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RAJKUMAR WINS BIG

Insurgent topples Assemblyman Mike Miller PAGE 4 Absentee ballots show Jenifer Rajkumar leading the incumbent. She would be the first South Asian woman elected to the New York State Legislature if she wins in November.

BEAUTIFYING THE BRIDGE Residents clean up trash-strewn Addabbo span

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Buy you a drink? Only with dinner — Cuomo Guv orders bars to not serve alcohol alone as crowds add to virus concerns

by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

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gain exerting his extraordinary power over private businesses in order to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, Gov. Cuomo last Thursday ordered a halt to all sales of alcoholic beverages at bars and restaurants in New York City unless a customer is also buying food.

No one may stand at a bar to place an order either, Cuomo said.

All orders must be made when seated. And they must be for an actual meal — a little snack does not count.

“No food? Then no alcohol,” Cuomo said during a media event.

The governor also declared a “three strikes and you’re out” rule for violations of mask-wearing or social-distancing rules at establishments in the city. Any bar or restaurant with three violations will be closed, he said, and if the wrongdoing is bad enough, it won’t even take that many for liquor license revocation.

Public shaming will be used too — “any establishment facing disciplinary charges by the State Liquor Authority will have its name and location posted publicly and updated on a weekly basis,” Cuomo’s office said in an announcement.

Cuomo said there has been a problem with bars and restaurants in the city complying with social-distancing rules designed to thwart COVID-19, prompting the new regulations. Crowds have been seen standing outside them, with many people unmasked as they drink. On Steinway Street in Astoria, the new rules appeared to have been widely flouted over the weekend, as videos posted to social media showed crowds partying and blocking the roadway with little regard for masking or social distancing [see separate story in some editions or at qchron.com].

“New York City, we let bars and restaurants open for outdoor

Gov. Cuomo sent municipalities a message regarding crowd control during his Monday press event on the continuing coroNYS SCREENSHOT navirus threat. service on June 22,” Cuomo said Thursday, before the events in Astoria. “There is significant evidence of failure to comply. The State itself has looked at over 5,000 establishments in downstate New York and found many cases of a failure to comply. It’s wrong. It’s dangerous. It’s selfish. It’s unacceptable.”

It’s also illegal, he continued, leading to the new “three strikes” rule. And he said local governments and their law enforcement personnel must enforce the law.

“I understand enforcement is not politically popular,” Cuomo said. “I’ll tell you what’s less politically popular: if we have to close down a region because compliance wasn’t done. That would be less politically popular.”

When asked about the governor’s order at a media event later Thursday, de Blasio said, “[F]irst of all, I respect the State’s decisions in the middle of this crisis. And in terms of what impact it might have on jobs, I think it’s important that we hear from the restaurant community on that. Obviously, that is a concern. But

what I want to emphasize is, overwhelmingly, restaurants and bars in New York City have been in compliance.”

The NYC Hospitality Alliance, a restaurant and bar trade association, is not raising a glass to the governor’s move. “Prohibiting people seated at a table from having a beer on a hot summer day unless they order food is counterproductive,” Executive Director Andrew Rigie said in a prepared statement, also issued before the weekend. “People will simply gravitate to stoops, streets and parks with open containers creating less safe conditions elsewhere. Businesses need to be responsible for the activity on their property, but staff certainly can’t be deputized to police the streets. It jeopardizes workers’ safety and subjects businesses to incredible liabilities for behaviors out of their control.”

On Monday, Cuomo reiterated both how well New York had done in getting the virus under control and the threat that partying such as that seen in Astoria over the weekend poses.

“We did the impossible as New Yorkers — we stepped up and conquered the COVID-19 virus and now we have to protect the progress that we have made,” he said in a prepared statement.

“One of the main threats to our progress is the number of congregations that we’re seeing across the state, but especially in downstate, primarily of young people, and we saw it again over the weekend. It is a problem, and I’m telling you in plain New York speak that it’s stupid and it has to stop.”

During a briefing on the virus, he put one message on screen that said, “Partiers: Knock it off. DON’T BE STUPID!” and another that said, “Local governments and police departments: DO YOUR JOB!” Also speaking Monday, de Blasio said the crowding seen in Astoria was “real troubling” but that the problem is not wideQ spread.

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Residents make clean sweep of Addabbo Br. Howard Beach women tackle trash on gateway to their neighborhood

by Michael Shain Chronicle Contributor

More than a dozen women from Howard Beach took a morning off last week to clean up the chronically trash-strewn Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Bridge — and got so much love for it, they are planning on doing again.

“My friends and I walk over that bridge every morning and we started talking about what we could do,” said Gina Barillaro, a teacher from Old Howard Beach.

“It’s like the third world over there, there’s

Many hands made for lighter work on the Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Bridge.

so much trash.”

When they got home, they pulled out their calendars and began looking for a date when all of them were free.

That date turned out to be July 16 — though one of the friends had to take a day off from work to make it.

“Then I said let’s see if we can get other people to join us,” said Barillaro.

Notices on Facebook pages Howard Beach Moms and Howard Beach Uncensored attracted a few more volunteers and a sponsoring neighbor, Phyllis Infante, who donated money for cleaning products.

PJ Marcel, a community activist, donated the bags and state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) sent over cases of water, Barillaro said.

At 7 a.m. last Thursday, 13 volunteers showed up. They split up into two teams, each working one side of the bridge.

Fisherman on the span offered the volunteers money to go buy themselves coffee. “They thought we were on parole or something,” she laughed. “Why else would anybody be doing that?”

Four hours and scores of bulging garbage bags later, the women dragged themselves home. “We were exhausted,” Barillaro said, “but the end result was beautiful.”

That’s when the Facebook pages started lighting up. People who cross the Addabbo Bridge regularly started noticing that it was, for the first time in recent memory,

Volunteers Jodi Luloff Silver, left, Patty Arena, Lauren Jaeger, April Anello, Rachele Ambrosino, Gina Barillaro and Vincenza Conners were tired of walking past trash and litter on the Joseph Addabbo Memorial Bridge. Last week, they donned masks and gloves along with other residents PHOTOS COURTESY GINA BARILLARO and conducted a full-scale cleanup. spotless and began posting messages of gratitude.

“What an amazing thing to do,” read a Facebook post on Howard Beach Moms from Susan Shearin. “Don’t know who they are but wanted to say THANKS!!!”

Litter on the bridge has been a chronic problem for years, if not decades.

The trash is usually blamed on the

scores of daily fisherman who cast their lines into Jamaica Bay off the span’s walkways or from the shorelines at the approach to the bridge on Cross Bay Boulevard.

The bridge and its approaches are under three different jurisdictions — the U.S. Park Ser vice and the st ate and cit y continued on page 20

More insurgents claim primary wins In Assembly races, progressive wave continues to sweep the borough

by Max Parrott

election is Nov. 3.

Rajkumar, an Indian-American lawyer Absentee counts are proving a repeat of from Woodhaven, came out with 3,624 votes to Assemblyman Mike Miller’s (D-Woodthe blue progressive wave of 2018.

As of Wednesday night, the absentee bal- haven) 1,469 total.

Rajkumar’s apparent win in Assembly lot count yielded several more victories for insurgent Democratic primary candidates for District 38, which stretches over Woodhaven, Assembly across western and southern Ridgewood, Richmond Hill, Ozone Park and Glendale, would make Queens. her the f i rst South P rog ressive chalAsian woman to be lengers Jenifer Rajkuur campaign had been elected to the state Legmar, Jessica Gonzálezislature. She noted that Rojas a nd Zoh ra n able to achieve the her campaign came out Mamdani each near impossible...” on top in every single claimed victory over election district, and incumbents, based on — Jenifer Rajkumar that she won by the unofficial counts. The largest margin of any outlier to the trend is sen ior A ssembly member Jef f Aubr y Assembly candidate in the election cycle.

“Our campaign had been able to achieve (D-Corona), who was able to expand his lead over challenger Hiram Monserrate in the near impossible by winning with a margin of 27 percentage points during a global the aftermath of election day.

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Jessica González-Rojas, left, Zohran Mamdani, Jenifer Rajkumar and state Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry all appear to have won their Democratic primary races in Queens. The first three beat COURTESY PHOTOS, LEFT AND CENTER RIGHT; FILE PHOTOS incumbents in the Assembly. show up, setting up a 24/7 Coronavirus response team that operates in seven languages,” said Rajkumar. “As President John F. Kennedy once said: ‘The life of service is a constant test of your will.’”

In Astoria-based Assembly District 36, Mamdani, a socialist housing advocate, announced on Twitter that he won the Democratic primary by just over 300 votes, according to an internal tally by his campaign.

His apparent win would make Mamdani, an Indian-Ugandan New Yorker, the first South Asian man to be elected to the state Legislature. There is no one registered to run against the Democratic nominee in the November general election.

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Field to succeed Eric Ulrich widens Candidates both old and new vie for District 32 Council seat

by Max Parrott

the police, Scala said that he didn’t want to talk in broad strokes yet.

“I think fighting for common sense Four Democratic candidates have startreforms is supporting the police, right, and ed eyeing the race to succeed Queens’ sole giving them the tools to do their jobs more Republican Cou ncilman, Er ic Ulr ich equitably and fairly should be looked at as (R-Ozone Park), who will be term-limited support,” Scala said. out of office at the end of 2021.

The recent discourse over disinvesting The field for District 32, which stretches from the Police Department is another over the west part of the Rockaways up point of difference between Singh and through Howard Beach, Ozone Park and Alamarie. parts of Woodhaven and Richmond Hill, is Singh said she thought it was important a combination of both new and recurring to explain to constituents that defunding candidates, and so far the new blood has does not mean taking away all funding, but come out of the gate ahead.

So far the most financially viable, Feli- Felicia Singh, left, and Kaled Alamarie announced campaigns for the Council seat. Mike Scala, she does support asking for $1 billion to be cia Singh is a 10th-grade teacher and activ- center right, and Lew Simon have expressed interest. COURTESY PHOTOS, LEFT, CENTER LEFT / FILE PHOTOS allocated in social services, noting that the mayor’s July budget did not do that. ist, who has raised a total of $19,633 for Alamarie, whose brother is a strategic T hen there’s Dist r ict Leader Lew ties, they have different approaches to their her campaign. planner for the NYPD, disagreed.

But she’s not the only one who has been Simon, who has run unsuccessfully for the respective campaigns.

“Reforming the police is the way to go, “I’m running to empower our communifundraising. Kaled Alamarie is a city plan- seat three times, and has also expressed ner with the Department of Environmental interest in throwing his hat in the ring a ty, especially our community that hasn’t not defunding them. Maybe bringing them been seen before. And hasn’t felt like they more money in terms of sensitivity trainProtection, who has raised $18,782 for his fourth time. ing, or cultural training. And this is what Singh and Alamarie both are running on were important,” said Singh. campaign.

She has previously said that the racial you really want to focus on,” he said.

