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NO. 29

THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2018

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PARENTAL ADVISORY PHOTOS BY ANNA SACKEL

Mary Barton, District 27 superintendent

MS 210 moms slam removal of Principal Butcher

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District 27 Superintendent Mary Barton ousted the principal of Middle School 210 in Ozone Park, Bonnie Butcher, and many parents are unhappy, saying she is just what the students needed.

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Speed camera bill now Flanagan’s call Peralta claims 34 votes; families turn up heat on Senate GOP leader

by Michael Gannon Editor

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iovanni Ampuero’s mother visibly trembled Thursday as she recalled the last words of her 9-year-old son as he lay in the middle of Northern Boulevard on April 28, struck by a driver who fled the scene.

“He did say ‘Mommy, don’t let me go.’ He also said ‘I love Mommy and Daddy’ ... I visit him at the cemetery every week ... I wish it had been me instead of him.”

Karen Manrique and Giovanni’s father, Raul Ampuero, were among the speakers last Thursday as state Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) pushed once again for the Senate to take up his bill to expand the use of cameras in New York City school zones before the existing authorization expires at midnight on July 25.

And with Sen. Martin Golden (R-Brooklyn) saying the day before that he now is once again in favor of Peralta’s proposal, Peralta and all other speakers did not even attempt to conceal the fact that they intend to turn the heat up under Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R-Suffolk), who alone can salvage the bill at this point by calling the Senate back into session for a vote.

The formal legislative term ended in the early morning hours of June 22 with Democrats one vote short of the 32 needed to pass

Karen Manrique, center, holds up photos of her son Giovanni, who was 9 years old when he was fatally struck by a car on Northern Boulevard in April. She and relatives of others who have been PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON killed rallied last week to expand the city’s speed camera program. the bill. Gov. Cuomo has declined to recall the Senate if he is not assured that some sort of speed camera bill will come to his desk as a result.

Peralta was joined at the intersection of Northern and Junction boulevards by numerous relatives of pedestrians who have been

killed in Queens in recent years.

“We now have 34 votes, including three Republicans,” Peralta said. “We’re calling on John Flanagan to call the Senate back into session. Republicans are playing politics with our children’s lives.”

Golden’s name still is on Peralta’s bill as a

sponsor, Peralta said, though the day after the session closed the Brooklyn lawmaker and Sen. Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn) affixed their names to a bill by Sen. Andrew Lanza (D-Staten Island) that would have extended cameras by six months before replacing them with signs and signals.

Felder is opposed to the cameras altogether.

Golden, according to published reports, has racked up more than 10 driving violations in recent years, including at least six caught by speed cameras.

Ampuero also called on Flanagan to act.

“Not a day goes by when I don’t think about my son,” he said. “When you lose your son, you have nothing.”

Lizi Rahman of Jamaica, who wore a button with a photograph of her son, Asif, said she knows how Ampuero feels.

Asif, 22, was killed crossing Queens Boulevard in 2008.

“Three weeks ago, I lost my husband,” she said, Peralta gently embracing her as she cried.

“They are buried in the same place.”

Peralta said if opposition to his bill is anything other than politics, he would like an explanation, saying that since the cameras were installed in 2014, speeding in those zones is down 63 percent; that injuries are down; and that more than 80 percent of those ticketed by continued on page 6

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Anger surrounding firing of principal Superintendent planning to retire soon removes head of MS 210

by Anna Sackel Associate Editor

Principal Bonnie Butcher of Middle School 210 in Ozone Park, who has held the position since 2016, has been removed and replaced with former MS 202 Assistant Principal Kuljit Singh.

The announcement was made via email on July 6.

According to Superintendent Mary Barton, the cause of Butcher’s removal cannot be made public until a full investigation has been completed.

This past Monday at the monthly Community Education Council 27 meeting a number of parents showed up to express their concern and disapproval of the removal of Butcher.

“We’ve received a lot of help from this principal,” said one parent. “We do not agree that this principal should be removed. We need more principals like her.”

Two years ago a petition was started online to have Butcher removed. The petition had 250 supporters and was started by an anonymous person who claimed to be a “concerned parent.”

According to the petition, Butcher was a bully to students and “can make your life miserable.”

Some of the petition’s supporters, who have commented on the petition on the website change.org claiming to be parents and students of the school, or former ones, are

Community Education Council 27 members including Maribell Perez-McDaniel, left, CEC 27 President Wendy Pratt, Oneeka Jordan and Bianca Salcendo at Monday night’s meeting, along PHOTO BY ANNA SACKEL with Superintendent Mary Barton, right. locat e d i n pla ces l i ke A r i zon a a nd California.

At this past week’s CEC meeting, many parents seemed to feel the opposite from the ones who signed the petition.

“She did a lot for our kids and for us,” said a parent.

District 27 is one of the most racially and culturally diverse districts in New York City and many students come from immigrant families and learned English as their second language.

Sixty percent of the school’s population is Hispanic and 29 percent is Asian. While the

cause for Butcher’s removal is unknown, many parents have pointed to a possibly racist reason because Butcher backed many programs geared toward helping minority students.

“There is a huge racial issue at MS 210 that has existed long before this principal.

However, what’s best for the children is exactly what Ms. Butcher has been pushing,” said another parent.

Butcher had recently implemented a new program for Regents prep during the summertime. Now that she has been removed, some parents are concerned that the program, along with others Butcher started, will not be followed through.

“There are a few teachers who do not want to accommodate her or even the students,” said one parent. “Ms. Butcher wanted to help our kids but there are some teachers that would rather go against her than help our kids.”

Barton, who also recently announced she will be retiring this summer, made the email announcement on Butcher herself.

“The decision was made in the best interest of students and families,” Barton said in the email. “I would like to thank Ms. Butcher for her service to the school community.”

Barton says the removal of Butcher was done according to Chancellor’s Regulations and that parents and Butcher may appeal the decision. continued on page 12

The 102nd Precinct introduces NCOs

by Anna Sackel

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The 102nd Precinct announced it is f inally rolling out the Neighborhood Coordination Officers program on Monday July 16 at a meet and greet at the Golden Terrace Banquet Hall.

The NYPD kicked off the citywide neighborhood policing plan in May of 2017.

The 102nd Precinct is one of the last precincts in NYC to start the program.

The confines of the 102nd Precinct are from Myrtle Avenue and Union Turnpike to 103rd Avenue in between Eldert Lane and the Van Wyck Expressway.

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“Before, say you call for a noise complaint three times in one week, each time you call a different officer is going to show up and the problem won’t get fixed,” said Community Affairs Officer Edwin Martinez. “Now, with the NCOs, you’ll have the same officers, who know the situation, coming to the scene each time. It will be much more effective and we’ll see more results.”

The pu r pose of Monday’s meeting was to introduce the community to the eight new NCOs and explain the purpose of the program.

“We wanted the residents to see their new NCOs and understand what they’re here for,” said Martinez. “We’re very excited to be rolling out this program.”

The neighborhood policing program has seen much success, not only in Queens, but through-

The 102nd Precinct’s new Neighborhood Coordination Officers gather before the start of Monday’s meeting to PHOTO BY ANNA SACKEL introduce and kick off the neighborhood policing program. out the city.

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Port Authority asks for public feedback Residents of South Queens voice concerns about JFK redevelopment

by Anna Sackel Associate Editor

Spend a few hours in southern Queens and you will quickly understand why living near one of the busiest airports in America is not the most peaceful.

With airplanes flying closely overhead day and night, it’s no wonder residents have questions and concerns about Gov. Cuomo’s plan to redevelop John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The $10 billion plan will, according to Cuomo “bring JFK into the 21st century” by creating “a unified, world-class airport.”

The changes have some residents in neighboring communities questioning what changes to their quality of life may come.

On July 17 and 18 the Port Authority, which operates JFK, held meetings in Far Rockaway and St. Albans to address the communities’ concerns.

“We are here to show you what we have planned, and to hear your concerns and answer any questions you may have,” said a representative from the PA. Huntley Lawrence, director of aviation at the PA, explained the new features that will be coming to the airport.

“The Port Authority is currently in discussions with terminal operators and they are expected to continue throughout 2018,”

Dozens of residents attended a meeting on Tuesday to get an update and ask questions on Gov. PHOTO BY ANNA SACKEL Cuomo’s redevelopment plan for JFK airport.

Law rence said. “We a re look i ng to announce in the coming months another agreement to expand another terminal, and when we do projects of this size, they’re going to be subject to an environmental review, as well.”

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“How about you guys hire from these towns that are affected by airplane noise?” one meeting attendee asked.

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continued from page 2 the cameras do not offend again.

“We have the Department of Transportation’s statistics,” he said. “Cameras change people’s behavior.”

Peralta said with summer school in session, children will be endangered the instant the cameras are turned off.

“Kids in summer school will travel to and from school on more dangerous streets,” Peralta said. “The same will occur when more than one million schoolchildren return to school after the summer vacation.

State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr, (D-Howard Beach) did not attend the press conference, though he is backing Peralta’s bill 100 percent.

“Can we be called back into session after July 25? Yes,” Addabbo said. “I’m assuming that if on July 25 we can switch the cameras off, we can be called back in August and switch them back on before the new school year. But what happens if we shut the cameras off and a child in summer school is struck by a car and hurt, or God forbid killed? How do you explain that to that child’s family?”

Peralt a , at the press con ference, declined to delve into the Brooklyn senator’s motives for his change of heart.

Published reports quote Golden as saying he was convinced by his constituents to back the Peralta bill again. Golden is facing a high-prof ile challenge from

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he silly pseudo-Elizabethan spelling alone was a red flag. Clearly, The Shoppes at 82nd Street would not be a good fit for a tight parcel in Elmhurst just below Roosevelt Avenue and Jackson Heights.

A little too pretentious, don’t you agree, dahling?

But the real problem was that the planned building, with the usual retail on the bottom and apartments above, was just too big — 13 stories, twice as many as other residential buildings in the immediate area. After all, this is not Manhattan East, er, Long Island City.

So it was a great victory for the community when the developers decided to withdraw the proposal, which called for a building three stories taller than zoning allows. Though OK’d by Borough President Melinda Katz, because of the number of affordable housing units the builders promised, and the City Planning Commission, the project was opposed unanimously by Community Board 4. Area Councilman Francisco Moya only backed it reluctantly, also due to the affordability pledge.

So now the developers, Sun Equity Partners, will go ahead with the 10-story building they can put up as of right. Activist group Queens Neighborhood United says

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it will keep fighting any plans for luxury housing at the site, but without Sun Equity needing city permission to go ahead, there’s not much the opponents can do other than make speeches and hold signs. The question now will be how much affordable housing if any the developers will include. The answer will show if they care at all about the neighborhood or just want to make that almighty dollar without any regard to the consequences.

Meanwhile, in Ridgewood, Community Board 5 and Assemblymembers Cathy Nolan and Mike Miller are seeking a partial moratorium on building in order to do some rezoning designed to maintain neighborhood character. The immediate impetus is a disgusting plan put forth by a developer called SLJ Management.

Go to Google Maps, look up 1664 Woodbine St. and then hit Street View. See how attractive the block of identical row houses is? Charming. Well, SLJ wants to add two stories to No. 1664. Just picture the architectural atrocity that would be. This plan must be stopped.

Ugh. The city’s growing. People need homes. But development must account for existing residents’ needs.

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Oppose the shelter Dear Editor: (An open letter to state Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr.) I read in the Queens Chronicle that there are plans to place a shelter for homeless people in the vicinity of Richmond Hill.

I strongly oppose and disapprove of this proposal. This will demoralize, depreciate and devalue the neighborhood. The neighbors have security cameras and dogs to protect themselves. The police should be more protective towards the citizens of Richmond Hill. These undesirable people will increase the crime in the community.

I have faith in you that you will do the right thing to protect the people for their best interest, who voted for you.

Richard Varriale Richmond Hill Editor’s note: Sen. Addabbo also opposes the facility, and expounds upon why in an op-ed to be found in some print editions this week or online at qchron.com.

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t first glance, the Waste Equity bill passed by the City Council on Wednesday and expected to get Mayor de Blasio’s OK seems to be a good one. It would cap the amount of garbage that can be processed in any given neighborhood, mostly to the relief of poorer communities where the populace is primarily made up of ethnic minorities. As it stands now, Southeast Queens, parts of northern Brooklyn and a section of the Bronx handle more than 75 percent of the city’s solid waste.

But as usual, the regulation will come at a price. People will lose jobs — many of them the same minority residents who might benefit from less truck traffic and its dangers, and less pollution. Then the traffic and bad air will move elsewhere, or at least they will if wealthier areas suddenly faced with the prospect of waste transfer stations in their midst don’t fight against them tooth and nail. But of course they will. Expect much discord.

