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Pols ask JFK workers to stop parking on residential streets PAGE 5 Several cars s line a Howard Beach h street, street street some supposedly belonging to JFK workers. Residents have said that they have a hard time coming across parking spots in their own neighborhood because the airport workers leave their cars there for days at a time. Councilman Eric Ulrich and Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder are calling for an end to the practice.

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Crowding, delays set for Queens Blvd. lines Track replacement work will likely snarl subway traffic through Sept. 4

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s if cramming yourself into a subway car packed with other annoyed commuters at Queens stations such as Roosevelt Avenue wasn’t frustrating enough, the MTA is warning riders that delays and crowded conditions are expected during the morning and evening rush for the next three weeks.

Due to work on the express tracks of the Queens Boulevard line, some E and F trains will run on the local tracks when maintenance is in progress, limiting the number of trains that can use the local and express tracks at a given time.

And even when they run along the express line, the presence of MTA personnel working in the tunnels will reduce the speeds of E and F trains to a crawl.

Instead of traveling around 40 miles per hour, the express trains will move at just 10 miles per hour between stations.

Work will include the rebuilding of various sections of rail along the express tracks underneath the borough, with the reduction in service occurring between 6:30 and 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 and 8 p.m.

MTA spokeswoman Marisa Baldeo said in an email to the Chronicle on Tuesday that the end of the summer was the most

Commuters jam their way into a crowded Queens-bound E train at the Roosevelt Avenue station in Jackson Heights during rush hour on Tuesday evening. Scenes like this may be common through PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BARCA Sept. 4 as the MTA begins critical track work this week. logical time to make such critical improvements to the line.

“The work is necessary to keep the Queens Boulevard line, the second-busiest line in the subway system, in a state of good repair,” Baldeo said. “It was scheduled for the end of August, when ridership is lower than other times of the year, so that fewer customers would be inconvenienced.”

Riders Alliance Deputy Director Nick Sifuentes said in a phone interview on Tuesday that such construction work, while necessary and understandable, may still cause headaches for countless riders just trying to get from point A to point B. “This is definitely going to lead to delays and crowding,” Sifuentes said. “Hopefully it won’t be as bad as what we see on the 7.”

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While the straphangers advocate said the much-needed work shouldn’t be a cause for anger among riders, the extremely short notice given by the MTA prior to the start of the project was upsetting.

“We only heard of it this week. It came a little bit out of the blue,” he said. “There definitely should be more outreach. Riders want to know in advance what’s happening.”

Delays will impact thousands of riders along the line. The Roosevelt Avenue station in Jackson Heights — which serves the E, F, M, R and 7 trains — is the second-busiest stop in Queens, serving an average of 51,285 people per weekday last year.

The Forest Hills-71st Avenue station, where riders can catch the E, F, M or R trains, served an average of 27,784 people in 2014, third most in Queens, just ahead of the Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike station and its average of 27,693 riders.

The Woodhaven Boulevard stop in Rego Park is the busiest in Queens that serves only the M and R local lines with an average ridership of 22,156.

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by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

John F. Kennedy International Airport employees have been using residential streets in South Queens as their personal parking lot for a while — and now elected officials and residents are asking for an end to the practice.

“They need to be conscious of where they’re parking,” Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) said in an interview. “It’s really not asking for too much.”

Goldfeder has teamed up with Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) in asking the Transportation Security Administration and major airlines to make sure their employees park in the appropriate places.

“Families in these communities should not have to spend considerable time days and night searching for a parking space in their own neighborhood,” the two politicians said in a joint letter dated Aug. 17. According to the letter, the employees are parking in Howard Beach, Ozone Park and surrounding neighborhoods.

Letters were sent to passenger airlines Delta, JetBlue Airways, American, British Airways and United.

The politicians also wrote to freight companies Fed Ex, Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, Korean and Lufthansa.

Both Ulrich and Goldfeder will soon meet

These cars are parked in the lot of the vacant Howard Beach Staples on Cross Bay Boulevard, but others have been spotted on residential streets in South Queens neighborhoods. Elected PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY officials want that to stop. with TSA representatives to “consider possible solutions” to the issue.

A TSA spokeswoman said in an email “TSA is looking forward to a constructive dialog on the subject.”

A Queens Chronicle reporter on Monday noticed several cars with out-of-state license plates parked in front of Howard Beach

houses. According to one resident, who wished not to be named for fear of retribution, those cars belong to the JFK workers.

“It’s upsetting,” the resident said.

That resident said the workers used to keep their cars in the parking lot of the nowclosed Staples store on Cross Bay Boulevard, but for the past month have started using the

streets as well.

“I don’t care if they park in the parking lot,” the resident said. “But this is not right.”

Another resident, who also wished to maintain anonymity, said the cars can be there for three days or more.

“We can’t even park our cars on our own blocks any more,” the resident said.

Both residents said they have noticed the cars have parking cards inside that show how long the owner will be away.

Ulrich, in a statement, said the employees should “be parking their vehicles on Port Authority property, not in front of homes in Ozone Park and Howard Beach.

“Hopefully they can take action to alleviate this problem to free up as much-needed parking for homeowners,” he added.

Besides taking up parking spots, workers putting their cars on the blocks contribute noise and traffic to the area — both residents and elected officials said.

“It’s more of a problem than you think,” one of the anonymous residents said.

In their letter, Ulrich and Goldfeder said the added number of cars “increases traffic on otherwise quiet residential streets.

“The large amount of cars in the neighborhood has become a quality of life issue for the residents and must be addressed,” the letQ ter states.

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Application put in to landmark Neir’s Crowley, tavern owner hopeful that historic bar gets necessary approvals

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a last-minute meeting,” Colberg said of the tavern. “There’s a lot of other organizations who come from outside of our comNeir’s Tavern has 186 years of history inside it — and now munity to do shows at Neir’s. So it allows people to come into Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale) is endorsing our community to see what we’re about.”

Loycent Gordon, the owner of Neir’s, said he is only seeka proposal to have the city officially recognize its significance ing to have the interior landmarked — but added he’d like to by making it a city landmark.

“It’s like no other place in the city,” Crowley said in an have the exterior done as well.

“Eventually we’d like to do the exteriinterview. “It’s a part of our rich culor,” Gordon said. ture and makes Woodhaven more of Crowley, too, would like to see the a place to come visit and a better t’s not just any other whole building preserved. place to live.”

“It’s not just any other building. It’s The Woodhaven bar, located at 87-48 building. It’s historic historic and it should be kept that way,” 78 St., is the oldest bar in the city to conthe councilwoman said. “By landmarktinually operate in the same location. and it should be ing it, it will stay for the enjoyment of Opened in 1829, it first served kept that way.” generations to come.” patrons who were on their way to watch Once a structure has been designated horse races at the Union Course rac— Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley a landmark by the city, the owner of the track, formerly located a few blocks building must obtain the approval of the away.

Several artifacts from the racetrack days can be found at Landmarks Preservation Commission to make any changes to it. the bar.

Colberg said that although he, too, would like to see the Legendary entertainer Mae West is said to have had her exterior landmarked, he’s happy the process has begun for the first performances at the bar.

But most know it best as the bar where Joe Pesci, Ray Liot- inside.

“I think it’s a great step forward and a start to have the inteta and Robert de Niro gathered in the movie “Goodfellas.”

But for Martin Colberg, president of the Woodhaven Resi- rior landmarked,” he said. “The entire building itself does dents’ Block Association, it’s also a place for civic groups and have a lot of history.”

Gordon, the owner of the bar since 2009, said he is waiting residents to come together.

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Clock is ticking for ambulance corps Volunteer group’s insurance runs out in November, member says

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

The Woodhaven-Richmond Hill Ambulance Corps is running out of time.

A self-described member of the volunteer organization, who did not give his name, at last Saturday’s Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association meeting said the group has “exactly zero dollars, and zero cents” in its budget and its insurance on their 78-15 Jamaica Ave. headquarters — which has been in disrepair since the building next to it partially collapsed more than two years ago after a heavy downpour — runs out in November.

“Something has to be done by then,” the member said. “More than likely, the building will be sold. There’s a good chance then that the ambulance corps will cease to exist as a corporate entity.”

However, the member said, the group is looking to form a partnership with the Lindenwood Volunteer Ambulance Corps.

Since the partial collapse of the building next door, the ambulance corps has not been operating and is in a state of financial distress. The building’s main tenant, the Woodhaven-Richmond Hill Senior Center, has since relocated to the American Legion Hall at 89-02 91 St. The rent paid by that group was the ambulance corps’ largest

As the partially-collapsed building at 78-19 Jamaica Ave. remains unfixed, the fate of the Woodhaven-Richmond Hill Ambulance Corps continues to get darker. Civic and elected officials FILE PHOTO are calling on the group to reach out to them for help before it’s too late. source of revenue.

The group has a lawsuit filed against George Kochabe, the owner of the damaged building, for lost revenue.

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“The entire building, and all, not some of it, not most of it, but all of the possessions and equipment, including the ambulance, is fully infested and encrusted with mold and mildew,” the member said.

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The member called that building, at 78-19 Jamaica Ave., “a hollow shell.”

“He hasn’t done thing one,” he said.

Civic and elected officials told the member they need to work with the ambulance corps to see if anything can be done to save it. Martin Colberg, WRBA president, said he’s had difficulty getting in contact with the group.

“We need input from the ambulance corps,” Colberg said. “We need to reopen that line of communication. We are in communication with them when we can get in communication with them.”

The Queens Chronicle was unable to reach the ambulance corps’ presidents for comment by press time.

Colberg also criticized the extensions given to Kochabe.

“The judge is giving him all the opportunities to be the right guy,” he said in an interview after the meeting. “It’s not fair that we’re talking about more than two years and you have such an important organization to this community shut down.”

Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) said he’s ready to support the ambulance corps when they’re ready.

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Keeping Jamaica Bay alive, on film and for real

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ere at the Queens Chronicle, the next installment of “Star Wars” isn’t the only film years in the making and set for release in the months ahead that we’re eagerly looking forward to.

No, while we enjoy the events of a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away as much as anyone, we’re thinking closer to home and can’t wait for the first full screening of “Jamaica Bay Lives,” the documentary about our favorite big estuary by environmentalist, author and former Chronicle Editor-in-Chief Dan Hendrick. He expects the film, now nearing the end stages of production, to be ready this fall. He hopes to show it on public television, at film festivals and in the communities that surround the bay.

You could hardly find a better topic for an environmental documentary film in New York City. Jamaica Bay has a long and often tortured history and is full of contradictions, but remains vitally important to the ecology of not just the city but really the entire Eastern Seaboard.

Of course it was not always protected as well as it is now, and more must be done to restore it as much as possible. That’s one of the major reasons Hendrick’s film is so important — to draw more awareness and, perhaps, fund-

ing and other resources to this 18,000-acre wetland estuary that’s home to hundreds of species of birds, beasts and fish. It is, as he points out, the city’s largest open space, bigger than Central, Prospect and Van Cortlandt parks combined. It’s nearly the size of Manhattan, and occupies almost one-tenth of the city’s entire geographic area.

For a long time it was abused, a dumping ground ringed by landfills and industry. To some degree it still is. On its eastern end, Kennedy Airport is one of the two dozen busiest in the world, with all the pollution that brings. On its western end, Floyd Bennett Field used to be an airport. On the western side of the Floyd Bennett peninsula is Dead Horse Bay, named for just the reason you’d imagine: It’s where they used to dump the bones of the horse carcasses processed there. Charles Park in Howard Beach certainly needs a major cleanup but it’s got nothing on Dead Horse Bay’s Bottle Beach, an utterly filthy stretch of shoreline filled with garbage from a landfill dating back a century.

Four sewage treatment plants empty into Jamaica Bay. Yet the estuary and much of its wildlife survive, demonstrating the power of nature against the worst mankind can throw at it. And for the last several decades, they’ve had a

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Meanwhile, every week Social Security recipients are struggling to “get by” because their annual cost of living allowance is repeatedly cut and no longer comes close to keeping up with rising costs. I don’t think this is fair.

Over the last thirty years, government bureaucrats have quietly made a series of small, complex and highly technical changes to the way the COLA is calculated. By changing the calculation method, they lowered the COLA in a manner that hardly anyone would notice, but which, over time, has slashed Social Security benefits by millions of dollars.

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lot of help. Master planner Robert Moses got thousands of acres declared parkland in 1938 and thwarted proposals to build an industrial port and make more landfills. After the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was established, one Herbert Johnson worked to save and restore the nesting grounds of shorebirds and waterfowl that call the bay home.

In more recent times, the government and environmental groups such as the American Littoral Society, NYC Audubon and the Trust for Public Land have worked together on restoration projects ranging from the rebuilding of the disappearing marshlands to plain old volunteer beach cleanups. Birds in particular are thriving, with the bay being a key stop for many that migrate along the Atlantic Flyway, though sadly, some have been killed out of concerns they could disable planes. And Hurricane Sandy certainly took its toll on the marshes and more.