Another possible candidate, Mike Scala, platforms that focus on education reform, The political fight over the NYPD buda Howard Beach attor ney, has raised housing affordability and environmental fault lines running through the district are $5,530 so far. Scala, who ran unsuccessful- justice, and they both have professional among her reasons for running, noting that get last month attracted the attention of ly against Ulrich in 2017, created a cam- specialization that pertains directly to one she sees the path to turn the seat from red thousands of New Yorkers, who got to to blue lies in activating the Indo-Caribbe- watch the Council debate the budget in paign committee with the Board of Elec- of their policy planks.

Both characterize themselves as pro- an, Latino, Bangladeshi and Punjabi com- real time over Zoom. tions for 2021, but unlike the first two, has Alamarie said that his experience worknot formally announced his intention to gressives. Both also were born and raised munities that live in the northern part of ing in city government distinguishes him in Ozone Park. But beyond those similari- the district. run.

When Alamarie, who’s Yemeni-Ameri- from the other candidates.

“Now, if you have somebody inexperican, was asked about his ethnic background, he stressed that his connection to enced... that has not been exposed to how the district is more based on his growing cities run, how you negotiate with the budget office, we will up there. be left behind,” he “My background said. might be YemeniSingh said that Americans, but I hile two Democratic she had been grew up in Queens. candidates are first-timers, t h i n k i n g a l o t I played baseball, I about the budget. pl aye d h a n d b a l l two other familiar faces “When I think g row i ng up, d id Queens, undocumented

by Max Parrott about the budget, I what a n average immigrants make up 16.9 Associate Editor are waiting in the wings. thin k about how New Yorker will percent of the total immigrant Queens lawmakers are up we spend ou r do,” said Alamarie. population, the second-highin ar ms against President Alamarie said that his idea of progres- money in regards to education in particuest figure of all the boroughs.

Donald Trump’s move Tuessivism means supporting social reform lar,” she said.

Rep. Grace Meng day to sign a presidential She would like to reapportion money to based on “progress and advance within (D-Flushing) announced that memorandu m that would the education budget to spend on guidance science and technology.” she will introduce legislation exclude undocumented immi“Technology is really my platform, as counselors and social workers. Instead the to block the effort. grants from being counted in well as work on economic developments in city got a hiring freeze for teachers, she “President Trump’s unconcongressional districts as said. the area,” he said. stitutional attempt to count they are redrawn next year.

Simon pointed out that in Ozone Park Scala, on the other hand, painted his some people instead of ALL Census data determines candidacy in more moderate terms. In his there is a desperate need for an increased how many seats each state Q u e e n s p o li t i c ian s people for reapportionment private practice as an attorney, he said he police presence. He said that his platform receives in Congress and how d e e m e d P r e s i d e n t will fail just like his unsuchas done some good government work to would center on economic development. funding is allocated. State Tr ump’s new policy cessful attempt to add a citi“I consider myself to be a pit bull and I improve ballot access, while also working zenship question to the 2020 At tor ney General Letitia unconstitutional. with neighborhood groups to fight the con- love raising money,” Simon said.

James immediately respondFILE PHOTO Census,” said Meng.

While the Democratic field is looking struction of a new homeless shelter in Councilman Daniel ed by calling the memoranlike it could get crowded, Republican canRockaway Park. dum illegal and announcing her intention Dromm (D-Jackson Heights), whose dis“I think it’s important that we have didates have to step up to carry on Ulrich’s trict has an exceptionally large immigrant to challenge it in court. someone who can bring people together legacy as the sole patch of red among the “We beat the president before in court, population, called the action “little more Queens councilmembers. and focus on a platform of unity,” he said. and we’ll challenge him once again on the than a campaign stunt.”

Queens County GOP Chairperson Joann Unity, to Scala, means focusing on “President Trump’s action is not just census,” said James. transportation and building police-com- Ariola, who lives in the district herself and The action would carry significant con- immoral; it is unconstitutional,” said m u n i t y r e l a t i o n s , a r e a s w h e r e h e is currently running on the Republican sequences in New York City, where the Dromm. “When it comes to the United believes const it uents f rom d if ferent ticket for borough president, said that she population consists of 5.7 percent undocu- States Census, the Constitution’s mandate par ts of the ideological spectr um can wasn’t ready to announce any candidates mented immigrants, according to the is clear: Everyone residing in the U.S. Q yet, but that she knew of several who were find agreement.

Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. In must be counted.”

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State policy lifts lockdown of over 100 days for group home residents

by Max Parrott Associate Editor

Until Monday, Ozone Park resident Blanca Lopez had not been able to visit her nonverbal autistic son who lives at a group home in Queens Village in-person for over three months.

She’s one of many relatives and loved ones of New York’s developmentally disabled in that position. Relatives were forced into limbo when Gov. Cuomo limited access to hospitals, nursing facilities and group homes to contain COVID in mid-March.

Many in that community had essentially been under lockdown without any policy or plan to allow them to see their family members or the outside world until July 10 when the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities finally issued guidance to unpause for day programs, community outings and home visits for group homes, which resumed in New York City on July 20.

The policy gave Lopez an answer to her prayers, but it didn’t happen out of nowhere. It took an eight-week intensive advocacy campaign on the issue by the New York Alliance for the Developmentally Disabled, a coalition of advocates for the community that formed in response to what they saw as a potential civil liberties violation.

“It was just a bonanza. That was everything

that we were fighting for, solved in one day,” NYADD spokesperson Russell Snaith said, describing the day the agency released its guidance.

“But now it parses out to the agency. So our goal now is to monitor and to apply pressure, to get consistency and compliance across the state,” said Snaith.

For more than a month Lopez had been hounding the CEO of Innovative Resources for Independence, the facility where her son Gabriel Anthony Natal lives, to help her find a way to visit her son. She was concerned that the abrupt stop of her regular visits to her son at his home IRI would leave him with mental trauma.

Before the July 10 guidance, Gov. Cuomo announced that hospitals and group homes would be allowed to accept visitors at their discretion. But without an order from the state, many group home service providers just found it to be too much of a liability to open their doors to family members.

Lopez repeatedly texted the CEO, Gilbert Louis, to opt into the program, but he was firmly against it.

“The risk to a life is not worth a visit or an outing that lasts 10 minutes,” Louis said. “We got together with our clinical team and we determined, and I can’t get into the specific cases, we made a determination based on underlying conditions. We know the rates of

Blanca Lopez had grown increasingly distressed about her son Gabriel Anthony Natal’s COVID lockdown at his group home.

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people with hypertension, coronary diseases, dementia or are obese. They are at significant outcomes when it comes to the coronavirus,” said Louis.

Before the OPWDD released its guidance, NYADD was considering class action lawsuits.

Without a government policy in place, parents became increasingly concerned about their loved ones’ legal rights.

“Are you ever going to let them out? What happens if another wave comes? What happens when flu season comes? Are you going to keep these people locked up until there’s a vaccine?

That becomes a violation of human rights,” said Snaith.

When the OPWDD issued its guidelines, the agency essentially turned the focus off of itself.

It’s now on individual groups homes like IRI to decide how they will comply.

Snaith now said that NYADD’s efforts have turned into a case-by-case battle. He estimated that while most group homes are compliant, maybe 20 percent are either lagging behind in allowing visits and outings or they just haven’t acted.

He said advocacy now means monitoring overall compliance among NYADD’s members and possibly creating a scorecard for the group homes that are dragging their feet.

Lopez did her own monitoring when she visited IRI on Tuesday.

When she arrived at IRI, Lopez was temperature checked and given a new mask to wear before she could enter the building to spend time with her son in the backyard. She said that the visit went well, and hopes to make it a reguQ lar ocurrence.

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P Cuomo’s latest rule might drive you to drink

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ne of the most profitable things in the restaurant industry is alcohol. Eateries that sell drinks generally make 20 to 30 percent of their income that way. Alcohol has a longer shelf life than food, the markup on it is higher and servers are generally paid less than kitchen staff.

Restaurateurs, who face more challenges than just about any small entrepreneur, need alcohol sales to stay in business.

That’s especially true in the age of the coronavirus, when sit-down dining indoors has rightly been banned and eatery owners are struggling to make ends meet by parking people where they had been parking cars just a few weeks ago. (It’s a fickle thing. As this is being written, thunderstorms are rolling through Queens. There goes tonight’s business.)

And yet, alcohol sales at restaurants are now being severely limited in order to help keep the coronavirus from surging through the city again as it spreads like wildfire in parts of the country that did not suffer the way New York and neighboring states did back in March and April.

The fault for this lies with many people: the party punks who have been crowding the sidewalks and streets outside of bars on hip strips like Steinway Street in Astoria and Austin Street in Forest Hills; the befuddled Mayor de Blasio, who

has been unable or unwilling to deploy police in the manner needed to break up the crowds and keep the streets open; and Gov. Cuomo, who saw all this happening and issued the draconian order that bars alcohol sales in the city unless accompanied by food — in his mind a real meal, not just a snack.

Cuomo doth bestride the narrow state like a Colossus, exercising extraordinary powers over private affairs, issuing orders as he sees fit and changing the rules as he goes, all to thwart the deadly virus. The petty men and women of the state Legislature have neither the will nor the means to stand up to him. And how could they? To say that any measure taken against COVID-19 goes too far is to be labeled a Trumpian Neanderthal in this town, where, incidentally, two Queens moderates and one liberal in the state Assembly just this week conceded their Democratic primary races to a pair of further-left progressives and a proud socialist.

And yet. Queens Chamber of Commerce President Tom Grech told us back in June that he expects half of Queens’ 6,000 pre-COVID restaurants will never reopen. How many will it be now that they are barred from selling drinks without a meal on the side? Maybe some measures do go too far.

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Masks are for heroes Dear Editor: With the sun shining and the temps rising, I found the temptation to walk to Juniper Valley Park irresistible. I was surprised and disappointed to find that the vast majority of folks in the neighborhood — bicycle riders, dog walkers, baby-stroller pushers, park bench sitters, baseball and basketball players, child caretakers, hikers — don’t wear protective facing coverings.

Haven’t we learned yet that wearing masks is crucial in the fight against the virus? Have we become so complacent with the recent success we’ve had in our city that we don’t believe they’re any longer necessary? Inexplicably, many who were not wearing masks were holding them in their hands. What sense does that make? What are we afraid of, that wearing one is a sign of weakness?

Look at all our superheroes who wore masks — the Lone Ranger; Zorro; Batman, Robin and Batgirl; and Spider-man. Come on Maspethites and Middle Villagers — join the team of heroes and wear those masks.

Steve Fisher Middle Village

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everyone’s good time, along with the capitalist dreams and employment prospects of thousands. Cuomo should rescind his order that people can only get alcohol with a meal.

Instead, he should redeploy state police already in the city to perform crowd control at hot spots like Steinway. If de Blasio can’t do it with the NYPD, let the troopers do it. Cuomo is an exponentially greater manager than the mayor, and pointing that out for all to see is one of his favorite pastimes.

What de Blasio can do is expand his Open Streets: Restaurants program so that there might actually be enough room for revelers. So far only little slivers of Bayside, Forest Hills and Elmhurst are a part of the program, which shuts down select streets to traffic on weekends so that eateries can expand their operations. Apparently, the people have decided on their own that some of Steinway should be closed. Let the government follow their will.