Worse could be the next garbage “reform” measure to come: dividing the city into zones for commercial trash collection, leaving businesses with fewer choices, if any. It’s been a disaster in Los Angeles, though New York may allow more leeway in choosing carters. We hope so. Otherwise the idea should go into the circular file and await pickup — by the hauler of your choice.

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will be displaced. However, these areas could use a bit of gentrification.

Poor people are not helped by neighborhood decline. Property values rise and owners, those forgotten New Yorkers, are helped by gentrification. Activists should check out north Brooklyn if they are uncertain about the positive qualities of economic improvement. There should be more of it in Queens.

John Attanas Forest Hills

R’way rail likely doomed Dear Editor: What ever happened to the promised MTA feasibility study for restoration of Long Island Rail Road service on the old Rockaway Beach line? The original completion date was June 2017. It was subsequently delayed until December 2017 and again to June 2018. Both draft and final reports have yet to be made public.

Continued delay in release of the study could imply that both feasibility and costs have been

found to be prohibitive. The estimated costs have already grown from $600 million to $1 billion over recent years.

Remember the old proposed LIRR Lower Montauk branch Light Rail Project championed by former City Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley? Release of the $500,000 feasibility study for introduction of light rail on that corridor last December may have been the final stop for this project. According to this report, the anticipated cost grew by 2,100 percent from $100 million to $2.2 billion!

Support from public officials, transit agencies, transit advocates, commuters and taxpayers subsequently disappeared.

Don’t be surprised if results from the MTA Rockaway Beach LIRR restoration study reveal a cost in the billions and timetable for completion over 10 years. This may be the last breath for any hope of the line’s restoration.

If the study results were favorable, there would have already been a joint press conference with the MTA, LIRR and local supporters such as state Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer

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Dear Editor: Republicans held a hearing on Capital Hill accusing FBI agent Peter Strzok of political bias at the FBI and Justice Department because of his anti-Trump texts. And rightfully so!

Statements like these are unacceptable: 1.

Sniveling coward, pathological liar, serial philanderer. 2. Unworthy of being our president. 3.

I am not going to defend Trump, not now, not in the future. 4. Moron. 5. Empty vessel. 6. Eleven-year-old child. 7. Dope and idiot with the intelligence of a kindergartner. 8. Complete idiot. 9. Idiot surrounded by clowns.

But those aren’t the words used by Strzok.

Those words all came from Republicans. In order: Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Rex Tillerson, Scott Pruitt, Steve Bannon, H.R. McMaster, Karl Rove and Gary Cohn.

Republicans show more interest in an FBI agent’s texts than the leader of the free world undermining the western alliance while ignoring Russian interference in a presidential election! Nineteen indictments and five convictions … so far. Yet Republicans continue to look away and assist Trump with his distractions.

Choosing to defend the disgraceful actions of the worst president ever rather than uphold the dignity of the United States!

Impeachment is not good enough. Trump needs to be led from the White House in handcuffs! Here is just one reason why: On May 9, China’s ZTE announced that it was going to have to shut down its entire smartphone business since it had no viable way to continue operating without Qualcomm chips. Then on May 11, a state-owned Chinese construction company called the Metallurgical Corp. of China announced it would float a $500 million loan to Indonesian developers to facilitate the construction of a vast “integrated lifestyle resort” called MNC Lido City that includes “Trump-branded hotels, residences, and a golf course”! On May 13, Trump tweeted: “President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!”

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Limit VA medical coverage Dear Editor: Re Frank Toner’s July 12 letter, “Don’t privatize the VA”: I disagree with Mr. Toner’s objections to shifting medical treatment of veterans to nonVA facilities. Like him, I’m a Vietnam era veteran (Air Force, 1964-68) and am eligible for VA medical coverage. But I shouldn’t be, and neither should thousands of other vets like me who have no military service-connected disabilities or medical conditions. That was the case when the U.S. Veterans Administration was created in 1930 to treat World War I veterans. The VA grew during World War II, but care was still limited to vets with war-related conditions.

Coverage criteria expanded after the VA became a cabinet-level executive agency (the Department of Veterans Affairs) in 1989 under President George H.W. Bush. The VA instituted “Primary Universal Care” during a 1995-2000 “reform” program, allowing all honorably discharged veterans to get medical treatment, regardless of how their physical or mental conditions were caused. The VA is now the United States’ largest healthcare provider, with 378,000 staffers treating nine million patients at over 1,000 facilities. That huge patient volume is one reason why vets face long delays for treatment.

Nearly half of all vets are 65 or older and should be covered by Medicare. But many prefer the VA to avoid deductibles, co-pays and the 20 percent of medical costs that Medicare won’t cover. I’m not one of them. I see private physicians who are reimbursed by Medicare. I pay for my prescription drugs under Medicare Part D, even though I could get them free from the VA, because I don’t honestly deserve the VA’s largess. I’m glad Mr. Toner got free hearing aids, but did military service cause his hearing loss?

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Amato, along with project transit advocates to share the good news. This announcement would include promises to add funding that would be amended into the existing $32 billion MTA 2015-2019 Five Year Capital program. Millions would be needed to begin the environmental review along with preliminary design and engineering. More funding for final design and engineering along with construction would be added to the soon-to-be-proposed 2020-2024 Five Year Capital Plan.

The longer the MTA sits on the study, the greater the odds some consultants along with MTA staff are staying up late trying to wordsmith the report so as to downplay the bad news.

The only winners from this study will be the well-paid consultants. They will move on to the next transit planners’ dream.

Larry Penner Great Neck, LI The writer is a transportation historian and advocate who worked 31 years for the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.

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City Council passes OPINION the Waste Equity bill Help the homeless without Tonnage caps coming to Jamaica transfer stations; zones up next

by Michael Gannon Editor

The City Council has passed a measure that would cap the amount of solid waste that can be processed in individual neighborhoods in the city.

The controversial Waste Equity Bill, officially Intro. 157, passed by a vote of 32-13 according to the office of Councilman Antonio Reynoso (D-Brooklyn, Queens), who was the primary sponsor.

Among the 22 co-sponsors were Queens Councilmen Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) and Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside).

A breakdown of the individual votes was not available prior to the Chronicle’s deadline on Wednesday.

Two neighborhoods in northern Brooklyn, the district of Councilman Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans) in Queens and a district in the Bronx house transfer stations that handle more than 75 percent of the solid waste generated in the city.

All are low-income, largely minority communities “Currently, low-income communities of color handle a staggeringly disproportionate amount of our City’s waste,” Reynoso said Wednesday in a statement issued prior to the vote. “Residents are exposed to dangerous truck traffic, elevated air pollution, and hazardous environmental impacts — contributing to historical inequities in resource distribution along economic and racial lines.”

The bill is a successor to one that initially was backed last year by Miller, before he pulled his support back in December.

The bill had the support of Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan), environmental organizations and Teamsters Joint Council 16, which represents some employees in the city’s private carting industry.

Mayor de Blasio is expected to sign the measure into law.

A 153-page study prepared by the DSNY — and given to Council members just prior to a public hearing on Tuesday, according to Crain’s New York Business — there is enough capacity at other transfer stations in the city to process tonnage no longer allowed at some sites.

The report acknowledged that some of the smaller, less-financially stable transfer stations could go under, and that some workers could lose their jobs. But it also stated that most of those job losses would be offset by other operations that would have to hire in order to handle increased capacity.

The report appeared to downplay the potential for increased costs, particularly for businesses that must rely on private sanitation companies.

Still to come, perhaps as early as next

Waste transfer stations in Queens and private carting companies throughout the city are facing a massive realignment of their businesses with the City Council voting to limit capacity in each district of the city, and an anticipated measure that would restrict commercial collections within predetermined zones. FILE PHOTO month, is the presentation of a plan by the DSNY to divide the city into commercial collection zones in which businesses would have to use specified carters selected by the city rather than the current practice of seeking out a carter and negotiating for services.

The DSNY and many who have backed Intro. 157 say doing so would reduce truck miles traveled over city roads by garbage trucks, thus reducing traffic, noise and emission pollution.

It also is seen in some segments as a necessary check on some private carting companies, which have been in the news in recent years for a series of traffic deaths and allegations that drivers and workers are forced to work overly long shifts in dangerous conditions for substandard pay.

Critics in the carting industry point to Los Angeles, where zoning for its recycling program has been beset from the start with operational problems and cost increases to some customers that have exceeded 300 percent.

But the Los Angeles program has one carter with a monopoly in each zone; the report echoes recent statements by DSNY Commissioner Kathryn Garcia, five carters available in each zone, letting a business negotiate a price and switch if unhappy with its carting service.

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by Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. Once again, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the but the Ozone Park city Department of Homeless Services have neighborhood as come into Queens with a flawed plan for well. The burden housing homeless individuals in our com- on the 102nd Police munity without any gaining input from the P r e c i n c t c o u ld have an impact on people who live there.

This time the DHS has targeted the for- the sur rounding mer Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church communities.

I have stated my located at 85-15 101 Ave. in Ozone Park.

Work is already underway to transform this opposition to this space to house 113 men with mental disabil- site for a shelter both publically and privateities by winter 2018. I do not support this ly to the DHS. As a result of a meeting that the agency had with the local elected offiproposal by the mayor.

While I understand that there is currently cials, the 102nd Precinct and Community a homeless crisis facing our city, I do not Board 9, the DHS has given us 30 days to believe that because of the mayor’s inability find a new alternative location for this proto credibly address the homeless issue, mid- posed shelter to house the 113 men. Those 30 days end on Aug. 5, so I dle class communities am hopeful that by workshou ld be negat ively ing together as a commuaffected by having large he city’s latest nity, we can find a suitable population shelters placed replacement site for these without input. Where are shelter plan is individuals. the impact statements? not acceptable.

Over the years, the Where are the reports Mayor’s Office has been showing the effect on our schools or public safety? My colleagues in made aware of my suggestions for ways to government and I — along with residents of assist the homeless without creating frustraOzone Park — will not accept a shelter tion and animosity in our communities. housing more than 100 mentally ill men to Where is the affordable housing that was be built in this community, given the loca- proposed by the mayor to be built? The city tion’s proximity to five neighborhood has vacant property to utilize for permanent schools and high population of children or temporary housing to help the homeless. under the age of 18 who live near the pro- The city can also consider using smaller sites for population sizes that better accliposed shelter.

Another reason why I stand opposed to mate into a community.

There are other solutions to address the this shelter location is that there is little to no information on how the city plans to help homeless crisis and assist individuals in these individuals. The administration gives need, but until the mayor decides to work limited information as to what services or with us who want to help, well before the programs will be made available to the men call to my office dictating a site in the comto transition them out of the homeless shel- munity, the opposition to inappropriate sites Q ter system. If the population at the shelter is will continue.

Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. is New York to be mentally ill men, there must be constant on-site help for them, as well as secu- State Senator for the 15th District, in rity at all times to help protect not only the South and southwestern Queens.

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Ozone Park town hall meeting The Ozone Park town hall meeting regarding the planned homeless shelter for 113 mentally ill adult men is this Thursday, July 19 at 7 p.m. at the Nativity BVM Church Hall at 101-41 91 Ave. The Department of Homeless Services plans to put the shelter at the old Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church at 85-15 101 Ave. The location is within a residential neighborhood and is surrounded by a number of elementary and middle schools as well as parks and religious buildings.

Many oppose the plan.

The DHS, along with area elected officials , has agreed to attend the meeting.

Last month at the civic association meeting, around 300 people showed up.

Those organizing the event are expecting a similar number on Thursday.

The meeting is sponsored and organized by residents of Ozone Park.

Parking is available in front of the church and in the school parking lot.

Any questions can be directed to the Ozone Park Residents Block Association Q page on Facebook.

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Cops seek robber terrorizing Queens BK man busted over string of incidents, but NYPD still looking for accomplice A Brooklyn man was arrested around 6:30 a.m. on July 6 for allegedly being one of two men wanted for a litany of robberies in Queens this month, the NYPD said.

Timothy Lane, 19, of Pacific Street was ar rested on 13 counts of f irst-degree robbery.

His accomplice, who remains at large, is described as a 5-foot-8 black male who is around 25 years old and weighs around 150 pounds. He was last seen wearing a white tank top with black trim, black shor ts with white st r ipes and white sneakers.

According to the NYPD, the first incident happened Sunday, July 1 at around 11:30 p.m. That’s when a 26-year-old man was walking on the corner of 82nd Street and 58th Avenue in Elmhurst and the t wo crooks came up to him and pulled out a gun.

The robbers told the victim to lay on the ground before taking his cell phone and wallet. They then fled.

Only minutes had passed before they found their next victim.

Around 11:40 p.m., two males — one 18 and the other 17 years old — were walking west on Eliot Avenue when the two thugs ambushed them from behind. One of the perps took out a gun and demanded the

victims’ wallets before f leeing on foot south on 69th Place.

After their Elmhurst robberies, the crooks headed north to Jackson Heights.