This is the wondrous place explored in “Jamaica Bay Lives.” The film’s stars, Hendrick says, are four activists working hard to protect the bay: Don Riepe, Dan Mundy Sr., Dan Mundy Jr. and Barbara Brown. But it’s the bay itself that gets top billing. We’re sure the movie will be a fitting tribute to this gem in our midst. Don’t miss it.

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tion. It is NOT an entitlement — it is paid for by the employer and the employee. (Most elderly live on little more.) If you are so angry and upset by entitlements, I invite you to set the example by giving up your outrageous government retirement packages, all your paid holidays and your free healthcare.

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Oppose new Bayside school Dear Editor: The School Construction Authority is proposing to construct a new high school on the site of the Bayside Jewish Center on 32nd Avenue and 203rd Street. This has raised concerns among local residents who feel the site is inappropriate because of limited space and parking and traffic concerns.

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supports these residents and our colleagues from the Northwest Clearview Civic Association in opposing a large high school at this site. We all understand the need for new schools, however, the SCA has chosen this site without listening to the input of those who know their neighborhood best, the residents who live there and who will be directly affected by the impact of a new school.

We have also heard that a new school is planned for Linden Place in Flushing. This site is highly congested and the residents are opposing the plan. They are willing to discuss alternative plans. However, the SCA seems unresponsive.

This method of choosing a site for a school seems to be par for the course in the way that the SCA operates. Just recently, the SCA had decided to construct a new school on the former Keil Nursery property on 48th Avenue and 211th Street, in Bayside. That property goes right up the middle of the block adjacent to residents’ backyards. Any privacy will be gone once the school is constructed. This site is also

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Questions for candidates Dear Editor: (An open letter to the candidates for City Council in District 23): What would you do to correct the current problem of the proliferation of spas in the Bellerose/Queens Village Business District?

These so-called spas are nothing more than massage parlors. They do not belong in our middle-class neighborhoods. The storefronts are “completely” covered with advertisements highlighting their phone numbers. Upon entering one finds no price list; only massages and table washes or showers are offered. As one glances around one finds curtain-lined cubicles. Most of these massage parlors have no secondary exits and are fire traps.

Calls to 311 complaining about obvious false advertising and the practice of using female oriental sex trade workers are merely referred the Police Department. A New York Post series on this subject noted that police may not undress when investigating this situation. Who can effectively correct this problem?

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Dear Editor: Mr. Rodin (8/13/2015 issue) attacked a letter written by Anthony Pilla, a dedicated public servant, as “anti-Semitic” because he supports the nuclear treaty with Iran, as do the majority of peace-loving American citizens. Mr. Rodin should also read Mr. Haber’s and Mr. Lam’s letters in the same issue, who also support the pact with Iran. Will he now attack everyone who disagrees with him?

Iran poses no military threat to Israel. A peaceful, stable Middle East is in the interests of the American people, the Iranian people, the people of Israel, the region and the world.

We military veterans know that war is horrible as well as futile. The militarization of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East has been a disaster for all concerned. I am grateful that President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry have pursued diplomacy with Iran, which is our best opportunity for more stability in the region.

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who are sick of the current political welfare recipients now in office, who have been ineffectual and unaccountable rip-off artists, taking our money and not doing the work they were elected to do.

To Tyler Cassell: Yes, many of us would like to go back to a time when Obamacare was called Medicare. It served ONLINE the same pu rpose and didn’t Mis s an edi tor ial, cost the taxpayletter or article cited by ers millions a writer? Want news more — a high from our other editions price to pay for covering the rest of the pomposit y Queens? Find breaking and ar rogance news, past reports and of its namesake. more at qchron.com.

And yes, a time when marriage was a civil right only between men and women. Pity our poor children who must deal with this. And yes, a time when abortion was a medical necessity and not a convenient remedy for “Oops!” And yes, a time when we didn’t pay our sworn enemy to continue terrorizing and murdering us.

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Even months after, no one is sure what will be built at the site. Shouldn’t a city agency be accountable and responsive to the public who pays their salaries?

The SCA seems to be a world unto itself.

The Department of Education does not seem to coordinate with the SCA. Senator Tony Avella is proposing legislation that will compel the SCA to include the community and local elected officials into the process of school site selection. Our civic association supports this legislation wholeheartedly.

Many people feel that a new high school is not really needed in the Bayside area. Our three local public high schools are overcrowded because students from faraway neighborhoods are allowed to attend these schools.

These students are motivated to come to Bayside because their local high schools are seen as inferior and/or unsafe. Wouldn’t it make more sense for the DOE to concentrate on improving these high schools so that all students can attend an excellent high school in their own neighborhoods?

It is time for the SCA and the DOE to stop acting in an imperial manner and listen to and work with local residents on proposals that will affect communities for years to come.

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We need effective legislation to counteract this type of blatant false advertising. The blight on our business area and our middleclass neighborhoods must stop.

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by Cristina Schreil) about U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s visit to Elmhurst last week to urge better nutritional offerings in our schools. Adding fresh fruits and vegetables in school cafeterias is a crucial step in the war on obesity.

Nearly half of New York City’s schoolchildren are overweight, and the problem is worse in underserved communities. School lunch is crucial in a child’s day; it is an opportunity to serve what might be their only balanced meal that day and can be a tool to teach proper nutrition.

But this is a problem that stretches beyond the cafeteria, and the culprit is often at the corner store. That is why New York Junior Tennis & Lear ning and EmblemHealth have attacked this problem by launching a Healthy Living curriculum that introduces inner-city students at a number of public elementary and middle schools in Queens and beyond to smarter nutritional choices.

This curriculum equips each student with a laminated “Bodega Buddy” clip card that hooks onto a bookbag and reminds him or her to make smarter choices when stepping into a corner deli. The program also engages parents with cost-effective steps and recipes they can adopt to slim their family’s waistlines — without slimming their wallets.

We are heartened that our elected officials are endeavoring to ensure healthier options during the school day. And we will continue to provide a smart, sensible way for kids and families to embrace healthier decisions outside of school walls, and instill good nutrition and fitness habits to last a lifetime.

Deborah Antoine President and CEO New York Junior Tennis & Learning

Dear Editor: For the past year, I‚ have worked with the children and parents living in a homeless shelter in my neighborhood. From my experiences, I can truly say they are our friends and neighbors. They are just like any other New Yorkers — struggling to survive in an expensive city where paying rent is out of reach, even with a job or living in the outer boroughs.

After living and/or working in Elmhurst for many years, last summer I was shocked by the dramatic protests in a normally quiet neighborhood. One thousand people gathered outside the old Pan Am Hotel to protest

the placement of families with children. I was deeply troubled by the sight. Having grown up as the son of immigrant parents who struggled with community acceptance, it pained me to see families made to feel unwelcome in our neighborhood. Many of the protestors were immigrants or the children of immigrants themselves and should have been sympathetic to those needing a chance, just as they once did.

Initially, I entered the shelter to make sure the families were okay and to see if I could make a small difference in their lives during a trying time. I sponsored a barbecue at the nearby New Life Church for the shelter residents and community, in order to diffuse some of the tension and it helped‚ the atmosphere became much less hostile. Since then, my co-workers and fellow City Mission parishioners at the Newtown Church have worked on many community projects for the shelter residents such as back-to-school programs and donations for the children; seasonal events for the holidays; events to create family time such as donated board games and family portrait sessions; and monthly activities for children including small competitions, arts and crafts, and dancing.

I say all this because we shouldn‘t fear the unknown or dwell on how our neighborhood will change when a shelter comes to our community. We all have a moral obligation to support those in need and while we won’t be able to change everyone’s mind, those who have joined our events have shown a strong sense of community. Homelessness is a complex issue. We all have a moral obligation to support those who need us by putting the politics aside.

Going forward, I will continue to work coordinating events and activities for the families and children at the Pan Am. One shelter resident is a college student who now works as an assistant at my job in title insurance. I hope that the work my partners and I do shows communities that the people living in shelters are our friends and neighbors, who just happen to need a chance, just like most of us once needed.

Lester Lin City Mission Event Coordinator Elmhurst

Dangerous driving Dear Editor: With deepening concern for auto drivers and pedestrians in general, I am finding it increasingly difficult to consider driving just about anywhere these days!

Too many accidents seem to occur because of the “speeders,” and the many individuals who must go on red traffic lights before they turn green.

Whether these people are younger or older, they must be restrained as often as possible, and realize that endangering lives, including their own because of their carelessness, must finally cease!

Driving these days is a necessity in many areas, as sufficient public transportation is unfortunately lacking in both urban and suburban parts of this city. Solutions, assuredly will not be simple, but must be found!

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Kinkajou spotted at Jamaica Bay center NY wildlife activists seek to rescue cute, but ‘bitey,’ tropical creature

by Peter C. Mastrosimone Editor-in-Chief

A photographer made an unusual find near the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Center last Thursday: a tropical animal called a kinkajou lounging in a tree.

Not knowing what it was, Elmhurst photographer Cesar Castillo sent an email out the next day to the birding community via the NYSBirds-L listserv, with a link to the photo he took and had posted to Flickr.

“Hi all,” Castillo wrote. “Yesterday I found this mammal resting at the top of trees to the left of the blind at Big John’s Pond. It seems to be an escaped or released illegal pet. Does anyone have any idea what it could be?”

The lensman, an avid birdwatcher for the past 15 years, said in a follow-up email to the Queens Chronicle that the find was one of the most exciting moments since he started the hobby.

“I never thought I would end up getting to see a neotropical mammal,” he said, adding that the animal stood still for most of the time he was observing it.

Though the kinkajou is not a bird, it didn’t take long for the naturalists on the list to identify the animal, which is native to Central America and the northern half of South America.

According to some emails that were forwarded to the Chronicle, it was Paul Sweet, the bird collections manager for the American Museum of Natural History, who first identified the critter as a kinkajou, or possibly a similar animal called an olingo.

Gabriel Willow, a naturalist, educator and guide with NYC Audubon who lives in Brooklyn, agreed.

“Yes, Paul is correct, it appears to be either a Kinkajou or Olingo (both are neotropical cousins of raccoons and ringtails)

Cute but feisty: This kinkajou, photographed at Big John’s Pond in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, may not be the friendliest creature you’ll meet, an animal rescuer warns.

PHOTO BY CESAR CASTILLO

— notice the prehensile tail, which only opossums have around our parts,” Willow said in an email. “Who would have one for a pet, and if they did, why would they toss it at a temperate wildlife refuge where it surely wouldn’t survive the winter?

“I hope someone can tempt it down with some bananas or something and send it to a zoo or animal rescue.

“You really never know what you’ll see in NYC parks!”

Later it was determined that it must be a kinkajou because olingos do not have prehensile tails — that is, tails that can be used for grasping things, such as food or tree branches.

The spot where it was seen is northeast of the park’s visitors center.

The Chronicle informed volunteer wildlife rescuers Cathy and Bobby Horvath of the discovery and forwarded Castillo’s photo to them. The Horvaths operate a service called WINORR, Wildlife in Need of Rescue and Rehabilitation, in North Massapequa, LI. Bobby Horvath is a firefighter with the FDNY, and the couple often takes in wild animals found in the city.

Cathy Horvath said the animal must have been dumped there, and that she and her husband would go check it out and determine how best to capture it. And she offered words of caution to anyone who might come across the kinkajou.

“They’re a little bit fresh,” she said. “If they’re not tame, they’re a little bit bitey. They look soft and cuddly, but they can mess you up.”

As of Monday, the Horvaths were seeking NPS’ permission to rescue the animal.

The kinkajou is a nocturnal critter that eats fruit and sometimes insects and, possibly, birds’ eggs and small vertebrates, according to Wikipedia and its sources. Also known as honey bears, they are mostly active between dusk and midnight and then again an hour before dawn.

“During daylight hours, kinkajous sleep in tree hollows or in shaded tangles of leaves, avoiding direct sunlight,” Wikipedia Q says.

Police tow illegally parked trucks in 102 Cops also targeting double-parked cars on Jamaica Avenue: Urprasad

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Motorists have a few more parking spots across the 102nd Precinct, after police towed several commercial trucks parked on residential streets last week.

Deput y Inspector Deodat Urprasad, commanding officer of the precinct, said at the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association meeting last Saturday that last week’s initiative was the second time trucks have been removed from the area, and that it will happen again.

“I’m going to continue to do the same thing,” Urprasad said.

Cops used a heavy-duty tow t r uck to remove the vehicles parked on residential streets. The commanding officer said the commercial vehicles are not allowed to stay on those blocks after 9 p.m. and that summonses had been given to them before the towing initiative took place.

“We do give them summonses, and we give them summonses and we g ive t h e m s u m mo n s e s ,” Urprasad said.

Commercial vehicles parking

on residential streets is a recurring issue in Woodhaven.

