (putting the client’s interests ahead of their own)? What is your approach to financial planning? How will I pay for your services? Do others stand to gain from financial advice you give me?

While selecting the right planner, it’s important to keep in mind how he or she can help you. The Financial Planning Association (plannersearch.org) suggests that a planner can help you set realistic goals by assessing your current financial health by examining your assets, liabilities, income, insurance, taxes, investments, estate plan and other aspects of your finances.

The FPA further indicates that the person you hire should help you develop a comprehensive plan to meet your financial goals and then put your plan into action, monitoring its progress along the way. It is important, the FPA points out, to stay on track to meet changing goals and personal circumstances during the various stages of your life.

“Be wary of people who call themselves financial planners but who appear more interested in promoting specific financial products

Experts indicate that one of the most serious mistakes individuals can make is waiting too long to begin planning for their financial future.

The process needs to start long before a person becomes a senior citizen.

Delaying a plan often leads to the biggest problem facing seniors today: They can’t afford to retire. The first step might well be to calculate how your income stacks up against your overall expenses and to plan accordingly. Of course, certain aspects of your lifestyle will change over time, such as possible health scenarios.

The No. 1 concern for many individuals is running out of money later in life. Advisors suggest that you find a way to build a personal pension, a retirement plan funded and managed by an employer for the benefit of employees that would guarantee a stream of income for the rest of your life. Also recommended are Individual Retirement Accounts, or IRAs, which are funded and managed by each individual as part of a personal retirement savings plan. Investopedia. com indicates that there are several types of IRAs, each with different rules regarding eligibility, taxation and withdrawals.

Charles Schwab (on the schwab.com site) points out that rules regarding Required Minimum Distributions from your retirement accounts changed recently. You must take an annual RMD once you reach age 72 (as opposed to age 70 1/2 if you turned 70 1/2 Q before Jan. 1, 2020).

at the expense of your real needs and goals,” the site cautions. “All planners who are members of FPA abide by FPA’s Code of Ethics and commit to put their clients’ best interests first.”

“There are thousands of people with different credentials and certifications,” Bergen said.

“Anybody with a license can give financial advice. The person could just sell investments to make money.” He recommends first speaking with a tax preparer or a certified public accountant, but he cautions, “I’ve seen catastrophic situations” in which people were ill-advised.

“Shop around,” Bergen said, suggesting that the best way to choose an advisor is through a referral from someone you trust.

It should be noted that not every planner is right for everyone. Many planners specialize in working with certain types of clients. Therefore, the FPA recommends that you interview at least three professionals in person to find the right one to serve your needs.

In fact, according to smartasset.com, one of the most common mistakes people make is hiring the first advisor they meet. Among other errors it mentions are picking an advisor with the wrong specialty to meet your needs and selecting one whose strategy is incompatible with your own.

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Whale watchers see plenty of action in

New York City is famous for its food. Tourists trek from all over the world to indulge in the delectable and diverse meals.

Some are even willing to swim hundreds or thousands of miles to get a taste of Queens.

From May to October, humpback whales feast on the increasingly bountiful marine life just a few miles off the coast of Rockaway and Breezy Point.

Despite visiting those waters countless times, I had never seen one of the creatures myself until American Princess Cruises offered me the opportunity to see one of the gentle giants feeding and frolicking up close.

We took off from a Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, dock and sailed through Jamaica Bay waters until we reached the Atlantic waves, where we almost immediately spotted a pod of dolphins speeding past the boat. Finding a humpback proved to be more difficult.

“Most of the humpbacks we see in our area, they tend to be juveniles,”

Celia Ackerman, a naturalist with the cruise line, said during the July 8 excursion.

Though young, these whales are by no means tiny — those spotted off the shore tend to be between 30 to 40 feet long, which is nearly half the length of the American Princess vessel.

After two hours of searching, we finally spotted one juvenile humpback, which Ackerman referred to as 225. The cruise line, in conjunction with Gotham Whale, maintains a catalog of the nearly 300 different whales spotted in the city’s waters.

Whale 225 is new to the area, Ackerman said. The Thursday excursion was the fourth time American Princess had spotted the juvenile this season, which isn’t uncommon. The vessel makes trips most days through October.

“The fact that they’re establishing our area as a feeding ground is really remarkable — what a nice close one!” Ackerman said, though she was interrupted by 225 surfacing just a few hundred feet from the boat to sneak a breath of fresh air. continued on page 27

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There’s a tentative, quietly joyful excitement you can feel in the air walking the four blocks from the 7 train’s 111 St. station to the Queens Night Market. Since it reopened on June 19 after a 20-month shutdown due to Covid-19 restrictions, passing under the overpass on the way is a little like entering an urban portal back to life BC (Before Covid).