On Monday, July 2 around 12:35 a.m., a 23-year-old man was walking in Jackson Heights by Travers Park on 79th Street. The perps went up to him and took out a gun before taking the man’s wallet and phone. The perps f led in a vehicle on 78th Street toward Northern Boulevard, cops said.

They struck again minutes later.

At approximately 12:50 a.m. on July 2, they robbed a 60-year-old male victim who was walking on 75th Street by 30th Avenue. The two thugs pulled up next to him in a vehicle and took out a gun. One perp went through the victim’s pockets; the other removed his wallet, which had $150. They took off, driving south on 75th Street.

The night of robberies didn’t end for the two after the second incident, according to the police.

About 40 minutes after the 75th Street crime, the crooks robbed a 57-year-old man who was walking in east Flushing at Hollywood Avenue and 156th Street. One of the thugs took credit cards and $30 from the victim’s pockets.

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Stringer seeks state transit bond funding In a report issued Tuesday, city Comptroller Scott Stringer, like many city and state officials, voiced support for New York City Transit’s new Fast Forward plan for massive upgrades to the city’s subway and bus system.

Unlike most, Stringer has identified a specific funding source he is recommending to get the ball rolling.

“As a first step, the state Legislature should introduce an $8 billion Transit Bond Act in the next session and bring it to referendum,” Stringer said in a fivepage policy study on the accessibility of the subway system.

The comptroller said it is not without precedent, as a similar measure for $3.5 billion in 2005 was approved by 56 percent of the voters and was divided between upstate and downstate projects.

Fast Forward, the initiative of NYC Transit President Andy Byford, “has sparked some much needed optimism.”

He also said that any downstate investments from a new bond act must include “signif icant investments for [handicapped accessibility] upgrades.

Byford, speaking with a group of

reporters in Astoria last month, said Fast Forward projects adding 180 elevators to the system in the next 10 years. Within five, he wants no NYC Transit customer to be more than two stops from a handicapped-accessible station.

Stringer’s report divides all city communities into three categories: those with at least one accessible station, those with none and those with no subway service whatsoever.

Ten Queens neighborhoods have no accessible stations, though Astoria will see installation of elevators on the N/W line at Astoria Boulevard beginning in September. Others are Briarwood-Jamaica Hills; Hammels-Arverne-Edgemere in the Rockaways; Jackson Heights, North Corona; Ozone Park; Rego Park; Richmond Hill; Steinway and Woodhaven.

The report assesses how a lack of accessibility can do things like hinder employment prospects, while people wishing to relocate closer to an accessible station face higher rents. The full report is available online at comptroller.nyc.gov/ reports/service-denied-accessibility-andQ the-new-york-city-subway-system/.

Days later, on Thursday, July 5, the men committed eight robberies within the span of two hours, the NYPD said.

At around approximately 9:05 p.m., a 54-year-old man was on 79th Street by 21st Avenue in East Elmhurst when the two crooks came up to him, pulled out a gun and demanded his wallet and cell phone. The victim complied and the individuals fled with $20.

About a half hour later, a 52-year-old man on 71st Street in Jackson Heights was approached by the two thugs. They took out a gun and demanded his wallet, from which they got $100.

Minutes after that incident, at 9:45 p.m., the barbaric duo tried to rob a 35-year-old male victim who was walking on 77th Street by 34th Avenue. They simulated a firearm, but the man managed to run away. The perps fled southbound on 77th.

Then, a 34-year-old man on 78th Street by 25th Avenue was approached by the perps around 10:02 p.m. They pulled out their gun and removed the victim’s wallet before f leeing in their vehicle in an unknown direction.

They hit their next target at about 10:05 p.m., robbing a 40-year-old male who was walking at the corner of 30th Avenue and 72nd Street in East Elmhurst. The two males approached the victim, took out a gun and demanded his property. He complied. The thugs fled in a Honda Accord northbound on 72nd Street with the victim’s cell phone and jewelry.

The thugs headed east to northern Flushing, where they struck at Crocheron Avenue and 166th Street. A man, 29, and woman, 24, were walking there around 10:40 p.m. when the two criminals came up from behind. They pulled out a gun and demanded their wallets before fleeing in a gray Nissan.

Going north, the pair spotted a 25-yearold woman and a 27-year-old man walking on 26th Avenue by 157th Street about two minutes later.

According to the NYPD, the two thugs walked up to the young man and woman, took out a gun and told ordered them to

Principal 210 continued from page 4 Butcher could not be reached for comment; however, sources close to the former principal say her removal is outrageous and exposes a personal agenda.

“We as the parents, we hear these whispers that there are some teachers and a small group of parents that wanted her out,” said a parent. “They don’t have the children’s interest in mind. They’ve got their own ego and agenda in mind.”

Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) chose not to talk about the removal and any possible reinstatement of Butcher,

Cops are seeking this man for a litany of robberies this month in Queens he committed PHOTO COURTESY NYPD with an accomplice. fork over their phones and wallets. After that, the robbers drove off east on 26th Avenue.

They weren’t done terrorizing Flushing after the second robbery.

At 171st Street and Crocheron Avenue at about 11:05 p.m., they ambushed a 19-year-old man from behind. They put a gun in his face and told him to hand over his property.

He didn’t have any cash in his wallet.

So after the thugs took his wallet, they threw it back at him before fleeing east on Crocheron in a four-door sedan.

Anyone with information about the suspect is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (80 0 ) 577-T I PS (8 477) or 1 (888) 57-PISTA (74782) for Spanish speakers.

The public also can submit tips by logging ontonypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting 274637 (CRIMES), then entering TIP577.

Q All tips are strictly confidential. but instead wants to ensure parents that their children are in good hands.

“The assemblyman is looking forward to working with the new principal and to continuing the school’s great programs,” said Christine Stoll, Miller’s chief of staff.

For now, the superintendent’s decision will hold, but if the parents of MS 210 have anything to say about it, Butcher will be back in no time.

“We want Ms. Butcher as the Principal and it’s not fair that the kids and the parents have no say,” said a parent.

“You made this decision based on a small group of parents who say she’s bad, but what about the rest of us that Q say she’s good?”

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Skillman/43rd bike lanes in place by fall Mayor gives the green light; DOT to begin construction by next month

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The city and Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) are promising to allay the fears of residents and business owners opposed to the coming protected bike lanes on the Skillman and 43rd Avenue corridors.

Mayor de Blasio gave the green light for the project in a tweet on the morning of July 12, saying he was ordering the Department of Transportation to move forward with its plan for the bike lanes and other safety upgrades on the Sunnyside streets — a proposal that has proven controversial in the neighborhood.

The Department of Transportation said work will begin next month and be completed by fall.

“Nearly 300 people have been injured along Skillman and 43rd avenues in Queens. Two lives have been lost,” de Blasio wrote. “The DOT has listened to voices across the community. I’ve instructed them to move forward with pedestrian safety and protected bike lanes that will save lives.”

The DOT’s plan includes the elimination of 116 parking spaces, narrower traffic lanes, wider pedestrian islands, new traffic signals and redesigned intersections.

Last month, Community Board 2 voted 27-8 against the project. It also was opposed

by Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, Bronx), whlie Van Bramer had withheld his support.

But for the better part of a year, cyclists have called on the city to take action they say will save lives.

Representatives from CB 2 did not respond to emails from the Chronicle that were sent at the board’s request in a phone call. The Skillman Project, a community organization founded by area businesses, also did not respond.

“DOT’s safety redesign to calm traffic on Skillman and 43rd avenues will provide shorter and safer pedestrian crossings by installing painted pedestrian refuge islands, as well as upgraded bike routes to improve safety and mobility for cyclists commuting between Queens Boulevard and the Queensboro and Pulaski bridges,” a DOT spokeswoman said in an email. She said the DOT will be conducting post-implementation analysis which will include community feedback.

The inspiration for the plan was the April 2017 death of cyclist Gelasio Reyes, who was killed in a hit-and-run collision at 43rd Avenue and 39th Street. Another bike rider, Aaron Padwee, died in May after he collided with the suddenly opened door of a parked car and was hit by a truck on 21st Street.

“People are dying, please save them,” Macartney Morris, chair of Transportation

Supporters of protected bike lanes along 43rd and Skillman avenues in Sunnyside will get their wish by the end of fall, with Mayor de FILE PHOTO Blasio signing off on July 12.

Alternatives’ Queens Committee, told CB 2 last month.

In a statement issued Thursday, TA Executive Director Paul Steely White commended the mayor for “putting the safety of New Yorkers ahead of preserving a handful

of parking spaces.”

“This is the kind of bold leadership that is required in the age of Vision Zero,” he said.

“If we’re going to eliminate traffic deaths in New York City, we can’t allow drivers to dictate the city’s transportation policy.”

Area business owners, however, have expressed concern that their bottom lines will be severely impacted by the potential loss of parking spaces, should protected bike lanes be installed.

Van Bramer and Crowley had called on the DOT to alter the plan in order to earn their support. Van Bramer in an email said safety has always been his primary concern.

“I’ve always said that I support bike lanes and that I support protected bike lanes,” he said. “There is no question in my mind that this proposal will make 43rd Ave and Skillman Ave safer. And while there remain concerns among business owners and some residents about the plan, I respect the Mayor’s decision.

“As the local elected official, I’ll work with the Department of Transportation and the Mayor’s Office to see that the plan is implemented with the least amount of inconvenience as possible and will monitor its progress and its effect on small businesses. While this process has been difficult and painful at times, the pain felt by family members who lose Q loved ones to crashes is so much greater.”

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NYFAC gives back to cops New York Families for Autistic Children held an appreciation barbecue for officers at the 106th Precinct on July 13 at the group’s headquarters in Howard Beach.

The event was held as a way for NYFAC members to thank the officers who work and help out in their community.

Individuals in the NYFAC Day Habilitation

Without Walls program greeted the officers and served them a BBQ buffet-style lunch.

After the meal the children were able to talk to and socialize with the cops and participate in a playful game of basketball.

NYFAC was founded in 1998 to provide support, education and socialization programs to families and children with autism.

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Those who wish to sponsor the event can choose to donate any amount of money since there is no price stipulation, according to Doreen DeCandia, who has been the fundraising chair for the church for the past Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy is hosting it’s 40th annual family festival in two weeks. PHOTO COURTESY GOOGLE MAPS 15 years.

“People in the community that network with us will be featured This year the festival will also feature a throughout the festival,” said DeCandia. beer garden and a wine bar for the older “They sponsor different booths that we crowds. have.”

The money raised from the sponsorships The festival features tons of rides, will go directly to helping the school. games, food and entertainment.

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Elizabeth Crowley eyes boro prez run Ex-councilwoman joins potentially crowded field for top Queens job

by Christopher Barca Editor

Former Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley has been out of elective office for just seven months, but she’s already gearing up for what could be her next political endeavour.

In a Monday phone interview, Crowley exclusively told the Chronicle that she has formed an exploratory committee for a run for borough president in 2021 — something she is strongly considering.

“I’m from Queens. This is the borough I was born and raised in. I would bring a unique vision that extends beyond the previous boundaries of my Council district,” she said. “I’ve been out there the last few months talking to leaders throughout Queens and I’m getting a very good response. People are encouraging me.

“I haven’t decided yet, but I am humbled by the enthusiastic support.”

The former lawmaker said she formed her exploratory committee just two weeks ago, but she appears to already be in campaign mode — she attended six house parties in as many days across the borough, from Jackson Heights to Fresh Meadows and Breezy Point.

Just in recent weeks, Crowley said, she has raised approximately $100,000.

“The enthusiasm was real and strong. It’s exciting to see folks who really want to be a

part of bringing about positive change,” she told the Chronicle. “I’m someone who’s certainly approachable and someone that they can count on.”

Up until January, Crowley was the Council member for the 30th District — including Middle Village, Maspeth, Glendale, most of Ridgewood, northern Woodhaven and southern Woodside.

The first Democrat to represent the district, Crowley was edged out after nine years in office by now-Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village.)

Then the Juniper Park Civic Association’s bomb-throwing president, Holden — a Democrat running on the Republican and three minor party lines — squeaked past Crowley by a mere 137 votes in a race between two longtime rivals that often was filled with more insults and accusations than policy proposals.

After her defeat, Crowley said she was able to travel more and spend extra time with her family. But she’s also remained politically active, mostly with 21 in ’21 — an organization she co-founded that seeks to recruit and support female City Council candidates in the 2021 election.

Back in her old district, Crowley has also been busy creating an organization to advocate for the creation of the QNS Rail — her

plan to establish light rail passenger service between Jamaica and Long Island City.

“I have been able to travel more. I was never able to get away when I was in the Council — I had one of the best attendance records in the Council,” she said. “But I know I can do more in a larger way. I’m just continuing to explore the idea [of running for borough president] and I’m open to it.”