The one bright spot in all this is that we know the virus spreads far less easily outdoors than it does indoors. There has been no “protest surge” of the pathogen. There has been no beach surge. We can hope there will be no party surge.

But if we don’t do all we can for our restaurants, we may not even have too many places left to party when all this is over.

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I feel for you, Daisy; those were hateful words and I understand your emotion. But you are not alone in having been taunted or insulted with such talk.

In my school days I was pushed down a flight of stairs by black classmates because of my lack of proficiency in basketball. For years I was greeted daily upon arriving at school or entering the cafeteria as “the honky who couldn’t dribble.”

In my work years I was ridiculed for not knowing how many Pips Gladys Knight had and for preferring Mozart to Motown. Across the street from my school were Polish and Italian specialty stores where the products sold and languages spoken were the topic of endless ridicule and derision.

I understand your lingering anger, but I have some also. There is racism on both sides, a per-

spective that many blacks have acknowledged but white liberals refuse to confront. Nothing is ever going to change in America until all sides honestly and openly discuss the issue and work toward a solution. Both sides have work to do.

Until then, nothing will change.

Edward Riecks Howard Beach

All lives matter Dear Editor: I want to personally thank the two ladies and the gentleman who had the courage to throw the blue and red paint on the Black Lives Matter message painted on the streets.

Just in case, Mayor de Blasio (and all the city councilmen and women who do not get it): You were elected by the people of New York City.

You supposedly represent all the citizens of the city and not just those you choose to represent

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Taxpayers and babysitters Dear Editor: Re “Mayor plans free childcare for 100,000 students,” July 17, qchron.com: There is no such thing as “free” childcare. If those parents aren’t paying for it, then other taxpayers are.

Linda Sperling Forest Hills

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The pandemic federal payments are going to expire at the end of this month, and that’s going to ignite serious violence like we have never seen before. We need strong, fair, protective leadership in New York and it’s not happening.

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Depolarize defund debate Dear Editor: Calls to defund the NYPD were answered — equivocally — when New York City’s 2021 budget was passed on June 30th. The debate will continue, but should this question divide us?

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Dear Editor: Got a headache? My wife gets them from time to time and finds Anacin works the best for her. She had a big bottle of 300 pills I had bought some time ago that she shared with our daughter who kept some in her apartment. I haven’t bought any in maybe a couple of years.

As my wife’s supply is almost out and the bottle is past the expiration date, I went to Walgreens. I asked a young man working in the aisle if they had any, not seeing any Anacin in the analgesic section. “Anacin,” he said.

“Is that a brand name?” I said, “Yes, Anacin.

It’s been around for 100 years.” The worker there was in his 20s or 30s maybe but had never heard of Anacin. He got a store manager who said they don’t carry Anacin anymore. He said I could order it through a Walgreens app and have it shipped to the store. Or, he said, I can have it shipped to my home address, but it would cost a lot more.

This is crazy … Am I so old now that Anacin has become a relic or antique item? Is Anacin becoming extinct like our friendly dodo bird?

Anacin, if you don’t know, is just aspirin and caffeine. I called my wife before I left the store saying I can get her Excedrin. That’s aspirin and caffeine and acetaminophen (Tylenol). She said maybe they’d have Anacin at another store. So when I got home I called CVS pharmacy before driving over to see if they had any Anacin.

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— for example, BLM. Your photo op along with your wife painting BLM messages on the street was disgraceful. Why just do the photo op right in front of Trump Tower? That, in itself, was just an indication how much you hate President Trump. How much did painting those messages on the public streets cost the taxpayers of New York City?

Mr. Mayor, and city councilmen and women, all lives matter, not just those whom you think deserve it. Yellow, brown, as well as white people live in your districts and our lives matter also!

Kathleen Schatz Rego Park

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Now, with the department budget being defunded by $1 billion, I hope there will be no serious reduction in services from the 107th to our community. It is an outrage that this large amount of money was cut from the NYPD; it is badly needed to help with various programs that impact community-police relations, as well as to continue those other very important NYPD programs that help to keep New Yorkers safe.

This writer fully supports the NYPD and its efforts to keep our streets safe; our officers are walking into some extremely dangerous and hostile situations that could cause possible injury or death to them. Some of the public have also grown increasingly disrespectful of them and do not treat police officers with the respect that they deserve because of all of this recent, unjustifiable negativity that the NYPD has had to endure.

We all need to show support for our police officers. Many of them have families also, and there is always a possibility that when they leave to go to work, that they might not return home, due to the uncertainty and dangers of their job. God Bless the NYPD, the finest police department in the world!

John Amato Fresh Meadows

Don’t fire the fed-funded Dear Editor: Mayor de Blasio’s threat to lay off up to 22,000 municipal employees as a way to save $1 billion makes no sense for those funded under federal grant programs. De Blasio is missing how hardworking city civil servants manage billions of dollars in taxpayer-generated aid received from Washington. What will the potential impact of his layoffs along with hiring freezes be on the ability of city employees to continue their successful management of federal aid?

Federal agencies provide funding to various city agencies for staff to administer their respective programs. This is done to ensure proper oversight when the city spends these federal dollars. Adequate staff is needed to review and approve vouchers from recipients. There is also the need for employees to process financial reimbursements and provide progress reports for funding agencies to review.

Without sufficient staff, will various city departments be able to continue submitting grant applications on time? How will current federally funded programs be completed on time and within budget? How will they avoid unspent funds being carried over year after year? How will they provide proper oversight to ensure there is no waste, fraud or abuse?

How will they ensure all change orders for consultant and construction projects are fair, reasonable and documented?

Doesn’t it make more sense to exempt any city staff positions currently available under existing federal grants from any layoffs or

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freezes? At the end of the day, what cost savings can be found by not spending available federal dollars? Why not allow the hardworking career civil service employees who are managing the billions of dollars in federal aid the full tools they need to continue doing the job right? This might also assist them in the competition against other cities for the increasingly scarce discretionary federal dollars to supplement regular yearly formula assistance.

When it comes to laying off any federal lyfunded staff positions, this is penny-wise and pound-foolish.

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

Obama pointed the way Dear Editor: Mr. 45 broke presidential tradition by using his recent Rose Garden event as an opportunity to blast his rival, Joe Biden. This technique forced our taxpayers to pay for what should have been a GOP expense.

Trump challenged Biden’s assertion that his administration did little for infrastructure improvements. Trump charged: Where were you and Obama on this issue? Well Mr. 45, here is where they were.

President Obama stood on the bridge over the Ohio River, connecting Ohio to Kentucky. With his right arm pointed north to Ohio and his left arm pointed south to Kentucky, Obama demanded the GOP House speaker from Ohio and the GOP Senate majority leader from Kentucky appropriate sufficient funds so that our bridge engineers could do many badly needed repairs. Folks, remember the bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis?

Mr. Trump, you should have researched your “do nothing” GOP before launching your nasty attack on Joe Biden!

Anthony G. Pilla Forest Hills

President of the CSA Dear Editor: Trump twice retweets a racist yelling “white power,” claims Back Lives Matter is a “hate group” and states that flying the Confederate flag is just freedom of speech. Is this what he means when he says he’s done more for the African-Americans than any other president, even Lincoln?

The nation did receive some good news when the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against Trump regarding the release of his taxes. Trump, of course, threw a fit, screaming that he enjoys “absolute immunity” from criminal inquiries while in office. I must agree with him. I don’t see what jurisdiction the Supreme Court holds over the second president of the Confederacy.

Robert LaRosa Whitestone

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SLA suspends two liquor licenses; businesses say it’s not their fault

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

A wild weekend of large crowds and minimal masks culminated in a crackdown on Steinway Street, with one bar removed from the Open Restaurants program for a week and its liquor license suspended.

“We saw some real troubling overcrowding in Astoria this weekend, we will not tolerate it. Let’s really be clear,” Mayor de Blasio said at his July 20 press briefing. “There’s one restaurant in Astoria that was a focal point for this overcrowding. They’ve been shut down. And no one wants to shut down bars or restaurants. But if they do not cooperate in our efforts to contain the coronavirus, they will be shut down.”

De Blasio pointed to Brik Astoria, located at 32-16 Steinway St., which had its liquor license suspended by the State Liquor Authority the following day, along with M.I.A., another bar about a mile away. The bars were accused of failure to maintain social distancing guidelines for their customers after videos circulated showing

hundreds of partiers f looding the neighborhood without masks.

“We don’t want to shut down bars, but if we have to shut down a few of those, it is a hell of a lot better than seeing the coronavirus start to surge again in this city,” the mayor said.

But City Councilmember Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria) said the “carnival” weekend was the result of weeks of growing block parties, which the city, tasked with enforcing social distancing, failed to nip in the bud.

“Enough is enough,” he said in a statement. “Our streets have descended into pu re mayhem, the th reat of COVID-19 spreading is dangerously high, and Astoria residents are rightfully furious at the relentless noise that goes into the early hours of the morning. We are in complete chaos and one drunken fight away from a powder keg exploding.”

Constantinides noted that the businesses’ attempts to make up for lost revenue resulting from the pandemic is no excuse for the neighborhood’s transformation into a “giant resort bar,” and threatened to shut down bars and res-

taurants that continue to disregard social distancing and health directives.

“Every business that flouts the rules has to be shut down — period,” said the councilmember. “To those out there partying until sunrise, stop.

COVID-19 is still a serious threat, and just because you’re young doesn’t mean you’re invincible. Your arrogance can and will kill anyone you come into contact with.”

Ramon Bauillo, the manager of restaurant and bar El Basurero, which lies directly across the street from Brik Astoria, said that the chaos should not be blamed on the businesses because the partiers came to Steinway Street equipped with their own booze.

“We tried to handle and take care of our customers, but we can’t do nothing to the people on the street,” said Bauillo. “We’re not the police. We are just the workers doing something for the community ... We tried to keep things nice and clean but [the partiers] do whatever they want ... We could control the customers. We could not control the people in the street.”

Bauillo said that he and his neighboring restaurants were ordered to shut operations down at 10:30 p.m. after the weekend parties lasted until 3 in the morning.

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Videos from the weekend of July 17 captured large droves of partiers failing to social distance. The failure of two restaurants to enforce safety and health guidelines of the rambunctious crowds, who drank and played music into the early morning, resulted in getting their liquor licenses CITIZEN APP SCREENSHOT revoked.

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Anti-chokehold legislation enacted Six-pronged NYPD Accountability Package signed into law by mayor

by Katherine Donlevy Associate Editor

Two days before the six-year anniversary of Eric Garner’s death, a law banning police officers from using the chokehold maneuver that killed him was signed into law.

Included as part of an NYPD Accountability Package, the local law makes use of the restraint as well as other uses of deadly force a criminal offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The maneuver, used on Garner in 2014, was banned by the NYPD in 1993, but there were little repercussions for officers who still employed it.