“We have a big parking issue in Woodhaven,” WRBA President Martin Colberg said. “And when you’re talking about commercial trucks, you’re talking about something that can take up two or three spots or more.”

Colberg said truck drivers may have been led to believe that it is acceptable to park in front of people’s homes because others have done so in the past.

“Unless they get towed and realize it’s really not [acceptable], it’s still going to be an issue,” he added.

The civic president thanked Ur p r a s a d fo r h i s p r o a c t ive approach in getting rid of the illegally parked vehicles.

“I think it’s great,” he said.

Urprasad added that the NYPD vehicle used to remove trucks is heavily requested by different precincts throughout the city.

Besides Woodhaven, the 102nd Precinct covers Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill and parts of Ozone Park.

Regarding other parking issues

The 102nd Precinct last week towed several commercial trucks parked on residential streets. Deputy Inspector Deodat Urprasad, commanding officer of the precinct, said that giving summonses to the truck drivers did not deter PHOTO COURTESY NYPD them from parking illegally. in Woodhaven, Urprasad said officers are working hard to tackle issues such as double-parked vehicles.

In a 28-day period, he said, the preci nct issued 891 pa rk i ng summonses.

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there,” he added.

He also told residents his officers are trying to quell aggressive panhandlers in the area.

“Sometimes, we arrest them and they come right back the next day,” he said.

Some of those, he added, have mental health issues and have to

be sent to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center’s psychiatric unit.

That issue was brought up by Kenichi Wilson, chair man of Community Board 9’s Transportation Committee, who said he has seen panhandlers set up lawn chairs where they ask people for Q money.

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Cheating scandal at John Adams High?

NY Post story claims assistant principal helped students get high marks on tests

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

John Adams High School in Ozone Park is the latest to come under fire for alleged cheating on tests.

A New York Post stor y on Sunday claimed an assistant principal there helped students on a Regents exam — on which, the paper reports, “nearly everyone in the class got almost all the answers correct.”

The Post cited a letter from a “whistleblower” sent in April to Merryl Tisch, chancellor of the state Board of Regents, who referred the information to the city.

Department of Education spokeswoman Devora Kaye said in an email on Tuesday about the alleged cheating, “There is absolutely zero tolerance for misconduct when it comes to following academic policies and ensuring the integrity of exams. We take any allegation of misconduct very seriously, and these allegations are currently under investigation.”

During an August 2014 Regents exam, the Post story states, John Adam’s Assistant Principal for English as a Second Language Breina Lampert and ESL teacher Solomon Choudhury entered a room where students were taking a test and stayed there for about 90 minutes.

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John Adams High School is the latest educational facility to become embroiled in a cheating scandal. A New York Post story claims an assistant principal there stayed in a classroom where FILE PHOTO students were taking a Regents exam and helped them get the right answers. student got question 17 wrong, but most of the others right.

“It’s a good thing that Mrs. Lampert came to our room to help us,” a student told one of his colleagues, according to the Post’s account of the whisteblower’s letter.

Former Assistant Principal for Security Adam Landman reportedly told the school’s

Principal Daniel Scanlon — who reportedly chose to ignore it. Scanlon could not be reached for comment on this story.

Landman, according to the Post, was transferred to supervise a far-off annex for ninth-graders.

A teacher at the high school, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he did not hear

of the alleged cheating — but said he understood why one might do it.

“It’s about integrity versus keeping the school open,” the teacher said. “There are different pressures on people. It’s all about numbers.”

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park) said it’s “unconscionable” to think that an educator would help students cheat on an exam.

“Cheating is doing a tremendous disservice to students,” Goldfeder said. “We need to make sure that students are getting the best education.”

John Adams High School is just the latest school to become embroiled in alleged cheating — others, including Richmond Hill High School, have been accused of in-house grading of state tests or creating bogus classes to help students graduate on time.

Many of the schools are part of Mayor de Blasio and city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña’s Renewal School program — an initiative to allocate extra resources to struggling schools in an effort to increase graduation rates.

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

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

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Activist seeks info on driver who hit his son Vishnu Mahadeo, father of the victim, pleads for public to help out with case

by Anthony O’Reilly

reported it to the authorities.

Mahadeo said his son, who turns 18 The son of a Richmond Hill business today, Aug. 20, is recovering from his activist was injured in a hit-and-run acci- injuries.

The 113th Precinct is offering a $2,500 dent two weeks ago, and now his family is asking for the community’s help in reward for any information that can lead them to an arrest of the driver — and finding the driver who sped away.

Mahadeo has put forth a matching “At this point we’re appealing to $2,500 for any information. the public so that we can idenO n S u n d a y, t h e d a y t if y th is d r iver,” Vish nu Mahadeo spoke to reporters M a h a d e o, t h e v ic t i m’s about the accident, a police father and president of officer was stationed on the Richmond Hill Ecothe highway service road, nom ic Development seemingly pulling over Corp., said at the interdrivers who were making s e c t ion of Ro ck away a similar turn to the one B o u l e v a r d a n d Va n the hit-and-r un motorist Wyck Expressway, where supposedly made. his son was hit.

Mahadeo and the NYPD Timothy Punarjit was have also put up wanted walking down Rockaway posters near the intersecBoulevard at about 10:25 Timothy Punarjit tion, asking anyone with p.m. on Aug. 7 when he PHOTO COURTESY VISHNU MAHADEO i n for mat ion to come was struck by a motorist at the northbound service road of the Van forward.

Mahadeo said he has also reached out Wyck Expressway. According to police records, the driver was making a right to state Sen. James Sanders Jr. (D-South turn onto the service road from Rocka- Ozone Park) and the Guyanese communiway Boulevard. The driver sped away, ty to help spread the word.

“I’m working to get as much informaleaving Punarjt in the middle of the street with head and leg injuries. An off-duty tion so we can identify this person,” he 911 operator witnessed the incident and said.

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The 113th Precinct is seeking any information that can lead to the arrest of a hit-and-run driver who seriously injured Timothy Punarjit, the son of Richmond Hill business activist Vishnu Mahadeo, PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY two weeks ago. Sign should read “pedestrian struck.”

The intersection, Mahadeo added, is usually safe. There are cameras set up near the area, but none of them have been able to provide any information on the driver.

The business activist said the Department

of Transportation worked to ensure the safety of the intersection by quickly painting necessary markings for pedestrians and drivers after the roadway had been repaved.

As of press time, no arrest had been made in Q connection to the case.

CB 9 committee talks liquor licenses Panel seeks to clarify how it looks at applications for serving alcohol

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Community Board 9’s Public Safety Committee is seeking to clarify how it reviews liquor license applications — one of the more contested issues during meetings of the full board.

In a draft document handed out at a committee meeting on Tuesday, Co-chairman Jim Cocovillo outlined how he and other members look at different establishments trying to obtain an off- or on-premises liquor license.

“This is what we go by to establish a reasonable motion to propose to the board,” Cocovillo said. “That’s what it comes down to.”

Among other requirements, the document, which will be made available to all board members at a future date, states that all establishments serving alcohol on-premises must have a restroom and any serving alcohol outside of their building must have a certificate of occupancy for that area.

It also lays out what the committee considers a deli, small restaurant, restaurant/bar and a full bar or lounge.

Community boards’ votes on liquor licenses are advisory and used to tell the State Liquor Authority — the government body that issues the licenses to establishments —

Members of Community Board 9’s Public Safety Committee look on as 102nd Precinct Community Affairs Officer Edwin Martinez explains how the police look at an establishment that wants to PHOTO BY ANTHONY O’REILLY renew its liquor license. how residents of the area feel about a particular place. The SLA can cast a different decision than the one agreed to by a community board.

Despite only having an advisory role, CB 9 has often found itself heavily debating the granting of liquor licenses to establishments — with some members saying there are too

many in the area. CB 9 represents Kew Gardens, Woodhaven, Richmond Hill and parts of Ozone Park.

Last October, some members proposed putting a moratorium on liquor licenses in those communities.

At the committee meeting, 102nd Precinct Community Affairs Officer Edwin

Martinez told members what he looks for when he is asked if an establishment wanting to renew its liquor license goes before the board.

“We look up for criminal complaints.

That’s what we’re looking for,” Martinez said. “Any criminal complaint that was prepared, using that address, it would pop up when I do that search for that address.”

Although quality-of-life concerns do sometimes arise during discussions on license renewals at full board meetings, Cocovillo said it should not be up to the 102nd Precinct to be tak ing time in researching all 311 complaints made against a drinking establishment.

“I’m sure there’s a lot of other things they need to attend to,” he said.

He added CB 9 should see if there’s a way to track down 311 complaint numbers and work with the appropriate agencies on different issues.

“If we can get a hold of a 311 number, then we don’t have to spend time on the phone,” he said. “We can put in an email to the necessary agency to get a response and status on that 311 call.”

Martinez said he does have access to 311 complaints, but that it could “take hours” to research any issues originating from a Q particular address.

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By now, most of us have seen the “Bus Lane” recently painted on Woodhaven Boulevard. While this new bus lane is not part of the recently proposed Select Bus Service project, it is part of the approved Bus Rapid Transit and the Congested Corridor initiative, a different plan to improve bus transportation. Over the past few months, central and southern Queens residents and elected officials – us included — have voiced strong opposition to the NYC Department of Transportation’s selection of their plan to bring SBS to Woodhaven-Cross Bay Boulevard, a plan that, while it may look promising on the surface, would actually be detrimental to the people of our community.

The proposal, as it stands now, seeks to remove the right-side traffic lane along the Woodhaven-Cross Bay Boulevard corridor to create a bus-only lane that would be used by the Q52 and Q53 routes. This would ultimately add unnecessary congestion to a main thoroughfare that is already extremely overcrowded and would place pedestrians at risk, as they would be forced to cross an active roadway in a limited time in order to board the bus from the median.

Recently, the DOT announced that it would be making changes to their plan to address some of the concerns that have been raised. One of these changes would be to add U-turn lanes to allow vehicles to access commercial streets such as Jamaica Avenue, in an attempt to deal with the issue of the SBS proposal hurting local businesses if vehicles could not turn onto main side streets such as Jamaica Avenue.

While we appreciate DOT’s show of good faith in choosing to hear our concerns, we must not yet accept this as a victory and must continue to urge the city to reform this proposal. Over the next few months, residents will be given the opportunity to pro-

vide critical feedback about this project.

We urge all constituents, whether you support the DOT plan or not, to contact your local civic associations, community boards and elected officials to ensure your voices are heard.

The DOT is set to make a decision about the SBS project by this fall. When that time comes, the city will move forward with a final plan, and it is vital that whatever plan they choose includes compromises that were reached as a result of community input. During this time, before a plan is settled on, we are given a critical and welcomed opportunity to provide feedback and make our mark on this proposal, rather than simply being forced to suffer the long-term consequences of a project we do not support.

We cannot stress enough how important it is that individuals take advantage of this opportunity.

Make your voice heard and let the city know that the current DOT selection of a plan that eliminates a lane of traffic on Woodhaven-Cross Bay Boulevard is the wrong choice for the community and another plan should be chosen to improve traffic conditions for bus riders, pedestriQ ans and car drivers.

Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. is New York State Senator for the 15th District, in South and southwestern Queens.

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School will soon be in session in Centreville.

The full City Council last Thursday unanimously approved the construction of a 500-seat primary school for the Ozone Park community. It had been okayed earlier last week by the Council Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Siting and Maritime Uses and then on Wednesday by the Land Use Committee. The school is expected to be completed in time for the 2017-18 school year. The facility — which will be bordered by Albert Road, Raleigh Street and North Conduit Avenue — will allow Cent-

reville parents to send their children to a school closer to their home.

For years, children have had to attend either PS 63, located at 90-15 Sutter Ave. — which requires crossing Cross Bay Boulevard — or PS 146 in Howard Beach, located at 98-01 159 Ave., which is across North Conduit Avenue.

The yet-to-be-named school will be primarily for children grades kindergarten to fifth grade — as well as 100 seats for special education students. Mayor de Blasio Q must now approve the school.

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Howard Beach Kiwanian wins race for head of service organization

by Anthony O’Reilly

the state.”

When his time as governor comes, SirStephen Sirgiovanni set his eyes on winning giovanni will be heading more than 250 clubs the governship of the Kiwanis New York Dis- with more than 7,000 members across the state — and no two of them are the same. trict and never looked back.

“In downstate, just like upstate, you can have And last Saturday, he achieved that goal as he beat out Candace Corsaro, of Niagara Falls, two different clubs and everybody is different,” he said. to become governor-elect.