The Flushing Meadows Corona Park market’s return is a watershed moment, a bridge point where aspects of the old normal integrate with the new normal. Approaching the wide gates behind the New York Hall of Science to enter has a different, more reverent energy to it in the summer of 2021. Closed for well over a year, what was once a pleasurable but casual excursion prepandemic feels more like a privilege and a gift now.

Both vendors and visitors have embraced the market’s comeback with a passion. “While we’ve had much bigger crowds in past years when we weren’t ticketing the event, we’ve never seen visitors so enthusiastic about getting out, mingling, staying the entire duration of the event, and supporting the vendors,” said market founder John Wang. “Even vendors who have been bringing double, sometimes triple, the supplies from their busiest nights ever have been selling out. It’s wonderful to get so much support from New Yorkers and of course to see all their beautiful smiling faces again.”

The $5 ticket charge was instituted to offset profit limitations for vendors due to Gov. Cuomo’s reduced capacity advisory at the market, but as of July 10 it was removed.

Early in the evening on a recent Saturday, the venue was comfortably crowded as long lines of market-goers waited to

savor Tibetan momos, Indian samosas, Portuguese egg tarts, Venezuelan cachapas and many more, all capped at $5 and collectively fragrant in the evening heat. Fried ice cream and other desserts also beckoned invitingly.

A diversity of culture and cuisine by extension have long characterized the Queens community. The market is an edible representation of the borough’s multicultural demographic, bringing all together into a communal hub.

When it comes to entertainment, an event so supportive of local small businesses and entrepreneurship wouldn’t be complete without entertainment by local musicians and performers. A talented youth band from Queens School of Rock covered a broad range of musical genres from Black Sabbath to Kansas. They belted out “Crazy Train” and “Carry on Wayward Son,” soundtracking the bustle and flow of the

market as spectators gathered on picnic benches and s tood to lis ten, watch and record.

The market also features dance and other traditional c u l t u r a l performances.

Since opening in The Night Market features food ven- 2015, the Queens dors as well as artisans such as Jose Night Market has Alvarez, founder of natural soap maker flourished. Approximately 100 vendors PHOTOS BY JORDANA LANDRES Tree*Star. serve diverse and delicious cultural dishes, along with local artists and small business owners displaying their merchandise and creations.

Wang’s vision of an open-air market in Queens like the ones he visited in Taiwan as a child is a solidly established and thriving reality.

Jose Alvarez, founder of the soap company Tree*Star, one of the vendors, is elated at the market’s return.

“The community at the Queens Night Market has received us with open arms and undying loyalty over the last couple of years,” Alvarez said. “Since its reopening, we’ve been able to serve old and new customers while significantly boosting revenue. It’s our home away from home, and we couldn’t be happier to be back.”

The market opens every Saturday from 4 p.m. to midnight Q through Oct. 30.

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Whale population growing in Queens waters

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from their mothers, you can kind of say they’re trailblazers in a sense.”

Though new, 225 was eager to show off.

We slowly drifted behind him as he feasted on some “bait balls,” or clusters of feeding fish, for nearly 40 minutes. Ackerman warned the group to look out for signs of surfacing, such as “spouting,” or the spray from the whale’s blowhole.

Like a dolphin, a humpback displays a dorsal fin as it comes up for a breath of air, though the whale stays above the surface for a much longer period of time than the smaller dolphin.

The most exciting part of the trip was when 225 performed a half-breach about a hundred feet from the boat. He didn’t come all the way out of the waves, but he showed us his big, white belly before plopping back into the depths.

“That was so beautiful and we will take that!” Ackerman said.

Witnessing a humpback in the wild is becoming less rare, though it’s never a guarantee, Ackerman said, and any chance to observe the animal is a treat.

The New York City whale population is growing due to conservancy efforts. The

Naturalist Celia Ackerman gives a quick rundown on the history of humpback whales along the New York City shore. On the cover: Whale 225 shows off his massive fins PHOTOS BY KATHERINE DONLEVY and belly as he feasted on some bait balls. water is becoming cleaner, and strict laws protecting wildlife have created an environment that encourages whales to return year after year. When Gotham Whale first started recording their appearances in 2011, only five were spotted.

Additionally, American Princess partici-

pates in the whale SENSE program, which follows procedures that protect the marine wildlife: We only approached 225 parallel to his course of travel and never deliberately chased him. To thank us for our appreciative behavior, 225 gave us an exclusive view Q into his exotic lifestyle.