“These bills are actions that we have the responsibility to take to reform our laws and our criminal justice system in ways that make it true and real that #BlackLivesMatter in NYC, and to have the police conduct themselves in a way that shows #BlackLivesMatter to them,” Councilmember Rory Lancman (D-Fresh Meadows), the antichokehold bill’s sponsor, tweeted following Mayor de Blasio signed into law a six-measure NYPD Accountability Package on July 17, which the ceremony. included the criminalization of the NYPD utilizing chokeholds. PHOTO BY MICHAEL APPLETON / NYC / FLICKR Despite supporting a majority of the laws included in the package, Councilmember ers rather than using logic and balance,” establish an internal disciplinary matrix.

Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) voted Holden told the Chronicle Tuesday. “Some Ulrich did not respond to a request for comagainst Lancman’s measure, finding issue of these bills will undoubtedly make police ment, but he did tweet, “2021 can’t come with its language: “This bill establishes a officers’ jobs more difficult when they find soon enough. @NYCMayor is completely misdemeanor for restraining an individual themselves in life-and-death situations. The incompetent,” in the days before the packin a manner that restricts the flow of air or ‘chokehold’ bill in particular uses vague lan- age was signed into law. g u a g e l i ke ‘d i a Both councilmembers did, however, supblood by compressphragm’ that essen- port a measure introduced by Richards that ing the windpipe or tially criminalizes requires the department to develop a stanthe carotid arteries on each side of the his police reform package far more than choke- dardized disciplinary system to ensure that holds, which have officers found guilty of misconduct are ne ck , or sit t i ng, was long overdue.” been banned by the p en al i zed w it h clea r g u idel i nes for kneeling, or standdepartment for many punishment. ing on the chest or — City Councilmember Donovan Richards years. This has con“This police reform package was long back in a manner (D-Laurelton) tributed significantly overdue. When training and educating that compresses the to the erosion of doesn’t work, we have to agitate and legisdiaphragm, in the course of effecting or attempting to effect trust between police and the public, and the late,” Richards told the Chronicle in an subsequent rise in shootings and other email. “We see and experience a system that an arrest.” doesn’t hold police officers responsible for Holden, who also voted against Vanessa crimes.”

Councilmember Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone their abuse against Black and brown people.

Gibson’s (D-Bronx) surveillance technology oversight bill, raised questions as to the Park) was the only other Queens representa- This package applies pressure to hold the motives behind his fellow representatives’ tive to vote against part of the package. He entire depar tment accountable for the joined Holden in opposing Gibson’s surveil- actions of officers they deploy into our comvotes.

“The rush to pass these bills was evi- lance technology oversight bill, as well as munities. As we cope with our exacerbated dence that many of my colleagues were Public Safety Committee Chairperson Don- trauma, we will continue to fight for transmore concerned with appeasing the protest- ovan Richards’ (D-Laurelton) measure to parency and fairness.”

The other measures that make up the package protect the right of the public to record police activities; require that the badge numbers and rank designations of officers be visible at all times; create comprehensive reporting and oversight of NYPD surveillance technologies; and overhaul the existing Early Intervention system and replace it with one that identifies problematic officers and transparent reporting.

The measures aim to increase transparency within the law enforcement system and strengthen trust between officers and the community, according to Mayor de Blasio.

De Blasio signed the sweeping reforms after he, Lancman and other elected officials and community members painted a “Black Lives Matter” mural on Morris Avenue from East 161st to East 162nd streets in the Bronx. The mural has appeared in each borough except for Queens, but one will be installed on 153rd Street between Jamaica and Archer avenues in the coming weeks.

“The Black Lives Matter movement has been at the forefront of change in New York City and across our nation. I’m proud to sign these sweeping reforms into law and honor the work they’ve done,” the mayor said. “I’m confident we can make these reforms work and continue strengthening the bond between Q police officers and our communities.”

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Wild weekend continued from page 11 Street was left covered with trash, and the businesses pitched in to clean up the space that now doubles as their outdoor seating areas. Bauillo agreed with Constantinides that the music was too loud and the partiers too rambunctious, but that businesses could only do so much.

“They buy the alcohol in the supermarket and come here and what can we do about that? Nothing. Only the police can,” he said. “The government makes the businesses pay for the problem and it’s not fair.”

De Blasio did mention that enforcement efforts by the Sheriff’s Office and, when needed, the NYPD in Astoria and other areas displaying similar disregard for social distancing will be ramped up, an initiative Bauillo and other Steinway Street businesses willingly accepted.

“We want all our restaurants to succeed and we want everyone to be safe.

Regulations need to the followed in order to achieve both those ends,” said Marie Torniali, executive director of the Steinway Astoria Partnership. “The majority of our establishments have complied and are providing a safe and enjoyable dining experience for their Q customers.”

City Councilmember Rory Lancman helped paint the Bronx Black Lives Matter mural July LANCMAN PHOTO / TWITTER 17.

Seeking ed. council hopefuls Acting Queens Borough President Sharon Lee is looking to fill six vacant positions on the borough’s community education councils before the start of the school year.

“The CECs are designed to be a formal voice of community input and insights into shaping the New York City schools system,” Lee said.

CECs are responsible for advising and commenting on educational policies and providing input to the chancellor and the Panel for Educational Policy. There are seven in Queens.

Two positions are vacant on CEC District 25 in the greater Flushing area, one vacant position is on CEC District 28 in the Jamaica to Rego Park area, one vacant position is on CEC District 29 in the Jamaica to Rosedale area and two are on CEC District 30 in the Long Island City to Jackson Heights area.

The CEC membership application form is available at queensbp.org/education and should be returned by applicants via email to education@queensbp.org.

Friday, Aug. 7 is the deadline to apply Q for one of the unpaid positions.

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Pro-NYPD backers traveled from Fresh Meadows to Forest Hills

by David Russell Associate Editor

Nearly 400 cars drove through the borough last Sunday to show support for the NYPD as the department has faced criticism from protesters and elected officials in recent weeks.

Supporters drove from the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows to the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills before dispersing around Woodhaven Boulevard in the early afternoon.

Deputy Inspector Scott Henry, commanding officer of the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows, said he believes the community support he sees is unmatched.

“It’s just an amazing thing how much support we get on a day-to-day basis here,” Henry told the Chronicle Monday.

He said two people separately held antipolice signs but didn’t cause any problems during the drive.

“Some people feel to support the police you’re picking a side against another movement, which isn’t the case. You don’t have to be anti-police to be for police reform,” Henry said, adding, “Too often now people feel they have to pick a side in an argument and be against one side as opposed to just improving the system.”

The commander called the event “heartwarming” and noted that the officers often

Hundreds of drivers traveled through the borough last Sunday in a Back the Blue showing to supPHOTO BY DAVID RUSSELL port the NYPD. get waved to and greeted at community council precinct meetings by residents.

“I really wasn’t surprised it was happening but it was a relief because some of my cops are going to these protests and get insulted all day long,” Henry said.

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He said he came up with the idea as he was unhappy with the anti-police sentiment around the city, including a violent clash with protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge last Wednesday.

“People do care about the police,” Serle told the Chronicle Tuesday, calling the turnout “unbelievable.”

The event had been advertised online in the days leading up to the drive.

He said the best part of the event was bringing happiness to the officers.

“We want the world to know that we care about them,” Serle said. “Law and order is very important. If there’s no respect for the police, you can’t have a nation, you can’t have a world.”

Capt. Jonathan Cappelmann, commanding officer of the 112th Precinct, said it was business as usual as pro-police and antipolice protests are treated the same.

“We support anybody’s First Amendment right to protest or to support us,” Cappelmann told the Chronicle Monday, adding, “It’s encouraging. It’s nice to see that people support the police still in this environment.”

While tensions have been high around the city, including a Bayside showdown earlier in the month between Back the Blue and Black Lives Matter protesters, there were no incidents during the drive, which lasted around 90 minutes.

Cappelmann noted the positive feedback the officers in the precinct receive from Forest Hills and Rego Park residents.

“A lot of people just walk up to us in the street while we’re out here and they’re vocal about their support for the Police Department,” he said. “It’s definitely good to see.” Q

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Maspeth man looks to replace Holden Juan Ardila criticizes councilman; lawmaker shrugs off comments

by David Russell Associate Editor

Juan Ardila grew up wanting to be a forensic scientist but when his mother was nearly deported, he decided to change course and help people.

The Maspeth resident is running for the City Council seat held by Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village). “I don’t think he’s conducted himself in a way that a New York City elected official should be conducting himself,” Ardila told the Chronicle last Friday, adding, “The leadership has just not been there and it’s not just going to be.”

Ardila, who worked as an office manager for Councilman Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn), at the International Rescue Committee, which provides humanitarian aid, and as a consultant for the Department of Education, called Holden “out of touch.”

The challenger, who is running a Democratic primary campaign against Holden, said one example came as lawmakers were listening to public testimony regarding law enforcement.

“He was live-tweeting that there’s no evidence of any racism,” Ardila said. “Doing this as people are telling him in live testimony. I think it’s very inappropriate.”

Another criticism of the lawmaker was that Holden eliminated the participatory budgeting

process from the area, in which residents vote on how to spend $1 million in capital funding.

“It essentially eliminated the opportunity for decision-making and engagement from the people on how our dollars are spent,” Ardila said.

Asked to respond, Holden said he doesn’t care about Ardila’s criticisms of him.

“Whatever he says about me, let him have his fun,” the lawmaker said.

The challenger spoke about the importance of affordable housing and cited a 2017 City Council report that found there were 360 remaining affordable units but that 160 could be lost through 2022.

“Gentrification is just significantly outpacing the supply for affordable units,” Ardila said.

He wants to see affordable housing expanded with the city increasing housing density around transit hubs. “That way you can actually give people a fighting chance and transition individuals into permanent housing and actually reduce the homeless population,” Ardila said.

He also criticized the homeless shelter for men at 78-16 Cooper Ave. in Glendale, a site in the middle of a transit desert, which Holden also opposes.

“How can you expect a homeless New Yorker to get back on their feet if we house them on

Councilman Bob Holden, left, will face a challenger for his seat, Juan Ardila of Maspeth.

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the outskirts of a neighborhood far from job opportunities, far from the social service programs that they desperately need?” Ardila said.

He wants to reduce homelessness using a Housing First model that cities across the country have implemented.

“The real estate culture in New York City views housing as a speculative investment,” Ardila said.

Columbus, Ohio was one of the first to use it in the mid-1980s, as the city created a community shelter board with the organization controlling the city’s homeless response budget and coordinating service providers.

Utah used the model and reduced the number from nearly 2,000 in 2005 to fewer than 200 in 2015.

Ardila also wants to focus on early childhood education and programs, pointing to a study that found for every $1 spent on early childhood education, the return on investment to society is estimated at $17.

The Council district covers Ridgewood, Glendale, Maspeth and Middle Village.

“There’s a lot of Bernie supporters and in the same neighborhood you could have a contingency of Trump supporters,” Ardila said.

Holden said he hasn’t thought about re-election yet.

“I’m thinking about doing my job now dealing with the pandemic and all the other issues that I don’t have time to work on all the other stuff. It’ll come and when it comes I’ll work on it,” he told the Chronicle Wednesday.

In 2017, Holden, the president of the Juniper Park Civic Association, lost the Democratic primary to Elizabeth Crowley but ran on the Republican line in the general election and pulled out a close win.