He likened it to tak“I was relieved and I ing on another full-time, was happy,” Sirgiovanni albeit unpaid, job. said of winning the posiwas relieved and I “You have to be able tion. “I knew that if I to fit upstate, downstate was just myself that I was happy. I knew and all around. I have would be successful in that if I was just the job for 365 days. It’s the end. I’m looking fora big state to visit,” he ward to implementing myself that I would be said. “But I’m looking my ideas on membership and raising a lot of successful in the end.” forward to the opportunity to help the Kiwanis money for sending chil— Stephen Sirgiovanni thrive.” dren to Kamp Kiwanis, Besides working to Pediatric Lyme Foundaincrease membership, Sirgiovanni has his eyes tion and Kiwanis’ Pediatric Trauma Center.”

Sirgiovanni, a second-generation Kiwanian, set on raising money for organizations that seek was elected to the position of governor-elect for to cure diseases and disorders such as juvenile the state at the annual district convention on diabetes, autism, Lyme disease and cerebral Aug. 15. Starting on Oct. 1, he will learn the job palsy. He also wants to set up an anti-bullying of the governor and will drop “elect” from his campaign.

“No kid should be bullied,” he said. title the following year.

But Sirgiovanni knows that despite his best “I’ll be setting up my staff and setting up my team,” Sirgiovanni added. “Just building for the effort, he can’t reach everyone in New York. following October and getting acclimated with And he’s OK with that.

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Just call him Gov. Stephen Sirgiovanni

Howard Beach Kiwanian Stephen Sirgiovanni won a statewide election to become the head of the service organization in New York State. Sirgiovanni, seen here, will spend a year as governorFACEBOOK PHOTO elect and interact with chapters across the Empire State.

“If we can help one child, it makes this world a better place,” he said.

Besides helping them stand up to bullies, Sirgiovanni wants to continue to have students involved in the Kiwanis’ school programs such as K-Kids, Builder’s Club, Key Clubs, Circle K and Aktion Club.

“We want to help guide the leaders of tomor-

row,” he said.

This won’t be Sirgiovanni’s first adventure into Kiwanis leadership. Prior to this, he served as president of the Howard Beach club and lieutenant governor for the Queens West division, overseeing several clubs and implementing measurements to increase membership across Q parts of the borough.

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‘Groundbreaking’ held at Mary Whalen Woodhaven community celebrates big investment in the playground

by Anthony O’Reilly Associate Editor

Although renovations have already begun at Mary Whalen Playground in the Woodhaven section of Forest Park, officials gathered there on Tuesday to hold a ceremonial groundbreaking.

“This is a great day,” Parks Borough Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski said.

“This is a great opportunity to create what we have here at Mary Whalen Playground.”

Work goes on at the playground.

The playground — named after a Woodhaven activist — is being updated with more contemporary features, including new sprinklers and swings, and will also have a new handicapped-accessible entrance. Additional trees will be placed near the playground to shade it.

The project is being funded by $1.1 million in capital funds from Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale) and more than $300,000 from the Mayor’s Office.

“It’s been a very long time since real investment was put into Mary Whalen playground,” Crowley said.

The councilwoman said she had a summer job at Forest Park about 20 years ago, making sure “it was well swept and cleaned and a friendly place for the kids to play.

“And it looked pretty much the same as it did before we started the construction,” Crowley noted. “Back then, over 20 years ago, it was a highly utilized playground.”

Martin Colberg, president of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association, praised the investment in the playground.

“It’s great for Councilmember Crowley to put money in the park and give the members of that part of the community something they really need,” Colberg said in an interview last Saturday. “A lot of kids use that park.”

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Parks Borough Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski, right, talks about the renovations to Mary Whalen Playground in the Woodhaven section of Forest Park. Celebrating a ceremonial groundbreaking with PHOTOS BY ANTHONY O’REILLY her are Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley and Assemblyman Mike Miller.

Com mittee Chair man Kenichi Wilson announced last Saturday that a speed bump will also be placed near the entrance of the playground — at 79th Street and Park Lane South — pending a yes vote from CB 9.

The bump will be placed there to deter motorists from speeding in an area where

children are playing.

Colberg believes the bump should be in place by the time the renovations are completed — next summer.

Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) also thanked Crowley for her investment in the park, calling it “another example of Q the great work she’s done.”

Bill would have CBs create veterans panel Board chairs express mixed reaction to the legislation proposed by Ulrich

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Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), chairman of the Council’s Committee on Veterans, introduced legislation last Thursday that would require community boards across the city to establish their own veterans committee to look at how they can assist former soldiers in need of assistance.

“There are so many critical issues facing our veterans today,” Ulrich said in a statement issued by his office. “Convening veterans committees within community boards is another small step toward spreading greater awareness and advocacy for our veterans who have so bravely served our country.”

Like any other committee, the panel would be led by a chairperson who would, along with other members, look how they can improve the lives of veterans in their district.

Ulrich, in his statement, said the members would look at how to “collaborate to improve advocacy and awareness of critical issues facing veterans and to improve their quality of life.”

At least one community board already has a veterans committee — CB 7 in the Bronx.

They became the first to do so this April.

Besides leading the Council’s veterans committee, Ulrich is passionate about the issue because he has family members who are serving in or have served in the military.

Councilman Eric Ulrich, chairman of the Council’s Committee on Veterans, has introduced legislation that would require community boards to establish a veterans committee to address FILE PHOTO the needs of former soldiers in their district.

Two Queens community board leaders had mixed reactions to the councilman’s proposed legislation.

“I don’t like the idea of being mandated to do it,” Vincent Arcuri, chairman of CB 5 in southwestern Queens, said.

Arcuri said many of the committees com-

munity boards have are mirrored after city agencies — such as a Transportation Committee after the Department of Transportation. He’d like to see a city agency set up for veterans before the boards are asked to set up a panel.

“It should start in the Mayor’s Office,” he

said.

Ulrich last year introduced legislation that would create a Veterans Affairs Department, which has the support of most Council members and Public Advocate Letitia James.

There is a Mayor’s Office of Veterans Affairs, which coordinates with different city agencies to tackle different issues.

Community Board 11 Chairwoman Christine Haider said although she would “not be adverse” to the idea of setting up a veterans committee, she’s not sure how the panel might be able to address the issue.

“I’m sure if a veteran did come to us we would do everything we could to steer them in the right direction,” Haider said. “I’m not sure how we could help them other than steer them in the right directions.”

Haider, who comes from a military family, said she would most likely point a veteran to a city agency or advocacy group that could help them with what they need.

She acknowledged that veterans do not get a lot of support.

“A lot of our veterans have been shortchanged throughout the years,” she said.

The legislation has been referred to the Council’s Committee on Governmental Operations, which must vote on the bill before it can come to the full body for a vote. If passed by the Council, it then heads to Mayor de BlaQ sio’s desk to await his approval or veto.

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Honoree For his contributions to the IndoCaribbean and South Asian communities, Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) will be honored during the IndoCaribbean Alliance’s third annual gala on Sept. 12, the organization announced last week.

Ulrich’s constituency consists of thousands of people hailing from the IndoCaribbean islands. The ICA said he has made a “consistent effort to support many immigrant causes in his district by directly funding organizations, including ICA, and by lending his voice to vital debates in the community and in the city as a whole.”

Daniel Solow, of Nassau County, would not even ask the Tour de France champion to ride their bike along Conduit Avenue.

“Because it’d be suicide. This is one of the most dangerous streets in the city,” Solow said. “People are going way over the 40 miles-per-hour speed limit that’s posted.”

But last Saturday, Solow led a walking tour of the Conduit where a proposed bike trail would be placed to brainstorm ideas on how to better improve conditions for people utilizing all modes of transportation.

“I’m not anti-car. But I do believe all road users should be respected equally,” he said.

But that isn’t happening, he says.

“The city is not providing this infrastructure uniformly,” he said, referring to amenities such as bike lanes.

Solow’s walk started at Vito Locascio Ball Field at Cross Bay Boulevard and 149th Avenue and ended at the entrance of Highland Park in Brooklyn. His route reflects that of the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway, which upon its completion will connect Highland Park with Brookville Park in Rosedale by allowing bicyclists and pedestrians to use designated lanes along the Belt Parkway, Conduit Avenue, Laurelton Parkway and Cross Island Parkway.But many motorists use the path he and his crew walked on as a place to drag race and drive recklessly, Solow added.

To get a Tour de France champion to ever ride his or her bike along the route, he said major changes would have to be made to the Conduit.

“Then I would come back to you and say this is a path that Q people can use,” he noted.

Daniel Solow stands by Cross Bay Boulevard as he begins to lead a walking tour of Conduit Avenue to point out the dangers of the road and why it must be changed to ensure the safety of all who use the thoroughfare.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Next school year for the first time, every four-year-old will have the opportunity to attend free, full-day, high-quality pre-K giving a crucial year of problem solving, vocabulary building and learning how to work together,â&#x20AC;? FariĂąa said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know that early education is the foundation for long-term academic success, and whenever possible, our goal is for families to have access to pre-K near their homes and in their local communities.â&#x20AC;?

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Pols don’t want longer LGA flights Port Authority studies 1,500-mile limit; residents fear lower planes, more noise

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For more than 30 years, regular direct flights to and from LaGuardia Airport have been limited to a range of 1,500 by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

PA Spokesman Ron Marsico confirmed in an email on Wednesday that the agency is studying the potential impacts of changing the Perimeter Rule, which published sources state was formalized in 1984.

But local legislators, in letters to Gov. Cuomo and PA Executive Director Patrick Foye dated Aug. 12,t would cause even more noise problems than already exist in neighborhoods near the airport.

The letter from Assemblyman Ed Braunstein (D-Bayside) was co-signed by 11 members of the state Senate and Assembly, including Sens. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) and Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Flushing); and Assemblymembers Michael DenDekker (D-Jackson Heights), Ron Kim (D-Flushing), Nily Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows), Michael Simanowitz (D-Flushing), Aravella Simotas (D-Astoria) and David Weprin (D-Fresh Meadows).

The two exceptions to the rule are flights to and from Denver, and those on Saturdays.

The letter states that lifting the Perimeter Rule would have a detrimental effect on

The Port Authority is considering lifting its 1,500-mile restriction on flights to and from LaGuardia Airport. But local elected officials worry that planes having to carry more fuel will be heavier and FILE PHOTO thus fly lower over populated areas on takeoff until they can gain sufficient altitude. communities in the city and Nassau County that already are suffering from increased air traffic in recent years.

“Allowing f lights of longer than 1,500 miles will result in heavier planes departing from LaGuardia ... because of the extra fuel reserves needed for those flights,” Braunstein wrote.

“Our research indicates that heavier planes take longer to reach higher altitudes, and therefore are closer to the ground for a longer

time during departure,” he added. That may result in increased noise for neighborhoods under the flight paths. The legislators are asking that any change be held in abeyance until after an ongoing Part 150 noise study.

“We should, at very least, wait to see the results ... before we begin adding heavier and louder planes,” Braunstein continued.

The change could allow airlines to have more West Coast flights, as well as others to and from foreign countries where passengers

headed to the United States are pre-cleared by U.S. Customs, which does not have a presence at LaGuardia.

A spokeswoman for Airlines for America, which represents major airlines, said in an email that it has not taken a position on the matter.

LaGuardia is unpopular with many airline pilots, with its short 7,000-foot runways among their complaints. The Air Line Pilots Association, which represents 52,000 airline pilots in the United States and Canada, could not be reached for comment.

And while LaGuardia has just been approved for a $4 billion makeover, that does not include the runways, which Cuomo’s advisory team said would be too costly and time-consuming to address.

Speaking last Sunday on WABC Radio, retired Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger said that LaGuardia’s runways are perilously short, making the airport “a challenge.”

The New York Post quoted him as saying “it’s a sad commentary that many of the most advanced airports in the world are outside the United States — in fact, all of them.”

Sullenberger was flying out of LaGuardia in 2009 when bird strikes destroyed both his engines. He brought the plane down in “the Miracle on the Hudson,” with all 155 pasQ sengers and crew surviving.

Video blackjack now offered at Resorts Resorts World Casino announced last Thursday the introduction of 60 video blackjack tables to its gaming f loor – which, with the addition of 300 tables still to come, will purportedly contribute $31 million to the state’s Lottery Education Fund. The South Ozone Park racino says that’s enough to hire 700 new city teachers.

“Resorts World is proud to do its part to help improve New York’s education system. The introduction of video blackjack furthers this support and helps to ensure more students throughout the city and state will earn a high-quality public education,” Ryan Eller, president of Resorts World New York, said in a statement.

A portion of the casino’s revenue funds schools every year.

Blackjack is a game played by at least one player, but can be played with more, and a dealer.

The objective is to get up to or as close to a score of 21 without going over. Two cards are given out at the beginning of each round and a player can opt to be “hit”

with another card to get as close to 21 as possible.

Unlike the regular blackjack tables, the dealers at the ones announced last week will be virtual.

South Ozone Park elected officials praised the racino’s continued investment in the state’s education fund in statements issued by RWNY. “Millions of students and dozens of organizations in Queens and throughout New York State have benefited from the revenue generated by Resorts World New York City,” Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway Park), said.