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continued from page 25 “Usually the young calves learn where the feeding grounds are by undertaking that very long migratory journey with their moms from the mating-calving grounds where they were born to her favorite feeding ground locations,” she continued. “During that time, that’s when the mom teaches them the different feeding techniques ... The fact that these young juveniles are coming here to feed and they did not learn this location

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Office: Queens Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC for process & shall mail to: 128 Coles Way, Lakewood, NJ 08701 Purpose: General.

Notice of Formation of HZ LANDVILLE LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/03/2021. 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: HANG ZOU, 5420 90TH STREET 1ST FL, ELMHURST, NY 11373. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NY Food Sharings LLC Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 4/19/2021 Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 7511 172nd Street, Fresh Meadows, NY 11366. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of STARTNOO, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/10/2015. 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: ILLUSTRIAM LLC, PO BOX 391, PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ 08550. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of United 162 Holding LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/10/2021. 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: UNITED 162 HOLDING LLC, 43-45 160 STREET, FLUSHING, NY 11358. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Greenville Organic, LLC, Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 05/21/2021. Office Location: Queens County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 91-28 86th St, Woodhaven, NY 11421.

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Notice of Formation of NKB COACHING, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/26/21. Office location: Queens County. Princ. office of LLC: 1017 Jackson Ave. - 4F, Long Island City, NY 11101.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Nicola Blue at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

SAYED & ALAM GROUP LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/06/2021. Office loc: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mohammed R. Chowdhury, 89-31 162 Street, Apt 3F, Jamaica, NY 11432.

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Notice of Formation of SHE GOT THE JUICE LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/04/2021. 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: J&J TAX SERVICES, 13055 224TH ST., LAURELTON, NY 11413. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Sterling Hospitality Group LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/11/2021. 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: NATEESHA COACHMAN, 204-19 115TH AVENUE, ST. ALBANS, NY 11412. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of VALHALLA HOLDINGS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/17/21.

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Notice of Formation of Ayyur LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/07/2021. 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: AYYUR LLC, 3528 34TH ST., APT. 2D, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11106. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AMERICAN EAGLE LOGISTICS SERVICES LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/28/2021. 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: HUSNAIN ZULFIQAR, 10328 102ND STREET, OZONE PARK, NY 11417. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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SUMMONS SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS NYCTL 2018-A TRUST, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as Collateral Agent and Custodian for the NYCTL 2018-A TRUST, Plaintiffs, - against - YUET SAU YUEN, if living, or if she be dead, her husband, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-in-interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through YUET SAU YUEN, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective husbands, or widowers of hers, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to Plaintiffs, et al., Defendants.

Index No.: 705555/2019 Date of filing: 3/29/2019 Plaintiffs designate Queens the place of trial. Venue is based upon the county in which the Premises are situated. Foreclosure of: Borough: Queens Block: 1838 Lot: 1004 TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action within twenty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty days after service is completed if the summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT. The object of the above-entitled action is to foreclose the Tax Lien listed in The City of New York Tax Lien Certificate No. 4A, dated as of August 9, 2018, recorded August 23, 2018, as CRFN: 2018000284203, covering premises described as follows: COUNTY: Queens ADDRESS: 87-72 52nd Avenue, Unit 2A Elmhurst, New York 11373 BLOCK: 1838 LOT: 1004 The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the tax lien described above. This action does not involve “subprime” or “high costs” loans that were consummated between January 1, 2003 and September 1, 2009. The foregoing summons and complaint is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the HON. TIMOTHY J. DUFFICY, J.S.C. entered May 21, 2021. SEYFARTH SHAW LLP, Attorneys for Plaintiffs 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, New York 10018 (212) 218-5500

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NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 02-23-2021, bearing Index Number NC-000045-21/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) SHEILA (Last) MERRICK. My present name is (First) FEMALE (Last) MERRICK AKA SHEILA MERRICK. The city and state of my present address are Jamaica, NY. My place of birth is BROOKLYN, NY. The month and year of my birth are March 1956.

Notice of Formation of Carbon Opulence Group LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/25/2021. 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: CARBON OPULENCE GROUP LLC, 23712 FAIRBURY AVE, BELLEROSE, NY 11426. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Certified Tax Pros LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/28/2021.

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: JASON LOPEZ, 5506 111TH STREET APT. 2, CORONA, NY 11368. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

CITY CALL LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/30/21. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Filipp Ioffe, 28-24 Steinway St., Ste 122, Astoria, NY 11103. Registered agent address is c/o Filipp Ioffe, 62-60 99th Street, Apt 1701, Rego Park, NY 11374.