The position won’t be up for grabs until 2021 — when Borough President Melinda Katz’s second and final term ends — but Crowley has joined a growing list of names believed to be interested in the job.

In February, Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) formed a campaign committee, telling the Sunnyside Post at the time that serving as BP would be a “great honor.”

In April, Councilman Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria) raised eyebrows about a run when he hosted a fundraiser in which he was collecting donations of up to $3,850 — the maximum one can contribute to a candidate for borough president.

According to reports, other Queens lawmakers possibly eyeing the spot include Councilmembers Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) and Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton).

Others members of the City Council could potentially jump into the fray, as 10 of

Former Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley told the Chronicle on Monday that she is seriously considering a run for borough president in FILE PHOTO 2021. the borough’s 14 legislators — excluding Antonio Reynoso (D-Brooklyn, Ridgewood), who only represents a sliver of Queens — are term limited in 2021. continued on page 28

Workers to city: Help fight for our rights Consumer Affairs, Immigrant Affairs and Human Rights heads host talk

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Edith Mendoza came to this country in 2015, dreaming of a better life for her and her family.

But she soon found herself the victim of labor exploitation, toiling away up to 100 hours a week without a single day off in 18 months.

Mendoza’s story was one of many shared during a public hearing on the state of workers’ rights in New York City, sponsored by the Department of Consumer Affairs and held at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City on Tuesday.

Her contract, which called for a 35-hour work week as a nanny, was to include overtime pay and benefits.

Instead, she said, “I had to wake up at 6 a.m. and worked straight sometimes until 1 a.m. I did regular house chores and deep home cleaning,” in a six-bedroom, six-bathroom house.

Her chores, she added, included car washing, shoveling of snow and scrubbing the home’s fences.

“My health deteriorated and I still feel the impact of that today,” she said. “I was often dizzy, my eyes got blurry. I felt that I would collapse.”

She begged her employers to allow her to take a day off to see a doctor but she said she

City workers with tales of employer misdeeds spoke up on Tuesday before a forum hosted in Long Island City by Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Bitta Mostofi, speaking, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, City Commission on Human Rights Commissioner PHOTO BY MARK LORD Carmelyn Malalis and Department of Consumer Affairs head Lorelei Salas. “was refused many times and threatened to be fired. I was horrified to realize that they did not care at all.”

Mendoza said she thought of running away but “was terrified to lose my work authorization and status. I would become unable to support my family.”

As she offered testimony, along with two

dozen other low-wage and immigrant workers, she had the ears of DCA Commissioner Lorelei Salas, City Commission on Human Rights Commissioner Carmelyn Malalis and Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Bitta Mostofi.

Another statement came from Jacqui Orie, a nanny in the city for over 18 years, who

spoke of retaliation at her work place, surveillance of workers and high expectations for very low wages.

“If an employer does not get what they want, they threaten workers with a bad reference letter,” she said. “If a worker actually does stand up for themselves, they are punished by being blacklisted from getting future work ... or are threatened with police or immigration intervention.”

As a result, she said, “the vicious circle of exploitation continues.”

Orie spoke on behalf of herself and two fellow members of the Groundbreakers program, part of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, an advocacy organization founded in 2007.

Despite continued outreach, Orie said, “it is still not easy for workers to come forward.

There is no safety net.”

Domestic workers, she said, can’t afford to be fired because “the cost of living in the city is so high that any crisis can put a worker and her family at risk of losing everything.”

“We’re counting on you ... to not let this be another meeting you check off your ‘things to do list,’” Orie added.

Instead, she called for the implementation of policies and programs to “help us build dignity and value and respect in our work place.” continued on page 18

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As first reported in the New York Post, Michael Palamar, 53, is accused by Pilar Taylor of discrimination based on what she alleges were repeated instances of sexual and racial harassment while she worked for Parks from 2015 to 2017.

The 27-page complaint alleges that she had to repeatedly spurn his advances, and her complaints to super visors were ignored. She is suing Palamar and the city citing a combined eight city, state and federal statutes.

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The Post first reported in 2013 that Palamar pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 1982 in the death of Morris Rosenhaft, 83, after breaking into Rosenhaft’s home.

As the paper also reported this week, Rosenhaft confronted Palamar with a baseball bat, which he grabbed from the senior citizen before beating him to death. He was paroled after serving 16 years of a 25-year sentence.

He was kept on the job after pleading guilty in 2009 to sexually abusing a woman performing community service work in Cooper Square.

He has since been promoted to a supervisory position. City records show he makes $105,266 a year.

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“It’s overtaxing,” the latter worker said.

“So many issues are going unnoticed.”

During the follow-up open session, individuals and advocacy groups were given

the opportunity to discuss their opinions.

Marcella Kocolatos, a staff attorney with A Better Balance — a legal nonprofit that helps workers care for themselves and their families — said that “on issues such as fair scheduling, equal pay, sexual harassment and paid sick time, New York City has continued to push ahead on progressive change. Community outreach is essential to make sure workers know about their rights.”

She also called upon the city to pass legislation providing a private right of action under the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act, which provides for time off for an employee’s safety or the safety of famQ ily members.

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His allies at the campaign kickoff cheered: “John Liu! John Liu! John Liu!” He’s not the only candidate in Queens running against a former member of the Independent Democratic Conference, a band of Democratic state senators who had a power-sharing agreement with the Republicans.

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It’s official: John Liu is challenging state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) in this season’s Democratic primary race. The winner will be decided when voters cast their ballots Sept. 13.

The former city comptroller and councilman, who challenged the senator in a 2014 primary and lost by 568 votes, started gathering petition signatures with supporters last week. And they made the July 12 deadline, having gathered around 3,000 signatures — far more than the 1,000 required.

Liu joined supporters at Bell Boulevard and 73rd Avenue in Oakland Gardens last Friday to officially kick off the campaign.

“Welcome to Oakland Gardens,” the challenger said. “This is where I lived for many years, this was my old pizza delivery territory.”

The ex-comptroller said he had agreed to support John Duane, a former assemblyman who was running a primary challenge to Avella, but after he dropped out, Liu decided to jump in.

“We have seen a lot of destruction and destructive policies coming from Washington, policies that we can fight by enacting strong New York State laws,” he said.

Among those with Liu were Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan), Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows) and activists from progressive groups including Empire State Indivisible and TrueBlueNY. “I will be out here all summer with all of you, with my friend [Councilmen] Rory Lanc-

vices record and his strong voting record as a Democrat in support of women’s right to choose, paid family leave, raise the age, environmental protection, good government reform and the many important values that we as Democrats want in our elected officials.”

At the campaign kickoff, Liu criticized Mayor de Blasio’s plan to abolish the Specialized High School Admissions Exam. He also spoke in favor of the increased education funding sought by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit brought by education advocates in 2006, which argued that the state hadn’t adequately funded public schools by billions of dollars. The advocates won in 2006 and the state was ordered to pay the money, but it stopped doing so in 2008 in response to the Great Recession.

Liu said the money “has been bottled up in Albany because the Senate has refused to act.”

Unlike in the 2014 match between Liu and the senator, the Democratic Organization of Queens County is supporting the incumbent this time around.

Although he may not have the party machinery on his side, the challenger is confident.

“It’s a vastly different climate that we live in today between 2014 and now 2018,” Liu told reporters last Friday.

In addition to the Liu-Avella matchup, there’s a Republican primary match for the seat. Whitestone resident Vickie Paladino, who’s wellknown for berating de Blasio last year over his going to a protest in Germany after an NYPD officer was killed, will face off with Simon Q Minching of Little Neck.

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Bayside men in Lynch case tell their story Lawyer for one defendant: ‘The old boys’ club is taking care of their own’

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t all started with an argument.

Bayside residents Edy Garcia, 29, and Steve Gansham, 32, recall standing and having a heated discussion about LeBron James around 11 a.m. on Sunday, July 1 on 203rd Street by 50th Avenue. The latter had parked his car at the spot, which both men live near.

They also remember a man coming from inside Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch’s nearby house on 50th, walking across the street and pointing a gun at them. A young woman they assume to be the man’s girlfriend stood on the property, they said.

In many ways their retelling of events differs starkly from the allegations in a criminal complaint from the office of Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. It does not contend, as they do, that the man walked towards the young woman and gave her the gun after Gansham started filming the scenario on his phone.

Both men have been charged with seconddegree harassment and menacing for allegedly confronting the politically influential union head’s son, Patrick Jr., on the street. The pair was also charged with the same offenses for a different situation on July 10.

According to the complaint, Patrick Jr. an NYPD officer off-duty at the time of the July 1 situation, told police that the two men were arguing on the street outside his house and they were threatening to hurt each other, and Gansham pushed Garcia into the driver’s seat of the former’s car.

Gansham’s attorney, Rochelle Berliner, and Garcia told the Chronicle they were “horsing around and playfighting” and didn’t hurt or threaten to hurt one another.

Lynch Jr., according to the criminal complaint provided by prosecutors, said he went outside, held up his shield and identification.

According to the cop, he then said: “Police.

Stop. Don’t move.”

In Lynch Jr.’s version of events, his action prompted the two men to stop arguing with

each other and start threatening him.

“Shut the f--k up. F--k you. Who the f--k do you think you are? We don’t care that you’re a cop,” the men said, according to what Lynch Jr. told the NYPD. “We’ll f--k you up. Who the f--k do you think you’re dealing with?

“We’re Trinitarios. You don’t know what we to do guys like you in the Bronx.”

The Trinitarios are a gang whose members are mostly Dominican. It’s made some big headlines in the city lately.

Members of the gang were arrested for the savage June 20 slaying of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz, who was stabbed and hacked to death after being dragged out of a Bronx bodega. The NYPD reportedly stepped up its efforts against the gang after the murder.

Neither defendant is Dominican. Gansham is of Guyanese descent and Garcia is of Puerto Rican and Peruvian heritage, which are not the most common ethnicities in Bayside. The neighborhood is largely white and Asian.

Garcia and Gansham, both Bayside natives and graduates of Benjamin N. Cardozo High School, have been friends for around 20 years.

Both men have jobs and vehemently deny being in a gang.

Berliner in an interview brought up how her client is a graduate of Hofstra University who works as a civil engineer — not exactly the typical career path of a gangbanger.

Garcia told the Chronicle that he was extremely offended by the suggestion that he was a member of the Trinitarios. He lamented the Guzman-Feliz murder as tragic and brought up how he only has tattoos honoring members of his family — no gang markings on his body.

“I’ve never been affiliated with any gang my whole life,” he said.

The accusation, along with the other ones made against him, have turned Garcia’s world upside down. It’s hard to relax now, he told the Chronicle at a Bayside deli.

“They basically just threw dirt on my name,” he said, noting he doesn’t even know how to make a gang sign. “I come here all the time, this is my neighborhood. I don’t even feel

NYPD officers and vehicles stand by the home of Edy Garcia’s uncle, Jose, on July 10, when he was arrested. Jose has filed a grievance with the Civilian Complaint Review Board over how the PHOTO COURTESY JOSE GARCIA officers behaved when they came to arrest him.

The city installed a camera at 202nd Street and 50th Avenue last week after an incident involving the family of Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch. The device has lenses PHOTO BY RYAN BRADY facing his side of the avenue and the one where Edy Garcia’s family lives. comfortable leaving the house.”

A camera with two lenses — one facing the side of the street that the Lynches live on and another facing the one Edy’s uncle, Jose Garcia, lives on — was installed by the city last week.

Unlike Gansham, Garcia did not get arrested after the cops were called on them on July 1. The police let him go. But the Bayside man said he did, however, get cuffed after he went to the precinct to bring his friend a sweater on the same day.

He noted that while he was at the 111th Precinct station after being arrested, an NYPD officer from the gang unit interviewed him.

“We don’t know who you are, you’re not in the system,” Garcia recalled the cop saying.

Members of his family say the charges against him are baseless. Garcia’s uncle, Jose, and his cousin, Christian, told the Chronicle the defendant is totally innocent and not involved in any gang.

“They don’t even go to the Bronx,” said Jose, whose brother delivers papers for the Queens Chronicle. Edy has delivered them in the past.

After the “You don’t know what we to do guys like you in the Bronx” comment, Lynch Jr. told investigators, Gansham and Garcia purportedly threw hand signs in the air and started approaching him.

“Stop. Don’t move,” the union boss’ son recalled saying.

“Where’s your father? We’ll f--k him up, too,” the two men responded, the criminal complaint said.

“Step back,” Lynch Jr. said repeatedly, according to the court document.

Nonetheless, the officer said, the defendants did not stop walking towards him. Lynch Jr. said that’s when he removed a gun from the holster of his waistband and repeatedly said, “Don’t move.”

Still, the officer said, Gansham kept walking toward him and said: “Shoot me. Shoot me. You think I give a f--k about your gun?

You think you’re the only one with a gun?”

Neither man is being charged with gun possession, and both deny owning a firearm.