“Resorts World has been a trusted community partner since day one,” Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) said. “An expansion of the gaming options will help them to sustain good paying jobs for local residents and allow for even more contributions to the community it calls home.”

“Nearly four years ago, Resorts World opened its doors and became a vital member of our community,” state Sen. Joe Q Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach) said.

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Mailbox event raises $1,038 A fundraiser held by the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association last month to benefit New York Families for Autistic Children raised $1,038 for the Howard Beachbased group, WRBA announced at their meeting last Saturday.

The civic held an event in which volunteers promised to paint mailboxes, which

previously had been covered in graffiti, and collect donations for each mailbox they painted. Sixty-seven mailboxes were painted during the event.

Above, Woodhaven volunteer Tracy Gallagher accepts the “check” from the civic group with her son, Jaron.

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ACS drops plans to house teen offenders Queens Village Close to Home site stopped after two months of community protest

by Michael Gannon

District’s special election, organized a series of Saturday morning protests outside the site Residents of Queens Village and surround- that grew larger each week.

The last few weeks brought out candidates ing communities are claiming victory over government bureaucracy with the announce- for both the 23rd District and the special elecment that the city’s Administration for Chil- tion in the 29th Assembly District.

“There were d ren’s Ser vices is numerous reasons abandoning plans for a why this proposed Close to Home juveCS has determined that neighborhood prison nile detention facility program needed to at 207- 01 Jamaica we have the capacity to be derailed — startAvenue. launch Close to Home ing with the lack of Close to Home is a public hearings, the state prog ram that Phase II without the procurement issues takes youthful and the [state] attoroffenders f rom Queens Village site.” ney general’s investiu p s t a t e d e t e n t io n — Administration for Children’s Services gation of ACS’ abilifacilities in an effort spokesman ty to safely monitor to rehabilitate them these types of facilinear their families ties,” Friedrich wrote. and neighborhoods.

Friedrich and Nagassar Ramgarib of the ACS had an agreement with The Children’s Village to open a site in the old Mer- Queens Village Civic Association told prorick Academy building on the northeast cor- testers last Saturday morning that Bryan ner of the intersection of Jamaica Avenue Block, chairman of Community Board 13, and 207th Street — less than 40 feet from had heard the news from an ACS official and was looking to confirm it. the nearest private home.

Confirmation came about an hour later The facility first came to public attention at the end of June. Bob Friedrich, president of from state Sen. Leroy Com rie (D-St. Glen Oaks Village and a candidate for the Albans), who was attending a similar proDemocratic nomination in the 23rd Council test against a possible homeless shelter Editor

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Protesters outside the site of a proposed juvenile detention facility gathered on Saturday outside 207-01 Jamaica Ave. as they have for two months. Their persistence would be rewarded just over an hour later when state Sen. Leroy Comrie announced that the city and state had dropped their plans PHOTO BY MICHAEL GANNON for Queens Village. complex less than one mile away in Hollis.

“I’ve spoken with ACS Commissioner [Gladys] Carrion,” Comrie said. “The plan has been dropped.”

Pan Am contract filed again DHS looks for an OK from Stringer after two denials

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The Department of Homeless Services is hoping that the third time really is the charm when it comes to its proposed contract with Samaritan Village for the permanent operation of the homeless shelter at the former Pan American Hotel in Elmhurst.

According to city records, the agency resubmitted the proposed five-year, $42.7 million contract in regards to the Boulevard Family Residence at 79-00 Queens Blvd. to city Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office on Aug. 5.

Stringer has 30 days to either approve or reject the deal.

The DHS had filed the contract twice before, only to be rejected by Stringer in May and again in July, with the comptroller citing open unsanitary conditions at the site in his first denial and open Department of Buildings violations in his second rejection.

As of Wednesday, there were st i l l t h r e e D OB v iolat ion s involving the building’s cracking

The proposed five-year, $42.7 million contract between the Department of Homeless Services and Samaritan Village to operate a permanent homeless shelter inside the former Pan American Hotel in Elmhurst has been resubmitted to city Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office. Stringer has already declined the proposed deal twice FILE PHOTO this summer. facade, five Environmental Control Board violations and four open complaints at the location.

Two of the ECB violations involve interior sprinkler and pipe work without a permit that took place over the course of

the summer.

According to city records, $1,300 in fines over the unapproved work have been levied against the location’s listed owner, 7900 Development LLC. Electeds, such as state Sens.

Tony Avella (D-Bayside) and Joe Addabbo Jr. (D-Howard Beach), as well as the Elmhurst United civic group have held occasional press conferences outside the former hotel to reinforce their Q opposition to the contract.

Rebecca Lynch, also a candidate in the 23rd District, praised Comrie and the community in a statement emailed by her campaign. continued on page 37

Sex offender gets 5 to 15 A 24-year-old Corona man who was found guilty of tricking young girls into playing sexual games on a video chat website was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown announced Wednesday.

Jorel Fowler pleaded guilty on July 10 to two different indictments with charges of using a child in a sexual performance.

Brown’s office said that Fowler would give points to children for performing various acts. It was a scheme he called “The Game.” Fowler had been in contact with more than 10 girls under 16 and had video files on his laptop, Brown said.

According to the charges, NYPD detectives got a tip in 2014 from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children when the mother of a 12-year-old girl from Altus, Okla. — whom Fowler had been contacting and tried to meet in an Oklahoma hotel — discovered her daughter’s text messages with Fowler.

Brown stressed the importance of parent-child communication and monitoring regarding internet use.

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Shingles Shingles is caused by the varicella zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. Individuals who have had chickenpox are at risk for developing shingles later in life. The virus can cause a painful skin rash and blisters. Other symptoms include chills, pain, fever and even loss of vision. Because shingles most often occurs in people age 50 and older, the shingles vaccine is recommended for those in this age bracket. People who have medical conditions that weaken the immune system or those who take

Pertussis (whooping cough) The CDC estimates that there are between one and three million pertussis cases in the United States each year. All adults between the ages of 19 and 64 need a one-time whooping cough booster vaccine, particularly if they will be in close contact with infants younger than 12 months. Adults are the most common source of pertussis infection in infants. Whooping cough for adults can last for several weeks or even months, causing unnecessary discomfort and leaving sufferers gasping for breath.

HPV Human papillomavirus, or HPV, is a common virus spread mostly through sexual contact. Few may know they have the disease, as it rarely produces symptoms.

However, certain types of HPV can cause cervical cancer, genital warts and cancers of the penis, anus and throat. The HPV vaccine is recommended for both males and females between the ages of 17 and 50.

Vaccinations are not just for kids. Adults should discuss their immunization records with their physicians to determine which vaccinations they need to maintain optimal health. Q — Metro Creative Connection

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Health screenings may include, but may not be limited to, routine physical exams, eye exams and dental cleanings. Each school district may have its own set of health requirements that must be met in order for children to attend school.

Many schools require that children are up-todate with all immunizations before they can begin a new school year. While the issue of vaccinations has inspired debate in recent years, parents should recognize that many schools will only exempt students from receiving certain vaccinations due to religious reasons. For a list of state vaccination requirements and possible exemptions for schools in the United States, visit www2a.cdc.gov/nip/schoolsurv/schImmRqmt.asp.

Students who have specific learning disabilities or medical conditions that require classroom modification should obtain recent documentation from any therapists or specialists prior to beginning a new school year. Doing so

facilitates the process of setting up procedures within the school while ensuring children have what they need to excel in the classroom.

All parents may want to ask doctors to provide copies of medical and immunization records so that schools will have the most recent copies on file.

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Parents of adolescents or students on the verge of adolescence may want to address the subject of bodily changes before the school year begins anew. Address which changes can be expected, including the start of menstruation for girls. This will help children better understand what is happening when they witness changes in themselves and fellow classmates and give them a chance to receive accurate information rather than gossip from their peers.

Keep in mind that health screenings conducted in advance of the school year may not preclude students from school-sponsored screenings. Schools may offer their own vision and hearing screenings and may take physical measurements to ensure students are growing on schedules in line with normal development. Q â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Metro Creative Connection

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Help youth A fundraiser to help defray medical costs for a 13-year-old Little Neck boy diagnosed with leukemia will be held Sunday from 1 to 8 p.m. at Jack Dugganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub and Restaurant at 145 Tulip Ave. in Floral Park.

GianPaul Conti, a student at MS 67 and a Little League player, was diagnosed last year with acute myeloid leukemia and although he is doing well now, his aunt, Marci Dulgerian, said the bills have been overwhelming.

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Three new stations, part of an installment to open in 2017, are in Long Island City, Astoriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hallets Point and Rockaway.

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The city invites all residents to read and provide feedback on a plan to build a citywide ferry service, which FILE PHOTO would add three stations to Queens by 2017.

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Advocates press world leaders for economic solutions to help citizens

by Cristina Schreil Associate Editor

With people around the world trying to send money to those caught in the financial crisis in Greece, many here in New York City are calling for solutions to remittances stalled by controls on Greek banks.

Remittances, or money sent as gifts overseas — often by immigrant families — have been stalled by restrictions enacted because of the crisis.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) said at a press conference last Thursday that she has asked international leaders to consider new ways to stimulate the Greek economy, in one letter asking for new ways to invite investments into Greece.

In another letter, addressed to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and other federal financial regulation leaders, Maloney asked for new reforms allowing U.S. citizens, such as the Greek-American families in New York City, to send remittances.

Maloney noted there was around $800 million in remittances from the United States to Greece last year.

In the past two months, however, limits on Greek banks have strapped ATM withdrawal limits on citizens there, barring many from accessing funds sent by loved

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, at podium, co-chairwoman of the Hellenic Caucus, gathered with GreekPHOTO COURTESY U.S. HOUSE American residents to call for more ways to boost Greece’s economy. ones from abroad.

Maloney, co-chairwoman of the Hellenic Caucus, noted that the “normal f low” of remittances is thrown off and the money people have sent to help in light of the crisis is “sitting on the sidelines,” inaccessible.

“We need to find a way to get the money into the Greek economy right away, so people can start paying bills, buying groceries and creating jobs,” Maloney said in a release.

Assembly woman A ravella Si mot as (D-Astoria), who is of Greek descent and was also at the conference, said Friday that Maloney “hit the nail on the head” on how to help.

“I can tell you as an immigrant myself, my family worked very hard to establish a small business and a source of their pride, that they made it in America, was their ability to send back to my maternal grandmother,” Simotas said. “People like my grandmother, God rest

her soul, can’t access that money.”

Simotas said she does get some calls from constituents concerned with ensuring their money reaches those in Greece, but there’s an understanding that her hands are tied. She has been putting them in touch with Maloney’s office.

“You do hear stories about people who have relatives who need to have medical procedures and they can’t because they can’t access the funds to pay for it, even though their family members are sending the funds from abroad,” Simotas said. “Those are sad stories.”

In June, right after Greece had missed a payment to the International Monetary Fund, several Astorians told the Queens Chronicle that there is a frustrating effort to send funds back home.

One resident who immigrated from Athens said that her 75-year-old father stood in line for hours in the heat to withdraw from several accounts.

“It is important for all our sakes to do what we can to help Greece recover from its current crisis as soon as possible,” said state Sen. Mike Gianaris (D-Astoria) in a press release.

Gianaris, the first Greek-American to be elected to the state Senate from New York City, has also spoken about economic soluQ tions throughout the crisis.

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activists, who say the store could potentially damage Jamaica Avenue’s commerce, the business is perfectly legal.

An appellate court decision last month ruled that merchants have the legal right to run these types of businesses — so long as 60 percent of the content in there is not “X-rated.”

Besides that regulation, stores of that nature are also not allowed to give out merchandise to those under 18 years old.

Martin Colberg, WRBA president, said his group would also be keeping a close eye on the store.

“We want businesses to come in and be responsible to our community,” Colberg added at last week’s meeting.

He has warned that the controversial nature of the business could hurt the storefronts surrounding it.

He and others believe the store may deter other merchants from staying in or opening within the community.

“We just want to make sure we’re getting a well-rounded business communiQ ty,” he said.

911 call is unfounded: Schiff False alarm.

A 911 call about a toddler in the water nea r Vet ro i n Howa rd Beach was unfounded, according to 106th Precinct Commanding Officer Deputy Inspector Jeffrey Schiff.

On Monday, Schiff put out a notice that police received a call from an anonymous caller about a three-year-old in the water by the party hall, located at 164-49 Cross Bay Blvd., that night.

“The anonymous caller left the scene and didn’t answer the call back,” Schiff said.

As a precautionary measure, authorities had to conduct “the whole nine yards,” including having aviation, harbor, emergency service unit and Fire Department personnel come out.

They all found nothing.

“FYI: no one has reported a child missing,” Schiff added in his notice.

Vetro is located in front of Shellbank Basin, which goes into Jamaica Bay. There is no swimming allowed in the basin. As of press time, there were no arrests in connection with the supposed Q fake 911 call.