He said he hasn’t talked to either party about the 2021 election.

“If I do a good job people will re-elect me.

If I don’t, they’ll kick me out. I’ve done the best job I could possibly do, I’ve hired the best staff and they’re doing great work. But if the people feel that I shouldn’t be re-elected, I have no problem with that either,” Holden said, Q adding, “This is not the world to me.”

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Councilman Donovan Richards (D-Laurelton) will be the Democratic nominee for borough president in November.

Former Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley conceded the primar y election on Tuesday afternoon, almost a month after voters went to the polls.

“I wanted you to hear it from me first: while the Board of Elections has not officially called the race, and some districts are still getting tallied, the numbers to win are just not with us,” she said in a statement.

Richards replied, calling Crowley a friend and saying, “I admire her commitment to Queens and look forward to working with her to unite our borough moving into November.”

As of election night, June 23, Richards had a nine-point lead over Crowley, with a 37.18 percent to 28.19 percent advantage. The BOE began counting absentee ballots later.

Cou ncil ma n Cost a Const a nt i n ides (D-Astoria) had 15.23 percent, retired NYPD Sgt. Anthony Miranda had 14.74 percent and businessman Dao Yin had 4.46 percent of the vote.

Richards was endorsed by the Queens County Democratic Committee in late December, which made him an early

Councilman Donovan Richards will be the Democratic nominee for borough president as former Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley conceded the primary race Tuesday, while absentee ballots continue to be counted by the Board of ELIZABETH CROWLEY PHOTO / FACEBOOK Elections. frontrunner in the race.

A nonpar tisan special election was scheduled for March 23 but the coronavi-

rus crisis postponed it. The election was called for because previous Borough President Melinda Katz became the district attorney on Jan. 1. Sharon Lee has served as acting borough president since then and will continue serving through the end of the year.

The special election and Democratic primary were to be held the same day but Gov. Cuomo canceled the special election.

Retired prosecutor Jim Quinn, who ran a campaign on fighting bail reform and the closing of Rikers Island in favor of four borough-based jails, including one in Kew Gardens, was out of the race as he was on the special election ballot but not a primary one.

Quin n and Yin sued Cuomo in an attempt to reinstate the special election but failed.

Assembly woma n A licia Hy nd ma n (D-Springfield Gardens) dropped out of the Democratic primary in December, saying things weren’t going the way she wanted.

C o u n c i l m a n J i m my Va n B r a m e r (D-Sunnyside) dropped out in January because of family circumstances.

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Missing man Police are looking for a Howard Beach man who has been missing since July 13.

Richard Nocero, 59, was last seen at 21-42 28 St. in Astoria.

He is white, approximately 5-foot-10, 220 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans and gray sneakers.

The NYPD is encouraging anyone with information regarding Nocero to call Det. Joel Ramos at (718) 845-2261.

Anyone with information can also call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS (8477), or, for Spanish, 1 (888) 57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit tips by logging onto nypd crimestoppers.com, or by texting 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577, or by going to @nypdtips on Twitter.

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Advocates hold online rally for state law aimed at eliminating test

by Max Parrott

In 2020, Stuyvesant High School, the most competitive of the eight testing specialized The momentum of the Black Lives Matter high schools, only offered 10 spots to black movement is beginning to carry over into students out of 766 total offers. The legislators’ plan to begin changing the admissions in education reform.

Teens Take Charge, a student-led organiza- Albany comes after Mayor Bill de Blasio tion, gathered a group of legislators on Mon- failed to do so last year.

Forty years ago, the Hecht-Calandra Act day to advance their goal of doing away with the Specialized High School Admissions Test was created after an Upper West Side Manto address the disproportionately low enroll- hattan superintendent of schools asserted ment of black and Hispanic students offered that in Bronx High School of Science “‘cult u rally’ or iented in the city’s “elite examinations worked eight.” to ‘screen out’ black The group hosted support egalitarian [sic] and Puer to legislators from Rican students who Brooklyn and Manhateducation – more could succeed at the tan who are committed to passing a repeal socialistic, more equal.” school.”

When then-Chanof the Hecht-Calandra — Assemblyman Charles Barron cellor Harvey ScribAct of 1971, a law that ner appointed 23 stops New York City from being able to make decisions about members to a committee to examine the speadmissions to its specialized high schools, cialized high schools admission process, which the group deemed to be racist and Sen. John Calandra, a Bronx Republican, and Assemblyman Burton Hecht, a Bronx outdated.

“Black lives should matter in situations just Democrat, wrote the bill, which aimed to like this, where inequities and inequalities are “protect the current status and quality of perpetuated in our public school systems – a specialized academic high schools in New public school system, which we know is seg- York City.”

The views of the group of legislators and regated,” said the bill’s co–prime sponsor, education advocates on Monday, many of Assemblyman Walter Mosley (D-Brooklyn).

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them alumni of the specialized high school system themselves, in some cases went beyond the dismantling of the test to questioning the necessity of a specialized high school system.

“All of our schools should be special. All of our schools should get the kind of resources they need because all of our students are special. While I am against this elitist system of education, I support egalitarian education – more socialistic, more equal,” Assemblyman Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn) said.

Sophie Xu, a student at Queens High School for the Sciences at York College who works with the state’s Asian Pacific American Taskforce, commented on the high proportion of Asian enrollment in many of the specialized high schools. She said that many families see it as a be-all-end-all because of the many socioeconomic obstacles that they’re up against.

“It’s a no-brainer that some Asian Pacific Americans would conform to society and go by a scarcity mindset to survive in the only way they think they know how,” Xu said.

Beyond repealing the 1971 bill, the group of legislators concluded that they believe now to be the right time to push the issue of specialized high school reform back into the public discourse.

“I think that we need to make sure that we

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Assemblyman Walter Mosley joined a group of legislators committed to repealing the HechtCalandra Act, which stops New York City from changing the admissions process at its “elite eight” specialized high schools.

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2020 Mets Preview: a short, unpredictable season

by Lloyd Carroll Under normal times my annual Mets season preview article would have been published in a late March issue of the Queens Chronicle.

Of course these are anything but normal times. COVID-19 forced Major League Baseball to cancel the first three months of the season. Getting any baseball going again once things appeared to be more under control back in June required complex negotiations between the MLB team owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association.

After a lot of acrimony the two sides settled on a 60-game season. To minimize travel, which is a must given that 60 games will be played in 66 days (if all goes well), which in theory should also reduce exposure to the coronavirus, MLB will have teams in both leagues playing regionally.

Teams in the Eastern, Central and Western divisions will be facing each other exclusively and that includes interleague games.

A short season is not even close to being the biggest difference between this and past seasons. No fans will be allowed to attend any games. Rosters have been expanded from 25 to 30 players — for the first two weeks, then reduced to 28 and then 26 two weeks after that — and there will be a taxi squad of three players who will dress for games and can replace a player who is feeling ill or gets injured. Since there won’t be any minor league baseball played this year, teams can keep an additional 27 players in reserve.

Think of it as a 60-man roster instead of the usual 40-man.

Let’s take a look at the 2020 New York Mets.

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Manager Former Mets centerfielder Carlos Beltran was named as the successor to Mickey Callaway who was fired as the team’s manager a few days after the conclusion of the 2019 season. In midJanuary Beltran was forced to step down after being implicated in the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal. Given all that has happened in the world since then it seems as if the Beltran fiasco took place when woolly mammoths roamed the Earth.

With few options left, Mets general manager Brodie Van

First baseman Pete Alonso slugged 53 homers in his first season in the bigs en route to National League Rookie of the Year honors, setting a new Major League rookie record in the process.

Wagenen looked in-house and selected 38-year-old Luis Rojas, who in spite of his relatively young age, had spent a long time managing in the Mets minor league system, to replace the deposed Beltran.

One big advantage Rojas will have is that he managed a number of the Mets when they were minor leaguers. With a short season, mutual familiarity can only help.

Rojas may bring other intangible assets with him.

In order to prevent marathon games, teams on offense will start extra innings with a runner on second base. This has been used in the minor leagues and Rojas has managed his share of those games in the Eastern League.

In an effort to reduce potential injuries to pitchers, the designated hitter will be employed in both the National and American Leagues. The DH has been used throughout the minors so Rojas has plenty of experience employing it.

Starting pitching Historically the Mets have rarely been an offensive juggernaut so their success, or lack of, has depended on their pitching.

Early in spring training at Port St. Lucie, Fla., the Mets found out they would be without their No. 2 starter, Noah “Thor” Syndergaard, who is missing the 2020 season recovering from Tommy John surgery. The Amazin’s would also be missing their reliable third starter, Zach Wheeler, who departed as a free agent and signed a lucrative contract with the nearby Philadelphia Phillies.

Jacob deGrom, the current two-time National League Cy Young winIn spite of these losses Mets fans knew they had the best ner, is hoping to reel in more hardware in the upcoming shortened pitcher in baseball on their side, Jacob deGrom, who has 60-game season.

PHOTOS COURTESY NY METS consecutive Cy Young Awards to back up that claim.

Therefore it was understandable many a Mets fan held his breath the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for first baseman Lucas Duda, last Tuesday when deGrom was pulled from an intrasquad game but missed all of 2019 recovering from Tommy John surgery.

Robert Gsellman, who has been a spot starter, will probably after one inning because of a stiff back. An MRI taken the next day came back negative and by Thursday he was telling the press be utilized in long relief situations, but is currently dealing with he would want to start tomorrow’s season opener against the triceps tightness.

And that brings me to Seth Lugo, who was the most dependAtlanta Braves at Citi Field. You could feel a collective exhale able arm out of the bullpen for the Mets last year. The problem is from Mets fans all over the world.

With Syndergaard shelved and Wheeler now working 100 Lugo wants to be a starting pitcher and in a fair world he miles southwest of Flushing, the Mets will have to rely on south- shouldn’t be punished for his success as a reliever. Van Wagenen paw starter Steven Matz, who has been maddeningly inconsis- has made it clear, however, he doesn’t value his wishes.

Lugo has told me many times he will never turn down an tent, as well as onetime Toronto Blue Jays ace and Long Island native Marcus Stroman, who was frankly mediocre for the two opportunity to start a game even if it’s with little advance notice. months he was a Met last season after being obtained in a sur- If there is any emergency start situation the odds are rookie David Peterson, Walker Lockett or Corey Oswalt will be selected prise trade at the July 31 deadline.

Rounding out the rotation will be a pair of veterans with good by Rojas. career stats but who are coming off disappointing 2019 seasons, Catching Rick Porcello and Michael Wacha. Van Wagenen signed both as Wilson Ramos will be back for his second year with the Mets. free agents and he is obviously hoping to catch lightning in a bottle. Their less-than-stellar recent numbers made them affordable He remains one of the best offensive catchers in the game. His for the Mets, whose payroll has not recovered from the Wilpon defense and ability to call pitches, however, were issues in 2019.

Noah Syndergaard made it clear he wanted Tomas Nido to serve family’s involvement with Bernie Madoff a decade ago. as his personal catcher.