The two friends say Gansham was also filming the situation as it happened, which the complaint doesn’t mention at all. His attorney told the Chronicle last week that law enforcement still has the phone with the video.

“This is a pending matter that is still under investigation,” Meris Campbell, a spokeswoman for District Attorney Brown, told the Chronicle in an email. “Evidence is usually ret u r ned upon t he complet ion of a n investigation.”

Berliner told the Chronicle that her client has consented to having investigators look at his phone.

“The first arrest, I’m hopeful, will be demystified by video ... [Steven] is going to consent to have the district attorney search his phone and find the video,” the lawyer said.

Speaking to the Chronicle, Garcia recalled the July 1 incident. He says he believes Kevin Lynch — rather than his brother Pat Lynch Jr. — was the one who spoke to and pointed the gun at them.

Kevin Lynch is an NYPD officer who was stripped of his badge and gun in 2016 after not reporting a gun firing in Whitestone, when his friend accidentally shot a bullet in a truck, according to published reports. Neither the NYPD nor the PBA gave an answer to the question after the Chronicle asked if he has his badge and gun back since the incident.

“I thought we were being jumped,” Garcia said of the July 1 situation.

The man was wearing basketball pants and a white shirt, he said.

“I think he realized he was being recorded, he hides the gun behind his back, puts it behind his back,” he said, adding that the man pulled out a badge and dropped it, nervously.

Then, Garcia added, a young woman came down the stairs, went outside and took the gun from Lynch. He noted that an NYPD officer would under normal circumstances not have to worry about being seen with a continued on next page

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“He had a white shirt and basketball pants, so it’s not like he could holster it,” Garcia said, adding that the man had blue eyes. “I definitely didn’t think he was police.”

His attorney, Ramon Pagan, said he believes the video from Gansham’s phone will vindicate his client’s claim.

“The old boys’ club is taking care of their own. That’s what it comes down to,” he said.

PBA members “filled up the courtroom” when he was there for his client, Pagan said.

A PBA source who declined to be named told the Chronicle that Kevin Lynch wasn’t at the house that day.

In response to the claims made by Garcia and Gansham, the PBA president attacked their narrative in a prepared statement.

“Not one of the perps facts are correct. Pat identified himself as a police officer and took action to intervene in a violent dispute in front of our home. When confronted, the two individuals involved — both of whom have extensive criminal records — turned on Pat and made a variety of threats against him and our family,” Lynch Sr. said. “They were subsequently arrested, charged and released.

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cannot be allowed to stand. These career criminals must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Attorneys for the two defendants blasted the idea that their clients have “extensive criminal records” and are “career criminals.”

“He’s lying,” said Pagan. He noted that his client once resisted arrest for being drunk on an airplane.

Garcia admitted he was also arrested for driving with a license he didn’t know was suspended many years ago, but said the accusations of being a career criminal and having an extensive record of breaking the law were utterly ridiculous.

Similarly, Berliner called the claims a “bold-faced lie. He has one prior misdemeanor conviction from 2012. ... Being a career criminal means you’re in and out of jail and in and out of police precincts for a majority of your life.”

The complaint against the two men also brings up how they were in Gansham’s Range Rover, parked outside of the Lynch home, on July 10 around 5:50 p.m. Both defendants say Gansham was dropping Garcia off from work.

The PBA leader was at home. Both the complaint and the defendants say Lynch Sr. was filming the SUV, but their narratives diverge when it comes to the rest of the evening.

After the vehicle drove away, the union chief alerted the police about the situation.

The driver returned, the complaint said.

The union leader’s wife, Kathleen, told the NYPD that when the Range Rover returned, Gansham pointed a black gun at the house.

“They’re claiming that he went around a second time, he denies that,” Berliner said of July 10. “There was no gun there. No gun was pointed at anybody.”

Berliner said she believes the claim that there was a gun was made because after the July 1 incident, a judge dismissed a proposed order of protection against the co-defendants for the Lynches. Orders were ultimately issued for both after the July 10 arrests.

Her client has also been charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third, fifth and seventh degrees. The fifth and third-degree offenses cover the intent to sell.

On July 11, the police executed a search warrant at Gansham’s home — which he shares with his mother and grandmother.

They were looking for a gun and allegedly found 82 pills of Xanax, one of oxycodone and 30 of methadone, along with two pipes with cocaine in them found a pocket of a jacket in a closet.

“He’s prescribed Xanax and his mother, who has advancing Parkinson’s disease is also prescribed Xanax,” Berliner said. “And he’s the keeper of the Xanax for his mother and he hides it from her because back in December, I’m told by Stephen’s grandmother, she had taken too much Xanax and had a

seizure and was hospitalized for a week.”

The attorney added that she believes the police may have mistaken a different substance for methadone. She also said her client “doesn’t know anything” about the pipes found there.

Despite a gun not having turned up, Berliner said, Gansham’s mother and grandmother were kicked out of the house during the raid.

The cops also came to arrest Garcia at his uncle’s house on July 11. Around 10 police cars showed up, with the precinct’s commanding officer on the scene, he said.

Jose Garcia has filed a complaint with the Civilian Complaint Review Board about the conduct of the 111th Precinct when they were at his home.

“They said they were going to break the door,” Garcia said.

Others in his family were also upset with how the police acted.

“They pushed me, they kept touching me and pushing me on the driveway,” Jose Garcia’s daughter, Jasmine, 19, said in an interview.

Edy Garcia and members of his family also say he wasn’t read his Miranda rights when he was arrested on July 11.

The Chronicle reached out to the 111th Precinct for comment, which referred it to the NYPD’s central press office. Multiple inquiries to that office were not returned prior to Q deadline.

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City deems Jamaica field a rat problem DOHMH targets former playground deemed to be overrun by rodents

by Michael Gannon Editor

What once was a private park and playground at the corner of 109th Avenue and 171st Street in Jamaica has long been an overgrown eyesore for nearby residents.

Now it has been designated as a rat-infested danger by the city, which has laid poison in traps around the property and down holes on the lot itself.

Signs mark boxes of poisoned bait around the former playground.

“People in the apartment building across the street tell me they don’t want to go outside at night. That’s when they come out,” said Pam Hazel, a neighborhood activist, in one of two telephone interviews with the Chronicle in the last week.

The first treatment was put down on July 7, according to both Hazel and signs posted on the chain link fence around the property by the Department of Mental Heath and Hygiene.

During a visit by the Chronicle in 2013 the property, while already fenced off, had remnants of playground equipment and dilapidated but still recognizable park benches.

A visit last Friday showed the trees to have been cleared out, but that grass, brush and smaller trees have taken over all but the concrete-and-paving stone paths inside.

A handful of residents last Saturday staged a rally outside the property in an effort to draw the attention of the owners and elected officials from the area.

“People tell me the rats leave there and dig holes to come into their building,” Hazel said.

Hazel provided a copy of a court order dated July 13, 2016 authorizing the Health and Sanitation departments to enter the property — with a police escort if necessary — to address any conditions that would foster rat

The remnants of park benches have all but been reclaimed by nature in a former park on 109th Avenue in Jamaica that the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene now says has been PHOTOS BY MICHAEL GANNON overtaken by rats. infestation. City tax records state that the property now has a different owner, Regal Realty of Brooklyn. A man answering the phone at the number listed for Regal Realty hung up when contacted by the Chronicle.

A spokeswom a n for t he DOH M H acknowledged the Chronicle’s request for

information for this story but did not otherwise respond. The Chronicle sought information including what kind of community notice, if any, was enacted before the poison was set down; and whether the city has the ability to recover the cost of the exterminaQ tion operation from the property owner.

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Key Food cleans Cross Bay For the past two years Almonte’s Key Food of Howard Beach has been taking steps to beautify the largest green space area along Cross Bay Bloulevard near the South Conduit.

Every couple of months, Key Food, with help from neighborhood volunteers, collects bags of litter, dead tree limbs and grass clip-

pings under the Adopt-a-Highway program.

This past week they collected 23 bags to be picked up by the city.

“We want to give back to the community that supports us,” said Frank Almonte, owner of the Howard Beach Key Food. “This fall we will plant trees and expand our landscape maintenance.”

Northwell Health is arming some security officers for a pilot program aimed at protecting staff, patients, families and others who visit the facilities.

The initiative was rolled out in March at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, LI. It came to Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park on July 2, and South Shore Hospital in Bay Shore, LI, is set to get it next.

Ultimately, the program will be implemented throughout the whole health system.

According to Northwell — which has conducted active shooter drills in all of its hospitals and many of its outpatient facilities — some of its employees had called for stronger protection against violence.

In explaining why it launched the enhanced security effort, the health system also cited the increase in mass shootings across the country.

For the program, former and current law enforcement professionals licensed to carry a firearm in New York — and they

alone — have been issued 9 mm handguns with tamper-proof holsters.

Each security officer to whom a gun was issued underwent a rigorous internal review process.

“We have highly trained law enforcement veterans already working at Northwell facilities, so arming them is a logical and prudent action given the current climate,” Northwell Health Assistant Vice President of Corporate Security Scott Strauss said in a prepared statement.

“This additional layer of security serves as a deterrent against workplace violence and helps ensure a safe experience for our pat ie nt s , st a f f a nd ot he r s i n ou r hospitals.”

Bullet-resistant vests for all of Northwell’s security officers and visitor checkin stations, which have already been set up at some its facilities, are also part of the initiative. Additionally, turnstile barriers have been installed for the pilot program at North Shore University and Huntington hospitals, according to the health Q system.

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Obesity, depression badly besetting NYC

by Ryan Brady Associate Editor

More city residents are becoming obese and diabetic, new studies have found. And a great deal of them are dealing with depression and sleep issues.

The obesity rate among New Yorkers went from 27.5 to 32.4 percent from 2004 to 2014, a survey of adult city residents published last Tuesday in the Journal of Urban Health found.

Released with five other citywide studies analyzing different health indicators like diabetes, depression and sleep, the research was conducted by the city Department of Health and Human Hygiene and the New York University School of Medicine. The results are based on data collected in 2004 and again in 2013 and 2014 for the NYC Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

“This information is critical for physicians and policymakers to identify and address troubling trends, such as increasingly sedentary lifestyles, increases in screen time, more restaurant meals, and consumption of fewer fruits and vegetables,” Dr. Lorna Thorpe, vice chairwoman of the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health, said in a prepared statement.

The obesity increase among city residents

wasn’t as sharp as the hike nationwide from 2004 to 2014, which went from 27.6 percent to 36.6 percent of Americans overall.

Demographically, the biggest obesity increase was observed in Asians; the rate among them went from 20 to 29 percent.

But with a rate of 37 percent, blacks were found to be the most obese racial group in the city; the health issue’s prevalence among them had increased since 2004, when it was 33.7 percent. Whites were the least obese, at 28 percent, compared to 23 percent in 2004.

Researchers noticed an uptick in people opting to eat out in restaurants or order takeout rather than cook food, with the rate going from 2.7 to 3.8 meals per week, a trend the study found to correlate with the rise in obesity.

An increase in the share of Big Apple residents watching more than three hours a day of television was also discovered, from 48 to 63.5 percent.

Slightly fewer city adults were found to be getting the recommended amount of physical activity, too, the percentage dropping from 43.1 to 42.4 percent.

Big demographic disparities among those with diabetes were found in one survey. The condition was observed among 24.6 percent of Asians and only 7.7 percent of whites.

Among blacks, the number was 21.6 percent

Obesity among New Yorkers has risen in recent years, a new study has found. and for Hispanics, it was 19.4 percent.

For New Yorkers overall, diabetes was found to have increased from 13.4 percent to 16 percent.

The study found 8.3 percent of city adults — more than half a million — had symptoms of depression, with the problem most acute among Latinos and women.

In terms of sleep, 41.8 percent of people reported having trouble with it. That difficulty was found to be particularly acute among bisexual New Yorkers, with 67.3 percent of bisexual men and 60.5 percent of bisexual women having sleep problems, compared to 35.1 percent of heterosexual men and 45.1 Q percent of heterosexual women.

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Dr. Gabriel Jung of Queens Medical Associates in Fresh Meadows is one of the borough’s PHOTO COURTESY QUEENS MEDICAL ASSOCIATES leading health professionals.

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have been published in multiple medical journals, and some of the research has won Queens is a borough where hardworking him awards.

Additionally, the research company Casimmigrants thrive. Just ask Dr. Gabriel tle Connolly named Jung one of the New Jung: He’s living proof.

A native of South Korea, he immigrated York City metropolitan area’s “Top Docto New York at 11 years of age. Fast forward tors” for oncology this year and last year. to 2018, and he’s a veteran specialist in He was also identified as one of the city’s medical oncology and hematology at the best doctors in the “Super Doctors” publicahighly respected Queens Medical Associ- tion in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

When Dr. Jung is treating patients, he is ates in Fresh Meadows.