Shop owner stole tax $: DA A Howard Beach woman allegedly withheld thousands of tax dollars from her Ozone Park auto repair company that were owed to the city and state, authorities announced last week.

Stephanie Davino, 31, is being charged with second-, third- and fourth-degree criminal tax fraud, second- and thirddegree grand larceny, first-degree scheme to defraud and fifth-degree conspiracy for allegedly pocketing $125,00 in sales taxes from A&W Auto Collision Center, Inc., located at 104-11 101 St. “By purposefully defrauding the state

and local government out of these funds – that could have been used in the public interest – the money instead allegedly lined the pocketbook of this businesswoman,” Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement.

Davino, the president of the towing company, is charged with keeping money given to her for repairs. She faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of all of the charges and her business could be forced to pay a $100,000 fine, or double the money she allegedly stole.

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the Merrick Academy charter school moved out about three years ago, was leased by The Children’s Village, which now will likely be able to walk away and leave the building empty.

Comrie on Monday hosted a community meeting during which people were planning to work on alternative tenants.

The senator has said he would like to see a school located there.

But the city Department of Education, which is desperate for space of all kinds in Queens, has shown no interest in the site since the Merrick Academy pulled up its stakes.

Friedrich, running in the Sept. 10 Democratic primary, said Saturday that he knows of two groups that are interested in setting up charter schools there, though that would put him at odds with much of his party, particularly Mayor de Blasio.

The mayor, despite legal and political drubbings he has received in the last year both in court and in Albany, continues to be host ile towa rd a ny new charters.

Comrie’s office did not respond to a request for com ment on Mond ay’s meeting; what concrete guarantees he is prepared to offer the owner of a onceagain empty rental space; or just what his plan C would be for finding and securing a tenant if a school does not Q materialize.

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Queens Village was to be part of the second phase of Close to Home. It includes teens who committed more serious offenses than those in phase one programs, and will be subject to much more stringent oversight, security and confinement.

In an email to the Chronicle on Tuesday, an ACS spokesman said the decision applies only to the site proposed for Queens Village.

“After reviewing our projected needs, for youth in limited secure placement facilities, ACS has determined that we have the capacity to launch Close to Home Phase II without the Queens Village site,” the spokesman wrote. There still will be a site in South Ozone Park, which is the subject of a lawsuit, as well as Brooklyn, the Bronx and Westchester County.

One Phase I site in Brooklyn, operated by Boys Town, was shut down by the city in June after three residents who left the building without permission wound up being charged in a violent beating and robbery of a woman in Manhattan.

Two of the three were charged with rape.

A source with the city said the proposed site, which has been empty since

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Hollis simmering over shelter rumors Miller, Comrie say lease holders are not showing their cards during renovations

by Michael Gannon Editor

A hot-button issue in Hollis got a little more heated last Saturday during a weekly protest aimed at a possible homeless shelter complex.

Residents have been rallying for a month outside six buildings ranging from 202- 0 4 to 202-24 Hollis Ave. a m id rumors that the long-empty buildings are undergoing massive renovations for the purpose of converting them to homeless shelters.

Several of the organizers have been critical of what they feel has been a lack of information or effort on the part of C ou n c i l m a n D a n e e k M i l le r ( D - St .

Albans) and state Sen. Leroy Comrie (St. Albans).

On Saturday Miller and one of the organizers in the neighborhood engaged in a brief but heated exchange over just what the city has been able to do thus far.

The Bluestone Group has signed a lease for the buildings, and according to Miller, has a long history of acquiring distressed properties, teaming with nonprofit and social organizations to turn them into supportive housing of various kinds.

The group is based in Manhattan, and is not associated with the Bluestone Organization, a third-generation real estate development company founded in Queens with its headquarters in Jamaica.

The Hollis Avenue protests have been attracting more and more people each week. Anthony Rivers, who along with Donnie Whitehead organized the first demonstrations, said he first brought the properties to the attention of city officials more than a year ago.

He said petitions and other inquiries with the offices of Miller, Comrie, Public Advocate Letitia James and city Comptroller Scott Stringer have not resulted in any action.

“You [Miller] came out here last week to your credit,” Rivers said. “The question is what have you done in the last week? Is there a paper trail you can show us?”

Miller told the crowd it is not that simple.

He said right now, residents and city officials have a situation in which a private company has leased privately-owned property and has hired contractors to renovate the buildings.

Councilman Daneek Miller, right, told Hollis residents on Saturday that the lease holder for six vacant buildings between 202-04 and 202-24 Hollis Ave. have been less than forthcoming about PHOTOS BY MICHAEL GANNON their intentions for the properties that they are renovating.

“People have a right to renovate their buildings,” Miller said. “Right now there is no contract in force with any city agency that we can act on. We can go to [the Department of Homeless Services, the Administration for Children’s Services] and any other agency that might be involved and say the community doesn’t want you signing an agreement here.

“But right now there is no contract with the city that we can act on,” he said.

Miller also said his office has notified thousands of residents in the surrounding neighborhood to make sure they know a shelter or some sort of supportive housing is a concern in the area.

Miller said, as he did a week ago, that Bluestone officials have refused to discuss its intentions, first ignoring phone calls and emails from Miller’s staff, then ref using to discuss the matter a few weeks ago when he and Comrie showed up u nan nou nced at their Man hat t an offices.

Residents believe that Bluestone is preparing to act soon, and a visual inspection of one of the buildings lends credence to that belief.

Furniture, including bunk beds, is visible through some windows from the

sidewalk. Several f irst-f loor windows have security bars that were not present when the Chronicle visited the site two weeks earlier.

Handrails also have been installed on steps at some of the buildings’ entrances during that time.

Whitehead said on Saturday that they also have heard nothing new.

“Right now the idea is to keep up the pressure,” he said.

Rivers said one way to keep up the pressure is by having residents call public officials. He handed out the office phone numbers for Gov. Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, Assembly woma n Ba rba ra Cla rk ( D - Q ue e n s Vi l la ge) , A s s e mbly m a n Dav id We pr i n ( D -Fresh Mea dows) , Comptroller Stringer and Comrie.

“Call every day, or twice a day,” Rivers said. “I know we’re all busy. I know you work. But you can call on your lunch hour.”

Miller said there are numerous ways that the community can make its displeasure known to Bluestone.

“It’s corporate,” he said. “We can gather outside its offices in Manhattan and Brooklyn and anywhere they have corporate interests.”

One woman in the crowd said those gathered should be f ighting against a possible shelter and not each other.

“If we make noise, there will be no halfway house or homeless shelter here,” she said.

Bluestone did not respond to a message left by the Chronicle.

The city Department of Homeless Services has told the Chronicle that it has no interest in the Hollis Avenue properties Q “at this time.”

Residents who are concerned about a possible homeless shelter complex on Hollis Avenue are encouraging their neighbors to make their opposition known to elected officials both in City Hall and Albany.

Queens International Food and Music Festival set The South Queens Park Association and Angels Entertainment Group will host the Queens International Food and Music Festival beginning at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 30 in Roy Wilkins Park.

The free event, which organizers are calling a celebration of culture and cuisine, will feature a diverse offering of cultural food and music, plus live entertainment.

There will be dance troupes, drumming demonstrations, vendors’ booths, a fashion show and numerous activities for children.

There also will be a health fair and various agencies and charitable organizations offering community outreach.

The NYPD, FDNY and U.S. Army are scheduled to have demonstrations and recruiting opportunities.

Those interested in being sponsors, vendors, setting up a booth or performing as talent are invited to call (718) 659-6162, (718) 938-4900 or (347) 645-0046.

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Carlos Santana jams for fans in Forest Hills

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

Carlos Santana, the legendary frontman of the Latin rock band bearing his name, thrilled thousands of fans in Forest Hills by expertly wailing PHOTO BY ERIK KABIK away on his guitar for hours last Friday night.

To give you an idea of how long Santana has been an integral part of popular music, the band was one of the few then-unknown rock acts to perform at the legendary Woodstock Music Festival.

Last Friday night, almost 46 years to the day later, Santana performed at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium for thousands of fans who were certainly quite familiar with the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deep Latin rock catalog.

Of course, there have been countless personnel changes, but one thing remains constant. The man the band is named after, Carlos Santana, is still front and center, playing virtuoso electric guitar in a manner that is rivaled only perhaps by Eric Clapton and Eddie Van Halen.

With a catalog spanning over four decades it would be impossible for Santana to perform the vast majority of it in a two-hour concert.

Thus while many baby boomers hoping to hear such nuggets from their high school and college days as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evil Ways,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;No One To Depend On,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Everything,â&#x20AC;? they shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have been bitterly disappointed when they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t performed.

The only two chestnuts from Santanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s salad days, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oye Como Va,â&#x20AC;? made famous originally by Puerto Rican band leader Tito Puente, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black Magic Woman,â&#x20AC;? were played as part of the encore.

What was bothersome, however, was that the band would play one long jam after another without identifying what they were performing by name.

Santana has to understand that this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a Beach Boys show where concertgoers know the set lists by heart. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maria, Mariaâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Corazonâ&#x20AC;? are not â&#x20AC;&#x153;Barbara

Annâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;California Girls.â&#x20AC;?

Santana has always been terrific at covering songs such as their take on the Zombiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Not Thereâ&#x20AC;? and Dennis Yost & the Classics IVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stormy.â&#x20AC;? Unfortunately, neither of them were performed.

Instead, the band broke into a lengthy rendition of the Champsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1958 instrumental hit, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tequila,â&#x20AC;? which many remember for its use in the 1985 Pee Wee Herman f lick, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pee Weeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Adventure.â&#x20AC;? The band enhanced the tune by adding Spanish lyrics.

Few Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees are more laid back than Carlos Santana. Other than thanking the crowd for attending, he said little and basically chewed gum while playing guitar in a stationary position on stage for two hours.

He did show a wry sense of humor by finishing songs in an unexpected manner such as dishing off a few riffs of Jerome Kernâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Way You Look Tonightâ&#x20AC;? and Xavier Cugatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brazil.â&#x20AC;?

The strangest moment of the show was when Santanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two lead vocalists, Andy Vargas and Tony Lindsay, had the crowd singing along and waving their arms to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;na-na-na-na-naâ&#x20AC;? chorus from the insipid 1972 America hit, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Horse With No Name.â&#x20AC;?

During the show, Carlos brought his son, Salvador, an up-and-coming musician, on stage to perform a number of his self-penned tunes. Salvador is a very talented keyboardist who also possesses a fine voice. The problem is that he is not much of a lyricist judging by his first song, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dayâ&#x20AC;? whose first three lines are â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day/gonna kick it in the bay/Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m off to LA.â&#x20AC;?

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erformances have been taking place in amphitheaters since ancient times, but the venue of the Long Island City Summer Concert Series at Gantry State Park seems to bring something new to gathering in such an area. Seeing the space today, one could hardly imagine it as a portal for floated rail boxcars full of raw material to feed the sprawling pre-century factories of a bustling Hunters Point.

By the time Gantry was created six years ago, a different boom was well underway; a walk down Center Boulevard today presents a huge development.

The venue for the concerts, right near the East River’s edge, is a welcome, airy haven.

Surrounded by low, pink granite walls with steps descending into a large plaza, it invites peaceful respite.

The series is run by LIC Concerts, a community group, supported by the state Parks Department, local merchants, restaurants and businesses. It is a well-oiled machine with a casual premise.

The location was so enticing on a recent Sunday that a band not even on the bill, Dog Run, came by very early for a warmup before their gig at the local LIC Bar. Their music, which they refer to as “Americana with a side of rock on the back as a musical chaser” was hootenanny hollering.

Woodside resident Franzi Fortlouis, who came early with her two children, Zoe and Ziggy, needed little beyond an ice cream cone for her son and the toe-tapping beat to keep her daughter completely satisfied.

She expressed her joy for the fresh air and simple pleasure of watching the show.

Both the acts on Aug. 9 had full sound equipment and technicians, which provided a full experience.

One young lady even ventured down from her apartment to complain that the “noise,” as she described it, was excessive.

She stood alone in her dismay, and harrumphed off back from where she came.

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Center, 212-00 23 Ave., Bayside. Gym and Creative Exploration, every Wed., 3-4:30 p.m. Little Neck Site: 58-20 Little Neck Pkwy. $5 per family. Info: Amanda, (718) 423-6111 ext. 242, ASmith@sfy.org.

“I’m Yellow Exhibition,” featuring Mr. Yellow, a mural artist and musician who will paint murals featuring the color yellow on Resobox’s walls, tables, chairs and even the ceiling. Opening reception Fri., Aug. 21, 7–9 p.m. Thru Sept. 10. Resobox, 41-26 27 St., Long Island City. Free. Info: (718) 784-3680, resobox.com.

Games galore: Children and teens age 8 and up play console and board games. 3:30-5 p.m., every Fri., Queensboro Hill Library, 60-05 Main St., Flushing. Info: (718) 359-8332.