Ramos has missed a good chunk of summer training camp Relief pitching The Mets bullpen was the team’s bete noire in 2019. The Mets with what has been described cryptically as “personal issues.” should have been at least a wild card participant — had their two The Mets have to hope he resolves all of them quickly.

Nido, along with the always reliable Rene Rivera, will be key relievers, setup man Jeurys Familia and closer Edwin Diaz, acted like firemen instead of arsonists in the late innings. Mets backup backstops. fans became all too accustomed to hearing the term “blown The infield save” last year.

The unquestionable bright spot for the Mets in 2019 was first If any players should benefit from the absence of fans at Citi baseman Pete Alonso, who set a record by belting 53 home runs.

Field in 2020, it’s those two.

While the odds are neither Familia or Diaz will be as awful as He quickly became a team leader and was very at ease talking to they were last year, Van Wagenen knew he had to have an insur- the media.

Alonso is quite valuable in the lineup because he’s a solid conance policy and was forced to spend $10 million on longtime New York Yankees hard-throwing reliever Dellin Betances, who tact hitter for a guy who is one of the best power hitters in the became a free agent after the 2019 season. Yankees general man- game. Of course, that is not to say that he isn’t prone to striking ager Brian Cashman did not see a future for him in the Bronx in out, as nearly all big home run hitters tend to be. In addition, he is a pretty good fielder, as he has little trouble scooping up poor spite of his posting good numbers during his career.

Also bolstering the bullpen will be lefty Justin Wilson, Tyler throws from infielders that bounce in the dirt first. continued on page 18 Bashlor and Drew Smith, who was acquired two years ago from

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The Mets in 2020 continued from page 16 Thirty-seven-year-old Robinson Cano, who reported to Citi Field summer camp just last week, is slated to be the starting second baseman.

Cano was acquired, along with the aforementioned closer Diaz, from the Seattle Mariners, in what was Van Wagenen’s first major deal as the Mets general manager. To say it hasn’t been a good one would be a colossal understatement.

Cano had two different stints on the injured list during the first half of 2019 and seemed to strike out with every other at-bat when he did play. He seemed to turn it around in the second half, including by having a three-home run game, the first in his career. The Mets are hoping Cano can stop Father Time as he did from July on last year.

Amed Rosario seems to have finally matured at shortstop. Ever since he was signed by the Mets out of high school in the Dominican Republic, Rosario was tabbed as an “untouchable” whenever trades were proposed by other teams.

He failed to live up to the hype in his rookie season as he frequently struck out lunging at bad pitches. Defensively he made some plays that were ESPN SportsCenter highlights, but he would muff many easy opportunities. He was far more accomplished in his sophomore season as he became more disciplined both at the plate and in the field.

Jeff McNeil is ideally more of a second baseman than he is a third baseman but given that he is the toughest out in the Mets lineup you

have to find a place for him. Since there is no in his new duties as Mets GM. A mysterious leg one making a huge salary at third base, expect ailment started occurring during 2019 spring this to be his primary position. McNeil also training. He wound up last year with a grand spent some time in the outfield. total of seven at-bats and going hitless. Lowrie The Mets have depth in the infield as well. did play in the recent intrasquad games at Citi Dominic Smith, who many thought would be Field but at his age you have to wonder about the first baseman of the future in Flushing until his productivity, as he will start the season on Alonso came along, acquitted himself well in the injured list. The Amazin’s can only hope to 2019 in spite of missing significant playing time get some production from their $20 million with a foot stress fracture and not getting a lot investment after a long layoff. of at-bats when he was healthy. He ended 2019 Other infielders in the mix are veterans Max on a high note with a Moroff, Edu a rdo dramatic walk-off Nu nez, Gordon home run in the 11th Beckham and longinning against the time Mets farmhand Atlanta Braves in the Luis Guillorme. season finale. He may get some playThe outfield ing time in the outHome run slugger f ield where there Yoenis Cespedes, appears to be more who has not been paucity. seen in Queens in J.D. Davis, who nearly two years, is was acquired from set to return for the the Houston Astros Steven Matz, left, and Seth Lugo are two of the last season of his at the end of 2018 in Mets’ most promising pitchers going into the contract. At age 34 one of V a n 2020 season.

PHOTOS COURTESY NY METS and coming off a Wagenen’s better barrage of foot probtrades, is another player without a position. He lems it would seem inevitable Cespedes will be is a big-league slugger but he will never be a a bit rusty. Then again, the mercurial outfielder threat to win a Gold Glove, though he does pos- could surprise and carry the Mets on his back sess a powerful throwing arm. Callaway used as he did in 2015 when they made it to the him at third base and in the outfield last year. World Series.

Mets fans held their breath every time a ball Watching Cespedes run at three-quarter was hit to him at the hot corner. speed to first base trying to beat out a ground Jed Lowrie, who like Cano and deGrom was ball Saturday night in an exhibition game represented by Van Wagenen when he was an against the Yankees, it was evident he is still agent at CAA, was signed to a lucrative two- hurting. His lack of mobility will probably force year deal at the beginning of 2019 by his old rep Rojas to keep him off the field and restrict him

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Brandon Nimmo has become a fan favorite because of his sunny disposition, hustle and his keen batting eye. Rojas would be wise to have him lead off in the batting order. He can play all three outfield positions.

Michael Conforto is entering his fifth year as a starting outfielder. He has been a reliable source of power with solid home runs and runsbatted-in based on his career numbers but he has not hit for a high enough average to be considered an elite player who is a perennial All-Star.

Others who should see some playing time are veteran Melky Cabrera, defensive wiz but light-hitting Jake Marisnick and Ryan Cordell, who played a couple of seasons as a reserve for the Chicago White Sox but really impressed with both his power and ability to track down tough fly balls in centerfield during the recent summer camp.

It’s impossible to predict how any team will perform in this kind of crazy environment.

With the likelihood of new ownership for the Mets on the horizon, Van Wagenen and Rojas have to hope the lineup they put out when the season begins tomorrow is not as somnambulant as it was against the Yankees in last weekend’s exhibition games. No team, obviously, can afford to get off to a sluggish start with so few games scheduled to be played.

Let’s hope everyone stays healthy and that Major League Baseball can at least have its 60-game season. Given the current spiking COVID-19 numbers in parts of the United States, which made the Canadian government inform the Toronto Blue Jays they couldn’t play home games north of the border, that is far from q a certainty.

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The Queens Chamber of Commerce, with support from NewYork-Presbyterian Queens hospital, announced on Monday a $400,000 grant program to help borough businesses pay for products and services to help them to operate safely this summer. They can apply online at bit.ly/3eMLXIk. “Queens was the epicenter of the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic and the virus had a devastating impact on our small businesses. In addition to months of lost revenue, business owners now have to take on additional expenses to keep their employees and customers safe,” chamber President and CEO Tom Grech said in announcing the program, thanking NYPQ for “stepping up to help.”

Small businesses will receive grants ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 to purchase items such as masks, gloves, sanitizer, face shields, sanitizing services, furniture for outdoor dining, temperature scanners, goggles, Plexiglas and the outfitting of interiors for social distancing. The program will link grantees with local vendors, most minority- and women-owned, for purchases. Businesses also may learn about future grants by Q signing up at bit.ly/2Cmux8E.

Feds: Can’t rush review FHWA: Congestion pricing study ongoing; NY sees stalling

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When it was passed in the state budget in spring 2019, congestion pricing was considered an innovative way to alleviate traffic in Midtown and Downtown Manhattan and reduce pollution — and to raise about $1 billion in cash annually for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority beginning in 2021.

With the COVID-19 outbreak tanking the MTA’s ridership and revenue levels since mid-March, an MTA official last week told the Manhattan Institute that implementation now could be delayed for at least a year, blaming inaction on the part of the Federal Highway Administration in approving the proposal.

The idea is to toll drivers for each trip into Manhattan’s central business district — the amount has not yet been determined or at least not made public.

In recent weeks, Mayor de Blasio, Gov. Cuomo and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) all have accused the Trump administration of dragging its feet on the approval process — Cuomo and Schumer have said it is one of multiple transportation projects being held up by the U.S. Department of Transportation. But a spokesman for the Federal Highway Administration in an email to the Chronicle on Tuesday said the reason is

far more mundane.

“New York State’s congestion pricing proposal is still under review by the Federal Highway Administration,” the spokesman said. “Given that this project would set precedent as the first ‘cordon’ congestion pricing toll zone in the United States, it requires thorough consideration and review.”

Congress earlier this year provided $4 billion to bail out the MTA in one of the first COVID-19 relief packages, and is seeking another $3.9 billion that has been approved by the House of Representatives and now is under consideration in the Senate.

Schumer, who still is negotiating with the administration on congestion pricing and other projects, said in a Zoom conference call on June 18 he has assured Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that he will block any new stimulus bill that does not include the additional MTA funding.

Cuomo’s press office referred the Chronicle to a statement the governor made last month.

“I have spoken to the federal government about it. MTA has spoken to the federal government about it,” Cuomo said. “The MTA cannot approve the congestion pricing plan.

Why not? You have to ask the federal government. I don’t believe they have a bona fide

reason. Why haven’t they approved congestion pricing? I have no idea. Why haven’t they approved the cross Hudson tunnels? Why haven’t they approved the air train from LaGuardia? Why haven’t they approved the extension of the 2nd Avenue subway to 125th Street? Why did they pass SALT which penalized New Yorkers and increased the taxes of New Yorkers, who are already contributing more to the federal government than anyone else? I don’t know.”

The Tri-State Transportation Campaign, in a statement issued last week, believes the federal delay is more of a systematic problem that is blocking desperately needed funding.

“The plan, initially set to launch no later than January 2021, has been intentionally held up by the Trump Administration,” the statement declared. “It is a tremendous blow to the MTA and to the New York City region, which relies on our public transit network to exist. A billion-dollar-a-year blow to New York’s regional economy is a massive federal failure, and the only reason this will register as barely a blip on the historical record of our time rather than stand as the epitome of the stunning incompetence it truly represents is that it is just a small part of the unthinkable scale of the Trump Administration’s failures during the COVID pandemic and resulting economic Q collapse.”

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also warned that it is likely that the virus will make a return to New York through Several week s af ter Gov. Cuomo travelers as long as it continues to rage announced his higher education guidance across the South and West.

CUNY campuses have responded with for New York, Queens’ colleges and universities have begun to release bits and pieces caution about the potential for another surge in the fall. of their reopening plans.

“I wish I could know what the future will At public universities across the borough, reopenings will be minimal and gradual. In bring, and say with clarity what the upcoming months will look like,” short statements that each wrote CUNY Chancellor CU NY campus has Félix Matos Rodríguez on released to Chronicle, the July 14. plan is unanimously to priwish I could Rodríguez added that 48 marily offer courses online percent of the fall courses whenever practical for the know what the open for student registrafall 2020 semester, with a few course exceptions. future will bring.” tion are already scheduled for hybrid or online delivOver at St. John’s Uni— CUNY Chancellor Felix ery. Each CUNY campus versity, Queens’ largest Rodriguez has formed a committee to private school, reopenings develop personalized plans are t ak ing a different that are consistent with shape. For one thing, the administration has put together the most Cuomo’s guidelines.