Like all of the firm’s professionals, Jung doing what he loves. Years before he had — who is fluent in English and Korean — earned a doctorate, the Korean immigrant gravitated toward the medical profession. has a rich educational background.

“I realized that I loved working with peoAfter getting a bachelor of science degree from the City College of New York’s ple and loved sciences,” he said. “Being a Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Educa- doctor bridged these passions.”

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Crowley considering BP run continued from page 16 Asked how she plans on separating herself from the potentially large pack, Crowley said she’s only focusing on what she can control for the moment.

“I think it’s way too early to compare myself to anyone else. There’s lot of time from now until then,” she said. “But I’m a Queens person through and through. I know what our borough cares most about — our families succeeding. Everyone wants to achieve that American dream.”

However, the next election for borough president could come before 2021.

In recent weeks, it has been rumored that 85-year-old District Attorney Richard Brown could step down before his term ends due to health issues.

If he were to do so, multiple sources have told the Chronicle that Katz — who is strongly considering a run for mayor in 2021 — would be interested in being appointed interim DA by Gov. Cuomo.

If Katz were to resign as borough president during the first three years of her term — she is just seven months into her second one in office — the city charter calls for a special election to fill the open seat to be held in the year in which the vacancy opens.

In the interim, Deputy Borough President Melva Miller would become BP. Asked if she had such a scenario in mind when deciding to set up an exploratory committee, Crowley said she wasn’t

aware of the Katz rumor until the Chronicle reported on it last month.

In a Monday phone interview, St. John’s University vice president for government relations and political science professor Brian Browne said it’s far too early to consider anyone a front-runner for the BP job, but that Crowley might have a good shot at winning.

“It’s not like she went off in the wilderness for a while. Clearly, she has set herself up well,” Browne said. “But there’s a lot of chess pieces that can still be moved around. I just can’t get past how early all of this is starting.”

The professor hypothesized that Miller could potentially be a strong candidate to succeed Katz, especially in a special election if she were to become DA. Regardless, Browne said he wouldn’t be surprised to see a massive Democratic primary field in three years.

“It’s a nice position that can also be a springboard for higher office,” he said. “It could be the wild, wild west in 2021.”

If she were to seek the BP spot, Crowley said, her focus would be on running her own race, not trying to outdo any competitor she may face.

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Assemblywoman Alicia Hyndman and Queens Library President Dennis Walcott welcomed some special guests on July 13 when they showed up for Story Time at the Laurelton Library.

Super Why and Princess Presto, mainstays on PBS Kids, stopped by into morning

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A little help from their friends and afternoon sessions of the library’s summer reading program to do what they do best — help young children with reading and spelling.

Above, Hyndman and Walcott read with children on their own without any help from their superhero guests.

Honoring a Flushing hero Library card means free museums The Queens Library has joined with the New York Public and Brooklyn Public libraries to launch Culture Pass. The new initiative will enable folks with library cards to get free access to 33 of the city’s top cultural institutions — so far.

The participating ones will have day passes that library cardholders can reserve online. They would then display the printed or digital pass to get free admission to a specified museum, cultural heritage site, garden, zoo, or performance venue, with the option of bringing one to three guests.

For more details, go to culturepass.nyc.

Among the Queens institutions participating in the program are SculptureCenter and the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park and the Queens Historical Society in Flushing.

Other sites throughout the city will be available for Culture Pass users. The list includes institutions in Manhattan like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and the Whitney Museum of Art. Among the other places in the program are the Brooklyn Botanic GarQ den and the Bronx’s Wave Hill garden.

Men from Catholic War Veterans Joyce Kilmer Post 1948 in Flushing stood on Saturday, July 14, to honor neighborhood native Cpl. William A. Leonard on the 100th anniversary of his death on a World War I battlefield.

They gathered at Leonard Square on Northern Boulevard at 154th Street; the plaza was dedicated to the corporal by the William A. Leonard American Legion Post 422 on Nov. 11, Armistice Day, in 1934.

Standing above from left to right are Paul Dean, Peter Weidner, Pat Longo, and Joseph Tropani, who are all members of the Catholic war veterans post, and Flushing civic leader Joseph Brostek, who served in the U.S. Air Force.

Brostek organized the July 14 commemo-

ration with Tropani, the post’s commander, and Weidner.

At 29 years old, Leonard was killed in action while fighting in Belgium. The Flushing native was buried at the Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial in Waregem, a Belgian town.

Leonard was a parishioner at St. Andrew Avellino Roman Catholic Church and a very active citizen. He was an editor of the Flushing Times and also served on the Queens Borough Public Library Board of Trustees before volunteering to join the army.

“Leonard Square is an important historical site which should be venerated. I am very pleased that this ceremony could take place,” Brostek said in a prepared statement.

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ARTS, CULTURE & LIVING

by Victoria Zunitch

Steel yourself up for Socrates’ summer sculptures World War II anti-aircraft operator and sight the planes and helicopters that zip overhead. The acrylic disk of “Untitled (dynamo),” 2018, which is also made out of wood, a generator and steel, could be imagined as a lost contact lens, grown to a freakish size and suspended at the height of a human for viewing boats, citizens or animals that cross your line of vision.

An inviting, swinging beam near urban vegetation gave a collection of school children a kinesthetic lesson in backwoods ambience on a vaguely simmering Friday.

“It’s amazing. You get to swing in the middle of, like, a forest, in nature,” said teenager Elijah Clerveaux of Astoria from his perch on the sculpture, situated as it is in front of a small stand of rustling trees.

Clerveaux and other children enjoyed swinging on “Untitled (beam) Suspended,” 2018, made of steel gantry, wooden beam and hardware, one of several of Overton’s works without keep-away ropes.

“It’s very beautiful, how they sculpt it and how nice it is,” said Jaylan Persaud of Long Island City, who was attending a company picnic for his grandfather’s business that day with his sister JorDynn Persaud, his grandmother Jenny Jabar and others.

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At best, art installations at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City hold a conversation with their surroundings. The park itself. The East River. Busy Vernon Boulevard and the nearby intersecting streets.

Sculptor Virginia Overton’s series of newly commissioned works now on display goes beyond conversation and into action, co-opting their surroundings into gigantic, agglomerated works of art.

“Untitled (Mobile),” 2018, fashioned out of a 1990 Ford F 250 4x4, a steel tank, hardware and paint, is parked with a cocky attitude near the water. The tank waves in the wind at a high dangle off the rear end.

A jagged puncture through its middle invites one to view the river through the ragged aperture, and to then turn around and spy on the park through the same peephole.

The steel trusses, angle iron and hardware of the enormous rust-colored “Untitled (gem),” 2018, despite its name, can be used to pretend you’re a

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“Period,” choreographed by Christ Schlicting, with small tectonic collisions creating a dense choreographic landscape to create a Rosetta Stone to leave to the next, better world. Thu.-Sat., July 19-21, The Chocolate Factory Theater, 5-49 49 Ave., Long Island City. $20. Info: (718) 482-7069, chocolatefactorytheater.org.

“Domingo Carrasco: Themes & Variations,” with paintings and works on paper by the Queens native that celebrate line, color and classical forms, attempting to idealize the human spirit. Sun., July 29 (opening reception 7-9 p.m.)-Dec., QED, 27-16 23 Road, Astoria. Free. Info: (347) 451-3873, qedastoria.com.

LECTURES/TALKS

“Mel Chin: All Over the Place,” with more than 70 works in various media by the conceptual artist whose art defies classification. Thru Sun., Aug. 12, Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $8 suggested; $4 seniors; free students, children.

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

Honoring the First People of Queens, a conversation on Native American history, tradition and culture with direct descendants of the Matinecocks, who lived on the North Shore from College Point to Smithtown, LI. Thu., July 26, 6-8 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. Free.

Info: (718) 463-7700, flushingtownhall.org.

“Miya Ando: Clouds,” with two site-specific glass sculptures inspired by a Zen phrase. Thru Sun., Aug. 19, Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33 Road, Long Island City. $10; $5 seniors, students; NYC HS students, kids under 12 free. Info: (718) 204-7088, noguchi.org.

Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year, with award-winning images of celestial phenomena of all kinds from all over the world, from a contest held by Britain’s National Maritime Museum. Thru Fri., Aug. 31, New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111 St., Corona. Free with admission: $16; $13 seniors, kids, students with ID. Info: (718) 699-0005, nysci.org.

“Nothing Gold Can Stay,” paintings by Ard Berge that often mix pastoral beauty with imagery of the present, revealing social and other pressures underlying change. Thru Fri., Sept. 7, QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56 Ave., Bayside.

Free. Info: (718) 631-6396, qcc.cuny.edu/artgallery.

“El Dorado/The New 49ers,” with 100 outdoor sculptures of infants (“guaguas”), 49 of them painted gold in tribute to the 49 percent of NYC households that speak a language other than English. Thru Sun., Oct. 14, Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, 34-41 137 St., Flushing. Free. Info: (718) 961-8585, latimernow.org.

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Jamaica will hum with the strains of Latino classical music Friday, when the Mariachi Juvenil, whose 32-plus performers include these 12 string players, will play a free outdoor show with special guests The Villalobos Brothers. See Music.

COURTESY PHOTO Mariachi Juvenil and The Villalobos Brothers, with 32 members of the Milwaukee-based youth group and the former child prodigies from Mexico performing Latino classical music. Fri., July 20, 5-6:30 p.m., Jamaica Performing Arts Center Park, 153-10 Jamaica Ave. Free. Info: (718) 658-7400, jcal. org/calendar, jamaicapac.org.

St. Albans Jazz and R&B Festival, the 16th annual, with Crown Heights Affair featuring William Anderson, Leon and The Peoples, Mel Holder and more. Sat., July 21, 4:30-10:30 p.m., St. Albans Park, Sayres Ave. and Merrick Blvd. Free. Info: (718) 7231800, blackspectrum.com/events.html.

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FILM

TOURS/HIKES Full Buck Moon Hike, a nighttime walk following an indoor presentation, on the night of July’s full moon, called the Buck Moon. Fri., July 27, 8-9:30 p.m., Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Center, 175-10 Cross Bay Blvd., Broad Channel. Free. Info/RSVP: (718) 318-4340, nps.gov/gate/planyourvisit.

KIDS/TEENS

Dr. K’s Motown Revue, with the cover band performing hits like “My Girl” and “Stop in the Name of Love,” part of the Katz Concert Series. Sun., July 22, 6 p.m., Springfield Park, Springfield Blvd., 184 St. and 146 Ave. Free. Info: (516) 495-4109, drksmotownrevue@aol.com, queensbp.org.

The 20th Annual Great Lawn Summer Concert at St. John’s University, with the Queen Symphony Orchestra presenting “A Midsummer’s Enchanted Evening.” Tues., July 24, 7 p.m. The Great Lawn at SJU, 8000 Utopia Pkwy. Free. Info: (718) 990-1912, communityrelations@stjohns.edu.

Wonderful World Festival, the 5th annual, with rapper Action Bronson, brass group The Soul Rebels, above, and the Afro-Chinese performance called FuArkist-Ra, all saluting jazz legend Louis Armstrong.

Sat., July 21, 4 p.m., Flushing Meadows Corona Park, just east of the NYS Pavilion. Free; $25 VIP. Info: (718) 760-0064, armstrongswonderfulworld.com.

“Stupid F---ing Bird,” a play about a love quadrangle “sort of adapted” from Chekhov’s “The Seagull,”

by Stripped Scripts with Long Island City Artists.

Thu.-Sat., July 19-21, 8 p.m., The Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46 Ave., Long Island City. $25. Info: (347) 848-0030, licartists.org.

The Controversial Legacy of Robert Moses, a presentation, followed by a walk, on the master builder’s radical alteration of NYC’s parks and roadways, and his crucial role in preserving Jamaica Bay. Sun., July 29, 10-11:30 a.m., Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Center, 175-10 Cross Bay Blvd., Broad Channel. Free. Info: (718) 318-4340, nps.gov/gate/planyourvisit.

“Sleepless in Seattle,” the 1993 romantic comedy-drama starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, about a widower and a woman who hears him talking about his loneliness on the radio. Thu., July 19, sunset, Hunter’s Point South Park, 51 Ave. and Center Blvd., Long Island City. Free. Info: cinemalic.com.

TRISTAR PICTURES

THEATRE

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“The Little Mermaid,” the musical based on a Disney film based on a Hans Christian Andersen tale about a mermaid who wants to pursue a human prince, by Broadway Blockbusters. Fri.Sat., July 20-21; Thu.-Sat., July 26-28, 8 p.m.; Sat., July 21 and 28, 2 p.m.; Sun., July 22, 3 p.m., Immaculate Conception Center, 7200 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston. $25-$40. Info: (347) 5563325, thejosephinefoundation.org.