Play4Autism Martial Arts program by New Beginning Tae Kwon Doe, 64-64 Dry Harbor Road, Middle Village. Program every Sat., 12-1 p.m. $25. Info: (718) 894-7777, play4autism.org.

“The Yellow Snake is Waiting,” a video installation featuring footage of a fictional story to find the ultimate solution of never-ending desire. Opening reception: Fri., Aug. 21, 6-9 p.m. Open Hours: Aug. 22-27, noon-6 p.m. Flux Factory, 39-31 29 St., Long Island City. Info: fluxfactory.org/events.

“Leading the Way: Six Outstanding Women of Queens,” spotlighting the borough’s female icons.

Queens Historical Society, 143-35 37 Ave., Flushing. $5, $3 seniors/students, members free. Info: (718) 939-0647, ext. 17, queenshistoricalsociety.org.

“Altered Appearances,” images that are not always what they appear to be. Thru Jan. 4. Thurs.Mon., noon-5 p.m. Fisher Landau Center for Art, 38-27 30 St., Long Island City. Free. (718) 9370727, flcart.org.

“Landscape and Flower Paintings,” captures close-up views of intimate forest settings. Thru Oct. 25. Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. $4 adult, $3 senior, $2 students. Info: (718) 886-3800, queensbotanical.org.

“Robert Seydel: The Eye in Matter,” a hybrid of the visual and literary. Thru Sept. 27. Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Free with admission. Info: (718) 592-9700, queensmuseum.org.

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“Laughter is the Best Medicine ... Take 2” comedy show featuring Gilbert Gottfried and more and supporting the Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps. Sat., Aug. 22, 7 p.m. Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Avenue South, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. $40-$50. Info: (718) 760-0064, fhvac.com.

MUSIC Summer 2015 Katz concert series, sponsored by Borough President Melinda Katz. “Sessions” R&B concert, Sun., Aug. 23, 5 p.m., Springfield Park, Springfield Blvd., 146-147 Aves, Springfield Gardens. “Ddendyl” from season 6 of “The Voice,” blues concert, Thurs., Aug 27, 6:30 p.m. Tribute Park, Beach 116 St. and Beach Channel Dr., Rockaway Park. “Motor City Revue” a Mowtown concert, Sun., Aug. 30, 5 p.m. Astoria Park Great Lawn, 19 St. between Astoria Park South and Ditmars Blvd.

Free. Info: queensbp.org/katzconcerts.

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FILM Movies on the Waterfront, Mon., Aug. 24, 8:30 p.m. Astoria Park’s Great Lawn, Shore Blvd. between Hell Gate Bridge and the pool. “The Incredibles.”

Free. Info: (718) 728-7820, centralastoria.nyc.

DANCE “A Night of Tango!” Live music, tango stories and classes, dance demonstrations by the Strictly Tango NYC Dance School. Fri., Aug. 28, 6-8 p.m. Hunters Point South Park, Center Blvd. & Borden Ave. Free.

Info: (718) 393-7370.

AUDITION Bayside Glee Club is looking for new members for its December concert. No prior music training/ability to read music required. Tues., Sept. 1, 7:30 p.m. All Saints Church, 214-33 40 Ave., entrance on 215 St. Info: (718) 961-6852.

COMMUNITY Chatpati Mela: Celebrating food and the arts in the South Asian community. Cultural performances, snacks, henna tattoos and more sponsored by Chhaya CDC. Sat., Aug. 22, 2-8 p.m. Pedestrian Plaza at 78 St., between Northern Blvd. and 34 Ave., Jackson Heights. Free. Info: (718) 478-3848, ext. 10, nahida@chhayacdc.org.

New World Queens Festival, presented by Astoria Music and Arts, Sat., Aug. 29, noon-8 p.m.

Astoria Park, 19 St. between Astoria Park South and Ditmars Blvd. Featuring live music, visual arts, dance, performers and interactive children’s events. Info: astoriamusicarts@gmail.com, astoriamusicandarts.org.

SculptureCenter’s 3rd annual block party, Sat., Aug. 22, noon-5 p.m. Features activities for the whole family. 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City. Free.

Info: (718) 361-1750, sculpture-center.org.

ASPCA mobile unit dog & cat spay/neuter clinics. Petland Discounts, all begin at 7 a.m. Wed., Aug. 26, 55-52 Myrtle Ave., Ridgewood; Thurs., Aug 27, 134-40 Springfield Blvd., Springfield Gardens. Info: petlanddiscounts.com.

Open house, Jewish Center of Forest Hills West, Sun., Aug. 30, noon-1 pm. Come meet a small, friendly welcoming Traditional Conservative Synagogue. 63-25 Dry Harbor Road, Middle Village. Info: (718) 639-2110, Jcfhw@juno.com.

Tuesday Night Bingo, every Tuesday in Aug., Rego Park Jewish Center, 97-30 Queens Blvd., early game, 7 p.m., doors open at 6 p.m., regular games at 7:15 p.m., $4 includes 12 games. Cash prizes, everyone 18 & over. Info: (718) 459-1000.

Ridgewood Youthmarket, farmers market every Sat. thru Nov. 21, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Veteran’s Triangle, Cypress Ave. between Myrtle and Putnam aves. Info: twitter.com/nycyouthmarkets.

Annual QScan Sickle Cell Walk-a-thon, Sun., Sept.

6, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Start at 160 St. between Liberty and Archer aves., end at Roy Wilkins Park, 177-01 Baisley Blvd. Jamaica. Prereg. $20; $25 day of walk. Contact: Gloria Rochester (718) 712-0873, qscan.org.

KIDS/TEENS Free tennis clinic, part of Family Fun Fridays healthy-living series, Fri., Aug. 21, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

Corona Plaza, Roosevelt Ave. and 103 St. Activities include complimentary instruction along with giveaways and info on low-cost programs.

Preschool children’s programs: Monday Magic Learn & Play, every Mon., 3-4:30 p.m., Bay Terrace

7th annual Veterans’ BBQ, in appreciation to those who have proudly served our country. Sat., Aug. 29, 3 p.m., outside state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr.’s Howard Beach Office, corner of 102 St. and 160 Ave. Contact: Pat McCabe (718) 738-1111.

CLASSES Free yoga classes, Idlewild Cricket Field in Springfield Gardens 223 St. and 148 Ave., Sat., Aug. 22, 29, 8:30-9:30 a.m. Arrive 15 min. early. Info: Eastern Queens Alliance, (347) 824-2301, easternqueensalliance.org. Astoria Park: Wed., Aug. 26, 7 p.m., thru. Enter at parking lot and proceed toward the river. The group meets in the grassy area to the right of the path. Info: (718) 545-2550, cityviewpharmacy.com.

Free immigration services. First and third Wed. of each month, City Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley’s district office, 71-19 80 St., Glendale. Make appt. for help with naturalization and deferred action for childhood arrivals. All services are confidential and open to the public. Info: (718) 366-3900.

Free art classes: Latin American Cultural Center of Queens at ARROW Community Center, ages 8-16, 35-30 35 St., Astoria, every Tues. & Thurs., 4:30-6 p.m. and Sat., 10-11:30 a.m. Info: (718) 261-7664, laccq@aol.com.

“English Now” for intermediate and advanced students, teaching reading, writing and verbal skills.

Thru Sept. 14. Monroe College’s Queens Extension Site, 135-16 Roosevelt Ave., 4th floor, Flushing. Tues. and Thurs., 9 a.m.-12 p.m. or Mon. and Wed., 6-9 p.m. Free. Info: (917) 740-6614, queens@monroecollege.edu.

Yoga and tai chi, thru Sep. 27, Saturdays, 9:3010:30 a.m.; 11 a.m.-noon. Sundays, 10-11 a.m. Free.

Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City. Info: socratessculpturepark.org.

Watercolor classes, National Art League, 44-21 Douglaston Pkwy., Douglaston, Wed., 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. All techniques, beginner to advanced.

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Plenty of laughs in Astoria’s stand-up scene

by Silas Valentino

Short for quod erat demonstrandum — the ancient Latin phrase for “which was to be demonstrated” — Q.E.D. positions It’s a Sunday evening and the Q.E.D. stage in Astoria is a itself as a place to show and tell. revolving door of amateur comics taking each other’s places Not only does comedy grace its modest stage, but classes either at the microphone or in the scattered seats placed about and events are offered that range from learning swing dance to the intimately spaced room. a special effects cosmetology course to even a talk on bioethics After about three minutes, a comic will leave the stage to the — taught through, yes, “The Golden Girls.” sounds of applause and will be greeted Q.E.D. opened last November and is with a high five from a crowd member, owned and operated by Kambri Crews, who could be a fellow comic. It’s a author of the memoir “Burn Down the noticeably supportive arena; comics must Ground” and a founder of the former When: Fri., Aug. 21, 5-7 p.m.; feel a sense of conformability on this parperformance space Ochi’s Lounge in signup at 4:30 p.m. ticular stage.

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“This is the one place in the city where Where: Q.E.D., 27-16 23 Ave., With 15 years of experience in producing you can talk about diaries and not get Astoria and promoting comedy, Crews approachcalled a p***y,” joked Peter Bandit during es Q.E.D. with ingenuity and waives a Info: (347) 451-3873, his set while discussing the dichotomy conventional method used in running a qedastoria.com between diaries and journals — he insists comedy venue. the moment any gushy hopes are “I want to avoid having two drink minexpressed a journal morphs into a diary. imums on expensive drinks in tiny cups,” Moments before, Astoria resident Joe Keyes detailed his disap- Crews said. “While it might make for better revenue in a tradipointment that Sean Connery was not there to greet him at the tional comedy club setting, it’s not conducive for repeat cuslocal fitness club The Rock and then proved how surfing Linke- tomers and building a community of patrons and performers.” dIn while inebriated is much more entertaining than drunk While various classes fill the schedule, comedy has definitely texting. become a strong attraction, solidifying Q.E.D. as a viable venue The weekly evening open mic is just one of the many oppor- in the New York scene. tunities available at Q.E.D., located just a quick stroll from the “It hasn’t been there that long but it has certainly established continued on page Astoria-Ditmars Blvd. subway stop. page 00 47 qboro contributor

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black dress whipped by the late afternoon the stage with an arsenal of bar band breeze, Pauley strummed on a novel, plasclassics aided with the novel playing of tic-bodied Ovation guitar said to be the Barr y Stabile on his flashy red Power work of a NASA astrophysicist. Its shape Slide guitar. Led by singer Rob Visciano, and peculiar circular holes are meant to Eric Fleishman on guitar, Jamie Cicero on propel sound forward. drums, Greg GrimalPa u l ey ’s h ig h di on bass and Tim register voice was at Taylor on sax pertimes a bit strained formed a high-enerand her style is a gy set reaching back cross between balt h r o ug h t i m e of lad and folk with well-known rock, storied lyrics relating When: Sun., Aug. 23, 30, 5 p.m. blues and funk the pain of loss, Where: 4-09 47 Rd., Long Island City standards. crossed paths and Info: (718) 361-2922, The audience love and opportunilicconcerts.com took the cue with ty gone awr y. As their own rousing with many a coundancing to renditry-laced singer, the tions of everything elements of heartfrom the Allman Brothers Band to Rod break and longing seemed to predominate.

Stewart to the Rolling Stones. It took three She has a coal miner daughter’s style and encores before they ended their set. injected passion to be sure, but there were Before The Kitchen performed, opener no inflections of a more hopeful, upbeat Mieka Pauley had a set of turgid, winsome potential. material that harkened back to the days of When Pauley performed Otis Redding’s Janis Ian, which was revolutionary then but “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay,” it needmay be a little harsh now. In a flowing ed a more positive ode to the original. Her

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Some spirited dancers grooved along to the music of Mieka Pauley, left. On the cover: PHOTOS BY RICK MAIMAN the audience jams to The Kitchen as the sun sets on Queens. coal miner’s daughter style is well-developed but some listeners may have craved a happier tune.

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Last year, 80-year-old Jung-Te Hwang woke hours before daybreak to find the “perfect” spot on a mountain ledge. He had been traveling around remote areas of China, hauling 30 pounds of luggage, including camera equipment. Like other travelers, he relied on guides to steer him to the best place for a photo.

But as the sun crept up, Hwang realized the ground he thought surrounded him was never there — he teetered on the edge of a precipice. Slowly, he crouched down.

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Afterward he told his guide, “Next time, I’ll take the second-best spot.”

An arresting collection of photographs now on display at Hwang Gallery in Flushing seems to have been worth the stress.

Visitors can plunge into large, dreamlike renderings China’s most breathtaking swaths of landscape, from the Tibetan plateau to secluded lakes to misty towns to terrace paddies in Yuanyang.

The jagged rice fields, sliced into thin slivered pools like mirrored ribbons in the rugged mountainside, snag the exhibit’s spotlight, as they are presented from different angles and times of the day, illuminating them in a rainbow of moody hues.