A spokesperson for Queens College said concrete reopening plan of any college in the borough. For another it is the only school that it intends to offer its academic courses in Queens to open up its residence halls to primarily online, with exceptions for courses and services that cannot be delivered at a students.

Cuomo’s data-driven guidance mandates distance.

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“There are a lot of moving par ts here,” Addabbo said this week. “But it is all about enforcement. It could be anybody who can write a ticket.

“These were people who got fed up with slow-moving government. Anybody who can do cleanup, I appreciate.”

Since the volunteer cleanup, Barillaro said she has been handing out bags to fisherman as she and her friends walk over the bridge in the morning for their

fitness routine.

“Put that trash in here and take it with you,” she tells them.

Since the cleanup, others from Howard Beach have volunteered to help out and two local businesses — Natural Body, the vitamin supplement store on Cross Bay Boulevard, and K&E Auto Body and Collision on 101st Avenue — have said they want to cont r ibute money, Barillaro said.

“We’re going to do it again,” she promised. A second cleanup is schedQ uled for Aug. 22, she said.

Insurgents earn primary wins continued from page 4 “Socialism won,” Mamdani wrote in a post.

In Assembly District 34, GonzálezRojas had 4,085 votes total, besting incumbent incumbent Michael Den Dekker (D-East Elmhurst), who received 2,371 votes, according to the unofficial count at the end of the day last Friday.

“This win means so much! Make the Road was the first group to step out and make a bold endorsement and we won on a progressive agenda that centers communities most impacted by injustices,” wrote

González-Rojas.

Den Dekker has represented the district, which encompasses Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst and parts of Woodside and Corona, for six terms.

He took to Twitter Friday to concede the race.

In Assembly District 35, Aubry received 5,186 votes, according to unofficial results shared with the Queens Eagle on Tuesday afternoon. Monserrate, an ex-state senator and councilman, received 2,759 votes.

Aubry expanded his primary-day lead over Q Monserrate with the absentee count.

St. John’s University announced last week that it will reopen residences as part of its fall plan for the PHOTO BY ZEUSGCP / WIKIPEDIA campus. Classes will range from in-person to hybrid or fully online. demic calendar means that fall classes don’t start for nearly two months.

A spokesperson for York College said that classes will continue to follow the remote model through the summer semester, and beyond as necessary, with the exception of laboratory components. The expansion of on-site instruction will be gradual.

Queensborough Community College plans to deliver most of its instruction and support services by distance this fall.

St. John’s, on the other hand, said that it is committed to a resumption of classes taught both in-person and via remote formats, and residential experience.

The university’s plan cited how the needs of students like those experiencing homelessness and those with unsafe home situations made it necessary to reopen residences. The plan also noted that in-person courses will not be an option for everyone.

But residences will have to be transformed as well. Lounges may be closed for

the semester, and other spaces will be reconfigured with fewer chairs and floor markings and signs to facilitate social distancing. The campus has also eliminated triple and quad occupancy rooms, and added guest restrictions.

Each day, students will fill out an online “COVID 19 Symptom Screening” questionnaire that will determine whether they should stay home or in their residence prior to entering campus.

Courses, however, will be offered in a combination of formats that range from inperson to hybrid or fully online, with the university noting that faculty, administrators and staff may be unable to return due to health considerations of their own or of a loved one.

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Mayor de Blasio an nou nced last Thursday that the city is planning to provide free childcare options for 100,000 children in the fall. This comes on the heels of the city’s school reopening plan, which would see both remote and in-person classes.

Childcare will be made available for children in 3-K through the eighth grade and there will be approximately 50,000 seats available each day, according to the city. Because of the mix of remote and inperson learning, the city plans to serve at least 100,000 students total. A spokesperson said the total came after a survey with parents though a number of current availability was not provided.

The city is identifying locations and looking to maximize available space in schools, community centers, libraries, cultural organizations and other sites. It said New Yorkers with available space that could potentially be used can visit nycsca.org/realestate/sites.

The city is looking to have as many seats as possible for the first day of school with capacity building out over time.

“This pandemic has been hugely dis-

The state Senate has passed a bill authored by Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) aimed at protecting the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s coffers from being raided to bail out other state agencies.

The bill, co-sponsored by Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-East Elmhurst), comes at a time when the state is facing a multibillion revenue shortfall for the budget passed back in April.

“Now more than ever, we need the MTA on the right track to operate safely in the COVID era and make the critical investments riders need and deserve,” Gianaris said in a statement issued by his office Tuesday. “The MTA cannot be used to bail out other state agencies when they need to manage a crisis of historic proportions.”

Gianaris first introduced the legislation after the state used MTA funds, described as reimbursement to the general fund for services rendered by other state agencies, to bail out the Olympic Regional Development Authority in upstate Lake Placid. The proposal now moves to the Assembly for consideration,

Childcare will be made available for children in 3-K through eighth grade. ruptive in the lives of our kids, which is why we are working to provide as much in-person learning as possible,” de Blasio said last Thursday. “Working families are being pulled in many directions trying to make a plan for the fall, and we are going to help them every step of the way by providing free childcare options.”

The city will continue to coordinate with the state as reopening plans develop, Q according to the Mayor’s Office.

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where a spokesman for the senator said there is not yet a companion bill.

Mass transit advocates are on board, according to statements issued along with the senator’s.

“This bill gives the MTA a lifeline in the midst of their efforts to provide stable, safe transit during the most extreme funding shortfall they have experienced,” said Nick Sifuentes, executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Committee.

“We applaud the Senate for this action, knowing that it will help safeguard the funds the MTA desperately needs in the coming months, as well as providing consistency for the future.”

“With horrific transit cuts and fare hikes now on the table, New Yorkers need Congress to rescue the MTA, not Albany to empty the agency’s pockets of its last dime,” said Danny Pearlstein, communications director of the Riders Alliance. “Buses and subways carried essential workers through the pandemic and are the linchpin of our recovery. With New York’s transit system teetering on a fiscal cliff, the state cannot afford to push Q it over the edge.”

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Playground and park unveiled in Jamaica EDC, city team up to reclaim land for pocket parks, improved roads

by Michael Gannon Editor

A collection of overgrown fields and longvacant lots situated amidst railroad tracks, a congested highway and an unpleasant tangle of local streets is a place folks generally would avoid if they even paid it any attention.

But combine the resources and imagination of a few city agencies, and you can turn it into a destination.

The New York City Economic Development Corp. and its partners on Tuesday gathered at a playground at the new Gateway Park, located at 137-34 94 Ave. in Jamaica, to unveil the results of a $19.8 million effort to upgrade and modernize the roads and add nearly an acre of green open space and new streetscaping.

“This is part of the Jamaica Now Action Plan,” Rachel Loeb, COO of the EDC, told the Chronicle. James Patchett, the group’s president and CEO, said in a subsequent press release that the project is “an incredible milestone” for Jamaica and the city.

“For years, residents in this community have advocated for safer roadways and more open space, and we’re thrilled to deliver on a promise that turns their vision into a reality,” he said.

Patchett thanked the city’s Departments of Parks and Recreation and Transportation for their partnership in the project, as well as the

Jamaica Now Leadership Council and the Borough President’s Office.

Guests in attendance included Councilmembers Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica) and Daneek Miller (D-St. Albans), DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg and Borough Commissioner Nicole Garcia, and New York City Parks Queens Borough Com missioner Michael Dockett.

The newly designed streets, called the Atlantic Avenue Extension, lengthened Atlantic Avenue to 94th Street to make for a more direct — and more aesthetic — trip between the Van Wyck Expressway and Downtown Jamaica.

The playground is one of three new “pocket parks” that Dockett said folks in Jamaica of all ages can begin enjoying the park immediately.

“Children can come to the playground today,” Dockett said, and it has just about everything an adventurous child might want, including slides, rope ladders, a rock wall and sprinklers for little feet to run over, through and around. There even is playground equipment for the musically inclined.

Plus, if one is into trains, one can look up periodically and see the JFK AirTrain running just outside the park overhead between the airport and the nearby Jamaica Station of the Long Island Rail Road.

“If you’re child, you can play here,” Dockett

Councilmembers Adrienne Adams, left, and Daneek Miller hold up the recently cut ribbon in the best place to be on a hot sunny morning — right near the sprinklers at the new Gateway Park PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON Playground in Jamaica. said. Adults without children, he said, can take leisurely strolls along the landscaped paths and sidewalks, or even stop and relax on any of the new benches.

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Surfing scribe went from reporting to Rockaway go surfing in the Rockaways.

That’s right. Gave up a job at the pinnacle of her career to go sliding down waves off Beach 90th Street in Rockaway Beach. Curtain. End of play.

“I never stopped loving the work. I loved my job,” Cardwell told the Chronicle. “It was the hardest professional decision I ever made.”

The Times was not her first rodeo. Before being hired in 1995, she’d been a founder of Vibe magazine and, before that, an editor at 7 Days, the New York culture weekly.

Recently divorced, she began to question if she still had what it took to work at a large, high-pressure place like The Times.

“As I got older, I realized that I valued my time more than anything else,” she said.

So when the newspaper began looking for volunteers to take a buyout, Cardwell agonized for weeks before raising her hand.

“I wanted to live a different way,” she said. “I wanted more control over my time and what I did with it.” continued on page 25

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In 1981, a new comedy called “Grown Ups” by the cartoonist Jules Feiffer opened on Broadway.

The play was about a middle-aged political reporter for The New York Times named Jake who discovers that he is surrounded, at home and work, by emotional infants.

In the final scene, a fed-up Jake announces to his family that his life was such a mess that he is quitting his high-powered job at The Times. The stage goes silent. Curtain. End of play.

Back then, quitting your job at The New York Times was the career equivalent of giving back the million dollars you’d just won in the lottery. Only a crazy person would do something like that. It was a big enough moment to end a Broadway show.

Flash forward nearly 40 years. Times, and The New York Times, have changed.

Diane Cardwell, 55, spent 22 years at The Times, covering business and politics, editing at the vaunted Sunday Magazine and running the paper’s City Hall bureau for a time.

Then, in 2017, she up and quit the newspaper to

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Piano teacher Helen Collomb and Abraham Tuvim, who was nine years her junior, welcomed their only child, Judith, on June 21, 1921 after four years of marriage. In 1927 when young Judy was only 6, her parents divorced. Judy and her mother moved out of the apartment at 251 East 108 St. in Manhattan to a newly built house at 39-45 44 St. in Sunnyside.

She developed a passion for music and stage acting, which her mother deeply supported. Judy began a career in movies in 1944, and 20th Century Fox changed her last name to Holliday. She was known for her “dumb blonde” roles, but had an IQ of 172.

Judy won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1950 for “Born Yesterday.”

In 1948, Holliday married clarinetist David Oppenheim, but they divorced 10 years later. In 1952, she was called to testify before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to answer claims she was associated with communism, but the investigation was resolved after three months.