Queensboro Dance Festival performances, one with dancers from six companies, activities including T-shirt printing and more: Sat., July 21, 2-3:30 p.m., Juniper Valley Park, Juniper Blvd. N. and 80 St., Middle Village. Other performance with four companies and live jazz band Queens Cartoonists: Tue., July 24, 5 p.m., 46 St./Bliss St. Plaza, Sunnyside.

Both free. Info/RSVP (requested): (929) 282-0620, queensborodancefestival.com.

“The Wizard of Oz” on stage, a live musical based on the beloved movie about a Kansas girl thrown into a fantasyland by a tornado, by Plaza Theatrical Productions. Tue., July 24, 11 a.m.-12 p.m., Playground for All Children, 111 St. and 53 Ave., Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Free. Info: (718) 760-6560, nycgovparks.org, danny.miller@parks.nyc.gov.

“Monsters University,” the 2013 computer-animated adventure comedy film about a monster who goes to school to become a “scarer,” harvesting children’s screams for energy; part of Movies on the Green kids’ film series. Wed., July 25, sundown, The Shops at Atlas Park, 8000 Cooper Ave., Glendale.

Free. Info: (718) 326-3300, shopatlaspark.com.

SPECIAL EVENTS Queens Library Environmental Fair, offering tips on protecting and conserving the planet’s resources. Sat., July 21, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Queens Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica. Programs and vendors will be on site. Giveaways while supplies last. Info: (718) 990-0700. continued on page 34

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Whose show is best in show? You be the judge

by Mark Lord

theater like ours to see a heck of a lot of potential partners while offering playwrights Richard Mazda aims to put on the biggest a platform,” said Mazda, the Secret’s artistic event of its kind in New York City, and director and the festival’s executive producmaybe, he said, even on the East Coast, and er. He hopes as the event grows it will attract with this year’s edition of The LIC One-Act audiences from way beyond the five borPlay Festival, he seems on his way to making oughs and participants from ever-widening artistic circles. his vision come true.

He already feels that “something’s hapRunning at The Secret Theatre through Aug. 4, the self-producing competition-style pening,” and envisions “all sor ts of festival, in its fifth season, this year encom- possibilities.”

This year’s festival showcases nearly 200 passes 48 short plays, each presented five times and running from five to 20 minutes. actors, from relative newcomers to profesThrough six different lineups, performed on sionals, including two who are featured in a rotating basis, audiences vote for each “Whistle Stop Romance,” Phil Paradis’ 1920s show, with winners in various categories to dramatic romance about a young schoolteacher who returns home, only to confront be announced at the festival’s conclusion.

“It’s literally the best possible way for a her former fiance, who tries to win her back.

Paradis, who lives in Cincinnati, appreciates that the theater is “receptive to new works,” saying, “There are some novice writers along with some polished When: Through Sat., Aug. 4, various times productions and performances.”

Where: The Secret Theatre, In his entry, the teacher is played by 44-02 23 St., Long Island City Elena Crociani, an Astoria resident of Tickets: $18 advance per night; $20 at door Greek/Italian heritage, who came to (718) 392-0722, secrettheatre.com New York three years ago to further her acting studies. She is intrigued by her qboro contributor

Justin Younts and Elena Crociani prepare mentally backstage before a performance of PHOTO BY MARK LORD “Whistle Stop Romance” in The LIC One-Act Play Festival. role, a woman she describes as “unconventional, a rebel for those days, who wanted to explore her capabilities.”

Appearing opposite her is Justin Younts, a native of Charlotte, NC, who now lives in Harlem. While traveling from Manhattan to

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A great intro to birding, weekly on Jamaica Bay

Ranger Holly Scott and birder Dan Fleshler check out birds such as a tern diving for dinner and two ospreys with PHOTOS BY STEVE FISHER their chick in a nest.

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I’m not a birder! But going on the “Birding by the Bay” walking tour at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on a recent Saturday was a wonderful experience.

For Ranger Holly Scott, it was her first time leading the bird walk, having been stationed at the park for only two recently helped band osprey chicks. months. And while she doesn’t consider On this day on which we enjoyed herself a “birder” either, she says that picture-perfect weather, Dan Fleshler she was once given a guide book on joined the walk. He has been birding birds, went on a guided tour and “I was for many years, both here in New York hooked.” She’s a passionate naturalist and in Florida. He has notes in his and quite knowledgeable. Scott proved guidebook as far back as 1970, but his to be an excellent guide along the 1.7- at titude is to “always look with a mile path through its various zones of beginner’s eye.” On our t wo-hour salt marshes and wooded forests. walk, we spot ted numerous birds, The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is including two adult ospreys and a chick 16 miles from Manhattan, or 13 miles at their nest; catbirds; red-winged as the crow flies. It is the only wildlife blackbirds; common terns fishing, lookrefuge in the National Park System. Its ing like dive-bombers ; ibises ; and primary function is to protect wildlife. egrets.

During the walk, we encountered The weekly bird walks will continue research volunteer Jordan Brown, who all summer. And whether you are a was watching for diamondback terra- birder or not, I highly recommend the Q pins, part of a 20-year study to catch, outing. measure and PIT tag the turtles in an effort to protect their eggs.

The purpose of the Saturday walks is to provide an introduction to birdWhen: Each Sat., 10-11:30 a.m., watching — identif ying species, through the end of September teaching their behaviors and recogWhere: Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge nizing their songs — to impart the Center, 175-10 Cross Bay Blvd., impor t ance of bird habit at and Broad Channel migration. There are usually as many Entry: Free. (718) 318-4340, as 15 in the group. Aside from birdnps.gov/gate/planyourvisit ing, the rangers also get to band birds to be able to track them; Scott

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‘Built’ When: Through Mon., Sept. 3 Where: Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City Entry: Free. (718) 956-1819; socratessculpturepark.org

transformed into a lotus pond with a bubbling fountain. Viewing this piece from the park side of the vehicle creates an echo chamber of nature and human artifacts. Vernon Boulevard is the backdrop, with its street signs, lights and vehicles. You’re enjoying nature from inside the park while viewing human industry’s pickup truck, but the truck holds a pond with vegetation. The pond it self, however, wa s wrought by a human.

The exhibit was a good fit for Jennifer Joseph of Philadelphia, a fan of both nature and sculpture, who saw it as a

Enjoying “Untitled (beam) Suspended,” with its swinging beam, are Kavan Henry, left; his younger siblings Ava March and Colin March; Elijah Clerveaux; Jaylan Persaud, his sister JorDynn Persaud and, standing, their grandmother, Jenny Jabar. At left is PHOTOS BY VICTORIA ZUNITCH “Untitled (Mobile).” On the cover: “Untitled (gem).” great way to interact with art. Joseph leaned about the park online while researching tourist activities for her trip

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continued from page 29 “B ui lt ,” o n disp lay now through Sept. 3, includes nine pieces in which the sculptor, “in succinct, elegant forms, often accompanied with wry humor, addresses concepts of labor, economics, and the land in today’s society,” Socrates says.

The humor in the exhibit is perhaps mos t evident with “Untitled (Late Bloomer),” fashioned from a Dodge Ram 150 pickup truck, vinyl decal, water, lotus and fountain. The truck’s hood hosts a thick black coiled hose reaching back into the cargo bed, which has been

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boro continued from page 30 Thunderbird American Indian Mid-Summer Powwow, the 40th annual, with more than 40 Native American nations represented, dance competitions, crafts, jewelry, food and more. Fri., July 27, 6-10 p.m.; Sat., July 28, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun., July 29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Pkwy., Floral Park. $10; $5 kids under 13; weekend pass $16; $7 kids. Info: (718) 347-3276, queensfarm.org.

Kayaking and canoeing, for those of all skill levels and ages (minors must have parent/ guardian present), in Hallets Cove or Anable Basin, by LIC Community Boathouse. Almost every Sun. thru Sept. 2, varying times (mostly 1 p.m.), Socrates Sculpture Park Beach, just north of 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City or LICCB launch in Anable Basin. Free. Info: (631) 5422628, licboathouse.org.

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS Pretty Pots for Pretty Herbs & Flowers, part of the Garden Creativi-Tea Art Workshops series, with participants decorating terra cotta planters to take home. Wed., July 25, 1-3:30 p.m., Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38 Ave., Flushing. $4; $10 for a family. Info: (718) 359-6227, vomuseum.org.

PHOTO BY BEN+SAM / FLICKR Nail polish workshop, welcomes kids and adults to design their own nails or have them done, 5-5:30 p.m. most Fridays at Ridgewod Library, 20-12 Madison St. Registration is not required. All polish and supplies will be provided. Info: (718) 821-4770.

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Intermediate English class, sponsored by the Flushing Jewish Community Council. Each Tue., Fri. in July and August, 10 a.m., East Flushing Library, 196-36 Northern Blvd. Free. Info/registration: (718) 463-0434.

Beginner’s Spanish, so you too can say, “Yo hablo el Español.” Each Tue., Fri., 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Kew Gardens Community Center, 80-02 Kew Gardens Road. Free. Info: (718) 268-5960.

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One-Act Play Fest continued from page 31 festival, also figuring in “Metonym,” Ellen Abrams’s comedy about the story behind the creation of Roget’s Thesaurus.

Further reflecting the festival’s variety in themes and styles are pieces such as Ben Hatt’s “Short-Sell,” a 20-minute drama about an expose on a publicly tradable company, and Johnny Culver’s “Lunchtime,” a comedy that takes only five minutes flat to tell its tale of two patrons at an eatery who conspire to get their waitress fired.

Among the rotating cast in the latter is Forest Hills resident Lauren Snyder, who had prior experience performing at the Secret.

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“Lunch Time” actresses Kinga Nowak, left, Debbie Smith and Lauren Snyder get last-minute pointers from the show’s writer and director, Johnny Culver, before PHOTO BY MARK LORD a performance.

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“It’s nice to have a real theater in Queens to perform in,” she said. “It’s nice for playwrights to try out short pieces and for actors to work with new actors and playwrights and to meet other people.”

Glendale’s Debbie Smith, Snyder’s coconspirator in the piece, appreciates the theater’s intimacy. A black box setup, it seats 99 patrons in the 3/4 round.

Mazda admitted that among the estimated 150 plays submitted for this year’s festival were some “we’re not quite sure about.”

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CITATION File No.: 20171354, SURROGATE’S COURT, QUEENS COUNTY. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK by the Grace of God, free aand Independent – TO: MARY AMMON if living and if dead, to his/her heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown and if he/she died subsequent to the decedent herein, to his /her executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and to all other heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of Jeannette S. Holz, the decedent herein, whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence, Public Administrator of Queens County, Attorney General of New York State. A petition having been duly filed

by Sheila Sheridan who is/ are domiciled at 79 Beacon Hill Road, Ardsley, New York 10502. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, on August 30, 2018, at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Jeannette Holz, aka Jeannette Sudhop Holz, Jeannette S. Holz lately domiciled at 39-40 Greenpoint Avenue, Apt. 3E, Sunnyside, New York 11104, United States admitting to probate a will dated February 16, 2012 (and Codicil(s), if any, dated a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Jeannette Holz deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that: Letters Testamentary issue to Sheila Sheridan. Dated, Attested and Sealed, June 25, 2018. Hon. Peter J. Kelly, Surrogate, James Lim Becker, Chief Clerk, Thomas A Hynes, Esq., Hynes & Chu, LLP, 114 Old Country Road, Ste 690, Mineola, New York 11501, (516) 739-3525. This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested.

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SHERIFF’S SALE BY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE SUPREME COURT - NASSAU COUNTY, in favor of SEAN E. WARD, judgment creditor, and against MOHAMMAD KABIR AND NURUNNAHAR A. SHIMUL, judgment debtors, to me directed and delivered, I WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION, by Dennis Alestra DCA# 0840217, auctioneer, as the law directs, FOR CASH ONLY, on the 8th day of August, 2018, at 1:00 o’clock in the afternoon, at: Queens County Sheriff’s Office, 30-10 Starr Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101 in the County of Queens, all the right, title and interest which MOHAMMAD KABIR AND NURUNNAHAR A. SHIMUL, the judgment debtor(s), had on the 6th day of March, 2017, or at any time thereafter, of, in and to the following properties: 104-23 102ND STREET, OZONE PARK, NEW YORK, 11417, BLOCK #9523 LOT# 58. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the easterly side of 102nd Street distant 218.93 feet southerly from the comer formed by the intersection of the easterly side of 102nd Street with the southerly side of Liberty Avenue; RUNNING THENCE easterly at right angles to the easterly side of 102nd Street and part of the distance through a partywall 58.06 feet; THENCE southeasterly 49.98 feet to a point on a line parallel with and distant 100.10 feet easterly from the easterly side of 102nd Street, the intersection of said line with the course herein forming an interior angle of 122 degrees 44 minutes 07; THENCE southerly parallel with the easterly side of 102nd with the easterly side of 102nd Street, 4 feet; THENCE westerly at right angles to the easterly side of 102nd Street 100.10 feet to the easterly side of 102nd Street; THENCE northerly along the easterly side of 102nd Street 31.02 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. JOSEPH FUCITO, Sheriff of the City of New York; DEPUTY VANESSA CORDERO, CASE# 18020437.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT QUEENS COUNTY HSBC BANK USA, N.A., Plaintiff against AEHUI S. KIM A/K/A SHIA AEHUI KIM, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein, Such & Crane, LLP 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800, Rochester, NY 14614 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Entered March 27, 2017 I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at the Queens County Supreme Court, 88-11 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, New York 11435, in Courtroom #25 on August 10, 2018 at 10:00 AM. Premises known as 5826 85th Street, Elmhurst, NY 11373. Block 2897 Lot 17. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York.