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Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/17/21. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of WR Innovative Ventures LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/31/2021. 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: WALLY REYES, 97-35 Eckford Avenue, QUEENS, NY 11417. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1333110 for liquor, beer and wine and cider license has been applied for SURYODAYA INC d/b/a CARDAMOM to sell liquor, beer and wine and cider in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 43-45 43RD Street, Sunnyside, NY 11104 for on-premises consumption.

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Notice is hereby given that an on-premises license, #TBD, has been applied for by 360 Concepts Group LLC dba TBD, to sell beer, wine, cider and liquor at retail, in an on-premises establishment, under the ABC Law, for on-premises consumption at 19-45 49th Street, Astoria, NY, 11105.

At an IAS Part 22G of the Supreme Court of County of Queens, at the General Courthouse, located at 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York, on the 9 day of July, 2021. PRESENT: HON. LEE A. MAYERSOHN, Justice, KEVIN JEFF, As Guardian for the Personal Needs and Property Management of LAVERNE JEFF, An Incapacitated Person. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE TO SELL REAL PROPERTY. Old File No.: 2754/19, E-File Index No.: 707237/2021. On reading and filing the annexed Petition of KEVIN JEFF, as Guardian of the property of LAVERNE JEFF, duly verified the 15th day of March, 2021, from which it appears that an Order should be granted to authorize the sale of the interested of LAVERNE JEFF/LAVERNE JEFF GUARDIANSHIP situated in the County of Queens, more particularly described as 175-04 145th Drive, Springfield Gardens, New York 11434, and granting such other and further relief as to it may deem just and proper upon the proceedings had herein; LET LAVERNE JEFF, the incapacitated person, NYC Human Resources Administration, NYC HRA Office of the Legal Affairs, and Maurice Gray, Esq., as Court Examiner, SHOW CAUSE before me or the Justice presiding at Part 22G of this Court, to be held in the Queens County Supreme Court at 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York, via Microsoft Teams, on the 18 day of August 2021 at 9:30a.m. of that day or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard why a judgment should not be rendered: ORDERED, that Jeffrey Langer of 21443 JAMAICA AVE., QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11428, (917) 930-2072, LANGERREALTY@GMAIL.COM, is hereby appointed as appraiser to go upon the premises, to make an appraisal thereof, and report the same under oath in writing to this Court. ORDERED, that the Guardian shall comply with the requirements of RPAPL Section 1722, Subdivision 5 by advertising once a week for a period of four (4) consecutive weeks in The Queens Chronicle, except that no “FOR SALE” sign need be posted. Advertising shall include a provision that any interested Purchaser shall contact the clerk by e-mail, at qscpart22@nycourts.gov, prior to the return date to receive an invite to the Microsoft TEAMS virtual auction. NO IN-PERSON APPEARANCE PERMITTED; VIRTUAL APPEARANCE ONLY. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO APPEAR VIRTUALLY CONTACT THE COURT AT (718) 298-1626 OR QSCPART22@NYCOURTS.GOV. Why an Order should not be made authorizing and directing the sale of the interest of the Incapacitated Person located at 175-04 145th Drive, Springfield Gardens, New York 11434, as further described in the Petition; Why this Court should not appoint an appraiser and direct a hearing before this Court to inquire into the merits of this application for the sale of the subject premises; Why this Court should not approve the brokerage commission and authorize the Guardian to pay the commission to the real estate broker from the proceeds of the sale of the subject premises; Why the Petitioner, as Guardian of the LAVERNE JEFF GUARDIANSHIP should not be permitted to make the conveyance and carry out these proceedings; Why this Court should not award attorney’s fees to Kassoff, Lerner & Associates, LLP for their work in this matter; and Why Petitioners should not have such other and further or different relief as may be just in the premises. SUFFICIENT REASON APPEARING THEREFOR, IT IS, LET service of a copy of this Order to Show Cause and the Petition to sell the interest of the Incapacitated Person, be made upon all persons named herein, by certified mail, on or before August 4, 2021 and said service shall be deemed good and sufficient service.* Jallyah Jeff, John Jeff, Maurice Gray, NYCHRA. ORDERED, that the Petitioner’s attorney provide the Court with a full list of email addresses for all interested parties ten (10) days prior to the return date herein. ENTER: HON. LEE A. MAYERSOHN, J.S.C.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Index No.: 713313/2020 Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place for trial. The basis for Venue is the situs of the Real Property. Real Property address: 86-34 77th Street, Woodhaven, NY 11421. SUMMONS MANESH GIRDHARRY, Plaintiff, -against- ROHAN MOTILALL and 77th STREET 8634 GROUP, INC., Defendant(s). TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon the attorneys for the Plaintiff herein an answer to the complaint in this action within twenty (20) days after service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. In case of your failure to answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated: New York, New York, August 17, 2020. Yours truly, Jason J. Rebhun The Law Offices of Jason J. Rebhun, PC, Attorney for Plaintiff(s), 225 Broadway, 38th Floor New York, NY 10007 (646) 201-9392 Defendants’ Address: ROHAN MOTILALL – 130-08 143rd Street, Jamaica, NY 11436 77th STREET 8634 GROUP, INC. – via Secretary of State Re: Girdharrry v. Motilall, et. ano. Index No.: 713313/2020 Dear Mr. Motilall: Please be advised that this firm has been retained to represent the Plaintiff Manesh Girdharry in the above referenced legal action against you and 77th Street 8634 Group, Inc. This action was commenced in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Queens on August 18, 2020, and a Notice of Pendency was filed in connection with this action on that same date concerning the Premises located at 86-34 77th Street, Woodhaven, NY 11421, Block 8840, Lot 140 (the “Subject Premises”). This action seeks a declaratory judgment to rescind, cancel, and vacate the: (1) January 31, 2017 Deed from Plaintiff Manesh Girdharry to you that was recorded with the Queens County register under CRFN 2017000060886; and (2) the May 6, 2019 Deed from you to 77th Street 8634 Group, Inc. recorded with the Queens County Register under CRFN 2019000146271. This action additionally seeks to quiet title to the Subject Premises and restore title of same with Plaintiff Manesh Girdharry. After the commencement of this action, and after many attempts to effectuate proper service upon you at various addresses to no avail, Plaintiff obtained a Court Order allowing service of this action upon you via publication within two newspapers located in Queens County, New York. As such, please be advised that your response to the accompanying Summons and your appearance in the aforementioned action is mandatory. Your failure to appear could result in a default judgment against you for the full relief sought by the Plaintiff. Please be guided accordingly.