After her last movie in 1960, she dated

The childhood home of Academy-Award winning actress Judy Holliday at 39-45 44 St. in Sunnyside, as it appeared when she lived INSET VIA WIKIPEDIA there in the 1930s. jazz great Gerry Mulligan. He wrote the music and she wrote the lyrics on their album “Holliday with Mulligan.”

Holliday fought breast cancer for five years before passing away on June 7, 1965 two weeks shy of her 44th birthday.

Her Sunnyside childhood home is valued Q today at $1,123,000 by city assessment.

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From the time he first risked death trying to desegregate Nashville lunch counters and register blacks in the South to vote, U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) was never one to parse his words.

“I feel lucky and blessed that I’m serving in the Congress,” Lewis says, sitting in a studio at the beginning of the new documentary “John Lewis: Good Trouble.” “But there are forces today trying to take us back to another time, and another dark period.

We’ve come so far and made so much progress, but as a nation and as a people, we’re not quite there yet.”

Lewis, diagnosed in December with pancreatic cancer, died last Friday night at age 80. Director Dawn Porter’s documentary can be viewed via the website of the Museum of the Moving Image. Half the $12 charge goes to the museum if viewers use the link on movingimage.us. The screenings have been available for seveal weeks and will remain so indefinitely.

The cameras follow Lewis on the campaign trail as he stumps for Democrats across the country in 2018 and goes back to the farm his family still owns in Troy, Ala., where his siblings recall he was never content to work when school was in session or when as

John Lewis, in the light trench coat, and others at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Lewis PHOTO BY SPIDER MARTIN / COURTESY MAGNOLIA PICTURES trained others in nonviolent protest. a teenager he went to visit the Rev. Martin Luther King after sending him a letter.

“He always called me ‘the boy from Troy,’” Lewis says.

His mother always pleaded with him to stay out of trouble; he was 15 when the actions of Rosa Parks and the words of King “inspired me to get into trouble. Good trouble. Necessary trouble.”

The film includes interviews with his colleagues in the civil rights movement and Congress; and even office staffers — and

yes, even a revered civil rights icon still kept business hours in his district office in Atlanta to discuss constituents’ problems and interests when he was not in Washington.

Hopping back and forth between past and present, viewers see Lewis and others filmed as they train to respond with nonviolence for what they were certain to face at the lunch counter sit-in; a mug shot of a young man from an Alabama police station; that same young man speaking with reporters as fresh blood has splattered on his shirt,

tie and jacket — and a man who is beaten and trampled before television cameras at the head of a line of marchers who stand silently as Alabama National Guardsmen charge the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The Bloody Sunday encounter would leave Lewis hospitalized with a fractured skull.

Porter also captures private moments both funny and poignant. In his home, Lewis reflects on several pieces of art collected by him and his wife, Vivian. His rock of support, she is featured prominently throughout the film, up to news footage of a grieving Lewis at her funeral in 2012. He glances at a photo with Julian Bond, a friend and fellow leader from their Freedom Rider days — “That was so dangerous” — and the man whom he later would defeat in an ugly congressional primary in 1986.

But he also is shown as down-to-earth, feeding chickens at a recent visit to the farm; in a viral video created by a staffer synched to Pharrell Williams’ hit song “Happy”; and in the story of an incredible act of kindness Lewis performed for his chief of staff Michael Collins, whose father was being buried the day President George W. Bush was signing the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act into law in Washington, D.C. “John Lewis was at my father’s funeral,” Q Collins said.

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heart of the book.

She’d discovered the sport while working on a real-estate story in Montauk several years before. “Dumbstruck” is how she describes seeing surfers for the first time in person.

“I felt as though I’d stumbled upon a secret tribe of magical creatures — fairies and nymphs,” she writes. “I couldn’t believe this was surfing, a sport to which I’d never given much more than a glancing thought.”

She discovered the Rockaways a short time later by looking at a map and realizing she could get there from her apartment in Brooklyn on the subway.

“There was always something going on somewhere, and it was easy to meet people because we were all there for similar reasons: the call of surfing, the pull of the ocean, the weird, rough-edged peacefulness of the place,” she writes.

“I found a community I didn’t know I was looking for,” she said. “I knew this is the life I wanted.”

She found a button-cute bungalow in Rockaway Beach, a block from the peninsula’s most popular surfing spot, and, in 2012, moved in.

Diane Cardwell, catchin’ a wave and sittin’ on top of the world. On the cover: The veteran journalist has penned a book about her surfin’ safari, “Rockaway: Surfing HeadPHOTOS BY MICHAEL ROVNYAK / MJRPHOTO.NET, ABOVE, AND MICHAEL SHAIN long Into a New Life.”

The zen of Cardwell’s life change is captured in an early surfing lesson.

After a frustrating morning on the waves, her instructor launches her toward the beach one more time. “Ride the wave, not the board,” he yells after her.

“I realized that he was right: I’d been so focused on standing up and staying on the board that I hadn’t been paying attention to

staying in the wave.”

Sometimes, a surfboard is more than a surfboard.

At the end of the lesson, Cardwell picks up her board and, sore and tired, trudges up the beach heading for home.

“That’s how you want to feel,” he tells her. “You never want to leave a session lookQ ing back at the ocean.”

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continued from page 23 “Rockaway: Surfing Headlong Into a New Life” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is the book she has written about how, “in middle age, I pivoted from my get-ahead, careerfocused existence to something that seemed more meaningful.”

What it takes to learn how to maneuver a 9-foot splint of fiberglass through the waves and how the pursuit of a flawless, 45-second ride is as much a lifestyle as a sport is the

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‘It’s starting to wake up and to get better’ Food writer, tour guide sees upswing; Queens Together talks feeding needy

by David Russell Associate Editor

The restaurant business is improving four months after the coronavirus crisis began in the city, says food writer and culinary tour guide Joe DiStefano.

“It’s starting to wake up and to get better,” the “111 Places in Queens That You Must Not Miss” author said last Thursday during a discussion about the food industry on QPTV. “That’s my impression of Queens overall.”

DiStefano predicted around 20 percent of the borough’s restaurants won’t reopen, though he added it might be more. He also believes bars will do “poorly,” noting that Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has urged Americans not to go to bars.

The restaurants that can adapt easily will do the best, especially ones that were already doing a lot of takeout business.

“Pizza places are going to be just fine because they’re already built for this,” DiStefano said.

Mom-and-pop restaurants don’t have as much money as chain restaurants, seemingly putting them in a “bad place” but he also looked at a positive.

“There’s sort of an immigrant sense of resiliency and kind of a can-do attitude,” DiStefano said.

Food writer and culinary tour guide Joe DiStefano, third row, speaks about restaurants and bars FACEBOOK SCREENSHOT / QPTV in the borough amidst the coronavirus crisis.

He was joined in the talk by a pair of people in the food industry and three QPTV hosts.

Awang Kitchen on Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst closed for two months.

“We were scared about the virus,” Awang, the owner, who just goes by one name, said. “I don’t want to make my employees sick.”

He said he still has to pay the rent but he and his landlord are working out a deal.

DiStefano praised Awang for letting people eat in his van one afternoon as pouring rain prevented them from dining outside.

“You made it work,” DiStefano said. “And that’s what it’s about.”

Chef Jonathan Forgash co-founded Queens Together with Jaime Faye-Bean of the Sunnyside Shines business group to support the food industry with money and in turn provide the hungry with food.

“The restaurants are here,” Forgash said.

“We don’t need soup kitchens coming in from the Red Cross or out of state. We have resources, the kitchen, the staff.”

Forgash said about $86,000 was raised in two and a half months, which was given to restaurants to produce meals.

“We believe this is Queens in action,” Forgash said.

He said around 500 families show up every Thursday at Variety Boys & Girls Club of Queens at 30-55 21 St. in Astoria to take home fresh produce, dry goods and a variety of prepared meals. Forgash said all kinds of people, including the elderly, disabled people, children and pregnant women, come for the help.

“New York already had a huge childhood hunger problem before the virus struck,” Forgash said.

He added that Corona, Elmhurst, Jamaica, Laurelton, St. Albans and Ozone Park were “devastated” as well.

Forgash also spoke about the importance of his work as a chef. “Our job is to take care of people,” Forgash said. “It might sound corny Q but it’s why we cook.”

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The Mets are scheduled to begin their truncated 2020 season tomorrow but more exciting action may be in the executive suite as the owners, the Wilpon family, have announced their intention to sell their equity stake. The investment banking firm Allen & Co. has been retained by them and they’ve narrowed the potential buyers to three entities. The favorite is the man who thought he had a deal to buy the team earlier in the year before negotiations broke down, hedge fund entrepreneur Steven Cohen.

It’s estimated he is worth $13 billion and the conventional wisdom is if it comes down to who makes the highest bid, he will be victorious.

He has a few blemishes, however. In 2012, he was implicated in an insider trading scandal. He wasn’t charged with a felony but he did pay a hefty civil fine. Others at his firm, SAC Capital Advisors, were criminally charged and convicted. Given the Wilpons’ involvement with Bernie Madoff, selling their majority stake to Cohen, who is already a minority owner with the team, wouldn’t be good optics. State Sen. Jessica Ramos, who represents the district where Citi Field is located, wrote an op-ed in last Friday’s New York Daily News stating exactly that.

Fred Wilpon’s fellow owners, who have to give their blessing for the sale to go through, may be concerned about these things. They may

also worry Cohen could go on a free agent spending spree if he got control of the Mets.

The bidding group that has attracted the most buzz is that publicly headed by Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez and a host of other athletes.

The money folks behind them include the owner of the NHL’s Florida Panthers, Vincent Viola, and Vitaminwater’s co-founder, Middle Village native son Mike Repole.

Repole owns a number of thoroughbreds and when I chatted with him at a Belmont Stakes press event a couple of years ago he told me he had no interest in owning the Mets, even though he was a huge fan. The third group, which is certainly the most low-key, consists of the tandem of financiers Josh Harris and David Blitzer, who together own the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers and the NHL’s New Jersey Devils.

Harris has shown to be a hands-on owner as he transformed the Sixers from being a joke to a title contender. He also fired longtime Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello in spite of his three Stanley Cup rings. In my opinion he dismissed Lamoriello because he couldn’t care less about the team’s revenue streams and its lack of media coverage. Last week, the New York Post reported Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson was part of the Harris-Blitzer team, but he quickly denied it.

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HOWARD BEACH Cross Bay Blvd., 2nd fl., 350 sq. ft. ............$1,500/mo., plus heat & electric Both good for attorney, mortgage company,

CO-OPS & CONDOS FOR SALE Mint Garden 3½ RMs, 2nd Flr ............................ $219K Garden 3 BRs, 1 bath, Needs TLC ...................... $224K Hi-Rise Mint 2 BRs, 2 baths, terrace .................................................................. $305K Mint Garden 3 BRs, 1 full bath, dogs allowed under 35 lbs., washer dryer & dishwasher........................................................ $319K Deluxe Mint Garden 3 BR converted to 2, granite & S.S. Appliances, wine fridge, hi-hats, claw ft. tub, parking spot available immediately ......... Asking $359K

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Base Maint: $741.23, Spectrum: $52.00, Energy assessment: $64.00, AC’s (2): $28.00, Security Service: $10.00= $895.23.

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