Approximate Amount of Judgment is $733,045.19 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 4609-2010.

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CB 5, pols push a Guilty plea in 2017 Queens robbery spree Ridgewood rezone A Jamaica man is facing seven years to life in prison after pleading guilty to multiple robberies and conspiracy last week.

Sean Jack, 36, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court to seven charges in the one-week spree according to a statement released by the office of Richard Donoghue, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

“As he has now admitted, Sean Jack participated in numerous armed robberies including one in which an employee of a gas station was pistol-whipped,” Donoghue said.

“Combatting gun-related crime is a priority of this Office and, together with our law enforcement partners, we will work tirelessly to prosecute criminals like the defendant who terrorize hard-working citizens of our community,” he added.

The crimes originally were investigated by the NYPD. All the robberies took place in Queens between Sept. 24 and Oct. 1 of last year.

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The final robbery took place the next day at a Sunoco gas station at 243-02 South Conduit Ave. in Rosedale.

The original eight-count, seven-page indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury last Oct. 16, also charged Jack with brandishing and knowingly possessing a firearm during a crime of violence.

Authorities said each of the robberies followed the same pattern, wherein Jack and another person would enter a store or gas station and shop for various items.

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Work slated for 1664 Woodbine St. highlights need for change, they say

by Christopher Barca Editor

Ridgewood has long been thought of as one of the next neighborhoods in the city to face a gentrification crisis.

Some activists in the area point to new, trendy bars, event spaces and residential developments and say one is already here.

But Community Board 5 and a pair of elected officials are looking to stem the tide of gentrification, while protecting some of the neighborhood’s more historic, aesthetically pleasing blocks.

Last Wednesday, the board unanimously passed a resolution demanding a moratorium on any construction that requires Department of Buildings approval in order to build higher than other structures on uniformed blocks.

Some area leaders have called for similar moratoriums for years, but the motivation for this specific request is the planned expansion of a three-story residential building at 1664 Woodbine St. In that case, developer SLJ Management wants to build an additional two stories and six residential units onto the six-dwelling home — all the attached residential structures on Woodbine Street and many of the surrounding blocks are of identical design and stand just three floors tall.

SLJ Management — which bought the property in 2015 for $1.4 million — did not respond to a request for comment by press time on Wednesday.

According to CB 5 Land Use Committee Chairman Walter Sanchez, the renovation of 1664 Woodbine St. would “really destroy the character” of the block.

“Our function at the community level is about character — character of a block, character of a neighborhood,” Sanchez said.

“When developers come in ... they don’t care.

At times, the Department of City Planning encourages development.”

Fellow CB 5 member Ted Renz, who also serves as the executive director of the Ridgewood Local Development Corp., said 1664 Woodbine St. is located within one of the neighborhood’s federally designated historic districts. However, the area has not been designated as a landmarked district by the city.

If it were, development would not be permitted.

He and the board are looking to change that, however, as members of the advisory council have recently met with officials from City Planning to discuss downzoning swaths of the neighborhood.

Legally, the 1664 Woodbine St. development — located in an R6B residential district with a C4-3A commercial overlay — would be 54 feet tall, the maximum allowable height, and can be built as of right.

What Renz and others want to see is that

Community Board 5 Land Use Committee Chairman Walter Sanchez, left, speaks on the advisory council’s push to have parts of RidgePHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA wood rezoned. limit be lowered to 40 feet to match the other buildings in the area.

“That will totally disrupt and destroy the architectural integrity of that block,” Renz said of the proposed development.

To “support and fully endorse” CB 5’s argument, Assemblymembers Cathy Nolan (D-Long Island City) and Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) sent a letter to Mayor de Blasio last Friday, asking him to consider the “outrageous situation in Ridgewood” and get back to the board with an answer.

“Any approval of this unsafe, out of context destruction of our community would be wrong,” the letter reads, “and we would urge your agency to assist us in stopping this destruction.”

There is some hope for a positive resolution, however. Sanchez said the board’s early meetings with DCP officials have been positive, adding that a downzoning of Ridgewood appears to be possible.

“We got a very good indication from [DCP’s Queens director] John Young that they were really inclined to get this done,” he said. “That’s a very good sign. I think this will get done.

“They’re in the process of studying our request,” he added. “But in the meantime, we think Ridgewood is really in play. There aren’t many places in the city that are in play as Ridgewood is right now, where a developer can come in, take advantage of the zoning and really destroy the character of that particular block.”

The office of Councilman Antonio Reynoso (D-Brooklyn, Ridgewood), the lawmaker whose district includes 1664 Woodbine St., did not respond to a request for comment by Q press time.

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Roy Campanella called St. Albans home in the ’50s

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Born to a Sicilian father and an AfricanAmerican mother, Roy “Campy” Campanella was a star catcher in the Negro Leagues for years. But it wasn’t until one season after Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947 that Campanella deservingly made his Brooklyn Dodgers debut.

In 1949, he made $12,500 playing ball, which enabled him to buy a stately home at 114-10 179 St. in the upscale section of Addisleigh Park in St. Albans.

The home was enjoyed by his wife, Ruthe, sons Roy Jr., Tony and John and daughters Ruthe De Payton and Joan. He also adopted a son named David.

By 1956, he was making $42,500 a year, which afforded him to buy a new home on Long Island’s North Shore in Glen Cove. His salary, along with product endorsements, gave him plenty of income to live a comfortable life.

However, his career came to an abrupt end in Januar y 1958, when his car flipped over on an icy Glen Cove road.

Roy “Campy” Campanella in the backyard of his home at 114-10 179 St. in St. Albans with his daughter Ruthe DePayton, 2, left, and sons Roy Jr., 7, and Tony, 5, in July 1955.

The accident left him paralyzed for life.

Even though he would never take the field again, he was given a raise to $50,000 for the 1958 season, the final year of his contract. Nine years after he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Campanella moved to California in 1978 to work for his beloved Dodgers.

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by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

It would be a vast understatement to merely describe Mets infielder Jose Reyes’ season as disappointing. His batting average is way under .200 and age seems to have caught up with his once very speedy legs. He doesn’t steal as many bases nor does he get to ground balls as quickly as he once did.

A lot of Mets fans who call sports talk radio shows and post on social media are demanding the team release him. Adding to their argument is that the Mets have an infielder at their top minor league team in Las Vegas named Jeff McNeil who is tearing the cover off of the baseball.

The Mets shouldn’t cut ties with Jose Reyes.

Now before you go for the pitchforks and torches, hear me out.

I would be far more inclined to go along with the “Jose has to go!” sentiment if the Mets had even a remote chance of making the playoffs this year, but that doesn’t appear to be the case at the All-Star Game. With the season basically lost the Mets have nothing to lose by letting one of their most popular players of all time finish out the year, and probably his career, on his own terms.

In his defense, Jose had a horrible first half in 2017 but became one of the Mets’ best hitters in the second half and that earned him a

contract for 2018. With nothing left to lose, the Mets should see if lightning can strike twice.

The aforementioned McNeil will be called up when the team trades free agent-to-be infielder Asdrubal Cabrera to a pennant contender or in case of an injury to an infielder, which is a frequent occurrence for the Mets.

From a media perspective, Reyes is always at his locker ready to chat or answer questions during the pregame media access time. Trust me, a lot of players go to great lengths to eschew that responsibility.

Juan Soto, the personable young star outfielder for the Washington Nationals, gave more interviews to the New York media in one weekend at Citi Field than Yoenis Cespedes has done in three years.

Soto’s teammate, Michael Taylor, was thankful that the Nationals’ last game before the AllStar break was played in Queens. Whereas most players either return to their off-season homes or stay in the cities in which the play, Taylor wanted to do something a bit more exotic.

Realizing that Citi Field is close to JFK Airport, Taylor booked an Icelandair flight to Reykjavik for him and his girlfriend. He was planning to spend four days at Blue Lagoon Geothermal Resort before returning Q to Washington.

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• Hi-rise, 2BR, 1 bath & terrace Co-op, move-in cond., 1st fl., parquet wood fls. ............ Asking $229K • Hi-rise, 1st floor Co-op, 2 BR/2 bath, HW fls. ........... Asking $249K • Hard to find Hi-rise, 3BR, 2 full baths Co-op, totally redone building. ........ Reduced $264K RENTAL • 3BR apt with parking spot, new wood fls & appl., heat & hot water, cathedral ceilings. .................. $2,300/Mo. IN CONTRACT • 1 bed Co-op. Totally updated, new kitchen. ..........Reduced $139K • 2BR/2 bath Co-op. Hardwood floors, S/S appls. Updated bath. ........ Asking $249K • Hi-rise – 2BR / 2 bath, Co-op w/17' terrace, ........ Asking $259K • Hi-Rise 2BR/2 bath Co-op w/ terrace. Needs TLC. ........ Asking $272K • Garden 1st floor, lg mint, 3 BR, S/S appl., HW fls throughout, new bath, lg custom closets.

Asking $289K

• Greentree condo. 3rd fl. vaulted ceiling, kitchen w/ skylight, 3BR, 2 baths, 2 terraces, park & garage. ......... Asking $379K CONR-074228

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"Totally Redone Colonial" 2018 mint large chef's kitchen. SS appl., 2 full baths, 3 bedrooms upstairs with walk-in closet, master bedroom has large full bath with Jacuzzi & separate shower, 1st floor has living room, dining room & bedroom or den. All new hardwood floors with radiant heat on 1st & second floors. New electric, windows & door Asking $898K

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Exclusive listing Lovely corner Colonial, 4 BRs, 2 full baths, 40x100, MB w/ balcony, family room w/ woodburning fireplace.

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2 family in the heart of Ridgewood, newly remodeled first floor, new windows, new front door, new hot water heater, 2 blocks from Fresh Pond Rd. Asking $1.2 mil

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MI MINT UNIQUE home in great location. Large 4 level split home, featuring 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, large master bedroom with large dressing room and 2 walk-in closets.

Beautiful kit & baths, finished basement, and many extras.

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Colonial. Being sold "As Is." Renovated after Sandy, 3 BRs, 1 bath.

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JOHN DIBS Broker⁄owner

OZONE PARK

WOODMERE

KEW GARDENS HILLS

1 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $699,000 Contact Sarah Newcomb for more information 917-459-7549

2 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $1,100,000 Contact Milady Fernandez for more information 917-686-4595

Co-op for Sale PRICE: $238,888 Contact Sarah Newcomb for more information 917-459-7549

OZONE PARK Commercial Property for Sale PRICE: $2,500,000 Contact Rene Rose for more information 718-810-0293

BROOKLYN

BROOKLYN

HOWARD BEACH

HOWARD BEACH

Commercial Property for Sale PRICE: $1,999,000 Contact Rene Rose for more information 718-810-0293

Commercial Property for Sale PRICE: $1,490,000 Contact Rene Rose for more information 718-810-0293

1 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $849,999 Contact Carolyn DeFalco for more information 917-208-9176

1 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $749,999 Contact Carolyn DeFalco for more information 917-208-9176

OZONE PARK

JAMAICA ESTATES

KEW GARDENS

1 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $669,998 Contact Carolyn DeFalco for more information 917-208-9176

1 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $1,400,000 Contact Valerie Shalomoff for more information 646-533-8142

Co-op for Sale PRICE: $275,000 Contact Valerie Shalomoff for more information 646-533-8142

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RICHMOND HILL

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Commercial Property for Sale PRICE: $1,579,888

Sunday, July 22

Contact Chatter Singh for more information 646-354-0799

1:00 - 3:00 pm 83-75 Woodhaven Blvd.

BROOKLYN

WOODHAVEN

JAMAICA

1 Family Home for Sale PRICE: $1,589,000 Contact Valerie Shalomoff for more information 646-533-8142

Co-op for Sale PRICE: $215,000 Contact Max Levy for more information 917-254-5420

Commercial Property for Sale PRICE: $2,399,888 Contact Chatter Singh for more information 646-354-0799

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Co-op for Sale PRICE: $290,000 Contact Valerie Shalomoff for more information 646-533-8142