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Those competitors, Penner said, include the MTA, the city’s own Department of Transportation, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New Jersey Transit and Amtrak. The MTA, Penner said, is doing all it can to maintain current levels of service, track maintenance, signal repairs and other necessities.

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his top 10 transportation priorities are — ask any elected local official — and all you’ll get is Jackie Gleason’s ‘Humina, humina, humina ...’ Senators and members of Congress can allocate money. The borough president can allocate money for studies. Council members can allocate money. Not one has put up a nickel for this, which tells you something.”

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In 2020, Major League Baseball initiated a rule that made all doubleheaders seven-inning games. The thinking was it would reduce injury and fatigue for players at a time when hospitals were overrun with Covid-19 patients. Shorter doubleheaders also make it easier for teams to travel if games are on getaway days.

With Covid-19 hopefully on the downturn thanks to vaccinations — although there are still knuckleheads who refuse to get their shots which is allowing this Delta variant to thrive — fans have now returned. MLB, however, has kept the seven-inning rule for twinbills.

Frankly, I have no problem with seven innings for traditional single-admission doubleheaders.

The minor leagues have long utilized this concept. Nine-inning games have been dragging out for years. Nobody is happy about that. Streamlined doubleheaders increase the probability that fans who stay for the entirety will get home at a reasonable hour. From a consumer viewpoint, fans get a bargain as they see 14 innings instead of nine for the price of admission.

MLB has taken flak, however, for extending the seven-inning game rule for both parts of separate admission day-night doubleheaders, known as split doubleheaders, like the one the Mets had with the Milwaukee Brewers last Wednesday because Tuesday night’s game was postponed by

rain. The Mets made Wednesday a split-admission affair because ace Jacob deGrom was scheduled to pitch Tuesday and they’d have to honor those tickets for the Wednesday matinee.

As he always pitches before bigger-than-usual crowds, it saved the Mets from having to issue refunds by uncoupling the games. Since deGrom rarely goes nine innings, few would complain.

The problem is those with tickets for Wednesday’s scheduled game had to accept the abridged seven innings. As it turned out, the Mets sleepwalked their way through it, losing 5-0. Adding insult to injury, they couldn’t score with the bases loaded and no one out in the sixth inning as Francisco Lindor, Dominic Smith and Pete Alonso all struck out. Maybe it was a good thing the game only went seven. Mets fans have watched enough painful baseball in recent years.

WFAN update anchor Mike McCann made a cogent analogy to me about fans getting ripped off by split-admission doubleheaders: “Could you imagine the outrage if Broadway musicals such as ‘Hamilton’ cut out a few musical numbers and/or a scene on Wednesdays when they have both matinee and evening performances?”

These days, ticket prices for games are comparable to Broadway productions. Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred needs to restore split Q doubleheaders to the requisite nine innings.

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