The ancient agricultural practice is an iconic image of China’s past, the gallery’s curators said, adding that the paddies are so vast and diverse they are comparable to the five boroughs.

Details abound, some calculated by Hwang’s practiced eye and others included by pure coincidence. In a “Where’s Waldo”esque hunt, one can eventually spot a solitary farmer, ant-like against the hills that almost swallow him in “Rippled Fields.”

In “A Snowy Canal Town,” shot in the

Jung-Te Hwang stands between two of his large-scale photographs capturing China’s PHOTO BY CRISTINA SCHREIL diverse yet quickly changing landscapes. waterway-linked area of Jiangnan moments after Hwang savored a meal, a ghost-like red figure stands on a bridge as snow falls.

Hwang said through a translator that he focused on evanescent spots he believes will soon be gone. Some rural homes seen on past trips have already disappeared.

Twice until the exhibition ends, the photographs will be switched out. The second wave spotlights cultural practices.

Hwang sought to converge the two purposes of photography: one, for visual pleasure, and the other, to simply record time.

He also carried over the idea of preservation to his work; the images are printed on textured, durable and acid-free canvas paper, a hybrid between ink painting and crisp photo, so they will last a lifetime.

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Comedy in Astoria continued from from page page 00 43 continued itself as a legitimate, productive place to do comedy,” said comedian Myq Kaplan.

Since November, Kaplan has been hosting a monthly show, and one in July featured Rachel Rosenthal and Lynn Bixenspan and was linked together by beatboxer Shockwave. With his expertise in linguistics, Kaplan’s set found a synonym for synonym, (“word t win”), and pointed out an unavoidable objectification of women in the sentence “I like women” — women being the sentence’s direct object.

Astoria has come to be regarded as a burgeoning comedy community and Kaplan has taken notice of its rise. “Whenever I’m in that specific block region, there are always comedians around,” he said of the neighborhood that surrounds Q.E.D. “I’ll run into people like John Fisch, Brett Warren or Greg Stone. I’ll run into these guys writing at the bagel and coffee shops.”

Kaplan is also a contributor to the popular Astoria-based comedy podcast “Keith and the Girl.”

During a recent show in July, Q.E.D. was spilling over with guests attending the month’s edition of the series, “Everythign Is Dumbn,” hosted by Chris Gersbeck and Alisha Delp.

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“Broad City” was the clear victor.

The headliner for the evening was the popular comic Todd Barry who has performed on Conan and Letterman as well as in a reoccurring role on FX’s “Louie.”

When time came for him to take the stage, the crowd excitedly responded and appeared instantly pleased when Barry opened with a deadpanned quip about being “too big for this place.”

Laughter erupted and it appeared as though Q.E.D. itself was big enough and Q capable for any act.

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New York City Department of Transportation Notice of Public Hearing

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 2856 48TH STREET REALTY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/21/2015.

Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to the LLC at 40-11 23rd Road, Astoria, New York 11105.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

ASTORIA-LIC DEVELOPMENT LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/26/15.

Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 35-11 36th Street, Long Island City, NY 11106.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

COSMOPOLITAN ASSOCIATES III, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/20/15.

Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Cosmopolitan Associates, LLC, 58-47 Francis Lewis Boulevard, Suite 201, Bayside, NY 11364.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Island Interiors Group, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 5/4/15. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 119-50 Metropolitan Ave., Ste. 1B, Queens, NY 11415. General purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: RK ROCKAWAY, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/24/2015. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to MARC STEINBERG, 880 FIFTH AVENUE, APT. 4B, NEW YORK, NY 10021.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

86-02 Park Lane South LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 3/26/08. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Walter J. Lee, P.O. Box 150399, Kew Gardens, NY 11415. General purpose.

Atlanta Century Home Adult Day Care Fund, LP Cert filed with Sec of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/6/15.

Office loc: Queens County.

SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 13619 Franklin Ave., #4A, Flushing, NY 11355.

Term: until 12/31/99.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: CSY VENTURES LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/06/2015.

Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to CHRISTINE SERDJENIAN YEARWOOD, 24-51 38TH STREET, APT. B5, ASTORIA, NY 11103.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: M-CODE, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/05/2015.

Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to MEE YANN TAN, 69-06 198 STREET, FRESH MEADOWS, NY 11365. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SEAVIEW C DEVELOPMENT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/29/15.

Office location: Queens County.

Princ. office of LLC: Douglaston Development, 2nd Fl., 42-09 235th St., Douglaston, NY 11363. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity

ANNIEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HOUSE OF HSUS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 07/01/2015.

Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 173-24 Fairchild Ave., Flushing, NY 11358, which is also principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Bayside RE Group LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State (SSNY) on 03/20/2015.

Office location: Queens County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Law Office of Yeung & Wang PLLC, 39-01 Main Street, Ste 509, Flushing, NY 11354.

Purpose: any lawful act.

DUMBO FLAT LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/07/15. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o Jacob Sebag & Associates P.C., 21-50 44th Drive, Long Island City, NY 11101.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Queens County on 07/06/2015, bearing Index Number NC-000411-15/QU, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at 89-17 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435, grants me (us) the right to: Assume the name of (First) MARCUS (Middle) RYAN (Last) HSU. My present name is (First) MARCUS (Middle) RYAN (Last) XU (infant). My present address is 3641 169th Street, Apt. #2A, Flushing, NY 11358-2201. My place of birth is MANHATTAN, NY. My date of birth is May 25, 2012.

Notice of Formation of SELECTSTARFROM SOLUTIONS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/13/15. Office location: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 4-74 48th Av, Apt. 17L, Long Island City, NY 11109. The regd. agent of the company upon whom and at which process against the company can be served is Theodora Drakopoulou, 4-74 48th Av, Apt. 17L, Long Island City, NY 11109. Purpose: Any lawful activity

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: ANTAI LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 07/08/2015. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to ANTAI LLC, 47-38 160TH ST., FLUSHING, NY 11358. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Brown International, LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/15/15. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to Miriam Brown, 13912 34th Rd Apt B6, Flushing, NY 11354. Purpose: General.

First LIC LLC Arts of Org filed with NY Sec of State (SSNY) on 7/13/15. Office: Queens County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 35-16 154th St., Flushing, NY 11354. General Purposes.

PARK ASH 1630 LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/11/2015.

Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 17214 89th Ave., Jamaica, NY 11432. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: SEIGE GROUP, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/21/2014. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to C/O UNITED STATES CORPORATION AGENTS, INC., 7014 13TH AVENUE, SUITE 202, BROOKLYN, NY 11228.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice is hereby given that an on-premises license, #TBA, has been applied for by Astoria Distilling Company LLC to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in an on-premises establishment.

For on-premises consumption under the ABC Law at 31-00 47th Avenue, Suite 1150A Long Island City, NY 11101.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: CCL GROUP LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/12/2015. Office location: Queens County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to YI CHUN CHEN, 185 COLONIAL AVE., UNION, NJ 07083. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: HABU LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/04/2015.

Office location: Queens County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to HABU LLC, 3083 CRESCENT STREET, SUITE #2B, ASTORIA, NY 11102. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

PIAZZA DELLA EDGECOMBE, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/8/2015. Office in Queens Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 65-11 Fresh Meadow Ln., Flushing, NY 11365, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Vargas Financial Group LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 6/12/15. Office location: Queens County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 60-63 Myrtle Ave., Ridgewood, NY 11385. General purpose.

The New York City Department of Transportation will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 2:00 P.M., at 55 Water St., 9th Floor, in Manhattan on the following petitions for revocable consent in the Borough of Queens: #1. AMB Fund III New York III & IV, LLC- to continue to maintain and use a force main, together with a manhole, under and along Rockaway Blvd. #2. LINC LIC LLC - to install, maintain and use planters on the west sidewalk of 43rd Ave., between Crescent and 24th Sts. Interested parties can obtain copies of proposed agreements or request sign-language interpreters (with at least seven days prior notice) at 55 Water Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10041, or by calling (212) 839-6550

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SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

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Geno’s days are numbered

by Ron Marzlock Chronicle Contributor

Ch r istian Ferdinand Freder ik de Neergaard (1891-1977), son of immigrant Danish parents, opened a small Ford dealership at 206-16 Jamaica Ave., Queens Village, selling the Model T Ford in 1923. It was an instant success with a cheap affordable car everybody could buy. He was called and known by all as Chris.

As the Neergaard Ford dealership grew, he moved to a large 150-by-270-foot lot at 216-02 Hempstead Ave., a short distance away. In January 1945, Neergaard made a bold move giving up his Ford dealership and opening up a new Oldsmobile dealership called Cross Island Oldsmobile at the Hempstead Avenue address. He gambled the war would be ending soon and the returning veterans would be buying the more expensive Oldsmobile.

The gamble paid off. The Oldsmobile sold very well in southeastern Queens, acquiring buyers from Cambria Heights, Queens Village, Hollis and neighboring Elmont to the east.

After the war was over his son, Chris Jr.

Cross Island Oldsmobile, 216-02 Hempstead Ave., Queens Village, summer 1952.

(1923-1980), joined the lucrative business as the vice president. By 1969, after the introduction of the Cutlass Supreme and muscle car called the 442, the business was grossing in excess of $500,000 per year.

After the spike in the price of gasoline, the gas-guzzling Oldsmobile was in trouble.

Chris Sr. passed away at his home in Huntington, LI at age 86 in 1977. His son’s untimely death in 1980 at age 57 also hurt the business. It limped along for another three years. With the wave of economy imports flooding the market, the business closed on Sept. 30, 1983.

After a 107-year run, the Oldsmobile was phased out by General Motors in 2004 and Q passed into the history books.

CENTURY 21 AMIABLE II

by Lloyd Carroll Chronicle Contributor

My initial reaction when I heard that Jets quarterback Geno Smith broke his jaw after being punched in the face by second-year defensive end IK Enemkpali was “Why would a little-known linebacker risk his NFL career by attacking his team’s starting QB?” My second thought was that Enemkpali automatically became a pariah to his teammates.

NFL training camp fights are not uncommon but they generally take place on the practice field and not in the locker room. What was shocking was that nearly every Jets player who was interviewed placed the blame on Geno Smith who had apparently been humiliating Enemkpali since training camp started. Apparently Smith did not show up for a charity event that IK was running and the linebacker was out $600 because of transportation costs that he had to advance. Geno promised that he would repay the amount, but apparently was not in a hurry to do so.

Sure, Enemkpali shouldn’t have taken matters into his own hands, but Geno Smith’s lack of leadership skills and judgment are appalling.

It’s one thing to act like a jerk if you have been a QB with a winning record but Geno Smith clearly doesn’t have that cushion.

The Jets had no choice but to immediately cut Enemkpali. However, the Buffalo Bills, whose

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head coach is Rex Ryan, signed him the next day. The understandable gut reaction was that Rex was trying to stick it to his old team but I have a different take. My feeling is that the Bills spoke with the Jets who did not want Enemkpali to lose his livelihood because of Smith’s behavior. They also might have felt that it would send a message to their immature signal caller.

Geno Smith was drafted in 2013 by then-Jets general manager John Idzik who was fired by team owner Woody Johnson this past January.

Idzik’s successor, Mike Maccagnan, has no reason to be loyal to Smith but he may be stuck with him for the 2015 season.

The US Open Qualifiers get underway Monday and conclude on Friday at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Some of the best tennis players in the world will be competing to earn wild card berths into the tournament. This is one of the best bargains in sports as the admission is free.

If you are on vacation the last week of August, you may want to make a visit to nearby Philadelphia where the Mets will be playing a four-game series with the Phillies at beautiful Citizens Bank Park beginning on Monday. The Phillies have rolled over and played dead for the Mets this season but they have performed a Q lot better since the All-Star break.

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•Rockwood Park• Howard Beach. Custom-built Mother/Daughter Hi-Ranch. New Construction! FEMA approved.

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A 40 x 100 gated • Mint ................. IN CONTRACT. $219K lot. Not cleared. • Hi-Rise 2 BRs/2 baths, mint, all renovated with terrace.

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Nice Single Fam. 4 BR Townhouse W/Nice Decked Out Fenced In Backyard. Full Bsmnt W/High Ceilings.

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OZONE PARK Detached 2 Family, Pvt. Driveway, Fin. Bsmnt. Asking: $599,999.

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HOWARD BEACH Mint Condition Spacious 2 BR, 2 Bath Condo In Plymouth House Development. Hardwood Flooring Throughout, Updated Kit, 2 New Baths. Designer Colors Throughout. True Move-In Condition, Super Clean!! Conveniently Located Near Shopping, Schools, Transportation, Houses of Worship, Express Buses To Manhattan. Call Carolyn Defalco 917-208-9176

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1 Family Property In Excellent Condition, 1 Car Det. Garage, Party Dvwy. Asking: $349,999.

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